Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1619 Scott Adams： Lots of Weird and Interesting Stories Today. Let's Have Some Fun

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00:00:58.460 Oh, yeah, that was good.

00:01:08.500 Well, in the most important news of the day,

00:01:12.740 an Israeli team of scientists trained a goldfish to drive.

00:01:18.020 Now, the way they did that was they built little wheels that would go on the bottom of the goldfish's fishbowl.

00:01:26.960 And they had various LIDAR and detection technology so that they could look at the fish

00:01:33.520 and they could determine which way the fish was heading.

00:01:37.100 And then they would just make the fish's little car that was a fishbowl with wheels drive in the direction the fish seemed to be heading.

00:01:46.040 And they could actually teach.

00:01:47.080 This is real, by the way, I'm being asked on locals, is this real?

00:01:51.340 Yes.

00:01:52.360 I mean, it's really in the news.

00:01:54.800 I mean, I don't know if that makes it real.

00:01:56.300 Well, so it's a little fish tank.

00:02:01.560 Somebody says, has anyone told Gottfeld?

00:02:04.000 I'm not as sure what that comment means, but it's funny.

00:02:08.860 Are you saying that he should have a little tank so he can drive around?

00:02:12.520 Or?

00:02:13.620 I'm not sure what that comment means.

00:02:15.160 Anyway, I, for one, would like this product because I always like it when my dog wants to play

00:02:24.140 and she'll come find me somewhere in my office.

00:02:27.340 You know, the dog will come in like, rart, rart, rart.

00:02:29.380 You know, the dog wants some attention.

00:02:31.280 But if my fish wants some attention, how am I even going to know?

00:02:35.560 Well, but if my fish could sort of drive its little tank into my office

00:02:39.860 and just sort of look at me with its big fish eyes,

00:02:42.060 I think they do that, don't they?

00:02:48.520 I would know.

00:02:49.580 Oh, my fish wants to play.

00:02:52.440 My fish wants to play.

00:02:53.780 Oh, Gottfeld bought a goldfish?

00:02:55.320 Is that the story?

00:02:57.260 Oh, he has a pet fish on the five.

00:02:59.540 Okay.

00:03:01.700 I didn't know if you thought that Gottfeld should have one of those little cars

00:03:05.220 or if he had a fish.

00:03:07.440 I wasn't sure which way you were going with that.

00:03:09.220 Speaking of Gottfeld, there's a Washington Post major feature story on him.

00:03:17.640 You want to hear something funny?

00:03:20.000 So if you watch either The Five or Gottfeld on Fox,

00:03:24.560 you know that Greg Gottfeld often makes fun of Brian Stelter on CNN

00:03:29.420 and often makes fun of his, let's say, his fitness, shall we say.

00:03:35.780 And although I don't like to do body shaming, it's in the news, so I'm going to talk about it.

00:03:42.760 So I was reading the Washington Post piece, and it's very complimentary, I have to say.

00:03:49.220 So imagine, if you will, Gottfeld, who is associated with Fox News,

00:03:54.680 and they do a major feature piece on him in the Washington Post,

00:03:58.120 which would be associated with sort of the other team.

00:04:02.100 And still, the nature of the story was he's a huge success,

00:04:06.840 and he's just killing it in the ratings and all that.

00:04:11.320 Now, here's the funniest part.

00:04:14.620 The person writing the story called Brian Stelter for a comment.

00:04:19.360 Brian Stelter got a comment from the Washington Post, or a call from the Washington Post,

00:04:26.460 or maybe a message, I don't know,

00:04:28.580 asking him to comment on the story in which his greatest critic is a huge success

00:04:34.180 with two shows, one of the biggest powers in all of news and opinion

00:04:40.240 and influence in the country.

00:04:42.420 That's Gottfeld.

00:04:43.380 And Stelter was asked,

00:04:47.200 what did Stelter think about the fact that Gottfeld thinks he's fat?

00:04:54.220 Now, I'm paraphrasing.

00:04:55.500 They didn't ask the question that way.

00:04:57.020 But that was the nature of it.

00:04:58.880 How would you like to be the one on the struggling network

00:05:05.600 that they asked for a comment

00:05:08.700 about the huge success of your greatest critic

00:05:12.580 and could you comment about the fact that he makes fun of you for being fat?

00:05:21.660 Stelter did not have a comment,

00:05:23.640 which I think was the right way to play that.

00:05:30.200 All right.

00:05:32.120 Yesterday I tweeted for some help to help me buy pants.

00:05:36.940 I'm down to one pair of pants.

00:05:38.500 You know how if you buy some pants,

00:05:42.200 some will not stop fitting

00:05:43.980 and some will get some stain you can't get out of it for some reason.

00:05:48.580 Next thing you know, you're down to one pair of pants.

00:05:50.940 Well, I've been down to one pair of pants for about,

00:05:53.680 oh, four or five months.

00:05:57.540 So I either wear sweatpants, pajamas,

00:06:04.380 or my one pair of pants.

00:06:09.920 And the reason that I don't buy another pair of pants

00:06:13.820 is not because I can't afford it,

00:06:17.060 but because I hate shopping

00:06:18.560 and I also don't know what to buy.

00:06:20.200 So I'm at that age

00:06:22.440 where I have the most impossible shopping problem.

00:06:27.460 If I see some pants that I say,

00:06:29.460 well, those look like good pants,

00:06:31.300 they're not really going to be made for somebody my age

00:06:34.280 and demographic, right?

00:06:36.660 So there are things that look great

00:06:38.220 that would be inappropriate on me,

00:06:40.960 and then there are things that

00:06:42.440 would look appropriate on me

00:06:44.800 that don't look great.

00:06:46.360 So I was wondering if anybody has figured out

00:06:49.320 how to solve the problem

00:06:50.440 of something that would look good

00:06:52.400 on somebody in my demographic,

00:06:54.800 because I don't think anybody ever has.

00:06:56.540 So a lot of people had some comments,

00:06:58.700 and most of them were, let's say, less than useful.

00:07:02.740 It turns out that people have

00:07:04.980 very different opinions on pants.

00:07:07.380 But I did get some good ideas.

00:07:10.500 However, here's my bigger point.

00:07:13.200 Don't you think that shopping is backwards?

00:07:16.360 Because right now,

00:07:17.320 if I want to buy a pair of pants,

00:07:19.480 I go forth into the world

00:07:21.100 and I have to search for them.

00:07:23.480 Why am I doing all the work?

00:07:25.740 Shouldn't the one who wants to sell me the pants

00:07:27.780 be doing the work?

00:07:29.260 Like, why am I a hunter-gatherer for pants?

00:07:32.300 I mean, figuring out what to buy

00:07:34.520 and then where to buy it

00:07:35.920 and finding the right size,

00:07:38.120 trying it on,

00:07:39.680 might have to get some tailoring on the legs.

00:07:42.180 It's a giant, giant pain in the ass.

00:07:44.180 That's why I put it off so long.

00:07:46.360 So, what I did was just tweet it,

00:07:49.640 and then the information came to me.

00:07:51.900 That's how shopping should be.

00:07:53.860 When you shop,

00:07:54.700 you should not have to go to a store

00:07:56.040 or Google anything.

00:07:57.580 There should be a site.

00:07:59.000 By the way,

00:07:59.720 I tried to create a startup

00:08:01.860 that would do this years ago.

00:08:03.700 It didn't go anyplace.

00:08:05.120 But the idea should be

00:08:06.920 everybody who wants to buy something,

00:08:08.640 if you're in the market,

00:08:10.060 you should post what you're in the market for.

00:08:12.120 I'm in the market for a car,

00:08:14.840 something in this range.

00:08:21.500 Oh, shit.

00:08:22.820 Sorry, Carpe.

00:08:25.300 Oh, God.

00:08:26.640 Carpe dunked him saying

00:08:27.760 his 18-year-old nephew

00:08:29.580 died of fentanyl overdose on New Year's Eve.

00:08:33.000 That hits close to home.

00:08:35.180 All right.

00:08:35.520 But what was I talking about?

00:08:38.880 Pants.

00:08:39.380 Yes.

00:08:40.140 Not just pants,

00:08:41.180 but consumers should be able

00:08:42.800 to post what they want to buy

00:08:44.380 and then have anybody

00:08:46.020 who is in that market

00:08:48.140 provide them exactly the right solution.

00:08:53.100 So that's how shopping should work.

00:08:56.180 Anyway,

00:08:56.960 it takes a village

00:08:58.040 to put pants on me, apparently.

00:08:59.480 Rasmussen asked this poll,

00:09:05.520 said should social media,

00:09:07.220 and they mentioned Twitter and Facebook,

00:09:09.660 should they regulate content?

00:09:12.040 What do you think Republicans said

00:09:13.600 and what do you think Democrats said

00:09:15.640 about Twitter and Facebook

00:09:17.620 who are leaning Democrat?

00:09:21.680 Do you think that Democrats

00:09:22.940 think that Democrats

00:09:24.120 should be able to regulate content?

00:09:26.820 It turns out they do.

00:09:28.220 Very surprisingly,

00:09:31.560 Democrats believe that Democrats

00:09:33.160 should be in charge of content.

00:09:36.040 So only 32% of Dems

00:09:39.100 were opposed to Twitter

00:09:40.800 and Facebook regulating content.

00:09:43.680 On the GOP side,

00:09:45.800 72% were against it.

00:09:48.380 Are you surprised

00:09:49.560 that the people

00:09:51.000 who are not on the same team

00:09:53.060 as the regulators of content

00:09:54.700 don't like it?

00:09:56.560 So I think all we found out

00:09:57.740 is that there is such a thing

00:09:58.920 as Republicans and Democrats.

00:10:01.360 And they just line up

00:10:02.640 by their team,

00:10:03.840 as you would expect.

00:10:04.720 Now let me ask you this.

00:10:06.840 If the social networks

00:10:08.560 were right-leaning,

00:10:11.900 let's say all the big ones

00:10:13.000 were right-leaning,

00:10:14.960 would they regulate content

00:10:17.600 in the other direction?

00:10:20.460 Such that Democrats would say,

00:10:22.600 no, I don't want content regulated

00:10:24.380 because the conservatives

00:10:26.140 are regulating my good content.

00:10:28.000 I think the answer is yes.

00:10:31.740 I think this would,

00:10:32.700 yeah, if you say no,

00:10:34.020 I feel you're being

00:10:36.360 a little too generous there.

00:10:38.420 Do you think that conservative networks

00:10:40.620 would let people post pictures

00:10:42.680 of, let's say,

00:10:44.440 aborted babies?

