Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1589 Scott Adams： Get in Here Now!

00:00:00.000 Welcome to the best thing that's ever happened to you.

00:00:02.720 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:05.480 I might be a little bit underprepared today,

00:00:07.680 but will that have any impact whatsoever on the quality of this?

00:00:11.920 Apparently it will, because I didn't have my microphone on for YouTube.

00:00:16.580 How about that?

00:00:18.440 How about that?

00:00:20.340 All right, let me call up your comments here,

00:00:22.300 and we'll be good to go.

00:00:25.920 As soon as I do that, I swear to God,

00:00:30.000 I'm going to be prepared today,

00:00:31.360 and this is going to be the best thing you've ever seen in your life.

00:00:34.180 Don't do the simultaneous sip without me,

00:00:37.080 although I deserve it.

00:00:39.680 I deserve it for my tardiness.

00:00:43.720 All right, I'm just going to call up some comments here

00:00:45.980 so that I can see them on a separate screen,

00:00:49.200 because that's how I roll.

00:00:51.760 All right, anybody, anybody,

00:00:54.580 would you like to do the simultaneous sip?

00:00:58.220 Is there anybody here that would like to?

00:00:59.700 Yes, yes, I see.

00:01:01.500 Well, if you'd like to do that,

00:01:04.040 what you're going to need

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00:01:13.420 a chalice or a stein,

00:01:14.140 a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind,

00:01:16.140 fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:17.620 I like coffee.

00:01:19.560 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,

00:01:22.160 the dopamine of the day,

00:01:23.580 the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:25.540 It's called the simultaneous sip,

00:01:28.460 and aren't you glad you got here for this?

00:01:30.860 Yeah, you are.

00:01:31.940 Go.

00:01:36.220 Ah, yes.

00:01:39.680 Ah, yes.

00:01:40.800 Feeling stronger every day.

00:01:42.140 Well, in the news,

00:01:44.900 a producer at CNN has been accused of being a pedophile.

00:01:51.060 They've got quite a bunch of evidence about it.

00:01:54.700 And apparently this particular CNN producer

00:01:59.840 mostly worked with a political analyst,

00:02:02.920 John Avalon.

00:02:05.720 Which means that when John Avalon

00:02:08.580 was preparing to do his weekly anti-Trump pieces

00:02:12.920 about how horrible a human President Trump is,

00:02:19.160 he was being prepared for that by a pedophile.

00:02:25.000 Now, I just want to give you an update.

00:02:28.480 I have it on good authority

00:02:31.080 that there are still several people

00:02:32.800 who work at CNN

00:02:33.780 who have not been accused

00:02:35.760 of any kind of sexual crime at all.

00:02:39.400 Several.

00:02:40.820 So as soon as you say to yourself,

00:02:42.520 wait a minute,

00:02:44.240 I feel like they're all involved

00:02:46.160 in some kind of sex crime

00:02:48.220 and or abetting somebody

00:02:50.360 who was accused of a sex crime,

00:02:52.440 and that's not true.

00:02:54.400 That's not true.

00:02:55.200 What is true

00:02:57.360 is that there are several employees of CNN

00:02:59.740 who have not been accused

00:03:01.060 of any sex crimes at all.

00:03:03.360 And that's pretty good.

00:03:05.160 You know, sometimes I think that MSNBC

00:03:07.180 is nothing but CNN

00:03:09.400 but without all the sex crimes.

00:03:13.600 It seems like that's the main difference.

00:03:18.660 So we got that going on.

00:03:21.580 Wait, I'm getting an update.

00:03:22.860 Okay, cancel everything I just said.

00:03:29.320 Two questions for you.

00:03:32.120 Did I say this yesterday

00:03:33.080 or did I just have it on?

00:03:34.920 I can't remember if I said this

00:03:36.580 or I thought it.

00:03:39.040 You ever been in that situation?

00:03:41.480 Did I say this already

00:03:43.000 or did I think about saying it?

00:03:45.900 You'll tell me in a minute.

00:03:47.900 So I tweeted yesterday.

00:03:49.100 I think it was after the live stream,

00:03:50.580 so I haven't said it yet.

00:03:51.540 If someone invented a technology

00:03:53.980 that eliminated your ability

00:03:55.960 to make good decisions,

00:03:57.980 would you let them use it on you?

00:04:01.220 In the comments?

00:04:02.680 If somebody made a technology

00:04:04.480 that eliminated your ability

00:04:09.200 to make good decisions,

00:04:10.440 would you use it?

00:04:12.000 You wouldn't use it?

00:04:12.820 Because that technology already exists.

00:04:17.280 It's called the news.

00:04:20.080 The primary purpose of the news

00:04:22.480 in the current era

00:04:25.260 is to make it harder

00:04:30.280 for you to make decisions.

00:04:32.360 Am I wrong about that?

00:04:34.540 That feels to be

00:04:35.740 the primary purpose of news now.

00:04:37.980 I feel like it used to be

00:04:39.640 some kind of a public good

00:04:41.040 where we'd become educated,

00:04:43.360 we'd become better citizens,

00:04:44.660 and everything.

00:04:45.340 But it's not that anymore, is it?

00:04:47.540 It doesn't seem to be

00:04:48.700 that it has any kind of

00:04:49.780 public good purpose.

00:04:52.100 In fact, it seems like a,

00:04:54.420 you know,

00:04:54.980 some kind of a virus

00:04:56.060 that the public is having to deal with.

00:04:58.680 So if you follow the news,

00:05:02.580 as I do,

00:05:04.300 you're in the same boat.

00:05:06.360 That you're willingly submitted

00:05:07.880 to a technology

00:05:08.880 that is designed to make you

00:05:10.480 less able to make good decisions.

00:05:12.780 Because it's designed to confuse you.

00:05:15.220 It is propaganda by,

00:05:17.280 you know, by design.

00:05:18.760 It's not accidental.

00:05:21.460 So, speaking of propaganda,

00:05:24.840 the Jussie Smollett case,

00:05:26.980 I think you've all realized

00:05:29.280 that it's much bigger

00:05:30.140 than the case about one person.

00:05:32.440 Because our brains are organized

00:05:34.520 in such a way

00:05:35.260 that we like to think

00:05:36.880 any one example of something

00:05:38.420 is really representative

00:05:39.760 of the whole.

00:05:41.540 And the Democrats

00:05:42.920 had this very successful,

00:05:45.880 let's say, narrative going on

00:05:47.480 that Republicans were

00:05:49.360 a bunch of racists

00:05:50.740 and you live in a racist country

00:05:52.100 and a bunch of white nationalists

00:05:54.560 were doing a bunch of racist stuff

00:05:56.060 and you really needed

00:05:57.460 to understand that

00:05:58.280 before you voted.

00:06:00.120 But,

00:06:01.480 because this Jussie Smollett thing 0.99

00:06:04.020 became such a big story,

00:06:06.780 it's kind of the first thing

00:06:08.040 you're going to think about

00:06:09.040 the next time you hear

00:06:10.700 that some black person 0.99

00:06:12.360 is alleging that there was

00:06:14.640 a racial crime against them.

00:06:16.860 Am I right?

00:06:18.020 It'll be the first thing

00:06:19.360 you think of.

00:06:20.560 Just because it's such

00:06:21.580 a high profile case.

00:06:22.720 Now, that's not fair, right?

00:06:25.720 We live in a world

00:06:26.640 where awful things

00:06:27.560 are happening all over

00:06:28.680 all the time

00:06:29.260 and they're real.

00:06:30.280 They're not fake.

00:06:31.860 There's real awful stuff happening.

00:06:34.780 But,

00:06:36.080 your brain

00:06:36.860 is going to automatically

00:06:37.980 go to the most,

00:06:39.040 you know,

00:06:39.240 shiny object.

00:06:40.720 And that happens

00:06:41.380 to be this case.

00:06:42.660 So, if you were a Democrat

00:06:43.980 and you were,

00:06:45.040 you know,

00:06:45.360 thinking at the highest level

00:06:47.020 of strategy,

00:06:48.300 you'd be a little bit worried

00:06:49.840 about this,

00:06:50.400 wouldn't you?

00:06:50.700 That this one case

00:06:52.600 makes it look like

00:06:53.780 maybe their whole narrative

00:06:56.240 was bullshit?

00:06:57.800 I'm not saying it is,

00:06:59.180 but it's going to feel like it.

00:07:01.280 And that's really damaging

00:07:02.300 to their whole story

00:07:03.900 that they're the good guys

00:07:04.980 and the Republicans

00:07:06.060 are the bad guys.

00:07:07.940 So,

00:07:08.740 how do you fix something

00:07:10.080 that absolutely

00:07:10.960 can't be fixed?

00:07:12.680 Because this is

00:07:13.660 unambiguously a hoax,

00:07:15.920 unambiguously

00:07:16.820 he was trying to frame

00:07:18.100 MAGA people,

00:07:20.160 unambiguously

00:07:21.720 it was anti-Trump supporter,

00:07:24.680 unambiguously

00:07:25.540 it was designed

00:07:26.740 to make people

00:07:28.640 hate Trump supporters

00:07:31.280 in a way that could be

00:07:32.420 violent in the long run.

00:07:33.960 I mean,

00:07:34.200 if you believed

00:07:34.800 that this sort of thing

00:07:35.600 was happening,

00:07:37.180 it would be easy

00:07:38.060 to get violent

00:07:38.980 in response to it

00:07:40.480 if you thought

00:07:41.240 it was real,

00:07:42.240 if you thought

00:07:42.720 it was part of a trend,

00:07:43.820 and that's what

00:07:44.200 the news was telling you.

00:07:45.200 So,

00:07:47.680 given that this

00:07:48.380 all blew up

00:07:49.180 in the faces

00:07:50.140 of all the people

00:07:51.580 who thought

00:07:51.940 it was real,

00:07:53.020 how do you fix it?

00:07:56.080 And,

00:07:56.760 I saw a David Axelrod

00:07:58.600 tweet

00:07:59.000 that is so clever,

00:08:01.040 and I mean that

00:08:01.740 like,

00:08:02.800 legitimately,

00:08:03.940 I think there are

00:08:04.760 only maybe

00:08:05.440 five people

00:08:07.180 on the Democrat side

00:08:08.460 who could do

00:08:10.140 what David Axelrod

00:08:11.200 did in this tweet.

00:08:12.180 Now,

00:08:13.400 it's not good enough,

00:08:14.760 and I laughed

00:08:15.560 for ten minutes

00:08:16.300 when I read it,

00:08:17.360 but it is such

00:08:18.260 a good try

00:08:19.220 in the face

00:08:21.160 of an impossible task.

00:08:23.600 It's such a good try,

00:08:25.080 I'm going to read it to you,

00:08:26.420 because,

00:08:26.800 you know,

00:08:26.960 he's operating

00:08:27.520 at sort of

00:08:28.100 the highest level

00:08:28.920 of communication

00:08:30.620 and strategy

00:08:31.700 within the Democrats.

00:08:32.740 He's one of maybe

00:08:33.540 five people

00:08:34.180 who can do

00:08:34.660 this sort of thing.

00:08:36.380 And this is

00:08:37.320 what he said.

00:08:39.860 He said that

00:08:40.860 Jussie Smollett

00:08:41.940 inexcusably

00:08:43.460 slandered our city, 0.98

00:08:44.920 meaning Chicago,

00:08:46.000 to advance his career.

00:08:47.640 Today,

00:08:47.920 a jury held him

00:08:48.620 accountable

00:08:49.000 for that scheme.

00:08:51.000 So,

00:08:52.360 it feels as though

00:08:54.880 David Axelrod

00:08:56.960 is very cleverly

00:08:58.040 trying to make us

00:08:58.920 look like,

00:09:00.120 make us think

00:09:00.880 that the problem here

00:09:02.440 was not that

00:09:03.280 Jussie Smollett

00:09:04.300 was slandering

00:09:06.100 Trump supporters,

00:09:07.800 which is exactly

00:09:08.820 what was happening.

