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00:01:02.620 I feel invulnerable, in a way.

00:01:12.680 Well, you know, sometimes the news is uninteresting.

00:01:17.040 But sometimes, sometimes it's not.

00:01:20.980 Today is one of those days when the news is serving up, oh, a bountiful harvest.

00:01:26.520 I would like to begin with a story that I don't know if it's true, but can we all just act like it is?

00:01:36.080 Just for our entertainment purposes.

00:01:39.520 Might not be a true story.

00:01:42.480 But act like it's true now, okay?

00:01:45.440 So Twitter user Christopher Hill alerted me to this headline.

00:01:49.340 China, man faces execution after rubbing his penis on Mao Zedong's corpse.

00:01:58.720 And Christopher said, it is no to me.

00:02:01.080 I felt like I needed to make sure you know of this legendary hero.

00:02:05.720 Well, here's my take on him.

00:02:08.580 Number one, let's not judge him.

00:02:11.740 Let's not judge him.

00:02:13.200 We should be a little bit open-minded about people's sexual preferences.

00:02:17.540 Here's a man.

00:02:20.040 He's not part of a large organized group.

00:02:24.240 And so, you know, there are people who have sexual preferences.

00:02:27.860 And if there are enough of them, they can organize to, you know, get respect in society.

00:02:33.900 But if you're born with a sexual preference for rubbing your penis on the face of a deceased dictator,

00:02:41.880 you don't have enough people in your cohort to, you know, organize properly.

00:02:48.500 And I don't think that's fair.

00:02:49.700 And I don't think we should judge him.

00:02:51.420 But I do have questions.

00:02:52.840 I have questions.

00:02:54.860 Number one, there's no word on whether he was interrupted before he finished.

00:02:59.780 I'm assuming that he was hoping for some kind of a conclusion, if you know what I mean.

00:03:07.420 You know what I mean?

00:03:08.920 And we don't know if the guards let him finish.

00:03:12.000 Because that would probably go to how much they liked Mao themselves.

00:03:16.900 But I can imagine if I were a guard, I'd be like, hey, hey, get off that.

00:03:21.960 All right, I'll give you a couple more minutes.

00:03:23.720 But 15 minutes from now, you have to get off of that thing.

00:03:28.960 That's how I would have handled it.

00:03:30.200 Because, you know, not a fan of Mao.

00:03:34.840 Other questions we have about this story.

00:03:38.920 The mugshot is a little suspicious.

00:03:41.860 If you've ever seen mugshots, unless somebody's drunk, they usually look unhappy to be arrested.

00:03:50.180 But this gentleman had a, let's say, a satisfied look on his face.

00:03:56.620 A satisfied look.

00:03:58.080 And I can't quite describe the look.

00:04:01.240 You almost have to follow the path to it.

00:04:04.700 And I'll try to describe it this way.

00:04:07.580 The look in his mugshot, after rubbing his penis on Chairman Mao's dead face, was sort of satisfied.

00:04:14.860 And it was very similar to what I imagine my face looks like when my wife, Christina, says,

00:04:21.580 well, I don't have time to make love, but I might have time to satisfy you.

00:04:27.980 And when she says the first part, you know, I probably don't have time to make love,

00:04:32.660 my face first goes, oh.

00:04:35.420 Sort of like that.

00:04:36.160 It droops like, oh.

00:04:37.000 But then when she does the second part, but I might have time to do you, I go, oh.

00:04:44.080 And somewhere in between the, oh, and the, oh, you get this weird thing that this Chinese guy had 0.96

00:04:51.240 after he had been arrested for rubbing his penis on Chairman Mao's dead face.

00:04:57.820 And I don't know.

00:04:58.720 I don't know if it's exactly the same, because I've never looked at myself in the mirror in this situation.

00:05:02.880 But I feel like it's the same.

00:05:04.080 It feels like it's very similar.

00:05:05.720 Another question I have is, did he climb on top of the casket and straddle the leader's face?

00:05:16.220 Or did he stand sort of on the side on his tiptoes and sort of lean over?

00:05:22.660 I don't know how you get there exactly.

00:05:24.260 There must have been some kind of a, you imagine there's some kind of a rope.

00:05:28.000 I also wonder, there's no report on whether he was turgid or just really trying to teabag the leader's face.

00:05:36.440 I think we need to know that.

00:05:38.180 And if there's one thing that I can tell you about the deceased, what do they complain about the most?

00:05:47.740 Dead people?

00:05:48.360 Dead people are always complaining about not enough foreplay.

00:05:54.580 Not enough foreplay.

00:05:55.920 But in this one case, I guess he got enough.

00:05:59.860 And then the funniest part about this, apparently this guy has been executed or is going to be executed.

00:06:05.940 But one imagines that prior to the execution, he was probably in jail and probably had a cellmate.

00:06:14.580 If you were this gentleman's cellmate, wouldn't you sleep with a bucket over your head?

00:06:20.960 I mean, I would.

00:06:22.500 I'd just request a bucket.

00:06:24.160 And whenever I went to sleep, I'd just be like, put the bucket over my head.

00:06:28.380 But just to be extra careful.

00:06:33.220 All right, well, that's not the only good story today.

00:06:35.540 There's a survey.

00:06:37.980 And I think Rasmussen can learn something from this.

00:06:43.720 So this is not a Rasmussen poll.

00:06:46.620 But Dr. Anarchy on Twitter sent this to me.

00:06:50.500 There's a poll that said Americans are more confident than Britons that they could beat any animal in a fight.

00:06:58.380 Now, there was a list of the animals that people were asked about individually.

00:07:04.620 They were asked, you know, do you think you could beat a...

00:07:08.260 And this is barehanded, not with weapons.

00:07:10.520 Do you think you could beat a bear, a wolf, a kangaroo, a crocodile, and a large dog?

00:07:16.540 Those were some of the choices.

00:07:17.600 And Americans were largely more confident that they could take on a bear, a wolf, a kangaroo, a crocodile, or a large dog.

00:07:27.540 Now, I can relate to this.

00:07:30.380 I can relate to this.

00:07:31.720 Because I imagine myself against any one of these.

00:07:35.460 Let's take the kangaroo because they're funnier.

00:07:38.640 Me versus a kangaroo versus a British guy and that same kangaroo. 0.99

00:07:46.600 I don't know.

00:07:47.440 I like my odds.

00:07:49.020 I feel like I could take the kangaroo.

00:07:51.660 I know they've got a lot of leaping and, like, leg action.

00:07:55.160 You know, they're pretty good at the MMA stuff.

00:07:57.940 But at the top, they don't have much reach.

00:08:00.160 Little arms.

00:08:01.440 Now, my arms aren't that long, but, you know, better than a kangaroo.

00:08:06.160 And part of my kangaroo fighting strategy would involve misdirection.

00:08:11.360 I'd say, hey, there's something in your pocket.

00:08:14.040 And the kangaroo would look down, bam, and then I would punch it.

00:08:18.060 But I don't think the British, they don't know how to fight dirty.

00:08:22.900 Not like Americans. 1.00

00:08:24.700 I mean, you put me in a fight with a kangaroo, am I going to, you know, do the follow all the rules? 1.00

00:08:31.760 No.

00:08:32.300 I'm going to kick the kangaroo in his kangaroo balls. 1.00

00:08:36.020 I'm not going to fight fair.

00:08:38.040 But, you know, I think the British are like, all right, all right. 1.00

00:08:41.020 You know, let's do this.

00:08:43.000 Let's do this the proper way.

00:08:44.560 And then the kangaroo kicks their ass.

00:08:46.200 So I can understand the survey.

00:08:48.220 But here's the funniest part about the survey.

00:08:49.860 It wasn't all about big animals.

00:08:52.920 Some of the animals that people were asked if they thought they could beat it in a fair fight

00:08:57.280 included a medium-sized dog, a goose, a house cat, and a rat.

00:09:05.520 And surprisingly, as Dr. Anderke points out, 25% of people in America don't think they could beat up a rat.

00:09:12.660 Now, as somebody pointed out, this might have more to do with how seriously people took the poll.

00:09:21.460 I think 25% of the people would be jokesters and say to themselves,

00:09:25.240 I think it'd be funny if I answered this poll saying I can't beat up a rat.

00:09:29.300 But I could also imagine 25% of the country saying I'm not going to get near a rat.

00:09:34.720 How many women would fight a rat hand-to-hand? 1.00

00:09:37.680 I don't even know one.

00:09:40.540 In fact, I don't even know any men who would fight a rat.

00:09:43.480 So maybe this answer is pretty smart.

00:09:45.900 Because if I saw a rat, imagine you go into your basement and there's a rat there.

00:09:53.180 But unlike a regular rat, this is a fighting rat.

00:09:56.120 And you see the rat get up on its back legs and gets into a fighting stance like this.

00:10:01.820 What do you do?

00:10:04.100 Do you say to yourself, I'm an American, damn it.

00:10:07.940 You're not fighting any British guy now.

00:10:10.680 And I would just probably go in and fight that rat.

00:10:14.620 And probably, I don't know, two to one chance I'd win.

00:10:19.500 But I could imagine a lot of people would go into that basement.

00:10:22.400 They'd see the rat up on its back legs with its little front paws up in fighting position.

00:10:26.460 And they'd say to themselves, I'm out of here.

00:10:29.980 That rat looks crazy.

00:10:31.020 And they'd just run away.

00:10:32.680 So I think maybe this is an accurate survey.

00:10:35.640 I'd also like to think that I could be a medium-sized dog in a fair fight.

00:10:41.320 But, you know, Americans.

00:10:43.440 Americans, we think we can do everything.

00:10:46.160 Well, Hunter Biden's artwork, as you know, is going to go out for sale pretty soon.

00:10:50.820 And there are questions about the ethics of it.

00:10:54.580 One of the people asking questions about the ethics is Walter Schaub,

00:10:59.080 who headed the Office of Government Ethics under Obama and shortly under Trump.

00:11:07.220 He lasted a little while.

00:11:08.340 And he says, shame on POTUS, meaning Biden, if he doesn't ask Hunter to stop.

00:11:14.340 If that fails, he should ask that the names of buyers be released and pledged to notify us if any buyer ever meets with admin officials.

00:11:23.160 To me, this seems like a quite reasonable ethical stand.

