Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 07, 2021


Episode 1461 Scott Adams: Live Sipping and News


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

148.87054

Word Count

7,658

Sentence Count

488

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

8


Summary

This is the Dope Beat of the Day, in which I talk about fake news and the worst timing of all time. I also talk about the wildfires in California and why I don t care if you can't go to the gym.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Excuse me while I put my audio devices on my shirt so that we're ready to go here.
00:00:09.560 Well, I'm a little beyond the time, so I didn't have time to tweet this show,
00:00:12.980 so we might be a little lightly attended today.
00:00:16.680 But will that make it any less awesome?
00:00:20.480 No. No, it won't.
00:00:23.580 Because all it takes to make a good day great is the simultaneous sip,
00:00:29.100 and all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or a chalice or a canteen jug or a glass or a vessel of any kind.
00:00:35.760 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:38.560 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,
00:00:42.760 the dope beat of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:45.500 It's called the simultaneous sip, and watch it go. Now.
00:00:55.140 Oh, everything's going up now.
00:00:56.960 And I'm not just talking about Ethereum either, which is also going up.
00:01:03.740 But let's talk about the news of the day,
00:01:06.760 which I have sent to my other electronic device
00:01:09.640 so that I would have it here for you.
00:01:14.660 Now, how's the audio?
00:01:16.300 Oh, I don't care.
00:01:17.620 So I've got a different audio device going on here.
00:01:19.920 I got rid of the splitter, and I'm just using two microphones.
00:01:22.900 We'll see if that works.
00:01:23.640 So here's your fake news of the day.
00:01:28.560 I need to get these little audio stings so that when I have recurring segments,
00:01:34.540 they have a little lead-in, like,
00:01:37.900 fake news of the day!
00:01:42.280 All right, here's...
00:01:43.220 These are mostly tweets, but they're fake news tweets.
00:01:46.880 Here's one.
00:01:47.620 It says, from Shannon Watts tweeted today,
00:01:50.640 that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests gun owners kill people encouraging vaccinations.
00:01:59.280 Now, is it true that Representative Greene suggested that gun owners kill people
00:02:05.880 who are encouraging vaccinations?
00:02:09.400 Do you think that happened?
00:02:11.320 Well, here's what she said.
00:02:13.600 This is what Representative Greene said.
00:02:15.780 Quote,
00:02:16.020 In the South, we all love our Second Amendment rights,
00:02:19.660 and we're not really big on strangers showing up at our door, are we?
00:02:23.480 They might not like the welcome they get.
00:02:27.240 Does that sound exactly like suggesting that they shoo people?
00:02:33.000 Not liking the welcome they get,
00:02:35.980 and the fact that people are heavily armed in this country,
00:02:39.260 that's more like a statement of fact, isn't it?
00:02:42.740 Isn't that just a statement of fact?
00:02:44.340 We have a lot of guns.
00:02:46.300 People don't like it when people knock on the door and tell them what to do,
00:02:49.960 and people might not like the welcome they get.
00:02:53.240 I don't think that sounds like suggesting that gun orders shoot people who want vaccinations,
00:02:59.180 or trying to encourage vaccinations.
00:03:03.080 All right, next story.
00:03:04.860 How would you like to be the recipient of the worst timing of all time?
00:03:11.500 This should be another recurring segment called Worst Timing of All Time.
00:03:18.320 Just imagine an announcer saying that.
00:03:20.880 Well, there's this recall vote coming up for a governor of California.
00:03:25.820 Let me tell you the context in which my governor is going to be running for a recall election.
00:03:33.040 Okay?
00:03:33.220 Number one, they just required masks back in public places.
00:03:39.960 Very unpopular.
00:03:41.680 Very unpopular.
00:03:43.100 So I can't go to my gym now, because I'd have to wear a mask in the gym,
00:03:47.640 and I'm not going to do that.
00:03:50.200 So I just can't go to the gym under those conditions.
00:03:53.360 But I could always go outside and exercise, right?
00:03:55.980 So maybe my governor has ruined my gym, but there's always outdoors.
00:04:03.820 Not really.
00:04:05.540 You can't go outdoors in California right now,
00:04:09.120 because as of this week, the air quality is unhealthy because of the wildfires,
00:04:14.280 which the governor has yet again failed to control.
00:04:18.560 So I can't go to the gym, and I can't go outdoors.
00:04:21.940 So that's not so good.
00:04:25.740 At the same time, my electricity is not even dependable.
00:04:31.260 I live in the United States of America,
00:04:34.660 in one of the biggest populated, technologically advanced states of all time.
00:04:42.440 And I can't be sure that I will have either electricity or water.
00:04:49.000 I don't have water or electricity security in California.
00:04:55.840 That's a real thing.
00:04:57.200 In a high-end neighborhood, I can't be sure I'll have water or electricity.
00:05:01.520 And I can't go outdoors.
00:05:04.520 Now, is that not the worst timing of all time?
00:05:10.700 This poor bastard is going to run for governor at a time when every Californian is just fed up.
00:05:20.400 I mean, I don't even know how many of these problems are actually his fault.
00:05:24.540 You know, it's always hard to know, is it really the leadership's fault,
00:05:27.880 or is it just some stuff that's going to happen?
00:05:29.560 But I'll tell you, if this doesn't cause Larry Elder to become governor, what the hell can?
00:05:41.360 Can you think of anything that would get somebody else elected?
00:05:47.080 I mean, if this doesn't do it, seriously, if this doesn't do it,
00:05:52.200 can it get us a new governor?
00:05:53.780 What the hell could?
00:05:55.200 Is there anything that could?
00:05:57.940 Because how could it possibly be a worse situation than this?
00:06:01.920 It's just mind-boggling that the timing is so bad.
00:06:06.400 So, what's going to happen if Larry Elder loses in a close election?
00:06:12.880 Let's say the recall is successful, so then it goes to the who won.
00:06:19.300 Who's going to believe it?
00:06:20.720 Because, apparently, California just instituted mail-in voting because of, guess why?
00:06:28.760 That's right, the pandemic.
00:06:30.500 That's right.
00:06:31.940 So, do you think anybody's going to trust the vote in California?
00:06:35.040 Well, do you think any Republican in California will trust the outcome
00:06:39.120 if Larry Elder doesn't win under these conditions?
00:06:43.320 I don't know how you could.
00:06:47.460 Now, I'm not saying that there will be any fraud,
00:06:49.660 because, once again, there will be no evidence of fraud
00:06:52.440 that has been determined by any court.
00:06:55.360 Now, you can sort of predict that.
00:06:57.780 But who's going to trust it?
00:07:00.140 It's just going to look suspicious as hell.
00:07:02.080 And, by the way, I'm not telling you that I think it will be a fraudulent election.
00:07:07.040 I have no reason to believe that, no evidence per se.
00:07:10.640 But who's going to believe it, anyway?
00:07:13.860 This is one of those things where, even without evidence,
00:07:16.600 people are going to say, well, I don't even need evidence for this.
00:07:19.260 If Larry Elder doesn't win this, how the hell?
00:07:24.420 Anyway, but there could be some oddities about how the vote is distributed
00:07:29.360 across people and stuff.
00:07:31.480 So we could be surprised.
00:07:32.800 Anything could happen.
00:07:33.500 Here's one of my favorite quotes of all time, courtesy of Elon Musk,
00:07:38.820 who's one of the best tweeters and interview quotes of all time.
00:07:46.320 But I think this one's the best.
00:07:48.320 This might be the best of all time, at least from Elon Musk so far.
00:07:53.020 So apparently, Lex Friedman was...
00:07:56.260 Friedman?
00:07:56.820 Friedman?
00:07:57.200 I don't know how to pronounce his name, so I apologize for that.
00:08:00.940 So Lex once asked Elon,
00:08:04.020 what would be the first question that Musk would ask
00:08:06.860 the world's first general artificial intelligence system?
00:08:11.780 So the moment you have your first real AI,
00:08:16.080 what's your first question that you ask him?
00:08:18.740 I'm seeing the...
00:08:19.940 It's pronounced Friedman.
00:08:21.040 Thank you.
00:08:21.420 And Musk replied that the first question he would ask a real AI was,
00:08:28.060 quote,
00:08:29.600 what's outside the simulation?
00:08:34.860 Talk about the most perfect answer to a question of all time.
00:08:41.140 What's outside the simulation?
00:08:44.860 I love that.
00:08:47.240 Anyway.
00:08:47.800 Here's a segment that if I had segments branded,
00:08:55.360 I would call it,
00:08:56.820 Two Things We Know.
00:08:59.320 Two Things We Know.
00:09:02.200 All right?
00:09:02.920 And this will be my segment where I tell you
00:09:05.860 two things we know that are opposites.
00:09:08.960 Here's something that all the smart people told me.
00:09:12.800 Yeah, Scott, you might get some electric cars.
00:09:15.800 Cars, sure.
00:09:17.220 You know, you got your Teslas and whatnot.
00:09:19.140 You'll get some electric cars.
00:09:21.180 But if there's one thing I can tell you for sure, Scott,
00:09:23.900 and don't be a dope,
00:09:25.560 because, you know, I know you're all an optimist and stuff,
00:09:28.560 but let me tell you for sure,
00:09:30.460 one thing we're not going to get,
00:09:32.560 because the physics just can't work,
00:09:34.740 we're never going to get electric airplanes.
00:09:38.080 All right?
00:09:38.300 So no electric jets,
00:09:40.180 no electric aircraft, right?
00:09:41.760 So that's one thing we know for sure.
00:09:45.280 The technology will never allow us to have electric aircraft.
00:09:49.740 Here's the other thing we know.
