Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1556 Scott Adams： Today I Will Identify Which Ones of You Are NPCs Based on Your Reactions

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00:01:07.900 So, how many of you have read a book called God's Debris?

00:01:13.360 Written by me back in 2001? When was it? Yeah.

00:01:21.700 Wow. Wow. A lot of you. Wow.

00:01:26.520 On the Locals platform, where there are subscribers, it's just lighting up with yeses. I didn't expect that.

00:01:34.280 Now I understand.

00:01:36.740 So, there was a mystery that I couldn't figure out, which is why anybody would follow me,

00:01:41.260 or why anybody would subscribe.

00:01:44.800 And I think I just found the answer.

00:01:47.040 A huge number of the subscribers, percentage-wise anyway, have read my book God's Debris.

00:01:53.660 It would be hard to read that book and not want to hear more about that kind of thing.

00:02:00.080 So, that actually explains why people are subscribing.

00:02:02.240 I was actually kind of surprised when I went to Locals and said,

00:02:06.820 well, you can get some extra stuff, content and whatnot, if you subscribe.

00:02:11.440 And I wasn't sure anybody would.

00:02:13.640 But that actually answers a big mystery for me.

00:02:17.020 Now, here's what I want to tell you about that.

00:02:19.900 That book was written to change the world.

00:02:23.260 Slowly.

00:02:24.600 It was written by a hypnotist, me,

00:02:27.960 and it was written with hypnosis technique.

00:02:29.920 Now, that was the first book I wrote,

00:02:33.800 where I explicitly laid on the hypnosis technique for the reader.

00:02:40.160 And the reason was to produce an experience in the reader

00:02:44.380 that you couldn't get just from reading an ordinary book.

00:02:47.040 So, the hypnosis technique plus the story of the book added together

00:02:51.620 gave some people profound experiences.

00:02:57.280 I'm watching some of the comments go by on Locals.

00:02:59.920 People talk about it.

00:03:01.160 It changed my world.

00:03:04.160 A lot of people's entire worldview was just completely scrambled,

00:03:08.020 often when they were young.

00:03:09.600 And it never went back to normal.

00:03:12.740 But here's the thing you don't know.

00:03:16.300 That book is why I couldn't do this.

00:03:19.980 Because there were enough people who read that book

00:03:22.960 who said, you know, I'm going to promote your voice

00:03:26.080 because I liked what you said in that book.

00:03:27.940 So, it's not an accident that I became a prominent voice

00:03:32.280 about other stuff.

00:03:35.180 Because the people who read that book

00:03:36.640 sort of pushed me to the front of the line.

00:03:40.200 That's what happened.

00:03:41.020 But the book itself is changing the world in ways

00:03:43.700 that I can't tell you right now.

00:03:45.620 But you'll see.

00:03:48.560 You'll see.

00:03:50.120 It was meant to have a 20 or 30 year impact.

00:03:54.000 And so far, so good.

00:03:56.260 I didn't realize how many states

00:03:57.780 don't have mask mandates for kids.

00:04:01.360 Or at least mask mandates in general.

00:04:03.040 So, the ones that do are, let's see,

00:04:06.340 California, where I am.

00:04:07.960 Illinois, New York, and Washington.

00:04:10.040 Still mandatory.

00:04:11.140 Those are the only ones?

00:04:13.660 Is that true?

00:04:15.060 I feel like this fact is not right.

00:04:17.680 Are there only four states with mandatory masks?

00:04:21.480 And I happen to be one of the lucky ones?

00:04:24.900 Somebody says Indiana does.

00:04:29.360 This, Oregon has them, yeah.

00:04:31.420 Maybe this was about schools.

00:04:33.620 Was it only about schools?

00:04:41.440 Lots of local mandates in Maryland.

00:04:44.680 Maybe this was just about schools.

00:04:46.260 So, I guess I don't know the facts on this.

00:04:48.660 I saw this in the news,

00:04:49.960 but it didn't look right to me.

00:04:51.340 So, I think I misinterpreted it.

00:04:54.060 Anyway, there's a new university.

00:04:56.320 Have you heard of this?

00:04:57.740 So, a new university opened up,

00:05:00.040 or it's opening, I guess it's being founded now.

00:05:03.180 The University of Austin.

00:05:06.320 And it will, Barry Weiss talked about it on Substack.

00:05:10.780 And it's committed to, quote,

00:05:12.440 freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience,

00:05:14.960 and civil discourse.

00:05:16.540 So, in other words, free of wokeness.

00:05:20.160 Sort of a non-woke, or non-overly woke,

00:05:24.560 university.

00:05:25.480 And how many professors do you think

00:05:29.040 immediately tried to get a job there?

00:05:33.000 How many professors immediately wanted to leave

00:05:35.540 the university where they currently work

00:05:37.680 and get the hell out of there

00:05:39.360 and go to this place

00:05:40.740 where they can actually say actual real things?

00:05:43.660 Hundreds.

00:05:45.200 Apparently, a lot of people are applying for this job.

00:05:48.000 So, once again, it looks like the free market

00:05:52.780 has solved the problem that politics can't.

00:05:55.900 How often does that happen?

00:05:57.660 A lot, right?

00:05:58.940 There's going to be some more of that

00:06:00.120 in this very live stream.

00:06:01.420 I'll tell you some more of it.

00:06:02.960 But every time we think the government

00:06:04.640 or, you know, society

00:06:06.380 needs to do something differently,

00:06:08.540 you just wait a while,

00:06:10.320 and commerce and the free market

00:06:12.780 just solves the problem that you were,

00:06:14.660 you know, talking about

00:06:15.940 and doing nothing about.

00:06:17.820 So, maybe we just wait.

00:06:20.440 Maybe colleges are so poorly thought of right now

00:06:25.900 that there's a giant opening for competition.

00:06:28.020 I think that's what's going to happen.

00:06:29.400 Here's an example of it.

00:06:31.500 Well, I saw a tweet about

00:06:34.080 some scientific people

00:06:36.500 trying to figure out

00:06:37.360 if our universe were a simulation,

00:06:41.640 if this were a simulation,

00:06:43.120 how much data would it take

00:06:45.300 to create the simulation.

00:06:47.500 And, of course, the number is

00:06:49.280 trillions times trillions times trillions.

00:06:52.260 An enormous amount of data

00:06:53.880 if this were a simulation.

00:06:55.620 In fact, so much data

00:06:57.100 that it's hard to imagine

00:06:58.180 that any advanced civilization

00:07:00.460 could even create such a thing.

00:07:03.460 But, of course,

00:07:05.600 that analysis makes the critical problem

00:07:07.660 and mistake

00:07:08.560 that you don't need to program all of it.

00:07:11.340 You only have to make the characters

00:07:14.320 think they're seeing all of it.

00:07:16.600 That's it.

00:07:17.040 That's easy.

00:07:18.840 Programming an entire universe

00:07:20.300 just in case somebody saw it

00:07:22.260 would be stupid.

00:07:25.000 The easier way to do it

00:07:26.320 is to program the humans

00:07:27.460 to think they're seeing something in detail,

00:07:29.820 but they're not.

00:07:30.900 Let me give you an example.

00:07:32.440 If somebody hits a tennis ball fast

00:07:34.680 and it goes near the line,

00:07:37.180 you say to yourself,

00:07:37.980 okay, that was in or that was out.

00:07:40.900 And you're pretty sure

00:07:41.760 because you saw it.

00:07:43.580 You saw it with your own eyes.

00:07:45.120 Except often when the replay goes,

00:07:47.420 the replay shows the ball

00:07:48.460 hitting a completely different place

00:07:50.060 than you clearly saw with your own eyes.

00:07:53.100 How could that be?

00:07:54.820 How could you clearly see something

00:07:56.640 that on the replay

00:07:58.200 simply didn't happen?

00:07:59.960 And the reason is

00:08:00.920 that's how everything works.

00:08:02.540 Everything you see

00:08:04.280 isn't really happening.

00:08:05.840 It's just a quick summary

00:08:08.280 that your brain ginned up

00:08:09.720 to make you think

00:08:11.000 you're seeing something

00:08:11.740 that makes sense.

00:08:12.960 You're seeing just a little cartoon

00:08:15.380 of what's happening.

00:08:16.740 It's not accurate.

00:08:18.280 It's just what your brain gave you.

00:08:20.220 So your brain said,

00:08:21.260 oh, there's that tennis ball

00:08:22.720 and it's in or it's out.

00:08:25.820 And then you see

00:08:26.440 that you were completely wrong,

00:08:28.300 but it doesn't change your memory.

00:08:30.400 Your memory is still there.

00:08:31.440 So everything that you see

00:08:34.040 is an approximate picture

00:08:36.280 for something

00:08:37.460 that you didn't see clearly

00:08:38.660 or you couldn't see the details.

00:08:41.160 You couldn't see behind it.

00:08:42.700 You couldn't see its atomic structure.

00:08:47.980 You can only see the present.

00:08:49.580 You can't see the past.

00:08:50.540 You can't see the future.

00:08:51.800 I mean, the amount that we can see

00:08:53.060 is so tiny compared to what's here.

00:08:56.400 That's how you can program

00:08:57.540 all that information.

00:08:58.640 You just make the only characters

00:09:00.640 who matter

00:09:01.200 think they're seeing it all.

00:09:04.080 They're not.

00:09:05.180 They're just programmed

00:09:05.980 to think they are.

00:09:07.720 So that's the first thing.

00:09:10.920 All right.

00:09:11.160 I'm going to go back and forth

00:09:12.600 to the simulation idea

00:09:13.740 as I talk through the other stuff.

00:09:16.620 I have a theory

00:09:17.560 and this is how we're going to find out

00:09:19.320 how many of you are NPCs.

00:09:22.380 Do you know what an NPC is?

00:09:23.860 It's a gaming term for people

00:09:29.380 who do online games

00:09:30.380 and it refers to a non-player character.

00:09:35.520 So if you're playing a game,

00:09:37.460 you might inhabit a character in the game

00:09:39.400 and so you're a live character,

00:09:41.940 meaning your avatar

00:09:42.940 or the little simulated creature

00:09:45.340 is using your intelligence

00:09:47.260 to guide it.

00:09:48.620 But in the game,

00:09:51.440 there would be other

00:09:52.140 just scenery

00:09:53.000 like people

00:09:53.800 that you might interact,

00:09:55.180 maybe enemies

00:09:55.920 that you shoot,

00:09:56.680 et cetera.

00:09:57.480 Those characters

00:09:58.600 don't need a full set

00:09:59.960 of feelings

00:10:00.600 and experiences.

00:10:02.380 They only need to act

00:10:03.840 in a few different ways

00:10:05.820 and you'll think,

00:10:07.140 oh,

00:10:07.680 they must be people

00:10:08.680 because you're not

00:10:09.260 interacting with them.

00:10:10.600 So they would look like

00:10:11.840 they're full people

00:10:12.660 but they don't have to be.

00:10:14.000 They could be

00:10:14.600 limited program

00:10:16.020 scenery

00:10:16.600 kind of people.

00:10:18.000 Now,

00:10:18.180 how would you know

00:10:18.920 if somebody that you know

00:10:20.980 is an NPC,

00:10:22.640 if we're a simulation,

00:10:24.760 versus a player character?

00:10:27.520 Well,

00:10:27.880 I'm going to add

00:10:28.460 a new little mind bender here.

00:10:30.940 What if

00:10:31.580 sometimes you're an NPC

00:10:33.720 and sometimes you're live?

00:10:36.100 Just the way you dream.

00:10:39.020 Think of it.

00:10:40.480 If you think

00:10:41.380 you're a real,

00:10:42.340 you're not a simulation,

00:10:43.440 you're a real character,

00:10:44.580 you think you dream at night,

00:10:46.600 and then you live

00:10:47.940 your real life

00:10:48.640 during the day.

00:10:49.600 But did you notice

00:10:50.320 that your dream

00:10:50.940 was pretty specific

00:10:52.720 with the memories

00:10:53.700 and stuff?

00:10:54.880 But we count that

00:10:55.620 it was not real.

00:10:57.340 What if

00:10:58.000 your avatar

00:11:00.100 lives when you're

00:11:02.440 asleep in the other world

00:11:04.000 and it just keeps

00:11:05.620 interacting in the game

00:11:06.780 but it turns into

00:11:08.360 an NPC

00:11:08.880 because it can't do much?

00:11:11.080 How much of your day

00:11:12.240 do you spend

00:11:14.280 being creative

00:11:15.020 and coming up

00:11:15.680 with new ideas

00:11:16.380 and you're clearly

00:11:17.320 a real player

00:11:18.020 in a real

00:11:19.380 some kind of reality?

00:11:20.860 But other times

00:11:21.920 you're tired

00:11:22.760 and you can only

00:11:24.880 say a few things.

00:11:25.920 Have you ever

00:11:26.280 had that experience?

00:11:28.280 If you're

00:11:28.780 just worn out

00:11:30.120 and somebody says,

00:11:32.180 how do you feel?

00:11:32.640 You just go,

00:11:33.520 fine.

00:11:35.340 What do you want to do?

00:11:37.100 I don't know.

00:11:37.820 What do you want to do?

