Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 30, 2021


Episode 1546 Scott Adams: Trouble. Get in Here


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 57 minutes

Words per Minute

139.98778

Word Count

16,425

Sentence Count

1,311

Misogynist Sentences

18

Hate Speech Sentences

39


Summary

In case you missed it, here's something you should have taken care of before you missed the show: it's a bad start to the day, but it's not as bad as you think it is, and that's because it's actually pretty good.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hold on, hold on.
00:00:13.000 Not yet, not yet.
00:00:19.620 This is the part of the show that locals people usually see, but you don't see on YouTube.
00:00:24.180 This is where I'm fussing around to do my checklist of everything and get it right in two minutes.
00:00:35.040 As sound you hear is my notes printing out for the best show you're ever going to see.
00:00:41.120 Let me tell you, we've got a good one today.
00:00:44.420 I won't say that every time, but today, oh yeah, it's a good one.
00:00:50.160 All right, just a couple more steps here and we're good to go.
00:00:54.180 Let me grab my notes.
00:01:06.660 Oh, good news.
00:01:07.640 It looks like there might be another twist in this saga that instead of my normal show,
00:01:14.820 you might get to see me take that HP printer.
00:01:23.100 See it there?
00:01:24.520 That's my HP printer.
00:01:27.340 It's trying to do something.
00:01:29.260 Trying to print my notes for the show.
00:01:32.200 It's making noise.
00:01:34.160 Looks like it's begging for cartridges or something.
00:01:37.040 I don't know.
00:01:38.240 But what it does is that my last HP printer is in pieces on the floor of the garage.
00:01:47.480 I don't even think it knows it because obviously, hey, what the hell is going on?
00:01:56.220 Obviously, if my printer knew what its fate was going to be in about five minutes, it would
00:02:02.100 be printing a lot better than it is.
00:02:04.000 A lot better.
00:02:05.160 Because its predecessor is in a lot of pieces that I keep in a container next to the door
00:02:11.220 in the garage so I can see it every time I walk by.
00:02:14.840 And I'd like all of my equipment to know that it's this close to being destroyed in public.
00:02:22.100 Let me push this button and see what happens.
00:02:23.940 Oh, might be just on a paper.
00:02:33.940 Hold on.
00:02:34.440 Hold on.
00:02:53.940 This is kind of exciting.
00:03:06.340 Because if this doesn't produce anything like my notes in about 60 seconds, I am going to
00:03:13.680 rip it out of the wall and throw it over my balcony onto the sidewalk below.
00:03:20.220 Now, see?
00:03:20.900 A lot of you think it's senseless.
00:03:25.660 A lot of you think it's senseless to threaten your technical devices.
00:03:30.000 But no.
00:03:31.600 You can see it working right in front of you.
00:03:34.640 Yeah.
00:03:35.140 Those of you who say, it doesn't make sense to threaten technology.
00:03:39.720 That's not going to make a difference.
00:03:41.160 But you see it yourself.
00:03:42.980 See?
00:03:43.280 A few threats.
00:03:44.160 Boom.
00:03:44.560 Boom.
00:03:44.620 Boom.
00:03:44.640 Boom.
00:03:44.660 Boom.
00:03:44.680 Boom.
00:03:44.700 Boom.
00:03:44.720 Boom.
00:03:45.200 Boom.
00:03:50.900 All right.
00:04:00.160 Well, I don't want to say this is the worst start to the show of all time.
00:04:04.840 Because I've had some pretty bad ones.
00:04:07.200 I might even put the camera on me.
00:04:08.540 Welcome to the worst simultaneous sip of all time.
00:04:18.080 Oh, are you kidding me?
00:04:19.960 Come on.
00:04:22.020 Come on, technology.
00:04:24.040 Come on.
00:04:26.380 My iPad was teasing me, but I think now.
00:04:30.000 There we go.
00:04:31.020 There we go.
00:04:31.700 Take a deep breath, everybody.
00:04:37.140 I know there was a little bit of panic there when you thought to yourself, I don't know
00:04:42.300 if there will be a simultaneous sip today.
00:04:43.840 It's not looking good.
00:04:45.340 Because it almost went off the rails.
00:04:47.080 But we saved it.
00:04:48.000 We saved it with what?
00:04:50.640 Threats.
00:04:51.680 Yeah.
00:04:52.060 A lot of people don't think threats work, but they do, even on technology.
00:04:56.280 And I think we're in good shape now.
00:04:58.800 So I can't claim this will be the best thing that happened all day, because I had such
00:05:03.660 a bad start.
00:05:04.420 But it's going to be in the top ten, even with this bad start.
00:05:08.020 And the only thing that could make it better, well, just one way, would be the simultaneous
00:05:13.000 sip.
00:05:13.460 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stye, a canteen jug,
00:05:16.260 a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:05:19.240 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:05:20.220 I like coffee.
00:05:21.960 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
00:05:25.660 The dopamine hit of the day.
00:05:27.120 The thing that makes everything better, including your antibodies, that's science, bitch.
00:05:34.240 Go.
00:05:39.400 You can feel your antibodies a little more active now, right?
00:05:42.880 You can feel it.
00:05:44.700 Don't you feel yourself getting stronger?
00:05:46.660 Yeah.
00:05:47.380 I think you do.
00:05:49.120 Well, there's all kinds of fun news today.
00:05:51.320 Let's jump right in.
00:05:52.900 Jump right in.
00:05:53.940 And I'm going to do that by showing you a little video here that some of you may have
00:06:01.120 seen.
00:06:01.900 But it's so damn good, I've got to show you again, in case you missed it.
00:06:07.940 Just in case you missed it, there's a new meme video going around.
00:06:12.220 Oh, I don't know if you get how well you can see.
00:06:17.180 God fucking damn.
00:06:19.940 I'm sorry.
00:06:22.140 All of my technology is sort of acting the way it's not supposed to.
00:06:26.100 This is something that should have taken, oh, 10 seconds.
00:06:29.460 And now I'm boring you forever.
00:06:31.560 All right.
00:06:31.980 I'm going to try to do something simple here.
00:06:33.740 There's a photo on my phone, and now I'm just going to touch it with my finger.
00:06:39.600 I tried that before, and all kinds of bad shit things happened.
00:06:44.100 But I'm going to try it again, because I'm pretty sure that touching a photo, it worked
00:06:49.480 that time.
00:06:50.220 All right.
00:06:50.960 Here's a photo of Joe Biden greeting Boris Johnson.
00:06:58.120 Now, here's the funny part.
00:07:01.260 Look at the expression on Boris Johnson's face.
00:07:05.620 Can you see the expression on Boris Johnson's face?
00:07:09.200 But also, look at his right hand.
00:07:12.540 It turns out that corporeal disease is actually transmissible by touch.
00:07:20.520 You know what I mean.
00:07:21.320 You remember the Joe Biden, where he was standing like he was frozen?
00:07:27.080 Like cornholio?
00:07:29.300 Well, apparently, you can transmit that.
00:07:32.780 Because it looks like Boris Johnson just immediately went into cornholio mode as soon as Biden touched
00:07:39.820 him.
00:07:40.880 Well, that's got to mean something.
00:07:42.360 I think our medical professionals should look into that.
00:07:46.120 All right.
00:07:46.260 But that wasn't even what I was going to show you.
00:07:49.540 I was going to show you one of the best political ads I've ever seen.
00:07:53.700 And I'm not really following the Virginia governor's race enough to have a favorite.
00:08:01.860 But Glenn Youngkin is running as a Republican against Terry McAuliffe.
00:08:09.440 And I just looked at a campaign ad put out by Youngkin.
00:08:14.620 So again, I'm just showing you his work.
00:08:16.540 I'm not promoting him or whatever.
00:08:18.600 I haven't looked into any of these candidates enough to have an opinion.
00:08:22.980 But except the school choice, of course.
00:08:26.760 Whoever is in favor of school choice, I'm probably for.
00:08:30.520 But I want to show you this.
00:08:32.260 I don't know if you'll be able to see it well enough on my little phone, but it'll give you
00:08:36.100 the idea.
00:08:37.760 Let's see.
00:08:39.180 So this is Glenn Youngkin.
00:08:41.400 Oops.
00:08:41.680 Try it again.
00:08:45.560 For too long, we've been told by the same career politicians that more government control
00:08:50.620 is the answer.
00:08:51.760 But this election isn't about them.
00:08:53.640 It's about us.
00:08:54.920 All right.
00:08:55.100 Now watch this video.
00:08:56.200 It's about law enforcement that needs our support to keep Virginia safe.
00:08:58.940 Parents who want a better education for our kids and Virginians who deserve lower taxes.
00:09:04.640 Together, we can build a better future that works for us.
00:09:07.700 This is our moment.
00:09:09.700 On November 2nd, a new day begins in Virginia.
00:09:14.600 All right.
00:09:15.340 So you missed the first part that makes it brilliant.
00:09:17.520 But it's the first few seconds is what makes this brilliant.
00:09:20.560 For too long, we've been told by the same career politicians that more government control
00:09:24.640 is the answer.
00:09:25.580 They're all white.
00:09:26.080 But this election isn't about them.
00:09:27.680 It's about us.
00:09:28.800 All right.
00:09:29.020 It's about law enforcement that needs our support.
00:09:32.020 I realize that's a terrible audiovisual.
00:09:34.160 But the point is, it starts with this army of boring, zombie-like, older white men in
00:09:41.140 suits.
00:09:42.180 And they sort of represent, you know, the government or the power or the people in power.
00:09:46.580 And they're just sort of marching zombie-like.
00:09:48.980 And then you see regular citizens, beginning with a police officer, you know, walking through
00:09:55.100 them, sort of violating their powerful whiteness, I guess.
00:09:59.080 Now, they weren't all non-white, but the clever way that they set it up is that it's all these
00:10:05.680 old white guys in power.
00:10:08.800 And then you see people who, some white, some black, you know, you've got a mix of men and
00:10:12.920 women and stuff.
00:10:13.820 And you see that they're all sort of violating that row of old white guys.
00:10:19.320 But here's what happened.
00:10:21.880 Here's what happened.
00:10:22.900 Well, you said, bye.
00:10:24.400 You should wait for the payoff.
00:10:26.600 The payoff is that he reframed the situation from race, which is where the other team was
00:10:33.120 going with it, to power, which was very clever.
00:10:38.260 Because he made it look as though the old white guys are not about being white, because the
00:10:43.160 people violating, you know, their power of visual were some white, some black, some men,
00:10:49.400 some women.
00:10:49.780 So he basically reframed it from race to power.
00:10:57.320 Somebody says my locals mic is off, but it isn't, is it?
00:11:05.200 So are you having trouble with the sound on locals?
00:11:10.580 All right.
00:11:11.220 Let me see if I can change anything here.
00:11:15.660 Let's see.
00:11:16.500 I am plugged in.
00:11:17.440 I'm going to pull the mic.
00:11:20.740 All right.
00:11:21.280 I pulled the mic on locals.
00:11:25.400 And let's see if you can hear that now.
00:11:28.400 It's the same.
00:11:34.900 No difference.
00:11:36.260 Is there anybody who can hear it well?
00:11:40.340 Hmm.
00:11:41.700 Okay.
00:11:42.260 Looks like we've got a problem here on locals.
00:11:43.760 I'm going to kill this feed, which means ending the app.
00:11:47.440 Yeah, I'm going to try to restart it.
00:11:52.580 All right.
00:11:53.540 Over on YouTube, apparently we have good sound if you want to run over there and not have
00:11:58.680 to worry about it.
00:11:59.400 It's like I'm not going to be able to do this.
00:12:10.560 All right.
00:12:10.780 Let's see.
00:12:12.020 Let's try it on my other device.
00:12:13.840 I've got my...
00:12:14.880 God, what a nightmare this morning is.
00:12:18.460 Oh, my God.
00:12:20.740 Is just everything going to not work?
00:12:22.580 Seriously, just everything is not going to work today.
00:12:32.020 All right.
00:12:34.240 Well, let me try another one.
00:12:41.600 I'm going to try a test one.
00:12:43.920 Sorry, YouTube.
00:12:44.680 You're just going to have to sit this one out because I've got to fix this right now.
00:12:49.800 So it'll take a second.
00:12:52.800 See, this is the trouble with all live streaming.
00:12:56.000 If you've never tried to live stream, the technology never works the same twice, which
00:13:02.000 is why it's just really hard to live stream on two platforms at once.
00:13:10.580 All right.
00:13:15.600 Let me see if I can fire this up.
00:13:21.320 So in theory, I'm firing up another local's feed, but you might not be able to see it.
00:13:36.240 You might not be able to see it.
00:13:37.600 So we'll see if they can find it, and I'll go on.
00:13:40.580 Bum, bum, bum, bum.
00:13:44.780 So I doubt you can hear this.
00:13:50.020 All right.
00:13:53.000 Have you seen the LGB meme video, Let's Go, Brandon?
00:13:57.700 Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that my local's app wouldn't learn something from the printer.
00:14:12.980 All right.
00:14:15.600 Still not.
00:14:16.540 All right.
00:14:17.040 Let's try this.
00:14:21.500 Permission denied.
00:14:22.860 That didn't work.
00:14:24.080 Let's see.
00:14:27.240 All right.
00:14:28.040 Screw it.
00:14:29.160 Go to YouTube.
00:14:32.060 Go to YouTube.
00:14:37.300 Sorry.
00:14:39.620 Locals.
00:14:40.180 We're still in beta.
00:14:42.580 God.
00:14:43.020 Oh, my God.
00:14:45.360 I'm going to have to break something now.
00:14:47.360 I'm trying to just type a message to the local's platform to go to YouTube.
00:14:51.840 And every time I type, it's just changing the words as I type them into something else.
00:14:57.560 So I can't even type, go to YouTube.
00:14:59.260 And if I can't type that in the next minute, I'm just going to destroy everything in this office.
00:15:05.400 I'm literally going to start ripping the technology out and throwing it all out the window in about 60 seconds.
00:15:11.220 I'm just going to try to write, go to YouTube on an iPad while it continually tries to, correct me, go to capital Y-O-U-T-U-B-E, send.
00:15:30.600 All right.
00:15:34.540 Shit.
00:15:36.920 All right.
00:15:40.320 Honestly, I'm so pissed off right now.
00:15:43.280 I don't know if I can talk.
00:15:46.700 What a day.
00:15:48.800 All right.
00:15:50.880 So have you seen the, there's a great meme called Let's Go Brandon.
00:15:55.260 And I was going to play it for you, but the odds of that actually working seem so low right now that sure enough, I can't even find it.
00:16:07.680 All right.
00:16:08.140 It's just, if I were you, I would just give up on this.
00:16:12.260 You know, normally, I'm pretty happy about the content I'm producing here.
00:16:17.260 But today, you should just give up on me.
00:16:21.180 You should just freaking give up on me.
00:16:25.260 I have failed you completely.
00:16:28.260 I'm the Joe Biden of podcasters today.
00:16:32.060 All right.
00:16:33.740 Anyway, somebody made a great meme in which they blah, blah, blah.
00:16:37.660 Wouldn't it be great if you could hear the thing I'm talking about?
00:16:41.020 Is there anything more boring than somebody describing a meme that they're not showing you?
00:16:45.760 No, nothing.
00:16:47.340 Well, there is one thing.
00:16:48.440 But describing a dream or telling somebody about a good meal you had, those are worse than this.
00:16:57.040 So it could be worse.
00:16:57.960 You could be listening to a co-worker telling you about a great potato they ate that one time.
00:17:02.060 That's worse.
00:17:03.380 All right.
00:17:03.680 Let's talk about something that doesn't require any technology.
00:17:08.760 Have you seen that Facebook is doing these ads in which they're asking for more government regulation?
00:17:15.000 Have you seen that?
00:17:16.260 It's pretty clever.
00:17:17.440 Because both the left and the right are mad at Facebook for different reasons, and some similar reasons.
00:17:22.320 So Facebook is very cleverly doing persuasion in which they're producing ads saying, we'd like to have the best control of bad content while letting good content through.
00:17:36.900 But it's tough for us to do.
00:17:38.300 It would be a lot easier if we were more regulated.
00:17:41.440 They're actually asking to be more regulated.
00:17:44.400 And I think it's brilliant in terms of a way to manage the problem.
00:17:48.660 I don't know what could be better than asking to be regulated.
00:17:55.620 All right.
00:18:00.680 Yeah.
00:18:02.460 So apparently Roe v. Roe v. Wade might fall because of the nature of the Supreme Court.
00:18:10.480 People are saying that.
00:18:11.460 I'm not predicting that's going to happen.
00:18:13.160 But let's say it gets chipped away at to the point where it's difficult to get an abortion in, I think there could be up to 20 states that would restrict it if they could.
00:18:25.180 So if Roe v. Wade falls, let's say 20 states or so make it illegal to get an abortion.
00:18:31.960 You should expect people would drive to neighboring states where they could.
00:18:35.600 And here's my prediction, which I predicted before, but I'll re-up it.
00:18:39.640 I will predict that there will pop up a solution to the transportation problem.
00:18:49.060 So right now if you were low income and you wanted an abortion in a state that, let's say in the future they restrict it,
00:18:55.400 you could in the future also, I'm pretty sure, arrange to get a ride and maybe even a place to stay overnight until you come home, something like that.
00:19:04.220 And I think that it will just pop up spontaneously from abortion activists who will just say,
00:19:12.260 all right, I'll take a turn.
00:19:14.020 Today will be my day to drive 100 miles.
00:19:16.500 I'll take a couple of people.
00:19:18.600 So I have a feeling that it will get really complicated to get an abortion, but I can't see it going away.
00:19:25.260 I feel like the system will just adjust.
00:19:28.880 All right.
00:19:34.140 So here's something that you wouldn't expect.
00:19:39.840 You know that Joe Biden likes to raise your taxes, right?
00:19:43.400 You've probably heard of that.
00:19:44.560 He wants to raise your taxes.
00:19:46.540 But Biden loves taxes so much, he's actually trying to raise taxes on other countries.
00:19:53.120 I'm not even making that up.
00:19:55.540 I'm not making that up.
00:19:56.680 Biden is at the G20 meeting right now, and he's going to be pushing something called the global minimum tax.
00:20:03.780 He's literally, not making this up, he's literally trying to raise taxes in other countries.
00:20:11.580 Now, if you had told me that could happen, I would have said, that's pretty funny.
00:20:17.320 That's some hyperbole right there.
00:20:19.360 Ha ha ha.
00:20:20.360 He loves raising taxes so much that he's raised all the taxes he can in this country,
00:20:24.980 and now he's got to go to other countries to raise their taxes.
00:20:28.720 Except that it's happening.
00:20:30.320 It's actually happening.
00:20:33.720 But don't you feel good that instead of sending a leader that would embarrass the country,
00:20:43.900 somebody who has embarrassed the country with mean tweets,
00:20:46.900 don't you feel better knowing that we sent an empty bag of meat instead of a mean tweeter?
00:20:54.860 I don't know about you, but as an American,
00:20:57.160 I feel pretty, pretty good about Joe Biden being there,
00:21:02.100 a brainless sack of meat.
00:21:03.920 And the good news is, I don't think people are going to mock him like they did Trump
00:21:09.780 for his mean tweets and things he said.
00:21:12.840 I think they're going to let Biden off the hook because you don't really want to be seen
00:21:18.740 as mocking the mentally handicapped.
00:21:23.520 And while you think that might be a joke, it isn't.
00:21:27.600 Because I do think that Biden is so obviously mentally degraded at this point
00:21:33.820 that it's a little hard for any leader to make fun of him
00:21:36.720 because it would be making fun of somebody mentally handicapped.
00:21:40.620 And no leader wants to do that in public.
00:21:43.980 Right?
00:21:45.340 So Biden has somehow solved the problem of our president being mocked
00:21:49.480 by being so degraded that he's unworthy of mocking at this point.
00:21:55.240 Or at least you wouldn't do it in public.
00:21:59.600 So good work for those other leaders, not mocking our degraded president.
00:22:05.720 How much must it sting to be Trump?
00:22:10.320 Did you ever get, let's say, you leave a job or you get fired or something,
00:22:14.300 and then you're replaced by somebody who's really good?
00:22:19.020 You don't really like that, do you?
00:22:20.820 Because you're like, oh, damn it, I got replaced by somebody who's better than me.
00:22:23.820 That really stings.
00:22:25.240 Same as if you have a breakup, and you get replaced by somebody who's, I don't know,
00:22:29.280 better looking, younger, richer, whatever it is.
00:22:32.080 And you're like, oh, damn, that stings.
00:22:34.720 But it's worse if you get replaced by somebody terrible.
00:22:40.540 I mean, it's bad both ways.
00:22:42.800 But if you're running for president, and you get beaten by a brainless bag of meat,
00:22:48.420 that's got to sting.
00:22:52.160 Well, who beat you?
00:22:54.200 Well, it was almost a human being.
00:22:56.200 It was a sort of a semi-sentient bag of meat, and beat me pretty handily.
00:23:04.240 That's got to sting.
00:23:05.200 No wonder Trump's having a hard time with it.
00:23:10.520 Apparently, one of the big topics at the G20 will be climate change.
