Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 22, 2021


Episode 1507 Scott Adams： My Predictions Have Been so Good Lately That I Decided to Cure COVID-19


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In this episode, Scott Adams talks about a possible sonic attack on the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, and how the city of San Francisco is going to solve the problem of homeless people living on the streets.

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00:00:01.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of your day.
00:00:05.500 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams because it features coffee and, you know, Scott Adams.
00:00:12.580 So I don't know how this could be better.
00:00:15.060 Well, okay, there is one way this could be better.
00:00:19.820 Two coffees with Scott Adams, but don't overdo it.
00:00:22.860 Don't overdo it.
00:00:23.620 You don't want too much happiness all at once.
00:00:26.360 Yeah, I forgot to put on my YouTube microphone.
00:00:30.000 How many steps are there to make this work?
00:00:34.740 About 17.
00:00:36.320 How many do I do correctly?
00:00:39.500 14 or 15 every single day.
00:00:43.820 Well, now, if all things are working out, YouTube is going to be able to join on the simultaneous sip
00:00:50.740 because we made a little change, I think it's implemented today,
00:00:53.640 in which you will be able to see the beginning and not have to wait for the pre-commercial.
00:01:00.000 On YouTube.
00:01:01.040 So, if that's the case, let's test it down.
00:01:04.440 Because all you need is a copper mug or a glass, a tanker, jealous, a stein, a canteen, jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:11.260 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:12.280 I like coffee.
00:01:13.720 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day,
00:01:17.900 and the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:20.100 That's right.
00:01:20.440 I turned off the pre-commercial for you.
00:01:23.880 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.
00:01:26.000 Go.
00:01:31.900 Well, I don't know how much of my total revenue just got turned off by turning off that pre-commercial,
00:01:37.620 but it was worth it.
00:01:41.800 I guess a lot of you were saying,
00:01:44.540 we don't like to wait for the simultaneous sip, and I hear you.
00:01:47.640 I feel you.
00:01:50.400 Well, Rasmussen did a poll and asked if they thought
00:01:53.380 Biden or Trump is doing a better job on the border.
00:01:57.960 What do you think?
00:01:58.900 What do you think?
00:01:59.360 Well, actually, they asked if Biden was doing a good job on the border, and not so much.
00:02:04.560 So it looks like even Democrats have turned against Biden on the immigration stuff.
00:02:09.500 Surprised?
00:02:11.060 Nope.
00:02:12.260 Don't be surprised.
00:02:14.340 San Francisco has decided to build what they call tiny cabins for the homeless.
00:02:19.840 Tiny cabins.
00:02:21.360 Little cabins, basically.
00:02:24.220 They're portable.
00:02:24.900 You can just set them up.
00:02:25.820 I think they're going to start with 44 of them
00:02:27.680 to replace their tent city.
00:02:31.900 So going from tent city to tiny cabins.
00:02:35.520 Now, here's the important part of this.
00:02:38.780 I think this is the future.
00:02:40.720 You're seeing a lot of it.
00:02:42.480 Now, I don't know if it's just the tiny part,
00:02:44.380 but the homes that are modular and built in a factory and then assembled,
00:02:49.460 that's the way it's going.
00:02:50.860 The tiny ones will just be first, 0.86
00:02:52.620 but I think that's the way everything's going to go.
00:02:54.220 Well, may I brag about one of my predictions?
00:02:59.420 Yeah, as if you could stop me.
00:03:01.480 Try it.
00:03:02.340 Try stopping me.
00:03:03.300 You can't.
00:03:04.740 Well, I go back to this every now and then just to show you how prescient I am.
00:03:09.240 The Havana Syndrome, you remember when the story said,
00:03:12.440 well, there's probably some kind of a sonic weapon pointed at the embassy in Cuba
00:03:16.640 because people are having a bunch of health problems.
00:03:18.780 And then it seemed to be spreading around the world.
00:03:22.500 Canada was next.
00:03:24.000 Somewhere else was next.
00:03:25.780 And it looked like, oh, my God, somebody's got a sonic weapon
00:03:29.560 and they keep attacking our embassies.
00:03:32.560 Well, a group of 20 Cuban scientists got together to study all forms of this situation
00:03:38.440 and decided that the only explanation that fit was mass hysteria.
00:03:45.280 Yeah, that's right.
00:03:47.240 The only explanation that fit all of the facts was mass hysteria.
00:03:55.380 Now, this is 20 Cuban scientists,
00:03:59.080 and one could assume, okay, Cuba doesn't want to be, you know, 0.63
00:04:03.320 stained with this idea that they led a less than kind of a weapon attack an embassy.
00:04:08.380 So you can't totally trust the 20 Cuban scientists. 1.00
00:04:12.800 They may be influenced by the state.
00:04:15.740 But they did say, they made a claim that other people can look at,
00:04:20.540 which is that the evidence doesn't support any other hypothesis.
00:04:24.580 That's it.
00:04:25.040 There's only one hypothesis that you could even have.
00:04:29.580 And they made references to violating rules of physics and blah, blah, blah.
00:04:35.540 So the thing that people don't know is that mass hysteria is very common.
00:04:41.100 If you know that it's common, then you see a situation like this,
00:04:45.420 and you say, okay, what's more likely?
00:04:47.340 Is it more likely that a very common thing happened
00:04:49.880 or something that we've never seen before, a sonic weapon?
00:04:54.400 Which is more likely, the common thing or the badass, crazy thing?
00:05:00.180 It was kind of obvious.
00:05:01.340 Now, I'm not saying that the Cuban scientists are the final answer,
00:05:06.140 but this is the final answer.
00:05:08.780 If there's anything I've been confident about in a contrarian prediction,
00:05:14.620 this is my most confident contrarian prediction.
00:05:19.380 You will never find a sonic weapon.
00:05:22.120 Right?
00:05:22.200 The Lithuanian government is urging its population
00:05:31.500 to throw away their Chinese phones for security issues.
00:05:36.240 So Lithuania is saying,
00:05:37.940 take your Chinese Huawei phone and toss it in the garbage
00:05:41.480 because there's too many security flaws.
00:05:46.520 And I say we should let Lithuania be a model for the rest of us.
00:05:50.760 That's right.
00:05:52.620 Lithuania?
00:05:53.300 Model for the rest of us.
00:05:57.680 In the book Peril, you know, Woodward's book.
00:06:03.000 So, you know, Woodward is the least credible journalist
00:06:06.660 in the world at the moment.
00:06:09.260 His book actually, as you know,
00:06:11.180 it treated the fine people hoax as if it were real.
00:06:14.480 That's all you need to know about the rest of the book.
00:06:16.640 The most obvious hoax in American history.
00:06:20.460 The most debunked hoax.
00:06:22.020 He just treats it like it's real.
00:06:25.220 So it makes you wonder if Watergate was even real.
00:06:28.980 But the latest ridiculousness
00:06:31.200 is a report in the book that says
00:06:33.840 Trump didn't want a golf course in Africa
00:06:36.040 because he feared lions would eat him.
00:06:40.380 True or false?
00:06:41.900 It's in the book.
00:06:43.520 It's in the book, so
00:06:44.640 what do you think?
00:06:47.000 That Trump didn't want to build a golf course in Africa
00:06:49.620 because he feared lions would eat him.
00:06:56.120 No.
00:06:57.600 No.
00:06:59.460 He was not afraid lions would eat him.
00:07:02.540 Now, did he say that?
00:07:04.500 Probably.
00:07:04.940 Yeah.
00:07:06.460 Did he make a comment out loud
00:07:09.220 with actual words
00:07:10.380 that lions might eat you
00:07:12.300 if you had a golf course in Africa?
00:07:15.740 Probably.
00:07:16.860 He probably said that out loud.
00:07:18.440 That sounds almost exactly like something he might say.
00:07:22.020 Do you think he was serious?
00:07:24.660 The entire project.
00:07:26.220 He just brushed away the entire project
00:07:28.780 because...
00:07:30.700 Here's another possibility.
00:07:33.640 Can you think of one other reason
00:07:37.060 not to build a golf course?
00:07:40.300 Any other reason?
00:07:41.460 What would be one other reason
00:07:42.840 to not build a golf course?
00:07:45.000 Just one.
00:07:47.620 I'll give you one reason
00:07:48.860 to not build a golf course.
00:07:51.520 No golf course is profitable.
00:07:55.160 Do you need another reason?
00:07:58.840 Golf courses aren't profitable, are they?
00:08:01.020 I think that you build a golf course
00:08:02.840 more for your brand
00:08:04.160 because you want to play golf
00:08:05.880 and you're rich enough to do it
00:08:07.220 and et cetera.
00:08:10.920 But I'm pretty sure
00:08:11.940 that golf is not a good business.
00:08:14.780 It's just it goes good
00:08:15.860 with Trump's portfolio
00:08:17.000 and I think he likes the golf.
00:08:20.060 But are you telling me
00:08:20.780 that Trump is making money
00:08:21.960 on his golf courses?
00:08:23.900 I doubt it.
00:08:25.160 I would imagine
00:08:25.780 those are loss leaders.
00:08:27.540 I don't know.
00:08:28.260 I mean, I'm speculating here.
00:08:30.760 But the number one reason
00:08:32.400 to not build a golf course
00:08:33.900 is that they're bad businesses.
00:08:36.260 Don't you think Trump knew
00:08:37.560 that building a golf course in Africa
00:08:40.540 wasn't exactly going to be a moneymaker?
00:08:42.520 Did he have to explain it?
00:08:44.240 Did he have to go through the numbers?
00:08:46.580 If you can't make money
00:08:47.780 on a golf course anywhere else,
00:08:50.000 are you going to make money
00:08:50.740 on a golf course in Africa?
00:08:52.700 And don't you think
00:08:53.680 that Trump's golf courses
00:08:54.920 have a lot to do
00:08:55.840 with where he personally wants to golf?
00:08:58.460 I mean, really.
00:08:59.420 What's the point of owning a business
00:09:00.780 with your name on it
00:09:01.800 if you have to do projects
00:09:04.820 in places you don't want to visit?
00:09:07.040 Does he want a real good...
