Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1679 Scott Adams： More Fake News and Propaganda and Some Even Funny. Let's Sip a Beverage

00:00:00.000 La-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. 0.99

00:00:06.440 Good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of modern civilization.

00:00:14.520 We're not so sure about the ancient world, but I have a feeling,

00:00:18.660 given their lack of modern dentistry,

00:00:22.020 that it's probably better to live now than then.

00:00:24.360 And so that would make this the highlight of all civilization in all likelihood.

00:00:29.080 Can't prove it.

00:00:30.000 but, I mean, really, common sense,

00:00:33.040 would lead you to that conclusion.

00:00:35.500 Now, is there anything that you would like more

00:00:38.660 than the simultaneous sip?

00:00:40.380 Don't answer that question.

00:00:41.520 I can feel your answer.

00:00:43.680 It's coming to me directly from your thoughts.

00:00:46.520 And the answer is, this is what you need.

00:00:48.560 It's what you want.

00:00:49.520 And all you need to participate is a cup or mug or a glass of tank

00:00:52.120 or a chalice, a stein, a canteen drink, a flask of esophantikide,

00:00:55.300 come over with your favorite liquid.

00:00:58.220 I like coffee.

00:01:00.440 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,

00:01:05.980 the dopamine stream of all time.

00:01:09.760 I'm going to open that faucet.

00:01:12.020 You might start to feel your dopamine start to surge in a little bit.

00:01:15.940 And, by the way, if I keep telling you it's going to do that,

00:01:18.880 it's going to do that.

00:01:19.860 It really works.

00:01:21.320 Do you feel it?

00:01:22.080 Do you feel the dopamine kicking in?

00:01:23.700 Go! 0.95

00:01:23.980 Go! 0.95

00:01:30.000 Oh.

00:01:32.600 Wow.

00:01:34.780 That was probably the best one of all time.

00:01:38.000 Ah!

00:01:38.320 Ah!

00:01:39.100 Hold on.

00:01:39.680 Hold on.

00:01:40.260 Hold on.

00:01:41.540 There's a party foul.

00:01:42.680 This is rather distressing.

00:01:46.360 I saw in the comments, I almost hate to say this, but somebody prematurely sipped.

00:01:51.800 Would you raise your hand, the premature sipper?

00:01:57.580 Make yourself known in the comments.

00:01:59.260 I don't mean to embarrass you.

00:02:05.300 And so, I think we should drink to you, the premature sipper. 1.00

00:02:09.980 High achiever.

00:02:12.020 High achiever.

00:02:12.920 Not only do we sip to you, we salute you for being ahead of it.

00:02:19.040 You might even get in two sips to other people's one.

00:02:22.300 Good job to you.

00:02:23.180 We sip to you.

00:02:28.140 You know, that's what I've come to expect from my audience.

00:02:36.040 High achievers.

00:02:38.200 Some of you are thinking, oh, one sip would be great.

00:02:41.180 That would make my day.

00:02:42.440 And then there's somebody out here who's like, what if I get, what if I sneak in two sips?

00:02:47.440 Twice as good.

00:02:49.380 I salute that thinking.

00:02:51.240 Well, I just had a weird situation.

00:02:54.720 In the title I was writing to this live stream, I tried to write, let us sip a beverage.

00:03:03.520 Let us sip a beverage.

00:03:05.240 And then spellcheck kicked in, and maybe, you know, I was actually talking to text.

00:03:12.360 So, the talk to text didn't work perfectly.

00:03:15.760 And instead of a beverage, it changed it to of, O-F, of beverage.

00:03:20.780 And I looked at it and said, and I thought, let us sip of beverage.

00:03:27.120 And I thought, I think it improved it.

00:03:31.040 And then I started to wonder, could I write Shakespeare accidentally by simply using voice-to-text and mumbling a little bit?

00:03:40.180 And then the voice-to-text would sort of misinterpret a word here and there, and it would sound exactly like Shakespeare.

00:03:48.980 Because here's what doesn't sound like Shakespeare.

00:03:52.080 Let us sip a beverage.

00:03:54.920 Right?

00:03:55.760 You would know Shakespeare didn't write that.

00:03:59.140 Let us sip a beverage.

00:04:01.460 No, that's not Shakespeare.

00:04:03.440 But how about this?

00:04:04.560 Let us sip of beverage.

00:04:06.220 Let us sip a beverage.

00:04:07.440 Right?

00:04:09.220 It's that simple.

00:04:11.000 You could write Shakespeare, too.

00:04:12.660 Just mumble into your voice-to-text.

00:04:16.820 One of the problems of having an economics background, as some of you do, and I do,

00:04:24.500 is that sometimes you can see ugly truths that you wish you couldn't see.

00:04:29.560 Because if you know how things work economically, it's almost like you can see the gears of civilization somewhat obvious to you.

00:04:40.800 Because follow the money pretty much always works.

00:04:44.120 But if you don't have a sense of business models and that sort of thing, you might not be able to follow them as easily.

00:04:51.240 But once that's your filter, you know, you've learned economics or business, you just see it everywhere.

00:04:58.220 And here's my problem with the news.

00:05:03.040 Is it possible that the news or the news business has ever been real news?

00:05:10.420 Because, just correct me if I'm wrong, there was a time in our, let's say, American history,

00:05:17.200 when the big newspapers were owned by billionaires, you know, like Hearst, William Randolph Hearst.

00:05:24.560 Was the Hearst newspaper involved in actual accurate news reporting?

00:05:31.680 I don't think it was, right?

00:05:34.060 Don't we know for a fact, historically, that you were seeing the editorial opinion of the publisher?

00:05:42.440 And I would assume that every other publisher was the same.

00:05:45.080 So, if you understand economics, you understand that at some point in history,

00:05:54.160 the, you know, the concentration of publishing power certainly was in the hands of rich people.

00:06:02.500 And why in the world would they give you the news straight if they didn't need to?

00:06:06.560 If they could give you a slanted version of the news and completely get away with it, there's no penalty.

00:06:12.900 If they could do it, why wouldn't they do it?

00:06:15.080 And the answer is, of course they would do it.

00:06:17.600 And anybody with an economics degree would understand that.

00:06:21.620 Let's say, they can do it.

00:06:23.560 It would be greatly to their advantage.

00:06:27.120 Do they do it?

00:06:29.560 Yes.

00:06:31.260 Of course.

00:06:32.980 But then, what about in the, let's say, the 60s?

00:06:36.020 Just to pick an era.

00:06:39.100 You know, was Walter Cronkite just straight news?

00:06:43.660 In those days, was the news business more of a, you know, a lost leader at the networks,

00:06:49.780 but they thought it was their responsibility?

00:06:52.980 You know, you're getting ahead of me in the comments.

00:06:54.880 Or was maybe the CIA and our government directly involved in brainwashing the public for our own good,

00:07:05.900 I think they would have said, to make us more consumers and to make us, you know, hate the communists and all of that stuff?

00:07:17.180 Well, I don't know if that's economics predicts it.

00:07:23.140 But can't you predict that if all you needed to do was, let's say, corrupt a few people, that it would be easy to do?

00:07:31.900 Imagine the CIA going to the head of any news network in the 60s, let's say.

00:07:38.660 And they have lunch, and the CIA guy says, you know, the CIA has many ways to guarantee that you're very profitable and successful for the rest of your career.

00:07:50.340 And the head of the network says, what?

00:07:53.020 They say, yeah, you know, I can't give you specific examples, but trust me.

00:07:56.900 You're going to see a lot of opportunity.

