Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 22, 2021


Episode 1570 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About the Build Back Better Plan Because You Are Being Bamboozled


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

147.82187

Word Count

8,524

Sentence Count

584

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this week's episode, we discuss the disappearance of a Chinese tennis star who claimed to have been raped by a high ranking official in the Chinese government, as well as the strange coincidence that Greta Thunberg and Kyle Rittenhouse were born on the same day in 2003.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Well, welcome to the best thing that ever happened to you in your entire life, possibly
00:00:10.660 the best thing that ever happened to anybody in the history of the universe since the Big
00:00:16.400 Bang.
00:00:16.960 We don't know about before the Big Bang.
00:00:20.180 I have some speculation, and my speculation is that this is the best time, even including
00:00:26.640 before the Big Bang.
00:00:28.320 And time didn't even exist then, so that's how good it is.
00:00:33.500 What?
00:00:37.520 YouTube video is bad?
00:00:41.000 Huh.
00:00:42.160 Audio is crappy.
00:00:44.340 There's got to be reason for that.
00:00:47.100 Watch this.
00:00:49.000 Boom.
00:00:49.940 Fixed.
00:00:53.560 This is why I have a checklist.
00:00:56.780 Right?
00:00:57.380 It's better now, right?
00:01:01.440 Yeah.
00:01:02.700 That's why I have a checklist.
00:01:04.560 On my checklist is to check my other microphones to make sure that they're not doing this.
00:01:11.760 Literally, it was on my microphone.
00:01:13.780 And by the way, Paul, your logo just saved me, so that actually is really good.
00:01:19.620 On the Locals platform, there's somebody who, Paul Collider, who posts a meme to tell me
00:01:26.620 if my audio is good every time.
00:01:28.240 It's actually really useful.
00:01:31.480 So, was there something we're supposed to do now?
00:01:33.840 I believe there is, yeah.
00:01:35.100 To take it up to another level.
00:01:36.540 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.
00:01:39.660 And it's going to happen now.
00:01:41.080 All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a gel, a sysdine, a canteen, a jug,
00:01:44.160 a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:47.260 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:48.920 I like coffee.
00:01:51.280 And join me now.
00:01:52.260 For the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine here of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:58.760 Accept your taxes, apparently.
00:02:00.660 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.
00:02:02.420 And it happens now.
00:02:03.180 Go.
00:02:07.380 Mmm.
00:02:08.620 Good.
00:02:09.440 Good, good, good.
00:02:12.720 Well, China continues to be awful.
00:02:17.040 And now they're doing these hostage videos with their Chinese tennis star.
00:02:22.920 Peng Shui.
00:02:24.980 Peng Shui, I think.
00:02:27.300 So, as you know, there was a Chinese tennis star who spoke out against the government.
00:02:33.260 Specifically, one member of the government who raped her, allegedly.
00:02:38.180 And then she got disappeared.
00:02:40.900 But now she's been seen on an official Chinese video.
00:02:45.100 So, we know she's alive.
00:02:48.240 But I don't think she'll be talking to us on her own.
00:02:52.260 I don't think.
00:02:54.680 So, will it work?
00:02:56.320 Will China make us forget that they are the rapist regime?
00:03:02.560 The Shitu regime?
00:03:04.320 I think they will, actually.
00:03:08.500 To me, it looks like this will totally work.
00:03:11.020 China will just treat it like it didn't happen.
00:03:14.100 They'll make her disappear.
00:03:16.180 The athletes will complain about it for a month or two.
00:03:19.340 And then we'll just go on like it never happened.
00:03:22.800 Because it sort of doesn't feel like your problem, right?
00:03:27.540 Now, part of the story that I didn't know until recently is that the tennis star who claimed to have been raped by a high-ranking Chinese official had been in a long-term relationship with this guy.
00:03:42.020 Did you know that?
00:03:42.620 So, she was raped by an ex-boyfriend.
00:03:45.640 That doesn't make it less rape, of course.
00:03:47.520 That's not the point.
00:03:48.760 But I feel like that's a piece of context that I missed in the story.
00:03:54.040 Again, rape is rape.
00:03:56.040 But I feel like that was somehow, you know, changes it a little bit because it, you know, it tells you how they got in the same place, anyway.
00:04:07.460 So, I saw a meme yesterday that told me, it's probably true, I don't know, but it's fun, even if it's not true, that Kyle Rittenhouse and Greta Thunberg have exactly the same birthday, January 3rd, 2003.
00:04:22.020 And I tweeted very briefly a witticism about that.
00:04:29.700 But I tweeted it only long enough to do a screen grab of my own tweet before deleting it so I could post it on the locals' platform where I won't get cancelled.
00:04:39.780 Because I knew I would get cancelled, or at least I'd get a bad blowback on Twitter.
00:04:46.420 I probably wouldn't get cancelled.
00:04:48.000 But I didn't want the blowback on Twitter because it was definitely a case of a joke that was too soon.
00:04:54.580 Too soon.
00:04:56.040 But the locals' people can handle it, and I think you can handle it here today, so I'll tell you what it was.
00:05:00.940 And by the way, after I deleted it, Twitter user Ian Miles Chiang was fast enough to grab it, I guess, in the 15 seconds it was live.
00:05:14.760 And he asked if he could retweet it, and I said yes.
00:05:20.260 So you'll see my tweet under his name on Twitter, just because he was braver than I was.
00:05:25.560 I should probably tell you what the tweet is instead of talking about it all the time.
00:05:30.940 I think this first part was like people telling you about their dream last night, and you're like,
00:05:35.520 don't tell me about a dream, just get on with it.
00:05:39.300 All right, here's the joke.
00:05:40.500 When I saw the meme that said Kyle Rittenhouse and Greta Thunberg were born on the same day, I said,
00:05:45.620 it's a ridiculous comparison.
00:05:47.640 Greta only talks about reducing the carbon footprint, whereas Kyle actually did it.
00:05:52.400 So that's why I deleted it from Twitter too soon, too soon.
00:06:02.100 What about that supply chain problem?
00:06:04.520 Do you remember the biggest problem in the country?
00:06:08.100 Was that the ports were all stopped up, and everything was going to come to a halt,
00:06:14.620 and the economy was going to grind too close?
00:06:17.460 What happened to all that?
00:06:18.720 It just disappeared, right?
00:06:22.400 It's just not in the news anymore.
00:06:25.140 Now, I still feel it, like when I go to the store, it's very clear that there are some items missing.
00:06:31.400 But so far, I've pretty much been able to work around it or find an alternative item for a while.
00:06:39.560 I can't buy the shampoo I use, for example, that hasn't existed for months.
00:06:43.840 But, you know, there are other shampoos, so it's not the biggest problem in the world.
00:06:49.640 But apparently, here's what happened.
00:06:52.840 A big improvement was made when they started fining companies for leaving their empties, the empty containers.
00:07:01.180 So they put a substantial enough fine on it that people figured out how to solve it.
00:07:06.000 So apparently, it wasn't that there were no solutions.
00:07:10.320 It's that there were no solutions that were economically favorable.
00:07:14.720 So as soon as they put a fine on companies for leaving their empties clogging up stuff,
00:07:20.060 they figured out how to get rid of them.
00:07:22.900 So apparently, they knew how to get rid of the empties.
00:07:25.480 They just didn't have a financial incentive to do it.
00:07:28.080 Yeah, I know, shampoo is weird, isn't it?
00:07:32.180 There's a long story to that that you don't need to hear.
00:07:35.700 But it's a medicated shampoo, blah, blah, blah.
00:07:39.380 All right, it's more than you used to know.
00:07:41.780 So yes, and I use the shampoo on other parts of my body, such as under my arms.
00:07:51.100 Weird, huh?
00:07:53.860 Here's a little aside for you.
00:07:55.140 I had a horrible rash under both of my arms that lasted, I don't know, five or ten years, I think.
00:08:05.420 So every day, like, I'd be, like, itchy and scratching under my arms,
00:08:09.360 and it was just some kind of permanent rash.
00:08:11.820 I didn't know what the hell it was.
00:08:13.720 And one day, I went to my doctor at Kaiser.
00:08:17.040 He said, well, use that medicated shampoo you use in your head.
00:08:20.720 Just use it under your arms.
00:08:23.160 And I said, what?
00:08:25.140 I said, yeah, just use the shampoo you use in your head, under your arms, and that'll go away.
00:08:29.740 And I said, are you telling me that a rash that I've had for ten years is going to go away if I rub some shampoo under my arms?
00:08:38.440 My doctor says, yeah.
00:08:40.560 And I went home and rubbed some shampoo under my arms, and a problem I'd had for ten years went away and stayed away.
00:08:47.200 That's all it was, just some kind of, I don't know, skin issue.
00:08:51.160 So, as I was saying, the supply chain problem just went away.
00:08:57.520 Now, I would like to add this to my list of what I call the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters.
00:09:05.140 But this one was sort of an edge case, wasn't it?
00:09:08.740 Because the port problem kind of snuck up on us, so it actually kind of happened fast.
00:09:14.940 But even though the initial shock of it happened fast, it looked like we'd have enough time to sort of, you know, waltz our way around the solutions.
00:09:27.160 So, I don't think it was just the one fine that made the difference, although maybe that was a big part of it.
00:09:33.600 But my guess is that everybody working at the port just found a way to do things ten percent better.
00:09:40.260 Don't you think?
00:09:41.500 Just sort of everybody figured out, all right, if I work an extra hour, if I put this where I wouldn't usually put it, you know, that sort of thing.
00:09:50.040 And problems like this, if you can reduce them by, I hear it's reduced by a third now.
00:09:55.260 The problem has been reduced by a third, and I think it's still moving in the right direction.
00:10:01.640 But that's usually enough to get something completely solved, if you can get a third of it out of the way.
00:10:08.320 You're usually on your way.
00:10:10.680 So, this is really an edge case, because we didn't have much time to solve it, and nobody knew what the solution would be exactly, right?
00:10:21.760 Everybody had ideas, but it wasn't obvious.
00:10:25.260 But we had, I guess, a few months, and that was enough.
00:10:29.880 Look at the pandemic and Operation Warp Speed.
00:10:35.700 Apparently, I think I have to modify the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters.
00:10:40.940 In the 70s, if you had a disaster, you needed maybe, I don't know, 10 years to, you know, change your economy or, you know, find new ways to frack or whatever to solve a problem, to take care of the ozone, etc.
