Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1657 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About All the Lies, Deceptions and BS in Today's Headlines

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00:01:20.600 Well, there's a new TV series on Amazon Prime that I didn't think you could even make a show like this.

00:01:32.020 Talk about provocative.

00:01:34.620 You know, you've seen some provocative content lately, but wow.

00:01:38.100 Let me describe this, and you tell me if you think this would...

00:01:43.220 Honestly, I didn't think you could even put something like this on any kind of a streaming service in 2022.

00:01:51.180 Because it's not like these are backward times when we were less awake and aware. 0.98

00:01:57.240 I mean, this is 2022, damn it. 0.95

00:01:58.900 And there's a streaming service who thought this would be okay to stream to the American public. 0.98

00:02:06.740 Now let's see if you're as disgusted by this as I am.

00:02:10.060 It's called Reacher, and it involves a man who plays the role of a hero.

00:02:19.400 Ugh! 0.97

00:02:19.780 It's 2022, people.

00:02:24.340 You do not have this kind of a show with a man as the main character doing heroic things like beating people up who deserve it.

00:02:34.180 That, my friends, is a 90s kind of attitude. 0.95

00:02:38.400 This character should be played by a black woman who weighs no more than 95 pounds. 1.00

00:02:44.700 And that 95-pound black woman, if she were in the role that she was born to play, of Reacher, 0.98

00:02:54.380 she would be beating up 10, 12 people simultaneously. 0.97

00:02:59.300 Because that's what you can do when you have skills, and you weigh 95 pounds.

00:03:04.500 So, I'm a little shocked that there could be this muscular white guy starring in a series.

00:03:13.920 And that doesn't seem right.

00:03:17.000 Anyway, Rasmussen has a poll that says that 66%, roughly two-thirds of people polled in America,

00:03:26.120 say Biden should take a cognitive test.

00:03:30.240 But more interesting is the percentage that say Biden is mentally and physically up to the job of president.

00:03:37.500 Does anybody want to take a guess about the approximate?

00:03:44.360 You don't have to get the exact number.

00:03:46.900 But approximately, just off the top of your head,

00:03:50.080 how many people do you think would say, as a percentage,

00:03:53.700 that Biden is mentally and physically up to the job of president?

00:03:56.620 Oh, wow, your guessing is excellent.

00:04:00.340 May I compliment you on your guessing?

00:04:03.360 It's 27%.

00:04:04.880 Look how many of you are within 2%.

00:04:07.960 Give yourselves a pat on the back.

00:04:10.900 When I told you that you were sexier than normal,

00:04:15.660 what I left out was smarter than normal.

00:04:19.180 And I think you can see it clearly in these answers.

00:04:21.700 Yes, without the benefit of any scientific polling,

00:04:25.080 each of you knew that approximately a quarter of the public

00:04:27.680 would say that Biden is cognitively just fine.

00:04:33.460 Speaking of cognitive things,

00:04:36.080 I absolutely loved a Twitter thread.

00:04:39.580 You can find it in my feed.

00:04:42.640 From a cognitive scientist, Scott Barry Kaufman,

00:04:46.380 who you should follow anyway.

00:04:48.460 He has some great content.

00:04:51.000 But Scott Barry Kaufman tells the story of...

00:04:53.880 He says he likes to do edibles.

00:05:00.240 So here's his tweet that starts it off.

00:05:02.240 He goes,

00:05:02.580 I love edibles, meaning marijuana edibles.

00:05:05.260 But the edibles I do are usually only about 5 to 10 milligrams of THC content.

00:05:10.780 I accidentally purchased a snickerdoodle

00:05:13.800 with abnormally high THC content.

00:05:16.260 I didn't realize until a second after I ate most of it

00:05:19.680 that the single cookie was at 100 milligrams.

00:05:23.920 So it was 10 to 20 times the power of what he would normally experience.

00:05:29.780 Now here's the fun part,

00:05:30.840 and I won't read you the whole thread because it's worth looking at.

00:05:33.660 So he decides before he starts losing his, let's say, powers of judgment, 0.96

00:05:40.940 he realizes that in a few minutes he's just going to be tripping balls.

00:05:44.340 I mean, he's just going to be in an interesting situation.

00:05:50.720 So being a cognitive scientist,

00:05:53.540 which is what makes this whole thing interesting,

00:05:55.920 is he decided to sort of play it out,

00:05:59.720 and I guess at some point he decided to document his experience.

00:06:03.680 So he decides to take an Uber to the emergency room

00:06:07.360 so that whatever is about to happen to him,

00:06:10.240 he can ride it out with professionals around in case something goes.

00:06:13.760 And I guess they took his pulse, and they're like, 0.94

00:06:16.860 holy crap, now that's a pulse.

00:06:20.720 And so as I expected with my complete lack of medical training, 0.99

00:06:28.780 he wasn't in, it didn't look like he was actually going to die.

00:06:32.320 He was just going to have a real interesting mental experience.

00:06:35.460 Now he describes it as hallucinating, basically, like a trip.

00:06:40.480 Now, you might be aware,

00:06:43.920 I don't know if any of you are aware of this,

00:06:45.900 but I've had experience with this drug.

00:06:52.140 Yes, I have.

00:06:53.500 And I've never had an experience of anything

00:06:55.520 that I would describe as hallucinating.

00:06:58.580 Has anybody else ever had that?

00:07:00.360 Now, I don't know if it's the way I do it,

00:07:02.140 or maybe I'm just too acclimated to it or something,

00:07:05.500 but I've never had anything even close to that.

00:07:08.560 But I will accept that if you took ten times your normal amount,

00:07:13.040 in the form of an edible in particular,

00:07:15.560 that maybe you could have something like that.

00:07:17.860 So anyway, the net of it is that this cognitive scientist

00:07:21.240 got a real look behind the curtain.

00:07:24.640 Do you know what I mean?

00:07:26.140 If you're a cognitive scientist

00:07:27.560 and you've never had a hallucination experience,

00:07:31.000 like a hallucinogen,

00:07:31.940 if you've never had that experience,

00:07:34.080 you're working on the other side of the curtain,

00:07:36.440 you know, the part where everybody can see stuff.

00:07:39.080 But as soon as you take that trip,

00:07:43.560 you see behind the curtain

00:07:44.960 all the stuff you couldn't see on the other side.

00:07:47.860 And that's what happened to, I think, Scott Barry Kaufman.

00:07:51.140 But he's got an interesting experience in front of him, I believe.

00:07:56.040 Now, I can't read his mind,

00:07:57.760 so this is just me speculating.

00:07:59.340 There's no way he could go through the experience he did

00:08:02.840 and ended up with a good story to tell and some insights

00:08:06.060 without wanting to do a mushroom trip.

00:08:09.800 You can't come out of that not wanting to be a little curious.

00:08:13.960 What if I took it up a level?

00:08:16.100 And here's what I would say to Scott Barry Kaufman

00:08:19.260 if he's thinking about that.

00:08:21.100 Whatever he experienced with this overdose of the cookie,

00:08:27.420 well, every experience with that is not in any way

00:08:30.740 roughly similar to what a mushroom experience would be.

00:08:35.320 It's just not.

00:08:36.780 And I didn't experience what he experienced,

00:08:38.520 but I can still say that with some confidence.

00:08:41.120 Anybody on here would agree with me, I think,

00:08:43.220 if you've had that experience.

00:08:45.580 But the most important part of this question was

00:08:47.760 he said he ate most of that snickerdoodle,

00:08:51.700 and I sent him a message to see if I could get the rest of it

00:08:55.920 for myself, but, I don't know,

00:08:58.160 that seemed like a pretty awesome cookie.

00:09:00.720 I also wonder how much of that cookie I could have eaten

00:09:04.380 without feeling anything.

00:09:07.920 You know, I'm pretty sure I could have polished off half a box

00:09:14.340 before I noticed anything was amiss.

00:09:16.980 Anyway, here's a story that I didn't talk about when it was newer

00:09:22.020 because I didn't believe it.

00:09:25.360 You see stuff on Twitter and you say,

00:09:27.400 I'm not sure that's true.

00:09:28.980 That looks a little bit too on the nose.

00:09:31.380 But I think this is true,

00:09:33.500 that when Elon Musk was challenged by,

00:09:36.840 I guess, the world food program

00:09:39.340 that just $6 billion of his wealth

00:09:42.800 could solve world hunger,

00:09:44.520 which they later walked back a little bit and said,

00:09:47.680 well, $6 billion would help a lot

00:09:49.300 with the infrastructure to get people fed.

00:09:52.020 It wouldn't feed everybody.

00:09:54.440 But Elon Musk apparently took the challenge

00:09:57.600 and quietly sold or donated $6 billion worth of stock

00:10:02.100 to some kind of charities

00:10:04.480 that presumably have something to do with feeding people.

00:10:07.000 So we don't know the details of where it went,

00:10:09.280 but as someone else said on Twitter,

00:10:11.720 is that the most baller thing you've ever heard in your life?

00:10:16.500 That somebody said,

00:10:17.360 if you give $6 billion, we could cure world hunger,

00:10:20.300 which was hyperbole.

00:10:21.920 Nobody believed that, literally.

00:10:24.180 But then he challenged that assumption,

00:10:27.360 you know, that that math could even make sense.

00:10:29.420 And then he gave $6 billion.

00:10:34.060 How do you beat that?

00:10:36.420 I mean, seriously.

00:10:37.980 How do you beat that?

00:10:40.320 For just publicity?

00:10:43.400 I don't know.

00:10:45.580 When you can make your real moves in the real world also funny,

00:10:50.400 then you're operating at a different level.

00:10:52.640 You want to know who the real operators are in this world?

00:10:58.840 I'm going to give you a hint.

00:11:01.460 I don't know if this will help you or not.

00:11:03.760 But when you see people do real things

00:11:06.180 that make a real difference,

00:11:07.620 such as donating $6 billion to charity,

00:11:10.480 but it's also in the context of kind of funny,

00:11:15.420 you have somebody operating on a whole different level.

00:11:19.280 A whole different level.

