Episode 1386 Scott Adams： LeBron Kills His Fans With Leadership, CNN Psychics Know How Audits Turn Out, Musk on Crypto
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
142.48277
Summary
LeBron James was asked in an interview if he got vaccinated for the flu, and he refused to say yes or no. Does that mean he got it? Or did he not get it? And if he did get it, why didn t he tell the public?
Transcript
00:00:00.000
Hey everybody, come on in. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, the very best of all times.
00:00:08.600
If you made a list of all your times, this would be right at the top. Everything else,
00:00:14.440
way less important. If you get this part right, the rest of your day, perfect. I guarantee it.
00:00:22.400
And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tankard shells or sign a canteen jug or a flask,
00:00:26.780
a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee. And join me now for the
00:00:33.960
unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that goes like this. It's called
00:00:41.180
the simultaneous sip. Go. Now, if you've tried the simultaneous sip without going
00:00:53.420
at the end, you're missing the best part. When you have sex, scream. When you have the
00:01:02.460
simultaneous sip, go. Makes it all better. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not. It does make it
00:01:11.320
better. Now, how about this? Turns out that Moderna's vaccination, at least in a test,
00:01:17.820
was shown to be 100% effective in adolescents aged 12 to 17. 100%. That is very close, very close
00:01:28.900
to the exact number of people who don't get the virus between the age of 12 and 17
00:01:34.740
or don't get any serious problem with it. Now, that doesn't mean you shouldn't get vaccinated,
00:01:42.860
but this is pretty close to what you would expect, isn't it? You'd kind of expect that
00:01:49.660
if the vaccine works and children are unlikely to get it in the first place, you put the two
00:01:56.880
together and it looks pretty good. So that's all good news. So LeBron James was asked in an interview
00:02:05.720
if he got vaccinated. Now, you know, LeBron is a role model. He has spoken out on a number of topics,
00:02:15.360
the George Floyd stuff, notably. But LeBron is sort of, I don't know if he's reluctant, but he's a
00:02:22.960
role model, whether he likes it or not. He's a role model. So what do you make of somebody who's a role
00:02:31.480
model? And certainly could influence people. All right. There are small role models, and then
00:02:39.100
there are big role models. I would think LeBron is a big role model, and he could actually make a
00:02:44.760
difference. So he decided to not say in public whether he had been vaccinated. Now, do you think
00:02:52.960
he said he would, you know, do you think that he didn't answer the question because he is vaccinated
00:02:59.760
or because he's not? What's your guess? I feel like he is. I saw a CNN host, I guess,
00:03:13.000
guessing that if he wouldn't say that he was vaccinated, it probably means he isn't.
00:03:17.860
But I don't think that his team would let him play unless he were. That's what I think.
00:03:27.940
I think that he is vaccinated, and he doesn't want to say it. So that's my guess. Someday we might find
00:03:34.480
out. Here's another one of these cases where you can, we'll probably know. I think at some point,
00:03:42.080
we'll probably know if he got the vaccination. And compare your prediction to mine. So my prediction
00:03:49.920
is he doesn't want to tell people he did get it. And if your prediction is that he doesn't want to
00:03:56.640
say it because he didn't get it, I don't know. I would check that prediction because I feel as if the
00:04:03.620
organization that pays him would probably require it or at least push really hard. And we might have
00:04:11.940
heard about that if there was some pushing going on. So I'm guessing he got it. However,
00:04:18.360
I feel it's cowardly and despicable not to tell the public what he did. Now, I get that he's not a
00:04:26.120
doctor. So you shouldn't be taking medical advice from LeBron or from me. But he does know his
00:04:34.760
actions influence people. So if he has any confidence whatsoever in his own decision,
00:04:40.200
I feel as if he should tell the public. That was the decision I made. Because with the people who
00:04:50.200
choose to watch me and follow me here, I probably have a little bit more influence than just some
00:04:56.880
random person, right? Let me ask this in the comments. Is there anybody here who was influenced
00:05:04.260
to either get the vaccination or not get it by anything I did? Let's see if influence makes a
00:05:11.840
difference. How many people in the comments made a decision? I see a yes. Now, most of you should be
00:05:20.420
no, right? Most of you are just, of course, not influenced by that sort of thing. But see if you
00:05:25.920
see any yeses go by. So far, 95%, 99% no's. But it's not the number of no's that we're looking for.
