Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 04, 2022


Episode 1644 Scott Adams： False Flags, Fake News, Putin Trapped, and the Walls Closing in on Spotify


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

145.65805

Word Count

7,231

Sentence Count

473

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, host Scott Adams talks about the latest in the Ukraine crisis, and why he thinks we should just give Putin what he wants, and then call his bluff. And why he doesn't think we can read his mind.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to, undoubtedly, the finest experience of your entire life.
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00:00:18.780 And if you would like to become part of this movement that's sweeping the planet, what
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00:00:41.420 I suppose you could put liquid inside a trucker, but then you wouldn't want to get it out.
00:00:46.700 Well, let's just stick with a cup or a mug or whatever this is, and join me now for the
00:00:53.140 unparalleled pleasure.
00:00:54.800 It's the dopamine hit of the day.
00:00:56.180 It's the thing that forgets to put on his microphone.
00:01:04.460 It's called the simultaneous sip.
00:01:06.700 Go.
00:01:06.980 You know, I should have had this before I got ready, because, you know, once you've had
00:01:19.380 your simultaneous sip, everything just starts to fall into place, sort of like the tumblers
00:01:25.000 on a safe.
00:01:25.800 You can almost feel it, can't you?
00:01:27.260 All right, number one, I guess Josh Hawley in the Senate is urging the Biden administration
00:01:39.720 to forget about putting Ukraine in NATO, should they ever qualify.
00:01:45.800 They're not qualified at the moment, anyway.
00:01:47.260 But, what do you think about that?
00:01:54.100 What do you think about promising Putin that we won't do the thing that we probably didn't
00:01:59.760 want to do anyway?
00:02:00.480 I have mixed feelings about it, so let's talk it through.
00:02:07.700 Number one, I, too, had once said, why don't we just give him what he wants, because what
00:02:13.320 he wants is nothing that we care about anyway, which is, he doesn't want NATO in Ukraine.
00:02:20.740 Ukraine is too corrupt for us to allow it to be part of NATO anyway.
00:02:24.460 Why doesn't it look like it's going to change anytime soon?
00:02:28.820 Why not just give him what he wants and then say, okay, you have what you want, and we
00:02:34.220 could take it back at any time.
00:02:36.680 You know, should he keep his army there, we could say, whoa, that wasn't the deal.
00:02:41.340 Now we're going to let Ukraine in NATO, you bastard.
00:02:44.800 So it seemed to me like we could give him literally nothing, because it wasn't anything we wanted
00:02:50.980 anyway, and it would embarrass him into having to withdraw or at least respond in some way.
00:02:58.200 But then I watched the Biden administration surprisingly offer absolutely nothing,
00:03:04.520 and it looked like it worked.
00:03:08.260 And I thought to myself, you know, if Biden actually gets away with this, it's too early
00:03:14.840 to say, but I'm willing to imagine that it was the right play.
00:03:18.540 Just say, how about we give you nothing, and how about we call your bluff, and how about
00:03:24.860 your 100,000 troops aren't going to take a step into this territory, because you know
00:03:29.040 it would be worse for you than if he did.
00:03:31.820 Because I do think Putin knows it would be bad for him to do that.
00:03:36.160 What do you think?
00:03:37.660 I mean, none of us can read Putin's mind, right?
00:03:39.880 So we're all guessing.
00:03:40.980 But I don't think we can guess any worse than the intelligence agencies.
00:03:44.840 Do you?
00:03:45.140 Well, let's do a little experiment here.
00:03:48.540 So you've probably seen experiments where a group of people are asked a question.
00:03:55.260 I'll give you an example.
00:03:56.800 I was once in some kind of a class.
00:03:58.420 I forget what they were teaching.
00:04:00.460 And people were asked to guess on average how many credit cards each person had on average.
00:04:08.780 And, of course, since you don't know anything about the other person's belongings, there
00:04:12.780 were strangers in the class.
00:04:14.360 We all put in our guesses, and the guesses were like crazy.
00:04:18.040 It was everything from, you know, one to nine.
00:04:21.200 You know, people were guessing that the average person had nine credit cards.
00:04:24.120 But you take all these crazy guesses, and then you average them out.
00:04:28.660 And then we actually took our credit cards out and counted them and took the average.
00:04:33.160 It was, like, amazingly close.
00:04:36.180 So it was one of those wisdom of crowds things.
00:04:38.460 I guess you can repeat that experiment, and it works enough that it was part of the class.
00:04:43.440 And so I wonder, if you were trying to anticipate what Putin would do, would you do better if
00:04:52.960 you had all your sources and methods?
00:04:56.360 Because probably Putin hasn't made up his mind, right?
00:04:59.480 So even if he had sources and methods, and you got information that was ten minutes old,
00:05:05.700 it would be useless if he's changing his mind all the time.
00:05:09.120 So let's try the wisdom of crowds.
00:05:13.440 The hypothesis is this, that the average of us, just watching this right now,
00:05:20.000 probably could guess what he would do.
00:05:23.380 Just a hypothesis.
00:05:24.700 There's no reason to believe it's true.
00:05:27.160 Just for fun.
00:05:29.340 So here's my take, and then you can add yours.
00:05:32.140 I might bias you with mine, but that's okay.
00:05:34.420 This isn't exactly science.
00:05:36.960 I think he won't invade.
00:05:38.380 I think that we trapped him.
00:05:43.440 But there's a persuasion play here that's really, really juicy.
00:05:49.140 I'll tell you about that in a minute.
00:05:51.180 So what do you think?
00:05:52.680 Give me your invade or don't invade.
00:05:56.040 And for our purposes, I'm going to say there's no such thing as a minor incursion.
00:06:01.380 Just forget about minor or major.
00:06:03.500 Just invade, no invade.
00:06:05.300 Invade, no invade.
00:06:06.000 So I'm looking at the locals people, mostly no invade.
00:06:14.200 Okay, so I would say overwhelmingly no invasion.
00:06:19.640 Interesting.
00:06:20.680 So that's what I think, too.
00:06:22.620 Now, and you know what's interesting about this?
00:06:25.940 Is that it's nonpartisan.
00:06:27.880 I'll bet.
00:06:28.520 I do see some yeses, but it's overwhelmingly noes on both platforms here.
00:06:34.780 All right, good.
00:06:36.380 So actually, I think I'm kind of happy about this result.
00:06:41.160 I wasn't sure that people would be on the same team on this.
00:06:45.360 All right, you want to hear the persuasion play?
00:06:47.300 This is one of the best opportunities the United States has ever had.
00:06:53.600 And here's the weird part.
00:06:55.480 Maybe Russia, too.
00:06:57.260 Like, you know, I've said this before,
00:07:00.160 that the difference between good news and bad news, we just can't tell.
00:07:05.360 Something that looks like it's on the edge of a disaster
00:07:07.720 could just as likely be on the edge of some great breakthrough
00:07:11.240 that's, you know, really good for everybody.
00:07:14.080 And here would be the persuasion play.
00:07:15.660 Imagine, if you will, that Putin feels trapped, because he should.
00:07:20.920 If he removes his forces, he looks like a big old pussy,
00:07:24.240 and he loses everything he might have gained.
00:07:27.040 Right?
00:07:27.280 He has to play the long game then to try to control Ukraine,
00:07:31.200 but he was going to do that anyway.
00:07:35.320 So he can't really withdraw, but he can't really attack.
00:07:39.920 He's absolutely completely trapped.
00:07:42.940 Right?
00:07:43.320 Now, of course, the wild card is that it's Putin,
00:07:46.120 and he's a pretty good chess player, so to speak.
00:07:48.900 So he might have some play that we would never imagine.
00:07:53.020 You know, just some completely surprising thing.
00:07:56.020 Maybe.
00:07:56.680 Never know.
00:07:59.240 But here's the persuasion play.
00:08:01.760 Because he's trapped,
00:08:03.860 you can make a wild offer
00:08:05.880 that would ordinarily not be considered.
00:08:09.280 You see that?
00:08:10.180 Because he's in a no-win situation.
00:08:13.980 So anything we offer him that looks like a win,
00:08:17.060 even in an unrelated conversation,
00:08:19.940 he's going to jump at.
00:08:22.280 Because the only person,
00:08:23.540 the only way that Putin can win now,
00:08:26.400 at least in terms of international prestige,
00:08:29.480 the only way he can win is if we let him.
00:08:33.420 Right?
00:08:34.560 He doesn't have a winning play at all.
00:08:36.400 And we have all the cards, I think.
00:08:41.220 And that's what it feels like.
00:08:42.980 So why don't we offer him the following deal?
00:08:46.360 If you could get closer to us,
00:08:48.980 let's say militarily and strategically,
00:08:51.900 and a little bit further from China,
00:08:54.540 whatever that looks like in a secret deal,
00:08:58.340 we'll figure a way to engineer, you know,
00:09:01.900 a step down in Ukraine
00:09:03.420 that makes it look like he got something.
00:09:07.680 Scott is a puppet of the Biden machine.
00:09:11.100 You think I'm a puppet of the Biden machine?
00:09:15.200 Somebody's new.
00:09:17.540 I think you're new here.
00:09:19.740 Anyway.
00:09:21.600 So the only point is this.
00:09:23.500 The only point is this.
00:09:24.440 This is an historically rare situation
00:09:27.560 where Putin needs a deal
00:09:29.620 and he probably would be happy
00:09:31.840 to be more aligned with the U.S.
00:09:34.260 just militarily
00:09:35.340 because it's going to keep him in office.
00:09:38.020 So as I've mentioned before,
00:09:41.820 every oligarch who reaches a certain age,
00:09:47.320 let's say when a dictator reaches a certain age,
00:09:51.680 they're going to be more interested in,
00:09:53.980 let's say,
00:09:54.400 what happens to their kids and their legacy
00:09:56.880 and even themselves when they're elderly
00:09:58.840 than they are about conquest.
00:10:01.760 It seems like conquest is a young dictator's game.
00:10:05.220 You know what I mean?
00:10:06.400 40s, 50s.
00:10:07.780 Once you're in the 60s and 70s,
00:10:10.040 you know,
00:10:10.300 conquest isn't such a fun deal.
00:10:13.000 You're more about defense.
00:10:14.780 So I would think
00:10:15.960 that Putin is sort of poised
00:10:18.220 for how can we keep your children
00:10:20.840 and your children's children alive
00:10:22.680 as long as possible.
00:10:24.640 And the United States could just say,
00:10:26.160 well, you know,
00:10:27.740 we don't care who runs Russia.
