Episode 1649 Scott Adams： Mandates Dropping, Our President is Not Mentally Capable, Putin is Trapped
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Whoopi Goldberg, cancel culture, and why the public thinks Whoopi should be kicked off the airwaves. All in this and more on this morning s episode of The Unrivaled Sip. Enjoy!
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of the day. And the best moment of the best experience of the day. Right now, it's gone.
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It's gone. But it was pretty good while it lasted. Hey, how would you like to take it up a level?
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And I think we need to drink our morning toast to the truckers. How about it? Anybody in for
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the truckers? Let's support the truckers, support the citizens who want to end the mandate.
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Let us claw back our rights. Claw them back, I say. Now, you might say, claw them back? I never left
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them. Well, whatever you want to call it. Let's get things back to normal. And we're going to make
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the government do it for us. But first, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or a
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chelsea, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like
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coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. The dopamine of the day, the thing
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that makes everything better, even the mandates, eventually. We'll get there. Join me now for
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the unparalleled sip. Go. Yeah, it is the best part of your day. That's right. That's right,
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it is. So, let's talk about all the things that are happening. Rasmussen had a poll.
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Which, again, I think it delves deeply into understanding the psychology of the human mind.
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Most polls just tell you some data, but not this one. This one goes a little deeper.
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It asked two questions. Three, actually, but two that I care about. And it talked about the
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ABC suspension of Whoopi Goldberg and how many people agreed with this suspension.
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Before I tell you the answer, how many people, cross-section of the country, America, how many
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of them thought ABC should suspend Whoopi? What is your guess? 25%.
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The answer was 54%. Are you a little shocked by that? Does that sound wrong? 54% thought she
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should be suspended? For what? Having a historical imperfection in her understanding? What? 54% think
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you should be canceled for that? Well, does it get crazier? Wait for it. Wait for it. You don't think
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it gets crazier? Oh, it does. Same poll. Rasmussen also. Same poll. Actually, I think they asked
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them at the same time, but actually, I don't know for that for sure. But the question was
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asked also, do you think cancel culture has gotten out of control? Now, remember that 54%
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of the people who answered said that Whoopi should be suspended? And then they asked, has
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cancel culture gotten out of control? And 67% said yes. So two-thirds of the country thinks
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this cancel culture has gone too far, while 54% think that Whoopi should get canceled.
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Wait, what? How can both of those things be true? But there's human beings for you. So
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what does it really come down to? It really comes down to, do you like Whoopi Goldberg? You
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know, or are you on her team, basically? It has more about politics than her, I think. So
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people are happy to cancel people who are on their team, right? If somebody's on your own
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team, or you don't want them canceled, but if they're on the other team, you're like, you're
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all about cancel culture, aren't you? Not you specifically, but apparently the public.
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Now, this brings me to me. And I would like to say something to some of you, but many of
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you have already blocked and canceled. How many of you have tried to cancel me in the last
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two years for my opinions? A lot. Yeah. A lot of my audience has tried to cancel me
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for a difference of opinion. Literally a difference of opinion. Now, much of the thoughts about me are
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based on something that never happened. So most of what people are mad about me are literally
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things that didn't happen. So every day somebody says, well, why were you so pro-mandate? And
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I'd say, that never happened. I don't even know who you're talking about. And they'd say, you were
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really pushing those masks. And I say, that never happened. I've talked about them. I've never
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promoted them. About you pushed, you really, you were in the bag for the vaccine makers, to which I
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say, who are you talking about? That literally never happened. But it doesn't matter. I still get
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canceled. So I've lost 25%, something like that, of my audience just because they disagreed with that
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opinion. So when you're criticizing the other people for canceling, just be aware that it's not
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always the other people canceling, right? There's a whole lot of canceling going on. And it's basically
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just people you disagree with at this point. I'm not even sure canceling is real. Let me go further.
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I don't think cancellation even happens. I think it's just team play. And if a team can get away
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with it, they do. And if a team can't get away with it, they don't. But there's no cancel culture.
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There's just people trying to cancel each other. And sometimes it works. So there's no good and bad
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people when it comes to canceling. Everybody's bad. That's my opinion. Biden is being asked to take a
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cognitive test. And I guess nearly 40 Republicans, including Ronnie Jackson, who used to be the
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president's physician, Trump's physician. They're all bringing it up. And even James Rosen asked the
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question. I like how he asks it. He goes, I'd like to raise a delicate subject, but with utmost respect
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for your life accomplishments and the high office you hold. That's about as well as you could ask
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that question. Think about what it's like to ask the president of the United States in public
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if he is mentally incapable. That's a pretty delicate thing, isn't it? But look at the, I don't know how
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much time he spent on the lead up to the question, but I'll bet he spends a lot of time. I'd like to
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raise a delicate subject, but with the utmost respect for your life accomplishments and the high
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office you hold. Now that is how to ask a question. That is how you ask that question. Nicely done, James
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Rosen. And he said, a poll released this morning by Politico, a morning consult, found that 49% of
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registered voters, remember this isn't, this isn't just Republicans, but 49% of registered voters
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disagreeing with the statement, Joe Biden is mentally fit.