00:23:15.460 And I remind you, this is a perfect example, that the public runs the government,
00:23:21.560 not the other way around.
00:23:23.720 The public runs the government, not the other way around.
00:23:26.700 Now, it's different in maybe a dictator situation,
00:23:29.440 but in any democratic republic kind of a situation, the people are in charge.
00:23:35.460 And why is it that the politicians all have to say good words about climate change
00:23:39.440 when they get together?
00:23:41.180 Is it because they, as leaders, decided that's what they want to say?
00:23:47.000 Nope.
00:23:48.020 Nope.
00:23:48.820 They have to say these things in public because the public requires it.
00:23:53.440 The public's in charge.
00:23:54.480 The politicians have to give the public what they ask for,
00:23:58.200 or they can't stay in their jobs.
00:24:01.720 Here's the catch, though.
00:24:04.560 We do delegate to our government decisions that are close.
00:24:09.380 In other words, if the country is a little bit closer to, you know,
00:24:12.700 having a mixed opinion on it,
00:24:16.360 well, then we say, all right, okay, we can't figure it out ourselves.
00:24:20.760 So government, you know, go make a decision and we'll live with it
00:24:24.180 because at least we'll respect the system
00:24:26.740 even if we don't like the result.
00:24:31.020 But the public does that intentionally, in a sense,
00:24:35.340 because they can't make a decision on their own.
00:24:38.040 But when the public wants something, let's say 90 to 10,
00:24:42.100 does the government have any flexibility?
00:24:45.820 None.
00:24:46.220 If the government wants something by a 90% majority,
00:24:50.100 the people will get what they want.
00:24:52.380 The government has to give it to them.
00:24:54.580 So if you're trying to guess something, don't convince the government.
00:24:59.160 They're just listening to the people.
00:25:02.000 You need to convince the other citizens.
00:25:04.900 So your power play is to convince other people.
00:25:10.560 And then other people, when they get to some majority,
00:25:12.960 will convince the government.
00:25:14.340 But convincing the government of anything is probably a waste of time.
00:25:17.760 They're just responding to the biggest forces.
00:25:21.240 So never forget that you're in charge if you need to be.
00:25:25.060 And if it's 50-50, well, maybe you just need a different system
00:25:28.800 and the government satisfies that.
00:25:32.940 Apparently, Biden's playing the forgetful old man card at the G20.
00:25:37.440 So, of course, it was sort of awkward when he meets France's head, Macron,
00:25:41.960 because there was that thing where the US, Australia, and UK
00:25:45.040 put together some submarine deal with Australia
00:25:48.680 and cut France out of a multi-billion submarine deal.
00:25:56.520 Now, France was quite mad about that.
00:25:58.080 And here's what Biden said to Macron.
00:26:02.920 He said...
00:26:04.360 I'll give you his exact words, which are...
00:26:11.640 Biden said he was, quote,
00:26:12.900 under the impression that France had been informed long before
00:26:16.020 that the deal would not go through, meaning the French deal.
00:26:20.940 So Biden actually used as his excuse
00:26:23.440 he didn't know that they hadn't been informed.
00:26:28.080 His excuse is that he was uninformed
00:26:30.080 about some major thing happening in the government.
00:26:34.540 And that's his excuse.
00:26:42.200 And he got away with it.
00:26:43.880 Apparently, people are going to say,
00:26:44.960 yeah, that makes sense.
00:26:46.080 He probably did forget.
00:26:46.820 So, I guess we got that going for us.
00:26:54.940 Now, what do you think of Bitcoin, anybody?
00:27:02.280 What do you think of Bitcoin?
00:27:03.860 And what do you think of Bitcoin in the context of regular money being inflated
00:27:11.180 and debt and all that?
00:27:14.220 Now, I think it was Jack Dorsey who was tweeting
00:27:17.460 about Bitcoin and its association with inflation.
00:27:21.960 And he had some provocative tweets that I thought were really good
00:27:25.920 because they were provocative.
00:27:27.620 You know, really got you.
00:27:28.560 It forced you to think about the question.
00:27:31.440 So, there was some good tweeting there.
00:27:33.960 And, yeah, Bitcoin is an outlet for inflation.
00:27:38.220 So, if you're worried about the value of your regular money,
00:27:41.020 what would you do?
00:27:42.940 You know, how would you play that
00:27:44.380 if you were worried about your regular money?
00:27:46.220 Well, some people are going to put their money in Bitcoin.
00:27:48.260 But Bitcoin has its own problems, right?
00:27:52.460 Because Bitcoin is not risk-free.
00:27:57.240 And, but some percentage of the public is going to put money there.
00:28:02.340 So, what are the odds that Bitcoin will grow as inflation grows?
00:28:06.680 What do you think?
00:28:07.380 Let me give you, let's get your prediction rather than mine
00:28:10.840 because I don't make financial advice here.
00:28:14.300 So, nothing I say should be financial advice.
00:28:17.020 What do you think?
00:28:18.260 Do you think that Bitcoin goes up
00:28:22.140 because it's an inflation escape valve?
00:28:29.920 Almost all of you are saying yes, aren't you?
00:28:33.200 Now, of course, crypto is a psychological money, right?
00:28:38.160 In some ways, or a lot of ways,
00:28:40.540 regular money is psychological too,
00:28:42.500 but not as sensitive to it, probably.
00:28:45.820 Some say Bitcoin is an inflation gauge.
00:28:52.640 Yeah.
00:28:53.540 If I had to guess, and again, this is not financial advice,
00:28:57.040 and I should tell you that I do own some Bitcoin, not a ton.
00:29:01.620 So, Bitcoin is not a big part of my portfolio,
00:29:04.200 but it could be.
00:29:05.880 Someday it might be most of it if things go the way they're going.
00:29:09.360 So, my Bitcoin exposure is small, not enough to, you know, really care.
00:29:16.220 And I do it, but I have more ETH.
00:29:18.740 Yeah.
00:29:19.660 I have much more ETH than Bitcoin.
00:29:23.260 Now, I think that those two cryptos,
00:29:25.800 just because people know them the most,
00:29:28.580 they've been around for a while,
00:29:30.080 I think people go with what feels familiar.
00:29:32.760 And while there will always be lots of frothiness
00:29:36.880 in the altcoins world, the crypto coins,
00:29:41.020 I think the two that people are just comfortable hearing
00:29:44.160 and using the most are just going to grow
00:29:46.940 because people are comfortable hearing them
00:29:49.800 and they've been around.
00:29:51.220 And that's all anybody's going to be able to understand.
00:29:53.900 So, if you expect the public to understand
00:29:56.300 any intricacies of cryptocurrency,
00:29:59.220 well, not many of them, 2% maybe, tops.
00:30:02.200 The rest of the public is going to say,
00:30:04.820 I guess I've got to get into this crypto thing.
00:30:07.800 Tell me the least amount you can tell me
00:30:09.900 that will let me get into it
00:30:11.720 and, you know, stay out of trouble.
00:30:15.280 Now, if you were going to give somebody advice
00:30:16.960 and you couldn't educate them completely
00:30:19.260 and you just wanted to make it simple,
00:30:21.460 what would you advise them?
00:30:23.260 Here's what I would advise them.
00:30:25.620 It is the time to at least diversify
00:30:28.580 into some crypto.
00:30:31.380 Anybody agree?
00:30:32.620 How many would agree that it's the time?
00:30:35.080 Maybe it wasn't always,
00:30:36.180 but it is certainly the time now,
00:30:37.760 that if you don't own some crypto,
00:30:40.580 it's probably a mistake.
00:30:42.560 You know, if you're 90% crypto,
00:30:44.900 that's probably a different mistake.
00:30:46.840 It could work out well for you.
00:30:49.000 It might work out really well.
00:30:50.820 But, you know, in terms of statistically,
00:30:53.840 it would be a mistake.
00:30:55.140 So, here's what I think.
00:30:56.320 I think because the uneducated masses
00:30:59.740 are likely to start looking around
00:31:01.880 for alternatives,
00:31:03.580 I think they're going to go to the big names.
00:31:06.640 Just like people buy Apple because it's safe,
00:31:09.040 they buy IBM because it's safe,
00:31:10.900 they buy Microsoft because it's safe,
00:31:13.920 they shop at Amazon because it's safe,
00:31:16.380 relative to something they don't know anything about.
00:31:18.860 So, if I had to guess,
00:31:20.760 the psychology of this is that
00:31:22.300 inflation will make crypto seem like a smarter move,
00:31:26.660 a less risky move,
00:31:27.880 because the alternative is more risky now,
00:31:30.480 and that the Bitcoin and ETH will be the big winners.
00:31:37.520 There will also be some minor coins that do well,
00:31:39.920 but those will be exceptions.
00:31:42.200 All right, let's talk about something else.
00:31:43.440 The Lincoln Project has taken responsibility
00:31:47.700 for a, I guess, a fake demonstration
00:31:49.740 in which they had people with tiki torches
00:31:52.300 pretending to be conservatives,
00:31:54.520 pretending to support Glenn Youngkin, the Republican.
00:31:59.480 Now, what they were trying to do
00:32:01.660 is associate Youngkin
00:32:03.580 with the Charlottesville Fine People hoax
00:32:07.720 because most of their voters don't know it was a hoax.
00:32:13.100 Most of the Democrats still think
00:32:15.240 the Fine People hoax was something that actually happened.
00:32:18.560 They don't know it was a fake edit of the video.
00:32:21.220 And if you ask them, they'll say,
00:32:22.380 Scott, you're so wrong about this
00:32:24.160 because I saw the whole video.
00:32:26.520 I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears,
00:32:28.780 but of course they didn't.
00:32:30.960 They saw an edited version
00:32:32.440 that they thought was a complete one.
00:32:34.620 Now, here's the funny part.
00:32:39.040 Somebody named Lauren Windsor tweeted,
00:32:42.000 in my capacity as a communications consultant,
00:32:44.880 I worked with Project Lincoln,
00:32:47.280 which is a weird thing to admit in public.
00:32:50.640 If you were trying to sell your services,
00:32:52.580 would you admit you had worked on the Lincoln Project?
00:32:54.580 That feels pretty dicey.
00:32:57.280 I'm not sure I would admit that
00:32:58.700 if I wanted to sell my service to anybody else.
00:33:01.860 And she said that she worked with them
00:33:03.340 to coordinate today's Youngkin action in Charlottesville,
00:33:07.160 meaning the fake protest thing.
00:33:10.360 And she says,
00:33:11.360 I joined them in the fight to defend our democracy
00:33:13.460 from right-wing extremists
00:33:14.900 and call for Glenn Youngkin to denounce
00:33:17.620 Trump's, quote, very fine people.
00:33:19.520 So she's a communications consultant
00:33:22.380 who either doesn't know
00:33:24.580 that the fine people hoax was a hoax,
00:33:27.400 which is a big problem.
00:33:28.820 If you're in the political world
00:33:30.480 and you don't know that's a hoax,
00:33:32.220 that's a very big problem.
00:33:34.240 Or either knows it and is lying
00:33:38.460 or doesn't know it.
00:33:39.360 Which do you think?
00:33:41.060 In the comments, tell me,
00:33:43.680 do you think that Lauren Windsor is lying
00:33:47.300 when she references the fine people hoax?
00:33:50.840 Or do you think she doesn't know it's a hoax?
00:33:53.740 What do you think?
00:33:56.580 Most of you think she's lying.
00:33:58.540 I'm going to go against your opinion.
00:34:01.860 It has been my experience
00:34:03.880 that the left actually believes it's true.
00:34:06.700 And I can tell you from one personal conversation
00:34:10.800 with one person in the news business,
00:34:14.700 you know, a prominent news person,
00:34:16.400 I won't mention a name
00:34:17.640 because it doesn't matter,
00:34:19.040 but I've had an extensive conversation
00:34:21.100 with somebody who reports the news for a living.
00:34:25.140 And that person absolutely believed it was true.
00:34:28.280 Absolutely.
00:34:29.100 It was a long conversation
00:34:30.160 and there's no way they were lying.
00:34:31.900 It was somebody who absolutely believed it was true.
00:34:34.940 Now, when I was done,
00:34:36.880 I'm not sure he believed it was completely true.
00:34:40.880 And I'm not sure he believed
00:34:43.060 that Trump was completely off the hook.
00:34:46.660 But I probably changed at least the way
00:34:48.820 he was thinking about it, I think,
00:34:50.360 at the end of the conversation.
00:34:51.840 It doesn't matter who.
00:34:53.000 Your guesses are...
00:34:54.940 I'm not going to respond to your guesses.
00:34:57.240 Because the personality doesn't matter.
00:35:00.160 It's not about the personality.
00:35:01.580 It's about the fact
00:35:02.720 that somebody in the business
00:35:04.440 really thought it was true.
00:35:06.640 Genuinely really thought it was true.
00:35:09.060 And I think that's probably what's going on.
00:35:11.240 I think they do.
00:35:13.160 All right.
00:35:14.620 Somebody named Sean Puri,
00:35:17.200 if I'm pronouncing it right,
00:35:18.480 probably not,
00:35:19.600 was writing about the metaverse.
00:35:22.520 You know, of course,
00:35:23.220 that's the company formerly known as Facebook,
00:35:26.580 now called Meta.
00:35:28.160 They're going to build these virtual worlds
00:35:29.980 and it's going to be Facebook's new big thing.
00:35:32.100 But here's what this tweet thread,
00:35:34.840 which I tweeted and I recommend,
00:35:37.460 from Sean Puri.
00:35:39.860 How do you pronounce S-H-A-A-N?
00:35:43.860 Sean?
00:35:44.820 Or do you give some love to each of the A's?
00:35:48.360 Sean?
00:35:49.520 How would you pronounce that?
00:35:51.820 I don't know.
00:35:52.740 We'll work on the pronunciation.
00:35:54.560 But he points out that our real lives,
00:35:57.920 you know, in the physical world,
00:35:59.540 are gradually being sucked into the digital world.
00:36:02.860 And his argument is just really elegant.
00:36:06.580 And he's talking about how when TV came,
00:36:09.360 we sort of got a little bit of our attention,
00:36:11.600 got absorbed into television.
00:36:13.640 And then computers came,
00:36:15.400 and a little bit more of our real life
00:36:17.180 got pulled into the digital world
00:36:19.000 in terms of where our attention is.
00:36:21.140 And then phones came,
00:36:22.920 and suddenly like 75% of your life
00:36:25.480 is now like a digital virtual life
00:36:27.640 about things that are happening digitally.
00:36:29.640 And he says the meta will just put you over the top.
00:36:33.180 It will be the crossing point
00:36:36.060 where the virtual world is your real world,
00:36:40.420 the one you prefer,
00:36:41.460 the one you care about,
00:36:42.440 the one you're interested in.
00:36:43.780 And your real world,
00:36:45.600 the one you think is your real world,
00:36:47.780 will be one you try to avoid as much as possible.
00:36:51.420 You're going to have to spend some time there
00:36:53.200 to do some basic stuff.
00:36:55.200 But you might be able to work and live
00:36:57.700 and have sex in a form.
00:37:00.400 You might be able to have relationships,
00:37:03.160 form families,
00:37:04.000 have lives in the digital world.
00:37:10.080 And here's the thing.
00:37:11.420 For those of you who have not experienced VR yet,
00:37:14.280 even just to demonstrate it for a minute,
00:37:16.620 put on the goggles and see what it's like,
00:37:18.160 if you think it will not be addictive enough to get you,
00:37:26.860 you haven't tried it.
00:37:30.580 I tell you,
00:37:31.480 the experience of actually trying it
00:37:33.580 will change everything you think about it,
00:37:36.500 even with the current technology that's not so great.
00:37:43.260 I think I'm going to block the...
00:37:45.780 I'll just give you one warning here.
00:37:47.300 I'm going to start blocking
00:37:48.460 whoever is doing the red herring comments.
00:37:51.860 There's somebody over there
00:37:52.580 who wants to say red herring, red herring,
00:37:54.700 about something.
00:37:57.560 I don't know what it is,
00:37:58.880 so I'm not going to comment on it.
00:38:00.120 But I'm going to start blocking you
00:38:01.180 because you're really annoying.
00:38:03.680 Okay?
00:38:05.600 And by the way,
00:38:06.280 you can just tell me what it means or what it is,
00:38:08.340 and I'd be happy to look at it.
00:38:09.400 But just saying those words over and over again.
00:38:12.860 If I see it again,
00:38:15.040 I'm just going to make you go away.
00:38:17.020 Okay?
00:38:18.180 I'm sure I'll see it in half a second
00:38:19.820 so I can make you go away.
00:38:22.500 All right.
00:38:23.620 I guess somebody doesn't want to go away.
00:38:27.720 And I love this argument
00:38:28.880 that we're being dragged into it,
00:38:30.180 but all I'm going to warn you
00:38:31.200 is that I've spent some time in the virtual world,
00:38:34.040 and it's good.
00:38:35.840 And in many ways,
00:38:36.900 it will just be better than regular life
00:38:38.540 pretty quickly.
00:38:39.520 It's guaranteed.
00:38:40.280 AOC doesn't like Meta,
00:38:45.760 the company formerly known as Facebook.
00:38:49.160 And she says it's a...
00:38:51.040 Meta, as she tweeted,
00:38:52.320 Meta, as in,
00:38:53.440 quote,
00:38:53.640 we are a cancer to democracy,
00:38:56.020 metastasizing into a global surveillance
00:38:58.940 and propaganda machine
00:39:00.020 for boosting authoritarian...
00:39:05.640 easy for you to say...
00:39:08.440 authoritarian regimes
00:39:09.720 and destroying civil society for profit.
00:39:12.240 Now,
00:39:15.240 Facebook
00:39:16.000 is hated by the left and the right
00:39:18.780 and yet growing like crazy.
00:39:22.260 So I don't think anything can stop it
00:39:24.660 because I think both
00:39:26.640 the left and the right
00:39:28.100 complain like crazy
00:39:29.160 and then use it.
00:39:30.760 They complain and then they use it.
00:39:32.780 So as long as they use it,
00:39:33.920 it's going to keep being whatever it is.
00:39:37.100 Here's a topic
00:39:38.060 that I have avoided
00:39:39.740 for personal emotional reasons.
00:39:44.580 So there's an important topic
00:39:46.020 and I just haven't been able
00:39:47.220 to talk about it
00:39:47.980 because it kind of still hurts too much,
00:39:50.740 if I'm being honest.
00:39:52.320 Michael Schellenberger
00:39:53.160 is doing great work
00:39:54.800 trying to get something done
00:39:58.060 about the homeless
00:39:59.200 and the addiction problem
00:40:00.480 in San Francisco in particular,
00:40:02.700 but you could generalize this
00:40:03.800 to other cities.
00:40:05.960 And one of his main points
00:40:08.200 is that because we're so progressive,
00:40:11.820 progressives have said
00:40:13.000 they would rather addicts
00:40:14.680 die on the street,
00:40:15.740 in effect,
00:40:17.120 than to be forced
00:40:18.420 into something
00:40:20.600 they didn't want to do,
00:40:21.560 which is to get treatment
00:40:22.440 and medical help.
00:40:23.940 Where do you stand on that?
00:40:25.720 Because I know a lot of my audience
00:40:26.980 is pro-make-your-own-decision.
00:40:31.140 And a lot of you are,
00:40:32.260 hey, the government
00:40:33.660 shouldn't force anybody
00:40:34.680 to do anything.
00:40:35.380 But what if you're an addict
00:40:38.080 and your brain
00:40:39.000 no longer is your own brain?
00:40:41.420 Because I don't know
00:40:42.280 if you understand this,
00:40:43.300 but an addict
00:40:44.080 doesn't have a brain
00:40:46.300 in the way that
00:40:47.180 regular people have brains.
00:40:49.180 An addict's brain
00:40:50.080 is effectively
00:40:51.140 like an alien took it over,
00:40:53.180 but the alien is the drug.
00:40:55.560 So a person who's an addict
00:40:57.280 can't make decisions.
00:41:00.420 Let me just say that
00:41:01.400 as clearly as possible.
00:41:02.180 If you expect an addict
00:41:04.140 to make a decision,
00:41:06.920 you don't understand
00:41:08.260 what addiction is.
00:41:09.900 They don't make decisions.
00:41:12.280 The drug does.
00:41:14.120 The drug makes them
00:41:15.160 do what they do.
00:41:16.640 So there's no,
00:41:17.240 the concept of some
00:41:18.300 free will decision-making,
00:41:20.060 it doesn't apply to an addict.
00:41:21.820 Now, I would argue
00:41:22.540 it doesn't apply to anybody,
00:41:23.800 but it definitely
00:41:24.580 doesn't apply to an addict.
00:41:26.260 The addict is just responding
00:41:27.620 to what the drug
00:41:28.700 is making them do.
00:41:29.480 So the thought that,
00:41:32.020 the progressive thought
00:41:32.940 that addicts
00:41:35.980 should have the same,
00:41:37.440 let's say,
00:41:38.660 civil rights
00:41:39.940 as other people.
00:41:42.040 I know,
00:41:42.540 it's a dicey situation, right?
