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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody.

00:00:07.920 And do you know what we're going to be talking about today?

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00:01:33.640 Oh, yeah.

00:01:36.440 Now, we'll talk about them in a moment, a little bit more.

00:01:40.880 But what is happening?

00:01:42.140 There are so many stories, and they're so delicious today.

00:01:45.740 All the stories are delicious.

00:01:48.400 It doesn't matter what you're doing.

00:01:50.880 Be you running on the beach, Joel.

00:01:53.940 Joel.

00:01:55.500 Or be you working out on your Peloton, Greg.

00:02:01.220 Whatever you're doing right now, even if you're taking a shower, Erica, Erica, whatever you're

00:02:09.200 doing, these stories are going to entertain you.

00:02:13.720 So, I don't know, but it's starting to look like the Biden administration played Russia

00:02:19.660 approximately right.

00:02:22.040 Because I think Russia doesn't have a play.

00:02:26.920 It's starting to look like we're going to call their bluff, and it's looking like it's

00:02:33.760 going to be a bluff.

00:02:35.100 Now, it's too early to tell, and everybody will tell you, but Putin, he's got tricks up

00:02:40.840 his sleeve, and he does.

00:02:42.160 But I haven't heard of what he could do that would make any sense, have you?

00:02:50.140 There's not much of a play there.

00:02:53.180 So, it could be that Biden actually, by just calling his bluff, it might be exactly the right

00:03:00.140 play.

00:03:00.460 We'll see.

00:03:00.820 I still think the better play would be to reframe our whole situation, because it just

00:03:06.540 doesn't make sense to be at war with Russia in any way.

00:03:11.280 It just doesn't make any sense.

00:03:14.200 Well, here's my possibly favorite story of the day, although there are a lot of good ones

00:03:18.420 today.

00:03:19.200 And this comes out of Wired.

00:03:22.060 Apparently, North Korea hacked a hacker in the United States.

00:03:25.760 It looks like they were trying to get a hold of some of the hacking tools that the hacker

00:03:31.260 had.

00:03:32.140 But the hacker in the United States was a little bit better at this stuff than the North Korean 1.00

00:03:38.220 hackers.

00:03:39.340 And not only did they not get anything of value, but they really pissed him off.

00:03:45.280 And so, I'd like to read to you what the article in Wired said, because it's just written

00:03:51.280 so deliciously.

00:03:52.260 But responsibility for North Korea's ongoing internet outages doesn't lie with the U.S.

00:04:00.140 Cyber Command or any other state-sponsored hacking agency.

00:04:04.560 In fact, it was the work of one American man in a t-shirt, pajama pants, and slippers, sitting 0.62

00:04:11.700 in his living room night after night, watching alien movies and eating spicy corn snacks, and

00:04:18.180 periodically walking over to his home office to check on the progress of the programs he

00:04:24.680 was running to disrupt the internet of an entire country.

00:04:30.780 Which, apparently, he successfully did.

00:04:34.100 He took down North Korea's internet.

00:04:36.040 But wait, this is just because the writing is so good, from Wired.

00:04:47.160 Just over a year ago, an independent hacker who goes by the handle P4X was himself hacked

00:04:53.000 by North Korean spies.

00:04:54.240 P4X was just one victim of a hacking campaign that targeted Western security researchers, with

00:05:03.660 the apparent aim of stealing their hacking tools and details about software vulnerabilities.

00:05:09.040 He says he managed to prevent those hackers from swiping anything of value, but he nonetheless

00:05:13.240 felt deeply unnerved by state-sponsored hackers targeting him personally and by the lack of any

00:05:21.480 visible response from the U.S. government.

00:05:23.380 So he just decided to take down their government, or at least their internet.

00:05:29.820 And he did.

00:05:32.640 So, one of the themes today is when you think one person can't make a difference.

00:05:39.820 Apparently, one person always makes a difference.

00:05:44.280 There's probably nothing that ever didn't start with one person.

00:05:47.280 You know, even the Wright brothers, they probably didn't have the airplane idea simultaneously,

00:05:53.100 right?

00:05:53.680 It was probably one of them.

00:05:55.020 I don't know which one.

00:05:56.600 Orville.

00:05:57.560 Wilbur, maybe.

00:05:59.000 But I think one of them said, hey, bro, I got an idea.

00:06:04.480 Bicycles to airplanes.

00:06:06.140 Everything starts with one person.

00:06:07.580 So, I guess we shouldn't be too afraid of North Korea if their internet can be crashed by one 1.00

00:06:17.240 mad guy eating popcorn.

00:06:19.680 Here's more news about fusion.

00:06:21.660 Fusion technology coming.

00:06:24.260 So, right down the road from me, literally bicycle distance from me, a team at the National

00:06:32.280 Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Labs.

00:06:36.500 They've done another breakthrough infusion.

00:06:39.640 Now, skipping the technical description of the breakthrough that I wouldn't understand

00:06:45.780 if I read it to you anyway.

00:06:48.560 Apparently, other people say, quote, the results are a big deal.

00:06:52.140 So, people who do know what they're talking about say that, as I've been telling you now

00:06:57.740 for a number of years, further confirmation that we're past the scientific phase and we're

00:07:04.920 well into the engineering phase.

00:07:07.560 And the engineering phase is the phase that can't be stopped.

00:07:11.860 The scientific phase could be stopped if there's something you need to discover that's

00:07:17.560 undiscoverable.

00:07:18.900 You know, maybe it's just not there or you can't find it.

00:07:20.880 But once you get the engineering stage, that's sort of a virtuous, slippery slope, meaning

00:07:27.420 that we are going to A-B our tester.

00:07:29.620 It looks like there's nothing that would stop us from A-B testing our way to fusion.

00:07:35.280 Five years, 10 years, 20 years, not five, but it looks like we're going to have some good

00:07:42.580 stuff while most of us are still alive.

00:07:45.420 So, that's a big deal.

00:07:46.480 Of course, we're going to talk about CNN's head, Jeff Zucker.

00:07:53.020 Now, I heard it pronounced Zucker, not Zucker.

00:07:59.420 Does anybody know the proper pronunciation?

00:08:02.500 Well, anyway, I'll do it any way I want.

00:08:07.240 But apparently, he resigned because he did not to soon enough, he says, reveal his developing

00:08:14.580 relationship with a person in the CNN executive area named Alison Golust.

00:08:23.100 Now, it has to be pointed out that you can't spell Alison Golust without all and lust.

00:08:34.660 We'll call that a coincidence.

00:08:37.140 Now, he says he's only leaving because these two divorced people who were adults had a consenting

00:08:44.260 relationship in which they both had sufficient power and a 20-year relationship.

00:08:48.940 So, it doesn't look like anything bad happened in terms of what anybody would care about.

00:08:55.240 But here's what I love about this story.

00:08:59.100 Everybody would agree, whether you love or hate Zucker, that he's really smart.

00:09:05.840 And he was a sort of a boy wonder and did a lot of things early.

00:09:11.380 And so, he's a smooth operator.

00:09:14.080 And look what he managed to do.

00:09:15.660 He managed to time his own scandal, if you could even call it that, it's so small, after

00:09:22.080 all of these CNN scandals that were so much worse.

00:09:27.080 So, when you hear, oh, no, Jeff Zucker has some kind of sex-related scandal, what is it?

00:09:35.360 Are you kidding me?

00:09:37.620 Two consenting single adults?

00:09:41.280 What?

00:09:42.300 Who are both, you know, similarly powered?

00:09:44.440 You know, it wasn't like a power indifference of any, you know, meaning.

00:09:50.740 That is good timing.

00:09:53.440 There is a man who knows how to make an exit.

00:09:56.220 Am I right?

00:09:57.660 Now, apparently, he was going to leave at the end of the year anyway.

00:10:00.780 And the ratings were in the toilet.

00:10:04.340 So, everything was looking like he probably wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

00:10:08.340 So, I think he seized on an opportunity to get out early when, I'll bet you, I'll bet you, he didn't want to be there.

00:10:19.120 Because when you've already quit, or you know you're going to be gone at the end of the year, how much fun is it to work for those months when you've already quit?

00:10:26.300 That's like the worst thing, isn't it?

00:10:29.360 What could be a smoother move than finding out a way to leave in scandal?

00:10:35.260 I'm leaving in scandal because of my relationship with a consulting adult of similar power.

00:10:41.820 Oh, my God.

00:10:42.900 I don't think this could be any smarter.

00:10:47.300 And then, because he quits, he also cuts off the ability, or really the incentive, to ask more questions.

00:10:55.120 Do you think that he wants to answer more questions about this situation?

00:11:00.480 Nope.

00:11:02.000 Because some of those answers might not be, maybe, exactly favorable to him, or to somebody else, right?

00:11:08.340 So, he gets out of having to ask any questions.

00:11:12.920 He gets out what his scandal, if you could even call it that.

00:11:16.440 I don't think it is at all.

00:11:18.440 But, because of the context of all the worst accusations, it looks like he's the best person at the UNN.

00:11:25.320 Really? That's all you had?

00:11:27.800 That's all you had?

00:11:29.680 Your whole scandal was that?

00:11:31.760 Wow, you're like the purest person in the whole network there.

00:11:35.400 So, it was kind of genius.

00:11:37.180 And I think that this is, he used a diversion narrative.

00:11:43.220 So, I think by connecting it to, you know, these sexual improprieties, he's created a diversion that is clearly trying to take us away from whatever it is he doesn't want us to ask about.

00:11:56.780 It is so clever.

00:11:58.920 You know, for somebody who was in a situation, and, you know, he was in a situation, right?

00:12:04.300 So, he knew it was going to come out, and it was going to be a story.

00:12:08.520 You can't handle a thing better than this.

00:12:11.400 This is really well handled from a public relations timing, everything else.

00:12:16.880 It makes it look like he just fell on his sword, and he just got everything he wanted, including a woman, apparently.

00:12:23.280 Now, the most surprising things about this story were I just learned that Jeff Zucker and Brian Stelter are two different people.

00:12:35.560 Did you know that?

00:12:38.100 They're actually two different people.

00:12:39.740 I just thought it was sort of a Superman situation where Brian Stelter would be, you know, you wouldn't know him, mild-mannered, but then he would put on those wire room glasses, and then he would be Jeff Zucker.

00:12:54.980 That's what I thought it was.

00:12:56.060 But it turns out they're just two completely different people.

00:12:58.860 I believe the back story is they met at a thumb convention of some sort.

00:13:06.160 People look like thumbs. 0.87

00:13:08.320 But anyway, that had to be said.

00:13:14.680 You know, this is the news that has to be said.

00:13:17.380 It's not even the news that is illuminating.

00:13:20.540 It's just the stuff that has to be said.

00:13:22.580 Sometimes just things have to be said.

