Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 12, 2022


Episode 1680 Scott Adams： Killer Camels, Tiny Homes for Homeless, and Something Happening in Ukraine


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38 minutes

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138.82622

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5,353

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370

Misogynist Sentences

3

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24


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Transcript

00:00:00.000 Oh, good morning, everybody, and congratulations again.
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00:00:26.400 But that's an imaginary 25%, so it doesn't matter at all.
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00:00:59.240 Except for you, because I don't think you could get much better.
00:01:02.520 Am I right? You're pretty awesome.
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00:01:17.420 Go.
00:01:17.480 You know, one of the most impactful things, I guess that's a clunky word, impactful.
00:01:32.020 One of the things that affected me the most in my life was my first college roommate, Mike.
00:01:40.480 Or Michael.
00:01:42.620 And one of the things I loved about him is that he collected all the freaks.
00:01:49.440 But also, people who were not freaks.
00:01:54.200 So he would invite you to his room to, you know, hang out or party.
00:01:59.280 And it didn't matter if you were the coolest person in the dorm or the, literally the least coolest,
00:02:05.560 you would be treated exactly the same.
00:02:08.600 And I don't know if I'd ever witnessed that before.
00:02:12.080 You know what I mean?
00:02:13.000 You know, imagine at the age of 18, somebody who's just out of high school
00:02:18.700 and is treating literally everybody exactly the same.
00:02:23.080 I'd never seen that before.
00:02:25.240 Honestly, I was quite affected by it.
00:02:28.780 And he had a number of other traits, which were also admirably advanced for his young age.
00:02:38.260 And so he became sort of my role model.
00:02:41.460 You know, I'm not sure if I ever told him that directly.
00:02:44.720 But he became my role model because he just seemed to have things figured out, you know,
00:02:49.700 like a higher level way of just dealing with the world.
00:02:53.580 And I always tried to be that person, meaning finding a way to release on all judgment.
00:03:02.800 You know, you still have to pick and choose who you spend time with doing what, right?
00:03:07.320 There's a practical element to that.
00:03:09.000 But I try not to judge.
00:03:12.760 And I feel like it's actually a skill you can develop.
00:03:18.320 Some of it might be natural.
00:03:19.720 I've often said that I was born nonjudgmental.
00:03:23.320 I think there's something to that.
00:03:25.420 But you can also, you know, develop it because there's always going to be some societal,
00:03:30.200 judgmental level that gets, you know, layered onto you.
00:03:33.800 So that's my advice to you.
00:03:36.420 Here's the biggest story of the day.
00:03:37.860 CNN's reporting a camel escaped from a petting zoo in Tennessee
00:03:42.380 and went on some kind of a rampage that killed two people.
00:03:49.480 So two people were killed by camels.
00:03:51.720 Now, the part that caught my attention is that these were two camels from a petting zoo
00:03:57.940 that escaped and went wild on people and killed them.
00:04:02.580 Now, I don't really usually think of camels as killing machines.
00:04:06.900 Like, when you think, oh, dangerous animal, is the camel the first one you think of?
00:04:13.300 I mean, they look like they could do some damage.
00:04:15.440 You know, if they give you a kick, they could take you out.
00:04:18.580 But I don't really think of camels as that dangerous.
00:04:22.760 But what kind of a hellscape of a petting zoo was this?
00:04:27.060 Am I wrong that petting zoos are oriented toward children?
00:04:31.340 And they had two deadly camels?
00:04:33.440 I ask you, if the camels were that deadly, what was everything else like?
00:04:41.740 Was everything in the petting zoo like a Stephen King novel?
00:04:46.520 Were they all like deadly animals?
00:04:49.200 You know, if you went to the petting zoo, would there be like severed limbs,
00:04:52.380 human limbs and skulls everywhere?
00:04:55.500 This sounds like the scariest petting zoo in the entire world.
00:04:58.420 And not only that, but I worry about what will happen to the Marlboro cigarette brand,
00:05:07.280 which, as you know, uses Joe Camel as its brand.
00:05:10.840 And I'm worried that stories about camels killing people could give cigarettes a bad name.
00:05:19.360 So that's sort of a bad side effect.
00:05:21.760 There's a story about San Francisco doing something that I consider very interesting.
00:05:27.780 They figured out, or some company did, how to build tiny little homes for the homeless.
00:05:35.380 So I guess they put them right out where the homeless already were,
00:05:39.660 somewhere in the neighborhood where they were camping anyway.
00:05:42.700 And they're little one-room entities that don't have a bathroom.
00:05:49.640 There must be some kind of a centralized bathroom situation.
00:05:52.660 But they just have, I think, an outlet, a bed, a little heater, 60 square feet, like a little cubicle.
00:05:59.800 And apparently all the homeless people who were offered them snapped them up and said,
00:06:03.860 yes, we will take that.
00:06:05.500 I guess the total cost, if you trick it out, is $30,000 per unit, which still seems high.
00:06:14.800 Does it really cost $30,000 for an insulated box with an outlet?
00:06:22.200 I'm not sure why it's that high.
00:06:25.040 But here's what I think.
00:06:28.220 First of all, I think this might work,
00:06:29.880 because one of the reasons that the homeless don't want homes
00:06:33.540 is that they can't do their drugs and do whatever else they're doing.
00:06:37.800 But as far as I know, these little homes don't come with any restrictions.
00:06:42.520 So presumably they could just do their drugs inside these little houses.
00:06:47.500 So from the perspective of the people on the streets,
00:06:52.640 it makes them probably safer and more comfortable.
00:06:55.860 But here's what I think is the future.
00:06:59.520 I think we're entering a future where there will be more and more people
00:07:03.680 who simply can't work for one reason or another.
00:07:07.500 They just can't.
00:07:08.800 They're too anxious.
00:07:11.180 For some reason, anxiety is crippling people.
00:07:13.580 Too depressed.
00:07:15.820 Too unhealthy.
00:07:17.280 Too whatever.
00:07:18.920 And or unemployable.
00:07:20.480 Just they don't have any skills.
00:07:21.500 So I feel as if the only way the world will survive
00:07:26.440 is with super cheap housing
00:07:30.260 that's still actually kind of nice to live
00:07:33.640 because they organize it around a community
00:07:35.740 where you have lots of interaction with your neighbors.
00:07:39.440 Let's say you don't hate your neighbors.
00:07:42.220 But I feel like everything is going to go that way.
00:07:46.320 Super cheap.
00:07:47.780 Not, you know.
00:07:48.380 Now, when you say boo,
00:07:52.640 keep in mind,
00:07:53.440 I'm not saying that you personally
00:07:54.740 would be in one of these tiny homes.
00:07:56.720 I'm saying that people who don't have a better option,
00:08:00.580 I think it's going to be a trend.
00:08:03.540 These little $30,000 homes.
00:08:07.540 I don't love the shared bathroom part,
00:08:10.080 but, you know,
00:08:10.840 what do you want for $30,000?
00:08:15.060 All right.
00:08:16.220 I'm going to keep an eye on that.
00:08:17.580 So there's a rumor on the Internet
00:08:20.180 that I don't think is true,
00:08:21.920 but maybe it will be true,
00:08:23.680 that Trump agreed to go on Joe Rogan.
00:08:26.860 You know, the Internet is saying that,
00:08:29.380 but I don't believe that's actually a confirmed thing.
00:08:34.020 So until I see it from some larger entity,
00:08:37.020 I'm not going to believe it.
00:08:38.720 But I'd be surprised if he doesn't,
00:08:43.200 wouldn't you?
