Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 28, 2021


Episode 1451 Scott Adams： The Worst Arguments For and Against Mask Mandates, Simone Biles, Biden Quote, More


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Length

42 minutes

Words per Minute

148.14555

Word Count

6,351

Sentence Count

439

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, everything, it s called the " simultaneous sip and watch it happen now" hit. Plus, fake news, conspiracy theories, and more. Guests: Dr. Bruce Schneier, infectious disease researcher at the University of Colorado, and Scott Adams, co-host of the podcast "Coffee with Scott Adams"


Transcript

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00:01:02.000 My favorite fake news of the day, and this is a good one.
00:01:06.300 Do you remember the, of course you do, the famous Laurel and Yanni,
00:01:12.000 where some people could hear the word Laurel,
00:01:14.860 and some people could hear the word Yanni on the same recording?
00:01:18.460 And we thought to ourselves, how is that possible?
00:01:21.640 And it must be like a trick that only applies to this one weird set of sounds
00:01:27.460 that they could sound the same while being different.
00:01:30.260 It turns out it's really easy to reproduce this effect,
00:01:34.620 and it happened with a Joe Biden video.
00:01:37.700 So somebody cleverly took his video where he was talking to the press,
00:01:44.520 and reportedly he's saying, what must be what?
00:01:49.180 Asking for a clarification of a question that he didn't hear
00:01:52.920 because the helicopter noise was above it.
00:01:55.840 Now, when you watch it, can you hear him say over the noise of the crowd
00:02:01.120 in the helicopter is, what must be what?
00:02:05.120 No, you can't.
00:02:07.200 Because when the first time you heard it,
00:02:10.020 you were probably primed by the social media video
00:02:14.240 to hear, my butt's been wiped.
00:02:17.220 So you see Biden walking up to the photographers and the reporters,
00:02:23.260 and he goes, my butt just got wiped.
00:02:27.600 My butt just got wiped.
00:02:29.980 And you really can't hear anything else after you've been primed.
00:02:35.220 Even after I heard what the White House claims,
00:02:38.520 he really said, it doesn't look like that.
00:02:42.540 It doesn't sound like it.
00:02:44.640 And I just watched it over and over again,
00:02:46.620 and I'm thinking, nope, even his lips are not going in the right way.
00:02:52.140 Right?
00:02:52.480 Even his lips didn't seem to match up with what must be what.
00:02:57.360 It looked like my butt's been wiped.
00:03:01.340 Now, I think that he did not say, my butt's been wiped.
00:03:04.940 But how many times are we going to see this trick?
00:03:07.960 This trick is going to happen a lot in politics.
00:03:10.920 As soon as you've been primed,
00:03:13.340 all you need is an indistinct sentence,
00:03:16.760 any kind of indistinct sentence,
00:03:19.080 and you can prime it with anything.
00:03:20.400 You're going to see a lot more of this,
00:03:23.240 and it's kind of fun.
00:03:26.780 All right.
00:03:27.700 Is there one topic that you're so damn sick of?
00:03:34.680 Not only in the real world, but talking about it?
00:03:38.580 My God.
00:03:40.400 Do we have to talk about masks again?
00:03:42.400 Yeah, we do.
00:03:43.480 We do.
00:03:44.180 But I'm going to try to take an angle into this
00:03:45.920 that's a little more interesting than the normal one.
00:03:47.960 And so the CDC is now saying
00:03:51.920 that the Delta variant is raging through the country,
00:03:54.720 which it is,
00:03:55.760 and that they want school kids to get to wear masks,
00:04:01.020 even if vaccinated.
00:04:02.800 Even vaccinated people should wear masks indoors
00:04:05.460 if they're in a higher substantial transmission area.
00:04:09.100 And, of course, they want vaccinations as much as they can get.
00:04:15.840 Now, how do you interpret this?
00:04:20.380 Is your interpretation that the CDC looked at the data,
00:04:24.900 they looked at the mask effectiveness data,
00:04:28.620 and they said to themselves,
00:04:30.180 this is a good time to apply the science.
00:04:33.320 Let's put some science on this baby.
00:04:35.700 And we've got our new data.
00:04:38.800 We've got data on mask effectiveness.
00:04:41.380 Oh, the infections are rising.
00:04:44.180 Masks work.
00:04:45.480 Boom, put them together.
00:04:46.580 Is that what happened?
00:04:48.220 Sounds right, doesn't it?
00:04:49.960 You know, when I describe it that way,
00:04:51.300 it sounds perfectly natural.
00:04:53.200 Infections are up.
00:04:55.060 Science has shown that the masks do work,
00:04:57.880 according to science.
00:04:59.140 That's their claim, not mine.
00:05:01.280 And so you put them together.
00:05:03.600 Or, or, what would be another interpretation
00:05:10.520 of why the CDC is requiring masks?
00:05:14.960 Because my first instinct was,
00:05:17.600 wait, you're punishing the people who did the right thing.
00:05:21.580 I got the vaccination,
00:05:23.200 which is the right thing according to my government.
00:05:26.380 And so if I did the right thing,
00:05:27.880 why am I being punished?
00:05:29.440 Well, of course, it's because we have new data
00:05:31.320 that says that even if you're vaccinated,
00:05:34.260 you can, you can transmit the virus.
00:05:37.120 You can even get the virus,
00:05:38.740 which, of course, you'd have to get to transmit.
00:05:42.240 And so it's new data.
00:05:44.760 So that's what's happening, right?
00:05:47.380 Let me suggest that there's another reason
00:05:49.980 for the mask mandate.
00:05:51.600 Anybody?
00:05:52.240 Anybody?
00:05:52.800 In the comments, see if you can beat me to it.
00:05:54.700 What's the other reason for the mask mandate
00:05:58.720 that they're not telling you?
00:06:02.420 Let's see if, let's see if you can get that.
00:06:08.060 What's the real reason?
00:06:10.940 All right.
00:06:11.500 The real reason, I think,
00:06:13.980 is to create one more reason to get a vaccination.
00:06:17.480 Now, you're saying to yourself,
00:06:18.560 but wait, that's opposite of what's happening.
00:06:21.280 Because the people who did get vaccinated
00:06:23.960 didn't get the benefit that they thought they would get,
00:06:26.300 at least in terms of freedom from masks.
00:06:30.620 So isn't that the opposite, Scott?
00:06:33.200 Like, you're actually just penalizing people
00:06:35.360 for getting vaccinated.
00:06:36.380 They got vaccinated,
00:06:37.760 and then they still have to wear a mask.
00:06:39.840 A penalty.
00:06:41.500 I don't think so.
00:06:42.960 I think this is a psyop.
00:06:45.140 I think this is so that the government could say,
00:06:47.960 well, we told you all to get vaccinated.
00:06:51.640 Did you listen?
00:06:53.120 Because if you had listened to us the first time,
00:06:56.360 nobody would need a mask.
00:06:58.860 But sorry, we know you hate the masks.
00:07:02.320 We know you hate it more than you hate anything.
00:07:04.960 So we're going to require the masks
00:07:07.240 because you didn't listen to us the first time.
00:07:11.740 I think that's what's happening.
00:07:13.580 Now, I also think masks work.
00:07:19.260 Can you handle the fact that I think masks work
00:07:22.540 at the same time that I don't think
00:07:24.820 that a vaccinated person should be forced to wear one?
00:07:29.580 Can you handle that?
00:07:31.260 I mean, this is the smart group here,
00:07:34.000 the people who follow me on livestream.
00:07:37.120 So there are not many people in my category.
00:07:39.620 Most people say, I don't like masks
00:07:42.480 because they don't work.
00:07:46.360 But can I say they do work?
00:07:49.440 I think.
00:07:50.400 You know, that's my judgment at the moment,
00:07:52.500 that they do work.
00:07:54.100 But if you're vaccinated, you shouldn't get one.
00:07:57.260 I think I can have that opinion.
