Episode 1510 Scott Adams： What Do Biden's Dementia and Whale Sperm Have in Common？ I Have The Answer
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Join me for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the hit that makes everything better. This is The Sip, and it's a perfect time for a Sip! Dr. Interracial shares the story of a missing man whose body was found in the stomach of a 500-pound alligator, and a story about the world's biggest branding mistake.
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And if the sun isn't out, it's a beautiful evening.
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And it's a perfect time for the simultaneous sip,
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Now, I think we took care of the YouTube commercials
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a tank or a gel, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask,
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Beverly is obviously experienced at the simultaneous sip,
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and knew in the comments to put the A-A-A-A-A-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H.
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first an update on my cat, Boo the Cat, who is still in the pet hospital. So she's not quite
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eating on her own, so she's still got to be fed through the little cat feeding tube. But she seems
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to be, her nerves seem to be good, and she should be back to me on Sunday. I'll put her on camera
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as soon as it's not too embarrassing, because she's going to have a lampshade on her head when
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she gets back. Yeah, she's about a $20,000 cat. Oh, did I tell you that? That the bill for my
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veterinarian experience with my cat will be about $20,000. But I lied. I said that. I said the cat
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bill would be $20,000. If people thought, I don't believe that. That sounds too expensive. Well,
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I'm here to tell you that is not real. It's $20,000 per ear. $20,000 per ear. $40,000. Now,
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I don't know if they'll hit $40,000, but the first year is going to be about $20,000. And
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she's got one ear to go, because they don't do them at the same time. Now, was there any
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doubt that I would pay $40,000 to save my cat? Nope. Not even a little bit. All right.
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Here's the good news, bad news segment. Good news. A gentleman who had been missing for some
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time has been found. Has been found. 71-year-old was missing, and he has now been found. That's
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the good news. The bad news is that he was found in the stomach of a 504-pound alligator.
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The part of this story that I don't understand is if they weighed the alligator before or after
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the man was in his stomach. Because if it was a 400-pound, 500-pound alligator, and you added,
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let's say, a 200-pound man, it should be a 700-pound alligator, at least for a while.
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So I don't know if this was a 300-pound alligator with a 200-pound man in his stomach, but it feels
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like more it had to be probably a 500-pound alligator, which maybe hit 700 pounds for a couple days.
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Let's talk about the world's biggest branding mistake. I like to talk about current events,
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so that's why I'm talking about whale oil. As Dr. Interracial tweeted to me, and that's a really
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good follow. You should follow Dr. Interracial. Just search for it on Twitter. You'll find the
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handle. And tweeted this article to me, and this is something I thought I knew, but not the details,
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which was prior to the 1800s, most of the lighting came from burning whale oil. So they would take
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the oil from the whale, put it in their little lamps, and that's how they made light prior to
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the 1800s. But by the 1850s, we had access to kerosene and oil-based products, and that saved the
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whales. So the whales were saved by the fact that the oil industry came online, and it gave a substitute
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for whale oil. Now, that's one explanation. As you know, if you're watching any current events
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in our current day, have you noticed that there are always two movies? Two completely different
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explanations for how something happened, or what happened even. Well, that was true back in the 1800s
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as well. And while we don't have access to all of the documents, I suspect that what really happened
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with the whale oil industry is that they branded it wrong. Sure, maybe it was just economics. Maybe it
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was just because it was a cheaper substitute. But did you know that the way they branded this whale oil
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was not whale oil? But rather, it was named after the sperm whales from which it came. And so they
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called it sperm oil. So all of their lighting came from sperm oil. Now, I remind you that these were
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unsophisticated folks. Unsophisticated folks. These were not people who had followed the science.
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I mean, today, we all follow the science, and we get the right answer every time. Right? Am I right?
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We follow the science in 2021, and we all get the same answer, and we get it every time, and it works
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every time. Right? But back then, it was harder, because they didn't follow the science. They were
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primitive people in the 1800s. They barely knew what a smartphone was back then. And it turns out that
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when they named their product sperm oil, and they temporarily ran out of it, well, confusion
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reigned. Confusion reigned. Now, some of those people probably said, you know, I'm going to have to
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find another source of sperm oil, and they went and bought some at the store. Others, and I won't name
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names, may have said to themselves, hmm, if sperm oil will power my lamp, just maybe, it's worth a shot.
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It's worth a shot. And so, I suspect many lighting products were completely ruined by people experimenting
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at home. Experimenting at home for a substitute, but in the end, it turns out that kerosene was a
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better substitute for sperm oil than making it at home. So, you don't need your butter churn, if you
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know what I mean. You know what I mean, butter churn. Know what I mean? Know what I mean? You don't need
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to churn your own butter. You can just buy some kerosene, or just turn on the lights. It's electricity now.