00:13:24.420 That's all.

00:13:24.860 Well, speaking of nuclear stuff, forget about fusion, which is probably going to happen, too.

00:13:37.060 But the European Union just went ahead and reframed, I like to use that word, they reframed nuclear energy as well as natural gas as maybe green energy.

00:13:52.160 What?

00:13:53.700 What?

00:13:54.220 What?

00:13:54.860 It's about time.

00:13:56.560 How many times have I, and, you know, lots of you as well, it's just something everybody in this audience has probably said a million times,

00:14:07.200 that it's the greenest of the green energy, and, you know, as Michael Schellenberger often points out,

00:14:15.620 one of the reasons that we haven't contributed as much to greenhouse gases is because of natural gas use.

00:14:22.920 So, it is perfectly sensible that the European Union will press ahead with it.

00:14:29.220 Now, it's a proposal.

00:14:30.280 It doesn't mean it's going to get approved, right?

00:14:32.220 So, it's just a proposal.

00:14:33.240 But the fact that this is even being proposed by the European Union shows that there's a, you know, big shift in mindset.

00:14:42.120 And this is one of the very few times you see the extreme right or just maybe the entire right and the entire left converging on the same solution.

00:14:54.060 It's kind of weird, isn't it?

00:14:56.220 But I think everybody's going to, and didn't I tell you, and other people told you, right?

00:15:03.400 I'm not the only person to say it.

00:15:04.960 But it was inevitable we were going to get here.

00:15:08.080 The easiest kind of persuasion is when it's going to happen anyway.

00:15:12.300 It's really hard to take something that wasn't going to happen and then just make it happen.

00:15:17.560 That takes a lot of skill, a lot of work, a lot of energy.

00:15:20.880 But sometimes things are going to happen on their own and you just give it a, you know, give it a little fake because or a little push.

00:15:27.340 And at this point, that simple reframing, just think how important it is to reframe things.

00:15:36.080 That if this proposal becomes reality, the European Union will have reframed nuclear and natural gas as green solutions.

00:15:48.400 What does that do to everything?

00:15:50.680 Better, right?

00:15:52.600 It makes everything better.

00:15:54.520 Like everything in the whole world, better.

00:15:57.340 I was talking yesterday.

00:15:58.920 I mean, that sounds like an exaggeration, but it isn't.

00:16:01.800 It's not an exaggeration.

00:16:03.560 It literally will just make everything better.

00:16:06.140 Because if you make energy less expensive and more ubiquitous, even if you didn't care about the climate,

00:16:14.120 just having, you know, more inexpensive energy makes literally everything better.

00:16:20.180 And this energy is green and green enough, in the case of gas, that it's just all good.

00:16:28.120 It's a reframe with no downside, basically.

00:16:30.120 Very rare.

00:16:31.980 Well, here's the most interesting news of the day.

00:16:34.720 I want to tell you that what I'm going to talk about is all true, because it would be so, so interesting.

00:16:44.540 But we're going to have to wait to see what the evidence is, right?

00:16:48.720 So I'm going to say, get your popcorn, because this could either be really, really good, or it could be El Capone safe.

00:16:58.900 We don't know yet, right?

00:17:00.260 This is going to be binary, though.

00:17:03.040 This is either going to be really, really big, or nothing.

00:17:08.940 And it's a Dinesh D'Souza movie coming out called 2,000 Mules.

00:17:13.580 Mules being a description of couriers or humans who take things, usually illicit, you know, illegal stuff from one place to another.

00:17:23.600 And the claim on the teaser or the trailer for the Mules movie, the 2,000 Mules movie, is that, now this is the claim.

00:17:33.900 Now, I'm not going to tell you this is true, because I don't want to be cancelled by social media for something I don't know about, right?

00:17:43.200 I'm just going to tell you this is the claim in the trailer.

00:17:46.480 That they have a cell phone, I think it's cell phone or cell phone tracking, right?

00:17:51.420 And they have video to show that there are these 2,000 humans who delivered a large number of ballots to a large number of the same boxes

00:18:01.580 in exactly the places where the numbers looked a little sketchy, you know, the places that mattered.

00:18:09.480 Now, if this is true, it's like the story of the decade.

00:18:17.140 It would be bigger than just about anything that's ever been big.

00:18:21.480 If it's not true, then it's Al Capone safe.

00:18:27.380 Well, it was interesting. I'm glad we watched.

00:18:30.020 So I guess the only thing I can say about it at this point is use your judgment.

00:18:37.600 But somebody says it's an old story, but I don't believe that anything with evidence.

00:18:49.880 I think it's the evidence that's the new part.

00:18:51.940 I mean, if it was speculation, maybe that's old.

00:18:55.620 But speculation doesn't mean much.

00:18:57.020 Yeah, if it's an old rumor, that doesn't count.

00:19:01.420 It's the evidence that makes the movie or doesn't.

00:19:03.860 We'll find out.

00:19:04.780 All right, so I'm not promoting it or not promoting it.

00:19:08.020 I'm saying this is a very big claim.

00:19:09.860 And if Dinesh D'Souza does not back up this claim, he'd have a lot to answer for.

00:19:20.520 So I think given how much he has at stake, I hope for his sake, he's going to deliver.

00:19:27.940 But watch and see.

00:19:30.040 I saw an interesting tweet by Mike Cernovich, which is sort of an overuse of an adjective

00:19:37.220 because everything that he tweets is interesting.

00:19:40.840 He sort of has that gift that just everything's interesting that he does.

00:19:44.340 But he tweeted about Trump having actual luck.

00:19:49.020 You know, Cernovich was saying that he thinks luck is an actual thing and that Trump has it.

00:19:54.800 And I just wanted to add to that that luck seems to happen to people who discover they can author the simulation.

00:20:02.620 I feel as though there are some people who just have the feeling that they can make stuff happen.

00:20:10.840 And there's something about that feeling or that intention, I don't want to call it a belief,

00:20:17.180 that seems to make the universe give you what you want.

00:20:20.840 Now, it could be just a subjective, you know, selective memory kind of thing.

00:20:26.260 But it does look like it, right?

00:20:28.020 It just has that feel that some people are writing the simulation.

00:20:32.620 Speaking of Trump's luck, how lucky is it that he followed, that Biden followed Trump?

00:20:42.540 Pretty lucky.

00:20:45.100 Let me give you, here's why.

00:20:48.840 So, this is Rasmussen.

00:20:53.360 Rasmussen results said, asked the question,

00:20:56.080 is Biden's administration immigration policy better or worse than Trump's?

00:21:00.600 Now, wouldn't you say, is it fair to say, that Trump's immigration policies not only got him elected,

00:21:08.680 you know, it was probably the main thing,

00:21:11.240 but also the most controversial and the thing that everyone pointed to

00:21:16.500 that had some connection to every racist accusation about it.

00:21:21.240 So, I think you'd say it's sort of the biggest issue in the Trump era.

00:21:27.540 And 52% of the respondents said that Biden administration is doing worse

00:21:31.880 at the very thing that they were trying to fix.

00:21:35.940 52% say he's doing worse.

00:21:40.540 But how many people say that Biden is doing better at handling immigration?

00:21:44.680 28%.

00:21:46.680 28%.

00:21:47.640 28%.

00:21:50.080 28% think the hordes of people coming across the border

00:21:54.300 is a sign of good management of the border.

00:21:59.260 28.

00:22:00.540 Well, 28 is roughly a quarter.

00:22:03.420 A quarter is roughly 25.

00:22:05.100 25.

00:22:06.420 25%.

00:22:07.460 Exactly the number who get every poll wrong.

00:22:12.960 Well, here's my final comment about Whoopi Goldberg,

00:22:16.800 which is really a comment about us.

00:22:19.780 So, this will look like a comment about Whoopi.

00:22:22.300 It's not.

00:22:23.620 This is about us.

00:22:26.580 You know, we humans.

00:22:28.760 Here's what I saw.

00:22:30.100 I'm just going to characterize the whole Whoopi situation.

00:22:32.640 I saw a person acting perfectly human.

00:22:39.360 Perfectly human.

00:22:41.060 Now, that's not perfect, because humans are not perfect, right?

00:22:44.260 But there is something that I would call a perfect human,

00:22:47.220 and it goes like this.

00:22:49.040 You have flaws, or you make mistakes.

00:22:52.280 Would you all agree that to err is human?

00:22:55.460 Making mistakes is 100% universal.

00:22:58.920 It's just a requirement of being human.

00:23:00.740 So, a perfect human is one that makes a mistake,

00:23:05.660 and then handles the mistake.

00:23:08.740 Here's the important part.

00:23:10.580 Handles the mistake in a good form.

00:23:13.540 So, here's Whoopi, who made, you know,

00:23:15.640 let's say observers would say a mistake,

00:23:17.960 and how she handled the references to the Holocaust.

00:23:21.640 Then what did she do?

00:23:22.880 She listened to their concerns.

00:23:25.020 She showed empathy for the concerns.

00:23:27.800 She adjusted her opinion fairly quickly.

00:23:30.960 She did a little research, said she'd look into it further,

00:23:33.640 do some more thinking.

00:23:34.980 She apologized, recognized out loud and in public,

00:23:40.540 recognized the damage or, you know, the hurt it may have caused.

00:23:44.440 And then after doing everything perfect,

00:23:48.060 a perfect human.

00:23:50.000 Flawed, yes.

00:23:51.720 Perfectly flawed.

00:23:53.320 You know, if you believe that God created us,

00:23:56.240 well, then that's what he wanted.

00:23:57.600 It was a perfect creation.

00:23:59.880 And if you don't want that interpretation,

00:24:01.740 you just say, well,

00:24:03.380 you can't get any better than that,

00:24:04.980 so that's as perfect as a human can be.

00:24:07.600 And then she handled it with perfection.

00:24:10.440 Literally a role model of how to be a perfect human.

00:24:14.060 I don't think I'm exaggerating at all.

00:24:18.280 That was a role model of how to be a perfect human.

00:24:21.340 And she got suspended.

00:24:26.920 One comment on locals, you're an idiot.

00:24:32.160 Well, I guess that covers it.

00:24:33.540 I believe there's a weird thing happening

00:24:37.820 in which meme logic is replacing real logic.

00:24:43.320 Now, I've told you before

00:24:44.620 that analogies have been substituted for logic quite often.

00:24:53.540 And when you see it, now you recognize it, right?

00:24:55.840 That somebody's just using an analogy

00:24:57.520 because they don't have an argument.

00:24:59.300 And you say, wait a minute.

00:25:01.740 Like, I get that that has some similarities

00:25:03.660 that remind you of what we're talking about,

00:25:05.780 but it's actually not what we're talking about.

00:25:08.520 And there are enough differences

00:25:09.720 that your analogy would make me argue

00:25:11.540 some completely different situation.