00:10:57.820 So, I think we've gone from a world in which you need 10 years of notice to solve a problem that everybody sees coming, to a point where, if you look at the year 2000 bug that got solved in about six months, maybe a year, I'll say a year.
00:11:14.280 And that was a problem that we didn't think was even solvable.
00:11:17.620 But, in the final year, it got solved.
00:11:20.200 So, we may have reached a point where the economy and communications and everything are so fast that the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters could be compressed from, well, if you have 10 years to solve a problem, you'll probably do it.
00:11:36.820 And we may have gone all the way to, well, if you've got a good month to solve a problem, and it's a world problem, the world's really good at solving problems, it turns out.
00:11:54.740 If you have the access to all the resources and knowledge of the world on your problem, maybe a month is enough.
00:12:02.920 So, I guess I modified the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters to say that the amount of time you need to solve a disaster is compressing over time.
00:12:12.720 Logically, it would. It makes sense, right?
00:12:15.920 All right.
00:12:17.280 We can't not mention the tragedy in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
00:12:21.420 Somebody drove a Ford Escape into a crowd of people who were celebrating and killed some and injured a bunch, and it was just horrible.
00:12:34.540 So, I don't want to dwell on horrible stories.
00:12:36.520 But I will say that I'm waiting for it to turn into a white supremacist story.
00:12:42.520 Now, we think the driver was probably not white based on early reporting, but that's too early to know for sure.
00:12:49.780 Well, I would just like to add this note from the simulation.
00:12:55.800 Of all the vehicles in the world, that somebody could be driving to allegedly get away from some other crime.
00:13:05.320 So, the thinking is it wasn't a terrorist act, it was somebody trying to escape another situation and went through the crowd to do it.
00:13:12.840 The name of the vehicle is a Ford Escape.
00:13:18.120 Really?
00:13:19.220 It had to be an escape.
00:13:23.980 I think the simulation just made that happen.
00:13:26.340 But as also Paul Collider mentioned in a tweet, the worst part of this story is that that Ford Escape, that was, the Ford Escape was created by a white CEO and was transported across state lines in the cover of night before any of this happened.
00:13:45.940 So, I think that's got to be part of the story, as Paul mentions.
00:13:49.960 Here's a question for you.
00:13:54.780 Is inflation going to crush us, or is economics a bullshit?
00:14:03.280 Because I feel like only one of those two things can be true.
00:14:06.320 If we do not get crushed by debt and by inflation, then nothing we know about economics is right.
00:14:18.420 Am I wrong?
00:14:20.040 Now, by the way, if there's anybody new to my live streams, in addition to my cartooning career, I do have a degree in economics.
00:14:29.340 And I've got an MBA from a top business school, Berkeley.
00:14:32.540 So, I kind of know my way around economics, at least as a citizen level, you know.
00:14:41.080 And I don't understand how something could be so obviously bad, meaning gigantic trillion dollar increases in debt and everything that that will do for inflation with pumping money into the system.
00:14:55.280 Everything I know about economics says it will destroy the country.
00:15:02.060 But it looks like it probably won't.
00:15:07.300 What does that say about economics?
00:15:10.700 Now, actually...
00:15:15.280 All right.
00:15:20.020 Okay, we've got a little fight going on over on Locals in the comments.
00:15:25.200 I'll let you work that out.
00:15:26.580 Work that out on your own.
00:15:30.020 But a serious question.
00:15:33.260 Have we not been relying on economists to give us a heads up on whether something's going to be bad for us or good for us?
00:15:39.960 And have we not put the economists now to the ultimate test?
00:15:45.160 We've done something that I think every economist would say should crush the country.
00:15:50.240 That amount of debt and that amount of money pumped into it.
00:15:54.200 But it seems like most of the economists are saying,
00:15:56.640 Ah, well, yeah.
00:15:58.480 We've got some inflation problems, but we'll get over it.
00:16:02.960 Now, what if they're right?
00:16:05.540 What if they're right?
00:16:06.620 What if we can get over it?
00:16:08.980 And we'll have some inflation, obviously.
00:16:11.340 Nobody's saying we won't have inflation, by the way.
00:16:13.960 Everybody, the people who are talking about it seem to be saying,
00:16:16.220 Well, yeah, there'll be inflation, but it'll work its way out.
00:16:22.020 Correct me if I'm wrong.
00:16:24.200 Five years ago, if you talked to every economist and you said,
00:16:28.780 Can we add $5 trillion of debt and we'll be fine?
00:16:34.180 Who would have agreed with that?
00:16:36.620 Besides Bernie Sanders.
00:16:39.120 Was Bernie Sanders right all along?
00:16:43.960 We might find out he was.
00:16:46.340 I mean, he probably would have spent $10 trillion.
00:16:48.440 But, you know, the reason I've always, you know,
00:16:51.920 rejected the super socialist ideas,
00:16:56.020 you know, a little bit of socialism is fine,
00:16:57.900 because pretty much every country has that.
00:16:59.600 But the reason I've resisted the, you know, full socialism is not just because
00:17:03.860 it takes away incentives and it's a system that doesn't work.
00:17:07.460 It's I didn't think we could afford it.
00:17:09.880 It didn't seem possible.
00:17:12.200 But what if it is?
00:17:14.480 All right.
00:17:15.200 Let's go through this Build Back Better thing.
00:17:17.660 And I'll try to do this in a non-boring way if it's possible.
00:17:20.760 Number one, in the comments.
00:17:24.200 How many of you feel you have a good grasp on what the Build Back Better bill has in it?
00:17:30.360 Now, we're not talking about the infrastructure part, because that already got passed.
00:17:34.300 But what does the Build Back Better have in it?
00:17:36.460 Most citizens don't know, right?
00:17:39.580 Because it's a long laundry list of things,
00:17:42.060 and each of them would be its own entire conversation.
00:17:45.580 And you don't really have much transparency.
00:17:50.420 But I looked over it today, and here's the first thing.
00:17:54.180 Yeah, it's a confusopoly, right?
00:17:56.860 Cassandra, I was going to talk about that.
00:18:00.440 So you've got the government who puts on its website,
00:18:03.800 here's what our plan is.
00:18:04.880 And I went to the website to read it today.
00:18:07.660 In the government's own words.
00:18:10.680 So I read what the government said about it,
00:18:12.860 and then I asked people on Twitter,
00:18:14.600 what do you not like about it?
00:18:16.220 Tell me the bad things in it.
00:18:18.960 The things that people said they didn't like,
00:18:22.340 I couldn't find in the plan.
00:18:25.880 Now, I think the problem is,
00:18:28.220 not that they're not in the plan,
00:18:29.920 but that the government's website that describes the plan is a summary.
00:18:35.880 I don't think I found it there.
00:18:38.800 So do this.
00:18:40.400 Go to Google,
00:18:41.220 and just Google something like Build Back Better,
00:18:44.860 and see if you can find a list
00:18:48.040 that very clearly tells you all the things,
00:18:51.200 but importantly,
00:18:52.780 includes the things that people are talking about
00:18:55.460 that they don't like,
00:18:56.420 such as a cap on the SALT.
00:19:01.800 Now, SALT is the state and local taxes deduction.
00:19:06.480 Now, I've read different accounts about what that is,
00:19:10.040 or how big it is,
00:19:10.880 or whether it exists,
00:19:12.260 and whether it will be in the final one.
00:19:14.340 So you've got your original plan,
00:19:16.660 which they took the real infrastructure out of and passed.
00:19:20.980 So the original plan,
00:19:22.300 and then we've got the modified plan that went through the House.
00:19:25.640 So if you're Googling,
00:19:26.940 it's hard to know if you've got the first plan or the modified plan.
00:19:31.140 And if you look at Wikipedia,
00:19:32.540 you're not sure if they updated it for the new stuff.
00:19:35.320 And then you realize that there's a reconciliation process,
00:19:38.420 which I don't fully understand,
00:19:40.280 but my understanding is that the Senate can basically change the plan
00:19:44.540 fairly substantially,
00:19:46.740 and then just give it back to the House and say,
00:19:49.480 do you still like it?
00:19:51.120 And if they still like it,
00:19:52.780 something happens and then it can pass.
00:19:55.440 But we don't even know what that plan looks like.
00:19:58.400 Because I can't easily Google to find out what it is,
00:20:02.280 and I certainly don't know what it's going to turn into.
00:20:05.280 Because the Senate will fuss with it.
00:20:06.940 So how can I be in favor of it or against it?
00:20:12.540 So, yes, it's a confusopoly.
00:20:15.520 So between the government and the press,
00:20:18.740 there does seem to be some...
00:20:20.480 I'm not going to say it's coordinated,
00:20:22.120 but there's nobody who's working against it.
00:20:25.480 So it's coordinated by default
00:20:27.880 that nobody wants to tell you the details.
00:20:31.040 Or to give you, let's say, a debate on each of the items.
00:20:34.640 All right, here's the plus, here's the minus of this item.
00:20:37.900 This one will be cash positive.
00:20:40.700 This one will be cash negative,
00:20:42.180 but we like it for social reasons.
00:20:44.280 Put them all together and they cancel out or they don't,
00:20:48.140 whichever it is.
00:20:50.000 So we're about to spend probably trillions of dollars
00:20:55.280 that the public is completely shut out of the decision.
00:21:00.060 Now, I don't know if that's a bad idea, by the way.
00:21:02.280 Do you think you could really add to this?
00:21:07.200 Let me ask you this.
00:21:09.600 I'll give you a fact and then I'll ask your opinion.
00:21:12.500 17 Nobel-winning economists
00:21:15.340 signed on to say that the Build Back Better thing
00:21:18.560 is a good idea for the country,
00:21:21.860 that economically speaking it's positive.
00:21:25.300 Are you convinced?
00:21:27.660 17 Nobel economists say this is a good deal.
00:21:32.280 Are you convinced?
00:21:36.340 Well, how many of the 17 studied it?
00:21:40.840 What do you think?
00:21:42.160 How many of the 17, say, did an economic model
00:21:45.940 of each of the items and then summed it up?
00:21:50.440 The answer is zero, I'm pretty sure,
00:21:55.480 because there's nothing even to study.
00:21:58.100 Even if you wanted to study,
00:21:59.360 you wouldn't know exactly what it is
00:22:00.860 because you don't know what it was, what it is,
00:22:03.600 what it's going to turn into.
00:22:05.080 How could an economist possibly say it's good or bad?
00:22:08.560 It's ridiculous.
00:22:10.360 So when you see 17 economists sign on,
00:22:13.540 this is exactly like the...
00:22:14.440 How many intel agencies said the Steele dossier was correct?
