Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 22, 2021


Episode 1383 Scott Adams： Hamas and Israel Both Claim Victory So I'm Happy For Them, Antisemitism, Gaetz and More


Episode Stats

Length

41 minutes

Words per Minute

148.32774

Word Count

6,169

Sentence Count

437

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Andrew takes a sip from a bottle of water and talks about the dangers of wearing masks in public without protection. Plus, a story about a conspiracy theory about Epstein's death, and why vaccines might not be as bad as we think they are.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Try this again with no technical difficulties.
00:00:03.420 First live stream died, so you missed the simultaneous sip if you were waiting for that.
00:00:07.860 But you can do it at home on your own.
00:00:11.800 And now we're back.
00:00:15.240 So I'll wait for a few seconds for people to pour in, because I know you want to.
00:00:19.180 I was just saying that I ate out for the first time without a mask yesterday at any part of the process.
00:00:24.960 And it was delightful. It was delightful.
00:00:27.020 So I saw a story that says the guards in the Epstein jail, where Epstein died, they have admitted falsifying records.
00:00:38.180 But I don't recall ever seeing what they falsified.
00:00:43.200 Did anybody see that? And did it make any difference?
00:00:45.780 And does it have anything to do with who killed them?
00:00:48.180 So that's a weird story, because it feels like it should be important, but maybe it isn't.
00:00:54.440 Who cares?
00:00:57.020 So I guess Fauci has, Dr. Fauci has said that by July 4th, 70% of Americans should be vaccinated.
00:01:08.160 That's the target.
00:01:09.520 And if they are, we're going to be in pretty, pretty good shape.
00:01:12.900 Now, July 4th, as I told you, probably the day that Americans just say,
00:01:19.520 well, we're going to, we're going to make, thank you, Andrew, we're just going to make up our own decision about masks.
00:01:25.660 And I'm going to skip ahead. I was going to talk about this later, but there's a great, great article in The Atlantic.
00:01:34.300 There's a sentence I've never said before.
00:01:36.600 Have I ever said there was a great article in The Atlantic?
00:01:39.160 So The Atlantic is not really a credible publication.
00:01:45.120 But Derek Thompson, who turns out to be a really good writer, so if you want to just see good writing,
00:01:52.040 just somebody who can put together good sentences and make a point, Derek Thompson is really good.
00:01:58.020 And he wrote an article talking about the mask mandate changes in Texas in particular, but then extended the point.
00:02:08.580 So apparently, when the governor removed the mask mandate in Texas, people were predicting,
00:02:16.280 oh, no, it's going to be doom because we'll all get infected without masks.
00:02:21.300 But in fact, that did not happen.
00:02:23.840 And the infections and deaths continued to go down.
00:02:26.680 Now, what Derek asks is, why?
00:02:32.080 Why?
00:02:33.260 What is the reason that when Texas got rid of the mask mandate, keyword mandate,
00:02:39.820 why was there no increase in infections?
00:02:46.580 Or, yeah, why did things keep going down?
00:02:48.960 And the answer is two possibilities, as Derek points out.
00:02:53.500 But number one, maybe masks never work.
00:02:58.320 Maybe they were just always a placebo.
00:03:00.960 But as Derek points out by pointing to a number of studies, the experts are still pretty unanimous.
00:03:08.380 I mean, close to unanimous.
00:03:10.200 The masks do make a difference.
00:03:12.300 They don't make much difference outdoors.
00:03:15.440 They don't make much difference if you're vaccinated or a kid.
00:03:18.940 But in the right situation, masks work.
00:03:21.680 So the science still strongly suggests that masks work.
00:03:26.680 So what would be the other possibility that getting rid of mask mandates would cause infections not to go up?
00:03:33.940 Well, in the comments, you want to take a guess before I give you the answer?
00:03:38.520 The answer is totally non-intuitive.
00:03:42.480 Most of you believe masks don't work.
00:03:45.100 But let's say the scientists say they do, just for argument.
00:03:50.380 I never know what to do when I'm talking to a wall of skeptics.
00:03:59.700 Maybe it doesn't make any difference.
00:04:02.380 Well, somebody just tipped me $5 to take a sip.
00:04:05.600 Because apparently if you missed the first part of the live stream where I had to restart,
00:04:11.480 you missed your simultaneous sip, and I know you need it.
00:04:14.300 So here you go.
00:04:16.060 Are you ready?
00:04:17.060 Simultaneous sip coming at you.
00:04:20.380 That would be the makeup backup sip.
00:04:24.500 Just as good as the original.
00:04:27.420 But here's the second reason that maybe the mask mandate changes had no impact on results.
00:04:34.360 And it goes like this.
00:04:36.460 Nobody paid attention to the government.
00:04:41.040 That's right.
00:04:42.320 When you look at states who had mask mandates and then they removed them,
00:04:47.600 the people didn't change.
00:04:48.840 Nobody did anything differently.
00:04:52.140 The people who liked masks kept wearing them.
00:04:55.320 The people who were not wearing masks and were bending the rules kept bending them.
00:05:01.220 The businesses, for the most part, that were going to require them.
00:05:05.300 Some did.
00:05:05.960 Some didn't.
00:05:06.620 The ones that didn't probably were the ones that were smart.
00:05:09.520 You know, like, let's say, a big box store.
00:05:11.420 People aren't that close.
00:05:12.380 So basically, what we learned is that the government didn't have much to do with it.
00:05:19.620 And do you recall the most, I would say one of my most counterintuitive predictions from last year.
00:05:29.600 And I knew this one was looking good, but I didn't think anybody would agree with me.
00:05:36.180 And my prediction was that we would never be able to untangle whether leadership in one place, one state, or one country was good or bad.
00:05:46.780 But that we actually wouldn't be able to tell if the decisions made by the government even made a difference.
00:05:54.560 And that there are so many variables that government leadership, which you would think would be the biggest one, might not even be discoverable in the data.
00:06:05.240 You might not even see any effect.
00:06:07.520 And apparently, that's what we're seeing.
00:06:09.580 So a year later, after I said that leadership wouldn't even show up in the data, leadership isn't showing up in the data.
00:06:19.040 Even with masks, you know, a basic thing.
00:06:21.940 So I'm still open to the possibility that masks work so little or in such special cases that maybe it didn't make that much difference to the overall pandemic.
00:06:35.480 You don't really know.
00:06:36.680 But I do think the science is quite unified in saying that they do work if you use them in the right situation.
00:06:45.220 So Tom Cotton made an interesting remark, Senator Cotton.
00:06:49.180 And he was talking about critical race theory being taught in the military.
00:06:54.620 And he said this, quote,
00:06:55.580 If I were in a foreign intelligence service, I can think of a few things that would be more destructive to morale and unit cohesion in the United States military than critical race theory.
00:07:09.580 The idea that we are somehow simply representatives of our race, as opposed to American patriots who are wearing the flag of our country in defense of common ideals.
00:07:18.080 Now, that's a lot of words to say what he's saying.
00:07:21.860 I think I might have paired a few of those words off of there.
00:07:25.680 But it's a really good point, isn't it?
00:07:29.660 If you were a foreign adversary and you wanted to destroy the U.S. military cohesiveness,
00:07:36.960 what could you think of that would be better than critical race theory?
00:07:40.620 It would be hard to think of something if you were intentionally trying to damage the military.
00:07:47.640 I don't know if you could think of a better idea than that, which makes me wonder, did they?
00:07:55.260 Did they?
00:07:56.480 Is critical race theory actually being promoted by our adversaries and we don't know it?
00:08:02.560 And if they're not promoting it, why wouldn't they?
00:08:08.420 Why wouldn't they?
00:08:10.160 It would be the most obvious thing you could do to promote the idea that you would cause inner turmoil in the United States.
00:08:18.420 I can't think of anything that would be better for China.
00:08:21.740 I can't think of anything that would be better for Russia to have the United States fighting with itself about who's the racist.