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All right. Favorite story of the day that did not involve sperm oil is that, you know the TV show,
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The View? The View? Well, you have to watch this clip. I don't often refer you to clips from The View,
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but I'm going to do it now. You have to watch the clip of The View going live and being informed by
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their producer while they're live that two of them tested positive for COVID and they have to leave
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right now. Get out of here. Right now. And this was right before they were going to do an interview
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with Vice President Harris, which would have been, you know, a big event on its own. And Harris,
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quite rightly, immediately canceled to, you know, not be in the environment with wherever that COVID had
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been. Probably the right decision. And you have to watch Anna Navarro and who was the other one
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being escorted out. Now, so far, they have no symptoms. Can we be, can we be adults for a moment?
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All right. Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's going to be difficult to not mention that Anna Navarro might
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have a comorbidity. Right? Now, we don't do fat shaming on this live stream. I'm, I'm very dead set
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against it because for all the reasons I explain all the time. So we don't do fat shaming, but it is a
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medical fact, which is part of a story. And so far, neither of the view hosts have any symptoms,
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but let's be adults. Can we be adults for a moment? Let's just wish them well.
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And leave it at that. Right? I know you want me to dunk on them and blah, blah, blah. They were
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vaccinated and they got it anyway and blah, blah, blah. Comorbidities. But how about we just,
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we just take a break for a minute? Right? Because it's health. It's health related. You don't have
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to like Anna Navarro's political opinions, but let's just wish them well. Speedy, I don't even
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know if they need to recover, but I hope, I hope they get past the situation in the best possible way.
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I'm just going to leave it there. Give you a little positivity for the day. Just a little bit.
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Oh, I won't make that a habit. Don't worry. We'll be just as mean as we need to be later.
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But for today, let's just say, hope things work out. All right. Biden continues to decline in support.
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Even Beto O'Rourke wrote a scathing op-ed. Scathing, I tell you, about the Haitian immigrant
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situation and how Biden handled it. I guess Beto wanted all the immigrants just to be let in
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for humanitarian reasons. And Biden used the same rule as Trump did to send a lot of them back home.
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So Beto was quite mad about that. Apparently, even the Biden administration's special envoy to
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Haiti resigned over the way the Haitian situation was being handled. How many people have resigned
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from the Biden administration in protests so far? Didn't we get some, were there, were there some
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resignations about the Afghanistan thing? Not the generals, but didn't somebody resign about
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Afghanistan? Am I remembering that correctly? So we've got some resignations. I think Trump had
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some resignations, too. So it's sort of in the baseline, I guess. And there were 15,000 of them,
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15,000 refugees. I guess some number of them made it into the country. So when you watch Biden losing
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the support of the open borders people, you wonder how he could get re-elected. I doubt
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he's going to run again, so it probably doesn't matter for him. All right, let's talk about booster
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shots. You've all heard this story, but it's kind of mind-boggling that it can happen right in front of you.
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Do you feel like this is the truth? There are so many stories that come across, and we're always
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looking for the new one, and we're more interested in the new one, that you can hear a story that is
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absolutely, like, wrong, meaning that there's something happening that's just so wrong, and you'll
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just accept it just to move to the next story, just to get on with it, you know, just to move on.
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And here's one of those. I think we're just going to move on like it never happened,
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that the FDA's vaccine experts, you know, that they had a board of people who were going to
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vote on whether you should get boosters of the vaccinations, and by a vote of 16 to 2,
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which if you're doing the math here, 16 to 2 is not close. 16 to 2 is the most lopsided vote
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you'll ever get. I mean, it could have been zero, but 16 to 2? That's not close, right? And they
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voted against the booster. The experts, 16 to 2. And then their boss, who is not nearly the expert
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that they are, decided that she would just agree with Biden and approve boosters, ignoring the
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experts' view of the science of the data. What? And what are we going to do about this?
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Apparently, it'll just be a news story for one day, and then we'll just have boosters.
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What? We're going to let this go, aren't we? I mean, I will. You probably will, too.
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For some reason, I can't make myself make this my big thing, or it just doesn't feel like where I
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want to die on this hill or anything, because there are so many things that maybe need to be
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better, and things I could complain about, or things I know more about, so I'm more useful there.
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I feel like we're just going to let this happen, and then just let it happen. Am I wrong about that?
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Yeah, I see individuals say, you know, Julie says, I will not let it go, but I'll bet you will.
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I'll bet you will let it go. Are you going to march? What are you going to do about it?
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I feel like we're so beaten down at this point that something as ridiculous as this, where they're all
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lecturing us about using the science, and then they decide to use politics instead, right in the face of
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the science, and we're just going to go, oh, that's okay. That's okay. I'm not even sure what to do
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about this. I don't even know what to say about it. This is such a statement of human beings that
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we're just going to let this go. What? I mean, I'm not going to march, are you? What am I going to do
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about it? Nothing. Paid my taxes. It's just not quite big enough of a problem. Not quite big enough
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and not quite directed at me quite enough that I can't get activated by it, and I don't know why.
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It seems like I should, but I can't. So that's really the surprising part of this story, is that
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we're going to treat it like it's not that big of a story. I don't know how it could be bigger.
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Oh, let me clarify. Gary is mentioning, I'm distorting what happened. They were approved
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for over age 65. I think the details were that they were approved for people in the high-risk
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category, right? So I believe the board of people said no in general, but that the approval was only
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narrowly for the high-risk people. But, shill. Shill? Skid buff, do you even know what words mean?
