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00:00:00.000and it's the best time of the day coming to you live from YouTube and from
00:00:06.840locals I'm gonna be taking some questions a little bit later because
00:00:10.680it's a slow news day and I'll be taking questions from the locals people give
00:00:16.520them a little advantage for being on the subscription platform I opened it up
00:00:21.400today so if you're if you wanted to check it out you would not be behind the
00:00:25.320paywall just for today testing the live-streaming hey would you like to
00:00:31.200enjoy the 4th of July more than you've ever enjoyed it before all it would
00:00:37.200require is the simultaneous sip and all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of
00:00:40.720tank or chalice style the canteen jar a flask a vessel of any kind fill with your
00:00:45.900favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the
00:00:53.240dopamine here today the thing that makes the 4th of July extra extra special
00:00:59.280yeah it's called the simultaneous sip but it's gonna happen now all around the
00:01:03.200world go now if you were thinking to yourself I'd like to take a nine-mile run
00:01:14.360but I can't do it until the simultaneous sip well time to start running because you
00:01:21.660just had the simultaneous sip I got a suggestion from a user I thought it was
00:01:28.100quite good because I'm wearing two lapel mics I was doing one of the other but I
00:01:34.040I think I like the nipple look so on my left nipple we have the locals listeners on my
00:01:41.080right nipple YouTube that's called fair so before I take questions from the locals
00:01:50.960people and maybe some from the YouTube crowd as well how does it feel how does it
00:01:59.660feel now I'm talking mostly to Americans when I ask that question but the rest of
00:02:05.980you feel free to join in as you know today is one of our sacred American holidays
00:02:12.920freedom day independence day and I've been saying for quite many months that for me July 4th would be
00:02:23.660my personal independence day our mics in you said the volume is low on YouTube well that is not the case the volume is perfect on YouTube just check it make sure I'm actually plugged in before I say that yes I'm plugged in and so the volume is low
00:02:30.660some say the sound is fine okay so it's just the trolls apparently that's a normal troll thing to come in and say the volume is low
00:02:37.660I'm actually plugged in and so the volume is low and some say the sound is fine okay so it's just the trolls
00:02:49.660So the volume is low. Some say the sound is fine. Okay, so it's just the trolls. Apparently
00:02:57.440that's a normal troll thing to come in and say the volume is low, just to ruin the livecast.
00:03:03.420But sometimes it actually is. So it's a really good troll. But I'm going to ignore all the
00:03:08.000rest of the volume stuff, okay? So everybody who's saying stuff on volume, don't bother.
00:03:14.080I'm not going to look at it from now on. I really am going to just turn this off if you
00:03:23.360don't stop. All right. I feel better than I have felt in a long time. Because I do think
00:03:33.360at least in the United States we got through this pandemic. And it was, I don't know about
00:03:40.600the rest of you, but by far the worst year I've had in decades. Maybe my 20s weren't
00:03:46.320so hot. But I think I might turn off the comments. Is there a way to turn off the comments? Let's
00:03:54.020see. All right. I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. So I may have turned off
00:04:07.780the comments on YouTube because that didn't work. Screw it. Well, anyway, it's Independence Day and
00:04:17.160we're feeling really good here in the United States. I hope you are, those of you who are here,
00:04:22.380because we did something quite remarkable, this whole vaccination thing. I know you're not all fans
00:04:28.960of it, but there's no doubt that it made a difference at this point. And I was trying to
00:04:35.840hide the comments. I don't see the way to do that. Hide all chat messages. There we go. Oh,
00:04:42.960there we go. So if you want to, if you want to chat, go over to locals, locals, scottadams.locals.com.
00:04:52.100You should find it. All right. So 67% of Americans got at least one dose. CNN is reporting that as
00:05:03.560Biden falling short of his target of 70%. Does that seem fair to you? Does it seem fair to you that
00:05:12.060Biden had this target of 70% of Americans getting at least one dose by the holiday, but he only got
00:05:20.04067%. Does it feel to you like you should report that as a failure? You know, I'm not the one who's
00:05:30.460Mr. Pro-Biden. But let's see. I have a little problem with this interface too. Well, at the same
00:05:44.980time, I had the messages for YouTube. The messages on locals stopped working. All right. So I got a bug
00:05:53.580there where the jump to recent messages is not working. Wow. Almost everything's not working
00:06:01.400today. Do you ever have one of those days when literally nothing works? Apparently, I'm waking
00:06:07.960up to that this morning. So 67% seems pretty good to me. If I were CNN, who is supportive of Biden in
00:06:17.500general, I would report this as success. If Trump had said he would get 70% of people vaccinated
00:06:25.320by today, and he had 67%, I wouldn't call that falling short. Not really. I mean, that's pretty
00:06:34.740darn good. And one of the things that people forget is that these goals are almost always random.