00:11:27.040 But what it really tells to me, what it really tells me, to use actual words,

00:11:34.100 what it really tells me is that Don Jr. needs to get into the art business.

00:11:39.500 May I make some, just a brief pause to give some advice, some financial advice to Don Jr.

00:11:47.320 Don, if you're watching this, I know you get a lot of advice from a lot of people,

00:11:53.140 but this is some solid economic advice mixed with art.

00:11:58.680 If I were you, I would get busy making some art, and I would do stick figures,

00:12:05.820 and I would have those stick figures acting out Hunter Biden sorting coke off a stripper. 0.98

00:12:13.380 That's right, I would do a stick figure drawing of Hunter Biden snorting coke off a stripper,

00:12:20.120 and then I would put it up for sale for $1 million, signed Don Jr.

00:12:27.380 Now, somebody might buy that thing.

00:12:34.600 If there were only one, and if you knew that Don Jr. actually painted it,

00:12:40.100 and it was literally stick figures, and you could tell that his own hand had painted it,

00:12:45.120 and he signed it, somebody might pay a million dollars for it.

00:12:50.520 But I think it would be funny just to do it.

00:12:54.460 So if nobody pays anything for it, it's still funny.

00:12:56.800 Now, if, let's say Don Jr. made this painting,

00:13:00.940 and then turned it into digital art, and sold it as an NFT.

00:13:06.020 Now, if you don't follow the crypto world, that doesn't mean anything to you.

00:13:11.260 But you can sell a digital version of something that's sort of certified by the blockchain to be the original,

00:13:16.980 and you could probably get a million dollars for it.

00:13:19.440 And that's real.

00:13:21.220 You could probably actually legitimately get a million dollars for the NFT.

00:13:25.020 Now, it could also sell for $5,000.

00:13:27.440 It would be embarrassing, so I'm not sure you'd do it.

00:13:29.120 But all right, here's some more reports from fake news.

00:13:40.280 So the first report of fake news is the Florida Sun Sentinel reported that Florida,

00:13:48.080 I guess this was yesterday,

00:13:50.120 they said the state hit yet another record number of new daily cases on Sunday.

00:13:56.320 But is that real?

00:13:57.140 Did they really hit a record number of daily cases in Florida,

00:14:01.240 which would make Governor DeSantis look like a bad governor?

00:14:05.040 Well, no.

00:14:07.000 It's fake news.

00:14:08.760 Apparently, the CDC released,

00:14:11.840 they combined multiple days into one,

00:14:14.440 so that that one day inadvertently looked like a record.

00:14:19.980 So that's fake news.

00:14:22.020 Now, that's not to say that the COVID situation in Florida is good.

00:14:26.240 Because it doesn't look that great anywhere at the moment.

00:14:30.180 It looks like everybody's having some Delta variant problems.

00:14:33.980 But at least that news was fake.

00:14:36.320 Here's another one.

00:14:38.380 This is implied fake news.

00:14:41.660 So I couldn't really call this fake news,

00:14:44.440 but it's sort of implied fake news,

00:14:48.000 which I call implied fake news.

00:14:51.240 I don't really call it that, but let's call it that.

00:14:55.300 So in a CNN opinion piece,

00:14:57.160 so this is not the news, this is an opinion piece,

00:14:59.520 Stephan Collinson.

00:15:00.740 You might know him as a Trump attack dog,

00:15:04.300 but he writes about other stuff too.

00:15:05.680 And he says, he just puts this in a story about COVID.

00:15:13.160 He says,

00:15:13.940 this at a moment when pediatric units in his state

00:15:18.420 are filling with young COVID patients.

00:15:20.560 I think he's talking about Florida.

00:15:22.520 So do you think this is true?

00:15:23.840 It's in an opinion piece.

00:15:25.540 But it says pediatric units in his state

00:15:28.340 are filling with young COVID patients.

00:15:31.460 What's that mean?

00:15:32.740 What's it mean to be filling?

00:15:34.560 Question number one.

00:15:38.080 How much capacity do pediatric units have in the first place?

00:15:43.400 Because kids don't die that often, right?

00:15:46.360 Wouldn't you imagine that a pediatric unit

00:15:48.800 would be small by its nature?

00:15:52.160 So that's the first thing.

00:15:53.700 Are we filling up something that was small by its nature,

00:15:56.720 like a phone booth, which would be no big deal,

00:15:59.880 at least in terms of numbers, it wouldn't be a big deal.

00:16:02.020 It would be a big deal to anybody who lost a kid, obviously.

00:16:06.420 But you kind of need that, right?

00:16:09.080 Don't you kind of need that?

00:16:11.520 Secondly, what does it mean to be filling up?

00:16:15.680 Define filling up.

00:16:17.220 If you had a pediatric unit,

00:16:21.460 don't you think that you would operate it

00:16:23.740 at 60% to 80% capacity every day anyway?

00:16:26.980 So don't these things run at 60% to 80% capacity?

00:16:32.500 So what does it mean to fill it up?

00:16:34.280 Because he didn't say it's filled up.

00:16:36.440 He said filling up.

00:16:38.220 Right.

00:16:38.740 So I think 60% to 80% is normal.

00:16:42.160 Suppose they went from 60% to 80%.

00:16:44.880 It's a human tragedy for anybody involved in the actual illness.

00:16:48.760 But would it be fair to say that the units are filling up?

00:16:54.600 Well, sort of technically.

00:16:56.460 They would be in the direction of filling.

00:16:59.800 But are they in trouble?

00:17:02.020 Are they going to overflow?

00:17:03.980 Are there any that are beyond capacity?

00:17:06.340 And if they're beyond capacity,

00:17:08.020 can you use other facilities easily?

00:17:10.580 In other words,

00:17:11.440 is there anything special about a pediatric unit

00:17:14.280 that you couldn't just use general hospital facilities

00:17:16.760 if you need it to overflow?

00:17:19.540 So this is the sort of statement

00:17:21.760 that is probably technically accurate,

00:17:24.500 that the pediatric units are getting more patients than normal,

00:17:28.940 so i.e. filling up.

00:17:31.300 But will they fill up?

00:17:33.180 And will it become a problem?

00:17:34.420 I don't think we know that.

00:17:35.760 So that's sort of an indication of fake news.

00:17:39.480 Remember I told you, was it last year,

00:17:42.640 I told you that Republicans will be hunted

00:17:44.720 if Biden is elected.

00:17:46.760 And people laughed.

00:17:48.380 They laughed.

00:17:49.220 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:17:50.600 They laughed.

00:17:53.400 And then, of course,

00:17:54.420 we see what's happening with the January 6th people.

00:17:57.400 Many of them are bad actors

00:17:58.920 and need to be dealt with with the justice system. 0.93

00:18:02.140 Nobody's doubting that.

00:18:03.760 But there does seem to be an interest

00:18:07.700 in hunting down people who might have just been there.

00:18:11.780 And that doesn't look cool.

00:18:13.260 And now we're seeing another example.

00:18:16.140 I'm not going to give you the name of it,

00:18:17.880 but I just saw news.

00:18:19.440 There's a new documentary

00:18:20.360 on what happened to the MAGA supporting personalities.

00:18:25.420 So they're basically bayonetting the remaining...

00:18:29.760 Anybody who was associated with Trump

00:18:32.020 during the presidency and before,

00:18:35.180 they're trying to put them on a list

00:18:37.700 in this documentary,

00:18:39.380 whose name I won't give you,

00:18:41.100 to destroy whatever's left of their reputations.

00:18:45.580 Now, I happen to be on the list.

00:18:47.580 So apparently I'm in this documentary

00:18:49.300 as one of the Trump supporters

00:18:51.440 who was, I guess the context is,

00:18:54.060 we're all grifters.

00:18:55.700 So they have targeted me

00:18:57.700 as one of the people for destruction. 0.89

00:19:01.340 In this case, reputation and economic destruction.

00:19:05.200 Tim Pool, isn't it?

00:19:07.920 Now, interestingly,

00:19:11.100 at the time that I first said

00:19:12.640 that MAGA supporters would be hunted down,

00:19:15.260 Tim Pool was one of the people

00:19:16.440 who publicly said that that was crazy,

00:19:19.520 that that was going way too far.

00:19:22.860 And now Tim Pool is in a documentary

00:19:25.240 in which basically he and I

00:19:28.440 and other people associated with supporting Trump

00:19:31.700 are being rounded up for destruction.

00:19:36.000 Now, the way we're being hunted

00:19:37.440 is not using the typical weapons,

00:19:41.380 but it's using the weapons of 2021.

00:19:43.900 A weapon of 2021 is a documentary.

00:19:47.200 That's a weapon.

00:19:47.760 You can destroy somebody's life.

00:19:50.820 Social media would be a weapon.

00:19:52.820 So here is Tim Pool,

00:19:54.520 who, by the way, revised his opinion

00:19:56.780 as other events unfold.

00:20:00.440 So he and I were on the same opinion of this.

00:20:05.840 But here he is.

00:20:06.560 He's being targeted

00:20:07.380 specifically because he had said good things about Trump

00:20:11.500 in the context of being an independent journalist.

00:20:15.040 And me too.

00:20:18.500 Now, I don't know if I'll ever watch the documentary.

00:20:25.040 Like, I literally didn't even take note of the name of it

00:20:27.620 because it looks pretty weak and biased.

00:20:30.880 But there it is.

00:20:32.600 I know.

00:20:33.220 I feel like I can conclude that my prediction was correct

00:20:38.000 if you allow that a documentary is a weapon.

00:20:41.360 If you allow me that flexibility,

00:20:43.820 then I would say that this is further proof.

00:20:46.680 All right.

00:20:47.140 Here's good news for you.

00:20:49.100 Economists finally have a purpose.

00:20:52.980 You probably didn't see that coming.

00:20:55.520 You know, when I got my degree in economics many years ago,

00:20:59.420 it was a little bit like learning math.

00:21:02.100 As somebody once joked,

00:21:04.960 the only reason to learn higher-level math,

00:21:07.500 you know, the kind you never use in daily life,

00:21:09.500 the only reason to learn it

00:21:10.720 is that you'll become a math teacher someday

00:21:12.840 to teach more people something they don't need

00:21:15.700 unless they're going to become math teachers.

