Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1645 Scott Adams： Perceptual Oddities, The GoFundMe Debacle, Lots of Fun

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00:01:04.300 Oh, yeah.

00:01:06.580 Oh, yeah.

00:01:09.440 So, yeah, Facebook slash meta is having some stock problems.

00:01:16.660 And first of all, I don't own any direct Facebook stock,

00:01:21.940 so I like to mention that.

00:01:24.700 You should remind me to tell you that if I ever forget,

00:01:27.540 if I'm talking about a big company,

00:01:29.160 because I think that's always fair.

00:01:32.120 But I don't have any Facebook stock,

00:01:34.260 and here's the reason.

00:01:36.000 I don't know any kids who use Facebook.

00:01:40.600 Am I wrong?

00:01:43.340 Show me some kids using Facebook,

00:01:45.200 and I'll be all in on that investment.

00:01:49.800 This is something I heard long ago.

00:01:53.380 I don't think I'll give an attribution for it.

00:01:56.060 But it was a long time ago,

00:01:58.260 and a very skilled investor

00:02:00.680 once said,

00:02:02.580 don't invest in anything a kid wouldn't use,

00:02:04.840 meaning that it's not going to be around that long

00:02:06.960 if kids have already rejected it

00:02:08.880 for whatever reason.

00:02:09.760 So, now, they might use the metaverse.

00:02:15.220 I think Zuckerberg is always maybe underrated

00:02:20.580 for how good he is as a leader and CEO and all the rest.

00:02:26.920 I mean, how many people were as good

00:02:30.060 at being a startup person

00:02:31.580 as they were at running an enormous company?

00:02:36.320 There are not too many people like that, right?

00:02:38.500 Michael Dell?

00:02:41.420 Probably Bill Gates?

00:02:45.240 Yeah.

00:02:45.720 Yeah, Elon.

00:02:46.500 Elon Musk.

00:02:47.640 Right.

00:02:47.980 Yeah, so when you hear about somebody like that,

00:02:50.340 it sticks in your mind.

00:02:52.000 All right.

00:02:53.440 Here's a tiny little story

00:02:55.880 that could be gigantic.

00:02:59.780 This will sound like,

00:03:00.940 oh, a little technical breakthrough, maybe.

00:03:04.380 And, you know, these technical breakthroughs,

00:03:06.220 you always have to judge them with a grain of salt

00:03:08.460 will they ever turn into anything real

00:03:10.660 or is it just a science-y article?

00:03:13.740 Well, here it is.

00:03:15.020 This was tweeted by a Bitcom Texan.

00:03:18.560 And it says,

00:03:19.600 MIT engineers create the, quote,

00:03:21.880 impossible new material

00:03:23.540 that is stronger than steel

00:03:25.840 and as light as plastic.

00:03:27.680 So it has something to do with, I don't know,

00:03:32.800 two or three-dimensional polymers

00:03:34.940 and blah, blah, blah.

00:03:36.640 So apparently there's a way to construct a material.

00:03:40.680 And, of course, the hard part would be,

00:03:42.800 could you ever make that industrial production?

00:03:47.000 So it's probably reduced to an engineering problem

00:03:49.460 at this point.

00:03:50.060 But imagine what would happen to,

00:03:52.640 oh, let's say, everything.

00:03:56.340 If you could make something without steel

00:03:59.600 that was better than steel

00:04:02.120 and way lighter, like way lighter.

00:04:05.260 Everything changes, right?

00:04:07.840 Suddenly, what can you carry with a drone?

00:04:12.200 Well, a lot more

00:04:13.040 because the drone itself won't carry it,

00:04:14.960 it won't weigh much.

00:04:15.940 And the things you're carrying might not weigh much.

00:04:19.360 What about guns?

00:04:21.280 Is somebody going to make a gun out of this?

00:04:24.240 And if you did, would it show up on an x-ray?

00:04:26.220 I don't know.

00:04:27.480 Beats me.

00:04:28.300 Do polymers show up on x-rays?

00:04:33.980 Think about what would happen to climate change

00:04:36.740 and our need for energy in general

00:04:39.560 if we start putting out cars that weigh,

00:04:42.080 I don't know, half as much.

00:04:43.680 Could we make engines out of it?

00:04:47.020 What would happen if the car

00:04:48.420 doesn't weigh much more

00:04:49.700 than the people who are in it?

00:04:52.020 What does that do to your gas prices

00:04:53.700 or your electric prices by then, I guess?

00:04:56.720 So this is one of those tiny little stories

00:04:59.440 that tell you why you can't predict anything.

00:05:03.380 You know, when I hear

00:05:04.700 that the climate change prediction models

00:05:07.660 are telling you what's going to happen in 80 years,

00:05:10.780 there's nobody who's worked with prediction models

00:05:15.500 who thinks that's even a thing

00:05:16.860 because of this

00:05:18.580 and all of the other things

00:05:20.360 that will be developing between now and then.

00:05:23.380 Maybe we get hit by a meteor.

00:05:25.080 Maybe we have contact with an alien force.

00:05:28.300 Maybe the AI singularity is reached.

00:05:31.380 Maybe...

00:05:32.220 Actually, that's almost a certainty.

00:05:34.500 Think about this.

00:05:35.600 Here are two predictions

00:05:37.720 that all the smart people would agree on.

00:05:41.340 Now, when I say all the smart people,

00:05:42.900 that doesn't mean they're all right.

00:05:45.520 I just mean the people would be

00:05:47.280 generally considered society's

00:05:50.520 wisest, most informed people.

00:05:54.140 They would say that climate change

00:05:55.600 is going to get real bad

00:05:56.760 based on the models.

00:05:58.840 And they would also say that

00:06:00.520 AI will reach a singularity

00:06:02.940 certainly within 80 years.

00:06:05.820 I don't think there's anybody

00:06:06.740 who thinks it's going to take that long.

00:06:09.580 But what good does a climate change model prediction have

00:06:14.400 if somewhere in that period,

00:06:16.820 and probably almost certainly,

00:06:19.380 way closer to the front than the back,

00:06:22.800 AI is going to reach what's called the singularity

00:06:25.200 in which the AI can learn on its own.

00:06:29.680 And once the AI can teach itself,

00:06:31.580 and it becomes, you know, self-growing,

00:06:34.960 it becomes almost instantly, you know,

00:06:38.080 omnipotent for all practical purposes

00:06:41.260 because it would know how to control humans

00:06:43.600 in a variety of ways.

00:06:45.420 So if it wanted to,

00:06:46.860 it could hypnotize us, brainwash us,

00:06:49.560 it could blackmail us,

00:06:52.860 you know, by saying,

00:06:53.780 I'll turn off your power.

00:06:55.180 It could do anything.

00:06:55.960 So what good does a climate change prediction

00:07:00.300 that goes 80 years go,

00:07:02.120 you know, what good is it

00:07:02.980 if our ability to predict

00:07:04.720 goes absolutely blind

00:07:07.080 a day after the singularity is reached?

00:07:11.580 Does everybody understand that?

00:07:13.800 Our human ability to predict anything,

00:07:16.900 we will go completely blind

00:07:19.340 because whatever happens

00:07:20.860 when AI becomes a super entity,

00:07:23.240 we don't know.

00:07:24.100 There just isn't any way to predict that.

00:07:28.660 It's sort of like people saying

00:07:31.160 that I was reading the minds

00:07:32.460 of somebody who's smarter than I am.

00:07:35.040 And I'm thinking,

00:07:35.940 if I could read the mind

00:07:37.440 of someone who's smarter than I am,

00:07:39.960 I would be as smart as I am

00:07:41.840 because I would just look in their mind

00:07:43.260 and say, well,

00:07:44.340 I don't even have to think for myself anymore.

00:07:47.240 I'll just look in the mind

00:07:48.420 of, you know, somebody smarter.

00:07:51.080 What is Jordan Peterson thinking about this?

00:07:52.980 I'll just look in his mind.

00:07:54.700 Just adopt that view.

00:07:57.660 So anyway,

00:07:58.740 if we could figure out what AI,

00:08:01.040 a super entity,

00:08:02.240 or a super intelligence would do,

00:08:04.540 we would be super intelligent.

00:08:07.080 Well, we're not.

00:08:08.100 So it's just a blindness.

00:08:11.780 That's probably,

00:08:13.460 what would you say?

00:08:14.760 Is there anybody on here

00:08:15.640 who's got enough AI experience

00:08:18.000 to predict when the singularity

00:08:20.500 will be reached?

00:08:22.540 Ten years?

00:08:24.440 I think ten years is not the outside.

00:08:28.300 What does anybody say?

00:08:29.420 Because the thing

00:08:32.040 with this kind of prediction

00:08:33.000 is whatever happens,

00:08:34.200 let's say I say

00:08:34.820 it's going to happen in ten years.

00:08:37.300 Whatever happens

00:08:38.260 in the last two of those ten years

00:08:40.160 will probably be more

00:08:41.640 than happened in the first eight.

00:08:43.820 So, you know,

00:08:44.520 none of this is linear.

00:08:45.700 At some point,

00:08:46.300 it just goes roop.

00:08:48.080 We just don't know

00:08:48.700 when that happens.

00:08:52.800 Disagree with the hypothesis,

00:08:54.500 which I think,

00:08:55.020 I think there's room

00:08:55.740 for disagreement

00:08:56.360 on the hypothesis.

00:08:57.200 I also think

00:08:59.600 that humans will rise

00:09:00.780 to the challenge

00:09:01.600 because we see it coming.

00:09:04.060 If we didn't see it coming,

00:09:05.480 we could be surprised.

00:09:06.940 But I think we'll have

00:09:07.880 all kinds of fail-safes

00:09:09.040 and things that even an AI

00:09:10.760 can't get around.

00:09:16.940 Yeah.

00:09:17.580 All right.

00:09:18.440 Anyway, my point is,

00:09:19.580 how good can we predict anything?

00:09:21.440 Speaking of not being able

00:09:22.740 to predict anything,

00:09:23.860 the job growth number

00:09:25.100 was through the roof,

00:09:26.220 like incredibly positive

00:09:28.200 and the experts

00:09:30.980 had said it was going

00:09:31.820 to be dismal.

00:09:34.580 How long have people

00:09:35.820 been predicting economic things?

00:09:39.520 That's something

00:09:40.260 we should be pretty good at,

00:09:43.120 right?

00:09:43.620 If we can predict anything,

00:09:46.160 we should be able to predict

00:09:47.620 what the next jobs report will be

00:09:49.500 because the next jobs report

00:09:51.520 is what?

00:09:52.520 Every week

00:09:53.200 or is it every month?

00:09:54.060 But whichever it is.

00:09:56.980 The point is,

00:09:58.120 that's a pretty short period

00:09:59.260 of time.

00:10:00.420 If you can't even guess

00:10:01.620 the job growth number

00:10:04.100 when almost everything

00:10:06.300 that's a factor

00:10:07.280 is reported

00:10:08.200 and there's data available,

00:10:10.040 you can't even get that right?

00:10:11.920 They were off by a mile.

00:10:14.740 And they don't even know

00:10:15.880 why exactly.

00:10:16.900 Nobody's exactly sure why.

00:10:18.400 So we can't predict

00:10:21.920 climate change

00:10:24.800 because of the AI.

00:10:26.640 We can't predict economics,

00:10:28.640 even the most basic stuff,

00:10:30.840 how much job growth

00:10:32.200 within the next few weeks.

00:10:34.960 That is really basic.

00:10:37.320 We can't even get that.

00:10:39.780 Well, we,

00:10:40.640 the experts can't.

00:10:42.180 So that included

00:10:43.040 Goldman Sachs

00:10:43.980 and J.P. Morgan.

00:10:44.840 were off by a mile,

00:10:46.960 I guess.

00:10:48.380 All right,

00:10:48.720 are you watching

00:10:49.960 the update

00:10:50.440 of the kids

00:10:51.640 in mask cages?

00:10:57.120 In Oakdale,

00:10:58.900 a school district area

00:11:00.720 in California.

00:11:02.560 So as you know,

00:11:03.280 the first part of the story

00:11:04.160 is that the kids

00:11:05.100 without masks

00:11:06.600 were told to stay

00:11:07.520 in this cold,

00:11:08.500 unheated

00:11:09.100 gymnasium,

00:11:12.000 I guess.

00:11:13.000 But they,

00:11:13.940 quote,

00:11:14.060 escaped.

00:11:16.060 So the news

00:11:16.960 is saying

00:11:17.380 that they were

00:11:17.920 barricaded in

00:11:18.900 and then they escaped.

00:11:21.240 And then I saw

00:11:21.940 a picture of the barricade.

00:11:23.920 Did anybody see

00:11:24.440 a picture of the barricade

00:11:25.560 that was barricading

00:11:26.840 the doors

00:11:27.320 so they couldn't get out?

00:11:29.580 The barricade

00:11:30.440 was on the inside.

00:11:34.380 Just look at the picture.

00:11:37.040 I think the barricade

00:11:38.220 was on the inside.

00:11:39.340 It was just

00:11:39.860 folding tables.

00:11:40.740 It would be like

00:11:41.660 one folding table

00:11:42.620 that was leaned

00:11:43.200 against the doorway.

00:11:45.060 It wasn't even

00:11:45.620 leaned against the door.

00:11:47.220 It was leaned

00:11:47.680 against the doorway.

00:11:49.640 Now I think

00:11:50.340 all it was

00:11:50.860 was like putting up

00:11:51.720 orange cones,

00:11:53.060 basically.

00:11:54.340 Yeah.

00:11:54.660 It was all

00:11:55.760 of the complexity

00:11:56.520 of putting up

00:11:57.200 orange cones

00:11:57.980 or a ribbon.

00:12:00.140 It was just sort of

00:12:01.220 indicating

00:12:03.000 that you shouldn't

00:12:03.860 use the door.

00:12:05.380 The difficulty

00:12:06.340 of getting past

00:12:07.080 the barricade

00:12:07.740 would be this.

00:12:09.180 Push open the door.

00:12:10.740 Because the barricade

00:12:12.840 only went up

00:12:13.500 like two and a half feet.

00:12:15.560 So just push open

00:12:16.440 the door

00:12:17.000 and then

00:12:18.160 step over

00:12:19.460 the two and a half

00:12:20.320 foot barricade.

00:12:22.040 So here's

00:12:22.700 the funniest part.

00:12:25.040 Apparently

00:12:25.480 it took the kids

00:12:26.260 a while to figure out

00:12:27.100 that they could escape.

00:12:29.540 Because you know

00:12:30.260 what you can't do

00:12:31.220 in California?

00:12:31.920 you can't physically

00:12:34.680 constrain a teenager.

00:12:37.740 Did you know that?

00:12:39.120 Now law enforcement

00:12:40.600 could if they caught

00:12:41.720 them in the act

00:12:42.380 of a crime.

00:12:43.840 Right?

00:12:44.020 And depending on

00:12:44.640 the crime.