00:07:59.500 All right.
00:08:01.600 We're going to talk about the worst arguments
00:08:03.340 for masks in a minute,
00:08:04.260 but let me do a few other things here.
00:08:05.460 So I read just in one source,
00:08:09.360 so I'd like to see a confirmation of this,
00:08:11.900 that the CDC is going to replace its PCR test,
00:08:15.160 the virus test,
00:08:16.720 with one that can differentiate
00:08:18.240 between the coronavirus and the seasonal flu.
00:08:21.640 Is that true, first of all?
00:08:23.860 Anytime I see a story in one source,
00:08:26.460 it doesn't matter what the source is,
00:08:27.900 my first thing is,
00:08:29.480 why is this not in all the other sources
00:08:32.000 at the same time?
00:08:32.980 So if it's true,
00:08:36.000 we're going to learn something interesting.
00:08:38.100 And I'm going to go with my personal conspiracy theory.
00:08:44.220 It's a conspiracy theory that I don't know
00:08:48.000 if there's more than one or two people in the world
00:08:49.940 who share it with me.
00:08:51.460 And it is that the regular seasonal flu
00:08:54.040 didn't really kill anybody.
00:08:56.140 And that it was just a statistical,
00:09:00.720 I don't know,
00:09:02.660 a statistical data-gathering artifact
00:09:05.980 that made it look like the flu was killing people.
00:09:09.260 The regular flu,
00:09:10.180 the normal seasonal flu.
00:09:11.660 I think that if we had actual data,
00:09:14.700 we would find that,
00:09:15.860 sure, you know,
00:09:16.540 a few hundred-year-olds die with the seasonal flu,
00:09:19.840 but basically it doesn't kill anybody
00:09:21.420 for all practical purposes.
00:09:23.200 All right.
00:09:26.440 That's what I think we're going to find.
00:09:28.040 Let's talk about Simone Biles.
00:09:29.720 So she dropped out of the Olympics.
00:09:31.240 She had some more competitions
00:09:33.440 that she would have done well in
00:09:34.820 if she had not dropped out.
00:09:36.400 And she dropped out because, she says,
00:09:38.600 no, she had a tough day yesterday, I guess,
00:09:40.420 or the day before.
00:09:41.860 And she said she was having mental health issues.
00:09:46.740 And so she was dropping out for her mental health.
00:09:49.160 What did America say about their champion
00:09:53.300 who dropped out because she wasn't feeling well?
00:09:56.720 Well, a lot of people said,
00:09:58.820 you know you're representing the country, right?
00:10:03.760 You do get that this isn't about you, right?
00:10:08.200 And maybe if it's tough,
00:10:09.800 you should just suck it up.
00:10:12.120 Heard a lot of that opinion this morning.
00:10:14.580 That's not my opinion.
00:10:15.480 My opinion is, I think I saw Dave Reboy,
00:10:19.580 if I'm pronouncing his name right,
00:10:21.420 say the same thing I'm going to say right now,
00:10:23.020 which is, we don't know what's going on in her head.
00:10:27.020 We don't know.
00:10:28.700 We only know what she told us.
00:10:30.920 You don't know what's happening in her head.
00:10:33.640 If what's happening in her head is really, really bad,
00:10:37.140 then she made the right decision.
00:10:39.460 If it's not that bad, well, then it would, you know,
00:10:42.360 you could argue that she should have sucked it up or something.
00:10:44.520 But you don't know how bad it is.
00:10:47.260 So how can you have an opinion
00:10:48.520 on whether she did the right thing?
00:10:50.880 It's just pure mind reading.
00:10:53.000 If it was horrible,
00:10:54.840 and it was just some living hell,
00:10:56.960 and she was genuinely concerned about her health,
00:11:00.000 that she might hurt herself competing in that way,
00:11:02.760 or at least embarrass herself and embarrass the country.
00:11:05.880 If that was her honest opinion,
00:11:08.180 based on her internal mental state,
00:11:12.200 who am I?
00:11:12.720 Who am I to doubt that?
00:11:14.020 Now, of course, I have a larger filter on the Olympics,
00:11:17.080 which is the Olympics are useless,
00:11:19.260 anachronistic,
00:11:21.360 probably more bad than good at this point.
00:11:23.600 And then it ruins the lives of young people,
00:11:25.860 such as Simone Biles,
00:11:27.700 although she had a great life from her skills so far.
00:11:31.660 She now has that thing about the Olympics
00:11:35.560 where her life will never be the same because of this.
00:11:38.540 So the Olympics,
00:11:39.980 you train your whole life for it.
00:11:41.400 You don't get the gold medal.
00:11:42.900 It's sort of a waste of time.
00:11:45.520 Yeah.
00:11:46.300 So I don't think the Olympics should be respected.
00:11:50.240 That's my view.
00:11:51.960 Well, well, well,
00:11:52.920 there's new news on ivermectin.
00:11:54.780 What do you think?
00:11:56.340 If I told you that there's a new,
00:11:58.140 highly credible,
00:11:59.340 something called the Cochran Review,
00:12:02.240 on ivermectin,
00:12:03.240 where they looked at the existing studies,
00:12:04.900 so it's not a new randomized controlled trial,
00:12:09.060 which would be great if there were.
00:12:11.260 It's, again,
00:12:12.460 somebody looking at the existing evidence.
00:12:15.580 And you know that people who have looked at the existing evidence say,
00:12:19.140 oh, it's really strong.
00:12:21.080 The existing evidence very clearly says
00:12:23.480 you should at least take a try on the ivermectin.
00:12:26.780 And you've heard Brett Weinstein say that famously.
00:12:29.320 You may also know that Andres Beckhaus,
00:12:33.020 my favorite critic of all things data and analysis,
00:12:38.120 said at the time that he wasn't convinced
00:12:39.980 that he thought one of the larger trials
00:12:43.060 that was in the review,
00:12:44.940 the meta-review of all the trials,
00:12:47.040 that one of the ones that probably influenced the average the most,
00:12:50.360 because it was a big one,
00:12:51.920 was weak.
00:12:53.820 So there might be one weak study that's biasing the whole thing.
00:12:57.260 And the Cochrane Review, I think, agreed with that
00:13:01.120 and said that the quality of the evidence is so low
00:13:04.580 that they essentially say
00:13:07.340 that there's no evidence that ivermectin works.
00:13:11.680 So the newest, respected meta-analysis
00:13:17.100 says that there were two bad quality studies
00:13:20.460 that were skewing it
00:13:21.800 and that we don't have evidence that it works.
00:13:25.080 Now, let me be clear.
00:13:28.020 They did not say the evidence shows it doesn't work.
00:13:32.560 They didn't say that.
00:13:33.880 So they haven't debunked it.
00:13:35.960 They've only debunked that the evidence shows it does work,
00:13:38.940 because apparently the range of possibility,
00:13:41.800 and given the low quality of the evidence,
00:13:44.260 the range of error is so big,
00:13:46.800 it might work and it might not.
00:13:49.000 They're just saying there's no evidence that it works.
00:13:51.280 Now, that's what Andreas Beckhaus said early on.
00:13:55.220 So if you're keeping score of who gets things right early,
00:14:01.140 there you go.
00:14:03.280 So I don't have an opinion on any of this analysis
00:14:08.060 because it's all a little bit beyond me,
00:14:10.060 and I haven't looked into it, of course,
00:14:11.820 in any detail.
00:14:13.200 But somebody says,
00:14:17.200 Brett dealt with this by removing that study,
00:14:19.340 and it still works.
00:14:20.480 Well, now there's two.
00:14:22.360 Two studies.
00:14:23.280 So I don't know if he removed the second one.
00:14:25.760 But the second one has the same problem, allegedly.
00:14:28.900 And that this Cochran review says that
00:14:31.280 if you consider the quality of the studies
00:14:34.780 and everything else combined,
00:14:36.980 their opinion is there's no evidence that it works
00:14:39.460 or doesn't work, really.
