Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 24, 2021


Episode 1446 Scott Adams： Persuasion Lessons Using China and Vaccinations as the Topics Plus More Fun


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00:00:45.300 Oh, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Well, I hear the Olympics are on. Is anybody watching that?
00:00:53.900 Probably not. Seriously. In the comments. Are any of you watching the Olympics?
00:01:03.420 And if you are, why are you doing that? What would be the point of that? For entertainment?
00:01:11.800 I just don't know why people watch it.
00:01:20.280 Let me cough it out today. Sorry about that.
00:01:26.080 So here's a question for you.
00:01:27.540 You've been following the big lie, the branded big lie.
00:01:33.800 Now, that's what the anti-Trump, anti-Republican folks are calling Trump's claim and other people's
00:01:41.740 claim that the 2020 election was rigged. It's a big lie.
00:01:46.500 Now, here's the thing that's different about the big lie, persuasion,
00:01:51.500 versus almost anything else we see.
00:01:56.140 And the difference is that this one looks professional.
00:02:00.580 I've told you that before, right?
00:02:02.660 But the big lie doesn't look like something that just grew organically
00:02:07.180 and if maybe somebody used it and other people said,
00:02:10.500 oh, that sounds good, I'll use it too.
00:02:12.160 Maybe. I wouldn't rule it out.
00:02:16.580 But it's a little too professional.
00:02:20.440 So it looks to me like some professional persuader
00:02:22.980 who had enough power to make something happen
00:02:26.520 said, just call it the big lie and that will make it go away
00:02:30.760 because anybody who agrees with it will be a Nazi.
00:02:35.120 Which is beautiful.
00:02:36.400 It's the same strategy as Antifa.
00:02:38.080 Antifa, when they named themselves, it was a perfect name
00:02:42.940 because if you say, well, I'm against the people
00:02:46.560 who are against fascists, what does that make you?
00:02:50.980 A fascist, right?
00:02:53.420 How about Black Lives Matter?
00:02:55.520 If you're opposed to Black Lives Matter, well, you're a racist.
00:03:00.840 It doesn't matter why you're opposed or what you're opposed to.
00:03:03.860 It could be their funding or whatever.
00:03:05.340 But the name itself is a trap.
00:03:09.320 And the same technique is being used with this big lie.
00:03:13.480 If you brand something the big lie,
00:03:16.260 then anybody who buys into it is a Nazi
00:03:19.700 because that's where the origin of the big lie comes from.
00:03:24.520 So we've got this big professional thing out there
00:03:28.560 and I asked the question on Twitter in my highly unscientific poll,
00:03:31.860 which topic best fits the description, the big lie?
00:03:36.000 I gave three options.
00:03:37.800 One is Trump's claims of election fraud.
00:03:42.060 The other is the fine people hoax that Biden pushed to get elected.
00:03:47.220 And the other is that the January 6th riot was an insurrection.
00:03:52.840 Which of those is the big lie?
00:03:54.480 Not so clear, is it?
00:03:58.900 Think about the damage that the fine people hoax did.
00:04:03.060 That's really damaging.
00:04:05.540 Think about the fact that we're currently right in the middle of a hoax
00:04:09.780 in which the entire left of the country
00:04:12.680 believes an insurrection was attempted with no weapons.
00:04:18.500 I mean, no weapons that would be useful for an insurrection.
00:04:23.380 And that is actually happening.
00:04:26.360 We're being sold this big lie that January 6th was an insurrection.
00:04:31.380 That is the big lie, right?
00:04:34.260 To me, this looks like the big lie.
00:04:37.540 But you can't say that because they already took it.
00:04:41.040 They already took that big lie thing.
00:04:43.160 But do you remember what Trump did with the phrase fake news?
00:04:46.760 He took the gun out of their hand and flipped it around.
00:04:50.780 And he made fake news the brand for the people who were using it against him.
00:04:54.700 And it worked.
00:04:56.000 Fake news now only means the left.
00:04:59.840 You don't even think of Fox News when you think of the term,
00:05:03.700 even though it could apply to anything that's fake news.
00:05:07.400 But Trump just completely turned that brand around.
00:05:11.100 Could he do it with the big lie?
00:05:12.760 Well, he can't, because he's shut out of the social media machine.
00:05:17.500 So he doesn't have the power to do that at the moment.
00:05:20.580 But I would think that everywhere you saw the January 6th thing being called an insurrection,
00:05:26.580 if you were to start referring to it as hashtag the big lie,
00:05:30.880 then anybody who searched the hashtag would find you calling out the insurrection as bullshit,
00:05:36.940 maybe some reasons that you gave.
00:05:38.400 So I think the public could change this big lie branding into something else.
00:05:46.580 And that would be interesting.
00:05:47.840 Just see if you could do it.
00:05:49.460 But for sure, that's a professional.
00:05:51.520 I would say there's a really high likelihood.
00:05:53.840 I can't say 100% that this is professional work.
00:05:57.100 Now, somebody said to me on Twitter that there's no amount of persuasion
00:06:04.780 that could be applied to the vaccination question
00:06:07.840 that would get lots more people to get vaccinated.
00:06:11.800 And the idea was that it's because people have already made up their mind.
00:06:17.100 What do you think of that?
00:06:18.780 Do you think it's true that because people have already made up their mind about vaccinations,
00:06:24.280 and that part's probably true, most people have made up their minds,
00:06:28.340 but do you think that therefore it would be immune to, let's say,
00:06:32.020 a massive government brainwashing operation?
00:06:35.580 Do you think that the people, the individuals,
00:06:39.040 could hold off a full-scale professional persuasion?
00:06:47.380 I don't think so.
00:06:51.000 I don't think you know how powerful persuasion could be
00:06:54.440 when applied to its maximum amount.
00:06:58.300 Because what we're used to is a bad persuader
00:07:01.100 trying to convince one person of something, and it doesn't work.
00:07:05.280 So 99% of everything you see
00:07:08.020 that is somebody trying to persuade somebody doesn't work
00:07:11.460 because they're not good at persuading,
00:07:13.740 and like I said, people make up their minds and it's hard to change them.
00:07:16.780 But if a government wanted to change your mind
00:07:21.860 with all the resources of a government,
00:07:24.720 and let's say they got the social media platforms on their side,
00:07:28.480 could they change your mind?
00:07:30.160 Now, also with a professional.
00:07:32.900 So whoever came up with the big lie,
00:07:36.640 somebody who has that kind of skill,
00:07:39.000 working with all the power of a government
00:07:41.020 and all the power of social media,
00:07:43.760 you don't think that they could make you do any damn thing that they want?
00:07:48.280 They could.
00:07:49.720 They could make the public do almost anything, right?
00:07:55.060 They would just have to push hard enough.
00:07:57.380 So it's really just a question of how they wanted to push
00:08:00.000 and whether they had a professional helping them
00:08:02.960 and that sort of thing.
00:08:04.660 But yeah, you could move anybody to do anything
00:08:06.620 if you push hard enough
00:08:07.620 because the social media companies
00:08:11.160 and the news
00:08:12.260 are essentially captured...
00:08:18.520 So big...
00:08:19.960 Well, I'm not going to say your name,
00:08:21.660 big bad word Floyd,
00:08:23.880 but he's saying,
00:08:26.360 Scott is a sheep, LOL.
00:08:28.560 You fucking idiot.
00:08:30.600 First of all,
00:08:31.860 have a little bit of sense
00:08:33.480 about what I'm actually saying
00:08:35.020 so your fucking hallucination
00:08:37.140 doesn't become your opinion.
00:08:39.340 You don't know what my opinion is,
00:08:41.400 but you've got a pretty strong opinion about my opinion,
00:08:44.260 which isn't even on the right fucking planet.
00:08:46.980 All right?
00:08:47.480 So let me be really clear.
00:08:49.600 I don't care if you get a vaccination.
00:08:51.140 I don't care if you wear a mask.