00:08:43.680 But in a related news,
00:08:49.200 apparently Spotify lost a bunch of subscribers.
00:08:53.080 They had a loss of 1.5 million paying subscribers
00:08:56.520 in the first quarter of 2022.
00:08:59.460 But they said that Joe Rogan was not the reason for that.
00:09:02.420 You know, the pushback about Joe Rogan's content.
00:09:06.160 They're saying that's not the reason
00:09:07.580 they lost those subscribers.
00:09:09.100 They're saying it's because they canceled
00:09:11.320 their premium service in Russia.
00:09:14.600 Russia is 1% of their revenue.
00:09:18.660 Does that track with you?
00:09:20.540 Do you think that it wasn't the Joe Rogan situation?
00:09:24.160 It was really that that 1% of business in Russia
00:09:27.940 they canceled?
00:09:29.640 I don't know.
00:09:30.080 It depends if 1.5 million paying subscribers
00:09:33.080 is 1% of their total revenue.
00:09:36.500 Somebody go research that while we're doing this.
00:09:40.540 Because it might be.
00:09:42.360 Right?
00:09:43.760 Oh, somebody just give me the number
00:09:45.980 the number of total Spotify subscribers.
00:09:51.500 I'll bet we'll have that in about 30 seconds.
00:09:54.860 Somebody's going to Google that for me.
00:09:56.620 Total number of Spotify subscribers.
00:09:58.080 Unless it's a secret.
00:10:00.640 Maybe they don't tell you that number.
00:10:03.200 But could they have a million
00:10:05.820 or 100 million subscribers?
00:10:08.340 Is that possible?
00:10:10.600 What would you guess would be
00:10:11.760 the number of Spotify subscribers?
00:10:14.600 Because maybe it is Russia.
00:10:16.500 I mean, if they have 100 million,
00:10:17.820 I don't know if they do.
00:10:18.640 But that's interesting.
00:10:24.460 I thought you'd tell me the number by now.
00:10:25.980 Somebody says 180 million.
00:10:28.400 Is that real?
00:10:30.600 Oh, two people are saying it.
00:10:32.460 So it looks like you've looked it up
00:10:33.800 and they've got 180.
00:10:34.600 Yeah.
00:10:35.480 So if they had 180 million subscribers
00:10:38.000 and they got rid of 1% of it,
00:10:40.760 they would lose about 1.5 million.
00:10:44.480 Actually, it tracks.
00:10:45.360 I was going to call this fake news.
00:10:48.180 But if it's true that Russia was 1%
00:10:51.760 and they dropped that 1%,
00:10:53.380 it's a pretty good story.
00:10:56.780 It tracks with the numbers.
00:10:59.000 Well, let's talk about Ukraine
00:11:00.300 and their high-tech weaponry.
00:11:02.380 I learned a few things
00:11:03.700 about their high-tech weaponry.
00:11:05.900 I may get some of this wrong,
00:11:07.300 so look to the comments
00:11:08.920 to correct me if I get any of this wrong.
00:11:10.920 So here's what we know
00:11:12.680 about these anti-tank weapons.
00:11:18.160 First of all,
00:11:19.000 how many Russian tanks
00:11:20.180 were deployed in December?
00:11:22.860 I didn't see a more current number,
00:11:24.620 but I saw there were 1,200 Russian tanks
00:11:26.820 that were deployed to attack in December.
00:11:30.300 So let's take that as just a starting number,
00:11:32.580 1,200 Russian tanks.
00:11:33.960 If there are 1,200 Russian tanks,
00:11:37.460 how many javelins and other anti-tank weapons
00:11:42.540 have been provided to the Ukrainians
00:11:44.360 by NATO and whoever else is helping them?
00:11:49.260 And the answer is,
00:11:50.200 NATO has pushed over 17,000 anti-tank weapons.
00:11:55.180 So there are 1,200 tanks,
00:11:58.020 and there are 10 times that number,
00:12:01.000 more than 10 times that number,
00:12:02.400 of anti-tank missiles,
00:12:05.260 more than 10 times.
00:12:07.460 Now, of course,
00:12:08.720 that doesn't mean the tanks
00:12:09.800 and the missiles are in the right place,
00:12:11.860 so there's always going to be
00:12:12.820 a mismatch of location.
00:12:15.080 So that takes the number of anti-tank missiles
00:12:17.600 down a bit,
00:12:19.220 but this is a...
00:12:21.400 this is a...
00:12:23.680 not 10 times,
00:12:24.700 what am I saying?
00:12:26.140 So about 1,200 Russian tanks
00:12:28.580 and 17,000 missiles.
00:12:30.060 So here's the...
00:12:31.840 here's the thing.
00:12:35.780 How does Russia win this war on the ground?
00:12:40.980 Is that even possible?
00:12:43.180 Can somebody answer this question?
00:12:46.140 Can you occupy or even conquer a country on the ground
00:12:50.700 without tanks?
00:12:52.560 Because aren't they going to be without tanks pretty soon?
00:12:54.980 Now, I realize that artillery can just, you know,
00:12:59.300 flatten an area,
00:13:00.960 but to actually control the area
00:13:03.260 and, like, move in and hold that ground,
00:13:06.060 don't you need tanks?
00:13:07.600 I don't think they're going to have any tanks.
00:13:10.420 I believe they'll have no tanks.
00:13:13.700 All right, here's some other things.
00:13:15.480 What would it cost for 17,000 anti-tank weapons?
00:13:19.240 Well, if a Javelin missile is 80,000 per missile,
00:13:24.860 but, you know, there's more expense for the...
00:13:27.020 I guess there's a control unit
00:13:28.400 and some part of this is reusable,
00:13:31.580 is disposable,
00:13:33.480 and some part isn't.
00:13:34.940 So...
00:13:35.700 but let's just take that number.
00:13:37.460 Take 80,000 per missile,
00:13:39.240 so that's a low number, it would be higher,
00:13:41.680 and multiply it by 17,000 that were provided,
00:13:45.300 and it's about $1.4 billion.
00:13:49.700 That's affordable, isn't it?
00:13:52.780 I feel like the world can afford $1.4 billion
00:13:55.840 for anti-tank weapons.
00:13:59.360 Each of these costs...
00:14:00.800 they weigh 50 pounds,
00:14:02.980 so one soldier can carry one,
00:14:04.940 but, you know, it'd be better
00:14:05.800 if you had a little team of them
00:14:06.960 carrying the, like, extra...
00:14:08.860 the extra parts of it and stuff.
00:14:13.440 And here's how these work.
00:14:15.260 This is just the Javelins.
00:14:16.940 Apparently there are other anti-tankers,
00:14:19.240 tank missiles there,
00:14:20.380 but just the Javelins.
00:14:23.560 So the Javelins have apparently two parts.
00:14:27.060 There's this big control unit
00:14:28.920 that looks like a giant pair of binoculars.
00:14:33.180 Like a...
00:14:33.560 you know, it's the size of a...
00:14:35.560 I don't know, it's bigger than a toaster.
00:14:37.280 It's like the size of a microwave.
00:14:39.680 It's between a microwave and a toaster.
00:14:41.460 And it's this big thing that has a screen
00:14:44.040 and it's got infrared
00:14:45.340 so you can locate from a great distance
00:14:48.500 even at night.
00:14:50.060 Now, apparently...
00:14:50.840 I just saw this on Fox News.
00:14:53.420 One of the experts was saying
00:14:54.600 that you could take that unit,
00:14:56.120 separate it from the missile-firing part
00:14:58.200 of the rocket,
00:14:59.580 and it's really, really handy
00:15:01.080 for seeing the enemy at a distance
00:15:04.000 and they can't see you.
