Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1440 Scott Adams： The Republican Pandemic, Teachers Unions Destroy Everything, and More Fun

00:00:00.260 I know I'm late.

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00:00:07.360 Well, good morning, and welcome

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00:00:51.600 Oh, my goodness.

00:00:53.880 Whew.

00:00:55.980 So, are you ready for some of the most

00:00:58.120 provocative thoughts

00:00:59.640 in all of podcasting?

00:01:02.420 Well, they're all going to be coming at you

00:01:03.980 pretty hard.

00:01:08.680 And, you know,

00:01:10.580 I'd be doing the show right now

00:01:12.040 if, under the condition

00:01:14.540 that I had printed out

00:01:15.600 the right set of notes,

00:01:17.180 we'd be, like, jumping right into the show right now.

00:01:19.900 But it seems that I'll be talking

00:01:21.580 and printing my real notes out

00:01:23.240 at the same time.

00:01:24.280 But I'm going to give you a fun fact

00:01:27.500 while this is happening.

00:01:29.160 Do any of you own cats?

00:01:32.640 Did you know

00:01:33.500 that a cat,

00:01:34.740 when it talks

00:01:35.580 and it goes,

00:01:36.100 round, round, round,

00:01:37.060 you know how cats talk?

00:01:38.740 Did you know

00:01:39.500 that they don't do that

00:01:40.480 to other cats?

00:01:42.160 They don't talk that way

00:01:43.300 to dogs.

00:01:44.840 They don't talk that way

00:01:45.940 in the mirror.

00:01:47.740 The only time your cat talks

00:01:49.560 is when your cat

00:01:52.300 is talking to a human.

00:01:54.180 Did you know that?

00:01:55.260 Otherwise, the cats don't talk.

00:01:57.160 So they actually think

00:01:58.180 they're talking to you.

00:01:59.320 Row, row, row, row.

00:02:00.760 Row, row, row.

00:02:02.740 All right.

00:02:04.020 So I thought I would

00:02:05.040 share that with you

00:02:05.920 because that's very,

00:02:06.840 very important.

00:02:07.900 And now we have

00:02:08.800 the proper

00:02:09.420 show notes.

00:02:12.620 Oh, much better.

00:02:14.380 Much better.

00:02:15.020 All right.

00:02:17.440 Are you ready

00:02:17.880 for the most provocative thought

00:02:19.560 of all of 2021?

00:02:23.460 I know it's a high bar.

00:02:25.280 This will be

00:02:25.640 the most provocative thought.

00:02:27.500 Are you ready?

00:02:29.800 It goes like this.

00:02:34.060 Are you wondering

00:02:35.420 why there's not more

00:02:36.480 of a COVID problem in China?

00:02:39.920 Is it because

00:02:41.160 China is so good

00:02:43.340 at locking down

00:02:45.120 their country

00:02:47.140 and then keeping out

00:02:48.980 anything from the borders?

00:02:51.580 That's why there's

00:02:52.720 no more COVID in China?

00:02:56.020 Does that feel...

00:02:57.960 Just think about that.

00:02:59.720 Big country.

00:03:00.960 Billion people.

00:03:02.440 The start of the pandemic.

00:03:05.260 But

00:03:05.860 they got rid of all of it.

00:03:09.200 No more COVID in China.

00:03:10.980 The whole country of China.

00:03:13.580 Billion people.

00:03:15.180 No problem.

00:03:15.740 Does that sound

00:03:17.540 right to you?

00:03:19.240 Now,

00:03:20.080 hold that fact

00:03:20.960 in your mind

00:03:21.520 that China

00:03:23.180 has the most

00:03:24.380 inexplicable

00:03:27.080 COVID result.

00:03:29.780 Because

00:03:30.260 you can see

00:03:31.060 if a country

00:03:31.540 never got much of it

00:03:32.740 in the first place,

00:03:33.700 how they could do well.

00:03:36.640 But

00:03:37.160 there's some mystery

00:03:38.200 there, isn't there?

00:03:39.400 Some continuing mystery

00:03:40.860 about why China

00:03:41.800 is not

00:03:42.240 totally ravaged

00:03:43.320 by the virus

00:03:45.580 like everybody else.

00:03:48.800 Some are saying

00:03:49.620 it's a media blackout

00:03:50.620 and that maybe

00:03:51.520 there's a big problem

00:03:52.380 in China

00:03:52.780 and we just don't know it.

00:03:54.900 But

00:03:55.340 if it were as big

00:03:57.180 as it should be

00:03:58.300 by all common sense

00:04:00.320 and

00:04:00.660 everything we know

00:04:02.100 about the virus's

00:04:03.180 viral properties,

00:04:05.240 do you think

00:04:05.840 they could keep

00:04:06.420 that a secret?

00:04:07.980 Do you think

00:04:08.520 if the Chinese

00:04:09.520 hospitals were

00:04:10.620 crashed

00:04:11.240 with patients,

00:04:13.660 could they keep

00:04:14.620 that a secret?

00:04:15.740 I mean,

00:04:15.960 I know that they

00:04:16.540 can close the internet

00:04:17.480 and they can do

00:04:18.000 a lot of stuff,

00:04:18.820 but seriously,

00:04:20.920 you don't think

00:04:21.620 we have enough

00:04:22.180 assets,

00:04:23.360 intelligence assets

00:04:24.360 in China

00:04:25.080 to know

00:04:26.380 if the hospitals

00:04:27.540 are packed?

00:04:28.720 We would know

00:04:29.580 that, right?

00:04:31.460 I hear somebody

00:04:32.060 saying it's

00:04:32.560 ivermectin.

00:04:36.220 Maybe,

00:04:36.700 but I don't

00:04:38.160 think so.

00:04:40.000 Suppose,

00:04:41.160 and this is

00:04:41.680 provocative,

00:04:42.380 but this is not

00:04:43.140 where I'm going,

00:04:44.220 so I'm not

00:04:44.680 making this claim.

00:04:46.360 Suppose

00:04:46.760 that the virus

00:04:48.340 had been weaponized

00:04:49.400 in a lab

00:04:50.180 and designed

00:04:51.200 so it wouldn't

00:04:51.860 hurt people

00:04:52.700 who were

00:04:53.200 ethnically Chinese.

00:04:55.520 Is that possible?

00:04:57.700 It might be,

00:04:59.200 but I don't think

00:04:59.940 that would explain

00:05:00.680 what's happening

00:05:01.280 in China

00:05:01.800 because there

00:05:02.720 must be

00:05:03.140 enough

00:05:04.380 ethnic variety

00:05:05.580 even within China

00:05:06.860 that you

00:05:08.280 couldn't make

00:05:08.760 something so

00:05:09.380 targeted

00:05:09.840 that, oh,

00:05:10.980 if you have

00:05:11.600 just the right

00:05:12.200 genes,

00:05:12.680 it won't

00:05:12.980 affect you,

00:05:14.200 but it only

00:05:14.680 works within

00:05:15.240 the boundaries

00:05:15.720 of China

00:05:16.280 or something.

00:05:17.580 Yeah,

00:05:18.340 you know,

00:05:18.800 maybe,

00:05:19.820 maybe,

00:05:20.300 but it doesn't

00:05:21.000 feel like

00:05:22.040 that could

00:05:22.440 explain it.

00:05:23.720 It feels like

00:05:24.300 to be something

00:05:24.860 else.

00:05:26.320 And so I

00:05:26.880 had this

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00:05:27.620 this morning

00:05:30.380 that I thought,

00:05:31.420 if I Google

00:05:32.140 this,

00:05:32.560 am I going

00:05:32.940 to get a result?

00:05:33.640 and it

00:05:34.440 goes like

00:05:34.900 this.

00:05:36.560 What is it

00:05:37.360 that the

00:05:37.740 Chinese people

00:05:38.560 do

00:05:38.960 that other

00:05:41.300 countries don't

00:05:42.240 do,

00:05:43.220 but they do

00:05:44.220 a lot in

00:05:44.600 Asia?

00:05:45.200 And Asia

00:05:45.620 in general

00:05:46.040 has done

00:05:46.720 pretty well

00:05:47.200 with the

00:05:47.600 coronavirus,

00:05:48.220 hasn't it?

00:05:49.320 Have you

00:05:49.620 noticed?

00:05:51.140 Yeah,

00:05:51.560 you're,

00:05:51.880 damn it,

00:05:52.440 you're way

00:05:52.740 ahead of me.

00:05:54.000 You're way

00:05:54.380 ahead of me.

00:05:56.200 Green tea.

00:05:58.920 The people

00:05:59.600 who drink

00:06:00.000 green tea,

00:06:01.980 coincidentally,

00:06:02.640 seem to

00:06:03.980 be doing

00:06:04.300 the best

00:06:04.880 against

00:06:05.400 the

00:06:05.600 coronavirus,

00:06:07.060 wouldn't

00:06:07.280 you say?

00:06:08.320 If you

00:06:08.600 were to

00:06:08.800 look at,

00:06:10.160 you know,

00:06:10.460 some countries

00:06:11.040 doing worse

00:06:11.540 than others,

00:06:11.940 of course.

00:06:12.900 But,

00:06:14.300 so I

00:06:15.320 looked up,

00:06:15.920 I just

00:06:16.260 Googled,

00:06:17.040 does green

00:06:17.400 tea cure

00:06:18.080 COVID?

00:06:19.600 And

00:06:20.000 apparently,

00:06:20.840 there's some

00:06:22.320 reason to

00:06:22.760 think it

00:06:23.060 might,

00:06:24.520 weirdly.

00:06:25.980 Now,

00:06:26.260 I wouldn't

00:06:26.500 put too

00:06:26.920 much credibility

00:06:27.480 in this,

00:06:28.020 but there's

00:06:29.740 an author,

00:06:31.580 Suresh

00:06:32.140 Mohedden

00:06:32.960 Kumar,

00:06:33.780 who researched

00:06:34.580 during his

00:06:35.200 time at

00:06:35.700 blah,

00:06:36.000 blah,

00:06:36.060 blah,

00:06:36.160 blah,

00:06:36.380 some medical

00:06:37.520 place.

00:06:38.860 And according

00:06:39.420 to a new

00:06:39.860 study published

00:06:41.040 in the RSC

00:06:41.760 advances,

00:06:42.440 green tea

00:06:42.860 might play

00:06:43.620 an important

00:06:44.120 role in

00:06:44.820 tackling COVID-19

00:06:46.100 infection.

00:06:48.360 What?

00:06:50.920 What?

00:06:52.260 Really?

00:06:53.480 Green tea?

00:06:54.360 And they're

00:06:55.900 not saying,

00:06:56.640 I don't think

00:06:57.100 they're saying

00:06:57.500 that,

00:06:57.920 you know,

00:06:58.220 there's an

00:06:58.560 ingredient that

00:06:59.300 you can take

00:06:59.800 out of it

00:07:00.260 or something.

00:07:01.200 I think

00:07:01.560 they're actually

00:07:01.940 saying that

00:07:02.460 just drinking

00:07:02.980 the green

00:07:03.400 tea might

00:07:05.040 take care

00:07:05.520 of your

00:07:05.840 COVID or

00:07:07.200 prevent it

00:07:07.940 or minimize

00:07:08.420 it or

00:07:09.060 something.

00:07:15.860 Somebody

00:07:16.340 says,

00:07:16.720 explain

00:07:17.000 Thailand.

00:07:17.900 This has

00:07:18.380 been debunked.