00:09:52.060 DHL has placed an order for 12 electric airplanes.
00:09:56.940 Those are the two things we know.
00:09:59.280 It will never have them,
00:10:01.260 and DHL just put it in order for 12 of them,
00:10:04.860 based on current technology.
00:10:06.400 So the company building them says,
00:10:09.280 no, we don't need to invent anything.
00:10:10.660 We have all the technology.
00:10:12.160 It just takes us a couple years to build them.
00:10:14.740 They're already bought.
00:10:17.820 Well, the payload is apparently economically sufficient,
00:10:22.080 or else DHL wouldn't be buying them.
00:10:24.460 Two things we know.
00:10:25.740 It's impossible, and it's already happening.
00:10:29.680 Here's one of my favorite Twitter moments,
00:10:33.540 and it was based on my tweet from yesterday.
00:10:35.820 I said yesterday that on my live stream yesterday
00:10:39.180 that I was going to admit I was wrong about the pandemic.
00:10:43.060 Now, that's not the important part,
00:10:44.740 but this encouraged a comment from Ben Schlesman
00:10:48.800 on my Twitter account or Twitter feed.
00:10:52.540 He said,
00:10:53.760 I bet you'd get much further in life
00:10:55.660 if you cared less about what other people think about you.
00:11:00.360 How do you like that advice?
00:11:02.700 First of all, do you think I should take that advice?
00:11:05.820 Should I take Ben's advice?
00:11:07.720 I bet you'd get much further in life,
00:11:10.180 because this is me specifically,
00:11:12.200 if you cared less about what other people think about you.
00:11:15.440 Good advice?
00:11:17.080 What do you think?
00:11:18.260 Pretty good advice?
00:11:20.720 Okay, here's what Twitter user Ebsalas
00:11:25.160 said about Ben's advice that I'd get further in life
00:11:29.020 if I didn't care about what others think about you.
00:11:31.520 He said, yes, a person who makes money
00:11:34.460 based on how people think of him
00:11:36.380 should stop caring about what people think of him.
00:11:40.280 Totally a winning move.
00:11:45.660 That's what you call a conversation ender.
00:11:48.860 After this tweet,
00:11:52.500 things got really quiet.
00:11:55.540 There was nothing else left to say.
00:11:58.420 We're done here.
00:11:59.820 Moving on.
00:12:01.140 Just take your ball and go home.
00:12:03.700 There's nothing else to say.
00:12:06.360 Well, this is similar to
00:12:08.040 the advice, be yourself,
00:12:10.860 which I always mock as the world's worst advice.
00:12:14.200 Be yourself.
00:12:14.880 That is the worst advice ever given
00:12:19.580 of all time, to be yourself.
00:12:23.140 Because if you were to be yourself,
00:12:25.720 nobody would want to be around you.
00:12:29.560 They would not,
00:12:31.100 because you'd be quite a bad person.
00:12:33.660 Here's what maybe would be better advice.
00:12:37.280 Thank you.
00:12:38.000 It's already in the comments.
00:12:39.060 You've heard me say this before.
00:12:40.760 Be a better version of yourself.
00:12:42.240 How about trying to stop being
00:12:45.280 whatever the hell that you were doing before,
00:12:47.980 because it probably wasn't what you want to be.
00:12:51.020 It's probably not the person you want to be,
00:12:52.660 whatever you've been doing before.
00:12:54.420 So how about be a better person than that?
00:12:56.680 How about trying to elevate yourself a little bit?
00:13:00.180 Don't be yourself.
00:13:01.840 Try to make yourself something better than that.
00:13:04.380 For God's sakes.
00:13:06.280 So, yes, never try to be yourself.
00:13:08.820 Always try to be a better version of yourself.
00:13:10.320 And what do you think about the idea
00:13:13.220 that you shouldn't care about what people think of you?
00:13:16.920 Completely wrong.
00:13:18.880 You should care mostly about what people think about you.
00:13:24.360 You would go much further in life
00:13:26.460 if you cared deeply about what people think about you.
00:13:31.340 Well, actually, let me modify that a bit.
00:13:33.580 It's not the caring about what they think about you.
00:13:36.860 It's the managing to it.
00:13:39.620 So let me make that distinction.
00:13:41.360 It would be better if you didn't care,
00:13:43.320 because then it wouldn't bother you.
00:13:44.820 But as long as you kept managing to it
00:13:46.880 as your main requirement of how to organize your life,
00:13:51.080 your entire happiness
00:13:52.900 is going to be based on what other people think of you.
00:13:56.340 I'm sorry.
00:13:58.960 I'm sorry.
00:14:00.360 That's just a fact.
00:14:02.020 Your happiness depends on what other people think of you.
00:14:05.260 Because other people have to be your mates.
00:14:07.980 Other people have to be your lovers.
00:14:09.780 They have to be your friends.
00:14:10.920 They have to be the co-workers that want to work with you.
00:14:13.500 They've got to be the people who want to invest with you.
00:14:15.480 They've got to be the people you see every day,
00:14:17.780 the other parents,
00:14:18.820 the other peers.
00:14:19.940 You need to find a way to get some of them to like you.
00:14:27.920 Otherwise, your life's going to suck.
00:14:30.460 So you should be obsessed with getting people to like you.
00:14:35.080 Now, don't be stupid about it.
00:14:37.300 Don't be stupid about it.
00:14:39.160 You know, if you look great, generally,
00:14:41.460 but you've got this one little thing about yourself you don't like,
00:14:43.980 oh, my ear or whatever.
00:14:45.860 I've got a weird ear.
00:14:47.860 Don't obsess about that.
00:14:49.940 Because there's nothing you can do about it.
00:14:51.600 So you don't want to spend too much time
00:14:53.040 worrying about things you can't do anything about it.
00:14:55.440 Oh, people make fun of me because I'm bald.
00:14:58.340 What the fuck am I going to do about it, right?
00:15:00.800 Can't do anything about it.
00:15:02.180 So I don't spend really any time thinking about that.
00:15:05.760 But if somebody said to me,
00:15:07.580 hey, you know, I think I might respect you more
00:15:11.160 or like you more or be more attracted to you
00:15:13.540 if you were fit.
00:15:15.440 Well, I can do something about that.
00:15:17.460 I can become more fit.
00:15:18.660 So, well, toupee, I suppose, yes.
00:15:21.860 But you know what I'm talking about.
00:15:24.840 So you should work hard on the things
00:15:27.720 that will make you a better version of yourself
00:15:30.260 and make people like you.
00:15:32.500 It's the main function of being alive
00:15:35.680 is making other people like you.
00:15:37.000 So don't ever take advice about,
00:15:40.160 well, I don't care what people think.
00:15:42.280 But again, you should manage to what people think,
00:15:45.740 but you should not, don't let it chew you up on the inside.
00:15:49.300 But you should definitely manage to it.
00:15:51.900 All right, here's more evidence of why
00:15:54.260 Black Lives Matter is a sham organization.
00:15:58.100 Great point, just to be clear.
00:16:00.260 We'd all like to make sure that Black Lives Matter,
00:16:06.220 so everybody wants that to be true.
00:16:08.780 All good people want that to be true, I say.
00:16:13.480 But when you look at what they're actually doing,
00:16:16.940 it doesn't kind of line up with their stated mission, does it?
00:16:20.420 So, for example, the Washington Post is reporting.
00:16:27.160 In a tweet, they said,
00:16:28.560 despite a push since 2015 for police body cameras
00:16:33.320 and the periodic emergence of surveillance footage
00:16:37.020 or bystander cell phone video,
00:16:39.900 more than 80% of fatal police shootings
00:16:42.440 still were not filmed, according to the database.
00:16:47.940 What?
00:16:49.820 What?
00:16:51.280 80% of fatal shootings
00:16:53.660 are not filmed either by a bystander,
00:16:57.100 which makes sense,
00:16:58.500 but there's no body cam on police
00:17:01.660 who might get into shooting situations,
00:17:04.920 which is really any police, I guess.
00:17:08.020 So, let me ask you this.
00:17:10.180 Suppose Black Lives Matter had said,
00:17:12.980 you know, one of the things we can do,
00:17:15.220 one of the things that's controllable,
00:17:17.520 is that we could work with a bystander
00:17:20.400 bipartisan group
00:17:21.260 to make sure that there's enough funding
00:17:23.520 to get body cams and that whatever,
00:17:27.980 you know, if there's any resistance to it,
00:17:30.120 we can push through it.
00:17:31.360 Do you think that Black Lives Matter would have met failure or success
00:17:36.700 if they had said, look, there's a lot of stuff we disagree on,
00:17:40.660 but hey, Republicans,
00:17:42.360 let us work on this one thing that we can agree on,
00:17:45.680 that the body cams make a difference, right?
00:17:49.080 At the very least,
00:17:51.180 it's going to reduce the number of cops
00:17:53.140 who flagrantly do something bad,
00:17:55.720 especially if there are other cops with other body cams.
00:17:59.560 So, isn't this the easiest thing you could do?
00:18:03.360 And the one thing that you could get bipartisan support?
00:18:06.080 Is there any reason that both Black Lives Matter and Republicans,
00:18:13.680 because you figure Democrats would be on board,
00:18:16.660 I'm looking at your comments.
00:18:20.700 I don't think I'm missing any kind of functional,
00:18:25.920 practical reason why this isn't happening, right?
00:18:28.980 This has to be intentional, doesn't it?
00:18:31.580 Well, intentional in the sense of it goes to competence
00:18:35.260 or it goes to intention.