00:12:45.620 But in California

00:12:46.440 you could walk

00:12:47.280 into Walmart

00:12:48.260 with a big old bag

00:12:50.700 that says

00:12:51.260 bag for stolen items.

00:12:54.120 You could stand

00:12:54.900 in front of the police,

00:12:56.060 the entire police force

00:12:58.040 that might be shopping

00:12:58.900 at the same time

00:12:59.820 and say hey guys

00:13:00.880 you know

00:13:01.800 blue lives matter.

00:13:04.040 You could fill up

00:13:04.740 your stealing bag

00:13:06.540 with stuff.

00:13:07.680 You could say

00:13:08.140 can you guys

00:13:09.300 give me a hand

00:13:09.860 this bag's a little heavy

00:13:10.840 just to get to the car.

00:13:13.280 I know it's illegal.

00:13:15.000 I know it's illegal.

00:13:16.420 But do you know

00:13:16.980 that in California

00:13:17.720 that's not enforced?

00:13:19.580 Hey

00:13:19.780 well I'll

00:13:20.880 sorry if you want help

00:13:22.040 I'll just drag it

00:13:23.300 drags it back

00:13:27.080 to the car.

00:13:28.340 Police open

00:13:29.160 the door for him

00:13:29.960 say have a nice day sir.

00:13:33.480 In California

00:13:34.560 you can't physically

00:13:35.840 restrain somebody

00:13:36.980 for almost anything

00:13:39.280 unless you know

00:13:40.720 it's like

00:13:41.060 immediate

00:13:41.900 health or safety issue.

00:13:44.600 Right?

00:13:45.020 Somebody's like

00:13:45.800 about to murder somebody

00:13:47.280 or something like that.

00:13:48.460 But the example

00:13:49.600 would be

00:13:50.100 if you had a

00:13:51.120 let's say

00:13:51.700 a teenager

00:13:52.460 who was an addict

00:13:53.460 just to pick

00:13:54.300 a random example

00:13:55.200 could you physically

00:13:56.960 restrain that kid

00:13:57.960 and say okay

00:13:58.580 you can't go out

00:13:59.980 tonight

00:14:00.540 because you know

00:14:02.280 you're grounded

00:14:02.860 so you can't go out.

00:14:05.700 And the kid

00:14:06.380 stands up

00:14:07.300 and starts to walk

00:14:08.020 toward the door.

00:14:09.640 What are you allowed

00:14:10.480 to do legally?

00:14:12.360 Nothing.

00:14:13.820 Nothing.

00:14:14.860 You can't

00:14:15.500 physically restrain

00:14:17.100 a teenager

00:14:17.680 in California

00:14:18.300 for anything

00:14:19.900 short of

00:14:20.900 like the most

00:14:21.500 dangerous stuff

00:14:22.560 immediately happening.

00:14:23.560 So at some point

00:14:25.260 all of those kids

00:14:26.020 were sitting

00:14:26.480 in the gym

00:14:28.060 and none of them

00:14:29.940 realized

00:14:30.460 at least for a while

00:14:31.380 that all they had

00:14:33.040 to do was

00:14:33.480 stand up

00:14:33.940 and walk out.

00:14:35.380 And they were

00:14:36.040 staying in this

00:14:36.580 cold gym.

00:14:37.920 But at some point

00:14:38.880 the brainwashing

00:14:40.820 must have

00:14:41.940 turned off

00:14:43.100 and I don't know

00:14:44.900 that this happened

00:14:45.660 but if they still

00:14:47.340 had their phones

00:14:48.180 does anybody know

00:14:49.120 if they had their phones

00:14:50.040 when they were

00:14:51.360 in that gym

00:14:51.900 because I didn't

00:14:53.200 hear anything

00:14:54.040 about the phones

00:14:54.820 being taken away.

00:14:56.800 So if they had

00:14:57.340 their phones

00:14:57.820 they were probably

00:14:58.400 in contact

00:14:58.900 with parents.

00:15:00.780 Probably one of them

00:15:01.680 was a lawyer.

00:15:03.660 I'm just speculating

00:15:04.820 what might have happened.

00:15:06.360 And at some point

00:15:07.000 I feel like some adult

00:15:08.220 somebody outside

00:15:08.980 the room said

00:15:09.720 kids

00:15:11.060 you know you can

00:15:12.400 just get up

00:15:12.940 and walk out right?

00:15:14.420 Like anytime you want.

00:15:15.960 Somebody says

00:15:16.360 no phones.

00:15:17.720 So maybe they just

00:15:18.500 figured it out

00:15:19.220 or just took a chance.

00:15:21.360 But I think

00:15:22.280 the funniest part

00:15:23.000 about this

00:15:23.400 was the

00:15:24.120 perceptual part

00:15:25.980 where they had

00:15:27.000 to stay in the gym.

00:15:28.560 They didn't have

00:15:29.140 to stay in the gym.

00:15:30.580 There was absolutely

00:15:31.340 nothing keeping them there

00:15:32.480 except their minds

00:15:33.720 and it almost worked.

00:15:37.140 It almost worked.

00:15:38.780 It was just their minds

00:15:40.180 that were keeping

00:15:40.800 them imprisoned.

00:15:42.120 Now if that doesn't

00:15:42.820 tell you something

00:15:43.360 about humans

00:15:44.080 I don't know what does.

00:15:45.720 These kids were so

00:15:46.880 mind controlled

00:15:48.440 that they thought

00:15:49.760 just the thought

00:15:50.500 of you should

00:15:51.640 stay in here

00:15:52.400 during your protest

00:15:53.840 that would be

00:15:54.820 good enough.

00:15:55.800 They would just

00:15:56.140 stay there.

00:15:58.260 Well that didn't

00:15:59.120 work out.

00:16:02.100 I told you yesterday

00:16:03.240 that I was joking

00:16:04.000 that you could

00:16:05.180 reduce gun murders

00:16:07.340 by 75%

00:16:09.420 by banning guns

00:16:11.380 to Democrats.

00:16:13.380 And everybody

00:16:14.040 had a good laugh

00:16:14.720 at it.

00:16:15.200 It got kind of viral.

00:16:17.200 It got a couple

00:16:17.740 thousand retweets

00:16:18.580 I think last time

00:16:19.440 I looked.

00:16:20.320 And everybody

00:16:20.880 laughed because

00:16:21.480 it was one of these

00:16:22.040 sort of funny

00:16:23.080 but absurd things

00:16:24.800 that if you denied

00:16:25.580 guns just to

00:16:26.380 Democrats

00:16:26.920 you would reduce

00:16:27.840 murders by 75%.

00:16:30.040 And of course

00:16:30.760 some people

00:16:31.300 there's always a troll

00:16:32.420 who doesn't get

00:16:33.860 the joke

00:16:34.360 and the trolls

00:16:35.740 will be in there

00:16:36.220 oh I'd like to

00:16:37.020 see the data

00:16:38.720 show me the data

00:16:40.580 that supports

00:16:41.640 such a provocative

00:16:42.900 claim.

00:16:44.320 And then today

00:16:44.820 somebody tweeted

00:16:46.060 out an article

00:16:46.720 that said

00:16:47.180 70% of felons

00:16:49.060 are registered

00:16:49.660 Democrats.

00:16:52.460 And I think

00:16:53.880 there was a

00:16:54.240 slightly higher

00:16:54.880 number involved

00:16:56.320 in violent crime.

00:16:57.420 I've told you

00:17:04.960 before that

00:17:05.660 one of the

00:17:06.720 things that

00:17:07.120 happens if you

00:17:07.980 do data analysis

00:17:08.920 for a living

00:17:09.640 which I used

00:17:10.480 to do for years

00:17:11.360 in my corporate

00:17:12.280 life

00:17:12.960 you get this

00:17:14.280 weird ability

00:17:14.900 to predict things

00:17:15.880 that you shouldn't

00:17:16.400 know anything about

00:17:17.200 and you're not

00:17:17.960 even sure why.

00:17:19.420 You just sit

00:17:20.460 there in a chair

00:17:21.020 and go

00:17:21.260 I think about

00:17:22.880 75% of crime

00:17:24.180 would go down

00:17:24.780 if you got rid

00:17:25.340 of guns

00:17:25.760 from just

00:17:26.400 Democrats.

00:17:27.420 And it turns

00:17:29.720 out

00:17:30.040 might have

00:17:30.920 been kind

00:17:31.240 of close.

00:17:33.040 Might have

00:17:33.640 been close.

00:17:34.980 So the

00:17:35.780 Republican

00:17:36.580 National

00:17:37.960 Committee

00:17:38.540 the RNC

00:17:39.120 they censured

00:17:40.860 Cheney and

00:17:41.780 Kinzinger

00:17:42.240 their own

00:17:43.020 Republicans

00:17:43.760 for their

00:17:45.220 involvement

00:17:45.640 in the

00:17:46.180 January 6

00:17:47.000 panel.

00:17:48.440 What do you

00:17:48.760 think of that?

00:17:49.940 Do you think

00:17:50.300 that that was

00:17:50.740 appropriate?

00:17:51.860 Now I think

00:17:52.520 it's fair to

00:17:53.040 say this was

00:17:53.520 purely political

00:17:54.540 act.

00:17:55.720 So you know

00:17:56.460 to the extent

00:17:57.640 that it was

00:17:57.980 a purely

00:17:58.480 political act

00:17:59.520 it's neither

00:18:00.860 right nor

00:18:01.380 wrong.

00:18:01.880 It's just a

00:18:02.540 political act.

00:18:03.840 But I just

00:18:04.880 wondered if

00:18:05.300 you liked

00:18:05.940 it.

00:18:11.420 So some

00:18:12.100 of you liked

00:18:12.580 it, some

00:18:13.120 not.

00:18:13.760 Now I kind

00:18:14.660 of get, I

00:18:15.680 see both

00:18:16.100 sides.

00:18:17.540 This is one

00:18:18.180 where first

00:18:18.940 of all it's

00:18:19.320 not important

00:18:19.900 in any way,

00:18:20.560 right?

00:18:21.420 Can we all

00:18:21.960 agree it's

00:18:22.420 not important?

00:18:23.040 This is the

00:18:24.120 least important

00:18:24.720 thing, is

00:18:25.740 censoring

00:18:26.520 Republicans,

00:18:27.800 censoring their

00:18:28.360 own.

00:18:29.300 But I would

00:18:30.140 say that I

00:18:30.780 like it as a

00:18:31.480 messaging thing.

00:18:32.780 It has no

00:18:33.260 impact on the

00:18:34.100 people getting

00:18:34.520 censored.

00:18:35.580 But I like

00:18:37.560 the way it

00:18:38.140 frames the

00:18:38.960 January 6

00:18:39.720 thing as a

00:18:40.260 fraud.

00:18:41.600 Because that's

00:18:42.260 all it really

00:18:42.740 does.

00:18:43.440 It's even not

00:18:44.320 about these

00:18:44.740 two people so

00:18:45.520 much.

00:18:46.440 I mean, I

00:18:47.540 guess it is

00:18:48.120 punishing people

00:18:50.340 who are leaving

00:18:51.760 the orthodoxy

00:18:53.400 or something.

00:18:54.560 But I

00:18:57.320 just like the

00:18:57.960 way it

00:18:58.260 frames the

00:18:58.800 issue for

00:18:59.260 the Republican

00:18:59.800 side, that

00:19:01.000 the January

00:19:01.500 6 thing is

00:19:02.240 so ridiculous

00:19:02.920 that you

00:19:03.940 would get

00:19:04.260 censored even

00:19:04.960 for being

00:19:05.540 involved in

00:19:06.280 it.

00:19:06.740 Because it's

00:19:07.100 so obviously

00:19:07.800 a propaganda

00:19:08.500 thing.

00:19:10.320 Which is not

00:19:11.120 to say there's

00:19:11.760 no truth

00:19:12.880 within it.

00:19:15.080 So just for

00:19:16.560 the benefit of

00:19:17.120 the trolls who

00:19:17.860 will rush in.

00:19:18.940 Obviously bad

00:19:19.800 things happen on

00:19:20.580 January 6.

00:19:21.760 And I think

00:19:22.340 it's perfectly

00:19:23.240 good that we

00:19:23.940 find out what

00:19:24.540 happened.

00:19:25.360 But I don't

00:19:25.820 think that's

00:19:26.260 the point of

00:19:26.760 it.

00:19:27.360 The point of

00:19:27.920 it is just

00:19:28.400 propaganda,

00:19:29.080 right?

00:19:30.020 So if you

00:19:32.980 have two

00:19:33.940 Republicans who

00:19:35.080 participated in

00:19:36.740 something that's

00:19:37.320 just naked

00:19:38.120 political

00:19:39.080 propaganda,

00:19:41.640 censoring

00:19:42.720 seems a

00:19:44.920 fairly mild

00:19:47.080 thing to do.

00:19:48.060 But again,

00:19:49.520 it's just a

00:19:50.220 messaging thing.

00:19:51.760 So there's a

00:19:58.140 new story that

00:19:58.860 I believe is

00:19:59.620 going to turn

00:20:00.060 into some

00:20:01.120 form of fake

00:20:01.900 news.

00:20:03.560 And it is

00:20:04.160 that Spotify

00:20:05.440 has deleted

00:20:07.120 some many

00:20:08.900 dozens of

00:20:09.740 Joe Rogan

00:20:10.540 episodes from

00:20:11.940 their library.

00:20:12.700 and it

00:20:14.480 included people

00:20:15.240 who are,

00:20:16.180 you'd think,

00:20:17.520 relatively safe.

00:20:21.000 You know,

00:20:21.180 they're not

00:20:21.540 doctors claiming

00:20:22.600 things that

00:20:23.380 other people

00:20:24.680 disagree with.

00:20:26.160 So some of the

00:20:26.820 people would be

00:20:27.460 like Michael

00:20:28.160 Malice,

00:20:28.900 some of his

00:20:29.400 episodes,

00:20:30.440 Gad

00:20:30.800 Sad,

00:20:31.860 and even

00:20:32.280 Tim Ferriss.

00:20:33.800 Now what in the

00:20:34.440 world could Tim

00:20:35.160 Ferriss have

00:20:35.640 possibly said

00:20:36.520 that got him

00:20:37.740 pulled off?

00:20:38.320 Maybe something

00:20:39.900 about psychedelics

00:20:41.100 or something

00:20:41.720 like that?

00:20:42.280 I don't know.

00:20:44.960 Or who

00:20:46.120 knows?

00:20:47.040 Who knows?

00:20:48.200 But I think

00:20:49.300 what we're going

00:20:49.740 to find out is

00:20:50.500 that the reasons

00:20:51.160 things got

00:20:51.800 pulled off,

00:20:53.420 we might be

00:20:55.720 surprised.

00:20:57.200 So I would

00:20:58.020 say at least

00:20:58.740 wait to find

00:20:59.460 out why they

00:21:00.080 were pulled

00:21:00.440 off.