00:21:17.460 Now, of course, that's an exaggeration

00:21:19.940 because we need our scientists and our engineers

00:21:21.980 and our insurance people

00:21:25.100 and everybody else who deals with real higher-level math.

00:21:27.840 But I always wondered about the real value of economists,

00:21:33.880 even as I became one,

00:21:35.860 because when economists are talking about the economy,

00:21:40.160 they're all over the board and they don't agree,

00:21:42.980 as Andres Beckhaus, an economist himself,

00:21:46.640 said today on Twitter

00:21:47.940 that if you ask a bunch of economists

00:21:49.800 to tell you about the national debt,

00:21:52.720 they're just going to be all over the board.

00:21:54.100 So economists not only just seem like

00:21:57.820 often not very applied,

00:22:01.060 meaning not useful in the real world,

00:22:04.520 it especially seemed not useful in their own domain,

00:22:07.880 you know, economics,

00:22:09.640 but something's changed.

00:22:13.260 One of the things that economists are really good at

00:22:16.260 is figuring out how to analyze things

00:22:19.020 to know if cause and effect has been properly teased out of the data,

00:22:26.300 to know if the data is accurate,

00:22:28.260 to know if you've even compared the right things.

00:22:30.740 So the study of economics is about economics,

00:22:35.000 but in order to study economics,

00:22:36.880 you learn a set of tools

00:22:38.320 that just make you more rational

00:22:40.400 about understanding long-term versus short-term,

00:22:43.760 friction, sunk costs,

00:22:45.500 and a whole bunch of things

00:22:47.060 that are useful for just analyzing any situation.

00:22:51.600 And so I noted today,

00:22:54.800 because I saw another example of it,

00:22:56.420 whenever an economist,

00:22:57.780 somebody actually has economists in their profile,

00:23:01.860 whenever an economist enters a conversation,

00:23:07.360 I'm seeing a funny drawing on the locals channel

00:23:10.320 of a stick figure

00:23:11.240 snorting blow off a stripper.

00:23:15.500 I guess that's Hunter Biden.

00:23:18.880 So my point was that

00:23:20.300 when you take the skill set of an economist,

00:23:23.000 but you take it out of the realm of economics

00:23:24.920 and you apply it to Twitter,

00:23:26.580 where people are trying to figure out

00:23:28.180 what are my odds of dying from a vaccination

00:23:31.280 versus, you know, not getting a vaccination,

00:23:34.500 economists would just end conversations on Twitter.

00:23:38.740 I don't know if you've watched it,

00:23:40.160 but I've seen,

00:23:40.920 I can't tell you how many times I've watched it.

00:23:42.920 But there'll be this raging conversation,

00:23:46.640 and then one economist will come in,

00:23:48.940 make one comment,

00:23:50.420 and just shuts down the whole thing

00:23:51.900 because they actually know how to look at the data

00:23:54.620 and they tell you how to look at it correctly.

00:23:57.520 And the first time you hear how to do something correctly,

00:24:00.300 even if you were not an expert,

00:24:01.680 you say to yourself,

00:24:02.520 oh, crap, that's right.

00:24:04.700 Right?

00:24:04.860 But you have to hear it, usually.

00:24:06.740 It's the economist who says,

00:24:07.960 remember, you know, this is a sunk cost.

00:24:10.820 You shouldn't count that,

00:24:12.120 or whatever the topic is.

00:24:14.400 As soon as you hear it,

00:24:15.860 you say, oh, yeah, that is a sunk cost.

00:24:18.440 It doesn't matter because it's already spent.

00:24:20.660 But lots of the economic stuff,

00:24:23.340 you know, you need to hear it

00:24:24.420 before it sinks in that it matters to your current topic.

00:24:27.200 So I would say that here's my idea.

00:24:32.120 My idea is that we should look to economists

00:24:34.500 to help us on the logic

00:24:36.200 because economists have a weird combination

00:24:39.660 of math and statistical and psychological skills

00:24:44.660 because economics is partly the math

00:24:47.720 and partly what humans do.

00:24:49.960 You know, how do humans behave?

00:24:51.300 What is their psychology?

00:24:52.840 So if you take those two things,

00:24:54.740 understanding how math and logic

00:24:56.360 and comparing things work,

00:24:58.260 and you bash it against the psychology

00:24:59.980 of how a human behaves,

00:25:01.940 you're in really good shape

00:25:04.100 for figuring out how to analyze anything

00:25:07.140 in politics.

00:25:09.320 So I would say we should look to our economists

00:25:11.340 as our argument clarifiers.

00:25:15.000 You don't have to agree with them.

00:25:16.700 You could get a different conclusion than they get,

00:25:19.440 but let them clarify how to look at it,

00:25:22.040 just, you know, how to tease it out.

00:25:24.000 So this is my insight for today,

00:25:27.300 that economists as a class

00:25:30.340 went from largely useless,

00:25:35.220 you know, not completely useless, right?

00:25:36.900 The ones working in important fields,

00:25:39.240 doing important things.

00:25:40.240 Yeah, they're useful.

00:25:42.020 But 95% of people with an economics degree

00:25:45.400 are not going to do any economics.

00:25:47.320 You know, they're going to do some other related thing.

00:25:49.060 But now they might be the biggest asset

00:25:51.740 we have in the world

00:25:52.760 because economists are uniquely suited

00:25:55.900 for fixing arguments.

00:25:58.780 All right, here's an update on the election.

00:26:01.900 Big lie.

00:26:03.080 The big lie.

00:26:03.960 I use the big lie to refer to the idea

00:26:08.160 that we know for sure

00:26:09.360 that the election was either fair or unfair.

00:26:13.260 We don't know for sure.

00:26:15.500 We don't have any evidence

00:26:16.960 that there was widespread fraud.

00:26:18.760 Well, let me say,

00:26:19.560 we don't have court-validated proof

00:26:23.740 of any fraud.

00:26:26.640 But, so it would be a lie to say

00:26:28.540 it didn't happen because we don't know.

00:26:30.380 Nobody could audit it

00:26:33.340 at the level that would give you certainty.

00:26:36.500 But the new news is that

00:26:38.140 Dominion Voting Systems

00:26:40.200 is suing Newsmax

00:26:41.600 and OAN,

00:26:44.060 One American News Network,

00:26:45.580 and former Overstock CEO

00:26:47.100 Patrick Byrne for defamation.

00:26:49.940 Apparently all of those entities

00:26:51.560 and Patrick Byrne

00:26:53.440 have said things that

00:26:54.540 now Dominion

00:26:56.040 probably feels that their business

00:26:58.820 has been so damaged

00:26:59.960 that they need

00:27:01.080 $1.6 billion

00:27:02.160 in compensation.

00:27:04.640 Now,

00:27:05.540 here's my question,

00:27:07.460 and can somebody

00:27:08.960 who knows something

00:27:09.660 about the law

00:27:10.580 sort it out for me?

00:27:13.140 And the question is this.

00:27:15.140 Does this open

00:27:15.960 Dominion to Discovery?

00:27:19.600 Excuse me,

00:27:20.500 got to reboot

00:27:21.520 the locals platform.

00:27:23.540 It's got a 28-minute timer

00:27:25.040 because it's in beta.

00:27:26.060 so for some reason

00:27:28.620 every 28 minutes

00:27:29.940 of the time zone

00:27:30.620 we'll get that fixed.

00:27:35.520 All right.

00:27:36.680 Where are we?

00:27:37.460 One moment, please.

00:27:39.180 Bear with me.

00:27:40.840 We'll be right back on this.

00:27:45.540 All right.

00:27:46.620 We're good to go.

00:27:47.560 I think in a moment.

00:27:48.680 Allow my camera.

00:27:53.760 Boom.

00:27:54.460 Here we are.

00:27:55.480 Sorry about that.

00:27:56.180 That was a 28-minute problem.

00:27:58.280 All right.

00:27:59.640 So that's the question.

00:28:01.060 If anybody's a lawyer,

00:28:02.860 can you tell me

00:28:03.580 if Dominion gets into

00:28:05.140 a lawsuit

00:28:05.880 with Trick Byrne

00:28:07.800 and OAN

00:28:09.060 and Newsmax,

00:28:10.040 can those entities

00:28:11.180 make them prove

00:28:14.220 that they're wrong?

00:28:15.300 And does that give them

00:28:16.720 access to their software?

00:28:19.380 Hmm.

00:28:20.600 Because this is

00:28:21.620 an interesting thing

00:28:22.500 because I feel as if

00:28:24.580 this was always the play,

00:28:26.060 wasn't it?

00:28:27.120 Did Dominion walk

00:28:28.240 into a trap?

00:28:29.780 Because it feels like

00:28:30.760 the trap

00:28:31.340 was to get them

00:28:32.400 to sue.

00:28:35.060 Yeah.

00:28:35.620 Let's see what

00:28:36.440 Viva and Barnes

00:28:38.160 say about this

00:28:38.940 on their live stream.

00:28:39.980 They'll probably talk

00:28:40.820 about this.

00:28:41.320 I'm guessing this will be

00:28:42.120 on the topics.

00:28:43.500 So that would be

00:28:44.740 the best source

00:28:45.280 I would go to

00:28:45.820 to get an opinion

00:28:46.440 on that.

00:28:47.100 But this could be

00:28:47.720 a big deal.

00:28:50.480 If it's true

00:28:51.380 that this gives

00:28:52.280 the skeptics

00:28:54.520 some discovery

00:28:55.360 and some access

00:28:56.180 to the code

00:28:57.000 and access

00:28:58.180 to the servers,

00:28:59.020 or if it just proves

00:28:59.960 that you don't have access,

00:29:01.600 suppose the only

00:29:02.560 takeaway is that

00:29:03.540 there's no way

00:29:04.040 to audit the system.

00:29:06.260 That's kind of

00:29:06.740 a big takeaway, too.

00:29:09.440 All right.

00:29:09.940 How many of you

00:29:10.420 saw the viral video

00:29:11.620 of a doctor

00:29:13.200 whose name

00:29:13.840 I didn't get

00:29:14.560 talking to some group

00:29:17.820 and he seemed

00:29:19.880 to be some kind

00:29:20.440 of expert

00:29:20.880 on infectious diseases

00:29:22.160 and he was talking

00:29:24.620 about all the problems

00:29:26.800 with the vaccine

00:29:27.660 and that the vaccine

00:29:28.800 basically makes things

00:29:31.640 worse?