00:10:47.560 I don't know.

00:10:48.040 I'm just trying to think

00:10:48.880 of some example.

00:10:49.500 I've got a feeling

00:10:51.100 that whoever is in control

00:10:53.680 thinks that what is reasonable

00:10:55.520 is what agrees with them.

00:10:58.540 Am I wrong?

00:11:00.020 Don't most people say,

00:11:01.180 all right,

00:11:01.440 we all like free speech.

00:11:03.460 Facebook says that,

00:11:04.720 Twitter says that,

00:11:05.500 everybody says that.

00:11:06.680 There's nobody on the other side

00:11:08.100 of free speech.

00:11:10.040 It's just,

00:11:11.140 where is the line

00:11:12.200 that goes too far

00:11:13.940 in a commercial sense?

00:11:15.920 Now in a government sense,

00:11:17.000 it's a different standard.

00:11:17.760 But if you're running a business,

00:11:20.060 you probably need

00:11:21.240 to draw the line

00:11:22.400 because even the right-leaning

00:11:24.240 alternatives to Twitter,

00:11:27.340 even they have a line.

00:11:29.120 You can't do outright

00:11:30.520 Nazi racist propaganda

00:11:32.460 on any network.

00:11:34.340 So I'm pretty sure

00:11:35.580 that the problem is

00:11:37.360 who's running it.

00:11:38.860 It's not so much the question

00:11:40.260 of whether content

00:11:41.080 should be regulated.

00:11:42.280 I think that's a phantom.

00:11:45.480 Bob Saget passed away

00:11:47.120 unexpectedly

00:11:48.020 at, unfortunately,

00:11:50.380 just about exactly my age.

00:11:55.280 Do you see what I did there?

00:11:57.460 Do you see how I made

00:11:58.440 Bob Saget's passing

00:11:59.860 about me?

00:12:00.420 Have you looked at Twitter?

00:12:04.620 I can't believe

00:12:05.360 how many people

00:12:06.020 made Bob Saget's death

00:12:07.420 about them,

00:12:08.180 like I just did.

00:12:10.660 Somehow we can turn

00:12:12.200 everybody's tragedy

00:12:13.180 into something about us.

00:12:14.340 But the thing

00:12:15.620 that was amazing

00:12:16.160 is how many celebrities,

00:12:18.720 usually in the comedy world,

00:12:20.400 said they had just

00:12:21.340 talked to him.

00:12:23.400 How many people

00:12:24.240 does this guy talk to?

00:12:25.800 Or did he?

00:12:27.420 That there were

00:12:28.060 so many people

00:12:28.660 who said,

00:12:28.880 I just talked to him

00:12:29.660 last week

00:12:30.220 or I just talked

00:12:30.860 to him yesterday.

00:12:31.400 He talked to a lot

00:12:32.100 of people.

00:12:32.900 But the most amazing

00:12:33.900 thing about this

00:12:34.780 was that almost

00:12:36.420 100% of the people

00:12:37.820 said the same thing.

00:12:38.860 that he was

00:12:40.240 the nicest guy

00:12:41.340 ever.

00:12:43.960 I mean,

00:12:44.420 exaggerating a little bit.

00:12:46.040 But did you notice that?

00:12:47.220 Almost every person

00:12:48.440 said nice

00:12:49.240 and generous.

00:12:53.280 Wow.

00:12:54.520 Talk about

00:12:55.220 sticking with the landing.

00:12:58.140 I've often said

00:12:59.360 that my strategy

00:13:01.260 for my life

00:13:02.300 is to live

00:13:04.540 for the best funeral.

00:13:06.220 meaning the most people

00:13:08.680 who care if you die.

00:13:10.960 One way to measure

00:13:12.420 whether you lived

00:13:13.040 a good life

00:13:13.720 is how many people

00:13:15.260 care when you die.

00:13:17.120 And so I've always

00:13:18.280 thought that that

00:13:18.820 would be my standard

00:13:19.680 to have the maximum

00:13:20.980 number of people

00:13:21.820 willingly go to

00:13:24.000 my funeral

00:13:24.560 as opposed to

00:13:25.900 just have to

00:13:26.520 because they're

00:13:26.880 related or something.

00:13:29.100 Do you ever see

00:13:29.680 the movie

00:13:30.100 The Big Fish?

00:13:32.780 I'm not going to

00:13:33.600 tell you what

00:13:34.000 that's about

00:13:34.640 except it's

00:13:36.200 related to this

00:13:36.840 conversation.

00:13:37.780 Great movie.

00:13:39.040 I really love

00:13:39.740 that movie.

00:13:40.260 One of my

00:13:40.620 all-time favorites.

00:13:41.960 It's called

00:13:42.320 The Big Fish.

00:13:44.080 Don't bail out

00:13:45.120 of it till the end.

00:13:46.940 That's my only advice.

00:13:48.060 If you try to watch it,

00:13:50.460 do not bail out

00:13:51.640 before the end.

00:13:53.320 Just don't even bother

00:13:55.080 if you think

00:13:55.620 you're not going to

00:13:56.020 watch the whole thing.

00:13:57.020 That's all I'm going to say.

00:14:01.160 Anyway,

00:14:01.600 I don't think you

00:14:04.600 can do better

00:14:05.460 as a human being

00:14:07.340 than Bob Saget.

00:14:10.480 And I say that

00:14:11.680 without much knowledge

00:14:12.780 of his life whatsoever.

00:14:14.120 I'm looking entirely

00:14:14.960 at the reaction

00:14:15.680 of the people

00:14:16.260 I've never seen.

00:14:19.240 You know,

00:14:20.100 actually,

00:14:22.060 I think I've never

00:14:22.660 seen this reaction.

00:14:24.160 Have you?

00:14:24.460 Have you ever seen

00:14:26.080 as good a reaction?

00:14:27.420 Well, good.

00:14:28.100 That's the wrong word.

00:14:28.800 But as a...

00:14:31.600 I've never seen this.

00:14:33.560 This is unusual.

00:14:35.440 But the other thing

00:14:36.480 that I noticed

00:14:36.980 that was hard to not notice

00:14:38.680 is that in photos...

00:14:40.600 Did you notice

00:14:41.160 his recent photos?

00:14:43.420 His recent photos

00:14:44.700 looked like

00:14:45.160 he was very ill.

00:14:48.040 And Norm Macdonald

00:14:49.100 had the same...

00:14:49.760 kind of the same situation.

00:14:53.280 But also,

00:14:54.200 Norm Macdonald

00:14:54.780 looked ill...

00:14:56.280 looked pretty ill

00:14:57.260 before he died as well.

00:14:59.160 So if you look

00:15:00.220 at both of them

00:15:01.300 and you see

00:15:01.820 the recent pictures

00:15:03.300 on the year

00:15:04.340 that they died,

00:15:06.560 somebody should have

00:15:08.240 known something

00:15:08.760 was going on

00:15:09.640 because there was

00:15:10.260 definitely something

00:15:11.060 going on health-wise.

00:15:12.880 Don't know what it is.

00:15:15.860 Let's talk about

00:15:16.760 those sudden

00:15:17.400 athlete deaths.

00:15:18.940 You know,

00:15:19.280 the athletes

00:15:19.780 that are dropping

00:15:20.440 like flies.

00:15:21.040 I am a skeptic

00:15:22.860 that those are

00:15:24.300 really telling us

00:15:25.240 something,

00:15:26.060 as you know.

00:15:26.640 now you've seen

00:15:27.560 the videos

00:15:28.100 of like athletes

00:15:29.140 just dropping

00:15:29.780 like flies

00:15:30.360 it seems like

00:15:31.120 and people think

00:15:32.220 it's because

00:15:32.560 of the vaccinations.

00:15:33.900 That's the allegation.

00:15:36.160 But I'm a skeptic

00:15:37.840 because I think

00:15:38.580 that we would see

00:15:39.420 people dying

00:15:40.120 in all kinds

00:15:41.020 of different

00:15:42.520 industries as well

00:15:43.760 and it would

00:15:45.380 just be so obvious

00:15:46.680 especially within

00:15:48.120 the sports leagues

00:15:48.860 that the other

00:15:49.920 players wouldn't

00:15:51.320 be able to talk

00:15:51.900 about anything else.

00:15:53.700 Right?

00:15:53.900 If this were true

00:15:55.020 it's all we would

00:15:56.380 be talking about.

00:15:57.740 It's all we would

00:15:58.680 be talking about.

00:16:00.080 So I saw

00:16:01.000 a fascinating

00:16:02.780 thread

00:16:04.420 on Twitter

00:16:04.920 in which

00:16:06.460 a user

00:16:08.180 named

00:16:08.600 Rainbell

00:16:10.860 Jangler

00:16:11.440 decided to

00:16:13.340 challenge

00:16:13.680 some of the

00:16:14.120 claims

00:16:14.520 and looked

00:16:15.720 at a list

00:16:16.400 of a long

00:16:17.640 list of actual

00:16:18.320 names and people

00:16:19.300 who had recently

00:16:21.000 dropped dead

00:16:21.620 of a heart attack

00:16:22.360 in professional

00:16:23.420 sports

00:16:23.900 or high-end

00:16:24.920 sports.

00:16:26.340 And this

00:16:27.640 critic

00:16:28.100 noted

00:16:29.620 that very

00:16:30.860 many people

00:16:31.420 on that list

00:16:31.980 had not been

00:16:32.560 vaccinated.

00:16:33.560 So it was

00:16:34.340 the list

00:16:34.700 of people

00:16:35.020 who had been

00:16:35.360 vaccinated

00:16:35.820 and then died

00:16:37.600 suddenly.

00:16:38.740 Except the list

00:16:39.540 of people

00:16:39.900 who had been

00:16:40.220 vaccinated and

00:16:41.020 died suddenly

00:16:41.620 included a lot

00:16:43.140 of people

00:16:43.540 who would not

00:16:44.400 have been

00:16:44.780 even eligible

00:16:45.480 for the

00:16:46.000 vaccination

00:16:46.440 at the time

00:16:47.420 of their

00:16:48.160 death.

00:16:49.080 In other words

00:16:49.580 somebody who

00:16:50.100 was 16

00:16:50.600 who couldn't

00:16:51.260 have gotten

00:16:51.580 the vaccination

00:16:52.100 when he died.

00:16:53.940 Somebody who

00:16:54.320 was 64

00:16:54.880 and retired

00:16:55.560 couldn't have

00:16:56.140 been vaccinated

00:16:56.980 you know

00:16:58.020 blah blah blah.

