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

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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. 0.98

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, 1.00

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, 1.00

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 0.80

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 0.87

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 0.87

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 0.82

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 1.00

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 0.51

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. 1.00

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. 0.81

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 1.00

00:25:47.280 citizens in the

00:25:48.140 United States.

00:25:48.900 So women 0.99

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.85

00:32:11.880 involved in

00:32:12.500 systematic

00:32:13.100 repression and

00:32:14.660 let them 0.55

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 0.91

00:33:46.500 Streisand has

00:33:47.240 threatened to

00:33:47.680 remove her 0.99

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 0.74

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, 1.00

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 0.93

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. 0.97

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 0.71

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 1.00

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 0.99

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 0.97

00:45:16.820 beards.

00:45:18.060 Beards are in 0.74

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 0.64

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.

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