Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1545 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About AT&T Going Full Racist, Facebook Name Change, Lots More

00:00:00.000 Well, well, well, look at all you lucky, beautiful, smart people.

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00:01:55.740 Well, if that doesn't tell you how this live stream is going to go, nothing will.

00:02:01.120 Well, I think that covers it.

00:02:06.160 Let's talk about some things.

00:02:07.720 Well, Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will be changing its name to Meta.

00:02:15.340 Meta.

00:02:16.280 Because it's going to be building on a metaverse.

00:02:18.140 I don't know if they thought this through completely, but the memes have already started.

00:02:25.560 They're calling it Metamucil.

00:02:27.500 I think that one's going to stick.

00:02:29.860 I've got a feeling that Metamucil is going to stick.

00:02:33.700 But Brian of London retweeted a tweet from Irene Rabinowitz,

00:02:39.180 who mentions that meta is, in the Hebrew language, it means she is dead.

00:02:44.560 And she is dead.

00:02:47.120 Which is not terribly off point if you're building the biggest nerd environment in the world.

00:02:54.280 Might not be too many women there. 1.00

00:02:56.240 I don't know.

00:02:58.800 But, so, here's what's a big deal about this Facebook change.

00:03:08.800 If you think the only thing that Facebook is doing is rebranding

00:03:12.960 because, you know, they don't like the, whatever stain is on their old brand.

00:03:17.360 Or, if you think it's not a big deal.

00:03:20.060 I think you're wrong.

00:03:22.140 I think this is one of the biggest bets or one of the biggest plays in the history of civilization.

00:03:30.360 And I think it's the right play.

00:03:32.000 I think Zuckerberg's ability to spot, you know, a good opportunity and make a bold move

00:03:39.580 may be better than anybody.

00:03:41.180 Maybe better than anybody.

00:03:43.440 Whatever you think about Mark Zuckerberg,

00:03:45.660 there's one thing that you don't ever hear about him,

00:03:48.560 or you don't hear it much, anyway, lately.

00:03:51.400 What's the one thing you don't hear about Mark Zuckerberg as a criticism?

00:03:57.780 He's not good at his job.

00:04:01.060 Nobody says that.

00:04:03.000 Right?

00:04:03.520 He gets criticized for, you know, like some of the communication stuff.

00:04:07.400 And, you know, of course, Facebook is criticized for everything from privacy to manipulation

00:04:13.440 to censoring and all that.

00:04:15.320 But that's sort of built into the model.

00:04:17.540 You can't really have a Facebook without those criticisms because it's hard to balance that stuff.

00:04:22.240 But I don't think anyone ever says Zuckerberg is anything less than spectacular as a leader.

00:04:34.660 Yeah, I mean, you have many different complaints, and I think they're all relatively credible complaints.

00:04:40.700 But he's really, really, really good at his job.

00:04:46.180 Even if you don't like him, even if you don't like Facebook, I'm not a big fan of Facebook.

00:04:50.660 But dear God, he's good at his job.

00:04:53.080 Let's give him that.

00:04:54.420 Okay?

00:04:54.700 Can we give him that?

00:04:56.020 And you can still be fully critical, but I think you have to give him that.

00:04:59.840 Now, when Zuckerberg says, the metaverse is such a big deal, I'm going to change the company's name,

00:05:08.140 he really means that.

00:05:10.360 Think how big the metaverse could get compared to even social media.

00:05:16.520 When you think of social media, you say to yourself, my God, you know, you've got 7.8 billion people,

00:05:22.180 and maybe half of them could use social media, so you've got billions of potential customers.

00:05:27.660 True.

00:05:27.880 The metaverse, way bigger.

00:05:32.960 So if this metaverse thing works, the amount of money each user will spend is going to go through the roof.

00:05:43.040 Because you're going to be buying things like digital art to put on your wall.

00:05:47.720 Yes, I will be producing more NFTs of Dilber art so that they're available for the metaverse.

00:05:54.960 Now, I don't know if you can directly put an NFT on your wall in the metaverse,

00:05:59.800 but if they miss that, that would be a big mistake.

00:06:03.640 Because they could make a lot of money selling furniture for your online room and your decorations and stuff.

00:06:10.920 And I plan to be there selling some digital art for your digital space.

00:06:15.140 Now, I would say that the monetary potential of the metaverse is probably 10 to 100 times bigger than Facebook's current market.

00:06:29.160 Would anybody disagree with that?

00:06:30.740 So my take is that Facebook is entering a market that could be 10 to 100 times bigger than their current market.

00:06:40.820 Who wants to disagree with that?

00:06:43.320 Anybody?

00:06:43.680 Anybody?

00:06:43.800 Now, if you haven't used VR, you don't know what's ahead.

00:06:51.860 I have used virtual reality with the goggles and stuff.

00:06:55.180 And I used it a few years ago.

00:06:57.600 A few years ago, and imagine how much better it is in two years.

00:07:01.300 But just two years ago, it was so powerful that I couldn't step off a cliff in virtual reality.

00:07:08.380 My brain and my body simply wouldn't let me take a step into what the virtual goggle said was a cliff that I would go over,

00:07:17.780 even though I could take the goggles off and see my own floor.

00:07:21.020 And then I could put them back on and say, take the step.

00:07:23.700 And I couldn't do it.

00:07:25.200 I just couldn't do it.

00:07:26.920 And it wasn't that I was afraid exactly.

00:07:28.820 It's like my brain and my body just wouldn't cooperate.

00:07:31.780 I couldn't kill myself in VR.

00:07:33.480 Now, the power of it is way beyond what you imagine.

00:07:39.300 It's a real world.

00:07:40.720 You will internalize the virtual reality as if real.

00:07:45.260 Suddenly, your looks are going to matter a lot less.

00:07:49.080 People are going to get married and have entire lifetimes in the virtual reality.

00:07:54.320 People will be married and have sex in virtual worlds.

00:07:59.100 People will be married for years without ever meeting their corporeal entities.

00:08:05.440 They will simply live in the virtual world.

00:08:07.560 Because, you know, a lot of people have physical problems.

00:08:11.120 They can't compete in the swipe left, swipe right universe.

00:08:17.040 You know, only the top 5% of men or whatever it is get all the women in the real world.

00:08:21.800 But in the virtual world, everybody's going to look like whatever they want to look like.

00:08:26.440 I think people are going to have full relationships in the virtual world

00:08:30.820 and essentially just try to make money in the real world to pay for it.

00:08:35.760 But here's the weird thing.

00:08:37.760 You will be able to make a lot of money in the virtual world.

00:08:42.420 So you could live in the virtual world with a spouse and even kids.

00:08:47.380 You could take your 23andMe data and compare it to the 23andMe data of your virtual spouse

00:08:56.320 and have the algorithm create a virtual baby that's based on your DNA.

00:09:03.560 Yes, really.

00:09:05.260 Really.

00:09:06.260 You could actually have the data to create a virtual digital baby

00:09:10.960 for your digital marriage in the metaverse.

00:09:14.340 Are you starting to get an idea of how big this is?

00:09:19.120 Whatever you think the size of this is, it's 100 times bigger than that.

00:09:23.820 Because your imagination can't capture its size.

00:09:28.460 In the same way we can't understand what a trillion is,

00:09:31.880 you know, it's a word, it's big,

00:09:34.260 but you can't really conceive of a trillion of anything.

00:09:37.180 You can't conceive of the metaverse.

00:09:39.320 The metaverse is functionally infinite.

00:09:44.340 It's just going to be crazy.

00:09:46.460 It's going to be crazy.

00:09:47.840 So I think Zuckerberg is right on the money on this call.

00:09:53.560 It's a really big, bold call, and I just think he's brilliant to do this.

00:09:58.560 Wendy's, the fast food company Wendy's,

00:10:01.840 had a good PR campaign today,

00:10:05.500 and they said they're going to change their name from Wendy's to Meat, M-E-A-T.

00:10:11.640 So it's like meta for dyslexics.

00:10:13.980 Now, I think that was a good idea,

00:10:15.360 but if I were Wendy's I would have changed it to probably Face Meat.

00:10:20.000 Because if you get some Wendy's food, you're going to put it in your face.

00:10:23.340 So I like Face Meat.

00:10:24.420 Now, I jokingly said on Twitter

00:10:27.380 that I wonder if Zuckerberg considered,

00:10:32.040 instead of calling it meta,

00:10:34.260 had he considered it calling it the meta?

00:10:38.020 Now, 5% of you just chuckled to yourself

00:10:41.540 because you get that reference.

00:10:43.640 Anybody get it?

00:10:45.240 How about calling it the meta?

00:10:47.560 Anybody? Anybody?

00:10:48.660 Yeah, some of you are laughing.

00:10:51.340 It comes from the movie The Social Network,

00:10:53.880 and there was a scene there where,

00:10:55.660 remind me the real-world person who was associated with,

00:11:00.140 I think Justin Timberlake played the character, Sean Parker.

00:11:03.280 Sean Parker in the movie,

00:11:05.120 which is based loosely on real life,

00:11:06.980 not terribly closely,

00:11:09.360 but allegedly he's the one who told Zuckerberg

00:11:13.380 that his original name was The Facebook,

00:11:16.340 and apparently Parker said,

00:11:19.520 yeah, it's better just to Facebook.

00:11:23.140 Anyway, that's a big deal.

00:11:27.560 Here's a, oh, and let me give you the biggest deal.

00:11:33.160 There's something really big ahead with this metaverse

00:11:36.900 that you don't see coming until you see it,

00:11:40.660 and when you see it, it's going to change everything.

00:11:43.680 And it goes like this.

00:11:47.120 Once you live in the metaverse,

00:11:49.400 in the virtual world,

00:11:50.740 where most of your life,

00:11:52.960 you know, your social life,

00:11:54.780 and maybe even your business life,

00:11:56.920 once those are ported into the virtual world,

00:12:01.060 the simulated world,

00:12:02.760 what are you going to believe about the world

00:12:05.000 you just left behind?

00:12:07.640 You're going to wonder if that was simulated too.

00:12:10.660 But you won't be really worried about it.

00:12:13.000 Until within the simulation,

00:12:16.320 you create another metaverse.

00:12:19.980 So if the metaverse creates a sub-metaverse,

00:12:24.000 so that the people in the metaverse

00:12:25.560 can get on their computers in the metaverse,

00:12:27.920 and put on their goggles in the metaverse,

00:12:30.260 and go into a sub-metaverse,

00:12:33.440 everything you know about reality will change.

00:12:37.340 Because you're going to realize

00:12:39.520 the true nature of reality

00:12:41.000 is that we were always in a simulation.

00:12:44.980 Always.

00:12:46.460 And one way to know

00:12:47.820 is when your simulation creates a new simulation,

00:12:50.500 a sub-simulation.

00:12:52.140 That's the point

00:12:53.160 when you know the nature of reality.

00:12:57.800 So that's a hat.

00:12:59.400 I give that less than 10 years.

00:13:01.120 All right.

00:13:03.720 Jeff Pilkington

00:13:05.980 had an interesting tweet today.

00:13:09.100 Do you know what the screenplay for Rust was about?

00:13:13.540 This is, of course,

00:13:14.480 the movie that had the Alec Baldwin

00:13:17.000 tragic accidental shooting.

00:13:20.480 Apparently, the screenplay for the movie

00:13:22.500 that had the accidental shooting

00:13:24.140 was meant to tell the story

00:13:26.180 of an accidental shooting

00:13:27.500 and its consequences.

00:13:30.640 There was an accidental shooting

00:13:32.360 on a movie about an accidental shooting.

00:13:36.780 Simulation?

00:13:39.900 I don't even know how to explain

00:13:41.300 a lot of this stuff.

00:13:42.200 It does seem like a pretty big coincidence.

00:13:45.380 Here's another one.

00:13:47.220 Now, this is just weird.

00:13:49.220 By strange coincidence,

00:13:50.900 you know, my wife, Christina,

00:13:53.320 is flying aerobatic airplanes.

