Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1600 Scott Adams： Let's Make Fun of All the Stupid People in Charge Today

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00:00:48.160 Oh, okay. I almost spit my coffee on my notes because I saw a meme go by the locals platform of Pevis and Podhead. I don't even know what that meme is about. It's so damn funny. I can't look at it anymore. I can't look at it. All right.

00:01:15.020 I saw a little news item that fossil hunters have found a fossilized human skull. Or was it human? Was it human? That's the question. It might represent an entirely new species of humanoid-like creatures, thus rewriting everything we know about the history of humankind. But I caught this little note, sort of just

00:01:45.020 sitting in the middle. Sitting in the middle of an article that said that we know that Neanderthals had bigger brains than we do. Wait, what? Wait, Neanderthals had bigger brains? That would explain everything. Do you ever wonder why it is that we don't know how to make a pyramid?

00:02:03.340 I mean, we could do it with modern equipment. I mean, we could do it with modern equipment. But we wouldn't know how to make a pyramid if we had to do it with, you know, the ancient tools.

00:02:13.980 And I've always speculated that, you know, maybe it was aliens that taught them how to do it. Maybe. Maybe. Can't rule it out.

00:02:22.240 But I've also speculated the other more obvious explanation is that people used to be smarter.

00:02:27.780 And that we're just getting dumber every year.

00:02:31.680 Why do I say that?

00:02:33.760 Because I'm not sure intelligence is quite as related to...

00:02:38.900 I don't think it's related to fitness.

00:02:44.040 Are humans more fit than, let's say, an oyster?

00:02:49.500 Well, I don't know. Fit for what?

00:02:51.860 Depends on what you want to do. Go to space? Yeah.

00:02:53.880 I would pick the human over the oyster.

00:02:56.180 But for just living a life and reproducing, which is sort of the goal of life, to reproduce,

00:03:02.960 oh, oyster does fine. It's doing fine.

00:03:06.960 So I think intelligence is overrated and largely unnecessary for evolution.

00:03:15.320 I don't think that the smartest people necessarily are the ones that are the most successful.

00:03:23.880 If you were to look at Earth today, and you were to divide the people by the smartest,

00:03:31.420 all the smartest people, and you put them in one bucket,

00:03:35.060 and then take all the people who are less than the smartest people and put them in another bucket,

00:03:40.420 which one has the highest reproduction rate? 0.99

00:03:45.300 Am I right?

00:03:46.220 Yeah.

00:03:47.180 Yeah.

00:03:47.940 The low IQ people have a far higher reproduction rate. 0.88

00:03:52.280 Because once you get smart, I don't know, maybe you get selfish or something.

00:03:57.320 Once you're smart, you're richer, especially if you have money, you end up having fewer kids.

00:04:03.560 So everything that we witness would suggest that we're evolving dumber,

00:04:07.840 and that whatever it was that made us smart at one point in our human evolution,

00:04:12.900 or whatever made Neanderthals have bigger brains. 0.57

00:04:16.460 Now here I'm making a big assumption that the bigger brain makes you smarter.

00:04:21.400 Am I okay with that assumption?

00:04:23.880 Does the bigger brain make you smarter pretty much all the time?

00:04:27.320 I guess it would depend on how many folds you had, right?

00:04:31.380 But I don't know if, is there an example of the opposite?

00:04:36.340 Is there anything that has a bigger brain than humans?

00:04:38.820 Can somebody tell me?

00:04:39.840 Fact check me.

00:04:41.360 What has a bigger brain than a human?

00:04:44.180 Somebody says dolphins?

00:04:46.500 Whales?

00:04:48.400 Elephants?

00:04:49.760 Is that true?

00:04:52.280 Huh.

00:04:53.840 Somebody says elephants have bigger brains than humans.

00:04:58.400 Huh.

00:04:59.580 Interesting.

00:05:00.020 All right, so maybe the Neanderthals were dumber than us, 0.92

00:05:03.680 but I think it's funny to think that they might have been smarter,

00:05:06.040 and we're just getting dumber every year.

00:05:07.700 So I wouldn't call it a theory on my part.

00:05:11.520 More of a humorous observation.

00:05:14.720 Over in Japan, they're going to start not selling

00:05:17.480 large-sized McDonald's french fries

00:05:21.380 because of the shortage.

00:05:24.060 I don't know if it's a shortage of potatoes

00:05:25.840 or whatever the hell they make their french fries out of,

00:05:28.880 if it's potatoes.

00:05:30.520 I hope it is.

00:05:32.740 But now only small fries.

00:05:34.600 So if you go into a McDonald's in Japan

00:05:37.240 and you happen to get the Omicron virus while you're there

00:05:42.260 and a small french fry,

00:05:43.820 they now have a branding for that.

00:05:47.720 That's called an unhappy meal.

00:05:50.220 Yeah.

00:05:50.540 Omicron plus small fries.

00:05:52.560 That's an unhappy meal.

00:05:54.800 TM.

00:05:58.040 Weirdly, CNN did a story today about their own fake news

00:06:02.400 without labeling it as incorrect news.

00:06:08.320 Somehow they covered their own fake news.

00:06:11.620 Here's what they did.

00:06:13.140 So you know the story from yesterday.

00:06:15.400 Jesse Waters was giving a speech the other day

00:06:17.740 and referred to a rhetorical kill shot,

00:06:21.300 meaning saying something that would shut somebody down

00:06:24.060 or end their career.

00:06:25.760 That, of course, got taken out of context by CNN,

00:06:29.600 who showed the kill shot part

00:06:31.760 as if it were a physical kill shot,

00:06:34.360 like, you know, do something bad to Dr. Fauci,

00:06:37.980 which you should not do.

00:06:39.460 And, of course, CNN reported that like that actually happened.

00:06:42.880 Now, it didn't take long for people like me

00:06:44.860 and people on social media

00:06:48.320 and then later Fox News itself

00:06:50.200 to debunk CNN

00:06:51.940 and to show the full video

00:06:54.220 that shows that their news coverage

00:06:56.040 was completely fake news.

00:06:58.580 So now you've got CNN

00:06:59.980 showing obviously fake news

00:07:02.160 and it's clear how they did it.

00:07:04.120 They just edited out the beginning part.

00:07:07.440 And then Fox News completely debunks it

00:07:12.060 by showing the part that was kept out

00:07:14.900 and, you know, and talking about it.

00:07:17.820 So what is CNN's move after that?

00:07:19.940 They've been completely debunked.

00:07:22.280 So what do you do?

00:07:23.680 Do you ignore it?

00:07:26.160 Well, it turns out that ignoring it

00:07:27.840 isn't good for clicks.

00:07:30.380 Because I clicked on it.

00:07:31.560 It was the first thing I clicked on this morning.

00:07:33.220 So instead, they cover the story

00:07:37.820 about their own fake news

00:07:39.900 without actually labeling it fake.

00:07:44.740 So they showed what they said

00:07:46.760 and then they showed what Fox News did

00:07:50.880 to debunk it.

00:07:52.340 So now they showed their own fake news.

00:07:55.040 They showed the debunk,

00:07:56.640 which is completely complete.

00:07:59.800 Like there's no ambiguity whatsoever.

00:08:01.780 It is debunked.

00:08:03.920 And then those weaselly fuckers, 0.97

00:08:08.620 they bring on a law enforcement expert

00:08:12.340 and they ask the expert

00:08:14.380 what he just saw and heard.

00:08:18.420 And the expert is like,

00:08:19.460 oh, I don't know.

00:08:20.840 I'm not so sure that that's safe.

00:08:23.960 Or words to that effect.

00:08:25.840 And here's the best part.

00:08:29.140 They refer to the expert

00:08:30.820 without showing what the expert actually said.

00:08:34.420 Because the expert didn't say anything

00:08:37.520 except more fake news, probably.

00:08:39.700 In other words,

00:08:40.820 in other words,

00:08:41.380 what the expert really said

00:08:42.820 was probably not the way

00:08:44.460 they characterized it.

00:08:46.400 They didn't show it.

00:08:47.620 How would I know?

00:08:49.100 So somehow,

00:08:50.820 this is like so mind-boggling.

00:08:52.800 And I think this is only possible

00:08:54.640 because CNN saw that they got away

00:08:57.120 with the fine people hoax.

00:08:59.500 If you can convince 50% or more,

00:09:02.980 maybe 60% of the public at one point,

00:09:05.680 if you can convince,

00:09:06.660 I'll bet even higher,

00:09:07.660 I'll bet 75% of the public at one point

00:09:10.320 believed CNN and their peers

00:09:14.500 that the president of the United States

00:09:17.200 went on live TV.

00:09:20.160 Just think about this.

00:09:21.220 Imagine if you were thinking about this

00:09:22.580 like 20 years from now

00:09:24.080 and somebody told you the story,

00:09:25.780 that the fake news convinced the public

00:09:28.160 that an American president

00:09:30.220 went on TV

00:09:31.640 and praised neo-Nazis

00:09:33.600 who were marching with tiki torches

00:09:35.760 and chanting anti-Semitic things.

00:09:39.680 And that CNN convinced you,

00:09:41.820 like actually convinced,

00:09:43.140 maybe not you,

00:09:44.500 but 75% of the country,

00:09:46.240 I would guess,

00:09:47.920 that that actually happened.

00:09:50.180 And here's the weird part.

00:09:51.900 All you had to do

00:09:52.600 was look at the video yourself

00:09:53.880 to see that it didn't happen.

00:09:55.260 In fact, the opposite had happened.

00:09:57.040 He had condemned them,

00:09:58.200 not praised them.

00:09:58.900 Now, once they got away with that,

00:10:03.020 do you think there was any limit

00:10:04.980 to what they thought

00:10:05.640 they could get away with?

00:10:07.140 That was sort of the ultimate test case.

00:10:10.840 Because if that hadn't worked,

00:10:12.820 you know,

00:10:13.000 suppose the fine people hoax

00:10:14.780 had been debunked by more people

00:10:17.100 than, you know,

00:10:18.540 three people working hard at it,

00:10:20.120 basically is what happened.

00:10:21.120 If it had been debunked,

00:10:23.940 they would do the same thing

00:10:24.960 they did with this Jesse Waters story.

00:10:27.500 They would just say,

00:10:28.540 ah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

00:10:29.620 go to the next story.

00:10:30.860 It wouldn't matter at all.

00:10:32.320 So they didn't have any downside

00:10:34.040 for trying this fine people hoax.

00:10:37.600 And then it worked.

00:10:39.420 Against all common sense,

00:10:40.980 it worked.

00:10:42.120 How in the world could that work?

00:10:44.320 You just had to look at the video.

00:10:45.720 But because there were

00:10:47.160 so many more fake videos,

00:10:49.520 the edited version,

00:10:50.920 than full videos,

00:10:52.280 it actually probably still

00:10:54.640 half of the country thinks it's true.

00:10:56.580 Now, I do think that we,

00:10:58.020 you know, we collectively,

00:10:59.800 a lot of you helped,

00:11:01.360 you know,

00:11:01.940 knocked it down from 75 to,

00:11:04.560 I don't know, 30%.

00:11:05.720 I don't know how many people

00:11:06.920 still believe that.

00:11:08.500 But man, once that's true,

00:11:10.160 you can just make up stories

00:11:12.440 because you've proven

00:11:14.120 that it won't matter

00:11:15.860 if it's true.

00:11:17.600 It just didn't matter at all.

00:11:20.780 So that's just amazing.

00:11:22.280 It's just mind-boggling

00:11:23.420 to watch them

00:11:24.140 literally make up news

00:11:25.540 and then show the video

00:11:28.240 that shows that it's fake

00:11:29.400 and then go on with it

00:11:31.340 like it's still real.

00:11:33.160 Unbelievable.

00:11:33.980 I mean, I don't even know

00:11:34.620 what to say about that.

00:11:35.380 It is so extreme

00:11:37.520 that your brain

00:11:38.700 almost can't hold it

00:11:39.880 as a problem.

00:11:41.660 It's like too big.

00:11:44.120 All right.

00:11:48.080 You want to hear

00:11:48.800 the best news that,

00:11:50.320 no, the best idea

00:11:51.340 that I've heard

00:11:51.980 in a long time?

00:11:53.280 Because you always

00:11:54.000 think to yourself,

00:11:54.720 well, how would you

00:11:55.400 replace the news?

00:11:57.280 What would be a model

00:11:58.340 that would be better

00:12:00.040 than the news?

00:12:01.120 And my big problem

00:12:02.500 with the news,

00:12:03.560 and it doesn't matter

00:12:04.180 if it's left or right,

00:12:05.220 same problem,

00:12:06.340 is they tend to bring on

00:12:07.740 people who have

00:12:08.540 one point of view

00:12:09.360 and then somebody

00:12:10.780 who doesn't really

00:12:11.400 understand much

00:12:12.100 about the topic,

00:12:12.980 asks a bunch of questions,

00:12:14.720 and then we're done.

00:12:16.540 And all you get

00:12:17.320 is some misleading

00:12:18.180 one person's view

00:12:19.460 with no sense

00:12:20.680 that there's

00:12:21.120 a counter-argument.

00:12:23.200 So the model

00:12:24.240 of the news,

00:12:25.620 completely broken.

