Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1538 Scott Adams： Don't Miss My Impression of Joe Biden. And I Won't Forget About Alec Baldwin Either

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00:01:22.260 The dopameter of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including your antibodies.

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00:01:45.520 Well, I don't know if any of you saw the town hall last night.

00:01:50.780 Anybody see any clips from the town hall?

00:01:53.460 Well, the most notable thing that came out of the town hall with Joe Biden on CNN is that

00:02:01.800 for reasons that we still don't understand, Joe Biden was standing, if you haven't seen

00:02:08.680 it, you have to see it.

00:02:09.620 For some reason, he was just standing like this for an extended period of time waiting

00:02:14.080 for a question.

00:02:14.920 Now, clearly, this caused people to create many memes.

00:02:27.120 Among the memes, of course, Cornholio, if you haven't seen Cornholio.

00:02:36.200 By far, that was my favorite.

00:02:37.680 But I also added that he was holding two ice cream cones, invisible ice cream cones, and

00:02:47.280 it only took about 30 minutes for somebody to make the video version of him actually holding

00:02:53.080 ice cream cones.

00:02:55.080 We've seen him.

00:02:55.960 We had jet packs.

00:02:57.640 We've seen him with ski poles.

00:03:00.720 It's the most meme thing I've ever seen, and instantly.

00:03:03.100 But I would like to add to that, I think he was also sending a message to the public.

00:03:11.620 You know how prisoners of war will sometimes try to send a secret message if they have to

00:03:17.740 do a video from their captors?

00:03:20.580 They'll try to send something.

00:03:22.780 Here's the message I was getting from this.

00:03:27.100 They have me tied to a chair when I'm not on camera.

00:03:30.400 They tie me to a chair, right?

00:03:34.620 This is what it would look like if you were tied to a chair.

00:03:37.540 I think he was trying to tell us he was tied to a chair.

00:03:43.220 Maybe it's Parkinson's, tremors, somebody says.

00:03:45.940 I didn't see anything like that, but it's sort of a mystery.

00:03:49.900 But as I watched it, I imagined Joe Biden asking his staff how it went.

00:03:56.680 And so I would like to give you a play in one act of Joe Biden asking his staff how it went.

00:04:07.540 For the Joe Biden role, I will dress like this.

00:04:15.020 And I'll take this off for the role of his staff member.

00:04:17.800 Hey, everybody.

00:04:23.840 How do you think I did on the town hall?

00:04:26.840 Was it pretty good?

00:04:28.800 And what are the polls saying?

00:04:31.060 Think I nailed it?

00:04:35.460 Then his staff member saying, well, he didn't exactly nail it.

00:04:42.520 Some people are making some comparisons of your performance to other notable figures.

00:04:55.300 Other notable figures?

00:04:57.440 That sounds good.

00:04:59.120 Are they comparing my oration to Winston Churchill?

00:05:02.600 No, no, not Winston Churchill so much.

00:05:13.460 I haven't heard that reference, actually.

00:05:18.640 Is it sort of a Ronald Reagan thing?

00:05:21.340 Are they saying I was inspirational?

00:05:22.660 No, no, not Ronald Reagan and not Winston Churchill so much, no.

00:05:33.580 I have not heard either of those names being mentioned, actually.

00:05:40.100 Well, who was it?

00:05:42.480 Who are they mentioning?

00:05:43.560 Who are they mentioning?

00:05:43.600 Have you heard of Beavis and Butthead?

00:05:58.680 Yes?

00:06:00.240 I don't think I like where this is heading.

00:06:07.860 One word.

00:06:10.960 Cornholio.

00:06:13.600 Now, scene.

00:06:17.880 Now, I haven't watched a lot of town halls in my life.

00:06:23.080 And I haven't seen every president's performance.

00:06:27.880 But there is one thing I can tell you with gray certainty.

00:06:30.820 If you ever give a speech and 100% of the public is comparing you to Cornholio,

00:06:40.640 you didn't nail it.

00:06:43.600 Nope.

00:06:44.800 Needs work.

00:06:46.440 Needs work.

00:06:47.880 No Cornholio references.

00:06:50.500 Next time.

00:06:52.440 You can work on that.

00:06:53.880 Well, what else did he say?

00:06:55.900 CNN put their spin on it, of course.

00:06:59.060 And they sent their attack dog,

00:07:01.980 Stephen Collinson, to write about it.

00:07:03.680 Now, Stephen Collinson is most notable, I think, for his continuous anti-Trump articles on CNN.

00:07:13.380 But he's also being forced to sort of support Biden, it looks like.

00:07:18.700 It looks like his orders are to say good things about Biden if he can.

00:07:22.460 But it was kind of hard.

00:07:24.500 Yeah, that'd be normal.

00:07:25.940 It was kind of hard last night, but he did his best.

00:07:30.300 And Stephen Collinson is a soldier.

00:07:33.820 He's not going to back off when he can say something good about Joe Biden.

00:07:38.260 And so here's how he started his article today, talking about the town hall.

00:07:43.460 He said, Joe Biden, showing candor and good humor on Thursday, reminded America why it picked him as president in a dark hour of crisis.

00:07:52.640 That's pretty much how you would have summarized it, wouldn't you?

00:07:57.740 If you watched that town hall, you'd say to yourself, you know, my first sentence in the article should be the one that captures the essence of it.

00:08:05.640 Was the essence that you saw, that his candor and good humor, reminded you of why you picked him as president in the dark hour of crisis?

00:08:14.680 Did it remind you of that, or did it remind you of this?

00:08:19.840 Which one did it remind you of a little bit more?

00:08:23.640 How good you feel in your dark hour of crisis?

00:08:29.000 I feel pretty good in my dark hour of crisis.

00:08:32.240 How about you?

00:08:36.100 So, not his best performance, but Stephen Collinson, to his credit.

00:08:41.860 To his credit.

00:08:44.680 He did say that there were some issues with the town hall.

00:08:47.720 He said that Biden also showed his tendency to send his own White House into emergency damage control as he flipped set-in-stone policy off the cuff and offered gaping openings for his Republican foes.

00:09:02.660 Well, that's fairly generic, so you probably need a specific.

00:09:08.940 Let me give you a specific in a two-person act that involves Joe Biden, again, talking to his White House staff.

00:09:19.540 I'll start with Anderson Cooper.

00:09:23.860 I'm Anderson Cooper.

00:09:27.360 Have you considered using the National Guard to alleviate the supply chain problems?

00:09:35.100 Absolutely.

00:09:39.100 Absolutely.

00:09:40.300 Absolutely.

00:09:41.300 We're looking at the National Guard to fix our supply chain problems.

00:09:46.400 And now, White House staff.

00:09:52.680 We are definitely not looking at the National Guard for the supply chain.

00:09:59.040 By the way, they don't work for the federal government.

00:10:03.380 They kind of work for the governors and the state, and nope, nope, nothing like that.

00:10:08.760 Now, what did that little exchange tell you about who's in charge of fixing the supply chain problem?

00:10:21.060 So who's in charge of fixing it?

00:10:24.020 Clearly, nobody.

00:10:27.880 Clearly, nobody.

