Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1582 Scott Adams： The News is Slow But Extra Funny Today. Come Join Me

00:00:00.000 Bow bow. Good morning, everybody. And while I do tell you that coffee with Scott Adams is the best thing that's ever happened to you, possibly the best thing that's ever happened to anybody, today, a little extra good.

00:00:14.480 And I'm not even joking. I just saw, literally, you know, three minutes ago, the best news I've seen in a long time. And I don't know if you've seen it yet. You suspected it was coming. But are you ready for it? I'm just going to look at my other computer and just read you the headlines. Right? Just savor it. Okay? It goes like this.

00:00:44.480 Sigh of relief in South Africa. Sorry. Let me put on the microphone. Here's the good news for you. Sigh of relief in South Africa as Omicron, Omicron. Variant appears to be super mild. Super mild. And the death rate is not jumping.

00:01:10.260 And it says the WHO, WHO, and coronavirus experts are increasingly convinced that the new Omicron variant is, quote, super mild.

00:01:21.920 I think something's good is happening here. And here's the funny thing.

00:01:33.000 I'm increasingly convinced that the only way any virus ever ends is that it becomes its own vaccination. Now, that's the thing, right? Am I wrong that that's an actual thing? Some people suspect that's what stopped the Spanish flu, right?

00:01:54.780 Now, there might be some disagreement. Now, there might be some disagreement on that. But my current view is I can't think of anything else that would ever stop a virus, you know, once it reaches pandemic proportions. What else would do it? I mean, it's not human intervention.

00:02:08.860 I don't think so. You know, and it's not vaccinations. So this thing may have, and here's the fun part. You've got all these, oh, God, I'm trying not to swear.

00:02:24.860 Whew. It was hard to choke that one back. I could do this again without the cursing. Deep breath.

00:02:32.020 Whew. Think of all the fine, fine human beings. See what I did there? I could have been swearing there. But instead, the fine human beings that are preparing to charge us another $10 trillion for vaccinations and medications.

00:02:48.860 What would happen if a variant destroyed their entire business model? Trillions of dollars. It might be happening. Here's how you know that it might be happening.

00:03:00.420 The news won't tell you. The news won't tell you. I had to look at some, like, weird little news source to say that the Omicron looks mild. Now, I would wait for extra sources to say that. I wouldn't consider what I just read to you to be a, you know, a highly credible source.

00:03:17.240 But I think it's common. And it could be that all these weasels who have been trying to figure out every way to charge us will get to the SIP.

00:03:29.280 Every way to charge us may be thwarted to the tune of possibly trillions of dollars.

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00:04:09.040 Oh, so good.

00:04:14.300 Well, Joe Biden is allegedly suffering from a bad cold that he, it's not COVID, but he's got a bad cold and his, his speech was sounding a little different.

00:04:26.880 And, uh, in fact, doctors said he had, uh, quote, a frog in his throat.

00:04:33.680 He had a frog in his throat, which would explain why his speaking recently has been so ribbiting.

00:04:45.380 Yeah, I'll just let that ribbiting. 0.73

00:04:47.220 Now, I thought that was a good pun when I tweeted it, but I was embarrassed and humiliated by this better pun from Allison Orkin, who is a writer, so at least she's a professional.

00:05:00.680 I hate to be beaten by non-professionals, but if a professional tops me, all right, that's fair.

00:05:07.580 And here's what she said about Joe Biden having a frog in his throat.

00:05:13.600 She said about Joe Biden, I think he's been a tad polarizing.

00:05:19.840 He's been a tad polarizing.

00:05:22.720 Yeah, he's been a little, he's been a tad polarizing.

00:05:27.440 Slow clap.

00:05:29.380 Good pun.

00:05:30.180 All right, in the CNN fake news category, oh, it's delicious this time.

00:05:35.620 Joy Reid, um, was talking about, he tweeted about the story that Governor DeSantis wants to establish what CNN refers to as a World War II era civilian military force.

00:05:50.840 Oh, my God.

00:05:52.180 That not the Pentagon would control.

00:05:54.280 The CNN article goes on.

00:05:56.280 But in a nod to the growing tensions between the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he called, would not be encumbered by the federal government.

00:06:06.460 Scary, isn't it?

00:06:07.980 Whoa.

00:06:08.900 And I believe that it was Joy Reid of MSNBC who tweeted and said it was fascist-y banana stuff.

00:06:17.720 Fascist-y banana stuff.

00:06:19.300 That's what DeSantis is doing.

00:06:20.540 It wasn't until the fourth paragraph that CNN acknowledged that there are already 23 states that have such a force.

00:06:33.840 So Joy Reid is looking at this and saying, oh, it's fascist, it's bananas.

00:06:40.380 And he would be the 24th state to do it.

00:06:44.280 No problem yet.

00:06:46.160 Basically 200 volunteers.

00:06:48.060 Now, apparently, Joy Reid and others are worried that the 200 volunteers will be such a well-trained fighting force

00:06:58.640 that they can take on the largest military in the galaxy, the United States military.

00:07:06.660 So that's what Joy Reid is worried about.

00:07:08.540 And that seemed quite ridiculous even to Sarah Silverman,

00:07:12.840 who called bullshit on Joy Reid's tweet and tweeted back at her and said,

00:07:19.580 please read the article before you post this stuff.

00:07:22.840 You're the news outlet.

00:07:24.660 The truth has to matter.

00:07:26.700 Now, if you follow politics and celebrity input into politics,

00:07:30.780 you would know that Sarah Silverman is not a friend of the right.

00:07:35.780 She would be a very, very left, anti-Trump kind of a personality.

00:07:42.060 But even Sarah Silverman can see clear as day that this was fake news from a news outlet.

00:07:50.820 Now, it's happening, people.

00:07:54.720 We're very, very close to the dam bursting.

00:07:58.120 I've been getting a slow trickle of examples of people on the left who are flipping.

00:08:06.840 Now, not flipping politically.

00:08:08.960 You know, they're not becoming Republicans.

00:08:11.440 Nothing like that.

00:08:12.740 But they're flipping in the sense that they're realizing that the movie they've been watching was always fiction.

00:08:19.300 They thought it was a documentary.

00:08:20.980 They thought they were watching real news, and they weren't.

00:08:27.780 They're just finding out that it's not real.

00:08:30.920 And I have a hypothesis, with no data whatsoever to back it,

00:08:36.360 just based on what I know about people,

00:08:39.080 that I'm not surprised that people in the movie industry

00:08:42.380 would notice this before others on the left.

00:08:47.020 Because they deal in movies, in stories.

00:08:51.860 And stories have surprise endings.

00:08:54.420 And they're just finding out the surprise ending of their own story.

00:08:58.340 The news was never real.

00:09:02.640 That's a perfect movie.

00:09:04.760 A perfect movie is when they realize,

00:09:08.060 wait a minute, are you telling me that for years,

00:09:11.520 for years,

00:09:13.180 none of it's been real?

00:09:14.520 Not the political stuff.

00:09:17.300 None of the political stuff has been real,

00:09:19.180 if you consider the context, right?

00:09:22.400 The facts are real, often.

00:09:24.420 Sometimes not.

00:09:25.760 But the context is always narrative.

00:09:28.040 So the context is never real.

00:09:29.800 It's always just a story.

00:09:31.780 And it doesn't surprise me that people who write

00:09:33.920 those kinds of stories for a living

00:09:36.260 would start to recognize the pattern.

00:09:38.800 Wait a minute.

00:09:40.340 I think Bruce Willis has been dead all along.

00:09:43.620 Didn't want to ruin any movies there.

00:09:47.480 But you know what I'm talking about.

00:09:51.900 So look for that.

00:09:53.520 Look for more people in the movie industry

00:09:55.060 to figure out that their own news has been fake.

00:09:58.360 Speaking of fake narratives,

00:10:01.300 are you watching the story of the high school shooter

00:10:05.180 whose parents were, let's say, not good parents,

00:10:08.780 we believe.

00:10:11.040 And they are so culpable, it looks like,

00:10:15.720 if not legally liable.

00:10:18.380 They certainly feel some responsibility, I think.

00:10:21.400 Well, I don't want to read their minds.

00:10:23.820 Rather, let me back up.

00:10:25.000 I won't read their minds.

00:10:26.260 I'll just say that they seem to make themselves

00:10:29.400 hard to find for a while,

00:10:30.920 either for their own safety or for whatever reasons.

00:10:34.200 But the lawyer said it was for their own safety.

00:10:36.900 But now they're in custody.

00:10:39.320 And here's the part that's just too perfect.

00:10:42.840 Their names are the Crumblies.

00:10:45.520 Their last name actually has crumb in it.

00:10:49.340 They're white people 0.99

00:10:50.520 who apparently like guns

00:10:53.220 and don't take care of them as well as they should.

00:10:56.980 They're actually white people

00:10:58.360 who are going to be stuck into the narrative

00:11:00.860 of adults, especially white males,

00:11:04.340 and guns being the big problem.

00:11:06.900 Those white males and their guns. 0.61

00:11:09.360 Now, do you get it?

00:11:11.200 Crumbly.

00:11:11.740 Oh, you got it.

00:11:12.480 Somebody on Locals got it first.

00:11:15.900 Crumbly.

00:11:17.780 What is crumbly?

00:11:19.380 Name something that's crumbly.

00:11:21.180 Crumbly.

00:11:21.680 A cracker.

00:11:24.720 A cracker.

00:11:25.640 A cracker.

00:11:26.980 Is crumbly.

00:11:29.620 The simulation actually served up

00:11:32.140 the ideal white people 0.54

00:11:35.320 who do everything wrong with guns

00:11:37.060 and their name is actually

00:11:39.920 based on a frickin' cracker.

00:11:42.080 Now, if this is not made

00:11:45.820 for the ideal narrative,

00:11:49.560 nothing is.

00:11:50.880 I mean, these two parents

00:11:51.820 did sort of everything wrong,

00:11:53.520 you know, gun-wise,

00:11:54.560 leaving it unlocked,

00:11:55.440 being, you know, chief among them.

00:11:57.700 So...

00:11:59.540 But let me push back

00:12:01.780 on one element of the story.

00:12:03.380 Apparently, there is...

00:12:04.400 Part of the story is that

00:12:05.460 people should have known

00:12:07.400 that this kid was going to do something

00:12:09.400 because he drew some violent drawings,

00:12:12.780 including a little,

00:12:15.920 I guess, a word bubble or something

00:12:17.820 that had himself thinking

00:12:20.100 that he can't stop the thoughts

00:12:21.580 that showed him, you know,

00:12:23.040 shooting somebody else in the class, I guess.

00:12:26.100 So if you saw that a 15-year-old boy

00:12:30.640 drew a little comic-type picture

00:12:34.780 that included violence

00:12:36.720 of somebody shooting somebody else,

00:12:39.400 how alarmed should you be?

00:12:43.120 In the comments, tell me.

00:12:44.160 That's a real question.

00:12:45.020 15-year-old boy drawing pictures

00:12:46.820 of violence,

00:12:48.360 specifically somebody shooting somebody.

00:12:50.940 How concerned would you be?

00:12:56.040 I know I did it a lot.

00:12:59.420 In fact, it was the number one

00:13:01.360 most common thing

00:13:04.760 that people at age 15 drew.

00:13:07.220 It was violence.

00:13:09.260 It was the number one thing

00:13:11.400 that young boys draw pictures of.

00:13:14.380 Except for sex, right?

00:13:16.740 You know, gigantic penis pictures.

00:13:18.760 That's the only other thing

00:13:19.900 that boys draw.

00:13:21.620 Giant penises,

00:13:23.000 possibly boobs, 0.72

00:13:24.440 and then violence.

00:13:26.620 Usually somebody being shot in the head.

00:13:29.960 Am I right?

00:13:30.400 I mean, can all the males

00:13:33.000 who are on there

00:13:33.700 just confirm for me

00:13:34.960 that you have drawn violent pictures

00:13:37.620 involving gunfire

00:13:39.020 as a child

00:13:40.820 or a teen, let's say,

00:13:42.340 15-year-olds?

00:13:43.440 Yeah, look at the yeses.

00:13:45.000 The yeses are just screaming by.

00:13:46.880 We all, you know,

00:13:47.780 I don't know if we all do it,

00:13:49.020 but it's literally

00:13:50.060 the most common thing.

00:13:51.480 But you read it in the news

00:13:53.360 and it's like,

00:13:55.060 you idiot adults, 1.00

00:13:57.140 couldn't you tell

00:13:57.780 that this was real?

00:13:59.440 To which I say,

00:14:00.560 no.

00:14:01.380 No, you can't tell.

00:14:02.980 And then I put myself

00:14:03.900 in that situation

00:14:04.760 and I say,

00:14:06.120 would I have known?

00:14:08.320 Would I have known?

00:14:10.440 And the answer

00:14:11.520 I have to give myself is,

00:14:13.620 I'm not sure.

00:14:16.020 I can't say yes.

00:14:18.080 I can say,

00:14:19.100 oh, in hindsight,

00:14:21.000 I know what happened,

00:14:21.900 so yes,

00:14:22.900 I might have been alerted.

00:14:23.980 But really?

00:14:25.160 Really?

00:14:26.760 Really?

00:14:27.320 Can I tell myself

00:14:28.120 I would have spotted that?

00:14:30.100 I just don't know.

00:14:31.760 I don't think I would have.

00:14:33.960 I'd bet against myself,

00:14:35.260 actually,

00:14:35.680 in this situation.

