Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1699 Scott Adams： Gratuitous Swaddling While Mocking Fake News & Propaganda We Call Reality

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.

00:00:07.780 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and today, a little bit of something special.

00:00:13.860 Now, as some of you remember, that back in the darkest days of the pandemic,

00:00:18.140 we needed to get together in the evening to swaddle.

00:00:22.180 And by that, I mean put on a nice, soft blanket

00:00:25.760 and just feel the warmth and softness relaxing you, bringing you to a better place.

00:00:34.340 Well, you know, this war in Ukraine and all the ripple effect

00:00:37.920 is starting to get to us again, isn't it? Just a little bit.

00:00:41.860 And I thought it was time to reintroduce an almost gratuitous swaddle,

00:00:49.160 meaning that it is not required.

00:00:51.100 This is not a mandatory swaddle, as the pandemic was.

00:00:56.040 This would be more of an optional swaddle

00:00:59.100 to recognize that we're in pretty good shape, but we could be better.

00:01:05.680 And now, ladies and gentlemen, would you join me

00:01:09.740 in an almost spiritual ceremony that we call the simultaneous sip?

00:01:15.840 As if by one, each of us, I might call you God's debris,

00:01:22.860 will feel that coming together, as we all act as one,

00:01:28.820 with a simultaneous sip and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or salad,

00:01:31.920 a canteen, drug or flask, a vessel of mankind.

00:01:36.580 And join me now for the dopamine here today,

00:01:40.440 the, really, the thing that makes everything better,

00:01:43.360 the thing that is solving problems around the world.

00:01:47.420 It's called the simultaneous sip, but it happens now.

00:01:50.340 Go.

00:01:54.560 Ah.

00:01:56.900 Now, may I inject a valuable lesson on persuasion?

00:02:03.800 It's happening right now.

00:02:05.160 And you're a willing participant, or I hope you are.

00:02:10.240 And it goes like this.

00:02:11.800 Number one, persuasion works best if you're persuading somebody to do or think

00:02:17.720 something they already want to do or something they already want to think.

00:02:22.880 Don't you want to feel better?

00:02:25.400 Of course you do.

00:02:26.960 So I'm persuading you in the most compatible way I possibly could

00:02:31.460 to do something that you really want.

00:02:33.220 And there's nothing that wants anything else.

00:02:36.880 You want to feel better.

00:02:38.760 And so, how hard would it be for me to persuade you to all feel better right now?

00:02:46.440 It would be very easy, because it's the thing you want more than anything.

00:02:50.800 And so, when I bring with you these sensory cues,

00:02:56.680 when I told you to wrap yourself in a warm blanket,

00:03:02.220 could you feel it?

00:03:04.000 A little bit.

00:03:05.660 When I told you to drink your favorite beverage,

00:03:09.420 be it coffee or something else,

00:03:11.600 could you suddenly imagine it?

00:03:15.980 Yes, you could.

00:03:17.960 And do those things associate,

00:03:20.420 in your mind and your body, with pleasant things?

00:03:22.780 Yes, they do.

00:03:26.340 And so, by your consent,

00:03:29.460 and if you don't consent,

00:03:31.560 you probably want to bail out now.

00:03:35.000 I'm going to suggest

00:03:36.400 that when you watch this live stream,

00:03:40.040 even if it's recorded,

00:03:41.820 and even if you watched it once before,

00:03:44.560 that every time it will reinforce

00:03:46.300 the feeling that you can just allow yourself to relax

00:03:51.240 and enjoy the sensual pleasures of being alive.

00:03:56.080 A nice, warm, soft blanket,

00:03:59.360 the beverage of your choice,

00:04:00.900 and at the moment,

00:04:02.760 the fellowship, if you will,

00:04:04.880 of all the people watching at once.

00:04:07.540 Let's see.

00:04:07.980 We've got a thousand here.

00:04:10.740 Yeah, we've got about 1,700 people.

00:04:12.620 And then another 50,000

00:04:15.420 might watch it recorded.

00:04:18.120 And how much do you want?

00:04:20.520 Do you want?

00:04:22.100 Here it comes.

00:04:23.780 Go.

00:04:27.760 Ah.

00:04:30.140 You know what else would be great

00:04:31.860 if my printer worked?

00:04:34.340 And now that I've relaxed,

00:04:38.180 I'd like to demonstrate

00:04:40.960 on live stream

00:04:42.640 with no practice whatsoever

00:04:44.880 something that I've

00:04:47.260 been tracking all my life,

00:04:49.640 which is that when you feel tense,

00:04:52.380 your technology doesn't work as well.

