Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1586 Scott Adams： The News is Extra Interesting and Fun Today. Come Get Some.

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00:00:42.620 The dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the

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00:00:56.220 Well, our audio is good. Our video's good. You're all awake and feeling good. Holidays

00:01:05.580 are coming. Stocks are up. I don't think things could get any better. Well, maybe a

00:01:11.860 little less inflation, but we'll get that under control too. So shall we talk about

00:01:16.680 the news? It doesn't look like I'll be doing that because I hope all my notes printed. Sorry,

00:01:27.540 I have to check. It looks like my printer ran out of paper. Hold on.

00:01:30.020 Never strap yourself to a microphone and then try to go across. All right, I've got to check 0.68

00:01:42.980 one thing and make sure my notes printed out. Nope, they did not. Hold on.

00:02:12.980 I know. I know. This makes it more exciting. Yeah, I did the sip. You missed the sip.

00:02:20.940 Yeah, it is tough with two screens. The two iPads, I turned one upside down so that the two

00:02:30.480 cameras are roughly in the same place. And now, ladies and gentlemen, long last, I'm going to add

00:02:53.920 this to my checklist. Check printer for paper. All right, where was I? I'd like to start with the

00:03:02.980 funniest thing I've said in a while. You know that Don Lemon has been brought into the, shut up,

00:03:09.900 printer. Shut up. And my printer just decides that it suddenly needs to make noise in the middle of 1.00

00:03:16.140 things. Don Lemon is part of the Jussie Smollett story. Maybe we'll get a verdict on that today,

00:03:23.260 by the way. But I thought that Don Lemon and Jussie Smollett should start a podcast together.

00:03:29.160 Hmm, what would we call it? I would call it Smell It and Smollett. Smell It and Smollett.

00:03:41.280 Okay? All right. If you haven't read the news, that doesn't mean anything to you.

00:03:46.040 I made some money today and yesterday by betting against the fake news, which is my new

00:03:53.040 my new technique. Don't do what I do. This is just gambling. But so far, betting against fake news

00:04:03.360 has worked. So when the Omicron virus came out and it looked like, oh no, it's another variant,

00:04:11.360 I bet against it. And I said to myself, you know, the fake news likes to get us all worked up over

00:04:17.180 nothing. So I'm going to bet it's nothing. Now sometimes it is something, and then you lose all

00:04:22.880 your money if you use this technique. But I bet that the Omicron would be bullshit. And I bought 0.99

00:04:28.320 a stock in Wynn Hotels, which are up 8.5% since yesterday morning, basically. So that's free money

00:04:37.560 by betting that the news is fake. Now, here's the trick. Normally, if everybody has the same

00:04:47.420 information, you can't make money. I don't know if you know that, but it's sort of a basic economic

00:04:53.480 financial fact. If everybody had the same information, probably everybody would make similar decisions,

00:05:00.700 and then you wouldn't get any good opportunities because everything would be bid up to its right

00:05:05.740 price. But because the fake news has created this interesting situation where the big investors

00:05:11.660 sort of have to follow the actual news, don't they? Say you're a giant hedge fund or you're

00:05:18.680 managing money for other people, and the news says the Omicron virus looks like it's terrible.

00:05:24.440 What do you have to do? You sort of kind of have to pare back your position a little bit,

00:05:30.920 don't you? Because if you're a big industrial investor, you kind of have to follow the headlines,

00:05:37.180 don't you? Because if the headlines turned out to be true, and you invested in the opposite direction,

00:05:44.460 you'd look terrible. But I'm not bound by that, because I'm not investing anybody else's money.

00:05:50.000 So this is your financial little lesson of the day. I have special information. Really,

00:05:59.080 I don't have information that's special. It's just I can act on it. So I can just say,

00:06:04.140 well, the headlines look fake to me, and just bet against it. But a big fund manager can't do that.

00:06:09.620 So I have temporarily, probably, a little advantage. Now, I should say that you should diversify no

00:06:16.800 matter what you're doing. So if you're putting a bunch of money in one company, it doesn't matter

00:06:21.940 what your reason is. It's a dumb idea, right? You should have multiple investments or don't do it 0.98

00:06:27.340 at all. Anyway, that's your financial advice of the day. You should follow on Twitter the following

00:06:34.160 account, Saul of United. Saul spelled S-A-U-L. Just Google that or just search it on Twitter.

00:06:42.800 And he has lots of good tech finds. I'm going to read you a couple of them. So here's some good

00:06:49.580 news from technology world. So an Israeli alternative meat developer called Meat Tech, they can print a

00:07:03.160 steak now. That's right. They can use a 3D printer to print a steak. And they make the parts of the

00:07:12.500 steak and of a scaled production of cultivated bio-printed steak. And so it looks, I don't

00:07:20.420 know if it has the same texture, but sort of looks steakish. Everybody's saying, no thanks,

00:07:27.280 no thanks. I want to eat my real animals and make them suffer. Well, that's what a man does. 1.00

00:07:33.360 But anyway, I don't know if I would ever partake in such a thing. But I would like to point out that

00:07:40.540 the Star Trek replicator is here. This is the Star Trek replicator. You know, on Star Trek,

00:07:52.500 if they wanted to eat, they'd go over to the replicator and say, give me a hamburger. And it

00:07:58.440 would just like make it out of whatever. But now we can actually 3D print your dinner.

00:08:04.500 Now we're starting with a steak. But how hard would it be to print mashed potatoes?

00:08:10.640 Earlier, right? I mean, easier. It'd be easier to make mashed potatoes. So I think the other stuff

00:08:15.480 will be easier than meat. So that's interesting. I don't know if it's good news or bad, but it's

00:08:22.040 interesting. It might solve climate change if we're printing steak instead of slaughtering cows. 0.99

00:08:28.440 Over on CNN, Senator Thune, T-H-U-N-E. Is that Thune or Thune? T-H-U-N-E. Thune or Thune?

00:08:41.480 Somebody? Somebody? Somebody will tell me. It's Thune. Oh, is it? It's actually Thune. Oh,

00:08:47.840 interesting. Okay. That's probably a good idea for his family, because otherwise they'd be

00:08:54.300 loony tunes. You know they would. But you can't say loony thunes. That doesn't make any sense.

00:09:00.240 So he's introducing a bill that would require big tech, the platforms, to turn off their algorithms

00:09:09.300 if you flip the switch to do so. So you'd have to choose to do it. But instead of being manipulated

00:09:14.880 by the big tech algorithms, which feed you what they want to feed you in terms of information,

00:09:19.780 you could just turn it off and then it would just be streaming by and probably timing order,

00:09:28.140 the order it came in. What do you think of that? Good idea or bad idea in the comments?

