Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1401 Scott Adams： Warm Apple Pie and Sunshine Are the Decoy Topics of the Day

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, come on in, come on in.

00:00:05.220 I don't want to get your hopes up, but I have a feeling that this will be the best coffee

00:00:12.500 with Scott Adams of all time.

00:00:15.720 Yeah, I just have that feeling.

00:00:18.060 And if you'd like to hear about warm apple pie and sunshine, well, you came to the right

00:00:23.460 place, but that's the decoy.

00:00:26.080 We'll be talking about the headlines, as always.

00:00:30.000 But before we get to the simultaneous set, but I know you're waiting for that, I'd like

00:00:34.480 to give you a few sources for future research on your own.

00:00:39.520 There's a lot of talk about the so-called bat-human interface.

00:00:45.160 That was studied at the Wuhan lab, apparently.

00:00:49.260 If you'd like to do your own research on the bat-human interface, I can recommend two movies.

00:00:55.140 Number one, Walking Tall, The Bat-Human Interface.

00:01:00.540 And also, Dracula.

00:01:03.160 Another good source for the bat-human interface. 0.98

00:01:05.480 And third, an Ozzy Osbourne concert.

00:01:10.080 If you're American, you probably understand all of those clever references.

00:01:14.980 If you're not, consult a friend.

00:01:16.720 Well, I think it's time.

00:01:21.800 Time for what?

00:01:23.480 Yes, the Simultaneous Sip.

00:01:25.180 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or

00:01:29.100 a flask or a vessel of any kind.

00:01:31.180 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:33.140 I like coffee.

00:01:34.360 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here today.

00:01:37.160 The thing that makes everything better.

00:01:38.420 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.

00:01:40.620 And it's going to happen now all over the universe at the same time.

00:01:44.580 Go.

00:01:48.940 Ah.

00:01:49.460 All right, people.

00:01:53.240 Remember I've told you that your opinions are sometimes assigned to you by the media.

00:02:00.060 It feels like you're coming up with your own opinions, but probably not.

00:02:05.260 Now, I'm not exempt from this.

00:02:07.780 I assume that I'm subject to the same forces, but it's easier to see it in other people.

00:02:14.100 You can see other people's mistakes easier than you can see your own.

00:02:17.860 That's how we're designed.

00:02:19.980 And I would submit that one way you could determine that your views are assigned to you by the media

00:02:27.580 is if they assign you two views that conflict, in other words, two things that can't both

00:02:34.300 be true, and you accept both of them.

00:02:37.780 Right?

00:02:39.080 Wouldn't you say that would be a good test?

00:02:41.600 To find out if your opinions are self-generated, or if they're actually assigned to you by the

00:02:48.680 media.

00:02:49.580 If the media gave you two opinions that you accepted, you accepted both of them, but they're

00:02:56.480 in direct conflict, don't you think that would be a good test?

00:03:01.920 Well, let's test it.

00:03:03.060 Let's see how many of you here, and let's see if anybody, I'm not sure anybody will fall

00:03:09.720 into this category, but let's just test it.

00:03:12.340 How many of you in the comments?

00:03:14.120 Tell me.

00:03:14.480 How many of you believe the pandemic began when a deadly weaponized virus, or at least

00:03:21.520 one that they were working on for the purposes of gain of function, escaped from the Wuhan

00:03:27.040 lab.

00:03:27.460 It was a deadly pandemic weaponized virus, escaped from the Wuhan lab. 0.92

00:03:32.440 How many believe that that is probably true?

00:03:37.320 You don't have to be completely certain, just give me a probably true.

00:03:41.680 Yes, yes, yes.

00:03:42.740 Probably yes.

00:03:43.820 Yes, yes, yes.

00:03:44.800 Looks like almost universally people are saying, probably true, right?

00:03:50.160 Yeah, we're waiting for something that would tell us for sure, but almost unanimous, all

00:03:56.160 right?

00:03:56.540 So we seem to unanimously believe, the people watching this live stream, that the pandemic

00:04:04.980 was started when a deadly weaponized virus escaped from the Wuhan lab.

00:04:09.500 All right, that's belief number one.

00:04:11.380 Now I'm going to do a different belief, all right, we're going to stop your answering the

00:04:17.160 first one, and we're going to go to the second belief.

00:04:20.840 Belief number two, the coronavirus of this past year is basically just a bad flu.

00:04:29.980 In the comments, how many of you believe that the coronavirus and COVID-19 are overdone,

00:04:38.300 and that they're basically just a bad flu?

00:04:41.380 Well, I'm watching the comments go by.

00:04:49.280 All right, a lot of no's, good, a lot of no's, but there are, strangely, quite a few yeses.

00:04:57.300 So if you said, yes, you think it was a deadly pandemic that started at the Wuhan lab, but 0.80

00:05:07.000 you do not believe that it's a harmless virus, well, that's consistent.

00:05:13.520 That would be a consistent opinion, and it would be consistent with, doesn't prove it, but

00:05:19.080 it would be consistent with the hypothesis that you make up your own opinions.

00:05:23.140 So if your opinion is consistent, and there's no conflict, it might be your own opinion.

00:05:30.680 There would be no way to tell that it was necessarily assigned to you by the media.

00:05:35.800 But if you believe both of these things, that it's a deadly virus that escaped from a lab,

00:05:42.820 and it's also not a deadly virus, you've got some explaining to do.

00:05:49.340 Right?

00:05:50.500 That would show you that your opinions just came from TV.

00:05:53.840 Because Fox News holds both of these views.

00:05:59.520 The opinion people, not the news people.

00:06:01.880 So when I talk about Fox News, I'm talking about the opinion people.

00:06:06.080 The opinion people, I think, can you do a fact check on me?

00:06:10.780 Tell me if this is, if I'm going too far.

00:06:13.160 Is it fair to say that the opinion people on Fox News are telling you that the virus probably

00:06:20.220 came out of a weaponization process to become a deadly escape virus, and also, at the same

00:06:28.880 time, it's just a normal flu, but a little bit worse?

00:06:33.600 They can't both be true.

00:06:35.880 They can't.

00:06:37.440 You've got to pick one.

00:06:38.180 So, if you believe both of those things, I believe you could say for sure your opinion

00:06:43.200 came from TV, and did not come from your own thoughts.

00:06:48.260 All right.

00:06:49.600 Here's some good news.

00:06:52.320 In the comments, tell me.

00:06:54.840 In the comments, I want to see how well informed you are.

00:06:57.200 Because we're all watching the news, right?

00:06:59.660 Probably every person who's watching this live stream also consumes a good deal of news.