00:06:40.380Right? When Biden said 70%, what was that based on? It wasn't based on anything. So my guess is that
00:06:50.360a lot of people did great work and got it to 67%. And that's pretty darn good. So I would call it a
00:06:57.300success for Biden. I'm sure Trump would have succeeded as well. So it's not like the biggest success, but
00:07:03.180it's a success. We should be happy about it. Here's a big development that's just kind of weird.
00:07:11.560So Christopher Ruffo, who some of you know, has been taking a prominent role in railing against
00:07:19.060schools teaching critical race theory. The idea being that the teaching itself is just a different
00:07:26.040form of racism. Nothing against the idea of informing students about our history. No problem with telling
00:07:33.940people the honest history. It's just the way that it's taught seems to be just another kind of racism and
00:07:39.980not making things better. So the criticism is that. And one of the biggest pushbacks had been that, you know
00:07:51.140what, I'm going to have to fix this technical problem, because when I can't see comments, it is just no fun at all.
00:07:58.580Oh, there we go. All right. That was a user error. So there's nothing wrong with the locals platform. Boom.
00:08:06.180All right. I guess I was frozen, but now I'm back. Good. Okay. So one of the big pushbacks was that critical race
00:08:16.540theory was, in fact, not being taught in schools. So we had all these people saying, hey, why are you
00:08:22.600teaching critical race theory in schools? And the biggest pushback was, that's not happening.
00:08:29.480Nobody's doing that. Why are you complaining about something you're just imagining? There's no critical
00:08:34.360race theory being taught in schools. Well, the biggest teachers union, the NEA, represents 3 million public
00:08:43.100school employees in all 50 states. They have a 350 million dollar annual budget, an army of operatives.
00:08:51.260I'm just reading from Christopher Ruffo's tweet. And 14 operatives in 14,000 local communities.
00:09:00.140And they've just declared war on parents, according to Christopher, who oppose critical race theory.
00:09:07.180So they've made it, apparently their number one objective is to teach critical race theory and also
00:09:15.340to push back against parents who are opposed to it. So that's your teachers union. Now, here's what's
00:09:23.340ironic about this. What's ironic is that the teachers unions are the biggest source of systemic racism.
00:09:32.380So their entire number one priority is to shift blame from themselves as unambiguously the biggest
00:09:45.100source of ongoing systemic racism. Because if you were to fix the schools such that anybody could get
00:09:53.100a good education, let's say you had school choice and then competition would improve things like it
00:09:58.460always does. If you didn't have these teachers unions blocking school choice, which is what they do,
00:10:05.820it's one of their biggest effects. If they didn't block school choice, we would already have
00:10:11.420the ability to improve and, you know, the market forces would allow people to take their funding with
00:10:17.740them to whatever school they wanted instead of funding the school without the kid. And by now,
00:10:23.500everybody who was born in a bad situation would at least have a good base education or at least the
00:10:31.580opportunity for one. And if everybody got a good base education, what would happen to systemic racism
00:10:39.260would still be here in every bit as much as before. If the only thing you did was change the schools,
00:10:45.740just the schools would be better. But that's most of the problem. If everybody got a good education,
00:10:54.460all of the other systemic racism would end up being almost trivial. Well, you know, a great annoyance
00:11:01.420in life, let's say. But it wouldn't stop you from succeeding. If you're a black American with a good
00:11:06.860education, you're fine. Just like everybody else in America, if you got a good education in something
00:11:14.220useful, some kind of useful thing, doesn't have to be college, could be a trade. But if you've got
00:11:20.300some useful skill, you're fine in America. So that would be the single biggest thing that anybody could
00:11:26.700do to fix systemic racism is to fix education. And the number one biggest problem, the teachers' unions,
00:11:36.620is now fighting parents who want to stop this, stop critical race theory. And they've become the
00:11:43.420biggest example of their own problem. It's just weird. They are the problem, and they're presenting
00:11:53.100themselves as the solution to it, while being obviously the problem. Weirder still, I was reading
00:12:02.140the Daily Mail, a British publication. And they often cover American news, almost like it's local.
00:12:09.980So if you don't read the Daily Mail, it's very Americanized, but it's a British publication.