00:14:40.680 Just no evidence.
00:14:42.700 All right.
00:14:44.540 I saw a great tweet thread that I retweeted,
00:14:47.720 and you should read it too,
00:14:48.820 on the question of mask mandates.
00:14:52.580 And it's from Tricia Greenhalgh.
00:14:56.580 I'm not sure how to pronounce her last name.
00:14:59.120 She's a professor of primary care at Oxford
00:15:01.660 and does a great job of just laying out
00:15:04.780 what we know and what we don't know.
00:15:07.620 And most, not most,
00:15:12.100 maybe 100% of all the arguments I've ever had about masks
00:15:15.320 are with people who are not well informed.
00:15:19.560 Or they have a logic problem.
00:15:21.660 And I'm going to run through that.
00:15:23.000 Because I want to see if you're in any of these categories
00:15:25.460 that are logic errors as opposed to data errors.
00:15:30.360 Now, we could argue all day about who has the right data,
00:15:33.020 and sometimes we'll just never know.
00:15:34.840 But you can really know if somebody's logical.
00:15:38.020 That's something you can know for sure.
00:15:39.840 Because logic is pretty clear
00:15:41.920 if you've got somebody who can help you sort through it.
00:15:44.740 So I'm going to do that for you.
00:15:46.100 And I'm going to start with the most debunked mask arguments.
00:15:51.420 So what follows is my opinion
00:15:53.640 of what the consensus of science says.
00:15:58.380 All right?
00:15:58.840 So there's two things that could be wrong here.
00:16:01.360 One is my opinion of what science said right,
00:16:05.120 and that is science right.
00:16:07.060 All right?
00:16:07.280 So two ways I could be wrong.
00:16:08.760 One is I could be wrong,
00:16:11.120 and then also science could be wrong.
00:16:14.320 So you've got two potential errors.
00:16:17.300 So I'm going to keep my humility while I say this,
00:16:20.160 because I know people get really mad
00:16:21.480 when I act arrogantly certain.
00:16:24.240 I have to tell you that lots of times
00:16:29.980 when I appear certain,
00:16:32.980 you know, there's always a recording in my head
00:16:34.940 that plays and says,
00:16:36.440 well, you could be wrong.
00:16:38.120 And by the way, I recommend that
00:16:39.700 as a strategy for you going forward.
00:16:43.280 Just always have a little recording
00:16:45.800 that plays in your head that says,
00:16:47.480 well, but I could be wrong.
00:16:48.900 I mean, I'm pretty sure,
00:16:50.520 but I could be wrong.
00:16:51.280 So it's just a good thing to have playing
00:16:53.120 in your head all the time.
00:16:54.800 All right, so here are the debunked anti-mask arguments.
00:16:59.800 If you hold one of these arguments to be true,
00:17:03.700 just know that science disagrees with you
00:17:06.100 as best I can determine.
00:17:08.580 But I might be wrong.
00:17:10.300 Number one, science says masks don't work.
00:17:14.240 How many people think that's true?
00:17:16.220 How many people think that if you researched
00:17:18.240 what science says,
00:17:20.400 that you would discover that science in general,
00:17:24.000 not just one study or a study here or there,
00:17:26.580 but how many of you think that science
00:17:28.940 says masks don't work?
00:17:32.340 Okay.
00:17:32.680 If you think that science says masks don't work,
00:17:36.320 that's just wrong.
00:17:37.840 That's just wrong.
00:17:38.700 You won't find any actual scientist who says that.
00:17:41.520 You might find a scientist
00:17:42.940 who says that they don't work,
00:17:45.260 but you won't even find a scientist
00:17:47.420 who could agree with the statement
00:17:49.300 that other scientists don't think they work.
00:17:53.800 So the worst argument you could make
00:17:55.960 is to say that science says they don't work
00:17:58.200 and it's been proven in a study.
00:17:59.580 That's just not true,
00:18:00.760 as far as I can tell.
00:18:04.020 Now, that doesn't mean science is right.
00:18:06.640 Okay?
00:18:06.920 So we're still allowing
00:18:08.580 that science can say masks definitely work,
00:18:12.060 but science could be wrong.
00:18:13.880 Science has been wrong before.
00:18:16.300 But don't confuse that with what science says.
00:18:19.760 Science is very clear that they work,
00:18:21.480 even if they're wrong.
00:18:23.440 All right, how about this?
00:18:24.320 Masks only make a tiny difference.
00:18:26.080 Well, the tweet thread I referenced
00:18:28.500 talks about how these tiny differences multiply.
00:18:32.060 So even if masks only made a tiny difference,
00:18:35.080 still totally worthwhile in a pandemic.
00:18:38.200 The math makes that true.
00:18:41.640 So if that was your argument,
00:18:43.420 that's been debunked.
00:18:44.780 Again, it doesn't mean you're wrong.
00:18:47.420 It just means it's been debunked
00:18:49.120 by people who know more than you and I know.
00:18:51.800 All right, how about the masks harm people,
00:18:54.100 either because you're not getting enough oxygen
00:18:56.640 or you're breathing in your own germs too much
00:18:59.660 or you left your nasty mask laying in a drawer
00:19:03.240 for three weeks,
00:19:04.840 breathing germs and put it back on.
00:19:07.320 So how about that?
00:19:09.280 Well, there's no evidence that masks have hurt anybody.
00:19:12.760 So now we've got people all over the world
00:19:15.020 wearing masks for a year
00:19:16.360 and no evidence at all,
00:19:18.900 according to at least this professor in Oxford.
00:19:24.100 There's no evidence that the masks have hurt anybody.
00:19:27.300 So if your argument was wearing the mask itself
00:19:29.580 could hurt you, no evidence.
00:19:32.220 Okay?
00:19:32.720 Now again, is that true?
00:19:36.440 I don't know.
00:19:37.920 I'm just telling you it's been debunked.
00:19:40.060 Doesn't mean the debunk is true.
00:19:42.260 How about this argument,
00:19:44.000 that masks don't block viruses
00:19:46.260 because viruses are too small
00:19:48.380 and they can't go through these...
00:19:49.560 or the viruses are so small
00:19:52.060 that they easily go through
00:19:53.020 these gigantic holes in the masks.
00:19:57.160 Debunked.
00:19:58.560 Totally debunked.
00:20:00.280 Because the virus travels on water particles,
00:20:03.680 most of the water particles,
00:20:04.780 or at least a lot of the big ones,
00:20:06.500 are trapped in the mask.
00:20:07.840 That's why your mask is moist when you take it off.
00:20:10.620 Yes, something gets out by the sides,
00:20:12.460 but if you're stopping that hose cannon of virus
00:20:16.060 going directly into the person you're talking to,
00:20:19.020 it's better than having something go out the side
00:20:21.660 and diffuse into the atmosphere.
00:20:26.160 So the argument about masks leak around the edges
00:20:28.800 is true but irrelevant.
00:20:31.800 Okay?
00:20:32.340 It's true that masks leak.
00:20:34.600 It's not relevant.
00:20:35.980 It's true that viruses are way smaller
00:20:38.840 than the holes in the masks.
00:20:40.240 It's not relevant.
00:20:42.460 Because they travel on water particles,
00:20:44.500 many of which do get stopped,
00:20:46.520 and you don't have to stop them all.
00:20:49.020 Masks do not stop all of the virus
00:20:51.320 because plenty is getting out the sides
00:20:53.020 and let's say you're fussing with it
00:20:55.100 and you wear it improperly.
00:20:57.320 That's not an argument.
00:21:00.940 Because science has shown that masks work.
00:21:04.560 If science had shown that masks don't work,
00:21:07.980 in other words,
00:21:08.520 the population shows no difference,
00:21:10.440 masked or unmasked,
00:21:11.320 if they'd shown that,
00:21:13.240 then you could say to yourself,
00:21:14.280 well, probably the reasons are
00:21:15.460 because the masks are not stopping all the virus.
