Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 03, 2021


Episode 1457 Scott Adams： Sipping and Chatting About the Latest National Nonsense


Episode Stats

Length

46 minutes

Words per Minute

157.34357

Word Count

7,302

Sentence Count

548

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

I bought two identical iPads, and they don t work the same way, and I can't figure out how to reboot them. I also find out why vaccines don't work everywhere on Earth. And nuclear power is at an all-time high.


Transcript

00:00:00.380 Hello, everybody.
00:00:02.800 A little bit behind here.
00:00:06.360 God damn it, my technology is bad.
00:00:09.220 Sorry, didn't mean to swear, but...
00:00:12.200 Jesus!
00:00:13.560 I'll tell you, my new iPad situation?
00:00:17.360 It's a disaster so far.
00:00:21.820 And I'll be with you in a moment.
00:00:24.560 All right.
00:00:26.640 Everybody good?
00:00:30.000 All right.
00:00:32.780 Here we are.
00:00:34.820 And I'm pretty sure that the technology is working.
00:00:39.300 I'll tell you what problem I have.
00:00:40.340 I bought two identical iPads so that they're brand new
00:00:44.320 and they have the latest operating system and everything would be good.
00:00:47.620 Except one of the new ones doesn't work for YouTube or Twitter.
00:00:54.140 The apps just crashed.
00:00:55.480 They're all brand new, updated, brand new iPad,
00:00:58.780 latest operating system.
00:01:01.000 And they can't do YouTube and they can't do Twitter.
00:01:04.720 But it's identical because it does both of them fine.
00:01:08.840 I also can't reboot it.
00:01:10.700 Looks like they changed how you reboot the new ones.
00:01:14.100 If anybody knows how to reboot an iPad,
00:01:16.200 it doesn't involve holding down the power button.
00:01:18.520 I found this on the web.
00:01:19.640 Shut up!
00:01:21.160 Fucking thing.
00:01:22.280 If you're not going to work, don't talk to me.
00:01:24.380 Christ, just go over there and shut up.
00:01:26.700 All right.
00:01:28.960 How would you like to enjoy a little thing I call the simultaneous sip?
00:01:34.360 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass,
00:01:36.860 a tank or gels or a stine, a cantina, a jug or a glass,
00:01:39.080 a vessel of any kind.
00:01:41.320 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:42.480 I like coffee.
00:01:44.740 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:01:47.460 The dopamine here of the day, the thing that makes everything better,
00:01:50.480 it's called the simultaneous sip and watch it go.
00:01:52.840 Now.
00:01:53.700 Go.
00:01:58.240 So I'm a little bit late this morning because I was compiling an amazing tweet.
00:02:05.000 And I was just done.
00:02:06.980 And I'll read it to you and then I'll hit send.
00:02:09.180 I said, as far as I know, no city, state, or country on the planet
00:02:14.100 has beaten COVID with ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.
00:02:20.780 Lots of places have limited access to vaccines,
00:02:24.280 whereas ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are widely available.
00:02:28.500 So how does your worldview explain that?
00:02:32.260 So I'm not saying it works or it doesn't work.
00:02:34.580 You get banned from social media if you take any kind of a positive take
00:02:39.540 on those things.
00:02:40.760 So here's the question.
00:02:42.960 Your worldview says that those two things,
00:02:46.400 let's see many of you, not all of you,
00:02:49.000 but for many of you, your worldview is that those things work.
00:02:54.440 Why have they not worked anywhere on Earth?
00:02:58.200 Do you ever think about that?
00:03:00.620 It doesn't work anywhere on Earth.
00:03:02.960 Not one place has made that work.
00:03:06.740 But according to the studies, those things work great, right?
00:03:11.740 So you'd think that the people who didn't have access to vaccines
00:03:14.500 would be sucking that stuff up
00:03:16.820 and would have cured their problems like crazy.
00:03:20.440 Or, or, is it possible?
00:03:26.420 Somebody in the comments says,
00:03:27.760 McAfee died and now we have a new virus.
00:03:30.900 Coincidence?
00:03:31.340 Maybe.
00:03:33.600 Maybe.
00:03:36.680 So, just check your worldview.
00:03:40.180 If you are a subscriber to Locals,
00:03:42.980 and many of them are watching me right now,
00:03:46.100 what you learned in the last few days,
00:03:48.720 where you learned my framework and technique for creativity,
00:03:53.960 which you couldn't learn any other way.
00:03:55.700 You'd have to be on the Locals platform.
00:03:57.020 And you also saw my explanation of my live streaming setup
00:04:03.200 that I've taken years to perfect.
00:04:06.480 And if my iPad worked, it would be in good shape.
00:04:10.060 So that's why you missed just this week,
00:04:11.780 and there'll be a lot more.
00:04:13.540 Here's a little interesting thing.
00:04:16.760 Apparently, the favorability of nuclear power
00:04:19.240 has reached an all-time high.
00:04:21.040 How do you like that?
00:04:25.060 Favorability of nuclear power,
00:04:28.200 an all-time high.
00:04:29.560 And that uptick in popularity
00:04:33.280 happened in the last four or five years,
00:04:36.740 and especially in the last couple.
00:04:38.260 It looks like the biggest change happened
00:04:41.320 after Trump left office.
00:04:43.940 Because I think there was just an automatic resistance
00:04:46.880 to nuclear power if it had a Republican connection.
00:04:51.300 But as soon as you get Biden in office,
00:04:54.720 I think the Democrats just said,
00:04:56.820 well, if we're serious about climate change,
00:04:58.880 I guess we'd better be serious about nuclear power.
00:05:01.460 Because it's the only way to...
00:05:02.860 probably the only way to get there.
00:05:04.260 Although there have been some good advances
00:05:06.360 in batteries and stuff,
00:05:08.360 but we haven't quite seen them actualized.
00:05:10.760 But here's my question.
00:05:12.740 I've told you before
00:05:14.220 that I have this weird track record
00:05:19.160 that when I'm trying to persuade
00:05:21.860 on any national topic,
00:05:25.040 if you looked at the graph of people's opinions,
00:05:27.300 you would find the point that I entered,
00:05:29.220 and then you would see a sharp change in the curve.
00:05:32.160 That happened, for example,
00:05:33.200 when I started persuading years ago
00:05:35.100 on the right to die.
00:05:37.300 You know, the ability to have a doctor-assisted death.
00:05:42.180 And if you look at the Gallup poll,
00:05:45.440 you see that that trend was like...
00:05:47.300 And then I wrote a viral piece in favor of that right.
00:05:52.280 And you can see that just at the time
00:05:53.720 I did that viral piece,
00:05:55.440 which went just about everywhere.
00:05:56.940 I mean, it really...
00:05:57.900 It actually made a big impact.
00:05:59.760 And you can see that the curve just went...
00:06:02.060 and changed.
00:06:03.840 Now, is that because I was persuading?
00:06:09.020 There's no reason to believe that,
00:06:10.700 because curves change, right?
00:06:12.020 Things change.
00:06:13.500 But there's this weird coincidence
00:06:15.700 that whenever I enter a fight,
00:06:17.880 persuasion-wise,
00:06:19.160 the curve just changes in my direction
00:06:22.120 pretty much every time.
00:06:24.180 I can't think of an exception.
00:06:25.840 But I think it's probably easier to explain it
00:06:28.260 in terms of me joining causes
00:06:30.980 that I know I'll win,
00:06:32.360 or that they were going to go in that direction anyway.
00:06:35.960 So I'm going to say
00:06:36.860 it's less about cause and effect
00:06:38.500 and more about knowing what things need to happen
00:06:42.700 and just sort of joining the parade
00:06:45.380 that's already moving.
00:06:46.120 I think that's a better explanation of what we're seeing.
00:06:49.520 All right.
00:06:50.040 But if you'd like to believe
00:06:51.500 that I caused those things to happen,
00:06:53.060 that's great, too.
00:06:54.060 It's just...
00:06:54.760 There's no evidence for that.
00:06:57.400 Bannon, on his war room,
00:06:59.120 had a...
00:06:59.820 He continues to be the most interesting content
00:07:02.280 on the Internet.
00:07:04.340 Am I wrong?
00:07:06.120 You know, whether it's true stuff or fake stuff,
00:07:09.140 or...
00:07:10.120 I never know what's true and what's not.
00:07:12.520 But Bannon's war room is...
00:07:14.120 He just has the most interesting stuff.
00:07:16.580 I just never know if it's true.
00:07:18.340 Right?
00:07:18.560 True in terms of whether the guests are credible or not.
00:07:22.480 But here's another one.
00:07:24.200 He had a gentleman on
00:07:27.120 who I guess has some experience in military intelligence.
00:07:30.160 And apparently this fellow can look at demographics
00:07:34.620 and registration,
00:07:37.440 so demographic trends and registration trends in the country,
00:07:40.540 and he can determine if your vote
00:07:44.420 looks like it was fraudulent or not.
00:07:48.540 So if there are more votes for a candidate,
00:07:51.620 then either the demographic change
00:07:53.620 in the four years since the last vote
00:07:55.460 or the number of registered voters
00:07:58.520 is out of whack,
00:08:00.680 there's just too many votes for the situation,
00:08:03.640 then he says that's a sign
00:08:05.780 that maybe, not always,
00:08:07.940 but maybe, might indicate fraud.