00:07:58.800 You're going to get a lot of scoops.

00:08:00.080 You're going to have, you know, access to the good stuff.

00:08:04.100 Basically, everything about your life would be better if you maybe cooperate with us.

00:08:09.700 And if we tell you to put a slant on something, it's for the good of the country.

00:08:14.520 And if it's for the good of the country anyway, and it would make money for you, what's to complain about, right?

00:08:22.260 You're a patriot.

00:08:24.100 Now, what publisher would not fall for that?

00:08:27.060 Maybe a few, but you have to assume that the news business has always been corrupt, but just for different reasons.

00:08:37.940 And now we have this clickbait model in which the more fake the news, the more profitable.

00:08:46.600 Would you agree with that statement?

00:08:48.160 That's not hyperbole, even a little bit.

00:08:50.880 The more fake the news is, the more you go, what?

00:08:56.780 Are you kidding me?

00:08:58.600 That really happened?

00:08:59.800 And you're like, click, click, click, like a monkey getting a pellet or a chicken getting a pellet.

00:09:04.980 Whoever gets a pellet.

00:09:06.400 You know what I mean.

00:09:07.860 We all like pellets.

00:09:09.080 And so for at least three different reasons, anybody with an economic degree would say

00:09:18.620 to themselves, I'm pretty sure the news has never been real.

00:09:23.480 Moreover, it never can be.

00:09:27.900 That's the bad news.

00:09:29.540 It's never been real.

00:09:30.820 Well, and it never can be.

00:09:34.320 It never can be.

00:09:35.820 What might be different is the influence from foreign entities.

00:09:41.300 That part might be different.

00:09:43.640 Because they would have more ability to penetrate social media than they would, and put fake stories here.

00:09:52.080 They would have more ability to do that now than they would have, you know, co-opting an American billionaire

00:09:57.580 to print a story that was good for Russia, for example.

00:10:01.340 That probably would be pretty hard to do.

00:10:04.140 Am I real?

00:10:05.200 That's a good question.

00:10:06.800 The answer is no.

00:10:09.760 All right.

00:10:10.300 So this brings me to, you know, we've talked about the Gell-Man amnesia,

00:10:14.800 where if you're an expert on the story yourself, you know it's fake.

00:10:18.300 But if somebody's not an expert, they can't tell.

00:10:20.240 It looks pretty good to them.

00:10:22.080 So, you're going to hear a number of stories about me in the coming days.

00:10:30.780 But here's the filter you should put on it.

00:10:33.540 And by the way, this is a filter that I used successfully the other day.

00:10:38.400 So the other day, somebody said to me, I heard that you said X.

00:10:43.920 Now, X, it doesn't matter what it was, but X was wow.

00:10:49.220 If somebody had actually said that.

00:10:52.680 And so here's how I successfully made that fake news go away.

00:10:57.080 I said, given everything you know about me and every interaction you've had with me,

00:11:03.520 do you believe that that's something I actually said?

00:11:06.300 No, no, I'm not talking about my ex.

00:11:12.440 No, I said, is that something that you actually believe I said?

00:11:16.760 And the moment you put it in that frame, people say, oh, no.

00:11:22.520 No.

00:11:22.960 Because sometimes if you just say, really, really, based on everything you know, that sounds like something that really happened.

00:11:31.600 Right.

00:11:34.560 So here's a, we're going to use this filter a little bit, right?

00:11:39.860 Here comes one.

00:11:42.300 There's a viral video going around of a local TV station where there was a reporter who was standing on a intersection.

00:11:51.480 This just, this is a brand new thing.

00:11:53.720 Standing on an intersection.

00:11:54.900 And the story is about how this intersection is like the most dangerous intersection in L.A.

00:12:00.980 A lot of accidents there.

00:12:03.800 As he's talking, behind him, there's a fairly serious vehicular accident.

00:12:11.820 Two cars just, just duke it out behind him.

00:12:14.980 As he's talking about this being the most dangerous place for a traffic thing.

00:12:20.560 Now, is it real?

00:12:25.240 Really?

00:12:27.620 Really?

00:12:28.180 Really?

00:12:28.240 Did that really happen?

00:12:35.080 Now, it looks real, doesn't it?

00:12:38.060 And probably, there's probably somebody here who saw it live.

00:12:41.520 So it probably was real.

00:12:43.540 If I had to bet on it, I'll bet it's real.

00:12:49.480 But, could you be sure?

00:12:51.800 So I'm going to say it's real, in my opinion.

00:12:56.740 In my opinion.

00:12:57.700 But it could be wrong.

00:12:58.820 But I think it was real.

00:13:00.580 But here's the thing I want you to think about.

00:13:03.700 How easily it could not have been real.

00:13:06.840 Am I right?

00:13:08.080 Because all it took was a reporter in the foreground,

00:13:11.160 and then a green screen, and a traffic accident in the background.

00:13:16.800 It would be somewhat easy to fake.

00:13:21.040 Now, I don't think it was faked.

00:13:22.800 But think how easy that would have been.

00:13:25.500 Would you have known?

00:13:27.300 If you just saw it on social media, and nobody had vetted it.

00:13:31.120 You know, it wasn't like it was on CNN or something.

00:13:33.560 I know, I know.

00:13:37.080 But, you know, I suspect it was real.

00:13:40.560 But just keep that in mind.

00:13:41.860 It's hard to tell.

00:13:43.300 And the really filter won't work every time.

00:13:46.220 But it's pretty darn good.

00:13:47.900 Now, if you'd like to take a little, let's say,

00:13:52.420 a vacation in the other reality.

00:13:56.220 So I think I know my live stream audience pretty well,

00:13:59.140 because I've asked you enough questions

00:14:00.900 to get an idea about who's watching.

00:14:04.460 If you go over to Huffington Post

00:14:06.460 and read what they say about the pandemic,

00:14:10.560 it's like a whole different reality.

00:14:13.980 And I'm going to give you the two realities

00:14:15.680 that within, I think, 24 hours,

00:14:18.360 both of these realities existed simultaneously.

00:14:22.660 Now, if you think I'm going to tell you

00:14:24.520 which one I think is true,

00:14:26.600 you're missing the point.

00:14:28.560 All right?

00:14:29.140 I'm going to tell you

00:14:29.900 that there's two different realities.

00:14:32.120 I don't know which one's true.

00:14:33.980 I honestly don't.

00:14:35.320 I can't tell.

00:14:36.660 I mean, I could guess if you, you know,

00:14:39.120 gun to head, I could make a guess.

00:14:41.860 But I can't tell.

00:14:43.460 So here's the Huffington Post reality

00:14:46.300 that masks definitely worked 0.71

00:14:49.360 and that the science has proved it

00:14:51.340 and they link to a study.

00:14:53.560 I'm not saying the study's good.

00:14:55.300 I'm not saying masks worked.

00:14:56.420 I'm just saying what Huffington Post says, okay?

00:15:00.080 So stay with me.

00:15:02.200 And the distancing works

00:15:05.140 and the vaccinations worked.

00:15:07.340 And in the Huffington Post world,

00:15:10.140 these are unquestionable statements of fact

00:15:13.120 that don't require much explanation.

00:15:15.400 It's just context before they tell you something else.

00:15:18.100 In a separate reality,

00:15:22.260 at exactly the same time,

00:15:24.140 you know, within 24 hours,

00:15:26.940 I just saw a tweet,

00:15:28.560 a thread from Dr. Rajeeb Ali,

00:15:32.520 who's a medical doctor from the UK, I guess.

00:15:35.980 And he talks about a very important paper

00:15:38.100 published in the Lancet.