00:09:09.640 Like,

00:09:11.160 not a little bit,

00:09:12.700 not a dog whistle.

00:09:14.660 It's like literally

00:09:15.680 exactly what was

00:09:16.700 happening.

00:09:17.940 And Axelrod

00:09:19.340 has changed that

00:09:20.060 to slandering

00:09:21.440 our city.

00:09:23.480 Is that

00:09:24.420 what happened?

00:09:26.480 Did any of you

00:09:27.540 watch this story

00:09:28.660 and say to yourself,

00:09:29.980 my God,

00:09:31.440 what has he done

00:09:32.420 to slander Chicago?

00:09:33.580 Literally no one

00:09:35.980 had that feeling.

00:09:37.880 Literally no one.

00:09:39.340 But,

00:09:40.360 what are you going to do?

00:09:41.600 I mean,

00:09:41.860 there's nothing

00:09:42.360 about this story

00:09:43.140 that you can hold on to

00:09:45.140 that's like the good side

00:09:46.360 for your narrative.

00:09:48.240 But man,

00:09:49.120 that's a good try.

00:09:51.380 I mean,

00:09:51.720 it's a failure.

00:09:52.880 But it's a hell

00:09:53.860 of a try.

00:09:55.160 He inexcusably

00:09:56.380 slandered our city.

00:09:58.960 Slandered our city?

00:10:01.040 Nothing like that

00:10:02.020 happened.

00:10:03.180 Well,

00:10:03.660 I mean,

00:10:03.920 you could argue

00:10:04.400 it happened,

00:10:04.880 but it would be,

00:10:05.520 what,

00:10:05.700 the fourth thing

00:10:06.560 you'd worry about

00:10:07.320 on the list

00:10:08.380 of things

00:10:08.760 you're worrying about?

00:10:10.420 So,

00:10:11.100 I had a good laugh

00:10:12.280 about that.

00:10:13.380 And again,

00:10:13.900 I would say

00:10:14.200 he's one of

00:10:14.780 maybe five people

00:10:16.060 on the Democrat side

00:10:17.160 who could even

00:10:17.760 get that close

00:10:18.680 to some kind

00:10:19.400 of a reframe

00:10:20.220 of the situation.

00:10:21.840 But,

00:10:22.140 it's sort of,

00:10:23.460 it's brilliant

00:10:24.320 in its failure.

00:10:26.080 Because I don't think

00:10:26.760 you could have done

00:10:27.340 a better job.

00:10:29.120 And,

00:10:30.580 yeah,

00:10:31.700 they're trying

00:10:32.400 to change

00:10:32.860 the motive

00:10:33.860 to advancing

00:10:34.880 his career.

00:10:35.860 Well,

00:10:36.120 that was part

00:10:36.620 of it.

00:10:37.140 But I think

00:10:37.600 he did have

00:10:38.040 some social

00:10:39.520 intentions.

00:10:40.620 We don't know.

00:10:41.160 We can't read

00:10:41.620 his mind,

00:10:42.080 right?

00:10:42.780 So,

00:10:43.160 there's no way

00:10:43.580 to know

00:10:43.840 what he was

00:10:44.180 thinking.

00:10:46.880 One of the

00:10:47.480 funniest things

00:10:47.980 I read about

00:10:48.760 that case

00:10:49.320 today was

00:10:50.320 that one

00:10:50.720 of the things

00:10:51.120 that the

00:10:51.680 police

00:10:52.400 were very

00:10:53.560 suspicious

00:10:54.040 about

00:10:54.500 is that

00:10:55.660 when he got

00:10:56.100 home,

00:10:56.480 his subway

00:10:56.960 sandwich

00:10:57.420 was fully

00:10:58.240 intact.

00:10:58.760 he was

00:11:02.360 a victim

00:11:02.760 of this

00:11:03.160 brutal hate

00:11:04.240 crime.

00:11:05.720 And yet he

00:11:06.420 got home

00:11:06.880 and his

00:11:07.820 subway

00:11:08.200 sandwich

00:11:08.600 was just

00:11:09.580 fine.

00:11:13.040 And I'm

00:11:13.680 thinking,

00:11:14.000 that's good

00:11:14.340 police work.

00:11:15.340 They're looking

00:11:15.780 at that

00:11:16.180 sandwich and

00:11:16.720 they're thinking,

00:11:17.520 so,

00:11:18.960 you were the

00:11:19.780 victim of a

00:11:20.700 brutal hate

00:11:21.320 crime,

00:11:22.220 but you

00:11:22.840 protected your

00:11:23.560 sandwich.

00:11:25.460 And so that

00:11:26.620 was sort of a

00:11:27.160 tell.

00:11:27.380 It's funny

00:11:31.820 how often

00:11:32.280 Subway gets

00:11:34.060 dragged into

00:11:34.680 some terrible

00:11:35.280 story.

00:11:36.440 Haven't they

00:11:36.820 had, like,

00:11:37.740 two spokespersons

00:11:39.620 so far who

00:11:40.640 got accused

00:11:41.160 of heinous

00:11:41.660 crimes?

00:11:43.280 I always feel

00:11:44.140 sorry for

00:11:44.780 Subway,

00:11:45.600 because they're

00:11:46.120 just trying to

00:11:46.620 mind their

00:11:46.980 own business,

00:11:48.120 sell you some

00:11:48.880 sandwiches.

00:11:49.940 We just want

00:11:50.800 to sell you

00:11:51.220 some damn

00:11:51.640 sandwiches.

00:11:52.640 Can you

00:11:53.020 leave us

00:11:53.380 out of the

00:11:53.700 news?

00:11:55.220 Sandwich?

00:11:56.260 You,

00:11:56.600 Sandwich,

00:11:57.460 Stomach,

00:11:58.580 that's it.

00:11:59.500 We'd like to

00:12:00.140 keep our

00:12:00.640 entire brand

00:12:02.780 focused on

00:12:03.560 the sandwich

00:12:04.780 part of it.

00:12:06.560 But,

00:12:07.220 no,

00:12:07.760 Subway just

00:12:08.280 keeps dragging

00:12:09.120 back into

00:12:09.880 these heinous

00:12:10.880 crime stories.

00:12:13.240 All right.

00:12:15.860 As I was

00:12:16.720 noting

00:12:17.180 recently,

00:12:19.880 and tell me

00:12:20.560 if this is

00:12:21.020 the same

00:12:21.320 where you

00:12:21.660 live.

00:12:22.720 So,

00:12:23.180 where I

00:12:23.520 live,

00:12:23.980 or anywhere

00:12:24.560 that I

00:12:24.960 could drive

00:12:25.360 to in

00:12:25.700 my area,

00:12:28.860 mask

00:12:29.500 compliance at

00:12:30.560 restaurants is

00:12:31.220 basically zero.

00:12:33.520 Meaning that

00:12:34.100 you put it

00:12:34.580 on to talk

00:12:35.200 to the

00:12:35.500 hostess,

00:12:36.180 you sit

00:12:36.720 down,

00:12:37.040 you take

00:12:37.340 it off,

00:12:37.880 and then

00:12:38.400 you're done.

00:12:39.060 You might

00:12:39.580 put it on

00:12:40.120 when you're

00:12:40.440 leaving,

00:12:40.940 but nobody's

00:12:41.580 going to

00:12:41.800 care because

00:12:42.280 you're already

00:12:42.700 leaving.

00:12:43.740 What are

00:12:44.200 they going

00:12:44.420 to do?

00:12:44.660 Kick you 1.00

00:12:45.000 out?

00:12:45.780 If you try

00:12:46.440 to leave

00:12:46.760 the restaurant

00:12:47.240 without your

00:12:47.780 mask,

00:12:48.780 are they going

00:12:49.200 to say,

00:12:49.460 I'm sorry,

00:12:49.880 you can't

00:12:50.260 leave this

00:12:50.620 restaurant?

00:12:51.780 Not until

00:12:52.160 you put that

00:12:52.620 mask on.

00:12:53.140 What are

00:12:53.660 they going

00:12:53.880 to do?

00:12:54.900 I mean,

00:12:55.260 they'd have

00:12:55.560 to say,

00:12:56.060 can you

00:12:56.340 get out

00:12:56.640 of here

00:12:56.820 right away?

00:12:57.300 And you'd

00:12:57.560 say,

00:12:57.920 well,

00:12:58.120 that's what

00:12:58.460 I'm doing.

00:12:59.580 I'm walking

00:13:00.120 from here

00:13:00.580 to the

00:13:00.900 door.

00:13:02.820 So,

00:13:04.640 the reason

00:13:05.340 I bring

00:13:05.700 this up

00:13:06.240 is,

00:13:07.480 now,

00:13:07.800 restaurants

00:13:08.200 were probably

00:13:08.900 the weakest

00:13:09.680 link,

00:13:10.960 right,

00:13:11.320 in the,

00:13:12.100 you know,

00:13:12.900 the mandatory

00:13:13.680 stuff.

00:13:14.840 Restaurants

00:13:15.240 were going

00:13:15.620 to go

00:13:15.900 first,

00:13:16.440 I think,

00:13:17.340 because the

00:13:18.040 restaurant owners,

00:13:18.940 a lot of them

00:13:19.380 are independents,

00:13:20.980 and a lot of

00:13:21.500 them just said,

00:13:22.220 no.

00:13:23.140 I can't

00:13:23.740 compete that

00:13:24.260 way,

00:13:24.860 because the

00:13:25.240 restaurant right

00:13:25.820 across the

00:13:26.340 street,

00:13:27.220 I don't think

00:13:27.820 they're going

00:13:28.140 to be too

00:13:28.500 tough on

00:13:28.940 masks.

00:13:30.020 So if I'm

00:13:30.640 tough on

00:13:31.080 masks,

00:13:32.320 and the

00:13:32.660 restaurant directly

00:13:33.580 across the

00:13:34.100 street is

00:13:34.500 not,

00:13:35.780 I'm done.

00:13:36.440 So the

00:13:38.900 market pretty

00:13:40.120 much forced

00:13:40.980 the restaurants

00:13:41.640 to ignore the

00:13:43.180 mandatory mask

00:13:44.040 thing.

00:13:44.820 I mean,

00:13:45.060 the employees

00:13:45.780 wear them,

00:13:47.160 you know,

00:13:47.460 and not all

00:13:48.080 of them.

00:13:48.900 You'll see

00:13:49.380 some people

00:13:50.300 who are not

00:13:50.660 wearing them

00:13:51.080 even to work

00:13:51.600 there.

00:13:52.640 But here's

00:13:53.540 what I want

00:13:53.900 to remind

00:13:54.280 you.

00:13:55.600 There are

00:13:56.240 two problems

00:13:56.940 about the

00:13:57.640 mandatory

00:13:58.180 restrictions.

00:14:00.000 One is

00:14:01.080 all the

00:14:01.420 problems of

00:14:02.180 the mandatory

00:14:02.720 restrictions,

00:14:03.780 you know,

00:14:03.960 the physical

00:14:04.600 things that

00:14:05.140 prevent you

00:14:05.640 from doing.

00:14:06.580 But the

00:14:07.080 second part

00:14:07.660 is how it

00:14:08.140 feels.

00:14:09.580 Am I

00:14:10.180 right?

00:14:11.300 It's not

00:14:11.920 just bad

00:14:12.680 enough that

00:14:13.800 they're

00:14:14.000 restricting

00:14:14.480 you from

00:14:14.920 doing all

00:14:15.360 this shit

00:14:15.820 you want

00:14:16.160 to do.

00:14:17.120 That's bad

00:14:17.860 because you

00:14:18.640 can't do

00:14:18.960 the stuff.

00:14:20.260 Or you

00:14:20.860 have to

00:14:21.360 wear a mask

00:14:21.940 and it's

00:14:22.240 uncomfortable.