00:22:21.900 Was it the same number?
00:22:23.480 Like 17 or something?
00:22:26.500 Was that also 17?
00:22:28.120 Or am I misremembering that
00:22:29.600 because I'm conflating it with this?
00:22:32.300 It's the same number, right?
00:22:33.560 17.
00:22:34.760 Because when you hear 17,
00:22:36.180 you say to yourself,
00:22:36.820 well, even if 12 of them are fake,
00:22:39.760 you've got five left, right?
00:22:42.480 Doesn't your brain do that?
00:22:44.360 If you hear 17 experts
00:22:46.100 or 17 intel agencies agreed,
00:22:48.900 your brain says,
00:22:50.100 well, even if most of them are full of shit,
00:22:54.760 that still leaves a lot of them.
00:22:57.460 So this is sort of that laundry list persuasion.
00:23:01.460 I'll bet of the 17 economists,
00:23:03.360 none of them really looked into it much.
00:23:05.460 What do you think?
00:23:06.120 I think there were just Democrats who said,
00:23:10.160 well, I'm a Democrat.
00:23:11.780 It's a Democrat bill.
00:23:12.900 It looks good for the public.
00:23:14.280 It looks good for bad people.
00:23:15.940 I'm all in.
00:23:17.260 I don't think anything beyond that happened.
00:23:20.760 But,
00:23:22.360 now, as I said,
00:23:23.780 I have a background in economics.
00:23:25.720 So I looked at just the government summary,
00:23:28.260 which leaves out all the stuff like,
00:23:30.980 I mean, I didn't even see anything about amnesty in there
00:23:33.220 or parole, they're calling it,
00:23:35.420 or whatever that is.
00:23:36.460 So we don't know what's going to happen with amnesty,
00:23:38.840 parole, who knows.
00:23:40.980 So it's all just this big mess of crap
00:23:44.420 that I can't discern.
00:23:46.240 But let me give you my
00:23:47.920 semi-uninformed opinion,
00:23:52.880 based on my background in economics,
00:23:56.120 of whether this looks like a good deal overall.
00:24:02.660 And the answer is,
00:24:04.600 it might be.
00:24:06.600 Certainly, anything this big
00:24:08.460 is going to be 20% absolute horrible bullshit.
00:24:12.080 Can we agree on that?
00:24:15.100 Can we agree that
00:24:16.240 no matter how good or bad it is,
00:24:18.960 that there's a,
00:24:19.820 there's sort of a,
00:24:21.240 let's say a floor
00:24:22.320 or a ceiling
00:24:23.680 to how good it could be?
00:24:25.580 Because it's a big government thing, right?
00:24:28.000 So let me,
00:24:29.220 let me concede
00:24:30.800 that there's no way
00:24:32.980 it's 100% good.
00:24:35.080 Everybody on board?
00:24:35.980 I think we all are bored
00:24:37.940 that we would all agree
00:24:39.120 that nobody thinks
00:24:40.240 it's 100% good.
00:24:42.260 So we would only be talking about,
00:24:44.140 you know,
00:24:44.380 on average,
00:24:45.120 is it more good than bad, right?
00:24:47.820 Now, at least 20% of it
00:24:50.140 is absolute crap
00:24:51.220 that needs to be fixed
00:24:52.980 by the, you know,
00:24:53.880 the Republicans if they can.
00:24:55.240 And maybe it will be.
00:24:56.260 Maybe the worst parts
00:24:57.120 will get adjusted.
00:25:00.220 But,
00:25:01.000 there's something very big
00:25:02.860 about this
00:25:04.520 that you're going to hate.
00:25:07.100 And when I say you,
00:25:08.040 I mean,
00:25:09.060 those of you
00:25:09.740 who are pro-family,
00:25:11.640 which is,
00:25:14.200 I imagine,
00:25:14.880 most of you.
00:25:16.920 Here's the uncomfortable truth.
00:25:20.920 Sometimes you have to deal
00:25:22.180 with reality
00:25:23.040 instead of what you want
00:25:25.080 reality to be.
00:25:28.060 Will you agree with me so far?
00:25:30.560 That sometimes
00:25:31.220 you just can't make reality
00:25:32.760 what you want.
00:25:33.500 Sometimes you just have to deal
00:25:34.840 with the one you have, right?
00:25:36.720 So withdrawing from Afghanistan,
00:25:38.560 for example.
00:25:39.600 There was no good way
00:25:40.800 to do that.
00:25:41.380 We probably did it
00:25:42.040 the worst possible way.
00:25:43.360 But it was going to get messy,
00:25:45.660 right?
00:25:46.000 There's some things
00:25:46.780 that are just,
00:25:48.020 you know,
00:25:49.080 just bad,
00:25:50.600 naturally.
00:25:52.520 All right.
00:25:54.020 But,
00:25:54.540 here's what I think
00:25:56.520 this Build Back Better thing does.
00:25:58.480 I think it removes
00:25:59.860 the family structure
00:26:01.020 from being
00:26:01.660 the essential,
00:26:03.260 the essential system
00:26:06.200 in the United States.
00:26:08.240 I would say
00:26:09.000 that outside
00:26:09.460 of the government itself,
00:26:11.100 the most basic system,
00:26:13.200 if I will,
00:26:13.840 that held the country together
00:26:15.040 was the family unit.
00:26:17.600 Now,
00:26:19.300 wouldn't you love,
00:26:20.820 you conservatives
00:26:21.620 who are watching,
00:26:22.980 and other people too,
00:26:24.580 wouldn't you love
00:26:25.540 for the government
00:26:26.460 to help families,
00:26:29.640 right?
00:26:30.460 And that would encourage
00:26:31.980 more families to form
00:26:33.140 and stay together.
00:26:34.340 It's a pretty good unit.
00:26:37.100 I believe that this budget
00:26:38.680 is separating family
00:26:40.620 from,
00:26:42.620 let's say,
00:26:43.220 a required institution
00:26:44.940 to an optional one.
00:26:47.220 That it's evolving.
00:26:48.560 I think the country
00:26:49.380 is trying to evolve
00:26:50.480 into a world
00:26:51.220 in which
00:26:51.720 you don't need
00:26:52.880 two parents.
00:26:54.600 Or any.
00:26:55.540 maybe.
00:26:56.840 But I think
00:26:57.720 the biggest part
00:26:58.720 of this
00:26:59.080 is moving
00:26:59.560 to a support structure
00:27:01.440 that is especially good
00:27:03.360 for single parents.
00:27:07.180 Now,
00:27:07.940 if you create
00:27:08.900 an incentive structure
00:27:10.140 that makes it easy
00:27:10.980 to be a single parent,
00:27:12.440 what's going to happen?
00:27:15.300 You'll get more of them,
00:27:16.520 right?
00:27:17.100 If it becomes easy
00:27:18.260 to be a single parent,
00:27:19.500 and right now
00:27:20.200 it's super hard,
00:27:22.320 you'll get more of them.
00:27:24.080 Now,
00:27:24.380 some of you would say,
00:27:25.080 oh my God,
00:27:25.660 that's the end of the country.
00:27:26.960 Because then
00:27:27.920 people won't form families
00:27:29.340 even if they,
00:27:30.800 you know,
00:27:31.040 maybe they would have otherwise.
00:27:32.460 But now it's just so easy
00:27:33.420 to be single,
00:27:34.000 you might as well
00:27:34.360 get that divorce.
00:27:36.500 Here's the tough part.
00:27:38.940 I don't think
00:27:39.680 a family works
00:27:40.380 for everybody.
00:27:42.140 I think a family unit
00:27:43.600 is the best possible
00:27:45.160 solution
00:27:45.980 for a lot of people.
00:27:48.620 A lot,
00:27:49.340 a lot of people.
00:27:49.860 Tens of millions of people.
00:27:51.440 It's absolutely
00:27:52.100 the best thing.
00:27:53.860 And people
00:27:54.500 who have done it
00:27:55.120 would tell you
00:27:55.520 the same thing.
00:27:57.020 But there has to be
00:27:58.260 a solid 40%
00:27:59.520 of the public
00:28:00.240 that will never thrive
00:28:01.940 in a family situation.
00:28:03.780 In other words,
00:28:04.200 they just can't be married.
00:28:06.180 There are a lot of people
00:28:06.880 who probably could be
00:28:07.860 an okay parent,
00:28:08.960 but never could be
00:28:09.720 an okay spouse.
00:28:11.840 Am I right?
00:28:12.520 The world is full
00:28:14.940 of all kinds
00:28:15.400 of different people.
00:28:16.780 Some people
00:28:17.540 would be great spouses
00:28:18.820 and terrible parents.
00:28:20.800 Some people
00:28:21.620 would be the opposite.
00:28:23.960 So if what this bill does
00:28:25.960 is make it possible
00:28:28.040 for people to thrive
00:28:29.480 outside of the family unit,
00:28:32.780 you're going to get
00:28:33.400 more unfamilied,
00:28:35.480 but it might be
00:28:37.600 economically positive.
00:28:40.020 That's my take.
00:28:43.440 It might be
00:28:44.460 really good economically.
00:28:47.580 Because here's the argument.
00:28:49.440 If you have a single parent
00:28:50.620 and they can't afford,
00:28:53.300 let's say,
00:28:53.940 child care
00:28:54.440 or whatever,
00:28:56.420 you basically take them
00:28:57.900 out of the workforce
00:28:58.560 forever.
00:28:59.860 You just crush them.
00:29:01.060 There's nothing they can do.
00:29:02.040 They've got to get
00:29:02.460 under welfare or something.
00:29:03.360 But if you create
00:29:05.640 a solution where,
00:29:06.520 let's say,
00:29:06.900 you had a kid
00:29:07.520 and the child care part
00:29:11.260 makes it impossible
00:29:12.060 to work,
00:29:13.420 well,
00:29:13.780 maybe the government
00:29:14.380 solves that for you.
00:29:15.700 It gives you health care
00:29:16.640 and food security too.
00:29:20.120 Maybe.
00:29:21.460 So,
00:29:22.800 you don't,
00:29:25.980 I hear all of your
00:29:27.400 objections.
00:29:29.140 And let me say,
00:29:30.160 if you disagree
00:29:31.400 with big government
00:29:32.160 in general,
00:29:33.300 I'm with you,
00:29:34.280 you know,
00:29:34.580 in general.
00:29:36.040 Sometimes you need
00:29:36.940 big government
00:29:37.460 to form a military
00:29:39.280 and stuff like that.