00:15:39.580 Now, if you don't know,

00:15:41.180 the Lancet is a very well-established,

00:15:46.120 respected publication in science.

00:15:54.300 Could you tell I was kidding?

00:15:58.800 There's no such thing

00:16:00.040 as a respected publication in science.

00:16:03.140 But if you were going to make a short list

00:16:05.840 of ones that people say are respected,

00:16:08.420 That would be on the list.

00:16:11.800 So I'm not going to tell you that because it's in the Lancet,

00:16:15.760 that means it's real, because that's not how the world works.

00:16:19.980 I'm just telling you it's in the Lancet.

00:16:22.540 So I told you what's in the Huffington Post.

00:16:24.520 I didn't tell you it was real.

00:16:26.060 It's just there.

00:16:27.300 So here's what the Lancet says.

00:16:29.080 Basically, I'll summarize the whole thread,

00:16:31.220 but it would purport to say that you couldn't see any difference

00:16:36.820 in the countries, their total mortality.

00:16:41.900 You couldn't see any effect of masks or policy.

00:16:46.000 The only thing that made a difference was vaccinations,

00:16:49.100 according to this study.

00:16:51.500 Again, this is not Scott saying it.

00:16:53.480 I know you're going to say I'm pushing vaccinations.

00:16:56.660 That's not what I'm doing, blah, blah, blah.

00:16:59.740 I'm just saying what it says.

00:17:01.020 So these are completely different worlds.

00:17:02.880 In one, it's now been proven that masks and distancing and policy

00:17:07.760 made no difference at all, but vaccinations did.

00:17:12.640 And in the Huffington Post world, at least they agree on the vaccinations.

00:17:16.220 That part they agree on.

00:17:17.560 But in their world, oh, those masks totally work.

00:17:20.080 Here's the science.

00:17:20.740 I don't know.

00:17:26.560 I don't know what's going on.

00:17:29.280 All right.

00:17:30.420 Here's a trick for predicting the future.

00:17:34.060 If there are two things that could happen,

00:17:37.420 and people are saying, hey, I think things will go this way

00:17:40.620 or it'll go this way.

00:17:43.880 Predict that it will go a third way, whatever that is.

00:17:48.760 Because you're probably going to be just as likely right

00:17:55.120 as the people who are saying it's going to go one way or the other.

00:17:59.420 Let me give you an example of this.

00:18:02.460 Don't the experts say that the only things that could happen in Ukraine

00:18:07.800 are that the Ukrainian resistance could hold out long enough

00:18:13.180 that maybe Putin would, his economy would get squeezed to the point

00:18:18.260 where he'd just have to make a deal.

00:18:22.060 That's one thing that could happen.

00:18:23.460 I don't know that many people think that will work.

00:18:26.480 Let me ask you.

00:18:27.560 Do you think that will work?

00:18:30.400 You know, do you think that's a strategy, first of all?

00:18:32.620 And do you think it would work,

00:18:34.020 that they could just hold on long enough

00:18:35.840 that the economic pain causes Putin to get flexible?

00:18:43.640 Are we getting an audio hiccup?

00:18:48.680 All right, it looks on locals.

00:18:50.600 It's getting an audio problem.

00:18:54.580 But I can't see that there's anything I can do about that.

00:19:01.180 Sorry.

00:19:01.580 Well, I don't know what to do about that.

00:19:06.220 You can still...

00:19:06.960 Sound is okay over on YouTube.

00:19:14.400 All right.

00:19:19.280 I don't have anything.

00:19:22.400 Yeah, I don't have any Bluetooth, anything on.

00:19:26.640 All right.

00:19:28.600 So we'll just be talking to YouTube

00:19:30.040 because we lost the sound on locals, I guess.

00:19:32.860 So here's the question.

00:19:34.680 Can Ukraine hold out long enough 0.99

00:19:36.760 for the economic stuff to work?

00:19:38.460 I don't think so.

00:19:42.560 Well, let's get rid of this guy.

00:19:47.200 Hide user on this channel. 0.79

00:19:51.900 The trolls are out. 0.54

00:19:55.360 The trolls are out. 0.89

00:19:57.000 All right.

00:19:57.300 Let me get to my point on Ukraine.

00:20:00.500 I think the possibility that has been ignored,

00:20:04.880 the possibility that's been ignored,

00:20:08.440 is that the Ukrainian military could win.

00:20:13.800 And it's looking more and more like that might be the case.

00:20:18.940 Here's why.

00:20:20.840 Let me ask you this question.

00:20:22.120 What number of shoulder-mounted weapons,

00:20:26.700 high-tech American weapons,

00:20:28.380 from stingers to anti-tank weapons,

00:20:31.940 what number of shoulder-mounted weapons

00:20:35.060 could cause the Ukrainian military to win?

00:20:38.460 Is there a...

00:20:41.040 Is there a...

00:20:43.040 Is there any kind of situation?

00:20:53.660 And here's what I think.

00:20:56.380 I believe that in theory,

00:20:58.160 there's some number of shoulder-mounted...

00:21:00.040 high-tech stuff

00:21:04.700 that could cause the Ukrainian resistance

00:21:07.620 to completely destroy Putin's big equipment.

00:21:12.920 And if they take out the big equipment

00:21:14.920 and they take out the supply lines,

00:21:17.740 don't they win?

00:21:19.000 Am I wrong?

00:21:22.180 Well, and...

00:21:25.180 Right, yeah.

00:21:30.160 Experienced hunter.

00:21:32.480 It seems to me

00:21:33.380 that the Ukrainians,

00:21:36.680 if they...

00:21:37.480 Somehow we still are able to get stuff into Ukraine.

00:21:40.500 So as long as we can still get stuff into Ukraine,

00:21:44.060 there should be an endless amount of shoulder-mounted weaponry.

00:21:48.560 And in theory, there's some number of that

00:21:51.280 that would cause them to win the war.

00:21:56.620 Now, how many are we sending,

00:21:58.640 and could we reach that number?

00:22:02.220 Somebody says,

00:22:03.040 no, you still have the air campaign.

00:22:04.520 Here's what I'm saying.

00:22:05.980 If the Ukrainians on the ground... 1.00

00:22:10.560 This is weird.

00:22:13.720 I put you in timeout.

00:22:15.020 Hide user on this channel.

00:22:18.560 But am I crazy?

00:22:25.840 Am I crazy

00:22:27.040 to say that if the Ukrainians

00:22:30.480 had enough shoulder-mounted high-tech equipment,

00:22:33.440 they had supply chains that are working,

00:22:37.740 couldn't they win?

00:22:40.540 Because even if Russia had air superiority, 0.63

00:22:45.200 Putin can't afford to lose his army, can he?

00:22:48.560 Because I think the actual Russian conscripts

00:22:52.860 would maybe just surrender.

00:22:56.480 Oh, the sound is working back on locals.

00:22:59.640 Okay.

00:23:00.720 Yay.

00:23:01.580 Welcome back.

00:23:03.060 I hope on locals,

00:23:04.700 some of you went over to YouTube when you had.

00:23:07.840 So the point, if you missed it on locals,

00:23:09.900 was I think if the Ukrainian resistance

00:23:12.520 had enough shoulder-mounted rockets,

00:23:14.760 they could win the war outright.

00:23:17.660 They could just win the war.

00:23:20.400 They would need logistics and,

00:23:23.320 let's say, targeting

00:23:25.340 and satellite stuff,

00:23:28.100 but I'll bet they have that help.