00:15:05.840 So apparently the Ukrainians
00:15:07.160 have a pretty big advantage,
00:15:09.240 not just from the Javelin missile,
00:15:11.660 but separately from taking
00:15:12.900 the control unit with them
00:15:14.300 whenever they need to see you
00:15:15.680 and you can't see them.
00:15:17.060 And operationally,
00:15:18.880 if you can operate at night,
00:15:20.740 it's just a big advantage.
00:15:22.520 So there's that.
00:15:23.320 So the way this thing works
00:15:28.380 is I guess you use the control unit
00:15:30.100 to spot your target
00:15:32.000 and then it detects a heat signature,
00:15:35.060 I guess,
00:15:35.440 and then it locks on
00:15:36.440 and then it actually shoots
00:15:38.220 toward the target,
00:15:40.020 but then it goes up in the air,
00:15:42.160 high,
00:15:42.960 so that when it comes down
00:15:45.480 onto the target
00:15:46.440 that it locked onto...
00:15:47.940 And by the way,
00:15:48.400 this is fire and forget.
00:15:50.240 After the rocket's launched,
00:15:51.740 the people who launch it
00:15:53.480 just back up and leave
00:15:54.940 so that the launch site
00:15:56.400 can't be attacked.
00:15:58.860 And it comes down
00:16:00.020 on top of a tank
00:16:01.160 because that's the weakest armor,
00:16:02.880 apparently.
00:16:04.240 Now, not only that,
00:16:06.160 but some of the tanks
00:16:07.080 have this exploding exterior
00:16:10.360 so that if they get hit
00:16:12.260 by something,
00:16:12.880 it explodes outwards
00:16:14.780 and sort of semi-protects
00:16:16.540 the interior.
00:16:18.440 But these Javelins are so smart
00:16:20.460 that they have two charges.
00:16:22.400 One charge explodes
00:16:24.020 the protective charges
00:16:26.060 and the other charge
00:16:27.660 destroys the tank.
00:16:29.020 So this is really
00:16:30.100 sophisticated stuff.
00:16:31.760 And I'm not sure
00:16:32.500 that they miss that often.
00:16:34.660 Does anybody know
00:16:35.760 how often a Javelin misses
00:16:37.280 once it's locked on a target?
00:16:39.940 I feel like the answer
00:16:41.760 is rarely, right?
00:16:43.060 So did you see the video
00:16:48.100 of there was a Russian tank column
00:16:50.860 or armored column, I guess?
00:16:54.560 And you saw a video
00:16:56.000 from a small drone
00:16:57.380 that the Ukrainians must operate.
00:16:59.880 And it showed some kind
00:17:01.440 of an anti-tank weapon
00:17:02.480 taking out a tank.
00:17:03.840 And then everybody's, you know,
00:17:05.080 running for their lives
00:17:06.100 around the area.
00:17:07.520 So there were two lessons there.
00:17:09.760 One is that
00:17:11.360 the small drones
00:17:18.740 are being used
00:17:19.260 by the Ukrainians
00:17:20.140 to spot.
00:17:21.800 So I guess
00:17:22.440 the Ukrainians
00:17:23.580 have pretty good eyes
00:17:24.740 on stuff
00:17:25.380 with these small drones.
00:17:27.460 And imagine
00:17:28.900 you're a poorly trained
00:17:30.520 Russian conscript
00:17:31.760 and you're just sort of,
00:17:34.020 you're not in a battle
00:17:34.800 and you've never been in one,
00:17:36.060 but you're in this long
00:17:37.800 line of stuff
00:17:40.600 and days and days
00:17:42.560 are going by
00:17:43.300 and every day
00:17:44.800 you watch
00:17:46.120 one or more
00:17:48.120 of the vehicles
00:17:49.160 near you blow up.
00:17:51.700 What would that do
00:17:52.820 to your head?
00:17:54.020 There's nobody
00:17:54.640 you can shoot at.
00:17:56.360 You're literally just,
00:17:57.920 not literally,
00:17:58.620 but you're sitting ducks
00:17:59.520 and you're just watching,
00:18:02.300 you're getting picked off
00:18:03.960 one by one
00:18:04.660 with these javelins,
00:18:05.700 I assume.
00:18:07.320 What would that do
00:18:08.280 to your fighting spirit?
00:18:09.740 I mean,
00:18:10.460 that would be
00:18:11.120 really,
00:18:11.840 really mentally destructive.
00:18:14.680 So,
00:18:15.900 there are
00:18:16.480 two ways
00:18:18.120 to look at this war.
00:18:18.980 One is that
00:18:19.540 Russia
00:18:19.900 has immense assets
00:18:21.760 and they're all
00:18:22.500 getting there
00:18:23.960 to squeeze,
00:18:25.000 squeeze the cities
00:18:26.180 and lay siege
00:18:27.180 and their artillery
00:18:28.900 is lining up
00:18:29.780 to just pound them
00:18:30.880 into submission
00:18:31.520 and it looks like
00:18:33.900 Russia would just win
00:18:34.860 if it wants to.
00:18:35.700 So that's one point of view.
00:18:37.540 The other point of view
00:18:38.600 is, yeah,
00:18:39.100 it's a fog of war.
00:18:39.880 We have no idea
00:18:40.620 what's happening there.
00:18:42.140 Here's what I think.
00:18:46.020 I think that Russia
00:18:47.280 can't conquer
00:18:48.300 and hold Ukraine
00:18:49.220 when there are
00:18:50.280 that many
00:18:50.740 anti-tank weapons
00:18:51.960 in country
00:18:52.680 because I don't think
00:18:54.180 they can do it
00:18:54.760 without tanks
00:18:55.560 and I don't think
00:18:57.440 that they can have tanks.
00:18:59.260 So, I mean,
00:19:00.780 I think it's that simple.
00:19:01.740 You can't do it
00:19:02.360 without tanks
00:19:03.060 and goodbye tanks
00:19:04.800 because there are
00:19:05.760 enough missiles
00:19:06.280 to take them all out.
00:19:08.040 Now,
00:19:08.540 I think they can
00:19:09.220 control the sky,
00:19:10.260 they can do
00:19:11.060 artillery forever.
00:19:13.020 Now,
00:19:13.280 here's my second question.
00:19:15.400 Is artillery
00:19:16.420 easily targeted
00:19:19.000 by,
00:19:20.360 I mean,
00:19:20.640 you'd have to find it first,
00:19:21.700 but is it easily
00:19:22.780 targeted by the same
00:19:23.920 types of missiles?
00:19:25.380 Can you use
00:19:26.320 an anti-tank weapon
00:19:27.580 on artillery?
00:19:29.260 I see some yeses.
00:19:32.380 I would think so,
00:19:33.340 right?
00:19:33.900 It would have
00:19:34.340 a heat signature.
00:19:36.500 So, I would think so.
00:19:37.660 Anything with
00:19:38.120 a heat signature,
00:19:38.800 right?
00:19:43.460 Artillery is not
00:19:44.340 on the front lines,
00:19:45.300 right?
00:19:45.980 But you would have
00:19:46.880 people hunting for it
00:19:47.880 behind the front lines.
00:19:55.000 Okay.
00:19:55.400 here's where I think
00:19:59.600 things are going to go.
00:20:00.680 I think that,
00:20:01.440 I think the Ukrainians
00:20:03.920 are actually going to
00:20:04.760 destroy the Russian army
00:20:07.280 or enough of it
00:20:08.840 that Russia is going to
00:20:10.720 have a real big trouble.