00:08:53.740 And the reason is,
00:08:54.800 I don't care if you fucking die.
00:08:56.980 Seriously.
00:08:57.640 I don't care if you die.
00:09:00.360 Can I be more clear about that?
00:09:02.520 I'm not trying to make you wear a mask.
00:09:04.700 I'm not trying to make you get vaccinated
00:09:06.420 because I don't fucking care about you.
00:09:09.820 Is that clear?
00:09:11.460 Do you think you can hold that in your brain
00:09:13.200 long enough to form a reasonable opinion?
00:09:18.260 Come back to me
00:09:19.240 when you're not such a fucking idiot.
00:09:20.760 Okay?
00:09:21.480 And then you can leave another opinion.
00:09:24.980 All right.
00:09:30.180 All right.
00:09:31.000 Just looking at your comments there.
00:09:33.040 So I suggested this,
00:09:34.780 and this is a persuasion lesson,
00:09:38.360 but I don't expect this to happen.
00:09:42.180 But in knowing why it could work,
00:09:45.020 you're going to learn something.
00:09:46.260 Okay?
00:09:46.420 So here's your little lesson on persuasion for today.
00:09:49.600 If the, let's say the news industry wanted to,
00:09:55.100 and the government,
00:09:56.300 wanted you to get more vaccinated,
00:09:58.380 here's how they could do it.
00:09:59.480 They could just report the death rate from COVID
00:10:04.020 by political party.
00:10:07.700 Do you see it without me explaining why that would work?
00:10:11.300 Because the first thing you might say to yourself,
00:10:13.280 that's not going to make any difference.
00:10:14.700 The Republicans know that they're less vaccinated,
00:10:17.580 and they know that if they're less vaccinated and more of them die,
00:10:22.660 well, that was just the choice they made.
00:10:25.300 Right?
00:10:25.460 So why would that change anybody's mind
00:10:27.900 just to know the death rate
00:10:30.140 of the Democrats versus the Republicans?
00:10:36.120 Why would that be persuasive?
00:10:38.900 Well, let me tell you why.
00:10:41.380 Here's a little trick of persuasion
00:10:43.400 that really comes from the field of management.
00:10:47.360 Whatever you track
00:10:48.880 is what you manage to.
00:10:51.280 Whatever you can track
00:10:54.920 is what you will manage to.
00:10:57.840 This is just one of the reasons
00:10:59.400 why following the money
00:11:01.060 is such a good way to predict the future,
00:11:04.180 or even predict the past,
00:11:05.720 in a sense, to find out what happened.
00:11:08.380 People will bias their decisions
00:11:11.560 toward things which can be measured.
00:11:14.880 If something can be measured,
00:11:17.160 they will pay more attention to it.
00:11:19.160 They'll work toward making that number
00:11:21.020 better in whatever way.
00:11:22.860 But if something is not measurable,
00:11:26.200 or even not measured,
00:11:27.820 it doesn't even have to be accurately measured,
00:11:30.260 if nobody's measuring it,
00:11:31.640 nobody cares.
00:11:33.040 Nobody does anything about it.
00:11:36.160 But the moment you measure it,
00:11:39.720 people start acting differently.
00:11:41.120 It's a basic management concept.
00:11:44.300 Now, given the tribalism
00:11:45.760 in politics in the United States,
00:11:47.340 if you said,
00:11:48.120 here's how many Democrats died
00:11:49.800 as a percentage of Democrats,
00:11:51.360 here's how many Republicans died
00:11:53.600 this week from COVID
00:11:54.600 as a percentage of Republicans,
00:11:57.860 you wouldn't have to say another thing
00:11:59.860 about the vaccinations.
00:12:02.220 You wouldn't.
00:12:03.500 Now, if it turns out,
00:12:04.720 let's say three possibilities,
00:12:06.980 one is that Republicans
00:12:08.220 are dying at a much higher rate
00:12:10.920 because they're less vaccinated.
00:12:13.880 What would that cause other Republicans
00:12:15.720 to do?
00:12:16.220 Well, you might not care
00:12:18.120 about the vaccination,
00:12:19.940 but you're sure as shit
00:12:21.500 not wanting your team to lose.
00:12:24.600 And when not wanting your team to lose,
00:12:26.700 meaning not have more Republicans
00:12:28.320 dying from preventable illnesses,
00:12:32.260 you're going to change your behavior.
00:12:34.960 So you would actually do things
00:12:36.680 to win an argument
00:12:37.660 that you wouldn't do
00:12:38.840 to protect your own life.
00:12:40.940 Let me say that again.
00:12:43.120 People will do things
00:12:44.380 to win an argument
00:12:45.440 to be right,
00:12:47.520 to be on the side
00:12:48.320 that got the good result.
00:12:50.180 More importantly,
00:12:51.120 then they will save their own life
00:12:52.380 because we do reckless stuff
00:12:53.720 all the time.
00:12:54.840 Like every day,
00:12:55.660 people do reckless stuff.
00:12:57.260 So that's just normal.
00:12:58.960 But winning an argument,
00:13:01.140 people don't walk away
00:13:02.160 from an argument
00:13:02.800 if they think they can win.
00:13:04.600 Like, well,
00:13:05.300 maybe if I did get vaccinated,
00:13:08.220 my team would have
00:13:09.000 a little better chance.
00:13:12.200 So,
00:13:12.780 and then also there's
00:13:14.820 an interesting element to this,
00:13:16.900 which is if we found out
00:13:18.160 that one political side
00:13:22.240 had a higher death rate,
00:13:23.960 it would almost immediately
00:13:26.220 turn into a voter suppression question.
00:13:29.340 Let me ask you this.
00:13:31.480 Is Biden involved
00:13:32.760 in voter suppression
00:13:33.860 by recommending
00:13:35.460 that everybody
00:13:36.120 get a vaccination?
00:13:39.200 Think about it.
00:13:40.860 Biden recommends
00:13:41.880 that everybody
00:13:42.400 gets a vaccination.
00:13:43.940 Is that voter suppression?
00:13:46.900 It is.
00:13:48.560 Because when a Democrat
00:13:50.300 says get vaccinated,
00:13:51.680 it makes Republicans say,
00:13:53.360 well, maybe not.
00:13:55.440 Am I right?
00:13:56.960 It's the people
00:13:58.560 just have a natural aversion
00:13:59.980 to what the other team
00:14:00.880 wants them to do.
00:14:02.700 So,
00:14:03.340 in all likelihood,
00:14:05.540 Biden encouraging
00:14:06.760 Republicans
00:14:08.000 to get vaccinated
00:14:08.940 might cause
00:14:10.380 fewer of them
00:14:11.100 to get vaccinated
00:14:12.000 because it sounds
00:14:12.540 like a Democrat idea,
00:14:13.980 which would cause
00:14:15.520 more Republicans
00:14:16.540 to die,
00:14:17.200 which would be
00:14:17.660 voter suppression.
00:14:19.260 Now,
00:14:19.620 I'm not saying
00:14:20.200 that would be big enough
00:14:20.960 to make a difference,
00:14:22.180 but you could imagine
00:14:23.320 the argument.
00:14:23.840 All right.
00:14:28.860 Here's a factoid.
00:14:31.280 Here's another
00:14:32.040 persuasion
00:14:33.500 and psychology
00:14:35.000 kind of a topic.
00:14:37.380 So,
00:14:37.620 Max Abrams
00:14:38.500 reports on Twitter
00:14:39.920 that,
00:14:41.260 I guess there's a study
00:14:42.320 that says
00:14:42.660 the rate of suicide
00:14:43.420 attempts
00:14:44.000 appears to have been
00:14:46.080 inversely related
00:14:47.320 to school closures.
