Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1633 Scott Adams： Let's Follow the Science and Wag the Dog Because We Are Mostly Idiots

00:00:00.080 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

00:00:02.560 Welcome to the best thing that's ever going to happen to you.

00:00:05.920 And some people call it Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:08.980 Other people simply call it Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:13.360 Turns out they all agree.

00:00:15.060 I don't know. Maybe everything's coming together.

00:00:17.640 But how would you like to take it up a notch?

00:00:19.440 I know you're that kind of people.

00:00:21.440 Would you ever settle for simply being brilliant and unusually sexy?

00:00:27.160 Would you?

00:00:27.560 No. No, not this audience. No.

00:00:31.380 Maybe some other audience, CNN's audience, for example.

00:00:34.020 They might settle.

00:00:35.400 Might settle for being dull and unattractive.

00:00:39.220 But not this group. No.

00:00:41.940 You started sexy.

00:00:43.820 You started smarter than average.

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00:00:58.980 It's the dopamine hit of the day.

00:01:00.580 It's the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:03.620 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:05.820 And watch it do its thing.

00:01:07.000 Go! 0.95

00:01:07.200 I have to come down from that.

00:01:18.760 Quite a high.

00:01:20.840 Well, there's another poltergeist sighting.

00:01:25.060 You've probably heard of the rash of poltergeist.

00:01:27.640 We had one poltergeist who was apparently operating an SUV.

00:01:33.040 Caused the SUV to run into people.

00:01:36.540 And guns have been firing by themselves.

00:01:38.780 And here's another one.

00:01:39.860 So the governor of New York just announced, she said,

00:01:43.320 last night a shot from an illegal gun took the life of a police officer.

00:01:49.560 Now that's very tragic.

00:01:51.180 We should not lose sight of that.

00:01:52.740 But we don't want to ignore the fact that a bullet and a gun apparently colluded with each other.

00:02:02.040 In which case, if I'm reading between the lines correctly,

00:02:06.440 the bullet decided sort of on its own to fly out of the gun.

00:02:11.900 The gun being harmless in this case.

00:02:13.980 It was more like the bullet making a decision.

00:02:15.680 And the free will of the bullet caused it to fly out of the gun

00:02:20.040 and apparently into the body of a person who tragically died.

00:02:24.620 So I feel like they buried the lead on this story, if you know what I mean.

00:02:29.960 They're talking about it like a tragedy.

00:02:31.680 And of course, that is.

00:02:33.720 But I don't think you can ignore that bullets and guns are colluding.

00:02:40.080 Can we?

00:02:41.080 I don't think we can.

00:02:42.240 No.

00:02:44.380 Rasmussen had a poll.

00:02:45.680 Rasmussen just came out.

00:02:47.240 They were asking, among other things,

00:02:48.540 how fair is the economy to black and Hispanic voters?

00:02:53.180 How many of you, what percentage would you guess before I tell you,

00:02:57.680 think that it's somewhat or more than somewhat unfair for black and Hispanics?

00:03:04.080 What percent said it's unfair for black and Hispanics?

00:03:08.620 Sorry, 25%.

00:03:10.440 Stop it.

00:03:11.920 Stop it.

00:03:12.740 Stop it.

00:03:12.780 The answer is 48%.

00:03:17.460 So 48% thought things were not fair in terms of the economy specifically.

00:03:23.720 Now, here's the question.

00:03:26.220 Why was there no question for white people? 0.96

00:03:30.520 Rasmussen.

00:03:31.880 Why was there no similar question for white people? 0.56

00:03:34.340 How would white people answer that question?

00:03:39.700 I don't know.

00:03:41.760 Do you?

00:03:43.700 Because it might be 48%.

00:03:45.600 I'm not even sure it would be different.

00:03:48.260 Would it?

00:03:48.620 Because if you ask anybody, hey, is whatever group you belong to being discriminated against,

00:03:55.580 what do half of the people say all the time?

00:03:59.000 Yes.

00:03:59.880 It doesn't even matter what group it is.

00:04:02.800 All right.

00:04:03.120 All of you left-handed Elbonians, let me ask you. 1.00

00:04:06.740 Do you think the economy is stacked against you?

00:04:10.900 48% yes.

00:04:12.100 Yeah, I think that economy is stacked against the left-handed Elbonians, of which I am one.

00:04:18.720 So I'm always wary of this kind of question because I don't think we're in a point where

00:04:24.360 you can leave out white people from their own question.

00:04:27.780 I think this needs to be, how many white people think that they are disadvantaged?

00:04:31.580 It might not be 48%, but it would be a lot higher than you think.

00:04:39.140 There's a new documentary called A Coup in Plain Sight, which is a January 6th kind of thing,

00:04:45.640 trying to turn the, or at least hard in the narrative, not turn it, but hard in the narrative,

00:04:51.000 that it was a coup attempt.

00:04:52.900 It was in plain sight.

00:04:53.860 We have all the evidence now that there were, the Trump administration was trying to put

00:05:01.520 together some counterfeit documents to get fake electors seated to steal the election.

00:05:11.060 So that's the way they frame it.

00:05:13.480 Let me tell you one way to know a fake narrative.

00:05:18.900 Here's how you know.

00:05:19.920 They assume people's intentions, and they assume them the dumb way.

00:05:26.940 Now, it is true that you do have to kind of make assumptions about other people's intentions

00:05:31.520 just to operate in life, but we're not very good at it, right?

00:05:36.960 And if you make an assumption about somebody's intentions that are, let's say, obvious,

00:05:45.620 there's not much to argue about.

00:05:47.680 For example, what is your intention for having a job?

00:05:52.860 Well, I can't read your mind, but it probably has something to do with making money.

00:05:57.320 Am I right?

00:05:58.440 Did I get that from any of you?

00:06:00.440 Watch me read your minds.

00:06:01.620 The reason you have a job is to make money.

00:06:06.800 Probably, right?

00:06:07.780 So if you're reading somebody's mind, and it's the most obvious explanation, you're unreasonably

00:06:14.140 strong territory, even though you could be wrong.

00:06:16.960 You could be wrong.

00:06:18.500 But what happens if you read somebody's mind, and you choose the least likely explanation?

00:06:25.600 That's a sign of a fake narrative, right?

00:06:28.720 Here's an example.

00:06:30.860 The narrative for the January 6th is that the Trump administration intended to overthrow a

00:06:38.560 legal election and stage a coup.

00:06:41.980 Is that possible?

00:06:43.940 Could that have been their internal thinking?

00:06:46.180 Because there's no documentation to that effect.

00:06:48.800 But could it have been their internal thinking that the election was fair, but they wanted to

00:06:55.120 overthrow it?

00:06:55.780 It's possible, right?

00:06:58.800 We live in a world where it just seems like everything's possible these days.

00:07:02.560 So it's possible.

00:07:04.080 Now compare the possibility of that to the other option.

00:07:09.540 The other option is that they thought it was actually a fraudulent election, and they thought

00:07:15.080 that they were saving the election.

00:07:17.240 Which is more likely?

00:07:19.720 Is it more likely that people who lose an election, they thought they would win?

00:07:23.460 Remember, I don't think there's any question that Trump thought he would win, right?

00:07:28.940 It looked like it was heading in that direction.

00:07:31.340 And there's no question that he's the kind of person who never believes he lost.

00:07:36.240 We'd all agree with that.

00:07:37.660 That doesn't take too much brain reading.

00:07:40.180 Because those are just normal assumptions about people, right?

00:07:43.580 Nobody likes to lose.

00:07:45.780 He probably thought he was going to win.

00:07:47.940 Pretty reasonable, right?

00:07:49.100 But isn't it more reasonable to assume that he actually thought he lost and something needs

00:07:55.460 to be checked?

00:07:57.020 That is a completely ordinary assumption.

00:08:00.340 Completely ordinary that somebody would suspect something wrong happened because it looked like

00:08:05.680 it.