00:04:55.200 But when you can bring yourself

00:04:56.580 to a relaxed state,

00:04:58.340 as I am right now,

00:05:00.080 all your technology will start to conform.

00:05:03.440 Why?

00:05:04.400 Because we live in a simulation

00:05:05.760 and life is purely subjective.

00:05:08.180 So in theory,

00:05:09.360 my printer,

00:05:10.020 which wasn't working well

00:05:11.220 before I went live on YouTube,

00:05:16.060 should begin to make

00:05:17.220 the sounds of a printer

00:05:20.520 that's working.

00:05:22.560 Except it's not.

00:05:25.320 Hmm.

00:05:27.360 There's a slight chance

00:05:28.780 things could take a dark turn.

00:05:31.140 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:05:35.740 Greater than zero chance.

00:05:38.180 That all that relaxation

00:05:40.280 is about to go out the window.

00:05:42.500 Any minute now.

00:05:43.560 Ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:05:46.920 All right.

00:05:47.680 Let's see what's going on here.

00:05:49.740 I do have a backup plan,

00:05:51.240 so don't worry.

00:05:52.560 All right.

00:05:52.900 Well, it appears that the printer

00:05:54.700 will not be cooperating.

00:05:57.480 So we go to plan B,

00:05:59.340 which is that I always have

00:06:00.580 the digital version

00:06:02.000 available right here.

00:06:05.060 And here we go.

00:06:06.600 So I mentioned

00:06:08.220 on the live stream yesterday

00:06:09.460 that I saw an article

00:06:11.780 mentioning that the animated show

00:06:14.980 Rick and Morty

00:06:15.780 would have a Dilbert-related episode,

00:06:18.120 but I couldn't find it.

00:06:20.340 If somebody can find

00:06:21.640 the actual episode

00:06:22.580 to tell me if it's,

00:06:23.980 is it already available

00:06:25.400 or is it in the future?

00:06:27.300 And that was a preview.

00:06:29.300 So if you know where,

00:06:30.840 and I'm not even positive

00:06:32.540 it's real, actually.

00:06:34.800 Is it even real?

00:06:35.760 It was just in the comic.

00:06:40.560 Oh, there was a comic.

00:06:42.380 It's a two-year-old comic book.

00:06:45.480 All right.

00:06:46.080 Okay.

00:06:46.480 That makes sense.

00:06:47.300 So it wasn't on

00:06:47.960 actual Rick and Morty.

00:06:49.760 All right.

00:06:52.000 Here's a little

00:06:52.820 Twitter shadow ban test.

00:06:55.500 For those of you

00:06:56.600 who have more than

00:06:57.520 one screen available,

00:06:59.580 so if you have

00:07:00.120 your phone available,

00:07:01.000 let's say you're watching

00:07:01.940 on something else,

00:07:03.340 I want you to type in a name,

00:07:06.420 and we're going to

00:07:07.500 settle a question here,

00:07:09.040 which is,

00:07:09.560 is Twitter shadow banning

00:07:11.920 this particular user?

00:07:13.680 So I don't want to give you

00:07:14.720 the name yet,

00:07:15.560 because I want you to do it

00:07:16.720 all at the same time.

00:07:18.140 So those of you

00:07:19.120 who have a separate device,

00:07:21.540 take it out and open Twitter,

00:07:24.080 and then in the search box,

00:07:25.960 I'll tell you what letters

00:07:27.080 to type in,

00:07:27.920 and don't type

00:07:29.200 any extra letters,

00:07:30.740 and don't type less

00:07:32.060 or fewer.

00:07:34.680 Did you know,

00:07:35.460 by the way,

00:07:35.800 that you should say fewer

00:07:36.800 instead of less

00:07:38.480 in that situation?

00:07:39.660 That's one of those

00:07:40.360 weird little grammar things

00:07:42.100 that separates

00:07:44.460 the Ivy League people

00:07:45.800 from the rest of us.

00:07:47.660 I'm not an Ivy League person,

00:07:49.880 but once I learned that,

00:07:52.680 and then you start

00:07:53.440 detecting it

00:07:54.160 in other people.

00:07:55.340 By the way,

00:07:55.800 this is a really useful tip.