00:14:49.020 Now,
00:14:49.220 what's the,
00:14:50.060 wouldn't you just imagine
00:14:51.100 that the school closures
00:14:53.600 would cause
00:14:54.160 more suicides
00:14:55.120 because the kids
00:14:55.840 would be depressed,
00:14:56.680 they wouldn't be
00:14:57.080 with their friends,
00:14:58.380 couldn't do what
00:14:58.940 they want to do,
00:14:59.960 don't have a social life?
00:15:01.620 You'd expect
00:15:02.080 more suicides,
00:15:02.880 right?
00:15:03.620 It turns out
00:15:04.180 it's the other way around
00:15:05.080 according to one study
00:15:06.160 that the people
00:15:08.340 who went to school
00:15:09.180 were committing
00:15:10.400 more suicides
00:15:11.280 than the people
00:15:12.180 who were remote learning.
00:15:14.460 Does that make sense
00:15:15.520 to you?
00:15:17.120 I saw Claire,
00:15:18.100 Claire Lehman
00:15:19.100 referred to it
00:15:20.460 as non-intuitive.
00:15:22.400 I'm not so sure.
00:15:24.240 I'm not so sure
00:15:25.260 you shouldn't have
00:15:25.940 expected that result.
00:15:27.160 Here's why.
00:15:28.520 The kids who were
00:15:29.180 doing remote learning
00:15:30.060 got closer
00:15:30.700 to their families.
00:15:32.680 Wouldn't you say?
00:15:34.020 I mean,
00:15:34.380 maybe not every family.
00:15:36.060 But if you stay
00:15:36.760 home all day
00:15:37.500 and you don't have
00:15:38.640 the option of playing
00:15:39.400 with your friends,
00:15:40.760 you end up
00:15:41.620 getting a little closer
00:15:42.880 to your family,
00:15:43.420 I would think.
00:15:44.420 So,
00:15:45.200 I would think
00:15:46.340 that would reduce suicides.
00:15:48.560 Your,
00:15:48.900 your,
00:15:49.480 more supervised,
00:15:52.520 you're closer
00:15:52.980 to your family.
00:15:54.000 But also,
00:15:54.800 I don't think
00:15:55.180 people quite realize
00:15:56.360 the toxic
00:15:57.960 lethality
00:15:59.280 of bullying.
00:16:01.420 The bullying
00:16:02.000 happens when you
00:16:02.860 go to school,
00:16:03.560 doesn't it?
00:16:04.460 You know,
00:16:04.700 there's bullying
00:16:05.200 online,
00:16:05.800 but I have to think
00:16:06.440 that the in-person
00:16:07.360 stuff is the bad
00:16:08.260 stuff.
00:16:09.540 And,
00:16:10.100 it's the bullying
00:16:11.220 that causes people
00:16:12.120 to kill people,
00:16:13.180 kill each other.
00:16:14.420 If,
00:16:15.020 if you take
00:16:15.560 a loner
00:16:16.140 and you say,
00:16:17.600 hey,
00:16:17.800 you loner,
00:16:18.360 how do you feel?
00:16:18.960 They might say,
00:16:19.640 everybody else is happy,
00:16:21.220 but I'm a loner,
00:16:22.720 so,
00:16:23.360 you know,
00:16:23.700 I need to end things.
00:16:25.580 But what if the loner
00:16:26.580 knows that everybody's
00:16:27.440 a loner?
00:16:28.940 Suddenly,
00:16:29.360 everybody's a loner.
00:16:30.420 You're on the same boat.
00:16:31.400 All those popular people,
00:16:33.180 all the popular people,
00:16:34.480 they're loners
00:16:35.000 during the pandemic.
00:16:36.360 So,
00:16:37.820 I would think
00:16:38.240 that that would also
00:16:39.000 make you feel
00:16:39.720 more like everybody else.
00:16:42.220 Same boat.
00:16:43.960 So,
00:16:44.540 I can think of
00:16:45.180 a number of mechanisms
00:16:46.240 that would work on this
00:16:48.060 to make
00:16:48.740 the remote learning
00:16:50.380 safer,
00:16:51.300 at least in terms
00:16:52.160 of taking your own life.
00:16:54.760 Not surprised at all.
00:16:56.940 All right,
00:16:57.080 here's another surprise.
00:16:58.800 So,
00:16:59.100 Biden's got this
00:16:59.960 proposed
00:17:00.780 $3.5 trillion
00:17:02.740 infrastructure package.
00:17:04.420 What do you think
00:17:06.940 the economists say
00:17:07.780 about that?
00:17:08.620 Pretty easy question,
00:17:09.660 right?
00:17:10.560 We've already got some,
00:17:12.900 not some,
00:17:13.540 we've got a lot
00:17:14.060 of debt pressure,
00:17:15.160 we've got
00:17:15.640 inflation pressure
00:17:17.120 from all the money
00:17:19.580 that flowed in
00:17:20.180 for the pandemic stuff.
00:17:22.020 So,
00:17:22.920 don't you think
00:17:23.500 that economists
00:17:24.360 could at least
00:17:24.960 get this question right?
00:17:26.980 Does the $3.5 trillion
00:17:28.800 infrastructure package
00:17:30.460 increase inflation
00:17:32.420 or decrease it?
00:17:34.420 very basic.
00:17:36.600 You know,
00:17:36.820 if you went to school
00:17:37.600 for years
00:17:38.160 to become an economist,
00:17:39.920 I don't think
00:17:40.500 there could be
00:17:40.900 a more basic question
00:17:41.920 than this.
00:17:43.880 And,
00:17:44.340 of course,
00:17:45.700 economists disagree.
00:17:48.780 What?
00:17:50.120 Here's everything
00:17:51.040 that you need to know
00:17:52.000 about economists.
00:17:54.840 The simplest fucking question
00:17:56.580 in the world
00:17:57.220 they're disagreeing on.
00:18:00.040 Do you know
00:18:00.680 what is the simplest
00:18:01.480 question in the world?
00:18:02.460 Will adding
00:18:03.640 $3.5 trillion
00:18:04.980 to the economy
00:18:06.220 in spending
00:18:07.120 increase inflation?
00:18:10.140 Now,
00:18:10.640 when I say
00:18:10.980 it's the simplest question,
00:18:12.500 I don't mean
00:18:13.620 that I know the answer.
00:18:16.700 I've got a degree
00:18:17.620 in economics.
00:18:18.800 I've got an MBA
00:18:19.580 from a top school.
00:18:21.440 I don't know the answer.
00:18:24.300 That's everything
00:18:25.000 you need to know
00:18:25.560 about economics.
00:18:26.700 It's the simplest question
00:18:28.320 and nobody
00:18:30.200 knows the answer.
00:18:32.100 I mean,
00:18:32.640 a lot of people
00:18:33.060 think they know
00:18:33.660 the answer.
00:18:34.960 But here's
00:18:35.700 some of the argument.
00:18:37.800 Now,
00:18:38.260 the argument
00:18:38.660 that it would
00:18:40.240 increase inflation
00:18:42.040 is obvious
00:18:42.720 because you add
00:18:43.860 a bunch of money
00:18:44.440 into the economy
00:18:45.220 and there's more money
00:18:46.840 chasing the same amount
00:18:48.400 of goods and services
00:18:49.320 so those people
00:18:50.460 just increase their prices
00:18:51.580 because they can get it.
00:18:53.000 There's all this money here.
00:18:54.420 Hey,
00:18:54.640 I'll raise my prices.
00:18:55.540 Somebody will pay it.
00:18:56.140 So there's an obvious reason
00:18:58.380 why the inflation
00:18:59.220 might go up
00:19:00.020 but what is the argument
00:19:01.240 that it might not?
00:19:03.100 How in the world
00:19:04.060 can you make an argument
00:19:05.140 that it won't inflate?
