Episode 1499E Scott Adams： Today I Will Talk About Joe Manchin, Swollen Balls, and Other Horrors
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It's the Golden Age of Good News, and we're here to bring you the best, funniest, most entertaining news you've ever heard. Today, we're talking about the new Apple spy software, and how it could be spying on journalists and activists. Plus, a breakthrough in carbon capture technology that could solve climate change.
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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Golden Age. Yeah, it's the Golden Age. And I'll even
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put on my microphone so that the YouTube people can hear me better. Well, do we have good news
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for you today? And fun news? And stories that you'll want to hear? Yeah, we do. It's going
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to be great. But if you'd like to take it up a level, and I know you do, because why
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Fill with your favorite liquid I like. Coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
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But the dopamine of the day thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And
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Well, if you made it here on time, you are in for a treat. Because today is the best, funniest,
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most entertaining news of all time. That's a promise. Let us get right to it.
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Top of the news, you've heard of the Pegasus spy software that gets on your phone and gets into
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all your stuff. And it's so advanced that only governments have access to it. But we found out
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that there was a flaw, or at least a hole, in the Apple phone operating system that this Pegasus
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software was taking advantage of. And apparently there are names of people who are allegedly targeted
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by the software, including a lot of journalists and activists. That's right. Journalists and activists
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are being targeted by foreign nations to be spied upon. And everything on their phone is accessible to
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them. Everything. Now, have I told you before that one of the weird things about my life
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is that you read the news, but I'm often in it.
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Yeah, I mean, you watch the news, but I watch the news and I'm in it. So I read this news about this
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Pegasus spy program that's targeting activists and reporters and journalists.
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Am I on that list? And if I'm not, why not? If I were a foreign country, the first person I would
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want to look into was me because I seem to be influencing things. Now, I might not be. It could
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be an illusion. It could be an illusion. It could be just that everything I try to influence seems to go
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my way. Maybe. Not everything, of course. Nobody, nobody gets everything. But I immediately dropped
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everything and updated my phone because I guess there's a fix for it. But I'll tell you, I've never
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updated my software so fast. The moment, the moment I saw that, like, okay, drop everything, drop
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everything. Because the odds that somehow I've been targeted, just as a, you know, a person who
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talks in the media about politics and maybe has some influence, that's some scary shit.
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Somebody says, Jesse Waters mentioned me last night on Gutfeld. I have that recorded and I will
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watch that today. Well, here's some good news. Are you ready for the good, good news? Really good news?
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Great news? I'm going to give you the best news today that you've ever heard. You ready? Now,
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some of you don't think it was a problem, climate change. But suppose you did. Or suppose you didn't
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think it was a problem, but you'd like everybody to shut up about it, which would be a different kind
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of problem. There are two gigantic happenings that, you know, that can solve climate change. Number one,
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a carbon capture plant, the world's first and largest, just opened up. It's a factory that sucks air
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into it, takes the carbon dioxide out, mixes it with water and turns it into some kind of a limestone
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and sticks it in the ground. Now, how many factories would you need to suck enough? Yes, in Iceland.
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How many would you need? And the company is a Swiss startup called Climeworks. Climb as in climate.
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Climeworks AG. Now, we know the technology works. Okay? So we don't have to wonder,
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hey, will this technology work? Already works. They built the factory. They didn't build a prototype.
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Hear this clearly. It's not a prototype. It's an actual fucking factory that's taking carbon dioxide
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out of the air. Now, how many do you need? I don't know. But how much more efficient can the carbon
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capture become? Well, if it's like everything else in the world, it starts out somewhat barely
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efficient and it just keeps getting better. What happens when our technology for carbon capture
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goes from kind of works to really good. Problem solved, right? So when you see that it's already
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apparently economical in some sense, I don't know. I can't imagine that they have a profit
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and a what. They're not selling anything. So I don't know who's funding it, but it got funded.
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So it means that somebody has an interest that's large enough to put money into it.
