Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1587 Scott Adams： Everyone Except You is Crazy and I'll Tell You Why. It's About the News

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00:01:07.760 Oh, that's so good.

00:01:14.260 Well, the news is hilarious today.

00:01:19.280 I'll start with the fun stuff.

00:01:21.000 Keith Olbermann, who has been my critic for decades,

00:01:26.820 decided to come in on me on my Fox News Christmas tree joke that I tweeted.

00:01:34.320 Now, the joke, I told you the joke yesterday,

00:01:36.720 but just so I give you some context,

00:01:38.620 I tweeted yesterday,

00:01:39.400 I don't know who lit the Fox News Christmas tree on fire,

00:01:43.120 but the two white guys who attacked Jussie Smollett are still out there somewhere.

00:01:47.920 Now, that got 1,000 retweets, which is, you know, big for my size accounts,

00:01:52.860 and 10,000 likes.

00:01:54.360 So, can you conclude that it's funny?

00:02:01.820 1,000 likes, which is high,

00:02:04.520 and 10,000 likes.

00:02:08.960 Apparently, people like Keith Olbermann have not learned

00:02:11.740 that art and humor are subjective.

00:02:16.280 No, it's really, it's true, Keith.

00:02:18.720 It's the first time you're hearing this.

00:02:20.040 But it turns out there's no universal objective standard for humor.

00:02:24.540 No, there isn't.

00:02:26.080 And so, Keith, if you don't find something funny,

00:02:29.460 but 10,000 people did,

00:02:32.660 what do you conclude?

00:02:34.740 Use your big old brain there, Keith.

00:02:37.240 10,000 people laughed,

00:02:39.720 but you didn't.

00:02:41.920 What did you conclude about the humor potential of that thing?

00:02:46.840 Well, Keith Olbermann concluded it wasn't good

00:02:49.400 because he decided that he would weigh in

00:02:51.960 with this valuable comment on my joke,

00:02:55.720 referring to the two white guys who attacked Jussie Smollett.

00:03:00.240 He retweeted me and said,

00:03:02.460 do they write your material too?

00:03:05.900 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:03:09.080 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:03:12.520 Zing.

00:03:13.900 Gotcha.

00:03:15.600 Gotcha.

00:03:15.920 Oh, I felt that like a dagger through the heart.

00:03:19.400 I woke up this day feeling good,

00:03:24.420 only to find that Keith Olbermann does not approve

00:03:27.200 of my commercial humor.

00:03:30.360 Well, so I replied to him and said,

00:03:36.580 I didn't know Keith Olbermann was still alive.

00:03:39.860 I stole that from Elon Musk.

00:03:42.260 You probably recognize that one.

00:03:44.440 Yeah, I said, I don't know.

00:03:45.880 I didn't know Keith Olbermann was still alive.

00:03:47.620 To which Twitter user Kathy,

00:03:50.480 also known as Mustang Girl 3,

00:03:52.700 replied, only on the outside.

00:03:54.780 He's, he's, he's, he's only alive on the outside.

00:03:59.640 Which I laughed about for about 10 minutes.

00:04:03.140 He's only alive on the outside.

00:04:06.900 I'm still laughing about it.

00:04:08.200 Well, in the, well, I think I'll talk about this later.

00:04:13.960 No, I'll talk about it now.

00:04:15.480 Jonathan Turley, who you should all be following

00:04:18.180 and reading his stuff,

00:04:20.100 probably the best writer,

00:04:23.320 well, on a lot of stuff.

00:04:24.900 He's one of the best writers.

00:04:26.620 He's just a great writer.

00:04:28.020 But he's also a lawyer,

00:04:29.420 and so his takes on things are extra fun to read.

00:04:31.820 And he's got this great take

00:04:33.720 on Jussie Smollett's defense strategy.

00:04:39.180 And I hadn't really kind of seen it this way

00:04:42.240 until he laid it out, and I liked it.

00:04:44.240 Which is that Smollett is trying for jury nullification.

00:04:48.560 Meaning, he's not even going to convince them

00:04:51.340 about the facts.

00:04:53.620 You know, he's going to say the facts are all untrue.

00:04:56.060 But beyond that, he's got nothing

00:04:58.140 because the facts are clearly true.

00:04:59.740 There's plenty of evidence for them.

00:05:02.440 So instead of doing something normal,

00:05:05.600 like, oh, your evidence is not as good as you thought,

00:05:08.480 which would be a normal defense,

00:05:10.380 he's basically just putting himself on trial

00:05:13.720 against the world and saying,

00:05:16.300 if you don't like the injustice in the world,

00:05:19.360 I represent that.

00:05:22.280 So he's putting himself as sort of a martyr

00:05:24.560 who represents the injustice against black people

00:05:28.080 in the system in general,

00:05:30.600 trying to find at least one juror who says,

00:05:34.140 you know, he is guilty as hell,

00:05:37.140 but I'm still going to say he's not.

00:05:40.380 Because I don't like the way black people

00:05:42.180 have been treated in this country.

00:05:44.360 Do you think he's going to get away with that?

00:05:45.920 Maybe.

00:05:48.700 It's not the worst play I've ever seen.

00:05:50.900 Because how hard would it be to convince one person

00:05:53.340 to just do something that's non-standard?

00:05:57.400 Probably not that hard.

00:05:58.620 So I don't know if he's made enough of a case

00:06:01.760 that he's really the victim in this,

00:06:03.480 but it's a bold strategy.

00:06:06.240 Not one I would have used.

00:06:08.080 But I don't know that this would have made sense

00:06:10.540 in any other world.

00:06:12.680 We've reached the point where everyone agrees

00:06:15.020 the facts don't matter anymore.

00:06:17.420 You remember when people argued about that?

00:06:19.540 There was a time when I kept saying,

00:06:22.480 you know, the facts don't really matter.

00:06:25.360 And that what you hear about the facts are everything.

00:06:29.760 That's never been true.

00:06:31.840 Never been true, never will be true.

00:06:34.220 The facts matter sometimes in science,

00:06:38.080 you know, over time.

00:06:39.520 But in any moment, the facts are usually lies.

00:06:42.820 We can't tell what's true and what's not.

00:06:44.980 So the facts don't really rule our existence

00:06:47.320 and never will.

00:06:48.100 So I guess this is, in a weird way,

00:06:51.140 Jussie Smollett's approach, the defense,

00:06:54.240 is a high-awareness defense,

00:06:57.100 meaning he understands the world

00:06:59.520 maybe better than most people

00:07:01.980 because he knows the facts won't be relevant.

00:07:06.760 And I think he's trying to make them

00:07:08.420 certainly not relevant by creating a framework

00:07:12.300 in which you're judging the system itself.

00:07:15.320 You're not even judging Jussie.

00:07:18.100 Now, imagine that you're on the jury

00:07:21.620 and you do have sympathies in that direction.

00:07:26.640 Do you think that Jussie Smollett should,

00:07:29.180 I don't know, go to jail

00:07:31.100 for staging a hate crime hoax

00:07:34.520 that inconvenienced law enforcement

00:07:37.200 but not so much other people?

00:07:39.400 Well, most of you do think so

00:07:42.040 because it's clearly a crime.

00:07:44.080 I mean, there's a reason it's a crime.

00:07:45.980 They don't just make crimes a crime for no reason.

00:07:49.400 But imagine you're on the jury

00:07:50.900 and you didn't like the police.

00:07:52.660 Would you care that the police did extra work?

00:07:55.680 No.

00:07:56.380 No, not if you didn't like the police.

00:07:58.020 You wouldn't care at all.

00:07:59.380 And you would say, you know,

00:08:00.480 all he did was a joke.

00:08:01.860 It was a hoax.

00:08:03.400 You know, so what?

00:08:04.520 So he gets away with a hoax.

00:08:06.580 It ruined his career, ruined his reputation.

00:08:09.000 He's already paid the price.

00:08:11.900 Do you see how easy it would be

00:08:13.200 to rationalize voting not guilty?

00:08:17.540 You could get there so fast.

00:08:20.100 So I think Jonathan Turley is kind of onto something

00:08:22.320 that the Smollett defense

00:08:24.640 might be a lot stronger than you think,

00:08:27.740 even though it has nothing to do

00:08:29.000 with whether he's guilty.

00:08:29.820 So the mind-boggling thing

00:08:33.160 is that he's not even going to deal

00:08:34.520 with the question of whether he's guilty.

00:08:36.880 I mean, he says he's not guilty

00:08:38.100 and it's not a hoax,

00:08:39.320 but he can't prove it.

00:08:41.180 And he can't even hurt the evidence

00:08:43.000 against his case.

00:08:45.780 Anyway, in more interesting news,

00:08:47.520 over in Saudi Arabia,

00:08:49.840 there's a camel beauty pageant.

00:08:54.300 And 40 camels were disqualified

00:08:56.620 for receiving Botox injections

00:08:59.160 and other cosmetic enhancements.

00:09:01.460 Now, I didn't mention

00:09:02.300 what the other cosmetic enhancements were,

00:09:05.700 but I'm assuming hump enhancement surgery

00:09:09.500 because there are some camels

00:09:12.340 that have really no fault of their own,

00:09:14.900 but just naturally small humps.

00:09:18.580 And they do get teased by the other camels.

00:09:21.920 The other camels will be like,

00:09:23.320 hey, flat back.

00:09:25.800 Hey, flat back.

00:09:26.580 And then a lot of camels will say,

00:09:28.720 you know,

00:09:29.160 I'm just going to get the hump enhancement surgery.

00:09:33.120 But apparently that will disqualify you

00:09:35.380 from the beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia.

00:09:39.900 Must control myself.

00:09:43.940 Do not make culturally insensitive joke.

00:09:49.220 Must move on to the next topic.

00:09:51.180 All right.

00:09:53.320 Okay.

00:09:55.260 Got it.

00:09:56.840 That was close.

00:09:58.360 I almost didn't get out of that

00:09:59.640 without getting canceled.

00:10:02.400 Make your own jokes at home.

00:10:04.100 That has nothing to do with me.

00:10:06.520 You are culturally insensitive.

00:10:08.760 I am not.

00:10:13.040 Let me give you an argument

00:10:14.840 that sounds like I'm disagreeing with you,

00:10:17.320 but I'm not.

00:10:18.020 Can you handle that?

00:10:20.560 I'm going to give you some nuance.

00:10:22.480 All of you binaries, please leave.

00:10:24.880 Anybody who can't handle the idea

00:10:27.080 that some argument has more than two positions,

00:10:29.580 just go away now.

00:10:31.440 Leave now.

00:10:32.620 Because I'm going to be confusing you

00:10:34.380 if anybody doesn't get

00:10:35.500 that things can be complicated.

00:10:38.300 Here's the thing I've been noodling on,

00:10:40.580 which is that one of the big things

00:10:42.440 that people say against mandates,

00:10:44.260 and you must understand

00:10:46.760 I'm against mandates.

00:10:48.820 Because the next thing I say

00:10:50.500 could be misjudged

00:10:52.600 as being pro-mandate.

00:10:54.560 Everybody okay with that?

00:10:56.960 I'm completely opposed to mandates.

00:10:59.660 Completely.

00:11:01.180 But the next thing I'm going to say

00:11:02.640 is going to sound like

00:11:03.640 I'm on the other side.

00:11:05.080 Can you handle that?

00:11:06.720 Of course you can.

00:11:08.120 You're not only sexy,

00:11:10.000 but you're open-minded

00:11:10.900 and beautiful in a lot of ways.

00:11:14.080 So I'm going to trust you with this.

00:11:16.320 It goes like this.

00:11:19.120 Most of the good things we have in society

00:11:21.520 are because we restricted freedom.

00:11:25.960 I'll just let that sit there for a moment.

00:11:28.540 Most of what's good in society

00:11:30.740 happened because of restrictions on freedom.

00:11:38.640 Yes or no?

00:11:39.360 Do you need an explanation of that?

00:11:45.200 Well, let me give you an example.

00:11:47.540 Did we win World War II

00:11:48.820 because of a volunteer army?

00:11:51.180 I don't know.

00:11:51.940 Maybe we could have.

00:11:53.580 But we didn't.

00:11:56.780 Do you like the fact

00:11:58.020 that criminals can't do anything they want?

00:12:01.560 Do you like a world

00:12:02.840 in which criminals are,

00:12:05.040 at least most of the time,

00:12:06.840 sent to jail?

00:12:07.600 Or there's a police force

00:12:09.560 to keep people from doing stuff,

00:12:11.760 taking their freedom away.

00:12:14.480 How about the freedom

00:12:15.780 to make a business deal

00:12:18.500 and then just break it?

00:12:20.680 Well, we have courts

00:12:22.620 that will make you pay for that, right?

00:12:24.920 So, everything about capitalism

00:12:30.100 is a restriction on freedom

00:12:32.440 that if you restrict it in a smart way,

00:12:37.520 what's left,

00:12:38.760 the unrestricted part,

00:12:40.640 becomes more powerful.

00:12:41.780 So, anybody who thinks

00:12:45.580 restrictions are bad

00:12:47.260 and taking your freedom away

00:12:48.880 is just bad

00:12:49.720 and giving you freedom

00:12:51.560 is just good,

00:12:53.380 what world do you live in?

00:12:54.860 Because there's nothing like that going on.

00:12:56.860 The world that you live in

00:12:58.320 is mostly restrictions

00:12:59.900 and mostly intelligent restrictions

00:13:02.400 that you would be

00:13:03.340 completely in favor of.

00:13:04.500 If I asked you one at a time,

00:13:07.440 okay, a legal system.

00:13:10.440 Does anybody want a legal system

00:13:12.640 which vastly decreases your freedom?

00:13:17.520 Of the criminals, anyway.

00:13:19.080 Maybe not yours.

00:13:20.160 Your freedom would increase

00:13:21.320 because you got rid of the criminals

00:13:23.600 so you could do more stuff

00:13:24.680 in more places, right?

00:13:26.280 So, to increase some freedom,

00:13:29.540 there's usually some freedom

00:13:32.100 taken away somewhere else.