00:29:33.100 How many of you

00:29:33.640 saw that?

00:29:34.260 It's going all

00:29:34.820 over the place?

00:29:36.400 All right.

00:29:36.840 I was going to play it

00:29:38.340 and then see if we

00:29:41.160 could pull it apart.

00:29:42.520 But I'm just going

00:29:43.140 to give you a couple

00:29:43.680 of things to look at

00:29:45.140 and maybe give you

00:29:46.600 a different way

00:29:47.020 to look at it.

00:29:47.540 Remember I told you

00:29:48.540 there was a CIA expert

00:29:50.260 who had a list

00:29:52.280 of things to look

00:29:52.980 for to detect lies?

00:29:55.320 Now, I didn't see

00:29:57.420 anything in what

00:29:58.260 this gentleman did

00:29:59.100 that I would call

00:30:02.640 a lie, per se.

00:30:04.920 But I did see

00:30:05.820 a few things

00:30:06.600 that make me think

00:30:07.980 you shouldn't

00:30:09.480 treat him as credible.

00:30:11.840 Now, I think

00:30:12.520 he said a few things

00:30:13.620 that are true.

00:30:14.260 One of them is

00:30:15.120 that animals

00:30:17.800 could be a reservoir

00:30:18.740 for the coronavirus

00:30:20.480 and therefore,

00:30:21.800 no matter what

00:30:22.440 you do to humans,

00:30:23.840 since the vaccines

00:30:25.200 don't kill it,

00:30:26.260 it just helps

00:30:27.400 your symptoms.

00:30:28.780 So his thought

00:30:29.660 is that as long

00:30:30.680 as animals can get it,

00:30:32.060 animals can give it back.

00:30:33.440 It'll always have

00:30:34.120 a place to hide.

00:30:35.440 There's no way

00:30:36.020 to eradicate it.

00:30:37.220 You could eradicate

00:30:38.100 something like smallpox

00:30:39.460 because smallpox

00:30:40.760 won't hide in animals.

00:30:42.480 So if you get

00:30:42.960 all the humans

00:30:43.600 vaccinated,

00:30:44.220 well, you're done.

00:30:46.100 But you could get

00:30:47.100 every human vaccinated

00:30:48.360 for coronavirus

00:30:49.040 and if a frickin' squirrel

00:30:51.440 gives it to another human 0.62

00:30:52.940 someday,

00:30:53.840 it's back.

00:30:55.240 So I thought

00:30:56.020 that point

00:30:56.880 probably makes sense.

00:30:58.720 I'm no expert,

00:30:59.700 so don't take

00:31:00.160 my word for it.

00:31:05.060 Anyway,

00:31:05.560 he had a number

00:31:06.060 of other complaints,

00:31:07.940 but here's where

00:31:08.700 his credibility

00:31:09.560 fell apart.

00:31:10.560 He talked about

00:31:12.400 he's had 15 patients

00:31:14.480 he's treated

00:31:15.040 for COVID

00:31:15.540 and he gave them

00:31:17.020 zinc,

00:31:18.980 vitamin D,

00:31:20.160 and hydroxychloroquine

00:31:21.580 and all 15 of them

00:31:23.820 avoided hospitalization.

00:31:26.540 And therefore,

00:31:27.780 he says,

00:31:28.440 you've got these treatments

00:31:29.460 that are great

00:31:30.620 and they're an alternative

00:31:32.100 to vaccinations

00:31:33.060 and he treated

00:31:35.440 15 patients,

00:31:37.040 so he's confident

00:31:38.140 that it worked.

00:31:38.880 What do you think

00:31:40.720 of that?

00:31:42.580 Well,

00:31:43.080 in my opinion,

00:31:43.780 that eliminates

00:31:44.920 his credibility

00:31:45.640 because if he said,

00:31:48.000 look at these studies,

00:31:50.500 I would have said,

00:31:51.840 oh,

00:31:52.200 he's got data,

00:31:52.940 he's got studies,

00:31:53.780 we can look at them

00:31:54.360 either right or wrong,

00:31:55.580 but at least

00:31:56.060 it's scientific.

00:31:57.060 He's telling us

00:31:57.560 to look at studies.

00:31:58.760 But he's telling us

00:31:59.600 to look at his 15-patient

00:32:01.100 anecdotal experience.

00:32:03.980 If anybody

00:32:04.840 who is a person

00:32:06.360 of science

00:32:07.040 stands in front of you

00:32:08.960 and tries to tell you

00:32:10.500 that they have

00:32:11.240 the scientific thinking

00:32:13.600 and everybody else

00:32:14.540 is a jerk, 0.97

00:32:15.600 which is sort of

00:32:16.640 what this guy is saying.

00:32:17.640 He's like,

00:32:17.900 everybody else is dumb

00:32:19.000 and I'm a genius

00:32:20.360 and let me tell you

00:32:21.440 why I got everything right

00:32:22.960 and the whole scientific world

00:32:24.540 is wrong.

00:32:25.700 And then he tells us

00:32:26.600 that we should

00:32:27.220 draw some conclusion

00:32:28.660 from his experience

00:32:30.240 with 15 patients.

00:32:31.680 That sounds like somebody

00:32:34.040 who doesn't know

00:32:34.580 the first thing

00:32:35.140 about science.

00:32:36.500 It's way too small

00:32:37.660 a group,

00:32:39.000 he didn't have

00:32:39.480 any control,

00:32:40.640 I mean,

00:32:41.560 just everything

00:32:42.100 is wrong with that,

00:32:42.940 right?

00:32:43.200 It's purely observational,

00:32:44.520 has no value at all.

00:32:46.660 And what are the odds

00:32:47.820 all 50 of them

00:32:48.700 would have avoided

00:32:49.640 the hospital anyway?

00:32:51.540 Really high.

00:32:53.960 Pick 15 people 0.53

00:32:55.420 with COVID,

00:32:56.720 any 15.

00:32:58.800 What are the odds

00:32:59.640 that even one of them

00:33:00.400 is going to go

00:33:00.840 to the hospital?

00:33:01.480 It's low,

00:33:02.640 right?

00:33:03.060 So this actually

00:33:04.020 didn't prove anything.

00:33:06.360 All right.

00:33:10.420 So that was just

00:33:11.420 one of the things

00:33:12.060 that stood out.

00:33:13.800 He also,

00:33:14.560 I don't think

00:33:15.400 he mentioned

00:33:15.940 long COVID

00:33:16.820 as one of the variables.

00:33:19.120 So look for the dog

00:33:20.280 that's not barking.

00:33:21.780 Don't look just

00:33:22.700 for the things

00:33:23.280 he says that are true

00:33:24.360 because there are

00:33:24.920 a bunch of them

00:33:25.460 in there

00:33:25.780 that look to me

00:33:26.760 to be true

00:33:27.380 or they sound true

00:33:28.640 or they sound convincing.

00:33:29.520 But he doesn't mention

00:33:31.880 the benefit

00:33:33.020 of vaccinations

00:33:33.840 for protecting

00:33:35.140 against long COVID,

00:33:36.840 which would be

00:33:37.620 a gigantic part

00:33:38.780 of the whole decision.

00:33:40.400 If you leave that out

00:33:41.940 when you're talking

00:33:43.380 about that topic,

00:33:45.420 I feel like

00:33:45.960 your credibility

00:33:46.660 has to take

00:33:47.340 a big hit there.

00:33:48.700 So those are the things

00:33:49.740 I look at.

00:33:50.460 Does somebody look

00:33:51.080 at anecdotal stuff

00:33:52.260 and try to sell it

00:33:53.340 as persuasive?

00:33:54.540 That's no good.

00:33:56.720 And do they leave out

00:33:57.920 maybe the biggest variable?

00:33:59.980 Long COVID

00:34:00.460 could be the biggest variable

00:34:01.920 in the long run.

00:34:04.120 So here's what I would say.

00:34:06.060 The animal reserve argument

00:34:07.600 sounds pretty strong.

00:34:08.840 He's got some other arguments

00:34:09.900 that sound pretty strong.

00:34:11.740 I have a feeling

00:34:12.580 there's something

00:34:13.820 to what he's saying.

00:34:15.640 You know,

00:34:15.800 he's not a complete grifter.

00:34:17.380 It doesn't look like that

00:34:18.180 to me.

00:34:18.820 There's something there,

00:34:20.140 but I wouldn't trust it.

00:34:22.280 Honestly.

00:34:22.720 So my take is that

00:34:24.600 don't put too much credibility

00:34:26.100 in that.

00:34:26.700 There are at least two tells

00:34:28.600 for something wrong.

00:34:31.540 So I'll just put that out there.

00:34:33.800 Meanwhile,

00:34:34.380 in related news,

00:34:35.520 wild U.S. deer

00:34:36.640 have been found

00:34:37.460 with coronavirus antibodies.

00:34:40.120 So a study found

00:34:42.080 that 40% of deer

00:34:43.900 that were tested

00:34:44.660 had coronavirus antibodies.

00:34:48.360 Deer.

00:34:49.340 40% of them

00:34:50.400 had the antibodies.

00:34:52.720 But they said

00:34:54.680 the risk of animals

00:34:55.620 spreading the COVID

00:34:57.380 to people

00:34:58.480 is considered low,

00:34:59.660 the USDA told

00:35:00.580 National Geographic.

00:35:01.900 Well,

00:35:02.380 I think the risk

00:35:03.420 is low for most of us.

00:35:06.260 But I don't know

00:35:08.120 who needs to hear this.

00:35:10.720 But if you see

00:35:11.440 a dead deer,

00:35:14.340 let's say on the street,

00:35:16.960 maybe it's roadkill.

00:35:17.900 If you see a dead deer,

00:35:19.640 do not rub your penis 1.00

00:35:20.980 on his face

00:35:21.740 because you're just

00:35:23.000 asking for trouble.

00:35:24.800 Now,

00:35:25.000 if you were to stay away

00:35:25.780 from the deer,

00:35:26.300 I think you'd be pretty safe.

00:35:27.940 But if you're a Chinese guy

00:35:30.900 who likes rubbing

00:35:32.380 your penis on stuff, 0.99

00:35:33.440 it's just stay away

00:35:34.040 from the deer

00:35:34.540 because 40% of them

00:35:36.400 have been exposed

00:35:37.320 to coronavirus.