00:10:29.540 Because Biden didn't even know that they weren't talking about using the National Guard.

00:10:33.700 If he doesn't even know whose decision it is or what they're even talking about seriously, he's not in charge.

00:10:42.260 And we haven't heard that anybody else is in charge.

00:10:44.620 We heard that, you know, Buttigieg is having a good time with his kid.

00:10:48.240 And I wish him well on that, by the way.

00:10:51.760 But we are sort of leaderless, aren't we?

00:10:54.840 A little bit leaderless.

00:10:57.080 And I don't think we can ignore that anymore.

00:10:59.360 So, Peter Doocy, let's ask some questions to Jen Psaki and see what's happening here in terms of who is in control of this supply chain problem. 1.00

00:11:10.880 All right, let's talk about the supply chain.

00:11:12.680 Adam Dopamine on Twitter floated a suggestion.

00:11:16.820 I think probably some of us had thought about it but considered it impractical.

00:11:21.200 But just for fun.

00:11:23.020 How impractical is it?

00:11:24.160 And the idea is this, to create, let's say, an armada of pickup trucks to help unload the ports.

00:11:32.920 Now, I know, I know.

00:11:34.320 As soon as I said that, you said, oh, I got five problems that will stop that from happening right away.

00:11:39.860 You know, one of the problems might be, you know, regulatory or insurance or whatever.

00:11:44.680 But remember, it's a crisis.

00:11:46.640 In a crisis, you can just wipe all that stuff away.

00:11:48.900 You can just say, all right, the government will insure it and forget about your regulations.

00:11:54.820 Your truck is fine.

00:11:56.340 So, if the problem is regulations or insurance, that's something a competent government could solve the same day.

00:12:04.140 All right?

00:12:04.880 But let's talk about the logistics of it.

00:12:07.920 I asked how many pickup trucks you would need to unload one container.

00:12:12.260 The answers I got ranged from 33 to 12, and both of those answers came from people who seem to have experience doing that.

00:12:22.520 But, so, somewhere between 12 and 33 pickup trucks per container.

00:12:27.760 But let's take the average, 20.

00:12:30.160 Again, I'm not saying this is a workable idea.

00:12:33.540 We're just working through it to see how crazy it is.

00:12:36.360 So, suppose you allowed individual pickup trucks to take, you know, a load apiece.

00:12:43.960 Could you ever do the logistics?

00:12:46.760 Could you ever do the logistics?

00:12:49.460 In other words, could you ever track whether the person who took it really delivered it?

00:12:55.680 Maybe.

00:12:57.120 Maybe.

00:12:57.760 And I don't know the answer to this question.

00:12:59.020 But, let's say that you had a standard that each pickup truck was only loaded with one destination.

00:13:07.340 So, one destination for one truck, to keep it simple.

00:13:10.640 You load up the truck, and then you have the driver of the truck show you his license for the truck.

00:13:18.400 The full truck with the license plate.

00:13:21.360 And the driver's face.

00:13:23.140 You just take a picture.

00:13:24.720 Boop.

00:13:25.000 And you send that to the end customer and say, this person is bringing this truck with these items.

00:13:33.220 If it doesn't show up, you know who took it.

00:13:37.320 Or you know what the problem is.

00:13:38.980 And if it doesn't show up, talk to the government at this phone number, because you have an insurance claim.

00:13:45.120 Now, whoever receives it should probably take a picture of the truck, too, in case the load looks different or reduced on the way.

00:13:53.440 But I think you could probably get something like a process going with just take a picture of it.

00:14:02.660 That would be not so bad.

00:14:04.260 Because you don't need to enter a lot of data if you just take a picture.

00:14:08.120 You've got the license plate.

00:14:09.460 You've got their license.

00:14:10.400 You've got their face.

00:14:11.480 And you've got the truck to show the evidence.

00:14:13.360 So, could you make the paperwork short and easy?

00:14:19.900 Maybe.

00:14:20.960 Maybe.

00:14:21.540 It would depend on what the mix of stuff is.

00:14:24.120 Now, somebody said, but wait, Scott.

00:14:26.400 You couldn't load large items on a pickup truck.

00:14:29.560 So, some items would be larger than even one item you could put on the truck.

00:14:34.020 To which I say, you don't do those.

00:14:36.560 That's the solution.

00:14:39.600 Don't do those.

00:14:41.200 Just leave them for the cranes and the regular trucks, because there's still enough of those.

00:14:46.260 If you can take the burden away from the small stuff, you know, the smaller items, you would have enough capacity for the big stuff.

00:14:53.260 So, you don't need to worry that some stuff is too big for a truck.

00:14:57.200 Okay?

00:14:59.060 Yeah, and frozen items as well.

00:15:00.940 You'd do the specialty trucks for those.

00:15:02.580 But if you're just getting rid of the excess stuff, you could do it with the smaller items that you could break up and put on a truck.

00:15:11.620 All right.

00:15:11.840 How about, would you need to load them with cranes, the pickup trucks, which then would be using up a lot of cranes?

00:15:20.320 So, that seems like it would be another problem.

00:15:22.280 Or would it be smaller items that you could load?

00:15:25.720 Now, somebody sent me an estimate that said it would take, yes, this is not my talent stack.

00:15:30.160 You're right.

00:15:30.440 So, somebody said it would take an hour to load the equivalent of a pickup truck.

00:15:37.980 But I don't think an hour applies if you pick the truck, if you back the truck right up to the container.

00:15:45.040 Am I right?

00:15:46.740 How long would it take to load a truck if you literally just backed it up right to the container?

00:15:51.140 So, you've got people in the container handing it to you, and you're just putting it on your truck.

00:15:56.920 Ten minutes?

00:15:58.300 I think ten minutes.

00:15:59.720 If somebody is handing it to you while you're on the bed of your truck, and all you're doing is turning around and stacking it, I think ten minutes.

00:16:06.700 Right?

00:16:07.720 So, you can load it in ten minutes.

00:16:09.820 What about paying all the labor? 0.89

00:16:11.360 Well, the labor is the truck driver. 0.91

00:16:15.120 So, the truck driver charges something that would cover the labor, as well as the gas, as well as the driving time.

00:16:21.320 So, there's some free market rate that would get the drivers to do the labor, as well as driving.

00:16:31.280 Are there enough trucks?

00:16:35.680 Are there enough trucks?

00:16:37.640 I don't know.

00:16:38.700 But there might be enough just to take the edge off.

00:16:41.880 Suppose you could take ten percent off the congestion.

00:16:47.900 What percentage would you have to take from the congestion to make it start moving somewhat smoothly?

00:16:54.640 Because it's not fifty percent.

00:16:56.740 You don't have to do fifty percent of the load.

00:16:59.420 Probably closer to ten.

00:17:01.920 Right?

00:17:02.480 I mean, just if you've lived in the world long enough and you kind of conceive what it would take to make a traffic jam.

00:17:09.100 Think of what stops traffic in the real world on a highway.

00:17:14.520 What is it that causes a traffic problem?

00:17:17.660 Usually one accident.

00:17:19.880 So, you don't have to fix all of the traffic to make traffic flow freely.