00:11:20.220 And that's sort of like a tell for somebody

00:11:23.160 who is behind the curtain.

00:11:26.360 So much so that looking for the humor in people's moves

00:11:30.840 can really tell you something.

00:11:33.600 All right.

00:11:36.780 One of the more interesting stories,

00:11:39.320 which is interesting because it shouldn't be interesting,

00:11:43.300 which is interesting,

00:11:45.580 which is that Ilhan Omar, Representative Omar,

00:11:50.220 tweeted this.

00:11:51.420 And she was talking about the Canadian government.

00:11:55.600 No, I'll actually talk about the journalists

00:11:57.380 who felt the need to...

00:11:58.780 I'll just read you her twote.

00:12:00.440 Her tweet.

00:12:02.040 Twote?

00:12:02.980 Her quote or a tweet.

00:12:04.400 Her twote.

00:12:05.740 She said,

00:12:06.360 I fail to see why any journalist felt the need

00:12:08.380 to report on a shop owner

00:12:09.880 making such an insignificant donation

00:12:12.460 rather than to get them harassed.

00:12:15.060 It's unconscionable,

00:12:16.220 and journalists need to do better.

00:12:17.700 So while it seems like much of the political right

00:12:22.040 in the United States

00:12:22.940 is in favor of the truck drivers

00:12:24.820 and the trucking protest in Canada,

00:12:29.180 Ilhan Omar,

00:12:29.900 who you would expect to be

00:12:31.020 always on the opposite side

00:12:32.420 of wherever the right was,

00:12:34.240 is coming down solidly

00:12:35.740 on the side of justice.

00:12:37.820 And justice in this case,

00:12:42.280 in my opinion,

00:12:43.120 and hers apparently too,

00:12:44.880 is that you shouldn't be doxing people

00:12:47.500 for small donations to legal activities.

00:12:51.340 That's really too far.

00:12:53.560 And, you know,

00:12:55.100 I saw I think over 1,000 people

00:12:57.460 had quote tweeted her,

00:12:59.500 and most of them were saying something

00:13:01.260 to the effect of,

00:13:02.220 well, when you've lost Omar,

00:13:04.640 you've, you know,

00:13:05.720 you've gone too far,

00:13:07.000 or how unusual it is that,

00:13:09.920 how unusual it is

00:13:11.420 that she would be on the side

00:13:12.420 and everything.

00:13:12.860 And I started to do one of those too,

00:13:15.140 because that just felt like

00:13:16.380 the natural way to handle this.

00:13:17.600 And then I thought,

00:13:18.540 well, maybe I shouldn't.

00:13:21.260 Maybe I shouldn't quote tweet that.

00:13:23.660 Maybe that should just live by itself.

00:13:26.080 Because I feel like

00:13:26.900 that's a more respectful way to treat it,

00:13:28.760 although I suppose talking about it

00:13:30.560 cancels out what I'm saying.

00:13:32.660 But I think that that deserved

00:13:34.300 just a tweet or retweet.

00:13:36.740 Because if you just agree with it,

00:13:39.780 maybe that's the end of the story.

00:13:42.500 Maybe when somebody who sees an injustice

00:13:46.220 and calls it out,

00:13:47.340 maybe you don't need to say anything about that.

00:13:49.920 Maybe that is, maybe that's it.

00:13:52.340 Somebody saw an injustice,

00:13:54.440 they called it out.

00:13:56.320 So we could be on the same side about that.

00:13:58.920 So we're on the same side a little bit,

00:14:00.820 and it seems that the pandemic

00:14:03.360 maybe brought us closer together

00:14:05.100 in a weird way.

00:14:08.900 Somebody thinks I'm high.

00:14:10.880 I hate to inform you that I'm not.

00:14:15.580 I know.

00:14:16.700 Surprise.

00:14:18.340 So what about Florida?

00:14:20.340 Man,

00:14:20.640 I don't know if DeSantis leads a charmed life

00:14:25.660 or he's just the luckiest governor

00:14:28.980 or he's just that good.

00:14:30.980 It's one of those things.

00:14:32.280 Or maybe it's all three.

00:14:33.400 I don't know.

00:14:33.740 But Florida set records in 2021 for tourism.

00:14:39.200 What?

00:14:41.380 During the pandemic,

00:14:43.520 Florida set records for tourism.

00:14:46.220 Now, of course,

00:14:46.860 some of that was helped by the fact

00:14:48.100 that it was a free state.

00:14:49.700 So people didn't really have many choices.

00:14:52.280 During the pandemic,

00:14:52.980 if anybody talked about traveling domestically,

00:14:56.320 where did they say they were going?

00:14:58.360 If they said they were moving,

00:15:01.540 it was either going to be Texas or Florida.

00:15:06.220 If they said they were going for a vacation,

00:15:08.880 it was usually Florida.

00:15:11.860 So Florida actually found a way

00:15:14.280 to make a profit,

00:15:17.280 in a way,

00:15:18.680 at least tourism-wise,

00:15:20.100 on the pandemic.

00:15:22.020 Now, that is a well-managed state.

00:15:24.740 That is a well-managed state.

00:15:26.300 So I'm really fascinated

00:15:31.380 by the Trump versus DeSantis dance

00:15:36.000 that's starting to happen.

00:15:38.880 Because it does seem like Trump

00:15:40.540 probably has the weight

00:15:41.800 that he could get the nomination again

00:15:43.520 if he wants to.

00:15:45.360 But at the same time,

00:15:47.120 I don't know that would get Trump

00:15:48.920 everything he wants.

00:15:51.300 In terms of politics,

00:15:53.860 DeSantis might give Trump

00:15:55.160 more stuff than Trump could get for himself.

00:15:57.660 There would be Trump-like stuff,

00:15:59.960 meaning that, you know,

00:16:00.920 the same philosophy of thought.

00:16:03.180 So,

00:16:04.080 that puts a little pressure on Trump,

00:16:07.360 doesn't it?

00:16:08.660 Because if you're Trump,

00:16:10.120 if you genuinely want the things

00:16:12.100 that you say you want,

00:16:13.900 what happens if you're not

00:16:14.960 the best deliverer of those things?

00:16:17.460 And just because of the provocation

00:16:20.080 that Trump brings with everything,

00:16:21.400 I think he's surfaced all the issues

00:16:25.080 in a way that only Trump can.

00:16:28.800 In other words,

00:16:29.820 I wouldn't assume the stage one

00:16:32.220 in which I think Trump

00:16:33.900 was actually ideally suited.

00:16:36.320 I think Trump was ideally suited

00:16:38.800 for his first term.

00:16:40.240 Because he needed to show us

00:16:42.660 that the news was fake.

00:16:44.100 He did.

00:16:45.200 He needed to show us

00:16:46.920 what was important.

00:16:48.580 China.

00:16:49.500 He did.

00:16:49.980 So, I think that in terms of priorities

00:16:52.260 and, you know,

00:16:52.860 even border security

00:16:53.920 and stuff like that,

00:16:55.160 I think that Trump

00:16:56.280 showed us what works.

00:16:58.460 And then, weirdly,

00:17:00.160 Biden showed us what doesn't.

00:17:02.980 Right?

00:17:04.340 But the only thing

00:17:05.280 that Biden did bring,

00:17:06.840 and I'm going to give him credit

00:17:08.060 for this,

00:17:09.140 is that even though

00:17:09.940 he's made some, you know,

00:17:11.600 I think bad mistakes

00:17:12.540 in terms of demonizing

00:17:14.320 the unvaccinated,

00:17:15.980 I think he generally has

00:17:18.240 kept the provocation low.

00:17:21.460 That was one of the things

00:17:22.660 he promised,

00:17:23.920 to keep the division low.

00:17:25.520 And I think the division

00:17:26.540 that's being sowed

00:17:27.480 is mostly,

00:17:28.360 you know,

00:17:29.800 baseline stuff.

00:17:30.980 It doesn't seem like

00:17:31.760 he's the one

00:17:32.320 who's creating it.

00:17:33.720 Whereas Trump

00:17:34.440 was really the one

00:17:35.180 causing the trouble,

00:17:36.200 if you know what I mean.

00:17:37.320 But I think that Trump

00:17:38.680 caused productive trouble.

00:17:41.520 This is where I depart

00:17:42.920 from a lot of people.

00:17:43.800 I think the trouble

00:17:45.720 that Trump caused

00:17:46.900 was mostly productive

00:17:48.780 because it was the conversations

00:17:50.540 we needed to have.

00:17:52.560 But now that everything

00:17:53.700 surfaced,

00:17:55.420 you know,

00:17:55.840 Trump did, I think,

00:17:58.420 and I probably will

00:18:00.140 always believe this,

00:18:02.420 I think Trump's first term

00:18:03.980 is one of the greatest

00:18:05.640 presidencies

00:18:06.360 and will always be

00:18:07.340 looked that way.

00:18:08.520 I think once historians

00:18:10.660 get some objectivity

00:18:12.140 over time,

00:18:13.800 I think it will look like

00:18:14.680 one of the great

00:18:15.180 presidencies.

00:18:16.460 And when he first ran,

00:18:17.820 I said he should be

00:18:18.440 a first one-term president.

00:18:20.700 Does anybody remember

00:18:21.580 me saying that?

00:18:23.360 That when he first ran,

00:18:24.440 I said, you know,

00:18:25.460 this might make a good

00:18:26.600 first-term situation,

00:18:29.060 one-term president.

00:18:30.400 Because if you mix

00:18:32.140 things up enough,

00:18:32.960 it's just hard to get elected

00:18:33.900 that second time.

00:18:35.920 In order for Trump

00:18:37.140 to be as effective

00:18:38.340 as he was

00:18:39.200 to bring us as much

00:18:40.360 really truth

00:18:42.160 in a weird way,

00:18:43.520 ironically.

00:18:44.960 I mean,

00:18:45.360 Trump is the one

00:18:46.360 who told us

00:18:46.880 how corrupt everything is

00:18:48.140 in a way that makes

00:18:50.720 us believe it.

00:18:51.700 Because now we can see

00:18:52.740 it with our own eyes.

