Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1539 Scott Adams： How to Solve the Supply Chain Problem, and a Review of Inappropriate Alec Baldwin Jokes

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00:00:23.440 Too glaringly white. We're going to use this in a minute.

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00:01:32.140 Well, in no particular order, my favorite story of the day, I saw Erica.

00:01:43.620 You all know Erica, right?

00:01:46.900 Erica tweeted this.

00:01:50.180 Apparently, at a Louisiana high school, there was a violent week of fighting at the high school,

00:01:56.160 and a bunch of dads got together to basically help out at the school.

00:02:03.440 So this volunteer group of dads, I'm looking at a meme of me as Cornholio that's happening over in Locals right now.

00:02:13.000 So the dad's on duty.

00:02:14.540 They put their little shirts on that say, Dad's on duty, and they go hang out with the kids.

00:02:19.300 And it turns out the kids kind of like it, which is weird.

00:02:22.860 I'm not sure the reporting is all accurate, but it looks like the students appreciated having some adult dad-like figures.

00:02:31.720 And the funny part of the story is that the dads were just making dad jokes,

00:02:35.080 and the kids were laughing at the dad jokes.

00:02:38.480 But it just changed, it sort of changed the vibe of the school, and apparently made a big difference.

00:02:44.660 So kudos to dads on duty.

00:02:47.900 If you saw the story, I feel like this is one of those weird periods in history, right?

00:02:57.400 Now, if you saw the visual of the story, all the dads are African-American.

00:03:03.760 And they're all big guys, too.

00:03:06.520 They're just really big guys.

00:03:08.920 And I feel like I had to mention that, even though it's not relevant to the story.

00:03:14.260 Like, we're in that weird time where the fact that all the dads involved seem to be black,

00:03:21.900 somehow that mattered, but it doesn't matter.

00:03:24.760 Like, the story doesn't require it, but somehow it, I don't know, adds flavor to the story or something.

00:03:31.480 So, oh, I guess maybe this is the angle on that that makes it a little special,

00:03:37.440 is that it's just a great solution.

00:03:40.740 Maybe we can see more of it.

00:03:42.500 I don't know.

00:03:42.780 Actor Peter Scolari passed away, age 66, from cancer.

00:03:49.080 I have a Peter Scolari story.

00:03:53.540 One of the weird things about my life is I just end up meeting a lot of people who end up being in the news.

00:04:01.080 And years ago, when I was doing a Dilbert TV show,

00:04:05.260 we were casting for the talent for the various Dilbert parts.

00:04:09.620 And just an interesting thing I learned that involved Peter Scolari,

00:04:15.240 because he was one of the people who, well, I can't use the word, tried out for the part.

00:04:22.900 And that's the point of the story.

00:04:24.520 So apparently in Hollywood, there are three levels of actors.

00:04:28.520 At the bottom level, the people who are new to the game.

00:04:33.100 I see you all like fighting you naked.

00:04:41.260 I saw your comment.

00:04:42.260 So there are three levels of celebrities, and I learned this when I was working there.

00:04:48.060 At the bottom level, they have to audition for every role.

00:04:51.680 Because they're not famous.

00:04:52.920 Nobody knows them.

00:04:53.800 You just have to audition, or you're not going to get the job.

00:04:56.820 At the next level up, you still need to audition,

00:05:00.420 but you're a little bit famous, or even, you know, a lot famous.

00:05:05.440 And they don't want to call it an audition.

00:05:08.640 So you do a fake audition, but you call it a meeting.

00:05:12.900 And so Peter Scolari was already quite successful from, you know,

00:05:17.440 Bosom Buddies and other stuff.

00:05:18.980 And so when his name came up, and we invited him in to,

00:05:24.480 I think he was trying for the role of the Dilbert voice, if I recall.

00:05:30.260 And you have to do this whole thing where you pretend you're not actually,

00:05:35.760 you're not actually doing an interview.

00:05:39.240 You just have a conversation.

00:05:41.240 And so you pretend that when he tries out, he auditions,

00:05:45.920 that he's actually just having a conversation with him.

00:05:48.080 He's not actually auditioning.

00:05:49.900 So it goes like this.

00:05:52.060 You know, you'll be, you know, what do you think of this?

00:05:54.400 You know, interested in this role?

00:05:56.140 You know, you make conversations and stuff.

00:05:57.820 And at some point, the actor will say, yeah, you know,

00:06:01.200 and so let me look at this.

00:06:03.680 You know, were you looking for something like, you know,

00:06:05.900 he'll do a voice, he'll do a take.

00:06:08.460 And you'll say, yeah, yeah, that's pretty good.

00:06:10.920 You know, we're thinking about that.

00:06:12.820 Maybe a little more serious or something.

00:06:15.720 Maybe give him a note.

00:06:16.600 But you wouldn't ask him to do it again.

00:06:19.940 He would have to volunteer to do it again.

00:06:23.080 So there's a whole weird etiquette of how to deal with, you know,

00:06:26.820 different levels of celebrity.

00:06:28.640 You just can't ask him to audition.

00:06:30.700 He's just got to volunteer.

00:06:33.280 Anyway, he didn't get the job.

00:06:35.020 But I will tell you, he was very talented.

00:06:37.840 The people who were successful professionals, actors and actresses,

00:06:43.900 I'm not even sure if you use actresses anymore,

00:06:46.460 they could do different takes on the same character,

00:06:49.980 and other people couldn't.

00:06:52.060 And it was fascinating to watch.

00:06:53.840 So somebody like a Peter Scolari could come in and give you, you know,

00:06:57.500 one kind of vibe, and then you'd say, well, you know, make this change.

00:07:02.460 And then he could give you a whole different vibe for the voice.

00:07:06.620 And others just couldn't do it.

00:07:07.880 They could do ten versions of the same voice.

00:07:10.760 So there is a difference between those who can act and those who can't.

00:07:14.360 And I will say Peter Scolari had it.

00:07:17.580 He had the gift.

00:07:19.000 And I got to see it live, and it was a treat.

00:07:21.160 And by the way, at the top level of the stardom,

00:07:26.140 you don't ask them to do anything.

00:07:28.480 You just offer them the part, right?

00:07:30.400 If it's Tom Cruise, you just offer them the part.

00:07:33.800 The best Biden memes that we saw coming out of the strange behavior

00:07:37.980 where Biden's hands were in front of him like Beavis and Butthead and Cornholio.

00:07:43.900 I don't know how many you saw, but the ones I liked were the meme

00:07:48.100 where somebody put ski poles in his hands,

00:07:50.140 put them on the ski slope.

00:07:53.040 The jet pack was good.

00:07:54.520 Did you see the jet pack one?

00:07:57.100 Lifting off of the jet pack.

00:07:59.300 The riding a tiny horse.

00:08:02.240 He had the reins in his hand, and he's on top of a miniature horse.

00:08:05.760 Very good.

00:08:06.780 Very good.

00:08:08.180 And, of course, Cornholio was my favorite.

00:08:10.740 Did I miss one?

00:08:15.360 Did I miss one?

00:08:16.720 The llama?

00:08:17.240 Oh, is there a...

00:08:18.240 Oh, Murat.

00:08:19.000 Oh, the ice cream cones.

00:08:20.900 That was actually my idea, was that he was holding two ice cream cones,

00:08:24.160 and somebody photoshopped that in there.

00:08:27.460 Holding corn dogs.

00:08:30.960 I absolutely love this era where you can turn something into a video

00:08:37.220 or visual meme in an hour.

00:08:38.700 Oh, yeah, the Rock'em Sock'em Robots.

00:08:43.100 That was a good one, too.

00:08:44.900 All right, those are all good.

00:08:48.620 What else is happening?

00:08:50.500 So CNN is covering the Alec Baldwin story,

00:08:53.720 and has a big article about it,

00:08:55.220 and I guess we learned today

00:08:56.720 that allegedly the prop person handed Alec Baldwin this gun

00:09:01.940 and announced that it was, quote,

00:09:04.620 a cold gun.

00:09:06.160 Now, a cold gun,

00:09:07.760 in the lingo of, I guess, the business,

00:09:11.580 is it means it's not loaded.

00:09:14.400 And then allegedly,

00:09:15.740 and this part is unclear,

00:09:17.100 it looks like Alec Baldwin might have aimed it at somebody,

00:09:21.160 but I don't know that that's true.

00:09:22.460 I think that was debunked.

00:09:24.760 So we've got some sort of conflicting stories.

00:09:28.540 It's unclear if it was intentionally aimed at anybody,

00:09:31.560 even in joke,

00:09:32.960 or it just went off, you know,

00:09:35.800 accidentally in some way.

00:09:38.140 Yeah.

00:09:38.840 Now, here's the part.

00:09:40.020 You're ahead of me in the comments here.

00:09:41.680 You know exactly where I'm going on this.

00:09:43.860 CNN does this story

00:09:45.200 without ever mentioning

00:09:47.340 that it shouldn't have made any difference

00:09:50.020 what the prop person said.

00:09:52.380 Are you with me?

00:09:55.140 Anybody with the smallest ounce

00:09:57.760 of common sense or gun training,

00:10:01.160 you know, gun safety training,

00:10:02.580 you don't take somebody's word for it

00:10:04.640 that a gun is unloaded?

00:10:07.160 Is there anything more basic than that?

00:10:10.160 Do you know who I don't believe

00:10:11.840 if they tell me,

00:10:12.680 if they hand me a gun

00:10:13.460 and tell me it's not loaded?

00:10:15.180 Do you know who I don't trust?

00:10:18.020 Everyone.

00:10:19.600 Everyone.

00:10:20.040 Everyone.

00:10:20.360 There's no exception.

00:10:23.320 If the Pope hands you a gun

00:10:26.020 and says,

00:10:26.540 don't worry,

00:10:27.000 it's not loaded,

00:10:28.420 check it.

00:10:29.860 Check it.

00:10:31.000 Because you don't know

00:10:31.700 the Pope is telling you the truth.

00:10:34.500 Don't take a chance.

00:10:35.600 So somehow they can write that story

00:10:40.400 without mentioning

00:10:41.180 the most basic gun safety facts

00:10:44.180 that it shouldn't have mattered

00:10:45.900 who made that mistake.

00:10:48.600 There were 10 ways

00:10:49.600 for the accident not to happen

00:10:51.040 and all of them involved

00:10:52.740 just normal common sense.

00:10:54.220 So I don't think we can

00:10:56.880 let anybody off the hook

00:10:58.700 by saying,

00:10:59.980 oh, he didn't know

00:11:00.860 it was loaded.

00:11:02.580 That doesn't count.

00:11:04.640 Sorry.

00:11:05.140 No credit for don't know

00:11:06.220 it was loaded.

00:11:08.460 My favorite joke so far

00:11:10.980 in the totally inappropriate category?

00:11:14.580 Let me give you a test.

00:11:19.420 Are we adult enough

00:11:20.880 that we can handle

00:11:23.160 the contradiction

00:11:24.880 that I think most of us

00:11:26.960 genuinely see this as,

00:11:29.000 I hope,

00:11:30.600 as a real tragedy

00:11:31.640 with real people

00:11:32.520 who really will have to suffer forever,

00:11:35.180 the survivors,

00:11:36.540 who will have to suffer forever,

00:11:37.920 the loss of their loved one,

00:11:39.040 and, of course,

00:11:40.280 the deaths themselves?

00:11:41.320 So it's a tragedy,

00:11:42.260 and as humans,

00:11:43.420 we need to point that out.

00:11:45.100 But are we not allowed

00:11:48.300 to enjoy the jokes?

00:11:53.780 What do you think?

00:11:55.740 Where do you stand on that?

00:11:58.320 My take is I can't help it.

00:12:00.380 I feel like it's beyond my control.

00:12:02.840 If something's funny,

00:12:03.980 I laugh at it.

00:12:06.260 And I don't know

00:12:07.660 how many of you

00:12:08.580 have this same feeling,

00:12:09.740 but the thing

00:12:11.440 that makes these jokes

00:12:12.480 make you laugh

00:12:14.240 is that they're

00:12:15.760 so deeply inappropriate.

00:12:17.780 Am I right?

00:12:18.940 If they were not

00:12:20.020 deeply inappropriate,

00:12:21.780 would they really be funny?

00:12:24.220 No.

00:12:25.220 So in many ways,

00:12:27.340 I'm giving you an out.

00:12:30.620 So if somebody accuses you

00:12:32.140 of laughing at these jokes,

00:12:34.400 here's your out.

00:12:36.040 They're funny

00:12:36.840 because they're inappropriate.

00:12:39.000 It's true, right?

00:12:40.480 It's the inappropriateness,

00:12:42.400 the fact that it's a tragedy.

00:12:45.140 That's why you're laughing.

00:12:46.840 If it were not

00:12:47.820 deeply inappropriate,

00:12:48.980 you wouldn't have two things

00:12:49.980 in sort of at a balance,

00:12:52.220 which is what triggers

00:12:53.140 the reflex to laugh.

00:12:56.560 So I'm going to give you

00:12:58.200 permission to enjoy this,

00:13:00.740 but maybe not right in front

00:13:02.100 of the victims

00:13:02.980 or their families, okay?

00:13:04.060 I hope they're staying

00:13:06.640 off the internet today.

00:13:08.940 But Wendy Rogers,

00:13:10.400 who's an Arizona state senator,

00:13:12.120 had the tweet of the day

00:13:13.600 in my opinion.

00:13:15.480 Now, what I like

00:13:16.900 about this tweet

00:13:17.700 is it's coming from somebody

00:13:19.060 who's not a professional humorist

00:13:20.960 who somehow crafted

00:13:22.900 a perfect joke, okay?

00:13:25.940 So a non-professional,

00:13:28.260 Wendy Rogers,

00:13:29.560 somehow crafted

00:13:30.860 a perfect tweet.

00:13:32.680 You want to hear it?

00:13:34.200 Of course you do.

00:13:36.040 Here's her tweet.

00:13:37.760 Hillary Clinton,

00:13:38.940 Dick Cheney,

00:13:39.840 and Alec Baldwin

00:13:40.680 go hunting.

00:13:42.040 How does that play out?

00:13:43.080 Come on,

00:13:48.440 that's pretty clever.

00:13:50.040 That's pretty funny.

00:13:52.060 Now, here's what

00:13:52.720 I liked about it.

00:13:54.320 The ending,

00:13:55.360 how does that play out,

00:13:57.060 is perfect.

00:13:58.720 Just in terms of

00:13:59.920 joke construction.