00:09:08.060 Do you think Trump wanted
00:09:09.320 to go to Africa to play golf?
00:09:12.100 Probably not.
00:09:12.860 Do you think he ever wanted
00:09:14.520 to go to Scotland to play golf
00:09:17.120 because he does have a golf course there?
00:09:18.740 Probably.
00:09:19.980 Probably.
00:09:20.640 It's, you know,
00:09:21.500 where his ancestors were,
00:09:23.600 some of them.
00:09:25.700 So this is the most ridiculous fake news.
00:09:28.160 Here's some more fake news
00:09:30.380 from the New York Times.
00:09:31.940 Today they tweeted,
00:09:33.300 Breaking news.
00:09:34.180 The Trump campaign knew.
00:09:36.140 This is the key word.
00:09:37.100 They knew.
00:09:38.100 They didn't speculate.
00:09:39.780 They didn't doubt.
00:09:41.280 They didn't ask questions about.
00:09:43.940 But this is what
00:09:44.680 the New York Times
00:09:47.120 is reporting as a fact.
00:09:49.240 They're reporting as a fact
00:09:50.540 what the Trump campaign
00:09:52.460 knew.
00:09:53.620 What was in their heads.
00:09:57.080 How did they get that scoop
00:09:58.560 about what was in people's
00:10:00.600 secret thoughts?
00:10:02.460 That's a pretty hard scoop
00:10:03.400 to get, isn't it?
00:10:04.920 Or maybe it didn't happen.
00:10:07.720 Maybe.
00:10:08.580 Let me read the rest of it
00:10:09.660 so you can see the context.
00:10:11.240 It says,
00:10:11.800 The Trump campaign knew
00:10:12.960 days after the 2020 election
00:10:15.500 that wild claims
00:10:17.040 of voting machine tampering
00:10:18.480 pushed by Sidney Powell
00:10:20.280 and others allied with Trump
00:10:21.660 were not true,
00:10:23.500 court filing show.
00:10:26.080 Really?
00:10:28.020 Are you telling me
00:10:29.080 that there was somebody
00:10:30.100 in the world,
00:10:31.680 not just the Trump campaign,
00:10:33.380 but anyone in the world
00:10:34.440 who knew
00:10:36.060 that the claims
00:10:38.240 were untrue?
00:10:39.540 That knew it.
00:10:41.160 Now,
00:10:41.900 I said they were untrue
00:10:43.820 the moment they came out.
00:10:45.940 Right?
00:10:46.660 Fact check me on this.
00:10:48.120 As soon as I heard
00:10:48.920 there was some Venezuelan
00:10:50.300 Hugo Chavez connection,
00:10:52.720 I said,
00:10:53.040 OK,
00:10:53.360 I don't know about
00:10:54.120 the election in general,
00:10:56.140 but I'm telling you
00:10:57.540 that's not going to pan out.
00:10:59.900 So that was the first thing
00:11:01.020 I said when I heard it,
00:11:01.800 right?
00:11:02.260 I said the Venezuela part
00:11:03.820 won't be true.
00:11:05.120 Even if all this stuff is,
00:11:07.280 don't know about that,
00:11:08.740 but even if something else
00:11:10.020 is true,
00:11:10.420 that part's not going to be true.
00:11:12.360 Now,
00:11:13.400 when I said that,
00:11:15.000 did I know it?
00:11:17.580 Did I know it?
00:11:18.620 No.
00:11:21.500 It can't be known.
00:11:23.400 Just like the Cuban, 1.00
00:11:26.600 you know,
00:11:27.040 the Havana sonic weapon.
00:11:30.280 I'm pretty confident
00:11:31.740 that that's not real.
00:11:33.600 But do I know it?
00:11:35.580 How could I know it?
00:11:37.140 It's not knowable,
00:11:38.580 right?
00:11:39.300 Unless it was violating
00:11:40.440 some rule of physics.
00:11:43.360 Well,
00:11:43.600 actually,
00:11:43.980 the Cuban scientists
00:11:44.880 said that,
00:11:45.500 but I think that part
00:11:46.760 I would discount.
00:11:47.880 Just because somebody
00:11:49.520 doesn't know how to do something
00:11:50.880 doesn't mean it violated
00:11:52.300 the laws of physics.
00:11:53.820 So that part
00:11:54.260 I would discount.
00:11:59.900 Oh,
00:12:00.420 yeah,
00:12:00.620 where is the audience?
00:12:01.860 Low audience today?
00:12:03.440 Interesting.
00:12:04.600 Don't know why.
00:12:06.260 So,
00:12:06.500 yeah,
00:12:06.720 when the New York Times
00:12:07.500 says that somebody else
00:12:09.620 that is not them
00:12:10.540 knew something,
00:12:11.980 that's fake news.
00:12:13.460 because people
00:12:14.420 don't know
00:12:15.240 that a story
00:12:16.820 is wrong,
00:12:17.420 they just suspect it.
00:12:18.820 Or they doubt it,
00:12:19.800 or they're skeptical,
00:12:20.660 or they would need
00:12:21.160 more information
00:12:21.820 to be convinced.
00:12:22.780 But nobody knew it.
00:12:24.520 Come on.
00:12:25.980 As soon as you put,
00:12:27.100 you know,
00:12:27.980 certainty
00:12:28.600 into some stranger's head,
00:12:30.940 and they haven't
00:12:31.860 expressed that certainty,
00:12:32.900 it's just ridiculous.
00:12:35.340 All right.
00:12:35.940 Here's another one
00:12:39.020 of my predictions
00:12:39.860 that's looking better
00:12:40.860 over time.
00:12:41.620 I predicted
00:12:42.120 that the longer
00:12:43.460 Trump was out of office,
00:12:44.980 the better he would look.
00:12:47.220 The longer he was
00:12:48.160 out of office,
00:12:49.120 the better he would look.
00:12:50.320 And that makes sense,
00:12:51.520 because you would forget,
00:12:53.140 like his mean tweets
00:12:54.140 and the daily cycle
00:12:56.260 of abuse from the news,
00:12:58.120 but you'd probably remember
00:12:59.300 that, you know,
00:13:00.380 North Korea doesn't look 0.99
00:13:01.360 like a threat.
00:13:02.180 You'd probably remember
00:13:03.080 he pushed hard
00:13:04.440 on China trade,
00:13:05.300 and now we think
00:13:06.160 that's a good idea,
00:13:07.080 et cetera.
00:13:08.120 So the thinking was
00:13:09.380 that his ideas,
00:13:10.560 the things he pushed
00:13:11.440 and wanted to do,
00:13:12.320 immigration,
00:13:13.860 another perfect example,
00:13:15.580 would look better
00:13:16.340 compared to the alternatives
00:13:17.440 over time.
00:13:18.700 Sure enough,
00:13:20.020 there's a Monday
00:13:22.380 Harvard-Caps-Harris poll
00:13:24.140 released by The Hill,
00:13:26.600 and 48% of people
00:13:28.980 who responded
00:13:29.540 said they had
00:13:30.120 a positive view of Trump,
00:13:31.640 which is more
00:13:32.560 than the positive view
00:13:34.700 of Biden right now.
00:13:36.720 So the current popularity
00:13:38.400 of Trump is 48%,
00:13:39.860 and Biden's at 46%,
00:13:41.960 according to this poll.
00:13:43.400 Now, that's close enough
00:13:44.580 to call it a tie,
00:13:45.660 but it's a tie,
00:13:47.700 right?
00:13:49.220 And I think it's just
00:13:50.680 going to be more of this.
00:13:51.700 Every day that goes by,
00:13:53.540 Trump's going to look better
00:13:54.640 compared to the nightmare
00:13:57.120 of the Biden administration.
00:13:58.560 So Afghanistan, 0.79
00:14:00.400 we're going to remember,
00:14:01.120 was botched.
00:14:04.680 Basically,
00:14:05.840 everywhere there's
00:14:06.760 a one-to-one matchup,
00:14:09.260 I think Trump wins, right?
00:14:10.800 Somebody give me
00:14:11.440 a counterexample.
00:14:14.060 Somebody give me
00:14:14.860 a counterexample.
00:14:16.160 Here's my claim.
00:14:18.460 That for every topic
00:14:19.660 where you can say
00:14:20.420 one-to-one,
00:14:21.340 compare what Trump did
00:14:22.460 to Biden,
00:14:23.700 and I'm not talking about
00:14:24.560 mean tweets
00:14:25.380 or rhetoric,
00:14:27.000 but just policy.
00:14:28.840 One-to-one,
00:14:30.200 what would be an example
00:14:31.240 where Biden
00:14:32.040 has done a better job?
00:14:34.660 One-to-one matchup,
00:14:35.880 what policy would that be?
00:14:38.460 COVID rapid tests?
00:14:40.060 Oh, well,
00:14:42.940 yeah, I'll give you that.
00:14:44.400 But all Biden did
00:14:45.960 on COVID rapid tests
00:14:47.140 is funding.
00:14:49.220 I feel like Trump
00:14:50.140 would have done that too.
00:14:52.920 But both of them
00:14:54.080 failed completely
00:14:54.940 in pushing the topic
00:14:56.340 through the FDA.
00:14:58.120 So I would say
00:14:58.680 that both Trump
00:14:59.800 and Biden
00:15:00.260 were 100% failures
00:15:01.660 on rapid testing.
00:15:04.380 But Trump,
00:15:05.040 but Biden did
00:15:06.140 get funding.
00:15:07.560 We don't know
00:15:08.200 that Trump wouldn't have.
00:15:13.440 Promoting vaccines?
00:15:15.240 No, I think they're
00:15:15.840 about even on that.
00:15:18.860 Pushing COVID
00:15:19.880 and test hoax
00:15:20.780 is not productive.
00:15:21.820 Well, nobody did that.
00:15:22.760 At least Trump
00:15:24.980 didn't do that.
00:15:27.140 All right,
00:15:27.360 just looking at
00:15:27.820 some of your comments
00:15:28.440 to see how I'm doing
00:15:29.140 here to this morning.
00:15:32.140 Has better dementia, yeah.
