Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1461 Scott Adams： Live Sipping and News

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? 0.99

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. 0.98

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, 0.89

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, 0.99

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 0.57

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 0.76

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 0.86

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 0.88

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.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 07, 2021

Episode 1461 Scott Adams： Live Sipping and News

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