00:12:28.060 What would be

00:12:28.960 a good way

00:12:29.440 to fix the news

00:12:31.520 so that people

00:12:32.300 were actually informed

00:12:33.420 and wanted

00:12:34.800 to consume the news?

00:12:35.980 Because you don't

00:12:36.380 want to make it boring.

00:12:37.740 If you make the news

00:12:38.700 boring like the old days,

00:12:40.000 nobody's going

00:12:40.560 to watch it.

00:12:41.960 So it's got

00:12:42.640 to be interesting

00:12:43.400 and it's got

00:12:44.760 to solve that problem

00:12:45.820 of one expert

00:12:46.720 talking with no

00:12:47.680 counterpoint.

00:12:50.200 And there is

00:12:50.880 a solution.

00:12:53.340 So I'm going

00:12:54.140 to describe

00:12:55.000 to you a solution

00:12:56.020 that once you hear

00:12:57.920 it, you're going

00:12:58.380 to say,

00:12:58.680 I think you're

00:12:59.200 going to have

00:12:59.320 the same reaction

00:13:00.420 I did.

00:13:01.300 You're going

00:13:01.660 to say to yourself,

00:13:02.500 wait a minute,

00:13:03.800 that would work.

00:13:05.440 Not only would it

00:13:06.360 work,

00:13:07.460 it would work

00:13:08.060 great.

00:13:08.540 Now, I've built

00:13:10.560 it up.

00:13:10.860 Do you think

00:13:11.160 I can deliver?

00:13:12.920 I just told you

00:13:13.900 that I'm going

00:13:14.380 to give you

00:13:14.920 an idea that

00:13:15.680 would virtually

00:13:16.820 replace 60%

00:13:19.360 of what the news

00:13:20.160 does, which is

00:13:21.180 help you understand

00:13:22.200 the topic.

00:13:23.160 So it wouldn't

00:13:23.800 replace breaking

00:13:24.700 news.

00:13:25.820 So it wouldn't

00:13:26.400 be acquiring

00:13:27.280 the news.

00:13:28.240 It would be

00:13:28.960 helping you

00:13:29.520 interpret it,

00:13:30.720 which is 80%

00:13:32.340 of what the news

00:13:32.820 does.

00:13:34.020 Are you ready?

00:13:35.020 That's my challenge

00:13:35.980 to you.

00:13:36.640 I'm going to give

00:13:37.160 you an idea that

00:13:37.860 would replace

00:13:38.580 the news

00:13:39.220 is completely

00:13:40.820 practical.

00:13:43.080 Completely

00:13:43.520 practical.

00:13:44.400 Could be done

00:13:44.940 by the end

00:13:45.340 of the year.

00:13:46.220 Completely

00:13:46.660 changing the

00:13:47.500 landscape of

00:13:48.120 news.

00:13:48.380 You ready?

00:13:49.560 All right,

00:13:49.960 this is not

00:13:50.520 my idea.

00:13:52.260 All right,

00:13:52.440 this is from

00:13:53.120 Paul Collider.

00:13:54.480 Paul, I know

00:13:55.120 you're watching

00:13:55.520 right now because

00:13:56.240 I saw your

00:13:56.840 comment.

00:13:58.600 So Paul suggests

00:13:59.660 that someone

00:14:00.400 should start a

00:14:01.000 crowdfund debate

00:14:02.220 platform.

00:14:03.360 In other words,

00:14:04.020 if you raise

00:14:04.560 enough money,

00:14:06.120 you can say

00:14:06.980 Scott Adams

00:14:08.440 will debate

00:14:09.300 John Dvorak

00:14:11.500 or Sam

00:14:14.640 Harris will

00:14:15.340 debate

00:14:15.960 Joe Rogan.

00:14:18.840 Whatever.

00:14:20.120 And neither

00:14:20.840 of the participants

00:14:21.600 has to agree

00:14:22.340 to this,

00:14:22.980 right?

00:14:23.720 They could just

00:14:24.500 be people who

00:14:25.320 exist and you

00:14:26.100 think, you know,

00:14:26.980 I would love

00:14:27.940 to see a debate

00:14:29.240 between Bjorn

00:14:30.820 Lomborg and

00:14:32.980 Greta, right?

00:14:35.460 Or Michael

00:14:36.600 Schellenberger and

00:14:38.080 anybody who has

00:14:40.460 dumb ideas,

00:14:41.440 basically, about

00:14:43.320 either climate

00:14:44.540 change or how

00:14:45.340 to fix, you

00:14:45.940 know, the

00:14:46.760 homeless problem

00:14:47.540 and the addiction

00:14:48.060 problem in San

00:14:48.760 Francisco.

00:14:49.220 He's got a lot

00:14:49.660 of topics.

00:14:50.740 But I would

00:14:51.400 watch him.

00:14:52.740 I would pay.

00:14:53.880 I would actually

00:14:54.420 pay.

00:14:55.420 I would put in

00:14:56.020 serious money to

00:14:58.020 watch a debate

00:14:59.920 of two people

00:15:01.300 that I actually

00:15:01.920 thought would be

00:15:02.720 a good point

00:15:03.500 and counterpoint.

00:15:05.440 All right?

00:15:06.820 Did I deliver?

00:15:09.400 So I made a

00:15:10.800 huge, a huge

00:15:12.680 promise that I

00:15:14.380 would tell you

00:15:14.820 something that

00:15:15.300 could deliver

00:15:15.820 the, virtually

00:15:18.100 overtake the

00:15:19.560 entire news

00:15:20.280 industry in a

00:15:21.180 year.

00:15:22.400 That would

00:15:23.060 work, wouldn't

00:15:24.120 it?

00:15:24.640 So, Paul

00:15:26.580 Collider, you

00:15:27.640 should follow

00:15:28.080 him.

00:15:29.300 He's at

00:15:29.820 Paul Collider,

00:15:31.620 so it's

00:15:31.940 Paul, the

00:15:32.620 normal spelling,

00:15:34.060 C-O-L-L-I-D-E-R. 1.00

00:15:37.800 He has lots of

00:15:38.640 good ideas, so

00:15:39.480 you should

00:15:39.860 follow him.

00:15:41.820 I don't think I

00:15:42.680 can think of

00:15:43.120 anything wrong

00:15:43.600 with that idea,

00:15:44.160 can you?

00:15:44.920 I literally

00:15:45.640 can't think of

00:15:46.240 one thing wrong

00:15:47.000 with it.

00:15:48.380 Can anybody?

00:15:50.260 Have you ever

00:15:50.880 seen an idea

00:15:51.480 that had nothing

00:15:52.040 wrong with it?

00:15:53.720 That's completely

00:15:54.560 practical and you

00:15:55.500 could do it

00:15:55.880 overnight?

00:15:56.200 In fact, one

00:15:57.500 of you could

00:15:57.920 do it today.

00:15:59.580 Is there

00:16:00.040 anything that

00:16:00.460 would stop

00:16:00.940 you from, I

00:16:03.240 don't know if

00:16:03.540 there are

00:16:03.780 existing fundraisers

00:16:05.160 that do that?

00:16:11.740 The idea

00:16:12.540 needs to be

00:16:13.040 dumber or

00:16:13.520 people won't

00:16:13.960 accept it,

00:16:14.900 somebody said.

00:16:17.040 All right,

00:16:17.740 the platform

00:16:19.440 and moderator

00:16:20.160 will skew the 0.90

00:16:21.180 direction of the

00:16:22.160 debate.

00:16:22.560 debate.

00:16:24.200 Maybe, but

00:16:25.080 you can have

00:16:25.460 as many

00:16:25.760 debates as

00:16:26.260 you want.

00:16:27.060 If you're

00:16:27.420 not happy

00:16:27.940 with the

00:16:28.320 debate that

00:16:29.300 got funded

00:16:29.820 and happened,

00:16:31.640 then make

00:16:33.240 your own

00:16:33.740 debate.

00:16:35.220 Come up

00:16:35.580 with your

00:16:35.860 own.

00:16:36.700 I don't

00:16:36.960 know,

00:16:37.120 dollars,

00:16:37.600 too much

00:16:37.900 influence.

00:16:39.080 Is that

00:16:39.580 the worst

00:16:39.980 we can come

00:16:40.580 up with?

00:16:41.460 You know,

00:16:42.040 I don't know

00:16:42.500 if the

00:16:42.740 dollars would

00:16:43.240 have too

00:16:43.540 much influence

00:16:44.140 because the

00:16:46.280 crowdfunding is

00:16:47.160 small donations,

00:16:48.540 right?

00:16:49.280 So there's no

00:16:50.120 donor who would

00:16:50.960 be able to

00:16:51.400 influence things.

00:16:53.100 I suppose

00:16:53.800 some whale

00:16:54.600 could come

00:16:55.020 in with a

00:16:55.380 big donation.

00:16:56.980 Yeah,

00:16:57.300 I don't know,

00:16:57.660 it seems like

00:16:58.100 an amazing

00:16:59.660 idea to me.

00:17:00.360 We should

00:17:00.600 try it.

00:17:02.080 All right,

00:17:02.620 so I guess

00:17:06.020 Jack Dorsey

00:17:06.640 made a big

00:17:07.620 prediction.

00:17:08.220 He says that

00:17:08.860 Bitcoin will

00:17:09.840 replace the

00:17:10.480 U.S.

00:17:10.800 dollar at

00:17:11.420 some point.

00:17:12.600 What do you

00:17:13.000 think?

00:17:13.780 How many of

00:17:14.420 you think

00:17:14.800 Bitcoin will

00:17:15.800 replace the

00:17:16.720 U.S.

00:17:17.200 dollar?

00:17:17.440 Well, the

00:17:23.060 U.S.

00:17:23.440 dollar is

00:17:25.940 almost a

00:17:26.600 digital currency,

00:17:28.380 is it not?

00:17:31.040 If you pay

00:17:31.880 somebody today,

00:17:32.820 are you likely

00:17:33.440 to write a

00:17:34.060 check, hand

00:17:35.640 them cash, or

00:17:36.860 use something

00:17:37.540 like Venmo or

00:17:38.780 Zelle?

00:17:40.680 Don't you do

00:17:41.300 most of your

00:17:42.080 payments digitally?

00:17:46.720 I mean,

00:17:47.200 young people

00:17:47.640 do, so I

00:17:49.140 mean, some

00:17:49.480 of you aren't

00:17:50.020 there yet.

00:17:51.380 But what

00:17:52.700 would be the

00:17:53.100 difference

00:17:53.500 between, the

00:17:56.240 functional

00:17:56.620 difference,

00:17:57.440 between Bitcoin

00:17:58.620 and just a

00:17:59.780 digital version

00:18:00.580 of cash?

00:18:01.580 Is it just

00:18:02.060 the tracking

00:18:02.620 part?

00:18:04.180 Is that the

00:18:04.600 only difference?

00:18:07.860 Well, if the

00:18:08.760 U.S.

00:18:09.320 decides to

00:18:09.980 accept Bitcoin

00:18:11.020 in payment

00:18:12.180 for taxes,

00:18:13.680 then that's

00:18:14.900 the point at

00:18:15.440 which I'd

00:18:15.820 say, ooh,

00:18:17.060 we're heading

00:18:17.480 in that

00:18:17.780 direction.

00:18:18.560 So if you

00:18:18.940 want to see

00:18:19.320 if Jack

00:18:20.260 Dorsey's

00:18:21.060 prediction

00:18:22.340 comes true,

00:18:23.120 I don't think

00:18:23.500 it's going to

00:18:23.760 happen this

00:18:24.820 year.

00:18:25.640 It might

00:18:25.880 take a

00:18:26.180 while.

00:18:26.820 But I

00:18:27.480 would wait

00:18:27.920 to see if

00:18:28.740 the U.S.

00:18:29.280 starts accepting

00:18:30.160 Bitcoin for

00:18:31.660 tax payments.

00:18:32.960 And I'm

00:18:33.220 guessing that

00:18:33.740 they, that's

00:18:34.540 a tough sell,

00:18:35.320 isn't it?

00:18:36.320 Because Bitcoin

00:18:37.220 could fluctuate,

00:18:38.120 so the

00:18:38.480 government wouldn't

00:18:39.240 know if

00:18:40.500 it's,

00:18:41.020 getting 30%

00:18:42.720 more than

00:18:43.260 it thought

00:18:43.680 or 30%

00:18:44.400 less.

00:18:44.900 That might

00:18:45.140 be a little,

00:18:46.240 they might

00:18:46.720 have to

00:18:47.140 feather that

00:18:48.200 in.

00:18:49.280 You know,

00:18:49.440 try it a

00:18:49.900 little bit

00:18:50.220 with 5%

00:18:51.060 of the

00:18:51.320 revenue or

00:18:51.780 something,

00:18:52.380 see what

00:18:52.780 happens.

00:18:54.520 Here's my

00:18:55.260 prediction on

00:18:55.860 Bitcoin.

00:18:57.440 Bitcoin has

00:18:58.480 now reached

00:18:59.480 a point where

00:19:00.560 money professionals

00:19:02.140 will start

00:19:03.400 recommending it

00:19:04.300 as a small

00:19:05.000 part of your

00:19:05.900 diversified

00:19:07.020 portfolio.