00:35:40.380 All right.

00:35:40.980 I was in a few retail stores

00:35:45.180 in the last few days,

00:35:46.880 clothing stores,

00:35:48.340 and I was amused

00:35:50.780 by the fact

00:35:51.380 that wokeness

00:35:52.240 has destroyed advertising

00:35:53.560 as we know it.

00:35:55.240 What is the point

00:35:56.000 of advertising?

00:35:57.620 Isn't the point

00:35:58.340 of advertising

00:35:59.060 to make you want

00:36:00.640 somebody's product more?

00:36:02.760 Right?

00:36:03.560 That's the basic idea.

00:36:05.620 But wokeness

00:36:06.640 has caused

00:36:07.580 these retail establishments

00:36:09.220 to change out

00:36:10.520 their highly attractive models.

00:36:13.060 And usually this is

00:36:14.120 in the context

00:36:14.780 of female clothing.

00:36:16.820 So they've gotten rid

00:36:18.280 of their models

00:36:21.000 that look like

00:36:21.560 they have eating disorders,

00:36:22.820 but people like it anyway.

00:36:25.380 People like looking at it

00:36:26.540 even if they don't think

00:36:27.340 they're healthy.

00:36:29.380 And that probably sells clothes

00:36:31.080 because people look at models

00:36:32.840 wearing the clothes

00:36:33.720 and they say,

00:36:34.360 my goodness,

00:36:35.000 those clothes look good.

00:36:36.540 But it's because

00:36:37.140 the model, right?

00:36:38.560 The models make 0.99

00:36:39.200 the clothes look good.

00:36:40.560 So what happens

00:36:41.400 when you get woke

00:36:42.380 as these stores

00:36:43.320 I was in did

00:36:44.500 and they've changed

00:36:45.180 their advertisement

00:36:45.880 to feature

00:36:47.580 what I'll call

00:36:48.320 more ordinary

00:36:49.920 or normal people.

00:36:51.960 Now when I say

00:36:52.720 normal and ordinary people,

00:36:54.240 I mean fat.

00:36:55.460 All right.

00:36:55.820 Now I don't do fat shaming. 0.66

00:36:58.200 Don't laugh at that.

00:37:00.080 We don't do fat shaming here

00:37:01.380 because I don't believe

00:37:02.360 in free will

00:37:03.100 and I don't think

00:37:03.720 anybody chooses

00:37:04.460 to be overweight.

00:37:06.480 I mean some people do.

00:37:07.560 I mean there's always somebody.

00:37:08.880 But generally speaking,

00:37:10.500 people are fighting

00:37:11.980 their weight problems

00:37:13.120 and it's hard

00:37:13.680 because the modern American diet

00:37:15.920 doesn't give you

00:37:16.560 much of a chance.

00:37:18.220 But forget about

00:37:21.140 the fat shaming.

00:37:24.100 I'm just making a point

00:37:25.220 that if you look at

00:37:26.500 a poster

00:37:27.100 and you're in the store

00:37:28.600 to buy these clothes

00:37:29.480 and you see a,

00:37:31.980 let's say,

00:37:32.780 not a model,

00:37:34.340 can we be kind?

00:37:35.740 If you see

00:37:36.300 not a thin model

00:37:37.760 wearing them,

00:37:38.880 do you say to yourself

00:37:39.680 I've got to get

00:37:40.260 some of those clothes?

00:37:42.160 Because I don't think so.

00:37:43.920 I think the whole point

00:37:45.040 of modeling

00:37:45.460 is you're associating

00:37:46.540 something that people

00:37:48.260 respond to reflexively.

00:37:50.260 An attractive woman 0.99

00:37:51.420 in the mating years,

00:37:54.200 you know,

00:37:54.380 the most universally

00:37:55.280 attractive thing 0.91

00:37:56.080 in all of humankind,

00:37:57.800 a young,

00:37:58.580 attractive woman 0.99

00:37:59.280 in her mating years.

00:38:01.820 And you replace that

00:38:02.800 with, you know,

00:38:04.180 older people

00:38:04.860 and, you know,

00:38:05.980 a variety of,

00:38:07.280 let's say,

00:38:07.580 humankind

00:38:08.000 that is not

00:38:09.480 visually attractive.

00:38:11.220 Have you not

00:38:12.080 been forced

00:38:13.280 to make people

00:38:14.740 dislike your product

00:38:16.320 to be woke?

00:38:18.800 Because I guess

00:38:20.080 they still have

00:38:20.580 a marketing budget,

00:38:22.080 so they still

00:38:22.760 produce marketing,

00:38:24.000 it's just they're not

00:38:24.760 allowed to do it

00:38:25.400 in a way that works.

00:38:26.980 Pairing the clothing

00:38:27.780 with something attractive.

00:38:29.500 So now they're

00:38:30.080 pairing their clothing

00:38:30.860 with something,

00:38:32.500 I hate to say it,

00:38:33.480 but unattractive.

00:38:35.820 Unattractive.

00:38:37.000 Intentionally.

00:38:38.100 And by the way,

00:38:38.640 when I say unattractive,

00:38:39.660 I mean they chose

00:38:40.420 them to be unattractive,

00:38:42.260 you know,

00:38:42.580 knowing that this

00:38:43.500 would not be the standard

00:38:44.500 that the public

00:38:45.500 at large would find

00:38:46.460 attractive.

00:38:47.120 It's intentional.

00:38:48.000 It's not my opinion.

00:38:49.800 So,

00:38:51.120 that's one example

00:38:52.240 where wokeness

00:38:53.040 actually destroyed

00:38:53.960 the entire marketing,

00:38:55.360 the entire marketing

00:38:57.360 profession

00:38:58.300 that's been decimated.

00:39:00.420 I'm sorry.

00:39:01.740 Pause.

00:39:03.040 Hold on for a moment.

00:39:04.040 Pause.

00:39:04.900 The pedantic people

00:39:05.980 are going nuts right now.

00:39:07.280 Let me,

00:39:08.440 let me pause

00:39:09.880 and say yes.

00:39:11.600 I do know

00:39:12.160 that decimated

00:39:12.860 means a 10% reduction.

00:39:16.140 I do know that.

00:39:17.400 I did use the word

00:39:18.800 in its more

00:39:19.420 casual form,

00:39:21.060 which people use

00:39:21.940 to mean,

00:39:22.440 you know,

00:39:22.740 totally destroyed,

00:39:23.740 which is the opposite

00:39:24.400 of its meaning,

00:39:25.100 really.

00:39:26.360 Can you deal with that?

00:39:28.840 Can I get on?

00:39:29.860 Can I go?

00:39:31.000 Are we good?

00:39:32.280 All right.

00:39:33.220 Thank you.

00:39:34.820 So,

00:39:35.480 they,

00:39:36.560 here's another example.

00:39:37.820 I can't watch

00:39:38.440 car insurance commercials

00:39:40.120 because they're so

00:39:41.300 anti-male.

00:39:42.020 Can you?

00:39:44.800 When I watch

00:39:45.460 those car insurance

00:39:46.340 companies where

00:39:47.000 they make all men 1.00

00:39:47.940 look like morons,

00:39:49.160 but women are geniuses, 1.00

00:39:51.060 I just say to myself,

00:39:52.880 make a mental note

00:39:53.580 of that company

00:39:54.180 because they're assholes. 0.99

00:39:55.460 I don't want to

00:39:55.900 buy their product.

00:39:57.260 Now,

00:39:58.500 do you think

00:39:58.940 that's what they intended?

00:40:00.500 Do you think

00:40:00.940 that the insurance company

00:40:01.980 who made those commercials

00:40:03.020 and paid people

00:40:04.300 to do marketing

00:40:05.080 and advertising

00:40:05.840 and all that,

00:40:06.680 do you think

00:40:07.080 that what they paid for

00:40:08.260 was for me

00:40:10.000 to hate their product

00:40:11.020 and their company

00:40:11.720 by making commercials

00:40:13.240 that target me

00:40:14.000 as a moron?

00:40:15.680 I feel like

00:40:16.460 the whole marketing industry

00:40:17.860 has just fallen apart.

00:40:19.640 It's all fallen apart.

00:40:21.060 Here's my favorite one.

00:40:24.140 Did you hear

00:40:24.780 what was Subway?

00:40:26.580 The Subway sandwich people?

00:40:29.460 So,

00:40:30.120 apparently,

00:40:30.920 there's some pushback

00:40:32.140 about having

00:40:33.080 Megan Rapinoe

00:40:34.160 as part of

00:40:35.120 their advertising campaign

00:40:36.240 because some people

00:40:38.000 are calling her

00:40:38.640 un-American 0.99

00:40:39.360 for protesting

00:40:40.560 the flag.

00:40:43.040 Now,

00:40:44.440 poor Subway

00:40:45.500 has had some

00:40:47.040 bad experience

00:40:48.140 with advertising.

00:40:48.980 Do you know

00:40:50.220 what I mean?

00:40:50.660 Do you know

00:40:50.900 what I mean?

00:40:51.980 Yeah,

00:40:52.480 they had Jared

00:40:53.360 as their symbol.

00:40:56.220 Now,

00:40:56.580 I don't want to

00:40:57.420 get in trouble

00:40:59.600 for saying something

00:41:00.480 about Jared.

00:41:03.760 Is Jared in prison?

00:41:05.440 Somebody says

00:41:06.060 he's in prison.

00:41:07.180 Let's just say

00:41:07.840 he was accused

00:41:09.080 of being a pedophile. 0.70

00:41:09.940 So that was

00:41:11.140 their first

00:41:11.780 take at marketing

00:41:13.820 was to

00:41:15.400 associate with

00:41:16.940 a pedophile. 0.68

00:41:18.220 And they thought,

00:41:19.120 well,

00:41:19.860 we can't make

00:41:21.100 that kind of mistake

00:41:21.880 twice.

00:41:24.380 We're never going

00:41:25.240 to make that mistake

00:41:25.960 twice.

00:41:26.960 So they decided

00:41:28.120 to go with

00:41:29.120 a good

00:41:29.800 American,

00:41:31.220 you know,

00:41:31.460 all-American

00:41:32.200 Olympic

00:41:32.980 athlete

00:41:34.060 who is now

00:41:34.900 being branded

00:41:35.560 as anti-American.