00:07:19.380 Well,

00:07:19.620 I don't

00:07:19.840 think there

00:07:20.160 would be

00:07:20.420 necessarily

00:07:21.480 any

00:07:22.760 specific

00:07:25.080 group

00:07:25.520 that would

00:07:26.080 be free

00:07:27.320 from it.

00:07:27.920 So there

00:07:28.160 could be

00:07:28.560 a combination

00:07:29.880 of green

00:07:30.400 tea plus

00:07:30.940 genetics.

00:07:32.580 Could be

00:07:32.980 that they

00:07:33.360 drink a

00:07:33.820 different

00:07:34.080 kind of

00:07:34.480 green tea.

00:07:35.840 Could be

00:07:36.220 they don't

00:07:36.540 drink as

00:07:36.900 much.

00:07:37.640 So I

00:07:38.460 haven't heard

00:07:38.860 the green

00:07:39.340 tea hypothesis

00:07:40.180 before,

00:07:40.880 but I

00:07:41.140 doubt Thailand

00:07:41.920 alone would

00:07:42.840 be debunking

00:07:43.620 of it.

00:07:44.660 Now,

00:07:45.680 I'm not

00:07:46.440 going to

00:07:46.680 claim any

00:07:48.200 of this is

00:07:48.640 true.

00:07:49.080 So let me

00:07:49.480 say this

00:07:49.840 as clearly

00:07:50.580 as possible.

00:07:51.200 I'm not

00:07:53.920 going to

00:07:54.720 say the

00:07:55.120 green tea

00:07:55.720 hypothesis

00:07:56.340 is one

00:07:57.120 you should

00:07:57.400 believe.

00:07:58.200 What I'm

00:07:58.480 saying is

00:07:59.100 there's still

00:08:00.280 a mystery

00:08:00.700 here,

00:08:01.580 and it's

00:08:01.900 a big

00:08:02.540 one.

00:08:03.760 To me,

00:08:04.140 it's the

00:08:04.380 biggest one.

00:08:05.700 It's the

00:08:06.060 biggest mystery

00:08:06.620 by far.

00:08:08.200 Where's my

00:08:08.900 randomized

00:08:09.200 controlled

00:08:09.720 study?

00:08:10.800 That's what

00:08:11.260 I need?

00:08:11.920 All right.

00:08:12.960 Here's some

00:08:13.480 fake news.

00:08:14.980 Did you hear

00:08:15.420 some news

00:08:15.960 that the

00:08:16.360 Biden

00:08:16.600 administration

00:08:17.180 would be

00:08:17.780 monitoring

00:08:18.840 private text

00:08:19.940 messages to

00:08:21.040 combat

00:08:21.560 vaccine

00:08:22.240 misinformation?

00:08:23.840 Did you

00:08:24.440 hear that

00:08:24.800 news?

00:08:25.860 Fake news?

00:08:27.760 That was

00:08:28.360 never a

00:08:28.840 plan.

00:08:30.100 What was

00:08:30.640 happening is

00:08:31.360 that Democrat

00:08:33.440 operatives were

00:08:35.540 monitoring

00:08:36.260 messages from

00:08:38.080 the other

00:08:38.440 side, and

00:08:39.460 if any

00:08:39.840 misinformation

00:08:40.300 came out,

00:08:41.120 they were

00:08:41.320 going to

00:08:41.540 counter it

00:08:42.060 with their

00:08:42.360 own, what

00:08:43.460 they would

00:08:43.760 say is

00:08:44.100 proper

00:08:44.920 information.

00:08:45.480 And

00:08:49.800 somebody in

00:08:51.320 the comments,

00:08:51.940 do you

00:08:52.180 want to

00:08:52.440 talk about

00:08:52.880 FDA-approved

00:08:53.820 medicines like

00:08:54.580 hydroxychloroquine

00:08:55.620 and ivermectin?

00:08:57.360 Alan, where

00:08:58.000 have you been

00:08:58.620 for the last

00:08:59.320 year?

00:09:02.340 That's like

00:09:02.920 the most

00:09:03.280 talked about

00:09:03.980 topic in

00:09:05.460 the world.

00:09:06.460 So no, I'm

00:09:07.100 not going to

00:09:07.400 talk about

00:09:07.760 that today.

00:09:08.560 I've talked

00:09:08.960 about it a

00:09:09.540 billion times.

00:09:10.340 All right,

00:09:12.420 so don't

00:09:13.940 worry about

00:09:14.340 anybody looking

00:09:15.340 at your

00:09:15.680 private text

00:09:16.340 messages for

00:09:17.260 vaccine

00:09:18.300 misinformation.

00:09:19.760 That was

00:09:20.200 never a

00:09:20.620 plan.

00:09:22.840 So Joe

00:09:23.660 Biden's got

00:09:24.120 this interesting

00:09:25.840 tightrope he

00:09:26.560 has to walk

00:09:27.180 because he's a

00:09:28.580 Democrat.

00:09:29.620 Lots of

00:09:30.060 Democrats want

00:09:30.680 to defund

00:09:31.160 the police.

00:09:32.660 But he's

00:09:33.380 also strong

00:09:34.660 on crime.

00:09:36.080 You know,

00:09:36.240 he's more

00:09:36.600 of a moderate.

00:09:38.140 And crime

00:09:38.840 is spiking,

00:09:39.540 and he knows

00:09:39.940 that that

00:09:40.280 could keep

00:09:40.840 a Democrat

00:09:41.260 from being

00:09:41.740 president.

00:09:42.500 So now he

00:09:43.940 wants to be

00:09:44.480 tough on crime

00:09:45.400 while still

00:09:45.960 being a

00:09:46.360 Democrat,

00:09:47.060 which is

00:09:48.460 tough.

00:09:50.120 So he's

00:09:50.940 announcing a

00:09:52.440 comprehensive

00:09:52.940 strategy.

00:09:54.380 You know,

00:09:54.640 that's the

00:09:54.940 best kind.

00:09:56.360 Have you

00:09:56.540 ever used

00:09:57.020 a strategy

00:09:57.740 that wasn't

00:09:59.260 comprehensive?

00:10:03.140 Somebody

00:10:03.700 says the

00:10:04.120 vaccine is

00:10:04.800 not FDA

00:10:05.400 approved.

00:10:06.080 I'm seeing

00:10:06.400 in the

00:10:06.640 comments.

00:10:09.940 Does that

00:10:10.680 matter?

00:10:12.740 I mean,

00:10:13.280 you know it

00:10:13.640 was approved

00:10:14.260 by all the

00:10:15.000 smartest people

00:10:15.700 who looked at

00:10:16.860 the studies.

00:10:19.140 Do you

00:10:19.660 care?

00:10:20.780 I mean,

00:10:21.140 we're caring

00:10:21.880 about a lot

00:10:22.260 of things we

00:10:22.660 shouldn't care

00:10:23.120 about.

00:10:24.040 Anyway,

00:10:24.720 I'm not saying

00:10:25.420 you should take

00:10:25.880 the vaccine.

00:10:27.100 I'm just

00:10:27.360 saying if

00:10:28.380 your concern

00:10:29.040 is that it

00:10:29.880 wasn't approved

00:10:30.740 in the normal

00:10:31.420 way,

00:10:32.340 that's not

00:10:33.060 much of a

00:10:33.500 concern.

00:10:33.840 because it

00:10:35.220 was approved

00:10:35.680 by all the

00:10:36.220 right people

00:10:36.780 looking at

00:10:37.560 it for all

00:10:38.180 the right

00:10:38.460 reasons,

00:10:39.700 blah,

00:10:39.920 blah,

00:10:40.040 blah.

00:10:41.340 All right.

00:10:42.600 I saw an

00:10:43.020 article,

00:10:43.580 I think it

00:10:43.820 was CNN,

00:10:44.380 saying that,

00:10:45.740 oh,

00:10:46.240 I'm sorry,

00:10:47.240 let's go

00:10:47.680 back to this

00:10:48.120 Biden crime

00:10:48.700 thing.

00:10:50.620 So Biden

00:10:51.320 wants to

00:10:51.940 press an

00:10:52.920 assault ban

00:10:53.720 or a ban

00:10:55.380 on assault

00:10:55.860 weapons,

00:10:56.460 what he would

00:10:57.140 call assault

00:10:57.680 weapons,

00:10:58.980 what some

00:10:59.340 of you would

00:10:59.760 call not

00:11:01.420 assault weapons.

00:11:03.840 And I

00:11:07.300 don't know

00:11:07.620 how he's

00:11:08.060 going to

00:11:08.460 walk this

00:11:09.200 tightrope.

00:11:09.880 It seems

00:11:10.280 to me that

00:11:10.780 the crime

00:11:12.280 stories are

00:11:13.060 just going

00:11:13.400 to be

00:11:13.560 coming just

00:11:14.560 like crazy.

00:11:16.080 There's going

00:11:16.400 to be more

00:11:16.780 murder,

00:11:17.800 yeah,

00:11:18.220 let's call

00:11:18.580 them rifles.

00:11:20.580 There's going

00:11:20.960 to be more

00:11:21.300 murder,

00:11:21.860 there was

00:11:22.040 another

00:11:22.240 shooting outside

00:11:23.040 of a

00:11:23.300 baseball stadium,

00:11:24.420 there's going

00:11:24.720 to be more

00:11:25.060 mass shootings,

00:11:25.940 et cetera.

00:11:26.860 So it

00:11:27.780 looks to me,

00:11:29.680 I don't know

00:11:30.740 how Democrats

00:11:31.420 could win

00:11:31.900 again.

00:11:33.280 I mean,

00:11:33.640 in the next

00:11:34.280 series of

00:11:35.100 elections.

00:11:36.280 What do

00:11:36.580 you think?

00:11:37.960 Am I

00:11:38.520 wrong to

00:11:39.020 think that

00:11:39.540 it would

00:11:39.820 be hard

00:11:40.200 for a

00:11:40.520 Democrat

00:11:40.780 to get

00:11:41.240 elected?

00:11:42.200 It might

00:11:42.540 be hard

00:11:42.940 for Trump

00:11:43.400 to get

00:11:43.720 re-elected

00:11:44.720 because

00:11:46.100 Trump has

00:11:47.080 his own

00:11:47.600 set of

00:11:48.960 baggage,

00:11:50.860 I guess,

00:11:51.200 if you will,

00:11:51.640 that comes

00:11:51.960 with him.

00:11:52.760 But let's

00:11:54.040 say the

00:11:54.540 candidate is

00:11:55.960 a normal

00:11:57.860 Republican,

00:11:59.260 Ron DeSantis.

00:12:01.140 Could you

00:12:01.760 imagine Ron

00:12:02.560 DeSantis not

00:12:03.580 winning the

00:12:04.100 presidency?

00:12:05.720 It's actually

00:12:06.420 kind of hard

00:12:06.920 to believe

00:12:07.340 unless there's

00:12:07.900 some Ron

00:12:09.260 DeSantis

00:12:09.800 thing going

00:12:11.700 on that I

00:12:12.260 don't know

00:12:12.580 about.

00:12:13.660 Is there

00:12:13.940 some scandal

00:12:14.580 I don't know

00:12:15.080 about?

00:12:16.040 Because I

00:12:16.660 can't see him

00:12:17.240 losing.

00:12:18.620 It feels like

00:12:19.520 he would just

00:12:19.880 walk into the

00:12:20.600 job right now

00:12:21.320 based on what

00:12:22.460 he's done,

00:12:23.840 how Florida

00:12:24.580 has done,

00:12:26.780 et cetera.

00:12:28.020 Now,

00:12:28.300 Trump,

00:12:28.840 maybe Trump

00:12:29.320 could too,

00:12:29.800 but Trump

00:12:31.320 is always

00:12:31.800 just his

00:12:32.540 own thing,

00:12:33.220 right?