00:18:39.060 Because if Black Lives Matter wanted to solve this problem,
00:18:42.820 remember early on when Kaepernick was doing his kneeling,
00:18:46.420 and I said publicly and many times,
00:18:48.640 I said, well, what do we do about it?
00:18:51.020 You've got a problem.
00:18:52.240 I recognize it as a problem, too.
00:18:56.000 And I even talked to Hawk Newsome about it.
00:18:58.800 It was one of the things I talked to him.
00:19:00.400 I said, well, look, if one of the things we could do
00:19:03.240 that you wouldn't get much pushback from
00:19:05.620 is get more body cams,
00:19:07.160 why don't you let me help you?
00:19:09.520 You know, I'll help persuade,
00:19:12.420 you know, maybe on my audience,
00:19:14.800 you know, which sort of leans right,
00:19:17.300 I'll help persuade them that if we had funding for body cams,
00:19:20.760 that that would be at least one thing
00:19:22.200 that everybody could agree on.
00:19:24.000 You just need more funding,
00:19:25.280 so you could probably get that.
00:19:27.680 Did you ever see that?
00:19:29.020 Did you ever see any national move
00:19:31.500 to get body cams everywhere?
00:19:33.560 And really, after all this trouble,
00:19:36.580 still 80% of shootings are not filmed.
00:19:40.040 So I think at this point,
00:19:42.160 you'd have to say that Black Lives Matter
00:19:43.840 is a fake organization,
00:19:45.860 and if you want more evidence of it,
00:19:50.040 there's been no change in police shootings
00:19:52.160 since Ferguson or anything else.
00:19:54.880 It's basically the same pace,
00:19:56.580 and yet there are no Black Lives Matter protests
00:19:58.720 under the Biden administration.
00:20:01.160 Let me say that again.
00:20:03.340 Black Lives Matter basically went quiet,
00:20:06.100 or at least maybe it's just not being reported on,
00:20:08.680 which is almost the same thing,
00:20:10.340 under the Biden administration.
00:20:11.940 What's that tell you?
00:20:13.820 What's it tell you that they went quiet
00:20:17.140 at the same time the problem was exactly the same,
00:20:20.920 and no progress had been made,
00:20:22.800 and yet they went quiet?
00:20:24.880 It tells you that Democrats can turn them on and off
00:20:30.040 with a switch.
00:20:31.000 Yeah, it tells you it's a fake organization,
00:20:33.240 at least in terms of what activates them.
00:20:34.960 I'm not saying that the people in the streets
00:20:37.120 are not sincere.
00:20:38.880 They probably are.
00:20:40.100 I mean, almost certainly most of them are.
00:20:42.780 But in terms of the organization
00:20:44.140 and what motivates them,
00:20:45.660 what organizes them,
00:20:46.580 what gets them in the street,
00:20:47.900 I think we could say for sure now.
00:20:50.660 Well, you know,
00:20:51.320 I suppose you could argue nothing is 100% sure,
00:20:54.160 but maybe, I don't know,
00:20:55.680 95% certainty,
00:20:57.980 based on what we know,
00:20:59.460 that it wasn't ever a real organization.
00:21:02.060 It was just something
00:21:03.580 that somebody was turning on and off
00:21:05.140 when they needed it.
00:21:07.860 So,
00:21:08.660 another segment that needs an introduction
00:21:12.740 is Ron DeSantis News,
00:21:16.440 because he's the only one doing anything interesting
00:21:18.120 that's not named Trump.
00:21:20.560 And he continues to be a populist genius.
00:21:26.140 And I really am wondering
00:21:27.520 who is advising Ron DeSantis,
00:21:30.460 because whoever is advising him,
00:21:32.400 I assume he has advisors.
00:21:34.040 If it turns out that all of his
00:21:36.580 populist decisions lately
00:21:39.260 are just completely his own thinking,
00:21:43.260 well, then he's pretty amazing.
00:21:47.120 But I don't believe it, right?
00:21:48.420 I just assume that there's somebody advising him.
00:21:51.760 And in this case,
00:21:53.240 somebody really good is advising him,
00:21:56.160 because he's not missing a note.
00:21:57.440 Here's his latest.
00:21:58.140 He's not missing a note
00:22:00.280 in terms of Republican populism.
00:22:02.760 He just hits every note.
00:22:05.460 Florida's Board of Education on Friday
00:22:07.780 unanimously approved an emergency rule
00:22:11.880 that will allow parents to obtain vouchers
00:22:13.920 to move their children to another school
00:22:15.880 if they perceive any type of COVID harassment
00:22:18.960 against their children
00:22:19.840 as related to masks or testing mandates.
00:22:22.140 This is from the Tampa Bay Times.
00:22:26.100 So, now that's the Board of Education,
00:22:29.140 but DeSantis backs that.
00:22:32.260 So, once again,
00:22:35.460 like, what is going on there?
00:22:37.600 Because he is just killing it
00:22:39.500 in terms of hitting just the right populist Republican note
00:22:44.260 time after time.
00:22:45.680 And he does it without the provocation.
00:22:48.140 Now, it could be that,
00:22:50.660 and I've often argued this,
00:22:51.880 that Trump's provocations
00:22:53.740 are a feature, not a flaw.
00:22:57.140 Without that,
00:22:57.960 he wouldn't have been president.
00:22:59.480 Without being president,
00:23:00.560 he wouldn't have made any impact.
00:23:02.160 It was a feature.
00:23:03.680 It just rates people when it happens,
00:23:05.800 but it's a feature.
00:23:06.800 He does it intentionally.
00:23:08.700 It gets a result just like he wants.
00:23:11.400 So, I'd call that a feature.
00:23:13.280 But DeSantis seems to be getting pretty far
00:23:15.620 without doing the provocation part,
00:23:18.440 and it makes you wonder if that's enough.
00:23:21.500 Would it be enough?
00:23:23.240 Suppose you had a choice
00:23:24.880 of, let's say,
00:23:26.900 a boring but very capable DeSantis
00:23:29.560 versus an exciting but maybe far riskier
00:23:33.700 Trump.
00:23:35.280 Which one do you want?
00:23:37.140 Now, I know which one I want for entertainment, right?
00:23:39.960 For entertainment,
00:23:42.040 I'm going to want Trump every time.
00:23:43.520 It's not even close, right?
00:23:46.140 So, in terms of, you know,
00:23:48.000 that, that's easy.
00:23:49.540 But what about if you just want
00:23:51.000 a good government without the drama?
00:23:55.120 DeSantis looks like a strong choice.
00:23:57.840 And it's going to be really interesting
00:23:59.000 to see if Trump goes ahead and runs
00:24:01.460 because he would,
00:24:03.840 I'm sure Trump would be the nominee
00:24:06.360 if he runs.
00:24:08.460 All right.
00:24:08.860 I asked yesterday
00:24:11.700 this question
00:24:13.360 whether the number
00:24:14.880 of excess deaths
00:24:16.040 because of COVID
00:24:16.920 lines up with the number
00:24:18.200 of people
00:24:19.340 that we say
00:24:20.500 are dying from COVID.
00:24:22.900 So, what would happen
00:24:23.980 if the excess deaths
00:24:25.740 or the total number
00:24:27.100 of deaths
00:24:27.500 was about the same
00:24:29.060 as prior years
00:24:30.100 at the same time
00:24:31.320 we're being told
00:24:31.940 we're in a pandemic?
00:24:33.160 Like, that wouldn't make sense, right?
00:24:35.160 So, what do you think
00:24:36.260 happens on the Internet,
00:24:37.340 let's say on Twitter,
00:24:39.020 if you ask the public
00:24:40.380 do the excess deaths
00:24:43.040 match the number
00:24:44.460 of reported COVID deaths?
00:24:47.140 You've been around a while?
00:24:48.980 What do you think happened?
00:24:50.880 And I'll tell you,
00:24:51.600 I'll give you a hint.
00:24:52.900 Many people provided
00:24:54.280 very, very official looking
00:24:57.080 charts and data
00:24:58.860 to answer the question.
00:25:00.260 So, there were many charts
00:25:01.580 that looked really official
00:25:02.920 and much data.
00:25:04.320 So, what's true?
00:25:10.780 Is it true
00:25:11.540 that they do match up?
00:25:13.080 That the excess deaths
00:25:14.220 and the COVID deaths
00:25:15.180 look about the same
00:25:16.680 and therefore
00:25:17.120 we don't have to worry
00:25:17.920 too much about
00:25:18.660 whether it was a pandemic
00:25:19.640 because the excess deaths
00:25:22.080 prove it was a pandemic
00:25:23.140 and they kind of
00:25:24.620 match the COVID deaths?
00:25:25.780 Do you think anybody
00:25:26.500 gave me data
00:25:28.000 and charts
00:25:28.580 to support that point of view?
00:25:30.840 Yes.
00:25:31.460 Yes, they did.
00:25:32.140 So, there was data
00:25:34.020 very official
00:25:34.960 with sources
00:25:35.760 showing that
00:25:38.600 indeed
00:25:40.220 excess deaths
00:25:41.300 does roughly match
00:25:42.620 the COVID numbers
00:25:43.700 so it's not perfect
00:25:45.100 but nothing to worry about
00:25:46.820 because nothing's perfect
00:25:48.700 when you count it
00:25:49.420 but they're in the same range
00:25:50.560 so nothing to worry about.
00:25:52.100 That was one of the things
00:25:53.320 that happened.
00:25:54.320 Do you think
00:25:54.980 that people also gave me
00:25:57.560 credible looking graphs
00:25:59.020 and charts
00:25:59.640 to show me
00:26:01.240 that nothing like that
00:26:02.420 had happened
00:26:02.880 and that in fact
00:26:04.580 there were no extra deaths?
00:26:07.220 Yes.
