Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1388 Scott Adams： Wuhan Lab Leak Theories, Flying Saucer Drones, Rewarding Terrorists, Banks Are Dead, and More

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00:00:36.780 Go!

00:00:44.340 Well,

00:00:45.800 shall we talk about

00:00:47.500 all of the things?

00:00:49.200 Yes, let's talk about all the things.

00:00:51.960 So there's a

00:00:53.280 story about

00:00:55.040 the money manager for Bill Gates.

00:00:57.640 Apparently, there's one firm

00:00:59.200 and one individual

00:01:00.560 who's been managing

00:01:02.640 Bill Gates' money

00:01:03.900 for 27 years or something.

00:01:06.940 And now,

00:01:08.460 coincidentally,

00:01:10.320 just when

00:01:11.120 Bill Gates and Melinda Gates

00:01:13.200 are having a

00:01:14.340 divorce,

00:01:15.940 coincidentally,

00:01:17.500 after 27 years,

00:01:20.040 Bill Gates' money manager

00:01:21.300 is in the news for,

00:01:22.740 or, of course,

00:01:25.420 allegations of

00:01:26.520 Me Too stuff

00:01:27.460 and other,

00:01:28.880 I think,

00:01:29.300 some other stuff,

00:01:30.260 or being a bully

00:01:31.300 or something,

00:01:32.540 allegedly made a

00:01:34.040 racist remark

00:01:34.840 to a black employee.

00:01:36.880 We'd like to hear

00:01:37.860 that remark

00:01:38.580 so that we can judge

00:01:39.640 for ourselves.

00:01:40.860 But this story

00:01:41.760 is in the New York Times.

00:01:43.320 Let me ask you,

00:01:44.480 do you think

00:01:45.000 it's a coincidence?

00:01:46.600 It's just a coincidence

00:01:48.160 that Bill Gates

00:01:50.080 is getting all these

00:01:51.020 bad stories

00:01:52.000 that have been

00:01:53.420 available to be

00:01:55.200 a story

00:01:55.780 for a long time.

00:01:57.640 But now it's a story.

00:02:00.780 Do you see

00:02:02.920 in this example

00:02:03.760 that your opinions

00:02:05.500 are assigned to you

00:02:06.660 by the media?

00:02:07.260 If the media

00:02:09.960 had never told you

00:02:10.940 anything new

00:02:11.800 about Bill Gates,

00:02:13.260 well,

00:02:13.800 your opinion would be

00:02:14.680 whatever it had been.

00:02:16.300 But suddenly,

00:02:17.980 the press has decided

00:02:19.240 that you need to think

00:02:20.960 less of Bill Gates,

00:02:22.700 which probably means

00:02:24.820 that somebody

00:02:25.440 associated with

00:02:27.000 Melinda Gates,

00:02:29.400 just speculation,

00:02:31.380 may want to

00:02:32.640 make Bill Gates

00:02:33.520 look a little bit

00:02:34.440 less awesome

00:02:36.440 during the period

00:02:38.620 of negotiating

00:02:39.700 some kind

00:02:40.260 of a divorce.

00:02:42.880 So,

00:02:44.100 don't assume

00:02:45.400 that any of this

00:02:46.100 is a coincidence.

00:02:48.500 Here's the good news.

00:02:50.100 Some real good news,

00:02:51.060 actually.

00:02:52.040 The FDA just approved

00:02:53.520 another therapeutic

00:02:55.420 for coronavirus.

00:02:56.580 It looks pretty good.

00:02:57.800 It's a monoclonal antibody

00:03:00.260 and it's called

00:03:02.860 Sotrivumab.

00:03:04.800 It's called

00:03:06.300 Sotrivumab

00:03:07.700 because all the

00:03:08.960 good names

00:03:09.500 have been taken

00:03:10.160 long ago.

00:03:11.620 If you need a name

00:03:12.660 for a new drug now,

00:03:14.960 you have to basically

00:03:16.360 put together

00:03:17.120 all the letters

00:03:18.040 that shouldn't be

00:03:18.740 in the same word.

00:03:20.720 There's a lot of letters

00:03:22.060 that just shouldn't be

00:03:23.100 near each other

00:03:24.180 or in the same word.

00:03:26.980 Sotrivumab.

00:03:27.460 Who ends a word

00:03:30.420 with a B?

00:03:33.060 I guess there are

00:03:33.880 a few words

00:03:34.420 that end with a B,

00:03:35.220 but too many of them

00:03:36.280 in my opinion.

00:03:39.100 So,

00:03:39.600 the good news is

00:03:40.240 apparently it

00:03:41.340 reduces

00:03:42.740 hospitalization

00:03:43.960 or death

00:03:44.600 in COVID patients

00:03:45.880 if you get it

00:03:46.440 to them early

00:03:47.060 by 85%.

00:03:49.000 What?

00:03:51.240 That's pretty good

00:03:52.340 if you get it

00:03:53.560 to them early.

00:03:55.120 Now,

00:03:55.440 think about

00:03:55.960 what's different

00:03:56.980 from the beginning

00:03:57.940 of the pandemic.

00:03:58.940 The first thing

00:03:59.840 that's different

00:04:00.360 is that everybody

00:04:01.520 knows what the

00:04:02.340 symptoms are.

00:04:03.860 Right?

00:04:04.500 I think at the

00:04:05.380 beginning of the

00:04:05.960 pandemic,

00:04:07.060 if somebody got

00:04:07.840 a cough

00:04:08.900 or some symptoms,

00:04:11.000 they might have

00:04:11.660 said to themselves,

00:04:12.660 eh,

00:04:12.920 it's probably

00:04:13.460 not the COVID,

00:04:14.920 probably just

00:04:15.840 the cold,

00:04:16.280 and maybe

00:04:17.200 they waited

00:04:17.640 too long

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00:04:18.520 they died.

00:04:19.440 But I would

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00:04:20.760 things that's

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00:04:23.540 especially with

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00:04:25.800 if you get

00:04:26.440 anything that

00:04:27.080 looks like

00:04:27.520 COVID symptoms,

00:04:29.580 especially if you

00:04:30.440 have some

00:04:30.820 comorbidities to

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00:04:33.040 you probably

00:04:33.600 take it a lot

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00:04:47.980 haven't been,

00:04:48.960 they at least

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00:04:55.000 Now apparently

00:04:55.440 the monoclonal

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00:05:01.520 for people

00:05:02.000 who had a

00:05:03.200 bad case.

00:05:04.340 So this

00:05:05.060 doesn't necessarily

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00:05:06.440 people,

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00:05:07.440 who had a

00:05:07.720 bad case of

00:05:08.340 it and got

00:05:08.740 in early.

00:05:09.880 But still,

00:05:10.660 a pretty big

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00:05:12.840 I think people

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00:05:14.600 that's my

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00:05:16.160 Chad Pergrim

00:05:17.420 had an

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00:05:19.500 he wrote

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00:05:21.900 that the

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00:05:25.080 which is

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00:05:36.260 I'm simplifying.

00:05:37.500 But talking

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00:05:41.580 minority

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00:05:45.500 50-50

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00:05:47.780 but they

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00:05:56.300 So if you

00:05:56.960 got rid of

00:05:57.320 the filibuster,

00:05:58.080 suddenly the

00:05:58.620 Democrats could

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00:06:02.280 and they

00:06:02.840 wouldn't need

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00:06:04.740 filibuster

00:06:05.340 blockade.

00:06:06.380 And Chad

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00:06:09.400 that even

00:06:11.040 Democrats

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00:06:17.280 they're in the

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00:06:19.180 they want a

00:06:19.820 filibuster.

00:06:21.280 But Chad's

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00:06:24.900 and I think

00:06:25.740 it's worth

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00:06:29.120 the Republicans

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00:06:39.060 that that

00:06:39.600 would be an

00:06:40.300 inappropriate use

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00:06:41.820 filibuster.

00:06:42.440 It would look

00:06:42.820 like they're

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00:06:47.020 to sweep it

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00:06:49.260 But do you

00:06:49.980 think that's

00:06:50.420 going to be

00:06:50.700 a problem?

00:06:51.940 It seems to

00:06:52.660 me that

00:06:54.000 every use of

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00:06:55.840 looks illegitimate

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00:06:59.000 Seems to

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00:07:00.660 And I'm

00:07:01.720 not so sure

00:07:02.500 that anybody

00:07:03.620 cares about

00:07:04.500 this January

00:07:05.360 6th

00:07:05.880 investigation.

00:07:07.440 What do

00:07:08.020 people think

00:07:08.540 they're going

00:07:08.780 to find?

00:07:10.080 I mean,

00:07:10.460 really?

00:07:11.280 Do you

00:07:11.720 think you're

00:07:12.120 going to

00:07:12.240 find anything?

00:07:14.220 What are

00:07:14.740 they even

00:07:15.040 looking for?

00:07:16.300 Are they

00:07:16.880 looking for

00:07:17.640 something to

00:07:18.840 tie President

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00:07:20.260 violence?

00:07:21.780 I mean,

00:07:22.180 they have

00:07:22.700 his speech.

00:07:24.080 It looks

00:07:24.540 like he did

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00:07:27.040 I don't

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00:07:27.780 I don't

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00:07:29.820 It doesn't

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00:07:30.580 there's any

00:07:30.960 there.

00:07:31.320 It's just

00:07:31.900 a bunch

00:07:32.640 of people

00:07:33.100 did exactly

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00:07:35.100 looks like.

00:07:36.380 A bunch

00:07:36.820 of people

00:07:37.260 coordinated

00:07:37.960 and said,

00:07:38.600 hey, let's

00:07:39.040 protest this

00:07:39.720 thing.

00:07:40.540 Things got

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00:07:42.520 I just

00:07:43.180 don't know.

00:07:45.020 I just

00:07:45.800 don't know

00:07:46.420 that there's

00:07:46.940 anything to

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00:07:48.620 So no,

00:07:49.220 I disagree

00:07:49.900 with Chad

00:07:51.280 Program's

00:07:52.140 view that

00:07:53.080 the filibuster

00:07:53.820 could fall

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00:07:56.680 Because I

00:07:57.100 don't think

00:07:57.380 anybody cares

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00:07:58.320 really.

