Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 08, 2021


Episode 1462 Scott Adams： Things in the Headlines That Make me Laugh and Cry


Episode Stats

Length

38 minutes

Words per Minute

145.71495

Word Count

5,599

Sentence Count

449

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Scott Adams talks about a plane crash, the death of 80 falcons, and a woman who kneeled during the national anthem at the opening of the Olympics. Plus, the Law of Unintended Consequences, and the most important player in the world.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning. It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:04.260 Once again, the best part of your day. It never fails.
00:00:07.620 And is everybody ready? Are you prepared?
00:00:11.200 Because you don't want to go into this without preparation.
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00:00:19.520 just dine a canteen, drink a flask vessel, get any kind.
00:00:22.320 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:00:23.700 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:26.280 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,
00:00:31.180 the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes, well, everything better.
00:00:34.460 It's called Simultaneous Sip, and it happens now. Go.
00:00:42.060 Ah.
00:00:43.640 Who says I have the worst theme song ever?
00:00:48.200 So cruel. You're so cruel.
00:00:51.440 Well, here's my favorite story of the day.
00:00:53.740 A Saudi prince had 80 falcons that he wanted to relocate
00:01:00.500 or possibly take on vacation.
00:01:03.100 The story's a little unclear.
00:01:04.580 But he bought airplane seats for all 80 of his falcons.
00:01:09.940 Now, of course, they were tied to little stands.
00:01:14.180 So the falcons couldn't fly around inside the plane.
00:01:17.340 But here's a question I ask.
00:01:20.520 Suppose the plane lost its engines,
00:01:25.280 but the falcons, feeling that the plane was going down,
00:01:29.860 all started flapping in unison.
00:01:33.360 Could they lift the plane?
00:01:36.200 No, of course not.
00:01:38.620 Not only because they're not strong enough,
00:01:40.860 but they're inside the plane,
00:01:42.960 and so all of their actions would be confined to inside.
00:01:46.460 So it wouldn't really work.
00:01:48.000 But do you know how jokes work?
00:01:51.700 Yeah.
00:01:52.300 This isn't about the joke.
00:01:54.280 It's about the mechanism for a joke.
00:01:56.840 Here's what makes a joke funny.
00:01:59.700 Something that your brain feels makes sense,
00:02:04.760 but also knows it doesn't.
00:02:07.480 That's a joke.
00:02:08.880 A joke when there's something about this situation
00:02:11.840 that sort of kind of makes sense,
00:02:14.140 but the rest of your brain says,
00:02:15.860 no, it doesn't.
00:02:16.440 No, it doesn't.
00:02:17.720 But you can't get it out of your head.
00:02:18.960 The two of them live there at the same time,
00:02:20.500 and that causes a little reflex called a laugh.
00:02:24.480 Here's a better joke about that.
00:02:27.720 Rocky Manichetti,
00:02:30.960 who was...
00:02:32.840 That little beep you hear whenever I'm doing this,
00:02:35.560 there's literally one bird
00:02:37.020 that walks in front of my same security camera
00:02:39.800 every day when I'm here.
00:02:41.480 It's the same damn bird.
00:02:43.240 I don't know what he's doing there every day.
00:02:47.180 But Rocky Manichetti
00:02:48.880 tweeted about my story
00:02:51.660 about the 80 falcons in the plane,
00:02:53.340 and he said,
00:02:54.940 imagine being a bird that died in a plane crash.
00:03:00.040 That would be the worst way to go if you were a bird.
00:03:03.560 You know,
00:03:04.420 if I were not inside this plane,
00:03:06.320 things would be going pretty, pretty well for me.
00:03:10.340 That's what Larry David sang.
00:03:11.860 Pretty, pretty well.
00:03:14.300 So I'll just start with that.
00:03:18.900 Meanwhile,
00:03:19.660 in the law of unintended consequences,
00:03:23.240 roly-poly,
00:03:25.020 I need a sting for that too.
00:03:28.000 The law of unintended consequences.
00:03:34.380 So Megan Rapinoe,
00:03:36.320 wanted to show her concern
00:03:40.420 for people in this country
00:03:43.580 who are less fortunate
00:03:44.560 and are in worse circumstance.
00:03:46.880 And so she has become sort of
00:03:48.420 the face of the professional kneelers,
00:03:52.740 the people who are kneeling
00:03:53.880 when the anthem is played
00:03:55.340 or the flag is shown.
00:03:57.100 And the,
00:03:58.740 of course her intention,
00:04:01.760 I can't read her mind,
00:04:03.520 but it seems that her intention
00:04:04.700 was to make the world a better place.
00:04:07.660 To make it more fair.
00:04:10.980 I'm seeing a funny picture of Megan Rapinoe
00:04:13.200 conflated with Joe Biden's face.
00:04:15.320 That's pretty funny.
00:04:15.980 And she intended to make the world
00:04:20.240 a little bit kinder,
00:04:21.840 a little bit nicer.
00:04:23.660 Here's what she actually did.
00:04:26.080 NBC's primetime coverage
00:04:27.740 of the Tokyo Olympics
00:04:28.960 was down 49%.
00:04:31.980 Compared to the equivalent night in 2016.
00:04:38.540 And 53% less than the 2012 London Olympics.
00:04:46.500 And the opening ceremonies
00:04:48.080 were the lowest viewership since 1988.
00:04:50.720 Now, it's not just a story
00:04:55.760 that there were fewer advertisers.
00:04:58.680 But, at some point,
00:05:01.940 the advertising is not enough
00:05:03.600 to support the event.
00:05:05.840 And I think we're pretty close,
00:05:08.060 if not already there.
00:05:10.100 So, there's a really,
00:05:12.220 a very real chance
00:05:13.440 that Megan Rapinoe
00:05:15.300 legitimately intended
00:05:17.800 just to make the world
00:05:18.760 a kinder, nicer place
00:05:20.440 that's more welcoming
00:05:21.800 and fair for everyone.
00:05:24.960 And what she did
00:05:26.160 was destroy the Olympics.
00:05:28.840 Destroy the Olympics.
00:05:31.080 So, Megan,
00:05:32.260 we call that an own goal.
00:05:34.660 That's the official name for that.
00:05:36.120 That's an own goal.
00:05:40.880 Speaking of own goals,
00:05:43.920 of all the news today,
00:05:46.840 the thing that bothered me the most
00:05:49.000 was Lionel Messi.
00:05:51.420 Now, if you don't follow soccer,
00:05:54.080 especially international soccer,
00:05:56.080 you may not know
00:05:57.320 who Lionel Messi is.
00:05:59.800 But consider that soccer
00:06:00.940 is the most,
00:06:02.080 I guess,
00:06:02.900 the most important
00:06:03.940 sport in the whole world.
00:06:06.180 Is that true still?
00:06:07.840 And he's the best player
00:06:10.120 in the biggest sport.
00:06:11.900 Now,
00:06:13.540 I'm not really a big fan
00:06:15.400 of watching soccer on TV
00:06:16.920 because I think it's
00:06:17.660 kind of boring, too.
00:06:19.040 I love playing it.
00:06:20.080 It was my favorite sport
00:06:21.060 as a player.
00:06:22.640 But watching it,
00:06:23.540 now, here's the thing.
00:06:26.080 If you watch
00:06:27.040 even the best players
00:06:28.560 in the world,
00:06:29.200 like the best teams,
00:06:30.200 play each other,
00:06:31.480 it's still kind of boring.
00:06:33.760 But,
00:06:34.760 if Lionel Messi
00:06:35.820 is on one of those two teams,
00:06:37.420 oh, my God.
00:06:40.380 Oh, my God,
00:06:41.280 is it entertaining?
00:06:42.980 In the same way
00:06:43.820 that Michael Jordan
00:06:44.620 was entertaining,
00:06:45.660 even if he didn't watch,
00:06:47.000 you didn't even have
00:06:47.600 to be a basketball fan.
00:06:49.260 But to watch Michael Jordan
00:06:50.440 do something
00:06:50.960 that humans can't do,
00:06:53.100 that was really entertaining.
00:06:54.720 Same with Stephen Curry.
00:06:56.340 Watching him,
00:06:56.980 he had a three-pointer
00:06:57.980 from midcourt.
00:07:01.000 Like, that's fun to watch
00:07:02.400 because he's not
00:07:03.120 like the other players.
00:07:03.980 So, when you watch somebody,
00:07:06.060 you know,
00:07:06.240 you're Tiger Woods,
00:07:07.300 putting, etc.,
00:07:08.240 who are just sort of
00:07:09.060 not like other people.
00:07:10.420 You know,
00:07:10.640 you're Larry Bird.
00:07:11.740 It's a whole different thing.
00:07:13.140 So, I'm a giant fan
00:07:14.600 of Lionel Messi,
00:07:16.220 even though watching soccer
00:07:17.480 is no big deal for me.
00:07:18.800 But I like to watch his clips.
00:07:21.380 Just go to YouTube
00:07:22.140 and watch just a compilation clip
00:07:24.580 of Lionel Messi's goals.
