Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 12, 2021


Episode 1434 Scott Adams： The Persuasion Filter on the Headlines, And Coffee Too


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

141.46056

Word Count

6,743

Sentence Count

363

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

15


Summary

After the assassination of the president of Haiti, the CIA hired a team of mercenaries to try to take over the country. Could they do it? And why did they hire a doctor to carry out the coup? And who are these mercenaries?


Transcript

00:00:00.500 Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma.
00:00:04.000 Hey, everybody.
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00:00:55.740 Ah.
00:00:58.600 Ah.
00:01:00.000 Well, if you were on the local's subscription service,
00:01:06.620 you would already be seeing a micro-lesson on varying your voice,
00:01:11.120 as I'm doing right now for presentations.
00:01:15.040 And it would be streaming without any commercials,
00:01:18.260 which you could also get on YouTube, by the way,
00:01:20.180 if you're a subscriber on either one.
00:01:22.940 Hey, Rasmussen did a poll
00:01:24.820 in which they found that because of all the athletes
00:01:29.160 who are likely to make political protests there,
00:01:32.040 you know they're going to try it.
00:01:33.520 34% of the people polled by Rasmussen said
00:01:37.860 they are less likely to watch the Olympics
00:01:41.100 because of the athlete protests.
00:01:42.780 34%, that's a lot.
00:01:46.400 15% said they're more likely.
00:01:49.160 So the protests would make them more likely to watch.
00:01:51.840 I feel like I'm in that category
00:01:55.720 because I can't think of any reason
00:01:59.060 to watch the Olympics
00:02:00.100 unless there's a political protest,
00:02:04.200 in which case, now you have my interest.
00:02:06.700 I'd like to see somebody raise a fist,
00:02:09.320 get down on a knee,
00:02:10.860 make everybody angry.
00:02:11.940 But the weird thing about the Olympics is
00:02:16.300 the Olympics is not like a regular sporting event.
00:02:20.080 You know, the whole point is to represent your country.
00:02:22.920 So if you get that part wrong,
00:02:25.740 the representing your country part,
00:02:28.160 what the hell are you at the Olympics for?
00:02:30.580 Or more to the point,
00:02:31.760 why do we even have Olympics?
00:02:33.880 Olympics are a ridiculous concept.
00:02:36.620 It's a bunch of ridiculous competitions
00:02:39.040 for a ridiculous concept
00:02:40.800 or a ridiculous event.
00:02:44.280 But I guess people like it.
00:02:46.220 So if people like it,
00:02:48.360 it's okay with me.
00:02:49.480 It's a free country.
00:02:51.860 Ish.
00:02:53.540 Hey, what's going on in Haiti
00:02:55.260 and Cuba?
00:02:58.540 Let me ask you this.
00:03:00.480 When you heard that the president of Haiti
00:03:03.880 had been assassinated by a team of mercenaries,
00:03:07.240 and then you heard
00:03:09.380 that the alleged ringleader
00:03:11.820 of the mercenaries
00:03:12.780 was a doctor
00:03:14.740 who spends a lot of time in Florida,
00:03:17.920 did you say to yourself,
00:03:20.320 well, that looks like a legitimate story,
00:03:23.000 and we know everything we need to know
00:03:24.860 about that story.
00:03:26.180 There's a doctor.
00:03:27.240 He got some mercenaries,
00:03:28.520 and they killed the president.
00:03:31.020 They were trying to kidnap him, I guess.
00:03:32.540 And the doctor was going to try
00:03:35.440 to take power in Haiti.
00:03:37.980 Because why not?
00:03:38.920 He's a doctor who can hire some mercenaries,
00:03:41.080 so I guess that's good enough
00:03:42.440 to be the president of Haiti.
00:03:44.180 Now, keep in mind
00:03:45.180 that the president of Haiti
00:03:46.760 apparently had turned into
00:03:48.720 a bit of a dictator,
00:03:50.520 and also that it's the only country,
00:03:53.260 I think, with zero vaccinations.
00:03:56.220 So there's some issues with Haiti, right?
00:03:58.860 But is there anybody who thinks
00:04:02.220 the CIA is not behind it?
00:04:05.340 Now, I get that this doctor
00:04:07.920 allegedly contacted
00:04:10.180 some Venezuelan mercenaries,
00:04:16.140 but how many doctors
00:04:17.440 can organize a coup
00:04:19.420 without a little bit of help?
00:04:21.700 Could you do that?
00:04:23.560 If you wanted to organize a coup,
00:04:26.420 could you put in the phone call
00:04:28.800 and do the meetings
00:04:30.620 and plan it up
00:04:31.840 and make sure you had
00:04:33.160 all the transportation
00:04:34.200 and the way to pay people
00:04:35.780 and you got the right people
00:04:37.780 and all that?
00:04:39.860 I feel that a doctor
00:04:43.440 probably couldn't pull that off.
00:04:46.800 Here's a little back story.
00:04:48.460 I used to work for a big bank,
00:04:55.200 and part of my job
00:04:56.140 for a little while
00:04:57.060 was approving business loans
00:04:59.660 to doctors specifically.
00:05:02.420 And what we learned
00:05:03.740 is that doctors
00:05:04.980 were really bad at business.
00:05:07.620 They often were great at doctoring,
00:05:09.400 but they weren't good
00:05:10.020 at paying off their loans
00:05:11.200 and they weren't good
00:05:11.880 at opening a business
00:05:12.900 and having a private practice.
00:05:15.140 It just was a different skill set.
00:05:16.880 So they were people
00:05:19.300 who should have been
00:05:20.100 good customers
00:05:20.860 because they make a lot of money,
00:05:22.380 so that's who you want
00:05:23.220 to give a loan to,
00:05:24.280 but they were unusually bad
00:05:26.100 at paying back loans.
00:05:27.600 That's why there was
00:05:28.260 a special department
00:05:29.200 to handle them.
00:05:30.800 Now, what are the odds
00:05:31.840 that this doctor
00:05:34.200 was able to pull off
00:05:37.200 a coup attempt?
00:05:38.640 Got pretty close.
00:05:40.180 You'd have to say
00:05:41.180 that got the mercenaries there,
00:05:43.920 got them all the way
00:05:44.900 in the presidential palace.
00:05:46.720 Didn't work out
00:05:47.360 the way he planned
00:05:48.140 in terms of keeping
00:05:50.320 the president alive, I guess.
00:05:52.640 But don't you think
00:05:53.980 he got a little help?
00:05:55.560 A little bit of help?
00:05:57.140 Is there any chance
00:05:58.220 that this wasn't
00:05:59.440 at least partly organized
00:06:00.920 by American assets?
00:06:04.320 Do you think?
00:06:05.960 Now, I have no evidence,
00:06:08.580 no information whatsoever
00:06:10.280 to suggest that
00:06:11.660 American intelligence agencies
00:06:13.860 were involved in this
00:06:14.800 in any way whatsoever.
00:06:16.480 There's no evidence of that.
00:06:19.660 But we do have a history.
00:06:22.020 We do have a history
00:06:23.460 of overthrowing dictators
00:06:25.000 in our part of the world.
00:06:27.760 Now, on social media,
00:06:30.500 it was asked,
00:06:31.500 why would we do that?
00:06:33.400 What would possibly be
00:06:34.960 the incentive
00:06:35.720 to overthrow a dictator
00:06:38.180 in our part of the world?
00:06:40.860 And I think
00:06:41.960 the simple answer is
00:06:43.520 we would do it
00:06:44.340 any time we could.
00:06:46.680 Historically,
00:06:47.640 whenever we could
00:06:48.480 get rid of a dictator
00:06:49.480 and put in somebody
00:06:51.160 who's maybe going to be
00:06:52.700 more friendly
00:06:53.480 to our interests,
00:06:54.440 we'd do it.
00:06:56.140 Unfortunately.
00:06:57.340 Unfortunately,
00:06:57.820 we'd do it.
00:06:58.660 Or fortunately,
00:06:59.400 depending on your point of view.
00:07:00.880 The other possibility
00:07:01.760 is that some other country
00:07:03.000 was getting a foothold.
00:07:04.640 A foothold in the sense of
00:07:07.900 could you imagine
00:07:09.220 that maybe China
00:07:11.320 was helping out
00:07:12.100 the president of Haiti?
00:07:13.760 I don't know that that's...
00:07:15.040 I have no evidence of that.
00:07:16.660 But you could imagine
00:07:17.500 some, you know,
00:07:19.000 adversary country
00:07:20.060 was getting a little bit
00:07:21.160 aggressive there.
00:07:22.780 Maybe.
00:07:24.380 I'm seeing in the comments
00:07:25.820 over on Locals
00:07:26.680 people saying
00:07:27.480 that they have
00:07:28.600 unexploited natural gas
00:07:31.020 and oil
00:07:32.260 or something like that.
00:07:33.920 Could be.
00:07:35.460 That would certainly
00:07:36.560 get the interest
00:07:37.320 of our CIA.
00:07:40.120 We would want to make sure
00:07:41.280 the United States
00:07:42.020 has access
00:07:43.120 to as many resources
00:07:44.340 as possible.