00:13:55.680 So there's an airport nearby.

00:13:58.180 She can get an aerobatic,

00:14:00.460 you know, rent one for an hour

00:14:01.640 and go up and do loop-de-loops and stuff,

00:14:04.100 which she does fairly often.

00:14:05.860 And she's preparing for a competition.

00:14:09.320 One of the planes at the hangar

00:14:11.640 that she goes to

00:14:12.340 is Tom Cruise's old plane.

00:14:15.000 So Tom Cruise is a pilot

00:14:16.360 and he's flown a PITS.

00:14:20.540 It's a type of an airplane

00:14:22.120 that they use for aerobatics.

00:14:23.300 And his old airplane

00:14:25.660 just ended up at this hangar

00:14:27.760 because airplanes get bought

00:14:29.300 and sold quite a bit.

00:14:30.500 So Christina sometimes

00:14:31.560 flies Tom Cruise's old airplane.

00:14:34.820 And she also has just finished up

00:14:37.400 her studying for IFR,

00:14:39.200 which is the ability to fly

00:14:41.100 in non-visible conditions,

00:14:43.980 such as through clouds.

00:14:45.980 So she hasn't got her IFR yet.

00:14:48.160 She has to actually get the check ride,

00:14:50.060 it's called.

00:14:50.400 But she's completed the study for it.

00:14:52.800 She just has to do one detail to get it.

00:14:55.180 So as I'm thinking about Christina

00:14:56.900 and Tom Cruise's airplane

00:14:59.360 and getting her IFR,

00:15:00.700 I turn on this movie called Oblivion.

00:15:02.520 Didn't know anything about it.

00:15:04.000 And there's Tom Cruise

00:15:04.920 flying a futuristic plane

00:15:06.680 into a cloud of dust

00:15:09.620 where he doesn't have visibility.

00:15:11.640 So effectively he's trying to fly IFR

00:15:14.740 without the right instruments.

00:15:17.880 Now, what are the odds

00:15:18.860 that all of that would be happening?

00:15:21.240 Like Tom Cruise, airplanes, IFR,

00:15:23.660 all at the same time.

00:15:25.200 It's just weird.

00:15:26.720 It's just weird.

00:15:28.180 Coincidence, sure.

00:15:29.200 But it's weird.

00:15:31.540 There's a new poll out of Virginia.

00:15:34.320 Corey DeAngelis tweeted this,

00:15:35.900 that Terry McAuliffe, running for governor,

00:15:39.640 is polling at 45%.

00:15:41.260 This is a Fox News poll.

00:15:43.500 And his competition, Glenn Youngkin,

00:15:45.300 is at 53.

00:15:47.240 Until a few days ago,

00:15:48.700 this was a dead heat.

00:15:50.740 And now Youngkin is up by...

00:15:52.260 is up 53 to 45.

00:15:54.340 Now, of course,

00:15:56.420 polling can be all over the place.

00:15:58.180 And this looks like, you know,

00:16:00.740 a Fox News poll

00:16:01.780 that goes in the direction

00:16:02.840 of Fox News wants it.

00:16:03.960 You have to ask yourself

00:16:05.160 some questions there.

00:16:06.680 But this is immediately

00:16:08.200 after Biden campaigned for him.

00:16:11.280 Did Biden's campaigning

00:16:13.760 for Terry McAuliffe hurt his chances?

00:16:17.600 I mean, I don't think he did,

00:16:19.020 but maybe.

00:16:20.380 But here's what I think.

00:16:21.520 I think this is another example of...

00:16:25.720 I keep having to remind you

00:16:27.400 that the public runs the country.

00:16:29.900 The government doesn't run this country.

00:16:32.040 The public does.

00:16:32.800 The public does and always will

00:16:34.880 with our current system.

00:16:37.360 But you don't see it

00:16:38.760 because the public isn't that energized

00:16:41.180 over topics that, you know,

00:16:43.600 could kind of go either way.

00:16:45.400 You know, if the public

00:16:46.360 is sort of 50-50 on something,

00:16:48.760 then we do delegate it

00:16:50.000 to the government.

00:16:51.100 It's just a way to solve a,

00:16:52.320 you know, stalemate.

00:16:53.480 And even if things are close,

00:16:56.040 you know, not tie, but close,

00:16:57.660 we still like to delegate that

00:16:59.080 to the government

00:16:59.660 because it's just easier.

00:17:00.660 You know, it's something

00:17:01.940 we can all agree on.

00:17:02.980 It's like, oh, I hate that decision,

00:17:04.860 but at least the system worked

00:17:06.220 and, you know,

00:17:07.140 the majority got its way.

00:17:08.500 At least that's good.

00:17:10.540 So, but I want to remind you

00:17:12.900 that these numbers probably changed

00:17:15.060 because the public

00:17:16.180 has an opinion about school

00:17:19.120 that is different

00:17:24.220 from maybe one of these candidates.

00:17:26.220 And I think the public

00:17:27.880 is essentially taking control

00:17:30.680 of the issue.

00:17:31.660 That's what it looks like.

00:17:32.880 It looks like the public

00:17:34.100 has decided to take the decision

00:17:36.580 about how schools are run

00:17:38.320 in terms of how your kids are taught.

00:17:41.160 I think the public just decided

00:17:42.520 to take back the power.

00:17:44.420 You know, Corey D'Angelis

00:17:45.880 was also tweeting some stuff

00:17:48.420 about some school districts,

00:17:53.280 you know, getting out

00:17:54.320 of the national organizations,

00:17:56.660 et cetera.

00:17:57.420 You're seeing,

00:17:58.220 you're seeing a pretty big trend

00:18:00.380 for taking power away

00:18:02.780 from the government.

00:18:03.860 And you can see a lot more of that.

00:18:06.100 Rasmus and Nezbollah

00:18:06.980 says 57% of the respondents

00:18:09.900 said the economy is worse

00:18:11.560 since Biden started.

00:18:13.820 57% say it's worse

00:18:15.560 since Biden started.

00:18:17.060 That's not re-election numbers.

00:18:19.740 Now, no matter who you blame.

00:18:21.020 But 38% blame Biden.

00:18:23.420 22% said it was the Dems in Congress.

00:18:26.040 And 31% said it was

00:18:27.500 the Republicans in Congress.

00:18:29.900 But those are some bad, bad numbers.

00:18:32.960 Now, I wonder if Trump

00:18:34.400 had been in charge,

00:18:36.620 would things be different?

00:18:39.220 I don't know.

00:18:41.080 It's hard to say, isn't it?

00:18:42.720 But I think we'll find out

00:18:44.140 what happens when Republicans

00:18:45.440 are in charge of Congress.

00:18:46.820 That's going to happen pretty soon,

00:18:48.020 I think.

00:18:49.000 Are you ready for a cool story?

00:18:50.320 That involves you.

00:18:52.880 Are you all ready?

00:18:53.960 Here is something that

00:18:55.140 you did

00:18:56.780 that's really cool.

00:18:59.380 And you should be very proud of this,

00:19:01.100 and I'm not kidding.

00:19:02.860 Literally, you

00:19:03.800 did something really cool.

00:19:07.060 And I want to

00:19:08.320 congratulate you

00:19:09.820 and thank you,

00:19:10.400 and here's the story.

00:19:12.420 Many of you remember

00:19:13.520 I was talking about

00:19:14.740 a tweet storm

00:19:15.700 from Ryan Peterson.

00:19:17.100 He's the CEO of Flexport.

00:19:18.420 And he did a tweet thread

00:19:20.020 about some logical solutions

00:19:24.200 to the supply chain problem.

00:19:27.060 How many of you remember that?

00:19:28.800 I talked about that.

00:19:29.960 Some of it had to do

00:19:31.040 with getting rid of regulations

00:19:32.820 so you could stack

00:19:33.980 the empty storage containers.

00:19:36.620 I think there was something else

00:19:37.860 about where you could put

00:19:39.300 the empties, et cetera.

00:19:41.020 Now,

00:19:42.140 Ryan has about 76,000 followers,

00:19:45.940 and probably he gained

00:19:47.260 a number this week

00:19:48.260 because it was a big viral tweet.

00:19:52.140 But I think I was the first

00:19:54.280 big account to retweet it.

00:19:57.000 Now, fact check me on this,

00:19:58.800 but there's a story

00:19:59.660 in the L.A. Times today

00:20:01.180 that is crediting

00:20:03.720 three people

00:20:05.440 for sort of boosting his signal,

00:20:07.680 and I'll tell you what happened

00:20:09.120 when the signal got boosted.

00:20:10.920 This is the fun part.

00:20:12.320 I'm holding off on the fun part, okay?

00:20:13.860 It's coming.

00:20:16.000 So, according to a story

00:20:18.300 in Los Angeles Times today,

00:20:19.720 it's behind a paywall,

00:20:20.840 but I signed up just to see it.

00:20:22.820 The following morning,

00:20:24.500 after the tweet thread,

00:20:27.100 Peterson tweeted this all out,

00:20:29.000 and his thread became

00:20:29.780 a rare viral sensation

00:20:31.220 about logistics.

00:20:33.120 It's hard to have a viral tweet

00:20:34.860 about logistics,

00:20:36.080 but he did it.

00:20:38.280 And here's what the L.A. Times

00:20:40.200 said about it.

00:20:41.000 They said,

00:20:41.360 Big thinkers from the worlds

00:20:43.520 of business, politics, and media

00:20:45.140 shared his tweets.

00:20:46.840 And here are the examples they gave.

00:20:48.620 Coinbase chief executive,

00:20:50.080 Brian Armstrong,

00:20:51.760 shared it with the comments,

00:20:53.420 bureaucracy and red tape abounds.

00:20:55.420 And then he said,

00:20:56.600 Charmaine Yost,

00:20:57.820 vice president of the Heritage Foundation,

00:21:00.160 tweeted about it.

00:21:01.800 And then they mentioned me.

00:21:06.540 Dilbert cartoonist,

00:21:07.720 who they call

00:21:08.200 a right-wing political commentator.

00:21:10.880 So the L.A. Times

00:21:12.160 has branded me

00:21:12.860 a right-wing

00:21:13.580 political commentator.

00:21:16.300 What do you think?

00:21:18.200 Am I a right-wing

00:21:19.680 political commentator?

00:21:22.080 Kind of yes.

00:21:23.980 Kind of yes.

00:21:24.940 In the sense that

00:21:25.860 a lot of my audience

00:21:26.740 leans right.

00:21:29.220 So if I'm a commentator

00:21:30.760 and I'm commentating

00:21:31.780 to people who lean right,

00:21:33.000 am I a far-right?

00:21:38.240 What am I called?

00:21:42.780 Oh, right-wing.

00:21:44.160 Yeah, not far-right,

00:21:45.080 but right-wing.

00:21:45.900 I think that's fair.

00:21:47.460 Now, on social stuff,

00:21:50.020 I'm left to Bernie,

00:21:51.060 but I'm better at math,

00:21:52.360 so I know his plans don't work.

00:21:54.420 But I like his philosophy.

00:21:55.840 I just don't think

00:21:56.420 his plans are practical.

00:21:59.380 Anyway, so here's what happened.

00:22:00.800 So this thread,

00:22:03.060 and I think I was the first

00:22:04.300 of the people mentioned

00:22:05.360 who tweeted it,

00:22:06.280 and I imagine some of them

00:22:07.280 probably saw it from my tweet.

00:22:09.600 Now, what do you think

00:22:11.360 happened when this tweet

00:22:12.620 went viral?

00:22:14.440 Here's the fun part.

00:22:16.880 Within hours,

00:22:18.820 Governor Newsom

00:22:19.640 was getting just pecked to death,

00:22:23.120 apparently,

00:22:23.940 by all the people saying,

00:22:25.700 have you seen this tweet?

00:22:26.880 What the hell

00:22:27.420 are you doing about it?

00:22:28.920 You know,

00:22:29.100 why aren't you

00:22:29.600 implementing these ideas?