00:07:26.740 You don't have to like soccer
00:07:28.380 to love the hell out of this.
00:07:31.580 Because you're watching
00:07:32.240 a person operate
00:07:33.240 on a level
00:07:34.380 that you just didn't even know
00:07:35.380 a person could operate at.
00:07:37.240 And, of course,
00:07:38.060 the back story,
00:07:38.880 if you don't know,
00:07:39.680 is that Lionel Messi
00:07:40.740 was always told
00:07:41.500 he was too small,
00:07:43.480 literally too short,
00:07:44.960 to play professional soccer.
00:07:47.200 And he went from
00:07:48.260 too short to play
00:07:49.580 to the best player
00:07:52.100 in the world
00:07:52.740 and the biggest sport.
00:07:54.980 Here's the tragic part.
00:07:57.180 Where he's lived
00:07:57.860 for 21 years,
00:07:59.640 I think he was playing
00:08:00.820 for Barcelona,
00:08:01.580 he has to leave
00:08:03.440 the team
00:08:04.040 because they have
00:08:05.920 financial problems
00:08:06.940 and they can't afford it.
00:08:09.620 He has to take
00:08:10.460 his family,
00:08:12.000 which has lived
00:08:12.740 in this one place
00:08:13.900 for 21 years,
00:08:15.840 basically entire
00:08:17.140 adult life,
00:08:18.280 I think,
00:08:19.060 his kids raised there
00:08:20.280 and everything else,
00:08:21.660 and he has to leave
00:08:22.920 because they have debt
00:08:24.680 and they can't afford
00:08:25.920 to pay them.
00:08:26.340 He offered to play
00:08:28.020 for half his pay
00:08:29.360 so he didn't have
00:08:30.580 to move his family.
00:08:32.540 Do you know
00:08:32.860 how much that gives up?
00:08:35.280 It was like a difference
00:08:36.340 between $1.5 million
00:08:37.940 per game
00:08:39.180 and $700,000.
00:08:41.260 I mean,
00:08:41.540 still a ridiculous
00:08:42.260 amount of money,
00:08:43.300 but he offered
00:08:43.860 to play for half.
00:08:45.780 They couldn't afford him.
00:08:47.240 He's got to leave.
00:08:48.640 I've got to tell you
00:08:49.500 that of all the stories
00:08:50.420 I read today,
00:08:51.200 you know,
00:08:51.460 the news is full of
00:08:52.640 tragedies and death
00:08:53.880 and stuff.
00:08:54.740 I don't know why,
00:08:55.460 but that bothered me
00:08:56.160 the most.
00:09:01.860 Here's a story
00:09:02.700 that I made a little
00:09:05.400 note to myself
00:09:06.240 that this almost
00:09:07.340 made me cry,
00:09:09.140 but that's not true.
00:09:10.640 It actually made me cry.
00:09:12.920 I saw a couple of people
00:09:14.280 on Twitter today
00:09:15.180 giving me some,
00:09:17.120 at least partial credit,
00:09:18.840 in one case,
00:09:19.680 for helping somebody
00:09:20.660 quit drinking.
00:09:21.460 Ed Latimer
00:09:23.840 was mentioned
00:09:24.820 and is famously
00:09:26.200 a non-drinker
00:09:27.820 as am I.
00:09:30.140 And
00:09:30.460 I have to tell you,
00:09:33.140 you know,
00:09:33.300 most of you
00:09:33.640 know my story.
00:09:34.540 I've told it too many times.
00:09:35.540 My stepson died
00:09:36.600 of an overdose
00:09:37.160 in 2018.
00:09:39.640 Fentanyl
00:09:40.200 was in the system.
00:09:42.680 And,
00:09:43.200 you know,
00:09:44.460 that sort of
00:09:45.120 radicalizes you.
00:09:46.380 It has that effect.
00:09:48.900 And when I see
00:09:49.820 that somebody quit
00:09:50.840 an addiction
00:09:51.900 because of anything
00:09:53.980 I did or said,
00:09:55.160 you know,
00:09:55.340 even if I was just
00:09:56.060 a little bit of that,
00:09:58.020 you know,
00:09:58.340 because people make
00:09:59.120 their own choices.
00:09:59.800 I don't think other people
00:10:00.860 cause you to do things.
00:10:02.780 I think you make
00:10:03.260 your own choices.
00:10:04.620 But if I could help
00:10:05.720 even a little bit,
00:10:08.140 that's really meaningful
00:10:09.020 to me.
00:10:10.160 It's really meaningful.
00:10:11.680 Because it gives meaning
00:10:12.840 to my stepson's life.
00:10:14.540 if there's something
00:10:16.780 that, you know,
00:10:17.700 his tragic ending
00:10:18.820 caused,
00:10:21.580 and it caused
00:10:22.100 other people
00:10:22.680 to have
00:10:23.180 maybe more success
00:10:25.460 in quitting
00:10:25.920 their addictions.
00:10:26.720 And then somebody else
00:10:27.500 was saying that
00:10:28.240 he had drank,
00:10:30.820 I won't give their names
00:10:31.680 because of privacy reasons,
00:10:32.960 even though they tweeted it.
00:10:34.080 It's not my business
00:10:35.240 to tell you their names.
00:10:37.400 And another one said
00:10:38.380 that as of today,
00:10:39.580 he was going to stop
00:10:40.540 drinking 10 beers a day,
00:10:42.940 which he'd been drinking
00:10:43.880 forever.
00:10:46.260 And today's the day
00:10:47.300 that he's going to stop
00:10:48.000 drinking 10 beers a day.
00:10:49.660 Now, that's pretty tough.
00:10:51.980 Pretty tough.
00:10:52.940 But I tweeted him
00:10:53.800 so that you can
00:10:55.080 cheer him on.
00:10:57.240 Lauren Boebert.
00:10:58.840 You all know Lauren.
00:10:59.860 She's a gun-toting
00:11:00.920 new member of Congress.
00:11:02.920 Republican.
00:11:04.280 And quite interesting.
00:11:05.880 Quite interesting person.
00:11:06.960 I did tweet it,
00:11:08.560 so you'll see it.
00:11:09.140 She tweeted,
00:11:14.500 the same people
00:11:15.100 that thought Lollapalooza
00:11:16.220 was just fine,
00:11:18.000 meaning in terms
00:11:18.840 of the COVID,
00:11:20.140 are now saying
00:11:21.000 that Sturgis
00:11:21.720 will be a super-spreader
00:11:23.260 disaster.
00:11:25.040 Do you think that's true?
00:11:26.520 Do you think
00:11:26.900 the same people
00:11:27.620 that thought Lollapalooza
00:11:28.820 was just fine
00:11:29.780 are now saying
00:11:31.040 that Sturgis
00:11:31.740 will be a super-spreader
00:11:32.900 disaster?
00:11:35.460 Those people
00:11:36.220 don't exist.
00:11:36.960 Find me somebody
00:11:39.380 who said one of them
00:11:40.280 was a problem
00:11:40.880 and one wasn't.
00:11:42.420 Find me that one person
00:11:43.780 in the world
00:11:44.300 who says
00:11:45.100 that one group
00:11:46.640 is a problem
00:11:47.200 and one is not.
00:11:48.360 That person doesn't exist.
00:11:50.580 So much of our politics
00:11:52.060 is about this imaginary person.
00:11:54.480 The imaginary person
00:11:55.680 who's a hypocrite
00:11:56.600 doesn't exist.
00:11:59.100 It's a whole
00:11:59.960 political opinion
00:12:01.460 about imaginary people.
00:12:02.920 Why are we spending
00:12:05.980 our time
00:12:06.400 on imaginary people?
00:12:07.840 Could it be
00:12:08.440 because we don't have
00:12:09.240 that many real problems?
00:12:10.800 Are we so far
00:12:11.540 out of real problems
00:12:12.540 that you literally
00:12:13.520 have to make up
00:12:14.200 an imaginary person,
00:12:16.100 describe them?
00:12:17.880 You're saying
00:12:18.620 Obama.
00:12:21.200 Yes, yes,
00:12:22.020 I hear what you're saying
00:12:22.700 about Obama
00:12:23.320 and his birthday hypocrisy.
00:12:25.420 I usually don't do
00:12:26.340 the hypocrisy topics.
00:12:28.760 Have you ever noticed that?
00:12:29.700 Have you noticed that
00:12:32.120 even if the news
00:12:33.120 is just buzzing
00:12:33.860 with the hypocrisy topics,
00:12:35.720 I usually don't talk
00:12:36.760 about them
00:12:37.120 because there's nothing
00:12:37.700 to say.
00:12:39.060 Yeah, you used to say this,
00:12:40.500 now you say this,
00:12:41.820 now you're a liar.
00:12:42.920 What else is there?
00:12:44.380 Is there any depth
00:12:45.220 to that?
00:12:45.980 Would you learn anything?
00:12:47.340 Nope.
00:12:49.880 So Jim Acosta
00:12:51.000 went on what they call
00:12:52.200 an epic rant.