00:08:10.240 Now you say to yourself,
00:08:11.720 how likely is that model to work?
00:08:15.960 Do you think that that really can capture all that?
00:08:19.120 Because remember,
00:08:20.360 the Trump election is different than any other election
00:08:22.760 because he was a different character.
00:08:24.680 I'm not sure people acted the same.
00:08:26.540 And then you had the pandemic,
00:08:27.960 you know, throws all the rules out.
00:08:30.360 But apparently he predicted correctly
00:08:32.720 all 50 states in 2016,
00:08:36.080 including Florida.
00:08:39.040 All 50.
00:08:40.600 That's right.
00:08:41.260 His model got all 50 states right, he claims.
00:08:45.940 It seems like that would be something you could check.
00:08:48.340 But if he really got all 50 states right,
00:08:50.620 and he's using the same model,
00:08:53.740 then the only thing that could be different
00:08:55.400 is the pandemic.
00:08:57.620 Because it was Trump both times, right?
00:09:00.220 You know, so you would think
00:09:02.000 that he'd have a handle on it.
00:09:04.160 But I think the pandemic did change enough
00:09:06.260 because the way people voted changed.
00:09:08.720 So I'm not sure the model works.
00:09:11.320 So I'm going to say that
00:09:12.640 I think that the pandemic
00:09:15.100 and then the legal changes to voting
00:09:18.000 and all the mail-in and stuff.
00:09:20.500 I don't know that any model still works
00:09:22.520 from 2016 to 2020.
00:09:26.000 But it's out there,
00:09:27.160 so that's some information.
00:09:28.880 So I did an unscientific poll,
00:09:30.920 and I asked,
00:09:31.700 what's a bigger problem for you at the moment?
00:09:34.680 Is the bigger problem for you personally
00:09:38.440 the virus
00:09:40.340 or the policies about the virus?
00:09:44.260 Well, it happened, of course.
00:09:47.760 As you might imagine,
00:09:49.600 something like 89% said
00:09:52.180 that the government's policies are the problems.
00:09:55.940 89%.
00:09:56.620 It's not even close.
00:09:58.560 Now, of course,
00:09:59.080 this is a deeply unscientific poll,
00:10:02.120 but do you think you would get
00:10:03.300 a different result anywhere else?
00:10:05.700 You know, if I...
00:10:07.300 I mean, obviously,
00:10:08.420 my audience leans conservative,
00:10:10.800 even though I'm not.
00:10:12.240 But I feel like it would be
00:10:15.420 a vast majority of people
00:10:17.400 would say that the government restrictions
00:10:19.060 are the problem for them personally.
00:10:22.020 You know, we've all been
00:10:23.080 sort of hypnotized into thinking
00:10:25.940 that what you do with the pandemic
00:10:28.220 is more about the collective.
00:10:30.800 It's not so much about your personal
00:10:33.100 what's good for you.
00:10:34.700 But if 90% of the country-ish,
00:10:37.940 or anything over 75%, I suppose,
00:10:40.680 thinks that the bigger problem
00:10:42.660 is the government than the virus,
00:10:45.480 I think that has to inform
00:10:46.840 your policymaking, right?
00:10:50.640 But I'm not sure it is.
00:10:53.500 So Rasmussen did a poll,
00:10:55.720 and they said,
00:10:56.200 did Joe Biden win fairly in 2020?
00:10:58.520 What do you think people said?
00:10:59.960 Well, 36% of the country still says no.
00:11:03.780 36% of the country
00:11:06.540 thinks we didn't have a fair election.
00:11:10.560 That's a lot.
00:11:12.700 How do you have a democracy
00:11:14.380 that stays intact
00:11:16.940 when 36% of the people
00:11:19.000 think that something happened?
00:11:21.780 But here's the good news,
00:11:24.180 or is it?
00:11:25.060 Depends on your point of view.
00:11:26.860 Apparently that number is lower
00:11:28.640 than it was just a few months ago,
00:11:31.180 or June, actually.
00:11:32.020 It was 41% in June,
00:11:35.020 but it's trended down a little bit.
00:11:37.000 Now that makes sense, right?
00:11:38.760 The longer you go
00:11:39.980 without proof of some massive fraud,
00:11:43.360 the less likely you're going to find it,
00:11:45.740 I would say.
00:11:46.880 Now, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
00:11:50.220 I'm just saying that
00:11:51.140 if the audits were going to produce something
00:11:53.860 that would change all our minds,
00:11:55.940 I know we'd know by now.
00:11:57.900 Even though they haven't released it officially,
00:11:59.900 we'd kind of know by now.
00:12:01.380 So, I'm not expecting that to happen.
00:12:04.260 But how do you live in a world
00:12:05.320 where so many people think
00:12:06.400 they don't even live in a system that's fair?
00:12:10.400 Maybe that's always been the case.
00:12:13.200 Yeah, maybe it's always been the case
00:12:14.840 that somebody's pointing out
00:12:16.900 you have to subtract out the 25%
00:12:19.120 who are wrong about everything.
00:12:21.740 No matter what the poll is,
00:12:23.680 25%-ish,
00:12:25.520 we'll just be wrong about everything.
00:12:26.700 And I'm not even sure
00:12:28.480 we should poll dumb people anymore.
00:12:30.860 There should be some
00:12:31.700 minimum level of paying attention
00:12:34.760 and intelligence
00:12:35.600 before you're even included in a poll.
00:12:38.220 Because do we need to know
00:12:39.620 what dumb people think?
00:12:40.900 I guess we do.
00:12:41.920 Because they make a lot of decisions.
00:12:44.380 All right.
00:12:46.560 Jack Posobiec got things
00:12:48.240 interesting on Twitter today
00:12:50.580 with this tweet.
00:12:52.060 He said,
00:12:52.460 literally every movie
00:12:53.880 is better than
00:12:54.620 The Last Jedi.
00:12:57.860 It's one of those
00:12:58.700 provocative kind of tweets.
00:13:00.100 He's good at doing.
00:13:01.180 You get a lot of comments.
00:13:02.920 But I'd like to add to that
00:13:04.640 Black Widow.
00:13:07.380 If you've tried to watch
00:13:08.780 the movie Black Widow
00:13:09.920 that just came out
00:13:10.700 on streaming,
00:13:11.900 oh my God,
00:13:12.660 it's terrible.
00:13:13.800 It's just,
00:13:14.380 it's just,
00:13:15.460 it just makes you feel bad.
00:13:17.940 I'm watching this thing
00:13:18.900 and I think,
00:13:19.600 wait a minute.
00:13:20.160 I thought I was signing up
00:13:22.000 for something
00:13:22.500 in the entertainment realm
00:13:25.100 as opposed to something
00:13:26.680 that's going to cause me
00:13:27.620 PTSD.
00:13:29.840 One of them
00:13:30.760 makes you happy.
00:13:32.500 It's called entertainment.
00:13:33.860 The other one
00:13:34.840 gives you mental illness.
00:13:37.100 Opposite of entertainment.
00:13:39.500 Black Widow,
00:13:41.100 if you've got any mental illness,
00:13:42.760 it's going to exacerbate that shit
00:13:44.180 because it's terrible.
00:13:45.920 It just makes you feel depressed
00:13:47.300 and dark and ugh.
00:13:48.640 Now,
00:13:50.620 here's the bigger point.
00:13:53.280 When was the last time
00:13:54.280 you saw a good movie?
00:13:56.980 It's like they don't exist.
00:13:58.660 Part of the problem is
00:13:59.400 our attention spans have shrunk.
00:14:02.500 And was it,
00:14:03.220 was it Mark Wahlberg?
00:14:05.200 No,
00:14:05.480 it was
00:14:05.680 Good Will Hunting,
00:14:08.840 what's the name of the
00:14:09.900 blonder guy?
00:14:11.300 Matt Damon.
00:14:11.880 Yeah,
00:14:12.100 Matt Damon was just saying publicly
00:14:13.780 that he doesn't think
00:14:15.280 his children will watch movies.
00:14:16.960 He doesn't think his children
00:14:20.120 will watch movies
00:14:22.100 like the industry
00:14:23.060 will just disappear.
00:14:24.720 Is he right?
00:14:26.420 Yeah,
00:14:26.880 I think he might be.
00:14:28.220 I don't think it'll disappear.
00:14:29.600 It'll be like radio,
00:14:30.740 you know,
00:14:31.000 when television came in.
00:14:32.020 It'll transform in some way.
00:14:33.860 So I think it'll be around.
00:14:35.380 But the idea of sitting there
00:14:37.020 for three hours
00:14:37.780 watching something
00:14:39.240 that gives you PTSD
00:14:40.400 just to make you
00:14:41.300 a little happier
00:14:41.860 at the end,
00:14:42.460 I just don't know
00:14:43.860 that anybody wants that anymore.
00:14:46.460 The whole idea
00:14:47.280 of anybody watching
00:14:48.140 anything at the same time
00:14:49.580 doesn't make sense.
00:14:51.720 Have you ever done this?
00:14:52.980 I think I've mentioned
00:14:53.740 this before.
00:14:54.700 So when I built my house
00:14:55.840 20,
00:14:58.000 let's say
00:14:58.500 2008 or so,
00:15:00.560 I was doing the planning.