00:14:02.060 Because,

00:14:03.660 and this is basically

00:14:06.420 where hypnosis

00:14:07.320 and humor overlap.

00:14:10.280 What is beautiful

00:14:11.480 about this punchline

00:14:12.520 is the question

00:14:13.220 how does that play out

00:14:14.420 allows you to imagine

00:14:16.020 your funniest version.

00:14:18.060 That's a hypnosis trick.

00:14:19.660 Now, I doubt

00:14:20.440 she's studied hypnosis.

00:14:22.520 But leaving stuff out

00:14:24.160 so that the audience

00:14:25.320 can fill in the joke

00:14:26.420 is really good form.

00:14:28.360 Now, I don't know

00:14:28.860 if she's just really good

00:14:29.720 at this,

00:14:30.820 Wendy Rogers,

00:14:31.600 or if she, you know,

00:14:33.100 she just hit one

00:14:33.940 out of the park,

00:14:34.660 lucky swing.

00:14:35.680 But this is a perfect joke.

00:14:37.820 I looked at this,

00:14:38.620 I read this like five times.

00:14:39.920 I was like,

00:14:40.900 God,

00:14:41.140 there's not one wasted word

00:14:43.180 in that sentence.

00:14:44.400 There's nothing you could

00:14:45.320 change in that

00:14:45.940 that would make that better.

00:14:47.840 Anyway.

00:14:48.720 So we got some runaway

00:14:49.980 inflation it looks like.

00:14:53.660 Or do we?

00:14:56.180 Does anybody understand

00:14:57.640 how inflation works?

00:15:00.060 Is anybody old enough here?

00:15:01.520 And I know some of you are.

00:15:02.960 Do you remember stagflation?

00:15:04.420 Remember in the Jimmy Carter years,

00:15:10.220 we had stagflation.

00:15:13.340 And then all the experts said,

00:15:15.600 whoa, now we know

00:15:16.600 what stagflation is.

00:15:18.380 And we know what conditions

00:15:19.980 will cause it in the future.

00:15:22.000 And then those conditions

00:15:23.240 happen again in the future.

00:15:24.640 And what happened?

00:15:26.660 No stagflation.

00:15:28.680 So we don't even know

00:15:29.780 what caused it.

00:15:30.380 Well, I mean, I don't.

00:15:32.880 Because we were pretty sure

00:15:34.660 that it was going to happen again.

00:15:37.120 And then it just didn't.

00:15:38.960 Now, of course,

00:15:39.540 there are lots of variables in play.

00:15:41.320 So you have to have

00:15:42.180 all the other things lined up

00:15:43.540 to get the same result.

00:15:44.640 And we didn't.

00:15:45.980 Now,

00:15:46.640 how good are we

00:15:48.380 at predicting

00:15:49.420 economic stuff?

00:15:51.740 Not really good,

00:15:54.940 are we?

00:15:55.780 That doesn't mean

00:15:56.680 it's not a problem.

00:15:58.400 What it does mean

00:15:59.140 is I can't tell.

00:16:00.960 Right?

00:16:01.220 And I remind you too often,

00:16:02.560 I have a degree in economics.

00:16:04.420 I don't know

00:16:04.920 if we're in trouble or not.

00:16:06.900 And I'm not sure

00:16:08.980 I would trust

00:16:09.760 anybody's opinion on this.

00:16:11.760 Because people have been

00:16:12.500 so wrong about inflation

00:16:14.040 and stagflation

00:16:15.180 and national debt.

00:16:17.000 We don't even know

00:16:17.820 what national debt is.

00:16:19.200 We don't even know

00:16:21.200 what it is.

00:16:22.280 Like, just the most basic stuff

00:16:23.740 about the economy,

00:16:24.820 I don't think anybody knows.

00:16:27.600 Like, you know,

00:16:28.640 and the problem is

00:16:29.480 that there are just

00:16:30.000 so many variables, right?

00:16:31.260 So something could happen

00:16:32.580 with a war,

00:16:33.740 a shortage,

00:16:35.120 some kind of bottleneck thing.

00:16:36.920 Nobody,

00:16:37.360 I don't think anybody

00:16:38.000 saw the supply chain thing coming.

00:16:40.700 Maybe they did.

00:16:41.460 I don't know.

00:16:42.420 But,

00:16:43.600 I guess my only takeaway

00:16:46.240 on the runaway inflation,

00:16:48.020 hyperinflation risk,

00:16:49.200 is we don't really know.

00:16:52.380 Maybe.

00:16:54.020 Maybe.

00:16:56.160 All right.

00:16:57.040 Britain,

00:16:57.840 it looks like

00:16:58.480 they're first in line

00:16:59.400 to get these new antivirals,

00:17:01.200 the therapeutics,

00:17:02.600 coming to us

00:17:03.480 from Pfizer and Merck.

00:17:05.860 So there would be

00:17:06.580 pills that you take

00:17:07.520 that could reduce

00:17:08.720 the risk of,

00:17:10.540 that mild to moderately

00:17:12.000 ill people

00:17:12.640 would reduce

00:17:13.680 their risk of disease

00:17:14.880 by 50%.

00:17:16.420 I'm sorry,

00:17:17.680 the risk of,

00:17:18.720 you know,

00:17:18.940 serious hospitalization

00:17:20.420 and death

00:17:20.820 by 50%.

00:17:22.420 To which I say,

00:17:24.260 if you could reduce

00:17:26.820 the winter surge

00:17:28.700 by 50%,

00:17:29.840 and, again,

00:17:32.040 other people say

00:17:32.640 we already have

00:17:33.320 therapeutics,

00:17:34.800 you know,

00:17:34.960 we've already got

00:17:35.480 Regeneron,

00:17:36.240 et cetera,

00:17:36.540 given all the ways

00:17:38.740 that we've learned

00:17:39.400 to treat COVID,

00:17:41.240 given the fact

00:17:42.080 that our most vulnerable

00:17:43.300 are mostly vaccinated,

00:17:45.720 given the fact

00:17:46.400 that the people

00:17:46.920 most likely to die,

00:17:48.080 a lot of them

00:17:48.500 already died,

00:17:49.080 I feel like

00:17:52.500 the argument

00:17:53.840 for keeping

00:17:54.520 any restrictions

00:17:55.260 in place

00:17:55.960 really just

00:17:57.700 became irrational,

00:17:58.740 didn't they?

00:17:59.940 At least after

00:18:00.780 the pills are available.

00:18:01.860 So they're not

00:18:02.240 available yet,

00:18:02.840 maybe the end

00:18:03.320 of the year.

00:18:03.640 But if we're

00:18:05.080 in January,

00:18:06.260 and we've got

00:18:06.860 these antivirals,

00:18:08.380 I don't know

00:18:08.760 if they can produce

00:18:09.500 enough of them

00:18:10.060 fast enough,

00:18:10.980 but if we had them

00:18:11.800 in January,

00:18:13.360 what would be

00:18:14.860 the argument

00:18:15.280 for any ongoing

00:18:16.400 restrictions?

00:18:19.360 Now, the argument,

00:18:20.160 of course,

00:18:20.360 is to reduce deaths.

00:18:21.640 But if you can

00:18:22.220 reduce them by 50%,

00:18:24.300 isn't that going

00:18:27.620 to be enough?

00:18:28.740 I mean,

00:18:29.180 we keep doing things

00:18:30.040 that reduce the risk

00:18:30.840 by 50%.

00:18:31.780 How many times

00:18:32.840 do you have to

00:18:33.420 cut it in half

00:18:34.140 before you're

00:18:34.800 okay?

00:18:38.240 They've been

00:18:38.760 irrational since,

00:18:39.640 yeah,

00:18:39.960 been irrational

00:18:40.600 for a while.

00:18:41.620 Long-term effects,

00:18:42.780 unknown,

00:18:43.780 correct?

00:18:44.780 Long-term effects

00:18:45.700 of the antiviral drugs,

00:18:48.060 unknown.

00:18:49.100 Long-term effects

00:18:50.060 of getting COVID,

00:18:53.300 unknown.

00:18:54.380 Hey, I have a

00:18:54.980 question for you.

00:18:55.700 I'm just going

00:18:56.180 to put this out there.

00:18:57.740 So we keep hearing

00:18:58.540 about all of the

00:18:59.380 so-called long-haul

00:19:01.580 COVID problems.

00:19:03.420 so people get

00:19:04.520 the COVID

00:19:04.980 and let's say

00:19:06.500 they have a bad

00:19:07.000 case of it,

00:19:07.640 but then for weeks

00:19:09.820 or months

00:19:10.320 they have symptoms.

00:19:13.640 I'm just going

00:19:14.320 to put this out there

00:19:15.140 because the range

00:19:16.640 of symptoms

00:19:17.100 seem pretty broad.

00:19:18.980 Have you ever

00:19:19.480 had a surgery?

00:19:20.960 So I've had three

00:19:24.780 surgeries,

00:19:25.380 none of them

00:19:25.820 super major,

00:19:26.760 right?

00:19:27.020 I had, you know,

00:19:28.140 a couple of nasal

00:19:28.880 things, etc.,

00:19:30.160 some polyps

00:19:31.020 in my sinus.

00:19:32.420 And so none of

00:19:33.260 them were major

00:19:33.740 surgeries,

00:19:34.240 but each of them

00:19:34.880 required anesthesia.

00:19:36.360 How long does it

00:19:38.700 take you to recover

00:19:39.460 from anesthesia

00:19:40.380 and surgery?

00:19:41.520 And I don't mean

00:19:42.100 that day.

00:19:43.380 I mean how many

00:19:43.980 months?

00:19:45.840 Have you ever

00:19:46.240 had a minor

00:19:46.660 surgery?

00:19:47.760 It takes months,

00:19:48.680 doesn't it,

00:19:49.100 to feel right,

00:19:50.540 even after your

00:19:51.280 problem is

00:19:52.480 completely solved,

00:19:54.100 you know,

00:19:54.300 whatever the actual

00:19:54.980 cutting was about

00:19:56.000 of the surgery.

00:19:57.500 There's something

00:19:58.220 like a fog that

00:19:59.340 somebody says

00:20:00.100 like a year,

00:20:01.580 right?

00:20:02.700 Now,

00:20:03.300 last year,

00:20:04.380 or actually

00:20:05.040 during the pandemic,

00:20:06.040 I had some surgery

00:20:07.020 that was delayed

00:20:08.540 for months and months.

00:20:10.360 And many of you

00:20:11.520 know the story.

00:20:12.100 I had some sinus

00:20:12.900 polyps that needed

00:20:13.700 to be removed.

00:20:15.220 And so the surgery

00:20:16.080 was delayed,

00:20:16.720 and part of that

00:20:17.220 delay put me

00:20:18.000 on prednisone.

00:20:19.680 So I got on

00:20:20.460 prednisone for,

00:20:21.660 you know,

00:20:23.220 a period.

00:20:24.400 And then I thought

00:20:25.280 I was going to go

00:20:25.780 from that,

00:20:26.520 and the prednisone

00:20:27.200 reduces the polyps

00:20:29.180 in the meantime

00:20:29.980 until you can get

00:20:30.820 the surgery.

00:20:31.820 And then the surgery

00:20:32.620 got canceled,

00:20:33.920 delayed.

00:20:35.120 So I got on

00:20:36.940 prednisone again,

00:20:38.220 a second dose

00:20:39.280 within a year,

00:20:40.260 which is sort of a lot,

00:20:41.940 because getting off

00:20:42.860 of prednisone

00:20:43.500 is kind of a problem.

00:20:45.140 And then I had it

00:20:46.020 a third time.

00:20:47.700 So I believe,

00:20:48.560 if I'm remembering right,

00:20:49.540 there were three

00:20:50.160 separate extended

00:20:52.360 periods of prednisone.

00:20:54.640 It took me

00:20:55.780 months

00:20:56.740 to be able

00:20:58.480 to walk upstairs

00:20:59.460 after I got

00:21:00.660 off prednisone.

00:21:01.820 months.

00:21:04.280 And I was

00:21:05.040 in good shape.

00:21:06.560 Right?

00:21:06.900 I mean,

00:21:07.200 I was a gym rat.

00:21:10.000 And just the prednisone,

00:21:11.500 it wasn't even

00:21:11.920 the illness,

00:21:12.420 and it wasn't

00:21:12.920 even the surgery.

00:21:16.780 But just getting

00:21:17.480 off of prednisone,

00:21:18.920 if you have

00:21:20.000 too much of it,

00:21:21.700 it's months.

00:21:23.380 Like,

00:21:23.780 I would get to the

00:21:24.360 top of the stairs,

00:21:25.120 and I'd be like,

00:21:25.560 ugh.

00:21:26.680 Now it's fine.

00:21:27.400 I can run upstairs

00:21:28.660 easily.

00:21:31.080 Now,

00:21:32.000 prednisone is a steroid,

00:21:33.240 right?

00:21:34.120 Don't you get

00:21:34.820 prednisone

00:21:35.480 when you get COVID?

00:21:38.080 Isn't that a pretty

00:21:38.940 normal

00:21:39.500 prescription?

00:21:43.020 Am I right about that?

00:21:43.900 And if you get

00:21:48.240 prednisone,

00:21:48.940 do you get it

00:21:49.420 long enough

00:21:50.020 that you have

00:21:50.360 the problem

00:21:50.760 I had?

00:21:51.860 Because I don't

00:21:52.460 think they give

00:21:53.440 it to you

00:21:53.760 that long,

00:21:54.640 right?

00:21:55.560 Because I was

00:21:56.160 on it for

00:21:56.780 a few weeks,

00:21:58.940 I think,

00:21:59.220 each time.

00:22:01.260 Yeah.

00:22:02.080 So here's my

00:22:02.980 question.

00:22:04.400 How many

00:22:05.020 of what people

00:22:06.500 are reporting

00:22:07.200 to be long

00:22:08.060 COVID,

00:22:09.280 months-long

00:22:10.120 symptoms,

00:22:10.820 how many

00:22:11.600 of those

00:22:11.860 symptoms

00:22:12.180 are caused

00:22:12.760 by the

00:22:13.280 treatment?

00:22:17.480 Or just

00:22:18.720 recovering from

00:22:19.520 a bad illness

00:22:20.180 in general?

00:22:21.400 If something

00:22:21.960 just knocks you

00:22:23.280 on your ass,

00:22:24.940 whatever it is,

00:22:26.060 it could be

00:22:26.460 just a bad

00:22:26.940 regular flu,

00:22:28.380 don't you have

00:22:29.240 lasting issues

00:22:31.740 from that,

00:22:32.380 like a few

00:22:33.040 weeks later?