00:17:24.460 You just got to get rid of the ten percent that's causing the problem. 1.00

00:17:28.280 You know, the last ten percent.

00:17:29.500 It might be twenty percent.

00:17:31.900 Maybe it's thirty.

00:17:33.100 But there's some number that we could work toward to at least take off the excess, maybe.

00:17:39.900 All right.

00:17:41.420 How much fun would it be?

00:17:42.940 Well, I feel if it turned into a Trump armada with Trump 2024 flags on the back of every pickup truck and, you know, using ships and planes and trucks, it could be kind of fun.

00:17:59.260 It would be kind of fun, wouldn't it?

00:18:02.140 Because we already see that there were Trump armadas in the ocean, and they did it because it was fun.

00:18:11.240 They liked seeing other people doing it, you know, et cetera.

00:18:14.620 I feel like you could do a Trump armada of trucks and just take ten percent off the top of the load.

00:18:21.580 All right.

00:18:21.900 How many of you know what the Jones Act is?

00:18:26.140 Have you heard of that?

00:18:27.380 The Jones Act?

00:18:28.940 Now, I don't know enough about it to speak intelligently.

00:18:32.500 But what I know is that it's some kind of act that was put in by some kind of special interest that's not good for the world, but it was good for whoever the special interest was, that prevents ships from, what is it, picking up stuff if they go to multiple ports or something like that?

00:18:52.820 The quick version of this is that there is an act, some legislation, that if you got rid of it, would instantly make everything more efficient.

00:19:01.360 Now, I don't know if it fixes this problem immediately, because maybe, you know, there's too much that's already there in the ports.

00:19:08.860 But in the long run, apparently it's, oh, this is U.S. flagships only.

00:19:16.080 Only if it's a U.S. crew, somebody says.

00:19:19.000 All right.

00:19:19.300 So I don't know the details of this Jones Act, because I literally was exposed to it five minutes before getting on here.

00:19:25.360 But there's something there that would, that a Trump could take care of that maybe, maybe a Biden can't, because it's about removing regulations, it's about executive orders, it's about being a leader, really.

00:19:40.720 The Jones Act is protecting our shipping industry.

00:19:43.980 Okay, so the special interest is U.S. shipping industry.

00:19:55.560 Okay, he tried and hit a buzzsaw, somebody says.

00:19:58.400 Unions are the problems.

00:20:00.460 Yeah, well, we have a crisis, so a crisis is a good time to test the limits of what you thought was a barrier before.

00:20:07.420 All right, so let's see, what else is going, Rasmussen has a poll, says, they asked, how important is it that Democrat senators oppose the president, you know, the Democrat president?

00:20:24.220 So I'm paraphrasing, but the question was, do people like it that Democrat senators are thwarting the president, or at least having some pushback?

00:20:33.320 And weirdly, 59% of Democrats said yes.

00:20:38.380 So let me say this again.

00:20:41.240 Democrats are happy that they elected Joe Biden, or at least they were, but they're also happy that the Democrat senators prevent Joe Biden from doing the job and vice versa.

00:20:54.520 So they like Democrats, as long as the Democrats aren't doing anything.

00:20:58.080 Now, I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I think it's funny that 59% want Biden to be in charge and also somebody else to stop him from doing too much.

00:21:08.800 That's not crazy.

00:21:10.480 It's just as funny when you say it.

00:21:12.340 It's completely reasonable to want to have a check and a balance.

00:21:18.460 Joe Manchin gets the good persuasion award for the morning from me.

00:21:23.560 Apparently, Joe Manchin is alleged to have said in a closed-door meeting with Bernie Sanders, when Bernie, I guess, was getting on him about trying to stop the $3.5 trillion bill, and Manchin wanted maybe $1 trillion.

00:21:40.280 And it sounds like Bernie was getting on him about the fact that if they don't compromise, they're going to get zero.

00:21:47.720 So apparently Bernie said something like, if you don't compromise with us, we're not going to get anything.

00:21:54.760 And what was Joe Manchin's response to, if you don't compromise, we'll get nothing?

00:22:00.240 Quote, how about zero?

00:22:03.280 I'm comfortable with that.

00:22:05.900 How about zero?

00:22:09.700 That is exactly the right answer.

00:22:12.520 Now, for negotiating, I'm not saying the right answer is a zero bill, because maybe the trillion makes sense.

00:22:19.760 I don't know.

00:22:20.560 It's hard for me to know.

00:22:22.080 But I like the way he handled that.

00:22:25.920 The only correct answer is, if somebody says, I'm going to shoot you if you don't do that, the only correct answer for negotiating is, here you go. 0.99

00:22:35.920 Shoot away. 0.99

00:22:37.520 Let's get this over with. 0.87

00:22:38.600 If you're not willing to go to zero, and you can't sell the fact that you'll go to zero, you're not really going to have much leverage, right?

00:22:48.620 He has to sell the fact that he would take zero over what they're offering.

00:22:53.180 And I think he did.

00:22:54.760 I think he sold it.

00:22:57.720 So, good work, Joe Manchin.

00:23:01.340 In the narrow question of persuasion, that was good work.

00:23:04.400 Apparently, Terry McAuliffe, who's running for, what the hell is he running for, governor of Virginia?

00:23:12.540 Is that what Terry McAuliffe is running for?

00:23:15.160 I barely watch state politics.

00:23:18.040 But apparently, in his TV ads, he's using, yeah, Virginia governor.

00:23:21.760 Okay, thank you.

00:23:22.820 He's using the fine people hoax as if it's real again.

00:23:27.860 Unbelievable.

00:23:29.240 There's still people using the fine people hoax today.

00:23:33.440 The most debunked hoax in the history of hoaxes.

00:23:36.740 All right.

00:23:38.840 And I was thinking, what would his opponent do to debunk the fine people hoax?

00:23:46.180 All right.

00:23:46.500 What would you do?

00:23:47.620 If you were the opponent, and you thought it was necessary to address that, maybe it isn't.

00:23:52.340 But if you thought it was necessary to address that he was pushing that hoax, how would you do it?

00:23:59.480 Here's how not to do it.

00:24:02.080 Tell everybody it's a hoax.

00:24:05.020 That's how not to do it.

00:24:07.180 Because people are already primed to believe what they're going to believe.

00:24:10.120 So it would just make him look like he fell into the trap.

00:24:13.660 So if Terry McAuliffe's opponent, I don't even know his name,

00:24:16.620 if he decided to push back and then say, hey, that's a hoax, that never happened,

00:24:20.200 it would just look like he was a racist.

00:24:24.220 You can't push back on it.

00:24:26.300 That's the diabolically wonderful thing about it.

00:24:30.220 You can't really defend it if you're running for office,

00:24:33.040 because you will just immediately be painted as a defender of that speech.

00:24:37.100 That didn't happen.

00:24:38.940 Here's how you do it.

00:24:41.100 You put it on a list of hoaxes.

00:24:45.180 And you make sure that you have a link to the explanation of it as a hoax.

00:24:49.520 Maybe a link to all of them.

00:24:51.920 Do it on a list.

00:24:53.020 Say, here are the list of hoaxes.