00:12:54.640 It's not a regular rant.
00:12:56.200 It's epic.
00:12:57.080 It's an epic rant.
00:12:57.880 So Jim Acosta
00:12:59.680 on CNN,
00:13:00.600 he went on his epic rant
00:13:01.980 and mocked DeSantis
00:13:04.580 for DeSantis'
00:13:06.680 stand on the coronavirus
00:13:08.900 and said that
00:13:10.500 maybe we should call
00:13:11.920 the next variant
00:13:12.880 the DeSantis variant.
00:13:16.000 Mrah, mrah, mrah.
00:13:18.460 Wow.
00:13:19.560 Zing.
00:13:20.740 Zing.
00:13:22.740 You know,
00:13:23.760 who taught
00:13:24.680 Jim Acosta
00:13:25.800 this technique?
00:13:28.560 Who taught
00:13:29.280 Jim Acosta
00:13:30.240 to cleverly
00:13:32.500 brand people
00:13:34.000 to make their
00:13:34.840 political careers
00:13:36.160 less successful?
00:13:39.040 Who was it?
00:13:40.880 I'm getting an image,
00:13:42.380 somebody orange,
00:13:44.160 somebody that
00:13:44.760 Jim Acosta
00:13:45.460 doesn't like
00:13:46.420 that much.
00:13:48.040 That's right.
00:13:49.600 Jim Acosta
00:13:50.400 just became Trump.
00:13:53.280 You knew
00:13:53.620 it was going to happen.
00:13:54.320 Let me ask you this.
00:13:57.360 In the time
00:13:57.880 that you've known
00:13:58.500 both President Trump
00:13:59.740 and Jim Acosta,
00:14:01.080 has Trump
00:14:02.200 in any way
00:14:03.640 become more
00:14:05.160 like Jim Acosta?
00:14:06.960 I'll wait.
00:14:07.700 I'll wait for your answer.
00:14:09.840 No?
00:14:10.520 No?
00:14:11.800 But
00:14:12.280 in the time
00:14:13.660 that you've been
00:14:14.300 watching them,
00:14:15.340 has Jim Acosta
00:14:16.440 become more
00:14:17.980 like Trump?
00:14:20.120 Yes,
00:14:20.800 he has.
00:14:21.260 Talk about
00:14:24.320 the ultimate
00:14:25.080 revenge
00:14:25.880 is making
00:14:27.040 your worst
00:14:27.760 enemy
00:14:28.220 turn into you.
00:14:31.060 That's
00:14:31.740 a complete
00:14:32.840 defeat.
00:14:34.260 That's sort of
00:14:35.240 that's like
00:14:37.000 killing somebody
00:14:37.780 and skinning them
00:14:38.920 and wearing
00:14:39.420 their skin
00:14:39.940 as clothing.
00:14:42.320 That's as hard
00:14:43.160 as you can
00:14:43.500 beat somebody.
00:14:44.900 Turning them
00:14:45.420 into you.
00:14:47.100 You can't win
00:14:47.780 any harder
00:14:48.160 than that.
00:14:49.820 But
00:14:50.300 there's more
00:14:51.260 to this story.
00:14:53.460 Why not
00:14:54.180 call it
00:14:54.580 the DeSantis
00:14:55.240 variant?
00:14:56.740 That's not
00:14:57.200 very good,
00:14:57.880 is it?
00:14:59.740 So you know
00:15:00.560 when
00:15:01.060 Trump does
00:15:03.100 his linguistic
00:15:03.740 kill shots,
00:15:05.000 like you repeat
00:15:05.800 them and they're
00:15:06.740 kind of funny
00:15:07.460 on the surface
00:15:08.160 and they
00:15:08.700 sort of like
00:15:09.660 they hit you
00:15:10.960 where it hurts,
00:15:11.780 you know,
00:15:11.960 like a
00:15:12.480 low energy jab.
00:15:15.080 I mean,
00:15:15.340 that was just
00:15:15.920 that was just
00:15:17.520 like Edward
00:15:18.140 Scissorhands
00:15:18.860 giving you
00:15:19.340 a haircut
00:15:19.720 kind of
00:15:20.160 situation.
00:15:21.560 And then
00:15:21.900 Jim's best
00:15:23.260 play here is
00:15:24.020 about
00:15:24.920 the DeSantis
00:15:26.180 variant.
00:15:28.400 That's my
00:15:29.280 Dr. Evil.
00:15:32.480 How about
00:15:33.360 that?
00:15:34.160 Ha ha ha ha
00:15:35.520 the DeSantis
00:15:36.460 variant.
00:15:38.060 Here's a
00:15:38.880 little
00:15:39.180 linguistic
00:15:40.560 trick for you.
00:15:42.980 Things have
00:15:43.640 to sound
00:15:44.480 right.
00:15:45.340 So this
00:15:47.380 is one of
00:15:47.780 the things
00:15:48.000 that Trump
00:15:48.420 gets right
00:15:49.000 that you
00:15:49.440 don't know
00:15:49.900 he's getting
00:15:50.300 right because
00:15:51.060 you don't
00:15:51.340 even know
00:15:51.700 it's a
00:15:51.920 thing.
00:15:52.880 One of
00:15:53.280 the things
00:15:53.580 that Trump
00:15:54.020 gets right
00:15:54.680 is he
00:15:55.720 uses words
00:15:56.800 that sound
00:15:58.320 good
00:15:58.760 together.
00:16:00.480 Now you'll
00:16:00.860 never notice
00:16:01.440 it because
00:16:02.420 he doesn't
00:16:02.900 do it
00:16:03.160 wrong.
00:16:04.140 If he
00:16:04.580 ever did
00:16:04.900 it wrong
00:16:05.360 you'd
00:16:05.660 notice it.
00:16:06.960 But because
00:16:07.460 he never
00:16:07.900 makes that
00:16:08.360 mistake he
00:16:08.960 uses words
00:16:09.560 that sound
00:16:10.000 good when
00:16:11.440 you put
00:16:11.700 them
00:16:11.800 together.
00:16:13.580 You just
00:16:14.240 don't notice
00:16:14.660 how well he
00:16:15.060 does it.
00:16:16.020 But here's
00:16:16.400 Acosta not
00:16:17.140 doing it
00:16:17.560 well.
00:16:18.680 The
00:16:18.880 DeSantis
00:16:19.500 variant.
00:16:21.680 Oh that's
00:16:23.020 going to be
00:16:23.600 viral.
00:16:24.520 It actually
00:16:24.860 was viral but
00:16:25.700 only because
00:16:26.280 Jim Acosta
00:16:26.920 said it.
00:16:27.740 But there's
00:16:28.220 nothing clever
00:16:29.320 about that.
00:16:30.940 The words
00:16:31.680 DeSantis
00:16:33.160 and variant
00:16:34.600 it doesn't
00:16:37.300 they don't
00:16:37.620 really fit
00:16:38.140 together do
00:16:38.700 they?
00:16:39.560 It's just
00:16:40.060 one of these
00:16:40.440 little things
00:16:40.980 that Trump
00:16:41.400 does perfectly
00:16:42.740 all the
00:16:43.200 time and
00:16:44.460 then you
00:16:44.740 don't even
00:16:45.060 notice it's
00:16:45.560 a thing.
00:16:46.040 You don't
00:16:46.220 know it's
00:16:46.540 a skill
00:16:46.940 because he
00:16:47.640 never does
00:16:48.020 it wrong.
00:16:49.940 But this
00:16:50.360 is obviously
00:16:50.960 a skill
00:16:51.400 because you
00:16:52.020 can't imagine
00:16:53.140 in any
00:16:53.980 world that
00:16:55.340 Trump
00:16:55.660 himself
00:16:56.180 let's say
00:16:57.400 he was on
00:16:57.780 the other
00:16:58.060 side from
00:16:58.460 DeSantis
00:16:58.860 you can't
00:16:59.780 imagine that
00:17:00.240 he would
00:17:00.480 come up
00:17:00.840 with this
00:17:01.140 let's go
00:17:01.660 the DeSantis
00:17:02.400 variant.
00:17:03.620 It's just
00:17:03.900 too lame
00:17:04.480 because the
00:17:05.640 words sound a
00:17:06.300 little too
00:17:06.840 technical or
00:17:08.060 something.
00:17:08.280 They just
00:17:08.660 don't have
00:17:09.020 that populist
00:17:10.760 punch.
00:17:12.100 But CNN's
00:17:12.740 playbook looks
00:17:13.620 like this.
00:17:14.760 Here's a
00:17:15.260 thing they
00:17:15.620 like to do.
00:17:16.720 They like to
00:17:17.320 identify a
00:17:18.060 top GOP
00:17:19.040 contender for
00:17:19.760 the president
00:17:20.180 so they find
00:17:21.360 out who's the
00:17:21.820 most dangerous
00:17:22.460 Republican.
00:17:23.800 At the
00:17:24.140 moment that's
00:17:25.560 either Trump
00:17:26.160 or DeSantis.
00:17:27.120 Would you
00:17:27.380 all agree?