00:07:45.980 Could have something
00:07:47.140 to do with vaccinations
00:07:48.300 being low.
00:07:50.080 Something like that.
00:07:51.600 Some of you are saying
00:07:52.600 it has to do
00:07:53.000 with the Clintons.
00:07:55.620 Can't rule out
00:07:56.420 on anything, can you?
00:07:57.420 But I don't have
00:07:58.200 any information
00:07:58.740 to think of that.
00:07:59.960 But my point is this.
00:08:02.160 Do we live in a world
00:08:03.120 in which you can't assume
00:08:04.400 this is...
00:08:05.400 that America
00:08:05.940 was behind this?
00:08:08.580 Now, what about Cuba?
00:08:12.560 I see a video
00:08:13.760 of the Cubans
00:08:14.960 chanting in English.
00:08:17.980 What?
00:08:19.060 And carrying an American flag
00:08:20.640 in at least one case.
00:08:22.460 They're chanting
00:08:23.480 English slogans
00:08:25.460 while they're marching
00:08:26.460 in Cuba?
00:08:27.700 Now, obviously,
00:08:28.720 it's for American
00:08:29.440 consumption.
00:08:30.780 How many people think
00:08:32.040 that the CIA
00:08:33.600 is not behind those,
00:08:35.400 the protests?
00:08:37.620 Don't you just assume
00:08:38.840 that they are?
00:08:40.420 Now, again,
00:08:41.420 I have zero evidence
00:08:42.940 of any kind of involvement
00:08:44.600 of the United States
00:08:45.860 in Cuba's
00:08:47.040 internal affairs.
00:08:49.500 But we have a history,
00:08:51.680 if you know what I mean.
00:08:52.940 it kind of seems to me
00:08:55.440 that this would be
00:08:56.180 exactly the time
00:08:57.400 that we might want
00:08:59.140 to give a little boost
00:09:00.360 to some local people
00:09:01.640 who want to
00:09:02.240 cause some trouble.
00:09:03.820 So I'm not going to
00:09:04.860 start any conspiracy theories
00:09:07.920 because these particular ones
00:09:09.820 are already out there.
00:09:11.100 Nor is there any evidence
00:09:12.780 that I'm aware of.
00:09:14.100 Right?
00:09:14.300 No evidence whatsoever.
00:09:15.300 But
00:09:16.340 don't you assume?
00:09:21.460 All right.
00:09:22.360 One of my favorite stories
00:09:23.700 in the news
00:09:24.260 is the ongoing battle
00:09:26.700 between CNN
00:09:27.800 and Fox News
00:09:28.840 and the various personalities,
00:09:30.900 and especially
00:09:31.780 Brian Stelter
00:09:32.700 versus Tucker Carlson.
00:09:34.820 So today on CNN's site,
00:09:38.560 Brian Stelter
00:09:39.220 and his,
00:09:40.340 what would you call him,
00:09:42.220 co-worker,
00:09:43.220 Oliver Darcy,
00:09:44.680 who also is a CNN personality,
00:09:48.400 they wrote an article
00:09:49.900 about what they allege
00:09:51.900 is that Tucker Carlson
00:09:53.440 is furious
00:09:54.080 with Fox News executives.
00:09:56.740 Allow me to read to you
00:09:58.080 what Brian Stelter
00:10:00.280 and Oliver Darcy
00:10:01.400 say about this.
00:10:02.180 They say in an article,
00:10:03.660 Tucker Carlson
00:10:05.360 is furious
00:10:06.160 with Fox News executives
00:10:08.040 for not vigorously
00:10:09.560 defending him
00:10:10.400 amid his
00:10:11.320 evidence-free claims.
00:10:12.760 What?
00:10:14.880 His evidence-free claims
00:10:16.900 that the National Security Agency
00:10:20.480 spied on him
00:10:21.260 in a conspiracy
00:10:22.040 to destroy his TV show,
00:10:24.420 according to people
00:10:25.220 familiar with the matter.
00:10:27.100 The whole point of it
00:10:28.140 is he had evidence.
00:10:30.700 CNN will just call
00:10:32.100 anything evidence-free
00:10:33.560 because they didn't
00:10:35.820 report on it.
00:10:37.660 But you could say
00:10:39.800 maybe the whistleblower
00:10:41.460 was lying.
00:10:42.940 You could say
00:10:44.060 maybe the whistleblower
00:10:46.340 doesn't exist
00:10:47.060 and he was just made up.
00:10:48.740 You could say
00:10:49.780 the whistleblower
00:10:51.200 was mistaken.
00:10:52.940 All possible.
00:10:54.660 But can you just
00:10:56.440 brush away the entire story
00:10:58.160 by saying it's evidence-free
00:10:59.720 when there's a host
00:11:01.820 of a major network
00:11:03.720 claiming that he has
00:11:05.460 the evidence?
00:11:05.920 evidence.
00:11:06.740 I don't believe
00:11:07.500 anybody's, you know,
00:11:09.560 been denied
00:11:10.380 looking at it,
00:11:11.380 have they?
00:11:13.280 Why do they call this
00:11:14.380 evidence-free?
00:11:15.820 All right.
00:11:18.480 One of the sources,
00:11:20.320 you know,
00:11:20.520 the anonymous sources,
00:11:22.300 those anonymous sources,
00:11:23.460 they've got some
00:11:24.260 really credible information,
00:11:25.940 those anonymous people.
00:11:27.380 But one of the sources
00:11:28.580 described Carlson
00:11:29.840 as, quote,
00:11:30.700 furious
00:11:31.300 with network executives,
00:11:33.440 especially the
00:11:34.180 public relations team,
00:11:36.220 quote,
00:11:36.940 for not backing him up.
00:11:39.100 Tensions are sky high,
00:11:40.560 the person said.
00:11:42.080 Another source
00:11:43.040 pointed out
00:11:43.520 that Carlson
00:11:44.080 has always had tension
00:11:45.800 with management,
00:11:47.100 but said right now
00:11:48.040 he's extra pissed.
00:11:50.060 So that's what CNN
00:11:51.100 is reporting
00:11:51.780 with their anonymous source.
00:11:54.160 By the way,
00:11:55.880 do you know what I call
00:11:56.880 an anonymous source?
00:11:59.320 No evidence whatsoever.
00:12:01.300 So here's CNN
00:12:03.000 shamelessly reporting
00:12:04.960 a story with
00:12:05.920 an anonymous source,
00:12:07.680 which is
00:12:08.280 no evidence whatsoever,
00:12:10.920 and complaining that
00:12:12.300 Tucker Carlson's
00:12:14.300 anonymous source,
00:12:15.720 the whistleblower,
00:12:17.120 is not evidence
00:12:18.180 while using
00:12:19.420 exactly the same standard
00:12:20.800 to present a news story.
00:12:23.360 Okay.
00:12:24.320 Okay.
00:12:27.900 Here,
00:12:29.100 but the best part
00:12:30.400 of the story is
00:12:31.120 and you have to read
00:12:31.760 a little bit further
00:12:32.480 to get to it,
00:12:33.820 is a response
00:12:35.300 from Tucker Carlson.
00:12:37.280 So in a text
00:12:38.300 to CNN reporter
00:12:39.300 Sunday night,
00:12:40.160 so this was not
00:12:40.940 a direct response
00:12:42.220 to Stelter,
00:12:43.140 but to another reporter,
00:12:44.820 I guess,
00:12:45.780 Carlson called the
00:12:46.680 allegation that he is
00:12:47.780 angry with Fox
00:12:48.820 executives,
00:12:49.860 quote,
00:12:50.280 absurd.
00:12:50.820 and Tucker
00:12:52.720 went on to say,
00:12:54.240 I'm not mad
00:12:54.900 at anyone
00:12:55.360 at Fox,
00:12:56.100 he said.
00:12:56.880 If I was,
00:12:57.980 I'd say so.
00:12:59.280 I'm mad at you
00:13:00.280 for lying relentlessly.
00:13:02.340 What a loathsome
00:13:03.260 person you are.
00:13:04.420 Please print that.
00:13:06.120 And then they did.
00:13:08.180 So they printed
00:13:09.280 the part
00:13:09.780 about the CNN
00:13:10.720 reporter
00:13:12.220 being a loathsome
00:13:13.400 person
00:13:13.840 for suggesting
00:13:14.620 this ridiculous story.
00:13:15.980 And what about
00:13:19.240 Tucker's denial?
00:13:21.440 Does it sound
00:13:22.140 credible?
00:13:23.920 Is it credible
00:13:25.020 that if Tucker Carlson
00:13:27.300 had a problem
00:13:27.960 with his executives
00:13:29.640 that,
00:13:31.080 like he says,
00:13:32.320 he would just
00:13:33.060 say so?
00:13:34.560 Do you believe
00:13:35.340 that?
00:13:36.400 Do you believe
00:13:37.200 that Tucker Carlson
00:13:38.240 would say out loud
00:13:39.620 on his TV show
00:13:40.720 that the people
00:13:42.020 paying his salary
00:13:43.540 were making
00:13:45.460 a big mistake
00:13:46.280 if he believed
00:13:47.200 that were the case?
00:13:49.260 Yeah.
00:13:50.140 Yeah.