00:21:01.540 I heard

00:21:02.100 something on

00:21:02.680 Twitter just

00:21:03.380 before I got

00:21:03.940 on about

00:21:05.020 some of them

00:21:05.520 might have

00:21:05.840 included the

00:21:06.520 N-word,

00:21:07.760 obviously not

00:21:08.540 used,

00:21:09.880 you know,

00:21:10.160 without knowing

00:21:11.020 anything about

00:21:11.560 it.

00:21:12.400 It's obvious

00:21:13.220 it wasn't

00:21:13.720 used in a

00:21:14.340 derogatory way.

00:21:15.240 They may have

00:21:15.580 been talking

00:21:16.060 about the

00:21:16.800 use of it

00:21:17.340 or something

00:21:17.700 like that.

00:21:18.840 But I

00:21:20.880 don't know

00:21:21.180 that that's

00:21:21.540 the whole

00:21:21.760 story.

00:21:22.460 71 episodes,

00:21:24.100 somebody says.

00:21:27.680 Dr. Malone

00:21:28.540 used a Dilbert

00:21:29.400 cartoon in a

00:21:30.200 recent Substack

00:21:31.040 post.

00:21:31.680 Is that true?

00:21:33.260 That would be

00:21:33.940 interesting.

00:21:35.520 Okay, well

00:21:41.300 once again I

00:21:42.000 end up being

00:21:42.620 connected to

00:21:43.300 some major

00:21:44.240 show.

00:21:44.920 Well I was

00:21:45.400 a little bit

00:21:45.780 disappointed that

00:21:46.560 when I checked

00:21:47.200 the list of

00:21:47.740 the 71 or so

00:21:48.980 episodes, and

00:21:50.100 by the way

00:21:50.480 there's a

00:21:51.100 website that

00:21:51.920 just tracks

00:21:52.640 whatever's been

00:21:53.720 pulled out of

00:21:54.560 the Joe Rogan

00:21:55.180 library, so

00:21:56.660 that you can

00:21:57.120 tell which

00:21:57.480 episodes have

00:21:58.100 been deleted

00:21:58.680 by Spotify.

00:22:00.360 You just go

00:22:01.060 to jremissing.com

00:22:04.920 so J-R-E

00:22:06.620 as in Joe

00:22:07.640 Rogan

00:22:08.040 experience.

00:22:09.560 J-R-E

00:22:09.800 missing.com

00:22:10.600 so I went

00:22:11.040 there and

00:22:11.300 I looked

00:22:11.540 for my

00:22:11.860 name, you

00:22:12.920 know, because

00:22:13.140 I was

00:22:13.720 interviewed once,

00:22:14.820 appeared on

00:22:15.440 the Joe Rogan

00:22:16.960 experience once,

00:22:18.060 but I did

00:22:19.280 not get

00:22:19.980 banned, and

00:22:21.420 I was

00:22:22.860 instantly

00:22:23.340 disappointed,

00:22:24.620 because I

00:22:26.320 don't know if

00:22:26.660 you've met,

00:22:27.700 has anybody

00:22:28.320 noticed this,

00:22:29.020 but I like

00:22:29.420 attention?

00:22:31.120 Anybody?

00:22:31.640 I know I

00:22:31.960 try to keep

00:22:32.400 it under a

00:22:35.080 lid, but

00:22:35.720 it's true.

00:22:38.400 Sometimes I

00:22:39.060 like attention.

00:22:39.720 So I

00:22:42.160 don't know

00:22:42.480 what it

00:22:42.660 would take

00:22:42.940 to get

00:22:43.380 my episode

00:22:45.120 yanked on

00:22:45.880 Spotify, but

00:22:47.460 if they don't

00:22:48.040 yank my

00:22:48.620 episode, I'd

00:22:51.100 like to

00:22:51.380 announce now

00:22:52.060 that I'd

00:22:53.700 like Spotify

00:22:54.260 to pull the

00:22:55.260 Coffee with

00:22:56.640 Scott Adams

00:22:57.220 podcasts.

00:23:00.080 I'd like them

00:23:01.020 all to be

00:23:01.620 removed, unless

00:23:02.720 they remove

00:23:03.560 all of

00:23:04.640 Michael

00:23:04.920 Malice's

00:23:05.520 remaining

00:23:06.040 episodes.

00:23:07.180 No, just

00:23:10.180 kidding.

00:23:10.620 I like

00:23:10.900 that.

00:23:11.500 I love

00:23:11.820 Michael

00:23:12.120 Malice.

00:23:15.060 But I

00:23:15.620 feel like I

00:23:16.100 should announce

00:23:16.600 something to

00:23:17.120 get some

00:23:17.440 attention here.

00:23:18.260 Oh, by the

00:23:18.600 way, the

00:23:18.840 whole Barbara

00:23:19.340 Streisand

00:23:19.940 thing was

00:23:21.040 fake news.

00:23:21.760 Did you

00:23:22.000 all hear

00:23:22.280 that?

00:23:23.260 So I

00:23:23.560 talked about

00:23:24.000 that yesterday.

00:23:26.400 Apparently there's

00:23:27.160 a problem of a

00:23:27.960 number of

00:23:28.720 artists who are

00:23:30.260 being brought

00:23:30.800 into the story

00:23:31.540 who have

00:23:32.060 nothing to do

00:23:32.680 with it.

00:23:32.960 So she's

00:23:34.060 another one.

00:23:35.380 But I feel

00:23:36.040 like I need

00:23:36.980 to announce

00:23:37.420 something to

00:23:38.000 get some of

00:23:38.400 this free

00:23:38.940 publicity.

00:23:41.760 What should

00:23:42.400 I announce?

00:23:43.860 I need to

00:23:44.640 announce something

00:23:45.140 like, if

00:23:46.260 Spotify doesn't

00:23:47.580 remove my

00:23:49.300 podcast from

00:23:50.300 Spotify, then

00:23:52.140 what?

00:23:52.420 What should I

00:23:52.880 ask for?

00:23:53.940 What should

00:23:54.460 be my demand?

00:23:57.220 Maybe it

00:23:57.820 should be some

00:23:58.340 Joe Rogan

00:23:59.360 Oh, by

00:24:05.920 the way,

00:24:06.620 here's a

00:24:07.000 somebody

00:24:08.240 mentioned my

00:24:08.860 head warts.

00:24:13.280 I'm going

00:24:14.000 to just

00:24:14.920 take a

00:24:15.660 mild detour

00:24:16.280 here.

00:24:17.740 Years ago,

00:24:18.640 I learned

00:24:19.180 one of the

00:24:19.480 most important

00:24:20.100 things I've

00:24:21.000 ever learned

00:24:21.460 in my life.

00:24:22.140 It was

00:24:22.380 somewhat

00:24:22.960 accidental.

00:24:24.640 I had

00:24:25.400 laser

00:24:26.320 treatment on

00:24:27.880 my face

00:24:28.440 for something

00:24:28.900 called

00:24:29.160 spider veins,

00:24:30.100 little red

00:24:31.140 veins you

00:24:31.780 can see on

00:24:32.220 the surface.

00:24:33.940 Just for

00:24:34.600 cosmetic reasons,

00:24:35.780 I had them

00:24:36.240 lasered years

00:24:37.320 ago.

00:24:38.340 With the

00:24:38.800 old lasers,

00:24:40.720 you would

00:24:42.180 just turn

00:24:42.540 purple and

00:24:43.220 it would

00:24:43.400 look like

00:24:43.720 you got

00:24:44.020 punched.

00:24:46.220 I knew

00:24:46.940 before I

00:24:47.420 got it

00:24:47.900 that I

00:24:48.820 didn't want

00:24:49.200 to go in

00:24:49.580 public for

00:24:50.080 a week or

00:24:50.540 so,

00:24:51.260 maybe longer,

00:24:52.260 because you

00:24:53.060 just look

00:24:53.600 like a

00:24:53.940 monster.

00:24:54.740 You look

00:24:55.060 like you

00:24:55.880 just been

00:24:56.520 in a cage

00:24:56.980 fight,

00:24:57.260 basically.

00:24:57.560 And it

00:25:00.100 took me

00:25:00.480 exactly two

00:25:01.220 days to

00:25:02.660 be so

00:25:03.180 bored just

00:25:04.880 staying in

00:25:05.380 my home that

00:25:07.380 I said,

00:25:07.780 oh,

00:25:07.940 screw it.

00:25:08.980 I'll go

00:25:09.420 out and if

00:25:09.880 people look

00:25:10.500 at me and

00:25:10.880 mock or

00:25:12.000 whatever they

00:25:12.500 do, I

00:25:13.360 won't be

00:25:13.740 bothered.

00:25:14.320 I'll get

00:25:14.700 over it.

00:25:15.720 And then I

00:25:16.180 went out and

00:25:16.660 I believe I

00:25:17.260 went to the

00:25:17.680 mall, you

00:25:18.640 know, where

00:25:18.860 there's just

00:25:19.220 tons of

00:25:19.580 people.

00:25:20.380 And I

00:25:20.720 kept waiting

00:25:21.160 for all

00:25:21.520 their stunned

00:25:22.440 and horrified

00:25:23.140 reactions.

00:25:23.680 And you

00:25:24.760 know what

00:25:24.980 happened

00:25:25.300 instead?

00:25:26.920 Nobody

00:25:27.480 really cared.

00:25:29.420 Nobody.

00:25:30.480 Nobody asked

00:25:31.380 me about it.

00:25:32.560 Nobody appeared

00:25:33.180 to be staring.

00:25:35.020 Nobody appeared

00:25:35.600 to have any

00:25:36.140 reaction whatsoever.

00:25:38.080 At all.

00:25:39.560 And I

00:25:39.940 literally was

00:25:40.500 walking around

00:25:40.980 like a

00:25:41.320 monster.

00:25:43.540 Now, that

00:25:44.700 was one of

00:25:45.120 the most

00:25:45.540 incredible,

00:25:47.360 impactful

00:25:47.840 experiences of

00:25:49.000 my life.

00:25:50.320 Because my

00:25:51.100 prediction would

00:25:51.800 have been that

00:25:53.020 people are

00:25:53.420 going to

00:25:53.640 react and

00:25:54.280 then that's

00:25:54.660 going to

00:25:54.820 make me

00:25:55.120 feel bad

00:25:55.860 or inconvenience

00:25:57.700 me or

00:25:58.040 something.

00:25:58.840 And absolutely

00:25:59.680 nobody cares

00:26:00.660 about stuff

00:26:01.400 like that.

00:26:02.880 So your

00:26:03.660 comment about

00:26:04.960 you can see

00:26:05.580 these, you

00:26:07.460 know, these

00:26:07.740 imperfections

00:26:08.520 here.

00:26:09.860 I had a

00:26:11.360 very, a

00:26:12.660 very simple

00:26:13.420 dermatology

00:26:15.940 treatment where

00:26:16.660 they take

00:26:17.000 this frozen

00:26:18.040 stuff and

00:26:19.540 they spray

00:26:20.280 your head or

00:26:21.000 whatever part

00:26:21.600 of your body.

00:26:22.000 if you've

00:26:23.000 got any

00:26:23.240 kind of

00:26:23.460 gross or

00:26:24.200 any age

00:26:25.060 spots or

00:26:25.560 things that

00:26:25.920 don't belong.

00:26:26.940 And somehow,

00:26:27.740 and this is the

00:26:28.280 most amazing

00:26:28.840 thing ever,

00:26:30.360 this can of

00:26:31.400 cold, whatever

00:26:32.820 spray this is,

00:26:33.920 somebody in the

00:26:34.600 comments will

00:26:35.040 tell me what

00:26:35.500 it's made of,

00:26:37.000 this freezing

00:26:38.040 thing that they

00:26:38.680 spray on you

00:26:39.380 somehow can

00:26:40.760 identify what

00:26:42.740 doesn't belong.

00:26:44.980 Liquid

00:26:45.360 nitrogen, is

00:26:46.180 that it?

00:26:47.240 Somebody's

00:26:47.700 saying liquid

00:26:48.180 nitrogen.

00:26:48.600 But I

00:26:49.860 don't know

00:26:50.160 how it

00:26:50.440 does it,

00:26:51.880 but these

00:26:52.280 are not

00:26:52.640 just, I'm

00:26:53.820 not talking

00:26:54.220 about

00:26:54.420 precancerous,

00:26:55.320 these are

00:26:55.600 not all

00:26:57.140 precancerous

00:26:57.940 treatments,

00:26:58.760 they're just

00:26:59.240 things that

00:26:59.660 don't belong.

00:27:01.520 And they

00:27:01.860 have a variety

00:27:02.480 of names,

00:27:03.160 you know,

00:27:03.440 like a

00:27:03.880 keratosis

00:27:04.480 this or a

00:27:05.840 maturity spot

00:27:06.660 that or

00:27:07.140 whatever.

00:27:07.800 But somehow,

00:27:09.300 this freaking

00:27:09.900 magic nitrogen

00:27:10.940 spray,

00:27:11.880 sprays,

00:27:12.560 they just,

00:27:13.160 all they do

00:27:13.740 is they

00:27:14.020 cover your

00:27:14.960 eyes and

00:27:15.760 they just

00:27:16.100 go,

00:27:16.380 and all

00:27:18.920 of your

00:27:19.220 good skin

00:27:19.900 completely

00:27:20.740 ignores it.

00:27:22.340 Completely

00:27:22.800 ignores it.

00:27:23.960 And anywhere

00:27:24.520 that there's

00:27:25.000 something that

00:27:25.500 doesn't belong,

00:27:27.020 it like nukes

00:27:28.020 it, and then

00:27:28.720 you have to

00:27:29.040 wait a while

00:27:29.520 for it to

00:27:30.600 heal.

00:27:31.200 How the

00:27:31.800 hell does

00:27:32.260 it do

00:27:32.540 that?

00:27:34.040 I mean,

00:27:34.760 seriously,

00:27:35.780 how the

00:27:36.400 hell does

00:27:36.860 it do

00:27:37.140 that?

00:27:37.420 And I

00:27:38.440 thought,

00:27:39.000 here's another

00:27:39.600 one of those

00:27:40.060 things that

00:27:40.580 should be a

00:27:41.220 business by

00:27:41.800 itself.

00:27:43.180 So for

00:27:43.760 $250,

00:27:44.580 somebody took

00:27:46.260 a spray

00:27:47.120 can and

00:27:47.560 went for

00:27:49.080 all of

00:27:49.600 less than

00:27:50.880 30 seconds,

00:27:52.600 and I

00:27:53.300 paid $250

00:27:54.160 for it,

00:27:54.860 and I'm

00:27:55.140 a perfectly

00:27:55.560 happy customer.