00:09:36.280 Good idea or bad idea?

00:09:37.720 Yeah. Yeah, this one is not from Sol of United. I'll get to another one of those in a minute.

00:09:45.720 I feel like it's worth trying. And I don't know how hard it would be. It doesn't feel like it would

00:09:51.080 be the hardest thing in the world to program. In fact, it might be the easiest thing. Just put in

00:09:56.760 some code that skips your algorithm, right? Of course, I'm overstating how easy that would be. It

00:10:02.600 would actually be tremendously difficult. But if you're not the one who has to program it,

00:10:07.500 it looks easy to you, if there's anything the Dilbert comic has taught you, is if your boss

00:10:12.820 thinks it looks easy, you're not going to have much time to do it. All right. Well, I think that's

00:10:20.280 a good idea. And I would compliment CNN for running it on their website and for the senator for raising

00:10:27.180 it. At the very least, it's worth trying. You know, we're sort of in a world where A-B testing just

00:10:33.640 makes sense. We don't really know how things work. You know, we don't know it'll work out right.

00:10:39.320 But it's a really good idea. It's definitely worth testing. So good for you, Senator Thune.

00:10:47.200 Have I told you how wonderful my e-bike is? My electric bike? Yes, I have. In fact,

00:10:53.280 I've told you so many times, you're freaking sick of it. But it turns out that the Build Back Better

00:11:00.340 plan includes a $900 tax credit for purchasing an e-bike. What do you think of that? A $900 tax

00:11:08.980 credit for purchasing an e-bike. Now, this would have two purposes. Number one, for a lot of people

00:11:16.680 who can't afford a car, the e-bike will allow you to go, you know, great distances without much

00:11:22.560 trouble. So you could ride your e-bike, I don't know, 10 or 15 miles to work without having a sweat.

00:11:31.140 So the first time I rode an e-bike, as I told you, I knew this was the future. You have to try it at

00:11:40.600 least once. If you think to yourself, oh, I like regular bikes, and I like the exercise. Well,

00:11:46.780 that's all good. But try it. It's not about the exercise. You will feel something on an e-bike.

00:11:54.780 Right? It's sort of the same feeling I had when the first time I saw the internet. Before any of

00:12:00.340 you had even heard the word internet, I was playing with it at the phone company, because we had it

00:12:06.520 early. And I saw people's reaction to this thing called the internet. They couldn't do anything.

00:12:11.460 And people were all excited about it. And I thought, well, this looks like the future.

00:12:15.380 Sure enough. Well, the first time you touch an e-bike, just drive it around the parking lot.

00:12:22.440 You'll never go back. Everything's going to move this way. Not everything, but there's going to be a

00:12:29.580 tremendous, tremendous industry around electric vehicles. Some of them fully electric, some with

00:12:38.640 little pedaling, et cetera. So I'm not sure I agree or disagree with the tax credit. I'll let the

00:12:44.660 economists work that out. But it is an indication that e-bikes are the thing. And trust me on that.

00:12:51.620 All right. Also, Saul of United found this little tidbit, that over in Kyoto, a team of scientists

00:12:59.060 in Japan have figured out how to make a face mask that will glow under a, I guess, under a dark light

00:13:06.940 when exposed to ultraviolet light. So you've got to put it under ultraviolet light and you can see

00:13:15.280 if you are infected with the virus. Whoa. Your face mask will tell you if you're infected. You have to

00:13:23.160 put the light on it so people won't see it if you're just walking around. But whoa.

00:13:29.060 Isn't that pretty cool? Now, here's the bad news. It won't be available until maybe next year,

00:13:35.620 even if everything goes well. They've proven that it works. So the question of whether it works,

00:13:40.780 that's settled. It works. In fact, it works so well. And here's the funny part. The head researcher

00:13:48.180 discovered that he had COVID by just putting on his own mask. And then he confirmed it with a test.

00:13:55.800 So I hope we're not wearing masks a year from now, but at least probably medical people probably will.

00:14:05.120 So this is pretty big. Pretty, pretty big. And especially if you had like a spouse who was

00:14:10.200 infected, you know, it'd be one more way to get an early warning. And imagine if you could get the

00:14:15.360 early warnings and get your therapeutics. What about that? What if you can get your therapeutics

00:14:22.460 earlier because you had this early warning? It's all good news. Well, the funniest and weirdest story

00:14:27.820 is that Fox News lit a Christmas tree outside the Fox News building. And then somebody decided to set

00:14:35.120 it on fire. And the entire tree just like caught on fire and became this gigantic burning thing.

00:14:41.820 And, of course, there might be some jokes around this event. I'd like to start off with,

00:14:55.420 man, when Fox News lights a tree, they really light a tree. That's just my warm-up joke. All right,

00:15:02.780 that one, that's just a warm-up. You don't have to laugh at that one.

00:15:06.320 Number two, well, it looks like the war on Christmas is real. Okay, that's still just

00:15:15.180 a warm-up. That is just a warm-up. Okay. On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats

00:15:22.760 are saying it's a sign that Satan finally accepted Fox News' deal. Now, you don't have to take

00:15:34.280 sides to know that that's funny. It's not a sign that Fox News accepted Satan's deal.

00:15:38.980 All right. Here's my own contribution to the burning Christmas tree humor. And it goes like

00:15:48.900 this. I don't know who lit the Fox News Christmas tree on fire, but the two white guys who attacked 0.70

00:15:54.440 Jussie Smollett are still out there somewhere. Better? Was that better? I told you the first ones

00:16:01.680 were just warm-ups. We got to the good stuff. All right. Is math racist? So here's a story to get

00:16:12.900 everybody wagging their tongues. Is math racist? So apparently there is a movement in various places

00:16:19.680 around the country to make math more what they call inclusive, because the math is all racist.

00:16:25.980 Now, I remember when I heard that the SATs were racist. Remember that a while back? Somebody said,

00:16:34.000 the SAT questions are racist. What was your first reaction to that? No, it isn't. Right? When you

00:16:42.360 heard that the SATs were racist, you said to yourself, I don't think so. I mean, I took the SATs. I didn't see

00:16:48.760 any racism in there. But I heard an example. Here's an example given. This was way back. This is not at

00:16:58.620 the moment. But way back, somebody gave an actual example of an SAT question that when I saw it, I

00:17:04.720 said, oh, yeah, that is kind of racist. Do you think that exists? Do you think I can give you an

00:17:12.700 actual SAT question that you yourself will say, oh, yeah, that is kind of racist? Do you think I can do

00:17:18.840 that? Challenge. Challenge me. Challenge accepted. Damn it, don't get ahead of me, mystic not work. 0.75

00:17:30.800 That is exactly where I'm going. Yeah, one of the questions was to fill in the second part of a 0.99

00:17:36.480 sentence. Cup and. Cup and. And one of the choices was saucer. And one of the choices was table.