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And when Rosen asked Biden why he thought so many people believe that, Biden responded,
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I have no idea. I feel as though a mentally fit person could have answered that question a little
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more, a little more capably, a little bit better. For example, they might have said, oh,
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that's mostly politics and people believing things out of context. I might have said, yeah,
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you can make anybody look ridiculous with video edits. You might say, oh, I think my age is starting
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to show a little bit, but my decision making is still solid. You're all in good shape. There are so
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many ways to answer that question, but I have no idea is the only one that makes it sound like it's true,
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that he's mentally incapable. So he picked that one. And why is it that we've gone this long without a
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cognitive test of the president? Now, what would the percentage of the public need to be
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that strongly suspected the president was not mentally fit? What percentage of the public
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should pretty much automatically trigger that kind of test should pretty much automatically trigger
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that kind of a test? 25? 25 might be too low, because I think you could get 25% of anybody to attack
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any president, right? How about 50%? If 50% of the public was concerned about the president's mental
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health, don't you think that should trigger a cognitive test? Now, maybe, you know, 50% based
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on three different polls or something like that. But shouldn't we have some kind of a standard?
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I'm not even sure 40% is high enough, because 40% ends up being really close to the political party
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number. You need to get a bunch of people from the other team, or I don't think it counts.
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And at 54%, you're getting a bunch of Democrats, right? I think. Unless it's just all independents,
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I suppose. But I think 50% should be our cutoff for automatic cognitive tests. And why can't we
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make that a standard? It doesn't have to be a law. But, you know, there are certain standards,
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such as presidents give you their tax returns and things like that. So we do have things that are
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just standards we agree are reasonable. And I would like to put it out there that if you're over 50%
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in national polls, maybe you need three polls, just to make sure you don't have an outlier poll.
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But let's say if you have three polls that put you over 50%, automatic cognitive test. Who would
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disagree with that? And by the way, it should apply if it's Trump, it should apply if it's anybody,
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right? I'm not taking sides. Does anybody disagree with that? Now, I'd like to remind you that prior
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to Trump running the first time, I always said that we shouldn't have presidents that old. So I was
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never in favor of anyone Trump's age being president. I'm just not in favor of that. But it happens.
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You disagree. Bradley disagrees. Interesting. Oh, how about test everybody over the age of 75?
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Well, you know, I'm not sure that's necessary. I used the example of Chris Wallace yesterday. I was
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amazed to find out he was 75. Do you think Chris Wallace needs a cognitive test?
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You know, joking aside. Yeah, okay. Joking aside, though. Come on. I know you're being political
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now. But joking aside, he doesn't need a cognitive test. I don't think so. Well, okay, maybe you think
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so. All right. Let's see what else is going on here. So Rumble, the competitor to YouTube,
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that's a free speech kind of an entity. I guess I should disclose that because Rumble partnered
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with locals, I think I have some kind of shares of something. So I have some kind of conflict of
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interest in this that you should be aware of. But Rumble has offered $100 million to Joe Rogan if he
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leaves Spotify and goes to their platform. Now, how smart is that offer?
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Now, you know that Spotify is being asked to fire Joe Rogan and it's a lot of pressure,
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et cetera. But how smart is that offer? Assuming that they can come up with $100 million. I don't
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know how you do that. But I suppose if Joe Rogan wanted to come over, they could raise $100 million
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pretty easily. Yeah. It's like the smartest thing you've seen today. Because if Joe Rogan says no,
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then Rumble got a whole bunch of free publicity. If he says yes, then it's even better.
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It couldn't get much better than this. Yeah. So I know Dave Rubin was part of the decision. I don't
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know who else was part of it. But I always say this about Dave Rubin. He does a lot of smart stuff,
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if you haven't noticed. He's somewhat consistently on the smart side of things. So I'm not surprised
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he was in the room when this idea came about. It was just a smart thing. You can't lose with
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that offer. So I saw a number that I don't believe. Somebody tell me if this is, just do a fact check
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on there. Because the tweet didn't have a source. But I saw a tweet that said 90,000 trucks have
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registered for the convoy in D.C. Is that even possible? I don't believe 90,000. Do you?