00:05:34.700
We're seeing if there are any yeses. Because persuasion is more like a, you know, you move
00:05:40.300
two percent. You know, maybe if you're really good, you move five percent. I see two yeses. So three yeses so
00:05:47.680
far. Let's see if I see any more. Yes, another one. Mostly no's. Mostly no's. 99% no's. Framed helpfully.
00:06:00.760
So maybe a little bit. There's a yes. All right. So about what I thought. So somewhere in another
00:06:09.640
yes. So we're seeing that somewhere in maybe the two percent, five percent range, five percent at the
00:06:15.300
most. But so you can see for yourself. All right. I don't have to guess. Rick says I influenced him
00:06:25.320
on marrying hot women. Well, I'm glad I could do that for you. Oh, let's see some more yeses coming
00:06:31.980
in. All right. So you can see for yourself, if you're watching the comments, that there are real
00:06:36.440
human beings who really made life decisions based in part on what I did. That's a pretty heady
00:06:46.980
responsibility. And if LeBron said to himself, you know, I don't want to be the one who killed anybody.
00:06:55.320
So I'm just not going to say, oh, I don't know if that's crazy. You know, it's not crazy to want to
00:07:02.720
be not a doctor and don't influence people on medical stuff. But at the same time, LeBron has
00:07:09.220
the same problem, an ethical problem, I would say, moral or ethical, whichever one you want to use.
00:07:14.480
I think that everybody who's a public figure, you know, and I am in a smaller scale than LeBron,
00:07:21.600
of course. But I feel like we have a responsibility to tell you what we decided.
00:07:28.460
Do you agree or disagree with that? Do you think it would have been better if I'd just been quiet
00:07:32.880
about it? Because I don't. I feel like you should see what public figures did, and then listen to our
00:07:41.700
argument. Now, I don't think you should look at one public figure and make a decision based on one
00:07:47.000
person. But, you know, we're all trying to do our best here, right? You know, we've got our medical
00:07:53.360
advice. Sometimes you trust it. Sometimes you don't. But doesn't it help to talk to a friend?
00:08:01.040
Doesn't it help to see a public figure go through the thinking? I feel like it does. You know,
00:08:07.140
it's definitely a double edged sword. But I feel that LeBron took more of a cowardly approach. I feel
00:08:15.820
like he should step up. But it could be that he, you know, like other people think, maybe he didn't
00:08:22.940
get the vaccination and doesn't want to discourage others, you know, feeling it's just a personal
00:08:27.720
decision. Maybe. So I'm not going to say I should condemn him for this. I chose differently. I feel
00:08:35.840
there was a risk he's avoiding. And if he wants to avoid that risk, that's not dumb. Might be a
00:08:45.580
little cowardly, but it's not dumb. I choose to take the risk. And if anybody dies because of anything I
00:08:54.480
did, well, I'm sorry about that. I really am. And I'm doing my best. Well, like, that's all I can do,
00:09:03.660
right? I'm doing my honest best to not get anybody killed because they heard any advice from me.
00:09:10.900
But, you know, there's a risk there. Well, the George Floyd anniversary, you hate to call it that,
00:09:19.840
don't you? Anniversary. There should be a different word for something that happens on an annual basis
00:09:25.980
that's just purely bad. You know, anniversary sounds like, oh, it's your wedding anniversary. It's a good
00:09:31.920
thing. But this is the bad kind of anniversary. And Politico reports that Biden wanted to use the
00:09:40.140
anniversary as sort of a deadline for Congress to pass a police reform bill. And here's the part that
00:09:46.660
just blew my head apart. Politico goes on and says, but with no bill in sight, he has instead, blah, blah,
00:09:54.460
blah. Are you kidding me? One year after the George Floyd event and the tragedy, and there's not even a
00:10:05.460
bill in sight? Meaning that there's nobody even working on a police reform anything? Now, could it be that
00:10:15.640
it's just because the federal government maybe isn't the right body to do that? Maybe it's a state
00:10:20.020
thing? I don't know. Biden was expecting something. So apparently the president of the United States
00:10:27.020
thinks it's the federal government's job. And he got nothing? Are you telling me that all the people
00:10:35.660
in Congress, all the Republicans and all the Democrats, they couldn't come up with one idea,
00:10:42.540
just one idea, just one idea for making things better in this domain? Nothing. Are you fucking
00:10:51.040
kidding me? This whole thing is just a fake, fake, fake fucking story. It's a fake fucking story
00:10:59.760
because if this problem were even a little bit real, there would be all kinds of suggestions for
00:11:05.540
fucking fixing it. This is the tell. The tell is that a year later, there's not a good fucking
00:11:14.460
idea. It wasn't a real problem to begin with. Now, it's a real tragedy. Anybody getting killed,
00:11:22.640
it's a tragedy. And that's a problem per se. But if nobody had a better idea, I mean, I feel like
00:11:31.960
that's important to know, right? Nobody had a better idea. Now, I'm seeing in the comments,
00:11:36.760
and thank you for reminding me, that Tim Scott did have at one point what looked like very productive
00:11:43.540
suggestions. He got shot down, ironically, shouldn't use that phrase. But it didn't go anywhere because
00:11:51.800
he's a Republican, is my understanding. Is that your understanding? That the Tim Scott police reform
00:11:58.000
bill didn't go anywhere because Tim Scott is not a Democrat? That's probably the only reason, right?