00:15:02.260 And back then,
00:15:03.500 it was just a given
00:15:04.740 that if you were building
00:15:06.100 a high-end house,
00:15:08.100 you would put a theater
00:15:08.980 in there.
00:15:09.360 Because that would be
00:15:11.000 all your movie nights.
00:15:12.260 You know,
00:15:12.400 you'd have your friends over
00:15:13.460 and you'd have
00:15:14.660 a couple of martinis
00:15:15.540 and you'd sit down
00:15:16.400 and you'd watch
00:15:16.860 this great movie
00:15:17.700 and it'd be something
00:15:18.680 to build an evening around.
00:15:22.080 When was the last time
00:15:22.940 you tried to get anybody
00:15:23.900 to watch the same movie
00:15:25.020 at the same time?
00:15:27.440 It's really impossible now
00:15:29.240 because people have
00:15:30.520 either already seen it
00:15:31.580 as soon as it came out,
00:15:32.960 you know,
00:15:33.160 they streamed it or whatever,
00:15:34.980 or they don't want
00:15:36.160 to watch it
00:15:36.760 or they'll talk during it
00:15:38.580 because they said yes
00:15:39.640 but they're not
00:15:40.280 really interested in it.
00:15:42.360 Just the whole idea
00:15:43.600 of putting people
00:15:44.220 in a room
00:15:44.620 and watching a movie,
00:15:45.600 it just isn't
00:15:46.140 a thing anymore.
00:15:47.120 We're all watching
00:15:47.780 our own content
00:15:48.580 on our phones
00:15:49.300 and we're much happier
00:15:50.160 about it.
00:15:51.080 So I think movies
00:15:51.820 are going away.
00:15:52.640 Now here's
00:15:53.220 the interesting part.
00:15:55.180 You were probably
00:15:55.720 waiting for me
00:15:56.320 to get to the interesting part.
00:15:57.840 Is there an interesting
00:15:58.540 part about this?
00:16:00.040 Yes.
00:16:01.080 You might be aware
00:16:02.040 that the CIA
00:16:02.920 has used
00:16:05.340 the movie industry
00:16:06.300 for years
00:16:07.060 to brainwash
00:16:08.600 the public
00:16:09.140 to make you
00:16:10.580 more patriotic
00:16:11.420 for example
00:16:12.020 or to have
00:16:12.620 whatever traits
00:16:14.680 the government
00:16:15.360 thought you should have.
00:16:16.700 You know,
00:16:16.920 maybe more family-oriented
00:16:18.440 and blah, blah, blah.
00:16:21.020 But what happens
00:16:22.680 if movies go away?
00:16:24.560 Because movies
00:16:25.140 were the dominant way
00:16:26.420 in which,
00:16:27.280 and TV shows,
00:16:28.100 and I think the argument
00:16:29.100 is going to apply
00:16:29.980 to both of these domains,
00:16:31.300 but TV shows
00:16:33.300 and movies
00:16:33.920 were how
00:16:34.680 the government
00:16:36.140 created a culture.
00:16:38.120 They told you
00:16:39.040 what to act like
00:16:40.000 and then they showed you
00:16:41.500 in movies
00:16:41.960 and then you just
00:16:43.280 grew up thinking,
00:16:44.000 well, I guess
00:16:44.740 I act like that
00:16:45.620 because we,
00:16:46.980 you know,
00:16:47.320 we just imitate things.
00:16:49.080 What happens
00:16:49.660 when the programming
00:16:51.620 interface
00:16:52.340 for society
00:16:53.520 disappears?
00:16:55.380 What good
00:16:56.040 would your computer
00:16:56.780 be if there
00:16:57.840 was no interface?
00:16:59.220 The computer
00:16:59.840 would still exist
00:17:00.760 but there wouldn't
00:17:01.700 be any way
00:17:02.100 to program it.
00:17:03.780 That's happening.
00:17:05.720 The interface
00:17:06.780 for programming
00:17:07.480 the public
00:17:08.000 into one
00:17:08.800 coherent culture
00:17:10.760 is dissolving.
00:17:13.780 So what happens?
00:17:14.920 Who ends up
00:17:15.620 programming citizens?
00:17:18.580 School,
00:17:20.300 right?
00:17:21.400 School.
00:17:22.320 So in other words,
00:17:23.020 the teachers' unions
00:17:24.420 become the programmers
00:17:26.420 of society.
00:17:27.460 They get the young people.
00:17:29.140 But what about
00:17:29.740 the older people?
00:17:30.900 Well,
00:17:31.140 social media,
00:17:31.840 right,
00:17:32.260 in the comments.
00:17:33.400 Social media
00:17:34.020 is the new
00:17:34.720 programming entity.
00:17:36.700 But,
00:17:37.380 here's the question.
00:17:39.440 Is the CIA
00:17:40.860 manipulating
00:17:42.900 social media
00:17:43.820 for the same purpose
00:17:45.960 and in the same way
00:17:46.880 that they manipulated?
00:17:47.960 We know this now.
00:17:48.760 This is a matter of fact.
00:17:49.840 It's not speculation.
00:17:51.260 We know that they have
00:17:52.200 historically manipulated
00:17:53.300 movies
00:17:53.860 and probably TV shows.
00:17:56.260 I think that's confirmed.
00:17:57.460 Do you think that
00:17:59.160 they're consciously
00:18:00.080 trying to program
00:18:02.020 the public
00:18:02.840 through social media?
00:18:05.860 Now,
00:18:06.200 certainly,
00:18:06.840 they're involved
00:18:07.740 in specific questions.
00:18:09.720 You know,
00:18:09.880 maybe the vaccines
00:18:10.840 and maybe something
00:18:12.420 about a war
00:18:13.160 or something.
00:18:14.040 But do you think
00:18:14.580 just generally
00:18:15.400 they're programming you
00:18:16.400 to know what kind
00:18:17.780 of a life to lead?
00:18:18.820 Because it doesn't
00:18:21.560 look to me
00:18:22.440 like the CIA
00:18:24.640 is what's programming you.
00:18:26.840 Let me ask you this.
00:18:28.280 If the CIA
00:18:29.180 wanted to program you
00:18:30.860 to be a good citizen
00:18:32.000 and make the country
00:18:33.120 coherent
00:18:33.680 and, like,
00:18:35.020 feel like it had
00:18:35.600 one dominant culture,
00:18:38.220 would you see
00:18:39.180 what you see
00:18:39.700 on social media now?
00:18:42.200 No, right?
00:18:43.260 It's the opposite of that.
00:18:44.600 Social media
00:18:45.180 is ripping apart
00:18:46.340 the structure
00:18:47.740 of America
00:18:48.420 by emphasizing
00:18:49.900 our differences.
00:18:51.260 That's what it does best.
00:18:52.900 So,
00:18:53.640 although you can imagine
00:18:54.760 that the CIA
00:18:55.600 would move
00:18:56.700 its influence
00:18:57.520 and brainwashing
00:18:58.380 from movies and TV
00:18:59.560 that are collapsing
00:19:00.400 into social media
00:19:02.240 that's the dominant
00:19:03.120 media,
00:19:05.180 but it doesn't look
00:19:06.120 like it's happening
00:19:06.640 to me
00:19:07.160 because it would look
00:19:08.740 completely different.
00:19:09.580 In other words,
00:19:09.960 social media
00:19:10.440 would be telling you
00:19:11.500 to get a family
00:19:12.660 and, you know,
00:19:14.040 be a nuclear family
00:19:15.540 and pay your taxes
00:19:17.220 and, you know,
00:19:18.860 be open-minded
00:19:20.240 about stuff,
00:19:20.880 I guess.
00:19:21.840 But,
00:19:22.420 somebody says
00:19:24.820 AI is screwing us.
00:19:26.300 Yeah,
00:19:26.520 it could be
00:19:26.980 that the social media
00:19:27.880 platforms are driven
00:19:28.860 by AI,
00:19:30.260 the movies were driven
00:19:31.180 by human beings
00:19:32.240 behind the scenes.
00:19:34.000 So,
00:19:34.620 I believe that
00:19:35.140 we're being programmed
00:19:36.180 randomly
00:19:38.320 for the first time,
00:19:41.560 meaning that
00:19:42.100 there's not one
00:19:42.820 dominant program
00:19:44.020 or interface
00:19:44.980 that's programming us
00:19:46.000 as a culture.
00:19:47.300 We're just taking
00:19:48.220 inputs from everywhere.
00:19:49.740 Well,
00:19:49.940 what does that do?
00:19:51.340 Does that destroy
00:19:52.200 the country?
00:19:53.940 I feel like it might.
00:19:56.200 Like,
00:19:56.500 I don't feel like
00:19:57.380 it's cause and effect
00:19:59.280 and it's obvious
00:20:00.080 that that would destroy
00:20:01.100 the country,
00:20:01.580 but it might,
00:20:03.920 right?
00:20:05.340 Like,
00:20:05.700 I don't think
00:20:06.260 you can rule it out
00:20:07.220 because if the way
00:20:08.740 we think
00:20:09.480 as a country,
00:20:11.360 you know,
00:20:11.560 our dominant beliefs,
00:20:13.580 if those get out
00:20:15.060 of whack,
00:20:15.580 the whole country
00:20:16.060 falls apart.