00:07:58.740 It's just

00:07:59.140 a political

00:07:59.980 issue.

00:08:00.340 Joel

00:08:04.740 Pollack

00:08:05.120 points out

00:08:05.760 that apparently

00:08:07.340 the Biden

00:08:07.840 administration

00:08:08.440 is going

00:08:08.860 to open

00:08:09.140 up something

00:08:09.860 like a

00:08:11.120 consulate

00:08:11.660 in Jerusalem,

00:08:13.220 which I

00:08:13.700 guess was

00:08:14.900 not the

00:08:15.300 case under

00:08:15.820 the Trump

00:08:16.400 administration.

00:08:18.260 So now

00:08:19.460 Hamas is

00:08:20.740 going to,

00:08:21.960 or let's

00:08:22.940 see, I

00:08:23.380 guess maybe

00:08:23.740 the Palestinians.

00:08:24.900 Whose consulate

00:08:25.880 is it?

00:08:26.780 It's a little

00:08:27.200 unclear to me.

00:08:28.020 I guess I

00:08:28.360 don't know the

00:08:28.760 details of

00:08:29.220 this.

00:08:29.380 But there's

00:08:30.160 some kind

00:08:30.460 of a consulate

00:08:31.040 being opened

00:08:31.580 up, and

00:08:32.600 I know that

00:08:33.880 over $100

00:08:34.500 million is

00:08:35.480 going to be

00:08:36.100 sent to

00:08:36.860 Hamas, or

00:08:38.720 the Palestinians.

00:08:39.760 I'm not sure

00:08:40.180 exactly where

00:08:40.940 the division

00:08:41.520 is there in

00:08:42.200 this case.

00:08:43.200 But the

00:08:44.120 point is

00:08:44.760 that there

00:08:47.000 seems to be

00:08:47.540 some kind

00:08:47.980 of reward

00:08:48.640 for attacking

00:08:49.340 Israel.

00:08:50.780 Attack

00:08:51.260 Israel, you

00:08:52.440 get yourself

00:08:53.400 a consulate

00:08:54.180 and over

00:08:55.420 $100

00:08:55.700 million.

00:08:56.000 dollars.

00:08:58.720 That looks

00:08:59.580 like a

00:08:59.960 victory for

00:09:01.000 the people

00:09:01.420 who fired

00:09:01.880 rockets at

00:09:02.540 Israel.

00:09:03.780 Now what

00:09:04.260 is the

00:09:04.540 thing I

00:09:04.880 say about

00:09:05.320 the Democrats

00:09:05.980 that sets

00:09:08.320 them apart

00:09:08.860 from Republicans?

00:09:10.660 What do I

00:09:11.860 always say?

00:09:12.920 And I tell

00:09:13.460 you I'm

00:09:13.900 going to

00:09:14.120 show you

00:09:14.560 example

00:09:15.200 after example

00:09:16.120 until you

00:09:17.180 can't think

00:09:17.720 of it any

00:09:18.200 other way.

00:09:20.780 Inducements.

00:09:21.300 Exactly.

00:09:23.000 The big

00:09:23.880 difference

00:09:24.260 between

00:09:24.640 Republican

00:09:25.220 policy and

00:09:26.360 Democrat

00:09:27.000 policy,

00:09:28.260 pretty much

00:09:28.980 always,

00:09:30.220 not always,

00:09:31.240 but it seems

00:09:31.820 like 80% of

00:09:32.640 the time or

00:09:33.040 more,

00:09:33.780 is Democrats

00:09:35.100 ignore the

00:09:37.100 effect of

00:09:37.720 human motivation

00:09:38.720 consistently.

00:09:40.900 They act

00:09:41.360 like it

00:09:41.620 doesn't exist.

00:09:42.920 So when

00:09:43.140 they design

00:09:43.640 a system,

00:09:44.740 they just

00:09:45.500 ignore the

00:09:46.060 variable that's

00:09:46.840 actually the

00:09:48.280 most important

00:09:48.920 one.

00:09:49.180 If you

00:09:50.740 design systems

00:09:51.700 that ignore

00:09:52.360 consistently the

00:09:54.240 most important

00:09:55.080 variable,

00:09:56.060 which is how

00:09:56.720 do people

00:09:57.120 act in

00:09:57.820 certain

00:09:58.060 situations,

00:09:59.780 what are

00:10:00.900 you doing?

00:10:01.980 It's not

00:10:02.600 engineering,

00:10:03.440 it's not

00:10:03.800 smart,

00:10:04.500 it's not

00:10:04.820 reason,

00:10:05.420 it's not,

00:10:06.500 it's nothing.

00:10:07.520 It's literally

00:10:08.360 a nothing.

00:10:09.340 You can't even

00:10:09.980 say it's good

00:10:10.560 or bad,

00:10:11.040 it's just

00:10:11.400 nonsense if

00:10:13.220 you leave out

00:10:13.700 the biggest

00:10:14.140 variable.

00:10:15.740 It would be

00:10:16.260 like,

00:10:17.220 I'm going

00:10:17.840 to,

00:10:18.280 I think I'll

00:10:18.840 calculate the

00:10:19.540 national debt

00:10:20.460 but I'm

00:10:22.160 only going

00:10:22.520 to add

00:10:22.820 up the

00:10:23.080 numbers that

00:10:23.620 have a

00:10:23.880 nine in

00:10:24.400 them.

00:10:25.900 Why?

00:10:26.980 Right?

00:10:28.260 Okay.

00:10:30.380 So,

00:10:31.620 Democrats

00:10:32.080 here again

00:10:32.680 are rewarding

00:10:33.280 the bad

00:10:34.140 guys,

00:10:35.240 or at

00:10:36.100 least the

00:10:36.380 people firing

00:10:37.000 the missiles,

00:10:37.580 you can

00:10:37.820 decide who's

00:10:38.420 bad and

00:10:39.220 who's good.

00:10:40.420 And it's

00:10:42.500 just so

00:10:42.940 consistent that

00:10:43.780 they make

00:10:44.100 the same

00:10:44.460 mistake over

00:10:45.100 and over

00:10:45.380 again.

00:10:46.180 Anyway,

00:10:46.700 speaking of

00:10:47.160 the left,

00:10:47.560 Juan

00:10:48.400 Williams has

00:10:49.100 announced he's

00:10:49.760 leaving the

00:10:50.720 hit show

00:10:51.940 The Five

00:10:53.000 on the

00:10:53.480 Fox.

00:10:54.500 Now,

00:10:55.220 some of you

00:10:56.080 don't watch

00:10:56.740 that show.

00:10:57.600 I know most

00:10:58.200 of you watching

00:10:58.760 this probably

00:10:59.300 have seen it

00:10:59.900 a bunch of

00:11:00.460 times.

00:11:01.520 And I

00:11:01.940 have a

00:11:02.520 contrarian

00:11:05.500 opinion about

00:11:06.460 Juan

00:11:06.980 Williams.

00:11:08.480 The thing

00:11:09.700 that you

00:11:10.000 don't realize

00:11:10.760 when you

00:11:11.780 watch Fox

00:11:12.580 News,

00:11:13.500 and I say

00:11:13.940 this often

00:11:14.460 this is

00:11:15.660 another

00:11:15.880 perfect

00:11:16.300 example.

00:11:17.800 Whatever

00:11:18.320 you want

00:11:18.740 to

00:11:18.860 criticize

00:11:19.300 Fox

00:11:19.960 News

00:11:20.240 about,

00:11:21.480 you can't

00:11:22.360 criticize

00:11:22.740 them for

00:11:23.420 their,

00:11:24.020 let's say,

00:11:26.100 design and

00:11:27.120 production.

00:11:28.440 The producers

00:11:29.280 of Fox

00:11:30.680 News are

00:11:31.320 really good,

00:11:32.880 and they

00:11:33.440 put together

00:11:34.120 just brilliant

00:11:35.480 elements to

00:11:36.480 create good

00:11:37.120 programming,

00:11:37.760 and there's

00:11:38.040 a reason.

00:11:38.820 There's a

00:11:39.340 reason they

00:11:39.720 dominate the

00:11:40.600 news landscape.

00:11:41.880 It's not

00:11:42.360 just because

00:11:43.100 there are a

00:11:43.480 lot of

00:11:43.720 conservatives,

00:11:44.640 it's because

00:11:45.340 they produce

00:11:46.000 a really

00:11:46.580 good product,

00:11:48.100 even if you

00:11:48.660 disagree with

00:11:49.340 its opinions.

00:11:51.040 Just the

00:11:51.460 product is

00:11:52.040 really good.

00:11:53.020 And part of

00:11:53.480 that is

00:11:54.020 knowing what

00:11:54.580 things to

00:11:55.260 put together

00:11:55.820 and what

00:11:56.240 things not

00:11:56.780 to put

00:11:57.140 together.

00:11:58.120 And my

00:11:58.660 observation

00:11:59.440 about Juan

00:12:00.120 Williams is

00:12:00.840 he was

00:12:02.120 perfect.

00:12:03.920 I mean,

00:12:04.500 my God,

00:12:05.100 he was

00:12:05.420 perfect.

00:12:06.480 Because if

00:12:07.080 you watched

00:12:07.480 the show,

00:12:08.100 you would

00:12:08.320 see,

00:12:08.720 you know,

00:12:09.300 four,

00:12:10.020 let's say,

00:12:11.140 more Republican

00:12:12.340 or right-leaning

00:12:13.240 people,

00:12:14.440 you know,

00:12:15.100 arguably,

00:12:15.800 maybe more

00:12:16.480 independent.

00:12:17.680 But Juan

00:12:18.760 was the

00:12:19.300 lone,

00:12:20.140 left-leaning

00:12:20.900 person.

00:12:21.960 And he

00:12:22.620 did his

00:12:23.120 job so

00:12:24.040 well.

00:12:25.260 Because remember,

00:12:26.220 it's an

00:12:26.520 entertainment

00:12:26.980 product.

00:12:27.940 It's newsy,

00:12:29.420 but the

00:12:30.020 Five is an

00:12:30.740 entertainment

00:12:31.120 product that

00:12:31.860 just talks

00:12:32.420 about the

00:12:32.780 news.