00:12:33.680 Can't

00:12:34.000 compare

00:12:34.240 Trump to

00:12:34.640 anything.

00:12:37.100 They can

00:12:37.740 win by

00:12:38.100 cheating.

00:12:39.240 Well,

00:12:39.860 I don't

00:12:40.160 know.

00:12:40.620 It's going

00:12:40.940 to get

00:12:41.120 harder.

00:12:42.160 We do

00:12:42.440 have an

00:12:42.880 election

00:12:43.180 system which

00:12:43.940 we have

00:12:44.320 to admit

00:12:44.720 is designed

00:12:45.360 for cheating.

00:12:47.380 Can I

00:12:47.720 say that

00:12:48.440 out loud?

00:12:48.820 I can't

00:12:51.680 make a

00:12:52.000 statement about

00:12:52.660 whether any

00:12:53.600 cheating has

00:12:54.260 happened already

00:12:55.000 because I

00:12:55.400 have no

00:12:55.720 evidence to

00:12:56.780 support that

00:12:57.360 claim.

00:12:58.780 But can

00:12:59.540 we say it's

00:13:00.120 designed to

00:13:01.320 support cheating

00:13:02.040 because it

00:13:02.820 can't be

00:13:03.160 audited?

00:13:03.980 If you have

00:13:04.680 an election

00:13:05.060 system that

00:13:05.680 can't be

00:13:06.100 audited,

00:13:07.020 it's designed

00:13:08.360 to cheat.

00:13:09.980 And if you

00:13:10.400 don't see

00:13:10.820 that,

00:13:12.920 well,

00:13:13.440 you could be

00:13:14.700 really disappointed

00:13:15.480 that you don't

00:13:16.000 have a democracy

00:13:16.780 sooner or

00:13:17.880 later.

00:13:21.200 There's a

00:13:21.860 question on

00:13:22.420 CNN whether

00:13:22.960 salad bars will

00:13:23.980 ever come

00:13:24.420 back.

00:13:25.000 I have

00:13:26.760 really mixed

00:13:27.420 feelings about

00:13:28.180 this.

00:13:29.360 My favorite

00:13:30.160 place in the

00:13:30.800 world to eat

00:13:31.540 was a salad

00:13:32.740 bar called

00:13:34.000 Sweet Tomatoes.

00:13:34.960 There was one

00:13:35.360 in my town.

00:13:36.360 I don't know

00:13:36.800 if the whole

00:13:37.220 chain went

00:13:37.880 bankrupt or

00:13:38.540 just the one

00:13:39.080 in my town

00:13:39.680 went out of

00:13:40.620 business,

00:13:41.480 but it was

00:13:41.980 my number

00:13:42.420 one favorite

00:13:43.120 place to eat

00:13:43.800 by far

00:13:44.420 because blah,

00:13:45.780 blah,

00:13:45.900 blah,

00:13:46.260 all the food

00:13:46.840 was there.

00:13:47.320 It was all

00:13:47.520 the stuff I

00:13:47.900 liked.

00:13:49.200 But I have

00:13:50.100 to say that

00:13:51.920 my grossness

00:13:53.320 trigger has

00:13:54.420 changed quite a

00:13:56.080 bit because of

00:13:56.880 the pandemic.

00:13:58.280 And now the

00:13:58.780 thought of

00:13:59.180 eating food

00:13:59.900 that other

00:14:01.100 people have

00:14:01.680 been breathing

00:14:02.260 around, I

00:14:04.200 don't know if

00:14:04.580 I could do

00:14:05.020 it.

00:14:06.320 Here's another

00:14:07.080 one.

00:14:08.440 If the

00:14:09.000 restaurant

00:14:09.560 workers take

00:14:11.340 off their

00:14:11.820 masks, I'm

00:14:13.960 not going to

00:14:14.320 be as happy.

00:14:14.920 I would

00:14:17.480 love to see

00:14:17.900 their faces

00:14:18.380 and I

00:14:18.960 would like

00:14:19.240 them to

00:14:19.560 be happier

00:14:20.440 in their

00:14:20.800 jobs.

00:14:21.600 So that

00:14:21.920 would mean

00:14:22.180 a lot to

00:14:22.580 me, right?

00:14:23.960 But honestly,

00:14:26.340 I guess my

00:14:29.100 freak out

00:14:29.660 level from

00:14:30.340 every kind

00:14:31.260 of germ

00:14:31.720 and virus

00:14:32.280 that you

00:14:32.560 could think

00:14:32.940 of has

00:14:33.740 changed.

00:14:35.360 Have you

00:14:35.660 ever had

00:14:35.960 that experience

00:14:36.600 where in

00:14:37.860 your life

00:14:38.300 you feel

00:14:38.720 your own

00:14:39.260 gross out

00:14:40.280 level change

00:14:41.080 and you're

00:14:41.440 aware of it?

00:14:42.060 It's like,

00:14:42.380 oh, this

00:14:42.980 used to gross

00:14:43.540 me out, but

00:14:43.980 it doesn't

00:14:44.300 bother me

00:14:44.640 now.

00:14:45.320 Or this

00:14:46.000 didn't used

00:14:46.400 to bother

00:14:46.740 me, but

00:14:47.200 now it

00:14:47.660 does.

00:14:49.060 Is anybody

00:14:49.460 having the

00:14:49.900 same experience?

00:14:54.040 Somebody says

00:14:54.760 I have a

00:14:55.160 plumbing license.

00:14:57.100 Okay, I

00:14:57.620 think that's

00:14:58.060 an answer to

00:14:58.580 the question.

00:15:00.020 Yeah, same

00:15:00.540 here.

00:15:01.220 I have a

00:15:01.940 feeling that

00:15:02.520 it would be

00:15:02.980 tough to

00:15:03.400 open a

00:15:03.840 salad bar

00:15:04.360 these days

00:15:04.960 just because

00:15:05.600 it just

00:15:06.060 doesn't feel

00:15:06.920 as hygienic.

00:15:08.900 I don't

00:15:09.180 know if it

00:15:09.480 ever was.

00:15:11.420 Now, I

00:15:12.140 don't think

00:15:12.520 you can

00:15:12.780 actually get

00:15:13.400 coronavirus

00:15:14.440 from the

00:15:15.160 salad bar,

00:15:15.860 at least

00:15:16.180 from the

00:15:16.660 food.

00:15:17.560 You can

00:15:17.840 get it

00:15:18.080 from the

00:15:18.300 other people.

00:15:19.620 So it's

00:15:19.980 irrational.

00:15:20.740 I'm not

00:15:21.040 saying any

00:15:21.440 of it's

00:15:21.660 rational, but

00:15:22.740 it does

00:15:23.040 make a

00:15:23.380 difference.

00:15:24.720 So yesterday

00:15:25.440 I went to

00:15:26.040 the grocery

00:15:26.800 store in

00:15:27.460 my town,

00:15:29.080 Trader Joe's,

00:15:30.460 and I live

00:15:31.100 in a county

00:15:31.520 in which the

00:15:32.360 mask

00:15:33.260 recommendations

00:15:34.160 are, I

00:15:36.240 think they're

00:15:36.780 going to make

00:15:37.220 more mask

00:15:37.960 requirements or

00:15:39.500 something.

00:15:39.920 there's

00:15:40.740 something

00:15:40.960 happening

00:15:41.280 that's a

00:15:41.640 little

00:15:41.760 unclear.

00:15:43.060 But I

00:15:43.440 walked in

00:15:43.940 and I

00:15:44.640 was the

00:15:45.040 only person

00:15:45.840 without a

00:15:46.440 mask.

00:15:48.860 I didn't

00:15:49.440 see anybody

00:15:49.920 else without

00:15:50.360 a mask.

00:15:51.640 And so I

00:15:52.060 said to

00:15:52.340 myself,

00:15:53.040 did the

00:15:54.160 mask requirement

00:15:54.920 change

00:15:55.740 specifically?

00:15:56.700 Like, do I

00:15:57.160 need one?

00:15:58.520 And I

00:15:59.080 didn't see a

00:15:59.600 sign, but I

00:16:00.920 also didn't

00:16:01.420 take any time

00:16:02.600 to look for

00:16:03.080 one.

00:16:04.160 You know,

00:16:04.440 there's always

00:16:04.780 lots of signs

00:16:05.460 in front of a

00:16:06.120 grocery store,

00:16:06.880 you know,

00:16:07.120 do this,

00:16:07.580 don't do that.

00:16:08.440 Maybe it was

00:16:08.940 there, I

00:16:09.360 don't know.

00:16:10.040 But I

00:16:10.340 said to

00:16:10.600 myself, once

00:16:11.220 I was in

00:16:11.640 there, I

00:16:13.480 said to

00:16:13.820 myself, what

00:16:15.380 if there is a

00:16:16.260 mask requirement

00:16:17.100 and I'm the

00:16:18.460 only one who's

00:16:19.000 not wearing

00:16:19.460 one?

00:16:20.180 Now, eventually

00:16:20.700 I saw some

00:16:21.280 other people

00:16:21.700 without masks,

00:16:22.820 but when I

00:16:23.200 first went in,

00:16:23.760 I didn't see

00:16:24.120 anybody.

00:16:25.280 And I

00:16:25.580 said to

00:16:25.860 myself, I

00:16:27.060 think this

00:16:27.460 is the way

00:16:27.820 I'm going

00:16:28.080 to play it

00:16:28.660 because I'm

00:16:29.220 fully vaccinated.

00:16:30.680 I think I'm

00:16:31.480 going to let

00:16:31.920 them ask me

00:16:32.640 to put it

00:16:32.980 back on.

00:16:33.920 And then

00:16:34.400 I'll decide

00:16:35.080 if I want to

00:16:36.280 complete my

00:16:36.820 transaction with

00:16:37.620 a mask on

00:16:38.260 or if I

00:16:39.380 want to

00:16:39.720 take my

00:16:40.140 business

00:16:40.460 elsewhere.

00:16:41.440 It might

00:16:41.960 depend on

00:16:42.440 the situation

00:16:43.060 and how

00:16:44.020 badly I

00:16:44.540 need, whatever

00:16:44.960 I need.

00:16:46.000 But I'm

00:16:47.120 going to make

00:16:47.480 them ask.

00:16:48.760 I'm going to

00:16:49.300 be very

00:16:49.720 polite about

00:16:50.300 it.

00:16:51.260 I'll say,

00:16:52.180 oh, are

00:16:53.140 you really

00:16:53.540 asking me to

00:16:54.180 wear a mask?

00:16:55.260 I'm fully

00:16:55.740 vaccinated.

00:16:56.500 The CDC

00:16:56.980 would not

00:16:57.500 require it.

00:16:58.100 But if

00:16:58.420 that's what

00:16:59.300 you're asking,

00:16:59.860 I'll respect

00:17:00.480 your business

00:17:03.200 requirement.

00:17:04.260 and I'll

00:17:05.540 either put

00:17:05.960 on a mask

00:17:06.540 if I need

00:17:07.000 to, or

00:17:08.160 I'll go

00:17:09.020 shop somewhere

00:17:09.560 else.

00:17:09.860 But I'm

00:17:10.060 not going

00:17:10.280 to fight

00:17:10.600 it because

00:17:11.680 I don't

00:17:12.000 have any

00:17:12.400 fight with

00:17:12.820 a store

00:17:13.220 owner, right?

00:17:14.280 I'm not

00:17:14.880 here to

00:17:15.180 make anybody's

00:17:16.640 life worse

00:17:17.320 if they run

00:17:18.040 a store.