00:24:55.460 You know, we had everything from Jesse Smollett, Smollett, is it?

00:25:01.920 To the bleach hoax, the drinking bleach, the goldfish hoax,

00:25:05.960 the, you know, what is it, the kids hoax, what you call the kids, right?

00:25:12.820 And you just put it on the list.

00:25:14.420 If you put it on the list with other hoaxes,

00:25:18.340 and you link to the description of why it's a hoax,

00:25:21.460 Covington Kids, thank you, the Covington Kids thing,

00:25:24.640 the mini noose, et cetera.

00:25:26.920 If you put it on a list of hoaxes,

00:25:29.140 then you diminish it by putting it in this body of hoaxes.

00:25:34.900 Then you can do it.

00:25:36.280 Now, it's not a strong attack, but it's the only one you can do.

00:25:39.100 Because if you just talk about that, 0.99

00:25:40.880 then you're just a damn racist, or it'll look like it. 0.98

00:25:43.820 But if you call it out as a list of hoaxes, 0.99

00:25:47.200 that looks different, doesn't it?

00:25:49.560 My opponent can't tell real news from hoaxes.

00:25:53.920 How does that feel?

00:25:55.560 My opponent, Terry McAuliffe, wants to be your governor,

00:26:00.320 and he can't tell the difference between real news and a hoax.

00:26:03.160 Look at this list.

00:26:04.800 He picked this out of a list of hoaxes,

00:26:06.520 and he's trying to sell it to you.

00:26:08.140 Russia collusion hoax, thank you, the obvious one.

00:26:10.880 Right. 0.75

00:26:12.840 Well, Alec Baldwin finally killed someone. 0.94

00:26:16.720 I feel like that was only a matter of time.

00:26:19.360 I don't know how to talk about a story

00:26:21.300 that's horribly tragic and funny at the same time.

00:26:27.540 It's a tough one.

00:26:29.040 It's a tough one.

00:26:29.700 Because, you know, you want to be a decent human being,

00:26:32.540 and there's innocent people who got wounded,

00:26:35.560 in one case killed.

00:26:36.920 And that's not funny.

00:26:38.800 That's not funny.

00:26:39.680 But Alec Baldwin was the person who did it.

00:26:45.220 And, you know, we're hearing some unconfirmed reports

00:26:47.460 of what he was doing prior to that.

00:26:50.460 It looked like he might have been telling a joke

00:26:52.380 because he thought the gun had blanks or something.

00:26:55.640 But let me say the obvious.

00:26:58.540 I think Alec Baldwin was an anti-gun guy, right?

00:27:01.700 Am I right?

00:27:03.220 Alec Baldwin was an anti-gun activist.

00:27:05.680 Do you know what would have prevented this accident?

00:27:10.140 Among other things.

00:27:11.840 The number one thing that would have prevented this accident

00:27:14.200 if he had firearms training.

00:27:20.080 Literally nobody with firearms training,

00:27:23.400 let's say NRA training,

00:27:25.280 literally nobody with firearms training

00:27:27.400 would have done that.

00:27:28.800 None.

00:27:29.400 Zero.

00:27:29.720 I think, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:27:33.860 how many of you have taken gun training?

00:27:36.180 So let me know.

00:27:36.900 How many of you have taken any firearms training?

00:27:39.540 Do you think you could take firearms training

00:27:41.640 and walk away with that thinking you could ever,

00:27:45.220 ever, under any condition,

00:27:47.700 point a gun that's a prop gun,

00:27:49.640 a fake gun, a toy gun,

00:27:51.660 any kind of gun,

00:27:52.940 one you think is unloaded?

00:27:54.520 Do you think the NRA or any firearms training

00:27:57.460 would let you point any gun at any person ever?

00:28:01.320 No.

00:28:02.740 No.

00:28:03.360 That's an absolute.

00:28:05.300 There's nothing more absolute than that.

00:28:08.320 No.

00:28:08.820 No, I don't think it's loaded.

00:28:10.800 No.

00:28:11.760 No, it has blanks in it, I'm pretty sure.

00:28:14.260 No.

00:28:14.940 No.

00:28:15.620 Never.

00:28:16.360 Because, by the way,

00:28:17.320 the blanks can kill you 0.57

00:28:18.480 just at a shorter distance.

00:28:21.320 Because the blanks have gunpowder.

00:28:22.700 It's shooting some, you know,

00:28:24.320 at least gas and forces out. 1.00

00:28:26.640 So you can kill somebody with a blank. 0.99

00:28:28.740 That's a thing. 0.99

00:28:30.760 Now,

00:28:31.740 and of course you never,

00:28:33.840 and by the way,

00:28:34.580 even if it was a plastic gun,

00:28:38.360 even if it were plastic,

00:28:41.320 should he aim it at somebody?

00:28:44.120 Not if there's somebody else with a gun

00:28:45.920 anywhere around, right?

00:28:48.280 If there's somebody else with a gun,

00:28:50.280 they're going to pull it.

00:28:53.280 If somebody sees somebody

00:28:54.340 pointing a plastic gun at somebody

00:28:55.860 and it looks, you know,

00:28:56.540 sort of real,

00:28:57.720 you're going to unload,

00:28:59.860 at the very least.

00:29:00.680 You might not shoot,

00:29:02.380 but you're going to deholster, right?

00:29:05.700 If you think it's a real gun.

00:29:08.600 So we don't know if he was killed

00:29:09.800 by a blank or an actual round.

00:29:11.600 Do we know the answer to that yet?

00:29:15.140 Was there an actual live round in the gun?

00:29:18.240 Because it's hard to believe.

00:29:21.260 But I don't think we know that,

00:29:22.660 which is weird that we don't know that.

00:29:25.660 So here's what we've learned.

00:29:27.420 Owning a gun is dangerous,

00:29:28.800 but not owning a gun is dangerous too.

00:29:31.020 A different way.

00:29:32.580 But had he been a gun owner,

00:29:34.660 almost certainly would have taken

00:29:36.140 some kind of training.

00:29:37.140 This wouldn't have happened.

00:29:38.520 If he had been a gun owner,

00:29:39.920 it wouldn't have happened.

00:29:40.640 Irony is just screaming here.

00:29:44.800 There's a question of

00:29:45.920 why he shot two people.

00:29:49.580 So that's sort of an open question.

00:29:52.020 One possibility is that

00:29:53.240 it was one bullet that killed one person

00:29:54.980 and grazed another.

00:29:57.900 The other possibility is that

00:29:59.460 he's been in enough movies

00:30:00.540 that he knows that

00:30:01.200 if he accidentally kills somebody, 0.75

00:30:02.940 he's got to get rid of the witness.

00:30:05.260 Got to get rid of the witness.

00:30:06.940 Now, I'm not saying that's what happened.

00:30:08.300 I'm just saying,

00:30:10.280 we don't know what happened.

00:30:12.500 All right.

00:30:13.420 Have you heard of buyer's remorse?

00:30:16.160 Oh, and by the way,

00:30:16.840 on this Alec Baldwin thing,

00:30:18.720 I swear it looks like

00:30:19.940 there's an anti-Trump critic curse.