00:13:34.340 So, I think it's sort of

00:13:35.680 a cartoonish view of the world

00:13:37.660 that don't take my freedom.

00:13:39.980 And that's the end of the story.

00:13:42.280 Nobody wants to give away their freedom.

00:13:44.620 Not me.

00:13:45.920 Not you.

00:13:47.160 But if you come to me

00:13:48.320 with a proposition

00:13:49.160 that says I've looked at the costs

00:13:51.400 and the benefits

00:13:52.060 and I'd like to propose this.

00:13:54.280 I'd like to take away

00:13:55.060 a little bit of your freedom.

00:13:57.000 But I think the net effect

00:13:58.720 will be to give you more freedom

00:14:00.400 in an area that you care about.

00:14:04.600 So, can we get away

00:14:06.060 from the weird cartoon idea

00:14:08.240 that we don't routinely restrict

00:14:10.860 our own freedoms voluntarily

00:14:12.340 all the time

00:14:13.360 for a good effect?

00:14:15.680 Now, that has nothing to do

00:14:17.100 with mandates.

00:14:18.620 Meaning that I'm not telling you

00:14:20.480 mandates are a bad idea

00:14:21.660 or a good idea.

00:14:22.920 Personally, I don't like them.

00:14:24.180 I'm opposed to them.

00:14:24.900 But this whole freedom

00:14:28.140 not freedom thing

00:14:29.020 is just a bad argument.

00:14:31.000 The question is

00:14:31.800 whether the cost benefit

00:14:32.800 makes sense.

00:14:34.140 That's the argument.

00:14:35.940 As long as you say,

00:14:37.440 nope, freedom taken away,

00:14:39.200 slippery slope, done.

00:14:41.520 What world are you living in, really?

00:14:43.220 The entire civilization

00:14:44.720 is the accumulated effect

00:14:47.120 of freedoms taken away from you

00:14:48.900 to give you a pretty good outcome.

00:14:51.180 Because it increased your ability

00:14:52.700 to stay home in your living room

00:14:54.740 and have a good time

00:14:56.000 any way you want.

00:14:57.720 Otherwise, you'd be hunting

00:14:59.720 and gathering all day.

00:15:02.600 So, again, I'm anti-mandate.

00:15:05.440 I think we're at the point

00:15:06.420 of the pandemic

00:15:07.080 where the mandates

00:15:08.140 just don't make sense anymore.

00:15:09.880 You know, in the balance

00:15:10.760 of freedom versus risk.

00:15:13.460 That's my personal view.

00:15:15.660 But I'd like you to up your arguments

00:15:17.660 if you agree with me.

00:15:18.780 Um, let's see.

00:15:23.100 We've got lots going on here.

00:15:24.640 Do you know a Twitter user

00:15:26.260 named Anomaly?

00:15:28.540 Many of you are familiar with him.

00:15:30.940 And I asked this question

00:15:33.620 on a Twitter poll

00:15:34.420 because of something he said to me.

00:15:36.700 He likes to prod me

00:15:38.360 about whether I have second thoughts

00:15:40.100 about my vaccine decision.

00:15:41.620 Um, and he seems to delight

00:15:47.280 in the possibility

00:15:48.820 that I might have

00:15:49.980 a bad health outcome

00:15:51.140 from my decision.

00:15:53.900 And so I asked,

00:15:55.140 just before I got in here,

00:15:56.320 I did a Twitter poll

00:15:57.300 to find out how many people

00:15:59.140 would be delighted

00:15:59.920 if I were to die

00:16:01.540 because of my vaccine decision.

00:16:05.380 And let's see how many people

00:16:06.780 would agree with the notion.

00:16:08.560 I'll just look at it right now.

00:16:12.100 Let's see how the poll came out.

00:16:15.300 Uh, here it is.

00:16:20.320 Uh, I asked,

00:16:21.300 how happy would you be

00:16:22.180 to see me die

00:16:23.020 from a COVID vaccination,

00:16:25.020 either to prove

00:16:25.960 how right you were

00:16:26.920 to not get vaxxed

00:16:28.160 or just because you know

00:16:29.640 I have it coming?

00:16:31.740 Uh, 5%.

00:16:33.160 5% of the people

00:16:36.320 who saw my tweet

00:16:38.420 would be delighted

00:16:40.620 with an exclamation mark.

00:16:43.280 They'd be delighted

00:16:44.080 if the vaccination killed me.

00:16:46.140 Uh, or maybe

00:16:48.060 just because I have it coming

00:16:49.540 for whatever the hell

00:16:50.700 else I've done.

00:16:52.420 So, um,

00:16:53.900 I think anomaly

00:16:54.880 might be in that 5%.

00:16:56.240 I can't read minds.

00:16:57.960 I can't read minds.

00:16:59.440 So, uh, you know,

00:17:01.660 I can't be sure.

00:17:03.140 But his actions suggest

00:17:04.800 that he would be delighted

00:17:06.960 to watch me struggle

00:17:08.100 and die

00:17:08.620 because it would

00:17:09.740 make him right.

00:17:12.340 So, I don't know.

00:17:14.680 CNN has, uh,

00:17:15.900 an article by

00:17:16.860 Zachary B. Wolfe,

00:17:19.160 which is a great name.

00:17:21.400 B. Wolfe.

00:17:22.780 Anyway, um,

00:17:25.300 so here's, here's the,

00:17:26.240 the good things

00:17:27.500 that are happening

00:17:28.080 according to CNN.

00:17:29.880 Now, I don't know

00:17:31.200 if this is going to be

00:17:32.040 part of a strategy

00:17:33.160 for 2022

00:17:34.200 where CNN

00:17:35.740 will be telling us

00:17:36.660 that Biden

00:17:37.180 is really killing it

00:17:38.440 and things are going well.

00:17:40.180 We'll see if there's

00:17:40.800 more of that coming up.

00:17:42.140 But he says gas prices

00:17:43.240 are falling.

00:17:44.260 Has anybody seen

00:17:44.940 any gas prices falling?

00:17:48.320 As of a few days ago,

00:17:49.740 they were at an all-time

00:17:50.680 high where,

00:17:51.320 where I am.

00:17:52.260 I haven't seen

00:17:52.760 any gas falling.

00:17:54.060 Certainly haven't noticed it.

00:17:57.020 Oh, yeah,

00:17:57.340 Wolf Blitzer

00:17:57.940 is a,

00:17:58.460 is a B. Wolfe.

00:17:59.680 All right,

00:18:03.540 so I would say

00:18:04.280 that's one

00:18:04.820 that might be

00:18:05.660 technically true.

00:18:06.880 I'm not going to,

00:18:07.620 you know,

00:18:07.880 debate the data,

00:18:09.260 but I haven't noticed.

00:18:11.340 And,

00:18:11.700 and if it went up

00:18:12.840 100%

00:18:13.480 and then came down

00:18:14.380 5%,

00:18:15.080 are we supposed

00:18:15.660 to be happy?

00:18:17.280 I'm not sure

00:18:18.000 how happy

00:18:18.440 I'm supposed

00:18:18.840 to get about that.

00:18:20.220 All right,

00:18:20.460 here's another one.

00:18:21.980 CNN's opinion piece

00:18:22.980 here by Zachary Wolf.

00:18:24.840 While it's still early,

00:18:26.060 the Omicron variant

00:18:27.800 does not appear

00:18:28.740 to be as dangerous

00:18:30.160 as public health officials

00:18:31.540 initially feared

00:18:32.340 it might be.

00:18:33.360 What's left off of that?

00:18:35.880 This is their optimistic take.

00:18:38.680 But what's left off

00:18:39.880 is that there are

00:18:41.560 actually qualified

00:18:42.840 virologists

00:18:43.840 and experts saying,

00:18:46.120 you know,

00:18:46.460 it's too soon to say,

00:18:48.420 but this might be

00:18:49.120 like a vaccine.

00:18:51.200 That's the good news.

00:18:53.000 The,

00:18:53.160 the potential good news

00:18:54.280 is that it might be

00:18:55.080 like a vaccine.

00:18:55.820 They don't mention that

00:18:58.360 because that would,

00:18:59.260 that would hurt

00:18:59.920 their narrative

00:19:00.560 more than they want,

00:19:02.040 I suppose.

00:19:03.320 And then they say

00:19:04.260 that the supply chain

00:19:05.540 kinks are starting

00:19:07.160 to get worked out.

00:19:08.400 You'd probably still

00:19:09.140 some problems

00:19:09.700 for Christmas,

00:19:10.460 but that,

00:19:10.820 that's not going

00:19:11.380 to kill us.

00:19:12.760 And,

00:19:14.700 um,

00:19:15.380 is that true?

00:19:18.640 It feels like it,

00:19:19.400 right?

00:19:19.800 The whole biggest

00:19:20.680 problem in the world,

00:19:22.300 we just gave it

00:19:23.060 some time

00:19:23.540 and then human

00:19:24.140 engineer,

00:19:24.820 human ingenuity

00:19:26.020 basically is just

00:19:28.500 going to work it out.

00:19:29.880 Now,

00:19:30.640 remember I tell you

00:19:31.540 that the Adams law

00:19:32.900 of slow moving

00:19:33.720 disasters has a,

00:19:35.500 pretty much a,

00:19:36.240 a perfect track record?

00:19:38.080 Meaning that if we

00:19:39.060 can see a disaster

00:19:40.080 forming with enough

00:19:41.300 time,

00:19:42.560 we can always adjust.

00:19:44.680 We can always adjust.

00:19:46.200 And I told you

00:19:46.840 that this,

00:19:47.360 uh,

00:19:47.640 supply chain thing

00:19:48.640 was sort of

00:19:49.100 an edge case

00:19:50.120 because it did

00:19:51.500 kind of crop up

00:19:52.580 somewhat suddenly,

00:19:54.240 but still we had

00:19:55.600 months.

00:19:57.200 And months can be

00:19:58.160 a long time

00:19:58.880 for some problems.

00:20:00.220 And so I speculated

00:20:01.420 that this might be

00:20:02.240 just another one

00:20:03.060 of those.

00:20:04.160 Something that fits

00:20:05.180 in the Adams law

00:20:06.100 of slow moving

00:20:06.800 disasters,

00:20:07.600 which is on day

00:20:08.720 one,

00:20:09.080 you can't see

00:20:09.600 how you could

00:20:10.080 solve it.

00:20:11.860 But by day

00:20:12.840 seven,

00:20:14.000 a smart person

00:20:14.880 comes up with

00:20:15.480 an idea.

00:20:16.680 By day ten,

00:20:18.180 you're testing

00:20:18.900 some ideas.

00:20:20.460 You know,

00:20:20.660 by day fifteen,

00:20:22.660 you've got a good

00:20:23.340 idea of what works

00:20:24.120 and what doesn't.

00:20:25.000 Maybe you've got

00:20:25.460 a new idea.

00:20:26.820 So,

00:20:27.960 um,

00:20:28.680 so I did predict

00:20:30.780 that this would be

00:20:32.180 an edge case,

00:20:33.140 which is different

00:20:33.860 from predicting

00:20:34.420 which way it would

00:20:35.040 go.

00:20:35.760 And I'm now happy

00:20:37.180 to say that the,

00:20:38.240 the Adams law

00:20:39.740 of slow moving

00:20:40.360 disasters might be

00:20:42.200 even more applicable

00:20:43.060 than I had hoped

00:20:44.160 as a prediction

00:20:45.500 mechanism.

00:20:47.680 Well,

00:20:48.120 there's a story

00:20:48.640 about Zuckerberg

00:20:50.700 and elections

00:20:52.880 that I'm still

00:20:53.880 trying to sort

00:20:54.740 out because I

00:20:55.620 can't tell

00:20:56.440 if it's a big

00:20:57.780 deal or a little

00:20:58.560 deal.

00:20:58.940 Are you following

00:20:59.460 the story?

00:21:00.240 Just sort of

00:21:00.780 broke recently.

00:21:02.200 So it has

00:21:02.920 something to do

00:21:03.620 with Zuckerberg

00:21:04.440 and his wife

00:21:05.180 giving grants

00:21:07.340 for election

00:21:08.100 reasons,

00:21:09.400 but maybe the

00:21:10.060 grants were given

00:21:10.860 for COVID safety,

00:21:12.460 but maybe once the

00:21:13.360 money was given

00:21:14.000 they got repurposed

00:21:15.220 for canvassers

00:21:16.820 and stuff

00:21:17.660 that might have

00:21:18.240 helped Democrats

00:21:19.320 get elected.

00:21:20.760 Now,

00:21:21.200 I don't know

00:21:21.580 that any of it

00:21:22.120 is illegal,

00:21:22.660 is it?

00:21:23.220 Because I haven't

00:21:23.840 seen that alleged.

00:21:25.960 Has anybody,

00:21:26.640 has anyone alleged

00:21:27.520 that Zuckerberg

00:21:28.460 himself did

00:21:29.900 anything illegal?

00:21:31.100 I haven't seen

00:21:31.660 that,

00:21:32.060 right?

00:21:32.780 But it would

00:21:38.280 certainly come

00:21:39.000 close to

00:21:39.920 satisfying Trump's

00:21:43.020 claim that the

00:21:43.760 election was rigged

00:21:44.840 because you could

00:21:46.140 call it rigged

00:21:47.040 without it being

00:21:48.360 illegal.

00:21:49.520 Is that a thing?

00:21:52.120 What would be the

00:21:53.140 definition of rigged?

00:21:56.540 Let's see.

00:21:57.160 Define rigged.

00:21:58.380 You'll probably have

00:21:59.200 it in the comments

00:21:59.820 before I can do it.

00:22:00.760 Define rigged.

00:22:08.580 Rigged.

00:22:09.820 Okay.

00:22:12.700 They've got all

00:22:13.300 the wrong definitions.

00:22:15.700 Manipulated or

00:22:16.460 controlled by

00:22:17.240 deceptive or

00:22:18.080 dishonest.

00:22:19.500 So dishonest

00:22:20.360 could be an or.