00:17:47.660 If you're poor, what the fuck is a saucer? Right? If you're a poor person, who the hell ever saw a 0.99

00:17:58.420 saucer? What's that? A flying saucer? What the hell is a saucer? And now, certainly poor white people 0.96

00:18:06.460 might not know what a saucer is, too. But that's actually a pretty good example. I mean, there's

00:18:11.880 certainly biases against, you know, low income people. And that would be heavily, you know,

00:18:17.320 minority populated. So it's actually a pretty good example. So I don't know what the examples are of

00:18:22.620 math being racist. In this context, I didn't see any examples. So I'm going to be open minded about

00:18:28.700 whether there is an example or is not. Because they didn't they didn't give me enough in the stories

00:18:34.360 and it was behind the paywall and blah, blah, blah. But if the if you wanted to destroy a great

00:18:43.000 nation, what would be a good way to do it? You wanted to destroy a country? Well, military,

00:18:50.500 militarily, but we have a big military. So good luck with that. The best way to do it would be to take

00:18:57.400 the smartest people and make them stay in the class with the dumb people. That would be the best 1.00

00:19:03.620 way to destroy the whole country. Because as I've often said, it doesn't really matter if our average

00:19:09.040 math scores don't compare favorably to the average math scores of China or anybody else. Do you know

00:19:16.620 why? Why doesn't it matter that our average math scores are as good as the average math scores in other

00:19:23.800 countries? Because almost nobody uses math. At least the higher level math that that would matter.

00:19:32.140 It's the top two percent. They go on to, you know, stem jobs and engineering and inventing stuff.

00:19:38.240 So math is about teaching the bottom 98 percent how to balance their checkbook.

00:19:45.700 And then the top two percent, we're developing them to, you know, move the country forward,

00:19:54.240 invent stuff, engineer things, become math teachers, I suppose. But it's only about the top few percent.

00:20:01.760 That's what math is about. The rest of us, we just need to be able to, you know, do the basics to get by.

00:20:06.420 So, what would happen if you take our two percent and make them sit in the same class

00:20:12.640 with everybody else? Well, if they have any money, they're going to get the hell out of there right

00:20:19.640 away. And they're going to go homeschool right away. And they're going to get tutors. In my town,

00:20:27.520 the tutoring business is gigantic. Is it big where you live? Is the tutoring business big where you are?

00:20:34.380 Because I think that's sort of a high-income luxury. Yeah, it's big here. Yeah, so kids here are asking

00:20:43.760 for it, actually. Around here, kids would say, can I have a tutor, you know, to get a little extra

00:20:49.000 advantage to go to college and stuff. Yeah, it's a big deal over here. So, if this continues, this trend

00:20:56.600 where they put the smartest in the same class with everybody else, they're just going to have to get out of there.

00:21:01.120 You know, you don't want your top one percenters in the class with everybody else. That's just not

00:21:07.020 helping anybody. All right. Putin and Biden had effectively a Zoom call summit. Of course,

00:21:16.640 they don't use Zoom. But they talked on video. And here's what came out of that. I guess Biden warned

00:21:23.960 Putin that if he were to invade any further into the Ukraine, that Biden said there would be

00:21:32.080 hard financial sanctions and NATO would reposition. So that's Biden's thing. Financial sanctions and

00:21:41.800 NATO would reposition. What exactly do we have left for financial sanctions? Are you telling me there's

00:21:48.900 a whole bunch of financial sanctions out there that we could use that we're not? What exactly is

00:21:55.220 left? There's something missing in the story. What the hell are we going to actually do? You know, somebody says

00:22:00.620 swift transactions or banking and stuff. But here's the thing. If you cut Russia off from, let's say, the 0.95

00:22:06.940 international banking system, I don't know, that feels pretty provocative, isn't it?

00:22:12.900 I feel like the financial stuff, we don't have a lot of wiggle room without going full war. So we'll see

00:22:22.760 what happens there. But here's the most interesting part. Vladimir Putin is calling for both sides to

00:22:32.480 launch new talks to defuse Ukraine. Putin is asking for talks to defuse Ukraine. How does that make sense if

00:22:45.540 he wants to attack? Does that make sense? Do you think that the asking for more talks to defuse the

00:22:54.400 situation? Do you think that's a clever military ploy to get us to stand down and then he'll jump in and

00:23:03.000 attack? I don't think so. So we can't know, right? You don't know and I don't know because it's hard to

00:23:13.220 predict. But here's what I get out of this. This is the hypnotist in me talking. The last thing in the

00:23:19.360 world Vladimir Putin wants to do is invade Ukraine. I feel like that's what he just told us. Because

00:23:27.100 you don't ask for talks to defuse something that you want to do, do you? You know, even as a trick,

00:23:33.580 you don't do that. Because you know what would happen? If Putin said, hey, let's have talks to

00:23:40.760 defuse it and then attack while we're having talks, or at least they're still ongoing, that's the end.

00:23:49.360 That's a line. I mean, that's a real, real, real, real line, right? It's one thing to attack when

00:23:58.620 nobody expects it. That's bad enough. But if you attack while you're having talks, during the talks,

00:24:07.200 using the talks as a decoy, no, you don't come back from that. Am I the only one who thinks that?

00:24:14.220 I don't think you come back from that. I think you have to end Russia at that point. Probably 0.97

00:24:21.080 financially. But you have to just end them at that point. You can't deal with them at all again.

00:24:28.020 You could never, ever have another conversation with Russia. You just remove the diplomats and

00:24:34.280 crush their economy and be done with it. You know, there'd be some risk, but you just have to do it at that

00:24:39.340 point. So here's what I think. Putin's not an idiot. He's not a nice guy. He's not dumb.

00:24:48.600 He's obviously using Ukraine for negotiating.

00:24:51.400 How many would agree that he's signaling that the Ukraine move is purely to negotiate for something

00:25:00.740 else? Probably to negotiate to keep them from joining NATO. Is that a reasonable request?