00:25:13.920 So get out of here with your analogies.

00:25:17.760 But I think that a lot of people

00:25:19.500 actually don't have the mechanisms

00:25:20.980 or the resources to think logically

00:25:23.300 in any complicated situation.

00:25:25.560 You know, because all human capability

00:25:28.520 is unevenly distributed, right?

00:25:30.620 So there's a whole segment of the population

00:25:32.780 that uses analogies to think,

00:25:36.560 which is suboptimal.

00:25:39.720 But I think there's a new thing happening,

00:25:42.260 which is people are using memes to think.

00:25:46.620 So Susan Sarandon, actress Susan Sarandon,

00:25:50.760 she tweeted this meme today,

00:25:52.900 showed a bunch of, I guess, police officers

00:25:55.640 at the funeral for the fallen officer.

00:25:59.680 And here's what the meme that she tweeted said.

00:26:05.620 Now, this is what I call meme logic, all right?

00:26:08.600 So this is not real logic

00:26:10.180 because the meme doesn't actually make sense.

00:26:13.640 And you'll agree the meme doesn't make sense.

00:26:16.860 But she says,

00:26:18.040 so if all these cops weren't needed for crime that day,

00:26:21.520 doesn't that mean they aren't needed any day?

00:26:25.860 Now, that's meme logic.

00:26:27.940 You can just, it's just that form.

00:26:30.680 It's like, oh, if we don't have to do this,

00:26:33.380 then why do we have to do this?

00:26:35.220 Or if this is true, why is this true?

00:26:38.560 Now, meme logic isn't real logic

00:26:40.380 because, of course, these were just people

00:26:42.700 who either got backfilled,

00:26:44.740 they probably picked a time of the day

00:26:46.140 when it's low crime.

00:26:47.160 You know, you add up the people who were on vacation

00:26:50.240 with the people who came in and out of town.

00:26:52.360 Of course, there was a perfectly good explanation

00:26:54.840 of why there probably was plenty of people

00:26:57.760 covering the crime.

00:26:59.020 At the same time, there were plenty of people there.

00:27:01.380 And anybody with half a brain

00:27:02.800 would know that immediately.

00:27:04.840 But this meme logic,

00:27:07.680 sort of like an analogy logic,

00:27:09.580 I just worry that people are going to,

00:27:12.380 or already have,

00:27:14.300 that 25% of the public just looks at a meme

00:27:17.560 and says, well, that's good enough for me.

00:27:20.080 We can follow that logic.

00:27:23.200 All right.

00:27:26.060 And if you think that's crazy,

00:27:28.120 keep in mind that research shows

00:27:30.120 that when something rhymes,

00:27:32.060 we think it's true.

00:27:34.100 Think about that.

00:27:35.580 When something rhymes,

00:27:37.460 we're more likely to think it's true.

00:27:40.120 As in, if the glove doesn't fit,

00:27:42.700 you must acquit.

00:27:44.060 That's why Johnny Cochran did it.

00:27:45.760 Because the science supports

00:27:46.840 the rhyme as being persuasive.

00:27:49.500 I think memes are as persuasive as a rhyme.

00:27:53.320 Because they're both...

00:27:54.180 They're both little earworms.

00:28:03.020 So, yeah, anyway.

00:28:04.720 Probably the same effect on this.

00:28:07.380 Here's a question for you.

00:28:08.560 What do COVID and the Holocaust have in common? 0.64

00:28:11.380 I will not say anything insensitive about the Holocaust.

00:28:16.120 What do COVID and the Holocaust have in common? 0.64

00:28:20.100 Two things.

00:28:21.620 Number one,

00:28:22.660 COVID looks to be on target

00:28:26.060 to killing about 6 million people.

00:28:28.900 That's actually Holocaust numbers.

00:28:30.840 So, we've literally,

00:28:33.960 you know,

00:28:34.220 not in any hyperbolic way,

00:28:35.680 but actually, literally,

00:28:37.860 COVID and the Holocaust are similar numbers. 0.95

00:28:40.140 Here's the second thing they have in common.

00:28:43.400 There is a large group of people

00:28:45.080 who don't believe either one of them happened.

00:28:46.880 And that will always be true.

00:28:51.880 There will always be people

00:28:53.260 who think that the Holocaust didn't happen,

00:28:55.920 even though the official number is 6 million dead.

00:28:59.280 And there will always be people

00:29:00.740 who think that COVID didn't really happen,

00:29:03.580 even though the official number is 6 million dead.

00:29:05.980 Now, I want to be real clear.

00:29:08.840 I'm not saying anything about the Holocaust.

00:29:11.280 I'm just saying it's a weird,

00:29:12.720 it's just like a weird parallel.

00:29:15.440 Right?

00:29:16.260 No, I'm not saying the Holocaust.

00:29:19.600 Let's not do any Holocaust denying.

00:29:21.540 I don't need any trouble.

00:29:23.320 All right.

00:29:23.680 I think this is true,

00:29:26.040 but it might be a testing artifact,

00:29:27.680 so I need a fact check on this.

00:29:29.720 It looks to me like the number of cases of COVID

00:29:32.320 started plunging about a week ago.

00:29:36.820 Really steeply.

00:29:39.100 At least that's what the numbers say.

00:29:41.100 Is that just a data problem?

00:29:46.200 But the deaths are still high.

00:29:48.220 The deaths are still high.

00:29:55.240 If, in fact, the cases have plunged,

00:29:58.300 the deaths are still high

00:29:59.240 because it takes two or three weeks

00:30:00.640 for the deaths to clear, right?

00:30:02.840 So it takes the people who are sick

00:30:04.960 and are going to die, 0.98

00:30:06.080 it might take them a little while to actually die.

00:30:08.480 So, in theory, we're already past it.

00:30:13.360 I think.

00:30:14.560 I mean, we could be surprised

00:30:15.820 by some new variant or something,

00:30:17.280 but I think that the drop in cases

00:30:19.960 says that nobody knew,

00:30:22.400 or at least there are not enough new people getting it,

00:30:25.640 that in three weeks we're going to see new deaths

00:30:27.920 based on what's happening today.

00:30:31.540 I think we're at the endemic.

00:30:33.760 But let's talk about the people

00:30:36.000 forcing some of us to wear masks.

00:30:38.300 So the latest story is Mayor Garcetti of L.A.

00:30:41.540 He got his picture taken with Magic Johnson, too,

00:30:44.620 which is really bad for your political record, apparently.

00:30:49.220 Don't get your picture taken with Magic Johnson.

00:30:52.060 So first Newsom did it without a mask,

00:30:54.140 and then Mayor Garcetti did it.

00:30:57.040 But Garcetti made it worse

00:30:58.940 by saying that he was holding his breath.

00:31:03.300 He was holding his breath.

00:31:05.420 Now, here's what I love about it.

00:31:08.040 There's something transparently absurd about it.

00:31:14.200 When your political leader says

00:31:16.640 he was holding his breath,

00:31:18.320 and they think he followed it up with,

00:31:20.140 if it'll make people happy,

00:31:21.460 he'll stop cheating with his mask,

00:31:24.280 is he not telling us directly

00:31:25.860 that he believes the masking is ridiculous?

00:31:29.040 Am I right?

00:31:30.740 Is he not telling us,

00:31:32.320 as directly as anybody who's a politician can,

00:31:34.940 that he thinks the whole thing is just absurd?

00:31:39.120 I think so.

00:31:40.720 So while some people are sort of mocking him

00:31:43.440 for saying such a ridiculous thing,

00:31:46.620 I feel as if that ridiculous thing came with a wink.

00:31:50.880 Am I overinterpreting that?

00:31:53.040 Maybe reading too much?

00:31:54.400 I could be.

00:31:55.680 But I feel that even if it's a subconscious wink,

00:31:58.540 it's a wink,

00:32:00.000 that we're in the endgame.

00:32:03.000 We need to get rid of the mask.

00:32:04.120 A couple more updates.

00:32:06.660 There's an L.A. supervisor,

00:32:08.200 Catherine Barger.

00:32:10.620 She's calling on officials

00:32:12.100 to get rid of the mask mandate,

00:32:14.100 partially because of these leaders without masks.

00:32:17.500 Oakdale, California.

00:32:19.520 A number of students in the district

00:32:21.280 are refusing to wear masks.

00:32:23.780 And high schoolers,

00:32:25.380 they're all being sent to a gym.

00:32:27.340 Literally, the kids are in cages.

00:32:30.160 They put the kids in a cage.

00:32:31.900 Because if the kids leave the school,

00:32:34.120 I think that affects their budget

00:32:35.900 and there's some problem for the school itself.

00:32:38.840 But if they lock them up in the gym

00:32:40.400 and say you can't leave,

00:32:42.040 they're literally in jail

00:32:43.560 for not being masked.

00:32:46.320 What do you call it if you're in a room

00:32:48.060 and they don't let you out?

00:32:50.660 It's kind of jail, isn't it?

00:32:52.660 So basically, Oakdale is jailing students

00:32:56.000 for not wearing masks.

00:32:57.840 Meanwhile, I had my faith restored in our youth

00:33:00.920 because many of you have seen it,

00:33:03.620 the viral video of a Washougal high school

00:33:07.960 in Washington state

00:33:10.100 where a very gifted young leader

00:33:14.080 among the students

00:33:15.500 was organizing them to protest

00:33:19.200 by gathering in masks in the parking lot,

00:33:22.380 leaving their masks there,

00:33:23.540 entering the school,

00:33:25.080 and waiting to be sent home,

00:33:27.100 and then politely being sent home.

00:33:29.480 But here's what impressed me.

00:33:31.960 I don't know what live streams

00:33:35.900 or podcasts that family watches,

00:33:38.440 but let's just say

00:33:40.900 his advice was extremely compatible

00:33:43.320 with what I've been saying,

00:33:45.720 which is you are not treating the teachers

00:33:50.060 as the enemy

00:33:50.800 because they're not.

00:33:52.080 It's not their idea.

00:33:53.760 It's the state.

00:33:54.820 So don't be disrespectful to the teachers.

00:33:57.320 Don't be disrespectful to the Walmart greeter.

00:34:01.060 Don't be disrespectful for anybody

00:34:03.300 who wasn't their idea.

00:34:05.580 So that's what he said

00:34:06.700 as he was organizing it.

00:34:09.060 And very eloquently,

00:34:10.000 and told them the whole plan.

00:34:12.600 He said,

00:34:13.020 we go in in mass,

00:34:14.140 we'll be kicked down in mass.

00:34:16.140 That's bad for the school.

00:34:17.800 That's what the protest is supposed to do. 0.92

00:34:19.740 Make it uncomfortable for the school

00:34:21.520 without creating any actual health problem

00:34:24.220 or any danger.