00:22:34.600 A few weeks

00:22:35.420 later,

00:22:35.720 you've still

00:22:36.000 got some

00:22:36.360 problems?

00:22:36.840 I don't know,

00:22:37.140 I'll just put

00:22:37.540 that out there,

00:22:38.200 that a lot

00:22:38.700 of the reported

00:22:39.460 long-haul,

00:22:40.820 might be just

00:22:43.880 the trauma

00:22:44.560 of the

00:22:45.040 experience

00:22:45.960 itself.

00:22:48.160 All right.

00:22:50.720 Let's go,

00:22:51.500 Brandon.

00:22:52.500 All right,

00:22:52.860 I need a little

00:22:53.640 help here,

00:22:54.540 a little help.

00:22:55.580 I would like

00:22:56.140 to employ

00:22:56.640 the global

00:22:57.400 brain,

00:22:58.640 calling on

00:22:59.340 all viewers

00:23:00.100 to be part

00:23:01.540 of a single

00:23:02.380 intelligence.

00:23:04.100 I'm going

00:23:04.680 to set you

00:23:05.400 up,

00:23:05.800 and then

00:23:06.240 your global

00:23:06.920 brain will

00:23:07.420 be unleashed.

00:23:09.200 Right?

00:23:09.260 Have you

00:23:10.680 noticed,

00:23:11.140 and this

00:23:11.400 is not

00:23:11.720 my original

00:23:12.420 observation,

00:23:13.680 that let's

00:23:14.240 go,

00:23:14.560 Brandon,

00:23:15.020 starts with

00:23:15.680 L-G-B,

00:23:17.980 as in

00:23:18.760 LGBTQ?

00:23:21.320 Can we

00:23:22.000 think of

00:23:22.360 the T and

00:23:22.880 the Q so

00:23:24.600 that let's

00:23:25.240 go,

00:23:25.560 Brandon,

00:23:26.320 total quality,

00:23:29.700 or something?

00:23:30.900 I don't

00:23:34.320 know,

00:23:34.480 I just

00:23:34.680 feel like

00:23:35.020 there's

00:23:35.320 some way

00:23:36.240 to make

00:23:36.500 a meme

00:23:36.900 or a joke

00:23:37.440 out of

00:23:37.720 this,

00:23:38.180 you know,

00:23:38.460 with being

00:23:39.860 respectful,

00:23:40.580 of course,

00:23:40.880 to the

00:23:41.200 LGBTQ

00:23:41.720 community.

00:23:43.040 Don't want

00:23:43.620 to insult

00:23:44.120 them

00:23:44.360 unnecessarily,

00:23:46.160 but it's

00:23:46.980 a weird

00:23:47.300 coincidence,

00:23:48.000 isn't it?

00:23:50.640 Oh,

00:23:51.080 there it

00:23:51.300 is,

00:23:51.440 somebody

00:23:51.660 already has

00:23:52.200 the show.

00:23:53.900 There's

00:23:54.220 already a

00:23:54.720 T-shirt,

00:23:55.240 LGBT,

00:23:56.560 let's go

00:23:57.100 Brandon

00:23:57.540 team.

00:23:58.000 Let's go

00:24:00.880 Brandon,

00:24:01.480 teachers

00:24:01.840 quit,

00:24:03.120 totally

00:24:03.780 quit.

00:24:05.160 All right,

00:24:05.420 I'm looking

00:24:05.720 at your

00:24:06.120 take

00:24:06.760 quaaludes.

00:24:11.160 Let's go

00:24:11.920 Brandon

00:24:12.320 to

00:24:12.580 Quantico.

00:24:17.200 To

00:24:17.800 Quantico,

00:24:18.920 okay,

00:24:20.160 Biden

00:24:20.500 to quit.

00:24:26.520 Let's

00:24:27.080 get

00:24:27.240 Brandon

00:24:27.620 to

00:24:27.900 quit.

00:24:28.200 There

00:24:28.340 we go.

00:24:29.140 Let's

00:24:29.380 get

00:24:29.540 Brandon

00:24:29.940 to

00:24:30.220 quit.

00:24:31.560 That's

00:24:32.000 it.

00:24:33.480 Oh,

00:24:33.740 it's

00:24:33.960 already

00:24:34.180 a

00:24:34.340 shirt.

00:24:35.100 It's

00:24:35.340 already

00:24:35.600 a

00:24:35.800 shirt.

00:24:36.080 I'm

00:24:36.180 seeing

00:24:36.440 a

00:24:37.060 video

00:24:37.380 of

00:24:37.640 it

00:24:37.840 here

00:24:38.800 on

00:24:39.000 the

00:24:39.220 locals

00:24:39.740 platform.

00:24:40.360 You

00:24:40.520 can't

00:24:40.760 see

00:24:40.880 it

00:24:40.980 here

00:24:41.180 on

00:24:41.420 Netflix,

00:24:43.280 but

00:24:43.420 over

00:24:43.740 on

00:24:44.020 the

00:24:44.260 locals

00:24:44.680 platform,

00:24:45.500 they're

00:24:45.700 posting

00:24:46.580 pictures

00:24:47.020 of it.

00:24:48.340 Yeah,

00:24:48.620 let's

00:24:49.100 get

00:24:49.260 Biden

00:24:50.940 to

00:24:51.240 quit.

00:24:52.180 Actually,

00:24:52.740 it

00:24:52.780 says

00:24:52.900 let's

00:24:53.140 get

00:24:53.280 Biden

00:24:53.580 to

00:24:53.840 quit.

00:24:57.620 Here's

00:25:02.140 a

00:25:02.460 segment I

00:25:03.100 call

00:25:03.520 Citizens

00:25:04.660 Doing

00:25:05.080 the

00:25:05.300 Work

00:25:05.540 of

00:25:05.720 Governments.

00:25:06.900 You

00:25:07.040 ready for

00:25:07.380 this?

00:25:08.660 Citizens

00:25:09.220 doing the

00:25:09.980 work of

00:25:10.360 governments.

00:25:11.760 So what's

00:25:12.200 our big

00:25:12.480 problem?

00:25:12.940 It's

00:25:13.060 the

00:25:13.200 supply

00:25:13.540 chain,

00:25:14.400 as you

00:25:14.800 know.

00:25:16.100 And I'm

00:25:16.840 going to

00:25:17.000 read you

00:25:17.480 a tweet

00:25:18.220 thread,

00:25:19.420 because I

00:25:19.700 want you

00:25:20.740 to see

00:25:20.920 an example

00:25:21.480 of a

00:25:22.940 citizen

00:25:23.420 solving

00:25:24.020 maybe.

00:25:25.220 We don't

00:25:25.560 know if

00:25:25.780 it's a

00:25:26.040 solution

00:25:26.300 yet.

00:25:27.140 But

00:25:27.420 certainly

00:25:27.740 it looks

00:25:28.040 like

00:25:28.340 leadership

00:25:28.980 from

00:25:29.460 citizens

00:25:30.000 as

00:25:30.260 opposed

00:25:30.500 to

00:25:30.640 government.

00:25:31.500 Now

00:25:31.700 the

00:25:31.840 question

00:25:32.100 is

00:25:32.340 who's

00:25:32.580 in

00:25:32.700 charge

00:25:32.940 of

00:25:33.100 the

00:25:33.240 supply

00:25:33.520 chain

00:25:33.760 problem?

00:25:34.960 Biden?

00:25:36.560 Buttigieg?

00:25:37.660 Anybody?

00:25:38.620 We don't

00:25:38.880 know.

00:25:40.020 But

00:25:40.360 Ryan

00:25:41.000 Peterson,

00:25:42.240 private

00:25:43.000 citizen

00:25:43.460 and CEO

00:25:44.260 of

00:25:44.700 Flexport,

00:25:45.920 who is

00:25:46.360 in the

00:25:46.600 business

00:25:47.000 of

00:25:47.400 logistics

00:25:48.460 and stuff

00:25:49.160 for

00:25:50.160 shipping.

00:25:51.580 So here's

00:25:52.380 somebody who's

00:25:52.860 a CEO

00:25:53.360 of a

00:25:54.040 shipping

00:25:54.600 logistics

00:25:55.200 entity,

00:25:58.000 and so

00:25:58.660 therefore has

00:25:59.460 an understanding

00:26:00.100 of the

00:26:00.820 big picture.

00:26:02.140 So Ryan

00:26:03.140 Peterson

00:26:03.520 tweets

00:26:05.100 the following,

00:26:06.480 and I'm

00:26:06.760 going to

00:26:06.940 read the

00:26:07.260 whole tweet

00:26:07.760 if you

00:26:08.100 don't mind,

00:26:09.020 because

00:26:10.080 normally I

00:26:11.980 would

00:26:12.140 summarize it,

00:26:13.380 but I

00:26:13.560 don't want

00:26:13.820 to get

00:26:13.980 anything

00:26:14.220 wrong.

00:26:15.160 And I

00:26:15.380 think that

00:26:15.760 this is

00:26:16.120 important,

00:26:16.780 not only

00:26:17.200 because you

00:26:18.560 can see a

00:26:19.020 citizen doing

00:26:19.640 the work of

00:26:20.120 government

00:26:20.460 here,

00:26:20.820 basically,

00:26:21.860 but you'll

00:26:25.040 get the

00:26:25.580 whole picture.

00:26:27.020 I'll just

00:26:27.280 read it.

00:26:28.120 So this

00:26:28.680 was tweeted

00:26:29.940 yesterday by

00:26:31.320 Ryan Peterson,

00:26:32.180 CEO of

00:26:32.760 Flexport.

00:26:33.800 He says,

00:26:34.120 yesterday I

00:26:34.620 rented a

00:26:35.000 boat and

00:26:35.780 took the

00:26:36.160 leader of

00:26:36.560 one of

00:26:36.820 Flexport's

00:26:37.340 partners in

00:26:37.840 Long Beach

00:26:38.280 on a

00:26:38.580 three-hour

00:26:39.040 tour of

00:26:40.280 the port

00:26:40.600 complex.

00:26:41.700 Here's a

00:26:42.100 thread about

00:26:42.700 what I

00:26:43.000 learned.

00:26:43.560 So the

00:26:43.960 first part

00:26:44.420 is he

00:26:45.400 went in

00:26:45.800 person.

00:26:47.380 He didn't

00:26:48.100 read the

00:26:48.900 internet.

00:26:49.720 He went

00:26:50.140 in person

00:26:50.620 to talk to

00:26:51.520 the people

00:26:51.940 at the

00:26:52.960 port.

00:26:54.240 So I

00:26:55.460 keep asking,

00:26:56.240 can anybody

00:26:56.580 explain what

00:26:57.140 the problem

00:26:57.500 is?

00:26:57.800 And nobody

00:26:58.160 can,

00:26:58.580 right?

00:26:59.560 Have you

00:26:59.860 noticed that?

00:27:00.300 Nobody can

00:27:00.700 explain what

00:27:01.240 the freaking

00:27:01.540 problem is

00:27:02.180 exactly.

00:27:03.340 They think

00:27:03.740 it's drivers

00:27:04.460 and all kinds

00:27:05.920 of stuff.

00:27:06.680 Well,

00:27:06.900 here's what he

00:27:07.340 found out.

00:27:08.720 He goes to

00:27:09.780 the port.

00:27:11.080 I guess he

00:27:12.520 went to two

00:27:12.880 of them.

00:27:13.360 The ports

00:27:13.720 of LA and

00:27:14.460 Long Beach

00:27:14.880 are at a

00:27:15.420 standstill.

00:27:16.560 In a full

00:27:17.160 three-hour loop

00:27:18.300 through the

00:27:18.680 port complex,

00:27:20.080 passing every

00:27:22.060 single terminal,

00:27:22.800 we saw less

00:27:23.340 than a dozen

00:27:25.060 containers get

00:27:26.320 unloaded.

00:27:27.640 So in three

00:27:28.380 hours, they

00:27:29.060 only saw fewer

00:27:30.760 than 12

00:27:31.420 containers get

00:27:32.380 unloaded.

00:27:34.100 Okay?

00:27:34.840 So did you

00:27:35.620 think it was

00:27:36.040 about trucks?

00:27:37.340 All right,

00:27:38.660 we'll keep

00:27:39.140 going.

00:27:40.280 There are

00:27:40.660 hundreds of

00:27:41.340 cranes.

00:27:42.720 I counted

00:27:43.260 only seven

00:27:44.020 that were

00:27:44.380 even operating,

00:27:46.020 and they

00:27:46.380 seem to be

00:27:46.840 going pretty

00:27:47.340 slowly.

00:27:49.660 So it's

00:27:50.400 not cranes.

00:27:51.660 Got lots

00:27:52.160 of cranes.

00:27:53.460 Okay?

00:27:54.400 It seems

00:27:55.220 that everyone

00:27:55.820 now agrees

00:27:56.860 that the

00:27:57.880 bottleneck is

00:27:59.080 yard space

00:28:00.000 at the

00:28:00.760 container

00:28:01.220 terminals.

00:28:02.500 The terminals

00:28:03.240 are simply

00:28:03.800 overflowing with

00:28:04.720 containers.

00:28:05.300 containers.

00:28:06.460 And he'll

00:28:07.280 say later

00:28:07.760 that it's

00:28:08.040 mostly empty

00:28:08.620 ones.

00:28:10.020 Which means

00:28:10.680 they no longer

00:28:11.280 have space

00:28:11.740 to take in

00:28:12.300 new containers,

00:28:13.620 either from

00:28:14.420 ships or land.

00:28:15.800 It's a true

00:28:16.320 traffic jam.

00:28:17.520 Because it says

00:28:18.180 right now,

00:28:18.680 if you have a

00:28:19.140 chassis,

00:28:19.880 so that would

00:28:20.320 be the truck

00:28:21.140 with nothing

00:28:22.000 on it,

00:28:22.680 with no empty

00:28:23.820 container on it,

00:28:24.540 you can go

00:28:25.080 pick up containers

00:28:26.020 at any port

00:28:26.700 terminal.

00:28:28.140 However,

00:28:28.980 if you have an

00:28:30.000 empty container

00:28:30.680 on that chassis,

00:28:31.460 they're not

00:28:32.840 allowing you

00:28:33.760 to return

00:28:34.460 it,

00:28:35.480 except on

00:28:36.200 highly

00:28:36.560 restricted

00:28:37.140 basis,

00:28:39.180 meaning the

00:28:40.240 government.

00:28:41.800 Here it is.

00:28:43.940 Government

00:28:44.460 problem.