00:17:18.680 That's not

00:17:19.020 my job.

00:17:20.420 But you

00:17:22.140 want to put

00:17:22.580 some friction

00:17:23.060 into the

00:17:23.580 system.

00:17:24.400 You want

00:17:24.860 them very

00:17:25.300 quickly to

00:17:25.940 give up on

00:17:26.540 it.

00:17:27.380 You want

00:17:27.740 the store

00:17:28.200 owner to

00:17:28.660 know that

00:17:29.200 they can't

00:17:29.640 win the

00:17:29.980 fight,

00:17:31.000 that some

00:17:31.620 percentage of

00:17:32.260 their customers

00:17:32.760 are not going

00:17:33.360 to wear a

00:17:33.700 mask, and

00:17:34.820 if they

00:17:35.160 want to

00:17:35.460 just do

00:17:35.840 normal

00:17:36.180 business,

00:17:36.700 they're going

00:17:36.900 to have to

00:17:37.160 figure out

00:17:37.580 a way to

00:17:37.900 do that

00:17:38.320 without asking

00:17:39.060 everybody to

00:17:39.680 put on a

00:17:40.060 mask.

00:17:41.140 So I would

00:17:41.880 say, stay

00:17:43.100 completely polite,

00:17:44.460 understand the

00:17:45.380 situation of the

00:17:46.460 store owners and

00:17:47.260 the managers and

00:17:47.980 the employees.

00:17:48.680 They're in a

00:17:49.000 tough position.

00:17:50.640 But don't be

00:17:51.400 an asshole.

00:17:52.760 You don't have

00:17:53.460 to be an

00:17:53.800 asshole about

00:17:54.440 it.

00:17:55.040 If they ask

00:17:55.880 you to do

00:17:56.280 it, either

00:17:57.100 comply or

00:17:57.780 leave.

00:17:58.380 But you don't

00:17:58.760 need to be an

00:17:59.240 asshole.

00:17:59.580 Just be polite

00:18:00.120 about it.

00:18:01.540 You'll get

00:18:02.100 what you want

00:18:02.660 by being

00:18:03.180 polite anyway.

00:18:04.960 So I felt

00:18:05.640 like a

00:18:05.980 conscientious

00:18:06.600 objector, but

00:18:07.400 I still don't

00:18:07.960 even know what

00:18:08.500 the store

00:18:08.920 requirement was.

00:18:09.840 Nobody asked

00:18:10.280 me to put on

00:18:10.780 a mask, so

00:18:11.800 I don't know.

00:18:15.180 Smirk

00:18:15.340 Connish asked

00:18:16.200 an interesting

00:18:17.080 question on

00:18:18.060 CNN, as

00:18:19.280 Smirk

00:18:19.840 Connish often

00:18:20.480 does.

00:18:21.120 I often

00:18:21.840 recommend

00:18:22.640 Smirk

00:18:23.040 Connish,

00:18:24.180 because I do

00:18:25.040 think he's the

00:18:26.120 closest to an

00:18:27.760 objective news

00:18:29.760 opinion person on

00:18:31.480 CNN, and

00:18:32.460 maybe on other

00:18:32.960 places too.

00:18:33.660 He's pretty

00:18:34.060 darn objective,

00:18:35.560 so much so that

00:18:36.500 I wonder how he

00:18:37.180 can stay on

00:18:37.700 CNN.

00:18:38.800 He's actually so

00:18:39.760 objective that I'm

00:18:42.000 sometimes surprised

00:18:42.940 that they even let

00:18:43.760 him on there.

00:18:45.060 So he's kind of an

00:18:46.100 exception on that

00:18:46.920 network.

00:18:48.040 But he reports

00:18:48.760 that 47% of

00:18:50.440 Republicans say

00:18:51.700 they won't get

00:18:52.340 vaccinated, but

00:18:53.920 only 6% of

00:18:55.180 Democrats.

00:18:55.540 So let's take

00:18:57.620 that forward and

00:18:58.420 say that those

00:18:59.100 numbers hold, and

00:19:00.840 something like half

00:19:01.680 of Republicans

00:19:02.280 never get

00:19:02.960 vaccinated, but

00:19:04.540 maybe something

00:19:05.240 close to, you

00:19:06.200 know, 94% of

00:19:07.760 Democrats do.

00:19:11.300 Wouldn't that

00:19:12.200 make it a

00:19:13.920 Republican pandemic

00:19:15.040 after that?

00:19:17.460 Right?

00:19:19.120 Because if

00:19:20.100 basically all of

00:19:22.180 the Democrats who

00:19:22.900 want it are

00:19:23.480 vaccinated, they're

00:19:25.880 done.

00:19:26.980 They're not.

00:19:27.600 Apparently, if you

00:19:28.600 look at the

00:19:28.980 hospitals in L.A.

00:19:30.240 and San

00:19:30.760 Francisco, how

00:19:32.240 many unvaccinated

00:19:33.640 COVID patients are

00:19:35.100 there in all the

00:19:35.900 hospitals in L.A.

00:19:37.540 and all the

00:19:38.240 hospitals in San

00:19:39.580 Francisco?

00:19:40.240 What would you

00:19:40.620 guess?

00:19:41.820 The total number

00:19:43.320 of unvaccinated

00:19:44.680 patients who have

00:19:46.480 COVID and are in

00:19:47.520 the hospital for

00:19:48.200 it.

00:19:48.900 How many are

00:19:49.480 unvaccinated

00:19:50.620 versus vaccinated?

00:19:53.520 And the answer

00:19:54.300 is 100% of them

00:19:56.000 are unvaccinated.

00:19:57.100 100%.

00:19:58.980 There are zero

00:20:01.300 hospital patients

00:20:03.500 with COVID

00:20:05.220 who are

00:20:06.840 vaccinated in

00:20:08.100 L.A.

00:20:08.640 and San

00:20:09.300 Francisco put

00:20:10.080 together.

00:20:11.160 Both of them

00:20:12.000 added together.

00:20:12.700 Zero.

00:20:13.580 Not one.

00:20:15.460 So do you

00:20:15.880 think the

00:20:16.420 vaccination works?

00:20:19.440 Now, you could

00:20:20.280 argue that, you

00:20:21.160 know, there might

00:20:21.600 be complications

00:20:22.360 you're worried

00:20:23.080 about.

00:20:23.560 We don't know

00:20:24.100 about that long

00:20:24.860 term, but is

00:20:28.860 the question

00:20:29.320 answered?

00:20:30.720 I mean, it's

00:20:31.500 freaking zero.

00:20:33.540 The question's

00:20:34.560 asked and

00:20:35.200 answered, right?

00:20:37.220 I don't think we

00:20:38.080 have to wonder

00:20:38.480 about that

00:20:38.880 anymore.

00:20:40.240 But here's

00:20:41.180 an interesting

00:20:41.860 fact about

00:20:42.660 this.

00:20:43.600 At what

00:20:44.060 point, if the

00:20:45.160 only people

00:20:45.640 getting COVID

00:20:46.240 are Republicans,

00:20:48.300 at what

00:20:48.660 point is

00:20:49.100 COVID some

00:20:51.060 kind of voter

00:20:51.700 suppression?

00:20:52.200 could you

00:20:53.700 actually reach

00:20:54.260 a point where

00:20:54.980 an election

00:20:55.520 was determined

00:20:56.280 by the

00:20:57.180 number of

00:20:57.540 people who

00:20:57.900 were killed

00:20:58.200 by COVID

00:20:58.760 or people

00:21:00.940 were sick

00:21:01.380 at the time

00:21:01.880 and couldn't

00:21:02.260 vote, I

00:21:02.840 suppose?

00:21:05.160 I don't

00:21:05.720 know.

00:21:06.020 Probably won't

00:21:06.520 ever get that

00:21:07.020 big because

00:21:08.060 it's such a

00:21:08.660 tiny number

00:21:09.120 of people who

00:21:09.660 expire from

00:21:10.500 it in the

00:21:10.820 first place.

00:21:15.660 Check the

00:21:16.280 video somebody

00:21:17.040 posted on

00:21:17.580 Locals.

00:21:18.580 Very informative

00:21:19.360 about this.

00:21:20.220 I would like

00:21:20.780 to see

00:21:21.040 that.

00:21:22.360 And

00:21:22.680 Smarkandish

00:21:24.360 asked this

00:21:24.820 question, which

00:21:25.440 I think is a

00:21:25.960 fair question.

00:21:27.040 He says,

00:21:27.440 why won't

00:21:27.860 Trump encourage

00:21:28.880 vaccinations?

00:21:30.820 Now, remember,

00:21:31.500 Trump apparently

00:21:32.700 got vaccinated,

00:21:34.280 even though he

00:21:34.900 had been

00:21:35.120 infected.

00:21:35.680 I think he

00:21:36.020 got vaccinated

00:21:36.680 also.

00:21:38.140 And he

00:21:39.820 was the

00:21:40.840 chief architect

00:21:42.280 of Project

00:21:43.240 Warp Speed.

00:21:45.320 Trump gets

00:21:46.140 the credit for

00:21:46.760 the vaccinations.

00:21:48.180 But you

00:21:48.920 don't really

00:21:49.400 see him

00:21:50.060 pushing you

00:21:51.160 to get

00:21:51.460 vaccinated.

00:21:53.020 And do

00:21:53.560 you think

00:21:53.840 that that's

00:21:54.240 a mistake?

00:21:56.120 Now, I'm

00:21:56.760 guessing that

00:21:58.260 because it

00:21:59.880 would be

00:22:00.180 basically

00:22:00.580 impossible for

00:22:01.420 him to get

00:22:01.800 reelected if

00:22:02.960 he did,

00:22:04.420 that's a

00:22:05.260 pretty good

00:22:05.560 reason.

00:22:06.060 At least

00:22:06.300 politically,

00:22:06.900 that would

00:22:07.120 be a good

00:22:07.460 reason,

00:22:07.760 right?

00:22:08.440 If Trump

00:22:09.300 pushed

00:22:09.820 vaccinations,

00:22:10.960 even being

00:22:11.580 the architect

00:22:12.340 of Warp

00:22:13.220 Speed, so

00:22:15.180 many Republicans

00:22:15.920 who don't want

00:22:16.660 vaccinations would

00:22:17.740 bristle at that

00:22:18.700 that he wouldn't

00:22:19.660 be able to

00:22:20.020 get elected.

00:22:21.340 Do you

00:22:21.660 think that's

00:22:22.040 why he

00:22:22.280 doesn't do

00:22:22.660 it?

00:22:23.660 Do you

00:22:24.160 think that

00:22:24.900 Trump is

00:22:25.480 allowing

00:22:26.040 Republicans to

00:22:27.080 die, to

00:22:29.260 die, so

00:22:31.900 that he has a

00:22:32.400 better chance

00:22:32.820 of getting

00:22:33.140 reelected?

00:22:35.380 That's

00:22:35.820 Murkanish's

00:22:36.500 question.

00:22:37.240 Effectively, I'm

00:22:37.980 adding a little

00:22:38.580 bit to his

00:22:38.980 question, but

00:22:39.600 it looks like

00:22:40.900 it.

00:22:42.100 It looks

00:22:42.740 like it.

00:22:43.140 Now, I've

00:22:46.160 told you

00:22:46.420 myself that

00:22:47.120 even though

00:22:48.200 I'm

00:22:48.460 vaccinated, I

00:22:49.200 don't promote

00:22:50.920 it for you.

00:22:52.540 And the

00:22:53.120 reason is, I'm

00:22:54.040 not a doctor.