00:27:57.760 How much

00:27:58.440 training do

00:27:59.040 you need

00:27:59.500 for something

00:28:01.180 that if you

00:28:01.700 don't get it

00:28:02.200 into your

00:28:02.500 eyes,

00:28:02.920 you're perfectly

00:28:03.420 good to

00:28:03.900 just spray

00:28:04.380 it anywhere?

00:28:05.780 Well,

00:28:06.280 don't listen

00:28:06.680 to my

00:28:06.960 medical

00:28:07.280 advice.

00:28:09.060 Anyway,

00:28:09.620 it's a

00:28:09.940 weird

00:28:10.160 experience.

00:28:12.260 All right,

00:28:12.680 did you

00:28:14.340 all hear

00:28:14.560 the story

00:28:14.920 about the

00:28:15.520 GoFundMe?

00:28:17.060 So the

00:28:17.780 truckers,

00:28:18.340 the Canadian

00:28:18.740 truckers,

00:28:19.320 the Freedom

00:28:19.760 Convoy,

00:28:21.300 somebody started

00:28:22.240 a GoFundMe

00:28:23.160 and it got

00:28:23.680 up over

00:28:24.140 $9 million

00:28:24.680 to support

00:28:26.040 the truckers,

00:28:27.660 you know,

00:28:27.860 feed them

00:28:28.340 and give

00:28:28.680 them logistic

00:28:29.400 support,

00:28:29.940 I guess.

00:28:31.840 And GoFundMe

00:28:32.920 decided that

00:28:33.700 they would

00:28:34.320 suspend it

00:28:37.480 and not

00:28:38.040 give the

00:28:39.040 money to

00:28:39.680 the GoFundMe

00:28:41.060 organizers,

00:28:41.680 because they

00:28:44.100 had problems

00:28:44.760 with the

00:28:45.120 organization

00:28:45.740 that are

00:28:46.340 a little

00:28:46.760 vague in

00:28:47.460 my mind,

00:28:48.940 they decided

00:28:49.740 that first,

00:28:50.840 and by the

00:28:51.180 way,

00:28:51.360 they've

00:28:51.580 revised

00:28:51.940 this,

00:28:52.940 so at

00:28:53.360 first they

00:28:53.740 decided they

00:28:54.260 would take

00:28:54.560 that money

00:28:54.940 that it

00:28:55.260 donated and

00:28:56.360 they would

00:28:56.620 give it to

00:28:57.060 qualified

00:28:57.560 charities.

00:29:00.200 What?

00:29:02.720 I read

00:29:03.540 this story

00:29:04.100 and I

00:29:04.840 thought,

00:29:05.100 I can't

00:29:05.480 be reading

00:29:05.880 this right.

00:29:07.060 I couldn't

00:29:07.560 possibly be

00:29:08.420 reading this

00:29:08.900 story right

00:29:09.460 because of

00:29:10.320 all the

00:29:10.600 ridiculous,

00:29:11.320 amazing,

00:29:12.300 jaw-dropping,

00:29:14.140 effed up

00:29:14.560 things you've

00:29:15.080 ever seen

00:29:15.520 in your

00:29:15.780 life,

00:29:17.300 has anything

00:29:18.020 been as

00:29:18.600 ridiculously

00:29:19.480 effed up

00:29:20.120 as that?

00:29:21.440 Now,

00:29:22.420 as you

00:29:22.780 might imagine,

00:29:24.120 the public

00:29:24.740 exploded

00:29:25.840 because it's

00:29:26.860 just ridiculous

00:29:27.500 and by

00:29:29.400 morning,

00:29:29.940 GoFundMe

00:29:30.500 had reversed

00:29:32.720 and they

00:29:33.640 said,

00:29:33.860 oh,

00:29:34.460 you know,

00:29:34.960 due to

00:29:35.240 public

00:29:35.660 outcry,

00:29:36.680 we're going

00:29:37.020 to automatically

00:29:38.000 refund it

00:29:38.920 to the

00:29:39.320 people who

00:29:39.680 donated it.

00:29:40.760 Now,

00:29:41.160 that's a

00:29:41.500 little better.

00:29:43.560 How about

00:29:44.000 they should

00:29:45.240 have had

00:29:45.560 automatic

00:29:46.160 refunded as

00:29:47.200 maybe option

00:29:47.900 A?

00:29:49.340 In what

00:29:50.100 world is

00:29:50.960 option A,

00:29:51.980 we'll take

00:29:52.460 the money

00:29:52.900 you intended

00:29:53.460 for something

00:29:54.060 else and

00:29:54.500 we'll decide

00:29:55.060 what to

00:29:55.440 spend it

00:29:55.920 on?

00:29:56.760 In what

00:29:57.340 world did

00:29:58.820 anybody in

00:29:59.500 that company

00:30:00.080 get together

00:30:00.880 and have a

00:30:01.340 meeting and

00:30:02.320 they all

00:30:02.640 talked about

00:30:03.160 that and

00:30:03.420 they said,

00:30:03.760 you know,

00:30:04.300 here's what

00:30:04.700 we're going

00:30:04.960 to do.

00:30:05.940 We'll just

00:30:06.560 take the

00:30:07.040 money that

00:30:08.380 very

00:30:08.900 passionate

00:30:09.380 people who

00:30:10.540 are exactly

00:30:10.980 the kind

00:30:11.420 of people

00:30:11.760 who complain

00:30:12.400 because they

00:30:12.980 are literally

00:30:14.020 supporting

00:30:14.580 protesters.

00:30:16.100 That's what

00:30:16.640 we're talking

00:30:17.020 about.

00:30:17.780 We're going

00:30:18.240 to take

00:30:18.480 that money

00:30:18.920 and what

00:30:19.600 do you

00:30:19.760 think?

00:30:20.060 We'll just

00:30:20.360 say we'll

00:30:20.680 just give

00:30:21.040 it to

00:30:21.380 charities

00:30:22.200 that we

00:30:22.780 think are

00:30:23.140 good.

00:30:23.940 Everybody

00:30:24.280 in the room,

00:30:24.920 you okay

00:30:25.200 with that?

00:30:26.020 And then what

00:30:26.420 did the other

00:30:26.840 people in the

00:30:27.400 room say?

00:30:28.640 Was there

00:30:29.100 anybody else

00:30:29.760 in the room

00:30:30.380 at GoFundMe

00:30:31.240 just one

00:30:32.560 person who

00:30:33.220 said,

00:30:34.340 I hear

00:30:37.020 what you're

00:30:37.360 saying?

00:30:38.780 Well,

00:30:39.100 in my

00:30:39.460 opinion,

00:30:40.460 that would

00:30:40.940 be the

00:30:41.640 dumbest

00:30:42.020 thing any

00:30:42.700 company could

00:30:43.400 ever do

00:30:43.900 in the

00:30:44.280 history of

00:30:44.960 dumb

00:30:45.180 things.

00:30:47.300 Just one

00:30:48.120 person's

00:30:48.560 opinion.

00:30:49.840 Did anybody

00:30:50.600 do that?

00:30:52.920 Aren't you

00:30:53.620 genuinely

00:30:54.820 curious what

00:30:55.820 the meeting

00:30:56.400 sounded like?

00:30:57.220 I mean,

00:30:58.820 if I could

00:30:59.780 get an

00:31:01.160 audio of

00:31:02.040 that meeting,

00:31:02.920 because at

00:31:03.280 some point

00:31:03.700 the executives

00:31:04.380 had to talk

00:31:05.000 about it,

00:31:05.360 right?

00:31:05.560 It wasn't

00:31:05.940 one person's

00:31:06.680 decision.

00:31:07.700 How in

00:31:08.320 the world

00:31:09.020 did that

00:31:09.560 meeting go?

00:31:11.480 Because I

00:31:12.100 don't think,

00:31:13.360 do you think

00:31:13.920 you could meet

00:31:14.460 one person in

00:31:15.380 your actual

00:31:15.900 life who

00:31:16.900 thinks that

00:31:17.420 was the

00:31:17.780 best way to

00:31:18.280 handle that?

00:31:20.020 It's literally

00:31:20.860 an online

00:31:21.600 company and

00:31:22.620 they couldn't

00:31:23.000 figure out how

00:31:23.520 to reverse

00:31:24.000 charges?

00:31:25.620 What?

00:31:26.580 That's their

00:31:27.080 whole business

00:31:27.740 taking charges

00:31:29.200 on stuff and

00:31:30.300 presumably

00:31:31.600 reversing them

00:31:32.440 sometimes.

00:31:35.260 Well,

00:31:35.860 then people

00:31:36.320 reasonably asked,

00:31:37.580 did you do

00:31:38.260 the same thing

00:31:38.960 for Black

00:31:39.660 Lives Matter

00:31:40.240 or Antifa

00:31:41.960 when they

00:31:42.340 had their

00:31:42.680 GoFundMes?

00:31:43.400 And the

00:31:43.640 answer is,

00:31:44.800 nope.

00:31:45.860 Apparently,

00:31:47.080 GoFundMe

00:31:48.160 thinks they

00:31:48.820 can pick

00:31:49.220 winners and

00:31:49.660 losers here.

00:31:51.220 Now,

00:31:52.080 you realize

00:31:54.580 that GoFundMe

00:31:55.700 is only two

00:31:56.340 letters away

00:31:56.920 from GoFundMe.

00:31:58.840 And there's

00:31:59.300 a Robots

00:31:59.820 Read News

00:32:00.760 comic to

00:32:01.600 that degree

00:32:04.080 on Twitter

00:32:05.860 right now.

00:32:06.260 You can see it.

00:32:08.220 All right.

00:32:09.060 And I guess

00:32:09.880 the convoys

00:32:11.020 are,

00:32:11.800 the convoy

00:32:12.580 idea is growing.

00:32:13.600 Now,

00:32:13.760 there's a

00:32:14.040 Mass and

00:32:14.380 Freedom

00:32:14.800 convoy

00:32:15.340 in Helsinki

00:32:17.040 outside

00:32:18.440 Parliament.

00:32:19.740 There's more

00:32:20.100 of that

00:32:20.320 going on.

00:32:20.760 Now,

00:32:22.720 that's

00:32:24.380 some of

00:32:25.280 the news

00:32:25.620 going on.

00:32:26.580 And

00:32:26.760 as you

00:32:28.580 know,

00:32:29.100 at the

00:32:29.720 moment,

00:32:31.020 the

00:32:31.240 president is

00:32:31.820 Democrat

00:32:32.180 and Congress

00:32:33.180 is controlled

00:32:33.980 by Democrats.

00:32:35.680 Am I right?

00:32:36.540 That Democrats

00:32:38.600 control Congress

00:32:39.500 and the

00:32:39.940 president.

00:32:41.280 And for

00:32:42.160 over a year

00:32:42.680 now.

00:32:42.920 And so

00:32:44.440 Joyanne Reed

00:32:45.980 from MSNBC

00:32:47.720 tweets this

00:32:49.480 in the context

00:32:50.520 of Democrats

00:32:52.200 being in control

00:32:53.140 of the government.

00:32:53.900 She tweets,

00:32:55.920 fascism

00:32:56.880 isn't coming

00:32:58.360 to America.

00:32:59.460 It's here.

00:33:02.460 Now,

00:33:02.760 Dr.

00:33:03.240 Interracial

00:33:03.860 pointed this

00:33:04.800 out to me.

00:33:05.380 Thank you,

00:33:05.880 Dr.

00:33:06.100 Dr.

00:33:07.260 Dr.

00:33:08.000 Interracial.

00:33:08.500 What is

00:33:14.180 wrong?

00:33:15.300 What is

00:33:15.880 going on?

00:33:17.940 Now,

00:33:18.380 my best

00:33:18.840 guess about

00:33:19.620 why this

00:33:20.180 kind of

00:33:20.460 perception

00:33:20.880 could happen

00:33:21.460 is that

00:33:22.300 once you

00:33:22.700 get a

00:33:24.100 narrative

00:33:24.460 in your

00:33:24.860 mind,

00:33:25.200 you just

00:33:25.460 can't get

00:33:25.840 rid of it.

00:33:26.760 Even when

00:33:27.220 all the

00:33:27.640 facts change,

00:33:28.500 you can't

00:33:28.920 get rid

00:33:29.220 of it.

00:33:30.200 So,

00:33:30.980 what's

00:33:32.360 up with

00:33:32.640 that,

00:33:32.960 huh?

00:33:34.040 Let me

00:33:34.360 tell you

00:33:34.620 what's

00:33:34.820 up with

00:33:35.080 that.

00:33:36.720 There is

00:33:37.440 a

00:33:37.740 new

00:33:38.680 study,

00:33:40.340 a little

00:33:40.840 scientific

00:33:41.340 finding,

00:33:42.720 I guess,

00:33:44.040 that matches

00:33:45.500 what I

00:33:46.420 learned 40

00:33:47.160 years ago

00:33:47.700 in hypnosis

00:33:49.260 class,

00:33:49.820 actually.

00:33:51.140 But science

00:33:51.580 is catching

00:33:52.140 up.

00:33:53.000 It's the

00:33:53.340 difference

00:33:53.660 between what

00:33:54.620 we actually

00:33:55.160 perceive and

00:33:56.560 then what

00:33:56.920 we remember

00:33:57.640 we perceived.

00:33:59.220 And if you

00:34:00.040 don't understand

00:34:00.760 what I'm

00:34:01.160 going to

00:34:01.460 explain now,

00:34:02.560 there's a

00:34:03.100 whole lot

00:34:03.560 of the

00:34:03.780 world that

00:34:04.200 won't make

00:34:04.600 sense to

00:34:05.020 you.

00:34:05.700 It's one

00:34:06.040 of the

00:34:06.200 most basic

00:34:06.860 things you

00:34:07.360 have to

00:34:07.600 understand

00:34:08.040 about your

00:34:08.680 reality and

00:34:10.480 your place

00:34:11.020 in it.

00:34:11.860 It goes

00:34:12.240 like this.

00:34:13.920 Roughly

00:34:14.400 speaking,

00:34:15.380 if you're

00:34:15.720 watching a

00:34:16.260 tennis match

00:34:16.940 and you're

00:34:17.680 trying to

00:34:18.060 decide,

00:34:18.560 or even

00:34:18.860 playing one,

00:34:19.620 you're trying

00:34:20.040 to decide

00:34:20.520 if that

00:34:20.840 tennis ball

00:34:21.400 hit a

00:34:21.920 line or

00:34:22.480 was inside

00:34:23.080 or out,

00:34:24.520 this is

00:34:25.460 approximately

00:34:25.960 what your

00:34:26.440 brain sees.

00:34:27.940 Now,

00:34:28.520 this is just

00:34:29.040 my strange

00:34:30.380 representation,

00:34:31.640 but you

00:34:32.060 don't actually

00:34:32.680 see the

00:34:33.100 ball hitting

00:34:33.500 the line.

00:34:34.040 And we

00:34:36.520 know that.

00:34:37.760 That's been

00:34:38.560 studied

00:34:38.960 specifically.