00:19:07.700 Would you say

00:19:09.600 that's happened

00:19:10.100 yet?

00:19:11.020 Maybe in

00:19:11.420 some circles

00:19:12.880 it's happening.

00:19:14.160 How many

00:19:14.780 of you hold

00:19:15.500 Bitcoin already

00:19:16.840 just as a

00:19:19.540 small part

00:19:20.120 of a bigger

00:19:22.220 portfolio?

00:19:23.980 Lots of

00:19:24.460 yeses.

00:19:26.060 Plenty of

00:19:26.720 no's, but I'm

00:19:27.420 seeing lots

00:19:27.860 of yeses.

00:19:30.160 So here's

00:19:30.940 what I think.

00:19:31.420 I think if I

00:19:32.420 had to guess,

00:19:33.800 and this is

00:19:34.180 just a guess,

00:19:34.960 if you're

00:19:35.420 watching me

00:19:35.960 here on this

00:19:36.740 platform,

00:19:38.560 you're probably

00:19:39.220 a little bit

00:19:39.940 more advanced

00:19:40.640 than a lot

00:19:41.440 of the country

00:19:41.940 in terms of

00:19:43.240 technology.

00:19:44.100 You're a little

00:19:44.600 more comfortable

00:19:45.200 with it because

00:19:45.800 you're watching

00:19:46.840 a live stream.

00:19:48.220 That puts you

00:19:48.780 in the top 50%

00:19:49.900 of people who

00:19:51.280 are comfortable

00:19:51.680 with technology.

00:19:52.960 But we'll reach

00:19:53.760 a point fairly

00:19:54.540 quickly where it

00:19:55.580 would simply be

00:19:56.300 irrational not to

00:19:57.280 hold any Bitcoin.

00:19:58.900 How many think

00:19:59.580 that's true?

00:20:01.020 How many think

00:20:01.600 it's a fair

00:20:02.480 assumption that

00:20:03.840 sometime pretty

00:20:04.920 quickly if we're

00:20:05.640 not already

00:20:06.100 there, you're

00:20:07.240 going to have

00:20:07.680 to hold a

00:20:08.220 little bit of

00:20:08.740 Bitcoin.

00:20:10.500 So if I had

00:20:11.380 to guess what's

00:20:12.060 going to happen

00:20:12.460 with the price

00:20:13.140 of Bitcoin,

00:20:14.180 I would say

00:20:15.040 you're going to

00:20:15.500 have to include

00:20:16.560 this once-ever

00:20:17.780 shift.

00:20:19.880 So in the life

00:20:20.840 of Bitcoin,

00:20:21.480 there will be

00:20:21.800 one time,

00:20:23.260 and I think

00:20:23.740 we're in the

00:20:24.540 middle of it

00:20:24.960 right now,

00:20:25.960 where it shifts

00:20:26.620 from risky

00:20:27.620 to, wait for

00:20:29.420 it, it's going

00:20:31.240 to shift from

00:20:31.860 a risky asset

00:20:33.380 to one that

00:20:35.700 reduces risk.

00:20:38.520 The only way

00:20:39.320 it reduces risk

00:20:40.100 is being part,

00:20:41.060 a small part

00:20:41.680 of a larger

00:20:42.720 portfolio,

00:20:43.660 because then

00:20:44.080 you've got

00:20:45.100 balance about

00:20:45.760 your risks.

00:20:46.780 Am I right?

00:20:48.280 That Bitcoin

00:20:48.960 is right on

00:20:49.860 the edge of

00:20:50.980 moving from

00:20:51.580 risky asset

00:20:52.440 to an asset

00:20:53.600 which common

00:20:55.520 sense might not

00:20:56.320 get you there

00:20:56.920 right away,

00:20:57.820 but actually

00:20:58.420 will reduce

00:20:59.280 your risk by

00:21:00.600 being a good

00:21:01.180 part of a

00:21:01.740 portfolio that

00:21:02.680 moves in

00:21:03.700 different ways

00:21:04.200 depending on

00:21:04.740 what's happening

00:21:05.200 in the world.

00:21:07.280 So that's why

00:21:08.140 I own it.

00:21:09.080 I own it

00:21:09.600 because I think

00:21:10.220 that's a

00:21:11.460 one-time-ever

00:21:12.520 gigantic shift

00:21:14.500 coming where

00:21:15.300 just everybody

00:21:15.820 has to have

00:21:16.380 a little bit

00:21:16.800 of Bitcoin.

00:21:19.200 All right.

00:21:20.240 And of course

00:21:21.160 there's a

00:21:21.520 learning curve

00:21:22.180 how to open

00:21:24.000 up a wallet,

00:21:25.380 how to manage

00:21:26.160 your crypto,

00:21:27.180 et cetera.

00:21:27.780 But I think

00:21:28.420 that will also

00:21:28.980 get solved

00:21:29.880 by the market.

00:21:30.920 I think you'll

00:21:31.420 get better

00:21:31.780 wallets and

00:21:32.360 you'll get

00:21:32.760 more trusts

00:21:34.700 or some

00:21:36.260 version of

00:21:36.700 a trust

00:21:37.200 where somebody's

00:21:38.500 holding your

00:21:38.940 Bitcoin for you,

00:21:40.220 maybe it's

00:21:40.760 insured against

00:21:41.500 loss.

00:21:42.040 You know,

00:21:42.200 you get that

00:21:42.620 sort of thing,

00:21:43.540 I think.

00:21:45.160 I don't think

00:21:46.060 Bitcoin in its

00:21:47.620 native form,

00:21:49.380 the way it is

00:21:49.960 now,

00:21:50.380 can quite be

00:21:51.400 a replacement

00:21:52.120 for the

00:21:53.380 U.S. dollar.

00:21:54.620 You need a

00:21:55.180 whole bunch of

00:21:55.800 supporting structure

00:21:57.240 around that,

00:21:57.940 I think.

00:21:59.080 That's what I

00:21:59.760 think.

00:22:00.380 All right.

00:22:02.340 I saw the

00:22:03.340 funniest horrible

00:22:04.560 meme today,

00:22:05.520 and it's so

00:22:06.180 horrible I'm

00:22:06.920 going to tell

00:22:07.300 you about it.

00:22:08.340 But funny.

00:22:10.500 So this is

00:22:11.620 really,

00:22:12.160 it's really

00:22:13.460 a bad,

00:22:14.420 bad thing,

00:22:15.080 and if you

00:22:16.180 laugh at this,

00:22:17.200 well, I think

00:22:17.780 that says

00:22:18.220 something about

00:22:18.880 you.

00:22:20.120 And what it

00:22:20.620 would say about

00:22:21.200 you if you

00:22:21.700 laugh about

00:22:22.160 this is that

00:22:22.840 you're a lot

00:22:23.380 like me and

00:22:24.060 we could be

00:22:24.540 friends.

00:22:25.680 Because this

00:22:26.320 is horrible.

00:22:26.980 funny,

00:22:29.560 but horrible.

00:22:31.500 All right,

00:22:32.160 this is from

00:22:32.680 a meme I

00:22:33.200 saw today.

00:22:34.500 It was about

00:22:35.040 Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:22:36.020 It says,

00:22:37.320 this man

00:22:37.920 proved you

00:22:38.500 can't even

00:22:38.940 fire into

00:22:39.500 a crowd of

00:22:40.320 Democrats

00:22:40.840 without hitting

00:22:42.160 pedophiles,

00:22:43.020 women beaters,

00:22:43.840 and illegally

00:22:44.400 armed felons.

00:22:48.040 If you

00:22:48.720 laughed at

00:22:49.180 that,

00:22:50.280 you're a

00:22:50.740 horrible,

00:22:51.400 horrible person.

00:22:52.900 And we

00:22:53.300 can be

00:22:53.640 friends.

00:22:54.880 We could

00:22:55.240 be close

00:22:55.680 friends.

00:22:56.040 And it's

00:23:01.920 funny because

00:23:02.580 it's sort

00:23:03.140 of true-ish.

00:23:04.560 I mean,

00:23:05.000 it's not

00:23:05.300 true-true,

00:23:06.040 but it's

00:23:06.800 true-ish,

00:23:07.540 which is

00:23:07.860 what makes

00:23:08.240 something

00:23:08.500 funny.

00:23:11.320 All right,

00:23:12.080 Biden was

00:23:13.260 talking yesterday,

00:23:14.400 talked about

00:23:14.780 the supply

00:23:15.340 chain,

00:23:16.060 and there's

00:23:16.780 some improvement

00:23:17.800 there.

00:23:19.420 And there's

00:23:20.420 something he

00:23:21.260 claimed that

00:23:22.920 I wondered

00:23:23.860 if it's true.

00:23:24.800 and I'll

00:23:26.600 run it

00:23:26.880 by you.

00:23:27.260 He said

00:23:27.560 that even

00:23:27.900 though there

00:23:28.300 are supply

00:23:29.600 chain problems

00:23:30.300 with ports,

00:23:31.860 he said the

00:23:32.340 ports of

00:23:32.760 Los Angeles

00:23:33.300 and Long

00:23:33.720 Beach that

00:23:34.560 handle 40%

00:23:35.420 of the

00:23:35.660 nation's

00:23:36.220 containers

00:23:36.900 moved 15%

00:23:39.160 more containers

00:23:40.380 between January

00:23:41.880 and November

00:23:42.380 this year

00:23:42.880 than the

00:23:44.580 previous record

00:23:45.640 in 2018.

00:23:48.500 I don't know

00:23:49.240 why 2018

00:23:49.800 was the

00:23:50.280 record.

00:23:50.800 I guess,

00:23:51.880 what was

00:23:52.400 wrong with

00:23:52.740 2019?

00:23:54.360 But in

00:23:55.120 2018,

00:23:56.920 we had a

00:23:57.500 record and

00:23:57.920 we moved

00:23:58.520 more than

00:23:59.020 that.

00:24:00.280 So is the

00:24:02.280 real problem

00:24:02.840 just that

00:24:03.380 there's more

00:24:03.840 stuff?

00:24:05.920 Is that

00:24:06.460 pretty much

00:24:07.240 the whole

00:24:07.480 problem?

00:24:07.940 There's just

00:24:08.300 more stuff

00:24:09.020 and that's

00:24:09.960 it?

00:24:10.140 I see

00:24:11.180 Karen saying

00:24:11.960 he's right.

00:24:14.120 I wonder

00:24:14.620 if that's

00:24:14.960 right.

00:24:15.860 I mean,

00:24:16.320 I imagine

00:24:16.740 it would be

00:24:17.260 a pretty

00:24:17.800 bold thing

00:24:18.480 to say

00:24:18.780 in public

00:24:19.180 if it

00:24:19.540 were not

00:24:20.540 true.

00:24:21.640 But surprise

00:24:22.540 me.

00:24:23.480 So that

00:24:24.020 changes my

00:24:24.720 feeling about

00:24:25.460 the bottleneck.

00:24:28.780 You know,

00:24:29.100 a bottleneck

00:24:29.860 that's based

00:24:30.460 on incompetence

00:24:31.580 alone is

00:24:32.900 really bothersome

00:24:33.740 to me.

00:24:34.940 Because I'm

00:24:35.560 like,

00:24:35.800 ah,

00:24:36.900 fix that

00:24:37.640 incompetence.

00:24:38.840 But a

00:24:39.220 bottleneck that's

00:24:40.120 caused by

00:24:40.700 unprecedented

00:24:41.680 greater

00:24:43.300 GDP

00:24:44.240 activity,

00:24:46.440 I'm willing

00:24:47.880 to wait

00:24:48.260 that out a

00:24:48.800 little bit.

00:24:50.120 You know

00:24:50.380 what I mean?

00:24:51.420 It's the

00:24:51.820 difference between

00:24:52.560 waiting out

00:24:53.300 good news

00:24:53.800 and waiting

00:24:54.180 out bad

00:24:54.640 news.

00:24:55.780 If it's

00:24:56.140 just a

00:24:56.480 bottleneck

00:24:57.040 because we're

00:24:58.120 all incompetent

00:24:58.980 and we

00:24:59.280 didn't plan,

00:25:00.340 well,

00:25:00.620 I feel bad

00:25:01.160 about that.

00:25:02.400 But a

00:25:02.760 bottleneck

00:25:03.260 because we're

00:25:04.360 shipping and

00:25:05.380 selling more

00:25:06.000 stuff than

00:25:07.060 any time in

00:25:07.820 the history

00:25:08.200 of the

00:25:08.520 civilization

00:25:09.100 probably in

00:25:10.700 civilization,

00:25:11.760 but in

00:25:11.980 the United

00:25:12.260 States,

00:25:13.440 that's not

00:25:14.280 as bad,

00:25:15.000 is it?

00:25:16.780 I mean,

00:25:17.440 I still don't

00:25:17.940 have the

00:25:18.380 shampoo I

00:25:18.980 want,

00:25:20.160 and I have

00:25:20.860 to search

00:25:21.300 the world

00:25:21.660 to find a

00:25:22.140 protein bar

00:25:22.780 that I used

00:25:23.240 to get

00:25:23.700 easily.