00:29:41.100 But,
00:29:41.800 you can't love
00:29:43.240 everything about
00:29:43.840 this Build Back Better bill.
00:29:45.680 However,
00:29:46.860 I do think
00:29:47.680 they're taking
00:29:48.460 a clear-eyed view
00:29:49.900 that the world
00:29:51.080 isn't going to be
00:29:51.680 a family unit
00:29:52.760 exclusive world
00:29:54.100 in the way
00:29:55.280 it almost was
00:29:56.120 in, say,
00:29:56.500 the 40s or so.
00:29:57.380 I think
00:29:58.640 it's a practical
00:30:00.020 look at the fact
00:30:02.220 that we just
00:30:02.940 can't keep families
00:30:03.720 together.
00:30:04.420 We don't have
00:30:04.880 that kind of world
00:30:05.540 anymore.
00:30:06.740 And, you know,
00:30:07.620 you could lament that
00:30:09.800 and you could wish
00:30:10.720 it were otherwise,
00:30:12.000 but I don't think
00:30:13.240 you're going to get
00:30:13.740 40% of the country
00:30:14.840 ever to be
00:30:15.600 in a family unit.
00:30:16.640 I just don't think
00:30:17.220 it'll ever happen
00:30:17.820 with any kind
00:30:19.200 of incentive.
00:30:20.860 You know,
00:30:21.380 short of jailing them,
00:30:22.560 I guess.
00:30:22.780 Now,
00:30:28.320 here's some
00:30:28.900 other parts
00:30:29.600 that I love about it.
00:30:30.640 One of them is
00:30:31.280 food security
00:30:32.440 for kids.
00:30:34.680 If you remember
00:30:35.520 when I was talking
00:30:36.740 with Hawk Newsome,
00:30:39.420 notably of
00:30:40.200 Black Lives Matter,
00:30:41.820 now he's quite
00:30:42.580 provocative
00:30:43.080 in a number of ways,
00:30:45.380 so I certainly
00:30:46.080 don't agree
00:30:46.560 with his take
00:30:47.460 on everything.
00:30:48.520 But one of the things
00:30:49.380 that Hawk
00:30:50.000 was promoting
00:30:50.740 was food security
00:30:52.080 because in the
00:30:53.500 black community
00:30:54.120 especially,
00:30:55.340 it's a big deal.
00:30:56.700 And I don't think
00:30:57.400 that that gets
00:30:57.940 enough attention
00:30:58.840 because if you
00:31:00.100 don't eat right,
00:31:00.840 you're not going
00:31:01.320 to learn right.
00:31:02.940 Are you with me?
00:31:03.960 If you don't eat right,
00:31:05.600 you're not going
00:31:06.080 to learn right?
00:31:07.380 I think everybody
00:31:08.320 would agree with that,
00:31:08.980 right?
00:31:10.080 So,
00:31:11.480 I think that
00:31:12.560 that part,
00:31:13.780 I would say,
00:31:14.240 is economically
00:31:14.980 positive
00:31:15.740 because you might
00:31:16.460 be turning
00:31:16.920 bad students
00:31:17.880 into good students
00:31:18.700 and that has
00:31:19.840 a huge economic
00:31:20.600 upside.
00:31:22.080 so that looks
00:31:26.000 good.
00:31:26.860 So I would say
00:31:27.380 that,
00:31:27.900 and then there's
00:31:28.560 a number of
00:31:28.880 health care things.
00:31:30.340 One of the reasons
00:31:31.040 that I describe
00:31:31.900 myself as left
00:31:33.000 of Bernie,
00:31:34.160 but better at math,
00:31:35.920 meaning that I always
00:31:37.080 thought his programs
00:31:37.760 were impractical,
00:31:39.060 math-wise.
00:31:40.220 But as a goal,
00:31:41.840 wouldn't you like
00:31:42.480 everybody to have
00:31:43.100 health care?
00:31:43.880 You just don't want
00:31:44.460 to be the one
00:31:44.820 to pay for it,
00:31:45.420 right?
00:31:46.420 But as a goal,
00:31:48.500 I want everybody
00:31:49.320 to have quality
00:31:50.160 health care in this
00:31:50.880 country.
00:31:51.520 And I don't think
00:31:52.180 we could call
00:31:52.680 ourselves a great
00:31:53.380 country if not
00:31:55.200 everybody has
00:31:55.920 good access
00:31:56.860 to health care.
00:31:58.320 I mean,
00:31:59.060 that feels like
00:31:59.640 a minimum to me.
00:32:01.400 So I like,
00:32:02.600 I generally like
00:32:03.560 how the Republicans
00:32:04.880 solve problems,
00:32:06.680 you know,
00:32:06.860 build systems
00:32:07.620 that take into
00:32:08.460 account human
00:32:09.860 motivation and
00:32:10.900 such.
00:32:11.920 But I like the
00:32:13.440 goals on the left.
00:32:15.220 They just don't
00:32:16.100 know how to get
00:32:16.600 there.
00:32:17.560 Now,
00:32:17.900 if it turns out
00:32:18.860 that they can
00:32:20.240 get there just
00:32:20.860 by raising taxes
00:32:22.120 and on the
00:32:24.160 super-rich,
00:32:25.140 and if they can
00:32:26.120 get there without
00:32:26.820 causing an
00:32:27.620 inflation that
00:32:28.300 crushes us,
00:32:30.000 maybe there was a
00:32:31.080 path after all.
00:32:32.900 Maybe I've been
00:32:33.900 wrong about
00:32:34.440 everything.
00:32:35.500 I don't know
00:32:36.260 that I'm wrong.
00:32:37.720 I mean,
00:32:37.940 I still think it's
00:32:38.620 a big risk to
00:32:39.920 put that much
00:32:40.460 debt on the
00:32:41.080 country and
00:32:41.620 throw that much
00:32:42.840 money into it
00:32:43.380 all at once.
00:32:44.060 But I also don't
00:32:44.900 know if it'll work
00:32:45.520 out.
00:32:46.320 And I don't think
00:32:46.920 you do either.
00:32:52.040 So I would say
00:32:53.100 if all you did
00:32:53.800 is read the
00:32:54.380 top-line
00:32:55.140 descriptions from
00:32:55.980 the government
00:32:56.460 of what this
00:32:57.180 Build Back Better
00:32:57.980 thing does,
00:32:58.640 it looks
00:32:59.140 terrific.
00:33:02.940 But,
00:33:03.660 hold on.
00:33:06.500 So let me
00:33:07.020 back up and
00:33:07.820 say that again.
00:33:08.640 If you just
00:33:09.300 read the
00:33:09.820 government's
00:33:10.420 own description
00:33:11.260 of what it's
00:33:11.920 doing,
00:33:13.140 without any
00:33:13.980 knowledge of the
00:33:14.940 details below
00:33:15.700 the top-line,
00:33:16.720 if that's all
00:33:17.280 you saw,
00:33:18.580 it actually
00:33:19.100 looks pretty
00:33:19.580 terrific.
00:33:21.140 And in fact,
00:33:22.120 if that's all
00:33:22.680 it was,
00:33:24.300 I feel like
00:33:25.300 I could almost
00:33:25.820 back it.
00:33:28.440 But,
00:33:29.500 you know the
00:33:30.760 government and
00:33:31.500 the media are
00:33:32.080 lying to you,
00:33:32.680 don't you?
00:33:34.320 We don't know
00:33:35.220 really what's in
00:33:36.000 that shit,
00:33:37.100 do we?
00:33:38.340 They're selling
00:33:39.100 it as soup,
00:33:40.400 but it might
00:33:41.500 not be soup.
00:33:43.140 It might be a
00:33:43.960 bowl of piss,
00:33:44.680 and you
00:33:45.620 can't tell
00:33:46.320 because the
00:33:47.860 government's not
00:33:48.520 being clear,
00:33:49.700 we don't know
00:33:50.400 how it will be
00:33:50.980 reconciled and
00:33:51.880 tweaked by the
00:33:52.520 end,
00:33:53.180 and the news
00:33:54.120 is completely
00:33:55.080 worthless in
00:33:55.940 describing this
00:33:56.620 stuff.
00:33:57.400 And if you
00:33:57.880 said,
00:33:58.240 okay,
00:33:58.500 well,
00:33:58.680 the news is
00:33:59.200 bad,
00:33:59.820 but we'll
00:34:00.240 listen to
00:34:00.680 all the
00:34:00.980 economists,
00:34:02.340 the economists
00:34:02.960 are all just
00:34:04.000 lying fucks.
00:34:05.980 17 Nobel
00:34:07.600 lying fucks.
00:34:09.800 Basically,
00:34:10.600 they didn't
00:34:11.240 look into it,
00:34:12.360 they liked the
00:34:13.080 social element
00:34:14.080 of it,
00:34:14.640 probably,
00:34:15.560 and said,
00:34:16.020 oh,
00:34:16.160 yeah,
00:34:16.300 it's fine.
00:34:17.520 We'll just
00:34:18.220 tax rich people
00:34:19.020 more.
00:34:21.220 All right.
00:34:22.240 Can you believe
00:34:23.240 that I looked
00:34:23.840 at this plan,
00:34:24.760 and as of
00:34:25.380 today,
00:34:25.720 I can't tell
00:34:26.400 if it will
00:34:26.880 raise or
00:34:27.880 lower my
00:34:28.540 taxes?
00:34:30.480 Think about
00:34:31.160 that.
00:34:31.980 I looked into
00:34:32.700 it today,
00:34:33.540 and I can't
00:34:34.680 tell if my
00:34:35.860 taxes would go
00:34:36.660 up or down.
00:34:38.460 I can't tell.
00:34:39.980 That's a pretty
00:34:40.440 basic question,
00:34:41.340 right?
00:34:41.520 At my
00:34:42.920 income level,
00:34:43.640 does it go
00:34:44.040 up or down?
00:34:45.320 Now,
00:34:45.640 at one point,
00:34:46.280 there was talk
00:34:46.860 about this
00:34:47.340 SALT deduction,
00:34:48.760 the state and
00:34:49.460 local taxes.
00:34:50.840 So if your
00:34:51.340 state has high
00:34:52.160 taxes, you can
00:34:53.480 use that to
00:34:54.060 offset your
00:34:54.840 federal taxes.
00:34:56.360 It never made
00:34:57.060 sense to me that
00:34:57.780 that was the
00:34:58.160 case, by the
00:34:58.640 way.