00:22:31.700 So within hours,

00:22:33.620 hours,

00:22:35.420 of promoting this tweet,

00:22:38.640 within hours,

00:22:39.580 the government

00:22:40.060 was activated.

00:22:42.980 Gavin Newsom

00:22:43.660 picked up the phone

00:22:44.540 and called Ryan Peterson.

00:22:47.200 He called him personally

00:22:48.180 and said,

00:22:48.960 saw everybody

00:22:49.740 sending me your tweet thread.

00:22:52.080 You know,

00:22:52.360 what do I need to know?

00:22:53.180 What do we need

00:22:53.900 to do differently?

00:22:55.160 Now,

00:22:55.500 I don't know the details,

00:22:56.480 but apparently,

00:22:58.640 something happened

00:22:59.480 pretty quickly.

00:23:00.800 So quickly,

00:23:02.040 in fact,

00:23:03.060 that by the time

00:23:04.500 I tweeted it,

00:23:05.320 I was hearing stories

00:23:06.540 already about

00:23:07.380 Long Beach

00:23:08.680 changing some regulations.

00:23:10.460 and I think I told you

00:23:12.180 at the time

00:23:12.760 they must have been

00:23:14.100 contemplating those changes

00:23:15.420 already

00:23:15.900 because it couldn't

00:23:17.120 happen so fast

00:23:18.060 because it happened

00:23:19.220 right after the tweeting.

00:23:21.280 But now I think

00:23:22.200 it might have.

00:23:23.480 It might have just

00:23:24.400 happened really fast.

00:23:25.300 I think the government

00:23:26.000 just said,

00:23:27.120 wait a minute,

00:23:27.460 wait a minute.

00:23:28.440 We didn't quite know

00:23:29.400 that if we make

00:23:30.020 these small changes

00:23:30.900 it could have

00:23:31.460 a sizable impact.

00:23:33.280 And so it looks

00:23:35.400 like Governor Newsom

00:23:36.480 did what you'd

00:23:38.940 want a government

00:23:39.540 to do.

00:23:40.940 Called the person

00:23:41.860 who was the expert,

00:23:42.980 took it seriously,

00:23:43.940 listened to him,

00:23:44.820 and then immediately

00:23:45.820 acted,

00:23:46.320 it looks like.

00:23:47.560 Now,

00:23:48.120 I need some fact

00:23:49.200 checks on this

00:23:49.860 and some confirmation,

00:23:50.880 but that's what

00:23:51.260 it looks like.

00:23:52.440 Now,

00:23:52.740 how would this

00:23:53.200 happen without you?

00:23:55.500 Right?

00:23:55.940 How would that

00:23:58.320 have happened

00:23:59.000 without you?

00:24:01.040 I don't think

00:24:01.560 it would have.

00:24:02.440 Because if I don't

00:24:03.300 have a big enough

00:24:04.620 platform,

00:24:05.560 I can't retweet

00:24:06.380 things with any

00:24:07.180 effect at all.

00:24:09.040 Right?

00:24:09.360 So because I

00:24:10.520 follow Ryan

00:24:11.880 Peterson,

00:24:12.720 and because I've

00:24:13.560 got a lot of

00:24:14.040 followers,

00:24:15.240 I don't know if

00:24:16.040 the other people

00:24:16.600 who tweeted it

00:24:17.280 saw it first

00:24:18.060 on my tweet,

00:24:19.040 but there's a good

00:24:19.660 chance of that.

00:24:20.840 And whether or not

00:24:21.680 that happened or

00:24:22.460 things were going

00:24:23.100 to happen on their

00:24:23.700 own anyway,

00:24:24.440 it does show

00:24:25.440 the model.

00:24:25.940 doesn't it?

00:24:26.780 Because this isn't

00:24:27.800 the first time

00:24:28.720 that somebody's

00:24:30.440 presented an idea

00:24:31.400 to me,

00:24:31.900 or I've had an

00:24:32.720 idea,

00:24:33.560 and we've used

00:24:35.000 the power of

00:24:36.060 the social media

00:24:37.000 to insert it

00:24:38.740 into the government's

00:24:39.680 thinking fairly

00:24:40.680 immediately,

00:24:42.100 and then actually

00:24:43.000 getting action

00:24:43.700 fairly immediately.

00:24:45.420 It's actually

00:24:45.900 kind of amazing,

00:24:46.720 isn't it?

00:24:47.540 Now,

00:24:48.300 before you get

00:24:48.860 too excited,

00:24:49.520 this doesn't really

00:24:50.160 solve the supply

00:24:51.280 chain problem.

00:24:52.620 It turns out you

00:24:53.200 need some special

00:24:53.940 equipment to put

00:24:55.380 and specially

00:24:56.580 trained people

00:24:57.240 to put the

00:24:58.320 gardens on top

00:24:59.340 of each other.

00:25:00.260 It turns out that

00:25:00.900 even if you stack

00:25:01.820 them,

00:25:02.100 you still have

00:25:02.640 your tens of

00:25:03.260 thousands short

00:25:03.980 of what you need

00:25:04.780 to get things

00:25:05.340 going.

00:25:06.440 But it looks

00:25:07.240 like a step

00:25:07.700 in the right

00:25:08.020 direction.

00:25:09.260 And it looks

00:25:10.560 like they're

00:25:10.920 opening up

00:25:11.520 storage places

00:25:12.560 nearby to move

00:25:13.920 the empties.

00:25:14.580 That was always

00:25:15.180 part of the

00:25:15.700 solution.

00:25:17.400 But here's the

00:25:18.260 amazing part.

00:25:19.080 government, I

00:25:21.220 don't think the

00:25:21.900 government was

00:25:23.980 talking to the

00:25:24.680 right people

00:25:25.220 before.

00:25:27.560 Is that what it

00:25:28.180 feels like?

00:25:29.300 Who was the

00:25:29.940 government talking

00:25:30.600 to that they

00:25:31.380 didn't already

00:25:32.140 know to do

00:25:32.720 these things?

00:25:33.720 Because even

00:25:34.520 though Ryan

00:25:35.300 Peterson seems to

00:25:36.780 be more informed

00:25:37.620 than most people,

00:25:38.720 I mean, this is

00:25:39.220 his business, he

00:25:39.980 works in this

00:25:40.480 area, the

00:25:42.560 governor didn't

00:25:43.520 talk to somebody

00:25:44.380 who was as

00:25:45.300 equally well

00:25:46.140 informed and

00:25:46.800 could have said,

00:25:47.340 hey, let me

00:25:48.260 take a look at

00:25:48.880 it, I'll get

00:25:49.300 back to you in

00:25:49.900 24 hours.

00:25:51.500 Goes down, looks

00:25:52.320 at it, says,

00:25:52.800 yeah, it looks

00:25:53.180 like the problem

00:25:53.820 is X and Y.

00:25:55.420 I don't know.

00:25:56.440 But it does

00:25:57.100 look like one 0.95

00:25:58.840 citizen with an

00:26:00.260 opinion and

00:26:01.000 taking some

00:26:01.540 action made a

00:26:02.220 difference.

00:26:03.080 I did have the

00:26:03.840 feeling, remember

00:26:04.820 I've been

00:26:05.380 complaining for a

00:26:06.280 while, that it

00:26:07.220 looked like there

00:26:07.680 was no leadership

00:26:08.460 on the supply

00:26:10.540 chain thing?

00:26:11.700 And I think we

00:26:12.720 confirmed it.

00:26:14.160 It looks like the

00:26:15.020 public had to

00:26:15.660 take control.

00:26:16.540 In this case,

00:26:17.340 Ryan, had to

00:26:18.940 take control

00:26:19.520 because the

00:26:20.040 government wasn't

00:26:20.740 doing it, and

00:26:21.320 it looked like

00:26:21.820 they weren't

00:26:22.120 doing anything.

00:26:23.100 And he actually

00:26:23.660 even offered to

00:26:24.720 be in charge of

00:26:25.480 it for the

00:26:25.840 country.

00:26:27.120 So if Biden

00:26:28.180 wanted to, he

00:26:29.400 won't.

00:26:30.540 But he could

00:26:31.140 appoint Ryan

00:26:31.940 Peterson as the

00:26:32.920 supply chain

00:26:34.280 czar and just

00:26:36.880 empower him with

00:26:37.740 emergency powers.

00:26:38.960 You know, of

00:26:39.340 course, everything

00:26:39.900 gets approved

00:26:40.460 through the

00:26:40.760 president, probably.

00:26:42.180 And just say,

00:26:43.220 can you just go

00:26:43.980 fix this?

00:26:44.940 Now, there may

00:26:46.160 be a limit to

00:26:46.940 what we can

00:26:47.700 do, but don't

00:26:48.920 you want somebody

00:26:49.620 who's this

00:26:50.300 effective at

00:26:51.100 least being the

00:26:52.720 one making the

00:26:53.780 call?

00:26:54.660 I think so.

00:26:55.960 So he says,

00:26:56.580 please no czars.

00:26:57.860 Well, maybe you

00:26:58.560 wouldn't call them

00:26:59.020 a czar and it

00:26:59.580 would have to be a

00:27:00.120 short-term

00:27:00.520 assignment.

00:27:00.900 Um...

00:27:01.900 time is it?

00:27:06.440 Okay.

00:27:07.980 All right.

00:27:08.900 There's a new

00:27:09.780 study looking at

00:27:12.360 the association

00:27:13.220 between vitamin D

00:27:14.320 and COVID

00:27:14.960 outcomes.

00:27:16.080 And the new

00:27:16.760 study was trying

00:27:18.820 to untangle

00:27:19.580 whether it's

00:27:20.760 just a coincidence

00:27:21.600 that people who

00:27:23.480 are most likely

00:27:24.380 to die from

00:27:24.960 COVID have low

00:27:25.760 vitamin D or

00:27:26.880 there's a

00:27:27.260 causation.

00:27:27.760 and they

00:27:29.860 seem to have

00:27:30.440 ruled out

00:27:31.140 the fact that

00:27:33.380 people who are

00:27:34.340 already in bad

00:27:35.060 shape have low

00:27:36.040 vitamin D and

00:27:36.700 that's the

00:27:37.060 problem.

00:27:38.080 It seems to be...

00:27:40.260 Well, maybe I'm

00:27:40.800 saying that wrong,

00:27:41.360 but the point of it

00:27:42.380 is that vitamin D,

00:27:43.460 it's another study

00:27:44.260 that suggests,

00:27:45.480 doesn't prove,

00:27:47.160 doesn't prove,

00:27:48.380 but again strongly

00:27:49.500 suggests that you

00:27:50.760 could get deaths

00:27:51.840 down to near zero

00:27:52.840 if you had enough

00:27:54.740 vitamin D in

00:27:55.380 everybody.

00:27:56.660 Now, it's

00:27:56.940 hypothetical because

00:27:57.820 you can't get

00:27:58.280 enough vitamin D

00:27:59.000 in everybody.

00:27:59.860 But if you could,

00:28:01.540 and then I saw

00:28:02.180 another study that

00:28:03.380 showed there was

00:28:04.180 a specific kind

00:28:05.300 of pill that

00:28:07.540 might be a new

00:28:09.020 way to get

00:28:09.480 enough vitamin D

00:28:10.240 into somebody

00:28:10.780 quickly.

00:28:11.760 So it's not the

00:28:12.740 kind of vitamin D

00:28:13.500 you buy over the

00:28:14.160 counter.

00:28:15.060 Those are relatively

00:28:16.200 weak compared to

00:28:17.220 what you need.

00:28:18.240 But apparently

00:28:18.640 there's a new pill

00:28:19.280 that could boost

00:28:20.620 your vitamin D

00:28:21.280 more effectively.

00:28:21.900 So I don't have

00:28:22.780 details on that.

00:28:23.620 I don't know if

00:28:24.000 it works exactly

00:28:24.920 or if it's just

00:28:25.740 hype.

00:28:26.820 And I'm not

00:28:27.860 totally convinced

00:28:28.800 that vitamin D

00:28:29.540 is the answer,

00:28:30.760 but there's more

00:28:31.640 indication of it.