00:18:55.460 So it seems to me

00:18:56.500 that he was uniquely

00:18:57.400 perfect for the time.

00:18:59.400 He needed to take out

00:19:00.500 the Bush dynasty,

00:19:01.820 he needed to take out

00:19:02.760 the Clinton dynasty.

00:19:04.440 I'm not sure if they're

00:19:05.320 completely taken out.

00:19:06.920 But they were things

00:19:08.100 that only he could do.

00:19:09.020 Could you imagine

00:19:11.000 if you reversed the order

00:19:12.320 and DeSantis

00:19:13.860 had been president first

00:19:15.380 and then, you know,

00:19:19.000 Trump tried to be

00:19:19.780 president later?

00:19:20.380 That wouldn't work

00:19:20.960 nearly as well,

00:19:21.820 would it?

00:19:22.640 You needed Trump

00:19:23.620 to go in there

00:19:24.200 and just shake the box

00:19:25.140 like crazy.

00:19:26.340 Break everything,

00:19:27.380 let us see what's in there,

00:19:29.180 let us fight about it,

00:19:30.520 let us scream about it,

00:19:31.460 let us cry about it

00:19:32.300 a little bit.

00:19:33.280 But then when we're done,

00:19:35.180 when we're done

00:19:36.360 screaming at each other

00:19:37.340 and crying,

00:19:38.940 then you've got to fix it,

00:19:40.800 right?

00:19:41.560 Because shaking the box

00:19:42.560 is just, you know,

00:19:43.740 that's just the demolition stage.

00:19:46.200 So maybe DeSantis

00:19:48.720 is an architect

00:19:49.540 and maybe Trump

00:19:51.860 was a wrecking ball

00:19:52.960 and maybe you needed them

00:19:54.620 in exactly the order

00:19:55.560 you got them.

00:19:57.140 That's what it looks like

00:19:58.080 to me.

00:19:58.380 I think that we might

00:20:01.000 be blessed,

00:20:03.280 maybe,

00:20:04.660 with a wrecking ball

00:20:05.760 followed by

00:20:06.500 a top architect.

00:20:08.600 Can't get better than that.

00:20:10.620 Like, if you're in a hole,

00:20:11.920 well, let me not mix

00:20:13.000 my metaphors here,

00:20:14.200 but if you're in a bad place,

00:20:17.260 what you want

00:20:18.260 is wrecking ball first,

00:20:20.980 master architect second.

00:20:22.600 We might be in line

00:20:25.460 to get that,

00:20:26.900 which would be

00:20:27.760 really interesting.

00:20:28.980 Really interesting.

00:20:33.980 Go exempt

00:20:34.940 and do not file.

00:20:36.300 You don't need

00:20:36.740 to block traffic

00:20:37.640 to protest.

00:20:40.600 Oh.

00:20:41.160 Hmm.

00:20:41.440 Okay.

00:20:43.580 I'm not sure

00:20:44.400 I understand that comment.

00:20:45.360 But in order

00:20:49.280 for the wrecking ball

00:20:50.620 slash master architect

00:20:52.360 model to work,

00:20:53.840 that would require

00:20:55.000 Trump to back

00:20:57.200 the concept.

00:20:58.900 And I think that

00:20:59.840 Trump could not

00:21:00.760 back another person

00:21:02.000 for president

00:21:02.620 until,

00:21:04.460 and if,

00:21:05.860 the truth social network

00:21:07.560 launches and

00:21:08.580 looks like it's

00:21:09.880 going to work.

00:21:11.320 I think if the

00:21:12.560 truth network works,

00:21:14.880 you know,

00:21:15.080 Trump's own

00:21:16.340 social network,

00:21:17.280 if that looks like

00:21:18.180 it's going to work,

00:21:19.620 I think that gives

00:21:20.560 him the freedom

00:21:21.220 to be a

00:21:23.700 DeSantis enabler

00:21:25.580 and still claim

00:21:27.180 credit for

00:21:28.000 anything good

00:21:29.380 that happens

00:21:29.860 during a different

00:21:30.980 administration.

00:21:32.700 And I think

00:21:34.120 that would be

00:21:34.540 as strong as play.

00:21:36.700 I think that would

00:21:37.580 be as strong as play.

00:21:39.040 And by the way,

00:21:39.840 it's the one

00:21:40.180 I'd want to see.

00:21:41.520 Because if I can

00:21:42.500 be honest,

00:21:43.780 I think I can,

00:21:45.080 can I?

00:21:45.960 I can be honest

00:21:46.880 with you,

00:21:47.280 can't I?

00:21:47.780 I act like that

00:21:48.520 would be a surprise.

00:21:49.900 Yes, I can be

00:21:50.560 honest with you.

00:21:51.420 I don't want a 1.00

00:21:52.120 president of that

00:21:52.820 age.

00:21:55.500 I love Trump.

00:21:57.240 Like, personally,

00:21:58.660 you know,

00:21:58.940 I got to meet him.

00:22:00.100 Personally,

00:22:00.720 I love the guy.

00:22:02.100 Like, he could not

00:22:02.900 have been more

00:22:03.800 generous and kind

00:22:04.860 in person.

00:22:06.200 So when you have

00:22:06.760 a good personal

00:22:07.580 experience with

00:22:08.180 somebody,

00:22:09.200 it's really hard

00:22:09.880 to get past that

00:22:11.200 into any other

00:22:11.840 kind of consideration.

00:22:13.640 So I'm 100%

00:22:15.800 biased in favor

00:22:16.720 of him.

00:22:17.700 I think his

00:22:18.220 first term was

00:22:19.120 historic.

00:22:21.180 And I think that,

00:22:22.260 you know,

00:22:23.960 more of Trump

00:22:24.680 would be better

00:22:25.280 than less.

00:22:27.400 I like what he

00:22:28.700 brings,

00:22:29.160 even though he

00:22:29.660 brings trouble

00:22:30.200 with it,

00:22:30.620 right?

00:22:30.940 But I like what

00:22:31.640 he brings.

00:22:32.660 I think he could

00:22:33.600 bring it better

00:22:34.260 outside of politics

00:22:36.260 at this point.

00:22:37.820 Before, I think

00:22:39.400 he was better

00:22:39.820 inside of politics.

00:22:40.740 I think he was

00:22:41.180 exactly the right

00:22:41.960 person at the

00:22:42.460 right time.

00:22:43.980 But at this point,

00:22:45.040 I think the system

00:22:45.980 could benefit from

00:22:47.600 a George Washington

00:22:49.000 kind of an approach.

00:22:50.920 And by the way,

00:22:51.460 that's what it is.

00:22:53.200 You know,

00:22:53.400 George Washington,

00:22:54.500 in a way,

00:22:55.260 as narratives go,

00:22:57.320 essentially created

00:22:58.440 this country,

00:22:59.540 not by winning

00:23:00.600 the revolution

00:23:02.220 or the war,

00:23:04.380 but some say

00:23:05.540 he created the

00:23:06.220 country by stepping

00:23:07.060 away from power

00:23:07.920 when he was so

00:23:09.320 popular he could

00:23:10.360 have turned it

00:23:10.840 into a dictatorship

00:23:11.600 if he wanted to.

00:23:13.320 But he didn't.

00:23:14.540 He stepped away.

00:23:16.640 Trump is oddly

00:23:17.780 in a similar situation

00:23:19.100 because the polls

00:23:20.600 are going to show

00:23:21.180 he could win

00:23:21.680 the nomination.

00:23:23.200 And I think the polls

00:23:24.040 are going to show

00:23:24.480 he could win

00:23:24.860 the presidency.

00:23:26.320 And he's going to

00:23:27.100 have to look at

00:23:27.660 his own age

00:23:28.460 and he's going to

00:23:30.000 have to look at

00:23:30.520 his own ego.

00:23:34.060 That's the challenge

00:23:34.940 of his life,

00:23:36.180 if you think about it.

00:23:37.860 The greatest challenge

00:23:38.940 of Trump's life

00:23:40.280 ever,

00:23:41.580 I don't think

00:23:43.460 anything would be

00:23:44.020 second place,

00:23:45.420 the greatest challenge

00:23:46.320 of his life

00:23:47.040 would be to have

00:23:48.820 a commanding lead

00:23:49.920 in a hypothetical

00:23:51.420 matchup

00:23:52.420 and then walk away.

00:23:55.580 That would be

00:23:56.440 one of the greatest

00:23:57.040 things a president

00:23:57.980 ever did

00:23:58.520 because

00:24:00.340 Washington did it.

00:24:03.580 Now,

00:24:04.280 the purpose

00:24:04.880 would be different.

00:24:05.460 he wouldn't be

00:24:06.000 walking away

00:24:06.440 from a dictatorship

00:24:07.160 but he would be

00:24:09.180 walking away

00:24:09.680 from a certain

00:24:10.380 amount of power,

00:24:12.000 revenge,

00:24:13.300 payback,

00:24:14.880 winning,

00:24:16.480 like all the things

00:24:17.500 that his ego

00:24:18.180 want.

00:24:19.920 All the things

00:24:20.840 that he would want

00:24:21.620 as a human

00:24:22.560 entity.

00:24:23.900 Those are all

00:24:24.340 the things you want.

00:24:26.100 But,

00:24:26.660 I don't know.

00:24:27.980 This will be

00:24:28.680 a great test.

00:24:30.700 I don't know

00:24:31.840 if Trump

00:24:33.420 could rise

00:24:34.080 to it.

00:24:35.740 I don't know

00:24:36.680 because it's

00:24:37.560 asking a lot,

00:24:38.340 really.

00:24:38.900 It's asking

00:24:39.440 somebody

00:24:39.900 to effectively

00:24:42.520 override

00:24:43.260 their most

00:24:43.720 basic

00:24:44.300 operating system

00:24:46.680 that's driven

00:24:48.040 them their

00:24:48.440 entire life.

00:24:49.800 But could he

00:24:50.560 do it?

00:24:51.440 I think he could.

00:24:53.420 I think it would

00:24:54.180 be the hardest

00:24:54.600 thing he ever did.

00:24:55.420 but I think

00:24:56.680 he could do it.