00:25:24.480 So it's

00:25:24.960 still a big

00:25:25.640 pain in the

00:25:26.160 ass, 0.98

00:25:26.620 and I bought

00:25:27.440 at least two

00:25:29.240 items that I

00:25:29.960 won't see for

00:25:30.480 months.

00:25:32.280 Right?

00:25:32.720 And I know

00:25:33.260 that.

00:25:33.980 I mean,

00:25:34.180 I was told it

00:25:34.660 would be months.

00:25:35.280 So it is

00:25:37.160 inconvenient,

00:25:38.320 but if I

00:25:39.060 have to

00:25:39.400 suffer an

00:25:39.820 inconvenience,

00:25:40.640 this is the

00:25:41.080 one I want.

00:25:42.080 I want to

00:25:42.900 suffer the

00:25:43.360 inconvenience

00:25:43.980 where things

00:25:44.480 are going

00:25:44.820 so well we

00:25:45.440 can't handle

00:25:45.940 it.

00:25:47.840 Okay.

00:25:49.120 It does

00:25:49.780 change how I

00:25:50.280 feel about

00:25:50.920 it.

00:25:52.700 Well,

00:25:53.200 here's some

00:25:53.560 potential good

00:25:54.140 news.

00:25:54.780 After nearly

00:25:55.280 two years,

00:25:56.600 the scientists

00:25:57.120 at Walter

00:25:57.780 Reed have

00:25:59.680 come up with

00:26:00.360 what they

00:26:00.720 think will

00:26:02.060 be the

00:26:02.420 vaccine of

00:26:03.500 all vaccines.

00:26:04.320 The vaccine

00:26:05.040 that will

00:26:05.360 be the

00:26:05.920 one vaccine

00:26:06.600 you need

00:26:07.120 to ever

00:26:08.340 be protected

00:26:09.160 from COVID

00:26:09.800 and all

00:26:10.480 SARS variants.

00:26:12.560 The vaccine

00:26:13.240 of all

00:26:13.620 vaccines.

00:26:15.100 And it

00:26:15.500 looks like

00:26:15.860 they're going

00:26:16.760 to announce

00:26:17.300 that pretty

00:26:17.720 soon.

00:26:19.320 Would that

00:26:20.040 be amazing?

00:26:21.100 Because I

00:26:21.460 kind of think

00:26:22.040 it's going

00:26:22.380 to happen.

00:26:23.520 It would

00:26:23.860 be amazing

00:26:24.420 if what

00:26:25.160 came out

00:26:25.500 of the

00:26:25.680 pandemic

00:26:26.060 was a

00:26:26.620 cure for

00:26:27.140 all of

00:26:27.620 these

00:26:27.800 respiratory

00:26:28.260 problems.

00:26:29.560 I feel

00:26:30.300 like we're

00:26:30.680 almost there.

00:26:32.240 I think

00:26:32.780 we're at

00:26:33.200 the verge

00:26:33.740 of curing

00:26:34.600 the common

00:26:36.280 cold.

00:26:37.680 What would

00:26:38.260 the world

00:26:38.580 be like

00:26:39.140 if your

00:26:39.900 nose didn't

00:26:40.380 run all

00:26:40.780 the time

00:26:41.300 like mine?

00:26:43.500 I have

00:26:43.940 allergies as

00:26:44.620 well.

00:26:45.600 What if

00:26:46.360 they just

00:26:46.680 cured all

00:26:47.140 that?

00:26:48.180 I wouldn't

00:26:48.600 even know

00:26:49.000 what a

00:26:49.260 life would

00:26:49.680 look like

00:26:50.240 without

00:26:51.000 continuous

00:26:51.920 respiratory

00:26:52.740 problems.

00:26:54.380 To me,

00:26:54.860 that's just

00:26:55.180 part of the

00:26:55.740 baseline of

00:26:56.740 living,

00:26:57.500 respiratory

00:26:58.080 problems.

00:26:59.960 But maybe

00:27:00.640 it's all

00:27:00.940 going away.

00:27:01.400 I always

00:27:04.800 ask this

00:27:05.220 story,

00:27:05.640 how many

00:27:06.420 national

00:27:06.900 stories do

00:27:07.560 I become

00:27:08.000 part of?

00:27:09.360 It's weird,

00:27:09.960 I got

00:27:10.400 dragged into

00:27:10.940 the whole

00:27:11.280 Jesse

00:27:11.640 Waters

00:27:12.060 linguistic

00:27:13.340 kill shot

00:27:14.360 story.

00:27:16.400 So there

00:27:16.920 were stories

00:27:17.380 about that

00:27:17.980 story that

00:27:18.560 brought me

00:27:18.960 into the

00:27:19.340 story because

00:27:20.020 of my

00:27:20.340 comments

00:27:20.720 about the

00:27:21.160 story,

00:27:21.740 et cetera.

00:27:22.680 And I

00:27:23.900 want to

00:27:24.140 do a

00:27:24.360 little

00:27:24.520 experiment

00:27:25.040 because

00:27:27.080 while many

00:27:28.660 of you

00:27:28.920 know what

00:27:29.360 things I

00:27:29.840 have been

00:27:30.320 involved in,

00:27:31.620 there's a

00:27:32.340 lot of

00:27:32.640 things you

00:27:33.000 don't know

00:27:33.380 about.

00:27:35.840 Use your

00:27:36.560 imagination.

00:27:38.260 Just use

00:27:38.680 your imagination.

00:27:40.380 And, you

00:27:41.260 know, if

00:27:41.660 you've been

00:27:42.140 watching me

00:27:42.740 since my

00:27:43.260 first prediction

00:27:44.620 about Trump,

00:27:46.360 and I talk

00:27:47.100 about persuasion

00:27:47.820 all the time.

00:27:49.060 Now, what

00:27:50.580 kind of

00:27:51.100 projects do

00:27:51.920 you think

00:27:52.200 that attracts?

00:27:54.020 Because there's

00:27:54.480 a lot of

00:27:54.780 people who

00:27:55.140 think, you

00:27:55.600 know, I

00:27:56.000 can't predict

00:27:56.500 the future,

00:27:57.080 but maybe

00:27:57.440 this guy

00:27:57.820 can.

00:27:58.460 Or maybe

00:27:59.080 you know

00:27:59.320 something about

00:27:59.860 persuasion

00:28:00.520 that somebody

00:28:01.920 else does

00:28:02.340 know.

00:28:02.720 So, trust

00:28:03.700 me when I

00:28:04.160 tell you,

00:28:04.560 you'll never

00:28:04.980 hear the

00:28:05.340 whole story.

00:28:07.240 There are

00:28:07.920 things that

00:28:08.360 have happened

00:28:08.660 in my life

00:28:09.360 that literally

00:28:10.200 no one will

00:28:10.740 ever know

00:28:11.100 about.

00:28:12.160 And I

00:28:12.740 have to

00:28:13.140 tell you,

00:28:13.420 it's

00:28:13.500 frustrating.

00:28:14.860 Because I

00:28:16.440 will live

00:28:16.860 and die 0.89

00:28:17.200 without anybody

00:28:17.760 knowing who

00:28:18.220 I was in

00:28:19.620 any complete

00:28:20.980 way.

00:28:22.140 And I

00:28:23.480 get, I'm

00:28:24.100 trying to

00:28:24.460 figure out how

00:28:24.860 to be okay

00:28:25.320 with that.

00:28:26.180 Because I

00:28:26.520 don't think I

00:28:27.080 can outlive

00:28:27.920 all the

00:28:28.720 other people

00:28:29.180 in the

00:28:29.500 stories.

00:28:30.280 If I

00:28:30.800 did, then

00:28:31.600 I could

00:28:31.820 tell you

00:28:32.080 the stories.

00:28:32.860 But there's

00:28:33.360 a lot of

00:28:33.760 stuff I

00:28:34.080 can't tell

00:28:34.460 you while

00:28:34.840 there are

00:28:35.100 other living

00:28:35.720 people who

00:28:36.580 are younger

00:28:36.960 than me and

00:28:37.660 will outlive

00:28:38.260 me, presumably.

00:28:39.380 So you're

00:28:39.900 never going to

00:28:40.260 hear them.

00:28:41.800 And so I

00:28:43.200 want to do

00:28:43.500 a little

00:28:43.720 test.

00:28:46.040 I want to

00:28:46.720 see if you

00:28:48.740 can name a

00:28:49.280 story that I'm

00:28:50.200 not involved

00:28:51.980 with, a national

00:28:52.760 story.

00:28:53.160 So just

00:28:54.580 name some

00:28:55.380 national stories

00:28:56.500 and I'll

00:28:57.600 tell you, I'll

00:28:58.680 tell you which

00:28:59.020 ones I'm not

00:28:59.700 involved with.

00:29:03.400 CNN

00:29:03.960 pedophiles.

00:29:05.260 Okay, you

00:29:05.800 win.

00:29:07.540 Oh, actually, I

00:29:08.860 actually know

00:29:09.400 something about

00:29:09.940 CNN that

00:29:10.860 isn't public.

00:29:12.300 So I do

00:29:13.160 sort of know

00:29:13.680 something there.

00:29:15.660 Now, Assange,

00:29:16.440 I don't have

00:29:16.740 anything to do

00:29:17.220 with, oh,

00:29:17.840 well.

00:29:19.100 Okay.

00:29:20.680 We immediately

00:29:21.580 got into

00:29:22.060 territory where I

00:29:22.940 can't answer

00:29:23.980 your questions

00:29:24.560 because I

00:29:26.460 don't want to

00:29:26.780 go too far.

00:29:27.880 All right.

00:29:28.560 But let's talk

00:29:29.420 about mass

00:29:29.880 formation psychosis.

00:29:32.060 I was

00:29:32.740 challenged by

00:29:35.240 somebody who

00:29:35.700 said I

00:29:36.000 hadn't

00:29:36.400 defended why

00:29:38.220 I say that's

00:29:38.920 BS.

00:29:40.420 Okay.

00:29:41.520 Here's why.

00:29:42.820 So a lot of

00:29:43.480 the stories I

00:29:44.380 simply know

00:29:44.980 about the real

00:29:45.740 story behind

00:29:46.400 them that you

00:29:46.980 don't, but I

00:29:47.880 can't tell you

00:29:48.360 which ones those

00:29:48.940 are.

00:29:50.900 Sorry.

00:29:52.940 So mass

00:29:54.800 formation

00:29:55.240 psychosis.

00:29:56.160 Here's my

00:29:56.780 complaint with

00:29:57.400 it in case I

00:29:58.040 had not been

00:29:58.720 good at

00:29:59.840 expressing it.

00:30:04.780 Mass

00:30:05.340 formation

00:30:05.780 psychosis says

00:30:06.720 that there's

00:30:07.180 conditions that

00:30:08.360 form that

00:30:09.760 would lead to

00:30:10.560 totalitarianism,

00:30:13.320 et cetera.

00:30:14.040 And the

00:30:14.660 conditions are

00:30:15.440 that there's

00:30:16.100 confusion and

00:30:18.060 stress in the

00:30:19.980 public.

00:30:20.280 So if you're

00:30:21.240 confused and

00:30:22.060 you don't know

00:30:22.460 what to do and

00:30:23.280 you're all

00:30:23.580 stressed out,

00:30:24.740 you will sort

00:30:25.600 of accept any

00:30:26.400 explanation that

00:30:27.440 gets you past

00:30:28.040 your mental

00:30:28.660 confusion.

00:30:29.640 So that's

00:30:30.240 when you can

00:30:30.620 be easily

00:30:31.140 manipulated.

00:30:32.320 Now all of

00:30:32.900 that's true.

00:30:34.960 Right?

00:30:35.660 All of it's

00:30:36.160 true.

00:30:40.940 All of it's

00:30:41.840 true.

00:30:42.620 But it's

00:30:43.620 still bullshit.

00:30:45.580 So things

00:30:46.420 can be true

00:30:47.340 and still

00:30:48.600 be bullshit. 0.84

00:30:50.180 Because here's

00:30:51.040 the bullshit

00:30:51.380 part.

00:30:52.280 That you don't

00:30:52.940 need all this

00:30:53.520 complication to

00:30:54.480 explain what

00:30:56.100 we experience.

00:30:57.200 All you need

00:30:57.660 is to know

00:30:58.280 that the news

00:30:58.860 is fake.

00:31:00.100 And it's

00:31:00.500 aggressively

00:31:01.040 fake.

00:31:01.980 If you have

00:31:02.700 fake news and

00:31:03.500 everybody's

00:31:04.060 confused and

00:31:04.880 you can sell

00:31:05.700 anybody any

00:31:06.320 story.

00:31:07.400 But you don't

00:31:07.700 need any,

00:31:08.800 you don't need

00:31:09.440 a ton of

00:31:10.980 background

00:31:11.740 explanation.

00:31:13.760 And the

00:31:14.060 thing I,

00:31:14.800 here are the

00:31:15.160 things I have

00:31:16.400 a problem

00:31:16.740 with mass

00:31:17.220 formation

00:31:17.620 psychosis.

00:31:18.480 The first

00:31:18.960 thing is it

00:31:20.120 misdirects you

00:31:21.220 from the

00:31:21.620 problem.