00:21:18.140 But if the masks work,
00:21:21.380 and science knows that,
00:21:23.540 let's say they're right for argument,
00:21:25.780 then you don't have to argue about the little stuff.
00:21:28.160 You don't have to argue about the people
00:21:29.500 messing with it with their hands,
00:21:31.780 wearing it improperly,
00:21:33.060 it's not the best mask,
00:21:34.380 because it gets out the side.
00:21:35.300 None of that matters if you've looked at the whole population
00:21:40.060 and they drove down infections with masks,
00:21:43.440 but all the places that they didn't have masks,
00:21:45.480 it didn't work.
00:21:46.640 Now, you can argue with the data,
00:21:49.360 but if you accept that masks worked to lower infections,
00:21:54.680 then all of the arguments about the holes in the masks
00:21:57.180 and the size of the virus and the sides
00:21:59.440 and all that is irrelevant.
00:22:02.400 So if you made your argument against masks
00:22:04.620 based on any of the minor parts
00:22:07.000 about the leakage,
00:22:08.660 the size of the mask,
00:22:09.860 the fussing with them,
00:22:11.040 the wearing them right,
00:22:12.320 none of those are relevant
00:22:13.600 if,
00:22:15.740 this is a big if,
00:22:17.580 if it's true that science is right,
00:22:20.440 that we see the big difference
00:22:22.240 when people wear the masks.
00:22:23.300 So you would not be rational or logical
00:22:27.300 to consider the smaller things
00:22:30.180 if we've tested the big thing that it worked.
00:22:34.260 All right.
00:22:36.860 Here are some of the worst arguments I've saw this morning.
00:22:41.720 Here's one.
00:22:42.420 The Mayo Clinic tells you how to properly wear a mask.
00:22:45.980 Therefore, masks don't work
00:22:47.740 because people will not wear them properly.
00:22:51.080 So the argument is,
00:22:52.080 why would the Mayo Clinic
00:22:53.800 make such a big deal
00:22:54.940 about how to wear them properly
00:22:56.380 unless they knew that people
00:22:58.320 would wear them improperly
00:22:59.740 in a large amount
00:23:00.680 and therefore would make them a waste of time?
00:23:04.560 That's the worst argument I've ever heard.
00:23:07.080 Because again,
00:23:08.480 if the data shows that they do work on average
00:23:11.280 for any population that uses them,
00:23:13.960 it just doesn't matter if somebody
00:23:16.200 or some number of people
00:23:17.740 are not doing it right
00:23:18.720 because it still works.
00:23:20.760 The numbers show it.
00:23:22.080 And here's another bad thinking.
00:23:26.540 I have links of studies from before the pandemic
00:23:29.620 saying masks don't work.
00:23:32.800 What?
00:23:33.400 What good is your data from before the pandemic?
00:23:36.500 If the data from the pandemic
00:23:39.940 clearly shows they work,
00:23:42.740 and again,
00:23:44.000 they could be wrong,
00:23:45.180 but that's what science says.
00:23:46.860 If it clearly shows it does work during the pandemic,
00:23:50.360 why are you trying to convince me
00:23:52.000 with links from before the pandemic
00:23:54.560 showing the masks don't work
00:23:56.440 when it's been proven they do?
00:23:59.600 I don't know.
00:24:00.000 Now,
00:24:00.580 I suppose you could say
00:24:01.340 that studies of masks,
00:24:04.080 it might be hard to sort out
00:24:05.880 what is the social distancing
00:24:07.240 because that works too.
00:24:08.980 I don't know.
00:24:10.300 But I'm guessing they probably figured out
00:24:12.020 how to sort that out of there.
00:24:13.960 All right.
00:24:14.340 So,
00:24:14.840 here's my final take on masks for today.
00:24:18.000 I'm an anti-masker
00:24:21.920 for people who are vaccinated.
00:24:24.160 In my opinion,
00:24:24.900 if you've been vaccinated,
00:24:26.640 you know what your risks are.
00:24:28.560 Very, very low.
00:24:30.240 And if you're unvaccinated,
00:24:32.400 you also know what your risks are,
00:24:35.120 or should.
00:24:35.840 I mean,
00:24:36.100 it's on you if you don't know it at this point.
00:24:38.340 And what about freedom?
00:24:40.980 What about freedom?
00:24:42.480 If you don't want to wear a mask,
00:24:44.820 I'm fine with that,
00:24:46.800 vaccinated or not.
00:24:48.700 Now,
00:24:49.080 of course,
00:24:49.540 you have the problem of
00:24:50.620 keeping the hospitals
00:24:52.000 from being overrun.
00:24:53.680 But I'm going to make an assumption
00:24:55.020 that needs to be checked,
00:24:57.180 which is that our therapeutics
00:24:59.320 are so good now,
00:25:00.700 and we've,
00:25:01.420 you know,
00:25:01.700 there's a learning curve
00:25:02.780 about how to handle COVID,
00:25:04.180 et cetera,
00:25:05.000 that probably the odds
00:25:06.120 of getting overrun
00:25:07.220 in our hospitals
00:25:08.860 is probably low
00:25:09.860 in the United States.
00:25:12.340 Can somebody do a,
00:25:13.660 give me a fact check on that,
00:25:15.020 if in fact that's fact checkable?
00:25:18.000 I'm going to say that
00:25:19.200 we've done so well
00:25:20.360 with therapeutics
00:25:21.780 that we won't overrun
00:25:26.100 the hospitals
00:25:26.640 with or without masks.
00:25:28.020 It just won't make any difference.
00:25:29.520 I mean,
00:25:29.740 there will be a difference in level,
00:25:30.940 but it won't overrun
00:25:32.400 the hospitals.
00:25:34.480 And,
00:25:35.140 oh,
00:25:35.980 our hospital
00:25:36.440 is currently overrun,
00:25:38.240 eliminating overnight surgeries,
00:25:39.680 and they say it's from COVID.
00:25:44.280 Interesting.
00:25:44.920 I don't know where that is,
00:25:45.740 Derek,
00:25:46.280 in what,
00:25:47.660 so I'm seeing hospitals
00:25:49.020 in New Jersey are fine.
00:25:51.520 You know,
00:25:52.460 I don't know if the hospitals
00:25:54.560 are overrun
00:25:55.620 has to do with the fact
00:25:57.320 that some hospitals
00:25:58.140 are specializing in COVID.
00:26:00.300 Could it be that only
00:26:01.200 the specialized ones
00:26:02.560 are overrun?
00:26:04.180 Or the ones that
00:26:05.200 have a focus on that now?
00:26:06.880 Or is that not a thing?
00:26:07.740 All right,
00:26:09.140 so this is an open question.
00:26:10.600 We do see that there might be
00:26:11.780 some hospital problems.
00:26:14.340 And I think the degree
00:26:15.320 of the hospitals
00:26:16.080 being overrun
00:26:17.700 would definitely have an impact
00:26:19.180 on my opinion.
00:26:21.500 But,
00:26:22.640 I don't need,
00:26:23.920 I don't have a
00:26:24.500 confirmation on that.
00:26:27.460 Boston hospitals are fine.
00:26:30.320 Could be more obese people
00:26:32.060 in some places.
00:26:33.320 Yeah.
00:26:35.440 Does anyone know,
00:26:36.440 anyone with COVID right now?
00:26:37.940 I do.
00:26:38.480 Yes,
00:26:38.840 I have a family member
00:26:39.840 with COVID.
00:26:42.520 Not my house.
00:26:44.040 Extended family member.
00:26:48.460 All right.
00:26:51.220 Best friend got it?
00:26:52.260 Yeah,
00:26:52.480 so some of you do.
00:26:53.800 All right,
00:26:54.160 there's a Rasmussen poll
00:26:55.840 coming up today
00:26:56.580 that's going to show
00:26:59.340 Biden at a record low
00:27:01.260 presidential approval.