00:07:05.820 And given that the biggest story in the world is still COVID, how many people approximately,

00:07:13.400 without checking, okay, no cheating, don't check any sources, tell me how many people

00:07:19.180 died, let's say, on average, the average number of people who died per day, in the United

00:07:27.100 States only, not the world, just the United States, how many people died per day in the

00:07:31.700 past week from COVID?

00:07:33.140 Just off the top of your head, because you all consume news, and it's the biggest story

00:07:38.620 in the world, so how many was it?

00:07:41.960 Somebody said 50, 17, 1,400, 1,000, 10, people saying 3, 1,000, 350, 1,500.

00:07:55.320 All right, here's the number.

00:07:59.420 This is CNN's reporting.

00:08:01.840 It said that in the past week in the United States, there have been 427 deaths.

00:08:09.140 That would average out to 61 per day.

00:08:15.520 61.

00:08:15.960 61.

00:08:19.160 61.

00:08:21.440 Do you know what we were, weren't we up to like 3,000 or something at one point?

00:08:27.720 What was our peak?

00:08:29.180 3,000 per day, I think.

00:08:31.820 We're down to 61.

00:08:34.080 Do you know how CNN reported this low, low number?

00:08:37.980 However, they had to add the whole week together so it would be over 100.

00:08:45.680 They had to report it as 427 deaths over the past seven days.

00:08:51.040 They couldn't report the daily deaths because they're too low, and it would make you not get

00:08:58.600 a vaccination.

00:09:00.560 Probably.

00:09:01.560 I'm assuming that part of their thinking was the public good, I hope, and that they

00:09:06.780 were trying to not report it as the good news that it is because it might cause you to act

00:09:12.560 differently, and I can understand that.

00:09:15.020 That would be a responsible thing to do, but it does appear that they have added the whole

00:09:19.780 week together to get over 100 because if it's not over 100, you're not going to care.

00:09:26.580 If it's not over 100 per day, you're not going to care, are you?

00:09:30.000 It's just too small.

00:09:32.560 And what do you feel is the accuracy of counting COVID deaths?

00:09:39.140 I know I'm leading you to the obvious answer.

00:09:42.660 Do you think that we've always been really good at counting COVID deaths?

00:09:46.580 No.

00:09:47.700 No, of course not.

00:09:49.180 We've never been good at counting COVID deaths.

00:09:52.420 What do you think would be the relative accuracy?

00:09:56.560 Let's say you were not so good at counting COVID deaths, but you're trying really hard.

00:10:03.300 You know, you're trying to do your best to count them right, but you're not that accurate.

00:10:08.540 How many miscounts would you expect per day?

00:10:13.660 From the number of people who die per day, how many of them would you expect might be a misdiagnosed

00:10:20.080 COVID death?

00:10:22.000 I don't know, maybe about 61 per day.

00:10:26.500 I feel like we're down to the level where the real number of deaths is very close to the number

00:10:34.440 that we miscount.

00:10:36.920 Now, I'm not suggesting that none of them are real, but you're getting to the level where

00:10:41.540 it's just lost in the rounding.

00:10:43.220 Like, it might not even be real at this point.

00:10:47.000 I mean, we could be down to zero and we wouldn't even know it.

00:10:50.080 We're not down to zero.

00:10:51.400 But the point is that the numbers are so low that they're going to be really hard to count

00:10:58.200 because you're not really sure you're getting them all, right?

00:11:02.340 So that's amazing news.

00:11:04.620 And the reporting also says, listen to how CNN reports this, the good news comes as about

00:11:11.580 42% of Americans are fully vaccinated.

00:11:14.620 That doesn't sound like much, does it?

00:11:17.080 I mean, it's great compared to zero, but 42% fully vaccinated, that's not like great.

00:11:24.100 While 52% have received at least one dose, a little bit better, but, you know, not that

00:11:29.580 70% we're looking for.

00:11:31.540 But here's what they don't report.

00:11:34.620 If we've got 42% of Americans fully vaccinated, we have all of the vulnerable ones vaccinated

00:11:42.120 who want to be vaccinated, right?

00:11:46.820 Basically, all of the people who have risk and want to be vaccinated are vaccinated.

00:11:59.900 Oh, interesting.

00:12:01.260 Trudy's got an interesting question here.

00:12:02.980 Let me get to that in a minute.

00:12:04.620 Um, so anyway, that's, that's your situation.

00:12:08.620 I think we may be really, really in good shape here, but the news is trying to be responsible,

00:12:14.940 trying to make sure you get your vaccination.

00:12:17.540 I understand the motivation to that.

00:12:19.320 So I, I don't mind this kind of fake news.

00:12:23.320 You know, this is fake news in my opinion, because they're, they're shading the news, you

00:12:27.920 know, toward a bias to cause you to act in a certain way.

00:12:30.760 But I feel like it's responsible enough, right?

00:12:34.480 You know, I, I'm okay with this level of fake news.

00:12:38.080 Uh, Trudy asked, said that, uh, that Pleasanton has had some success getting addicts off the

00:12:45.120 street, but I don't know about that.

00:12:46.880 Um, I don't know how many were on the street to begin with in Pleasanton, but I'll look into

00:12:52.820 that.

00:12:53.160 Maybe there's something there.

00:12:55.040 CNN says there's a mystery that there's no seasonal flu this year.

00:12:58.980 You already, you already knew that news, right?

00:13:00.880 You knew that in the United States, the number of regular flu deaths was basically zero in

00:13:08.980 the past year.

00:13:10.140 And you said to yourself, well, that makes sense because if we're doing all this mitigation

00:13:14.720 for coronavirus, which is far more viral, we probably would get rid of the regular flu

00:13:21.700 because kids are not going to school, especially, and they're the ones who get the regular flu and

00:13:26.620 bring it home.

00:13:27.160 So it made sense, but there's a new mystery to add to the fact that America did not have

00:13:34.800 any regular flu deaths this year.

00:13:37.480 And the mystery is this, it happened in every country, no matter what they did.

00:13:46.120 Let me say that again.

00:13:47.780 The disappearance of regular flu happened in every country, no matter what they did, whether

00:13:55.500 they closed down, whether they used masks, no matter what they did, none of them, they

00:14:02.240 all had zero when they counted them.

00:14:06.460 Do you know that the regular flu, the seasonal flu that we get every year, we don't count those

00:14:11.780 deaths.

00:14:12.740 We estimate them based on the extra people dying who don't die during the non-flu season.

00:14:19.840 It's an estimate.

00:14:22.380 When you count them, they're not there.

00:14:26.420 Now, a year ago, I told you I believed that we would learn that the regular flu deaths were

00:14:32.700 always fake, that they were never real.

00:14:36.000 And I based it on this observation, that the number of people who allegedly die from the

00:14:42.380 regular seasonal flu every year, is in that 50,000 to 80,000 a year range.