00:34:26.360 Very organized,

00:34:27.460 very respectful,

00:34:28.920 very legal,

00:34:30.460 very perfect.

00:34:32.000 My faith is restored.

00:34:34.680 Faith restored.

00:34:36.620 So good job there.

00:34:37.560 But I think we've got to get kids

00:34:41.320 out of their face cages.

00:34:42.780 Even if they're not physically locked in a room,

00:34:45.840 their faces are in cages.

00:34:48.040 Imagine, if you will,

00:34:49.240 a meme or a viral video

00:34:51.440 in which a number of kids

00:34:53.460 wearing their masks

00:34:54.800 asked parents

00:34:56.440 to please help them

00:34:58.340 get out of their face cages.

00:35:01.780 Mom,

00:35:02.600 Dad,

00:35:03.220 will you please

00:35:05.020 help us get out

00:35:05.920 of our face cages?

00:35:08.780 Viral video.

00:35:10.300 Every kid makes one.

00:35:11.360 Put it on Tic Tac.

00:35:13.080 Just talk to your mothers.

00:35:14.840 Just make the video

00:35:15.640 to your mom,

00:35:16.320 your dad,

00:35:17.000 to parents.

00:35:18.660 Ask directly.

00:35:20.540 Ask directly

00:35:21.600 to be released

00:35:22.460 from your face cages

00:35:23.600 to live a normal

00:35:25.160 childhood.

00:35:28.420 Ask.

00:35:28.800 You don't even have to demand.

00:35:31.560 Just ask.

00:35:33.160 Because,

00:35:33.820 do you know how hard it is

00:35:34.840 for parents

00:35:35.780 to deny

00:35:37.860 a child who's suffering?

00:35:40.440 Real hard.

00:35:41.900 It's real hard.

00:35:43.460 You can make the system

00:35:44.640 break faster

00:35:45.280 than adults can.

00:35:46.480 Because you know what,

00:35:47.040 when adults complain,

00:35:49.640 do you know what people say

00:35:50.400 when adults complain?

00:35:52.380 Walk it off.

00:35:53.980 Suck it up. 0.94

00:35:55.340 You're an adult.

00:35:56.020 Do you know what happens

00:35:57.060 when a kid asks a parent

00:35:58.880 because they're in pain

00:36:00.160 to stop something?

00:36:02.380 People are going to act.

00:36:03.740 They're going to act right away.

00:36:05.880 Yeah.

00:36:06.520 So,

00:36:07.120 kids,

00:36:07.960 you have the power.

00:36:09.520 Tick tock it up.

00:36:12.200 But apparently,

00:36:13.460 the teachers

00:36:14.600 will be fighting back.

00:36:16.440 There's this audio

00:36:17.140 from an assistant principal

00:36:18.420 at Ludon County

00:36:20.360 Elementary School

00:36:21.460 that says that

00:36:22.780 any maskless kids

00:36:24.160 will be charged

00:36:25.480 with trespassing,

00:36:27.120 which holds a 12-month,

00:36:29.360 it's a felony there,

00:36:31.060 12-month jail sentence,

00:36:32.700 $2,500 fine,

00:36:34.000 potentially.

00:36:35.980 And let me just state this

00:36:38.320 as a little advice

00:36:39.260 to the assistant principal

00:36:41.540 of the Ludon,

00:36:43.400 or Ludon,

00:36:44.660 I don't know,

00:36:45.180 County Elementary School.

00:36:46.340 if you need lawyers

00:36:50.100 to keep kids

00:36:52.020 in your school,

00:36:53.540 you're doing something wrong.

00:36:55.580 That's it.

00:36:56.300 That's the little advice.

00:36:57.920 If any part of your strategy

00:36:59.500 requires lawyers,

00:37:02.120 and you know lawyers

00:37:03.520 will get involved

00:37:04.240 if anybody's getting charged

00:37:05.440 with trespassing,

00:37:07.000 if any part of your schooling strategy

00:37:09.540 involves lawyers,

00:37:11.660 you're doing it wrong.

00:37:13.720 You're doing it wrong.

00:37:14.440 All right,

00:37:18.480 here's a little report

00:37:19.360 from my neck of the woods

00:37:20.740 from Twitter user Rick's Place.

00:37:25.000 He reports,

00:37:25.920 he says,

00:37:26.320 interesting,

00:37:26.760 I was in Northern California

00:37:28.000 Walmart five days ago,

00:37:29.740 and it was 100% masks,

00:37:31.880 so that was five days ago.

00:37:33.420 He says,

00:37:33.920 today it was about 75%.

00:37:36.180 Something changed.

00:37:38.320 I think it was actually

00:37:39.360 the hashtag Feb1

00:37:41.080 that Scott Adams

00:37:42.500 and Greg Guffeld

00:37:43.360 have been pushing.

00:37:44.440 Well,

00:37:44.920 I don't know

00:37:45.400 if that's the case,

00:37:46.980 but I do think

00:37:48.480 that people are

00:37:49.300 sort of over it

00:37:51.160 at about the same time.

00:37:53.660 I'm being told

00:37:55.300 that the pronunciation

00:37:56.240 of that school

00:37:57.080 is Loudon.

00:37:59.360 Loudon.

00:38:01.040 Thank you.

00:38:03.120 So,

00:38:03.960 if you have other reports

00:38:05.460 of places

00:38:06.080 that are demasking

00:38:07.340 at a high rate,

00:38:09.280 send them,

00:38:09.740 because people

00:38:10.800 are herd people,

00:38:14.680 what it will take

00:38:16.020 for masks

00:38:16.760 to come off

00:38:17.700 is for masks

00:38:18.960 to come off.

00:38:20.340 You need some people

00:38:21.200 to go first

00:38:21.940 so that the people

00:38:23.300 who are,

00:38:23.800 you know,

00:38:24.400 less,

00:38:24.900 let's say,

00:38:25.740 more risk-averse

00:38:26.940 that it's safe enough

00:38:28.500 for them to go next.

00:38:30.100 So,

00:38:30.640 you need some kind

00:38:31.420 of a,

00:38:32.220 you know,

00:38:32.480 people need to hear

00:38:33.660 that other people

00:38:34.260 are doing it

00:38:34.740 or it's not going to happen.

00:38:35.420 So,

00:38:38.000 here's a little hypothesis

00:38:39.160 I'm working on,

00:38:40.360 which is that,

00:38:41.500 and I guess

00:38:42.300 you could disagree

00:38:43.200 with this.

00:38:43.620 Now,

00:38:43.760 remember,

00:38:44.260 what comes next

00:38:45.520 is a gross generalization.

00:38:47.680 So,

00:38:48.240 this is not meant

00:38:48.940 to apply to you

00:38:50.040 or your family

00:38:50.880 or anybody specific.

00:38:53.040 But,

00:38:53.600 as I tweeted this morning,

00:38:54.720 I think American culture

00:38:55.820 used to be about

00:38:56.840 working hard

00:38:58.320 and buying a lot of stuff

00:39:00.900 that you can impress

00:39:01.640 your neighbors.

00:39:03.060 Now,

00:39:03.540 I believe that was

00:39:04.340 actually intentional.

00:39:05.420 Sorry,

00:39:06.020 I've just got this

00:39:06.680 weird itch today.

00:39:07.900 I think it was intentional.

00:39:11.500 And,

00:39:12.120 if I understand

00:39:12.860 my history right,

00:39:14.380 that in the 50s,

00:39:15.560 the government

00:39:16.020 wanted to create

00:39:16.900 a consumer population.

00:39:19.880 People would want

00:39:20.720 to buy stuff.

00:39:22.000 Because if people

00:39:22.640 wanted to buy stuff,

00:39:23.980 that would keep

00:39:24.580 industry cooking

00:39:25.360 and,

00:39:26.180 you know,

00:39:26.320 the economy would go,

00:39:27.780 which worked wonderfully.

00:39:29.460 So,

00:39:29.660 I think the advertising

00:39:31.180 industry learned

00:39:32.740 how to manipulate

00:39:33.520 people into craving

00:39:35.060 whatever the neighbors

00:39:37.220 had.

00:39:37.960 You know,

00:39:38.140 wow,

00:39:38.420 we've got to have

00:39:38.800 a better car

00:39:39.360 or a better house,

00:39:40.100 all that stuff.

00:39:41.280 Now,

00:39:41.640 so,

00:39:42.080 you can think of that

00:39:42.940 as sort of the

00:39:43.560 operating system

00:39:44.780 or the,

00:39:47.220 you know,

00:39:47.540 maybe the,

00:39:48.920 yeah,

00:39:49.300 primary,

00:39:50.020 let's say,

00:39:50.400 theme of the country

00:39:51.380 was working hard,

00:39:53.840 acquiring things,

00:39:54.920 and part of the payoff

00:39:57.320 is looking good

00:39:58.060 to the neighbors.

00:39:59.420 Now,

00:39:59.740 I'm not saying

00:40:00.180 that's good or bad,

00:40:01.180 I'm just saying

00:40:01.640 it was.

00:40:02.940 Right?

00:40:03.720 Right,

00:40:04.140 maybe a CIA thing.

00:40:06.340 But,

00:40:07.080 the things we can agree on

00:40:09.120 is that the government

00:40:10.000 was behind it,

00:40:11.480 they successfully

00:40:12.440 brainwashed

00:40:13.600 the public,

00:40:15.080 and it probably

00:40:16.180 made the country

00:40:16.880 stronger.

00:40:18.080 You know,

00:40:18.340 all kinds of

00:40:19.380 negative effects,

00:40:20.340 too,

00:40:20.920 but it probably made

00:40:21.980 the United States

00:40:22.660 what it is,

00:40:23.440 that consumer mentality.

00:40:25.560 But now,

00:40:26.060 I would argue

00:40:26.500 that that is falling away

00:40:27.840 or is partially

00:40:28.900 being replaced,

00:40:30.380 that instead of

00:40:31.760 hard work to buy stuff,

00:40:33.580 which you could argue,

00:40:34.540 you know,

00:40:34.820 wasn't exactly

00:40:35.560 a high-level goal,

00:40:38.100 is being replaced

00:40:39.040 by working hard

00:40:39.820 to understand

00:40:41.320 which groups

00:40:41.960 are the biggest victims.

00:40:44.500 Now,

00:40:45.080 again,

00:40:46.080 I'm not going to say

00:40:46.860 what's a good

00:40:48.600 or ethical

00:40:49.320 or moral thing to do.

00:40:50.840 I'm just going to observe.

00:40:52.660 I'm just looking at it

00:40:53.600 like I'm looking

00:40:54.120 like an engine.

00:40:55.860 You know,

00:40:56.100 I'm not judging

00:40:57.060 the carburetor.