00:14:23.120 But I'll

00:14:23.460 tell you one

00:14:23.880 of the

00:14:24.160 biggest

00:14:24.500 problems is

00:14:25.500 that feeling

00:14:26.340 like somebody

00:14:26.940 made you

00:14:27.400 do it.

00:14:29.040 Doesn't that

00:14:29.540 really get

00:14:29.920 under your

00:14:30.300 skin?

00:14:31.340 It's not

00:14:31.820 my choice

00:14:32.580 and I

00:14:33.280 wouldn't have

00:14:33.680 chosen this.

00:14:35.040 They're making

00:14:35.500 me do it.

00:14:36.660 It just

00:14:37.080 pisses you 0.89

00:14:37.600 off,

00:14:37.820 right?

00:14:38.240 So let me

00:14:38.760 tell you

00:14:39.060 something just

00:14:39.800 to make you

00:14:40.180 feel better

00:14:40.580 about that

00:14:41.080 part.

00:14:43.660 The public

00:14:44.440 already

00:14:44.840 decided they

00:14:46.340 weren't going

00:14:46.700 to wear masks

00:14:47.260 in restaurants.

00:14:48.280 And then what

00:14:48.580 happened?

00:14:49.940 No masks

00:14:50.660 in restaurants.

00:14:52.100 As soon as

00:14:52.740 the public

00:14:53.320 by some

00:14:55.040 kind of

00:14:55.580 hidden majority

00:14:56.680 that we

00:14:57.080 don't know

00:14:57.420 exactly,

00:14:58.280 as soon as

00:14:58.840 the public

00:14:59.220 by some

00:14:59.980 kind of

00:15:00.460 majority,

00:15:01.060 or it

00:15:01.300 might have

00:15:01.540 even been

00:15:01.900 a plurality

00:15:03.320 or something

00:15:03.800 like that,

00:15:04.400 we don't

00:15:04.680 know what

00:15:05.100 percentage

00:15:05.660 tips things,

00:15:07.220 but as soon

00:15:07.740 as the public

00:15:08.280 decided

00:15:08.900 it was

00:15:10.460 completely

00:15:10.920 over.

00:15:12.100 There was

00:15:12.500 no fight.

00:15:13.780 There was

00:15:14.420 no pushback.

00:15:15.860 The public

00:15:16.600 just said,

00:15:17.340 no,

00:15:18.140 no,

00:15:18.620 we're going

00:15:19.200 to go

00:15:19.440 eat at

00:15:19.760 restaurants,

00:15:20.420 and we're

00:15:20.980 going to take

00:15:21.240 our mask

00:15:21.620 off the

00:15:21.980 whole time,

00:15:22.500 and that's

00:15:23.140 what we're

00:15:23.440 going to do.

00:15:23.760 the public

00:15:25.740 has all

00:15:26.340 the power.

00:15:28.180 Everything

00:15:28.700 that's still

00:15:29.420 mandatory

00:15:29.960 that you

00:15:30.560 don't like

00:15:31.140 is because

00:15:32.160 your fellow

00:15:32.780 public

00:15:33.860 hasn't quite

00:15:34.760 gotten there

00:15:35.260 yet.

00:15:36.080 As soon as

00:15:36.860 they do,

00:15:38.820 then the

00:15:39.760 government

00:15:40.680 will have

00:15:41.140 no power

00:15:41.600 whatsoever.

00:15:42.720 So if you

00:15:43.380 imagine you're

00:15:44.080 being suppressed

00:15:44.900 by your

00:15:45.580 government,

00:15:46.800 not exactly.

00:15:49.020 It feels

00:15:49.640 like it.

00:15:50.580 That's not

00:15:51.040 what's going

00:15:51.420 on at all.

00:15:52.240 You are

00:15:53.300 being suppressed

00:15:54.140 by the fact

00:15:55.580 that the

00:15:55.980 percentage of

00:15:56.860 your fellow

00:15:57.400 citizens has

00:15:58.760 not yet

00:15:59.240 reached the

00:15:59.740 tipping point.

00:16:01.040 When it

00:16:01.720 does,

00:16:03.000 boop, 0.99

00:16:03.820 it's going

00:16:04.420 to be all

00:16:04.780 over.

00:16:05.540 You think

00:16:06.240 there was a

00:16:06.680 slippery slope

00:16:07.440 toward mandatory

00:16:08.380 shit?

00:16:09.640 When do you

00:16:10.160 see the

00:16:10.560 slippery slope

00:16:11.280 away from

00:16:11.820 it?

00:16:12.720 Right?

00:16:13.420 And we're

00:16:13.800 right.

00:16:14.760 I feel like

00:16:15.420 we're not at

00:16:16.520 the tipping

00:16:16.840 point,

00:16:17.240 but we're

00:16:17.660 approaching it.

00:16:19.020 We're

00:16:19.460 approaching the

00:16:20.160 tipping point,

00:16:20.800 and here's

00:16:21.160 what's going

00:16:21.540 to push me

00:16:22.120 over the

00:16:22.420 edge.

00:16:24.160 I'm not

00:16:24.840 going to

00:16:25.020 get a

00:16:25.280 booster shot

00:16:26.000 if the

00:16:27.680 big pharma

00:16:28.280 can't tell

00:16:28.840 me if

00:16:29.940 getting the

00:16:30.820 Omicron

00:16:31.380 virus is

00:16:32.220 more or

00:16:32.900 less dangerous

00:16:33.760 than a

00:16:34.320 booster shot.

00:16:36.400 They don't

00:16:37.140 know that.

00:16:38.860 Why would

00:16:39.320 I get a

00:16:39.840 booster shot

00:16:40.620 when Snopes,

00:16:42.680 I know,

00:16:43.380 I know,

00:16:43.980 you're going

00:16:44.260 to tell me

00:16:44.620 Snopes is

00:16:45.220 not reliable,

00:16:46.420 but I'll

00:16:47.720 bet you

00:16:47.960 think it's

00:16:48.400 reliable when

00:16:49.120 it goes

00:16:49.420 against the

00:16:49.960 Democrats,

00:16:51.020 right?

00:16:52.120 And that's

00:16:52.780 what it's

00:16:53.100 doing.

00:16:53.920 Snopes is

00:16:54.520 saying that

00:16:55.020 there are

00:16:55.540 zero reported

00:16:57.500 deaths of

00:16:58.120 Omicron

00:16:58.660 anywhere in

00:16:59.340 the world.

00:17:00.420 Doesn't mean

00:17:01.080 there are

00:17:01.300 none.

00:17:02.600 Zero reported

00:17:04.380 confirmed

00:17:05.100 cases.

00:17:06.700 Zero.

00:17:07.180 Did you hear

00:17:10.280 zero?

00:17:13.300 Zero.

00:17:16.220 Whole

00:17:16.860 whole fucking

00:17:18.020 galaxy.

00:17:20.160 Zero.

00:17:21.180 Now, there

00:17:21.440 might be

00:17:21.840 some.

00:17:22.300 I don't

00:17:22.480 know.

00:17:23.160 Because over

00:17:24.660 at the UK,

00:17:25.520 some experts

00:17:26.140 are saying

00:17:26.640 that the

00:17:27.640 Omicron could

00:17:28.400 kill 25,000 to

00:17:29.440 75,000 people

00:17:30.880 in the UK

00:17:31.460 alone.

00:17:34.160 At the

00:17:34.820 same time,

00:17:36.400 at the

00:17:37.580 same time,

00:17:39.240 the Omicron

00:17:40.000 virus is

00:17:40.820 totally overtaking

00:17:41.920 the others.

00:17:42.360 In some

00:17:43.220 cases where

00:17:43.920 it's prevalent,

00:17:45.940 it's 75% of

00:17:47.440 the infections

00:17:47.960 already.

00:17:48.600 I think in,

00:17:49.640 was it South

00:17:50.720 Africa that's 0.94

00:17:51.360 the case?

00:17:52.120 Or at least

00:17:52.640 of what they

00:17:53.480 were monitoring,

00:17:54.260 right?

00:17:54.600 So these are

00:17:55.320 still just little

00:17:56.100 bubbles.

00:17:56.440 But we

00:17:58.020 should probably

00:17:59.080 see the

00:17:59.540 Omicron take

00:18:00.260 over everything

00:18:01.080 reasonably soon

00:18:02.320 unless there's

00:18:02.940 yet another

00:18:03.500 better,

00:18:04.520 more capable

00:18:05.860 virus.

00:18:06.660 But it

00:18:07.060 would have

00:18:07.320 to act

00:18:07.640 fast because

00:18:08.320 the Omicron's

00:18:09.020 raging.

00:18:11.040 And as

00:18:14.200 long as

00:18:14.580 that thing's

00:18:15.080 raging and

00:18:16.840 it's killing

00:18:17.540 zero and

00:18:18.400 probably confers

00:18:19.860 some kind of

00:18:20.600 immunity that 0.71

00:18:21.340 matters against

00:18:22.060 the worse

00:18:23.200 strains,

00:18:23.860 I'm done

00:18:28.300 with the

00:18:28.660 booster.

00:18:29.740 Now, if

00:18:30.400 science, in

00:18:31.740 some credible

00:18:32.420 way, you

00:18:33.440 know, I'd

00:18:33.680 have to see

00:18:34.040 more than

00:18:34.420 one study

00:18:35.120 or one

00:18:35.540 opinion, but

00:18:36.860 if I could

00:18:37.300 be convinced,

00:18:38.060 and I think

00:18:38.400 I could,

00:18:39.500 that in fact

00:18:40.340 the booster

00:18:40.900 is safer

00:18:41.480 than the

00:18:42.420 Omicron, or

00:18:43.920 at least that

00:18:44.460 it's a

00:18:44.740 toss-up,

00:18:46.720 well, I

00:18:47.200 might modify

00:18:47.920 my opinion.

00:18:49.080 I might.

00:18:50.280 But at the

00:18:50.940 moment, a

00:18:51.680 booster shot

00:18:52.280 would be

00:18:52.820 stupid. 0.90

00:18:53.860 If you

00:18:56.000 think you

00:18:56.400 can wait

00:18:56.900 it out

00:18:57.280 until the

00:18:57.940 Omicron is

00:18:58.820 the main

00:19:00.620 thing, then

00:19:03.380 I'd wait

00:19:03.780 it out.

00:19:06.140 Let's get

00:19:07.000 rid of this

00:19:08.200 asshole on

00:19:09.100 YouTube.

00:19:11.500 Hide you

00:19:12.380 on that

00:19:12.860 channel.

00:19:14.040 I was just

00:19:14.800 going to talk

00:19:15.200 about these

00:19:16.520 horrible people,

00:19:17.420 and then you

00:19:17.880 showed yourself,

00:19:18.600 so you

00:19:19.300 reminded me.

00:19:20.940 I'm blocking

00:19:21.820 anyone who

00:19:22.560 says the

00:19:23.260 dumbest

00:19:23.600 fucking

00:19:23.920 thing in

00:19:24.480 the world,

00:19:24.960 which is,

00:19:25.960 hey, Scott's

00:19:27.260 finally waking

00:19:28.000 up.

00:19:30.840 No, the

00:19:32.420 data is

00:19:33.160 changing.

00:19:34.180 The

00:19:34.740 situation's

00:19:35.760 changed.

00:19:37.100 What we

00:19:37.640 knew in the

00:19:38.180 fog of war

00:19:38.940 stage is

00:19:40.240 very, very

00:19:41.080 different from

00:19:41.760 what we know

00:19:42.300 today, right?

00:19:44.420 And all of

00:19:45.480 you fucking 0.93

00:19:46.140 assholes who 0.83

00:19:47.080 think that it

00:19:48.000 was always

00:19:48.540 obvious the

00:19:49.400 whole time,

00:19:50.120 and I'm

00:19:50.880 just waking

00:19:51.500 up, and

00:19:52.780 somebody said

00:19:53.460 today, even

00:19:54.360 the normies

00:19:55.060 are getting

00:19:55.500 it now.