00:14:48.080 The number of people who die of fentanyl overdoses, the same range, 50,000 to 70,000.

00:14:55.680 Why is it that we all know somebody who died of a fentanyl overdose, but almost none of us

00:15:02.700 have ever heard of somebody dying of the regular flu?

00:15:07.280 Am I right?

00:15:08.140 How many of you have heard of a fentanyl overdose?

00:15:12.040 Somebody you know, right?

00:15:13.400 Obviously, it hit me close to home, but I also know other people who died of fentanyl overdoses,

00:15:19.640 not just my own stepson, right?

00:15:23.540 Now, somebody said their grandfather did.

00:15:27.780 So, to me, I don't understand why there's one that I hear about all the time, and one

00:15:32.900 that I've never heard of in my entire life.

00:15:34.780 Not once.

00:15:35.440 Not a single case.

00:15:36.380 I'm not saying they don't exist.

00:15:38.600 I'm saying I've never heard of one.

00:15:40.200 So, how could those numbers be about the same when one you hear all the time and one you

00:15:45.060 just don't hear about?

00:15:46.440 Could it be because it's old people dying of the flu, so you don't talk about them because

00:15:51.240 it just looks natural?

00:15:52.840 Whereas a young person dying of a fentanyl overdose feels like a bigger deal.

00:15:58.680 Maybe it's that.

00:16:00.120 Maybe.

00:16:00.380 But I suspected that the regular flu deaths were always fake, and I believe that once

00:16:07.560 we know that as soon as you're counting them, they've disappeared everywhere, certainly suggests

00:16:13.520 that's the case.

00:16:15.060 Now, the other hypothesis is that all of the regular flu deaths are being called coronavirus

00:16:21.320 deaths this year.

00:16:23.440 Is that possible?

00:16:24.540 In the comments, give me the opinion.

00:16:28.220 Which do you think is more likely?

00:16:30.400 That there were never really any substantial seasonal flu deaths, or that there were just

00:16:37.820 as many this year, but they were attributed to COVID?

00:16:42.560 I'm seeing a lot of people buying into the misattributed to COVID.

00:16:51.200 But for those of you who think the problem is that they were misattributed to COVID, how

00:16:57.640 do you explain this?

00:17:00.760 Kids didn't get the flu.

00:17:04.220 Now, remember, the kids are not necessarily the ones who are dying from the flu so much.

00:17:08.480 I mean, it happens, but not so much.

00:17:10.540 But the children, it's not that they didn't die.

00:17:15.220 They didn't get it.

00:17:18.600 It's not even just the deaths that are missing.

00:17:21.600 The children didn't get it.

00:17:23.840 If we were miscounting COVID deaths, there would still be plenty of children with the flu.

00:17:29.900 They just wouldn't be dying, but they'd have the flu.

00:17:33.920 Now, of course, people are saying, well, that's because there's no school, Scott.

00:17:37.640 But how do you explain it in the other countries where there was school?

00:17:44.380 Remember, no matter what the country did, none of them had flu deaths.

00:17:50.560 But did they even have flu?

00:17:52.700 I'm going to say that they didn't have the flu either, because if they did have the flu,

00:17:58.480 maybe they would have had the flu deaths. 0.97

00:18:00.500 So is it possible that children in other countries where there was school are having seasonal flu just like normal,

00:18:10.340 but nobody's dying because they're all misattributed to COVID?

00:18:16.320 I'm not sure that we have a final answer, but I'm going to stick with my prediction that we're going to find out

00:18:22.480 that deaths from the regular seasonal flu do exist, but they're so rare that they were vastly overestimated before.

00:18:31.960 I'm not saying it doesn't happen. 0.78

00:18:33.480 I'm saying vastly overestimated.

00:18:35.020 All right.

00:18:38.920 Here's the biggest thing that's coming in the future, and it's so big, I don't know if we can quite even grasp how big this is going to be.

00:18:48.300 And it's the change in transportation.

00:18:51.960 Everything about transportation is ready to change.

00:18:55.560 I'm not sure if you've quite put it all together.

00:18:59.080 Here are just some of the things that are massively going to change because of transportation evolution.

00:19:07.620 Number one, commuting.

00:19:10.440 Wouldn't you agree?

00:19:15.860 Mike says every time he goes to the doctor with feeling horrible, they tell him he has the flu, but they don't test for it.

00:19:23.120 I don't even know if there is a test for the regular flu.

00:19:25.220 But anyway, so in transportation, commuting is almost a thing of the past for a lot of jobs

00:19:33.940 because the Internet is now so strong and Zoom calls are so normal and the pandemic got us used to not commuting.

00:19:42.020 So commuting has probably forever changed, right?

00:19:45.240 Some people will go back to the office, but I think the idea of driving to the office as a requirement is just forever gone.

00:19:53.240 So there's that.

00:19:53.920 Number two, delivery of everything.

00:19:58.060 So the delivery services will just keep getting better and easier and more irresistible.

00:20:05.580 At this point, I have a tremendous amount of things delivered.

00:20:09.200 That's not going to change.

00:20:10.520 So all the reasons you had to go to the store just went away.

00:20:14.940 But you also have self-driving cars coming.

00:20:19.280 Nothing can stop this.

00:20:20.880 If you're saying to yourself, I don't think there will ever be self-driving cars because they won't be safe enough or they won't be approved, people won't feel comfortable with them.

00:20:32.820 None of that's going to happen.

00:20:34.580 Self-driving cars are 100% guaranteed.

00:20:38.660 There's no way around it.

00:20:40.520 We're going to have them.

00:20:41.260 And there are slowly a number of companies working themselves through the permitting and testing phase.

00:20:48.560 Now, something that I heard Elon Musk say is a good context for this.

00:20:54.480 In order to have self-driving cars, you would have to have computers in the cars that are strong enough.

00:21:00.240 And we do.

00:21:02.020 The computers that are already in new cars are strong enough to do everything a self-driving car needs.

00:21:08.860 So that's done, basically.

00:21:11.460 Number two, you would need to have enough camera systems to see everything you need to see.

00:21:16.180 That's done.

00:21:17.520 The Teslas, for example, have all the cameras you would need to be a self-driving car.

00:21:21.700 They already have that.

00:21:22.460 The other thing you need, which would help, would be if they're all electric.

00:21:29.220 Because I think it would be easier for an autonomous car to self-fuel if it's electric.

00:21:36.480 I'm just guessing, because you don't have any liquid that might catch on fire or anything.

00:21:41.820 So I'm just guessing that being electric is going to be a big part of autonomous.

00:21:46.280 Not all of them, but maybe most of them.

00:21:48.260 And then the other big change is the density and efficiency of batteries.

00:21:55.380 The battery efficiency is just, every year, better and better and better.