00:11:39.760 See where I'm going?

00:11:41.180 Sometimes you might be real

00:11:42.600 and sometimes you might

00:11:43.640 be the NPC

00:11:44.340 because whoever

00:11:46.260 is running you

00:11:47.160 is asleep

00:11:49.560 in the other world.

00:11:51.140 So you just run around

00:11:52.420 like a semi-programmed

00:11:54.920 automaton

00:11:55.560 who can only do

00:11:56.840 limited things.

00:11:58.060 Now,

00:11:58.480 do you know anybody

00:11:59.460 in your real life

00:12:00.560 who can only

00:12:02.560 respond with about

00:12:04.300 five different responses?

00:12:05.800 I know somebody

00:12:08.420 in real life

00:12:09.180 who can only say

00:12:10.600 one of five things

00:12:11.740 all day long

00:12:12.520 every day

00:12:13.020 no matter what else

00:12:13.840 is happening.

00:12:15.520 Only five things

00:12:16.740 no matter what you say

00:12:18.620 they can only respond

00:12:19.820 with one of those

00:12:20.520 five things.

00:12:21.660 Yeah,

00:12:21.920 you all know

00:12:22.440 somebody like that,

00:12:23.320 don't you?

00:12:24.800 Alright?

00:12:25.460 And what happens

00:12:26.400 if you try to bring up

00:12:27.300 a new topic

00:12:28.160 to somebody

00:12:29.380 who only has

00:12:30.020 five things

00:12:30.600 that they can say?

00:12:32.100 I'll tell you

00:12:32.700 what happens

00:12:33.040 when I do it.

00:12:34.000 They will stare at you

00:12:35.060 and when you're

00:12:36.380 done talking

00:12:37.000 what will they do?

00:12:39.500 Will they engage

00:12:40.600 with you

00:12:40.940 in this new topic?

00:12:43.340 Never.

00:12:44.840 They will just

00:12:45.680 look at you

00:12:46.560 pause

00:12:47.740 and then say

00:12:48.740 one of the five things

00:12:49.680 that they say

00:12:50.240 every time.

00:12:52.360 Now,

00:12:52.700 do you know people

00:12:53.380 who will always say

00:12:54.500 if you talk about

00:12:55.480 the simulation

00:12:56.080 they'll say

00:12:56.740 oh,

00:12:57.160 that's like the matrix?

00:12:59.000 That's probably an NPC.

00:13:00.880 If you're talking

00:13:01.600 about food sources

00:13:02.600 somebody always says

00:13:03.360 oh,

00:13:03.740 that's like

00:13:04.200 Soylent Green

00:13:05.340 NPC.

00:13:09.500 They're just programmed

00:13:10.480 to say the same thing

00:13:11.580 in every topic.

00:13:13.140 Now,

00:13:13.400 when I talk about

00:13:14.600 Pete Buttigieg

00:13:15.380 in a while

00:13:15.920 you're going to find out

00:13:17.400 if you're an NPC.

00:13:19.120 Here's how you'll find out.

00:13:21.940 I'm going to tell you

00:13:22.840 some things

00:13:23.420 that I think are good

00:13:24.340 about Pete Buttigieg

00:13:25.560 in his current job

00:13:26.480 and some things

00:13:27.620 that I think

00:13:28.180 are not so good.

00:13:30.880 If you can handle that

00:13:32.280 you're probably

00:13:32.820 a real player.

00:13:34.320 If you can handle

00:13:35.220 he's got some positives

00:13:36.160 he's got some negatives

00:13:37.080 you're a real player.

00:13:38.960 But,

00:13:39.380 if you pick

00:13:40.260 one of the negatives

00:13:41.300 and say

00:13:42.080 we're done here

00:13:42.620 you might be an NPC.

00:13:46.120 Because the NPC

00:13:46.980 would be programmed

00:13:47.800 to pick the first thing

00:13:48.760 it heard

00:13:49.160 on his team

00:13:50.400 and just go with it.

00:13:51.780 Because it's simpler.

00:13:52.540 So if your news

00:13:54.440 programmed you

00:13:55.180 to say

00:13:55.640 Pete Buttigieg

00:13:57.180 took too much time off

00:13:58.580 then you're going

00:13:59.700 to say that

00:14:00.240 and you're going

00:14:00.940 to be done.

00:14:02.340 Because that's all

00:14:03.040 you got.

00:14:03.900 You're an NPC.

00:14:05.620 So,

00:14:06.140 you'll find out

00:14:06.720 if you're an NPC

00:14:07.280 in a bit.

00:14:07.780 Hold that thought.

00:14:10.760 CNN has

00:14:11.520 oh,

00:14:12.100 let's talk about

00:14:12.580 Big Bird

00:14:13.120 and

00:14:13.460 do you think

00:14:15.480 that

00:14:15.820 the government

00:14:17.280 should be

00:14:17.960 directly

00:14:18.600 persuading

00:14:20.100 your children

00:14:20.680 to take drugs

00:14:21.540 such as

00:14:23.200 a vaccination.

00:14:25.260 Apparently

00:14:25.720 Big Bird

00:14:26.420 and Sesame Street

00:14:27.980 is part of

00:14:28.760 the pro-vaccination

00:14:29.900 persuasion

00:14:30.600 for children.

00:14:32.560 Now

00:14:33.240 that wouldn't

00:14:34.900 be fine

00:14:35.600 maybe

00:14:35.960 if all parents

00:14:37.000 agreed

00:14:37.540 about vaccinations.

00:14:40.180 But they don't.

00:14:42.200 And so

00:14:42.500 now you've got

00:14:43.080 the government

00:14:43.600 directly persuading

00:14:44.900 your kids

00:14:45.580 presumably

00:14:46.720 to persuade you

00:14:47.920 the way they did

00:14:48.740 with climate change.

00:14:50.100 And

00:14:50.660 is this

00:14:51.440 ethical?

00:14:53.340 I would say

00:14:54.380 deeply unethical.

00:14:56.420 Will it work?

00:14:57.700 It might.

00:14:59.040 Well,

00:14:59.280 probably.

00:15:00.040 It probably

00:15:00.460 will work

00:15:01.080 because it'll

00:15:02.320 make the kids

00:15:02.960 more likely

00:15:03.760 to want to

00:15:04.160 get vaccinated,

00:15:05.040 maybe less

00:15:05.500 afraid,

00:15:06.060 etc.

00:15:06.700 But

00:15:07.260 it's deeply

00:15:08.860 unethical.

00:15:09.520 Wouldn't you

00:15:09.820 agree?

00:15:10.940 Because it's

00:15:12.000 essentially

00:15:12.960 taking the

00:15:13.600 parent's job.

00:15:15.040 Now

00:15:15.180 the assumption

00:15:15.860 here is that

00:15:16.420 the parents

00:15:16.780 aren't doing

00:15:17.160 a good job

00:15:17.820 or not

00:15:19.000 doing a good

00:15:19.760 enough job

00:15:20.440 if they

00:15:23.180 haven't told

00:15:23.540 their kids

00:15:23.880 the right

00:15:24.140 stuff about

00:15:24.620 vaccinations.

00:15:25.120 But that's

00:15:26.320 a pretty

00:15:27.000 big and

00:15:28.440 inappropriate

00:15:28.980 assumption

00:15:29.560 by a

00:15:30.040 government,

00:15:30.600 I think.

00:15:31.520 So I'm

00:15:31.880 going to be

00:15:32.180 on the side

00:15:32.600 that says

00:15:33.040 the sesame

00:15:34.400 seed stuff,

00:15:36.000 sesame seed,

00:15:37.600 sesame street,

00:15:39.180 and big bird

00:15:39.940 persuasion

00:15:40.820 is unethical.

00:15:42.220 Anybody

00:15:42.500 agree?

00:15:43.820 Agree or

00:15:44.420 disagree?

00:15:45.420 I say

00:15:46.000 purely

00:15:46.420 unethical.

00:15:49.320 All right,

00:15:49.700 I think we

00:15:50.060 agree.

00:15:50.740 Here's some

00:15:51.180 fake news

00:15:51.960 from CNN.

00:15:54.040 CNN's

00:15:54.520 fake news

00:15:54.960 is sometimes

00:15:55.500 right on

00:15:55.980 the nose,

00:15:56.620 meaning it's

00:15:57.080 just a lie,

00:15:58.260 but more

00:15:58.860 often it's

00:15:59.720 more clever

00:16:00.240 than that.

00:16:01.240 So here's

00:16:01.660 some fake

00:16:02.060 news today.

00:16:04.080 An article

00:16:04.920 saying that

00:16:05.560 why Joe

00:16:06.160 Biden can't

00:16:06.840 do much

00:16:07.280 to ease

00:16:07.820 gas prices.

00:16:09.600 Do you

00:16:09.860 believe that?

00:16:11.000 That's the

00:16:11.620 title of the

00:16:12.460 piece.

00:16:12.720 Do you

00:16:13.580 believe that

00:16:13.920 Joe Biden

00:16:14.380 can't do

00:16:14.980 much to

00:16:15.560 ease gas

00:16:16.040 prices?

00:16:16.940 Now I guess

00:16:17.380 he can tap

00:16:17.940 into the

00:16:18.580 reserve,

00:16:20.540 but that's

00:16:20.960 not any

00:16:21.440 kind of

00:16:21.740 long-term

00:16:22.220 anything.

00:16:24.040 Isn't this

00:16:24.720 an obvious

00:16:25.200 lie?

00:16:26.640 It feels

00:16:27.260 like an

00:16:27.600 obvious lie

00:16:28.320 that the

00:16:28.700 president

00:16:28.980 can't do

00:16:29.480 anything

00:16:29.720 to ease

00:16:30.060 gas prices.

00:16:31.340 Don't you

00:16:31.720 think that

00:16:32.140 all he'd

00:16:32.540 have to do

00:16:32.920 is ease

00:16:33.340 up on

00:16:33.720 pipelines

00:16:34.280 and drilling

00:16:34.960 and suddenly

00:16:36.380 the market

00:16:36.920 would adjust?

00:16:38.300 Because the

00:16:38.700 market is

00:16:39.140 forward-looking,

00:16:39.940 right?

00:16:40.580 So if the

00:16:41.300 market saw

00:16:41.860 that the

00:16:42.180 United States

00:16:42.860 just took

00:16:44.000 the cap

00:16:44.440 off of

00:16:44.840 its

00:16:45.000 production,

00:16:46.420 you wouldn't

00:16:46.800 have to

00:16:47.080 wait for

00:16:47.380 OPEC.

00:16:48.220 You wouldn't

00:16:48.600 have to

00:16:48.880 wait for

00:16:49.200 Russia.

00:16:50.380 You would

00:16:50.820 just make

00:16:51.560 as much

00:16:51.920 as you

00:16:52.220 needed

00:16:52.500 domestically

00:16:53.320 and prices

00:16:54.360 would come

00:16:54.800 down.

00:16:55.220 Am I

00:16:55.480 wrong about

00:16:55.900 that?

00:16:57.480 Now I

00:16:58.200 don't think

00:16:58.640 that anything

00:16:59.060 would happen

00:16:59.540 on day

00:17:00.100 one that

00:17:01.420 would actually

00:17:01.920 change the

00:17:03.240 supply and

00:17:05.120 demand,

00:17:06.060 but certainly

00:17:06.700 since markets

00:17:08.380 are forward-looking,

00:17:09.440 they would

00:17:09.640 probably lower

00:17:10.140 the prices in

00:17:11.000 anticipation of

00:17:11.900 more demand

00:17:12.460 or more

00:17:12.960 supply,

00:17:13.820 right?

00:17:16.220 So I

00:17:16.980 think that's

00:17:17.420 just fake

00:17:17.840 news and

00:17:18.940 they can do

00:17:19.760 this because

00:17:20.200 people are not

00:17:20.800 sophisticated and

00:17:22.500 they think,

00:17:23.080 well, there's

00:17:23.360 nothing he can do

00:17:23.960 about it.

00:17:24.320 I guess that's

00:17:24.800 all I know.

00:17:25.820 Nothing he can do

00:17:26.680 about it.

00:17:27.460 But basically

00:17:28.100 they're trying to

00:17:29.140 cover Biden's

00:17:30.220 biggest flaw,

00:17:31.460 in my opinion,

00:17:32.720 that he destroyed

00:17:33.440 the energy

00:17:34.080 industry in this

00:17:36.240 country or

00:17:36.980 degraded it

00:17:37.780 when he took

00:17:38.880 office.

00:17:39.260 So it

00:17:40.420 looks like

00:17:40.700 they're just

00:17:41.000 trying to

00:17:41.260 cover for

00:17:41.700 him.

00:17:43.820 How many

00:17:44.440 of you think

00:17:45.000 that COVID

00:17:45.520 was just a

00:17:46.740 flu still?

00:17:49.100 In the

00:17:49.680 comments,

00:17:50.740 how many of

00:17:51.360 you still

00:17:51.780 believe that

00:17:53.320 COVID was

00:17:54.380 just sort

00:17:55.160 of a bad

00:17:55.580 flu and we

00:17:56.200 could have

00:17:56.440 just ignored

00:17:56.940 it?