00:16:58.780 So it's easy

00:16:59.880 to demonstrate

00:17:00.440 that a lot

00:17:01.340 of the people

00:17:01.780 that are claimed

00:17:02.920 to be after

00:17:03.820 vaccination

00:17:04.480 were actually

00:17:05.160 not vaccinated

00:17:06.020 at all.

00:17:06.400 So yeah

00:17:14.800 so the question

00:17:15.360 is whether

00:17:15.860 that kind

00:17:17.660 of information

00:17:19.120 could be

00:17:19.640 controlled

00:17:20.160 as the

00:17:21.620 commenter

00:17:22.360 just said.

00:17:23.260 Do you think

00:17:23.760 that professional

00:17:24.480 sports or

00:17:25.240 big pharma

00:17:25.840 or anybody

00:17:26.580 could control

00:17:28.200 professional

00:17:29.920 athletes dropping

00:17:30.900 dead at

00:17:31.800 unprecedented

00:17:32.920 rates all

00:17:33.840 over the

00:17:34.180 world in

00:17:34.640 every sport?

00:17:35.200 Remember

00:17:37.120 it's every

00:17:37.700 sport all

00:17:39.460 over the

00:17:39.840 world with

00:17:40.880 different

00:17:41.140 organizations

00:17:41.780 controlling.

00:17:43.140 Could they

00:17:43.720 control all

00:17:44.440 of that?

00:17:47.740 Maybe.

00:17:49.560 Maybe.

00:17:50.560 Temporarily.

00:17:51.880 I'm going to

00:17:52.280 say no though.

00:17:53.560 I think the

00:17:54.600 smarter bet is

00:17:55.300 no.

00:17:56.380 So here's

00:17:57.000 what I would

00:17:57.360 ask you to

00:17:57.820 do.

00:17:58.880 I tweeted

00:17:59.960 it so you

00:18:00.420 can find it

00:18:00.900 in my thread

00:18:01.660 for this

00:18:02.160 morning.

00:18:03.060 Look at

00:18:03.520 the claims

00:18:04.060 for all

00:18:04.540 the deaths

00:18:04.980 and then

00:18:05.560 look at

00:18:06.020 just one

00:18:06.920 critic

00:18:07.440 tearing

00:18:08.340 those

00:18:08.680 claims

00:18:09.300 to

00:18:09.560 shreds.

00:18:11.000 That's all.

00:18:11.740 That's the

00:18:12.220 only thing

00:18:12.520 I'll add

00:18:12.900 is that

00:18:13.300 just look

00:18:14.540 at the

00:18:14.800 critic

00:18:15.080 and look

00:18:15.560 at the

00:18:15.840 claims.

00:18:17.220 And you

00:18:17.800 could at

00:18:18.140 least see

00:18:18.580 that some

00:18:19.020 are not

00:18:19.400 true.

00:18:20.280 That doesn't

00:18:21.000 mean there's

00:18:21.360 nothing there.

00:18:23.620 Somebody says

00:18:24.480 NFL and NBA

00:18:25.500 players are not

00:18:26.300 dropping dead.

00:18:27.080 That's correct.

00:18:29.080 Yeah.

00:18:29.640 Wouldn't you

00:18:29.980 know it if

00:18:31.380 an NBA player

00:18:32.300 dropped dead?

00:18:33.720 Name one.

00:18:34.980 Name an

00:18:35.680 NBA player

00:18:36.360 who dropped

00:18:36.800 dead from

00:18:38.660 vaccinations.

00:18:40.960 Right.

00:18:42.520 All right.

00:18:44.820 There is an

00:18:46.020 effort going on

00:18:46.820 to try to

00:18:47.240 create a

00:18:47.800 vaccine for

00:18:48.560 addicts.

00:18:50.620 They don't

00:18:51.300 have it yet

00:18:52.440 but apparently

00:18:52.940 since the

00:18:53.420 50s this idea

00:18:54.360 has been

00:18:54.640 kicking around

00:18:55.160 and it

00:18:55.820 sounds like

00:18:56.240 it might

00:18:56.580 be achievable

00:18:57.240 but they're

00:18:58.500 nowhere near

00:18:59.380 it yet.

00:18:59.960 It's just

00:19:00.380 an effort

00:19:00.820 to see if

00:19:01.360 they can

00:19:01.620 do it.

00:19:01.940 So what

00:19:02.820 they plan

00:19:03.200 to do

00:19:03.560 is just

00:19:03.940 try to

00:19:04.480 do some

00:19:04.840 kind of

00:19:05.100 a major

00:19:05.460 trial once

00:19:06.280 a year.

00:19:07.420 This is

00:19:07.760 the University

00:19:09.060 of Minnesota

00:19:09.920 wait no it's

00:19:11.480 recently the

00:19:14.860 University of

00:19:16.660 Washington is

00:19:17.160 doing it.

00:19:18.200 So this

00:19:18.960 might be 10

00:19:19.540 years off

00:19:20.060 before we see

00:19:20.620 anything but

00:19:21.240 imagine that.

00:19:23.920 Imagine a

00:19:24.420 vaccination for

00:19:25.400 addiction.

00:19:27.300 Maybe.

00:19:28.620 Maybe.

00:19:29.200 I mean it

00:19:29.480 would be one

00:19:29.900 more thing to

00:19:30.400 worry about

00:19:30.880 right.

00:19:32.340 Somebody says

00:19:32.940 addiction is a

00:19:33.680 mental illness.

00:19:35.420 No.

00:19:37.180 No.

00:19:38.180 Addiction is

00:19:38.820 not a mental

00:19:39.380 illness.

00:19:40.760 That is

00:19:41.500 really not

00:19:42.580 close to

00:19:43.960 reality.

00:19:45.600 Addiction is

00:19:46.740 some people

00:19:47.260 have the

00:19:47.940 capacity to

00:19:49.500 have a

00:19:50.000 different

00:19:50.220 response to

00:19:51.000 some drugs

00:19:51.560 and then once

00:19:52.680 the drugs are

00:19:53.200 in you you

00:19:53.800 become the

00:19:54.600 drug.

00:19:55.800 So it

00:19:56.160 doesn't matter

00:19:56.580 who you are

00:19:57.040 at that

00:19:57.300 point.

00:19:59.940 Yeah I

00:20:00.540 would say

00:20:00.820 it's more

00:20:01.620 of a disease

00:20:04.160 that some

00:20:04.840 people have

00:20:05.500 a susceptibility

00:20:07.000 to more

00:20:07.840 than others.

00:20:09.380 Now do you

00:20:10.720 ever have

00:20:11.020 this thought

00:20:11.960 when you see

00:20:13.460 all the

00:20:13.720 problems that

00:20:14.340 other people

00:20:14.820 have do you

00:20:15.760 ever say to

00:20:16.160 yourself I

00:20:17.540 got a lot of

00:20:18.000 problems myself

00:20:18.820 but thank

00:20:19.540 goodness I

00:20:20.100 don't have

00:20:20.380 that one.

00:20:21.500 I'll tell you

00:20:21.920 the one that I

00:20:22.440 feel thankful

00:20:23.040 for all the

00:20:24.580 time is that

00:20:26.160 I don't like

00:20:26.820 alcohol that

00:20:27.540 much.

00:20:29.100 I mean I've

00:20:29.460 enjoyed having

00:20:30.540 drinks with

00:20:31.040 friends a

00:20:31.520 billion times.

00:20:32.700 I don't

00:20:32.920 drink now

00:20:33.380 because I

00:20:33.680 think alcohol

00:20:34.140 is poison.

00:20:35.400 But anyway

00:20:38.200 new studies

00:20:41.800 on exercise

00:20:42.540 and dementia.

00:20:44.080 Did you

00:20:44.600 know the

00:20:46.100 studies in

00:20:46.660 the past

00:20:47.040 have shown

00:20:47.400 that exercise

00:20:47.920 can reduce

00:20:48.680 your risk

00:20:49.160 of dementia

00:20:49.720 by 30

00:20:50.880 to 80

00:20:51.340 percent?

00:20:52.820 30 to

00:20:53.680 80 percent

00:20:54.460 from exercise?

00:20:57.800 Is there

00:20:58.440 anybody not

00:20:58.920 exercising?

00:21:00.640 I'd like to

00:21:01.420 do a little

00:21:01.860 shaming right

00:21:02.820 now for

00:21:03.680 your benefit.

00:21:04.560 I'd only do

00:21:05.240 it for your

00:21:05.620 good.

00:21:06.520 How many of

00:21:07.040 you don't

00:21:07.540 exercise?

00:21:09.080 Just don't?

00:21:10.360 In the

00:21:10.900 comments.

00:21:13.100 Just admit it.

00:21:14.380 Do you not

00:21:14.900 exercise at all?

00:21:16.500 Not even

00:21:16.920 taking a walk?

00:21:20.520 Some say

00:21:21.220 not enough.

00:21:23.360 I do not

00:21:24.440 not enough

00:21:25.300 not enough

00:21:25.860 hardly at all

00:21:26.520 not enough.

00:21:27.600 Now I

00:21:28.120 know my

00:21:28.580 my group

00:21:29.880 is a

00:21:30.660 skews a

00:21:31.440 little bit

00:21:31.800 older.

00:21:33.500 Wow.

00:21:34.480 Now if

00:21:34.960 you're injured

00:21:35.360 that's a

00:21:35.740 different thing

00:21:36.220 of course.

00:21:37.880 Wow.

00:21:39.120 All right

00:21:39.500 let me give

00:21:39.880 you some

00:21:40.160 advice.

00:21:41.740 Now this

00:21:42.420 advice comes

00:21:43.020 from my

00:21:44.460 book but

00:21:45.740 also comes

00:21:46.540 from if

00:21:48.040 you look at

00:21:48.400 Atomic Habits

00:21:49.320 or the book

00:21:50.340 Habits.

00:21:51.220 So I'm

00:21:51.740 going to give

00:21:52.020 you some

00:21:52.300 advice for

00:21:53.480 fixing that

00:21:54.280 exercise

00:21:54.700 thing that

00:21:57.040 will work

00:21:57.700 for all

00:21:58.480 of you.

00:21:59.720 It goes

00:22:00.180 like this.

00:22:00.720 Start with

00:22:01.260 the smallest

00:22:01.780 thing you

00:22:02.280 can do

00:22:02.720 which is

00:22:04.740 I don't

00:22:05.240 feel like

00:22:05.600 exercising

00:22:06.160 but you

00:22:06.940 can walk

00:22:07.300 around the

00:22:07.680 block.