00:40:58.420 I'm just saying,

00:40:59.060 well,

00:41:00.160 the engine needs

00:41:00.740 a carburetor,

00:41:01.980 right?

00:41:02.600 I'm not judging

00:41:03.800 the fuel injection

00:41:05.620 or anything.

00:41:06.720 So,

00:41:07.520 how do you do

00:41:09.280 as a country

00:41:09.860 if you're trying

00:41:10.780 to have a competition

00:41:12.600 to see who's

00:41:13.200 the biggest victim

00:41:14.020 versus the old way,

00:41:16.320 which,

00:41:16.560 again,

00:41:16.740 I'm not saying

00:41:17.220 it was good or bad,

00:41:18.600 the old way 0.96

00:41:19.260 where you're competing

00:41:20.180 to buy the most stuff,

00:41:22.420 which pretty directly

00:41:23.520 helped the economy.

00:41:25.320 I don't think

00:41:26.080 either of them

00:41:26.640 are healthy,

00:41:28.240 right?

00:41:29.000 It feels like

00:41:29.820 both of them

00:41:30.300 end badly.

00:41:31.880 So,

00:41:32.260 we had one theme

00:41:33.020 that at least

00:41:33.580 it was good

00:41:34.080 for the economy,

00:41:35.460 but had,

00:41:35.840 you know,

00:41:36.020 lots of downside,

00:41:37.800 especially if you

00:41:39.760 weren't successful

00:41:40.620 in that economy.

00:41:42.320 So,

00:41:42.780 what would be better?

00:41:44.680 You know,

00:41:44.980 is there a new frame

00:41:46.160 or theme

00:41:46.720 or could we reframe

00:41:48.580 how our,

00:41:50.780 at least,

00:41:51.520 American experience

00:41:52.760 is expressed?

00:41:56.340 And here's how

00:41:56.940 I would do it.

00:41:58.140 I would say

00:41:58.700 we're a country

00:41:59.660 that has a strategy

00:42:01.080 that works for everybody,

00:42:03.220 but it's a different strategy.

00:42:05.240 So,

00:42:05.560 more of a

00:42:06.140 find-your-own-adventure

00:42:09.280 situation.

00:42:10.960 So,

00:42:11.560 we should be thinking

00:42:12.240 of ourselves

00:42:12.820 instead of a nation

00:42:13.860 of victims

00:42:14.480 or a nation

00:42:15.580 of winners

00:42:16.400 who are buying

00:42:16.940 nice cars.

00:42:18.260 We should be

00:42:19.160 a nation

00:42:20.120 where you could

00:42:20.840 be anything.

00:42:22.380 You could be

00:42:22.880 the person

00:42:23.320 who bought

00:42:23.640 the nice car

00:42:24.280 or you could be

00:42:25.360 the awesome person

00:42:26.240 who,

00:42:26.840 you know,

00:42:27.280 helps people

00:42:27.940 and,

00:42:28.860 you know,

00:42:29.060 never drove

00:42:30.040 a nice car,

00:42:30.800 but it wasn't

00:42:31.260 important to you.

00:42:32.460 Why can't both

00:42:33.160 of those things

00:42:33.680 be good

00:42:34.180 and why can't

00:42:35.360 we say

00:42:35.660 we're the country

00:42:36.400 that gives you

00:42:36.960 any strategy

00:42:37.840 you want?

00:42:39.280 We'll give you

00:42:39.820 a strategy

00:42:40.360 for a lower-income

00:42:41.560 life that's

00:42:42.360 very meaningful.

00:42:43.760 We'll give you

00:42:44.280 a strategy

00:42:44.820 for a high-income

00:42:45.720 life that also

00:42:46.640 could be meaningful

00:42:47.480 or a high-income

00:42:49.220 life that's just

00:42:49.960 buying a bunch

00:42:50.560 of crap

00:42:51.080 and enjoying it.

00:42:52.640 But,

00:42:53.200 why can't we

00:42:54.420 have a life

00:42:54.940 where if everybody

00:42:55.860 doesn't have a strategy,

00:42:57.980 you know,

00:42:58.200 a way to go

00:42:58.960 from wherever

00:42:59.440 they are

00:42:59.860 to wherever

00:43:00.260 they want to be,

00:43:01.460 that it's the

00:43:02.040 strategy we fix?

00:43:04.140 Because I think

00:43:04.920 we're almost there.

00:43:06.820 Strategy.

00:43:07.860 And what I mean

00:43:08.400 is,

00:43:09.180 to use the

00:43:09.740 perfect example,

00:43:11.220 if you were

00:43:11.920 a low-income

00:43:13.140 black kid

00:43:14.200 in a bad

00:43:15.060 neighborhood,

00:43:16.480 is there a

00:43:17.500 strategy

00:43:17.900 to make it

00:43:19.760 in this world?

00:43:20.740 Well,

00:43:21.280 only if you

00:43:22.180 can survive

00:43:22.780 the school,

00:43:24.200 meaning only

00:43:24.820 if you can get

00:43:25.460 something like

00:43:26.200 a good enough

00:43:26.740 education.

00:43:27.680 If you can get

00:43:28.520 a good enough

00:43:29.040 education,

00:43:29.820 which is probably

00:43:30.360 the thing we

00:43:30.860 need to fix,

00:43:32.300 which is why

00:43:32.820 you would put

00:43:33.220 all your effort

00:43:33.780 there,

00:43:34.420 because that's

00:43:35.200 blocking the

00:43:36.600 strategy of a

00:43:38.200 whole segment

00:43:38.740 of the population.

00:43:40.320 Their best

00:43:40.960 strategy is

00:43:41.880 do well in

00:43:42.660 school or

00:43:43.340 learn a trade,

00:43:44.360 which we also

00:43:45.220 don't provide

00:43:45.860 in a large

00:43:46.620 enough amount.

00:43:48.560 So if you

00:43:49.240 were talking

00:43:49.620 about strategies,

00:43:51.080 it would be

00:43:51.740 more of a

00:43:52.200 forward-looking,

00:43:53.200 positive,

00:43:54.400 everybody understands

00:43:55.460 that everybody

00:43:55.940 needs a strategy.

00:43:57.520 But we don't

00:43:58.540 agree that

00:43:59.180 everybody needs

00:43:59.780 the same outcome,

00:44:00.840 right?

00:44:02.220 So we're

00:44:02.900 arguing over

00:44:03.620 outcomes when

00:44:05.940 we could all

00:44:06.440 be agreeing on

00:44:07.360 everybody's got

00:44:08.860 a different way

00:44:09.560 they can succeed,

00:44:10.840 but everybody

00:44:11.620 should have

00:44:12.020 some way.

00:44:13.380 Some way.

00:44:14.180 If you don't

00:44:14.460 have any way,

00:44:15.120 then society

00:44:16.020 maybe needs

00:44:16.620 to help you

00:44:17.780 get away. 0.73

00:44:18.660 Whether you

00:44:19.180 use it or not,

00:44:19.940 that's up to you.

00:44:20.980 It still has to

00:44:21.560 be up to you

00:44:22.000 to use it.

00:44:28.140 Yes, and also

00:44:29.080 we need to

00:44:29.780 reframe, I

00:44:31.720 think, the

00:44:32.080 value of work.

00:44:34.900 All right.

00:44:35.280 remember

00:44:37.140 yesterday, I

00:44:37.860 think it was

00:44:38.120 yesterday, I

00:44:38.640 told you there's

00:44:39.180 this new

00:44:39.600 study, meta

00:44:40.740 analysis, that

00:44:42.520 was showing

00:44:43.000 that the

00:44:44.140 lockdowns didn't

00:44:45.460 make any

00:44:45.900 difference in

00:44:46.460 terms of

00:44:46.880 COVID mortality.

00:44:49.420 And I told

00:44:50.280 you my first

00:44:51.180 instinct was it

00:44:52.380 looked like BS.

00:44:54.520 And today I

00:44:55.940 was looking at

00:44:56.520 Andres Beckhaus

00:44:57.640 just ripping it

00:44:59.060 apart.

00:45:00.380 So he

00:45:01.320 pretty much

00:45:01.760 disemboweled the

00:45:02.740 study in terms

00:45:03.960 of his

00:45:04.260 credibility.

00:45:05.280 I won't

00:45:06.360 give you his

00:45:06.900 argument, you

00:45:07.560 can read it

00:45:08.000 yourself.

00:45:09.100 And the only

00:45:09.760 thing you should

00:45:10.540 take away is

00:45:12.040 that I don't

00:45:13.620 know if any of

00:45:14.420 the studies or

00:45:15.600 the meta

00:45:15.980 analysis were

00:45:16.880 valid.

00:45:18.080 Or I don't

00:45:18.940 know if the

00:45:20.560 lockdowns worked

00:45:21.820 or didn't work,

00:45:23.060 I just know I

00:45:23.660 haven't seen

00:45:24.080 anything I would

00:45:24.660 trust that says

00:45:25.480 they worked.

00:45:26.620 Could we agree

00:45:27.220 on that?

00:45:29.420 Just in my

00:45:30.220 case, I guess you

00:45:31.060 would have a

00:45:31.400 different answer.

00:45:31.880 But I

00:45:32.760 haven't seen

00:45:33.180 anything I

00:45:33.720 would trust

00:45:34.440 because at

00:45:35.640 this point,

00:45:36.100 who trusts

00:45:36.480 anything?

00:45:37.340 Well, I

00:45:37.580 haven't seen

00:45:37.900 anything I

00:45:38.300 would trust

00:45:38.920 that would

00:45:39.840 suggest that

00:45:40.440 the lockdowns

00:45:42.020 worked.

00:45:45.540 Somebody says

00:45:46.360 Andres is

00:45:47.320 wrong 80% of

00:45:48.720 the time.

00:45:49.860 Now, that

00:45:50.300 sounds like a

00:45:51.060 statistic you're

00:45:51.780 not going to

00:45:52.080 be able to

00:45:52.380 back up.

00:45:52.840 All right,

00:45:56.560 Ian Bremmer

00:45:57.300 tweeted this

00:45:58.700 about, this

00:45:59.760 was from a

00:46:00.240 Gallup poll.

00:46:01.320 So here's how

00:46:01.860 things have

00:46:02.280 changed in two

00:46:02.960 years, basically

00:46:03.780 during the

00:46:04.380 pandemic, 2020

00:46:05.780 to 2022.

00:46:07.480 So in the

00:46:08.320 poll, people

00:46:09.560 were rating how

00:46:10.460 satisfied they

00:46:11.300 were with these

00:46:11.820 things.

00:46:12.920 So in 2020,

00:46:15.520 people were,

00:46:16.840 84% of people

00:46:17.940 were overall

00:46:18.780 satisfied with

00:46:19.780 the quality of

00:46:20.420 life, which

00:46:22.100 seems amazingly

00:46:22.820 high.