00:22:55.780 It would be

00:22:56.260 completely unethical

00:22:57.420 for me to

00:22:58.480 suggest that

00:22:59.020 you, who are

00:22:59.620 a completely

00:23:00.060 different person

00:23:00.820 from me,

00:23:01.900 different risk

00:23:02.540 profile,

00:23:03.140 everything else,

00:23:04.080 I'm not going

00:23:04.520 to recommend

00:23:04.900 you get

00:23:05.300 vaccinated.

00:23:06.600 That's your

00:23:07.060 freaking

00:23:07.320 business,

00:23:08.460 right?

00:23:09.380 And because

00:23:10.200 I've taken

00:23:10.620 care of myself,

00:23:11.900 so I'm not

00:23:12.360 worried about

00:23:12.780 me, and

00:23:13.440 therefore, you

00:23:15.600 make your own

00:23:16.080 decisions.

00:23:17.280 I don't bitch

00:23:18.280 when you ride

00:23:18.880 your motorcycle.

00:23:20.420 I don't bitch

00:23:21.240 when you drink

00:23:21.760 a beer.

00:23:22.820 I don't bitch

00:23:23.480 when you eat

00:23:23.900 a cheeseburger,

00:23:25.460 right?

00:23:25.780 I'm not going

00:23:26.180 to bitch

00:23:26.440 about this.

00:23:27.280 That's your

00:23:27.640 business.

00:23:29.860 But suppose

00:23:30.880 you're a

00:23:31.580 leader, which

00:23:33.780 I suppose I'm

00:23:34.620 not.

00:23:36.120 Suppose you're

00:23:36.860 Trump.

00:23:37.360 Suppose you

00:23:37.940 are the

00:23:38.460 architect of

00:23:39.180 the vaccines.

00:23:40.440 Suppose you

00:23:41.040 only want the

00:23:41.720 country to be

00:23:42.480 better.

00:23:43.600 Should you

00:23:43.960 make an

00:23:44.280 exception?

00:23:46.140 I don't

00:23:46.660 know.

00:23:47.040 It's a tough

00:23:47.500 one, isn't

00:23:47.860 it?

00:23:48.340 Because if he

00:23:48.960 does make

00:23:49.360 the exception,

00:23:50.040 he probably

00:23:50.420 can't be

00:23:50.840 president again.

00:23:53.220 Right?

00:23:53.820 I mean, if

00:23:54.420 he decides to

00:23:55.740 go full

00:23:56.940 persuasion on

00:23:57.660 it.

00:23:58.020 Let me ask

00:23:58.480 you this.

00:23:59.180 If Trump

00:23:59.740 went full

00:24:00.440 persuasion on

00:24:01.740 vaccinations,

00:24:03.040 how much of

00:24:03.580 an impact

00:24:04.040 would it

00:24:04.340 have?

00:24:04.560 What do you

00:24:06.360 think?

00:24:06.600 Do you

00:24:08.620 think that

00:24:09.160 he could

00:24:10.100 move the

00:24:10.560 needle?

00:24:12.380 How much

00:24:13.240 persuasive

00:24:14.080 ability would

00:24:14.820 Trump have

00:24:15.400 if he had,

00:24:16.180 just wait for

00:24:16.780 it, imagine

00:24:18.260 if he had

00:24:18.900 vaccination

00:24:19.760 rallies where

00:24:22.120 they offered

00:24:22.740 vaccination at

00:24:23.880 the rally?

00:24:25.140 You know,

00:24:25.440 optional.

00:24:26.040 You don't

00:24:26.360 have to get

00:24:27.040 the vaccination

00:24:27.540 if you went

00:24:28.160 to the rally.

00:24:28.980 But what if

00:24:29.380 he did?

00:24:29.640 How many more

00:24:31.500 people would get

00:24:32.160 vaccinated because

00:24:33.040 of that?

00:24:34.120 It's optional.

00:24:35.160 You know,

00:24:35.340 he would just

00:24:35.740 say, look,

00:24:36.700 I'm not your

00:24:37.240 doctor, but

00:24:38.340 talk to your

00:24:38.760 doctor and

00:24:39.280 make your own

00:24:39.680 decision.

00:24:40.400 We'll just

00:24:40.760 make it

00:24:41.080 available.

00:24:42.300 You can

00:24:42.560 decide if

00:24:43.060 you want it.

00:24:45.380 And I

00:24:45.900 don't, yeah,

00:24:46.320 I don't even

00:24:46.780 see, I

00:24:47.340 haven't seen

00:24:47.780 Trump even

00:24:48.460 make the

00:24:49.140 case that

00:24:49.720 it's up to

00:24:50.180 the individual

00:24:50.880 because that

00:24:52.160 too would be

00:24:53.220 sort of

00:24:53.700 political, you

00:24:54.940 know, in

00:24:55.160 our current

00:24:55.560 environment.

00:24:58.020 So, and

00:24:58.980 then the

00:24:59.440 question is,

00:25:00.160 what happens

00:25:00.760 if the

00:25:01.160 vaccine has

00:25:02.080 some side

00:25:02.600 effect you

00:25:03.020 don't know

00:25:03.380 about and

00:25:03.920 then it's

00:25:04.220 all, it's

00:25:05.240 all Trump's

00:25:05.740 fault, I

00:25:06.140 guess.

00:25:06.740 But it's

00:25:07.080 going to be

00:25:07.380 his fault

00:25:07.980 no matter

00:25:08.840 what, right?

00:25:10.140 If the

00:25:10.700 vaccinations,

00:25:13.380 and I

00:25:13.980 think this

00:25:14.620 is unlikely,

00:25:15.440 but, you

00:25:16.000 know, just

00:25:16.500 to include

00:25:17.000 all risks,

00:25:17.780 right, to

00:25:18.420 include

00:25:18.720 everything,

00:25:19.820 what if

00:25:20.240 someday we

00:25:20.800 find out

00:25:21.220 the

00:25:21.400 vaccinations

00:25:21.920 were causing

00:25:22.860 some damage

00:25:23.940 to people

00:25:24.340 down the

00:25:24.780 line?

00:25:25.700 I think

00:25:26.060 it's

00:25:26.260 unlikely,

00:25:27.340 but what

00:25:27.720 if?

00:25:28.740 Well, Trump

00:25:29.260 is going to

00:25:29.620 get the full

00:25:30.200 blame for

00:25:30.760 that, right?

00:25:31.740 Because he's

00:25:32.260 the architect

00:25:32.780 of Project

00:25:33.760 Warp Speed.

00:25:34.840 Hey, why'd

00:25:35.420 you rush

00:25:35.720 it?

00:25:36.780 So if

00:25:37.800 Trump is

00:25:38.200 going to

00:25:38.400 get the

00:25:38.700 blame if

00:25:39.360 things go

00:25:39.920 badly, no

00:25:41.480 matter what,

00:25:43.220 maybe he

00:25:45.300 should go

00:25:45.620 all in.

00:25:46.820 I'm not

00:25:47.440 saying he

00:25:47.800 should, but

00:25:48.360 just consider

00:25:48.980 what's your

00:25:50.080 risk-reward

00:25:50.760 here.

00:25:51.340 If he's

00:25:51.820 going to

00:25:52.000 get the

00:25:52.260 blame no

00:25:52.900 matter what,

00:25:54.640 why not

00:25:55.240 get the

00:25:55.580 credit?

00:25:55.860 Because he

00:25:56.860 doesn't have

00:25:57.320 any option

00:25:57.820 of getting

00:25:58.120 the credit

00:25:58.720 if half of

00:26:00.080 the Republicans

00:26:00.820 don't get

00:26:01.360 vaccinated.

00:26:02.440 It's going

00:26:02.880 to be hard

00:26:03.240 to credit

00:26:03.640 him for

00:26:04.000 that, right?

00:26:06.240 I don't know.

00:26:06.960 So I guess

00:26:07.400 the question

00:26:07.780 is should

00:26:08.140 he go

00:26:08.440 all in?

00:26:09.680 Or should

00:26:10.180 he sort

00:26:10.760 of stay

00:26:11.040 on the

00:26:11.280 sidelines

00:26:11.740 like he

00:26:12.080 is now

00:26:12.460 on the

00:26:12.800 biggest

00:26:13.000 question

00:26:13.420 in the

00:26:13.680 country?

00:26:15.140 I don't

00:26:15.740 know.

00:26:17.740 In my

00:26:18.380 opinion,

00:26:19.460 if the

00:26:20.700 only people

00:26:21.180 in the

00:26:21.500 hospitals

00:26:21.940 for COVID

00:26:23.420 are the

00:26:23.880 unvaccinated,

00:26:24.720 we should

00:26:25.880 treat it

00:26:26.340 like obesity

00:26:27.240 and smoking

00:26:29.140 cigarettes,

00:26:30.600 meaning that

00:26:31.440 it's just a

00:26:31.940 lifestyle choice

00:26:32.660 at this

00:26:32.960 point.

00:26:33.980 My lifestyle

00:26:34.660 choice was

00:26:35.400 to get the

00:26:35.820 vaccination.

00:26:36.680 I don't

00:26:37.160 promote it

00:26:37.680 for you.

00:26:38.840 That's your

00:26:39.260 own decision,

00:26:40.420 right?

00:26:40.760 I'm not

00:26:41.200 persuading you.

00:26:42.680 But my

00:26:43.760 personal

00:26:44.160 lifestyle choice

00:26:45.200 was to get

00:26:45.800 vaccinated.

00:26:46.920 My personal

00:26:47.640 lifestyle choice

00:26:48.920 is to eat

00:26:51.140 good food

00:26:51.800 when I can

00:26:52.460 and exercise.

00:26:53.900 Those are

00:26:54.220 my lifestyle

00:26:54.700 choices.

00:26:55.740 What happens

00:26:56.240 when I have

00:26:57.640 some, let's

00:26:58.080 say, an

00:26:58.320 injury or

00:26:58.820 whatever, and

00:26:59.700 I go to

00:27:00.300 my local

00:27:01.280 health care

00:27:01.840 provider, and

00:27:03.340 I'll be

00:27:03.580 sitting in

00:27:04.000 the waiting

00:27:04.580 area, and

00:27:05.380 there'll be

00:27:05.620 all the

00:27:05.960 other patients

00:27:06.800 waiting for

00:27:07.440 their doctors.

00:27:08.500 How many

00:27:09.220 of the other

00:27:09.840 patients in

00:27:10.820 the waiting

00:27:11.220 area of

00:27:11.820 your doctor

00:27:12.340 have a

00:27:14.080 healthy

00:27:15.000 weight?

00:27:16.940 Almost none.

00:27:18.920 Almost

00:27:19.440 everybody at

00:27:20.080 the doctor's

00:27:20.720 office, at

00:27:22.280 least at

00:27:22.600 mine, they

00:27:23.720 look like

00:27:24.100 they have

00:27:24.380 lifestyle-related

00:27:25.400 problems.

00:27:26.380 There's the

00:27:26.820 diabetes you

00:27:27.600 gave yourself

00:27:28.380 by overeating.

00:27:30.260 You can just

00:27:30.800 look at the

00:27:31.220 people and

00:27:31.580 say, okay,

00:27:32.180 lifestyle,

00:27:32.800 lifestyle,

00:27:33.840 lifestyle,

00:27:34.600 lifestyle.

00:27:35.660 So at

00:27:36.300 what point

00:27:36.820 does the

00:27:37.800 COVID just

00:27:38.420 become a

00:27:38.820 lifestyle risk?

