Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1501 Scott Adams： Simultaneous Sipping With Excellent Audio Quality For a Change

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the best thing that's ever happened.

00:00:08.960 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and the Simultaneous Sip, and I was thinking of doing

00:00:14.500 something different this morning, because normally when I do this, I do it in what I

00:00:20.940 would call, let's say, presentation mode, meaning that I know I'm talking to a large

00:00:27.720 group of people, and so I, you know, I modify my presentation to make it a little bigger

00:00:32.920 for people, and I thought, what would happen if instead of that, I spoke to you like we're

00:00:41.480 just sitting in the same room, and it's just one of you?

00:00:44.900 You want to try that today?

00:00:46.380 I want to see if I can make it feel like it's just me talking to you.

00:00:50.120 Now, in order to do this experiment, sometimes you're going to have to talk back, but since

00:00:57.580 I can't hear you, I'll just act like I did.

00:01:01.840 So I'll do my part, and then I'll pause for a moment while I listen to your part, and you

00:01:07.440 can say anything you want at home, because I can't hear it.

00:01:12.120 But despite not hearing it, watch how good my communication skills are, because without

00:01:19.500 even hearing what you say, I'm still going to respond to it.

00:01:24.180 Yeah.

00:01:24.760 That's how good my conversational skills are.

00:01:28.080 So after the simultaneous sip, which I'm going to do in casual mode, we'll just talk.

00:01:36.980 All right?

00:01:37.480 So we'll just try this today.

00:01:39.280 It's the only day we're going to do that.

00:01:40.800 All right?

00:01:42.040 Hey, how's it going?

00:01:43.360 You know what would be great?

00:01:44.400 Have you ever done that simultaneous sip?

00:01:48.360 You have?

00:01:49.820 What do you mean you don't like it?

00:01:52.800 You have to try it.

00:01:54.400 Just try it.

00:01:55.700 All right.

00:01:56.240 Just pick up your cup.

00:01:58.980 I know you're skeptical.

00:02:00.820 I know you're skeptical.

00:02:02.060 I was skeptical, too, the first time I heard about it.

00:02:04.560 But try the simultaneous sip, you know, because all you need is a cup of mug or glass.

00:02:09.640 You know, you don't need much.

00:02:10.820 Tiger, chalice, stein, what are the other things?

00:02:14.960 Canteen, jug, flask, whatever.

00:02:18.360 So let's just see if it works.

00:02:20.760 Go.

00:02:24.660 Was that a little too slurpy?

00:02:26.740 It was.

00:02:29.220 Sorry.

00:02:31.960 So have you seen the news today?

00:02:33.580 Did you have any time to look at the news yourself?

00:02:37.320 Well, luckily I did.

00:02:38.540 And so anything happening with you?

00:02:42.760 How was your morning?

00:02:44.780 Oh, that's good.

00:02:46.100 What are you doing today?

00:02:47.720 You got plans?

00:02:50.000 Ah, yeah.

00:02:50.840 One of those days.

00:02:52.680 Yeah.

00:02:53.600 Yeah, I got plans, too.

00:02:54.920 Later.

00:02:56.560 So did you hear about China?

00:03:02.480 Wow.

00:03:02.880 I don't know if this is working at all.

00:03:09.180 Probably not.

00:03:12.640 Let's go back to presentation mode.

00:03:15.060 So many of you have asked me why it is that I'm the only podcaster in the world who can't solve the audio problem.

00:03:22.860 Did you ever wonder that?

00:03:25.900 Because you've all seen me with massive audio and video problems.

00:03:29.560 And you say to yourself, Scott, Joe Rogan has solved this problem.

00:03:35.220 Why don't you just do what Joe Rogan does?

00:03:37.420 Or how about any of the 10 million podcasters who don't have any of these problems?

00:03:43.140 Because, let's explain it to you, Scott.

00:03:46.280 There's you.

00:03:47.880 Here's you.

00:03:49.340 And then there's 10 million podcasters who seem to have solved the problem that you alone can't seem to solve.

00:04:00.460 Do you see the problem here?

00:04:03.600 Do you see the problem?

00:04:06.580 Well, Carpe, thank you for saying the audio is fine today.

00:04:09.520 I don't think that was worth $20, but I appreciate it.

00:04:13.860 I mean, it wasn't worth $20 to you, but I appreciate it.

00:04:18.400 So here's what's different.

00:04:21.640 Nobody is solving my problem.

00:04:24.800 The problem that I have is unsolved by any podcaster anywhere in the world.

00:04:31.560 It's sort of an illusion.

00:04:33.560 Do you know why Joe Rogan can have good audio and I can't?

00:04:38.000 It's because it's not live.

00:04:40.240 That's why.

00:04:42.000 See what happens if he does it live every day.

00:04:45.160 It's going to be different, right?

00:04:47.220 So if you do live, you can't do what all the other podcasters do, which is make sure it works before you go.

00:04:55.940 Now, one of the things that you don't know, if you've not been a guest on many podcasts, as I have been,

00:05:02.000 is that even the recorded podcasts, they usually have to tweak the audio and try it again and test and move things around and, you know, even recorded ones, it's hard.

00:05:13.880 Then the other thing is, suppose I did it live, but I had an engineer who was working with me to make sure that everything's working as it happens.

00:05:24.300 So I don't have to worry about that.

00:05:25.800 There's an engineer sitting there.

00:05:26.940 I can't do the show with an engineer.

00:05:30.580 Do you get that?

00:05:32.460 How many of you understand that before I explain it?

00:05:35.560 That if I had an engineer working with me, I couldn't do this.

00:05:40.660 None of this would be possible if anybody else is sitting in the room.

00:05:44.300 Because anybody else in the room is going to be sucking my energy out before I go live.

00:05:49.820 You can't have other people in the room if you're going to be live, right?

00:05:54.680 Now, if you're Joe Rogan, it's a whole operation, right?

00:05:57.860 You've got your engineer, your guest.

00:06:00.380 You know, it's like a party.

00:06:01.840 If it's a party, that works pretty well, right?

00:06:05.420 You've got more than one person.

00:06:07.140 You know, it's a whole thing.

00:06:08.540 But the last thing I would want is to wake up at 4 in the morning and have my engineer sitting here.

00:06:16.060 Can you imagine that?

00:06:17.820 It would just be the worst setup in the world, right?

00:06:21.000 The fact that I do this alone is why I like it.

00:06:24.340 Everything about the thing that I like, I couldn't do with an engineer.

00:06:28.260 All right, that's enough of that.

00:06:30.840 I have revised my opinion on General Milley since yesterday.

00:06:36.140 You ready for this?

00:06:37.260 I believe, and I've said this before, that everyone deserves a defense.

00:06:45.480 Would you agree with the following statement?

00:06:48.080 Everyone deserves a defense, even if they're guilty in our country.

00:06:53.160 Now, in the legal system, of course, they get one.

00:06:55.660 But what about in the public realm?

00:06:59.220 Suppose you're being attacked in the public realm.

00:07:04.120 Do you deserve a defense?

00:07:05.220 Well, of course, you can make one.

00:07:07.260 You can just go in public and say, here's my defense.

00:07:11.480 But what if you can't?

00:07:13.580 And I'm not sure General Milley can in this situation.

00:07:16.940 Because there are a lot of mines in the minefield.

00:07:22.280 I'm not sure he can defend himself.

00:07:25.120 And so, as a courtesy to the military,

00:07:30.940 because he is a military person and we respect the military,

00:07:35.560 and I believe that as a member of the military,

00:07:38.320 that it is my responsibility as a citizen to support them

00:07:43.660 as they support me and support you.

00:07:46.940 So I'm going to support him now.

00:07:49.240 I don't know if he's innocent or guilty, competent or incompetent.

00:07:53.120 I'm just going to give him a defense.

00:07:54.580 Is that fair?

00:07:56.720 Before you even hear it, I just want to ask you,

00:07:59.960 is that fair to give him a defense?

00:08:03.160 Wouldn't you want to hear one?

00:08:05.740 If he's still guilty after you hear the defense, that's fine.

00:08:10.380 But everybody deserves a defense, especially a military person.

00:08:14.600 Who here thinks a military professional doesn't deserve a defense?

00:08:20.220 Right? Nobody.

00:08:23.180 All right. Here's the defense.

00:08:27.500 Shoe and the other foot test.

00:08:29.720 Number one.

00:08:30.400 This is the Alan Dershowitz test.

00:08:32.680 If Biden had been the president,

00:08:37.060 when Milley talked to China and said,

00:08:40.660 hey, don't worry, you know, I got this, you don't have to worry,

00:08:45.380 would I be as angry at him?

00:08:49.120 Or would I say to myself, you know,

00:08:52.260 you know, Biden might be a little mentally degraded.

00:08:56.760 I kind of feel a little safer

00:08:58.520 knowing that there's an adult who will say,

00:09:01.860 no, I'm not going to push that nuclear button.

00:09:04.160 I need to ask some questions.

00:09:07.060 So, that's the first part of the defense,

00:09:10.400 is would you feel exactly the same

00:09:12.140 if Milley was the check against Biden's brain?

00:09:17.200 Because he was acting as the check against Trump's brain.

00:09:23.060 Now, I think he was incorrect in estimating his risk.

00:09:27.140 If, in fact, because we don't know this as a fact,

00:09:30.340 but if he thought it was a real risk,

00:09:32.680 and I'm not sure he did.

00:09:34.140 I think you have to be skeptical of the reporting.

00:09:37.060 But if he thought it was true, that there was some risk,

00:09:40.940 wouldn't you want him to act?

00:09:43.980 Now, some people say, oh, that's the wrong way,

00:09:46.120 it's the wrong mechanism.

00:09:47.380 Should have gone through the 25th Amendment, 0.92

00:09:49.360 talked to Congress, talked to the Vice President.

00:09:51.780 There's a whole different thing.

00:09:52.840 You don't want to violate the chain of command.

00:09:55.680 Hold on, hold on.

00:09:57.820 Separate question.

00:09:58.600 Did I defend his going around the chain of command?

00:10:05.260 No.

