Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 03, 2022


Episode 1643 Scott Adams： All of the News is Extra Hilarious and Positive Today. Come Join Me


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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?
00:00:11.100 Well, let me give you a preview.
00:00:13.540 It's going to involve truckers, zuckers, suckers, possibly tucker, and maybe a few cuckers.
00:00:22.640 That's right.
00:00:23.500 And today, and only today, we're going to do a special simultaneous salute to one of
00:00:32.680 the people on this list, the truckers, who would like to join me in a simultaneous sip
00:00:38.700 specifically for the Freedom Convoy, the truckers in Canada, who I understand, sometimes some
00:00:48.140 of them listen to this podcast.
00:00:50.000 And so, if you happen to be in your truck right now, and you're listening in, this
00:00:55.960 is a big thank you for those of us watching Coffee with Scott Adams this morning.
00:01:02.440 And if you'd like to join in in saluting the truckers, all you need is a cover mug or a
00:01:09.060 glass, a tanker, jealous, and a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:01:14.120 In this case, a truck.
00:01:15.820 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:01:19.160 I like coffee.
00:01:21.280 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, and a salute
00:01:26.420 to the Canadian truckers.
00:01:28.620 Go.
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
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
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
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.
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?
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
00:49:34.980 No.
00:49:36.340 Because in the
00:49:36.960 oligarchy, you
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
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
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
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
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
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.