00:20:12.540 Now,
00:20:12.740 here's a story
00:20:14.740 that's coming out of,
00:20:16.260 and I saw this
00:20:20.800 in the Daily Mail
00:20:21.820 from the UK.
00:20:23.620 So,
00:20:23.900 the story is that
00:20:24.720 Putin's firing
00:20:25.860 his people,
00:20:26.540 right?
00:20:27.040 That he's placed
00:20:27.920 the head of his FSB,
00:20:29.600 that's their
00:20:29.960 foreign intelligence
00:20:30.820 branch,
00:20:31.380 the head of his
00:20:32.600 foreign intelligence
00:20:33.280 under house arrest
00:20:34.520 because,
00:20:35.900 allegedly,
00:20:36.500 Putin is furious
00:20:37.260 at security services
00:20:38.680 for failing to warn him
00:20:40.580 that Ukraine
00:20:41.840 could fiercely
00:20:43.040 resist invasion.
00:20:44.180 Now,
00:20:46.480 put your
00:20:47.620 skeptical hat on
00:20:48.820 and tell me
00:20:50.240 if you think
00:20:50.780 this story
00:20:51.360 sounds like
00:20:52.740 a true story
00:20:53.640 or one that
00:20:55.200 is suspiciously
00:20:56.220 exactly like
00:20:57.700 a fake story
00:20:58.480 would sound.
00:21:00.660 All right?
00:21:01.640 So,
00:21:02.080 sure,
00:21:03.020 Putin is put
00:21:04.480 under house arrest
00:21:05.400 his own head
00:21:06.080 of intelligence.
00:21:07.720 Okay.
00:21:08.980 He's all,
00:21:09.920 and also,
00:21:10.500 that guy's deputy.
00:21:12.240 Okay.
00:21:12.660 And he's said
00:21:14.620 to have blamed
00:21:15.280 his intelligence
00:21:15.940 agencies for
00:21:16.840 the slow pace
00:21:17.540 of the war.
00:21:19.160 Maybe.
00:21:20.460 And he's said
00:21:21.220 to,
00:21:22.800 let's see,
00:21:26.160 apparently,
00:21:27.580 the intel people
00:21:29.480 allegedly told
00:21:31.200 Putin that
00:21:31.800 Ukraine was weak,
00:21:33.060 riddled with
00:21:33.760 neo-Nazi groups
00:21:34.780 and would give up
00:21:35.780 easily,
00:21:36.620 and they was
00:21:37.040 just lying.
00:21:38.240 But also,
00:21:39.000 the head of security
00:21:39.740 allegedly embezzled
00:21:41.480 funds that were
00:21:42.220 meant for the,
00:21:43.100 you know,
00:21:43.440 undercover,
00:21:44.160 subversive stuff
00:21:44.940 in Ukraine.
00:21:46.840 And then there's
00:21:48.680 also stories about
00:21:49.660 generals being
00:21:50.840 fired,
00:21:51.340 right?
00:21:52.980 Now,
00:21:54.120 doesn't that sound
00:21:55.280 exactly like a story
00:21:56.560 that anti-Russia
00:21:59.240 propaganda would
00:22:00.220 put out?
00:22:01.640 Oh,
00:22:02.320 Russia is doing
00:22:02.920 so poorly
00:22:03.520 that even his
00:22:04.300 generals are quitting
00:22:05.140 and he's arresting
00:22:07.100 his head of
00:22:07.880 intelligence for
00:22:08.720 a big screw-up.
00:22:10.300 Now,
00:22:10.860 I thought this
00:22:11.440 sounded suspicious
00:22:12.240 because it
00:22:14.160 sounded exactly
00:22:15.000 like what
00:22:16.720 pundits were
00:22:17.460 guessing.
00:22:19.520 Do you remember
00:22:20.040 before we heard
00:22:20.760 this story,
00:22:22.260 the pundits were
00:22:23.000 saying that
00:22:26.160 Putin had been
00:22:28.240 misinformed,
00:22:30.260 that it would be
00:22:30.940 easy to go in
00:22:31.960 and he would be
00:22:32.460 hailed as a hero.
00:22:33.200 Do you remember
00:22:34.460 all the pundits
00:22:35.060 said that?
00:22:35.940 Oh,
00:22:36.280 he misjudged
00:22:37.420 because he thought
00:22:38.340 he would be
00:22:38.700 hailed as a hero.
00:22:42.080 Is it a coincidence
00:22:43.240 that we get the
00:22:44.520 real inside scoop,
00:22:46.300 it matches exactly
00:22:47.460 what the pundits
00:22:48.240 have already tested
00:22:49.120 out in the market
00:22:50.000 and the market
00:22:50.600 accepted?
00:22:52.500 I feel like this
00:22:53.780 was already
00:22:55.260 market tested,
00:22:56.280 if you know
00:22:56.600 what I mean.
00:22:57.560 But here's the
00:22:58.400 real tell.
00:22:59.340 The story at the
00:23:00.180 end is just like
00:23:01.020 a throwaway at
00:23:01.700 the end of the
00:23:02.100 article.
00:23:02.360 It goes on to
00:23:04.140 say, basically
00:23:05.000 as an explanation
00:23:06.020 for why Russia's
00:23:07.780 intelligence service
00:23:08.660 is so terrible,
00:23:11.040 that the
00:23:12.180 intelligence services,
00:23:13.620 they do their
00:23:14.400 hiring from
00:23:16.920 legacy,
00:23:18.240 meaning the
00:23:18.940 children of
00:23:19.640 people who
00:23:20.120 were in
00:23:20.400 intelligence
00:23:20.800 agencies before.
00:23:23.000 So the
00:23:23.500 allegation in
00:23:25.300 this story
00:23:25.820 is that
00:23:27.280 Russia hires
00:23:28.720 basically idiots
00:23:29.740 for its
00:23:30.420 intelligence service
00:23:31.320 and then it
00:23:32.220 points out
00:23:32.760 that the
00:23:33.360 CIA recruits
00:23:35.680 almost exclusively
00:23:36.700 from Ivy League
00:23:37.660 schools.
00:23:39.680 So do you
00:23:40.260 think that a
00:23:40.760 story about
00:23:41.400 Putin firing
00:23:42.260 all of his
00:23:42.940 top generals
00:23:43.800 and people
00:23:44.460 and putting
00:23:44.880 them in
00:23:45.100 house arrest
00:23:45.720 and at the
00:23:47.200 same time
00:23:47.700 saying that
00:23:48.240 Russia's
00:23:48.800 intelligence
00:23:49.280 agencies are
00:23:50.080 full of
00:23:50.420 dolts,
00:23:51.320 but the
00:23:52.000 CIA only
00:23:52.760 hires
00:23:53.080 geniuses,
00:23:54.520 who do you
00:23:54.940 think put that
00:23:55.520 story in the
00:23:56.100 news?
00:23:57.360 Do you think
00:23:58.000 it's the people
00:23:58.580 who look like
00:23:59.200 geniuses in the
00:24:00.100 story?
00:24:01.760 Maybe.
00:24:03.960 Maybe.
00:24:04.820 Maybe it's the
00:24:05.540 people who told
00:24:06.160 the story that
00:24:06.760 made them look
00:24:07.280 like geniuses.
00:24:08.580 I'm just saying,
00:24:09.840 if I were going
00:24:10.600 to guess,
00:24:12.080 wild guess,
00:24:13.420 who would plant
00:24:14.100 a story like
00:24:14.780 that in the
00:24:15.160 media,
00:24:16.200 it would be
00:24:17.040 somebody who
00:24:18.320 wanted to look
00:24:18.900 like a genius.