00:13:50.900 I totally believe that.
00:13:52.440 It's actually
00:13:52.920 a really good response
00:13:54.800 because one of the things
00:13:56.640 about Tucker Carlson
00:13:58.000 is that whether
00:13:59.480 he's,
00:14:00.180 you know,
00:14:00.520 right or wrong
00:14:01.360 on any given story,
00:14:02.660 and we know
00:14:03.180 everybody in that business
00:14:04.220 is going to have
00:14:04.800 some,
00:14:05.200 you know,
00:14:06.260 mishits.
00:14:06.920 That's just built
00:14:07.520 into the model,
00:14:08.220 right?
00:14:08.740 But whether he's
00:14:09.460 right or wrong
00:14:09.980 on any particular story,
00:14:12.640 don't you trust
00:14:13.940 that if the executives
00:14:15.880 of Fox News
00:14:16.880 were screwing him,
00:14:19.600 he'd tell you.
00:14:21.660 Don't you think?
00:14:23.100 Like,
00:14:23.520 I don't have any doubt
00:14:24.360 that he would tell us that,
00:14:25.880 even at the risk
00:14:26.820 of,
00:14:27.180 you know,
00:14:27.440 his paycheck.
00:14:29.780 I feel like he would.
00:14:31.960 And I feel like
00:14:33.040 you couldn't say that
00:14:33.900 about just about everybody,
00:14:35.420 right?
00:14:36.480 You know,
00:14:36.880 how many people
00:14:37.600 could you say that
00:14:38.440 you'd have some confidence
00:14:40.020 that they would throw
00:14:40.940 their own
00:14:41.580 paycheck-signing
00:14:43.320 boss under the bus
00:14:44.800 if it were
00:14:46.400 the right thing to do?
00:14:48.340 I think he could.
00:14:50.700 And,
00:14:51.240 you know,
00:14:51.860 he has also the luxury
00:14:53.380 that I don't think
00:14:54.280 he would be out of work,
00:14:55.420 right?
00:14:56.220 I mean,
00:14:56.540 he could always find
00:14:57.140 something,
00:14:57.660 even if it's not at Fox.
00:14:59.640 Well,
00:15:00.080 here's another example
00:15:00.900 of the dog not barking.
00:15:03.540 Every once in a while
00:15:04.480 there's a story
00:15:05.360 that confirms
00:15:06.700 all your worst
00:15:07.680 suspicions
00:15:08.700 about reality
00:15:09.620 and especially
00:15:10.980 about the government.
00:15:12.800 You know,
00:15:13.140 all those
00:15:13.620 conspiracy theories
00:15:15.060 and those suspicions
00:15:16.280 you have
00:15:16.660 about your government?
00:15:18.560 Well,
00:15:18.920 as Matt Taibbi
00:15:20.280 tweets,
00:15:22.400 imagine if the
00:15:23.600 Fuhrer,
00:15:24.080 imagine the Fuhrer
00:15:25.240 if Donald Trump Jr.
00:15:27.220 held an auction
00:15:28.100 where he sold
00:15:28.840 paintings for
00:15:29.760 between $75,000
00:15:31.260 and half a million
00:15:32.100 apiece
00:15:32.620 and the buyers
00:15:33.920 were allowed
00:15:34.540 to remain anonymous.
00:15:35.540 good point,
00:15:40.100 right?
00:15:40.800 Now,
00:15:41.080 remember,
00:15:41.460 Matt Taibbi
00:15:42.080 is not a
00:15:42.760 right-leaning
00:15:43.500 observer.
00:15:45.600 He is one of those
00:15:46.520 rare people
00:15:47.140 who can take a side
00:15:48.440 wherever it makes sense.
00:15:50.120 So,
00:15:50.240 you never know
00:15:51.680 which side
00:15:52.020 he's going to take
00:15:52.660 because he's just
00:15:53.660 following
00:15:54.100 what common sense
00:15:56.180 and data
00:15:56.740 should be
00:15:58.040 leading you,
00:15:59.260 where it should
00:15:59.760 be leading you.
00:16:00.320 But this is
00:16:01.780 the sort of
00:16:02.280 story
00:16:02.680 that
00:16:05.500 confirms
00:16:06.940 everything you
00:16:07.920 thought
00:16:08.400 about
00:16:09.700 the public
00:16:10.960 being
00:16:11.460 manipulated
00:16:12.480 and that
00:16:13.940 your news
00:16:14.420 is nothing
00:16:14.860 but propaganda
00:16:15.740 because
00:16:17.240 there is
00:16:18.040 no chance,
00:16:18.800 as Matt Taibbi
00:16:19.800 points out,
00:16:20.380 there's no chance
00:16:21.080 this wouldn't be
00:16:21.660 the biggest story
00:16:22.420 in the world
00:16:22.960 if Don Jr.
00:16:25.200 were doing
00:16:25.600 exactly what
00:16:26.400 Hunter Biden
00:16:26.900 were doing.
00:16:27.600 Does anybody
00:16:28.240 doubt that
00:16:28.940 that statement
00:16:30.280 is there
00:16:31.500 the slightest
00:16:32.120 chance
00:16:32.740 that if Don Jr.
00:16:34.460 were doing
00:16:34.780 this painting
00:16:35.960 situation
00:16:36.780 that it
00:16:38.240 that it
00:16:39.320 wouldn't be
00:16:39.660 gigantic?
00:16:41.360 And by the way,
00:16:43.660 if
00:16:44.020 if Don Jr.
00:16:48.120 decided to make
00:16:48.920 some really bad
00:16:49.760 paintings,
00:16:51.120 like paintings
00:16:52.040 that look like
00:16:52.620 a monkey did it,
00:16:53.660 you know,
00:16:53.920 a drunken monkey,
00:16:55.000 and then put them
00:16:55.920 up for sale
00:16:56.600 for half a million
00:16:57.920 dollars a piece,
00:16:58.940 and also
00:17:00.180 say that he
00:17:01.520 won't tell
00:17:01.920 the public
00:17:02.340 who bought
00:17:02.800 them?
00:17:06.300 Wouldn't that
00:17:06.900 be funny?
00:17:08.020 Now,
00:17:08.480 I assume
00:17:09.180 that Don Jr.
00:17:10.020 doesn't have
00:17:10.500 any artistic
00:17:11.320 ambitions,
00:17:12.600 but that's
00:17:13.140 what would
00:17:13.460 make it funny,
00:17:14.740 that he would
00:17:15.160 actually do
00:17:15.640 some paintings,
00:17:16.300 like literally,
00:17:17.180 you know,
00:17:17.440 take the brush
00:17:18.160 and the actual
00:17:18.740 painting,
00:17:19.700 and actually
00:17:20.120 make a painting,
00:17:21.340 but it would
00:17:21.960 look like hell,
00:17:23.240 because he's
00:17:24.020 not an artist.
00:17:24.740 I'm just guessing
00:17:25.400 he's not an artist.
00:17:26.280 Maybe he is,
00:17:26.780 who knows?
00:17:27.600 Maybe he has
00:17:28.180 that talent,
00:17:29.140 but let's say
00:17:29.800 he doesn't,
00:17:30.300 because it's
00:17:30.640 funnier,
00:17:31.520 and just do
00:17:32.040 a total mess
00:17:34.540 of a painting,
00:17:35.860 and just put
00:17:36.520 it up for sale
00:17:37.060 for half a million
00:17:37.800 dollars,
00:17:38.980 and say that
00:17:40.320 he won't reveal
00:17:41.000 who the buyer
00:17:41.500 is,
00:17:42.400 and just see
00:17:44.080 what happens,
00:17:45.260 just for fun,
00:17:46.980 right?
00:17:47.600 Now,
00:17:48.040 of course,
00:17:48.300 it doesn't mean
00:17:48.840 as much because
00:17:49.740 his father's
00:17:52.260 not in power
00:17:52.800 at the moment,
00:17:53.920 but he might
00:17:55.380 be,
00:17:56.460 right?
00:17:57.800 His father
00:17:58.500 has a lot
00:17:59.020 of power,
00:17:59.720 even if it's
00:18:01.100 persuasion,
00:18:02.420 so that would
00:18:03.540 be fun.
00:18:05.500 All right,
00:18:05.940 how many of you
00:18:07.460 watched Trump's
00:18:08.580 speech,
00:18:09.600 or saw any
00:18:10.800 clips at CPAC?
00:18:13.540 Did you have
00:18:14.340 the same impression
00:18:15.500 I did,
00:18:16.920 which,
00:18:17.540 the moment you
00:18:18.180 turned on Trump,
00:18:19.120 you were
00:18:21.580 interested again?
00:18:24.220 That guy
00:18:25.100 is so
00:18:26.240 freaking good
00:18:28.460 at making you
00:18:30.360 interested in
00:18:31.180 what he's saying,
00:18:32.280 it's just crazy,
00:18:33.880 and you can get
00:18:34.740 a little bit used
00:18:35.440 to it when he's
00:18:36.080 in power,
00:18:36.660 and you're seeing
00:18:37.080 him all the time.