00:31:22.600 It makes it

00:31:23.380 seem like it's

00:31:23.940 just sort of

00:31:24.580 in the air.

00:31:25.740 It's like,

00:31:26.120 oh, just

00:31:26.680 events.

00:31:27.400 Events happen

00:31:28.180 that make us

00:31:28.800 feel unsettled.

00:31:29.820 And, you know,

00:31:30.520 there's the

00:31:30.900 pandemic.

00:31:31.320 And it makes

00:31:32.500 it look like

00:31:32.920 it's nobody's

00:31:33.540 fault.

00:31:34.700 This is

00:31:35.420 absolutely

00:31:36.060 somebody's

00:31:36.780 fault.

00:31:37.800 The fake

00:31:38.240 news.

00:31:39.280 It's a

00:31:39.960 100%

00:31:41.060 completely

00:31:42.720 fake news.

00:31:44.600 If we

00:31:45.800 had real

00:31:46.200 news,

00:31:47.760 the way

00:31:48.500 we're even

00:31:49.420 interacting with

00:31:50.360 science would

00:31:50.980 be completely

00:31:51.480 different.

00:31:52.940 So everything

00:31:53.720 would be way

00:31:54.880 better.

00:31:56.040 I imagine we

00:31:56.840 would all

00:31:57.320 either have

00:31:57.920 vaccinations or

00:31:58.800 not, or we

00:32:00.320 wouldn't be

00:32:01.140 talking about it

00:32:01.960 or something.

00:32:02.740 But everything

00:32:03.440 would be

00:32:03.820 different if

00:32:04.360 the news

00:32:04.740 were real.

00:32:06.200 And I think

00:32:06.920 this whole

00:32:07.300 mass formation

00:32:08.060 psychosis just

00:32:09.900 diverts your

00:32:10.700 attention from

00:32:11.320 the problem

00:32:11.880 that the news

00:32:12.920 is fake.

00:32:13.380 So, and

00:32:16.240 I also say

00:32:16.740 that we're

00:32:17.080 always in

00:32:17.880 hypnosis.

00:32:19.000 So we did

00:32:19.760 not get

00:32:20.160 tripped into

00:32:20.880 a zombie

00:32:21.460 hypnosis

00:32:22.200 state by

00:32:23.300 this weird

00:32:23.980 collection of

00:32:24.980 activities in

00:32:25.960 the, you

00:32:26.940 know, that

00:32:27.640 formed this

00:32:28.220 mass formation

00:32:29.020 psychosis.

00:32:30.100 No, we're

00:32:30.640 always there.

00:32:32.060 That's my

00:32:32.520 other difference

00:32:33.120 with it.

00:32:33.920 To imagine

00:32:34.480 that we went

00:32:35.080 from one

00:32:35.640 state to

00:32:36.160 another is

00:32:37.600 not how the

00:32:38.420 world works.

00:32:39.640 We walk

00:32:40.260 around in

00:32:40.780 this dream

00:32:41.320 state of

00:32:42.420 a subjective

00:32:43.440 world all

00:32:44.240 the time.

00:32:45.020 We're always

00:32:46.100 uncertain and

00:32:47.700 easily hypnotized.

00:32:49.620 Always.

00:32:51.300 So, there's

00:32:52.720 something, let

00:32:54.840 me take it a

00:32:55.320 little bit

00:32:55.580 further.

00:32:57.440 I've told you

00:32:58.340 that I can

00:32:58.780 spot the

00:32:59.500 people who

00:32:59.960 have my

00:33:00.420 skill, you

00:33:02.080 know, meaning

00:33:02.400 persuasion.

00:33:04.100 You know, I

00:33:04.400 spotted Trump

00:33:05.100 early, that's

00:33:05.720 why I knew he

00:33:06.280 would win,

00:33:06.920 because I

00:33:07.460 could simply

00:33:07.900 see something

00:33:08.520 that was

00:33:10.000 invisible to

00:33:10.620 people who

00:33:10.940 didn't have

00:33:11.200 the same

00:33:11.480 experience.

00:33:13.360 And I

00:33:13.620 told you

00:33:13.980 that when

00:33:14.760 back in

00:33:15.980 the Clinton

00:33:17.180 Trump election

00:33:18.120 cycle, I

00:33:19.260 told you

00:33:19.620 that when

00:33:21.940 everybody on

00:33:22.600 the Democrat

00:33:23.080 side kept

00:33:24.660 saying it

00:33:25.260 was a dark

00:33:25.980 vision,

00:33:27.160 everything's

00:33:27.620 dark,

00:33:28.580 everything Trump

00:33:29.140 does is dark,

00:33:30.600 and I said,

00:33:31.040 wait a minute,

00:33:31.400 that's a

00:33:31.700 professional.

00:33:33.320 And then I

00:33:33.880 said that was

00:33:34.580 Cialdini, or

00:33:35.900 somebody maybe

00:33:36.820 influenced by

00:33:37.520 him.

00:33:37.700 And at

00:33:40.120 the moment,

00:33:40.540 that's still

00:33:40.960 the working

00:33:41.520 theory, because

00:33:42.580 he hasn't

00:33:43.000 denied it, and

00:33:44.260 a friend of

00:33:45.140 his apparently

00:33:45.580 confirmed it,

00:33:46.500 for whatever

00:33:47.140 that's worth.

00:33:48.400 So I would

00:33:49.840 say to you

00:33:50.320 that I can

00:33:51.260 identify

00:33:53.500 professional

00:33:55.000 work compared

00:33:56.800 to amateur

00:33:57.720 work.

00:33:58.940 And those

00:33:59.400 are two

00:33:59.680 examples that

00:34:01.400 I would use

00:34:02.180 to make my

00:34:02.640 case.

00:34:03.640 When I look

00:34:04.240 at this

00:34:04.480 mass formation

00:34:05.280 psychosis,

00:34:05.980 I'm not

00:34:07.420 going to

00:34:07.620 say that

00:34:08.100 the author

00:34:09.200 who came

00:34:09.920 up with

00:34:10.300 it or

00:34:10.720 anything was

00:34:11.700 in on any

00:34:12.320 kind of

00:34:12.620 plot.

00:34:13.880 But the

00:34:15.620 more you

00:34:16.100 see this

00:34:16.660 in the

00:34:17.040 public

00:34:17.460 consciousness,

00:34:18.680 this idea

00:34:19.160 of the

00:34:19.440 mass formation

00:34:20.220 psychosis,

00:34:21.220 the more I

00:34:22.060 am convinced

00:34:22.640 this might

00:34:23.300 have been a

00:34:23.680 professional

00:34:24.280 diversion,

00:34:26.100 meaning this

00:34:26.760 may have

00:34:27.240 been introduced

00:34:27.860 into your

00:34:28.760 psychology as

00:34:30.740 the explanation

00:34:31.680 for, or

00:34:33.560 the cover,

00:34:34.660 for the fact

00:34:35.160 that the

00:34:35.460 fake news

00:34:35.960 is really

00:34:36.640 the source

00:34:37.100 of all

00:34:37.380 problems.

00:34:39.160 So I'm

00:34:40.100 concerned that

00:34:40.740 this is

00:34:41.080 professional,

00:34:42.260 because it

00:34:42.880 has that

00:34:43.280 smell to

00:34:43.820 it.

00:34:44.500 I don't

00:34:45.080 know that

00:34:45.520 this story

00:34:46.040 came up

00:34:46.620 naturally

00:34:47.580 because some

00:34:48.360 journalist

00:34:49.280 sniffed it

00:34:50.060 out and it

00:34:50.660 got popular.

00:34:51.900 Because, oh

00:34:52.300 yeah, this

00:34:52.700 explains everything.

00:34:54.060 It doesn't

00:34:54.560 feel like that.

00:34:55.340 It feels like

00:34:55.900 a professional.

00:34:57.700 By whom?

00:34:59.140 Well, it

00:34:59.480 would be

00:34:59.740 somebody presumably

00:35:02.120 on the

00:35:03.060 Democrat side,

00:35:03.940 more likely.

00:35:07.100 So I'll just

00:35:07.680 put that out

00:35:08.200 there.

00:35:09.300 Here's a

00:35:10.060 tweet from

00:35:10.860 a doctor,

00:35:12.560 Afshin 0.99

00:35:13.960 Amrani,

00:35:16.180 who,

00:35:16.920 according to

00:35:17.420 his Twitter

00:35:18.460 name, is an

00:35:19.300 MD, medical

00:35:20.020 doctor.

00:35:21.700 And this is

00:35:22.500 what he says

00:35:23.000 he's seeing

00:35:23.480 with Omicron.

00:35:25.960 There are

00:35:26.620 five things

00:35:27.300 he's seen,

00:35:28.100 which he's

00:35:28.760 numbered one

00:35:29.300 through four.

00:35:30.360 There are two

00:35:30.700 number fours.

00:35:31.380 So, number

00:35:33.880 one, everyone

00:35:34.940 will be exposed

00:35:36.460 in the next

00:35:37.040 few weeks.

00:35:38.600 No, he

00:35:38.960 means everyone.

00:35:41.660 Everyone.

00:35:43.220 So this is a

00:35:44.260 medical doctor,

00:35:45.580 based on his

00:35:46.320 experience and

00:35:47.380 what he's

00:35:47.840 learning from

00:35:48.560 Omicron,

00:35:49.820 everyone will

00:35:50.980 be exposed in

00:35:51.940 the next few

00:35:52.460 weeks.

00:35:54.040 All right.

00:35:54.620 Number two,

00:35:55.660 almost everyone

00:35:56.500 gets a mild

00:35:57.200 form of common

00:35:57.960 cold.

00:35:58.480 Trivial

00:35:58.820 hospitalization,

00:35:59.500 trivial

00:36:00.040 oxygenation

00:36:01.020 needed.

00:36:02.060 Number three,

00:36:02.740 Omicron replaces

00:36:03.880 Delta.

00:36:04.520 It's already

00:36:04.920 over 75% of

00:36:06.400 the infections

00:36:07.340 are Omicron.

00:36:08.900 And number

00:36:09.360 four,

00:36:09.860 Omicron acts

00:36:10.600 as a natural

00:36:11.320 vaccine,

00:36:12.060 herd immunity.

00:36:13.080 And then the

00:36:13.520 other number

00:36:14.060 four is it's

00:36:16.020 the end of

00:36:16.400 the pandemic.

00:36:18.920 All right,

00:36:19.420 that's from a

00:36:19.860 doctor.

00:36:21.460 Maybe the

00:36:22.000 first time you

00:36:22.620 heard this was

00:36:23.180 from me.

00:36:24.920 By the way,

00:36:26.180 I'll just ask

00:36:27.360 this.

00:36:27.620 I'm not the

00:36:28.260 first person to

00:36:28.920 say it.

00:36:29.500 But am I

00:36:31.440 the first person

00:36:32.180 who said it

00:36:32.720 that you

00:36:33.140 heard that

00:36:34.440 Omicron was

00:36:35.280 going to be

00:36:35.600 like a

00:36:35.920 vaccination?

00:36:39.020 I know

00:36:39.580 Putin said

00:36:40.140 it, but he

00:36:40.520 said it after

00:36:41.000 I did.

00:36:43.760 Putin didn't

00:36:44.400 say it

00:36:44.680 first.

00:36:45.180 I said it

00:36:45.620 first.

00:36:49.460 This was

00:36:50.160 our opinion.

00:36:51.320 Yeah,

00:36:51.720 lots of people

00:36:52.420 have the

00:36:52.700 opinion.

00:36:53.220 I'm not

00:36:53.500 going to

00:36:53.700 claim that

00:36:54.220 I was

00:36:55.260 first.

00:36:56.060 That's not

00:36:56.460 what I'm

00:36:56.680 saying.

00:36:57.400 But I am

00:36:58.000 going to

00:36:58.180 claim that I

00:36:59.060 was first

00:37:00.060 to maybe

00:37:01.260 say it to

00:37:01.720 this crowd.

00:37:03.440 Sticks said

00:37:04.040 it a while

00:37:04.420 ago.

00:37:07.200 But I

00:37:08.700 would do a

00:37:09.080 little fact

00:37:09.480 checking because

00:37:10.020 it's actually

00:37:10.520 possible I was

00:37:11.300 the first person

00:37:11.940 to say it

00:37:12.680 publicly.

00:37:13.000 It's possible.

00:37:14.480 I doubt it.

00:37:15.080 I'd like to

00:37:17.720 interview Dale.

00:37:19.060 Now that we

00:37:19.580 know that

00:37:19.920 there's exactly

00:37:20.640 one person

00:37:21.380 who has died

00:37:21.920 of the

00:37:22.240 Omicron in

00:37:22.780 the United

00:37:23.100 States,

00:37:24.440 a 52-year-old

00:37:25.680 with some

00:37:26.060 heart

00:37:26.240 conditions.

00:37:27.780 So 75%

00:37:29.000 of the

00:37:29.240 infections in

00:37:29.840 the United

00:37:30.100 States are

00:37:30.520 Omicron,

00:37:31.760 and we

00:37:32.500 got that

00:37:32.800 one death.

00:37:34.380 So I'd

00:37:34.940 like to

00:37:35.400 interview

00:37:36.300 Dale.