00:19:56.380 No, I'm

00:19:56.860 not fucking

00:19:57.480 getting anything.

00:19:58.680 The data has

00:19:59.520 completely

00:20:00.080 changed.

00:20:01.720 Right?

00:20:02.840 Completely

00:20:03.400 changed.

00:20:04.220 If your

00:20:04.740 opinion is

00:20:05.400 exactly the

00:20:06.240 same while

00:20:06.900 all the data

00:20:07.680 has changed,

00:20:08.860 there's something

00:20:09.780 wrong with you.

00:20:11.020 Now, it could

00:20:11.460 be that the

00:20:11.940 data changed

00:20:12.500 in your favor

00:20:13.100 and you

00:20:14.040 got lucky.

00:20:15.160 But if your

00:20:15.880 opinion with

00:20:17.460 no data was

00:20:18.740 complete certainty

00:20:19.660 that blah, blah,

00:20:20.760 blah, you 0.91

00:20:21.220 shouldn't get

00:20:21.580 vaccinations or

00:20:22.380 whatever, you're

00:20:23.260 not doing a

00:20:23.980 good job of

00:20:24.520 thinking.

00:20:25.660 Because you

00:20:26.280 didn't know.

00:20:26.840 We were all

00:20:27.280 guessing.

00:20:28.580 We're still

00:20:29.140 guessing, but

00:20:30.680 we have way

00:20:31.440 more information

00:20:32.200 to inform our

00:20:33.300 guess at this

00:20:33.940 point.

00:20:37.460 All right.

00:20:38.520 So, that's

00:20:41.760 where I'm

00:20:42.820 going to take

00:20:43.200 a stand, I

00:20:44.020 think.

00:20:44.780 And again, it

00:20:45.600 could change

00:20:46.020 tomorrow.

00:20:47.300 By tomorrow, I

00:20:48.400 could say, oh,

00:20:49.120 new data changed

00:20:49.980 my mind.

00:20:50.680 So, I'm going

00:20:51.180 to reserve that

00:20:51.900 option.

00:20:53.360 I like to

00:20:54.160 change my mind

00:20:54.900 when the data

00:20:55.440 changes.

00:20:58.900 So, I'll

00:20:59.460 probably do

00:20:59.820 that.

00:21:03.860 All right.

00:21:07.320 Is inflation

00:21:08.320 transitory?

00:21:10.420 What do you

00:21:10.980 think?

00:21:11.480 I'll put this

00:21:12.220 to you.

00:21:12.820 some on the

00:21:15.500 Democrat side

00:21:16.200 would have us

00:21:16.780 believe that

00:21:17.720 the inflation

00:21:18.880 is transitory.

00:21:21.280 What do you

00:21:21.940 think?

00:21:23.780 Well, I think

00:21:24.660 it is because

00:21:25.240 everything is

00:21:25.760 transitory.

00:21:27.380 It's just how

00:21:28.400 you define

00:21:28.880 transitory, I

00:21:29.720 suppose.

00:21:30.360 There's no such

00:21:31.020 thing as

00:21:31.360 permanent

00:21:31.720 inflation.

00:21:33.440 You know,

00:21:33.680 eventually the

00:21:34.480 sun will burn

00:21:35.380 out and the

00:21:37.100 earth will be a

00:21:37.940 cold, dead

00:21:39.280 lump of coal.

00:21:40.260 So, I mean,

00:21:42.640 I guess you'd

00:21:43.260 have to define

00:21:43.860 transitory.

00:21:44.500 If it's

00:21:45.400 transitory over

00:21:46.300 the next five

00:21:47.240 years, would

00:21:47.840 you call that

00:21:48.340 transitory?

00:21:50.220 If inflation

00:21:51.760 continued to be a

00:21:52.760 problem, let's say,

00:21:53.420 for five years,

00:21:54.480 but then it calmed

00:21:55.440 down, is that

00:21:56.580 transitory?

00:21:58.280 Yeah.

00:21:59.240 Transitory feels like 1.00

00:22:00.280 less than a year,

00:22:01.000 doesn't it?

00:22:02.260 I feel like that's

00:22:03.200 what that feels.

00:22:03.700 So, I doubt

00:22:05.060 there's anything

00:22:05.740 that's transitory,

00:22:07.440 but let me give

00:22:08.560 you some context

00:22:09.340 here using my

00:22:11.080 vast economic

00:22:12.700 experience.

00:22:14.020 I do have a

00:22:14.920 degree in

00:22:15.400 economics.

00:22:16.160 I've got an

00:22:16.560 MBA from a

00:22:17.420 good school.

00:22:18.660 So, I'm not

00:22:19.560 completely incompetent

00:22:20.840 talking about this

00:22:21.820 topic.

00:22:22.740 Surprising.

00:22:24.540 And here's what I

00:22:25.700 know about

00:22:26.120 inflation.

00:22:27.840 Nobody really

00:22:28.740 knows how that

00:22:30.200 works.

00:22:31.000 It feels like

00:22:31.940 it'd be the

00:22:32.320 easiest thing in

00:22:32.960 the world,

00:22:33.340 right?

00:22:33.700 Add more money

00:22:34.980 to the system,

00:22:36.460 juice the

00:22:37.320 activity,

00:22:38.920 demand will

00:22:40.300 outstrip supply,

00:22:42.140 reasonably

00:22:42.660 predictable,

00:22:44.360 prices go up.

00:22:46.280 So, the

00:22:46.860 mechanism of

00:22:47.900 inflation is

00:22:48.760 pretty clear.

00:22:50.660 But,

00:22:51.660 there are always

00:22:52.380 these big

00:22:52.880 surprises.

00:22:54.760 For example,

00:22:56.600 all of that

00:22:57.400 makes sense,

00:22:58.080 but what if

00:22:58.600 tomorrow,

00:23:00.180 you know,

00:23:00.500 a fusion

00:23:01.100 reactor comes

00:23:02.120 online,

00:23:02.620 and two

00:23:03.340 years from

00:23:04.080 now,

00:23:04.480 everyone has

00:23:05.340 one in

00:23:05.660 their closet.

00:23:06.800 Now,

00:23:07.040 that's not

00:23:07.420 going to

00:23:07.620 happen.

00:23:08.560 But,

00:23:08.820 there could

00:23:09.140 be,

00:23:09.440 you know,

00:23:09.900 technical

00:23:10.400 changes that

00:23:11.340 change

00:23:12.180 everything.

00:23:18.780 Somebody

00:23:19.240 paid $10 to

00:23:20.380 get blocked

00:23:21.920 by me.

00:23:23.100 So,

00:23:23.340 Vector says,

00:23:24.500 wow,

00:23:24.820 it took Scott

00:23:25.380 this long to

00:23:26.160 wake up to

00:23:26.620 the COVID

00:23:27.040 sham.

00:23:27.940 Congrats,

00:23:28.620 Scott.

00:23:29.120 Now you're

00:23:29.500 using your

00:23:29.920 noggin.

00:23:30.440 Welcome to

00:23:30.940 the plug

00:23:31.320 club,

00:23:32.060 big guy.

00:23:33.460 He paid

00:23:34.060 $10 to

00:23:35.300 say a

00:23:35.620 comment that

00:23:36.220 I just

00:23:36.520 said will

00:23:36.920 get you

00:23:37.240 blocked.

00:23:38.640 I appreciate

00:23:39.140 your money.

00:23:40.160 You're a

00:23:40.460 fucking

00:23:40.660 asshole.

00:23:42.380 But,

00:23:42.700 thank you

00:23:43.360 for the

00:23:43.620 money.

00:23:45.560 And,

00:23:45.940 you're

00:23:46.020 hidden on

00:23:46.380 this channel.

00:23:47.720 All right,

00:23:48.040 anybody else

00:23:48.580 want to get

00:23:49.900 blocked?

00:23:51.360 I'm in a

00:23:52.000 blocking mood.

00:23:56.180 Thanks for

00:23:56.780 the money.

00:23:57.080 I told you

00:23:58.800 I had a

00:23:59.060 degree in

00:23:59.440 economics.

00:24:00.420 I can take

00:24:01.060 your money

00:24:01.400 and I can

00:24:01.780 block you

00:24:02.240 too.

00:24:03.140 That's

00:24:03.420 something I

00:24:03.860 learned in

00:24:04.540 economics class.

00:24:06.860 Yes.

00:24:08.380 Anyway,

00:24:09.300 here's what I

00:24:09.820 know about

00:24:10.140 inflation.

00:24:10.760 The experts

00:24:11.280 are not good

00:24:11.920 at predicting

00:24:13.440 it.

00:24:14.260 Do you

00:24:14.480 remember when

00:24:14.920 the experts

00:24:15.340 said,

00:24:15.660 oh no,

00:24:16.160 it's going

00:24:16.460 to be

00:24:16.660 stagflation?

00:24:17.900 We'll have

00:24:18.580 inflation and

00:24:19.680 low growth,

00:24:20.760 which can't

00:24:21.980 really happen

00:24:22.480 at the same

00:24:22.980 time,

00:24:23.300 except it

00:24:23.760 did once,

00:24:25.200 you know,

00:24:25.440 during the

00:24:25.860 Carter

00:24:26.080 administration.

00:24:27.080 So if we

00:24:27.800 don't even

00:24:28.180 know exactly

00:24:28.900 what caused

00:24:29.500 stagflation and

00:24:30.620 why it doesn't

00:24:31.380 get caused

00:24:32.000 again and

00:24:32.800 what's coming

00:24:34.480 at us,

00:24:34.980 will there be

00:24:35.380 another pandemic?

00:24:36.580 God knows.

00:24:37.700 So we're not

00:24:38.300 good at predicting

00:24:38.940 this stuff.

00:24:40.180 But one of the

00:24:41.520 big,

00:24:43.280 so let me say

00:24:44.560 this.

00:24:46.480 Inflation ends

00:24:47.280 up being a

00:24:48.580 tax on the

00:24:49.520 poor and the

00:24:50.580 middle class.

00:24:51.960 Am I right?

00:24:52.520 Now, if

00:24:55.540 you're in one

00:24:56.300 of those

00:24:56.600 categories,

00:24:57.940 you saw

00:24:58.500 your prices

00:24:59.140 go way up,

00:25:00.420 your gas

00:25:00.840 prices,

00:25:01.360 probably your

00:25:01.760 food prices,

00:25:02.500 right?

00:25:02.700 You've noticed

00:25:03.160 food.

00:25:04.040 Food is

00:25:04.580 through the

00:25:04.900 roof.

00:25:06.100 And you

00:25:07.460 didn't have

00:25:07.940 much of any

00:25:08.700 stocks,

00:25:09.280 if you're in

00:25:10.420 the lower

00:25:10.840 or middle

00:25:12.140 range.

00:25:12.900 Thanks,

00:25:18.120 Eddie.

00:25:19.820 So,

00:25:21.640 let me tell

00:25:22.760 you my

00:25:23.120 experience so

00:25:23.960 far as a

00:25:25.280 rich guy.

00:25:25.940 I'm just

00:25:26.400 going to be

00:25:26.820 obnoxious in

00:25:28.120 the interest of

00:25:30.420 full disclosure

00:25:31.200 and just being

00:25:32.520 honest.

00:25:33.620 Sometimes honesty

00:25:34.580 is fucking 0.93

00:25:35.840 obnoxious,

00:25:36.740 depending what

00:25:38.200 you're talking

00:25:38.540 about.

00:25:38.900 So this is

00:25:39.360 going to be

00:25:39.620 obnoxious to

00:25:40.300 a lot of

00:25:40.660 you,

00:25:41.220 but I think

00:25:41.800 it's fair to

00:25:42.320 say.