00:22:21.980 So manipulated

00:22:22.680 or controlled.

00:22:26.080 I would say

00:22:27.020 that would be

00:22:27.420 called rigged,

00:22:28.100 wouldn't you?

00:22:28.420 Am I wrong?

00:22:31.420 Now, I don't like

00:22:32.040 to do word

00:22:33.020 thinking,

00:22:33.900 so I don't want

00:22:34.500 to change your

00:22:35.700 opinion by the

00:22:36.560 word that I put

00:22:37.240 on it, right?

00:22:38.760 If, in fact,

00:22:39.580 you put the word

00:22:40.140 rigged on it,

00:22:40.800 that shouldn't

00:22:41.140 change your

00:22:41.540 opinion of what

00:22:42.400 happened.

00:22:44.280 But if Trump

00:22:45.160 were to say

00:22:45.800 this is rigged

00:22:46.840 and the

00:22:48.620 Zuckerberg story

00:22:50.560 turned out to be

00:22:51.380 true, which I

00:22:52.320 think it's too

00:22:52.780 early to know

00:22:53.900 what's true and

00:22:54.500 what's not.

00:22:54.980 We'll get more

00:22:55.780 about this.

00:22:56.360 It's still fog of

00:22:57.140 war, period.

00:22:58.120 But if that

00:22:59.540 panned out,

00:23:00.740 and if we

00:23:01.480 could reasonably

00:23:02.540 claim that it

00:23:03.360 made a difference,

00:23:04.260 at least in some

00:23:05.160 localities that

00:23:05.960 mattered,

00:23:07.360 wouldn't that be

00:23:08.000 rigged?

00:23:09.440 And let me ask

00:23:10.360 you this.

00:23:11.400 Has Trump

00:23:12.060 ever claimed

00:23:12.940 that the

00:23:15.060 election was

00:23:16.140 based on

00:23:16.680 something illegal?

00:23:18.640 He probably

00:23:19.340 uses the word

00:23:19.960 fraud.

00:23:20.660 What's the

00:23:21.000 definition of

00:23:21.560 fraud?

00:23:22.920 Does that have

00:23:23.780 to be something

00:23:24.280 illegal by

00:23:24.940 definition?

00:23:25.400 Or could it

00:23:26.780 be, let's

00:23:28.980 see, define

00:23:29.540 fraud?

00:23:31.140 Because I'm

00:23:31.560 really interested

00:23:32.160 if Trump has

00:23:33.200 said anything

00:23:34.100 that can't be

00:23:34.700 demonstrated to

00:23:35.440 be true.

00:23:37.100 So fraud is

00:23:38.080 defined as

00:23:38.740 wrongful or

00:23:39.900 criminal deception.

00:23:42.540 So fraud would

00:23:43.780 be a non-legal

00:23:46.000 word, but used

00:23:47.080 in the normal

00:23:48.700 way that people

00:23:49.480 speak.

00:23:50.440 It would be

00:23:51.320 correct.

00:23:51.780 Now, under

00:23:52.620 the condition

00:23:53.200 that the

00:23:54.180 Zuckerberg story

00:23:55.320 turns out to

00:23:55.980 be true the

00:23:57.600 way it's being

00:23:58.140 laid out, I

00:24:00.120 think it would

00:24:00.580 be legal,

00:24:01.680 because I

00:24:02.420 haven't seen

00:24:02.820 any allegations

00:24:03.540 of illegality.

00:24:05.660 Could come

00:24:06.400 later, but I

00:24:06.920 haven't seen

00:24:07.180 any.

00:24:08.240 But fraud

00:24:09.080 would be a

00:24:09.580 correct word,

00:24:10.700 because it

00:24:11.060 would be

00:24:11.340 wrongful.

00:24:12.820 I mean, that

00:24:13.160 would be an

00:24:13.560 opinion, but it

00:24:14.400 wouldn't be

00:24:14.740 incorrect.

00:24:15.520 It would just

00:24:15.860 be an opinion

00:24:16.860 based on

00:24:17.420 observation.

00:24:19.400 And rigged.

00:24:20.520 I think you

00:24:21.460 could say

00:24:21.780 rigged and

00:24:22.700 fraudulent.

00:24:24.240 Am I wrong?

00:24:25.940 Would anybody

00:24:26.720 disagree just

00:24:27.520 through how the

00:24:28.040 words are

00:24:28.580 defined?

00:24:30.100 I think Trump's

00:24:30.880 in actually

00:24:31.320 pretty safe

00:24:32.080 territory.

00:24:33.520 Because if he

00:24:34.820 keeps on his,

00:24:35.960 let's say, the

00:24:36.720 my pillow

00:24:37.340 approach, that

00:24:38.980 there was some

00:24:39.380 kind of direct

00:24:40.320 changing of

00:24:41.680 votes, I

00:24:42.760 don't know that

00:24:43.220 he's going to

00:24:43.660 look good with

00:24:44.180 that.

00:24:45.160 That would be

00:24:45.840 a bad way to

00:24:46.860 enter an

00:24:47.320 election.

00:24:48.500 But if he

00:24:49.960 entered the

00:24:50.440 election saying,

00:24:51.660 look, we

00:24:52.100 could argue

00:24:52.500 all day about

00:24:53.160 what did

00:24:53.920 happen that

00:24:54.440 can't be

00:24:54.840 audited.

00:24:56.220 Let's agree we

00:24:57.040 don't have any

00:24:58.360 way to check.

00:24:59.200 Because there's

00:24:59.460 a lot of parts

00:25:01.860 of the election

00:25:02.400 that can't be

00:25:02.960 audited by

00:25:03.540 their nature.

00:25:04.300 Mostly the

00:25:04.860 electronic parts.

00:25:06.600 And he

00:25:08.780 could come out

00:25:09.300 and say, look,

00:25:10.160 no matter what

00:25:10.920 you think about

00:25:12.060 illegal activities,

00:25:13.760 we can prove

00:25:14.460 for sure, and

00:25:15.460 this is hypothetical

00:25:16.460 based on the

00:25:17.540 Zuckerberg story

00:25:18.340 panning out,

00:25:19.000 we can say

00:25:20.280 for sure that

00:25:20.860 there was

00:25:21.160 fraud and

00:25:22.800 that it

00:25:23.240 was rigged.

00:25:25.260 And that

00:25:25.860 would actually

00:25:26.300 just be

00:25:26.740 technically an

00:25:27.800 accurate statement

00:25:28.840 based on

00:25:29.600 reporting.

00:25:32.060 Interesting,

00:25:32.640 isn't it?

00:25:34.000 So I don't

00:25:34.760 know if that

00:25:35.080 gives him a

00:25:36.220 path to get

00:25:37.760 back into the

00:25:38.380 presidency without

00:25:39.560 as much friction

00:25:40.560 as he could,

00:25:41.220 but Trump

00:25:42.120 likes friction,

00:25:42.900 so he'll

00:25:43.180 probably go for

00:25:43.720 the most

00:25:45.220 provocative way.

00:25:46.220 All right,

00:25:48.440 here's a story

00:25:49.280 that you hate

00:25:50.360 and I love.

00:25:51.240 It's about the

00:25:52.040 trans swimmer

00:25:53.440 who was breaking

00:25:54.080 all the female

00:25:54.860 records for

00:25:55.720 swimming in

00:25:56.940 college.

00:25:58.920 Now, you hate

00:25:59.760 it because it's

00:26:00.360 ruining women's

00:26:01.180 sports, which

00:26:02.700 it is.

00:26:04.420 It is definitely

00:26:05.580 ruining women's

00:26:07.040 sports.

00:26:07.880 Definitely bad

00:26:08.640 for women, or

00:26:10.160 women who were

00:26:10.700 born women, I

00:26:11.360 guess, if you

00:26:11.980 want to be woke

00:26:13.360 about it, but

00:26:14.940 everything about

00:26:16.620 this story is

00:26:17.280 it makes me

00:26:19.260 laugh for all

00:26:20.620 the wrong

00:26:20.960 reasons.

00:26:23.420 Here's the

00:26:24.060 part that I

00:26:25.480 love more

00:26:26.320 than life

00:26:26.760 itself.

00:26:28.260 So there was

00:26:28.800 an interview

00:26:29.140 with some of

00:26:29.680 the players on

00:26:30.360 the team, and

00:26:32.340 here's the

00:26:33.040 actual quotes

00:26:34.820 from one of

00:26:35.340 the players who

00:26:36.200 remained anonymous

00:26:37.180 for obvious

00:26:37.920 reasons.

00:26:40.600 Quote, this is

00:26:42.980 one of the

00:26:43.400 women on the

00:26:44.200 team.

00:26:45.040 Pretty much

00:26:45.600 everyone individually

00:26:46.660 has spoken to

00:26:47.480 our coaches about

00:26:48.380 not liking this.

00:26:50.140 Our coach just

00:26:51.800 really likes

00:26:52.420 winning.

00:26:54.180 He just really

00:26:55.180 likes winning.

00:26:56.540 He's like most

00:26:57.460 coaches.

00:26:58.540 I think secretly

00:26:59.440 everyone just

00:27:00.600 knows it's the

00:27:01.460 wrong thing to

00:27:02.140 do, the female

00:27:03.480 pen swimmer said

00:27:04.460 during a phone

00:27:05.100 interview.

00:27:06.100 And then she

00:27:06.540 goes on, quote,

00:27:07.740 when the whole

00:27:08.320 team is together,

00:27:09.380 we have to be

00:27:10.220 like, oh my

00:27:11.440 gosh, go Leah.

00:27:12.840 That's great.

00:27:13.900 You're amazing.

00:27:15.000 It's very fake,

00:27:15.900 she added.

00:27:22.100 I don't know.

00:27:23.020 I could talk

00:27:23.580 more about this,

00:27:24.740 but it's so

00:27:25.320 funny that it's

00:27:28.940 hard for me to

00:27:29.940 empathize with

00:27:31.240 the fact that

00:27:31.760 there are real

00:27:32.260 losers in the

00:27:33.020 story, right?

00:27:33.740 The people who

00:27:34.800 train to be on

00:27:37.080 the team and

00:27:37.920 maybe it'll hurt

00:27:39.560 them in some way

00:27:40.160 in the future.

00:27:40.660 So I do feel

00:27:41.940 bad for them.

00:27:43.140 But I love the

00:27:44.200 fact that this

00:27:45.120 newly female

00:27:47.640 swimmer is not

00:27:50.700 only beating the

00:27:51.320 records, but by

00:27:52.120 beating them by

00:27:52.900 like half a

00:27:53.520 minute.

00:27:55.020 One of his

00:27:56.100 swimming races,

00:27:57.980 he won by half

00:27:59.200 a minute.

00:28:00.400 That's not even

00:28:01.380 close.

00:28:03.040 That is so

00:28:03.980 ridiculous that

00:28:05.480 this whole thing

00:28:06.500 is just hilarious.

00:28:07.180 Now here's what I

00:28:08.200 like about it,

00:28:08.820 I guess, that

00:28:10.700 wokeness is

00:28:12.740 eating itself.

00:28:14.760 The reason that

00:28:15.540 there's a women's

00:28:16.280 team at all is

00:28:18.080 because women

00:28:19.540 said, hey, that's

00:28:20.200 not fair.

00:28:21.280 And they were

00:28:21.680 right.

00:28:22.380 It wasn't fair at

00:28:23.140 all.

00:28:23.720 And so they got

00:28:24.520 some fairness.

00:28:25.880 And then the

00:28:26.620 trans people said,

00:28:27.500 hey, that's not

00:28:28.140 fair.

00:28:29.020 And then they

00:28:29.660 went to get some

00:28:30.260 fairness of their

00:28:30.900 own.

00:28:32.160 And then the

00:28:32.680 people who got

00:28:33.200 that fairness in the

00:28:34.060 first place, the

00:28:34.900 women, say, hey, we

00:28:36.400 want to keep our

00:28:36.960 fairness.

00:28:37.420 We don't want to

00:28:37.940 give up some

00:28:38.480 fairness to you.

00:28:40.100 And so the

00:28:41.400 wokeness is

00:28:43.400 eating itself.

00:28:44.920 And it's bad

00:28:47.580 for women.

00:28:48.580 No doubt about

00:28:49.280 it.

00:28:50.680 But it's good

00:28:52.340 for this trans

00:28:53.120 athlete.

00:28:55.040 So I would say

00:28:55.820 the number of

00:28:56.340 people who won

00:28:57.020 and the number

00:28:57.500 of people lost

00:28:58.240 were roughly

00:28:58.820 even.

00:29:00.360 One woman

00:29:01.220 lost the top

00:29:02.340 spot.

00:29:03.740 And one

00:29:04.560 trans athlete

00:29:05.380 also a woman

00:29:06.940 according to

00:29:07.660 the new rules

00:29:08.420 won.

00:29:11.080 So there's one

00:29:11.740 person having a

00:29:12.440 better day and

00:29:12.960 one person having

00:29:13.660 a worse day.

00:29:14.940 That's what sports

00:29:15.940 is all about.

00:29:17.940 Sports is not

00:29:18.700 about just

00:29:19.460 winning.

00:29:20.340 It's about losing

00:29:21.220 with grace.

00:29:22.460 It's about being

00:29:23.220 a good sport.

00:29:24.940 Are these women

00:29:25.620 being good sports

00:29:26.600 and taking their

00:29:27.660 loss with grace?

00:29:30.060 No, they're not.

00:29:32.100 Actually, they are

00:29:33.060 because according

00:29:34.060 to this, when the

00:29:35.200 whole team is

00:29:35.700 together, they're

00:29:36.320 clapping and

00:29:36.960 saying, you're

00:29:37.360 amazing, Leah.

00:29:38.600 Anyway, just the

00:29:39.920 whole thing makes

00:29:40.400 me laugh.

00:29:41.920 I saw a review in

00:29:43.060 the New York

00:29:43.400 Times about

00:29:44.740 Yoko Ono and

00:29:45.880 her role in the

00:29:46.760 Beatles based on

00:29:48.580 this new special

00:29:49.860 that's the

00:29:50.480 documentary about

00:29:51.300 a documentary

00:29:51.880 about the

00:29:52.860 Beatles.