00:20:17.120 There's nobody
00:20:17.600 who would doubt that,
00:20:18.360 right?
00:20:19.240 That if what you think
00:20:20.820 about the world,
00:20:22.400 your worldview,
00:20:23.420 if it gets all out
00:20:24.180 of whack,
00:20:24.760 the country falls apart.
00:20:27.300 Some would say
00:20:28.300 that the best asset
00:20:29.840 the United States
00:20:30.800 has ever had
00:20:31.660 is its narrative.
00:20:34.020 The narrative.
00:20:35.220 Meaning that
00:20:35.780 the story
00:20:36.400 of the United States.
00:20:38.440 And if you're not
00:20:39.980 citizen of the United States,
00:20:41.640 you probably recognize
00:20:42.840 that too.
00:20:43.800 I think the United States
00:20:44.820 becomes sort of a,
00:20:46.460 you know,
00:20:46.700 at least one model
00:20:47.660 that people look at
00:20:48.560 to say,
00:20:49.620 you know,
00:20:49.800 do we want to be
00:20:50.380 like that or not?
00:20:52.200 So,
00:20:52.840 we have a weird situation
00:20:54.520 in which we are
00:20:55.900 being randomly programmed
00:20:57.900 for the first time.
00:21:00.720 What happens?
00:21:01.980 Will there be
00:21:02.560 a dominant force
00:21:03.640 that rises
00:21:05.100 to program people?
00:21:06.740 Because the network
00:21:07.520 TV seems to be
00:21:08.920 doing that,
00:21:09.480 but it's separating
00:21:10.860 the left from the right,
00:21:12.080 which is all bad news.
00:21:14.980 So,
00:21:15.640 I feel as if
00:21:17.200 probably
00:21:17.980 some solution
00:21:19.480 will
00:21:19.980 evolve
00:21:21.780 just because
00:21:23.040 we need it,
00:21:23.860 but I don't know
00:21:24.980 what that will be.
00:21:26.040 It's hard to say.
00:21:26.880 I don't know
00:21:27.320 that it will be
00:21:27.940 influencers
00:21:28.660 on the internet
00:21:29.500 who are especially good.
00:21:31.240 Could be.
00:21:32.060 It could be that
00:21:32.760 people who are seen
00:21:33.580 as independent,
00:21:34.960 there are a few of them,
00:21:36.300 might get a bigger audience
00:21:37.780 and more influence.
00:21:39.100 I see in the comments
00:21:44.140 that the USA soccer team
00:21:45.680 needs to be programmed
00:21:46.840 or brainwashed,
00:21:48.220 I guess,
00:21:48.940 with the American story.
00:21:50.900 And I think you're right.
00:21:52.280 You're right.
00:21:53.180 That's a perfect example.
00:21:54.860 Watching our Olympic athletes
00:21:56.480 essentially ruin
00:21:57.660 a tradition
00:21:58.500 by turning it
00:22:00.280 into something else.
00:22:01.660 So you say
00:22:06.320 I should reset
00:22:07.040 my network settings
00:22:08.220 on my iPad.
00:22:09.440 Well,
00:22:09.640 I would if I could figure out
00:22:10.620 even how to,
00:22:11.740 well,
00:22:11.980 I want to reboot it first.
00:22:13.460 Can anybody tell me
00:22:14.060 how to reboot an iPad,
00:22:15.340 a modern one?
00:22:16.700 Because it used to be
00:22:17.400 you just hold
00:22:17.840 the power button,
00:22:18.780 but that seems
00:22:19.480 to have changed.
00:22:22.080 All right.
00:22:23.860 Here's some more
00:22:24.480 stuff happening.
00:22:26.100 I saw a tweet
00:22:27.060 from Balaji Srinivasan,
00:22:29.220 who you should follow,
00:22:30.260 by the way.
00:22:30.740 Follow Balaji Srinivasan.
00:22:33.900 Just trust me.
00:22:35.360 When I give you
00:22:36.280 recommendations
00:22:36.900 of who to follow
00:22:37.820 on Twitter,
00:22:39.060 it's based on this,
00:22:40.740 that if you follow me,
00:22:42.520 you're almost certainly
00:22:43.600 going to like
00:22:44.380 who I recommend
00:22:45.100 because they're
00:22:46.080 feeding into my
00:22:47.140 worldview
00:22:47.860 in a strong way.
00:22:49.260 One of them
00:22:49.680 is Balaji.
00:22:50.780 So his first name
00:22:51.760 is spelled
00:22:52.100 B-A-L-A-J-I.
00:22:55.720 And just search
00:22:56.280 for Balaji Srinivasan
00:22:57.920 and you'll find him.
00:22:59.020 Anyway,
00:22:59.380 he tweeted today
00:23:00.020 that,
00:23:01.100 and by the way,
00:23:01.900 his tweets
00:23:02.400 would be on
00:23:02.840 a whole variety
00:23:04.060 of topics,
00:23:06.640 but if you just
00:23:07.480 want to see
00:23:07.860 what one of the
00:23:08.480 smartest people
00:23:09.100 on the planet
00:23:09.760 thinks about stuff,
00:23:12.600 it's worth doing.
00:23:15.260 Because trust me,
00:23:16.480 he's one of the
00:23:17.100 smartest people
00:23:17.800 like on the whole
00:23:18.580 freaking planet.
00:23:19.500 He knows more
00:23:20.180 about more things
00:23:21.160 than just about
00:23:22.480 anybody you know,
00:23:23.220 like more domains
00:23:24.180 than you've ever seen.
00:23:26.580 So just follow him.
00:23:27.300 He talks about today
00:23:28.300 in the tweet
00:23:28.800 that China
00:23:29.800 has made drone armies
00:23:32.440 ten times cheaper.
00:23:34.320 And it's a trend
00:23:34.920 to watch.
00:23:36.080 There's a company,
00:23:36.920 AVEX,
00:23:37.500 I guess it must be
00:23:38.440 a Chinese company,
00:23:39.540 where their
00:23:40.240 top-end drones
00:23:41.560 run for
00:23:42.440 one to two million
00:23:43.460 dollars a piece.
00:23:44.540 Now,
00:23:44.720 I'm not talking about,
00:23:45.540 you know,
00:23:45.780 the little handheld drones
00:23:46.960 that hobbyists have.
00:23:48.620 I'm talking about
00:23:49.180 the big flying ones
00:23:50.600 that look like
00:23:51.120 an airplane
00:23:51.540 and they have missiles
00:23:53.160 for one to two
00:23:55.440 million dollars.
00:23:57.560 In other words,
00:23:58.720 I could afford one.
00:24:02.140 Right?
00:24:02.880 You know,
00:24:03.360 I'm rich enough.
00:24:04.580 I mean,
00:24:04.880 I probably won't buy one.
00:24:06.140 But I could buy
00:24:07.520 a missile-armed
00:24:10.520 Chinese drone.
00:24:13.060 I can literally
00:24:13.840 personally afford it.
00:24:15.020 What the hell
00:24:17.680 is going to happen
00:24:18.680 when the rest of you
00:24:19.780 can afford it?
00:24:22.620 It's not going to be good.
00:24:24.720 I think the cost
00:24:25.820 of a deadly drone
00:24:27.780 is going to be
00:24:28.560 sub-$1,000.
00:24:30.820 Pretty sure.
00:24:32.340 Sub-$1,000.
00:24:33.940 Now,
00:24:34.260 I'm not talking about
00:24:35.000 the big military-looking
00:24:36.660 drones that are
00:24:37.480 the size of an airplane.
00:24:38.540 I'm talking about
00:24:39.060 the small ones.
00:24:40.400 And I wrote about this
00:24:41.460 a long time ago,
00:24:43.600 20 years ago.
00:24:44.220 And as soon as
00:24:46.560 you can get...
00:24:47.440 Could I rent it
00:24:48.340 from you?
00:24:49.400 That would be
00:24:49.940 a good business.
00:24:51.040 I'll buy one drone
00:24:52.000 and just rent it out
00:24:52.820 for $100,000 a pop.
00:24:54.880 It'll get a lot
00:24:55.600 of customers.
00:24:56.660 Want to kill your rival?
00:24:58.580 Borrow my drone.
00:25:01.120 $100,000
00:25:02.020 and you can take
00:25:03.300 out anybody anywhere.
00:25:07.160 All right.
00:25:08.020 So, yeah,
00:25:09.420 we're going to see
00:25:10.060 swarms of small drones
00:25:13.480 that explode
00:25:14.280 when they reach
00:25:15.200 a destination.
00:25:16.200 There's no way
00:25:16.780 that's not going
00:25:17.400 to happen.
00:25:19.200 Let me give you
00:25:19.940 some of my arguments
00:25:21.000 that my critics
00:25:21.800 are making about me.
00:25:23.160 I know you don't...
00:25:24.320 Let me be honest
00:25:26.580 with you a little bit.
00:25:28.140 The news is
00:25:29.040 freaking boring,
00:25:30.080 isn't it?
00:25:31.900 Now,
00:25:32.200 I know that a lot
00:25:32.860 of you have been
00:25:33.420 blaming me
00:25:34.160 for being
00:25:35.460 less interesting
00:25:36.480 lately.
00:25:38.020 I cop to that.
00:25:40.260 I'm totally
00:25:41.680 less interesting.