00:08:27.940 So, there was a time, maybe five years ago, I would say, in my evolution of understanding of the world.
00:08:39.020 Five years ago, I would have said, yeah, I get the point.
00:08:42.440 You know, I get that if a foreign adversary was so clever that they thought they could do this,
00:08:48.460 yeah, maybe they'd do it, but not really.
00:08:50.680 But in 2021, when we know how easily a foreign adversary can move the algorithm, can decide what we see, can decide what trends, etc.
00:09:04.000 I mean, I assume they have that power.
00:09:05.560 That's an assumption.
00:09:07.760 It would be crazy not to do this.
00:09:11.280 I don't see any chance that China is not using its behind-the-scenes trolls or whatever else they have.
00:09:20.680 I can't see that they wouldn't push critical race theory.
00:09:25.180 It's just obvious that it's bad for the country.
00:09:27.400 From their perspective, it's probably even more obvious.
00:09:30.580 So, I'm not saying that's happening.
00:09:32.840 But if it's not, I don't know why.
00:09:35.180 I mean, it would be hard to think for a reason it's not happening.
00:09:39.060 So, I told you that July 4th was going to be Independence Day, no matter whether the government told us we were done or not.
00:09:48.160 Now, I'll use the Texas story about the leadership didn't seem to change what anybody did.
00:09:54.600 It's going to work the other way, too.
00:09:56.840 When people are done with masks, we'll tell our government.
00:10:02.380 That's the way it's really going to work.
00:10:04.520 In the real world, the people are in charge.
00:10:08.620 We just don't always act like it.
00:10:10.260 You know, we're happy to have the government take over, especially in an emergency.
00:10:15.380 But the reality is that people are in charge.
00:10:17.760 They always have been.
00:10:18.940 And in this country, there's a good chance that they always will be.
00:10:23.000 Especially because of the Second Amendment.
00:10:24.500 So, I've got a feeling that July 4th will be Independence Day, and it won't matter what the government says.
00:10:32.980 Just as the mask mandate being removed didn't make people wear fewer masks.
00:10:38.800 We're just going to make up our own mind at this point, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
00:10:43.800 In fact, I think it's an advantage.
00:10:45.020 I'd like to give a shout-out to Monica Lewinsky for winning the Internet yesterday with a tweet.
00:10:53.700 So, an account called Uberfax asked this question.
00:10:56.500 I think it was yesterday.
00:10:57.820 What's the most high-risk, low-reward thing you've ever done?
00:11:02.680 And Monica Lewinsky retweeted that with the emoji of two eyeballs just looking to the side like,
00:11:08.920 Hmm.
00:11:10.440 Hmm.
00:11:11.240 What is the most high-risk, low-reward I've ever done?
00:11:15.500 Says Monica Lewinsky.
00:11:17.500 And it was sort of, rarely do you see a perfect tweet.
00:11:22.360 That was a perfect tweet.
00:11:25.680 There's nothing you could have done.
00:11:28.380 You could think all day.
00:11:29.960 You could put a team of scientists together and say,
00:11:33.500 Make us a better tweet.
00:11:35.540 You know, to this, at least on a retweet at this point.
00:11:38.580 And you couldn't do it.
00:11:40.100 You couldn't do it.
00:11:40.800 But Monica Lewinsky reached into the void of infinite possibilities and pulled out the one of infinity that was the perfect tweet.
00:11:52.360 Congratulations.
00:11:53.280 Nicely done.
00:11:53.800 And I like the humility of it.
00:11:56.180 I like the sense of humor of it.
00:11:57.760 I've always liked Monica Lewinsky as a person.
00:12:03.280 Linda Tripp?
00:12:04.160 Not so much.
00:12:04.740 But that's a different story.
00:12:05.560 Well, here's the good news.
00:12:08.780 There's a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
00:12:12.880 And I don't think it could have worked out any better because Hamas is claiming victory.
00:12:17.200 And Israel is also claiming victory.
00:12:24.040 Good job, guys.
00:12:25.980 When I saw that there was fighting and people dying and stuff and missiles and all that, tunnels, I said to myself,
00:12:34.220 Well, this is going to be bad.
00:12:36.260 You know, maybe both sides will come out worse.
00:12:39.440 Or because it's a war, maybe one side will win.
00:12:42.980 But then you've got a losing side, and that's not good.
00:12:45.580 Nobody wants to lose a war.
00:12:47.640 But it didn't go that way.
00:12:49.540 As luck would have it, both sides won.
00:12:52.840 And then they stopped.
00:12:55.540 But I don't really understand why they stopped.
00:12:58.180 Because this is such a good thing for both of them.
00:13:01.740 Hamas got a big victory.
00:13:03.800 Israel's feeling good about degrading Hamas.
00:13:06.020 It was a win-win scenario.
00:13:09.320 I don't think we could have a better situation than a war in which both sides won.
00:13:14.960 So that's pretty good.
00:13:17.200 Oh, that's right.
00:13:19.040 It's really just the leaders who won.
00:13:21.000 The people just got killed.
00:13:23.540 Yeah.
00:13:24.340 It was good for the Hamas leadership, because they showed they're tough.
00:13:28.360 Maybe consolidated some support.
00:13:30.280 It was probably good for Netanyahu.
00:13:32.960 He's got other problems, and this made him look strong and capable, and pretty good.
00:13:38.860 Now, I've heard some people say that Israel should try to give some peace over there instead of fighting.
00:13:45.740 Why?
00:13:47.540 Why would they do that?
00:13:50.000 Have you ever asked yourself, why?
00:13:54.060 Because you just take it for granted that peace is better than war, right?
00:13:57.920 I mean, duh.
00:13:59.260 Peace is better than war.
00:14:01.160 But is it?
00:14:03.200 Hamas and Israel just had a war.
00:14:05.380 And they both say they won.
00:14:06.740 So if you're winning, winning is better than doing nothing.
00:14:13.180 So I would say that in some cases, war is better than peace.
00:14:18.680 Now, what would happen if Israel decided, and Hamas decided, it won't happen,
00:14:25.340 but suppose they decided to have peace.
00:14:29.340 Would that be good for them?
00:14:31.840 No.
00:14:32.660 No, it wouldn't be.
00:14:34.380 Peace would be the worst thing for Israel.
00:14:37.040 How many of you understand that point?
00:14:39.960 That peace would be the worst thing for Israel?
00:14:43.060 Because at the moment, Israel is gobbling up land, right?
00:14:46.460 Here's a settlement.
00:14:48.140 Well, maybe all of Jerusalem is ours.
00:14:50.340 You know, sort of like picking apart, oh, these water rights, we'll take these.
00:14:54.300 You know, the street, we'll control.
00:14:58.380 If your country is growing, like physically growing, it's expanding,
00:15:04.420 you don't want peace, because peace stops the growth.
00:15:08.680 This is a period in which, for the low amount of deaths that Israel is experiencing,
00:15:15.000 it's a really good deal.
00:15:17.980 You know, per death, per square mile, it's a good deal.
00:15:21.980 All deaths are tragedies, of course.
00:15:25.100 But if you're looking at the bigger picture of long-term Israel security,
00:15:31.860 having more land is better.
00:15:34.120 You know, more buffer zone, spread out your populations,
00:15:37.660 bigger population, better economy.
00:15:40.480 So peace would be a huge strategic mistake for Israel.
00:15:44.720 And for the Hamas leadership, peace would get them killed.
00:15:49.800 If you're Hamas leadership, and you said, you know, I got an idea.
00:15:54.480 Why don't we have some peace?
00:15:56.760 They would be instantly killed by their own people,
00:15:59.400 because they've been convinced they need to conquer Israel or whatever.
00:16:03.180 So, is it crazy to say both sides won?
00:16:09.400 Not at all.
00:16:10.640 Israel got stronger, tested out a bunch of equipment,
00:16:14.800 degraded Hamas, and continues to have the moral,
00:16:19.700 a little bit of moral cover as they gobble up land.