00:08:06.680 If it looked like it, I don't know, probably 70 million people thought that something looked

00:08:11.680 fishy, wouldn't you say?

00:08:13.000 Is that a good number?

00:08:15.080 70 million people probably thought, you know, I might accept the outcome, but I'm not sure

00:08:21.220 that's, I'm not sure that was exactly fair.

00:08:24.080 Now, they might be right or they might be wrong.

00:08:26.760 I'm not giving you an opinion of what happened.

00:08:29.100 I'm telling you that half the country thought there was a problem or something like that.

00:08:34.280 30% perhaps.

00:08:35.240 So if the president was in the 30%, and you would expect he would be, to think there was

00:08:42.360 some problem with the election, that is in every way the opposite of their narrative.

00:08:48.420 So to make an assumption that feeds the narrative, they have to make the least likely assumption

00:08:54.680 about what they were thinking.

00:08:56.660 The least likely assumption is that people working for Trump thought they were doing an actual

00:09:02.960 coup, because it would be obvious.

00:09:07.680 Everything that they wrote down, they probably thought would be found eventually.

00:09:12.140 So who's going to run a coup?

00:09:14.900 Like, and remember, these are not, we're not talking about Che Guevara here, right?

00:09:19.840 We're talking about nerds in suits.

00:09:23.500 You know, if you had like revolutionaries, you know, if Colin Kaepernick was there in the

00:09:29.060 government, you'd say, oh, possibly a revolutionary, you know, he might take it a little further.

00:09:34.500 You know, he would be on the other side, of course.

00:09:36.440 But just using him as an example of an extremist, well, he's not an extremist.

00:09:43.240 Let me take that back.

00:09:44.660 Not an extremist at all, but just somebody who would be more, let's say, counter-culturally

00:09:49.160 provocative.

00:09:51.640 Maybe I could say it that way.

00:09:52.740 But the people who are allegedly in charge of this coup in plain sight are just nerds

00:09:59.100 in suits.

00:10:00.440 Like the least likely person who would risk their entire life and freedom to like forge

00:10:07.520 a document that somebody's going to find out for sure, or probably.

00:10:12.440 So yeah, they were LARPing.

00:10:14.160 That's a good, I feel like they were all trying to be on the team and support the team and do

00:10:20.160 what they could and maybe throw a Hail Mary.

00:10:23.520 But I would suspect the most likely explanation is they actually thought something was wrong.

00:10:29.240 And they were trying to find some way to fix it and couldn't.

00:10:33.120 They couldn't find any way to do it.

00:10:34.340 They would pass their own internal standards for what's legal and safe enough, I guess.

00:10:41.320 All right.

00:10:41.900 But apparently Olympic sponsors are sort of in hiding.

00:10:46.280 What we normally expect about this time when it's getting close to the Olympics, you expect

00:10:53.160 the big sponsors to start bragging about their sponsorship.

00:10:57.660 Remember how that always used to be?

00:10:59.920 When the Olympics were upcoming, all the sponsors would say, proud sponsor of the 2022 Olympics.

00:11:08.660 Well, it turns out that Visa, Coca-Cola, and others are just going silent on it.

00:11:13.120 But just maybe not mentioning it, how would you like to be in charge of advertising and

00:11:19.760 publicity for your Fortune 500 company?

00:11:24.040 And your CEO calls you in and says, I understand we put $80 million into advertising for the

00:11:32.820 Olympics.

00:11:33.340 That's right.

00:11:33.900 That's right.

00:11:34.280 And so far, what you're doing is staying really silent.

00:11:40.580 That's right.

00:11:41.240 Because we don't want to associate with the Olympics.

00:11:44.460 All right.

00:11:44.740 Oh, hold on.

00:11:46.000 We put $80 million into the Olympics to associate with the Olympics.

00:11:52.040 But what you're telling me now is that we've spent the $80 million, but our best play is

00:11:58.100 to try to get as much distance as we can from the Olympics.

00:12:01.240 That's where we are.

00:12:05.440 So, and apparently there are a bunch of Omicron breakouts with people who were going to work

00:12:11.920 at the Olympics.

00:12:12.840 So China's having a pretty big Omicron problem.

00:12:15.820 Surprise.

00:12:16.920 But the athletes themselves who are in, quote, the bubble, I guess they create an impenetrable

00:12:21.820 bubble.

00:12:22.340 And once you're on the inside, nobody else can get in.

00:12:25.200 So the athletes seem to be clear so far.

00:12:27.720 But the, that's, if you've got three dozen people with Omicron in the general vicinity

00:12:37.040 of the Olympics, how in the world are they going to keep the Omicron from sweeping through

00:12:42.840 the attendees?

00:12:44.060 How in the world is that going to happen?

00:12:46.220 I can't imagine that this isn't anything but a disaster.

00:12:49.520 Why are we not talking about the Olympics as what it is, a gigantic health crisis and a

00:12:56.960 publicity coup for China?

00:13:00.240 I mean, that's all it is at this point.

00:13:03.320 YouTube cut my stream?

00:13:04.780 No, they didn't.

00:13:06.140 You're still watching it.

00:13:11.620 So that's happening.

00:13:12.900 And yes, 72 positive cases of COVID among the people who are going to work on the Olympics.

00:13:19.680 72.

00:13:20.220 That's 72 cases of Omicron?

00:13:26.140 Wake up, Scott.

00:13:28.280 72 cases?

00:13:29.520 And there's no way they're going to stop it.

00:13:31.420 All right.

00:13:31.660 So Fauci did an interview on CNN.

00:13:33.340 And so even CNN is on the skeptical side of why are we still, or at least it looks like

00:13:39.660 they're transitioning to, hey, why aren't we an endemic already out of the pandemic?

00:13:43.840 And they asked Fauci, CNN said, I think it was Anderson Cooper, why should people with

00:13:50.640 natural immunity still be forced to take the vaccine?

00:13:54.960 And Fauci said, quote, I don't have a really firm answer to you on that.

00:14:00.800 What?

00:14:02.680 What?

00:14:04.120 Isn't he the guy with the firm answer on that?

00:14:08.280 But he went on to say that we don't know if the natural immunity will be enduring the

00:14:14.100 way the vaccinations aren't.

00:14:17.900 Wait, what?

00:14:19.580 So we don't know if the natural immunity will last.

00:14:23.700 So we don't know if it's as good as the vaccinations that definitely don't last.

00:14:28.680 Wait, trying to understand this again.

00:14:30.220 We're not confident about the natural immunity because we don't know how long it will last.

00:14:37.240 And that's the important thing to compare to the vaccinations that we know don't last.

00:14:43.840 Now, I get that we would like to have more information, but couldn't we wait for that?

00:14:54.800 But, you know, if it turns out that six months from now, the natural immunity wasn't what we hoped it would be, couldn't we just change our minds?

00:15:03.440 And by the way, if it's six months from now, we're probably, you know, away from the problem pretty far anyway.

00:15:11.180 So, um, I think Fauci is, um, he's on pretty, pretty thin ice there.

00:15:22.580 Now, I was going to come up with a name for this effect, but it goes like this.

00:15:27.700 In the old days, the scientists would manage the science, and then there would be a whole different group of people who would manage public reactions, you know, public relations.

00:15:42.460 So that would be politicians and PR people and stuff like that.

00:15:46.700 But what happened during the pandemic?

00:15:50.540 Inversion.

00:15:51.020 During the pandemic, the scientists started managing public opinion.

00:15:57.260 Am I right?

00:15:59.260 Who managed the science?

00:16:02.140 When the scientists abandoned science to become public relations people and basically to manipulate us into a certain thing,

00:16:10.880 what happened to the guardians of science when they became PR people?

00:16:15.200 Do you know who became the scientists?

00:16:18.060 You did.

00:16:20.060 You did.

00:16:21.020 You had to do your own, I don't want to use the F word, unnecessarily.