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You just like, do you have a dictionary and you're just like picking out a word? Shill? Shill.
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What am I shilling for? Did I not just tell you a story in which the scientists said, don't give
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boosters? So, I'm shilling for the boosters? Who's shilling for what? It's a story about how
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the boosters were turned down by the scientists. What am I shilling for? See, there's a thing
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that needs a name. It's a phenomenon. I would call it automatic thinking. A lot of people have
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some kind of automatic thinking where they just make an association and they're done.
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He's talking about Trump or something, therefore. It's really weird. Anyway,
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speaking of vaccinations, Kaiser researchers did a deep dive on their own records to find out if
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there were any serious health effects so far from the mRNA vaccines, the two of them. What do you
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think they found? Nope. So, I don't know that you can trust any data ever anywhere, just in general.
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I'm not sure that any data is credible these days. But, at least in the way this was collected,
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there's a little bit of credibility. Because Kaiser can know for sure who got vaccinated because they
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do the vaccinations. So, Kaiser can know which of their members got vaccinated and when and which
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vaccination they got. And they can then check their records over time and find out how many of those
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people who got vaccinated came in and had health outcomes that were statistically different from
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the unvaccinated. That's a really, really good source of information, isn't it? Because Kaiser's
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records, I think, are pretty darn good. I mean, if you go to Kaiser for a whatever, that word will be
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in Kaiser's records, right? Kaiser will have a record if you came in for anything. So, they can
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very easily match 6.2 million patients. Remember, the biggest problem we seem to have with studies is
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it's a small group. They can study 6.2 million people and track them for months and months and months
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and know for sure if they had more health problems than other people. What do you think happened?
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What do you think happened when Kaiser tracked 6.2 million people and found out how many health
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problems they had compared to the normal public? The answer is no difference. No difference.
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Now, I'm not so sure, like I said, that you can trust any data. It just feels like we can't trust
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anything anymore. But I would point out to you that Kaiser is really uniquely situated to have exactly
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the right data, right? Kaiser definitely has the data. So, the only uncertainty is whether they
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analyzed it correctly. And, you know, I guess we'd like to see second opinions.
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But that's the best news we've had in a long time, isn't it? That even the myocarditis risk for ages 12
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to 39, you would think that that would be a big problem, right? Because you keep hearing the story
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as, oh, the young people have the myocarditis. Nope. It doesn't. They did find it. It's a
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real thing that really is in the data. But it's so small, it's basically nothing. I think there
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were six out of a million, and almost all of the people recovered fine in a day or two. So, even the
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people who got the myocarditis, almost all of them got better right away, right? So, I don't know,
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this is the best thing we've heard. Now, the remaining risk, if you were to believe these numbers
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are correct, and that the mRNA has basically zero, zero problematic side effects. None. Couldn't find
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any. After months and months and months, the only remaining risk is like the long, long term.
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And what are the odds that if you can't find a problem in a year, or how long has it been? Has it
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been a year? Let's say six months. If you can't find a problem in six months with a vaccination,
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what are the odds that you will ever find one? Go. In the comments, answer this question for me.
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I don't know the answer, by the way, so I want to see what you say. If you don't find any problem
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in six months with a vaccination, what are the odds that it has longer term problems? I see 25%.
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I see zero, I see 1%. I see very, very low, 500 to 1. Yeah, two to three years would be better,
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right? Longer is better, no doubt about it. Low, somebody says 100%, 10%. I don't know the answer
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to the question. Certainly less than 10%. I feel safe in saying that. Is it less than 1%?
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It might be. I think it's less than 1%. So probably at this point, you're in the well over 99% chance
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that it's not going to be you who has this weird health impact. All right. So again, we don't know if
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we can trust that data, but there it is. So the Arizona audit came out, and big surprise, big surprise,
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the Arizona audit, I know you won't believe this, two movies have formed. Yeah, I know, surprising
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in this day and age. Who predicted that two movies would form? I did. Was it hard to predict? No,
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because it happens every time. So when something happens every time, and you predict it, you're not
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really a genius. You've just been paying attention. All right. So the way it went was that the hand
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count was about right. So the hand count usually is the big thing you think about, right? Count the ballots.
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Did they go through the machines correctly? Yes. Now, are we done? The hand count showed roughly
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the same. In fact, it showed that Biden had more votes. But here's the second movie. Most of the
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systems didn't balance with each other. There were like 28,000 ballots cast from different states,
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they think. Files were missing. Ballot images were corrupt or missing. Logs were intentionally
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rolled over. Batches not always clearly delineated. Some originals were duplicated and the chain of
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custody documents were missing. What's missing from this list is, correct me if I'm wrong, but they
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didn't audit any of the technology, right? Was there anybody who wanted the software or hardware
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of the systems and the final database? I doubt it. So it was a deeply incomplete
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audit. Because they don't have access to all the good stuff they need. And they found lots and lots
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of problems. Not enough, it seems, that would necessarily lead you to believe that it was a
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fraudulent election. I'd say the evidence is not there. The evidence is not there. Doesn't mean it didn't
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happen. Because as I explained, you couldn't check everything. And if you can't check everything,
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have you really done an audit? No. What good is an audit if the people doing the cheating know what
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you can check and what you can't? Let me ask that again, because when you hear it, it'll make you bad.