00:34:59.960 I don't think
00:35:01.220 there's any
00:35:01.620 justification
00:35:02.220 whatsoever for
00:35:04.560 getting a
00:35:05.200 state deduction,
00:35:05.900 but if I
00:35:08.180 can get one,
00:35:09.400 wouldn't it
00:35:09.840 be terrific?
00:35:11.140 And one of
00:35:12.360 the plans,
00:35:12.900 and I think
00:35:13.240 the Republicans
00:35:14.260 will probably
00:35:15.040 fight for this,
00:35:16.200 is that you
00:35:16.900 would get back
00:35:17.920 your SALT
00:35:18.420 deduction in
00:35:19.940 California,
00:35:20.500 where I live,
00:35:21.800 if you're under
00:35:22.640 a certain income,
00:35:24.240 which I am.
00:35:26.280 So I think it
00:35:26.880 was under $10
00:35:27.600 million of income
00:35:28.940 a year or
00:35:29.440 something.
00:35:30.200 So I'm under
00:35:31.080 $10 million of
00:35:32.180 income per year,
00:35:33.040 so it looks
00:35:33.540 like my taxes
00:35:34.340 would actually
00:35:34.980 go down.
00:35:38.480 I mean, if the
00:35:39.460 SALT deduction
00:35:40.120 cap is taken
00:35:41.340 off.
00:35:42.320 So think about
00:35:43.140 how basic these
00:35:44.380 questions are.
00:35:45.320 I don't even
00:35:46.040 know if my
00:35:46.520 taxes will go
00:35:47.280 up or down.
00:35:48.300 I don't even
00:35:49.120 know if these
00:35:49.680 plans would be
00:35:50.940 economically
00:35:51.440 positive or
00:35:52.320 negative.
00:35:53.640 You don't even
00:35:54.480 know.
00:35:55.760 But I would
00:35:56.920 say, if you
00:35:58.060 don't know,
00:35:59.500 if feeding
00:36:01.160 children and
00:36:02.280 giving people
00:36:03.020 good health
00:36:03.700 care and
00:36:04.740 housing and
00:36:05.360 some of the
00:36:05.740 other good
00:36:06.100 things, if
00:36:06.740 you don't
00:36:07.160 know if
00:36:07.520 they're good
00:36:07.880 or bad,
00:36:09.580 should you
00:36:10.000 do them?
00:36:10.840 Here's your
00:36:11.880 decision-making
00:36:12.920 test.
00:36:14.220 Let's say you
00:36:14.920 legitimately
00:36:15.560 don't know.
00:36:16.660 And I feel
00:36:17.140 like that's a
00:36:18.180 fair point of
00:36:19.260 view.
00:36:20.200 Let's say you
00:36:20.760 legitimately
00:36:21.420 don't know if
00:36:22.140 it's a good
00:36:22.540 idea or a
00:36:23.080 bad idea.
00:36:24.940 Do you
00:36:25.540 approve it?
00:36:27.480 Do you
00:36:28.080 like it?
00:36:28.480 It's not
00:36:33.280 as obvious
00:36:33.740 as you
00:36:34.220 think.
00:36:35.120 Because if
00:36:35.680 you don't
00:36:36.020 know if
00:36:36.320 it's a
00:36:36.600 good or
00:36:36.880 bad idea,
00:36:37.560 your first
00:36:38.040 instinct should
00:36:38.680 be conservative,
00:36:39.900 right?
00:36:40.900 Well, if you
00:36:41.600 don't know if
00:36:42.020 it's going to
00:36:42.380 work, don't
00:36:42.920 do it.
00:36:44.080 But that
00:36:44.620 applies to
00:36:45.220 literally
00:36:45.600 everything we
00:36:46.440 do.
00:36:47.740 There's
00:36:48.220 nothing we
00:36:48.720 do that we
00:36:49.400 know is
00:36:50.100 going to
00:36:50.320 work, right?
00:36:51.420 We don't
00:36:51.900 know.
00:36:53.060 We just
00:36:53.480 have a good
00:36:54.640 idea it'll
00:36:55.100 work.
00:36:56.340 And I
00:36:57.500 wonder if
00:36:58.760 maybe we
00:36:59.320 shouldn't take
00:36:59.840 the obvious
00:37:00.380 benefits that
00:37:01.180 come with it
00:37:01.720 since we
00:37:02.200 don't know
00:37:02.600 if it'll
00:37:02.860 work or
00:37:03.180 not.
00:37:04.260 I mean,
00:37:04.500 the fact
00:37:04.800 that we
00:37:05.200 can even
00:37:05.880 discuss that
00:37:07.240 we could
00:37:07.560 pump $3.5
00:37:08.760 trillion into
00:37:09.380 the economy
00:37:09.860 and maybe
00:37:10.860 we'll be
00:37:11.300 fine is
00:37:13.540 kind of
00:37:14.160 interesting.
00:37:16.700 Thank you,
00:37:17.400 Mark.
00:37:18.780 All right.
00:37:22.180 Now,
00:37:23.420 I pay,
00:37:24.120 as it
00:37:24.480 turns out,
00:37:24.840 the highest
00:37:25.440 tax rate
00:37:26.100 in the
00:37:26.300 country,
00:37:26.840 I saw
00:37:27.160 something,
00:37:27.780 I don't
00:37:27.980 know if
00:37:28.220 this is
00:37:28.520 true,
00:37:29.320 but it
00:37:29.560 says the
00:37:29.960 combined
00:37:30.340 California
00:37:30.960 tax bill
00:37:31.580 would be
00:37:31.920 64.7%.
00:37:33.880 Let me
00:37:35.460 round that
00:37:35.960 off for
00:37:36.380 you.
00:37:37.240 In
00:37:37.520 California,
00:37:39.860 two-thirds
00:37:40.400 of my
00:37:40.720 income is
00:37:41.540 taxes at
00:37:44.200 my income
00:37:45.160 level.
00:37:46.300 Did you
00:37:46.880 know that?
00:37:48.280 Am I
00:37:48.720 paying my
00:37:49.140 fair share?
00:37:51.000 Is there
00:37:51.340 anybody here
00:37:51.860 who thinks
00:37:52.380 that two-thirds
00:37:53.940 of my
00:37:54.360 income?
00:37:54.820 And keep
00:37:55.100 in mind
00:37:55.400 that I
00:37:55.700 work seven
00:37:56.240 days a
00:37:56.660 week in
00:37:57.900 two completely
00:37:58.820 different jobs,
00:37:59.820 you know,
00:38:00.040 this plus
00:38:00.600 cartooning.
00:38:02.000 So I'm an
00:38:03.180 example of
00:38:03.780 exactly what
00:38:04.460 the country
00:38:04.860 wants,
00:38:05.480 right?
00:38:06.500 People who
00:38:07.220 can work
00:38:08.500 hard in a
00:38:10.020 productive thing
00:38:11.240 that people
00:38:12.540 want to
00:38:12.920 purchase,
00:38:13.480 et cetera,
00:38:13.800 or pay for
00:38:14.520 in some
00:38:14.800 way.
00:38:16.640 And two-thirds
00:38:17.680 of my income
00:38:18.380 will just go to
00:38:19.680 the government.
00:38:22.240 Shouldn't I
00:38:22.820 just retire?
00:38:24.160 Because this
00:38:24.780 is a pretty
00:38:25.240 big incentive
00:38:25.840 to retire,
00:38:26.960 and I'm at
00:38:27.760 that age
00:38:28.240 where I
00:38:28.620 could if I
00:38:29.400 want.
00:38:30.660 But the
00:38:31.880 government's
00:38:32.380 basically retiring
00:38:33.340 me.
00:38:34.520 I'm not going
00:38:34.940 to pay two-thirds
00:38:35.600 of my income.
00:38:37.600 I mean,
00:38:37.880 50% is crazy,
00:38:39.740 and I'm
00:38:40.100 probably at
00:38:40.640 60%.
00:38:41.420 I think I'm
00:38:42.300 at around
00:38:42.600 60%.
00:38:43.260 I don't think
00:38:43.740 it's 65%.
00:38:44.560 But if you
00:38:45.240 added the
00:38:45.600 other kinds
00:38:46.000 of taxes,
00:38:46.540 it would be
00:38:46.840 65%.
00:38:48.100 But, you
00:38:49.560 know, I
00:38:50.560 feel as
00:38:51.060 though, I
00:38:53.180 don't know
00:38:53.440 how you
00:38:53.740 calculate
00:38:54.180 what's fair.
00:38:56.040 Because fair
00:38:56.580 is subjective.
00:38:58.160 So take me
00:38:58.720 in California.
00:39:00.300 Granted, I
00:39:00.980 have the
00:39:01.660 highest tax
00:39:02.720 rate in
00:39:03.440 the country
00:39:03.840 in California,
00:39:04.500 the highest
00:39:04.840 tax rate of
00:39:05.400 all.
00:39:05.840 Is that
00:39:06.220 fair?
00:39:07.480 Is it
00:39:07.860 fair that
00:39:08.320 every dollar
00:39:08.920 I earn,
00:39:09.740 I pay
00:39:10.400 two-thirds
00:39:11.900 of it?
00:39:12.920 Whereas the
00:39:13.580 person, you
00:39:14.240 know,
00:39:14.380 a block
00:39:15.240 away, could
00:39:17.360 pay 10%.
00:39:18.640 Is it
00:39:19.560 fair that
00:39:19.880 I pay
00:39:20.160 two-thirds
00:39:20.600 of my
00:39:20.940 money?
00:39:22.740 Well, I
00:39:24.100 think it
00:39:24.480 is.
00:39:25.320 And I'm
00:39:25.760 going to
00:39:25.920 surprise you.
00:39:27.620 Because in
00:39:28.560 California, we
00:39:30.420 get a lot of
00:39:31.220 benefits that
00:39:31.840 you don't get
00:39:32.300 in other
00:39:32.680 states.
00:39:33.760 Let me
00:39:34.080 give you
00:39:34.340 one example,
00:39:35.280 and then you
00:39:35.660 can generalize
00:39:36.640 from that.
00:39:37.480 In
00:39:37.740 California, I
00:39:38.920 can go
00:39:39.260 outside and
00:39:40.000 take a
00:39:40.380 stroll on
00:39:41.600 a sidewalk
00:39:42.160 that is
00:39:42.680 more turd
00:39:43.480 than concrete,
00:39:44.200 you can't
00:39:45.780 do that.
00:39:46.840 Try doing
00:39:47.260 that in
00:39:47.520 your state.
00:39:48.960 In
00:39:49.420 California, I
00:39:51.260 can go
00:39:51.720 take a
00:39:52.760 walk, and
00:39:53.360 when I
00:39:54.360 come back, my
00:39:55.260 house might be
00:39:55.940 full of
00:39:56.320 strangers.