00:14:40.880 Yeah, there are lots

00:14:41.880 of questions about this,

00:14:42.960 especially the interplay

00:14:43.960 of what is the parents

00:14:44.940 responsibility

00:14:45.660 versus the child

00:14:46.760 versus the bullies.

00:14:49.040 I'm the only one

00:14:49.560 who will say that.

00:14:52.320 So the crumblies

00:14:53.320 are the perfect narrative,

00:14:54.500 so we'll see more

00:14:55.100 of the crumblies

00:14:55.720 and a lot less

00:14:56.460 of Waukesha.

00:14:58.080 Do you know

00:14:58.740 that this really

00:14:59.360 happened to me?

00:15:00.760 Yesterday I saw a tweet

00:15:02.280 about somebody

00:15:02.840 who said that Waukesha

00:15:05.140 is already being

00:15:05.840 memory-holded

00:15:06.580 and we're forgetting

00:15:08.340 that it happened.

00:15:09.520 And I looked at the tweet

00:15:10.480 and it said,

00:15:10.920 Waukesha.

00:15:12.500 Waukesha.

00:15:13.260 Which one is that?

00:15:14.940 That actually happened.

00:15:17.020 I actually

00:15:17.900 had literally

00:15:19.100 forgotten Waukesha

00:15:20.260 and the media

00:15:22.160 made us forget it.

00:15:23.460 Now,

00:15:24.400 let me see

00:15:26.240 if we can do this

00:15:26.980 the other way.

00:15:27.620 Let's see if it works

00:15:28.280 the other way.

00:15:29.800 I'm going to give you

00:15:30.840 a last name

00:15:32.040 and see if you recognize

00:15:33.600 the first name

00:15:34.300 just automatically.

00:15:36.020 Floyd.

00:15:37.460 Floyd.

00:15:37.840 Does anybody

00:15:39.060 automatically know

00:15:40.460 the first name

00:15:41.280 of Mr. Floyd?

00:15:43.800 Yeah,

00:15:44.360 and George.

00:15:45.440 Not going to forget

00:15:46.100 that, are you?

00:15:47.260 So when you see

00:15:48.140 the media directly

00:15:49.280 manipulating your memory

00:15:51.000 and your memory

00:15:52.480 is the number one

00:15:53.540 thing probably

00:15:54.360 except immediate fear,

00:15:56.620 your memory

00:15:57.060 would be

00:15:57.420 one of the biggest

00:15:58.540 things that influences

00:15:59.440 your future decisions.

00:16:01.140 Because you can say,

00:16:02.140 well,

00:16:02.320 it was like this before,

00:16:04.100 so this tells me

00:16:04.940 something,

00:16:05.400 that that informs

00:16:06.020 my future decisions.

00:16:07.080 So when they're

00:16:08.120 manipulating their memory,

00:16:09.320 they are programming you.

00:16:10.860 They're programming

00:16:11.540 your next decisions.

00:16:14.140 They're not just

00:16:15.140 erasing the past.

00:16:16.820 They're programming

00:16:17.640 your next decisions

00:16:18.880 by erasing

00:16:19.720 what they erase

00:16:20.960 and by focusing

00:16:21.840 on what they focus on.

00:16:23.820 All right,

00:16:24.880 Kathy Griffin

00:16:25.600 is calling out CNN

00:16:26.720 because they let

00:16:28.760 Toobin keep his job

00:16:29.960 for Yankin

00:16:31.000 who's Toobin

00:16:31.560 on a Zoom call,

00:16:33.260 not on the network,

00:16:34.380 but, you know,

00:16:35.160 on a Zoom call.

00:16:36.080 And Kathy Griffin

00:16:39.520 lost her gig,

00:16:40.440 her New Year's Eve gig

00:16:42.100 that she would do

00:16:42.600 for CNN

00:16:43.180 because of her

00:16:44.440 holding up

00:16:44.920 the severed head

00:16:45.920 of Trump,

00:16:47.380 the bloody head,

00:16:48.320 in a joke.

00:16:51.180 Now,

00:16:52.400 here's my comment

00:16:53.360 on that.

00:16:54.440 Are those two things

00:16:55.660 exactly the same?

00:16:58.520 One

00:16:59.080 was done

00:17:00.220 with great intention

00:17:01.380 and planning.

00:17:03.080 It took a lot of work

00:17:04.400 to get that

00:17:04.920 severed head.

00:17:06.080 To look just right

00:17:07.100 and photograph it.

00:17:08.420 So one

00:17:08.960 took a whole

00:17:09.620 bunch of planning.

00:17:11.400 The other one,

00:17:13.320 Toobin,

00:17:14.500 didn't even know

00:17:15.260 what was happening

00:17:15.860 until after it was done.

00:17:17.720 He was actually

00:17:18.320 literally unaware

00:17:19.480 until afterwards.

00:17:22.160 Is that the same?

00:17:24.080 And also,

00:17:25.080 you know,

00:17:26.240 one is promoting

00:17:28.460 violence

00:17:29.180 and the other

00:17:29.840 is promoting

00:17:30.500 self-love.

00:17:31.740 I mean,

00:17:33.480 if you can't love

00:17:34.540 yourself,

00:17:35.020 who can you love?

00:17:36.740 So I'm going to say

00:17:37.780 that Kathy Griffin's

00:17:38.800 comparison of those

00:17:39.800 two things

00:17:40.440 is not on point.

00:17:41.920 I love Kathy Griffin,

00:17:42.980 by the way.

00:17:43.700 I've met her a few times.

00:17:44.820 I've worked with her.

00:17:46.260 And so I like her

00:17:47.360 personally,

00:17:47.880 just in case that's

00:17:49.180 not coming through

00:17:49.940 in my conversation here.

00:17:52.180 But I don't think

00:17:53.420 those situations

00:17:54.100 are the same.

00:17:54.640 But what I love

00:17:55.120 about this

00:17:55.600 is that CNN

00:17:57.300 is being called out

00:17:58.200 for being sexist.

00:18:00.440 CNN is being called out

00:18:01.980 for being sexist.

00:18:06.140 I guess

00:18:06.800 you create a standard

00:18:08.380 and you have to live

00:18:08.980 by it,

00:18:09.340 don't you?

00:18:10.680 So that's the standard

00:18:11.820 that the news

00:18:13.240 on the left creates

00:18:14.220 and I guess

00:18:14.760 they'll have to live

00:18:15.260 up to it.

00:18:16.820 I told you that

00:18:17.960 even though

00:18:18.720 abortion,

00:18:19.860 the changes

00:18:20.780 that are being

00:18:21.440 contemplated

00:18:22.100 with the Mississippi

00:18:22.900 case in the Supreme

00:18:24.160 Court,

00:18:25.240 that even no matter

00:18:26.400 how that goes,

00:18:28.780 that the Democrats

00:18:30.600 will use it

00:18:31.180 to rile up the base.

00:18:32.400 Now there's some

00:18:32.980 difference of opinion

00:18:35.140 of whether this is

00:18:36.200 enough of an issue

00:18:37.340 these days

00:18:38.660 to rile up the base

00:18:40.040 or not,

00:18:41.000 but CNN

00:18:41.960 is already trying

00:18:42.980 and they're talking

00:18:44.940 about how it's going

00:18:46.580 to,

00:18:46.740 how that issue

00:18:47.640 is going to

00:18:48.140 motivate people,

00:18:49.020 et cetera.

00:18:50.120 And

00:18:50.460 that's an example

00:18:52.600 of them

00:18:53.040 making it

00:18:54.000 a priority.

00:18:55.740 If CNN reports,

00:18:57.260 hey,

00:18:57.540 I think Democrats

00:18:58.340 are going to

00:18:58.720 treat this

00:18:59.160 as their priority,

00:19:00.280 it encourages it,

00:19:01.500 right?

00:19:02.000 It's like,

00:19:02.320 hey,

00:19:02.500 everybody knows

00:19:03.080 this is a priority,

00:19:04.180 get on board.

00:19:05.440 It's sort of like

00:19:06.340 communicating to the base,

00:19:08.800 right?

00:19:09.000 There are some people

00:19:09.740 who think this might work

00:19:11.240 and then CNN

00:19:12.320 is going to tell

00:19:12.820 the rest of them

00:19:13.500 so that they all

00:19:14.760 can get on board

00:19:15.540 on this strategy.

00:19:17.120 So that's happening

00:19:17.740 right now.

00:19:18.240 CNN basically working

00:19:19.580 with the Democrats

00:19:20.400 to make sure

00:19:21.300 that this issue

00:19:22.040 can be something

00:19:23.180 that they can talk

00:19:24.240 about going forward.

00:19:27.200 Speaking of CNN,

00:19:28.260 a lot of news

00:19:28.740 about CNN today.

00:19:29.960 It's news about the news.

00:19:31.280 But CNN

00:19:31.680 is dumping

00:19:32.580 on Kamala Harris again

00:19:33.780 and the way

00:19:35.300 they're doing it

00:19:36.080 is shocking.

00:19:40.220 Here's something

00:19:40.940 that actually appeared

00:19:42.060 on CNN.

00:19:44.160 They're quoting somebody

00:19:45.300 apparently

00:19:46.040 in the Kamala Harris camp

00:19:48.620 saying that

00:19:50.000 if she were a man

00:19:51.300 with her management style

00:19:52.560 doing a TV show,

00:19:54.880 that TV show

00:19:55.500 would be called

00:19:56.080 The Apprentice.

00:19:57.900 That's right.

00:20:00.020 CNN is reporting

00:20:01.440 that Harris' own people

00:20:04.180 are likening her

00:20:06.300 to Donald Trump

00:20:08.180 in management style.

00:20:11.660 CNN's reporting that

00:20:12.940 about a Democrat,

00:20:15.080 about Kamala Harris.

00:20:17.060 She is so done.

00:20:19.700 She's as done

00:20:20.880 as you could be done

00:20:22.580 as a politician.

00:20:24.680 Clearly,

00:20:25.340 CNN has the message

00:20:27.180 or is sending the message

00:20:28.360 that she's not the future.

00:20:30.900 I mean,

00:20:31.080 this is pretty clear

00:20:31.900 at this point.

00:20:33.460 They blame her

00:20:34.320 of bad management

00:20:35.120 and bullying

00:20:35.900 and more people

00:20:36.820 are going to leave

00:20:37.600 and it's just

00:20:38.800 a whole cluster

00:20:39.860 situation over there.

00:20:43.460 All right,

00:20:44.100 here's some more

00:20:44.600 fake news

00:20:45.260 that I wasn't sure

00:20:46.280 was fake news.

00:20:49.880 And it's actually

00:20:50.940 fake news

00:20:51.580 about fake news.

00:20:53.260 So this is going

00:20:53.940 to be a fake news squared.

00:20:56.300 So there's some

00:20:57.020 baseline fake news

00:20:58.440 and then we're going

00:20:59.900 to tell you

00:21:00.280 about The Hill,

00:21:01.980 the publication

00:21:02.540 of The Hill,

00:21:03.580 who corrects

00:21:04.420 the fake news

00:21:05.320 but adds more

00:21:08.420 fake news

00:21:09.000 by correcting

00:21:09.660 the fake news.

00:21:11.060 It's like you can't

00:21:11.720 get away from

00:21:12.220 the fake news.

00:21:13.280 So let me explain

00:21:13.920 the situation.

00:21:15.280 So the claim

00:21:16.000 that I kind of thought

00:21:17.900 might have been

00:21:18.540 true-ish,

00:21:19.520 you know,

00:21:19.660 I hadn't really

00:21:20.040 looked into it,

00:21:21.160 I sort of believed

00:21:22.000 the left

00:21:22.500 when they were claiming

00:21:23.400 that most of the

00:21:25.220 tax cuts under Trump

00:21:26.660 went to the rich

00:21:28.060 because we've been

00:21:29.380 hearing that repeated

00:21:30.180 and repeated.

00:21:30.860 So I thought,

00:21:31.340 well,

00:21:32.200 it's probably true.

00:21:34.100 You know,

00:21:34.360 maybe that's true.

00:21:36.060 And so here's

00:21:36.740 how The Hill

00:21:37.580 debunks that claim.

00:21:41.480 And what you should do

00:21:43.660 is find the fake news

00:21:45.020 that's in the debunk.

00:21:47.580 All right,

00:21:47.780 so the debunk,

00:21:48.720 I think,

00:21:49.060 is accurate

00:21:49.620 as far as I can tell

00:21:50.960 because it comes

00:21:51.920 from the IRS,

00:21:52.840 so it's probably

00:21:53.240 a pretty good source.

00:21:54.920 But see if you can

00:21:57.020 tell me what

00:21:57.420 the fake news is.

00:21:58.200 All right?

00:21:58.820 So this is actually

00:21:59.920 from The Hill.

00:22:00.780 Quote,

00:22:01.120 a careful analysis

00:22:03.900 of the IRS tax data,

00:22:06.940 one that includes

00:22:08.120 the effects of tax credits

00:22:09.300 and other reforms.

00:22:10.060 So in other words,

00:22:10.580 if you do the math right,

00:22:12.460 it shows that filers 1.00

00:22:13.540 with an adjusted gross income

00:22:14.900 of $15,000 to $50,000,

00:22:18.740 so that would be

00:22:19.440 on the lowish end

00:22:20.860 of incomes,

00:22:22.240 enjoyed an average tax cut

00:22:23.780 of 16% to 26%

00:22:26.200 in 2018.