00:12:05.360
So if Congress isn't even serious about this, should you be? Really? I mean, I feel like if Congress
00:12:14.800
doesn't even treat it like it's a real problem, they are treating it like it's not real, like it doesn't
00:12:21.220
even exist. Because if it were real, and it existed, there would at least be suggestions for what to do.
00:12:30.680
Just some suggestions. All right. Here's my suggestion, which of course will never be implemented,
00:12:41.500
because it might work, which is teaching life strategy in school. Life strategy. Now, schools teach you
00:12:50.460
skills, you know, like how to read, blah, blah, blah, although they don't do it very well, apparently,
00:12:54.820
in the inner cities. But there should be a federal required course on life strategies. Life strategies.
00:13:07.320
Now, it should be bigger than just what do you do if the police stop you, but it should be in there,
00:13:12.740
right? If you're going to have like a, let's say, a semester-long class on how to have a strategy
00:13:20.100
for a good life, depending where you live, and depending on your ethnicity especially,
00:13:27.000
you should have a little bit of a module about how to not get your ass killed by the police.
00:13:32.720
Because I don't think it's that hard. I really don't. I'm sorry. If it seems like it's hard to you,
00:13:40.240
you know, I'm sorry that you feel that way. But it's not hard. It's just not hard to not get killed
00:13:46.140
by the police. You have to really try to get killed by the police. And I think we know exactly
00:13:51.680
how to do it, which is resisting arrest. So I think that's something the federal government can
00:13:58.760
do. And who would object to that? Who would object to that? They would, right? If Democrats came up
00:14:06.400
with a plan to teach life strategy, which would include stay off drugs, you know, go to school,
00:14:12.840
get good grades. And by the way, if you're young and black and poor, and you do those things,
00:14:19.880
get good grades, stay out of jail, and, you know, stay off drugs. You do those three things,
00:14:26.500
and you're black, what does your future look like? Golden. It's golden. It's like a freeway to success.
00:14:37.160
There's nothing in the way if you do those three things. And also, don't resist arrest,
00:14:43.160
so you'll get yourself killed. So if the federal government came up with a plan that says, hey,
00:14:49.020
we can't fix the police directly. Maybe the states need to do what they need to do there.
00:14:53.660
But we can certainly make sure that the students are not just crushed by bad teaching and useless
00:15:00.480
instruction. You can make sure of that. Just make sure that there's a module there. You know,
00:15:06.200
if you can put 16, 19 training in there, and you can put critical race theory in things,
00:15:11.700
and those things are what I would call anti-strategy. And anti-strategy is something
00:15:18.620
they teach you in school that will make your life worse. It'll just make your life worse.
00:15:25.060
And I think looking at the rearview mirror does that. I'll say more about that.
00:15:31.960
Actually, let me say more about that right now. If you wanted to destroy black America,
00:15:42.100
how would you do it? Let's say you were China, or you were some nemesis of the United States,
00:15:49.100
and you wanted to destroy black America, because that would largely take a big bite out of destroying
00:15:56.620
America in general. If you were evil, and you wanted to do that, one good way would be to advocate
00:16:03.720
teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. Now, the point of the 1619 Project,
00:16:14.200
the point of critical race theory, well, the 1619 Project in particular, is to make sure that people
00:16:21.280
understand the true brutality of our history without, you know, whitewashing it, basically,
00:16:29.760
ironically. Now, I don't have any objection whatsoever with an honest accounting of history.