00:12:33.540 And from

00:12:34.020 an entertainment

00:12:34.760 perspective,

00:12:35.860 you just

00:12:36.400 couldn't have

00:12:36.780 picked a

00:12:37.100 better person.

00:12:39.420 And to

00:12:40.540 his credit,

00:12:41.500 and I don't

00:12:41.900 think people

00:12:42.360 appreciated this,

00:12:43.880 he knew

00:12:44.360 exactly his

00:12:45.480 role.

00:12:46.740 He knew

00:12:47.340 exactly what

00:12:48.240 he was

00:12:48.520 supposed to

00:12:48.980 do.

00:12:49.960 And even

00:12:50.580 when his

00:12:51.040 arguments,

00:12:51.960 this is just

00:12:52.900 my speculation

00:12:53.660 because I

00:12:54.160 can't read

00:12:54.540 his mind,

00:12:55.600 but I feel

00:12:56.240 as though

00:12:56.900 Juan knew

00:12:58.740 when his

00:12:59.200 arguments were

00:13:00.000 weak,

00:13:00.600 but also

00:13:01.200 knew it

00:13:01.580 was his

00:13:01.980 job to

00:13:02.600 put them

00:13:03.500 forward.

00:13:04.640 And he

00:13:05.040 would just

00:13:05.340 get slammed

00:13:06.680 and savaged

00:13:07.480 by the

00:13:07.900 other members

00:13:08.500 and he

00:13:09.160 would just

00:13:09.400 come back

00:13:09.960 just as

00:13:10.800 cheerful the

00:13:11.360 next day

00:13:11.840 and do

00:13:12.440 it again.

00:13:13.400 And I

00:13:13.680 think he

00:13:15.160 needs like

00:13:16.080 an award

00:13:16.780 or something

00:13:17.220 for this.

00:13:19.660 So it'll

00:13:20.400 be tough

00:13:20.780 to replace

00:13:21.340 him because

00:13:21.800 you need

00:13:22.160 somebody who

00:13:22.900 is,

00:13:24.240 he had a

00:13:25.500 really weird

00:13:26.300 perfect skill

00:13:29.100 stack for

00:13:29.680 that,

00:13:30.220 which is

00:13:30.660 that he

00:13:31.000 was left

00:13:31.420 leaning,

00:13:32.640 but he

00:13:33.140 was like

00:13:33.940 a positive,

00:13:35.120 upbeat,

00:13:35.980 nice guy.

00:13:37.260 So it

00:13:37.580 was just

00:13:37.900 everything.

00:13:38.300 It was

00:13:38.420 just perfect.

00:13:39.440 I don't

00:13:39.740 know how

00:13:40.000 they're

00:13:40.180 going to

00:13:40.300 replace

00:13:40.640 him.

00:13:43.560 So let's

00:13:44.180 talk about

00:13:44.520 the Wuhan

00:13:44.980 lab.

00:13:45.720 Everybody

00:13:45.920 wants to

00:13:46.400 talk about

00:13:46.980 that.

00:13:48.000 I have

00:13:48.660 a question,

00:13:51.560 which is

00:13:52.380 how do you

00:13:54.260 calculate the

00:13:54.960 odds that

00:13:55.820 it's a

00:13:56.140 coincidence

00:13:56.620 that a

00:13:58.900 virus escapes

00:13:59.900 right across

00:14:02.240 from where

00:14:02.720 there's a

00:14:03.140 wet lab,

00:14:04.980 but also

00:14:05.680 where there's

00:14:06.480 a lab

00:14:08.560 that does

00:14:08.940 that kind

00:14:09.340 of work.

00:14:10.640 Can't you

00:14:11.320 calculate that?

00:14:12.820 Could somebody

00:14:13.440 tell me how

00:14:14.280 many, let's

00:14:15.460 say, cities

00:14:16.200 there are

00:14:16.720 that have,

00:14:17.440 let's say,

00:14:18.280 over a

00:14:19.020 million people

00:14:19.640 in the

00:14:21.580 world,

00:14:22.340 and also

00:14:23.220 cities that

00:14:24.040 would be

00:14:24.500 an industrial

00:14:25.320 outliers

00:14:25.820 country that

00:14:27.160 would have

00:14:27.620 a lab?

00:14:30.060 What are

00:14:30.560 the odds?

00:14:31.020 and then

00:14:32.520 on top of

00:14:33.780 the odds

00:14:34.280 that a

00:14:35.100 virus would

00:14:35.740 break out

00:14:36.240 right where

00:14:36.700 there's that

00:14:37.220 kind of

00:14:37.660 lab,

00:14:38.920 what are

00:14:39.220 the odds

00:14:39.560 that they

00:14:39.860 would locate

00:14:40.420 the lab

00:14:41.020 right next

00:14:42.260 to a wet

00:14:42.820 market,

00:14:43.580 which is the

00:14:44.580 other way

00:14:45.140 that you

00:14:45.560 might imagine

00:14:46.300 a virus

00:14:47.440 could appear?

00:14:49.360 And were

00:14:50.480 you shocked

00:14:51.140 when China

00:14:51.940 decided to

00:14:52.720 reopen all

00:14:53.380 of its

00:14:53.640 wet markets?

00:14:54.260 after a

00:14:56.720 time has

00:14:57.100 gone by

00:14:57.600 and you're

00:14:57.900 looking back,

00:15:00.280 if you're

00:15:01.200 looking back

00:15:01.740 on it,

00:15:02.880 isn't it

00:15:03.400 kind of a

00:15:04.320 little convenient

00:15:05.220 that the

00:15:07.060 lab that

00:15:07.820 works on

00:15:08.280 viruses is

00:15:09.700 located right

00:15:10.580 next to the

00:15:11.280 alibi?

00:15:13.000 If you're

00:15:13.780 going to

00:15:13.920 commit a

00:15:14.340 crime,

00:15:14.880 or you

00:15:15.220 think a

00:15:15.600 crime might

00:15:16.020 be committed

00:15:16.560 that you

00:15:16.940 would be

00:15:17.240 blamed for,

00:15:18.360 wouldn't

00:15:18.700 you want

00:15:19.160 to locate

00:15:20.580 the possibility

00:15:21.440 of a crime

00:15:22.240 even before

00:15:22.960 it happened

00:15:23.440 right next

00:15:24.760 to the

00:15:25.100 alibi?

00:15:27.000 Is that

00:15:27.640 a coincidence?

00:15:29.600 I feel like

00:15:30.140 that might be

00:15:30.660 a little bit

00:15:31.180 strategic,

00:15:32.060 otherwise it's

00:15:32.840 the luckiest

00:15:33.420 thing that

00:15:33.800 ever happened.

00:15:34.800 Or it could

00:15:35.300 be that there's

00:15:35.860 a wet

00:15:36.860 market in

00:15:38.060 every big

00:15:38.520 city,

00:15:38.980 so you

00:15:39.520 couldn't

00:15:39.800 stay away

00:15:40.220 from them.

00:15:40.980 That's

00:15:41.260 possible.

00:15:42.380 But

00:15:42.520 can it

00:15:47.840 be calculated?

00:15:48.900 So this is

00:15:49.380 a serious

00:15:49.840 question.

00:15:50.520 Can somebody

00:15:51.060 do me the

00:15:51.660 calculation,

00:15:52.460 if we have

00:15:53.060 that data?

00:15:53.980 How many

00:15:54.540 cities,

00:15:55.120 how many

00:15:55.420 virus labs,

00:15:56.920 how many

00:15:57.360 of them

00:15:57.680 are next

00:15:58.140 to a wet

00:15:58.600 market?

00:15:59.940 Just show

00:16:00.380 us the

00:16:00.640 odds.

00:16:01.560 Because it

00:16:02.100 could be

00:16:02.720 that if you

00:16:03.280 calculated the

00:16:04.040 odds,

00:16:05.040 maybe,

00:16:05.620 I don't know,

00:16:06.420 maybe you'd

00:16:06.980 come up with

00:16:07.600 a 20% chance

00:16:08.560 it could

00:16:08.780 happen.

00:16:10.160 Maybe.

00:16:11.320 You know,

00:16:11.720 I'm not

00:16:12.280 qualified to

00:16:13.280 calculate that,

00:16:14.160 and I don't

00:16:14.420 have the

00:16:14.740 data.

00:16:15.560 But I feel

00:16:16.300 as if it

00:16:17.660 wouldn't be

00:16:18.200 20%.

00:16:19.100 It feels

00:16:21.260 more like

00:16:21.900 it's deeply

00:16:23.120 unlikely it's

00:16:24.000 a coincidence.

00:16:25.480 But,

00:16:26.000 of course,

00:16:26.700 coincidences

00:16:27.420 do happen,

00:16:28.880 and it

00:16:29.380 might not

00:16:29.700 be a

00:16:29.960 coincidence.

00:16:30.540 It could

00:16:30.740 be a

00:16:30.960 reason.

00:16:31.620 It could

00:16:31.900 be just

00:16:32.240 that there

00:16:33.360 are lots

00:16:33.740 of wet

00:16:34.080 markets and

00:16:35.720 lots of

00:16:36.520 labs,

00:16:37.060 and maybe

00:16:37.500 it was just

00:16:37.900 going to

00:16:38.120 happen

00:16:38.360 somewhere.

00:16:38.740 CNN,

00:16:42.660 in its

00:16:43.060 reporting

00:16:43.520 about this,

00:16:45.400 said that

00:16:46.340 the lab

00:16:46.940 escape idea

00:16:47.820 originally was

00:16:49.500 being spread

00:16:50.120 by conspiracy

00:16:51.000 theorists.

00:16:53.300 What?

00:16:55.580 If it's

00:16:57.320 currently

00:16:57.720 considered by

00:16:58.600 all the

00:16:59.040 experts in

00:16:59.660 the world

00:17:00.080 as at

00:17:00.940 least a

00:17:01.320 possibility,

00:17:03.040 was it

00:17:04.120 really

00:17:04.500 conspiracy

00:17:05.300 theorists?

00:17:06.320 And who

00:17:06.800 was it

00:17:07.140 who decided

00:17:07.780 that the

00:17:08.620 people who

00:17:09.120 had that

00:17:09.480 opinion

00:17:09.880 early on,

00:17:11.340 who was

00:17:11.900 it who

00:17:12.180 labeled them

00:17:12.800 conspiracy

00:17:13.460 theorists?