00:22:28.260 That's the first year

00:22:29.240 of that tax cut.

00:22:31.880 But the filers

00:22:32.960 who are in the $50,000

00:22:33.820 to $100,000,

00:22:34.540 so now you're getting

00:22:35.340 up to the middle-ish class,

00:22:38.220 received $15,000 to $17,000.

00:22:41.360 So as the income went up,

00:22:42.780 it was a little bit less

00:22:43.580 but quite significant.

00:22:45.000 But when you get

00:22:45.700 all the way up to

00:22:46.760 $100,000 to $500,000 a year,

00:22:50.780 the adjusted gross income

00:22:52.380 was cut by $11,000 to $13,000.

00:22:55.040 So just the way

00:22:55.800 you'd want it to be.

00:22:56.900 You'd want the lowest-income people 1.00

00:22:58.780 to get the highest percentage

00:23:00.020 and the highest-income people

00:23:01.940 to get the lowest percentage.

00:23:03.660 Apparently, that's exactly

00:23:04.660 what happened.

00:23:07.840 And so they conclude

00:23:09.300 that means most middle-income

00:23:10.840 and working-class earners

00:23:12.280 enjoyed a tax cut

00:23:13.980 that was at least

00:23:15.300 double the size of tax cuts

00:23:17.140 received by households

00:23:18.200 earning a million or more.

00:23:20.760 So where's the fake news?

00:23:22.920 Okay, over on Locals,

00:23:24.260 they all got the right answer.

00:23:25.580 The fake news is

00:23:26.480 that they reported percentages

00:23:27.760 without raw numbers.

00:23:30.860 Have I taught you

00:23:32.040 that any article

00:23:33.080 that shows percentages

00:23:34.340 without raw numbers

00:23:35.520 is fake news?

00:23:37.400 Likewise,

00:23:38.760 any report that shows you

00:23:40.000 raw numbers

00:23:40.720 without percentages

00:23:42.260 is also fake news.

00:23:44.520 Because real news

00:23:45.620 would show you both.

00:23:47.280 Because you don't really

00:23:48.520 know anything

00:23:49.020 until you know

00:23:49.520 the raw number

00:23:50.140 and the percentage.

00:23:51.060 you've got to have both.

00:23:52.780 So anything that shows you

00:23:54.080 one without the other,

00:23:55.580 either one,

00:23:56.620 is fake news.

00:23:58.520 It's a narrative.

00:24:00.220 Apparently,

00:24:00.860 they want you to believe

00:24:01.660 a certain thing

00:24:02.340 and they're leaving out

00:24:03.880 with something

00:24:04.240 that would have

00:24:04.780 completely changed

00:24:05.800 your opinion.

00:24:08.440 That's right.

00:24:09.560 Locals gets it right again.

00:24:10.840 fake news about fake news.

00:24:17.460 Although I appreciate

00:24:18.500 that the Hill

00:24:19.420 did get these,

00:24:20.720 you know,

00:24:21.320 got these percentages

00:24:22.300 and that did add a lot

00:24:23.420 to the story.

00:24:24.120 I just wish they'd added

00:24:25.040 some more about the raw numbers

00:24:26.980 to balance that out.

00:24:27.780 Why is it that I focus

00:24:31.200 so much on the hoaxes

00:24:32.340 and why am I going nuts

00:24:33.860 on the hoaxes right now?

00:24:35.100 Does anybody know?

00:24:36.300 Can anybody tell me

00:24:37.400 what's my strategy?

00:24:39.980 Because I like to see

00:24:40.740 how transparent I am sometimes.

00:24:42.960 What's my strategy

00:24:43.920 of going extra,

00:24:45.120 extra hard

00:24:45.600 at the hoaxes right now?

00:24:47.160 Because you've seen me

00:24:47.860 do it on Twitter, right?

00:24:49.140 Why now?

00:24:51.040 Well, persuasion,

00:24:52.200 yes, attention.

00:24:53.600 I always like persuasion.

00:24:55.060 I always like attention.

00:24:56.300 But those are sort of baseline.

00:24:58.740 Yep.

00:25:00.580 Over on Locals,

00:25:02.100 again,

00:25:03.140 correct answer.

00:25:04.260 Correct answer is

00:25:05.260 we might be close

00:25:06.880 to a breaking point.

00:25:08.740 I feel like

00:25:09.660 the last few shoves

00:25:12.480 can push something

00:25:13.620 over the edge.

00:25:14.580 It's like

00:25:14.940 it might not break.

00:25:16.980 I mean,

00:25:17.220 maybe the left's narratives

00:25:19.200 are just, you know,

00:25:20.240 too hard

00:25:20.940 and we can't break them.

00:25:22.300 But it sure feels like it.

00:25:24.620 I feel like we're getting

00:25:25.780 really close.

00:25:27.780 Right?

00:25:28.380 And if we can get

00:25:29.480 anybody on the left

00:25:32.220 to understand

00:25:32.860 even one of the major

00:25:34.100 hoaxes was a hoax,

00:25:36.380 I think the dam breaks

00:25:37.660 for at least

00:25:39.000 for that one person.

00:25:40.680 And then

00:25:41.080 if you can get

00:25:42.020 everybody on the left

00:25:44.560 to believe

00:25:45.680 that at least

00:25:46.140 one of the hoaxes

00:25:47.100 was a hoax,

00:25:47.980 suddenly the dam

00:25:50.900 will break.

00:25:51.880 And I'm feeling it.

00:25:52.840 And I want to give you

00:25:54.300 a persuasion technique

00:25:55.820 that is about

00:25:57.880 this one hoax

00:25:59.220 that I think

00:25:59.620 is the one

00:26:00.020 that will unlock,

00:26:02.000 you know,

00:26:02.380 basically unlock

00:26:03.360 the door

00:26:03.780 or to mix my metaphors,

00:26:05.980 you know,

00:26:06.640 the dam will break.

00:26:08.220 And I think it's

00:26:09.020 the drinking bleach hoax.

00:26:13.000 Now,

00:26:13.500 two things about that

00:26:14.760 that are interesting.

00:26:15.940 It's the only

00:26:16.900 double RUPAR

00:26:18.000 that I know of.

00:26:19.920 Now,

00:26:20.180 a RUPAR edit

00:26:21.120 of a video,

00:26:22.660 it's named after

00:26:23.460 Aaron RUPAR,

00:26:25.020 a RUPAR edit

00:26:26.240 is when you

00:26:26.800 take part of a video out

00:26:29.120 and somehow

00:26:30.120 that reverses

00:26:31.480 its meaning.

00:26:32.440 That's how

00:26:32.780 the fine people hoax

00:26:33.780 was done,

00:26:34.480 how the overfeeding

00:26:35.740 koi fish was done,

00:26:37.040 how the Covington

00:26:37.900 kids hoax was done,

00:26:39.440 and then the

00:26:40.100 drinking bleach hoax.

00:26:41.440 But,

00:26:41.980 the drinking bleach hoax

00:26:43.300 has an extra element

00:26:45.260 that makes it sticky.

00:26:47.300 It's a double RUPAR.

00:26:49.220 It removes

00:26:50.580 the end of it,

00:26:52.460 but also

00:26:53.060 the beginning.

00:26:54.920 And if you

00:26:55.360 don't remove both,

00:26:57.700 then people can

00:26:58.400 still see the context.

00:26:59.900 But if you remove

00:27:00.820 just one of them,

00:27:02.860 it still works.

00:27:04.460 So people will say,

00:27:05.480 no, no, no,

00:27:06.200 Scott,

00:27:07.180 let me show you

00:27:07.880 the full quote

00:27:08.720 to show you

00:27:09.280 that you're wrong.

00:27:10.780 And then they won't

00:27:11.480 show me the full quote,

00:27:13.000 they'll show me

00:27:13.480 a half RUPAR,

00:27:14.760 you know,

00:27:14.980 like one of the things

00:27:16.260 deleted,

00:27:17.240 which still keeps

00:27:18.060 the wrong meaning,

00:27:19.080 or at least

00:27:19.420 it's ambiguous that way.

00:27:21.020 But if you see

00:27:22.020 the book ends it

00:27:22.960 with light,

00:27:24.200 then you'll,

00:27:24.520 oh, he was talking

00:27:25.460 about light the whole time.

00:27:26.820 Okay?

00:27:27.240 So here's what,

00:27:28.560 here's what I want you

00:27:29.780 to do if you get

00:27:30.620 into a personal

00:27:31.300 conversation over the

00:27:32.340 holidays with somebody

00:27:33.960 who believes

00:27:34.800 the drinking bleach hoax.

00:27:36.460 Are you ready?

00:27:37.720 This is a way

00:27:38.680 to unprogram them.

00:27:40.160 And I tweeted it,

00:27:42.520 but you can use

00:27:43.400 any version of this

00:27:44.740 for yourself.

00:27:45.780 So if somebody says

00:27:46.620 that Trump said,

00:27:47.880 suggested drinking bleach,

00:27:49.900 get them for a moment,

00:27:52.240 get their full attention,

00:27:53.900 make sure there are

00:27:54.540 no distractions,

00:27:56.060 right?

00:27:56.580 Because you don't want

00:27:57.280 them to use the distraction

00:27:58.560 to run away

00:27:59.180 from the conversation.

00:28:00.540 Make sure you have

00:28:01.220 their full attention,

00:28:02.480 and then say this.

00:28:05.660 I just want to check

00:28:06.700 with you on your

00:28:08.100 thinking process here.

00:28:09.140 Do you believe

00:28:11.680 that an adult human being

00:28:13.520 with a college education

00:28:15.900 who ran a real estate empire

00:28:18.760 and rose to the presidency

00:28:21.300 of the United States,

00:28:23.440 that that person

00:28:24.360 believes that injecting

00:28:27.040 a chemical disinfectant

00:28:28.700 into a human body

00:28:29.800 would be a good idea,

00:28:32.260 such a good idea

00:28:33.820 that he would say it

00:28:34.620 in public?

00:28:35.840 Is that what you believe?

00:28:37.760 Now watch what happens

00:28:39.100 when your subject

00:28:41.460 starts squirming.

00:28:43.380 I don't believe

00:28:44.520 anybody will look at you

00:28:45.720 and say,

00:28:46.420 yup,

00:28:47.520 that's what I believe.

00:28:49.400 I think just asking

00:28:50.760 the question that way,

00:28:52.540 and then if they do say that,

00:28:54.960 just repeat yourself.

00:28:56.440 Say, okay,

00:28:57.480 I may have heard you wrong,

00:28:59.220 but it's your actual opinion

00:29:00.780 that a real human being

00:29:02.860 who can function in the world

00:29:05.860 and run a big company,

00:29:08.600 run for president

00:29:09.340 and win,

00:29:10.660 that a human being

00:29:11.520 with that level of education

00:29:12.940 and knowledge about the world

00:29:14.400 actually,

00:29:16.180 literally,

00:29:17.640 really suggested in public

00:29:19.400 to inject a chemical disinfectant

00:29:22.660 into a person.

00:29:23.260 Do you really believe that?

00:29:26.560 Watch what happens.

00:29:29.920 Watch what happens.

00:29:31.060 You're going to shake them

00:29:32.160 to the core

00:29:32.800 because they don't believe that.

00:29:35.580 Then,

00:29:36.180 suppose they say,

00:29:37.180 but Scott,

00:29:38.220 he said it,

00:29:38.920 he said it,

00:29:39.420 he said it,

00:29:39.860 you just can't talk him out of it,

00:29:41.260 maybe you don't have access

00:29:42.140 to the transcript.

00:29:43.760 So you're going to say,

00:29:44.580 okay,

00:29:45.480 the president,

00:29:47.380 then here's the backup.

00:29:49.140 Wait for this.

00:29:49.960 You're going to love

00:29:50.520 this next part.

00:29:52.180 You're going to love

00:29:53.080 this next part.

00:29:54.480 Say to him,

00:29:55.300 now do you believe

00:29:56.020 that when the president

00:29:56.920 used the word disinfectant,

00:29:58.720 he was using it

00:30:00.360 in a medical scientific sense

00:30:02.920 or do you think

00:30:03.940 he was using it

00:30:04.680 in more of a,

00:30:05.480 let's say,

00:30:05.880 a layperson sense

00:30:06.940 that a disinfectant

00:30:08.760 would be something

00:30:09.500 that gets rid of an infection?

00:30:11.980 Would you accept

00:30:13.020 that the word disinfectant

00:30:15.840 often is used

00:30:16.760 for a chemical disinfectant

00:30:18.160 but that if you were

00:30:19.360 just using it casually,

00:30:21.200 you would imagine

00:30:21.900 that anything

00:30:22.420 that gets rid of an infection

00:30:24.040 would be a disinfectant?

00:30:26.200 In fact,

00:30:27.000 they were talking

00:30:27.580 about light

00:30:28.060 in that context

00:30:28.840 as one of,

00:30:30.300 but not the only one,

00:30:31.840 but one of the disinfectants.

00:30:33.940 So,

00:30:34.560 do you believe

00:30:36.400 that the president

00:30:37.960 thought there was

00:30:38.640 something you could

00:30:39.300 inject into the body

00:30:40.560 that would get rid 0.88

00:30:41.940 of an infection?

00:30:44.780 Do you see

00:30:45.420 where I'm going yet?

00:30:47.600 And then your person

00:30:48.720 will say,

00:30:49.400 ha, ha, ha,

00:30:50.680 there's nothing

00:30:51.660 you can inject,

00:30:53.200 there's nothing

00:30:55.340 you can inject

00:30:56.100 into a body

00:30:56.960 that's going to get rid

00:30:58.900 of a, you know,

00:30:59.920 a virus.