00:37:37.640 If you

00:37:37.900 haven't met

00:37:38.300 Dale,

00:37:38.600 Dale is a

00:37:39.240 Democrat who

00:37:41.220 explains things

00:37:42.580 to me that

00:37:43.020 I don't

00:37:43.380 understand.

00:37:45.140 So Dale,

00:37:46.140 could you

00:37:46.680 explain to

00:37:47.200 us why we

00:37:49.080 should be

00:37:49.460 panicked about

00:37:50.220 the Omicron?

00:37:52.260 Absolutely.

00:37:53.760 Happy Dale.

00:37:54.720 What's your

00:37:55.080 question?

00:37:56.180 Well, if

00:37:57.400 75% of the

00:37:58.480 infections are

00:37:59.760 Omicron,

00:38:00.380 that would be

00:38:00.720 like a really

00:38:01.220 big number,

00:38:02.320 and we only

00:38:02.800 have one

00:38:03.680 confirmed death

00:38:05.240 that actually

00:38:06.040 maybe he died

00:38:07.500 of his heart

00:38:08.040 problem.

00:38:08.720 We're not even

00:38:09.180 sure it was

00:38:10.060 the Omicron

00:38:10.680 exactly.

00:38:11.960 So why

00:38:12.460 should I be

00:38:13.000 worried about

00:38:14.300 one death?

00:38:17.560 I don't

00:38:18.260 think you

00:38:18.600 understand how

00:38:19.300 pandemics work,

00:38:20.260 Scott.

00:38:21.760 That one

00:38:22.560 death by

00:38:23.720 tomorrow,

00:38:24.340 that could be

00:38:25.340 doubled.

00:38:28.040 Yeah, yeah,

00:38:29.160 that could be

00:38:29.760 doubled by

00:38:30.280 tomorrow, but

00:38:31.340 that would be

00:38:31.800 two.

00:38:32.860 That would be

00:38:33.320 two people.

00:38:35.480 Oh, you're

00:38:36.260 thinking short

00:38:36.900 sighted now.

00:38:38.200 Think about

00:38:39.000 the day after.

00:38:39.680 that would be

00:38:42.480 four.

00:38:43.840 That would be

00:38:44.440 four people.

00:38:46.140 Why should I

00:38:46.720 be worried in

00:38:48.020 a world of

00:38:48.640 7.8 billion

00:38:49.960 people that

00:38:51.240 four of them

00:38:52.040 died in my

00:38:52.620 country?

00:38:54.340 Well,

00:38:55.840 science,

00:38:56.940 science,

00:38:58.220 and infections.

00:39:00.520 Okay, that

00:39:00.960 didn't even say

00:39:01.800 anything.

00:39:02.620 Those were just

00:39:03.260 words.

00:39:03.700 I mean, give

00:39:05.660 me the reason

00:39:06.280 that I should

00:39:07.200 be panicked

00:39:07.660 about the

00:39:08.140 Omicron.

00:39:10.580 Get your

00:39:11.180 vaccinations.

00:39:12.420 Get your

00:39:12.820 vaccinations,

00:39:13.500 and you'll be

00:39:13.900 safer.

00:39:15.380 Okay, I get

00:39:16.120 that.

00:39:16.860 Maybe you

00:39:17.580 would be a

00:39:18.120 little safer,

00:39:19.080 but I'm

00:39:19.580 asking, why

00:39:20.060 should I be

00:39:20.500 panicked?

00:39:21.980 I feel like

00:39:22.780 you're not

00:39:23.220 answering the

00:39:24.400 question exactly.

00:39:25.680 Why should I

00:39:26.580 be panicked

00:39:27.140 about the

00:39:28.180 Omicron

00:39:28.680 virus?

00:39:31.580 Don't be so

00:39:32.440 anti-science.

00:39:33.700 Don't be so

00:39:34.460 anti-science.

00:39:35.760 Have you

00:39:36.040 heard of the

00:39:36.340 Delta?

00:39:39.520 And scene.

00:39:41.520 We're into a

00:39:42.540 weird, weird

00:39:43.720 world now,

00:39:45.000 where the

00:39:45.680 news quite

00:39:46.840 clearly knows

00:39:47.760 the Omicron

00:39:48.600 is not going

00:39:49.400 to hurt us.

00:39:51.300 But they

00:39:51.940 can't quite

00:39:52.340 say it, can

00:39:52.940 they?

00:39:53.900 Why is it

00:39:54.560 that the

00:39:54.900 news can't

00:39:55.820 tell us the

00:39:56.960 actual truth

00:39:57.920 about the

00:39:58.440 Omicron?

00:40:01.000 Because we

00:40:01.600 don't have

00:40:01.880 real news.

00:40:02.880 We've got

00:40:03.260 fake news

00:40:03.900 who feels

00:40:04.820 it's their

00:40:05.180 job to

00:40:05.640 manipulate us.

00:40:07.040 And the

00:40:07.260 way they'd

00:40:07.620 like to

00:40:07.940 manipulate us

00:40:08.660 is to

00:40:09.020 keep us

00:40:09.520 doing what

00:40:10.760 we're doing

00:40:11.200 for a little

00:40:12.040 bit longer.

00:40:13.220 Now, it

00:40:13.720 could be

00:40:14.560 the most

00:40:15.320 generous

00:40:16.300 interpretation

00:40:17.120 is that it's

00:40:18.380 a little bit

00:40:18.920 too soon.

00:40:20.340 And we'll

00:40:20.720 know more

00:40:21.160 about the

00:40:21.500 Omicron.

00:40:22.140 In two

00:40:22.720 weeks, we'll

00:40:23.280 know more.

00:40:24.540 But in

00:40:24.960 two weeks,

00:40:25.440 we'll all

00:40:25.780 have it.

00:40:26.200 In two weeks,

00:40:28.820 when we know

00:40:29.360 more, it'll

00:40:30.640 be over.

00:40:31.080 I mean, if

00:40:33.160 it's really

00:40:33.540 spreading...

00:40:34.540 Now, let

00:40:35.020 me give full

00:40:36.900 agreement with

00:40:37.720 a rogue

00:40:39.120 doctor.

00:40:40.420 You know, I

00:40:40.760 always make

00:40:41.120 fun of the

00:40:41.540 rogue doctors,

00:40:42.600 the ones who

00:40:42.920 are saying the

00:40:43.540 opposite of what

00:40:44.060 others are

00:40:44.460 saying.

00:40:44.640 So, Dr.

00:40:45.820 Malone, one 0.89

00:40:46.940 of the, quote,

00:40:48.100 rogue doctors,

00:40:49.940 said about the

00:40:50.880 Omicron that if

00:40:51.620 it's really as

00:40:52.680 spready as all

00:40:55.180 indications say it

00:40:56.120 is, your

00:40:57.120 masks will be

00:40:57.940 worthless.

00:41:00.160 And I agree.

00:41:02.220 I agree.

00:41:03.960 I've long been

00:41:05.360 on the side that

00:41:06.980 we don't know

00:41:07.540 for sure if the

00:41:08.720 masks are helping,

00:41:09.840 but all common

00:41:10.520 sense says that,

00:41:11.760 you know, your

00:41:13.060 plumes would at

00:41:14.120 least be decreased.

00:41:15.880 That was always

00:41:16.480 my argument.

00:41:17.560 You know, you

00:41:17.860 might get the

00:41:18.320 same amount in

00:41:19.040 the room, but at

00:41:20.520 least the plume of

00:41:21.560 directly into the

00:41:22.440 face of another

00:41:23.060 person would be

00:41:23.740 dispersed.

00:41:24.680 And, you know,

00:41:25.200 maybe they had

00:41:25.740 some benefit.

00:41:26.920 Hard to measure,

00:41:28.180 but it looks like

00:41:28.860 it might.

00:41:29.900 So I was always in

00:41:30.920 the risk management

00:41:32.000 camp, which is,

00:41:34.520 yeah, there must be

00:41:35.280 places where masks

00:41:36.340 make sense and other

00:41:37.700 places where they

00:41:38.420 don't.

00:41:39.760 But the Omicron just

00:41:41.880 blows that argument

00:41:42.820 went to shit.

00:41:45.860 If the Omicron is

00:41:47.640 as spready as

00:41:49.280 everybody says,

00:41:50.260 the experts, as

00:41:51.300 the experts say,

00:41:52.400 then I'm completely

00:41:53.540 in agreement with

00:41:54.360 Dr. Malone that I

00:41:56.200 don't see how a

00:41:57.100 mask makes a good

00:41:59.080 cost-benefit

00:42:00.220 anymore.

00:42:01.780 All right?

00:42:03.160 John says,

00:42:04.060 thanks for being a

00:42:04.780 day late, and you

00:42:06.000 are blocked for

00:42:07.040 being that guy.

00:42:07.780 Does anybody else

00:42:10.660 want to say,

00:42:12.060 finally, you're

00:42:15.200 coming around.

00:42:16.600 So I block

00:42:17.640 everybody who says

00:42:18.660 I'm coming around

00:42:19.640 when I come around

00:42:21.220 because of new

00:42:22.100 information.

00:42:24.580 Right?

00:42:25.180 If new information

00:42:26.360 makes me change my

00:42:27.520 opinion, I'm not

00:42:29.840 coming around.

00:42:31.620 I'm not finally

00:42:33.180 getting it.

00:42:35.620 I'm a person who

00:42:36.700 has new information.

00:42:38.600 All right.

00:42:41.660 What else is

00:42:42.400 going on?

00:42:43.740 So there's two

00:42:44.580 things we know

00:42:45.160 about COVID

00:42:46.800 tests.

00:42:48.440 One is that we're

00:42:49.720 running out of

00:42:50.300 them, and there

00:42:50.840 are big lines and

00:42:51.780 shortages.

00:42:52.580 So there are not

00:42:53.360 enough COVID

00:42:54.000 tests at any

00:42:55.280 price.

00:42:56.100 You couldn't buy

00:42:56.820 them even if you

00:42:57.520 wanted to pay more.

00:42:58.420 There are just not

00:42:59.000 enough of them.

00:43:00.520 So that's the first

00:43:01.220 thing we know about

00:43:02.020 COVID tests.

00:43:03.860 There are not

00:43:04.240 enough of them.

00:43:05.560 Second thing we

00:43:06.300 know is that Biden

00:43:07.060 is going to spend

00:43:07.740 $500 million

00:43:08.560 buying more of

00:43:09.640 the tests that

00:43:10.880 don't exist.

00:43:13.340 That's right.

00:43:14.720 The tests don't

00:43:15.860 exist, but we're

00:43:17.920 going to buy a lot

00:43:18.620 more of them.

00:43:21.940 Let me give a

00:43:23.700 little economics

00:43:24.800 lesson to the

00:43:27.320 government.

00:43:28.140 It goes like

00:43:29.060 this.

00:43:29.740 If you can't

00:43:31.060 change the number

00:43:32.820 of tests, but you

00:43:36.500 throw a whole bunch

00:43:37.320 of money into the

00:43:38.500 system, those tests

00:43:40.580 are not going to

00:43:41.180 come down in price.

00:43:43.000 They might go up.

00:43:44.720 I mean, I don't know

00:43:45.480 how they're going to

00:43:46.120 spend that $500

00:43:47.060 billion, but the

00:43:49.360 problem is not that

00:43:51.320 we don't have money

00:43:52.160 to buy them.

00:43:53.220 There's a line around

00:43:54.120 the block to buy the

00:43:55.040 damn things.

00:43:55.600 The problem is

00:43:56.720 they don't exist.

00:44:00.680 So getting them

00:44:01.720 to exist would be

00:44:02.800 good, and they

00:44:04.140 would exist because

00:44:05.220 the free market

00:44:05.920 would have already

00:44:06.820 had plenty of them

00:44:08.200 and they would be

00:44:08.820 very cheap if the

00:44:10.520 FDA had approved

00:44:11.540 them in a, let's

00:44:13.800 say, in a manner

00:44:15.800 that doesn't look

00:44:16.700 like fraud to me.

00:44:17.920 So, or a manner

00:44:21.540 that doesn't look

00:44:22.220 like crime to me.

00:44:24.160 Now, I can't say

00:44:25.300 for sure that

00:44:26.840 somebody in the

00:44:27.600 FDA or somebody

00:44:28.640 in the chain of

00:44:29.280 command was doing

00:44:31.340 something for money

00:44:32.240 that killed hundreds

00:44:33.420 of thousands of

00:44:34.200 people in the

00:44:35.280 United States.

00:44:36.200 But it does look

00:44:37.320 exactly like it.

00:44:39.260 So it's my

00:44:39.880 operating assumption

00:44:40.960 that there was

00:44:42.260 corruption somewhere

00:44:43.340 in the government,

00:44:44.400 the FDA, somewhere

00:44:45.200 in the approval

00:44:45.720 process.

00:44:46.240 There was corruption

00:44:47.600 that probably killed

00:44:49.380 hundreds of thousands

00:44:50.120 of people and got

00:44:52.220 us into this

00:44:52.800 situation where rapid

00:44:54.860 tests would be

00:44:55.540 exactly what we need

00:44:56.600 for Christmas and

00:44:58.140 they don't exist

00:44:59.080 because probably

00:45:01.960 there was corruption.