00:18:38.340 You know,
00:18:38.600 you become accustomed
00:18:39.900 to how good he is
00:18:41.100 at what I call
00:18:42.540 the show,
00:18:43.620 you know,
00:18:43.920 the part where
00:18:44.680 you make everybody
00:18:45.620 pay attention to you.
00:18:47.240 He is crazy good,
00:18:49.120 and you forget,
00:18:51.360 because he was
00:18:52.260 out of the limelight
00:18:53.080 for a little bit,
00:18:54.120 but as soon as
00:18:55.020 you see him again,
00:18:55.880 wow,
00:18:56.640 and there's nobody
00:18:57.880 in the public realm
00:18:58.900 who's even close,
00:19:00.220 wouldn't you say?
00:19:01.600 In terms of being
00:19:02.640 able to hold
00:19:03.200 the attention
00:19:03.720 of an audience,
00:19:05.220 being provocative,
00:19:06.840 being memorable,
00:19:07.980 being quotable,
00:19:09.500 you know,
00:19:09.700 people want to
00:19:10.320 pass the clips around,
00:19:12.400 who would be,
00:19:13.720 name the second
00:19:14.660 best person
00:19:15.340 in the world,
00:19:16.700 or let's say
00:19:17.320 just United States
00:19:18.340 politics,
00:19:19.120 so limit it
00:19:20.000 to United States
00:19:20.700 politics.
00:19:21.820 Name the second
00:19:22.620 best person
00:19:23.540 who is a politician.
00:19:26.640 Yeah,
00:19:26.880 I'm seeing you
00:19:27.440 talk about media
00:19:28.180 people,
00:19:28.760 Candace Owens,
00:19:29.680 et cetera,
00:19:30.720 but name a politician
00:19:33.060 who can even
00:19:33.760 come close to that.
00:19:35.940 DeSantis,
00:19:36.660 now,
00:19:37.580 DeSantis is really
00:19:38.760 competent,
00:19:41.000 and a president,
00:19:42.260 DeSantis,
00:19:42.840 is not a bad idea
00:19:43.800 at all,
00:19:44.180 but he's closer
00:19:46.680 to Biden
00:19:47.200 in terms of his
00:19:48.140 holding your
00:19:49.740 attention.
00:19:50.920 Rand Paul
00:19:51.560 is good,
00:19:52.640 but no,
00:19:53.120 he's not in
00:19:53.700 Trump's category.
00:19:56.480 Trey Gowdy
00:19:57.340 is great,
00:19:58.600 but he's not
00:19:59.980 really running
00:20:00.520 for anything.
00:20:02.260 Senator Kennedy,
00:20:03.200 he is really
00:20:04.140 fun to watch,
00:20:04.920 that's true,
00:20:05.380 he's very
00:20:06.700 quotable,
00:20:08.060 but not going
00:20:09.060 to run for
00:20:09.420 president.
00:20:09.780 Matt Gaetz,
00:20:11.280 somebody's saying.
00:20:13.140 Matt Gaetz
00:20:13.860 definitely has
00:20:16.860 a lot of
00:20:17.260 those talents.
00:20:18.560 Yeah,
00:20:18.900 he's not
00:20:19.440 Trump level,
00:20:22.020 but that's
00:20:23.060 about as close
00:20:24.680 as you can get,
00:20:25.380 I guess.
00:20:25.800 Maxine Waters,
00:20:28.160 yeah,
00:20:28.540 that's not a bad,
00:20:30.880 yeah,
00:20:31.140 maybe AOC,
00:20:32.220 I don't know,
00:20:34.560 but we miss him
00:20:35.500 in terms of
00:20:36.780 the excitement
00:20:37.560 he brings.
00:20:38.860 There's an article
00:20:39.620 in the New York
00:20:40.100 Times by Michael
00:20:40.980 Scheer talking
00:20:41.580 about how
00:20:42.300 boring Biden
00:20:43.820 is,
00:20:44.260 and he even
00:20:44.640 admits he's
00:20:45.200 boring,
00:20:45.940 and even the
00:20:48.140 New York Times
00:20:48.740 I think is
00:20:49.380 going to start
00:20:49.840 to miss the
00:20:51.160 excitement a
00:20:52.040 little bit,
00:20:52.520 I think they
00:20:52.980 already are,
00:20:54.280 and I wanted
00:20:55.540 to point out
00:20:56.080 the one thing
00:20:56.720 that Biden
00:20:57.580 did well,
00:20:59.060 or almost
00:21:00.420 well,
00:21:01.520 because,
00:21:02.620 you know,
00:21:03.000 when I talked
00:21:03.680 about Trump,
00:21:04.320 I like to talk
00:21:04.900 about his
00:21:05.360 persuasion ability
00:21:06.520 separate from
00:21:07.280 whether his
00:21:07.860 policies were
00:21:08.680 ones you
00:21:09.240 like.
00:21:10.220 I'm going
00:21:10.600 to do the
00:21:10.940 same thing
00:21:11.400 with Biden.
00:21:12.660 Independent
00:21:13.020 of his
00:21:13.700 policies or
00:21:14.540 his competence
00:21:15.160 or whether
00:21:16.100 you want
00:21:16.500 him to be
00:21:16.900 president,
00:21:18.260 everybody made
00:21:19.200 fun of when
00:21:19.860 he went down
00:21:20.340 to the
00:21:20.640 whisper.
00:21:22.000 Remember
00:21:22.440 when he
00:21:22.800 was giving
00:21:23.160 the speech?
00:21:24.340 And when
00:21:24.580 it came
00:21:24.900 to an
00:21:25.180 important
00:21:25.480 part,
00:21:26.300 he whispered.
00:21:27.780 And everybody's
00:21:28.580 attention went
00:21:29.180 to the whisper,
00:21:29.940 and then people
00:21:30.380 said, oh,
00:21:30.900 that's kind
00:21:31.320 of creepy
00:21:31.760 and weird,
00:21:32.540 and it
00:21:33.200 became the
00:21:33.680 clip everybody
00:21:34.340 played,
00:21:34.840 right?
00:21:35.020 But from
00:21:36.820 a persuasion
00:21:37.980 point of
00:21:38.580 view,
00:21:39.820 it was
00:21:40.200 really good.
00:21:41.380 The problem
00:21:41.860 was I don't
00:21:42.620 think he
00:21:42.960 picked a
00:21:43.360 topic to
00:21:43.920 whisper about
00:21:44.680 that was
00:21:45.140 of much
00:21:45.520 interest.
00:21:46.700 If he had
00:21:47.460 used that
00:21:47.960 whisper on
00:21:48.560 something that
00:21:49.020 actually did
00:21:49.660 matter,
00:21:50.620 you know,
00:21:50.840 and really
00:21:51.420 could become
00:21:51.920 the clip
00:21:52.400 that everybody
00:21:52.900 listened to,
00:21:53.680 and he
00:21:54.360 didn't whisper
00:21:54.960 too long,
00:21:56.380 because I
00:21:56.720 think he
00:21:57.000 made that
00:21:57.360 mistake too.
00:21:58.540 But in
00:21:58.940 terms of
00:21:59.720 voice modulation,
00:22:01.120 I've got
00:22:02.500 a micro
00:22:03.720 lesson I
00:22:04.180 just put on
00:22:04.700 the locals
00:22:05.320 platform about
00:22:07.540 how to vary
00:22:08.480 your voice much
00:22:10.800 like Biden
00:22:11.280 did, and to
00:22:12.340 do it for
00:22:13.100 good effect
00:22:13.900 persuasion-wise.
00:22:15.780 Hey, here's
00:22:16.180 a cool thing
00:22:18.180 about the
00:22:18.620 future and
00:22:19.380 the golden
00:22:19.800 age, which
00:22:20.600 I think is
00:22:21.080 here.
00:22:24.360 Mashable,
00:22:24.980 which is a
00:22:25.400 good follow,
00:22:25.980 you should
00:22:26.260 follow Mashable
00:22:27.060 on Twitter.
00:22:28.840 They talk
00:22:29.460 about there's
00:22:30.280 water taxis,
00:22:32.380 there's a
00:22:32.700 company going
00:22:33.240 to do a
00:22:34.120 bunch of
00:22:34.520 water taxis
00:22:35.360 that will
00:22:35.680 operate like
00:22:36.420 Uber, but
00:22:37.960 on the
00:22:38.280 water.
00:22:39.200 So if you
00:22:39.660 live in a
00:22:40.200 coastal town,
00:22:41.400 there are
00:22:41.660 about 50
00:22:42.320 cities they
00:22:42.940 have targeted,
00:22:43.900 you'll be
00:22:44.280 able to use
00:22:44.660 your app and
00:22:45.560 call this
00:22:45.980 little electric
00:22:47.060 hydrofoil that
00:22:49.020 looks like a
00:22:49.500 little car on
00:22:50.200 the water, but
00:22:50.960 it's a hydrofoil,
00:22:52.300 meaning it lifts
00:22:53.060 up when it's
00:22:53.620 going so that
00:22:54.360 the only thing
00:22:54.840 in the water
00:22:55.320 is a smaller
00:22:56.720 foil, so it
00:22:57.980 has minimum
00:22:58.600 drag, and
00:23:02.360 it's already
00:23:03.060 being tested
00:23:05.240 and it's
00:23:05.760 being rolled
00:23:06.220 out, and
00:23:07.600 this is the
00:23:09.020 perfect place
00:23:10.040 for self-driving
00:23:10.800 cars, because
00:23:13.660 the water is
00:23:14.720 going to be a
00:23:15.200 lot easier to
00:23:16.280 have rules and
00:23:18.100 watch out for
00:23:18.800 traffic and
00:23:19.440 stuff, I
00:23:19.980 think.