00:24:57.740 We'll see.

00:25:01.440 Do you think

00:25:02.140 Putin's going

00:25:02.740 to invade?

00:25:05.560 It's looking

00:25:06.280 more and more

00:25:06.960 like this is

00:25:08.200 a psychological

00:25:09.740 operation,

00:25:10.760 isn't it?

00:25:12.500 It looks more

00:25:13.300 and more

00:25:13.720 like this

00:25:18.940 is always

00:25:19.380 just to scare

00:25:20.140 them.

00:25:20.840 So the reasons

00:25:21.480 that we have

00:25:22.220 to think that

00:25:22.920 it was not

00:25:23.360 a serious

00:25:23.820 invasion,

00:25:24.760 you've got

00:25:25.200 the Ukrainians

00:25:26.080 saying that

00:25:27.180 they don't

00:25:27.460 have an

00:25:27.820 invasion force.

00:25:29.160 It's not

00:25:29.540 the kind

00:25:29.920 of force

00:25:30.440 you need

00:25:30.880 for an

00:25:31.200 invasion,

00:25:32.020 full-scale

00:25:32.560 invasion.

00:25:34.220 You've got

00:25:34.920 the Chinese

00:25:35.920 embassy that

00:25:36.640 never even

00:25:37.320 stopped its

00:25:38.100 normal operations

00:25:39.140 in Kiev.

00:25:41.680 What does

00:25:42.180 China know 0.81

00:25:42.700 that we don't

00:25:43.180 know?

00:25:43.840 They didn't

00:25:44.260 even stop

00:25:44.720 their normal

00:25:45.220 operations

00:25:45.840 when war

00:25:47.360 was supposed

00:25:47.820 to happen

00:25:48.140 that day.

00:25:50.460 So they

00:25:51.140 must know

00:25:51.560 something.

00:25:51.940 And then

00:25:54.760 the funniest

00:25:55.760 part was

00:25:56.400 apparently

00:25:56.880 Russia,

00:25:59.860 who was

00:26:00.640 it?

00:26:00.860 Their

00:26:01.100 entity was

00:26:03.800 it?

00:26:03.900 You know

00:26:04.160 the story

00:26:04.580 probably.

00:26:08.240 Was it

00:26:09.060 their

00:26:09.540 some kind

00:26:14.300 of foreign

00:26:14.740 entity?

00:26:15.480 they announced

00:26:16.960 that they'd

00:26:17.380 like the

00:26:17.660 United States

00:26:18.220 to tell

00:26:18.580 them when

00:26:19.320 Russia plans

00:26:20.480 to attack

00:26:20.920 Ukraine so 0.66

00:26:21.540 they can

00:26:21.820 plan their

00:26:22.260 vacations

00:26:22.760 around it?

00:26:24.660 And

00:26:25.180 apparently

00:26:25.540 an official

00:26:26.540 Russian entity

00:26:27.360 actually issued

00:26:28.580 that.

00:26:29.580 Like actually

00:26:30.280 said,

00:26:31.040 hey,

00:26:31.240 can you tell

00:26:31.660 us all the

00:26:32.080 dates that

00:26:32.580 we're going

00:26:32.920 to attack 0.92

00:26:33.900 Ukraine so 0.66

00:26:34.560 we can plan

00:26:35.020 our diplomatic

00:26:35.700 vacations

00:26:36.840 around that?

00:26:38.680 Now,

00:26:39.220 do you think

00:26:39.900 that Russia,

00:26:40.960 now obviously

00:26:41.660 Putin must have

00:26:42.580 approved that,

00:26:43.180 right?

00:26:43.960 Or they

00:26:44.920 knew that

00:26:45.340 he would

00:26:45.600 approve it.

00:26:46.100 So it was

00:26:46.500 compatible with

00:26:47.440 Putin,

00:26:48.000 we assume.

00:26:49.440 Do you

00:26:49.760 think that

00:26:50.140 Putin would

00:26:51.220 tease about

00:26:52.700 invading if

00:26:55.160 he planned to

00:26:55.640 actually invade?

00:26:57.640 It doesn't

00:26:58.540 really make

00:26:59.200 sense,

00:26:59.640 does it?

00:27:00.540 It's possible.

00:27:01.520 I mean,

00:27:01.660 it could be

00:27:02.460 the cleverness

00:27:04.680 squared where

00:27:05.460 he just kids

00:27:06.240 like he's not

00:27:06.920 and that's

00:27:07.300 really to get

00:27:09.260 your guard

00:27:10.520 down or

00:27:11.140 something like

00:27:11.520 that.

00:27:11.780 but it

00:27:13.680 really does

00:27:14.600 sound to

00:27:15.360 my ear,

00:27:17.860 it sounds

00:27:18.260 like a

00:27:19.100 country that

00:27:19.620 doesn't plan

00:27:20.180 to invade.

00:27:23.760 Now,

00:27:24.800 could I be

00:27:25.500 wrong about

00:27:25.940 that?

00:27:26.200 Of course,

00:27:27.080 of course.

00:27:28.520 But things

00:27:29.980 are very

00:27:30.660 much suggesting

00:27:32.580 that they're

00:27:34.000 not planning

00:27:34.580 yet or he

00:27:35.060 hasn't decided

00:27:35.680 to invade.

00:27:36.460 Let's put it

00:27:36.920 that way.

00:27:37.240 here's what

00:27:39.820 I think is

00:27:40.280 happening.

00:27:40.760 I think that

00:27:41.220 Russia is 0.79

00:27:41.860 trying to

00:27:42.300 make Ukraine

00:27:43.820 and NATO

00:27:44.940 and everybody

00:27:45.460 think he's

00:27:46.100 going to

00:27:46.500 invade.

00:27:47.640 Would you

00:27:48.040 agree so

00:27:48.620 far that

00:27:50.140 he's not

00:27:50.560 trying to

00:27:51.020 trick you

00:27:51.720 into thinking

00:27:53.420 he's not

00:27:54.020 invading?

00:27:54.940 He's doing

00:27:55.500 the opposite.

00:27:57.260 It seems

00:27:57.840 like he's

00:27:58.920 giving you

00:27:59.400 all the

00:27:59.840 indications

00:28:00.320 he plans

00:28:01.020 to invade

00:28:01.860 while telling

00:28:03.240 you he's

00:28:04.080 not going

00:28:04.500 to invade.

00:28:04.980 He wants

00:28:06.800 you to

00:28:07.080 think he's

00:28:07.460 going to

00:28:07.680 invade,

00:28:08.120 right?

00:28:08.720 Why would

00:28:09.140 you do

00:28:09.400 that?

00:28:10.860 And why

00:28:11.260 would you

00:28:11.580 stay in

00:28:13.000 that situation

00:28:13.660 so long?

00:28:14.960 Well,

00:28:15.240 one of it

00:28:15.600 is negotiation,

00:28:16.800 right?

00:28:17.160 Apparently,

00:28:17.880 there's still

00:28:18.820 some negotiating

00:28:19.500 going on.

00:28:20.760 But the

00:28:21.300 other part

00:28:21.760 that I think

00:28:22.180 is equally

00:28:22.760 important is

00:28:23.860 the closer

00:28:25.020 you are to

00:28:25.760 actual kinetic

00:28:27.040 war,

00:28:28.460 the more

00:28:29.500 you're going

00:28:29.880 to see what

00:28:30.720 the other

00:28:31.180 side's

00:28:31.580 defenses look

00:28:32.420 like.

00:28:33.700 Am I

00:28:34.020 right?

00:28:34.900 Now,

00:28:35.600 if anybody

00:28:36.240 has military

00:28:36.860 experience,

00:28:37.860 please override

00:28:38.760 my opinion

00:28:39.320 because I

00:28:40.080 don't.

00:28:41.080 But it

00:28:41.480 seems to

00:28:41.820 me the

00:28:42.100 most obvious

00:28:42.840 logical

00:28:43.320 thing you

00:28:43.800 do is

00:28:45.000 if you

00:28:45.420 know that

00:28:45.800 they're going

00:28:46.080 to see

00:28:46.320 the invasion

00:28:46.860 coming anyway,

00:28:48.340 it's not

00:28:48.740 really going

00:28:49.200 to be a

00:28:49.560 secret invasion,

00:28:51.160 you want

00:28:51.900 to keep

00:28:52.200 them on

00:28:52.680 edge as

00:28:53.140 long as

00:28:53.560 possible

00:28:54.040 because you

00:28:55.180 should be

00:28:55.540 able to

00:28:56.220 figure out

00:28:57.840 where all

00:28:58.160 the defensive

00:28:58.720 strategies are

00:28:59.720 because they

00:29:00.560 would be

00:29:00.960 more active.

00:29:02.620 So,

00:29:02.840 for example,

00:29:03.280 if they

00:29:04.680 had a

00:29:05.020 type of

00:29:06.000 missile system

00:29:06.860 defense,

00:29:08.600 you should

00:29:09.080 see them

00:29:09.660 getting a

00:29:10.800 little more

00:29:11.100 active around

00:29:11.900 it and

00:29:13.000 that would

00:29:13.280 tell you

00:29:13.560 where it

00:29:13.800 is.

00:29:14.460 You might

00:29:14.880 see assets

00:29:15.940 being moved

00:29:16.440 into place

00:29:17.220 and it's

00:29:18.060 easier to

00:29:18.560 spot something

00:29:19.120 when it's

00:29:19.460 on the move.

00:29:20.920 So,

00:29:21.380 I would

00:29:21.680 expect that

00:29:22.460 part of

00:29:22.800 this is

00:29:23.220 Putin just

00:29:23.740 finding out

00:29:24.300 how hard

00:29:25.340 would it

00:29:25.620 be to

00:29:27.000 invade this

00:29:27.540 country because

00:29:28.380 he probably

00:29:28.720 doesn't

00:29:29.080 know.

00:29:31.200 How many

00:29:31.820 of you

00:29:32.100 have

00:29:32.320 military

00:29:32.740 experience

00:29:33.360 would agree

00:29:33.860 with the

00:29:34.180 following

00:29:34.460 statement?

