Real Coffee with Scott Adams - 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,

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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