00:16:38.740
I feel like that's a good idea, to have the clearest, most accurate view of history,
00:16:44.800
brutal though it may be. And I do think that it's perfectly valid to make a really big deal about the,
00:16:51.260
the role of racism and slavery in the country. Good to know. Good to teach. But there's a
00:17:00.840
difference between being honest and being accurate, and being strategic. They're different. If you're
00:17:08.560
doing one, it might hurt your ability to do the other. And if your top priority is the, is to make
00:17:16.360
sure people really get it drilled into their head, how slavery and systemic racism are the main,
00:17:22.120
main variables of success in this country, that becomes your strategy by default. You know, if you
00:17:30.520
fill your head with one thing, whatever that one thing is, you're, you're going to be motivated by that
00:17:36.060
one thing. It doesn't matter what the thing is. If you take as your main strategy for success,
00:17:43.700
dwelling on the past, has that ever worked? Can you think of examples where somebody was successful
00:17:51.960
because they dwelled on the past? Just one example. Oh yeah, there was that, that successful
00:17:59.820
entrepreneur whose success is entirely based on dwelling on how bad things were. Well, definitely
00:18:07.460
there are entrepreneurs who use their, their pain to succeed, but I don't see any, anything like that
00:18:13.620
happening with the 1619 project. What's missing is the part where they say, we're going to teach you
00:18:19.760
this, and then the actions that you'll take because of this are now these productive ones.
00:18:25.560
Because that's what you want to do, right? You're trying to create students that are productive
00:18:31.480
members of society. So what do they do differently because of the 1619 project? What? Complain? Feel
00:18:40.360
that they're victims? What, what productive thing do you do because of it? Now compare that with
00:18:46.000
strategy, where somebody says, here's the deal. White people have a bunch of advantages. Black people,
00:18:55.560
have a bunch of their own advantages which are different. Among them, every fortune 500 company
00:19:02.060
wants to hire you. Just stay in school and stay in a jail and stay off drugs. Just do those three
00:19:07.820
things. Every fortune 500 company wants you and they want you bad because they need, they need
00:19:14.160
diversity. They need it. Like it's not even what they want. They freaking need it. It's a requirement to
00:19:22.280
hire you. You know, you will be so mentored that you'll be sick of it if you're black. You just have
00:19:30.220
to do those three things. Now, if they had a life class that taught that, what would you do differently
00:19:36.140
because of that? Well, those three things. Stay off drugs, stay in school, you know, stay out of jail.
00:19:43.280
Okay. Yeah, science. There's a comment on science here that I won't read. All right.
00:19:57.940
Now, here's the, here's the persuasion that I think BLM and the critical race theory in 1619
00:20:06.140
should do instead of what they're doing. Now, the genius of what they are doing, Black Lives Matter,
00:20:13.080
et cetera, is that to criticize any of it makes you a racist. Even if you said to yourself, well,
00:20:19.460
I like the general thrust of all these things. I like Black Lives Matter. I like critical race theory.
00:20:26.080
I like the 1619 project for just, you know, informing people. You know, I like all that. But
00:20:34.060
what, what's it persuading? I'll tell you what it would persuade me if I were black. Now, I'm not
00:20:42.060
black. Well, I identify as black. But if somebody told me that my group mattered, how would you take
00:20:53.740
that? Let's just turn this on you. Let's whatever you are. All right. Let's say for those of you who are
00:21:00.960
not black, let's say you have a, I don't know, Irish background. Suppose I said to you, Irish people
00:21:07.840
matter. How do you take that? I take that as the most losing strategy I've ever heard. Do you know
00:21:18.540
what is the lowest thing you should shoot for? To matter. That's the lowest bar you can aim for.
00:21:26.740
So, yes, David says we should give politicians a bonus based on lifting the black communities.
00:21:41.940
If you could, if you could measure that. That wouldn't be a bad idea, although it might be racist.
00:21:47.640
It might actually work out. But I don't think you could get past the racist part of that.
00:21:54.360
So here's my persuasion advice to Black Lives Matter. If you say that Black Lives Matter,
00:21:59.780
you have taken the very lowest standard. Oh, you just matter. Does that inspire you?