00:07:57.860 There are about

00:07:58.260 a half a dozen

00:07:58.940 little grammar things

00:08:01.720 that people

00:08:03.700 who are highly educated

00:08:04.740 get right all the time,

00:08:07.420 such as,

00:08:09.020 let's say,

00:08:10.240 Bob and I went to the store

00:08:11.740 versus Bob and me

00:08:13.480 went to the store.

00:08:14.680 So, you know,

00:08:15.960 there are just about

00:08:16.820 a half a dozen of them,

00:08:17.940 and less versus fewer,

00:08:20.660 you know,

00:08:20.880 getting that one right.

00:08:22.120 If you get that one right,

00:08:23.240 it really sends a signal

00:08:26.140 that you're well-educated,

00:08:28.300 or at least well-educated

00:08:29.440 in language.

00:08:30.880 So,

00:08:32.020 let me give you

00:08:32.500 a little tip.

00:08:33.320 Let's say you're on a,

00:08:34.340 let's say you're on

00:08:37.040 a job interview.

00:08:39.040 All right?

00:08:39.400 You're on a job interview.

00:08:40.700 You're trying to stand out.

00:08:42.580 You know that you're,

00:08:43.920 the person interviewing you

00:08:45.280 is some highly educated,

00:08:47.740 you know,

00:08:48.500 Harvard person,

00:08:49.920 something like that.

00:08:50.640 And you get into

00:08:52.500 one of these sentences

00:08:53.360 where you could use

00:08:54.440 less or fewer,

00:08:55.980 and you correctly use

00:08:58.060 fewer instead of less.

00:09:00.160 That signal

00:09:01.040 is just like

00:09:02.940 a straight shot

00:09:04.080 right to your,

00:09:04.620 right to your potential employer.

00:09:06.900 It's like,

00:09:07.360 it's like goes from your brain

00:09:08.660 directly into their head,

00:09:09.860 and the secret signal,

00:09:11.840 it's almost like

00:09:12.460 a secret handshake

00:09:13.460 to say,

00:09:15.440 yes,

00:09:15.700 I am,

00:09:16.280 I am capable

00:09:17.160 of higher level thinking

00:09:18.740 and speech,

00:09:19.940 basically.

00:09:20.640 And trust me,

00:09:24.980 you do not know

00:09:26.320 how useful this is,

00:09:28.400 because if your grammar

00:09:29.720 is below that level,

00:09:31.640 all of this is invisible to you.

00:09:33.820 There's a whole,

00:09:34.840 there's a whole language

00:09:36.480 that's happening

00:09:37.220 above your awareness level

00:09:39.420 if you've got those

00:09:40.980 six or so things

00:09:42.240 consistently wrong.

00:09:44.020 It's the six or so,

00:09:45.620 and it really is

00:09:46.520 just about six.

00:09:47.980 There are six or so

00:09:49.020 common mistakes

00:09:50.140 that the lesser educated,

00:09:52.780 and I don't mean that

00:09:53.560 in a pejorative way.

00:09:55.020 You know,

00:09:55.540 pejorative's another one.

00:09:57.420 But,

00:09:57.820 that's not one of the six,

00:09:59.700 but it could be.

00:10:02.240 So,

00:10:02.700 if you get those right,

00:10:03.800 you don't have to have

00:10:04.900 that education,

00:10:06.360 but it will,

00:10:07.480 you will present yourself

00:10:08.640 as if you do.

00:10:09.920 So,

00:10:10.200 it's a good trick.

00:10:12.700 So,

00:10:13.140 here's what we're going to do.

00:10:14.060 That was all stalling,

00:10:15.120 so you can open

00:10:15.660 your second screens,

00:10:16.820 and we're going to do a test.

00:10:18.100 The rest of you,

00:10:18.800 I'll tell you what people say

00:10:19.760 so you know how the test is going.

00:10:21.540 Type in the following name,

00:10:24.140 and then keep your search window open

00:10:26.540 to show the suggested fill-ins,

00:10:29.540 okay?

00:10:30.160 So,

00:10:30.540 you're just going to type in

00:10:31.420 the first name is Sean,

00:10:32.720 S-E-A-N 1.00

00:10:35.360 as in neighbor.

00:10:37.000 So,

00:10:37.260 just the word Sean.

00:10:38.960 Nothing else.

00:10:40.640 Now,

00:10:40.840 type that in

00:10:41.520 and tell me.

00:10:43.020 I'll give you a second

00:10:43.760 to type it in.