00:28:45.220 If you can't

00:28:45.820 get the empty

00:28:46.400 off the

00:28:47.000 chassis,

00:28:47.940 you don't

00:28:48.280 have a

00:28:48.640 chassis to

00:28:49.160 go back

00:28:49.600 and pick

00:28:50.160 up the

00:28:50.400 next container.

00:28:51.720 And if

00:28:52.140 nobody goes

00:28:52.800 to pick

00:28:53.180 up the

00:28:53.460 next

00:28:53.700 container,

00:28:55.260 the port

00:28:55.720 remains

00:28:56.200 jammed.

00:28:59.200 Ask

00:28:59.680 yourself,

00:29:00.040 have you

00:29:00.400 heard anything

00:29:01.080 like this

00:29:01.700 until now?

00:29:03.280 All of the

00:29:03.840 news you've

00:29:04.380 read,

00:29:05.460 all of the

00:29:06.040 people speculating,

00:29:07.460 has anybody

00:29:08.200 told you

00:29:08.720 this?

00:29:10.320 It's the

00:29:10.660 first time

00:29:11.000 I heard it.

00:29:12.480 I'll go

00:29:13.000 on.

00:29:14.920 With the

00:29:15.620 yard so

00:29:16.140 full,

00:29:17.060 carriers

00:29:17.400 slash

00:29:17.800 terminals

00:29:18.200 are being

00:29:18.640 highly

00:29:18.960 restrictive

00:29:19.560 in where

00:29:20.640 and when

00:29:21.080 they will

00:29:21.420 accept

00:29:21.840 empties.

00:29:23.360 So I

00:29:23.960 guess you

00:29:24.240 can bring

00:29:24.560 the empty

00:29:24.940 to the

00:29:25.280 yard.

00:29:26.460 Also,

00:29:26.960 containers

00:29:27.300 are not

00:29:27.780 fungible

00:29:28.380 between

00:29:28.840 carriers,

00:29:29.560 meaning

00:29:29.840 one carrier

00:29:31.460 can't use

00:29:31.980 somebody

00:29:32.240 else's

00:29:32.560 container.

00:29:33.680 So the

00:29:34.160 truckers

00:29:34.540 have to

00:29:34.860 drop

00:29:35.100 their

00:29:35.400 empty

00:29:35.700 off at

00:29:36.180 the

00:29:36.300 right

00:29:36.500 terminal.

00:29:37.580 This

00:29:37.900 is causing

00:29:38.400 empty

00:29:38.760 containers

00:29:39.280 to pile

00:29:39.860 up.

00:29:40.980 This

00:29:41.200 one

00:29:41.440 trucking

00:29:41.840 partner

00:29:42.080 alone

00:29:42.500 has

00:29:42.740 450

00:29:43.560 containers

00:29:44.460 sitting

00:29:45.400 on

00:29:45.680 chassis

00:29:46.060 right

00:29:46.440 now.

00:29:49.360 450

00:29:50.140 trucks

00:29:51.380 they can't

00:29:53.420 use

00:29:53.900 that are

00:29:55.540 perfectly

00:29:55.900 good

00:29:56.200 trucks,

00:29:57.340 presumably

00:29:57.760 with

00:29:58.140 drivers.

00:29:58.520 And

00:29:59.860 they

00:30:00.000 can't

00:30:00.300 use

00:30:00.540 them

00:30:00.720 because

00:30:01.600 they

00:30:01.740 have

00:30:01.880 empty

00:30:02.280 chassis

00:30:02.680 on

00:30:03.020 them

00:30:03.140 and

00:30:03.340 no

00:30:03.520 place

00:30:03.780 to

00:30:03.980 put

00:30:04.180 them

00:30:04.340 because

00:30:05.660 of

00:30:05.880 government

00:30:06.240 regulation.

00:30:08.620 You see

00:30:08.920 where this

00:30:09.240 is going?

00:30:12.940 All right.

00:30:14.300 This is a

00:30:15.100 trucking company

00:30:15.660 with six

00:30:16.260 yards that

00:30:17.040 represent 153

00:30:18.800 owner-operator

00:30:19.760 drivers,

00:30:20.680 so he has

00:30:21.480 almost three

00:30:22.200 containers sitting

00:30:23.240 on chassis

00:30:23.900 at his

00:30:24.460 yard for

00:30:25.840 every driver

00:30:26.500 on the

00:30:26.840 team.

00:30:27.140 he can't

00:30:29.160 take the

00:30:29.480 containers

00:30:29.800 off the

00:30:30.120 chassis

00:30:30.360 because he's

00:30:30.940 not allowed

00:30:31.580 by the

00:30:32.620 city of

00:30:32.980 Long Beach

00:30:33.400 zoning code

00:30:34.120 to store

00:30:35.000 empty

00:30:35.300 containers

00:30:35.780 more than

00:30:36.240 too high

00:30:36.900 in his

00:30:37.320 truck yard.

00:30:38.380 This was

00:30:38.860 tweeted

00:30:39.260 yesterday.

00:30:41.980 Today,

00:30:43.840 today,

00:30:46.380 the mayor

00:30:49.140 of Long

00:30:49.960 Beach

00:30:50.260 just announced

00:30:51.620 that they're

00:30:52.200 going to

00:30:52.640 allow them

00:30:53.180 to pile

00:30:53.600 the containers

00:30:54.180 more than

00:30:54.600 too high.

00:30:55.020 So this

00:30:56.440 government

00:30:57.080 regulation,

00:30:57.900 it looks

00:30:58.120 like it

00:30:59.280 was at

00:31:00.680 least in

00:31:01.040 Long Beach,

00:31:01.520 so we

00:31:01.740 don't know

00:31:02.000 about L.A.

00:31:02.500 yet, but

00:31:03.560 it looks

00:31:03.800 like they'll

00:31:04.160 pile them

00:31:04.560 high.

00:31:06.800 With the

00:31:07.320 chassis all

00:31:07.840 tied up,

00:31:08.560 storing empties,

00:31:09.600 they can't be

00:31:10.160 returned to

00:31:10.580 the port,

00:31:10.940 there are no

00:31:11.340 chassis available,

00:31:12.200 blah, blah,

00:31:12.420 blah.

00:31:13.360 Oh, okay.

00:31:14.380 And with all

00:31:14.840 the containers

00:31:15.440 piling up in

00:31:16.240 the terminal

00:31:16.640 yard, the

00:31:17.620 longshoremen

00:31:18.240 can't unload

00:31:18.960 the ships,

00:31:20.280 right?

00:31:20.540 So there are

00:31:20.880 literally just

00:31:21.540 too many

00:31:21.900 empties,

00:31:22.380 they just

00:31:22.760 can't unload

00:31:23.240 the ships.

00:31:24.060 And so the

00:31:24.520 queue grows

00:31:25.040 longer when

00:31:25.560 now over

00:31:26.000 70 ships

00:31:27.040 containing

00:31:28.340 500,000

00:31:29.940 containers

00:31:30.560 are waiting

00:31:31.600 offshore.

00:31:32.820 The line

00:31:33.500 is going

00:31:33.800 to get

00:31:34.080 longer,

00:31:34.640 not shorter.

00:31:36.000 This is a

00:31:36.680 negative feedback

00:31:37.380 loop, you

00:31:37.920 know, so

00:31:38.200 the worse it

00:31:38.780 gets, the worse

00:31:39.280 it gets.

00:31:40.320 All right, how

00:31:40.980 do we fix

00:31:41.420 this?

00:31:41.780 So now he

00:31:42.240 talks about

00:31:42.680 solutions.

00:31:43.780 Now when I

00:31:44.240 talk about

00:31:44.680 the solutions,

00:31:46.520 and when

00:31:47.680 Ryan Peterson

00:31:48.360 talks about

00:31:48.860 the solutions,

00:31:49.800 here's the

00:31:50.320 attitude you

00:31:51.000 should take

00:31:51.420 toward it.

00:31:51.860 not necessarily

00:31:53.440 that this is

00:31:54.080 the exact

00:31:54.600 solution, but

00:31:56.420 directionally,

00:31:57.540 okay?

00:31:58.120 So if you

00:31:58.820 can tell

00:31:59.160 yourself this

00:31:59.760 is a

00:32:00.060 directional area

00:32:00.980 to go, you

00:32:01.860 won't get too

00:32:02.420 wound up about

00:32:03.120 the details of

00:32:03.840 it.

00:32:04.980 He said,

00:32:06.060 boom,

00:32:06.500 boom,

00:32:07.880 what we can

00:32:10.000 do that's

00:32:10.680 fast, basically

00:32:11.760 he says.

00:32:12.400 When you're

00:32:12.820 designing an

00:32:13.380 operation, you

00:32:13.900 must choose

00:32:14.380 your bottleneck.

00:32:16.080 So here's a

00:32:16.620 design note.

00:32:17.740 You have to

00:32:18.120 choose your

00:32:18.620 bottleneck.

00:32:19.120 If the

00:32:19.880 bottleneck

00:32:20.300 appears somewhere

00:32:20.960 that you

00:32:21.340 didn't choose

00:32:21.980 it, you

00:32:23.040 aren't running

00:32:23.580 an operation,

00:32:24.500 it's running

00:32:24.960 you.

00:32:25.660 So he's

00:32:26.020 saying it's

00:32:26.460 poorly designed

00:32:27.380 by its

00:32:27.740 nature.

00:32:28.720 You should

00:32:28.960 always choose

00:32:29.480 the most

00:32:29.820 capital-intensive

00:32:30.800 part of the

00:32:31.320 line to be

00:32:31.860 your bottleneck.

00:32:33.420 Now he

00:32:33.780 doesn't explain

00:32:34.400 that, but

00:32:35.300 capital-intensive

00:32:37.740 presumably means

00:32:39.000 it's easier to

00:32:39.800 flex your

00:32:40.360 capital, in

00:32:41.740 other words,

00:32:42.140 get more

00:32:42.500 money, than

00:32:44.000 it is to get

00:32:44.560 more people or

00:32:45.600 more anything

00:32:46.140 else.

00:32:46.940 I'm guessing

00:32:47.480 that's what he

00:32:47.900 means.

00:32:48.760 In a port,

00:32:49.380 that's the

00:32:49.760 ship-to-shore

00:32:50.400 cranes.

00:32:52.040 The cranes

00:32:52.860 should never

00:32:53.320 be unable to

00:32:54.200 run because

00:32:54.940 they're waiting

00:32:55.440 for another

00:32:55.860 part.

00:32:56.260 Oh, okay.

00:32:57.400 So the

00:32:57.620 most capital-

00:32:58.300 I had that

00:32:58.880 wrong.

00:32:59.200 So the

00:32:59.380 most capital-

00:32:59.920 intensive part

00:33:00.580 is the

00:33:00.940 cranes, and

00:33:02.640 they're not

00:33:03.100 running, so

00:33:03.640 that means it's

00:33:04.780 not a well-designed

00:33:06.020 system.

00:33:07.100 So the

00:33:07.520 bottleneck right

00:33:08.100 now is not

00:33:08.500 the cranes,

00:33:09.520 it's the

00:33:09.900 yard space.

00:33:11.900 So we've

00:33:12.500 got to get

00:33:12.740 rid of those

00:33:13.300 empties.

00:33:15.320 All right.

00:33:15.580 And he

00:33:16.480 says that, and

00:33:17.520 here's somebody

00:33:18.360 who knows what

00:33:18.980 they're talking

00:33:19.420 about, right?

00:33:19.960 So he knows

00:33:20.500 systems and he

00:33:22.020 knows this

00:33:22.740 industry.

00:33:23.660 So listen to

00:33:24.320 this advice.

00:33:25.780 In operations,

00:33:26.660 when a bottleneck

00:33:27.320 appears somewhere

00:33:28.160 that you didn't

00:33:29.060 design for it,

00:33:30.120 so in other

00:33:30.560 words, it's not

00:33:31.160 in the crane

00:33:31.940 area because

00:33:32.580 they're designed

00:33:34.020 for it, I

00:33:34.420 guess, you

00:33:35.820 must overwhelm

00:33:36.780 the bottleneck.

00:33:38.560 Overwhelm the

00:33:39.220 bottleneck.

00:33:40.120 In other words,

00:33:40.980 you don't want to

00:33:41.960 peck away at it.

00:33:42.900 You need to

00:33:44.180 basically just

00:33:44.880 drop everything

00:33:45.720 and throw

00:33:46.940 everything at

00:33:47.940 the bottleneck.

00:33:49.080 Okay?

00:33:49.600 So how do

00:33:50.140 you do that?

00:33:52.380 He suggests

00:33:53.440 an executive

00:33:53.880 order, in

00:33:54.880 other words,

00:33:55.820 Biden, effective

00:33:57.300 immediately

00:33:57.800 overriding the

00:33:58.700 zoning rules in

00:33:59.580 Long Beach and

00:34:00.360 Los Angeles to

00:34:01.800 allow truck yards

00:34:02.760 to store empty

00:34:03.440 containers up to

00:34:04.220 6i.

00:34:04.640 It looks like we

00:34:05.160 got that 24

00:34:06.700 hours later.

00:34:07.580 I don't know

00:34:08.380 if this is just

00:34:09.220 because of

00:34:10.040 Ryan's involvement,

00:34:11.960 but I do

00:34:12.920 know that the

00:34:15.200 government heard

00:34:15.840 about his tweet

00:34:16.680 the day he

00:34:18.460 tweeted.

00:34:19.180 So I made

00:34:19.700 sure that at

00:34:21.500 least some

00:34:22.780 productive people

00:34:23.600 in the media

00:34:24.300 and in the

00:34:25.300 government were

00:34:25.980 aware of this

00:34:26.580 and are very

00:34:27.680 aware of it

00:34:28.220 and are looking

00:34:30.060 into it, etc.

00:34:31.180 So I can

00:34:32.560 confirm that

00:34:33.600 productive parts

00:34:35.420 of the government

00:34:36.000 are looking into

00:34:37.020 this.

00:34:37.940 And maybe

00:34:38.840 this is why

00:34:39.980 it happened

00:34:40.280 fast.

00:34:40.600 I imagine

00:34:41.460 that it

00:34:41.820 doesn't happen

00:34:42.240 that fast.

00:34:43.560 So in my

00:34:44.400 imagination,

00:34:45.240 probably they

00:34:45.840 were already

00:34:46.180 thinking about

00:34:46.740 this, stacking

00:34:47.980 up the

00:34:48.320 containers, and

00:34:49.280 it just

00:34:49.580 happened.

00:34:50.820 So that's

00:34:51.360 good news.