00:41:38.480 Now,

00:41:40.040 if you asked her,

00:41:40.980 she would not

00:41:41.440 say she's

00:41:41.940 anti-American.

00:41:43.180 So,

00:41:43.560 you know,

00:41:43.960 I think

00:41:44.480 only Megan Rapinoe

00:41:46.180 gets to say

00:41:46.940 what she is

00:41:47.840 in her mind.

00:41:49.180 But certainly

00:41:50.140 the way people

00:41:50.940 are perceiving

00:41:51.840 her as 0.54

00:41:52.400 anti-American,

00:41:53.560 we're not going

00:41:54.260 to argue with that,

00:41:55.520 some significant

00:41:56.560 portion of the

00:41:57.280 public.

00:41:57.600 And so,

00:41:59.680 how did

00:42:00.880 wokeness

00:42:01.600 work out

00:42:02.320 for

00:42:03.160 Subway?

00:42:05.660 So Subway

00:42:06.600 gets bitten

00:42:07.600 by an accused

00:42:08.640 pedophile

00:42:09.220 and goes to

00:42:10.440 the wokeness

00:42:11.440 cesspool

00:42:14.260 and just like

00:42:15.340 gets killed

00:42:16.300 twice.

00:42:17.780 So marketing

00:42:18.560 is not so

00:42:19.820 useful in

00:42:20.740 these days.

00:42:21.800 Now,

00:42:22.120 let's talk about

00:42:22.640 the Rasmussen

00:42:23.380 poll.

00:42:24.400 They did a poll

00:42:25.280 on do you agree

00:42:26.280 or disagree

00:42:27.100 on this

00:42:27.900 statement.

00:42:29.040 Defund the

00:42:29.540 police has

00:42:30.000 to happen.

00:42:30.940 We need to

00:42:31.460 defund the

00:42:31.960 police and

00:42:32.400 put that

00:42:32.780 money into

00:42:33.340 social safety

00:42:34.360 nets.

00:42:35.220 So that was

00:42:35.540 the question,

00:42:36.020 how many

00:42:36.280 people agreed

00:42:36.860 or not.

00:42:37.820 Strongly

00:42:38.340 agreed,

00:42:38.900 12%.

00:42:39.740 Somewhat

00:42:41.220 agree,

00:42:42.340 19%.

00:42:43.420 So we

00:42:45.260 got 31%

00:42:46.860 that agree

00:42:47.640 in some

00:42:48.160 fashion with

00:42:49.360 defunding

00:42:49.880 the police.

00:42:51.520 But somewhat

00:42:52.340 disagree,

00:42:52.840 12%.

00:42:53.420 Strongly

00:42:53.980 disagree,

00:42:54.480 51%.

00:42:55.360 So the

00:42:55.660 big majority

00:42:56.180 disagree.

00:42:57.100 With defunding

00:42:57.900 police.

00:42:58.460 And then

00:42:58.860 not sure,

00:42:59.460 6%.

00:43:00.100 Remember I

00:43:01.240 always tell

00:43:01.600 you that

00:43:02.000 25%

00:43:03.260 of every

00:43:04.820 rule are

00:43:05.220 more funds.

00:43:06.620 Where's the

00:43:07.100 25% in

00:43:08.080 this one?

00:43:09.540 Start kidding

00:43:10.140 a little bit.

00:43:10.900 I'll speculate.

00:43:13.260 First of all,

00:43:14.100 the people who

00:43:14.740 somewhat agree

00:43:15.920 that on

00:43:17.740 defunding the

00:43:18.420 police,

00:43:19.020 that may not

00:43:19.760 be what you

00:43:20.280 think.

00:43:21.300 Because I'm

00:43:22.420 in that category.

00:43:23.720 I somewhat

00:43:25.460 agree.

00:43:26.720 And here's

00:43:27.280 what I

00:43:27.560 mean.

00:43:27.840 If you

00:43:28.040 asked me

00:43:28.380 this question,

00:43:29.000 do you

00:43:29.300 somewhat

00:43:29.880 agree to

00:43:31.440 move some

00:43:31.960 money from

00:43:32.400 the police

00:43:32.940 budgets to

00:43:33.700 social safety

00:43:34.800 nets, I

00:43:35.660 would answer

00:43:36.160 as someone

00:43:36.860 who was a

00:43:37.900 manager of

00:43:38.600 large budgets

00:43:39.360 for a large

00:43:40.380 corporation.

00:43:41.720 Hold on,

00:43:42.460 hold on,

00:43:44.300 hold on.

00:43:45.700 This is going

00:43:46.280 to be better

00:43:46.720 than you think.

00:43:48.220 Don't get

00:43:48.680 ahead of me and

00:43:49.400 think that I

00:43:50.020 went all

00:43:50.500 Bernie Sanders.

00:43:51.960 You'll like

00:43:52.600 it.

00:43:53.340 Just hold

00:43:53.760 on.

00:43:55.680 Here's my

00:43:56.480 argument.

00:43:56.940 If you have

00:43:57.400 managed large

00:43:58.320 budgets, you

00:43:59.040 know the

00:43:59.380 following is

00:43:59.920 true.

00:44:00.860 You can

00:44:01.220 always make

00:44:01.660 them better.

00:44:03.100 So there's a

00:44:03.820 large budget

00:44:04.480 for police.

00:44:05.920 There's a

00:44:06.420 large budget

00:44:07.200 for social

00:44:07.800 services.

00:44:09.360 Anybody who's

00:44:10.100 ever worked

00:44:10.600 on budgets

00:44:11.200 will tell you

00:44:12.460 what I'm going

00:44:12.880 to tell you

00:44:13.200 right now.

00:44:14.300 You could do

00:44:14.840 a better job

00:44:15.380 with those

00:44:15.660 budgets.

00:44:16.640 Because you

00:44:16.940 always can.

00:44:17.760 There's no

00:44:18.380 situation where

00:44:19.340 you cannot say,

00:44:20.140 okay, but

00:44:20.500 what if,

00:44:21.180 we took

00:44:21.840 some of

00:44:22.320 the stuff

00:44:22.740 for the

00:44:23.060 police that

00:44:23.620 wasn't

00:44:23.900 helping,

00:44:25.320 and we

00:44:25.680 just try

00:44:26.280 moving that

00:44:27.020 over to

00:44:27.540 some place

00:44:28.180 that we

00:44:28.860 know helps

00:44:29.480 in social

00:44:30.060 safety nets,

00:44:31.480 but it's

00:44:31.920 underfunded.

00:44:33.780 You don't

00:44:34.300 think you

00:44:35.180 could move

00:44:35.600 $1 from

00:44:37.400 a police

00:44:37.860 budget where

00:44:38.520 it's being

00:44:38.900 wasted in

00:44:39.820 some fashion.

00:44:41.200 Police work

00:44:41.920 is not

00:44:42.260 wasted, but

00:44:43.180 some part of

00:44:43.940 every big

00:44:44.400 budget is

00:44:44.900 wasted.

00:44:45.700 There's no

00:44:46.020 exception to

00:44:46.620 that.

00:44:47.420 You don't

00:44:47.840 think you

00:44:48.160 could move

00:44:48.440 a little

00:44:48.720 bit, do a

00:44:50.240 little bit

00:44:50.560 of tuning?

00:44:51.500 Of course

00:44:51.800 you could.

00:44:52.600 So if you

00:44:53.020 asked me this

00:44:53.580 question, I

00:44:54.160 would answer

00:44:54.560 like a

00:44:55.060 little bit

00:44:58.000 too informed

00:45:00.580 budget person,

00:45:01.700 and I'd say,

00:45:02.120 of course you

00:45:02.540 can.

00:45:03.400 You can

00:45:03.920 improve any

00:45:04.400 budget.

00:45:05.280 That's just

00:45:05.740 always true.

00:45:06.440 But as soon

00:45:08.080 as you put it

00:45:08.500 into this

00:45:08.840 political context,

00:45:09.960 people are going

00:45:10.380 to run away

00:45:10.820 from it.

00:45:11.540 So I think

00:45:11.940 that the people

00:45:12.460 who said

00:45:12.800 somewhat agree

00:45:13.520 might actually

00:45:14.200 be the

00:45:14.640 sophisticated

00:45:15.180 people answering

00:45:16.380 along with

00:45:17.860 a few

00:45:18.160 morons mixed

00:45:19.100 in there.

00:45:20.320 But what

00:45:20.780 about the

00:45:21.140 people who

00:45:21.660 somewhat

00:45:22.960 disagree?

00:45:25.240 Well, I

00:45:26.540 don't think

00:45:26.960 those people

00:45:27.520 understand that

00:45:28.980 budgets are

00:45:29.900 as flexible

00:45:30.680 as I just

00:45:32.080 explained.

00:45:33.080 And I think

00:45:33.460 the people who

00:45:33.960 disagree with

00:45:34.660 it somewhat

00:45:35.320 are probably

00:45:36.740 missing a

00:45:37.660 nuance.

00:45:38.900 The people

00:45:39.620 who strongly

00:45:40.340 disagree would

00:45:41.760 also be missing

00:45:42.640 the nuance,

00:45:43.240 but I don't

00:45:44.200 think they're

00:45:44.580 dumb.

00:45:45.900 Because in a

00:45:46.520 political context,

00:45:47.740 taking the

00:45:48.440 simple, easy

00:45:49.560 approach, the

00:45:53.180 simplicity of it

00:45:54.080 might be more

00:45:55.520 important than

00:45:56.060 the nuance.

00:45:57.040 So I think

00:45:57.560 people are just

00:45:58.140 saying, no,

00:45:58.880 what you really

00:45:59.460 mean to do is

00:46:00.160 take police off

00:46:01.040 the streets.

00:46:01.980 No way.

00:46:02.780 There's no way

00:46:03.220 that works.

00:46:03.820 They strongly

00:46:04.360 disagree.

00:46:05.080 So they're

00:46:05.320 probably smart,

00:46:06.400 even though they

00:46:07.420 give up some

00:46:07.920 nuance.

00:46:09.040 And they're not

00:46:09.800 sure, 6%.