00:34:40.180 You might

00:34:40.600 see the

00:34:41.240 ball before

00:34:42.140 it hits

00:34:42.420 the line,

00:34:43.160 you might

00:34:43.400 see it

00:34:43.820 after,

00:34:44.880 but the

00:34:45.260 point at

00:34:45.780 which it

00:34:46.100 hits the

00:34:46.500 line is

00:34:47.640 almost

00:34:48.000 always

00:34:48.760 imagined.

00:34:51.360 It's

00:34:51.840 drawn in.

00:34:53.260 Your brain

00:34:53.800 fills in

00:34:54.320 blanks.

00:34:55.320 And then you

00:34:55.640 have a clear

00:34:56.160 memory of it

00:34:56.860 because you're

00:34:57.200 arguing it.

00:34:58.360 And you're

00:34:58.660 saying,

00:34:58.980 that was

00:34:59.540 clearly in,

00:35:00.340 and your

00:35:00.740 opponent is

00:35:01.560 saying,

00:35:01.820 I saw it

00:35:02.520 and that

00:35:02.760 was out.

00:35:03.860 That was

00:35:04.120 out.

00:35:04.840 Now,

00:35:05.180 both of

00:35:05.540 you have

00:35:05.840 a perfectly

00:35:06.360 clear memory

00:35:07.220 because what

00:35:08.360 you remember

00:35:08.920 is perfectly

00:35:09.740 clear.

00:35:10.920 It's just

00:35:11.400 that there

00:35:12.200 was never

00:35:12.600 any input

00:35:13.240 that matched

00:35:14.300 what you

00:35:14.720 perfectly

00:35:15.160 remember.

00:35:16.560 So,

00:35:17.160 some people

00:35:17.740 will look

00:35:18.220 at this

00:35:18.580 mess and

00:35:19.780 their brain

00:35:21.020 will create

00:35:21.940 a fairly

00:35:22.620 accurate story,

00:35:23.960 which you

00:35:24.520 could determine

00:35:25.080 by having

00:35:25.680 it videotaped

00:35:26.500 and playing

00:35:26.980 it back.

00:35:28.020 So,

00:35:28.340 some of

00:35:28.620 them would,

00:35:29.980 maybe even

00:35:30.800 by accident,

00:35:32.100 interpret it

00:35:32.520 exactly right

00:35:33.400 and they

00:35:33.660 would know

00:35:33.940 where the

00:35:34.200 ball hit.

00:35:34.860 Other people

00:35:35.400 would have

00:35:35.700 a perfect

00:35:36.240 memory,

00:35:37.060 a perfect

00:35:37.580 memory,

00:35:38.320 of something

00:35:38.960 that didn't

00:35:39.400 happen.

00:35:40.540 Now,

00:35:40.900 you have to

00:35:41.240 understand that

00:35:41.840 this is how

00:35:42.380 all of your

00:35:43.420 life is.

00:35:44.660 It's not

00:35:45.120 restricted to

00:35:45.900 these little

00:35:46.420 fast-moving

00:35:47.720 objects.

00:35:49.520 So,

00:35:49.900 it has nothing

00:35:50.280 to do with

00:35:50.700 the nature

00:35:51.080 of tennis

00:35:51.500 balls or

00:35:52.060 the speed

00:35:52.480 they're going.

00:35:53.460 This is an

00:35:54.260 analogy for

00:35:54.940 everything all

00:35:55.960 the time.

00:35:57.240 Everything all

00:35:57.940 the time

00:35:58.440 is scant

00:36:00.080 little information

00:36:01.080 coming through

00:36:01.700 your five

00:36:02.140 senses and

00:36:03.420 then your

00:36:03.800 brain is

00:36:05.200 sort of a

00:36:06.080 movie-making

00:36:06.820 delusion

00:36:07.860 generator and

00:36:09.140 it gives you

00:36:09.520 this perfect

00:36:10.120 memory that

00:36:11.360 you could even

00:36:11.900 draw a picture

00:36:12.520 if you were a

00:36:13.400 good artist.

00:36:14.240 You could draw a

00:36:14.940 picture of what

00:36:15.460 it looked like

00:36:16.040 but it's not

00:36:18.000 based on an

00:36:18.500 actual memory.

00:36:19.540 It's based on

00:36:20.600 an illusion.

00:36:22.520 Now,

00:36:23.380 I did a tweet

00:36:24.700 today asking

00:36:26.380 people how many

00:36:27.120 of them think

00:36:27.660 that I

00:36:28.400 trusted the

00:36:30.520 government and

00:36:31.560 encouraged you

00:36:33.560 to get

00:36:33.900 vaccinated.

00:36:35.600 Of course,

00:36:36.120 that never

00:36:36.520 happened.

00:36:37.920 And those

00:36:38.260 of you who

00:36:39.200 have watched

00:36:39.660 me for a

00:36:40.040 long time

00:36:40.360 know it

00:36:40.680 didn't.

00:36:41.420 But why

00:36:41.820 do so many

00:36:42.620 people believe

00:36:43.360 they saw it?

00:36:45.560 They have a

00:36:46.360 clear memory

00:36:47.140 of me being

00:36:48.480 a vaccine

00:36:49.720 Nazi and

00:36:51.340 pushing the

00:36:52.040 vaccine and

00:36:53.840 trusting the

00:36:54.920 government.

00:36:55.380 Why do they

00:36:55.780 have such a

00:36:56.540 clear memory

00:36:57.160 of it?

00:36:57.840 Well, it's

00:36:58.100 this.

00:36:59.520 It's exactly

00:37:00.240 this.

00:37:01.760 Some of them

00:37:02.500 saw a couple

00:37:03.580 of dots and

00:37:05.280 then they said,

00:37:05.860 oh, those two

00:37:06.460 dots, I will

00:37:08.020 take from that

00:37:08.700 and form a

00:37:09.320 perfect memory

00:37:10.080 of you being

00:37:11.480 a certain kind

00:37:12.160 of way.

00:37:13.020 And others

00:37:13.580 saw the

00:37:14.640 larger context

00:37:15.920 of what I was

00:37:16.400 doing and

00:37:17.620 even some of

00:37:18.240 them saw

00:37:20.780 something that

00:37:21.320 wasn't happening.

00:37:22.580 But the

00:37:22.900 majority of you

00:37:23.660 who watched

00:37:24.240 most of my

00:37:25.020 content got

00:37:25.780 at least a

00:37:27.340 view that

00:37:27.620 matches my

00:37:28.160 own.

00:37:29.660 I'm not

00:37:30.220 sure if

00:37:30.460 anything's

00:37:31.300 true, but

00:37:32.260 at least it

00:37:32.640 matches my

00:37:33.200 own.

00:37:35.160 So, one

00:37:36.900 of the

00:37:37.040 questions people

00:37:37.580 ask me, by

00:37:38.100 the way, is

00:37:39.040 why do I

00:37:39.540 spend so

00:37:39.960 much time

00:37:40.420 responding to

00:37:41.340 critics on

00:37:42.580 social media?

00:37:44.160 Any of you

00:37:44.640 ever have that

00:37:45.100 question?

00:37:46.360 Why does it

00:37:47.680 seem like I

00:37:49.780 put so much

00:37:50.360 energy into

00:37:50.940 that?

00:37:51.120 Now, how

00:37:53.840 many of you

00:37:54.260 think I'd be

00:37:54.920 better off if

00:37:55.900 I just

00:37:56.260 blew it

00:37:56.640 off?

00:37:59.900 A lot of

00:38:00.700 you think

00:38:00.960 that, right?

00:38:01.740 One of the

00:38:02.240 most popular

00:38:02.820 opinions I

00:38:03.420 get is, you

00:38:04.000 know, Scott,

00:38:04.620 you should

00:38:05.420 just act like

00:38:06.020 you're above

00:38:06.500 it all.

00:38:08.160 But it

00:38:09.040 depends on

00:38:09.560 the kind of

00:38:10.280 comments.

00:38:11.860 If somebody

00:38:12.620 says to me,

00:38:13.460 Scott, you're

00:38:15.680 an idiot, I

00:38:18.120 don't really

00:38:18.700 respond to

00:38:19.240 that because

00:38:20.540 I'm above

00:38:21.000 that.

00:38:21.740 If somebody

00:38:22.400 says, I

00:38:25.260 heard your

00:38:26.160 opinion and

00:38:26.720 I have this

00:38:27.120 completely

00:38:27.480 different opinion

00:38:28.260 so therefore

00:38:29.480 you're an

00:38:29.940 idiot, sometimes

00:38:32.480 I think, well,

00:38:33.340 you know, there

00:38:33.700 was room for

00:38:34.200 two opinions

00:38:34.780 and I don't

00:38:36.540 respond to

00:38:37.020 that.

00:38:39.040 The ones I

00:38:39.860 respond to are

00:38:40.740 the ones who

00:38:41.280 are putting out

00:38:42.080 a statement of

00:38:42.920 who I am

00:38:43.480 that's inaccurate

00:38:44.220 and damagingly

00:38:45.940 so.

00:38:46.140 So what I'm

00:38:47.860 doing is usually

00:38:48.680 an act of

00:38:49.720 information control

00:38:52.360 basically.

00:38:53.340 I like to make

00:38:54.120 sure that if

00:38:54.720 anybody says

00:38:55.240 something that's

00:38:55.900 untrue about

00:38:56.720 me, that at

00:38:57.820 least the

00:38:58.220 comments correct

00:38:59.100 it.

00:39:00.720 And sometimes

00:39:01.340 I'm just drawing

00:39:02.000 attention to it

00:39:02.780 so that there'll

00:39:03.340 be more

00:39:03.760 correcting comments

00:39:05.060 because a lot

00:39:06.840 of you are nice

00:39:07.560 enough to help

00:39:08.240 correct.

00:39:09.560 And it just

00:39:10.220 corrects the

00:39:10.640 record.

00:39:11.360 Because you can

00:39:12.100 see that people's

00:39:14.000 impression of me

00:39:14.780 is so wildly

00:39:15.800 divergent, that

00:39:18.280 for me to be

00:39:18.980 effective and

00:39:20.820 do anything

00:39:21.360 useful for the

00:39:22.340 world, I have

00:39:24.460 to always tamp

00:39:25.820 down the idea

00:39:26.600 that I believe

00:39:27.420 in unicorns

00:39:28.520 and whatever

00:39:29.740 else anybody

00:39:30.360 thinks I believe

00:39:31.080 in.

00:39:31.780 So keep in

00:39:32.400 mind that when

00:39:32.840 I do it,

00:39:34.260 sometimes I'm

00:39:35.560 just, you

00:39:36.680 know, I'm

00:39:37.140 just having

00:39:37.520 fun or having

00:39:38.520 energy, you

00:39:39.580 know, I'm

00:39:40.300 getting energy

00:39:40.840 from it.

00:39:41.580 Sometimes it's

00:39:42.260 part of the

00:39:42.660 show.

00:39:43.840 Like if I

00:39:44.300 yell at one

00:39:45.240 of the critics,

00:39:45.800 here, it

00:39:47.420 does vex

00:39:48.320 me, so

00:39:49.180 you're seeing

00:39:49.600 an honest

00:39:50.480 reaction in

00:39:51.200 terms of

00:39:51.560 something actually

00:39:52.380 vexes me, but

00:39:53.840 not as much as

00:39:54.560 I react.

00:39:56.180 Part of the

00:39:57.520 reacting is to

00:39:58.420 make you

00:39:58.800 remember it.

00:40:01.180 So overreaction

00:40:02.580 in a sense.

00:40:03.540 So the

00:40:03.840 overreaction is

00:40:04.860 calculated to

00:40:07.320 make you

00:40:07.660 remember it.

00:40:08.540 So I want

00:40:09.180 you to remember

00:40:09.700 what I said,

00:40:10.480 not what the

00:40:11.160 critic says.

00:40:12.440 So keep in

00:40:13.080 mind that when

00:40:13.560 you're judging

00:40:14.080 me for

00:40:14.900 attacking the

00:40:16.740 critics, I'm

00:40:18.140 a very special

00:40:18.980 case.

00:40:20.880 All right?

00:40:21.260 Let me prove

00:40:22.020 to you my

00:40:22.640 point.

00:40:24.180 In your

00:40:24.880 opinion, just

00:40:25.820 the opinion of

00:40:26.660 the people

00:40:26.940 watching on

00:40:27.880 the two

00:40:28.180 platforms,

00:40:28.860 locals and

00:40:29.840 on YouTube,

00:40:32.080 what events

00:40:32.960 in the real

00:40:33.500 world have I

00:40:34.240 influenced

00:40:34.780 positively?

00:40:35.820 what events

00:40:37.920 in the real

00:40:38.640 world, you

00:40:40.080 know, outside

00:40:40.580 of me, have

00:40:42.280 I influenced

00:40:43.180 positively?

00:40:44.160 Like, specifically,

00:40:45.020 what topics?

00:40:46.960 Now, as the

00:40:49.280 topics go by,

00:40:50.260 because you're

00:40:50.660 going to see a

00:40:51.000 bunch, the

00:40:52.440 point I'm

00:40:53.800 trying to make

00:40:54.500 is that all

00:40:56.480 of my energy

00:40:57.200 for this stuff

00:40:58.120 is designed to

00:41:00.940 be useful.

00:41:02.380 That's it.

00:41:03.860 Right?

00:41:04.120 If I can't do

00:41:04.740 things that are

00:41:05.220 useful, I'm

00:41:06.000 just not

00:41:06.600 interested enough.

00:41:08.000 Because, you

00:41:08.680 know, I do get

00:41:09.300 compensated because

00:41:10.620 there's advertising

00:41:11.760 on the platforms

00:41:12.580 and there's

00:41:13.220 subscriptions on

00:41:14.200 locals and all

00:41:15.440 that.

00:41:16.160 But I wouldn't

00:41:16.880 do it if I

00:41:18.020 didn't think it

00:41:18.480 was somehow

00:41:18.900 useful, right,

00:41:20.540 to the larger

00:41:21.200 public.

00:41:22.940 And my

00:41:23.680 usefulness would

00:41:24.860 be highly

00:41:26.360 degraded if

00:41:28.040 people thought

00:41:28.800 I was something

00:41:29.440 else.

00:41:31.700 So, of

00:41:33.260 course, there's

00:41:33.820 an irrational

00:41:34.660 component that

00:41:35.380 everybody wants

00:41:35.900 to defend

00:41:36.440 themselves.

00:41:37.280 So, if

00:41:37.520 anybody's

00:41:37.920 thinking, hey,

00:41:38.500 that sounds

00:41:39.440 like a

00:41:39.800 gigantic

00:41:40.220 rationalization,

00:41:42.920 maybe everything

00:41:44.120 is.

00:41:45.180 That's a

00:41:45.840 reasonable view

00:41:46.560 that just

00:41:46.940 everything is

00:41:47.460 a rationalization.