00:17:58.760 I'm seeing

00:17:59.620 some yeses

00:18:00.800 and noes,

00:18:01.740 a mix.

00:18:03.280 Yeses,

00:18:03.800 noes,

00:18:04.320 poisoning,

00:18:05.020 no, no,

00:18:05.480 no, yes,

00:18:06.100 yes, yes.

00:18:06.800 Well, I'm

00:18:07.800 not going to

00:18:08.120 answer that

00:18:08.520 question for

00:18:09.040 you, but

00:18:09.860 I'll tell

00:18:10.240 you what

00:18:10.560 some of

00:18:10.880 the official

00:18:11.320 numbers are.

00:18:12.920 So a

00:18:13.940 new estimate,

00:18:14.620 and of

00:18:14.780 course you

00:18:15.040 can't trust

00:18:15.500 any estimates

00:18:16.200 or anything

00:18:17.660 else.

00:18:19.040 Don't trust

00:18:19.780 any estimates

00:18:20.540 or predictions

00:18:21.360 or data.

00:18:23.680 But here's

00:18:24.420 some.

00:18:26.340 According to

00:18:27.180 the OECD

00:18:28.520 countries,

00:18:29.600 the, I

00:18:30.680 don't know,

00:18:30.880 European

00:18:31.320 blah, blah,

00:18:31.780 blah countries,

00:18:32.440 I forget

00:18:32.720 what's in

00:18:33.080 that group,

00:18:34.180 but the

00:18:36.000 calculation is

00:18:37.240 that COVID

00:18:37.960 contributed

00:18:38.540 to a

00:18:39.140 16,

00:18:40.000 1,6,

00:18:41.100 increase in

00:18:41.960 the expected

00:18:42.560 number of

00:18:42.980 deaths in

00:18:43.320 2020 and

00:18:44.940 2021.

00:18:47.660 Do you

00:18:48.260 believe that?

00:18:48.920 Do you

00:18:49.260 believe that

00:18:49.700 there were

00:18:50.000 16% more

00:18:51.580 deaths than

00:18:52.340 there normally

00:18:52.820 would be,

00:18:53.720 and it was

00:18:54.200 because of

00:18:54.880 COVID?

00:18:55.900 Now remember,

00:18:56.500 you have to

00:18:56.880 factor in the

00:18:58.660 number of

00:18:59.000 people who

00:18:59.360 died because

00:19:00.000 of the

00:19:00.320 lockdown,

00:19:01.120 right?

00:19:01.380 That's not

00:19:01.780 zero.

00:19:02.480 I don't know

00:19:02.860 what that

00:19:03.100 number is.

00:19:03.580 So I

00:19:06.520 see lots

00:19:07.220 of skeptics.

00:19:08.920 I will

00:19:09.600 show some

00:19:10.400 love for

00:19:10.880 the skeptics.

00:19:12.920 If your

00:19:13.560 take on

00:19:13.980 this is

00:19:14.360 that the

00:19:14.640 people telling

00:19:15.200 us about

00:19:15.960 this,

00:19:16.580 sort of

00:19:16.900 generally

00:19:17.180 speaking,

00:19:18.100 are the

00:19:18.420 same people

00:19:18.860 who have

00:19:19.100 lied about

00:19:19.580 everything,

00:19:21.880 then should

00:19:23.700 you be

00:19:24.740 confident that

00:19:25.460 these numbers

00:19:25.940 are true?

00:19:26.520 No.

00:19:27.640 No.

00:19:28.420 You should

00:19:28.880 not have

00:19:29.340 any confidence

00:19:30.200 that these

00:19:31.100 numbers are

00:19:31.660 true.

00:19:32.220 I'm just

00:19:32.580 telling you

00:19:32.920 what the

00:19:33.500 official

00:19:33.780 numbers are,

00:19:34.340 right?

00:19:34.820 But if

00:19:35.280 you said,

00:19:35.720 oh,

00:19:35.940 therefore it's

00:19:36.460 true,

00:19:37.360 I don't

00:19:38.480 think so.

00:19:39.540 It's just

00:19:39.960 the official

00:19:40.380 numbers.

00:19:41.060 I wouldn't

00:19:41.660 say that

00:19:42.080 they're true.

00:19:43.180 I'd just

00:19:43.480 say they're

00:19:43.800 the numbers,

00:19:44.700 right?

00:19:46.360 Apparently,

00:19:47.160 the same

00:19:47.600 group or

00:19:48.600 same article

00:19:49.140 is telling

00:19:49.540 us that the

00:19:50.220 alleged number

00:19:51.540 of people

00:19:51.840 who died

00:19:52.160 worldwide is

00:19:52.920 past 5

00:19:53.860 million.

00:19:55.120 Do you

00:19:55.560 think that

00:19:55.940 5 million

00:19:56.480 people died

00:19:57.220 from COVID?

00:19:59.340 How many

00:20:00.000 of you think

00:20:00.580 5 million

00:20:01.100 died from

00:20:02.040 COVID?

00:20:02.920 Nope,

00:20:06.160 you don't

00:20:06.380 believe that

00:20:06.760 either,

00:20:07.040 right?

00:20:08.940 Okay.

00:20:10.380 Again,

00:20:11.100 I will

00:20:11.800 give full

00:20:12.320 respect to

00:20:14.140 the critics.

00:20:15.920 You know,

00:20:16.300 I don't

00:20:16.740 know if

00:20:17.020 you've

00:20:17.340 noticed that

00:20:18.340 I try to

00:20:19.060 have some

00:20:20.580 nuance here

00:20:21.260 on what

00:20:21.940 is credible

00:20:22.560 versus what

00:20:23.240 is true.

00:20:24.580 So those

00:20:25.320 who are

00:20:25.580 doubting

00:20:25.940 these numbers,

00:20:27.000 you are

00:20:27.540 both credible

00:20:28.380 and I

00:20:30.840 respect it.

00:20:32.600 I don't

00:20:33.260 think you're

00:20:33.640 right,

00:20:35.000 but I'm

00:20:36.160 sort of

00:20:36.580 guessing.

00:20:37.620 So are

00:20:37.980 you.

00:20:38.700 That's why

00:20:39.260 I don't

00:20:39.800 have more

00:20:40.220 respect for

00:20:40.860 my own

00:20:41.180 opinion than

00:20:41.720 I do for

00:20:42.140 yours,

00:20:42.500 because I

00:20:43.480 feel like

00:20:43.920 we don't

00:20:44.240 really know.

00:20:45.500 I feel like

00:20:46.060 we could be

00:20:46.780 lied to at

00:20:47.340 this level.

00:20:48.580 Yes.

00:20:49.220 I also have

00:20:50.320 the concern

00:20:51.440 that you do,

00:20:52.340 which is if

00:20:53.100 somebody dies

00:20:53.780 with 5

00:20:54.340 comorbidities

00:20:55.380 and a

00:20:55.900 COVID

00:20:56.240 diagnosis,

00:20:57.840 wasn't the

00:20:58.440 COVID simply

00:20:59.180 the last

00:20:59.780 thing that

00:21:00.140 happened?

00:21:01.260 Is that

00:21:01.880 really the

00:21:02.320 cause?

00:21:03.940 Is that

00:21:04.520 how we use

00:21:04.960 that word?

00:21:05.540 The cause

00:21:06.240 is always

00:21:07.220 the last

00:21:07.900 thing that

00:21:08.260 happened?

00:21:10.040 Because it

00:21:10.720 was the

00:21:11.060 smallest thing

00:21:11.660 that happened.

00:21:13.000 If the

00:21:13.680 last thing

00:21:14.180 that happened

00:21:14.520 is also

00:21:14.980 the smallest

00:21:15.560 thing,

00:21:16.520 why do you

00:21:16.980 call that

00:21:17.400 the cause?

00:21:18.380 What about

00:21:18.760 the fact

00:21:19.160 that you're

00:21:19.660 100 years

00:21:20.460 old and

00:21:20.880 you have

00:21:21.220 terminal

00:21:22.040 cancer and

00:21:22.980 type 2

00:21:23.560 diabetes and

00:21:24.520 you haven't

00:21:24.860 walked in

00:21:25.420 three years?

00:21:27.500 Those seem

00:21:28.200 like pretty

00:21:28.840 big reasons

00:21:29.420 for dying.

00:21:30.920 The COVID

00:21:31.320 was the

00:21:31.740 smallest part.

00:21:32.480 It was

00:21:32.620 just the

00:21:32.940 last thing

00:21:33.400 that happened.

00:21:35.000 So,

00:21:35.900 I don't know,

00:21:36.740 would you

00:21:37.140 call that

00:21:37.480 a cause?

00:21:39.340 So,

00:21:39.940 something

00:21:40.300 happened,

00:21:41.340 and then

00:21:42.080 you'd have

00:21:42.680 to put,

00:21:43.520 so suppose

00:21:44.140 there was

00:21:44.440 a 16%

00:21:45.300 increase in

00:21:45.940 the expected

00:21:46.460 number of

00:21:47.000 deaths,

00:21:48.000 but if

00:21:49.420 it was

00:21:49.760 highly

00:21:50.100 concentrated

00:21:50.660 in people

00:21:51.300 who were

00:21:51.620 going to

00:21:51.880 die anyway

00:21:52.460 pretty soon,

00:21:53.820 did it

00:21:54.140 make any

00:21:54.540 difference?

00:21:56.400 You could

00:21:57.020 look at

00:21:57.260 these same

00:21:57.660 numbers and

00:21:58.100 say,

00:21:58.380 yeah,

00:21:58.600 basically

00:21:59.000 nothing

00:21:59.360 happened.

00:22:00.700 Just people

00:22:01.420 who were

00:22:01.820 100 died

00:22:02.720 at 100

00:22:04.440 instead of

00:22:05.060 101.

00:22:06.300 I'm

00:22:06.560 exaggerating

00:22:07.040 a little

00:22:07.280 bit to

00:22:07.620 make the

00:22:07.900 point.

00:22:09.920 Yeah,

00:22:10.340 you could

00:22:10.600 certainly

00:22:10.840 make the

00:22:11.240 argument that

00:22:12.660 in terms of

00:22:13.180 the number

00:22:13.540 of deaths,

00:22:14.400 if you

00:22:14.940 counted it

00:22:15.620 in a

00:22:15.780 different way,

00:22:16.320 it looks

00:22:16.740 more flu-like.

00:22:17.960 But how

00:22:18.920 many of you

00:22:19.380 believe the

00:22:19.960 regular flu

00:22:20.760 kills 50,000

00:22:22.100 people a

00:22:22.540 year?

00:22:23.100 Go.

00:22:24.120 So you

00:22:24.520 were all

00:22:24.820 skeptics about

00:22:25.620 the,

00:22:26.560 most of you

00:22:27.400 were skeptics

00:22:27.920 about the

00:22:28.540 COVID numbers,

00:22:29.680 but how many

00:22:30.100 think the

00:22:30.560 real flu,

00:22:31.680 the just

00:22:32.000 ordinary flu,

00:22:33.220 how many

00:22:33.520 think it

00:22:34.000 kills 50,000

00:22:34.820 a year?

00:22:36.120 And yet I've

00:22:36.720 never met

00:22:37.160 anybody who

00:22:37.640 died of it.

00:22:39.740 Some of you

00:22:40.440 do, right?

00:22:41.580 I would argue

00:22:42.480 that if you

00:22:43.200 believe the

00:22:43.840 COVID numbers,

00:22:44.940 you probably

00:22:45.760 should also

00:22:46.440 believe the

00:22:47.600 regular flu

00:22:48.360 numbers.

00:22:48.800 But if you

00:22:50.180 don't believe

00:22:50.660 the regular

00:22:51.140 flu numbers,

00:22:52.360 and I

00:22:52.700 don't,

00:22:53.880 why would I

00:22:54.380 believe the

00:22:54.720 COVID numbers?

00:22:56.720 Because to me

00:22:57.180 the regular

00:22:57.620 flu numbers

00:22:58.260 seem,

00:22:59.560 based on my

00:23:00.120 life of

00:23:00.840 doing data

00:23:02.020 analysis and

00:23:02.880 trying to

00:23:03.960 research stuff,

00:23:05.440 just a life

00:23:06.080 experience kind

00:23:06.900 of an instinct

00:23:08.340 or hunch,

00:23:10.020 backed by a

00:23:10.980 little bit of

00:23:11.380 knowledge,

00:23:11.860 but mostly a

00:23:12.640 hunch.

00:23:13.040 I don't think

00:23:13.520 the regular

00:23:14.120 flu deaths

00:23:14.620 are real.

00:23:15.880 Nothing like

00:23:16.440 50,000 a

00:23:17.280 year.

00:23:17.940 I think that

00:23:18.520 that number

00:23:19.000 is so that

00:23:19.640 we will be

00:23:20.240 scared into

00:23:20.840 getting the

00:23:21.220 shot.

00:23:22.080 That's what

00:23:22.460 I think.

00:23:24.000 However, if

00:23:25.000 you talk to

00:23:25.640 people who

00:23:26.360 survived COVID,

00:23:27.900 they will tell

00:23:28.540 you, the

00:23:29.620 Tim Pools and

00:23:30.460 the Joe Rogans,

00:23:31.760 it's no walk

00:23:32.500 in the park

00:23:32.960 when you get

00:23:33.380 this, even

00:23:33.960 if you're

00:23:34.260 healthy.