00:23:20.720 Maybe it's
00:23:21.220 harder, but
00:23:22.060 it seems like
00:23:22.580 it would be
00:23:23.200 easier than
00:23:23.740 getting self-driving
00:23:24.580 cars on the
00:23:25.500 roads.
00:23:25.900 So, this
00:23:27.100 is a cool
00:23:27.480 thing to
00:23:27.800 watch for,
00:23:28.260 the water
00:23:28.660 taxis, a
00:23:29.820 real thing.
00:23:31.080 Meanwhile, over
00:23:32.480 in Tibet, they
00:23:33.660 just opened up a
00:23:34.640 new bullet train,
00:23:36.680 and I guess it's
00:23:38.120 from the town or
00:23:39.220 region of F-U-X-I-N-G,
00:23:45.300 Fuxing?
00:23:47.300 I think that's
00:23:48.260 how you pronounce
00:23:48.820 it.
00:23:49.060 So, it's called
00:23:49.500 the Fuxing
00:23:51.240 bullet train.
00:23:53.080 Now, I saw
00:23:54.360 some video of
00:23:55.040 the Fuxing
00:23:55.520 train, and
00:23:57.020 I'll tell you,
00:23:57.520 that's one
00:23:58.280 beautiful Fuxing
00:23:59.320 train.
00:24:02.260 Oh, you
00:24:02.940 think it's
00:24:03.340 pronounced Fuxing?
00:24:04.720 Well, that's
00:24:05.540 not funny.
00:24:07.420 I know you
00:24:08.280 think it's
00:24:08.680 pronounced Fuxing,
00:24:10.080 but how funny
00:24:10.840 would that be?
00:24:12.920 I guess this
00:24:13.820 joke works
00:24:14.340 better in
00:24:14.820 writing.
00:24:16.300 Well, that's
00:24:16.780 the Fuxing
00:24:17.460 bullet train
00:24:18.320 part of my
00:24:20.700 presentation.
00:24:21.860 Did you all
00:24:22.420 see Richard
00:24:23.140 Branson in
00:24:23.800 space?
00:24:25.040 I started
00:24:26.320 to complain
00:24:27.000 about him
00:24:27.600 because once
00:24:29.180 he was up
00:24:29.640 there, it
00:24:29.900 was pretty
00:24:30.220 inspiring,
00:24:30.940 actually, and
00:24:31.660 it was a lot
00:24:32.240 of fun, and
00:24:32.920 you know, Branson
00:24:33.460 always brings
00:24:34.040 the show, too.
00:24:35.880 He's a ballsy
00:24:37.380 entrepreneur.
00:24:38.720 He had an
00:24:40.720 aim of being
00:24:41.440 the first one
00:24:42.100 up there of
00:24:42.700 the billionaires.
00:24:43.880 He got it
00:24:44.620 done.
00:24:45.640 His technology
00:24:46.500 worked.
00:24:48.620 Congratulations,
00:24:49.680 Richard Branson.
00:24:50.280 So, again,
00:24:52.480 Branson is one
00:24:53.220 of the just
00:24:55.020 greatest assets
00:24:56.080 on the planet,
00:24:57.140 really.
00:24:58.260 Likewise, Bezos
00:24:59.400 and Elon Musk
00:25:00.780 and the rest
00:25:01.980 of them.
00:25:02.940 But he did
00:25:05.140 a little message
00:25:06.120 from space
00:25:06.860 once he was
00:25:07.460 up there,
00:25:08.060 and they were
00:25:09.340 all running
00:25:11.140 around inside
00:25:12.420 the aircraft
00:25:13.640 wait list,
00:25:15.020 which looked
00:25:15.560 pretty fun.
00:25:16.600 But he
00:25:17.560 started out
00:25:18.100 by saying
00:25:18.600 that when
00:25:19.020 he was a
00:25:19.360 little kid,
00:25:20.340 he had a
00:25:20.900 dream to
00:25:22.240 go to space,
00:25:23.160 and then here
00:25:23.980 he was, he
00:25:24.500 made it.
00:25:25.320 And I
00:25:25.600 thought to
00:25:25.900 myself, I
00:25:27.820 feel like that
00:25:28.420 was a rare
00:25:29.200 mistake from
00:25:31.320 Branson.
00:25:32.600 Now, I did
00:25:33.740 enjoy his
00:25:35.500 adventurous
00:25:37.000 nature.
00:25:38.820 I do enjoy
00:25:39.620 that he loved
00:25:40.160 it, and I
00:25:41.280 could feel his
00:25:43.280 enjoyment, and I
00:25:44.140 could feel his
00:25:44.720 success and
00:25:45.280 everything.
00:25:45.520 But here's
00:25:46.580 the thing.
00:25:48.360 Space isn't
00:25:49.280 about the
00:25:49.740 billionaires,
00:25:51.440 right?
00:25:52.600 I mean, they're
00:25:53.360 fun to talk
00:25:53.940 about, and
00:25:54.520 they're the
00:25:54.840 ones making
00:25:55.320 it happen, so
00:25:56.060 you've got to
00:25:56.360 give them tons
00:25:57.000 of credit.
00:25:58.260 But it's
00:25:59.660 space.
00:26:01.360 Space is
00:26:01.980 sort of for
00:26:02.400 everybody,
00:26:03.180 right?
00:26:03.800 And this
00:26:04.620 accomplishment,
00:26:05.560 although is
00:26:06.180 tremendous, I
00:26:07.600 don't feel like
00:26:08.460 the right
00:26:09.580 branding or
00:26:11.660 persuasion is
00:26:13.220 for Branson to
00:26:14.600 tell us about
00:26:15.340 his personal
00:26:16.700 dreams since
00:26:17.780 he was a
00:26:18.160 kid.
00:26:18.680 It's a good
00:26:19.140 story, and I
00:26:19.860 like knowing
00:26:20.320 it.
00:26:21.360 But I feel
00:26:21.820 like it should
00:26:23.300 have been
00:26:23.560 closer to
00:26:24.460 one small
00:26:26.020 step for
00:26:26.580 man, one
00:26:27.880 giant leap
00:26:28.580 for mankind.
00:26:30.480 There's some
00:26:30.980 acknowledgement
00:26:31.680 that Branson's
00:26:34.060 accomplishment,
00:26:34.920 which is
00:26:35.180 tremendous, and
00:26:36.680 Branson gets
00:26:37.400 the credit,
00:26:39.360 right?
00:26:39.880 You can't take
00:26:40.380 anything away
00:26:40.960 from what he
00:26:41.860 did.
00:26:42.060 It's an
00:26:42.400 amazing
00:26:42.700 accomplishment.
00:26:44.540 But it was
00:26:45.280 sort of for
00:26:46.020 everybody.
00:26:47.620 And at least
00:26:48.280 that's the way I
00:26:48.800 feel about it.
00:26:49.780 Because the
00:26:50.420 billionaires only
00:26:51.340 exist because we
00:26:52.800 let them, right?
00:26:55.260 Now, they made
00:26:56.040 their money.
00:26:56.980 They forced the
00:26:59.360 universe to cough
00:27:00.960 up a bunch of
00:27:01.580 money for them, so
00:27:02.380 they get all the
00:27:02.940 credit for that.
00:27:04.000 But they only get
00:27:05.080 to do it because we
00:27:06.040 let them, honestly.
00:27:08.200 I mean, it's not
00:27:08.960 like we took a vote.
00:27:09.880 But if society
00:27:11.200 just said, we
00:27:11.880 don't like
00:27:12.260 billionaires anymore,
00:27:13.300 they just can't
00:27:14.160 exist, well, they
00:27:15.060 wouldn't.
00:27:16.020 And they wouldn't
00:27:16.480 be able to do
00:27:17.040 cool stuff like
00:27:17.840 this that should
00:27:18.720 benefit everybody.
00:27:20.240 So I guess I
00:27:20.940 would just say to
00:27:21.740 the other
00:27:22.480 billionaires, and
00:27:24.260 I think Elon
00:27:25.760 Musk gets this
00:27:26.800 right, by the
00:27:27.520 way.
00:27:28.400 When Musk talks
00:27:29.680 about going to
00:27:30.800 Mars and stuff, he
00:27:32.060 doesn't say, I
00:27:33.740 have a dream,
00:27:35.080 although I'm sure
00:27:35.740 he said that as
00:27:36.540 well.
00:27:37.300 But he tends to
00:27:38.120 talk more about
00:27:39.040 how humanity
00:27:40.740 has to go to
00:27:41.460 Mars.
00:27:43.000 And he says
00:27:44.340 we, yeah.
00:27:45.300 I think Elon
00:27:46.240 Musk gets this
00:27:46.920 right, that it's
00:27:47.860 not about him,
00:27:48.740 even though it is
00:27:49.420 about him, right?