00:31:02.920 Have you heard

00:31:03.640 of Regeneron?

00:31:06.480 Have you heard

00:31:07.260 of vaccinations?

00:31:11.820 Now,

00:31:12.340 vaccinations might

00:31:13.160 be a little different,

00:31:14.440 but Regeneron

00:31:16.060 is the number one

00:31:17.180 most effective thing.

00:31:19.940 It is injected

00:31:21.140 into the body,

00:31:21.960 and it gets rid

00:31:25.260 of infections.

00:31:27.560 What would be

00:31:28.320 another word

00:31:28.860 for removing infection?

00:31:32.540 Deleting an infection.

00:31:33.920 If you were

00:31:35.080 to get rid of

00:31:35.980 an infection,

00:31:37.980 what would be

00:31:38.420 one word

00:31:39.600 that would capture that?

00:31:42.600 Disinfectant,

00:31:43.120 maybe.

00:31:44.500 Now,

00:31:45.040 certainly if you

00:31:45.740 were a layperson,

00:31:46.860 would you call

00:31:47.880 something that's

00:31:48.680 a chemical

00:31:50.060 that gets rid

00:31:51.860 of an infection,

00:31:53.360 would you call

00:31:54.260 that a disinfectant?

00:31:57.000 Well,

00:31:57.440 if you're a doctor,

00:31:58.140 probably not.

00:31:59.480 You'd call it

00:32:00.020 Regeneron.

00:32:01.260 You'd call it

00:32:01.980 monoclonal antibody.

00:32:03.720 But if you're

00:32:04.320 a layperson,

00:32:05.360 could you imagine

00:32:06.880 that there would be

00:32:07.540 something that you

00:32:08.100 could inject

00:32:08.720 into the body

00:32:09.460 that would

00:32:11.420 disinfect it?

00:32:12.960 Yes,

00:32:13.540 it's the number

00:32:14.120 one thing we use

00:32:15.100 in the United States

00:32:16.460 and around the world

00:32:17.320 to disinfect

00:32:18.740 people who have

00:32:19.700 COVID.

00:32:20.960 It's just not

00:32:21.740 the way that

00:32:22.280 the doctors

00:32:22.760 talk about it.

00:32:24.120 Now,

00:32:24.900 why did Trump

00:32:25.720 say he was

00:32:26.200 being sarcastic?

00:32:29.440 I can't read

00:32:30.280 his mind,

00:32:31.420 but what would

00:32:32.520 you do in that

00:32:33.160 situation?

00:32:33.860 And this is the way

00:32:34.440 to answer the question.

00:32:35.660 How would you

00:32:36.340 handle it?

00:32:39.200 What are the

00:32:39.820 alternatives?

00:32:41.560 Well,

00:32:42.000 I'll tell you

00:32:42.360 one of the

00:32:42.740 alternatives

00:32:43.160 is to say

00:32:44.020 it's something

00:32:45.540 that I thought

00:32:46.240 I saw somewhere

00:32:46.960 but I can't

00:32:47.560 remember.

00:32:49.100 How's that

00:32:49.680 sound?

00:32:51.080 Well,

00:32:51.360 why did you

00:32:51.880 bring up

00:32:52.380 drinking bleach

00:32:53.780 would say the

00:32:54.700 news.

00:32:55.220 He never did

00:32:55.760 that,

00:32:56.040 of course.

00:32:56.620 But they say

00:32:57.040 why did you

00:32:57.540 bring up

00:32:57.920 drinking bleach

00:32:58.900 just because

00:33:01.100 you heard it

00:33:01.560 somewhere?

00:33:02.440 Like,

00:33:02.720 where'd you

00:33:03.020 hear it?

00:33:04.700 Do you think

00:33:05.160 he remembered

00:33:05.660 where he

00:33:05.980 heard it?

00:33:09.320 Here's the

00:33:09.840 background.

00:33:10.400 At about that

00:33:10.940 time,

00:33:11.360 I was tweeting

00:33:12.200 about a

00:33:13.760 specific trial

00:33:14.680 in which they

00:33:15.560 were using

00:33:15.900 a ventilator-like

00:33:16.860 device to

00:33:17.540 put UV

00:33:18.100 light into

00:33:18.920 a human

00:33:19.620 patient.

00:33:20.620 And they

00:33:20.920 were considering

00:33:21.500 extending it

00:33:22.260 into the

00:33:22.600 lungs.

00:33:25.080 Why bring it

00:33:25.840 up at all

00:33:26.300 if he's

00:33:26.620 president?

00:33:27.340 Because he

00:33:27.700 was talking

00:33:28.220 about the

00:33:28.840 possibilities in

00:33:30.080 an optimistic

00:33:30.640 way.

00:33:31.320 If you haven't

00:33:31.920 noticed,

00:33:32.320 the president's

00:33:32.940 an optimist.

00:33:34.280 So when he

00:33:34.860 was in there,

00:33:35.360 he was saying,

00:33:35.840 hey, maybe

00:33:36.440 this would

00:33:36.840 work, maybe

00:33:37.340 this would

00:33:37.660 work.

00:33:38.000 He was going

00:33:38.560 through things

00:33:39.120 that might

00:33:39.480 make it work.

00:33:40.640 Remember,

00:33:40.980 that's what he

00:33:41.360 does.

00:33:43.000 He says that

00:33:43.920 directly.

00:33:44.780 He's a

00:33:45.120 cheerleader for

00:33:45.700 the country.

00:33:46.080 He's an

00:33:46.420 optimist.

00:33:47.540 So that's

00:33:48.280 why he

00:33:48.540 brought it

00:33:48.860 up.

00:33:49.160 That's his

00:33:49.520 job, to be

00:33:50.720 optimistic about

00:33:51.660 the direction of

00:33:52.340 the country,

00:33:52.860 when it makes

00:33:53.620 sense.

00:33:55.020 So here's what I

00:33:57.260 think happened.

00:33:58.320 Now, this is a

00:33:58.900 hypothesis, but it's

00:34:00.140 a strong one.

00:34:00.820 just prior to the

00:34:03.920 time when he was

00:34:05.080 on stage talking

00:34:06.000 about that, there

00:34:07.900 were some tweets

00:34:08.920 going around that

00:34:10.160 I tweeted,

00:34:11.400 personally, and

00:34:12.900 mentioned a number

00:34:13.760 of times on my

00:34:14.620 live stream, which

00:34:15.940 is this test where

00:34:16.900 they were injecting

00:34:17.580 UV light into the

00:34:18.840 trachea and then

00:34:20.860 potentially thinking

00:34:21.820 maybe it could work

00:34:22.780 in the lungs

00:34:23.240 itself.

00:34:24.600 And I tweeted

00:34:25.720 that.

00:34:26.080 Now, I do

00:34:27.900 know, because I've

00:34:29.120 heard from a

00:34:29.860 number of sources,

00:34:30.480 that the White 0.90

00:34:31.120 House would watch

00:34:32.280 this live stream

00:34:33.160 fairly regularly, as

00:34:35.520 in pretty much

00:34:36.940 every day.

00:34:38.460 And they also

00:34:39.320 follow me on

00:34:39.940 Twitter, which I

00:34:41.260 know because I

00:34:42.120 watch who retweets

00:34:43.060 me, et cetera.

00:34:43.740 Now, I know the

00:34:48.120 White House staff

00:34:49.080 knew about this

00:34:51.540 study of injecting

00:34:54.580 UV light into a

00:34:55.900 patient.

00:34:56.580 I know it, because

00:34:57.800 they followed me, and

00:34:58.600 I mentioned it, I

00:34:59.740 don't know, five

00:35:00.540 times.

00:35:01.720 So certainly, staff

00:35:03.520 saw it.

00:35:04.720 Do you think that

00:35:05.420 Trump wanted to

00:35:06.640 tell people it was

00:35:08.200 something he saw on

00:35:08.960 a cartoonist's

00:35:09.860 Twitter account?

00:35:11.460 Go.

00:35:12.380 That could have

00:35:13.440 been his only

00:35:13.980 alternative.

00:35:15.040 If he wanted to

00:35:15.680 tell you the

00:35:16.080 truth, he would

00:35:17.840 have said, I

00:35:18.380 don't remember

00:35:18.900 where I saw it,

00:35:19.660 which doesn't

00:35:20.120 sound good, or

00:35:21.460 maybe I saw it

00:35:22.180 on a tweet, which

00:35:23.060 doesn't sound

00:35:23.640 good, or maybe I

00:35:24.960 heard it from a

00:35:25.880 cartoonist, which

00:35:26.720 doesn't sound

00:35:27.300 good.

00:35:28.540 What was he

00:35:29.220 supposed to do?

00:35:31.680 Trying to just

00:35:32.460 make it go away as

00:35:33.380 a joke, it wasn't

00:35:35.140 a bad idea.

00:35:36.620 It just didn't

00:35:37.240 work.

00:35:38.760 You know?

00:35:39.160 I mean, he

00:35:39.500 didn't have any

00:35:39.940 good choices.

00:35:41.560 If he had been,

00:35:42.480 like, up to date

00:35:43.240 on it, and he

00:35:44.360 could refer you

00:35:45.240 to the study

00:35:45.920 offhand, then

00:35:47.780 maybe that would

00:35:48.340 have been a

00:35:48.600 good play.

00:35:49.180 But do you

00:35:49.520 think he could

00:35:50.020 have mentioned

00:35:50.700 the name of

00:35:51.700 the hospital, and

00:35:53.340 the name of

00:35:53.940 the technology, and

00:35:55.780 where it was

00:35:56.200 being trialed?

00:35:57.020 Do you think he

00:35:57.480 could have just

00:35:57.900 popped that out of

00:35:58.760 his head?

00:35:59.980 No.

00:36:00.940 No.

00:36:01.840 Even I can't, and

00:36:02.720 I've tweeted it.

00:36:03.720 I forget the name

00:36:04.520 of the technology

00:36:05.360 myself.

00:36:06.780 I've tweeted it,

00:36:07.480 like, 50 times.

00:36:11.440 Flip this with

00:36:12.600 ivermectin and

00:36:13.520 natural immunity.

00:36:14.340 I don't know the

00:36:14.780 context for that.

00:36:18.760 Yeah.

00:36:19.420 Anyway, so try

00:36:20.560 these two approaches.

00:36:21.860 Just ask somebody

00:36:22.800 if they really,

00:36:23.680 literally believe

00:36:24.360 that an educated

00:36:26.060 adult thought that

00:36:27.500 ordinary household

00:36:29.720 disinfectants could

00:36:31.820 be a solution to

00:36:32.540 COVID.

00:36:32.760 Yeah, Heal

00:36:35.480 Light is the name

00:36:36.540 of that technology.

00:36:37.420 Thank you.

00:36:38.040 Heal Light.

00:36:40.140 All right.

00:36:42.340 Dan Crenshaw

00:36:43.300 tweeted, why are

00:36:44.760 we still pretending

00:36:45.460 that cell phones

00:36:46.160 and laptops can

00:36:47.680 actually affect the

00:36:48.620 airplane?

00:36:51.060 And I replied to

00:36:52.220 him, channeling

00:36:54.200 my best Stephen

00:36:55.420 Wright pattern

00:36:56.400 recognition.

00:36:57.740 I said, I once

00:36:58.700 tried steering the

00:36:59.480 plane with my 0.59

00:37:00.120 phone, and I

00:37:00.880 think it worked.

00:37:02.080 But it's hard to

00:37:02.720 tell because I was

00:37:03.480 going to the same

00:37:04.080 place the plane

00:37:04.800 was already going.

00:37:07.200 Now, I don't

00:37:07.720 think Stephen Wright

00:37:08.900 ever told that

00:37:09.580 exact joke, but

00:37:10.460 sort of, I used

00:37:11.220 his pattern.

00:37:12.240 And actually,

00:37:12.800 people recognized

00:37:13.520 it and called it

00:37:14.360 down.

00:37:14.580 Hey, that's a

00:37:15.080 Stephen Wright joke.

00:37:16.000 And they are

00:37:16.480 correct.

00:37:17.340 One of the

00:37:17.740 greatest comedians

00:37:18.700 of all time, and

00:37:19.580 I stole his

00:37:20.120 pattern there.

00:37:22.400 Here's why they

00:37:23.620 don't let you have

00:37:24.500 cell phones and

00:37:25.240 laptops on

00:37:26.180 airplanes.

00:37:28.460 Here's why.

00:37:30.200 Sir, would you

00:37:31.620 please turn

00:37:32.700 off your cell

00:37:33.780 phone?

00:37:34.120 We don't

00:37:34.440 allow phone

00:37:35.040 calls during

00:37:35.840 the flight.

00:37:37.140 Oh, yeah, yeah,

00:37:37.680 yeah, just one

00:37:39.040 more minute.

00:37:39.960 Just one more

00:37:40.500 minute.

00:37:41.140 It's an emergency.

00:37:42.100 Just one more

00:37:42.560 minute.

00:37:43.780 Sir, you cannot

00:37:45.780 use your phone on

00:37:46.840 the plane.

00:37:47.460 It bothers the

00:37:48.360 other passengers.

00:37:49.520 He's not

00:37:49.960 complaining.

00:37:50.860 And it'll only

00:37:51.280 take me a

00:37:51.720 minute.