00:23:35.420 So even if

00:23:36.000 you're young

00:23:36.320 and healthy,

00:23:36.840 you're going

00:23:37.220 to get hit

00:23:37.680 by something

00:23:38.160 that you

00:23:38.520 don't think

00:23:39.060 is a regular

00:23:39.640 flu.

00:23:40.900 It's going

00:23:41.200 to feel a

00:23:41.580 little different.

00:23:43.620 So,

00:23:44.280 all right.

00:23:48.520 So much

00:23:49.340 today.

00:23:50.140 Rasmussen

00:23:50.560 has a

00:23:51.260 poll that

00:23:52.660 says Biden

00:23:54.860 is down

00:23:55.220 to a new

00:23:55.720 approval low.

00:23:57.840 So Biden's

00:23:58.420 approval, he

00:23:59.160 only has

00:23:59.580 approval by

00:24:00.160 27% of

00:24:01.380 independents

00:24:02.080 now.

00:24:05.160 Essentially,

00:24:06.000 our elections

00:24:06.500 are determined

00:24:07.160 by turnout

00:24:08.420 and which

00:24:09.800 way the

00:24:10.140 independents

00:24:10.700 go.

00:24:11.580 And the

00:24:11.960 independents

00:24:12.500 have completely

00:24:13.300 left Biden.

00:24:15.300 Do you

00:24:16.120 think the

00:24:16.440 independents

00:24:16.940 have also

00:24:17.500 left lower

00:24:19.820 level Democrats?

00:24:22.600 Probably.

00:24:23.500 I don't know

00:24:23.900 if it's the

00:24:24.260 same number,

00:24:25.680 but it

00:24:26.220 feels like

00:24:26.840 it.

00:24:28.460 As somebody

00:24:29.260 noted,

00:24:29.920 27% is

00:24:31.180 about that

00:24:31.620 25% of

00:24:33.280 the public

00:24:33.740 who gets

00:24:34.080 everything

00:24:34.560 wrong.

00:24:36.280 No matter

00:24:37.000 what the

00:24:37.300 question is,

00:24:38.180 you can

00:24:38.560 depend on

00:24:39.060 25% of

00:24:40.000 the public

00:24:40.300 getting all

00:24:41.640 the wrong

00:24:42.060 answers,

00:24:42.740 no matter

00:24:43.100 what.

00:24:44.420 And here

00:24:44.840 we've got

00:24:45.100 27% of

00:24:46.100 independents

00:24:46.580 are still

00:24:46.960 with Biden.

00:24:47.900 So,

00:24:48.940 sort of

00:24:49.860 supports that

00:24:50.480 theory.

00:24:52.480 Rasmussen

00:24:52.960 also says

00:24:53.740 that Biden

00:24:54.480 endorsement,

00:24:56.720 let's say

00:24:57.020 somebody else

00:24:57.520 is running

00:24:57.920 as a

00:24:58.220 Democrat,

00:24:58.880 and Biden

00:24:59.240 comes in

00:24:59.700 to endorse

00:25:00.140 them,

00:25:01.000 51% of

00:25:02.280 people polled

00:25:03.140 say that

00:25:03.660 that would

00:25:04.400 make them

00:25:04.740 less likely

00:25:05.360 to vote

00:25:05.820 for that

00:25:07.400 candidate.

00:25:08.800 Now,

00:25:09.200 that might

00:25:09.580 be mostly

00:25:10.360 a partisan

00:25:10.760 answer,

00:25:11.780 but if you

00:25:12.280 look at

00:25:12.600 the Trump

00:25:13.140 endorsement

00:25:13.840 in the

00:25:14.840 same

00:25:15.060 poll,

00:25:15.480 they

00:25:15.580 asked if

00:25:16.140 Trump

00:25:16.380 endorsed

00:25:16.680 somebody,

00:25:17.740 would that

00:25:18.080 make you

00:25:18.440 more or

00:25:18.800 less likely

00:25:19.280 to vote

00:25:19.560 for him?

00:25:19.860 And it

00:25:20.040 was sort

00:25:20.280 of a

00:25:20.460 tie,

00:25:21.700 38%,

00:25:22.400 39%.

00:25:23.220 But I

00:25:24.440 suspect that

00:25:24.980 it's a

00:25:25.740 tough effect

00:25:26.460 to measure

00:25:27.320 in a poll

00:25:27.920 because turnout

00:25:29.300 is more

00:25:29.780 important.

00:25:31.500 So if

00:25:32.120 Trump gets

00:25:32.740 you to

00:25:33.100 go to

00:25:33.440 the poll,

00:25:35.100 that counts

00:25:36.140 more than

00:25:36.620 just changing

00:25:37.240 your mind,

00:25:37.800 right?

00:25:38.000 So it

00:25:40.500 looks like

00:25:41.020 a Trump

00:25:41.420 endorsement

00:25:42.040 might be

00:25:42.460 a positive

00:25:42.960 where a

00:25:43.600 Biden

00:25:43.820 endorsement

00:25:44.360 might be

00:25:44.720 a negative.

00:25:45.760 So we'll

00:25:46.140 see if

00:25:46.420 that plays

00:25:46.800 out.

00:25:48.000 If you're

00:25:48.680 following the

00:25:49.260 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:25:50.040 case,

00:25:51.380 apparently the

00:25:52.440 trial is

00:25:53.200 over,

00:25:53.900 but the

00:25:54.540 lawyers don't

00:25:55.700 know it

00:25:56.060 yet.

00:25:57.160 And by

00:25:57.640 that I

00:25:58.040 mean the

00:25:59.080 prosecution

00:25:59.560 has shown

00:26:00.260 that they

00:26:00.560 have zero

00:26:01.000 evidence.

00:26:02.180 And I

00:26:02.700 don't know

00:26:03.100 that they

00:26:03.360 have any

00:26:03.640 more evidence

00:26:04.120 coming.

00:26:05.720 Let me

00:26:06.200 say that

00:26:06.540 again.

00:26:06.820 the

00:26:07.780 prosecution

00:26:08.460 didn't

00:26:10.000 have any

00:26:10.400 evidence.

00:26:12.440 They're

00:26:12.960 prosecuting

00:26:13.640 him for

00:26:13.920 homicide

00:26:14.580 without

00:26:15.980 evidence,

00:26:17.480 meaning that

00:26:18.080 they did

00:26:18.420 present stuff,

00:26:19.780 but when you

00:26:20.300 heard it,

00:26:20.740 you said to

00:26:21.120 yourself,

00:26:21.700 well,

00:26:22.220 what I'm

00:26:22.760 hearing sounds

00:26:23.360 exactly like

00:26:24.020 self-defense.

00:26:25.260 What else

00:26:25.960 you got?

00:26:26.380 Well,

00:26:26.560 we also

00:26:26.880 have this.

00:26:28.320 Okay,

00:26:29.500 that sounds

00:26:30.060 exactly like

00:26:30.820 self-defense.

00:26:31.900 Wait,

00:26:32.260 I'm not

00:26:32.540 done.

00:26:33.040 We also

00:26:33.520 have this.

00:26:34.980 Uh-huh.

00:26:35.440 But even

00:26:36.840 with the

00:26:37.220 facts you're

00:26:37.780 presenting,

00:26:39.140 your own

00:26:39.680 facts,

00:26:40.220 that sounds

00:26:40.600 like self-defense.

00:26:43.040 So as

00:26:43.780 far as I

00:26:44.200 know,

00:26:45.340 there's

00:26:45.740 literally no

00:26:46.420 evidence of

00:26:47.300 a crime.

00:26:49.120 You don't

00:26:49.820 think that the

00:26:50.480 prosecutor knew

00:26:51.280 that before

00:26:51.760 taking it to

00:26:52.440 trial?

00:26:53.140 Do you think

00:26:54.420 the prosecutor

00:26:55.160 was unaware

00:26:56.100 that there was

00:26:58.240 no evidence?

00:26:58.900 I'm ready

00:27:01.540 to start

00:27:02.080 cursing up

00:27:03.120 a streak,

00:27:03.740 but I'm

00:27:03.960 going to

00:27:04.120 pull back.

00:27:06.020 Because I

00:27:06.640 think the

00:27:06.960 Rittenhouse

00:27:07.300 thing will

00:27:07.780 end in a

00:27:08.700 way that I'm

00:27:09.420 not too

00:27:09.800 unhappy with,

00:27:10.540 so I'm

00:27:10.820 going to

00:27:10.940 let it

00:27:11.180 play out.

00:27:12.660 But what

00:27:13.900 looks like

00:27:14.620 what happened

00:27:15.160 is a,

00:27:16.980 I'm going to

00:27:17.740 call him a

00:27:18.120 criminal,

00:27:18.720 a criminal

00:27:19.380 prosecutor

00:27:20.080 lied.

00:27:22.160 This is what

00:27:22.620 it looks like

00:27:23.260 on the surface.

00:27:24.500 We can't

00:27:25.060 know,

00:27:25.780 because we

00:27:26.100 can't read

00:27:26.520 his mind,

00:27:27.040 right?

00:27:27.240 But on

00:27:28.160 the surface

00:27:28.620 what it

00:27:28.960 looks like

00:27:29.460 is a

00:27:30.560 criminal

00:27:31.100 prosecutor

00:27:31.980 did a

00:27:33.520 criminal

00:27:34.020 prosecution

00:27:34.660 and he

00:27:35.160 was the

00:27:35.460 criminal.

00:27:36.560 The only

00:27:37.240 person who

00:27:37.760 committed a

00:27:38.200 crime,

00:27:38.620 in my

00:27:38.880 opinion,

00:27:39.380 is the

00:27:39.700 prosecutor

00:27:40.140 because he

00:27:40.840 had to

00:27:41.160 know he

00:27:41.400 didn't have

00:27:41.740 evidence.

00:27:43.320 And so

00:27:43.580 he's ruining

00:27:44.140 this kid's

00:27:44.800 life,

00:27:46.020 possibly.

00:27:48.620 With this

00:27:49.320 trial,

00:27:49.860 they had no

00:27:50.240 evidence.

00:27:51.280 So I would

00:27:51.800 think that the

00:27:52.340 prosecutor should

00:27:53.080 go to jail

00:27:53.640 for this.

00:27:55.360 Am I

00:27:55.640 wrong?

00:27:55.880 Let me

00:27:57.060 ask you,

00:27:58.060 has that

00:27:58.420 ever happened?

00:27:59.700 Has a

00:28:00.220 prosecutor

00:28:00.780 ever gone

00:28:01.340 to jail

00:28:01.960 for pressing

00:28:04.300 a trial

00:28:05.860 where there

00:28:06.340 was no

00:28:06.640 evidence?

00:28:08.900 Is that

00:28:09.500 a thing?

00:28:10.440 I've never

00:28:11.080 heard of it,

00:28:12.260 but this

00:28:13.160 clearly looks

00:28:13.900 like a crime

00:28:14.520 to me.

00:28:16.000 Or they

00:28:16.640 just say,

00:28:17.140 oh, you're

00:28:17.380 incompetent,

00:28:18.060 and that's

00:28:18.460 it?

00:28:19.760 So maybe

00:28:20.300 a, oh,

00:28:22.400 the Duke

00:28:22.760 La Crosse

00:28:23.280 DA.

00:28:23.500 OK, but

00:28:24.220 I don't

00:28:26.120 know how

00:28:26.400 much lying

00:28:26.980 you have

00:28:27.320 to do.

00:28:28.140 You can

00:28:28.480 get disbarred,

00:28:29.520 sure, but I

00:28:30.820 think you'd

00:28:31.140 have to go

00:28:31.440 to jail for

00:28:32.000 this.

00:28:33.200 He hasn't

00:28:33.840 broken a

00:28:34.240 law.

00:28:36.680 Maybe.

00:28:38.460 But I

00:28:38.960 would think

00:28:39.280 that Kyle's

00:28:40.340 going to get

00:28:40.660 a big payday

00:28:41.320 out of this.

00:28:42.140 Now, here's

00:28:42.500 the other

00:28:42.800 thing that

00:28:43.420 Jack Posobiec

00:28:44.440 noted today

00:28:45.380 on Twitter,

00:28:46.860 that at

00:28:49.140 least four

00:28:50.020 news entities

00:28:51.680 are referring

00:28:53.420 to the

00:28:53.960 last witness

00:28:55.900 that we

00:28:56.200 heard of

00:28:56.520 in that

00:28:56.800 trial as

00:28:57.620 the lone

00:28:58.080 survivor.

00:29:00.040 They're

00:29:00.580 calling one

00:29:01.260 of the

00:29:01.460 witnesses who

00:29:02.260 was shot

00:29:02.980 by Rittenhouse

00:29:04.020 a lone

00:29:04.900 survivor,

00:29:05.680 because the

00:29:05.940 others died.

00:29:07.520 Does that

00:29:07.900 feel fair?

00:29:09.260 He's the

00:29:09.600 lone

00:29:09.840 survivor?