00:27:02.820 Now,
00:27:04.340 record low,
00:27:06.140 you know,
00:27:06.480 just means it's lower
00:27:07.620 than what's been.
00:27:08.380 It doesn't mean it's
00:27:09.180 in the toilet.
00:27:11.060 But,
00:27:11.380 I don't know,
00:27:13.620 it seems like,
00:27:14.440 it seems about right.
00:27:16.060 Because,
00:27:17.500 COVID is what
00:27:18.320 completely
00:27:19.520 took Trump out,
00:27:21.100 don't you think?
00:27:23.200 COVID,
00:27:24.620 imagine Trump
00:27:25.580 running for re-election
00:27:26.480 without the coronavirus.
00:27:28.520 I think he would have
00:27:29.420 just waltzed
00:27:30.080 into a second term.
00:27:31.320 Would most of you
00:27:32.800 agree with that?
00:27:33.820 That without the coronavirus
00:27:34.860 he would have just,
00:27:36.180 Trump definitely
00:27:37.100 would have got a second term?
00:27:38.220 I think so.
00:27:40.500 But I wonder
00:27:41.200 if Biden will have
00:27:41.880 the same problem,
00:27:42.920 which is if he puts
00:27:43.940 in mask mandates
00:27:45.020 and does a bunch of things
00:27:46.420 that people don't like,
00:27:47.780 that even his own party
00:27:48.720 will get turned off.
00:27:50.260 And we might see,
00:27:51.240 you may be seeing
00:27:51.960 the beginning of that
00:27:52.880 a little bit.
00:27:53.900 I mean,
00:27:54.080 I don't think more than
00:27:54.780 5% of the public
00:27:55.780 ever changes their mind
00:27:56.900 on presidents.
00:27:58.280 But we might be seeing
00:27:59.720 our sub-5%,
00:28:01.300 5% to change
00:28:02.280 and it might get to that.
00:28:03.960 All right,
00:28:04.100 here's a question
00:28:04.700 for all of you.
00:28:07.260 Oh,
00:28:07.680 and it might be
00:28:08.160 because of China.
00:28:09.160 You're right.
00:28:09.780 Yeah,
00:28:10.140 Biden has a China problem.
00:28:13.220 And how have we gone
00:28:14.360 so long
00:28:14.960 without a
00:28:16.120 Hunter-Biden scandal
00:28:18.140 blowing up
00:28:18.820 into some larger thing?
00:28:20.580 It's really amazing
00:28:21.680 what the
00:28:22.260 deep state
00:28:24.660 and the news
00:28:26.540 can keep out of the news.
00:28:28.620 Anyway,
00:28:28.900 all right,
00:28:30.760 new question.
00:28:32.820 This is a question
00:28:33.580 for all of you.
00:28:34.160 I want to see your answers
00:28:34.840 in the polls.
00:28:35.460 For those of you
00:28:36.080 who got the
00:28:36.960 vaccination,
00:28:39.340 is it my imagination
00:28:40.600 that the
00:28:42.720 coronavirus
00:28:43.260 vaccination
00:28:44.500 was unusually
00:28:46.600 unpainful?
00:28:48.620 Meaning,
00:28:49.060 I barely knew
00:28:50.260 what happened.
00:28:50.800 I was literally,
00:28:52.100 I didn't know
00:28:52.640 that they gave me
00:28:53.300 the shot.
00:28:54.840 Now,
00:28:54.960 did anybody have
00:28:55.520 that same
00:28:56.040 experience?
00:28:57.080 And somebody
00:28:57.600 speculated that
00:28:58.480 the needle
00:28:58.900 is smaller
00:28:59.500 or that
00:29:00.800 it's a small,
00:29:03.500 it's a micro needle
00:29:04.460 and
00:29:06.460 oh,
00:29:09.000 that's a good word,
00:29:10.140 a micro needle.
00:29:11.900 Oh.
00:29:13.380 Now,
00:29:13.880 of course,
00:29:14.300 we had side effects
00:29:15.280 after in many cases.
00:29:17.060 But
00:29:17.300 I'm not talking
00:29:19.440 about after the shot.
00:29:21.140 Somebody says
00:29:21.700 mine hurt badly.
00:29:23.080 I'm talking
00:29:23.520 about the actual
00:29:24.460 shot itself.
00:29:25.340 As it goes
00:29:25.760 into your arm,
00:29:26.820 I couldn't even
00:29:27.420 feel it.
00:29:29.380 And what I did
00:29:30.580 feel was
00:29:31.320 like not even
00:29:32.380 a pinch,
00:29:32.920 really.
00:29:33.400 It was just
00:29:33.780 a feeling.
00:29:35.540 Yeah.
00:29:36.100 Now,
00:29:36.600 I wonder
00:29:37.200 if people
00:29:38.440 who are afraid
00:29:39.000 of needles,
00:29:40.760 and since
00:29:41.440 I'm not afraid
00:29:42.040 of needles,
00:29:42.500 I can't really
00:29:42.940 get in the heads
00:29:43.540 of people who are.
00:29:45.000 I don't like
00:29:45.840 them,
00:29:46.660 but I'm not
00:29:47.080 afraid of them.
00:29:49.340 I wonder
00:29:50.040 if people
00:29:50.580 would be
00:29:52.260 more inclined
00:29:52.980 to get the
00:29:53.440 vaccination
00:29:53.800 if they knew
00:29:54.920 that the
00:29:55.360 vaccinations
00:29:55.940 are unusually
00:29:57.340 unpainful
00:29:58.000 in terms
00:29:59.460 of the
00:29:59.680 vaccination
00:30:00.040 itself.
00:30:01.800 How many
00:30:02.400 of you,
00:30:02.980 let's see,
00:30:03.420 for those
00:30:03.940 of you
00:30:04.200 who might
00:30:04.540 be afraid
00:30:04.960 of needles,
00:30:06.120 would you
00:30:06.640 be persuaded
00:30:07.440 by the fact
00:30:09.000 that if you
00:30:09.440 were looking
00:30:09.860 away,
00:30:10.620 you just
00:30:10.920 don't see
00:30:11.380 it,
00:30:11.640 you wouldn't
00:30:11.960 even know
00:30:12.280 it happened?
00:30:13.560 Barely.
00:30:14.280 They'd have
00:30:14.620 to tell you
00:30:15.040 it happened.
00:30:16.020 Would anybody
00:30:16.600 be persuaded
00:30:17.320 by that?
00:30:18.860 Oh,
00:30:19.220 I'm seeing
00:30:19.520 some yeses.
00:30:20.580 Oh my
00:30:21.060 goodness.
00:30:23.100 I'm actually
00:30:23.820 a little
00:30:24.060 surprised.
00:30:24.660 I didn't
00:30:24.880 know if
00:30:25.220 that was
00:30:25.580 actually
00:30:25.880 part of
00:30:26.200 the
00:30:26.320 psychology.
00:30:27.660 So some
00:30:28.680 of the
00:30:28.960 psychology
00:30:29.500 about fear
00:30:30.140 of needles
00:30:30.540 has to do
00:30:31.260 with the
00:30:31.660 needle
00:30:31.920 itself
00:30:32.460 and how
00:30:33.900 it feels,
00:30:34.960 the pain,
00:30:36.540 would reduce
00:30:37.180 the anxiety.
00:30:38.520 All right,
00:30:39.020 and I'll go
00:30:39.540 one level
00:30:40.080 further.
00:30:41.400 If you
00:30:42.040 heard that
00:30:42.780 the vaccination
00:30:43.500 won't hurt
00:30:45.000 when you get
00:30:45.580 it,
00:30:46.040 just the
00:30:46.640 point of
00:30:47.160 vaccination,
00:30:48.420 because they
00:30:49.040 were using
00:30:49.460 a microneedle
00:30:50.440 instead of
00:30:50.940 a regular
00:30:51.380 needle.
00:30:53.400 Now,
00:30:53.860 I don't
00:30:54.040 know what
00:30:54.260 a microneedle
00:30:54.980 is.