00:22:07.480
Do you feel like, ah, I'm going to go out there. I'm going to matter. That's nothing. You should be
00:22:16.660
shooting for thriving. You should be shooting for killing it. You should be shooting for exceeding
00:22:23.800
expectations, beating the average, beating everybody else you're competing on, you know, reaching for the
00:22:30.360
stars. You're reaching for mattering, mattering. The lowest level of success is that you just exist and
00:22:41.180
matter. That's it. So number one, shoot higher, like much higher, way higher. You should, you should be
00:22:53.860
like, like, inspirational. The whole approach is that it's a bunch of, a bunch of losers who are
00:23:02.180
wallowing in their loserhood and are trying to achieve the minimum level of a human being that you
00:23:09.260
don't want to kill them. That's it. Like the minimum value that people don't want to kill you just for
00:23:16.080
existing. Good Lord. It could not be worse in terms of persuasion. Here's a, here's a
00:23:24.320
persuasive counter to that. It's, and this is a variant of the high ground maneuver. Now the high ground
00:23:31.020
maneuver, I talk about it a lot, but the more examples you see that the more useful it'll be for you. The
00:23:37.320
high ground is when you say something that in the context of people debating and being on different
00:23:43.320
sides, you can find something that both sides just have to agree with. It's just the one thought
00:23:49.780
that's above them all. And here's my suggestion for that. The high ground is that looking backwards
00:23:56.740
rarely leads anyone forward. Looking backwards rarely leads anyone forward. Do you feel that? That's the
00:24:08.860
high ground. The moment I said it, you said to yourself, shit, that's true. I can't think of an
00:24:15.780
example that's where that's not true. Is that always true? I think it is. I think it's always true
00:24:24.540
because the cards that you have to play, let's say you're playing poker. Does it matter what your old
00:24:31.800
cards were? I mean, the old cards might've been a story about you being very unlucky and you lost a lot
00:24:38.440
of poker hands before that, but it's your current hand that matters. It's only your current hand that
00:24:45.800
will win the pot. You can't win a pot with a hand you used to have. So looking at it obsessively in your
00:24:53.220
rear view mirror doesn't make you a better poker player. What does make you a good poker player is
00:24:58.780
learning the rules, learning the odds, learning essentially what would be a life strategy applied
00:25:04.360
to poker? Just learning, learning how stuff works. That would be really useful. So looking backwards
00:25:13.660
rarely leads anyone forward. Everybody would agree with that the moment they hear it and they're like,
00:25:18.280
oh shoot, that's true. And I would say to thrive in the future, teach success strategies, not victimhood.
00:25:26.220
Now victimhood has advantages. It's not like it doesn't have any advantages. Here's one of the
00:25:34.820
advantages of victimhood. It's good for the leaders because that's how they get to be leaders. They talk
00:25:42.400
about all the victimhood and then they get to be the leaders. It's not good for the people they're
00:25:47.460
leading. It's not even a little bit good. Now I suppose if the leaders could use all this victimhood
00:25:54.440
to get some special laws or something, that'd be pretty good. But here's the problem. Where are we on
00:26:02.600
the long arc toward justice and equality? That arc, you have to look at what place you are on it to
00:26:11.480
decide what your strategy is in any given place. If this were the 60s, complaining about victimhood,
00:26:18.760
very good strategy. Because the victimhood is just so gigantic and so everywhere that you need to
00:26:25.660
complain about it. Nobody's going to fix it unless you complain, right? But once you get to this phase
00:26:32.460
of the arc toward equality and the difference between everybody is a little bit smaller,
00:26:38.560
the strategy has to change. And once you get to the smaller differences and really where the
00:26:50.060
individual differences overwhelm, the individual differences between any two people completely
00:26:56.740
overwhelm any racial disparities, right? I mean, these two are not even close. Nobody,
00:27:03.860
I don't know, have you even ever in your life seen a qualified black person turned down for a job
00:27:13.420
in favor of a less qualified white person? Have you ever seen that? I've been in a lot of hiring and
00:27:21.580
corporate situations. I've never even seen it once. I've never seen it once. Individual equality is just
00:27:27.800
overwhelming any racial stuff in 2021. I mean, by a mile. It's not even close. So complaining made
00:27:35.300
and victimhood as a frame made complete sense in the 60s. It was a good strategy. It's just it's a
00:27:42.240
terrible strategy now, except for the leaders. So the leaders no longer represent the people they're
00:27:49.000
leading. And that's a big problem right now. All right. Let's see what else is going on.