00:29:53.960 And it's called

00:29:54.680 Get Back is the

00:29:55.460 name of the show.

00:29:57.280 And it's terrific.

00:29:59.080 You know, I said

00:29:59.560 before, I'm about

00:30:00.720 two-thirds through

00:30:01.460 it, I just love

00:30:02.820 it.

00:30:03.080 It's like, it's

00:30:03.800 just mind-blowingly

00:30:05.080 fun if you're a

00:30:07.460 fan or even a

00:30:08.400 student of the

00:30:08.980 Beatles.

00:30:09.400 I think I'm a

00:30:11.140 fan and a

00:30:11.880 student trying to

00:30:13.380 learn what works

00:30:14.040 and what doesn't.

00:30:15.280 And here's what

00:30:16.400 the New York

00:30:17.080 Times said about

00:30:17.820 Yoko.

00:30:19.360 And the Beatles

00:30:20.280 get back.

00:30:21.400 Yoko Ono is

00:30:22.360 always there.

00:30:23.560 First, it's

00:30:24.200 unnerving, then

00:30:25.620 dazzling, as if

00:30:27.180 she is staging a

00:30:28.060 marathon performance

00:30:29.140 piece protesting

00:30:30.580 the cult of

00:30:31.520 male artistic

00:30:32.340 genius.

00:30:35.480 And that's

00:30:37.600 actually pretty

00:30:38.140 close to the

00:30:39.520 take I had when

00:30:40.320 I was watching

00:30:40.780 it.

00:30:41.580 Now, I saw a

00:30:42.500 number of people

00:30:43.060 say, what did

00:30:44.420 Yoko do?

00:30:45.580 If you watch

00:30:46.180 the show, she's

00:30:49.700 just sort of

00:30:50.180 sitting there

00:30:50.640 minding her own

00:30:51.280 business.

00:30:52.500 I mean, she's

00:30:52.940 sitting right in

00:30:53.540 the circle, so

00:30:54.620 she's shoulder to

00:30:56.360 shoulder with

00:30:57.000 Lennon as he's

00:30:58.300 trying to create

00:30:59.060 music and trying

00:31:00.000 to work, but

00:31:01.460 she's not doing

00:31:03.220 much.

00:31:04.040 I mean, she's

00:31:04.380 not throwing in

00:31:05.380 her opinion.

00:31:08.500 Carpe, Carpe

00:31:09.620 says, in five

00:31:11.780 years, the WNBA

00:31:12.980 will finally be

00:31:14.060 watchable.

00:31:14.760 It'll be all

00:31:15.200 men.

00:31:16.560 Not nice,

00:31:17.380 Carpe.

00:31:18.300 Very unwoke.

00:31:19.780 I disapprove so

00:31:21.400 strongly for your

00:31:23.760 sporting preferences.

00:31:24.700 But here, back to

00:31:29.080 Yoko.

00:31:31.140 As a person who

00:31:32.300 creates things for

00:31:33.400 a living, let me

00:31:36.280 give you some

00:31:36.960 advice.

00:31:38.720 How much do you

00:31:39.580 think I could have

00:31:40.320 created if my wife

00:31:42.040 and or girlfriend

00:31:42.900 were sitting right

00:31:43.900 next to me while I

00:31:44.840 was doing it?

00:31:47.040 Do you have any

00:31:48.000 idea how much of a

00:31:50.020 pressure that would

00:31:50.820 be?

00:31:51.900 Any idea?

00:31:52.720 So here's the

00:31:54.060 problem.

00:31:56.180 The point of having

00:31:57.500 a spouse is that

00:31:58.420 you're putting them

00:31:59.020 first, right?

00:32:00.240 I mean, that's sort

00:32:01.240 of baked into the

00:32:02.160 whole deal of a

00:32:03.520 spouse.

00:32:04.680 If you take the

00:32:06.300 person that you put

00:32:07.180 first into a

00:32:09.120 situation where it's

00:32:10.380 a collaborative

00:32:11.020 situation, you're

00:32:13.620 done.

00:32:15.100 You're done.

00:32:15.920 because John can't

00:32:18.000 say anything that

00:32:18.940 he knows in advance

00:32:19.960 will cause him a

00:32:20.720 problem at home.

00:32:22.880 And if he goes

00:32:24.100 home and Yoko

00:32:24.740 says, you know,

00:32:25.480 John, I like that

00:32:26.700 one thing you did

00:32:27.400 today, but I like

00:32:28.760 that other thing a

00:32:29.460 little bit less.

00:32:31.280 Does John say, no,

00:32:32.520 this is my thing, and

00:32:34.200 I will completely

00:32:34.960 ignore your opinion,

00:32:36.220 the most important

00:32:37.340 person in my life,

00:32:39.040 whose existence is

00:32:40.860 so important to me,

00:32:41.760 I don't want you

00:32:42.360 more than an inch

00:32:43.040 away from my body

00:32:43.880 at any time.

00:32:44.500 Do you think he

00:32:46.180 can say no to

00:32:46.900 Yoko?

00:32:48.100 Well, yes.

00:32:49.040 I mean, he could

00:32:49.540 say no, but he's

00:32:51.580 going to be very,

00:32:53.040 very strongly

00:32:53.620 influenced by not

00:32:55.200 only what she does,

00:32:56.880 but what she might

00:32:58.360 be thinking.

00:33:00.160 Try to create

00:33:01.180 something under that

00:33:02.100 environment.

00:33:03.660 Good luck.

00:33:06.660 So, Yoko had the

00:33:08.680 freedom to be in

00:33:10.480 on this.

00:33:11.620 Do you think she

00:33:12.180 should have had

00:33:12.800 less freedom?

00:33:13.400 And the world

00:33:14.820 would have been

00:33:15.220 a better place?

00:33:18.640 Nobody knows.

00:33:20.040 Now, let me

00:33:20.940 defend John Lennon

00:33:22.280 and Yoko.

00:33:23.680 All right?

00:33:24.200 So let me say

00:33:24.800 as clearly as

00:33:25.480 possible, it was

00:33:26.860 their marriage.

00:33:29.260 If they decided

00:33:30.800 that that worked

00:33:31.500 for them, and the

00:33:34.080 cost of that was

00:33:35.100 maybe the Beatles

00:33:35.740 breaking up, but

00:33:37.280 they knew it, and

00:33:38.760 they made that

00:33:39.240 choice, good for

00:33:41.000 them.

00:33:41.220 The world does

00:33:42.520 not have some

00:33:43.160 right to Beatles

00:33:44.220 music or something,

00:33:45.800 right?

00:33:46.680 But he has a

00:33:47.720 right to have

00:33:48.660 whatever relationship

00:33:49.580 he wants with the

00:33:50.440 wife, and she has

00:33:51.400 the same.

00:33:52.340 So I definitely do

00:33:54.420 not find fault, not

00:33:56.440 even a little bit,

00:33:58.160 with what John Lennon

00:34:00.520 and Yoko did.

00:34:02.160 None.

00:34:02.680 I find no fault.

00:34:04.080 It was their life.

00:34:04.980 They can do what they

00:34:05.500 want.

00:34:06.140 And the Beatles, the

00:34:07.180 rest of the Beatles

00:34:07.680 just have to do what

00:34:08.440 they want.

00:34:08.900 They just have to

00:34:09.440 deal with it.

00:34:10.700 But I can guarantee

00:34:13.100 it hurts their

00:34:14.660 creativity, because I

00:34:16.280 can't imagine.

00:34:17.700 Imagine.

00:34:18.580 I just saw your word

00:34:19.400 imagine come by, and

00:34:20.340 I guess that's not a

00:34:21.840 coincidence.

00:34:24.280 Yeah, I can't even

00:34:25.240 imagine that they

00:34:27.040 could be as effective

00:34:28.140 with or in the room

00:34:29.180 as with or not in

00:34:30.320 the room.

00:34:30.580 I can't even

00:34:31.020 imagine it.

00:34:32.740 So here's what peak

00:34:35.020 pandemic looks like.

00:34:36.240 Everything starts out

00:34:37.520 well-meaning, and

00:34:38.640 we're all confused, and

00:34:40.600 first it's a fog of

00:34:41.860 war, but as we work

00:34:42.880 things out, you start

00:34:44.240 getting more and more

00:34:44.920 reasonable, and now

00:34:46.760 your policies and

00:34:48.240 things make more

00:34:49.080 sense.

00:34:49.980 We're not washing our

00:34:51.780 groceries that are

00:34:52.520 being delivered.

00:34:53.600 We're not going crazy

00:34:54.500 anymore.

00:34:54.920 We're not wearing

00:34:55.340 gloves everywhere.

00:34:56.660 So you get smarter and

00:34:57.740 smarter as time goes

00:34:58.720 by.

00:34:59.400 But then I think

00:35:00.160 there's this point

00:35:00.780 where you start

00:35:01.700 getting stupid again.

00:35:04.000 Here's our current

00:35:04.900 situation.

00:35:06.240 Number one, the

00:35:07.700 attenuated, meaning

00:35:09.680 weakened, Omicron

00:35:11.460 virus, Omicron

00:35:13.020 virus, it appears to

00:35:14.560 act like a natural

00:35:15.320 vaccine, and there's

00:35:16.540 some important people

00:35:17.480 saying that now.

00:35:19.140 And it's probably,

00:35:21.340 maybe almost

00:35:22.160 certainly, the only

00:35:23.680 way to end the

00:35:24.380 pandemic would be an

00:35:26.240 attenuated virus.

00:35:27.800 Now, experts are

00:35:28.660 saying that's the

00:35:29.240 only thing that

00:35:29.860 stopped the Spanish

00:35:30.580 flu was a variant

00:35:32.760 that overcompeted and

00:35:35.240 it wasn't as bad.

00:35:36.240 So while we have

00:35:38.620 this Omicron that

00:35:40.080 looks like the only

00:35:41.020 way out of the

00:35:41.900 pandemic, at the

00:35:43.880 same time, the

00:35:46.320 experts are talking

00:35:47.160 about how we can

00:35:47.880 stop that variant in

00:35:49.200 its tracks with

00:35:49.960 vaccines that we

00:35:50.820 would have to take

00:35:51.540 presumably forever.

00:35:56.080 Those two things

00:35:57.080 shouldn't be happening

00:35:57.700 at the same time.

00:35:58.620 Or at the very

00:36:00.280 least, the people

00:36:01.100 making the

00:36:01.760 vaccinations should be

00:36:02.940 saying, we're doing

00:36:04.240 this just in case.

00:36:06.720 Just in case we find

00:36:08.100 out something we

00:36:08.720 didn't know about

00:36:09.340 Omicron.

00:36:10.800 But if they're saying

00:36:11.620 we're going balls to the

00:36:12.800 wall to stop the

00:36:13.680 Omicron, they need to

00:36:17.180 be stopped.

00:36:18.740 That would be

00:36:19.580 basically criminal

00:36:21.560 negligence.

00:36:22.620 I mean, that

00:36:25.060 would be one of the

00:36:26.540 worst things that

00:36:27.340 ever happened in the

00:36:28.220 history of humanity.

00:36:29.140 If they're going to

00:36:30.560 stop the thing, that

00:36:32.260 there's a very good

00:36:33.460 chance it's our only

00:36:35.620 way out.

00:36:37.140 It's our only way out.

00:36:38.600 And they're going to

00:36:40.000 try to stop it.

00:36:41.180 That's really

00:36:41.700 happening.

00:36:42.160 I'm not even making

00:36:42.720 that up.

00:36:43.840 Now, the part that's

00:36:44.720 in question, of course,

00:36:45.520 is whether the

00:36:46.060 Omicron really would

00:36:47.040 be like a vaccination.

00:36:48.640 And I realize I'm

00:36:49.640 being too optimistic.

00:36:51.620 But it's starting to

00:36:52.600 look that way.

00:36:53.880 Every day, it's

00:36:54.760 starting to look that

00:36:55.380 way.

00:36:57.420 There's a new study

00:36:58.300 that says, it's a

00:36:59.260 retrospective study, so

00:37:00.520 not the high quality

00:37:01.640 kind, but it says

00:37:03.080 that asthma might

00:37:05.120 reduce your COVID

00:37:05.940 risk by a lot.

00:37:06.960 So, too, allergies

00:37:09.320 and eczema.

00:37:10.760 So, if you've got

00:37:11.420 eczema, allergies, or

00:37:12.620 asthma, and let me

00:37:15.560 tell you how lucky I

00:37:16.540 am, all three.

00:37:18.880 Oh, you suckers.

00:37:21.140 A lot of people don't

00:37:21.800 have any of these

00:37:22.580 things.

00:37:23.360 But me, I got all

00:37:24.420 three.

00:37:25.260 So, I'm about as safe

00:37:26.200 as you can be from the

00:37:27.180 COVID.

00:37:28.200 Except for one thing.

00:37:29.700 I don't believe this

00:37:30.580 study is anything but

00:37:31.580 bullshit.

00:37:32.700 Looks like bullshit to

00:37:33.840 me.

00:37:34.920 However, if it's not

00:37:36.180 bullshit, I'm not

00:37:36.940 I would suggest that

00:37:38.040 there's a reason why

00:37:39.640 people with asthma and

00:37:40.720 allergies do better.

00:37:43.320 Do you know the

00:37:44.020 reason?

00:37:46.760 Here's the reason.

00:37:48.680 People with asthma

00:37:50.200 take a COVID

00:37:51.480 medicine every day.

00:37:53.560 One of the things

00:37:54.320 they give you for

00:37:54.980 asthma is a

00:37:58.220 COVID...

00:37:59.360 I'm sorry.

00:37:59.840 One of the things

00:38:00.220 they give you for

00:38:00.700 asthma is this

00:38:01.380 inhaler, a certain

00:38:03.420 kind of inhaler.

00:38:04.180 There are two of

00:38:04.600 them.