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So if you don't have a technical problem, because it works, there's no question about it.
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It's open, right? It's open and working. You don't have that question. And you don't have a funding
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problem because many would say it's the biggest problem in the world or whatever. Yeah, it may be
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inefficient now, but what's it going to be? What will the technology get to in 10 years? That's the
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question you have to ask yourself. I don't know. So Adam Dopamine was pointing this out, the story out.
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But it also goes to what I call the Adam's Law of slow-moving disasters. How many of you have
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heard of that? Have you all heard of the Adam's Law of slow-moving disasters? I named it after
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myself. And the law states this, that the only disasters you have to really worry about are the
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ones you didn't see coming. The ones that sneak up on you fast, like the pandemic. Well, arguably,
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we could have seen that coming, but not the specific one. And the argument goes like this,
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that whenever we, whenever humanity can see a problem developing over decades, we always solve
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it. Such as you're going to run out of oil. Nope. We saw it coming and we've learned to frack and do
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other things. We solved it. You're going to run out of food because there are too many people. Nope.
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Nope. We just figured out how to grow more food. The cars are going to pollute the air and we won't
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be able to breathe. Nope. Nope. We just changed some laws and made the smoggy cars go away. It's much
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better now. Right? So basically, every time you find a problem, how about the ozone hole in the
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atmosphere? So when I was a kid, the ozone was going to disappear and we'd all be fried by the sun.
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But we knew it would take a long time to happen. And so we changed some laws and got rid of aerosols
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and we're fine. So climate change is the prototypical example of that because we're looking at an 80 year
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kind of timeframe, you know, granted it's the first 20 that might be critical, but it's a lot of time
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by human standards. That's a lot of time. And the odds that we will figure out workarounds for it
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are really good. So am I worried about climate change? No, because everybody else is.
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If everybody else was not worried about climate change, I might be worried about it because I'd
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be like, Hey, I'm not positive. This is going in the wrong direction, but it might, and nobody's
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doing anything about it. Ah, but if you tell me we've got decades to work on something and everybody
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knows it's a problem, or let's say most of the scientists and most of the industry believes it's
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a problem. Some of you maybe not, but that's exactly the situation that makes me feel comfortable.
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My ideal situation is there's a problem that will take decades to materialize and we're working
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really hard to fix it already. That's a good situation. Golden age. Here we come.
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Now here's the second part of that. I'm all about the good news today. Are you feeling better?
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Do you feel a little optimism today? All right, here's the second part. If you've been watching
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Michael Schellenberger talk about green energy being not as useful as we hoped it would be and
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that nuclear energy actually is the only really feasible way to give us all the energy we need in
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the future with other sources, of course, but we can't not do nuclear power and we need it for space
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and blah, blah, blah. But here's the thing. In the history of humanity, or at least let's say your
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lifetime, have you ever heard of a major debate, let's say a public debate where there are definitely
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people on both sides, like really dug in. Take abortion. Abortion would be where there's two
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sides really dug in. Take socialism. Two sides really dug in. Nothing's going to change. And that
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defines most of our topics, right? Somebody says there's three sides in some cases. Okay, but I'm
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simplifying for this. Wouldn't you say that over your entire life, you've never seen a major debate
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with two sides where somebody just won the debate? And the other side said, okay, you're right.
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Can you think of any case where that's ever happened?
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It's happening right now. Do you see all the protesters protesting against the building of
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nuclear power plants? Nope. Do you see all the people going on television and saying we should
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close all of our nuclear power plants? Nope. No. Do you know why? Because the debate is over.
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It's the only time a debate has ever been one that I can think of. You won't even see anybody go on
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television who's an expert. You know, I'm not talking about some scared citizen, but you won't see any
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experts on television saying we shouldn't build nuclear power plants. Because if you've got an expert
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associated with the right, political right, they'd say, yeah, nuclear power plants. But if you've got
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somebody associated with the left, let's say Joe Biden, he'd say yes on nuclear power plants.