00:30:55.280 I don't
00:30:55.480 even know
00:30:55.800 if that's
00:30:56.100 a thing.
00:30:56.620 I'm just
00:30:56.860 making up
00:30:57.260 a word,
00:30:57.680 right?
00:30:57.900 I saw
00:30:58.160 somebody say
00:30:58.700 it in the
00:30:59.020 comments.
00:30:59.820 But if
00:31:00.180 somebody said,
00:31:01.200 oh,
00:31:01.320 this isn't a
00:31:01.880 regular needle,
00:31:02.940 for the
00:31:03.740 vaccination,
00:31:04.420 they use a
00:31:05.120 microneedle and
00:31:05.880 you don't
00:31:06.160 feel it.
00:31:08.540 Wouldn't that
00:31:09.160 change your
00:31:09.700 psychology of it?
00:31:11.820 They don't
00:31:12.400 use a
00:31:12.780 regular needle,
00:31:13.540 they use a
00:31:15.060 microneedle and
00:31:15.900 you can barely
00:31:16.360 feel it.
00:31:18.720 Now,
00:31:19.300 remember,
00:31:20.260 everybody has
00:31:20.960 a different
00:31:21.740 trigger for
00:31:23.220 persuasion.
00:31:24.560 So,
00:31:25.080 if I said
00:31:25.800 something might
00:31:26.960 be persuasive,
00:31:27.940 but 90% of
00:31:28.920 you would be
00:31:29.380 unpersuaded by
00:31:30.320 it,
00:31:30.660 it's still a
00:31:31.120 good idea.
00:31:32.300 If you
00:31:32.640 could persuade
00:31:33.240 10% of
00:31:34.240 people on
00:31:34.920 anything,
00:31:36.100 just any
00:31:36.560 topic,
00:31:37.020 if you could
00:31:37.380 move 10%
00:31:38.060 of the people,
00:31:39.160 that's gigantic
00:31:40.100 persuasion.
00:31:41.480 That's really
00:31:42.000 big.
00:31:42.380 it's a
00:31:45.000 regular
00:31:45.320 needle.
00:31:46.920 Somebody says
00:31:47.760 it's a
00:31:48.080 regular
00:31:48.360 needle,
00:31:50.400 and whoever
00:31:51.420 says it,
00:31:52.040 says I
00:31:52.740 administer the
00:31:53.460 vaccine.
00:31:54.820 Is it the
00:31:55.660 same size as
00:31:56.680 the needle you
00:31:57.380 use to draw
00:31:58.460 blood?
00:31:59.780 Because when I
00:32:00.640 think of needles,
00:32:01.700 the needle I
00:32:02.820 see most often
00:32:04.100 in my adult
00:32:04.900 life is when
00:32:07.500 I'm just
00:32:07.840 getting a blood
00:32:08.360 test for one
00:32:09.100 thing or another,
00:32:10.320 and they put
00:32:11.100 that blood
00:32:11.700 drawing needle
00:32:12.280 in you and
00:32:12.880 it kind
00:32:13.840 of hurts?
00:32:15.160 It's kind
00:32:15.560 of scary?
00:32:17.060 Yeah.
00:32:17.580 I think the
00:32:18.120 blood drawing
00:32:18.760 needle is
00:32:19.320 probably a
00:32:19.780 thicker needle,
00:32:20.640 and they've
00:32:21.020 got to find
00:32:21.460 the right
00:32:21.880 place to
00:32:22.320 put it and
00:32:22.800 all that.
00:32:24.600 So I
00:32:27.280 guess calling
00:32:27.740 it a
00:32:28.200 micro needle
00:32:28.880 doesn't help,
00:32:30.560 but I have
00:32:31.820 to believe,
00:32:33.240 is it because
00:32:34.320 they don't have
00:32:34.980 to find a
00:32:35.480 vein?
00:32:35.680 maybe that's
00:32:38.020 it.
00:32:40.500 So the
00:32:41.140 blood drawing
00:32:41.660 needle is
00:32:42.220 larger,
00:32:42.740 which makes
00:32:43.140 sense.
00:32:44.400 So I
00:32:44.800 got a
00:32:45.080 feeling that
00:32:45.500 people think
00:32:47.780 of that
00:32:48.100 blood drawing
00:32:48.820 needle when
00:32:49.420 they think
00:32:49.760 of the
00:32:49.980 vaccination.
00:32:52.520 Micro
00:32:52.920 needles are
00:32:54.160 patches,
00:32:54.880 if that makes
00:32:55.320 sense.
00:33:00.600 Blood
00:33:01.080 cells,
00:33:01.780 blood
00:33:03.920 donating
00:33:04.440 needles are
00:33:05.100 bigger,
00:33:05.620 okay.
00:33:06.480 So there
00:33:06.900 is such a
00:33:07.700 thing as
00:33:08.400 larger and
00:33:09.640 smaller needles.
00:33:11.020 Well, I
00:33:11.480 don't know
00:33:11.720 about, okay,
00:33:13.400 here, Cap
00:33:13.980 Cat is
00:33:14.440 saying something
00:33:14.920 I was looking
00:33:15.360 for, it's
00:33:15.860 intramuscular.
00:33:17.800 Suppose you
00:33:18.480 knew that they
00:33:19.060 didn't have to
00:33:19.540 find a vein,
00:33:20.380 it's intramuscular
00:33:21.340 so you won't
00:33:21.940 feel it at
00:33:22.420 all.
00:33:25.940 All right,
00:33:28.240 I was just
00:33:28.620 testing that out.
00:33:29.880 So that's
00:33:30.420 about all
00:33:30.780 that's going
00:33:31.200 on.
00:33:31.780 Today, is
00:33:33.360 there any
00:33:33.600 topic I
00:33:34.140 missed today?
00:33:36.160 If there
00:33:36.740 is, I'll
00:33:37.240 jump into
00:33:38.900 it.
00:33:39.360 Hey, Dean.
00:33:41.860 So there
00:33:42.500 are a variety
00:33:43.020 of needle
00:33:43.760 sizes.
00:33:44.740 Well, anyway,
00:33:45.800 the way
00:33:46.520 persuasion
00:33:47.100 works is
00:33:48.320 that you
00:33:48.840 get a
00:33:49.420 hypothesis of
00:33:50.580 what might
00:33:51.040 persuade people
00:33:51.840 and then you
00:33:52.240 just try it,
00:33:53.360 you see what
00:33:53.860 reaction you
00:33:54.460 got, and
00:33:54.860 if it works,
00:33:55.420 you do more
00:33:55.920 of it, and
00:33:56.360 if it doesn't
00:33:56.800 work, you
00:33:57.260 try something
00:33:57.900 else.
00:33:58.780 So in
00:33:59.100 A-B
00:33:59.520 testing, I
00:34:01.400 think the
00:34:02.560 government, if
00:34:03.500 the government
00:34:03.940 wants to
00:34:04.440 persuade people
00:34:05.120 to get
00:34:05.520 vaccinated, they
00:34:07.140 should put a
00:34:07.620 little bit of
00:34:08.060 effort into
00:34:08.580 finding out if
00:34:09.380 describing the
00:34:10.380 actual needle
00:34:11.220 situation gets
00:34:13.760 you a little
00:34:14.700 bit more
00:34:15.280 compliance.
00:34:18.860 And again, if
00:34:20.400 you don't want
00:34:20.800 to get a
00:34:21.060 vaccination, that's
00:34:21.880 okay with me.
00:34:22.520 All right, oh,
00:34:26.620 talk about
00:34:27.040 Larry Elder.
00:34:27.740 It looks like
00:34:28.200 Larry Elder is
00:34:28.960 shooting to the
00:34:29.560 top of the
00:34:29.960 pack for a
00:34:31.900 possible replacement
00:34:32.960 for Gavin Newsom
00:34:34.660 in the recall
00:34:35.960 election.