00:17:28.540 Ted Cruz
00:17:29.360 has been
00:17:29.800 sort of in
00:17:31.000 that conversation
00:17:31.720 and they
00:17:32.440 attack him
00:17:32.960 but at the
00:17:33.380 moment DeSantis
00:17:34.900 is I'd say
00:17:36.100 the top
00:17:36.500 contender who's
00:17:37.260 not Trump
00:17:38.260 so they
00:17:39.460 identify a
00:17:40.360 top contender
00:17:40.940 and then they
00:17:41.380 attack the
00:17:41.880 contender as
00:17:42.700 either being
00:17:43.300 anti-science or
00:17:44.260 racist.
00:17:45.260 They have
00:17:45.720 two arguments
00:17:46.860 and they'll
00:17:48.340 make those
00:17:48.760 arguments no
00:17:49.400 matter what
00:17:49.800 the facts.
00:17:50.900 It doesn't
00:17:51.240 matter how
00:17:51.600 many facts
00:17:52.180 you have.
00:17:53.380 They're just
00:17:53.820 going to call
00:17:54.180 you a racist
00:17:54.880 and anti-science
00:17:56.400 no matter
00:17:57.220 what.
00:17:58.760 And then
00:17:59.200 the third
00:18:00.100 part is to
00:18:00.980 produce an
00:18:01.500 epic takedown.
00:18:02.840 Get one of
00:18:03.340 your hosts
00:18:04.040 to do something
00:18:05.200 that's quote
00:18:05.700 worthy in this
00:18:06.280 case Acosta.
00:18:07.060 So CNN
00:18:08.500 becomes the
00:18:09.160 news instead
00:18:09.740 of the
00:18:10.020 reporter of
00:18:10.580 the news.
00:18:12.520 That's right.
00:18:13.480 CNN makes
00:18:14.340 themselves the
00:18:15.340 news and
00:18:16.640 then they
00:18:16.940 report on
00:18:17.440 it.
00:18:18.440 So basically
00:18:19.100 they're
00:18:19.380 manufacturing
00:18:19.980 news.
00:18:20.600 So it's
00:18:20.800 not really
00:18:21.140 fake news.
00:18:22.380 It's more
00:18:22.940 like manufactured
00:18:24.700 news.
00:18:25.200 but here's
00:18:28.420 roly-poly
00:18:29.960 user roly-poly
00:18:31.020 sent me
00:18:33.340 some audio
00:18:34.840 files.
00:18:36.900 Let's see if
00:18:37.500 I can play
00:18:37.960 one of them
00:18:38.420 now.
00:18:38.880 I was trying
00:18:39.180 to get
00:18:39.460 like an
00:18:40.460 introduction to
00:18:41.160 my sections
00:18:41.720 on fake
00:18:42.220 news.
00:18:42.600 So here's
00:18:42.900 one.
00:18:43.140 If I can
00:18:44.900 play it.
00:18:51.620 Fake news
00:18:52.480 tweet of
00:18:52.920 the day.
00:18:55.200 All right.
00:18:57.260 Let's try
00:18:58.040 another one
00:18:58.480 here.
00:19:01.920 Fake news
00:19:02.540 tweet of
00:19:02.900 the day.
00:19:03.160 I don't
00:19:03.520 think it
00:19:03.760 was quite
00:19:04.140 there.
00:19:04.780 Needs a
00:19:05.100 little work.
00:19:05.960 Needs a
00:19:06.380 little work.
00:19:06.800 All right.
00:19:06.980 How about
00:19:07.200 this one?
00:19:07.800 This is for
00:19:11.040 the DeSantis
00:19:11.640 news.
00:19:15.420 From DeSantis
00:19:16.680 news.
00:19:19.280 Pretty good.
00:19:20.500 Pretty good.
00:19:20.980 Good start.
00:19:22.540 Thank you
00:19:22.920 roly-poly.
00:19:25.500 User.
00:19:26.860 He's tweeting
00:19:27.580 at me right
00:19:28.060 now.
00:19:31.500 Isn't it
00:19:32.120 freaky seeing
00:19:32.860 yourself mentioned
00:19:34.080 on the live
00:19:35.940 stream?
00:19:36.600 When you're
00:19:37.220 watching it and
00:19:37.780 then your name
00:19:38.600 comes out?
00:19:39.880 So I've had
00:19:40.460 this happen to
00:19:41.160 me a number
00:19:41.560 of times.
00:19:42.620 I'll turn on
00:19:43.320 the television.
00:19:44.440 I'll just be
00:19:44.880 watching television
00:19:45.680 and then they
00:19:46.140 start talking
00:19:46.640 about me.
00:19:47.620 It's so freaky.
00:19:48.380 It's like,
00:19:49.300 no, I'm
00:19:50.060 watching you.
00:19:50.880 Don't talk
00:19:51.300 about me,
00:19:51.820 television.
00:19:53.000 So that just
00:19:53.580 happened to
00:19:54.060 roly-poly.
00:19:57.460 So how many
00:19:58.760 of you have
00:19:59.380 heard the
00:19:59.720 theory that
00:20:01.180 the therapeutics
00:20:02.660 are being
00:20:03.260 under, let's
00:20:05.120 say,
00:20:05.400 underappreciated
00:20:06.520 officially because
00:20:08.200 if therapeutics
00:20:09.380 existed for
00:20:10.440 the COVID
00:20:10.980 legally, we
00:20:13.620 wouldn't be
00:20:14.020 able to do
00:20:14.440 an emergency
00:20:14.960 use for some
00:20:16.240 other drug if
00:20:17.680 we already
00:20:18.200 had a drug
00:20:18.860 that was
00:20:19.320 really helpful?
00:20:21.740 How many
00:20:22.120 of you heard
00:20:22.660 that and
00:20:23.560 believe that
00:20:24.160 that's true?
00:20:26.480 How many
00:20:27.100 of you are
00:20:27.660 of the belief
00:20:28.300 that the
00:20:28.740 reason we
00:20:29.340 don't talk
00:20:29.880 about ivermectin
00:20:31.080 or hydroxychloroquine
00:20:33.040 or now there's
00:20:33.680 a new one,
00:20:34.660 a cholesterol
00:20:35.220 drug cuts
00:20:36.240 coronavirus infection
00:20:37.380 in a laboratory
00:20:38.160 by 70%?
00:20:40.340 And I guess
00:20:40.980 it's an existing
00:20:41.820 fairly safe
00:20:42.860 drug that's
00:20:43.660 off the shelf.
00:20:44.800 So it'd be
00:20:45.300 a big deal
00:20:45.820 if it worked
00:20:46.740 just like it
00:20:47.620 would be a
00:20:47.960 big deal
00:20:48.280 if any
00:20:48.620 of the
00:20:48.800 others
00:20:49.000 worked.
00:20:50.300 Right.
00:20:51.240 So, yeah,
00:20:51.960 Regeneron.
00:20:53.360 Isn't it
00:20:53.980 Regeneron
00:20:54.520 approved?
00:20:55.800 I thought it
00:20:56.480 was.
00:20:57.260 I mean, as
00:20:58.140 opposed to
00:20:58.540 an emergency
00:20:59.020 approval.
00:21:00.360 So I'm
00:21:01.640 going to
00:21:01.820 call fake
00:21:02.320 news on
00:21:02.760 that.
00:21:03.880 I'm going
00:21:04.460 to call
00:21:04.860 that a
00:21:05.720 conspiracy
00:21:06.420 theory that
00:21:07.380 is not
00:21:08.080 backed up.
00:21:10.100 Now, I
00:21:10.320 don't know,
00:21:11.220 and I'm
00:21:11.520 going to put
00:21:11.860 odds on
00:21:12.420 this, right?
00:21:13.200 So this
00:21:13.640 doesn't mean
00:21:14.180 I'm 100%
00:21:15.300 sure.
00:21:16.420 Sometimes I
00:21:17.100 act like I'm
00:21:17.760 completely sure
00:21:18.480 when I'm
00:21:18.840 not, so I'm
00:21:20.420 trying to
00:21:20.840 moderate that
00:21:21.360 a little bit
00:21:21.840 so that I
00:21:22.620 don't do
00:21:22.900 that so
00:21:23.240 much.
00:21:26.160 Here's my
00:21:26.880 take on
00:21:27.400 it.
00:21:28.220 Let's say
00:21:28.760 there was a
00:21:29.420 law or a
00:21:30.720 rule that
00:21:31.940 said you
00:21:32.440 can't get
00:21:32.920 your emergency
00:21:33.720 authorization for
00:21:36.180 the vaccines
00:21:36.920 if therapeutics
00:21:38.400 exist.
00:21:39.360 Now, let's
00:21:39.760 say in this
00:21:40.380 scenario that
00:21:42.100 therapeutics did
00:21:42.960 exist, let's
00:21:44.600 say they
00:21:44.900 did, does
00:21:46.720 that mean
00:21:47.160 that in the
00:21:47.660 context of
00:21:48.660 a global
00:21:50.140 pandemic there's
00:21:51.800 nothing you
00:21:52.280 could do
00:21:52.720 because the
00:21:54.180 rule says
00:21:54.940 you can't
00:21:55.800 authorize
00:21:56.360 something for
00:21:57.520 emergency use,
00:21:58.680 so you're
00:21:59.540 done, right?