00:37:52.860 So that's how

00:37:53.400 those conversations

00:37:54.200 would go.

00:37:55.240 And then people

00:37:55.740 would be like,

00:37:56.940 yeah, but it's a

00:37:57.500 quick call.

00:37:58.780 Yeah, but it's

00:37:59.200 important.

00:37:59.600 People would

00:38:01.220 be using their

00:38:02.040 phone on the

00:38:03.020 plane if the

00:38:04.200 only reason you

00:38:05.740 said they

00:38:06.160 couldn't is it's

00:38:07.000 a rule and it

00:38:08.340 will bother other

00:38:09.000 people.

00:38:10.520 A good third of

00:38:11.720 the public doesn't

00:38:12.420 care if they

00:38:12.960 bother other

00:38:13.460 people.

00:38:14.940 Right?

00:38:15.240 So the reason

00:38:15.900 phones are told,

00:38:17.400 they tell you the

00:38:18.140 phones are going to

00:38:18.800 kill you is because

00:38:20.160 it's easier to say,

00:38:21.820 if you don't turn

00:38:22.820 off the phone,

00:38:23.900 we will all die in

00:38:26.180 a giant fireball

00:38:27.300 during the crash.

00:38:29.700 Not even slightly

00:38:30.940 true, but way

00:38:32.460 more persuasive.

00:38:33.920 Now let's take

00:38:34.720 the laptop.

00:38:38.300 Why do they tell

00:38:39.520 you to put your

00:38:39.980 laptop away?

00:38:41.240 It's the same 0.53

00:38:41.960 reason they tell

00:38:42.540 you to put all

00:38:43.200 of your other

00:38:43.740 items away.

00:38:45.480 You don't want

00:38:46.060 heavy things flying

00:38:47.180 around the plane.

00:38:49.900 That's why.

00:38:51.900 So if they say,

00:38:52.920 put your laptop

00:38:53.940 away, because we

00:38:55.140 don't want it

00:38:55.600 flying around

00:38:56.160 the plane, what

00:38:57.700 does a human

00:38:58.180 say?

00:38:59.580 Well, I'll just

00:39:00.180 hold on to it

00:39:00.800 really tight.

00:39:03.980 Because we're

00:39:04.840 humans, we say

00:39:05.520 stupid things. 0.90

00:39:06.580 Oh, if I see

00:39:08.020 any trouble, I'll

00:39:09.340 quickly put it in

00:39:10.120 the back of the

00:39:10.620 seat.

00:39:11.660 No, you won't.

00:39:13.220 Humans are crazy.

00:39:14.600 They will make

00:39:14.980 any excuse to do

00:39:16.060 what they want to

00:39:16.640 do.

00:39:17.400 So if you don't

00:39:18.160 tell them, if you

00:39:21.160 don't tell them

00:39:22.020 that it's going to

00:39:23.520 kill them, they're

00:39:24.700 going to do it.

00:39:25.300 So I, for one,

00:39:26.960 am glad that they

00:39:28.500 have this fiction

00:39:29.380 about these things

00:39:30.480 being dangerous,

00:39:31.440 because it keeps me

00:39:32.480 from being bothered

00:39:33.240 and killed by a

00:39:34.120 flying laptop.

00:39:36.660 How slow is the

00:39:37.720 news today?

00:39:38.360 I'm going to tell

00:39:38.880 you it's this slow.

00:39:40.060 A major trending

00:39:41.040 story today was

00:39:42.800 about Seth Rogen

00:39:43.940 smoking weed and

00:39:45.580 listening to music.

00:39:48.780 Now, the context

00:39:49.760 was he went to an

00:39:50.600 Adele concert and

00:39:51.640 they put him in the

00:39:52.240 front.

00:39:52.500 he felt weird

00:39:54.200 because he'd

00:39:54.720 smoked a lot of

00:39:55.320 weed.

00:39:56.180 Now, they didn't

00:39:56.720 ask him to sing.

00:39:59.040 He wasn't called

00:40:00.100 upstage to sing.

00:40:02.820 Literally, the

00:40:03.540 entire story is the

00:40:05.300 most famous, well,

00:40:07.180 one of them, one of

00:40:08.340 the most famous

00:40:09.000 pot-spokers in the 0.97

00:40:10.020 world smoked some

00:40:11.420 weed for a change

00:40:12.560 and listened to

00:40:13.640 some music.

00:40:15.240 That's a trending

00:40:16.680 story today.

00:40:17.500 Jeff Pilkington

00:40:24.880 asked today on a

00:40:25.820 tweet, would

00:40:26.800 anyone care if

00:40:27.680 cable news went

00:40:28.520 away?

00:40:29.740 And the context

00:40:30.480 is that there are

00:40:31.300 so few people who

00:40:32.160 actually watch cable

00:40:33.240 news.

00:40:33.920 I think it's less

00:40:34.580 than 1% of the

00:40:35.480 country actually

00:40:36.800 watches cable news

00:40:38.000 at any one moment.

00:40:40.400 But they did the

00:40:42.440 math all wrong.

00:40:44.320 So if you look at

00:40:45.200 how many people are

00:40:46.240 watching, let's say,

00:40:47.800 Cuomo's old show,

00:40:49.840 if you get 700,000

00:40:51.120 people, you say

00:40:52.320 700,000 people,

00:40:54.480 that's all?

00:40:55.020 That's all that's

00:40:55.540 watching that show?

00:40:56.460 And of 300 and

00:40:58.320 what are we up to?

00:40:59.920 What's the population

00:41:00.840 of the U.S.?

00:41:01.460 370?

00:41:03.420 370 million or

00:41:04.380 something?

00:41:05.520 So the thought is

00:41:08.820 that nobody's

00:41:09.560 watching CNN because

00:41:10.560 it's a tiny, tiny

00:41:11.440 number compared to

00:41:12.380 the population of

00:41:13.060 the country.

00:41:13.420 Is it only 330

00:41:16.520 million?

00:41:17.880 340, somebody's

00:41:18.800 saying?

00:41:19.400 We slowed down.

00:41:20.480 I thought it'd be

00:41:21.400 higher by now.

00:41:22.780 All right.

00:41:23.380 And it was Cedars-Sinai

00:41:24.440 that was the hospital

00:41:25.420 with the UV light.

00:41:27.040 Thank you for

00:41:27.640 reminding me.

00:41:29.300 So here's my take.

00:41:32.220 If you're looking at

00:41:33.140 the viewership of

00:41:34.100 one show, you're

00:41:36.000 looking at the

00:41:36.520 people who just

00:41:37.200 wandered into it

00:41:38.120 that one day for

00:41:38.980 that one show.

00:41:39.680 But how many

00:41:41.140 people watch

00:41:41.820 Cuomo if you

00:41:43.220 looked at his

00:41:44.020 whole month?

00:41:45.660 It's not the

00:41:46.220 same 700,

00:41:47.220 whatever number

00:41:47.980 it is.

00:41:48.620 It's not the

00:41:49.160 same 700,000

00:41:50.400 every single

00:41:51.720 show.

00:41:52.280 All the same

00:41:52.860 people just

00:41:53.320 come back.

00:41:54.780 No, it's

00:41:55.220 probably some

00:41:56.440 of them watched

00:41:56.980 it once that

00:41:57.660 week.

00:41:58.780 And some of

00:41:59.620 them watched

00:42:00.220 it twice that

00:42:00.800 week.

00:42:01.300 But probably

00:42:02.100 you'd have to

00:42:02.700 take the 700,000

00:42:03.740 and multiply it

00:42:04.460 by five maybe

00:42:07.300 to get the

00:42:09.340 number of

00:42:09.700 people who

00:42:10.100 see it any

00:42:10.600 time during

00:42:11.040 the month.

00:42:11.860 Now remember,

00:42:12.400 they repeat

00:42:12.840 their stories a

00:42:13.600 lot, right?

00:42:15.100 How often was

00:42:16.540 there a George

00:42:17.240 Floyd story on

00:42:18.880 CNN?

00:42:19.660 If you watch

00:42:21.480 CNN only once

00:42:22.840 during the whole

00:42:23.940 month, you would

00:42:25.540 see basically the

00:42:26.500 same stories for

00:42:27.780 the whole month.

00:42:29.180 So don't look at

00:42:30.320 the number who

00:42:30.760 are watching at

00:42:31.420 the moment.

00:42:32.880 Watch how many

00:42:33.420 people have come

00:42:34.220 into their

00:42:34.640 universe and been

00:42:36.000 infected by it.

00:42:36.940 and then had

00:42:38.440 to find a

00:42:38.860 disinfectant

00:42:39.620 later, which

00:42:41.140 might be me.

00:42:43.700 So that's the

00:42:45.500 first error of

00:42:46.920 analysis is never

00:42:47.920 look at the people

00:42:48.600 who are watching

00:42:49.100 it at the moment.

00:42:50.920 Assume it's five

00:42:51.960 times that, how

00:42:52.800 many people get

00:42:53.400 exposed to it

00:42:54.160 over time.

00:42:55.400 Secondly, I

00:42:57.540 don't think CNN's

00:42:58.700 business model is

00:42:59.700 even anything about

00:43:00.760 live TV.

00:43:03.540 Does that surprise

00:43:04.540 you?

00:43:05.240 How many people

00:43:05.840 are surprised by

00:43:06.520 that?

00:43:06.940 I don't think

00:43:07.740 that the ratings

00:43:08.740 and the audience

00:43:09.760 on live TV on

00:43:11.040 CNN is even

00:43:11.980 relevant to

00:43:12.780 them.

00:43:14.660 Yeah, it's an

00:43:15.140 online feeder,

00:43:16.080 exactly.

00:43:17.000 Locals, you're 1.00

00:43:17.640 so smart.

00:43:19.740 Locals is the

00:43:20.560 smartest platform.

00:43:22.380 Actually, I think

00:43:23.060 that might be

00:43:23.500 true.

00:43:24.240 I was going to

00:43:24.780 say it as a

00:43:25.340 joke, but I

00:43:26.360 think literally

00:43:27.020 it's true that

00:43:28.160 the locals people

00:43:29.060 on average are

00:43:30.180 more intelligent

00:43:31.140 or more well

00:43:31.820 informed, I

00:43:32.320 guess.

00:43:32.460 So, yes, I

00:43:34.840 think CNN's

00:43:35.480 business model

00:43:36.140 has evolved to

00:43:37.280 a clip

00:43:38.100 production kind

00:43:40.440 of site, where

00:43:41.300 they hope that

00:43:41.800 their clips get

00:43:42.620 sent around and

00:43:44.120 that sends people

00:43:44.740 to the website.

00:43:45.980 So the website, I

00:43:47.380 looked it up and

00:43:48.120 found that CNN.com

00:43:51.000 has, let's see,

00:43:53.520 something like

00:43:54.560 half a billion

00:43:57.860 people watch

00:43:59.200 it every X

00:44:01.000 amount of

00:44:01.540 time.

00:44:03.660 What is X?

00:44:05.060 It kind of

00:44:05.400 matters, doesn't

00:44:06.000 it?

00:44:06.760 Half a billion

00:44:07.580 people watch

00:44:08.320 it every, I

00:44:10.580 don't know,

00:44:10.980 because I

00:44:11.240 looked up a

00:44:11.700 source that

00:44:12.120 just said half

00:44:12.780 a billion people

00:44:13.440 watch it and

00:44:13.920 they didn't

00:44:14.180 tell me if

00:44:14.600 that's per

00:44:15.000 month, which

00:44:15.960 means it's a

00:44:16.460 totally worthless

00:44:17.000 number.

00:44:17.680 But it's a big

00:44:18.240 number.

00:44:19.420 It's a big

00:44:19.760 number.

00:44:21.040 So I think

00:44:21.720 that's their

00:44:22.120 deal, is the

00:44:25.160 online stuff.

00:44:26.840 All right, and

00:44:27.640 also, the

00:44:28.440 other thing

00:44:28.760 about CNN is

00:44:29.540 it reaches the

00:44:30.220 opinion makers.

00:44:32.020 So if the

00:44:32.600 only people who

00:44:33.280 watched CNN

00:44:34.200 were the

00:44:35.840 people who

00:44:36.240 really, really

00:44:36.700 care about

00:44:37.240 politics, well

00:44:38.300 they're the

00:44:38.620 ones who tell

00:44:39.120 everybody else

00:44:39.660 what their

00:44:39.980 opinion would

00:44:40.540 be.

00:44:41.620 So it becomes

00:44:42.600 like a seed

00:44:43.420 that grows into

00:44:45.040 this whole

00:44:45.440 tree.

00:44:46.400 So that's also

00:44:46.940 their influence.

00:44:48.340 So the

00:44:48.640 website is

00:44:49.180 number three

00:44:49.840 in their

00:44:50.520 category, so

00:44:51.280 it's the

00:44:51.580 number three

00:44:52.060 in news, I

00:44:52.640 guess.

00:44:53.140 It's number

00:44:53.540 37 in the

00:44:54.520 USA, and if

00:44:55.400 you're in the

00:44:55.720 top 50, you're

00:44:57.360 a pretty big

00:44:57.980 website.

00:45:00.920 And half a

00:45:01.820 billion people

00:45:02.680 visit every

00:45:03.480 God knows

00:45:04.320 what, probably

00:45:04.840 a month.

00:45:06.240 All right, here's

00:45:06.880 a tweet that I

00:45:09.660 did that's

00:45:10.060 getting a lot

00:45:10.520 of attention, but

00:45:11.120 I'm going to

00:45:11.420 give you some

00:45:12.080 context to it.