00:19:07.020 Well,
00:19:07.500 it turns out
00:19:07.920 there is an argument
00:19:08.520 and one part
00:19:10.320 of the argument
00:19:10.700 is there are tons
00:19:11.940 of people
00:19:12.320 who are unemployed
00:19:13.040 so they can just
00:19:14.680 go back to work
00:19:15.620 so the employees
00:19:17.640 will not necessarily
00:19:19.520 put pressure
00:19:21.620 on employers
00:19:24.200 to raise their prices
00:19:26.360 to raise their pay
00:19:27.820 because if you have
00:19:29.060 plenty of employees
00:19:30.080 who could just
00:19:30.740 go back to work
00:19:31.480 anytime they made
00:19:32.300 themselves available
00:19:33.180 then in the long run
00:19:35.180 it should not put
00:19:36.100 pressure on wages
00:19:36.880 and that should keep
00:19:37.920 inflation under control.
00:19:39.480 Does that make sense?
00:19:41.120 And another part
00:19:42.820 of the reason
00:19:43.340 and this part
00:19:43.960 is just bullshit
00:19:44.560 politics reasons
00:19:45.500 but I'll put it
00:19:46.360 out there anyway.
00:19:47.860 Part of what
00:19:48.840 Biden's package
00:19:49.720 wants to do
00:19:50.580 is to create
00:19:52.200 low-cost housing
00:19:53.820 that doesn't exist.
00:19:56.000 And so part
00:19:56.400 of the argument
00:19:56.840 is hey
00:19:57.520 all these people
00:19:58.800 who would have been
00:19:59.680 paying for more
00:20:02.060 expensive housing
00:20:03.020 will now have
00:20:03.760 low-cost housing
00:20:04.700 but there's no way
00:20:06.400 that that's going
00:20:06.920 to happen fast
00:20:07.720 and there's no way
00:20:08.720 that that's going
00:20:09.240 to be enough
00:20:10.080 of a difference
00:20:10.720 to be seen
00:20:11.960 in the economy
00:20:12.580 as a whole.
00:20:13.840 So I would say
00:20:14.520 that's a bullshit reason.
00:20:16.420 It's true.
00:20:18.140 I mean building
00:20:18.780 low-cost housing
00:20:19.880 means your housing
00:20:20.640 costs less
00:20:21.580 I guess, right?
00:20:22.940 All other things
00:20:23.820 being equal
00:20:24.320 but I don't think
00:20:25.440 that's big enough
00:20:25.980 to make a difference.
00:20:27.360 So what do you do
00:20:29.280 when your experts
00:20:30.660 disagree
00:20:31.480 and the facts
00:20:33.040 are not in dispute?
00:20:35.500 Because this is
00:20:36.300 one of those
00:20:36.700 rare questions
00:20:37.440 where you have
00:20:39.320 all the facts.
00:20:40.060 The only thing
00:20:40.440 you don't have
00:20:40.960 is what happens
00:20:41.480 in the future.
00:20:42.680 You know how much
00:20:43.380 money you'd put in.
00:20:44.320 You know how much
00:20:44.800 is there.
00:20:45.380 You know what
00:20:45.680 the inflation is.
00:20:47.080 You know what
00:20:47.400 the GDP is.
00:20:48.520 You know what
00:20:48.980 the employment rate
00:20:50.300 is.
00:20:50.600 You know all
00:20:50.980 the facts.
00:20:52.700 So it's experts
00:20:53.820 looking at the same
00:20:54.700 damn facts
00:20:55.440 and coming up
00:20:56.720 with opposite
00:20:57.300 conclusions.
00:20:59.360 How good
00:21:00.000 are your experts?
00:21:02.380 No good at all
00:21:03.400 apparently.
00:21:04.900 And
00:21:05.200 my
00:21:07.560 well-trained
00:21:09.760 instinct
00:21:10.320 is that
00:21:11.000 it has to
00:21:11.520 increase inflation.
00:21:13.560 inflation.
00:21:14.840 But at the same
00:21:15.400 time
00:21:15.740 if you know
00:21:17.780 anything about
00:21:18.380 economics
00:21:19.040 you know that
00:21:20.560 your common sense
00:21:21.480 about what's
00:21:22.020 going to happen
00:21:22.420 next doesn't
00:21:23.260 mean much.
00:21:24.660 So you know
00:21:25.400 my common sense
00:21:26.120 says yeah of course
00:21:26.940 there has to be
00:21:27.800 inflation.
00:21:28.620 How could there
00:21:28.960 not be?
00:21:30.120 But I could be
00:21:30.660 wrong very easily.
00:21:32.280 Very easily
00:21:32.820 could run.
00:21:35.280 All right.
00:21:35.960 Here's one of
00:21:36.840 these stories
00:21:37.360 that is just
00:21:38.920 sort of a
00:21:39.800 mind-blowing
00:21:40.660 reminder about
00:21:42.720 how the world
00:21:43.980 works.
00:21:45.500 And I don't know
00:21:46.040 if this is
00:21:46.480 mind-blowing
00:21:47.020 just because
00:21:47.740 the story
00:21:48.700 involves me.
00:21:50.000 So maybe you
00:21:51.020 can judge
00:21:51.580 whether it
00:21:52.680 looks mind-blowing
00:21:53.380 from the outside.
00:21:55.240 But you heard
00:21:56.340 the story about
00:21:57.000 the so-called
00:21:58.020 Pegasus software
00:21:59.120 that some
00:22:00.940 intelligence agencies
00:22:02.080 in a lot of
00:22:03.280 different countries
00:22:03.800 actually are using
00:22:05.540 to penetrate
00:22:06.640 people's phones
00:22:07.600 and spy on
00:22:09.100 their phones.
00:22:09.600 And one of
00:22:10.800 the people
00:22:11.060 on the list
00:22:11.600 was ex-president
00:22:13.400 of Mexico
00:22:14.000 Philippe Calderon.
00:22:16.640 And by
00:22:17.380 coincidence
00:22:18.000 Philippe Calderon
00:22:20.120 follows me on
00:22:20.940 Twitter.
00:22:22.140 So I followed
00:22:23.020 him on Twitter
00:22:23.560 when I noticed
00:22:24.460 it some time
00:22:25.340 ago.
00:22:26.680 And so I
00:22:27.740 thought to
00:22:28.020 myself I
00:22:29.460 wonder if
00:22:30.780 this individual
00:22:31.780 who was named
00:22:32.500 in this story
00:22:33.280 I wonder if
00:22:34.500 it's true.
00:22:35.620 Because sometimes
00:22:36.200 you know it
00:22:37.060 could be fake
00:22:37.600 news.
00:22:37.960 So I
00:22:39.060 thought I'll
00:22:39.820 just send
00:22:40.200 a DM
00:22:40.740 direct message
00:22:41.820 to the
00:22:42.860 ex-president
00:22:43.540 of Mexico
00:22:44.100 and I'll
00:22:45.120 just ask
00:22:45.600 him myself
00:22:46.140 did you
00:22:47.380 have this
00:22:47.780 spyware on
00:22:48.400 your phone?
00:22:50.440 Now just
00:22:51.080 think about
00:22:51.560 this.
00:22:52.580 I'm just
00:22:53.200 sitting here
00:22:53.720 in my
00:22:54.040 little office
00:22:54.720 in California
00:22:55.920 and I see
00:22:57.160 this major
00:22:58.360 international
00:22:59.160 story with
00:23:00.960 the ex-president
00:23:02.000 of Mexico
00:23:02.420 in it and I
00:23:03.040 think to
00:23:03.320 myself I
00:23:04.060 think I'll
00:23:05.120 ask him.
00:23:06.360 Boop boop
00:23:06.620 boop boop.
00:23:07.940 So I
00:23:08.320 sent him
00:23:08.980 a message
00:23:09.340 I said do
00:23:09.880 you think
00:23:10.140 the Pegasus
00:23:10.740 software got
00:23:11.480 on your
00:23:11.740 phone?
00:23:12.900 I just
00:23:13.160 saw the
00:23:13.440 Washington
00:23:13.720 Post report
00:23:14.380 saying you
00:23:14.960 were on
00:23:15.240 the list
00:23:15.640 after leaving
00:23:16.240 office.