00:10:29.840 We really don't care
00:10:30.960 if you're a democracy
00:10:33.040 or a republic or anything else.
00:10:36.040 Now, whoever's saying mind reading,
00:10:37.880 that's exactly what we're doing.
00:10:39.700 So we're anticipating,
00:10:41.120 but knowing that we can't really read minds.
00:10:43.860 So we're just going through
00:10:44.580 a mental exercise here.
00:10:45.620 So the only thing I'm trying to communicate
00:10:47.740 is that you should learn
00:10:50.060 to recognize this situation.
00:10:52.600 And what this situation is
00:10:54.160 is the very best time
00:10:55.900 you could offer,
00:10:57.480 let's say,
00:10:58.520 a bold,
00:10:59.480 out-of-the-box,
00:11:01.180 bigger-than-you-expected deal,
00:11:03.580 which could be a secret deal.
00:11:05.500 It could be something that
00:11:06.560 maybe we just say to Russia,
00:11:09.480 look,
00:11:09.960 if you never hack us again,
00:11:11.700 we'll never hack you,
00:11:14.760 and we'll let you wind down
00:11:16.480 because we're more worried
00:11:17.460 about cyber war than other stuff.
00:11:19.900 Right?
00:11:20.600 Now, I don't know
00:11:21.320 if we could ever, you know,
00:11:22.200 make a deal like that hold,
00:11:24.080 so that would require
00:11:25.200 some other experts to tell me.
00:11:26.880 But the point is,
00:11:28.580 yeah, the point is
00:11:29.700 you don't get this kind
00:11:30.680 of a situation often.
00:11:32.840 And if you don't take advantage of it,
00:11:34.400 when's the next time
00:11:35.240 you would be able to make
00:11:36.680 a really big progress with Russia?
00:11:40.400 All right, so,
00:11:41.700 one interesting thing here
00:11:43.260 is that I guess
00:11:44.240 the Pentagon press secretary,
00:11:47.540 John Kirby,
00:11:48.960 was saying that they think
00:11:49.920 Russia's going to produce
00:11:50.880 some kind of a video
00:11:52.220 based on some false flag,
00:11:55.280 fake event,
00:11:56.800 as a pretext for invasion.
00:11:59.880 Now, do you think
00:12:01.360 that's going to happen?
00:12:03.120 Do you think that the Russians
00:12:05.040 are in fact planning
00:12:06.180 to create a video
00:12:07.900 that makes a fake reason
00:12:10.020 for invasion?
00:12:11.700 I actually don't believe it.
00:12:16.540 I actually don't believe it.
00:12:18.280 Now, we'll never know
00:12:19.440 because the whole point
00:12:21.220 of announcing
00:12:22.040 that Russia might do it
00:12:23.600 is to discourage them
00:12:25.120 from actually doing it.
00:12:26.320 Because if we're primed
00:12:27.760 to see it as fake,
00:12:29.800 then it won't work.
00:12:30.960 So, in terms of what
00:12:33.940 the Pentagon did
00:12:35.820 strategically,
00:12:38.220 strategically,
00:12:40.220 this was brilliant.
00:12:42.860 Would anybody disagree with me?
00:12:44.920 In terms of what
00:12:46.120 the Pentagon decided to do,
00:12:48.800 in terms of announcing
00:12:49.700 that Russia might produce
00:12:51.840 this propaganda video,
00:12:54.140 isn't it brilliant
00:12:54.920 to tell us in advance?
00:12:56.000 Because if we see one now,
00:12:59.880 it won't have the effect,
00:13:01.580 the intended effect.
00:13:03.080 I think this is actually
00:13:04.460 like one of the smartest
00:13:06.780 things I've seen.
00:13:10.280 This is damn lunary talk,
00:13:12.260 says James.
00:13:14.040 Lunary talk.
00:13:14.800 Maybe it is.
00:13:19.460 All right.
00:13:20.740 Well,
00:13:21.540 personally,
00:13:23.960 I don't think Russia
00:13:24.760 was going to do that,
00:13:25.860 but I think that by,
00:13:27.260 you know,
00:13:27.880 front-running it like this
00:13:29.180 and priming us,
00:13:30.420 it makes it
00:13:31.140 not really an option anymore.
00:13:33.600 So, my guess is that
00:13:34.580 Russia might have been
00:13:35.280 talking about it,
00:13:36.220 but I doubt they would
00:13:36.960 have done it.
00:13:37.820 And now I think
00:13:38.500 probably they can't.
00:13:39.920 So, pretty good.
00:13:41.680 But the interesting thing
00:13:42.780 that came out of it
00:13:43.500 was the
00:13:44.080 the tough questioning
00:13:45.940 that came from
00:13:46.600 a reporter from The Hill
00:13:47.700 who was accusing
00:13:49.440 our government,
00:13:51.540 let's say,
00:13:52.200 the spokesperson
00:13:52.840 in this case,
00:13:54.180 of just making up stuff
00:13:56.720 like crisis actors
00:13:57.900 and Alex Jones
00:13:59.740 was the analogy
00:14:00.660 that he used.
00:14:02.020 And
00:14:02.300 the government guy,
00:14:06.000 was it John Kirby?
00:14:06.880 It was John Kirby, right?
00:14:09.480 Did a really terrible job
00:14:11.420 in explaining
00:14:12.520 why he can't explain
00:14:13.640 where our secret sources
00:14:16.600 are coming from?
00:14:19.040 Oh, it wasn't Kirby?
00:14:21.280 So, I think Kirby
00:14:22.300 may have been
00:14:22.920 in another event.
00:14:26.300 Yeah, he said,
00:14:27.380 I just told you
00:14:28.000 the evidence.
00:14:28.580 It was really poorly done
00:14:29.660 in terms of a spokesperson.
00:14:31.500 So, let me not,
00:14:32.780 I won't blame John Kirby
00:14:34.080 if it was,
00:14:34.640 who was it?
00:14:36.280 Somebody said Ned Ryan.
00:14:37.480 Anyway,
00:14:39.400 we'll look in the comments
00:14:40.160 and you'll find out
00:14:40.700 who it was.
00:14:41.800 Somebody will have
00:14:42.400 the right name.
00:14:44.240 But the point is
00:14:45.440 that if somebody says,
00:14:47.400 what is your evidence
00:14:48.160 for this secret intel?
00:14:50.300 The correct answer is,
00:14:52.040 it's secret intel.
00:14:54.180 If I could tell you
00:14:55.220 how we got it,
00:14:55.960 it wouldn't be secret intel.
00:14:58.560 And then,
00:14:59.120 when the reporter says,
00:15:00.080 why should we believe you
00:15:01.100 just because you're saying it,
00:15:02.960 what is the right answer?
00:15:04.840 The right answer is not,
00:15:06.060 I just told you.
00:15:06.920 Which is something
00:15:08.840 like what he did.
00:15:09.940 The right answer is,
00:15:11.420 I think you should remain
00:15:12.480 skeptical of anything
00:15:13.520 you hear from anybody.
00:15:15.060 That's just a good,
00:15:15.980 that's just a good practice.
00:15:18.080 So, you should be skeptical
00:15:19.220 of anything I say,
00:15:20.620 anything anybody says.
00:15:22.140 Anything Republicans say,
00:15:23.420 anything Democrats say.
00:15:24.320 Just be skeptical
00:15:24.960 of everything.
00:15:26.340 But I am telling you
00:15:27.540 that our sources
00:15:29.380 are getting this information.
00:15:31.840 Use it,
00:15:32.500 use it however you want.
00:15:34.160 But,
00:15:34.680 if you do see
00:15:35.460 a propaganda video
00:15:36.500 being created,
00:15:37.540 just know that we warned you.
00:15:39.540 And so you can put it
00:15:40.400 in that context.
00:15:43.060 I mean,
00:15:43.780 it was such an easy thing
00:15:45.140 to answer
00:15:45.640 because the criticism
00:15:48.620 is that the public
00:15:50.160 shouldn't necessarily
00:15:51.080 believe it on faith.
00:15:52.880 And he should have
00:15:53.500 just agreed on that.
00:15:55.040 He should have
00:15:55.600 absolutely agreed
00:15:56.480 the public should not
00:15:57.600 just accept things
00:15:58.940 on faith.
00:15:59.420 but isn't it helpful
00:16:02.160 to be warned of things
00:16:03.380 because if it doesn't happen,
00:16:06.980 what's the difference?
00:16:08.800 Right?
00:16:10.340 If there's no false flag,
00:16:12.060 what's the difference?
00:16:13.320 But if there is,
00:16:15.260 then the government
00:16:16.240 becomes more credible
00:16:17.340 because they warned you
00:16:18.280 and you're also primed.
00:16:20.120 So it doesn't have
00:16:21.000 the same effect.
00:16:22.560 I don't know.
00:16:23.560 So the communication
00:16:24.540 of it was horrible,
00:16:26.080 but the idea of warning us
00:16:27.500 was pretty good, I think.
00:16:30.340 So Biden, of course,
00:16:31.940 is talking about
00:16:32.560 reducing access to guns
00:16:35.700 in a variety of ways.
00:16:38.060 And I came up
00:16:39.120 with my own idea
00:16:39.980 for reducing
00:16:40.860 gun-related crime
00:16:42.300 by 75%.
00:16:43.720 This is my estimate.
00:16:46.520 75%.
00:16:47.080 And it would be something
00:16:50.280 that both Republicans
00:16:51.420 and Democrats
00:16:52.320 by a pretty strong majority
00:16:54.820 would agree with.
00:16:56.560 All right, here's my idea.
00:16:57.500 that you would
00:16:59.500 ban guns,
00:17:01.300 gun ownership
00:17:01.860 from just Democrats.
00:17:04.780 Because if you ban guns
00:17:06.640 from just Democrats,
00:17:07.840 you would reduce crime
00:17:08.680 by about 75%,
00:17:10.320 I estimate.
00:17:11.840 You know, murder.
00:17:12.900 Murder by guns.
00:17:16.100 And since Democrats
00:17:17.580 by a majority
00:17:18.340 are in favor
00:17:19.080 of gun control,
00:17:21.060 they should certainly
00:17:21.760 be in favor of
00:17:22.780 gun control
00:17:24.040 on Democrats.