00:26:08.460 Yes, that happened.
00:26:10.760 So,
00:26:11.500 I have credible looking
00:26:13.100 charts and data
00:26:13.920 that say
00:26:15.300 two opposite things
00:26:16.600 that those numbers match
00:26:18.500 and one that says
00:26:19.820 no, they're not even close.
00:26:22.320 Was that a surprise?
00:26:24.580 No.
00:26:25.560 Was not a surprise.
00:26:27.060 So, what do you do?
00:26:27.780 It all looks about the same
00:26:30.080 to people like me, right?
00:26:32.020 Because I'm not going to
00:26:32.660 dig into every study.
00:26:34.100 I wouldn't have the skill
00:26:35.180 to unpack it anyway.
00:26:37.480 So, what do you do?
00:26:39.600 Well,
00:26:41.460 I'll tell you one thing I do.
00:26:42.860 I go to people
00:26:43.660 who are better at looking
00:26:44.660 at this stuff than I am.
00:26:46.460 So, I looked at
00:26:47.560 Andres Backhouse's quote.
00:26:49.600 I always recommend him
00:26:51.020 as probably the best person
00:26:53.340 who's evaluating studies
00:26:55.340 that I've seen so far.
00:26:56.380 And he basically says
00:26:59.100 excess deaths
00:27:00.160 and confirmed COVID deaths
00:27:01.420 are pretty closely aligned
00:27:02.940 over 2020.
00:27:05.580 And he goes on to point out
00:27:07.100 that excess deaths
00:27:08.280 are even higher though.
00:27:12.340 Oh,
00:27:13.300 looks like my
00:27:14.300 locals platform
00:27:15.580 just
00:27:16.080 quit on me.
00:27:19.780 So, if you don't mind,
00:27:21.480 I'm going to see if I can
00:27:22.940 call that back up
00:27:24.600 while we're doing that.
00:27:25.340 The live stream
00:27:27.260 on locals
00:27:27.940 is still in beta.
00:27:30.060 Not everybody has that.
00:27:32.700 So,
00:27:33.580 let's see if I can
00:27:34.480 call that back up
00:27:35.400 without too much trouble.
00:27:40.060 Oops.
00:27:41.060 Oh,
00:27:41.440 actually,
00:27:41.900 it looks like it'll
00:27:42.640 just continue
00:27:43.620 where it left off
00:27:45.100 if this works.
00:27:46.460 That would be exciting.
00:27:51.020 Boom.
00:27:51.740 I'm back.
00:27:52.420 So,
00:27:53.340 it looked like
00:27:53.800 my browser
00:27:55.500 quit,
00:27:56.500 but as soon as I got
00:27:57.440 back in the browser,
00:27:58.600 the stream was still
00:27:59.920 still live.
00:28:02.180 So,
00:28:02.480 so we're good.
00:28:03.300 So,
00:28:03.500 we're back on both
00:28:04.260 platforms.
00:28:05.640 All right.
00:28:06.060 So,
00:28:06.400 I asked Andres,
00:28:07.420 and he said that
00:28:08.180 not only were the
00:28:09.060 excess deaths
00:28:09.900 similar to the
00:28:11.760 COVID count,
00:28:13.060 but there were more
00:28:13.980 excess deaths.
00:28:16.160 Because,
00:28:16.740 at least
00:28:16.980 worldwide,
00:28:17.980 I know this is true,
00:28:19.020 there are more people
00:28:19.900 dying of COVID
00:28:20.780 than they count
00:28:21.580 because they die
00:28:22.880 at home.
00:28:23.960 You know,
00:28:24.140 they just don't,
00:28:25.340 nobody bothers to test
00:28:26.520 them.
00:28:26.760 They just bury them,
00:28:27.460 basically.
00:28:28.560 So,
00:28:29.940 certainly worldwide,
00:28:30.820 there are more
00:28:31.380 excess deaths than there
00:28:32.400 are COVID counts
00:28:33.360 because of the way
00:28:33.820 they count them.
00:28:35.440 So,
00:28:35.960 do you think
00:28:36.360 that we can conclude
00:28:37.380 that the pandemic
00:28:39.660 happened,
00:28:40.880 and is happening,
00:28:42.240 and that lots
00:28:43.260 and lots of people
00:28:44.100 extra are dying
00:28:45.420 way more than
00:28:46.340 normal seasonal flu?
00:28:48.160 What do you say?
00:28:48.920 Which one do you
00:28:50.960 believe?
00:28:51.320 Do you believe
00:28:51.920 Andres Backhaus,
00:28:54.080 who is way more
00:28:55.280 talented than you
00:28:56.500 and I are
00:28:57.100 at looking at data?
00:28:59.640 Let me just say
00:29:00.500 that,
00:29:00.860 that's the thing
00:29:01.480 I'm sure of.
00:29:02.700 The thing I'm sure
00:29:03.580 of is that Andres
00:29:06.000 is better at looking
00:29:06.840 at the stuff
00:29:07.420 than you are,
00:29:08.220 and better than
00:29:09.560 I am,
00:29:10.060 by far.
00:29:11.820 That doesn't mean
00:29:12.640 he's right,
00:29:13.300 right?
00:29:13.920 So you don't just
00:29:14.560 take somebody's
00:29:15.200 word for it
00:29:15.720 because they're
00:29:16.140 good at it.
00:29:17.260 You don't take
00:29:17.780 their word for it
00:29:18.460 because they
00:29:18.860 showed their
00:29:19.260 sources,
00:29:20.220 and you don't
00:29:20.820 take their
00:29:21.300 word for it
00:29:22.800 because they
00:29:23.620 made a good
00:29:23.980 argument or
00:29:24.500 whatever.
00:29:25.520 We don't live
00:29:26.220 in a world
00:29:26.560 where that's
00:29:26.920 good enough
00:29:27.420 anymore,
00:29:28.140 but it's
00:29:29.700 the best I
00:29:30.220 have.
00:29:31.380 If I had
00:29:32.020 to bet
00:29:33.600 all of my
00:29:34.640 net worth
00:29:36.100 on something,
00:29:38.240 I'd probably
00:29:38.720 put it all
00:29:39.520 on Andres'
00:29:41.320 opinion
00:29:41.660 in this case.
00:29:43.560 All right,
00:29:43.760 so I think
00:29:44.260 that the
00:29:44.740 case of
00:29:45.600 whether the
00:29:47.280 pandemic is
00:29:48.760 real in
00:29:50.120 terms of
00:29:50.660 the number
00:29:51.180 of deaths
00:29:51.560 is made.
00:29:52.800 I would say
00:29:53.440 that the
00:29:53.740 case is made,
00:29:54.600 that it's a
00:29:54.960 real pandemic.
00:29:56.160 The numbers
00:29:56.540 show it
00:29:56.960 clearly.
00:29:57.960 The excess
00:29:58.500 deaths make
00:30:00.340 sense compared
00:30:01.400 to the COVID
00:30:02.020 count.
00:30:03.220 I think the
00:30:03.880 COVID count
00:30:04.440 could be off
00:30:05.000 by 20%
00:30:05.940 easily,
00:30:06.720 but that
00:30:07.620 doesn't change
00:30:08.200 anything.
00:30:08.520 All right.
00:30:12.740 Let's talk
00:30:13.520 about persuasion.
00:30:16.140 Persuasion.
00:30:17.380 Lindsey Graham
00:30:18.020 says he told
00:30:18.760 Trump to
00:30:19.680 urge supporters
00:30:20.780 to get COVID
00:30:21.560 vaccines because
00:30:22.320 Lindsey had
00:30:23.000 the vaccine,
00:30:23.900 but he also
00:30:24.700 got infected
00:30:25.600 and it looks
00:30:26.620 like he's
00:30:27.080 on the mend,
00:30:28.420 so good for
00:30:29.100 him.
00:30:30.020 And he
00:30:31.480 told Trump
00:30:31.940 to urge
00:30:32.280 supporters to
00:30:32.940 get vaccinated.
00:30:34.620 Now,
00:30:35.040 I feel like
00:30:36.480 Trump has
00:30:37.340 urged people
00:30:38.320 to get
00:30:38.680 vaccinated.
00:30:39.900 He didn't
00:30:40.280 program,
00:30:41.400 and he did
00:30:42.080 get vaccinated
00:30:42.720 himself,
00:30:44.020 but it's
00:30:45.160 sort of a
00:30:45.660 Republican thing
00:30:46.500 not to tell
00:30:47.060 people what to
00:30:47.660 do medically,
00:30:48.440 right?
00:30:49.400 You know,
00:30:50.420 it like goes
00:30:51.360 a little too
00:30:51.760 far into the
00:30:52.680 Republican
00:30:53.680 philosophy and
00:30:55.000 takes too
00:30:55.800 much of a
00:30:56.220 bite out of
00:30:56.720 it to tell
00:30:57.100 people what
00:30:57.540 to do if
00:30:58.260 you're the
00:30:58.520 government.
00:30:59.680 So Trump
00:31:00.160 has been,
00:31:01.060 let's say,
00:31:02.880 populist
00:31:03.740 correct,
00:31:05.220 as he
00:31:05.740 almost always
00:31:06.280 is.
00:31:06.700 He has his
00:31:07.780 finger on
00:31:08.200 the pulse.
00:31:09.560 And I
00:31:10.200 think for
00:31:10.980 political
00:31:11.440 reasons,
00:31:12.600 Trump is
00:31:13.920 playing it
00:31:14.340 right.