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Have you ever seen this before? And by the way, I credit Michael Schellenberger for, I don't know,
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maybe most of this change, because he's worked this harder than I've seen anybody work in the topic ever,
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and more effectively, by the way, his communication skills are through the roof. Rarely do you see
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somebody with that kind of communication skill, who, you know, who gets a bite on a topic and just
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drives it down to ground. But I think he did. I mean, he's testified to Congress enough, and
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incredibly and persuasively, that you don't even see politicians railing against nuclear power,
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do you? Because I think it would be embarrassing at this point. Now, if you're a little behind
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the information here, that the quick version is this. If you are worried about storage of nuclear
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waste, basically solved. They just store it in big barrels right on site, and they don't ship it
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anywhere. When was the last time you heard a big story about a gigantic problem of where to store
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nuclear waste? It's just not a problem. They just store it on site. Problem solved. And how about,
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I see Fukushima, and listed there, and how about the problem of safety? Because you don't want
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something like a Fukushima, you know, melting down or something, right? Were you aware that no modern
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designed nuclear energy plant has ever had a death or a meltdown? Fukushima is old design,
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because you don't want something like a Fukushima, you know, melting down or something, right?
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Were you aware that no modern designed nuclear energy plant has ever had a death or a meltdown?
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Fukushima is old design. You wouldn't build that today. And even the new designs have been around so long,
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what we call the newer, you know, generation three. Generation three has never had a problem.
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Those are the only ones you would build. You wouldn't build a generation two. You wouldn't build
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a Chernobyl generation one, right? But zero problems with generation three. So if you think that there's
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a safety problem, you'd have to answer the fact that zero people have ever died.
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And there's never been a meltdown in a generation three. So waste, storage, solved. Safety,
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solved. We're really good at generation three. And by the way, generation four won't even have a risk
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of melting down. And generation four, some of the designs actually eat nuclear waste as their own fuel.
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So, you know, everything that we were worried about, and then, of course, we've had some
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breakthroughs in the fission. Fission? Yeah. Or fusion. I'm sorry. We've had some breakthroughs
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in fusion, which is, you know, even a bigger deal. So if you're looking at climate change,
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the two biggest things that could possibly ever happen are happening. The debate on nuclear power
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is over. I've never seen this happen before. I've never seen a debate won. It's really remarkable.
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All right. So that's good news. Rasmussen has a new poll out,
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saying, asking if you believe that the folks who are now in jail because of the January 6th
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protests at the Capitol, do you believe that they are political prisoners? I'll ask this in the
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comments, and then I'll tell you what the Rasmussen poll said. Do you think that the people in jail for
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the January 6th protests are political prisoners? Yes, yes, yes. I'm seeing lots of yeses from the
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almost all yeses. Yeah. Now, let me ask you this. Let me start by agreeing with you. Okay?
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So I'm agreeing with you. We're on the same side. I would say that they're political prisoners too.
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Now, let me, let's go do a mental experiment. Suppose we picked one of them to look at. So you
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randomly picked one of the people who's in jail for the January 6th stuff. And you say, what's,
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what's this one in jail for? And they'd probably say something like, well, we have them on video
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beating a cop with a blunt object. Should that person be in jail? Yeah, of course. Of course.
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It doesn't matter what you think of politics. If somebody beat a police officer with a blunt object,
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yeah, yeah, jail. No doubt about it. So let's pick somebody else because that one's obvious. So you pick
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the next person. Next person. Why is this one here? Well, we also have them on video. Bear spraying a
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police officer. Okay, well, that one goes, yeah, that one needs to be in jail. I feel like it's all
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going to be that. Right? If you ask me, do I think they're political prisoners? Yes. But if you actually
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went down to each one and said, well, what about this one? You know, this one, this one injured a
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cop? No, not that one. But I'm not entirely sure they're not all that. Are you? Are you sure that
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that the people in jail just trespassed? Because I don't have that information. Do you? Do you think
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that the people still in jail, I'm only talking about the ones still in jail. Do you think that their
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only crime was trespassing? Now, the Viking horn guy is an interesting case, because I don't know
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that he did anything. Did the Viking horn guy do anything but trespass? So let's put it this way.