00:28:32.820 But are you ready

00:28:33.820 for the most

00:28:34.440 mind-blowing thing

00:28:35.420 you've heard all day?

00:28:37.660 Are you ready?

00:28:39.580 This will be the

00:28:40.380 most mind-blowing

00:28:41.400 thing you've heard

00:28:42.320 all day.

00:28:43.460 I promise you.

00:28:45.220 I promise you

00:28:46.280 this will blow

00:28:46.900 your mind.

00:28:48.460 I'm going to give

00:28:49.260 you a number of

00:28:50.100 facts and then

00:28:51.380 watch them all

00:28:52.080 come together.

00:28:53.260 Are you ready?

00:28:55.660 No, your mind.

00:28:57.140 I'm only going to

00:28:57.760 blow your mind.

00:28:59.360 Did all of you

00:28:59.900 see the Kamala

00:29:00.600 Harris meme

00:29:01.300 that's going

00:29:01.800 around?

00:29:02.660 There's a doctored

00:29:04.260 video of Kamala

00:29:05.400 Harris.

00:29:06.900 She looks like 0.55

00:29:07.800 she's apparently

00:29:08.360 at a CNN town

00:29:09.340 hall, except

00:29:10.880 let's just say

00:29:11.740 that the topic

00:29:12.520 of the town

00:29:13.060 hall has been

00:29:13.600 altered.

00:29:13.900 I won't mention

00:29:16.120 it on this

00:29:16.880 live stream,

00:29:17.820 but it's

00:29:20.020 pretty funny.

00:29:21.300 And I was

00:29:22.020 actually asked

00:29:22.600 if it was

00:29:23.000 real.

00:29:24.500 And I knew

00:29:25.880 when I saw

00:29:26.320 it, somebody's

00:29:26.960 going to think

00:29:27.320 this was real.

00:29:28.700 And sure

00:29:29.020 enough, I was

00:29:30.520 asked if it

00:29:31.060 was real, which

00:29:32.840 is the hilarious

00:29:33.400 part.

00:29:35.060 Knowing that

00:29:35.680 some people

00:29:36.120 thought it's

00:29:36.580 real, go look

00:29:37.260 at it, it's in

00:29:37.780 my Twitter feed

00:29:38.840 this morning.

00:29:40.320 Just knowing

00:29:41.000 that some people

00:29:41.540 think it's real,

00:29:42.280 that's the joke.

00:29:43.620 The joke is not

00:29:44.560 really the meme,

00:29:45.520 it's knowing that

00:29:46.200 people think it's

00:29:46.800 real.

00:29:47.740 That's the joke.

00:29:49.040 All right.

00:29:49.760 All right, here's

00:29:50.320 the mind-blowing

00:29:51.320 part.

00:29:53.240 Here are some

00:29:54.040 things that are

00:29:54.660 associated with

00:29:55.620 inflammation.

00:29:57.360 All right?

00:29:58.320 So people who

00:29:59.620 have more

00:30:00.220 inflammation than

00:30:01.140 the average would

00:30:02.840 fall into these

00:30:03.600 categories.

00:30:06.180 African-American,

00:30:07.880 let's say black

00:30:08.940 because we're

00:30:09.320 talking about the

00:30:09.820 whole world,

00:30:10.900 black people have

00:30:12.300 apparently more

00:30:13.040 inflammation.

00:30:14.640 Did you know

00:30:15.140 that?

00:30:16.200 If you're

00:30:16.500 black, you 0.99

00:30:17.420 either respond

00:30:18.220 to inflammation

00:30:18.840 more or you

00:30:20.380 have more

00:30:20.780 inflammation.

00:30:21.360 I think it

00:30:21.660 ends up being

00:30:22.100 about the

00:30:22.500 same.

00:30:23.760 So being

00:30:24.180 black is

00:30:25.320 actually a

00:30:25.840 risk factor

00:30:26.420 for inflammation

00:30:27.280 in general.

00:30:28.900 I didn't know

00:30:29.460 that.

00:30:30.140 Here's another

00:30:30.600 one.

00:30:31.340 Being old

00:30:32.200 almost guarantees

00:30:34.100 you have more

00:30:34.700 inflammation.

00:30:36.440 Being old.

00:30:38.460 Right?

00:30:39.440 So being

00:30:39.800 black or being 0.96

00:30:41.120 old gives you

00:30:41.840 inflammation.

00:30:42.400 Here's another

00:30:42.740 one.

00:30:43.420 Obesity.

00:30:44.720 Did you know

00:30:45.220 the obesity

00:30:45.840 is strongly

00:30:46.620 correlated with

00:30:47.560 inflammation?

00:30:49.560 It is.

00:30:51.120 Is anybody

00:30:51.760 getting ahead

00:30:52.220 of me yet?

00:30:53.340 You see where

00:30:53.840 it's going,

00:30:54.720 right?

00:30:56.600 Diabetic.

00:30:58.020 Did you know

00:30:58.460 that diabetes

00:30:59.160 is associated

00:31:00.820 with inflammation?

00:31:03.080 It is.

00:31:04.240 It is.

00:31:05.160 How about

00:31:05.800 smoking?

00:31:06.840 Smoking cigarettes.

00:31:07.900 Did you know

00:31:08.280 that smoking

00:31:08.720 cigarettes is

00:31:10.260 associated with

00:31:11.660 inflammation?

00:31:12.700 Inflammation.

00:31:14.140 It is.

00:31:16.280 How about

00:31:16.980 a lack of

00:31:17.740 vitamin D?

00:31:20.220 It's associated

00:31:21.180 with inflammation.

00:31:23.580 It is.

00:31:24.980 Now,

00:31:25.860 get ahead of me

00:31:26.500 a little bit.

00:31:26.980 What do all

00:31:27.400 these things

00:31:27.860 have in common?

00:31:28.980 Being black,

00:31:30.380 being old,

00:31:31.620 obese,

00:31:32.260 diabetic,

00:31:33.340 smoker,

00:31:34.040 and lacking

00:31:34.480 vitamin D.

00:31:35.180 What do all

00:31:35.680 those things

00:31:36.140 have in common

00:31:36.760 besides inflammation?

00:31:38.080 Those are the

00:31:40.760 comorbidities.

00:31:42.640 All of the

00:31:43.100 COVID comorbidities

00:31:44.560 are

00:31:46.640 inflammation

00:31:47.580 related.

00:31:50.080 And vitamin

00:31:50.720 D is an

00:31:52.580 anti-inflammatory.

00:31:55.160 And we know

00:31:55.660 that if you

00:31:56.060 take vitamin

00:31:56.680 D,

00:31:58.160 an anti-inflammatory,

00:31:59.460 it's other

00:31:59.780 things.

00:32:00.240 It's not just

00:32:00.820 an anti-inflammatory,

00:32:02.260 but it's also

00:32:02.880 that.

00:32:05.360 Do you know

00:32:06.060 what else is

00:32:06.600 considered an

00:32:07.400 anti-inflammatory

00:32:08.640 besides vitamin

00:32:09.380 D?

00:32:10.820 Aspirin.

00:32:12.920 Recent studies

00:32:14.320 indicate,

00:32:15.140 again,

00:32:15.420 not proven,

00:32:16.040 I suppose,

00:32:17.000 that aspirin

00:32:17.660 might be good

00:32:18.280 help against

00:32:19.740 COVID.

00:32:20.980 It's also

00:32:21.640 an anti-inflammatory.

00:32:23.440 How about

00:32:24.220 fluvoxamine?

00:32:25.460 We just heard

00:32:25.980 that there's

00:32:26.480 an antidepressant

00:32:27.880 that's good

00:32:29.820 against COVID.

00:32:33.080 Coincidentally,

00:32:34.340 it's also

00:32:35.020 an anti-inflammatory.

00:32:36.120 In addition

00:32:37.740 to being

00:32:38.240 an antidepressant.

00:32:40.820 How about,

00:32:41.700 have you heard

00:32:42.140 of a drug

00:32:42.500 called ivermectin?

00:32:44.660 Ivermectin.

00:32:45.320 Anybody ever

00:32:45.920 hear of that?

00:32:47.020 In addition

00:32:47.760 to its

00:32:48.440 antibacterial

00:32:49.620 properties,

00:32:51.080 do you know

00:32:51.400 what else it is?

00:32:53.380 It's an

00:32:53.640 anti-inflammatory.

00:32:57.020 It's an

00:32:57.320 anti-inflammatory.

00:32:58.180 And do you

00:33:02.980 know what

00:33:03.540 prednisone is?

00:33:05.360 People get

00:33:05.920 prednisone

00:33:06.560 when they

00:33:07.020 have COVID.

00:33:07.800 It works

00:33:08.200 really well.

00:33:09.160 Do you know

00:33:09.480 what prednisone

00:33:10.220 is?

00:33:11.980 Aside from

00:33:12.740 other things.

00:33:14.240 It's an

00:33:15.140 anti-inflammatory.

00:33:17.340 Anti-inflammatory.

00:33:19.520 So all

00:33:20.300 the things

00:33:20.740 that are

00:33:21.020 comorbidities

00:33:21.760 are associated

00:33:22.400 with inflammation.

00:33:23.220 And most

00:33:25.900 of the things

00:33:26.480 except for

00:33:26.960 the vaccinations

00:33:27.580 I suppose,

00:33:28.860 most of the

00:33:29.560 things that

00:33:30.060 we find

00:33:30.600 that work

00:33:31.180 against COVID

00:33:32.580 to protect

00:33:33.360 you are

00:33:34.360 also

00:33:34.760 anti-inflammatories.

00:33:37.960 Is that

00:33:38.620 a coincidence?

00:33:39.500 Is any of

00:33:39.920 this a

00:33:40.200 coincidence?

00:33:41.780 Are you

00:33:42.420 ready for

00:33:42.740 the mind-blowing

00:33:43.360 part?

00:33:44.700 You ready?

00:33:45.580 Hold on.

00:33:47.200 I'm going

00:33:47.720 to tell you

00:33:48.180 one other

00:33:48.680 anti-inflammatory.

00:33:50.520 Apparently

00:33:50.840 it's pretty

00:33:51.200 powerful.

00:33:52.400 There's one

00:33:52.840 other thing

00:33:53.300 that you

00:33:53.580 don't need

00:33:53.960 a prescription

00:33:54.720 for.

00:33:55.580 But we

00:33:55.940 don't do

00:33:56.300 a lot

00:33:56.600 of it

00:33:56.800 in this

00:33:57.200 country.

00:33:58.400 It's

00:33:58.820 something

00:33:59.020 you'd

00:33:59.260 see

00:33:59.400 more

00:33:59.680 in

00:33:59.980 another

00:34:00.500 country.

00:34:02.220 Possibly

00:34:02.740 a country

00:34:03.180 that's not

00:34:03.600 having as

00:34:04.060 much trouble

00:34:04.620 with COVID

00:34:05.420 as we are

00:34:05.920 and inexplicably

00:34:07.100 so.

00:34:09.200 It's called

00:34:09.900 green tea.

00:34:11.880 Have you

00:34:12.160 heard of it?

00:34:13.320 Very popular

00:34:14.240 in China.

00:34:15.800 If you

00:34:16.660 drink a lot

00:34:17.500 of green tea

00:34:18.180 apparently

00:34:19.460 it's really

00:34:19.940 good for

00:34:20.580 your

00:34:20.940 inflammation.

00:34:21.520 It reduces

00:34:22.740 it.

00:34:24.740 Yeah.

00:34:26.420 So I'm

00:34:28.280 not claiming

00:34:28.880 this as a

00:34:29.560 fact.