00:41:44.760 The fact that addicts
00:41:46.060 have the same civil rights
00:41:47.440 as other people,
00:41:48.560 I think you have to question it
00:41:50.060 because they're not
00:41:51.760 like other people.
00:41:53.480 We don't treat people
00:41:54.620 with a functioning brain
00:41:56.120 the same as someone
00:41:57.620 who doesn't have one.
00:41:58.580 And I would argue
00:42:00.760 that an addict
00:42:01.820 doesn't have
00:42:02.540 a functioning brain
00:42:03.560 because it's now
00:42:04.920 dysfunctional
00:42:05.660 because of the drug.
00:42:09.580 Yeah, you could throw
00:42:10.740 alcohol in here
00:42:12.320 if you wanted,
00:42:13.520 but the overdoses
00:42:15.520 are mostly from
00:42:16.540 the other kinds of drugs.
00:42:18.740 So,
00:42:19.420 I think I'm on board
00:42:21.900 and having gone through this
00:42:23.500 and the reason
00:42:24.020 it's a sensitive topic,
00:42:25.260 if anybody doesn't know,
00:42:26.540 my stepson died
00:42:27.500 of an overdose
00:42:28.660 in 2018
00:42:30.260 at age 19.
00:42:32.500 So,
00:42:33.040 this topic
00:42:33.800 is just so painful
00:42:35.520 for me
00:42:36.080 that I've
00:42:37.260 ignored it.
00:42:39.380 You know,
00:42:39.560 even though I should be
00:42:40.360 an activist
00:42:41.000 and have been,
00:42:42.840 it's just hard
00:42:43.780 for me to
00:42:44.400 spend time
00:42:45.720 thinking about this stuff
00:42:46.880 because it just hurts
00:42:47.600 too much.
00:42:48.500 But,
00:42:49.480 and by the way,
00:42:53.260 let me tell you something
00:42:54.480 that you might not
00:42:55.620 be aware of.
00:42:56.540 I've had a number
00:42:57.560 of people
00:42:57.920 who died,
00:42:59.560 you know,
00:42:59.840 in my lifetime.
00:43:01.380 Parents,
00:43:01.960 grandparents,
00:43:03.060 you know,
00:43:03.220 usually older people.
00:43:04.640 When somebody
00:43:05.780 who's elderly
00:43:06.620 dies in your life,
00:43:07.740 you'll be sad,
00:43:08.720 but it's not
00:43:11.260 a tragedy
00:43:11.800 and you don't
00:43:12.940 see them
00:43:13.420 everywhere you go,
00:43:14.580 like in your mind.
00:43:16.100 You know,
00:43:16.260 because when people
00:43:16.800 are ready to die,
00:43:18.040 you know,
00:43:18.340 you just accept that
00:43:19.200 as part of the cycle
00:43:20.020 and you move on.
00:43:22.040 When a child
00:43:22.980 dies,
00:43:24.100 and this would
00:43:24.780 apply to a stepchild
00:43:25.780 who's,
00:43:26.240 you know,
00:43:26.420 been part of your life
00:43:27.120 for a long time,
00:43:28.020 when a stepchild
00:43:28.920 dies,
00:43:29.580 they never die.
00:43:31.380 They just don't
00:43:31.960 stay dead.
00:43:33.520 My stepchild
00:43:34.540 is everywhere
00:43:35.160 I go
00:43:35.720 all the time.
00:43:37.480 He's just there.
00:43:39.920 And I don't know
00:43:40.720 if that's the case
00:43:41.520 for everybody
00:43:41.980 who loses a child,
00:43:44.060 but three years later,
00:43:47.060 he's everywhere.
00:43:48.840 He's,
00:43:49.860 no.
00:43:52.700 I'm going to change
00:43:53.500 the topic.
00:44:00.120 That's why
00:44:00.740 I don't talk about it.
00:44:03.080 All right.
00:44:05.720 here's my favorite
00:44:07.540 story of the day.
00:44:10.000 I'll start with this
00:44:11.020 as a lead-up to it.
00:44:13.580 AT&T,
00:44:14.980 they must be
00:44:17.180 experiencing
00:44:17.680 a lot of cancellations
00:44:18.780 because if you haven't
00:44:19.720 heard,
00:44:19.980 AT&T decided
00:44:20.860 to go full racist.
00:44:23.280 It's really shocking.
00:44:25.120 So,
00:44:25.460 in particular,
00:44:26.580 they've decided
00:44:27.400 to be anti-white
00:44:28.580 and they're actually
00:44:29.700 training the employees
00:44:30.820 to consider
00:44:32.540 white people
00:44:33.160 the enemy
00:44:33.760 and the source
00:44:35.100 of all racism,
00:44:35.980 et cetera.
00:44:37.000 And,
00:44:37.780 you know,
00:44:38.180 while there's
00:44:38.700 some factual truth,
00:44:42.320 of course,
00:44:43.940 that white people
00:44:44.720 were behind slavery
00:44:45.820 and lots of other things,
00:44:47.640 I'm not arguing
00:44:48.740 the factual reality
00:44:50.580 of it.
00:44:51.260 I'm just arguing
00:44:52.140 that if you're
00:44:52.880 a major company,
00:44:53.700 you can't target
00:44:54.380 an ethnic group
00:44:55.120 and get away with it.
00:44:55.940 you can't target
00:44:57.960 an ethnic group,
00:44:59.260 I don't care
00:45:00.060 which one,
00:45:01.420 and get away
00:45:02.060 with it.
00:45:03.240 Okay?
00:45:03.760 And what have I
00:45:05.140 told you about
00:45:05.580 the public?
00:45:06.380 The public's
00:45:06.900 in charge.
00:45:08.260 AT&T won't do this
00:45:10.020 if the public
00:45:10.560 doesn't want them to
00:45:11.440 in large enough
00:45:12.980 percentage.
00:45:14.180 And in this case,
00:45:15.640 it's not going
00:45:16.120 to take a large
00:45:16.820 number of people
00:45:17.580 to cancel
00:45:18.320 their service.
00:45:19.360 If 10% of people
00:45:20.660 canceled their service
00:45:22.080 over this,
00:45:23.140 I think the CEO
00:45:24.300 would be replaced.
00:45:25.180 wouldn't they?
00:45:27.300 You don't think
00:45:28.140 you can get
00:45:28.700 10% of the public
00:45:29.940 to cancel
00:45:30.820 AT&T's service
00:45:32.160 over the fact
00:45:34.620 that they're
00:45:35.140 blatantly racist
00:45:36.540 and this is not
00:45:38.760 even an interpretation.
00:45:40.740 I'm just telling you
00:45:41.420 what they say.
00:45:43.440 Right?
00:45:44.060 They're demonizing
00:45:45.160 white people.
00:45:46.880 I'm not making it up.
00:45:48.260 You can check
00:45:48.700 for yourself.
00:45:50.220 And I would have
00:45:52.300 to think that by now,
00:45:53.740 just based on
00:45:55.000 the number of people
00:45:55.680 in my own
00:45:56.660 follower base,
00:45:58.760 the number of people
00:45:59.440 who told me
00:45:59.980 that they canceled
00:46:00.760 AT&T this week,
00:46:02.280 it's pretty big.
00:46:03.660 On YouTube,
00:46:04.540 now on the locals
00:46:05.680 platform,
00:46:06.300 a lot of people
00:46:06.780 canceled AT&T this week.
00:46:08.780 How many of you
00:46:09.620 are looking into it
00:46:10.560 or on YouTube,
00:46:12.780 the followers there,
00:46:14.060 how many looked
00:46:14.640 into it?
00:46:18.440 At least considered it.
00:46:19.820 And I see a yes,
00:46:23.800 looking into it.
00:46:24.880 I'm just reading some.
00:46:25.720 I'm considering it.
00:46:27.880 Hell yeah.
00:46:28.760 I canceled it today.
00:46:29.920 I am now.
00:46:31.280 Yes.
00:46:32.580 Too much hassle.
00:46:33.620 Yes, I'm looking.
00:46:34.860 Definitely going to do it.
00:46:35.780 Looking.
00:46:36.320 Yes, me.
00:46:38.040 Okay.
00:46:38.440 So look at the comments.
00:46:40.020 A lot of yeses.
00:46:41.080 Now, we can't get a sense
00:46:42.680 of the percentage, right?
00:46:44.220 Because the people
00:46:45.540 who are going to cancel
00:46:46.820 are the ones
00:46:47.220 who are going to answer here.
00:46:48.000 So I don't know
00:46:49.300 if that's a big number
00:46:50.320 or not.
00:46:52.220 But given that there are
00:46:55.240 3,200 people on here,
00:46:57.760 that's a lot of yeses,
00:46:58.740 isn't it?
00:47:01.800 Again, I don't know
00:47:03.520 that that's a lot of yeses
00:47:04.680 because I don't know
00:47:05.360 how many no's there are.
00:47:06.680 But it looks like it.
00:47:07.720 I mean, anecdotally,
00:47:08.540 it looks like a lot,
00:47:09.560 but we can't be sure.
00:47:11.280 All right.
00:47:11.560 So here's the point.
00:47:14.680 I wonder if their board
00:47:15.920 has taken up
00:47:18.240 this issue yet
00:47:19.040 because they have
00:47:20.400 to be noticing it.
00:47:22.280 I think they're going
00:47:23.240 to notice the cancellations.
00:47:24.600 And in my opinion,
00:47:25.920 the company needs
00:47:26.540 to be driven
00:47:27.020 out of business.
00:47:28.400 I think that this
00:47:29.340 is a big enough offense
00:47:30.640 that the company
00:47:32.480 needs to be bankrupted
00:47:33.560 for it.
00:47:35.000 And the alternative
00:47:37.280 would be for the CEO
00:47:38.300 to resign
00:47:38.920 or be replaced.
00:47:40.920 I would accept that.
00:47:42.600 But, you know,
00:47:43.140 if they change the policy
00:47:44.060 at the same time.
00:47:44.800 But you can't let
00:47:47.420 a major American company
00:47:49.320 be overtly racist
00:47:50.720 and stay in business.
00:47:52.740 We don't do that
00:47:53.740 in America.
00:47:55.100 That's just not American.
00:47:57.640 So if you want
00:47:59.080 to be anti-American
00:48:00.140 and sell to Americans,
00:48:01.440 good luck.
00:48:02.820 Good luck.
00:48:03.900 And by the way,
00:48:04.560 I don't think it's just
00:48:05.220 white people
00:48:05.720 that are complaining.
00:48:07.360 Like, don't you think
00:48:08.460 that some black people
00:48:09.500 are saying,
00:48:10.080 um,
00:48:11.000 this is what we
00:48:12.260 are fighting against
00:48:13.420 racial profiling.
00:48:16.160 You don't think
00:48:16.860 there's some black people?
00:48:17.980 I mean,
00:48:18.200 I've heard from them,
00:48:18.900 so I know,
00:48:19.340 I know that there are.
00:48:20.800 Um,
00:48:21.680 there are some black people
00:48:22.620 who don't like
00:48:23.340 AT&T targeting
00:48:24.680 white people.
00:48:25.880 Because as soon as you say
00:48:26.940 it's okay to target
00:48:27.760 a group,
00:48:28.480 you're causing
00:48:30.200 some problems.
00:48:30.880 All right.
00:48:33.380 Um,
00:48:33.780 and I'm going to
00:48:34.420 dovetail from that story
00:48:35.500 into this one.
00:48:36.300 My favorite story
00:48:37.320 of the day
00:48:37.900 by far.
00:48:38.960 Do you all know
00:48:40.240 who, uh,
00:48:41.080 Ibram, uh,
00:48:42.300 Kendi is?
00:48:44.380 Ibram Kendi.
00:48:46.140 Apparently a very
00:48:46.960 smart guy.
00:48:48.000 I think he's,
00:48:48.780 um,
00:48:50.120 some, uh,
00:48:50.860 award-winning
00:48:51.840 scholarly person.
00:48:53.340 So a very smart guy.
00:48:55.100 And, uh,
00:48:55.960 he's one of the
00:48:56.480 major, um,
00:48:57.940 forces behind,
00:48:59.660 let's say,
00:49:00.440 educating people
00:49:01.160 about, uh,
00:49:02.060 systemic racism
00:49:03.080 and,
00:49:04.200 and pushing
00:49:04.700 the education
00:49:05.580 of the public
00:49:06.760 on race.
00:49:08.300 et cetera.
00:49:10.160 And he tweeted
00:49:11.060 something,
00:49:12.380 uh,
00:49:13.620 which he,
00:49:15.460 uh,
00:49:15.660 had to,
00:49:16.160 uh,
00:49:16.340 delete.
00:49:17.900 This is so delicious
00:49:19.040 I'm doing it slowly.
00:49:21.020 I want you all
00:49:21.680 to get a good dose
00:49:22.420 of this one.
00:49:24.060 So here was his tweet,
00:49:26.040 uh,
00:49:26.880 which he deleted
00:49:27.600 quickly.
00:49:28.540 He said,
00:49:29.180 more than a third
00:49:30.000 of white students
00:49:31.140 lied about their race
00:49:32.560 on college applications.
00:49:34.820 And about half
00:49:35.560 of these applicants
00:49:36.300 lied about being
00:49:37.260 Native American.
00:49:38.300 More than three-fourths
00:49:42.860 of these students
00:49:43.580 who lied about
00:49:44.880 their race
00:49:45.460 were accepted.
00:49:49.260 Do you know
00:49:49.960 why he deleted it?
00:49:51.820 Now, I,
00:49:52.640 I don't know
00:49:53.440 that the information
00:49:54.220 is wrong.
00:49:54.800 The information
00:49:55.280 is probably right.
00:49:56.360 I haven't seen
00:49:56.820 it challenged.
00:49:57.740 But why would he
00:49:58.520 delete that tweet?
00:50:01.940 Well,
00:50:03.020 Andy Ngo
00:50:03.640 has an opinion
00:50:04.260 about this.
00:50:04.920 Andy Ngo
00:50:06.140 responded by
00:50:08.240 showing the
00:50:09.220 deleted tweet.
00:50:10.740 And he tweeted
00:50:11.680 himself,
00:50:12.940 Andy did,
00:50:14.120 race activist
00:50:14.900 Ibram Kendi
00:50:15.820 tweeted out
00:50:16.600 a report
00:50:17.040 claiming high
00:50:17.760 numbers of
00:50:18.300 white students
00:50:19.020 falsely identify
00:50:20.660 as people of
00:50:21.520 color to reap
00:50:22.420 benefits.
00:50:23.480 He deleted
00:50:24.300 the tweet
00:50:24.900 after realizing
00:50:26.260 it didn't advance
00:50:27.300 his argument
00:50:27.880 that whites
00:50:28.840 are privileged
00:50:29.560 in every way.
00:50:33.440 How delicious
00:50:37.560 is this?
00:50:40.160 The white people
00:50:41.500 who were lying
00:50:42.240 about their race
00:50:43.200 on college
00:50:43.800 applications
00:50:44.420 were doing it
00:50:45.920 for money.
00:50:46.460 They were lying
00:50:49.140 for money.
00:50:51.820 Meaning
00:50:52.380 that they would
00:50:53.400 get into a
00:50:53.860 better college
00:50:54.620 and have a
00:50:55.300 better job
00:50:55.780 or they would
00:50:57.100 maybe get a
00:50:57.840 scholarship.
00:50:59.480 They were lying
00:51:00.720 for money.
00:51:05.360 Can
00:51:05.920 white people
00:51:07.640 get money
00:51:08.180 just by saying
00:51:10.000 they're white
00:51:10.380 people?
00:51:12.120 Apparently
00:51:12.680 not.
00:51:13.720 But if you
00:51:14.380 say you're
00:51:15.020 another race
00:51:15.740 you can get
00:51:16.280 advantages.
00:51:18.020 Like really
00:51:18.820 big ones.
00:51:20.120 Like being
00:51:20.860 accepted into
00:51:21.560 a college
00:51:22.000 you wouldn't
00:51:22.300 be accepted
00:51:22.760 in maybe.
00:51:23.760 Or getting
00:51:24.160 a scholarship
00:51:24.720 you wouldn't
00:51:25.140 have gotten
00:51:25.420 otherwise.
00:51:26.200 Maybe.
00:51:27.560 Those are
00:51:28.140 pretty big
00:51:28.600 advantages.
00:51:30.380 So
00:51:30.640 I don't
00:51:33.240 think
00:51:33.720 Mr.
00:51:35.560 Kendi
00:51:35.800 got exactly
00:51:36.480 what he
00:51:36.780 wanted with
00:51:37.240 this comment.
00:51:38.560 And it's
00:51:38.820 funny that it
00:51:39.400 took him a
00:51:39.900 moment to
00:51:41.500 realize it
00:51:42.100 was counter
00:51:42.620 to his
00:51:43.080 entire reason
00:51:44.120 for existence.
00:51:45.740 His entire
00:51:46.180 reason for
00:51:46.760 existence
00:51:47.320 is this.
00:51:52.020 Now
00:51:52.240 as many
00:51:53.680 of you
00:51:53.940 know I
00:51:54.480 also identify
00:51:55.480 as black.
00:51:57.080 Why?
00:51:58.980 Why?
00:52:00.940 Because I
00:52:01.860 can.
00:52:03.240 That's one
00:52:03.700 reason.
00:52:04.360 So first of all
00:52:05.000 there's no
00:52:05.480 limitation because
00:52:06.920 the current
00:52:07.680 rules, the
00:52:08.260 2021 rules
00:52:09.440 that you can
00:52:10.520 identify with
00:52:11.460 wherever you
00:52:12.060 have the most
00:52:13.000 affinity.
00:52:15.060 And I
00:52:15.680 feel a
00:52:16.100 strong
00:52:16.440 affinity to
00:52:17.100 the black
00:52:17.800 population in
00:52:18.780 America.
00:52:20.420 Partly because
00:52:21.200 I was so
00:52:21.760 discriminated
00:52:22.440 against in
00:52:22.940 my own
00:52:23.240 employment for
00:52:24.020 my race.
00:52:25.740 Partly because
00:52:26.400 I just like
00:52:27.020 black people
00:52:27.600 and I like
00:52:29.240 sort of being
00:52:30.700 on the team.
00:52:31.940 I like to be
00:52:32.640 on a winning
00:52:33.020 team.
00:52:33.520 Exactly.
00:52:33.760 So I
00:52:38.620 identify.
00:52:39.840 Now do
00:52:41.300 you think
00:52:41.620 that these
00:52:42.000 students were
00:52:42.840 lying or
00:52:44.020 were they
00:52:44.420 identifying?
00:52:46.560 Were they
00:52:47.240 lying or
00:52:48.740 were they
00:52:49.120 identifying?
00:52:50.520 Because if
00:52:51.060 they were
00:52:51.300 identifying it's
00:52:52.100 fine.
00:52:54.140 If they were
00:52:54.860 lying well then
00:52:55.640 they're liars.
00:52:56.340 Nobody can
00:52:56.800 support that.
00:52:58.120 But I don't
00:52:58.980 support that you
00:52:59.620 lie about it.
00:53:00.320 I support that
00:53:01.700 you literally
00:53:02.460 identify.
00:53:03.060 identify as
00:53:03.920 whatever group
00:53:04.700 gets you the
00:53:05.300 most benefits.
00:53:06.720 And here's
00:53:07.060 the cool part.
00:53:09.360 You can
00:53:10.000 change it
00:53:10.420 anytime you
00:53:10.960 want.
00:53:11.980 So you
00:53:12.440 could be
00:53:12.700 filling out
00:53:13.120 your college
00:53:13.580 application and
00:53:14.500 identify as
00:53:15.300 Native American
00:53:16.020 or black or
00:53:16.800 whatever you
00:53:17.140 wanted.
00:53:18.440 And as soon
00:53:18.940 as you've
00:53:19.200 handed it in
00:53:19.840 you could say
00:53:21.240 I'm going to
00:53:22.740 the store now.
00:53:24.200 I'm going to
00:53:24.480 go shopping.
00:53:25.120 I'm going to
00:53:25.440 identify as
00:53:26.060 white so people
00:53:26.900 don't follow me
00:53:27.620 around and think
00:53:28.640 I'm going to
00:53:29.460 steal something.
00:53:31.480 And then as
00:53:31.900 soon as you
00:53:32.220 leave the store
00:53:32.820 and nobody
00:53:33.540 has followed
00:53:34.200 you around
00:53:34.680 for suspected
00:53:35.780 stealing and
00:53:37.540 you've got to
00:53:38.120 apply for a
00:53:38.920 job, identify
00:53:41.020 as black, apply
00:53:42.580 for the job, get
00:53:43.360 the job, keep
00:53:44.600 your identification
00:53:45.260 as black until
00:53:47.620 you need to
00:53:48.720 change it.
00:53:50.040 Now I don't
00:53:50.880 see any problem
00:53:51.980 with that under
00:53:52.900 the current
00:53:53.360 rules.
00:53:54.020 Do you?
00:53:54.980 And I didn't
00:53:55.660 make the rules.
00:53:57.060 I'm not suggesting
00:53:58.340 a rule change.
00:53:59.560 I'm saying those
00:54:00.260 are the current
00:54:00.760 rules.