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If there are people who are in jail for just trespassing, then clearly they're political
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prisoners. But I would imagine they would all be out on bail by now. Wouldn't they? So I feel like I'd
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need to know a little bit more about that. But emotionally, emotionally and at the high level,
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yeah, political prisoners. And you know what? Even if they're not, you know, even if you dug down
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and found there were specific charges that even you would say, okay, that's a specific charge.
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It still feels like political prisoners. I swear to God, even if you told me the story for every one of
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those people. You said, all right, look at it. Here's every one of these people. Look at their
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story. You tell me that they should not be in jail. And I'd say, well, maybe they should be this one.
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And yet still, I think it's political prisoners. Like I have two opinions that don't even fit together.
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Yeah, they might be actually violent people. And they're also just political prisoners.
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I can't help it. I'd love to tell you that I have a consistent opinion, but I don't. Those two things
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don't fit together. And yet I hold them both as truths. So I don't know if you're different. But anyway,
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Rasmussen's result was that 49% of the respondents said they agreed strongly or somewhat
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that the January 6th people are political prisoners.
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Let that sink in a little bit. Half of the country thinks we're holding political prisoners.
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Now, I don't know if that's just a, like a political answer to a poll, because it might be,
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you know, people answer polls the way they want politics to bend. I'm not sure it's their actual
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opinion that every person there is a political prisoner. But like I said, I have that opinion.
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Even if the facts don't support it. Like somehow my opinion is completely divorced from any facts,
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and I don't care. I'm not, I don't even know what that means. I don't know what that says about me.
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What's it say about me that on this topic, I don't care if the facts support my opinion.
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Have you ever had that feeling? Where you didn't care if the facts were on your side,
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it wasn't going to change your opinion? It's a weird feeling. It's one of those times where you can
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feel your own irrationality. All right. I sent a tweet at Joe Manchin today. I love the fact that
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I can tweet a member of Congress. And the odds that that member of Congress will see the tweet
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are actually really good. Isn't that weird? Because, you know, and especially because I have a lot of
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followers and I've got a blue check, I'm pretty sure if you're a senator, you probably see all the
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blue check tweets about yourself, don't you? Because it only takes, you know, a minute a day to look at
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Twitter. So I feel like you probably saw it, or we'll see it. But here's what I tweeted at Joe
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Manchin, who, as you know, is in control of everything, because he's the only senator who is
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willing to vote against his own party when things are evenly split. So it gives him all the power.
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And he's got the power for the infrastructure bill. And I guess he's also got the power
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on some kind of a voting access bill that the Democrats also want.
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So I tweeted this at him. I said, hey, Senator Joe Manchin, since you control Congress now,
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how about getting us a law forcing states to have instantly fully auditable elections,
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including any software or hardware components, in addition to more voting options. So I don't have
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any problem with voting options. I'm certainly not going to be the person who says, hey, let's
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suppress the hours people can vote, or suppress the way that they vote, or anything like that.
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I'm not going to do that. But I think we need the federal government to force the states to work
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toward some kind of instantly, instantly. So that's the key word. It has to be instant.
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We can't wait six months for a fucking audit, like we are now. It's got to be instant. Otherwise,
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it's useless. Because if it's not instant, you're still going to install the public,
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the politician, and it's just sort of too late. So it's got to be instant. And we could totally do
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that. And fully auditable, meaning the software, the hardware, and everything else. Now, what's the
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fastest way to do that? What's the fastest way to have an instantly auditable election? How long would
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it take to make that happen? One programmer, one day per state. One programmer, one day. That's the
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entire effort. Per state. You know, one per state. There is a database that says you voted. Is there
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not? Or there should be. You should be able to just check your vote. That's it. Your vote should be
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registered in the big database in the sky. And as soon as you vote, you know, wait five minutes or
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whatever. You should be able to hit an app. And it should tell you what happened to your vote. Now,
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you might say to yourself, wait a minute, ID is the problem, right? Because you don't want a person's
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identification matched to their vote. How hard would it be to fix that? Add five minutes. Add five minutes.