00:27:50.460 He knows to make
00:27:51.580 it about humanity.
00:27:53.620 And I guess
00:27:54.360 Branson, I feel
00:27:56.060 like Branson just
00:27:56.860 slightly missed his
00:27:58.780 usual impeccable
00:28:00.340 persuasion and
00:28:01.680 branding, which are
00:28:03.080 among the best
00:28:04.520 there's ever been,
00:28:05.260 I would say.
00:28:07.120 Just a very
00:28:07.940 small, small
00:28:08.920 quibble on a
00:28:11.540 great accomplishment.
00:28:13.260 So congratulations.
00:28:16.380 Here's a little
00:28:17.140 update, just to
00:28:18.140 make you angry,
00:28:19.200 because I know
00:28:19.700 it does.
00:28:21.440 You've heard of
00:28:22.240 Nature, the
00:28:22.920 publication?
00:28:24.400 So Nature is
00:28:25.560 one of, if not
00:28:26.800 the most respected
00:28:27.980 scientific journals
00:28:29.200 on the planet.
00:28:31.620 Does everybody
00:28:32.460 agree with that
00:28:33.300 statement, first of
00:28:34.260 all, that the
00:28:34.860 publication Nature
00:28:36.100 is sort of at the
00:28:38.160 top tier of
00:28:39.880 respectable
00:28:40.460 publications?
00:28:41.980 I'm seeing in the
00:28:42.920 comments a bunch of
00:28:43.860 people saying no.
00:28:45.860 So let's do a fact
00:28:47.000 check on that.
00:28:48.620 A lot of people
00:28:49.100 say no.
00:28:50.040 Now, I'm, I think
00:28:52.100 there are two ways
00:28:52.900 to answer this
00:28:53.600 question.
00:28:54.720 There's the
00:28:55.300 historical truth,
00:28:56.480 which would be
00:28:57.100 yes, and then
00:28:59.040 there's maybe,
00:28:59.740 there's a cynical
00:29:00.580 current truth that
00:29:02.620 you can't trust
00:29:03.260 anything.
00:29:04.420 You can't trust
00:29:05.420 anything in a
00:29:05.940 publication.
00:29:06.860 It doesn't matter
00:29:07.580 how respectable
00:29:08.800 they are.
00:29:09.440 You just can't
00:29:09.920 trust them.
00:29:10.780 So let's hold
00:29:11.640 both of those
00:29:12.340 views, all right?
00:29:13.660 Just hold both of
00:29:14.420 those views for a
00:29:15.120 moment.
00:29:15.980 But I would say
00:29:17.480 that whether you
00:29:18.240 trust them or not,
00:29:19.160 they do, they do
00:29:20.400 represent some of
00:29:23.040 the finest in
00:29:24.640 science, right?
00:29:25.720 Publication-wise.
00:29:26.760 Whether it's good
00:29:27.800 or not, it's some
00:29:28.500 of the finest.
00:29:30.180 And they're
00:29:31.840 finding on, don't
00:29:33.940 turn this off yet,
00:29:35.880 don't stop this
00:29:36.700 live stream, their
00:29:38.440 finding is that
00:29:39.380 science and the
00:29:40.320 consensus is clearly
00:29:42.220 that masks work.
00:29:44.760 I'm only putting
00:29:45.800 this out there
00:29:46.620 because a lot of
00:29:47.360 you who say masks
00:29:48.260 don't work will
00:29:49.860 say it's because
00:29:50.720 I've looked at all
00:29:51.440 the evidence.
00:29:52.880 Well, here's
00:29:53.400 Nature in an
00:29:55.180 article that says
00:29:56.140 we looked at all
00:29:56.940 the evidence and
00:29:58.480 it looks like
00:29:59.040 scientists say it
00:29:59.900 works, that masks
00:30:01.000 work.
00:30:01.340 On top of that,
00:30:02.680 they talk about a
00:30:03.400 test they did with
00:30:04.180 some animals.
00:30:05.600 So unlike testing
00:30:06.700 with humans, you
00:30:07.920 can, you know, you
00:30:09.460 could argue how
00:30:10.180 ethical it is, but
00:30:11.700 it's legal to test
00:30:13.300 with animals and
00:30:14.380 they just put
00:30:14.900 animals between a
00:30:17.040 barrier that was
00:30:19.300 the same material as
00:30:20.320 the masks.
00:30:21.620 And they had some
00:30:22.140 infected, I don't
00:30:23.220 know if they were
00:30:23.580 hamsters or whatever
00:30:24.440 the hell they were,
00:30:25.540 and they were on
00:30:26.380 one side.
00:30:27.180 And then on the
00:30:27.660 other side, in
00:30:28.400 close proximity,
00:30:29.460 separated by mask
00:30:31.800 material, they would
00:30:33.800 just see if the
00:30:34.560 other one would get
00:30:35.360 the COVID, because
00:30:37.440 animals can get
00:30:38.260 COVID.
00:30:39.300 And what they found
00:30:40.080 was that when there
00:30:41.200 was a mask barrier
00:30:42.440 there, the rate of
00:30:44.100 infections went way
00:30:45.080 down.
00:30:45.400 So those of you who
00:30:50.080 said, hey, this mask
00:30:52.040 material, and I think
00:30:53.300 they were using even
00:30:54.040 standard masks, not
00:30:55.200 just N95s.
00:30:56.740 So those of you who
00:30:58.160 say, hey, the virus is
00:31:00.960 smaller than the mask,
00:31:02.680 so therefore the virus
00:31:04.280 will pass through that
00:31:05.200 material just like it
00:31:06.300 isn't even there.
00:31:07.700 That is disproved.
00:31:09.980 I would say that's
00:31:11.140 disproved.
00:31:11.900 So if your argument
00:31:14.060 was the virus is
00:31:15.920 small, and if you
00:31:17.420 put a barrier there,
00:31:18.860 it'll act like it's
00:31:19.820 not even there, it'll
00:31:20.680 just go right through
00:31:21.380 it, the animal study
00:31:23.260 pretty much proved
00:31:24.960 that's not the case.
00:31:26.620 Now, that's not the
00:31:27.720 whole argument.
00:31:28.900 Some of the argument
00:31:29.600 is that so much air is
00:31:31.700 getting out from around
00:31:32.820 the edges that, you
00:31:35.300 know, you're not making
00:31:36.220 much difference.
00:31:37.580 But I don't think
00:31:39.040 anybody doubts that a
00:31:40.560 lot of the air is going
00:31:42.180 into the mask, and
00:31:43.200 presumably the air that
00:31:45.100 does go through the
00:31:45.800 mask has some kind of
00:31:47.100 a filtering effect,
00:31:48.820 because it worked with
00:31:49.580 the animals.
00:31:50.560 Now, again, can we
00:31:53.520 all be deeply
00:31:54.240 skeptical here?
00:31:55.980 Let's be deeply
00:31:56.920 skeptical.
00:31:58.480 Does it tell you
00:31:59.460 anything that there's
00:32:00.320 an animal study on
00:32:01.360 masks?
00:32:02.680 Is that conclusive?
00:32:04.480 No.
00:32:05.720 No.
00:32:06.580 It's not even close.
00:32:08.160 So none of this is
00:32:09.160 conclusive.
00:32:09.620 The fact that it's in
00:32:10.880 a most respected
00:32:12.420 publication doesn't
00:32:14.040 mean you should trust
00:32:14.860 it.
00:32:16.400 I think we're all on
00:32:17.260 the same page there.
00:32:18.280 It doesn't automatically
00:32:19.320 mean you should trust
00:32:20.220 it.
00:32:22.640 But if you'd like to
00:32:24.480 know what science
00:32:25.720 thinks collectively as
00:32:27.240 a consensus, this is
00:32:28.640 a pretty good place to
00:32:29.420 find out.
00:32:30.740 And I think it's
00:32:31.860 telling you that masks
00:32:32.760 work.
00:32:33.580 Now, do you believe
00:32:34.320 that?
00:32:35.540 Stay skeptical.
00:32:37.080 I'm just reporting
00:32:37.880 what the newest is.
00:32:38.740 Likewise,
00:32:40.240 ivermectin.
00:32:41.120 You know the story
00:32:41.720 on ivermectin,
00:32:43.540 which, oh, I can't
00:32:45.220 even say this on
00:32:45.960 YouTube, can I?
00:32:49.800 I just realized I'm
00:32:52.280 not talking only to
00:32:53.380 the locals, people,
00:32:54.660 where I can say
00:32:55.160 anything I want about
00:32:56.080 this topic.
00:32:57.700 So I have to modify
00:32:59.380 my presentation to
00:33:00.820 not be booted off.
00:33:02.140 Oh, actually, I'm in
00:33:04.620 good shape, because
00:33:05.820 what I'm going to say
00:33:06.560 is that there's a
00:33:07.340 study that says
00:33:08.000 ivermectin doesn't
00:33:08.960 work.
00:33:10.980 Now, if there's one
00:33:12.740 study, let's say
00:33:14.440 there's one new
00:33:15.180 study, because there
00:33:15.940 are lots of studies
00:33:16.700 already, but if there's
00:33:18.020 one new study that
00:33:19.940 says ivermectin
00:33:20.880 doesn't work, how
00:33:22.840 much credibility
00:33:23.760 should you put in
00:33:24.640 that?