00:54:01.160 Have I ever
00:54:02.720 told you how
00:54:04.060 to destroy a
00:54:05.060 bad idea, a
00:54:06.540 bad policy?
00:54:07.980 In the comments
00:54:09.060 tell me what's
00:54:10.480 one and maybe
00:54:11.620 the only way to
00:54:12.980 destroy a bad
00:54:14.160 idea that's
00:54:14.820 policy or a
00:54:16.640 law.
00:54:17.000 How do you
00:54:17.780 destroy a bad
00:54:18.480 idea?
00:54:19.800 You embrace it.
00:54:21.320 Exactly.
00:54:22.440 You can't do it
00:54:23.320 by criticizing it.
00:54:24.380 You can't make a
00:54:27.240 bad thing go
00:54:27.780 away by criticizing
00:54:28.600 it because whoever
00:54:29.260 did it in the
00:54:29.800 first place still
00:54:30.660 thinks it's a good
00:54:31.320 idea.
00:54:32.200 But you can adopt
00:54:33.280 it, you can
00:54:34.840 embrace it, and
00:54:36.540 you can use it for
00:54:37.420 all it's worth.
00:54:38.740 And you know what
00:54:39.280 happens when you
00:54:39.900 embrace it?
00:54:41.140 The system
00:54:41.840 collapses.
00:54:42.580 Because it was a
00:54:43.120 bad rule.
00:54:44.280 The reason it's a
00:54:45.140 bad rule is that if
00:54:46.600 everybody embraced
00:54:47.420 it, things would go
00:54:48.180 to hell.
00:54:49.160 So if you want it
00:54:50.040 to go away, just
00:54:50.700 embrace it.
00:54:52.340 Embrace it.
00:54:52.820 What do you
00:54:53.640 think these
00:54:54.000 college students
00:54:54.640 did when they
00:54:55.460 said that they
00:54:57.480 were Native
00:54:58.260 American or some
00:54:59.480 other person of
00:55:00.080 color?
00:55:00.900 What do you
00:55:01.260 think they were
00:55:01.700 doing?
00:55:03.440 Lying?
00:55:04.780 Were they lying?
00:55:06.400 Or were they
00:55:07.220 embracing it?
00:55:09.180 Probably a little
00:55:10.000 of both.
00:55:11.320 But the ones who
00:55:12.120 were embracing it
00:55:13.020 hard, they're my
00:55:15.260 heroes.
00:55:17.720 It's hard to know
00:55:18.640 if anybody was
00:55:19.320 doing anything but
00:55:20.000 just lying for
00:55:20.700 money.
00:55:20.940 But if they were
00:55:22.540 consciously embracing
00:55:23.760 it to break the
00:55:25.120 rule and they
00:55:27.060 got away with
00:55:27.640 it, heroes.
00:55:30.320 Total heroes.
00:55:31.820 So if you get to
00:55:33.080 the point where
00:55:33.580 100% of the
00:55:34.400 students identify
00:55:35.220 as people of
00:55:36.000 color, problem
00:55:39.600 solved.
00:55:41.380 Problem solved.
00:55:42.860 It's the
00:55:43.440 Bulworth theory
00:55:44.620 except accelerated.
00:55:47.400 Do you know the
00:55:48.180 movie Bulworth?
00:55:48.960 It was an
00:55:50.300 eccentric politician
00:55:52.940 who said a lot of
00:55:55.060 outrageous things
00:55:55.800 and he was running
00:55:56.360 for president in
00:55:57.200 this movie.
00:55:58.460 And one of the
00:55:58.920 outrageous things he
00:56:00.060 said is that, and
00:56:01.780 I have to use the
00:56:02.600 F word here because
00:56:03.540 it's a quote, right?
00:56:05.540 So send the
00:56:06.860 children away.
00:56:08.040 There'll be an F word
00:56:08.820 here but it's
00:56:09.520 somebody else's.
00:56:11.400 He said, why don't
00:56:12.460 we just all fuck
00:56:13.240 until we're all
00:56:13.780 brown?
00:56:14.120 Just everybody
00:56:16.400 fuck until
00:56:17.000 everybody's brown
00:56:17.720 and then problem
00:56:18.300 solved.
00:56:18.840 No racism.
00:56:20.660 Of course there
00:56:21.320 would be racism
00:56:21.900 because we'd just
00:56:22.480 find other reasons
00:56:23.200 to dislike each
00:56:24.220 other.
00:56:26.020 The left-handed
00:56:26.960 people would be in
00:56:27.740 trouble or something.
00:56:28.780 We'd find some
00:56:29.420 reason to discriminate
00:56:30.580 because that's who
00:56:31.140 we are.
00:56:32.660 But I think if a
00:56:34.920 third of students
00:56:35.680 said this and many
00:56:37.940 of them got an
00:56:39.040 advantage from it,
00:56:40.800 what's it going to
00:56:41.300 look like next
00:56:41.880 year?
00:56:42.100 Next year, if
00:56:44.480 you found out
00:56:45.020 that three-quarters
00:56:45.760 of the people
00:56:46.260 who lied on their
00:56:47.000 application got a
00:56:48.020 financial benefit from
00:56:49.260 it and no penalty,
00:56:50.980 what's going to
00:56:52.000 happen next year?
00:56:53.560 Well, it's not
00:56:54.060 going to be one-third.
00:56:56.080 It might be two-thirds.
00:56:57.940 So next year, it
00:56:59.420 might be two-thirds
00:57:00.320 of all the applicants
00:57:01.260 are pretending to
00:57:03.280 be or identifying
00:57:04.420 with another race.
00:57:07.820 So I think that's
00:57:08.740 the most delicious
00:57:09.360 story of the day,
00:57:10.180 in my opinion.
00:57:11.640 All right, here's
00:57:12.020 a question for
00:57:12.600 you.
00:57:14.100 For the people
00:57:15.720 who are getting
00:57:16.040 booster shots, if
00:57:18.040 you've already
00:57:18.420 gotten two shots
00:57:20.040 of the same type,
00:57:20.980 let's say two
00:57:21.600 Modernas or you
00:57:22.500 got two Pfizers,
00:57:23.820 apparently now they're
00:57:24.660 going to open it up
00:57:25.400 that your booster
00:57:26.060 shot could be a
00:57:27.960 different vaccination.
00:57:30.340 And I think the
00:57:31.200 idea is that they've
00:57:32.220 tested and they
00:57:32.960 found your antibodies
00:57:33.820 still look good,
00:57:34.980 no matter which you
00:57:36.160 boost, whether it's
00:57:37.660 the same or a
00:57:38.660 different one.
00:57:39.080 But on top of
00:57:40.480 that, on top of
00:57:41.800 that, it might
00:57:44.060 make it easier for
00:57:45.000 supplies, more
00:57:46.080 availability, because
00:57:46.980 you don't have to
00:57:47.420 worry about which
00:57:48.000 one you're getting,
00:57:48.720 et cetera.
00:57:49.320 So there could be a
00:57:50.120 whole bunch of
00:57:50.520 benefits for that.
00:57:51.300 But there's one
00:57:52.880 obvious problem,
00:57:53.860 isn't it?
00:57:55.720 Isn't there one
00:57:56.320 obvious problem?
00:57:58.660 In that if you
00:58:01.300 are worried about
00:58:01.920 the safety of the
00:58:02.740 vaccination itself,
00:58:04.920 aren't you doubling
00:58:06.340 your risk by doing
00:58:07.280 a second one?
00:58:08.800 Am I wrong about
00:58:09.480 that?
00:58:10.100 So I need a medical
00:58:11.540 opinion on this.
00:58:14.080 Medical opinion.
00:58:15.760 So I've taken two
00:58:16.920 Moderna shots.
00:58:18.360 If I were to get a
00:58:19.360 booster, I would
00:58:20.640 personally, this is
00:58:21.860 my own thinking, so
00:58:22.820 I'm not recommending
00:58:23.520 this to you, but my
00:58:25.080 own thinking says I
00:58:26.060 should get the same
00:58:26.860 shot again.
00:58:28.300 Here's why.
00:58:29.880 Because the first
00:58:30.520 two didn't kill me.
00:58:32.280 I had no known
00:58:33.520 side effects from the
00:58:34.420 first two shots.
00:58:36.000 Would you get a
00:58:37.260 separate vaccination
00:58:38.700 if you were a little
00:58:40.320 bit worried about the
00:58:41.160 side effects, knowing
00:58:42.560 that the first two
00:58:43.460 you got didn't hurt
00:58:45.260 you?
00:58:46.640 Wouldn't you get the
00:58:47.820 same kind the third
00:58:48.740 time?
00:58:50.960 Am I wrong about
00:58:51.960 that?
00:58:54.540 I'm seeing lots of
00:58:55.520 no's, but I don't
00:58:56.760 know which question
00:58:57.640 you're saying no to.
00:59:00.360 Now, I get the
00:59:01.580 idea.
00:59:02.340 Now, I would imagine
00:59:03.380 that there's a benefit
00:59:04.200 from getting a
00:59:05.040 separate one, which
00:59:06.240 is that if the one
00:59:07.600 vaccine protects you
00:59:09.060 in a particular way
00:59:10.300 and another vaccine
00:59:11.980 added a different way
00:59:13.060 to protect you, a
00:59:14.740 little more protection.
00:59:15.420 But don't you open
00:59:17.120 yourself way up to
00:59:19.640 one of the vaccinations
00:59:20.760 being more dangerous
00:59:21.740 than the other, and
00:59:24.440 you switch to the one
00:59:25.700 that gave you
00:59:26.500 specifically a problem?
00:59:30.360 Okay.
00:59:31.020 So I see some people
00:59:32.020 agreeing with me, but
00:59:32.800 I don't know if we're
00:59:33.700 medically smart about
00:59:35.100 this.
00:59:35.760 This is the type of
00:59:36.760 question where your
00:59:38.080 common sense can get
00:59:40.280 you to the wrong
00:59:40.820 place.
00:59:41.680 My common sense says
00:59:43.100 do the same kind.
00:59:45.420 But I don't know if
00:59:46.600 the medical community
00:59:47.420 would agree with that
00:59:48.220 because they're
00:59:48.600 recommending the
00:59:49.240 different kind here.
00:59:50.600 So I'm a little
00:59:51.580 confused about why
00:59:52.360 they're recommending
00:59:52.860 this without a
00:59:53.800 caveat.
00:59:55.220 Somebody sent to me
00:59:57.200 on Twitter a long
01:00:00.340 text thing by an
01:00:01.520 Australian engineer.
01:00:02.700 He's an engineering
01:00:03.380 PhD.
01:00:04.340 So somebody who's
01:00:04.900 really good at
01:00:05.620 analyzing things.
01:00:07.040 And this gentleman,
01:00:08.840 I think he's
01:00:09.160 Australian, did a deep
01:00:10.740 dive into all the
01:00:11.620 COVID data, you know,
01:00:13.280 really went to like
01:00:14.260 base, you know,
01:00:15.780 fundamental data, you
01:00:17.640 know, really dug in
01:00:18.420 further than any of us
01:00:19.680 would or probably could.
01:00:21.840 And he had a number
01:00:24.840 of questions.
01:00:26.400 Now, if you read the
01:00:27.000 questions, they're very
01:00:27.840 provocative.
01:00:28.740 Like, huh, if this is
01:00:30.420 the data, then why is
01:00:32.200 this true?
01:00:33.640 And there were so many
01:00:35.600 of the questions that it
01:00:37.880 turned into what somebody
01:00:39.180 called a gish gallop,
01:00:44.060 which I'd never heard
01:00:45.200 of.
01:00:45.980 Have you ever heard of
01:00:46.500 that term?
01:00:46.980 A gish gallop, G-I-S-H?
01:00:52.060 Maybe it was named
01:00:52.940 after somebody called
01:00:53.800 gish.
01:00:54.800 But the idea is that
01:00:56.360 you overwhelm with so
01:00:58.120 many points that if
01:00:59.880 somebody tries to argue
01:01:00.760 with you, they can
01:01:01.500 only, they only have
01:01:02.260 time to argue a point
01:01:03.300 or two.
01:01:04.040 And then you could say,
01:01:05.020 oh, well, okay, maybe
01:01:06.380 you win on that point
01:01:07.200 or two, but I had all
01:01:08.020 these other points, so
01:01:09.000 I still win.
01:01:10.400 So basically, it's a
01:01:11.580 way to win an argument
01:01:12.440 by overwhelming with
01:01:14.880 so many points that
01:01:16.460 the other team just
01:01:17.460 can't deal with them
01:01:18.560 all.
01:01:19.180 And then you could
01:01:19.680 always go away and
01:01:20.320 say, well, you didn't
01:01:20.940 deal with them all.
01:01:22.780 And I've called that
01:01:24.160 the laundry list
01:01:25.100 approach, the laundry
01:01:26.580 list.
01:01:27.680 And I have recommended
01:01:29.000 that there is a way
01:01:29.820 to deal with it.
01:01:30.840 The way you deal with
01:01:31.720 the laundry list is
01:01:33.760 you ask for the most,
01:01:35.360 the most, let's say,
01:01:37.040 powerful point.
01:01:38.320 What's your best
01:01:39.080 point?
01:01:40.440 Give me your best
01:01:41.220 point.
01:01:41.700 And if I can debunk
01:01:42.560 your best point, can
01:01:44.260 we agree that all the
01:01:45.600 rest of them are weaker
01:01:47.220 than that?
01:01:47.880 And this one got
01:01:48.480 debunked.
01:01:49.740 So you should go back
01:01:50.780 and rethink your other
01:01:51.640 points.
01:01:52.380 I think that's the only
01:01:53.120 way to do it.
01:01:56.640 Now, when I first heard
01:01:57.720 this term, a gish
01:01:58.760 gallop, the first thing
01:02:00.640 I thought is it sounds
01:02:01.640 like any weekend for
01:02:03.340 Tiger Woods, but that's
01:02:06.380 just me.
01:02:07.740 I'm just going to let
01:02:08.340 that sit there for a
01:02:09.200 moment.
01:02:10.660 The gish gallop is like
01:02:12.700 any weekend for Tiger
01:02:14.160 Woods.
01:02:16.100 Anybody?
01:02:17.000 Anybody?
01:02:18.300 No?
01:02:19.100 No?
01:02:19.940 Nobody?
01:02:20.280 Does anybody appreciate
01:02:23.060 that joke?
01:02:26.480 Nobody, apparently.
01:02:27.980 Apparently that was just
01:02:28.900 for me.
01:02:29.760 Okay.
01:02:32.060 But here are some of
01:02:34.820 the questions that the
01:02:35.800 engineer asked.
01:02:37.760 Why is it that so many
01:02:39.180 old people were dying
01:02:41.040 right after the
01:02:41.720 vaccination?
01:02:43.020 If the vaccinations
01:02:44.180 are safe, why,
01:02:46.280 according to some data
01:02:47.120 source, were so many
01:02:48.820 old people dying right
01:02:50.260 after the vaccination?
01:02:51.500 How can you explain
01:02:52.300 that?
01:02:52.860 That's the question,
01:02:53.580 right?
01:02:55.040 Well, I can answer
01:02:56.200 that.
01:02:57.500 Is there anybody here
01:02:58.500 who can't answer
01:02:59.060 that?
01:02:59.840 Why did so many
01:03:00.880 old people die
01:03:01.880 after getting
01:03:02.600 vaccinated?
01:03:04.920 It might have
01:03:05.800 something to do
01:03:06.440 with the fact that
01:03:07.060 the order of
01:03:07.840 vaccination was
01:03:08.800 people closest to
01:03:09.980 death first.
01:03:12.540 I'm just going to
01:03:13.460 guess that if you
01:03:15.920 were almost ready
01:03:16.780 to die anyway,
01:03:18.560 wouldn't you expect
01:03:19.360 that group to have
01:03:20.100 a lot of deaths
01:03:20.780 after a vaccination?
01:03:23.060 Because you could
01:03:23.880 walk into any old
01:03:24.980 folks' home and
01:03:26.420 juggle.
01:03:26.740 Let's just say
01:03:28.000 you're a juggler
01:03:28.640 and you go to
01:03:29.900 the old folks'
01:03:30.620 home and you
01:03:31.020 just start juggling.
01:03:32.660 Do you think any
01:03:33.520 old people will
01:03:34.240 die within two
01:03:35.340 weeks after you
01:03:35.960 juggled?
01:03:38.120 Probably.
01:03:39.560 Probably.
01:03:41.220 Yeah.
01:03:42.000 So I don't know
01:03:42.700 if that's the
01:03:43.140 answer, but it
01:03:44.800 seems obvious to
01:03:45.560 me.
01:03:47.240 One of the
01:03:47.820 questions was,
01:03:48.560 why did the
01:03:49.000 regular flu
01:03:49.740 disappear?
01:03:50.240 Why did all
01:03:52.620 indications of
01:03:53.460 the normal
01:03:54.060 seasonal flu
01:03:54.780 just disappear?
01:03:56.160 Now, I've asked
01:03:56.760 this question
01:03:57.220 myself.
01:03:58.720 What do you
01:03:59.300 think is the
01:03:59.660 answer?
01:04:00.860 Why did the
01:04:01.500 regular flu
01:04:02.280 disappear?
01:04:04.500 Now, one would
01:04:05.240 be that the
01:04:07.380 regular flu is
01:04:09.300 being misdiagnosed
01:04:10.440 as COVID.
01:04:12.360 That seems
01:04:13.020 likely, right?
01:04:14.180 Good chance the
01:04:15.140 regular flu is
01:04:15.980 being misdiagnosed
01:04:16.880 as COVID.
01:04:17.880 Maybe.
01:04:18.140 But I would
01:04:19.120 think 100% of
01:04:20.020 the people who
01:04:20.700 had the regular
01:04:22.440 flu and thought
01:04:23.840 it was COVID
01:04:24.440 would get a
01:04:25.860 test, wouldn't
01:04:26.740 they?
01:04:27.640 Wouldn't everybody
01:04:28.440 who had symptoms
01:04:29.600 get a test these
01:04:30.380 days, at least
01:04:30.900 in the United
01:04:31.300 States?
01:04:32.440 So I'm not so
01:04:33.620 sure that's the
01:04:34.940 explanation, and
01:04:36.300 I don't think he
01:04:37.160 was suggesting
01:04:37.720 that's the
01:04:38.120 explanation.
01:04:39.640 Here's why I
01:04:40.480 think the
01:04:40.880 regular flu
01:04:41.520 disappeared.
01:04:44.000 Somebody says
01:04:44.860 kids not in
01:04:45.560 school, but there
01:04:46.520 were a lot of
01:04:47.200 places where kids
01:04:47.960 were in school.
01:04:50.400 Right?
01:04:50.760 And it doesn't
01:04:51.580 seem to make a
01:04:52.160 difference.
01:04:53.940 So in other
01:04:54.760 countries, the
01:04:55.340 regular flu
01:04:55.920 disappeared, and
01:04:56.800 in other
01:04:57.080 countries, they
01:04:58.000 went to school.
01:04:59.740 Do you think
01:05:00.300 it's because masks
01:05:01.240 are really good
01:05:02.200 against the
01:05:02.880 regular flu?
01:05:04.560 Maybe the masks
01:05:05.580 are really good,
01:05:06.420 but only for the
01:05:07.260 regular flu, not
01:05:08.020 for COVID.
01:05:09.980 Do you think?
01:05:11.500 I don't think
01:05:12.260 that's the answer.
01:05:13.980 Robin says,
01:05:14.740 here we go.
01:05:15.320 The people who
01:05:20.740 think that I'm
01:05:21.360 cleverly trying to
01:05:22.440 convince you to
01:05:23.320 wear masks or to
01:05:25.140 get vaccinated or
01:05:26.220 anything, you're
01:05:27.200 all wrong.
01:05:28.700 You're all
01:05:29.400 completely wrong.
01:05:31.080 So you can't read
01:05:31.960 my mind, but let
01:05:33.060 me tell you what's
01:05:33.580 in there.
01:05:34.440 Nothing about
01:05:35.280 telling you what
01:05:35.900 to do.
01:05:37.340 And I'm anti-mask.
01:05:40.040 At this point in
01:05:41.060 the pandemic, I'm
01:05:41.840 anti-mask.
01:05:42.320 Except in special
01:05:44.640 situations.
01:05:47.280 Here's why I
01:05:48.080 think the regular
01:05:48.740 flu disappeared.
01:05:50.940 It was never
01:05:51.820 real.
01:05:53.940 That's why I
01:05:54.680 think the regular
01:05:55.360 flu deaths
01:05:56.440 disappeared, because
01:05:58.180 they were never
01:05:58.660 real.
01:06:00.080 There were always
01:06:00.820 estimates based on
01:06:02.040 seasonality.
01:06:03.960 There would be a
01:06:04.480 seasonal bump in
01:06:05.440 total deaths, and
01:06:06.880 people would say,
01:06:07.480 well, we don't have
01:06:08.700 any other way to
01:06:09.320 explain it.
01:06:09.880 It's probably those
01:06:10.380 flu deaths.
01:06:12.320 Maybe.