00:45:04.580 And I also like to

00:45:05.900 reiterate that if we

00:45:07.080 ever find such

00:45:08.800 corruption and can

00:45:09.820 confirm in a court

00:45:11.660 of law that it

00:45:12.380 existed and that it

00:45:13.920 killed 100,000 people

00:45:15.100 or more, then I

00:45:16.400 think the death

00:45:16.900 sentence is

00:45:17.520 warranted.

00:45:18.860 So I've been

00:45:19.540 watching this special

00:45:21.300 called Dope Sick

00:45:22.320 about Oxycontin

00:45:24.920 and Purdue.

00:45:28.120 Now, I was aware

00:45:29.500 that there were some

00:45:30.260 allegations of bad

00:45:31.340 behavior by Purdue.

00:45:33.560 I was aware that

00:45:34.440 this had been

00:45:35.120 alleged.

00:45:36.280 I was not anywhere

00:45:37.880 aware of how bad

00:45:39.620 it was.

00:45:40.040 If you want to be

00:45:42.340 shocked at the

00:45:46.300 corrupt and evil

00:45:48.780 practices of a

00:45:50.620 pharma company,

00:45:52.020 watch Dope Sick.

00:45:53.160 First of all, it's

00:45:53.720 well-made.

00:45:54.420 So as a form of

00:45:55.780 entertainment, it's

00:45:56.420 quite good.

00:45:57.260 It's a well-made

00:45:58.340 piece of content.

00:46:00.380 And it will blow

00:46:02.940 your freaking mind

00:46:04.100 that that stuff really

00:46:06.020 happened.

00:46:06.540 And we're talking

00:46:07.160 about current times.

00:46:08.260 We're not talking

00:46:08.920 about ancient

00:46:10.220 anything.

00:46:12.040 They literally

00:46:12.980 killed hundreds of

00:46:15.680 thousands of people

00:46:16.380 for money, and they

00:46:17.660 kind of knew they

00:46:18.260 were doing it.

00:46:19.980 That's right.

00:46:20.560 A drug company

00:46:21.220 killed hundreds of

00:46:22.260 thousands of people,

00:46:23.060 in my opinion,

00:46:24.700 through addiction

00:46:25.320 and overdose.

00:46:26.820 Hundreds of

00:46:27.360 thousands for money

00:46:29.480 and knew it.

00:46:32.300 That's sort of what

00:46:33.580 the documentary

00:46:34.260 tells you.

00:46:34.740 Now, if you know

00:46:37.260 that, do you

00:46:40.500 think that there's

00:46:41.400 no chance that the

00:46:42.880 reason we don't

00:46:43.680 have cheap tests is

00:46:46.300 because everybody did

00:46:47.280 their job well, it

00:46:48.080 was just, you know,

00:46:49.300 the bureaucracy, it

00:46:50.540 takes a while?

00:46:51.360 Do you think that

00:46:52.040 explains it?

00:46:53.160 Because I don't.

00:46:53.880 There was way too

00:46:54.460 much money going

00:46:55.240 around to not be

00:46:56.900 able to buy somebody

00:46:57.960 off pretty easily.

00:46:59.000 So, I think

00:47:03.260 corruption will be

00:47:04.080 the primary story

00:47:05.180 of the pandemic.

00:47:06.760 When everything's

00:47:07.620 done, you know,

00:47:09.100 there'll be the

00:47:09.500 medical story, but

00:47:10.360 I think the

00:47:10.800 corruption story will

00:47:12.500 be the biggest story

00:47:13.340 that comes out of

00:47:13.920 this in the long

00:47:14.620 run, I think.

00:47:19.800 All right.

00:47:21.180 Biden apparently

00:47:22.140 gave Trump credit

00:47:23.200 for getting the

00:47:24.880 vaccines going

00:47:26.320 quickly.

00:47:26.800 Trump actually

00:47:28.460 asked about that

00:47:29.300 and he said,

00:47:30.080 quote, I'm very

00:47:30.660 appreciative of that.

00:47:31.620 I was surprised to

00:47:32.340 hear it, Trump told

00:47:33.320 Fox News.

00:47:34.220 I think it was a

00:47:34.960 terrific thing and I

00:47:36.240 think it makes a lot

00:47:37.100 of people happy.

00:47:39.440 Then he repeated

00:47:40.280 that he was a little

00:47:41.020 surprised.

00:47:42.280 I think you did

00:47:43.220 something very good,

00:47:44.920 Trump said about

00:47:45.620 Biden.

00:47:46.380 You know it has to

00:47:47.120 be a process of

00:47:48.000 healing in this

00:47:48.580 country and that

00:47:49.260 will help a lot.

00:47:51.000 So that's one way

00:47:52.540 to look at it.

00:47:54.240 One way to look at

00:47:55.280 it is that Biden

00:47:56.200 tried to close

00:47:57.960 the divide and

00:48:00.040 gave Trump credit

00:48:02.040 for getting the

00:48:02.800 vaccines going and

00:48:04.520 that this was a

00:48:05.300 move toward

00:48:05.960 reconciliation and

00:48:08.080 a little less

00:48:08.980 divisiveness.

00:48:10.480 What do you

00:48:10.880 think?

00:48:12.100 Do you think

00:48:12.860 that's what

00:48:13.220 happened?

00:48:14.220 Is that how you

00:48:14.780 saw it?

00:48:17.700 Well, here's

00:48:19.520 another interpretation.

00:48:22.660 What would be

00:48:23.560 worse for Trump's

00:48:25.040 political future

00:48:26.040 than for Biden

00:48:28.360 to make sure

00:48:29.260 everybody who

00:48:30.340 doesn't want to

00:48:31.120 get a vaccination

00:48:31.760 knows that Trump

00:48:33.540 was the one who

00:48:34.180 created this

00:48:34.800 situation?

00:48:36.140 I feel as if they

00:48:37.600 may have tested

00:48:38.400 this one.

00:48:39.860 You know what I

00:48:40.360 mean?

00:48:41.300 I feel that this

00:48:42.560 may be part of the

00:48:43.600 suppression technique

00:48:44.600 to keep Trump from

00:48:45.620 running by giving

00:48:47.420 him a compliment

00:48:48.240 for something that a

00:48:50.160 large percentage of

00:48:51.240 his base hates

00:48:52.320 with a passion,

00:48:53.080 which is the

00:48:53.780 vaccinations.

00:48:55.180 So I've got a

00:48:56.120 feeling this was

00:48:56.920 more of a way to

00:48:58.120 torpedo him while 0.91

00:48:59.800 appearing to be a

00:49:01.660 peacemaker.

00:49:02.620 I think it was kind

00:49:03.760 of clever, actually.

00:49:05.580 Now, I'm trying to

00:49:06.420 use the same standard

00:49:07.440 of looking at

00:49:08.180 Biden's persuasion

00:49:09.300 that I did with

00:49:10.860 Trump, which is if

00:49:13.280 it looks clever, I'm

00:49:14.340 going to call it

00:49:14.840 down as clever.

00:49:16.280 And that looked

00:49:17.120 clever to me.

00:49:18.660 In a political way,

00:49:19.880 it looked clever.

00:49:20.700 I don't think it was

00:49:21.560 what you think it

00:49:22.160 was.

00:49:22.760 I think it was

00:49:23.360 clever. 0.51

00:49:25.640 And if Trump had

00:49:26.500 done it, I would

00:49:26.980 have said the same

00:49:27.480 thing.

00:49:29.220 Well, what is going

00:49:31.380 to happen in a very

00:49:33.240 short time if the

00:49:34.780 following scenario

00:49:35.780 comes about?

00:49:36.700 And I think it

00:49:37.460 might.

00:49:38.540 So this is

00:49:39.140 hypothetical, but I

00:49:41.180 kind of think we're

00:49:42.080 heading in this

00:49:42.680 direction.

00:49:43.180 And it goes like

00:49:43.680 this.

00:49:44.280 What happens if

00:49:45.000 science tells us

00:49:46.080 that the Omicron is

00:49:47.460 better than a

00:49:48.020 vaccination?

00:49:48.560 Because, you

00:49:50.600 know, as of this

00:49:51.600 morning, it did.

00:49:53.680 Apparently, the

00:49:54.780 known death rate

00:49:56.540 from the Omicron

00:49:57.480 virus is less

00:50:00.480 than the number

00:50:03.300 of people killed

00:50:04.000 by vaccinations

00:50:04.820 themselves, which

00:50:06.420 even the official

00:50:07.600 numbers would say

00:50:08.380 some people die

00:50:10.360 from vaccinations.

00:50:11.320 We know that,

00:50:12.020 right?

00:50:12.500 That's not a

00:50:13.060 surprise.

00:50:13.980 Every vaccination

00:50:14.740 is going to kill

00:50:15.380 somebody.

00:50:15.780 But what we

00:50:19.080 know now, and

00:50:19.820 of course, this

00:50:20.320 could be revised,

00:50:21.260 easily could be

00:50:21.900 revised, but at

00:50:23.240 the moment, you

00:50:25.360 would be safer to

00:50:26.280 get Omicron than

00:50:27.200 a vaccination if

00:50:29.120 the numbers hold,

00:50:30.800 but I wouldn't

00:50:31.420 necessarily expect

00:50:32.540 them to hold.

00:50:33.680 You know, we're

00:50:33.960 still in a little

00:50:34.560 bit of fog of war

00:50:35.560 phase.

00:50:36.740 You know, we

00:50:37.100 could find out

00:50:37.600 tomorrow that

00:50:38.100 Omicron is the

00:50:39.380 biggest killer

00:50:39.980 there ever was.

00:50:41.380 I'd be surprised.

00:50:43.040 But, you know,

00:50:44.200 I've been surprised

00:50:44.940 a lot this year.

00:50:45.780 Yeah, so what

00:50:50.960 happens when science

00:50:52.840 tells us that

00:50:53.800 Omicron is better

00:50:54.660 than a

00:50:55.020 vaccination, but

00:50:56.680 the government is

00:50:57.880 working with

00:50:58.440 entities that have

00:50:59.340 trillions of

00:51:00.220 dollars on the

00:51:00.920 line to vaccinate

00:51:02.720 us three times a

00:51:04.380 year forever?

00:51:06.880 There will be

00:51:08.080 trillions of

00:51:09.240 dollars in

00:51:10.720 private industry

00:51:11.600 which will be

00:51:14.740 directly opposed to

00:51:16.420 what could happen

00:51:17.500 very soon, hasn't

00:51:18.480 happened, but it

00:51:20.200 feels like it's

00:51:20.880 going to, where

00:51:22.080 science says the

00:51:23.040 Omicron is safer

00:51:24.060 than a vaccine.

00:51:25.760 What will the

00:51:26.640 people who have

00:51:27.240 trillions, trillions

00:51:29.260 of dollars at risk

00:51:30.520 do then?

00:51:32.760 Will they say,

00:51:33.840 thank goodness,

00:51:35.260 there's something even

00:51:36.120 better than vaccines.

00:51:37.080 We'll cancel our

00:51:38.160 vaccine process and

00:51:40.300 you're all infected,

00:51:41.940 we're good,

00:51:42.660 bam.

00:51:44.040 No, they can't do

00:51:45.020 that.

00:51:46.000 If you don't believe

00:51:46.980 me, watch the

00:51:49.420 dope sick special.

00:51:52.240 There are other

00:51:53.340 moves, and the

00:51:54.380 other moves would be

00:51:55.320 to tell you that you

00:51:56.160 need the vaccinations

00:51:57.100 anyway, even if you

00:51:59.140 don't.

00:51:59.460 Do you think that a

00:52:01.180 pharma company would

00:52:01.900 just make up data?

00:52:04.360 Purdue did.

00:52:05.700 They actually just

00:52:06.460 made up data.

00:52:08.360 That really

00:52:09.060 happened.

00:52:10.060 They just made up

00:52:10.900 data, and they

00:52:12.580 acted like it was a

00:52:13.640 separate company that

00:52:14.500 made up the data.

00:52:15.640 So they formed a

00:52:16.740 separate entity, then

00:52:18.680 had the separate

00:52:19.300 entity come up with

00:52:21.120 some fake data that

00:52:21.960 was just their data,

00:52:23.320 and then they said,

00:52:24.340 well, look at what

00:52:25.180 this entity says.

00:52:26.780 This independent

00:52:27.540 entity over here says

00:52:28.560 it's safe, so go

00:52:29.280 take it.

00:52:30.980 They were actually

00:52:31.760 selling Oxycontin as

00:52:33.520 non-addictive.

00:52:35.300 I don't know if you

00:52:35.840 missed that, but

00:52:37.280 Purdue actually was

00:52:38.640 selling it to doctors

00:52:39.820 as the first opioid

00:52:40.980 that's not addictive.

00:52:43.060 There was never any

00:52:44.160 evidence for that.

00:52:45.520 That was completely

00:52:46.440 made up.

00:52:48.540 Now, that's the

00:52:49.400 world we live in,

00:52:50.480 where a completely

00:52:51.680 made up data, set

00:52:53.960 of data, determined

00:52:55.780 the deaths of

00:52:57.480 hundreds of thousands

00:52:58.160 of people, and

00:52:58.780 nobody caught it.