00:30:25.360 Is it...

00:30:27.000 Oh, it could be shrapnel, yeah.

00:30:29.200 Is it my imagination,

00:30:31.320 or do people who are prominent critics of Trump

00:30:34.620 end up with bad futures?

00:30:36.560 It feels like it, right?

00:30:39.900 Anyway, let's talk about Biden remorse.

00:30:42.920 That's a hashtag I made up yesterday.

00:30:45.140 Sounds like buyer's remorse, doesn't it?

00:30:47.380 I feel like we're getting

00:30:48.240 some of that buyer's remorse from Biden.

00:30:50.740 Let's call it Biden remorse.

00:30:55.840 I guess I didn't have much to say about that,

00:30:57.800 except Biden remorse sounds funny to me.

00:31:00.020 How many of you,

00:31:01.620 if you heard the term Biden remorse,

00:31:06.320 how many of you would know

00:31:07.440 that's a play on buyer's remorse?

00:31:09.640 Is it close enough?

00:31:11.180 Because I don't know if it's close enough.

00:31:13.280 Oh, you would, okay.

00:31:14.680 All right, you all picked up on that.

00:31:16.580 Okay.

00:31:17.520 I wasn't sure if that was obvious.

00:31:19.760 All right.

00:31:20.120 Thank you to Twitter user

00:31:27.280 and follower of my material,

00:31:30.220 Brian Keith.

00:31:32.020 I guess he's COO of Fractional.

00:31:35.080 And he wrote a long tweet today

00:31:36.740 about his experience consuming my material

00:31:40.540 from Dilbert through the live streams.

00:31:43.600 And it was really well thought out,

00:31:45.380 and I appreciate it a lot.

00:31:46.560 So I'm just going to say thank you.

00:31:47.740 If you want to take a look at it,

00:31:49.300 I tweeted it this morning.

00:31:53.380 Almost every day, somebody says,

00:31:55.400 why aren't you talking about that evil Fauci

00:31:57.460 and his lying about his gain-of-function stuff?

00:32:01.580 And I'm just not seeing the same story you are.

00:32:06.120 Now, is Fauci lying about gain-of-function?

00:32:11.380 In the intentionally misleading way, I suppose.

00:32:15.300 I mean, I think you could make that argument

00:32:17.800 because there was gain-of-function work,

00:32:22.560 and apparently it did get funded directly or indirectly

00:32:25.620 through something that he was associated with.

00:32:28.320 He did deny it,

00:32:30.440 and it is fairly conclusively demonstrated

00:32:33.740 that it was happening.

00:32:35.440 So if you hear that he's denying it,

00:32:38.080 but it really happened,

00:32:40.100 what is your conclusion?

00:32:42.420 That he lied, right?

00:32:43.460 The obvious conclusion is that he lied.

00:32:46.940 I'm not seeing it.

00:32:49.200 And by the way, I'm not a Fauci defender,

00:32:53.160 so it's not like I just side with him

00:32:55.820 and I'm trying to defend him.

00:32:57.340 Here's why I don't see it.

00:32:59.680 Because his explanation is that they used a different term,

00:33:04.420 that the term gain-of-function,

00:33:06.700 I think he's trying to weasel it

00:33:08.240 as being maybe more military than it was.

00:33:11.260 And the question is,

00:33:13.480 what goes into that definition of gain-of-function?

00:33:17.040 So to me, it looks like he's just using a definition thing,

00:33:19.900 saying that's not how I define it.

00:33:22.180 So by my own definition, I didn't do it.

00:33:24.920 And then other people say,

00:33:26.020 well, by our definition, you did.

00:33:29.040 So what is there to talk about?

00:33:31.440 By his definition, he didn't do it.

00:33:34.000 By somebody else's definition, he did.

00:33:36.800 We're only talking about the definition.

00:33:38.340 We're not even arguing about what happened.

00:33:40.480 If you're not arguing about what happened,

00:33:43.080 what are you arguing about?

00:33:46.620 The what happened part is important.

00:33:49.060 Now here's what I understand

00:33:50.480 from my light reading of the topic.

00:33:54.020 That there's some kind of things

00:33:56.040 that you would call gain-of-function

00:33:57.640 that would just be smart to do.

00:34:01.420 Let me ask you that.

00:34:03.600 Give me a fact check on that,

00:34:05.060 because that's more opinion than fact, right?

00:34:06.760 Is there something that somebody

00:34:09.780 who is an expert in the field

00:34:11.300 would call maybe one sliver of gain-of-function

00:34:15.160 that would be not only worth doing,

00:34:20.140 but might reduce your risk in the long run?

00:34:23.440 Yes or no?

00:34:24.660 Is there any gain-of-function

00:34:26.300 that would have been justifiable?

00:34:28.620 Not building a weapon.

00:34:30.320 So I'm not talking about building a weapon

00:34:31.940 out of a virus.

00:34:33.340 I'm talking about tweaking a virus

00:34:35.440 to see if it can change its characteristics,

00:34:38.020 which might give you some insight

00:34:40.080 about what other people are doing

00:34:41.600 in other countries,

00:34:42.660 and also some insight

00:34:44.020 about what things to be ready for,

00:34:46.300 you know, for vaccines and stuff.

00:34:49.520 It's playing with fire, okay,

00:34:52.180 but is every kind of testing

00:34:54.420 playing with fire?

00:34:56.320 Is every kind?

00:34:57.680 I think here's my assumption,

00:35:03.020 and until I'm proven wrong,

00:35:04.620 I'm going to stick with it, right?

00:35:06.200 My assumption is that when you use a phrase

00:35:08.200 like gain-of-function,

00:35:09.360 it's a pretty big label,

00:35:11.880 and that Fauci did do things

00:35:14.960 that would be under that category

00:35:16.740 and has denied it,

00:35:19.300 but maybe defining it differently

00:35:21.760 as in, no, no,

00:35:23.220 the gain-of-function you're talking about

00:35:25.080 is turning a less harmless

00:35:27.420 or a more harmless virus

00:35:28.940 into a dangerous one.

00:35:30.440 We didn't do that.

00:35:32.840 Maybe he didn't.

00:35:34.480 Now, maybe somebody did it

00:35:35.860 that, you know,

00:35:36.340 they didn't know about.

00:35:37.360 Maybe there's a rogue.

00:35:38.900 You know, maybe there was some confusion

00:35:40.180 about what got funded,

00:35:41.600 but it could be true

00:35:43.260 that by his definition,

00:35:46.500 it didn't happen.

00:35:48.140 By his definition.

00:35:49.900 But you'd have to buy

00:35:50.680 his definition of it,

00:35:51.640 and I don't think

00:35:53.040 it's necessarily unreasonable.

00:35:55.660 If it's true,

00:35:56.520 and here's my big assumption,

00:35:58.000 if it's true,

00:36:00.600 shill atoms at his best.

00:36:02.660 So all the people doing all caps

00:36:04.800 are experiencing cognitive dissonance.

00:36:08.620 So here over on,

00:36:10.400 you can see an example

00:36:11.440 over on YouTube,

00:36:13.980 skidbuff says in all caps,

00:36:16.540 shill atoms at his best.