00:25:43.560 I'm doing

00:25:44.240 great.

00:25:45.260 I've never

00:25:45.940 done better

00:25:46.380 financially.

00:25:47.980 Because my

00:25:48.720 stocks are

00:25:49.240 up.

00:25:50.940 And I

00:25:52.720 don't know

00:25:53.000 how much my

00:25:53.640 gas price

00:25:54.260 would have

00:25:54.640 to go up

00:25:55.340 to make a

00:25:56.540 difference

00:25:56.920 compared to

00:25:57.560 how much my

00:25:58.240 net wealth

00:25:58.860 has gone up

00:25:59.400 because of

00:25:59.900 just owning

00:26:00.820 stock.

00:26:02.540 I'm doing

00:26:03.200 great.

00:26:04.460 So Joe

00:26:05.040 Biden just

00:26:05.580 put the

00:26:06.000 biggest tax

00:26:06.960 I've ever

00:26:07.420 seen on

00:26:07.860 the poor.

00:26:09.980 Didn't

00:26:10.460 affect me.

00:26:11.040 literally I've

00:26:14.240 never done

00:26:14.640 better than

00:26:15.920 Joe Biden's

00:26:16.720 year.

00:26:17.680 I didn't

00:26:18.340 expect that.

00:26:19.540 You know,

00:26:19.680 if you told

00:26:20.060 me, you

00:26:20.560 know, who

00:26:21.400 did you do

00:26:21.880 better under

00:26:22.440 Trump or

00:26:23.640 Biden?

00:26:24.760 Not even

00:26:25.340 close.

00:26:25.760 I got

00:26:26.900 killed under

00:26:27.740 Trump.

00:26:28.780 I got

00:26:29.360 slaughtered

00:26:30.480 financially.

00:26:32.280 I just, I

00:26:33.080 had my ass 0.98

00:26:33.740 handed to

00:26:34.160 me.

00:26:35.060 Mostly

00:26:35.500 because, you

00:26:35.960 know, getting

00:26:36.260 canceled for

00:26:37.020 this or that.

00:26:37.940 You know, you

00:26:38.220 can't do

00:26:38.560 deals, can't

00:26:39.240 do speaking,

00:26:40.320 just talking

00:26:40.880 about it.

00:26:41.480 But as soon

00:26:41.880 as Biden

00:26:42.280 came in,

00:26:43.680 people stopped

00:26:44.580 hating me as

00:26:45.180 much because I

00:26:45.840 wasn't as

00:26:46.280 relevant talking

00:26:47.160 about Trump.

00:26:48.540 And I, you

00:26:50.420 know, I made

00:26:51.340 one lucky move.

00:26:52.380 I bought a

00:26:52.980 bunch of stocks

00:26:53.620 when they hit

00:26:54.320 their bottom.

00:26:55.760 So suddenly,

00:26:57.420 like anybody

00:26:58.240 who owns

00:26:58.620 stocks, I'm

00:26:59.460 thinking, ooh,

00:27:00.180 it's looking

00:27:00.520 pretty good.

00:27:01.840 And all the

00:27:02.320 people who

00:27:02.680 don't own

00:27:03.080 stocks, the

00:27:03.720 lower-income

00:27:04.200 people, just

00:27:04.740 absolutely got

00:27:05.640 fucked.

00:27:06.900 And it's not

00:27:07.900 going to let

00:27:08.500 up anytime

00:27:09.240 soon.

00:27:10.340 So I would

00:27:11.420 think that the

00:27:12.080 number one

00:27:13.000 thing that the

00:27:14.080 Democrats have

00:27:14.820 for them is

00:27:15.700 that they're the

00:27:16.280 ones who are

00:27:16.740 trying to help

00:27:18.040 the normal

00:27:18.540 people get

00:27:19.160 by.

00:27:20.780 That's not

00:27:21.360 happening.

00:27:22.860 That's not

00:27:23.260 happening.

00:27:24.000 But let me

00:27:24.420 give you the

00:27:24.740 plus side.

00:27:25.760 the economy

00:27:28.240 is really

00:27:28.840 screeching.

00:27:30.960 Despite

00:27:31.440 inflation, the

00:27:32.400 economy is just

00:27:33.020 screaming.

00:27:34.320 And it's

00:27:36.920 hard to hire

00:27:37.420 people.

00:27:39.020 I mean, that,

00:27:40.100 you know, you

00:27:40.620 saw Kramer,

00:27:43.400 financial or

00:27:44.820 investment expert

00:27:45.760 Kramer, you

00:27:46.820 saw him say

00:27:47.640 that this is the

00:27:48.300 strongest economy

00:27:49.220 he's ever seen,

00:27:50.460 maybe since, I

00:27:51.640 don't know, the

00:27:51.900 60s or something.

00:27:52.740 And I would

00:27:53.960 agree with that.

00:27:54.600 I don't think

00:27:54.980 I've seen a

00:27:55.520 stronger economy

00:27:56.420 if you don't

00:27:57.340 count the

00:27:57.800 inflation, if

00:27:59.560 you don't

00:27:59.900 count that.

00:28:01.000 If you do

00:28:01.480 count it, it's

00:28:02.420 only a great

00:28:03.120 economy for

00:28:03.840 people, you

00:28:04.780 know, at the

00:28:05.040 top half

00:28:05.720 maybe, maybe

00:28:07.080 top 25%.

00:28:08.160 So I just

00:28:12.040 don't know what

00:28:12.400 to think about

00:28:12.860 inflation, but I

00:28:14.260 hate ignoring it,

00:28:15.180 but it looks like

00:28:16.260 we're just going

00:28:16.880 to tax poor

00:28:18.380 people until it's

00:28:19.440 not a problem

00:28:20.000 anymore.

00:28:21.680 So there's

00:28:22.580 that.

00:28:26.400 Why are

00:28:27.140 airplanes relatively

00:28:28.340 safe in terms

00:28:30.600 of COVID?

00:28:32.820 I keep going

00:28:34.080 back to that

00:28:34.940 because I feel

00:28:35.920 like everything

00:28:36.520 we need to know

00:28:37.280 about COVID,

00:28:38.500 you can learn

00:28:39.120 on an airplane.

00:28:41.220 Am I wrong?

00:28:43.300 Because the

00:28:44.480 thinking is that

00:28:45.320 the reason that

00:28:46.140 air travel is

00:28:47.340 safe enough is

00:28:48.820 not just that

00:28:49.500 people are

00:28:50.060 getting tested

00:28:50.640 and vaccinated,

00:28:51.540 that's helping

00:28:51.920 a lot, but

00:28:53.160 that people are

00:28:54.640 wearing masks on

00:28:55.620 the airplane,

00:28:56.140 this is what the

00:28:56.700 industry would tell

00:28:57.440 you, the experts

00:28:58.140 would say, it's

00:28:59.080 because people wear

00:28:59.940 masks on the

00:29:00.780 airplane, except

00:29:01.360 when they eat,

00:29:02.520 and that their

00:29:03.740 ventilation systems

00:29:05.500 are great.

00:29:07.220 Now that's true.

00:29:08.060 I think airplanes

00:29:08.820 have great

00:29:09.420 ventilation, they

00:29:10.240 have to.

00:29:11.300 And one of the

00:29:12.880 anecdotes of

00:29:14.540 a spread

00:29:15.240 involved a jet

00:29:17.220 that was

00:29:18.200 idle on an

00:29:19.100 airport during

00:29:20.280 a layover,

00:29:21.540 and they

00:29:22.380 turned the

00:29:22.740 ventilation off

00:29:23.460 for half an

00:29:23.920 hour.

00:29:25.160 And the

00:29:25.580 speculation is

00:29:26.460 that that

00:29:26.860 half hour they

00:29:27.660 turned off the

00:29:28.200 ventilation is

00:29:28.960 when all the

00:29:29.520 spread happened.

00:29:31.080 Maybe, I

00:29:31.840 don't know.

00:29:33.060 But, so I

00:29:34.480 was feeling

00:29:35.020 pretty smart.

00:29:36.220 I'm reading

00:29:36.660 about this and

00:29:37.380 thinking, okay,

00:29:38.820 okay, I've got a

00:29:39.800 pretty good grip on

00:29:40.600 why these airplanes

00:29:41.360 are working, or

00:29:42.540 not spreading.

00:29:43.340 So you got the

00:29:44.060 masks, good.

00:29:45.260 Don't disagree

00:29:47.880 with me yet, just

00:29:48.780 wait until I get

00:29:49.440 to the end of

00:29:49.900 this.

00:29:50.440 So you got the

00:29:50.860 masks, okay, okay,

00:29:52.140 that should make a

00:29:52.820 difference.

00:29:53.480 You got that great

00:29:54.060 ventilation, good,

00:29:55.380 good.

00:29:55.980 You got the

00:29:56.340 vaccinations now,

00:29:57.900 all right, all right.

00:29:59.120 And some people have

00:29:59.860 natural immunity,

00:30:00.720 that's good, that's

00:30:01.760 good.

00:30:02.500 And I thought I'd

00:30:03.240 covered all of the

00:30:04.040 bases, like I'd

00:30:05.660 considered all of

00:30:06.700 the variables.

00:30:10.400 And then a

00:30:11.580 Twitter user named

00:30:12.820 iLoveiHeartPipelines

00:30:16.020 tweeted this.

00:30:21.640 You're going to

00:30:22.240 feel as dumb as I

00:30:23.240 did when you hear

00:30:23.840 this, all right.

00:30:26.820 This is just like a

00:30:28.180 guy on Twitter, and

00:30:30.400 he's going to say

00:30:31.040 something, and I'm

00:30:31.880 going to read it to

00:30:32.400 you, that's going to

00:30:33.720 make you slap your 0.97

00:30:34.840 fucking head and 0.96

00:30:36.220 say, oh, God, that

00:30:38.060 was obvious.

00:30:38.660 People don't talk on

00:30:43.020 airplanes.

00:30:46.680 That's it.

00:30:48.140 People don't talk on

00:30:49.260 airplanes.

00:30:50.720 It's the main cause of

00:30:52.520 transmission is talking.

00:30:57.640 And I'm like, I'm all

00:30:59.540 into the masks and the

00:31:01.200 vaccinations and the

00:31:02.680 ventilation, and I'm

00:31:04.300 reading about their

00:31:05.200 HEPA filters, and I'm

00:31:07.060 thinking, huh, I

00:31:08.340 wonder if it's the

00:31:08.940 ventilation, is it the

00:31:11.120 filtering, or is it

00:31:12.780 the airflow?

00:31:14.160 And I'm like, I'm

00:31:14.860 like into the science

00:31:15.900 and shit, and then 0.80

00:31:17.180 the iHeartPipeline

00:31:18.080 says, I don't fly

00:31:20.220 much, but I don't

00:31:20.960 think people talk

00:31:21.840 much on planes.

00:31:24.200 Fuck you for being

00:31:25.980 so smart.

00:31:27.480 How in the world did

00:31:28.400 we miss that?

00:31:30.160 Seriously, how did

00:31:31.060 we miss that?

00:31:33.180 Yeah, you're still

00:31:33.700 breathing, but the

00:31:35.160 best thinking is

00:31:36.720 that it's the

00:31:37.860 talking that makes

00:31:38.940 the difference.

00:31:41.240 But is anybody

00:31:42.680 having the same

00:31:43.300 experience?

00:31:44.720 How did we

00:31:45.400 analyze this?

00:31:46.240 And this is the

00:31:46.860 first time I've

00:31:48.260 ever heard this.

00:31:49.580 I've never heard

00:31:50.300 anybody say, but

00:31:52.660 you know, the main

00:31:53.240 way it gets

00:31:54.520 transmitted is from

00:31:55.400 talking, and people

00:31:56.740 don't talk much on

00:31:57.740 airplanes.