00:29:35.840 Putin

00:29:36.160 doesn't

00:29:36.560 know what

00:29:36.880 he's in

00:29:37.220 for if

00:29:37.760 he invades.

00:29:38.580 He doesn't

00:29:39.000 know.

00:29:40.020 Because I

00:29:40.540 don't think

00:29:40.840 it could

00:29:41.140 be known.

00:29:43.580 Is it

00:29:45.020 the famous

00:29:46.420 quote by

00:29:47.040 Mike Tyson

00:29:47.680 that when

00:29:49.440 it comes to

00:29:49.880 a boxing

00:29:50.320 match,

00:29:50.820 everybody

00:29:51.060 has a

00:29:51.480 plan until

00:29:52.120 they get 0.97

00:29:52.440 punched in

00:29:52.900 the face? 0.92

00:29:54.480 And then

00:29:55.100 that's the

00:29:55.440 end of your

00:29:55.740 plan?

00:29:56.060 So here

00:30:01.020 I asked

00:30:01.620 the question

00:30:02.120 about what

00:30:02.700 kind of

00:30:03.280 defensive

00:30:05.560 systems might

00:30:06.780 Ukraine have.

00:30:08.000 Now I would

00:30:08.600 take as a

00:30:09.120 given that

00:30:09.560 the public

00:30:10.880 doesn't know

00:30:11.480 what weapons

00:30:12.040 they have.

00:30:13.700 Is that

00:30:14.080 fair to

00:30:14.460 say?

00:30:15.780 I feel like

00:30:16.740 it should be

00:30:17.320 fair to say

00:30:17.880 but maybe

00:30:18.440 not.

00:30:19.260 Do we

00:30:19.620 publicize

00:30:20.180 every time

00:30:20.680 somebody buys

00:30:21.360 a weapon

00:30:21.800 system?

00:30:23.580 I don't

00:30:24.220 know.

00:30:25.240 Because you

00:30:25.780 do see

00:30:26.160 publicity

00:30:26.580 about

00:30:26.900 weapons

00:30:27.240 systems

00:30:27.620 all the

00:30:27.980 time.

00:30:28.880 As in

00:30:29.440 this country

00:30:30.700 bought this

00:30:31.280 defensive

00:30:31.720 weapon system

00:30:32.840 or whatever.

00:30:33.600 But you

00:30:34.120 would think

00:30:34.460 that the

00:30:34.760 good stuff

00:30:35.240 they wouldn't

00:30:35.580 talk about,

00:30:36.100 right?

00:30:38.640 I assume.

00:30:39.920 Now I

00:30:40.300 ask this

00:30:40.680 question.

00:30:41.140 Is there

00:30:41.360 any kind

00:30:41.780 of, well,

00:30:43.260 how long

00:30:43.820 would a

00:30:44.100 Russian tank

00:30:44.920 last if

00:30:46.520 it got on

00:30:47.000 Ukraine soil?

00:30:49.100 And here's

00:30:49.800 the sort of

00:30:50.860 the bigger

00:30:51.380 answer and

00:30:51.920 then the

00:30:52.200 smaller answer.

00:30:53.020 The bigger

00:30:53.440 answer is,

00:30:54.020 as I

00:30:54.560 understand

00:30:54.940 it, a

00:30:56.380 squadron of

00:30:57.140 tanks would 0.95

00:30:58.840 have, in

00:30:59.620 modern warfare,

00:31:01.020 they would

00:31:01.220 have all

00:31:01.560 kinds of

00:31:01.940 air support

00:31:02.720 and ground

00:31:04.100 support, and

00:31:05.400 if you tried

00:31:05.860 to get near

00:31:06.380 them with a

00:31:07.220 missile or a

00:31:08.020 tank or an

00:31:09.280 airplane, there

00:31:10.660 would be a

00:31:11.200 defensive umbrella

00:31:12.520 around the

00:31:13.400 tank squadron.

00:31:15.940 So far, does

00:31:16.900 that sound

00:31:17.280 right?

00:31:18.400 So, in

00:31:19.300 modern warfare,

00:31:20.040 have we ever

00:31:20.680 seen that

00:31:21.320 deployed?

00:31:21.800 I don't

00:31:23.720 think so.

00:31:25.320 I don't

00:31:25.780 think we've

00:31:26.200 ever seen

00:31:26.600 a tank

00:31:27.500 war between

00:31:29.120 modern powers

00:31:30.360 using the

00:31:31.640 technology that

00:31:32.460 would be

00:31:32.740 available today,

00:31:33.720 right?

00:31:34.860 So, nobody's

00:31:35.800 ever seen it.

00:31:36.640 Nobody knows

00:31:37.100 what would

00:31:37.360 happen.

00:31:38.240 My guess is

00:31:39.340 that a big

00:31:40.180 identifiable

00:31:41.540 metal object,

00:31:43.280 such as a

00:31:44.020 troop carrier

00:31:44.660 or a

00:31:45.580 tank,

00:31:47.340 would disappear

00:31:48.720 in the first

00:31:49.380 ten minutes

00:31:49.940 of a modern

00:31:50.540 battle.

00:31:50.920 like ten

00:31:53.020 minutes.

00:31:54.160 That's my

00:31:55.160 non-military

00:31:55.900 mind, without

00:31:56.880 the benefit of

00:31:57.600 any experience

00:31:58.280 whatsoever,

00:31:59.060 because it's

00:31:59.820 too easy to

00:32:00.440 find them.

00:32:01.720 I would think

00:32:02.400 that in modern

00:32:03.020 warfare, the

00:32:03.700 only thing that

00:32:04.280 matters is you

00:32:04.900 can find them.

00:32:06.140 Am I right?

00:32:08.300 That identifying

00:32:09.100 where something

00:32:09.920 is is all it

00:32:10.760 takes, because

00:32:11.900 you have the

00:32:12.320 weapons to

00:32:12.820 destroy anything.

00:32:14.760 They can't

00:32:15.440 stop you from

00:32:16.140 destroying something

00:32:16.840 you can identify.

00:32:19.060 Am I right?

00:32:19.600 If you can see

00:32:20.840 it, you can 1.00

00:32:21.240 kill it with 1.00

00:32:22.400 today's weapons. 1.00

00:32:23.960 So I, one of

00:32:25.620 the weapons that

00:32:26.360 I assumed

00:32:27.620 existed, and I

00:32:29.760 just got a

00:32:30.220 confirmation this

00:32:31.000 morning from

00:32:31.520 several people

00:32:32.340 tweeting at me.

00:32:33.500 Have you ever

00:32:33.980 heard of missiles

00:32:34.840 called ATACMS?

00:32:37.720 And variations

00:32:39.260 therein.

00:32:40.320 So it would be

00:32:40.840 one missile that

00:32:42.280 would be aimed

00:32:43.020 at, say, a

00:32:44.380 squadron of

00:32:45.060 tanks or a big

00:32:46.560 military industrial

00:32:47.760 complex.

00:32:49.040 And the

00:32:49.520 missile would

00:32:50.000 come down, and

00:32:50.840 before it lands,

00:32:52.280 it would start

00:32:53.040 spinning really

00:32:54.340 fast.

00:32:55.540 And while it's

00:32:56.160 spinning, then it

00:32:56.920 would start giving

00:32:57.500 off smaller

00:32:58.220 projectiles.

00:32:59.840 And the smaller

00:33:00.460 projectiles would

00:33:01.300 just be like rain.

00:33:02.820 You know, they

00:33:03.260 would just fill the

00:33:04.080 air with basically

00:33:05.540 deadly projectiles.

00:33:07.120 So that by the

00:33:07.900 time the missile and

00:33:09.060 the projectiles hit

00:33:09.800 the ground, it

00:33:11.080 basically just

00:33:12.180 rips through

00:33:13.940 metal, you know,

00:33:16.480 walls, concrete,

00:33:17.560 it's just going to

00:33:18.040 rip through 0.77

00:33:18.340 everything because

00:33:19.080 the kinetic energy

00:33:19.960 is so high.

00:33:21.060 So you could

00:33:22.580 take out an

00:33:23.220 entire squad of

00:33:24.660 tanks with one

00:33:27.460 missile.

00:33:29.100 Now, could the 0.97

00:33:30.640 Russians shoot 1.00

00:33:31.280 down that one

00:33:31.920 missile?

00:33:33.340 Probably.

00:33:33.980 They have some

00:33:34.520 kind of air, you

00:33:36.320 know, defense.

00:33:37.760 But how many of

00:33:38.940 them could they

00:33:39.420 get? 0.99

00:33:40.260 If we shot five 1.00

00:33:41.680 of them, I 0.99

00:33:42.820 mean, do the

00:33:43.660 Ukrainians have 1.00

00:33:44.440 five of them?

00:33:44.980 If they shot 0.99

00:33:46.220 five of them, 0.99

00:33:46.940 could Russia get

00:33:47.520 all five before

00:33:48.960 they landed?

00:33:49.520 Because only one

00:33:50.140 needs to land

00:33:50.820 before it takes

00:33:51.420 out their whole

00:33:51.980 business there.

00:33:58.020 Scott, why do

00:33:58.800 you accept the

00:33:59.340 globalist premise

00:34:00.280 that Putin

00:34:00.840 initiated the

00:34:01.760 Ukraine invasion

00:34:02.700 hoax?

00:34:05.740 Do I do

00:34:06.520 that?

00:34:08.360 I didn't know

00:34:09.140 I was doing

00:34:09.600 that.

00:34:11.320 So I guess

00:34:12.580 if I thought

00:34:13.420 I was doing

00:34:13.860 that.

00:34:14.100 I am under

00:34:17.100 the understanding

00:34:17.860 that the

00:34:21.140 Ukraine, the

00:34:21.940 history, and

00:34:22.660 Russia is all 1.00

00:34:23.340 complicated and

00:34:24.280 it's not as

00:34:24.800 simple as, you

00:34:26.780 know, Putin

00:34:27.280 wants to attack.

00:34:29.780 I get that.

00:34:31.020 Right?

00:34:31.240 So I'm not

00:34:31.680 buying into the

00:34:32.400 simplest explanation.