00:34:52.640 Then, Ryan

00:34:53.640 says, to

00:34:54.720 bring every

00:34:55.400 container chassis

00:34:56.200 owned by the

00:34:56.920 National Guard

00:34:58.580 and the military

00:34:59.120 anywhere.

00:34:59.720 Oh, so if the

00:35:01.060 military and the

00:35:01.720 National Guard

00:35:02.260 have trucks that

00:35:04.340 they can carry

00:35:06.360 different chassis

00:35:07.060 or that they

00:35:07.940 can carry

00:35:08.340 different containers

00:35:09.060 on to employ

00:35:10.660 those, create

00:35:12.940 a new temporary

00:35:13.620 container yard.

00:35:15.220 So you need

00:35:15.560 probably 500 acres,

00:35:16.920 he thinks, and

00:35:18.120 it could be

00:35:18.460 government land

00:35:19.220 or something

00:35:19.620 near the ports.

00:35:21.160 So you need

00:35:21.660 a ton of land

00:35:23.260 temporarily,

00:35:25.180 ideally temporarily,

00:35:26.660 somewhere near

00:35:27.820 the ports.

00:35:28.900 How hard would

00:35:29.760 it be to get

00:35:30.520 500 acres

00:35:31.600 available on

00:35:33.660 short notice?

00:35:35.120 Well, if it's

00:35:35.600 government land,

00:35:36.480 maybe that's fast,

00:35:37.260 they could say,

00:35:37.920 hey, just use

00:35:38.940 this government

00:35:39.460 land.

00:35:40.180 What if there's

00:35:40.800 no government

00:35:41.400 land?

00:35:43.960 Here's what I

00:35:44.680 suggest.

00:35:45.580 If this is

00:35:46.440 really something

00:35:47.360 we need,

00:35:48.900 if we really,

00:35:49.840 really need

00:35:50.500 this for the

00:35:51.700 health of the

00:35:52.680 country,

00:35:53.560 this is

00:35:54.280 basically a

00:35:55.880 war-level

00:35:58.100 problem.

00:35:59.320 It's a war-level

00:36:00.880 problem.

00:36:01.720 People don't

00:36:02.280 act the same

00:36:03.180 when it's a

00:36:04.600 little problem

00:36:05.200 as they do

00:36:06.400 when it's a

00:36:06.800 big problem,

00:36:07.480 right?

00:36:07.860 People don't

00:36:08.460 act the same

00:36:08.980 in the

00:36:09.200 pandemic as

00:36:10.560 they do

00:36:10.820 when they

00:36:11.300 get a

00:36:11.520 cold.

00:36:12.280 So I

00:36:12.900 believe this

00:36:13.400 is a

00:36:13.700 non-problem

00:36:14.320 because if

00:36:15.640 Joe Biden

00:36:16.340 ever went

00:36:16.820 on TV

00:36:17.260 and said,

00:36:18.380 you know,

00:36:18.620 we can

00:36:18.860 solve this

00:36:19.360 thing if

00:36:19.900 we get

00:36:20.260 500 acres

00:36:21.320 near the

00:36:22.620 port,

00:36:23.560 how long

00:36:24.040 would it

00:36:24.300 take a

00:36:25.260 patriot,

00:36:26.960 a farmer,

00:36:28.100 landowner

00:36:28.740 somewhere,

00:36:29.360 how long

00:36:29.820 would it

00:36:30.080 take at

00:36:30.480 least one

00:36:31.140 patriot to

00:36:31.800 say,

00:36:32.080 I got 500

00:36:32.680 acres?

00:36:33.880 Hell yeah.

00:36:35.200 Bring it

00:36:35.720 over here.

00:36:36.720 National

00:36:37.120 problem?

00:36:38.400 The whole

00:36:38.800 country is

00:36:39.540 in a jam?

00:36:41.420 I got 500

00:36:42.120 acres.

00:36:42.820 Absolutely.

00:36:43.960 Just, you

00:36:44.400 know, help me

00:36:44.760 clean it up

00:36:45.200 when you're

00:36:45.440 done.

00:36:46.600 I feel like

00:36:47.440 that's a

00:36:47.700 very solvable

00:36:48.280 problem in

00:36:49.280 the context

00:36:49.880 of a crisis.

00:36:50.620 People would

00:36:50.960 just step

00:36:51.560 up, I

00:36:52.360 think.

00:36:53.200 Like I

00:36:53.560 would like

00:36:53.840 to think

00:36:54.180 of that

00:36:54.440 of my

00:36:54.920 fellow

00:36:55.960 Americans.

00:36:57.600 Ryan

00:36:58.020 says,

00:36:58.340 also bring

00:36:58.780 in barges

00:36:59.320 and small

00:36:59.740 container ships

00:37:00.380 and start

00:37:00.760 hauling

00:37:01.220 containers

00:37:01.800 out of

00:37:02.120 Long

00:37:02.300 Beach

00:37:02.560 to other

00:37:03.580 smaller

00:37:03.980 ports

00:37:04.360 that aren't

00:37:04.860 backed up.

00:37:06.440 Now,

00:37:07.400 this is not

00:37:08.380 a comprehensive

00:37:08.940 list.

00:37:09.340 So as I

00:37:09.780 said,

00:37:10.660 think in

00:37:11.260 terms of

00:37:11.900 all the

00:37:13.120 different ways

00:37:13.660 that you

00:37:13.920 can get

00:37:14.240 rid of

00:37:14.460 the empties.

00:37:15.720 Don't get

00:37:16.480 obsessed by

00:37:17.060 these specific

00:37:17.840 suggestions.

00:37:19.080 But he

00:37:19.760 does make

00:37:20.240 the case

00:37:20.640 that you

00:37:21.220 could probably

00:37:21.560 do it.

00:37:22.780 And you

00:37:23.040 could probably

00:37:23.400 do it fast

00:37:24.000 if you had

00:37:24.400 the will

00:37:24.780 and the

00:37:25.580 leadership.

00:37:26.600 I don't

00:37:27.080 think it's

00:37:27.420 a money

00:37:27.680 problem.

00:37:28.200 I don't

00:37:28.400 think it's

00:37:28.920 knowing what

00:37:29.520 to do

00:37:29.760 problem anymore.

00:37:30.500 I think

00:37:31.340 it's just

00:37:31.700 a willpower

00:37:32.540 leadership

00:37:33.780 brute force

00:37:34.580 kind of

00:37:35.220 situation.

00:37:35.960 So we

00:37:36.200 could probably

00:37:36.520 power through

00:37:37.020 it.

00:37:39.240 And then

00:37:39.560 he's got

00:37:39.800 some other

00:37:40.280 he said

00:37:42.860 he'd be

00:37:43.120 happy to

00:37:43.540 lead this

00:37:43.920 effort for

00:37:44.420 the federal

00:37:44.760 state

00:37:45.080 government.

00:37:45.840 Well,

00:37:45.980 there you

00:37:46.180 go.

00:37:47.200 You even

00:37:47.500 have somebody

00:37:49.560 who understands

00:37:50.240 it and is

00:37:50.820 already a CEO

00:37:51.580 just volunteered

00:37:53.480 to lead the

00:37:54.040 effort.

00:37:56.420 And you

00:37:57.380 probably need

00:37:57.900 somebody who

00:37:58.340 has this

00:37:58.760 level of

00:37:59.320 understanding

00:37:59.860 about the

00:38:00.300 whole system

00:38:00.960 to really

00:38:02.100 do anything

00:38:02.580 productive because

00:38:03.520 any change to

00:38:04.780 one part of

00:38:05.180 the system

00:38:05.600 is going to

00:38:06.040 ripple through

00:38:06.460 the rest of

00:38:06.880 the system.

00:38:07.760 So you need

00:38:08.120 somebody who

00:38:08.580 knows what

00:38:09.140 kind of

00:38:09.480 changes aren't

00:38:10.160 going to

00:38:10.380 break the

00:38:10.800 system somewhere

00:38:11.500 else.

00:38:12.800 So where's

00:38:13.400 Pete Buttigieg?

00:38:15.360 And why

00:38:16.100 can't he make

00:38:16.780 Ryan Peterson

00:38:17.500 the port

00:38:19.540 czar just

00:38:22.680 until we get

00:38:23.220 this over

00:38:23.640 with?

00:38:25.380 I don't

00:38:25.780 know.

00:38:26.340 So I'm

00:38:26.920 going to put

00:38:27.220 this in the

00:38:27.640 category of

00:38:28.560 citizens doing

00:38:30.000 what the

00:38:30.400 government

00:38:30.740 couldn't.

00:38:31.820 Do you

00:38:32.020 remember the

00:38:32.420 story I

00:38:32.860 told earlier

00:38:33.680 today about

00:38:34.380 the dads

00:38:35.040 just saying

00:38:36.580 okay the

00:38:37.080 school is

00:38:37.600 failing, the

00:38:38.860 government is

00:38:39.420 failing, how

00:38:40.620 about you and

00:38:41.200 I put on

00:38:41.720 these dad

00:38:42.380 shirts and

00:38:42.880 go fix the

00:38:43.920 school?

00:38:44.780 And so they

00:38:45.160 did because

00:38:46.180 the government

00:38:46.560 couldn't fix

00:38:47.080 it.

00:38:47.800 So the

00:38:48.060 dads went

00:38:48.540 and fixed

00:38:48.900 it and

00:38:49.540 succeeded.

00:38:50.780 So the

00:38:51.260 government was

00:38:51.860 so far pretty

00:38:53.300 close to

00:38:53.800 worthless on

00:38:54.480 this whole supply

00:38:55.160 chain issue.

00:38:56.360 So a citizen

00:38:57.180 says well

00:38:57.980 maybe I'll

00:38:59.080 solve it.

00:39:00.420 I'm saying

00:39:01.160 the same

00:39:01.520 thing.

00:39:02.820 Like literally

00:39:03.640 right now

00:39:04.280 what I'm

00:39:04.700 doing is

00:39:05.500 making sure

00:39:06.800 that enough

00:39:07.240 people have

00:39:07.660 heard this

00:39:08.020 idea.

00:39:08.780 Why?

00:39:09.840 Because the

00:39:10.240 government

00:39:10.540 isn't doing

00:39:11.160 it.

00:39:12.060 Like I am

00:39:12.740 literally doing

00:39:13.380 the government's

00:39:14.040 job right

00:39:14.680 now for

00:39:16.420 free and

00:39:17.720 I'm happy to

00:39:18.260 do it because

00:39:19.520 I'm a patriot

00:39:20.400 and the

00:39:21.760 country has a

00:39:22.400 crisis.

00:39:23.440 Of course I

00:39:24.240 want to help.

00:39:25.720 So does

00:39:26.240 Ryan Peterson.

00:39:27.880 So does

00:39:28.640 somebody with

00:39:29.540 500 acres

00:39:30.300 somewhere.

00:39:31.700 So does

00:39:32.440 anybody who's

00:39:33.800 got a truck

00:39:34.460 and can put

00:39:35.060 an empty

00:39:35.400 on it.

00:39:36.540 But just

00:39:37.680 for fun

00:39:38.220 I'm going to

00:39:39.720 take it to

00:39:40.160 a new level

00:39:40.680 right?

00:39:41.660 What follows

00:39:42.400 is my

00:39:42.920 whiteboard

00:39:43.440 presentation

00:39:44.160 of what to

00:39:45.900 do with

00:39:46.300 all the

00:39:46.680 empties.

00:39:47.980 Don't take

00:39:48.680 this too

00:39:49.180 seriously.

00:39:50.440 All right.

00:39:50.740 I'm going to

00:39:51.280 present this

00:39:51.900 in the

00:39:52.500 spirit of

00:39:54.560 just

00:39:56.180 stretching

00:39:56.940 your mind

00:39:57.380 a little

00:39:57.660 bit.

00:39:58.580 All right.

00:39:59.400 I wouldn't

00:40:01.020 say this is

00:40:01.600 a practical

00:40:02.260 idea but

00:40:02.900 it's fun.

00:40:04.380 It goes

00:40:04.820 like this.

00:40:06.060 Let's say

00:40:06.460 you've got

00:40:06.740 a port.

00:40:08.200 Here's

00:40:08.500 your port.

00:40:11.540 You want

00:40:12.140 to get rid

00:40:12.500 of all

00:40:12.720 these containers.

00:40:14.220 Let's say

00:40:14.740 that not

00:40:15.120 too far

00:40:15.540 away

00:40:15.860 there's

00:40:18.020 a mountain.

00:40:21.200 Right.

00:40:21.440 I'm going

00:40:23.060 to solve

00:40:23.460 all the

00:40:24.060 world's

00:40:24.420 problems

00:40:24.800 at once.

00:40:25.420 You ready?

00:40:26.520 Just all

00:40:26.960 at once.

00:40:28.820 You're going

00:40:29.360 to take

00:40:29.620 these

00:40:29.900 containers

00:40:30.440 and line

00:40:33.200 them up

00:40:33.560 on the

00:40:33.760 mountain

00:40:34.060 butt

00:40:35.360 to butt

00:40:35.820 until

00:40:39.160 you have

00:40:40.480 the

00:40:40.640 equivalent

00:40:41.100 of

00:40:44.940 a tunnel.

00:40:47.100 A tunnel.

00:40:48.240 Now you'd

00:40:48.640 have to

00:40:49.120 open up

00:40:50.280 once you

00:40:51.160 stuck them

00:40:51.520 together

00:40:51.800 you'd

00:40:52.080 have to

00:40:52.560 weld

00:40:53.240 an opening

00:40:54.680 between

00:40:55.020 them.

00:40:55.700 But then

00:40:56.040 imagine you

00:40:56.560 do that.

00:40:58.080 So you

00:40:58.680 open them

00:40:59.100 up

00:40:59.320 and you've

00:41:02.700 got this

00:41:03.000 big ass

00:41:03.580 tunnel

00:41:04.140 that goes

00:41:05.520 up the

00:41:06.040 hill

00:41:06.300 or the

00:41:06.880 mountain.

00:41:07.900 Have you

00:41:08.160 ever heard

00:41:08.480 of a

00:41:08.880 heat

00:41:09.200 chimney?

00:41:10.460 Have you

00:41:10.700 ever heard

00:41:10.940 of that

00:41:11.140 concept?

00:41:12.380 Heat

00:41:12.640 chimney.

00:41:16.500 Heat

00:41:16.980 chimney.

00:41:20.280 A heat

00:41:22.300 chimney

00:41:22.600 is when

00:41:26.540 the

00:41:27.600 natural

00:41:28.360 rising of

00:41:29.360 warm air

00:41:30.060 is put

00:41:32.040 through a

00:41:32.820 chimney.