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What is the point of an audit if the people who presumably would cheat know what things can be
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found in an audit and what things can't? Why would they do the things that can be found in an audit?
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Why would they do those? If they could just do the other things. They know the things that won't get
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caught. Let me ask you this. Did the audit find how many ballots were discarded before accounting?
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How could they? How could they find that out? How is that even possible? Now, they didn't find any
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evidence that there were discounted ballots. I didn't hear of that. But how could you find it
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if somebody did a good job of throwing it away? So Flo Art says you are naive. So Flo, what kind of art
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do you do? We have an artist here who would like to criticize my analytical abilities. And you know,
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if you're looking for somebody who's got keen analytical abilities, you want an artist.
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So don't pay attention to anything I say with my economics degree and my MBA and my 16 years of
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corporate experience across many industries and my deep, deep talent stack, which crosses a number of
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different business models. Don't pay attention to any of that because we have an artist in the house.
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And that's how you get your analytical stuff from your artists. All right. I have this idea for if
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Trump runs again. I think he plans to, you know, short of any surprises between now and the time he has
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to announce. But if he runs again, here's what I think the mood of the nation requires as a slogan.
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Get your freedom back. You do terrible research, Scott. Do I? Do I do terrible research? I'm just
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looking at a comment on YouTube. Do I do terrible research? I don't think I do any, do I? It's more
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like I tell you what I've seen and and ask you to research it and see if it's right. So I mean,
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the main theme of this live stream is that nobody knows anything. We're all wrong and we better be
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fact checking each other. So if you're fact checking my bad research, you're doing the right
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thing. If you think my research should be right from the beginning, you don't understand a fucking
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thing about the world because nobody's research is right. Do you know whose research you should trust?
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Well, how about that fucking artist? Why don't you trust their research? Why don't you? Well,
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how about CBS? You trust them? Whose research do you trust? Do you do your own? Do you do your
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own research? You should try that. Do your own research because I hear that's a really good
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thing to do. Fucking idiot. All right. So I think if Trump runs again, get your freedom back
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would be a great rallying cry. And the beauty of this is that both sides think their freedom
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has been taken away. This is the weird thing. Both sides, I've never seen this quite before,
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both sides want their freedom back, but they wanted it in a different way, very different
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way. The way the left wants their freedom back, maybe it's not even the left, maybe it's
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more the pro-vaccination people. They think their freedom is being inhibited by the non-vaccinated
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people. So to them, getting their freedom back means forcing you to get vaccinated because
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that's how they can go out without a mask someday, get their freedom back. But the freedom for
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you is the exact opposite, that you don't want to have to get vaccinated if you don't want
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to. And you want to go wherever you want, like the old days, just like you used to.
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So both the vaccinated and unvaccinated want to get their freedoms back. They just have
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a different idea what that means. But the mood of the country is, correct me if I'm wrong,
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the mood of the country is somebody's taken my freedoms. Like you feel that, don't you?
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Don't you feel that, that your freedoms are being eaten up, no matter who you are?
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I think you do. I think that would be a strong, and it also, it's like a Make America Great
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Again. It's generic enough that you can read into it what you want to read into it. And
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that's a good slogan. Democrats have a new tax proposal, or at least it's being floated,
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let's say. And it would cause the wealthiest Americans to pay an annual tax on any gains in
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their asset portfolio. And Biden said he's in favor of, you know, looking at that and
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other things as well. What do you think of that idea? Economists or artists? Are there
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any artists here who would like to weigh in? Because artists are really good for analyzing
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economics. If there are any artists here, is this a good idea? To tax how much rich people
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made just on the gain in their assets? Any problem with that? You know there's a big problem
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with that? Yeah. Yeah, they're unrealized. How do you tax unrealized gains? They're unrealized
00:30:12.420
meaning that they haven't yet sold their stocks, so the stocks can still go down. What happens
00:30:18.060
when they go down? Do you get your money back? Do you get a discount? So what happens if your
00:30:25.740
stock goes up one year, next year it goes down 20%, you don't get a discount, and then the
00:30:34.060
next year it just goes back to where it was? You get taxed for your stocks going back to where
00:30:42.640
you bought them. Come on. This is the worst idea ever. It's not even an idea you can say is good
00:30:53.140
or bad. It's so bad, you can't even analyze it as good or bad. It's not even a thing. You can't
00:31:02.720
even describe it, right? So you can't analyze whether something is good or bad if you can't
00:31:08.440
even describe it in a way that makes sense. Because the sample I gave you is that stocks
00:31:15.940
go up and down every year. If it's a down year, if you don't get a discount, this is not going
00:31:21.400
to fly, and there's no way you could get a discount, right? It's just not going to happen. So there's
00:31:26.360
no way, logically and math-wise, you could tax that asset. And do you want to? Do you want
00:31:35.360
to tax it? Most of your investments have been taxed already. Corporate tax. And those are
00:31:42.140
going to go up too. So it's bad on every level. It's bad for incentive. It's bad because you
00:31:47.960
couldn't handle it. It's unfair. It targets certain people. It's racist. It's super racist,
00:31:53.260
by the way. Why are we not talking about that? How is it not racist to tax the wealthiest Americans
00:32:01.700
who are largely in a couple of different demographic groups? Am I right? If this were
00:32:10.420
a proposed tax that happened to hit black Americans the hardest, forget about, let's just imagine
00:32:18.400
it's a case where there's no difference in economic situation. If it affected black people
00:32:24.260
the most, it would be racist, just by definition. This one affects white people the most, but
00:32:30.080
because these white people are wealthy, we don't give a fuck, right? You can totally be racist
00:32:35.900
against rich white people. You could probably be racist against rich black people, couldn't
00:32:41.520
you? Because you can kind of do anything about rich people. Nobody gives a shit. So, but we're
00:32:48.420
not talking about this being racist at all, even though it's super, super racist and anti-Semitic.