00:25:08.180 Is it reasonable for Russia to say, you know, we've got this line, and the line is you don't put NATO on

00:25:15.520 our border? It's a pretty reasonable request. If Russia puts some missiles into Cuba, what would 0.98

00:25:23.880 we do? You know what we'd do, right? You know what we'd do if they put missiles in Cuba, because 0.70

00:25:32.920 it already happened, right? So here we are putting, maybe, NATO into Ukraine. What the hell would

00:25:40.860 we expect Putin to do? We'd expect him to push pretty damn hard back. So it feels to me like 0.76

00:25:49.160 this is a negotiating thing. Probably Putin wants to keep his, you know, pipelines and keep his

00:25:56.340 negotiating situation. But I'm going to go to a place that no one has gone before except me.

00:26:04.380 It's time to talk about being allies. It's time to talk about being allies with Russia,

00:26:12.960 because we have to. Not because we want to, but because space, the war in space has already

00:26:20.040 started. Do you want to be one of three superpowers, or maybe four? Maybe India will get up there 0.99

00:26:26.240 pretty soon. Or do you want to have Russia on your side? If there's one thing I can tell you for 0.81

00:26:32.820 sure, if I get in a fight, I want Russia on my side. Anybody? Would anybody disagree with 0.59

00:26:42.060 that? If you're in a fight, you want Russia on your team. Right? Now, you could say that's 0.99

00:26:51.580 against China or not. Now, of course, Russia has a, you know, pretty delicate thing, because

00:26:55.520 they've got all kinds of Russia, you know, physical connections and trade and whatnot. So

00:27:02.460 do you hear yourself?

00:27:08.260 Scott's still ignoring the troop buildup. Well, I didn't mention it, but that's not ignoring it. I

00:27:13.620 thought everybody knew about the troop buildup. Everybody knows that Putin has a troop buildup

00:27:18.160 on the border, right, of Ukraine. So my take is that that's part of the negotiating. If

00:27:24.280 he had not asked for a new round of talks, then I would have taken it seriously that it's

00:27:29.360 an invasion. But I think that it's, he may actually have, it might actually be two options. One is

00:27:39.380 to talk and work it out, and one is to invade. So he might have two options. But I think he

00:27:45.720 prefers talking. All right, well, that's all I'm going to say about that. My prediction is

00:27:51.540 no invasion of Ukraine, and we should move toward becoming allies with Russia militarily,

00:27:58.260 at least. And we just don't have a reason for attacking each other. All right, unless it's our

00:28:04.400 oil companies that are telling us that we need Russia not to compete with our energy industry.

00:28:11.040 I worry about that. All right, Rasmussen poll asked how people think Biden is handling the

00:28:17.740 pandemic. And what did we find out? We found that 56% disapprove of how Biden is handling the

00:28:25.440 pandemic, and 56% also, either mildly or very much, say that he broke his promise to end the

00:28:33.020 pandemic. Do you think those numbers would be different if we had a different president?

00:28:38.520 I don't really. I feel like Trump would have had the same numbers, because there's just so much

00:28:47.960 you can do about the pandemic. You know, there's definitely a limit to what you can do. So I would

00:28:54.480 say that that sounds about right. I mean, we're all just unhappy with the pandemic. So the leader gets

00:29:01.420 the blame no matter what. All right, here's the weirdest thing that's happening right now,

00:29:06.900 but maybe it's not weird. That one of the most frequent comments I get on social media,

00:29:11.920 which has something to do with the number, the type of people who follow me, I guess,

00:29:16.140 is that the pandemic isn't real. And that if we just ignored it, that would be our best strategy.

00:29:22.940 And I asked, how many people believe that? And of course, this is, you know, highly unscientific,

00:29:29.520 and it's just the people who follow me, etc. But 47% of the people who answered said that the number

00:29:37.980 of dead people dying and the virus itself is fake, basically. And that, or fake-ish, meaning that it's

00:29:48.080 overblown, right? So these are not people who are saying there is no such thing as a coronavirus.

00:29:54.240 They're just saying that the whole thing is so overblown that if you just ignored it, you'd be fine.

00:30:03.100 47%. Now, here's my take on that. If this had been five years ago, I would have said,

00:30:13.400 this is a bunch of fucking idiots. Five years ago. Five years ago, I would have said, this is, wow. 1.00

00:30:20.820 Wow. These are some really thick people. Frickin' stupid idiots. Wow. Five years ago. Do you know

00:30:29.440 what I say today? Today, I say, oh, it looks like pattern recognition. It looks like pattern recognition.

00:30:38.080 If the fucking fake news had not brought us one hoax after another, I would say, geez, 0.99

00:30:47.020 you're really untrusting. Just look around you. You know, all the news, all the countries are 0.99

00:30:53.620 handling it. But once you've seen what the fake news can do to the public, not trusting it

00:31:01.260 anymore, is no longer irrational. If all you did was disagree with the government every single time

00:31:11.260 they said anything, your prediction rate would be not bad. It wouldn't be 100%, but it'd probably be

00:31:19.300 better than 50%. You'd probably be clocking in at like 55% correct, just saying everything the

00:31:26.540 government tells you is wrong. Am I wrong? You would be more correct in just saying everything they say

00:31:32.220 is a lie, even though, you know, it's not 100%. But I'll bet you'd get more than 50% in our current

00:31:38.680 world. I'll bet it'd be more than 55% too. So, I'm going to say I fully respect this opinion.

00:31:47.700 I disagree with it. I disagree with it. You know, my reading of the world is that the pandemic's

00:31:56.060 completely real. Not the way we're handling it is excellent. You know, I would get rid of mandates,

00:32:02.900 etc. I think it's time to do that. But I think it's real. I think the bodies are real. I think

00:32:08.740 even if we over-counted or under-counted, that there's some, you know, tremendous number of people

00:32:13.340 dying. So, I think it's real. But the opinion that says it's not real, or at least we should treat

00:32:21.860 it like it's not real because it's a better strategy, I actually respect that opinion,

00:32:26.740 surprisingly. I know that surprises you, right? I fully respect that opinion. Because the fake

00:32:32.560 news has created this situation. It's not our fault. It's not my fault that the news on every

00:32:40.320 other topic is fake. So, if you don't believe this topic, it's pattern recognition. It's just

00:32:47.760 pattern recognition. Doesn't mean you're right, but it means there's a pattern. Yeah, I think the

00:32:55.860 people saying it's fake really just mean it's overhyped, and we should just, you know, go back

00:33:00.240 to our regular life. Now, why is it we don't trust the news? Well, let me give you an example

00:33:06.740 from today's headlines. Why is it we don't trust the news? Let me just read this to you.

00:33:14.220 I don't even have to add the comment. This is just the news, okay?