00:31:59.440 In fact, the only

00:32:00.360 person you talk to

00:32:01.160 is the person you

00:32:01.760 probably came there

00:32:02.480 with.

00:32:02.720 And if they

00:32:03.960 infected you, you're 0.77

00:32:04.860 already infected.

00:32:08.180 All right.

00:32:13.460 I'm thinking of

00:32:14.500 putting together, if

00:32:15.560 I ever got, I

00:32:17.420 don't know, less

00:32:18.080 lazy, a hoax IQ

00:32:20.280 test.

00:32:21.620 And what it would

00:32:22.140 be is simply a list

00:32:23.400 of hoaxes, and you,

00:32:26.640 the test taker, would

00:32:27.680 simply check whether

00:32:29.280 you know it's a

00:32:31.160 hoax, or you

00:32:32.620 believe it's true, and

00:32:33.960 the fact that it's a

00:32:34.860 hoax is a hoax.

00:32:36.080 So you just say true

00:32:37.100 or false to each of

00:32:38.240 the claims or the

00:32:40.380 hoaxes.

00:32:41.500 Now, why would I do

00:32:43.420 that when I already

00:32:44.580 talk incessantly about

00:32:46.000 all these hoaxes?

00:32:47.000 And a lot of people

00:32:47.720 know what they are,

00:32:48.520 but not so much on

00:32:49.760 the right.

00:32:50.600 And the answer is

00:32:51.500 because this is a

00:32:53.260 persuasion trick, to

00:32:55.300 get people to think

00:32:56.360 past the yes or no.

00:32:58.280 If you give somebody

00:32:59.720 a hoax IQ test, and

00:33:03.120 they start arguing

00:33:04.040 with you about

00:33:05.000 whether or not they

00:33:05.980 got the right answer

00:33:06.840 or the test itself is

00:33:08.340 graded correctly, just

00:33:10.540 don't even have the

00:33:11.160 argument.

00:33:12.460 Just say, thank you

00:33:13.580 very much.

00:33:14.360 Here's your score.

00:33:16.080 No, no, no.

00:33:16.880 I'm pretty sure that

00:33:17.780 three of those that I

00:33:18.700 marked really, really

00:33:20.020 happened.

00:33:21.100 Thank you very much.

00:33:22.720 Here's your score.

00:33:24.260 No, seriously.

00:33:25.380 I know this one's not

00:33:26.420 a hoax.

00:33:26.780 I saw it with my own

00:33:27.980 eyes, heard it with

00:33:28.960 my own ears.

00:33:29.820 That one really

00:33:30.640 happened.

00:33:32.380 Here's your score.

00:33:33.640 Thanks for taking the

00:33:34.460 test.

00:33:36.680 We're getting to the

00:33:37.660 point where we should

00:33:38.340 stop arguing about

00:33:39.680 them.

00:33:40.800 Just put them on a

00:33:41.780 list and use what I

00:33:43.660 call list persuasion.

00:33:46.160 Have you heard me

00:33:47.000 describe list

00:33:47.860 persuasion?

00:33:48.980 It's a persuasion

00:33:50.340 trick.

00:33:51.960 It is used, the best

00:33:54.020 user of this is

00:33:56.340 Sean Hannity.

00:33:58.740 If you want to see a

00:34:00.120 really good example of

00:34:01.300 it, also Alex Jones.

00:34:04.520 Alex Jones did it once

00:34:05.740 on, I was on his

00:34:06.760 program a few years

00:34:08.540 ago.

00:34:09.380 And he did that and I

00:34:11.020 watched him do it.

00:34:11.820 It was just sort of

00:34:12.720 masterful, really.

00:34:14.280 Right?

00:34:14.480 I'm not saying I approve

00:34:15.540 of it.

00:34:16.660 I'm just saying that the

00:34:17.620 technique works and that

00:34:19.100 when you see it done, it's

00:34:20.280 really good.

00:34:20.840 And the way the technique

00:34:22.200 works is you list four

00:34:24.800 things that everybody

00:34:25.780 listening believes to be

00:34:27.080 true and then you slip

00:34:29.140 one thing in that they

00:34:30.160 don't yet believe is true

00:34:31.380 but you'd like them to

00:34:32.200 believe is true.

00:34:34.360 So let's see if I can

00:34:38.740 come up with an example

00:34:39.660 off the top of my head.

00:34:40.620 This will be hard because

00:34:41.260 I'm just like winging it

00:34:42.280 here.

00:34:43.040 But let's say you were

00:34:43.940 going to say bad things

00:34:46.900 about Joe Biden.

00:34:47.760 All right, I'll just do a

00:34:49.960 pretend Hannity. 0.99

00:34:52.900 So this won't be a real

00:34:54.400 example just to make the

00:34:56.060 case.

00:34:56.860 There are several things

00:34:57.680 you could say about Joe

00:34:59.420 Biden that are true or at

00:35:01.340 least the audience would

00:35:02.340 accept as true.

00:35:05.240 You say Joe Biden is

00:35:07.660 mentally incompetent and 0.92

00:35:10.000 the audience is like,

00:35:11.060 that's what I see, that's

00:35:12.360 what I see.

00:35:13.660 He has increased inflation.

00:35:15.500 He is beholden to the

00:35:18.480 progressives.

00:35:19.800 You know, he's got real

00:35:20.380 trouble with them.

00:35:21.500 Yeah, true.

00:35:23.560 And he said some racist

00:35:25.400 things in his earlier

00:35:26.940 days, things that people

00:35:28.520 thought were racist.

00:35:29.520 Yeah, true.

00:35:30.540 And he's a lizard person 0.55

00:35:32.480 from the planet Krypton.

00:35:34.860 You just like throw it in

00:35:36.220 there.

00:35:36.700 But you never put it at the

00:35:37.820 end.

00:35:39.020 So it's never the first one

00:35:40.320 and it's never the last one.

00:35:41.520 You always sandwich it in the

00:35:43.160 middle of the list toward

00:35:44.720 toward like closer to the

00:35:46.320 end because you want people

00:35:47.920 to hear three true things

00:35:49.860 than the lizard person

00:35:51.940 accusation and then two

00:35:54.260 more two more real

00:35:56.140 things.

00:35:57.220 If you sandwich the lizard

00:35:59.660 the lizard person thing

00:36:01.540 between three truths and two

00:36:03.100 more truths, it just slips

00:36:05.020 right past your defenses until

00:36:07.060 you're pretty sure it must be

00:36:08.140 true.

00:36:08.780 It was on that list.

00:36:10.200 So that would be the same

00:36:11.360 technique with using the

00:36:12.660 hoax IQ test, but an ethical

00:36:16.020 use of it because as far as I

00:36:18.740 know there would really be

00:36:19.760 real hoaxes, right?

00:36:21.500 So it wouldn't be trying to

00:36:22.420 trick anybody. 0.59

00:36:23.400 You'd be trying to persuade

00:36:25.000 them.

00:36:27.180 Here's a weird story because

00:36:28.820 the simulation loves us.

00:36:31.560 When right-leaning and I guess

00:36:35.160 CNN would call them far-right

00:36:36.540 companies get deplatformed and

00:36:39.740 that sort of thing, where do

00:36:41.640 they go?

00:36:42.620 Where does Gab go and where

00:36:45.760 do a lot of people get

00:36:46.660 deplatformed?

00:36:47.440 Well, they go to a server

00:36:50.180 company called Epic, E-P-I-K.

00:36:53.980 And the founder of that is a

00:36:57.240 free speech advocate and is

00:37:00.260 willing to take people onto his

00:37:01.960 system so that they can still be

00:37:05.440 in business.

00:37:07.300 And he's not as concerned about

00:37:09.480 their horrible speech.

00:37:12.140 But he has banned some direct

00:37:15.240 Nazi-type organizations.

00:37:18.060 But not everybody who likes

00:37:20.080 Nazis, apparently.

00:37:21.300 So it's a pretty rough group over

00:37:24.420 there, along with regular people.

00:37:26.340 So there's lots of normies.

00:37:28.260 But it's a little extra bad compared

00:37:32.920 to the rest of the world.

00:37:35.360 But you can use your own judgment

00:37:37.020 whether that's free speech or

00:37:38.500 something worse.

00:37:39.980 Now, the individual who does this

00:37:42.120 is sort of fascinating.

00:37:44.500 I guess his parents were both,

00:37:45.880 you know, anti-Nazi activists.

00:37:49.000 And he's got a pretty good case

00:37:51.620 that he doesn't lean that way

00:37:53.540 himself.

00:37:55.100 Now, you'd have to suspect, right?

00:37:57.360 So the people on the left are like,

00:37:58.560 we're not so sure, because you do

00:38:00.520 seem to be helping those people on

00:38:01.940 the right.

00:38:07.600 All right.

00:38:11.140 And here's the payoff.

00:38:15.900 The name of this individual who owns

00:38:19.060 this company called Epic, who the

00:38:21.940 people on the left would like to

00:38:23.640 demonize to, you know, de-platform

00:38:26.260 for good anybody who's got views they

00:38:29.800 don't like.

00:38:30.960 This is his actual name.

00:38:33.220 His last name is Monster.

00:38:36.060 M-O-N-S-T-E-R. 1.00

00:38:39.040 And his first name is Rob.

00:38:42.020 Now, I would call myself Bob

00:38:43.880 if my last name was Monster.

00:38:47.460 Because Monster's bad enough.

00:38:48.920 But Rob is actually a crime.

00:38:51.100 You don't want to rob people.

00:38:52.380 You don't want to be a monster.

00:38:53.400 So Rob Monster is the name of this.

00:38:57.900 That's his actual real name, like

00:38:59.500 the name he was born with.

00:39:02.000 Now, I don't have anything bad to say

00:39:03.760 about him.

00:39:05.360 I just think it's interesting that

00:39:07.540 people who do think he's a monster,

00:39:11.000 well, that's his actual name.

00:39:13.340 Apparently, it's a common name in the

00:39:15.560 country.

00:39:16.420 Where was he from?

00:39:17.140 I don't know.

00:39:19.880 He's from some European country.

00:39:22.620 All right.

00:39:23.940 Chris Christie is positive that

00:39:26.060 Trump gave him COVID when they were

00:39:28.160 doing their debate preparation.

00:39:31.100 And Christie was playing Biden.

00:39:33.080 And I guess, you know, there was a lot

00:39:34.240 of, he said it was a spirited

00:39:35.900 debate practice.

00:39:37.340 So there was a lot of spittle going

00:39:38.880 back and forth.

00:39:40.300 And now that we know the timeline,

00:39:42.440 it looks like Trump probably infected

00:39:45.720 several people in the room.

00:39:47.960 So Christie, Steve Miller, I think

00:39:50.040 there were some other people.

00:39:51.860 And what this story fails to mention,

00:40:00.960 give me a fact check on this.

00:40:02.900 Isn't the story that Trump tested

00:40:05.300 positive, but then when he did a

00:40:07.620 higher quality test, he tested

00:40:09.260 negative?

00:40:10.900 Is that true?

00:40:12.540 And then was the debate before or

00:40:14.900 after those two tests?

00:40:16.940 Because the thinking is that Trump

00:40:18.920 knew, which means it had to be after

00:40:21.020 the first test, but wasn't it also

00:40:23.640 after the second test when he was

00:40:25.320 tested negative?

00:40:32.820 Does anybody know that?

00:40:34.000 How could you know that?

00:40:40.640 Yeah, I don't know.

00:40:42.180 So, so I would love to know about

00:40:47.760 the ventilation in that room.

00:40:50.360 Because I'll bet, I'll bet the

00:40:51.800 ventilation wasn't working.

00:40:53.280 So I still have a theory that the

00:40:55.420 difference is the airflow, not just the

00:40:57.860 filtering and the ventilation.

00:40:58.940 So I'm going to, I'm going to keep on my

00:41:01.660 theory that airflow is the only thing

00:41:03.700 that matters.