00:32:54.860
Good point. This tax would be not only racist, but anti-Semitic because of its proportionate
00:33:03.380
effect on one group of people versus another. Is it intentional? Do you think that the Democrats
00:33:09.580
find it intentional that they would tax the wealthiest Americans who just happen to be very
00:33:15.560
white on average? Do you think that's an intentional choice to tax people of a certain
00:33:22.640
ethnicity? Sure looks like it. I don't think anybody says it out loud, but would they be taxing
00:33:30.680
this group if it were a different ethnicity? Probably not. Now, I'm not even saying they
00:33:35.980
shouldn't do it, all right? Forget about the argument of, you know, whether it's right or wrong
00:33:40.900
or, you know, what's the best way to do it. I'm just saying that they're targeting an ethnic
00:33:45.760
group and it's pretty blatant, but we're okay with that, I guess. We're okay with it because
00:33:51.780
it's a rich group. All right. As Jonathan Turley correctly points out, he's another person you
00:33:58.860
should definitely be following on social media. He talked about whipgate, you know, the fake news
00:34:05.820
that the border patrols on horses were using whips to whip the Haitian refugees back into place so
00:34:14.540
they didn't cross the border. Now, as time goes by, we find out that the border patrol whipping
00:34:22.540
people wasn't so much border patrol whipping people because they didn't have whips. That's right.
00:34:29.220
It's a story about people on horses with whips and nobody had a whip. There were zero whips. There
00:34:37.440
were reins. The horses had reins and those reins were used to hit the horse as reins are used. Not
00:34:45.680
to hurt the horse, but to hit the horse in a way that you'd navigate with a horse. All right.
00:34:53.100
And so the photos were a little misleading and it made it look like maybe those reins were a whip or
00:34:58.060
something. But once the photographer and all the people there weighed in, we realized there was no
00:35:03.040
whipping, not with reins, not with whips. No human was hit with a rein or a whip. No human tried to hit
00:35:11.500
a human with a rein or a whip. Nothing like that happened even remotely. Okay. Do we all agree it just
00:35:18.740
didn't happen? Okay. Uh, but once the news had reported that it did happen, how do they, how do they back
00:35:27.820
out of that? Like, what do you do if you're a news organization and you just reported it happened, but it
00:35:33.560
didn't happen? How do you correct yourself? Well, here's CBS News taking a run at it. Look at this exact
00:35:40.560
phrase. It said that they have footage of border patrol, quote, using horse reins on migrants.
00:35:50.940
Using horse reins on migrants. What's that mean? Because they took the whip part out, but now they're
00:36:00.340
using the horse reins on migrants, but they're not actually touching the migrants with the horse
00:36:06.200
reins. We know that now because we have better information. So if no horse reins have touched
00:36:11.880
any migrants, are they using the horse reins on the migrants? Well, in an indirect sense,
00:36:17.620
because they're using the horse reins on the horse and the horse is being used on the migrants.
00:36:23.200
So it's sort of like it's almost on the edge of, knocking on the door of, on the welcome mat of,
00:36:30.840
something that's true, but it's not true. I mean, it's basically written to look misleading without
00:36:38.260
being as fake as it used to be when they said it was a whips and they were whipping the migrants.
00:36:42.940
No, they're just horse reins and they're being used on migrants. Is using the horse reins on the
00:36:48.860
migrants the same as hitting them with a horse rein? Because it doesn't say they hit them. It says
00:36:54.540
they used them on the migrants. Yeah, pretty weaselly writing there, isn't it? But as Jonathan
00:37:03.680
Turley pointed out, and I forgot to mention, got all excited about this other part, is that when
00:37:09.780
Biden weighed in and said that he was going to make these people pay, the people who allegedly were
00:37:15.080
whipping migrants, but in fact were not. So Biden, basically the boss, says he's going to make
00:37:22.280
them pay. Now there's going to be an investigation into it. Are the people who investigated it
00:37:27.400
going to be worried about the fact that their boss already concluded the answer? If you are assigned
00:37:33.900
to investigate something that your boss has already concluded the answer to, what answer do you give
00:37:40.980
your boss? Do you give your boss an answer that's going to make your boss look like a turd, an idiot?