00:23:30.040 So if they have satellite

00:23:31.040 and maybe other kinds of aerial surveillance,

00:23:34.240 if they can communicate

00:23:36.280 and they know how to use the weapons,

00:23:39.720 because I don't know how hard it is to train,

00:23:42.380 isn't it just a question of how many there are?

00:23:47.980 I'd like somebody to actually answer this question.

00:23:52.820 How many are there

00:23:54.000 and how many would it take to win outright?

00:23:56.240 And if there's somebody who's an expert

00:24:02.460 who says it can't be done,

00:24:03.880 no matter how many you have,

00:24:05.680 I mean, I would listen to that.

00:24:07.940 But I think we've boiled it down to

00:24:10.140 the number of shoulder-mounted weapons.

00:24:14.500 Yeah, Russia can drop vacuum bombs

00:24:17.020 any time it wants to,

00:24:18.860 but I think if it loses its army on the ground,

00:24:23.220 they're going to have to make a deal.

00:24:24.680 Because what are they going to do?

00:24:28.780 Keep bombing and never send in a military?

00:24:31.920 Because they have to conquer it to hold it, right?

00:24:34.520 So yes, they can do horrible things in the air,

00:24:37.020 but I think the Ukrainians

00:24:39.780 can actually win the war.

00:24:45.540 All right.

00:24:48.940 People are unusually bad today.

00:24:51.420 All right, so that's enough about that.

00:24:54.680 Well, I think that's the totally underrated question

00:24:57.760 is what happens if Ukraine actually just wins outright.

00:25:02.340 China's getting more COVID, especially in Hong Kong.

00:25:06.180 What do you think's going to happen over there?

00:25:08.380 Do you think China is going to successfully 1.00

00:25:10.480 contain COVID that hasn't yet ravaged the country?

00:25:15.500 I still feel like there's something we don't understand,

00:25:19.980 and I've never believed that their zero policy

00:25:24.580 was really why they had such low infection rate.

00:25:28.460 There's just something unexplained happening over there.

00:25:31.940 Maybe we'll find out.

00:25:36.880 All right, here's something that if you were to Google me,

00:25:40.400 you would find, you would believe that I said,

00:25:43.120 let's put the really filter on this.

00:25:46.360 Have I ever done this one before?

00:25:48.120 If you Googled me, you would see that I had once

00:25:51.480 said that all men are rapists.

00:25:55.700 That's what the internet says.

00:25:59.540 Now, do you believe that?

00:26:01.680 Do you believe that?

00:26:04.220 Think of everything that you've ever heard me say

00:26:06.920 and ask yourself,

00:26:09.580 do you think that I would ever make a sweeping statement

00:26:12.500 about all people do a certain thing?

00:26:17.320 Would I ever do that?

00:26:18.620 In fact, I might be the least likely person

00:26:23.020 who would say all people act alike.

00:26:26.560 You know, all people in the category act alike.

00:26:30.080 That's almost the most opposite of my brand

00:26:32.480 of anything there could be.

00:26:33.680 But on the internet, it says I said it.

00:26:36.240 So it must be true.

00:26:37.320 All right, here's another one.

00:26:38.200 I'll bet some of you think this one's true.

00:26:41.220 Years ago, if you look on the internet,

00:26:43.960 there's a story that,

00:26:45.980 oh, the word, okay, I remember the word,

00:26:47.740 that I went on to a bulletin board,

00:26:51.160 you know, posting site called Meta,

00:26:54.180 Meta something,

00:26:55.660 and I pretended to be another person

00:26:59.060 as a sock puppet to promote myself.

00:27:04.440 Do you believe that happened?

00:27:07.680 And then I got busted

00:27:09.020 trying to promote myself

00:27:11.600 and calling myself a genius online.

00:27:13.720 Well, in all these stories,

00:27:18.880 there's always something like it that happened.

00:27:21.680 But now that you've been sort of educated

00:27:23.920 by the last five years of fake news,

00:27:27.040 and you've seen that every story

00:27:28.520 about a celebrity is wrong.

00:27:30.720 All of them.

00:27:31.660 Sometimes the facts are right,

00:27:33.540 but they're so out of context

00:27:35.020 that they effectively reverse what it was.

00:27:39.260 Now, that's actually just reported as a fact.

00:27:41.560 If somebody wrote a biography of my life,

00:27:44.720 that would be written as a fact.

00:27:47.740 But of course,

00:27:49.740 the context is all missing,

00:27:51.760 which would completely change

00:27:52.880 what you thought about the story.

00:27:55.760 Anyway, just keep that in mind.

00:27:58.260 All right, here's one.

00:28:00.100 The Daily Beast.

00:28:01.620 Oh, my God, the Daily Beast got a scoop.

00:28:04.540 You know, you think the Daily Beast

00:28:05.920 has some fake news sometimes,

00:28:08.880 but not always.

00:28:09.540 Sometimes they nail it.

00:28:11.800 And here's an exclusive

00:28:13.280 that the Daily Beast got.

00:28:14.520 My God, this is pretty damning.

00:28:17.960 I don't know.

00:28:18.600 I think you're going to be blown away

00:28:20.300 when you hear this.

00:28:22.340 I'll read the headline.

00:28:23.540 It says from the Daily Beast,

00:28:25.200 Russian-American national Elena Branson

00:28:27.380 was indicted this week

00:28:29.680 for lobbying for pro-Kremlin policies

00:28:32.440 while not registered as a foreign agent.

00:28:34.860 She gave to one U.S. politician,

00:28:38.460 Tulsi Gabbard. 0.87

00:28:40.020 Holy crap, this is quite an exclusive. 0.97

00:28:43.260 Are you telling me 0.98

00:28:44.140 that this Russian agent

00:28:46.140 somehow gave money to a,

00:28:49.120 you know, she was an American citizen by then,

00:28:51.960 so it was legal.

00:28:53.520 But she gave money to one politician, 1.00

00:28:55.880 Tulsi Gabbard,

00:28:56.560 who has been accused

00:28:57.560 of being a little too pro-Russian,

00:28:59.400 and now smoking gun, smoking gun.

00:29:02.980 How much did she give? 0.99

00:29:04.300 God, this story is just,

00:29:06.780 my jaw is dropping.

00:29:10.060 The total amount

00:29:11.400 over multiple donations,

00:29:13.180 wow, $59.95.

00:29:18.940 Almost $60 total.

00:29:23.380 Wow.

00:29:23.720 Can we have a standing ovation

00:29:26.640 for the Daily Beast

00:29:27.800 for coming in with this exclusive,

00:29:30.800 this exclusive,

00:29:32.240 that a Russian agent

00:29:33.800 gave on multiple occasions,

00:29:36.160 a total of,

00:29:37.460 when all of them are added up,

00:29:39.160 $59.95,

00:29:41.640 completely buying Tulsi Gabbard's loyalty,

00:29:45.680 and I didn't think she'd go that cheap.

00:29:48.700 I didn't think she'd go that cheap.

00:29:51.040 Honestly,

00:29:51.840 I thought Tulsi would

00:29:53.980 be almost $500.

00:29:57.620 If you're going to buy

00:29:58.840 a major politician

00:30:00.600 in this country,

00:30:01.900 I did not know

00:30:03.360 you could get one

00:30:04.060 for less than $60.

00:30:05.780 It could have been

00:30:06.680 a pandemic special.

00:30:09.520 I may have missed the special,

00:30:12.000 but I would have expected

00:30:13.520 to pay at least $500

00:30:14.980 for Tulsi's total loyalty

00:30:18.680 to my country.