00:31:15.560 For purely
00:31:16.320 political
00:31:16.820 reasons,
00:31:17.600 letting people
00:31:18.300 make their
00:31:18.700 own decisions
00:31:19.280 but telling
00:31:19.860 you what he
00:31:20.320 did and
00:31:20.900 making the
00:31:21.860 vaccines
00:31:22.340 available and
00:31:22.920 everything,
00:31:23.200 that was
00:31:23.460 exactly the
00:31:24.260 right note
00:31:24.740 politically,
00:31:26.380 to get
00:31:27.040 elected,
00:31:28.200 especially in
00:31:28.840 the primaries.
00:31:29.580 It was the
00:31:29.960 best thing to
00:31:30.420 do.
00:31:30.940 But is it
00:31:31.920 the best
00:31:32.240 thing to do
00:31:32.820 for the
00:31:33.340 country?
00:31:34.600 Is it
00:31:35.160 the best
00:31:35.480 thing to
00:31:35.820 do for
00:31:36.820 the health
00:31:37.220 of the
00:31:37.440 country?
00:31:37.760 Well,
00:31:38.000 it depends
00:31:38.420 what you
00:31:39.820 think about
00:31:40.220 vaccinations.
00:31:41.640 But it
00:31:42.180 does seem
00:31:42.600 interesting
00:31:43.200 that Lindsey
00:31:44.160 Graham,
00:31:45.080 a top
00:31:45.640 Republican,
00:31:46.280 would be
00:31:46.540 telling another
00:31:47.080 top Republican
00:31:47.900 to be more
00:31:49.900 aggressive in
00:31:50.760 the medical
00:31:51.360 recommendations.
00:31:53.700 It's an
00:31:55.060 interesting
00:31:55.640 difference here.
00:31:58.140 Now,
00:31:58.400 let me ask
00:31:58.800 you this.
00:31:59.140 if Trump
00:32:00.360 went all
00:32:01.040 in recommending
00:32:02.300 vaccinations,
00:32:03.540 would it
00:32:03.780 make a
00:32:04.100 difference?
00:32:05.720 Would it
00:32:06.040 make a
00:32:06.320 difference?
00:32:07.200 Now,
00:32:07.600 I know the
00:32:08.400 answer to
00:32:08.760 this question,
00:32:09.340 but I'm
00:32:09.560 going to
00:32:09.700 ask it
00:32:10.080 anyway,
00:32:10.500 just because
00:32:10.960 it'll be
00:32:11.260 funny to
00:32:11.740 see your
00:32:12.060 answers.
00:32:13.240 How many
00:32:13.780 of you
00:32:14.280 who are
00:32:14.880 resisting
00:32:15.880 vaccination
00:32:16.680 would change
00:32:18.260 your mind
00:32:18.860 because Trump
00:32:19.880 suggested it?
00:32:21.940 Would anybody
00:32:22.820 get vaccinated
00:32:23.540 because Trump
00:32:24.580 told them to?
00:32:26.860 Because you
00:32:27.820 could really
00:32:28.260 love Trump
00:32:28.940 a lot and
00:32:30.820 know he's
00:32:31.220 not a
00:32:31.580 doctor.
00:32:33.660 You could
00:32:34.420 love Trump
00:32:35.040 a lot and
00:32:37.240 think he
00:32:37.680 might be
00:32:38.020 wrong on
00:32:38.440 this particular
00:32:39.020 question.
00:32:40.900 You could
00:32:41.620 love Trump
00:32:42.260 like crazy
00:32:43.180 and still
00:32:44.500 make your
00:32:44.900 own medical
00:32:46.320 decisions.
00:32:47.100 You're not
00:32:47.360 going to let
00:32:47.620 the government
00:32:48.100 make your
00:32:48.600 personal medical
00:32:49.460 decision,
00:32:50.080 are you?
00:32:50.800 So I
00:32:51.580 asked a
00:32:51.900 real question
00:32:52.520 as to
00:32:53.160 whether
00:32:53.360 Trump's
00:32:53.900 influence
00:32:54.300 would have
00:32:56.080 any importance.
00:32:57.520 Now,
00:32:57.920 all of you
00:32:58.500 who say
00:32:58.900 no,
00:33:00.860 you don't
00:33:01.820 know how
00:33:02.420 influence
00:33:03.100 works.
00:33:04.960 Because
00:33:05.360 remember early
00:33:06.600 on when
00:33:07.140 Trump was
00:33:07.820 first running
00:33:08.440 for office
00:33:09.160 and his
00:33:09.640 approval was
00:33:11.040 like in the
00:33:11.700 teens,
00:33:12.380 like 15%
00:33:13.640 or something,
00:33:14.500 and I was
00:33:15.060 telling you that
00:33:15.600 he was so
00:33:16.120 persuasive that
00:33:16.880 he was going
00:33:17.240 to talk you
00:33:17.740 into making
00:33:18.720 him your
00:33:19.080 president,
00:33:19.600 and then he
00:33:19.980 did.
00:33:21.220 Because his
00:33:21.960 persuasive powers
00:33:23.100 are just insane.
00:33:24.380 They're just
00:33:24.720 insane.
00:33:25.520 Never seen
00:33:26.000 anything better.
00:33:27.200 But it
00:33:27.660 takes a while
00:33:28.120 to work,
00:33:28.640 and it
00:33:28.820 doesn't work
00:33:29.220 on every
00:33:29.600 person,
00:33:30.220 and eventually
00:33:31.360 he took over
00:33:31.940 the Republican
00:33:32.460 Party with
00:33:33.160 his persuasion.
00:33:34.780 So do you
00:33:35.580 think that if
00:33:36.260 he went full
00:33:37.380 balls to the
00:33:38.180 wall to
00:33:39.320 persuade his
00:33:40.820 supporters,
00:33:41.400 who were
00:33:41.660 already sort
00:33:43.080 of primed to
00:33:43.840 be on his
00:33:44.200 side, to get
00:33:45.160 the vaccination,
00:33:46.540 do you think
00:33:46.960 he couldn't do
00:33:47.580 it?
00:33:49.060 Now, separate
00:33:49.740 from the question
00:33:50.440 of whether he
00:33:51.000 should, because
00:33:51.800 I think that's a
00:33:52.400 real question,
00:33:53.080 should the
00:33:54.180 government tell
00:33:54.800 you to make
00:33:55.220 medical decisions
00:33:56.220 a certain way.
00:33:57.520 But could he?
00:33:59.760 Does he have
00:34:00.700 the power to
00:34:02.980 convince you,
00:34:03.840 even when you
00:34:04.620 saw all of you
00:34:05.340 said, no, he
00:34:05.940 could not convince
00:34:06.700 me?
00:34:07.300 Because when you
00:34:08.120 said he would
00:34:08.760 not convince you,
00:34:09.640 you were talking
00:34:10.180 logically.
00:34:11.560 You said to
00:34:12.120 yourself, logically,
00:34:13.320 I know everything
00:34:14.320 that I know, he
00:34:15.720 has no new
00:34:16.300 information, logically
00:34:18.040 I would not change
00:34:19.000 my mind, because
00:34:19.720 he would not be
00:34:20.260 introducing any new
00:34:21.120 information.
00:34:22.220 Logically.
00:34:23.080 But that's not
00:34:24.280 how it works.
00:34:25.440 It doesn't work
00:34:26.380 like that.
00:34:27.580 The way it works
00:34:28.260 is, persuasion
00:34:29.540 is an irrational
00:34:30.420 process, and if
00:34:32.020 he changed your
00:34:32.780 mind, you would
00:34:34.080 think you did it
00:34:34.700 yourself.
00:34:35.660 That's how it
00:34:36.100 works.
00:34:36.760 You would say,
00:34:37.280 yeah, yeah, Trump
00:34:38.280 was saying I should
00:34:39.020 get the vaccination,
00:34:40.000 and yes, I did go
00:34:41.240 from anti-vax to
00:34:42.320 vax, but not
00:34:43.800 because of Trump.
00:34:45.380 I just thought it
00:34:46.620 through, and I had
00:34:47.460 that new data.
00:34:48.760 And then my
00:34:49.220 neighbor did
00:34:50.820 something, and
00:34:51.420 that anecdote
00:34:51.980 really moved me,
00:34:53.080 and now, yeah,
00:34:54.540 sure, now I'm on
00:34:55.520 the same side as
00:34:56.200 Trump about the
00:34:57.340 vaccinations, and
00:34:58.200 yeah, I got one, but
00:34:59.360 not because he talked
00:35:00.180 me into it.
00:35:01.360 That didn't happen.
00:35:02.240 I just looked at the
00:35:03.020 facts, because I'm a
00:35:04.580 rational person who
00:35:05.400 does their own
00:35:05.860 research.
00:35:06.820 That's what it would
00:35:07.480 look like.
00:35:08.900 It would look like
00:35:09.840 you made your own
00:35:10.420 decision.
00:35:11.220 Let me give you my
00:35:12.580 opinion.
00:35:13.020 If Trump went
00:35:16.180 balls to the wall
00:35:17.220 to convince you to
00:35:19.020 get vaccinated, a lot
00:35:22.100 of people would get
00:35:22.700 vaccinated.
00:35:24.860 Now, I don't think
00:35:25.660 he'll do that, and I
00:35:27.040 also don't know that I
00:35:28.100 would recommend it.
00:35:29.640 Because, again, do you
00:35:30.880 want your government
00:35:31.500 telling you what to do
00:35:32.380 with your personal
00:35:33.120 medical risks?
00:35:34.900 Maybe not, right?
00:35:36.100 It would be a
00:35:36.620 reasonable approach to
00:35:38.600 say, no, I don't need
00:35:40.180 Trump telling me what to
00:35:41.160 do medically.
00:35:42.600 That just feels wrong.
00:35:43.720 But, could he do it?