00:22:00.280 And no end in sight.

00:22:02.000 It looks like batteries will just keep getting better and lighter and more powerful.

00:22:06.400 And we're now right at the crossover point where electric airplanes are economical.

00:22:14.360 Airplanes.

00:22:14.920 And not only electric airplanes, but your own private little drone-like helicopter flying car.

00:22:25.180 Now, I'm not sure you'll have your own flying car.

00:22:28.780 Probably there'll be some sporty ones.

00:22:31.560 I don't think you're going to have your own car to commute.

00:22:34.260 But you're definitely going to have flying taxis.

00:22:36.700 I would say the odds of having flying taxis as a regular feature of life are close to 100% at this point.

00:22:44.340 And it's going to be pretty soon.

00:22:46.800 So you're going to have cheap electric flying vehicles and autonomous cars and no commuting.

00:22:53.600 And everything's going to be delivered.

00:22:55.400 Everything about transportation is going to change.

00:22:58.020 And just in a few years.

00:22:59.200 On Twitter, Twitter user Donald Luskin says he did a data analysis of masks and found that masks work,

00:23:14.080 but he could find no correlation with social distancing.

00:23:18.080 In other words, where mask mandates were in place, there seemed to be a noticeably big difference in infections.

00:23:24.140 But where you had social distancing, that did not come out.

00:23:28.700 I don't understand that.

00:23:30.720 Because I don't know of a situation where you would ever have a mask requirement,

00:23:35.020 where you would not also have a distancing requirement, or at least a distancing practice.

00:23:41.280 If you put a mask on, you're kind of automatically also going to stand at a distance from people.

00:23:46.660 Because it's all part of the same mindset, right?

00:23:49.920 So I don't know how you could imagine that masks work, but distancing doesn't.

00:23:56.040 It feels like the data would show either they both work or neither work.

00:24:00.820 But I feel like they travel as a pair.

00:24:03.060 Even if the law doesn't require it, just people would act that way.

00:24:06.280 But I ask you this.

00:24:10.900 If the numbers showed that social distancing didn't make any difference to infections,

00:24:16.620 would that tell you that social distancing doesn't work,

00:24:20.780 or would it tell you that numbers don't work?

00:24:24.320 I'd like to see your opinion on this.

00:24:25.960 In the comments, and this is just a hypothetical, because I don't know this to be the case,

00:24:30.820 but hypothetically, if the numbers showed that social distancing didn't change the infection rate,

00:24:39.180 what would you assume?

00:24:41.140 Would you assume the analysis was obviously wrong,

00:24:44.320 or would you assume that social distancing doesn't work?

00:24:48.480 I'm looking at your comments.

00:24:49.960 I'm seeing, yeah, numbers don't work.

00:24:53.280 Numbers rarely work.

00:24:55.520 Not commenting on this one.

00:24:57.900 Studies are biased.

00:24:59.280 Numbers are wrong.

00:25:00.040 Yeah, I don't see any logical way that social distancing could fail.

00:25:06.580 Am I right about that?

00:25:08.320 It just feels to me that social distancing is the most obvious thing that would work every time.

00:25:13.820 To some degree.

00:25:15.900 Right?

00:25:16.200 Not 100%.

00:25:16.940 But how do you get the virus if you're not around somebody who has it?

00:25:22.040 I would just assume the numbers are wrong.

00:25:25.200 So, keep that in mind.

00:25:26.760 President Biden is making his first international travel, and I'm glad he is,

00:25:34.740 because he's taking on some of the big problems in the world.

00:25:38.980 So, he's visiting the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland.

00:25:45.120 Those are three hotspots in the world.

00:25:47.240 And if, you know, if you want your president working on the big priorities, you want him to be going to the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland.

00:25:57.860 Because, as you know, that's where most of our problems come from, those three, the big three, sort of the axis of extreme evil.

00:26:05.560 The United Kingdom, Belgium, and Switzerland.

00:26:08.340 So, it's a good thing that Biden is going there first.

00:26:12.000 You know, not doing something useless like President Trump, you know, visiting Kim Jong-un and stopping a nuclear war.

00:26:21.620 But, we've got some important topics also with these countries.

00:26:24.640 And, I got a preview of some of the topics that Biden will be discussing when he visits the UK, Belgium, and Switzerland.

00:26:33.200 So, here are the three things on the top of his list.

00:26:35.880 Number one, cold toast.

00:26:38.580 Why?

00:26:40.340 Number two, chocolate treaty.

00:26:43.500 We've got to talk about that.

00:26:45.100 And, number three topic is, which one is Belgium?

00:26:49.140 So, I think those are the three topics Biden will be talking about.

00:26:52.920 But, we'll keep watching that.

00:26:55.300 There's a, speaking of Biden, so Hunter Biden is in the news.

00:26:58.040 One of his, some of his emails, reportedly used the N-word.

00:27:05.120 The N-word.

00:27:06.820 And, not only does he use the N-word, but he uses it in reference to his lawyer.

00:27:12.040 Uh-oh.

00:27:13.300 Who's white? 0.89

00:27:14.280 Who's white? 0.89

00:27:14.840 His lawyer's white.

00:27:15.560 So, Hunter Biden calls his white lawyer the N-word, but not the N-word ending with E-R, but the N-word ending with G-A.

00:27:27.260 Sort of more, you know, not the full proper word.

00:27:31.300 And, people have rightly said, can you imagine, can you even imagine if, you know, one of the Trump kids said something like this and it came out?

00:27:45.340 Can you even imagine?

00:27:47.000 Okay, first of all, that's a fair comment.

00:27:48.840 If this exact same thing had happened with Don Jr., it would be the only news.

00:27:56.360 There wouldn't be any other news.

00:27:58.960 However, let me say this.

00:28:02.240 It's just fake news.

00:28:04.600 Now, it's a real event.

00:28:05.940 I'm sure the email is real.

00:28:07.700 I'm sure he really used the word.

00:28:09.040 But, can we really get excited about two white people talking privately about anything? 0.62

00:28:19.740 Now, I suppose if they were planning a terrorist attack, I'd probably care about that.

00:28:24.840 But, I don't think that, as a standard, we should be looking at private communications, or communications they expected to be private, and have any opinion at all about a private conversation.

00:28:40.500 Here's the opinion you should have about this.

00:28:43.380 Nothing. 1.00

00:28:44.540 It's none of your fucking business. 1.00

00:28:46.720 Right? 1.00

00:28:47.760 It's none of your fucking business. 1.00

00:28:49.880 What two people said privately to each other. 1.00

00:28:52.880 None of your fucking business. 0.99

00:28:54.840 And, it doesn't reveal any racism. 1.00

00:28:58.180 If it did, maybe that would be news, right?