00:16:24.060 They totally won.
00:16:26.040 There's no hyperbole there whatsoever.
00:16:28.420 Israel won.
00:16:29.140 But so did Hamas.
00:16:31.900 Not the people.
00:16:33.260 The citizens lost.
00:16:35.220 But the leaders won.
00:16:37.120 They got exactly what they wanted.
00:16:38.560 So it is a weird case in which they both won.
00:16:41.480 So your sympathy can be with the victims, of course.
00:16:46.560 But these are two leaderships that wanted to fight
00:16:51.500 and got what they wanted and won.
00:16:54.280 It's hard to feel bad about that.
00:16:55.700 Yeah, and somebody on Twitter asked me,
00:17:03.760 you know, what could we do persuasion-wise
00:17:05.880 or shake in the box to get Hamas to want peace?
00:17:10.140 To which I say, nothing.
00:17:12.140 There's nothing you can do.
00:17:13.800 There is nothing you can do
00:17:15.500 that would change Israel or Hamas'
00:17:19.820 sort of permanent war stance.
00:17:21.740 There's nothing.
00:17:22.200 Because they want it.
00:17:23.880 And it works.
00:17:25.140 And it benefits them.
00:17:27.480 You'd have to make it not work.
00:17:29.340 I don't know how you do that.
00:17:30.620 Because it does work.
00:17:32.820 All right.
00:17:33.360 There's a survey.
00:17:36.500 I think this was an Axios article.
00:17:40.020 That nearly 7 out of 10 black Americans
00:17:42.860 say police treatment has gotten worse
00:17:45.060 in the past year.
00:17:48.320 And about the same percentage believe
00:17:50.480 police shootings of black and brown use
00:17:52.460 have become worse in that time,
00:17:54.980 according to an Axios-Ipsos poll.
00:17:58.860 So, since a year after George Floyd's death,
00:18:02.360 suggesting that the relationship
00:18:04.280 between black Americans and police
00:18:06.060 has gotten worse,
00:18:07.680 where in this article
00:18:10.820 is the self-awareness
00:18:12.440 that would say something like,
00:18:15.220 and the reason that these polls
00:18:16.760 have gotten worse
00:18:17.660 is because of us,
00:18:20.120 meaning the press.
00:18:22.360 Do you think that the,
00:18:23.700 do you think the data would support
00:18:25.400 that police were worse
00:18:27.360 to black Americans in the past year,
00:18:29.820 the year of George Floyd,
00:18:32.020 the year of Black Lives Matter,
00:18:33.600 and you really believe
00:18:35.460 that the police got extra bad
00:18:37.320 to black citizens?
00:18:40.020 I mean, it's possible,
00:18:42.080 but I need to see some data
00:18:44.100 because I feel like it might have
00:18:46.040 gone the opposite direction.
00:18:47.800 I feel as if maybe there were,
00:18:50.940 you know, fewer cases of police abuse
00:18:53.740 because they were more cautious
00:18:55.360 because of the George Floyd thing.
00:18:57.980 But if it's true that 7 out of 10
00:19:00.340 say things are getting worse,
00:19:01.700 7 out of 10 black Americans,
00:19:02.980 then that is their reality.
00:19:05.960 Their reality is that it feels worse,
00:19:08.640 so at least psychologically it's worse.
00:19:11.280 Who caused that?
00:19:13.040 Who's the bad guy in this story?
00:19:15.800 The ones reporting it.
00:19:18.320 So the press can create a problem,
00:19:22.420 assign the problem to somebody else,
00:19:24.680 and then report it.
00:19:27.560 This problem is caused entirely
00:19:29.760 by the press.
00:19:31.720 Entirely.
00:19:32.980 And they report it
00:19:36.280 without even mentioning
00:19:37.660 that they caused it.
00:19:40.040 They meaning all the press,
00:19:41.480 not specifically Axios.
00:19:43.680 But how do you skip that part?
00:19:46.300 How do you skip the only part
00:19:47.880 that mattered,
00:19:49.140 which is,
00:19:50.200 why do they think that?
00:19:52.580 It's either because the data suggests it,
00:19:55.280 or because they've been,
00:19:56.720 you know,
00:19:57.340 bamboozled by the press.
00:19:59.480 It's one of those two things.
00:20:01.600 Which is it?
00:20:03.060 How do you leave that out of the article?
00:20:06.020 Well, I think we know the answer.
00:20:07.540 It's the press.
00:20:10.060 I've got to say more about this whole
00:20:11.560 Chris Cuomo,
00:20:12.660 Andrew Cuomo thing,
00:20:13.960 you know,
00:20:14.160 Governor Cuomo,
00:20:14.840 and apparently Chris Cuomo,
00:20:17.680 his brother,
00:20:18.260 who works at CNN,
00:20:20.300 it was reported he participated
00:20:22.640 in a strategy session phone call
00:20:25.040 about the sexual allegations charges
00:20:28.060 against his brother.
00:20:29.700 Now, I guess he's apologized,
00:20:31.520 said it was a mistake,
00:20:32.640 got lots of criticism,
00:20:34.400 et cetera,
00:20:34.760 and I don't buy into any of it.
00:20:37.640 Like, just none of it.
00:20:39.560 Now, first of all,
00:20:40.340 I understand the point
00:20:41.860 of conflict of interest.
00:20:43.840 So, the people who disagree
00:20:45.420 with what I'm about to say,
00:20:47.700 please don't explain to me
00:20:49.220 what conflict of interest is,
00:20:51.580 because I know what it is,
00:20:52.980 and I know that they had it.
00:20:55.040 No doubt about it,
00:20:56.580 conflict of interest.
00:20:58.060 But you know what else they had?
00:21:00.520 Pretty much full transparency.
00:21:02.200 Was there anybody who watched CNN
00:21:04.260 who didn't know
00:21:05.220 that Chris Cuomo
00:21:06.000 was the brother of Andrew Cuomo?
00:21:08.540 No.
00:21:09.220 It was the most transparent thing ever.
00:21:12.040 Does anybody think
00:21:12.780 that family members
00:21:14.200 don't talk to each other
00:21:15.300 and give advice?
00:21:17.160 Nobody believes that.
00:21:18.980 Everybody knows
00:21:19.720 that family members
00:21:20.460 talk to each other
00:21:21.220 and give advice.
00:21:22.580 Do you care
00:21:23.220 that Chris Cuomo
00:21:25.100 did it in a way
00:21:25.960 that was at least public enough
00:21:28.080 that a story was written about it?
00:21:30.760 There were lots of witnesses.
00:21:32.200 I'm happy he did it
00:21:34.780 in front of witnesses.
00:21:36.420 I'm happy he was transparent.
00:21:38.480 He never hid it.
00:21:39.520 He admitted it.
00:21:40.380 Said it was a mistake,
00:21:41.440 which I don't agree with.
00:21:42.800 I don't think it was a mistake.
00:21:44.400 It was a mistake
00:21:45.140 in terms of how it looked,
00:21:46.760 but I don't want to live
00:21:48.560 in a world
00:21:48.960 where you can't talk
00:21:49.700 to your brother.
00:21:51.320 Let me say this
00:21:52.180 like three times.
00:21:53.920 I don't want to live
00:21:54.780 in a world
00:21:55.340 where I can't talk
00:21:57.080 to my brother.
00:21:57.700 any time I want
00:22:01.340 about any topic I want.
00:22:04.580 Period.
00:22:05.860 I do not care
00:22:07.280 if the government
00:22:08.320 thinks it's a conflict
00:22:09.340 of interest.
00:22:10.120 That's too far.
00:22:11.760 That's way too far.
00:22:13.640 All right?
00:22:14.040 Now,
00:22:14.520 I think it would be reasonable
00:22:15.600 for the government
00:22:16.280 to maybe ask
00:22:17.680 for transparency.
00:22:19.020 You know,
00:22:19.600 for everybody to understand
00:22:20.840 that it's a brother situation.