00:10:44.900 Now,

00:10:45.220 on the list,

00:10:46.020 somewhere in the top,

00:10:47.920 top ten,

00:10:50.320 you should see

00:10:51.160 Sean M. Davis,

00:10:53.580 the CEO and co-founder

00:10:55.100 of The Federalist.

00:10:56.960 How many of you

00:10:57.940 can see him

00:10:58.680 on your list

00:10:59.760 of suggested names?

00:11:02.720 I'm reading off the answers,

00:11:04.340 lots of no's

00:11:05.300 and yes's

00:11:05.880 and no's

00:11:06.500 and no,

00:11:06.860 no,

00:11:07.060 no,

00:11:07.220 no,

00:11:07.440 no,

00:11:07.600 no,

00:11:07.880 no,

00:11:08.140 no,

00:11:08.380 no,

00:11:08.640 no,

00:11:08.820 no,

00:11:08.940 no,

00:11:09.460 no,

00:11:09.560 no,

00:11:09.580 no,

00:11:09.700 no,

00:11:09.840 no,

00:11:10.040 no,

00:11:10.380 no,

00:11:10.620 no,

00:11:10.680 no,

00:11:10.940 no.

00:11:11.320 Now,

00:11:11.520 for those of you who are,

00:11:11.840 who are saying no,

00:11:13.940 do you follow him?

00:11:15.900 Because I believe if you follow somebody,

00:11:19.020 logically,

00:11:19.800 they would come up faster,

00:11:21.280 right?

00:11:22.820 So,

00:11:23.440 I'm not sure if I'll be able to stop the first question

00:11:25.780 before the second question kicks in.

00:11:28.100 But,

00:11:29.060 I want to see if there's a difference.

00:11:31.500 Because I,

00:11:31.880 because I'm hearing that even people who follow him,

00:11:35.820 even people who follow him are not getting him as a top suggestion.

00:11:41.500 Now,

00:11:41.820 I don't know if the,

00:11:42.880 we may be making a bad assumption about the algorithm.

00:11:47.100 So,

00:11:47.540 here's what I want to say as carefully as possible.

00:11:51.240 Okay,

00:11:51.800 so I get people who follow him and he's not suggested.

00:11:54.700 He's got,

00:11:57.080 I think,

00:11:57.420 320,000 Twitter followers.

00:12:00.500 And he's a blue check.

00:12:02.360 And he's a CEO and co-founder of a major publication.

00:12:06.840 Would you expect,

00:12:08.640 with those,

00:12:09.520 you know,

00:12:10.200 credentials,

00:12:11.240 that you would be in the top 10,

00:12:14.240 top six,

00:12:15.320 something like that?

00:12:15.920 Well,

00:12:16.920 somebody here,

00:12:18.600 somebody here said that he came up number two,

00:12:21.020 and they don't follow him.

00:12:23.240 So,

00:12:23.740 there's something going on with the algorithm that I don't think is shadow banning.

00:12:27.820 I know you think it is,

00:12:31.200 right?

00:12:31.480 And I don't rule it out.

00:12:33.020 So,

00:12:33.240 I'm not going to rule it out because anything's possible.

00:12:36.480 But I think something else is happening.

00:12:38.580 And let me explain the alternative hypothesis.

00:12:41.820 So,

00:12:42.280 the alternative hypothesis is that whatever the algorithm is doing is complicated enough that even if you think you and I have a lot in common,

00:12:54.440 the algorithm might not.

00:12:57.820 Because it might be looking at our activity differently.

00:13:00.360 So,

00:13:00.640 it's possible that the algorithm is simply giving us results that we don't understand why.

00:13:06.760 And if you didn't understand why,

00:13:09.160 then at least half of the time,

00:13:10.680 or just picking a random percentage,

00:13:13.300 at least some of the time,

00:13:14.460 you're going to think,

00:13:15.160 no,

00:13:15.340 this doesn't make sense.

00:13:17.020 Maybe somebody's after me.

00:13:19.160 Somebody's playing a trick.

00:13:21.240 Right?

00:13:21.880 So,

00:13:22.360 I would say you can't really tell by doing this.

00:13:26.660 There might be a way to tell.

00:13:28.500 I don't know what that would be.

00:13:30.300 But it's not this.

00:13:32.240 So,

00:13:32.640 the worst way to tell would be just by yourself typing something in and seeing what happens.

00:13:39.280 Because you don't know what the algorithm is doing to you personally.

00:13:42.980 The second worst way is what we just did.