00:36:18.920 That's not really a comment,

00:36:20.320 is it?

00:36:21.520 You know, here would be

00:36:22.680 a comment with a functional brain.

00:36:25.500 A functional brain would say,

00:36:26.940 I challenge your assumption.

00:36:28.980 I don't think there's

00:36:30.000 a difference of definition.

00:36:32.420 That would be a smart comment.

00:36:35.140 Something worthy of your time.

00:36:37.640 Do you know what wouldn't be?

00:36:39.920 And all caps,

00:36:43.420 Scotts and shill.

00:36:45.100 Scotts and shill.

00:36:46.920 Yeah, it doesn't help.

00:36:48.720 It doesn't help.

00:36:50.320 All right.

00:36:52.240 For those who challenge my assumption,

00:36:54.560 that's fair.

00:36:57.880 You still did it in all caps, though.

00:37:01.020 All right.

00:37:01.620 Is there anybody here

00:37:02.380 who would agree with my assumption?

00:37:06.520 All right.

00:37:07.160 Is there anybody who would agree

00:37:08.380 that it looks like

00:37:09.940 there's a difference in definition

00:37:11.240 going on here,

00:37:12.000 that that's the heart of it?

00:37:13.820 I'm seeing one yes,

00:37:16.300 mostly no.

00:37:17.400 A few yeses.

00:37:19.220 Nope, nope, nope.

00:37:20.280 I'm seeing almost all no's 1.00

00:37:21.620 on YouTube.

00:37:22.980 Over on locals,

00:37:24.480 mostly no.

00:37:26.160 But some yes.

00:37:26.900 If this were a criminal prosecution

00:37:32.960 and you had to achieve

00:37:35.820 a standard of, you know,

00:37:38.460 no reasonable doubt

00:37:39.620 and you saw that a lot of people

00:37:42.200 are watching the story

00:37:43.160 and saying,

00:37:43.600 I think it's just

00:37:44.140 a definitional difference.

00:37:46.940 Does Fauci have reasonable doubt?

00:37:49.460 There are a lot of people

00:37:50.280 watching the story

00:37:51.040 who have the same opinion I do.

00:37:52.680 A minority. 0.57

00:37:53.780 There are more people

00:37:54.500 who disagree than agree.

00:37:55.820 But there are a lot of people

00:37:56.720 who are saying,

00:37:57.820 yeah, it just looks like

00:37:58.520 a definition thing.

00:38:01.420 Doesn't mean I'm right,

00:38:02.620 but if this were a court case,

00:38:04.780 you would not be convicted.

00:38:06.660 Because there are enough people

00:38:07.820 looking at this saying,

00:38:08.500 no, it looks ambiguous to me.

00:38:10.540 You know,

00:38:10.740 I don't think that's enough

00:38:11.580 to, you know,

00:38:13.260 put him on fire. 0.99

00:38:16.740 All right. 0.96

00:38:17.240 So, don't take that

00:38:19.660 as a defense of Fauci.

00:38:21.020 That is only an explanation

00:38:24.100 of my observation.

00:38:26.720 All right.

00:38:26.940 I don't defend him.

00:38:28.340 I don't have a sense

00:38:29.760 that he's done the best job.

00:38:32.880 But I'm not terribly sure

00:38:34.580 that this is the right attack vector.

00:38:38.580 All right.

00:38:39.640 Biden's approval level

00:38:40.920 is down to 37%,

00:38:42.700 according to Quinnipiac.

00:38:44.980 And 78,

00:38:46.940 in the same poll said,

00:38:48.120 78% of Republicans

00:38:49.480 want Donald Trump

00:38:50.320 to run again in 2024.

00:38:52.780 78% want him to run again.

00:38:56.260 Do you think anybody else

00:38:57.500 is going to win the primary?

00:39:00.740 I'll tell you,

00:39:01.520 nothing could make

00:39:02.380 Trump president better

00:39:03.500 than Biden's performance.

00:39:06.880 It's just crazy

00:39:07.780 how bad it is.

00:39:09.720 60% of independents

00:39:11.360 on the same poll

00:39:12.080 said they disapproved

00:39:13.800 of Biden's performance.

00:39:15.100 How could you possibly

00:39:17.300 keep Trump

00:39:19.780 out of the White House

00:39:20.560 with this?

00:39:21.880 Now,

00:39:22.120 I don't think

00:39:22.580 he'd be running

00:39:23.180 against Biden,

00:39:24.360 but he's going to be

00:39:25.020 running against

00:39:25.580 somebody that Biden beat.

00:39:29.540 It sounded funny

00:39:30.900 when I said it.

00:39:32.240 So 60% of independents

00:39:33.880 disapprove of Biden,

00:39:35.780 which would clearly

00:39:36.660 be a number

00:39:37.140 that he couldn't

00:39:37.780 get reelected.

00:39:38.480 I thought I had

00:39:45.220 a good point,

00:39:45.760 but maybe I didn't.

00:39:46.840 I think I'll bail

00:39:47.400 out of that one.

00:39:50.500 All right.

00:39:51.880 Randy Weingarten,

00:39:53.240 who you might know,

00:39:54.100 is the president

00:39:54.700 of AFT,

00:39:56.420 which is probably

00:39:57.160 American Federated Teachers,

00:39:59.940 the Teachers Union.

00:40:01.300 So she's president

00:40:02.140 of, I guess,

00:40:02.820 the biggest Teachers Union,

00:40:03.980 or is there

00:40:05.940 a Teachers Union

00:40:07.340 above Teachers Union?

00:40:08.760 What exactly

00:40:09.460 is her role?

00:40:10.660 I don't know

00:40:11.080 if she's the head

00:40:11.860 of the biggest

00:40:12.360 Teachers Union,

00:40:13.420 or is there something

00:40:14.400 that's on top

00:40:15.580 of all Teachers Unions?

00:40:18.680 Can somebody

00:40:19.580 explain that?

00:40:22.800 Is she...

00:40:24.260 NEA is the biggest,

00:40:26.240 so she's just

00:40:27.660 one of the big ones?

00:40:29.320 Is that the actual

00:40:30.700 situation?

00:40:33.660 All right.

00:40:34.180 So,

00:40:35.060 the loudest one.

00:40:38.480 Anyway,

00:40:39.020 she's a leader

00:40:41.160 in the Teachers Unions,

00:40:43.480 and she tweeted

00:40:45.040 that kids were

00:40:46.300 very damaged

00:40:47.020 by the lockdowns.

00:40:50.140 That's right.

00:40:51.700 A leader

00:40:52.380 who stopped

00:40:53.740 kids from going

00:40:54.700 to school

00:40:55.260 wants you to know

00:40:56.440 that the kids

00:40:56.940 were very damaged

00:40:57.900 mentally,

00:40:58.620 psychologically,

00:40:59.920 developmentally

00:41:00.720 by the lockdown.

00:41:03.120 the person

00:41:04.760 who is

00:41:05.160 singly

00:41:05.640 most responsible

00:41:06.740 for causing it

00:41:07.820 wants you

00:41:08.760 to know

00:41:09.140 that,

00:41:09.520 gosh,

00:41:09.840 it sure looks

00:41:10.440 bad for those

00:41:11.000 kids. 0.53

00:41:13.880 Unfrickin'

00:41:14.500 believable.