00:10:05.840 No, I'm not going to defend that.

00:10:07.820 I'm not going to defend the question of whether he should be fired,

00:10:12.340 because he should.

00:10:14.140 I still think he should be fired,

00:10:16.880 because he went around the chain of command.

00:10:19.360 And unfortunately, it just has to be,

00:10:21.880 there's just no way around that.

00:10:23.820 Right?

00:10:24.160 The moment you allow that you can make an exception

00:10:27.500 to the chain of command, you're done.

00:10:30.320 Right?

00:10:30.640 You can't make an exception.

00:10:32.760 He has to be fired, in my opinion,

00:10:35.280 based on what we know.

00:10:36.520 But, you know, if we're being honest and humble about this,

00:10:39.280 we don't know everything.

00:10:40.020 It could be that the story is not anything like we think.

00:10:43.500 But here's the defense I'm going to give him.

00:10:46.780 Are you ready for this?

00:10:48.200 Here's the defense.

00:10:49.800 Although I believe he needs to be fired

00:10:51.640 for violating the chain of command,

00:10:54.260 if he was acting responsibly,

00:10:58.160 it probably looked like this.

00:11:01.260 Imagine if you believed that China was worried.

00:11:05.340 Do you think they were?

00:11:06.420 Do you think that China's military was getting antsy?

00:11:12.800 Now, the question is,

00:11:14.180 was China simply sitting there not worried at all,

00:11:17.520 and they didn't even think about it

00:11:19.460 until Milley called them?

00:11:21.220 Do you think that's the case?

00:11:23.280 Or do you think that Milley already knew

00:11:25.380 China was concerned about some kind of

00:11:29.400 sudden military action

00:11:31.500 because Trump was unstable,

00:11:33.380 according to our own media?

00:11:36.420 I think China's military was concerned.

00:11:41.320 What do you think?

00:11:42.300 Let's test your assumptions.

00:11:44.320 Test your assumption.

00:11:45.280 We don't know.

00:11:46.500 But do you think China's military

00:11:48.360 was at least concerned enough

00:11:50.780 to ask some questions?

00:11:53.020 Not really worried necessarily

00:11:55.580 that it would be a war,

00:11:57.220 but worried enough

00:11:58.620 just to ask the question.

00:12:01.020 What do you think?

00:12:01.480 A lot of no's.

00:12:03.700 A lot of people say no.

00:12:05.400 But you don't think that they would at least

00:12:07.220 ask if there was any risk?

00:12:10.000 Because you just have to ask, right?

00:12:12.540 Just ask your counterpart.

00:12:14.020 Is there any risk here?

00:12:15.680 Is there something we need to be worried about here?

00:12:18.720 Now, a lot of you are saying no,

00:12:20.100 but would you agree that that's an assumption?

00:12:21.800 Those of you saying no,

00:12:26.160 that's an assumption, right?

00:12:27.300 You don't know.

00:12:29.120 I'm going to make the assumption that,

00:12:31.020 and because, remember,

00:12:31.960 I'm giving Millie a defense. 1.00

00:12:33.760 It doesn't matter that I believe in it

00:12:35.680 or that it's true.

00:12:37.000 I'm simply giving him a defense

00:12:38.400 that everybody deserves.

00:12:39.580 Because for whatever reason,

00:12:40.600 he's not doing it himself.

00:12:42.580 And maybe he just can't speak of it

00:12:44.640 without getting in more trouble.

00:12:46.220 If the only thing Millie did 0.76

00:12:49.380 was talk to nervous Chinese counterparts

00:12:53.200 and tell them there's no real risk here,

00:12:56.740 what's the problem?

00:12:58.600 Go.

00:13:00.020 All right, so just take this as an assumption,

00:13:02.400 not a fact.

00:13:03.100 This is sort of a mental experiment.

00:13:05.100 If the only thing he did

00:13:06.720 was reassure them

00:13:08.920 that it doesn't look like there's any risk,

00:13:11.560 is that good or bad?

00:13:13.240 Because was there a risk?

00:13:17.360 Was there any risk

00:13:18.360 that Trump was going to attack China?

00:13:20.980 No, right?

00:13:22.220 No, there was no risk.

00:13:24.280 If China thought there was a risk,

00:13:25.980 was it good or bad,

00:13:27.440 then he told them,

00:13:28.300 don't worry about this,

00:13:28.920 there's no risk here.

00:13:30.100 And even if he thought

00:13:30.920 there was a risk with Trump,

00:13:32.700 he'd have to get through me first,

00:13:34.360 and it's not going to happen.

00:13:38.160 Right, chain of command.

00:13:39.600 Now, everybody was saying chain of command.

00:13:41.280 And we're all on the same page.

00:13:43.540 Millie needs to be fired 1.00

00:13:44.840 for violating it.

00:13:48.300 Right?

00:13:49.460 I think he does.

00:13:51.660 But that doesn't mean

00:13:53.000 he did the wrong thing.

00:13:54.960 There can be times

00:13:56.060 when you do the right thing

00:13:57.900 and still have to be fired.

00:14:00.340 Does everybody agree?

00:14:01.660 There could be times

00:14:02.820 when a military person

00:14:03.980 does the right thing

00:14:05.220 but still has to be fired.

00:14:07.920 This might be one of those cases.

00:14:09.700 Millie

00:14:11.300 might have simply been telling

00:14:13.780 a dangerous country

00:14:16.880 that there's nothing

00:14:18.500 to be worried about

00:14:19.360 because there wasn't.

00:14:21.440 Now,

00:14:22.460 I think the hypothetical

00:14:23.740 that you're holding in your head

00:14:25.100 is that

00:14:26.360 maybe we were going to attack.

00:14:29.540 Right?

00:14:30.020 Because if we were actually

00:14:31.220 thinking of attacking China, 0.74

00:14:33.520 then that would be treason.

00:14:36.080 Does everybody agree with that?

00:14:37.680 That if it was on the table,

00:14:40.200 if we'd even been thinking

00:14:41.500 about it a little bit,

00:14:43.200 attacking China, 0.92

00:14:44.960 if it was even

00:14:45.940 a little bit of a thought,

00:14:47.720 then talking to China about it

00:14:49.520 would certainly be treason.

00:14:51.840 You'd all agree with that, right?

00:14:53.780 And that's obvious.

00:14:55.520 But suppose,

00:14:57.200 and he would know for sure,

00:14:59.940 suppose there was no chance.

00:15:02.020 There was no chance at all.

00:15:03.360 There was no plan,

00:15:05.280 no chance,

00:15:06.020 no remote chance at all.

00:15:08.320 Is it treason to tell somebody

00:15:09.920 who could act dangerously

00:15:11.120 if they don't know

00:15:11.980 that there is no uncertainty here?

00:15:14.760 There's no uncertainty.

00:15:16.460 There's no danger.

00:15:18.280 You're definitely not going

00:15:19.300 to get attacked by us.

00:15:21.040 And believe me,

00:15:21.760 I can assure you that

00:15:22.840 because I can stop it personally.

00:15:27.300 Somebody says it's treason.

00:15:29.680 Make the argument for treason.

00:15:31.440 What is the argument

00:15:33.600 for keeping the United States safer?

00:15:36.960 How's that treasonous?

00:15:38.680 When there was no risk of danger

00:15:40.320 other than, you know,

00:15:42.160 people's minds imagining

00:15:43.720 there was a risk.

00:15:45.660 Why would they believe him?

00:15:47.200 Well, that doesn't matter.

00:15:48.960 That's not relevant to the question.

00:15:53.440 If China attacked,

00:15:55.240 what, you think China

00:15:56.040 was going to attack?

00:15:58.020 Who thinks China

00:15:59.180 was going to attack?

00:16:00.080 We are so far

00:16:02.640 from a shooting war

00:16:04.780 with China.

00:16:06.020 I mean, we're a million miles

00:16:07.320 away from that

00:16:08.080 because neither side wants it

00:16:10.000 for any reason whatsoever.

00:16:11.620 There is no scenario

00:16:12.860 in which either

00:16:13.920 the United States

00:16:15.260 or China

00:16:15.700 wants to shoot a bullet.

00:16:18.120 All right?

00:16:18.640 We don't want to do that.

00:16:21.740 China has been attacking, 0.99

00:16:23.160 yeah,

00:16:23.380 in the cyber way,

00:16:24.680 et cetera.

00:16:25.540 But, and of course,

00:16:26.460 I'm sure we're responding

00:16:27.340 on that.

00:16:27.760 All right,

00:16:29.400 so that's my defense

00:16:30.220 of General Milley.

00:16:32.220 And I,

00:16:33.440 again,

00:16:34.120 if you're just joining me,

00:16:35.400 it's not that I know he's,

00:16:38.100 that I know he did something right.

00:16:40.180 I'm not saying that.

00:16:41.360 I'm saying that there's

00:16:42.300 enough ambiguity

00:16:43.040 in this story

00:16:43.980 that you cannot assume

00:16:45.920 it was treasonous

00:16:47.280 by its nature.

00:16:48.640 We don't have enough

00:16:49.420 information for that.

00:16:50.340 If the only thing

00:16:51.800 that was going wrong

00:16:52.580 was that China

00:16:53.240 had some questions

00:16:54.100 and he was just making sure

00:16:55.920 that something

00:16:56.620 that wasn't going to happen

00:16:57.940 was well understood

00:17:00.480 and it made us safer,

00:17:03.640 which it would have,

00:17:05.300 you all right?

00:17:06.060 Reassuring China 1.00

00:17:06.880 that we're not going

00:17:07.520 to attack any moment

00:17:08.380 does make the United States safer.

00:17:10.480 So if General Milley

00:17:11.740 made us safer

00:17:12.760 or even was attempting

00:17:13.980 to make us safer

00:17:14.840 and it cost him his job,

00:17:18.540 well,

00:17:18.880 maybe that's the way

00:17:19.500 it has to go.

00:17:21.260 But, you know,

00:17:21.940 they sign up to die, right?

00:17:24.740 You join the military

00:17:25.880 to give your life,

00:17:28.420 potentially,

00:17:29.360 for the country.