00:15:34.280 All right,
00:15:34.720 here's how the Democrats
00:15:36.540 lose everything.
00:15:38.400 And it's starting
00:15:38.980 to look like
00:15:39.520 they're just going to get
00:15:40.300 wiped out in the midterms.
00:15:42.720 It's a little too early
00:15:43.740 to predict,
00:15:44.440 but at the moment,
00:15:46.200 it looks like Democrats
00:15:47.780 are just going to get
00:15:48.500 slaughtered in the midterms.
00:15:49.780 Now, part of that's
00:15:50.840 an easy prediction
00:15:51.620 because it tends
00:15:53.040 to go that way.
00:15:54.660 After a president
00:15:56.140 of one party is elected,
00:15:57.420 you know,
00:15:57.640 the midterms
00:15:58.240 often go against them.
00:16:00.480 So that part
00:16:01.080 wouldn't be surprising,
00:16:02.060 but in Virginia's
00:16:03.900 Lewdown,
00:16:05.080 Lewden,
00:16:05.800 or Lewdown County,
00:16:07.880 the Board of Supervisors
00:16:09.000 voted to look into,
00:16:10.160 just look into,
00:16:11.180 study it,
00:16:12.660 reparations.
00:16:15.840 Reparations.
00:16:16.320 Now,
00:16:18.120 if you were
00:16:18.800 the Republicans
00:16:19.540 and you wanted
00:16:21.160 to really win everything,
00:16:23.240 what story would you
00:16:24.420 want to be in the news?
00:16:27.140 Reparations,
00:16:28.320 right?
00:16:28.940 Now,
00:16:29.520 I've actually,
00:16:30.520 just to give you context,
00:16:32.340 I think reparations
00:16:33.360 should be looked at.
00:16:35.540 That's different
00:16:36.320 from implementing them.
00:16:38.220 But looking at them,
00:16:39.400 sure.
00:16:40.320 You know,
00:16:40.900 if it's a big question
00:16:42.380 in people's minds,
00:16:43.740 if there are lots
00:16:44.880 of citizens who care
00:16:46.140 about it,
00:16:47.820 let's work through it.
00:16:50.760 Let's take a look.
00:16:51.980 If you're afraid
00:16:52.740 of information
00:16:53.500 or you're afraid
00:16:54.500 of debating,
00:16:56.100 I can't defend that.
00:16:58.120 Now,
00:16:58.460 if you say to yourself,
00:16:59.500 well,
00:16:59.680 I know how it's
00:17:00.320 going to end,
00:17:01.000 Scott.
00:17:01.500 It's going to end
00:17:02.060 with there's no practical
00:17:03.000 way to do anything.
00:17:04.620 I mean,
00:17:04.820 you could want to do things,
00:17:05.960 but there's no practical
00:17:06.860 way to get it done.
00:17:08.000 Maybe.
00:17:08.920 Maybe.
00:17:09.240 But that's assuming
00:17:10.280 the end before you
00:17:11.340 start, right?
00:17:12.740 If people care about
00:17:14.020 something and want to
00:17:14.660 look into it,
00:17:16.020 I don't know how
00:17:17.600 I object to that.
00:17:19.180 How do you object
00:17:20.120 to looking into stuff?
00:17:22.140 That would be unreasonable.
00:17:24.100 Now,
00:17:24.780 my own path
00:17:27.500 that I would recommend,
00:17:29.580 you've heard this before,
00:17:30.440 it might be new
00:17:30.880 to some of you
00:17:31.440 on YouTube,
00:17:33.780 is
00:17:34.180 there is a way
00:17:38.120 to do it.
00:17:38.580 There is a way
00:17:40.100 to do reparations
00:17:41.060 that would make
00:17:41.760 everybody happy.
00:17:42.480 you just increase
00:17:44.080 school choice
00:17:44.880 and you do
00:17:46.640 whatever you need
00:17:47.200 to do to thwart
00:17:47.880 the teachers' unions.
00:17:49.860 Because the teachers' unions
00:17:50.900 are the main source
00:17:52.140 of continued
00:17:53.320 systemic racism.
00:17:55.500 The teachers' unions
00:17:56.680 block competition
00:17:58.280 in schools,
00:17:59.300 which guarantees
00:18:00.300 that bad schools
00:18:01.200 stay bad
00:18:01.800 because there's
00:18:02.380 no competition,
00:18:03.960 they don't have
00:18:04.900 to be good.
00:18:05.320 but as soon
00:18:07.060 as you got
00:18:07.540 competition,
00:18:11.220 eventually,
00:18:12.000 things would even out.
00:18:13.340 So if you said to me,
00:18:14.200 Scott,
00:18:14.600 let's call it reparations,
00:18:15.980 but we're just going
00:18:16.500 to make school choice
00:18:17.400 better.
00:18:18.080 It won't be directed
00:18:19.260 specifically at the
00:18:20.820 black population
00:18:21.660 of the United States.
00:18:22.740 It'll help everybody.
00:18:24.460 But,
00:18:24.980 it will help
00:18:25.600 the black population
00:18:26.520 a lot more
00:18:27.620 just because of the way
00:18:29.080 the demographics
00:18:29.800 roll out.
00:18:31.440 To which I say,
00:18:33.100 I can live with that.
00:18:33.960 You solve a problem
00:18:35.540 for everyone,
00:18:36.900 everyone who is
00:18:37.560 at the same
00:18:38.040 economic disadvantage.
00:18:40.440 If it disproportionately
00:18:42.120 helps the black population,
00:18:44.880 I say that's reparations.
00:18:47.640 Don't you?
00:18:50.120 What would be
00:18:51.020 the argument against it?
00:18:52.140 I mean,
00:18:52.400 the whole point
00:18:52.940 of reparations
00:18:53.660 is that one community
00:18:54.940 got an unfair deal
00:18:56.380 for however long.
00:18:59.380 So if we make
00:19:00.200 an unfair deal
00:19:01.340 in terms of
00:19:02.280 what percentage
00:19:02.960 of the population
00:19:03.660 is influenced by it,
00:19:05.900 I feel like that
00:19:06.780 would be a little bit
00:19:07.440 of reparations.
00:19:08.100 And it would be
00:19:09.160 the very best
00:19:10.360 kind of reparations.
00:19:12.140 Because how would
00:19:13.020 you like to know
00:19:13.780 that the biggest problem
00:19:14.900 in the United States,
00:19:16.000 which is the teachers'
00:19:16.940 unions,
00:19:17.280 it's the biggest problem
00:19:18.020 in the United States,
00:19:19.120 how would you like
00:19:19.880 to know
00:19:20.300 that the black population
00:19:22.760 of the United States
00:19:23.540 solved it?
00:19:25.780 That'd be a pretty good
00:19:26.880 thing to have
00:19:28.640 on your permanent record,
00:19:29.620 wouldn't it?
00:19:29.980 to solve it
00:19:32.080 for everybody.
00:19:33.160 You know,
00:19:33.300 not just solve it
00:19:34.020 for yourself,
00:19:34.480 solve it for everybody.
00:19:35.960 That would be
00:19:36.660 an amazing accomplishment
00:19:37.920 for the black population
00:19:40.120 of this country,
00:19:40.840 and very,
00:19:41.480 I would say,
00:19:43.020 it would be one thing
00:19:43.800 that might bring us
00:19:44.460 together a little bit.
00:19:46.140 We could agree on that.
00:19:48.700 So,
00:19:49.460 that's where I am
00:19:50.220 on that.
00:19:51.260 How many of you
00:19:52.020 saw my UFO video
00:19:53.580 from last night?
00:19:55.160 Did anybody see it?
00:19:55.820 I was taking a video
00:19:59.540 of the moon,
00:20:00.500 because the moon
00:20:00.940 looked interesting
00:20:01.640 in my backyard,
00:20:02.960 and there appeared
00:20:04.140 on my video
00:20:05.580 a small TikTok-shaped object
00:20:09.100 that,
00:20:10.280 as I was filming,
00:20:11.080 its motion couldn't,
00:20:12.540 it seemed to defy,
00:20:13.840 it seemed to defy physics,
00:20:16.120 because it'd be going
00:20:17.020 in one direction
00:20:17.640 and then just,
00:20:18.320 like,
00:20:18.440 instantly change directions.
00:20:20.340 I don't know
00:20:21.300 that there's anything
00:20:22.060 in American technology
00:20:23.260 that could do that,
00:20:24.080 or Earth technology.
00:20:26.820 I don't think
00:20:27.480 human technology
00:20:28.540 can do that.
00:20:31.920 Now,
00:20:32.440 you're probably
00:20:32.780 asking yourself,
00:20:34.240 Scott,
00:20:34.720 you know what it was,
00:20:35.480 it was like a bug
00:20:36.240 or something,
00:20:36.740 right?
00:20:37.040 Nope.
00:20:37.800 Nope.
00:20:38.780 I can tell you,
00:20:40.760 and I'm not lying,
00:20:41.980 it was not an insect.
00:20:43.900 It was not.
00:20:45.660 That was ruled out
00:20:46.800 for sure.
00:20:47.480 I could tell you how,
00:20:48.500 but...
00:20:50.020 Was it a laser?
00:20:52.320 No,
00:20:52.620 it wasn't a laser.
00:20:54.440 What was it?
00:20:57.540 What was it?
00:21:00.040 Lens flare.
00:21:01.280 Yeah,
00:21:01.600 it was...
00:21:02.040 I think that's
00:21:02.820 the right term.
00:21:03.700 So I think it was
00:21:04.520 some kind of a
00:21:05.380 reflection-y
00:21:07.360 sort of thing,
00:21:08.460 that might be
00:21:08.840 the wrong word,
00:21:09.900 but it's an artifact
00:21:11.200 from the lens
00:21:13.860 and the fact
00:21:15.520 that I'm looking
00:21:16.000 at a,
00:21:16.660 you know,
00:21:17.220 a bright object,
00:21:18.140 I guess.
00:21:18.780 I think that's
00:21:19.340 what it was.
00:21:20.260 But when you
00:21:20.900 watch the video,
00:21:21.860 I don't know
00:21:23.600 if you could tell
00:21:24.260 that I was
00:21:24.780 manipulating
00:21:25.500 the tic-tac.