00:33:26.160 None.
00:33:26.580 Right?
00:33:27.960 Basically zero.
00:33:29.680 So I think everybody
00:33:30.920 who's smart realizes
00:33:31.920 you're going to have
00:33:32.500 to look at all the
00:33:33.240 studies to figure out
00:33:34.680 if there's anything
00:33:35.360 there.
00:33:36.120 So one study really
00:33:37.360 doesn't tell you
00:33:38.140 really anything.
00:33:40.160 But remember that
00:33:42.340 the argument in
00:33:44.080 favor of ivermectin
00:33:45.440 was based on the
00:33:46.880 fact, and correct me
00:33:48.440 if I'm wrong, and
00:33:49.900 I think a lot of
00:33:52.980 people will do that,
00:33:53.780 but the argument
00:33:56.320 is that the people
00:33:58.000 who think that it
00:33:59.160 works are saying
00:34:00.740 that the signal and
00:34:01.980 the evidence is so
00:34:03.360 strong that you can
00:34:05.280 see it in almost any
00:34:06.420 kind of test.
00:34:09.080 So you don't need
00:34:10.220 the best kind of test
00:34:12.300 in the world, so say
00:34:14.860 the proponents,
00:34:16.240 because almost any
00:34:17.280 kind of test shows it
00:34:18.260 works.
00:34:19.360 You could do almost
00:34:20.140 anything, and it's
00:34:21.780 just such a strong
00:34:22.640 effect.
00:34:23.780 There it is.
00:34:24.900 Well, if you believe
00:34:25.840 that was the case,
00:34:28.460 we know, thanks to
00:34:29.800 Anatoly Lubarsky, who
00:34:31.120 found this and
00:34:32.020 tweeted it, we know
00:34:33.520 that there is one new
00:34:34.560 study, the newest one,
00:34:36.900 that says it doesn't
00:34:37.900 work.
00:34:38.820 Now, did they use the
00:34:40.380 right protocol?
00:34:42.120 Did they have the
00:34:43.760 right amount of
00:34:44.540 ivermectin that would
00:34:46.160 be the right amount
00:34:46.860 to test?
00:34:47.800 Did they test it in
00:34:48.960 the right people in
00:34:50.040 the right timing of
00:34:51.360 when they had
00:34:51.800 symptoms?
00:34:52.180 I don't know.
00:34:54.200 Probably there's some
00:34:55.020 problems with it, like
00:34:55.980 every other study.
00:34:57.520 So how much should you
00:34:58.980 take away from the
00:34:59.760 fact that there's one
00:35:00.640 study that says it
00:35:01.660 doesn't work?
00:35:03.460 Nothing.
00:35:04.900 Nothing.
00:35:05.840 Unfortunately, we live
00:35:06.800 in a world where it
00:35:07.480 doesn't mean anything.
00:35:09.320 It's still going to be
00:35:10.580 persuasive to some of
00:35:11.960 us, because you can't
00:35:13.300 not hear it.
00:35:15.020 You know, everything
00:35:15.640 becomes part of your
00:35:16.660 thinking.
00:35:17.000 But rationally, you
00:35:18.940 shouldn't pay attention
00:35:19.840 to it.
00:35:21.260 All right.
00:35:23.280 Remember when I
00:35:24.360 famously predicted and
00:35:26.040 was mocked by all of
00:35:27.440 the media, both a year
00:35:28.680 ago and more recently,
00:35:29.920 because the year had
00:35:30.600 passed, and I said
00:35:32.140 that if Biden got
00:35:33.700 elected, that Republicans
00:35:35.360 would be hunted.
00:35:37.760 Well, did the
00:35:40.800 simulation serve up a
00:35:44.200 son of the president
00:35:45.980 whose name was
00:35:46.780 Hunter?
00:35:48.000 So first of all,
00:35:48.980 that's weird that the
00:35:50.820 president's son is
00:35:51.800 literally named Hunter.
00:35:54.200 But that's coincidence.
00:35:57.260 However, what do we
00:35:58.820 know about the January
00:35:59.940 6th protesters who are
00:36:03.340 still in jail?
00:36:04.900 How much transparency do
00:36:06.740 we have on that?
00:36:07.980 And could it be said
00:36:09.120 that those Republicans
00:36:11.380 were hunted and
00:36:13.520 jailed?
00:36:15.980 And I feel like that's
00:36:17.620 exactly what happened.
00:36:19.480 Now, of course, we know
00:36:20.680 that some number of them
00:36:21.820 did bad things, and the
00:36:23.860 legal system needs to do
00:36:25.140 what the legal system
00:36:26.020 does.
00:36:27.160 But we also know, and
00:36:29.140 without any doubt
00:36:30.140 whatsoever, that the
00:36:31.520 vast majority of them did
00:36:33.220 not do anything violent.
00:36:37.260 They certainly did
00:36:38.340 something illegal because
00:36:39.660 they were trespassing.
00:36:40.540 But does it seem to you
00:36:44.440 that the Republicans who
00:36:47.020 did not do the violent
00:36:48.500 stuff were hunted and
00:36:50.580 jailed, and that they're
00:36:51.700 still in jail?
00:36:53.080 Because that's what it
00:36:53.940 looks like to me.
00:36:55.480 To me, it looks like
00:36:56.560 exactly my prediction
00:36:58.060 that Republicans were
00:37:00.000 hunted.
00:37:00.700 Now, do you know what the
00:37:01.540 critics say, if I bring
00:37:03.380 this up?
00:37:04.760 They say, but Scott,
00:37:06.880 you're not in jail.
00:37:08.320 Well, you weren't hunted.
00:37:10.440 Well, first of all, I'm
00:37:11.120 not a Republican.
00:37:12.660 But second of all, does
00:37:15.200 that matter?
00:37:16.540 Did somebody think that I
00:37:18.240 meant all of them?
00:37:19.340 Like every single
00:37:20.460 Republican would be
00:37:21.460 jailed?
00:37:22.360 All 80 million of them,
00:37:24.160 or however many there
00:37:25.000 are?
00:37:25.600 No.
00:37:26.000 I think that a decent
00:37:28.320 respect to reading
00:37:30.060 comprehension would tell
00:37:32.160 you that it just means
00:37:33.500 that it would happen
00:37:34.440 too much.
00:37:35.580 It doesn't mean every
00:37:36.380 single Republican is going
00:37:38.000 to be murdered or
00:37:39.500 jailed or something.
00:37:41.200 And I feel like I can
00:37:43.200 claim victory on that
00:37:45.020 prediction.
00:37:48.260 How many Republicans
00:37:49.340 have hidden their
00:37:50.780 affiliation for career
00:37:53.380 reasons?
00:37:55.500 Right?
00:37:56.400 If people are hiding
00:37:57.660 their Republican values
00:37:59.420 for career reasons,
00:38:00.960 yeah, in the comments
00:38:01.900 people are saying,
00:38:02.720 me, me, me.
00:38:03.740 If you're hiding your
00:38:05.040 affiliation, isn't that
00:38:06.960 because you're afraid
00:38:07.860 of being hunted?
00:38:10.360 Or at least being
00:38:11.420 revealed?
00:38:13.460 Yeah.
00:38:14.420 I don't think I'm too
00:38:15.660 far off on that
00:38:17.380 prediction.
00:38:18.500 Now, there's something
00:38:20.460 that I notice in social
00:38:22.020 media and all political
00:38:23.800 commentary that I'm
00:38:25.860 going to give a name.
00:38:26.600 I call it binary theater.
00:38:29.120 Here's what binary theater
00:38:30.800 is.
00:38:31.220 So it's just a name I'm
00:38:32.680 putting on it.
00:38:35.040 Suppose you're talking to
00:38:36.160 somebody about the
00:38:36.960 January 6th event and
00:38:39.160 they call it an
00:38:40.120 insurrection.
00:38:41.500 And they say it's an
00:38:42.300 insurrection because there
00:38:43.540 were violent people there
00:38:44.740 and therefore all the
00:38:46.600 people who are jailed are
00:38:48.420 violent.
00:38:49.740 They're acting as though
00:38:50.880 there's only two
00:38:52.860 possibilities.
00:38:54.400 That everybody there was a
00:38:56.180 violent insurrectionist
00:38:57.440 and then they're going
00:38:58.900 to be talking to
00:38:59.560 somebody who's trying to
00:39:00.620 make the opposite case
00:39:01.680 that there really wasn't
00:39:03.040 violence and that it was
00:39:04.200 just a protest.
00:39:06.060 Now, both people in this
00:39:08.460 kind of a debate would
00:39:10.640 both know they're lying.
00:39:12.440 And they would also know
00:39:13.620 that each other knows the
00:39:15.280 other one is lying.
00:39:16.680 Now, if you're going to lie
00:39:18.140 and act like it's all
00:39:20.140 violent on January 6th or
00:39:22.720 that it's all nonviolent,
00:39:24.340 what is the point of that?
00:39:27.020 It's just theater, right?
00:39:28.500 Because you're not
00:39:28.960 persuading anybody.