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It was his idea? I'm seeing somebody say it was Dave Rubin's idea. I would not be surprised.
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Okay. So 90,000 truckers? Is that real? I don't think so. But let's say there are a lot of them.
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Meanwhile, there are trucker convoys all over the place. You can read all about them. But
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if you thought this trucker convoy thing was going to be brief and then go away, apparently not.
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Apparently the trucker thing is just growing. And it's growing internationally. And this is what
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I call productive pressure. This is productive pressure. It's a great time to be alive, honestly.
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I think this is a good lesson for the children who are watching it. It's a tough time to be a kid,
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masks and all. Really tough time to be a kid. But one of the things the kids are going to get out of
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this is watching the adults navigate this situation. And what we hope they're watching
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we hope is they're watching the adults fight like hell to claw back their rights, especially for
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the kids. Now, you hope the kids remember this, don't you? Don't you hope they remember this?
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Because these truckers are fighting for them. And they're fighting against their governments,
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what they think are oppressive requirements. And they're putting the energy into it.
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This is the best fight you will ever see. Because both sides are trying to protect the public.
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Now, you could argue one side is being too political. The side, in this case, not being
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Democrat or Republican. But the side being anybody who wants the mandates in place. More Republicans,
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or more Democrats than Republicans. But what is better than a fight where everybody's trying to win
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the best outcome for the public? That's really good. That's productive. So this is the kind of protest
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that is nothing but productive. The government requires this kind of public involvement to do what
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it probably wants to do, which is get back to something like normal. But we need to push it.
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It's not going to happen on its own. Do you know what governments are really good at?
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Creating new rules and policies. They're good at creating new ones. You know what they're bad at?
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Ending anything. Right? Bad at ending Vietnam. Bad at ending Afghanistan. Bad at ending anything.
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Right? I think you'd all agree with that. Governments are good at starting, bad at ending.
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Do you know who's good at ending things? The public. Right. So what you're seeing, on one hand,
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it looks like, you know, some kind of a fight. You know, there's some kind of fight happening
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between the governments and the people. That's not exactly what's happening. That's not exactly
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what's happening. I think another filter on this is that it's a handoff. Basically, the government
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needs the public to do what the public is doing, push hard, so that the public, so the politicians
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have the cover to do what they probably want to do, which is get back to normal. Now, I've never
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believed the politicians want us to be oppressed forever for nefarious reasons. And if there are,
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if anybody has that opinion, it's not just your rank and file members of Congress. You know,
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they're not thinking that. So, you know, if some do, they're not the ones who matter for this.
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So, I think we should be seeing this as sort of two parts working together. Our government being
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a good starter, our public being a good finisher, and the government is starting to hand off.
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As you see the dominoes falling, you know, one state after another announcing the end to
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mandates, you're starting to see the handoff. And there's nothing wrong with that. So, we should
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see it as a fight only to the extent that you have to fight for freedom, but it's not a fight against
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each other. That's one of the things we all have to understand, and I think we do, because these
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protests have been largely peaceful, right? So, this is brother against brother, sister against sister.
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This is not a fight fight. This is a handoff. And if you treat it as a handoff, it's the public that
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can claw back their rights, not the government. The government can't give us our rights back. We
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have to go get it. And now it's time. The hardest part was waiting, wasn't it? The hardest part was
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waiting for the right moment. Because if you start too soon, you lose your credibility. If infections are
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going through the roof, and you're trying to get back your rights, well, it's a weaker argument.
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Even if you think the mandates didn't work, it's still a weaker argument, because other people think
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they did. So, finally, finally, the data is in the point, and Omicron, and vaccinations, and all that
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other stuff. Finally, we reached the point where the public can take the handoff. And they are.
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They stepped up. So, you're seeing something that looks like a fight, which is, in my opinion,
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everything working the way it's supposed to work. It's working exactly the way it's supposed
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to work. And it looks like it's on schedule somewhat, meaning that in the next several
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weeks, we're going to see big changes of getting back to normal, just the way it should work.