00:21:27.260 If you watch
00:21:27.960 the video,
00:21:28.480 could you tell
00:21:29.120 that the way
00:21:30.160 I moved the camera
00:21:31.140 was moving
00:21:32.400 the tic-tac,
00:21:33.320 the tic-tac?
00:21:35.160 Right?
00:21:35.600 It looked like
00:21:36.280 it was moving
00:21:36.740 on its own,
00:21:37.380 but I was just
00:21:37.940 moving the camera.
00:21:39.200 So when I tracked
00:21:40.080 it with the camera
00:21:40.900 and moved to the right,
00:21:41.800 it looked like
00:21:42.260 it was moving.
00:21:43.560 And then when I moved
00:21:44.220 the camera to the left,
00:21:45.020 it looked like
00:21:45.460 it was moving left.
00:21:46.200 It was just
00:21:47.020 a camera artifact.
00:21:48.400 Do you know
00:21:48.700 what's interesting
00:21:49.200 about it?
00:21:50.260 My camera artifact
00:21:51.480 looked a lot
00:21:52.600 like the one
00:21:53.280 you've seen.
00:21:55.120 Haven't you seen
00:21:55.960 that UFO video?
00:21:58.480 Looked a lot
00:21:59.160 like it,
00:21:59.540 didn't it?
00:22:00.920 I don't know
00:22:01.620 if it's the same
00:22:02.240 problem,
00:22:03.000 a lens artifact,
00:22:04.500 but I think it is.
00:22:06.160 I think it's exactly
00:22:07.420 why your UFOs
00:22:09.520 look like tic-tacs,
00:22:10.720 because it's
00:22:11.520 that lens artifact.
00:22:13.080 Now, by the way,
00:22:13.720 I didn't do that
00:22:14.220 intentionally.
00:22:15.300 I actually was
00:22:16.060 just trying to
00:22:16.560 take a picture
00:22:17.200 of the moon.
00:22:19.220 Why?
00:22:19.900 No good reason.
00:22:21.600 I just took
00:22:22.380 my video camera
00:22:23.140 out,
00:22:23.780 and I saw
00:22:24.360 that artifact.
00:22:25.140 I'm like,
00:22:25.420 oh, I'm going
00:22:25.920 with this.
00:22:26.660 I'm going
00:22:26.980 with this.
00:22:30.060 All right.
00:22:31.620 In a publication
00:22:32.540 called the AJ Plus,
00:22:35.760 apparently Biden
00:22:36.940 is using Title 42,
00:22:38.660 which Trump
00:22:39.460 administration
00:22:39.920 used to
00:22:40.720 expel
00:22:43.160 illegal
00:22:44.280 migrants,
00:22:45.720 and he's
00:22:47.540 expelled
00:22:48.000 way more
00:22:48.880 than Trump
00:22:49.340 has.
00:22:50.660 Trump expelled
00:22:51.580 440,000 people
00:22:53.240 under that
00:22:53.880 Title 42,
00:22:56.300 whereas Biden
00:22:57.140 has already
00:22:57.840 got rid
00:22:58.500 of 690,000.
00:23:02.180 Now,
00:23:03.740 what about
00:23:04.440 this story
00:23:05.000 is misleading?
00:23:06.560 Well,
00:23:06.860 everything,
00:23:07.580 right?
00:23:08.040 Because there
00:23:09.020 was this
00:23:09.440 giant surge
00:23:11.760 under Biden,
00:23:12.880 which Biden,
00:23:13.540 of course,
00:23:14.060 is responsible
00:23:14.720 for the surge.
00:23:16.100 But I don't
00:23:17.160 know that you
00:23:17.580 can compare.
00:23:18.280 It's not like
00:23:18.760 an apple
00:23:19.100 and an orange.
00:23:20.320 So Biden
00:23:21.960 created his
00:23:22.720 own problem,
00:23:23.500 and then he
00:23:23.880 semi-solved
00:23:24.980 some of it
00:23:25.580 by using
00:23:26.400 Title 42,
00:23:27.380 but it's
00:23:27.840 just not,
00:23:28.340 it's not
00:23:28.720 exactly apples
00:23:29.420 and oranges
00:23:29.800 here,
00:23:30.420 because Biden
00:23:30.960 opened the
00:23:31.520 border.
00:23:32.340 But it does
00:23:32.960 tell you
00:23:33.360 that Biden's
00:23:35.620 no saint.
00:23:37.620 Biden is
00:23:38.420 no saint
00:23:39.000 when it comes
00:23:39.720 to immigration.
00:23:40.900 How is this
00:23:41.420 going to affect
00:23:42.000 him on
00:23:42.920 the election?
00:23:44.360 I feel as
00:23:45.080 if he's
00:23:46.420 lost in
00:23:46.980 every way
00:23:47.320 you can
00:23:47.560 lose.
00:23:48.200 He's deported
00:23:48.900 more people
00:23:49.560 than Trump,
00:23:50.680 so that
00:23:51.060 looks bad.
00:23:52.180 At the same
00:23:52.680 time,
00:23:52.940 he's opened
00:23:53.300 the border.
00:23:54.640 That's
00:23:54.920 everything bad.
00:23:57.380 Right?
00:23:58.100 It's one thing
00:23:59.020 to open the
00:23:59.520 border,
00:24:00.380 and that's
00:24:00.660 going to
00:24:00.820 make some
00:24:01.420 percentage of
00:24:02.380 the population
00:24:03.300 pretty angry,
00:24:04.480 and it's
00:24:04.920 another thing
00:24:05.540 to deport
00:24:07.200 lots of
00:24:07.700 people.
00:24:08.860 He's doing
00:24:09.300 both.
00:24:09.780 he's doing
00:24:10.660 both of
00:24:11.140 the wrong
00:24:11.480 things at
00:24:11.920 the same
00:24:12.240 time.
00:24:15.000 I did
00:24:15.680 predict that
00:24:16.340 Biden would
00:24:16.900 end up doing
00:24:17.560 Trumpian
00:24:18.100 things,
00:24:18.660 yeah.
00:24:19.160 That in
00:24:19.560 the long
00:24:19.960 run,
00:24:20.400 he's going
00:24:20.780 to have
00:24:21.080 to end
00:24:21.380 up doing
00:24:21.820 some number
00:24:23.080 of things
00:24:23.460 that Trump
00:24:23.820 did,
00:24:24.500 whether he
00:24:25.020 likes it
00:24:25.400 or not.
00:24:26.960 Well,
00:24:27.240 CNN is
00:24:27.880 reporting new
00:24:28.720 and shocking
00:24:29.480 disclosures
00:24:30.320 about last
00:24:31.460 year's,
00:24:32.480 you know,
00:24:32.740 around January
00:24:33.380 6th,
00:24:33.980 and the
00:24:35.180 time when
00:24:35.740 Trump was
00:24:36.400 doubting the
00:24:36.880 election
00:24:37.320 outcome.
00:24:38.980 And let
00:24:39.380 me tell
00:24:39.640 you the
00:24:40.000 shocking,
00:24:41.280 shocking new
00:24:42.700 stuff.
00:24:44.120 This is
00:24:44.560 both shocking
00:24:45.280 and new.
00:24:46.420 So watch
00:24:47.060 how shocked
00:24:47.660 you are
00:24:48.100 and how
00:24:48.980 new this
00:24:49.500 sounds,
00:24:50.280 because it's
00:24:50.700 shocking and
00:24:51.300 new.
00:24:52.180 It's not
00:24:52.680 just shocking.
00:24:54.160 It's not
00:24:54.840 just new.
00:24:56.360 So watch
00:24:56.900 for how
00:24:57.340 the shocking
00:24:57.980 this is
00:24:58.540 and new.
00:25:00.020 All right?
00:25:01.060 So it
00:25:01.680 says that
00:25:02.080 Trump had
00:25:02.560 blueprints
00:25:03.400 for how to
00:25:04.780 prevent Congress
00:25:05.620 from certifying
00:25:06.420 the election.
00:25:06.980 and it
00:25:08.020 was sort
00:25:08.320 of written
00:25:08.580 up in
00:25:08.880 a memo
00:25:09.320 by a
00:25:12.180 lawyer about
00:25:12.880 how Mike
00:25:13.660 Pence could
00:25:14.300 thwart the
00:25:15.500 process by
00:25:16.300 not accepting
00:25:17.440 some states,
00:25:19.040 et cetera.
00:25:20.080 Which part of
00:25:20.840 that is new?
00:25:22.700 None of it,
00:25:23.440 right?
00:25:24.360 We all knew
00:25:24.980 that.
00:25:26.020 We all knew
00:25:26.660 that Trump
00:25:27.080 was trying to
00:25:27.580 get Pence to
00:25:28.380 overthrow the
00:25:29.280 result.
00:25:31.100 Okay,
00:25:31.400 so this part's
00:25:32.240 not new,
00:25:33.240 and it's not
00:25:34.260 extra shocking
00:25:35.080 because we
00:25:35.620 heard this.
00:25:36.140 Now,
00:25:36.840 why would
00:25:37.120 it be
00:25:37.340 shocking
00:25:37.680 if Trump
00:25:39.280 thought it
00:25:39.620 might work?
00:25:42.000 Because I
00:25:42.640 think that
00:25:43.360 whether it
00:25:45.440 is constitutional
00:25:46.300 or not,
00:25:47.700 it looks like
00:25:48.200 he had an
00:25:48.600 argument.
00:25:49.080 He thought
00:25:49.400 maybe he
00:25:49.900 had a case.
00:25:51.080 Why couldn't
00:25:51.660 he do that
00:25:52.260 if he thought
00:25:53.220 it might be
00:25:53.640 illegal?
00:25:55.180 He can do
00:25:55.880 anything that's
00:25:56.380 legal.
00:25:57.780 And if he
00:25:58.100 had a lawyer
00:25:58.640 explain it to
00:25:59.380 him,
00:26:00.420 would Trump
00:26:01.080 assume that
00:26:01.880 the lawyer
00:26:02.560 would keep
00:26:03.300 him from
00:26:03.640 doing something
00:26:04.240 illegal?