00:38:04.760 One's for emergencies,

00:38:05.740 one's for every day.

00:38:06.520 But the everyday

00:38:07.520 one that you do to

00:38:08.480 keep your asthma

00:38:09.600 under control is

00:38:11.040 also what they give

00:38:12.340 you if you have

00:38:12.840 COVID.

00:38:15.100 Now, what is one of

00:38:16.480 the biggest things

00:38:17.300 that triggers asthma?

00:38:19.140 Well, one is

00:38:19.800 exercise.

00:38:21.640 And one is, you

00:38:22.400 know, irritants like

00:38:23.220 smoke.

00:38:24.300 But another one is

00:38:25.240 allergies.

00:38:25.900 And I think allergies

00:38:26.520 are maybe the biggest

00:38:27.600 cause.

00:38:28.900 So, if you have

00:38:29.760 allergies, there's a

00:38:30.740 good chance, you

00:38:31.640 know, your Venn diagram

00:38:32.680 overlaps with asthma.

00:38:34.800 So, people with

00:38:36.160 allergies are probably

00:38:37.620 taking asthma meds

00:38:38.840 fairly frequently

00:38:39.780 because it's a

00:38:41.720 trigger.

00:38:43.580 So, and then the

00:38:44.920 eczema thing, I

00:38:45.800 don't know, maybe

00:38:46.260 that's just a general

00:38:47.580 correlation with people

00:38:49.640 who are allergic to

00:38:50.540 stuff because it's

00:38:51.280 like a skin allergy

00:38:52.420 or something.

00:38:54.260 I'm getting all the

00:38:55.240 medicine parts wrong,

00:38:56.380 so don't listen to

00:38:57.020 any of that.

00:38:59.300 Yeah, oh,

00:38:59.800 prednisone would be

00:39:01.800 also good for COVID,

00:39:03.360 I understand.

00:39:04.640 Anyway, so I don't

00:39:05.560 believe this study.

00:39:06.800 It's a retrospective

00:39:07.620 study.

00:39:08.280 Those are a little

00:39:08.940 lower quality than,

00:39:10.260 say, a randomized

00:39:11.080 kind of thing.

00:39:12.960 But I'd like it to be

00:39:15.680 true.

00:39:16.820 But how can asthma be

00:39:17.900 a comorbidity at the

00:39:19.040 same time that it

00:39:19.760 prevents you from

00:39:20.900 having problems?

00:39:23.060 The official word is

00:39:24.400 still that asthma is

00:39:26.280 a comorbidity, right?

00:39:27.320 If I wanted to get a

00:39:29.740 vaccination ahead of

00:39:31.060 the line, I would

00:39:31.900 just say I have

00:39:32.440 asthma and I would

00:39:33.000 go to the front of

00:39:33.580 the line.

00:39:34.940 But apparently

00:39:35.540 asthmatics are safer

00:39:37.140 than you are, if that

00:39:39.460 study is right.

00:39:40.180 I don't think it's

00:39:40.620 right.

00:39:41.540 In other news, Corey

00:39:43.440 DeAngelis, who's

00:39:44.320 doing an amazing job

00:39:45.820 going after school

00:39:48.280 boards and their

00:39:49.340 silliness, tweets

00:39:51.040 today that 27 state

00:39:52.740 school boards,

00:39:53.860 associations, have at

00:39:56.040 least distanced

00:39:56.960 themselves from the

00:39:57.860 National School

00:39:58.620 Boards Association.

00:40:00.660 So the whole idea

00:40:02.060 that the school boards

00:40:03.160 should have this much

00:40:04.120 control in our lives

00:40:05.240 is being rejected by

00:40:06.360 27 states so far.

00:40:08.680 And 18 of those

00:40:09.500 states, that are

00:40:10.900 purple, I guess,

00:40:12.540 meaning neither red

00:40:14.180 nor blue, have

00:40:15.240 discontinued

00:40:15.920 membership,

00:40:17.340 participation, or

00:40:18.660 dues because of the

00:40:20.160 national board's

00:40:21.600 actions.

00:40:22.080 And do you always

00:40:26.680 worry about the

00:40:27.300 slippery slope?

00:40:29.120 You know, I always

00:40:29.700 tell you that I'm less

00:40:30.560 worried about the

00:40:31.220 slippery slope than

00:40:32.040 most people are.

00:40:32.980 This is why.

00:40:34.760 Because the slippery

00:40:35.860 slope created this

00:40:36.980 unintended consequence,

00:40:38.780 which might be the

00:40:39.680 greatest boon to

00:40:40.720 homeschooling of all

00:40:41.840 time.

00:40:42.140 By the way, how many

00:40:44.940 of you who don't do

00:40:46.020 homeschooling think that

00:40:48.420 homeschooling is one

00:40:49.680 kid sitting at home with

00:40:50.940 one of the parents who

00:40:51.800 has to stay home?

00:40:53.220 How many of you think

00:40:53.980 that's what homeschooling

00:40:55.060 is?

00:40:57.720 Because I don't think

00:40:58.800 many people actually

00:41:00.880 even know what it is,

00:41:01.720 right?

00:41:03.560 Yeah, it's pods and

00:41:05.020 top teachers in many

00:41:07.460 cases, not all, of

00:41:08.840 course.

00:41:11.080 Here's what I think

00:41:12.160 the world needs right

00:41:13.640 now.

00:41:14.300 And Corey, if you're

00:41:15.180 listening to me, or

00:41:16.040 anybody else, I was

00:41:17.600 watching a tweet thread

00:41:18.880 by Joshua Lysak.

00:41:20.940 And he was talking

00:41:22.020 about how apparently

00:41:23.720 he must be

00:41:24.520 homeschooling.

00:41:25.200 That was what I got

00:41:26.860 out of it.

00:41:27.980 I guess their class of

00:41:29.800 homeschools, their pod or

00:41:31.180 whatever, visits the

00:41:33.040 workplace of the

00:41:34.300 various parents of the

00:41:36.140 different kids so they

00:41:37.480 can see different jobs

00:41:38.580 and, you know, how

00:41:39.440 different businesses

00:41:40.160 work and stuff.

00:41:41.160 And I thought to

00:41:41.780 myself, well, that's

00:41:42.580 probably more valuable

00:41:43.500 than just about every

00:41:44.640 class that a kid in

00:41:47.200 public school took

00:41:47.960 today.

00:41:48.280 probably more valuable

00:41:50.500 than every class they

00:41:51.900 took, maybe, you

00:41:52.800 know, except for

00:41:53.860 reading and writing and

00:41:54.880 stuff, you know, some

00:41:55.500 basics.

00:41:56.440 But if that's the sort

00:41:58.440 of thing that you can

00:41:59.220 do in a homeschool,

00:42:00.900 homeschooling really

00:42:01.940 needs some PR.

00:42:03.960 I would love to see

00:42:05.280 whatever is the

00:42:06.220 smallest package to

00:42:08.800 describe what

00:42:09.700 homeschooling really

00:42:10.640 looks like.

00:42:13.140 Here's my bigger

00:42:15.360 reason for that.

00:42:16.060 I think homeschooling

00:42:17.100 has to be the

00:42:17.740 future.

00:42:18.740 I mean, it almost

00:42:19.200 has to be.

00:42:20.560 But there'll be

00:42:21.300 better versions of

00:42:22.160 it, right?

00:42:23.120 You know, homeschooling

00:42:24.040 presumably has gone

00:42:24.980 from crude to

00:42:26.800 fairly sophisticated,

00:42:28.520 I would assume,

00:42:29.580 right?

00:42:30.000 Somebody can confirm

00:42:31.440 that.

00:42:32.160 And I would imagine

00:42:33.020 it started out maybe

00:42:34.020 worse than public

00:42:34.960 school on day one,

00:42:37.180 on average, not for

00:42:38.400 every person.

00:42:39.500 But probably at this

00:42:40.760 point it has exceeded

00:42:41.880 public schools in every

00:42:43.900 level.

00:42:44.400 Would that be true?

00:42:45.000 Can somebody tell me

00:42:46.400 if you have enough

00:42:47.080 experience with that

00:42:49.340 topic?

00:42:50.460 Would you say that

00:42:51.280 homeschools have

00:42:52.040 already exceeded

00:42:54.040 every level of social

00:42:56.900 and educational safety

00:42:59.060 quality, like on

00:43:01.780 everything?

00:43:03.180 Is there anything that

00:43:04.440 a homeschool doesn't do

00:43:06.600 better and unambiguously

00:43:08.100 better than a public

00:43:09.440 school?

00:43:09.920 Is there anything?

00:43:10.460 Interactions with other

00:43:17.040 kids.

00:43:17.520 Okay, that's my next

00:43:18.660 topic.

00:43:19.860 I have a hypothesis

00:43:21.200 that I want to run by

00:43:22.360 the parents here.

00:43:24.180 All right?

00:43:24.960 So I'm only talking

00:43:26.160 about people who are

00:43:27.300 parents of kids right

00:43:28.540 now.

00:43:29.080 So if your kid grew up

00:43:30.220 in an earlier time,

00:43:31.880 you know, just watch

00:43:32.740 the comments on this

00:43:33.500 one.

00:43:33.660 Those of you who

00:43:35.640 currently have a kid

00:43:36.520 who uses social

00:43:38.280 media, so not the

00:43:39.980 young, young ones, but

00:43:41.540 they use social media.

00:43:44.060 Have you found that the

00:43:46.280 obsession with social

00:43:47.480 media has spilled over

00:43:50.720 into the real world

00:43:52.040 where the only thing that

00:43:53.880 a kid can talk about is

00:43:55.340 how many friends they

00:43:56.380 have and what happened

00:43:57.840 with their friends and

00:43:58.680 who's making fun of

00:44:00.580 them?

00:44:00.740 And there's actually

00:44:02.820 nothing else that

00:44:03.660 matters to them.

00:44:04.840 And I think the social

00:44:06.080 media did that, and

00:44:06.980 Snapchat in particular.

00:44:08.860 Snapchat makes you only

00:44:10.700 think all day long

00:44:11.960 about how many friends

00:44:13.280 you have following you

00:44:14.180 and what they're saying,

00:44:16.260 mostly about you and

00:44:17.520 about other people.

00:44:18.900 Now, everything I know

00:44:20.740 about brains and

00:44:22.740 persuasion and hypnosis,

00:44:24.740 et cetera, everything I

00:44:26.300 know about that tells me

00:44:27.300 this, and there's no

00:44:28.820 argument on the thing I'm

00:44:30.000 going to say, the thing

00:44:31.700 you focus on the most is

00:44:34.860 what's the most important

00:44:35.900 to you, but not

00:44:37.500 because that's not the

00:44:39.660 reason you focused on

00:44:40.720 it.

00:44:41.860 Sometimes it is.

00:44:43.200 Of course, you're going

00:44:43.860 to focus more on

00:44:44.520 important things, but

00:44:45.740 social media is an

00:44:46.880 addiction.

00:44:47.880 So it forces you to

00:44:49.180 focus on something that's

00:44:50.240 not that important, but

00:44:52.260 the focus makes it

00:44:53.160 important.

00:44:54.120 And the model of social

00:44:55.440 media is friends,

00:44:57.100 friends, friends, friends,

00:44:58.700 friends, friends, what

00:45:00.340 are your friends saying

00:45:01.100 about you?

00:45:02.240 Friends, friends, friends,

00:45:03.240 friends, friends, friends,

00:45:04.060 what are your friends

00:45:04.600 saying about you?

00:45:05.360 That's it.

00:45:06.500 Complete obsession.

00:45:08.380 And now here's my

00:45:10.480 question for the current

00:45:11.740 parents.

00:45:12.300 Do you find that when

00:45:14.620 they come home, all they

00:45:15.800 can talk about is their

00:45:16.920 real life friends, friends,

00:45:19.060 friends, and who's

00:45:19.820 talking about them?

00:45:20.520 Just watch the comments

00:45:24.160 for a minute.

00:45:24.720 I want to see if this is

00:45:25.700 really something or just

00:45:28.340 a weird idea I've had.

00:45:34.380 Yes, I'm addicted to

00:45:35.700 social media.

00:45:36.440 That is correct.

00:45:39.980 Constantly on their phones

00:45:41.280 is what's causing it.

00:45:42.820 But do they also talk

00:45:44.180 nonstop about their

00:45:45.660 friends in the real world,

00:45:47.380 the real world friends?

00:45:50.520 So I'm seeing some

00:45:52.100 yeses, but a lot of

00:45:53.460 no's.

00:45:56.620 Some yeses and some

00:45:57.880 no's.

00:45:58.680 Okay.

00:46:05.380 There are pressures of

00:46:06.820 them into the cult.

00:46:08.600 Your kids aren't on

00:46:09.360 social media.

00:46:10.680 Interesting.

00:46:12.060 Nope.

00:46:12.600 Yes, real world.

00:46:13.820 Okay.

00:46:14.320 So I'm seeing more

00:46:15.060 people who disagree with

00:46:16.420 my hypothesis, or at

00:46:17.960 least they don't observe

00:46:19.120 it happening.

00:46:19.580 But I think it is

00:46:21.220 happening, because I

00:46:22.560 think it can't not

00:46:23.360 happen.

00:46:23.720 It's just the way your

00:46:24.340 brain is wired.

00:46:25.380 Whatever you focus on

00:46:26.380 just becomes the most

00:46:27.680 important thing.

00:46:28.740 There's no way around

00:46:29.620 that.

00:46:30.700 So I think that

00:46:32.260 homeschooling is

00:46:33.680 probably the only way

00:46:34.600 you can get social

00:46:35.400 media away from kids.

00:46:37.560 And at this point, I

00:46:39.020 think social, I think

00:46:40.540 homeschooling is

00:46:41.600 approaching a crisis

00:46:44.460 requirement level.

00:46:46.420 I mean, public school

00:46:48.240 is, I think, at a

00:46:49.200 crisis level.

00:46:51.420 The school shootings

00:46:52.420 are the canary in the

00:46:53.760 coal mine.