00:22:22.900 That's fair
00:22:23.620 because then you can
00:22:24.740 calculate in your mind
00:22:25.940 how much you care about it.
00:22:27.600 Let me ask you this.
00:22:29.240 Is anybody giving
00:22:30.640 Don Lemon
00:22:31.720 a hard time
00:22:32.880 for his conflict
00:22:34.260 of interest
00:22:34.860 with Governor Cuomo?
00:22:36.880 What?
00:22:37.840 You say there is
00:22:38.620 no conflict of interest?
00:22:40.120 Because Don Lemon
00:22:40.880 is just a news reporter.
00:22:42.540 He's not a brother.
00:22:44.220 He's not a brother.
00:22:45.900 But his colleague
00:22:47.160 is the brother.
00:22:48.000 Do you think
00:22:49.640 that Don Lemon
00:22:50.460 doesn't take into account
00:22:52.520 that his close colleague
00:22:54.880 is the brother
00:22:55.580 of the governor?
00:22:56.280 Of course he does
00:22:57.680 because he's a human.
00:22:59.840 Right?
00:23:00.640 You know,
00:23:01.000 criticize Don Lemon
00:23:02.380 if you like,
00:23:03.680 but he's a human.
00:23:05.220 You could put anybody
00:23:06.100 in that position
00:23:06.740 and of course
00:23:07.780 they would be biased
00:23:09.240 by not wanting
00:23:10.240 to throw their co-worker
00:23:11.380 under the bus.
00:23:12.540 Imagine seeing
00:23:13.280 Chris Cuomo
00:23:13.880 in the break room
00:23:14.720 after you just did a show
00:23:16.440 throwing his brother
00:23:17.880 under the bus.
00:23:19.900 How's that going to go?
00:23:21.320 Right?
00:23:21.480 So, yes,
00:23:23.400 I get there's
00:23:24.080 a conflict of interest
00:23:25.100 but it's the entire CNN.
00:23:27.980 There's no CNN host
00:23:29.500 who doesn't have
00:23:30.700 a conflict of interest
00:23:31.820 because their colleague
00:23:33.840 is his brother.
00:23:36.300 Right?
00:23:37.560 Chris Cuomo
00:23:38.320 is just one of the people
00:23:39.360 with a conflict of interest.
00:23:40.640 Why are we ignoring
00:23:41.280 the rest of them?
00:23:42.560 And again,
00:23:43.500 as long as everybody
00:23:44.400 is transparent,
00:23:46.540 I think that's as good
00:23:47.420 as you can do.
00:23:48.720 It's as good
00:23:49.280 as you can do.
00:23:49.760 All right.
00:23:55.000 Apparently,
00:23:55.680 telehealth
00:23:56.160 has exploded
00:23:57.300 and about half
00:23:58.500 of the people
00:23:59.160 on Medicare
00:24:00.500 used,
00:24:02.660 who needed a doctor
00:24:03.920 did it by phone
00:24:04.720 in the past year.
00:24:06.760 And
00:24:07.140 that's real good news.
00:24:10.320 And I wanted to
00:24:11.200 begin a little series,
00:24:14.600 I may do more of them,
00:24:15.720 I'm not sure,
00:24:16.580 called
00:24:17.000 Heroes of the Pandemic.
00:24:19.100 I wish I had
00:24:20.900 some kind of like
00:24:21.540 a musical score
00:24:22.820 to introduce this.
00:24:24.400 Heroes of the Pandemic.
00:24:26.500 So these are people
00:24:27.480 who did
00:24:28.000 really good stuff
00:24:30.040 that maybe you've
00:24:31.180 never heard their name.
00:24:32.280 So you're going to hear
00:24:32.860 it for the first time.
00:24:34.360 And I'll tell you
00:24:34.760 a little story.
00:24:35.360 I've told you some of this,
00:24:36.340 but I'll add a little detail
00:24:37.360 you didn't know.
00:24:38.400 So when the pandemic
00:24:39.720 first broke out,
00:24:41.420 the government,
00:24:42.920 the U.S. government,
00:24:44.440 and people in it
00:24:45.400 said some version
00:24:46.420 of this,
00:24:47.800 what do we do now?
00:24:50.480 Does anybody have
00:24:51.320 any ideas?
00:24:52.820 And literally,
00:24:54.160 the government
00:24:54.820 sort of put out
00:24:55.840 all of its feelers
00:24:56.920 to,
00:24:58.140 and I'm just going
00:24:58.680 to say this,
00:25:00.020 I know how it sounds,
00:25:01.320 I know how it looks,
00:25:02.100 but it's just accurate.
00:25:04.660 They put out their feelers
00:25:06.000 to smart people.
00:25:07.600 And basically,
00:25:08.420 they said,
00:25:09.200 hey, smart people,
00:25:10.360 do you have any ideas?
00:25:12.280 You know,
00:25:12.520 like,
00:25:12.720 what should we be doing?
00:25:13.500 Is there a way
00:25:15.000 we could do more
00:25:16.060 executive orders
00:25:17.040 that would be useful?
00:25:18.100 Is there something
00:25:18.500 we should change?
00:25:19.420 Is there a rule
00:25:20.640 that should be struck
00:25:23.100 for the pandemic?
00:25:25.820 And you didn't see
00:25:27.900 this part of the story
00:25:28.800 because it happened
00:25:29.480 all, you know,
00:25:30.300 under the hood.
00:25:31.740 But under the hood,
00:25:33.680 the smartest people
00:25:34.760 in the country
00:25:35.400 were very active.
00:25:37.640 Very active.
00:25:38.740 Because the government
00:25:39.620 immediately just
00:25:40.660 sent out its feelers
00:25:41.520 and plugged in
00:25:42.320 like this giant machine.
00:25:45.120 Like the people
00:25:46.400 who were operating
00:25:47.100 sort of like
00:25:47.820 as independent units
00:25:49.520 suddenly just became
00:25:51.080 part of it
00:25:51.720 like a machine.
00:25:54.120 You know,
00:25:54.520 any idea
00:25:55.400 that was from
00:25:56.720 any smart person
00:25:58.220 in this network
00:25:59.260 that almost immediately
00:26:00.260 was formed,
00:26:01.700 any idea
00:26:02.440 just went right
00:26:03.140 to the right person
00:26:04.340 immediately
00:26:04.900 and was,
00:26:06.080 you know,
00:26:06.300 vetted by the other
00:26:07.080 smart people,
00:26:07.760 et cetera.
00:26:08.520 So there's a great
00:26:09.520 story here
00:26:10.360 about what happened
00:26:11.880 that nobody
00:26:12.360 was watching.
00:26:13.460 Which is the
00:26:14.340 personal connections
00:26:15.560 that formed
00:26:16.740 spontaneously
00:26:17.700 because everybody
00:26:19.020 said the same thing.
00:26:20.280 If it's an emergency,
00:26:21.660 what do I do?
00:26:22.740 Like, how do I help?
00:26:24.080 What's my contribution?
00:26:26.600 Now, many of you
00:26:27.640 were with me
00:26:28.280 since then
00:26:29.220 and you know
00:26:29.800 that I took
00:26:31.780 a responsibility
00:26:32.680 for helping you
00:26:34.580 get through it
00:26:35.140 psychologically.
00:26:36.240 You know,
00:26:36.440 I said,
00:26:36.960 well, what can I do?
00:26:37.680 You know,
00:26:38.280 what's something
00:26:38.860 I have a unique
00:26:39.600 ability to do?
00:26:41.240 And uniquely,
00:26:42.180 I thought that
00:26:42.960 I could help you
00:26:44.320 not worry
00:26:45.280 more than you
00:26:47.460 needed to.
00:26:48.260 I mean,
00:26:48.520 it was certainly
00:26:49.140 a situation
00:26:49.740 that called
00:26:50.100 for a little worrying,
00:26:51.240 but I didn't want you
00:26:52.460 to think this
00:26:53.020 civilization was going
00:26:54.100 to end,
00:26:54.740 that the economy
00:26:55.480 was going to crumble,
00:26:56.720 that we were all
00:26:57.340 going to be dead.