00:16:28.740 You had to become the scientists.

00:16:31.460 They made the public become scientists because the scientists turned into PR people and brainwashers.

00:16:39.700 Now, of course, you know, there's no universal statement that's true for all things and all people.

00:16:45.260 But generally speaking, am I wrong?

00:16:47.120 Am I wrong that the scientists became PR people and then the public had to become scientists?

00:16:54.440 The scientists, which is not a good look, right?

00:16:58.960 And how did the public do?

00:17:01.200 When the public became the scientists, how did we do?

00:17:07.640 Not as bad as you would think.

00:17:09.760 I think, you know, I think the public had tons of wrong ideas, tons of wrong ideas.

00:17:16.920 But weirdly, I think it would have ended up not that far away from where science took us, right?

00:17:24.140 The actual practical difference of our different beliefs, many of which were fake.

00:17:28.700 Even if we had pursued our fake understanding of the world, we would have been about the same place, probably.

00:17:35.620 I don't know.

00:17:36.780 So it's hard to know because there's no way to compare that.

00:17:39.040 Maybe we need what I would call untouchable doctors. 0.99

00:17:45.660 Do you remember the movie The Untouchables, what that was about?

00:17:50.060 The problem was that you couldn't use local, back in, you know, early history of the United States,

00:17:55.040 you couldn't use local law enforcement to stop the big organized gangs because the organized gangs had too much money.

00:18:02.840 So they would bribe enough police officers that the regular police couldn't do anything.

00:18:09.480 So the government had to send in a special group of people who just didn't have any local connections.

00:18:15.320 And so they were unbribable.

00:18:16.720 Yeah, Elliot Ness in particular.

00:18:19.100 And it wasn't until you had unbribable law enforcement that they could make a dent.

00:18:25.300 Now we have this situation where we don't trust our doctors because we imagine,

00:18:30.500 I don't know how true this is, but we all imagine that big pharma can influence at least the hospitals,

00:18:38.100 and then the hospitals can influence the doctors because the doctors want to keep their hospital privileges, etc.

00:18:44.960 So don't we need untouchable doctors? 0.90

00:18:48.940 Don't we need doctors who are not beholden to anyone for whatever reason?

00:18:53.900 They don't need research money.

00:18:55.800 They don't need hospital privileges.

00:18:58.000 They don't even need customers.

00:19:00.780 They've already made their money.

00:19:03.220 We actually...

00:19:03.900 Not rogues.

00:19:05.220 See, I don't trust the rogues.

00:19:07.420 Because the rogues have a...

00:19:09.400 They have a benefit that they can achieve even if they're wrong.

00:19:15.460 That's not a good look.

00:19:17.180 So you don't want people to be able to benefit by being wrong.

00:19:20.440 And the rogues definitely benefit by being wrong because they get the attention, etc.

00:19:25.260 Then nobody will remember they were wrong and they'll be famous long after.

00:19:28.900 So even if they're wrong, their business model still works to be a rogue.

00:19:33.160 So I don't trust the rogue model.

00:19:35.920 What you need is some people who are rogues before the problem.

00:19:40.540 See what I'm saying?

00:19:41.580 You need some people who already were outside the control of the system before you even had a question to give them.

00:19:48.160 And then you give them the question.

00:19:50.360 You don't want them signing up to be rogues on their own.

00:19:53.980 Right?

00:19:54.180 You want to have an established group of untouchables.

00:19:58.240 Anyway, think about that.

00:20:00.000 A Wharton professor asked people in the Wharton class,

00:20:05.200 what did they think was the average income of Americans?

00:20:09.520 But I don't think average is good because the billionaires skew it.

00:20:12.960 So I'd rather say median.

00:20:14.820 So the income at which there are as many people above that line as there are below.

00:20:20.640 What would you imagine is the median income in America for one person, one job?

00:20:26.520 Numbers, please.

00:20:28.080 I'll tell you the number in a moment.

00:20:30.340 I'm seeing guesses on locals from in the 40s and 50s, 35 area.

00:20:37.160 35, 45.

00:20:38.460 You're actually very well informed.

00:20:40.940 I don't know how many of you Googled it.

00:20:42.440 Yeah, you're all, actually you're all in the right area.

00:20:45.560 Yeah, you're roughly in the right area.

00:20:47.420 That's correct.

00:20:48.260 The answer is 34,000.

00:20:51.140 That's the median.

00:20:53.300 So if you guess, you know, 30s to 50s, you're in the right area at least. 0.98

00:20:59.620 But here's the punchline.

00:21:01.100 25% of the students believe that the average income, not median, but average,

00:21:07.140 was over 100,000.

00:21:08.540 A quarter of the class in this elite institution, a quarter of them,

00:21:15.120 believe that the average income was over 100,000 per year in America.

00:21:20.760 Yeah, 25% rule.

00:21:23.480 Yeah, the 25% rule works. 0.52

00:21:25.920 It works so often, it's hilarious.

00:21:30.320 Wow.

00:21:31.280 But most of you got the right answer, so you're better than the Wharton kids on that.

00:21:35.520 So CNN is complaining about the rally yesterday.

00:21:41.420 So there's a rally against the mandates in D.C.

00:21:45.100 And CNN's take on it is that there were too many references to Nazism.

00:21:51.480 And Robert Kennedy Jr. apparently compared the vaccine policies in the U.S.

00:21:58.780 to a totalitarian state and made an Anne Frank.

00:22:09.780 Can I give you a little media advice?

00:22:13.320 Now, many of you have not taken what's called media training, which I have,

00:22:17.760 which is how not to do things like this in public.

00:22:21.540 They teach you how not to do this.

00:22:23.540 I can't give you the whole media training course right now,

00:22:27.600 but I'm going to simplify it to just one pro tip that you can bank on.

00:22:35.480 One thing that I think you can generally consider

00:22:38.000 that would always be a good idea in terms of public speaking.

00:22:42.560 Don't compare anything to Anne Frank.

00:22:48.340 Comparing things to the Holocaust is ridiculous enough.

00:22:52.160 But the moment you throw Anne in the mix, you've gone too far.

00:23:00.020 Here's you.

00:23:01.480 Here's too far.

00:23:02.720 And there's Anne.

00:23:03.800 Hello, Anne.

00:23:04.920 I'm over here.

00:23:06.020 Too far.

00:23:07.220 Too far.

00:23:07.840 Do you know what is the correct way to make an Anne Frank reference

00:23:14.060 when you're not, not, talking about the Holocaust itself?

00:23:20.200 Never.

00:23:21.620 How about never?

00:23:23.200 How about the right time to invoke Anne Frank is fucking never?

00:23:27.980 How about never ever?

00:23:29.840 How about that time you think you found an exception

00:23:32.340 and this is the one time that maybe Anne Frank is... 0.99

00:23:35.380 No, no, don't do it.

00:23:39.460 How about if the story is about somebody named Anne Frank, coincidentally?

00:23:43.620 And what if this person, who is also coincidentally named Anne Frank,

00:23:48.620 was also hiding in an attic against the vaccine mandates?

00:23:53.660 What if there was somebody literally named Anne Frank

00:23:56.340 hiding literally in her attic in the United States

00:23:59.220 because she was afraid of the vaccine mandate police?

00:24:02.640 Can you make an Anne Frank reference then?

00:24:07.420 No.

00:24:08.320 No.

00:24:09.200 I just told you.

00:24:10.640 There's no exceptions.

00:24:12.500 You do not make an Anne Frank reference no matter what.

00:24:17.300 Ever.

00:24:18.140 Ever.

00:24:19.880 So that's your media training for today.

00:24:23.100 Don't do that.

00:24:25.120 All right.

00:24:25.680 But it's ironic that CNN would be the one complaining about it

00:24:28.800 because they're the ones who use Holocaust references just continually.

00:24:33.320 So a hypocrisy award goes to CNN.