00:29:00.760 But, it doesn't reveal anything.

00:29:02.640 There's nothing about his hunter's secret thoughts.

00:29:07.020 There's nothing about his belief of anything.

00:29:10.500 It's a non-story.

00:29:12.720 You know, I would be happy to dump on him, if there were anything to this.

00:29:19.160 But, there isn't.

00:29:20.500 It's just, you know, political fun.

00:29:22.120 So, it's fun to, I guess it's fun to make fun of Hunter Biden.

00:29:27.960 But, you know, I do have some empathy for his addiction problems, in particular.

00:29:34.840 I mean, that's nothing to joke about.

00:29:37.900 But, let the guy make a bad joke.

00:29:42.040 You know, if you want to say his personality is defective, we all have defective personalities.

00:29:47.420 I would make absolutely nothing of this story.

00:29:52.380 Apparently, Joe Biden is not much of a negotiator, because he can't get an infrastructure deal.

00:29:57.720 So, the negotiations have broken down.

00:30:01.120 Now, how hard is it to negotiate a deal when everybody is in favor of the deal?

00:30:06.300 It feels like the easiest thing you could do, right?

00:30:11.160 Hey, how would you like to do X?

00:30:13.940 I love X.

00:30:15.920 Let's do X right away.

00:30:18.040 Okay.

00:30:18.820 Let's negotiate X.

00:30:21.360 I agree with X.

00:30:22.780 You agree with X.

00:30:24.320 Let's come together and do X.

00:30:26.640 Apparently, Biden couldn't get that done.

00:30:28.200 He and his winged monkeys have added so much to the infrastructure bill that the Republicans can't call it infrastructure anymore.

00:30:38.740 And so, they say, we're walking away.

00:30:42.880 Good job, Republicans.

00:30:44.980 So, now, Republicans have stopped how many things?

00:30:49.280 Help me with how many things the Republicans have stopped.

00:30:51.900 They stopped the investigation of the January 6th riot.

00:30:58.200 They stopped infrastructure so far.

00:31:01.720 We'll see where that goes.

00:31:03.460 And there was a third thing.

00:31:05.920 What was the other thing that they stopped recently?

00:31:08.780 I'm trying to remember.

00:31:10.380 But as long as Joe Manchin is in favor of the, what do you call it?

00:31:19.820 Oh, H.R.1.

00:31:20.600 Yes, the voting changes.

00:31:25.700 So, Republicans have a pretty good record.

00:31:28.200 And the filibuster.

00:31:32.560 I'm sorry.

00:31:32.820 That's the word I couldn't think of.

00:31:34.160 So, as long as Joe Manchin is in favor of the filibuster, and he's kind of the tiebreaker on a lot of this stuff, I think we're in good shape.

00:31:43.420 We're in good shape.

00:31:44.760 What do you think of the odds that Biden is going to push through his tax increases?

00:31:49.080 It kind of looks low, doesn't it?

00:31:54.300 I feel like the odds of that are low.

00:31:57.040 Because if the Republicans can stop three things in a row, including infrastructure, they can definitely stop a gigantic tax increase, can't they?

00:32:07.940 I feel like that would be the slowball pitch.

00:32:12.300 If a Republican can do anything, they can rail against high taxes.

00:32:16.900 So, I'm feeling optimistic that the taxes won't go up as much as they could have.

00:32:23.540 But one of the things that Biden is doing well, and I'm going to have to compliment him.

00:32:28.580 I hate to do it.

00:32:30.300 You know, I know you don't like it.

00:32:31.760 But I'm going to compliment Biden on this persuasive thing.

00:32:35.900 And he's asking for so much in terms of tax increases, it's a good opening offer.

00:32:44.280 Because, you know, at this point, if he only got half of what he's asking for, I would still feel absolutely abused.

00:32:52.840 But I would feel like it wasn't as bad as it could have been, which is exactly why you make the first big ask.

00:32:59.360 So, at least he did that right.

00:33:01.260 He's got plenty of room to negotiate.

00:33:02.720 Here's a statistic today from some survey.

00:33:09.480 20% of Democrats lost a friendship over politics versus 10% of Republicans in recent, I guess, recent year or so.

00:33:22.920 And so, twice as many Democrats lost a friend compared to Republicans over politics.

00:33:30.340 To which I say, how is that possible?

00:33:36.980 How is it possible that there could be twice as many Democrats losing a friend than Republicans?

00:33:43.640 Doesn't that mean that the Democrats are turning on each other?

00:33:46.400 Because if the only friends people lost were the opposite party, it would be the same number, right? 0.73

00:33:56.000 Because if I'm a Democrat and I lose you as a friend as a Republican, that's one Republican lost a friend and one Democrat lost a friend.

00:34:05.440 That's the same number.

00:34:07.340 How do you get twice as many Democrats losing a friend unless they've turned on each other?

00:34:12.380 Right?

00:34:15.080 Am I doing the math wrong?

00:34:17.300 I feel like that's the only way you get there.

00:34:19.220 I don't know how else you could have a double number.

00:34:22.440 The Democrats have to be turning on themselves.

00:34:26.140 I think, right?

00:34:27.580 I don't know any other way to interpret that.

00:34:30.640 All right.

00:34:31.160 So, also, same survey.

00:34:34.020 33% of liberal women ended friendships over politics. 0.80

00:34:40.700 33%.

00:34:41.180 Do you know what the biggest complaint of women is? 1.00

00:34:46.700 Adult women? 0.99

00:34:47.940 Do you know what their biggest personal complaint?

00:34:51.780 Don't have friends.

00:34:54.660 Let me ask you in the comments.

00:34:56.880 How many women... 1.00

00:34:58.240 So, this is just a question for women. 1.00

00:35:01.300 Women only. 1.00

00:35:02.120 How many of you have a real problem finding a friend or making more friends?

00:35:10.060 So, do you have a friend deficit that is really obvious to you?

00:35:14.820 You're like, ah, I don't have enough friends.

00:35:17.440 How many of you have that situation going on right now?

00:35:20.700 I see one.

00:35:21.820 I do.

00:35:22.480 Yes.

00:35:23.120 Nope.

00:35:24.060 Nope.

00:35:24.680 Yes.

00:35:25.920 No.

00:35:26.420 Yes.

00:35:26.840 Yep.

00:35:27.140 Very much.

00:35:28.040 No.

00:35:28.960 No problem.

00:35:29.580 Not really.

00:35:30.460 No, no.

00:35:31.040 Me.

00:35:31.260 No, no, no.

00:35:32.900 Yes.

00:35:33.640 Yep.

00:35:34.160 It's hard.

00:35:35.100 No.

00:35:35.540 Yes.

00:35:36.260 So, you can see it's very mixed.