00:34:30.200 I'm just

00:34:30.600 saying that

00:34:31.620 coincidentally,

00:34:32.760 and I'm

00:34:33.060 going to say

00:34:33.360 coincidentally,

00:34:34.080 the country

00:34:36.160 that's blamed

00:34:36.940 for maybe

00:34:37.880 releasing the

00:34:39.020 coronavirus

00:34:39.820 accidentally

00:34:41.440 or we

00:34:42.260 don't know

00:34:42.680 but probably

00:34:43.840 accidentally

00:34:44.400 is also

00:34:46.580 the one

00:34:47.080 country

00:34:47.520 that by

00:34:49.820 lifestyle

00:34:50.300 choice

00:34:50.940 already had

00:34:51.920 low

00:34:52.120 inflammation

00:34:52.660 because of

00:34:53.760 the green

00:34:54.100 tea.

00:34:55.140 And I'm

00:34:55.380 pretty sure

00:34:56.000 Japan also

00:34:56.780 didn't have

00:34:57.240 much trouble.

00:34:57.700 In fact,

00:34:58.820 the Asian

00:34:59.140 countries didn't

00:35:00.340 have much

00:35:00.660 trouble.

00:35:02.240 Somebody says,

00:35:03.040 mind not

00:35:03.480 blown.

00:35:04.180 Oh,

00:35:04.520 Andrew,

00:35:04.960 I'm not

00:35:05.320 done with

00:35:05.740 you.

00:35:06.760 I'm not

00:35:07.160 done with

00:35:07.560 you.

00:35:07.840 Your mind

00:35:08.260 will be

00:35:08.660 blown.

00:35:10.140 It's coming

00:35:10.860 up.

00:35:12.320 Are you

00:35:12.800 ready?

00:35:13.020 Here's the

00:35:14.160 next twist.

00:35:15.280 And by the

00:35:15.580 way,

00:35:15.760 I'm not

00:35:16.040 suggesting that

00:35:17.820 China had a

00:35:18.620 master plan to

00:35:19.600 infect everybody

00:35:20.460 except China

00:35:21.100 because they

00:35:21.500 drink green

00:35:22.060 tea.

00:35:22.580 It could be

00:35:23.180 a coincidence.

00:35:24.680 But if I

00:35:25.500 were designing

00:35:26.460 a weapon that

00:35:28.220 would affect

00:35:28.660 other people

00:35:29.260 and not affect

00:35:29.980 my countrymen,

00:35:30.940 I would invent

00:35:32.080 one that was

00:35:33.740 deactivated by

00:35:34.560 green tea.

00:35:36.080 Because by the

00:35:36.640 time anybody

00:35:37.100 found out,

00:35:38.520 they'd already

00:35:38.940 be dead. 0.94

00:35:40.520 All right,

00:35:40.840 here's my

00:35:41.260 next mind

00:35:42.700 blowing.

00:35:45.240 Change.

00:35:46.800 In the

00:35:47.040 beginning of

00:35:47.500 a pandemic,

00:35:48.920 what is your

00:35:49.560 best strategy?

00:35:51.500 You don't

00:35:51.860 know anything

00:35:52.400 because it's

00:35:53.540 the beginning

00:35:53.860 of the

00:35:54.100 pandemic.

00:35:54.640 It's the

00:35:54.920 fog of war.

00:35:55.580 You don't

00:35:55.800 know what

00:35:56.060 you're doing.

00:35:56.520 What do

00:35:56.980 you do?

00:35:57.740 You do

00:35:58.260 everything.

00:35:59.220 You do

00:35:59.520 everything because

00:36:00.180 you don't

00:36:00.500 know how bad

00:36:01.440 this is going

00:36:01.940 to get and

00:36:03.080 you don't

00:36:03.340 know what

00:36:03.640 works.

00:36:04.820 So you just

00:36:05.180 do everything.

00:36:06.520 Masks,

00:36:07.220 yes.

00:36:08.380 Social

00:36:08.780 distancing,

00:36:09.520 yes.

00:36:10.300 Close down

00:36:10.940 businesses,

00:36:11.560 yes.

00:36:11.780 stop travel,

00:36:13.240 yes.

00:36:14.420 Just do

00:36:14.840 everything.

00:36:15.880 But that's

00:36:16.280 like the

00:36:16.640 first week

00:36:17.080 or two,

00:36:17.460 right?

00:36:18.360 As information

00:36:19.340 comes in,

00:36:20.640 you learn,

00:36:21.320 oh, wait a

00:36:21.660 minute, we

00:36:21.920 didn't have

00:36:22.280 to wash

00:36:23.020 everything.

00:36:23.740 We didn't

00:36:24.020 need to

00:36:24.300 wear gloves.

00:36:25.720 So you

00:36:26.020 start with

00:36:26.500 everything because

00:36:27.180 you're just

00:36:27.520 guessing.

00:36:28.880 And then

00:36:29.080 as you get

00:36:29.860 data, you

00:36:30.240 back off.

00:36:31.000 Now, nobody's

00:36:31.800 really, has

00:36:33.180 anybody checked

00:36:33.700 your temperature

00:36:34.360 recently going

00:36:35.360 into a building?

00:36:36.520 Because I think

00:36:37.180 that just

00:36:37.560 stopped, right?

00:36:38.560 We realized

00:36:39.220 that wasn't

00:36:39.620 helping.

00:36:39.900 And we

00:36:41.060 stopped

00:36:41.360 washing our

00:36:41.900 food because

00:36:42.520 it didn't

00:36:42.720 make any

00:36:43.060 difference.

00:36:43.880 You know,

00:36:44.060 your packages

00:36:44.580 don't have

00:36:45.260 it, etc.

00:36:46.040 So as a

00:36:47.140 pandemic

00:36:47.560 progresses and

00:36:49.580 you get

00:36:49.920 smarter, you

00:36:51.660 manage it

00:36:52.240 differently.

00:36:52.880 So that's the

00:36:53.420 only thing I'm

00:36:53.860 trying to say,

00:36:54.880 is that you

00:36:55.360 don't manage

00:36:55.940 things at the

00:36:56.740 beginning of

00:36:57.160 the pandemic

00:36:57.660 the way you

00:36:58.640 would manage

00:36:59.060 it in the

00:36:59.500 middle of the

00:36:59.940 pandemic.

00:37:01.040 And here's

00:37:01.520 the next

00:37:01.840 part.

00:37:02.840 You don't

00:37:03.340 manage it the

00:37:04.020 same at the

00:37:04.520 end of the

00:37:04.960 pandemic either.

00:37:05.820 And we're kind

00:37:06.360 of doing

00:37:06.640 that.

00:37:07.660 That's our

00:37:08.060 problem.

00:37:09.240 What if?

00:37:11.040 What if we

00:37:11.960 treated this as

00:37:13.060 an inflammation

00:37:14.200 crisis and

00:37:16.400 not a virus

00:37:17.600 crisis per se?

00:37:19.520 Because it's

00:37:20.360 the inflammation

00:37:21.060 that's killing

00:37:21.640 people and not

00:37:22.540 just from

00:37:23.040 COVID, right?

00:37:24.960 The inflammation

00:37:25.780 is killing

00:37:26.260 people a whole

00:37:27.200 bunch of

00:37:27.620 different ways.

00:37:28.600 We have this

00:37:29.440 gigantic

00:37:30.040 inflammation

00:37:31.020 crisis that

00:37:32.960 we have

00:37:33.340 mistakenly

00:37:34.080 imagined is a

00:37:34.960 COVID crisis.

00:37:39.340 It's also a

00:37:40.740 COVID crisis.

00:37:41.960 But here's

00:37:42.680 what I'm

00:37:42.940 suggesting.

00:37:44.800 If the

00:37:45.880 government told

00:37:46.680 you, all

00:37:47.200 right, we

00:37:47.940 did a pretty

00:37:48.500 good job

00:37:49.100 getting the

00:37:49.560 virus down

00:37:50.140 to a

00:37:50.420 manageable

00:37:50.760 level, it's

00:37:51.540 probably not

00:37:52.100 going to ever

00:37:52.440 get lower,

00:37:53.520 but let's

00:37:55.460 work really

00:37:55.980 hard on

00:37:56.820 lowering our

00:37:58.080 inflammation.

00:37:58.820 What happened

00:37:59.320 when we did

00:38:01.480 the lockdown?

00:38:02.580 The lockdown

00:38:03.400 made everybody

00:38:04.200 fat.

00:38:04.960 And increased

00:38:05.680 their

00:38:06.000 inflammation.

00:38:07.700 The lockdown

00:38:08.740 apparently caused

00:38:09.860 cigarette smoking

00:38:10.980 to go way

00:38:11.720 up, like

00:38:13.040 25%, I

00:38:14.080 heard.

00:38:15.340 Inflammation.

00:38:17.180 Probably

00:38:17.820 everything that

00:38:18.880 people were

00:38:19.320 doing was

00:38:19.920 causing more

00:38:20.540 inflammation.

00:38:21.880 Stress,

00:38:23.340 inflammation,

00:38:24.480 right?

00:38:24.940 So imagine if

00:38:25.820 your government

00:38:26.280 said, look,

00:38:27.600 we're toward the

00:38:29.100 end of the

00:38:29.820 pandemic and

00:38:31.020 we're going to

00:38:31.360 change the

00:38:31.960 frame.

00:38:32.360 the way we

00:38:33.260 frame the

00:38:33.780 problem is

00:38:34.900 no longer

00:38:35.400 just trying

00:38:36.100 to get the

00:38:36.920 virus.

00:38:37.360 We'll do

00:38:37.600 that, too.

00:38:38.640 You know,

00:38:38.840 vaccinations

00:38:39.340 won't stop,

00:38:40.080 for example.

00:38:41.020 But everybody,

00:38:43.620 go lose

00:38:44.220 weight, stop

00:38:46.020 drinking, stop

00:38:47.580 smoking, and

00:38:49.020 just get rid of

00:38:49.760 your inflammation.

00:38:51.000 Make sure you

00:38:51.540 got vitamin D.

00:38:53.360 Imagine, just

00:38:54.240 imagine a leader

00:38:55.100 coming out and

00:38:55.920 say, it's

00:38:56.440 inflammation,

00:38:57.140 people, and

00:38:58.100 it's your

00:38:58.680 lifestyle.

00:39:00.020 And if you

00:39:00.380 change your

00:39:00.980 lifestyle, you'll

00:39:01.800 be far safer

00:39:03.460 from, yeah,

00:39:05.040 cortisol, from

00:39:06.120 stress, exactly.

00:39:07.640 So our

00:39:08.340 government should

00:39:08.900 be telling us

00:39:09.440 to meditate,

00:39:10.500 exercise, eat

00:39:11.400 right, quit

00:39:12.060 drinking, and

00:39:13.500 quit smoking.

00:39:15.260 Am I right?

00:39:16.660 If your

00:39:17.260 government was

00:39:17.860 telling you those

00:39:18.460 things and

00:39:18.840 really serious

00:39:19.620 about it, I

00:39:20.060 mean, not a

00:39:20.620 mandate, of

00:39:21.140 course, but

00:39:21.820 really serious

00:39:22.440 about it, I

00:39:24.620 would feel

00:39:25.020 completely

00:39:25.620 different.

00:39:26.180 And I

00:39:27.200 would also

00:39:27.620 think that

00:39:28.140 that would

00:39:28.440 be a reason

00:39:29.620 a government

00:39:30.260 could reopen

00:39:31.100 everything and

00:39:31.880 make the

00:39:32.240 masks go

00:39:32.960 away.

00:39:33.880 Say, look,

00:39:34.520 we now have

00:39:35.380 a different

00:39:35.780 strategy for

00:39:36.460 the end of

00:39:36.820 the pandemic,

00:39:37.740 and it's

00:39:38.240 managing

00:39:38.640 inflammation,

00:39:39.460 which is

00:39:39.780 really a

00:39:40.160 lifestyle

00:39:40.460 question.

00:39:42.300 Let's stop

00:39:43.040 the masks,

00:39:43.920 let's stop

00:39:44.360 the mandates,

00:39:46.160 let's stop

00:39:46.760 the social

00:39:47.900 distancing and

00:39:48.860 limits on

00:39:49.540 businesses.