00:24:20.160 Take it from
00:24:20.680 me.
00:24:22.140 All right.
00:24:24.480 And then the
00:24:25.260 way they,
00:24:25.880 the credibility
00:24:26.500 for the story
00:24:27.420 is that it
00:24:27.980 comes from
00:24:28.440 a Russian
00:24:29.580 author who
00:24:30.980 is known
00:24:31.420 to have
00:24:31.940 sources in
00:24:32.980 the intelligence
00:24:33.880 agencies in
00:24:34.740 Russia.
00:24:36.740 Do you know
00:24:37.500 how intelligence
00:24:39.180 agencies launder
00:24:40.720 their fake
00:24:41.320 news?
00:24:43.160 They go to
00:24:44.000 an author or
00:24:45.400 a journalist and
00:24:46.120 they say,
00:24:46.860 look, we need
00:24:47.560 you to say
00:24:48.120 this.
00:24:50.060 And then they
00:24:50.820 tell them it's
00:24:51.320 true.
00:24:52.460 And then the
00:24:53.460 author says it
00:24:54.480 and then they
00:24:55.820 say, look,
00:24:56.260 well, this
00:24:56.520 author says
00:24:57.060 it's true
00:24:57.480 with his
00:24:58.220 sources.
00:24:59.200 Do you know
00:24:59.580 what his
00:24:59.860 sources probably
00:25:00.560 were?
00:25:01.760 Probably the
00:25:02.280 CIA.
00:25:03.960 Probably the
00:25:04.640 CIA gave him
00:25:05.560 the information
00:25:06.200 and said,
00:25:07.120 this comes
00:25:07.540 from inside
00:25:08.100 the Kremlin.
00:25:09.200 This guy does
00:25:10.080 interviews and
00:25:10.660 says, I have
00:25:11.380 secret information
00:25:12.320 from inside the
00:25:13.120 Kremlin.
00:25:13.780 I can't tell you
00:25:14.500 where it came
00:25:14.900 from.
00:25:16.040 And then the
00:25:16.520 news reports
00:25:17.220 that it came
00:25:17.800 from an
00:25:18.420 author.
00:25:20.280 Doesn't this
00:25:20.860 look exactly
00:25:21.760 like a planted
00:25:22.500 story?
00:25:22.920 doesn't mean
00:25:25.100 it is.
00:25:26.900 So, I
00:25:28.140 mean, I
00:25:28.620 couldn't bet
00:25:29.260 my life on
00:25:29.940 it.
00:25:30.800 But if you
00:25:31.700 understand what
00:25:33.080 a planted
00:25:33.540 story looks
00:25:34.240 like, it
00:25:35.360 looks exactly
00:25:36.180 like this.
00:25:37.560 Exactly.
00:25:39.100 But let's
00:25:39.840 say it's
00:25:40.140 true.
00:25:43.720 This is the
00:25:44.660 diabolical part
00:25:45.620 about all
00:25:46.080 this.
00:25:46.580 You can
00:25:47.000 know that
00:25:47.380 the news
00:25:47.920 is fake
00:25:48.520 and you
00:25:49.520 still treat
00:25:50.180 it like
00:25:50.460 it's true.
00:25:51.860 I don't
00:25:52.160 know.
00:25:52.320 I guess
00:25:53.220 people can
00:25:53.680 do that.
00:25:54.340 So, let's
00:25:54.620 do that.
00:25:55.580 Let's
00:25:55.860 treat it
00:25:56.200 like it's
00:25:56.560 true.
00:25:57.280 If it's
00:25:57.820 true that
00:25:58.320 the Ukrainians
00:25:59.680 have all
00:26:00.060 those anti-tank
00:26:00.880 weapons,
00:26:01.960 if it's
00:26:02.440 true that
00:26:02.780 you can't
00:26:03.160 really conquer
00:26:03.940 a place
00:26:04.320 without
00:26:04.600 tanks,
00:26:06.100 especially
00:26:06.660 a well-armed
00:26:07.380 place, you
00:26:07.840 can't conquer
00:26:08.860 them without
00:26:09.240 tanks.
00:26:09.820 I don't
00:26:10.000 think you
00:26:10.340 can.
00:26:11.540 The cities
00:26:12.340 especially.
00:26:14.840 And if
00:26:15.680 it's true
00:26:16.120 that Russia,
00:26:17.620 that Putin
00:26:18.040 is firing
00:26:18.680 his generals
00:26:19.280 because
00:26:19.640 everything's
00:26:20.140 a mess,
00:26:20.560 there is
00:26:22.000 a real
00:26:22.440 possibility
00:26:23.140 that Ukraine
00:26:24.640 just wins
00:26:25.220 the war
00:26:25.600 outright.
00:26:28.820 Is anybody
00:26:29.560 talking about
00:26:30.180 that yet?
00:26:32.100 All the
00:26:32.760 smart people
00:26:33.240 are saying,
00:26:33.780 okay, the
00:26:34.260 weight of
00:26:35.060 military might
00:26:35.860 is all on
00:26:36.420 Russia's side,
00:26:37.220 10 to 1.
00:26:38.320 It's just a
00:26:38.960 matter of time.
00:26:39.640 It's just
00:26:39.920 numbers.
00:26:40.820 There's nothing
00:26:41.280 you can do
00:26:41.740 about it.
00:26:42.620 But there is
00:26:43.920 something you
00:26:44.400 can do about
00:26:44.980 it if you
00:26:45.540 can take
00:26:45.900 out all
00:26:46.500 of their
00:26:46.780 tanks.
00:26:47.240 So I
00:26:48.780 guess I
00:26:49.160 will base
00:26:50.140 my prediction
00:26:50.760 on this
00:26:51.300 one factor.
00:26:52.640 So it's a
00:26:53.080 one factor
00:26:53.700 prediction.
00:26:54.740 That they
00:26:55.220 have enough
00:26:55.720 anti-tank
00:26:56.520 weapons to
00:26:58.140 take out
00:26:58.620 all of
00:26:59.100 their tanks
00:26:59.660 and similar
00:27:01.020 heavy equipment.
00:27:02.600 All of them.
00:27:03.820 And that once
00:27:04.500 those are
00:27:04.940 gone, their
00:27:06.940 military will
00:27:07.820 be just in
00:27:08.980 disarray and
00:27:10.440 they can just
00:27:10.980 be picked
00:27:11.380 off or
00:27:11.800 neutralized.
00:27:12.800 They just
00:27:13.140 won't be an
00:27:13.720 effective fighting
00:27:14.440 force.
00:27:14.780 I have a
00:27:16.260 feeling you
00:27:16.660 are going
00:27:16.820 to see
00:27:17.000 mass
00:27:17.580 surrenders.
00:27:19.240 Like entire
00:27:20.140 divisions or
00:27:21.220 whatever they're
00:27:21.620 called over
00:27:22.020 there.
00:27:22.980 I feel like
00:27:23.780 you're going
00:27:24.060 to see mass
00:27:24.520 surrenders.
00:27:25.420 What do you
00:27:25.680 think?
00:27:27.860 Now, somebody
00:27:29.260 is saying the
00:27:29.660 point was to
00:27:30.360 displace two
00:27:31.140 million people.
00:27:32.040 And maybe it
00:27:32.500 was.
00:27:33.300 But I don't
00:27:33.900 think that
00:27:34.280 worked exactly
00:27:35.140 the way Russia
00:27:37.360 expected.