00:17:30.760 If what Milley did

00:17:32.020 was risk his job

00:17:33.860 and reputation

00:17:34.560 for the country,

00:17:36.160 he's a military man.

00:17:39.060 And I would respect that

00:17:40.300 if that's what happened,

00:17:41.420 even if he has to be fired

00:17:43.060 for violating

00:17:43.900 the chain of command.

00:17:45.920 All right.

00:17:46.480 That's my argument.

00:17:47.300 Apparently there was

00:17:49.920 a research funded

00:17:51.340 by some big tech company

00:17:53.120 or companies

00:17:53.720 that found that

00:17:54.820 32% of teen girls

00:17:56.340 who felt bad

00:17:57.960 about their bodies

00:17:58.800 said Instagram

00:18:01.140 made the issue worse.

00:18:04.020 Now,

00:18:04.640 32% of girls

00:18:06.360 said that,

00:18:08.180 but that's probably also

00:18:09.480 how many girls 1.00

00:18:10.420 use Instagram.

00:18:11.580 because I don't know

00:18:13.720 any teenage girls

00:18:15.740 who don't feel bad

00:18:16.580 about their bodies,

00:18:18.040 pretty much.

00:18:20.020 They all feel bad

00:18:20.680 about their bodies

00:18:21.380 because that's

00:18:22.640 what social media

00:18:23.460 has done.

00:18:24.940 But 32% of them

00:18:26.460 are literally being

00:18:28.240 psychologically harmed

00:18:30.040 by Instagram.

00:18:32.860 How do we

00:18:33.580 let this happen?

00:18:36.200 How do you let,

00:18:37.020 yeah,

00:18:37.180 and teenage boys too,

00:18:38.140 but I have to think

00:18:39.160 it's way worse

00:18:39.780 for girls

00:18:40.300 because Instagram

00:18:41.860 really is a showcase

00:18:42.780 of female

00:18:44.600 sex appeal.

00:18:47.460 It's not so much

00:18:48.360 male sex appeal,

00:18:49.560 but I know

00:18:50.120 what you mean.

00:18:53.640 Here's a question

00:18:54.440 to you.

00:18:55.020 Do any of you

00:18:55.740 know anybody

00:18:56.480 who's dating age?

00:18:58.080 So this is,

00:18:58.800 this is not for you

00:19:00.080 who are of a certain age,

00:19:01.840 but rather,

00:19:02.680 do you know somebody

00:19:03.320 who's a teenager

00:19:04.220 or in their 20s

00:19:05.480 and they're dating?

00:19:06.080 And I have this question

00:19:06.760 for you.

00:19:07.120 I've been hearing

00:19:08.480 this from anecdotally

00:19:09.680 from a number

00:19:10.920 of different sources

00:19:11.940 that boys aren't

00:19:13.800 as interested

00:19:14.460 in girls

00:19:15.100 as they used to be.

00:19:17.520 Are you hearing that?

00:19:18.920 And specifically,

00:19:20.920 even physically.

00:19:26.520 Yeah,

00:19:27.140 I'm saying all yeses

00:19:28.200 in the comments

00:19:29.800 on locals.

00:19:30.640 It's a little faster

00:19:31.340 than on YouTube.

00:19:33.540 Yeah,

00:19:33.720 I'm saying all yeses.

00:19:34.640 Oh my God,

00:19:36.380 I didn't think

00:19:36.780 I'd see this much

00:19:37.480 agreement.

00:19:39.040 You know what

00:19:39.520 I expected?

00:19:40.260 I expected you

00:19:41.020 to say I hadn't

00:19:41.620 noticed it.

00:19:43.400 Oh my God,

00:19:44.300 almost every person

00:19:45.100 noticed it.

00:19:47.760 Holy,

00:19:48.680 holy,

00:19:49.440 holy cow. 0.89

00:19:52.060 Are you seeing this?

00:19:53.280 If you're just

00:19:53.820 listening to this,

00:19:54.680 I'm being blown

00:19:55.860 away right now.

00:19:57.200 On both YouTube

00:19:58.040 and locals,

00:19:59.440 it looks like

00:20:00.100 100% of the comments

00:20:01.660 just flowing past

00:20:03.220 are saying yes,

00:20:05.480 they've noticed

00:20:06.040 that the boys

00:20:06.640 are less interested

00:20:07.480 in girls.

00:20:08.820 Now,

00:20:09.100 people are saying

00:20:09.580 it's the low testosterone.

00:20:11.780 Might be political

00:20:12.860 correctness.

00:20:14.280 Well,

00:20:14.720 not political correctness,

00:20:15.760 that's the wrong word.

00:20:16.760 It might be more

00:20:17.720 sensitivity to

00:20:18.720 Me Too stuff.

00:20:20.200 Could be the boys

00:20:20.920 are less aggressive

00:20:21.700 because they've been

00:20:22.400 trained to be

00:20:23.560 less aggressive.

00:20:24.940 In a good way.

00:20:26.040 I mean,

00:20:26.240 it doesn't mean

00:20:26.640 that's a bad way.

00:20:27.860 If they're obeying

00:20:28.880 the law,

00:20:29.540 I suppose that's

00:20:30.100 a good way.

00:20:30.480 Yeah.

00:20:35.740 Now,

00:20:36.100 why do you think

00:20:36.520 that is?

00:20:37.500 I have two hypotheses.

00:20:40.580 Three.

00:20:41.780 I just came up

00:20:42.600 with a third one.

00:20:44.200 Number one,

00:20:44.900 low testosterone.

00:20:45.840 That's the obvious one.

00:20:47.420 I believe we know

00:20:48.520 that to be true.

00:20:49.620 Is there anybody

00:20:50.100 who thinks

00:20:50.740 that's not true?

00:20:51.820 Is that possibly

00:20:52.500 fake news?

00:20:54.280 It's confirmed,

00:20:55.420 right?

00:20:56.140 I hope I'm not

00:20:56.900 spreading some

00:20:57.780 fake science,

00:20:58.580 but I think

00:20:59.520 it's confirmed

00:21:00.100 that testosterone

00:21:01.260 is much lower

00:21:02.120 than it used to be

00:21:02.940 in the average public.

00:21:05.960 Somebody's saying

00:21:06.600 it's because of soy.

00:21:07.680 I don't know

00:21:08.020 if that's why,

00:21:09.080 but maybe.

00:21:12.780 The other thing

00:21:13.620 is porn.

00:21:16.460 Women and girls

00:21:17.780 didn't used

00:21:18.320 to have competition.

00:21:19.920 If you were

00:21:20.400 a heterosexual,

00:21:22.300 that's all you had.

00:21:23.560 When I grew up,

00:21:24.340 we didn't even

00:21:24.780 have porn.

00:21:26.120 I mean,

00:21:26.380 we had it,

00:21:26.840 but we didn't

00:21:27.200 have much access

00:21:28.000 to it.

00:21:29.280 So,

00:21:29.940 if everything

00:21:32.060 I know

00:21:32.580 about economics

00:21:33.920 and competition

00:21:35.700 and humanity

00:21:36.880 is true,

00:21:38.240 then as porn

00:21:39.400 got better,

00:21:41.140 the extra value

00:21:42.440 of a living

00:21:43.020 human being,

00:21:44.220 the difference

00:21:45.060 was decreasing.

00:21:46.900 And as I've said

00:21:47.580 before,

00:21:48.100 porn has gotten

00:21:48.680 to the point,

00:21:49.520 thanks to technology,

00:21:50.960 where you can get

00:21:52.060 exactly what you want.

00:21:53.580 And the difference

00:21:55.120 between seeing,

00:21:56.540 you know,

00:21:56.920 general porn,

00:21:58.000 that everybody

00:21:59.040 responds to

00:21:59.740 a little bit,

00:22:00.600 versus that exact

00:22:02.060 thing that really

00:22:03.080 gets you going.

00:22:04.260 Maybe not everybody

00:22:05.080 else,

00:22:05.480 but it gets you

00:22:06.040 going.

00:22:07.060 You can get

00:22:07.540 that exact thing.

00:22:09.360 And that closes

00:22:10.140 the difference

00:22:10.780 between a living

00:22:11.620 human and the

00:22:13.000 experience you can

00:22:13.880 get from your

00:22:14.460 computer.

00:22:15.860 And it's continuing

00:22:17.020 to close.

00:22:17.920 It's, you know,

00:22:18.740 every day,

00:22:19.960 it's closing more.

00:22:21.260 What happens

00:22:22.220 when you get

00:22:22.640 full 3D?

00:22:26.420 What happens

00:22:27.540 when you have

00:22:28.980 full 3D?

00:22:31.040 And you can

00:22:31.440 actually just

00:22:31.920 put yourself

00:22:32.540 at the scene.

00:22:35.000 Well,

00:22:35.800 why would you

00:22:37.080 date?

00:22:37.420 If you've got

00:22:39.900 an AI girlfriend

00:22:41.080 that you can visit

00:22:42.700 anytime you want,

00:22:43.640 just putting on

00:22:44.180 your goggles,

00:22:44.860 two-thirds of

00:22:48.320 men are just 0.98

00:22:48.860 going to give

00:22:49.260 up on women.

00:22:50.620 Because I'm

00:22:53.280 just going to

00:22:53.680 say this.

00:22:55.120 All right.

00:22:56.120 I think my

00:22:57.080 audience can

00:22:57.580 handle this.

00:22:58.580 Are you ready?

00:23:01.460 Women and 0.99

00:23:02.240 girls are a 0.97

00:23:05.480 much worse

00:23:06.760 deal than

00:23:07.520 they used to

00:23:08.040 be.

00:23:08.320 Not just

00:23:08.840 because of the

00:23:09.380 competition of

00:23:10.420 porn.

00:23:11.380 But because I

00:23:12.160 think society

00:23:12.900 has caused

00:23:14.140 us,

00:23:14.860 to sort

00:23:15.960 of become

00:23:16.720 enemies.

00:23:18.580 You know,

00:23:18.840 the genders.