00:22:00.180 You just
00:22:00.560 can't do it.
00:22:02.060 Is that
00:22:02.340 right?
00:22:02.740 So you
00:22:03.020 just can't
00:22:03.420 do vaccines?
00:22:05.520 No, nothing
00:22:07.000 works that
00:22:07.560 way.
00:22:08.780 Nothing
00:22:09.100 works that
00:22:09.640 way.
00:22:10.460 Now, there
00:22:10.880 might be,
00:22:11.700 there's a
00:22:12.240 variant of
00:22:12.800 this in
00:22:13.380 which the
00:22:14.240 pharmaceutical
00:22:15.160 companies are
00:22:16.300 bribing the
00:22:17.180 government.
00:22:18.640 But, do
00:22:20.420 you think
00:22:20.840 that in the
00:22:21.520 Trump
00:22:21.780 administration,
00:22:23.340 do you
00:22:23.640 think Trump
00:22:24.180 took a
00:22:24.600 bribe from
00:22:26.200 the pharma
00:22:26.680 companies?
00:22:29.840 Nobody's
00:22:30.320 even suggested
00:22:30.980 it, right?
00:22:31.760 And it
00:22:32.140 would have
00:22:32.420 to be
00:22:32.700 Trump,
00:22:33.660 because he
00:22:34.040 was the
00:22:34.400 one beating
00:22:34.800 up on the
00:22:35.300 FDA to
00:22:35.840 get the
00:22:36.240 vaccinations
00:22:36.880 through,
00:22:37.420 et cetera.
00:22:38.280 Let me
00:22:38.700 tell you
00:22:38.980 this.
00:22:39.320 Let's say
00:22:39.760 there was a
00:22:40.440 rule or a
00:22:41.840 law or
00:22:42.420 whatever it
00:22:42.840 is.
00:22:43.100 I don't
00:22:43.280 know what
00:22:43.560 the situation
00:22:44.500 is.
00:22:45.020 It's either
00:22:45.300 a rule or
00:22:45.920 a law that
00:22:47.260 you can't
00:22:47.600 do the
00:22:47.840 emergency use
00:22:48.540 thing as
00:22:49.020 long as
00:22:49.340 therapeutics
00:22:49.880 exist.
00:22:50.680 If you
00:22:51.040 went to
00:22:51.380 Trump or
00:22:52.000 any president,
00:22:54.220 it could be
00:22:54.620 Biden too,
00:22:55.540 you go to the
00:22:56.140 president, whoever
00:22:56.780 it is, during a
00:22:57.620 pandemic and you
00:22:58.360 say we've got
00:22:58.840 this rule that
00:23:00.360 prevents us from
00:23:01.140 doing this thing
00:23:01.820 that would be
00:23:02.220 really, really
00:23:02.880 important to
00:23:03.520 do.
00:23:04.700 How long
00:23:05.360 does the
00:23:05.800 rule stop
00:23:07.280 you?
00:23:07.480 It's over.
00:23:10.100 In a
00:23:10.440 pandemic, that
00:23:11.960 kind of rule
00:23:12.480 doesn't mean
00:23:12.900 anything.
00:23:14.080 How many
00:23:14.820 rules did
00:23:15.780 Trump change
00:23:16.500 just by
00:23:16.900 signing an
00:23:17.360 executive
00:23:17.720 order?
00:23:18.740 Did anybody
00:23:19.260 question them?
00:23:20.800 No, it's a
00:23:21.440 pandemic.
00:23:22.340 I mean, it's a
00:23:23.060 different situation
00:23:23.740 at the moment,
00:23:24.340 right?
00:23:24.720 But during the
00:23:25.560 worst of the
00:23:26.360 pandemic, we
00:23:28.400 kind of stand
00:23:29.080 aside and say,
00:23:30.000 okay, leaders,
00:23:31.120 we understand this
00:23:32.300 is not the time
00:23:32.920 to debate.
00:23:34.380 This is the
00:23:34.860 time to do
00:23:35.380 something.
00:23:35.700 And we
00:23:36.900 know you're
00:23:37.260 not going to
00:23:37.580 be right every
00:23:38.280 time.
00:23:39.320 Like, that
00:23:39.800 would be
00:23:40.020 unreasonable.
00:23:40.640 But do
00:23:41.160 something, because
00:23:42.000 it's an
00:23:42.300 emergency.
00:23:42.780 You've got to
00:23:43.100 do something.
00:23:44.340 Under those
00:23:45.000 rules, there's
00:23:46.400 no way that a
00:23:47.160 law or some
00:23:48.860 guideline or
00:23:49.540 rule would
00:23:50.020 have stopped
00:23:50.400 us from doing
00:23:50.980 what made
00:23:51.400 sense.
00:23:52.540 So, I'm
00:23:53.820 going to call
00:23:54.200 bullshit on
00:23:56.040 the idea that
00:23:57.360 the reason
00:23:57.980 therapeutics are
00:23:58.940 being undervalued
00:24:01.260 by the
00:24:01.680 government is
00:24:03.260 because they
00:24:04.140 just had to
00:24:04.600 get this rule
00:24:05.280 for the
00:24:05.680 vaccinations and
00:24:06.960 maybe the
00:24:07.360 big pharma was
00:24:08.420 pushing them
00:24:08.940 or bribing
00:24:09.440 somebody.
00:24:10.400 I'm not
00:24:10.720 buying it.
00:24:11.740 I'm not
00:24:12.040 buying it.
00:24:13.120 Because I
00:24:14.140 don't think
00:24:14.700 Trump could
00:24:15.460 have been
00:24:15.720 bribed by
00:24:17.300 pharma.
00:24:19.240 Does anybody
00:24:19.800 disagree with
00:24:20.340 that?
00:24:20.940 Does anybody
00:24:21.480 think that
00:24:22.060 Trump,
00:24:22.840 specifically
00:24:23.380 Trump, because
00:24:24.940 he was the
00:24:25.360 one there during
00:24:26.260 the time this
00:24:27.040 was all
00:24:27.320 happening, do
00:24:28.020 you think he
00:24:28.380 could have
00:24:28.600 been bribed
00:24:29.280 by pharma?
00:24:30.260 I just
00:24:32.260 don't see
00:24:33.160 it.
00:24:34.760 I just
00:24:35.200 don't see
00:24:35.560 it.
00:24:36.600 And was
00:24:38.480 there ever
00:24:38.920 a rule that
00:24:39.720 Trump didn't
00:24:40.220 like breaking?
00:24:41.760 I mean, most
00:24:42.540 of his act
00:24:43.260 was tell me
00:24:44.580 the rule
00:24:45.820 that's in the
00:24:46.320 way and
00:24:46.800 then I'll
00:24:46.980 break it.
00:24:48.140 Remember, you
00:24:48.900 couldn't do
00:24:49.540 telehealth,
00:24:51.800 having a doctor
00:24:52.540 call you across
00:24:53.260 state lines,
00:24:54.220 and I was a
00:24:54.720 little involved
00:24:55.180 with that.
00:24:55.580 What did
00:24:57.380 Trump do?
00:24:57.960 He said, oh,
00:24:58.480 here's a law
00:24:59.100 that's in the
00:24:59.580 way.
00:25:01.100 It's goodbye.
00:25:02.100 It's gone.
00:25:03.620 I don't
00:25:04.240 believe for a
00:25:04.780 second that
00:25:05.560 Trump was
00:25:06.240 affected by
00:25:07.120 big pharma
00:25:07.800 wanting not
00:25:09.600 to have
00:25:09.960 therapeutics look
00:25:10.980 good.
00:25:11.420 I just don't
00:25:12.100 think for a
00:25:12.560 minute that
00:25:12.940 affected him.
00:25:14.020 If it had
00:25:14.600 been a
00:25:14.860 different
00:25:15.080 president,
00:25:15.740 maybe,
00:25:17.100 maybe, but
00:25:17.880 I just don't
00:25:18.300 see it
00:25:18.520 affecting
00:25:18.820 Trump.
00:25:19.740 He's the
00:25:20.100 guy who
00:25:20.660 just blows
00:25:21.480 through rules.
00:25:23.100 He doesn't
00:25:23.460 care.
00:25:23.720 Yeah, I
00:25:25.560 mean, Trump
00:25:26.280 screwed the
00:25:27.120 pharma companies
00:25:27.900 during his
00:25:28.620 presidency in
00:25:29.960 a variety of
00:25:30.760 ways, and he
00:25:31.280 did it right
00:25:31.640 in their face.
00:25:32.860 So I don't
00:25:33.600 think he was
00:25:34.120 going to do
00:25:34.440 it because
00:25:34.760 they wanted
00:25:35.260 it, that's
00:25:35.700 for sure.