00:27:38.420 Because once the
00:27:39.400 women and
00:27:39.860 children were
00:27:40.440 out of there,
00:27:41.960 and it's just
00:27:42.780 the men,
00:27:43.260 word has it
00:27:45.340 the Ukrainian
00:27:45.900 men, can
00:27:47.800 put up quite
00:27:48.400 a fight.
00:27:49.940 And perhaps
00:27:50.420 they are.
00:27:51.660 Sounds like
00:27:52.200 they are.
00:27:53.320 I don't believe
00:27:54.280 anything coming
00:27:55.720 out of the war
00:27:56.200 zone, but
00:27:56.740 sounds sort of
00:27:58.400 like they are.
00:27:59.900 All right.
00:28:01.080 China and
00:28:01.920 Russia are
00:28:02.780 both collaborating
00:28:03.900 to say that
00:28:04.620 there are U.S.
00:28:06.340 funded bio
00:28:07.100 labs, you
00:28:07.880 know, weapons
00:28:08.380 labs or
00:28:09.000 something in
00:28:09.780 Ukraine.
00:28:10.580 The official
00:28:11.380 U.S.
00:28:11.980 story is that
00:28:12.820 there are
00:28:13.400 bio labs,
00:28:15.840 but not for
00:28:16.700 the purpose
00:28:17.140 of weapons.
00:28:17.940 Oh, no.
00:28:19.260 No, no, no,
00:28:19.980 no, not for
00:28:20.740 weapons, but
00:28:21.880 rather for
00:28:22.500 valuable research
00:28:23.600 in these various
00:28:24.620 countries to
00:28:26.280 help identify
00:28:27.000 and find
00:28:27.540 treatments for
00:28:28.400 local pathogens.
00:28:31.720 Totally
00:28:32.200 plausible story.
00:28:34.860 I don't know,
00:28:35.360 is it?
00:28:36.800 Is that
00:28:37.460 plausible?
00:28:37.840 I think it
00:28:40.700 is.
00:28:40.980 I don't know
00:28:42.860 if it's
00:28:43.160 true, but
00:28:45.000 it feels
00:28:45.800 plausible
00:28:47.760 that they,
00:28:50.360 but would
00:28:51.060 we be
00:28:51.480 funding, of
00:28:52.700 all things
00:28:53.220 that we
00:28:53.520 could fund,
00:28:54.620 we'd have
00:28:55.180 this great
00:28:55.680 interest in
00:28:56.340 local pathogens
00:28:57.500 in Ukraine,
00:28:59.700 not even
00:29:00.240 pathogens that
00:29:01.320 are necessarily
00:29:02.920 going to
00:29:04.260 affect us.
00:29:04.860 we care
00:29:06.140 that much?
00:29:07.140 We're
00:29:07.380 funding them
00:29:07.920 in Ukraine?
00:29:09.320 There's
00:29:09.760 something sketchy
00:29:10.540 about the
00:29:10.880 whole story,
00:29:12.020 wouldn't you
00:29:12.640 say?
00:29:14.380 Let's just
00:29:15.040 say that
00:29:15.420 whatever the
00:29:16.080 truth of
00:29:16.540 this story
00:29:17.040 is, I
00:29:17.500 don't think
00:29:17.980 we've heard
00:29:18.400 it.
00:29:19.160 I don't
00:29:19.460 think China
00:29:19.940 and Russia
00:29:20.300 are telling
00:29:20.680 us the
00:29:21.000 truth, but
00:29:22.060 I definitely
00:29:22.620 don't believe
00:29:23.140 our team.
00:29:24.520 Do you?
00:29:25.780 Is there
00:29:26.140 anybody who
00:29:26.540 thinks that
00:29:26.980 the United
00:29:27.360 States is
00:29:27.880 telling the
00:29:28.280 truth about
00:29:29.680 these labs?
00:29:30.300 Probably
00:29:33.660 nobody thinks
00:29:34.420 that, right?
00:29:35.240 So what
00:29:36.080 can we
00:29:36.400 really say
00:29:36.880 about any
00:29:37.300 of this?
00:29:38.060 Nothing.
00:29:39.360 Because now
00:29:40.020 we have
00:29:40.320 China, Russia
00:29:41.040 and the
00:29:41.440 United States
00:29:42.100 commenting on
00:29:42.940 these labs
00:29:43.540 and those
00:29:44.400 are the
00:29:44.660 three least
00:29:45.540 credible
00:29:46.020 sources
00:29:46.660 that are
00:29:48.760 talking about
00:29:49.280 this topic.
00:29:54.460 All right.
00:29:55.640 And then
00:29:56.260 of course
00:29:56.680 the U.S.
00:29:58.060 is warning
00:29:58.520 Biden
00:29:58.860 administration
00:29:59.420 saying that
00:30:00.040 Russians
00:30:00.700 might use
00:30:01.280 these
00:30:01.640 what they
00:30:03.760 would call
00:30:04.160 fake
00:30:04.680 bioweapons
00:30:06.080 research
00:30:06.540 places
00:30:06.960 as a
00:30:08.580 pretense
00:30:09.480 for a
00:30:09.800 biological
00:30:10.240 attack
00:30:10.840 and then
00:30:11.220 claim it
00:30:11.840 was actually
00:30:12.280 the Ukrainians
00:30:13.060 not them.
00:30:14.460 What do
00:30:14.760 you think?
00:30:15.420 Do you
00:30:15.600 think Russia
00:30:16.520 is going
00:30:16.920 to claim
00:30:17.580 that the
00:30:18.060 Ukrainians
00:30:18.820 mounted a
00:30:19.560 biological
00:30:20.060 attack
00:30:20.740 on Russia
00:30:21.420 or on
00:30:22.480 the Russians
00:30:22.920 in the
00:30:23.520 military?
00:30:24.560 That does
00:30:25.380 feel like
00:30:25.780 standard
00:30:26.280 Russian
00:30:27.960 play,
00:30:28.840 right?
00:30:29.420 So here's
00:30:31.180 the great
00:30:32.640 irony.
00:30:34.580 What if
00:30:35.520 it's true
00:30:36.560 that Putin's
00:30:38.380 generals
00:30:39.020 and his
00:30:39.920 advisors,
00:30:40.600 his top
00:30:40.980 experts,
00:30:42.200 what if it
00:30:42.720 is true
00:30:43.180 that he's
00:30:43.520 firing them
00:30:44.100 and arresting
00:30:44.820 them?
00:30:46.980 Might be
00:30:47.700 true,
00:30:49.300 but
00:30:49.620 if that
00:30:52.420 is true
00:30:53.120 things could
00:31:00.040 be over
00:31:00.380 quickly.
00:31:02.180 Something
00:31:02.700 could happen
00:31:04.420 pretty quickly.
00:31:05.780 All right,
00:31:06.220 the EU
00:31:07.780 commission
00:31:08.200 says they're
00:31:08.760 going to
00:31:08.940 try to
00:31:09.240 wean off
00:31:09.720 Russia
00:31:10.120 oil and
00:31:10.660 gas by
00:31:11.160 2027.
00:31:12.220 Does
00:31:12.800 anybody
00:31:13.240 believe that?
00:31:15.080 Do you
00:31:15.360 believe that
00:31:15.820 Europe can
00:31:16.360 wean itself
00:31:16.980 off of gas
00:31:17.740 by 2027?
00:31:19.280 Now that's
00:31:19.720 three years
00:31:20.260 earlier than
00:31:20.860 they had
00:31:21.260 planned,
00:31:21.960 I guess,
00:31:22.520 but I'm
00:31:23.060 surprised they
00:31:23.520 ever planned
00:31:23.980 it.