00:39:30.260 You're not adding any
00:39:31.140 new information.
00:39:32.700 You're engaging in this
00:39:34.040 weird theater where you
00:39:35.740 both know you're lying
00:39:36.940 about the description of
00:39:38.660 what happened and yet you
00:39:40.780 act like you're not.
00:39:42.920 That's not a debate.
00:39:45.640 What is that?
00:39:46.760 It's just theater, isn't
00:39:47.860 it?
00:39:48.440 Two people lying while the
00:39:49.940 other one knows they're
00:39:51.100 lying.
00:39:52.340 That's like a stage
00:39:53.460 production.
00:39:54.340 And you see it and you
00:39:56.480 go, what happened to us?
00:39:58.920 What happened to humans
00:40:01.120 that they act like things
00:40:04.340 that are clearly not
00:40:05.240 binary, are binary, just
00:40:07.420 so they could have this
00:40:08.300 weird theatrical
00:40:10.120 disagreement over something
00:40:13.860 that nobody disagrees over?
00:40:17.240 Yes, it's a pro-wrestling
00:40:19.660 model taken to politics.
00:40:23.360 Maybe Trump has something to
00:40:24.980 do with that because he did
00:40:26.920 take the wrestling model to
00:40:29.200 politics.
00:40:33.620 Well, I hope there's nobody in
00:40:35.480 the comments who's arguing it
00:40:36.820 was nonviolent because it looked
00:40:38.440 like somebody was starting to do
00:40:39.900 that.
00:40:40.740 You know, I get that, you know,
00:40:42.460 somebody died of a heart attack,
00:40:44.100 et cetera, but it was a violent
00:40:45.500 situation.
00:40:46.900 I don't think that's
00:40:48.540 something we should debate.
00:40:55.940 It was an incursion,
00:40:57.480 somebody says.
00:40:58.540 No guns, though.
00:41:00.540 Well,
00:41:01.420 that is kind of remarkable.
00:41:05.220 The number of guns there is,
00:41:08.160 the number of guns that weren't
00:41:09.500 there is remarkable.
00:41:10.640 Now, is there any Black Lives
00:41:15.860 Matter protest being planned?
00:41:18.860 And if not, why not?
00:41:22.280 And are there, have there been
00:41:24.000 no major police shootings of
00:41:27.360 black motorists, people who have
00:41:30.640 been stopped by the police?
00:41:32.720 Have nobody, has nobody died since
00:41:34.980 Biden's been in charge?
00:41:36.020 Or is it just that we don't
00:41:39.460 report it now?
00:41:44.100 The woke have been up for four
00:41:45.960 years.
00:41:46.620 I don't know what that means.
00:41:50.860 All right.
00:41:53.780 It was a protest and a riot.
00:41:56.500 Blah, blah, blah.
00:41:58.060 The CIA told Black Lives Matter to
00:42:00.380 stand down.
00:42:01.320 Well, I don't know that we could make
00:42:03.240 that assumption.
00:42:03.980 Yeah, it looks like Black Lives
00:42:06.680 Matter just did what?
00:42:09.540 Got everything they wanted?
00:42:12.300 Do you think they got everything
00:42:13.780 and they're done?
00:42:17.200 An assertive, self-directed tour of
00:42:19.780 the government building.
00:42:21.180 I like that.
00:42:23.400 And how about Antifa?
00:42:25.920 Antifa didn't even have demands
00:42:27.640 that, I mean, other than getting
00:42:29.620 rid of the system itself.
00:42:31.440 Did Antifa just decide there's
00:42:35.060 nothing to protest over?
00:42:37.620 You realize, right, that we can say
00:42:40.920 with a fair degree of certainty at
00:42:43.680 this point that neither Antifa nor
00:42:46.160 BLM were natural protests?
00:42:51.340 Can we say that at this point with
00:42:53.040 certainty?
00:42:53.760 Or would you still say that's
00:42:55.660 speculative?
00:42:56.020 Because if they were real,
00:42:59.260 nothing changed to satisfy their
00:43:01.620 demands.
00:43:02.960 Nothing changed.
00:43:04.580 So if they were ever real, they
00:43:06.540 should be, you know, as big as
00:43:08.500 possible right now.
00:43:09.640 I mean, they should be firing up.
00:43:11.400 Summer should be lit, right?
00:43:13.080 Literally lit.
00:43:15.980 So could we say at this point that
00:43:18.100 the Hunter Biden, the way that that
00:43:20.460 story is being handled, let's say his
00:43:22.720 artwork with the anonymous buyers,
00:43:25.760 that's proof that the intelligence
00:43:28.300 agencies and the government and the
00:43:31.600 media are colluding against the
00:43:33.680 people, isn't it?
00:43:36.140 Can't you say that with certainty,
00:43:37.880 without any extra information, that
00:43:40.260 the way the Hunter story is being
00:43:42.540 treated proves a nexus of the
00:43:46.420 intelligence agencies, the government,
00:43:48.120 government, and the media?
00:43:51.020 Now, likewise, can we say the same
00:43:54.760 thing about the lack of protests from
00:43:56.620 BLM and Antifa?
00:43:58.560 Can we say that the reason they're not
00:44:01.780 happening is that the intelligence
00:44:03.380 agencies decided that they wouldn't,
00:44:06.400 and that the media probably wouldn't
00:44:09.200 have covered it the same way anyway?
00:44:11.640 So it feels like we have confirmation of
00:44:14.600 everything bad we ever imagined with the
00:44:18.060 exception of, you know, any election
00:44:21.160 irregularities.
00:44:23.580 I would say that there's no proof of
00:44:25.800 that.
00:44:27.000 But could there be?
00:44:29.980 Is it possible?
00:44:32.420 I was looking at a letter to the
00:44:34.300 editor that was saying they should
00:44:37.160 take Dilbert out of the newspaper.
00:44:39.840 And the argument was that I am spreading
00:44:43.800 the, quote, big lie, and therefore
00:44:46.380 Dilbert should be taken out of the
00:44:47.700 newspapers.
00:44:48.900 Have you ever seen me spread the big
00:44:50.580 lie?
00:44:53.060 I'll reiterate my position, which is
00:44:55.980 that we don't have evidence, or at least
00:44:59.620 I don't.
00:45:00.400 I don't have any evidence that I would
00:45:02.120 consider conclusive that the election
00:45:04.760 was rigged.
00:45:06.120 So I don't have that evidence.
00:45:07.600 But I have said that you can guarantee that
00:45:11.860 because of the nature of the system, you
00:45:14.300 know, it has vulnerabilities, and the
00:45:17.460 intelligence agencies of all the major
00:45:19.440 countries have a great incentive to either
00:45:22.380 manage their own country's elections or even
00:45:24.700 other countries' elections, that you could
00:45:26.640 say with certainty that the American election
00:45:30.120 process will be corrupted.
00:45:31.740 We just don't know if it's already
00:45:34.040 happened.
00:45:34.960 So it's either in our future, guaranteed, or
00:45:38.440 it already happened.
00:45:39.700 Those are the only two possibilities.
00:45:41.580 If you're saying to yourself, no, I don't think an
00:45:44.540 intelligence agency is going to get control of the
00:45:47.520 elections, I would say, you know they have the
00:45:50.300 tools to do that, right?
00:45:52.160 They have all the tools.
00:45:54.180 They can do that.
00:45:55.980 They would simply have to want to.
00:45:58.780 And do you think that the intelligence agencies are
00:46:01.340 really somebody at the top who makes a directive and
00:46:05.200 writes it down and sends out a memo, and then
00:46:07.920 everybody does, you know, what the memo says?
00:46:11.200 No.
00:46:12.060 I don't think intelligence agencies work that way.
00:46:15.280 There are simply people who know what would be good for
00:46:17.800 the intelligence agencies or their view of what would
00:46:20.500 be good for the world.
00:46:21.280 And they have the tools to make it happen, and they
00:46:25.520 can put pressure on private citizens to do the
00:46:27.980 actual work, so there's no fingerprint from an
00:46:31.620 intelligence agency.
00:46:33.220 So you have to look at the intelligence agencies two
00:46:37.000 ways.
00:46:37.660 One is that something comes from the top, but the
00:46:41.780 other is just a lot of people independently knowing
00:46:44.540 what, in their opinion, would make the world a better
00:46:48.260 place, and maybe they don't want a paper trail.
00:46:50.540 Maybe they just make it happen by influencing private
00:46:54.480 citizens mostly.
00:46:58.900 All right.
00:47:02.700 Michael Harms, you've done 250 push-ups since the start of
00:47:06.680 this podcast.
00:47:08.460 Well, congratulations.
00:47:10.820 I've often said that exercise is literally the best thing you
00:47:14.020 could be doing while listening to this, partly because I do
00:47:16.900 this the same time every day, and it's a guaranteed time, and
00:47:21.840 roughly a guaranteed amount, around 45 minutes or more.
00:47:25.340 It's a perfect workout.
00:47:27.120 It'll keep your mind engaged at the same time as you're working
00:47:33.000 out.
00:47:33.720 All right.
00:47:34.420 That is all I've got for today.
00:47:36.940 I'll see you YouTubers later.
00:47:38.780 Thanks for joining me.