00:41:33.560 So basically

00:41:34.180 if you built

00:41:35.000 this all

00:41:36.100 by itself

00:41:36.780 it would

00:41:37.600 start sucking

00:41:38.360 in warm

00:41:40.020 air

00:41:40.240 because warm

00:41:42.780 air rises

00:41:43.260 and it would

00:41:43.700 suck it into

00:41:44.300 this pole

00:41:44.680 and it would

00:41:45.140 exhale it

00:41:45.860 in there.

00:41:46.200 And if

00:41:47.280 it was a

00:41:47.820 big enough

00:41:48.300 entity it

00:41:49.580 would be

00:41:49.800 pretty fast.

00:41:51.520 Now

00:41:51.800 wait for

00:41:53.180 it.

00:41:53.460 Wait for

00:41:53.940 it.

00:41:54.880 Why would

00:41:55.400 you do

00:41:55.640 this?

00:41:56.680 Because you're

00:41:57.340 going to

00:41:57.440 build a

00:41:58.420 CO2

00:41:59.140 capture

00:42:00.880 facility

00:42:01.580 on the

00:42:02.820 top.

00:42:07.520 CO2

00:42:08.240 capture.

00:42:12.220 We know

00:42:13.560 that we

00:42:13.840 have

00:42:14.020 technology.

00:42:16.640 I don't

00:42:17.140 think you

00:42:17.440 can even

00:42:17.700 see this

00:42:18.080 can you?

00:42:20.180 Let me

00:42:20.620 fix that

00:42:21.000 a little

00:42:21.180 bit.

00:42:22.780 All right.

00:42:23.700 So if

00:42:25.920 you were to

00:42:26.260 build a

00:42:26.780 CO2

00:42:27.360 capture

00:42:27.780 device

00:42:28.460 that pulls

00:42:29.480 air

00:42:29.900 that pulls

00:42:30.780 the CO2

00:42:31.340 out of

00:42:31.680 the air

00:42:31.980 what is

00:42:33.300 the biggest

00:42:33.700 part of

00:42:34.040 the expense?

00:42:35.760 The biggest

00:42:36.360 part of

00:42:36.600 the expense

00:42:37.020 I think

00:42:37.620 you'd

00:42:37.900 have to

00:42:38.100 fact check

00:42:38.540 me on

00:42:38.760 this

00:42:38.960 is energy.

00:42:40.080 So the

00:42:42.300 biggest part

00:42:42.720 of the

00:42:42.880 expense

00:42:43.280 is these

00:42:44.560 big fans

00:42:46.360 that move

00:42:48.260 the wind.

00:42:49.360 So you

00:42:49.580 have to

00:42:49.840 move the

00:42:50.200 air,

00:42:51.020 force it

00:42:51.660 through the

00:42:52.140 filters to

00:42:53.340 get the

00:42:53.760 CO2 out.

00:42:55.340 But what

00:42:55.900 if you

00:42:56.140 didn't need

00:42:56.440 the fans?

00:42:57.980 What if

00:42:58.360 nature was

00:42:59.100 your fan?

00:43:00.200 What if

00:43:00.860 the warm

00:43:02.300 air was

00:43:02.700 warm enough

00:43:03.200 at the

00:43:03.460 bottom that

00:43:04.680 by the time

00:43:05.160 it got to

00:43:05.520 the top it

00:43:06.040 was just

00:43:06.440 like a

00:43:06.900 hurricane?

00:43:07.280 I'm not

00:43:08.880 sure if

00:43:09.140 the physics

00:43:09.560 worked to

00:43:10.040 get enough

00:43:10.380 air flow.

00:43:11.140 But could

00:43:12.740 you get

00:43:13.500 enough air

00:43:13.960 flow to

00:43:14.980 build a

00:43:15.600 cheap CO2

00:43:16.680 capture on

00:43:17.800 the top of

00:43:18.260 a hill?

00:43:19.060 Boom!

00:43:19.780 Solving

00:43:20.140 climate change

00:43:20.960 and the

00:43:22.620 shipping

00:43:22.840 container

00:43:23.240 problem at

00:43:24.320 the same

00:43:24.800 time.

00:43:26.700 Now,

00:43:28.300 is this a

00:43:29.640 practical plan?

00:43:30.820 No.

00:43:31.960 And it

00:43:32.740 wouldn't happen

00:43:33.140 fast.

00:43:34.360 But I

00:43:35.760 just like to

00:43:36.280 put two

00:43:36.700 ideas to

00:43:37.260 together now

00:43:37.780 and then

00:43:38.080 because it's

00:43:38.620 good for

00:43:38.920 your

00:43:39.100 creativity.

00:43:41.440 Sometimes

00:43:41.840 it's

00:43:46.360 useful to

00:43:46.920 hear what's

00:43:47.400 called the

00:43:47.820 bad version

00:43:48.520 of the

00:43:48.800 idea.

00:43:49.560 I've talked

00:43:49.980 about this

00:43:50.420 before.

00:43:50.920 It's a

00:43:51.200 Hollywood

00:43:51.460 trick.

00:43:52.300 If you

00:43:52.600 don't have

00:43:52.920 a good

00:43:53.260 idea for

00:43:54.120 let's say

00:43:55.100 a script,

00:43:56.500 what does

00:43:57.180 the character

00:43:57.600 do now?

00:43:58.440 If you

00:43:58.900 don't have

00:43:59.160 a good

00:43:59.420 idea,

00:44:00.120 throw out

00:44:00.540 the bad

00:44:00.900 one.

00:44:01.840 Because the

00:44:02.200 bad one

00:44:02.640 will make

00:44:03.000 somebody say,

00:44:03.480 well, that

00:44:03.800 won't work,

00:44:04.860 but it does

00:44:05.400 remind me of

00:44:06.020 something that

00:44:06.500 will.

00:44:07.260 So he

00:44:09.640 says, do

00:44:10.000 you realize

00:44:10.760 we still

00:44:11.240 need those

00:44:11.780 empty

00:44:12.120 containers?

00:44:14.420 We'll make

00:44:15.160 more.

00:44:17.280 We'll make

00:44:18.040 more.

00:44:18.860 Because, you

00:44:19.340 know, I'm

00:44:20.460 not talking

00:44:20.960 about, we're

00:44:22.660 not talking

00:44:23.140 about enough

00:44:24.060 containers that

00:44:24.840 it would

00:44:25.060 change the

00:44:25.660 global

00:44:26.460 container

00:44:27.580 situation.

00:44:28.620 and I'm

00:44:30.000 not talking

00:44:30.460 about really

00:44:31.060 using containers

00:44:31.840 for this

00:44:32.240 because there's

00:44:32.700 got to be

00:44:33.200 an easier

00:44:33.620 way to

00:44:33.960 make a

00:44:34.240 pipe than

00:44:35.380 containers.

00:44:36.740 But, the

00:44:38.440 only question

00:44:39.620 that I ask

00:44:40.180 is this.

00:44:41.080 Could you

00:44:41.480 create a

00:44:41.960 situation with

00:44:43.760 a heat

00:44:45.040 chimney on

00:44:45.780 a hill,

00:44:47.120 because it's

00:44:47.540 easier to

00:44:47.960 build it on

00:44:48.340 a hill because

00:44:48.900 you don't

00:44:49.200 need to

00:44:49.540 support it?

00:44:50.780 You know,

00:44:51.040 laying

00:44:51.460 something down

00:44:52.120 on the

00:44:52.460 ground is

00:44:53.080 easier than

00:44:53.640 building a

00:44:54.160 structure a

00:44:54.680 mile high,

00:44:55.240 right?

00:44:55.420 You just

00:44:56.100 lay it

00:44:56.520 there.

00:44:57.420 Now, would

00:44:57.820 you be able

00:44:58.200 to get

00:44:58.440 enough air

00:44:59.300 flow to

00:45:00.620 power a

00:45:01.600 CO2 scrubber?

00:45:03.760 Engineers?

00:45:04.700 Engineers?

00:45:05.940 Anybody?

00:45:06.820 Anybody?

00:45:08.600 Do we

00:45:08.920 have a, I

00:45:10.280 know a

00:45:11.360 huge percentage

00:45:12.040 of you are

00:45:12.580 engineers, and

00:45:14.520 I'm waiting for

00:45:15.320 you to weigh

00:45:15.680 in.

00:45:16.900 Come on,

00:45:17.460 tell me why

00:45:17.900 it won't

00:45:18.160 work.

00:45:23.200 Okay,

00:45:24.680 this is,

00:45:25.060 no, I

00:45:25.560 know it's

00:45:25.800 not practical

00:45:26.540 to fix the

00:45:27.300 container

00:45:27.660 problem,

00:45:28.580 but,

00:45:28.880 yeah, but

00:45:34.700 the CO2

00:45:35.260 capture is

00:45:36.340 useless.

00:45:37.580 Okay.

00:45:41.200 Spotted

00:45:41.720 owl problem,

00:45:42.420 yes.

00:45:43.480 Solar would

00:45:44.140 be cheaper?

00:45:46.180 Maybe.

00:45:49.300 Homeless

00:45:49.820 houses?

00:45:50.680 You know, I

00:45:51.120 also thought

00:45:51.640 about that,

00:45:52.240 but, you

00:45:54.540 know, imagine

00:45:55.020 if you put

00:45:55.580 500

00:45:56.140 containers

00:45:59.200 turned sideways

00:46:00.200 in a field

00:46:00.880 and just let

00:46:01.480 the homeless

00:46:01.860 people camp

00:46:02.500 out in it.

00:46:03.440 It would

00:46:03.620 be better

00:46:03.840 than being

00:46:04.180 outdoors.

00:46:05.580 But I

00:46:06.100 think we

00:46:06.400 can do

00:46:06.700 better than

00:46:07.120 that for

00:46:07.460 the homeless.

00:46:09.080 Elon

00:46:09.480 Musk's

00:46:10.020 boring tool.

00:46:11.300 There you

00:46:11.600 go.

00:46:13.280 Yeah, so

00:46:14.180 let me do

00:46:14.760 that.

00:46:15.260 So imagine

00:46:15.760 instead of

00:46:16.600 using containers,

00:46:18.040 that's probably

00:46:18.660 a better idea,

00:46:19.340 isn't it?

00:46:19.620 If you

00:46:20.460 use the

00:46:21.060 boring

00:46:21.800 company,

00:46:22.520 B-O-R-I-N-G,

00:46:24.900 so instead

00:46:25.620 of laying

00:46:26.420 down a

00:46:26.760 pipe, you

00:46:27.200 just bore

00:46:28.740 a tunnel.

00:46:33.700 Yeah, I

00:46:34.980 don't know,

00:46:35.260 maybe,

00:46:36.140 maybe,

00:46:36.560 maybe so.

00:46:42.180 All right,

00:46:42.760 let's see what

00:46:43.080 else we're going

00:46:43.480 to talk about.

00:46:44.140 That was just

00:46:44.640 for fun.

00:46:46.420 But you

00:46:47.480 see this

00:46:47.920 pattern of

00:46:48.520 citizens doing

00:46:49.260 the work of

00:46:50.160 the government,

00:46:50.720 don't you?

00:46:52.020 What's that

00:46:52.600 about?

00:46:53.960 I think we've

00:46:55.180 never seen

00:46:55.540 it before.

00:46:55.980 It has

00:46:56.160 something to

00:46:56.560 do with

00:46:56.780 social media.

00:46:57.880 It makes

00:46:58.180 it possible,

00:46:58.880 right?

00:46:59.820 Because it

00:47:00.120 just wouldn't

00:47:00.540 be possible

00:47:01.020 without it.

00:47:02.140 All right,

00:47:02.500 here's my

00:47:02.980 other favorite

00:47:03.600 story.

00:47:04.920 I have a

00:47:05.700 new favorite

00:47:06.560 athlete.

00:47:08.800 Ines,

00:47:09.380 I don't know

00:47:10.180 if I'm

00:47:10.400 pronouncing it

00:47:10.880 right,

00:47:11.160 E-N-E-S,

00:47:11.980 is it Ines

00:47:13.140 or Enes?

00:47:14.640 Ines Cantor?

00:47:16.700 Apparently he

00:47:17.500 made some

00:47:17.960 comments about

00:47:19.080 China.

00:47:23.060 He made

00:47:23.880 some comments

00:47:24.380 about Tibet

00:47:25.240 and China's

00:47:26.500 treatment of

00:47:26.920 Tibet.

00:47:27.800 And China

00:47:28.200 started pulling

00:47:28.900 NBA broadcasts,

00:47:30.660 which we

00:47:32.280 think is

00:47:32.880 in apparent

00:47:33.480 retaliation.

00:47:35.140 So what

00:47:35.460 does Enes

00:47:36.120 Cantor do

00:47:36.860 when he

00:47:37.980 said something

00:47:38.640 that has

00:47:39.260 cost a lot

00:47:39.980 of money

00:47:40.280 to his

00:47:40.700 employer,

00:47:41.440 the NBA,

00:47:42.740 and caused

00:47:43.900 an international

00:47:44.680 problem?

00:47:47.260 Does

00:47:47.660 NS

00:47:50.580 say,

00:47:52.400 oops,

00:47:52.780 sorry about

00:47:53.260 that,

00:47:54.180 and I

00:47:55.020 guess I'll

00:47:55.380 go away

00:47:55.760 now?

00:47:56.740 Does NS

00:47:57.480 apologize to

00:47:58.600 China and

00:47:59.480 say,

00:47:59.720 ooh,

00:47:59.960 I'm sorry

00:48:00.340 about that,

00:48:00.760 I guess I

00:48:01.060 went a

00:48:01.280 little too

00:48:01.540 far?

00:48:03.040 He does

00:48:03.660 not.

00:48:05.180 He does

00:48:05.800 not.

00:48:07.220 Here's what

00:48:07.880 NS does.

00:48:09.560 He makes

00:48:10.260 a new video,

00:48:11.200 so instead of

00:48:11.780 complaining about

00:48:12.580 Tibet, he

00:48:14.680 goes after

00:48:15.200 the Uyghur

00:48:15.760 situation.

00:48:17.380 He makes

00:48:17.900 a video

00:48:18.680 hammering

00:48:20.740 China about

00:48:21.520 the Uyghur

00:48:22.060 situation and

00:48:22.800 lays out the

00:48:23.340 whole brutality

00:48:24.520 of it.

00:48:29.160 Here's what

00:48:29.880 he says.