00:26:58.580 And so,
00:26:59.540 I did my very best
00:27:01.260 to persuade you
00:27:02.320 that by a year
00:27:04.060 from then,
00:27:05.400 which is right now,
00:27:06.720 that things would
00:27:08.340 look the way
00:27:09.880 they look now,
00:27:10.660 which is the economy
00:27:12.620 is roaring back.
00:27:14.260 We did not run
00:27:15.040 out of food.
00:27:16.200 Zero people starved.
00:27:18.820 Think about that.
00:27:20.560 Think about what
00:27:21.460 the heroes
00:27:22.860 in the food services
00:27:25.480 and distribution chain,
00:27:27.920 I mean,
00:27:28.240 think about what
00:27:28.900 those people did.
00:27:30.220 Risked their lives,
00:27:31.320 didn't know what
00:27:31.880 the total risk was,
00:27:32.800 risked their lives
00:27:33.860 to keep us fed
00:27:35.140 successfully.
00:27:37.180 One of the most
00:27:37.820 amazing things.
00:27:39.160 All right,
00:27:39.440 so,
00:27:39.960 here's one
00:27:41.880 of the other
00:27:42.320 small stories.
00:27:43.740 So,
00:27:44.000 one of the people
00:27:44.480 who was reaching out
00:27:45.240 from the government
00:27:45.980 was Jonah Shoemate,
00:27:48.100 chief of staff,
00:27:48.940 I believe,
00:27:49.420 for Rick Crawford
00:27:50.520 out of Arkansas.
00:27:52.820 And Jonah
00:27:53.620 was familiar with me,
00:27:55.260 follows,
00:27:55.720 follows,
00:27:56.360 may be watching right now,
00:27:57.880 follows the live streams,
00:27:59.680 et cetera,
00:28:00.540 and reached out
00:28:02.540 and said,
00:28:02.960 do you have any ideas?
00:28:03.940 And I did,
00:28:04.520 you've heard this story
00:28:05.340 before,
00:28:05.800 and my idea
00:28:06.400 was to do
00:28:07.400 an executive order
00:28:08.160 to get rid
00:28:08.720 of the restriction
00:28:10.080 that didn't allow
00:28:11.520 doctors to do telehealth
00:28:13.380 across state lines,
00:28:15.280 which made no sense
00:28:17.060 in the year 2021,
00:28:18.480 right?
00:28:19.260 It didn't make any sense.
00:28:21.180 So,
00:28:21.800 so Jonah reaches out
00:28:23.520 to me,
00:28:24.000 I say,
00:28:24.720 yeah,
00:28:25.040 you know,
00:28:25.260 we should get rid
00:28:26.000 of that,
00:28:26.480 that restriction
00:28:27.640 about state lines.
00:28:28.900 This is exactly
00:28:29.940 the right time
00:28:30.580 to do it,
00:28:31.140 and it's exactly
00:28:32.440 what we need.
00:28:34.220 It took about
00:28:35.380 10 minutes
00:28:37.680 for Jonah
00:28:39.460 to get that idea
00:28:40.460 to the president's
00:28:42.520 chief of staff
00:28:43.380 and for me to hear
00:28:45.280 that he got it
00:28:46.280 and that he liked it.
00:28:48.100 It was like 10 minutes.
00:28:49.580 I mean,
00:28:49.780 I may be exaggerating
00:28:50.700 a little bit,
00:28:51.160 but it happened
00:28:51.560 almost instantly.
00:28:53.480 And within,
00:28:55.420 I don't know,
00:28:55.800 just a few days,
00:28:57.060 it wasn't long,
00:28:57.920 the next thing you know,
00:28:59.680 there's an executive order
00:29:00.780 in which he got rid
00:29:01.880 of that restriction.
00:29:04.640 And,
00:29:05.520 so,
00:29:07.220 credit to
00:29:07.860 Jonah Shoemate
00:29:08.960 in Representative Crawford's office.
00:29:12.200 And,
00:29:12.820 that was the kind
00:29:14.440 of self-organizing stuff
00:29:16.620 that was happening
00:29:17.300 massively.
00:29:18.720 Just all kinds
00:29:19.580 of self-organizing stuff.
00:29:21.800 And,
00:29:22.340 it was just beautiful.
00:29:24.440 It was just a beautiful
00:29:25.360 thing to watch.
00:29:26.640 And,
00:29:26.920 you didn't get to see it.
00:29:28.260 You know,
00:29:28.440 it was all happening
00:29:29.380 under the hood.
00:29:30.720 But,
00:29:31.160 one of the most amazing
00:29:32.380 periods in history.
00:29:33.600 Someday,
00:29:34.040 when the real story
00:29:34.840 of the pandemic
00:29:35.420 is written,
00:29:36.740 you're going to find
00:29:37.340 that with stuff
00:29:37.820 you just had no idea.
00:29:42.740 Thank you,
00:29:43.340 Jeff.
00:29:44.700 So,
00:29:45.900 heroes of the pandemic.
00:29:49.140 Anti-Semitism
00:29:50.020 is breaking out
00:29:51.200 everywhere.
00:29:52.000 Apparently,
00:29:53.000 ADL says
00:29:53.780 there were nearly
00:29:54.280 200 reports
00:29:55.260 of possible
00:29:56.200 anti-Semitic.
00:29:57.980 Incidents
00:29:58.540 up from
00:29:59.000 131
00:30:00.000 the week
00:30:00.360 before the
00:30:01.060 Hamas conflict.
00:30:02.880 So,
00:30:03.040 there does seem
00:30:03.520 to be
00:30:03.860 a major
00:30:05.100 uptick
00:30:05.700 in these crimes.
00:30:09.320 And,
00:30:09.900 of course,
00:30:10.460 I don't know
00:30:11.280 if Joe Biden
00:30:11.900 has spoken out
00:30:12.740 yet
00:30:13.160 about
00:30:14.320 anti-Semitism
00:30:15.200 in this country
00:30:16.180 spiking.
00:30:17.660 We'd like to hear
00:30:18.380 from him,
00:30:18.820 wouldn't we?
00:30:19.100 Now,
00:30:20.240 of course,
00:30:20.660 the squad
00:30:21.260 has Biden's
00:30:23.460 nads
00:30:23.940 and a little
00:30:25.020 lock-up tube
00:30:27.260 there.
00:30:28.140 And,
00:30:28.600 I don't know
00:30:29.600 he can do that.
00:30:30.900 I don't know
00:30:31.260 if Joe Biden
00:30:31.900 can say there's
00:30:32.540 too much
00:30:32.880 anti-Semitism
00:30:33.600 in the United States.
00:30:35.360 It seems like
00:30:36.220 it should be
00:30:36.560 an easy thing
00:30:37.160 to say,
00:30:38.180 but maybe
00:30:38.620 he can't.
00:30:40.340 So,
00:30:41.500 Ezra Klein
00:30:42.140 had an interesting
00:30:43.040 tweets and article,
00:30:45.160 I think it was
00:30:45.560 an article,
00:30:46.360 but it was
00:30:46.680 a series
00:30:46.940 of tweets
00:30:47.320 I saw,
00:30:48.320 that violent
00:30:49.400 crime is spiking
00:30:50.360 in the cities.
00:30:51.900 So,
00:30:52.700 homicides
00:30:53.240 are up
00:30:53.580 25 to 40%
00:30:55.060 in 2020.
00:30:58.080 Largest
00:30:58.640 single-year
00:30:59.320 increase
00:30:59.720 since 1960.
00:31:01.340 So,
00:31:01.760 it's this
00:31:02.120 gigantic,
00:31:02.840 you know,
00:31:03.380 crisis.