00:24:38.220 So just as we're saying to ourselves,

00:24:40.520 you know, I think maybe we're on the cusp of our mandates being lifted.

00:24:45.320 The L.A. school district,

00:24:47.960 in its attempt to make their students the stupidest students in the whole world,

00:24:52.720 have decided that cloth masks are not good enough

00:24:55.180 and every student will have to wear non-cloth masks that have a nose wire,

00:25:00.800 you know, that little thing that you form fitted around your nose,

00:25:05.000 including participating in athletic activities.

00:25:09.200 So if you're going to go for a run outdoors,

00:25:14.180 you need a really tight-fitting mask.

00:25:16.980 If you want to go for a run outdoors.

00:25:23.740 Now, let me guess,

00:25:25.120 what group of people would have been behind this?

00:25:30.560 Maybe scientists.

00:25:32.640 So do you think that the scientists were following the science

00:25:36.380 and that the school district is following the scientists

00:25:40.100 who are following the scientists,

00:25:41.180 or is it possible that this has more to do with narrative and PR

00:25:45.800 and manipulation and bullshit?

00:25:49.380 So, once again, we have this question.

00:25:52.320 Who are the scientists in this case?

00:25:55.760 Well, I would say the scientists in this case, unfortunately,

00:25:59.580 are the parents of these children

00:26:01.140 who should be basically tearing apart

00:26:05.580 the offices of the L.A. school district.

00:26:09.220 They should be taking their furniture

00:26:12.200 and throwing it on the lawn.

00:26:15.300 And they're just leaving.

00:26:17.200 That would be the perfect protest.

00:26:19.980 Just go into whatever the student lounge is,

00:26:24.020 you know, the teacher's lounge,

00:26:25.860 of every school,

00:26:27.640 and it's probably not locked during the day,

00:26:30.000 just walk in in force,

00:26:31.880 take all the furniture out of the teacher's lounge

00:26:33.840 and just throw it into the fucking lawn. 0.95

00:26:36.420 Just throw it into the parking lot.

00:26:37.580 And then just leave.

00:26:39.220 And just leave.

00:26:40.300 You don't even have to leave it and make a statement.

00:26:43.200 By the way, I'm not suggesting this

00:26:44.760 because you would get arrested.

00:26:46.380 But we're sort of at that point

00:26:47.900 where I don't want to break anything

00:26:51.620 and I don't want to hurt anybody, right?

00:26:53.000 No violence.

00:26:53.720 No violence.

00:26:54.260 No violence.

00:26:55.060 But if we just went into every L.A. school district

00:26:57.680 and just said,

00:26:58.780 look, we've got 400 parents here,

00:27:00.780 so just get it out of the way,

00:27:02.500 just go into the teacher's lounge,

00:27:04.320 take every stick of furniture,

00:27:05.940 every item in it,

00:27:07.400 and just put it in the parking lot

00:27:08.560 and then leave.

00:27:10.100 Don't even say a fucking thing.

00:27:12.520 Just leave.

00:27:15.740 Do you think that would make national news?

00:27:18.720 I think it would.

00:27:20.260 I think it would.

00:27:20.800 But exactly.

00:27:22.220 Somebody just said child abuse.

00:27:24.980 Once it becomes child abuse,

00:27:27.580 we can go into the school

00:27:29.540 and put all your furniture in the parking lot

00:27:31.340 because that's not even close to child abuse.

00:27:34.760 Right?

00:27:35.360 That's not even close.

00:27:36.220 All right.

00:27:39.780 I finally figured out a solution

00:27:41.800 to this whole Russia-Ukraine thing

00:27:43.480 and it's not negotiating.

00:27:45.880 I thought yesterday that would be the solution.

00:27:48.100 But there's a more obvious one.

00:27:51.240 I think Biden should put Kamala Harris

00:27:53.060 in charge of the Ukraine border.

00:27:56.160 And I say this because Biden says

00:27:58.980 she's done a good job

00:28:00.760 on the Mexican border with the United States.

00:28:03.360 And if you can do that good a job

00:28:06.100 on such an intractable problem,

00:28:08.600 I mean, think about it.

00:28:10.420 How many people have tried to solve

00:28:12.520 the border problem with Mexico?

00:28:15.400 And Kamala Harris, according to Biden,

00:28:17.600 is doing a great job.

00:28:19.820 So I don't think you ignore that.

00:28:22.780 So I think Kamala Harris has proven

00:28:25.120 that she can find the root causes 0.62

00:28:27.000 of border problems and solve them.

00:28:29.200 So she should go find the root cause.

00:28:31.440 It could be that she needs to build up 0.98

00:28:34.180 manufacturing in Russia.

00:28:36.620 Something like that.

00:28:38.280 But put her on the job. 0.68

00:28:39.520 She can handle this.

00:28:42.180 You know, I've been saying that

00:28:43.320 I think our play is that we need to

00:28:45.380 get Russia on our side 0.89

00:28:46.680 and sort of pull them away from China.

00:28:50.820 But apparently it's too late.

00:28:55.020 It seems to be too late.

00:28:57.140 Because I didn't know this,

00:28:59.260 but can somebody do a fact check?

00:29:00.560 Is it true that Russia, China, and Iran

00:29:03.940 did joint military, what do you call it, tests?

00:29:11.940 They did, didn't they?

00:29:13.940 So if they're already doing

00:29:15.280 military drills together,

00:29:17.340 it's kind of too late.

00:29:20.700 It's too late.

00:29:22.720 And here's a question that I wonder.

00:29:25.760 Is Putin already a Chinese puppet? 0.74

00:29:30.140 Because if he's not already a Chinese puppet, 1.00

00:29:33.140 he will be.

00:29:35.580 Am I right?

00:29:36.800 Because their trade is, you know,

00:29:40.760 it's doubled since not that long ago.

00:29:43.140 So Russian and Chinese trade is like crazy.

00:29:46.680 They know they need each other

00:29:48.020 because they're both sort of anti-America.

00:29:50.280 So it makes sense.

00:29:52.580 And you would think that by now,

00:29:54.520 China has figured out some way 0.93

00:29:55.960 to put pressure on Putin

00:29:57.640 economically, some way.

00:30:00.620 So it seems to me that over time,

00:30:03.740 you know, the big Chinese octopus

00:30:05.320 is going to get control of Russia 0.88

00:30:08.500 just because it's adjacent,

00:30:10.340 and they have to.

00:30:11.660 Because China wants to control everything 0.96

00:30:13.480 that's adjacent, right?

00:30:14.700 Everything in their neighborhood.

00:30:15.840 So they probably want to control Russia 0.96

00:30:18.040 more than they want to control us.

00:30:19.880 Well, that's probably not true.

00:30:23.700 But is it a coincidence

00:30:25.920 that Ukraine and Taiwan

00:30:27.540 are heating up at the same time?

00:30:30.080 Do you think that is

00:30:31.100 two independent decisions

00:30:32.640 in which both Russia and China said,

00:30:35.480 you know, this would be a good time,

00:30:37.280 and that just happened to be the same time?

00:30:40.500 Or do you think that they simply talked

00:30:42.460 and said, you know,

00:30:43.080 if you do this, I'll do this,

00:30:44.400 and did they talk as peers?

00:30:47.100 Was it peer-to-peer?

00:30:49.740 Or did President Xi tell Putin

00:30:52.700 to make some noise in Ukraine?

00:30:56.400 Because, you know, it looks,

00:30:58.840 it looks exactly like what it would look like

00:31:02.320 if Putin were already under Xi's control.

00:31:05.980 Doesn't it?

00:31:07.420 Now, remember, you heard the head

00:31:09.420 of the German Navy who got,

00:31:11.400 I don't know, he quit or got fired or whatever,

00:31:13.080 basically got fired

00:31:14.440 for saying that we should get closer to Russia

00:31:16.520 and pull them away from China. 0.75

00:31:20.220 And

00:31:20.620 that was the Navy chief.