00:46:23.440 I can't believe

00:46:24.300 we ever were

00:46:25.020 at 84%.

00:46:26.040 But during the

00:46:27.700 Trump administration,

00:46:28.820 I guess 84%

00:46:29.860 were happy with

00:46:30.760 the overall

00:46:31.120 quality.

00:46:31.940 Now that's

00:46:32.380 down to 69%.

00:46:34.100 Satisfaction with

00:46:36.560 the system of

00:46:37.180 government, it

00:46:37.760 was at 43%,

00:46:39.000 which is usually

00:46:40.760 just, it means

00:46:41.580 whoever's in

00:46:42.640 power, they

00:46:43.920 like it for a

00:46:44.640 while, the

00:46:45.040 other side

00:46:45.420 doesn't.

00:46:46.240 It's usually a

00:46:47.040 little of that.

00:46:47.840 Now that's

00:46:48.260 down to 30%,

00:46:49.320 giant drop.

00:46:51.640 Satisfied with

00:46:52.260 the economy,

00:46:52.980 down from 68%

00:46:54.000 to 33%.

00:46:55.420 68% to 33%.

00:46:57.420 Now that

00:46:58.440 might have

00:46:58.760 happened anyway

00:46:59.440 under any

00:47:00.340 president, because

00:47:01.180 inflation was

00:47:02.320 going to kick in

00:47:02.940 about now.

00:47:04.520 And then our

00:47:05.380 role in the

00:47:05.880 world, 43%

00:47:07.380 were satisfied,

00:47:08.140 now 37%.

00:47:09.200 Now, how does

00:47:11.520 anybody who

00:47:13.640 wanted to pick

00:47:14.420 Biden over

00:47:15.580 Trump, how do

00:47:17.660 you rationalize

00:47:18.500 this?

00:47:20.020 How in the

00:47:20.680 world do you

00:47:21.860 rationalize that

00:47:22.700 you got what

00:47:23.280 you thought you

00:47:23.820 wanted?

00:47:25.940 I just don't

00:47:26.740 know how you

00:47:27.120 could do it.

00:47:27.940 I mean, you

00:47:28.280 really have to

00:47:28.880 try hard.

00:47:30.820 Because even if

00:47:31.580 you were in the

00:47:32.040 group that is

00:47:32.660 satisfied, you'd

00:47:33.520 have to notice that

00:47:34.360 the other people

00:47:34.880 are not.

00:47:36.080 You'd have to at

00:47:36.640 least notice that

00:47:37.600 the majority are

00:47:38.380 not, and that

00:47:39.040 it's moving in

00:47:39.640 the wrong direction.

00:47:40.280 Well, here's the

00:47:42.060 other news that

00:47:43.560 somehow is

00:47:44.700 connected to what

00:47:45.520 I just was

00:47:46.180 talking about.

00:47:47.420 But Biden

00:47:48.440 announces they've

00:47:50.020 killed the ISIS

00:47:50.720 leader.

00:47:51.780 I guess in Syria

00:47:52.740 they got him.

00:47:56.000 And I always

00:47:56.840 wonder, do we

00:47:59.000 always have an

00:47:59.680 ISIS leader queued

00:48:01.160 up in case we

00:48:01.880 need one to

00:48:02.880 kill?

00:48:04.260 I feel like we

00:48:05.280 always know where

00:48:06.000 one is.

00:48:07.240 And if the news

00:48:08.620 cycle is going

00:48:09.380 against you,

00:48:10.280 you reach into

00:48:11.400 your bag of

00:48:11.980 tricks of

00:48:12.640 diversion

00:48:13.580 narratives, say,

00:48:14.820 all right, we

00:48:15.140 need a diversion

00:48:15.800 narrative.

00:48:17.140 Give me the

00:48:17.780 list of ISIS

00:48:18.780 top three

00:48:19.920 people.

00:48:22.180 Itty, meeny,

00:48:23.080 meeny, moe,

00:48:23.940 moe. 0.81

00:48:24.960 Oh, okay.

00:48:26.600 Can you drone

00:48:27.220 this guy?

00:48:28.280 By the end of

00:48:29.540 the day, we

00:48:30.520 need a little

00:48:30.820 more positive

00:48:32.620 spin on things.

00:48:34.580 And so, sure

00:48:36.400 enough, apparently

00:48:38.360 we killed Abu

00:48:39.580 Ibrahim al-Hashimi

00:48:41.040 al-Kurashi.

00:48:44.140 And as you

00:48:45.000 knew, as you

00:48:46.040 already knew, that

00:48:47.100 was the head of

00:48:47.940 ISIS.

00:48:50.560 So, is it my

00:48:53.600 imagination or is

00:48:55.720 everything heading in

00:48:56.600 the right direction

00:48:57.280 except maybe

00:48:59.820 inflation?

00:49:02.060 Am I right?

00:49:02.860 It feels like

00:49:04.660 everything just

00:49:05.300 sort of suddenly

00:49:06.160 is moving in the

00:49:06.940 right direction

00:49:07.500 except inflation.

00:49:09.740 Everything else

00:49:10.520 looks fairly good.

00:49:12.680 I say except

00:49:13.400 inflation, like that

00:49:14.320 couldn't take us

00:49:14.940 down.

00:49:16.520 Yeah, energy.

00:49:17.320 No, I think

00:49:17.760 energy, if you

00:49:19.200 count the long

00:49:20.120 run, and

00:49:21.680 nuclear, gas,

00:49:22.780 even those look

00:49:23.400 like they're going

00:49:23.820 to move in the

00:49:24.220 right direction.

00:49:24.980 Maybe not right

00:49:25.960 now, but they

00:49:26.640 look like they

00:49:27.140 would.

00:49:27.520 Would I describe

00:49:32.120 America as an

00:49:33.020 oligarchy? 0.81

00:49:34.980 No.

00:49:36.340 Because in the

00:49:36.960 oligarchy, you 1.00

00:49:37.820 imagine a small

00:49:38.680 group of people

00:49:39.420 are in charge of

00:49:40.300 everything.

00:49:41.740 America is more

00:49:42.600 like competing

00:49:43.540 interests.

00:49:47.000 So there's

00:49:47.440 sort of like a

00:49:48.920 set of, usually

00:49:50.440 there's at least

00:49:50.980 one billionaire

00:49:51.580 involved.

00:49:52.420 There could be a

00:49:52.980 set of billionaires

00:49:53.720 that really, really

00:49:54.440 care about one

00:49:56.260 international issue

00:49:57.220 and another that

00:49:58.840 really, really

00:49:59.460 care about

00:49:59.860 something else.

00:50:00.700 And then there

00:50:01.060 would be some

00:50:01.860 cross-pollinization

00:50:03.040 of some of the

00:50:04.320 billionaires from

00:50:04.940 one might also

00:50:05.760 care about this

00:50:06.580 third thing.

00:50:07.860 I think it's

00:50:08.340 always that.

00:50:09.880 I think it's

00:50:10.580 always the, there

00:50:12.060 are big influencers

00:50:13.020 for every topic

00:50:13.900 and they just

00:50:14.980 own the topic

00:50:15.760 until somebody

00:50:16.820 takes it from

00:50:17.480 them.

00:50:21.320 A

00:50:21.840 multi-

00:50:22.320 autocracy,

00:50:24.060 yes.

00:50:26.260 somebody says

00:50:28.980 a staph

00:50:29.660 infection from

00:50:30.460 head scab

00:50:31.160 picking.

00:50:32.080 Be careful.

00:50:34.620 I don't

00:50:35.240 know, did

00:50:35.920 you, did

00:50:36.440 you notice me

00:50:37.040 doing something

00:50:37.560 on my head?

00:50:38.300 So I actually

00:50:39.140 do have a

00:50:39.580 head scab

00:50:40.060 because I

00:50:41.600 had some,

00:50:42.780 you know, just

00:50:43.440 pre-cancer stuff

00:50:44.460 that I get

00:50:44.840 burned off every,

00:50:45.780 frozen off every,

00:50:47.080 every few

00:50:47.760 months.

00:50:49.100 Routine stuff.

00:50:51.140 But the point

00:50:51.880 is it hurt when

00:50:52.520 it happens.

00:50:53.140 Oh my God, it

00:50:53.880 hurts.

00:50:56.260 What's your

00:50:58.000 solution for

00:50:58.700 inflation?

00:51:00.780 I don't have a

00:51:01.800 solution for

00:51:02.320 inflation.

00:51:02.920 That might be

00:51:03.440 one thing that's

00:51:04.620 beyond even my

00:51:06.180 powers of

00:51:07.920 solving.

00:51:09.740 But I will

00:51:10.520 tell you this,

00:51:11.740 I never

00:51:12.580 understood

00:51:13.660 how far we

00:51:17.240 could push the

00:51:17.960 debt and

00:51:19.020 still be okay.

00:51:20.200 And I still

00:51:20.920 don't.

00:51:21.360 so given

00:51:23.920 that we're

00:51:24.420 already way

00:51:25.840 beyond the

00:51:26.320 point of what

00:51:27.040 most of the

00:51:27.760 experts would

00:51:28.380 have said would

00:51:28.900 be collapse,

00:51:30.400 aren't we

00:51:30.720 something like,

00:51:32.020 I don't know

00:51:32.740 what the

00:51:32.960 number is,

00:51:33.560 but maybe

00:51:34.240 somebody were

00:51:35.920 plugged into

00:51:36.480 this,

00:51:37.200 wouldn't you

00:51:37.540 say we're

00:51:37.880 something like

00:51:38.440 five times

00:51:39.460 the size of

00:51:41.160 debt beyond

00:51:42.260 collapse?

00:51:44.120 Meaning that we

00:51:44.960 never really knew

00:51:45.660 what would cause

00:51:46.220 a collapse in

00:51:46.800 the first place?

00:51:47.800 Or are we on

00:51:48.700 the path to

00:51:49.700 certain collapse

00:51:50.360 and everybody

00:51:51.140 was right all

00:51:51.780 along?

00:51:54.340 Now we're

00:51:54.900 only about

00:51:55.340 1.25 times.

00:51:56.860 Well I think

00:51:57.300 that would be

00:51:57.780 comparing it to

00:51:58.480 a historical

00:51:59.300 high,

00:52:01.240 which is a

00:52:02.680 good comparison

00:52:03.220 actually.

00:52:04.300 Comparing it to

00:52:04.900 history would at

00:52:05.520 least tell you

00:52:06.020 that we've done

00:52:06.580 it before.

00:52:08.260 And I think

00:52:08.620 World War II

00:52:09.280 was the biggest

00:52:09.840 debt problem,

00:52:11.880 right?