00:22:08.960 Right?

00:22:09.400 So just do

00:22:09.940 that.

00:22:10.780 Let's say

00:22:11.140 you can't

00:22:11.760 even walk

00:22:12.180 around the

00:22:12.540 block.

00:22:13.360 You're just

00:22:13.920 beat.

00:22:14.840 I talk

00:22:15.420 about this

00:22:15.920 trick in

00:22:16.580 my book

00:22:17.040 how to

00:22:17.960 fail

00:22:18.140 almost

00:22:18.460 everything.

00:22:19.320 Put on

00:22:19.740 your exercise

00:22:20.860 footwear

00:22:21.620 and your

00:22:22.740 exercise

00:22:23.260 maybe

00:22:23.740 sweatpants

00:22:24.800 or something.

00:22:25.580 Just put

00:22:25.960 them on

00:22:26.300 but give

00:22:26.820 yourself

00:22:27.980 permission

00:22:28.480 to not

00:22:28.920 work out.

00:22:30.400 You're going

00:22:30.740 to find

00:22:31.040 yourself

00:22:31.460 feeling

00:22:31.780 I've got

00:22:32.580 my footwear

00:22:34.480 on and

00:22:35.240 I've got

00:22:35.640 my exercise

00:22:36.200 clothes on.

00:22:36.920 At least

00:22:37.180 I'll clean

00:22:37.540 the house

00:22:38.020 while I'm

00:22:39.480 dressed like

00:22:39.880 this.

00:22:40.460 You'll find

00:22:40.980 that you

00:22:41.260 can trick

00:22:41.780 yourself

00:22:42.200 into

00:22:42.420 exercising

00:22:43.020 by wearing

00:22:45.100 the clothes

00:22:45.840 and

00:22:47.160 starting

00:22:47.540 small.

00:22:49.220 So let's

00:22:49.780 say you

00:22:50.080 say to

00:22:50.360 yourself

00:22:50.640 you know

00:22:50.940 I can't

00:22:51.400 do much

00:22:51.740 exercise

00:22:52.120 but I

00:22:52.520 can walk

00:22:52.920 around the

00:22:53.280 block

00:22:53.520 every day.

00:22:54.280 That's it.

00:22:54.760 That's all

00:22:55.180 I can do.

00:22:55.980 I can't

00:22:56.420 do one

00:22:56.860 more thing

00:22:57.300 than that.

00:22:58.360 Then walk

00:22:58.800 around the

00:22:59.160 block

00:22:59.400 every day.

00:23:00.880 Two weeks

00:23:01.460 later you're

00:23:02.240 going to

00:23:02.340 say to

00:23:02.580 yourself

00:23:02.820 you know

00:23:03.100 I think

00:23:03.500 I can

00:23:03.760 walk

00:23:03.980 around this

00:23:04.380 block

00:23:04.600 a second

00:23:05.040 time.

00:23:06.280 Don't

00:23:06.720 worry

00:23:07.000 about it.

00:23:08.500 Even

00:23:08.940 if you

00:23:09.240 think you

00:23:09.620 can walk

00:23:10.100 around the

00:23:10.460 block

00:23:10.680 a second

00:23:11.120 time.

00:23:12.060 Don't

00:23:12.500 do it

00:23:12.780 unless you

00:23:13.100 really

00:23:13.340 want

00:23:13.580 to.

00:23:14.640 So my

00:23:15.280 advice on

00:23:15.820 exercise is

00:23:16.540 never ever

00:23:17.140 do something

00:23:17.680 you don't

00:23:18.080 want to

00:23:18.560 because that

00:23:19.020 will train

00:23:19.440 you to

00:23:19.760 dislike it.

00:23:21.040 Only

00:23:21.400 only do

00:23:22.560 things you

00:23:22.980 like and

00:23:24.480 then build

00:23:25.040 from that.

00:23:26.100 So here's

00:23:26.420 one thing

00:23:26.780 I like.

00:23:27.460 I like

00:23:27.800 putting on

00:23:28.220 my exercise

00:23:29.300 clothes and

00:23:29.960 taking a

00:23:30.360 walk.

00:23:31.060 Real easy.

00:23:32.460 The sun

00:23:32.920 feels good.

00:23:33.720 I clear my

00:23:34.200 head.

00:23:34.620 I listen

00:23:34.920 to some

00:23:35.280 music.

00:23:36.240 I usually

00:23:36.940 do it about

00:23:37.380 the same

00:23:37.680 time of

00:23:38.020 day.

00:23:39.280 It's a

00:23:39.840 habit.

00:23:40.760 So here

00:23:41.260 are the

00:23:41.460 things.

00:23:41.960 Start super

00:23:42.740 super

00:23:43.040 small.

00:23:45.320 Well, let

00:23:46.120 me back

00:23:46.480 up.

00:23:48.300 I told you

00:23:49.060 the difference

00:23:49.500 between wanting

00:23:50.280 and deciding,

00:23:51.360 right?

00:23:53.540 Don't bother

00:23:54.320 even trying

00:23:54.940 to exercise

00:23:55.480 if you just

00:23:56.300 want to.

00:23:57.480 Just don't

00:23:57.920 even bother.

00:23:58.480 It's not

00:23:58.820 going to

00:23:58.980 work.

00:23:59.900 The only

00:24:00.560 way you

00:24:01.060 should decide

00:24:01.940 to exercise

00:24:02.520 is by

00:24:03.960 deciding to

00:24:04.620 exercise.

00:24:05.740 It's got

00:24:06.140 to be a

00:24:06.420 decision.

00:24:07.640 Then you

00:24:08.080 can do

00:24:08.360 it.

00:24:09.320 Don't say,

00:24:10.300 you know,

00:24:10.720 people exercise,

00:24:12.000 I'd like to

00:24:12.540 exercise,

00:24:13.660 I wish

00:24:14.220 it were

00:24:14.440 easy,

00:24:15.120 I'll do

00:24:15.460 some more

00:24:15.800 exercise.

00:24:16.460 That's

00:24:16.660 nothing.

00:24:17.580 That's

00:24:17.840 nothing.

00:24:19.080 Exercise

00:24:19.520 has to

00:24:20.080 be a

00:24:20.460 base need,

00:24:23.920 and you

00:24:24.200 have to

00:24:24.460 decide it's

00:24:25.340 who you

00:24:25.620 are.

00:24:26.440 So it's

00:24:26.780 not just

00:24:27.160 deciding to

00:24:27.860 do it.

00:24:29.760 Don't

00:24:30.160 just decide

00:24:30.720 to do it.

00:24:32.120 Decide

00:24:32.500 it's who

00:24:32.760 you are

00:24:33.100 now.

00:24:34.180 That's

00:24:34.480 who you

00:24:34.740 are.

00:24:35.640 You

00:24:35.900 are now

00:24:36.240 a person

00:24:36.640 who,

00:24:37.040 one way

00:24:37.420 or another,

00:24:37.920 is going

00:24:38.200 to find

00:24:38.460 a way

00:24:38.660 to be

00:24:38.880 active

00:24:39.180 today.

00:24:39.520 And that's

00:24:40.560 your goal.

00:24:41.200 Your goal is

00:24:41.700 to be active

00:24:42.300 every day.

00:24:43.400 If you get

00:24:43.820 that right,

00:24:45.240 active could be

00:24:46.040 cleaning the

00:24:46.700 garage,

00:24:47.280 could be

00:24:47.500 taking a

00:24:47.900 walk,

00:24:48.320 could be

00:24:48.580 playing a

00:24:49.000 sport,

00:24:49.420 could be

00:24:49.700 lifting some

00:24:50.240 weights.

00:24:50.860 It doesn't

00:24:51.240 matter.

00:24:51.960 Just be

00:24:52.340 active every

00:24:52.880 day and

00:24:53.280 you'll get

00:24:53.600 addicted to

00:24:54.160 it.

00:24:54.820 Give

00:24:55.060 yourself a

00:24:55.720 treat.

00:24:56.780 Nice

00:24:57.060 protein shake,

00:24:58.360 something healthy.

00:24:59.640 Make sure you

00:25:00.120 get lots of

00:25:00.540 protein, by the

00:25:01.100 way.

00:25:01.640 Big mistake

00:25:02.240 people make

00:25:02.860 is they'll

00:25:03.560 exercise and

00:25:04.260 eat salad.

00:25:04.800 If you're

00:25:05.940 going to

00:25:06.080 exercise and

00:25:06.900 eat salad,

00:25:07.580 don't bother.

00:25:09.060 Just don't

00:25:09.500 do either

00:25:09.780 one.

00:25:10.440 Because it's

00:25:10.800 not going to

00:25:11.100 help you a

00:25:11.500 bit.

00:25:12.140 I mean,

00:25:12.640 a little bit,

00:25:13.420 but you're

00:25:13.660 not going to

00:25:13.900 be able to

00:25:14.140 stick with

00:25:14.500 it.

00:25:15.140 If you

00:25:15.660 exercise,

00:25:16.540 eat protein.

00:25:19.140 And say

00:25:19.700 to yourself,

00:25:21.020 exercise and

00:25:21.940 protein,

00:25:22.520 exercise and

00:25:23.340 protein.

00:25:24.140 Do not say

00:25:24.940 to yourself,

00:25:25.960 exercise and

00:25:26.920 food.

00:25:28.280 Do not say

00:25:28.860 to yourself,

00:25:29.380 exercise and

00:25:30.080 salad.

00:25:31.280 Say,

00:25:31.540 exercise,

00:25:32.100 protein,

00:25:32.560 exercise,

00:25:33.120 protein.

00:25:33.960 Nothing else.

00:25:35.800 What do

00:25:36.340 you eat

00:25:36.540 before you

00:25:37.000 exercise?

00:25:38.360 Protein.

00:25:39.320 What do

00:25:39.600 you eat

00:25:39.780 after you

00:25:40.300 exercise?

00:25:41.520 Protein.

00:25:43.000 Should you

00:25:43.660 also have

00:25:44.260 carbs?

00:25:44.780 Yes,

00:25:45.300 yes.

00:25:45.840 But you're

00:25:46.280 going to

00:25:46.420 get them

00:25:46.760 anyway.

00:25:47.960 Hopefully

00:25:48.440 they're the

00:25:48.860 good carbs,

00:25:49.480 not the

00:25:49.740 bad carbs.