00:29:10.960 Because that

00:29:11.340 basically tells

00:29:12.040 you that

00:29:12.360 somebody was

00:29:12.840 killing people

00:29:13.500 and one

00:29:14.080 got away.

00:29:15.560 That's not

00:29:16.000 exactly a

00:29:17.360 fair way to

00:29:18.140 characterize this,

00:29:18.900 is it?

00:29:19.660 Here's another

00:29:20.320 thing you could

00:29:20.860 say.

00:29:21.680 He was the

00:29:22.120 only attacker

00:29:22.800 who survived.

00:29:25.440 Is that

00:29:26.080 fair?

00:29:26.860 He's the

00:29:27.260 only attacker

00:29:27.980 who survived

00:29:29.200 the attack.

00:29:30.660 Now, attack

00:29:32.120 could be for

00:29:33.420 good reasons,

00:29:34.060 could be for

00:29:34.560 bad.

00:29:35.180 It sounds

00:29:35.740 bad if you

00:29:36.520 say attacker,

00:29:37.760 but they

00:29:38.300 were the

00:29:38.640 attackers.

00:29:40.280 They were

00:29:40.660 the attackers.

00:29:42.240 So why not

00:29:43.140 call them

00:29:43.480 that?

00:29:43.680 But he's

00:29:45.320 also a lone

00:29:45.940 survivor,

00:29:47.360 but pretty

00:29:48.280 biased.

00:29:49.480 On Twitter,

00:29:50.240 the trial

00:29:51.800 is referred

00:29:52.320 to this

00:29:52.720 way.

00:29:53.300 This is

00:29:53.740 the headline

00:29:54.040 on Twitter.

00:29:55.040 So Twitter

00:29:55.700 puts the

00:29:56.400 headlines on

00:29:57.340 some of

00:29:57.620 these stories.

00:29:58.780 Homicide

00:29:59.220 trial of

00:29:59.800 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:30:00.420 continues in

00:30:01.320 Kenosha.

00:30:01.680 Is that

00:30:02.300 fair?

00:30:03.360 Is it

00:30:03.720 fair to

00:30:04.120 say that

00:30:04.500 the homicide

00:30:05.100 trial continues?

00:30:07.900 Because when

00:30:08.600 you hear it's a

00:30:09.140 homicide trial,

00:30:10.680 don't you

00:30:11.180 sort of think

00:30:11.780 he's guilty?

00:30:12.360 don't you?

00:30:15.160 Because how

00:30:15.800 many homicide

00:30:16.360 trials do

00:30:17.500 not end in

00:30:18.220 conviction or

00:30:19.280 something?

00:30:21.420 Right?

00:30:22.240 I mean,

00:30:23.360 it's a

00:30:24.480 homicide trial

00:30:25.460 technically,

00:30:26.340 I get that,

00:30:27.800 but at this

00:30:29.560 point,

00:30:30.040 wouldn't you

00:30:30.360 call it a

00:30:30.840 false accusation

00:30:31.740 trial?

00:30:33.140 Wouldn't you

00:30:33.660 say it's a

00:30:34.160 trial that has

00:30:34.780 no evidence

00:30:35.360 of homicide?

00:30:36.880 It's an

00:30:37.540 evidence-free

00:30:38.280 homicide trial.

00:30:39.100 If this

00:30:40.960 were Trump,

00:30:43.780 yeah,

00:30:44.760 they'd call it

00:30:45.160 a homicide

00:30:45.520 trial, I

00:30:46.040 guess.

00:30:47.480 But you

00:30:48.120 can imagine

00:30:48.600 if this

00:30:49.000 were somebody

00:30:49.440 they liked,

00:30:50.720 the headline

00:30:51.160 would be

00:30:52.120 something like

00:30:52.720 no evidence

00:30:54.020 of a crime

00:30:54.660 in the

00:30:56.980 Rittenhouse

00:30:57.400 case.

00:31:00.400 I think

00:31:01.040 that would

00:31:01.280 be a lot

00:31:01.560 more fair.

00:31:04.540 And this

00:31:05.260 Rittenhouse

00:31:05.780 situation,

00:31:06.640 I think,

00:31:06.900 is part of

00:31:07.320 the larger

00:31:07.780 demonization

00:31:09.520 of men,

00:31:10.080 wouldn't you

00:31:10.340 say?

00:31:11.380 How much

00:31:12.000 of the

00:31:12.220 Rittenhouse

00:31:12.600 case is

00:31:13.240 about gun

00:31:13.840 control,

00:31:14.900 and how

00:31:15.220 much about

00:31:15.800 that is

00:31:17.000 diminishing

00:31:18.860 the role

00:31:20.000 of men

00:31:20.600 in society?

00:31:22.500 Because what

00:31:23.240 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:31:23.900 did was,

00:31:25.580 he said,

00:31:26.220 hey, I

00:31:26.480 think there's

00:31:26.860 a problem

00:31:27.280 happening,

00:31:27.920 and I'm

00:31:28.380 a man,

00:31:29.400 and I

00:31:29.760 can go

00:31:30.080 help.

00:31:32.660 So he's

00:31:33.860 being criticized

00:31:34.460 for having

00:31:35.900 the attitude

00:31:36.420 that he's a

00:31:37.140 man, and

00:31:38.820 he has

00:31:39.100 some resources,

00:31:39.980 I guess he

00:31:40.300 had some

00:31:40.540 medical

00:31:40.940 experience,

00:31:42.920 and he

00:31:43.640 had firearms

00:31:44.320 so he

00:31:44.540 could protect

00:31:44.880 people,

00:31:45.620 he said,

00:31:46.000 I'm going

00:31:46.180 to go try

00:31:46.600 to help.

00:31:47.700 And then

00:31:48.180 when the

00:31:48.480 trouble started,

00:31:50.020 Kyle Rittenhouse

00:31:50.600 did what a

00:31:51.120 man does,

00:31:52.420 when somebody

00:31:53.200 points a gun

00:31:53.780 at you with

00:31:54.200 bad intentions,

00:31:55.440 you kill

00:31:56.040 him, or

00:31:57.220 you shoot

00:31:57.540 him.

00:31:58.620 That's what

00:31:58.940 men do.

00:32:00.880 And he's

00:32:01.880 on trial

00:32:02.420 for being

00:32:04.160 a man.

00:32:06.080 Don't be

00:32:08.440 confused.

00:32:09.420 He's not

00:32:09.960 on trial

00:32:10.380 for a

00:32:10.720 crime.

00:32:12.000 He's on

00:32:12.380 trial for

00:32:12.840 being a

00:32:13.140 man in

00:32:14.140 2021.

00:32:16.800 Yeah.

00:32:17.980 How many

00:32:18.640 of you just

00:32:19.300 felt that?

00:32:21.700 Probably the

00:32:22.340 men more

00:32:22.800 than the

00:32:23.100 women,

00:32:23.400 right?

00:32:23.960 But if

00:32:24.260 you're a

00:32:24.520 man, and

00:32:25.120 I just

00:32:25.440 told you

00:32:25.800 that Kyle

00:32:26.180 Rittenhouse

00:32:26.860 is on

00:32:27.400 trial,

00:32:28.640 he's on

00:32:29.100 fucking

00:32:29.560 trial for

00:32:30.200 being a

00:32:30.520 man.

00:32:30.740 That's

00:32:32.240 really

00:32:32.500 happening.

00:32:33.960 He's on

00:32:34.660 trial for

00:32:36.200 being a

00:32:36.600 man.

00:32:38.240 And let

00:32:38.860 me tell

00:32:39.100 you, a

00:32:39.320 lot of

00:32:39.540 men are

00:32:39.780 watching

00:32:40.060 this.

00:32:41.800 Men, can

00:32:42.780 you back

00:32:43.100 me up on

00:32:43.520 this?

00:32:45.160 Men, you're

00:32:46.700 watching this,

00:32:47.240 aren't you?

00:32:49.280 And I'd

00:32:49.920 like to give

00:32:51.440 some advice to

00:32:52.380 the women who

00:32:53.120 are watching

00:32:53.600 this, not

00:32:55.900 just this

00:32:56.300 live stream,

00:32:57.300 but the

00:32:57.620 women who

00:32:57.980 are watching

00:32:58.360 the Kyle

00:32:59.360 Rittenhouse

00:32:59.980 situation.

00:33:01.480 Here's my

00:33:02.080 advice to

00:33:02.600 the women

00:33:03.040 watching that.

00:33:04.940 I don't

00:33:05.580 fucking care

00:33:06.280 what your

00:33:06.580 opinion is

00:33:07.160 on it,

00:33:08.240 because this

00:33:08.680 is about

00:33:09.060 men.

00:33:11.100 Just stay

00:33:11.680 out of it.

00:33:15.120 It's a

00:33:15.640 free country,

00:33:16.240 and you're

00:33:16.460 willing, of

00:33:17.320 course you

00:33:17.620 can have

00:33:17.880 your opinion.

00:33:18.860 But my

00:33:19.280 opinion is,

00:33:19.960 you should

00:33:20.220 stay the

00:33:20.560 fuck out

00:33:20.960 of it,

00:33:21.720 if you're

00:33:22.100 a woman.

00:33:23.620 In return,

00:33:25.140 in return,

00:33:26.620 I will

00:33:27.120 stay the

00:33:27.500 fuck out

00:33:27.900 of the

00:33:28.180 abortion

00:33:28.500 question,

00:33:29.000 because that's

00:33:30.300 not my

00:33:30.700 beat.

00:33:31.960 I want the

00:33:32.680 women to

00:33:33.040 work that

00:33:33.420 out and

00:33:33.720 let me know

00:33:34.080 how you

00:33:34.720 did.

00:33:35.860 Women,

00:33:36.380 work out

00:33:36.700 the

00:33:36.840 abortion,

00:33:37.440 that's

00:33:37.760 your deal,

00:33:38.580 and I'll

00:33:38.920 back you

00:33:39.320 on it.

00:33:40.540 On the

00:33:41.060 Rittenhouse

00:33:41.460 trial,

00:33:42.600 women,

00:33:43.140 stay the

00:33:43.500 fuck out

00:33:43.880 of it.

00:33:44.580 Just stay

00:33:44.880 the fuck

00:33:45.220 out of

00:33:45.440 this.

00:33:46.160 Yeah,

00:33:46.420 you can

00:33:46.640 have an

00:33:46.860 opinion,

00:33:47.800 but keep

00:33:48.140 it to

00:33:48.320 yourself.

00:33:49.680 That's

00:33:49.980 what I

00:33:50.220 would ask

00:33:50.560 you.

00:33:50.740 Just keep

00:33:51.080 it to

00:33:51.260 yourself.

00:33:51.580 The men

00:33:52.660 have to

00:33:52.960 work this

00:33:53.340 out.

00:33:54.900 I don't

00:33:55.560 know the

00:33:55.840 composition

00:33:56.260 of the

00:33:56.800 jury,

00:33:57.880 but I'm

00:33:58.240 pretty sure

00:33:58.860 they're going

00:33:59.180 to get

00:33:59.420 him off.

00:34:00.880 And at

00:34:01.300 this point,

00:34:02.760 the men

00:34:03.540 of the

00:34:03.840 world who

00:34:04.940 are watching

00:34:05.360 this are

00:34:05.880 going to

00:34:06.320 embrace

00:34:06.840 Kyle like

00:34:08.400 you've never

00:34:08.860 seen before,

00:34:10.180 assuming he

00:34:10.740 gets off.

00:34:11.900 Am I

00:34:12.220 right?

00:34:13.180 I'm pretty

00:34:13.940 sure that the

00:34:14.600 men in

00:34:15.200 America are

00:34:16.120 going to

00:34:16.340 make sure

00:34:16.660 that Kyle

00:34:17.140 Rittenhouse's

00:34:17.840 life goes

00:34:19.400 better than

00:34:19.960 it would

00:34:20.260 have

00:34:20.580 otherwise.

00:34:21.580 I think

00:34:22.260 he's going

00:34:22.620 to get

00:34:22.820 job offers.

00:34:24.260 I think

00:34:24.840 he's going

00:34:25.200 to get

00:34:25.380 opportunities.

00:34:27.100 And he

00:34:27.720 showed the

00:34:28.300 world what

00:34:30.020 a man is

00:34:31.980 or can

00:34:32.340 be.

00:34:33.380 Now, you

00:34:34.020 don't have

00:34:34.400 to say

00:34:35.120 that you

00:34:35.440 buy into

00:34:35.880 that definition

00:34:36.520 of what a

00:34:37.140 man is

00:34:37.760 or should

00:34:38.080 be.

00:34:38.940 I don't

00:34:39.260 really care.

00:34:40.740 I don't

00:34:41.320 care if you

00:34:41.720 do or not.

00:34:43.680 It's just

00:34:44.220 of no interest

00:34:44.940 to me.

00:34:45.720 All I'm

00:34:46.140 saying is

00:34:46.620 that women

00:34:47.000 just stay

00:34:47.440 out of

00:34:47.660 this one.

00:34:48.380 And I'll

00:34:48.800 stay out

00:34:49.160 of abortion.

00:34:50.760 Fair?

00:34:51.580 All right.