00:52:13.360 Oh, here's

00:52:13.920 debt to GDP

00:52:15.000 ratio is what

00:52:16.260 matters for

00:52:16.800 collapse, that's

00:52:17.400 correct.

00:52:18.300 So debt to

00:52:18.860 GDP is what

00:52:19.580 matters for

00:52:20.040 collapse.

00:52:20.800 It's always

00:52:21.320 the ratio,

00:52:21.920 not the

00:52:22.200 number.

00:52:25.200 So somebody

00:52:25.680 says debt

00:52:26.520 of four times

00:52:27.340 GDP would

00:52:28.120 equal collapse.

00:52:29.020 That sounds

00:52:29.380 like somebody

00:52:30.300 knows that.

00:52:37.220 Solution

00:52:37.740 for hyperinflation

00:52:38.800 is an

00:52:39.960 economic reset.

00:52:41.560 I don't know,

00:52:42.120 is it?

00:52:45.060 30 trillion

00:52:46.000 if interest rates

00:52:46.800 rise?

00:52:47.180 So I guess

00:52:48.160 we're all

00:52:48.560 guessing.

00:52:49.960 But I do

00:52:50.740 wonder if

00:52:51.400 there's a

00:52:52.200 crypto play

00:52:55.300 here.

00:52:56.440 I also

00:52:57.280 wonder if

00:52:57.960 crypto is

00:52:59.000 our way to

00:53:00.420 be free of

00:53:01.300 the elites,

00:53:03.420 or is it

00:53:04.280 just another

00:53:05.060 way the elites

00:53:05.780 will control

00:53:06.380 us?

00:53:08.000 It's starting

00:53:08.820 to look like

00:53:10.160 crypto is just

00:53:11.780 going to be

00:53:12.040 another way that

00:53:12.680 the elites

00:53:13.180 control us.

00:53:14.060 because won't

00:53:15.320 they be able

00:53:15.720 to see all

00:53:16.220 of our

00:53:16.480 transactions at

00:53:17.300 some point?

00:53:19.100 I feel as

00:53:20.120 if the

00:53:21.080 current banking

00:53:21.740 system gives

00:53:23.480 them at least

00:53:24.620 a little bit

00:53:25.480 of blindness.

00:53:27.460 You know,

00:53:27.660 they'd have to

00:53:28.260 do a little

00:53:28.740 bit of work

00:53:29.320 to find out

00:53:30.260 about stuff.

00:53:31.560 But isn't

00:53:33.460 crypto going

00:53:34.020 to be the

00:53:34.400 opposite of

00:53:35.240 secure at

00:53:35.860 some point?

00:53:37.180 Even if

00:53:37.900 only for

00:53:39.020 legal requirements,

00:53:40.060 I suppose.

00:53:41.040 Can't they

00:53:41.620 just force it

00:53:42.560 to be

00:53:42.940 transparent?

00:53:44.060 Or not

00:53:46.280 accepted,

00:53:46.980 or make it

00:53:47.360 illegal if

00:53:47.920 it's not?

00:53:50.180 Yeah,

00:53:50.560 so I

00:53:51.340 understand the

00:53:52.080 concept that

00:53:53.540 it's

00:53:54.660 decentralized,

00:53:55.680 that should

00:53:55.940 keep the

00:53:56.300 government

00:53:56.580 out of your

00:53:57.000 business,

00:53:57.620 but I don't

00:53:58.060 believe it.

00:53:59.980 I don't

00:54:00.580 believe it

00:54:00.960 would work.

00:54:01.660 I believe the

00:54:02.140 government could

00:54:02.760 get control of

00:54:03.420 anything.

00:54:04.920 You just give

00:54:05.420 it enough time.

00:54:09.440 You are less

00:54:10.280 informed than

00:54:10.880 you need to

00:54:11.340 be.

00:54:11.500 that's

00:54:14.780 certainly true.

00:54:15.960 When it

00:54:16.260 comes to

00:54:16.660 crypto, I'm

00:54:17.420 less informed

00:54:18.060 than I need

00:54:18.580 to be.

00:54:19.260 But I am

00:54:20.640 going to say

00:54:21.040 something that

00:54:21.600 I don't think

00:54:22.080 depends on

00:54:22.660 crypto.

00:54:22.960 Does it

00:54:24.860 depend on

00:54:25.380 crypto to

00:54:26.020 say that

00:54:27.880 the government

00:54:28.620 can probably

00:54:29.660 penetrate

00:54:30.080 anything?

00:54:31.620 Because even

00:54:32.600 if the

00:54:32.960 technology is

00:54:33.760 designed so

00:54:34.380 it can't,

00:54:35.660 they can just

00:54:36.500 put people in

00:54:37.380 jail until

00:54:37.960 they have

00:54:39.000 anything they

00:54:39.500 want.

00:54:39.800 can't

00:54:40.700 they?

00:54:41.500 If they

00:54:42.460 have the

00:54:42.720 control of

00:54:43.260 you physically

00:54:43.940 then they

00:54:45.160 have the

00:54:45.480 control of

00:54:46.040 your crypto

00:54:47.140 wallet.

00:54:48.340 They'll just

00:54:48.720 put you in

00:54:49.220 jail until

00:54:49.660 you give up

00:54:51.900 your number.

00:54:53.020 Am I

00:54:53.320 wrong?

00:54:54.560 If they

00:54:55.140 can control

00:54:55.660 your body

00:54:56.200 they can

00:54:56.560 control your

00:54:56.960 wallet.

00:54:57.940 It doesn't

00:54:58.500 matter if

00:54:58.840 it's crypto

00:54:59.280 or something

00:54:59.740 else.

00:55:01.100 I'm not

00:55:01.440 wrong,

00:55:01.840 am I?

00:55:02.080 Am I?

00:55:02.120 Am I?

00:55:02.180 Am I?

00:55:06.120 Am I?

00:55:07.120 Am I?

00:55:08.120 Am I?

00:55:09.800 I'm saying

00:55:10.400 FYI the

00:55:11.940 US backs

00:55:12.720 ISIS in 0.56

00:55:13.540 Syria.

00:55:14.420 Well I

00:55:14.740 don't know

00:55:15.040 the details

00:55:16.600 there but

00:55:17.100 it would

00:55:18.120 certainly

00:55:18.380 suggest there's

00:55:19.180 a reason

00:55:19.520 why we

00:55:19.920 know where

00:55:20.240 their leader

00:55:20.620 was.

00:55:22.400 Surprise.

00:55:24.360 Who

00:55:24.840 knows?

00:55:25.400 I don't

00:55:25.700 know who

00:55:25.940 we're backing

00:55:26.400 against who.

00:55:29.620 Yeah.

00:55:30.520 So I

00:55:31.700 worry that

00:55:32.220 the crypto

00:55:32.700 thing is all

00:55:33.380 an illusion.

00:55:35.500 Sorry.

00:55:35.980 And by

00:55:38.540 the way

00:55:38.760 I do

00:55:39.200 own

00:55:39.560 crypto.

00:55:40.840 I do

00:55:41.460 own

00:55:41.740 crypto so

00:55:42.300 I don't

00:55:42.560 want it

00:55:42.840 to collapse.

00:55:44.240 And I

00:55:45.400 own it

00:55:45.760 because I

00:55:46.160 think that

00:55:46.600 there's more

00:55:47.260 chance it

00:55:47.660 will go up

00:55:48.100 than down.

00:55:49.200 But I

00:55:49.800 don't think

00:55:50.200 privacy is

00:55:50.900 going to be

00:55:51.240 a feature.

00:55:52.560 I think it's

00:55:53.000 just going to

00:55:53.380 be convenience

00:55:55.560 but I don't

00:55:57.160 think it'll be

00:55:57.560 privacy.

00:55:58.920 I'm afraid.

00:56:01.220 Or at

00:56:01.760 least no

00:56:02.400 more privacy

00:56:03.020 than you have

00:56:03.520 now.

00:56:04.560 I think it'll

00:56:05.020 be the same

00:56:05.460 kind of

00:56:05.820 privacy.

00:56:09.120 Because think

00:56:10.020 about how

00:56:10.460 they can

00:56:10.980 control

00:56:12.880 businesses.

00:56:14.440 So the way

00:56:14.880 the government

00:56:15.400 would control

00:56:16.080 you is not

00:56:17.220 directly.

00:56:18.620 The government

00:56:19.120 would say

00:56:19.660 all right

00:56:20.260 Amazon

00:56:21.040 now that

00:56:22.900 you're taking

00:56:23.320 crypto

00:56:23.720 they don't

00:56:25.260 I guess.

00:56:25.900 They don't

00:56:26.080 take crypto.

00:56:26.900 But let's

00:56:27.460 say they

00:56:27.740 did.

00:56:28.320 Let's say

00:56:28.660 Amazon

00:56:29.160 tomorrow says

00:56:29.880 we're going

00:56:30.160 to take

00:56:30.420 crypto.

00:56:31.740 The same

00:56:32.460 day the

00:56:32.860 government

00:56:33.220 could say

00:56:33.640 this is

00:56:34.020 just an

00:56:34.360 example.

00:56:35.320 The government

00:56:35.760 could say

00:56:36.300 okay Amazon

00:56:37.040 we'll put

00:56:37.540 you in

00:56:37.800 jail unless

00:56:39.140 you require

00:56:39.920 every time

00:56:40.480 you take

00:56:40.820 crypto that

00:56:42.500 we have

00:56:43.480 access to

00:56:44.160 the transaction.

00:56:45.980 What's

00:56:46.440 Amazon going

00:56:47.040 to do?

00:56:48.000 They're either

00:56:48.380 not going

00:56:48.880 to accept

00:56:49.700 crypto so

00:56:50.700 there's a

00:56:51.080 limit to

00:56:51.500 where usefulness

00:56:52.920 of it or

00:56:54.020 they're going

00:56:55.000 to say okay

00:56:55.560 well you're

00:56:56.940 going to

00:56:57.020 have to agree

00:56:57.500 with it on

00:56:57.940 your end and

00:56:58.680 I'm going to

00:56:59.440 have to pass

00:56:59.920 that along to

00:57:00.460 the government

00:57:00.840 or else you

00:57:01.380 don't get

00:57:01.700 your stuff.

00:57:02.860 So I think

00:57:03.640 the government

00:57:04.120 can press

00:57:04.720 companies that

00:57:06.840 you need to

00:57:07.360 live your

00:57:08.200 life and

00:57:09.220 then the

00:57:09.500 companies will

00:57:10.120 press you and

00:57:11.400 then just pure

00:57:12.240 convenience will

00:57:13.120 make you say

00:57:13.720 well oh hell I'm

00:57:15.080 not going to die

00:57:15.580 on this hill I

00:57:16.800 just want my

00:57:17.500 t-shirts or

00:57:18.820 whatever I'm

00:57:19.260 buying.