00:12:16.460And they have a story about a major teachers' union wanting to teach critical race theory. And I
00:12:25.180thought it was this story. But I think an identical thing is happening at the same time in Great Britain,
00:12:31.260where the teachers' union wants to teach more about colonization and colonialism and
00:12:39.100and the bad history of racism in Great Britain. So it's happening everywhere. And anybody who thought
00:12:45.500that critical race theory was not really being taught in schools, well, joke's on you, because it is.
00:12:52.940All right. I've got the comments off on YouTube, because you could only complain about the volume over
00:13:00.460there. So I'm going to take some questions on the Locals platform. And, oh, Australia too. Somebody's
00:13:11.900saying that Australia is having the same situation with critical race theory. And it's really,
00:13:19.260it's tough to push back about it on it, because you'll just be accused of being a racist.
00:13:23.340So there's all, there's sort of no way to win on this, is there?
00:13:29.260How many of you had any kind of, any kind of plans today? So we've got a little bit of plans,
00:13:39.820some people coming over. And we're all vaccinated, so we're all safe.
00:13:44.140Is a call-in function for Locals getting worked on? Well, you know, I, the way to do that is to put
00:13:53.500it through a mixing board and just take the calls from a separate phone. So I could do that with the
00:13:59.420right equipment, but I haven't figured out how yet. All right. Yeah, well, we do know that pausing
00:14:09.180the live stream on Locals would be a big thing. All right. Those of you on YouTube, I, I've hidden
00:14:16.060the chat, so I can't see your comments just for today. Fireworks sales banned in Oregon. So you're
00:14:25.100going to the rodeo. Okay. Well, I don't see many questions today. Everybody seems to be in a festive mood.
00:14:30.300Heading to Cape Cod. Great. Which, which cartoonist did you admire growing up? Well, I tried to model
00:14:43.740my life after Charles Schultz. I remember when I was probably six years old, I saw an article,
00:14:49.500I think it was in Life Magazine or Time or something. And it was sort of a story about this
00:14:54.540famous cartoonist called Charles Schultz. And interestingly, being that he was an old white
00:15:01.420guy and I was a young white guy, I said to myself, that looks like me when I'm older.
00:15:07.820It actually looked like my future. And I set my sights on being a famous cartoonist.
00:15:14.780When I was about 11 years old, I gave up on it because I realized at about that time there was
00:15:20.780only one Charles Schultz and there were billions of people in the world. And I thought, well, what
00:15:26.140are my odds? So for a while I thought I would play the odds and become a lawyer or businessman or
00:15:32.220something like that. But eventually when that stuff didn't work out, did I watch the Trump rally
00:15:40.940yesterday? I did not. Where, where are they even being broadcast? So I don't think they broadcast them
00:15:48.380on Fox anymore, do they? Or do they? Oh, just on Rumble. Okay.
00:15:55.100Wow, a lot of comments coming through. So anybody on, if you want to see the comments,
00:16:00.620they're at scottadams.locals.com. So I've opened up the subscription service just for this.
00:16:09.420All right. Will Jeff Zucker be held accountable? For what? I doubt it.
00:16:13.820Am I related to John Adams, the president? Not descended from, but I've chased my family tree
00:16:25.500back to Great Britain, surprise, with the last name of Adams. So we might, we might have been related
00:16:31.340at some point. All right. Might have been a cousin or something.
00:16:41.340Any future interviews? Well, I took a break from doing interviews, so I'm not sure how long that will
00:16:47.660last. I felt that I was doing lots and lots of interviews and wasn't getting my own work done.
00:16:54.060So I took a little pause from there. How can you keep up the news without polluting your mind?
00:17:02.060Well, watching this, this live stream is part of it. Because, you know, you can take a lot of
00:17:08.060different approaches to the news. You can take a pessimist or an optimist view. I try to take more of an
00:17:13.980optimist view. So far, the optimist view has worked out. I'm still pumping at the gym. I did rejoin my gym.
00:17:24.060So let me give you a little update on my gym. I won't always say the name of it because I don't
00:17:31.020want to get them in trouble. But they have very strict rules about wiping down your equipment after
00:17:37.260you're done. Now, do you know how many pieces of equipment I touch during a single workout in the
00:17:43.020gym? All I do is go from one machine to another machine. I go to the free weights, and I'll do this
00:17:49.420weight for a while, and then I'll do another exercise with another weight. So I'm just
00:17:53.980touching stuff the whole time. And the rule is that you've got to wipe it all down.
00:17:59.340So you have to walk over to a separate table, get your materials and your rags and stuff,
00:18:03.900and come back and wipe it down, and then take it back to the table, and then go to your next thing.