00:25:43.000 But it's because
00:25:43.520 most of my show
00:25:44.700 is based on the news
00:25:45.720 and the news
00:25:46.500 just without Trump.
00:25:48.720 Ugh.
00:25:49.900 I mean,
00:25:50.540 I suppose Obama
00:25:51.580 would be more interesting.
00:25:53.280 But Biden just...
00:25:54.980 There's nothing
00:25:55.580 to talk about.
00:25:57.160 So,
00:25:58.060 I apologize.
00:26:00.460 I expect
00:26:01.500 that things
00:26:01.980 will heat up
00:26:02.620 especially as we
00:26:03.480 get into the
00:26:04.280 midterm elections
00:26:06.660 and stuff.
00:26:07.000 so there will be
00:26:07.620 fun things ahead.
00:26:09.280 But
00:26:09.440 my
00:26:11.340 subscribers
00:26:12.220 on Locals
00:26:12.940 have started
00:26:13.440 bailing out
00:26:14.360 because anytime
00:26:15.220 I mention
00:26:15.820 vaccines and stuff
00:26:17.740 you're like,
00:26:18.080 ah,
00:26:18.360 stop talking about it.
00:26:19.760 But it's kind of
00:26:20.420 the only news.
00:26:21.860 It's the only thing
00:26:22.760 happening.
00:26:24.080 And so I'm going
00:26:24.900 to mention it
00:26:25.300 a little bit
00:26:25.820 but I'll try
00:26:27.500 to keep it
00:26:28.040 tight
00:26:29.240 and hit some
00:26:30.840 topics you
00:26:32.020 haven't seen before.
00:26:33.100 All right.
00:26:34.360 One of my critics
00:26:35.440 or a lot of my critics
00:26:36.640 say,
00:26:37.000 one of my problems
00:26:38.200 is that I never
00:26:38.940 question the motives
00:26:39.940 of government.
00:26:41.460 That I assume
00:26:42.620 too often
00:26:43.120 that people
00:26:43.540 have good
00:26:44.160 motivations
00:26:44.900 and that they're
00:26:46.180 not trying to
00:26:46.800 put one over
00:26:47.440 on you.
00:26:48.500 Does that sound
00:26:49.100 accurate?
00:26:50.060 Those of you
00:26:50.760 who watch me
00:26:51.280 the most,
00:26:52.320 would you say
00:26:52.860 it is an
00:26:53.360 accurate
00:26:53.980 criticism
00:26:56.380 that I'm
00:26:58.040 too trusting
00:26:58.760 of authority?
00:27:01.540 I'm seeing
00:27:02.180 people say
00:27:02.640 it's accurate.
00:27:03.980 But most people
00:27:04.760 say it's no.
00:27:05.320 Now let me
00:27:07.080 give you some
00:27:07.540 background.
00:27:08.660 Who was the
00:27:09.200 first public
00:27:10.100 figure to tell
00:27:11.180 you that the
00:27:12.320 CDC who
00:27:13.680 and the
00:27:14.460 Surgeon General
00:27:15.100 were lying to
00:27:15.980 you about masks
00:27:17.040 and the real
00:27:17.900 reason was to
00:27:18.660 keep you from
00:27:19.220 hoarding them?
00:27:20.360 Who was the
00:27:20.920 first public
00:27:21.760 figure that I'm
00:27:23.580 aware of in the
00:27:24.240 world to say
00:27:24.840 that?
00:27:25.480 It was me.
00:27:26.460 It was me.
00:27:27.200 The very first
00:27:27.900 thing I said
00:27:28.360 about the
00:27:28.720 pandemic is all
00:27:29.680 of your
00:27:29.960 authorities are
00:27:30.580 lying to you.
00:27:31.120 And what
00:27:33.120 do we know
00:27:33.500 now?
00:27:34.180 Completely
00:27:34.580 right.
00:27:36.060 Completely
00:27:36.500 right.
00:27:36.980 All of our
00:27:37.400 authorities were
00:27:38.020 lying to us
00:27:39.140 and for exactly
00:27:40.020 the reason I
00:27:40.580 told you.
00:27:41.680 That I
00:27:42.000 suspected they
00:27:42.720 had another
00:27:43.200 motive.
00:27:43.960 And sure
00:27:44.200 enough.
00:27:45.420 All right.
00:27:45.700 Who was one
00:27:46.760 of, there
00:27:47.500 were a few
00:27:47.820 of us, but
00:27:48.480 who was one
00:27:49.040 of the first
00:27:49.600 people who
00:27:50.700 told you that
00:27:51.320 our authorities
00:27:51.880 were fucking
00:27:52.620 up by not
00:27:53.880 closing travel to
00:27:56.100 China sooner?
00:27:58.080 Who told you
00:27:58.920 that they were
00:27:59.460 making their
00:28:00.020 decisions for
00:28:00.800 apparently political
00:28:02.000 reasons instead
00:28:03.200 of medical
00:28:03.640 reasons?
00:28:04.860 Me.
00:28:06.040 Right.
00:28:06.380 A week before
00:28:07.020 Trump said it,
00:28:08.400 I said it very
00:28:09.600 loudly, screaming
00:28:11.060 into the live
00:28:11.820 stream that I
00:28:13.600 didn't trust our
00:28:14.820 authorities because
00:28:16.960 they were making
00:28:17.380 decisions for
00:28:18.080 apparently the
00:28:18.600 wrong reasons.
00:28:19.900 Some kind of
00:28:21.560 political
00:28:22.560 considerations.
00:28:24.620 Right.
00:28:25.280 So, and I
00:28:27.240 don't think that
00:28:27.780 there's been any
00:28:28.520 time when I've
00:28:29.360 ever trusted
00:28:30.120 either the
00:28:31.200 science or
00:28:32.960 the government.
00:28:34.240 So anybody
00:28:34.840 who thinks
00:28:35.260 that's a valid
00:28:36.080 criticism of
00:28:36.980 the most
00:28:37.460 famous skeptic
00:28:39.620 of management,
00:28:41.640 literally 30
00:28:42.820 years of
00:28:43.540 experience telling
00:28:45.120 you that
00:28:45.540 management is
00:28:46.180 lying to you.
00:28:46.840 That's what
00:28:47.160 the Dilbert
00:28:47.540 comic is.
00:28:48.800 It's telling
00:28:49.500 you that you
00:28:49.980 can't trust
00:28:50.440 authority.
00:28:51.240 It's my
00:28:51.780 brand.
00:28:53.280 And my
00:28:53.620 critics are
00:28:54.100 saying,
00:28:54.360 well, you're
00:28:55.160 a little too
00:28:55.560 trusting of
00:28:56.120 authority, Scott.
00:28:58.080 Deep insight
00:28:58.940 there.
00:29:00.100 How about
00:29:00.560 I've been
00:29:02.020 promoting
00:29:02.460 vaccinations.
00:29:04.420 How many
00:29:05.000 times do I
00:29:05.480 have to tell
00:29:05.880 you, I
00:29:06.140 don't care if
00:29:06.580 you get
00:29:06.840 vaccinated.
00:29:08.180 It's a
00:29:08.720 personal decision.
00:29:09.820 Your risk
00:29:10.480 profile is not
00:29:11.260 the same as
00:29:11.720 mine.
00:29:12.440 That's the
00:29:12.720 other thing
00:29:13.060 people say.
00:29:14.000 Scott, you
00:29:14.620 never mention
00:29:15.240 that people
00:29:15.640 have different
00:29:16.160 risk profiles.
00:29:17.020 No, I
00:29:17.260 mention it
00:29:17.680 every fucking
00:29:18.180 day.
00:29:18.460 All right.
00:29:19.520 one is that
00:29:24.300 I fail to
00:29:25.760 recognize the
00:29:27.460 things we
00:29:28.400 learned by
00:29:28.840 the Sweden
00:29:29.360 model.
00:29:30.860 And so
00:29:31.060 somehow I
00:29:31.820 alone am
00:29:33.220 the one
00:29:33.540 person who
00:29:34.020 doesn't
00:29:34.320 understand that
00:29:35.020 Sweden has
00:29:35.580 taught us
00:29:35.920 something.
00:29:36.960 Let me
00:29:37.280 teach you
00:29:37.640 something.
00:29:38.860 None of
00:29:39.360 the countries
00:29:39.800 tell us
00:29:40.260 anything.
00:29:41.420 None of
00:29:41.780 them.
00:29:42.260 There's no
00:29:42.720 country you
00:29:43.240 can look at
00:29:43.820 and say,
00:29:44.480 oh, look at
00:29:45.040 their experience.
00:29:46.620 So now we
00:29:47.300 know what to
00:29:47.700 do, what
00:29:48.120 works and what
00:29:48.640 doesn't.
00:29:48.940 That doesn't
00:29:49.340 exist.
00:29:50.520 Not Sweden.
00:29:52.000 Not anywhere.
00:29:53.380 We really
00:29:53.940 don't know why
00:29:54.540 any country is
00:29:55.260 doing anything.
00:29:56.280 We see them
00:29:56.900 going up and
00:29:57.500 down independent
00:29:58.560 of policy.
00:30:01.080 We don't know
00:30:01.580 why anything is
00:30:02.260 happening.