00:33:22.980 Preliminary, this was on CNN, I think. Preliminary lab studies show two doses of the Pfizer vaccine

00:33:29.440 may not provide sufficient protection against the Omicron virus variant, but here's the good

00:33:36.240 news. Three doses are able to neutralize it. Yeah, the two doses, they're not going to really

00:33:44.460 do anything for the Omicron, but according to Pfizer, according to Pfizer, if you get that third

00:33:51.220 booster, well, your Omicron will be beaten. Do you know what Vladimir Putin calls the Omicron virus?

00:34:01.280 Possibly a vaccine. That's right. Putin said Omicron is overblown. It might be closer to a vaccine.

00:34:17.620 Meanwhile, Pfizer is going to charge you extra, make a few hundred billion dollars extra by selling

00:34:23.960 you that booster that's going to take care of the Omicron, which we don't need to take care of.

00:34:28.040 So if you pay extra, you can get rid of the only thing that would stop the pandemic,

00:34:34.180 which is the Omicron spreading enough so that we get a natural immunity without getting really sick.

00:34:42.680 Now, let me ask you again, why is it that the citizens don't trust the news?

00:34:47.600 This is why. Was there anybody here who didn't know that Pfizer would find a way to create a booster

00:34:58.640 or at least tell you the booster they have is going to take care of that new variant, but you need the

00:35:04.640 booster. Two shots, that's not going to get it done. You're going to need that booster. Let me ask you

00:35:11.600 another question. Do you think that Pfizer will someday suggest an additional booster for the

00:35:19.000 fourth shot? Shut the fuck up, you asshole. QJ. Scott's awake. Scott's awake. Scott's awake. 1.00

00:35:27.740 Fucking idiots. You're gone. All right. 1.00

00:35:31.660 More on fake news. And this one's really interesting. You're going to think this is

00:35:38.520 about vaccinations, but it's about news bubbles and information bubbles. This one is really,

00:35:46.560 really interesting. And only the psychology of it and the fake news of it, not about the actual

00:35:52.100 virus itself. So here's a question that Kyle Becker, who is also somebody you should follow.

00:35:57.920 If you don't follow Kyle, you're missing some good stuff. He has lots of good scoops.

00:36:03.580 So Kyle Becker, if you just search for him on Twitter, you'll find him.

00:36:09.720 So I think he used to be associated with Fox News, but he's doing his own thing now.

00:36:14.300 And a lot of his content, I see a lot of stuff for the first time from him.

00:36:19.540 And he and I disagree on the following question. Now here's why this is so interesting.

00:36:26.300 Kyle Becker is really well informed. I've been following him for a while. I would say of

00:36:32.960 people who follow the news and are really paying attention, he'd be in the top 2%,

00:36:38.940 at least 5%, right? I would say I'm probably in the top 5% of people who follow the news.

00:36:47.440 Does that seem fair? That people would do this for a living? We're probably in the top 5%

00:36:53.020 of just paying attention, right? So he and I have both been paying attention and came

00:36:58.800 to completely opposite opinions on what the news was telling us. This is really interesting

00:37:05.480 to me, and I don't know the answer. Normally I'd be telling you that he's wrong, right? Obviously.

00:37:13.460 But I can't tell. All I know is that he and I are looking at the same stuff,

00:37:17.700 and we're seeing completely different things, and I don't know why. Here's the topic.

00:37:25.220 Do vaccinated people spread the virus the same as unvaccinated? Everything I've seen says

00:37:34.040 that vaccinations vastly reduce the spread. Everything I've seen. Everything that Kyle has

00:37:42.400 seen says the opposite. What's up with that? Now, I know he's a legitimate guy, right? So if you're

00:37:53.140 thinking, oh, Kyle's messed up or something, no, no. He's a smart guy who is following the news

00:38:00.160 every bit as much as I am, and maybe more. Probably more, because this is more of a career for him than

00:38:07.920 it is for me. But in my view, I have only seen, only, with no exceptions, seen evidence that the

00:38:19.720 vaccinated people are way less likely to transmit it. And he's seen the opposite. Can you explain that?

00:38:28.820 So I went to Google, and I Googled it. And I just Googled the question. You know,

00:38:34.020 I forget the exact thing, but do vaccinated people spread the virus or something? And when I looked

00:38:40.880 at Google News, every single hit on the front page agreed with me. Every hit, every one agreed with me.

00:38:53.500 What was Kyle looking at? So I asked him. I said, and again, this is a polite discussion,

00:39:00.280 right? Because Kyle's a legitimate guy. Like, he's smart, pays attention. How the hell do we have

00:39:08.720 a different opinion on the biggest question in the world? It's the biggest question, right? So I went

00:39:15.080 over to DuckDuckGo. Yeah, you're ahead of me. To see if Google was just doing a fast one on us.

00:39:25.560 Because we've seen this over and over again, right? You go to DuckDuckGo, and you'll get a whole

00:39:30.960 different search results about what's a hoax and what's not. So I go to DuckDuckGo, and I do exactly

00:39:36.660 the same search. So I made sure I used the same search term, and got the same results. They're in a

00:39:42.640 little different order. But DuckDuckGo only has, only, has stuff that agrees with me.

00:39:49.540 So what's Kyle seeing? And what are you all seeing? Because Kyle's opinion agrees with a

00:39:56.360 whole lot of you. I know, because I hear about, I hear you all the time. What are you seeing?

00:40:03.200 I'm completely confused. So I dug into a little bit, and I have maybe a hypothesis. But I think

00:40:10.600 there are some studies that would suggest that people with vaccinations are spreading it just as

00:40:17.680 much. But they are low-quality studies or misleading. So I guess there was one in Boston

00:40:24.340 of a bunch of people who went to public gatherings, and they somehow could do a retrospective and look

00:40:30.620 and see that. And they found that 75% of the people in these mass gatherings, 75% of them who

00:40:38.520 caught the virus were vaccinated. Which would agree with Kyle, right? 70 foot. Jesus, you're clueless.

00:40:47.520 Vet Vegas, fucking asshole. Goodbye. Removed. By the way, you can tell me what I got wrong. 1.00

00:40:56.240 I'm pretty open to that. But just the personal attacks, that just means you're having trouble

00:41:01.280 accepting the fact that you're wrong about something.

00:41:04.700 I mean, that's really what's going on. Like, if you're saying, Jesus, what's wrong with

00:41:10.480 this guy? It means you're experiencing cognitive dissonance most of the time. Most of the time.