00:17:24.600 and since Republicans
00:17:27.220 also think that Democrats
00:17:28.960 should have fewer guns,
00:17:30.080 but Republicans
00:17:32.940 not necessarily,
00:17:34.940 it seems to me
00:17:36.540 all you'd have to do
00:17:37.460 is, you know,
00:17:39.940 have a database
00:17:40.520 that says
00:17:41.060 if you voted Democrat
00:17:42.740 in the last election
00:17:44.160 or two,
00:17:45.300 you can't have a gun
00:17:46.520 until you've at least
00:17:47.320 registered Republican.
00:17:48.500 What, you would be
00:17:52.560 against that?
00:17:54.060 How many of you
00:17:54.940 would oppose
00:17:55.460 this excellent idea
00:17:56.640 that I'm suggesting?
00:17:59.200 I see a lot of support.
00:18:02.000 I think it's one
00:18:02.840 of the best ideas
00:18:03.640 ever, ever mentioned.
00:18:05.160 Now, here's
00:18:10.960 what's funny about it.
00:18:12.500 Of course,
00:18:13.840 it's not a practical idea,
00:18:16.080 but what would be
00:18:16.980 the practical version
00:18:18.060 of it?
00:18:19.200 All right,
00:18:19.460 so here's the practical,
00:18:20.820 well, maybe,
00:18:21.480 I don't know,
00:18:22.300 maybe it's not practical,
00:18:23.440 but let me run it
00:18:24.340 by you anyway.
00:18:25.700 Suppose you said
00:18:26.660 you can't buy a gun
00:18:28.580 or own a gun
00:18:29.480 unless you've had
00:18:30.500 NRA
00:18:31.780 or similarly
00:18:33.940 accredited
00:18:35.660 gun training.
00:18:40.380 I mean,
00:18:40.940 you would end up
00:18:41.820 with something
00:18:42.260 that almost
00:18:42.880 looked like
00:18:44.700 what I was joking about.
00:18:46.500 You'd end up
00:18:47.240 with the responsible
00:18:48.240 gun owners
00:18:48.840 would get training
00:18:49.760 because they would say,
00:18:50.780 well, that's a good idea
00:18:51.620 anyway, right?
00:18:53.720 Your basic responsible
00:18:55.060 gun owner
00:18:55.640 is going to say,
00:18:56.780 you know,
00:18:57.120 I have to get training?
00:18:58.920 Oh, well,
00:18:59.520 I was going to do that anyway.
00:19:00.500 Now, you might make
00:19:02.040 some exceptions,
00:19:02.780 for example.
00:19:03.980 You could say,
00:19:04.820 you know,
00:19:04.980 if it's a hunting rifle
00:19:05.960 or something,
00:19:06.980 you don't necessarily
00:19:08.060 have to go through
00:19:08.680 a gun training course,
00:19:10.020 but it'd be nice.
00:19:12.340 So, you know,
00:19:13.220 you could still
00:19:14.040 have some exceptions.
00:19:15.360 But I think you would
00:19:16.400 get at a lot of this,
00:19:18.060 even if it only reduced
00:19:19.160 the accidental access
00:19:20.540 and stuff like that.
00:19:21.740 You know,
00:19:22.100 even if it only kept
00:19:23.060 guns away from
00:19:24.000 the person who was
00:19:25.700 going to grab your gun
00:19:26.580 and go do something bad.
00:19:27.560 If I were running
00:19:30.940 for president,
00:19:32.600 I would suggest
00:19:33.780 and I would keep
00:19:35.760 a straight face
00:19:36.500 when I said we should
00:19:37.340 ban the guns
00:19:38.340 only from Democrats
00:19:39.400 because making people
00:19:42.100 talk about that point
00:19:43.220 would be hilarious.
00:19:46.400 Bad means often triumph
00:19:48.000 over good intentions.
00:19:49.820 That's true, Eric.
00:19:50.540 It's an incursion
00:19:55.640 leading down
00:19:56.200 the slippery slope.
00:19:57.260 Yeah, anything with guns
00:19:58.680 leads to more stuff
00:20:00.540 with guns.
00:20:01.240 I think that's true.
00:20:03.560 Here's an idea
00:20:04.380 that would scare you.
00:20:06.600 In my opinion,
00:20:09.220 artificial intelligence
00:20:10.240 is already smart enough,
00:20:12.080 should we turn it loose
00:20:13.540 to do this,
00:20:14.660 to identify mass shooters
00:20:16.120 in advance.
00:20:16.780 In my opinion,
00:20:19.860 AI is already,
00:20:21.400 already smart enough.
00:20:23.960 It would just need
00:20:24.580 access to enough databases.
00:20:27.300 So if AI had,
00:20:28.900 let's say,
00:20:29.380 let's say it was
00:20:29.980 a government AI.
00:20:31.040 I'm not suggesting this.
00:20:32.120 I'm just running you
00:20:32.820 through the scary logic of it.
00:20:34.680 So here's the scary logic.
00:20:37.060 I'm positive
00:20:37.960 that if the government
00:20:39.420 could somehow legally
00:20:41.020 give the right program
00:20:43.160 access to just
00:20:44.880 every database
00:20:45.660 in the world,
00:20:46.780 you know,
00:20:47.000 your financial,
00:20:47.900 your credit card,
00:20:48.940 your social media,
00:20:50.040 your everything,
00:20:51.260 your phone,
00:20:52.900 and I'm hoping
00:20:53.680 that doesn't happen,
00:20:54.620 of course.
00:20:55.020 I'm just scaring you here.
00:20:57.660 I think AI could identify
00:20:59.180 a mass shooter
00:20:59.840 in advance.
00:21:01.880 What do you think?
00:21:04.920 Please stop.
00:21:07.580 You don't have to worry
00:21:08.640 that I'm giving anybody
00:21:09.500 the idea.
00:21:11.240 You don't think
00:21:12.680 that people who know AI
00:21:13.800 and it's sort of
00:21:16.420 an obvious idea
00:21:17.240 so you don't have to worry
00:21:18.560 about somebody
00:21:19.600 getting the idea
00:21:20.400 for the first time.
00:21:22.740 And I'm not suggesting it
00:21:25.060 because it would be
00:21:25.740 an outrageous
00:21:27.020 violation of privacy.
00:21:28.680 But how about this?
00:21:31.320 Again,
00:21:31.800 I'm not suggesting this.
00:21:32.800 I'm just tossing this around.
00:21:34.960 Suppose the AI
00:21:36.140 had access to every database
00:21:38.500 but it was blinded.
00:21:40.500 Meaning that the AI
00:21:42.100 could know everything
00:21:43.120 but no human
00:21:44.540 could ask the AI
00:21:45.600 what it learned.
00:21:47.560 Now you could ask yourself,
00:21:48.900 is that possible?
00:21:49.880 It might not be,
00:21:50.760 you know,
00:21:51.240 technically possible
00:21:52.180 to keep humans
00:21:53.600 away from it.
00:21:54.420 But imagine it was.
00:21:56.380 Imagine the AI
00:21:57.300 was in some
00:21:57.960 guarded black box
00:21:59.120 and all of its knowledge,
00:22:01.840 once it went out
00:22:02.400 and got it,
00:22:03.500 it would bring it back
00:22:04.320 and it would be
00:22:04.700 in a guarded black box
00:22:05.900 in the middle
00:22:06.320 of Fort Knox
00:22:07.040 so nobody
00:22:08.200 could get to it.
00:22:09.980 So only the AI
00:22:11.380 would know
00:22:12.140 your personal information.
00:22:14.820 Then what would
00:22:15.600 the AI do with it?
00:22:16.500 It would be programmed
00:22:17.260 to do one
00:22:17.900 and only one thing.
00:22:19.660 Warn the people
00:22:20.580 close to you
00:22:21.360 that there's
00:22:22.480 a potential crisis.
00:22:24.640 Not law enforcement,
00:22:26.840 not law enforcement.
00:22:27.700 But it would warn
00:22:29.700 your family
00:22:30.520 that a trigger
00:22:33.340 had been hit,
00:22:34.760 no pun intended,
00:22:35.580 that suggests
00:22:37.560 that somebody
00:22:38.300 is acquiring
00:22:39.860 the weapons
00:22:40.500 and has the mindset
00:22:42.120 that is highly
00:22:44.660 predictive of this crime.
00:22:46.180 And you just get
00:22:47.000 a text message
00:22:48.000 that says,
00:22:49.100 AI has determined
00:22:51.300 that there's somebody
00:22:52.440 in your family
00:22:52.940 named Bob
00:22:54.180 who is exhibiting
00:22:56.360 behavior
00:22:56.820 that we think
00:22:58.040 you should look into.
00:22:58.920 No other human
00:23:01.220 in the world
00:23:01.760 would get the message
00:23:02.660 except the ones
00:23:04.860 closest to the person.
00:23:08.620 Now again,
00:23:09.480 I'm not suggesting it,
00:23:11.220 but is there anybody
00:23:12.660 here who is
00:23:13.760 at least close enough
00:23:14.780 to AI
00:23:15.240 to say that
00:23:17.200 that wouldn't work?
00:23:18.620 I mean,
00:23:19.000 technically.
00:23:19.960 It wouldn't work
00:23:20.640 socially.
00:23:21.400 Socially,
00:23:21.860 it's a non-starter.
00:23:23.160 But technically,
00:23:24.080 I think it would work,
00:23:24.900 wouldn't it?
00:23:25.160 Some families
00:23:27.320 wouldn't care.
00:23:27.900 That's another issue.
00:23:29.440 What about
00:23:30.140 the isolated loaners?
00:23:32.460 Well,
00:23:33.180 then maybe
00:23:33.880 everybody has
00:23:36.060 a connection
00:23:36.460 to something,
00:23:37.220 even if it's
00:23:37.800 just social media.
00:23:39.280 You can get
00:23:39.820 to anybody.
00:23:41.780 All right,
00:23:41.960 here's the
00:23:42.320 interesting news.
00:23:45.020 How long ago
00:23:45.740 was it
00:23:46.240 that probably
00:23:47.480 if you read
00:23:48.120 the same stuff
00:23:48.700 I read,
00:23:49.560 you heard that,
00:23:50.560 oh yeah,
00:23:50.900 we can have
00:23:51.340 electric cars
00:23:52.140 all right,
00:23:53.080 sure,
00:23:53.740 you can make
00:23:54.260 an electric car,
00:23:56.260 but one thing
00:23:56.940 you're never
00:23:57.380 going to make
00:23:57.880 is an electric
00:23:58.740 airplane.
00:23:59.420 Am I right?
00:24:00.260 Am I right?