00:45:15.000 So yesterday I

00:45:15.760 tweeted, I said,

00:45:16.520 a conspiracy of

00:45:17.420 Democrats, fake

00:45:18.880 news, FBI, and

00:45:19.980 the CIA recently

00:45:21.720 framed an

00:45:22.560 American president

00:45:23.500 for Russian

00:45:24.220 collusion.

00:45:25.620 That much we

00:45:26.320 know for sure.

00:45:28.320 But our

00:45:28.900 election systems

00:45:29.740 that can't be

00:45:30.280 fully audited are

00:45:31.200 fair and accurate

00:45:31.920 according to the

00:45:32.660 same people.

00:45:34.240 So stop your

00:45:35.140 worrying.

00:45:36.760 Now, it's not

00:45:37.500 exactly the same

00:45:38.280 people, but it's

00:45:38.980 the same groups

00:45:40.340 have some

00:45:41.960 influence on

00:45:43.080 this.

00:45:44.280 And here's my

00:45:48.200 take on it.

00:45:50.180 Imagine,

00:45:51.800 correct my

00:45:52.720 timeline, but we

00:45:53.540 found out for

00:45:54.580 sure that the

00:45:55.260 Russia collusion

00:45:55.960 thing was a

00:45:56.680 hoax, or at

00:45:57.580 least the left

00:45:58.180 did, found out

00:45:59.480 for sure after

00:46:03.260 the election

00:46:04.400 stuff, right?

00:46:06.820 Isn't that

00:46:07.240 true?

00:46:08.400 Give me a

00:46:09.060 fact check.

00:46:09.800 When did we

00:46:10.440 know for sure

00:46:11.540 that the Russia

00:46:12.700 collusion thing

00:46:13.500 was a hoax?

00:46:14.220 It was after the

00:46:15.100 election, right?

00:46:17.400 So here's what

00:46:19.500 the Russia

00:46:19.920 collusion hoax

00:46:20.740 did, in my

00:46:21.520 opinion, as

00:46:22.640 a persuader

00:46:24.500 with experience.

00:46:27.160 You can't

00:46:28.020 imagine things

00:46:29.220 until they're

00:46:30.860 within the

00:46:31.600 realm of

00:46:32.080 imagination.

00:46:32.800 In other

00:46:33.020 words, things

00:46:33.520 are invisible

00:46:34.180 if they're

00:46:35.480 outside your

00:46:36.060 realm of

00:46:36.560 imagination.

00:46:38.180 Do you

00:46:38.820 remember when,

00:46:39.520 I think it

00:46:40.220 was Jim

00:46:40.820 Jordan and

00:46:41.900 who were the

00:46:44.580 other guys,

00:46:45.160 early on were

00:46:45.900 saying that,

00:46:46.940 no, no, the

00:46:47.560 Russia collusion

00:46:48.500 thing was actually

00:46:49.500 a Hillary Clinton

00:46:51.060 operation?

00:46:51.780 Do you remember

00:46:53.300 the first time

00:46:53.980 you heard that

00:46:54.560 and somebody

00:46:55.700 saying, really?

00:46:57.120 And I

00:46:57.720 listen to that

00:46:58.380 and I'm

00:46:58.540 saying, really?

00:47:00.180 Really?

00:47:01.060 This whole thing

00:47:02.240 is like a

00:47:03.720 Democrat thing

00:47:05.060 where they've

00:47:05.880 got the FBI

00:47:06.640 in it and the

00:47:07.540 CIA is in it

00:47:08.800 and all the

00:47:09.880 news is in it.

00:47:11.600 And I'm

00:47:12.020 thinking to

00:47:12.340 myself,

00:47:13.080 that's not even

00:47:14.780 in the realm of

00:47:15.800 possibility.

00:47:17.280 That was my

00:47:17.820 opinion.

00:47:18.960 It was not in

00:47:19.720 the realm of

00:47:20.420 possibility.

00:47:21.400 And therefore,

00:47:22.880 I considered it

00:47:24.020 probably untrue

00:47:26.180 in the beginning.

00:47:27.680 Now, as time

00:47:28.400 went by,

00:47:29.700 and I realized

00:47:30.360 that they weren't

00:47:30.980 reporting on the

00:47:32.000 Steele dossier

00:47:32.740 except for the

00:47:33.700 urination part of

00:47:34.800 it, that's it.

00:47:37.360 I can't name one

00:47:38.680 other thing that

00:47:39.260 was in the dossier

00:47:40.160 except the

00:47:41.320 alleged, obviously

00:47:43.500 not true,

00:47:44.200 peeing on a

00:47:44.900 mattress.

00:47:46.440 Can you?

00:47:47.760 And I started

00:47:48.480 to think, wait

00:47:49.180 a minute, if

00:47:50.380 this is all

00:47:50.900 true, why are

00:47:51.480 they only telling

00:47:51.960 me this one

00:47:52.500 part of it

00:47:53.040 that's the

00:47:53.640 most untrue

00:47:54.340 part of it

00:47:55.140 while waving

00:47:56.900 their hands and

00:47:57.500 saying, but the

00:47:57.960 other stuff's

00:47:58.480 probably true,

00:47:59.560 and you're not

00:47:59.940 even mentioning

00:48:00.860 it?

00:48:01.640 Like, what are

00:48:02.100 those other

00:48:02.460 things?

00:48:03.760 Well, it's not

00:48:04.800 as if I didn't

00:48:05.520 know that politics

00:48:06.440 can have dirty

00:48:07.240 tricks.

00:48:07.940 Duh.

00:48:08.820 It's not as if I

00:48:09.740 didn't know that

00:48:10.740 Democrats and

00:48:12.240 Republicans, too,

00:48:13.260 will start untrue

00:48:14.340 rumors to hurt 0.62

00:48:15.160 the other

00:48:15.500 side.

00:48:16.420 Duh.

00:48:17.500 But the

00:48:18.380 extent of it,

00:48:20.320 the extent of

00:48:21.900 it, and the

00:48:23.000 collusion with

00:48:23.820 the media and

00:48:24.980 especially the

00:48:25.720 intelligence agencies,

00:48:27.960 I didn't even

00:48:29.880 think that was

00:48:30.380 possible, honestly.

00:48:31.640 That was beyond

00:48:32.460 my imagination.

00:48:33.760 So it took me a

00:48:34.620 while to get

00:48:35.020 there.

00:48:35.220 Now, once we

00:48:36.840 found out that

00:48:38.000 was a hoax,

00:48:38.800 what did it do

00:48:39.440 to your ability

00:48:40.200 to imagine

00:48:41.020 hoaxes?

00:48:42.600 It expanded it.

00:48:44.980 So if I said

00:48:45.920 to you, hey,

00:48:46.620 there's a wild,

00:48:47.500 wild hoax out

00:48:48.420 there, and the

00:48:49.000 only hoaxes you'd

00:48:49.900 ever seen were

00:48:50.620 small ones, you'd

00:48:52.480 say to yourself,

00:48:53.120 that's too big.

00:48:55.320 That's way too

00:48:56.040 big.

00:48:56.860 It's just by its

00:48:57.800 nature.

00:48:58.860 I'm not going to

00:48:59.440 believe that one

00:48:59.980 because that's just

00:49:00.480 too wild.

00:49:01.780 The only hoaxes

00:49:02.620 I've ever seen

00:49:03.260 are these little

00:49:03.820 ones.

00:49:05.260 But now we've

00:49:06.200 seen the Russia

00:49:06.760 collusion hoax.

00:49:07.780 To my mind,

00:49:09.860 and I would

00:49:10.340 imagine it's

00:49:11.340 affecting other

00:49:11.920 people the same

00:49:12.500 way, this expanded

00:49:14.400 totally, and a

00:49:15.960 lot, what I

00:49:17.480 would now

00:49:17.940 consider the

00:49:19.580 possibilities of

00:49:20.620 a hoax.

00:49:23.380 Am I right?

00:49:24.940 Imagine if the

00:49:25.880 order had been

00:49:26.720 reversed.

00:49:28.480 Suppose you knew

00:49:29.500 for sure, and the

00:49:30.400 whole country knew,

00:49:31.580 that the Russia

00:49:32.440 collusion hoax was

00:49:33.780 a hoax, and you

00:49:34.840 knew that before

00:49:36.180 Trump challenged

00:49:38.060 the election

00:49:38.660 integrity.

00:49:40.460 What if he knew

00:49:41.380 it before?

00:49:43.280 Now, Jesse

00:49:43.820 Smollett is just

00:49:44.760 somebody lying

00:49:45.700 about it, somebody

00:49:46.680 saying that's an

00:49:47.320 example.

00:49:48.620 Thank you, Devin

00:49:49.400 Nunes was the

00:49:50.260 other one calling

00:49:51.180 BS from the

00:49:51.980 beginning.

00:49:54.440 I think if the

00:49:55.600 order of these

00:49:56.300 had been reversed,

00:49:57.860 people would be a

00:49:58.980 lot more willing

00:50:00.280 to believe that the

00:50:01.280 elections are at

00:50:02.820 least unsecure.

00:50:03.740 You know, I

00:50:05.780 don't have any

00:50:06.220 information, I

00:50:06.880 have no knowledge

00:50:07.560 that they were

00:50:09.800 unfair, but

00:50:11.680 certainly unauditable,

00:50:13.620 that's easy to

00:50:14.560 prove.

00:50:16.060 So, and then

00:50:18.720 William Berard on

00:50:20.480 Twitter said, he 0.81

00:50:22.580 said there was a

00:50:23.100 good analysis, but

00:50:23.980 he says, now apply

00:50:24.660 this logic to the

00:50:26.220 current medical

00:50:26.940 emergency.

00:50:28.880 In other words, if

00:50:29.700 you believe that the

00:50:30.620 Russia collusion

00:50:31.600 hoax was even

00:50:32.500 possible, and it

00:50:34.320 happened, what does

00:50:36.720 that say about what

00:50:38.480 we're being told

00:50:39.140 about vaccinations

00:50:40.060 and lockdowns and

00:50:41.420 the reason we're

00:50:42.140 doing everything?

00:50:43.880 All BS, right?

00:50:45.540 But the thing is, I

00:50:46.720 think that's all

00:50:47.420 individual BS.

00:50:50.360 And it's also

00:50:51.280 harder to coordinate

00:50:52.400 a conspiracy theory

00:50:54.600 across different

00:50:55.340 countries.

00:50:56.500 It's amazing

00:50:57.600 enough that the

00:50:59.180 Russia collusion

00:50:59.820 thing happened in

00:51:00.580 one country, but

00:51:02.020 maintaining a

00:51:03.380 conspiracy theory

00:51:04.320 across borders to

00:51:06.300 get every single

00:51:07.160 country, basically,

00:51:08.440 except maybe some

00:51:09.220 third world countries

00:51:10.660 who are resistors.

00:51:12.780 But that would be a

00:51:13.640 hard one.

00:51:14.640 That's like, that's

00:51:15.360 even a level of

00:51:16.980 magnitude, you

00:51:18.480 know, higher.

00:51:20.300 It's an order of

00:51:21.340 magnitude harder than

00:51:22.300 even the Russia

00:51:22.900 collusion one, I

00:51:23.800 would think, just

00:51:24.760 because of too many

00:51:25.640 entities involved.

00:51:27.140 You can't keep a

00:51:28.020 good secret with that

00:51:28.940 many entities

00:51:29.600 involved.

00:51:30.540 But, to be fair, I

00:51:32.740 would have said the

00:51:33.300 same thing about the

00:51:34.020 Russia collusion

00:51:34.640 hoax.

00:51:35.460 I would have said

00:51:36.160 that's way too many

00:51:36.940 people involved for

00:51:39.380 that to be a real

00:51:42.940 conspiracy theory.

00:51:45.560 All right, so

00:51:46.380 here's what I say.

00:51:48.080 There is definitely a

00:51:49.600 lot of sketchy stuff

00:51:50.900 happening with

00:51:51.840 vaccinations, just

00:51:55.720 all of it.

00:51:56.400 It all looks sketchy

00:51:57.880 to me.

00:51:58.620 But that doesn't

00:51:59.400 mean it's all

00:52:00.320 untrue.

00:52:01.920 It can be true that

00:52:04.380 there's a lot about

00:52:05.300 the vaccinations that

00:52:06.440 are sketchy.

00:52:07.620 The data might be

00:52:08.620 faked.

00:52:10.160 You know, they may

00:52:10.900 have always known

00:52:12.740 that they couldn't

00:52:13.540 get rid of it.

00:52:14.400 They may have always

00:52:15.140 known it had to be

00:52:15.980 subscription.

00:52:16.820 I would buy those

00:52:17.560 things without too

00:52:18.760 much trouble.

00:52:20.360 You know, I could be

00:52:20.900 easily convinced that

00:52:21.820 any of that was

00:52:22.280 true.

00:52:23.380 But we don't

00:52:27.240 know exactly what's

00:52:28.160 wrong.

00:52:28.780 So it can be true 0.96

00:52:29.740 that there's lots of

00:52:30.540 sketchy stuff around

00:52:31.700 vaccinations while at

00:52:32.900 the same time maybe

00:52:33.820 they're better than

00:52:34.600 nothing.

00:52:35.780 Those both could be

00:52:36.700 true.

00:52:37.480 We don't know.

00:52:38.380 No way to know at

00:52:39.260 this point.

00:52:41.440 All right.