00:26:05.740 Remember,
00:26:06.140 it was just
00:26:06.480 a draft,
00:26:07.340 but it
00:26:07.580 came from
00:26:07.860 a lawyer.
00:26:08.700 A high-end
00:26:09.460 White House
00:26:10.280 lawyer wrote
00:26:11.700 up a draft
00:26:12.260 that says,
00:26:12.700 you know,
00:26:12.880 maybe this
00:26:14.040 will work.
00:26:15.460 If the
00:26:16.040 president does
00:26:16.640 something that
00:26:17.140 a lawyer says
00:26:17.900 looks legal,
00:26:19.440 is it
00:26:20.320 shocking?
00:26:22.120 Well,
00:26:22.600 it's not
00:26:22.840 exactly shocking.
00:26:24.560 It might be
00:26:25.180 wrong,
00:26:26.880 but it's not
00:26:27.260 exactly shocking
00:26:28.120 if a lawyer
00:26:29.420 tells you
00:26:29.840 something is
00:26:30.320 legal and
00:26:30.780 then you
00:26:30.980 act like
00:26:31.300 it's legal.
00:26:31.720 How do
00:26:34.120 you decide
00:26:34.580 what's
00:26:34.840 legal?
00:26:36.140 Let me
00:26:36.440 tell you
00:26:36.700 how I
00:26:37.100 do it.
00:26:38.040 I ask
00:26:38.440 a lawyer.
00:26:40.120 I don't
00:26:40.660 just sit
00:26:41.060 there and
00:26:41.360 say,
00:26:41.600 oh,
00:26:41.940 sounds good
00:26:42.460 to me.
00:26:43.140 I'd ask
00:26:43.560 a lawyer.
00:26:44.600 As the
00:26:44.960 lawyer tells
00:26:45.420 me it's
00:26:45.700 legal,
00:26:46.160 I'll act
00:26:46.600 like it's
00:26:47.000 legal.
00:26:48.780 That's all
00:26:49.340 Trump did.
00:26:50.340 Not too
00:26:50.760 shocking.
00:26:52.140 All right?
00:26:54.940 Here they
00:26:55.560 say,
00:26:55.760 Trump's
00:26:56.140 own
00:26:56.300 campaign
00:26:56.800 staff
00:26:57.720 knew
00:26:58.000 the
00:26:58.220 outlandish
00:26:58.860 claims of
00:26:59.440 fraud
00:26:59.900 made by
00:27:00.960 the
00:27:01.100 president's
00:27:01.920 lawyers
00:27:02.260 were utterly
00:27:02.800 false.
00:27:03.380 No,
00:27:03.560 they didn't.
00:27:04.740 No,
00:27:05.020 they didn't.
00:27:05.420 They didn't
00:27:05.760 know it.
00:27:07.100 They probably
00:27:07.820 suspected it.
00:27:10.180 Right?
00:27:10.560 They were
00:27:10.880 probably very
00:27:11.400 skeptical.
00:27:12.520 Probably
00:27:12.840 doubted it,
00:27:14.120 but they
00:27:14.420 didn't know
00:27:14.840 it because
00:27:15.820 it couldn't
00:27:16.140 be known.
00:27:19.280 Here's
00:27:19.760 another
00:27:19.960 shocking
00:27:20.500 thing.
00:27:21.140 Trump sent
00:27:21.560 a letter
00:27:22.240 full of
00:27:22.700 false
00:27:22.980 information,
00:27:23.820 says CNN
00:27:24.200 to Georgia
00:27:25.700 Secretary
00:27:26.140 of State
00:27:26.600 Brad
00:27:27.080 Rauschenberger
00:27:27.660 asking him
00:27:28.220 to try
00:27:30.040 to decertify
00:27:30.800 the result.
00:27:32.140 Which part
00:27:32.820 of that
00:27:33.040 did you
00:27:33.380 know?
00:27:34.760 Did you
00:27:35.200 not know
00:27:35.880 that Trump
00:27:37.260 wanted Georgia 0.90
00:27:37.980 to decertify
00:27:38.880 the results?
00:27:40.280 Which part
00:27:40.920 of that
00:27:41.100 is new
00:27:41.460 or shocking?
00:27:42.820 I think
00:27:43.080 we all
00:27:43.340 knew that,
00:27:43.760 right?
00:27:45.180 The fact
00:27:45.840 that there
00:27:46.140 might have
00:27:46.380 been a
00:27:46.660 letter
00:27:46.860 doesn't
00:27:47.180 really
00:27:47.360 change
00:27:47.620 anything.
00:27:50.200 And
00:27:50.640 this is
00:27:51.560 CNN's
00:27:52.020 reporting.
00:27:52.580 Just the
00:27:52.820 way they
00:27:53.120 word this
00:27:53.560 is just
00:27:53.860 hilarious.
00:27:54.720 So the
00:27:54.980 book
00:27:55.160 Peril
00:27:55.620 Woodward's
00:27:56.420 book also
00:27:57.460 contains a
00:27:58.060 passage that
00:27:58.680 shows Trump
00:27:59.240 cared little
00:27:59.940 for truth,
00:28:01.360 what voters
00:28:02.500 decided in
00:28:03.220 November,
00:28:04.140 or bedrock
00:28:05.100 constitutional
00:28:05.900 values,
00:28:07.060 but agonized
00:28:07.880 about his
00:28:08.260 reputation and
00:28:09.120 mused that
00:28:09.600 accepting defeat
00:28:10.320 would brand
00:28:10.780 him as one
00:28:11.280 of history's
00:28:11.840 losers.
00:28:14.140 Is that
00:28:14.780 true?
00:28:16.900 Can
00:28:17.500 Woodward
00:28:18.380 know that
00:28:19.260 Trump cared
00:28:20.020 little for
00:28:20.660 truth,
00:28:22.020 or what
00:28:22.640 voters
00:28:23.140 decided?
00:28:23.660 How do
00:28:25.940 you
00:28:26.040 conclude
00:28:26.400 that?
00:28:26.720 Was it
00:28:28.320 a brain
00:28:28.720 scan?
00:28:30.500 We could
00:28:31.100 know for
00:28:31.960 sure what
00:28:32.980 Trump did
00:28:33.600 and what
00:28:33.880 he said,
00:28:34.980 but you
00:28:35.880 can't know
00:28:36.220 what he
00:28:36.460 thought.
00:28:37.880 Yeah,
00:28:38.440 you can't
00:28:38.720 know what
00:28:38.920 he thought.
00:28:39.740 That's not
00:28:40.180 a thing.
00:28:42.180 So let's
00:28:43.020 CNN with
00:28:43.520 their new
00:28:43.840 and shocking
00:28:44.380 disclosures
00:28:45.140 of things
00:28:46.040 we've known
00:28:46.480 for many,
00:28:47.620 many months
00:28:48.040 and are
00:28:48.740 not that
00:28:49.060 shocking.
00:28:52.740 So I
00:28:54.520 guess Biden
00:28:55.780 and Boris
00:28:56.440 Johnson
00:28:56.860 got together
00:28:58.260 and Boris
00:28:59.420 Johnson
00:28:59.740 answered some
00:29:00.360 questions,
00:29:01.160 three of
00:29:01.540 them,
00:29:02.380 but Biden's
00:29:03.180 staff shouted
00:29:04.120 down the
00:29:04.540 reporters when
00:29:05.220 they tried
00:29:05.520 to ask a
00:29:06.000 question.
00:29:07.100 This is so
00:29:07.880 embarrassing.
00:29:09.660 Do you
00:29:09.840 remember when
00:29:10.540 Trump was
00:29:11.620 the one that
00:29:12.260 you thought
00:29:12.600 was going to
00:29:13.080 embarrass us
00:29:13.960 in public?
00:29:14.720 Here we've
00:29:16.200 got the
00:29:16.580 Prime Minister
00:29:17.380 of the
00:29:17.760 UK sitting
00:29:19.000 right next
00:29:19.620 to Biden
00:29:20.100 watching his
00:29:21.860 staff not
00:29:23.220 let Biden
00:29:24.000 answer questions
00:29:24.980 right after
00:29:25.840 Boris Johnson
00:29:27.300 did take
00:29:28.400 questions.
00:29:30.340 Boris Johnson
00:29:31.400 took questions
00:29:32.120 in a foreign
00:29:32.700 country.
00:29:35.020 Biden
00:29:35.440 wouldn't take
00:29:36.100 questions in
00:29:37.240 the White
00:29:37.640 House.
00:29:39.320 He just
00:29:39.920 looks incompetent.
00:29:41.740 Right?
00:29:42.340 What
00:29:42.580 interpretation
00:29:44.520 would you
00:29:45.200 put on
00:29:45.680 it when
00:29:46.540 you watch
00:29:47.040 Boris Johnson
00:29:48.140 answer three
00:29:48.740 questions and
00:29:49.900 then you
00:29:50.200 watch Biden's
00:29:51.300 staff tell him
00:29:52.140 he can't
00:29:52.920 essentially by
00:29:54.300 shouting him
00:29:54.840 down?
00:29:56.420 Yeah, it
00:29:56.800 looks weak.
00:29:57.760 It looks
00:29:58.200 incompetent.
00:30:01.780 And it
00:30:03.220 looks like we
00:30:03.640 don't have
00:30:03.940 confidence in
00:30:04.720 our own
00:30:05.000 leader.
00:30:06.000 It's really
00:30:06.560 a terrible
00:30:07.000 look.
00:30:08.620 Now, who
00:30:10.440 thinks at
00:30:11.100 this point
00:30:11.680 that Trump's
00:30:13.640 reputation
00:30:14.300 actually was
00:30:15.300 worse than
00:30:15.860 Biden's right
00:30:16.540 now?
00:30:17.340 Does anybody
00:30:17.640 think that?
00:30:18.940 Because, you
00:30:19.640 know, no
00:30:20.240 matter what
00:30:20.680 your political
00:30:21.400 leaning is,
00:30:22.540 you could
00:30:22.900 still have an
00:30:23.400 opinion about
00:30:23.920 what other
00:30:24.560 people thought
00:30:25.100 of Trump.