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So, if you're feeling down about any of this, it's all heading in the right direction. And
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it's not going to stop. So, the public have taken control exactly as they were supposed to
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do. This is everything working the way it's supposed to work. Just slower than you want
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Well, one of my favorite hobbies, as I said before, is watching Ben Shapiro annihilate people's
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bad arguments. And here's one that just made me laugh. So, you know, there's the, there's,
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is it, is it Flores, the gentleman who's challenging the fact that the NFL coaches are all white while
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70% of the players are black. And if you hear that statistic without any context, you'd say to
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yourself, well, that's a pretty obvious discrimination. And if they can fix it in
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basketball, you know, basketball has roughly the, you know, a good number of black coaches
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that seems to make more sense with the number of black players. So, Ben Shapiro tweets in response
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to, you know, why aren't there, you know, if 70% of the players are black, why don't we have any black
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coaches? And Ben Shapiro tweets, 70% of NFL players are black. What are the odds? Because he was
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responding to a tweet that said, what are the odds? Now, here's the beautiful part about this.
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Ben doesn't need to complete the argument, because, because it just sits there complete the way it is.
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Here's the complete argument. Either both things are racist or neither.
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It's either racist that 70% of players are black. How in the world does that happen by accident?
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Or it's racist that we have no black coaches. Again, how the hell does that happen by accident?
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Right? So here's the problem. You can't have it both ways. You can't have it both ways if you're
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even trying to be smart. The only way you can try to be smart is to say they're either both racist
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or they're not, both not. You just can't have it both ways. You can't have, hey, there's nothing to
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see here. 70% of the athletes are black. And then, you know, there's nothing to see here. It just doesn't
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work. So I think if Shapiro took the argument further, he would get into, hey, you're racist
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territory. But just putting it out there is just hilarious. Like the argument doesn't need to be
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completed. It could just lay there and let people deal with it. Anyway, that always amuses me.
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Was I one of the first people you saw, and I can't remember if I read it first, so this is just one
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of those cases I do need to check my memory. Was I one of the first people to say Putin is really
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screwed? Because he can't attack and he can't not attack? Well, he doesn't have any options. I guess
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other people must have said that. But I'm starting to see that as more of a mainstream opinion.
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That I think Biden's winning. Right? It looks like Biden actually played this, maybe. I mean,
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it's way too early to know. But at the moment, it looks like the Biden administration
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may have played this perfectly. Now, I don't know, that's not to say that Trump or somebody
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else wouldn't have done better. We don't know that. But at this point, it looks like Putin
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really can't attack. It looks like we've made such a clear price for that, that it would be
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crazy. Now, one of the things that you forget about is that Russia requires chips. They require
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microchips and they require a lot of specialized equipment that maybe they could get from China,
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but they'd wish they hadn't. So the argument is that Putin either needs to be, let's say,
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a little buddy of America or a little buddy of China. Because it's, you know, it's just the,
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I don't need to give you the whole reasons. But by the time we get into space, Russia is going
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to want to have a partner. And at least some thinking, I read this morning, and I forgot who
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wrote it, but there's at least one school of thought that says that Putin would prefer to be
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allied with the United States. What do you think of that? What do you think of the, and I think this
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would just be more speculation. Do you think it's true that if Putin had a choice, he would rather
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have a strong association with the United States compared to China? Now, I suppose you'd want a
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strong association with both, I guess. But Russia has more in common with China, somebody saying. I
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don't know. I don't think so. Because I think culture is closer to the U.S. and that matters
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more. And race, too, frankly. You know, you hate to say that race is in every single story, but it's
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pretty much in every single story. I think that the Russians just have more, just more, I don't know,
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feel for the United States. I'm guessing. Governing philosophy is similar. I don't know. I'm not sure that
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that binds any two countries. Any chance we could be allies with China? I don't think so. I don't think
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culturally that's going to work. Not in the short run. All right. Well, so I would say again that we
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have a situation here where Putin requires a creative exit strategy. And a creative exit strategy
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would look roughly like this. Making it look like he got something but not giving him anything.
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Or it could be giving him something in return for some other thing that has nothing to do with
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Ukraine. So it seems to me that the real deal may not ever be known by the public. Much like the
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Cuban Missile... Are there any historians here? Historians, please help me out. My understanding
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is that the Cuban Missile deal was a secret deal. That's true, right? What the public thought the deal
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was is not what the actual deal was. There was a deal behind the scenes. So will we ever know what the
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deal is? And should we? I'm not sure we should. You're incorrect, Scott, John Cook says. Incorrect that
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it was a secret deal? Say more about that if you're sure about it. But the point is whether the Cuban
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Missile Crisis was secret or not, we could certainly make secret deals. And I think we have to get
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creative now. And I would love to know what's being bandied about. The thing we would want
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most, I think, is some help against China in the future. So we gave up missiles in Turkey, but I
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think there was more than that we gave up. I think there was even a deeper secret than the missiles in
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Turkey. I think that was the fake out part. All right. So anyway, we'll see what happens
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there. But I think something creative might come out of that that might be positive.