00:37:47.040
No, you don't. You give your boss whatever hell the answer gets you paid. And that's a problem. As
00:37:55.520
Jonathan Turley points out, it's a big problem. The reins are not to be used as whips.
00:38:06.740
Why are they so long? The reins are long because they have some whipping action, right?
00:38:18.440
Isn't it the whole point of it that the horse can detect the long rein and it does hit the
00:38:24.500
horse, right? Am I wrong about that? There would be no reason for them to be so long, would
00:38:29.440
there? They seem to be manipulating them. So no, I'm not a big horse rider, but I don't
00:38:35.500
think any of that matters to the point I'm making. All right. Has Biden apologized yet
00:38:43.220
for being so wrong and blaming his employees and throwing them under the bus? I don't believe
00:38:48.120
so. I believe Biden, but I believe Biden should be on the phone to those very people on the
00:38:52.900
horses and saying, my God, I'm sorry I said that once we know that you weren't doing that.
00:38:59.180
I apologize profusely. And my question is, is Trump already trying to get the phone numbers
00:39:04.620
of those guys? I hope so. Don't you think Trump should call the guys on the horses that
00:39:11.340
were being blamed and personally talk to him and say, look, if I were president, we wouldn't
00:39:17.080
be having this conversation? Yeah. Ted Cruz was challenging a professor in a congressional
00:39:25.020
hearing about voter ID laws and what about them is racist. And the, I guess there were two
00:39:32.040
experts there who had the same take, which is that the voter ID laws can be racist because
00:39:38.340
the intent is to be racist. Do you buy that argument? That if the intention of tight voter
00:39:46.840
ID laws is to reduce voting for one team, then it's racist, and that team happens to be mostly
00:39:53.360
black or a lot of black people on that team, it would look racist. What do you think? It's
00:40:00.580
the intention. The intention matters, not the thing. No. And now the courts have ruled that
00:40:09.600
apparently in the past, these have been done for the intention of changing the vote in a particular
00:40:18.080
way. So the courts have found that, but does it matter that it's your intent? Doesn't it also,
00:40:26.660
doesn't it matter mostly that it's a good idea? Because if you implement a good idea, that's just
00:40:32.440
everybody would agree with, and it changes the mix of who votes, and it was your intention.
00:40:38.760
Is that wrong? So let me give you the scenario again. You make a change that everybody agrees
00:40:47.420
needs to be done. But unlike the other people who also think it needs to be done exactly the way you
00:40:54.520
did it, the way you're thinking about it is, oh, my secret plan is to win the elections by changing
00:41:01.360
who votes. But the other people who don't have that secret intention just want a more accurate vote
00:41:08.020
with voter ID. So is the fact that one group of people wants to do it for nefarious reasons,
00:41:16.840
does that make it something you shouldn't do? Because the other people who don't have nefarious
00:41:22.280
reasons also want it for their own reasons, because it's just good hygiene. I don't know.
00:41:28.560
Now, it feels to me that you could have any intention you want, because you know it's not
00:41:33.920
illegal? Thinking about shit. Not yet. I mean, I guess in the domain of a crime, your intent
00:41:44.120
to commit the crime can be a factor. But if you're just deciding what is a good law, and
00:41:50.000
a law is a good law, but also it might help somebody, the fact that it's a good law should
00:41:55.060
be enough. The fact that other people have nefarious intent, I don't think you can manage
00:42:01.220
to that. That's no precedent you'd want. So one of the examples given was that Texas
00:42:10.420
restricted the types of ID that they would accept. For example, allegedly, they don't accept federal,
00:42:17.940
state, or student IDs for voting. And the effect of that would be lower income people and a lot of
00:42:26.160
minorities would not have the regular IDs, but they might have a student ID, federal, or state ID.
00:42:33.420
Have you ever heard that before? Have you ever heard that Texas had that restriction and other states
00:42:39.660
do not? Is it a big problem that people are using fake, I don't know, student IDs or federal,
00:42:47.420
or state IDs? Is that a big problem? Do we have some sense that a lot of people with fake IDs of
00:42:54.840
these lesser kinds, you know, federal, state, or student IDs, are people voting with a lot of
00:43:00.060
fake IDs like that? Paul says, I live in Texas and it's BS. So I'm seeing in the comments people
00:43:08.720
saying that none of this is true. Which part is not true? Apparently, they can use state-issued,
00:43:19.140
you know, regular IDs, driver's license and regular IDs from the state. Oh, are these cards that don't
00:43:26.920
have pictures? Is that the distinction? Because students have pictures. Lots of students have fake
00:43:34.180
IDs, somebody says. But lots of people have fake driver's licenses. Texas will provide free state
00:43:46.320
IDs, but yeah, Texas will provide state IDs, but apparently the access to them is something that's
00:43:53.880
hard to navigate if you're in a low-income group. So you can get them, but we know that a lot of
00:43:59.460
people, it's too much of a barrier. They don't. I don't think those same people were voting, so I
00:44:04.600
don't know if it makes any difference. Lots of people are fake students. Can't get into a federal
00:44:11.460
building without real ID. Okay. You can't get into a federal building without a real ID. So this is
00:44:20.560
one of those cases where both things can be true. It can be true that the voter ID laws are just good
00:44:26.460
laws, and it can be true that they had racist intent. Does anybody disagree with that? Can't both be
00:44:32.740
true? The intention could be racist, and it could still be a good law that a reasonable person would
00:44:37.960
want. It just happens to have a racial outcome. Just like, just like taxing the wealthy. Taxing the wealthy
00:44:45.820
is racist as fuck, but it's probably not the reason they're doing it. I mean, it might be one reason,
00:44:52.900
but it's also where the money is. You have to go after the money. All right. I heard yesterday that
00:45:00.960
Alex Jones has some scoops on Biden that, if they're true, are going to be really interesting.