00:41:15.000 AFT is

00:41:18.700 higher education

00:41:19.580 than NEA?

00:41:21.180 Well,

00:41:21.740 we're confused

00:41:22.320 about some

00:41:22.980 of these roles,

00:41:23.660 but maybe

00:41:24.660 we'll sort

00:41:25.100 that out.

00:41:28.440 So,

00:41:28.960 what she said

00:41:29.440 was in her tweet,

00:41:30.140 I think a lot

00:41:30.660 of people forget

00:41:31.400 that our children

00:41:32.080 are also facing

00:41:33.100 immense trauma

00:41:34.040 as a result

00:41:35.340 of the pandemic

00:41:35.960 and the isolation

00:41:36.820 of quarantine

00:41:37.740 and school

00:41:38.980 via Zoom,

00:41:40.420 the things

00:41:41.020 that she caused.

00:41:43.180 Many of her did.

00:41:43.820 or at least

00:41:45.500 was very

00:41:47.040 persuasive in.

00:41:49.300 All right,

00:41:50.420 the funniest statement,

00:41:51.420 and I'll end on this

00:41:52.540 because I've got to

00:41:53.000 leave a little early

00:41:53.600 today,

00:41:54.620 is that CNN has,

00:41:55.820 and I love doing this,

00:41:57.700 I love using CNN's

00:41:59.340 own biased language

00:42:00.920 against them.

00:42:02.400 Do you know how

00:42:03.000 when somebody

00:42:04.040 does something wrong

00:42:05.040 and then they

00:42:06.160 try to support it

00:42:07.900 later,

00:42:08.920 and CNN always says

00:42:10.240 they're doubling down?

00:42:12.240 Oh,

00:42:12.660 Trump doubled down

00:42:14.080 on his bleach drinking

00:42:15.540 or whatever,

00:42:16.280 usually it's fake news.

00:42:18.420 So I'm going to say

00:42:19.360 they doubled down.

00:42:20.760 Apparently,

00:42:21.300 they're defending

00:42:22.100 their network's

00:42:25.540 coverage of Joe Rogan

00:42:27.000 and the many references

00:42:28.600 on it

00:42:29.160 that he was taking

00:42:30.400 horse medicine,

00:42:32.780 which,

00:42:33.180 of course,

00:42:34.040 he was not.

00:42:35.540 It's fake news.

00:42:37.060 And CNN,

00:42:37.760 instead of saying,

00:42:38.520 you know,

00:42:39.300 you're right,

00:42:39.980 we probably shouldn't

00:42:40.780 have couched it

00:42:42.160 that way

00:42:42.520 or framed it

00:42:43.140 that way.

00:42:43.880 Sorry about that.

00:42:45.700 But,

00:42:46.040 you know,

00:42:46.240 it was opinion.

00:42:48.160 I think CNN

00:42:49.160 had a perfectly

00:42:50.260 good defense.

00:42:52.680 And the defense

00:42:53.300 would be,

00:42:54.340 yeah,

00:42:54.600 sorry,

00:42:54.960 that was probably

00:42:55.420 a little misleading.

00:42:56.400 It came out of

00:42:57.120 our opinion people.

00:43:00.080 And we would have

00:43:01.720 thought that you

00:43:02.220 would have known

00:43:02.680 it was hyperbole.

00:43:04.840 That wouldn't be

00:43:05.880 a bad defense.

00:43:07.760 You know?

00:43:08.240 I mean,

00:43:08.600 not complete defense,

00:43:09.740 but it would be

00:43:10.560 better than what

00:43:11.080 they did.

00:43:11.880 So they decided

00:43:12.820 not to apologize

00:43:13.600 and went hard

00:43:14.280 and said the only

00:43:14.860 thing they did wrong

00:43:15.620 was hurt the ego

00:43:16.460 of a celebrity,

00:43:17.860 Joe Rogan.

00:43:19.120 That's all they did

00:43:19.940 wrong.

00:43:20.260 They hurt his ego.

00:43:22.820 Well,

00:43:23.860 I'm not so sure

00:43:24.680 about that.

00:43:28.680 But even,

00:43:30.020 I guess,

00:43:30.600 the Washington Post

00:43:31.320 had an article

00:43:32.440 by Eric Wimple

00:43:34.020 who just eviscerated

00:43:35.940 CNN's treatment

00:43:37.360 and their integrity

00:43:39.700 because this was

00:43:40.960 just a clear fake news.

00:43:42.620 I think most people

00:43:43.400 would say it's a clear

00:43:44.740 example of just

00:43:45.700 the media being

00:43:47.740 despicable

00:43:48.860 and they decided

00:43:50.640 to double down. 0.92

00:43:52.280 But maybe that works.

00:43:53.280 I don't know.

00:44:00.100 Wouldn't it depend

00:44:01.060 on the hoaxer's

00:44:01.940 definition of bleach?

00:44:04.180 Nope.

00:44:04.740 Nope.

00:44:09.240 I don't think

00:44:10.120 anybody would call

00:44:10.820 light therapy

00:44:11.800 bleach.

00:44:13.800 Disinfectant,

00:44:14.380 yes.

00:44:15.720 So it does

00:44:16.380 depend on your

00:44:17.560 definition of

00:44:18.200 disinfectant,

00:44:18.960 but not on your

00:44:19.560 definition of bleach.

00:44:21.000 Bleach is a pretty

00:44:21.920 clear word.

00:44:27.400 Yeah,

00:44:27.940 they doubled down

00:44:28.540 on lying.

00:44:29.020 All right.

00:44:34.360 And that

00:44:35.200 is pretty much

00:44:36.440 what I wanted

00:44:36.920 to talk about

00:44:37.480 today.

00:44:38.820 So,

00:44:40.060 did I miss

00:44:41.140 anything?

00:44:41.680 Are there any

00:44:42.120 stories that you

00:44:42.800 wish I'd talked

00:44:43.360 about that I

00:44:43.840 didn't?

00:44:46.420 How is Boo?

00:44:47.360 Boo's looking good.

00:44:48.700 We still have to

00:44:49.260 figure out if

00:44:50.560 the cancer

00:44:51.440 diagnosis is real.

00:44:52.600 It's a little

00:44:52.940 ambiguous still.

00:44:54.360 Yes,

00:45:02.040 Trump could

00:45:02.540 own the

00:45:02.960 definition of

00:45:03.620 disinfectant.

00:45:05.460 Crypto and

00:45:06.120 Bitcoin.

00:45:08.440 I think

00:45:09.040 Bitcoin is

00:45:09.540 down today,

00:45:10.040 right?

00:45:12.500 Let's see

00:45:13.180 how Bitcoin

00:45:13.840 is doing.

00:45:17.120 Bitcoin,

00:45:17.700 Bitcoin.

00:45:20.080 Hey,

00:45:20.580 Bitcoin.

00:45:21.200 How are you

00:45:21.500 doing?

00:45:21.960 Yeah,

00:45:22.220 it's down

00:45:22.580 today.