00:30:20.820 And now I'm wondering,

00:30:22.340 if I were to offer more,

00:30:23.740 could we buy her back?

00:30:25.820 Now that she's totally turned 0.97

00:30:27.500 to a Russian propagandist

00:30:29.800 for that $59.95.

00:30:33.180 They don't say if that's after,

00:30:35.780 how much does Tulsi get to keep?

00:30:38.740 Yeah, I guess it's not taxable,

00:30:40.160 so might keep the whole thing.

00:30:41.500 Wow.

00:30:42.240 Better than I thought.

00:30:45.220 So that's in the news.

00:30:46.620 So just when you think

00:30:48.800 all the news is fake,

00:30:50.500 this one's not fake.

00:30:52.820 This is some real news right here.

00:30:55.260 A real $59.

00:30:57.920 Exclusive.

00:30:58.480 Well, do you know why

00:31:01.860 the United States government

00:31:04.240 has decided to extend

00:31:05.600 the use of mandates

00:31:08.180 of masks on transportation,

00:31:11.080 like airplanes and buses?

00:31:12.640 They're extending it

00:31:13.680 to April 18th.

00:31:15.180 And the reason they gave was,

00:31:17.000 let me see if I can find the reason.

00:31:18.940 The reason is,

00:31:19.880 we in the government 1.00

00:31:21.320 are a bunch of fucking assholes. 1.00

00:31:23.540 We don't care about the public 1.00

00:31:25.720 or the science,

00:31:27.640 and we think that Tulsi Gabbard

00:31:31.200 has been purchased

00:31:31.900 for under $60.

00:31:33.880 Wow.

00:31:34.660 That's very specific.

00:31:37.300 Now, here's something I didn't know.

00:31:39.300 Apparently, the fine

00:31:40.320 for refusing to wear your mask

00:31:42.200 on an airplane is $3,000.

00:31:46.420 I might be willing to pay that

00:31:48.480 if I could get them

00:31:49.580 to leave me alone.

00:31:50.460 If I flew first class,

00:31:54.700 and this is a rich person thing,

00:31:56.740 so I get it.

00:31:58.220 I get it.

00:31:59.380 I get it.

00:32:01.060 But still,

00:32:02.680 there are a lot of things

00:32:03.640 that have to be started 1.00

00:32:04.440 by the stupid rich. 1.00

00:32:05.900 Have you ever heard that phrase? 1.00

00:32:08.320 When I worked for the phone company,

00:32:10.280 that's actually what we called

00:32:11.440 that segment. 1.00

00:32:12.520 We called them the stupid rich. 1.00

00:32:14.780 Because you could sell 1.00

00:32:15.700 overpriced things to them first

00:32:17.340 and then get the market going. 1.00

00:32:18.560 So if the stupid rich didn't exist, 1.00

00:32:23.220 then the rest of the market 1.00

00:32:24.380 wouldn't come along later.

00:32:26.060 That's how you build the market, 1.00

00:32:27.400 by stupid rich people. 1.00

00:32:29.680 So as a member 1.00

00:32:30.780 of the stupid rich people club, 1.00

00:32:33.380 what if I just flew first class 1.00

00:32:34.940 to Hawaii,

00:32:35.640 just for an example,

00:32:37.400 and I said,

00:32:38.740 would anybody mind

00:32:39.760 if I just pay the fine?

00:32:43.340 I'll just pay the $3,000

00:32:44.860 on top of my C cost.

00:32:46.300 Would you leave me alone

00:32:48.500 for six hours?

00:32:51.380 What would they say?

00:32:53.760 Because they don't arrest you, right?

00:32:55.860 If the stated penalty,

00:33:00.720 just bear with me here,

00:33:02.760 I'm getting to a point

00:33:03.520 you're going to like.

00:33:04.540 If the stated penalty

00:33:05.700 is the $3,000,

00:33:07.420 and if you agree to it politely

00:33:09.360 and say,

00:33:10.160 you know,

00:33:10.480 I understand the penalty

00:33:11.820 is $3,000.

00:33:12.640 If it's okay with you,

00:33:15.620 I don't want to get into

00:33:16.500 any kind of an encounter

00:33:17.500 or anything,

00:33:18.420 because, you know,

00:33:19.080 I respect your need

00:33:20.280 to do your job,

00:33:21.400 but would you be okay

00:33:22.660 just taking my name

00:33:24.420 and fining me the $3,000

00:33:26.720 if it's okay with me?

00:33:30.140 Now, what would happen

00:33:31.340 if enough rich people

00:33:32.640 said, you know,

00:33:35.020 I'll pay $3,000

00:33:36.520 to not have a mask

00:33:37.880 for six hours?

00:33:38.660 What happens if first class

00:33:42.120 doesn't have masks

00:33:43.060 because they all just agreed

00:33:44.380 to pay the $3,000?

00:33:46.380 Because they could afford it

00:33:47.660 if they wanted to, right?

00:33:50.880 As soon as that happens,

00:33:52.980 there's a revolution, right?

00:33:55.180 Yeah, I can't see any world,

00:33:57.440 I can't see any world

00:33:59.780 in which the rich

00:34:05.280 could get away

00:34:05.920 with having no masks

00:34:07.120 in exactly the same airplane

00:34:08.740 as the other people

00:34:09.720 who have to wear masks.

00:34:11.040 I just don't think

00:34:11.760 it would last.

00:34:12.500 Now, on the other hand,

00:34:13.260 if it's only going to be

00:34:14.060 another month or so,

00:34:15.860 it's not worth the fight.

00:34:17.460 But I wonder,

00:34:18.380 yeah,

00:34:19.160 I wonder about these things.

00:34:21.580 Rasmussen says that,

00:34:23.220 did a poll

00:34:23.940 and found that 85%

00:34:25.060 of the people say

00:34:25.800 they're following

00:34:26.320 the Ukraine war closely.

00:34:28.360 Do you believe that?

00:34:30.480 Do you believe

00:34:31.080 that 85%

00:34:32.180 of the public

00:34:33.660 in the United States

00:34:34.680 is

00:34:38.360 following the Ukraine war

00:34:41.420 closely?

00:34:45.640 I don't think so.

00:34:47.540 Have you talked to anybody

00:34:48.800 who isn't watching

00:34:49.580 this live stream lately?

00:34:51.700 I don't know

00:34:52.440 if anybody's following it closely.

00:34:57.840 All right.

00:35:00.280 Here's a question for you.

00:35:01.620 If the Ukraine war

00:35:03.140 devolves into

00:35:04.160 a supply chain war,

00:35:06.900 which it might be,

00:35:08.620 it might be devolving

00:35:09.800 into a supply chain war,

00:35:11.980 who wins?

00:35:13.860 Now,

00:35:14.980 there's a completely

00:35:17.660 reasonable opinion

00:35:19.100 that Russia would win 0.96

00:35:20.500 because they have

00:35:21.540 a border,

00:35:22.460 they've got so much

00:35:23.180 military control,

00:35:24.400 and so many,

00:35:25.360 they've got a port,

00:35:26.360 I think,

00:35:26.740 pretty soon,

00:35:27.340 if they don't have it already.

00:35:28.740 So you say Russia, right?

00:35:29.820 But I feel

00:35:32.540 that the further

00:35:33.220 you get,

00:35:33.880 you know,

00:35:34.600 toward Kiev,

00:35:36.100 the less that's true.

00:35:38.260 And that they've

00:35:39.340 got to have Kiev

00:35:40.040 or they don't win.