00:25:38.980 Here's one
00:25:39.540 of those rules
00:25:40.180 that I'll say
00:25:40.720 a million times
00:25:41.600 because it's
00:25:42.160 so important.
00:25:44.100 You only
00:25:44.760 manage the
00:25:45.740 things you
00:25:46.220 track.
00:25:47.740 This is one
00:25:48.440 of the biggest
00:25:48.940 deals in all
00:25:49.780 of management.
00:25:50.560 In fact,
00:25:51.040 there's no
00:25:51.480 such thing as
00:25:52.060 management if
00:25:52.860 you're not
00:25:53.160 tracking.
00:25:54.180 Because
00:25:54.420 otherwise you're
00:25:54.920 just flailing
00:25:55.560 around.
00:25:56.400 You don't
00:25:56.720 know if the
00:25:57.140 things you
00:25:57.520 do are
00:25:57.940 working or
00:25:58.620 not working.
00:25:59.640 It's not
00:26:00.240 management unless
00:26:02.100 you can track,
00:26:02.860 oh, we did
00:26:03.260 this and it
00:26:03.820 got this
00:26:04.180 result.
00:26:05.120 So we
00:26:05.640 should do
00:26:05.920 more of
00:26:06.320 it or less
00:26:06.780 of it based
00:26:07.160 on the
00:26:07.460 result.
00:26:08.600 So at
00:26:11.020 this point,
00:26:11.700 the way we
00:26:12.900 track the
00:26:13.480 COVID stuff
00:26:14.240 will determine
00:26:15.440 what we do
00:26:16.560 about it.
00:26:17.740 Let me say
00:26:18.380 that again.
00:26:19.640 You don't
00:26:20.260 decide what to
00:26:20.940 do about it
00:26:21.500 and then figure
00:26:22.080 out how to
00:26:22.520 track it.
00:26:23.720 Ideally, I
00:26:24.900 suppose you
00:26:25.240 do it that
00:26:25.580 way.
00:26:25.920 You end up
00:26:26.560 tracking whatever
00:26:27.220 you can track
00:26:28.160 and then
00:26:29.100 whatever it
00:26:29.600 was that you
00:26:30.020 could track
00:26:30.660 works backwards
00:26:31.900 and then that's
00:26:32.660 what you
00:26:32.880 manage to,
00:26:34.000 which is a
00:26:34.680 bad way to
00:26:35.300 do business.
00:26:36.500 You don't
00:26:36.920 want to manage
00:26:37.620 to what you
00:26:38.520 can measure
00:26:39.220 because it's
00:26:40.040 the only thing
00:26:40.460 you can
00:26:40.680 measure.
00:26:42.000 Now, in our
00:26:42.640 case, we're
00:26:43.280 reporting, I
00:26:44.160 saw this again,
00:26:45.020 California had
00:26:45.780 13 deaths
00:26:47.040 yesterday from
00:26:47.820 COVID,
00:26:48.180 allegedly.
00:26:50.800 They did
00:26:51.440 not report
00:26:52.040 in the same
00:26:52.560 time how
00:26:53.060 many of
00:26:53.420 the 13
00:26:54.000 were vaccinated.
00:26:55.540 Shit.
00:26:57.740 I just
00:26:58.380 had a
00:26:58.860 technical
00:26:59.740 glitch on
00:27:01.300 the locals
00:27:01.700 platform, but
00:27:02.680 it's going to
00:27:03.160 come back in a
00:27:03.760 second.
00:27:04.360 So, sorry
00:27:04.860 YouTube, just
00:27:05.860 a moment and
00:27:06.660 I'll get back
00:27:07.720 to this story.
00:27:09.640 I believe I
00:27:10.920 can go right
00:27:11.400 back to it.
00:27:12.020 Thank you.
00:27:12.080 Thank you.
00:27:12.120 Thank you.
00:27:12.140 Thank you.
00:27:12.200 Thank you.
00:27:12.240 Thank you.
00:27:12.260 Thank you.
00:27:12.300 Thank you.
00:27:12.340 Thank you.
00:27:12.360 Thank you.
00:27:12.380 Thank you.
00:27:12.400 Thank you.
00:27:12.440 Thank you.
00:27:12.480 Thank you.
00:27:12.500 Thank you.
00:27:13.400 Thank you.
00:27:14.400 Thank you.
00:27:14.440 Thank you.
00:27:16.400 Thank you.
00:27:18.180 All right, I'm
00:27:19.180 back.
00:27:19.820 Sorry, locals.
00:27:20.760 A little technical
00:27:21.320 difficulty.
00:27:23.120 That's the second
00:27:23.820 time that's happened.
00:27:26.000 So, California
00:27:27.040 reported 13
00:27:27.820 people died
00:27:28.460 yesterday of
00:27:28.980 COVID, but
00:27:29.920 how many of
00:27:30.360 them were
00:27:30.600 vaccinated?
00:27:32.240 Don't you
00:27:32.820 want to know
00:27:33.200 that?
00:27:34.420 Like, if the
00:27:36.140 public is part
00:27:36.840 of this process
00:27:37.600 and should be,
00:27:38.800 I mean, I
00:27:39.140 don't think the
00:27:39.580 government should
00:27:40.160 be making
00:27:40.560 decisions alone.
00:27:42.360 The public
00:27:42.980 opinion and the
00:27:44.240 public feedback
00:27:45.020 is part of the
00:27:46.020 whole process,
00:27:46.860 right?
00:27:47.200 That's the way
00:27:48.000 we run this
00:27:48.520 stuff.
00:27:49.280 And if the
00:27:49.800 public doesn't
00:27:50.420 get good
00:27:50.860 information,
00:27:51.620 or let's say
00:27:52.200 information that
00:27:53.200 they can act
00:27:54.220 on productively,
00:27:55.480 then you're not
00:27:56.760 managing.
00:27:58.080 It's not that
00:27:58.800 you're doing it
00:27:59.240 right or wrong,
00:27:59.900 you're not
00:28:00.220 doing it.
00:28:01.540 Let me say that
00:28:02.260 again.
00:28:02.880 I'm not saying
00:28:03.700 that the
00:28:04.020 government is
00:28:04.620 managing COVID
00:28:05.600 right or wrong.
00:28:07.000 I'm saying
00:28:07.600 they're not
00:28:07.900 managing it.
00:28:09.380 There's no
00:28:10.000 stated strategy,
00:28:11.340 and we're not
00:28:12.400 even tracking the
00:28:13.780 right stuff.
00:28:14.300 because if you
00:28:16.180 tracked how
00:28:17.320 many people
00:28:17.780 died who
00:28:19.220 were vaccinated
00:28:20.060 versus unvaccinated,
00:28:22.640 that would tell
00:28:23.040 you something.
00:28:24.500 If most of the
00:28:26.060 people dying are
00:28:27.200 unvaccinated,
00:28:28.500 why do I care?
00:28:31.600 Right?
00:28:31.980 In terms of
00:28:32.800 living in free
00:28:33.760 society, of course
00:28:34.700 I care about
00:28:35.260 people.
00:28:36.580 It would be
00:28:37.240 individual tragedies,
00:28:38.360 of course.
00:28:38.720 But why would
00:28:39.740 I care from
00:28:40.300 a policy
00:28:40.820 perspective if
00:28:42.120 these people
00:28:42.720 had access to
00:28:43.900 the vaccinations,
00:28:45.880 chose not to
00:28:46.640 take them,
00:28:47.720 got the result
00:28:48.960 that you get
00:28:49.560 if things go
00:28:50.200 wrong under
00:28:50.680 that consideration.
00:28:51.520 Why do I
00:28:51.900 care?
00:28:52.900 I'm vaccinated.
00:28:53.900 I had access
00:28:54.480 to it.
00:28:54.820 They had access
00:28:55.400 to it.
00:28:56.000 As long as
00:28:56.540 they have access
00:28:57.260 to vaccinations,
00:28:59.440 I need to know
00:29:00.700 how many died
00:29:01.280 vaccinated.
00:29:01.960 Now, Mark
00:29:03.740 Cuban, you all
00:29:04.980 know Mark,
00:29:06.040 tweeted at me.
00:29:08.260 He said,
00:29:08.620 Scott, period.
00:29:10.440 You do realize
00:29:11.300 that if, say,
00:29:12.380 we got to 90%
00:29:13.460 of people vaccinated,
00:29:15.200 that it's likely
00:29:15.920 that around 90%
00:29:16.980 of the hospitalizations
00:29:18.060 and deaths
00:29:18.660 would be vaccinated.
00:29:20.680 But the total
00:29:21.320 number of
00:29:21.700 hospitalizations
00:29:22.340 deaths would be
00:29:23.200 about 90% lower
00:29:24.940 than had people
00:29:26.340 not been vaxxed.
00:29:27.400 So he said,
00:29:28.240 do you realize
00:29:28.820 this?
00:29:30.120 Yes.
00:29:31.780 Yes.
00:29:32.700 Yes, I realize
00:29:33.620 that.
00:29:33.900 I say it all
00:29:34.380 the time.