00:45:22.860 Okay.

00:45:24.360 Oh,

00:45:25.580 Trump Social.

00:45:26.280 We talked

00:45:26.540 about that

00:45:26.940 yesterday.

00:45:27.700 You know,

00:45:27.980 I signed

00:45:28.520 up for

00:45:29.440 information on

00:45:30.740 it,

00:45:31.100 early sign

00:45:31.640 up.

00:45:31.840 We'll see

00:45:32.060 if I get

00:45:32.420 invited.

00:45:35.980 U.S.

00:45:36.680 patent,

00:45:37.240 blah,

00:45:37.400 blah.

00:45:39.120 Pfizer says

00:45:40.040 the COVID

00:45:40.480 vaccine is

00:45:41.120 more than

00:45:41.440 90%

00:45:42.260 effective in

00:45:43.100 kids.

00:45:50.620 Beta

00:45:51.140 Vegas.

00:45:52.240 Sorry.

00:45:53.260 I'm just

00:45:53.920 looking at

00:45:54.240 all your

00:45:54.480 comments now.

00:45:55.200 So,

00:45:55.460 anybody

00:45:55.700 wants to

00:45:56.160 bail out

00:45:56.540 at this

00:45:56.820 point,

00:45:57.700 it wouldn't

00:45:58.040 be a bad

00:45:58.400 time to

00:45:58.740 do it.

00:46:00.540 Yeah,

00:46:01.020 if you

00:46:01.300 haven't

00:46:01.600 watched my

00:46:02.440 video with

00:46:03.440 Viva and

00:46:04.560 Barnes,

00:46:06.020 just Google

00:46:06.720 that.

00:46:07.200 Viva,

00:46:07.760 Barnes,

00:46:08.600 Scott Adams,

00:46:09.320 it'll pop

00:46:09.660 right up.

00:46:10.860 I'm seeing a 0.98

00:46:11.900 lot of good

00:46:12.420 comments on

00:46:12.940 the locals

00:46:13.340 platform from

00:46:14.360 people who

00:46:14.800 saw it.

00:46:15.180 They enjoyed

00:46:15.700 it quite a

00:46:16.100 bit.

00:46:16.880 And it

00:46:17.500 does have

00:46:17.920 some drama

00:46:18.600 in it

00:46:19.080 toward the

00:46:19.800 beginning,

00:46:20.360 so you won't

00:46:21.120 want to miss

00:46:21.520 that.

00:46:22.180 But also

00:46:22.640 catch my

00:46:23.380 interview with

00:46:25.800 Bjorn

00:46:26.640 Lomborg on

00:46:28.940 climate change

00:46:29.740 craziness and

00:46:30.660 the things we

00:46:31.440 get wrong about

00:46:32.060 that.

00:46:33.080 The people who

00:46:33.800 watch that are

00:46:34.420 pretty impressed,

00:46:35.240 actually, because

00:46:35.980 you're going to get

00:46:36.380 a ton of

00:46:38.680 information you

00:46:39.620 probably didn't

00:46:40.200 know about

00:46:40.920 climate change

00:46:41.620 in just a few

00:46:43.480 minutes.

00:46:43.760 All right.

00:46:45.020 I'm going to

00:46:45.700 take off in a

00:46:46.960 moment.

00:46:50.280 And, oh my

00:46:53.220 God.

00:46:54.360 So, I just

00:46:55.780 have to read

00:46:56.220 this.

00:46:57.180 The Alec

00:46:58.320 Baldwin thing

00:46:59.060 is just, there

00:47:01.460 needs to be some

00:47:02.220 word for

00:47:02.800 something that's

00:47:03.380 a tragedy that's

00:47:04.440 funny, because

00:47:06.100 you know, it's

00:47:06.640 funny if you

00:47:07.220 don't know the

00:47:07.920 victim, I

00:47:08.620 suppose.

00:47:10.160 And of course,

00:47:10.720 we're all bad

00:47:11.240 people.

00:47:12.220 But I have to

00:47:12.980 read this because

00:47:13.620 it's just horrible

00:47:14.440 humor.

00:47:15.020 that we can't

00:47:15.920 be proud of.

00:47:17.160 I won't know if

00:47:18.200 you're laughing.

00:47:19.300 I won't know if

00:47:20.240 you're laughing

00:47:20.660 about this.

00:47:21.900 So, you know,

00:47:23.460 you're okay.

00:47:24.040 You're safe.

00:47:24.760 All right.

00:47:25.480 The tweet says,

00:47:26.680 it's from somebody

00:47:27.620 named Dan on

00:47:28.620 Twitter.

00:47:29.700 It says, Alec

00:47:30.380 Baldwin now has a

00:47:32.080 higher body count

00:47:33.000 than the entire

00:47:33.720 January 6th

00:47:34.700 armed insurrection.

00:47:40.440 Wow.

00:47:43.360 Yeah, the

00:47:44.060 irony is here.

00:47:45.020 Oh, my goodness.

00:47:51.640 Alec Baldwin

00:47:52.280 actually had a

00:47:53.120 tweet, somebody

00:47:54.040 is retweeting,

00:47:55.300 where Alec

00:47:55.980 Baldwin said of

00:47:56.900 some other

00:47:57.380 accidental shooting

00:47:58.360 in the past,

00:47:59.620 he tweeted,

00:48:00.480 I wonder how it

00:48:01.120 must feel to

00:48:01.760 wrongfully kill 0.74

00:48:03.280 someone. 0.88

00:48:07.300 Wow.

00:48:07.780 I feel like this

00:48:10.560 simulation,

00:48:12.720 yeah, I'm

00:48:14.380 seeing the word

00:48:14.840 simulation go

00:48:15.600 by.

00:48:16.300 This looks,

00:48:17.760 doesn't this look

00:48:18.580 scripted?

00:48:20.440 Does any of this

00:48:21.340 look like it

00:48:21.860 naturally happened?

00:48:24.180 You know, the

00:48:25.400 obvious explanation

00:48:26.400 is that coincidences

00:48:27.640 happen all the time,

00:48:29.100 and when they don't

00:48:29.700 happen, you don't

00:48:30.360 notice them, and

00:48:30.920 when they do happen,

00:48:31.660 you notice them, so

00:48:32.320 you think they're

00:48:32.720 happening all the

00:48:33.340 time.

00:48:33.560 So, it could be

00:48:35.500 just coincidence,

00:48:36.380 that's the most

00:48:36.900 likely explanation,

00:48:38.240 but it sure looks

00:48:39.400 like something's

00:48:40.020 going on.

00:48:40.680 I mean, it looks

00:48:41.100 like the

00:48:41.440 simulation.

00:48:42.440 It just looks

00:48:43.000 like too many

00:48:44.040 weird coincidences.

00:48:45.640 All right, I

00:48:49.600 gotta go, and I

00:48:51.600 wish I could stay

00:48:52.100 longer, I really

00:48:53.140 do, but I have

00:48:53.940 to run today.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 22, 2021

Episode 1538 Scott Adams： Don't Miss My Impression of Joe Biden. And I Won't Forget About Alec Baldwin Either

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