00:23:17.880 And a few
00:23:18.560 days later
00:23:19.160 I get a
00:23:21.200 private message
00:23:21.880 back from
00:23:23.080 the ex-president
00:23:24.180 of Mexico
00:23:24.640 who confirms
00:23:26.620 that yes
00:23:28.560 he said yes
00:23:29.520 I do it
00:23:29.960 happened.
00:23:30.280 now how
00:23:33.460 how mind
00:23:34.960 blowing is
00:23:35.580 it that
00:23:37.160 there are
00:23:37.580 you know
00:23:37.840 seven plus
00:23:38.840 whatever
00:23:39.220 billion people
00:23:40.020 in the
00:23:40.320 world and
00:23:41.520 I'm just
00:23:41.780 sitting here
00:23:42.220 in California
00:23:42.860 and I see
00:23:43.420 a world
00:23:44.040 headline and
00:23:46.380 I can just
00:23:46.920 pick up this
00:23:48.120 device in my
00:23:48.840 hand and I
00:23:50.600 can type a
00:23:51.160 few things and
00:23:52.060 I'm talking to
00:23:52.740 the one person
00:23:53.560 out of seven
00:23:54.280 billion to
00:23:56.680 ask the exact
00:23:57.500 question that I
00:23:58.300 wanted to ask
00:23:59.040 and he
00:24:00.300 answers and
00:24:01.680 he was the
00:24:02.020 president of
00:24:02.520 Mexico.
00:24:04.900 Am I right?
00:24:05.920 This is
00:24:06.220 mind blowing.
00:24:07.800 Now I
00:24:09.360 can't tell you
00:24:09.900 how many
00:24:10.240 times something
00:24:11.940 like this has
00:24:12.820 happened.
00:24:14.500 You know I'll
00:24:15.380 do a I'll do
00:24:16.480 a topic on
00:24:17.140 here and I'll
00:24:17.960 check my DMs
00:24:18.880 and somebody
00:24:19.580 who would be
00:24:20.520 quite famous
00:24:21.200 is weighing in
00:24:22.220 on something
00:24:22.660 but I tell
00:24:25.020 you it just
00:24:25.740 makes me feel
00:24:26.460 like the world
00:24:27.100 is just not
00:24:28.820 whatever it
00:24:29.580 is that it
00:24:30.060 looks like
00:24:30.500 because you
00:24:33.600 know that
00:24:33.960 experiment in
00:24:34.820 physics in
00:24:37.580 which you
00:24:38.120 separate a
00:24:39.440 particle and
00:24:40.180 you change
00:24:40.620 the spin
00:24:41.040 wherever you
00:24:42.200 are and the
00:24:42.680 other half
00:24:43.180 changes at the
00:24:44.120 same time or
00:24:45.300 some version of
00:24:46.100 that.
00:24:47.040 It feels like
00:24:47.620 that.
00:24:47.900 It feels like
00:24:48.360 I'm connected
00:24:48.920 to every story
00:24:49.600 in the world
00:24:50.100 and that I
00:24:51.800 can touch it
00:24:52.780 if I want.
00:24:54.080 I can't tell
00:24:54.880 you how weird
00:24:55.400 that is.
00:25:00.740 Yeah.
00:25:01.580 And there
00:25:04.100 are two other
00:25:05.020 themes that are
00:25:06.440 haunting me right
00:25:07.280 now because
00:25:07.780 there's a couple
00:25:09.040 of things happening
00:25:09.600 in my personal
00:25:10.260 life.
00:25:11.400 And so there's
00:25:11.880 one company that
00:25:12.800 just keeps coming
00:25:14.100 up everywhere and
00:25:15.020 there's one car
00:25:15.920 model that I
00:25:18.260 always keep parking
00:25:18.980 next to.
00:25:19.640 It's just the
00:25:20.100 weirdest thing
00:25:20.600 because both of
00:25:21.160 them have some
00:25:21.640 relevance in my
00:25:22.940 life right now.
00:25:24.260 So it feels
00:25:24.980 like I'm like
00:25:26.860 moving the
00:25:27.860 simulation myself.
00:25:30.160 All right.
00:25:32.620 The biggest
00:25:33.460 fake news story
00:25:34.540 in the country
00:25:35.680 is about
00:25:36.500 critical race
00:25:37.380 theory.
00:25:38.860 And the
00:25:39.840 fake news
00:25:40.320 part is that
00:25:41.720 the people
00:25:43.960 on the political
00:25:44.520 right say,
00:25:45.460 hey, stop that
00:25:46.220 critical race
00:25:46.860 theory teaching
00:25:48.260 because it's
00:25:49.280 racist itself.
00:25:51.040 And then the
00:25:52.740 people on the
00:25:53.620 left, what
00:25:54.300 do they say?
00:25:55.780 Do they say,
00:25:57.340 oh, we'll
00:25:58.800 stop that right
00:26:00.180 now.
00:26:01.320 They just act
00:26:02.180 like it isn't
00:26:02.720 happening.
00:26:04.040 They act like
00:26:05.100 critical race
00:26:06.400 theory is the
00:26:07.200 same as teaching
00:26:07.860 history.
00:26:10.280 It's not.
00:26:12.180 No, it's not
00:26:13.060 an escalade, but
00:26:13.840 that was a good
00:26:14.300 guess.
00:26:17.120 And every
00:26:18.380 time I see
00:26:18.940 this story,
00:26:19.500 and I think
00:26:19.800 it was AOC
00:26:20.560 was doing
00:26:21.120 this trick
00:26:21.700 where somebody
00:26:23.280 says, should
00:26:23.760 we teach
00:26:24.180 critical race
00:26:24.860 theory?
00:26:25.360 And then
00:26:25.600 they say,
00:26:27.060 well, of
00:26:28.260 course you
00:26:28.620 have to teach
00:26:29.120 the real
00:26:29.640 history of
00:26:30.120 the United
00:26:30.440 States to
00:26:31.100 the children.
00:26:32.420 Who exactly
00:26:33.360 was fighting
00:26:33.960 against that?
00:26:35.500 So the
00:26:35.960 response to
00:26:37.240 the claims
00:26:38.740 just have
00:26:39.180 nothing to
00:26:39.640 do with
00:26:39.860 the claims.
00:26:40.400 They answer
00:26:41.160 a whole
00:26:41.480 different
00:26:41.760 question.
00:26:43.440 And somehow
00:26:44.640 they get away
00:26:45.160 with that.
00:26:45.700 The news
00:26:46.380 allows them
00:26:46.940 to do that
00:26:47.480 because the
00:26:48.440 news does
00:26:49.060 not publish
00:26:50.120 useful facts.
00:26:52.360 It seems
00:26:52.880 like there's
00:26:53.960 a space
00:26:54.740 available in
00:26:56.860 the news
00:26:57.580 galaxy.
00:27:00.260 Don't you
00:27:00.680 think there
00:27:01.000 needs to be
00:27:01.540 at least one
00:27:02.300 news entity
00:27:04.340 that just
00:27:05.460 gives you
00:27:05.860 context so
00:27:07.580 that every
00:27:07.900 time you
00:27:08.260 wade into
00:27:08.740 a story and
00:27:09.560 you say to
00:27:09.940 yourself,
00:27:10.360 hey, these
00:27:11.320 people are
00:27:11.740 saying critical
00:27:12.460 race theory is
00:27:13.180 being taught,
00:27:14.500 these other
00:27:14.860 people are
00:27:15.260 saying it's
00:27:15.640 not.
00:27:16.400 That's
00:27:16.640 usually how
00:27:17.080 the news
00:27:17.500 teaches it.
00:27:18.460 And then
00:27:18.660 you don't
00:27:18.920 know.
00:27:19.760 Well, I
00:27:20.260 just see two
00:27:20.840 competing claims.