00:23:20.380 And I'm

00:23:21.720 open to the

00:23:22.240 argument that

00:23:22.740 it used to

00:23:23.100 be better

00:23:23.520 for men

00:23:23.980 and worse

00:23:24.380 for women

00:23:24.840 and all

00:23:25.280 that's

00:23:25.480 happening is

00:23:26.040 things are

00:23:26.560 rebalancing

00:23:27.100 and things

00:23:27.720 are better

00:23:28.000 for women

00:23:28.480 at the

00:23:29.640 expense of

00:23:30.280 whatever

00:23:30.840 badness men

00:23:31.740 were getting

00:23:32.100 away with.

00:23:33.620 So, I

00:23:34.060 mean, maybe

00:23:34.380 it's a good

00:23:34.740 thing.

00:23:35.560 But the

00:23:35.900 net effect of

00:23:36.600 it is that

00:23:37.120 women are 1.00

00:23:37.480 less valuable

00:23:38.100 to men

00:23:39.620 because they're

00:23:40.860 more of a

00:23:41.240 pain in the

00:23:41.720 ass. 0.70

00:23:42.980 Let me

00:23:43.400 just say it

00:23:43.780 directly.

00:23:45.400 Women are 1.00

00:23:46.260 less valuable

00:23:47.040 to men

00:23:47.600 in 2021

00:23:48.380 than they

00:23:49.100 used to

00:23:49.440 be because

00:23:50.740 women are 1.00

00:23:51.500 more of a

00:23:52.000 pain in the

00:23:52.480 ass. 0.70

00:23:53.900 Every man

00:23:54.660 knows what

00:23:55.060 I'm talking

00:23:55.440 about, right?

00:23:56.860 You all

00:23:57.520 know what

00:23:57.900 I'm talking

00:23:58.280 about.

00:23:58.940 Now, does

00:24:00.660 that mean

00:24:01.220 that that's a

00:24:02.600 bad change?

00:24:03.800 I'm not saying

00:24:04.420 that.

00:24:05.060 I'm not saying

00:24:05.540 it at all.

00:24:06.120 Because sometimes

00:24:06.900 being a pain in

00:24:07.640 the ass is a 0.97

00:24:08.620 good thing.

00:24:09.020 It means you're

00:24:10.880 getting what you

00:24:11.480 want.

00:24:11.900 It means you're

00:24:12.340 asserting yourself.

00:24:14.000 It means you're

00:24:14.560 not being walked

00:24:15.940 all over,

00:24:16.700 et cetera.

00:24:17.440 So, I'm not

00:24:18.880 sure I would

00:24:19.400 advise a

00:24:20.120 daughter to be

00:24:21.720 any different

00:24:22.200 than that.

00:24:22.740 Stand up for

00:24:23.420 yourself.

00:24:24.240 Go get what's

00:24:25.220 right for you.

00:24:26.300 But the net

00:24:27.040 effect of that is

00:24:28.800 that it makes

00:24:29.220 women a pain in 1.00

00:24:30.200 the ass and 0.88

00:24:31.120 less valuable as

00:24:32.320 something you want

00:24:34.260 to associate with.

00:24:34.880 So, there's a

00:24:36.860 lot of bad

00:24:37.400 stuff happening

00:24:38.140 right now in

00:24:38.800 terms of gender

00:24:39.880 relations.

00:24:40.840 Keep an eye on

00:24:41.580 that.

00:24:42.200 Meanwhile, over

00:24:42.880 in China, Wall

00:24:44.700 Street Journal did

00:24:45.700 a piece on how

00:24:47.320 TikTok is

00:24:48.140 reprogramming your

00:24:49.180 brain.

00:24:50.500 And apparently

00:24:50.900 the main part of

00:24:51.940 TikTok's algorithm,

00:24:53.000 and this is no

00:24:53.560 surprise, you

00:24:54.900 assume that this is

00:24:55.940 true of Instagram

00:24:56.660 and everything

00:24:57.240 else, but

00:24:58.540 apparently the

00:24:59.040 main part of the

00:24:59.620 algorithm is how

00:25:00.360 long you watch

00:25:01.140 anything.

00:25:02.560 So, if you spend

00:25:03.380 a lot of time

00:25:03.920 looking at a

00:25:04.460 certain kind of

00:25:04.860 content, TikTok

00:25:06.400 knows it, and

00:25:07.600 they give you

00:25:08.820 more of that

00:25:09.260 content.

00:25:10.700 Now, what does

00:25:12.840 China need to 0.97

00:25:14.220 brainwash our

00:25:15.040 children?

00:25:16.640 Just this.

00:25:18.000 Because China 0.94

00:25:18.820 owns basically

00:25:20.620 TikTok, meaning

00:25:22.260 that it's a

00:25:23.000 Chinese company,

00:25:24.320 and the Chinese 0.83

00:25:24.980 government, of

00:25:25.840 course, has

00:25:27.000 access to any

00:25:27.800 Chinese company's

00:25:28.840 technology or

00:25:29.720 backdoor.

00:25:31.100 Nobody doubts

00:25:31.720 that.

00:25:32.600 So, the

00:25:32.960 Chinese government

00:25:33.760 has a tool

00:25:35.360 that can

00:25:36.800 brainwash

00:25:37.460 every child

00:25:38.220 in America

00:25:38.780 who uses

00:25:39.820 TikTok, which

00:25:40.580 is most of

00:25:41.160 them at this

00:25:41.560 point, and

00:25:42.900 the way they

00:25:43.360 can do it is

00:25:43.900 simply finding

00:25:44.460 out what they

00:25:44.940 watch naturally,

00:25:46.500 and that tells

00:25:47.320 you what they

00:25:47.760 respond to.

00:25:49.300 And once you

00:25:49.920 know what

00:25:50.220 somebody responds

00:25:51.060 to, you have

00:25:52.720 everything you

00:25:53.320 need.

00:25:53.620 Have you ever

00:25:54.800 trained a dog?

00:25:55.500 it's easy.

00:25:57.900 You just give

00:25:58.360 them a treat

00:25:58.880 when they do

00:25:59.840 something similar

00:26:00.740 to what you

00:26:01.340 want them to

00:26:01.820 do, until it

00:26:03.180 gets closer and

00:26:03.940 closer to the

00:26:04.660 behavior you

00:26:05.300 want, and then

00:26:06.440 you lock it in

00:26:07.140 by giving a

00:26:07.720 treat every time

00:26:08.480 you get the

00:26:08.860 behavior.

00:26:10.660 TikTok can

00:26:12.500 give you

00:26:12.980 treats now.

00:26:14.960 It can train

00:26:15.740 you like a

00:26:16.520 fucking dog.

00:26:18.840 Really.

00:26:20.160 That's not

00:26:20.820 hyperbole.

00:26:22.100 TikTok can train

00:26:23.080 you like a

00:26:23.600 dog, because

00:26:24.580 it knows which

00:26:25.400 treats are

00:26:26.780 treats to

00:26:27.500 you.

00:26:28.420 It knows how

00:26:29.100 to light up

00:26:30.060 that part of

00:26:31.560 your brain for

00:26:32.960 just you.

00:26:34.360 Remember what

00:26:34.860 I said about

00:26:35.540 porn is

00:26:37.120 turbocharged

00:26:38.440 because they

00:26:38.980 can adapt it

00:26:40.800 just to the

00:26:41.280 specific individual?

00:26:43.560 Well, so

00:26:44.420 can TikTok.

00:26:46.080 TikTok can

00:26:46.860 give you a

00:26:47.520 treat in the

00:26:48.680 form of exactly

00:26:49.500 the content you

00:26:50.320 were looking

00:26:50.680 for that makes

00:26:51.300 you happy.

00:26:52.540 Anytime

00:26:53.060 it wants, and

00:26:54.760 if it can

00:26:55.240 control when

00:26:56.020 you get a

00:26:56.520 treat, and

00:26:58.160 when you

00:26:58.520 don't, it

00:27:00.800 owns you.

00:27:02.620 Whoever

00:27:03.000 controls the

00:27:03.980 treats is in

00:27:06.180 charge.

00:27:07.580 Now, will

00:27:08.580 they weaponize

00:27:09.300 it?

00:27:09.920 Will they take

00:27:10.540 advantage of

00:27:11.160 this opening

00:27:11.700 that they have

00:27:12.360 to change the

00:27:14.240 brains of

00:27:14.800 American children?

00:27:16.540 Of course.

00:27:18.220 Of course.

00:27:20.100 Suppose you

00:27:20.760 saw some

00:27:21.240 content.

00:27:21.740 that China 0.93

00:27:24.880 thought was

00:27:25.500 going to be

00:27:25.800 really bad

00:27:26.420 for America.

00:27:27.260 Let's say

00:27:27.580 it's something,

00:27:28.500 some meme

00:27:29.120 or some

00:27:29.520 belief that

00:27:30.860 kids were

00:27:31.760 spreading around,

00:27:33.080 and you

00:27:33.920 knew it was

00:27:34.280 going to be

00:27:34.560 destructive to

00:27:35.400 the fiber of

00:27:36.120 American life.

00:27:38.060 How could

00:27:38.560 you make

00:27:39.060 more of that

00:27:40.320 go around?

00:27:41.700 Well, all

00:27:43.140 you could do

00:27:43.500 is sandwich it

00:27:44.220 between two

00:27:45.220 treats.

00:27:47.160 You just

00:27:47.960 serve up a

00:27:48.560 treat.

00:27:48.840 that's

00:27:49.240 exactly what

00:27:50.140 you wanted

00:27:50.480 to see.

00:27:50.840 Oh, I

00:27:51.220 love that.

00:27:52.600 Then you

00:27:53.020 serve up the

00:27:53.780 little part

00:27:54.380 that's the

00:27:54.800 brainwashing

00:27:55.380 manipulation,

00:27:56.980 and then you

00:27:57.460 serve up another

00:27:58.200 treat, and

00:27:59.640 you just

00:27:59.940 sandwich it.

00:28:01.400 What will

00:28:01.900 people think

00:28:02.600 of that little

00:28:03.220 nugget that's

00:28:03.900 between the

00:28:04.400 two treats?

00:28:04.980 We're

00:28:06.860 dogs.