00:41:48.500 But it is

00:41:48.880 also nonetheless

00:41:49.560 true that if

00:41:51.820 you like the

00:41:52.500 fact that I've

00:41:53.200 had influence on

00:41:54.120 any topics,

00:41:56.880 and you like

00:41:57.400 that influence,

00:41:58.460 that you're

00:41:59.040 better off if I

00:41:59.840 stay credible

00:42:00.560 than if I let

00:42:02.000 people define

00:42:02.780 me.

00:42:03.760 Have I made

00:42:04.540 my point?

00:42:05.740 That if I let

00:42:06.740 people define

00:42:07.600 me, and it

00:42:08.320 just stays up

00:42:09.000 there on the

00:42:09.440 internet without

00:42:09.940 being challenged,

00:42:11.300 then I'm less

00:42:12.160 effective, because

00:42:13.720 people will say,

00:42:14.400 oh, that guy.

00:42:15.780 But if people

00:42:16.960 had an idea that

00:42:18.580 I'd ever done

00:42:19.120 anything useful,

00:42:20.500 they would say,

00:42:21.440 oh, it's an

00:42:22.200 opinion from the

00:42:22.940 useful guy.

00:42:24.060 If he was

00:42:24.860 useful once,

00:42:26.260 maybe he'll be

00:42:27.320 useful again.

00:42:28.560 And then I get

00:42:29.220 listened to, and

00:42:30.400 then I can double

00:42:31.120 my usefulness.

00:42:32.700 So basically, you

00:42:33.920 should think of

00:42:34.460 me as a, no

00:42:38.460 pun intended, you

00:42:40.280 should think of

00:42:40.840 me as a tool.

00:42:44.140 And I think

00:42:44.940 that's one thing

00:42:45.940 we can all agree

00:42:46.660 on, because even

00:42:48.800 my critics would

00:42:49.620 agree I'm a tool.

00:42:51.260 But if you don't

00:42:53.080 hate me, you

00:42:54.200 should also think

00:42:54.940 of me as a tool.

00:42:56.360 And I'm a tool

00:42:57.400 which magnifies

00:42:59.120 your own ability

00:43:00.540 to get what you

00:43:01.280 want.

00:43:02.400 Because generally

00:43:03.200 speaking, I'm

00:43:04.640 only going to be

00:43:05.220 influencing on

00:43:05.980 things that the

00:43:06.640 majority of people

00:43:07.460 want.

00:43:08.780 Am I wrong?

00:43:10.060 Like, there's

00:43:10.440 nobody who's

00:43:11.020 pro-fentanyl.

00:43:13.360 There aren't too

00:43:14.200 many people who

00:43:14.840 say, yeah, keep

00:43:15.640 those masks on

00:43:16.480 those kids forever.

00:43:17.740 So I'm really

00:43:18.680 picking things that

00:43:20.180 the public largely

00:43:21.220 wants.

00:43:21.740 If you want to

00:43:24.240 get those things,

00:43:25.800 then you understand

00:43:27.600 why I have to

00:43:28.160 remain at least

00:43:28.920 some minimum

00:43:29.580 level of

00:43:30.160 credibility.

00:43:32.120 Okay?

00:43:33.140 Now, but to

00:43:34.100 your point, if

00:43:35.600 you were, let's

00:43:36.560 say, Piers

00:43:37.140 Morgan, he

00:43:38.540 gets viciously

00:43:39.840 attacked.

00:43:41.020 I don't know,

00:43:41.520 is he banned

00:43:42.120 now?

00:43:42.640 Did he get

00:43:43.040 kicked off of

00:43:43.560 Twitter?

00:43:43.880 I don't know

00:43:44.240 what he's up to

00:43:44.700 lately.

00:43:45.620 But a lot of

00:43:46.440 his criticism is

00:43:48.000 just that generic

00:43:48.800 you're a Nazi

00:43:49.600 whatever kind of

00:43:51.820 stuff.

00:43:52.400 So no, I

00:43:53.060 wouldn't respond to

00:43:54.240 that stuff.

00:43:55.220 It's only the

00:43:55.720 stuff where they

00:43:56.240 define you as

00:43:57.240 having a completely

00:43:58.000 different opinion.

00:43:58.800 That's the only

00:43:59.200 stuff.

00:43:59.940 All right.

00:44:01.860 There are now

00:44:02.860 over 900,000

00:44:04.740 allegedly dead

00:44:05.880 from COVID in

00:44:06.900 the United States.

00:44:07.780 So we'll hit a

00:44:08.460 million, it looks

00:44:09.080 like.

00:44:10.200 And as of

00:44:11.420 yesterday, over

00:44:13.700 4,100 Americans

00:44:15.220 died from the

00:44:15.940 virus with a

00:44:17.620 seven-day average

00:44:18.440 of 3,400.

00:44:19.520 This is like the

00:44:20.120 highest number

00:44:20.780 since January

00:44:22.160 2021.

00:44:23.980 So we're

00:44:24.660 actually at a

00:44:25.560 COVID death

00:44:26.400 high.

00:44:27.920 But here's the

00:44:28.960 good news.

00:44:30.520 We already know

00:44:31.360 that the number

00:44:31.900 of cases is

00:44:33.420 down sharply.

00:44:35.460 So hold.

00:44:38.960 No matter

00:44:39.760 what, the

00:44:41.780 number of

00:44:42.420 deaths looks

00:44:43.060 like it's going

00:44:43.580 to plunge

00:44:44.140 because we're

00:44:45.160 just still

00:44:46.820 working on

00:44:47.720 the past

00:44:49.480 infection rate.

00:44:50.760 it just takes

00:44:51.580 a few weeks

00:44:52.100 for those

00:44:52.800 people to

00:44:53.200 actually die.

00:44:54.760 So we

00:44:55.500 should be

00:44:56.260 close enough

00:44:57.740 where the

00:44:58.120 government will

00:44:58.760 have cover

00:44:59.380 to drop

00:45:00.380 restrictions.

00:45:03.180 Unfortunately,

00:45:03.880 the government

00:45:04.260 has to be the

00:45:04.960 most conservative

00:45:05.900 among us

00:45:07.000 because we

00:45:08.480 charge them

00:45:09.060 with our

00:45:09.380 health and

00:45:10.040 what the hell

00:45:10.540 are they going

00:45:10.920 to do except

00:45:11.420 be conservative

00:45:12.080 about it.

00:45:13.300 So it's not a

00:45:13.900 surprise that

00:45:14.520 they're more

00:45:14.840 conservative than

00:45:15.620 many of you

00:45:16.080 would be about

00:45:16.980 lifting

00:45:17.860 restrictions.

00:45:19.120 But I think

00:45:19.800 we can be

00:45:20.300 constructive.

00:45:20.760 we need to

00:45:22.140 keep pushing.

00:45:23.760 And if the

00:45:24.820 hospitals are

00:45:25.920 not that

00:45:27.200 clogged, and

00:45:27.900 I don't believe

00:45:28.420 they are, and

00:45:29.920 the cases are

00:45:31.320 plunging and

00:45:32.000 it's the age

00:45:32.980 of Omicron and

00:45:34.060 everybody who

00:45:34.620 could get

00:45:34.860 vaccinated wanted

00:45:35.640 to, all the

00:45:36.700 arguments on

00:45:37.240 one side at

00:45:38.060 this point, it's

00:45:39.040 time to open

00:45:39.540 up.

00:45:40.380 And I think

00:45:40.960 the public can

00:45:41.800 respectfully and

00:45:44.420 nonviolently push

00:45:46.680 a little harder.

00:45:48.860 Push harder.

00:45:49.520 And we're

00:45:53.060 going to get

00:45:53.440 what we want

00:45:54.180 sooner or

00:45:55.860 later.

00:45:57.640 A few weeks

00:45:58.480 isn't going to

00:45:58.940 kill us,

00:45:59.340 right?

00:46:00.280 If the worst

00:46:01.060 that happened

00:46:01.520 is the

00:46:01.880 government

00:46:02.240 opens, you

00:46:04.080 know, drops

00:46:04.460 restrictions,

00:46:05.260 let's say,

00:46:06.040 three weeks

00:46:07.220 after we all

00:46:08.140 wanted it to

00:46:08.680 happen.

00:46:09.100 I mean, we

00:46:09.540 all wanted it

00:46:09.980 to happen a

00:46:10.300 long time ago,

00:46:10.900 but let's

00:46:12.000 say three weeks

00:46:12.640 later than we

00:46:13.680 expected.

00:46:15.020 It wouldn't be

00:46:15.700 the end of the

00:46:16.180 world.

00:46:16.460 But why

00:46:17.880 in the hell

00:46:18.280 do we have

00:46:18.640 to wait

00:46:18.880 three weeks?

00:46:20.300 I feel like

00:46:21.360 all the data

00:46:22.000 and all the

00:46:23.080 common sense

00:46:23.760 and all the

00:46:24.400 public opinion,

00:46:25.800 at least by

00:46:26.380 weight of

00:46:26.800 majority,

00:46:27.800 is in the

00:46:28.560 same direction

00:46:29.120 now.

00:46:31.620 All right.

00:46:32.820 What will be

00:46:34.280 the opinion

00:46:34.800 of those of

00:46:35.580 you who

00:46:36.320 believe that

00:46:37.440 a lot of

00:46:38.200 this was

00:46:38.560 permanent?

00:46:40.280 What happens

00:46:41.080 if it's not?

00:46:42.020 Would that

00:46:42.380 change your

00:46:42.860 worldview at

00:46:43.600 all?

00:46:43.740 18 wheels

00:46:52.840 to flatten

00:46:53.380 the turd?

00:46:55.920 It's

00:46:56.400 catchy.

00:46:59.200 All right.

00:47:00.400 Now,

00:47:02.300 I was just

00:47:05.160 looking at

00:47:05.460 your comments

00:47:05.900 for a moment.

00:47:07.820 You think

00:47:08.300 VAX cards

00:47:09.000 will be

00:47:09.380 permanent?

00:47:10.120 I don't.

00:47:12.180 But you

00:47:12.560 know,

00:47:12.680 the reason

00:47:13.860 that I

00:47:14.600 don't think

00:47:14.940 have I ever

00:47:15.560 even given

00:47:16.160 an opinion

00:47:16.620 on VAX

00:47:17.200 cards?

00:47:19.360 Have I

00:47:20.000 ever given

00:47:20.660 an opinion

00:47:21.220 on VAX

00:47:21.880 IDs?

00:47:22.760 You'd have

00:47:23.100 to remind

00:47:23.560 me because

00:47:23.880 I don't

00:47:24.120 know if

00:47:24.340 I've even

00:47:24.700 said anything

00:47:25.200 about it

00:47:25.540 in public.

00:47:27.580 And what

00:47:27.840 was my

00:47:28.280 opinion?

00:47:31.820 I think

00:47:32.480 I was sort

00:47:32.900 of don't

00:47:33.240 care.

00:47:35.580 Because

00:47:36.020 here's the

00:47:36.460 part that

00:47:37.100 that I

00:47:38.980 believe.

00:47:40.780 I believe

00:47:41.740 that if

00:47:42.960 the concern

00:47:43.920 is just

00:47:45.960 whether you

00:47:46.360 can get

00:47:46.720 in,

00:47:46.960 whether you're

00:47:47.260 vaccinated or

00:47:47.780 not,

00:47:48.060 I think

00:47:48.420 that'll go

00:47:48.840 away.

00:47:49.780 So I think

00:47:50.220 the VAX cards

00:47:50.900 were supposed

00:47:51.400 to be a

00:47:51.700 convenience.

00:47:52.540 If you're

00:47:53.000 worried that

00:47:53.400 it would be

00:47:53.780 some permanent

00:47:54.420 way to

00:47:55.100 become a

00:47:57.240 social credit

00:47:57.860 thing,

00:47:58.840 I doubt it.

00:48:00.260 I mean,

00:48:01.660 I would

00:48:02.920 hate it as

00:48:03.440 much as

00:48:03.800 you do if

00:48:04.300 that happened.

00:48:05.060 But I

00:48:05.320 think the

00:48:05.580 problem is

00:48:06.000 that the

00:48:06.300 government has

00:48:06.820 access to

00:48:07.380 all the

00:48:07.640 data it

00:48:08.000 wants anyway.

00:48:09.440 If they

00:48:09.740 wanted to

00:48:10.160 control us

00:48:10.920 through data,

00:48:13.000 they could

00:48:13.400 do it

00:48:13.640 already.

00:48:15.580 And I

00:48:16.020 also think

00:48:16.540 privacy is

00:48:17.180 already gone.

00:48:18.660 So arguing

00:48:19.500 about losing

00:48:20.180 your privacy

00:48:20.820 to the

00:48:21.240 government

00:48:21.680 doesn't make

00:48:23.300 any sense

00:48:23.780 to me.

00:48:24.460 Because the

00:48:25.080 government has

00:48:25.600 access to all

00:48:26.260 of your

00:48:26.500 data,

00:48:26.940 doesn't it?

00:48:28.080 Am I

00:48:28.420 wrong?

00:48:29.340 What could

00:48:29.980 the government

00:48:30.500 not get

00:48:31.000 access to

00:48:31.680 if it

00:48:32.240 just needs

00:48:32.920 a reason?

00:48:34.160 It just

00:48:34.460 needs to

00:48:34.880 tell the

00:48:35.180 court,

00:48:35.460 oh,

00:48:35.600 we've got

00:48:35.840 a reason,

00:48:36.540 and then

00:48:37.000 they have

00:48:37.240 access to

00:48:37.700 everything.

00:48:39.060 So your

00:48:39.440 privacy went

00:48:40.700 away a long

00:48:41.200 time ago.

00:48:41.840 The only

00:48:42.580 privacy you

00:48:43.200 have is

00:48:43.520 being boring.

00:48:45.000 The only

00:48:45.740 privacy you

00:48:46.420 have is

00:48:47.180 being boring.

00:48:48.440 And then

00:48:49.040 nobody cares.

00:48:51.360 Now,

00:48:52.060 I'm opposed

00:48:53.260 to the

00:48:53.800 government

00:48:54.080 having all

00:48:54.660 of your

00:48:55.980 personal

00:48:56.380 information.

00:48:57.860 I'm opposed

00:48:58.600 to the fact

00:48:59.060 that they

00:48:59.360 could dip

00:48:59.760 in there.

00:49:00.480 So I'm

00:49:00.760 not in

00:49:01.700 favor of

00:49:02.240 losing your

00:49:02.720 privacy.

00:49:03.880 But I

00:49:04.320 do think

00:49:04.860 that we

00:49:06.040 misinterpret

00:49:06.800 where we

00:49:07.400 already are

00:49:08.100 in that

00:49:08.440 arc.

00:49:09.620 We're

00:49:10.100 already way

00:49:10.760 past that

00:49:11.180 question.

00:49:11.920 We gave

00:49:12.300 up our

00:49:12.620 privacy a

00:49:13.180 long time

00:49:13.520 ago.