00:25:50.660 But you're

00:25:51.180 never going

00:25:51.540 to have a

00:25:51.820 problem getting

00:25:52.320 carbs.

00:25:53.860 Carbs are

00:25:54.300 everywhere.

00:25:55.680 Getting the

00:25:56.120 right kind of

00:25:56.560 protein is

00:25:57.180 hard.

00:25:58.280 So when you

00:25:58.760 exercise,

00:25:59.600 say,

00:25:59.900 exercise,

00:26:00.540 where's my

00:26:00.900 protein?

00:26:01.560 Exercise,

00:26:02.200 where's my

00:26:02.520 protein?

00:26:03.200 Now the

00:26:03.480 way I do it

00:26:03.980 is with a

00:26:04.380 protein bar

00:26:05.140 or a

00:26:06.120 protein shake

00:26:06.840 because they're

00:26:07.640 easy.

00:26:08.300 If you make it

00:26:09.080 hard to get

00:26:09.640 protein like you

00:26:10.480 need a steak,

00:26:12.100 that's not going

00:26:12.640 to happen.

00:26:12.980 So you've got to

00:26:14.420 get protein and

00:26:16.000 exercise together.

00:26:17.380 Start really,

00:26:18.340 really small.

00:26:19.660 Decide to do it.

00:26:21.540 Reward yourself

00:26:22.400 when you do.

00:26:23.660 And also give

00:26:24.400 yourself permission

00:26:25.940 not to do it

00:26:26.960 after you put your

00:26:28.420 exercise clothes on.

00:26:30.340 Definitely put your

00:26:31.100 exercise clothes on.

00:26:32.640 But then say,

00:26:33.260 you know,

00:26:33.640 it just wasn't

00:26:34.260 there today.

00:26:35.760 Several times a

00:26:36.600 year back when my

00:26:37.620 gym was open and

00:26:38.540 I didn't need a

00:26:39.120 mask and I went

00:26:39.800 there, I would

00:26:40.660 put on all my

00:26:41.260 exercise clothes,

00:26:42.220 drive ten miles to

00:26:44.060 the, I don't know,

00:26:44.660 five miles to the

00:26:45.500 gym, walk into the

00:26:47.300 gym, look at the

00:26:49.760 lobby of the gym and

00:26:50.720 I would say, nope,

00:26:53.460 nope, I just don't

00:26:55.500 have it today.

00:26:56.120 And I would

00:26:56.780 literally just walk

00:26:58.080 around, turn around,

00:26:59.360 walk directly out the

00:27:01.140 door, get in my car

00:27:01.980 and drive home and

00:27:03.300 call it a success.

00:27:05.320 Do you know why it's

00:27:05.880 a success?

00:27:07.460 Because I did it

00:27:08.400 every day.

00:27:10.140 Getting to the gym

00:27:11.120 is a success.

00:27:12.200 If the way you had

00:27:13.580 scored that was you

00:27:15.200 didn't exercise that

00:27:16.300 day, no, no,

00:27:17.580 that's wrong.

00:27:19.120 The way you score it

00:27:20.080 is you got to the

00:27:20.880 gym.

00:27:21.940 If you keep that as

00:27:23.080 your score, it's

00:27:25.020 impossible to fail

00:27:25.940 practically.

00:27:27.140 Because just the

00:27:27.880 doing it, it's the

00:27:28.620 system, the routine,

00:27:29.740 the habit, that's the

00:27:30.840 only thing you want to

00:27:31.560 nail in.

00:27:32.840 Let the exercise

00:27:33.760 happen naturally.

00:27:35.340 Let the variety, the

00:27:36.560 learning how to

00:27:37.100 exercise correctly,

00:27:38.500 you'll learn all that

00:27:39.380 just by doing stuff

00:27:40.500 and getting bored and

00:27:41.400 exercising and trying

00:27:42.960 different things.

00:27:44.200 All right.

00:27:44.880 So, I have to say it

00:27:47.800 really bothered me to

00:27:48.720 see how many of you

00:27:49.400 don't exercise.

00:27:50.880 Because exercise really

00:27:52.120 is just taking a walk

00:27:53.220 at a certain age,

00:27:54.720 right?

00:27:54.900 It's just taking a

00:27:55.680 walk.

00:27:56.640 And I've been doing a

00:27:59.040 little experiment on

00:27:59.980 myself to see how my

00:28:02.120 mental state is on

00:28:03.900 days when I take a

00:28:04.800 long walk and on days

00:28:06.720 when I don't.

00:28:08.040 Have you ever done

00:28:08.640 that experiment?

00:28:09.240 test your mental state on

00:28:13.460 a day you took a long

00:28:14.520 walk.

00:28:15.520 Could be some other

00:28:16.280 kind of exercise.

00:28:17.640 But got outdoors.

00:28:19.060 Add the outdoors part.

00:28:21.060 So don't, you know, the

00:28:22.020 gym is great.

00:28:24.320 But being outdoors and

00:28:25.920 taking a walk just

00:28:26.740 changes your whole mental

00:28:28.180 state.

00:28:28.880 And dramatically, I would

00:28:30.460 say.

00:28:30.960 It's dramatic.

00:28:32.620 You can't not notice it.

00:28:35.360 It's pretty big.

00:28:36.080 All right.

00:28:40.400 Farming the ocean.

00:28:41.440 There's an Indian

00:28:41.920 startup that's basically

00:28:43.300 making a tractor for the

00:28:44.700 ocean.

00:28:45.800 That's my own description.

00:28:47.480 So basically, it would be a

00:28:49.060 sea combine.

00:28:50.220 A combine meaning one of

00:28:51.640 those big machines that you

00:28:52.860 use for farming on land.

00:28:54.820 And it would automate a

00:28:56.340 catamaran that

00:28:57.120 simultaneously harvests and

00:28:58.640 replants seaweed.

00:28:59.940 Apparently, there's all

00:29:00.700 kinds of stuff you can do

00:29:01.680 with seaweed.

00:29:02.100 It's a good protein source.

00:29:04.460 You can turn it into lots

00:29:05.460 of different, you know,

00:29:06.400 food, food ingredients,

00:29:08.760 et cetera.

00:29:09.640 I think it has some

00:29:10.700 commercial uses.

00:29:12.280 And so, if we had this

00:29:13.840 device, the sea combine,

00:29:15.940 you could just farm the

00:29:17.040 ocean.

00:29:19.000 You know, every time you,

00:29:20.160 as soon as you worry about

00:29:21.160 like running out of food,

00:29:23.160 somebody invents a sea

00:29:24.640 combine.

00:29:25.540 And there you go.

00:29:26.400 I also think this might

00:29:29.260 solve the, correct me if

00:29:33.540 I'm wrong, but don't we

00:29:34.700 have a big fertilizer

00:29:35.760 shortage?

00:29:37.820 I think we have a giant

00:29:39.060 fertilizer shortage for

00:29:40.600 land that wouldn't apply

00:29:42.560 if you farm the ocean,

00:29:44.840 I'm assuming.

00:29:47.280 All right.

00:29:47.840 So that's good news.

00:29:48.980 That's coming.

00:29:50.640 Do you know Peter Schiff,

00:29:52.120 famous economist?

00:29:53.940 He had a tweet on Bitcoin

00:29:55.440 that caught my attention.

00:29:57.520 So one of the most famous

00:29:58.600 economists whose names

00:30:00.300 that people who follow

00:30:01.600 this stuff have heard of,

00:30:03.380 he tweets this.

00:30:04.760 He says, the real problem

00:30:05.840 with Bitcoin isn't

00:30:07.720 volatility.

00:30:09.080 Volatility means Bitcoin

00:30:10.780 can't function as a

00:30:12.060 currency, but it makes it

00:30:14.860 very appealing to traders

00:30:15.880 and speculators.

00:30:16.580 The real problem is that

00:30:18.540 Bitcoin has no underlying

00:30:20.080 value to support its price,

00:30:22.760 making a terminal collapse

00:30:24.640 inevitable.

00:30:25.780 So he says that Bitcoin

00:30:26.720 is inevitably going to

00:30:28.100 collapse because there's

00:30:29.380 nothing that supports it,

00:30:31.480 no physical asset or

00:30:33.100 anything.

00:30:34.520 And here was my tweet

00:30:36.300 response.

00:30:38.800 Isn't the entire economy

00:30:40.560 supported on a platform

00:30:41.740 of psychology?

00:30:44.540 Do you think that Bitcoin

00:30:46.020 is the one part of our

00:30:47.540 economy that depends

00:30:48.560 entirely on psychology

00:30:50.280 to exist?

00:30:51.280 I feel like that's the

00:30:53.900 whole economy.

00:30:55.660 The economy is nothing

00:30:56.800 but a psychology

00:30:58.480 invention.

00:31:02.340 It's the psychology of

00:31:03.680 knowing that if you pay

00:31:04.920 for something, you'll

00:31:06.400 probably get it.

00:31:07.740 The psychology of knowing

00:31:08.760 that if you don't get it,

00:31:09.820 you have a recourse, the

00:31:10.900 courts or other recourse.

00:31:14.360 The capitalism itself is

00:31:16.780 nothing but a psychology

00:31:18.320 technology device.

00:31:20.100 Why would you pick

00:31:20.940 Bitcoin out of all that

00:31:22.540 psychology and say this is

00:31:23.760 the one that doesn't have

00:31:25.200 backing?

00:31:26.440 None of it has backing.

00:31:27.840 Does it?

00:31:29.680 Does it?

00:31:31.040 Now, the argument for the

00:31:33.180 U.S. dollar having a real

00:31:34.760 value is that you can always

00:31:37.140 pay your taxes in it.

00:31:39.600 So you always have that.

00:31:41.360 You can always pay your taxes.

00:31:42.500 But all it would take is one

00:31:45.920 big country that would

00:31:47.360 accept Bitcoin to pay the

00:31:48.560 taxes, and I think that

00:31:49.720 creates a market, doesn't

00:31:50.660 it?

00:31:51.880 So, more boring than

00:31:54.080 COVID.

00:31:56.500 Goodbye.

00:31:59.120 I will solve you of your

00:32:00.880 pain.

00:32:02.860 You are hidden.

00:32:04.580 Oh, he sells gold.

00:32:05.760 Schiff sells gold.

00:32:06.720 Okay.

00:32:07.260 So I wouldn't buy this

00:32:09.080 opinion.

00:32:09.540 I saw a tweet thread from

00:32:12.860 Yuri Dagan, I think, who did

00:32:15.840 a deep dive on Dr. Malone's

00:32:18.020 claim to be the inventor of

00:32:19.480 the mRNA platform.