00:28:08.020 We're going

00:28:08.400 to like that

00:28:08.960 thing better,

00:28:10.060 because it was

00:28:10.560 sandwiched between

00:28:11.420 two treats.

00:28:13.240 And the treats

00:28:13.860 made us happy,

00:28:14.760 and then we were

00:28:15.240 happy when we

00:28:15.920 saw the content,

00:28:16.660 and the

00:28:17.460 happiness rubbed

00:28:18.220 off on us.

00:28:18.740 That's how it

00:28:19.160 works.

00:28:20.280 You associate

00:28:20.920 things, and you

00:28:22.180 take the goodness

00:28:22.880 or the badness

00:28:23.720 of a thing, and

00:28:24.800 you transfer it

00:28:25.500 to another

00:28:25.860 thing.

00:28:26.900 That's

00:28:27.380 brainwashing.

00:28:29.240 That's what

00:28:29.960 TikTok can do

00:28:30.900 natively.

00:28:33.460 It's built

00:28:34.240 for that.

00:28:36.160 Okay.

00:28:38.120 So, why

00:28:40.120 is TikTok

00:28:40.560 legal in the

00:28:41.300 United States?

00:28:43.960 Anybody?

00:28:44.480 Why is

00:28:46.240 TikTok still

00:28:47.120 operating in

00:28:47.840 the United

00:28:48.200 States?

00:28:49.400 Can anybody

00:28:49.840 answer that

00:28:50.320 question?

00:28:52.620 Why is

00:28:53.240 TikTok still

00:28:53.900 operating?

00:28:54.280 Because remember,

00:28:55.080 Trump took a

00:28:55.900 run at it, but

00:28:56.760 for whatever

00:28:57.620 reason, didn't

00:28:58.620 shut it down.

00:29:01.760 Greed?

00:29:02.260 I don't know.

00:29:02.800 I don't think

00:29:03.400 there's any

00:29:03.740 profit motive,

00:29:04.780 because it's a

00:29:05.440 Chinese company.

00:29:06.160 No, I don't

00:29:06.620 think they're

00:29:06.940 bribing anybody.

00:29:08.320 I'd be really

00:29:08.840 surprised if it's

00:29:10.280 a bribe.

00:29:12.460 Somebody says

00:29:13.200 China owns 0.99

00:29:13.820 Biden, well,

00:29:14.700 I don't know.

00:29:15.200 I doubt it

00:29:15.620 matters on this

00:29:16.260 issue, necessarily.

00:29:21.660 Here's my

00:29:22.300 opinion.

00:29:23.980 They don't

00:29:24.680 understand the

00:29:26.080 issue.

00:29:28.120 I believe that

00:29:29.160 Joe Biden does

00:29:30.260 not understand

00:29:31.000 the risk of

00:29:32.040 TikTok.

00:29:33.380 Did you?

00:29:34.340 Did you

00:29:34.880 understand the

00:29:35.500 risk until I

00:29:36.100 explained it to

00:29:36.680 you?

00:29:37.460 Let me ask in

00:29:38.200 the comments.

00:29:39.180 Until you

00:29:39.780 heard it from

00:29:40.280 me, did you

00:29:42.480 understand the

00:29:43.160 risk?

00:29:45.280 Looking at the

00:29:46.080 comments, seeing

00:29:47.760 lots of yeses,

00:29:48.560 but lots of

00:29:49.000 noes.

00:29:50.740 Now, of

00:29:51.100 course, my

00:29:51.480 audience, you

00:29:52.540 know, you've

00:29:52.920 been sort of

00:29:53.780 maybe trained to

00:29:54.620 it.

00:29:55.340 So see the

00:29:55.820 difference.

00:29:56.260 Well, you

00:29:56.540 can't see the

00:29:57.020 difference, so

00:29:57.460 I'll just tell

00:29:57.860 you.

00:29:58.440 On YouTube,

00:30:00.040 where I get

00:30:00.580 more people who

00:30:01.960 are new to

00:30:02.420 me, I think

00:30:04.760 there are a

00:30:05.140 few more

00:30:05.520 noes than

00:30:06.120 there are on

00:30:06.800 locals where

00:30:08.200 people have

00:30:08.580 been following

00:30:09.000 me for a

00:30:09.460 while.

00:30:09.620 Yeah, so

00:30:13.220 here's my

00:30:13.800 belief.

00:30:15.600 I don't

00:30:15.960 think Biden

00:30:16.540 knows it's

00:30:17.060 dangerous, and

00:30:19.180 nobody's probably

00:30:19.820 taken it to him

00:30:20.580 and explained it

00:30:21.340 in the way that

00:30:21.820 I'm explaining

00:30:22.440 it.

00:30:23.380 So I think

00:30:24.280 it's probably

00:30:24.780 an incompetence

00:30:25.660 problem, meaning

00:30:27.260 that there's a

00:30:28.740 level of

00:30:29.180 ignorance about

00:30:29.820 the risk, and

00:30:31.100 it hasn't been

00:30:31.640 communicated to

00:30:32.560 the people who

00:30:33.020 can make the

00:30:33.440 decisions.

00:30:34.500 What the hell

00:30:34.900 is the CIA

00:30:35.500 doing?

00:30:35.840 Now, maybe

00:30:37.540 the CIA got

00:30:40.020 in it, too, and

00:30:41.600 maybe they've

00:30:42.200 got some secret

00:30:42.860 plan to use it

00:30:43.920 to spy on

00:30:45.040 China or 0.92

00:30:45.500 something.

00:30:46.340 I guess.

00:30:46.980 It could be

00:30:47.360 some reason

00:30:47.840 that I don't

00:30:48.300 know about.

00:30:49.380 But it

00:30:50.120 doesn't look

00:30:50.760 like competence

00:30:51.720 to me.

00:30:54.160 According to

00:30:55.080 a tweet I

00:30:56.280 saw by Saul

00:30:57.380 of United on

00:30:58.620 Twitter, China

00:30:59.860 is responsible

00:31:00.460 for more than

00:31:01.060 two-thirds of

00:31:01.800 state-sponsored

00:31:02.780 cyberattacks

00:31:03.700 around the

00:31:04.200 world.

00:31:04.520 Two-thirds

00:31:05.900 of them.

00:31:07.040 And apparently

00:31:07.460 the new

00:31:07.900 technique is

00:31:09.000 that states

00:31:09.940 like Russia 0.91

00:31:10.720 or China

00:31:11.400 will use

00:31:12.560 criminal

00:31:13.140 organizations to

00:31:14.420 do the

00:31:14.720 hacking.

00:31:15.900 So if

00:31:16.440 anybody gets

00:31:16.980 caught, the

00:31:18.240 government can

00:31:18.880 say, well,

00:31:19.340 it wasn't

00:31:19.700 us.

00:31:21.220 We're sorry

00:31:22.080 that our

00:31:22.500 criminal

00:31:22.900 organizations did

00:31:23.980 that to you,

00:31:24.540 and we'll

00:31:25.280 arrest them as

00:31:26.040 soon as we

00:31:26.800 can.

00:31:27.240 We'll get

00:31:27.600 right on

00:31:27.980 that.

00:31:29.120 So suppose

00:31:30.160 that's the

00:31:30.600 situation, and

00:31:31.680 they've got

00:31:32.000 this deniability

00:31:32.980 because they're

00:31:33.440 using these

00:31:34.000 criminal

00:31:34.760 organizations to

00:31:35.840 do their

00:31:36.140 hacking, what

00:31:37.460 would you do

00:31:37.920 about it?

00:31:38.960 Well, I don't

00:31:39.840 know what we

00:31:40.320 are doing

00:31:40.720 about it, but

00:31:41.140 I'll tell you

00:31:41.480 what I would

00:31:41.880 do about it.

00:31:42.840 I would pay

00:31:43.680 Russian hackers

00:31:45.540 to hack

00:31:46.240 China.

00:31:48.620 Right?

00:31:49.960 If our

00:31:50.640 CIA is not

00:31:52.000 hiring Russian

00:31:53.540 hackers,

00:31:54.840 criminals, 0.62

00:31:55.940 to hack

00:31:56.640 China,

00:31:57.880 why not?

00:32:00.380 Why not?

00:32:01.040 How about

00:32:02.260 North Korean

00:32:02.860 hackers?

00:32:04.260 I don't

00:32:04.580 know if

00:32:04.780 you can

00:32:04.980 hire them,

00:32:05.640 that'd be

00:32:05.900 harder, but

00:32:06.920 I hear they're

00:32:07.320 pretty good

00:32:07.740 too.

00:32:09.520 Are you

00:32:09.820 telling me

00:32:10.160 we're not

00:32:10.480 hiring any

00:32:11.120 criminal

00:32:11.480 organizations to

00:32:12.380 hack China?

00:32:13.720 And if

00:32:14.260 China's doing 1.00

00:32:15.100 two-thirds of

00:32:15.780 the hacking,

00:32:16.600 we've got some

00:32:17.580 catching up to

00:32:18.220 do, because

00:32:19.680 I'm sure we

00:32:20.560 have enough

00:32:20.940 money to

00:32:21.440 hire enough

00:32:21.920 criminal

00:32:22.360 organizations to

00:32:24.180 get up to

00:32:25.800 two-thirds of

00:32:26.380 the hacking

00:32:26.740 ourselves.

00:32:27.240 We should

00:32:28.680 be hacking

00:32:29.180 the motherfucking

00:32:30.260 shit out of

00:32:31.380 China with 0.93

00:32:32.640 illegal hackers.

00:32:36.140 In fact,

00:32:37.060 their entire

00:32:37.620 network should

00:32:38.260 be crashing

00:32:38.780 right now from

00:32:40.700 illegal criminal

00:32:42.180 gangs hacking

00:32:43.200 their network.

00:32:44.320 In fact,

00:32:44.840 there should be

00:32:45.260 so many hacks,

00:32:46.300 their lights

00:32:46.780 should go out.

00:32:48.380 And then we

00:32:48.900 should say,

00:32:49.360 I don't know

00:32:51.300 what you're

00:32:51.520 talking about.