00:41:17.220 All right. So there's one study that did show that 75% of the people who got infected were

00:41:24.920 actually vaccinated. But what percentage of people who went there were probably vaccinated? Probably

00:41:33.920 high. Do the vaccinated people take more or less precautions? Far less, far less, far fewer

00:41:43.500 precautions. And so the people who know how to look at studies say, they looked at that study

00:41:49.180 and they said, this is not a good study. So one of the things that agrees with Kyle has

00:41:55.140 been labeled a poor, a poor study.

00:41:57.700 And then I think there was another one that Kyle sent about spouses, that there was an

00:42:05.740 identical rate of transmission among spouses, at least in one study, whether when one was

00:42:12.680 vaccinated and one was not versus two vaccinated or all the other combinations. So it looked like

00:42:20.160 among spouses that it didn't matter if you were vaccinated or not. Your spread was about the 0.55

00:42:26.220 same. Now, do you believe that? Here's the problem. That's a mystery on top of a mystery.

00:42:34.180 Because we already had a mystery of why spouses don't catch it. Did you know that? That I think

00:42:40.800 somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of spouses will catch it from their spouse. How do you not

00:42:47.660 catch COVID from your spouse? I mean, what kind of marriage do you have that you're so socially

00:42:53.960 distanced from your own spouse? You can't get the catchiest, you know, the most spready virus of

00:42:59.920 all time and you can't give it to your spouse. So here's the problem with that study. It's a

00:43:06.540 mystery on top of a mystery. Because apparently whatever is happening with spouses, we fully don't

00:43:12.540 understand why they don't all give it to each other like 80% of the time. Right? So I would say

00:43:21.100 that doesn't really prove the case because it's a mystery on a mystery. It's not a clean

00:43:26.220 situation. So I would say that Kyle did in fact see some studies that would suggest that exactly his

00:43:34.280 view that the vaxxed and unvaxxed spread at different rates. But if you were to Google this

00:43:40.100 and look what the, let's say the mainstream common, most common opinion of the experts is, it's not even

00:43:46.820 close. The experts are completely on the same side. 98%, 99%. There's always a rogue. But would you

00:43:58.520 agree with the following statement? That in every major country we know of, and all the major

00:44:05.500 professionals, which is not to say they're right. You don't have to agree that they're correct. I'm just

00:44:10.780 saying what they say. It is true that all the experts are very clear that you don't spread it as

00:44:19.200 much if you're vaccinated and it's not even close. What do you think? Yeah, no, of course, if you

00:44:28.940 disagree with the experts, that's pretty fair in 2021. I think that's pretty fair. I'm just telling

00:44:34.640 you what they think. So Kyle's view that there is lots of evidence out there is supported. It is

00:44:42.580 supported. He actually came up with some studies. But in my opinion, which I would imagine could be

00:44:48.260 full of confirmation bias, if not cognitive dissonance, in my opinion, those studies were

00:44:53.460 lower quality than the ones that show there's a big difference. Now, I am willing to change that

00:45:01.180 opinion. Follow the money. Good point. Follow the money. If the money would suggest that we were all

00:45:07.980 being fooled by these statistics, and it could, because the people who make the vaccinations

00:45:13.900 probably are behind the data in a lot of cases. So could we be fooled as a nation? Yes, we could.

00:45:22.100 I don't think so. I'd bet against it. But we could be. All right. So do you know what's mandatory in a

00:45:35.000 pandemic? We keep talking about all these mandates. All right, the government's going to put a mandate

00:45:40.460 on us. They're going to mandate masks, and they're going to mandate vaccinations, and they're going to

00:45:45.400 mandate all kinds of stuff. Well, let me suggest this standard for mandates. Before you even talk

00:45:54.880 about whether to put one on or not, prior to even having the discussion of mandates, the ticket to get

00:46:03.020 into the discussion, forget about the decision, the ticket even to have a conversation about putting

00:46:09.640 mandates on the public. Let me tell you what mandate I want. I need to know what kind of

00:46:15.800 financial ties our decision makers have to big pharma. Not just the financial, not just the medical

00:46:22.080 experts, but the decision makers. I want to know the FDA, the, you know, every health professional in

00:46:29.440 the government and out. I want to know what the connection is to the pharma companies that have a role

00:46:37.120 in any of this stuff. And here's my mandate. Don't fucking ask me to do anything until you show me

00:46:42.940 that. Right? That's my mandate. Don't fucking ask the public to do any fucking thing. Nothing. No 0.99

00:46:53.280 fucking thing until you show us that. You do that, and we'll have a conversation about mandates. 0.99

00:47:01.200 We might not want them. We may reject them for good reasons. But we're not going to have a

00:47:07.660 fucking conversation about it until you fix this. We need to know who is making money off of this 1.00

00:47:13.820 shit or get out of our lives. Fuck you with your fucking mandates if you can't tell us this 1.00

00:47:19.960 information. You know we need to know this. Everybody knows we need to know this. Everybody 1.00

00:47:25.480 knows this. Everybody knows it's the most important fucking thing we need to know. You all know it. 0.99

00:47:32.460 They're not going to give it to you. So fuck you and your mandates until we have this information. 1.00

00:47:39.700 That's my take. So a lot of you are like, Scott, why are you so pro-mandates? Fuck you. Fuck your 1.00

00:47:45.740 misinformation. Fuck the mandates. Fuck everybody in the government until you tell us this. That's it. 1.00

00:47:52.240 That's my stake. Well, back to fun. Matt Gaetz told at least one person, Alexander Nazarian is 0.81

00:48:05.380 reporting on Twitter, that Matt Gaetz told them personally that if the Republicans take the

00:48:11.680 House in 2022, that Gaetz will propose making Trump Speaker of the House, which apparently is

00:48:21.380 completely constitutionally appropriate, he doesn't have to be an elected official. Now,

00:48:27.860 this is actually a thing that can be done. You just have to have the Republicans agree. That's it.

00:48:35.340 The entire standard, the only bar you'd have to exceed is that the Republicans would say, yeah,

00:48:42.820 let's do that. That's it. And he would be Speaker of the House. Now, could he run for President

00:48:49.460 while he's Speaker of the House? Probably. Probably. I mean, usually when people are running

00:48:57.580 for office, you know, they take some time off, in effect, from their day job. But Trump wouldn't

00:49:04.400 have to. Trump could run for President just by being Speaker of the House. Because he'd be on TV

00:49:09.900 all the time. Does he need to do a rally? Well, they're helpful. Probably could still do some.