00:24:01.340 If there's one thing
00:24:02.220 we know for sure,
00:24:03.840 nobody's ever
00:24:04.520 going to make
00:24:04.880 an electric airplane
00:24:05.800 because,
00:24:06.420 you know,
00:24:06.780 blah, blah, blah,
00:24:07.460 energy to wait.
00:24:09.740 Well,
00:24:10.120 there's an electric
00:24:10.720 airplane getting
00:24:12.100 ready to launch,
00:24:14.180 so experts,
00:24:15.500 anybody who thought
00:24:16.200 that wasn't going
00:24:16.780 to happen was wrong.
00:24:19.320 But it's a
00:24:20.220 smallish one,
00:24:20.840 a nine-person
00:24:22.400 commuter thing,
00:24:23.800 they think they
00:24:24.380 can lower
00:24:24.860 maintenance costs
00:24:25.700 by something
00:24:26.120 like 70%.
00:24:27.700 I think it's
00:24:30.360 an Israeli
00:24:31.140 startup,
00:24:32.200 and it's called
00:24:32.860 Eviation.
00:24:34.500 Now,
00:24:34.780 I believe there
00:24:35.280 are a number
00:24:35.660 of these,
00:24:36.040 aren't there?
00:24:37.900 I believe there
00:24:38.760 are a number
00:24:39.200 of startups
00:24:39.720 in the same
00:24:40.560 space trying
00:24:41.200 to make
00:24:41.520 electric flight.
00:24:44.300 And am I
00:24:44.980 wrong that the
00:24:45.560 experts said
00:24:46.140 that was never
00:24:46.720 going to happen?
00:24:48.880 Somebody says
00:24:49.480 they already
00:24:49.860 exist in
00:24:50.420 prototype,
00:24:51.040 right?
00:24:51.420 They exist in
00:24:52.060 prototype.
00:24:53.300 And there's
00:24:53.760 the little
00:24:54.120 helicopter-y
00:24:54.940 one,
00:24:55.900 like the
00:24:56.580 drone.
00:24:58.400 I talked
00:24:59.020 about
00:24:59.260 quantum scape
00:25:00.180 16 months
00:25:01.180 ago.
00:25:01.480 Is that
00:25:01.680 another one
00:25:02.020 of the
00:25:02.200 electric
00:25:02.480 planes?
00:25:03.860 All right,
00:25:04.200 well,
00:25:04.660 apparently a
00:25:05.220 lot of
00:25:05.440 electric
00:25:05.820 planes are
00:25:06.300 coming.
00:25:07.480 All right,
00:25:07.740 here's the
00:25:08.100 funniest news
00:25:08.740 of the day.
00:25:10.720 Chuck Schumer
00:25:11.480 was trying
00:25:12.980 to support
00:25:13.580 Biden's
00:25:14.300 idea of
00:25:16.040 selecting a
00:25:17.880 black woman
00:25:19.260 to be nominated
00:25:19.940 for the
00:25:20.340 Supreme Court.
00:25:21.640 And part of
00:25:22.040 Schumer's
00:25:22.420 argument is
00:25:23.080 that out of
00:25:23.580 the entire
00:25:24.020 judiciary,
00:25:25.380 only 6%
00:25:26.320 of the
00:25:26.720 judiciary are
00:25:27.580 black women.
00:25:29.800 Well, that's a
00:25:30.580 pretty good
00:25:30.900 argument, isn't
00:25:31.440 it?
00:25:32.140 It's only 6%
00:25:33.720 are black
00:25:35.640 women.
00:25:36.400 That's clearly a
00:25:37.300 sign of injustice.
00:25:38.840 Let me do some
00:25:39.320 math here.
00:25:40.780 The percentage
00:25:41.740 of black people
00:25:42.920 in the country,
00:25:43.560 a little under
00:25:43.960 13%.
00:25:45.160 But that would
00:25:46.420 be all black
00:25:47.280 citizens in the
00:25:48.140 United States.
00:25:48.900 So women
00:25:49.520 would be
00:25:49.940 roughly,
00:25:50.520 what,
00:25:51.220 half-ish of
00:25:53.880 something a
00:25:54.380 little under
00:25:54.760 13%.
00:25:55.620 That would be
00:25:56.340 in the range
00:25:57.300 of, what,
00:25:57.880 6?
00:25:59.220 Oh,
00:26:00.940 6% is
00:26:01.940 exactly the
00:26:02.840 percentage of
00:26:03.600 black women
00:26:04.160 in the population.
00:26:10.080 Chuck Schumer
00:26:10.940 actually said
00:26:11.560 this in public.
00:26:13.960 And credit
00:26:18.640 where due,
00:26:20.340 Twitter account
00:26:21.120 Daily Sunshine
00:26:22.580 alerted me to
00:26:24.080 this.
00:26:25.580 It's pretty
00:26:26.300 funny.
00:26:27.200 Now, you may
00:26:28.020 or may not
00:26:28.520 know that
00:26:29.160 there's a
00:26:29.600 Dilbert comic
00:26:30.480 which is based
00:26:32.900 on a real-life
00:26:34.000 thing.
00:26:34.320 There was a
00:26:34.660 real boss who
00:26:35.440 said the
00:26:35.800 following,
00:26:37.600 that he was
00:26:38.860 concerned about
00:26:39.540 people calling
00:26:40.240 in sick because
00:26:41.800 he noticed
00:26:42.400 that 40% of
00:26:43.860 all the
00:26:44.860 sick days
00:26:45.520 were on
00:26:46.740 either a
00:26:47.240 Monday or
00:26:47.700 a Friday.
00:26:49.240 So, I mean,
00:26:49.620 what are the
00:26:49.980 odds?
00:26:51.020 Like, what are
00:26:51.660 the odds that
00:26:52.800 40% of all
00:26:54.140 the sick days
00:26:54.720 are either going
00:26:55.220 to be like
00:26:55.600 right next to
00:26:56.140 a weekend,
00:26:57.080 like on a
00:26:57.580 Friday or a
00:26:58.220 Monday?
00:26:58.460 What are the
00:26:59.020 odds of that?
00:27:00.980 Okay, that is
00:27:02.040 40% of the
00:27:02.820 work day.
00:27:04.700 40% of the
00:27:05.700 work week is a
00:27:06.440 Monday or a
00:27:06.880 Friday.
00:27:07.640 So it's
00:27:08.220 exactly what
00:27:08.820 you'd expect.
00:27:10.240 Anyway, do
00:27:12.880 you remember I
00:27:13.780 talked about the
00:27:14.980 meta-analysis that
00:27:17.220 showed that the
00:27:17.940 lockdowns had no
00:27:19.140 effect whatsoever?
00:27:20.780 But then I said it
00:27:22.080 was a meta-analysis and
00:27:23.280 it was so poorly
00:27:23.820 done it was just
00:27:24.540 obviously garbage.
00:27:26.200 And then I told
00:27:26.740 you that Andres
00:27:27.400 Backhouse sort of
00:27:29.320 backed me up on
00:27:30.340 that by picking it
00:27:31.200 apart and showing
00:27:32.600 it was garbage.
00:27:33.180 Fox News has a
00:27:35.960 big thing today
00:27:36.720 on that garbage
00:27:37.880 report saying
00:27:39.760 how the other
00:27:40.460 major media are
00:27:41.380 ignoring it.
00:27:43.040 So here's the
00:27:43.620 Fox News headline.
00:27:44.940 CNN, MSNBC,
00:27:46.360 New York Times,
00:27:46.920 Washington Post
00:27:47.680 completely avoid
00:27:49.120 the Johns Hopkins
00:27:50.100 study finding
00:27:50.920 COVID lockdowns
00:27:51.880 were ineffective.
00:27:54.600 There's one reason
00:27:55.760 they might have
00:27:56.400 completely ignored
00:27:57.380 it because it
00:27:59.700 was garbage.
00:28:01.100 This is sort of
00:28:02.240 embarrassing.
00:28:03.180 for Fox News.
00:28:05.260 You know, I appear
00:28:05.940 on Fox News so
00:28:07.320 it's like a little
00:28:07.920 bit embarrassing
00:28:08.500 for me, honestly.
00:28:10.960 Honestly, it's
00:28:11.740 embarrassing.
00:28:12.800 Like, I don't mean
00:28:13.400 that, like, I don't
00:28:15.360 feel actual shame or
00:28:16.500 embarrassment the way
00:28:17.200 ordinary people do.
00:28:18.540 But in terms of, I
00:28:20.360 have a professional
00:28:21.180 association with this
00:28:22.560 entity, you know,
00:28:24.260 because I've been on
00:28:25.500 it enough times.
00:28:26.880 And I'm thinking
00:28:27.680 to myself, I don't
00:28:28.980 like this at all.
00:28:30.100 I don't like this.
00:28:31.240 I think that they
00:28:33.300 would at least have
00:28:33.960 to wave their arms
00:28:34.760 at the fact that the
00:28:36.300 credibility of the
00:28:37.340 thing was questioned.
00:28:39.340 Now, and I hate to
00:28:40.920 criticize it because I
00:28:42.040 want it to be right.
00:28:43.120 I mean, I want it to be
00:28:44.200 true that none of the
00:28:44.920 lockdowns worked, right?
00:28:46.320 So that fits into my
00:28:49.420 worldview.
00:28:50.560 But I think they should
00:28:51.380 at least, and as
00:28:53.020 somebody's saying here,
00:28:54.140 just because Andres
00:28:56.060 Bacchus picked it apart,
00:28:58.280 it doesn't mean the
00:28:59.860 conclusion's wrong, right?
00:29:02.700 Am I right?
00:29:03.980 I'm not saying the
00:29:04.940 conclusion was wrong.
00:29:06.540 I'm just saying that the
00:29:07.460 quality of it was low.
00:29:09.780 So, you know, use your
00:29:10.960 own judgment there.
00:29:11.900 But if you don't mention
00:29:12.760 that the quality of it
00:29:13.760 was low, I think that's
00:29:15.840 the biggest answer to
00:29:18.200 the mystery of why
00:29:19.020 nobody else was
00:29:19.680 covering it.
00:29:20.780 Because I don't think
00:29:21.960 at this point, I don't
00:29:24.160 think at this point any
00:29:25.540 of the major entities
00:29:26.540 would shy away from
00:29:28.140 that story.
00:29:28.860 Do you?
00:29:30.340 Do you think that as
00:29:31.860 of literally right today
00:29:33.480 that one of these
00:29:34.860 entities like New York
00:29:36.440 Times or Washington
00:29:37.140 Post, do you think that
00:29:38.400 they wouldn't do a
00:29:39.220 story if it were
00:29:40.300 credible and the
00:29:41.840 science is good?