00:17:14.640 Wasn't

00:17:14.980 that CNN?

00:17:16.440 Wasn't

00:17:17.000 it CNN

00:17:17.520 and their

00:17:19.240 trained

00:17:19.940 monkeys,

00:17:21.160 or winged

00:17:23.720 monkeys,

00:17:24.140 I guess,

00:17:24.380 the flying

00:17:24.740 monkeys?

00:17:25.800 Wasn't

00:17:26.140 it CNN

00:17:26.600 and people

00:17:27.300 like them

00:17:27.860 who labeled

00:17:31.200 people

00:17:31.520 conspiracy

00:17:32.080 theorists?

00:17:33.860 It's good

00:17:34.620 to be the

00:17:35.000 news.

00:17:35.440 You just

00:17:35.740 get to

00:17:36.060 call anybody

00:17:36.640 that disagrees

00:17:37.380 with you

00:17:37.720 conspiracy

00:17:38.260 theorists.

00:17:40.580 So,

00:17:41.280 Senator

00:17:41.840 Kennedy

00:17:42.540 was talking

00:17:43.800 to,

00:17:44.360 I guess,

00:17:45.040 some kind

00:17:46.020 of congressional

00:17:47.260 hearing.

00:17:48.360 He was

00:17:48.580 talking with

00:17:49.020 Fauci and

00:17:49.580 Collins and

00:17:51.240 got them to

00:17:51.980 admit that

00:17:52.760 Biden never

00:17:54.100 consulted their

00:17:55.000 top health

00:17:55.540 officials before

00:17:58.360 they killed

00:17:58.880 the probe

00:17:59.480 that the

00:18:01.280 Trump

00:18:01.540 administration

00:18:02.240 had started

00:18:03.000 about finding

00:18:03.840 out where

00:18:04.140 the COVID

00:18:04.520 came from.

00:18:05.600 So,

00:18:05.820 Biden killed

00:18:06.560 a Trump

00:18:07.220 thing without

00:18:08.440 even talking

00:18:09.040 to any

00:18:09.400 experts.

00:18:10.340 His own

00:18:10.720 experts.

00:18:11.680 He didn't

00:18:12.020 even talk

00:18:12.400 to his

00:18:12.660 own

00:18:12.840 experts.

00:18:14.380 Purely

00:18:14.840 political.

00:18:16.720 But now

00:18:17.160 Biden is

00:18:18.020 forced to

00:18:18.560 restart it

00:18:19.160 and it

00:18:20.140 makes him

00:18:20.640 look bad.

00:18:23.120 So,

00:18:24.020 how many

00:18:24.480 times have

00:18:25.020 I told you

00:18:25.580 that you're

00:18:26.460 going to

00:18:26.640 find time

00:18:27.220 and time

00:18:27.540 again that

00:18:28.300 Trump

00:18:28.720 looked

00:18:29.380 right?

00:18:30.100 Now,

00:18:31.880 did Trump

00:18:32.600 and Pompeo

00:18:33.460 really have

00:18:34.820 secret

00:18:35.300 information

00:18:35.940 way back

00:18:37.380 when they

00:18:37.700 were saying

00:18:38.100 it was

00:18:38.400 probably

00:18:38.760 the lab?

00:18:40.260 Did they

00:18:40.660 have secret

00:18:41.160 information

00:18:41.640 that we

00:18:42.020 still don't

00:18:42.600 know?

00:18:43.760 I don't

00:18:44.520 know about

00:18:44.920 that.

00:18:45.940 But I'll

00:18:46.240 tell you,

00:18:46.580 one of the

00:18:46.960 things that

00:18:47.400 I think

00:18:47.840 Trump is

00:18:49.100 good at

00:18:49.740 and is

00:18:50.240 totally

00:18:50.700 underrated,

00:18:51.980 he's

00:18:52.760 good at

00:18:53.280 spotting

00:18:53.760 bullshit.

00:18:55.260 I feel

00:18:56.120 like that's

00:18:56.640 one of his

00:18:57.320 highest

00:18:57.940 skills and

00:18:59.800 it could

00:19:00.160 have

00:19:00.360 something to

00:19:00.900 do with

00:19:01.160 the fact

00:19:01.480 that he

00:19:01.880 promotes

00:19:02.380 bullshit

00:19:02.740 too.

00:19:03.820 Takes one

00:19:04.500 to know

00:19:04.860 one kind

00:19:05.360 of a

00:19:05.560 situation.

00:19:06.960 And so

00:19:07.360 I feel

00:19:07.700 like Trump

00:19:08.780 being,

00:19:09.740 as his

00:19:10.540 critics would

00:19:11.160 say,

00:19:11.920 the king

00:19:12.400 of bullshit,

00:19:13.700 I feel

00:19:14.160 like he

00:19:14.520 knows

00:19:14.780 bullshit

00:19:15.120 when he

00:19:15.480 sees it.

00:19:16.540 Right?

00:19:17.360 And I

00:19:18.000 think he

00:19:18.340 looked at

00:19:18.700 this Wuhan

00:19:19.200 thing and

00:19:19.880 probably said

00:19:20.480 to himself,

00:19:21.480 I know

00:19:22.620 what bullshit

00:19:23.100 looks like.

00:19:24.340 This looks

00:19:24.900 like bullshit

00:19:25.400 to me.

00:19:26.340 So he

00:19:26.980 may have

00:19:27.440 maybe,

00:19:28.680 could have

00:19:29.560 been some

00:19:29.920 hyperbole

00:19:30.560 in how

00:19:30.980 certain he

00:19:31.460 was,

00:19:32.500 but I

00:19:33.520 think his

00:19:33.920 instincts

00:19:34.420 can't be

00:19:35.240 ignored when

00:19:36.120 it comes to

00:19:36.620 spotting

00:19:38.140 bullshit.

00:19:39.020 I feel

00:19:39.500 like he's

00:19:39.860 probably good

00:19:40.440 at it.

00:19:41.340 I feel

00:19:41.680 like he's

00:19:42.040 good at

00:19:42.420 it.

00:19:46.740 All right.

00:19:48.160 Speaking of

00:19:48.880 COVID,

00:19:49.880 nearly three

00:19:50.860 quarters of

00:19:51.500 patients who

00:19:52.120 had moderate

00:19:52.960 to severe

00:19:53.680 case of

00:19:54.720 COVID had

00:19:56.020 at least

00:19:56.420 one long-term

00:19:57.500 symptom and

00:19:58.720 most of

00:19:59.120 it was

00:19:59.320 brain fog.

00:20:01.480 Brain fog,

00:20:02.740 which is

00:20:03.240 bad stuff.

00:20:04.720 If you

00:20:05.240 know anybody

00:20:05.680 who's had

00:20:06.040 the problem,

00:20:07.040 it's not

00:20:08.060 fun and

00:20:09.260 it seems to

00:20:09.900 last a while,

00:20:11.320 months at

00:20:11.940 least.

00:20:12.800 And are

00:20:14.220 you scared

00:20:14.840 of anything

00:20:15.280 that gives

00:20:15.740 you brain

00:20:16.220 fog?

00:20:17.300 Because

00:20:17.820 does a

00:20:20.160 cold ever

00:20:20.720 give you

00:20:21.040 a brain

00:20:21.400 fog?

00:20:21.800 does a

00:20:22.920 regular virus

00:20:25.040 give you

00:20:25.420 brain fog

00:20:26.320 for months?

00:20:27.420 What the

00:20:27.840 hell is

00:20:28.240 happening to

00:20:28.760 your brain?

00:20:30.720 So

00:20:31.080 apparently

00:20:32.360 there was

00:20:32.800 some movement

00:20:33.320 on vaccine

00:20:34.620 acceptance

00:20:35.420 when the

00:20:36.120 CDC said

00:20:37.020 if you're

00:20:38.140 vaccinated,

00:20:39.320 you can

00:20:39.620 take off

00:20:40.020 your masks

00:20:40.600 in certain

00:20:41.200 situations.

00:20:41.800 So apparently

00:20:43.100 that little

00:20:44.440 bit of

00:20:45.240 human motivation

00:20:46.860 they got

00:20:47.360 right,

00:20:47.700 oh,

00:20:49.100 if you

00:20:49.720 tell people

00:20:50.180 there's a

00:20:50.640 reward for

00:20:51.360 getting a

00:20:51.720 vaccination,

00:20:52.800 maybe they'll

00:20:53.640 do more

00:20:54.200 of it.

00:20:55.340 Again,

00:20:55.880 something

00:20:56.200 Democrats

00:20:56.780 were blind

00:20:57.340 to.

00:20:58.320 The

00:20:58.460 Democrats

00:20:58.880 couldn't

00:20:59.280 figure out

00:20:59.860 that if

00:21:01.200 there were

00:21:01.480 no reward

00:21:02.160 for the

00:21:02.480 vaccinations,

00:21:03.340 not enough

00:21:03.780 people would

00:21:04.220 get them.

00:21:05.100 But they

00:21:05.700 finally figured

00:21:06.300 it out.

00:21:07.660 And I

00:21:08.960 would say

00:21:09.280 that this

00:21:09.660 brain fog

00:21:10.300 thing has

00:21:10.760 to go

00:21:11.040 into the

00:21:11.400 mix too.

00:21:12.360 And indeed

00:21:13.120 this was

00:21:13.520 one of the

00:21:13.840 biggest reasons

00:21:14.480 that I

00:21:15.360 decided to

00:21:15.920 get vaccinated

00:21:16.580 because I

00:21:17.800 don't know

00:21:18.060 what the

00:21:18.300 risks of

00:21:18.720 the

00:21:18.820 vaccination

00:21:19.160 are,

00:21:19.660 but I

00:21:19.920 got a

00:21:20.740 pretty good

00:21:21.360 idea what

00:21:22.900 the risk

00:21:23.340 of not

00:21:24.140 getting

00:21:24.380 vaccinated

00:21:24.960 is.

00:21:25.480 It looks

00:21:25.740 pretty ugly.

00:21:27.740 All right.

00:21:29.600 But you

00:21:30.240 can make

00:21:30.560 your own

00:21:30.840 decisions.