00:27:40.620 You want to

00:27:41.400 live unvaccinated?

00:27:42.780 I don't mind

00:27:43.340 getting a

00:27:43.740 vaccination.

00:27:45.060 Your lifestyle

00:27:45.720 choice gave

00:27:46.400 you COVID.

00:27:47.580 Mine gave me

00:27:48.400 no problem.

00:27:50.020 It's just like

00:27:50.880 obesity now.

00:27:51.640 It's just

00:27:52.560 like smoking

00:27:53.240 cigarettes.

00:27:53.840 It's just

00:27:54.080 like drinking

00:27:54.520 beer.

00:27:55.300 It's all of

00:27:55.780 those things.

00:27:56.560 It's not

00:27:57.020 bigger, is it?

00:27:59.220 If you went

00:28:00.020 to these

00:28:00.360 hospitals in

00:28:01.720 LA and San

00:28:02.980 Francisco that

00:28:04.260 I told you

00:28:04.800 have zero

00:28:06.040 people in them

00:28:06.780 that are

00:28:07.040 vaccinated, so

00:28:08.420 they have a

00:28:09.120 number of

00:28:09.460 unvaccinated

00:28:10.260 COVID patients

00:28:11.100 and some of

00:28:11.560 them could be

00:28:12.060 pretty severe.

00:28:12.720 But how many

00:28:14.120 people are there

00:28:15.000 for obesity-related

00:28:16.400 problems?

00:28:17.820 More, right?

00:28:18.820 Aren't we at

00:28:20.360 the point where

00:28:20.860 there are way

00:28:21.260 more people with

00:28:22.000 other lifestyle

00:28:22.820 problems, things

00:28:23.700 that they brought

00:28:24.200 on themselves

00:28:24.780 essentially?

00:28:26.180 And COVID is

00:28:26.800 just another one

00:28:27.500 of those.

00:28:28.460 It just joins

00:28:29.160 the list.

00:28:29.860 All right, you

00:28:30.400 smoked, you

00:28:30.920 drank, you

00:28:31.940 didn't exercise.

00:28:33.580 There you are.

00:28:36.340 Have you noticed

00:28:37.200 that COVID has

00:28:39.720 become like a

00:28:40.400 news sweetener

00:28:41.460 now?

00:28:41.900 It went from

00:28:42.620 the news, of

00:28:44.320 course, during

00:28:44.960 the height of

00:28:45.380 the pandemic, and

00:28:46.660 it has stayed

00:28:47.360 sort of the

00:28:48.460 meta news over

00:28:49.540 all the news

00:28:50.240 for a while.

00:28:51.320 But because of

00:28:52.040 the vaccinations

00:28:52.700 and because it's

00:28:53.920 summer and

00:28:54.340 everything, it's

00:28:54.800 shrinking down a

00:28:55.520 little bit.

00:28:56.160 And now it

00:28:56.680 feels like a

00:28:57.760 sweetener to

00:28:58.720 an existing

00:28:59.260 story.

00:29:00.240 Would you like

00:29:00.840 an example?

00:29:01.880 Here's a story

00:29:02.700 that doesn't

00:29:03.220 require COVID,

00:29:04.900 but then the

00:29:05.440 COVID is put

00:29:06.100 onto the story

00:29:06.740 like a

00:29:07.100 sweetener.

00:29:08.180 The story was

00:29:08.880 that in Texas,

00:29:10.620 a bunch of

00:29:11.180 Democrat lawmakers

00:29:12.160 got on a

00:29:13.220 bus or a

00:29:13.840 plane or

00:29:14.180 something, and

00:29:15.100 they left

00:29:15.440 town so that

00:29:16.620 there wouldn't

00:29:16.980 be a quorum

00:29:17.620 for a vote

00:29:18.280 on something

00:29:18.960 they didn't

00:29:19.420 want to

00:29:19.780 get voted

00:29:20.160 in, which

00:29:21.120 is the

00:29:21.460 changes to

00:29:22.040 the election

00:29:22.540 stuff.

00:29:24.420 So all the

00:29:25.140 Democrat lawmakers,

00:29:26.340 they got

00:29:26.660 together,

00:29:27.640 masklessly took

00:29:29.240 pictures.

00:29:29.760 Hey, look at

00:29:30.840 us.

00:29:31.680 Did you see the

00:29:32.340 creepy selfies

00:29:33.280 that they took

00:29:34.040 in the bus,

00:29:35.260 the Texas

00:29:36.220 Democrats?

00:29:37.460 What's wrong

00:29:37.960 with their

00:29:38.280 faces?

00:29:39.420 Have you seen

00:29:39.880 the pictures?

00:29:41.000 Look at their

00:29:41.500 faces.

00:29:42.780 There's something

00:29:43.160 wrong with all of

00:29:44.200 their faces.

00:29:45.320 They're all, I

00:29:47.660 can't even do an

00:29:48.400 impression, but

00:29:49.680 their faces are

00:29:50.420 like demented.

00:29:52.260 They have that

00:29:52.740 kind of, I'm a

00:29:53.680 little too happy

00:29:54.400 for the situation.

00:29:56.880 I can't even do

00:29:57.900 an impression, but

00:29:58.600 they all look

00:29:59.120 demented.

00:29:59.940 But that's not

00:30:00.480 the story.

00:30:01.540 So the story is

00:30:02.280 all these lawmakers

00:30:02.960 leave town and

00:30:04.540 to block the

00:30:05.440 vote by the

00:30:07.220 Republicans.

00:30:08.620 That's the

00:30:09.220 story.

00:30:09.580 Now here's the

00:30:11.180 sweetener.

00:30:13.140 Three of them

00:30:13.820 got COVID.

00:30:16.040 It's just a

00:30:16.800 sweetener.

00:30:17.760 It has nothing

00:30:18.480 to do with the

00:30:19.020 story, but you

00:30:20.240 just add a little

00:30:20.820 COVID on there.

00:30:21.880 You can do it

00:30:22.360 for anything.

00:30:23.400 It's like baseball

00:30:24.360 season opened.

00:30:26.080 The A's had a

00:30:27.760 good game.

00:30:29.220 Two of them

00:30:29.760 got COVID.

00:30:31.260 It's just a

00:30:31.780 sweetener.

00:30:33.020 Right?

00:30:34.460 Add the

00:30:35.080 sweetener.

00:30:35.380 All right.

00:30:37.780 Remember years

00:30:39.180 ago, there was

00:30:40.320 the mystery

00:30:41.100 possibly a

00:30:42.820 secret sonic

00:30:43.620 weapon that

00:30:44.460 affected the

00:30:46.160 health of some

00:30:46.940 diplomats in

00:30:48.400 Cuba.

00:30:49.120 Do you remember

00:30:49.520 that?

00:30:51.340 And I alone

00:30:52.820 in the entire

00:30:53.560 universe said

00:30:54.420 this is fake

00:30:55.500 news.

00:30:56.880 I believe,

00:30:58.040 can somebody do

00:30:59.220 a fact check on

00:30:59.960 this?

00:31:00.580 I believe I'm

00:31:01.280 still the only

00:31:01.960 person in the

00:31:02.560 world who says

00:31:03.140 that's fake

00:31:03.600 news.

00:31:04.640 Now I'm not

00:31:05.100 saying the

00:31:05.440 people are not

00:31:06.000 sick.

00:31:06.640 That seems to

00:31:07.200 be true.

00:31:08.280 But the cause

00:31:09.360 of it being a

00:31:10.160 secret sonic

00:31:11.160 weapon, I

00:31:12.660 say, fake

00:31:13.860 news.

00:31:15.320 But we have

00:31:16.500 now yet more

00:31:17.600 reports.

00:31:18.200 There was

00:31:18.360 something in

00:31:18.820 Canada and

00:31:19.680 then now

00:31:20.500 Vienna, which

00:31:21.940 we know to be a

00:31:22.700 hotspot of U.S.-Russian

00:31:25.080 spy activity.

00:31:26.880 Sort of a nexus,

00:31:28.080 as they say, of

00:31:29.200 spy activity.

00:31:31.220 And coincidentally,

00:31:32.400 Vienna, which is

00:31:33.100 the nexus of

00:31:34.520 spy activity.

00:31:35.540 Roughly two

00:31:37.760 dozen possible

00:31:38.400 new cases have

00:31:39.160 been reported by

00:31:39.880 U.S. spies and

00:31:40.860 diplomats in the

00:31:41.560 Austrian capital.

00:31:43.240 More than in

00:31:44.360 any other city

00:31:45.300 except Havana.

00:31:46.700 Wait, what?

00:31:48.480 More than in

00:31:49.540 any other city?

00:31:51.320 More than?

00:31:52.660 Are you telling

00:31:53.200 me that this is

00:31:53.880 happening in a

00:31:54.740 variety of other

00:31:55.660 cities, but maybe

00:31:56.880 not as much?

00:31:58.620 Huh.

00:31:59.780 This secret

00:32:00.760 sonic weapon is

00:32:01.800 getting around

00:32:02.460 quite a bit.

00:32:03.180 It turns out

00:32:04.620 that somebody

00:32:05.620 with a secret

00:32:06.260 sonic weapon is

00:32:07.140 going from city

00:32:07.900 to city all

00:32:08.700 over the world,

00:32:10.280 really, zapping a

00:32:11.820 few people, but

00:32:12.880 not as much as

00:32:13.580 Cuba.

00:32:14.740 Not as much as

00:32:15.660 Cuba.

00:32:16.700 And then they'll

00:32:17.160 go to another

00:32:17.660 city, they'll zap

00:32:19.080 a few people with

00:32:19.800 their secret weapon,

00:32:21.340 they'll run away

00:32:22.180 to Austria,

00:32:25.120 Vienna specifically,

00:32:26.420 where apparently

00:32:27.340 there's just a lot

00:32:28.260 of spy zapping

00:32:29.020 with secret

00:32:30.180 sonic weapons.

00:32:30.920 I don't believe

00:32:33.620 any of this.

00:32:35.900 Not a single

00:32:37.100 bit of it.

00:32:37.860 Because this is

00:32:39.380 almost a textbook

00:32:40.480 perfect case of

00:32:42.860 hysteria.

00:32:44.900 In other words,

00:32:45.700 people get sick

00:32:46.680 all the time and

00:32:47.440 they don't know

00:32:47.940 why.

00:32:49.240 If you were to

00:32:50.160 do brain scans

00:32:51.840 of these people's

00:32:52.760 brains, how many

00:32:54.540 of them would

00:32:54.960 have abnormalities?

00:32:57.300 Probably a lot

00:32:58.160 of them.

00:32:58.420 If you just took

00:33:00.260 a random bunch

00:33:00.940 of people and

00:33:01.460 scanned their

00:33:02.380 brains, don't

00:33:03.700 you think you'd

00:33:04.180 find little

00:33:05.380 problems with

00:33:06.420 everybody's brain?

00:33:07.580 It's like, well,

00:33:08.400 this one, a little

00:33:09.620 area over here,

00:33:10.840 and this one's got

00:33:11.960 a little area over

00:33:12.660 there.

00:33:13.240 So I'm not sure

00:33:13.940 the brain scans

00:33:14.660 are really telling

00:33:15.180 us anything.

00:33:16.700 I do think there

00:33:17.640 could be a variety

00:33:18.360 of other reasons

00:33:19.200 that people have

00:33:19.880 these problems.

00:33:21.340 Sick buildings and

00:33:22.460 everything else.

00:33:23.480 But I do not

00:33:24.280 believe, and I will

00:33:25.280 double down, triple

00:33:26.140 down, I will

00:33:26.920 quadruple down on

00:33:28.500 my prediction that

00:33:30.380 it is not a

00:33:31.600 secret sonic

00:33:33.160 weapon.