00:57:22.460 What about

00:57:23.160 Hunter?

00:57:24.700 Haven't heard

00:57:25.340 much about him

00:57:25.980 have we?

00:57:26.300 If someone

00:57:29.960 makes a bad

00:57:30.560 joke should I

00:57:31.140 laugh politely

00:57:31.800 or should I

00:57:32.440 be more

00:57:32.840 honest?

00:57:35.300 I would say

00:57:36.300 if it's

00:57:36.740 somebody that

00:57:37.300 matters to

00:57:37.880 you that

00:57:38.980 has either

00:57:40.420 power or you

00:57:41.300 want to date

00:57:41.800 them maybe

00:57:42.280 laughing politely

00:57:43.160 would be the

00:57:43.680 better play.

00:57:46.340 I'm generally

00:57:47.260 in favor of

00:57:48.660 being polite

00:57:50.100 in all

00:57:51.760 situations.

00:57:52.560 Did Hunter

00:57:59.780 sell an

00:58:00.240 NFT?

00:58:01.120 Is that what

00:58:02.300 I'm saying?

00:58:04.100 Best advice

00:58:04.980 on marriage?

00:58:08.580 Best advice

00:58:09.460 on marriage.

00:58:10.620 Now that

00:58:10.920 would be a

00:58:11.300 micro lesson

00:58:11.860 wouldn't it?

00:58:14.500 Let me see.

00:58:15.640 Alright so let

00:58:16.340 me give you the

00:58:16.720 best advice.

00:58:17.640 So this would

00:58:18.300 be not based

00:58:19.180 on my own

00:58:19.640 experience.

00:58:20.600 Alright so

00:58:21.500 don't read

00:58:22.040 into anything

00:58:22.580 about my own.

00:58:23.480 This would be

00:58:24.060 based on other

00:58:24.680 people's sort

00:58:25.620 of like general

00:58:26.480 experience.

00:58:27.980 The main

00:58:28.660 reason that

00:58:29.060 people get

00:58:29.440 divorced is

00:58:30.020 money.

00:58:31.920 Right?

00:58:33.620 I think that's

00:58:34.460 still true.

00:58:34.920 The main

00:58:35.200 reason people

00:58:35.720 get divorced

00:58:36.180 is money.

00:58:37.420 So number

00:58:37.780 one you've

00:58:38.680 got to be

00:58:38.900 on the same

00:58:39.320 page on

00:58:39.740 money.

00:58:40.120 Number two

00:58:40.500 you've got

00:58:40.740 to be on

00:58:40.980 the same

00:58:41.280 page on

00:58:41.740 kids.

00:58:43.280 And if

00:58:43.640 you don't

00:58:43.920 work that

00:58:44.320 stuff out

00:58:44.760 before you

00:58:45.160 get married

00:58:45.640 well don't

00:58:47.380 expect it to

00:58:47.980 work.

00:58:49.000 Just don't

00:58:49.580 expect it to

00:58:50.200 work.

00:58:51.180 So you've

00:58:51.780 got to get

00:58:52.160 the money

00:58:54.040 and the

00:58:54.300 kid thing

00:58:54.600 work.

00:58:55.540 Thirdly

00:58:55.960 you have to

00:58:58.100 give up all

00:58:58.640 of your

00:58:58.920 social media

00:58:59.480 passwords.

00:59:02.040 And live

00:59:02.780 like you're

00:59:03.200 one person.

00:59:05.240 Because I

00:59:05.620 don't think

00:59:06.000 I think in

00:59:09.000 today's world

00:59:09.880 social media

00:59:11.320 is such a

00:59:12.020 pressure on

00:59:13.040 marriages

00:59:14.940 that you

00:59:18.560 might need

00:59:19.200 to agree

00:59:19.620 on that

00:59:19.940 in advance.

00:59:21.620 In fact

00:59:22.080 would you

00:59:23.000 marry somebody

00:59:23.580 who said

00:59:23.920 no to

00:59:24.300 that?

00:59:27.520 I know

00:59:28.120 you all

00:59:28.400 want to

00:59:28.780 ask me

00:59:29.620 about my

00:59:30.060 situation

00:59:30.520 but that's

00:59:31.300 not the

00:59:32.000 topic.

00:59:35.420 So I

00:59:36.120 guess part

00:59:37.460 of the

00:59:37.860 reason I'm

00:59:38.620 putting it

00:59:38.980 this way

00:59:39.420 is that

00:59:40.360 the way

00:59:40.940 the world

00:59:42.040 is organized

00:59:42.640 at the

00:59:43.120 moment

00:59:43.480 where

00:59:44.500 everybody

00:59:44.940 can earn

00:59:45.420 their own

00:59:45.760 money

00:59:46.040 and everybody

00:59:47.440 has access

00:59:48.080 to everybody

00:59:48.720 else.

00:59:49.280 You've got

00:59:49.560 all that

00:59:49.900 temptation

00:59:50.740 and risk

00:59:51.380 going on

00:59:52.140 that the

00:59:53.800 only people

00:59:54.420 who should

00:59:54.880 get married

00:59:55.500 are in a

00:59:56.980 I would say

00:59:57.560 a thin

00:59:58.140 strip of

00:59:58.740 people

00:59:59.080 who meet

01:00:00.560 those

01:00:01.160 requirements.

01:00:02.860 Now it

01:00:03.440 could be

01:00:03.860 that there's

01:00:04.640 something special

01:00:05.340 about the

01:00:05.760 two of you

01:00:06.260 that you

01:00:06.660 don't worry

01:00:07.020 about the

01:00:07.360 social media

01:00:07.880 part.

01:00:08.220 but you

01:00:09.760 got to

01:00:09.960 get the

01:00:10.220 kid

01:00:10.400 thing

01:00:10.600 and the

01:00:10.820 money

01:00:10.980 thing

01:00:11.200 right.

01:00:12.280 That part

01:00:12.640 you got

01:00:12.900 to get

01:00:13.060 right.

01:00:16.620 Newsweek

01:00:17.060 now disagrees

01:00:17.940 with Scott

01:00:18.540 and says

01:00:19.040 that masks

01:00:19.500 don't work.

01:00:22.460 I can

01:00:23.620 always look

01:00:24.060 at a

01:00:24.280 comment and

01:00:24.840 know when

01:00:25.240 the commenter

01:00:26.220 has the

01:00:26.560 wrong

01:00:26.760 information

01:00:27.280 even when

01:00:27.880 I don't

01:00:28.180 even know

01:00:28.480 what the

01:00:28.740 story is.

01:00:29.820 So I

01:00:30.080 don't even

01:00:30.380 know what

01:00:30.620 the Newsweek

01:00:31.140 story is

01:00:31.820 but I

01:00:32.560 guarantee

01:00:32.920 you that

01:00:33.300 you read

01:00:33.580 it wrong.

01:00:34.780 I'll bet

01:00:35.100 you the

01:00:35.360 story says

01:00:36.100 that masks

01:00:37.340 that some

01:00:38.440 masks don't

01:00:39.200 work as

01:00:39.640 well as

01:00:40.400 N95s or 1.00

01:00:43.220 and it

01:00:45.180 might be

01:00:45.540 and or

01:00:46.000 and or

01:00:46.980 the story

01:00:47.420 says that

01:00:49.340 they're not

01:00:50.820 going to

01:00:51.000 help much

01:00:51.420 against

01:00:51.680 Omicron

01:00:52.160 and Omicron

01:00:53.700 is sort

01:00:54.340 of a new

01:00:54.640 game.

01:00:55.980 So that

01:00:56.600 wouldn't

01:00:57.740 disagree with

01:00:58.360 anything I've

01:00:58.940 ever said.

01:01:02.640 All right.

01:01:02.960 Yeah.

01:01:03.180 Boot point.

01:01:03.640 I hope

01:01:07.660 I'm I hope

01:01:08.760 I'm doing

01:01:09.380 a better

01:01:09.700 job holding

01:01:10.380 to my

01:01:10.860 commitment

01:01:11.280 to be

01:01:13.020 post-pandemic

01:01:14.000 but there's

01:01:15.280 still some

01:01:15.660 mop-ups

01:01:16.140 things we

01:01:16.660 need to

01:01:16.940 do to

01:01:17.200 get our

01:01:17.480 rights

01:01:17.720 back.

01:01:18.600 So when

01:01:18.800 I'm talking

01:01:19.160 about it

01:01:19.540 I'm really

01:01:19.940 going to be

01:01:20.240 talking about

01:01:20.640 the mandates

01:01:21.120 from now

01:01:21.540 on.

01:01:23.200 I'm going

01:01:23.760 to focus

01:01:24.120 on the

01:01:24.460 mandates as

01:01:25.060 the only

01:01:25.320 thing that

01:01:25.680 seems to

01:01:26.060 matter

01:01:26.320 in my

01:01:27.840 opinion.

01:01:28.180 Yeah.

01:01:31.820 I saw

01:01:32.340 a

01:01:32.580 yeah.

01:01:36.740 So Denmark's 0.73

01:01:37.700 well let's

01:01:39.600 just watch

01:01:40.000 Denmark see

01:01:40.720 what happens.

01:01:41.840 If Denmark 0.51

01:01:42.360 survives then

01:01:43.360 I saw a

01:01:45.160 Dana Perino

01:01:45.780 tweet she

01:01:47.200 checked on

01:01:47.700 Denmark this

01:01:48.320 morning and

01:01:49.800 apparently

01:01:50.760 Denmark has

01:01:51.820 survived the

01:01:52.820 lifting of

01:01:53.280 the sanctions.

01:01:54.260 They survived.

01:01:55.540 Still there.

01:01:57.120 Go Denmark.

01:01:58.180 All right.

01:01:59.620 Boo got

01:02:00.000 her tube 0.96

01:02:01.300 out.

01:02:02.020 Did I

01:02:02.460 tell you

01:02:02.700 that?

01:02:03.520 My cat

01:02:04.000 Boo got

01:02:04.480 her feeding

01:02:04.900 tube

01:02:05.420 out and

01:02:06.440 wow is

01:02:06.920 she happy.

01:02:08.420 She's so

01:02:08.940 happy and

01:02:10.280 so am I.

01:02:11.260 She seems

01:02:11.640 to be doing

01:02:12.020 fine.

01:02:13.800 All right.

01:02:22.860 And that

01:02:23.840 is all for

01:02:24.380 now and I

01:02:25.140 will talk

01:02:25.440 to you

01:02:25.800 tomorrow.

01:02:28.180 who

01:02:29.060 has

01:02:29.880 him?

01:02:30.380 She's

01:02:30.660 back on

01:02:33.000 when you

01:02:40.800 woke up.

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