00:31:26.140 I feel
00:31:26.880 like no,
00:31:27.840 because you
00:31:29.500 wouldn't even
00:31:29.960 be able to
00:31:30.340 build enough
00:31:31.000 tankers to
00:31:33.400 transport it
00:31:34.100 by then,
00:31:34.460 right?
00:31:35.640 You couldn't
00:31:36.360 build a
00:31:36.660 pipeline in
00:31:37.300 five years,
00:31:37.840 could you?
00:31:38.540 You couldn't
00:31:39.360 build enough
00:31:40.040 tankers in
00:31:41.240 five years.
00:31:42.600 I don't know,
00:31:43.140 it seems
00:31:43.400 aggressive to
00:31:44.400 me, but
00:31:44.940 worth a
00:31:46.540 try.
00:31:47.700 All right,
00:31:48.000 the most
00:31:48.280 surprising
00:31:48.720 video that
00:31:49.480 I thought
00:31:50.000 might have
00:31:50.440 been a
00:31:50.760 fake,
00:31:52.360 and I'm
00:31:53.000 still not
00:31:54.420 completely
00:31:55.080 sure it's
00:31:55.640 true,
00:31:56.720 because it's
00:31:57.140 so shocking.
00:31:58.740 Trevor Noah
00:31:59.440 of the
00:32:00.660 Daily Show,
00:32:02.420 you know him
00:32:03.120 not to be a
00:32:03.960 friend of
00:32:04.440 Trump,
00:32:04.840 right?
00:32:05.620 He's a
00:32:06.160 constant,
00:32:07.200 continuous
00:32:07.640 critic of
00:32:08.420 Trump,
00:32:09.080 but he did
00:32:10.220 this rant
00:32:11.180 in which he
00:32:12.120 was full-throatedly
00:32:13.320 saying,
00:32:14.360 not as a
00:32:14.900 joke,
00:32:15.420 not as a
00:32:16.020 joke,
00:32:17.140 at least I
00:32:17.660 didn't take
00:32:17.980 it that way,
00:32:18.820 that Trump
00:32:20.620 would have
00:32:21.380 succeeded where
00:32:23.280 Biden failed
00:32:24.080 in at least
00:32:24.580 getting Saudi
00:32:25.220 Arabia to
00:32:25.780 return his
00:32:26.300 phone call,
00:32:27.780 because
00:32:28.200 apparently
00:32:29.720 Saudi Arabia
00:32:30.560 basically didn't
00:32:31.560 take Biden's
00:32:32.400 call or
00:32:33.620 something like
00:32:34.240 that.
00:32:35.380 And Trevor
00:32:36.220 just went
00:32:36.940 off on it
00:32:37.460 and said,
00:32:38.180 there's no
00:32:38.560 way they
00:32:38.900 wouldn't take
00:32:39.500 Trump's call
00:32:40.760 because Trump
00:32:41.380 is too
00:32:41.700 unpredictable.
00:32:42.220 You don't
00:32:43.360 know what
00:32:43.760 he would
00:32:44.020 do if
00:32:45.020 you don't
00:32:45.340 take his
00:32:45.740 call,
00:32:46.360 but it
00:32:47.140 might be
00:32:47.480 ugly.
00:32:48.480 But you
00:32:49.100 do know
00:32:49.480 that Biden
00:32:49.920 probably isn't
00:32:50.560 going to go
00:32:50.900 hard on
00:32:51.320 Saudi Arabia
00:32:51.920 for not
00:32:52.320 taking his
00:32:52.760 call because
00:32:53.700 he's too
00:32:54.040 polite.
00:32:55.320 And I
00:32:56.860 think this
00:32:57.420 is just
00:32:57.800 more of
00:32:58.460 the Trump
00:32:59.600 looks better
00:33:00.200 every day
00:33:00.700 that he's
00:33:01.080 out of
00:33:01.360 office effect.
00:33:03.820 Now,
00:33:04.360 I don't
00:33:04.620 know if
00:33:05.000 Trevor Noah
00:33:05.760 is going
00:33:06.260 to continue
00:33:07.720 eating this
00:33:08.620 red pill,
00:33:09.260 but it's a
00:33:10.320 pretty notable
00:33:11.080 defection from
00:33:12.200 the Democrats
00:33:13.060 are all
00:33:13.520 good and
00:33:13.960 Republicans
00:33:14.520 are all
00:33:14.960 bad point
00:33:16.160 of view.
00:33:17.960 So,
00:33:19.100 we'll see.
00:33:21.860 And Biden
00:33:22.720 is calling
00:33:23.540 the inflation
00:33:24.860 basically Putin
00:33:26.820 gas hikes and
00:33:27.780 Putin inflation.
00:33:30.040 You know,
00:33:30.960 I can tolerate
00:33:32.120 quite a bit of
00:33:33.660 lying from my
00:33:34.520 government.
00:33:35.780 Wouldn't you
00:33:36.260 agree?
00:33:37.220 Because you're
00:33:37.740 just so used
00:33:38.340 to it.
00:33:38.640 And usually
00:33:39.420 you can tell
00:33:39.980 exactly when
00:33:40.680 they're lying.
00:33:41.440 So you're
00:33:41.880 like, well,
00:33:42.460 it's not like
00:33:43.360 a real lie
00:33:44.000 because I
00:33:44.840 can tell
00:33:45.160 they're lying.
00:33:46.040 But there's
00:33:46.700 something about
00:33:47.340 this that's
00:33:48.420 just insulting.
00:33:50.760 It's just
00:33:51.420 insulting to
00:33:52.820 say that
00:33:53.180 inflation was
00:33:54.000 caused by
00:33:54.500 Putin.
00:33:55.960 I guess
00:33:56.560 people will
00:33:57.200 believe it,
00:33:57.940 maybe the
00:33:58.460 Democrats,
00:33:59.500 but it's
00:34:00.420 such a bad
00:34:01.780 lie that I
00:34:03.780 just feel
00:34:04.280 insulted that
00:34:05.260 you can't
00:34:05.740 try a little
00:34:06.340 harder to lie
00:34:07.080 to me in
00:34:07.520 a more,
00:34:08.360 let's say,
00:34:08.840 intellectually
00:34:09.480 satisfying way.
00:34:13.920 Now,
00:34:14.440 his argument,
00:34:15.160 I guess,
00:34:16.120 is that
00:34:16.720 the spending,
00:34:19.280 which,
00:34:19.580 of course,
00:34:20.060 the massive
00:34:20.980 deficit spending,
00:34:22.520 now,
00:34:22.940 in theory,
00:34:23.620 that should
00:34:24.020 cause a bunch
00:34:24.720 of inflation.
00:34:25.980 And it looks
00:34:26.540 like it was
00:34:26.940 starting.
00:34:27.620 But I think
00:34:28.180 his argument
00:34:28.700 might be that
00:34:29.640 that hasn't
00:34:30.160 kicked in yet
00:34:30.980 or something.
00:34:33.260 Is that his
00:34:33.800 argument?
00:34:34.960 That it's just
00:34:35.540 a timing thing
00:34:36.380 or is it
00:34:38.900 just a stupid
00:34:39.500 argument?
00:34:40.080 To me,
00:34:40.360 it just looks
00:34:40.780 like it's
00:34:41.080 probably a
00:34:41.500 stupid argument,
00:34:42.320 but he knows
00:34:42.760 the public
00:34:43.280 is stupid,
00:34:44.000 so half of
00:34:44.960 them will buy
00:34:45.480 it and that's
00:34:45.860 all he needs.