00:45:11.140
Now, I don't want to tell you the exact nature of the scoop, but Alex Jones claims that he has some
00:45:19.460
insiders and security details that have some stories about, let's say, Biden's dementia.
00:45:31.600
And I don't want to give you details, because I don't know that they're true, and he hasn't
00:45:36.980
revealed them yet, so he revealed some, and I'm not going to tell you those. But you know the story
00:45:43.940
with Alex Jones, right? The beautiful thing about him is that he does get stories right,
00:45:52.580
and he gets them before other people. Now, has everything he's ever said panned out? No. No.
00:46:01.280
Has everything that anybody has said in public panned out? No. No. Name a person who does the
00:46:09.060
same job as Alex Jones. You know, talks about politics in the news. Name any. Is everything
00:46:14.940
that they said panned out? Is everything that the hosts on CNN say true? Fox News? You know,
00:46:22.040
the opinion people. We're talking about not the news people, but the opinion people. I don't know.
00:46:27.480
I feel like if you're going to criticize Alex Jones for getting stuff wrong, you've got to put it in
00:46:34.720
context. Everybody doing what he does gets stuff wrong. There's no exception. Have I gotten things
00:46:40.620
wrong? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We get stuff wrong. It's the nature of the job. But he also gets some things
00:46:47.640
right that you didn't see coming. And this is a big one. If he gets this one right, so this is just
00:46:54.340
sort of a heads up, wait and see. You know, as soon as it drops, let's talk about it. But all right,
00:47:04.380
so I guess Biden talked to Modi from India and Modi was in the United States and apparently Biden was
00:47:14.420
heard saying to him when they were in the situation in front of the press, he said the Indian press is
00:47:22.060
much better behaved than the American press, Biden said. Chuck Ross, an investigative reporter at the
00:47:28.000
Washington Free Beacon, did a little research and found out that the Indian news business is ranked
00:47:35.440
142nd in the world in press freedom. Russia is 150th. The U.S. is 44. I mean, that's nothing to brag
00:47:46.300
about, right? The U.S. is only 44th in press freedom. What? Don't you think we should be in the top 10 in
00:47:55.360
press freedom? I mean, really? Here's something that Trump could run on. Trump could run on this
00:48:03.580
statistic that the U.S. is 44th in press freedom and just say, look, we need press freedom to get
00:48:12.460
into the top 10 percent or the top 10, let's say. I think people would agree with that. No matter what
00:48:19.480
side you're on, you want your press to be in the top 10 out of the world. But he also said, Biden said,
00:48:26.700
and apparently this was maybe not reported in the readout, but he said to Modi, I think with your
00:48:35.120
permission, the president said to Modi, you could not answer questions because they won't ask any
00:48:40.080
questions on point. Now, of course, that's true that they weren't going to ask any questions that
00:48:47.140
were on point. But that's always the case. Why is this the first time that you don't have to answer
00:48:53.360
questions? They always ask off point questions on these events. Anyway, that is your news for the day.
00:49:02.620
Let me take a look at your comments and see what you liked the most or hated the most.
00:49:06.600
Can anyone point to how things are better after months of Biden? Yes, yes. Things are much better.
00:49:16.320
For example, have you noticed that your pulse is down and that your hair isn't on fire as much?
00:49:25.960
I have to say that while I'm bored to death with the Biden administration,
00:49:32.060
they are less stress. Can anybody say that they have more stress this year from politics,
00:49:41.340
just specifically? I know life is kind of hard at the moment. But from politics specifically,
00:49:46.540
do you have more stress or less stress without Trump in office?
00:49:55.400
A lot of people in locals say more. Oh, we've got lots of disagreement on this.
00:50:03.000
More stress. Yeah, it's a different kind of stress, though, but it's not a stress about
00:50:07.120
Trump saying something and now you have to defend it or explain it or talk about it or
00:50:12.460
something. More stress. Well, there's definitely more stress in terms of things going wrong.