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Because you want to store in the database a secret code that does identify the person, but only they can
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unlock it. You know, they've got the key. So the person who did the vote is the only person who can
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identify their own vote on the system because they've got the matching key. How hard is that?
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All right. Now, of course, I'm exaggerating. It's not five minutes. Everything takes a year.
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But we should be working toward it. If you think it can be done, of course it can be done.
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Of course it can. It's not, I mean, conceptually, it's not even difficult. I just told you how to do
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it. All you need is for people to be able to track their vote. Now, the only thing it wouldn't catch
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is fake votes, right? Am I right? The only thing it wouldn't catch is a fake vote. But could you
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engineer a solution to that by randomly querying people who voted to find out if they're really
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the real person? So you'd have to have two ways to look. One, to make sure that if you are a real
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person who voted, that your vote got registered the way you wanted it to. But secondly, if there
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are votes that are fake people, that you can randomly, not all of them, but randomly you can query the real
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person and say, your vote was registered. Did you vote? I feel like it's doable. And I think Joe
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Manchin might be the only person who has enough power to make it happen. Stick that in there as a
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requirement. By 2024, you have to have a fully auditable system or whatever. There would be your
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golden age if we could get that done. There's a video that I tweeted around that I highly recommend
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just because it's fun to watch. In China, they demolished 15 skyscrapers at the same time.
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And there's a video of a, it looks like maybe a city block or something. So there were 15
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skyscrapers that they built, but never had any occupants for them. They didn't finish them.
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So I guess they got, the basements got flooded and maybe they became unsafe or something. So it was no
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longer practical to finish them. So they blew them up. Now, I guess this is not the first time they've done
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massive multiple building destructions. They've done it in other places where they were clearing
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out buildings. I think they've done like 36 at one time, but watching 15 skyscrapers blow up at the
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same time, you know, because they, they, they blow up in a controlled explosion so that they just sink into
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the dust. It's really cool. It's really cool. So look on my Twitter feed. It would be, I just tweeted
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it this morning. So it's near the top and just, just to watch it for fun. Uh, it's really kind of
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impressive, kind of impressive. Well, let's talk about the California, uh, recall race. The election
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news today, early official election day. And something very odd has happened. Very odd.
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Number one, well, a few odd things. Um, number one, uh, Newsom said, I think it was yesterday
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that a vote for Larry Elder is a vote against diversity and racial justice.
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That's right. A vote against who would be the first black Republican governor, Larry Elder, if he,
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if he wins, uh, voting for him to be the first black Republican governor of California
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is a vote against diversity. It's against diversity. I don't know. I don't know how you even say that
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with a straight face. Now, apparently there is approved diversity and unapproved diversity.
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And the type of diversity that Larry Elder would bring is apparently unapproved.
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The Democrats do not approve of that particular type of diversity. Uh, there's good diversity and
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bad diversity. And I guess he's got the bad kind according to Newsom. Uh, but we've got this match
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and gasoline situation happening with this California recall. I don't feel that the mood
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of the voters, um, is up to revolution mostly because Democrats are going to be, I'm sorry, Republicans
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will be the victims and they tend not to hit the streets so much, but there's something very bad going
00:28:41.120
on that could be coincidence or something very bad is going on. I don't know which it is, but I'm open
00:28:50.800
to the possibility of either one. So let me give you an example of what's going on here. Uh, you may
00:28:56.320
know that the, uh, polling for who's going to win or whether or not the recall would be successful.
00:29:01.760
The polling in August looked like it was too close to call. It was like within 1%.