00:35:46.280 Does he have the
00:35:46.880 skill?
00:35:48.940 Yes.
00:35:50.060 Let me say it again as
00:35:51.340 unambiguously as he can.
00:35:53.460 Does Trump have the
00:35:54.400 skill to persuade, I
00:35:57.260 don't know, 10 million
00:35:58.040 extra people to get
00:35:59.000 vaccinated?
00:36:01.040 Yes.
00:36:01.440 Yes, he does.
00:36:03.300 He has that skill, if he
00:36:05.780 chooses to use it.
00:36:06.600 There is a new, let's
00:36:11.680 say, what would you
00:36:12.840 call this, a new
00:36:15.580 reframing of the attack
00:36:16.860 on Trump for the
00:36:18.560 January 6th events, and
00:36:20.040 I guess an attack on
00:36:21.160 Republicans indirectly.
00:36:23.760 And Eli Honig, he's one
00:36:26.080 of CNN's attack dogs, one
00:36:28.260 of the people they pay to
00:36:30.500 go after Trump on a
00:36:31.440 daily basis.
00:36:32.960 And they figured out
00:36:35.900 how to make the fake
00:36:36.980 coup look like a real
00:36:39.000 one.
00:36:40.380 Finally.
00:36:41.740 They worked and they
00:36:42.840 worked, and they tried
00:36:44.160 to make it look like the
00:36:45.240 people with the selfies
00:36:46.420 and the no major
00:36:47.940 weapons, but, you know,
00:36:49.520 clubs and bear spray and
00:36:50.700 stuff.
00:36:51.500 They started with the
00:36:53.040 ridiculous belief that
00:36:54.460 that was an actual coup
00:36:55.780 attempt.
00:36:56.880 Now, what it was, was
00:36:57.820 violent and terrible and
00:36:59.040 tragic and shouldn't have
00:37:00.340 happened and can't be.
00:37:02.000 It can't be supported in
00:37:03.340 any way.
00:37:04.700 But it wasn't a coup
00:37:05.640 attempt.
00:37:06.780 I mean, we've been
00:37:07.320 through this.
00:37:07.820 I don't have to go over
00:37:08.480 that.
00:37:09.580 But I think CNN has
00:37:11.380 been mocked sufficiently
00:37:12.920 for trying to sell that
00:37:14.440 as a coup attempt because
00:37:16.060 it was just absurd.
00:37:17.240 I mean, it's ridiculous,
00:37:19.280 and that claim can't
00:37:21.160 stand if anybody is
00:37:22.860 there at the same time to
00:37:24.220 talk against it.
00:37:25.460 It just looks ridiculous.
00:37:26.960 So they had to strengthen
00:37:28.160 up their claim somehow
00:37:30.160 that Trump was staging a
00:37:32.100 coup to keep the pressure
00:37:33.260 on Trump.
00:37:35.240 And here's the new
00:37:36.100 information.
00:37:37.480 So apparently there was
00:37:38.400 this guy, Jeffrey Clark,
00:37:39.740 who worked in the Trump
00:37:40.900 administration at the time.
00:37:42.680 He was the attorney general
00:37:44.120 for the civil division.
00:37:45.340 And who reportedly,
00:37:48.080 now, what does reportedly
00:37:49.520 mean?
00:37:50.740 Very low credibility.
00:37:52.660 When you hear that somebody
00:37:54.980 reportedly did something,
00:37:57.780 your brain should say,
00:37:59.160 reportedly?
00:38:00.560 Do you have that on video?
00:38:03.060 Did the person who did it
00:38:04.320 confess?
00:38:06.080 Are there other people
00:38:07.840 who are reporting it?
00:38:08.900 Or is it one anonymous source?
00:38:11.960 Is it an anonymous source?
00:38:14.480 So what is the credibility
00:38:16.000 of any of this low?
00:38:17.520 The credibility of this
00:38:18.600 whole story that I'm about
00:38:19.720 to give you is low
00:38:20.540 because of the nature of it.
00:38:23.740 But apparently this
00:38:24.660 Jeffrey Clark reportedly,
00:38:26.840 reportedly,
00:38:27.820 had secretly expressed
00:38:29.320 his support for the bogus
00:38:31.180 stolen election theory
00:38:33.260 directly to Trump himself.
00:38:35.540 And he made this
00:38:36.860 straightforward proposition.
00:38:38.840 Reportedly,
00:38:39.860 reportedly from a source
00:38:41.060 you've never met.
00:38:42.280 Reportedly,
00:38:43.280 he made this
00:38:44.140 straightforward proposition.
00:38:46.580 Choose me and I'll
00:38:47.840 deploy the department
00:38:48.780 to help you steal
00:38:49.680 the election.
00:38:52.000 Yeah,
00:38:52.560 I'm sure that he made
00:38:53.840 that straightforward
00:38:54.940 offer.
00:38:58.380 If you put me in the job,
00:39:01.380 I'll help you steal
00:39:02.280 the election.
00:39:03.060 I'm sure those were
00:39:03.960 his exact words.
00:39:05.800 Or something just like that.
00:39:07.820 Right?
00:39:09.020 That didn't happen.
00:39:11.820 People,
00:39:13.060 people,
00:39:14.440 this didn't happen.
00:39:15.780 I should have started off
00:39:18.000 with this as the
00:39:18.920 fake news example.
00:39:20.360 Obviously,
00:39:20.920 this didn't happen.
00:39:22.140 Now,
00:39:22.400 let me tell you
00:39:22.920 what might have happened.
00:39:24.040 I wasn't there.
00:39:25.220 So I don't know
00:39:25.800 that this happened either.
00:39:27.280 But I'll tell you
00:39:28.000 what's more plausible.
00:39:29.960 What's far more plausible
00:39:31.200 is that Jeffrey Clark,
00:39:33.040 like lots of other people,
00:39:35.220 genuinely believed
00:39:36.300 that the election
00:39:37.000 was stolen.
00:39:37.540 and then offered
00:39:39.420 to be a useful
00:39:41.360 player
00:39:47.420 in looking into it
00:39:49.580 and making sure
00:39:50.420 that things were fixed.
00:39:52.920 Is that a coup?
00:39:54.560 Is it a coup
00:39:55.420 when somebody
00:39:56.220 believes genuinely
00:39:57.600 that there was a problem
00:39:58.640 and that they're trying
00:40:00.060 to make sure
00:40:00.580 that the election
00:40:01.340 in the United States
00:40:02.480 was handled correctly?
00:40:03.940 Do you think
00:40:05.720 that maybe
00:40:06.180 that would be a way
00:40:07.180 to characterize
00:40:08.720 what he did?
00:40:10.220 A genuine belief
00:40:11.380 that the election
00:40:11.980 was stolen
00:40:12.600 followed by
00:40:14.200 a sincere offer
00:40:15.440 to help
00:40:16.120 the country
00:40:17.520 get the result
00:40:18.200 that they thought
00:40:18.720 they voted for.
00:40:21.020 Right?
00:40:21.880 Couldn't you tell
00:40:22.480 this story both ways?
00:40:24.060 Now,
00:40:24.520 in my version of it,
00:40:26.080 the problem would be
00:40:27.040 if he's wrong.
00:40:28.280 Right?
00:40:28.580 If he's wrong,
00:40:29.620 that the election
00:40:30.200 was completely accurate,
00:40:32.320 as no court
00:40:33.600 has shown
00:40:34.020 it was inaccurate.
00:40:34.660 If he was wrong,
00:40:36.780 then a bad outcome
00:40:37.820 would have happened.
00:40:39.120 But it wouldn't have been
00:40:40.320 bad intentions,
00:40:42.400 would it?
00:40:43.940 Is there any reporting
00:40:44.980 that this Jeffrey Clark
00:40:46.340 didn't really believe
00:40:48.760 anything that happened
00:40:50.200 with the election,
00:40:50.900 but he was just going to
00:40:51.540 let Trump steal it anyway?
00:40:53.680 No.
00:40:55.160 This is like
00:40:56.780 ridiculous fake news.
00:40:58.380 And so obvious, too.
00:41:00.260 It's like the most obvious
00:41:01.540 fake news
00:41:02.080 you could ever have.
00:41:02.740 So, I guess the...
00:41:06.020 And here's how
00:41:06.620 it's being
00:41:07.200 portrayed.
00:41:10.360 They said
00:41:11.080 we were really close.
00:41:12.680 This is the CNN's
00:41:13.840 framing of it.
00:41:15.560 That we were
00:41:16.200 really close
00:41:17.420 to a proposed coup.
00:41:19.740 No, wait.
00:41:20.940 We weren't really
00:41:21.880 close to a coup.
00:41:23.780 We were close
00:41:24.980 to a proposed coup.
00:41:28.140 So we were never
00:41:29.080 close to a coup.
00:41:29.820 We were close
00:41:31.120 to deciding
00:41:31.760 to do a coup.
00:41:33.000 But the only evidence
00:41:34.120 we have
00:41:34.700 is that when Trump
00:41:36.040 was offered
00:41:36.720 this proposition,
00:41:38.580 he turned it down.
00:41:40.660 Trump turned down
00:41:42.160 the guy who wanted
00:41:43.840 to overthrow the election
00:41:44.920 and instead
00:41:46.420 kept in
00:41:47.800 the guy who said
00:41:49.060 he didn't,
00:41:49.800 Rosen.
00:41:50.760 So Trump knew
00:41:51.920 that Rosen
00:41:52.480 was going to play
00:41:53.160 it straight
00:41:53.720 and go where
00:41:55.380 the data took him.
00:41:56.600 And he kept
00:41:57.160 that guy.