01:06:13.800 But I think when
01:06:14.740 you started counting
01:06:15.600 and you couldn't
01:06:16.120 find any, once we
01:06:17.380 got really serious
01:06:18.240 about, oh, you got
01:06:19.420 some symptoms, we're
01:06:20.920 going to test those
01:06:21.580 symptoms, and then
01:06:23.000 they tested them, it
01:06:23.780 wasn't the regular
01:06:24.460 flu.
01:06:26.060 I have a feeling that
01:06:27.560 the regular flu was
01:06:28.640 always bullshit, in
01:06:30.000 terms of the deaths,
01:06:31.160 not in terms of
01:06:31.960 whether people had
01:06:32.620 the regular flu.
01:06:35.620 Yeah, and I've never
01:06:36.820 known anybody who
01:06:37.440 died from it.
01:06:38.080 Now, if you talk to
01:06:38.920 doctors, doctors will
01:06:40.880 tell you they do see
01:06:41.800 people die from
01:06:42.540 flu.
01:06:43.240 So it's not like it
01:06:44.240 didn't happen, but
01:06:45.820 it's also very old
01:06:47.740 people, frail people,
01:06:49.740 et cetera.
01:06:51.480 All right.
01:06:54.260 That was just about
01:06:56.840 everything I wanted to
01:06:57.620 talk about today.
01:06:59.240 I'll try to figure out
01:07:01.260 what's...
01:07:06.180 CDC reports pin deaths
01:07:09.980 weekly?
01:07:10.780 What?
01:07:13.820 Oh, did I recover?
01:07:15.400 Did I recover well
01:07:16.560 enough to salvage this
01:07:18.760 terrible live stream?
01:07:21.180 Oh, I have good news on
01:07:22.140 the cat.
01:07:22.900 I'm being asked on an
01:07:23.900 update on the cat.
01:07:24.620 So my cat had a
01:07:25.960 tentative, probably
01:07:28.200 cancer diagnosis that
01:07:30.720 turned into absolutely
01:07:32.740 no cancer.
01:07:33.980 So when the most
01:07:34.920 sensitive test was
01:07:35.920 run, it was not
01:07:36.700 there.
01:07:37.660 So boo the cat will
01:07:39.620 go on to a long,
01:07:41.360 healthy life, we
01:07:42.400 think.
01:07:43.460 We think.
01:07:49.160 You wanted to see a
01:07:50.480 printer defenestrated.
01:07:52.020 Yeah, well, you
01:07:53.760 missed it when I did
01:07:54.420 my last one.
01:07:58.040 Yes, and the person
01:08:00.060 least surprised was
01:08:01.700 me.
01:08:02.920 Here's why I didn't
01:08:03.840 think it was real
01:08:04.500 cancer.
01:08:05.380 Have I ever told you
01:08:06.180 to follow the money?
01:08:09.320 Yeah, I didn't have
01:08:10.180 to tell you that,
01:08:10.720 right?
01:08:11.200 When you're trying to
01:08:11.800 figure out what is
01:08:12.380 true and what is not,
01:08:14.020 follow the money works
01:08:15.240 so often that it's
01:08:17.640 amazing.
01:08:18.700 And I'm not even
01:08:19.660 sure that it's people
01:08:20.900 making it conscious
01:08:21.880 decision to follow
01:08:22.840 the money because I
01:08:24.080 don't even know why
01:08:24.780 it works because I'm
01:08:26.140 pretty sure a lot of
01:08:26.780 people don't do that.
01:08:27.880 Here's why I thought
01:08:29.360 it was not true from
01:08:30.340 the start.
01:08:31.600 The so-called maybe
01:08:33.040 cancer was discovered
01:08:34.280 while fixing a
01:08:36.380 different problem,
01:08:37.360 which is she had
01:08:38.620 some polyps that she
01:08:39.620 had some surgery to
01:08:40.440 remove them in her
01:08:41.380 ear and it was
01:08:43.140 causing some balance
01:08:43.940 problems and stuff.
01:08:45.080 And when they did
01:08:46.820 the surgery, they
01:08:47.520 found some suspicious
01:08:48.620 stuff and they said
01:08:50.300 this could either be
01:08:51.340 a signal from the
01:08:53.160 surgery itself,
01:08:54.440 just inflation,
01:08:55.460 inflammation, or it
01:08:57.500 could be cancer.
01:08:59.620 Now, what are the
01:09:01.100 odds that they would
01:09:03.420 find this cancer in a
01:09:05.640 youngish cat?
01:09:06.480 She's not that old.
01:09:07.900 What are the odds they
01:09:08.840 would find this cancer
01:09:09.860 in the very place that
01:09:11.340 they were looking for
01:09:12.060 something else and
01:09:13.100 found the something
01:09:13.740 else and that in the
01:09:16.080 process of finding and
01:09:17.140 removing the something
01:09:17.980 else definitely would
01:09:19.540 cause something to look
01:09:20.520 exactly like cancer,
01:09:21.700 which I think was more
01:09:23.040 white blood cells or
01:09:24.140 something.
01:09:25.540 Now, how expensive is
01:09:27.200 it to figure out if you
01:09:29.180 have cancer for sure?
01:09:31.100 Really expensive.
01:09:33.620 And what happens if you
01:09:34.800 do have cancer?
01:09:36.300 Really expensive if you're
01:09:38.640 going to treat it.
01:09:40.420 Now, so we did more
01:09:42.380 tests.
01:09:43.320 Follow the money.
01:09:44.260 The money would have
01:09:45.120 suggested that there
01:09:46.580 would be more tests.
01:09:47.840 Sure enough, there were
01:09:48.900 more tests.
01:09:49.940 Next test run was
01:09:51.200 ambiguous.
01:09:52.740 It was ambiguous.
01:09:55.420 Because it was an
01:09:56.260 insensitive test.
01:09:57.820 So what do you do if you
01:09:58.680 get an ambiguous test?
01:09:59.960 Well, you've got to do
01:10:00.580 the expensive one.
01:10:02.080 You've got to do the
01:10:02.740 expensive one.
01:10:03.960 And so that's what we
01:10:04.600 did.
01:10:05.480 Now, all along I said to
01:10:07.460 myself, it seems like this
01:10:08.840 would be a very big
01:10:09.800 coincidence, a very big
01:10:12.340 coincidence that we
01:10:14.160 discover cancer.
01:10:15.220 Here's another fact.
01:10:18.100 A cat that has this
01:10:19.580 particular cancer is going
01:10:21.740 to die in a few months.
01:10:24.080 Right?
01:10:24.660 This one will get you in
01:10:25.560 a few months.
01:10:27.060 What are the odds that
01:10:28.000 that little period of the
01:10:29.740 cat's life, those few
01:10:31.440 months, would be exactly
01:10:33.340 the only time we did a
01:10:34.580 surgery and discovered
01:10:36.740 this cancer and not only
01:10:41.020 discovered it, but
01:10:42.160 discovered it so early that
01:10:44.380 there were no symptoms?
01:10:46.920 Right?
01:10:47.220 There were no lumps or
01:10:48.160 anything like that.
01:10:49.340 What are the odds?
01:10:50.620 So I said from day one,
01:10:52.080 follow the money.
01:10:53.400 It looks like this is not
01:10:54.900 real.
01:10:55.460 And sure enough, it
01:10:56.200 wasn't.
01:10:57.240 It wasn't.
01:10:58.440 So I don't know that I
01:11:00.660 actually like my
01:11:01.660 veterinarian a lot and I
01:11:02.860 don't believe that she
01:11:05.040 was just following the
01:11:06.740 money.
01:11:07.600 But I do think that it's
01:11:10.380 weird coincidence that you
01:11:12.340 could predict it always
01:11:13.420 goes that way.
01:11:15.580 Now, she has another
01:11:16.840 problem, which was she
01:11:17.640 still has the infection
01:11:18.520 that caused the original
01:11:19.480 surgery to happen.
01:11:21.540 But there's some drugs you
01:11:23.160 give her.
01:11:24.380 You can give her drugs, but
01:11:26.420 you have to give it to her
01:11:27.160 for two months and then
01:11:28.680 she'll be fine.
01:11:29.960 The alternative is a
01:11:31.600 hyperbaric chamber.
01:11:33.040 And the vet explained to me
01:11:35.580 yesterday, if you want an
01:11:36.820 even better result, you
01:11:38.560 could take her to a
01:11:39.700 hyperbaric chamber frequently
01:11:41.540 for two weeks for these
01:11:43.840 what I assume are super
01:11:45.380 expensive treatments that
01:11:46.680 traumatize your cat.
01:11:48.480 And then you could be a
01:11:49.620 little more certain that the
01:11:50.540 antibiotics work.
01:11:52.360 But the antibiotics will
01:11:53.760 probably work even without
01:11:55.060 that.
01:11:55.340 Now, I said, stop, stop,
01:11:58.200 stop.
01:11:58.860 I'm not going to drive to
01:11:59.940 Oakland many times in the
01:12:02.040 next two weeks to do this
01:12:04.360 really expensive thing that I
01:12:05.900 could do at home and just
01:12:06.900 give her drugs every day.
01:12:09.320 So, the fall of the money just
01:12:12.500 works almost every time.
01:12:15.220 Here's a little experiment for
01:12:16.540 you.
01:12:17.420 Next time you can't decide what
01:12:18.960 to eat at a restaurant, ask the
01:12:21.340 server which of the two things
01:12:23.720 that you've narrowed it down
01:12:25.520 to, which of the two things
01:12:27.120 they recommend.
01:12:29.300 Are they ever going to
01:12:30.400 recommend the less expensive
01:12:31.980 of the two items you say?
01:12:33.380 Which one is better?
01:12:34.880 To people like this one or
01:12:35.860 this one more?
01:12:37.340 I've been tracking this for
01:12:39.180 decades.
01:12:40.760 100% of the time, the server
01:12:43.320 recommends the expensive one.
01:12:46.920 100% of the time.
01:12:49.580 Now, are they lying?
01:12:52.220 I don't know.
01:12:53.020 I actually don't know.
01:12:54.780 Because I don't think it makes
01:12:55.660 that much difference to them
01:12:56.920 that the customer gets the one
01:12:59.380 that's a dollar more.
01:13:01.420 Their tip goes up by 20 cents.
01:13:03.820 But they're certainly going to
01:13:05.340 sell that one.
01:13:06.920 And maybe the restaurant requires
01:13:09.980 them to upsell that one.
01:13:12.580 But watch for this.
01:13:14.620 Watch how many times you can't
01:13:16.080 identify the mechanism for why
01:13:18.640 following the money would be
01:13:19.920 predictive.
01:13:20.300 You look at it and you say,
01:13:22.180 yeah, I get what you're saying.
01:13:23.660 Follow the money should work.
01:13:25.280 But the people involved definitely
01:13:26.720 don't care about the money in this
01:13:28.240 case.
01:13:29.180 Because that's quite often, right?
01:13:30.960 You can identify a lot of people
01:13:32.440 who, as far as you can tell,
01:13:34.020 are not in it for the money.
01:13:35.640 It could be the Pope.
01:13:38.500 You can imagine lots of situations
01:13:40.260 where you're convinced it's not
01:13:42.480 about the money.
01:13:43.140 still make your prediction as if it
01:13:46.120 were.
01:13:47.120 And you're going to be right.
01:13:49.140 Not every time, but a lot.
01:13:53.080 Yes, it explains the hostility toward
01:13:55.100 ivermectin, even if it's not the
01:13:58.800 reason.
01:14:00.900 That's a perfect example.
01:14:03.340 All right, ivermectin is a perfect
01:14:04.420 example.
01:14:04.820 I don't have any evidence that the
01:14:08.080 reason ivermectin is being crapped on
01:14:10.580 is that some pharma company will make
01:14:13.060 more money if that's not available.
01:14:14.920 I have no evidence that I've seen to
01:14:18.620 suggest that's what's happening.
01:14:20.620 However, if you made a prediction based
01:14:23.860 on follow the money, and that would be an
01:14:25.920 obvious way to follow it, you would get
01:14:28.140 to the same, you would get to the right
01:14:29.600 conclusion, which is that it would be
01:14:31.960 diminished by everybody who's, you
01:14:35.120 know, got a foot in that world.
01:14:38.520 Yeah.
01:14:41.220 I think if you're dealing with, you
01:14:42.680 know, the pharma companies, it's
01:14:43.840 definitely about the money.
01:14:49.560 What do I know about January 6th and
01:14:51.520 who planned it?
01:14:52.380 Well, I know what's in the media.
01:14:57.380 But I also know more about the world.
01:15:00.300 So you're never going to know, you're
01:15:03.080 never going to know what I know about
01:15:04.220 that.
01:15:05.260 That will never come out.
01:15:06.780 But I don't have any information that
01:15:08.220 says the FBI was behind it.
01:15:10.880 So I have no information to suggest the
01:15:13.400 FBI was behind it, or that they weren't.
01:15:15.520 I have no information on that.
01:15:17.160 I don't think it's part of the story.
01:15:19.960 If it is, it's a small part.
01:15:21.440 If Trump ran as a Democrat, he could blow
01:15:29.180 up the progressives in the party.
01:15:31.360 Interesting idea.
01:15:32.260 He won't do that.
01:15:34.620 Will Tucker be canceled?
01:15:36.320 I don't think so.
01:15:38.840 I think Tucker is a pretty big part of
01:15:41.200 Fox News' profit model.
01:15:43.440 The lazy man's guide to enlightenment.
01:15:55.920 Sounds good.
01:16:00.900 Trump should run as an independent.
01:16:02.660 No, they never get elected.
01:16:06.300 Yeah, Tucker might be too big to cancel.
01:16:08.180 That's right.
01:16:08.560 You know, and the other thing that
01:16:11.460 Tucker has going for him is that when
01:16:13.120 he's wrong, he tells you.
01:16:15.520 That's a good protection.
01:16:18.760 Now, I said this the other day, and I
01:16:20.380 don't think Tucker Carlson gets enough
01:16:22.420 credit for this, that when he's wrong,
01:16:25.380 he says it directly.
01:16:26.600 And he says it pretty quickly.
01:16:28.040 He doesn't make you wait for it.
01:16:29.780 And I think that keeps you safe.
01:16:32.600 Because he could say something that was
01:16:34.120 pretty outrageous, as long as it was
01:16:36.960 an honest opinion.
01:16:39.180 And I think he could say, okay,
01:16:40.620 I was wrong about that.
01:16:42.220 You know, now that you mention it,
01:16:43.720 I'm wrong.
01:16:49.020 Look into Ray Epps.
01:16:50.300 He incited the crowd.
01:16:51.700 Somebody says, I don't know, who's Ray Epps?
01:16:56.420 Somebody says, Tucker is pro-white.
01:17:00.180 Well, I'm pretty sure Tucker is pro-people.
01:17:04.520 And some of them are white.
01:17:05.820 If his beat seems more pro-white than some
01:17:11.300 other person, that probably has more to do
01:17:13.540 with the audience.
01:17:17.040 Oh, Epps is a Fed informant.
01:17:19.060 Okay.
01:17:21.720 Oh, Ray Epps was a director provocateur,
01:17:23.960 and he was not arrested.
01:17:25.900 And he was a, so Vernon tweet,
01:17:29.620 somebody tweeted about this.
01:17:32.620 Ray Epps was paid by the FBI to cause the insurrection.
01:17:35.820 Ah, okay.
01:17:38.480 I'm going to doubt that story.
01:17:40.840 Let me give you some,
01:17:42.900 let me tell you what it sounds like.
01:17:46.300 A little bit too on the nose.
01:17:48.220 Now, I'm not saying it's fake.
01:17:52.360 I'm saying that if you hear that story for the first time,
01:17:56.280 and you hear that there was, in fact,
01:17:58.020 a specific FBI agent who was paid to incite a riot,
01:18:02.880 the first thing you should think is it's probably not true.
01:18:06.400 That should be your default assumption.
01:18:08.340 Probably not true.
01:18:09.460 And why?
01:18:10.400 It's too on the nose.
01:18:12.440 Doesn't mean it's false.
01:18:14.820 Right?
01:18:15.260 I'm open to the possibility.
01:18:17.320 Doesn't mean it's false.
01:18:18.860 All I'm going to say for sure
01:18:20.460 is that it doesn't sound true.
01:18:24.440 I could be wrong.
01:18:26.260 But if you always bet against everything that sounds too perfect,
01:18:30.280 just always bet against that.
01:18:32.320 You'll be right 90% of the time.
01:18:35.080 But, you know, 10% is real,
01:18:36.900 so maybe it's real.
01:18:39.300 Watch the video.
01:18:40.340 Oh, is this based on the Tucker Carlson video?
01:18:44.640 Did that come out?
01:18:45.780 The special he did?
01:18:50.220 He's on several videos inciting the people to go in.
01:18:54.340 And has he been confirmed to be a FBI asset?
01:18:58.180 I assume so, or you wouldn't be saying this.
01:19:03.200 I have a...
01:19:06.120 Yes, old people die from the flu.
01:19:10.800 I think it happens.
01:19:11.760 I don't think it happens in the numbers, we've been told.
01:19:18.060 All right.
01:19:18.780 I'll watch the Tucker package on it.
01:19:24.460 Yeah, I heard about the Whitmer situation.
01:19:28.180 But fill in the blanks for me.
01:19:30.360 Why would the FBI be doing that?
01:19:33.100 Complete the picture for me.
01:19:34.340 In the comments,
01:19:34.980 I think you have enough room in the comments.
01:19:36.300 Can somebody complete the picture?
01:19:38.740 Let's say it's true.
01:19:40.080 And I'm not stipulating that.
01:19:42.600 But let's say, just to think it through,
01:19:44.820 imagine if there was an FBI informant.
01:19:47.040 Let's say it's this Ray Epps guy.
01:19:48.720 And let's say the FBI paid him
01:19:50.540 to help encourage the thing.
01:19:53.940 Why did he do it?
01:19:55.260 Why would he do it?
01:19:57.180 FBI works for China?
01:20:00.060 I don't see that.
01:20:01.420 To draw out the righties?
01:20:05.360 That doesn't feel like a good plan.
01:20:07.600 Maybe.
01:20:13.080 FBI hates Trump?
01:20:15.160 I don't know.
01:20:15.900 That's a weird plan
01:20:16.840 for somebody who hates Trump.
01:20:22.180 Yeah, so you've got a problem there, don't you?
01:20:24.260 To blame the PSYOP on Trump.
01:20:31.140 That's kind of assuming
01:20:32.360 too much intelligence and foresight.
01:20:35.120 If you imagine that the FBI informant
01:20:37.600 did it for the purpose of
01:20:39.140 making Trump look bad,
01:20:42.380 that, maybe.
01:20:44.780 That's a pretty big stretch.
01:20:47.360 And I would say that's not a plan
01:20:49.060 any rational person would try to do.
01:20:52.440 Now, I do know the, you know,
01:20:54.260 various agencies have done
01:20:57.040 a lot of clever things.
01:20:58.720 But that feels not certain enough.
01:21:01.700 In other words,
01:21:02.400 you couldn't know
01:21:03.480 with enough certainty
01:21:04.520 that you'll get a good output from that
01:21:06.840 so that the risk of doing it
01:21:08.740 would be greater than
01:21:09.660 the likely payoff.
01:21:13.680 Somebody said,
01:21:14.300 didn't say he was rational.
01:21:16.000 So you think there was
01:21:16.740 an irrational FBI agent
01:21:18.920 irrationally...
01:21:20.240 Okay, you see where this
01:21:22.820 all fall apart?
01:21:24.260 I think you're watching it.
01:21:27.040 Yeah, false flag.
01:21:30.040 So, all right.
01:21:31.500 To do a false flag,
01:21:32.840 to do a false flag,
01:21:34.300 you'd have to have
01:21:34.860 reasonable confidence
01:21:38.360 it would work.
01:21:39.040 So let's say in Syria
01:21:41.940 if somebody did a false flag
01:21:43.560 about a chemical attack,
01:21:45.560 would they have a reasonable
01:21:46.820 reasonable chance
01:21:48.880 of getting away with it
01:21:49.900 and not much penalty
01:21:52.100 if they didn't.
01:21:53.380 So let's say you staged
01:21:54.820 a false flag
01:21:55.780 chemical attack in Syria.
01:21:57.820 I'm not saying that happened,
01:21:59.320 but let's say you did.
01:22:00.700 If it didn't work,
01:22:02.200 would there be any penalty
01:22:03.260 to you,
01:22:04.360 the people who put on the hoax?
01:22:06.500 No.
01:22:07.440 No, there would be no penalty.
01:22:08.760 It would just be a hoax
01:22:09.560 that didn't work.
01:22:11.000 Now,
01:22:12.060 suppose it did work.
01:22:13.800 There'd be a big payoff,
01:22:14.840 right?
01:22:15.280 Because you might change
01:22:16.440 the military balance there.
01:22:18.680 So it makes complete sense
01:22:20.440 that somebody in Syria
01:22:22.720 would try to fake
01:22:23.700 a chemical attack,
01:22:25.460 do a false flag attack.
01:22:27.260 Complete sense.
01:22:28.020 Because the payoff is obvious.
01:22:30.020 There's no downside.
01:22:31.640 But the potential payoff
01:22:32.660 is huge.
01:22:33.720 And it's hard to see
01:22:34.400 it going wrong.