00:46:54.600 But it's not just

00:46:55.680 because there's some

00:46:56.480 crazy people who have

00:46:57.320 access to guns.

00:46:58.800 It's that the public

00:46:59.620 school is destroying

00:47:00.560 children's lives, and

00:47:01.760 some of them are acting

00:47:03.540 out on it.

00:47:04.720 Let me ask you this.

00:47:05.720 How long is it going

00:47:09.020 to be before one of

00:47:11.280 these smash-and-grabs

00:47:12.580 happens at the same

00:47:14.240 time that somebody with

00:47:15.280 a high-powered weapon

00:47:16.460 is in the vicinity, and

00:47:18.940 they just decide to kill

00:47:20.160 everybody involved in the

00:47:21.720 smash-and-grab?

00:47:23.120 That's going to happen,

00:47:24.200 isn't it?

00:47:25.440 What do you think?

00:47:26.860 I'm not, I don't hope it

00:47:28.200 happens.

00:47:29.080 But if you could take

00:47:30.080 these two trends and put

00:47:31.240 them together, the number

00:47:33.060 of people who have, let's

00:47:34.040 say, concealed carry,

00:47:35.720 isn't it just purely

00:47:37.820 chance, purely chance

00:47:40.200 that none of the

00:47:40.820 smash-and-grabs have run

00:47:41.920 into a concealed carry

00:47:43.020 person who was in a bad

00:47:44.780 mood that day?

00:47:46.020 Because the concealed

00:47:47.020 carry person, if they

00:47:48.580 see somebody actually get

00:47:49.640 injured, let's say

00:47:50.860 there's a smash-and-grab

00:47:51.980 and they take out a

00:47:53.060 security guard as part of

00:47:55.020 it, I feel like somebody

00:47:57.880 is going to start shooting

00:47:58.780 at all the people in

00:48:00.260 masks and is going to

00:48:01.560 take out 10 of them.

00:48:04.040 I feel like that's going

00:48:05.140 to happen.

00:48:05.720 No, I'm not trying to

00:48:07.460 influence the simulation.

00:48:08.440 I think it's just

00:48:09.220 predictable that if you

00:48:11.060 just combine these two

00:48:13.040 trends, eventually they're

00:48:14.220 going to bump.

00:48:16.640 But we don't want anybody

00:48:17.980 to get killed.

00:48:20.640 PolitiFact is fact-checking,

00:48:23.720 a rumor which is

00:48:25.120 apparently untrue, that

00:48:26.640 Kamala Harris was on a

00:48:28.460 phone call and once

00:48:29.780 referred to unvaccinated

00:48:31.380 Americans as, quote,

00:48:32.520 dirty Trump people.

00:48:36.160 Apparently that never

00:48:37.200 happened, according to the

00:48:38.260 fact-checkers.

00:48:39.180 But I love the fact that

00:48:40.260 PolitiFact has to tell you

00:48:42.200 what the rumor is before

00:48:44.260 they fact-check it.

00:48:45.760 Dirty Trump people.

00:48:47.980 Why is that so funny to me?

00:48:50.260 I think it's funny because

00:48:51.600 if you had never heard about

00:48:53.860 the deplorable story, you

00:48:55.500 wouldn't have believed it on

00:48:57.200 its face.

00:48:57.680 But we've reached a point

00:48:59.600 where so many things have

00:49:01.360 happened that you didn't

00:49:02.340 think could happen, that

00:49:04.100 having a vice president

00:49:05.080 call half, you know, 40% of

00:49:06.940 the country or whatever

00:49:07.760 dirty Trump people was well

00:49:10.340 within the believable realm.

00:49:12.700 I don't think it happened.

00:49:14.540 But it was well within the

00:49:16.140 believable realm.

00:49:17.800 And that's new.

00:49:20.280 All right.

00:49:24.200 So reality denial is

00:49:26.160 becoming a thing, not only

00:49:27.640 in the Jussie Smollett case

00:49:29.740 where he just denies

00:49:30.780 reality and said, nope,

00:49:32.400 nope, wasn't a hoax.

00:49:34.020 Did not happen, despite

00:49:35.940 all of the evidence that

00:49:37.480 it totally did.

00:49:39.280 And that seems to be more

00:49:41.200 of a thing now, that people

00:49:42.740 will deny reality no matter

00:49:44.960 how much reality is sitting

00:49:47.000 on their head.

00:49:48.800 And here are some examples.

00:49:50.680 So AOC is denying the

00:49:52.180 crime wave.

00:49:53.960 How could you possibly be

00:49:55.600 alive and deny the crime

00:49:58.080 wave?

00:49:59.040 But that's pretty bold.

00:50:00.360 Now, she hasn't walked it

00:50:01.320 back.

00:50:02.240 And it was plainly ridiculous

00:50:04.100 to deny it.

00:50:05.460 But denying things that are

00:50:06.720 right in front of you is

00:50:08.340 sort of a new thing, isn't

00:50:09.340 it?

00:50:12.100 All right.

00:50:15.380 Here's another one.

00:50:18.160 Climate change doesn't look

00:50:19.680 to be as bad as we once

00:50:21.440 thought.

00:50:21.800 Do you see anybody saying,

00:50:25.680 oh, phew, thank goodness.

00:50:27.720 Turns out that whole thing

00:50:28.940 was not as bad as we thought.

00:50:30.300 What I mean by that is

00:50:31.640 apparently for the past 10

00:50:32.840 years, we're not increasing

00:50:35.440 the amount of carbon we put

00:50:36.680 in the atmosphere.

00:50:37.820 Still too much, according to

00:50:39.460 the experts.

00:50:40.440 That would still raise the

00:50:42.020 temperatures.

00:50:42.820 There would still be lots of

00:50:44.080 climate disruption, say the

00:50:45.660 experts.

00:50:46.080 But, could be just as much

00:50:49.960 good as bad.

00:50:51.340 You know, we could be

00:50:51.900 growing more while losing a

00:50:53.720 little beachfront, could end

00:50:55.620 up ahead.

00:50:56.980 So, who's telling you the

00:50:58.580 story that the most current

00:51:01.380 knowledge about climate

00:51:02.580 change is, eh, looks like

00:51:04.220 we'll be okay?

00:51:06.400 Right?

00:51:07.020 That seems to be the actual

00:51:08.500 reality.

00:51:09.560 But I think that's being

00:51:10.960 denied by basically everybody

00:51:13.340 who's been, you know, climate

00:51:15.400 change alarmists from the

00:51:17.460 beginning.

00:51:18.260 Yeah, so you hear people

00:51:19.300 like Michael Schellenberg

00:51:20.940 telling you what's actually

00:51:22.840 true.

00:51:23.840 But most of the world is just

00:51:25.280 sort of acting like that's

00:51:27.260 not true.

00:51:27.920 We'll just pretend that's not

00:51:29.120 the case.

00:51:30.680 By the way, Elon Musk came

00:51:32.480 out with a tweet unambiguously

00:51:35.180 in favor of keeping and not

00:51:37.920 closing nuclear power plants.

00:51:41.660 That's Elon Musk.

00:51:42.640 Elon Musk, the number one

00:51:44.660 competitor to nuclear power,

00:51:47.700 the number one competitor to

00:51:50.760 nuclear power, just told you

00:51:53.040 we have to keep those nuclear

00:51:54.140 power plants.

00:51:56.580 That seems like a big deal

00:51:57.840 because he's pretty good at

00:51:59.340 risk management, right?

00:52:00.980 And if he looked at him and

00:52:01.960 said, yeah, the risk is worth

00:52:03.120 the reward, well, maybe you

00:52:05.500 should listen to that.

00:52:06.940 Maybe you should listen to

00:52:07.780 that.

00:52:07.980 The other reality denial is I

00:52:12.620 keep hearing from people that

00:52:13.800 say that vaccinations are not

00:52:16.200 slowing the spread and are not

00:52:18.040 keeping people in hospitals.

00:52:20.300 I'm not going to argue with you

00:52:22.140 on that because anybody who

00:52:24.080 believes that, I'm not going to

00:52:25.140 change their mind.

00:52:26.700 But are you aware that zero

00:52:28.200 experts agree?

00:52:31.200 Is there anybody who holds that

00:52:32.620 opinion?

00:52:32.920 Is there anybody who holds the

00:52:34.660 opinion that vaccinations are not

00:52:36.600 they're not slowing the spread

00:52:38.200 and it's not even keeping people

00:52:40.300 out of hospitals or keeping

00:52:41.700 them alive?

00:52:42.480 Does anybody believe that?

00:52:45.220 Because you'd expect you'd have

00:52:47.140 at least one rogue doctor, right?

00:52:49.520 No rogue doctors on this one.

00:52:51.780 I think there are zero rogue

00:52:53.440 doctors saying the vaccinations

00:52:55.860 don't work.

00:52:57.020 They just might not like the, you

00:52:58.700 know, might not like the side

00:53:00.640 effects or something.

00:53:03.420 Speaking of rogue doctors, I was

00:53:05.260 pointed to yet another rogue doctor

00:53:07.680 who said that the COVID

00:53:11.140 vaccinations would never have

00:53:13.560 been approved under normal

00:53:15.880 standards for vaccinations,

00:53:18.220 meaning that the signal or the

00:53:20.800 number of people who had side

00:53:21.880 effects was already well over the

00:53:25.420 number that would stop a normal

00:53:27.020 vaccination or, I guess, any med

00:53:29.740 trial.

00:53:31.580 And therefore, you should not be

00:53:34.020 taking these vaccinations because

00:53:36.280 they have not been tested the same

00:53:38.060 way all other vaccinations have

00:53:39.840 been tested.

00:53:41.260 What do you think of that?

00:53:42.780 What do you think of that rogue,

00:53:44.140 I'm not even going to give you his

00:53:45.100 name, the rogue doctor's opinion

00:53:47.120 that we should not trust the

00:53:49.480 vaccinations because they were not?

00:53:52.440 Actually, we already know for sure

00:53:54.260 that more people died than we would

00:53:58.360 ever allow a regular vaccination to

00:54:00.260 go forward with.

00:54:01.000 What do you think?

00:54:05.340 Here's my take.

00:54:07.260 These rogue doctors, I have decided,

00:54:09.500 have one characteristic that you need

00:54:11.480 to understand.

00:54:13.200 They seem to really, really know their

00:54:15.060 topic, number one.

00:54:17.800 So if you think that I'm arguing that

00:54:19.680 something they said is incorrect on some

00:54:21.900 medical or scientific front, I'm not

00:54:24.020 doing that at all.

00:54:25.760 Well, I'm telling you that they're bad

00:54:28.760 at reasoning.

00:54:30.560 Real good at medicine, but bad at

00:54:33.300 reasoning.

00:54:34.280 This is a perfect example.

00:54:36.580 Here's how you should reason during a

00:54:38.500 pandemic.

00:54:40.180 Compare the risk of the vaccinations as

00:54:42.460 best you can to the risk of the virus

00:54:45.000 itself.

00:54:46.480 And you're done.

00:54:48.560 And you're done.

00:54:50.880 That's it.

00:54:51.600 This rogue doctor is telling us we're

00:54:54.300 all idiots.

00:54:55.840 And then he compared what you do in a

00:54:57.720 pandemic to what you do in normal times

00:55:00.540 when you have all the time in the world

00:55:02.160 and millions of people are not

00:55:04.080 potentially dying.

00:55:05.800 And he didn't know the difference.

00:55:08.160 He acted as though that was a perfectly

00:55:10.100 reasonable thing to do.

00:55:11.940 And I have to tell you that he was

00:55:13.660 talking to Brett Weinstein.

00:55:17.100 And Brett did not call him on it.

00:55:19.940 He didn't call him on that.

00:55:22.020 I don't know why.

00:55:22.820 I'd love to ask him that question.

00:55:24.640 Like why he didn't call him on the

00:55:26.060 wrong comparison.

00:55:27.100 Because that's a really big problem.

00:55:29.260 That's the biggest problem you could

00:55:30.980 ever have.

00:55:32.100 Comparing the wrong things is like the

00:55:35.220 worst analytical problem you could

00:55:37.240 have.

00:55:37.900 And he did that.

00:55:39.400 He compared the wrong things.

00:55:41.040 So let me ask you this question.

00:55:43.180 Suppose you knew, and we don't know

00:55:45.260 this, right?

00:55:46.260 This is purely hypothetical.

00:55:48.100 Suppose the vaccination people had

00:55:49.920 told you, and since this didn't happen,

00:55:53.080 you don't have to treat this like it's

00:55:54.500 real, right?

00:55:55.800 Suppose the vaccine people had said,

00:55:58.380 well, bad news, people.

00:56:01.480 We can tell already, it's easy to tell,

00:56:04.980 that these vaccinations are going to

00:56:06.660 kill tens of thousands of people.

00:56:09.760 Normally, we'd hope to keep that under

00:56:11.640 a thousand.

00:56:12.420 We would never approve anything we

00:56:15.260 thought was going to kill more than a

00:56:16.780 thousand people.

00:56:17.460 I'm making up the numbers.

00:56:18.860 These are just made-up numbers to give

00:56:20.300 you a sense of the argument.

00:56:22.560 But because it's an emergency, and

00:56:25.380 because we think the downside risk is

00:56:27.360 100 million deaths, again, whatever that

00:56:30.100 number is, if they said to you, we're

00:56:32.820 going to give you a vaccination, but I've

00:56:35.040 got to tell you, tens of thousands of

00:56:36.580 people are likely to die from this.

00:56:38.180 But, there's a really high chance we're

00:56:42.520 going to save 100 million.

00:56:44.980 If you're one of the 10,000, it was a

00:56:46.920 wrong decision for you, no doubt about

00:56:49.020 it, and we won't sugarcoat it.

00:56:51.560 If you're one of the unlucky ones, you

00:56:54.540 would have been better off with COVID,

00:56:55.960 probably.

00:56:56.720 It's just true.

00:56:58.860 But, these are not normal times.

00:57:01.800 This is war.

00:57:03.540 You know, it's a pandemic.

00:57:04.520 It's a crisis.