00:30:03.540 So Sweden is
00:30:04.460 just one of the
00:30:05.440 countries that
00:30:06.580 we don't
00:30:06.940 understand why
00:30:07.560 anything is
00:30:07.900 happening.
00:30:09.000 That's it.
00:30:09.900 And that's your
00:30:10.340 criticism.
00:30:11.200 Your criticism is
00:30:12.140 that you don't
00:30:12.620 understand that
00:30:14.360 one country's
00:30:15.140 experience doesn't
00:30:15.940 mean anything.
00:30:17.100 We can't tell
00:30:17.700 anything from
00:30:18.620 it.
00:30:19.300 We think we
00:30:19.820 can.
00:30:20.020 It's just an
00:30:20.480 illusion.
00:30:22.940 And then this
00:30:23.860 one.
00:30:24.400 Somebody said on
00:30:25.340 YouTube yesterday,
00:30:27.240 Scott spends
00:30:28.260 nearly half of
00:30:28.940 every podcast
00:30:30.180 directing attention
00:30:31.520 to vaccines.
00:30:32.460 Well, I mean,
00:30:33.260 that's everybody
00:30:34.040 in the news.
00:30:35.360 He doesn't try to
00:30:36.300 persuade against
00:30:36.960 lockdowns or
00:30:37.800 mask mandates.
00:30:39.200 Is that true?
00:30:39.700 Would you say
00:30:41.340 that I don't
00:30:42.000 try to persuade
00:30:43.540 against lockdowns,
00:30:45.460 the new ones,
00:30:45.960 and I don't
00:30:47.160 try to persuade
00:30:48.240 against mask
00:30:50.200 mandates,
00:30:51.340 the mandate
00:30:51.740 part.
00:30:52.820 Is that true?
00:30:55.080 Well, it may be
00:30:56.280 that it's true in
00:30:57.480 terms of what I
00:30:58.000 talk about the
00:30:58.600 most, but that
00:30:59.400 has more to do
00:30:59.980 with what's more
00:31:00.500 interesting.
00:31:01.240 It's not what I'm
00:31:02.140 trying to, it's not
00:31:03.020 my worldview, it's
00:31:04.000 just what's more
00:31:04.540 interesting at the
00:31:05.220 moment.
00:31:05.420 So let me say
00:31:06.620 it directly.
00:31:08.600 Lockdowns look like
00:31:09.400 a bad idea to
00:31:10.260 me.
00:31:11.420 Is that clear
00:31:12.160 enough?
00:31:13.980 Lockdowns now,
00:31:15.680 and especially
00:31:16.540 anything stopping
00:31:17.960 kids from going
00:31:18.640 to school, it
00:31:20.180 looks like a bad
00:31:20.920 idea to me.
00:31:23.920 Is there any
00:31:24.740 ambiguity in that?
00:31:26.420 To me, it looks
00:31:27.780 like a really bad
00:31:28.620 idea.
00:31:29.420 And the reason
00:31:29.940 is that when you
00:31:31.460 get to the point
00:31:31.940 where everybody
00:31:32.460 can have a vaccine
00:31:33.280 if they want it,
00:31:34.100 it's just freedom.
00:31:36.900 It's just a
00:31:37.420 freedom question.
00:31:38.520 Let me put it in
00:31:39.160 context.
00:31:41.040 We lose 480,000
00:31:43.620 people a year to
00:31:44.580 cigarette smoking.
00:31:46.360 That's how many
00:31:46.920 people die in the
00:31:47.680 United States in
00:31:49.200 one year from
00:31:50.760 cigarettes.
00:31:52.980 480,000.
00:31:54.460 Has anybody ever
00:31:55.300 complained about
00:31:56.240 cigarette smokers
00:31:57.720 hurting the
00:31:59.080 capacity of
00:31:59.880 emergency rooms?
00:32:01.800 No.
00:32:02.760 Because it's just
00:32:03.280 built in.
00:32:04.100 We just assume
00:32:05.040 there'll be X
00:32:05.580 number of deaths
00:32:06.200 per year, so you
00:32:07.760 build the capacity
00:32:08.500 that handles it.
00:32:09.980 Maybe, and it's
00:32:11.400 looking like this
00:32:12.100 is the case, we're
00:32:13.200 in a permanent
00:32:13.820 pandemic, meaning
00:32:15.660 that people don't
00:32:16.460 want to get
00:32:16.800 vaccinated, and
00:32:17.520 even people who
00:32:18.180 do, it's just
00:32:19.580 going to be here
00:32:20.040 forever, or the
00:32:20.980 variant will, or
00:32:21.940 the next one will
00:32:22.920 get out of the
00:32:23.440 lab.
00:32:24.120 We're just sort
00:32:24.880 of in a permanent
00:32:25.660 pandemic world.
00:32:28.360 So wouldn't it
00:32:29.060 make more sense to
00:32:30.040 expand our hospital
00:32:31.160 resources so that we
00:32:32.860 can handle the next
00:32:33.800 pandemic, if not
00:32:34.760 this one, better?
00:32:37.580 Maybe we have some
00:32:38.280 way to quickly
00:32:39.060 expand and
00:32:39.880 contract.
00:32:41.280 So I think
00:32:41.700 hospitals are going
00:32:42.380 to have to evolve
00:32:43.100 until it's just
00:32:44.360 routine.
00:32:45.480 I mean, it might
00:32:46.020 be a routine
00:32:46.640 surge, like they
00:32:48.360 know how to surge
00:32:49.400 quickly for capacity.
00:32:50.780 That might be the
00:32:51.620 only routine part,
00:32:52.800 but it's fine.
00:32:54.020 That would work.
00:32:55.360 Right?
00:32:55.480 So my opinion is
00:32:59.040 open everything, try
00:33:01.260 to adjust the
00:33:01.860 hospitals as well
00:33:03.080 as you can.
00:33:04.220 You've got freedom,
00:33:05.280 you've got people
00:33:05.840 dying, but it was
00:33:06.820 their choices.
00:33:07.820 It was their
00:33:08.200 choices.
00:33:09.020 So if you think I'm
00:33:10.300 in favor of
00:33:11.060 lockdowns, you're
00:33:11.920 very wrong.
00:33:13.260 I was in favor of
00:33:14.700 lockdowns for two
00:33:15.600 weeks.
00:33:16.780 The first time we
00:33:17.680 tried it, it was
00:33:18.280 just an experiment.
00:33:19.600 And I thought that
00:33:20.360 the cost benefit of
00:33:22.560 at least finding
00:33:23.300 out if it made a
00:33:24.160 difference was, you
00:33:25.720 know, pretty
00:33:26.180 favorable.
00:33:26.880 But then we found
00:33:27.740 that it didn't make
00:33:28.400 a difference.
00:33:29.820 So now we have
00:33:30.440 new information.
00:33:32.380 As far as mask
00:33:33.480 mandates, again,
00:33:35.180 same problem.
00:33:36.860 I don't think
00:33:37.580 vaccinated people
00:33:38.420 should have masks.
00:33:40.160 And because I'm
00:33:41.040 vaccinated, I don't
00:33:41.880 care if you wear a
00:33:42.560 mask, whether you're
00:33:43.780 vaccinated or not.
00:33:45.640 So could I be more
00:33:47.180 clear that mask
00:33:48.300 mandates, not only do
00:33:49.960 I resist, but I
00:33:51.520 actively recommend
00:33:52.620 you resist them.
00:33:54.420 That my plan is to
00:33:57.980 go into places that
00:33:58.960 require masks,
00:34:00.000 assuming that that
00:34:00.820 gets implemented
00:34:01.600 where I live.
00:34:02.420 It hasn't happened
00:34:02.920 yet.
00:34:03.620 Looks like it's
00:34:04.140 close.
00:34:05.020 But my plan is to
00:34:05.980 not wear a mask in
00:34:07.900 any place that says
00:34:08.860 you need a mask.
00:34:10.460 And then I'm going
00:34:11.220 to have them ask me
00:34:12.120 to leave or ask me
00:34:13.920 to put on a mask.
00:34:15.320 And then I'm going
00:34:15.980 to be polite.
00:34:17.280 And I'm going to do
00:34:17.920 as asked.
00:34:18.680 Either leave or put
00:34:19.540 on a mask.
00:34:20.320 And I'm not going
00:34:20.840 to make a hard time
00:34:21.500 for the employee,
00:34:22.540 because it's not
00:34:23.020 the employee's fault.
00:34:24.220 I'm just going to
00:34:24.920 make it a little bit
00:34:26.060 more friction to do
00:34:28.140 ordinary business.
00:34:29.420 That's all.
00:34:30.320 Just a little friction.
00:34:31.500 And if other people
00:34:32.360 do the same, then I
00:34:34.440 think the mask mandate
00:34:35.380 just falls apart.
00:34:37.280 And it wouldn't take
00:34:37.880 many of us.
00:34:38.680 Maybe 10% of us
00:34:39.720 would be all it would
00:34:40.340 take.
00:34:40.800 Because the employees
00:34:41.620 would be spending all
00:34:42.600 their time managing
00:34:44.700 mask mandates and
00:34:46.580 they don't want to do
00:34:47.160 that.
00:34:47.560 They don't have any
00:34:48.080 authority.
00:34:48.680 They're either going
00:34:49.140 to get in fights
00:34:49.900 and they're not
00:34:50.940 going to sell
00:34:51.340 those mods.