00:48:31.320 I'm calling

00:48:32.020 you out.

00:48:32.460 Talk about

00:48:32.940 Xi Jinping.

00:48:35.760 He says,

00:48:36.180 I'm calling

00:48:36.640 you out in

00:48:37.120 front of the

00:48:37.460 whole world.

00:48:38.440 Close down

00:48:38.920 the slave

00:48:39.380 labor camps

00:48:40.060 and free

00:48:40.440 the Uyghur

00:48:40.900 people.

00:48:41.600 Stop the

00:48:42.080 genocide now.

00:48:45.420 Well,

00:48:46.720 there may

00:48:48.180 be a lot

00:48:48.580 of NBA

00:48:49.100 players who

00:48:49.860 are kneeling

00:48:50.540 for the

00:48:51.000 anthem,

00:48:52.000 and I

00:48:52.660 don't care

00:48:52.960 about them

00:48:53.340 at the

00:48:53.580 moment,

00:48:54.940 but

00:48:55.220 Enes

00:48:56.500 Cantor,

00:48:57.120 I give

00:48:57.460 you a

00:48:57.760 standing

00:48:58.000 ovation.

00:48:59.040 Standing

00:48:59.420 ovation.

00:48:59.780 And what

00:49:10.200 is Enes

00:49:11.020 Cantor

00:49:11.420 doing?

00:49:13.220 The

00:49:13.800 government's

00:49:14.300 job.

00:49:15.940 He's doing

00:49:16.380 the government's

00:49:17.120 job.

00:49:18.180 He's doing

00:49:18.680 what Biden

00:49:19.280 should be

00:49:19.640 doing.

00:49:20.720 Trump

00:49:21.000 would be

00:49:21.300 doing this,

00:49:22.780 I think.

00:49:24.200 Wouldn't

00:49:24.460 he?

00:49:25.680 So,

00:49:27.200 three examples

00:49:28.660 in the news

00:49:29.340 today of

00:49:30.960 citizens doing

00:49:32.340 the job of

00:49:33.000 the government

00:49:33.440 because the

00:49:33.960 government wasn't

00:49:34.540 doing it.

00:49:36.760 There's something

00:49:37.600 going on.

00:49:38.940 Is it because

00:49:40.340 people are

00:49:40.840 noticing that

00:49:41.520 we don't have

00:49:42.420 a coherent

00:49:43.420 government?

00:49:45.480 Because,

00:49:46.160 you know,

00:49:46.360 it seemed like

00:49:46.800 the citizen

00:49:47.400 participation was

00:49:48.460 also happening

00:49:49.920 under Trump,

00:49:50.800 but it looked

00:49:51.240 like more of a

00:49:52.260 collaborative thing

00:49:54.820 than a

00:49:56.080 desperation thing.

00:49:57.020 At the

00:49:57.900 moment,

00:49:58.120 it looks

00:49:58.320 more like

00:49:58.680 desperation.

00:49:59.580 We don't

00:49:59.860 have a

00:50:00.120 government.

00:50:00.540 We better

00:50:00.780 do this

00:50:01.160 ourselves.

00:50:02.200 But under

00:50:02.680 Trump,

00:50:03.000 it looked

00:50:03.220 more like,

00:50:04.240 oh,

00:50:04.500 he actually

00:50:04.980 listens to

00:50:05.540 what people

00:50:05.900 say,

00:50:07.000 so if you

00:50:07.400 have a good

00:50:07.760 idea,

00:50:08.220 maybe it'll

00:50:08.560 get implemented.

00:50:09.440 And sure

00:50:09.680 enough,

00:50:10.420 I've told

00:50:11.280 you the

00:50:11.540 story of

00:50:12.180 submitting a

00:50:13.900 good idea,

00:50:14.520 and next

00:50:14.820 thing you know,

00:50:15.220 it's an

00:50:15.480 executive order.

00:50:17.120 So,

00:50:18.780 Mr.

00:50:21.100 Cab is

00:50:21.600 asking if

00:50:22.080 my hair is

00:50:22.600 growing back.

00:50:24.700 Interestingly,

00:50:25.320 it did grow

00:50:25.740 back when I

00:50:26.260 was on

00:50:26.500 prednisone.

00:50:27.780 Not

00:50:28.320 permanently,

00:50:29.080 but even

00:50:29.580 the bald

00:50:30.160 sparts started

00:50:30.860 filling back

00:50:31.660 in.

00:50:32.520 That's scary,

00:50:33.820 but it was

00:50:34.540 temporary.

00:50:38.920 Do you

00:50:39.600 know before

00:50:40.100 federal tax,

00:50:41.160 tariffs were

00:50:41.820 imposed on

00:50:42.560 ships?

00:50:43.040 I don't

00:50:43.220 know the

00:50:43.820 relevance of

00:50:44.340 that yet.

00:50:45.980 All right.

00:50:48.380 So,

00:50:49.100 in a New

00:50:49.580 York Times

00:50:50.040 opinion piece,

00:50:50.920 Paul Krugman

00:50:54.020 says,

00:50:55.300 China has

00:50:56.060 big problems

00:50:56.660 coming.

00:51:00.160 China has

00:51:00.880 big problems

00:51:01.600 coming.

00:51:02.600 Big problems

00:51:03.260 had.

00:51:04.780 It feels like

00:51:05.620 the wording of

00:51:06.380 that sounds

00:51:06.960 familiar,

00:51:07.480 doesn't it?

00:51:08.560 Have you heard

00:51:08.940 that from

00:51:09.380 anyone before?

00:51:10.500 Is there

00:51:10.760 anybody who's

00:51:11.260 been saying

00:51:11.660 in public

00:51:12.180 that China

00:51:13.280 has big

00:51:13.820 problems

00:51:14.220 coming?

00:51:14.520 So that's

00:51:16.780 the headline.

00:51:17.920 Big problems

00:51:18.520 coming.

00:51:20.180 Does it

00:51:20.580 sound familiar?

00:51:25.500 It should,

00:51:27.120 because China

00:51:28.540 has big

00:51:28.940 problems

00:51:29.300 coming.

00:51:29.740 I think

00:51:30.100 I've mentioned

00:51:30.540 it before.

00:51:31.760 I believe

00:51:32.240 I've mentioned

00:51:32.700 it before.

00:51:34.000 Yeah.

00:51:34.740 And one

00:51:36.360 of the big

00:51:36.700 problems,

00:51:37.300 among the

00:51:38.140 big problems,

00:51:38.960 are they,

00:51:39.900 apparently they

00:51:40.460 tried to hide

00:51:41.200 their economic

00:51:42.460 situation by

00:51:43.740 building

00:51:44.080 massive

00:51:44.900 real estate

00:51:46.700 projects that

00:51:48.700 didn't get

00:51:49.880 used.

00:51:50.740 Nobody moved

00:51:52.340 into them.

00:51:54.820 Oh, yes,

00:51:55.540 I did say

00:51:56.020 that.

00:51:56.620 Yes, I did.

00:51:58.140 Have I told

00:51:58.860 you how I

00:51:59.500 track my

00:52:01.040 influence?

00:52:03.540 No, of

00:52:04.220 course it's

00:52:04.560 not scientific

00:52:05.320 and not 100%

00:52:06.680 reliable,

00:52:07.420 but one of

00:52:07.860 the ways I

00:52:08.240 track it is

00:52:08.780 by language.

00:52:12.000 You know,

00:52:12.320 if somebody

00:52:12.780 uses the

00:52:13.220 same term,

00:52:14.080 you can say,

00:52:14.720 hmm, I

00:52:15.240 wonder if

00:52:15.540 two people

00:52:15.940 came up

00:52:16.320 with that

00:52:16.540 at the

00:52:16.720 same time

00:52:17.280 or one

00:52:18.400 was influenced

00:52:19.100 by the

00:52:19.760 other.

00:52:20.620 So you

00:52:20.980 can never

00:52:21.280 know.

00:52:21.700 It could

00:52:21.960 be that it's

00:52:22.380 just an

00:52:23.380 obvious phrase,

00:52:24.640 so you see

00:52:25.080 it more

00:52:25.300 than once.

00:52:26.260 We'll see.

00:52:29.160 But Paul

00:52:29.920 Krugman,

00:52:30.460 who I know

00:52:31.500 certainly people

00:52:33.100 on the

00:52:33.700 right,

00:52:34.840 political

00:52:35.140 right,

00:52:35.620 don't think

00:52:36.200 his predictions

00:52:37.120 have been so

00:52:37.660 good,

00:52:38.380 but he says

00:52:39.580 they got big

00:52:40.060 trouble.

00:52:41.060 Big trouble

00:52:41.820 coming.

00:52:42.040 And I

00:52:43.180 think he's

00:52:43.520 right.

00:52:45.580 You know,

00:52:46.240 have I told

00:52:46.700 you the

00:52:47.100 interplay

00:52:47.600 between

00:52:48.080 economics

00:52:48.780 and

00:52:49.100 psychology?

00:52:50.520 That

00:52:50.720 economics

00:52:51.240 is,

00:52:52.100 unless you

00:52:52.900 have a

00:52:53.340 physical

00:52:53.940 constraint,

00:52:55.440 like the

00:52:56.120 ports have a

00:52:57.000 physical

00:52:57.360 constraint,

00:52:58.720 economics is

00:52:59.540 mostly a

00:53:00.000 psychology

00:53:00.480 issue.

00:53:01.720 If you

00:53:02.060 think things

00:53:02.700 are going

00:53:02.940 to be good

00:53:03.500 next year,

00:53:04.100 you invest.

00:53:04.660 If you

00:53:05.740 think the

00:53:06.100 prices are

00:53:06.660 going up

00:53:07.220 because of

00:53:07.800 inflation,

00:53:08.400 maybe you

00:53:08.720 buy something

00:53:09.200 now.

00:53:10.000 So basically

00:53:10.480 your expectations

00:53:11.520 and your

00:53:12.040 psychology

00:53:12.600 drive the

00:53:13.340 entire

00:53:13.660 economy.

00:53:15.500 What

00:53:16.100 happens to

00:53:16.840 China's

00:53:17.400 economy when

00:53:18.160 everybody

00:53:18.700 understands that

00:53:19.500 it's not

00:53:19.840 safe to do

00:53:20.440 business there,

00:53:21.780 and that

00:53:22.220 they've got

00:53:22.580 big problems?

00:53:25.240 It's a

00:53:25.860 problem.

00:53:26.620 If the

00:53:27.540 psychology

00:53:28.220 breaks,

00:53:28.760 the economy

00:53:29.240 breaks.

00:53:30.480 What would

00:53:31.140 it take for

00:53:31.660 China's

00:53:32.200 psychology to

00:53:33.440 break in a

00:53:34.040 way that

00:53:34.400 breaks the

00:53:34.960 economy?

00:53:36.060 Well, it

00:53:37.220 might take

00:53:37.680 Paul Krugman,

00:53:38.860 a Nobel

00:53:39.940 winner for

00:53:41.840 economics, to

00:53:43.220 tell you that

00:53:43.740 you're in

00:53:44.060 deep, deep

00:53:44.560 trouble.

00:53:45.580 I mean, he

00:53:46.060 could be

00:53:46.340 right or he

00:53:46.740 could be

00:53:46.940 wrong.

00:53:47.540 But the

00:53:47.880 more people

00:53:48.320 with his

00:53:48.860 credentials who

00:53:49.680 tell China

00:53:50.200 they're doomed,

00:53:52.640 the more

00:53:53.120 somebody's going

00:53:53.740 to believe

00:53:54.060 him, right?

00:53:55.780 The more

00:53:56.220 people talk

00:53:56.840 about problems.

00:54:02.680 Somebody's

00:54:03.200 saying I

00:54:03.500 look like

00:54:03.900 that character

00:54:04.580 that was

00:54:05.160 once on

00:54:05.660 Babylon 5.

00:54:06.700 I assume

00:54:07.140 you know

00:54:07.440 that I

00:54:07.760 was on

00:54:08.140 Babylon 5,

00:54:08.840 right?

00:54:09.460 That's why

00:54:09.780 you're saying

00:54:10.100 that.

00:54:12.180 There's an

00:54:12.700 old sci-fi

00:54:13.400 show called

00:54:13.880 Babylon 5.

00:54:15.100 I had a

00:54:15.720 small part

00:54:18.360 on that

00:54:18.900 because I'd

00:54:19.800 said some

00:54:20.160 good things

00:54:20.560 about the

00:54:20.940 show, so

00:54:21.320 they invited

00:54:21.720 me on to

00:54:22.120 be a

00:54:22.340 character.

00:54:23.720 I was

00:54:24.340 not a

00:54:24.620 good actor.

00:54:28.120 Yes, and

00:54:28.800 COVID is

00:54:29.360 coming for

00:54:29.840 China.

00:54:30.260 So apparently

00:54:30.660 China has

00:54:31.700 an outbreak in

00:54:32.920 several

00:54:33.240 provinces.

00:54:35.160 I don't

00:54:35.760 see any

00:54:36.380 way that

00:54:37.620 China doesn't

00:54:38.320 have a big,

00:54:39.880 big problem

00:54:40.660 coming because

00:54:42.080 I just don't

00:54:42.600 think you can

00:54:43.160 keep it out and

00:54:43.920 I don't know

00:54:44.300 that they can

00:54:44.680 vaccinate fast

00:54:45.600 enough.

00:54:46.600 So I don't

00:54:47.420 think COVID

00:54:47.920 will be the

00:54:48.420 thing that

00:54:48.720 takes them

00:54:49.060 down.

00:54:50.680 I think it

00:54:51.380 will be

00:54:51.560 something else.

00:54:53.760 Have you

00:54:53.980 seen Raised

00:54:54.500 by Wolves on

00:54:55.100 HBO?

00:54:55.520 No, but I

00:54:59.180 just got

00:54:59.880 interested in

00:55:00.400 that yesterday.

00:55:00.960 Remind me

00:55:01.380 what that was

00:55:01.920 about?

00:55:02.480 I remember

00:55:02.980 that the

00:55:03.480 title of it

00:55:04.240 Raised by

00:55:04.840 Wolves was

00:55:05.680 completely

00:55:06.240 misleading.

00:55:07.200 It has

00:55:07.300 nothing to

00:55:07.740 do with

00:55:08.080 anything like

00:55:08.700 that.

00:55:09.840 What is

00:55:10.200 it about?

00:55:14.580 Yeah.

00:55:15.220 No, I was

00:55:15.660 in Babylon 5

00:55:16.400 for one

00:55:16.820 episode in

00:55:18.360 which I

00:55:18.720 played a

00:55:19.520 guy who was

00:55:21.980 looking for

00:55:22.340 his dog.