00:41:57.680 That's the opposite
00:42:00.580 of almost a coup.
00:42:02.920 It's the direct opposite.
00:42:04.660 And it's right
00:42:05.100 in the story.
00:42:05.800 You don't even have to
00:42:06.440 wonder if something
00:42:08.400 wasn't reported.
00:42:10.200 It's right in the story.
00:42:12.440 The story says
00:42:13.580 that Trump
00:42:13.960 turned it down.
00:42:15.720 Trump himself
00:42:16.580 picked the guy
00:42:18.020 who said
00:42:18.460 I don't think
00:42:19.080 there's any problem
00:42:19.720 here but you know
00:42:20.840 obviously
00:42:21.260 if the data
00:42:22.120 is different
00:42:22.600 he's going to
00:42:23.060 go with the data.
00:42:24.580 Trump picked
00:42:25.040 that guy.
00:42:25.580 That's not
00:42:27.100 almost a coup.
00:42:28.700 That's the president
00:42:29.420 saying well
00:42:30.160 we don't want a coup.
00:42:32.620 That's like
00:42:33.240 opposite of
00:42:34.120 almost a coup.
00:42:35.720 But they reported
00:42:36.680 this.
00:42:37.200 Oh so close.
00:42:38.620 We were so close
00:42:40.060 to a coup
00:42:41.200 when the only thing
00:42:42.520 you were close to
00:42:43.380 is another person
00:42:45.680 who would look
00:42:46.140 into it
00:42:46.600 and try to make
00:42:47.480 what you thought
00:42:48.740 was the right thing
00:42:49.340 happening.
00:42:50.180 I don't even think
00:42:50.960 Trump went that far.
00:42:53.420 Anyway.
00:42:53.720 here's a
00:42:56.120 rerun
00:42:57.560 from the past
00:42:58.320 although it's
00:42:58.800 new news
00:42:59.400 it feels like
00:43:00.100 a rerun.
00:43:00.980 So Donald Luskin
00:43:01.960 was tweeting this
00:43:02.780 he said
00:43:03.420 here's another
00:43:04.160 entry in the
00:43:04.780 hydroxychloroquine
00:43:05.780 meta-analysis
00:43:06.820 sweepstakes.
00:43:08.400 Now the meta-analysis
00:43:09.380 is where they look
00:43:10.140 at existing studies
00:43:11.300 that are not
00:43:12.420 high quality.
00:43:13.960 So they're looking
00:43:14.620 at studies
00:43:15.140 that are not
00:43:15.680 necessarily
00:43:16.240 randomized control
00:43:17.440 because they would
00:43:18.800 be good enough
00:43:19.360 if they existed
00:43:20.060 but looking at
00:43:21.040 all these low-quality
00:43:21.880 studies
00:43:22.340 and sort of
00:43:23.320 looking at
00:43:23.720 the big picture
00:43:24.320 and seeing
00:43:24.800 if they tell
00:43:26.580 a story.
00:43:27.780 And one of the
00:43:28.200 things they tested
00:43:28.840 was they gave
00:43:30.620 hydroxychloroquine
00:43:31.700 to Indian
00:43:32.600 healthcare workers
00:43:33.560 then tracked
00:43:34.740 them to see
00:43:35.440 if it prevented
00:43:36.880 them from getting
00:43:37.600 infected
00:43:38.000 and the result
00:43:39.680 was gigantic.
00:43:42.600 Gigantic effect
00:43:43.620 according to
00:43:44.320 a meta-analysis
00:43:45.280 of low-quality
00:43:46.740 studies.
00:43:47.320 Now there does
00:43:49.800 seem to be
00:43:50.280 some disagreement
00:43:51.000 among smart
00:43:52.300 people of
00:43:53.340 whether a
00:43:53.780 meta-analysis
00:43:54.420 is really
00:43:55.340 even a real
00:43:55.860 thing.
00:43:56.900 It's a real
00:43:57.620 analysis.
00:43:58.660 But how often
00:44:00.120 is it right?
00:44:02.160 Well if you've
00:44:03.020 got one or two
00:44:03.700 trials in there
00:44:04.480 that are messing
00:44:05.060 up the average
00:44:05.820 then it's not
00:44:07.620 going to be right.
00:44:08.840 So you've got
00:44:09.480 to do it right
00:44:10.140 but apparently
00:44:11.240 the assumptions
00:44:11.940 you make when
00:44:12.740 you do something
00:44:13.340 like a meta-analysis
00:44:14.540 will largely
00:44:15.580 determine the
00:44:16.280 outcome.
00:44:16.680 And so if the
00:44:18.340 outcome of a
00:44:19.060 meta-analysis is
00:44:20.080 determined by the
00:44:21.040 assumptions you
00:44:21.800 make as opposed
00:44:23.580 to the data
00:44:24.420 is it really an
00:44:26.220 analysis?
00:44:27.300 Or is it just
00:44:27.900 you made some
00:44:28.600 assumptions and
00:44:29.300 then that
00:44:29.700 determined the
00:44:30.560 outcome?
00:44:31.340 I'm not sure
00:44:32.080 that's anything.
00:44:33.780 If the outcome
00:44:34.600 is based on the
00:44:35.400 assumptions
00:44:35.920 you know
00:44:38.760 and not the
00:44:40.060 data
00:44:40.400 and you can
00:44:42.160 make different
00:44:42.660 assumptions
00:44:43.080 reasonably
00:44:43.720 do you have
00:44:45.220 anything?
00:44:45.540 that's more
00:44:46.660 like having
00:44:47.100 nothing isn't
00:44:47.640 it than having
00:44:48.280 something.
00:44:49.420 But as
00:44:50.920 Donald Luskin
00:44:52.280 points out
00:44:53.200 because his
00:44:54.380 background is
00:44:55.080 economist and
00:44:56.960 this is how
00:44:57.460 economist thinks
00:44:58.300 the evidence is
00:45:00.140 at least strong
00:45:00.960 enough
00:45:01.480 certainly not
00:45:03.700 proven
00:45:04.120 but strong
00:45:05.120 enough that
00:45:05.720 given the low
00:45:06.500 risk of
00:45:07.400 hydroxychloroquine
00:45:08.400 one of the
00:45:09.900 few drugs that
00:45:11.740 have been around
00:45:12.240 forever and
00:45:13.060 we know its
00:45:14.340 risk profile
00:45:15.140 that giving it
00:45:16.300 prophylactically
00:45:17.400 would make
00:45:17.960 sense in the
00:45:19.860 context of this
00:45:20.780 meta-analysis.
00:45:22.840 Do you buy
00:45:23.620 that?
00:45:24.860 Does it make
00:45:25.700 sense even
00:45:26.380 though you can't
00:45:27.180 be sure
00:45:27.800 sure that
00:45:29.580 given this
00:45:30.120 meta-analysis
00:45:30.840 that the risk
00:45:31.840 reward looks
00:45:33.100 good for taking
00:45:33.820 it?
00:45:34.760 And would I
00:45:36.140 get banned
00:45:36.680 from Google
00:45:37.700 for this or
00:45:38.760 probably demonetized
00:45:39.860 for saying this?
00:45:41.000 Now keep in
00:45:41.680 mind I'm not
00:45:42.180 telling you that
00:45:42.700 hydroxychloroquine
00:45:43.520 works.
00:45:44.620 In fact my
00:45:46.420 bet is still
00:45:47.360 that it doesn't.
00:45:49.220 So if I had to
00:45:50.540 put my actual
00:45:51.080 money on it I
00:45:52.860 would bet it
00:45:53.680 doesn't.
00:45:55.600 But if I had
00:45:57.700 the option of
00:45:58.380 taking it
00:45:58.820 prophylactically I
00:46:00.940 would.
00:46:03.460 If I were in a
00:46:04.520 high risk
00:46:04.960 environment such
00:46:05.760 as health care.
00:46:07.180 Not so much
00:46:07.940 right now because
00:46:09.000 I can socially
00:46:10.380 isolate pretty
00:46:11.000 well.
00:46:12.000 But those can
00:46:13.860 both be true
00:46:14.540 right?
00:46:15.500 That if I had
00:46:16.160 to bet I
00:46:17.360 would bet
00:46:17.700 against
00:46:18.180 hydroxychloroquine
00:46:19.300 working.
00:46:20.500 I'd bet
00:46:21.100 against it
00:46:21.760 because I
00:46:22.580 don't believe
00:46:22.940 the meta-analyses.
00:46:24.380 But if I had
00:46:25.960 the option of
00:46:26.500 taking it I
00:46:27.000 would take it
00:46:27.520 because that's
00:46:28.140 where the math
00:46:28.760 goes.
00:46:29.860 In my opinion
00:46:30.580 the math says
00:46:31.320 it doesn't work
00:46:32.040 but the math
00:46:32.880 also says it's
00:46:33.600 worth a shot
00:46:34.560 because the
00:46:34.960 risks are so
00:46:35.500 low.
00:46:36.640 So that's
00:46:36.960 where I'm at.
00:46:38.120 So don't
00:46:38.520 block me
00:46:39.220 YouTube because
00:46:40.360 I'm still
00:46:40.800 betting that
00:46:41.320 hydroxychloroquine
00:46:42.240 doesn't work.
00:46:44.520 All right
00:46:44.840 Jennifer Aniston
00:46:45.700 made a little
00:46:46.180 news by
00:46:46.880 saying that
00:46:48.180 she
00:46:48.540 lost a few
00:46:52.020 people in
00:46:52.480 my weekly
00:46:53.060 routine who
00:46:54.360 have refused
00:46:54.900 or did not
00:46:55.640 disclose whether
00:46:56.540 they had been
00:46:57.160 vaccinated.