00:53:00.240 FDA didn't catch it.

00:53:01.520 And I think the FDA

00:53:02.580 was actually bought

00:53:03.300 off, according to

00:53:04.980 the documentary.

00:53:07.700 Literally, there was

00:53:08.540 a specific individual

00:53:09.920 who apparently was

00:53:11.740 bought off, according

00:53:13.380 to the, if you believe,

00:53:14.440 the documentary.

00:53:14.980 So, anyway, we're going to

00:53:22.280 have quite a battle on

00:53:23.380 our hands if science is

00:53:24.840 on the other side of

00:53:26.120 these trillions of

00:53:27.000 dollars, and I think

00:53:27.900 that's going to happen

00:53:28.540 in a few weeks, if not

00:53:30.580 by tomorrow.

00:53:35.760 February 1, the public

00:53:37.560 is done.

00:53:38.120 Now, I told you that it's

00:53:40.440 hard to have any kind

00:53:42.080 of organizing or

00:53:43.220 leadership role in

00:53:44.460 anything, because you

00:53:45.920 just get annihilated.

00:53:49.060 So, anybody who just

00:53:50.380 raises their hand in

00:53:51.460 today's world just gets

00:53:52.940 annihilated.

00:53:53.760 It doesn't matter if

00:53:54.320 they're helping or

00:53:55.100 hurting.

00:53:55.520 It doesn't matter what

00:53:56.040 they're doing.

00:53:56.320 So, here I tried to do

00:53:58.520 a public good by setting

00:54:01.080 a target date that we

00:54:02.900 could work with our

00:54:03.800 government, not opposed

00:54:05.400 to it, but work with

00:54:06.540 it, to have some kind

00:54:08.040 of a, you know, work

00:54:09.640 together with the

00:54:10.480 public appreciation that

00:54:13.240 there will always be

00:54:13.980 deaths after we open

00:54:15.100 everything up, but to

00:54:16.600 hold the government

00:54:17.900 harmless so that they're

00:54:19.220 free to make the right

00:54:20.020 decision.

00:54:21.100 You know, that they're

00:54:21.680 not making a decision

00:54:22.600 and a fear for their

00:54:23.420 own careers, but rather

00:54:24.980 making a decision that

00:54:26.060 considers all the risks

00:54:27.260 and stuff.

00:54:28.800 So, I thought that

00:54:29.460 saying, coming up with

00:54:31.300 a negotiating position

00:54:33.300 of the public is done

00:54:34.640 on February 1, plus it

00:54:36.540 rhymes, would be an

00:54:39.400 additive thing.

00:54:41.460 How do you think that

00:54:42.180 worked out?

00:54:43.620 How did that work out

00:54:44.680 for me yesterday?

00:54:46.300 Do you think that worked

00:54:47.260 out really well for me?

00:54:50.160 Nope.

00:54:51.100 Nope.

00:54:51.940 So, the first thing that

00:54:53.020 happened is a number of

00:54:54.180 people said, oh, yeah,

00:54:55.660 that means that February

00:54:56.660 1, we're all going to,

00:54:59.120 you know, violate

00:55:00.140 government restrictions

00:55:01.500 no matter what.

00:55:04.480 No, that's not the plan.

00:55:06.020 It's not no matter what.

00:55:08.100 It's not no matter what

00:55:09.280 at all.

00:55:10.900 That's very much not the

00:55:12.340 idea.

00:55:13.340 The idea is not that no

00:55:15.080 matter what happens,

00:55:16.840 February 1, we drop all

00:55:18.220 the restrictions.

00:55:19.660 Because between now and

00:55:20.780 then, we could have

00:55:21.360 another variant.

00:55:22.060 We could find out that

00:55:23.720 the Omicron is worse in

00:55:25.320 some way that we didn't

00:55:26.440 realize.

00:55:27.580 We could find out lots of

00:55:28.760 stuff.

00:55:29.880 So, if you're saying that

00:55:30.820 you would commit to a

00:55:32.900 February 1 date, no matter

00:55:35.080 what happens, you're not

00:55:37.020 part of the rational

00:55:37.800 conversation.

00:55:39.620 Right?

00:55:39.900 It's just not part of the

00:55:40.820 rational conversation.

00:55:42.200 You've got to be able to

00:55:43.960 work with the government,

00:55:45.260 not just ignore it.

00:55:46.340 So, the productive way to

00:55:50.320 do it is to say, based on

00:55:51.660 everything we know,

00:55:52.540 February 1 makes sense

00:55:53.840 today.

00:55:55.820 Short of any new

00:55:56.900 information, it's still

00:55:57.980 going to make sense.

00:55:59.800 But you have to be open to

00:56:01.360 the fact that it's not no

00:56:02.360 matter what.

00:56:03.820 Right?

00:56:04.200 Because that's just dumb.

00:56:06.080 You know, you don't want to

00:56:06.880 start a movement that's based

00:56:08.260 on dumbness.

00:56:09.580 You've got to at least be

00:56:10.520 open to the fact that new

00:56:11.600 information would change

00:56:12.600 your opinion.

00:56:13.540 Then the second thing is,

00:56:15.640 of course, oh, we'll listen

00:56:17.160 to the cartoonist.

00:56:18.120 The cartoonist says, let's

00:56:19.960 ignore the virus and I'll go

00:56:21.240 die.

00:56:22.000 So, I got a lot of that from

00:56:23.060 the left, because they also

00:56:24.560 didn't understand that a

00:56:26.960 fundamental part of the idea

00:56:28.140 is that 75% of the public is

00:56:30.700 on the same side.

00:56:32.340 And that if 75% of the public

00:56:34.060 is not on the same side, well,

00:56:36.400 maybe the government should

00:56:37.300 make the decision.

00:56:39.160 You know, I only think this

00:56:40.460 sort of non-constitutional

00:56:42.380 process where people

00:56:44.140 organize and try to

00:56:45.240 influence the government

00:56:46.000 only makes sense if the

00:56:48.160 government can't get it

00:56:49.060 done or is the wrong tool

00:56:50.620 for the job.

00:56:51.440 If we were 50-50, I'd say

00:56:54.200 let the government do it.

00:56:56.400 Because, you know, we all

00:56:58.000 are going to at least

00:56:59.060 grudgingly go along with

00:57:00.440 what the government comes up

00:57:01.920 with if it's a 50-50.

00:57:03.980 But if it's 75 on one side

00:57:07.600 and the government sides

00:57:09.220 with a 25, well, then we've

00:57:11.060 got a problem and maybe

00:57:12.360 you need a little extra

00:57:13.560 little push.

00:57:15.240 Here's the quote that I

00:57:17.740 was thinking of with this

00:57:18.940 Feb 1, the public is done.

00:57:21.700 Not as something that we're

00:57:23.280 fighting our government

00:57:24.440 about.

00:57:26.400 Rather, JFK asked not what

00:57:31.780 your government can do for

00:57:33.040 you, but what you can do

00:57:35.120 for the government.

00:57:36.880 This is what we can do for

00:57:38.280 the government.

00:57:39.660 The government actually

00:57:40.680 worked pretty hard.

00:57:42.660 You know, there was clearly

00:57:43.920 some corruption going on.

00:57:45.380 But the government in

00:57:46.420 general has worked very

00:57:48.540 hard for our benefit.

00:57:50.580 In general.

00:57:52.000 Most of them.

00:57:52.900 Right?

00:57:53.660 And I think that JFK's 0.88

00:57:56.540 words, you know, they

00:57:58.220 influenced me as a child, as

00:58:00.160 many of us were influenced

00:58:01.140 by them.

00:58:01.740 And I think this is a

00:58:02.860 situation where it's what

00:58:04.360 can we do for our

00:58:05.100 government?

00:58:05.400 The government just

00:58:07.340 doesn't have quite the

00:58:08.820 tools to tell people to

00:58:11.260 go forth and live their 0.99

00:58:12.380 life, but a lot of you

00:58:13.300 are going to die. 0.95

00:58:14.740 They just don't have

00:58:15.720 that.

00:58:16.460 But we can.

00:58:17.160 We can help them.

00:58:18.360 We can say, we'll hold

00:58:20.100 you free of that risk.

00:58:22.140 75% of us want it.

00:58:24.160 It's just going to happen

00:58:25.040 now.

00:58:26.820 JFK didn't say that,

00:58:28.000 somebody says?

00:58:30.780 Oh, give me your country.

00:58:34.060 Okay.

00:58:35.040 That is correct.

00:58:36.500 Ask not what your

00:58:37.520 country can do for you,

00:58:38.700 but what you can do for

00:58:39.520 your country.

00:58:40.440 But I was, thank you for

00:58:41.980 correcting the quote, but

00:58:44.140 it ends up being the same

00:58:45.280 thing.

00:58:47.180 I see the distinction, but

00:58:48.960 it ends up being the same

00:58:49.820 thing for this conversation.

00:58:51.280 It's a question of what we

00:58:52.340 can do for the country.

00:58:54.120 So you're not battling the

00:58:55.460 government, you're helping

00:58:56.280 it.

00:58:57.520 Okay?

00:58:57.780 Okay.

00:58:57.820 All right.

00:59:06.580 I saw somebody say a

00:59:08.620 something today that we

00:59:10.540 used to say, but I don't

00:59:13.380 think you can say it

00:59:14.220 anymore.

00:59:15.620 And somebody said in a

00:59:16.740 tweet that the climate is

00:59:18.420 going to do what the

00:59:19.140 climate wants to do, and

00:59:20.360 we can't change that.

00:59:23.100 That's not true.

00:59:24.080 That's not even slightly

00:59:26.360 true.

00:59:27.560 We can totally change the

00:59:28.780 climate.

00:59:30.180 Humans have that

00:59:31.100 capability.

00:59:32.480 Now, whether we should do

00:59:33.820 it, you know, whether the

00:59:35.900 risk is worth the reward,

00:59:37.660 that's a whole separate

00:59:38.920 question.

00:59:39.720 But yes, the human

00:59:42.600 civilization knows how to

00:59:45.280 seed the clouds.

00:59:46.880 It knows how to, you know,

00:59:48.280 put some kind of chemical in

00:59:49.740 the air that would shield

00:59:51.320 the earth.

00:59:51.900 It probably knows how to

00:59:53.700 start a volcano if it

00:59:55.480 wanted to.

00:59:56.220 I don't know if we have

00:59:57.020 that ability, but I

00:59:58.380 suppose if we nuked an

00:59:59.680 active volcano, we might

01:00:00.900 be able to start one if we

01:00:02.380 really wanted to.

01:00:03.440 So my point is, we can do

01:00:04.860 geoengineering.

01:00:06.380 It might not be wise, but

01:00:09.640 if you're still saying that

01:00:10.620 the climate is going to do

01:00:11.640 what the climate is going to

01:00:12.480 do and there's nothing

01:00:13.240 humans can do about it, you

01:00:14.820 need to catch up.

01:00:16.620 Humans can actually change

01:00:17.960 the climate now.

01:00:19.200 It's just not a good idea

01:00:20.460 yet.

01:00:20.740 But we have the ability.

01:00:23.360 We absolutely could change

01:00:24.940 the climate.

01:00:27.180 So just keep that in your

01:00:29.360 bag of tricks.

01:00:30.740 Just know that.

01:00:32.700 Well, yeah, and for a long

01:00:35.260 time we've been able to do

01:00:36.240 it, but it's more obvious

01:00:37.460 now, I think.

01:00:39.160 So Feb 1, Feb 1, the public

01:00:42.640 is done.

01:00:46.420 Scott needs to catch up.

01:00:48.220 No, it's always been true

01:00:49.240 that we could do it.

01:00:50.260 It's just more obvious

01:00:51.360 today.

01:00:55.700 It's illegal.

01:00:57.120 Yeah, I mean, there are

01:00:57.860 reasons not to do it, but

01:00:59.800 it's physically possible.

01:01:04.400 How do we stop school and

01:01:06.060 airport masking?

01:01:07.100 I think you do that with the

01:01:10.460 help of the Omicron and the

01:01:12.780 help of Feb 1.

01:01:14.020 I think the government needs

01:01:16.620 to get focused on an open

01:01:18.580 date, but probably needs a

01:01:20.640 week or two more to feel

01:01:22.760 comfortable that they're

01:01:24.100 talking about the Omicron

01:01:25.340 accurately.

01:01:29.140 Scott, we're running low on

01:01:30.820 patience.

01:01:32.460 Either join our side or become

01:01:34.020 our enemy.

01:01:34.500 I choose to be your enemy.

01:01:36.620 I don't even know what your

01:01:37.320 side is, but I choose enemy

01:01:38.760 because you're an asshole. 0.99

01:01:40.660 Hide user on that channel.

01:01:45.400 State mandates.

01:01:46.360 Yeah, we've got state

01:01:47.080 mandates and we've got federal

01:01:48.240 mandates, and I think Feb 1,

01:01:51.040 the public is done, has to be

01:01:52.840 the time.

01:01:54.640 Oh! 0.60

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 22, 2021

Episode 1600 Scott Adams： Let's Make Fun of All the Stupid People in Charge Today

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