00:34:35.640 But here's my

00:34:36.260 take.

00:34:36.660 I think that

00:34:37.180 Putin can't

00:34:39.000 take the risk

00:34:39.900 of invading

00:34:41.120 Ukraine and

00:34:41.980 losing.

00:34:42.320 Am I right?

00:34:45.200 The risk of

00:34:46.220 invading Ukraine 0.89

00:34:47.200 and finding out

00:34:48.140 that the Russian

00:34:48.680 army can't get

00:34:49.820 10 miles into

00:34:51.060 Ukraine would 0.96

00:34:52.920 be catastrophic.

00:34:55.000 So I feel like

00:34:56.060 he can't take the

00:34:56.980 risk.

00:34:58.120 On paper, it

00:34:59.360 looks like, oh

00:34:59.940 yeah, he can make

00:35:00.720 short work of

00:35:01.460 Ukraine because,

00:35:02.480 you know, he's

00:35:03.320 just got all this

00:35:04.000 good military stuff.

00:35:05.680 But I'll bet you

00:35:06.460 that never works in

00:35:07.740 the real world.

00:35:08.740 I'll bet you in the

00:35:09.300 real world there's

00:35:10.040 some weapons that

00:35:10.760 they don't know

00:35:11.220 are coming at

00:35:11.820 them and they

00:35:12.900 would just bog

00:35:13.480 them down and

00:35:14.200 they would look

00:35:14.560 like the weakest

00:35:15.180 army.

00:35:16.320 And so they

00:35:17.120 would end up

00:35:17.560 being economically

00:35:19.040 destroyed without

00:35:21.220 getting Ukraine and

00:35:23.360 while also having

00:35:24.360 their entire military

00:35:25.400 credibility destroyed.

00:35:27.140 And I'm not even

00:35:27.880 sure Putin could

00:35:28.740 survive that kind

00:35:31.080 of an upheaval.

00:35:31.760 He's pretty popular

00:35:32.440 in Russia.

00:35:33.700 But I don't know

00:35:34.340 if he could survive

00:35:35.000 it.

00:35:35.180 We'll see.

00:35:40.180 Wall Street Journal

00:35:41.020 was talking about

00:35:41.700 how hard it is to

00:35:42.540 spy on Putin because

00:35:43.520 it's hard to get a

00:35:44.260 human being who's

00:35:45.800 willing to do it

00:35:46.560 because I imagine

00:35:47.480 getting caught spying

00:35:49.300 on Putin is a bad

00:35:50.200 day.

00:35:51.160 So they can't get

00:35:52.060 people to do it.

00:35:54.080 Wall Street Journal

00:35:54.860 had a bunch of

00:35:55.440 interesting articles

00:35:56.260 today.

00:35:58.240 And one of them

00:35:59.000 was how China

00:36:00.220 suppressed COVID

00:36:01.240 better.

00:36:02.420 Do you know

00:36:02.760 what the biggest

00:36:04.200 trick for suppressing

00:36:06.520 COVID in China

00:36:07.400 was?

00:36:09.280 Rapid testing.

00:36:12.040 They had,

00:36:13.500 apparently they

00:36:14.140 had so many

00:36:14.560 tests that they

00:36:15.420 could do an

00:36:16.480 entire city in

00:36:18.560 five hours.

00:36:20.660 They could test

00:36:21.540 everyone in the

00:36:22.200 city.

00:36:23.620 Let me say that

00:36:24.280 again.

00:36:25.480 They had enough

00:36:26.420 tests that they

00:36:27.600 could test everybody

00:36:28.340 in the city in

00:36:29.060 five hours.

00:36:30.180 Everybody in the

00:36:30.820 city.

00:36:32.120 What?

00:36:33.700 Um,

00:36:34.200 and also when

00:36:36.500 they were doing

00:36:36.860 their lockdowns

00:36:37.600 apparently they

00:36:38.080 would do it by

00:36:38.740 like neighborhood.

00:36:40.440 They wouldn't

00:36:40.700 necessarily close

00:36:41.660 down the whole

00:36:42.180 city.

00:36:43.320 And so far it

00:36:43.960 looks like it's

00:36:44.380 working.

00:36:44.840 Although I did

00:36:45.420 see some pictures

00:36:46.020 from Hong Kong

00:36:46.860 that said they're

00:36:47.800 getting a surge.

00:36:49.320 So we do think the

00:36:50.380 surge is going to

00:36:51.040 happen.

00:36:51.620 I don't know that

00:36:52.260 China could keep it 0.88

00:36:53.020 off forever.

00:36:54.360 But they were

00:36:55.380 actually effective.

00:36:57.040 And I think the

00:36:57.620 testing was the

00:36:58.320 biggest part of it.

00:36:59.380 Now when you think

00:37:00.380 about that, what

00:37:02.300 would the United

00:37:02.860 States have looked

00:37:03.600 like if we had

00:37:04.900 had enough tests?

00:37:06.680 And why didn't

00:37:07.880 we?

00:37:09.260 Corruption.

00:37:10.620 I'm almost certain

00:37:11.640 of it.

00:37:12.500 Now I don't have

00:37:12.940 proof, but I am

00:37:15.660 so sure that if you

00:37:17.000 looked into why we

00:37:18.200 didn't have tests and

00:37:19.980 others did, I think

00:37:21.660 you'd find corruption.

00:37:22.940 Because I don't know

00:37:23.620 anything else that

00:37:24.500 would explain it

00:37:25.120 really.

00:37:25.420 Even incompetence

00:37:26.280 couldn't get you

00:37:26.860 there.

00:37:27.060 Rasmussen also had

00:37:31.480 a poll in which

00:37:32.100 they asked about

00:37:33.180 whether the

00:37:35.520 Clinton 2016

00:37:36.680 campaign scandal

00:37:37.960 is bigger than

00:37:40.240 Watergate.

00:37:41.320 Is it worse than

00:37:42.400 Watergate?

00:37:43.540 Now how much do

00:37:44.140 you love the fact

00:37:44.920 that Rasmussen

00:37:46.020 actually asked this

00:37:47.160 poll question?

00:37:48.440 Is the Clinton

00:37:49.600 allegedly hiring

00:37:51.880 lawyers who

00:37:52.960 allegedly spied on

00:37:54.640 Trump's communications

00:37:57.220 traffic?

00:37:58.700 So how much do

00:38:01.520 you love that they

00:38:02.020 even asked the

00:38:02.540 question?

00:38:03.300 But two-thirds of

00:38:04.520 the American public

00:38:05.340 agreed that what

00:38:07.480 we're seeing in the

00:38:08.160 news today that the

00:38:09.820 Clinton campaign did 0.99

00:38:10.920 is by two-thirds of

00:38:12.760 the public, worse

00:38:14.900 than Watergate.

00:38:17.900 Worse than

00:38:18.560 Watergate.

00:38:19.720 Two-thirds of the

00:38:20.760 public.

00:38:21.080 Here's a good

00:38:24.900 question.

00:38:25.940 This is to me.

00:38:27.480 Did Trump order

00:38:28.220 you to amass an

00:38:29.220 audience of midwit

00:38:30.240 fence-sitting boomers 0.75

00:38:31.340 and persuade them

00:38:32.160 to the right?

00:38:35.460 I appreciate

00:38:36.340 your $50.

00:38:38.100 Thank you for

00:38:39.240 that comment.

00:38:40.100 If you'd like to

00:38:40.840 make more comments

00:38:41.580 of that nature

00:38:42.220 for $50 a piece,

00:38:45.860 I welcome the

00:38:46.600 criticism.

00:38:49.360 All right.

00:38:49.700 So I think the

00:38:52.160 funniest thing

00:38:52.680 about this Clinton

00:38:54.720 campaign being

00:38:55.920 worse than

00:38:56.420 Watergate is that

00:38:57.940 Carl Bernstein,

00:38:59.120 the official CNN

00:39:00.120 worse than

00:39:01.320 Watergate guy,

00:39:02.820 the guy they

00:39:03.500 would bring on

00:39:04.040 to say that

00:39:04.500 whatever Trump

00:39:05.080 was doing that

00:39:05.620 week was worse

00:39:06.320 than Watergate,

00:39:08.120 I believe that

00:39:09.940 Carl Bernstein

00:39:10.720 is now hidden

00:39:12.620 so deeply in a

00:39:13.720 cave that even

00:39:14.600 Jesus himself

00:39:16.060 couldn't find

00:39:16.900 himself out in

00:39:18.060 three days.

00:39:18.580 So that's

00:39:20.320 how hidden

00:39:21.240 Carl Bernstein

00:39:22.080 is.

00:39:23.240 We should do

00:39:23.900 a GoFundMe

00:39:25.140 to see if

00:39:25.580 anybody can

00:39:26.020 find him.

00:39:28.480 Just see if

00:39:29.560 they can find

00:39:30.040 him.

00:39:30.320 Like at

00:39:30.640 Starbucks or

00:39:32.600 something.

00:39:33.900 Just to see if

00:39:34.820 you can find

00:39:35.340 him.

00:39:36.120 I'll bet he

00:39:36.620 is so missing

00:39:37.680 right now.

00:39:39.520 All right.

00:39:40.260 Over at CNN,

00:39:41.840 speaking of CNN,

00:39:43.280 this is of course

00:39:44.600 a Fox News

00:39:45.400 report.

00:39:45.820 Fox News just

00:39:47.640 loves dumping

00:39:48.240 on CNN and

00:39:49.740 vice versa.

00:39:51.100 And according

00:39:51.540 to an insider

00:39:52.220 now, Chris

00:39:52.860 Cuomo is a

00:39:53.640 despised figure

00:39:54.700 within CNN.

00:39:59.560 Can you

00:40:00.200 imagine what

00:40:00.700 the conversation

00:40:01.400 is like at

00:40:02.080 CNN? 0.97

00:40:03.440 What the hell

00:40:04.300 would that be

00:40:04.780 like?

00:40:05.240 Like the actual

00:40:05.960 private conversations

00:40:07.100 among the

00:40:08.400 producers and

00:40:09.260 the on-air

00:40:09.980 talent?