00:39:50.320 Let's go

00:39:50.700 back to

00:39:51.080 normal with

00:39:52.340 the businesses,

00:39:53.460 but let's

00:39:53.980 not go back

00:39:54.560 to normal with

00:39:55.220 how you live

00:39:55.960 your life,

00:39:57.360 because you're

00:39:57.940 causing too

00:39:59.040 much inflammation.

00:40:00.740 And then just

00:40:01.320 start informing

00:40:02.100 people where

00:40:02.620 the inflammation

00:40:03.160 is coming

00:40:03.580 from.

00:40:04.460 I like

00:40:05.040 governments as

00:40:05.880 a source of

00:40:06.460 information when

00:40:07.300 they do it

00:40:07.680 right, like

00:40:08.620 the APR for

00:40:09.820 lending.

00:40:10.760 That's a

00:40:11.340 government

00:40:11.680 invention, and

00:40:12.520 that's done

00:40:12.880 right, it's

00:40:13.580 really useful.

00:40:15.220 The nutrition

00:40:16.740 guidelines, maybe

00:40:17.500 not so useful.

00:40:18.760 So the

00:40:19.160 government is

00:40:19.720 wonderful when

00:40:20.420 they give you

00:40:20.720 the right

00:40:21.020 information, and

00:40:22.560 it's useful.

00:40:23.200 They're terrible

00:40:23.780 when they give

00:40:24.140 you the wrong

00:40:24.500 information.

00:40:24.900 But I

00:40:25.620 think that

00:40:25.920 they could

00:40:26.200 give the

00:40:26.460 right

00:40:26.620 information.

00:40:27.540 They could

00:40:27.760 just say,

00:40:28.340 here's the

00:40:28.860 list of

00:40:29.240 things that

00:40:30.220 cause

00:40:30.540 inflammation

00:40:30.940 and therefore

00:40:31.720 make you

00:40:32.340 weak when

00:40:34.000 you get the

00:40:34.600 coronavirus.

00:40:35.800 Don't do

00:40:36.360 these things.

00:40:37.600 Please don't

00:40:38.120 do these

00:40:38.460 things.

00:40:38.680 You can.

00:40:39.140 It's legal.

00:40:40.140 Nobody's

00:40:40.500 going to

00:40:40.680 stop you.

00:40:41.940 But please

00:40:42.360 don't.

00:40:43.160 Hit the

00:40:43.480 gym.

00:40:47.540 Does anyone

00:40:48.200 still trust the

00:40:48.960 government?

00:40:49.360 Well, I would

00:40:49.880 trust them if

00:40:50.460 they say the

00:40:51.040 same thing I

00:40:51.560 say.

00:40:51.780 I would

00:40:53.420 trust the

00:40:53.840 government if

00:40:54.320 they say you

00:40:54.760 should exercise

00:40:55.240 more and

00:40:56.740 meditate and

00:40:58.120 do some

00:40:59.400 things that

00:40:59.860 are just

00:41:00.280 common sense

00:41:00.900 good for

00:41:01.260 you.

00:41:02.980 All right.

00:41:04.060 AT&T has

00:41:05.060 decided to go

00:41:05.960 full racist.

00:41:07.780 You may know

00:41:08.540 my story as

00:41:09.480 background, which

00:41:11.380 I'll retell you.

00:41:12.320 Basically, I

00:41:12.920 worked for

00:41:13.400 Pacific Bell,

00:41:14.580 which was

00:41:15.140 sort of a

00:41:15.860 sister company

00:41:16.500 to AT&T, or

00:41:17.360 a cousin

00:41:17.680 company maybe.

00:41:18.300 And I

00:41:21.240 lost two

00:41:23.000 careers at

00:41:24.100 the phone

00:41:24.420 company because

00:41:24.960 they told me I

00:41:25.560 was white and

00:41:26.380 male.

00:41:26.820 I already knew

00:41:27.320 that.

00:41:27.940 But they

00:41:28.300 told me that

00:41:28.760 they couldn't

00:41:29.360 promote me

00:41:30.160 because they

00:41:31.060 needed more

00:41:31.540 diversity.

00:41:32.720 Now, that

00:41:33.080 hasn't changed.

00:41:34.320 Oh, I'll tell

00:41:34.680 you another

00:41:35.000 story.

00:41:35.420 This is

00:41:35.680 something that

00:41:36.080 happened when

00:41:36.480 I was working

00:41:36.880 for Pacific

00:41:37.580 Bell.

00:41:38.540 They brought

00:41:39.640 a document to

00:41:40.520 each of the

00:41:41.060 employees that

00:41:41.700 you had to

00:41:42.120 sign.

00:41:43.140 And you

00:41:43.500 had to sign

00:41:44.000 a document that

00:41:44.760 said you

00:41:45.120 understood that

00:41:46.500 diversity may

00:41:48.280 made the

00:41:48.480 company stronger.

00:41:50.060 I think they

00:41:50.420 used other

00:41:50.840 words, but the

00:41:51.560 essence of it

00:41:52.480 was that

00:41:53.360 diversity was

00:41:54.160 an advantage.

00:41:55.340 And you

00:41:55.500 had to sign

00:41:56.020 it to say

00:41:57.280 you agree,

00:41:58.540 you understand

00:41:59.120 that.

00:42:00.280 And I was

00:42:00.840 handed it to

00:42:01.260 it and I

00:42:01.580 said, I

00:42:03.140 understand what

00:42:03.680 you're saying,

00:42:05.180 but is there

00:42:05.720 some study that

00:42:06.640 proves that

00:42:07.060 diversity is an

00:42:07.820 advantage?

00:42:09.520 Now, in my

00:42:10.040 opinion, diversity

00:42:10.840 is unavoidable.

00:42:13.480 Why are we

00:42:14.160 even having the

00:42:14.680 conversation?

00:42:15.700 If you live in

00:42:16.400 a super diverse

00:42:17.380 place, you

00:42:18.260 kind of have

00:42:18.900 to have

00:42:19.140 diverse

00:42:19.500 employees or

00:42:20.360 there's going

00:42:21.300 to be trouble.

00:42:22.500 So diversity

00:42:23.020 is a requirement,

00:42:24.260 I think, of

00:42:24.760 living in a

00:42:25.380 diverse

00:42:26.540 civilization.

00:42:28.760 But where's

00:42:31.080 the study?

00:42:32.480 But where's

00:42:33.140 the study that

00:42:33.660 says it is

00:42:34.140 an advantage?

00:42:34.900 Certainly it's

00:42:35.440 a requirement,

00:42:36.360 in my opinion,

00:42:37.920 but an

00:42:38.540 advantage?

00:42:40.140 Who did

00:42:40.700 the controlled

00:42:41.640 study where

00:42:42.260 you had no

00:42:43.060 diversity and

00:42:44.240 then you

00:42:44.520 compared it to

00:42:45.300 the group with

00:42:45.840 diversity?

00:42:47.480 I don't think

00:42:48.320 it's been

00:42:48.580 done.

00:42:49.500 So I said,

00:42:50.520 I'm not

00:42:51.340 opposed to

00:42:51.940 the concept,

00:42:53.200 but I'm not

00:42:53.680 going to sign

00:42:54.120 something that

00:42:54.760 clearly I don't

00:42:55.580 think is proven

00:42:57.060 in any way.

00:42:58.320 So I refused

00:42:59.160 to sign it.

00:43:01.560 I'm the only

00:43:02.320 one.

00:43:03.160 I think I was

00:43:04.120 the only one

00:43:04.560 in the company.

00:43:05.820 I think a

00:43:06.340 company of,

00:43:06.920 I don't know,

00:43:07.180 however many

00:43:07.840 tens of

00:43:09.380 thousands of

00:43:09.920 employees,

00:43:10.960 I'll bet you

00:43:11.740 I was the

00:43:12.300 only one who

00:43:12.760 didn't sign

00:43:13.200 it.

00:43:13.360 There was

00:43:14.540 no pushback

00:43:15.740 because I

00:43:16.820 just gave my

00:43:17.340 reasons.

00:43:17.840 I just said,

00:43:18.460 I'm open to

00:43:19.540 the concept,

00:43:20.480 but do you

00:43:21.260 have any

00:43:21.620 evidence for

00:43:22.240 this claim?

00:43:23.540 Why am I

00:43:24.120 signing on to

00:43:24.760 something that

00:43:25.200 doesn't have

00:43:25.600 evidence?

00:43:26.500 If you're

00:43:27.060 telling me it's

00:43:27.500 common sense,

00:43:28.580 then I say,

00:43:30.300 I don't know.

00:43:31.820 I can see your

00:43:32.760 argument.

00:43:33.380 That part is

00:43:33.920 common sense.

00:43:35.000 But I don't

00:43:35.700 think that

00:43:36.080 common sense is

00:43:36.820 how we make

00:43:37.280 decisions,

00:43:38.660 is it?

00:43:39.840 I mean,

00:43:40.200 not when data

00:43:40.860 is available.

00:43:41.760 If you have

00:43:42.140 data,

00:43:42.520 I will

00:43:43.720 use the

00:43:44.080 data in

00:43:45.040 case my

00:43:45.460 common sense

00:43:46.020 has some

00:43:46.420 bias in

00:43:46.900 it.

00:43:48.640 So I

00:43:49.260 refused to

00:43:49.880 sign it,

00:43:50.300 and there

00:43:50.620 was no

00:43:50.880 pushback.

00:43:53.440 I don't

00:43:53.980 know if

00:43:54.220 you know

00:43:54.500 this about

00:43:54.960 me,

00:43:55.700 but you

00:43:56.680 don't want

00:43:57.060 to give

00:43:57.340 me

00:43:57.520 attention.

00:44:00.640 I think

00:44:01.720 that was

00:44:02.040 my magic

00:44:02.600 power when

00:44:03.400 I worked

00:44:03.680 for the

00:44:03.940 phone

00:44:04.120 company,

00:44:04.680 because I

00:44:05.040 also got

00:44:05.440 them to

00:44:05.920 change the

00:44:06.720 smoking in

00:44:07.580 the office

00:44:07.940 policy by

00:44:09.460 going home

00:44:10.080 and telling

00:44:10.420 them that I

00:44:11.300 declared the

00:44:11.880 office an

00:44:12.340 unsafe

00:44:12.680 workplace,

00:44:13.820 because that

00:44:14.280 was company

00:44:14.700 policy.

00:44:15.280 You were

00:44:15.480 allowed to

00:44:15.980 declare your

00:44:16.600 own workplace

00:44:17.240 an unsafe,

00:44:18.620 physically

00:44:19.760 unsafe,

00:44:20.720 so I just

00:44:21.340 declared it

00:44:21.840 unsafe.

00:44:22.340 I said,

00:44:22.640 there's all

00:44:22.880 this tobacco

00:44:23.520 smoke in

00:44:24.040 here.

00:44:24.960 It couldn't

00:44:25.400 hurt me. 0.53

00:44:26.880 And the

00:44:27.380 company just

00:44:27.920 caved.

00:44:28.840 They changed

00:44:29.840 the whole

00:44:30.120 policy of the

00:44:30.720 building,

00:44:31.180 and pretty

00:44:31.500 soon everything

00:44:32.020 was non-smoking.

00:44:33.540 Now,

00:44:33.980 I think my

00:44:35.060 superpower is that

00:44:36.620 people know I'm

00:44:37.320 not going to

00:44:38.740 go away, 0.98

00:44:39.280 and I

00:44:40.320 cause a lot

00:44:41.040 of trouble.

00:44:42.380 So I

00:44:42.820 think if it's

00:44:43.240 a smallish

00:44:44.220 problem,

00:44:44.700 they're going

00:44:44.920 to just let

00:44:45.340 us live.

00:44:48.220 What is

00:44:48.840 red herring

00:44:49.440 persuasion?

00:44:50.240 I've been

00:44:50.600 asked 500

00:44:51.640 fucking times.

00:44:54.440 But thank

00:44:55.200 you for

00:44:55.540 continuing to

00:44:56.220 ask that

00:44:56.520 question.

00:44:57.440 I don't

00:44:57.680 know.