00:41:05.160 And if you got the airflow right, you'd

00:41:07.060 be fine.

00:41:07.960 We'd be done.

00:41:09.700 That's what I believe.

00:41:11.120 I don't have data to back that up, but

00:41:13.500 everything is pointing in that direction.

00:41:14.840 Do you realize that, I mean, Chris

00:41:20.440 Christie actually went to the ICU.

00:41:23.540 Trump could have actually killed him.

00:41:27.000 Trump, Trump might have actually killed

00:41:29.160 Chris Christie.

00:41:31.280 It was close.

00:41:32.640 And, and Trump himself had a tough time

00:41:35.100 with the virus.

00:41:36.080 So both Christie and Trump could have

00:41:38.520 died.

00:41:39.680 Now, of course, they had the best

00:41:41.160 health care.

00:41:42.020 So the odds were against it in their

00:41:43.820 cases, but, um, all right.

00:41:51.900 Uh, there were multiple tornadoes that

00:41:54.180 ripped through Kentucky and several other

00:41:56.640 states, uh, Arkansas, Illinois, and

00:41:59.780 there's not much to say about that, but

00:42:01.220 50 people dead.

00:42:02.860 Good Lord.

00:42:04.600 I guess the only, the only thing I'd

00:42:06.200 like to say on this is you have to

00:42:10.680 worry about the, the one you don't

00:42:12.280 hear.

00:42:12.620 Have you heard this old thing about the

00:42:15.360 military?

00:42:16.240 If you hear the bullet, like, then it

00:42:20.000 didn't get you.

00:42:21.840 Because you don't, the one that gets

00:42:23.260 you, you don't hear.

00:42:24.080 I'm not sure that's true.

00:42:25.640 Because, you know, if it was a sniper, I

00:42:27.500 think you'd hear it before.

00:42:29.520 Wouldn't you, if it was a sniper at a

00:42:31.220 distance, wouldn't you hear it before

00:42:32.480 it hit you?

00:42:32.900 I don't know.

00:42:34.600 Maybe.

00:42:35.840 No, I, oh, I'm seeing people say no.

00:42:37.780 Uh, I think this crowd knows guns more

00:42:40.180 than I do.

00:42:41.820 Uh, no.

00:42:42.400 Okay.

00:42:42.980 So let's, let's stick with it.

00:42:44.180 They, you don't hear the one that gets

00:42:45.220 you.

00:42:45.740 This tornado situation reminds me of

00:42:47.740 that.

00:42:49.440 So, you know, probably the 50 people who

00:42:52.360 died were worried about other things.

00:42:55.180 Don't you think?

00:42:56.520 They were worried about other things.

00:42:57.880 And I'll bet none of those other things

00:42:59.160 would have killed them.

00:43:00.420 I'll bet they wouldn't have died of

00:43:01.740 COVID.

00:43:03.120 You know, I'll bet they wouldn't have

00:43:04.300 died in a climate change disaster.

00:43:07.240 I'll bet whatever they were worried

00:43:08.480 about wasn't the thing.

00:43:10.600 And I always like to remind myself of

00:43:12.960 that.

00:43:13.240 Because you find yourself getting all

00:43:14.660 worked up, worrying about something

00:43:16.400 like climate change or, you know,

00:43:18.680 something's going to kill you that's

00:43:20.180 big in the world.

00:43:21.340 You know, there's going to be a war.

00:43:22.960 Kim Jong-un's going to bomb you any

00:43:24.520 minute.

00:43:24.960 Whatever.

00:43:26.720 Almost never can you see it coming.

00:43:32.640 Almost never.

00:43:34.520 Please study PCR tests.

00:43:36.460 I'm not going to do that.

00:43:39.740 I know.

00:43:41.260 If where you're going on this is that

00:43:43.460 the pandemic is fake and the tests

00:43:49.820 are picking up, that's really a dumb

00:43:53.580 hypothesis.

00:43:54.960 At this point.

00:43:56.740 In the beginning, it was, you know,

00:43:58.600 you throw it in with everything else

00:43:59.980 because everything was confusing.

00:44:01.620 But at this point, if you're still

00:44:03.940 bitching about the PCR test, I think

00:44:05.820 you're, you know, I think events have

00:44:09.280 left you behind, is what I think.

00:44:11.280 Now, I don't mean to be condescending.

00:44:12.920 If it sounded like that, that's not my

00:44:15.160 intention, because I think everybody's

00:44:16.680 confused about all of this stuff.

00:44:18.820 But if you're reading, if you're reading

00:44:20.280 stuff about the tests being bad, yeah, I agree

00:44:28.880 that we're probably doing a bad job of

00:44:30.760 counting stuff.

00:44:31.520 But here's the problem.

00:44:33.100 The ICUs are clearly being impacted where there

00:44:37.660 are waves of COVID.

00:44:39.820 That's not imaginary.

00:44:42.000 It's not imaginary.

00:44:44.520 So although the PCR tests, you know, may have

00:44:47.340 some problems, it's a real pandemic.

00:44:51.460 So I just wouldn't spend any time on that path.

00:44:57.540 My friend who got monoclonal, he's good as

00:44:59.900 far as I know.

00:45:00.900 He was on the mend.

00:45:04.560 Scott's finally waking up to tornadoes.

00:45:15.140 Sniper would...

00:45:17.460 It's true, I work in a hospital.

00:45:19.480 So, Doc Bailey, you're saying it's true that

00:45:22.800 it's obvious that COVID is real?

00:45:24.920 Because you don't hear front-line people

00:45:26.760 saying it's not real, do you?

00:45:29.340 Do you hear anybody who actually deals with

00:45:32.200 COVID patients saying, you know, I don't

00:45:34.620 think these are real.

00:45:36.240 I think the PCR test was wrong or something

00:45:39.380 like that.

00:45:42.840 Yeah, somebody has a registered nurse who's 0.77

00:45:46.540 a wife, and she's quite sure it's real.

00:45:49.480 Look, COVID is real, just overhyped.

00:45:52.460 Well, every danger is overhyped.

00:45:55.460 If it's in the news, it's overhyped,

00:45:57.420 because that's where the money is.

00:45:59.780 The inventor of PCR said they shouldn't be

00:46:01.660 used the way, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

00:46:03.440 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:04.620 It's a real pandemic.

00:46:06.720 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, tests.

00:46:08.140 I don't care.

00:46:09.160 I mean, you might be completely right.

00:46:11.580 It doesn't seem relevant.

00:46:13.140 It's not like we're wondering if there's a

00:46:16.420 pandemic.

00:46:20.120 You do hear the front line talk about heart

00:46:22.120 issues in the young.

00:46:23.060 That's true.

00:46:24.420 Yes, I would say that the...

00:46:26.060 Oh, here's a good question that somebody

00:46:27.420 asked me.

00:46:29.700 I'll let you deal with this, too.

00:46:32.260 Rifle bullets are faster than sound, Sparky

00:46:34.740 says.

00:46:35.080 Thank you.

00:46:36.860 There is some disagreement on this, but I'm

00:46:38.900 not the expert, so.

00:46:42.800 Trouble with these super chats is they're

00:46:44.600 really disruptive to the flow of thought.

00:46:47.980 And I believe I just lost my flow of

00:46:50.520 thought.

00:46:53.020 Oh, it'll come back.

00:46:57.040 Yesterday, I tweeted that it seemed like we

00:46:59.460 stopped hearing about long COVID.

00:47:01.560 Is that...

00:47:04.640 Do you find that?

00:47:06.040 It seems like the news was a lot about long

00:47:08.340 COVID, and then the news...

00:47:10.200 I'm not talking about the reality.

00:47:11.500 I'm just talking about the news coverage.

00:47:12.960 I feel like the news just stopped talking

00:47:14.480 about it, when it was actually maybe one of

00:47:18.040 the biggest variables for my decision to get

00:47:20.200 vaccinated.

00:47:22.060 And we're talking about all the other stuff,

00:47:25.040 but it seems like the biggest...

00:47:26.440 One of the biggest variables, other than

00:47:28.080 death, and...

00:47:30.560 Oh, most rifle bullets are faster than

00:47:33.960 sound.

00:47:34.420 Okay, thank you.

00:47:36.960 But, so I tweeted that to see if other

00:47:39.140 people were having that experience.

00:47:40.380 And again, I was just talking about the

00:47:41.780 reporting of it, not the actuality, but it

00:47:44.260 did make me wonder if the actuality had

00:47:46.460 disappeared.

00:47:47.460 You know, did we just stop thinking it

00:47:49.100 existed?

00:47:49.940 But there were plenty of people who gave

00:47:51.840 me links and anecdotes, and a lot of

00:47:55.640 people have experienced it themselves, etc.

00:47:57.600 So I think we can say that long COVID is

00:48:00.240 real.

00:48:01.420 How many of you would agree with that

00:48:03.160 statement?

00:48:04.660 That long COVID is real?

00:48:06.100 Yes, yes, yes, before you say it.

00:48:08.160 Yes, yes, yes, before you say it.

00:48:10.520 Vaccinations could give you long-term

00:48:12.000 problems, too.

00:48:12.980 Please don't tell me that.

00:48:15.120 Please know that I knew that.

00:48:17.440 Okay?

00:48:18.340 I'm begging you.

00:48:20.380 I'm begging you.

00:48:21.700 Don't say the obvious NPC thing.

00:48:24.420 Well, vaccinations are bad, too.

00:48:25.940 I know, I know, I know.

00:48:30.400 All right.

00:48:31.660 Yeah, so I think everybody believes long

00:48:33.860 COVID is real.

00:48:34.680 Not that it necessarily would change your

00:48:36.360 decision at this point.

00:48:38.760 All right, the question I forgot about was,

00:48:41.280 how many anecdotal reports would it take

00:48:46.080 to sway you if you didn't have good

00:48:49.300 scientific studies?

00:48:50.400 And let me walk you through it.

00:48:55.540 Let's say you walk out your back door and a bird

00:48:59.720 shits under your head. 0.96

00:49:01.540 And you say to yourself, what bad luck?

00:49:04.340 But obviously it's not any kind of a trend or

00:49:06.600 anything.

00:49:07.740 So the next day you walk out your front door,

00:49:10.180 going to work, and a bird shits under your head. 0.96

00:49:12.660 Two days in a row.

00:49:14.080 And you say to yourself, damn it.

00:49:15.480 That is a big coincidence.

00:49:20.200 Third day, bird shits under your head.

00:49:22.280 Fourth day, bird shits under your head.

00:49:24.340 Let me do a survey for you.

00:49:27.880 How many times does the bird have to shit on

00:49:30.200 your head before you say, okay, there's

00:49:32.760 something going on here?

00:49:36.740 Not once.

00:49:38.280 I think every one of you would discount one.

00:49:40.520 How about two?

00:49:42.520 Two.

00:49:44.620 If it happened twice in a row, would you

00:49:49.540 automatically conclude this is not a coincidence?

00:49:57.240 How many of you would?

00:49:59.380 Some of you would go at two.

00:50:01.740 Some of you would go at five or six.

00:50:05.760 I don't know what to say about that.

00:50:07.440 But I'm pretty sure if I got shit on five times

00:50:11.740 in a row walking out the same door, I don't

00:50:14.800 know if I would get to six.

00:50:17.000 I think I would.

00:50:18.220 I'm pretty sure I would tap out after three.

00:50:22.840 But it's funny seeing all the differences in the

00:50:25.300 answers.

00:50:27.720 Now, my example is meant to be artificially

00:50:31.560 constrained, right?

00:50:32.620 In that case, I think it would only take me two.

00:50:35.740 I think I'd be, I probably would never use that

00:50:39.640 door again after the second time.

00:50:42.460 That's just me.

00:50:44.040 But if you're looking at like a global thing, you

00:50:47.340 know, it's not about you and your house.