00:35:41.660 And I feel like

00:35:42.380 the Ukrainians

00:35:43.100 can just keep 0.97

00:35:43.920 cutting off

00:35:44.460 their supply lines

00:35:45.280 if they have enough

00:35:46.020 high-tech stuff.

00:35:48.360 And I think

00:35:49.000 that they will.

00:35:50.280 So I think

00:35:50.940 one of the surprises

00:35:51.740 here is that

00:35:52.660 the supply chain war

00:35:54.100 might be,

00:35:55.560 might be winnable

00:35:58.060 by the Ukrainian resistance.

00:36:00.900 Now,

00:36:01.660 I talk to you

00:36:03.020 all the time

00:36:03.440 about proof

00:36:04.300 that we're a simulation.

00:36:05.560 Well,

00:36:05.780 I'd say evidence,

00:36:06.620 not proof.

00:36:07.420 We can't prove it.

00:36:09.120 But I do believe

00:36:11.120 that the math suggests

00:36:12.540 and the likelihood suggests

00:36:14.500 that we are

00:36:15.560 some kind of simulation.

00:36:17.380 I offer you

00:36:18.140 the following evidence

00:36:19.340 that you live

00:36:20.620 in a simulation.

00:36:22.400 And it starts

00:36:23.340 with this assumption.

00:36:24.960 The assumption is

00:36:26.180 that there would be

00:36:27.720 a purpose

00:36:28.340 for creating

00:36:29.640 a simulation.

00:36:31.060 So in other words,

00:36:31.840 we're not randomly created.

00:36:33.880 We would be created

00:36:34.800 for some benefit

00:36:35.880 for whoever created us.

00:36:39.100 Now,

00:36:39.340 what benefits

00:36:39.980 would those be?

00:36:41.660 One would be scientific,

00:36:43.640 let's say,

00:36:44.120 researchy.

00:36:45.140 Get some research.

00:36:46.880 Find out some information

00:36:48.020 that you can't find out

00:36:48.980 in the real world

00:36:49.660 because you don't want

00:36:50.660 to kill real people.

00:36:51.960 You'd rather just simulate it. 0.99

00:36:53.240 Like a simulated war.

00:36:54.340 A war game

00:36:56.960 or a simulated war

00:36:58.080 is how you find out

00:36:59.200 without actually

00:36:59.960 killing anybody

00:37:00.960 what's going to happen. 0.97

00:37:02.780 So wouldn't you imagine

00:37:03.780 that one of the most

00:37:04.540 likely reasons

00:37:05.560 a simulation

00:37:06.400 would be developed

00:37:07.260 is to test

00:37:08.820 different scenarios

00:37:10.440 and see what happens?

00:37:13.240 Is it a coincidence

00:37:14.440 that our supply chains

00:37:16.760 in the world,

00:37:17.940 our global supply chains,

00:37:19.320 have been tested

00:37:19.980 once by the pandemic,

00:37:21.160 once by our trade war

00:37:24.100 with China

00:37:24.640 and once by a real war

00:37:27.340 now in the Ukraine,

00:37:29.360 back to back to back.

00:37:31.440 Is it a coincidence

00:37:32.500 that our supply chain

00:37:33.820 was the central player

00:37:36.240 in a lot of this?

00:37:40.060 Because even the vaccinations

00:37:41.580 were a supply chain

00:37:44.420 logistical problem.

00:37:45.760 It wasn't just

00:37:47.100 how easily

00:37:48.640 you create them,

00:37:50.180 it's how easily

00:37:50.900 you get them

00:37:51.440 into people's arms.

00:37:52.840 Again,

00:37:53.820 I'm not promoting

00:37:54.720 vaccinations,

00:37:55.880 I'm just talking

00:37:56.980 about stuff.

00:37:58.820 Right?

00:37:59.480 Yeah,

00:37:59.860 and the trucker protest

00:38:00.820 too,

00:38:01.500 exactly.

00:38:02.440 The trucker protest

00:38:03.320 was yet another,

00:38:05.220 you could argue

00:38:05.900 that that's the pandemic

00:38:06.820 though.

00:38:07.940 Now,

00:38:08.820 again,

00:38:09.580 it's not proof,

00:38:11.040 but every time

00:38:11.900 I see something

00:38:12.540 like a continued

00:38:15.100 assault on one problem,

00:38:17.800 it makes me think

00:38:18.600 we're in a simulation

00:38:19.900 and somebody's seeing

00:38:21.400 what happens

00:38:21.920 to their supply chain

00:38:23.000 under a variety

00:38:24.600 of situations.

00:38:26.320 I feel like

00:38:27.060 we're testing it

00:38:27.820 for whoever created us.

00:38:30.400 Weird,

00:38:31.120 huh?

00:38:32.620 All right.

00:38:34.620 What do you think?

00:38:35.480 Should we buy

00:38:36.160 Russian oil

00:38:37.060 or stop buying

00:38:37.960 Russian oil?

00:38:38.880 If we stop

00:38:40.200 buying it,

00:38:40.800 does that mean

00:38:42.200 that our prices

00:38:43.920 for domestic oil

00:38:45.500 go up

00:38:46.040 or don't we just

00:38:47.620 buy it from

00:38:48.120 somebody else

00:38:48.840 and then somebody

00:38:50.080 else buys it

00:38:50.720 from Russia?

00:38:52.460 Do you know

00:38:53.180 what the word

00:38:53.540 fungible means?

00:38:55.720 We people

00:38:56.620 who study economics,

00:38:58.240 we like to use

00:38:59.060 words like that

00:38:59.880 so that we sound

00:39:01.200 smarter than other

00:39:01.940 people.

00:39:04.080 Fungible.

00:39:05.100 Fungible just

00:39:05.980 means

00:39:06.420 you can take,

00:39:08.880 there's a thing

00:39:09.880 that you can take

00:39:10.600 anywhere and use

00:39:11.420 it anywhere.

00:39:12.540 And oil is

00:39:13.340 fungible because

00:39:14.680 it doesn't matter

00:39:15.280 where you buy it

00:39:16.260 or where you use it.

00:39:18.780 Like it can come

00:39:19.820 from anywhere

00:39:20.300 or it can go

00:39:20.960 anywhere or it

00:39:21.460 can be used

00:39:21.880 anywhere,

00:39:22.220 it's fungible,

00:39:23.420 meaning it can

00:39:24.160 just go anywhere.

00:39:25.840 So it shouldn't

00:39:28.360 affect our prices

00:39:29.300 that much,

00:39:29.940 if at all,

00:39:30.880 if we stop

00:39:31.600 buying Russian oil,

00:39:32.660 should it?

00:39:34.120 Unless it's the

00:39:35.000 cheapest oil

00:39:35.600 that's ever been made.

00:39:37.180 Wouldn't the only

00:39:37.900 thing that happened

00:39:38.580 is some other

00:39:41.420 country would buy

00:39:42.260 Russia's oil

00:39:42.900 and then we

00:39:43.460 would buy the

00:39:44.220 oil that they

00:39:44.740 were buying

00:39:45.160 from somebody

00:39:45.760 else or something

00:39:46.680 like that?

00:39:48.160 Yeah, and it's

00:39:48.720 a small percentage.

00:39:49.920 So I'm not sure

00:39:50.740 that it makes

00:39:52.480 any difference

00:39:52.920 at the gas pump

00:39:53.760 whether we buy

00:39:54.640 Russian oil.

00:39:55.900 So I think

00:39:57.240 the only difference

00:39:57.920 or the only point

00:39:58.780 of it is to

00:39:59.760 demonize Putin.

00:40:02.800 It makes a point.