00:29:06.240
What's the polling today? Not even close. Newsom's going to win like 57% if the, if the polling is
00:29:16.240
accurate. Now, what happened between August and now that would make it from a super tight race
00:29:23.680
where it looked like elder would win actually because of the trend line to not even close
00:29:29.520
one month. In one month, it went from, from too close to call to not even close. Somebody says it's
00:29:37.920
money, something about the way they campaigned. Nope. It turns out that the explanation given in the
00:29:45.040
news today is that the August polls were wrong and that's because they worded the poll wrong and they
00:29:52.720
got the wrong result. Now, isn't that convenient? The, the, the one race that we think, not we,
00:30:03.200
I'll take myself out of it. Um, the one race which many, many Republicans think will be rigged.
00:30:10.320
I'm not saying it will be. I'm saying that Republicans are claiming that
00:30:14.880
that happens to be the same race that the polls suspiciously went from totally agreeing
00:30:21.360
with Republicans to suddenly totally disagreeing. Exactly the way you'd expect a rigged poll
00:30:30.720
to come out because what would be the problem if the poll said it was super close, but the vote wasn't
00:30:41.520
because we were almost heading for a really big problem, weren't we? Wouldn't it be a really big
00:30:46.240
problem if the poll said it should be close, but the vote said it wasn't and people thought it was a
00:30:53.920
rigged vote? Republicans would take that as proof, but suddenly by coincidence, and by the way, I'm only
00:31:04.560
going to claim it's a coincidence because I don't have evidence of anything else. But as coincidences go,
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I don't think it could be worse. It's a coincidence of a match being dropped in gasoline. Because if the polls
00:31:20.800
are bullshit and you already don't believe the vote itself, your credibility is just shot. And credibility
00:31:32.240
is the only thing that holds our system together. That's it. Credibility. You take the credibility
00:31:38.080
away and it all falls apart unless you use force. So how many, let's say, irregularities are happening
00:31:47.200
in the vote? Well, if you're following Dave Rubin, and you should, follow Dave Rubin on Twitter and also
00:31:54.000
on Locals. He and a number of other people are sort of, you know, getting into the details of what's
00:32:01.600
happening there. And there's a lot of tweets in which people are responding to what they've personally
00:32:05.920
observed. Now, it's all anecdotal. Anecdotal means it doesn't mean it necessarily represents
00:32:13.120
a large trend. It's just people having specific experiences and reporting them, and you don't
00:32:19.280
even know if they're real people, right? So whatever credibility you want to put on these next claims,
00:32:26.240
lower it a little bit, right? Now remember, I've told you that all election fraud claims,
00:32:33.280
if you looked at the whole body of all claims made about all elections everywhere all the time,
00:32:38.480
at least in the United States, they're going to be wrong 95% of the time, right?
00:32:45.680
So 95% of all election fraud claims, at least big ones, big claims, turn out to be wrong. At least 95.
00:32:53.680
Could be 100%, but at least 95%. So keep that in mind. And when I tell you that there are all kinds
00:33:01.440
of reports of irregularities in the California election. So you got people who got mailed,
00:33:06.800
you know, two ballots, one for the person who used to live there, one for them, people who got two
00:33:12.480
ballots for one for their maiden name, and one for their old name, people who got ballots
00:33:17.280
out of the state when they haven't been in the state for a long time.
00:33:20.480
And I won't go through all the examples, but it's just lots of examples of people with a specific
00:33:32.240
complaint. Now, are those specific complaints enough or even credible enough to imagine that
00:33:39.920
there's some massive problem going on? I don't see it yet. It looks like just a whole bunch of
00:33:45.280
individual complaints of various credibility. But boy, is it a red flag. If you're asking,
00:33:53.920
is fraud proven? I'd say no, no, there's no fraud proven. And I don't see evidence that necessarily
00:34:01.200
will be proven. But damn, there's a lot of questions. And can you have a system that doesn't
00:34:07.120
have credibility? Because there are so many questions. And if Joe Manchin had done the job
00:34:13.120
that we'd love him to do, wouldn't we already have an election where you'd say,
00:34:18.800
well, there are lots of irregularities, but thank goodness you can check to see if your vote got
00:34:23.200
registered correctly? Can't. All of these problems would go away. It wouldn't matter how many claims
00:34:30.320
you heard of irregularities. As long as you could check your own vote, you'd be pretty happy.