00:39:57.720 Can you
00:39:58.180 do that?
00:39:59.360 Now, those
00:39:59.680 strangers might
00:40:00.300 be removing
00:40:00.840 things through
00:40:01.460 the windows,
00:40:02.540 because that's
00:40:03.020 been happening
00:40:03.460 quite a bit in
00:40:04.000 my neighborhood
00:40:04.440 lately, but
00:40:05.640 I don't pay
00:40:07.000 for that.
00:40:07.880 That happens
00:40:08.420 for free.
00:40:09.340 So I'm
00:40:09.660 meeting nice
00:40:10.140 people, I'm
00:40:10.800 walking on
00:40:11.260 turd sidewalks.
00:40:12.260 These are
00:40:13.040 things you
00:40:13.440 don't get.
00:40:15.140 Now, suppose
00:40:17.020 I was over
00:40:19.100 hydrated.
00:40:20.680 Well, I
00:40:21.080 live in a
00:40:21.480 state with
00:40:21.960 severe water
00:40:22.860 restrictions, so
00:40:24.800 that helps
00:40:25.260 me.
00:40:26.560 Suppose I've
00:40:28.160 been getting
00:40:28.500 outside too
00:40:29.140 much and
00:40:29.520 getting a
00:40:29.840 little bit
00:40:30.120 too much
00:40:30.500 sun, a
00:40:31.240 little bit
00:40:31.460 of sunburn.
00:40:33.020 In
00:40:33.500 California, for
00:40:34.740 half of the
00:40:35.320 year, we
00:40:36.160 have so many
00:40:36.680 forest fires
00:40:37.320 that it
00:40:37.700 blocks out
00:40:38.140 the sun.
00:40:38.560 Can you do
00:40:40.320 that in your
00:40:40.740 state?
00:40:41.280 No.
00:40:41.900 In your
00:40:42.180 state, you
00:40:42.560 have to
00:40:42.780 put on
00:40:43.060 sunscreen and
00:40:43.920 slather it
00:40:44.540 on before
00:40:44.900 you walk
00:40:45.320 outside.
00:40:46.340 In my
00:40:46.560 state, you
00:40:46.940 can't even
00:40:47.280 tell if it's
00:40:47.680 daytime half
00:40:48.300 the time.
00:40:49.760 So I
00:40:50.560 think that
00:40:51.000 that is
00:40:51.400 worth two
00:40:52.140 thirds of
00:40:52.660 every dollar
00:40:53.160 I earn to
00:40:54.100 walk on
00:40:54.620 turd sidewalks
00:40:55.540 and have
00:40:56.440 no sun
00:40:56.920 exposure
00:40:57.380 whatsoever and
00:40:58.300 have new
00:40:59.440 friends coming
00:41:00.020 in through
00:41:00.280 my windows on
00:41:00.980 a daily
00:41:01.280 basis.
00:41:02.480 That's
00:41:02.960 something you
00:41:03.360 can't do.
00:41:06.280 All right.
00:41:06.620 I feel
00:41:11.640 like I
00:41:11.920 had some
00:41:12.200 other things
00:41:12.580 to talk
00:41:12.980 about, but
00:41:13.360 they weren't
00:41:13.660 terribly
00:41:13.960 important.
00:41:16.380 Am I
00:41:16.920 missing any
00:41:17.360 topics?
00:41:20.340 Is there
00:41:20.860 anything else
00:41:21.340 happening today?
00:41:22.780 I feel as if
00:41:23.800 the news that's
00:41:24.660 not being
00:41:25.100 reported is
00:41:25.820 all the
00:41:26.180 important stuff.
00:41:28.220 Doesn't it
00:41:28.800 feel like
00:41:29.140 that?
00:41:30.460 That we
00:41:32.440 don't understand
00:41:33.120 the build back
00:41:33.740 better thing,
00:41:34.660 but that's
00:41:35.040 like a huge
00:41:35.740 deal.
00:41:36.620 We don't
00:41:37.000 really know
00:41:37.460 what's
00:41:37.640 happening at
00:41:38.120 the ports
00:41:38.620 with the
00:41:39.620 supply chain,
00:41:40.300 but that's
00:41:40.540 a big deal.
00:41:43.680 Oh, the
00:41:44.180 Epstein trial.
00:41:44.960 Has that
00:41:45.180 started?
00:41:47.180 I just saw
00:41:47.960 something trending
00:41:48.780 about that,
00:41:49.280 but we don't
00:41:49.680 know anything
00:41:50.000 about that yet,
00:41:50.660 do we?
00:41:51.420 Until they
00:41:51.880 start naming
00:41:52.420 names.
00:41:53.680 How many of
00:41:54.160 you, oh,
00:41:54.420 the jury
00:41:54.720 selection?
00:41:56.400 God, I'd
00:41:56.940 love to be
00:41:57.300 on that jury.
00:41:58.800 Can you
00:41:59.180 volunteer for
00:42:00.140 jury duty in
00:42:01.580 another state?
00:42:04.520 How much
00:42:05.120 would you love
00:42:05.640 to be on
00:42:06.120 the Ghislaine
00:42:07.680 Maxwell
00:42:08.240 trial?
00:42:09.300 It's going
00:42:09.640 to last
00:42:09.980 forever, so
00:42:11.000 that part's
00:42:12.220 bad, but at
00:42:13.160 least it'd be
00:42:13.560 interesting.
00:42:14.200 It would be
00:42:14.460 the most
00:42:14.760 interesting trial
00:42:15.680 you ever
00:42:16.020 had.
00:42:19.140 Yeah, just
00:42:19.720 think of the
00:42:20.080 per diem.
00:42:20.880 $15 a day,
00:42:22.000 baby.
00:42:24.800 What's this?
00:42:26.400 Daryl for
00:42:27.280 federal hate
00:42:27.780 crime?
00:42:28.080 I don't know
00:42:28.340 what that's
00:42:28.660 about.
00:42:30.760 What am I
00:42:31.380 doing for
00:42:31.740 Thanksgiving?
00:42:32.800 I actually
00:42:33.680 don't know.
00:42:35.400 I don't
00:42:35.700 have plans
00:42:36.200 for
00:42:36.380 Thanksgiving.
00:42:39.220 Strangely
00:42:39.740 enough.
00:42:44.220 So I
00:42:45.000 imagine,
00:42:46.020 yeah, I'll
00:42:46.700 probably just
00:42:47.100 order pizza
00:42:47.840 or something.
00:42:50.760 Scott
00:42:51.280 stole
00:42:51.580 Dilber from
00:42:52.160 Mike
00:42:52.420 Judge
00:42:52.900 office space
00:42:53.720 cartoon.
00:42:56.180 Dr.
00:42:56.800 Johnson, my
00:42:57.400 private troll,
00:42:58.420 come over here.
00:42:58.860 Let me tell
00:42:59.920 you a story
00:43:00.280 about office
00:43:00.840 space, the
00:43:02.080 Mike Judge
00:43:03.380 cartoon, or
00:43:05.660 movie.
00:43:06.800 So most of
00:43:07.360 you saw
00:43:07.660 office space
00:43:08.320 and probably
00:43:09.220 loved it.
00:43:10.600 It was a
00:43:10.820 pretty awesome
00:43:11.240 movie for at
00:43:11.980 least the first
00:43:12.420 part was
00:43:12.880 awesome, then
00:43:13.340 it got
00:43:13.560 boring.
00:43:14.940 But Dilbert
00:43:16.600 was already a
00:43:17.540 well-known
00:43:17.980 comic at that
00:43:19.000 point, before
00:43:19.780 that movie
00:43:20.320 came out.
00:43:21.980 And unknown
00:43:24.200 to me that
00:43:25.100 the movie was
00:43:25.680 in production,
00:43:26.220 I was
00:43:27.540 looking for
00:43:28.140 some advice
00:43:29.120 on hiring
00:43:31.320 an art
00:43:32.440 assistant or
00:43:33.120 something, I
00:43:33.540 forget what
00:43:33.940 it was, and
00:43:35.460 I wanted to
00:43:36.420 ask Mike
00:43:37.200 Judge a
00:43:38.060 professional
00:43:39.100 question, just
00:43:40.940 a cartoonist
00:43:41.880 to cartoonist
00:43:42.440 question.
00:43:42.860 I had never
00:43:43.200 met him, but I
00:43:43.780 thought he
00:43:44.020 might know
00:43:44.280 the answer.
00:43:45.140 So somehow
00:43:45.620 I got his
00:43:46.180 phone number
00:43:47.180 and called
00:43:47.860 him and left
00:43:48.280 a message, and
00:43:49.740 he never
00:43:50.540 called back.
00:43:52.180 Now, how
00:43:53.960 many of you
00:43:54.460 ever leave a
00:43:55.200 message and
00:43:55.680 never get a
00:43:56.200 call back?
00:43:57.640 Is that
00:43:58.180 common in
00:43:59.080 your world?
00:44:00.600 To leave a
00:44:01.240 phone message
00:44:01.860 to, let's
00:44:02.600 say, a
00:44:02.860 professional in
00:44:03.660 your field?
00:44:05.600 Is it
00:44:06.180 common to
00:44:06.620 not get a
00:44:07.040 call back?
00:44:07.740 Now, it's
00:44:08.380 common for
00:44:08.960 your friends,
00:44:10.000 right, or
00:44:10.400 your spouse or
00:44:11.160 something, but
00:44:12.540 in the business
00:44:13.240 world, if
00:44:15.160 you're asking
00:44:15.760 a colleague,
00:44:17.420 somebody who's
00:44:18.060 at the same
00:44:18.500 level you
00:44:18.980 are, ish,
00:44:20.880 do you ever
00:44:21.820 just not get
00:44:22.540 a call back?
00:44:26.200 It's all
00:44:26.640 over the
00:44:26.920 board, I'm
00:44:27.300 seeing lots
00:44:27.700 of, anyway,
00:44:29.320 so he
00:44:29.580 never called
00:44:30.400 me back, so
00:44:30.900 I've never
00:44:31.220 spoken to
00:44:32.300 him.
00:44:33.120 But, not
00:44:34.740 long after
00:44:35.380 that, Office
00:44:36.260 Space came
00:44:36.820 out.
00:44:38.520 Now, when
00:44:39.440 Office Space
00:44:40.020 came out, that
00:44:41.100 cost me
00:44:42.120 probably
00:44:43.660 $20 to $50
00:44:47.140 million,
00:44:48.020 personally.