00:52:43.120 How many of you, I

00:52:44.440 asked this question on

00:52:45.680 Twitter, how many

00:52:46.720 people knew that you

00:52:47.480 can't get Regeneron,

00:52:48.680 and I guess it

00:52:50.900 depends on the

00:52:51.460 state, but in one

00:52:53.280 state you can't get

00:52:54.100 it after seven days

00:52:55.140 after your symptoms.

00:52:56.660 Another says 10.

00:52:58.620 And you can't get it

00:53:00.360 if you've already been

00:53:01.440 admitted to a hospital.

00:53:04.120 So let's say your

00:53:05.100 COVID is getting bad

00:53:06.260 after seven days.

00:53:07.600 It's worsening.

00:53:09.040 So you say to

00:53:09.620 yourself, ah, I

00:53:10.260 better go to the

00:53:10.760 hospital.

00:53:11.820 At least I can get

00:53:12.640 some Regeneron there.

00:53:14.160 You get to the

00:53:14.740 hospital and they say,

00:53:15.960 one of the criteria is

00:53:18.020 that you can't get

00:53:18.640 Regeneron if you're

00:53:19.540 in the hospital.

00:53:21.760 Who knew that?

00:53:23.880 And if you had

00:53:24.980 heard that, wouldn't

00:53:25.860 you ask for the

00:53:26.540 Regeneron before you

00:53:27.580 checked into the

00:53:28.140 hospital and took away

00:53:29.620 your own option?

00:53:31.260 Wouldn't you maybe

00:53:32.240 lie about when you

00:53:33.100 saw your first

00:53:33.660 symptoms if you

00:53:34.400 thought you could

00:53:34.880 get a little

00:53:35.240 Regeneron?

00:53:36.600 The fact that people

00:53:37.680 don't know that if

00:53:39.640 you don't get it

00:53:40.340 early, you don't get

00:53:41.260 it?

00:53:42.100 I didn't know that.

00:53:44.480 So put yourself in

00:53:46.740 the shoes of one

00:53:48.360 individual that I

00:53:49.360 know of personally.

00:53:50.620 All right?

00:53:52.040 Here's your situation.

00:53:53.260 You get COVID

00:53:54.220 symptoms and they're

00:53:56.260 not too bad.

00:53:57.640 And you know that

00:53:58.620 99-whatever percent

00:53:59.980 of people will just

00:54:00.700 recover.

00:54:01.820 So your symptoms

00:54:02.680 aren't that bad and

00:54:04.120 you do a test and

00:54:05.640 sure enough, you've

00:54:06.700 got the COVID.

00:54:09.120 So you say to

00:54:10.620 yourself, well, you

00:54:12.020 know, I'll look at

00:54:13.120 what I should do and

00:54:13.980 you take some, I

00:54:14.800 don't know, some

00:54:16.360 azithromycin and I

00:54:18.860 don't know what

00:54:19.220 you're doing, you

00:54:21.640 know, some whatever.

00:54:23.620 But you're not doing

00:54:24.260 the serious meds.

00:54:25.540 You're just seeing if

00:54:26.300 it gets worse.

00:54:27.560 Day three, it looks

00:54:29.860 like it's getting a

00:54:30.420 little worse and you're

00:54:31.180 starting to worry, but

00:54:32.180 not so bad that you

00:54:34.620 won't want to ride it

00:54:35.720 out.

00:54:36.760 Because remember, 99%

00:54:38.420 just get better.

00:54:40.320 So yeah, so you're

00:54:40.820 doing your vitamin D and

00:54:41.900 stuff.

00:54:42.160 And then the

00:54:43.060 fourth day, you

00:54:43.660 think, I think it's

00:54:44.480 getting better.

00:54:46.320 Day four and five,

00:54:48.260 you're like, it's not

00:54:49.180 getting worse and I

00:54:50.300 feel like in some ways

00:54:51.380 it might be getting

00:54:51.920 better.

00:54:52.920 So you don't go to

00:54:53.720 the hospital, you don't

00:54:54.500 get Regeneron because

00:54:55.480 it looks like it might

00:54:56.560 be getting better.

00:54:58.400 Day six, it starts to

00:55:01.380 get worse.

00:55:02.580 But not way worse,

00:55:04.280 just worse.

00:55:05.940 Day seven, you think

00:55:08.320 you're going to

00:55:08.800 fucking die. 0.70

00:55:10.560 So you go to the

00:55:11.380 emergency room and

00:55:13.420 they say, we're

00:55:15.660 going to have to

00:55:16.400 admit you because it

00:55:17.140 does look bad.

00:55:18.620 Then you say, can I

00:55:19.700 get that Regeneron?

00:55:20.700 I hear that's good.

00:55:22.120 And they say, you

00:55:23.640 just made yourself

00:55:24.460 ineligible.

00:55:26.280 You waited seven

00:55:27.240 days and you checked

00:55:28.160 into the hospital.

00:55:29.960 Guidelines say you

00:55:30.800 can't get it.

00:55:32.400 Now, if that same

00:55:34.480 person had known from

00:55:35.660 day fucking one that 0.97

00:55:38.720 he should get the

00:55:39.360 Regeneron based on

00:55:40.480 symptoms, he would

00:55:43.220 have done it right

00:55:44.600 away.

00:55:46.200 We have an

00:55:47.260 information problem

00:55:48.260 that's actually

00:55:48.900 killing people. 0.87

00:55:51.540 Actually, literally

00:55:52.420 killing people. 0.87

00:55:53.400 It's an information

00:55:54.180 problem, so it should

00:55:55.200 be solvable.

00:55:56.260 And I would like to

00:55:57.260 see the Biden

00:55:58.240 administration fix

00:55:59.720 that, or at least

00:56:01.520 at a state level.

00:56:02.980 We need some, like,

00:56:04.120 immediate, immediate

00:56:05.520 public information

00:56:07.060 that says, just to

00:56:09.180 be clear, you don't

00:56:11.220 know how bad your

00:56:12.140 COVID is going to

00:56:12.880 get on day three.

00:56:14.440 You all know that,

00:56:15.480 right?

00:56:16.260 It kind of goes up

00:56:17.280 and down for a few

00:56:18.020 days.

00:56:18.660 Everybody's had that

00:56:19.360 experience who's had

00:56:20.440 COVID.

00:56:22.480 So if you don't know

00:56:23.880 if it's going to get

00:56:24.520 worse, especially if

00:56:27.460 you're in any category

00:56:28.440 that's got a

00:56:29.020 comorbidity, go get

00:56:31.640 yourself some

00:56:32.180 Regeneron.

00:56:32.700 Don't wait for day

00:56:33.700 seven.

00:56:34.860 Don't wait until you're

00:56:35.880 checked in the

00:56:36.380 hospital.

00:56:37.860 Am I wrong that

00:56:39.640 that piece of

00:56:41.040 information, that you

00:56:42.220 need to get it early?

00:56:43.720 Now, everybody knows

00:56:44.740 that earlier is better,

00:56:45.600 right?

00:56:46.920 So when you say to me,

00:56:48.240 Scott, everyone knows

00:56:49.320 earlier is better.

00:56:51.200 No, that's not the

00:56:52.020 whole story.

00:56:52.780 Of course we know

00:56:53.520 that.

00:56:54.540 But we don't know that

00:56:55.620 it won't work on day

00:56:56.920 four, or we don't know

00:56:58.300 that it won't work if

00:56:59.580 you wait seven days.

00:57:00.600 I didn't know that.

00:57:01.400 In fact, I thought

00:57:03.440 the opposite.

00:57:04.760 I thought that if you

00:57:05.480 were really close to

00:57:06.460 expiration, the

00:57:08.240 Regeneron would be

00:57:09.140 just the thing.

00:57:10.880 Apparently not so

00:57:11.860 much.

00:57:17.580 I'm going to block

00:57:19.500 Frosty Flake for

00:57:20.880 saying the most

00:57:21.560 obnoxious and stupid 0.53

00:57:23.160 comment of all

00:57:24.540 internet fame.

00:57:26.080 Scott has COVID

00:57:27.060 right now.

00:57:27.720 Dude, I never had

00:57:31.020 it wrong.

00:57:32.860 I didn't change my

00:57:34.060 opinion.

00:57:35.420 It's never changed.

00:57:36.860 There's new

00:57:37.260 information.

00:57:38.780 When I get new

00:57:39.740 information, I like to

00:57:40.860 incorporate it into my

00:57:41.900 opinion.

00:57:42.620 What do you do?

00:57:43.860 When you get new

00:57:44.700 information, do you say,

00:57:46.680 no, I'll just keep the

00:57:48.000 old opinion.

00:57:48.480 Um, no, I have

00:57:52.460 never, I've never

00:57:54.160 said I am confident

00:57:55.520 that everybody's doing

00:57:58.080 good work and they

00:57:59.160 have good intentions.

00:58:01.260 I'm the last person

00:58:02.400 who would say that.

00:58:03.660 I'm the last person who

00:58:05.160 would think everybody

00:58:05.840 has good intentions.

00:58:06.860 Uh, and it does look

00:58:11.400 like infinite COVID is

00:58:12.900 the business model that

00:58:14.040 is going to drive

00:58:15.380 decisions, I would

00:58:16.340 guess, at this point.

00:58:20.000 Um, yeah, John Maynard

00:58:21.740 Keynes says, when the

00:58:22.940 facts change, I change

00:58:23.960 my mind.

00:58:24.560 What do you do?

00:58:25.320 I use that, I paraphrase

00:58:26.840 that all the time.

00:58:27.760 I forgot who said it the

00:58:28.900 first time.

00:58:31.740 All right.

00:58:32.380 Um, here's a

00:58:36.580 here's where I get

00:58:38.020 banned forever from

00:58:39.360 social media.

00:58:40.260 Are you ready?

00:58:42.600 Um, I have a BS

00:58:43.860 detector.

00:58:46.800 Do not tell me that

00:58:48.600 I'm getting it right

00:58:49.420 for the first time.

00:58:50.300 Don't say that.

00:58:51.900 All right.

00:58:52.140 Just listen to the

00:58:52.840 story.

00:58:53.660 Just try to absorb

00:58:54.880 it.

00:58:56.320 I have a BS

00:58:57.400 detector, uh, a rule

00:58:59.600 that goes like this.

00:59:01.380 If science is telling

00:59:02.700 you something is true,

00:59:03.980 but your own

00:59:05.220 observation keeps

00:59:06.540 seeing it not look

00:59:08.960 like that.

00:59:09.980 That doesn't mean it's

00:59:11.160 not true because your

00:59:12.340 anecdotal observations

00:59:13.440 are not that reliable,

00:59:14.920 but it is a red flag.

00:59:17.120 It's a red flag.

00:59:18.560 And definitely is

00:59:19.440 something that tells you

00:59:20.260 maybe you should look

00:59:21.120 into it if you, if

00:59:22.800 your observation is not

00:59:23.960 matching the science.

00:59:24.980 The example I always

00:59:26.100 use is that cigarette

00:59:27.900 smoking causes cancer.

00:59:29.820 Now, the science tells

00:59:31.140 us that's true.

00:59:31.920 And every time I hear

00:59:34.840 somebody has lung

00:59:35.600 cancer, I say smoker.

00:59:38.420 And at least nine

00:59:39.580 out of ten times, it's

00:59:40.540 a smoker.

00:59:41.760 So that's a case where

00:59:42.720 my direct observation

00:59:43.980 fits perfectly with what

00:59:45.660 the science says.

00:59:46.700 So that seems pretty

00:59:47.460 good.

00:59:48.240 Now let's take

00:59:48.940 vaccinations.

00:59:49.660 I hear the Jaws music

00:59:55.040 already.

00:59:57.760 I'm in dangerous waters.

01:00:01.760 Dangerous waters.

01:00:02.640 When the vaccinations

01:00:04.600 first came out, we heard

01:00:06.760 stories, you know, on the

01:00:07.960 internet of blah, blah,

01:00:09.140 blah, people dropping dead 0.89

01:00:11.480 from the shot.

01:00:13.340 And I said to myself, well,

01:00:14.880 those are anecdotal reports,

01:00:16.300 and they're also

01:00:17.740 predictable and

01:00:18.740 guaranteed.

01:00:19.900 Just because so many

01:00:20.820 people are involved, you're

01:00:22.340 always going to have

01:00:23.160 anecdotes of people

01:00:24.980 having bad experiences.

01:00:27.560 So I discounted all the

01:00:29.180 anecdotes because they

01:00:30.840 were really predictable

01:00:31.780 anecdotes and not in any

01:00:33.360 kind of number that I

01:00:34.320 should worry about.

01:00:36.180 However, the longer the

01:00:39.100 anecdotes keep coming, and

01:00:41.620 especially when they get

01:00:44.000 you personally, if you

01:00:46.280 have a friend who's

01:00:47.380 double vaccinated and

01:00:48.860 just got the COVID and

01:00:50.560 it put him in the

01:00:51.100 hospital, you start to

01:00:54.660 think, huh, I'm starting

01:00:58.320 to see the accumulation

01:01:00.060 of anecdotes a little bit

01:01:03.780 bigger than I thought.

01:01:05.960 So I'm going to call the

01:01:07.660 turn for me personally.

01:01:10.460 Okay?

01:01:11.080 Today's the turn.

01:01:13.060 In my opinion, anecdote and

01:01:15.860 science don't match

01:01:16.820 anymore.

01:01:18.540 That doesn't mean the

01:01:19.660 science is wrong.