00:46:58.340 So she's
00:46:59.160 making the
00:46:59.640 decision not
00:47:00.300 to hang
00:47:00.680 around with
00:47:01.200 people who
00:47:01.900 are unvaccinated.
00:47:03.800 Have any of
00:47:04.280 you made the
00:47:04.940 same decision?
00:47:06.680 Is there
00:47:06.960 anybody here
00:47:07.720 who has
00:47:09.080 made a
00:47:09.480 decision not
00:47:10.420 to spend
00:47:10.880 time around
00:47:11.680 people?
00:47:13.700 I say a
00:47:14.420 yes.
00:47:15.980 Yeah I don't
00:47:16.580 think that would
00:47:16.960 be too
00:47:17.520 common but
00:47:18.860 I'm actually
00:47:19.380 thinking about
00:47:20.060 it.
00:47:21.680 I'm thinking
00:47:22.500 about not
00:47:24.160 being around
00:47:24.940 any adult
00:47:26.020 who's
00:47:26.580 unvaccinated
00:47:27.420 because why
00:47:28.780 should I be?
00:47:29.900 I don't need
00:47:30.660 to take that
00:47:31.160 risk.
00:47:31.540 It would be
00:47:31.840 an unnecessary
00:47:32.360 risk.
00:47:33.580 And I was
00:47:34.420 trying to think
00:47:34.880 if I know
00:47:35.500 many adults
00:47:36.060 who are
00:47:36.420 unvaccinated.
00:47:38.180 And where
00:47:38.660 I live I
00:47:39.560 actually,
00:47:40.940 no I take
00:47:41.760 that back.
00:47:42.180 I know one
00:47:42.640 adult who
00:47:43.840 is very
00:47:44.520 young.
00:47:45.680 I know one
00:47:46.320 adult who's
00:47:46.820 unvaccinated.
00:47:47.740 That's it.
00:47:48.600 Over 65 I
00:47:49.960 think at least
00:47:50.640 95% of
00:47:52.100 Californians,
00:47:52.800 or at least
00:47:53.020 my county
00:47:53.540 anyway.
00:47:54.360 In my
00:47:54.620 county 95%
00:47:55.660 of us over
00:47:56.940 65, I'm
00:47:57.860 not over
00:47:58.160 65, but
00:47:59.500 those who
00:48:00.480 are vaccinated
00:48:01.580 have at
00:48:02.080 least one
00:48:02.540 vaccination.
00:48:04.460 Somebody says
00:48:05.220 what is the
00:48:05.700 risk to
00:48:06.100 you?
00:48:06.360 Well, there's
00:48:06.720 some risk
00:48:07.300 because I'm
00:48:07.920 vaccinated and
00:48:08.980 I'm a certain
00:48:09.440 age and I
00:48:09.980 have asthma,
00:48:10.780 so I could
00:48:11.420 still get it.
00:48:13.820 And I could
00:48:14.420 still get it
00:48:14.840 from a
00:48:15.140 vaccinated person
00:48:15.900 too.
00:48:17.260 I think the
00:48:18.080 numbers are
00:48:18.640 less, but we
00:48:19.240 don't quite
00:48:19.660 know.
00:48:23.800 Oh, and
00:48:24.380 also that you
00:48:25.020 wouldn't want
00:48:25.440 them to get
00:48:25.940 infected in
00:48:26.640 case you
00:48:26.980 didn't know.
00:48:29.000 So it
00:48:29.560 wouldn't be
00:48:29.840 so much just
00:48:30.540 being selfish.
00:48:36.020 It wouldn't
00:48:36.820 be selfish
00:48:37.640 so much it
00:48:38.340 would be
00:48:38.960 maybe helping
00:48:40.280 other people.
00:48:41.380 But it
00:48:41.920 doesn't look
00:48:42.360 like that's
00:48:42.760 going to be,
00:48:44.500 I don't know
00:48:45.820 if this is
00:48:46.220 going to become
00:48:46.700 a thing.
00:48:47.300 This could
00:48:47.720 easily become
00:48:48.320 a thing,
00:48:48.760 couldn't it?
00:48:49.680 It would be
00:48:50.200 easy to imagine
00:48:51.020 that the thing
00:48:51.760 that gets
00:48:52.120 people vaccinated
00:48:52.900 in the end
00:48:53.700 is that
00:48:55.240 vaccinated people
00:48:56.080 don't want to
00:48:56.520 hang around
00:48:56.920 with them.
00:48:57.240 Actually, I'm
00:48:59.020 going to go
00:48:59.300 out on a limb
00:48:59.800 and say
00:49:00.100 there's going
00:49:00.460 to be more
00:49:00.860 of this.
00:49:02.600 Because if I
00:49:03.180 think about
00:49:03.660 it, although
00:49:05.700 I haven't had
00:49:06.200 to worry about
00:49:06.800 it, I feel
00:49:07.800 like I would
00:49:08.420 be hesitant
00:49:09.520 to hang
00:49:09.920 around an
00:49:10.500 unvaccinated
00:49:11.160 person, even
00:49:12.280 though philosophically
00:49:13.320 it's their own
00:49:13.860 risk.
00:49:15.260 But it's their
00:49:15.880 own risk, but I
00:49:16.960 also am part
00:49:17.600 of it, so I
00:49:18.200 get to make
00:49:19.200 decisions about
00:49:20.040 how much risk
00:49:21.220 I put other
00:49:21.760 people to
00:49:23.040 and how much
00:49:24.800 I put to
00:49:25.180 myself.
00:49:25.820 Yeah, this
00:49:26.140 might become a
00:49:27.220 thing.
00:49:27.620 I can imagine
00:49:28.240 that vaccinated
00:49:28.860 people will not
00:49:29.740 want to...
00:49:30.680 Here's what else
00:49:31.820 I can imagine.
00:49:32.960 I can imagine
00:49:33.560 that people have
00:49:34.300 private get-togethers
00:49:35.760 in which they
00:49:36.660 just don't invite
00:49:37.680 unvaccinated
00:49:38.480 people.
00:49:39.840 People are
00:49:40.320 going to notice.
00:49:41.560 People will do
00:49:42.180 a lot of things
00:49:43.000 for their
00:49:43.540 personal social
00:49:45.080 decisions that
00:49:47.340 they wouldn't do
00:49:47.900 for other
00:49:48.280 reasons.
00:49:49.400 You'll do
00:49:49.960 things to be
00:49:50.720 part of your
00:49:51.200 friend network
00:49:51.940 that you might
00:49:53.100 not have done
00:49:53.660 otherwise.
00:49:54.300 It's a pretty
00:49:54.720 strong incentive.
00:49:57.220 We're also
00:50:00.840 seeing CNN
00:50:01.480 using what I
00:50:02.180 call the
00:50:02.620 vaccination
00:50:03.640 anecdote
00:50:04.940 persuasion.
00:50:07.040 Vaccination
00:50:07.600 anecdotal
00:50:08.820 persuasion.
00:50:09.680 What that is
00:50:10.200 is human
00:50:11.240 interest stories
00:50:12.000 about the
00:50:12.640 tragic case
00:50:13.640 of the
00:50:14.540 person who
00:50:15.060 was an
00:50:15.460 anti-vaccination
00:50:16.500 activist but
00:50:17.760 died while
00:50:19.320 his daughter
00:50:19.840 was getting
00:50:20.320 married of
00:50:22.180 COVID.
00:50:22.500 I made
00:50:23.760 that one
00:50:24.080 off.
00:50:24.320 That's
00:50:24.440 sort of
00:50:24.740 conflating a
00:50:25.420 few stories.
00:50:26.240 But you
00:50:26.440 know what
00:50:26.680 the stories
00:50:27.080 look like,
00:50:27.620 right?
00:50:28.200 So here's
00:50:28.840 another one.
00:50:29.700 The father
00:50:30.180 of several
00:50:30.720 children.
00:50:31.240 Can you play
00:50:33.340 your little
00:50:33.700 violin?
00:50:34.600 This is a
00:50:35.160 real tragic
00:50:35.700 story.
00:50:36.860 But the
00:50:37.080 way CNN
00:50:37.840 tells it,
00:50:39.120 it's for
00:50:39.820 brainwashing.
00:50:41.980 So this is a
00:50:42.680 brainwashing story
00:50:43.760 on CNN about
00:50:45.280 the father of
00:50:45.980 several children
00:50:46.680 who's been in
00:50:47.220 a hospital in
00:50:47.800 Bristol since
00:50:49.180 late July and
00:50:50.040 has been
00:50:50.640 recording a
00:50:52.060 video diary of
00:50:52.960 sorts from
00:50:54.280 his room and
00:50:54.840 he said,
00:50:55.420 quote, I
00:50:56.060 messed up big
00:50:56.800 time, guys.
00:50:57.880 He said through
00:50:58.440 an oxygen mask
00:50:59.440 in one video
00:51:00.120 posted to
00:51:00.840 Facebook, I
00:51:01.980 didn't get the
00:51:02.580 vaccine.
00:51:03.660 I made a
00:51:04.180 mistake.
00:51:05.240 I admit it.
00:51:07.400 So that's one
00:51:08.260 example.
00:51:09.020 So CNN now
00:51:10.560 is, I think
00:51:12.380 they've given
00:51:12.880 up on data
00:51:14.580 changing people's
00:51:15.600 minds.
00:51:16.680 Right?
00:51:16.940 They don't think
00:51:17.480 the data is
00:51:18.560 changing minds.
00:51:19.240 So they're
00:51:20.220 going, oh,
00:51:24.020 got to run.
00:51:25.540 I'll see you
00:51:26.260 later.