Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 16, 2021


Episode 1501 Scott Adams： Simultaneous Sipping With Excellent Audio Quality For a Change


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

148.56598

Word Count

7,941

Sentence Count

564

Misogynist Sentences

14

Hate Speech Sentences

35


Summary


Transcript

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,
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.
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
00:23:02.240 girls are a
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
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.
00:23:42.980 Let me
00:23:43.400 just say it
00:23:43.780 directly.
00:23:45.400 Women are
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
00:23:51.500 more of a
00:23:52.000 pain in the
00:23:52.480 ass.
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
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
00:24:30.200 the ass and
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
00:25:14.220 brainwash our
00:25:15.040 children?
00:25:16.640 Just this.
00:25:18.000 Because China
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
00:35:25.100 it?
00:35:25.680 Nay, America cares
00:35:27.740 about his balls.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.