00:31:26.880 It is definitely looking

00:31:28.480 like China already controls Russia.

00:31:32.120 And remember, the Navy chief said that

00:31:34.300 what Putin wants is respect.

00:31:37.740 How much respect will Putin

00:31:40.420 get when he is rebranded

00:31:42.640 as Xi's puppet?

00:31:44.760 And if we started pointing out

00:31:46.360 that every time Putin acts,

00:31:48.080 it seems to be in China's best interest.

00:31:51.820 What happens then?

00:31:53.500 Hey, Putin, every time you act,

00:31:55.140 it seems to be in China's best interest.

00:31:57.400 Are you basically Xi's bitch? 0.98

00:31:59.220 Because that's what it looks like.

00:32:01.920 Yeah, Xi's bitch. 1.00

00:32:04.460 So, I don't know if that would have

00:32:06.760 any impact on Russia

00:32:08.160 wanting to get away from China, 0.99

00:32:10.580 but it can't be good for Putin

00:32:11.840 to look like he's working for China

00:32:14.180 because it does look like it.

00:32:15.840 I'm not saying that's the case,

00:32:17.860 but it looks like it.

00:32:21.000 All right, so do you think

00:32:22.080 that there's a wag the dog thing

00:32:24.220 happening here,

00:32:25.540 meaning that the media

00:32:28.680 and the government

00:32:29.860 are working together

00:32:31.060 to come up with a war

00:32:32.920 because it's good for the government

00:32:34.100 and good for the media?

00:32:36.540 Well, here are some things happening

00:32:37.920 and you decide.

00:32:39.300 So, I guess the U.S.

00:32:41.220 is pulling some of its staff

00:32:42.500 out of the Ukraine embassy,

00:32:43.960 which is what you would do

00:32:45.480 in anticipation of an invasion.

00:32:48.340 So, do you think that we really needed

00:32:50.460 to pull our staff out of the embassy?

00:32:52.680 It's probably just good for them.

00:32:55.020 I imagine it just makes sense.

00:33:05.540 Weird comments.

00:33:06.680 Okay.

00:33:08.140 So, and then the, of course,

00:33:09.880 the legacy media is a warning of invasion.

00:33:13.720 Does it look like an invasion to you?

00:33:15.500 Because I've seen other media say

00:33:17.600 that the build-up is since April

00:33:19.640 and it doesn't really look like an invasion.

00:33:22.100 And then some people say,

00:33:23.360 oh, total invasion.

00:33:24.840 Looks like an invasion

00:33:25.660 is going to happen any minute.

00:33:27.220 But it seems to me that

00:33:28.480 all of the signaling to the public

00:33:30.880 is a wag the dog stuff.

00:33:33.280 Like, get ready for war.

00:33:34.800 There's a good reason for war. 1.00

00:33:36.880 So, get ready for the good reasons for war. 1.00

00:33:39.640 But there aren't any good reasons,

00:33:41.380 at least for the United States.

00:33:44.780 But, here's the question

00:33:46.240 which must be asked.

00:33:47.280 Given the polling of the Democrats,

00:33:50.500 what is the almost guaranteed outcome

00:33:53.180 in, by 2024?

00:33:57.940 It looks like,

00:33:59.160 all the smart people are saying,

00:34:00.660 that Republicans will have full control.

00:34:03.140 Because it looks like they're going to sweep 2024

00:34:05.380 and get control of Congress.

00:34:08.660 Say the smart people.

00:34:09.980 That's not me predicting,

00:34:11.240 but, you know,

00:34:11.820 all the smart people say that.

00:34:13.000 And it looks like

00:34:14.320 whoever runs against a Democrat

00:34:16.500 would probably win.

00:34:17.800 I think DeSantis would just

00:34:19.140 destroy Biden.

00:34:22.560 So, what do Democrats do

00:34:25.160 when they see that

00:34:26.720 business as usual

00:34:28.020 will put them out of power?

00:34:30.400 What would they do?

00:34:31.900 They would have to do something

00:34:33.480 that would change the equation,

00:34:37.280 change the narrative.

00:34:38.700 And I can only see one thing

00:34:40.760 that they could possibly do

00:34:41.980 to maintain power.

00:34:44.340 Start a war. 0.83

00:34:46.900 Now, I'm not saying

00:34:48.080 that's what they're doing.

00:34:50.080 I'm saying that

00:34:51.000 when people understand

00:34:52.380 what their best option is,

00:34:55.700 they don't have to consciously

00:34:57.300 make a decision to do it.

00:34:59.980 Because their brain will do the rest.

00:35:02.280 Their brain will just talk them

00:35:03.460 into it being a good idea.

00:35:05.320 So, the people who would be

00:35:06.420 wagging the dog

00:35:07.200 wouldn't all of them necessarily

00:35:09.120 know that they're doing a scheme.

00:35:11.980 They might just get caught up in it

00:35:13.740 and start to believe

00:35:14.740 their own lies.

00:35:16.900 So, I do think

00:35:18.540 that we're in the process

00:35:19.760 of talking ourselves into war

00:35:21.420 for no real benefit

00:35:23.380 beyond Democrats

00:35:24.760 consolidating, let's say,

00:35:27.980 support by being in a war.

00:35:30.000 I can't think of any other benefit

00:35:31.580 except Democrat power.

00:35:33.720 So, watch your brainwashing levels here

00:35:40.500 because they're going to go hard at you.

00:35:42.720 Now, this does open up

00:35:44.600 an opportunity, though,

00:35:46.040 to avoid a kinetic war

00:35:48.640 with actual bullets.

00:35:50.580 And I had a suggestion.

00:35:52.040 I'm just going to put this out there.

00:35:53.860 Another way to avoid war with Russia

00:35:55.740 would be to have our cyber units

00:35:58.680 attack instead of our military.

00:36:03.040 Well, they're part of the military.

00:36:04.640 But instead of shooting bullets,

00:36:05.980 we should do a cyber attack.

00:36:08.200 Not on Russia.

00:36:09.060 That would be crazy.

00:36:10.100 But rather a cyber attack

00:36:11.360 on our own polling companies.

00:36:13.820 The internal political polling companies.

00:36:16.180 Because if we can hack

00:36:18.280 into our polling companies

00:36:19.860 and we can artificially raise

00:36:22.960 the Democrats' polling numbers,

00:36:26.600 if we can raise

00:36:27.880 the Democrat polling numbers,

00:36:29.240 then we can avoid war, I think.

00:36:32.380 Because if they think

00:36:33.380 their numbers look good,

00:36:35.080 they won't start a war.

00:36:37.220 Only if their numbers look bad.

00:36:39.420 So I think our cyber security people

00:36:43.260 could maybe fix this.

00:36:44.860 They just have to hack

00:36:46.040 all of our internal polling companies.

00:36:49.860 You can't tell when I'm kidding, can you?

00:36:53.520 How many of you have been fooled

00:36:54.960 by something I said

00:36:56.060 that you thought was serious?

00:36:57.500 Only to find out later.

00:36:59.640 Not so much.

00:37:01.800 Parody and reality.

00:37:03.720 Starting to merge.

00:37:05.940 Can't tell.

00:37:06.940 You can't tell.

00:37:08.560 Did any bubbles burst today?

00:37:10.000 I don't think so.

00:37:14.040 I don't think so.

00:37:15.260 All right.

00:37:17.660 I zoned out.

00:37:18.820 Can you repeat?

00:37:19.860 That's my favorite comment

00:37:25.620 so far.

00:37:26.880 I zoned out.

00:37:27.860 Can you repeat that?

00:37:32.200 All right.

00:37:32.820 How many people think

00:37:33.640 long COVID is real?

00:37:36.380 Let me give you...

00:37:37.360 I'm just going to take

00:37:38.140 your temperature here.