00:35:38.140 I wouldn't assume that it's equally mixed.

00:35:41.220 But you can see it's big.

00:35:42.460 It's a big problem.

00:35:44.260 So, one of the biggest problems that I've heard people talk about is the lack of being

00:35:48.940 able to find a friend.

00:35:50.600 And 33% of liberal women have ended friendships over politics. 0.89

00:35:55.420 Can they afford to lose friends?

00:35:57.840 Can any of us afford to lose friends?

00:36:01.380 It's hard to make a friend.

00:36:03.460 Yeah.

00:36:03.900 Look at all the lonely people.

00:36:06.600 Let me change the question.

00:36:09.560 Instead of just friends, because that could be a little murky in terms of how you're answering

00:36:13.980 it.

00:36:14.180 Let me ask you this.

00:36:16.260 How many of you would consider yourselves lonely?

00:36:20.680 So, in the comments, how many of you consider yourselves lonely?

00:36:26.420 Like right now, in this part of your life.

00:36:28.640 I'm seeing yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, mostly no's.

00:36:36.360 Interesting.

00:36:37.400 No, somebody says today yes.

00:36:39.980 I do.

00:36:41.440 Mostly no's.

00:36:42.480 Interesting.

00:36:43.440 I was expecting a few more yeses.

00:36:46.100 And I wonder if this is a conservative bias.

00:36:49.960 I know most of my...

00:36:52.180 Oh, you know what?

00:36:53.360 The other bias is most of my viewers are male.

00:36:55.600 I think men are a little less likely to say they're lonely.

00:37:02.180 Yeah.

00:37:03.520 Alone but not lonely.

00:37:05.920 Somebody's enjoying their loneliness or their lone time.

00:37:09.960 I could get a friend if I wanted.

00:37:11.960 That feels like a male perspective, doesn't it?

00:37:15.900 I think a man would say, yeah, I'm lonely, but I could get a friend if I wanted. 0.99

00:37:20.020 So it's my own damn fault. 0.98

00:37:23.440 All right. 0.99

00:37:24.020 Interesting.

00:37:24.380 Well, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but that could be a reflection of my audience.

00:37:28.180 It's a biased audience.

00:37:30.160 All right.

00:37:30.380 Here's a...

00:37:32.100 So the bottom line on this is that the fake news is causing a mental health crisis.

00:37:38.080 And part of this crisis is that people are losing friends.

00:37:41.840 And you can't really afford to lose friends in this world because you might go down to zero.

00:37:47.860 So that's a big deal.

00:37:50.180 I would like to direct you to a fascinating article by Jason Andrews on his blog, parsingpersuasion.com.

00:38:00.480 So I tweeted it so you can see it in my Twitter feed toward the top today.

00:38:04.860 And the basic idea, which I'm not going to get into the details, but the basic idea is that what we're seeing in terms of the wokeness and critical race theory and, you know, let's say the social politics of the day,

00:38:18.320 that this is perfectly suited for Marxism to essentially get a grip.

00:38:27.280 Now, I had been trying to figure out why people were saying critical race theory is a Marxist idea.

00:38:34.720 Because I couldn't figure out how that works.

00:38:38.940 Because Marxism seemed like a political system or a political slash economic system, whereas critical race theory just seemed like a social thing.

00:38:52.300 And I couldn't figure out how they fit.

00:38:55.480 But Jason has some fascinating ideas about how people get imprinted early in life.

00:39:02.400 And these imprints from either a strong or weak mother or father can cause different personality types.

00:39:09.780 And if you cause one personality type, you are vulnerable to a change in system.

00:39:15.780 And another personality type, you're less vulnerable to a change in system, be it Marxism or something else.

00:39:22.540 And that the recent changes have primed people for a change in system.

00:39:28.520 Now, I don't know how, I have no evidence that any of that's intentional.

00:39:33.180 Meaning, I don't really know that there's some smart people sitting behind, you know, a desk somewhere who figured out,

00:39:40.760 if we do this and this and this and wait 30 years, it'll be perfect for Marxism to take over?

00:39:47.660 I don't know.

00:39:48.860 Maybe.

00:39:50.040 Maybe.

00:39:50.440 Maybe there's somebody doing that.

00:39:51.860 I tend to not believe the people are so clever they plan 30 years in advance.

00:39:58.940 I tend not to believe that.

00:40:01.200 But anything's possible.

00:40:03.020 We have seen interviews from Soviet defectors saying that they have these long-term plans to destroy the United States culture, etc.

00:40:11.440 Maybe.

00:40:12.440 So I would just suggest that you read Jason Andrews' piece on that.

00:40:17.440 Make up your own mind.

00:40:18.320 But it looks, I think there's something there.

00:40:22.120 You know, I might need to read it again, but I think there's something there.

00:40:29.100 Rand Paul gets a big win today.

00:40:31.560 He'd been saying that you don't need a vaccination.

00:40:34.760 Talking about himself, really.

00:40:36.400 You don't need a vaccination if you've already had the COVID infection and it's confirmed.

00:40:40.200 But a new study comes out, Cleveland Clinic study of over 52,000 employees, showed that the unvaccinated people who have had COVID-19 had no difference in reinfection rate than people who had COVID and took the vaccine.

00:40:55.580 So there was no difference.

00:40:58.100 So the vaccine added zero extra protection.

00:41:03.300 But, but, as Ian Martousis might tell you, there might be a difference in how long they last.

00:41:12.380 So it could be that Rand Paul is completely right at the moment.

00:41:17.400 It could also be true that in six to nine months, that people who had the infection, but not the vaccination, might have less protection.

00:41:29.560 We don't know if that will translate into actually more infections.

00:41:34.500 But the, I think the, what we know about it is that the vaccination, the double vaccination gives you more protection than just being infected by it.

00:41:47.400 And I also don't know if the variants make any difference to this.

00:41:53.580 Does, does having one version of COVID give you just as good protection against the variants as having the vaccine that was sort of designed to take care of it?

00:42:05.980 Which one does the variants better?

00:42:07.940 So I still have some questions about this, but I think, I think we can give Rand Paul the win.

00:42:13.040 Would you agree?

00:42:13.860 You know, I, I feel like it's not a hundred percent win because it could be a difference in how well protected you are in the long run.

00:42:22.220 In the short run, it looks like he's just right, right?

00:42:25.880 When you say that in the short run, he's just right.

00:42:29.040 In the long run, we don't know yet.

00:42:31.500 That's a little bit more of an open question.

00:42:33.800 But if I had to put a bet on it, if I had to put my money on it, I think I'd bet on Rand Paul on this one.

00:42:40.560 I think I would bet that the natural immunity is good enough, even if it's not as good.

00:42:48.860 Are you watching, are you watching the story about New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay said something about Trump supporters politicizing the American flag?