00:40:04.360 If the point

00:40:05.000 we're trying to

00:40:05.580 make with all

00:40:06.260 of the economic

00:40:07.160 sanctions is

00:40:08.520 that you

00:40:08.800 shouldn't do

00:40:09.300 business with

00:40:10.300 Russia,

00:40:11.060 then we

00:40:11.800 shouldn't do

00:40:12.260 business with

00:40:12.860 Russia.

00:40:14.860 And I don't

00:40:15.660 think the

00:40:16.020 argument that

00:40:16.800 we'll pay

00:40:17.840 more at the

00:40:18.300 pump doesn't

00:40:20.140 quite track

00:40:21.020 with the fact

00:40:21.820 that oil

00:40:23.380 is fungible.

00:40:24.740 It shouldn't

00:40:25.220 make any

00:40:25.600 difference at

00:40:26.020 all.

00:40:27.100 I don't think

00:40:27.580 we'd notice it.

00:40:29.780 And if it

00:40:30.460 made a difference

00:40:30.980 it'd be so

00:40:31.440 small.

00:40:34.780 Thanks,

00:40:35.340 John.

00:40:37.160 Let me

00:40:43.420 see.

00:40:43.900 What do

00:40:44.340 you think

00:40:44.600 of that

00:40:44.920 biolab

00:40:45.840 story?

00:40:47.120 Everything

00:40:47.520 about the

00:40:48.040 biolab

00:40:48.600 story looks

00:40:49.280 like misinformation

00:40:50.080 to me.

00:40:51.620 Meaning

00:40:52.020 that I'm

00:40:53.580 sure both

00:40:54.220 sides are

00:40:54.780 wrong.

00:40:56.420 It seems

00:40:56.860 to be a

00:40:57.320 both-side

00:40:57.920 situation,

00:40:58.660 right?

00:41:00.100 One side

00:41:01.640 says the

00:41:02.360 U.S.

00:41:02.700 was involved

00:41:03.300 in funding

00:41:04.980 or creating

00:41:06.080 biolabs 0.83

00:41:07.980 in Ukraine

00:41:08.760 to do

00:41:09.260 dangerous

00:41:09.820 weaponized

00:41:11.080 stuff.

00:41:12.400 And another

00:41:13.000 story is

00:41:13.740 nothing like

00:41:14.240 that happened.

00:41:15.540 No, there's

00:41:16.040 nothing like

00:41:16.480 that.

00:41:17.740 So which

00:41:18.180 of those

00:41:18.480 is true?

00:41:19.960 What do

00:41:20.260 you think?

00:41:21.040 Now both

00:41:21.680 sides are

00:41:22.100 saying that

00:41:22.460 the other

00:41:22.780 one is

00:41:23.180 just clearly

00:41:23.960 ignoring the

00:41:25.260 obvious

00:41:25.640 evidence.

00:41:26.180 and, yeah,

00:41:28.820 so Victoria

00:41:29.500 Newland

00:41:30.040 confirmed

00:41:30.920 that there

00:41:33.140 are some

00:41:33.420 kind of

00:41:33.740 labs,

00:41:34.700 but that's

00:41:35.480 different than

00:41:36.380 confirming

00:41:37.720 the details

00:41:39.820 of such.

00:41:40.920 It's

00:41:41.280 different than

00:41:41.980 confirming

00:41:42.600 the worst

00:41:44.320 of the

00:41:44.820 suspicions.

00:41:50.240 Yeah,

00:41:51.200 I think

00:41:52.200 this is a

00:41:52.720 fog-of-war 0.94

00:41:53.300 story that

00:41:53.920 I'm going

00:41:54.160 to treat

00:41:55.600 gingerly.

00:41:56.960 I would

00:41:57.480 say that

00:41:58.060 I don't

00:41:58.960 have an

00:41:59.420 opinion

00:41:59.720 about what

00:42:00.940 is more

00:42:01.380 real here.

00:42:02.920 But I

00:42:03.800 definitely

00:42:04.100 have a

00:42:04.440 question,

00:42:05.700 which is,

00:42:06.500 is it

00:42:06.860 true that

00:42:07.360 Ukraine was 0.87

00:42:08.080 being used

00:42:08.700 as basically

00:42:09.420 the world's

00:42:10.860 toilet?

00:42:13.660 Were we

00:42:14.280 putting our

00:42:14.800 nastiest,

00:42:15.800 most dangerous

00:42:16.480 stuff in

00:42:16.920 Ukraine just

00:42:17.620 because we

00:42:18.100 could?

00:42:19.960 Is that

00:42:20.320 what was

00:42:20.640 happening?

00:42:22.740 Because I

00:42:24.640 don't think

00:42:25.420 anybody comes

00:42:25.960 out looking

00:42:26.480 good in

00:42:26.940 this.

00:42:27.560 But keep

00:42:28.580 in mind

00:42:28.960 that any

00:42:29.600 story that

00:42:30.080 looks like

00:42:30.540 it's Russian

00:42:31.060 propaganda

00:42:31.700 might be

00:42:33.460 Russian

00:42:33.940 propaganda.

00:42:36.140 Do you

00:42:36.620 know it

00:42:36.880 sounds exactly

00:42:37.620 like Russian 0.99

00:42:38.280 propaganda?

00:42:39.780 That the

00:42:40.500 U.S.

00:42:40.900 put bio

00:42:41.520 labs in

00:42:42.420 Ukraine.

00:42:44.060 If I

00:42:44.760 were going

00:42:45.100 to write

00:42:45.520 Russian

00:42:45.920 propaganda,

00:42:46.780 I would

00:42:47.020 say,

00:42:47.780 you know,

00:42:48.220 the United

00:42:48.540 States put

00:42:49.120 dangerous

00:42:49.640 weaponized

00:42:50.240 bio labs

00:42:50.840 in Ukraine.

00:42:51.320 it doesn't

00:42:52.900 mean we

00:42:53.280 didn't do

00:42:53.740 it.

00:42:54.720 I'm just

00:42:55.240 saying.

00:42:56.560 That would

00:42:57.160 be about as

00:42:58.220 on the nose

00:42:59.120 as you could

00:42:59.680 possibly get.

00:43:01.020 Basically,

00:43:02.380 blaming the

00:43:03.240 United States

00:43:04.280 of something

00:43:05.700 close to a

00:43:06.820 weapon of

00:43:07.260 mass destruction.

00:43:08.380 It would be an

00:43:08.980 accidental one,

00:43:09.780 I guess.

00:43:13.540 Yeah, I

00:43:14.660 know.

00:43:15.020 I think

00:43:15.680 everyone is

00:43:16.360 lying about

00:43:16.900 this story.

00:43:17.460 that's my

00:43:19.100 take.

00:43:21.020 Everyone's

00:43:21.460 lying.

00:43:22.440 Because

00:43:22.880 whatever is

00:43:23.520 the truth,

00:43:24.900 nobody wants

00:43:25.640 you to know

00:43:26.140 it.

00:43:27.140 That part,

00:43:27.720 I'm pretty

00:43:27.960 sure.

00:43:28.620 There's nobody

00:43:29.120 who wants

00:43:29.400 you to know

00:43:29.780 the truth.

00:43:31.160 Because nobody

00:43:31.840 has an interest

00:43:32.420 in the truth.

00:43:33.740 If it's

00:43:34.380 innocent,

00:43:34.980 somebody wants

00:43:35.440 you to think

00:43:35.760 it's not.

00:43:36.620 If it's not,

00:43:37.280 somebody wants

00:43:37.680 you to think

00:43:38.040 you know.