00:34:56.320 A lot

00:34:58.720 of you

00:34:58.980 think that

00:34:59.440 doing your

00:34:59.860 own research

00:35:00.320 is a good

00:35:01.300 idea.

00:35:01.780 Let me

00:35:02.000 talk you

00:35:02.340 out of

00:35:02.560 that.

00:35:03.440 Okay?

00:35:04.260 Number one,

00:35:05.540 doing your

00:35:06.040 own research

00:35:06.720 can be a

00:35:08.000 great idea

00:35:09.280 if all you're

00:35:10.100 doing is

00:35:10.440 learning.

00:35:12.100 Let's say

00:35:12.680 you wanted

00:35:13.100 to learn

00:35:13.680 how to do

00:35:14.120 a thing.

00:35:15.380 Do your

00:35:15.760 own research.

00:35:17.300 Take a

00:35:17.900 class, too.

00:35:18.420 But doing

00:35:19.380 your own

00:35:19.680 research is

00:35:20.160 probably a

00:35:20.440 good idea.

00:35:21.480 So if

00:35:21.720 you're just

00:35:22.080 learning

00:35:22.540 something and

00:35:24.040 there's nobody

00:35:24.520 on the

00:35:24.800 other side,

00:35:25.500 it's not a

00:35:26.580 topic where

00:35:27.640 there are

00:35:27.880 two teams,

00:35:28.560 you're just

00:35:28.920 learning

00:35:29.220 something,

00:35:30.220 absolutely do

00:35:31.160 your own

00:35:31.540 research.

00:35:32.260 In fact,

00:35:33.060 you should

00:35:33.360 do as

00:35:33.620 much as

00:35:34.000 possible.

00:35:35.780 But in

00:35:37.080 this specific

00:35:37.680 situation in

00:35:39.120 which you've

00:35:39.460 got a very

00:35:40.960 complicated,

00:35:42.100 big topic and

00:35:43.000 people are on

00:35:43.900 different sides,

00:35:44.760 what happens

00:35:46.180 if you have

00:35:48.320 a complicated

00:35:48.940 topic and

00:35:50.640 then you add

00:35:51.180 a bunch of

00:35:51.560 money to

00:35:52.080 it?

00:35:53.520 What will

00:35:54.160 happen every

00:35:54.820 time?

00:35:57.800 All right,

00:35:58.440 Christine,

00:35:58.980 I've got to

00:35:59.480 stop and make

00:36:00.160 this comment.

00:36:00.800 Christine on

00:36:01.440 YouTube says,

00:36:02.760 both issues are

00:36:03.640 important to men

00:36:04.300 and women.

00:36:05.160 Sorry, you're

00:36:05.840 wrong.

00:36:07.620 Did I say they

00:36:08.620 weren't important?

00:36:10.100 Christine, did

00:36:10.680 you hear me say

00:36:11.360 anything about the

00:36:12.180 lack of importance

00:36:13.220 to one of the

00:36:14.300 genders?

00:36:15.760 No.

00:36:16.540 No, you're

00:36:17.160 arguing with

00:36:17.720 your own

00:36:18.040 imagination.

00:36:19.680 If you'd like

00:36:20.360 to argue with

00:36:20.900 my point, I

00:36:22.980 welcome you.

00:36:23.960 But don't argue

00:36:24.800 with your own

00:36:25.200 imagination.

00:36:27.080 I acknowledge

00:36:27.960 that these are

00:36:28.620 important to both

00:36:29.520 men and women.

00:36:30.740 I'm just saying

00:36:31.260 stay out of it

00:36:32.000 if you want a

00:36:33.020 better outcome.

00:36:34.380 And I'll stay

00:36:34.880 out of yours.

00:36:35.980 All right.

00:36:37.900 If you have a

00:36:38.440 complicated topic

00:36:39.200 and you add

00:36:39.720 money to it,

00:36:40.780 what will be

00:36:41.480 the outcome

00:36:42.420 assuming it

00:36:43.380 stays complicated

00:36:44.140 every time?

00:36:46.060 The outcome

00:36:46.740 will be

00:36:47.440 you're going

00:36:48.480 to get

00:36:48.660 mostly fraud.

00:36:49.800 What would

00:36:50.100 be an example

00:36:50.600 of this?

00:36:51.700 Let's take

00:36:52.180 the finance

00:36:52.860 industry.

00:36:54.140 Is the

00:36:54.440 finance industry

00:36:55.320 a big

00:36:55.860 complicated

00:36:56.460 thing?

00:36:58.100 Yes.

00:36:59.060 And there's

00:36:59.840 tons of money

00:37:00.420 poured into it.

00:37:01.920 Yes.

00:37:03.020 Is it

00:37:03.740 mostly fraud?

00:37:04.820 fraud?

00:37:06.960 Is the

00:37:08.180 nation's

00:37:08.980 finance

00:37:09.640 system

00:37:10.300 mostly

00:37:11.640 fraud?

00:37:15.280 I'm seeing

00:37:16.060 yeses and

00:37:16.580 nos.

00:37:19.380 See, people

00:37:20.300 say partially.

00:37:21.420 Have I

00:37:21.800 gone too

00:37:22.180 far?

00:37:23.160 Have I

00:37:23.520 gone too

00:37:23.880 far to

00:37:24.200 say it's

00:37:24.480 mostly

00:37:25.000 fraud?

00:37:27.040 It's

00:37:27.640 mostly

00:37:28.000 fraud.

00:37:29.920 It's

00:37:30.220 mostly

00:37:30.520 fraud.

00:37:30.860 How many

00:37:32.940 financial

00:37:34.280 consultants

00:37:36.020 are giving

00:37:37.320 you unbiased

00:37:38.180 advice that's

00:37:38.860 good for

00:37:39.260 you versus

00:37:40.360 just, yeah,

00:37:44.000 how many are

00:37:44.340 giving you

00:37:44.720 unbiased

00:37:45.260 advice?

00:37:45.860 None.

00:37:46.880 Because the

00:37:47.260 business model

00:37:47.920 of financial

00:37:48.480 advisors is to

00:37:49.320 make more

00:37:49.680 money from

00:37:50.060 financial

00:37:50.500 advisors.

00:37:51.880 So the

00:37:52.840 financial advice

00:37:53.740 business is

00:37:55.000 completely corrupt.

00:37:56.320 It's all

00:37:56.680 fraud.

00:37:57.000 If a

00:38:00.060 financial

00:38:01.080 advisor were

00:38:02.060 honest, they

00:38:03.380 couldn't charge

00:38:03.960 you because

00:38:05.580 there wouldn't

00:38:05.860 be enough

00:38:06.220 content.

00:38:07.100 I tried to

00:38:07.760 write a book

00:38:08.140 on finance

00:38:08.760 once, and

00:38:09.880 when I

00:38:10.200 realized the

00:38:10.640 whole book

00:38:10.980 could fit on

00:38:11.500 one page, I

00:38:12.600 couldn't write

00:38:12.940 the book.

00:38:13.940 Everything else

00:38:14.520 is just

00:38:14.820 fraud.

00:38:15.780 The part that

00:38:16.440 you need to

00:38:16.860 know is

00:38:17.200 one page.

00:38:18.280 That's it.

00:38:19.380 Buy index

00:38:20.060 funds.

00:38:20.660 Hold them.

00:38:21.640 Done.

00:38:22.860 So then

00:38:25.780 look at

00:38:26.260 anything from

00:38:28.680 climate change

00:38:29.620 to whatever.

00:38:30.660 Do you

00:38:30.820 think that

00:38:31.200 climate change,

00:38:33.140 what percent

00:38:33.960 of climate

00:38:34.440 change, a

00:38:34.940 big complicated

00:38:35.520 topic with

00:38:36.200 tons of

00:38:36.560 money going

00:38:36.980 into it,

00:38:37.760 what percentage

00:38:38.480 of that

00:38:39.300 outcome do

00:38:41.160 you think

00:38:41.420 was fraud?

00:38:44.660 Well, some

00:38:45.500 would say the

00:38:46.000 entire solar

00:38:46.940 power industry

00:38:48.660 is fraud.

00:38:49.740 That's more

00:38:50.240 of an opinion

00:38:50.760 than a fact.

00:38:52.340 But the

00:38:52.820 fraud would be

00:38:53.380 that it can't

00:38:54.020 really get us

00:38:54.540 to where we

00:38:54.900 need to,

00:38:55.340 and the

00:38:55.920 cells themselves

00:38:57.020 are a big

00:38:57.720 pollution problem,

00:38:59.960 et cetera.

00:39:01.600 It looks like

00:39:02.600 the entire

00:39:03.580 thing is

00:39:04.280 just filled

00:39:05.280 with fraud.

00:39:06.400 I don't know

00:39:06.640 what percentage.

00:39:08.660 Now, look at

00:39:09.680 the supply chain

00:39:10.620 issue.

00:39:12.760 Big complicated

00:39:13.580 thing.

00:39:14.340 If we throw

00:39:14.900 a bunch of

00:39:15.260 money at that,

00:39:16.040 or let's say

00:39:16.780 infrastructure.

00:39:17.900 If we have

00:39:18.580 a big complicated

00:39:19.180 thing like

00:39:19.600 infrastructure and

00:39:20.280 throw a bunch

00:39:20.700 of money at it,

00:39:21.560 or even the

00:39:22.280 bill.

00:39:23.040 Let's say the

00:39:23.620 infrastructure bill.

00:39:24.560 Do you think

00:39:25.460 that's mostly

00:39:26.020 fraud?

00:39:27.620 There's plenty

00:39:28.340 of it in there,

00:39:29.060 I'm sure.

00:39:30.100 So, I'll just

00:39:31.020 make this point.

00:39:32.480 Now, let's say

00:39:33.440 you do your

00:39:33.860 own research.

00:39:35.560 You dig into

00:39:36.160 this.

00:39:38.580 What are you

00:39:39.100 going to find?

00:39:40.600 Do you think

00:39:41.020 you're going to

00:39:41.280 be able to sort

00:39:41.880 out what the

00:39:42.320 fraud is and

00:39:43.060 what isn't?

00:39:43.820 Maybe a little

00:39:44.380 bit.

00:39:45.340 But these big

00:39:46.340 complicated things

00:39:47.200 are big and

00:39:47.700 complicated for a

00:39:48.580 reason.

00:39:49.580 Part of the

00:39:50.120 reason is it

00:39:50.640 hides fraud.

00:39:51.300 So, when

00:39:52.480 you go to do

00:39:53.160 your research,

00:39:53.940 you're going

00:39:54.180 to be running

00:39:54.560 into mostly

00:39:56.120 bullshit.

00:39:57.860 Because the

00:39:58.520 fraudsters need

00:39:59.420 you to hit a

00:40:00.000 solid wall of

00:40:00.860 bullshit because

00:40:02.060 they're hiding

00:40:02.600 behind it.

00:40:04.340 Food industry,

00:40:05.400 another perfect

00:40:05.960 example, right?

00:40:07.200 So, when you've

00:40:08.160 got to do your

00:40:08.700 own research,

00:40:09.500 you're going to

00:40:09.780 hit that wall

00:40:10.460 of bullshit that

00:40:11.820 needs to exist so

00:40:13.380 that the fraud

00:40:13.960 can hide safely

00:40:15.200 behind it.

00:40:16.020 And you won't

00:40:16.740 know if you hit a

00:40:17.940 wall of bullshit or

00:40:19.440 if you found the

00:40:20.140 truth, finally.

00:40:21.300 You won't know

00:40:21.940 because it's good

00:40:23.280 bullshit.

00:40:25.480 Let me give you

00:40:26.140 an example of

00:40:26.820 how hard it would

00:40:27.360 be to do the

00:40:28.380 analysis.

00:40:31.500 Let's say

00:40:31.780 climate change.

00:40:32.460 Here's new news

00:40:33.260 today.

00:40:34.100 See if you knew

00:40:34.680 this.

00:40:35.700 The new updates

00:40:36.480 to global CO2

00:40:37.460 emissions in the

00:40:38.360 GCP, they're

00:40:40.760 revised them now,

00:40:42.400 and the new data

00:40:43.200 shows that global

00:40:44.040 CO2 emissions have

00:40:45.380 been flat, if not

00:40:47.100 slightly declining

00:40:48.160 over the past

00:40:49.300 10 years.

00:40:51.300 What?

00:40:55.080 What?

00:40:58.560 What?

00:41:00.540 Are you serious?

00:41:02.280 The global carbon

00:41:03.360 project projects that

00:41:04.600 fossil emissions in

00:41:05.700 2021 will reach

00:41:07.520 blah, blah, blah.

00:41:10.680 Well, that wasn't

00:41:11.700 important to the

00:41:12.180 point.

00:41:12.620 But the point is

00:41:13.300 that CO2 has

00:41:14.380 actually been falling

00:41:15.500 over the past 10

00:41:16.640 years.

00:41:16.840 And a lot of it

00:41:17.320 has to do with

00:41:17.860 land use.

00:41:18.660 I guess we did

00:41:19.240 good things there.

00:41:20.780 Some of it had to

00:41:21.440 do with gas

00:41:22.080 replacing worse

00:41:23.260 sources.