00:49:15.940 But he wouldn't need to. He'd just have to be Speaker of the House. And I don't think that's

00:49:23.020 going to happen because it's just too provocative. I think the system would fall apart. But

00:49:29.680 fun to watch. Well, here's a disturbing story from my backyard. So this is, you know, driving

00:49:39.340 distance from where I live in California. So there were two, there was a black couple, Paula and 0.99

00:49:45.420 Tanisha. And they were getting a estimate of their house. So they had their house appraised.

00:49:53.380 I guess they were thinking of selling it. And the appraisal came back way less than they expected

00:49:59.160 because they'd put $400,000 worth of upgrades in it. But it didn't, it didn't appraise for much more.

00:50:07.140 So they were thinking that they were victims of racism. Because how could you put $400,000 worth

00:50:14.580 of upgrades into a house, and yet the house is only worth a little bit more? How's that possible?

00:50:21.380 Do you know how that's possible? Because that's the way it always happens. For everybody.

00:50:28.260 If you put $400,000 of upgrades into your house, you'll be happy living there, but it doesn't

00:50:33.760 increase the value of your house. Do you know who knows that? Everybody who ever bought a house.

00:50:40.500 All right, look at the comments. The people who know this are exactly. Your house is going to be

00:50:46.580 priced based on the comparables. And your neighbor didn't put in any upgrades. That's it. If your

00:50:54.200 neighbor didn't upgrade, and he sold his house for X amount, and yours is the same square footage,

00:50:59.680 and you're on the same block, that's your value. So the first part of the story is absolute fake news

00:51:06.800 bullshit. There is no reason to suspect that the value of the home would go up because of their 0.98

00:51:13.500 upgrades. You all know that, right? Well, I mean, now you know it. It's a well-known, universally

00:51:20.420 understood principle. You've read lots of articles about it. If you've ever put an upgrade into your

00:51:26.740 home as I have, and then sold it, do you know how much the upgrade got you? Nothing. Do you know how

00:51:33.280 many homes I have personally upgraded substantially, and then sold? Three so far. And they sold for about

00:51:44.220 what they would have sold if I had done no upgrades. Always. Maybe 10% more, but that's about it.

00:51:50.300 All right. So the first part of the story is utter, absolute, complete bullshit. But the second part 1.00

00:51:59.280 of the story is really alarming. What they did was they got a white friend, a woman, to pretend that

00:52:05.500 she was the wife, and she was the only one there. So they removed all the pictures that would have

00:52:11.840 any kind of African art or pictures of the couple, and they put in white family pictures and made it

00:52:19.060 look like the whitest home. And then another appraiser came in and appraised it for half a

00:52:23.880 million dollars more. What? What? Half a million dollars more just because the house looked white

00:52:37.700 a week later? What? Now, if this were a repeatable thing, this is about as bad as anything could be

00:52:53.860 bad, right? You don't have to worry about, you know, is there such a thing as, you know, racism or, you know,

00:53:00.920 whatever kind of racism you want to call this? Yes. If this is true and it's part of a pattern,

00:53:07.680 it's like the worst thing I've ever seen. But do you ever have a case where two appraisers come up

00:53:16.800 with different numbers? Has that ever happened? Suppose those upgrades weren't permitted.

00:53:25.860 Do you know if the upgrades were permitted? Because sometimes you might have to rip them out.

00:53:32.800 Do you know if the upgrades were done well? Were they done by professionals? Or were they done by

00:53:38.920 maybe themselves? So I would ask this question before I get excited about this.

00:53:47.240 How common is it to have two appraisals that are way different? How common is it to have appraisals

00:53:57.220 that are way different? Well, there's a reason that sometimes you get two of them.

00:54:04.520 The reason is that sometimes they're wrong, right? Do people ever get two appraisals because they don't

00:54:10.160 like the first one? Yes. Yes. Very common. So does this one anecdotal situation tell you that there is

00:54:21.920 massive racism in the real estate market? Nope. Nope. It does not tell you that. But the news is selling

00:54:31.380 it to you like it does. Like this is a solid proof. But nope. Nope. That's not here. This information

00:54:41.340 does not give us any information about this. Now, let me give you some additional context.

00:54:48.960 I believe that this experiment has been tried multiple times. And my understanding, I don't have

00:54:57.540 a source for it. But my understanding is that this has been demonstrated to be a real thing.

00:55:02.220 And that it's sort of everywhere. And you could reproduce it at will. Pick a place. Just do the

00:55:08.400 same experiment. You get similarly shocking. I mean, just shocking results. Now, I don't know if any of

00:55:17.220 those studies were valid. Because we're in a world where we don't trust anything. Especially studies.

00:55:23.320 But I would only caution you that you can't make anything from this one anecdote, except the one

00:55:29.140 thing you can get from anecdotes. Which is it raises a gigantic flag. I mean, I'd want to know if this is

00:55:35.740 real. Not just this example. But I'd want to know, is this happening? Still? In 2021-22? Are we really,

00:55:46.600 really this racist? I'd hate to think so. But all evidence suggests we probably are.

00:55:52.060 All right. So that, again, is another example of me not having a binary opinion. So half the people 0.57

00:56:03.460 will think I was just a racist. And half of the people will say I was very reasonable.

00:56:09.880 Hello from Nigeria, Stefan. Racism is usually just pattern recognition.

00:56:17.120 Correct. Correct. Because your brains are pattern recognition machines. You can't turn

00:56:24.460 that off. So being racist is not sort of an option. Either your brain has pattern recognition

00:56:32.740 or you're dead. And our pattern recognition is not good. So when we have pattern recognition, 0.80

00:56:38.520 it doesn't mean we're accurate about it. It just means it's happening.

00:56:46.400 But they identify wrong patterns. That is correct. So part of the problem with racism is that we see

00:56:52.400 incorrect patterns, but we're sure they're real.

00:56:57.420 Is there a difference between racism and affinitism? Yes. Yes, there is.

00:57:02.880 All right.

00:57:13.660 I think that's all I have for today. Did I miss anything?

00:57:18.820 There's never been a better show. I think you're completely correct. The best show that there's ever been

00:57:23.800 in all of history in the world. Boo is doing great. And she's taking her medicines by mouth.

00:57:31.080 So I might be able to get that feeding tube out now.

00:57:37.660 Epstein. You know, the Epstein thing isn't interesting me, weirdly. They're going to have

00:57:41.960 to throw in some new accusations about famous people to get me interested again. If it's just

00:57:47.200 more creepy Epstein stuff coming out, there's just more of it.

00:57:51.260 I'm going to tell my grandchildren about this episode one day.

00:57:59.900 Say hey to Christina. I will.