00:27:22.380 But where's
00:27:22.900 the news
00:27:23.240 site that
00:27:23.620 just gives
00:27:24.080 you whatever
00:27:24.920 statistics there
00:27:26.000 are?
00:27:26.280 It says, yeah,
00:27:26.760 it's being
00:27:27.120 taught here or
00:27:27.760 it's not.
00:27:31.400 Nobody would
00:27:32.140 watch.
00:27:32.800 Nobody would
00:27:33.360 watch if it
00:27:34.960 were a news
00:27:36.200 channel.
00:27:36.760 That's right,
00:27:37.480 Adam.
00:27:38.460 But if it
00:27:39.900 were a written
00:27:41.120 website with
00:27:42.200 resources, then
00:27:43.680 everybody who
00:27:44.420 argued on
00:27:45.020 social media
00:27:45.620 would have
00:27:46.020 to link to
00:27:46.680 it.
00:27:47.660 So it
00:27:48.340 would be
00:27:48.640 basically a
00:27:49.500 link farm.
00:27:51.520 Basically,
00:27:52.260 actually, maybe
00:27:53.220 you can call it
00:27:53.820 that.
00:27:54.460 Call it a
00:27:54.900 link farm,
00:27:56.040 where you
00:27:56.660 take the
00:27:57.040 best arguments
00:27:57.700 for every
00:27:58.400 side and
00:27:59.420 you just
00:27:59.700 organize them.
00:28:01.040 Here are the
00:28:01.380 best arguments
00:28:02.000 for why masks
00:28:02.840 work.
00:28:03.820 Here are the
00:28:04.180 best arguments
00:28:04.780 for why they
00:28:05.260 don't.
00:28:09.580 I see
00:28:10.260 somebody saying
00:28:10.900 Timcast.
00:28:12.060 Does he have
00:28:12.600 that there?
00:28:13.680 I've not
00:28:14.200 heard of
00:28:14.500 anybody doing
00:28:15.020 that.
00:28:15.720 But I
00:28:15.920 think in
00:28:16.260 order to
00:28:16.620 do it,
00:28:16.980 you would
00:28:17.200 have to
00:28:17.520 show the
00:28:17.940 best links
00:28:18.520 on both
00:28:19.040 sides.
00:28:20.700 If you
00:28:21.020 only showed
00:28:21.540 the links
00:28:21.980 that you
00:28:22.280 think are
00:28:22.960 the answer
00:28:23.380 to the
00:28:23.680 question,
00:28:25.200 then you
00:28:25.980 just become
00:28:26.520 a partisan.
00:28:27.560 You have
00:28:27.800 to show
00:28:28.100 the best
00:28:29.020 from both
00:28:29.460 sides,
00:28:29.840 I think,
00:28:30.120 otherwise
00:28:30.380 it's a
00:28:30.960 waste.
00:28:34.960 In the
00:28:38.200 comments on
00:28:38.800 YouTube,
00:28:39.960 somebody said
00:28:40.500 dealing with
00:28:41.140 people like
00:28:41.600 that is
00:28:42.040 why Prussian
00:28:42.800 bayonets
00:28:43.560 were
00:28:43.800 invented.
00:28:45.180 Okay.
00:28:48.180 I would
00:28:48.900 like to
00:28:49.260 now give
00:28:50.220 you some
00:28:50.860 television
00:28:51.940 viewing
00:28:52.600 recommendations.
00:28:55.380 If you're
00:28:56.120 like me,
00:28:57.000 you've noticed
00:28:57.560 that television
00:28:58.180 is terrible,
00:28:59.780 and I don't
00:29:00.380 know if it
00:29:00.660 got worse or
00:29:01.520 if it's just
00:29:02.020 the pandemic
00:29:02.520 or my
00:29:03.040 attention span
00:29:03.720 or what,
00:29:04.460 but I'm
00:29:04.700 going to
00:29:04.880 give you
00:29:05.280 the only
00:29:06.420 things that
00:29:06.980 are worth
00:29:07.300 watching on
00:29:07.960 television as
00:29:08.620 far as I
00:29:09.040 can tell.
00:29:09.400 number one,
00:29:11.500 Rick and
00:29:12.020 Morty.
00:29:13.680 You've got to
00:29:14.420 try several
00:29:15.140 episodes before
00:29:16.220 you can get
00:29:16.820 in the feel,
00:29:17.940 but the
00:29:18.380 fourth season
00:29:20.180 is just
00:29:21.560 beyond brilliant.
00:29:22.340 I watched a
00:29:24.420 few of the
00:29:24.820 early ones,
00:29:25.560 and I have to
00:29:26.000 admit one of
00:29:27.240 the characters
00:29:27.740 was sort of
00:29:28.420 gross,
00:29:29.460 like I found
00:29:30.280 it hard to
00:29:30.740 watch,
00:29:31.740 but once you
00:29:32.640 see the whole
00:29:33.600 arc of where
00:29:34.700 they've taken
00:29:35.200 this thing,
00:29:35.680 by the
00:29:36.660 fourth year,
00:29:38.120 it's
00:29:38.400 extraordinary.
00:29:39.860 It's
00:29:40.260 visually better
00:29:41.140 than anything
00:29:41.620 I've ever
00:29:42.120 seen from
00:29:42.980 an animated
00:29:43.680 show,
00:29:44.660 and it's
00:29:45.820 smarter than
00:29:47.300 anything I've
00:29:47.900 seen in an
00:29:48.620 animated show
00:29:49.200 by far.
00:29:50.600 So I
00:29:51.060 believe it's
00:29:51.660 on Hulu,
00:29:53.020 has it at
00:29:53.740 the moment,
00:29:54.280 I don't know
00:29:54.680 what other
00:29:55.020 platforms it's
00:29:55.720 on.
00:29:56.600 Now,
00:29:57.260 on the
00:29:57.620 Disney
00:29:58.020 streaming
00:29:58.820 network,
00:29:59.500 here's another
00:29:59.940 recommendation,
00:30:01.240 and I was
00:30:02.080 totally surprised
00:30:03.060 that this was
00:30:03.860 good.
00:30:04.140 Loki,
00:30:06.500 L-O-K-I.
00:30:07.760 So Loki,
00:30:08.360 the god of
00:30:08.760 mischief from
00:30:09.440 the Marvel
00:30:10.340 universe,
00:30:11.460 he has now
00:30:12.020 his own
00:30:12.420 spin-off,
00:30:13.360 and it's a
00:30:14.140 series.
00:30:15.660 Now,
00:30:16.440 I kind of
00:30:17.560 like the
00:30:18.060 Loki character
00:30:18.880 in Marvel,
00:30:20.180 but I didn't
00:30:20.860 really think he
00:30:22.160 could hold his
00:30:23.100 own show,
00:30:24.520 because I
00:30:24.880 thought,
00:30:25.180 well,
00:30:25.680 I just don't
00:30:26.340 know there's
00:30:26.720 enough to
00:30:27.140 this particular
00:30:28.060 character to
00:30:28.800 make a show.
00:30:30.020 But here's
00:30:30.400 what I didn't
00:30:30.800 count on.
00:30:32.080 The actor
00:30:33.560 who plays
00:30:34.320 that part
00:30:35.100 is really
00:30:36.320 good.
00:30:37.300 He's like
00:30:37.680 a way better
00:30:38.500 actor than
00:30:39.940 I think comes
00:30:40.800 out in the
00:30:41.340 other Marvel
00:30:41.840 movies.
00:30:42.680 So when they
00:30:43.160 focus on him
00:30:43.840 and he gets
00:30:44.240 to hold the
00:30:44.960 scene and
00:30:45.640 really be a
00:30:47.120 complete character,
00:30:48.960 oh my god,
00:30:49.840 he's so good.
00:30:51.400 So it's worth
00:30:52.040 watching,
00:30:52.760 yeah,
00:30:53.120 and Owen
00:30:53.720 Wilson plays
00:30:54.600 sort of the
00:30:55.280 bad guy in
00:30:56.060 that.