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Meanwhile, NBC is on track for the lowest Winter Olympics ratings of all time. Yay.
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Are any of you watching even one event in the Winter Olympics, which I call the Thanks for the
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Fentanyl Olympics? Nope, nope, nope. I will not click on a link. I will not. I won't even turn on my TV
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so that it accidentally tunes to that network as I'm flipping through the channels. Does anybody flip
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through channels anymore? Is that even a thing? I just use apps. I don't flip through channels anymore.
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Yeah, I don't have channels either. I just have apps.
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The two very old cold that are very much still in charge and must keep the farm before Russia.
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Now, you know, you think that Biden and Putin both have to be gone before we could be friends
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with Russia? Maybe. But I think they're both flexible enough.
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Well, the public is tearing down the mandate walls.
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It looks like the public has told NBC to go fuck themselves if they're going to cover the
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Olympics. That's the public. That is not our government. That is the American public doing
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what's right for fentanyl, for the Uyghurs, for our economy, because of the Wuhan lab, potentially.
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And this is the public talking. So, the public has decided.
00:28:00.960
And how about the cancellation of Joe Rogan? Do you think that'll happen?
00:28:10.820
Nope. Nope. Won't happen. Do you know why Joe Rogan won't be cancelled?
00:28:16.800
The public. The public. Yeah, the public seems to be taking charge of the country.
00:28:22.720
Am I wrong? The public has decided that Joe Rogan will either stay or get a raise.
00:28:30.460
Am I right? The public has decided Joe Rogan is either going to stay at Spotify or he's going
00:28:37.000
to get a raise. That's it. The public has decided the mandates are coming down. They're coming
00:28:42.520
down. The public has decided we didn't want to be in Afghanistan, no matter what it took,
00:28:50.080
basically. We got out. The public has made a lot of decisions this year. And they're not bad.
00:28:59.080
They're not bad. So, good for the public. I'm watching some very, very bad political analysis
00:29:11.300
happening. And I have to call it out. And this is where I get cancelled by my own audience.
00:29:17.200
Please stop saying, oh, Democrats, I guess the science changed because now you want to
00:29:25.160
get rid of the mandates or the masks anyway. Does that make sense? To make fun of the Democrats
00:29:31.520
and say, oh, I guess the science was different last week when you wanted masks, but now the
00:29:37.040
science has changed. Does that make sense? No. No, it doesn't make sense. The data changed.
00:29:43.920
The data changed. The science didn't change. Whether the science is good or bad, it never
00:29:52.180
changed. The data changed. And when the data changes, do you keep the same decision? Of course
00:29:59.860
not. So, if all you're seeing is people saying, oh, it looks like Omicron's a new game. Vaccinations
00:30:06.220
have hit a certain rate. Natural immunity has hit a certain rate. We're all going to get it.
00:30:11.540
Omicron seems to blast through everything. All of the data is different. All the data
00:30:17.860
might be wrong. That's another problem. But please, please, it just, I hate when people
00:30:24.880
who largely agree with me have bad arguments because I feel like it makes me look bad.
00:30:29.160
And I do think that you all need to protect your brand or your reputation because it's
00:30:35.780
important. And I'd like to do the same. I hate it when people act as if time doesn't
00:30:41.480
exist. There is a time to do something and a time not to do it. And if you do it when
00:30:46.720
the time is right, that doesn't mean you are wrong to not do it when the time was wrong.
00:30:51.780
All right? Now, you could argue that it was always the time to do it, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:56.540
But don't ignore the fact that the reason things are different is because the data is all different.
00:31:08.360
And how about, so here's how we're seeing it. We're seeing the Youngkin was wrong, but now
00:31:16.280
he's right, according to the Democrats. No. Youngkin made a decision when the data was
00:31:21.960
almost overwhelmingly, you know, clear that we needed to reduce the mandates. He did it a little
00:31:31.180
bit early. Other people waited a few weeks. And then they said, oh, yeah, it looks like we're safe.
00:31:38.380
I don't really think that's a flip-flop. Right? Now, I do think that the politicians are reacting
00:31:45.040
to public demand, don't you? Of course. So public demand is a new fact.
00:31:52.520
That's a new fact. And part of the science, which we've always asked the experts to look at,
00:31:58.980
is to look at all the factors. Don't look at just the virus. Look at, you know, the social impact,
00:32:06.440
the economic impact, the mental health impact, all that. Right? So one of the new factors is the
00:32:12.540
public opinion. If public opinion changed, that is a perfectly good reason for governments to change.