00:21:31.500 I'm sure

00:21:31.820 you will.

00:21:33.420 Mashable,

00:21:34.060 which is a

00:21:34.560 really good

00:21:34.900 follow on

00:21:35.460 Twitter,

00:21:36.040 Mashable,

00:21:36.800 they have a

00:21:37.140 lot of new

00:21:37.520 technology stuff

00:21:38.400 you haven't

00:21:38.700 seen yet.

00:21:40.460 They've got a

00:21:41.160 little piece

00:21:41.880 on there I

00:21:42.300 tweeted today

00:21:42.920 on drone

00:21:44.620 flying saucers.

00:21:46.580 So apparently

00:21:47.320 there's a

00:21:47.960 form factor

00:21:49.120 that looks

00:21:49.680 just like a

00:21:50.340 flying saucer,

00:21:51.660 but it's a

00:21:52.680 motorized drone.

00:21:54.860 And one of

00:21:55.240 its advantages

00:21:55.840 is they can

00:21:56.600 sort of stop

00:21:57.480 quickly and

00:21:58.100 change directions

00:21:58.920 and apparently

00:22:00.300 they think it

00:22:01.980 could be

00:22:02.640 juiced up to

00:22:03.640 the point

00:22:03.980 where it

00:22:04.300 would be.

00:22:07.920 Scott has

00:22:08.800 coronaphobia.

00:22:10.600 You get

00:22:11.120 a

00:22:11.400 remove for

00:22:12.900 that.

00:22:13.900 Put user

00:22:14.440 in time

00:22:14.820 out.

00:22:16.580 No mind

00:22:17.200 reading.

00:22:18.160 No mind

00:22:18.720 reading,

00:22:19.180 please.

00:22:22.100 So if

00:22:23.120 there's a

00:22:23.560 flying saucer

00:22:24.440 that we

00:22:25.600 know already

00:22:26.200 exists,

00:22:26.940 we can see

00:22:27.520 it, there's

00:22:27.920 video of it

00:22:28.560 flying around

00:22:29.260 and stuff,

00:22:30.560 what do you

00:22:31.060 think are

00:22:31.440 the odds

00:22:31.980 that the

00:22:33.320 U.S.

00:22:33.740 military has

00:22:34.700 drones that

00:22:36.940 have the

00:22:37.280 form factor

00:22:38.040 of a

00:22:38.500 flying saucer?

00:22:40.860 What do

00:22:41.440 you think?

00:22:41.700 what are

00:22:43.360 the odds

00:22:43.920 that some

00:22:45.580 advanced

00:22:46.160 military lab

00:22:47.340 has a

00:22:48.260 flying saucer

00:22:49.280 shaped drone

00:22:50.280 given that

00:22:51.340 we know

00:22:51.660 there's a

00:22:52.320 commercial

00:22:53.440 version of

00:22:54.260 it already?

00:22:55.800 Yeah, it's

00:22:56.480 like 100%.

00:22:57.300 They're at

00:22:58.400 least testing

00:22:59.020 it, right?

00:23:00.080 They don't

00:23:00.380 all look like

00:23:01.200 rockets and

00:23:02.600 airplanes, so

00:23:04.140 they're probably

00:23:04.560 at least

00:23:04.860 testing it.

00:23:05.420 Now, does

00:23:06.400 that explain

00:23:06.940 why it

00:23:07.420 would look

00:23:07.860 like it's

00:23:11.560 defying

00:23:12.160 physics?

00:23:13.940 I feel as

00:23:14.920 if the

00:23:15.280 defying

00:23:15.800 physics part

00:23:16.720 is just

00:23:17.140 not real.

00:23:18.560 Even if

00:23:19.260 it turns out

00:23:19.860 that these

00:23:20.280 spaceships are

00:23:21.020 from another

00:23:21.580 planet, I

00:23:22.800 think we're

00:23:23.180 going to

00:23:23.340 find out

00:23:23.720 that the

00:23:24.100 defying

00:23:24.640 physics never

00:23:25.440 really happened

00:23:26.060 in any

00:23:27.640 of the

00:23:27.920 senses.

00:23:28.460 I think

00:23:28.680 it's just

00:23:29.080 how we

00:23:29.940 record it,

00:23:31.100 the artifact

00:23:32.180 of how you

00:23:33.240 video it,

00:23:34.520 etc.

00:23:34.720 I doubt

00:23:35.820 anything is

00:23:36.540 defying

00:23:37.180 physics.

00:23:38.440 But we're

00:23:39.460 now hearing

00:23:39.980 reports that

00:23:41.040 there are

00:23:41.720 underwater

00:23:42.760 UFOs.

00:23:44.680 What?

00:23:45.960 That's

00:23:46.380 right.

00:23:47.060 Apparently

00:23:47.520 there are

00:23:47.960 lots and

00:23:48.440 lots of

00:23:48.900 reports of

00:23:50.500 underwater

00:23:51.360 craft moving

00:23:53.260 again at

00:23:54.240 speeds which

00:23:55.040 we can't

00:23:55.560 understand according

00:23:56.440 to our current

00:23:57.200 technology and

00:23:58.260 physics.

00:23:59.620 And apparently

00:24:00.340 there's a lot

00:24:00.960 of them,

00:24:01.960 including one

00:24:02.620 case where a

00:24:03.380 vessel emerged

00:24:04.280 and grabbed

00:24:04.880 some kind

00:24:06.140 of a

00:24:06.400 sensor that

00:24:07.040 somebody else

00:24:07.540 was going

00:24:07.940 to pick

00:24:08.300 up and

00:24:08.680 just grabbed

00:24:09.600 it and

00:24:10.000 pulled it

00:24:10.640 underwater.

00:24:11.960 What?

00:24:14.380 So my

00:24:17.100 prediction had

00:24:17.760 been that if

00:24:18.540 there are UFOs

00:24:19.840 that are more

00:24:20.260 likely coming

00:24:20.920 from our

00:24:21.440 ocean than

00:24:22.640 they are

00:24:22.920 coming from

00:24:23.640 another planet.

00:24:24.820 Why?

00:24:25.620 Because the

00:24:26.460 physics and

00:24:27.400 technology that

00:24:28.800 you would have

00:24:29.180 to solve to

00:24:30.880 have a hidden

00:24:31.640 underwater world

00:24:33.740 seem far

00:24:35.020 easier than

00:24:36.940 solving the

00:24:38.080 distance problem

00:24:39.000 from other

00:24:39.520 planets.

00:24:41.160 Now, I'm

00:24:42.340 open to that

00:24:43.720 being wrong.

00:24:44.660 So if Elon

00:24:45.820 Musk wants to

00:24:46.640 tell me,

00:24:47.600 no, no, no,

00:24:48.220 we can solve

00:24:49.000 the distance

00:24:50.460 problem, maybe

00:24:52.320 the ocean is

00:24:53.040 actually the

00:24:53.540 harder place.

00:24:54.840 But I'm going

00:24:55.380 to put that out

00:24:55.920 there for those

00:24:56.500 who are smarter

00:24:57.600 than I am,

00:24:58.740 which would be

00:24:59.900 a harder

00:25:00.480 problem to

00:25:01.240 solve?

00:25:02.640 Technology

00:25:03.240 living under

00:25:04.160 the ocean

00:25:04.600 with all the

00:25:05.520 water pressure

00:25:06.140 and problems

00:25:07.040 that go with

00:25:07.460 it, or

00:25:08.460 traveling from

00:25:10.800 a distant

00:25:11.420 planet so

00:25:12.700 far away we

00:25:13.460 can't even

00:25:13.960 detect life

00:25:14.820 on it from

00:25:15.340 here, which

00:25:17.060 is easier.

00:25:18.320 I'm guessing

00:25:19.140 the water is

00:25:20.760 easier.

00:25:21.660 I'm also

00:25:22.380 guessing that

00:25:23.280 it could be

00:25:25.360 that aliens

00:25:26.640 have been on

00:25:27.500 Earth for

00:25:29.100 a million

00:25:29.740 years, but

00:25:30.660 they prefer

00:25:31.160 living in

00:25:31.680 the water,

00:25:32.480 and they

00:25:33.820 just live

00:25:34.200 there.

00:25:34.860 It could

00:25:35.400 be that

00:25:36.980 alien probes,

00:25:40.240 let's say

00:25:40.720 robots for a

00:25:41.680 better word,

00:25:42.620 have been

00:25:43.080 living in

00:25:43.540 our ocean

00:25:43.980 for a

00:25:44.660 million years,

00:25:45.540 and they

00:25:45.860 just pop

00:25:46.380 out every

00:25:46.800 now and

00:25:47.100 then to

00:25:47.380 look around

00:25:47.800 and see

00:25:48.060 what's new.

00:25:52.900 Nigel.

00:25:54.820 Goodbye,

00:25:55.420 Nigel.

00:25:55.740 I wonder

00:25:57.720 if at

00:25:58.140 home you're

00:25:58.500 an asshole

00:25:58.920 or just

00:26:00.720 in public.

00:26:04.220 I tell

00:26:04.920 you, my

00:26:05.200 life has

00:26:05.680 gotten so

00:26:06.160 much better

00:26:06.660 now that I

00:26:07.640 learned to

00:26:08.040 understand which

00:26:08.820 comments are

00:26:09.700 coming from

00:26:10.380 narcissists.

00:26:11.680 The

00:26:12.180 narcissists are

00:26:12.960 the one whose

00:26:13.460 comments are

00:26:14.860 designed to

00:26:15.500 make them look

00:26:16.280 smarter than

00:26:17.280 whoever they're

00:26:17.840 commenting about.

00:26:19.700 And so

00:26:20.120 usually they're

00:26:20.920 not attacking

00:26:21.580 just the

00:26:22.340 evidence or

00:26:23.080 the argument,

00:26:25.700 which would

00:26:26.360 also make you

00:26:26.960 look smarter,

00:26:27.960 but they're

00:26:28.540 usually just

00:26:29.040 like general

00:26:29.820 put-downs.

00:26:31.020 My God,

00:26:31.660 this guy's

00:26:32.100 never studied

00:26:33.020 virology.

00:26:34.300 What does he

00:26:35.120 know about

00:26:35.740 physics?