00:44:50.140 Do you know
00:44:50.960 why?
00:44:51.220 Because, at
00:44:53.400 the time, it
00:44:53.920 was very
00:44:54.260 obvious that
00:44:54.860 there would
00:44:55.100 be a
00:44:55.360 Dilbert movie.
00:44:56.980 Dilbert was
00:44:57.480 so popular at
00:44:58.200 the time,
00:44:58.620 already, it
00:44:59.580 was already
00:45:00.400 being talked
00:45:00.940 about for a
00:45:01.480 movie.
00:45:02.340 Do you know
00:45:02.620 what happened
00:45:02.980 every time I
00:45:03.760 went into a
00:45:04.740 meeting with
00:45:06.900 anybody in the
00:45:07.720 movie business?
00:45:09.220 Do you know
00:45:09.500 what they said?
00:45:11.200 Oh, you mean
00:45:12.040 you're trying to
00:45:12.540 make Office
00:45:13.060 Space?
00:45:14.860 And I'd say,
00:45:15.860 well, no,
00:45:16.580 actually, Dilbert
00:45:17.180 came before Office
00:45:18.120 Space, and it
00:45:19.460 would be its own
00:45:20.020 thing.
00:45:20.360 And then the
00:45:21.380 movie, people
00:45:21.940 said, so,
00:45:23.520 basically, Office
00:45:24.340 Space with
00:45:24.980 Dilbert.
00:45:25.620 And I'd be
00:45:25.940 like, no, it's
00:45:27.020 different.
00:45:28.120 It would be my
00:45:28.780 own thing.
00:45:30.420 And they would
00:45:30.880 look at me and
00:45:31.340 say, well,
00:45:32.460 basically, Office
00:45:33.140 Space, the movie
00:45:34.220 that's already been
00:45:34.880 done.
00:45:36.500 That was it.
00:45:37.920 So, Dilbert was
00:45:39.080 sort of an obvious
00:45:40.140 thing that would
00:45:40.640 become a movie
00:45:41.320 property, and a
00:45:42.400 lot of studios
00:45:43.040 were interested,
00:45:43.860 et cetera.
00:45:44.420 But because Mike
00:45:45.520 Judge front-ran
00:45:48.480 it,
00:45:48.720 it probably
00:45:51.120 cost me $20
00:45:52.240 to $50
00:45:52.700 million.
00:45:53.980 Now, some
00:45:55.880 said that the
00:45:58.400 Dilbert cartoon
00:45:59.040 made Office
00:45:59.860 Space possible.
00:46:01.540 What do you
00:46:01.920 think?
00:46:02.740 Because the
00:46:03.600 Dilbert comic
00:46:04.120 was the first
00:46:04.740 time anybody
00:46:05.300 had taken a
00:46:06.120 sort of a
00:46:07.240 realistic office
00:46:08.420 cubicle world
00:46:09.460 and showed that
00:46:11.620 it had commercial
00:46:12.920 potential.
00:46:14.380 before Dilbert,
00:46:16.800 nobody believed
00:46:17.620 that an
00:46:18.060 office-y movie
00:46:19.120 could have
00:46:20.180 market potential.
00:46:21.640 I proved it
00:46:22.560 did, and
00:46:24.060 Mike Judge
00:46:24.880 absorbed that
00:46:26.260 market potential
00:46:26.980 and made a lot
00:46:27.460 of money.
00:46:29.240 Now, of course,
00:46:30.120 it's a competitive
00:46:30.720 world, and
00:46:32.200 who knows if he
00:46:33.960 was even aware
00:46:34.580 of Dilbert or
00:46:35.440 it was his own
00:46:36.060 experience.
00:46:36.600 I have no idea.
00:46:37.820 But I certainly
00:46:38.600 made it possible.
00:46:40.460 I think I can
00:46:41.140 say that for sure.
00:46:42.340 I have no
00:46:44.460 direct knowledge
00:46:46.860 that he even
00:46:47.600 knew that
00:46:47.940 Dilbert existed
00:46:48.640 at the time.
00:46:49.740 I assume he
00:46:50.200 did, because
00:46:50.620 everybody did.
00:46:52.760 So, to
00:46:53.980 Dr. Johnson,
00:46:55.300 just so you
00:46:55.960 have a correct
00:46:57.060 understanding of
00:47:00.100 what came
00:47:00.560 first.
00:47:05.860 No, by the
00:47:07.780 time I sent
00:47:08.260 my voicemail,
00:47:09.020 it was already
00:47:09.540 under production.
00:47:10.500 It had to be.
00:47:12.340 All right,
00:47:16.480 anything else
00:47:17.000 that I'm
00:47:17.260 missing today?
00:47:17.980 I don't have
00:47:18.440 to run today.
00:47:22.280 Not the movie.
00:47:23.300 It came out
00:47:23.660 before the
00:47:24.220 Dilbert comic strip.
00:47:25.620 There was an
00:47:26.360 office space
00:47:27.040 cartoon that
00:47:28.880 nobody ever
00:47:29.340 heard of.
00:47:30.500 Well, apparently
00:47:31.240 it was not
00:47:31.720 commercially
00:47:32.120 successful.
00:47:32.700 fake news
00:47:42.540 responsible for
00:47:43.480 the truck
00:47:43.960 attack.
00:47:46.440 Best show
00:47:47.100 ever.
00:47:49.200 Oh, so a lot
00:47:50.520 of people ask me
00:47:51.080 why I don't
00:47:51.560 move out of
00:47:52.040 California.
00:47:52.660 And I'll
00:48:00.140 give you the
00:48:00.500 answer to that.
00:48:02.280 I built my
00:48:03.240 home here to
00:48:03.900 be, let's
00:48:05.940 say, crisis
00:48:07.120 proof.
00:48:09.020 So, you
00:48:10.300 know, I could
00:48:10.800 survive a whole
00:48:11.680 bunch of natural
00:48:12.600 disasters where I
00:48:13.740 live, and it
00:48:14.860 would be hard to
00:48:15.420 replicate that.
00:48:17.120 But also, you
00:48:17.800 can't match the
00:48:18.380 weather.
00:48:18.620 Even if you
00:48:19.560 throw in the
00:48:20.300 smoke and
00:48:21.940 everything else,
00:48:22.860 it's hard to
00:48:23.220 match the
00:48:23.560 weather.
00:48:24.080 But on top of
00:48:24.700 that, if you
00:48:25.140 have roots here,
00:48:25.820 it's just hard
00:48:26.260 to move.
00:48:26.780 So it's more
00:48:27.340 about the
00:48:27.660 human part.
00:48:28.720 If you took
00:48:29.340 away the
00:48:29.640 human part,
00:48:30.280 I'd probably
00:48:30.700 be looking to
00:48:31.280 move.
00:48:34.020 What is
00:48:34.540 Drew Carey's
00:48:35.200 story?
00:48:35.560 Oh, that's a
00:48:36.260 good question.
00:48:37.140 So Drew Carey,
00:48:38.240 some people also
00:48:39.260 saw the similarity
00:48:40.620 between his
00:48:41.280 characters and
00:48:42.000 the Drew Carey
00:48:42.720 show.
00:48:43.420 I'll give you a
00:48:43.980 little background
00:48:44.560 on that.
00:48:45.980 So Dilbert came
00:48:46.640 first before the
00:48:47.900 Drew Carey show.
00:48:49.720 And a lot of
00:48:51.000 people probably
00:48:51.840 said to him the
00:48:52.580 same thing they
00:48:53.080 said to me.
00:48:53.640 He's like,
00:48:53.860 hey, Drew
00:48:55.600 Carey looks like
00:48:56.320 Dilbert, and he's
00:48:57.060 in an office, and
00:48:57.900 it's an office
00:48:58.560 comedy kind of
00:48:59.560 thing.
00:49:01.660 But the Drew
00:49:02.360 Carey show wasn't
00:49:03.160 really so much
00:49:03.820 about the office.
00:49:04.760 It was just a
00:49:05.380 setting for human
00:49:06.560 interactions.
00:49:07.280 It wasn't really
00:49:07.740 about office-y
00:49:08.500 things.
00:49:09.340 So that was
00:49:09.940 very different.
00:49:10.800 But one day I
00:49:11.460 was at home, and
00:49:12.400 Drew Carey just
00:49:15.140 called me at
00:49:15.680 home, which is
00:49:17.060 the coolest thing
00:49:17.700 about being
00:49:18.200 semi-famous, that
00:49:19.780 famous people will
00:49:20.660 call you at
00:49:21.080 home.
00:49:21.980 Like the phone
00:49:23.200 will ring, and
00:49:23.880 it'll be just
00:49:25.100 some world-famous
00:49:26.180 person.
00:49:28.080 So Drew Carey
00:49:29.080 called me at
00:49:29.540 home, and he
00:49:31.100 was, of course,
00:49:31.960 aware that people
00:49:33.340 were making
00:49:33.780 comparisons.
00:49:38.300 Oh, Justin's
00:49:39.240 saying more in
00:49:39.740 the filters.
00:49:40.300 Well, there's
00:49:40.720 more stuff like
00:49:41.380 that on my
00:49:42.140 micro-lessons within
00:49:43.160 the locals
00:49:44.080 subscription world.
00:49:46.380 Anyway, so Drew
00:49:48.100 Carey called, and
00:49:49.000 he offered me a
00:49:50.620 job writing for
00:49:52.820 his show.
00:49:55.240 And I said,
00:49:56.500 really?
00:49:58.760 I've got a job
00:49:59.800 already.
00:50:00.500 This Dilbert comic
00:50:01.560 thing is working out
00:50:02.400 pretty well, because
00:50:03.040 by then it was
00:50:03.580 already pretty hot.
00:50:06.540 And he said, well,
00:50:08.340 you wouldn't believe
00:50:09.400 how much writers get
00:50:10.320 paid.
00:50:11.260 And I said, how
00:50:12.680 much?
00:50:13.060 And when he
00:50:14.220 told me how
00:50:14.720 much a successful
00:50:15.980 TV writer gets
00:50:17.000 paid, I have to
00:50:18.100 admit, I was
00:50:18.640 tempted.
00:50:20.380 Because I think
00:50:21.620 at the time, it
00:50:23.560 would have been
00:50:23.960 something like
00:50:24.460 $400,000 a year.
00:50:27.120 If you just
00:50:27.860 forward that, I
00:50:29.740 don't know, 20
00:50:30.160 years or whatever
00:50:30.780 it's been, it's
00:50:32.800 like $1.2 million
00:50:33.940 a year for a top
00:50:35.500 writer.