00:30:56.880 And watching
00:30:57.360 Owen Wilson
00:30:58.020 play the bad
00:30:58.720 guy is really,
00:31:00.740 really good.
00:31:01.180 it's really
00:31:02.460 good.
00:31:03.060 So the
00:31:03.440 writing is
00:31:04.000 spectacular,
00:31:05.760 and the
00:31:06.520 dialogue and
00:31:08.260 stuff.
00:31:08.820 I don't
00:31:09.100 really like
00:31:09.580 watching the
00:31:10.120 superhero films
00:31:11.580 for the
00:31:12.000 action,
00:31:12.660 because the
00:31:12.940 action is
00:31:13.380 just a
00:31:13.880 blur of
00:31:14.440 boring stuff
00:31:15.660 you've seen
00:31:16.040 before.
00:31:17.080 But the
00:31:17.580 dialogue is
00:31:18.180 always funny,
00:31:19.160 and Loki
00:31:19.600 is very
00:31:21.160 dialogue heavy
00:31:22.060 in a very
00:31:23.120 good way.
00:31:24.360 Yeah,
00:31:24.560 I think there
00:31:24.920 are only six
00:31:25.560 episodes,
00:31:26.220 but they're
00:31:26.540 terrific.
00:31:28.820 Now here's
00:31:29.660 an anti-recommendation.
00:31:31.180 Scarlett Johansson's
00:31:35.300 film,
00:31:36.120 The Black
00:31:36.520 Widow,
00:31:36.960 is out.
00:31:38.380 I tried to
00:31:39.480 watch that.
00:31:41.540 Oh my
00:31:42.240 God,
00:31:42.840 it's terrible.
00:31:44.700 And I
00:31:45.180 tried to
00:31:46.040 watch Black
00:31:47.180 Mirror the
00:31:47.720 other day,
00:31:48.460 and oh my
00:31:49.060 God,
00:31:49.420 it's terrible.
00:31:50.760 It's
00:31:51.080 terrible.
00:31:52.500 And what I
00:31:52.920 mean by that
00:31:53.420 is it's
00:31:53.780 slow,
00:31:54.920 because our
00:31:55.600 attention spans
00:31:56.380 have all
00:31:56.700 changed,
00:31:57.460 and it's
00:31:57.680 just way
00:31:58.040 too slow
00:31:58.600 to watch
00:31:59.120 like a
00:31:59.500 movie.
00:31:59.800 But both
00:32:01.760 the Black
00:32:02.320 Widow and
00:32:02.920 then the
00:32:03.860 black,
00:32:05.660 it's weird,
00:32:06.660 they're both
00:32:07.000 black something,
00:32:08.120 but Black
00:32:08.480 Mirror,
00:32:09.800 they both
00:32:10.720 started out
00:32:11.500 by trying to
00:32:12.180 make the
00:32:12.740 viewer feel
00:32:13.660 terrible.
00:32:14.200 Now I
00:32:16.000 guess that
00:32:17.320 the point of
00:32:17.860 it was if
00:32:18.500 they could
00:32:18.780 make the
00:32:19.160 viewer feel
00:32:19.820 terrible,
00:32:21.360 then maybe
00:32:22.060 they could
00:32:22.380 make you feel
00:32:22.880 good at the
00:32:23.400 end,
00:32:23.760 and you'll
00:32:24.080 feel the
00:32:24.480 difference,
00:32:25.120 and maybe
00:32:25.560 that'll make
00:32:26.040 you happy
00:32:26.460 or something.
00:32:26.880 But I'm
00:32:28.900 not down
00:32:29.480 for any
00:32:30.320 TV show
00:32:31.000 or movie
00:32:31.460 that makes
00:32:31.920 me feel
00:32:32.360 terrible in
00:32:33.060 the first
00:32:33.400 part of
00:32:33.720 the movie
00:32:34.100 so that
00:32:35.020 I'll have
00:32:35.400 a better
00:32:35.760 feeling later.
00:32:37.220 If you
00:32:37.860 think that's
00:32:38.380 a good
00:32:38.700 idea,
00:32:39.840 I'd like
00:32:40.680 to talk
00:32:41.040 you out
00:32:41.300 of it.
00:32:42.720 Now here's
00:32:43.580 why I
00:32:44.460 love Star
00:32:45.440 Trek and
00:32:45.960 Star Wars
00:32:46.620 and those
00:32:46.980 kinds of
00:32:47.360 films,
00:32:48.080 because they
00:32:48.380 don't do
00:32:48.720 that.
00:32:49.980 Those films
00:32:50.700 will have
00:32:51.240 a problem
00:32:52.300 that happens
00:32:53.040 in the
00:32:53.300 beginning of
00:32:53.620 the movie,
00:32:54.040 because all
00:32:54.340 movies need
00:32:54.860 a problem
00:32:55.500 to solve.
00:32:56.020 But you
00:32:57.120 don't really
00:32:57.660 feel it
00:32:58.300 in your
00:32:58.580 bones.
00:32:59.600 You know
00:33:00.240 you're
00:33:00.420 watching a
00:33:00.920 movie.
00:33:01.420 It's like,
00:33:01.700 oh yeah,
00:33:02.080 some bad
00:33:02.400 things happened
00:33:03.500 to people
00:33:03.840 in the
00:33:04.040 movie.
00:33:04.760 It didn't
00:33:04.980 affect me.
00:33:06.800 But anyway,
00:33:11.120 yeah,
00:33:11.420 Star Trek
00:33:12.060 just feels
00:33:12.780 good from
00:33:13.340 beginning to
00:33:13.840 end.
00:33:14.100 Even when
00:33:14.500 the characters
00:33:15.000 are in
00:33:15.280 trouble,
00:33:16.340 they're
00:33:16.640 cracking
00:33:17.380 jokes,
00:33:17.980 and it
00:33:18.400 doesn't
00:33:18.620 seem that
00:33:19.060 bad.
00:33:23.620 So please
00:33:24.400 give me
00:33:24.700 more
00:33:24.920 entertainment
00:33:25.360 that does
00:33:26.220 not require
00:33:26.820 me to
00:33:27.620 feel bad.
00:33:29.360 All right.
00:33:30.300 That is
00:33:30.900 your
00:33:31.080 recommendation
00:33:31.620 for today.
00:33:35.340 I see
00:33:36.040 people saying
00:33:36.560 that the
00:33:37.040 Last Kingdom
00:33:38.500 is good.
00:33:39.100 That's about
00:33:39.540 the Vikings.
00:33:40.580 I tried
00:33:41.000 that,
00:33:41.400 but I
00:33:42.200 don't know.
00:33:43.580 I felt
00:33:43.940 I could
00:33:44.960 get through
00:33:45.320 it.
00:33:46.420 I hear
00:33:47.040 on the
00:33:47.920 comments
00:33:48.260 here that
00:33:48.760 the sci-fi
00:33:50.420 show called
00:33:51.000 The Expanse
00:33:51.960 is even
00:33:52.840 better than
00:33:53.280 Star Trek.
00:33:54.260 I would
00:33:54.540 say they're
00:33:54.840 both great.
00:33:56.020 The Expanse
00:33:56.600 is great.
00:33:57.760 The thing
00:33:58.120 I like about
00:33:58.620 the sci-fi
00:33:59.280 stuff is
00:33:59.840 that they
00:34:00.080 bring you
00:34:00.480 into a
00:34:00.900 world so
00:34:02.100 you feel
00:34:02.660 yourself
00:34:03.020 brought in.
00:34:04.160 I'm seeing
00:34:04.680 a recommendation
00:34:05.220 for Ted
00:34:05.840 Lasso,
00:34:06.480 which won
00:34:06.840 a bunch
00:34:07.140 of awards,
00:34:07.900 I understand.