00:26:37.560 Yeah, the

00:26:38.020 peacocks.

00:26:39.780 So as I was

00:26:41.100 writing on

00:26:41.840 the locals

00:26:43.520 platform this

00:26:44.360 morning, I was

00:26:45.680 saying that I

00:26:46.200 have a persuasion

00:26:47.240 technique I've

00:26:47.940 been trotting out

00:26:49.340 in which I

00:26:50.380 call these

00:26:50.840 people peacocks.

00:26:53.000 So for

00:26:53.380 example, today

00:26:54.260 somebody responded

00:26:56.580 to my tweets

00:26:57.180 about the

00:26:57.660 horned protester

00:26:59.720 who, you know,

00:27:00.480 the January 6th

00:27:01.260 guy with the

00:27:01.700 Viking horns,

00:27:02.460 and I made

00:27:02.880 some joke on

00:27:03.700 Twitter, and

00:27:04.820 there's always

00:27:05.240 this guy who

00:27:06.360 comes in,

00:27:07.380 my God, don't

00:27:09.120 you know that

00:27:09.680 people died

00:27:10.800 during that?

00:27:12.380 There is

00:27:12.780 nothing funny

00:27:13.480 about that.

00:27:14.840 Now that

00:27:15.320 comment is not

00:27:16.420 meant to make

00:27:17.160 the world a

00:27:17.820 better place,

00:27:18.680 it's not meant

00:27:19.200 to clarify an

00:27:20.120 argument, nothing.

00:27:21.780 It is purely a

00:27:23.220 statement that

00:27:24.100 they are better

00:27:24.620 than me.

00:27:25.820 That's it.

00:27:26.960 I'm better than

00:27:27.820 you, because I

00:27:29.020 don't make jokes

00:27:29.620 about things where

00:27:30.440 people got killed,

00:27:31.540 so I'm better

00:27:32.140 than you.

00:27:33.060 You should be as

00:27:33.780 good as me.

00:27:34.700 Try to be as

00:27:35.380 good as me.

00:27:36.940 And so I just

00:27:37.720 write back, I

00:27:40.240 see you,

00:27:40.900 peacock.

00:27:42.220 Now move

00:27:42.700 along.

00:27:44.480 Now, so

00:27:46.280 far, any time

00:27:47.720 I've called

00:27:48.180 somebody a

00:27:48.760 peacock, and

00:27:50.080 then just

00:27:50.500 dismiss them,

00:27:51.840 it kind of

00:27:52.500 ended the

00:27:52.960 conversation.

00:27:54.500 Because what

00:27:55.320 can they do?

00:27:56.580 If they go

00:27:57.200 away, well,

00:27:58.460 then I win,

00:27:59.100 because I

00:27:59.520 said, go

00:27:59.920 away,

00:28:00.320 peacock, and

00:28:01.100 they went

00:28:01.380 away.

00:28:02.140 But if they

00:28:02.900 stay, they're

00:28:04.980 going to be

00:28:05.360 peacocking.

00:28:07.740 And they

00:28:08.260 don't want to

00:28:08.760 play into my

00:28:09.960 insult, so they

00:28:11.420 can't stay and

00:28:12.040 be a peacock, and

00:28:12.820 they can't leave,

00:28:13.960 but they end up

00:28:15.380 just sort of

00:28:15.900 leaving.

00:28:16.100 So try that

00:28:18.440 out.

00:28:18.900 Try calling

00:28:19.300 somebody a

00:28:19.780 peacock, see

00:28:20.340 how far they

00:28:20.820 see along,

00:28:21.560 they stick

00:28:22.100 around.

00:28:23.500 So if I

00:28:24.240 told you that

00:28:24.900 there are some

00:28:25.540 things which the

00:28:26.520 government should

00:28:27.580 lead, and then

00:28:29.080 there are some

00:28:29.740 things which the

00:28:30.480 government just

00:28:31.060 can't do, and

00:28:32.440 the public has to

00:28:33.880 lead the

00:28:34.320 government.

00:28:35.500 Now, this is

00:28:36.340 certainly the case

00:28:37.060 with face masks

00:28:38.000 and distancing.

00:28:39.280 I believe the

00:28:39.900 public is leading

00:28:40.760 the government, and

00:28:41.560 the government is

00:28:42.060 trying to catch

00:28:42.620 up.

00:28:42.860 That's my view

00:28:44.820 of it.

00:28:46.160 But there's

00:28:46.720 another case of

00:28:47.740 this happening

00:28:48.200 now with

00:28:48.740 fentanyl.

00:28:50.820 So, as you

00:28:51.660 know, China is

00:28:52.480 shipping fentanyl

00:28:53.500 into the

00:28:54.200 cartels.

00:28:54.820 The cartels are

00:28:55.520 shipping it into

00:28:56.020 the United

00:28:56.320 States and

00:28:57.340 killing tens of

00:28:58.260 thousands of

00:28:58.760 people every year

00:28:59.640 with overdoses.

00:29:01.600 Now, you could

00:29:02.400 argue, no, no, no,

00:29:03.400 those people are

00:29:04.060 killing themselves.

00:29:05.320 Nobody made

00:29:06.100 them take

00:29:06.880 fentanyl.

00:29:08.200 And I hear that

00:29:09.260 argument, however,

00:29:10.960 if we didn't have

00:29:11.800 fentanyl.

00:29:12.860 They would be

00:29:13.440 taking other

00:29:14.120 drugs far less

00:29:15.360 dangerous.

00:29:16.680 They wouldn't be

00:29:17.340 off drugs, but

00:29:18.980 they would be at

00:29:19.700 least taking drugs

00:29:20.480 that are far less

00:29:21.600 likely to kill

00:29:22.280 them.

00:29:23.640 So, because our

00:29:24.900 government, for

00:29:25.640 whatever reason,

00:29:26.740 both under Trump

00:29:27.760 and Biden, have

00:29:28.900 been completely

00:29:29.860 incapable of

00:29:31.400 stopping this

00:29:32.020 whatsoever,

00:29:34.040 apparently citizens

00:29:35.040 are starting to

00:29:35.880 organize to do it

00:29:36.820 themselves.

00:29:38.060 And one

00:29:38.640 mother, Jackie

00:29:40.360 Berlin, whose

00:29:42.240 son is

00:29:42.780 apparently at

00:29:43.280 risk of

00:29:43.640 dying from

00:29:44.120 fentanyl,

00:29:44.700 because he's

00:29:45.400 hooked, and

00:29:46.140 she knows that

00:29:46.820 his odds of

00:29:48.060 surviving are

00:29:50.280 about the same

00:29:50.900 as my stepson,

00:29:51.940 who died from

00:29:52.880 fentanyl and

00:29:54.280 other drugs.

00:29:56.000 And so she's

00:29:57.680 taking her

00:29:58.440 protests.

00:29:59.200 She took her

00:30:00.020 protests to

00:30:00.600 San Francisco,

00:30:01.620 was joined by

00:30:03.080 Michael

00:30:03.660 Schellenberger and

00:30:05.000 about 30 other

00:30:05.860 people, and they

00:30:07.860 went right to

00:30:08.860 the open-air

00:30:09.800 drug market and

00:30:12.040 protested, got

00:30:13.500 some press, and

00:30:15.140 they're moving

00:30:15.580 their protests to

00:30:16.500 Skid Row in Los

00:30:17.520 Angeles.

00:30:18.660 Now, of course, I'm

00:30:20.360 fully in favor of

00:30:22.140 this.

00:30:22.640 I wish I could be

00:30:23.340 there myself.

00:30:26.080 It's just not

00:30:26.960 practical in my

00:30:27.720 case.

00:30:28.360 But if I could, I

00:30:29.520 would.

00:30:30.420 And this is another

00:30:31.540 case in which the

00:30:33.440 government has just

00:30:34.240 failed us, just

00:30:35.260 completely failed

00:30:36.040 us.

00:30:37.000 Because we

00:30:38.140 shouldn't do

00:30:38.600 anything with

00:30:39.180 China until they

00:30:39.880 stop the fentanyl

00:30:41.360 trade.

00:30:42.380 That should be the

00:30:43.240 ticket to even

00:30:44.080 having a conversation.

00:30:45.940 We should close

00:30:46.660 our embassies.

00:30:47.940 We should say,

00:30:48.460 fuck you, China.

00:30:49.760 Look, it's bad

00:30:51.380 enough you got the

00:30:52.120 Uyghur situation,

00:30:53.220 it's bad enough

00:30:53.760 you're stealing

00:30:54.200 our IP, it's bad

00:30:55.260 enough all the

00:30:55.760 other stuff.

00:30:56.940 But we're not

00:30:57.940 even going to

00:30:58.500 talk to you until

00:31:00.080 you stop sending

00:31:01.040 fentanyl, because

00:31:02.160 you could just

00:31:02.620 turn that off.

00:31:04.140 You could just

00:31:04.600 turn it off.

00:31:05.760 You're doing it

00:31:06.640 intentionally.

00:31:09.000 We're not even

00:31:09.800 going to talk to

00:31:10.420 you until you

00:31:10.840 stop that.

00:31:11.500 That should have

00:31:11.900 been the price

00:31:12.400 of admission.

00:31:13.600 There shouldn't

00:31:14.020 even be a

00:31:14.480 conversation with

00:31:15.440 China anymore

00:31:16.400 about this.

00:31:17.740 Now, here's what

00:31:18.760 I need to do

00:31:19.300 for you.

00:31:20.060 I need you to

00:31:20.880 do for me.

00:31:22.300 I'm trying to

00:31:23.180 figure out what

00:31:23.980 law it is, or

00:31:25.520 what is stopping

00:31:26.540 the big companies,

00:31:28.020 and let's just

00:31:28.520 say Amazon, from

00:31:30.020 saying what

00:31:30.700 country the

00:31:31.420 manufacturing is

00:31:32.540 happening in.

00:31:33.180 I'm done not

00:31:36.160 knowing that.

00:31:37.480 I need to know

00:31:38.440 where your shit

00:31:39.360 is built.

00:31:40.820 If you can't

00:31:41.800 tell me, I'm

00:31:43.100 going to start

00:31:43.600 looking for a

00:31:44.320 company that

00:31:44.900 can.