00:50:49.000 You're looking at, you know, lots of population of

00:50:51.040 the people and stuff.

00:50:52.240 It should take you more anecdotes.

00:50:54.540 So in the context of, I don't know, five billion

00:50:58.440 people who might get vaccinated, how many anecdotes

00:51:01.720 of bad outcomes would it take to convince yourself that

00:51:08.200 five billion people shouldn't get vaccinated?

00:51:11.720 How many anecdotes would it take?

00:51:13.400 Give me a number.

00:51:15.140 Give me a number.

00:51:16.820 What?

00:51:17.460 A hundred?

00:51:18.840 A thousand?

00:51:19.780 Ten thousand?

00:51:20.460 A hundred thousand?

00:51:21.660 A million?

00:51:22.620 What would it take?

00:51:24.620 Somebody says zero.

00:51:26.380 Millions?

00:51:26.860 Some people say zero.

00:51:30.800 A thousand?

00:51:32.000 So if a thousand people had a bad outcome, you would,

00:51:34.940 would you cancel the vaccination?

00:51:37.360 Because that would cancel every vaccination, you know,

00:51:41.060 for everything, I think, right?

00:51:43.680 Doesn't every vaccination kill a thousand people?

00:51:46.480 Like, eventually?

00:51:47.220 Uh, someone's trying to tell me that Russia and China are

00:51:59.380 invading Ukraine.

00:52:01.280 Uh, nice try.

00:52:05.240 Nice try.

00:52:09.560 All right.

00:52:10.440 Well, so when I put it that way, it's hard to come up with a

00:52:15.000 number, right?

00:52:15.380 So my point is, you could easily think that, um,

00:52:19.280 two dozen reports tell you something.

00:52:21.980 You could easily think that a hundred adverse reports is

00:52:26.420 telling you something.

00:52:27.240 It probably isn't.

00:52:28.400 How about a thousand adverse reports?

00:52:31.540 And let's say they're pretty well documented.

00:52:33.780 Let's say they're in the VAERS database, which means a doctor

00:52:36.320 had to fill out paperwork.

00:52:37.780 So there's a professional who has something at risk.

00:52:41.760 Um, let's say ten thousand.

00:52:43.980 What if you knew for sure there were ten thousand reports of

00:52:49.300 adverse, let's say, death from the shots?

00:52:53.060 Does that mean you shouldn't take them?

00:52:55.900 How about a hundred thousand?

00:52:59.000 Here's the really bad, bad thing.

00:53:03.140 Suppose you're, uh, the leader of a country and your experts tell you,

00:53:09.080 don't tell the public, but the only way we're going to get through this

00:53:13.440 pandemic without losing 10 million people is to lose a million through the

00:53:20.460 vaccination.

00:53:21.580 Now, I'm not aware of any numbers that would support what I'm saying.

00:53:24.820 I'm just giving you numbers to do the math.

00:53:26.780 There's no reality behind these that I know of.

00:53:29.580 But what if, behind closed doors, they said, we're positive this is going to kill

00:53:35.360 10 to 20 million Americans.

00:53:37.960 The only way to stop it is with vaccinations that will kill a million different people.

00:53:43.840 Probably.

00:53:45.020 It won't be the same people who the virus would have killed.

00:53:47.780 It's a million people who probably would have been fined.

00:53:50.280 But, you might save 11 to 19 million Americans.

00:53:56.740 What do you do?

00:53:58.360 Do you tell the Americans what their actual risk is?

00:54:03.020 Look, here's the deal, people.

00:54:04.780 You get the vaccination, a million of you are going to die.

00:54:07.500 A million of you.

00:54:09.340 But, we're pretty sure we can save tens of millions.

00:54:15.580 Pretty sure.

00:54:16.820 Nothing's a hundred percent.

00:54:17.880 But, we're very, very sure.

00:54:21.260 What would you do as a leader?

00:54:23.620 Would you tell people?

00:54:26.060 Or, would you fudge the data?

00:54:28.920 And say, we'll give you all the data in 75 years.

00:54:33.300 When everybody involved in the decision making is dead.

00:54:37.740 But, just don't ask too many questions.

00:54:42.200 It's looking fine.

00:54:43.780 Vaccinations are good. 1.00

00:54:44.660 Because, I feel like that's what happened.

00:54:48.380 Not the million number and not the 10 million number.

00:54:50.860 I'm making up numbers.

00:54:52.100 But, I feel as if the truth is that our government knew that these vaccinations, and the experts knew,

00:54:59.580 and told the government, would be far more dangerous than ordinary vaccines.

00:55:04.360 And, it still made sense.

00:55:06.820 And, it still made sense.

00:55:08.260 The stratified risk thing is a scandal of unlimited proportions in my mind.

00:55:18.300 But, it's a separate question.

00:55:22.220 Why is vaccines being pushed on kids?

00:55:24.780 Follow the money.

00:55:25.740 There can't be any other reason.

00:55:27.280 Can you think of a reason other than following the money?

00:55:29.580 I can't.

00:55:30.740 Now, the idea was that we would sacrifice the young to save the old. 0.89

00:55:34.280 Do you think that the government could tell you that that's actually what they're doing?

00:55:42.820 Here's the deal.

00:55:43.800 We know that we're going to kill a bunch of children.

00:55:47.180 But, we have a pretty good feeling that if we kill a bunch of children, we can save even more older people. 1.00

00:55:55.240 I feel like that was a conscious decision.

00:55:58.600 But, you see that these decisions can't be sold, right?

00:56:01.600 You can't go to the public and say, we're going to kill a million of you to save 20 million.

00:56:06.640 That's a no sale.

00:56:08.540 That is no sale.

00:56:10.980 Even if it was the best thing for the country.

00:56:14.240 You could argue it.

00:56:15.620 But, you can't sell it.

00:56:17.640 I think you have to lie to sell it.

00:56:19.860 And, I think that a lot of what we saw in the so-called leadership about this was our leaders lying intentionally for what they thought was our own good.

00:56:34.340 In some cases, probably money was the influence.

00:56:37.000 But, when they lied about the masks, that was for our own good.

00:56:42.200 It wasn't, allegedly.

00:56:44.360 But, we know it happened.

00:56:46.380 They lied to our faces for our own good.

00:56:49.340 Don't you think that they're lying about the vaccinations, too?

00:56:54.140 For our own good?

00:56:56.260 I do.

00:56:57.900 I do.

00:56:58.840 Now, here's where I get in trouble.

00:57:02.100 Right?

00:57:02.660 Because there seems to be a binary, like there always is, right?

00:57:06.740 Vaccinations are good and safe. 1.00

00:57:09.280 Or, vaccinations are very unsafe and bad.

00:57:13.300 I have neither of those feelings.

00:57:15.480 I feel that they're probably less safe than just about anything we've ever done medically.

00:57:20.520 And, might have been the right leadership decision.

00:57:28.040 Because, I don't think you could have sold that proposition.

00:57:31.300 It was an unsellable proposition.

00:57:33.480 So, you either let 20 million people die and, you know, destroy the economy that ends up destroying another, you know, 10 million people by indirect effects. 0.66

00:57:44.340 Or, you lie to the public for their own good.

00:57:49.460 For their own good.

00:57:50.520 Just like the masks.

00:57:53.160 You don't think your government would do that?

00:57:55.320 I do.

00:57:56.900 I think that there were at least elements of the government.

00:57:59.480 Not necessarily the president.

00:58:01.420 You know, I'm not sure who tells the president what.

00:58:04.520 But, I have a feeling that there were enough people involved in decision making that they knew it was way more dangerous than medicine in general.

00:58:13.100 Still worthwhile, in their opinion.

00:58:18.280 But, they never could have sold that to the public.

00:58:24.140 Adam is saying, Scott's finally waking up to people lying.

00:58:28.820 Finally, I've learned that lesson.

00:58:31.720 I've lived my whole life without understanding that people can lie.

00:58:38.100 Risk of losing credibility is too high?

00:58:40.300 Nope.

00:58:41.640 Nope.

00:58:42.020 Apparently, the risk of losing credibility is not driving anything.

00:58:46.540 Because, their credibility is gone.

00:58:49.540 You can't lose what you didn't have.

00:58:58.680 Scott wants to kill the young and strong to save the old and weak.

00:59:04.000 There's your mind reading of the day.

00:59:07.200 Incorrect, of course.

00:59:08.100 I've said explicitly that one of the reasons that I volunteered to get the vaccination is that it would save other people.

00:59:17.020 Not necessarily just older people.

00:59:21.340 They don't care about credibility, yeah.

00:59:23.080 It is weird how often our public servants lie.

00:59:29.600 Yeah, for various reasons.

00:59:31.360 Either for their own or they think it's for our good.

00:59:34.700 You know the old line, you can't handle the truth?

00:59:37.120 That's true.

00:59:38.120 That's true.

00:59:49.640 All right.

00:59:51.720 How about...

00:59:53.480 Do you have any questions?

00:59:55.220 Because I think I'm done with my prepared thoughts.

00:59:58.460 How angry are the kids about all this?

01:00:02.700 I think they're just used to it.

01:00:05.200 I think they're used to it.

01:00:06.420 I'm going to give you a story that drives a lot of my decision-making.

01:00:15.280 It's called the Indian Elephant Trainer.

01:00:20.700 So over in India, there are some people who train elephants.

01:00:24.980 And one of the things that always confused me is,

01:00:27.320 why does a big old elephant do what a tiny human being tells it to do

01:00:32.000 instead of just, like, killing the human?

01:00:35.520 And the answer is that they train them when they're babies.

01:00:38.560 So the elephant trainer, you know,

01:00:40.640 is going to be beaten on the baby elephant, you know,

01:00:43.860 to make it do what he wants it to do

01:00:45.780 until the baby elephant is afraid of it.

01:00:48.740 And then the elephant grows up and it still thinks

01:00:50.800 that this little tiny human can hurt it.

01:00:53.940 Well, it can hurt it if the elephant doesn't fight back. 0.91

01:00:57.600 But if it did fight back, it wouldn't be a fair fight, right?

01:01:00.940 A human with a club versus elephant.

01:01:04.380 But this works because the elephant has been trained

01:01:07.900 that it is helpless to this little human.

01:01:13.300 That's us right now.

01:01:15.280 We're the elephant, the public.

01:01:17.880 The government is the tiny little human

01:01:21.120 who's been beating us since we were children.

01:01:24.840 And when they tell us to lock down, we're that elephant.

01:01:29.020 And we're like, okay, they beat me when I was a baby,

01:01:33.940 and now they're saying they're going to beat me again.

01:01:36.800 They're locked down.

01:01:39.260 But don't forget, don't ever forget,

01:01:43.800 you're the fucking elephant. 0.83

01:01:46.680 The government is that thing that you can squash with your foot.

01:01:51.380 But the elephant can't do shit

01:01:56.460 unless all the parts of the elephant

01:01:59.300 are thinking the same way, right?

01:02:02.480 So we're an elephant,

01:02:03.960 but we're an elephant that hasn't made up its mind.

01:02:07.160 Or it's been trained not to think.

01:02:11.100 The elephant is getting ready to wake up.

01:02:14.020 So you could talk all day about me waking up,

01:02:18.320 but I'm not your problem.

01:02:20.740 The fucking elephant is waking up.

01:02:23.200 And the elephant is going to get rid of the mandates, 0.86

01:02:26.740 it's going to get rid of the masks,

01:02:28.380 when it's ready.

01:02:30.540 So just remember,

01:02:32.540 you're the elephant.

01:02:34.660 You have all the power.

01:02:37.240 You have all the power.

01:02:38.420 You just have to get it organized

01:02:41.320 and move in the right direction.

01:02:43.100 So that's your thought of the day.

01:02:44.860 You are the elephant.

01:02:46.460 And on that,

01:02:47.600 have a great weekend.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 11, 2021

Episode 1589 Scott Adams： Get in Here Now!

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