00:41:26.840 But did you know

00:41:27.720 that?

00:41:29.000 Did you know that

00:41:30.020 CO2 emissions have

00:41:31.920 been flat or

00:41:34.520 declining?

00:41:35.000 So here's the

00:41:36.700 problem.

00:41:36.980 Do your own

00:41:37.780 research and you

00:41:38.460 can find any

00:41:39.120 outcome you want.

00:41:41.020 Things are getting

00:41:41.740 better or they're

00:41:42.600 not.

00:41:47.440 I don't think you

00:41:48.560 could understand

00:41:49.380 climate change

00:41:50.200 without at least

00:41:50.880 being familiar with

00:41:51.780 the work of

00:41:52.440 Michael Schellenberger.

00:41:53.480 So if you want

00:41:55.400 to see the

00:41:56.140 climate change

00:41:59.700 analysis that

00:42:00.720 considers both the

00:42:01.920 risks and the

00:42:03.040 rewards, the pros

00:42:04.560 and the cons,

00:42:05.280 without taking a

00:42:06.360 political side,

00:42:08.000 that's Michael

00:42:08.660 Schellenberger's

00:42:09.440 work.

00:42:10.040 So follow him on

00:42:10.760 Twitter and read

00:42:11.500 his books.

00:42:12.720 And I would go so

00:42:13.760 far as to say if

00:42:14.420 you're not familiar

00:42:15.080 with his work, you

00:42:16.640 probably don't have a

00:42:18.080 good opinion on

00:42:18.880 climate change.

00:42:20.060 You probably don't

00:42:20.720 anyway, because it's

00:42:22.100 hard to have a good

00:42:22.760 opinion on that.

00:42:23.920 But if you don't

00:42:25.180 follow him, you're

00:42:25.980 really, you're kind

00:42:26.980 of lost, honestly.

00:42:29.520 Did you know that

00:42:30.440 by 2022, this is

00:42:31.840 from Schellenberger

00:42:32.560 too, the U.S.

00:42:33.640 had reduced its

00:42:34.340 emissions 22% below

00:42:36.140 the 2005 levels,

00:42:38.060 and mostly because

00:42:38.700 we were using gas

00:42:40.340 to replace coal?

00:42:42.080 And I think Biden

00:42:43.260 reversed that, right?

00:42:44.440 Am I right?

00:42:45.980 Not sure.

00:42:47.760 All right.

00:42:50.840 So beware what you

00:42:53.120 think about climate

00:42:53.780 change.

00:42:54.200 You could research it

00:42:54.940 all day and still

00:42:55.820 not have a good

00:42:56.340 opinion.

00:42:57.260 So Elon Musk

00:42:57.900 offered to sell

00:42:58.500 10% of his Tesla

00:42:59.640 shares.

00:43:00.660 Apparently the

00:43:01.220 context is that

00:43:02.440 since he doesn't

00:43:03.080 take a salary, he

00:43:04.780 would normally pay

00:43:06.040 no taxes while being

00:43:07.140 the richest person in

00:43:08.420 the world.

00:43:09.820 And people say,

00:43:10.720 well, that's not

00:43:11.160 fair.

00:43:12.320 That's not fair.

00:43:13.040 I pay taxes and

00:43:13.980 you don't pay taxes

00:43:14.780 and you're the

00:43:15.240 richest person in

00:43:15.940 the world.

00:43:16.880 So Elon Musk said,

00:43:18.260 OK, I'll pay some

00:43:18.920 taxes.

00:43:19.800 I'll do a poll.

00:43:21.360 And if the public

00:43:22.280 wants me to sell

00:43:23.000 10% of Tesla just

00:43:24.280 to pay taxes, because

00:43:25.940 if he sells some

00:43:26.740 stock, he would have

00:43:27.960 to pay, I don't

00:43:28.600 know, up to half of

00:43:30.040 it in capital gains.

00:43:32.380 So that would be

00:43:32.960 billions of dollars

00:43:33.720 he would pay in taxes.

00:43:35.160 And I think he would

00:43:36.560 do that largely for

00:43:38.000 public concern, because

00:43:39.720 he's not a taxpayer.

00:43:41.380 Maybe he'd like to be.

00:43:42.620 Now, first of all, he is

00:43:43.520 a taxpayer, right,

00:43:44.600 because the business

00:43:45.200 pays various taxes.

00:43:47.240 But here is what I

00:43:48.260 would like to ask you.

00:43:50.740 My smart audience,

00:43:52.160 which I know is far

00:43:53.000 more educated than

00:43:54.100 the average, is the

00:43:55.980 country better off if

00:43:57.480 Musk pays taxes or

00:44:00.180 does what he continues

00:44:01.320 to do, which is take

00:44:02.320 no salary and pour

00:44:04.040 enormous amounts or

00:44:05.600 percentage of his

00:44:06.460 wealth into new

00:44:07.460 projects?

00:44:08.560 Which one of those is

00:44:09.860 better?

00:44:10.300 Are we better off as a

00:44:11.340 country, including the

00:44:12.880 poor, and the

00:44:13.520 are the poor better

00:44:14.680 off if Musk pays

00:44:16.120 more taxes?

00:44:19.540 The answer is really,

00:44:21.840 really easy on this

00:44:22.840 one.

00:44:23.480 You don't need a degree

00:44:24.460 of economics to get

00:44:26.400 this one.

00:44:27.160 But if you don't have

00:44:28.080 a degree of economics,

00:44:28.980 it might not be

00:44:29.740 obvious.

00:44:30.240 So I'll say it, and

00:44:31.500 then once you hear it,

00:44:32.260 you're going to say,

00:44:33.100 oh, where do you want

00:44:35.580 money to be?

00:44:37.300 If you want the

00:44:38.060 economy to do well,

00:44:39.180 where do you want the

00:44:39.780 money to be?

00:44:40.380 You want the money

00:44:41.820 money to be allocated

00:44:44.020 wherever it will have

00:44:44.960 the most chance of

00:44:46.520 turning into more

00:44:47.140 money.

00:44:47.800 Agreed?

00:44:48.880 Now, of course, you've

00:44:49.640 got to feed people and

00:44:51.000 stuff, but once you've

00:44:51.780 taken care of the

00:44:52.300 basics, you need every

00:44:53.740 dollar to go where it

00:44:55.340 will be most productive.

00:44:56.260 Do you think that Elon

00:44:58.900 Musk's dollar should go

00:45:01.040 to the fucking government

00:45:02.360 or to the guy who sent a

00:45:04.780 car into space?

00:45:08.180 That's the question.

00:45:10.540 Let me say it again with

00:45:11.840 the F word again, because

00:45:12.960 you need that.

00:45:14.480 Do you think that dollar

00:45:15.600 is better in the hands of

00:45:17.960 the government or in the

00:45:20.960 hands of a guy who put an

00:45:23.040 automobile in space just

00:45:26.900 for fun?

00:45:28.180 I mean, that being an

00:45:29.360 example of the types of

00:45:30.700 things he's accomplishing.

00:45:31.720 And there's no contest,

00:45:33.280 right?

00:45:34.020 There's no contest.

00:45:35.620 Musk is obviously making

00:45:38.260 the point, and I think he's

00:45:39.560 doing this cleverly because

00:45:40.580 it makes us talk about it.

00:45:42.260 If you are bad at

00:45:43.400 economics, you think that

00:45:44.500 he should pay taxes.

00:45:45.600 If you're good at

00:45:46.220 economics, you don't want

00:45:47.620 him to pay a penny.

00:45:49.080 You do not want him to pay

00:45:50.340 a penny in taxes.

00:45:51.800 You want him to do what he

00:45:53.160 keeps doing, which is

00:45:54.580 pouring money into good

00:45:55.780 ideas that keep working and

00:45:57.900 make the country a leader

00:45:59.840 in areas where we need to

00:46:01.400 be a leader, basically.

00:46:03.900 So, you know, let's just

00:46:06.820 take one example.

00:46:08.260 AI will probably determine

00:46:09.680 the safety of the country

00:46:11.500 in the future.

00:46:13.220 And, you know, Musk heavily

00:46:15.020 invests in AI, and I would

00:46:16.520 bet he's probably one of the

00:46:17.460 most productive people in

00:46:19.460 that area.

00:46:20.700 You don't want him to stop.

00:46:22.700 You don't want him to have

00:46:23.940 one dollar less to do that.

00:46:26.540 Right?

00:46:27.880 Not at all.

00:46:30.020 All right.

00:46:30.700 But I love the fact that

00:46:31.840 Musk is making us think

00:46:32.960 about it with this

00:46:33.640 provocative question.

00:46:34.800 Do you want me to pay

00:46:35.500 taxes?

00:46:36.380 And it forces people like

00:46:37.960 me to educate people who

00:46:40.100 didn't know it that him

00:46:41.920 paying taxes is the worst

00:46:43.500 idea that the United States

00:46:45.380 could ever have.

00:46:47.300 Seriously.

00:46:48.140 Think of a worse idea than

00:46:50.500 taking money away from

00:46:51.640 Elon Musk and giving it to

00:46:53.500 the government.

00:46:53.940 Can you think of anything

00:46:56.040 that would be worse than

00:46:56.800 that?

00:46:57.500 I can't think of anything.

00:46:59.220 It should go the other

00:47:00.000 way.

00:47:00.820 The government should be

00:47:01.860 paying Elon Musk to do

00:47:03.960 more cool stuff.

00:47:06.380 All right.

00:47:08.120 I do.

00:47:08.920 I also invest in Tesla.

00:47:10.440 I should tell you every

00:47:11.180 once in a while I'll tell

00:47:12.660 you what things I'm

00:47:13.300 invested in because it

00:47:14.260 does bias me.

00:47:15.980 But I invested in him

00:47:17.000 recently, you know,

00:47:18.580 because I like what's

00:47:19.600 happening, not it's not

00:47:21.500 the other way.

00:47:21.920 All right.

00:47:23.940 Let's talk about Mayor

00:47:27.380 Pete.

00:47:28.640 I provocatively said today

00:47:30.360 that I believe he is

00:47:31.400 exactly the right person I

00:47:32.940 would want in the job of

00:47:35.200 figuring out where the

00:47:36.960 infrastructure money should

00:47:38.460 go.

00:47:43.540 And I'm going to support

00:47:46.980 that.

00:47:47.800 Now, here's where you find

00:47:48.860 out if you're an NPC.

00:47:49.960 I'm going to give you the

00:47:51.840 pros and I'm going to give

00:47:53.060 you the cons and I'm not

00:47:54.700 going to hide either one.

00:47:57.040 OK.

00:47:57.440 If you picked one of the

00:47:58.600 cons and said, oh, I'm done

00:47:59.920 here, you're probably an

00:48:00.640 NPC.

00:48:01.660 If you weighed the two

00:48:02.860 things, it doesn't matter

00:48:03.880 which way you go.

00:48:05.320 Well, you're probably a real

00:48:06.400 player.

00:48:07.140 So now you can find out if

00:48:08.700 you're a real player.

00:48:09.780 All right.

00:48:10.720 Here's the argument for him

00:48:12.760 being the right person.

00:48:14.100 He is a ex-McKinsey guy,

00:48:17.080 ex-Harvard guy, and it's a

00:48:19.160 really complicated, hard

00:48:20.400 analysis.

00:48:21.740 McKinsey consultants are

00:48:23.800 taught to go into an

00:48:25.420 industry with which they are

00:48:26.660 not deeply familiar, to learn

00:48:28.940 from the experts, to put the

00:48:31.640 experts' opinions and data

00:48:33.580 through a logical sort of

00:48:36.080 filter that McKinsey teaches

00:48:38.200 them, and to come out with the

00:48:39.920 most rational decisions that

00:48:42.240 make the most sense, all

00:48:43.460 things considered.

00:48:45.160 All right.

00:48:45.660 There is nobody I've ever

00:48:47.260 seen in the government, there

00:48:48.820 may be, but I just don't know

00:48:49.780 of any, who would ever be

00:48:51.140 more perfectly suited for this

00:48:53.740 exact task.

00:48:55.300 In fact, if you didn't have a

00:48:57.740 Buttigieg at the head of it,

00:48:59.080 it would be smart for them to

00:49:00.320 hire McKinsey to help them

00:49:02.680 make these decisions.

00:49:03.980 I don't know if the

00:49:04.600 government does that.

00:49:05.420 Does the government ever hire

00:49:06.600 McKinsey?

00:49:07.880 Probably, right?

00:49:09.380 I assume.

00:49:09.920 But if he were not already

00:49:12.680 the right one, he should hire

00:49:13.980 somebody like him.

00:49:15.180 The first thing he would do

00:49:16.300 in that job is hire a Pete

00:49:17.580 Buttigieg to help him make

00:49:19.220 the decisions.

00:49:20.320 Now, he probably is.

00:49:21.380 He probably is hiring a Pete

00:49:23.160 Buttigieg to help him with the

00:49:25.660 analysis.

00:49:26.460 And then, you know, he could

00:49:27.520 also know if it were done

00:49:29.220 right.

00:49:30.420 But, so Talens, his, before we

00:49:34.840 go on, we'll talk about his

00:49:36.680 failure as a mayor, blah, blah,

00:49:37.940 blah.