00:13:46.240 Have a bunch of people do it and then scream out their answers and I try to read them quickly.

00:13:50.160 It's not exactly science.

00:13:53.080 Although,

00:13:53.720 science hasn't been doing too well either,

00:13:56.420 lately.

00:13:57.740 So,

00:13:58.320 I would just caution you,

00:14:00.420 I would caution you,

00:14:01.940 that it's really fun to jump to the conspiracy theory.

00:14:06.160 And I'm not ruling it out at all.

00:14:08.980 If you said to me,

00:14:09.880 is it possible that Twitter or agents within Twitter,

00:14:14.580 you know,

00:14:14.760 maybe not management or perhaps employees,

00:14:18.660 you know,

00:14:18.980 we're gaming the algorithm for some political gain,

00:14:22.400 would I say that's possible?

00:14:24.080 Yeah.

00:14:25.080 Yeah.

00:14:26.200 I would think it's possible even if it's not intentional.

00:14:29.640 You know,

00:14:29.860 there's going to be some bias in the algorithm.

00:14:31.580 I don't know how you could have an unbiased algorithm.

00:14:34.580 Actually,

00:14:35.040 you know what?

00:14:35.700 The only way you could have an unbiased algorithm is to do what Jack Dorsey recommends,

00:14:40.640 which is to let the user have a choice of algorithms.

00:14:46.140 Have you heard of a better idea than that?

00:14:50.080 It's weird that it's Jack Dorsey who has,

00:14:52.440 as far as I can tell,

00:14:54.300 the most free speech,

00:14:57.120 transparent idea for algorithms that I've ever seen.

00:15:00.860 And he says it a lot,

00:15:02.800 but I don't see a catch on.

00:15:04.860 And I don't know why.

00:15:06.520 Why doesn't it catch on?

00:15:08.040 Because it's not fun?

00:15:08.900 Because it's an actual engineering solution?

00:15:13.260 Because,

00:15:14.060 you know,

00:15:14.360 I've been saying this often lately,

00:15:16.540 that sometimes we think it's impossible to do something,

00:15:19.800 because of just the way people are,

00:15:21.660 until somebody comes up with an idea.

00:15:24.340 You know,

00:15:24.600 like the Constitution,

00:15:25.940 like a jury of your peers,

00:15:30.220 like the Supreme Court.

00:15:31.520 Those are things that didn't seem,

00:15:33.640 if you'd never heard of them,

00:15:34.640 they wouldn't feel like they would work.

00:15:36.020 But Jack Dorsey has an idea

00:15:39.900 that looks like an engineering solution.

00:15:42.700 I think that would work.

00:15:44.520 Wouldn't it?

00:15:46.140 Well,

00:15:46.840 I mean,

00:15:47.740 I know he's,

00:15:48.700 you know,

00:15:49.180 he's left the helm of Twitter,

00:15:50.960 but he's been saying this for a long time.

00:15:53.400 Why wouldn't you,

00:15:55.180 why wouldn't everybody prefer

00:15:56.820 just having their choice of algorithm?

00:15:59.460 And one of the choices would be,

00:16:01.920 don't edit anything.

00:16:04.240 How would you be unhappy

00:16:06.000 if you had the choice that said,

00:16:08.720 don't edit anything?

00:16:09.980 And maybe some other choices too,

00:16:11.700 but if one of them is,

00:16:13.280 don't edit anything,

00:16:14.860 just give it to me in the order it comes,

00:16:17.660 how could you be unhappy with that?

00:16:20.680 I mean,

00:16:21.200 it's the most obvious solution.

00:16:23.200 Isn't it?

00:16:24.500 It's the most obvious solution.

00:16:26.800 And it's available.

00:16:28.740 And we sort of just don't talk about it.

00:16:31.360 We'd rather fight about

00:16:32.560 who's getting shadow banned.

00:16:33.700 I don't really get that.

00:16:35.480 All right,

00:16:35.760 well,

00:16:35.920 the simulation is looping

00:16:37.160 because have you noticed

00:16:38.120 that every story

00:16:38.760 is really just every other story?

00:16:41.200 Here are two stories

00:16:42.320 you don't think are the same.

00:16:44.600 Russia invading Ukraine

00:16:45.980 and Will Smith slapping Chris Rock.

00:16:50.500 Sounds like different stories,

00:16:51.800 doesn't it?

00:16:53.400 Or is it?