00:33:35.460 Does anybody

00:33:36.140 think it's a

00:33:36.640 weapon?

00:33:38.560 In the comments,

00:33:39.680 tell me if you

00:33:40.380 believe it is

00:33:41.340 really an actual

00:33:42.100 weapon that

00:33:42.860 somebody's using

00:33:43.480 against all

00:33:43.980 these.

00:33:45.240 How many

00:33:45.560 people?

00:33:45.940 I'm going to

00:33:46.240 read some of

00:33:46.760 your comments.

00:33:47.380 I see a no,

00:33:49.280 yes, no, not

00:33:50.340 sure, don't

00:33:51.020 know, not a

00:33:51.820 weapon, no, no,

00:33:53.160 me, could be,

00:33:54.580 nope, yes, there's

00:33:56.060 a chance, yes,

00:33:58.220 EMF, low

00:34:00.400 probability, yes,

00:34:01.620 microwave, 30%.

00:34:03.200 Oh, okay.

00:34:04.460 Those are good

00:34:05.040 answers.

00:34:05.740 People are, when

00:34:06.800 people are answering

00:34:07.560 in terms of

00:34:08.260 probability, then I

00:34:10.280 know you're

00:34:10.620 thinking, you

00:34:12.240 know, then I

00:34:12.680 know you're

00:34:13.200 putting actual,

00:34:15.140 you know, correct

00:34:16.040 mental effort into

00:34:17.080 this.

00:34:18.500 The people who

00:34:19.800 are just clearly

00:34:22.080 not part of the

00:34:22.860 thinking class are

00:34:24.680 the ones who are

00:34:25.200 sure.

00:34:26.060 Right?

00:34:27.520 I'm making my

00:34:28.500 prediction that this

00:34:29.400 is not a weapon,

00:34:30.800 but if I had to

00:34:31.480 put my certainty

00:34:32.120 on it, it would

00:34:32.600 be closer to 90%

00:34:34.080 maybe.

00:34:34.960 But not 100%,

00:34:36.160 but 90%.

00:34:37.840 Maybe 95%.

00:34:41.060 All right.

00:34:45.340 Let's see what

00:34:46.100 else is going on.

00:34:47.220 The California

00:34:48.060 wildfires are

00:34:49.420 starting.

00:34:50.620 It's weird.

00:34:51.480 We have a fifth

00:34:52.760 season in California.

00:34:54.140 You know, you've

00:34:55.140 got your regular

00:34:56.040 four.

00:34:57.820 You know, they're

00:34:58.260 not pronounced in

00:34:59.140 California, of

00:34:59.720 course.

00:35:00.400 But we now have a

00:35:02.160 fire season.

00:35:03.880 And the fire season

00:35:05.100 is more than whether

00:35:06.280 it affects where you

00:35:07.360 are specifically,

00:35:08.340 because the air just

00:35:09.440 turns smoky.

00:35:10.880 You can't go

00:35:11.360 outdoors.

00:35:12.000 The air quality

00:35:12.620 goes so low that

00:35:13.980 you literally need to

00:35:14.840 stay inside during

00:35:15.780 the summer.

00:35:16.200 And we're just

00:35:17.740 beginning that.

00:35:18.820 So we've got nine

00:35:19.940 fires that are not

00:35:21.680 controlled or not

00:35:23.000 out.

00:35:24.360 Nine fires in

00:35:25.560 California.

00:35:26.480 And here's my

00:35:27.060 question.

00:35:28.140 We really can't

00:35:29.400 figure out how to

00:35:30.060 put out fires in

00:35:32.120 forests in 2021.

00:35:35.440 We literally are

00:35:36.760 putting billionaires

00:35:37.700 in space.

00:35:39.060 But we can't put

00:35:40.040 out fires easily

00:35:42.180 when they start.

00:35:43.580 And I wonder why.

00:35:44.480 Have you ever

00:35:45.380 thought about the

00:35:46.180 science of it?

00:35:48.760 The science of it,

00:35:50.160 which is how fast

00:35:51.920 does a forest fire

00:35:52.760 start?

00:35:53.940 How long does it

00:35:54.860 take to notice it?

00:35:56.780 And then how

00:35:57.480 quickly can you get

00:35:58.780 resources there to

00:35:59.780 maybe surround it

00:36:00.680 or put it out?

00:36:01.940 Why can't we get

00:36:03.400 resources to a fire

00:36:05.540 within one hour of

00:36:07.440 the fire starting?

00:36:09.280 And is that too

00:36:10.160 late?

00:36:11.160 Is one hour enough

00:36:12.300 that there's nothing

00:36:13.280 you could do if you

00:36:14.340 burn for an hour?

00:36:15.260 It's already too

00:36:16.080 big.

00:36:17.240 So here's my

00:36:19.120 question.

00:36:20.200 Why do we not

00:36:20.980 have a permanent

00:36:22.380 fleet of drones

00:36:23.720 that are looking

00:36:25.680 for sparks and

00:36:27.020 little fires,

00:36:27.900 flying at night

00:36:28.700 and looking for

00:36:29.740 smoke and

00:36:30.300 everything?

00:36:30.900 Just sort of a

00:36:31.600 permanent, always

00:36:33.600 in the air, just

00:36:35.400 forest fire looking

00:36:36.620 drones.

00:36:37.800 And then the

00:36:38.340 minute the drones

00:36:39.020 see a fire, why

00:36:41.000 do we not have a

00:36:42.060 fleet of other

00:36:42.920 drones carrying

00:36:44.200 water who just

00:36:45.600 take off and

00:36:46.940 they converge on

00:36:48.160 this place and

00:36:49.300 they're not, maybe

00:36:50.040 not that accurate,

00:36:50.980 but they just drop

00:36:52.240 a shit ton of

00:36:53.080 water or fire

00:36:54.060 suppressants wherever

00:36:55.760 it's been

00:36:56.240 identified?

00:36:57.260 Why do we even

00:36:57.840 have people involved?

00:36:59.560 Are you telling me

00:37:00.280 that the cost of

00:37:01.440 all these fires is

00:37:03.080 not more, well,

00:37:04.920 are you telling me

00:37:05.460 it's more than the

00:37:06.100 cost of building a

00:37:07.040 bunch of drones

00:37:09.180 drones that can

00:37:09.640 put out fires?

00:37:12.860 I get it, water

00:37:13.860 is heavy, but we

00:37:15.540 also have, you

00:37:16.920 know, we do put

00:37:18.040 out fires with

00:37:19.320 airplanes and

00:37:20.100 water.

00:37:21.020 So, of course,

00:37:22.420 there would be an

00:37:22.880 issue of how

00:37:23.580 quickly those planes

00:37:24.880 could get in the

00:37:25.500 air, but why

00:37:27.040 don't we have,

00:37:27.780 like, this giant

00:37:28.540 fleet of, you

00:37:30.720 know, water

00:37:31.220 carrying airplanes

00:37:32.120 that are just

00:37:32.680 ready to go within

00:37:33.880 an hour of

00:37:35.140 somebody spotting

00:37:35.880 it?

00:37:36.860 Or is that not

00:37:37.660 enough?

00:37:38.480 You know, I

00:37:38.720 don't know

00:37:38.960 anything about

00:37:39.440 forest fires, so

00:37:40.120 I may be asking

00:37:40.800 all the dumbest

00:37:41.400 questions, but

00:37:42.660 maybe there's no

00:37:43.440 way to do it.

00:37:44.560 Could you not

00:37:45.380 bring a bunch of

00:37:46.080 bulldozers into

00:37:47.860 an area where

00:37:48.540 there's a fire and

00:37:49.520 just put a ring of,

00:37:50.820 you know, some

00:37:51.960 kind of fire

00:37:52.960 suppressing road

00:37:53.840 and fill it with

00:37:55.240 people who have,

00:37:56.180 you know, small

00:37:56.900 fire suppression

00:37:58.420 gear?

00:37:59.400 How hard is it to

00:38:00.400 get up into those

00:38:01.300 forests?

00:38:03.920 I don't know, it

00:38:04.200 just feels like we're

00:38:04.820 not doing enough.

00:38:06.320 That's what it

00:38:06.820 feels like.

00:38:07.660 California, you're

00:38:08.660 not doing enough, or

00:38:09.580 maybe I just don't

00:38:10.280 know enough.

00:38:11.400 All right, how

00:38:11.940 many stories in the

00:38:13.340 news are caused by

00:38:14.560 the teachers'

00:38:15.460 unions, but we

00:38:16.280 don't talk about it

00:38:17.260 that way?

00:38:18.340 So here are all the

00:38:19.080 stories in the news

00:38:20.160 that, in my opinion,

00:38:22.700 are caused entirely by

00:38:23.900 teachers'

00:38:24.500 unions, or mostly,

00:38:26.360 not entirely.

00:38:28.160 There's a big spike in

00:38:29.380 crime.

00:38:31.280 Would you say that

00:38:32.220 crime is fundamentally

00:38:34.280 caused by the

00:38:35.120 teachers'

00:38:35.600 unions?

00:38:35.840 I say so, because if

00:38:38.300 everybody had the

00:38:39.060 ability to get a

00:38:40.000 better education,

00:38:41.120 especially in poorer

00:38:42.960 neighborhoods, and

00:38:43.760 especially in minority

00:38:45.400 neighborhoods, where it's

00:38:46.720 hardest, it's the worst

00:38:48.060 situations, don't you

00:38:50.120 think there would be a

00:38:50.700 lot less crime?

00:38:52.400 And the reason that they

00:38:53.700 have bad schools in some

00:38:54.960 areas is because of the

00:38:56.120 teachers'

00:38:56.520 unions.

00:38:57.300 The teachers'

00:38:57.980 unions suppress competition

00:39:00.260 in schools, which means

00:39:02.380 that you can never get

00:39:03.960 better, because there's no

00:39:05.360 competition, and everybody

00:39:06.300 just stays where they are.

00:39:07.980 So I would say all the

00:39:09.120 crime stories, and crime is

00:39:10.760 going through the roof, and

00:39:11.980 violent crime is going up,

00:39:13.940 that's pretty much a story of

00:39:16.240 the teachers'

00:39:16.840 unions failing us for

00:39:19.020 decades.

00:39:20.380 How about racism?

00:39:21.620 Well, racism wouldn't go

00:39:24.600 away, because the teachers'

00:39:26.500 unions acted differently.

00:39:27.940 But imagine a world where

00:39:29.440 everybody had the same

00:39:30.320 economic opportunity, because

00:39:32.400 they all had a good

00:39:33.140 education.

00:39:35.420 Everything's different.

00:39:36.980 The entire filter on racial

00:39:41.180 discrimination would be

00:39:42.460 completely different if

00:39:44.080 everybody got out of school

00:39:45.260 with a good education, or at

00:39:46.640 least the opportunity to get

00:39:47.760 one.

00:39:48.300 It would change

00:39:48.880 everything.

00:39:49.800 Now, of course, there's still

00:39:50.740 racism, but it would make

00:39:52.360 such a difference.

00:39:53.340 It's the number one biggest

00:39:54.520 thing you could do.

00:39:56.640 There's a story today about

00:39:58.020 disparities in STEM.

00:40:00.580 Why are there disparities in

00:40:03.620 STEM?

00:40:04.220 So apparently the government

00:40:05.520 of the United States has

00:40:06.580 decided to be really stupid.