00:58:06.920 Do you think we'd get even more drastic differences as the pictures in the home showed a short guy

00:58:12.020 and then they swapped him for a hot woman? Well, I wondered about that. Who was the white woman 1.00

00:58:20.340 that the black couple asked to pretend it was her? And was she unusually attractive? 0.86

00:58:27.280 That's a fair question. You don't think that attractive people get higher valuations for their homes?

00:58:32.460 Have you ever tried eating with an attractive person? Makes the food taste better.

00:58:41.200 I hate to say it. Can anybody confirm that? If you have a meal with a highly attractive person,

00:58:48.060 it makes the food taste better. Shouldn't, but it does. Yeah. Look at all the yeses going by.

00:58:55.660 Right. So if you're appraising a house and you walk in and you see a beautiful person there,

00:58:59.740 male or female, they're just beautiful. Do they get a higher appraisal? Probably. Now, to be fair,

00:59:09.680 the black couple that was pictured in the story were an attractive couple. So it wouldn't be 0.99

00:59:16.400 attractiveness, I don't think in this case. But it's a good question. Right? The black couple was 1.00

00:59:21.980 quite attractive. So I don't think that was the problem exactly.

00:59:29.740 You can't have your view, vaccines reduce spread, and believe that we should have more infection

00:59:36.760 and death now. Yeah, you can. Those are not incompatible.

00:59:45.000 Those are very compatible concepts. It's just math. I mean, I won't run through it. But yeah,

00:59:52.500 the math is that you can have those two things. Well, that's a dark comment there. All right.

01:00:06.320 Thought you were removing all family pictures when you staged a home. Oh, good point. All right. Good

01:00:11.420 point on YouTube. Somebody on YouTube says, isn't it typical to remove all your family pictures

01:00:17.040 when you're putting it up for sale? Yes. But not when you're getting it appraised. Am I right?

01:00:26.600 Somebody in real estate might have to answer this for me. I think if you're showing it to people,

01:00:31.100 you get rid of the family pictures. Because so that they can imagine themselves living there more

01:00:36.000 easily. But for appraisals, I don't think you remove that stuff for appraisals. I'm seeing some yeses.

01:00:44.320 You would approve? I mean, if the timing was right, I guess you'd prefer it. But I don't think you'd

01:00:51.060 necessarily need to do it. Because imagine, suppose they were just getting a refinance. Yeah,

01:00:59.800 they might have been just getting a refinance. What percent do you think the vaccine reduces

01:01:07.240 transmission? And for what, one month? Well, we know the vaccines wear off if you don't get the

01:01:15.720 booster. The experts are saying it's five times less likely or five times more likely to spread it if

01:01:23.820 you're unvaccinated. That's what the experts say. My own opinion isn't useful, because what would that

01:01:30.200 be? Yeah, I haven't been talking too much about defund the police and the wave of crime,

01:01:38.460 except I'm a little concerned that the crime wave doesn't exist.

01:01:47.660 Gutfeld said he took down anything with Fox News on it. Yeah, you would certainly have to do that.

01:01:52.580 All right. Where is the supply chain? It looks like the supply chain worked itself out. By the way,

01:02:03.200 some of you knew that I was trying to buy a Ford vehicle for a family member. And

01:02:09.840 I couldn't get it. And I couldn't even tell them, I couldn't even get them to tell me if it was ordered

01:02:16.620 or when it would come. But I tweeted about it. And it turns out if you have enough followers and you

01:02:22.500 tweet about a service problem, you get a lot of action. So I think all of Northern California Ford

01:02:28.780 is working on my problem right now. This might be them right now. So I have heard from a number of

01:02:36.840 executives at Ford that they are working on it. And my specific car is, has a commodity problem,

01:02:44.220 meaning that there's at least one part that they can't get. So they can't, they can't do the build

01:02:50.200 of the car because they can't get a part. I don't know what part it is. Probably chips.

01:02:55.120 Probably chips. Yeah, it's a Mustang. Probably chips. Now, by the way, and let me, let me say this.

01:03:03.280 I want to say this as clearly as possible. Ford's a great company. It's a great American company. And I,

01:03:09.680 I, I, I'm a big fan of their products. I love their design, especially for the, for the price

01:03:15.560 level of their products. They have the best design at the, at that price level for everything, I think.

01:03:22.400 And, um, and they also were very responsive at a corporate level, you know, as soon as they heard

01:03:29.280 of my complaint and they're, and they're all over it trying to figure out what's going on.

01:03:33.320 My only complaint was communication. I didn't have a complaint that I had to wait,

01:03:39.180 did not have a complaint about that because it's a, it's a problem everywhere. Right. And, uh,

01:03:45.520 it almost sounded like maybe they were treating me special because of the prominence of my complaint.

01:03:52.320 And I actually asked them not to, I said, you know, I'm not asking for special treatment.

01:03:56.820 I really don't want to go to the front of the line because it's not like, you know, it's not like

01:04:02.880 some basic necessity that I'm lacking or something. It's literally a luxury expense. And if other

01:04:09.060 people need their, I don't know, Ford truck to go to work or something, I'd much rather wait at the

01:04:14.720 end of the line. So I don't need it. I just wanted to know, just wanted to know what the situation was.

01:04:19.720 And now they've told me. So I'm all happy. Um, if I've ever told you this standard, I don't know if I

01:04:25.580 have, but I would like to share it with you as my closing thought today. People make mistakes.

01:04:34.400 If that makes you mad, you're, you're going to have a terrible life. Your life is just going to be

01:04:40.320 trash. If you're mad about people's mistakes, because we all make them and sometimes it's not 0.99

01:04:47.440 intentional. It's just happens, but you can definitely judge people by how they respond to

01:04:53.680 their mistakes. I don't judge people by mistakes ever because everybody makes them, but you can

01:05:01.260 totally judge them by how they responded. And Ford responded aggressively well. So a plus, right?

01:05:10.720 The, uh, any, any errors or omissions are completely forgiven. That's just my philosophy.

01:05:16.580 Now I realize it, it departs from reality a little bit because sometimes mistakes actually have to be

01:05:23.040 condemned. But as a philosophy for staying sane and being, you know, as good a person as I can in a,

01:05:29.980 in a bad world, I just try to judge people by how they handle the mistakes. That's it. That's my only

01:05:36.080 standard for other people. Everything else, it's not for me to judge them. All right, that's all for now.

01:05:45.180 And I will say bye to YouTube and I'll talk a little bit more to, uh, my friends here on Locals. Talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 08, 2021

Episode 1586 Scott Adams： The News is Extra Interesting and Fun Today. Come Get Some.

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