00:37:39.560 How many people think

00:37:40.400 long COVID is real?

00:37:44.460 Getting a lot of no's

00:37:45.740 on the locals platform.

00:37:47.820 A lot of no's.

00:37:48.560 I think it's real

00:37:52.200 only in the sense

00:37:53.100 that people recover

00:37:54.620 from things

00:37:55.200 at different rates.

00:37:57.180 I don't think it's real

00:37:58.340 as impermanent.

00:37:59.780 Here's my second question.

00:38:02.440 How good are we

00:38:03.840 at predicting

00:38:06.880 the long-term

00:38:07.980 health impact

00:38:09.360 of vaccinations?

00:38:10.280 Because remember,

00:38:11.880 you can't test

00:38:12.620 the long-term

00:38:13.340 until the long-term

00:38:14.900 gets here

00:38:15.420 and it hasn't.

00:38:16.660 But how good are we

00:38:18.100 at predicting

00:38:19.040 potential problems?

00:38:23.440 How long ago

00:38:24.720 was the last time

00:38:25.880 we had

00:38:26.560 a long-term problem

00:38:28.580 that we didn't catch

00:38:29.660 in short-term testing?

00:38:31.040 How often

00:38:32.640 does that happen?

00:38:33.740 If you look

00:38:34.320 at all meds,

00:38:37.700 yeah,

00:38:38.020 maybe we just

00:38:38.600 don't know.

00:38:39.060 That's right.

00:38:39.880 But if you looked

00:38:40.440 at all meds,

00:38:41.140 what do we know?

00:38:43.060 Thalidomide

00:38:43.460 is the famous one.

00:38:45.200 And what year

00:38:45.660 was thalidomide?

00:38:48.600 I won't look it up.

00:38:49.740 Somebody will tell me

00:38:50.540 the year.

00:38:51.100 Tell me the year

00:38:51.840 of thalidomide.

00:38:52.900 60s.

00:38:53.860 50s and 60s?

00:38:54.900 Okay.

00:38:55.080 Where are we

00:38:56.880 scientifically

00:38:57.840 and medically

00:38:58.680 compared to the

00:38:59.500 50s and 60s?

00:39:00.780 It's just

00:39:01.200 world's difference,

00:39:02.160 right?

00:39:02.740 So in the 50s

00:39:03.740 or 60s,

00:39:04.360 we got caught

00:39:04.940 off guard

00:39:05.440 with this

00:39:05.900 thalidomide stuff.

00:39:08.440 What are the odds

00:39:09.460 that we would get

00:39:10.300 caught off guard

00:39:11.100 in 2022?

00:39:14.160 Do we still have,

00:39:15.660 are we still blind

00:39:16.640 to the future

00:39:17.240 in the same way?

00:39:18.560 Or is there

00:39:19.920 something about

00:39:20.400 the nature

00:39:20.900 of vaccinations

00:39:21.720 and the nature

00:39:22.560 of the body

00:39:23.080 where you can

00:39:24.180 kind of know

00:39:24.820 in advance

00:39:25.500 pretty well

00:39:26.840 what the long-term

00:39:28.020 effects are going to be?

00:39:29.500 So that's a big

00:39:32.440 hole in my,

00:39:33.460 somebody says Zantac.

00:39:36.060 Did Zantac

00:39:36.980 have long-term

00:39:37.780 bad effects?

00:39:38.600 Was that what you're saying?

00:39:39.540 I don't know

00:39:40.000 the story there.

00:39:41.740 I don't want to say that

00:39:42.780 because that would be,

00:39:43.880 I don't want to libel

00:39:44.960 some company

00:39:45.580 just because I'm seeing

00:39:46.320 a comment here.

00:39:47.340 So I don't know

00:39:47.920 anything about Zantac.

00:39:48.880 So yeah,

00:39:56.700 mRNA is a new tech

00:39:58.300 and that's sort of

00:39:59.320 why I'm asking

00:39:59.880 the question.

00:40:00.980 Are we so smart

00:40:02.260 that we could look

00:40:03.180 at a new technology

00:40:04.260 platform,

00:40:05.680 mRNA,

00:40:06.900 and know that that

00:40:08.320 is very unlikely

00:40:09.940 to have long-term effects?

00:40:11.500 Can we know that?

00:40:12.380 So my current thinking

00:40:15.960 is I'm devaluing

00:40:17.800 long COVID

00:40:19.380 as a problem.

00:40:20.720 I think it's real

00:40:21.980 but it looks like

00:40:23.580 just some people

00:40:24.420 recovering more slowly

00:40:25.600 and you know,

00:40:27.200 I imagine I could survive

00:40:28.580 recovering more slowly

00:40:29.640 if I had to.

00:40:31.220 So yeah,

00:40:34.180 there's still a lot of stuff

00:40:35.100 we don't know here.

00:40:35.680 Now,

00:40:40.500 question.

00:40:43.920 Is the country

00:40:44.780 moving in the right

00:40:45.480 direction or the wrong

00:40:46.300 direction on opening up?

00:40:49.120 Because I feel like

00:40:50.460 anecdotally,

00:40:52.380 at least California

00:40:53.200 is not looking like

00:40:54.220 it's going to open up.

00:40:56.920 If I had to guess,

00:40:58.460 we're going to be last.

00:41:00.480 I think.

00:41:03.400 Partly because our

00:41:04.160 infection rate is

00:41:04.880 through the roof.

00:41:06.420 Compared to other places.

00:41:09.220 Right direction,

00:41:10.000 you think?

00:41:11.040 Well,

00:41:11.360 I think other places

00:41:13.040 are going to head

00:41:14.260 in the right direction.

00:41:14.800 I just think California

00:41:15.700 is not going to hit

00:41:16.480 the February 1 date

00:41:17.620 and I'm going to be

00:41:19.020 really,

00:41:20.180 really unhappy

00:41:20.700 about that.

00:41:21.600 You know what would

00:41:21.980 be a great way

00:41:22.640 to end the mandates?

00:41:26.260 Take advantage

00:41:27.140 of the fact

00:41:27.940 that people believe

00:41:28.760 anything.

00:41:30.400 Or let's say

00:41:31.320 you can get

00:41:32.280 30% of the public

00:41:33.300 to believe just anything.

00:41:35.100 All right,

00:41:35.220 would you agree

00:41:35.960 with me,

00:41:36.540 first of all,

00:41:37.000 that that's a thing?

00:41:38.640 Totally a thing.

00:41:40.100 You can get 30%

00:41:41.260 of the public

00:41:41.700 to believe anything.

00:41:42.580 Well,

00:41:42.760 25% at least.

00:41:44.960 Right?

00:41:45.620 How many people

00:41:46.520 would it take

00:41:47.140 to break the mandates?

00:41:48.300 You know,

00:41:49.340 if 25% walk

00:41:50.700 into every business

00:41:51.460 without a mask,

00:41:53.160 the business

00:41:53.800 will be overwhelmed.

00:41:54.660 how hard would it be

00:41:56.660 to start the rumor

00:41:58.080 that February 1st

00:42:00.380 is actually

00:42:01.080 the date

00:42:01.480 the mandates drop?

00:42:03.020 So that 25% 0.89

00:42:04.380 of people

00:42:05.280 show up everywhere,

00:42:07.000 everywhere,

00:42:08.320 as if they thought

00:42:09.400 the mandates

00:42:09.900 were over.

00:42:11.400 It probably

00:42:12.320 would be doable.

00:42:13.460 Now,

00:42:13.780 I don't think

00:42:14.160 it would be doable

00:42:14.640 just by me.

00:42:16.220 But,

00:42:16.540 you know,

00:42:16.880 the things that really

00:42:18.120 get ingrained

00:42:19.740 in people

00:42:20.220 happen somewhat,

00:42:21.980 let's say,

00:42:22.600 organically.