00:43:39.440 All right.

00:43:44.960 That,

00:43:45.640 ladies and 0.98

00:43:45.960 gentlemen,

00:43:47.460 brings us

00:43:48.960 to the

00:43:49.280 conclusion

00:43:49.680 of the

00:43:50.900 best live

00:43:51.420 stream

00:43:51.720 that has

00:43:52.980 ever,

00:43:53.740 ever happened.

00:43:56.940 And,

00:43:57.820 once again,

00:44:00.500 I would like

00:44:00.920 to say

00:44:01.340 that I

00:44:04.960 might have

00:44:05.360 the only

00:44:05.820 different

00:44:07.020 opinions about

00:44:08.000 Ukraine that

00:44:09.140 you ever hear.

00:44:10.420 They might

00:44:11.020 all be wrong,

00:44:12.960 but I'm

00:44:13.880 trying pretty

00:44:14.380 hard to say

00:44:14.960 something different.

00:44:15.760 Is there

00:44:17.380 anybody

00:44:18.040 in the

00:44:22.060 TV

00:44:22.440 punditry

00:44:23.240 world

00:44:23.720 that drives

00:44:24.880 you crazy

00:44:25.520 because they 0.99

00:44:26.500 only say

00:44:27.240 the talking

00:44:27.700 points,

00:44:28.960 and yet

00:44:29.460 they're still

00:44:29.880 on television?

00:44:31.320 And you're

00:44:31.580 like,

00:44:31.860 okay,

00:44:33.260 all you did

00:44:34.460 is just

00:44:34.820 repeat the

00:44:35.520 news.

00:44:36.500 You added

00:44:37.020 nothing.

00:44:37.740 Nothing.

00:44:37.840 Oh, that's

00:44:42.160 interesting.

00:44:43.760 Okay, I'm

00:44:44.300 seeing some

00:44:45.460 names being

00:44:46.680 suggested here.

00:44:48.520 Oh, let's

00:44:49.340 talk about

00:44:49.880 Jussie

00:44:50.780 Smollett.

00:44:51.920 I heard

00:44:54.780 the video

00:44:59.420 of the

00:45:00.060 judge

00:45:00.560 dressing him

00:45:02.120 down and

00:45:03.160 basically

00:45:03.680 insulting him

00:45:05.660 for all of

00:45:06.480 this.

00:45:07.280 And I don't

00:45:07.960 know what

00:45:08.580 your opinion

00:45:09.160 of that is.

00:45:10.260 Probably if you

00:45:11.020 didn't like

00:45:11.620 Jussie Smollett

00:45:12.780 and everything

00:45:13.500 he did,

00:45:14.500 you thought it

00:45:15.060 was awesome

00:45:15.500 that the judge

00:45:16.280 really gave

00:45:17.760 it to him

00:45:18.160 verbally.

00:45:19.620 But I

00:45:20.700 didn't have

00:45:21.480 that feeling.

00:45:23.040 I had a

00:45:23.800 feeling that

00:45:24.340 the legal

00:45:25.280 system did

00:45:25.940 what the

00:45:26.280 legal system

00:45:26.880 did,

00:45:27.900 and that's

00:45:28.440 what it

00:45:28.720 should do,

00:45:29.360 which is

00:45:29.800 decide if

00:45:30.360 there's a

00:45:30.660 penalty,

00:45:31.160 decide if

00:45:31.560 he's guilty.

00:45:32.140 It did

00:45:32.480 that.

00:45:33.480 I don't

00:45:34.180 think I

00:45:34.960 want my

00:45:35.480 judge putting

00:45:36.220 his opinion

00:45:36.900 into the

00:45:37.640 record.

00:45:39.260 I thought

00:45:39.940 that was

00:45:40.260 wholly

00:45:40.620 inappropriate.

00:45:41.440 I think

00:45:41.660 he should

00:45:41.880 be disbarred

00:45:42.520 for that,

00:45:42.980 honestly.

00:45:44.100 Now, it's

00:45:44.880 all legal and

00:45:45.520 nobody gets

00:45:46.060 disbarred for

00:45:46.680 that sort of

00:45:47.080 thing, so I

00:45:47.520 realize that's 0.95

00:45:47.980 a ridiculous 0.98

00:45:48.560 thing to 0.99

00:45:49.040 ask for.

00:45:49.940 But in

00:45:50.300 terms of

00:45:50.720 a standard,

00:45:53.400 I think the

00:45:53.960 standard should

00:45:54.660 be that if

00:45:56.740 your judge is

00:45:57.420 going to give

00:45:57.820 you, you

00:45:58.380 know, it'd be

00:45:58.700 one thing if

00:45:59.220 you had a

00:45:59.940 one-sentence

00:46:00.820 opinion.

00:46:02.140 Like, I

00:46:02.660 wouldn't even

00:46:03.080 care if the

00:46:03.500 judge says,

00:46:04.000 you know, I'm

00:46:05.040 glad you got

00:46:05.680 caught because

00:46:06.400 you're a 1.00

00:46:06.640 horrible person. 1.00

00:46:07.780 That's fine.

00:46:09.200 But I just

00:46:10.000 don't want to

00:46:10.520 hear a whole

00:46:11.180 monologue while

00:46:13.820 we're paying

00:46:14.360 taxes to

00:46:15.140 support this

00:46:15.700 system.

00:46:16.060 I don't

00:46:16.800 need the

00:46:17.600 judge's

00:46:17.980 monologue on

00:46:18.640 that.

00:46:19.620 I don't

00:46:19.860 know, because

00:46:20.640 you know, I'm

00:46:20.940 not supporting

00:46:21.700 what Jussie

00:46:22.260 Smollett did.

00:46:23.520 I'm just

00:46:23.900 saying that

00:46:24.440 let the

00:46:26.280 punishment be

00:46:26.880 the punishment.

00:46:27.920 It just

00:46:28.360 feels like the

00:46:29.980 judge is in

00:46:30.700 creepy territory

00:46:31.520 when he does

00:46:32.400 that.

00:46:33.120 It also makes

00:46:33.720 it, I think it

00:46:34.800 degrades the

00:46:35.580 system, too,

00:46:36.740 because it

00:46:37.160 makes it look

00:46:37.640 like he was

00:46:38.120 biased the

00:46:38.700 whole time.

00:46:40.440 Right?

00:46:40.600 I mean, if

00:46:41.400 he has that

00:46:42.240 kind of

00:46:42.540 opinion as

00:46:43.200 soon as the

00:46:43.700 verdict is

00:46:44.380 over, he

00:46:45.800 probably had a

00:46:46.800 little bit of

00:46:47.320 that opinion

00:46:47.800 while it was

00:46:48.580 going on.

00:46:49.400 I don't want

00:46:49.820 to hear that.

00:46:51.220 I want to

00:46:51.820 hear, here's

00:46:53.280 the decision.

00:46:55.240 Boom.

00:47:02.600 All right.

00:47:06.240 Yeah, it

00:47:06.560 costs the city

00:47:07.080 a lot.

00:47:07.460 All right.

00:47:10.600 Okay, that's

00:47:11.180 all for now.

00:47:12.220 And I'm

00:47:13.840 pretty sure

00:47:15.420 you've never

00:47:15.840 had a better

00:47:16.280 experience, at

00:47:17.000 least today.

00:47:18.040 And tomorrow,

00:47:19.840 even better.

00:47:21.100 Even better.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 11, 2022

Episode 1679 Scott Adams： More Fake News and Propaganda and Some Even Funny. Let's Sip a Beverage

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