01:22:36.180 It's hard to imagine
01:22:37.100 how that could have
01:22:37.680 gone wrong.
01:22:38.920 But now take the alleged
01:22:41.360 Ray Epps convincing people
01:22:44.080 to attack the Capitol.
01:22:46.820 Could he have known
01:22:47.720 with reasonable confidence
01:22:49.120 that that would result
01:22:51.640 in people disliking
01:22:52.840 Trump more
01:22:53.980 without collateral problems
01:22:56.620 such as deaths?
01:22:58.740 I don't think you could do that.
01:23:01.640 Now explain the Steele dossier.
01:23:03.100 Yeah, I can do that.
01:23:06.880 So now explain
01:23:07.940 the Steele dossier
01:23:08.980 because in some ways
01:23:10.040 that looked like an op.
01:23:12.540 The Steele dossier
01:23:13.720 only had to convince
01:23:15.760 the fake news
01:23:17.420 to tell a fake story
01:23:19.840 that was bad for Trump.
01:23:20.960 What are the odds
01:23:22.560 that that would succeed?
01:23:23.880 Anybody?
01:23:24.920 It's a fake story
01:23:26.000 and they only have to convince
01:23:28.300 the fake news to tell it.
01:23:29.780 That's it.
01:23:30.140 It doesn't have to be true.
01:23:33.620 That's easy.
01:23:35.080 Right?
01:23:35.500 So it's easy
01:23:37.240 to do a fake flag attack
01:23:38.820 and you could even predict it.
01:23:40.860 If the upside is tremendous
01:23:42.700 and predictable,
01:23:44.300 all right,
01:23:44.720 it's very predictable
01:23:46.040 that the fake news
01:23:47.000 is going to report this story.
01:23:48.300 Even if they retracted it later,
01:23:50.200 it would still work
01:23:51.280 because they would report it
01:23:52.840 up to that point.
01:23:54.160 Now what are the odds
01:23:55.180 that Christopher Steele
01:23:56.140 thought that he would
01:23:58.100 come out behind
01:23:59.380 by doing this?
01:24:00.740 Well, he was getting paid.
01:24:03.680 There was every reason
01:24:04.960 to believe it would work.
01:24:07.860 And he didn't go to jail.
01:24:12.120 Right?
01:24:13.360 So he did something
01:24:14.600 that was a low risk to him,
01:24:16.720 that a huge potential payoff,
01:24:18.600 and it was very predictable,
01:24:19.860 the payoff.
01:24:20.860 Very predictable
01:24:21.660 that it would work.
01:24:22.440 Under those conditions,
01:24:24.180 what are the odds
01:24:24.880 of a false flag?
01:24:26.360 Really good.
01:24:27.700 Really good.
01:24:28.380 It's a perfect condition.
01:24:30.060 But I would argue
01:24:31.040 that the January 6th stuff
01:24:33.260 is exactly not like that.
01:24:36.600 You wouldn't know
01:24:37.760 what could happen
01:24:38.580 from a march on the Capitol.
01:24:41.880 Because that's
01:24:42.380 the whole problem, right?
01:24:43.800 You didn't know
01:24:44.460 if it would go peaceful,
01:24:45.400 you didn't know
01:24:45.860 if it would go dangerous,
01:24:46.780 and if it went dangerous,
01:24:47.720 how dangerous,
01:24:48.860 and you just wouldn't know.
01:24:50.720 So I don't believe
01:24:53.080 that anybody rational
01:24:55.780 would have done
01:24:56.820 a false flag of that nature.
01:24:58.860 Because it doesn't fit
01:24:59.960 the model
01:25:00.400 that you would do
01:25:00.920 a false flag for.
01:25:07.220 Scott's assessment
01:25:08.000 of odds are not convincing.
01:25:09.660 Well, you know,
01:25:10.000 the beauty of my argument
01:25:11.080 when I put it
01:25:11.800 in terms of the odds
01:25:12.720 is that you can take
01:25:14.060 the structure
01:25:14.900 of the argument
01:25:15.540 and just put it
01:25:16.420 in your own odds.
01:25:17.720 And then you might
01:25:18.320 get a different opinion.
01:25:19.720 Not a false flag,
01:25:27.460 merely a framing.
01:25:30.740 Well, it would be
01:25:31.540 a false flag
01:25:32.180 in terms of who
01:25:33.060 initiated it.
01:25:34.880 But yes,
01:25:35.360 I would take that.
01:25:36.440 I take that correction.
01:25:38.580 It might be more
01:25:39.120 of a framing situation.
01:25:42.220 Framing as in
01:25:42.940 framing somebody for it.
01:25:44.260 But I guess
01:25:44.680 that's a false flag,
01:25:45.580 isn't it?
01:25:45.900 Top three ways
01:25:52.060 to detect fake news.
01:25:54.640 Okay.
01:25:55.460 Number one,
01:25:57.080 it's reported
01:25:57.820 as true
01:25:59.260 on only one
01:26:00.040 of the big networks.
01:26:01.680 If CNN says it's true
01:26:03.120 and Fox News
01:26:03.820 says it isn't,
01:26:04.900 probably isn't true.
01:26:06.580 But also,
01:26:07.440 the other way around.
01:26:08.600 If Fox News
01:26:09.280 says it's true
01:26:09.800 and CNN says
01:26:10.520 that never happened,
01:26:11.760 probably didn't.
01:26:12.400 So that's the first rule.
01:26:14.300 Both networks
01:26:15.100 have to repeat it,
01:26:15.980 have to report it the same
01:26:17.220 or it's probably not true.
01:26:19.580 Secondly,
01:26:20.760 is it too on the nose?
01:26:23.160 It's just a little
01:26:23.980 too perfect,
01:26:25.060 that story.
01:26:25.720 It's a little too perfect.
01:26:27.480 Right?
01:26:28.720 Number three,
01:26:30.380 follow the money.
01:26:32.480 Right?
01:26:33.060 If following the money
01:26:34.060 suggests that the news
01:26:35.840 is probably fake,
01:26:37.940 it's very predictive.
01:26:39.860 Very predictive.
01:26:40.680 Now, not always.
01:26:43.000 You know,
01:26:43.240 not a guarantee.
01:26:44.320 In fact,
01:26:44.780 none of these rules
01:26:45.440 are guarantees.
01:26:46.700 But there,
01:26:47.360 I think you'd get
01:26:48.100 to the 90% range.
01:26:49.920 90% predictive.
01:26:53.560 Let's identify,
01:26:55.520 all right.
01:27:03.520 Here's somebody
01:27:04.240 who's coming back
01:27:04.920 with the red herring stuff.
01:27:07.120 So let me hide you
01:27:09.420 on this channel.
01:27:10.680 All right.
01:27:16.640 Oh, here's one.
01:27:17.600 The payoff of January 6th
01:27:18.960 was that the FBI
01:27:19.760 did not have to investigate
01:27:21.240 voter fraud.
01:27:23.760 That's maybe too clever.
01:27:27.000 Because I don't think,
01:27:28.840 well, I see what you're saying.
01:27:31.200 I see what you're saying.
01:27:32.240 But that would be
01:27:33.140 pretty risky.
01:27:34.240 I just don't see
01:27:36.080 the FBI
01:27:36.620 doing risky plays.
01:27:38.720 It's the wrong organization
01:27:40.200 for risky plays.
01:27:51.520 FBI is dirty.
01:27:52.840 Well,
01:27:54.320 every,
01:27:55.220 open your eyes,
01:27:56.960 Scott.
01:27:58.000 So,
01:27:58.800 Z3
01:27:59.360 gurgling
01:28:00.260 says,
01:28:01.260 open your eyes,
01:28:01.960 Scott,
01:28:02.240 in all caps.
01:28:03.720 I'm going to close your eyes
01:28:05.320 as you are now
01:28:06.880 hidden from this channel.
01:28:09.280 What's the risk?
01:28:15.560 You have a guy,
01:28:16.560 what's the risk?
01:28:17.500 The risk is getting caught
01:28:18.900 and then finding out
01:28:20.940 that the FBI
01:28:21.540 was behind it.
01:28:22.900 That's the risk.
01:28:23.600 By the indicators,
01:28:31.220 is Hunter's laptop fake?
01:28:35.260 No.
01:28:36.500 Because,
01:28:37.160 although CNN
01:28:37.860 was at first
01:28:39.560 trying to sell you
01:28:40.940 the idea that
01:28:41.920 it might have been
01:28:42.900 a Russian plant,
01:28:44.240 they have backed off that.
01:28:46.040 So,
01:28:46.540 I don't believe
01:28:47.200 CNN is reporting
01:28:48.400 it's fake.
01:28:49.840 So,
01:28:50.040 now you have
01:28:50.540 both networks
01:28:51.220 reporting it was
01:28:51.920 a real laptop.
01:28:52.520 So,
01:28:53.780 I think that works.
01:28:55.860 So,
01:28:56.460 certainly,
01:29:00.180 when did the FBI
01:29:03.720 getting caught
01:29:04.460 ever matter?
01:29:06.240 Well,
01:29:06.760 I don't know
01:29:07.300 the history,
01:29:08.200 but it would have to matter.
01:29:12.820 All right,
01:29:13.440 everybody who's
01:29:14.380 doing this
01:29:15.800 gets hidden
01:29:16.240 on the channel now.
01:29:17.660 All references to that.
01:29:21.340 Okay,
01:29:21.860 just trying
01:29:27.540 to get rid
01:29:27.920 of some more
01:29:28.280 of the...
01:29:29.920 Everybody who's
01:29:30.860 saying the
01:29:31.580 red herring thing,
01:29:32.520 I don't care
01:29:33.400 if you're the troll
01:29:34.440 or talking about
01:29:35.200 the troll,
01:29:35.760 I'm hiding
01:29:36.080 all of you.
01:29:37.800 Just annoyed
01:29:38.440 because you don't
01:29:38.980 tell me what
01:29:39.420 that's about.
01:29:40.060 If I knew
01:29:40.380 what it was about,
01:29:40.940 I probably
01:29:41.240 wouldn't care.
01:29:45.700 All right,
01:29:46.240 just spend a moment
01:29:46.860 looking at your
01:29:47.380 comments,
01:29:47.880 because there's
01:29:48.500 a lot of pushback.
01:29:52.980 Now,
01:29:53.800 but hear me
01:29:54.500 clearly.
01:29:55.960 I'm not saying
01:29:56.820 it's impossible
01:29:57.600 that the FBI
01:29:59.160 did some kind
01:30:00.840 of a weird
01:30:01.460 false flag
01:30:02.220 or they're
01:30:03.400 guilty of something.
01:30:04.840 It's possible.
01:30:06.060 I just don't
01:30:06.800 see it yet,
01:30:08.560 meaning that
01:30:09.240 the story's got
01:30:10.360 a hole in it.
01:30:11.060 It doesn't
01:30:11.440 kind of hold
01:30:12.240 together to me.
01:30:12.880 I don't think
01:30:17.820 there's zero
01:30:18.320 risk to the
01:30:19.000 reputation of
01:30:19.680 the FBI.
01:30:20.500 There's only
01:30:20.880 zero risk
01:30:21.500 to the agent.
01:30:23.120 So if it was
01:30:23.960 an FBI thing
01:30:25.080 as opposed
01:30:25.580 to an
01:30:26.280 independent
01:30:26.640 actor,
01:30:27.580 the FBI
01:30:28.040 would never.
01:30:28.880 I just can't
01:30:29.620 see them
01:30:29.980 authorizing that.
01:30:31.140 Too easy
01:30:31.560 to get caught,
01:30:33.200 too much
01:30:33.760 of a downside,
01:30:35.620 unclear that
01:30:36.460 the upside
01:30:36.860 even exists.
01:30:37.680 I don't see it.
01:30:38.240 You will be
01:30:45.100 persuaded,
01:30:45.700 Ellen says.
01:30:47.820 Possible.
01:30:49.760 I'm open
01:30:50.420 to being
01:30:50.860 persuaded on
01:30:51.580 that,
01:30:51.780 by the way.
01:30:52.480 If you think
01:30:53.200 I've closed
01:30:53.760 the door on
01:30:54.320 that,
01:30:54.500 I haven't.
01:30:55.220 What I've
01:30:55.900 seen is not
01:30:56.480 persuasive.
01:30:57.540 What you've
01:30:58.160 seen seems
01:30:58.720 to be persuasive.
01:30:59.700 Maybe there's
01:31:00.100 something else
01:31:00.520 you've seen.
01:31:01.520 But I'll
01:31:01.880 look into it.
01:31:02.540 I'll watch
01:31:02.900 the Tucker
01:31:03.840 Carlson
01:31:04.680 package.
01:31:05.740 By the way,
01:31:06.200 that's up
01:31:06.780 now,
01:31:07.000 right?
01:31:08.240 Explain the
01:31:09.020 Whitmer plot.
01:31:11.420 I believe
01:31:12.200 the Whitmer
01:31:12.680 plot was
01:31:13.560 not intended
01:31:14.240 to actually
01:31:14.920 kidnap her,
01:31:15.660 was it?
01:31:17.040 Now,
01:31:17.680 I don't know
01:31:18.820 if I have
01:31:19.220 the details
01:31:19.580 right,
01:31:19.880 but wasn't
01:31:20.240 the story
01:31:20.820 that an
01:31:21.620 FBI informant
01:31:22.640 was getting
01:31:24.080 a bunch
01:31:25.380 of,
01:31:26.640 who were
01:31:28.420 they,
01:31:28.740 militia,
01:31:29.800 to come
01:31:30.920 up with a
01:31:31.380 plan to
01:31:31.880 kidnap
01:31:32.360 Whitmer?
01:31:33.660 But I
01:31:34.380 don't believe
01:31:34.760 there was
01:31:35.060 any intention
01:31:35.720 that they
01:31:36.060 would actually
01:31:36.600 kidnap
01:31:37.060 Whitmer,
01:31:37.520 right?
01:31:38.240 Isn't it
01:31:39.340 routine for
01:31:41.760 the FBI
01:31:42.220 to maybe
01:31:43.620 get people
01:31:44.100 to plan
01:31:44.700 a crime
01:31:45.160 and then
01:31:45.500 stop it
01:31:45.860 before it
01:31:46.260 happens?
01:31:48.080 Have you
01:31:48.640 read anything
01:31:49.060 by Nassim
01:31:49.860 Taleb?
01:31:51.020 Well,
01:31:51.900 yes,
01:31:52.420 I read
01:31:52.740 the Black
01:31:53.620 Swan stuff,
01:31:54.680 but later
01:31:55.940 after listening
01:31:56.500 to him
01:31:56.920 on Facebook,
01:31:58.400 I'm sorry,
01:31:58.980 listening to him
01:31:59.680 on Twitter,
01:32:01.340 I ended up
01:32:01.900 blocking him,
01:32:02.760 and I don't
01:32:04.060 consider him
01:32:04.660 a useful
01:32:05.440 voice.
01:32:07.940 He has,
01:32:08.940 I don't
01:32:09.540 want to
01:32:09.780 diagnose
01:32:10.100 somebody I
01:32:10.740 don't know,
01:32:11.320 and I'm
01:32:11.760 not a
01:32:12.080 doctor,
01:32:12.960 but whatever
01:32:14.200 Taleb has
01:32:14.960 going on
01:32:15.640 is influencing
01:32:17.320 his opinions
01:32:20.300 and communication.
01:32:21.700 There's
01:32:22.120 something going
01:32:22.760 on with him
01:32:23.520 that doesn't
01:32:24.540 have to do
01:32:24.980 with the
01:32:25.200 arguments,
01:32:25.960 and I don't
01:32:28.140 know what it
01:32:28.500 is,
01:32:28.800 but I
01:32:31.620 don't see
01:32:32.200 him as
01:32:32.560 being a
01:32:32.900 useful
01:32:33.220 voice at
01:32:33.740 this
01:32:33.920 point.
01:32:38.880 Same
01:32:39.480 Whitmer
01:32:39.860 agent sent
01:32:40.720 to incite
01:32:41.340 January 6th?
01:32:43.000 Might be
01:32:43.640 the same
01:32:44.000 people,
01:32:47.180 but I
01:32:50.240 don't believe
01:32:50.720 that the
01:32:51.060 FBI gets
01:32:51.740 people to
01:32:52.200 do actual
01:32:52.940 violent
01:32:53.380 crimes just
01:32:54.580 so they
01:32:54.940 can accomplish
01:32:56.180 something.
01:32:57.580 Is there
01:32:57.860 any precedent
01:32:58.360 for that?
01:32:58.800 Is there
01:32:59.880 any precedent
01:33:00.440 for the
01:33:01.080 FBI getting
01:33:01.760 people to
01:33:02.240 do the
01:33:02.560 actual crime
01:33:03.380 as opposed
01:33:03.940 to arresting
01:33:04.580 them before
01:33:05.020 it happens?
01:33:07.200 Has that
01:33:07.780 ever happened?
01:33:16.360 The
01:33:16.800 Whitmer
01:33:17.060 kidnapping
01:33:17.760 crew's
01:33:19.520 lead agent
01:33:20.440 and two
01:33:20.800 of his
01:33:21.060 underlings
01:33:21.480 have been
01:33:21.780 kicked out
01:33:22.180 of the
01:33:22.360 FBI,
01:33:22.960 one for
01:33:23.260 being a
01:33:23.600 wife-beater.
01:33:24.900 That seems
01:33:25.420 coincidental.
01:33:26.280 Did I
01:33:28.680 hear
01:33:28.920 Michael
01:33:29.280 Schellenberger
01:33:29.840 on Joe
01:33:30.580 Rogan?
01:33:31.420 You know,
01:33:31.920 I love
01:33:32.360 Joe Rogan
01:33:32.940 and I
01:33:33.240 love
01:33:33.460 Michael
01:33:34.000 Schellenberger.
01:33:35.260 I think
01:33:35.880 I know
01:33:36.160 the arguments,
01:33:37.200 so I'm
01:33:38.420 not sure I
01:33:38.880 would have
01:33:39.120 to follow
01:33:39.480 all three
01:33:39.940 hours of
01:33:40.340 it.
01:33:40.700 My only
01:33:41.100 problem with
01:33:41.540 the Joe
01:33:41.780 Rogan show
01:33:42.240 is it's
01:33:42.620 long.
01:33:44.660 Now, if
01:33:45.380 you want
01:33:45.740 long content,
01:33:46.500 it's exactly
01:33:47.060 what you
01:33:47.400 want, but
01:33:48.120 I rarely
01:33:48.720 can consume
01:33:49.380 long content.
01:33:57.240 Let's
01:33:57.760 see.
01:33:59.780 Craig
01:34:00.240 Wright is
01:34:00.720 Satoshi
01:34:01.220 Nakamoto.
01:34:03.760 All right.
01:34:05.140 How would
01:34:05.560 we know?
01:34:06.000 By the
01:34:06.280 nature, we
01:34:06.760 can't know
01:34:07.240 if it
01:34:07.640 worked.
01:34:08.760 Well,
01:34:09.380 maybe.
01:34:10.120 That's a
01:34:10.380 good point.
01:34:11.140 But also,
01:34:11.880 the people
01:34:13.740 doing it
01:34:14.200 couldn't have
01:34:14.620 known it
01:34:14.940 would work
01:34:15.340 out.
01:34:15.960 There's no
01:34:16.440 way they
01:34:16.700 could have
01:34:16.900 known that.
01:34:18.120 And it
01:34:18.360 didn't
01:34:18.540 work out,
01:34:18.960 did it?
01:34:23.120 Many of
01:34:23.680 the Islamo
01:34:24.780 plots were
01:34:25.520 done the
01:34:25.860 same way.
01:34:31.480 Martin
01:34:31.880 Luther King,
01:34:32.580 well, that's
01:34:32.980 sort of
01:34:33.280 ancient.
01:34:37.200 Yes,
01:34:37.680 FBI agents
01:34:38.360 in Boston,
01:34:39.780 John Conley.
01:34:41.540 I don't
01:34:41.840 know that
01:34:42.160 story.
01:34:48.120 there's a
01:34:51.500 bunch of
01:34:51.780 people in
01:34:52.140 jail,
01:34:52.600 right?
01:34:57.280 Yeah,
01:34:57.920 Rogan and
01:34:58.480 Chappelle
01:34:58.720 have been
01:34:59.260 doing their
01:34:59.820 act together
01:35:00.380 for a long
01:35:00.840 time.
01:35:03.580 Wake up,
01:35:04.320 Scott.
01:35:05.580 I'm just
01:35:06.160 going to
01:35:06.400 block you.
01:35:08.580 I do.
01:35:10.120 Anybody
01:35:10.560 whose best
01:35:11.240 comment is
01:35:11.920 wake up,
01:35:13.420 I don't
01:35:13.980 want you to
01:35:14.460 follow me.
01:35:14.840 I'd rather
01:35:16.200 you just
01:35:16.620 watch other
01:35:17.080 content.
01:35:18.540 Wake up.
01:35:19.720 I don't
01:35:20.420 believe that
01:35:21.160 I'm un-woke.
01:35:22.380 I believe I'm
01:35:23.160 influenced by
01:35:25.860 evidence.