00:40:11.360 It's got to be

00:40:12.200 kind of hilarious,

00:40:13.100 isn't it?

00:40:13.540 Like in a

00:40:14.420 weird way?

00:40:18.480 Are you

00:40:19.160 dismissing the

00:40:19.800 high probability

00:40:20.520 that China is 0.73

00:40:21.320 lying?

00:40:22.360 I'm not

00:40:22.940 dismissing the

00:40:23.680 high possibility

00:40:24.660 that China is 0.73

00:40:25.360 lying, but the

00:40:26.620 rest of the

00:40:27.020 world would

00:40:27.480 know if they

00:40:28.340 had a massive

00:40:29.040 COVID problem.

00:40:31.860 It would be

00:40:32.580 too hard to

00:40:33.040 lie about it.

00:40:35.600 So anyway,

00:40:37.460 CNN is a

00:40:38.220 festering 1.00

00:40:38.940 cesspool of

00:40:39.920 hatred.

00:40:40.560 They all hate

00:40:40.980 each other.

00:40:41.360 But here's

00:40:42.260 the question

00:40:42.700 that I have

00:40:43.800 after all

00:40:44.260 this.

00:40:45.280 Okay, now

00:40:45.680 that we know

00:40:46.220 for sure that

00:40:47.520 the Clinton

00:40:47.960 campaign was

00:40:48.920 behind all

00:40:50.620 of the Russia

00:40:51.180 collusion hoax

00:40:52.040 stuff, now

00:40:53.920 that's just a

00:40:54.480 matter of fact.

00:40:55.580 How many of

00:40:56.560 the on-air

00:40:57.380 people at

00:40:58.180 CNN knew

00:40:59.780 it was 1.00

00:41:00.180 bullshit all 1.00

00:41:01.020 along and 1.00

00:41:02.620 reported it

00:41:03.300 anyway?

00:41:04.520 And how many

00:41:05.340 of them thought

00:41:05.760 it was true?

00:41:07.100 Because here's

00:41:07.820 the thing, if

00:41:08.300 they thought it

00:41:08.760 was true,

00:41:10.320 they're all 1.00

00:41:10.860 stupid. 1.00

00:41:11.360 Am I 1.00

00:41:13.800 right?

00:41:14.340 Is that

00:41:14.660 fair to

00:41:15.000 say?

00:41:15.760 If you

00:41:16.340 thought that

00:41:16.760 was all

00:41:17.140 true from

00:41:17.620 the start,

00:41:18.860 you're kind

00:41:19.520 of not that 0.83

00:41:20.000 smart, honestly.

00:41:22.820 Like, it

00:41:23.380 would be one

00:41:23.820 thing to say,

00:41:24.400 well, wait

00:41:24.780 and see.

00:41:26.100 I mean, that

00:41:26.500 would be fair.

00:41:27.560 But if you

00:41:28.340 believed it,

00:41:29.360 if you believed

00:41:30.740 it from the

00:41:31.260 start, you're 0.96

00:41:33.480 not very smart, 0.80

00:41:34.360 and that's not

00:41:34.760 a good look.

00:41:35.880 But it

00:41:36.480 could be

00:41:36.800 worse.

00:41:37.620 Yeah, and

00:41:37.960 Van Jones

00:41:38.960 said when he

00:41:41.240 was asked

00:41:41.680 that he

00:41:41.900 thought it

00:41:42.100 was a

00:41:42.300 nothing

00:41:42.480 burger.

00:41:42.780 But I

00:41:43.700 don't think

00:41:44.120 he ever

00:41:44.580 varied from

00:41:45.500 that, did

00:41:45.900 he?

00:41:47.380 I think that

00:41:48.340 Van Jones

00:41:48.900 was always

00:41:49.420 consistent.

00:41:51.120 I don't

00:41:51.720 think he

00:41:52.020 made a

00:41:52.320 prediction that

00:41:52.840 it was not

00:41:53.520 a nothing

00:41:53.980 burger at

00:41:54.540 any point.

00:41:55.220 So I think

00:41:55.600 he was always

00:41:56.080 right about

00:41:56.860 that.

00:41:57.640 So the

00:41:57.960 question is,

00:41:59.580 how many

00:42:00.680 people at

00:42:01.320 CNN knew

00:42:02.160 they were

00:42:02.580 lying or

00:42:04.320 misleading,

00:42:05.380 and how many

00:42:06.240 of them were 1.00

00:42:06.640 just stupid? 1.00

00:42:07.180 Because neither 1.00

00:42:08.860 of those is a

00:42:09.540 good look, but

00:42:10.280 it was one of

00:42:10.820 those.

00:42:11.800 It was either 1.00

00:42:12.300 stupid or 1.00

00:42:12.880 lying, there's 1.00

00:42:13.440 no second

00:42:13.900 choice, or

00:42:14.720 third choice,

00:42:15.240 right?

00:42:16.460 And why

00:42:17.040 aren't we even

00:42:17.540 asking that

00:42:18.100 question?

00:42:19.200 Wouldn't you

00:42:19.620 like to see

00:42:20.180 Don Lemon

00:42:20.720 ask the

00:42:21.240 question,

00:42:22.260 did you

00:42:22.780 know you

00:42:23.280 were lying?

00:42:25.900 Or wrong?

00:42:27.680 And what

00:42:28.040 would they

00:42:28.320 say?

00:42:28.700 Would they

00:42:29.060 say, oh,

00:42:29.660 yeah, you

00:42:30.120 know, we

00:42:31.200 did our best,

00:42:31.980 but we

00:42:32.220 thought it

00:42:32.520 was true?

00:42:34.100 Is that

00:42:34.600 what they

00:42:34.940 said?

00:42:35.180 Or would

00:42:36.300 they change

00:42:36.760 the subject

00:42:37.300 to something

00:42:38.100 else that

00:42:38.680 Trump did

00:42:39.720 that they're

00:42:40.400 accusing him

00:42:40.900 of?

00:42:44.840 A Trump

00:42:45.580 supporter

00:42:46.000 bought CNN?

00:42:46.980 I don't know

00:42:47.700 that that's

00:42:48.100 true, but it

00:42:48.520 might be.

00:42:50.240 I don't know

00:42:50.960 if he's a

00:42:51.380 Trump supporter.

00:42:54.660 So there's

00:42:55.440 a terrific

00:42:56.540 thread on

00:42:57.720 how the

00:42:58.280 fake news

00:42:59.560 works that

00:43:00.920 you should

00:43:01.160 read, but

00:43:01.720 first I

00:43:02.860 wanted to

00:43:03.200 call out

00:43:03.660 this odd

00:43:04.980 thing.

00:43:05.980 Can you

00:43:06.340 think of

00:43:06.740 any industry

00:43:07.600 besides

00:43:08.320 CNN and

00:43:09.920 MSNBC and

00:43:10.960 the news,

00:43:11.960 think of

00:43:12.540 any industry

00:43:13.320 where you

00:43:14.660 could deliver

00:43:15.320 to customers

00:43:16.260 the opposite

00:43:17.200 of what they

00:43:17.840 think they're

00:43:18.240 paying for

00:43:18.760 or why

00:43:20.160 they go

00:43:20.460 there, and

00:43:22.180 it works

00:43:22.740 out, and

00:43:23.720 they still

00:43:24.020 make money.

00:43:25.600 Because CNN's

00:43:27.000 job is to

00:43:27.640 give you the

00:43:28.100 news, and

00:43:29.500 instead they

00:43:30.000 gave you

00:43:30.340 fake news.

00:43:31.880 That's the

00:43:32.280 opposite of

00:43:32.820 the news.

00:43:33.120 is literally

00:43:34.060 the opposite

00:43:34.660 of the

00:43:35.040 product you

00:43:35.540 think you're

00:43:35.920 getting.

00:43:37.020 Is there

00:43:37.540 any other

00:43:38.080 industry that

00:43:38.640 can give you

00:43:39.140 literally the

00:43:39.880 opposite of

00:43:40.620 what you

00:43:40.920 thought you

00:43:41.200 were buying

00:43:41.620 and stay

00:43:42.000 in business?

00:43:44.020 I was

00:43:44.560 thinking, what

00:43:44.940 if you went

00:43:45.280 to your

00:43:45.500 doctor, and

00:43:47.260 a doctor

00:43:47.740 diagnoses you

00:43:48.500 and said,

00:43:48.840 all right,

00:43:49.200 take these

00:43:50.220 pills.

00:43:51.820 And so you

00:43:52.220 say to the

00:43:52.540 doctor, will

00:43:53.580 these pills

00:43:54.080 cure me?

00:43:55.520 And the

00:43:55.860 doctor says,

00:43:56.720 no, no,

00:43:58.580 these pills

00:43:58.980 will kill you. 0.98

00:43:59.640 Well, that 1.00

00:44:01.300 would be the

00:44:01.700 opposite of

00:44:02.300 why you

00:44:02.580 went to

00:44:02.820 the doctor.

00:44:04.100 Would you

00:44:04.520 still pay

00:44:04.900 the doctor?

00:44:05.840 Well, I

00:44:06.080 guess you'd

00:44:06.380 have to pay

00:44:06.720 in advance.

00:44:08.520 But it's

00:44:09.140 really remarkable

00:44:09.880 that the

00:44:10.560 industry can

00:44:11.200 stay alive

00:44:11.900 and vital,

00:44:13.060 the news

00:44:13.480 industry, by

00:44:15.060 delivering exactly

00:44:16.280 the opposite of

00:44:17.460 what they

00:44:17.740 promise you.

00:44:18.840 And you

00:44:19.180 know it.

00:44:20.400 That's the

00:44:20.940 funny thing, is

00:44:21.440 you know it.

00:44:22.480 If you didn't

00:44:23.020 know they were

00:44:23.520 giving you the

00:44:24.020 opposite of what

00:44:24.700 you bought,

00:44:25.160 well, that

00:44:25.800 makes sense,

00:44:26.380 why you would

00:44:26.780 keep consuming

00:44:28.020 it.