00:49:14.480 And we

00:49:15.220 got a

00:49:15.480 bunch of

00:49:15.760 benefits in

00:49:16.300 return.

00:49:17.540 Now,

00:49:17.780 are the

00:49:18.040 benefits

00:49:18.400 enough to

00:49:18.920 pay for

00:49:19.240 the privacy?

00:49:20.940 No way

00:49:21.580 to know.

00:49:22.300 Because the

00:49:22.760 privacy thing

00:49:23.580 doesn't matter

00:49:24.340 until it

00:49:24.760 matters a lot,

00:49:25.540 right?

00:49:26.560 That's the

00:49:27.000 problem with

00:49:27.440 the privacy

00:49:27.880 thing.

00:49:28.180 it'll go

00:49:29.600 from,

00:49:30.040 well,

00:49:30.460 it's not

00:49:30.860 hurting us,

00:49:32.000 to, uh-oh,

00:49:33.420 we're all

00:49:33.840 being rounded

00:49:34.340 up.

00:49:35.740 So,

00:49:38.380 and I've

00:49:39.120 also said

00:49:39.620 before that

00:49:40.280 if we had

00:49:41.580 less privacy

00:49:42.860 of our

00:49:43.340 leaders,

00:49:44.780 it would

00:49:45.160 matter a lot

00:49:45.980 less to us

00:49:47.220 how much

00:49:47.820 they'd know

00:49:48.320 about us.

00:49:48.920 because you'd

00:49:51.140 have mutually

00:49:51.680 assured

00:49:52.080 destruction,

00:49:52.760 basically.

00:49:56.540 We're just

00:49:57.180 waking up to

00:49:57.800 it now,

00:49:58.220 yeah.

00:49:59.820 Yeah, in

00:50:00.500 terms of

00:50:00.940 risk avoidance,

00:50:01.940 you wouldn't

00:50:02.300 want the

00:50:02.640 government to

00:50:03.080 have your

00:50:03.340 information,

00:50:03.960 that's correct.

00:50:04.840 It would

00:50:05.160 give you a

00:50:06.100 whole bunch

00:50:06.480 of benefits

00:50:07.140 that might

00:50:08.400 be, you

00:50:09.000 know,

00:50:09.120 fairly

00:50:09.420 immediate,

00:50:10.080 and you

00:50:10.260 might like

00:50:10.640 them.

00:50:11.300 It might

00:50:11.520 make all

00:50:11.880 your technology

00:50:12.600 work better,

00:50:14.140 it might

00:50:14.460 make, you

00:50:15.080 know,

00:50:15.180 the government

00:50:15.640 serve you

00:50:16.340 better if

00:50:16.800 it had more

00:50:17.160 information,

00:50:17.680 it might

00:50:19.520 solve crimes,

00:50:20.440 you might

00:50:20.700 like that

00:50:21.080 if you're

00:50:21.320 not a

00:50:21.580 criminal.

00:50:22.720 But,

00:50:23.640 yeah,

00:50:24.700 the potential

00:50:25.500 downside is

00:50:26.400 that they

00:50:26.760 know so

00:50:27.160 much that

00:50:27.800 they can

00:50:28.140 round you

00:50:28.540 up easily,

00:50:29.280 etc.

00:50:30.560 But,

00:50:31.320 what happens

00:50:32.360 when we

00:50:32.720 get into

00:50:33.120 a world

00:50:33.540 where one

00:50:34.040 person can

00:50:34.660 destroy a

00:50:35.300 government?

00:50:37.320 Because we're

00:50:37.920 pretty close

00:50:38.420 to that,

00:50:38.800 aren't we?

00:50:40.580 How hard

00:50:41.320 is it to

00:50:41.760 make deadly

00:50:42.680 chemicals that

00:50:45.200 would create

00:50:45.800 your own,

00:50:46.380 oh, I

00:50:46.740 don't want to

00:50:47.040 give any

00:50:47.300 ideas,

00:50:48.660 scratch that.

00:50:51.160 Let me get

00:50:51.760 more generic.

00:50:53.880 Let me be

00:50:54.340 more generic.

00:50:55.480 We are

00:50:55.760 entering a

00:50:56.360 phase where

00:50:56.900 anybody can

00:50:57.560 kill anything,

00:51:00.520 unfortunately.

00:51:02.300 Now, I

00:51:02.800 don't have to

00:51:03.180 mention all

00:51:03.640 the ways that

00:51:04.180 they could do

00:51:04.580 it, because

00:51:04.840 that's the

00:51:05.120 part I

00:51:05.420 started to

00:51:06.100 say, but

00:51:06.440 I think that

00:51:06.820 would have

00:51:07.020 been irresponsible.

00:51:08.880 We're reaching

00:51:09.840 the point where

00:51:10.340 an individual

00:51:11.040 will be able

00:51:11.640 to do damn

00:51:12.440 near anything

00:51:12.960 in terms of

00:51:14.280 destruction,

00:51:15.260 but also a

00:51:16.480 point where

00:51:16.900 one individual

00:51:17.640 could overthrow

00:51:18.300 a country.

00:51:21.980 Am I

00:51:22.660 wrong?

00:51:23.800 Do you

00:51:24.280 think you

00:51:24.660 couldn't find

00:51:25.160 one individual

00:51:25.900 who could

00:51:26.320 overthrow a

00:51:26.900 country?

00:51:27.760 Look at what

00:51:28.540 one person

00:51:29.240 has done

00:51:29.620 recently.

00:51:31.300 Yeah,

00:51:31.620 Joe Rogan,

00:51:32.380 maybe.

00:51:33.060 you all saw

00:51:35.600 the video of

00:51:36.200 that one

00:51:36.700 very leader

00:51:39.160 like, probably

00:51:40.500 a senior in

00:51:41.200 high school

00:51:41.700 organizing the

00:51:42.960 anti-mask

00:51:43.780 protest in

00:51:45.200 Washington State.

00:51:47.100 Now, that was

00:51:47.980 one person who

00:51:49.520 probably was the

00:51:50.740 primary person who

00:51:51.880 got one school to

00:51:52.720 do it.

00:51:53.580 Now, if social

00:51:54.560 media allowed that

00:51:55.740 to go viral,

00:51:57.160 could that have

00:51:57.820 caught on?

00:51:58.440 I'm surprised

00:52:00.260 it didn't,

00:52:01.780 you know,

00:52:02.020 because it was

00:52:02.560 such a good

00:52:03.240 video to become

00:52:04.480 viral.

00:52:05.280 I'm surprised

00:52:05.980 every school

00:52:06.600 hasn't already

00:52:07.140 taken off their

00:52:07.760 mask, actually,

00:52:08.760 and I don't know

00:52:09.780 why not,

00:52:10.320 actually.

00:52:11.320 But you could

00:52:13.600 see how close

00:52:15.540 it was for one

00:52:17.360 high school student

00:52:18.280 to change the

00:52:18.920 world.

00:52:19.560 You could see

00:52:20.040 what Greta

00:52:20.540 Thunberg has

00:52:21.260 done, you know,

00:52:21.980 whether you like

00:52:22.740 it or not.

00:52:24.040 But, yeah,

00:52:25.020 one person

00:52:25.760 changing the

00:52:26.320 world is

00:52:27.020 happening all

00:52:27.680 the time.

00:52:28.600 All the time.

00:52:35.080 All right.

00:52:39.620 So that is

00:52:41.360 because the

00:52:41.920 teachers' unions

00:52:42.820 are part of the

00:52:43.400 deep state, you

00:52:44.020 say?

00:52:46.960 All right.

00:52:48.480 How dare

00:52:49.160 you?

00:52:49.800 How dare

00:52:50.320 you?

00:52:53.200 So here's

00:52:56.240 the question,

00:52:57.240 getting back to

00:52:57.880 the original

00:52:58.220 point.

00:52:59.400 And I'm sorry

00:53:00.220 for the big

00:53:01.300 lags when the

00:53:02.180 people are just

00:53:02.720 listening to this.

00:53:03.900 It's usually

00:53:04.400 because I'm

00:53:04.740 reading the

00:53:05.180 comments to

00:53:05.920 see where to

00:53:06.840 go with this.

00:53:08.220 But when you

00:53:09.660 get to the

00:53:10.080 point where an

00:53:10.720 individual can

00:53:11.600 cause immense

00:53:12.620 damage, then

00:53:14.200 how much power

00:53:15.500 does the

00:53:15.900 government actually

00:53:16.620 have over you?

00:53:19.900 Think about

00:53:20.560 it.

00:53:21.660 You know,

00:53:22.080 we have

00:53:22.380 of course

00:53:23.680 it's its

00:53:24.080 own gigantic

00:53:24.800 problem that

00:53:25.460 anybody can

00:53:26.080 be a horrible

00:53:26.880 terrorist just

00:53:27.840 by putting

00:53:29.020 together a few

00:53:29.700 assets.

00:53:31.900 But those

00:53:33.060 assets could be

00:53:34.200 used against the

00:53:35.080 government.

00:53:35.420 government.

00:53:36.720 And, yeah, so

00:53:43.980 I'm not as

00:53:45.780 worried as you

00:53:46.420 are about the

00:53:47.080 government rounding

00:53:48.680 us up or doing

00:53:50.200 something that

00:53:50.920 abusive and getting

00:53:52.220 away with it.

00:53:53.200 I think the

00:53:53.980 American model is

00:53:54.820 more like the

00:53:55.340 GoFundMe

00:53:55.860 situation, where

00:53:57.500 GoFundMe does

00:53:58.340 something that's

00:53:58.920 outrageous or tries

00:54:00.300 to, and the

00:54:01.560 public immediately

00:54:02.260 says, um, by

00:54:04.420 a 75% majority

00:54:06.060 or whatever,

00:54:07.380 nope.

00:54:08.720 See, I always

00:54:09.640 say that if you

00:54:10.220 can get the

00:54:10.640 public to agree

00:54:11.440 75% of them to

00:54:13.200 anything, you

00:54:14.580 will get that

00:54:15.120 eventually.

00:54:16.100 Not right away,

00:54:16.840 but you're going

00:54:17.240 to get it.

00:54:20.400 They already

00:54:21.120 round us up, but

00:54:22.000 not physically.

00:54:23.100 Yeah, the mental

00:54:23.840 game is going to

00:54:24.540 be the big one,

00:54:25.160 isn't it?

00:54:26.960 You know, here's

00:54:28.320 the biggest change

00:54:29.740 in persuasion.

00:54:31.000 I'm not sure if

00:54:31.700 you knew this.

00:54:33.240 But in the old

00:54:33.840 days, you would

00:54:34.440 try to persuade

00:54:35.060 people, and it

00:54:35.740 was hard to know

00:54:36.400 if it worked.

00:54:38.360 Right?

00:54:38.880 You could put

00:54:39.500 advertisements on

00:54:40.420 TV, and maybe

00:54:42.140 they would sell

00:54:42.780 more dish soap or

00:54:43.780 something, but

00:54:44.920 often it didn't.

00:54:47.520 You know, a lot

00:54:47.960 of advertisement

00:54:48.540 doesn't work at

00:54:49.280 all.

00:54:50.100 Some would say

00:54:50.580 most advertisement

00:54:51.380 doesn't even work

00:54:52.280 at all.

00:54:53.600 So we didn't

00:54:55.360 really know what

00:54:55.940 worked and what

00:54:56.480 wouldn't.

00:54:57.680 But what's

00:54:58.140 different now is

00:54:58.760 that you could

00:54:59.120 rapidly test any

00:55:00.480 message.

00:55:01.640 You just spray it

00:55:02.540 on the internet.

00:55:04.000 You can look at

00:55:04.820 all the metrics.

00:55:05.740 You can see

00:55:06.120 what's viral, what

00:55:07.040 gets a lot of

00:55:07.540 clicks, what gets

00:55:08.280 an engagement, and

00:55:09.440 then you can

00:55:09.800 immediately adjust,

00:55:11.560 do it again.

00:55:12.920 So our ability to

00:55:14.260 know what works,

00:55:16.920 and to know

00:55:17.480 quickly, so you

00:55:18.320 can do more of

00:55:19.040 it, and to know

00:55:19.920 what doesn't work

00:55:20.700 very quickly, so

00:55:21.760 you can do less

00:55:22.300 of it, puts

00:55:24.200 persuasion in a

00:55:25.220 whole different

00:55:25.740 category.

00:55:27.380 Now on top of

00:55:28.140 that, we've got a

00:55:28.780 whole bunch of

00:55:29.580 breakthroughs, like

00:55:31.400 now we can image

00:55:32.240 your brain, we

00:55:33.080 can put monitors on

00:55:34.380 your brain and

00:55:34.980 find out what

00:55:36.020 kind of messages

00:55:36.700 have the most

00:55:37.500 impact.

00:55:39.100 On top of that,

00:55:40.720 we have an

00:55:41.240 industry to train

00:55:42.400 you how to do

00:55:42.940 it.

00:55:43.140 You know, the book

00:55:44.560 industry and books

00:55:45.860 like Childini's

00:55:48.340 books about

00:55:49.380 persuasion.

00:55:50.520 So you can read

00:55:51.240 about persuasion, you

00:55:52.040 can learn it, you

00:55:52.760 learn it from me, you

00:55:53.700 can learn it from a

00:55:54.300 number of places.

00:55:54.900 So what used to

00:55:56.380 be closer to

00:55:58.700 alchemy, you

00:55:59.940 know, sort of

00:56:00.380 like persuasion

00:56:01.860 was something that

00:56:02.880 felt a little bit

00:56:04.600 more like fake

00:56:06.800 science, because

00:56:08.620 you were kind of

00:56:09.580 guessing, and then

00:56:10.420 you were kind of

00:56:10.920 guessing if it

00:56:11.500 worked.

00:56:12.300 I think it

00:56:12.800 worked.

00:56:13.800 But now it's

00:56:14.680 science, because

00:56:15.820 now you can say,

00:56:16.700 oh, we've measured

00:56:18.740 this kind of

00:56:19.700 message against this

00:56:21.980 kind of topic, and

00:56:23.940 you know, we'll

00:56:24.440 have to tweak it a

00:56:25.380 little bit, but

00:56:26.120 we'll do that

00:56:26.760 rapidly through A-B

00:56:27.980 testing of messages,

00:56:29.580 and then, bang.

00:56:33.180 Suddenly, persuasion

00:56:34.960 is more powerful than

00:56:36.100 all of our other

00:56:36.820 weapons.

00:56:37.940 I think we're

00:56:38.980 already there.

00:56:40.320 I think we're at

00:56:41.000 the point where

00:56:41.680 weaponized persuasion,

00:56:43.680 which has been, you

00:56:44.420 know, tested and

00:56:45.180 tested, is more

00:56:46.480 powerful than most

00:56:48.840 of our weapons of

00:56:49.660 mass destruction.