00:30:25.760 Even if you
00:30:26.400 liked him,
00:30:27.560 you could have
00:30:28.020 an opinion
00:30:28.360 that foreign 1.00
00:30:29.080 leaders maybe
00:30:29.660 didn't.
00:30:30.720 I mean, that
00:30:31.040 would be
00:30:31.260 reasonable if
00:30:31.900 you thought
00:30:32.200 that.
00:30:33.340 But do you
00:30:34.220 think that
00:30:34.660 foreign leaders
00:30:35.440 really had a
00:30:37.880 lower opinion
00:30:38.820 of Trump
00:30:39.360 overall than
00:30:41.120 Biden?
00:30:41.440 I don't
00:30:43.300 know.
00:30:43.600 What do
00:30:43.780 you think?
00:30:46.220 Maybe.
00:30:47.020 I mean, we
00:30:47.420 don't know for
00:30:47.920 sure, but I
00:30:48.920 would say that
00:30:49.420 the hypothesis
00:30:50.240 that Trump was
00:30:51.580 the embarrassing
00:30:52.220 one feels
00:30:54.100 debunked,
00:30:54.880 doesn't it?
00:30:56.000 Not in the
00:30:56.580 sense that you
00:30:57.080 know for sure
00:30:57.880 that his
00:30:58.920 reputation was
00:30:59.720 better with
00:31:00.180 these other
00:31:00.600 people, but
00:31:01.420 that there's
00:31:01.800 no evidence
00:31:02.380 it was worse.
00:31:03.860 Let's put it
00:31:04.480 that way.
00:31:05.100 When you say
00:31:05.640 that no court
00:31:06.260 has found,
00:31:06.820 I'd love to
00:31:09.100 go to the
00:31:09.440 no court
00:31:09.940 has found,
00:31:10.920 no court
00:31:11.620 has found
00:31:12.100 that other
00:31:13.160 countries think
00:31:13.960 Trump was
00:31:14.740 less respectable
00:31:16.340 than Biden,
00:31:18.300 or at least
00:31:18.860 less capable.
00:31:22.040 Yeah.
00:31:22.980 All right.
00:31:24.540 Now, my
00:31:25.440 predictions have
00:31:26.220 been so good
00:31:27.040 lately that I
00:31:28.520 thought, damn,
00:31:29.780 Scott, if you're
00:31:30.600 so good at
00:31:31.180 predicting, why
00:31:32.580 don't you solve
00:31:33.300 the pandemic?
00:31:34.480 And that's
00:31:36.200 a reasonable
00:31:36.680 ask.
00:31:39.340 Given my
00:31:40.200 incredible high
00:31:41.980 quality predictions,
00:31:43.400 why don't I
00:31:44.480 apply that to
00:31:45.100 the pandemic
00:31:45.600 and just predict
00:31:46.560 how we can get
00:31:47.160 out of this
00:31:47.560 thing and maybe
00:31:48.300 speed it up?
00:31:49.580 Are you ready?
00:31:50.920 Okay.
00:31:52.020 Here it comes.
00:31:53.020 I ask this
00:31:53.560 question.
00:31:55.300 Would a fan
00:31:56.460 that moves the
00:31:58.020 air in a room
00:31:58.700 reduce the risk
00:32:01.120 in the room
00:32:01.700 of the
00:32:02.700 coronavirus?
00:32:03.060 Just a
00:32:04.320 regular fan.
00:32:05.540 Now, every
00:32:06.700 one of you
00:32:07.300 fucking people
00:32:08.100 just thought,
00:32:09.400 yeah, having
00:32:10.940 good circulation
00:32:13.160 with the
00:32:14.220 outdoors is a
00:32:15.100 good idea,
00:32:15.640 Scott.
00:32:16.280 No, I'm
00:32:17.120 not fucking
00:32:17.700 talking about
00:32:18.260 circulation
00:32:18.840 inside to
00:32:20.080 out.
00:32:20.920 That's not
00:32:21.660 the topic.
00:32:23.560 Right?
00:32:23.780 So everybody
00:32:24.380 who thinks I'm
00:32:25.040 going to talk
00:32:25.400 about circulation,
00:32:27.300 you just leave
00:32:27.900 now.
00:32:28.900 I don't want
00:32:29.800 to see your
00:32:30.160 comments.
00:32:31.160 No circulation
00:32:32.220 talk.
00:32:33.060 We all
00:32:34.100 know an
00:32:34.760 open window
00:32:35.420 is a good
00:32:36.140 idea.
00:32:37.340 Right?
00:32:38.000 If you think
00:32:38.800 you need to
00:32:39.300 tell me that
00:32:41.140 being outdoors
00:32:41.900 is better than
00:32:42.600 being indoors or
00:32:43.540 that opening a
00:32:44.260 window is good,
00:32:46.020 don't participate.
00:32:48.320 We're not
00:32:49.080 talking about
00:32:49.600 that.
00:32:50.540 Okay?
00:32:51.320 So I ask this
00:32:52.280 question.
00:32:53.500 Would the air
00:32:54.360 movement itself,
00:32:55.580 at least at the
00:32:56.640 level that a fan
00:32:57.560 could accomplish,
00:32:58.900 would the air
00:32:59.420 movement itself
00:33:00.080 make the virus
00:33:01.540 degrade?
00:33:04.400 And here are
00:33:05.280 three good
00:33:06.040 hypotheses that
00:33:07.280 I saw.
00:33:07.740 Are you ready?
00:33:09.440 Hypothesis number
00:33:10.280 one.
00:33:11.500 A fan would
00:33:12.820 make your virus
00:33:14.040 particles bounce
00:33:15.340 against surfaces
00:33:16.400 more aggressively.
00:33:18.460 True or false.
00:33:19.860 That faster wind
00:33:21.060 circulation would
00:33:22.640 cause more of
00:33:23.820 the viruses to
00:33:25.580 come into contact
00:33:26.560 with the surface
00:33:27.360 because the
00:33:29.060 surface might
00:33:29.540 be a wall
00:33:30.100 or a ceiling.
00:33:33.060 Why would
00:33:33.560 somebody say
00:33:34.000 false?
00:33:35.080 Add something to
00:33:36.020 that.
00:33:37.220 It seems to me
00:33:38.160 that if you add
00:33:38.800 energy to the
00:33:40.140 system, more of
00:33:41.760 everything happens.
00:33:43.640 Right?
00:33:44.580 That's going to be
00:33:45.280 my take.
00:33:46.040 If you add
00:33:46.640 energy to the
00:33:47.360 system in the
00:33:48.000 form of wind,
00:33:49.720 everything that
00:33:50.480 can happen will
00:33:51.340 more happen
00:33:52.320 because there's
00:33:54.200 more movement.
00:33:54.720 So if something
00:33:55.960 can hit a wall,
00:33:56.840 there will be
00:33:57.060 more of it.
00:33:58.620 So there are
00:33:59.860 two ways that a
00:34:00.600 virus could be
00:34:01.200 degraded by
00:34:01.860 hitting a wall.
00:34:03.240 Number one,
00:34:04.300 the physical
00:34:04.920 contact with the
00:34:05.880 wall might
00:34:07.280 affect its
00:34:08.520 water particle
00:34:09.320 and take off
00:34:10.940 its little cover.
00:34:12.440 The surface
00:34:13.480 itself we know
00:34:14.340 kills it because
00:34:15.880 we're not worried
00:34:17.240 so much anymore
00:34:18.660 about touching
00:34:19.340 stuff, right?
00:34:20.280 You don't see
00:34:20.860 people wearing
00:34:21.360 gloves so much
00:34:22.140 in the grocery
00:34:22.640 store.
00:34:23.040 we're not
00:34:24.740 really worried
00:34:25.120 about surfaces
00:34:25.700 because apparently
00:34:26.580 surfaces kill
00:34:27.400 the virus pretty
00:34:28.040 quickly, pretty
00:34:29.100 much any kind
00:34:29.700 of surface.
00:34:31.240 So number one,
00:34:32.680 the fan blows
00:34:33.380 them against
00:34:33.780 surfaces more
00:34:34.620 often and
00:34:35.280 therefore the
00:34:35.760 surfaces kill
00:34:36.440 it.
00:34:37.160 Number two,
00:34:38.920 fans reduce
00:34:39.780 humidity.
00:34:41.720 All agree with
00:34:42.600 this?
00:34:42.900 The fans reduce
00:34:43.960 humidity.
00:34:46.080 Moving air
00:34:46.900 reduces humidity.
00:34:48.580 Now, fact
00:34:49.500 checked me on
00:34:49.960 all the
00:34:50.200 assumptions, but
00:34:50.820 I believe that's
00:34:51.340 true.
00:34:52.100 I looked it
00:34:52.660 up.
00:34:53.900 Lower
00:34:54.380 humidity is
00:34:56.300 damaging for
00:34:57.280 coronavirus that's
00:34:58.780 in the air.
00:34:59.580 Do we agree?
00:35:00.780 I'm saying all
00:35:01.760 no's, but I
00:35:03.740 googled it, so
00:35:04.720 I'm pretty sure
00:35:07.380 I'm right, even
00:35:08.320 though you're
00:35:08.700 disagreeing.
00:35:09.800 So later, you
00:35:10.880 can google it
00:35:11.480 yourself and see
00:35:12.200 what you think.
00:35:14.200 But the thought
00:35:15.100 is that the
00:35:15.620 moving air would
00:35:16.420 reduce the
00:35:17.260 volume of water
00:35:21.440 water that
00:35:21.680 contains it, and
00:35:23.540 therefore the
00:35:24.200 virus would
00:35:24.760 fall free because
00:35:25.460 it would have
00:35:26.120 less water
00:35:26.760 supporting it in
00:35:27.980 the air, I
00:35:28.340 guess.
00:35:30.960 So I see your
00:35:32.360 disagreement on
00:35:33.060 this, but if
00:35:35.400 it's not true
00:35:36.740 that air flow
00:35:37.760 reduces humidity,
00:35:39.820 I would be
00:35:42.580 surprised.