00:32:22.780 How do you think that turned

00:32:23.680 out?

00:32:25.320 What do you think happened

00:32:26.540 when somebody did a deep dive

00:32:28.740 and looked at all the

00:32:29.540 patents and what names are on

00:32:31.940 them and what the dates are

00:32:33.520 and how important they are?

00:32:35.380 Did it turn out to back Dr.

00:32:39.060 Malone's claim that he would

00:32:40.220 be one of the inventors of the

00:32:42.260 mRNA platform?

00:32:44.700 Yeah, it did.

00:32:46.560 It did.

00:32:47.500 His name is indeed on a number

00:32:50.920 of patents that are in that

00:32:52.780 field.

00:32:53.500 Now, as other people have said,

00:32:54.900 there were thousands of people

00:32:55.920 who contributed in different

00:32:57.220 ways.

00:32:58.060 But you really need to read this

00:33:00.420 thread because if you don't

00:33:02.700 understand how names get on

00:33:04.420 patents, you need to.

00:33:07.620 All right, how many of you

00:33:08.360 have big company experience

00:33:09.760 and have been through the

00:33:10.740 patent process?

00:33:12.280 I have.

00:33:14.220 What happens?

00:33:16.040 What happens when you're a

00:33:18.760 worker and you have a patent

00:33:21.840 idea and you come up with a

00:33:24.160 good idea?

00:33:24.620 You're a worker at a big

00:33:25.520 company.

00:33:26.360 Whose names are on the

00:33:28.020 patent?

00:33:28.940 It's your idea only.

00:33:30.500 You're the only one who did

00:33:31.540 anything useful.

00:33:32.260 Some other people helped in

00:33:34.600 ancillary ways.

00:33:36.340 Whose name?

00:33:37.480 That's right.

00:33:38.520 Your boss's name is on the

00:33:39.760 patent, isn't it?

00:33:40.740 What did your boss do?

00:33:43.880 Maybe assigned you to looking

00:33:45.820 into a field or something,

00:33:47.200 maybe didn't.

00:33:48.880 But it is standard procedure to

00:33:51.320 put the boss's name on a

00:33:52.900 patent just because the boss

00:33:54.600 could make you do it.

00:33:56.020 Hey, I'm part of this team and

00:33:57.720 my team did this, so I'm going

00:34:00.400 to put my name on there.

00:34:02.400 Now, what about somebody who

00:34:03.660 was just on the team?

00:34:06.000 Do you think that anybody ever

00:34:07.520 got their name on a patent

00:34:08.740 because they attended meetings

00:34:11.200 and maybe just did what they

00:34:13.060 were told?

00:34:15.120 Yes.

00:34:16.480 Routinely.

00:34:17.660 It's very common for multiple

00:34:19.300 names to be on the patent.

00:34:20.480 Do you think all of the

00:34:21.940 multiple names on the patent

00:34:23.160 did something useful?

00:34:24.580 Or were they just sort of on

00:34:28.060 the team?

00:34:29.960 Well, I won't give away the

00:34:31.400 details, but if you look at,

00:34:32.940 I tweeted this, so you can

00:34:33.820 find it in my Twitter thread.

00:34:37.220 If you look for Yuri Dagon's

00:34:38.840 take on this, he goes through a

00:34:40.500 great deal of analysis.

00:34:42.740 And his bottom line, if I could

00:34:44.460 characterize it this way, is that

00:34:46.000 Dr. Malone is what you call a

00:34:48.420 team player, which means he was

00:34:51.500 definitely on the team.

00:34:55.280 He attended the meetings and he

00:34:57.300 worked on it.

00:34:58.020 I mean, I'm not saying he did

00:34:59.220 nothing.

00:34:59.560 He obviously did.

00:35:00.420 He did things that mattered

00:35:02.220 enough to get him on the patent.

00:35:04.120 And in one case, the allegation

00:35:05.740 is that one of his key patents

00:35:07.460 was just something that the real

00:35:10.340 inventor told him to do and he

00:35:12.100 just executed it.

00:35:13.620 So in one case, he may have

00:35:15.020 executed something that was

00:35:16.920 actually somebody else's idea.

00:35:19.200 Now, I'm not going to allege

00:35:21.380 that any of the claims of Dr.

00:35:23.940 Malone are true or those of

00:35:25.580 his, let's say, I won't say a

00:35:27.680 critic, but somebody who looked

00:35:29.160 into it.

00:35:29.920 I can't tell you who's right.

00:35:32.900 But I will tell you that the

00:35:34.680 very moment I heard that he was

00:35:36.160 claiming these patents, how many

00:35:38.800 of you with corporate experience

00:35:40.100 said his name's on a patent?

00:35:44.280 Does that mean anything?

00:35:46.540 How many of you said that to

00:35:47.840 yourself silently?

00:35:48.640 Okay, all I know is his name's on

00:35:51.280 it.

00:35:51.440 That doesn't mean anything.

00:35:52.980 Could have been the boss.

00:35:54.800 Right?

00:35:55.260 Yeah.

00:35:55.660 Everybody with corporate experience

00:35:57.000 knew that wasn't really a thing.

00:35:59.400 But we can neither confirm nor deny

00:36:02.000 that his work was important.

00:36:04.100 It's just a question.

00:36:07.420 The CDC now is getting really

00:36:09.360 weaselly on whether their numbers

00:36:12.080 of COVID deaths are real or

00:36:14.420 exaggerated because they would

00:36:16.240 include some number of people who

00:36:17.700 died with COVID instead of

00:36:19.680 because of.

00:36:21.320 What would be your guess of the

00:36:23.280 percentage of overcount?

00:36:25.940 If there is an overcount.

00:36:27.520 Even that's uncertain.

00:36:29.700 But if you had to guess, just

00:36:32.020 knowing, based on your, I don't

00:36:34.560 know, understanding of life, you've

00:36:37.200 lived it for a while, you've seen

00:36:38.880 things that work and things that

00:36:40.520 don't.

00:36:40.880 We don't really have any

00:36:42.600 information, but what's your guess

00:36:45.560 of how overcounted it is?

00:36:49.440 All right.

00:36:49.960 I'm seeing lots of everything from

00:36:51.460 25 to 50.

00:36:54.120 Yeah.

00:36:54.980 And how, how overcounted would it

00:36:57.760 have to be before you would say to

00:37:00.120 yourself, we did everything wrong?

00:37:04.340 Here's my take.

00:37:05.380 If it turns out that we overcounted

00:37:07.680 by 20%, I would say that doesn't

00:37:11.660 really matter to me.

00:37:13.120 How many of you would be

00:37:14.160 concerned, and this is just

00:37:15.460 hypothetical, if they, if we found

00:37:17.820 out as if we could know that

00:37:19.480 really, probably never have good

00:37:20.760 data, but if it was 20%

00:37:22.860 overcounted, would you be

00:37:24.860 concerned?

00:37:26.160 Because I think we would have

00:37:27.400 acted the same way.

00:37:29.760 If it were 50% overcounted, so

00:37:35.160 that it, let's say it was half as

00:37:37.020 much as they reported, then would

00:37:39.840 you say we overreacted?

00:37:42.660 Then it starts to get sort of a

00:37:45.020 jump ball, isn't it?

00:37:46.740 And if it's 80% overcounted, well,

00:37:49.700 then we really overacted.

00:37:51.840 We really overacted.

00:37:54.000 I'm going to, I'm going to put,

00:37:55.780 put out a prediction.

00:37:58.060 This is not based on anything that

00:38:01.840 I could point to other than living

00:38:03.520 in the world.

00:38:05.080 So this is just a living in the

00:38:06.960 world, experiential, just best

00:38:10.920 guess.

00:38:13.320 25% overcounted.

00:38:17.000 Now, could I be wrong?

00:38:19.180 Yeah.

00:38:20.580 Yeah.

00:38:20.980 So when you judge me for being

00:38:24.080 wrong on this one, which seems

00:38:25.360 likely, by the way, because we're

00:38:26.980 all, we would all be guessing on

00:38:28.080 this one.

00:38:28.800 When you judge me wrong, just

00:38:30.240 remember that I told you that we

00:38:32.580 would all have to just guess on

00:38:33.960 this one.

00:38:34.720 So the, the predictions that I make

00:38:37.280 that you should give a little more

00:38:38.460 credibility is when I give a

00:38:40.620 reason, you know, like the Trump,

00:38:43.020 the Trump winning in 2016, I showed

00:38:45.660 you my work, but I'm not showing you

00:38:47.560 any work here.

00:38:48.120 I'm just saying, I don't know, it

00:38:49.060 just feels like we couldn't be that

00:38:51.540 incompetent to be that far off, but

00:38:55.380 maybe it's not impossible.

00:38:57.660 Now there's also an argument that

00:38:58.980 they were undercounted and the

00:39:01.240 undercount argument says, how do you

00:39:03.320 know what you don't know?

00:39:04.960 What if people were dying at home and

00:39:08.120 nobody tested them?

00:39:09.680 Are there people who died at the age of

00:39:11.980 95 at home who were not tested for

00:39:17.260 COVID?

00:39:19.120 Probably, don't you think?

00:39:21.240 You don't think somebody died at 95

00:39:22.960 at home, you know, just suddenly

00:39:25.560 heart attack or whatever, and that

00:39:27.580 they might have had COVID and it might

00:39:29.020 have been the reason.

00:39:30.720 But who's going to test you if you're

00:39:32.340 95?

00:39:33.200 Because it doesn't matter, right?

00:39:35.040 You just say, well, it doesn't matter.

00:39:39.680 Then there are lots of testing at home

00:39:41.520 and now reporting.

00:39:42.560 Yeah, you've got that too.

00:39:43.720 Our numbers are a mess.

00:39:44.760 That's the only thing we know for

00:39:45.700 sure. Well, did you see the story

00:39:47.500 about a small plane at an emergency

00:39:50.460 landing in L.A.?

00:39:52.560 Now, if you have a mechanical problem,

00:39:54.900 I assume it was a mechanical problem,

00:39:56.440 but a very small, I don't know, maybe

00:39:58.060 Piper Cub or something, very small

00:40:00.600 plane, and he had to do an emergency

00:40:02.480 landing and he pulled it off.

00:40:05.580 So imagine having to land an airplane

00:40:08.480 with no engine, which is probably what

00:40:10.720 happened. But it looks like he pulled it

00:40:12.740 off. He glided into a, must have found

00:40:16.280 some roads or something, and the trouble

00:40:19.200 is that where he came to rest was on a

00:40:21.760 train track. This really happened.