00:31:45.840 So if somebody

00:31:46.700 wants to launch

00:31:47.860 a competitor to

00:31:49.000 Amazon.com that

00:31:51.060 tells me where my

00:31:52.020 products are made,

00:31:53.220 so I can stop

00:31:54.220 giving money to

00:31:55.000 China, wherever

00:31:55.640 it's possible, I

00:31:57.200 will immediately

00:31:57.840 take my business

00:31:58.740 there.

00:31:59.060 Now, why is

00:32:01.800 it that this is

00:32:02.720 not already

00:32:03.280 happening?

00:32:04.180 I need somebody

00:32:05.360 who can figure

00:32:06.840 this out to

00:32:08.320 dig down and

00:32:09.120 find the weak

00:32:10.000 underbelly of

00:32:10.900 this problem.

00:32:12.040 If you can find

00:32:13.080 me the weak

00:32:13.640 underbelly, I

00:32:14.840 will put an

00:32:15.440 arrow in it.

00:32:16.600 I just don't

00:32:17.100 know where to

00:32:17.480 aim.

00:32:18.480 So I need some

00:32:19.300 aiming help.

00:32:20.780 You know, a

00:32:21.020 little GPS

00:32:21.980 guidance here.

00:32:23.440 Tell me who

00:32:24.100 to shoot,

00:32:26.040 hypothetically,

00:32:27.040 not actually

00:32:28.040 shooting, but

00:32:29.220 tell me where

00:32:29.940 the target is.

00:32:31.680 Just tell me

00:32:32.160 where it is.

00:32:32.860 Is it Amazon?

00:32:34.020 Is it Jeff Bezos?

00:32:35.540 Is there a law

00:32:36.680 that's preventing

00:32:37.880 it?

00:32:38.720 Is there some

00:32:39.340 kind of force

00:32:40.280 that's stopping

00:32:41.020 us from knowing

00:32:41.720 this information?

00:32:43.780 Why don't we

00:32:44.580 have a law that

00:32:45.240 requires it?

00:32:46.500 Why are

00:32:47.000 Republicans sitting

00:32:47.980 on their thumbs

00:32:48.720 doing fuck

00:32:49.880 nothing about

00:32:50.740 this?

00:32:51.520 The government

00:32:52.280 has failed us

00:32:53.200 on fentanyl.

00:32:54.080 Now it's up to

00:32:54.640 us.

00:32:55.640 So let's solve

00:32:57.240 it the way we

00:32:57.860 know how to

00:32:58.280 solve it.

00:32:59.120 Let's figure

00:32:59.760 out how to

00:33:00.800 know what's

00:33:01.820 coming out of

00:33:02.400 China so we

00:33:03.460 can stop

00:33:04.100 buying it.

00:33:05.940 Find me the

00:33:06.740 soft underbelly.

00:33:07.940 I don't know

00:33:08.480 where it is.

00:33:09.580 Find me the

00:33:10.220 politician who's

00:33:11.120 stopping it.

00:33:12.360 Find me the

00:33:13.160 corporation that's

00:33:14.280 stopping it.

00:33:15.440 Find me whatever

00:33:16.200 is stopping it

00:33:17.060 from happening.

00:33:18.180 And I will

00:33:18.920 fucking end

00:33:19.840 them.

00:33:20.960 All right?

00:33:22.120 One way or

00:33:22.900 another.

00:33:23.400 I mean legally.

00:33:24.160 I'm not going to

00:33:24.580 do anything illegal.

00:33:25.360 But find me the

00:33:27.860 lever.

00:33:28.320 I just don't

00:33:28.860 know where it

00:33:29.680 is.

00:33:30.040 I'll pull it.

00:33:30.980 You don't have

00:33:31.460 to do that part.

00:33:32.820 If there's some

00:33:33.640 risk involved, let

00:33:34.520 me take that.

00:33:35.320 I'll take on the

00:33:36.020 risk.

00:33:37.060 I just need to

00:33:38.000 know where the

00:33:38.400 target is.

00:33:41.000 Because our

00:33:41.600 government has

00:33:42.280 completely and

00:33:43.280 fully failed us.

00:33:45.120 I would call on

00:33:46.180 the few capable

00:33:48.620 people in

00:33:49.360 Congress.

00:33:50.680 Rand Paul.

00:33:52.340 Tom Cotton.

00:33:53.160 All right?

00:33:55.000 And I might fool

00:33:56.500 you a little bit

00:33:57.080 here and throw

00:33:57.540 this one in here.

00:33:58.800 Elizabeth Warren.

00:34:01.420 I'm going to

00:34:01.920 throw Elizabeth

00:34:02.480 Warren in the

00:34:03.100 mix.

00:34:03.700 She's effective.

00:34:04.820 All right?

00:34:05.100 Even if you don't

00:34:05.660 like her politics.

00:34:06.980 Somebody needs to

00:34:08.760 get on this.

00:34:10.720 And if you do, I

00:34:11.980 will back you for

00:34:12.760 president.

00:34:15.340 I think banks are

00:34:16.640 defunct.

00:34:17.340 Speaking of

00:34:17.900 Elizabeth Warren,

00:34:18.640 she went hard at

00:34:19.320 Jamie Dimon at a

00:34:20.840 Senate hearing about

00:34:22.040 their overdraft

00:34:23.400 fees.

00:34:25.140 I guess Jamie

00:34:27.340 Dimon's bank,

00:34:28.460 which is, what

00:34:31.380 is it?

00:34:31.700 Chase?

00:34:32.260 Something Chase.

00:34:33.200 JPMorgan Chase.

00:34:35.000 It had 1.5

00:34:36.380 billion in

00:34:37.100 overdraft fees.

00:34:38.820 Do you know why

00:34:39.520 banks charge

00:34:40.460 overdraft fees?

00:34:41.960 Because they

00:34:42.720 fucking can.

00:34:44.020 And they hate

00:34:44.700 you.

00:34:45.340 Do you know how

00:34:45.920 hard it would be

00:34:46.740 for a bank to

00:34:48.180 insert a little

00:34:48.820 code into their

00:34:49.980 process so that

00:34:52.380 you never have

00:34:52.920 an overdraft?

00:34:54.340 It just comes

00:34:55.320 out of, say,

00:34:55.840 your credit card

00:34:56.580 or comes out of

00:34:57.960 one of your

00:34:58.440 other accounts.

00:34:59.620 Do you know how

00:35:00.060 easy it would be

00:35:01.020 for them to

00:35:01.980 completely make

00:35:02.760 the problem of

00:35:03.740 overdrafts go

00:35:04.540 away?

00:35:05.840 Real easy.

00:35:07.080 Real easy.

00:35:08.000 Do you know why

00:35:08.420 they don't do it?

00:35:09.720 Because screwing

00:35:10.980 their customers is

00:35:12.140 very profitable and

00:35:13.540 nobody's pushed

00:35:14.240 back hard enough

00:35:15.040 to make it stop.

00:35:16.800 Here's how it

00:35:17.500 should stop.

00:35:18.120 banks are

00:35:19.540 defunct.

00:35:20.500 There's no

00:35:21.060 fucking reason

00:35:21.900 for a bank.

00:35:23.640 It should be an

00:35:24.320 app.

00:35:25.440 You could make

00:35:26.400 the entire banking

00:35:27.560 system go away

00:35:28.900 with an app.

00:35:31.560 It could do

00:35:32.460 everything a bank

00:35:33.480 could do.

00:35:34.380 It could be

00:35:35.240 gathering money

00:35:36.020 from people.

00:35:36.840 It could be

00:35:37.220 turning it into

00:35:37.960 crypto.

00:35:38.760 It could be

00:35:39.280 doing, you know,

00:35:40.600 exchanges.

00:35:41.520 It could have

00:35:42.020 your savings,

00:35:43.140 your checking.

00:35:43.780 It could be

00:35:44.220 your credit card.

00:35:45.360 It could do it

00:35:46.040 all.

00:35:47.380 One app.

00:35:48.720 You don't

00:35:49.000 need a bank.

00:35:50.440 And, of course,

00:35:51.320 the reason banks

00:35:52.060 can exist is

00:35:52.920 because they have

00:35:53.420 enough money to

00:35:54.040 control Congress

00:35:54.920 so they can get

00:35:55.960 laws, they give

00:35:56.720 them monopolies.

00:35:58.060 But if you could

00:35:58.780 find a way to,

00:36:00.880 you know, do a

00:36:01.440 greenfield, you

00:36:02.680 know, island,

00:36:03.760 build a banking

00:36:05.020 app, you probably

00:36:06.580 could eventually

00:36:07.200 take out the banks

00:36:08.120 entirely.

00:36:09.340 And I think it's

00:36:10.040 inevitable, actually.

00:36:11.720 All right.

00:36:12.060 I have to run

00:36:13.660 and go do

00:36:14.540 some other

00:36:15.120 things really

00:36:16.740 soon.

00:36:17.520 Yes, DeFi,

00:36:18.820 exactly.

00:36:19.980 And I don't

00:36:20.720 know if it's

00:36:21.200 going to be

00:36:21.500 crypto.

00:36:22.420 It could be

00:36:23.400 that crypto

00:36:25.460 is the way to

00:36:26.520 make banks go

00:36:27.380 away.

00:36:28.240 Because I think

00:36:29.260 you would be

00:36:29.640 able to create

00:36:30.160 a parallel bank

00:36:31.880 that's nothing

00:36:33.220 but crypto,

00:36:34.120 including loans,

00:36:36.440 deposits,

00:36:37.660 credit,

00:36:38.840 pretty much

00:36:40.200 everything.

00:36:42.020 Yeah, somebody's

00:36:42.800 saying it will

00:36:43.220 be crypto.

00:36:43.720 I think you're

00:36:44.140 right.

00:36:44.860 I think because

00:36:45.600 there's so much

00:36:47.100 regulation in the

00:36:49.480 regular world of

00:36:51.080 money, I don't

00:36:51.760 think you can get

00:36:52.360 past that.

00:36:53.580 But in crypto,

00:36:54.580 you might be able

00:36:55.880 to do an end

00:36:56.420 run.

00:36:57.780 Yeah, and just

00:36:58.440 eliminate banks.