00:57:05.060 And, in this one situation, we offer you

00:57:08.420 this proposition.

00:57:10.340 We can give you something that's way

00:57:12.160 safer than getting the virus, and it

00:57:15.340 looks like you're all going to get it.

00:57:17.000 You're all going to get that virus

00:57:18.220 eventually.

00:57:18.980 It'll be way safer than the virus

00:57:20.780 itself, but also way more dangerous than

00:57:25.120 any vaccination we've ever given.

00:57:28.100 How would you receive that?

00:57:31.140 In the comments, would you say, fair

00:57:33.120 enough.

00:57:33.440 You have disclosed exactly all the

00:57:36.440 information.

00:57:37.560 I will now choose to get it or not get

00:57:39.500 it, but I'm good with you.

00:57:41.460 That's my only choice.

00:57:42.900 I'll make a choice.

00:57:45.200 What do you think?

00:57:46.660 Fair or no?

00:57:49.220 Because I think that's what happened

00:57:50.820 without the disclosure.

00:57:53.520 I'll give you my current best thinking

00:57:55.640 subject to modification, right?

00:57:58.260 So, if you come back to me later and

00:57:59.800 say, Scott, you were wrong about that,

00:58:01.420 I'll say, yeah, I thought it might have

00:58:03.800 been.

00:58:05.260 I thought it might have been.

00:58:07.080 Here's what I think.

00:58:08.240 I think that these vaccinations we

00:58:10.080 always knew were substantially more

00:58:13.940 dangerous than normal approved medicines

00:58:16.860 of any kind.

00:58:18.020 How many of you would agree with the

00:58:19.760 speculation there?

00:58:21.660 It's just speculation because I don't

00:58:23.000 have data to back that up.

00:58:24.100 But would you agree that the experts

00:58:26.480 did know

00:58:27.340 early on

00:58:29.140 it was substantially,

00:58:31.180 maybe even ten times,

00:58:33.220 you know, whatever substantial

00:58:34.540 means to you.

00:58:35.540 I'd say maybe even ten times

00:58:37.000 more dangerous than an ordinary

00:58:38.720 medicine.

00:58:40.480 And that the proposition is

00:58:42.360 it's still better, way better,

00:58:44.140 in terms of overall risk management.

00:58:46.880 Not for an individual,

00:58:48.540 and this is important,

00:58:50.000 for the crowd, right?

00:58:52.500 So it still might be worth it

00:58:54.400 for the crowd

00:58:55.140 and for the nation,

00:58:56.340 but for an individual,

00:58:58.100 you're going to kill yourself

00:58:59.160 in some cases.

00:59:01.660 Yeah, and of course,

00:59:02.840 the trade-off is completely unknown

00:59:04.500 because you don't know the long

00:59:05.700 haul, you don't know the long

00:59:06.960 haul of the vaccination,

00:59:08.440 you don't know the long haul of

00:59:09.840 the COVID itself,

00:59:11.840 all of our data is sketchy,

00:59:13.920 who knows what the variants are

00:59:15.640 going to do to you,

00:59:16.480 who knows what, you know,

00:59:17.820 having these vaccines are going

00:59:18.920 to do to you.

00:59:19.300 So in the context of all

00:59:21.280 those unknowns,

00:59:22.740 if the only thing you were

00:59:24.220 confident of is that the

00:59:25.580 vaccines would kill tens of

00:59:26.900 thousands,

00:59:28.260 but probably save 100 million,

00:59:31.600 would you be okay with it?

00:59:34.460 I don't think any of you would

00:59:35.820 be okay with it being forced

00:59:37.180 or mandated,

00:59:38.680 but I'll bet a lot of you

00:59:39.920 would be okay with it

00:59:40.980 as a voluntary thing.

00:59:42.460 Now, I get mocked quite a bit

00:59:45.860 by the anti-vaxxers for choosing

00:59:49.540 to get vaccinated.

00:59:51.360 And sometimes I, you know,

00:59:53.160 I fight back more aggressively

00:59:55.100 because it's my opinion,

00:59:56.100 it's, you know, my choice,

00:59:57.120 not yours,

00:59:57.660 everybody's different,

00:59:58.480 blah, blah, blah.

00:59:59.980 But one of the larger reasons

01:00:02.660 that I decided to get vaccinated

01:00:04.220 was a public good.

01:00:07.960 That I could maybe,

01:00:09.380 and again,

01:00:11.400 we're all guessing

01:00:12.160 because we don't know for sure,

01:00:14.100 but my best guess

01:00:15.300 is that I could maybe,

01:00:17.360 on average,

01:00:17.900 would reduce the load

01:00:19.220 on hospitals

01:00:19.900 if I got vaccinated.

01:00:22.080 Now, I'm at a certain age

01:00:23.340 where if I die tomorrow,

01:00:25.400 I'd be okay with that.

01:00:27.240 I feel like I had a good run.

01:00:29.500 You know, I'm reaching the age

01:00:31.300 where you say,

01:00:31.760 well, you know,

01:00:33.340 if it happens now,

01:00:34.480 it happens.

01:00:35.420 So very much a big part

01:00:37.460 of my decision

01:00:38.120 was not personal.

01:00:40.380 I felt like it was

01:00:42.260 a World War II

01:00:43.560 join the army situation.

01:00:46.580 Is joining the military

01:00:48.220 good for you individually

01:00:49.880 if you're a soldier?

01:00:51.460 Probably not.

01:00:54.180 You got duped.

01:00:56.800 Cassandra, you're an asshole.

01:00:58.480 I'm going to block you.

01:01:01.980 Because if you know

01:01:03.180 I got duped,

01:01:04.700 Cassandra,

01:01:05.280 I'm going to get rid of you.

01:01:06.840 I'm going to put that user

01:01:08.580 in timeout.

01:01:09.980 You're just an asshole.

01:01:12.660 Now, you could suspect

01:01:14.020 that I got duped

01:01:15.140 and you could be right.

01:01:17.020 I wouldn't even push back

01:01:18.040 on that.

01:01:18.920 But if you say,

01:01:19.760 you got duped,

01:01:20.720 well, you're just an asshole.

01:01:22.460 That's just asshole behavior.

01:01:24.080 That's not an opinion.

01:01:25.940 That's not new information.

01:01:27.100 That's just being an asshole.

01:01:29.360 So go be an asshole

01:01:30.380 like Anomaly.

01:01:32.460 You can join his live streams.

01:01:35.680 Then all the assholes

01:01:36.440 could be in the same place.

01:01:39.380 All right.

01:01:42.560 Ukraine is looking dangerous.

01:01:46.160 So we got 200,000

01:01:48.040 Russian troops

01:01:48.820 poised there

01:01:49.560 looking like

01:01:50.100 they're going to invade.

01:01:51.120 I still say

01:01:51.920 they're not going to

01:01:52.740 because it would be

01:01:53.500 suicide.

01:01:55.720 Not only for the troops.

01:01:58.020 Because

01:01:58.240 what kind of weapons

01:01:59.820 do you think

01:02:00.480 Ukraine would

01:02:01.740 instantly get

01:02:02.840 if there were

01:02:03.580 ground troops?

01:02:05.720 What kind of air cover

01:02:06.860 would they get?

01:02:08.220 I don't know.

01:02:08.820 Maybe there's no way

01:02:09.780 to do that

01:02:10.240 if they're outside of NATO.

01:02:11.440 But I would not want

01:02:13.500 to be a Russian

01:02:14.060 ground troop

01:02:14.740 entering Ukraine.

01:02:16.100 That seems like

01:02:16.840 a pretty risky thing.

01:02:18.920 But

01:02:19.160 some people

01:02:20.700 are giving Joe Biden

01:02:21.560 trouble

01:02:22.940 for saying

01:02:23.620 that we would never

01:02:24.740 he ruled out

01:02:26.160 sending U.S.

01:02:27.040 ground troops

01:02:27.580 to Ukraine.

01:02:28.520 He ruled it out.

01:02:29.640 What do you think of that?

01:02:31.020 Should we ever

01:02:31.780 rule out

01:02:32.820 military options?

01:02:37.080 Some of you say

01:02:38.000 we should not

01:02:38.540 rule it out.

01:02:39.640 I disagree.

01:02:41.440 Because we rule out

01:02:43.440 all kinds of options.

01:02:45.460 We rule down

01:02:46.420 we rule down

01:02:47.940 a chemical attack.

01:02:50.060 Haven't we?

01:02:51.760 Haven't we ruled out

01:02:52.840 a chemical attack?

01:02:54.740 We have.

01:02:57.940 Have we ruled out

01:02:59.780 a nuclear strike

01:03:03.420 on the civilian

01:03:05.360 populations

01:03:06.100 in Russia?

01:03:08.260 Well, yes.

01:03:09.860 I mean,

01:03:10.180 unless something

01:03:11.100 happened after this.

01:03:12.580 Yeah.

01:03:13.540 The military

01:03:14.140 is all about

01:03:14.780 ruling stuff out.

01:03:16.100 It's the most

01:03:16.620 ordinary thing

01:03:17.260 in the world.

01:03:17.900 But you want

01:03:18.480 to rule out

01:03:18.960 the things

01:03:19.340 that are definitely

01:03:19.860 not going to happen.

01:03:21.400 You don't want

01:03:22.200 to rule out

01:03:22.700 nuclear strikes

01:03:23.660 because they might.

01:03:25.320 They might happen.

01:03:26.900 A nuclear strike

01:03:27.800 might happen.

01:03:28.600 It's rare.

01:03:29.680 We don't want it,

01:03:30.340 but it might happen.

01:03:31.700 But ground troops?

01:03:32.520 What do you think

01:03:35.240 are the odds

01:03:35.860 of ground troops,

01:03:36.920 American ground troops

01:03:37.840 in Ukraine?

01:03:38.560 It's actually zero.

01:03:40.680 I mean,

01:03:41.020 nothing's really zero,

01:03:42.740 but that's as close

01:03:44.020 as to zero

01:03:44.660 as you can get,

01:03:45.840 I think,

01:03:47.080 because the public

01:03:47.660 just wouldn't be

01:03:48.780 in favor of it.

01:03:49.440 It just isn't going

01:03:50.120 to happen.

01:03:51.360 So I don't fault

01:03:53.500 Biden for taking

01:03:54.540 that off the table.

01:03:56.380 I think even

01:03:57.500 Trump might have,

01:03:59.460 because if we wanted

01:04:01.140 to punish Russia,

01:04:02.120 we wouldn't do it

01:04:02.840 that way, right?

01:04:05.020 If you have better

01:04:05.800 ways to punish them,

01:04:07.340 you would use those.

01:04:08.400 You wouldn't use

01:04:08.860 the bad way,

01:04:10.060 the way that's going

01:04:10.820 to ruin the United States,

01:04:12.200 too.

01:04:13.220 So if we had a choice

01:04:14.620 of ruining,

01:04:15.480 of losing Ukraine,

01:04:16.920 which would be bad

01:04:17.820 because they're an ally,

01:04:19.300 that would be very bad,

01:04:21.060 but it's not as bad

01:04:22.020 as losing Ukraine

01:04:23.400 and the United States

01:04:24.780 because that's sort of

01:04:26.000 what would happen

01:04:26.500 if we sent ground troops.

01:04:28.160 I mean,

01:04:28.380 that the country itself

01:04:29.700 would be so torn apart

01:04:31.040 by that that it would

01:04:32.020 be hard to put us

01:04:32.680 back together.

01:04:34.220 So I don't see

01:04:35.500 ground troops happening,

01:04:36.820 but I also don't see

01:04:38.380 Russian ground troops

01:04:41.380 making much of an entry

01:04:44.200 into Ukraine.

01:04:45.200 I will not be surprised

01:04:46.960 if they enter Ukraine.

01:04:49.740 So let me be clear.

01:04:51.460 If they enter Ukraine,

01:04:53.260 that won't surprise me

01:04:54.380 at all because he might

01:04:55.440 be just ratcheting up,

01:04:57.160 you know,

01:04:57.280 see how far you can get.

01:04:58.380 But a full-ground invasion

01:05:00.240 where they go

01:05:01.360 and hold territory,

01:05:03.060 I doubt it.

01:05:05.000 I doubt it.

01:05:06.400 All right.

01:05:08.080 This is when we should

01:05:09.140 just try to convert Russia

01:05:11.520 to an ally against China.

01:05:13.140 And if we're not doing

01:05:14.240 that, we're idiots.

01:05:19.400 Let's see.

01:05:20.020 Biden has moved

01:05:21.600 to squeeze Iran more,

01:05:25.800 to tighten the sanctions

01:05:27.180 on Iran.

01:05:28.160 Who does that sound like?

01:05:30.660 Hmm.

01:05:32.100 Who would tighten

01:05:33.840 sanctions on Iran?

01:05:36.460 Hmm.

01:05:37.940 Oh, yeah.

01:05:39.460 Trump.

01:05:41.120 So yet again,

01:05:43.200 yet again,

01:05:44.640 you see Biden having

01:05:45.800 to retreat to a Trump position.

01:05:47.700 All right.

01:05:48.900 just like most of the important stuff.

01:05:55.580 So there's that.

01:05:57.500 Tucker Carlson

01:05:58.380 is very worried

01:05:59.540 that the burning

01:06:00.440 Fox News Christmas tree

01:06:01.980 is an attack

01:06:03.360 not just on Christmas,

01:06:04.720 but on Christianity itself.

01:06:06.240 to which I say

01:06:08.680 that's sort of a feature

01:06:12.160 of Christianity,

01:06:13.260 isn't it?

01:06:13.820 Modern Christianity.

01:06:15.600 You know,

01:06:15.960 not the old style.

01:06:17.500 But modern Christianity

01:06:18.500 has a lot in common

01:06:19.740 with

01:06:20.920 democracy

01:06:24.820 and the way

01:06:26.140 the country

01:06:26.600 is organized.

01:06:28.160 Here's the analogy.

01:06:29.060 that

01:06:30.540 I don't think

01:06:33.520 I saw any Christians

01:06:34.660 get upset

01:06:35.360 about a tree

01:06:36.780 that was lit on fire

01:06:37.680 by a homeless person.