00:32:20.200
We shouldn't be criticizing them for changing when we cause them to do the change. That's what we
00:32:26.740
wanted. That was the whole point of it. All right. Fusion. Yet again, another story about a breakthrough
00:32:36.460
fusion, this one from the UK, they more than doubled the previous record for generating and sustaining
00:32:42.820
nuclear fusion. Now, double doesn't mean that they're an economic break even. But again, it's an engineering
00:32:50.120
problem. Climate change is kind of solved. I might be the only person who's willing to say that out loud.
00:33:03.640
Climate change as a problem that's going to destroy the world is already solved. Now, we have to
00:33:11.960
implement it. But the solution is nuclear, traditional nuclear, but the better type. Modular nuclear,
00:33:22.040
so you get the economics down. And then fusion eventually. These might all be 10, 20 year things,
00:33:28.520
but that's fine. We'll be fine. And we also have the ability to remediate whatever damage happens
00:33:35.700
between now and the time that we have plenty of nuclear power. So if you look at the things that
00:33:40.420
have been solved in the recent last years, we've all been so busy just fighting for our lives in this
00:33:48.440
COVID world, that here are a few things that you lose sight of. Climate change basically solved.
00:33:56.000
And why was it solved? Because opinions changed. Now, technology changed too, but mostly opinions
00:34:04.260
about traditional nuclear development. Why did the opinions change? Well, Michael Schellenberger was a
00:34:12.200
big reason, maybe the biggest reason. Mark Schneider, big reason, very big reason. You know, I helped,
00:34:20.280
you helped. That was the people. Do you think that the government made a solution to climate?
00:34:28.680
Nope. Greta Thunberg, a citizen, made a big deal about it. And then people like you and I,
00:34:38.560
separately, whether we were worried about climate change or not, we're making a big deal about your,
00:34:43.440
you know, nuclear needs to be part of the mix, no matter what you think, because we just need the
00:34:48.240
energy. We can't run out of energy. So you need it. So the public solved climate change, not the
00:34:54.400
scientists. Think about that. It wasn't the scientists that solved climate change. Of course,
00:35:01.460
the scientists have to build the nuclear reactors and stuff. Like, they're not irrelevant. But in
00:35:06.300
terms of the movement of the strategy of the country, that was the people. The government did not
00:35:12.620
convince the people. Did you see that happening? It wasn't the government that convinced the people
00:35:18.640
to do nuclear. That never happened. It was literally the people that convinced the government.
00:35:23.900
And that happened really in the last two years, I'd say. That is remarkable. It's like freaking
00:35:30.860
unbelievable. The biggest problem in the world, the public solved it directly by changing our opinions
00:35:39.060
on the one thing that could have solved it. So that's happening. Now, what is the outcome of
00:35:45.420
the pandemic? One of the outcomes of the pandemic is we really got a lot smarter about a lot of stuff.
00:35:53.200
Right? So, you know, we can mourn our losses. Let's not, let's not lose sight that we lost a lot of
00:35:58.760
people. But we learned a lot. And we probably will be able to get on top of maybe not just the common
00:36:07.720
cold, maybe flus. Maybe we've got a whole new set of tools for everything. I mean, medically,
00:36:14.760
we're way ahead. If the only thing that came of this was dropping the state restriction about
00:36:20.420
telehealth, I mean, that's pretty huge. There's a bunch of huge benefits that came out of the
00:36:25.800
pandemic in the same way the huge benefits come out of a war. You don't want the war,
00:36:31.080
but you do get radar out of it. You know, you get a bunch of developments.
00:36:35.100
You get the nuclear bomb if you like that. So we've got pandemics going in the right way.
00:36:44.460
We've got, how about homeschooling? Are you watching Corey DeAngelis just kill it? I mean,
00:36:51.460
he's just killing it, spreading the homeschool message and reporting it back and building up
00:36:58.260
public support. So who was behind homeschooling? So what's the biggest, what is the biggest threat?
00:37:06.400
Let's say, let's say, what is the biggest cause of systemic racism? Biggest cause of systemic racism?
00:37:15.340
The schools. The schools are bad. If we had good schools everywhere, then no matter what bad
00:37:21.660
situation you were born into, your odds of having a strategy out would be pretty good.
00:37:25.520
Just pay attention in school. Do your homework. You'll be fine. But we don't have that.
00:37:32.260
So now, who solved the problem of the schools being crappy? Well, it's not solved, but the public
00:37:39.140
took over because the teachers' unions, the Democrats, et cetera, just weren't going to get it done.