00:27:58.860
CNN has apparently hired some psychics, and they're reading the news from the future.
00:28:05.240
And so one of the things, here's a headline on an opinion piece in CNN today. It says,
00:28:10.520
Arizona and Georgia audits move forward as Republicans continue to push election fraud lies.
00:28:19.000
Wait a minute. Do I not understand what an audit is? Because in my simplistic view of the world,
00:28:28.760
I thought an audit was where you find out things that you didn't know already. Am I wrong? Because CNN
00:28:39.640
seems to indicate that an audit is a thing you do to find out what you already knew before the audit.
00:28:49.000
And I'm not sure that makes sense. And I wonder how many viewers of CNN say to themselves,
00:28:58.760
yeah, we don't need to wait for the result of the audit, because it's being reported there on CNN,
00:29:05.440
Now, I'm not predicting that we will find anything that's some massive fraud. I don't know that anything
00:29:13.820
will be found in these audits. And I don't really have a prediction about it. You know, my prediction
00:29:19.840
about election integrity is that our system has to get hacked. We just don't know when it happens.
00:29:26.560
It's either already happened, or it will definitely happen in the future. But we don't know where we
00:29:32.740
are in the timeline. Maybe the audit will kick that up. Who knows? But here are some words they could
00:29:38.020
have used that I feel would have been fair enough. Instead of calling it election fraud lies, the part
00:29:45.940
we don't know about until the audit's over, could have said it was unfounded. You know, you could argue
00:29:51.160
whether it was founded or unfounded. But I think unfounded would be a good opinion word. You could
00:29:57.080
say it's unproven. It's unproven. I think even people who think it's there would say that's true.
00:30:03.760
You could say it's baseless. You could argue whether it's baseless or not enough base to prove it.
00:30:11.940
But at least that would be within the opinion realm, right? Unfounded, unproven, baseless,
00:30:17.760
all good opinion words. I would accept any of them. But election fraud lies? How do they know
00:30:25.000
how it's going to turn out? And we just accept this uncritically, as if CNN knows how an audit will
00:30:32.420
turn out. The whole point of the audit is that you don't know how it turns out. All right.
00:30:41.160
Elon Musk had the funniest tweet I've seen on cryptocurrencies. And there have been a lot
00:30:47.060
of funny tweets in that category. A Twitter user named David Lee tweeted at Musk and said,
00:30:53.940
curious, what are your thoughts on Ethereum 2.0, Cardano, Solano, Polkadot, IOTA, and others that
00:31:03.020
are trying to scale with low fees? Now, if you're not in the cryptocurrency world, the only thing you
00:31:09.680
need to know to understand this is that cryptocurrency is really complicated, meaning that there's a whole
00:31:16.160
bunch of different cryptocurrencies. They all have their own characteristics and rules, etc. And so
00:31:23.040
understanding all of the different ones and what makes one maybe a better choice for the future,
00:31:28.520
which one is extendable, which one could scale better, all those things make it an incredibly
00:31:34.740
complicated thing that crypto geeks like to argue about forever.
00:31:39.960
Sure. So what does the biggest geek in the world, Elon Musk, and I say that with affection,
00:31:48.840
so what does he say when David Lee mentions all these cryptos and then asks this question? He goes,
00:31:55.520
what makes you choose Doge over them? Now, Doge is a cryptocurrency that was started as a joke,
00:32:03.100
as I understand it, and it has a little dog as its character, and there were memes involving
00:32:11.880
the crypto until so many people bought it that it's become sort of a serious thing that started
00:32:18.220
as a joke. So David Lee says, you know, what about all these cryptos, blah, blah, blah, what makes you
00:32:23.640
choose Doge over them? And here's Elon Musk, one of the smartest people in the world, who's going to
00:32:29.640
tell you everything you need about cryptocurrency. Are you ready? I will now teach you, courtesy of
00:32:36.100
Elon Musk, all the important things you know, but you need to know about which cryptocurrency to buy.
00:32:42.980
Okay, here it is. He said, Doge has dogs and memes, whereas the others do not.