00:29:44.620 I think they would do
00:29:45.520 a story now.
00:29:46.280 Maybe before they
00:29:47.100 wouldn't have, but I
00:29:47.720 think now.
00:29:49.040 I mean, look what's
00:29:49.860 happening.
00:29:50.540 In Iowa, the disaster
00:29:53.040 protocols will be dropped
00:29:54.520 on February 15th.
00:29:55.720 The governor is now.
00:29:56.540 So Iowa is basically
00:29:59.200 moving out of
00:30:00.340 pandemic and into
00:30:01.400 endemic.
00:30:02.620 So yeah, I think it's
00:30:03.480 time.
00:30:04.020 I think everybody's
00:30:04.880 going to do a story
00:30:05.460 like that eventually.
00:30:07.820 All right.
00:30:10.080 You might be aware
00:30:11.260 that China's gigantic
00:30:12.820 public relations
00:30:13.820 disaster kicked off
00:30:15.100 today.
00:30:16.280 Some people call it
00:30:17.400 the Olympics.
00:30:18.000 Some people call it
00:30:18.760 the Omicron Olympics.
00:30:20.680 Some call it the
00:30:21.380 genocide Olympics,
00:30:22.140 but I call it a
00:30:23.700 public relations
00:30:25.520 debacle.
00:30:27.980 And it's a little
00:30:29.500 bit embarrassing
00:30:30.160 also for NBC
00:30:31.320 News, who
00:30:32.640 apparently has the
00:30:33.380 rights to cover
00:30:34.240 this thing.
00:30:35.460 And Twitter
00:30:36.840 user Election
00:30:38.040 Wizard tweeted
00:30:39.280 this.
00:30:40.480 He said,
00:30:40.920 NBC News,
00:30:41.780 both sides
00:30:42.660 approach to the
00:30:43.680 CCP's genocide.
00:30:44.880 and then it
00:30:46.060 quotes them
00:30:46.760 saying, NBC
00:30:47.980 News, it
00:30:48.520 quotes them
00:30:48.960 saying,
00:30:50.300 Western governments
00:30:51.260 allege a
00:30:53.100 systematic
00:30:54.280 repression of
00:30:55.480 Muslim Uyghurs.
00:30:57.140 Allege.
00:30:58.800 That's NBC
00:30:59.660 News.
00:31:00.600 We allege it.
00:31:02.340 And then,
00:31:03.260 quote,
00:31:03.480 it has to be
00:31:04.500 said that the
00:31:05.120 Chinese government
00:31:05.940 emphatically denies
00:31:07.360 all of this.
00:31:08.500 They say the
00:31:09.400 accusations of
00:31:10.280 genocide are the
00:31:11.780 lie of the
00:31:12.360 century.
00:31:13.900 Well, I do think
00:31:14.880 that the genocide
00:31:15.540 part, if you mean
00:31:17.120 actual murder,
00:31:18.820 that would be the
00:31:19.860 lie of the
00:31:20.280 century.
00:31:20.820 But I don't
00:31:21.360 think that's
00:31:21.880 exactly what the
00:31:22.960 first sentence
00:31:23.440 said.
00:31:24.460 The first thing
00:31:25.140 that NBC said
00:31:26.140 was systematic
00:31:27.780 repression.
00:31:29.720 But then they do
00:31:30.800 the both sides
00:31:32.120 thing, and
00:31:33.060 instead of
00:31:33.560 saying, is
00:31:34.520 there or is
00:31:35.340 there not a
00:31:35.920 systematic
00:31:36.340 repression of
00:31:37.560 Uyghurs, which
00:31:39.120 is the claim,
00:31:40.240 they give a
00:31:41.180 defense of
00:31:41.820 genocide, which
00:31:43.760 was not the
00:31:44.300 claim.
00:31:45.860 So if you're
00:31:46.620 not paying
00:31:46.960 attention, it
00:31:47.740 looks like there
00:31:49.420 was a claim and
00:31:50.320 then they addressed
00:31:50.920 it and said it
00:31:51.400 was false.
00:31:52.100 But actually
00:31:52.540 there was a
00:31:52.960 claim and
00:31:53.920 then somebody
00:31:54.420 addressed something
00:31:55.140 completely different.
00:31:56.600 The claim
00:31:57.120 actually stands.
00:31:58.900 They didn't
00:31:59.500 even,
00:31:59.900 deny, or
00:32:02.340 at least not
00:32:03.340 in a direct
00:32:03.940 denial to
00:32:04.600 this claim
00:32:05.240 anyway,
00:32:06.360 systematic
00:32:07.120 repression.
00:32:08.700 So maybe it
00:32:09.340 would be
00:32:09.660 smarter to
00:32:10.680 say that
00:32:11.300 China is
00:32:11.880 involved in
00:32:12.500 systematic
00:32:13.100 repression and
00:32:14.660 let them
00:32:15.060 respond to
00:32:15.660 that.
00:32:16.720 Because every
00:32:17.380 time you say
00:32:17.820 genocide, you're
00:32:18.560 giving them an
00:32:19.100 easy out.
00:32:20.120 Well, where
00:32:20.640 are the bodies?
00:32:22.900 Now, I'm
00:32:23.700 only saying that
00:32:24.280 as far as I
00:32:24.800 know.
00:32:25.780 It's not
00:32:26.300 systematic
00:32:26.940 murder.
00:32:28.740 I don't
00:32:29.340 believe that's
00:32:29.940 been reported.
00:32:31.360 I believe it's
00:32:32.040 systematic
00:32:32.560 repression, which
00:32:34.960 would include
00:32:36.500 reproduction.
00:32:38.540 So, you
00:32:39.240 know, you
00:32:39.460 could argue
00:32:39.820 that reproduction
00:32:40.600 repression
00:32:43.660 would be
00:32:45.140 genocide-ish.
00:32:48.500 But it's
00:32:49.260 not...
00:32:50.100 Oh, cultural
00:32:50.660 genocide, yeah.
00:32:51.440 You could say
00:32:51.920 cultural genocide,
00:32:52.940 that you're just
00:32:53.340 using it that
00:32:53.840 way.
00:32:55.660 Well, have you
00:32:56.260 ever imagined
00:32:56.880 what it would
00:32:57.380 feel like if
00:32:59.260 you were
00:32:59.840 pelted with
00:33:01.300 pocket lint?
00:33:03.260 And let's
00:33:03.640 say it was
00:33:03.980 the pocket
00:33:04.600 lint that
00:33:05.980 came out of
00:33:06.540 your grandfather's
00:33:07.680 suit that
00:33:08.840 had been in
00:33:09.340 the attic in
00:33:11.160 storage for
00:33:11.740 over 40
00:33:12.320 years.
00:33:13.400 And you
00:33:13.900 went up
00:33:14.200 there and
00:33:14.500 you rifled
00:33:15.080 through the
00:33:15.420 pockets and
00:33:15.900 you, oh,
00:33:16.260 here's a
00:33:16.560 little bit,
00:33:17.060 little pocket
00:33:17.580 lint, and
00:33:18.440 somebody, like,
00:33:19.040 threw it at
00:33:19.660 you.
00:33:20.780 Like, what
00:33:22.540 would it feel
00:33:23.000 like if
00:33:24.120 that happened
00:33:24.880 not just
00:33:25.860 once, but
00:33:27.120 it seemed
00:33:27.440 like every
00:33:28.160 single time
00:33:29.380 you checked
00:33:29.840 the news,
00:33:31.400 there was
00:33:31.700 another piece
00:33:32.200 of pocket
00:33:32.720 lint from
00:33:33.360 your grandfather's
00:33:34.220 old suit
00:33:34.660 hitting you?
00:33:36.560 It would be
00:33:36.920 like waterboarding,
00:33:37.960 wouldn't it?
00:33:38.300 I mean, it
00:33:38.620 would be
00:33:38.860 terrible.
00:33:40.040 And that
00:33:40.580 is what I
00:33:41.180 feel is how
00:33:42.640 Spotify and
00:33:43.520 Joe Rogan
00:33:44.000 must feel,
00:33:44.840 because today
00:33:45.860 even Barbara
00:33:46.500 Streisand has
00:33:47.240 threatened to
00:33:47.680 remove her
00:33:48.160 music from
00:33:48.700 Spotify.
00:33:49.900 If they
00:33:50.420 don't de-platform
00:33:51.320 Joe Rogan
00:33:52.000 immediately,
00:33:54.100 and I'm
00:33:54.460 thinking to
00:33:54.900 myself,
00:33:56.140 my God,
00:33:56.740 the slow
00:33:57.200 trickle of
00:33:58.480 being bombarded
00:33:59.280 by pocket
00:34:00.800 lint from
00:34:01.360 your grandfather's
00:34:02.180 suit that
00:34:02.560 was in the
00:34:02.920 attic for
00:34:03.300 40 years,
00:34:05.280 the walls
00:34:06.180 are closing
00:34:06.620 in.
00:34:07.760 At this
00:34:08.340 point, we
00:34:08.780 don't know
00:34:09.060 the exact
00:34:09.620 dollar amounts,
00:34:10.580 but experts
00:34:11.980 are estimating
00:34:12.720 the Spotify,
00:34:14.260 because of all
00:34:14.700 these boycotts
00:34:15.380 of Joe
00:34:15.680 Rogan,
00:34:16.540 they may
00:34:17.160 have already
00:34:17.820 lost up to
00:34:18.520 $1,000.
00:34:20.520 Already.
00:34:20.980 At least
00:34:22.180 multiple
00:34:23.400 hundreds of
00:34:24.040 dollars of
00:34:24.620 loss, and
00:34:26.260 despite that,
00:34:28.780 Spotify is
00:34:29.880 standing strong
00:34:30.960 behind their
00:34:31.560 talent, Joe
00:34:32.960 Rogan.
00:34:33.820 So you have
00:34:34.440 to give
00:34:34.700 Spotify some
00:34:35.460 credit.
00:34:36.180 That's a hit.
00:34:38.840 Hundreds,
00:34:39.440 possibly even
00:34:40.040 as much as
00:34:40.540 $1,000 they've
00:34:41.720 lost, and
00:34:43.140 they're just
00:34:43.860 going to push
00:34:44.260 right ahead.
00:34:46.160 I say they
00:34:48.080 deserve our
00:34:48.760 respect.
00:34:49.160 Mike
00:34:51.860 Cernovich had
00:34:52.460 an interesting
00:34:53.780 observation in
00:34:55.020 a tweet.