00:40:26.040 A guy did a crash, a successful, I'll call

00:40:29.600 it a crash landing, but the plane wasn't

00:40:32.060 destroyed. He landed it well enough that

00:40:34.840 the plane was intact, but it was on the

00:40:37.940 train track. And he survived. He was

00:40:42.000 kind of beat it up. But the train was

00:40:45.300 coming. That's right. He landed his plane

00:40:50.400 successfully on a train track. And the

00:40:55.640 train was coming. The emergency crew was

00:41:00.900 there quick enough, and as the train was

00:41:03.840 coming, they struggled to get him out of

00:41:06.940 the plane, because he was, you know,

00:41:08.720 strapped in.

00:41:12.240 They got him out. And then the plane, and

00:41:15.800 then the train took out the plane. The

00:41:19.620 train took the plane apart like it was

00:41:21.860 made of balsa wood, which they almost are,

00:41:24.940 because they're made to be light. It was a

00:41:28.180 Cessna 172, was it? So it didn't look like

00:41:33.180 it. Huh. And he, I don't know how well the

00:41:40.620 guy was doing, but he was alive when they

00:41:42.140 took him out of the plane, and it looked

00:41:43.600 like he would have survived. So the fact

00:41:46.240 that this was on video is just amazing. You

00:41:49.400 have to see it. Just Google that if you

00:41:51.240 haven't seen it.

00:41:56.340 So was, remind me, is this true? Was there

00:42:00.240 a time when people were pointing to

00:42:02.940 Australia as the model of good

00:42:05.540 leadership in the, in the pandemic, and

00:42:09.020 that Australia was following the science

00:42:11.880 better than other people?

00:42:21.680 So am I right about that? That people

00:42:24.980 were saying Australia was like a big

00:42:26.580 success story or something. And now

00:42:29.680 they've turned into this, you know,

00:42:30.900 dystopian nightmare police state

00:42:33.620 situation. And of course, they're not

00:42:35.620 going to be able to stop Omicron. So

00:42:37.780 remember, I'm the one who told you that

00:42:39.120 you wouldn't see leadership in the

00:42:42.200 results. That we'll never know why some

00:42:45.160 countries did better than others. The

00:42:46.600 variables are too mixed up. But I don't

00:42:49.400 think Australia will be the model of

00:42:51.460 leadership. But how about China? China did

00:42:54.360 that hard close down after Wuhan, that

00:42:56.840 they being the source of the virus, you

00:42:59.400 think they would be hit the hardest, but

00:43:01.340 indeed, reportedly had tremendous

00:43:04.420 success in locking down and blocking the

00:43:07.080 alpha and the delta. But it turns out

00:43:11.060 that they've got a little Omicron

00:43:12.480 problem. And as you know, Omicron

00:43:14.800 doesn't stop for anything. So now China

00:43:20.840 has the beginning of an Omicron wave. They're

00:43:23.800 doing the same strategy of shutting

00:43:25.680 down, which I believe couldn't possibly

00:43:27.840 work. Am I wrong? That you might get a

00:43:32.300 result temporarily with delta and the

00:43:35.640 alpha version, that the lockdowns might

00:43:38.060 make a difference. And maybe even the

00:43:39.820 masks make a difference. And maybe even

00:43:41.280 the social distancing make a difference.

00:43:43.580 But it's not going to make a difference

00:43:45.080 for Omicron. It's going to just tear right

00:43:47.740 through your vaccinations and everything

00:43:49.280 else. So the timing is that there's

00:43:53.200 going to be a massive Omicron wave in

00:43:55.440 China, I think. I don't know how it could

00:43:57.920 be avoided. At the same time as what I

00:44:00.600 call the Omicron Olympics. They are so

00:44:03.540 screwed. I would not want to be China

00:44:07.000 right now. They are so screwed. This

00:44:09.960 Omicron is going to make things really

00:44:11.820 sketchy.

00:44:12.840 And as people are arguing that Omicron

00:44:17.940 makes arguments about vaccine mandates

00:44:20.780 just irrelevant. I feel as if the Supreme

00:44:25.440 Court could just say, well, Omicron makes

00:44:29.060 vaccinations irrelevant, so just forget

00:44:31.100 about your mandates. Because I think

00:44:33.080 there's a legal case for that now. That

00:44:35.440 the situation before is that you could

00:44:38.140 make a reasonable case that if you got

00:44:40.500 vaccinated, you'd have some protection. But

00:44:43.500 if Omicron is the only thing we're

00:44:44.840 worried about at scale, you know, we'd

00:44:46.840 still be worried about some Delta

00:44:48.720 breaking through. But at scale, the only

00:44:52.880 thing we're going to be worried about

00:44:54.020 pretty soon is Omicron. And your

00:44:56.160 vaccination isn't going to stop it. And

00:44:58.300 it's not going to kill you in all

00:44:59.860 likelihood.

00:45:01.820 So I feel like the argument for any kind

00:45:04.640 of mandates is just dissolving. Just

00:45:08.880 dissolving. How many of you think that the

00:45:14.560 Omicron is a natural variant? I asked

00:45:18.600 this question on Twitter, and it was

00:45:22.280 roughly half. Half of you thought it was

00:45:24.380 natural, and half of you didn't. Now

00:45:26.520 here's the argument for natural. All

00:45:30.160 viruses go this way. That eventually the

00:45:33.860 way any virus dies out is that it creates

00:45:36.180 its own vaccine, basically, in a sense. So

00:45:40.360 the virus will mutate until you've got one

00:45:43.420 that travels fast and infects lightly. And

00:45:48.060 then herd immunity happens and everything's

00:45:50.660 good. So one argument is it happened

00:45:55.320 pretty much exactly when you'd expect it

00:45:57.700 to. The variant emerged. It has exactly the

00:46:01.020 characteristics you'd expect it to have. And

00:46:03.700 it's acting the way you would think it would. So

00:46:07.440 that argues for natural, right? I would

00:46:10.860 point you to the ethical skeptic. Just

00:46:15.940 Google his account. And follow his takes on

00:46:19.420 the science when they look at the nature of

00:46:23.580 the Omicron variant. And the counter

00:46:27.160 argument is if you look at it closely, there

00:46:29.860 just isn't any way it could be natural. Now

00:46:33.160 this is people who know more than I do

00:46:34.800 looking at things I can't see. So people

00:46:38.840 who know more than you looking at things you

00:46:40.360 can't see might be right. They might not be. But

00:46:43.940 I think the argument looks pretty strong. Not

00:46:47.000 conclusive. I would not be at the point of

00:46:49.660 concluding it's man-made. But damn, it looks

00:46:53.980 man-made to me. I mean, it just looks a

00:46:56.240 little, it's just so on the nose. It's hard

00:46:59.820 to imagine it's not. But it could be. It

00:47:02.660 could be. The argument that it's natural is

00:47:05.320 strong and still active. But I think it's

00:47:10.720 going to go the other way. If I had to put

00:47:13.640 money on it, I'd say it was made in the lab. If I

00:47:16.980 had to bet. All right. Let's talk about the

00:47:25.500 Patriot Front. So I asked how many of you

00:47:28.900 thought the Patriot Front was a real

00:47:30.600 group. So there's, they're the handsome,

00:47:32.860 tall, fit, young white men who do these

00:47:36.900 very theatrical marches with flags as

00:47:40.260 white nationalists. But people don't kind

00:47:43.060 of know too much about them. Well, it turns

00:47:45.100 out that the Southern Poverty Law Center

00:47:46.940 does know a little bit about them, or

00:47:48.980 purports to, and has a report on them. And

00:47:52.360 here's how they describe the Patriot Front.

00:47:56.960 This is from Southern Poverty Law Center.

00:47:59.680 Patriot Front is an image-obsessed

00:48:02.280 organization. An image-obsessed

00:48:05.020 organization. Keep that in mind. They're

00:48:07.300 image-obsessed. That rehabilitated the

00:48:10.540 explicitly fascist agenda of Vanguard

00:48:12.900 America. I guess that was some other

00:48:15.280 racist group. With garish patriotism,

00:48:19.820 Patriot Front focuses on theatrical

00:48:22.140 rhetoric and activism that can be easily

00:48:25.800 distributed as propaganda for its chapters

00:48:28.840 across the country. Now, how does that, how

00:48:33.380 does that fit with what you saw? I feel as if

00:48:36.880 image-obsessed is a little too convenient.

00:48:40.640 Meaning, how many racist groups that have this

00:48:46.180 actual ideology could be this organized and

00:48:50.880 this theatrical? I don't think so. I don't

00:48:57.640 think so. Maybe. Maybe. Anything's

00:49:01.520 possible. But when you tell me that they're

00:49:04.480 that they're image-obsessed, it also looks

00:49:08.060 like a Lincoln Project fake-out, doesn't

00:49:12.920 it? I mean, what would be the difference

00:49:16.120 between somebody who's trying really hard to

00:49:18.180 look like a proper racist and somebody who

00:49:21.360 was faking it by trying really hard to look

00:49:24.300 like a racist?

00:49:24.940 So the explanation is, they're not fake racists

00:49:32.820 trying to look like real racists. They're

00:49:35.180 real racists that are faking looking like real

00:49:38.320 racists. Because they didn't look like real

00:49:40.520 racists enough, so they have to improve their

00:49:43.560 image of racists to look really racist in a

00:49:46.620 proper way, which is totally different from

00:49:49.740 somebody who's not a racist, who also does exactly

00:49:52.600 the same things to look like, look exactly

00:49:54.900 the same way, but their motives would be

00:49:57.060 different. One would be fake and the other

00:50:00.220 would be real, but trying to look more real

00:50:02.900 than they actually are real in a positive way

00:50:06.260 for them. Does that track for you? All right,

00:50:11.920 here's another hint. Apparently the same group

00:50:14.420 the Patriot Front was involved with and

00:50:16.620 marched at, Charlottesville. How about that? You

00:50:21.600 know that totally organic and totally credible,

00:50:24.700 exactly the way it was reported and nothing

00:50:26.820 was left out story about the Charlottesville

00:50:29.120 March, in which there was nothing suspicious about

00:50:31.960 that group whatsoever? Turns out that part of

00:50:36.260 them were this Patriot Front. Yeah. So the

00:50:39.880 people who pretend to look more like racists than

00:50:43.000 they allege they already are, were part of the

00:50:46.980 Charlottesville event, which to me looked like

00:50:49.040 people pretending to be racists. And sure enough, it

00:50:53.800 was people pretending to be racists. Now, the

00:50:58.760 allegation is they were pretending to be racists

00:51:01.800 and actually were. But they were like putting on

00:51:05.340 more of a show than maybe they would have

00:51:08.420 ordinarily. Do you buy it?