00:55:22.800 Wait a

00:55:25.320 second.

00:55:27.340 Somebody

00:55:27.780 actually posted

00:55:28.760 it here.

00:55:31.300 So the

00:55:31.880 people on

00:55:32.300 Locals can

00:55:32.900 see it, but

00:55:33.680 let me show

00:55:34.080 you.

00:55:35.040 Let's see if

00:55:35.440 you can see

00:55:35.840 it here on

00:55:36.940 YouTube.

00:55:39.160 If you

00:55:39.740 watched the

00:55:40.340 show, that

00:55:41.820 was me when

00:55:42.320 I had hair

00:55:42.920 in a scene

00:55:44.340 with Mr.

00:55:45.740 Garibaldi, who

00:55:46.920 was playing

00:55:47.280 security in

00:55:48.100 the scene.

00:55:49.540 Now, here's

00:55:50.660 the funny

00:55:51.480 part.

00:55:51.800 You see

00:55:52.080 the Minbari

00:55:54.100 alien behind

00:55:55.000 me over

00:55:55.540 my shoulder?

00:55:57.120 So that

00:55:57.520 was my

00:55:58.100 long-time

00:55:59.020 girlfriend at

00:55:59.700 the time,

00:56:01.100 Pam.

00:56:02.320 And Pam

00:56:03.240 is a

00:56:03.840 Japanese

00:56:04.320 American.

00:56:05.720 And so

00:56:07.340 they made

00:56:08.980 her as a

00:56:09.460 Japanese

00:56:09.780 American

00:56:10.460 Minbari.

00:56:12.320 And she

00:56:13.120 had like

00:56:13.880 six hours

00:56:14.420 of makeup

00:56:14.860 or something

00:56:15.380 to get

00:56:16.280 that look.

00:56:16.780 And her

00:56:17.020 only role

00:56:17.520 was to

00:56:17.840 stand back

00:56:18.300 there and

00:56:18.900 carry my

00:56:19.400 briefcase.

00:56:19.920 and I

00:56:21.520 had, I

00:56:22.220 think, two

00:56:22.600 lines or

00:56:23.140 something that

00:56:23.560 I blew.

00:56:26.480 I believe,

00:56:27.440 yeah, somebody

00:56:28.140 said Garibaldi

00:56:28.880 is the poor

00:56:29.280 man's Bruce

00:56:29.860 Willis.

00:56:30.980 That's pretty

00:56:31.640 funny.

00:56:32.500 I think he

00:56:33.100 passed away,

00:56:33.880 if I'm not

00:56:34.580 mistaken.

00:56:35.520 I think that

00:56:36.960 actor passed

00:56:37.740 away.

00:56:38.800 So I'll tell

00:56:39.820 you just a

00:56:40.220 little actor

00:56:40.920 story.

00:56:42.200 So the

00:56:44.160 reason I

00:56:44.540 was invited

00:56:44.940 to be on

00:56:45.300 the show

00:56:45.600 as sort

00:56:45.920 of a

00:56:46.240 guest

00:56:46.580 character

00:56:47.200 was because

00:56:47.980 I'd said

00:56:48.340 it was my

00:56:48.800 favorite show

00:56:49.380 at the time.

00:56:50.520 So they

00:56:50.900 liked it.

00:56:51.560 I said that

00:56:51.960 in public,

00:56:52.400 so they

00:56:52.600 invited me

00:56:53.120 to be on

00:56:53.580 as a

00:56:54.160 character.

00:56:54.460 Yeah,

00:56:54.660 Jerry Doyle

00:56:55.240 was the

00:56:55.500 name of

00:56:55.700 the actor.

00:56:56.880 And I

00:56:58.460 did my

00:56:58.860 lines a

00:56:59.360 few times

00:56:59.760 and blew

00:57:00.420 them,

00:57:01.040 even though

00:57:01.360 it was

00:57:01.500 like two

00:57:01.960 lines.

00:57:03.600 If you're

00:57:04.100 not an

00:57:04.440 actor,

00:57:05.280 it's a lot

00:57:05.840 of pressure

00:57:06.180 to get that

00:57:06.620 right.

00:57:07.640 And I

00:57:09.460 finally got

00:57:10.140 the line

00:57:10.580 right.

00:57:11.860 But it

00:57:12.220 happened to

00:57:12.640 be exactly

00:57:13.160 when the

00:57:13.580 entire cast

00:57:14.520 decided to

00:57:15.380 prank me,

00:57:16.420 so it

00:57:16.660 ruined the

00:57:17.060 scene.

00:57:18.180 So I

00:57:19.300 forget the

00:57:19.700 details.

00:57:20.200 I think

00:57:20.360 the rest

00:57:21.940 of the

00:57:22.140 cast,

00:57:22.520 of which

00:57:22.760 there were

00:57:23.020 just lots

00:57:23.600 of them,

00:57:24.140 because it

00:57:24.540 was in a

00:57:25.640 cafe scene

00:57:26.460 where there

00:57:26.780 would be

00:57:26.920 lots of

00:57:27.280 extras and

00:57:27.820 stuff.

00:57:28.880 So they

00:57:29.440 were waiting

00:57:29.940 to some

00:57:31.140 part of the

00:57:31.620 scene,

00:57:32.060 and then

00:57:32.300 everybody

00:57:32.700 just rushed

00:57:33.520 us.

00:57:35.840 It was

00:57:36.080 just like

00:57:36.380 this big

00:57:36.800 crowd just

00:57:37.240 went,

00:57:37.480 and it

00:57:38.920 was just

00:57:39.160 a prank

00:57:39.700 to play

00:57:40.880 on the

00:57:41.140 new

00:57:41.300 guy.

00:57:42.240 But I

00:57:42.680 think that

00:57:42.940 was the

00:57:43.180 first time I

00:57:43.600 got the

00:57:43.880 line right.

00:57:44.600 They ruined

00:57:45.020 the scene.

00:57:46.020 But I

00:57:46.400 eventually got

00:57:47.000 it.

00:57:49.620 Yes,

00:57:50.100 they did not

00:57:51.380 hand me a

00:57:51.900 hot gun.

00:57:52.300 These pretzels

00:57:56.900 are making

00:57:57.300 me thirsty.

00:57:58.800 What's that

00:57:59.180 from?

00:58:02.700 Oh, yeah,

00:58:03.380 the Minbari

00:58:03.920 were the

00:58:04.280 best aliens

00:58:05.000 ever.

00:58:07.400 By the way,

00:58:08.900 I'll tell you

00:58:09.460 my favorite

00:58:10.520 scene.

00:58:12.300 I'm blanking

00:58:13.140 on the name

00:58:13.940 of the

00:58:14.280 showrunner

00:58:14.880 who wrote,

00:58:15.360 I think he

00:58:15.700 wrote every

00:58:16.100 episode,

00:58:16.560 there was

00:58:16.700 one guy.

00:58:17.880 And there

00:58:18.360 was one

00:58:18.880 bit of the

00:58:19.280 writing that

00:58:19.780 I just

00:58:20.020 thought was

00:58:20.300 brilliant.

00:58:20.680 There was

00:58:21.440 a scene

00:58:21.760 in this

00:58:22.180 TV show

00:58:24.000 in which

00:58:24.840 the

00:58:25.160 Minbari,

00:58:26.340 you know,

00:58:26.840 the head

00:58:27.300 Minbari

00:58:28.760 person,

00:58:29.600 was almost

00:58:31.060 killed in

00:58:31.640 an attack.

00:58:33.640 But it

00:58:34.020 turned out

00:58:34.380 it was

00:58:34.840 Minbari

00:58:35.860 who was

00:58:37.560 trying to

00:58:37.940 kill their

00:58:38.280 own Minbari

00:58:39.060 leader.

00:58:40.240 And the

00:58:41.580 person who

00:58:42.460 stopped it

00:58:43.200 decided not

00:58:44.740 to tell

00:58:45.340 the leader

00:58:46.680 who it

00:58:47.580 was that

00:58:47.960 was behind

00:58:48.400 the attack.

00:58:49.020 And the

00:58:50.160 reason was

00:58:50.800 he didn't

00:58:51.380 want the

00:58:51.880 leader to

00:58:53.300 be,

00:58:54.100 thank you,

00:58:54.740 Joe Straczynski

00:58:55.580 was the

00:58:56.100 showrunner who

00:58:56.620 wrote all

00:58:56.900 these.

00:58:57.300 He didn't

00:58:57.680 want the

00:58:58.040 leader to

00:58:59.420 think less

00:59:00.240 of the

00:59:01.260 people she

00:59:02.340 was leading

00:59:02.840 and therefore

00:59:04.740 kept that

00:59:05.300 information from

00:59:06.180 her.

00:59:06.580 Because he

00:59:07.240 didn't want

00:59:07.820 to ruin his

00:59:08.520 leader by

00:59:09.360 turning her

00:59:10.520 against her

00:59:11.700 own people.

00:59:12.820 And I

00:59:13.080 really, I

00:59:13.520 just love that

00:59:14.140 part of the

00:59:14.660 scene.

00:59:15.660 Oh, I'm

00:59:15.880 watching Dune

00:59:16.400 right now.

00:59:17.360 I'm three

00:59:17.900 quarters through

00:59:18.440 it.

00:59:18.740 I can't

00:59:19.020 watch a

00:59:19.580 whole movie

00:59:20.000 at once.

00:59:21.320 But the

00:59:23.200 original Dune

00:59:24.240 was maybe

00:59:26.140 one of the

00:59:26.520 worst films

00:59:27.140 ever made.

00:59:27.740 I tried to

00:59:28.120 watch that so

00:59:28.660 many times

00:59:29.200 and you get

00:59:29.640 it's just so

00:59:30.680 slow.

00:59:31.500 But the

00:59:32.020 new one,

00:59:32.640 it looks like

00:59:33.220 they fixed

00:59:33.860 the bad

00:59:34.420 parts.

00:59:35.740 It's good.

00:59:37.020 I'm enjoying

00:59:37.560 it.

00:59:40.100 All right.

00:59:42.980 Looks like

00:59:43.780 it's time

00:59:44.540 for us to

00:59:45.900 say goodbye.

00:59:46.940 And it's

00:59:51.180 kind of a

00:59:51.640 slowish news

00:59:52.480 day.

00:59:53.640 How was

00:59:54.300 this episode?

00:59:57.040 I can

00:59:57.660 never tell.

01:00:01.300 All right.

01:00:01.900 Some people

01:00:02.480 liked it.

01:00:03.040 I'm locals.

01:00:03.880 Good.

01:00:09.540 Just looking

01:00:10.180 at your

01:00:10.420 comments.

01:00:10.840 Oh, okay.

01:00:11.420 Well, I'm

01:00:11.800 locals.

01:00:12.200 People liked

01:00:12.620 it.

01:00:13.360 How about

01:00:13.880 YouTube?

01:00:15.640 Sophistry

01:00:16.040 hour.

01:00:18.580 You know,

01:00:19.360 the sophistry

01:00:20.300 people, I

01:00:21.100 don't know.

01:00:22.280 There's

01:00:22.640 something wrong

01:00:23.260 with everybody

01:00:23.780 who uses

01:00:24.260 that insult.

01:00:26.180 I don't

01:00:26.720 know if

01:00:26.980 anybody has

01:00:27.480 ever accused

01:00:28.100 anybody of

01:00:28.720 sophistry

01:00:29.540 without

01:00:30.500 themselves being

01:00:31.460 defective in

01:00:32.200 some way.

01:00:33.260 Maybe.

01:00:34.000 I don't

01:00:34.220 know.

01:00:35.540 I think

01:00:36.140 usually it's

01:00:36.820 a cognitive

01:00:37.500 dissonance

01:00:38.040 when people

01:00:38.460 use that

01:00:38.840 word.

01:00:39.460 Because

01:00:39.820 there's

01:00:40.020 something

01:00:40.340 that they

01:00:41.460 didn't agree

01:00:41.940 with that

01:00:43.040 they have to

01:00:43.660 imagine there's

01:00:44.700 something wrong

01:00:45.160 with the

01:00:45.460 speaker.

01:00:46.280 And

01:00:46.380 sophistry

01:00:46.840 is one

01:00:47.180 of those

01:00:47.400 words you

01:00:47.780 can just

01:00:48.060 throw in

01:00:48.440 there.

01:00:49.100 You don't

01:00:49.460 have to

01:00:49.780 defend it.

01:00:50.320 Well, I

01:00:50.660 don't have to

01:00:50.980 defend it.

01:00:51.800 It's just

01:00:52.160 sophistry.

01:00:59.320 Soporific is

01:00:59.960 the word.

01:01:03.460 Oh, I

01:01:03.960 lost you on

01:01:04.420 the heat

01:01:04.720 chimney stuff.

01:01:05.660 Now, remember,

01:01:06.100 the heat

01:01:06.360 chimney stuff

01:01:06.920 wasn't serious.

01:01:09.420 But I

01:01:10.620 thought it

01:01:10.920 would be

01:01:11.140 interesting to

01:01:11.780 learn a

01:01:12.880 couple of

01:01:13.220 concepts.

01:01:13.660 If you

01:01:14.460 learned about

01:01:14.840 a heat

01:01:15.120 chimney and

01:01:16.520 you learned

01:01:17.060 about CO2

01:01:18.380 scrubbers,

01:01:19.500 that's all I

01:01:20.520 wanted.

01:01:22.540 You need to

01:01:23.240 expand your

01:01:23.800 news sources.

01:01:24.520 I think I

01:01:24.880 do.

01:01:26.100 But the

01:01:26.480 news sources,

01:01:27.560 where would I

01:01:28.120 expand it to?

01:01:30.360 I have a

01:01:31.180 horse wiener

01:01:31.780 pointed at me.

01:01:36.880 All right.

01:01:39.980 That's all for

01:01:40.640 now.

01:01:41.200 And I will

01:01:41.620 talk to you

01:01:42.100 tomorrow.

01:01:42.420 And if the

01:01:43.220 government

01:01:43.480 doesn't fix

01:01:44.180 things,

01:01:44.580 we'll do

01:01:45.100 it.

01:01:45.680 We'll do

01:01:46.260 it ourselves.

01:01:47.240 Damn it.

01:01:47.580 Thank you.

01:01:47.680 Thank you.

01:01:48.000 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 23, 2021

Episode 1539 Scott Adams： How to Solve the Supply Chain Problem, and a Review of Inappropriate Alec Baldwin Jokes

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