00:35:46.580 Scott is the
00:35:47.440 Biden of
00:35:47.880 science.
00:35:49.060 I accept that.
00:35:50.560 Here's the
00:35:51.480 third way
00:35:53.240 am I
00:35:53.700 help, by
00:35:55.040 distributing
00:35:55.620 it.
00:35:57.560 Could it
00:35:58.580 turn the virus
00:36:00.240 from a deadly
00:36:01.300 infection into a
00:36:02.340 vaccination by
00:36:03.280 making it so
00:36:04.180 little everywhere?
00:36:05.140 because when
00:36:06.500 people are
00:36:06.900 breathing, their
00:36:07.940 virus is in a
00:36:09.080 plume that
00:36:10.480 takes a while to
00:36:11.340 distribute.
00:36:12.380 If you walk
00:36:13.120 right into
00:36:13.580 somebody's
00:36:14.220 plume, plume
00:36:16.260 I say, yeah,
00:36:17.720 plume, if you
00:36:19.160 walk right into
00:36:19.740 somebody's plume,
00:36:20.600 aren't you getting
00:36:21.060 a big viral dose
00:36:22.000 and therefore
00:36:22.520 even if you do
00:36:24.300 get sick, it'll
00:36:24.880 be worse, but
00:36:26.800 also increases the
00:36:27.700 chance you'll get
00:36:28.200 sick.
00:36:29.160 If the wind is
00:36:30.180 going, the
00:36:31.220 plumes dissipate
00:36:32.140 faster, and you
00:36:33.820 have no plume.
00:36:35.140 Now, the
00:36:35.600 room will still
00:36:36.240 be full of
00:36:36.760 virus, but it
00:36:38.800 won't be
00:36:39.120 concentrated.
00:36:40.480 How is that
00:36:40.980 not better?
00:36:42.120 Now, if you
00:36:42.620 wait hours and
00:36:43.440 hours, the
00:36:44.020 room just, you
00:36:44.720 know, if there's
00:36:45.060 no circulation,
00:36:45.940 the room will
00:36:46.300 just fill with
00:36:46.980 virus and then
00:36:47.640 it doesn't
00:36:47.940 matter if you're
00:36:48.480 in a plume
00:36:49.460 or not, the
00:36:50.160 whole room
00:36:50.500 will be a
00:36:50.900 plume.
00:36:52.140 But every
00:36:53.540 room has some
00:36:54.300 kind of
00:36:54.620 circulation,
00:36:55.940 right?
00:36:57.060 You're not
00:36:57.640 like in a
00:36:58.100 sealed vacuum
00:36:58.820 or anything.
00:36:59.640 So I would
00:37:00.240 say that a
00:37:00.980 fan would
00:37:01.560 reduce your
00:37:03.840 odds of
00:37:04.660 infection in
00:37:05.360 three ways.
00:37:06.120 The particles
00:37:06.640 getting banged
00:37:07.400 against surfaces,
00:37:08.100 which kills
00:37:08.720 them, reduced
00:37:09.880 humidity, which
00:37:11.200 is bad for
00:37:11.820 viruses, and
00:37:13.440 it's distributed,
00:37:15.780 so there's no
00:37:16.460 plume to get
00:37:17.360 you a high
00:37:17.820 viral load.
00:37:19.040 This is my
00:37:20.000 solution to
00:37:21.020 the pandemic.
00:37:22.300 Now, how
00:37:22.860 could you
00:37:23.580 test it?
00:37:25.360 I feel like
00:37:27.400 you could do
00:37:28.020 a survey of
00:37:29.580 people who
00:37:30.060 got the
00:37:30.540 virus and
00:37:31.520 knew where
00:37:31.940 they got it
00:37:32.640 because there
00:37:34.260 are enough of
00:37:34.800 those cases
00:37:35.320 where you have
00:37:36.440 a really strong
00:37:37.160 idea of where
00:37:37.680 you got it
00:37:38.120 because other
00:37:38.480 people got it
00:37:39.100 in the same
00:37:39.540 place, etc.
00:37:40.740 Could you
00:37:41.280 not test the
00:37:43.660 airflow in those
00:37:44.380 places?
00:37:45.440 Could you not
00:37:46.080 find that where
00:37:46.840 there are ceiling
00:37:47.460 fans, you don't
00:37:48.300 get infected?
00:37:50.140 I'll bet that's
00:37:50.960 true.
00:37:51.340 I'll bet you
00:37:52.540 could find that
00:37:54.160 wherever there's
00:37:54.920 airflow from
00:37:56.060 ceiling fans,
00:37:57.780 that you have
00:37:59.260 almost no
00:37:59.840 infections.
00:38:01.540 So, there's my
00:38:02.520 hypothesis.
00:38:03.720 Remember, all my
00:38:05.220 predictions have
00:38:05.820 been right so
00:38:06.360 far.
00:38:07.560 Why would this
00:38:08.100 one be wrong?
00:38:09.180 Could it be?
00:38:10.500 Could it be that
00:38:11.900 you just need to
00:38:12.560 turn on your
00:38:13.080 fans?
00:38:15.640 You just need to
00:38:16.760 turn on your
00:38:17.240 fans.
00:38:19.040 Now, and it
00:38:20.940 could be that
00:38:21.440 there's just a
00:38:22.060 minimum amount
00:38:23.060 of airflow that
00:38:24.720 is required for
00:38:26.160 the virus to
00:38:26.720 spread effectively.
00:38:29.340 All right.
00:38:29.740 But when I
00:38:31.360 asked that
00:38:31.660 question, whether
00:38:32.260 the fans would
00:38:33.000 degrade the
00:38:33.420 virus, the
00:38:33.940 worst answer I
00:38:34.660 got was from
00:38:35.340 Peter Elfden,
00:38:36.360 who said,
00:38:37.300 no, because
00:38:38.460 imaginary things
00:38:39.600 can't be
00:38:40.260 damaged.
00:38:41.900 So, Peter
00:38:42.520 believes that
00:38:43.060 the virus
00:38:43.540 doesn't even
00:38:44.920 exist.
00:38:46.900 Strong take.
00:38:49.760 All right.
00:38:50.160 So, here's a
00:38:52.920 surprising report.
00:38:56.220 I don't know if
00:38:57.020 this is true.
00:38:57.820 So, I saw this on
00:38:58.620 Yahoo News, I
00:38:59.540 think.
00:39:00.880 So, Rustic, Inc.
00:39:06.360 writes in all
00:39:07.080 capital letters,
00:39:08.340 Scott, stop
00:39:09.260 embarrassing
00:39:09.740 yourself.
00:39:11.220 Rustic, there
00:39:12.960 are two things you
00:39:13.720 don't want to do
00:39:14.340 in public.
00:39:14.780 Number one,
00:39:17.360 don't mock
00:39:18.520 somebody by
00:39:19.780 calling yourself
00:39:20.440 a genius and
00:39:22.040 spell the word
00:39:22.740 genius wrong.
00:39:25.160 All right.
00:39:26.340 Never mock
00:39:27.200 somebody for not
00:39:27.960 being a genius or
00:39:28.840 call yourself a
00:39:29.600 genius and spell
00:39:30.940 the word genius
00:39:31.720 wrong.
00:39:32.740 I've seen this
00:39:33.200 done many times.
00:39:33.900 Don't do that.
00:39:34.840 The other thing
00:39:35.480 you don't want to
00:39:36.040 do is say in all
00:39:38.820 capital letters,
00:39:39.680 stop embarrassing
00:39:40.360 yourself.
00:39:40.860 because you said
00:39:43.380 it in all capital
00:39:44.100 letters and
00:39:44.640 embarrassed yourself.
00:39:46.460 Now, if you said
00:39:48.580 it in lowercase, I
00:39:49.960 might ask you, in
00:39:50.800 what way am I
00:39:51.520 embarrassing myself?
00:39:52.720 But if you do it
00:39:53.400 in all uppercase,
00:39:55.600 you just spelled
00:39:56.980 genius without a
00:39:58.060 U, if you know
00:39:58.900 what I mean.
00:40:01.060 All right.
00:40:03.920 Wuhan and U.S.
00:40:05.060 scientists,
00:40:06.180 according to this
00:40:06.960 report that I don't
00:40:08.240 know if it's true or
00:40:08.880 not, they were
00:40:09.940 planning to release,
00:40:10.940 or at least they
00:40:11.400 thought about it,
00:40:12.660 enhanced airborne
00:40:14.780 coronavirus particles
00:40:16.220 into Chinese bat 0.84
00:40:18.460 caves to inoculate
00:40:20.780 them against diseases
00:40:22.860 that could jump to
00:40:24.980 humans.
00:40:26.720 So they wanted to
00:40:29.300 actually put a
00:40:30.780 disease into the
00:40:31.760 bat caves.
00:40:34.580 Now, I think right
00:40:37.020 off the bat, right
00:40:39.000 off the bat, right
00:40:41.540 off the bat, you
00:40:43.240 can see that this
00:40:43.960 was a bad idea.
00:40:44.980 Right off the
00:40:45.520 bat.
00:40:49.280 Do I have to tell
00:40:51.040 you why this is a
00:40:51.720 bad idea?
00:40:53.900 Why is it a bad
00:40:54.840 idea to release a
00:40:56.060 deadly virus into a
00:40:57.200 bat cave?
00:40:59.320 It would kill
00:41:00.140 Robin.
00:41:02.500 I mean, that's the
00:41:03.220 obvious problem.
00:41:04.560 Robin, dead.
00:41:06.300 Now, Batman might
00:41:08.120 pull through, but
00:41:09.920 Robin, I think
00:41:10.540 Robin would not
00:41:11.600 make it.
00:41:12.440 Robin looks a
00:41:13.000 little weak.
00:41:14.000 So you don't
00:41:14.400 want to put any
00:41:14.940 deadly pathogens
00:41:15.800 into the bat
00:41:16.660 cave, because
00:41:17.960 Batman's in there
00:41:18.980 and Robin, and
00:41:19.880 it could be a
00:41:21.700 problem.