00:44:58.300 What is

00:44:58.620 it?

00:45:00.840 Is there a

00:45:01.500 reason you

00:45:01.800 ask it?

00:45:03.160 Or is that

00:45:03.780 somebody's other

00:45:04.560 show or

00:45:05.180 something?

00:45:05.440 I don't

00:45:06.360 understand the

00:45:06.940 question.

00:45:07.680 So you

00:45:07.880 can ask

00:45:08.220 it 500

00:45:08.760 more times

00:45:09.420 and I'll

00:45:09.740 ignore it.

00:45:11.040 All right.

00:45:12.360 Here's what

00:45:13.480 AT&T is doing

00:45:14.280 today.

00:45:15.000 Now, I

00:45:15.540 worked for

00:45:15.900 Pac Bell.

00:45:16.600 That was

00:45:16.820 not AT&T

00:45:17.860 exactly.

00:45:18.740 But it

00:45:19.060 came from

00:45:19.460 AT&T

00:45:19.880 originally.

00:45:21.500 So this

00:45:22.220 is a

00:45:22.460 report about

00:45:22.920 AT&T.

00:45:23.820 AT&T has

00:45:24.760 created a

00:45:25.320 racial

00:45:25.720 re-education

00:45:27.280 program that

00:45:28.280 promotes the

00:45:28.800 idea that

00:45:29.500 American racism

00:45:30.600 is a

00:45:30.980 uniquely

00:45:31.300 white

00:45:31.880 trait.

00:45:33.900 And they

00:45:34.620 boost

00:45:35.000 reparations,

00:45:37.020 defunding the

00:45:37.600 police, and

00:45:38.240 trans-activism.

00:45:40.200 Now, I

00:45:40.600 don't care

00:45:40.900 about the

00:45:41.220 trans-activism

00:45:42.080 because I'm

00:45:44.260 pro-trans,

00:45:45.580 which is

00:45:47.020 different than

00:45:47.480 saying you

00:45:47.860 agree with

00:45:48.400 everything,

00:45:48.940 right?

00:45:49.160 But I'm

00:45:49.680 pro-trans.

00:45:50.720 So I don't

00:45:51.280 think that's

00:45:51.660 really the

00:45:52.780 topic.

00:45:54.520 So let's

00:45:54.700 forget about

00:45:55.120 that for

00:45:55.420 now.

00:45:56.640 It's a

00:45:57.600 separate

00:45:57.860 topic.

00:45:59.240 I'm not

00:45:59.740 saying it's

00:46:00.100 unimportant.

00:46:00.580 It's just a

00:46:01.000 separate topic.

00:46:02.680 And on

00:46:03.740 some of

00:46:04.780 their internal

00:46:05.340 documents to

00:46:06.320 re-educate

00:46:07.100 their employees

00:46:07.800 includes a

00:46:09.060 resource called

00:46:09.800 White America. 0.62

00:46:11.040 If you want

00:46:11.540 to know who

00:46:11.920 is responsible

00:46:12.540 for racism,

00:46:13.520 look in the

00:46:13.920 mirror.

00:46:14.900 The article

00:46:15.420 claims that

00:46:16.080 the United

00:46:16.400 States is a

00:46:16.980 racist society

00:46:17.840 and lays

00:46:18.880 down its

00:46:19.260 thesis plainly,

00:46:20.120 quote,

00:46:20.720 White people, 0.98

00:46:21.680 you are the

00:46:22.060 problem.

00:46:23.180 Regardless of

00:46:23.900 how much you

00:46:24.340 say you detest

00:46:25.060 racism, you

00:46:26.180 are the sole

00:46:26.760 reason that

00:46:27.280 has flourished

00:46:27.940 for centuries.

00:46:29.380 That's true,

00:46:30.000 by the way.

00:46:31.280 Does anybody

00:46:31.640 disagree with

00:46:32.280 that white 0.95

00:46:33.840 people are

00:46:34.340 the source

00:46:34.940 of historical

00:46:36.000 racism?

00:46:36.960 I mean,

00:46:37.220 nothing's an

00:46:37.720 absolute,

00:46:38.360 right?

00:46:39.000 But as a

00:46:39.620 general true

00:46:40.280 statement,

00:46:41.640 yeah,

00:46:42.560 yeah,

00:46:42.860 historically,

00:46:43.820 that's

00:46:44.380 absolutely

00:46:44.700 true.

00:46:46.060 The author,

00:46:47.100 Darlene

00:46:47.540 Glanton,

00:46:48.140 writes,

00:46:48.460 the American

00:46:48.820 racism is a

00:46:49.600 uniquely white

00:46:50.460 trait,

00:46:51.520 and that black 0.64

00:46:52.420 people cannot

00:46:53.120 be racist. 0.78

00:46:54.660 White women, 0.99

00:46:55.420 she claims,

00:46:56.100 have been

00:46:56.620 telling lies on

00:46:57.520 black men since

00:46:58.480 they were first

00:46:59.220 brought to

00:46:59.600 America in

00:47:00.100 chains.

00:47:00.340 Well,

00:47:00.800 that's true.

00:47:02.020 That is

00:47:02.400 true.

00:47:03.360 And along

00:47:04.040 with their

00:47:04.320 white male

00:47:04.740 counterpoints,

00:47:05.520 quote,

00:47:05.800 enjoy the

00:47:06.280 opportunities and

00:47:07.060 privileges that

00:47:08.420 white supremacy

00:47:09.200 affords them.

00:47:12.480 There's going to

00:47:13.180 be some cursing

00:47:14.580 coming up.

00:47:16.300 Can't help it.

00:47:17.700 I'm sorry.

00:47:19.380 I waited until

00:47:20.440 the end, so

00:47:21.260 those of you

00:47:21.700 who don't like

00:47:22.100 the cursing

00:47:22.680 can bail out.

00:47:25.920 But I would

00:47:28.640 like to point out

00:47:29.280 that there is a

00:47:29.980 company that a

00:47:30.940 white person

00:47:31.440 doesn't have a

00:47:32.080 good employment

00:47:33.000 opportunity with,

00:47:34.060 and it's called

00:47:34.400 AT&T.

00:47:35.780 If you're white, 0.90

00:47:37.320 especially if you're

00:47:38.220 male, and you

00:47:39.820 go to work for

00:47:40.440 AT&T, you're a

00:47:42.980 fucking idiot. 0.98

00:47:45.160 Can I say that

00:47:46.020 more clearly?

00:47:47.240 If you're white, 0.90

00:47:49.100 especially male,

00:47:50.780 mostly male,

00:47:52.020 and you work for

00:47:53.020 AT&T and you

00:47:54.000 apply for a job

00:47:54.800 there, you're a

00:47:55.920 fucking idiot, 1.00

00:47:56.720 because they're

00:47:57.040 going to

00:47:57.300 discriminate the

00:47:58.040 fuck out of you. 0.55

00:47:58.860 They don't want

00:48:00.420 you at that

00:48:01.060 company.

00:48:01.600 They need

00:48:01.920 diversity, and

00:48:03.320 actually I support

00:48:04.100 that.

00:48:04.680 I do think the

00:48:05.300 company needs

00:48:06.840 diversity, because

00:48:08.200 in a diverse

00:48:09.060 civilization, you

00:48:10.460 just have to.

00:48:11.320 I mean, I'm not

00:48:12.120 even going to give

00:48:12.660 reasons for it.

00:48:13.400 I think it's that

00:48:13.900 obvious.

00:48:14.920 It's a diverse

00:48:15.520 civilization.

00:48:16.720 You're a giant

00:48:17.540 company.

00:48:18.020 You've got to be

00:48:18.560 diverse.

00:48:19.520 That's not

00:48:19.980 optional.

00:48:20.960 But the way

00:48:21.720 they're going

00:48:22.180 about it is

00:48:23.820 purely racist.

00:48:25.020 It's not

00:48:26.600 even a little

00:48:27.760 bit not

00:48:28.200 racist.

00:48:29.060 It's not

00:48:29.760 even arguable.

00:48:31.600 It is 100%

00:48:33.080 anti-white

00:48:33.980 racism.

00:48:35.120 And if you're

00:48:35.540 a white male,

00:48:36.380 you should sell

00:48:37.320 your stock.

00:48:39.000 You should

00:48:39.680 convince other

00:48:41.100 people to sell

00:48:41.800 their stock and

00:48:42.720 never buy their

00:48:43.320 company.

00:48:44.480 And AT&T is

00:48:45.560 about to discover

00:48:46.460 that their

00:48:46.940 products are

00:48:47.540 something called

00:48:48.400 a commodity.

00:48:51.420 Now, for those

00:48:52.320 of you not

00:48:52.880 steeped in

00:48:53.620 economic terminology,

00:48:55.800 do you know

00:48:56.420 what a commodity

00:48:57.160 means?

00:48:58.800 A commodity

00:48:59.420 means there's

00:49:00.180 nothing to stop

00:49:01.180 you from

00:49:01.760 discontinuing

00:49:03.180 their service

00:49:03.920 and buying

00:49:04.860 one just like

00:49:05.980 it somewhere

00:49:06.520 else for the

00:49:07.140 same price.

00:49:08.320 It's a

00:49:09.080 fucking commodity.

00:49:11.340 And they just

00:49:11.880 went full

00:49:12.400 racist on the

00:49:14.020 plurality of

00:49:15.140 the population.

00:49:18.000 I'll tell you,

00:49:18.700 if you're an

00:49:19.320 AT&T stockholder,

00:49:20.800 I don't give

00:49:21.360 financial advice,

00:49:22.920 but I'd be

00:49:23.540 panicked right

00:49:24.280 now.

00:49:25.120 I'd be

00:49:25.580 fucking

00:49:25.920 panicked

00:49:26.360 right now.

00:49:27.400 I'm going

00:49:28.000 to make it

00:49:28.480 my personal

00:49:29.360 mission to

00:49:29.880 put AT&T

00:49:30.560 out of

00:49:30.840 business.

00:49:31.920 Now, I'm

00:49:32.960 very much

00:49:33.320 against boycotts

00:49:34.240 for political

00:49:35.600 reasons.

00:49:37.000 Political

00:49:37.440 boycotts are 1.00

00:49:38.160 just terrible.

00:49:39.060 Like, you

00:49:39.280 know, let's

00:49:39.540 say the CEO

00:49:40.300 has an

00:49:41.820 opinion.

00:49:42.720 I don't

00:49:43.080 want to put

00:49:43.420 that company

00:49:43.860 out of

00:49:44.100 business.

00:49:45.040 Let's say

00:49:45.620 the company

00:49:46.260 leans

00:49:47.720 Democrat or

00:49:48.800 Republican or

00:49:49.540 something.

00:49:49.760 I don't

00:49:49.980 want to put

00:49:50.300 that company

00:49:50.720 out of

00:49:50.940 business.

00:49:51.600 That's

00:49:51.860 political.

00:49:52.260 This isn't

00:49:53.680 political.

00:49:54.720 This is just

00:49:55.540 racist.

00:49:56.900 If there's an

00:49:58.000 American company

00:49:58.800 that has

00:49:59.340 declared publicly

00:50:00.440 that they

00:50:01.360 plan to be

00:50:02.240 racist and

00:50:03.080 then they're

00:50:03.400 acting on it,

00:50:04.800 fuck that

00:50:05.480 company.

00:50:06.520 They have to

00:50:06.960 be put out

00:50:07.400 of business.

00:50:07.740 So, it's

00:50:11.080 not really a

00:50:11.840 question of

00:50:12.760 let's see

00:50:14.200 what trouble

00:50:15.080 I got

00:50:15.360 coming in.

00:50:17.120 Oh, good.

00:50:18.940 So, the

00:50:19.840 AT&T question

00:50:20.700 is not

00:50:21.200 really a

00:50:21.740 question of

00:50:22.780 a difference

00:50:24.720 of opinion

00:50:25.280 or politics.

00:50:26.380 They have to

00:50:26.960 be put out

00:50:27.420 of business.