00:34:37.600 And I have to
00:34:39.000 admit, I haven't
00:34:39.560 done any kind of
00:34:40.700 a deep dive on
00:34:41.960 Larry Elder, but
00:34:43.660 everything I know
00:34:44.760 about him, just
00:34:45.480 from observing him
00:34:46.860 on TV for years,
00:34:48.560 et cetera, is he's a
00:34:50.020 really good
00:34:50.400 communicator, and he
00:34:52.160 seems to be very
00:34:53.320 commonsensical,
00:34:55.360 meaning that he
00:34:56.360 doesn't buy into
00:34:57.080 crazy stuff.
00:34:58.580 So I don't know
00:34:59.500 if that makes a
00:35:00.060 good governor, but
00:35:01.920 I know that what
00:35:02.660 we're doing now is
00:35:03.580 not optimal.
00:35:06.020 So I feel like he
00:35:08.600 could win, and I
00:35:10.760 feel like maybe it's
00:35:12.000 time to try
00:35:13.360 something else.
00:35:15.360 So, oh, Ed
00:35:16.080 Buck, I guess Ed
00:35:17.000 Buck got prosecuted,
00:35:18.780 a Democrat
00:35:19.560 fundraiser.
00:35:22.160 was doing some
00:35:23.200 bad things with
00:35:24.220 some men in his
00:35:25.980 home.
00:35:27.800 But that story
00:35:28.820 isn't very
00:35:29.200 interesting.
00:35:29.700 That's just a
00:35:30.220 criminal story.
00:35:32.820 All right.
00:35:35.780 Yeah, the Ed
00:35:36.640 Buck story has
00:35:37.420 lots of, you
00:35:38.380 know, lots of
00:35:39.520 intrigue and
00:35:40.120 drama and stuff
00:35:40.820 in it, but
00:35:41.220 ultimately it's not
00:35:42.160 important to us.
00:35:46.040 Except that Adam
00:35:46.960 Buck is Adam
00:35:47.700 Schiff's friend.
00:35:49.320 All right.
00:35:49.660 Oh, somebody
00:35:51.060 says Alex
00:35:51.640 Berenson was
00:35:52.320 banned on
00:35:52.820 Twitter.
00:35:54.220 Can somebody
00:35:54.800 confirm that?
00:35:55.780 Did that happen
00:35:56.280 today?
00:35:57.900 Now, when I did
00:35:58.460 my...
00:36:00.660 What happened?
00:36:02.220 We have
00:36:02.440 determined you
00:36:02.960 have violated...
00:36:03.660 Oh, it looks
00:36:04.200 like Alex
00:36:04.680 Berenson was
00:36:05.720 banned on
00:36:07.220 Twitter.
00:36:07.820 Or at least
00:36:08.500 suspended.
00:36:09.400 I think he's
00:36:09.880 suspended for 12
00:36:10.720 hours, it looks
00:36:11.260 like.
00:36:12.300 So...
00:36:12.660 All right.
00:36:15.480 That's about
00:36:17.720 all we got
00:36:18.160 for now.
00:36:18.940 We're still
00:36:19.240 waiting for the...
00:36:20.600 Are we still
00:36:21.240 waiting for the
00:36:21.840 Arizona audit?
00:36:23.860 Can somebody
00:36:24.600 tell me what
00:36:25.080 happened to the
00:36:25.580 Arizona audit?
00:36:27.280 Weren't we
00:36:27.840 supposed to know
00:36:28.420 about that by
00:36:29.020 now?
00:36:30.340 And I'm going
00:36:31.480 to double down
00:36:33.440 or triple down
00:36:34.220 on my prediction
00:36:35.200 that if you
00:36:36.560 haven't heard
00:36:37.160 something from
00:36:37.740 the Arizona
00:36:38.300 audit yet that's
00:36:40.500 just absolutely
00:36:41.300 damning, I
00:36:43.560 don't know that
00:36:44.060 they have
00:36:44.440 anything.
00:36:45.480 It feels like
00:36:46.280 it would be
00:36:46.660 deeply unlikely
00:36:47.560 that the audit
00:36:49.120 would have, you
00:36:50.120 know, proof of
00:36:50.820 fraud and that
00:36:52.140 you wouldn't
00:36:52.540 know it by
00:36:53.040 now?
00:36:53.920 Really?
00:36:54.960 It wouldn't
00:36:55.540 leak a little
00:36:56.240 bit?
00:36:57.340 I notice that
00:36:57.820 there's some
00:36:58.220 leaks that come
00:36:59.020 out, but they
00:36:59.580 get debunked as
00:37:00.620 soon as they
00:37:00.980 do.
00:37:03.300 Airports are
00:37:03.940 shut down.
00:37:04.680 What?
00:37:07.300 I don't know
00:37:07.980 what you're
00:37:08.240 talking about.
00:37:09.460 Airports are
00:37:10.080 shut down.
00:37:11.660 China forced
00:37:12.700 mandatory
00:37:13.280 testing.
00:37:15.480 All right.
00:37:16.280 This comment
00:37:16.900 keeps going
00:37:17.580 by too
00:37:18.360 quickly and I
00:37:19.360 can't read
00:37:19.780 it.
00:37:20.660 Airports are
00:37:21.240 shut down.
00:37:24.820 Yellow
00:37:25.820 quarantine.
00:37:26.760 Okay.
00:37:27.960 You can stop
00:37:28.940 putting that in
00:37:29.380 the comments
00:37:29.820 because it
00:37:30.200 keeps going
00:37:30.620 by too
00:37:31.040 fast for me
00:37:31.780 to read
00:37:32.160 it.
00:37:32.300 All right.
00:37:35.460 They said no
00:37:36.340 release of
00:37:36.840 information until
00:37:37.740 the final.
00:37:38.680 Yeah, but this
00:37:40.240 is the real
00:37:40.700 world.
00:37:41.680 In the real
00:37:42.200 world, if they
00:37:42.900 had the
00:37:43.280 goods, you
00:37:44.960 would know
00:37:45.400 it by now.
00:37:46.700 Like, if I'm
00:37:47.820 wrong about
00:37:48.300 that, that
00:37:49.960 would be
00:37:50.320 shocking.
00:37:52.280 And I
00:37:52.820 could be.
00:37:53.540 Remember, I
00:37:54.020 got that
00:37:54.420 recording in
00:37:55.120 the back of
00:37:55.480 my head.
00:37:55.800 I could be
00:37:56.220 wrong.
00:37:57.200 You know, it
00:37:57.460 could be the
00:37:58.000 first time
00:37:59.160 somebody has
00:37:59.940 world-changing
00:38:01.520 news and lots
00:38:03.040 of people are
00:38:03.580 involved and
00:38:04.700 they're mostly
00:38:05.300 amateurs or
00:38:06.480 people just
00:38:07.580 working on
00:38:08.040 this project
00:38:08.700 act and
00:38:10.040 they don't
00:38:10.300 tell anybody?
00:38:12.800 Maybe.
00:38:14.180 You know,
00:38:14.520 maybe.
00:38:15.860 But I
00:38:16.560 doubt it.
00:38:18.000 So if
00:38:18.740 that's what's
00:38:19.240 happening, that
00:38:19.880 will be the
00:38:20.220 biggest surprise
00:38:20.840 in the world.
00:38:22.340 I've got a
00:38:22.900 feeling that
00:38:23.380 what's...
00:38:23.800 Let me make
00:38:24.380 a prediction
00:38:24.820 what's going
00:38:25.280 to come out
00:38:25.640 of the
00:38:25.940 Arizona audit.
00:38:28.500 Ambiguity.
00:38:30.600 If you had
00:38:31.340 to bet on
00:38:32.740 a clear result
00:38:34.040 in the future
00:38:34.760 on any topic
00:38:35.700 versus an
00:38:37.300 ambiguous result
00:38:38.320 in the future
00:38:38.800 where people
00:38:39.580 are going to
00:38:39.960 interpret it
00:38:40.460 as two
00:38:40.820 different movies,
00:38:42.240 always bet on
00:38:43.020 the two movies
00:38:43.760 in 2021.