00:46:10.800 So I think

00:46:12.100 there are some

00:46:12.580 dumb people

00:46:13.080 spread across

00:46:14.240 both groups

00:46:15.180 here.

00:46:15.820 And people

00:46:16.400 answer this

00:46:17.480 kind of

00:46:17.780 question

00:46:18.080 politically.

00:46:19.220 They don't

00:46:19.660 answer it

00:46:20.240 technically in

00:46:21.560 the way they

00:46:21.980 think is

00:46:22.380 exactly correct.

00:46:23.760 They're going

00:46:24.100 to answer it

00:46:24.560 the way they

00:46:24.940 want you to

00:46:25.460 see the

00:46:25.820 poll.

00:46:27.000 So I think

00:46:28.020 there's some

00:46:28.420 combination of

00:46:29.120 25% in the

00:46:30.340 strongly agree

00:46:31.160 and the

00:46:31.580 somewhat disagree.

00:46:33.160 So I think

00:46:33.600 the dumb

00:46:33.960 people are on

00:46:34.920 both sides in

00:46:35.560 this case,

00:46:36.280 somewhat hidden.

00:46:39.160 One of the

00:46:39.820 other questions

00:46:40.340 on it was,

00:46:41.040 are most police

00:46:41.840 officers racist?

00:46:43.080 18% said

00:46:45.440 yes.

00:46:47.100 68% said

00:46:48.260 no.

00:46:49.200 Now this is

00:46:49.880 another one where

00:46:50.600 the interpretation

00:46:51.300 of the question

00:46:52.040 matters.

00:46:54.480 If you ask me,

00:46:56.100 are most police

00:46:57.080 racist, if I knew

00:46:58.480 it was a political

00:46:59.200 question, I'd say

00:47:00.000 no.

00:47:01.180 No.

00:47:01.960 Because I'd say

00:47:02.660 they don't act

00:47:03.300 that way.

00:47:03.900 In general,

00:47:05.500 they don't act

00:47:06.060 that way.

00:47:06.940 Statistically.

00:47:07.460 But, if you

00:47:09.960 ask me, not in

00:47:10.940 terms of a

00:47:11.920 survey, you

00:47:12.640 just ask me

00:47:13.240 personally, are

00:47:15.080 most police

00:47:16.720 officers racist?

00:47:17.660 I'd say, people

00:47:19.400 are racist. 0.84

00:47:21.260 How could they

00:47:21.940 not be?

00:47:22.640 Because they're

00:47:23.120 people.

00:47:23.920 If you take

00:47:24.380 the set of

00:47:26.700 human beings,

00:47:28.640 my opinion is

00:47:29.580 that 100% of

00:47:30.640 us are racist

00:47:31.360 by reflex.

00:47:33.340 By reflex.

00:47:34.820 We're racist

00:47:35.660 by reflex.

00:47:36.720 We're born

00:47:37.060 that way.

00:47:37.620 We're designed

00:47:38.060 that way.

00:47:38.780 We evolve

00:47:39.220 that way.

00:47:40.820 We evolve

00:47:41.860 to prefer

00:47:42.380 things that

00:47:42.880 look like

00:47:43.240 us.

00:47:44.080 Our own

00:47:44.520 kids, our

00:47:45.100 people in

00:47:45.500 the tribe.

00:47:46.120 It's just

00:47:46.420 normal.

00:47:47.360 But, do

00:47:48.500 you have the

00:47:49.140 higher level

00:47:50.300 thinking and

00:47:51.740 morality where

00:47:52.960 you can not

00:47:53.540 act that way?

00:47:55.880 So if you

00:47:56.340 ask me, I'd

00:47:56.860 say, yeah,

00:47:58.160 every person

00:47:59.500 in every

00:47:59.920 profession is

00:48:00.540 a racist.

00:48:01.520 No exceptions.

00:48:02.660 Not you,

00:48:03.340 not me,

00:48:03.840 nobody.

00:48:04.620 There's no

00:48:04.900 exceptions.

00:48:06.260 Because you're

00:48:06.680 human.

00:48:07.540 You're all

00:48:08.280 racist, period.

00:48:10.080 But some

00:48:10.740 people act on

00:48:11.440 it.

00:48:11.760 Some people

00:48:12.180 don't, etc.

00:48:13.800 Here's where I

00:48:14.840 think it would

00:48:15.400 be a more

00:48:16.240 productive way to

00:48:17.220 go with that

00:48:18.240 question.

00:48:19.500 I think we

00:48:20.060 should admit

00:48:21.380 it and mock

00:48:22.040 it.

00:48:23.760 I think the

00:48:24.380 way you get

00:48:24.840 rid of racism

00:48:25.600 is to admit

00:48:27.640 it and then

00:48:29.100 mock it.

00:48:30.020 In yourself

00:48:30.900 as well as

00:48:31.900 others.

00:48:32.180 Let me give

00:48:32.500 you an example.

00:48:32.920 I think you

00:48:35.200 would all

00:48:35.460 agree that

00:48:36.760 it's true

00:48:37.240 that all

00:48:38.160 Italians,

00:48:39.280 two things we

00:48:39.980 know about

00:48:40.420 all Italians,

00:48:41.600 they make

00:48:42.320 excellent spaghetti

00:48:43.320 sauce and

00:48:44.940 they're in the

00:48:45.360 mafia.

00:48:45.580 Now, you

00:48:47.920 recognize these

00:48:48.680 as stereotypes,

00:48:49.660 right?

00:48:50.600 Only half

00:48:51.380 true.

00:48:52.800 All Italian

00:48:53.540 people do

00:48:54.080 make excellent

00:48:54.740 spaghetti sauce,

00:48:55.480 you just have

00:48:55.920 to ask them.

00:48:57.360 But there are

00:48:58.140 not very many

00:48:59.020 of them in

00:48:59.540 the mafia.

00:49:00.480 Very few of

00:49:01.120 them in the

00:49:01.540 mafia.

00:49:02.900 Okay, you

00:49:03.380 see what I

00:49:03.640 did?

00:49:04.700 I took a

00:49:05.540 stereotype and

00:49:07.000 I just sort of

00:49:07.540 mocked it as

00:49:08.080 being stupid and 0.96

00:49:09.000 I laughed about

00:49:09.660 it, blah, blah,

00:49:10.880 blah.

00:49:11.240 Is that not

00:49:12.040 healthier?

00:49:13.880 Because in a

00:49:14.600 sense I'm

00:49:14.980 mocking myself

00:49:15.740 for thinking,

00:49:16.600 you know, even

00:49:17.020 saying that all

00:49:17.700 Italians make 1.00

00:49:18.360 good spaghetti

00:49:18.940 sauce, even

00:49:19.760 though it's

00:49:20.020 true.

00:49:20.800 Just ask

00:49:21.280 them.

00:49:22.340 All right.

00:49:23.160 Why can't we

00:49:23.700 laugh about that?

00:49:25.180 Why can't we

00:49:25.900 just have fun

00:49:26.480 with it?

00:49:27.340 When a black 0.95

00:49:29.000 woman told me 0.98

00:49:30.040 that one of the

00:49:30.560 stereotypes about

00:49:31.380 white people is 0.88

00:49:32.080 that we like

00:49:32.560 cheese, I

00:49:33.900 laughed for a

00:49:34.440 week.

00:49:35.460 Because it's

00:49:35.960 true.

00:49:37.420 White people 0.90

00:49:38.040 like cheese.

00:49:39.100 Or it seems

00:49:39.680 true.

00:49:40.320 It's funny,

00:49:41.180 either way.

00:49:42.540 So it seems

00:49:43.400 to me, now of

00:49:44.180 course I'm

00:49:45.200 picking the

00:49:45.580 harmless ones,

00:49:46.420 right?

00:49:46.620 Liking cheese

00:49:47.220 and stuff.

00:49:47.580 But I think the

00:49:49.540 rest of them are

00:49:50.060 equally mockable.

00:49:51.860 Because, you

00:49:52.900 know, if there's

00:49:53.360 anybody out there

00:49:54.080 who thinks,

00:49:54.940 what, if you're

00:49:56.260 an Elbonian you

00:49:57.260 can't work in

00:49:58.060 STEM or

00:49:58.600 something?

00:49:59.520 I mean, you

00:49:59.840 would just have

00:50:00.240 to be an

00:50:00.620 idiot to think

00:50:01.980 that everybody

00:50:03.420 in some group

00:50:04.420 can't do

00:50:05.120 something.

00:50:06.760 Like, there's

00:50:07.240 too much

00:50:07.560 evidence against

00:50:08.220 that.

00:50:09.300 So I think we

00:50:10.060 should treat

00:50:10.560 racism as just

00:50:12.380 a special branch

00:50:13.480 of stupidity and 0.89

00:50:15.100 have fun with it.

00:50:15.860 Just mock it.

00:50:16.700 And we can just

00:50:17.360 mock it out of

00:50:18.220 importance,

00:50:20.140 anyway.

00:50:20.380 Larry Elder,

00:50:23.160 as you know,

00:50:23.740 running for

00:50:24.240 governor of

00:50:25.700 California.

00:50:26.480 And it looks

00:50:26.760 like the

00:50:27.320 recall is going

00:50:28.020 to be successful

00:50:28.900 in terms of

00:50:29.860 the initial

00:50:30.960 vote to

00:50:31.380 recall.

00:50:31.960 But there's

00:50:32.260 a second

00:50:32.780 component of

00:50:33.540 that, which

00:50:34.680 is that the

00:50:36.320 governor,

00:50:37.140 Newsom, can

00:50:37.680 run for

00:50:38.120 re-election at

00:50:38.960 the same time

00:50:39.800 in the same

00:50:40.320 vote as he's

00:50:41.040 recalled, if I

00:50:42.320 understand that

00:50:42.920 right.

00:50:43.900 So Larry Elder

00:50:45.420 looks to be the

00:50:46.440 leading contender.

00:50:48.080 And I looked

00:50:49.600 at his web

00:50:49.980 page to see

00:50:50.620 what he's

00:50:51.260 doing persuasion

00:50:52.180 wise.

00:50:53.340 And here's his

00:50:54.120 vision statement.

00:50:55.620 So it literally

00:50:56.340 says vision.

00:50:58.040 And it is this.

00:50:59.280 I'm in it to

00:51:00.080 win it.