00:29:35.440 And that doesn't
00:29:38.040 change the request
00:29:39.060 to have accurate
00:29:40.560 numbers, right?
00:29:42.600 So you all
00:29:43.500 understand that
00:29:44.660 if 100% of people
00:29:46.140 were vaccinated,
00:29:47.860 then every person
00:29:48.960 who died from COVID
00:29:49.860 after that point
00:29:50.580 would be a
00:29:51.120 vaccinated person.
00:29:51.920 And you would
00:29:52.960 not conclude
00:29:53.640 from that
00:29:54.020 that vaccinations
00:29:54.720 don't work.
00:29:56.260 You would say,
00:29:57.120 thank goodness,
00:29:57.760 it was only five
00:29:58.500 people.
00:29:59.280 Could have been
00:29:59.840 thousands, right?
00:30:01.300 So, Mark,
00:30:02.780 your point is
00:30:03.240 good, but of
00:30:03.820 course, I say
00:30:05.220 this all the
00:30:05.720 time.
00:30:07.180 However, if you
00:30:08.600 had all of
00:30:09.180 these numbers,
00:30:09.800 you'd be in
00:30:10.140 good shape.
00:30:10.760 If you knew
00:30:11.280 how many were
00:30:11.840 vaccinated of
00:30:13.100 the deaths
00:30:13.580 and how many
00:30:14.780 were unvaccinated,
00:30:16.320 and then you
00:30:17.220 also knew a
00:30:18.220 percentage of
00:30:18.900 the country or
00:30:20.080 the state was
00:30:20.720 vaccinated, you'd
00:30:22.520 have everything
00:30:22.960 you needed,
00:30:24.040 right?
00:30:24.760 So, yes,
00:30:25.720 Mark's point is
00:30:26.860 good, and you
00:30:27.480 should all be
00:30:27.820 aware of it.
00:30:28.560 That's why I say
00:30:29.220 it all the time.
00:30:29.780 If everybody's
00:30:31.080 vaccinated, then
00:30:31.980 those are the
00:30:32.400 only people dying.
00:30:33.200 It doesn't mean
00:30:33.620 the vaccination
00:30:34.120 doesn't work.
00:30:36.960 So, tell me
00:30:39.480 how many are
00:30:39.940 unvaccinated or
00:30:40.920 don't let me,
00:30:42.360 or don't imagine
00:30:43.020 that I care.
00:30:46.180 Kyra Romega
00:30:47.100 on, or Kyra?
00:30:49.200 How do you
00:30:49.520 pronounce K-I-R-A?
00:30:52.440 Kyra or Kyra?
00:30:55.300 Anyway, sorry,
00:30:56.100 I'm mispronouncing
00:30:57.000 your name, Kyra.
00:30:58.000 But, she
00:31:01.800 tweeted, I'd
00:31:02.560 frankly also
00:31:03.160 like to see
00:31:03.660 stats for the
00:31:04.340 different vaccines
00:31:05.260 administered.
00:31:07.920 Hmm.
00:31:10.200 Wouldn't you?
00:31:12.420 Wouldn't you
00:31:13.040 like to see
00:31:13.600 that?
00:31:15.240 Hmm.
00:31:16.200 And why
00:31:16.540 haven't you?
00:31:18.380 Because it
00:31:19.180 does seem like
00:31:19.720 a reasonable
00:31:20.160 question.
00:31:21.000 I would think
00:31:21.500 that every
00:31:21.900 person who
00:31:22.340 gets hospitalized
00:31:22.920 with COVID
00:31:23.740 should be
00:31:24.780 asked, are
00:31:25.240 you vaccinated?
00:31:26.920 Which one?
00:31:28.000 And how
00:31:28.800 recently?
00:31:29.780 Those are the
00:31:30.320 things we
00:31:30.680 should be
00:31:31.020 asking.
00:31:31.640 I'm guessing
00:31:32.340 we asked
00:31:32.800 that, but
00:31:33.740 is it a
00:31:34.880 federal
00:31:35.240 regulation?
00:31:36.040 It should
00:31:36.300 be.
00:31:37.080 There should
00:31:37.400 be some
00:31:37.820 federal
00:31:38.200 regulation that
00:31:38.960 says you
00:31:39.220 have to ask
00:31:39.760 that and
00:31:40.160 report it.
00:31:42.680 Now, I
00:31:43.420 would say
00:31:43.900 that maybe
00:31:44.440 there was a
00:31:45.000 reason we
00:31:45.480 didn't report
00:31:46.360 that before.
00:31:47.140 because,
00:31:49.120 remember,
00:31:50.780 you only
00:31:51.560 get, in
00:31:53.780 terms of
00:31:54.140 managing, you
00:31:54.800 only get
00:31:55.360 what you
00:31:55.840 measure.
00:31:56.720 Suppose we
00:31:57.480 had measured
00:31:57.920 that from
00:31:58.400 the start,
00:31:59.860 the differences
00:32:00.640 in vaccination
00:32:01.780 results.
00:32:03.180 What would
00:32:03.580 that have
00:32:04.000 done?
00:32:04.320 Because that's
00:32:04.740 what you're
00:32:05.100 measuring, and
00:32:06.200 what you measure
00:32:06.880 causes you to
00:32:07.680 act differently.
00:32:09.140 I think it
00:32:10.000 would have
00:32:10.200 caused fewer
00:32:11.080 vaccinations in
00:32:13.080 the beginning
00:32:13.520 because there
00:32:15.200 was an
00:32:15.620 availability
00:32:16.120 problem, so
00:32:17.400 if you could
00:32:17.880 get any one
00:32:18.760 of the
00:32:18.940 vaccinations,
00:32:19.680 you'd get
00:32:19.980 it.
00:32:20.540 You didn't
00:32:21.060 want people
00:32:21.500 shopping, which
00:32:23.480 is sort of
00:32:23.860 what I was
00:32:24.280 doing.
00:32:24.660 I was kind
00:32:25.060 of shopping.
00:32:25.760 That's why I
00:32:26.220 waited so long.
00:32:27.360 I was waiting
00:32:27.820 to see if any
00:32:28.400 of the
00:32:28.580 vaccinations
00:32:29.080 were duds
00:32:29.800 or if there
00:32:30.680 was any
00:32:30.920 surprises.
00:32:31.560 So I
00:32:31.780 waited as
00:32:32.220 long as I
00:32:32.700 could to
00:32:33.260 get as
00:32:33.480 much
00:32:33.680 information,
00:32:34.420 you know,
00:32:34.620 a few
00:32:34.840 months.
00:32:37.500 But at
00:32:38.100 this point,
00:32:39.020 now that
00:32:39.380 anybody can
00:32:39.940 get a
00:32:40.700 vaccination,
00:32:41.340 you could
00:32:41.620 probably shop,
00:32:42.580 couldn't
00:32:42.780 you?
00:32:43.520 Don't
00:32:44.140 you think
00:32:44.540 that maybe
00:32:45.300 you'd get
00:32:45.680 a few
00:32:45.980 more people
00:32:46.460 vaccinated
00:32:47.000 if that
00:32:47.440 was your
00:32:47.700 goal by
00:32:49.220 telling them,
00:32:49.880 okay, we've
00:32:50.540 got different
00:32:50.940 vaccinations,
00:32:51.800 we did find
00:32:52.320 this one's
00:32:52.740 5% better?
00:32:54.280 Maybe some
00:32:55.240 people would
00:32:55.680 say, okay,
00:32:56.540 I feel like
00:32:58.000 you know
00:32:58.480 more about
00:32:58.940 the vaccinations,
00:32:59.960 I'll give
00:33:00.900 it a shot.
00:33:01.740 I'll give
00:33:02.100 it a shot.
00:33:05.160 Dr.
00:33:06.400 Eli David,
00:33:07.360 not a
00:33:07.940 medical doctor,
00:33:09.360 but another
00:33:10.400 kind of smart
00:33:11.000 doctor, was
00:33:12.460 tweeting,
00:33:12.800 there's a
00:33:13.540 new peer
00:33:13.900 reviewed
00:33:14.220 paper showing
00:33:14.960 that aerosols
00:33:15.820 play a
00:33:16.340 major role
00:33:16.960 in COVID
00:33:17.420 transmission,
00:33:18.940 and fine
00:33:19.440 aerosols
00:33:19.960 constitute 85%
00:33:21.240 of the viral
00:33:21.720 load detected.
00:33:23.520 And he
00:33:24.560 says that
00:33:25.040 masks can
00:33:25.780 block droplets,
00:33:27.820 not aerosols,
00:33:28.980 so it's time to
00:33:29.720 abolish all
00:33:30.360 non-scientific
00:33:31.320 mask mandates.
00:33:33.620 To which I
00:33:34.460 say, the same
00:33:35.400 things I always
00:33:36.000 said, if you
00:33:37.260 have data from
00:33:38.500 a laboratory
00:33:39.080 experiment, which
00:33:40.560 is what this
00:33:41.040 is, I
00:33:41.340 believe, and
00:33:43.200 you also have
00:33:43.800 laboratory from
00:33:44.540 the field, or
00:33:45.240 you have data
00:33:45.740 from the field,
00:33:47.000 which one do
00:33:47.540 you look at?