00:34:36.560
Yeah. Please provide data if you're 95% false claim. That's observational. It's not based on data.
00:34:48.320
So I observe over the years that if you watch the claims and then you just wait long enough to see
00:34:53.760
if they get proven or disproven, they're 95% of the time they'll be disproven. So that's exactly the
00:34:59.840
experience we had with the 2020 election. I mean, I haven't seen any that were proven,
00:35:06.880
but certainly were a lot of claims. All right. And apparently there's one story that 70% of the
00:35:16.480
voters somewhere were being turned away because the system said they had already voted. And then
00:35:22.240
there was a claim that it was a software problem. But then there was a clarification that it was more
00:35:26.960
about an out-of-date poll book. I don't know what an out-of-date poll book is or how that fit into the
00:35:34.480
story. But let's say that they do know that was the problem. It turns out it was more like a handful
00:35:39.360
of people and they figured out what the problem was and they fixed it. I think it's being reported as
00:35:44.480
a massive problem where it might have been just an anecdotal thing that one area screwed up a little
00:35:51.120
bit. So I wouldn't be too worried about that. Anyway, there are massive, let's say, reports of individual
00:36:01.760
problems, but I haven't seen enough of the same kind of problem to suggest massive fraud. Now, what are the
00:36:09.760
odds that Republicans will believe there was massive fraud in the California election? It's 100%. Because even
00:36:18.960
Trump weighed in on this and said, he said, does anybody really believe that the California recall election
00:36:26.560
isn't rigged? That's what Trump asked. Now, notice how cleverly he words it. If he claimed it was rigged, then
00:36:36.560
he'd be in a little bit of trouble. But if he says, does anybody believe it isn't rigged? He's talking about what you
00:36:42.480
think. And that's fair. Because that's a fair statement. He accurately is calling what we think,
00:36:50.160
which is different from knowing what is actually happening.
00:36:57.120
So I don't know if anything's going to blow up based on the result. It does look like Newsom
00:37:03.440
might win unless there's massive Republican turnout, which I suppose could happen.
00:37:08.640
Here's a story that I've been noodling about all day, because I didn't think this was true.
00:37:13.760
But I googled, and I think it is true. Did you know that ice cream is highly recommended for people
00:37:20.960
with dementia? How many people knew that? That ice cream, specifically ice cream, is highly recommended
00:37:29.200
for people with dementia. Apparently, what it does is, if your dementia is causing you to get
00:37:37.200
worked up and angry about stuff, which is, you know, the most common, or one of the most common side
00:37:42.560
effects of having dementia. Apparently, the ice cream just puts you in a different head.
00:37:48.880
As soon as you start eating the ice cream, your brain just says, ooh, ice cream, and then you relax.
00:37:54.640
And all of your extra anger from the dementia just seems to go away. Now, I didn't think this was a
00:38:02.240
real thing until I googled it and saw it's actually recommended. Now, let's talk about Joe Biden.
00:38:14.320
And he loves his ice cream. Yeah, all right. So I think this ice cream thing,
00:38:24.240
how can we ignore his dementia at this point? It's kind of obvious, isn't it? Kind of obvious.
00:38:32.800
All right, there's a lot of, I see a lot of chatter about personal choice and vaccines. And some people
00:38:39.120
saying, you know, whether or not the vaccinations are a good idea or a bad idea, it should be a personal
00:38:45.360
choice whether you take them. To which I say, no, it never is. These things are just power.
00:38:54.560
There are a lot of issues that we act as though,
00:39:00.240
we act as though if we made a better argument, we could win.