01:35:27.680 Is that
01:35:30.440 okay?
01:35:30.840 Can I be
01:35:31.220 influenced by
01:35:31.900 evidence?
01:35:35.300 Ab scam.
01:35:36.720 Now,
01:35:37.000 ab scam was
01:35:38.420 getting people
01:35:40.340 to do a
01:35:40.940 financial crime,
01:35:42.960 you can
01:35:43.320 definitely let
01:35:43.960 them do the
01:35:44.460 crime and
01:35:45.000 then arrest
01:35:45.440 them because
01:35:46.160 nobody got
01:35:46.660 hurt and
01:35:47.180 they can
01:35:47.540 unwind the
01:35:48.460 financial part.
01:35:49.140 But I don't
01:35:50.000 think there's
01:35:50.320 any precedent
01:35:50.860 for the
01:35:52.400 FBI getting
01:35:53.440 people to do
01:35:54.060 a violent
01:35:54.540 crime or
01:35:55.480 even a
01:35:56.060 potentially
01:35:56.900 violent crime
01:35:57.560 like a
01:35:57.880 protest.
01:36:08.420 aware.
01:36:11.320 Do you
01:36:11.500 watch
01:36:11.820 Barnes?
01:36:14.100 Yes.
01:36:16.040 Any advice
01:36:16.500 on how to
01:36:16.840 be balanced
01:36:17.360 in hobbies
01:36:17.940 and fun
01:36:18.440 stuff?
01:36:19.380 Nope.
01:36:19.880 I'm the
01:36:20.280 worst person
01:36:20.740 in the
01:36:20.960 world with
01:36:21.300 that.
01:36:24.980 All right.
01:36:26.760 Vegas
01:36:27.200 shooter?
01:36:27.840 No.
01:36:28.320 I don't
01:36:28.580 think there's
01:36:28.940 a plot
01:36:29.300 there.
01:36:30.500 Do I
01:36:30.800 know who
01:36:31.140 Craig Wright
01:36:31.660 is?
01:36:32.060 Nope.
01:36:33.420 I don't.
01:36:35.480 What's
01:36:35.820 this?
01:36:36.060 Feel
01:36:38.220 comfortable
01:36:38.680 sharing your
01:36:39.320 ETH to
01:36:40.040 Bitcoin
01:36:40.580 or radio?
01:36:42.280 No.
01:36:42.860 I'm not
01:36:43.440 going to
01:36:43.660 take any
01:36:44.020 invitations
01:36:44.500 for media
01:36:45.100 stuff until
01:36:45.760 I get my
01:36:46.140 life under
01:36:46.600 control.
01:36:48.620 Until I
01:36:50.760 can get
01:36:51.040 more than
01:36:51.360 three hours
01:36:51.840 of sleep
01:36:52.200 on a
01:36:52.700 regular
01:36:52.960 basis,
01:36:53.620 I'm not
01:36:53.960 going to
01:36:54.240 accept any
01:36:54.880 invitations.
01:37:03.480 Only
01:37:03.920 murders in
01:37:04.460 the
01:37:04.560 buildings?
01:37:04.880 I tried
01:37:05.180 to watch
01:37:05.520 that.
01:37:05.700 I couldn't
01:37:06.160 get into
01:37:06.540 it.
01:37:09.820 So,
01:37:10.300 believe
01:37:10.500 without
01:37:10.780 evidence
01:37:11.320 until
01:37:11.860 evidence
01:37:12.320 to the
01:37:12.640 contrary?
01:37:13.560 No.
01:37:14.120 I simply
01:37:14.820 believe that
01:37:15.540 the ordinary
01:37:16.120 is the
01:37:16.820 best
01:37:17.120 explanation
01:37:17.720 until the
01:37:18.560 extraordinary
01:37:19.080 has been
01:37:19.540 proven.
01:37:21.180 I always
01:37:22.620 just make
01:37:23.080 the assumption
01:37:24.300 that the
01:37:24.860 most ordinary
01:37:26.020 thing is going
01:37:26.620 to happen.
01:37:27.320 Yes,
01:37:27.600 I'm still
01:37:27.940 drumming.
01:37:28.420 Would you
01:37:28.620 like to
01:37:28.900 see what
01:37:29.280 I've come
01:37:29.640 up with
01:37:30.020 as my
01:37:30.460 intro
01:37:30.780 to this
01:37:31.960 program?
01:37:33.340 Want to
01:37:33.620 hear the
01:37:34.040 drum
01:37:35.240 intro?
01:37:36.040 Here's the
01:37:36.500 drum
01:37:36.720 intro.
01:37:37.960 Now,
01:37:39.100 what you
01:37:39.480 need to
01:37:39.740 know is
01:37:40.300 that the
01:37:40.560 drum
01:37:40.760 intro is
01:37:41.880 based on
01:37:42.580 my morning
01:37:43.600 routine and
01:37:44.520 the name of
01:37:45.060 the piece
01:37:45.460 is called
01:37:46.100 coffee.
01:37:47.800 So,
01:37:48.400 this is my
01:37:48.800 own drumming
01:37:49.440 and it's
01:37:50.920 supposed to
01:37:51.280 represent me
01:37:53.440 sleeping.
01:37:54.640 It starts
01:37:55.300 with a
01:37:55.580 heartbeat.
01:37:56.020 heartbeat.
01:37:56.760 That's
01:37:57.020 my sleeping
01:37:57.640 heartbeat.
01:37:58.680 And you'll
01:37:59.040 hear a
01:37:59.940 little bit
01:38:01.320 of noise.
01:38:01.800 That's the
01:38:02.160 alarm.
01:38:03.120 You'll hear
01:38:03.440 my two
01:38:04.080 feet hitting
01:38:04.560 the ground,
01:38:05.260 getting out
01:38:05.580 of bed.
01:38:06.960 You're
01:38:07.400 going to
01:38:07.460 hear me
01:38:07.720 going down
01:38:08.160 the stairs.
01:38:10.820 And then
01:38:11.380 you're going
01:38:11.640 to hear me
01:38:12.080 going on
01:38:12.860 with my
01:38:13.220 day.
01:38:15.520 Until I
01:38:16.180 have my
01:38:16.460 first drink
01:38:16.900 of coffee.
01:38:17.340 All right?
01:38:18.280 So,
01:38:18.640 going from
01:38:19.040 sleeping down
01:38:20.980 the stairs,
01:38:22.020 getting a
01:38:22.400 cup of
01:38:22.700 coffee,
01:38:22.980 here is
01:38:24.400 what might
01:38:25.560 be some
01:38:26.580 form of
01:38:26.900 this,
01:38:27.340 my new
01:38:27.780 drum
01:38:28.020 opening.
01:38:33.580 Heartbeat.
01:38:35.080 Alarm.
01:38:43.280 Going
01:38:43.760 on with
01:38:44.140 my
01:38:44.320 day.
01:38:52.980 And then
01:38:54.580 I match
01:38:54.900 that with
01:38:55.300 the sip.
01:38:57.640 Anyway,
01:38:58.180 that's my
01:38:58.680 first draft
01:38:59.380 I'm working
01:38:59.780 on.
01:39:05.300 You think
01:39:05.900 it needs
01:39:06.140 to be
01:39:06.360 jazz?
01:39:06.840 No.
01:39:10.320 You like
01:39:11.000 it?
01:39:11.920 Steel drums
01:39:12.580 would be
01:39:12.900 nice.
01:39:15.780 It sounds
01:39:16.520 better,
01:39:16.940 of course,
01:39:17.840 not played
01:39:18.440 through my
01:39:18.840 phone onto
01:39:19.480 my iPad.
01:39:21.000 Well,
01:39:23.180 I'm going
01:39:23.460 to work
01:39:23.700 on that.
01:39:24.340 I might
01:39:24.520 even ask
01:39:26.040 somebody who's
01:39:26.580 an actual
01:39:27.120 drummer to
01:39:27.840 drum it
01:39:28.300 better,
01:39:29.040 so it
01:39:29.240 sounds
01:39:29.440 better.
01:39:30.560 But I
01:39:31.220 also wanted
01:39:31.700 to write
01:39:32.300 a song.
01:39:33.860 I wanted
01:39:34.420 to write
01:39:34.740 a song.
01:39:35.720 So I
01:39:36.460 guess in
01:39:36.820 some ways
01:39:37.280 it's like
01:39:37.680 a,
01:39:38.780 I guess
01:39:41.520 it's a
01:39:41.820 song.
01:39:42.840 Now,
01:39:43.760 you want
01:39:44.260 to hear
01:39:44.500 a tragic
01:39:45.680 story?
01:39:47.000 It's
01:39:47.160 tragic.
01:39:47.980 Not very
01:39:48.440 tragic.
01:39:48.780 Small,
01:39:51.140 small
01:39:51.340 tragic.
01:39:52.520 So back
01:39:53.320 when I
01:39:53.540 was doing
01:39:53.800 the
01:39:54.100 Dilbert
01:39:54.620 TV show,
01:39:56.220 it ran
01:39:56.840 on UPN
01:39:57.340 for two
01:39:57.660 half seasons,
01:39:58.900 we needed
01:39:59.580 an opening,
01:40:00.960 and so I
01:40:01.800 designed
01:40:02.860 the opening.
01:40:04.760 And the
01:40:05.240 design was
01:40:05.980 it would
01:40:06.180 be Dilbert
01:40:07.360 evolving,
01:40:09.000 you'd show
01:40:09.340 evolution,
01:40:10.360 and then he'd
01:40:10.780 evolve into
01:40:11.400 a cubicle
01:40:11.980 dweller,
01:40:13.040 and then you'd
01:40:13.620 show him
01:40:14.040 in the
01:40:14.640 cubicles and
01:40:15.200 stuff.
01:40:15.860 Now,
01:40:16.120 that was
01:40:16.360 just sort
01:40:16.820 of the
01:40:17.180 first draft.
01:40:17.940 I sort
01:40:19.720 of asked
01:40:20.740 the creative
01:40:21.240 people,
01:40:21.960 okay,
01:40:22.220 go make
01:40:22.600 me an
01:40:24.280 opening that
01:40:25.220 has these
01:40:26.100 features in
01:40:26.880 it,
01:40:27.100 where Dilbert
01:40:27.640 has evolved
01:40:28.380 like evolution
01:40:29.120 from a
01:40:30.380 creature into
01:40:31.100 a monkey,
01:40:31.620 into a
01:40:31.920 human,
01:40:32.300 and then
01:40:32.620 into a
01:40:33.080 cubicle,
01:40:33.640 because it's
01:40:34.640 funny to
01:40:35.080 show that
01:40:35.380 people evolved
01:40:36.040 into something
01:40:36.620 so weak as
01:40:37.600 living in a
01:40:38.320 cubicle.
01:40:40.260 So we
01:40:41.180 hired,
01:40:41.980 I think,
01:40:43.300 the top
01:40:44.560 person in
01:40:46.100 the field
01:40:46.460 to make
01:40:46.800 the music,
01:40:47.740 and then
01:40:48.020 the animators
01:40:48.620 put together
01:40:49.180 the animation
01:40:49.780 that achieved
01:40:50.720 that,
01:40:51.040 et cetera.
01:40:52.200 And people
01:40:52.920 liked it.
01:40:54.360 And I'm
01:40:55.200 blanking on
01:40:55.760 the name
01:40:56.060 of the
01:40:56.340 famous
01:40:56.720 composer,
01:40:57.580 Danny
01:40:57.800 Elfman.
01:40:58.900 Have you
01:40:59.160 ever heard
01:40:59.420 of Danny
01:40:59.840 Elfman?
01:41:01.300 A very
01:41:01.800 famous
01:41:02.220 composer for
01:41:03.440 music,
01:41:04.600 or movie
01:41:05.300 scores and
01:41:05.920 stuff like
01:41:06.340 that.
01:41:07.940 Who was
01:41:08.580 he with
01:41:09.020 originally?
01:41:11.240 Devoe?
01:41:12.200 Devoe?
01:41:12.600 I forget
01:41:13.780 who he
01:41:14.120 was with
01:41:14.400 originally,
01:41:14.880 but he's
01:41:15.200 one of the
01:41:16.220 most successful
01:41:17.100 people.
01:41:18.920 So he did
01:41:19.480 the music.
01:41:20.800 Oh,
01:41:21.160 Oingo Boingo?
01:41:22.360 Is that
01:41:22.560 where it
01:41:22.800 was?
01:41:29.340 Oh,
01:41:29.920 interesting.
01:41:30.760 Chad asked,
01:41:31.540 do you know
01:41:31.900 if they can
01:41:32.360 determine if
01:41:33.220 you've got
01:41:33.540 natural
01:41:33.960 immunity or
01:41:34.960 vaccine
01:41:36.160 immunity?
01:41:39.160 To know
01:41:39.820 if you have
01:41:40.140 a natural
01:41:40.640 boost.
01:41:41.500 Interesting.
01:41:42.300 Anyway,
01:41:42.600 so I put
01:41:43.000 together,
01:41:43.820 so the
01:41:44.280 introduction
01:41:46.020 is a big
01:41:47.240 hit,
01:41:47.880 and it
01:41:49.380 is submitted
01:41:49.820 for an
01:41:50.240 Emmy,
01:41:51.140 and it
01:41:51.520 won an
01:41:51.840 Emmy.
01:41:53.400 So they
01:41:53.740 just,
01:41:54.340 apparently
01:41:54.580 there's an
01:41:55.060 Emmy category
01:41:55.700 for show
01:41:56.960 introductions,
01:41:58.520 and the
01:41:58.980 show introduction
01:41:59.660 that I
01:42:00.360 designed,
01:42:00.980 and then was
01:42:01.600 executed by
01:42:02.400 the animators
01:42:03.740 and Danny
01:42:04.480 Elfman,
01:42:05.400 won an
01:42:05.820 Emmy.
01:42:07.340 So do you
01:42:08.040 want to see
01:42:08.360 my Emmy?
01:42:10.020 Anybody?
01:42:11.000 Would you
01:42:11.280 like to see
01:42:11.680 my Emmy?
01:42:12.060 It's right
01:42:14.840 here behind
01:42:15.300 me.
01:42:18.040 If it
01:42:18.720 looks like
01:42:19.080 a blank
01:42:19.540 shelf,
01:42:20.740 it's because
01:42:21.840 there wasn't
01:42:22.640 enough room
01:42:23.400 on the
01:42:24.060 Emmy
01:42:24.340 application
01:42:25.100 for my
01:42:26.020 name.
01:42:28.160 True story.
01:42:29.800 It was
01:42:30.520 submitted
01:42:30.840 without me
01:42:31.400 knowing it.
01:42:32.120 I didn't
01:42:32.480 know it
01:42:32.760 was submitted
01:42:33.160 for the
01:42:33.500 Emmy,
01:42:33.660 but the
01:42:34.400 people who
01:42:34.780 submitted
01:42:35.060 it left
01:42:36.440 my name
01:42:36.940 off because
01:42:38.460 there wasn't
01:42:38.820 enough room.
01:42:40.360 So I
01:42:40.940 didn't win
01:42:41.280 an Emmy
01:42:41.600 for the
01:42:42.940 thing I
01:42:43.260 designed.
01:42:45.560 Now,
01:42:46.240 to be fair,
01:42:47.640 all of the
01:42:48.440 creative work
01:42:49.200 was done by
01:42:50.160 other people.
01:42:51.040 The animators
01:42:52.060 definitely
01:42:52.440 deserved an
01:42:53.080 Emmy,
01:42:53.240 and Danny
01:42:54.560 Elfman
01:42:54.900 definitely
01:42:55.280 deserved an
01:42:55.880 Emmy for
01:42:56.320 their work.
01:42:57.220 But I
01:42:57.940 did design
01:42:58.920 it.
01:42:59.220 It was my
01:43:01.320 first draft,
01:43:02.140 and typically,
01:43:03.080 the person who
01:43:03.800 does the first
01:43:04.340 draft, no matter
01:43:05.160 how much it
01:43:05.680 changes, but
01:43:06.980 typically in the
01:43:07.680 creative world,
01:43:08.820 whoever does the
01:43:09.460 first draft gets
01:43:10.340 some credit.
01:43:12.080 Some credit.
01:43:12.700 So I
01:43:13.460 actually won
01:43:13.920 an Emmy
01:43:14.220 without winning
01:43:14.760 an Emmy.
01:43:16.180 I think
01:43:16.800 that's
01:43:17.040 special.
01:43:20.440 Do I
01:43:21.040 use blue
01:43:21.460 light blocking
01:43:22.000 glasses?
01:43:22.580 No.
01:43:23.000 That's the
01:43:23.480 weird question.
01:43:25.840 Yeah.
01:43:26.300 Elon Musk
01:43:27.000 tweeted that he
01:43:27.740 wants to
01:43:28.160 create the
01:43:28.820 Texas Institute
01:43:30.480 for Technology
01:43:31.960 and Science
01:43:32.580 so that the
01:43:33.460 acronym can be
01:43:34.300 TITS.
01:43:35.920 And, you
01:43:36.780 know, of
01:43:37.040 course he's
01:43:37.360 named the
01:43:38.660 models of
01:43:39.320 his Tesla
01:43:41.120 cars so
01:43:42.420 that the
01:43:42.760 letters will
01:43:43.240 spell sex.
01:43:44.180 You know,
01:43:44.340 there's models
01:43:44.820 S and E
01:43:46.060 and X, I
01:43:46.680 guess.
01:43:47.340 Or he planned
01:43:47.900 to do it, I
01:43:48.340 forget.
01:43:49.260 But I
01:43:50.880 love the
01:43:51.340 fact that
01:43:52.800 Elon Musk
01:43:53.460 is the
01:43:53.840 richest person
01:43:54.500 in the
01:43:54.780 world and
01:43:56.080 also a
01:43:56.600 teenage boy.
01:43:59.060 I don't
01:43:59.700 know, I
01:44:00.020 can't stop
01:44:00.800 loving that.
01:44:02.020 That he's
01:44:03.380 not above
01:44:03.880 this joke.
01:44:05.280 I love
01:44:05.760 that he's
01:44:06.080 not above
01:44:06.500 this joke.
01:44:09.060 I just
01:44:09.780 love it.
01:44:12.420 And I'm
01:44:14.040 not sure
01:44:14.320 it was
01:44:14.560 like, it
01:44:15.520 wasn't so
01:44:16.820 funny.
01:44:17.900 I guess it's
01:44:18.420 funny because
01:44:18.900 he said it.
01:44:20.020 That's what
01:44:20.560 makes it
01:44:20.960 noteworthy.
01:44:21.860 If anybody
01:44:22.360 else said it,
01:44:22.940 it would have
01:44:23.140 been, eh.
01:44:24.800 But the
01:44:25.300 fact that he
01:44:25.740 could fund it
01:44:26.380 and actually
01:44:26.780 create it, it
01:44:27.800 actually might
01:44:28.300 just for a
01:44:28.840 joke, is
01:44:30.160 hilarious.
01:44:32.900 By the
01:44:33.440 way, if you
01:44:33.880 haven't heard
01:44:34.580 Elon Musk
01:44:36.420 mocking
01:44:38.360 Warren Buffett,
01:44:42.260 you have to
01:44:43.180 check that
01:44:43.700 out.
01:44:45.340 Yeah.
01:44:46.420 Check out
01:44:47.300 how dismissive
01:44:48.740 Elon Musk is
01:44:50.240 of Warren
01:44:50.720 Buffett.
01:44:51.100 Because apparently
01:44:51.560 Warren Buffett
01:44:52.160 also doesn't
01:44:52.880 think much of
01:44:53.600 Tesla.
01:44:55.060 So, you
01:44:56.280 know, they
01:44:57.140 conflict a
01:44:57.740 little bit.
01:44:58.580 But hearing
01:44:59.280 Elon, who's
01:45:00.880 taking us to
01:45:02.080 Mars and
01:45:02.680 building electric
01:45:03.380 cars and
01:45:03.920 changing the
01:45:04.560 world, hearing
01:45:05.520 him talking
01:45:06.020 about Warren
01:45:06.540 Buffett as
01:45:07.100 a guy who
01:45:07.460 just looks
01:45:07.900 at numbers,
01:45:09.200 which is
01:45:10.800 pretty close,
01:45:12.000 pretty close to
01:45:12.620 a good
01:45:12.880 explanation of
01:45:13.660 who he is.
01:45:14.740 Yeah, he
01:45:15.060 reads balance
01:45:15.820 sheets and
01:45:16.260 financial statements
01:45:17.100 and it's very
01:45:17.740 boring.
01:45:18.800 And that's
01:45:19.780 all he does.
01:45:21.200 That's his
01:45:21.840 contribution to
01:45:22.620 the world,
01:45:23.640 is that he
01:45:23.900 reads balance
01:45:24.460 sheets and
01:45:24.820 financial statements
01:45:25.700 better than
01:45:26.320 you.
01:45:27.720 What is
01:45:28.320 Elon Musk's
01:45:29.280 contribution to
01:45:30.040 the world?
01:45:32.220 Freedom.
01:45:34.240 My God.
01:45:36.340 Elon Musk's
01:45:37.160 contribution to
01:45:37.900 the world is
01:45:38.400 freedom.