00:31:05.980 And,
00:31:06.700 he's
00:31:07.000 warning the
00:31:08.240 world,
00:31:09.080 and I guess
00:31:09.640 the left-leaning
00:31:10.680 world,
00:31:11.500 that whenever
00:31:11.980 you have a
00:31:12.560 massive increase
00:31:13.400 in crime,
00:31:14.500 there's a
00:31:14.940 fairly
00:31:15.280 predictable
00:31:16.020 outcome.
00:31:17.600 What is
00:31:18.040 the predictable
00:31:18.920 outcome of
00:31:19.900 a big rise
00:31:20.820 in violent
00:31:21.320 crime?
00:31:23.760 That's
00:31:24.200 right.
00:31:27.020 The big
00:31:27.740 outcome is
00:31:28.260 you get a
00:31:28.560 Republican
00:31:28.940 leader.
00:31:30.220 Because people
00:31:31.080 elect Republicans
00:31:32.360 when crime
00:31:33.580 gets out of
00:31:34.100 control.
00:31:35.100 Crime is
00:31:35.540 out of
00:31:35.760 control.
00:31:37.180 So,
00:31:38.380 you're going
00:31:38.680 to see a
00:31:39.000 lot more
00:31:39.300 Republicans.
00:31:40.140 If history
00:31:41.140 is our
00:31:41.560 guide,
00:31:42.100 and in this
00:31:42.500 case,
00:31:42.760 I don't know
00:31:43.140 why it
00:31:43.400 wouldn't be,
00:31:43.820 because it
00:31:44.600 seems like
00:31:45.920 it would
00:31:46.220 repeat the
00:31:47.800 way it
00:31:48.040 normally
00:31:48.300 does.
00:31:49.480 So,
00:31:50.180 now you've
00:31:50.600 got cities
00:31:51.260 that are
00:31:52.180 hotbeds of
00:31:53.320 anti-Semitism.
00:31:54.460 I think it's
00:31:54.960 mostly happening
00:31:55.600 in cities.
00:31:56.840 You've got
00:31:57.460 crime is
00:31:59.520 out of
00:31:59.720 control.
00:32:01.120 You've got
00:32:01.780 no real
00:32:02.180 reason to
00:32:02.680 commute
00:32:02.980 anymore.
00:32:04.020 You've got
00:32:04.660 traffic,
00:32:05.220 you've got
00:32:05.540 pollution,
00:32:07.500 and despite
00:32:08.540 all of that,
00:32:09.080 you've got
00:32:09.300 high prices.
00:32:10.420 It's like
00:32:10.640 being in a
00:32:11.100 city doesn't
00:32:11.620 have much
00:32:12.200 of anything
00:32:12.640 that you
00:32:12.980 need
00:32:13.160 anymore.
00:32:13.920 So you
00:32:14.260 can get
00:32:14.600 any form
00:32:15.140 of entertainment
00:32:15.720 anywhere,
00:32:16.360 because most
00:32:16.740 of it is
00:32:16.980 digital anyway,
00:32:18.040 so you don't
00:32:18.580 have to go
00:32:19.200 to the
00:32:19.480 opera in
00:32:20.180 person,
00:32:21.060 etc.
00:32:22.000 And I
00:32:23.580 think cities
00:32:24.140 are obsolete.
00:32:26.420 And here's
00:32:27.340 a bigger
00:32:27.740 reason why.
00:32:29.240 Chemical and
00:32:30.040 biological warfare
00:32:31.440 and terrorism.
00:32:33.560 Imagine,
00:32:34.300 if you will,
00:32:35.460 that the
00:32:35.800 United States
00:32:36.500 evolved over
00:32:37.520 some number
00:32:38.280 of years
00:32:38.820 to not
00:32:40.020 have
00:32:40.420 major
00:32:41.060 cities.
00:32:44.400 The cities
00:32:44.960 just become
00:32:45.520 something else,
00:32:46.440 so that you
00:32:47.120 don't have
00:32:47.520 10 million
00:32:47.980 people in
00:32:48.520 one place.
00:32:49.580 Because if
00:32:50.120 you have
00:32:50.300 10 million
00:32:50.700 people in
00:32:51.140 one place,
00:32:51.740 your pandemic
00:32:52.300 is going
00:32:52.820 to be
00:32:54.000 fueled by
00:32:55.240 that closeness.
00:32:56.820 If they
00:32:57.580 ever had
00:32:58.060 a biological
00:32:58.700 attack,
00:32:59.620 it's going
00:33:00.500 to be
00:33:00.760 devastating,
00:33:01.500 because people
00:33:01.960 are too
00:33:02.260 close.
00:33:03.240 So I'm
00:33:03.700 wondering if
00:33:04.300 we're reaching
00:33:04.740 a point
00:33:05.200 where for
00:33:06.120 homeland
00:33:06.560 security,
00:33:07.540 as well
00:33:07.800 as pandemics,
00:33:08.880 as well
00:33:09.180 as lifestyle,
00:33:10.760 as well
00:33:11.040 as avoiding
00:33:11.540 crime,
00:33:12.660 that the
00:33:13.080 cities just
00:33:13.600 go away.
00:33:14.840 Can anybody
00:33:15.380 give me a
00:33:15.840 good reason
00:33:16.260 for a city?
00:33:18.280 You know,
00:33:18.560 historically,
00:33:19.400 they made
00:33:19.920 perfect sense,
00:33:21.120 because you
00:33:21.440 didn't have
00:33:21.760 much communication.
00:33:23.460 Travel was
00:33:24.000 a little bit
00:33:24.420 harder.
00:33:30.660 And
00:33:31.140 travel was
00:33:32.800 a little bit
00:33:33.140 harder.
00:33:33.860 So I just
00:33:34.380 don't think
00:33:34.700 we need
00:33:34.980 them anymore.
00:33:36.480 All right.
00:33:37.960 Tulsi Gabbard
00:33:38.640 called out
00:33:39.260 racism against
00:33:40.440 white people.
00:33:41.400 That's good
00:33:41.780 to see.
00:33:42.500 Thank you,
00:33:42.960 Tulsi.
00:33:43.820 Appreciate it.
00:33:44.620 She was
00:33:44.860 calling out
00:33:45.340 specifically
00:33:46.120 Mayor Lightfoot,
00:33:48.460 who said
00:33:48.940 she would
00:33:49.420 only give
00:33:50.440 interviews to
00:33:51.080 black and
00:33:51.460 brown people.
00:33:52.340 So clearly
00:33:52.940 obvious
00:33:53.600 anti-white
00:33:54.960 racism.
00:33:56.120 And only
00:33:56.680 one politician
00:33:57.520 in the world
00:33:58.080 called it out?
00:33:59.680 Seriously?
00:34:00.980 Just one
00:34:01.720 politician?
00:34:03.380 Nobody else
00:34:04.220 had anything
00:34:04.600 else to say
00:34:05.200 about that.
00:34:06.680 Just one
00:34:07.420 person.
00:34:08.480 She should
00:34:09.060 be president
00:34:09.720 just for
00:34:11.080 that.
00:34:12.000 Right?
00:34:12.680 I mean,
00:34:13.100 if you can't
00:34:13.620 say that
00:34:14.100 out loud,
00:34:15.380 you can't
00:34:16.240 be president.
00:34:16.780 If you can't
00:34:18.240 say that
00:34:18.680 out loud,
00:34:19.440 that this is
00:34:20.740 a case of
00:34:21.460 anti-white
00:34:22.100 racism,
00:34:22.960 you just
00:34:23.620 shouldn't be
00:34:24.000 a leader
00:34:24.340 in this
00:34:24.700 country.
00:34:25.000 apparently the
00:34:28.140 White House
00:34:28.460 is demanding
00:34:29.100 that reporters
00:34:31.380 submit their
00:34:33.160 quotes before
00:34:34.080 they're printed
00:34:34.600 so that the
00:34:35.320 White House
00:34:35.660 can say,
00:34:36.140 yes, we
00:34:37.100 really said
00:34:37.660 that.