00:34:51.960 I mean, nothing
00:34:52.420 good about it.
00:34:54.060 So is there anybody
00:34:56.020 else who's telling
00:34:56.860 you to resist and
00:34:58.380 actually violate the
00:34:59.660 guidelines?
00:35:00.760 I'm telling you to
00:35:01.700 violate the guidelines
00:35:02.640 directly, in public.
00:35:04.780 So could that be
00:35:06.120 more clear?
00:35:07.240 Does anybody have
00:35:07.980 any questions?
00:35:09.040 I'm telling you to
00:35:09.680 violate the guidelines.
00:35:12.520 I can't be more
00:35:13.620 clear than that.
00:35:14.200 All right.
00:35:17.480 Apparently, there's
00:35:18.100 more pessimism on
00:35:19.260 solving COVID.
00:35:20.980 It used to be, it
00:35:21.800 wasn't long ago, in
00:35:22.560 June, I guess, 89% of
00:35:25.180 people said the
00:35:26.040 pandemic was going in
00:35:27.900 the right direction.
00:35:28.700 We were getting out
00:35:29.240 of it.
00:35:29.920 But now only 45% say
00:35:31.680 that.
00:35:32.860 And I think that's the
00:35:33.820 right thing.
00:35:34.900 Meaning that it makes
00:35:36.100 sense that the public
00:35:37.040 doesn't think this is
00:35:38.060 going to end.
00:35:39.040 Because at the moment,
00:35:40.500 it doesn't look like
00:35:41.360 it's ever going to end,
00:35:42.220 does it?
00:35:42.560 It looks like we're
00:35:43.820 in a permademic,
00:35:46.220 permanent pandemic.
00:35:47.960 Because if it's not
00:35:48.760 this one, it's the
00:35:49.700 next variant.
00:35:51.160 If it's not the next
00:35:51.940 variant, it's the
00:35:52.840 next virus.
00:35:54.260 Because this isn't the
00:35:55.260 last fucking thing
00:35:56.060 that's getting out of
00:35:56.700 a lab, right?
00:35:58.960 Does anybody think,
00:36:00.020 well, I'm glad we
00:36:01.320 fixed that problem of
00:36:02.500 viruses getting out of
00:36:03.520 labs?
00:36:04.640 No.
00:36:05.380 No.
00:36:05.720 It's going to happen
00:36:06.180 again.
00:36:06.780 We'll have another,
00:36:07.580 probably lots of them.
00:36:09.300 So, unfortunately,
00:36:10.720 we're going to have to
00:36:11.100 learn how to live with
00:36:12.040 that.
00:36:12.200 So it makes sense
00:36:13.060 that people are less
00:36:13.800 optimistic.
00:36:15.040 But here's a question
00:36:15.980 I have.
00:36:17.260 And this is a serious
00:36:18.140 question.
00:36:19.920 Given that we know,
00:36:21.060 here are the things
00:36:21.600 we know.
00:36:22.180 That the vaccinations
00:36:23.160 apparently lose
00:36:24.200 effectiveness a lot
00:36:25.280 faster than we
00:36:26.020 thought.
00:36:26.900 That's new information.
00:36:28.680 And we know that it
00:36:30.040 seems that the most
00:36:31.880 lasting protection
00:36:33.080 would be actual
00:36:34.000 infection.
00:36:35.140 But you don't want
00:36:36.100 to get an actual
00:36:36.800 infection because you
00:36:37.680 might get long COVID
00:36:38.660 and it might kill you.
00:36:40.340 Right?
00:36:40.500 I mean, it might kill
00:36:41.320 you or you might get
00:36:42.120 long COVID or both.
00:36:44.400 So you don't want an
00:36:45.760 infection under normal
00:36:46.820 circumstances.
00:36:47.480 But what if you know
00:36:49.360 you're going to get an
00:36:50.260 infection?
00:36:51.400 And I feel like that's
00:36:52.540 where we're at, but
00:36:53.480 nobody's saying it
00:36:54.220 directly from the
00:36:55.120 government.
00:36:55.880 I feel as if we're all
00:36:58.080 going to get COVID.
00:36:59.000 I don't see any way
00:37:00.000 around it, given the
00:37:01.400 current state of
00:37:02.120 information.
00:37:02.940 Because we don't have a
00:37:04.000 vaccine that would stop
00:37:05.060 it.
00:37:05.280 And we don't have a
00:37:07.740 way to really run a
00:37:09.020 world without us getting
00:37:10.620 together enough and
00:37:11.540 traveling enough that
00:37:12.360 we'll all get it.
00:37:13.900 Just all of us.
00:37:15.340 And so if you're all
00:37:16.040 going to get it, here's
00:37:17.480 my question.
00:37:18.780 Shouldn't we have a
00:37:19.640 strategy that recognizes
00:37:21.620 the obvious, that we're
00:37:23.280 all going to get it?
00:37:24.700 Or something has to be
00:37:26.100 invented to stop it, which
00:37:28.900 I'm not aware of anything
00:37:30.180 like that.
00:37:30.800 That's coming close.
00:37:32.780 Rapid tests would only
00:37:33.960 slow it down.
00:37:35.500 They do a good job of
00:37:36.600 slowing it down, but the
00:37:38.140 moment you stop doing
00:37:39.520 your rapid tests, you'd be
00:37:41.320 right back where you
00:37:42.000 were.
00:37:42.760 It looks like.
00:37:43.820 I mean, nobody can
00:37:44.700 predict that with
00:37:45.560 certainty, but I think
00:37:46.860 the rapid tests would get
00:37:48.140 you to just a slower
00:37:50.900 infections.
00:37:52.840 Now, do you want slower
00:37:54.120 infections or faster
00:37:55.300 infections?
00:37:56.420 It seems to me that my
00:37:57.720 best personal strategy,
00:37:59.280 which is different from a
00:38:00.180 national strategy, right?
00:38:02.340 What you do for yourself,
00:38:03.960 doesn't have to be exactly
00:38:05.540 the same as what you
00:38:06.740 might want for the
00:38:07.560 country or other people
00:38:08.560 to do.
00:38:09.480 My personal best thing I
00:38:11.720 could do, I think, and
00:38:13.100 I'm going to ask for a
00:38:14.220 medical fact check on this
00:38:15.420 because I'm not a doctor,
00:38:16.920 so don't listen to me on
00:38:17.960 medical stuff.
00:38:19.380 But given that I was
00:38:21.180 recently vaccinated, given
00:38:23.360 my age and comorbidities,
00:38:25.520 and given the fact that I'm
00:38:27.260 at the peak of my vaccine's
00:38:30.220 effectiveness right now,
00:38:32.640 shouldn't I get infected
00:38:33.840 intentionally?
00:38:36.000 Because that's the safest
00:38:37.860 way for me to get the
00:38:39.700 virus that I'm going to get
00:38:41.980 one way or the other.
00:38:43.220 If you only have two choices,
00:38:46.000 get the virus when you're the
00:38:48.200 safest or get it when you're
00:38:49.520 the least safe, why wouldn't
00:38:51.800 you get it when you're the
00:38:52.580 safest?
00:38:52.820 Now, that's a question
00:38:56.120 because obviously if you give
00:38:57.500 yourself, you know, access to
00:38:59.200 the virus, even with the
00:39:00.520 vaccine, could you get long
00:39:02.360 COVID?
00:39:02.940 Could you get some long-term
00:39:03.900 problem?
00:39:04.780 I don't know.
00:39:05.820 Maybe.
00:39:06.320 It's part of the risk.
00:39:07.440 Could the vaccination itself
00:39:08.740 kill you?
00:39:09.260 Yeah.
00:39:09.780 Sure.
00:39:10.720 I mean, maybe.
00:39:11.900 Not likely.
00:39:12.880 But it could happen.
00:39:16.140 So I guess what I don't
00:39:18.960 understand is that the
00:39:19.960 country doesn't have a
00:39:21.380 strategy that's coherent.
00:39:24.480 If we had a plan to get
00:39:26.140 rid of COVID, that'd be
00:39:28.060 great.
00:39:28.760 But we don't, do we?
00:39:29.820 Because we don't have a
00:39:30.560 vaccine that'll do it.
00:39:31.620 We don't have one on the
00:39:32.600 way that will do it.
00:39:34.860 Therapeutics won't do it.
00:39:37.480 We don't have a plan for
00:39:39.220 just avoiding it.
00:39:40.940 So if the only plan is that
00:39:42.460 we're going to get it,
00:39:44.340 shouldn't they be telling
00:39:45.260 us to load up on
00:39:46.380 therapeutics if any of them
00:39:47.860 work and to get your
00:39:49.760 vaccine, vaccination
00:39:51.340 and get infected as soon
00:39:52.720 as possible?
00:39:54.020 Yeah.
00:39:54.500 Your government can't
00:39:55.360 tell you to do that,
00:39:56.160 right?
00:39:56.900 I've been telling you from
00:39:57.860 the beginning that the
00:39:58.660 government is great at
00:40:00.400 some stuff, but one of
00:40:02.380 the things they can't do
00:40:03.680 is tell you to do
00:40:05.260 something that could kill
00:40:06.200 you, unless it's, you
00:40:07.800 know, war.