01:06:38.700 Did you?

01:06:40.080 Like,

01:06:40.580 I haven't talked to anybody

01:06:41.360 who was actually upset

01:06:42.440 about it.

01:06:43.720 Now,

01:06:44.220 if this had been

01:06:44.860 a symbol

01:06:45.460 of a different religion,

01:06:47.340 I don't have to name names,

01:06:49.060 do you think people

01:06:50.700 would have been militant

01:06:52.260 and upset about it?

01:06:53.840 Well,

01:06:54.560 I think so.

01:06:55.740 I think so.

01:06:57.960 So,

01:06:58.560 I would say

01:06:58.960 one of the great things

01:07:00.100 about Christianity

01:07:00.740 is you can burn up

01:07:02.020 our Christian,

01:07:03.040 I'll say ours

01:07:04.140 because I'm sort of

01:07:05.120 on the team

01:07:05.720 even though I'm not a believer.

01:07:07.660 But,

01:07:08.020 you can burn up

01:07:10.200 that Christmas tree

01:07:10.980 and next year,

01:07:13.560 Christmas tree.

01:07:15.320 It's like the flag.

01:07:17.000 I've never understood

01:07:18.000 people who are being

01:07:19.020 mad at flag burning.

01:07:20.720 I mean,

01:07:20.920 you could not like it

01:07:21.780 like viscerally,

01:07:23.080 like it doesn't feel

01:07:23.840 good viscerally.

01:07:25.300 But,

01:07:26.400 do you want a flag

01:07:27.220 that can't be burned?

01:07:29.200 You want to live

01:07:29.700 in that country?

01:07:30.860 You want to live

01:07:31.440 in the country

01:07:31.920 where you can't

01:07:32.540 burn a flag?

01:07:33.900 Here's the magic thing

01:07:35.100 about the flag.

01:07:37.680 Do you know

01:07:38.440 the national anthem?

01:07:41.340 One of the lines is

01:07:42.520 and the flag

01:07:43.620 was still there.

01:07:45.320 That's like the coolest line

01:07:46.960 in the national anthem.

01:07:49.060 And the flag

01:07:49.920 was still there.

01:07:51.480 You can burn the flag

01:07:52.960 and then wake up

01:07:55.240 on July 4th

01:07:56.400 still there.

01:07:59.040 Right?

01:07:59.740 It's the only thing

01:08:00.420 you can burn.

01:08:01.580 You can just burn it

01:08:02.580 all day long.

01:08:03.360 You can take millions of them.

01:08:04.940 You can collect them all up.

01:08:06.600 You can collect every flag

01:08:07.900 in the country

01:08:08.520 and burn it.

01:08:09.720 And in a month,

01:08:12.680 it's right back.

01:08:15.340 It's still there.

01:08:16.940 Right?

01:08:17.140 It's unburnable.

01:08:18.600 That's its feature.

01:08:19.440 So every time I see

01:08:20.820 one getting burned,

01:08:21.720 I go, yeah.

01:08:23.220 That's my flag.

01:08:25.620 That's my flag.

01:08:27.900 Indestructible.

01:08:30.500 Christianity?

01:08:32.920 Indestructible.

01:08:34.820 You can burn

01:08:35.560 the Christmas tree.

01:08:37.740 Next Christmas?

01:08:39.320 Christmas tree.

01:08:40.800 In fact,

01:08:41.360 Fox News

01:08:41.820 is already putting up

01:08:42.640 a replacement.

01:08:43.980 Presumably

01:08:44.580 with better security.

01:08:47.000 So

01:08:47.280 you can burn it

01:08:49.660 all you want

01:08:50.160 as far as I care.

01:08:52.720 China

01:08:53.160 has experimented,

01:08:54.320 apparently there's

01:08:54.880 some information

01:08:55.560 that said they

01:08:56.240 experimented

01:08:57.340 with making it rain.

01:08:59.120 Which you do

01:08:59.920 by flying planes around

01:09:01.420 and spraying

01:09:02.220 some kind of material

01:09:03.320 that will seed the clouds

01:09:04.400 and make it rain.

01:09:05.620 Now they did that

01:09:06.320 allegedly

01:09:06.820 to reduce

01:09:09.040 the pollution

01:09:09.620 before some

01:09:10.560 international games

01:09:11.720 I guess

01:09:12.060 happened there

01:09:12.620 in 2008.

01:09:14.220 And apparently

01:09:14.660 they've been

01:09:15.280 experimenting

01:09:16.660 with this technology.

01:09:18.460 Now this is

01:09:18.940 a known technology,

01:09:20.100 right?

01:09:20.340 Cloud seeding

01:09:21.180 that's been around.

01:09:23.100 But also

01:09:24.300 there's talk

01:09:24.980 separately

01:09:25.520 about hacking

01:09:26.740 the ocean.

01:09:27.420 Apparently

01:09:27.680 there are several

01:09:28.280 ways you could

01:09:29.020 modify the ocean

01:09:30.720 to get it to

01:09:32.440 suck more carbon

01:09:34.040 out of the air.

01:09:34.940 Now that one

01:09:35.400 scares me.

01:09:36.980 The one about

01:09:37.960 making it rain

01:09:40.420 by putting

01:09:41.120 microscopic stuff

01:09:43.260 in the air.

01:09:44.200 That is a little

01:09:45.160 less scary to me

01:09:46.540 than anything

01:09:47.800 with the ocean.

01:09:48.480 And here's why.

01:09:50.200 I don't believe

01:09:51.180 we'd try it

01:09:52.020 unless we knew

01:09:53.660 that whatever it is

01:09:54.520 we were putting

01:09:54.960 in the air

01:09:55.340 didn't last

01:09:55.860 there forever.

01:09:58.100 And we would

01:09:58.900 certainly try it

01:09:59.560 in one location

01:10:00.380 first.

01:10:01.640 Right?

01:10:02.480 So I don't think

01:10:03.520 you would like

01:10:04.080 seed the atmosphere

01:10:05.840 of the planet

01:10:06.640 just to see

01:10:07.640 if it worked.

01:10:08.180 I do think

01:10:09.580 you might

01:10:10.700 seed a city

01:10:12.660 and see what

01:10:14.680 happens

01:10:15.160 five years from

01:10:16.420 now.

01:10:17.600 So I do think

01:10:18.140 maybe not a city

01:10:19.060 maybe you pick

01:10:19.680 something that's

01:10:20.260 less populated

01:10:20.900 but it does seem

01:10:22.100 like something

01:10:22.500 you could test

01:10:23.320 and I would be

01:10:24.040 interested if we

01:10:25.100 can have some

01:10:25.860 certainty

01:10:26.260 about how long

01:10:27.860 stuff stays in

01:10:28.600 the air

01:10:28.920 and what the

01:10:29.580 health impacts

01:10:31.100 if you breathe

01:10:31.780 it and all that

01:10:32.340 stuff are.

01:10:32.940 I think that

01:10:33.480 might be in the

01:10:34.280 realm of testable

01:10:35.260 but you know

01:10:36.360 what's not testable?

01:10:37.240 I'm messing

01:10:39.760 with the ocean.

01:10:40.840 I don't know

01:10:41.540 if you could

01:10:41.860 test that.

01:10:42.860 Could you?

01:10:44.080 I don't know

01:10:44.760 that there's any

01:10:45.320 reasonable way

01:10:46.220 you'd be happy

01:10:46.840 that you didn't

01:10:47.460 start some

01:10:47.940 chain reaction

01:10:48.600 that ended

01:10:49.060 life on Earth.

01:10:50.620 But I do

01:10:51.580 imagine that

01:10:53.040 some of those

01:10:53.500 problems are

01:10:54.000 solvable.

01:10:55.040 A lot of stuff

01:10:55.800 that seemed

01:10:56.180 impossible at

01:10:57.260 one point

01:10:57.860 are possible

01:10:59.060 now.

01:10:59.860 So I wouldn't

01:11:00.460 say that we

01:11:00.920 can't do this

01:11:01.620 and it's

01:11:02.260 certainly on the

01:11:02.800 table.

01:11:04.060 But yes

01:11:04.560 we're all

01:11:04.920 scared to death

01:11:05.480 of geoengineering

01:11:06.380 and should be.

01:11:07.240 Rasmussen

01:11:09.360 says 67%

01:11:10.700 of the people

01:11:11.480 they polled

01:11:12.220 support Biden's

01:11:13.880 diplomatic boycott

01:11:15.060 of the Olympics.

01:11:15.860 Two out of three

01:11:16.540 people are in

01:11:17.860 favor of the

01:11:18.400 United States

01:11:19.000 boycotting China

01:11:20.040 for the Olympics.

01:11:23.080 That's encouraging

01:11:24.300 isn't it?

01:11:25.800 And 47% say

01:11:27.660 Biden's done

01:11:29.060 a poor job

01:11:29.640 on China.

01:11:30.440 All right.

01:11:32.660 That is about

01:11:33.620 everything I want

01:11:34.280 to talk about

01:11:34.760 today.

01:11:35.160 Went a little

01:11:35.440 long.

01:11:35.920 Didn't mean

01:11:36.260 to.

01:11:39.860 Homeschooling

01:11:40.300 persuasion.

01:11:40.940 Your kids

01:11:41.280 will visit you

01:11:41.900 more often

01:11:42.380 when they

01:11:42.740 grow up.

01:11:43.180 I'll bet

01:11:43.400 that's true.

01:11:45.000 I'll bet

01:11:45.380 that's true.

01:11:45.880 I'll bet

01:11:47.200 that's true.

01:11:53.120 What happens

01:11:53.900 to human

01:11:54.380 behavior when

01:11:55.100 they think

01:11:55.540 they have

01:11:55.880 more protection

01:11:56.580 than they

01:11:57.060 actually do?

01:11:58.540 Well,

01:11:59.060 I think you

01:11:59.560 know the

01:11:59.800 answer to

01:12:00.120 that.

01:12:00.280 And was

01:12:02.680 today the

01:12:03.620 best live

01:12:04.820 stream you've

01:12:05.300 ever seen?

01:12:05.900 Yeah,

01:12:06.340 it was.

01:12:07.060 I don't even

01:12:07.660 have to ask.

01:12:08.440 It's obvious.

01:12:10.340 So,

01:12:11.600 yeah,

01:12:15.820 football helmets

01:12:16.400 was a good

01:12:16.880 example.

01:12:17.960 Football helmets

01:12:18.540 is another

01:12:19.000 example of

01:12:19.620 taking your

01:12:20.100 freedom away.

01:12:21.440 But it's the

01:12:22.120 only way you

01:12:22.540 can have

01:12:22.800 football.

01:12:24.920 So,

01:12:25.500 we take

01:12:25.780 freedom away

01:12:26.280 all the

01:12:26.860 time.

01:12:31.140 Get

01:12:31.620 moronic.

01:12:32.720 I don't

01:12:33.540 know what

01:12:33.760 that means.

01:12:36.400 Yes,

01:12:36.900 it was the

01:12:37.280 best one

01:12:37.740 ever.

01:12:44.780 You're

01:12:45.260 confident that

01:12:45.880 98% of

01:12:47.180 people with

01:12:47.700 COVID will

01:12:48.160 survive?

01:12:48.880 Well,

01:12:49.240 here's the

01:12:49.660 other good

01:12:50.060 news I

01:12:50.360 forgot to

01:12:50.760 mention.

01:12:51.180 In some

01:12:51.720 places,

01:12:52.360 the Omicron

01:12:53.600 has already

01:12:54.060 taken over.

01:12:54.960 So,

01:12:56.060 apparently,

01:12:56.600 75% of

01:12:57.620 the cases

01:12:58.140 in South

01:12:58.840 Africa are

01:12:59.500 Omicron

01:12:59.940 already.

01:13:01.660 Have you

01:13:02.320 heard of

01:13:02.620 anybody dying

01:13:03.260 of the

01:13:03.560 Omicron

01:13:04.000 yet?

01:13:05.860 Even

01:13:06.420 one?

01:13:08.040 It must

01:13:08.780 be happening,

01:13:09.780 right,

01:13:10.080 because everything

01:13:10.580 kills somebody.

01:13:11.980 But have

01:13:12.900 you heard it

01:13:13.220 yet?

01:13:14.300 Have you

01:13:14.700 heard of

01:13:15.100 one confirmed

01:13:16.440 Omicron

01:13:17.540 death?

01:13:19.260 Even

01:13:19.780 one?

01:13:21.800 It's a

01:13:22.400 little early,

01:13:23.000 so it's

01:13:23.240 possible that

01:13:23.840 they're dying

01:13:24.260 like crazy

01:13:24.780 we just

01:13:25.160 don't have

01:13:25.460 the data.

01:13:26.020 It's very

01:13:26.340 possible.

01:13:27.500 But I

01:13:28.520 feel like we

01:13:29.060 would have

01:13:29.280 heard it

01:13:29.480 by now,

01:13:30.560 right?

01:13:31.480 Because the

01:13:32.360 news is all

01:13:33.300 about scaring

01:13:33.860 us.

01:13:35.100 So if

01:13:35.720 even one

01:13:36.680 anecdotal

01:13:37.620 report was

01:13:39.580 available,

01:13:41.040 you would

01:13:41.900 have seen

01:13:42.220 it.

01:13:43.340 You would

01:13:43.820 have seen

01:13:44.120 it.

01:13:45.820 All right,

01:13:46.520 but this is

01:13:47.440 a little too

01:13:47.820 early.

01:13:48.180 It's possible

01:13:48.580 it's out

01:13:48.920 there.

01:13:49.120 We just

01:13:49.400 haven't

01:13:49.620 seen it.

01:13:52.460 All right,

01:13:52.980 that's all

01:13:53.240 for now.

01:13:53.840 I'll talk

01:13:54.220 to you

01:13:54.380 tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 09, 2021

Episode 1587 Scott Adams： Everyone Except You is Crazy and I'll Tell You Why. It's About the News

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