00:34:38.340 That's
00:34:38.800 actually fairly
00:34:39.600 common among
00:34:41.840 low-end
00:34:43.040 publications.
00:34:44.740 Even when I'm
00:34:45.660 interviewed,
00:34:46.320 it's not
00:34:46.960 unusual for
00:34:47.580 them to run
00:34:48.080 the quote by
00:34:48.720 me to make
00:34:49.260 sure they got
00:34:49.760 it right.
00:34:50.300 That's just
00:34:50.660 fact-checking.
00:34:51.280 So fact-checking
00:34:53.180 is fine,
00:34:54.020 but I guess
00:34:54.620 the publications
00:34:55.320 don't want to
00:34:56.520 make sure that
00:34:57.160 their quotes
00:34:57.760 are accurate.
00:34:59.180 So the news
00:35:00.380 is complaining
00:35:01.080 that the
00:35:02.700 White House
00:35:03.260 will force
00:35:05.180 their news
00:35:07.260 to be accurate.
00:35:08.700 And that's
00:35:08.980 a problem,
00:35:09.540 apparently.
00:35:10.640 Because it
00:35:11.100 also gives
00:35:11.540 them more
00:35:11.880 control over
00:35:12.640 the quotes.
00:35:17.500 Matt
00:35:18.660 Gates,
00:35:19.580 the luckiest
00:35:20.420 accused guy
00:35:21.140 in the world,
00:35:22.340 and I've
00:35:22.900 got,
00:35:23.540 I'll be
00:35:23.920 just a few
00:35:24.440 more minutes
00:35:24.860 than I get
00:35:25.140 to run.
00:35:25.860 But Matt
00:35:26.720 Gates,
00:35:27.660 apparently the
00:35:28.320 guy who's
00:35:28.740 accusing him,
00:35:29.680 this Greenberg
00:35:30.360 guy,
00:35:31.700 has a history
00:35:33.420 of once
00:35:34.040 before,
00:35:34.720 it is now
00:35:35.220 reported,
00:35:36.460 falsely
00:35:37.440 accused
00:35:38.020 somebody who
00:35:38.700 was running
00:35:39.100 against him
00:35:39.680 for office
00:35:40.200 once of
00:35:41.820 was it
00:35:45.840 improper,
00:35:47.460 yeah,
00:35:48.540 some kind
00:35:48.880 of improper
00:35:49.380 sexual thing.
00:35:50.220 So the
00:35:52.040 guy accusing
00:35:52.960 Matt
00:35:53.760 Gates of
00:35:54.380 improper
00:35:54.820 sexual thing
00:35:55.800 is documented
00:35:57.460 to have
00:35:58.760 made up
00:35:59.600 similar
00:36:01.040 accusations
00:36:01.800 in the
00:36:02.500 past.
00:36:04.360 Come on.
00:36:06.820 Seriously?
00:36:08.940 Seriously?
00:36:10.420 The biggest,
00:36:11.180 one of the
00:36:11.480 biggest stories
00:36:12.040 in the country,
00:36:12.640 and what are
00:36:14.100 the odds
00:36:14.600 that the guy
00:36:15.300 who's accusing
00:36:16.000 him is
00:36:17.840 guilty of
00:36:18.640 falsely
00:36:19.400 accusing
00:36:19.780 people
00:36:20.160 just like
00:36:20.920 this?
00:36:22.440 That's like
00:36:23.240 the most
00:36:23.560 perfect thing
00:36:24.240 that ever
00:36:24.640 happened for
00:36:25.180 Matt
00:36:25.420 Gates.
00:36:26.440 Let me ask
00:36:27.360 you another
00:36:27.660 question.
00:36:28.160 Apparently
00:36:28.460 some former
00:36:29.600 girlfriend of
00:36:30.540 Matt
00:36:30.820 Gates is going
00:36:31.460 to testify.
00:36:32.900 So when you
00:36:33.760 hear that,
00:36:34.380 do you say,
00:36:34.900 oh no,
00:36:35.920 it's curtains
00:36:36.620 for Matt
00:36:37.180 Gates,
00:36:37.840 because his
00:36:38.540 former
00:36:38.900 girlfriend,
00:36:39.720 who may
00:36:40.280 have been,
00:36:41.220 had access
00:36:41.920 to knowledge
00:36:42.540 or whatever,
00:36:43.380 is going to
00:36:44.300 testify?
00:36:44.800 I wouldn't
00:36:47.200 assume this
00:36:47.880 is going to
00:36:48.260 go wrong
00:36:48.780 for him,
00:36:49.240 because I
00:36:51.360 don't know
00:36:51.680 about you,
00:36:52.960 but most
00:36:53.520 of my
00:36:53.840 ex-girlfriends
00:36:54.560 don't hate
00:36:55.160 me.
00:36:56.360 Do your
00:36:56.620 ex-girlfriends
00:36:57.360 hate you?
00:36:58.400 Maybe some.
00:36:59.800 But I have
00:37:01.640 no reason to
00:37:02.300 believe that
00:37:02.780 his ex-girlfriend
00:37:03.660 is going to
00:37:03.960 be on the
00:37:04.340 other side.
00:37:05.760 I feel as
00:37:06.800 though it's
00:37:08.420 at least
00:37:08.740 equally likely,
00:37:10.060 given that we
00:37:10.740 don't know
00:37:11.140 what their
00:37:11.480 relationship was
00:37:12.380 after they
00:37:12.960 were ex,
00:37:13.500 it seems
00:37:14.820 very likely
00:37:15.520 that she
00:37:16.520 likes the
00:37:17.040 guy.
00:37:17.980 It seems
00:37:18.640 very likely
00:37:19.300 that she
00:37:19.880 will give
00:37:21.500 a friendly
00:37:21.960 testimony that
00:37:22.760 could be
00:37:23.040 good for
00:37:23.340 him.
00:37:24.700 Now let
00:37:25.280 me ask
00:37:25.580 you this,
00:37:26.920 are we
00:37:28.260 seriously
00:37:28.880 saying that
00:37:30.620 this is
00:37:31.060 prostitution
00:37:31.800 if he
00:37:32.340 offered any
00:37:33.600 kind of
00:37:34.080 money for
00:37:34.680 somebody he
00:37:35.280 was wanting
00:37:36.220 to have a
00:37:36.660 relationship
00:37:37.040 with?
00:37:37.920 Where do
00:37:38.540 you draw
00:37:38.840 the line?
00:37:39.980 Let me
00:37:40.260 ask you
00:37:40.560 this,
00:37:41.200 if somebody
00:37:41.880 is a
00:37:42.280 prostitute
00:37:42.900 for a
00:37:43.520 living,
00:37:44.340 it's
00:37:44.620 their job,
00:37:45.760 and you
00:37:46.220 offer them
00:37:46.620 money,
00:37:47.220 and they
00:37:47.500 give you
00:37:47.760 sex,
00:37:48.780 well that's
00:37:49.160 prostitution,
00:37:49.880 right?
00:37:50.320 You could
00:37:50.660 argue whether
00:37:51.160 it should
00:37:51.420 be legal or
00:37:52.000 illegal,
00:37:52.440 but I
00:37:53.040 think we'd
00:37:53.420 all say,
00:37:53.820 oh yeah,
00:37:54.100 that's what
00:37:55.220 that is,
00:37:55.720 that's some
00:37:56.180 prostitution
00:37:56.880 right there.
00:37:58.380 But what
00:37:59.140 if, I'll
00:37:59.940 just take
00:38:00.440 an example,
00:38:01.600 what if a
00:38:02.240 billionaire
00:38:02.600 single guy
00:38:03.580 met a
00:38:05.120 woman and
00:38:05.500 said,
00:38:05.760 hey,
00:38:06.140 how would
00:38:06.420 you like
00:38:06.660 to go on
00:38:07.080 my private
00:38:08.220 plane to
00:38:09.080 France for
00:38:10.500 a night?
00:38:10.860 And the
00:38:12.580 woman says
00:38:13.140 yes.