00:43:03.260 And if you like the flag, you probably said to yourself, how do you politicize a flag?

00:43:13.440 Because the whole point of the flag is that it's for everybody.

00:43:17.160 Like, that's what it is.

00:43:19.500 But apparently people on the left think that the full embrace of the American flag by people on the right suggests that it's becoming sort of a racist symbol.

00:43:28.360 Or a divisive symbol.

00:43:31.400 To which I say, who made that happen?

00:43:34.980 I don't think it was the Republicans loving the flag that turned it bad.

00:43:40.180 Wasn't it the fact that Democrats were stomping on it and burning it that made it not their flag?

00:43:46.220 It wasn't the Republicans that made it not their flag.

00:43:49.660 It was the people who kneel when the flag is flying.

00:43:53.660 It's the people who burn it, people who disrespect it.

00:43:56.180 How do you blame this on the Republicans?

00:43:59.220 The Republicans always loved the flag.

00:44:02.260 They never didn't love it.

00:44:04.160 But the Democrats and the left are certainly demonizing it.

00:44:08.280 So if it becomes a divisive symbol, who did that?

00:44:14.040 The Republicans, just by being exactly the way they always were?

00:44:18.300 Did they make something happen by being exactly the same as always?

00:44:22.220 That's what happened?

00:44:23.200 No, if something has changed, you'd have to look to the people who changed.

00:44:30.420 It wasn't the Republicans.

00:44:32.040 I don't see any Republicans flying extra flags.

00:44:35.380 Really?

00:44:36.440 I don't think so.

00:44:39.940 Although I have seen a lot of flags.

00:44:42.620 I'm going to say that in my town, how many of you notice this?

00:44:46.420 In my town, we're still a good distance away from the 4th of July, but there are more American flags, right?

00:44:55.080 Can you confirm that?

00:44:57.020 I'm noticing more.

00:44:59.440 And I don't know if those are Republicans who are sort of sending in a bat signal or something.

00:45:04.620 I don't know.

00:45:06.320 All right, let's talk about Trump.

00:45:09.380 Apparently Trump wrote a press release congratulating Nigeria for banning Twitter.

00:45:18.000 And he said, because they banned their president.

00:45:21.260 And Trump said, perhaps I should have done it while president.

00:45:24.400 So Trump is actually talking about banning Twitter because Twitter banned him.

00:45:28.720 And I tell you, you don't realize how much you miss Trump until you see him say anything.

00:45:39.320 Everything Trump says is more interesting than anything anybody else says.

00:45:44.860 And how does he do this so consistently?

00:45:49.840 How does he do it so consistently?

00:45:51.620 I mean, this is the most provocative thing anybody said today.

00:45:57.360 And he's always the one who says it.

00:45:59.520 So, man, is he good at this, the provocative stuff.

00:46:03.560 Anyway, here's an update on ivermectin.

00:46:06.560 I told you the story that Brett Weinstein and others, a lot of others,

00:46:12.320 are talking about how the studies on ivermectin,

00:46:15.640 although individually the studies may be imperfect,

00:46:18.180 if you did a meta-analysis, they seem to point strongly in one direction.

00:46:22.800 But you don't even need the meta-analysis.

00:46:24.900 You can just look at all the studies and say,

00:46:26.820 they all point in the same direction.

00:46:29.060 Some of them might be flawed.

00:46:30.540 Some of them might be flawed in different ways.

00:46:32.760 But they all point in the same direction.

00:46:35.580 So this point I don't think I made clearly when I was talking about it before.

00:46:42.140 While I don't believe that meta-analyses are the magic bullet,

00:46:48.180 I don't believe a meta-analysis should necessarily be trusted.

00:46:53.640 But that said, with the evidence that we have,

00:46:57.880 if you have to decide what to do about your own health,

00:47:01.080 and you've got a well-known drug with basically zero risk,

00:47:05.460 and all this evidence that's not perfect,

00:47:09.480 but is really, really, really strong,

00:47:12.700 might be wrong, but it looks kind of right,

00:47:16.320 and there's no risk,

00:47:19.060 and the expense is minimal compared to the benefit if you have any,

00:47:23.300 it's a no-brainer in terms of risk-reward.

00:47:26.900 So if you're telling me what should you do,

00:47:30.220 well, the risk-reward is obvious.

00:47:32.820 There's no risk, really,

00:47:34.840 and there's really, really good evidence that it might work.

00:47:38.620 But I have to use might, because we're just short of proof, right?

00:47:43.800 There's no doubt about it.

00:47:44.980 It should be treated as something you take seriously.

00:47:48.320 Now, even today, there was yet another story about hydroxychloroquine

00:47:52.980 potentially having some benefit in some study.

00:47:57.340 Again, same thing.

00:48:00.440 I don't believe science is agreed that hydroxychloroquine works.

00:48:04.520 I believe the consensus is still that it doesn't.

00:48:08.200 But I might.

00:48:09.900 I might.

00:48:11.260 If you think my alarm's going to go off,

00:48:13.520 that's not every day.

00:48:15.480 There's something I need to do on some days

00:48:18.560 that I don't need to do on other days,

00:48:20.200 and today's not a day I need to do it.

00:48:24.100 Some people say it's the zinc.

00:48:26.120 Well, I don't know.

00:48:26.840 I think zinc's been tested as well.

00:48:29.420 All right, so there's also a thought

00:48:33.520 that the real problem with ivermectin

00:48:35.400 is that if we had a therapy that worked,

00:48:39.380 you couldn't have gotten the vaccination emergency authorities.

00:48:44.400 What do you think of that?

00:48:45.840 Apparently, there's some kind of rule in place

00:48:47.780 that says you can't do an emergency authorization of a drug

00:48:51.780 the way we did with the vaccinations.

00:48:53.620 If there's some existing drug that's already approved

00:48:58.280 that could do the job,

00:49:00.940 because you would just use the existing one,

00:49:02.700 you wouldn't need to do an emergency authorization.

00:49:06.100 And there's some thinking that that's the only reason

00:49:08.440 that ivermectin was shown to be not true

00:49:11.980 or considered not a treatment,

00:49:14.120 is just to make way for the vaccinations. 0.90

00:49:16.680 My opinion on that is that's ridiculous. 0.95

00:49:20.960 I believe that's ridiculous. 0.97

00:49:22.920 Here's why.

00:49:23.620 Hey, President Trump or President Biden,

00:49:28.360 you can fill in any president, okay?

00:49:30.720 So this is independent of personality.

00:49:33.400 Whoever is president.

00:49:35.080 Hey, if we do an emergency authorization for these things,

00:49:39.920 we can't say ivermectin works, but we think it does.

00:49:43.920 What does the president say?