00:42:23.660 I don't know

00:42:24.380 if you could just

00:42:24.880 make up a thing

00:42:25.780 and then make

00:42:26.240 30% of the people

00:42:27.540 believe it.

00:42:28.480 Unless you had

00:42:29.120 the whole legacy

00:42:29.840 media on your side.

00:42:30.660 Then you could

00:42:31.000 do it easily.

00:42:32.880 But for one person,

00:42:35.060 you could actually

00:42:35.940 maybe.

00:42:38.820 Suppose you started

00:42:39.820 a meme

00:42:40.320 that convinced

00:42:41.980 25% of the people

00:42:43.360 that it was

00:42:43.880 an official policy

00:42:44.940 that the mandates

00:42:46.320 were over

00:42:46.860 on February 1st.

00:42:49.320 How many people

00:42:50.200 would believe it

00:42:50.900 and just show up

00:42:51.580 without a mask?

00:42:52.600 And not even

00:42:53.140 have one.

00:42:54.440 Let me give you

00:42:55.140 an anecdote.

00:42:56.960 So I told you

00:42:57.780 that the county

00:42:58.500 next to me,

00:42:59.800 which I go to

00:43:01.260 about as much

00:43:01.840 as my own county

00:43:02.580 because it's

00:43:03.000 right next to me,

00:43:04.480 they require

00:43:06.420 vaccine passports.

00:43:08.500 I heard a story

00:43:09.400 yesterday from

00:43:10.100 a young woman

00:43:10.740 who shall remain

00:43:11.500 anonymous.

00:43:12.960 And the young woman

00:43:13.640 said that she went

00:43:14.400 with a group

00:43:15.480 of people

00:43:15.900 to this restaurant

00:43:17.680 that required

00:43:18.260 the vaccine passports.

00:43:19.920 And although

00:43:20.340 she is vaccinated,

00:43:21.360 she did not

00:43:21.840 have her passport.

00:43:22.600 Because she did

00:43:23.240 not anticipate

00:43:24.060 the difference

00:43:24.780 in the other county.

00:43:26.240 So the restaurant

00:43:27.620 host said,

00:43:28.560 OK, we need

00:43:29.160 your passports.

00:43:30.420 So all of the

00:43:31.200 other members

00:43:31.800 of a fairly large

00:43:32.880 party took out

00:43:34.900 their passports

00:43:35.440 and showed it.

00:43:36.580 And then the one

00:43:37.220 member said,

00:43:37.900 oh, I don't have it.

00:43:39.980 So what was going

00:43:41.200 to happen?

00:43:42.660 How do you think

00:43:43.380 it worked out?

00:43:44.320 One didn't have

00:43:45.140 the passport

00:43:45.640 and the others

00:43:47.780 did.

00:43:48.980 Did they say,

00:43:50.600 oh, sorry,

00:43:52.080 this one person

00:43:53.100 won't be able

00:43:53.600 to join you

00:43:54.160 and also,

00:43:55.320 by the way,

00:43:55.680 didn't have

00:43:56.060 a ride home.

00:43:57.660 So this one person

00:43:58.620 will just have

00:43:59.160 to take Uber home

00:44:00.040 or sit in the lobby

00:44:02.120 or something?

00:44:02.960 Do you think

00:44:03.340 that's what happened?

00:44:04.160 Or do you think

00:44:05.060 everybody in the party

00:44:06.580 said, well,

00:44:08.380 you know,

00:44:08.900 too bad,

00:44:09.420 it's Friday night,

00:44:10.080 I guess you could

00:44:10.660 have an empty table

00:44:11.460 and then they all

00:44:13.180 left.

00:44:14.220 Do you think

00:44:14.600 that happened?

00:44:15.860 What do you think

00:44:16.360 happened?

00:44:18.240 Let me give you

00:44:19.220 my impression

00:44:20.660 of the hostess.

00:44:22.900 Okay,

00:44:23.380 you all have

00:44:23.880 your passports

00:44:25.040 except this one person?

00:44:28.840 Just go ahead.

00:44:29.840 Go ahead.

00:44:31.620 That's what happened.

00:44:33.060 Right,

00:44:33.300 we're at the point

00:44:34.360 where people are

00:44:34.960 just going to make

00:44:35.420 their own decisions.

00:44:36.940 Why?

00:44:38.280 Because who are

00:44:38.800 the scientists?

00:44:40.080 Who are the scientists?

00:44:42.300 We are.

00:44:43.580 Unfortunately,

00:44:44.400 our actual

00:44:45.360 scientific community

00:44:46.480 abandoned us.

00:44:48.100 If we had had

00:44:49.320 rapid testing

00:44:50.320 when we knew

00:44:51.280 we would,

00:44:52.520 then I would say,

00:44:53.160 wow,

00:44:53.840 our scientific community,

00:44:55.700 they're working well

00:44:56.500 with the government,

00:44:57.280 they're getting stuff done.

00:44:58.780 But they didn't.

00:45:00.220 In fact,

00:45:00.720 there was pushback

00:45:01.520 against rapid tests,

00:45:02.580 which we now know

00:45:03.300 were exactly right.

00:45:04.620 Pushback against

00:45:05.420 natural immunity.

00:45:08.160 I mean,

00:45:08.560 how many times

00:45:10.200 do the experts

00:45:10.900 have to be wrong

00:45:11.840 and the public

00:45:13.100 have to be right,

00:45:14.120 sometimes by luck,

00:45:15.880 but still turn out

00:45:17.380 to be right?

00:45:19.120 Yeah,

00:45:19.500 unfortunately,

00:45:20.420 you're the scientist.

00:45:21.300 So I think

00:45:21.700 a lot of restaurants

00:45:23.400 are going to act that way.

00:45:24.620 They're just going to say,

00:45:25.840 well,

00:45:26.640 I don't know.

00:45:27.560 Now,

00:45:27.720 that would be

00:45:28.060 an interesting way to...

00:45:29.840 Now,

00:45:30.260 first of all,

00:45:30.840 let me say that

00:45:31.340 restaurants are the

00:45:32.540 softest target

00:45:34.140 because even

00:45:35.560 in the restaurant,

00:45:36.760 you know,

00:45:37.780 if you have to have

00:45:38.500 a mask,

00:45:39.000 you just walk

00:45:40.040 past the hostess.

00:45:42.860 You know,

00:45:43.180 if I go up

00:45:43.840 to use the restroom

00:45:45.100 in a restaurant

00:45:47.040 where they require

00:45:47.840 masking,

00:45:49.120 technically,

00:45:49.860 I should put on

00:45:50.560 my mask

00:45:51.040 to use the restroom,

00:45:52.020 right?

00:45:52.820 Because I got up

00:45:53.460 from the table.

00:45:55.480 A lot of people

00:45:56.320 don't,

00:45:57.160 so it's fairly common

00:45:58.080 that people don't

00:45:58.680 put on their mask

00:45:59.300 to go to the restroom. 1.00

00:45:59.880 But I like to comply

00:46:04.480 and say fuck you 1.00

00:46:05.360 at the same time.

00:46:07.160 Maybe that's just me.

00:46:08.960 Do you ever do that?

00:46:10.540 To do...

00:46:12.100 You comply

00:46:12.940 in the most ridiculous way.

00:46:15.220 So when I stand up

00:46:16.080 to go to the restroom, 0.83

00:46:18.300 I'll actually just

00:46:19.060 hold the mask up

00:46:19.980 in front of my face

00:46:21.660 like this

00:46:22.720 and just walk

00:46:24.000 past the staff

00:46:24.800 and just laugh at them.

00:46:27.820 Because it's

00:46:28.460 fucking ridiculous.

00:46:29.880 If somebody says

00:46:30.980 they do the same,

00:46:31.780 yeah,

00:46:32.020 I just laugh at them

00:46:32.800 like,

00:46:33.440 got my mask.

00:46:35.740 And nobody's

00:46:36.480 going to stop you.