00:37:44.480
So the people decided that they would keep pushing for these, fund the student instead of the system,
00:37:50.540
and state after state after state, and Corey DeAngelis is a big part of this, I think,
00:37:57.180
are lining them up and knocking them down. So there are more states, almost every day, there's a new
00:38:02.940
state introducing legislation or passing legislation to put funding in the hands of the kids so they
00:38:09.260
could take their money and go to a private or just a non-public school. So the public did that.
00:38:16.000
So the public is working on, and it's very, lots of progress, on a solution to systemic racism.
00:38:25.760
Now, let me play fair. Do you mind? Would you give me permission to say something good about,
00:38:33.080
let's say, who you think is the other side, in all likelihood, based on my audience?
00:38:37.680
Why did we solve the school problem? Well, mostly just to get better schools and less CRT and all that
00:38:46.980
stuff. But I'm not sure if we hadn't had the Black Lives movement, Black Lives Matter, I'm not sure that
00:38:56.080
we would have had as much energy to fix the school system. So again, whether you're pro or con,
00:39:07.180
the Black Lives Matter messaging, it was the public. It was the public saying, hey, we think there's a big
00:39:14.220
systemic problem. And then who solved it? The public. It wasn't even the politicians. I mean, so far, it looks
00:39:21.920
like the public just pushing the politicians to fix the schools, which are the biggest source of racism.
00:39:29.520
So we are in a really weird time right now. And the weird time is this. We've fixed just about
00:39:41.640
everything. Or it's on the way to being fixed. This is one of the most optimistic moments in
00:39:49.380
history I've ever seen. But we, you know, because of the nature of the news, it's all doom and gloom,
00:39:55.140
and we've lost our rights, and Russia's going to war and stuff. But wow, are we heading in the right
00:40:00.360
direction on everything. And we're, we're freaking killing it as human beings. We just can't see it
00:40:08.140
Is mocking an effective form of persuasion? Yes, it is. Yeah, so I'm not going to say that
00:40:18.900
everything's fixed. I'm going to say that the public is moving in the right direction on just
00:40:23.100
about everything. And it's, except, you know, the cancel culture is out of control. But I think,
00:40:29.700
but I do think the public stepped up and saved Joe Rogan. And I think the public
00:40:35.400
may have to take control of cancellations too. But, but, you know, I think the market may be taking
00:40:43.160
care of that itself. You know, how long ago was it that there could not have been a $100 million
00:40:49.340
offer from another platform for Joe Rogan? Think about that. Was it only maybe, I don't know when
00:40:59.520
Rumble started, but probably they weren't big enough or didn't have enough momentum that I would
00:41:06.100
say two years ago, Joe Rogan would have had no competing platform possibly, but now he does.
00:41:13.880
So he's, he's protected because the, not only has the public in a way, in a way the public is what
00:41:21.500
created these alternative platforms because they couldn't have succeeded without a big public energy
00:41:26.980
toward them. And so the public found a way to push industry to create safe spaces that you can get
00:41:35.080
canceled and still go make money. So that's a big deal. Now, here's a topic that I saw in the news
00:41:42.660
that the government has recovered some, many millions of dollars that were stolen, was it 6 billion?
00:41:50.040
They were stolen of Bitcoin. To which you probably all said to yourself, what? How can you recover
00:41:58.800
stolen Bitcoin? You ever wonder that? Because what about all that privacy?
00:42:06.600
Now, what was it, 3 billion? 3 billion they recovered. So whatever the number was, it was some,
00:42:13.300
some big, big number they recovered. But here's the part that surprised me. How did anybody ever
00:42:19.920
think that crypto was going to be private? Why did we ever think that? Because as long as you know who
00:42:28.200
the human is who has the crypto account, you can just force them to give you the password, right?