00:32:53.000 Oh, you mean

00:32:53.800 what the criminal

00:32:54.680 hackers are

00:32:55.580 independently doing?

00:32:57.240 Well, we don't

00:32:57.880 know about

00:32:58.240 that.

00:32:59.440 I mean, it's

00:33:00.080 a shame that

00:33:00.720 all those

00:33:01.160 Russian criminal

00:33:02.600 gangs are 0.98

00:33:03.300 hacking you,

00:33:03.940 China.

00:33:05.180 It's a shame.

00:33:06.600 What can we

00:33:07.120 do about it?

00:33:08.340 Nothing we

00:33:08.860 can do about

00:33:09.360 it.

00:33:09.780 Oh, and by

00:33:10.280 the way, that

00:33:11.800 trucker full of

00:33:12.720 fentanyl we

00:33:13.440 shipped over to

00:33:14.260 Wuhan, good

00:33:16.680 luck with that.

00:33:17.680 We should also

00:33:18.240 be shipping them

00:33:19.020 deadly fentanyl

00:33:20.660 and putting it

00:33:21.120 in their water

00:33:21.620 supply.

00:33:23.920 Just kidding.

00:33:24.980 Just kidding.

00:33:25.560 We don't want

00:33:26.000 to do mass

00:33:26.440 murder.

00:33:27.240 Well, yeah, we

00:33:31.380 don't want to do

00:33:31.860 that.

00:33:32.800 Well, I think

00:33:33.480 that the funniest

00:33:34.000 story in the

00:33:34.660 world, still two

00:33:35.620 days running, is

00:33:36.480 Nicki Minaj's

00:33:37.320 cousin's friend

00:33:38.060 with his swollen

00:33:38.780 balls, allegedly

00:33:40.340 because he got a

00:33:41.200 vaccination.

00:33:42.300 Turns out that the

00:33:43.040 government of

00:33:43.600 Trinidad spent the 0.93

00:33:45.080 entire day

00:33:45.760 yesterday researching,

00:33:48.120 wait for it, let me

00:33:49.900 back up again because I

00:33:50.960 want to make sure that

00:33:51.620 you're all ready for it

00:33:52.500 when I get to the

00:33:53.680 conclusion.

00:33:54.680 The government of

00:33:56.880 Trinidad, the

00:33:58.380 government, the

00:33:59.500 government of

00:34:00.220 Trinidad spent all 1.00

00:34:02.020 day yesterday

00:34:02.800 researching Nicki

00:34:05.280 Minaj's cousin's

00:34:06.720 friend's swollen

00:34:07.980 balls and found out 0.94

00:34:11.720 it didn't happen.

00:34:13.940 Or at least they

00:34:14.840 can't find it.

00:34:16.280 So according to

00:34:16.960 them, there was no

00:34:19.160 Nicki Minaj's cousin's

00:34:20.740 friend with swollen

00:34:21.620 balls.

00:34:23.520 I don't know where

00:34:24.380 that came from.

00:34:26.100 But I don't think

00:34:29.540 there's anything

00:34:30.120 better or more

00:34:31.820 entertaining than the

00:34:33.000 government of an

00:34:33.740 entire island nation

00:34:34.920 spending their whole

00:34:36.400 day researching

00:34:38.120 somebody's balls. 0.78

00:34:40.640 Now, I've been

00:34:42.860 accused a little bit

00:34:43.920 of being sometimes

00:34:45.880 narcissistic.

00:34:48.000 I can't believe that

00:34:49.400 anybody would say

00:34:49.940 that about me.

00:34:50.740 It seems so cruel

00:34:51.860 and wrong.

00:34:53.520 But when I heard

00:34:54.920 this story, I

00:34:56.720 thought to myself,

00:34:57.780 why not me?

00:35:01.320 Nobody's talking

00:35:02.060 about my balls. 0.78

00:35:03.880 It's like we're all

00:35:04.600 about, oh, Nicki

00:35:05.460 Minaj's cousin's

00:35:06.460 balls.

00:35:07.320 Like he's so special.

00:35:08.980 Like his balls are

00:35:10.120 just they're special

00:35:11.720 because they're what?

00:35:12.600 Swollen?

00:35:13.820 My balls could be

00:35:14.900 swollen.

00:35:16.000 That's no big

00:35:16.900 accomplishment.

00:35:17.420 Why are we talking

00:35:19.100 about my balls?

00:35:20.060 Why are his balls so

00:35:22.260 special that the

00:35:23.240 entire country of

00:35:24.020 Trinidad cares about 1.00

00:35:25.100 it?

00:35:25.680 Nay, America cares

00:35:27.740 about his balls. 0.59

00:35:29.220 Does anybody care

00:35:29.900 about yours?

00:35:30.880 Well, those of you

00:35:32.020 who possess them.

00:35:34.120 No.

00:35:35.020 Nobody cares about

00:35:35.820 our balls.

00:35:37.080 Let me tell you the

00:35:37.920 funniest act that I

00:35:40.200 ever, the funniest

00:35:41.320 thing I've ever seen

00:35:42.180 on a stage comedian.

00:35:44.040 It was George Carlin

00:35:45.400 live.

00:35:47.040 So a number of

00:35:47.960 years ago, I

00:35:50.040 attended a George

00:35:50.920 Carlin outdoor

00:35:52.020 live, you know,

00:35:53.280 stand-up comedy

00:35:54.100 event.

00:35:54.940 And it was, you

00:35:55.640 know, near my home,

00:35:57.020 not too far down the

00:35:57.880 road.

00:35:58.840 Bicycle distance.

00:35:59.980 In fact, I have

00:36:00.640 bicycled to that

00:36:01.620 location before.

00:36:03.240 So it's a bicycle

00:36:04.760 distance.

00:36:05.320 I'm sitting there and

00:36:06.020 I'm listening to

00:36:06.800 George Carlin.

00:36:08.260 And he gets

00:36:11.020 introduced and he

00:36:12.700 starts talking before

00:36:13.880 you even see him.

00:36:15.840 Right?

00:36:16.360 So imagine the

00:36:17.160 empty stage.

00:36:18.080 He's been introduced

00:36:18.920 by the, you know,

00:36:19.740 the host.

00:36:21.560 And then as you see

00:36:22.820 this figure walking

00:36:23.720 toward the stage, he's

00:36:24.940 already talking in his

00:36:25.840 microphone.

00:36:27.120 Now, the background

00:36:28.840 you have to know is

00:36:29.640 that Lance Armstrong

00:36:30.480 was in the news a lot.

00:36:32.780 And that Lance

00:36:33.740 Armstrong at that

00:36:34.600 time.

00:36:35.360 And that Lance

00:36:36.020 Armstrong famously

00:36:37.320 has one testicle.

00:36:40.300 Right?

00:36:41.000 And he had cancer

00:36:41.880 apparently.

00:36:43.080 And George Carlin

00:36:45.040 is walking onto

00:36:45.900 stage and with no

00:36:47.860 context.

00:36:48.820 This is what makes

00:36:49.700 it funny.

00:36:50.460 There's no lead

00:36:51.180 in, no trigger for

00:36:52.260 this, no context.

00:36:53.480 This is the first

00:36:54.520 thing he says.

00:36:56.080 He goes, fuck

00:36:57.900 like, he goes, fuck 0.77

00:36:59.680 Lance Armstrong.

00:37:01.540 And as he's walking

00:37:02.620 toward the stage, he

00:37:03.420 goes, fuck his 0.97

00:37:04.860 cancer.

00:37:05.760 And I'm starting to

00:37:06.620 laugh.

00:37:07.780 And by the time he

00:37:08.560 hits the stage, he

00:37:09.380 goes, fuck his 0.97

00:37:10.560 balls.

00:37:11.460 And I'm dead.

00:37:12.840 I'm just dead.

00:37:14.080 From that moment on,

00:37:16.080 I was uncontrollably

00:37:17.660 laughing and never

00:37:19.040 stopped.

00:37:20.880 Now, why is that

00:37:22.980 funny?

00:37:23.940 I don't exactly

00:37:24.920 know.

00:37:26.060 Like, I've spent, I

00:37:27.000 can't tell you how

00:37:27.580 much time I've spent

00:37:28.300 thinking about it.

00:37:29.700 But it's not, it's not

00:37:32.240 something that sounds so

00:37:33.000 funny if you wrote it

00:37:33.720 down.

00:37:33.980 It's a live act, kind

00:37:36.120 of a joke, you know,

00:37:36.920 it only works in

00:37:37.660 person.

00:37:39.140 I guess because it's

00:37:40.420 naughty, I guess because

00:37:41.460 it's so irreverent, I

00:37:43.200 guess it's unexpected, I

00:37:45.240 guess, I don't know, I

00:37:47.040 guess it's like five

00:37:47.760 different things in there.

00:37:49.100 It's a whole layer of

00:37:50.540 complicated thing.

00:37:52.520 But until this week,

00:37:56.400 Lance Armstrong had the

00:37:57.920 most famous balls, or

00:38:00.220 ball, at least he was

00:38:01.660 halfway there.

00:38:03.060 And it's not true that

00:38:07.160 he, Lance Armstrong, was

00:38:08.440 ever asked to do a

00:38:12.160 commercial for uniball

00:38:13.660 pens.

00:38:14.900 I've heard that, but

00:38:15.780 that's not true.

00:38:17.820 All right, you know the

00:38:19.320 publication, The Hill?

00:38:21.680 You've all heard of that,

00:38:22.940 The Hill?

00:38:25.280 Today, they have an

00:38:27.420 article today in which

00:38:29.880 they repeated the fine

00:38:30.920 people hoax like it was

00:38:32.080 real.

00:38:33.340 Today.

00:38:34.880 Now, I understand back

00:38:36.780 in, I don't know, was

00:38:37.640 it 2018 or whenever,

00:38:39.840 whenever the Charlottesville

00:38:41.080 thing happened, I

00:38:42.200 understand that a lot of

00:38:43.180 people were taken by the

00:38:44.840 media hoax at the time.

00:38:47.000 And they believed that

00:38:47.900 Trump had actually called

00:38:48.860 neo-Nazis fine people.