00:40:08.860 If it's a war, they can
00:40:09.840 tell you to go to war and
00:40:10.840 some of you die.
00:40:12.060 But for lifestyle stuff,
00:40:15.240 the government just has to
00:40:16.240 avoid killing people.
00:40:17.540 That's it.
00:40:18.820 They don't care about your
00:40:19.720 freedom, because they're
00:40:21.000 not going to be measured
00:40:21.980 on that.
00:40:22.960 They're going to be
00:40:23.420 measured on how many
00:40:24.160 people die.
00:40:25.200 So the government doesn't
00:40:26.380 have the right incentive
00:40:27.420 relative to what the
00:40:29.580 people want to be in
00:40:31.200 charge.
00:40:32.100 I've told you this before.
00:40:33.600 The citizens are going to
00:40:35.480 have to take control of the
00:40:37.480 pandemic with the help of
00:40:39.800 the government and science
00:40:40.900 and all the information we
00:40:42.060 can get.
00:40:42.400 But you have to have the
00:40:43.940 right people making the
00:40:44.860 decision.
00:40:46.560 And at the moment, the
00:40:47.380 right people to make the
00:40:48.340 decision are not the
00:40:49.380 government.
00:40:50.420 And I think that's rare.
00:40:51.820 It's hard to think of other
00:40:52.880 examples where the
00:40:53.740 government should not make
00:40:54.720 your decision.
00:40:55.780 They are, after all,
00:40:56.760 elected representatives-ish.
00:41:00.380 That's another topic.
00:41:01.880 They're elected, sort of.
00:41:06.020 But I think we just have to
00:41:07.440 acknowledge the obvious.
00:41:08.980 Let's acknowledge the
00:41:09.840 obvious.
00:41:10.100 The citizens should be in
00:41:11.640 charge of this decision.
00:41:12.660 And if Joe Biden just took a
00:41:15.160 poll and said, look, the
00:41:17.640 government doesn't quite have
00:41:18.960 the right structure for this
00:41:20.900 decision, I'm just going to
00:41:21.920 look at the polls.
00:41:23.320 If you guys and people and
00:41:26.440 all of you they's, if you want
00:41:28.680 to go back to work, if you want
00:41:30.240 to take the risk because you at
00:41:31.780 least have the option of the
00:41:33.300 vaccine, I'll support that.
00:41:36.200 And just let the public decide.
00:41:38.500 Have we ever done that before?
00:41:39.780 Has the government of the
00:41:41.360 United States ever said, look,
00:41:43.220 it really sort of depends what
00:41:44.660 the public wants.
00:41:45.980 That's going to be the biggest
00:41:46.940 variable.
00:41:47.440 So just tell me what you want.
00:41:49.160 And on this question, I'm going
00:41:50.680 to follow the polls.
00:41:51.940 I'll follow the science also.
00:41:54.920 But if the public knows the
00:41:57.020 science as well as I do, and
00:41:59.180 knows the risks and the reward,
00:42:01.460 maybe just, you know, let the
00:42:02.840 people decide.
00:42:04.460 All right.
00:42:06.200 I think there's something called
00:42:07.460 a Trump curse because Kathy
00:42:09.240 Griffin tragically got lung
00:42:10.980 cancer and she doesn't even
00:42:12.440 smoke.
00:42:13.480 I guess she was addicted to
00:42:15.060 pills after the Trump
00:42:16.580 beheading scandal and I guess
00:42:19.760 she attempted suicide.
00:42:23.900 That's telling me I need to
00:42:25.020 leave in a minute.
00:42:26.640 It seems to me that everybody
00:42:28.000 who's a Trump critic and even
00:42:30.460 people who are the biggest
00:42:31.380 supporters have some horrible
00:42:33.420 thing happen to them.
00:42:35.420 Like a lot.
00:42:36.660 So I'm just following that and
00:42:39.620 that's tragic and I hope she
00:42:40.880 does well.
00:42:44.900 How about this?
00:42:45.780 How about we put a warning on
00:42:47.540 unvaccinated status the way you
00:42:50.760 would put a warning on
00:42:51.800 cigarettes?
00:42:53.200 If cigarettes are illegal and
00:42:54.520 they kill half a million people
00:42:55.580 a year, why don't we do the
00:42:57.620 same with COVID if it's here to
00:42:59.040 stay?
00:42:59.800 And just say this.
00:43:00.780 All right.
00:43:01.000 Here's an example.
00:43:02.480 Now this is a persuasion
00:43:04.760 example.
00:43:06.120 I'm not telling you to take the
00:43:07.420 vaccination.
00:43:08.140 That's up to you.
00:43:08.900 But if you wanted to persuade
00:43:10.040 people, you could put a
00:43:12.400 cigarette warning on it that
00:43:13.840 says something like not getting
00:43:15.720 vaccinated substantially
00:43:16.980 increases the risk of dying a
00:43:18.640 gruesome death gasping for air
00:43:20.880 with a ventilator stuck down
00:43:22.260 your trachea.
00:43:25.300 How about just put a warning on
00:43:26.540 it and say, look, we're going to
00:43:27.980 open.
00:43:28.300 I'm going to open everything.
00:43:29.860 No masks.
00:43:31.260 No lockdown.
00:43:33.000 But look, public, I want you to
00:43:35.540 know how clearly I'm going to
00:43:37.720 tell you the risk.
00:43:38.900 Let's say this is the
00:43:39.860 government.
00:43:40.620 Let's say Joe Biden did this.
00:43:42.440 I'm going to get rid of all the
00:43:43.720 restrictions at a national level
00:43:45.300 and I'm going to put this
00:43:47.400 warning label on it.
00:43:48.520 If you don't get the
00:43:49.460 vaccination, there's a really
00:43:51.380 good chance.
00:43:52.460 I mean, put some odds on it.
00:43:54.300 There's a chance of dying a
00:43:56.980 gruesome death gasping for air
00:43:58.820 with a ventilator stuck down
00:44:00.900 your throat.
00:44:02.760 Isn't that fair?
00:44:04.160 Would anybody say that that
00:44:05.520 warning is not accurate?
00:44:08.040 I mean, you don't say everybody.
00:44:09.360 It doesn't happen to everybody.
00:44:10.800 But it's a risk and it's real.
00:44:12.940 Now, you might also say getting
00:44:14.200 the vaccination has a risk.
00:44:16.580 Right?
00:44:17.420 But say that too.
00:44:18.760 Let the government inform us and
00:44:20.140 we'll make our own decisions.
00:44:21.440 How about that?
00:44:23.200 Here's your fake news of the day.
00:44:25.040 Clay Travis tweeted this.
00:44:26.280 He said, Joe Biden's top COVID
00:44:28.000 advisor just went on CNN and
00:44:30.420 admitted that masks people are
00:44:31.960 wearing don't work against
00:44:33.340 COVID.
00:44:34.440 So that was the tweet from Clay
00:44:36.840 Travis.
00:44:37.800 But that's not true.
00:44:39.680 The video he showed was Biden's
00:44:43.200 advisor, COVID advisor, saying
00:44:45.520 that the masks don't work as well
00:44:47.380 as other masks.
00:44:49.540 So not working as well as other
00:44:51.360 masks is completely different from
00:44:53.900 don't work.
00:44:54.460 So that would be fake news.
00:44:56.840 All right.
00:44:57.540 That is all I had to say today,
00:45:00.520 except that the it'd be funny to
00:45:02.960 see if the IQ in America changes
00:45:05.020 after the pandemic.
00:45:07.140 Because I think you would agree
00:45:09.100 with this statement.
00:45:10.400 It's either true that the smart
00:45:12.100 people are getting vaccinated or
00:45:14.740 it's true that the smart people are
00:45:16.780 not getting vaccinated.
00:45:18.400 Would you agree that one of those two
00:45:20.520 things is probably true?
00:45:21.640 Right now, you all you all think, you
00:45:24.100 know, which way it's going to go.
00:45:25.280 But let's just for this conversation
00:45:27.080 say could go either way.
00:45:29.560 Wouldn't you like to know if the
00:45:32.140 average IQ goes up or down the way
00:45:34.740 average lifespan did because of
00:45:36.600 pandemic?
00:45:37.440 Because if the smartest people are
00:45:40.920 making the right decisions, they
00:45:42.980 should be the IQ should go up because
00:45:45.900 there are more smart people surviving
00:45:47.280 and dumb people are dying.
00:45:48.960 But what if it's the other way
00:45:51.680 around?
00:45:53.040 What if the IQ goes down because the
00:45:57.600 smart people took the vaccination and
00:45:59.980 all died?
00:46:01.160 I don't think that's going to happen,
00:46:02.360 by the way.
00:46:03.200 But it could, right?
00:46:04.540 Anything's possible.
00:46:06.020 So what would happen if all the smart
00:46:07.840 people made the wrong decision on this
00:46:09.360 one?
00:46:09.500 What are the odds?
00:46:12.040 Pretty good.
00:46:13.400 The odds that all the smartest people
00:46:15.100 made the wrong decision are pretty
00:46:17.480 good.
00:46:18.100 I'm not saying they did.
00:46:19.320 I'm just saying the odds are pretty
00:46:20.360 good.
00:46:21.200 All right.
00:46:21.680 That's all I got for now.
00:46:22.540 I've got to run.
00:46:23.460 I'll talk to you later.