00:51:11.540 I don't buy any of this. So I've never believed that the

00:51:17.500 Charlottesville thing was reported correctly. I don't

00:51:22.360 know what's missing, but if I had to guess, it would be an

00:51:25.280 intelligence agency. Maybe this country, maybe

00:51:30.300 another country. And there's the complete lack of

00:51:35.180 reporting after the event, like people talking to the

00:51:38.080 members who were there, like complete, the news has

00:51:41.600 completely shut out the event in terms of the

00:51:44.120 participants. Think of all the stories you've heard about

00:51:48.720 the January 6 participants. Look at all the energy that

00:51:54.860 went into finding those participants on January 6. None

00:51:59.240 of that happened, as far as I know, because it wasn't in the

00:52:02.500 news anyway. I don't think any of that happened for

00:52:04.720 Charlottesville. Why? Because I think a number of the

00:52:09.700 people at Charlottesville were maybe acting. Now, if they

00:52:15.120 were part of the Patriot Front, they were acting, but were

00:52:19.040 also racists. So there's something deeply sketchy about

00:52:23.440 all of this. Because I've met people who are this racist,

00:52:31.060 racist, and they can't pull this off. You know what I mean?

00:52:39.400 You know, there are all forms of racism. But the one you see,

00:52:44.260 you know, the sort of, I don't know, the baseline racism that

00:52:48.620 everybody has, just the normal stuff, those people could often be

00:52:53.400 highly educated and just have abhorrent views, or sometimes not,

00:52:58.720 depending on your point of view. But I don't know if you could get

00:53:03.680 this many racists to act this well. And then you look at their

00:53:09.600 written, their written stuff. And even their written stuff looks a

00:53:13.980 little too well written. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it looks

00:53:23.220 like we may be going from one false flag to another. Now, I don't

00:53:28.560 know that all the participants are false. I would imagine that there

00:53:32.260 are people who are behind the participants, either funding it or

00:53:35.780 encouraging it or controlling just the leaders or something like

00:53:39.840 that. But there's definitely something going on with these, these

00:53:43.400 things, because they just don't look real. They just do not look real.

00:53:47.860 And my favorite story of the day was the Penn, the college Penn. They

00:53:55.960 had a trans swimmer, a woman who lost to Yale's trans swimmer.

00:54:04.420 Now, does anybody remember one of my predictions early on when we were

00:54:09.620 talking about all the trans stuff? I said that if a team starts winning

00:54:14.540 with a trans athlete, that every, every serious team is going to get a

00:54:19.160 trans athlete because they want to win too. So you may see, you may

00:54:26.080 see for a while anyway, I don't know that this will last. You might see this

00:54:29.700 weird situation where winning is more important, you know, in the short

00:54:34.180 term, where you actually see recruiting. Do you think that there's any

00:54:38.780 college that's actively recruiting trans athletes because they think it'll

00:54:42.900 give them an advantage? I'll bet there is. I'll bet somewhere there's a

00:54:49.800 college who is actively looking for trans athletes because they know they

00:54:54.020 have a better chance of winning. Why wouldn't they? You know, it may, I'm

00:54:58.520 not saying that Penn did this or Yale did this. I have no, no reason to

00:55:02.480 believe that. But somebody's going to do this. And when somebody does, they're

00:55:06.960 just going to win everything. And then what are the other schools do? Do you

00:55:12.460 think that you would compete, you would continue competing and losing when you

00:55:16.780 put a lot of money into your school program and it meant a lot and stuff, but

00:55:20.160 you're just getting your ass kicked by all the other schools because they have

00:55:22.800 trans athletes? I think you have to get one. Don't you? You're almost going to

00:55:29.240 have to, have to compete. So I say again, as I've said often, the whole trans

00:55:37.360 thing is, um, it's a diversion from what our real problems are. We have two problems

00:55:45.840 that I've said are huge problems forever before the trans were even involved in it.

00:55:51.220 Number one, our bathrooms are all designed wrong without the proper amount of

00:55:55.540 privacy. So that's number one. Our bathrooms are all designed wrong. There should be a way

00:56:02.500 everybody who has, you know, got the shy bladder or they're trans or anything else, whatever

00:56:08.900 you got going on. Ideally, you should be able to have a private bathroom that doesn't bother

00:56:13.680 anybody else. Secondly, sports are broken. You should only be competing with people who

00:56:20.060 are the same level of talent, no matter what. And if you can't fix that, don't complain about

00:56:27.480 the trans. The trans just highlighted the fact that the way we organize sports was never right

00:56:34.240 in the first place. We shouldn't be giving scholarships for sports. Like if we, if it

00:56:42.000 were not a tradition to do that and somebody came up with the idea, you wouldn't be in favor

00:56:47.180 of it. Let's say there had never been any school sports and somebody said, let's, let's start

00:56:52.620 a school sport and the best ones will get free scholarships. And you'd be there thinking,

00:56:58.880 what? Well, I don't play that sport. Are you telling me you're going to introduce a new

00:57:04.440 thing that only people who are not me can maybe get a scholarship? How about giving me a scholarship

00:57:09.560 for what I'm good at? How about, how about something about academics or, or being on the

00:57:14.740 school paper? How about that? Like what, why are we all getting excited about some small

00:57:20.520 group of people who have a talent that I don't have? I don't think that you could introduce

00:57:25.540 school sports. If you knew what they were, like if you could describe them as we see them

00:57:31.440 in 2022, and then you could go back in time where they never existed and said, this is what

00:57:37.240 we want to get to. So here's my idea. We're going to introduce sports. And then if everything

00:57:43.320 works out, we'll be exactly what we see in 2022. Nobody would approve of that. We only drift

00:57:50.500 it into this weird situation. And then the trans thing just, just uncovered the fact that

00:57:56.360 we have a poorly constructed system. That's all it was. Blaming the trans for a bad system

00:58:01.960 doesn't seem fair to me. Now, I also had this conversation the other day.

00:58:08.040 One of the reasons, and maybe the biggest reason that I'm super pro-trans is that I imagine

00:58:15.900 how I would have felt, I'll just make it personal. How would I have felt if I was a person born in the

00:58:23.680 30s? I don't know, pick your, pick your year in the past. And somebody said, I think black people

00:58:31.300 should be able to play baseball. Like, and I'm something like racist from the 30s or something.

00:58:38.340 Like, how would I feel about that? Well, I think that was a bad idea, probably, because I would be a

00:58:43.760 product of my time. Product of my time. And I'd be like, I hate that. And how would I feel if I were

00:58:50.580 similarly sometime in the past and somebody said, women want the right to vote? And I'd be some old

00:58:56.420 timey, you know, sexist. I'd be like, what? Women voting? That's crazy talk. Next thing you know,

00:59:05.340 everything will be woke. No, I wouldn't have said that. But, but when I hear people talking about

00:59:13.780 trans, to me, it sounds the same. I don't know if it is the same, because I'm, I'm the guy who tells

00:59:19.940 you don't use analogies to make decisions. But I'm very concerned that I don't want to be that guy in

00:59:25.940 the 20s. You know what I mean? So a little bit is about myself. It's not even about the topic.

00:59:31.720 It's about who you want to be when you grow up. And I don't want to be the one who ever looks back

00:59:37.380 and says, God, I felt, I used to be, like, really had a bad feeling about trans people.

00:59:44.080 But now I realize it's just, it's like everything else. Like, you know, it's like gay, black women

00:59:49.920 voting. You just get used to stuff. And then you realize it was never a problem in the first place.

00:59:54.900 Right? So I feel as though we're X number of years away from trans not being a conversation

01:00:00.700 at all. And I just want to get, I want to get ahead of it. I don't want to be the guy

01:00:06.680 who figured it out later. That's all. Now, somebody says it's wishy-washy. I don't think

01:00:13.980 that was very wishy-washy. That was, that was pretty direct, I think. Somebody says a pushover.

01:00:20.440 Wait, hold on. Oh, I see your problem. I see your problem. You're saying that, uh, I'm not saying

01:00:26.900 we should give trans everything they're asking for. Did that sound like what you heard?

01:00:32.880 God, no. I don't say give anybody everything they're asking for. I don't say, you know,

01:00:38.620 just because you're gay, you get what you're asking for, or you're black, or you're a woman

01:00:42.140 or something. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that I necessarily agree that they should be

01:00:49.440 on the women's team. I'm not saying that I necessarily agree they should have the same,

01:00:53.400 you know, restroom privileges. I just say it's a problem. I wish we could fix it.

01:00:58.000 But don't assume the problem is the trans. The problem might be the system.

01:01:05.260 But I agree with you that if there's anything about how we navigate, you know, who can do what,

01:01:11.220 if any of it's inconvenient for you or your family, complain. I would. There's nothing that says

01:01:18.100 trans got to get what they want. Like, I'm not making that argument at all.

01:01:23.400 Right? Everybody's got to fight for what they get. Our system is about power. It's not about

01:01:28.860 what's fair. So if they accumulate enough power to get what they want, then they'll get it. And if

01:01:34.480 they don't, they won't. But I'm not arguing they should get what they want. Everybody has to fight

01:01:40.440 for what they want. That's not my job. Dr. Malone's name is on the patents. That is correct.

01:01:49.960 As are lots of people who didn't have much to do with them. Typically with patents, there are people

01:01:55.360 whose names are on them that did not have a lot to do with them. That's an ordinary situation. But

01:02:01.020 at least one of those names probably did have a lot to do with them. You just can't tell by looking at

01:02:05.200 the patent. All right. Oh, that's interesting. Somebody was talking about moving into trans

01:02:15.180 humans. Yeah, you know, when we become part machine and part people, the trans argument is

01:02:22.420 just going to seem silly. Like it'll feel like just so trivial because we'll be half robot.

01:02:32.640 Anyway, that's all I got for today. I'm sure this is the best show you've ever seen and ever will

01:02:37.920 see. And John Abramson podcast with Rogan. I haven't seen that now. But I will talk to you YouTubers

01:02:46.300 tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 10, 2022

Episode 1619 Scott Adams： Lots of Weird and Interesting Stories Today. Let's Have Some Fun

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