00:16:54.500 Because I would say that Putin

00:16:55.980 is the Will Smith of leaders

00:16:57.400 because they both had reasons

00:16:59.660 for what they did.

00:17:01.320 It's just that you don't think

00:17:02.720 those are good enough reasons.

00:17:05.020 Am I right?

00:17:06.780 They had reasons.

00:17:08.740 Putin didn't randomly attack Ukraine.

00:17:11.400 He had reasons.

00:17:12.920 Well,

00:17:13.140 you just don't think those reasons

00:17:14.280 are good enough

00:17:15.180 to create this humanitarian thing.

00:17:18.720 Will Smith,

00:17:19.560 he had a reason.

00:17:22.360 You just don't think

00:17:23.380 it was good enough.

00:17:25.320 It's basically the same plot.

00:17:27.460 They're just putting in

00:17:28.080 different characters.

00:17:30.600 Now,

00:17:31.260 this is not really

00:17:33.120 to make a connection

00:17:34.120 between those two stories,

00:17:35.980 except that

00:17:36.840 once you start seeing

00:17:38.780 the machinery of the simulation,

00:17:40.940 you can't unsee it.

00:17:42.840 There are just certain

00:17:43.700 repeating patterns

00:17:45.660 that you see too often.

00:17:46.780 And it feels like,

00:17:49.800 and this is just for fun,

00:17:50.880 by the way,

00:17:51.300 when I talk about

00:17:51.940 the simulation,

00:17:53.480 you should say to yourself,

00:17:56.200 well,

00:17:56.460 the simulation would be

00:17:57.440 a useful idea

00:17:58.280 if it helped me

00:17:59.220 predict things.

00:18:00.780 And I use it that way.

00:18:02.240 So,

00:18:02.740 I use it publicly

00:18:03.540 to predict things,

00:18:05.040 and then you can see

00:18:05.780 if it works or it doesn't.

00:18:06.840 And that's all you know

00:18:07.540 about anything.

00:18:08.660 The most you can ever know

00:18:09.980 about reality

00:18:10.980 is that some frame

00:18:13.980 of understanding

00:18:15.100 predicts better

00:18:16.000 than some other frame

00:18:16.980 consistently.

00:18:18.640 That's it.

00:18:19.280 That's all you can know.

00:18:20.520 You can know that,

00:18:21.580 and you know you exist,

00:18:22.660 because you're here

00:18:23.300 to ask the question.

00:18:25.220 And you can't even be sure

00:18:26.700 you recognize patterns.

00:18:28.780 That could be an illusion too.

00:18:30.840 So you don't really

00:18:31.580 know anything.

00:18:32.460 Speaking of not knowing anything,

00:18:34.540 and the fact that

00:18:35.220 the simulation is looping,

00:18:37.100 do you remember

00:18:37.600 a thing called

00:18:38.600 hydroxychloroquine?

00:18:41.880 And then the story was

00:18:44.320 that the big pharma

00:18:46.620 was preventing people

00:18:49.000 from this easy solution,

00:18:51.100 and it's obvious it works.

00:18:52.720 But then the more science

00:18:54.940 came out,

00:18:55.580 it looked like,

00:18:56.500 well,

00:18:57.600 well, if it does work,

00:18:59.440 it's not showing up clearly,

00:19:01.920 but maybe.

00:19:03.780 And then,

00:19:05.000 well,

00:19:06.200 you know,

00:19:06.800 it's been a long time

00:19:07.900 and a lot of studies,

00:19:08.980 and it sure seems like

00:19:10.140 somebody would have solved

00:19:11.460 the pandemic

00:19:12.480 if it really worked

00:19:13.680 as well as people say.

00:19:15.980 Okay,

00:19:16.560 then we never really

00:19:17.500 reached a solution

00:19:18.840 to that,

00:19:19.240 did we?

00:19:20.020 The people who believed

00:19:21.160 it worked

00:19:21.740 still believe it.

00:19:24.120 The people who believed

00:19:25.340 it never worked

00:19:26.140 still believe it.

00:19:28.360 And they would both

00:19:29.220 look to reality

00:19:30.200 to make their case.

00:19:31.420 Well,

00:19:31.620 just look.

00:19:32.560 Just look at all

00:19:33.240 this reality.

00:19:33.880 and the others say,

00:19:35.500 look at my reality,

00:19:37.040 and we don't solve it.

00:19:39.400 And then it looped.