00:51:01.280 What do you

00:51:01.640 think of that?

00:51:02.640 We're just

00:51:03.220 going to look

00:51:03.560 at the

00:51:03.880 persuasion

00:51:04.720 power.

00:51:06.540 I'm in it to

00:51:07.320 win it.

00:51:07.820 Give me your

00:51:08.200 opinions in the

00:51:09.560 comments.

00:51:10.320 I would like to

00:51:10.900 know, before I

00:51:12.100 give you my

00:51:12.620 opinion, is it

00:51:14.340 strong or weak?

00:51:16.140 Okay, I'm

00:51:19.600 seeing mixed

00:51:20.240 opinions.

00:51:20.820 I'm seeing

00:51:21.080 mostly weak.

00:51:22.300 I have a

00:51:23.060 mixed opinion

00:51:23.660 on this one.

00:51:24.720 And here's

00:51:25.080 why.

00:51:26.880 Biden won

00:51:27.820 on basically

00:51:28.820 this slogan.

00:51:30.460 I think Joe

00:51:31.220 Biden won

00:51:31.960 based on

00:51:33.700 telling you he

00:51:34.260 could win.

00:51:35.600 Because they

00:51:36.280 wanted so much

00:51:37.160 for, at least

00:51:37.920 the people who

00:51:38.420 voted against

00:51:38.920 him, wanted so

00:51:39.900 much for Trump

00:51:40.460 to leave that

00:51:41.920 the only thing

00:51:42.460 they wanted to

00:51:42.960 hear is that he

00:51:43.580 could win.

00:51:44.740 They didn't

00:51:45.340 care about

00:51:45.720 anything.

00:51:46.920 Nothing else

00:51:47.620 mattered.

00:51:48.540 Just, can he

00:51:49.160 win?

00:51:49.960 And maybe

00:51:50.540 Newsom is in

00:51:51.260 that same

00:51:51.640 situation.

00:51:52.540 He's not too

00:51:53.700 popular at the

00:51:54.380 moment in

00:51:54.840 California.

00:51:55.720 And maybe the

00:51:56.540 only thing that

00:51:57.280 Californians care

00:51:58.120 about is not

00:51:58.720 even who

00:51:59.060 replaces him.

00:52:00.680 They might

00:52:01.180 just care if

00:52:02.860 he could win.

00:52:04.340 And so I

00:52:05.740 had mixed

00:52:06.220 feelings when I

00:52:06.800 said it.

00:52:07.360 I relate to

00:52:08.460 what you said.

00:52:09.180 It doesn't

00:52:09.920 have sizzle.

00:52:11.200 And it also

00:52:11.780 is about him.

00:52:13.440 I would never

00:52:14.280 do a,

00:52:14.920 I would never

00:52:16.540 do a slogan

00:52:17.200 with I in

00:52:18.140 it.

00:52:19.240 Because it's

00:52:19.860 talking about

00:52:20.300 him.

00:52:20.620 I'm in it

00:52:21.200 to win it.

00:52:22.100 It's about

00:52:22.440 him.

00:52:23.300 Right?

00:52:23.960 So Larry, if

00:52:24.640 you watch this,

00:52:26.020 it should be

00:52:27.020 more about the

00:52:27.620 state.

00:52:28.700 That would be

00:52:29.180 what would

00:52:29.740 appeal to me

00:52:30.420 best.

00:52:30.780 And I'll

00:52:32.240 tell you what

00:52:32.720 I'm hungriest

00:52:34.000 for as a

00:52:35.040 citizen of

00:52:35.560 California.

00:52:36.840 Competent and

00:52:37.500 ethical management.

00:52:40.100 Competent and

00:52:41.460 ethical, you've

00:52:42.260 got to throw

00:52:42.500 that in there,

00:52:43.540 management.

00:52:44.560 And because

00:52:44.980 it's a

00:52:45.460 Republican, you've

00:52:46.800 got to throw in

00:52:47.220 the ethical so

00:52:47.980 people will know

00:52:48.900 that you care

00:52:49.360 about that

00:52:49.740 stuff.

00:52:50.160 I'm sure Larry

00:52:50.780 Elder does. 0.89

00:52:52.320 So I don't

00:52:53.340 know how to

00:52:53.660 make that sexy,

00:52:55.160 but if you

00:52:55.640 told me, look,

00:52:56.460 I'm going to

00:52:56.920 run against

00:52:57.400 Newsom, you've

00:52:58.180 got problems

00:52:58.700 with the

00:52:59.020 pandemic, schools,

00:52:59.960 water, electricity,

00:53:01.240 forest management,

00:53:02.100 homeless, and

00:53:02.620 borders.

00:53:03.740 And none of

00:53:04.640 it is being

00:53:05.300 managed competently

00:53:07.020 and ethically.

00:53:09.240 So if you

00:53:10.000 gave me that

00:53:10.600 proposition, look,

00:53:11.860 you don't have

00:53:12.420 competence and

00:53:13.180 you don't have

00:53:13.560 ethical leadership,

00:53:14.860 I'll give you

00:53:15.300 that.

00:53:16.140 Boom.

00:53:16.960 I'm sold.

00:53:17.860 Because it's an

00:53:18.740 easy sale, because

00:53:20.340 people are unhappy

00:53:21.140 with what's

00:53:21.640 happening there

00:53:22.140 now.

00:53:22.560 They're looking

00:53:23.020 for a change.

00:53:24.080 But I'm in it

00:53:24.800 to win it?

00:53:26.260 Mixed feelings.

00:53:27.740 It could be that

00:53:28.460 you want somebody

00:53:29.820 besides Newsom so

00:53:32.060 badly that maybe

00:53:33.420 that's all you

00:53:33.860 care about.

00:53:34.660 And maybe it's

00:53:35.740 possible that he

00:53:37.100 hit the only

00:53:37.880 message that

00:53:38.480 matters.

00:53:39.440 I don't know.

00:53:40.520 This is one of

00:53:41.180 those things where

00:53:41.920 I think trained

00:53:43.560 persuaders could

00:53:44.640 have different

00:53:45.100 opinions.

00:53:46.020 And I think you'd

00:53:46.500 have to test it

00:53:47.360 somehow.

00:53:48.500 I mean, I think

00:53:48.880 you'd, maybe you

00:53:49.580 did.

00:53:50.000 Maybe he has

00:53:50.440 tested it.

00:53:51.020 I don't know.

00:53:51.360 But that's my

00:53:53.300 advice to Larry

00:53:54.920 Elder.

00:53:55.140 And I saw

00:53:58.120 you retweeted

00:53:58.840 me this morning.

00:54:00.400 We follow each

00:54:00.980 other.

00:54:01.520 So maybe he'll

00:54:02.640 get that message.

00:54:03.980 And maybe he

00:54:04.840 doesn't need it.

00:54:05.820 Because like I

00:54:06.900 said, I'm in it

00:54:08.240 to win it.

00:54:10.940 I'm not going to

00:54:11.700 say that's bad.

00:54:13.180 It might be

00:54:13.780 genius.

00:54:14.520 I don't know.

00:54:15.320 Could be right on.

00:54:16.180 But I'd test it.

00:54:17.440 That's what I'd do.

00:54:19.160 Somebody says it's

00:54:20.040 unoriginal.

00:54:20.580 I'll tell you what

00:54:21.020 else it has is it

00:54:21.840 rhymes.

00:54:22.260 You think that

00:54:24.020 doesn't make a

00:54:24.720 difference?

00:54:25.920 It does.

00:54:27.420 Things that rhyme

00:54:28.360 are actually

00:54:29.020 perceived as more

00:54:30.720 persuasive.

00:54:31.680 That's why OJ

00:54:32.800 and the glove,

00:54:34.060 if the glove

00:54:34.540 doesn't fit,

00:54:35.260 you must acquit.

00:54:36.200 It's not an

00:54:36.820 accident that it

00:54:37.580 rhymed.

00:54:38.560 That was to make

00:54:39.380 it more persuasive.

00:54:40.720 So I'm in it to

00:54:41.500 win it.

00:54:42.140 How's that going

00:54:42.680 for it?

00:54:43.720 So it makes me

00:54:44.480 wonder.

00:54:45.180 It makes me

00:54:45.560 wonder.

00:54:45.900 It could have

00:54:46.240 been professionally

00:54:46.880 designed.

00:54:47.700 Maybe he had some

00:54:48.340 advice on that.

00:54:49.740 But I'm very

00:54:50.400 curious if it's been

00:54:51.340 tested.

00:54:52.260 As opposed to

00:54:56.640 what?

00:54:57.260 In it to lose?

00:54:58.620 Well, in it to

00:55:00.020 provide competent

00:55:01.600 and ethical

00:55:02.480 management.

00:55:03.880 I don't think

00:55:04.500 Californians are

00:55:06.140 looking for a lot

00:55:06.880 of sizzle.

00:55:08.160 We like it.

00:55:09.680 It's the

00:55:10.520 entertainment state,

00:55:11.460 right?

00:55:12.160 We like our

00:55:12.960 Arnold Schwarzeneggers

00:55:13.780 and stuff.

00:55:14.720 But I feel like

00:55:16.100 we're just

00:55:16.500 desperate for

00:55:17.620 somebody who

00:55:18.540 can just

00:55:18.840 manage it.

00:55:19.720 I don't

00:55:20.640 know if

00:55:20.900 that's what

00:55:22.240 Larry Elder

00:55:22.840 will look

00:55:24.020 like to

00:55:24.640 voters,

00:55:25.420 but that's

00:55:25.960 what we

00:55:26.200 need.

00:55:31.600 Well, I

00:55:32.780 guess it's

00:55:33.060 been 28

00:55:33.600 minutes because

00:55:34.120 locals just

00:55:34.720 shut off.

00:55:35.720 And I'm

00:55:35.960 going to end

00:55:36.580 this stream

00:55:37.280 on YouTube

00:55:40.040 and I will

00:55:40.680 talk to you

00:55:41.240 tomorrow.

00:55:42.960 Oh, yeah,

00:55:43.380 to say we're

00:55:43.960 in it to win

00:55:44.500 it.

00:55:45.060 That would

00:55:45.580 be better.

00:55:46.040 You're right.

00:55:47.040 Bye for now.

00:55:49.720 Bye for now.

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