00:33:48.780 You've got two
00:33:49.400 sets of data.
00:33:51.040 In the
00:33:51.520 laboratory, they
00:33:52.240 say, huh, we're
00:33:53.200 not sure these
00:33:53.780 masks are
00:33:54.280 working.
00:33:55.340 But in the
00:33:56.100 real world,
00:33:56.660 they're working.
00:33:57.680 In other
00:33:58.000 words, where
00:33:58.620 there are masks
00:33:59.220 that can measure
00:33:59.920 that there's
00:34:00.420 more of a
00:34:01.080 benefit.
00:34:01.940 Now, is
00:34:03.600 any of that
00:34:04.280 data accurate?
00:34:06.220 Who knows?
00:34:07.480 We're in a
00:34:08.060 world where you
00:34:08.580 can't trust
00:34:08.940 anything.
00:34:09.320 You can't
00:34:10.160 trust that the
00:34:10.720 masks work.
00:34:11.480 You can't
00:34:11.840 trust that they
00:34:12.320 don't work.
00:34:13.080 You definitely
00:34:13.560 can't trust the
00:34:14.220 laboratory study.
00:34:15.720 So here's what I
00:34:16.420 would tell you.
00:34:17.480 I would never
00:34:18.000 look at a
00:34:18.600 peer-reviewed,
00:34:19.800 which is
00:34:20.200 different than
00:34:20.620 a randomized
00:34:21.020 controlled trial,
00:34:22.280 I would never
00:34:22.660 look at just a
00:34:23.460 peer-reviewed
00:34:24.820 paper that said
00:34:25.580 that we tested
00:34:26.080 something in a
00:34:26.680 laboratory and
00:34:27.840 found out that
00:34:28.760 there's a lot of
00:34:29.520 aerosols that
00:34:30.920 matter.
00:34:32.080 We kind of
00:34:32.560 already knew
00:34:32.980 that, that the
00:34:34.020 aerosols matter.
00:34:35.200 And we also
00:34:35.620 knew that the
00:34:36.120 masks were never
00:34:36.960 intended to stop
00:34:37.840 100% of anything.
00:34:39.320 They were
00:34:39.960 supposed to
00:34:41.760 stop some
00:34:42.420 amount of
00:34:43.280 it during the
00:34:44.340 worst of the
00:34:45.040 pandemic.
00:34:45.900 Now, I'm
00:34:46.360 anti-mask
00:34:47.560 mandate, just
00:34:49.320 to be clear,
00:34:50.100 because it
00:34:50.440 sounds like I'm
00:34:50.960 being pro-mask
00:34:51.700 here.
00:34:52.220 But I think
00:34:53.100 you can have
00:34:53.660 the nuanced
00:34:54.160 opinion that
00:34:54.840 masks make
00:34:55.600 some difference,
00:34:56.840 but overall,
00:34:58.460 they're not
00:34:58.720 worth it,
00:34:59.620 because your
00:35:00.440 lifestyle would
00:35:01.140 be so affected
00:35:02.120 by it.
00:35:02.980 So that's my
00:35:03.520 point of view.
00:35:04.540 I believe that
00:35:05.760 masks almost
00:35:07.120 certainly make
00:35:07.960 some difference.
00:35:09.420 Let me put it
00:35:09.960 this way.
00:35:10.920 If you knew
00:35:11.520 you were in a
00:35:12.140 room with
00:35:12.580 people who
00:35:13.000 had COVID,
00:35:13.940 let's say you
00:35:14.460 knew there was
00:35:14.880 one person in
00:35:15.520 the room and
00:35:15.920 you were going
00:35:16.180 to talk to
00:35:16.580 all of them
00:35:16.960 one by one,
00:35:18.320 would you want
00:35:18.980 the person who
00:35:19.580 was talking to
00:35:20.580 you from three
00:35:21.200 feet away and
00:35:21.880 facing you to
00:35:22.600 be wearing a
00:35:23.380 mask or not?
00:35:26.420 Yeah.
00:35:27.760 Right?
00:35:29.040 How often before
00:35:30.240 the masks were a
00:35:31.380 big thing, were
00:35:32.400 you talking to
00:35:33.040 somebody and you
00:35:33.660 could feel their
00:35:34.220 spittle in your
00:35:34.860 face?
00:35:36.120 You know what
00:35:36.540 I'm talking
00:35:36.920 about.
00:35:37.720 You can feel
00:35:38.360 the spittle
00:35:38.900 hitting you in
00:35:39.460 the face.
00:35:40.840 I feel like if
00:35:42.180 somebody has
00:35:42.720 COVID, I don't
00:35:44.120 want their
00:35:44.500 spittle hitting
00:35:45.080 my face and
00:35:45.780 the mask would
00:35:46.340 make some
00:35:46.780 difference.
00:35:48.580 So I think
00:35:50.160 you can be
00:35:51.100 scientific enough
00:35:52.980 to say masks
00:35:53.740 make a difference
00:35:54.680 at the same
00:35:55.320 time you can
00:35:55.840 say maybe we've
00:35:56.740 reached the
00:35:57.080 point where if
00:35:58.100 unvaccinated people
00:35:59.340 want to take the
00:35:59.920 chance, let them
00:36:00.800 do it.
00:36:01.260 And vaccinated
00:36:01.740 people too.
00:36:02.760 So remember,
00:36:03.220 vaccinated people
00:36:04.260 are getting
00:36:04.680 the virus now.
00:36:06.360 So don't
00:36:07.380 forget that.
00:36:12.760 Let's see.
00:36:14.360 Barnes posted a
00:36:15.220 link on a
00:36:15.880 randomized control
00:36:16.800 trial that
00:36:17.620 should statistically
00:36:18.660 signal that
00:36:20.220 ivermectin was
00:36:21.040 effective at
00:36:21.980 treating COVID.
00:36:24.040 Interesting.
00:36:24.520 So somebody's
00:36:26.160 saying that
00:36:26.820 Barnes has
00:36:29.520 posted a, and
00:36:31.040 you can see
00:36:31.760 Viva and
00:36:32.640 Barnes, their
00:36:33.800 podcast is great
00:36:34.700 by the way.
00:36:35.180 It's one of the
00:36:35.540 best ones.
00:36:36.540 You should watch
00:36:37.040 it on YouTube
00:36:37.740 and or locals.
00:36:38.780 I think you can
00:36:39.260 see it on both
00:36:39.800 platforms.
00:36:40.680 Twitch too,
00:36:41.420 maybe.
00:36:43.940 But this is
00:36:44.820 news I haven't
00:36:45.360 heard before.
00:36:46.060 So I'm just
00:36:46.540 seeing it in a
00:36:47.080 comment on
00:36:47.640 locals that
00:36:49.000 there might be
00:36:50.040 some new news
00:36:50.640 on ivermectin.
00:36:52.900 All right.
00:36:58.520 All right.
00:36:59.900 Is there
00:37:00.420 anything I
00:37:01.020 missed?
00:37:03.040 I said Viva
00:37:04.940 and Barnes.
00:37:11.140 I'm going to
00:37:11.800 look at your
00:37:12.280 comments here
00:37:12.900 for a moment.
00:37:15.100 Cori Bush.
00:37:16.060 Yeah, I don't
00:37:16.420 have much to say
00:37:17.000 about her.
00:37:17.500 I know what
00:37:17.820 you're talking
00:37:18.140 about.
00:37:18.380 Yes, there's
00:37:23.180 a story about
00:37:23.920 a police
00:37:25.140 officer who
00:37:25.840 almost OD'd
00:37:26.840 on fentanyl
00:37:27.600 without taking
00:37:28.300 any.
00:37:29.120 Was just
00:37:29.580 around it
00:37:30.220 and just
00:37:30.640 sniffed it.
00:37:31.520 That happens
00:37:32.140 to drug
00:37:33.400 dogs too.
00:37:34.580 If a drug
00:37:35.020 dog sniffs
00:37:35.840 fentanyl,
00:37:37.240 the dog's
00:37:37.660 dead.
00:37:42.860 How did a
00:37:43.700 guy like you
00:37:44.460 get a girl
00:37:45.060 like Christina?
00:37:47.060 You know,
00:37:47.660 you're not the
00:37:48.200 first person
00:37:48.680 to ask.
00:37:50.140 But why
00:37:50.900 isn't anybody
00:37:51.420 asking how
00:37:52.560 a girl like
00:37:53.080 Christina got
00:37:53.780 a great guy
00:37:54.320 like me?
00:37:55.940 Could it be
00:37:56.460 my looks?
00:37:58.680 Could be.
00:38:02.360 All right.
00:38:03.020 That's about
00:38:03.420 all I got
00:38:03.840 for today.
00:38:04.540 And I will
00:38:05.080 talk to you
00:38:05.960 tomorrow.
00:38:07.180 tomorrow.
00:38:07.720 Let's go.