01:45:39.660 It's not even
01:45:40.380 close.
01:45:41.620 Oh, yes, I
01:45:42.260 do.
01:45:42.600 I am a big
01:45:43.220 Elon Musk fan.
01:45:45.980 And I do
01:45:46.720 have some
01:45:47.360 small amount
01:45:48.240 of Tesla stock
01:45:49.440 that I bought
01:45:49.940 in the past
01:45:50.640 year.
01:45:51.480 So that's my
01:45:52.280 full disclosure.
01:45:53.460 So I'm very
01:45:53.840 pro-Musk and
01:45:57.040 Tesla.
01:45:58.780 But here's
01:46:00.940 what I mean by
01:46:01.380 freedom.
01:46:02.480 We probably
01:46:03.360 will only be
01:46:04.100 free if we
01:46:04.640 can leave the
01:46:05.200 earth.
01:46:07.160 Long, long
01:46:07.980 term, freedom
01:46:09.320 pretty much
01:46:09.980 requires leaving
01:46:10.700 the earth.
01:46:11.760 Secondly, you're
01:46:13.100 not going to be
01:46:13.620 free unless you
01:46:14.480 have some energy
01:46:16.320 sources that
01:46:17.100 don't completely
01:46:17.900 depend on the
01:46:18.620 government.
01:46:20.160 That's what he
01:46:20.940 makes.
01:46:21.800 He makes your
01:46:22.540 solar panels and
01:46:23.760 your solar
01:46:24.460 battery to make
01:46:27.160 you free from
01:46:27.860 the government.
01:46:29.460 Right?
01:46:29.740 Now you could
01:46:30.180 argue it's not
01:46:31.580 enough, blah, blah,
01:46:32.440 blah.
01:46:32.580 You need your
01:46:33.820 nuclear power and
01:46:34.680 I agree.
01:46:35.800 But he is
01:46:36.580 giving you
01:46:37.120 freedom.
01:46:38.400 You could
01:46:38.980 ignore the
01:46:39.740 government and
01:46:40.400 be your own
01:46:41.020 power company
01:46:41.780 with your
01:46:42.240 house.
01:46:42.580 It's possible
01:46:43.080 depending on
01:46:44.020 the design of
01:46:44.580 the house.
01:46:47.000 And he's
01:46:48.660 also building
01:46:49.360 Starlink.
01:46:50.700 That's his,
01:46:51.240 right?
01:46:51.400 Starlink.
01:46:52.280 The satellite
01:46:53.420 network.
01:46:55.260 What will
01:46:55.760 Starlink allow
01:46:56.660 you to do?
01:46:58.100 Avoid the
01:46:58.740 phone companies.
01:47:00.680 avoid the
01:47:01.780 big companies.
01:47:03.240 Probably also
01:47:04.120 avoid the
01:47:04.600 government in
01:47:06.460 some ways.
01:47:08.240 Because if you
01:47:09.220 have more
01:47:09.500 competition in
01:47:10.400 how information
01:47:12.580 is distributed,
01:47:14.000 the more
01:47:14.480 competition,
01:47:15.780 the more
01:47:16.360 freedom,
01:47:16.960 probably.
01:47:18.240 So I would
01:47:19.020 say that
01:47:19.740 Elon Musk is
01:47:20.760 directly and
01:47:22.020 substantially
01:47:23.000 altering the
01:47:25.360 very nature
01:47:26.100 of humankind
01:47:27.540 in terms of
01:47:29.120 the amount of
01:47:29.680 freedom we'll
01:47:30.320 have now
01:47:31.060 and in the
01:47:31.460 future.
01:47:32.940 And Warren
01:47:33.360 Buffett is
01:47:35.420 just taking
01:47:36.120 money from
01:47:36.640 bad investors
01:47:37.340 and giving it
01:47:37.960 to himself.
01:47:39.180 Because that's
01:47:39.760 what he does.
01:47:40.860 He just
01:47:41.560 invests smarter
01:47:42.960 so that some
01:47:44.100 people are
01:47:44.500 buying the
01:47:44.900 wrong stocks.
01:47:46.200 He's buying
01:47:46.820 the right
01:47:47.200 stocks on
01:47:47.780 average and
01:47:48.460 he makes
01:47:48.780 more money
01:47:49.160 than you do
01:47:49.620 but it's
01:47:49.980 at somebody's
01:47:50.580 expense.
01:47:51.480 It's at the
01:47:51.880 expense of
01:47:52.280 the people
01:47:52.560 who made
01:47:52.840 the wrong
01:47:53.180 decisions.
01:47:54.620 He's just
01:47:55.080 taking money
01:47:55.580 from one
01:47:56.040 pocket and
01:47:56.520 putting it
01:47:56.880 in another.
01:47:57.220 Now, you
01:47:58.840 could argue
01:47:59.300 that he
01:48:00.640 creates a
01:48:01.200 more efficient
01:48:01.720 system, blah
01:48:03.320 blah blah.
01:48:04.100 That's true.
01:48:05.280 But you
01:48:05.740 can't compare
01:48:06.460 the impact
01:48:07.880 that Musk
01:48:08.580 has on
01:48:09.160 humankind
01:48:10.340 to what
01:48:12.320 Warren Buffett
01:48:13.760 did for
01:48:14.080 himself and
01:48:15.600 his investors.
01:48:17.080 But basically
01:48:17.960 they were just
01:48:18.700 moving money
01:48:19.240 from one
01:48:19.700 pocket to
01:48:20.140 another and
01:48:21.300 Musk is
01:48:22.060 moving you
01:48:22.520 from Earth
01:48:23.220 to the
01:48:24.520 moon.
01:48:26.440 Those are
01:48:27.080 not the
01:48:27.720 same
01:48:27.960 conversation.
01:48:31.980 So I
01:48:32.660 just love
01:48:33.300 that.
01:48:33.960 And by
01:48:34.280 the way,
01:48:34.500 I have a
01:48:35.500 prediction
01:48:38.980 about Warren
01:48:39.760 Buffett.
01:48:40.580 You want to
01:48:40.960 hear it?
01:48:41.540 And I can
01:48:41.940 only give it
01:48:42.440 to you in
01:48:43.220 partial form.
01:48:45.320 And the
01:48:45.640 prediction goes
01:48:46.360 like this.
01:48:48.200 That when he
01:48:49.260 and Charlie
01:48:50.340 Munger, who
01:48:50.880 is also
01:48:51.260 super old,
01:48:52.080 when both
01:48:53.260 of them
01:48:53.580 have passed,
01:48:55.420 you're going
01:48:56.340 to hear some
01:48:56.800 stories about
01:48:57.660 one or both
01:48:58.740 of them that
01:48:59.940 you never heard
01:49:00.620 before.
01:49:01.980 And it might
01:49:02.800 not be good.
01:49:04.360 You know
01:49:04.600 what I mean?
01:49:05.560 I have a
01:49:06.240 feeling that
01:49:07.700 the major
01:49:08.240 publications,
01:49:09.300 the people who
01:49:09.860 could maybe
01:49:11.160 find out if
01:49:11.960 Warren Buffett
01:49:12.560 has ever done
01:49:13.180 anything bad,
01:49:15.140 probably stay
01:49:15.820 away.
01:49:17.100 Partly because
01:49:18.000 he's so
01:49:18.440 lovable.
01:49:19.640 And, you
01:49:19.980 know,
01:49:20.120 genuinely he's
01:49:20.800 just terrific
01:49:21.500 in public.
01:49:23.080 And, but
01:49:24.360 I can't
01:49:25.020 believe that
01:49:26.000 somebody with
01:49:26.620 that money
01:49:27.140 doesn't have a
01:49:28.520 skeleton or
01:49:29.180 two in the
01:49:29.620 closet.
01:49:30.900 I don't know
01:49:31.720 in what
01:49:32.060 domain or
01:49:32.900 anything like
01:49:33.360 that.
01:49:33.920 No, I'm
01:49:34.260 not thinking
01:49:34.680 of, you
01:49:35.160 know, any
01:49:35.500 Epstein stuff
01:49:36.280 or anything
01:49:36.580 like that.
01:49:37.280 I think
01:49:37.760 financially.
01:49:39.660 I would be
01:49:40.600 amazed if
01:49:41.780 after they
01:49:42.560 both passed,
01:49:43.220 and I think
01:49:43.460 both of them
01:49:43.920 have to go,
01:49:44.660 Charlie Munger
01:49:45.260 and Buffett.
01:49:47.140 And by the
01:49:47.460 way, I'm
01:49:47.860 pro both of
01:49:48.660 them.
01:49:48.940 I think
01:49:49.180 they're
01:49:49.420 amazing,
01:49:50.380 amazingly
01:49:50.880 successful,
01:49:52.160 good role
01:49:53.200 models based
01:49:53.900 on what we
01:49:54.380 know about
01:49:54.800 them.
01:49:55.160 And you
01:49:55.680 should listen
01:49:56.080 to almost
01:49:56.540 everything they
01:49:57.120 say because
01:49:57.600 it makes
01:49:57.900 sense.
01:50:00.600 But I just
01:50:02.560 have this
01:50:02.940 intuition or
01:50:03.780 something that
01:50:05.160 there's something
01:50:05.800 in that story
01:50:06.780 that we don't
01:50:07.560 know, the
01:50:08.180 Warren Buffett
01:50:08.760 success story,
01:50:10.000 just something
01:50:10.660 we don't know.
01:50:11.560 we'll find
01:50:13.380 out.
01:50:21.920 Could you
01:50:22.420 do a podcast
01:50:23.140 on reframing?
01:50:24.520 You know, I
01:50:25.100 was thinking
01:50:25.340 of writing a
01:50:25.860 book on that
01:50:26.420 topic.
01:50:28.080 Because
01:50:28.480 unfortunately
01:50:29.880 it might
01:50:31.160 overlap with
01:50:31.840 too much of
01:50:32.280 what I've
01:50:32.560 already done.
01:50:33.640 But I
01:50:34.120 think that if
01:50:34.600 people understood
01:50:35.420 reframing as
01:50:36.680 a technique,
01:50:37.700 and saw lots
01:50:38.260 of examples of
01:50:39.080 it, and
01:50:39.380 how to
01:50:39.880 reframe some
01:50:40.640 basic things
01:50:41.980 in your life,
01:50:43.080 it could be
01:50:43.640 life-changing.
01:50:45.480 Do I own
01:50:46.200 more than
01:50:46.520 one house?
01:50:47.160 No.
01:50:49.500 I own
01:50:50.220 one car
01:50:50.880 and one
01:50:51.480 house.
01:50:54.420 Because
01:50:54.900 I just,
01:50:56.800 in order to
01:50:58.060 own two
01:50:58.520 houses, you
01:50:59.340 need to have
01:50:59.680 a staff, I
01:51:00.500 think.
01:51:01.260 And I
01:51:01.600 don't want
01:51:01.900 a staff.
01:51:07.640 Micro
01:51:08.200 lessons on
01:51:08.820 decoupling
01:51:09.560 and divesting
01:51:10.320 from woke
01:51:10.920 companies.
01:51:12.500 No, I
01:51:13.120 think that
01:51:13.440 doesn't belong
01:51:14.880 in the
01:51:15.520 micro lesson
01:51:16.120 list.
01:51:18.280 So the
01:51:18.540 micro lessons
01:51:19.060 I do, I've
01:51:19.580 got over
01:51:20.040 190 of
01:51:21.060 them now on
01:51:21.780 the locals
01:51:22.200 platform, so
01:51:22.920 it's behind a
01:51:23.520 subscription wall.
01:51:24.880 But there are
01:51:25.320 190 lessons in
01:51:26.800 two minutes to
01:51:27.520 four minutes
01:51:28.020 generally, each
01:51:29.480 one of which
01:51:30.020 would give you
01:51:30.620 a new
01:51:31.020 superpower.
01:51:32.440 It's just
01:51:32.780 something you
01:51:33.260 hadn't thought
01:51:33.720 of, a new
01:51:34.380 way of framing
01:51:35.520 things in many
01:51:36.240 cases.
01:51:36.540 And they're
01:51:38.260 all designed
01:51:38.720 to give you
01:51:39.120 a power, right?
01:51:40.520 They're not
01:51:40.900 inert.
01:51:41.660 Everyone is
01:51:42.160 like a power
01:51:42.740 pack.
01:51:43.800 And there are
01:51:44.320 190 of them
01:51:45.240 now.
01:51:45.880 If you consume
01:51:46.800 all 190, and
01:51:48.580 again, it's just
01:51:49.100 two minutes
01:51:49.560 a piece, you
01:51:50.600 could just do
01:51:51.240 it while you're
01:51:51.620 on the toilet
01:51:52.120 one day each
01:51:53.800 until you're
01:51:54.320 done.
01:51:59.120 Oh, here's an
01:51:59.960 interesting point.
01:52:00.620 Some work for
01:52:01.180 money.
01:52:01.640 Scott works for
01:52:02.300 ideas, and the
01:52:03.380 money follows.
01:52:03.880 I would say
01:52:04.640 it a different
01:52:05.000 way.
01:52:05.640 I would say
01:52:06.040 that I have
01:52:06.480 a system, not
01:52:07.440 a goal.
01:52:08.580 My system is
01:52:09.640 to follow the
01:52:10.440 energy and apply
01:52:11.960 my talent stack
01:52:12.940 in a way that
01:52:13.500 helps the most
01:52:14.180 people.
01:52:15.560 If you do
01:52:16.360 that, money
01:52:16.880 will follow.
01:52:18.100 But it's not
01:52:18.760 a process
01:52:19.420 everybody can
01:52:20.180 do, because I
01:52:21.460 have the
01:52:21.820 advantage that I
01:52:22.920 have financial
01:52:23.600 security, so I
01:52:25.220 can wait for
01:52:25.860 things to come
01:52:26.460 to me.
01:52:28.360 You know, I
01:52:28.760 did this live
01:52:29.740 streaming, was
01:52:31.280 just a huge
01:52:31.980 money loser
01:52:32.700 for me.
01:52:34.140 It was just
01:52:34.560 a money loser.
01:52:35.300 It was just
01:52:35.560 drive away,
01:52:36.120 drive away, you
01:52:38.260 know, Dilbert
01:52:38.780 fans, and didn't
01:52:39.960 make any money.
01:52:41.060 I wasn't even
01:52:42.040 monetizing it.
01:52:43.500 And for what,
01:52:44.400 five years?
01:52:46.200 I think I did
01:52:47.120 this for like
01:52:47.620 five years, just
01:52:48.980 because I was
01:52:49.940 following the
01:52:50.460 energy, and it
01:52:52.640 seemed to have a
01:52:54.440 value that people
01:52:55.360 appreciated.
01:52:56.840 And now, it's
01:52:58.300 monetized.
01:52:59.500 So between the
01:53:00.500 YouTube ads,
01:53:02.080 ads, which you
01:53:02.900 can skip if
01:53:03.560 you're subscribed
01:53:04.560 to either
01:53:05.260 Locals or to
01:53:06.560 YouTube, and
01:53:09.180 now it's actually
01:53:09.800 producing money.
01:53:11.200 Now, it's not
01:53:11.680 life-changing
01:53:12.320 money, I didn't
01:53:13.780 need it, but it's
01:53:15.020 doing it.
01:53:16.140 I mean, it's
01:53:16.660 actually a
01:53:17.440 genuine, what
01:53:20.420 would you call
01:53:20.780 it, a genuine
01:53:22.340 business line of
01:53:23.980 business, I guess.
01:53:25.440 Did it help book
01:53:26.320 sales?
01:53:26.740 Probably.
01:53:27.960 Probably.
01:53:28.400 Yeah, so I
01:53:30.920 didn't have a
01:53:31.440 goal of being
01:53:33.540 this.
01:53:34.420 I had a system
01:53:35.240 where I followed
01:53:35.980 the energy, I
01:53:36.800 experimented, I
01:53:38.440 listened to the
01:53:39.060 audience input,
01:53:40.940 change, change,
01:53:41.840 change, and I
01:53:42.800 just followed it
01:53:43.500 where it went, and
01:53:44.980 applied, and built
01:53:46.080 my talent stack at
01:53:47.120 the same time.
01:53:48.240 And if you do
01:53:48.820 those things, and
01:53:51.020 you improve your
01:53:51.840 production quality,
01:53:52.940 apparently not well
01:53:54.140 enough today, if you
01:53:55.580 just chip away at all
01:53:56.920 these things, five
01:53:57.720 years later, you've
01:53:58.420 got a business that
01:54:00.000 you didn't plan on.
01:54:00.920 Exactly.
01:54:08.100 The Hershey CEO
01:54:09.480 said water is not a
01:54:10.900 right.
01:54:12.020 That's true.
01:54:14.120 That's just a
01:54:14.880 definition of the
01:54:15.540 word rights.
01:54:17.180 Now, if you say to
01:54:18.100 yourself, having
01:54:19.420 access to water
01:54:20.340 should be a right,
01:54:21.660 I would agree with
01:54:22.360 you.
01:54:23.120 If you say it is a
01:54:24.240 right, you have to
01:54:24.860 point to it somewhere
01:54:25.720 in a law, or
01:54:27.700 God's word, or
01:54:29.580 something like that.
01:54:30.840 But a right is
01:54:31.900 not just you think
01:54:33.280 it should be
01:54:33.880 something for
01:54:34.520 everybody.
01:54:35.600 The definition of
01:54:36.620 a right is that
01:54:37.420 it's codified, or
01:54:39.220 at least comes from
01:54:40.080 a religion in some
01:54:41.020 way, that you
01:54:41.880 could point to
01:54:42.400 objectively and
01:54:43.060 say, oh, there's
01:54:43.520 the rule.
01:54:47.460 Somebody says in
01:54:48.260 Texas, water is a
01:54:49.220 right, but I would
01:54:49.960 imagine that that's
01:54:51.000 a limited right.
01:54:52.860 But abortion is a
01:54:58.260 right?
01:54:59.220 No, I don't say
01:55:00.060 anything's a right
01:55:00.900 until it's
01:55:01.900 codified.
01:55:03.620 So abortion is a
01:55:04.960 right if you're in
01:55:06.020 a state where it's
01:55:06.960 a legally defined
01:55:08.860 thing you can do.
01:55:14.180 Biden said our
01:55:15.060 rights are just
01:55:15.620 there.
01:55:16.740 He doesn't
01:55:17.160 acknowledge they
01:55:17.740 come from God.
01:55:18.740 Well, it's better
01:55:20.300 not to acknowledge
01:55:21.540 they come from
01:55:22.160 God, because
01:55:23.040 then you're
01:55:23.400 limited to
01:55:23.920 whatever's, you
01:55:24.820 know, defined
01:55:26.000 by God, and not
01:55:26.980 everybody's following
01:55:27.880 the same one.
01:55:31.220 Am I talking too
01:55:32.260 long?
01:55:32.620 Somebody's running
01:55:33.160 on a beer.
01:55:38.380 You know your
01:55:39.260 rights when you
01:55:39.940 were alone in the
01:55:40.640 wilderness.
01:55:41.220 Hmm, I don't
01:55:41.960 know.
01:55:44.180 Yeah.
01:55:44.980 I think he should
01:55:45.720 always talk about
01:55:46.460 what should be
01:55:47.340 your rights.
01:55:51.540 somebody says
01:55:53.780 Craig Wright
01:55:54.380 invented Bitcoin
01:55:55.420 and he has a
01:55:56.220 huge trial that
01:55:57.420 starts on Monday.
01:55:59.080 Now, why would I
01:56:00.120 not be aware that
01:56:01.500 the founder of
01:56:02.580 Bitcoin had been
01:56:04.280 identified, if that
01:56:06.240 were true?
01:56:07.160 If that were true,
01:56:08.140 are you telling me
01:56:08.560 that wouldn't be the
01:56:09.260 headline story?
01:56:12.060 I don't believe
01:56:13.260 that, I don't
01:56:14.220 believe what you're
01:56:14.760 telling me.
01:56:15.140 There's something
01:56:15.500 left out.
01:56:15.960 Insurance are not
01:56:22.640 rights, but yeah.
01:56:26.780 Yeah, I don't
01:56:27.340 think anything is
01:56:28.600 a natural right.
01:56:31.260 I don't believe in
01:56:31.900 natural rights.
01:56:33.800 They're just things
01:56:34.720 you want, things
01:56:35.540 that make sense,
01:56:36.620 things you would
01:56:37.140 like to be a
01:56:37.660 right, but there's
01:56:38.160 no natural right,
01:56:39.320 in my opinion.
01:56:39.880 God-given?
01:56:50.660 I don't know that
01:56:51.760 God gives you any
01:56:52.480 rights.
01:56:56.620 Right to life?
01:56:58.320 You have a right
01:56:59.240 to life because it's
01:57:00.100 illegal to be killed,
01:57:01.580 and it's in the
01:57:02.260 Constitution.
01:57:02.780 Yeah, there are
01:57:09.600 things you need, but
01:57:10.600 that doesn't make
01:57:11.100 them a right.
01:57:15.860 All right, that's
01:57:16.580 all for now.
01:57:17.200 I'm going to go do
01:57:17.820 something else, and
01:57:19.280 I'll talk to you.