00:32:50.540
That is the best answer you'll ever hear on cryptocurrencies. Now, the point of it is that
00:33:01.800
it's all irrational, right? The moment you try to act as if any of this is rational, it's like,
00:33:08.540
oh, the reasons Bitcoin will go up are X, Y, and Z. The reasons Ethereum is good is because,
00:33:14.880
you know, you know, you can have dApps and whatever. And Elon Musk just rips a hole in all of that
00:33:21.120
bullshit, just says, no, Doge has dogs and memes, whereas the others do not. That is literally all you
00:33:29.460
need to know about cryptocurrency. Everything else is a detail that you didn't need to know.
00:33:35.060
So, there's that. There's still some questions about Trump obstructing justice in the Russia
00:33:45.220
investigation. I can't believe this story is still out there. And it's obvious that, you know,
00:33:51.560
Biden is starting to struggle a little bit, as new presidents do after a few months of honeymoon,
00:33:57.040
not quite getting his legislation through, etc. And I guess the news just needs to kick Trump around
00:34:03.520
a little bit more. So, there's calls for unredacting some parts of Bill Barr's memo about
00:34:11.240
obstruction of justice, blah, blah. And it's a boring story. And if nothing else gets unredacted,
00:34:18.180
we'll never hear about it again. All right, here's a fake news alert. Or is it?
00:34:25.560
Black Lives Matter, one of the organization's Twitter feeds, tweeted that they indicated support
00:34:35.440
for the Palestinians during the mix-up between Hamas and Israel. Now, apparently Fox News and
00:34:44.120
the Daily Wire reported that as Black Lives Matter was supporting Hamas. But Hamas, of course,
00:34:51.500
is the political military terrorist part that is just a component of the Palestinians. It's just one
00:35:00.400
component. And so, the fake news part of it is it was not Hamas that Black Lives Matter mentioned,
00:35:08.340
but rather the Palestinian people. And they had some solidarity with them, said the tweet.
00:35:15.080
Now, the news today is that Fox News and the Daily Wire, I guess, are being accused of fake news because
00:35:23.280
what they should have reported is that Black Lives Matter supports the Palestinian people
00:35:29.100
in sort of a general human-to-human kind of a way, and not Hamas. So, does that sound about right to
00:35:38.960
you? Everything good there? That clarification? Hey, Richard. Richard Thomas has a comment. He says,
00:35:53.060
Scott's a Trump shill at heart. Well, Richard, can I call you Dick? I think I can call you a Dick.
00:35:59.880
Am I a Trump shill at heart? Is that what I want for myself? In my heart of hearts, is shilling for the
00:36:11.740
ex-president the thing I really want to do? Well, I'm going to put you in timeout, Dick. Try to make a comment
00:36:23.820
that has some, oh, I don't know, content or entertainment. Otherwise, you're just a narcissist
00:36:30.900
and you are condemned. All right. So, here's my take on the Black Lives Matter tweet supporting the
00:36:39.760
Palestinians. Where is the part of the tweet where they were supporting the Israeli citizens? Because
00:36:47.280
if I understand correctly, Black Lives Matter is trying to avoid the, you know, the political part and
00:36:53.220
just support the people. But were there not missiles and or bombs heading in both directions?
00:37:01.480
Were not the Palestinian people definitely in danger and under attack? They were. But were not
00:37:07.420
the Israeli public also under attack at the exact same time? Yes, they were. So, when Black Lives Matter
00:37:15.940
says we support some of those people, but not these other people who are all very much joined as part of
00:37:27.560
one story, what is the reasonable interpretation of that? The reasonable interpretation of that is
00:37:36.860
they're either anti-Semitic or they were supporting Hamas. Can you come up with another interpretation?
00:37:45.940
I can't think of another interpretation. It's either anti-Semitic or they are actually supporting Hamas
00:37:53.100
because they're not mentioning the Israeli victims. And I don't know how you ignore that, right?
00:38:01.460
It was missiles and bombs at both people's public at the same time.
00:38:07.700
How do you have empathy for only half of them? Ridiculous. So, this is a rare case of a news story that got fact-checked
00:38:20.880
as fake news, but you can also fact-check the fact-check as a fake fact-check, which reverses the fake news
00:38:27.600
back to real news. And that's as clear as cryptocurrency.
00:38:37.900
Here was an interesting exchange of tweets. Ed Markey in Congress, he was putting some shade on Republicans.