00:46:37.800 I mean,

00:46:38.080 why would they?

00:46:39.040 There's no difference

00:46:39.820 in risk at all.

00:46:42.240 So I think

00:46:42.920 mocking it out

00:46:43.760 of existence

00:46:44.340 is maybe...

00:46:46.280 Have I ever told you

00:46:47.100 the power of mocking?

00:46:49.980 It's pretty powerful.

00:46:52.380 We're at the point

00:46:53.680 where, you know,

00:46:55.040 I don't think you could...

00:46:56.100 I didn't think

00:46:56.640 it made total sense

00:46:57.580 to mock somebody

00:46:58.760 from, you know,

00:47:00.500 being afraid of Delta.

00:47:02.960 But I don't mind

00:47:04.320 mocking somebody

00:47:05.300 for being afraid

00:47:06.160 of Omicron

00:47:06.920 in the age

00:47:08.360 of vaccinations,

00:47:09.260 anyway.

00:47:10.420 I think mocking

00:47:11.320 could maybe

00:47:11.920 get us over the edge.

00:47:13.720 So if you see

00:47:15.700 an opportunity

00:47:16.260 for some gentle

00:47:17.280 mocking...

00:47:19.820 Somebody says,

00:47:20.960 your wife

00:47:21.360 wouldn't let you do that?

00:47:22.260 Sure she would.

00:47:22.740 I've just used

00:47:25.980 my hand

00:47:26.440 over my mouth.

00:47:29.100 Yeah.

00:47:29.740 Just walk

00:47:30.240 into a restaurant

00:47:30.800 like this.

00:47:32.900 I'm sorry,

00:47:33.680 we need masks.

00:47:34.740 Well, I have a mask.

00:47:36.500 It's right here.

00:47:37.800 No, I'm sorry,

00:47:38.600 you need

00:47:38.980 a certain kind

00:47:39.920 of mask.

00:47:40.560 I don't think so.

00:47:42.160 No, I don't believe

00:47:43.360 that there's a requirement

00:47:44.440 on a certain kind

00:47:45.360 of mask.

00:47:46.400 I'm pretty sure

00:47:47.160 that this is a mask.

00:47:48.280 And then they say,

00:47:50.840 no, I'm sure

00:47:51.960 there's a requirement.

00:47:52.740 Well, can you show

00:47:53.720 me that code?

00:47:55.080 Because unless

00:47:56.520 there's a code,

00:47:57.540 you know.

00:48:00.260 Put a sock

00:48:01.080 over your hand.

00:48:02.600 Yeah, put a sock

00:48:03.440 over your hand

00:48:03.960 to cover your mouth.

00:48:06.940 Yeah, they're

00:48:07.660 universally illegal.

00:48:09.080 I get that.

00:48:14.120 I've used a paper towel

00:48:15.560 at the grocery store.

00:48:17.880 Have you ever?

00:48:18.280 Just use a rubber band

00:48:19.440 and a paper towel.

00:48:20.600 Has anybody

00:48:20.920 done that before?

00:48:24.320 A napkin.

00:48:26.140 How about

00:48:26.720 take the napkin

00:48:27.480 and just like

00:48:28.120 hold it in your mouth

00:48:29.020 so it's just like...

00:48:31.440 Wait, I'm going

00:48:33.560 to do this.

00:48:34.580 I think I can

00:48:35.180 do a demo.

00:48:39.320 I'm just going

00:48:40.100 to bathroom.

00:48:41.520 No, I'm just

00:48:42.120 going to bathroom.

00:48:43.000 I'm going to

00:48:43.340 get my napkin.

00:48:45.060 I'm fine.

00:48:45.880 I'm fine.

00:48:47.340 No, I

00:48:47.780 comply with all

00:48:49.140 the mandates.

00:48:51.420 All the mandates.

00:48:54.220 All the mandates

00:48:55.220 I comply with

00:48:56.880 because I'm a

00:48:58.520 complier.

00:48:59.020 A lot of people

00:49:00.700 will, they would

00:49:01.460 say, you know,

00:49:02.940 I don't want to

00:49:03.560 comply with the

00:49:04.220 mandates, but I

00:49:05.040 comply.

00:49:05.500 And if you don't

00:49:07.180 comply, I would

00:49:08.740 call you a

00:49:09.580 vaccine denier,

00:49:11.440 for one.

00:49:13.040 Possibly a

00:49:13.860 pandemic denier.

00:49:15.660 But I think that

00:49:17.400 instead of making

00:49:18.120 our masks better

00:49:19.120 and better,

00:49:20.100 we should make

00:49:21.300 them worse and

00:49:22.020 worse as a

00:49:23.560 protest.

00:49:25.360 Just see how many...

00:49:25.940 see if you can get

00:49:27.440 into a business

00:49:28.220 that requires

00:49:28.840 masks by doing

00:49:29.680 this.

00:49:30.840 Just see what

00:49:31.500 happens.

00:49:33.000 And have a

00:49:33.880 conversation with

00:49:34.660 the proprietor

00:49:35.360 before you reach

00:49:36.800 in and get your

00:49:37.440 real mask, because

00:49:38.180 you probably want

00:49:38.620 to bring your

00:49:39.140 real one with

00:49:39.660 you, just in

00:49:40.140 case.

00:49:40.900 Just go into a

00:49:41.620 store looking like

00:49:42.300 this.

00:49:43.640 And if somebody

00:49:44.200 stops you, you 0.91

00:49:45.080 say, oh, I

00:49:46.700 didn't realize that

00:49:48.160 the mask requirements

00:49:49.380 were that specific.

00:49:50.400 Do you have

00:49:52.080 some written

00:49:52.900 requirements about

00:49:53.820 the mask?

00:49:54.740 Because I think I

00:49:55.480 am masked.

00:49:56.620 And then the

00:49:56.980 person would say,

00:49:57.480 you're obviously

00:49:57.920 not masked, because

00:49:59.580 look at all that,

00:50:00.340 you know, there's

00:50:00.960 all these holes in

00:50:01.880 the side, to which

00:50:02.660 I say, well, that's

00:50:04.260 the same with the

00:50:05.100 cloth masks.

00:50:06.800 Correct me if I'm

00:50:07.480 wrong, but I think

00:50:08.160 the cloth masks also

00:50:09.380 exhaust from all the

00:50:11.100 edges.

00:50:12.360 I mean, you're not

00:50:13.340 trying to stop the

00:50:14.240 air, you're just 0.66

00:50:15.000 trying to filter it

00:50:16.340 a little bit,

00:50:16.880 right?

00:50:18.120 So, this would

00:50:20.120 be my new mask

00:50:21.440 technique when I

00:50:23.240 go into places

00:50:24.660 after February

00:50:25.340 1st.

00:50:27.200 And I think, I

00:50:29.040 think you could

00:50:29.500 all get behind

00:50:29.980 this.

00:50:33.040 And scene.

00:50:36.020 I would like to

00:50:36.920 end today's

00:50:37.740 broadcast with a

00:50:39.460 magic trick.

00:50:40.840 Some of you have

00:50:41.500 seen this.

00:50:42.600 I think I learned

00:50:43.300 this from the

00:50:46.020 amazing somebody.

00:50:48.540 But it's just a

00:50:50.100 normal tissue.

00:51:00.420 And scene.

00:51:02.020 And that's all I

00:51:02.780 have for today.

00:51:03.900 So I will see you

00:51:05.160 tomorrow.

00:51:07.060 functions in the

00:51:19.240 microchip.

00:51:22.160 So I'm going to

00:51:22.620 look at those

00:51:24.460 ears.

00:51:24.620 So I

00:51:25.300 do

00:51:25.640 remember

00:51:27.700 how canify us

00:51:28.020 m

00:51:28.380 or

00:51:29.420 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 24, 2022

Episode 1633 Scott Adams： Let's Follow the Science and Wag the Dog Because We Are Mostly Idiots

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