00:50:36.440 And probably,
00:50:37.140 just based on my
00:50:38.220 success with
00:50:39.200 Dilbert, I
00:50:39.760 probably could be a
00:50:42.020 TV writer for a
00:50:42.860 million dollars a
00:50:43.560 year.
00:50:44.780 I'd hate that
00:50:45.520 job, because I
00:50:46.440 did that job.
00:50:47.480 You know, I
00:50:47.680 wrote a lot of TV
00:50:48.400 scripts for the
00:50:49.160 Dilbert TV show.
00:50:50.360 And I don't like
00:50:51.160 that work.
00:50:52.180 I just didn't like
00:50:54.240 doing it.
00:51:02.240 Okay.
00:51:02.640 All right, just
00:51:06.160 looking at some
00:51:06.660 comments.
00:51:09.800 Sounds like no
00:51:11.340 family unit thing
00:51:12.140 is another LBG
00:51:13.000 great society thing.
00:51:14.220 Yeah, kind of.
00:51:16.820 Do you give to
00:51:17.640 charities, or what
00:51:18.660 kind?
00:51:19.760 Let me give you an
00:51:21.220 answer to that that
00:51:22.060 is surprising.
00:51:25.340 Do you know how a
00:51:26.360 lot of celebrities
00:51:26.980 have a pet charity?
00:51:29.380 Like Jerry Lewis was
00:51:30.580 the, you know, the
00:51:31.540 telethons, and various
00:51:33.440 people say, okay, this
00:51:34.580 is my charity, and this
00:51:35.980 is my thing.
00:51:36.800 Do you know why famous
00:51:37.840 people do that?
00:51:38.580 Do you know why
00:51:39.860 famous people,
00:51:41.000 celebrities usually,
00:51:42.460 do you know why they
00:51:42.980 usually pick a specific
00:51:44.240 charity?
00:51:45.900 Now, sometimes it's
00:51:46.960 because they have a
00:51:47.620 family member or
00:51:48.560 somebody they're close
00:51:49.300 to, so it's close to
00:51:50.720 them, and that's part
00:51:51.840 of it.
00:51:52.820 It has nothing to do
00:51:53.860 with taxes.
00:51:54.780 Now, everybody who
00:51:55.780 thinks that charity,
00:51:57.420 that, first of all,
00:51:58.560 there's no such thing
00:51:59.260 as a tax write-off that
00:52:00.380 makes sense.
00:52:00.900 A lot of people who
00:52:03.880 don't study finance
00:52:05.080 don't know that.
00:52:06.180 You can never make
00:52:07.060 money by writing things
00:52:08.360 off, because you spent
00:52:10.240 more than you wrote
00:52:10.940 off.
00:52:12.140 So it's either good to
00:52:13.200 spend it or it's not,
00:52:14.160 but nobody does things
00:52:15.000 because of the taxes.
00:52:17.160 They're either good or
00:52:17.920 they're not, including
00:52:19.300 taxes.
00:52:20.800 All right.
00:52:26.800 The liberal blind spot
00:52:28.500 that Scott has.
00:52:30.420 What liberal blind spot
00:52:31.880 do you think I have?
00:52:34.560 Please read my mind
00:52:35.820 incorrectly in public
00:52:37.240 here so I can see
00:52:38.140 exactly what you're
00:52:39.020 saying.
00:52:39.780 Tell me my liberal
00:52:40.940 blind spot.
00:52:42.840 Go ahead.
00:52:43.900 You got time.
00:52:45.720 Yeah, just shut up,
00:52:46.980 because you know I
00:52:47.640 don't have one.
00:52:49.060 All right.
00:52:50.280 What was I talking
00:52:51.140 about?
00:52:52.760 Oh, why celebrities
00:52:53.880 choose one charity?
00:52:55.000 Here's the reason.
00:52:56.300 Because if they don't
00:52:57.080 choose one charity,
00:52:57.980 they get pecked to
00:52:59.140 death by other
00:52:59.860 charities, of which
00:53:00.700 there are many.
00:53:03.220 Here was my day early
00:53:05.120 in the Dilbert world.
00:53:07.480 Somebody said to me,
00:53:08.280 hey, how would you
00:53:09.780 like to participate to
00:53:11.120 this local charity?
00:53:13.080 And I'd say, you know,
00:53:14.220 I'm doing well, and I
00:53:16.220 think I should give
00:53:16.960 back.
00:53:17.940 So I'd say, yes.
00:53:19.340 All right, yeah, I
00:53:19.920 will do that.
00:53:20.760 So I'd participate in
00:53:21.800 the local charity.
00:53:22.920 How do you think that
00:53:23.660 turned out for me?
00:53:25.540 Did you think that
00:53:26.220 turned out well for me?
00:53:27.060 What do you think
00:53:28.200 happened when I
00:53:29.620 participated in a
00:53:30.780 local charity?
00:53:34.140 What do you think?
00:53:36.560 Turns out that people
00:53:37.740 who participate in any
00:53:39.000 kind of a charity, I'm
00:53:39.900 talking about the other
00:53:40.620 people, not me, also
00:53:42.660 have some connection with
00:53:44.520 other charities.
00:53:46.960 And the next thing, your
00:53:48.800 email and your phone just
00:53:50.720 blow up.
00:53:52.240 Hey, I got a charity.
00:53:53.740 I got a charity.
00:53:55.880 I got a charity.
00:53:57.160 And I was spending maybe
00:53:58.740 25% of my entire day
00:54:00.940 saying no to charities
00:54:03.240 because there were just
00:54:05.000 too many of them.
00:54:06.340 So what the celebrities
00:54:07.760 will often do is say, I
00:54:09.060 give all of my attention
00:54:10.340 to my one charity.
00:54:12.280 It's how they say no.
00:54:14.280 It's not just about the
00:54:16.100 one charity.
00:54:17.060 It solves two problems.
00:54:18.720 One is they probably
00:54:19.560 genuinely care about the
00:54:21.140 charity.
00:54:21.420 It's often based on a
00:54:22.840 family member or
00:54:23.640 something.
00:54:24.340 So I do think they care
00:54:25.320 about the charity.
00:54:26.720 But it solves one of
00:54:27.620 their biggest problems,
00:54:28.560 which is saying no to
00:54:29.420 stuff.
00:54:29.840 No, I have a charity.
00:54:31.860 I put all my attention
00:54:32.860 there.
00:54:33.780 Did you know that?
00:54:35.240 You didn't know that,
00:54:35.960 did you?
00:54:38.240 So since I don't have a
00:54:41.060 named charity, here's how
00:54:44.080 I answer the question.
00:54:44.980 Somebody asked if I give
00:54:45.880 to charity.
00:54:46.760 And the answer is I
00:54:47.840 don't disclose.
00:54:48.600 I don't disclose.
00:54:52.780 Because if I did, other
00:54:55.560 charities would peck me to
00:54:57.840 death.
00:54:58.860 So when somebody says, and
00:55:00.600 I also give only
00:55:01.500 anonymously.
00:55:02.940 So when somebody says, can
00:55:04.340 you give to my charity, I
00:55:05.400 say, nope, because you
00:55:07.400 would know I did it.
00:55:09.080 And then it's not
00:55:10.000 anonymous.
00:55:11.520 So I can say no to
00:55:12.740 anybody because they can't
00:55:15.060 guarantee anonymity.
00:55:16.200 Nobody can, really.
00:55:16.940 Is there a mutual fund
00:55:24.200 equivalent for charities?
00:55:27.760 Not that I know of.
00:55:30.800 Yeah.
00:55:33.000 So I will tell you that over
00:55:35.080 the course of my successful
00:55:37.000 career, I've given a lot
00:55:41.420 away.
00:55:42.880 So, you know, you can use
00:55:44.160 your own imagination.
00:55:45.260 But my goal was always
00:55:47.060 to die broke.
00:55:49.240 And if I didn't give it
00:55:50.360 away while I was alive,
00:55:51.600 then I kind of suck.
00:55:53.220 That was my feeling.
00:55:54.420 Sort of the, not too far
00:55:55.660 from the Bill Gates
00:55:56.440 thing.
00:55:57.820 If you die with a
00:55:58.920 billion dollars, you did
00:56:01.520 something wrong.
00:56:03.720 You really did something
00:56:04.820 terribly wrong.
00:56:06.260 So I would say that by the
00:56:08.500 time I die, I will have
00:56:09.860 personally consumed 10% of
00:56:12.940 my wealth.
00:56:14.420 And all the rest will have
00:56:15.920 gone somewhere else by
00:56:16.940 then, including to heirs
00:56:18.820 because, you know, they
00:56:20.420 spend it too.
00:56:22.000 But very little of the
00:56:23.380 money that a rich person
00:56:24.740 owns gets spent by the
00:56:26.000 rich person.
00:56:27.380 You know, how much of
00:56:29.840 Elon Musk's wealth do you
00:56:31.580 think he spends on
00:56:32.540 consumption?
00:56:35.480 Tiny, tiny, tiny bit.
00:56:37.300 All the rest is going to
00:56:39.120 end up somewhere else.
00:56:40.960 Either heirs or donated
00:56:43.080 or starting more
00:56:45.100 businesses or something.
00:56:49.060 All right.
00:56:49.720 Have I chatted long
00:56:50.520 enough?
00:56:52.460 And it creates jobs.
00:56:54.140 That's correct.
00:56:56.440 Aliens are back in the
00:56:57.540 news.
00:56:58.600 Don't hold your breath.
00:57:00.720 So I'm predicting no
00:57:03.020 aliens.
00:57:03.960 But I'd love to be wrong
00:57:05.000 about that.
00:57:07.580 And when I say no
00:57:08.580 aliens, I mean no
00:57:09.580 aliens anywhere.
00:57:10.840 No aliens on other
00:57:11.840 planets.
00:57:13.120 No aliens will ever be
00:57:14.360 found in our current
00:57:15.880 simulation, is what I
00:57:17.200 think.
00:57:22.720 Will Build Back Better
00:57:23.840 help the Dems keep
00:57:24.860 Congress?
00:57:25.640 I don't think so.
00:57:28.480 Well, help, I guess I
00:57:30.540 should answer more
00:57:31.080 specifically.
00:57:32.060 It might help, but it's
00:57:33.920 not going to be enough.
00:57:34.600 No.
00:57:36.480 All right.
00:57:37.040 That's all I've got now
00:57:37.880 for now.
00:57:38.960 And I will talk to you.