00:34:47.140 Could be.
00:34:49.880 It's a stupid
00:34:50.760 citizen strategy.
00:34:57.240 And that,
00:34:59.020 ladies and
00:35:00.780 gentlemen,
00:35:02.220 is pretty much
00:35:03.100 all I wanted
00:35:03.520 to say.
00:35:03.860 isn't it
00:35:06.500 weird to
00:35:06.880 you that
00:35:07.900 when there's
00:35:08.420 a story,
00:35:09.760 yeah,
00:35:09.980 11 assassination
00:35:10.840 attempts,
00:35:12.120 yeah,
00:35:12.600 everything that
00:35:13.280 comes out
00:35:13.820 that's pro-Ukraine,
00:35:15.980 you know,
00:35:16.400 Zelensky escapes
00:35:17.640 11 assassination
00:35:18.560 attempts.
00:35:19.640 How much of
00:35:20.300 that is real?
00:35:23.180 Yeah,
00:35:23.640 I would buy
00:35:24.480 two.
00:35:25.920 Two makes
00:35:26.640 sense,
00:35:27.120 but 11,
00:35:27.820 I don't know.
00:35:28.960 11?
00:35:30.380 Seems
00:35:31.080 unlikely.
00:35:31.500 80% of
00:35:37.680 all money
00:35:38.080 printed was
00:35:38.800 printed in
00:35:39.380 the last 22
00:35:40.080 months,
00:35:40.580 somebody says.
00:35:41.360 I wonder if
00:35:41.800 that's true.
00:35:44.680 Saudi Arabia
00:35:45.520 hates the Iran
00:35:46.260 deal,
00:35:46.660 yes.
00:35:47.400 You said
00:35:47.780 SA,
00:35:48.220 I thought
00:35:48.520 that was
00:35:48.780 me.
00:35:49.560 I thought
00:35:49.960 Scott Adams
00:35:50.640 hates the
00:35:51.060 Iran deal?
00:35:51.720 I didn't
00:35:53.080 even know I
00:35:53.500 had an
00:35:53.740 opinion.
00:35:55.960 Yeah,
00:35:56.240 somebody says
00:35:56.740 there's only
00:35:57.260 propaganda in
00:35:58.280 time of war,
00:35:58.900 and I
00:35:59.660 think that's
00:36:00.220 right.
00:36:05.040 That
00:36:05.280 basically
00:36:05.960 100% of
00:36:07.020 what you
00:36:07.300 hear about
00:36:08.140 the war
00:36:08.600 is you
00:36:09.520 should assume
00:36:10.080 it's
00:36:10.240 propaganda.
00:36:13.120 Oh,
00:36:13.680 not printed
00:36:14.200 but created.
00:36:15.080 Okay.
00:36:17.520 Ukraine is
00:36:18.280 losing big
00:36:19.040 in Donbass.
00:36:20.160 Yeah,
00:36:20.380 I think
00:36:20.760 Ukraine is
00:36:21.500 going to
00:36:21.840 not have
00:36:22.740 any luck
00:36:24.280 in the
00:36:24.620 south.
00:36:24.940 But I
00:36:26.780 think Kiev
00:36:27.380 is going
00:36:27.880 to stand.
00:36:31.780 We'll
00:36:32.260 see.
00:36:36.600 All right.
00:36:37.920 YouTube,
00:36:38.920 thank you
00:36:39.560 for joining.
00:36:40.600 And if
00:36:41.760 you are
00:36:42.040 not aware,
00:36:43.400 if you
00:36:43.740 are on
00:36:44.000 the locals
00:36:44.760 platform,
00:36:46.320 you would
00:36:46.700 get a
00:36:47.020 little extra
00:36:47.580 of me
00:36:47.900 before and
00:36:48.520 after almost
00:36:50.200 every show.
00:36:51.580 And as
00:36:52.240 well as
00:36:52.540 micro lessons,
00:36:53.340 which I
00:36:53.680 swear I'm
00:36:54.180 going to
00:36:54.880 start adding
00:36:55.500 some more.
00:36:55.920 We were
00:36:56.100 200 micro
00:36:56.740 lessons so
00:36:57.480 far.
00:37:00.200 Oh,
00:37:00.680 thank you,
00:37:01.160 John.
00:37:01.520 I appreciate
00:37:01.940 that.
00:37:03.120 I'm not
00:37:03.460 sure if I'm
00:37:03.860 making the
00:37:04.740 world better
00:37:05.180 every day,
00:37:05.900 but I
00:37:07.280 think every
00:37:07.640 now and
00:37:07.980 then I
00:37:08.300 do something
00:37:09.680 useful.
00:37:11.680 Great low
00:37:12.320 energy show.
00:37:14.760 Do I
00:37:15.500 seem low
00:37:15.920 energy?
00:37:19.740 Today
00:37:20.180 wasn't the
00:37:20.680 day I
00:37:20.980 wanted to
00:37:21.280 get anybody
00:37:21.800 worked up
00:37:22.880 about anything.
00:37:23.380 yes,
00:37:27.360 I was
00:37:27.720 up late.
00:37:29.420 Can we
00:37:29.880 chat about
00:37:30.280 Project
00:37:30.720 Veritas?
00:37:32.580 Yes.
00:37:33.560 Oh,
00:37:33.840 and if
00:37:34.160 you're on
00:37:34.600 YouTube,
00:37:36.040 it would
00:37:36.300 help me
00:37:36.680 if you
00:37:37.020 subscribe.
00:37:39.220 And that
00:37:39.800 would be
00:37:40.040 great.
00:37:41.520 I do
00:37:42.000 seem a
00:37:42.320 little off.
00:37:43.740 Yeah,
00:37:44.060 I think I
00:37:45.000 started at
00:37:45.700 3 a.m.
00:37:47.660 today.
00:37:48.960 So this
00:37:49.520 is already
00:37:49.880 the afternoon
00:37:50.440 for me.
00:37:55.640 Germans
00:37:56.120 surrounded
00:37:56.480 Warsaw?
00:37:57.320 Okay.
00:37:57.840 Yeah,
00:37:58.040 we've got a
00:37:58.300 lot of
00:37:58.520 precedents.
00:37:59.160 I'm not
00:37:59.600 sure that
00:38:00.000 there are
00:38:00.240 any
00:38:00.500 precedents
00:38:01.120 that make
00:38:01.500 sense.
00:38:02.540 So any
00:38:02.940 military
00:38:03.440 precedent
00:38:04.040 before there
00:38:05.760 were unlimited
00:38:06.620 anti-tank
00:38:07.540 weapons
00:38:08.000 doesn't seem
00:38:09.000 relevant.
00:38:10.280 Do we
00:38:10.840 agree on
00:38:11.240 that?
00:38:12.060 That any
00:38:12.620 war precedent
00:38:13.660 prior to
00:38:15.500 drones and
00:38:17.500 anti-tank
00:38:18.220 weapons I
00:38:18.860 don't think
00:38:19.340 applies.
00:38:20.440 And if
00:38:21.520 you look at
00:38:21.860 Afghanistan,
00:38:23.560 I think
00:38:24.220 everything was
00:38:25.260 different about
00:38:25.800 that.
00:38:26.600 Just everything
00:38:27.100 was different
00:38:27.560 about it.
00:38:29.600 All right,
00:38:30.280 that's all for
00:38:30.660 now.
00:38:31.720 YouTube,
00:38:32.380 I'll talk to
00:38:33.280 you later.