01:01:21.200 Can I be as clear as

01:01:22.520 possible about this?

01:01:23.960 I'll still bet on the

01:01:24.980 science.

01:01:26.140 If you said, gun to

01:01:27.400 head, you've got to put

01:01:29.020 your money on it now.

01:01:30.760 Are you going to bet that

01:01:32.560 the vaccinations help?

01:01:34.440 I'm only going to say

01:01:35.200 help.

01:01:35.720 They're obviously not

01:01:36.620 vaccinations in the

01:01:37.560 classic sense.

01:01:38.600 But if I had to put money

01:01:39.960 on it, just for myself,

01:01:43.020 and again, I'm not

01:01:43.880 trying to convince you

01:01:44.640 to get vaccinated, I

01:01:45.600 don't do that.

01:01:47.000 If I had to bet on it, I'd

01:01:48.260 still bet on the science.

01:01:50.140 But it's a lot closer than

01:01:51.680 it used to be.

01:01:54.200 Because anecdote is

01:01:56.440 starting to build up.

01:01:58.420 Right?

01:01:59.540 Now, you're having the

01:02:00.880 same experience, are you

01:02:01.880 not?

01:02:02.120 that you're hearing more

01:02:04.260 and more anecdotes of

01:02:05.780 double-vaxxed people

01:02:07.040 having a bad outcome?

01:02:09.600 I still believe, if I had

01:02:12.400 to bet on it, that the

01:02:13.960 science is still the one

01:02:15.020 that's right.

01:02:16.160 Because you would also,

01:02:17.580 it's predictable that the

01:02:18.640 anecdotes would reach a

01:02:20.660 fevered pitch as well.

01:02:22.760 And they are.

01:02:24.240 But there's something about

01:02:25.240 hearing about it personally

01:02:26.580 that changes you.

01:02:28.460 You know that?

01:02:28.960 Ben, we'll get rid of

01:02:32.260 Ben.

01:02:34.160 Ben, you're kind of an

01:02:38.500 asshole, so I'm going to

01:02:39.800 hide you.

01:02:42.280 Bye, Ben.

01:02:46.020 All right.

01:02:46.920 So, here's what I don't

01:02:48.600 want you to do.

01:02:51.680 Please, do not leave this

01:02:53.440 and say, Scott just turned

01:02:55.400 against vaccinations.

01:02:56.580 Because that didn't happen.

01:02:58.960 Don't think that I told you

01:03:01.660 you should or should not

01:03:03.240 get vaccinated, because I

01:03:04.340 never do that.

01:03:05.500 I can only tell you, you

01:03:06.740 know, my thinking process

01:03:07.840 and maybe help you with

01:03:09.580 your thinking process, but

01:03:10.860 personal decision.

01:03:12.880 I'm not going to be the

01:03:13.720 one suggesting you jab

01:03:14.900 stuff in your body.

01:03:17.200 So, all I'm saying is that

01:03:20.620 the anecdotes have reached a

01:03:22.020 level where I turned today.

01:03:23.680 Now, my suspicion is at the

01:03:28.300 highest level it's been.

01:03:33.240 Dr. Johnson, always

01:03:35.000 consistent.

01:03:35.680 It's good to have a troll who

01:03:39.020 just disappeared.

01:03:43.460 Can we revisit the topic of

01:03:46.180 unvaccinated and recovered

01:03:47.680 people?

01:03:48.300 Does anybody disagree on that

01:03:49.840 topic?

01:03:50.140 I feel like that's a nonsense

01:03:52.680 topic, because don't we all

01:03:55.600 believe at this point that

01:03:56.960 somebody who's recovered has

01:03:58.820 better antibodies than someone

01:04:02.660 who just had a vaccination?

01:04:04.980 Now, they might be similar for,

01:04:07.060 you know, a month or so if you're

01:04:08.520 triple vaxxed, but I don't think

01:04:11.140 the lasting...

01:04:12.140 Yeah.

01:04:17.600 No booster for Scott?

01:04:19.260 I will get a booster.

01:04:21.100 And I don't recommend that you do

01:04:23.660 or do not.

01:04:24.440 Remember, these are all personal

01:04:25.560 decisions.

01:04:27.200 There's nothing that makes sense

01:04:28.380 for me that's going to make sense

01:04:29.480 for you.

01:04:30.400 So, you make your own decisions.

01:04:32.060 So, here's...

01:04:33.120 Do you want to hear the worst

01:04:34.500 reason for making a vaccination

01:04:36.260 decision?

01:04:37.640 If I've told you anything, it's

01:04:39.180 that people are irrational, and

01:04:41.300 they rationalize after the fact.

01:04:43.980 How many people would...

01:04:45.760 are with me on that?

01:04:47.320 That the vaccine decision is an

01:04:51.120 irrational decision that we

01:04:52.960 rationalize as having made sense.

01:04:55.280 And the reason it's an

01:04:56.200 irrational decision is we don't

01:04:57.560 have good data.

01:04:59.160 Do you agree?

01:05:00.640 How many of you know what the

01:05:02.260 outcome of the vaccination will

01:05:03.680 be in five years?

01:05:05.280 Nobody.

01:05:06.580 Right?

01:05:06.840 It's unknowable.

01:05:07.440 So, if we don't have data,

01:05:10.280 how are we making the decision?

01:05:13.060 Completely irrationally.

01:05:14.660 But then we rationalize it after

01:05:16.100 the fact, and we wonder why our

01:05:18.020 rationalization doesn't match the

01:05:19.520 other guy's rationalization.

01:05:27.800 Yeah, then kids are, of course, a

01:05:29.900 special case.

01:05:31.260 All right.

01:05:31.520 So, I had a really good point before

01:05:34.800 that paid comment knocked me off my

01:05:39.500 path there.

01:05:42.140 Oh, the rationalization.

01:05:46.440 So, I was going to tell you I have a

01:05:48.240 little bit of awareness of my own

01:05:49.740 rationalization, which is rare.

01:05:52.500 All right?

01:05:53.140 Here's my own rationalization, and I

01:05:55.120 didn't realize it until recently.

01:05:56.440 I have an irrational reason for

01:06:00.300 getting the vaccination, and I

01:06:01.660 haven't heard this from anybody yet.

01:06:04.580 If I don't get the vaccination and I

01:06:07.180 die, compare that to I do get the

01:06:11.540 vaccination and I die.

01:06:15.440 Which one makes me feel dumber the

01:06:18.620 day before I die?

01:06:22.660 That's how I made my decision.

01:06:25.260 And you know what?

01:06:27.100 That's pretty dumb.

01:06:29.520 Pretty dumb.

01:06:30.900 But it's not dumber than the way you

01:06:32.440 did it.

01:06:34.860 The way I did it is totally dumb.

01:06:37.180 The way you did it, just as dumb.

01:06:39.660 Because we don't have data.

01:06:41.340 If you had data and you used that,

01:06:43.180 plus you're a good reason, I'd say,

01:06:44.460 well, that's good data, that's good

01:06:45.980 reason.

01:06:46.760 That's way better than what I did,

01:06:48.200 because my way was dumb.

01:06:50.160 I just said to myself, how will I

01:06:52.680 feel, how embarrassed will I be to

01:06:54.940 have made the wrong decision on the

01:06:56.820 day before I die?

01:06:58.480 Very embarrassed.

01:07:00.320 Now, you might feel the opposite.

01:07:04.320 You might say that if I got the thing

01:07:06.600 and died, that wouldn't be too

01:07:08.480 embarrassing.

01:07:08.860 But if I got the vaccination, and the

01:07:12.540 vaccination killed me, man, I would

01:07:14.780 feel embarrassed on the last day before

01:07:17.440 I died.

01:07:19.140 So I imagine that on some level, maybe

01:07:23.260 some of you who made the opposite

01:07:24.720 decision were thinking the same thing.

01:07:26.400 Which one would feel more embarrassing?

01:07:28.140 I chose the one that would feel less

01:07:34.440 embarrassing the day before I died.

01:07:36.940 How rational is that?

01:07:39.840 Not.

01:07:40.860 Not at all.

01:07:42.860 Not even a little.

01:07:44.240 Because the day after, I'm dead.

01:07:46.280 I'm dead.

01:07:48.140 None of it matters.

01:07:49.860 I've got a reason that could not be a

01:07:51.880 dumber reason.

01:07:53.100 And it's actually my reason.

01:07:54.440 And every once in a while, you can take

01:07:57.340 yourself out of your biased body and

01:08:01.320 just sort of look at it as an observer.

01:08:03.940 Take an observer's point of view, and

01:08:05.460 you look at it, and you go, you know,

01:08:08.060 those thoughts about how you'd feel on

01:08:09.780 that last day, they keep bubbling up.

01:08:13.040 Are you sure that didn't have anything

01:08:14.780 to do with your decision?

01:08:16.200 And then you have this day where you go,

01:08:17.760 oh, crap.

01:08:19.640 That was the only reason I made my

01:08:21.660 decision.

01:08:22.520 And I think it is.

01:08:23.540 I think it's the only reason I made

01:08:25.680 the decision.

01:08:30.100 All right.

01:08:34.720 You're in good health besides asthma.

01:08:36.900 I saw a study that said that if you

01:08:38.320 had asthma, you would have a better

01:08:41.020 chance of recovering from COVID.

01:08:45.660 Or not getting it.

01:08:46.660 I forget which one it was.

01:08:48.020 Now, I don't believe that, but you said

01:08:50.220 it was a big difference.

01:08:51.180 Now, I think that would be because

01:08:53.120 asthma users use budesonide.

01:08:56.300 Typically, I use it.

01:08:58.200 And it's one of the treatments for

01:08:59.980 COVID.

01:09:01.640 So maybe that has something to do with it.

01:09:10.480 Do you think the government's going to

01:09:12.320 do lockdowns in the United States?

01:09:14.060 Yeah, I'm not, when I say that I would

01:09:19.040 feel stupid, it's not that I would feel

01:09:22.000 stupid for the, in terms of a public 0.80

01:09:24.280 opinion of me.

01:09:25.100 That wouldn't matter if it's the day

01:09:26.340 before I die.

01:09:27.320 But I'd feel just internally stupid.

01:09:30.100 And that would bug me.

01:09:31.220 All right.

01:09:40.860 I think that's just about all.

01:09:44.420 You know, let me just add one more thing

01:09:46.680 because I saw a comment there.

01:09:48.680 Anybody who tells you that your decision

01:09:50.900 about vaxxing or unvaxxing is based on

01:09:53.620 fear, just say F you to that person.

01:09:57.660 Because it's all based on fear.

01:09:59.340 Every decision for or against getting

01:10:03.340 vaccinated is based on fear.

01:10:05.380 You're just afraid of different things.

01:10:07.700 Some are afraid that the government,

01:10:09.660 you know, has given them bad drugs and

01:10:12.460 didn't test it.

01:10:13.540 Some people are afraid of COVID, think

01:10:15.540 the vaccination's a better chance.

01:10:17.460 But it's all fear.

01:10:19.760 You know, you may be processing it as

01:10:22.020 part of your logical, rational thought.

01:10:23.960 But no, no, it's all fear.

01:10:26.680 And one of my fears is how I'd feel if

01:10:29.220 I made the wrong decision.

01:10:38.540 Crumley's gun was not locked.

01:10:40.480 Yeah.

01:10:42.740 We don't know about that.

01:10:45.000 Okay.

01:10:45.520 Best show ever?

01:10:46.380 I think that's true.

01:10:48.500 How many would say this is the best

01:10:50.260 show I've ever done?

01:10:52.140 Do you know why?

01:10:58.160 Because it's the best show every time.

01:11:00.760 It's an easy question.

01:11:02.260 Best show every time.

01:11:04.320 All right.

01:11:06.600 You are the best audience every time.

01:11:10.480 And there was one other thing I kept

01:11:13.120 trying to remember to tell you, but I think

01:11:15.820 it's gone now.

01:11:16.920 So I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube.

01:11:18.840 I'm going to spend a few more minutes

01:11:19.980 with the locals people because they've

01:11:21.540 got a secret project I'm working on.

01:11:25.280 And the rest of you don't know about it.

01:11:27.700 So I'll talk to you later.

01:11:29.520 So,

01:11:30.720 and,

01:11:31.460 and I'm really cool.

01:11:32.140 And then you'll see you later.

01:11:32.960 So you'll see.

01:11:33.780 So you'll see.

01:11:34.060 There's plenty of fixtures,

01:11:34.760 some of systems,

01:11:34.880 a special,

01:11:35.440 and stuff that you're just got

01:11:35.460 around.

01:11:35.980 So you're going to do everything.

01:11:36.620 Cause it's a special.

01:11:37.380 You're a special.

01:11:38.080 You're a great writer.

01:11:38.740 You're a great writer.

01:11:40.040 You're a vindal expert.

01:11:40.640 So bye.

01:11:41.140 Bye.

01:11:42.180 Bye.

01:11:42.840 And the rest of you.

01:11:43.040 Bye.

01:11:44.080 Bye.

01:11:44.400 Bye.

01:11:44.920 Bye.

01:11:45.260 Bye.

01:11:46.260 Bye.

01:11:46.620 Bye.

01:11:46.840 Bye.

01:11:47.500 Bye.

01:11:48.320 Bye.

01:11:49.460 Bye.

01:11:50.480 Bye.

01:11:52.300 Bye.

01:11:54.420 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 04, 2021

Episode 1582 Scott Adams： The News is Slow But Extra Funny Today. Come Join Me

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