00:38:45.300 Anyway, maybe
00:38:45.920 it was different
00:38:46.360 in the past.
00:38:47.460 But the odds
00:38:48.040 are that the
00:38:49.740 audit will
00:38:50.800 create what
00:38:52.480 the people who
00:38:53.180 already thought
00:38:54.040 there was fraud
00:38:54.980 will consider
00:38:56.100 proof.
00:38:57.600 And the people
00:38:58.220 who say there
00:38:58.800 was no fraud
00:38:59.640 will consider
00:39:00.560 debunked.
00:39:03.500 You know
00:39:04.220 that's coming,
00:39:05.260 right?
00:39:06.680 You know
00:39:07.460 that what's
00:39:07.900 coming is
00:39:08.840 two movies.
00:39:10.200 One that
00:39:10.800 proves the
00:39:11.500 election was
00:39:12.460 fake and
00:39:13.820 one that
00:39:14.240 proves it
00:39:14.940 wasn't.
00:39:15.980 They're both
00:39:16.500 going to be
00:39:16.860 playing at the
00:39:17.400 same time in
00:39:18.020 a month.
00:39:18.860 I guarantee
00:39:19.380 it.
00:39:20.240 I guarantee
00:39:20.860 that whatever
00:39:21.620 the Arizona
00:39:22.280 audit says,
00:39:23.400 it will form
00:39:24.020 two complete
00:39:24.760 movies that
00:39:25.820 will live
00:39:26.260 forever.
00:39:27.800 Does anybody
00:39:28.500 disagree with
00:39:29.120 that, by the
00:39:29.520 way?
00:39:30.540 By now, you
00:39:31.360 all know that's
00:39:31.960 true, right?
00:39:32.680 You've all seen
00:39:33.560 the cycle
00:39:34.780 repeat so many
00:39:35.600 times.
00:39:36.520 Was there
00:39:36.900 Russian collusion
00:39:38.380 in the
00:39:40.040 2016 election?
00:39:42.040 Two movies.
00:39:43.600 We'll live
00:39:44.140 forever.
00:39:49.660 Why do you
00:39:50.460 keep saying
00:39:50.960 China isn't
00:39:51.800 affected by
00:39:52.980 COVID?
00:39:54.100 Well, relative
00:39:54.760 to how much
00:39:55.820 the rest of the
00:39:56.420 world is
00:39:56.820 affected.
00:39:58.440 If you have
00:39:59.380 other information,
00:40:00.960 let me know.
00:40:01.560 But I
00:40:04.340 haven't seen
00:40:04.700 it.
00:40:06.440 All right,
00:40:07.100 Gene.
00:40:08.960 I agree.
00:40:10.060 This is
00:40:10.420 boring.
00:40:10.900 And that's
00:40:11.140 why I'm
00:40:11.480 going to
00:40:11.680 help you
00:40:12.160 by hiding
00:40:13.520 you on
00:40:13.940 this channel.
00:40:15.300 Goodbye.
00:40:16.740 All right,
00:40:17.020 that's all.
00:40:19.100 Oh, Fox
00:40:19.700 News is saying
00:40:20.380 the Arizona
00:40:20.900 audit finds
00:40:21.580 massive fraud.
00:40:23.020 Turn on
00:40:23.460 CNN.
00:40:24.680 CNN will
00:40:25.280 say,
00:40:26.440 stories of
00:40:27.060 massive fraud
00:40:27.780 all debunked.
00:40:29.040 Doesn't mean
00:40:29.600 it's true,
00:40:30.140 but you
00:40:31.160 know they're
00:40:31.460 both going
00:40:31.840 to happen.
00:40:33.860 Did you
00:40:34.340 see Anomaly's
00:40:35.280 debate with
00:40:35.880 Stixenhammer
00:40:36.520 666?
00:40:37.380 I didn't.
00:40:38.180 When did
00:40:38.520 that happen?
00:40:40.540 If that's
00:40:41.120 on video,
00:40:41.900 I'd watch
00:40:42.240 that for
00:40:42.600 sure.
00:40:46.300 I keep
00:40:47.020 telling you
00:40:47.880 nine million
00:40:48.640 citizens of
00:40:49.840 Nanjing
00:40:50.920 mandatory
00:40:51.440 testing.
00:40:52.760 Yeah, but
00:40:53.080 you know,
00:40:53.700 that doesn't
00:40:54.260 even come
00:40:54.660 close to
00:40:56.580 the size of
00:40:57.420 the problem
00:40:57.820 you'd expect
00:40:58.740 from that
00:40:59.780 being ground
00:41:00.260 zero.
00:41:01.460 So, yeah,
00:41:02.380 nine million
00:41:02.820 people with
00:41:03.400 mandatory
00:41:03.820 testing,
00:41:04.640 it means
00:41:05.500 they're taking
00:41:05.880 us seriously,
00:41:07.120 but it
00:41:07.860 doesn't mean
00:41:08.520 they have
00:41:08.820 the same
00:41:09.140 level of
00:41:09.540 problem
00:41:09.820 with other
00:41:10.220 people.
00:41:14.920 Wish
00:41:15.400 Steve Crowder
00:41:16.280 well,
00:41:16.720 somebody says.
00:41:17.360 What's
00:41:17.560 happening
00:41:17.800 with Steve
00:41:18.200 Crowder?
00:41:21.400 All right.
00:41:23.300 The
00:41:23.760 Stix
00:41:24.020 debate is
00:41:24.620 on
00:41:24.880 bit
00:41:25.120 shoot.
00:41:26.460 Stix
00:41:26.940 killed
00:41:27.300 him.
00:41:28.760 I'll
00:41:28.960 bet he
00:41:29.260 did.
00:41:29.780 I saw
00:41:32.400 a little
00:41:32.660 bit of
00:41:32.980 their
00:41:33.120 exchange
00:41:33.680 on
00:41:34.220 Twitter,
00:41:35.060 so I
00:41:35.340 would
00:41:35.460 imagine
00:41:35.780 that.
00:41:37.040 All
00:41:37.200 right.
00:41:42.060 So,
00:41:42.800 in China
00:41:43.700 you can't
00:41:44.180 leave home
00:41:44.740 without a
00:41:45.260 red,
00:41:45.520 yellow,
00:41:45.820 or green
00:41:46.200 card,
00:41:46.800 mandatory
00:41:47.200 quarantine
00:41:48.100 centers.
00:41:49.440 Yeah,
00:41:49.760 but with
00:41:50.200 all of
00:41:50.580 that,
00:41:51.760 with all
00:41:52.560 of that,
00:41:53.880 they're
00:41:54.140 nowhere near
00:41:54.820 where you
00:41:55.240 would expect
00:41:55.800 them,
00:41:56.260 just
00:41:56.480 commonsensically,
00:41:57.660 in the
00:41:58.760 pandemic.
00:41:59.660 There is
00:42:00.720 still a
00:42:01.280 giant
00:42:01.540 mystery of
00:42:02.840 what's
00:42:03.060 going on
00:42:03.480 over there.
00:42:06.480 What?
00:42:07.160 Crowder is
00:42:07.720 having
00:42:07.920 complications
00:42:08.680 in a
00:42:09.280 collapsed
00:42:09.700 lung?
00:42:10.940 From
00:42:11.460 what?
00:42:11.820 Did he
00:42:13.260 have an
00:42:13.500 accident of
00:42:13.980 some kind?
00:42:15.580 I'll catch
00:42:16.560 up on that.
00:42:17.760 All right,
00:42:18.300 that's all
00:42:19.720 for now,
00:42:20.300 and I
00:42:20.720 will talk
00:42:21.140 to you
00:42:21.560 tomorrow.
00:42:23.040 heel
00:42:47.780 now.