00:34:09.320 And I'm
00:34:10.420 definitely
00:34:10.660 going to try
00:34:11.140 that,
00:34:12.020 but I have
00:34:12.900 not tried
00:34:13.400 it yet.
00:34:14.500 So I'll
00:34:14.860 let you
00:34:15.100 know.
00:34:17.820 Yeah,
00:34:18.060 watching Norm
00:34:18.980 McDonald clips
00:34:19.780 on YouTube
00:34:20.220 is better
00:34:20.680 than all
00:34:21.140 of that.
00:34:22.440 I never
00:34:23.160 get bored
00:34:23.580 of that.
00:34:24.100 I can't
00:34:24.560 tell you
00:34:24.880 how many
00:34:25.160 Norm
00:34:25.460 McDonald clips
00:34:26.300 I've
00:34:26.540 watched
00:34:26.800 on YouTube.
00:34:27.920 You just
00:34:28.240 set them
00:34:29.000 up and
00:34:29.400 it'll
00:34:29.720 recommend
00:34:30.040 new ones.
00:34:31.460 I could
00:34:31.900 watch that
00:34:32.260 all day.
00:34:33.360 All right,
00:34:34.080 that's all
00:34:34.420 I've got
00:34:34.620 for now.
00:34:36.400 It's kind
00:34:36.960 of a slow
00:34:37.280 news day.
00:34:38.340 And I'm
00:34:38.920 going to
00:34:39.220 do a
00:34:39.740 separately,
00:34:41.300 I'm going
00:34:42.020 to do a
00:34:42.820 video a
00:34:43.660 little bit
00:34:43.940 later that
00:34:44.400 will be
00:34:44.760 available for
00:34:45.480 everybody.
00:34:46.620 And the
00:34:47.220 topic is,
00:34:47.980 is China
00:34:48.560 safe for
00:34:49.200 business?
00:34:50.680 Is China
00:34:52.060 safe for
00:34:52.700 business?
00:34:54.040 And let
00:34:54.420 me tell
00:34:54.660 you what
00:34:54.880 I'm going
00:34:55.120 to do
00:34:55.520 persuasion
00:34:56.220 wise,
00:34:57.300 just so
00:34:57.820 you can
00:34:58.160 follow along.
00:34:59.400 In my
00:34:59.760 unique role
00:35:01.400 as the
00:35:01.860 Dilbert guy,
00:35:03.500 I have a
00:35:04.820 weird credibility
00:35:05.740 with business
00:35:06.480 people.
00:35:07.640 So if I
00:35:08.240 tell business
00:35:08.840 people there's
00:35:09.500 a business
00:35:09.940 process that
00:35:11.580 is bullshit,
00:35:13.080 people find
00:35:14.440 that credible
00:35:15.000 because for
00:35:15.900 30 years I've
00:35:16.780 been accurately
00:35:17.660 calling out
00:35:18.380 business bullshit.
00:35:19.200 bullshit, and
00:35:20.160 so if I
00:35:20.640 say it,
00:35:21.440 people say
00:35:21.820 okay, that's
00:35:22.980 probably you're
00:35:23.920 calling out
00:35:24.320 some bullshit.
00:35:25.960 And one of
00:35:26.320 the things
00:35:26.700 that I can
00:35:30.500 do, because
00:35:31.700 of that weird
00:35:32.200 role, is I
00:35:33.700 can talk to
00:35:34.580 people about
00:35:35.060 the risk of
00:35:35.680 doing business
00:35:36.320 in China
00:35:36.820 until it's
00:35:38.620 unsafe to
00:35:39.980 make a
00:35:40.320 decision to
00:35:40.900 do business
00:35:41.580 in China.
00:35:43.020 And so my
00:35:44.440 credibility can
00:35:45.540 be part of
00:35:46.220 that messaging
00:35:46.780 in a way
00:35:47.200 that the
00:35:47.760 random person
00:35:48.440 could not
00:35:49.040 do as
00:35:49.360 effectively.
00:35:50.480 So I'm
00:35:50.780 going to
00:35:50.920 give you a
00:35:51.240 little white
00:35:51.800 board talk
00:35:52.580 on why it's
00:35:53.680 unsafe to do
00:35:54.380 business in
00:35:54.980 China, and
00:35:56.520 we'll see if
00:35:57.300 we can move
00:35:57.740 the needle on
00:35:58.300 that.
00:35:59.060 And let's
00:35:59.500 see if I'm
00:35:59.840 still alive
00:36:00.460 in a week.
00:36:02.800 I should
00:36:03.640 probably say
00:36:04.180 this out
00:36:04.640 loud, I'm
00:36:05.820 not planning
00:36:06.480 to kill
00:36:06.880 myself.
00:36:08.760 Okay?
00:36:10.000 Did you all
00:36:10.420 hear that?
00:36:10.860 There may
00:36:12.720 be some
00:36:13.140 bad things
00:36:13.980 happening in
00:36:14.520 my life from
00:36:15.260 time to
00:36:15.660 time, as
00:36:16.300 comes in
00:36:17.240 any life, but
00:36:18.520 nothing like
00:36:19.040 that.
00:36:20.520 So if
00:36:21.340 China tries to
00:36:23.260 knock me
00:36:23.700 off, please
00:36:26.500 complete the
00:36:27.100 work for me,
00:36:28.680 but I'll
00:36:29.520 get it going.
00:36:31.660 And the
00:36:32.980 funny thing
00:36:33.420 about having
00:36:33.900 somebody kill
00:36:34.480 your sepston,
00:36:35.640 which is what
00:36:36.220 China did by
00:36:36.940 sending fentanyl
00:36:38.140 to Mexico,
00:36:39.380 which I
00:36:39.840 believe got
00:36:40.340 into my
00:36:40.760 stepson and
00:36:42.500 killed him.
00:36:43.700 The thing
00:36:44.400 about that
00:36:44.920 experience is
00:36:46.000 if China
00:36:48.720 killed me
00:36:49.380 over this,
00:36:52.140 you know, if
00:36:52.460 somehow they
00:36:52.960 found a way to
00:36:53.520 get to me and
00:36:54.100 just took me
00:36:54.820 out, totally
00:36:56.100 worth it.
00:36:57.260 Like, I
00:36:57.820 wouldn't even
00:36:58.240 care about
00:36:58.640 that, because
00:36:59.860 that alone
00:37:00.380 would be a
00:37:00.820 story.
00:37:02.220 So it's
00:37:03.720 me against
00:37:04.120 them, and
00:37:04.900 you don't
00:37:05.220 want to get
00:37:05.600 in a battle
00:37:06.020 with somebody
00:37:06.540 who doesn't
00:37:07.060 mind dying.
00:37:08.540 That's what
00:37:09.160 China,
00:37:10.040 it has
00:37:10.640 right now.
00:37:12.000 They've
00:37:12.240 got a battle
00:37:12.780 with me,
00:37:13.980 and they're
00:37:15.060 in a battle
00:37:15.560 of self-preservation,
00:37:16.900 and I'm not.
00:37:18.340 I'm in a battle
00:37:19.220 to take them
00:37:19.880 down.
00:37:20.840 That's all I
00:37:21.320 care about.
00:37:22.160 And if I go
00:37:23.240 at the same
00:37:23.700 time, that's
00:37:25.020 the way it
00:37:25.260 goes.
00:37:26.480 So I would
00:37:27.740 hate to be
00:37:28.060 them right now.
00:37:28.940 They don't
00:37:29.240 know what's
00:37:29.520 coming for
00:37:30.000 them, but
00:37:30.660 you'll find
00:37:30.980 out later
00:37:31.400 when I give
00:37:31.920 you my
00:37:32.200 whiteboard
00:37:32.520 talk.
00:37:32.900 I hope you
00:37:33.460 join me,
00:37:34.220 and I'll
00:37:34.500 talk to
00:37:34.800 you.
00:37:34.920 And now,