00:49:45.700 No matter who the president is.

00:49:47.580 Oh, well, let's change that.

00:49:49.980 Here's an executive order.

00:49:51.160 Maybe somebody says, oh, you can't do an executive order for this.

00:49:55.100 You need a, I don't know, some other kind of law,

00:49:58.820 maybe Congress or whatever.

00:50:00.160 And what would people say?

00:50:01.720 Oh, well, let's change that law.

00:50:04.040 It's an emergency.

00:50:05.140 It's a crisis.

00:50:07.120 No president would let that stand.

00:50:09.920 I don't believe there's any level of incompetence that a president would let that stand in an emergency.

00:50:18.660 If this were not an emergency, the bureaucracy does what the bureaucracy does, 0.99

00:50:23.980 and I could totally understand that the bureaucracy would do something stupid. 0.99

00:50:28.720 But in an emergency, all those stupid things are presented to the chief executive, 0.99

00:50:35.280 and then the chief executive gets to say, yeah, that doesn't make any sense in the emergency. 0.99

00:50:41.080 If these were normal days, yeah, but not in an emergency.

00:50:44.420 So then the chief executive would just change that law or ignore it or something.

00:50:52.060 But to imagine that such a bureaucratic rule would actually stop us from, you know,

00:50:59.860 putting a hammerlock on the pandemic with drugs we already have.

00:51:05.640 No, I refuse to believe in that level of incompetence.

00:51:11.500 I can believe in a lot of incompetence.

00:51:14.300 I literally made my living pointing out the massive baseline incompetence of big organizations.

00:51:22.520 No one is more famous for pointing out the inefficiencies and problems with large organization decisions.

00:51:30.400 I'm literally the most famous person in the country for doing exactly that thing.

00:51:37.360 And even I don't think that's even possible.

00:51:39.960 I do not believe that anybody in charge said, no, we can't do this because then we couldn't do the vaccinations.

00:51:48.760 I don't believe it for one second.

00:51:52.040 It is so far from being, in my opinion, so far from being a possible thing that happened.

00:51:58.540 I just am not even going to consider the possibility.

00:52:01.160 All right.

00:52:08.300 Yes, I did listen to Dr. Corey's testimony.

00:52:11.580 Here's one thing I never believe.

00:52:14.360 The rogue doctor, who is the only one who can see what everybody else can't see.

00:52:20.240 If I were to give you a category of thing you shouldn't believe, it's this.

00:52:26.960 The rogue doctor, who is very persuasive, and he's looking at numbers, and he's an expert, but there's just sort of one of them.

00:52:35.700 And the other doctors are like, I'm not so sure about that.

00:52:38.700 But I would say you should believe the rogue doctor 20% of the time, at most, maybe 10%, maybe 5%, maybe 1%.

00:52:51.400 But if you think, hey, I watched a YouTube, and there was an actual very qualified person who had a persuasive argument,

00:53:00.080 the amount of beliefs you should put on that would be 20%.

00:53:03.720 If you're putting 100% on that, you don't understand how anything works.

00:53:09.180 You can easily find a rogue doctor who will be completely persuasive and completely qualified for any viewpoint you want.

00:53:18.820 Anything.

00:53:19.860 Yeah.

00:53:20.380 So don't believe the rogue doctor.

00:53:23.700 Doesn't mean they're wrong.

00:53:25.320 Definitely doesn't mean they're wrong.

00:53:27.360 But you shouldn't put credibility in it just because a doctor said so.

00:53:34.620 All right.

00:53:38.820 There's a rumor that Dr. Fauci once bought a ticket to an Ozzy Osbourne concert,

00:53:45.800 which would, in effect, be funding the bat-human interface.

00:53:51.620 But I guess I used that joke twice.

00:53:57.180 Too credentialed to be considered a rogue?

00:53:59.920 Nope.

00:54:00.520 Nope.

00:54:00.900 That's the trap.

00:54:02.700 So in the comments I'm seeing somebody say that this particular doctor I think you're referring to is too credentialed to be sort of a quack.

00:54:12.340 Nope.

00:54:13.440 That's not a thing.

00:54:14.880 There's no such thing as being too credentialed to be a quack.

00:54:19.700 Not a thing.

00:54:20.480 The moment you think that can't be a thing, you're really going to be confused about the world.

00:54:27.180 It's, yeah.

00:54:28.620 Please explain rogue versus whistleblower.

00:54:36.700 Well, a whistleblower would be somebody who is just telling you what they saw.

00:54:41.040 Right?

00:54:41.720 I saw or heard or experienced this.

00:54:45.080 The rogue doctor is looking at data and interpreting it different than other doctors.

00:54:50.420 They're not even close.

00:54:55.860 Are we woke for COVID?

00:54:58.620 We're trying.

00:55:03.040 Moderna and NIH patent.

00:55:06.860 Rona delivery in December took two days to create.

00:55:11.100 Well, so there's some thought that the COVID vaccination was too fast.

00:55:19.700 Now, of course, it takes a long time to test it.

00:55:22.220 But remember, the mRNA platform, if I'm using the right technical terms,

00:55:27.420 is the mRNA platform was designed to be able to quickly address a virus.

00:55:35.040 So maybe it just worked exactly the way they designed it.

00:55:39.440 Because apparently they can now, they're taking a look at everything from AIDS to malaria to herpes to dengue fever.

00:55:47.340 And they think they can fairly rapidly spin up the mRNA platform to make a testable vaccination for all of those.

00:55:56.380 So that's interesting.

00:56:02.840 All right.

00:56:04.000 How are my decoy titles working?

00:56:06.180 Quite well.

00:56:06.900 Quite well.

00:56:07.300 So I finally figured out that I was being demonetized immediately based on the titles in the broadcast.

00:56:16.020 Because the titles would often be provocative concepts.

00:56:19.820 But the way I talked about them was not violating any rules.

00:56:23.520 And I do that intentionally.

00:56:24.600 It is my intention to never violate a YouTube term of service.

00:56:30.860 Right?

00:56:31.180 Like I'm going to try my legitimate best to not violate any terms of service.

00:56:37.600 So if I do it, I mean, you know, that's going to highlight a problem.

00:56:43.160 Because I feel as if some people maybe do it intentionally.

00:56:46.640 Right?

00:56:47.560 Don't you feel like some people are seeing where they can push the line?

00:56:51.400 And if they get banned, that's sort of a different situation than somebody who's trying to follow the rules.

00:56:57.780 I'm trying to follow the rules.

00:57:01.740 Thanks, Trey.

00:57:03.240 All right.

00:57:03.980 And that's all I got for now.

00:57:05.080 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 09, 2021

Episode 1401 Scott Adams： Warm Apple Pie and Sunshine Are the Decoy Topics of the Day

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