00:38:14.660 Is that
00:38:15.280 prostitution?
00:38:16.580 Because you
00:38:17.200 know they're
00:38:17.640 going to
00:38:17.880 sleep together
00:38:18.520 on the
00:38:18.860 other end.
00:38:20.180 And you
00:38:20.520 know that
00:38:21.400 she was
00:38:21.860 enticed by
00:38:22.860 the financial
00:38:24.320 value and
00:38:25.580 what it
00:38:26.160 could give
00:38:26.500 to her in
00:38:27.180 this experience.
00:38:28.700 Is she a
00:38:29.220 prostitute?
00:38:30.260 Because she
00:38:30.780 doesn't do it
00:38:31.240 for a living.
00:38:32.660 She's just a
00:38:33.300 woman who
00:38:33.760 was at
00:38:34.220 least partially
00:38:35.660 influenced by
00:38:37.920 some money.
00:38:40.000 So what
00:38:41.480 happens if
00:38:42.160 we find
00:38:42.720 out, and
00:38:43.700 I have a
00:38:44.440 feeling it's
00:38:44.960 going to
00:38:45.160 go this
00:38:45.540 way, that
00:38:46.420 the women
00:38:46.940 involved are
00:38:47.780 not full
00:38:49.980 time, at
00:38:50.760 least full
00:38:51.100 time, or
00:38:51.960 at least not
00:38:52.560 known to
00:38:53.000 be working
00:38:54.160 prostitutes.
00:38:55.340 What if
00:38:55.880 they're just
00:38:56.240 young women
00:38:56.820 who are
00:38:58.100 impressed by
00:38:58.760 power and
00:38:59.280 money, and
00:39:00.440 maybe it
00:39:00.800 did make a
00:39:01.240 difference?
00:39:02.020 Maybe it
00:39:02.440 made a
00:39:02.720 difference that
00:39:03.380 he paid for
00:39:04.340 a hotel or
00:39:05.200 that they had
00:39:06.480 a little extra
00:39:06.920 cash to buy
00:39:07.720 dinner that
00:39:08.200 night or
00:39:08.540 something.
00:39:10.140 Is that
00:39:10.700 prostitution?
00:39:12.520 I feel as
00:39:13.580 if, even if
00:39:15.900 he's guilty, I
00:39:16.580 don't care.
00:39:18.020 Could we at
00:39:18.540 least find a
00:39:19.140 crime that
00:39:19.600 somebody cares
00:39:20.160 about?
00:39:21.520 Can we find
00:39:22.200 a victim?
00:39:24.460 Now, obviously,
00:39:25.480 if there's any
00:39:25.920 underage stuff,
00:39:27.000 that becomes
00:39:27.640 its own
00:39:27.980 category.
00:39:28.880 So at the
00:39:29.220 moment, I'm
00:39:29.640 not talking
00:39:30.040 about anything
00:39:30.540 underage.
00:39:31.380 And by the
00:39:31.720 way, we've
00:39:32.700 seen no
00:39:33.060 evidence of
00:39:33.600 that, right?
00:39:34.800 You and I
00:39:35.400 have seen no
00:39:35.980 evidence.
00:39:36.460 evidence there's
00:39:37.440 anything with a
00:39:38.120 17-year-old.
00:39:39.060 It's been
00:39:39.380 alleged, but
00:39:39.960 no evidence.
00:39:42.780 If it turns
00:39:43.540 out that all
00:39:44.640 he did was he
00:39:45.480 was generous
00:39:45.920 with women and
00:39:46.980 it influenced
00:39:47.500 their decisions,
00:39:48.920 even if it
00:39:49.480 influenced their
00:39:50.120 decisions a lot,
00:39:51.920 I just don't
00:39:52.820 care.
00:39:53.880 It was just
00:39:54.320 people doing
00:39:54.820 what they
00:39:55.120 wanted to
00:39:55.560 do,
00:39:56.220 willingly,
00:39:57.200 transparently.
00:39:58.760 I mean,
00:39:59.380 come on,
00:40:00.380 let's grow up
00:40:02.180 and stop
00:40:03.500 acting like
00:40:03.980 we care
00:40:04.300 about that
00:40:04.640 stuff,
00:40:04.980 because we
00:40:05.320 plainly
00:40:06.000 don't care
00:40:07.580 about that
00:40:07.960 stuff.
00:40:08.440 All right.
00:40:10.200 That is
00:40:11.020 what I
00:40:11.260 wanted to
00:40:11.600 talk about
00:40:12.060 today.
00:40:15.640 There we
00:40:16.200 go.
00:40:17.100 And,
00:40:18.340 yeah,
00:40:20.060 the Epstein
00:40:20.480 thing,
00:40:21.060 the guards
00:40:21.540 falsified some
00:40:23.620 documents,
00:40:24.200 but we don't
00:40:24.520 know anything
00:40:24.920 about that.
00:40:26.220 So maybe
00:40:26.920 we'll find
00:40:27.440 out more.
00:40:28.640 Let's find
00:40:29.160 out more.
00:40:29.560 If you're
00:40:32.300 still talking
00:40:32.780 about it,
00:40:33.180 they win.
00:40:33.620 Yeah,
00:40:33.840 that's the
00:40:34.140 problem.
00:40:34.700 Anything you
00:40:35.140 talk about,
00:40:35.680 they win.
00:40:37.220 What about
00:40:37.700 crypto?
00:40:38.580 I don't have
00:40:39.160 a current
00:40:39.620 opinion on
00:40:40.100 that.
00:40:41.200 And I've
00:40:41.720 got to go
00:40:42.120 run and do
00:40:42.800 something else,
00:40:43.480 and I will
00:40:43.960 talk to you.
00:40:45.300 Oh,
00:40:45.540 somebody asked,
00:40:46.040 how's my
00:40:46.320 audio book
00:40:46.880 going?
00:40:47.720 Well,
00:40:48.200 I couldn't
00:40:48.880 believe this,
00:40:49.500 but a lot of
00:40:49.940 people are
00:40:50.520 buying the
00:40:51.580 audio version
00:40:53.200 of How to
00:40:53.560 Failed Almost
00:40:53.980 Everything and
00:40:54.540 Still Win
00:40:54.900 Big because I
00:40:55.780 just re-recorded
00:40:56.780 it.
00:40:57.140 Now,
00:40:57.320 it's in my
00:40:57.720 voice for the
00:40:58.340 first time.
00:40:59.200 It was a
00:40:59.560 voice actor
00:41:00.300 before,
00:41:01.140 and I'm
00:41:01.800 kind of
00:41:02.240 amazed and
00:41:03.500 totally surprised
00:41:04.400 that a lot of
00:41:05.500 people who have
00:41:06.020 already read it
00:41:06.720 or already
00:41:07.280 heard it with
00:41:08.140 the other
00:41:08.440 actor are
00:41:08.960 still buying
00:41:09.620 this one
00:41:10.120 just to hear
00:41:11.100 it in my
00:41:11.480 voice.
00:41:12.400 Now,
00:41:13.080 I did not
00:41:14.600 expect that,
00:41:15.620 but there were
00:41:16.160 so many people
00:41:16.740 who asked me
00:41:17.260 to record it
00:41:17.860 in my own
00:41:18.280 voice,
00:41:18.880 I thought,
00:41:19.420 well,
00:41:20.140 if so many
00:41:20.560 people want
00:41:21.060 it,
00:41:21.300 it must be
00:41:21.720 something they
00:41:22.380 want.
00:41:22.900 So I gave
00:41:23.500 it to them,
00:41:24.260 and I'm just
00:41:24.940 blown away by
00:41:25.720 the response.
00:41:26.540 So,
00:41:27.200 thank you.
00:41:28.040 Thank you for
00:41:28.560 all of that.
00:41:28.900 All right,
00:41:30.460 that is all I
00:41:32.040 have for today,
00:41:32.700 and I'll talk to
00:41:33.360 you tomorrow.
00:41:34.380 Thank you for