00:34:57.640 He said,
00:34:58.360 for the first
00:34:58.760 time in his
00:34:59.320 life, he
00:35:00.880 goes, for the
00:35:01.540 first time in
00:35:02.060 my life, no
00:35:04.120 one believes the
00:35:05.000 regime when they
00:35:05.720 claim to have
00:35:06.360 taken down a
00:35:07.620 terrorist.
00:35:09.640 He says,
00:35:10.800 friends, I
00:35:11.300 can't overstate
00:35:12.060 how this is
00:35:12.700 truly unprecedented.
00:35:13.820 So the
00:35:16.700 whole story
00:35:17.140 about the
00:35:17.620 ISIS leader
00:35:18.400 being killed,
00:35:20.400 how many
00:35:21.040 people just
00:35:21.740 thought to
00:35:22.120 themselves,
00:35:23.560 oh, oh,
00:35:24.300 did we?
00:35:27.420 Somebody got
00:35:28.320 killed in a
00:35:29.080 remote place
00:35:29.840 that we can't
00:35:30.620 easily verify,
00:35:34.060 and it just
00:35:35.140 happened to be
00:35:35.780 when Biden's
00:35:36.700 popularity numbers
00:35:38.520 were kind of
00:35:40.040 low, kind of
00:35:41.280 low, and if
00:35:42.300 there's one
00:35:42.740 thing that you
00:35:43.280 can guarantee
00:35:43.900 will get
00:35:44.380 people on
00:35:44.860 your side,
00:35:45.700 from both
00:35:46.340 Republicans and
00:35:47.200 Democrats, it's
00:35:48.740 to take on a
00:35:49.500 terrorist leader.
00:35:50.980 It's like the
00:35:51.460 best thing you
00:35:51.980 could possibly
00:35:52.520 do, and he
00:35:53.480 did it at the
00:35:54.040 best possible
00:35:54.680 time.
00:35:55.540 I was joking
00:35:56.180 yesterday that
00:35:56.800 he must have a
00:35:57.440 checklist, and
00:35:58.700 they just look at
00:35:59.300 his approvals,
00:36:00.040 it's like,
00:36:00.720 approval level down
00:36:02.360 to, oh,
00:36:03.120 God, 43%,
00:36:04.240 oh, God,
00:36:05.080 oh, God,
00:36:05.560 get the
00:36:06.560 terrorist
00:36:06.860 checklist,
00:36:08.360 ahead of, we
00:36:09.940 did Al-Qaeda,
00:36:11.020 okay, what's
00:36:12.120 left?
00:36:12.640 We got
00:36:13.080 Soleimani,
00:36:14.720 okay, okay,
00:36:15.340 okay, ISIS,
00:36:16.360 have we hit
00:36:17.840 ISIS?
00:36:18.580 We'll do ISIS,
00:36:19.580 I think we
00:36:20.000 could get those
00:36:20.520 numbers up 5%.
00:36:21.560 Now, I'm not
00:36:25.060 saying anything
00:36:25.620 like that happened.
00:36:27.400 I am saying
00:36:28.040 that I agree
00:36:28.700 with Mike
00:36:29.140 Cernovich's
00:36:29.840 comment that
00:36:31.060 our level of
00:36:31.960 skepticism is
00:36:34.340 approaching practical
00:36:35.540 levels.
00:36:37.700 That's right.
00:36:39.340 The level of
00:36:40.280 skepticism that
00:36:41.200 the public is
00:36:41.920 now willing to
00:36:42.680 somewhat automatically
00:36:43.660 apply to
00:36:44.300 everything, it's
00:36:45.940 approaching useful,
00:36:49.440 almost.
00:36:50.720 It's almost good
00:36:52.280 enough to keep
00:36:53.700 us out of the
00:36:54.440 wood chipper.
00:36:55.500 Not quite there.
00:36:57.220 We're still a
00:36:58.000 little bit too
00:36:59.700 believing.
00:37:01.800 We're still a
00:37:02.620 little bit too
00:37:03.140 gullible,
00:37:03.740 especially
00:37:04.120 if something
00:37:05.300 comes from
00:37:05.820 our own
00:37:06.240 team.
00:37:07.140 We'll
00:37:07.500 believe anything
00:37:08.020 from our
00:37:08.460 own team.
00:37:09.100 That's the
00:37:09.420 problem.
00:37:10.700 But I feel
00:37:12.260 like our
00:37:12.940 distrust of
00:37:14.560 the government
00:37:14.980 is finally,
00:37:16.260 finally reaching
00:37:17.900 healthy levels.
00:37:22.200 Maybe we
00:37:23.180 could do
00:37:23.500 something about
00:37:24.200 getting an
00:37:24.840 election system
00:37:25.620 that is fully
00:37:27.340 credible because
00:37:28.300 it's fully
00:37:28.880 transparent,
00:37:30.400 instead of a
00:37:31.400 little bit
00:37:31.780 transparent,
00:37:32.520 and then we
00:37:33.020 act like that
00:37:33.580 was the
00:37:33.840 whole thing.
00:37:35.180 Maybe.
00:37:36.140 Maybe we
00:37:37.620 can start
00:37:38.060 having wars
00:37:38.820 that make
00:37:39.300 sense, if
00:37:40.760 any war
00:37:41.160 makes sense,
00:37:42.200 and just
00:37:42.680 avoiding all
00:37:43.300 the ones
00:37:43.720 that were
00:37:44.520 bullshit.
00:37:45.820 Maybe.
00:37:46.760 Maybe.
00:37:47.020 Maybe we
00:37:49.140 can stop
00:37:50.100 believing all
00:37:50.720 the experts
00:37:51.320 who have been
00:37:51.720 wrong about
00:37:52.180 everything every
00:37:52.900 time, which
00:37:55.540 of course is
00:37:56.120 an exaggeration.
00:37:56.920 to be fair,
00:38:01.080 the experts
00:38:01.920 obviously help
00:38:02.940 a lot.
00:38:03.780 Civilization
00:38:04.180 requires them.
00:38:05.220 But the
00:38:05.580 trouble is we
00:38:06.100 can't tell
00:38:06.480 which ones
00:38:06.900 are right.
00:38:09.200 This is the
00:38:09.880 same problem
00:38:10.360 with investing.
00:38:12.880 If I said,
00:38:13.780 hey, go buy
00:38:14.360 some stocks,
00:38:16.080 and you would
00:38:16.620 say, well, I
00:38:17.600 don't know
00:38:17.880 anything about
00:38:18.340 stocks or
00:38:18.940 investing.
00:38:19.480 How am I
00:38:19.820 going to buy
00:38:20.160 the right
00:38:20.500 ones?
00:38:21.660 And I'd say,
00:38:22.140 well, just do
00:38:22.760 your best.
00:38:23.680 Use your
00:38:24.020 judgment.
00:38:25.120 You'd just go
00:38:25.660 off and buy
00:38:26.080 some stocks.
00:38:27.060 How would
00:38:27.640 that do?
00:38:28.680 Well, if you
00:38:29.340 bought one
00:38:29.940 stock, your
00:38:31.780 odds would
00:38:32.180 not be good.
00:38:34.100 So instead,
00:38:34.980 what do you
00:38:35.220 do?
00:38:35.580 Well, you get
00:38:35.960 an expert to
00:38:36.720 help you.
00:38:37.780 How many
00:38:38.400 experts are
00:38:39.120 there?
00:38:39.720 So there are
00:38:40.220 10,000 stocks,
00:38:41.640 roughly.
00:38:42.660 That's how many
00:38:43.180 you could buy
00:38:43.620 in the United
00:38:44.020 States.
00:38:45.160 How many
00:38:45.800 experts are
00:38:46.540 there?
00:38:47.640 Way more
00:38:48.280 than 10,000,
00:38:49.120 right?
00:38:50.080 So instead
00:38:50.800 of guessing
00:38:51.340 one in 10,000
00:38:52.560 and hoping
00:38:53.200 that you get
00:38:54.180 like a good
00:38:55.660 stock, in
00:38:57.560 order to
00:38:58.060 improve your
00:38:58.800 odds, you've
00:39:00.480 decided to
00:39:01.100 pick one
00:39:01.640 out of 100,000
00:39:02.940 experts who
00:39:05.260 would then be
00:39:05.860 guessing on
00:39:07.380 what stocks
00:39:07.940 to buy if
00:39:09.820 they bought
00:39:10.200 stocks for
00:39:10.740 you.
00:39:11.120 Now, some
00:39:11.540 of them might
00:39:11.920 put you in
00:39:12.340 a managed
00:39:13.460 fund, so
00:39:14.680 they charge
00:39:15.140 you a fee
00:39:15.580 to put you
00:39:16.040 in a fund
00:39:17.040 that charges
00:39:17.520 you a fee.
00:39:19.080 Not so
00:39:19.660 good.
00:39:19.920 So my
00:39:20.780 point is, it
00:39:21.980 doesn't matter
00:39:22.500 how much
00:39:22.860 the experts
00:39:23.460 know.
00:39:24.620 If you
00:39:25.360 don't know,
00:39:26.800 I don't
00:39:27.140 know which
00:39:27.520 experts are
00:39:28.140 right.
00:39:29.900 Right?
00:39:31.480 The problem
00:39:32.240 is not what
00:39:32.740 the experts
00:39:33.160 know.
00:39:33.660 The problem
00:39:34.020 isn't what
00:39:34.600 you know.
00:39:35.640 And it
00:39:36.520 doesn't help
00:39:36.960 me if
00:39:37.220 experts know
00:39:37.860 everything,
00:39:38.760 because I
00:39:39.120 don't know
00:39:39.400 which one
00:39:39.760 is right.
00:39:41.320 So once
00:39:43.400 you realize
00:39:43.840 that, then
00:39:45.500 I think you've
00:39:46.360 reached a new
00:39:47.480 level there.
00:39:47.940 All right.
00:39:52.720 Somebody said,
00:39:53.460 I've made a
00:39:53.820 small fortune
00:39:54.440 from investing
00:39:55.280 in Apple.
00:39:57.560 Apple is a
00:39:58.700 weird exception,
00:39:59.840 because they're
00:40:00.840 effectively a
00:40:01.760 monopoly.
00:40:03.620 Once you get
00:40:04.300 in the Apple
00:40:04.840 ecosystem, you
00:40:05.840 just can't get
00:40:06.400 out, if you
00:40:08.500 found that out.