00:38:46.640
He's a Democrat. He's a Democrat. And he said, by a tweet, you cannot negotiate a climate bill with climate deniers.
00:38:54.240
Representative Dan Crenshaw objected to that and tweeted, you aren't, you liar.
00:39:00.120
Now, I like this. I love that Crenshaw starts with, you liar. Because that's all this is.
00:39:12.640
This is literally a public lie. And I just like that a politician who just says it's just a lie.
00:39:20.080
You know, no beating around the bush. And he says, we aren't denying climate change.
00:39:24.320
We're just pointing out that your solutions will hurt people and do nothing to prevent climate change.
00:39:29.400
Now, some of you are already saying at this point, is that true?
00:39:35.800
Is it true what Dan Crenshaw says, that Republicans are not denying climate change being human-caused?
00:39:44.440
Michael Schellenberger weighed in and said, Michael says,
00:39:49.120
I testified before Congress on climate change and energy six times since January 2020.
00:39:55.280
And not a single time did I hear any member of Congress deny either the reality of climate change nor humankind's contribution to it.
00:40:06.760
Now, Michael followed up with another tweet saying that he's not saying there are no deniers in Congress.
00:40:13.560
But he's pointing out if they are there, they're kind of quiet.
00:40:16.160
Yet, because he's been deeply involved in direct conversations, and just nobody brought it up.
00:40:41.200
Now, I do believe that there are climate change deniers in the Republican Party.
00:40:46.400
But is it true that there are so few of them that they're sort of irrelevant?
00:40:55.280
Because I'm trying to think who in the Republican Party, at least lately, let's say in the last, I don't know, two years,
00:41:05.380
can you think of a Republican, I think Representative Green might have said something, Marjorie Taylor Greene,
00:41:12.980
but can you think of other Republicans who are saying out loud that there's no human-caused climate change?
00:41:22.660
Well, now, I know a lot of you are climate deniers, or climate change deniers,
00:41:29.460
specifically the human part of it being dangerous.
00:41:33.180
Just to reinforce, my view is that humans are changing the climate,
00:41:40.580
and that it probably is a really big problem, but not one that we're incapable of fixing.
00:41:47.620
So, I believe we're capable of fixing the problems, but I think it's real.
00:41:51.340
I just don't know how big it is or how well we can predict it, but it looks real enough to me.
00:42:01.240
So, I'll leave open the possibility that when I interpret science,
00:42:06.520
that there's a whole lot of guessing going on, so I could be totally wrong.
00:42:09.460
In a humorous little bit of news, there was a hit piece in the Daily Beast by a, quote, journalist named Will Sommer.
00:42:24.340
And in the Daily Beast, he talks about how Patrick Byrne, founder of Overstock.com,
00:42:32.920
how Patrick Byrne got kicked off of Twitter for talking about election irregularities,
00:42:42.720
Full disclosure, I am a small investor in the Locals platform,
00:42:47.180
and I also have a community there, a subscription service community,
00:42:51.180
where I put my stuff that I can't put on Twitter.
00:42:56.380
And he got criticized for going there and, you know,
00:43:00.500
having a place where he could have free speech about his topic, which is the election.
00:43:06.660
And Dave Rubin responded to this hit piece by noting that Patrick Byrne
00:43:11.760
is already making over a million dollars a year on Locals.
00:43:19.440
that his current run rate is over a million dollars a year.
00:43:29.360
goes and does exactly the same thing on Locals,
00:43:33.620
and he's going to make over a million dollars this year.
00:43:38.640
so I'm not sure a million dollars makes a difference to him.
00:43:45.160
How much do you love the fact he got canceled into making a million dollars?
00:43:59.520
And I'm actually shocked at how well this is working.
00:44:05.780
In terms of if you're worried about your content
00:44:18.380
either on Substack, which is another place people are going,
00:44:31.800
But you can see that the future is this kind of model.
00:44:36.960
Because the public is willing to pay for content that they like.
00:44:43.340
is somebody else telling them what they can see.
00:44:46.060
The public does not like to be told what they can see
00:49:44.940
Or watching whatever your favorite news channel is?
00:49:47.560
Did you get thousands of dollars worth of value
00:50:31.440
where people just want more of something specific.
00:50:50.860
but most of them are behind the subscription wall
00:51:59.540
I'm just blown away that that's even a possibility,