00:41:22.960 But isn't this
00:41:27.220 exactly the idea
00:41:28.320 that I came up
00:41:30.440 with the other
00:41:30.800 day, which is
00:41:31.980 can't you find the
00:41:33.020 weakest variant of
00:41:35.540 COVID and just
00:41:36.640 make lots of it
00:41:37.380 and give it to
00:41:38.060 me?
00:41:38.880 Can somebody
00:41:39.680 please infect me
00:41:40.780 with the weakest
00:41:41.600 variant of COVID?
00:41:43.960 I mean, just rub it
00:41:44.740 all over my body.
00:41:46.320 Because if I get the
00:41:47.200 weak one, I'm going
00:41:47.860 to be fine, right?
00:41:48.940 I just don't want
00:41:49.620 one of the strong
00:41:50.260 ones.
00:41:51.060 But if I get the
00:41:51.760 weak one, aren't I
00:41:53.180 going to be pretty
00:41:54.480 protected against a
00:41:55.520 strong one just like
00:41:56.440 these bats would be?
00:41:57.860 Same concept.
00:41:59.600 Same concept.
00:42:01.260 If this was going
00:42:02.200 to work for bats,
00:42:03.060 why wouldn't it
00:42:03.560 work for people?
00:42:06.800 So they also,
00:42:08.660 according to this
00:42:09.400 report, which I
00:42:10.320 have some skepticism
00:42:12.000 about, that they
00:42:14.460 also plan to create
00:42:15.540 chimeric viruses.
00:42:18.220 Now, you might think
00:42:19.320 that a chimeric
00:42:20.740 virus is actually
00:42:22.480 a chimeric virus.
00:42:25.400 C-H-I-M-E-R-I-C. 1.00
00:42:28.380 But don't call it
00:42:29.080 chimeric.
00:42:30.160 Don't call it that.
00:42:31.040 Call it chimeric.
00:42:32.200 I don't even know
00:42:34.480 if that's the right
00:42:35.020 pronunciation.
00:42:36.240 But one of them
00:42:36.880 is right.
00:42:38.040 Don't do the wrong
00:42:38.780 one.
00:42:39.960 Anyway, they were
00:42:42.380 trying to create
00:42:42.940 these viruses that
00:42:44.260 would be genetically
00:42:45.400 enhanced to infect
00:42:48.340 humans more...
00:42:50.200 What?
00:42:52.660 They also plan to
00:42:53.740 create chimeric
00:42:54.560 viruses genetically
00:42:55.540 enhanced to infect
00:42:56.720 humans more easily.
00:43:00.360 and requested $14
00:43:03.840 million from
00:43:04.780 Defense Advanced
00:43:07.000 Research Projects
00:43:08.060 Agency, DARPA,
00:43:09.140 to fund the work.
00:43:14.180 What?
00:43:18.440 What?
00:43:19.040 They actually asked
00:43:21.580 for money to make
00:43:23.400 genetically deadly
00:43:24.760 viruses that are
00:43:26.620 specifically engineered
00:43:27.560 to kill humans.
00:43:32.280 Probably a bad idea.
00:43:34.240 I don't know.
00:43:34.940 I'm no virologist.
00:43:37.160 I'm no expert.
00:43:39.320 I'm no expert on these
00:43:40.620 things.
00:43:41.320 But it feels like a
00:43:42.420 bad idea, right?
00:43:44.320 It feels bad.
00:43:45.360 Now, when I heard
00:43:47.320 that Fauci had been
00:43:50.260 involved, you know,
00:43:51.260 the allegation is he
00:43:52.460 was involved in some
00:43:53.220 kind of funding on
00:43:55.100 gain of function.
00:43:57.080 Was I worried about
00:43:58.240 that?
00:43:59.480 Not that much.
00:44:01.220 Because it does seem
00:44:02.500 like the argument that
00:44:03.440 you need to be
00:44:04.320 experienced in gain of
00:44:05.720 function because,
00:44:07.240 you know, it's a risk
00:44:08.320 that's coming at you.
00:44:10.220 I think there's
00:44:11.060 something to that.
00:44:11.920 that studying just
00:44:14.040 the idea of
00:44:15.140 weaponizing a virus
00:44:16.260 or how it could be
00:44:17.480 done or, you know,
00:44:18.400 what the risk is,
00:44:20.240 that might be worth
00:44:21.920 doing.
00:44:23.640 But there was
00:44:25.220 somebody actually
00:44:25.880 planning to make
00:44:26.900 the world's most
00:44:27.900 deadliest virus for
00:44:29.060 humans?
00:44:30.280 Like, they were
00:44:30.980 actually trying to
00:44:31.680 make that?
00:44:33.420 And somebody had
00:44:34.300 that as a plan?
00:44:36.320 I'm not sure I
00:44:37.220 believe this.
00:44:38.040 Do you?
00:44:39.980 I mean, I suppose
00:44:41.040 anything's possible.
00:44:42.000 But I'm going to
00:44:42.460 say, I'm not going
00:44:43.540 to say it's false.
00:44:45.000 That would be going
00:44:45.660 too far.
00:44:46.460 I'm going to say I'm
00:44:47.220 skeptical about this
00:44:48.320 one.
00:44:49.160 This one has, you
00:44:50.960 know, a little bit
00:44:51.540 too much on the
00:44:52.200 nose, right?
00:44:53.840 A little too on the
00:44:54.520 nose?
00:44:55.980 That they were
00:44:56.580 actually trying to
00:44:57.440 make the virus
00:44:58.200 that's this virus?
00:45:00.260 That feels,
00:45:02.000 I don't know.
00:45:03.360 Am I wrong?
00:45:03.960 Am I wrong that
00:45:04.620 it's too on the
00:45:05.180 nose?
00:45:06.460 You know, once
00:45:07.160 you've heard me
00:45:07.640 say it, right?
00:45:09.020 Until somebody says
00:45:09.860 it, you don't
00:45:10.340 realize something's
00:45:11.080 on the nose.
00:45:11.960 Somebody has to
00:45:12.640 say it the first 0.70
00:45:13.220 time.
00:45:13.780 And then you
00:45:14.240 say, hmm, it
00:45:15.980 does look a little
00:45:16.640 on the nose.
00:45:19.300 Yeah, I mean, I'm
00:45:21.040 going to say that
00:45:21.560 this one is, there's
00:45:23.180 a solid chance that
00:45:24.620 it's true.
00:45:24.980 there's a good, solid
00:45:26.980 chance it's true.
00:45:28.360 But I'm skeptical.
00:45:29.260 I think we might
00:45:30.800 find out there's a
00:45:31.640 little nuance to the
00:45:32.380 story that we don't
00:45:33.860 know yet.
00:45:37.440 And when the story
00:45:42.380 goes on, it says,
00:45:43.620 when COVID-19 was
00:45:44.540 first genetically
00:45:45.340 sequenced, scientists
00:45:47.240 were puzzled about how
00:45:48.380 the virus had
00:45:49.040 evolved such a
00:45:49.900 human-specific
00:45:50.820 adaptation.
00:45:51.560 adaptation, but
00:45:52.580 apparently that
00:45:53.240 adaptation is
00:45:54.100 exactly what they
00:45:54.960 wanted to do.
00:45:56.400 Looks like they
00:45:57.140 did it.
00:45:59.920 But it also
00:46:00.860 answers this
00:46:01.940 question, doesn't
00:46:02.700 it?
00:46:03.200 Do you remember
00:46:03.660 my question?
00:46:05.500 My question
00:46:10.500 was, why is
00:46:12.500 there exactly
00:46:13.060 one bad
00:46:13.820 variant, the
00:46:15.160 Delta?
00:46:16.940 Are there
00:46:18.100 hundreds or
00:46:18.680 thousands of
00:46:19.640 variants now?
00:46:21.660 And only one
00:46:22.200 bad one.
00:46:24.060 I feel as if the
00:46:25.460 bad one was
00:46:26.200 engineered, just
00:46:27.800 like the first
00:46:28.460 one.
00:46:29.540 I feel as if
00:46:31.220 there are just
00:46:31.520 two engineered
00:46:32.240 viruses, that
00:46:33.120 we'll find that
00:46:33.660 out someday.
00:46:34.140 And all the
00:46:35.380 other variants
00:46:35.920 were weaker.
00:46:39.440 Lambda and
00:46:40.060 mu, well,
00:46:40.940 let's see.
00:46:41.860 I mean, so
00:46:42.360 far, so
00:46:43.460 far, no,
00:46:44.040 right?
00:46:45.240 So far, no.
00:46:49.260 Anyway, that
00:46:50.960 is your news
00:46:52.760 for the day.
00:46:54.360 And wish my
00:46:57.260 cat well today.
00:46:58.260 My cat's going
00:46:59.040 under the knife
00:46:59.600 today, a little
00:47:00.180 surgery.
00:47:00.580 surgery.
00:47:03.580 And she's
00:47:04.580 got ear
00:47:06.040 polyps.
00:47:07.960 She's doing
00:47:08.580 not well.
00:47:10.080 So Boo has
00:47:11.000 not been able
00:47:11.740 to eat for
00:47:12.220 days.
00:47:13.080 We're giving
00:47:13.760 her fluids and
00:47:14.460 antibiotics and
00:47:15.240 stuff, but her
00:47:16.360 head's all
00:47:17.620 infected.
00:47:18.960 She's not
00:47:19.420 doing well.
00:47:20.220 So she's going
00:47:20.960 to have some
00:47:21.360 surgery today,
00:47:22.080 11 o'clock
00:47:22.700 California time.
00:47:24.560 And wish her
00:47:26.140 luck, because
00:47:27.580 she's my best
00:47:28.200 friend.
00:47:28.460 All right.
00:47:31.480 Yeah, watch
00:47:32.020 your pockets.
00:47:32.720 It's going to
00:47:33.060 be expensive.
00:47:34.800 I think this
00:47:35.460 is going to be
00:47:35.860 the $15,000
00:47:37.920 cat when we're
00:47:39.280 done.
00:47:40.540 But worth
00:47:41.380 every penny.
00:47:42.140 And I will
00:47:42.640 talk to you
00:47:43.240 tomorrow,
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