00:37:01.220 Except for safe

00:37:02.100 deposit boxes,

00:37:03.040 somebody says.

00:37:03.620 Yeah, okay.

00:37:04.560 I'll let the banks

00:37:05.340 do the safe

00:37:05.900 deposit boxes.

00:37:07.240 They'll basically

00:37:07.780 be a storage

00:37:08.820 facility.

00:37:12.060 John says,

00:37:12.940 banking in Africa

00:37:13.840 is via cell

00:37:14.780 phone provider.

00:37:15.800 Well, that

00:37:17.640 makes perfect

00:37:18.240 sense, right?

00:37:19.360 If you were in

00:37:20.520 Africa and the

00:37:21.560 total amount of

00:37:22.280 money that maybe

00:37:23.100 you were borrowing

00:37:23.840 or you had in

00:37:24.620 your bank could

00:37:25.380 be maybe a few

00:37:26.700 hundred dollars,

00:37:28.440 why can't the

00:37:29.280 cell phone company

00:37:30.000 just handle that?

00:37:31.240 Because the

00:37:32.180 cell phone company

00:37:32.980 is the best

00:37:34.020 guarantee that

00:37:35.120 you'll pay them

00:37:35.680 back.

00:37:36.880 Think about

00:37:37.500 this.

00:37:37.840 If you knew

00:37:39.100 that you

00:37:39.440 couldn't get

00:37:40.020 a cell phone

00:37:40.640 service unless

00:37:41.940 you repaid a

00:37:43.060 loan to your

00:37:43.640 cell phone

00:37:44.200 carrier who

00:37:46.060 was acting

00:37:46.540 like a bank,

00:37:48.280 you'd probably

00:37:49.080 pay back the

00:37:49.660 loan, wouldn't

00:37:50.140 you?

00:37:50.360 Or you'd try as

00:37:50.980 hard as you

00:37:51.400 could because

00:37:52.540 you don't want

00:37:52.940 to lose phone

00:37:53.500 service.

00:37:54.080 It would be

00:37:54.600 devastating.

00:37:57.220 And if the

00:37:57.800 phone carriers

00:37:58.500 colluded so

00:37:59.660 that you couldn't

00:38:00.320 just go to

00:38:00.760 another carrier,

00:38:02.040 you'd have to

00:38:02.920 pay back your

00:38:03.480 loan or else

00:38:04.280 you're never

00:38:04.600 going to get

00:38:05.080 phone service.

00:38:06.740 So banks are

00:38:07.460 actually not

00:38:08.460 even a good

00:38:09.040 place for

00:38:09.580 banking.

00:38:11.060 The phone

00:38:11.840 company is a

00:38:13.120 really good

00:38:13.500 place for

00:38:13.900 banking.

00:38:15.860 All right.

00:38:22.340 I'm just

00:38:23.000 looking at

00:38:23.400 your comments

00:38:25.040 for a moment.

00:38:27.340 We need

00:38:28.100 more strategies

00:38:28.820 to push back

00:38:29.720 against peacocks.

00:38:30.600 No, you

00:38:31.300 really don't

00:38:31.900 because the

00:38:32.580 peacock label,

00:38:34.460 just try it.

00:38:36.200 Try it yourself

00:38:37.100 and see what

00:38:37.660 happens.

00:38:38.520 But only try it

00:38:39.220 on the people

00:38:39.620 who are just

00:38:40.160 making a statement

00:38:40.840 about you or

00:38:42.100 your credentials

00:38:42.860 or something.

00:38:44.040 Don't do it if

00:38:45.380 somebody actually

00:38:45.880 has an argument.

00:38:47.080 If they have an

00:38:47.560 argument, deal

00:38:48.160 with the argument.

00:38:49.380 But if they're

00:38:49.840 not acting like

00:38:50.840 a respectable

00:38:52.600 player, well,

00:38:53.580 just peacock

00:38:54.460 them away.

00:38:54.980 They'll go

00:38:55.240 away.

00:38:55.420 Scott, did

00:39:00.660 your stepson

00:39:01.240 have underlying

00:39:02.160 trauma?

00:39:04.140 Nothing that

00:39:05.140 would be beyond

00:39:06.380 what a...

00:39:07.600 Well, actually,

00:39:09.340 depends what

00:39:10.060 you call trauma.

00:39:11.860 I suppose

00:39:12.220 everybody has

00:39:12.820 some.

00:39:15.520 Is my super

00:39:16.560 smart liberal

00:39:17.820 friend happy

00:39:18.600 with Biden?

00:39:19.660 I got to tell

00:39:20.500 you, I decided

00:39:21.220 never to talk

00:39:21.920 to him again.

00:39:23.520 You know,

00:39:23.820 after suffering

00:39:27.140 four years of

00:39:28.000 insults from

00:39:29.080 somebody who

00:39:29.640 used to be

00:39:29.980 one of my

00:39:30.360 best friends

00:39:30.940 because of

00:39:32.420 talking about

00:39:33.440 Trump, and

00:39:35.080 he became

00:39:36.380 just the

00:39:37.840 worst jerk

00:39:38.660 in the world.

00:39:40.300 I mean, he

00:39:40.640 just, he

00:39:41.320 devolved into

00:39:42.120 just a monster,

00:39:43.580 really.

00:39:44.460 And when it

00:39:45.640 was all over,

00:39:46.860 he wrote me

00:39:47.880 a nice letter

00:39:48.700 and said,

00:39:49.080 gosh, I hope

00:39:49.720 we can be

00:39:51.100 friends again

00:39:51.740 because, you

00:39:52.900 know, now

00:39:53.180 that Trump

00:39:53.580 is gone.

00:39:54.820 What do

00:39:55.300 you think

00:39:55.520 I said?

00:39:57.540 Fuck you.

00:39:59.320 Four years

00:40:00.180 of torturing

00:40:01.000 my ass

00:40:01.620 over Trump?

00:40:02.420 You think

00:40:02.900 I'm just

00:40:03.240 going to

00:40:03.540 forget that

00:40:04.460 and just

00:40:04.820 go back

00:40:05.220 to being

00:40:05.580 your fucking

00:40:06.140 friend?

00:40:06.820 Not a chance.

00:40:08.100 I will never

00:40:08.540 speak to him

00:40:09.120 again.

00:40:10.140 He's dead

00:40:10.620 to me.

00:40:11.460 And he's a

00:40:12.280 fucking asshole.

00:40:13.620 All right?

00:40:13.920 He just has

00:40:14.380 to live with

00:40:14.780 that.

00:40:15.580 So that's

00:40:16.520 for him to

00:40:16.980 live with.

00:40:17.680 Not my

00:40:18.220 problem.

00:40:18.580 Well, thank

00:40:24.300 you.

00:40:24.460 That was

00:40:24.660 a nice

00:40:24.960 compliment.

00:40:27.920 All right.

00:40:29.320 No, it

00:40:29.860 isn't sad.

00:40:30.640 It really

00:40:31.020 isn't sad

00:40:31.560 at all.

00:40:32.860 See, the

00:40:33.380 moment you

00:40:33.840 imagine that

00:40:34.480 it's sad to

00:40:35.840 lose somebody

00:40:36.640 like that

00:40:37.100 from your

00:40:37.480 life, you're

00:40:40.080 making a

00:40:40.500 strategy mistake.

00:40:41.940 People like

00:40:42.500 that shouldn't

00:40:43.320 be in your

00:40:43.740 life.

00:40:44.660 Get rid

00:40:44.980 of them.

00:40:45.900 Once you

00:40:46.500 learn to

00:40:46.880 be brutal

00:40:47.480 about getting

00:40:48.360 rid of people

00:40:49.240 who are not

00:40:49.860 good for you,

00:40:51.480 yeah, I

00:40:51.980 wouldn't call

00:40:52.380 them toxic

00:40:53.180 exactly, but

00:40:54.080 it was toxic

00:40:54.600 in that

00:40:55.000 situation.

00:40:56.220 You've got to

00:40:56.880 get rid of

00:40:57.300 people from

00:40:57.740 your life

00:40:58.240 who are

00:40:58.760 doing that

00:40:59.160 to you.

00:40:59.500 You've

00:40:59.840 just got to

00:41:00.360 get rid

00:41:00.680 of them.

00:41:01.420 There's no

00:41:02.040 way to

00:41:02.460 make that

00:41:03.080 better.

00:41:07.340 And I

00:41:08.200 do wonder

00:41:08.660 if he's

00:41:09.180 delighted with

00:41:09.980 Biden's

00:41:10.520 performance,

00:41:11.500 especially

00:41:11.880 the more

00:41:14.200 times that

00:41:14.820 Trump is

00:41:15.340 proven

00:41:15.680 right.

00:41:16.960 Who knows?

00:41:20.100 I thought

00:41:20.740 I saw a

00:41:21.440 question go

00:41:21.980 by there

00:41:22.360 that I

00:41:22.600 wanted to

00:41:22.860 see.

00:41:24.300 Scott, which

00:41:24.940 vaccine did

00:41:25.580 you get and

00:41:26.020 why?

00:41:26.280 Well, I

00:41:26.520 didn't have

00:41:26.820 a choice.

00:41:27.860 I used

00:41:28.460 my health

00:41:28.920 care provider

00:41:29.580 and they

00:41:30.560 had one

00:41:31.060 choice for

00:41:31.760 me when I

00:41:32.200 signed up.

00:41:32.660 So I

00:41:32.960 have the

00:41:34.000 Moderna

00:41:34.500 vaccination,

00:41:36.940 but I

00:41:37.620 don't see

00:41:37.940 that it

00:41:38.140 makes much

00:41:38.520 difference.

00:41:41.660 All

00:41:41.940 right.

00:41:44.820 I guess

00:41:45.900 that's all

00:41:46.220 I have

00:41:46.460 for now.

00:41:46.780 I've got

00:41:46.980 to go do

00:41:47.320 some other

00:41:47.640 things and

00:41:48.060 I will

00:41:48.280 talk to

00:41:48.600 you later.

00:41:49.740 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 27, 2021

Episode 1388 Scott Adams： Wuhan Lab Leak Theories, Flying Saucer Drones, Rewarding Terrorists, Banks Are Dead, and More

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