00:42:34.320
There's some amount of jail that will make anybody give you a password. So did we ever really have
00:42:43.560
any kind of privacy? Because the government, if they have a reason, they can ask for it. If they don't
00:42:49.120
have a reason, well, what's the difference? You hack the PC that accesses the wall, yeah. There's got to
00:42:56.920
be, I'll bet there are several ways to get at somebody's crypto. And the government has the
00:43:06.000
best one. They can control the human being, and then you control everything. All right. Well, I still
00:43:13.800
think the big push for Bitcoin in particular is going to be when the public decides that you have to
00:43:19.980
have some of it in your portfolio. How far are we from that? So this is the reason that I hold it. I hold
00:43:27.840
it just as a diversification thing, so it's, you know, a small part of the portfolio. But the reason I hold
00:43:33.760
it is that there's going to be a day, and it'll happen probably in one year, where all the financial
00:43:38.960
analysts will start saying the same thing. Well, we don't know what's going to happen with crypto, but if you
00:43:44.360
don't have some, you better get some. Just a little bit, in case it becomes the only thing you can
00:43:50.360
spend. Because one possibility, you know, this is sort of the prepper in me, there is at least one
00:43:59.200
possibility that someday regular money will suddenly dissolve one way or another, and the only thing you
00:44:04.700
have left is crypto. That could happen. Now, I don't think the odds of that are very high, but that's why
00:44:11.300
you diversify. You're trying to take care of all the smaller odds. You're not trying to take care of
00:44:16.560
one big one. 30 grand for one Bitcoin, yeah. But that doesn't mean anything, because you can buy
00:44:27.400
Yeah. So Nassim Taleb has a black paper on Bitcoin, and predicts it will crash. Well, how hard is that to
00:44:44.660
predict? Let me make a prediction about a financial instrument, and it doesn't even matter which one
00:44:52.380
it is. I predict it will someday crash, because I'm magic. Do you know what else will someday crash?
00:44:59.940
Everything. Do you think the market will someday crash? Yeah, of course. Do you think every company
00:45:06.540
will someday crash? So far, all of them. Gold? Sure, someday. I think everything crashes.
00:45:15.260
So I don't consider Nassim Taleb to be my, let's say, he's not my guiding star. Your mileage might
00:45:29.300
differ. Yeah, there could be something that takes out the internet, but not cash money, that's
00:45:37.600
true. But you want to be protected either way. Crypto will eventually be hacked as computing power
00:45:46.900
increases, you say. I don't know. Will the Joe Rogan stuff backfire on the cancel crowd? I don't think
00:45:54.520
it'll backfire. I think it just won't work. You know, we should also talk about people who are
00:46:01.600
partially cancelled. Because I consider myself partially cancelled. If you were to Google me,
00:46:09.580
if you didn't know anything about me, what do you think you would find out about me if you
00:46:14.480
Googled me? Think about this question. You had no prior conception. You'd never heard of me,
00:46:21.340
never heard my name. Then you go online, and you say, let's figure out who this guy's about,
00:46:25.900
what he's about. And they Google me. It's going to say I'm a right-wing MAGA supporter.
00:46:37.780
It's going to say that I'm a misogynist because of something taken out of context.
00:46:43.960
Right? Do you know what's the only thing it won't say? It won't say I'm a racist.
00:46:49.000
Because so far, somehow I've managed to not fall into any of those traps. As far as I know,
00:46:55.880
I don't think there's anything on the internet that would say that. Now, usually those are
00:47:00.500
something taken out of context or whatever. But I don't think I even said anything that could be
00:47:04.880
taken out of context, amazingly. Amazingly. It's hard to do. But amazingly. So I think I'm only being
00:47:12.240
accused of other things. You milk toast. All right. So I would say that I'm cancelled in the sense that
00:47:25.280
my public reputation is destroyed. If I didn't already have, you know, a career so I don't have
00:47:31.900
to worry about money, I couldn't get a job. Do you know how hard it would be to get a job with my
00:47:38.360
social media record? It'd be pretty hard. I don't think any employer would want to take me on.
00:47:45.860
You know, unless it was somebody who mistakenly thought that the accusations were true and they
00:47:51.080
liked it. What brand is your shirt? I think it's an untucket. Now, can you see? What does that say?
00:48:08.360
I'm talking. I couldn't remember for a moment. You can get a job with your skills. Well, I'm
00:48:16.720
exaggerating a little bit. But my point is, can you imagine any human resources group looking at my
00:48:22.580
public record and saying, we've got to get this guy on board? I don't think it would happen.
00:48:29.720
Maybe a CEO could do it. But the HR department would say, it looks like trouble.
00:48:33.500
Yeah, I could work for my pillow and my slippers. Did you keep the Vans or did you buy shoes for
00:48:45.560
adults? I kept the Vans. Actually, it was complimented on them. I've never been complimented
00:48:50.700
on my footwear before, but randomly complimented. All right. Oh, I could merchandise T-shirts
00:49:03.040
and coffee. That's not a bad idea. I should do T-shirt merchandising. All right. That's all for
00:49:13.240
now. I've got to go do some things. And I hope you're buying into my concept that things are really,
00:49:20.760
really heading in the right direction. We're not there. A lot of work to do, but the work is getting
00:49:25.420
done. And so congratulations to all of you. Literally, sincerely, congratulations. You public
00:49:35.400
have had a great year. I mean, you're killing it. You're just totally killing it in the last year.