00:50:28.480 They have to

00:50:28.960 be shut

00:50:29.480 down unless

00:50:31.060 they change

00:50:31.560 their policy.

00:50:32.480 But this is

00:50:33.000 pure racism

00:50:33.880 and I'm

00:50:34.680 going to make

00:50:35.020 it a personal

00:50:35.780 mission to

00:50:36.380 make sure

00:50:36.800 that anybody

00:50:38.260 who does

00:50:38.740 business with

00:50:39.720 anybody who's

00:50:40.300 white who 0.69

00:50:41.500 does business

00:50:42.140 with AT&T is

00:50:43.640 an idiot. 0.91

00:50:44.340 You're just

00:50:44.600 a fucking 0.88

00:50:44.920 idiot. 0.79

00:50:45.880 You're just

00:50:46.320 burying yourself.

00:50:47.860 There is a

00:50:48.380 limit and

00:50:50.280 this is it.

00:50:51.740 There's a

00:50:52.400 limit and

00:50:54.000 you just

00:50:54.300 reached at

00:50:54.700 AT&T.

00:50:55.280 You deserve

00:50:56.040 to go out

00:50:56.420 of fucking

00:50:56.800 business for

00:50:57.560 this.

00:50:58.180 This is a

00:50:58.760 big enough

00:50:59.120 mistake.

00:51:00.220 The whole

00:51:00.640 business needs

00:51:01.260 to be shut

00:51:01.660 down for it.

00:51:02.720 That's how

00:51:03.060 bad it is.

00:51:04.240 If you think

00:51:04.680 it's less

00:51:05.080 than that,

00:51:05.440 you're missing

00:51:07.280 the big story

00:51:07.920 here.

00:51:08.920 They're saying

00:51:09.640 in public

00:51:10.600 that you

00:51:11.540 don't have

00:51:12.000 a fucking 0.88

00:51:12.600 career if

00:51:13.300 you're white 0.98

00:51:13.920 and especially

00:51:16.480 male.

00:51:18.200 You okay

00:51:18.660 with that?

00:51:19.620 Let me ask

00:51:20.180 my black

00:51:21.460 viewers,

00:51:24.280 of which I

00:51:25.820 assume I've

00:51:26.920 got a few

00:51:27.300 here.

00:51:28.180 I always

00:51:28.940 hear from

00:51:29.560 you on

00:51:29.900 Twitter.

00:51:30.620 If you're

00:51:31.040 black,

00:51:32.100 tell me in

00:51:32.540 the comments

00:51:32.980 if you're

00:51:33.360 okay with

00:51:33.860 AT&T's

00:51:34.640 view.

00:51:35.460 Because

00:51:35.580 remember,

00:51:36.560 if it's

00:51:36.840 okay that

00:51:39.200 they can

00:51:39.520 do that

00:51:39.860 to somebody

00:51:40.380 else,

00:51:41.540 do you

00:51:42.300 want to

00:51:42.520 live in

00:51:42.740 that world?

00:51:44.280 Is that

00:51:44.780 okay for

00:51:45.140 you?

00:51:45.240 I realize

00:51:45.860 it would

00:51:46.100 be good

00:51:46.460 for you,

00:51:47.480 but are

00:51:47.740 you okay

00:51:48.040 with it?

00:51:53.480 AT&T

00:51:54.220 owns

00:51:54.560 CNN.

00:51:56.820 Do they

00:51:57.360 still?

00:51:57.620 Do they

00:51:57.700 still?

00:51:57.720 somehow I

00:52:05.660 had forgotten

00:52:06.280 that AT&T

00:52:07.260 owns CNN.

00:52:09.060 I don't

00:52:09.740 think that's

00:52:10.200 relevant to

00:52:11.760 this, but

00:52:12.400 AT&T,

00:52:15.440 let's see

00:52:17.300 how much

00:52:17.680 pressure we

00:52:20.080 can put on

00:52:20.580 them.

00:52:22.220 They need

00:52:22.940 to go

00:52:23.200 out of

00:52:23.420 business.

00:52:23.740 They don't

00:52:25.280 need to

00:52:25.520 be punished.

00:52:26.600 They need

00:52:26.940 to actually

00:52:27.300 just go

00:52:27.660 out of

00:52:27.820 business and

00:52:28.320 stop existing.

00:52:29.680 Because you've

00:52:30.740 got to take

00:52:31.080 down one

00:52:31.700 major company

00:52:32.500 because there's

00:52:33.740 going to be

00:52:34.060 more of this

00:52:34.660 and it's

00:52:35.140 intolerable.

00:52:36.460 It's 100%

00:52:37.720 intolerable.

00:52:39.060 And if

00:52:39.280 taking out a

00:52:40.000 major company

00:52:41.340 is what it

00:52:42.560 takes, let's

00:52:42.980 do it.

00:52:43.620 Let's drive

00:52:44.200 the stock to

00:52:44.800 zero and put

00:52:46.340 them out of

00:52:46.620 business.

00:52:47.400 It's commodities.

00:52:47.940 Do you

00:52:49.300 know anybody,

00:52:50.000 is there

00:52:50.280 anybody here

00:52:50.760 who's still

00:52:51.120 using AT&T

00:52:51.900 products and

00:52:52.520 doesn't plan

00:52:53.180 to change?

00:52:55.140 Anybody here

00:52:55.980 who uses AT&T

00:52:57.260 now and

00:52:57.940 doesn't plan

00:52:58.640 to change

00:52:59.160 because of

00:52:59.620 this?

00:53:06.840 Yeah, I

00:53:08.520 think a lot

00:53:09.260 of you are

00:53:10.320 on the same

00:53:10.780 page here.

00:53:11.420 It looks like

00:53:12.000 it's going to

00:53:12.360 be trouble

00:53:12.720 for AT&T.

00:53:14.280 Now, if

00:53:15.460 my name

00:53:15.940 doesn't become

00:53:16.520 associated with

00:53:17.340 this story,

00:53:17.820 I'll be

00:53:18.140 really surprised

00:53:19.100 because I

00:53:20.480 am, after

00:53:20.900 all, the

00:53:21.220 Dilbert guy

00:53:21.800 and I

00:53:22.680 am, after

00:53:23.140 all, a

00:53:23.560 victim of

00:53:24.060 the same

00:53:24.460 behavior when

00:53:25.320 I worked

00:53:25.640 in the

00:53:25.880 corporate world

00:53:26.480 and I

00:53:27.620 just declared

00:53:28.260 war.

00:53:28.820 I'm going

00:53:29.060 to take

00:53:29.320 down a

00:53:29.660 major

00:53:29.920 corporation

00:53:30.760 and I

00:53:31.960 mean it.

00:53:32.400 I want to

00:53:32.640 put them

00:53:32.860 out of

00:53:33.060 business.

00:53:33.940 I'm not

00:53:34.480 looking.

00:53:35.420 I'm not

00:53:36.160 looking to

00:53:36.800 just hurt

00:53:37.580 them or

00:53:37.940 damage them

00:53:38.560 or change

00:53:38.980 their reputation.

00:53:39.980 Now, if

00:53:40.180 they change

00:53:40.560 the policy,

00:53:41.460 I'm all

00:53:41.860 good.

00:53:42.840 I don't

00:53:43.480 mind if

00:53:43.800 somebody makes

00:53:44.240 a mistake

00:53:44.680 and then

00:53:44.960 corrects it.

00:53:46.320 I'm the

00:53:46.840 guy who

00:53:47.160 always says

00:53:47.640 mistakes are

00:53:49.000 natural.

00:53:50.400 It's how

00:53:51.020 they handle

00:53:51.440 their mistake

00:53:51.960 that I'm

00:53:52.440 going to

00:53:52.640 judge people

00:53:53.140 by.

00:53:53.680 So I'm

00:53:53.980 going to

00:53:54.200 judge them

00:53:54.560 by how

00:53:54.900 they handle

00:53:55.340 it.

00:53:55.640 But if

00:53:55.860 they don't

00:53:56.100 handle it

00:53:56.440 right, they

00:53:56.940 have to be

00:53:57.320 put out of

00:53:57.680 business.

00:54:03.460 All right.

00:54:05.560 How can

00:54:06.140 you help?

00:54:06.760 Make sure

00:54:07.180 that everybody

00:54:08.240 you know

00:54:08.780 knows what

00:54:09.740 AT&T is

00:54:10.320 doing.

00:54:10.960 I don't

00:54:11.280 think anybody

00:54:11.720 should be

00:54:12.040 okay with

00:54:12.420 it.

00:54:14.360 Don't let

00:54:14.920 this distract

00:54:15.560 you from

00:54:15.960 taking down

00:54:16.520 China.

00:54:17.880 Don't

00:54:18.320 worry.

00:54:20.000 China's 0.76

00:54:20.480 got big

00:54:21.080 trouble

00:54:21.360 coming.

00:54:22.540 I promise

00:54:23.080 you that.

00:54:24.320 All right.

00:54:24.900 That's about

00:54:25.460 all I have

00:54:25.900 for today.

00:54:28.360 I think

00:54:29.100 we've solved

00:54:29.740 the pandemic.

00:54:32.200 Maybe

00:54:32.740 racism too.

00:54:34.440 And I think

00:54:35.020 that's a pretty

00:54:35.600 good day.

00:54:37.080 So let's

00:54:37.620 say we

00:54:38.060 made an

00:54:38.620 impact on

00:54:39.280 the supply

00:54:40.680 chain.

00:54:41.380 We're going

00:54:41.720 to maybe

00:54:43.320 get rid of

00:54:43.980 racism when

00:54:44.640 we take

00:54:45.900 AT&T down

00:54:46.720 and the

00:54:48.260 pandemic

00:54:48.640 largely

00:54:49.260 under control

00:54:51.400 now.

00:54:52.320 So I

00:54:52.960 always call

00:54:53.420 that a

00:54:53.720 good day's

00:54:54.160 work.

00:54:55.480 Everybody?

00:54:56.240 Everybody?

00:54:57.380 Good day's

00:54:58.120 work,

00:54:58.420 wouldn't you

00:54:58.640 say?

00:54:59.560 Now, I

00:55:00.720 always talk

00:55:01.160 about the

00:55:02.100 combination of

00:55:03.460 the audience

00:55:04.100 and what I

00:55:04.880 do as the

00:55:05.940 filter for the

00:55:06.720 audience as

00:55:08.000 really a new

00:55:08.600 model of

00:55:09.160 something.

00:55:09.540 whatever this

00:55:12.280 is that's

00:55:12.780 happening here

00:55:13.360 is important.

00:55:15.880 I don't know

00:55:16.600 how important,

00:55:18.260 but it's

00:55:18.700 definitely

00:55:19.060 important.

00:55:20.520 And as the

00:55:21.080 size of my

00:55:22.120 platform

00:55:22.560 increases,

00:55:24.720 so too should

00:55:25.840 be the effect

00:55:26.740 of this.

00:55:27.520 Now, I would

00:55:28.080 point out that

00:55:28.800 there are lots

00:55:29.160 of people with

00:55:29.580 gigantic platforms

00:55:30.640 and bigger

00:55:31.100 audiences, but

00:55:32.080 one of the

00:55:32.420 things they all

00:55:33.120 have in common,

00:55:34.720 the people with

00:55:35.300 bigger platforms

00:55:36.400 and audiences,

00:55:36.960 is that

00:55:38.300 they're not

00:55:38.620 trying to do

00:55:39.100 what I'm

00:55:39.400 doing, which

00:55:40.780 is try to

00:55:41.340 figure out

00:55:41.700 what makes

00:55:42.060 sense and

00:55:43.780 promote it.

00:55:44.680 I don't have

00:55:45.040 a team.

00:55:49.320 I hate long

00:55:50.200 goodbyes, so

00:55:51.260 end it already.

00:55:52.600 Good point.

00:55:54.220 That's all for

00:55:54.980 today, and I

00:55:56.260 will talk to

00:55:57.320 you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 29, 2021

Episode 1545 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About AT&T Going Full Racist, Facebook Name Change, Lots More

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