00:40:09.220 I mean, you
00:40:09.560 can, it's just
00:40:10.160 a huge pain
00:40:10.700 in the ass.
00:40:11.860 So there
00:40:12.960 aren't too
00:40:13.420 many things
00:40:14.080 like Apple.
00:40:16.160 That's sort
00:40:16.800 of a once
00:40:17.380 and a
00:40:17.640 generation
00:40:18.120 sort of
00:40:18.740 thing.
00:40:19.220 You know,
00:40:19.400 Microsoft was
00:40:20.240 that for a
00:40:20.820 long time,
00:40:21.360 and arguably
00:40:22.000 still is.
00:40:22.900 I think Amazon
00:40:23.600 probably is
00:40:24.280 that.
00:40:25.660 But there
00:40:26.200 are very few
00:40:26.660 things in
00:40:27.120 that category.
00:40:28.260 Now, keep
00:40:28.940 in mind that
00:40:29.780 if Apple
00:40:30.660 had not
00:40:31.320 succeeded,
00:40:32.540 I would be
00:40:33.740 here telling
00:40:34.160 you, well,
00:40:34.540 it was obvious
00:40:35.000 it didn't
00:40:35.460 succeed.
00:40:36.500 So I guess
00:40:37.680 I have to
00:40:38.220 review my
00:40:39.540 own skepticism
00:40:40.320 here.
00:40:41.520 Because you
00:40:42.040 really, I
00:40:43.320 also made a
00:40:45.200 killing on
00:40:45.820 Apple.
00:40:46.100 I've held
00:40:47.040 it for a
00:40:47.600 long time
00:40:47.960 now.
00:40:48.740 But I
00:40:49.560 don't think
00:40:49.960 I was a
00:40:50.340 genius.
00:40:51.420 I think I
00:40:51.920 got lucky.
00:40:52.660 That's the
00:40:52.960 way I
00:40:53.240 process it.
00:40:57.020 Did we
00:40:57.340 already talk
00:40:58.420 about what
00:40:58.680 Scott said?
00:40:59.800 These
00:41:00.240 things you
00:41:01.140 see, those
00:41:03.840 are just
00:41:04.260 a dermatologist
00:41:06.680 with a
00:41:07.640 spray,
00:41:08.800 that freezing
00:41:09.420 stuff.
00:41:10.080 These are
00:41:10.400 just little
00:41:10.920 cosmetic changes.
00:41:12.600 things.
00:41:14.440 Literally,
00:41:15.160 there was
00:41:15.580 just a
00:41:15.860 little
00:41:16.100 cosmetic
00:41:17.040 thing
00:41:17.420 here
00:41:17.620 that I
00:41:17.900 had
00:41:18.000 frozen.
00:41:18.620 So for
00:41:18.880 a while
00:41:19.220 it'll
00:41:19.480 look worse
00:41:20.060 and then
00:41:20.820 a month
00:41:22.080 from now
00:41:22.400 it'll be
00:41:22.660 gone.
00:41:24.520 Did I
00:41:24.840 sell any
00:41:25.360 Ethereum?
00:41:26.300 I only
00:41:27.220 transferred
00:41:28.660 some Ethereum
00:41:29.340 into Bitcoin
00:41:30.220 at just
00:41:31.320 about the
00:41:31.720 worst time,
00:41:32.740 but not
00:41:33.380 much of it.
00:41:34.240 So I
00:41:34.540 haven't
00:41:35.540 sold any
00:41:36.900 beyond
00:41:37.480 just
00:41:38.820 transferring
00:41:39.300 it to
00:41:39.600 another
00:41:39.860 crypto.
00:41:46.900 You
00:41:47.580 bought
00:41:47.880 Bitcoin
00:41:48.560 or
00:41:48.860 GBTC
00:41:49.400 based on
00:41:49.980 you
00:41:50.160 owning
00:41:50.400 it.
00:41:51.840 Well,
00:41:53.120 you
00:41:53.440 shouldn't
00:41:53.760 take
00:41:54.020 financial
00:41:54.520 advice
00:41:55.000 from me.
00:41:56.220 However,
00:41:56.920 I would
00:41:57.260 say that
00:41:57.880 whatever
00:41:58.980 your reasons
00:41:59.660 for holding
00:42:00.360 Bitcoin
00:42:02.080 originally,
00:42:03.480 I don't
00:42:04.080 think it's
00:42:04.440 changed.
00:42:06.120 I don't
00:42:06.420 think it's
00:42:06.700 changed.
00:42:07.480 Because I
00:42:08.080 don't think
00:42:08.400 the reason
00:42:08.820 was that
00:42:09.240 you could
00:42:09.580 see what
00:42:09.960 was coming.
00:42:11.140 I think
00:42:11.460 the reason
00:42:11.880 was that
00:42:12.320 you couldn't
00:42:12.740 see what
00:42:13.080 was coming.
00:42:14.120 So that
00:42:14.440 it was part
00:42:16.100 of a
00:42:16.900 diverse
00:42:17.300 portfolio
00:42:17.920 that sometimes
00:42:19.360 other things
00:42:19.940 will go down
00:42:20.500 and that'll
00:42:20.900 go up
00:42:21.320 and vice
00:42:21.720 versa.
00:42:27.720 Government
00:42:28.240 interference.
00:42:29.540 The risk
00:42:31.860 of government
00:42:32.380 interference
00:42:32.900 has always
00:42:33.460 been there,
00:42:33.940 hasn't it?
00:42:34.820 But also
00:42:35.480 the risk
00:42:35.980 that somebody
00:42:36.520 would find
00:42:37.040 a, let's
00:42:37.860 say, a
00:42:38.140 security
00:42:38.580 hole in
00:42:39.080 it, always
00:42:39.840 there.
00:42:41.260 As again,
00:42:42.040 more or
00:42:42.660 less, I
00:42:43.940 don't know.
00:42:47.140 Bitcoin is a
00:42:48.000 passing off
00:42:48.540 fraud going
00:42:49.060 through the
00:42:49.460 courts, my
00:42:50.000 friend.
00:42:50.760 Going through
00:42:51.160 the courts,
00:42:51.620 I don't know
00:42:51.920 what that
00:42:52.160 means.
00:42:53.720 Any
00:42:53.960 Canadian
00:42:54.460 truckers
00:42:55.020 predictions?
00:42:56.520 Well,
00:42:56.880 everything that
00:42:57.660 draws the
00:42:58.680 public's
00:42:59.080 attention
00:42:59.460 toward putting
00:43:01.640 pressure on
00:43:02.200 governments to
00:43:02.960 end the
00:43:03.240 mandates is
00:43:03.940 good.
00:43:05.240 So anything
00:43:05.800 that can
00:43:06.260 stay in
00:43:06.660 the news
00:43:07.220 is what
00:43:07.900 the politicians
00:43:08.660 will care
00:43:09.200 about.
00:43:10.140 And if the
00:43:10.460 politicians see,
00:43:11.340 hey, this
00:43:11.700 public, these
00:43:13.380 truckers have a
00:43:14.260 lot of support,
00:43:15.840 then they're more
00:43:16.700 likely to end the
00:43:17.440 mandate sooner.
00:43:18.620 So the more
00:43:19.180 support you show
00:43:20.380 for the truckers,
00:43:21.480 the more you're
00:43:22.700 helping yourself if
00:43:23.640 you want to end
00:43:24.060 mandates.
00:43:25.020 But you know,
00:43:25.560 one of the things
00:43:26.100 that it's easy to
00:43:27.300 forget is how
00:43:28.640 many people don't
00:43:29.440 want to end
00:43:29.900 mandates, like the
00:43:31.340 citizens.
00:43:32.520 And I hardly
00:43:33.500 ever see them
00:43:34.140 unless I see
00:43:34.680 them in the
00:43:35.060 comments on
00:43:35.740 Twitter, because
00:43:37.040 I don't know
00:43:37.400 anybody in
00:43:37.840 person.
00:43:38.580 Do you?
00:43:40.480 I literally
00:43:41.520 don't know
00:43:41.940 anybody in
00:43:42.580 person who
00:43:43.360 doesn't want
00:43:43.800 all the
00:43:44.160 mandates to
00:43:44.680 end.
00:43:45.340 Not in
00:43:45.740 person.
00:43:48.760 But there's
00:43:49.500 plenty of
00:43:49.980 them.
00:43:50.400 Obviously,
00:43:51.020 there are
00:43:51.180 plenty of
00:43:51.560 them.
00:43:53.640 Some of
00:43:54.240 you know
00:43:54.520 them, and
00:43:55.300 they're in
00:43:56.100 the comments.
00:43:57.300 And here's
00:43:58.100 another thing
00:44:00.520 that I
00:44:01.000 thought of
00:44:01.420 yesterday.
00:44:02.360 You know
00:44:02.840 how I was
00:44:03.360 talking about
00:44:03.780 how the
00:44:04.160 teenagers seem
00:44:05.240 to be not
00:44:05.820 rebellious enough
00:44:06.680 about masks?
00:44:08.920 I have a
00:44:09.900 really weird
00:44:10.600 hypothesis that
00:44:14.220 teenagers like
00:44:15.340 covering their
00:44:15.940 faces at
00:44:18.660 school.
00:44:20.400 That the
00:44:21.460 mask is
00:44:22.020 uncomfortable,
00:44:23.560 but I believe
00:44:24.260 that teenagers
00:44:24.840 like covering
00:44:25.940 their faces.
00:44:28.120 Because one of
00:44:29.120 the biggest
00:44:29.420 problems in
00:44:29.980 high school
00:44:30.360 is people
00:44:30.820 making fun
00:44:31.420 of people
00:44:31.800 for their
00:44:32.200 looks.
00:44:33.400 And I
00:44:33.600 think anybody
00:44:34.040 who's got
00:44:34.680 like some
00:44:35.120 acne, for
00:44:35.700 example, how
00:44:37.060 many teenagers
00:44:37.720 have at least
00:44:38.400 some acne
00:44:38.960 where the
00:44:39.480 mask would
00:44:40.080 cover it up?
00:44:41.700 I actually
00:44:42.500 think that
00:44:42.960 anybody who
00:44:43.500 even has
00:44:43.900 one pimple
00:44:44.780 is glad to
00:44:46.180 have a mask
00:44:46.740 if they're
00:44:47.080 16 or 15
00:44:48.120 or 14.
00:44:49.800 So the
00:44:51.900 really
00:44:53.440 conspicuous
00:44:54.560 lack of
00:44:55.440 pushback by
00:44:56.260 teenagers is
00:44:57.800 telling me that
00:44:58.460 this might be
00:44:58.960 like hoodies.