00:38:50.940 Now, anybody who's seen

00:38:51.800 the transcript knows that

00:38:52.840 didn't happen.

00:38:53.780 There was a selective edit

00:38:55.200 that made it look like

00:38:56.780 that.

00:38:57.180 And the part they cut out

00:38:58.400 is the part where he

00:38:59.280 goes, and I'm

00:39:00.540 paraphrasing, don't be

00:39:02.900 confused, I'm certainly

00:39:03.840 not calling the neo-Nazis

00:39:05.140 fine people.

00:39:06.440 I don't mean them.

00:39:08.360 Right?

00:39:08.680 So they just cut out the

00:39:09.680 part where he says, no,

00:39:10.440 I don't mean the neo-Nazis.

00:39:11.680 He wasn't even asked about

00:39:12.720 it.

00:39:13.000 He said that himself.

00:39:14.340 Because he wanted to make

00:39:15.300 sure that nobody would be

00:39:17.340 confused, that he certainly

00:39:19.040 wasn't talking about neo-Nazis

00:39:20.500 being fine people.

00:39:21.600 So they just added that

00:39:22.600 part out, and it looks

00:39:23.920 exactly like he's calling

00:39:25.200 them fine people.

00:39:25.880 So the Hill, somehow in

00:39:29.720 2021, a news organization

00:39:32.120 doesn't know that.

00:39:35.660 They still, today, they

00:39:37.420 reported it like it's

00:39:38.460 true.

00:39:39.100 It was, you know, in a

00:39:40.120 larger article, but reported

00:39:42.140 it like it's true.

00:39:44.320 What the hell?

00:39:46.740 What the hell?

00:39:48.940 I mean, and I know, you

00:39:51.440 know, from experience, that

00:39:53.120 lots of people will see the

00:39:54.240 tweet, in which I called

00:39:55.380 them out for that.

00:39:56.240 And lots of people are

00:39:57.100 going to say, well, I saw

00:39:58.000 it myself.

00:39:59.940 Yeah, we don't have to

00:40:00.800 reiterate this, but, you

00:40:01.980 know, they didn't see it

00:40:02.680 themselves.

00:40:03.560 It is literally a mass

00:40:05.160 hallucination.

00:40:07.080 It's the best one I've ever

00:40:08.280 seen, by the way.

00:40:09.320 I don't know if you could

00:40:10.220 come up with a better one.

00:40:11.080 I think the fine people

00:40:12.840 hoax is the biggest, I

00:40:14.860 don't know if it's the

00:40:15.420 biggest, but probably the

00:40:16.920 best example of a mass

00:40:18.460 hallucination you'll ever

00:40:19.620 see.

00:40:20.180 Lots of people believe they

00:40:21.260 saw it.

00:40:21.660 Like, their memory is

00:40:23.360 that it actually happened,

00:40:24.380 but never did.

00:40:26.560 All right.

00:40:30.800 North Korea is a tested 0.95

00:40:32.480 missile that they launched

00:40:34.100 from a train.

00:40:37.880 I'm not really afraid of

00:40:39.700 train missiles, because I

00:40:42.440 don't think they're the ones

00:40:43.280 that are going to be aimed at

00:40:44.140 the United States.

00:40:45.020 I don't think you launch a

00:40:48.300 missile from a train at the

00:40:50.520 United States, because it

00:40:52.480 seems like that wouldn't be

00:40:53.260 the right launch pad.

00:40:54.640 Secondly, what happens to

00:40:55.720 your train after you launch a

00:40:56.980 missile from it?

00:40:58.380 Is there anything left of

00:40:59.400 your train?

00:41:00.700 I can't think of a worse way

00:41:02.140 to launch a missile, can you?

00:41:03.260 I feel as though if I had to

00:41:06.700 pick any way to launch a

00:41:08.100 missile, putting it on a

00:41:10.260 train would be the worst

00:41:11.200 way.

00:41:11.920 I mean, I realize the train

00:41:12.940 stops before they launch the

00:41:14.820 missile, but isn't it going to

00:41:16.300 mess up your train a little

00:41:17.720 bit?

00:41:17.940 How do you get your train

00:41:19.480 home?

00:41:20.800 Are the tracks okay?

00:41:22.380 You're going to run your

00:41:23.100 passenger train over the...

00:41:24.740 I mean, how does that work?

00:41:26.800 So anyway, I would say again

00:41:29.040 that I think Trump has solved

00:41:30.380 North Korea in the sense that

00:41:32.060 North Korea doesn't seem to be 0.66

00:41:33.360 pointing any missiles at us.

00:41:35.760 Whatever they're doing, maybe

00:41:37.160 it's for commercial reasons,

00:41:38.440 they want to sell some

00:41:39.160 missiles, that's bad, but

00:41:40.740 they're not pointing them

00:41:41.700 directly at us.

00:41:42.440 And I think, I just don't

00:41:44.700 think Trump gets enough

00:41:45.580 credit for having solved

00:41:47.520 North Korea.

00:41:48.960 When was the last time you

00:41:50.120 worried about North Korea?

00:41:51.600 Even when they test missiles,

00:41:53.300 are you worried?

00:41:54.860 No.

00:41:55.700 No, you're not.

00:41:56.840 Because they're just not

00:41:58.600 enemies.

00:42:00.020 Trump, I'm just blown away

00:42:04.540 by this.

00:42:05.020 What Trump did in North Korea

00:42:07.900 is probably the greatest

00:42:11.280 persuasion we've ever seen

00:42:14.160 in public.

00:42:15.820 I don't know that there's

00:42:17.300 ever been anything more

00:42:18.480 impressive than that.

00:42:23.780 See what problems I got here

00:42:25.600 now.

00:42:26.500 No, okay.

00:42:29.860 And what was impressive

00:42:31.300 about it is that the only

00:42:33.020 problem between North Korea

00:42:34.280 and the United States was

00:42:35.800 that we imagined we had a

00:42:37.140 problem.

00:42:38.040 And if you could stop

00:42:38.960 imagining that you're

00:42:39.920 enemies, then you'd just

00:42:41.200 stop acting that way.

00:42:42.720 And so what, and so what

00:42:45.400 Trump did was simply

00:42:46.580 convince Kim that there 1.00

00:42:49.040 wasn't any reason to be

00:42:50.060 enemies.

00:42:51.240 That's it.

00:42:53.540 And it was brilliant.

00:42:54.780 And apparently it's

00:42:55.520 lasting because years

00:42:56.740 later, I mean, several

00:42:58.480 years later and they don't

00:42:59.480 seem to be any kind of a

00:43:00.460 risk.

00:43:00.880 We're barely even talking

00:43:01.700 about them.

00:43:03.340 Question.

00:43:03.780 Whatever happened to the

00:43:04.940 COVID-sniffing dogs?

00:43:07.340 COVID-sniffing dogs.

00:43:09.720 We were told, maybe a year

00:43:11.480 ago, that dogs could

00:43:13.800 detect COVID.

00:43:16.200 And if we had dogs that

00:43:20.200 were trained to detect

00:43:21.280 COVID, could they not

00:43:23.480 check everybody going into

00:43:25.380 a sporting event and pull

00:43:27.080 out the infected ones?

00:43:29.460 Probably.

00:43:30.020 And how many dogs would it

00:43:32.080 take?

00:43:33.860 I mean, by now, it's a year

00:43:35.020 later.

00:43:35.480 Have we not really trained

00:43:36.760 enough dogs?

00:43:37.580 I'd love to have an update

00:43:38.540 on that.

00:43:39.680 And wouldn't you love dogs

00:43:42.480 save America?

00:43:44.360 Because they could.

00:43:46.180 Apparently, if it's true that

00:43:47.320 they can sniff it out, then

00:43:50.360 it should be true that they

00:43:51.500 can save America.

00:43:52.360 And why don't we have, what

00:43:54.720 is it, the War

00:43:56.800 Production Act or

00:43:57.800 something?

00:43:58.260 It's the one where we

00:43:59.400 produce more stuff.

00:44:00.780 The president makes

00:44:01.520 companies, private

00:44:02.300 companies produce more

00:44:03.320 stuff because it's a war

00:44:04.340 setting.

00:44:05.840 Could we not use the

00:44:07.260 Production Act, War

00:44:09.640 Production Act, to train

00:44:10.720 more dogs?

00:44:11.800 And just have a shit ton of

00:44:13.700 trained dogs everywhere.

00:44:15.500 Just everywhere you go,

00:44:16.460 there's a dog.

00:44:17.880 Why not?

00:44:19.120 Do we run out of dogs?

00:44:21.240 Do you have to have a

00:44:21.960 special dog?

00:44:23.100 Is it that hard to train

00:44:24.140 them?

00:44:25.100 I don't know.

00:44:25.420 I'd just like an update on

00:44:26.360 that.

00:44:26.540 It could be that it just

00:44:27.380 takes so long to train

00:44:28.340 them that you can't get

00:44:29.740 there.

00:44:30.040 I don't know.

00:44:33.220 Here's a perspective from

00:44:34.560 the Panda Tribune.

00:44:35.900 You'll have to do a fact

00:44:36.920 check on this.

00:44:37.440 I don't know if this is

00:44:38.220 factually correct, but it's

00:44:39.540 interesting.

00:44:41.140 So the Panda Tribune says,

00:44:42.480 statistically speaking,

00:44:43.840 school children are far

00:44:45.680 more likely to be sexually

00:44:47.060 assaulted by their teachers

00:44:48.440 than they are to die from

00:44:50.380 COVID-19.

00:44:52.380 Number one, is that true?

00:44:56.200 Is that true?

00:44:58.060 They're more likely to be 0.96

00:44:59.040 sexually assaulted by their

00:45:00.200 teacher than to die of

00:45:01.300 COVID-19?

00:45:03.600 I think it might be.

00:45:04.820 I think that might be true.

00:45:07.920 Right?

00:45:08.680 And if it is true, does that

00:45:11.080 tell you that the kids are

00:45:12.360 wearing their masks on the

00:45:13.540 wrong part of their body? 0.77

00:45:16.320 I'll just let that sit there

00:45:17.560 for a minute.