00:19:42.300 Hydroxychloroquine

00:19:42.860 just turned into

00:19:45.120 ivermectin,

00:19:46.380 meaning that there was

00:19:47.320 a completely separate drug,

00:19:49.360 and we just went through

00:19:50.380 the entire story again.

00:19:52.560 And today,

00:19:53.100 there's yet another,

00:19:54.260 the largest,

00:19:55.800 randomized,

00:19:56.720 double-blind trial

00:19:57.940 on ivermectin

00:19:59.360 has now been completed.

00:20:01.820 So this is the one

00:20:02.780 we've been waiting for,

00:20:03.800 right?

00:20:04.820 Everybody kept talking

00:20:05.960 about the real big one,

00:20:07.980 the real big ivermectin study.

00:20:09.880 So this will be

00:20:10.620 the gold standard

00:20:11.680 of studies.

00:20:12.780 Plenty of people,

00:20:14.040 randomized,

00:20:15.480 double-blind,

00:20:16.440 it's everything

00:20:16.960 you would want

00:20:17.580 in a study.

00:20:18.480 And then they did

00:20:19.180 their study,

00:20:19.740 and they came up

00:20:20.340 with a very,

00:20:21.160 very clear result

00:20:22.860 that ivermectin

00:20:24.500 does not,

00:20:26.000 not work.

00:20:27.880 And so I tweeted

00:20:28.760 that to my followers.

00:20:31.900 And how did you think

00:20:32.880 that went?

00:20:34.220 Did my followers

00:20:35.320 on Twitter,

00:20:37.360 did they say,

00:20:38.300 wow,

00:20:39.380 wow,

00:20:40.240 I really thought

00:20:41.020 ivermectin worked,

00:20:42.680 but now that the

00:20:43.640 gold standard study

00:20:45.280 has been conducted,

00:20:46.960 I see that it doesn't.

00:20:48.740 I therefore

00:20:49.520 renounce

00:20:50.760 my prior beliefs,

00:20:52.660 I adjust

00:20:53.380 to the new information,

00:20:55.040 I conform to science,

00:20:56.840 and I tell you,

00:20:58.180 ivermectin.

00:20:58.760 does not work,

00:21:00.320 despite what

00:21:01.120 I earlier believed.

00:21:04.300 Or,

00:21:05.500 did it go more

00:21:06.580 like this?

00:21:09.740 I don't think

00:21:10.780 they studied

00:21:11.420 the right dose.

00:21:14.500 Did it go more

00:21:15.540 like this?

00:21:16.320 I think they waited

00:21:18.260 too long

00:21:19.040 to administer it

00:21:20.600 at the wrong dose.

00:21:23.140 And how about

00:21:27.400 there was only

00:21:28.860 one trial?

00:21:31.680 And how about,

00:21:33.740 well,

00:21:33.960 I'm looking at

00:21:34.620 the same data

00:21:35.280 they are,

00:21:36.040 and to me

00:21:36.520 it looks like

00:21:37.060 it worked.

00:21:39.200 And how about,

00:21:41.340 but what other

00:21:42.120 combination was there?

00:21:43.740 Are you telling me

00:21:44.540 they gave them

00:21:45.200 ivermectin alone?

00:21:47.160 Nobody does that.

00:21:48.440 And what else?

00:21:54.620 And how about,

00:21:56.140 when was the last time

00:21:57.620 science got it right?

00:22:02.460 Am I wrong

00:22:03.620 or right

00:22:04.460 that everybody

00:22:05.280 gets to maintain

00:22:06.240 their original movie?

00:22:08.340 Right.

00:22:09.000 Where's the zinc?

00:22:10.260 If they didn't study

00:22:11.420 it with zinc,

00:22:12.160 they didn't do it right,

00:22:13.300 because that's the,

00:22:14.340 that's the protocol.

00:22:16.280 Right?

00:22:17.800 Now,

00:22:19.640 now,

00:22:20.080 do you hear me

00:22:21.140 telling you

00:22:21.620 that your objections

00:22:23.060 are unfair?

00:22:25.080 No.

00:22:26.220 No,

00:22:26.580 I'm not telling you that.

00:22:27.840 You're,

00:22:28.200 all of those things

00:22:29.320 that I said,

00:22:30.280 like I'm,

00:22:30.980 as if I'm mocking you,

00:22:33.260 I'm not.

00:22:35.260 It,

00:22:35.640 those are just

00:22:36.200 the things

00:22:37.080 that you,

00:22:37.660 it's completely

00:22:38.420 predictable,

00:22:39.780 completely predictable

00:22:40.860 that it wouldn't matter

00:22:42.680 what the science said.