00:39:05.360
But it's never about that. The vaccinations are about power. If the people who want everybody to
00:39:11.760
get vaccinated have more power, then maybe it'll happen. And if they don't have enough power, it won't
00:39:16.560
happen. It has nothing to do with what's right or wrong. We should just figure out who has more power
00:39:22.640
and just go with that. Let's talk about your balls. So the big story is that Tucker Carlson did a
00:39:31.440
segment talking about Nicki Minaj's tweet in which Nicki said that her cousin's friend's testicles
00:39:42.560
swelled up after getting the vaccination and it made him impotent, not impotent, made him unable to have
00:39:50.480
children and caused his planned wedding to be canceled. Now, there are many funny things about this
00:39:58.320
story and I don't know where to begin. Number one, as some doctors pointed out,
00:40:03.840
Nicki Minaj, I think you just outed your cousin's friend for having chlamydia,
00:40:09.520
because that's what makes your balls swell up. And that may be, but it made me wonder
00:40:19.120
what would be the side effect if this is actually a side effect of the vaccination.
00:40:23.520
Now, and let me remind you, if a billion people get a vaccination,
00:40:29.040
someone in that billion people is going to get swollen balls the next day. Not necessarily because
00:40:36.720
of the vaccination, but if a billion people do anything, somebody is going to have something
00:40:42.480
happen the next day. It doesn't matter what it is. You'll have everything that could happen.
00:40:47.200
Somebody is going to have it. So the fact that one guy's balls got bigger after a vaccination
00:40:53.840
doesn't mean it was caused by the vaccination. But on average, wouldn't you expect, I don't know
00:41:02.000
how they measure this exactly, because on average, wouldn't you expect that the people who did get
00:41:06.800
the vaccination and were not afraid of it, on average, wouldn't they have bigger balls?
00:41:12.160
Because they're the ones who weren't, were not afraid of the vaccination. So the people are not
00:41:19.440
afraid. On average, wouldn't they have bigger balls? What? No, doesn't work that way.
00:41:31.040
Don't hate me. It's just a joke. So Martin, here's the other funny thing is that
00:41:39.200
Nicki Minaj is his cousin's friend with the swollen testicles.
00:41:45.280
He, I know a little bit about him. I did some research. It turns out he wanted to be famous.
00:41:51.040
He wanted to be famous. And by the way, if you go over to the locals platform, you can see it fine.
00:41:58.080
He wanted to be famous, but he did, he fell a little short. So instead, all right,
00:42:04.080
fuck you. I'll just turn off YouTube. So this guy with the swollen balls wanted to be famous,
00:42:09.600
but only his balls are. And so that is a story of Nicki Minaj's cousin's balls. Now,
00:42:19.600
if you wanted people to take the vaccination, and you want to persuade them, what would be a good way
00:42:23.600
to do it? Well, one way to do it is to tell people that COVID itself would make your ball shrink.
00:42:29.280
If I heard that there was any chance at all that COVID would make my balls shrink,
00:42:36.000
what are the odds that I would go get that vaccination? Pretty good. Pretty good. Because
00:42:44.480
I would take a 1 in 100 chance of dying, but I wouldn't take a 1 in 100 chance of my balls shrinking.
00:42:51.760
Am I right? Now, I know that's not logical. I'm not saying it's rational. But men, men back me on this.
00:42:59.520
You would take a 1 in 100 chance of dying, if it meant doing a sport or doing something you like.
00:43:05.520
But wouldn't you take a 1 in 100 chance of your balls shrinking? Yeah, you might not. So persuasion-wise,
00:43:14.560
yeah, persuasion-wise, telling people that COVID would shrink your balls,
00:43:20.960
it's not true as far as I know. But if you could tell people that and make them believe it,
00:43:24.880
they'd probably go get the shot. All right, I got to go do some other things. And I will talk to you
00:43:32.080
later. Sorry about the YouTube thing. Thorium doesn't need a water supply. Yeah,
00:43:40.160
China is testing in the Gobi Desert. Excellent. Hope it works out.