00:50:18.980
That's a different sense. Nuclear suitcase stress. You know what? I don't think the nuclear suitcase is
00:50:29.380
even connected. If you were the person who designed the nuclear suitcase, would you put a timer in
00:50:37.960
there that just turned it off as soon as you released it so that even if they tried to launch
00:50:42.660
a nuclear war, the suitcase wouldn't work? No matter how many times you tested it, it would look like
00:50:48.540
it works. But if you were the actual programmer, you'd put in a little code in there that if you
00:50:53.500
actually tried to use it in the real world, not just the test, it just wouldn't work. Because what's
00:50:59.680
the point? What's the point? All right. I'm not saying that's a good idea. I just wonder.
00:51:06.140
Some people saying they just gave up. Don't give up. We're just entering the golden age. It's going
00:51:14.220
to be great. Any input on Evergrande? So there's some big Chinese company that, what, defaulted on
00:51:22.240
their debt or something? I don't have any special input on that except that China is in trouble.
00:51:28.560
And let me make this offer again. If there are any companies considering starting to do business in
00:51:35.340
China, I'm not counting the ones who are already there and, you know, they have a big financial
00:51:39.540
commitment. So they've got a different situation. But if there's anybody who's a big company who's
00:51:45.120
beginning to do or considering doing business in China, let me know. Because if there's one thing that
00:51:52.320
the creator of Dilbert can do, it's embarrass a big company. And if you'd like me to embarrass a big
00:51:58.080
company for even considering moving into China to do business, let's say for manufacturing,
00:52:03.620
I would like to know about that. I will take that quite personally. And I will make sure that they
00:52:10.660
get embarrassed in public. Because the one thing I can guarantee you is that when the guy who created
00:52:17.320
Dilbert targets your company, you hear about it. It gets back to you pretty quickly.
00:52:23.740
China is also cracking down on economic freedom. Yes, they're moving to more of a socialist model. But
00:52:34.480
also, there's a lot of corruption there. So they do need to get the corruption under control.
00:52:41.220
Yep. Fentanyl. We'll talk about that another time.
00:52:43.800
You won't go after Tesla for having production facilities in China. Tesla, I think, is an example
00:52:54.540
of businesses that were already committed. So I'm not going to make the same comments about
00:53:03.960
anybody who already committed, you know, gigantic amounts of money. Agreements were made. You know,
00:53:08.820
maybe you need to live with those. But you don't need to move new business in there. All right.
00:53:20.900
Show description visual of the whip and the Biden and the sperm.
00:53:30.280
China sold banks' initial license that led them to open up offices. That's all. Okay. I don't know
00:53:35.540
the details of that story. All right. Quit shilling for Adam Schiff's gold company. I don't know what
00:53:47.000
that means. Are U.S. corporations still outsourcing jobs? That's what I want to know. I haven't heard
00:53:55.660
of any lately. Thank you. Once you drive a Tesla, other cars are boring? Could be.
00:54:07.840
Oh, Peter Schiff. Oh, Peter Schiff, not Adam Schiff. Yes, that's a big difference. All right.
00:54:20.400
Can you do a micro lesson on paying attention? That's a good question. I've actually gotten
00:54:25.880
multiple requests from people who can't pay attention to boring things. And it's way worse
00:54:33.020
than it used to be. I mean, it's always been hard to pay attention to boring things. But because our
00:54:37.180
our attention span is so segmented now, and our phones have ruined us for anything that's long
00:54:44.480
form, I can't watch a half hour TV show. Because half hour is just way too much to commit to
00:54:50.860
anything. And a movie is just out of the question. Can you imagine watching a three hour movie now?
00:54:56.960
It feels like churning your own butter at this point, watching a three hour movie that's really
00:55:02.380
just the director's masturbatory take on things that has nothing to do with the audience's
00:55:07.860
enjoyment? Yeah. Anyway. I don't know if I have a secret for how to concentrate on things. But
00:55:20.920
let me give you a... I do have a series of things which I have trained people individually on. So
00:55:27.640
yeah, I'll do that. I'll do a micro lesson that'll only be on the locals platform,
00:55:32.480
subscription platform, on how to improve your ability to pay attention. I do have some ideas
00:55:37.700
on that, but you're not going to love them. They work, but they're not as easy as you hope they will
00:55:50.600
The Ford F-150, you'll be able to charge your home if the lights go out. Yeah, that's... Watching
00:55:59.120
energy being moved to automobiles is a really interesting experiment. Because it seems to
00:56:05.720
me you could get to the point where if you had a major outage, you could have a bunch of electric
00:56:11.160
cars that are fully charged just, you know, pull up to a building and plug in and power the building
00:56:15.420
for a while, for a few hours or something. I feel like there's something we could be doing
00:56:22.180
a lot more of with the fact that we're putting energy in automobiles and those automobiles can
00:56:28.200
take that energy wherever they want. Singularity level military power coming. It has to. It's inevitable.
00:56:36.940
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00:56:45.680
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00:56:51.240
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00:56:56.100
One that works for you. Carbs or poison? To a large extent, yes. And monkey exercises? That
00:57:10.000
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00:57:15.740
tomorrow. YouTube, thanks for joining me. See you tomorrow.