00:44:28.280 But they

00:44:29.280 give you the

00:44:29.780 opposite, and

00:44:30.440 you consume

00:44:30.900 it anyway.

00:44:32.540 And there

00:44:33.060 was a great

00:44:33.600 thread on

00:44:35.660 that about

00:44:36.220 why journalists

00:44:37.060 end up 1.00

00:44:37.760 printing bullshit, 0.99

00:44:39.840 and it's 1.00

00:44:40.280 because the

00:44:40.740 system requires

00:44:41.680 it, basically.

00:44:42.980 So the

00:44:43.600 system requires

00:44:44.440 that they

00:44:44.800 work faster

00:44:45.780 than they

00:44:47.080 know it

00:44:47.480 would take

00:44:47.860 to get good

00:44:48.440 sources.

00:44:49.740 So the

00:44:50.160 system requires

00:44:50.900 them to work

00:44:51.360 too fast to

00:44:52.340 do a good

00:44:52.760 job.

00:44:53.600 And then the

00:44:54.200 system rewards

00:44:55.000 them for having

00:44:56.320 provocative content,

00:44:57.460 because those

00:44:58.400 are the ones

00:44:58.760 that get

00:44:59.000 clicks.

00:44:59.840 So the

00:45:00.500 system guarantees

00:45:01.580 that anybody

00:45:02.560 who intends

00:45:03.700 to be honest

00:45:04.480 will eventually

00:45:05.100 be turned.

00:45:07.460 Think about

00:45:08.220 that.

00:45:09.220 The system

00:45:10.000 as it exists,

00:45:10.980 the system

00:45:11.460 of gathering

00:45:12.040 and making

00:45:13.160 money from

00:45:13.720 news dissemination,

00:45:15.200 it guarantees

00:45:16.300 fake news.

00:45:18.620 It guarantees

00:45:19.560 it.

00:45:20.620 And now it

00:45:21.020 doesn't mean

00:45:21.340 every story

00:45:21.980 every time,

00:45:23.200 but over time

00:45:24.260 it guarantees

00:45:24.860 that the news

00:45:26.000 business will

00:45:26.680 only be

00:45:27.260 populated with

00:45:28.140 people who

00:45:28.580 are comfortable

00:45:29.080 lying,

00:45:30.620 and lying

00:45:31.580 makes more

00:45:32.020 money.

00:45:34.080 Am I

00:45:34.680 wrong?

00:45:35.580 The economic

00:45:36.560 incentive to

00:45:38.320 be an honest

00:45:38.960 person in the

00:45:39.660 news business

00:45:40.200 is disappearing.

00:45:41.900 The economic

00:45:42.720 incentive to be

00:45:43.560 a gigantic 1.00

00:45:44.100 liar and be 1.00

00:45:45.720 in the news 0.98

00:45:46.160 business is

00:45:46.760 increasing.

00:45:47.900 It just pays

00:45:48.560 really well and

00:45:49.280 it's not illegal

00:45:49.960 apparently.

00:45:51.720 Maybe it

00:45:52.140 should be.

00:45:53.940 All right.

00:45:56.680 That, to

00:45:59.000 me, is

00:45:59.580 really

00:45:59.940 interesting

00:46:01.580 because we

00:46:03.380 have a system

00:46:03.980 that guarantees

00:46:04.960 we get the

00:46:05.680 wrong answers

00:46:06.340 and it's a

00:46:06.980 system that

00:46:07.420 we depend

00:46:07.840 on.

00:46:09.280 One of our

00:46:10.160 most vital

00:46:10.740 systems is

00:46:12.140 the news.

00:46:14.360 And we've

00:46:15.180 designed the

00:46:15.960 system that's

00:46:16.720 vital.

00:46:17.800 It's actually

00:46:18.520 designed in a

00:46:19.520 way to guarantee

00:46:20.340 it gives us the

00:46:21.500 opposite of what

00:46:22.360 we need.

00:46:23.720 Think about

00:46:24.320 that.

00:46:25.080 It's guaranteed.

00:46:26.420 It's built

00:46:27.180 into the

00:46:27.620 system.

00:46:28.640 The system

00:46:29.160 can only do

00:46:29.800 what the

00:46:30.380 system does.

00:46:33.600 Capitalism

00:46:34.000 doesn't make

00:46:34.540 you lazy. 0.72

00:46:36.080 It makes you

00:46:36.820 have to work

00:46:37.260 to get some

00:46:37.740 money.

00:46:42.280 That's not a

00:46:43.020 golden age

00:46:43.500 element, yes.

00:46:44.600 But I do

00:46:45.140 believe I'm

00:46:47.680 being asked to

00:46:48.240 apologize for

00:46:48.980 my Trump

00:46:49.400 comment.

00:46:50.460 Which one

00:46:51.000 should I

00:46:51.260 apologize for?

00:46:51.960 Or are you

00:46:54.660 even talking

00:46:55.100 to me?

00:46:56.040 What did I

00:46:56.800 say about

00:46:57.220 Trump that's

00:46:58.680 anything but

00:46:59.220 a compliment?

00:47:07.080 Yes.

00:47:07.560 So as the

00:47:09.900 imitation Chen

00:47:11.000 on YouTube

00:47:14.060 is saying,

00:47:14.780 that the

00:47:15.420 independent

00:47:15.940 voices are

00:47:17.000 becoming more

00:47:18.740 credible and

00:47:19.380 more important.

00:47:20.280 I think that's

00:47:20.820 true.

00:47:21.000 But we

00:47:22.000 still don't

00:47:22.420 have any

00:47:22.800 near, you

00:47:23.380 know, even

00:47:24.300 Joe Rogan

00:47:24.880 is not

00:47:25.220 really trying

00:47:25.860 to be

00:47:26.220 political.

00:47:28.140 It just

00:47:28.600 ended up

00:47:29.000 that way.

00:47:31.160 Bring

00:47:31.440 Naval back

00:47:32.080 on.

00:47:33.260 I need a

00:47:33.760 better

00:47:34.020 technology for

00:47:35.120 guests.

00:47:38.560 You were

00:47:39.200 discounting

00:47:39.660 news from

00:47:40.260 NOM and

00:47:40.980 MSN.

00:47:41.580 No, I'm

00:47:41.900 not discounting

00:47:42.580 that news.

00:47:43.140 I'm just

00:47:43.460 talking about

00:47:43.920 the platforms.

00:47:47.900 All right.

00:47:48.240 do you

00:47:50.380 have any

00:47:50.920 other questions

00:47:51.620 because that

00:47:52.520 is about

00:47:53.020 what I

00:47:53.260 wanted to

00:47:53.580 talk about

00:47:53.980 today.

00:47:58.560 Am I

00:47:59.140 going to

00:47:59.440 post on

00:48:00.020 Trump's

00:48:00.400 new

00:48:00.600 platform?

00:48:02.820 Well, it's

00:48:03.780 not open

00:48:04.240 yet, right?

00:48:05.160 I don't

00:48:05.500 think the

00:48:05.820 platform is

00:48:06.280 open yet.

00:48:07.820 Scott, are

00:48:08.560 you richer

00:48:08.980 than Joe

00:48:09.500 Rogan?

00:48:09.940 I doubt

00:48:10.840 it.

00:48:16.660 But the

00:48:17.360 answer is

00:48:17.880 I'm sure

00:48:18.560 I'll test

00:48:19.320 it out.

00:48:19.760 Yes.

00:48:22.220 Any

00:48:22.740 truth,

00:48:23.300 social

00:48:23.620 predictions?

00:48:24.900 Well, you

00:48:25.700 know, as

00:48:26.400 you know,

00:48:26.740 there have

00:48:26.900 been a

00:48:27.380 number of

00:48:27.980 alternative

00:48:28.980 platforms

00:48:29.720 designed to

00:48:31.760 allow free

00:48:33.380 speech.

00:48:34.020 But they

00:48:34.520 run into

00:48:34.900 the same

00:48:35.260 problem that

00:48:36.000 if you're

00:48:36.820 doing dangerous

00:48:38.160 free speech

00:48:38.940 that has

00:48:40.040 to be

00:48:40.320 banned

00:48:40.560 everywhere.

00:48:42.500 And then

00:48:43.140 you end up

00:48:43.580 just with

00:48:44.060 one voice

00:48:44.760 on your

00:48:45.100 platform,

00:48:45.600 which is

00:48:45.900 no fun.

00:48:47.220 But the

00:48:48.460 Trump platform

00:48:49.220 might attract

00:48:50.120 enough people

00:48:50.840 on the

00:48:51.200 left just

00:48:53.120 to dunk

00:48:53.580 on him.

00:48:54.800 It could

00:48:55.580 end up

00:48:55.920 working.

00:48:56.880 So as

00:48:57.760 soon as

00:48:58.020 you throw

00:48:58.380 Trump into

00:48:58.940 the mix,

00:48:59.500 all the

00:49:00.040 rules change

00:49:01.280 because he

00:49:03.540 authors the

00:49:04.640 simulation,

00:49:05.560 he doesn't

00:49:05.880 respond to

00:49:06.420 it.

00:49:07.220 So who

00:49:07.800 knows?

00:49:08.940 But I

00:49:09.660 would say

00:49:10.000 that nothing's

00:49:10.580 had a

00:49:10.800 better chance.

00:49:12.640 Nothing's

00:49:13.080 had a

00:49:13.320 better chance

00:49:13.940 than

00:49:14.500 something with

00:49:16.300 Trump's

00:49:16.640 name on

00:49:16.960 it.

00:49:21.220 All right.

00:49:26.240 And any

00:49:26.920 other

00:49:27.340 questions?

00:49:30.720 All right.

00:49:31.320 That's all

00:49:31.660 for now,

00:49:32.100 and I

00:49:32.440 will talk

00:49:32.800 to you

00:49:33.160 tomorrow.

00:49:34.260 now.

00:49:35.000 All right.

00:49:35.880 All right.

00:49:36.100 All right.

00:49:37.080 All right.

00:49:37.960 All right.

00:49:39.660 All right.

00:49:40.380 egan

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 17, 2022

Episode 1657 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About All the Lies, Deceptions and BS in Today's Headlines

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