00:40:09.560 The stupidest thing you could

00:40:11.120 do is to try to incent or

00:40:14.660 force companies into hiring

00:40:17.160 more minorities into STEM

00:40:18.720 positions.

00:40:20.340 Why is that the worst idea in

00:40:21.720 the world?

00:40:22.140 Is it because I'm racist?

00:40:23.540 No.

00:40:24.740 It's because there's nobody to

00:40:25.880 hire.

00:40:26.220 You don't think that all these

00:40:29.320 big, woke corporations would

00:40:32.140 be hiring as many minority and

00:40:35.520 women and handicapped and

00:40:37.080 everything else?

00:40:37.820 You don't think they would be

00:40:38.740 hiring as many as they could if

00:40:40.080 they had supply?

00:40:42.320 If they existed, you don't think

00:40:44.720 they'd be hiring them like

00:40:45.620 crazy?

00:40:46.560 Of course they would.

00:40:47.780 The problem is supply.

00:40:48.740 They don't exist.

00:40:50.240 So, of course, it's being

00:40:51.660 attacked in the wrong place.

00:40:52.760 The right place to attack it

00:40:54.060 would be teachers' unions.

00:40:57.800 The reason that there are not

00:40:59.040 enough, let's say, minorities in

00:41:01.560 particular in STEM is because

00:41:04.140 they're coming out of schools that

00:41:05.760 are poorly executed.

00:41:08.900 If you fix the schools, you would

00:41:11.460 have a supply of minority people

00:41:14.340 for STEM, and then the big

00:41:16.220 companies would hire them, and

00:41:18.460 then you wouldn't have a problem.

00:41:20.300 Again, it's teachers' unions.

00:41:21.540 How about vaccination decisions?

00:41:27.500 Oh, it got complicated now,

00:41:29.180 didn't it?

00:41:30.080 You don't know what to think.

00:41:32.200 I'm borrowing a line from Norm

00:41:33.980 McDonald.

00:41:35.180 He goes, you don't know what to

00:41:36.140 think now.

00:41:38.460 Well, here's what I would say about

00:41:40.060 vaccination decisions.

00:41:41.280 You can make your own vaccination

00:41:42.460 decision, of course.

00:41:43.820 I'm not going to influence you.

00:41:45.500 But don't you think that a lot of

00:41:47.800 decisions are being made by people

00:41:49.740 who are not good at decision

00:41:50.840 making, don't you?

00:41:53.280 It's their own decision, so let it

00:41:55.200 remain their own decision.

00:41:56.900 But how many people have learned

00:41:58.540 how to make decisions?

00:42:01.420 And why do the schools not teach

00:42:03.600 that?

00:42:05.140 Teachers' unions, basically.

00:42:07.940 The teachers' unions are keeping the

00:42:09.460 schools kind of the way they've always

00:42:10.980 been.

00:42:11.240 They don't change that much.

00:42:12.460 But imagine if you had competition.

00:42:15.680 Imagine.

00:42:16.720 Just imagine somebody opening a

00:42:18.760 competitive school, a private school in

00:42:20.880 a neighborhood where you don't have

00:42:24.300 much opportunity, and they teach a

00:42:27.160 class on strategy and decision-making,

00:42:29.880 like life strategy and decision-making.

00:42:33.080 It would be like a superpower.

00:42:34.400 But kids don't learn that stuff.

00:42:37.280 Now, how would that affect your

00:42:38.780 vaccination decision?

00:42:40.940 Well, I don't know if it would make you

00:42:42.140 more likely or less likely to get a

00:42:43.800 vaccination, your decision.

00:42:46.500 But at least you'd be making a

00:42:48.220 rational one.

00:42:49.200 And right now, the worry is that people

00:42:50.640 are not making rational decisions.

00:42:52.760 So at least we get the rational part

00:42:54.260 fixed.

00:42:55.300 So when you look at all these various

00:42:58.080 problems in the world, it turns out a lot

00:43:01.800 of them have the same problem.

00:43:04.660 What's wrong with the economy?

00:43:06.840 Is it that people are not trained for

00:43:08.680 the right kinds of jobs?

00:43:10.080 Yes.

00:43:11.520 Right?

00:43:12.240 You could go right down the line.

00:43:15.200 Almost every problem we have has at its

00:43:18.080 base that we didn't educate the public

00:43:20.700 properly.

00:43:22.180 And specifically, we did not educate the

00:43:25.620 low-income part of the public properly.

00:43:28.640 And that bites you in the ass.

00:43:30.380 It'll bite you in the ass every time.

00:43:31.800 You know that.

00:43:32.700 That's why we have public schools in the

00:43:34.340 first place.

00:43:35.860 Because everybody knows if you don't

00:43:37.460 educate the kids, you're doomed in the

00:43:39.820 long run.

00:43:42.960 Elisa says, I learned decision-making in

00:43:45.080 science class.

00:43:45.860 I'll bet you didn't.

00:43:47.580 Because I learned it in economics.

00:43:50.860 And I'll bet it doesn't look the same.

00:43:53.440 I think you need both of those.

00:43:54.820 I think you need science, but you also

00:43:57.320 need business and economics.

00:43:59.400 And maybe psychology as well.

00:44:01.800 To get a full, you know, talent stack for

00:44:05.460 decision-making, is what I'd say.

00:44:09.460 Now, one of the most interesting things is

00:44:11.540 that there's also concern that among the

00:44:14.560 STEM workforce, there's not only is there not

00:44:17.700 enough women and not enough minorities, but

00:44:20.100 there are not enough disabled scientists.

00:44:23.780 Not enough disabled scientists.

00:44:25.280 And people are concerned about that.

00:44:26.880 And I'm thinking, that would be the easiest

00:44:29.480 one to solve.

00:44:31.080 Because what you do is you take the

00:44:32.900 scientists you already have that are not

00:44:34.620 disabled, and you would encourage them to

00:44:37.700 take on hobbies and sports, which have a high

00:44:41.840 accident rate.

00:44:43.680 Now, you don't solve the problem immediately.

00:44:46.020 But if you get enough scientists who are rock climbing

00:44:49.960 and doing competitive biking and such, you're going to

00:44:54.360 get some disabled scientists.

00:44:56.680 It doesn't happen right away, but at least you get that

00:44:59.320 good outcome of more disabled scientists.

00:45:02.260 Some would say you should start with the disabled and make

00:45:06.300 them into scientists.

00:45:07.540 I say that's the hard way.

00:45:09.700 It's going to be a lot easier to start with a scientist and

00:45:12.360 turn them disabled.

00:45:14.180 I mean, one of them is easy.

00:45:15.480 One of them is hard.

00:45:16.780 And if the goal is to have more disabled scientists, I see an

00:45:20.660 easy way to do it and a hard way to do it.

00:45:23.140 So one of them is going to be a lot faster.

00:45:26.200 That's all I'm saying.

00:45:27.540 Make your own decisions.

00:45:28.540 I'm not here for your moral or ethical dilemmas.

00:45:32.260 You have to solve that on your own.

00:45:34.160 I'm just saying one is faster.

00:45:36.160 That's all I'm saying.

00:45:37.880 I'm not promoting any kind of violence.

00:45:40.800 I'm just saying one is faster.

00:45:42.240 That's all.

00:45:44.860 So, has anybody been booted off of Twitter or social media

00:45:52.060 lately?

00:45:52.360 Is anybody getting banned for saying all the wrong stuff?

00:45:58.220 Well, well, we know it's coming.

00:46:05.760 You self-botted yourself.

00:46:07.660 Okay.

00:46:09.040 I see that in the comments.

00:46:11.740 And how many of you are happy with the audio on these podcasts now?

00:46:19.940 Is it pretty good?

00:46:20.960 Because there's another level I need to take it to.

00:46:23.260 So I've got these two Rodecasters and apparently they both need a firmware

00:46:27.020 upgrade, which will give me a little more control over the specifics of my

00:46:33.340 sound.

00:46:35.180 I think I can make it even better, but I don't know if I want to play with it.

00:46:42.160 The audio is the best it's ever been.

00:46:44.660 Would it help anybody for me to do a little tutorial on how I got the audio to

00:46:49.600 work well?

00:46:50.040 Because it turns out you learn a lot that's easy to share.

00:46:56.120 It's not really complicated stuff.

00:46:59.440 Somebody says the audio is greater than locals, but it's lower on YouTube.

00:47:05.080 Interesting.

00:47:06.220 It will be the same.

00:47:08.200 I'm pretty sure it will be the same once I have two iPads running.

00:47:17.300 All right.

00:47:18.100 Yes.

00:47:19.200 Oh, let me give you this micro lesson.

00:47:22.640 So I was asked on the locals platform to do a micro lesson on how to better do

00:47:28.100 multitasking.

00:47:30.000 And so I've been thinking about that for a while and here's my answer.

00:47:34.420 Multitasking is an illusion.

00:47:37.680 There's no such thing.

00:47:39.120 So trying to do multitasking better would be kind of like trying to use magic

00:47:45.420 better since magic doesn't exist.

00:47:48.200 You can't really do it better.

00:47:51.000 Likewise, since multitasking isn't a real thing, it doesn't actually exist, you can't

00:47:56.400 do it better.

00:47:57.540 But here's what we can say about it.

00:48:00.280 Avoid it.

00:48:01.380 The number one thing you should do about multitasking is avoid it.

00:48:06.100 Multitasking makes you worse at everything.

00:48:07.920 And it makes you distracted and it just brings down your performance at everything.

00:48:13.680 Now, there are lots of jobs where the difficulty of all your things is not very high.

00:48:19.880 So let's say you're working at McDonald's and you've got all kinds of things and you've

00:48:24.840 got to keep the french fries going and take care of a customer and stuff like that.

00:48:28.600 That kind of multitasking, most people can handle and it's fine because you don't need

00:48:35.960 to think deeply about the french fries.

00:48:38.000 You just need to respond to them when the timer goes off.

00:48:42.060 But let's say you have a thinking job.

00:48:45.100 You're a computer programmer and you need to really go deep on things.

00:48:48.760 You're a scientist.

00:48:49.680 You're a creative person and you have to go really deep.

00:48:53.000 How do you multitask in those situations?

00:48:55.340 And the answer is, don't, don't.

00:48:59.960 Do not multitask if you're going to think deeply about anything important.

00:49:05.580 It doesn't work.

00:49:07.180 You need to be able to go down the well, all the way down the well with the smarter thinking

00:49:13.120 jobs.

00:49:14.180 You've got to go deep.

00:49:16.540 That's one of the reasons that I like getting up at, you know, oh God, 100 in the morning

00:49:21.880 so early that other people are not awake to bother me yet.

00:49:26.480 So when I get up at three or four in the morning, I can think very deeply because there's nothing

00:49:32.900 else going on.

00:49:34.340 I'm not distracted by what's happened in my day because nothing's happened yet.

00:49:38.820 I'm not getting phone calls, texts, emails.

00:49:41.660 Just nothing's happening.

00:49:42.520 And those times I can just go down the well as far as I want.

00:49:47.580 And I would say that's your multitasking lesson is that just avoid it.

00:49:55.460 Don't do it if you have to think.

00:49:57.740 But if you have a job that doesn't require thinking, it's just doing a bunch of stuff,

00:50:02.420 everybody can do that.

00:50:03.860 You just have to have a little practice.

00:50:05.300 All right.

00:50:08.980 That is all I have for today.

00:50:11.860 And I will talk to all of you tomorrow.

00:50:14.260 Goodbye, YouTubers.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 18, 2021

Episode 1440 Scott Adams： The Republican Pandemic, Teachers Unions Destroy Everything, and More Fun

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