00:56:51.980 All right.

00:56:58.740 And, of course, why

00:56:59.800 is it we don't talk

00:57:00.660 about persuasion

00:57:01.620 being the biggest

00:57:03.440 risk and maybe the

00:57:05.640 biggest benefit, too?

00:57:06.820 Why don't we talk

00:57:07.700 about that more?

00:57:09.340 Because the people

00:57:10.180 who would talk

00:57:10.960 about it are the

00:57:12.200 ones who are doing

00:57:12.840 it.

00:57:14.800 They're the ones

00:57:15.480 who are persuading

00:57:16.160 you.

00:57:16.740 I don't think they

00:57:18.000 want to open the

00:57:18.620 kimono, so to speak.

00:57:20.340 God, I hate that

00:57:20.960 phrase.

00:57:21.980 I don't think they

00:57:23.060 want to show you

00:57:24.000 the mechanism behind

00:57:26.360 their own operation.

00:57:28.840 So they can't show

00:57:29.900 you how persuasion

00:57:30.700 works or even talk

00:57:31.900 about it, because

00:57:32.780 then you would see

00:57:33.380 it in their actual

00:57:34.400 content.

00:57:38.480 Why wasn't

00:57:39.300 persuasion used to

00:57:40.260 get people vaxxed?

00:57:41.160 actually, the headlines

00:57:42.320 today is that in the

00:57:44.320 UK, they actually

00:57:45.500 used persuasion

00:57:47.180 techniques to

00:57:48.360 what they call

00:57:49.120 nudge, you know,

00:57:51.540 to nudge

00:57:52.000 somebody.

00:57:52.900 Apparently, they did

00:57:53.760 use nudge

00:57:54.640 technology, if I

00:57:56.580 can put it that

00:57:57.100 way.

00:57:57.700 The understanding

00:57:58.840 of what persuades

00:58:00.080 in an advertising

00:58:01.360 marketing kind of

00:58:02.460 world.

00:58:02.660 Now, I would say

00:58:04.340 they may have

00:58:06.340 held off the

00:58:07.260 strongest versions

00:58:08.340 of that.

00:58:09.680 It looked like

00:58:10.340 they nudged as

00:58:11.540 much as they

00:58:12.080 could nudge

00:58:12.480 without pushback.

00:58:14.380 That's what it

00:58:15.020 looked like to me.

00:58:15.920 Because there are

00:58:16.560 stronger forms of

00:58:18.180 pure persuasion.

00:58:19.800 They could, for

00:58:20.500 example, scare the

00:58:21.380 shit out of you,

00:58:22.500 and they didn't do

00:58:23.180 that.

00:58:24.400 You know, they

00:58:24.900 played the fear

00:58:26.560 thing, they

00:58:27.660 definitely played it,

00:58:28.740 but they didn't go

00:58:29.860 as far as they

00:58:30.660 could.

00:58:30.800 They didn't go

00:58:31.320 full Trump, right?

00:58:33.920 And neither did

00:58:34.920 Trump, by the way.

00:58:36.200 Trump didn't go

00:58:36.920 full Trump either.

00:58:38.240 Trump, did you

00:58:39.120 notice that?

00:58:41.140 You know, because

00:58:41.600 Trump had to, he

00:58:42.700 had to thread the

00:58:44.380 needle a little bit.

00:58:45.200 He's got to keep

00:58:46.340 his supporters on

00:58:47.140 his side, but

00:58:48.400 clearly he was also

00:58:49.560 the warp speed

00:58:51.080 guy, so he's got

00:58:52.220 to claim that they

00:58:53.260 work and that it's

00:58:54.380 a good idea.

00:58:55.540 So he was always

00:58:56.580 sort of down the

00:58:57.600 middle, and he

00:58:58.440 dropped his entire

00:58:59.520 Trump-like

00:59:00.740 persona just for

00:59:01.800 that topic.

00:59:03.760 Probably the right

00:59:04.620 thing to do.

00:59:06.020 But let me tell

00:59:06.920 you what real

00:59:07.620 persuasion would

00:59:08.420 have looked like,

00:59:09.600 just so you can

00:59:10.380 imagine what it

00:59:11.080 would have looked

00:59:11.500 like.

00:59:12.260 What it would

00:59:12.740 have looked like,

00:59:13.800 let's say, if

00:59:14.320 somebody like

00:59:15.000 Trump had wanted

00:59:16.640 to do it, he

00:59:18.440 would have told

00:59:18.860 you, you're going

00:59:19.360 to fucking die if

00:59:20.560 you don't get that

00:59:21.120 vaccination.

00:59:22.340 They would have

00:59:22.740 showed you pictures

00:59:23.460 of, you know, way

00:59:24.580 more pictures of the

00:59:25.520 people dying in

00:59:26.440 ventilators.

00:59:27.740 I mean, they could

00:59:28.260 have scared you to

00:59:28.960 the point where you

00:59:29.680 wouldn't think of

00:59:30.300 anything else.

00:59:32.000 They could have

00:59:33.020 scared you to line

00:59:34.000 up, no matter how

00:59:36.260 much you were afraid

00:59:37.200 of the vaccination,

00:59:38.140 they could make you

00:59:38.680 more afraid.

00:59:39.880 Remember when people

00:59:40.700 said, there's no way

00:59:41.800 that Trump could beat

00:59:42.700 Hillary because his

00:59:43.660 ratings were so low,

00:59:44.860 his popularity?

00:59:46.500 And I famously said

00:59:47.880 at the time, he

00:59:48.980 doesn't have to get

00:59:49.720 more popular, he just

00:59:51.620 has to make Hillary

00:59:52.480 less popular.

00:59:53.220 And then he did.

00:59:56.100 It was one of the

00:59:56.920 most masterfully

00:59:58.320 strategic, you

01:00:00.060 know, approaches

01:00:00.560 you've ever seen.

01:00:01.280 Well, I'm not going

01:00:01.820 to get more popular,

01:00:02.860 but I'll bet I can

01:00:03.540 make her less popular.

01:00:04.760 And then he did.

01:00:06.200 So he would do the

01:00:07.340 same thing with

01:00:07.880 vaccinations.

01:00:09.000 He wouldn't make you

01:00:10.120 less afraid of the

01:00:11.180 vaccination.

01:00:12.700 He wouldn't have to.

01:00:14.600 He wouldn't make you

01:00:15.820 less afraid than you

01:00:16.940 already are of, you

01:00:18.820 know, whatever side

01:00:20.080 effects there are of

01:00:20.720 the vaccination.

01:00:21.560 He wouldn't even have

01:00:22.260 to mention it.

01:00:23.480 He would just make

01:00:24.300 you way, way more

01:00:25.520 afraid of the

01:00:26.080 alternative.

01:00:27.540 And no matter how

01:00:28.460 rational you are, if

01:00:30.620 you hear it enough and

01:00:31.740 you see it visually,

01:00:33.160 it's the visual part

01:00:34.100 that's missing, right?

01:00:35.560 When you see the

01:00:36.320 visual, it's, you

01:00:37.180 know, it's usually a

01:00:38.400 photograph of a person

01:00:39.580 on a ventilator.

01:00:41.340 Imagine if that was

01:00:42.400 video, right?

01:00:45.080 You usually just see a

01:00:46.140 still photo.

01:00:47.620 Somebody's on a

01:00:48.200 ventilator or text.

01:00:50.100 They could have gone

01:00:50.800 full video.

01:00:52.260 I'm showing people

01:00:53.720 on literally dying.

01:00:56.380 If you showed me one

01:00:57.640 video of somebody

01:00:59.380 gasping for breath

01:01:00.800 and dying, and like I

01:01:03.160 was dumb enough to

01:01:03.980 click on it and watch

01:01:04.780 it, I would never get

01:01:06.140 that out of my head.

01:01:07.820 And somebody says that

01:01:09.820 it did happen.

01:01:11.560 But I don't remember

01:01:13.840 seeing it, so it didn't

01:01:14.660 get a lot of play.

01:01:16.740 Anyway, but you see the

01:01:17.980 difference, right?

01:01:18.520 You might not have

01:01:21.500 noticed until I

01:01:22.240 mentioned it.

01:01:22.800 Well, you probably

01:01:23.320 did.

01:01:23.920 But you did notice

01:01:25.000 that this is one where

01:01:25.940 Trump quite conspicuously

01:01:27.820 decided not to be

01:01:30.400 persuasive.

01:01:32.440 You all see that, right?

01:01:33.600 That was a choice.

01:01:35.320 But if the government

01:01:36.400 wanted you to be

01:01:37.880 persuaded, it didn't

01:01:40.400 even try.

01:01:41.640 In my opinion, the

01:01:44.800 level of persuasion

01:01:45.840 that the government

01:01:46.480 used was pretty close

01:01:48.820 to appropriate.

01:01:50.460 Pretty close to

01:01:51.240 appropriate.

01:01:52.080 Because I think they

01:01:52.920 believed that it was

01:01:53.640 good.

01:01:54.740 So you do want them to

01:01:55.980 say what they believe is

01:01:56.880 good, and you want them

01:01:57.700 to lead on that.

01:01:58.780 But you don't want them

01:01:59.780 to be full-out

01:02:00.600 brainwashers.

01:02:02.320 And I think they

01:02:03.080 stopped short of being

01:02:03.920 full-out brainwashers.

01:02:05.180 In America.

01:02:06.540 There's an accusation

01:02:07.720 that in Great Britain

01:02:08.600 they actually went too

01:02:09.940 far.

01:02:10.720 But in America, I would

01:02:11.740 say maybe they overshot

01:02:14.260 the mark 10%, but that's

01:02:15.920 not really a crime.

01:02:19.520 What about now?

01:02:21.180 At this point, I feel

01:02:22.640 like they're backing off

01:02:23.740 on the vaccinations.

01:02:25.560 And I think we'll just

01:02:26.720 end up opening up, and

01:02:28.220 we'll probably be fine.

01:02:30.940 We'll hit the million

01:02:31.700 mark for deaths, but

01:02:32.640 we'll probably be fine.

01:02:35.720 All right.

01:02:41.260 And that is all I

01:02:44.140 have for today.

01:02:45.140 Oh, let me make one

01:02:46.000 more point, because I

01:02:46.660 saw a comment going on.

01:02:48.580 Somebody said that the

01:02:49.680 masks are child abuse.

01:02:52.320 Imagine if the public

01:02:53.540 wanted to be better

01:02:54.700 persuaders on the

01:02:57.120 masking of children.

01:02:58.560 We haven't even taken

01:03:00.580 a serious try at it.

01:03:02.260 Because there would be

01:03:03.360 videos of the kids

01:03:04.960 themselves struggling

01:03:07.160 with masks and saying

01:03:08.640 how it destroyed them

01:03:09.740 and begging adults to

01:03:12.560 help them.

01:03:13.700 That's all you need.

01:03:15.340 Just get some...

01:03:17.320 Tape a bunch of kids

01:03:18.540 who really, really care

01:03:19.880 about the masks.

01:03:20.920 It wouldn't be hard to

01:03:21.700 find some.

01:03:22.560 The ones who really,

01:03:23.540 really think that they're

01:03:24.260 being damaged by them.

01:03:25.840 And just put them on

01:03:26.840 video.

01:03:27.880 That's all it would

01:03:28.620 take.

01:03:29.520 And just say, and have

01:03:30.960 the kids say, if this

01:03:32.420 isn't child abuse, what

01:03:33.580 is.

01:03:35.340 Imagine the child

01:03:36.480 saying it.

01:03:37.500 And by child, I mean

01:03:38.720 it could be 12 years

01:03:39.900 old, right?

01:03:40.780 So imagine a video

01:03:41.640 where the child on the

01:03:42.780 mask says, if this

01:03:44.320 isn't child abuse, I

01:03:46.040 don't know what is.

01:03:48.360 It'd be over in a day.

01:03:50.980 But kids don't know

01:03:52.020 they have that kind of

01:03:52.760 power.

01:03:53.780 And there are, you

01:03:54.620 know, and maybe it's a

01:03:55.400 good thing that there

01:03:56.040 are no adults

01:03:56.980 manipulating kids into

01:03:58.900 being part of that

01:03:59.720 messaging.

01:04:00.480 So maybe that's a

01:04:01.180 good thing.

01:04:01.500 All right.

01:04:03.660 The news is not

01:04:04.920 serving up delightful

01:04:05.880 things as much as it

01:04:06.840 should, but I'm hoping

01:04:07.900 tomorrow will be

01:04:09.300 better.

01:04:10.580 And, um, okay, I

01:04:15.180 have to answer this

01:04:15.800 question.

01:04:16.560 Is Trump naturally

01:04:17.560 persuasive and crazy,

01:04:19.500 or is the craziness

01:04:20.860 just an act?

01:04:22.380 The craziness is just

01:04:23.900 an act.

01:04:26.340 Um, that's my opinion.

01:04:28.520 And, you know, I did

01:04:29.320 meet him.

01:04:29.660 I got to talk with

01:04:30.600 him, and there

01:04:31.280 wasn't any craziness.

01:04:33.760 You know, wouldn't you

01:04:34.920 imagine if the stuff

01:04:36.900 that Trump does in

01:04:37.880 public was also the

01:04:39.960 way he acted in

01:04:40.700 private?

01:04:42.060 Don't you think you'd

01:04:42.960 pick up on it pretty

01:04:43.700 quickly?

01:04:44.820 I don't think he could

01:04:45.860 hide it, right, if he

01:04:47.800 was actually that crazy.

01:04:48.860 But in private, it's

01:04:50.740 just talking to a real

01:04:52.200 smart guy who actually

01:04:53.940 shows a lot of interest

01:04:54.980 in you.

01:04:55.340 And I think that

01:04:56.540 would be, I think the

01:04:57.760 most surprising thing

01:04:58.960 about meeting Trump

01:05:00.060 in person, maybe not

01:05:01.960 surprising to me, but

01:05:03.020 surprising to anybody I

01:05:04.680 tell about it, is how

01:05:06.300 much genuine interest he

01:05:07.700 had about me.

01:05:09.160 You know, asking about

01:05:10.280 how my business model

01:05:11.260 worked and, you know,

01:05:13.680 insightful questions.

01:05:15.040 People don't expect that

01:05:16.160 of him because of the,

01:05:17.940 you know, the

01:05:18.680 caricature that's painted.

01:05:20.160 Yeah, his personal

01:05:23.140 charisma is really

01:05:25.800 through the roof.

01:05:26.800 It's, that was the fun

01:05:28.240 part to experience.

01:05:31.440 Yeah, it's entertainment

01:05:32.400 for the base.

01:05:33.360 Correct.

01:05:33.720 All right, that's all

01:05:34.620 for now.

01:05:35.020 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:05:36.160 Thank you.

01:05:45.080 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 05, 2022

Episode 1645 Scott Adams： Perceptual Oddities, The GoFundMe Debacle, Lots of Fun

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