00:45:20.580 I'm just letting it sit

00:45:21.900 there.

00:45:22.720 That's all.

00:45:23.380 Just enjoy it.

00:45:25.160 Okay, now we can move on.

00:45:27.980 My next question is, how do

00:45:29.340 we know that the Delta

00:45:30.260 variant of the COVID is

00:45:31.920 really a variant and not a

00:45:34.420 separate virus created for

00:45:37.960 the same bad reason?

00:45:38.860 How do we know that?

00:45:41.560 What are the odds that we

00:45:43.740 would have a zillion

00:45:44.980 variants and only one bad

00:45:48.380 one, the Delta?

00:45:50.280 Now, we hear rumors that

00:45:51.900 there might be the mu and

00:45:53.240 some other Greek letters

00:45:54.560 coming that could be bad.

00:45:56.280 But not yet.

00:45:58.140 What are the odds, just

00:45:59.740 statistically, that you'd

00:46:01.880 have exactly one Delta

00:46:05.820 variant, the kind that's

00:46:07.200 super bad, just one.

00:46:10.040 Now, I could see zero, and I

00:46:12.840 could see 25.

00:46:14.940 Like, those would make sense

00:46:16.060 to me, right?

00:46:16.700 Just how you imagine

00:46:18.820 statistical likelihood.

00:46:21.580 Zero makes sense, because it's

00:46:24.420 just unlikely.

00:46:24.980 25 makes sense, 100 makes

00:46:28.880 sense, 1,000 would make

00:46:30.600 sense.

00:46:31.780 But one?

00:46:33.400 Exactly one.

00:46:35.920 I'm not buying it.

00:46:37.580 It's sketchy.

00:46:39.140 Right?

00:46:39.600 I would love to hear an

00:46:40.480 expert tell me, what are the

00:46:42.420 odds you get exactly one?

00:46:45.240 Now, I get that some of the

00:46:46.520 other ones are a little bit

00:46:47.500 worse, and, you know, the

00:46:48.540 other variants and stuff.

00:46:49.900 And we're watching them, and

00:46:51.160 blah, blah, blah.

00:46:51.760 But just what?

00:46:54.740 I don't know.

00:46:55.500 Not buying it.

00:46:57.080 Could be, but I'm not

00:46:58.480 buying it yet.

00:46:59.440 I could be convinced.

00:47:01.420 All right.

00:47:02.100 You've been hearing for a

00:47:03.180 year and a half, Michael

00:47:04.320 Mina has been talking about

00:47:05.720 why we should have rapid

00:47:07.320 tests.

00:47:07.980 Now, we're doing a little

00:47:08.660 more.

00:47:09.020 Biden authorized some money

00:47:10.280 for rapid tests, and that's

00:47:11.380 very good.

00:47:13.840 But I think some publication

00:47:15.760 needs to do a Pulitzer Prize

00:47:18.260 winning report on why we don't

00:47:20.500 already have rapid tests.

00:47:22.180 Let me tell you the

00:47:22.880 situation.

00:47:24.340 So, the FDA gets to approve

00:47:26.880 what tests are in the

00:47:28.900 market.

00:47:29.700 They have very strict

00:47:30.980 requirements because medical

00:47:32.580 things need to be tested to be

00:47:35.120 safe.

00:47:35.920 So, they have to be medically

00:47:37.520 certified, right?

00:47:40.800 But, as Michael Mina points

00:47:42.560 out, that is probably stopping

00:47:44.760 us from making a big dent in

00:47:46.840 the pandemic because the rapid

00:47:49.440 tests, which would be a little

00:47:50.980 harder to get medically

00:47:52.240 certified because it's a higher

00:47:53.560 standard, are super useful if we

00:47:57.560 had them, but we don't have many

00:47:59.880 of them because apparently

00:48:01.300 something's holding up the

00:48:02.520 approvals.

00:48:04.560 Now, what is it that would hold

00:48:07.540 up the approvals of the one thing

00:48:09.240 that we could pretty much say for

00:48:10.760 sure would solve the pandemic?

00:48:13.980 Did you hear what I just said?

00:48:15.200 That we have something already, a

00:48:18.040 known thing, that we know how to

00:48:20.300 make more of them, we know how to

00:48:21.600 do it, and we know that it would

00:48:26.700 solve, largely solve the pandemic,

00:48:28.740 and it's not happening.

00:48:31.240 All it would take is an executive

00:48:32.740 order from Biden, and this is

00:48:34.880 Michael Mina's idea, to simply

00:48:38.320 redefine the rapid tests as being a,

00:48:41.740 what is it, a public health product

00:48:45.320 as opposed to a medical product.

00:48:47.380 I may have the words wrong, but

00:48:48.660 that's the idea.

00:48:50.120 So all he has to do, that's it.

00:48:52.600 All Biden has to do, one piece of

00:48:55.440 paper to say, oh, if it's a rapid

00:48:57.980 test, define what that means.

00:49:00.400 If it's a rapid test, it's not a

00:49:02.940 medical device.

00:49:05.220 It's a public health device.

00:49:07.280 That change alone gets the FDA out

00:49:11.140 of it, opens up the market so that

00:49:13.260 the market can do what the market

00:49:14.440 does.

00:49:15.340 Tons of rapid tests.

00:49:16.560 Everybody tests.

00:49:18.020 96% of the time, you find that

00:49:19.960 you're a spreader.

00:49:22.820 A few times you don't, but you

00:49:24.560 weren't going to find that anyway.

00:49:26.520 So you're 96% better than you

00:49:28.580 would have been if you have the

00:49:29.660 test.

00:49:31.160 And it's probably enough to squash

00:49:33.040 the virus.

00:49:33.560 It's probably enough to get us back

00:49:38.420 to normal.

00:49:40.140 All it would take is one signature on

00:49:42.600 one piece of paper.

00:49:44.080 And there's, hold on, there's no

00:49:46.600 argument against it.

00:49:48.540 Show me another important topic in

00:49:52.300 the United States where there's no

00:49:54.900 argument against it.

00:49:57.200 Well, nuclear power.

00:49:59.340 Nuclear energy became that, right?

00:50:01.460 Yeah, I mean, at least in public,

00:50:03.360 people are no longer willing to say

00:50:05.040 bad things about it because

00:50:06.180 science has, you know, made that

00:50:08.640 ridiculous.

00:50:10.400 But think about it.

00:50:11.800 There's got to be some corruption

00:50:13.120 going on here or massive

00:50:15.580 incompetence or something going on.

00:50:17.740 But one piece of paper and Biden

00:50:20.040 could eradicate the pandemic.

00:50:25.960 Yeah, there's something going on

00:50:27.420 here and we need to know.

00:50:28.420 Rasmussen asked, how concerned are

00:50:31.960 you about crowds attending football

00:50:34.140 games in terms of getting COVID?

00:50:36.180 And as you might imagine, 34% said

00:50:38.360 they're very concerned and 25% said

00:50:40.960 somewhat.

00:50:41.400 So 59% are concerned about COVID and

00:50:45.700 football games.

00:50:47.140 But if they all took a rapid test

00:50:49.980 before they went in or they all had a

00:50:51.800 dog sniffing them, would they be so

00:50:53.980 worried?

00:50:54.980 No.

00:50:55.300 So there are things we can do that

00:50:57.400 we're not doing and we don't know

00:50:58.920 why.

00:51:00.020 Incompetence and or corruption.

00:51:02.900 It's got to be the answer.

00:51:07.060 So this is Michael Mina's letter to

00:51:10.720 Biden.

00:51:11.460 He put it on Twitter.

00:51:14.400 He said, dear President of the United

00:51:17.320 States, Biden, the U.S. is at a

00:51:18.940 critical point and need greater access

00:51:20.500 to faster tests.

00:51:22.000 Rapid tests are barely available

00:51:23.320 because they're regulated here as

00:51:25.240 medical tools and hold which

00:51:28.160 holds them back.

00:51:28.780 Please write an EO that makes COVID

00:51:31.340 testing in U.S. a public health

00:51:33.200 good as opposed to a medical good.

00:51:36.120 And then that will free up the

00:51:37.260 market.

00:51:38.540 One piece of paper, one signature,

00:51:42.220 one of the biggest improvements in

00:51:45.420 the pandemic.

00:51:46.840 Now, this same idea was pushed and

00:51:51.620 pushed and pushed during the Trump

00:51:54.460 administration and didn't happen.

00:51:56.660 I heard some reports that maybe some

00:51:59.440 bureaucratic stuff stopped it from being

00:52:03.040 explained in a way that the administration

00:52:04.760 could even know how to deal with it.

00:52:06.680 But I think Michael Mina has now simplified

00:52:08.660 it to the point where it's just one piece

00:52:10.580 of paper, one signature.

00:52:12.260 If Biden gets this done, I will say publicly

00:52:15.880 that Biden has done a great thing that the

00:52:19.500 Trump administration failed on.

00:52:21.720 And I will say that plainly.

00:52:23.980 If Biden signs the CEO, or even knows about

00:52:27.460 it, I don't even know if he's heard about

00:52:28.660 it, but if he signs it, I'm going to say

00:52:31.200 unambiguously that Biden gets the win and

00:52:33.800 Trump has to explain why he didn't do it.

00:52:36.760 I mean, he'd have some explaining to do.

00:52:38.100 So, that's as open-minded as I can be on

00:52:42.260 politics.

00:52:44.660 Somebody says, dogs sense illnesses, not

00:52:46.960 viruses.

00:52:49.860 Yeah, I guess that's true.

00:52:51.860 But it means that the virus had taken hold

00:52:54.080 enough to give you an illness.

00:52:59.440 All right, that's all I got for now.

00:53:03.460 And I'm sure this was the best live stream

00:53:06.220 I've ever done, just like the last one.

00:53:09.460 And that's all I've...

00:53:13.080 The sound is not good.

00:53:15.780 Oh, good.

00:53:17.040 All right, I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:53:19.140 So, I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:53:22.440 Yeah.

00:53:22.640 Oh.

00:53:26.360 Yeah.

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