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


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

145.13467

Word Count

7,474

Sentence Count

560

Misogynist Sentences

12

Hate Speech Sentences

23


Summary


Transcript

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.
00:00:45.960 And watch what happens when you take a cup or mug or a glass.
00:00:49.480 A tank or a gel is a side of the canteen, drink a flask, a vessel of any kind,
00:00:52.420 and fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:53.520 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.
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!
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?
00:03:30.520 Rasmussen.
00:03:31.880 Why was there no similar question for white people?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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
00:28:34.180 manufacturing in Russia.
00:28:36.620 Something like that.
00:28:38.280 But put her on the job.
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
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?
00:29:30.140 Because if he's not already a Chinese puppet,
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
00:31:59.220 Because that's what it looks like.
00:32:01.920 Yeah, Xi's bitch.
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,
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.
00:33:36.880 So, get ready for the good reasons for war.
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.
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%
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.
00:45:59.880 But I like to comply
00:46:04.480 and say fuck you
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,
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
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
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.