00:45:00.580 Have you
00:45:00.820 ever seen how
00:45:01.460 often the
00:45:02.320 teens will
00:45:02.940 wear the
00:45:03.220 hoodies?
00:45:04.040 They'll wear
00:45:04.620 it so it's
00:45:05.120 almost completely
00:45:05.820 covering the
00:45:06.360 face.
00:45:07.620 And if you
00:45:08.140 look at women
00:45:08.700 who have
00:45:09.220 their hair
00:45:10.240 down, how
00:45:11.380 often do you
00:45:11.740 see women
00:45:12.380 just using
00:45:12.860 their hair as
00:45:13.500 like a shield
00:45:14.720 for their
00:45:15.080 face?
00:45:16.100 Men grow
00:45:16.820 beards.
00:45:18.060 Beards are in
00:45:18.800 right now.
00:45:19.800 It's basically
00:45:20.340 a face covering.
00:45:21.380 So you
00:45:26.040 have to throw
00:45:26.480 this in the
00:45:26.920 mix.
00:45:27.520 I think that
00:45:28.000 teenagers
00:45:28.480 actually got
00:45:29.400 used to
00:45:29.980 masks and
00:45:31.280 are finding a
00:45:32.060 benefit in
00:45:32.720 them that was
00:45:33.300 completely
00:45:33.740 non-obvious,
00:45:34.880 which is they
00:45:35.460 like to cover
00:45:35.940 their faces.
00:45:38.100 I think that's
00:45:39.200 actually happening.
00:45:40.560 Because otherwise,
00:45:41.700 can you think of
00:45:42.320 anything else you
00:45:43.220 could make
00:45:43.600 teenagers do that
00:45:44.580 they wouldn't
00:45:44.920 push back
00:45:45.420 harder?
00:45:46.860 Think about
00:45:47.500 it.
00:45:48.960 Name anything
00:45:50.020 else you could
00:45:50.780 do that would
00:45:51.280 be this
00:45:51.660 intrusive that
00:45:54.560 they wouldn't
00:45:54.920 push back
00:45:55.420 harder on.
00:45:57.460 It feels like
00:45:58.700 they not only
00:45:59.820 got used to
00:46:00.420 it, but maybe
00:46:00.960 found some
00:46:01.580 benefits we
00:46:02.220 did not
00:46:02.680 anticipate.
00:46:03.760 Because the
00:46:04.960 younger ones
00:46:05.560 might be,
00:46:07.820 Carl says,
00:46:09.200 damn you,
00:46:09.640 I think you're
00:46:10.120 right.
00:46:10.540 I think I'm
00:46:11.100 right too.
00:46:12.700 I think I'm
00:46:13.560 right too.
00:46:14.220 I don't think
00:46:14.880 they would
00:46:15.120 necessarily say
00:46:15.960 it if you
00:46:17.320 ask them.
00:46:17.840 You might not
00:46:18.160 be aware of
00:46:18.660 it.
00:46:19.920 And here's
00:46:20.620 what keyed
00:46:21.880 me to
00:46:22.180 it.
00:46:23.420 There have
00:46:23.800 been a
00:46:24.120 number of
00:46:24.560 situations in
00:46:25.380 which I was
00:46:25.800 glad to have
00:46:26.440 a mask on.
00:46:28.520 Has anybody
00:46:29.140 had that
00:46:29.620 experience yet?
00:46:34.100 Have you
00:46:34.640 had even
00:46:35.020 one situation,
00:46:36.020 let's say an
00:46:36.440 odd, unusual
00:46:37.300 situation,
00:46:38.880 whatever it
00:46:39.460 was?
00:46:40.440 Yeah, see,
00:46:41.240 in the comments,
00:46:42.260 a lot of
00:46:42.560 people say
00:46:42.940 yes.
00:46:43.760 At least for
00:46:44.340 some limited,
00:46:45.500 now I'm not
00:46:45.960 saying that you
00:46:46.560 enjoy the
00:46:47.300 masks.
00:46:48.220 I'm saying that
00:46:48.900 there might have
00:46:49.300 been at
00:46:49.540 least one
00:46:50.020 time when
00:46:51.260 you were
00:46:51.460 happy to
00:46:51.820 have it
00:46:52.040 on.
00:46:53.420 I'll give
00:46:53.960 you an
00:46:54.160 example.
00:46:56.100 Do you ever
00:46:56.780 have, you're
00:46:57.640 going to talk
00:46:58.060 to somebody
00:46:58.540 and maybe
00:46:59.680 you ate
00:47:00.160 something,
00:47:00.860 you're not
00:47:01.460 sure about
00:47:01.860 your breath?
00:47:03.360 Has anybody
00:47:03.920 thought to
00:47:04.340 themselves,
00:47:04.760 oh, I'm
00:47:05.620 glad I can
00:47:06.040 just put
00:47:06.360 this mask
00:47:06.880 on because
00:47:07.540 I'm worried
00:47:07.880 about my
00:47:08.280 breath?
00:47:09.740 I'll bet,
00:47:10.580 I'll bet you
00:47:10.940 have.
00:47:11.420 Has anybody
00:47:11.780 had anything
00:47:12.920 going on with
00:47:13.680 their face,
00:47:15.400 like their
00:47:16.940 lips are
00:47:17.940 chapped or
00:47:18.460 there's a
00:47:18.920 pimple or
00:47:19.420 they forgot
00:47:19.780 to shave or
00:47:20.540 they don't
00:47:20.800 have makeup
00:47:21.200 on or
00:47:21.900 forgot their
00:47:22.980 lipstick?
00:47:24.620 I feel like
00:47:25.380 there are 50
00:47:26.580 reasons.
00:47:27.320 Now I have
00:47:27.780 one that's
00:47:28.220 unique to me,
00:47:29.940 which is now
00:47:31.460 that I'm more
00:47:31.960 recognized in
00:47:32.640 public, I
00:47:33.980 actually, I
00:47:36.140 hate to say
00:47:36.660 it, I'm
00:47:38.540 obviously very
00:47:40.020 anti-mask,
00:47:41.780 mask mandate,
00:47:43.580 but there have
00:47:45.340 been times when
00:47:46.160 I felt more
00:47:46.680 comfortable with
00:47:47.280 the mask on
00:47:47.840 in public.
00:47:50.720 Now that's
00:47:51.360 unique to me
00:47:52.100 because of
00:47:53.260 recognizability.
00:47:54.460 There have
00:47:54.760 also been
00:47:55.260 times when
00:47:56.480 I was so
00:47:57.060 cold that
00:47:58.980 it was
00:47:59.620 conspicuously
00:48:00.560 warmer with
00:48:01.300 the mask on
00:48:02.040 when I was
00:48:02.540 just, say,
00:48:03.060 walking to
00:48:03.540 my car,
00:48:04.420 that I would
00:48:04.940 leave the
00:48:05.280 mask on to
00:48:05.860 walk to
00:48:06.120 the car
00:48:06.400 because it
00:48:06.720 was warmer.
00:48:08.440 You know,
00:48:08.740 it's amazing
00:48:09.280 what you can
00:48:09.740 get used to.
00:48:13.180 Yeah, I
00:48:13.860 mean, I
00:48:14.700 haven't worn
00:48:15.060 a mask in
00:48:15.620 a few days
00:48:16.820 more than,
00:48:18.180 you know,
00:48:18.520 actually I
00:48:19.060 wore a mask
00:48:19.620 in the
00:48:19.900 doctor's
00:48:20.320 office because
00:48:21.700 it's a
00:48:22.040 doctor's
00:48:22.460 office.
00:48:23.720 You know,
00:48:23.980 part of my
00:48:25.360 rebellion is
00:48:27.080 that I try
00:48:28.580 to be sensitive
00:48:29.200 to who is
00:48:30.440 the person on
00:48:31.240 the other
00:48:31.520 side of the
00:48:31.900 rebellion,
00:48:32.220 and I'm not
00:48:33.300 going to rebel
00:48:33.720 in a doctor's
00:48:34.520 office.
00:48:36.080 You get that,
00:48:37.020 right?
00:48:37.420 It has nothing
00:48:38.040 to do with my
00:48:38.680 belief about
00:48:39.360 my risk.
00:48:40.900 It's simply a
00:48:41.840 respect for the
00:48:42.740 office.
00:48:44.100 Does that make
00:48:44.720 sense?
00:48:45.680 If the
00:48:46.280 doctor's
00:48:46.700 wearing a
00:48:47.080 mask, and
00:48:49.120 I know the
00:48:49.560 doctor would
00:48:50.060 prefer it,
00:48:51.300 that's one
00:48:51.980 setting in
00:48:52.660 which it
00:48:53.220 has nothing
00:48:53.620 to do with
00:48:54.040 the mask.
00:48:54.660 It's more
00:48:54.920 about just
00:48:55.780 respect for
00:48:56.460 the professional.
00:48:57.280 That's all.
00:48:58.660 And if you
00:49:00.220 wanted to be a
00:49:01.020 rebel about
00:49:01.780 that, that's
00:49:02.300 your business.
00:49:02.960 I'm just
00:49:03.200 saying it's a
00:49:03.720 personal respect
00:49:04.580 thing, and it
00:49:05.860 only lasts, you
00:49:06.520 know, ten
00:49:06.800 minutes.
00:49:07.780 So it's not
00:49:08.620 going to make
00:49:09.020 or break whether
00:49:09.620 masks are
00:49:10.240 mandated.
00:49:10.680 But the
00:49:12.780 place that
00:49:13.260 doesn't make
00:49:13.640 sense is
00:49:14.060 Target, you
00:49:15.000 know, your
00:49:16.220 gym, that
00:49:17.480 sort of
00:49:17.740 thing.
00:49:20.160 No, I'm
00:49:20.680 not saying you
00:49:21.140 need them.
00:49:21.900 Nothing about
00:49:22.600 science.
00:49:25.060 All right,
00:49:25.720 that's all for
00:49:26.180 now, I
00:49:27.660 believe.
00:49:28.600 It was sort
00:49:29.040 of a slow
00:49:29.560 news day.
00:49:30.540 Tomorrow it's
00:49:31.040 going to be
00:49:31.340 better.
00:49:32.360 And why
00:49:34.240 don't you have
00:49:34.580 a good weekend?
00:49:35.900 Okay?
00:49:37.220 All right.
00:49:37.960 Have a good
00:49:38.340 weekend.