00:49:38.060 We'll get to that.

00:49:38.600 So, before I talk about the

00:49:40.140 reasons he's not the right

00:49:41.740 choice, and I'll talk about

00:49:43.120 them, will you agree with my

00:49:44.760 first point, that his talent

00:49:47.200 stack is exactly the one you'd

00:49:49.100 want?

00:49:49.960 Yes or no?

00:49:51.080 Just the talent experience part.

00:49:55.300 Mostly yeses, but some noes.

00:49:57.200 Why no?

00:49:58.520 What would be the reasoning

00:49:59.940 behind no?

00:50:01.900 I'm not disagreeing with you.

00:50:03.460 I'm asking your reasons.

00:50:04.420 Lousy track record?

00:50:11.640 No, that's a track record in

00:50:12.780 different things.

00:50:14.100 The only thing that matters is his

00:50:15.420 track record at McKinsey, which we

00:50:18.520 think is good, right?

00:50:21.180 McKinsey is mostly fraud.

00:50:22.660 All right, let me address that.

00:50:24.280 The McKinsey model, somebody said, is

00:50:25.840 mostly fraud, and I agree.

00:50:28.880 But that's the business, that's the

00:50:30.460 model of consulting.

00:50:31.680 That doesn't refer to the actual

00:50:33.680 consultant.

00:50:34.880 Somebody who works for them is

00:50:37.140 probably not doing anything

00:50:38.280 fraudulent.

00:50:39.220 They're probably just trying to do

00:50:40.240 their job.

00:50:41.260 But the model is mostly fraudulent

00:50:43.620 because they're trying to sell

00:50:45.780 things that maybe you don't need

00:50:47.960 and that sort of thing.

00:50:50.440 So, yes, I think the consulting

00:50:51.960 model is mostly fraudulent, but the

00:50:54.320 consultant is not necessarily

00:50:56.100 fraudulent, just the business

00:50:57.640 model is.

00:50:58.140 All right, now I will talk about the

00:51:02.860 reasons that he is not the right

00:51:04.720 person for the job.

00:51:05.680 Number one, he did not show good

00:51:07.860 leadership as a mayor.

00:51:09.840 Everybody agree?

00:51:11.120 Did not show great leadership as a

00:51:13.240 mayor.

00:51:14.060 I accept that.

00:51:15.740 I don't know if it's true, but I'm

00:51:17.840 going to accept it.

00:51:19.180 It's irrelevant.

00:51:21.460 It's irrelevant.

00:51:22.760 Because he's not being asked to do

00:51:24.120 the job of a mayor.

00:51:25.040 He's being asked to do the job of a

00:51:28.260 wonk, basically.

00:51:29.760 He's being asked to do the job of a

00:51:31.840 technocrat.

00:51:33.580 Right?

00:51:33.920 As a leader, I don't back him.

00:51:36.060 Yet.

00:51:37.160 I do think that he could become one.

00:51:40.260 I actually have high hopes for

00:51:42.440 Buttigieg maybe later in his career.

00:51:46.340 At the moment, I don't think he shows

00:51:48.180 the leadership skills and I wouldn't

00:51:50.340 defend his mayor job.

00:51:52.420 So, will you accept that the job of

00:51:55.360 mayor, he may have done poorly.

00:51:58.080 I don't know, but I'm willing to

00:51:59.440 accept that.

00:52:00.700 But it isn't relevant to the specific

00:52:02.920 task.

00:52:05.020 Right?

00:52:05.320 So that's my first point.

00:52:06.860 Secondly, he's a guy who went away

00:52:10.400 and did his family leave during the

00:52:13.300 worst part of the worst problem in the

00:52:15.000 country, which was the supply chain

00:52:17.200 problem.

00:52:18.600 Number one, who did he leave in charge?

00:52:21.120 So, let me call out the NPC.

00:52:26.960 So, Felony Videos says, wow, stupidity,

00:52:30.600 Scott.

00:52:30.980 So, that's an NPC.

00:52:32.940 Let me see if we have any others.

00:52:36.140 Because I haven't even finished my

00:52:37.400 points yet.

00:52:41.340 Yeah, okay.

00:52:42.460 That was one.

00:52:44.020 All right.

00:52:44.320 So, all right.

00:52:47.320 So, what do you think about the fact

00:52:48.660 that he went on family leave,

00:52:51.100 extended two-month leave during the

00:52:52.640 biggest emergency?

00:52:54.580 Here's what we don't know about it.

00:52:56.860 We don't know who was in charge.

00:52:59.900 Maybe somebody was in charge, and maybe

00:53:02.140 he was on the phone every day.

00:53:04.000 Do you know if he wasn't?

00:53:05.880 Does anybody know if Mayor Pete didn't

00:53:09.540 take phone calls during those two months?

00:53:11.120 Because I doubt it.

00:53:13.520 Now, we do know that he didn't succeed,

00:53:15.500 right?

00:53:16.540 But it's also not exactly his job.

00:53:20.140 Can you agree with me there?

00:53:22.200 The transportation secretary isn't

00:53:24.400 exactly the right one to fix a port

00:53:27.720 problem.

00:53:28.620 Because the port is sort of a local

00:53:30.860 problem.

00:53:31.900 But I don't think he did enough.

00:53:33.400 However, is that the same problem?

00:53:38.900 So, I think he didn't, he wasn't

00:53:40.620 aggressive enough, but I also don't

00:53:43.020 know if he did something, or if he

00:53:44.800 could have made a difference, or if

00:53:46.000 it was his domain.

00:53:47.440 So, I would say that's a question

00:53:48.960 mark, and a good one.

00:53:51.920 So, if somebody says he didn't do a

00:53:53.500 good job on the supply chain, I would

00:53:56.080 say, that might be a good point.

00:53:58.760 But we also don't know what he did.

00:54:01.020 Would you agree with my point that you

00:54:03.220 don't know what he did, or what he

00:54:04.580 could have done?

00:54:05.560 We don't know that, do we?

00:54:08.120 So, I would say that that's a

00:54:09.460 question.

00:54:10.540 But it's also slightly different than

00:54:12.580 figuring out where to spend

00:54:13.620 infrastructure money.

00:54:15.080 Now, the other point is that he's

00:54:16.500 too woke, because apparently he said

00:54:19.100 something that sounded ridiculous to

00:54:20.780 almost all of us, which is that the

00:54:22.880 current infrastructure was built in a

00:54:24.940 racist way.

00:54:26.740 What was your first reaction when you

00:54:28.380 heard that maybe some of our roads

00:54:30.540 and bridges were built in a racist

00:54:32.240 way?

00:54:33.880 You laughed, right?

00:54:35.580 You said, well, now you've gone a

00:54:36.960 little too far, because I don't think

00:54:39.000 we have racist roads, and I don't

00:54:41.660 think we have racist bridges, right?

00:54:44.080 How many of you had that immediate

00:54:45.460 reaction?

00:54:47.800 And then, after you had that reaction,

00:54:49.580 how many of you actually researched it

00:54:51.580 to find out he was right?

00:54:53.680 Did anybody?

00:54:55.020 Did anybody research it?

00:54:57.580 Because it turns out he's right.

00:54:58.920 He's right.

00:54:59.920 He's right.

00:55:00.780 Apparently, it's a known historical fact

00:55:03.860 that, at least in, I don't know, some

00:55:06.820 parts of New York, that there was an

00:55:10.180 actual racist who designed the roads and

00:55:12.440 didn't give good roads where there were a

00:55:14.900 lot of black people because he didn't want

00:55:16.460 them to use the roads to go to the park and

00:55:18.140 ruin everything.

00:55:19.840 What?

00:55:20.280 Yeah, that's a real thing.

00:55:23.560 Apparently, a lot of the highways were

00:55:25.240 designed by actual racists who actually were

00:55:28.820 making them degraded in some places to keep

00:55:32.420 black people from going where white people

00:55:34.920 wanted to be.

00:55:35.420 That's actually real, apparently.

00:55:38.980 There's plenty.

00:55:39.800 We have the name of the person.

00:55:41.440 You know, there are books written about it.

00:55:43.220 I'd never heard of that.

00:55:45.040 Now, I don't know how relevant it is to today

00:55:47.900 because I'm pretty sure today we would just look at

00:55:50.960 wherever it makes sense and do it there.

00:55:54.520 But the fact that he raised this and I didn't know it,

00:55:58.700 that's a plus for him.

00:56:01.000 I'd say that's a plus.

00:56:02.120 Because he raised an issue that I think you

00:56:06.160 could call this systemic racism.

00:56:10.260 Apparently, it's real.

00:56:12.280 And apparently, it probably made a difference.

00:56:14.840 So I'm going to give him credit for that.

00:56:17.580 I know some of you are calling that a negative

00:56:20.560 because you think he's going to do a bunch of

00:56:22.640 woke investing.

00:56:24.380 But I suspect the number of places where that's

00:56:26.620 actually going to make a difference is probably

00:56:31.440 small.

00:56:32.960 So here's my argument.

00:56:34.740 He's not being asked to do the job of a mayor.

00:56:36.960 I don't know that he would do that well.

00:56:38.500 He's not being asked to do the job of a president.

00:56:40.760 I don't know that he'd do that well.

00:56:42.820 He's not being asked to...

00:56:44.840 I don't think he was exactly the right person

00:56:46.880 for the supply chain problem.

00:56:49.320 Maybe that just wasn't the right job.

00:56:52.060 And we don't know what he did or didn't do

00:56:53.840 when he was on leave.

00:56:54.720 But his talent stack is exactly the right one

00:56:58.220 for deciding how to spend infrastructure money.

00:57:01.100 Now, how many of you can handle that opinion?

00:57:09.020 Can you handle that?

00:57:10.720 That there's definitely some negatives,

00:57:12.940 and I called them out.

00:57:15.460 All right.

00:57:16.060 Good.

00:57:16.520 All right.

00:57:16.820 Most of you are good with that.

00:57:20.400 And I think I've got to run in a minute.

00:57:21.800 Let's see what else I've got going.

00:57:22.880 Oh, my God.

00:57:23.760 Here's what...

00:57:24.340 I told you about Sam Altman.

00:57:26.200 He was the president of Y Combinator.

00:57:28.260 I didn't realize he's now working for the open AI.

00:57:31.560 So he's working on AI more than that.

00:57:34.060 He's putting $375 million of his own money,

00:57:37.520 of his own money,

00:57:40.240 into this fusion startup called Helion.

00:57:44.600 $500 million in total,

00:57:46.340 but he's putting $375 million of his own.

00:57:48.680 So I checked his net worth,

00:57:52.220 Sam Altman's net worth,

00:57:53.280 and I thought, wow, what is your net worth

00:57:55.220 if you can put $375 million into one thing

00:57:58.660 that might not even work?

00:58:00.640 And it said his net worth was $200 million.

00:58:04.420 I did my own research.

00:58:07.300 A lot of you would just guess,

00:58:08.680 but I did my own research,

00:58:10.100 and according to my research,

00:58:11.600 he's worth $200 million,

00:58:13.100 and he's putting $375 million into one investment.

00:58:17.720 So it's a good thing I did my own research,

00:58:21.320 because otherwise I wouldn't know any of this.

00:58:24.000 No, he's obviously worth a few billion.

00:58:26.140 I don't know how many billions it is,

00:58:27.600 but this is a gigantic investment,

00:58:30.300 and it shows that the person closest to it

00:58:32.300 and the person who may be one of the few people

00:58:35.200 on the planet who could really predict

00:58:37.740 whether a startup has what it takes,

00:58:40.740 he would be one of them.

00:58:41.700 I wouldn't trust too many people on the whole planet

00:58:45.480 to tell me a startup looks good,

00:58:49.120 but he would be one of them, right,

00:58:50.900 of the 10 people in the world

00:58:53.020 who might be the best at this very thing.

00:58:55.520 So that is really good.

00:58:57.260 At the same time,

00:58:58.700 Rolls-Royce is going to be building

00:59:00.940 small nuclear reactors of the traditional kind.

00:59:03.860 I think that's a really big deal.

00:59:05.120 And Regeneron found out that Regeneron

00:59:08.260 not only helps you solve COVID if you've got it,

00:59:11.900 but can give you lasting immunity,

00:59:14.660 well, sort of immunity,

00:59:16.320 for months, up to eight months after you take it.

00:59:19.600 I also recently invested in Regeneron

00:59:22.080 before I heard this news,

00:59:23.740 so consider my bias,

00:59:25.500 but apparently we have lots of therapeutics now,

00:59:28.980 so the mandates are a little less ethical

00:59:31.660 than they've ever been.

00:59:32.580 Every time we get a new therapeutic online,

00:59:34.940 the argument for mandates starts dissolving.

00:59:38.740 And that is my awesome show for today.

00:59:41.700 I think you'll love it.

00:59:44.280 It'll sink in a little bit

00:59:45.520 or get better as you go.

00:59:47.200 All right.

00:59:48.600 Got to run?

00:59:49.840 And I wish...

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Episode 1556 Scott Adams： Today I Will Identify Which Ones of You Are NPCs Based on Your Reactions

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