00:22:45.220 Couldn't you predict that?

00:22:48.540 Tell me honestly,

00:22:50.200 before the study

00:22:51.500 came out,

00:22:52.880 if I had said to you,

00:22:53.860 hypothetically,

00:22:54.540 if this study comes out

00:22:55.540 and it's a gold-plated,

00:22:57.540 you know,

00:22:57.880 really solid-looking study,

00:22:59.280 do you think it'll

00:22:59.760 change anybody's mind?

00:23:01.700 You would have said no.

00:23:03.580 Am I right?

00:23:05.420 Have we not reached

00:23:06.580 a level of awareness?

00:23:08.780 Have we not reached

00:23:10.280 a new level of awareness

00:23:11.660 where you knew

00:23:13.220 in advance

00:23:13.800 as well as I did

00:23:14.780 that there would be

00:23:17.120 no study

00:23:17.760 that would change

00:23:18.380 anybody's minds?

00:23:21.180 I'll bet,

00:23:21.820 I'll bet five years ago

00:23:23.320 you might have said

00:23:24.060 something closer to this.

00:23:26.260 Maybe ten years ago.

00:23:27.840 Maybe ten years ago

00:23:28.820 you would have said

00:23:29.380 something closer to this.

00:23:31.540 Uh-oh.

00:23:32.260 When the best

00:23:33.080 gold-plated study

00:23:34.280 comes out,

00:23:34.840 if it gives us

00:23:36.380 a conclusive answer,

00:23:38.140 well, yeah,

00:23:38.620 of course,

00:23:39.240 maybe I won't

00:23:40.440 change my mind,

00:23:42.100 but I would see

00:23:42.900 how that would change

00:23:43.580 a lot of people's opinions.

00:23:45.340 Wouldn't you,

00:23:46.460 ten years ago,

00:23:48.100 have believed

00:23:48.880 that would have

00:23:49.460 changed people's minds?

00:23:51.160 You would have.

00:23:52.620 Now, I believe

00:23:53.840 we live in a simulation,

00:23:55.620 and the simulation

00:23:57.320 requires our

00:23:58.380 different movies

00:23:59.420 to be maintained

00:24:00.460 as different movies.

00:24:02.140 It requires it.

00:24:03.860 Do you know why?

00:24:05.260 It's a resource,

00:24:07.560 let's say,

00:24:09.540 it's a way

00:24:10.580 to save resources

00:24:11.460 in the computation

00:24:13.420 of the simulation.

00:24:15.460 If you and I

00:24:16.580 had to have

00:24:17.080 the same version

00:24:17.860 of reality,

00:24:19.320 then everything

00:24:19.980 that we did

00:24:20.920 would have to coordinate

00:24:21.860 with each other forever,

00:24:23.540 and everything

00:24:24.120 that everybody else did.

00:24:26.060 But instead,

00:24:27.700 the simulation

00:24:28.320 only needs to coordinate

00:24:29.760 the most important parts,

00:24:32.040 such as,

00:24:32.840 does New York City exist?

00:24:36.720 Yes.

00:24:38.000 We all agree.

00:24:39.440 So the only thing

00:24:40.340 the simulation

00:24:40.820 has to get right

00:24:41.660 is just the big stuff.

00:24:43.560 All of the little stuff

00:24:44.980 about how we process

00:24:46.060 what we're seeing

00:24:47.140 needs to be

00:24:49.040 our own individual movies,

00:24:50.800 because that's the only way

00:24:51.800 the simulation

00:24:52.480 can compute it.

00:24:53.960 It would be

00:24:55.040 near-infinite complexity

00:24:58.060 if everybody got to

00:24:59.860 maintain reality

00:25:01.040 as it exists.

00:25:02.080 couldn't do it.

00:25:03.640 So everybody

00:25:04.220 has to have

00:25:04.640 a simplified summary

00:25:06.760 that just works

00:25:07.920 within their own

00:25:08.660 little universe

00:25:09.380 within their brain.

00:25:10.720 That's the only way

00:25:11.520 you could ever build it.

00:25:12.900 There's no other way

00:25:13.820 you could build it,

00:25:14.940 unless your computing

00:25:16.900 ability was

00:25:17.680 essentially infinite.

00:25:21.960 Over on the

00:25:22.760 Locals platform,

00:25:23.780 somebody said,

00:25:24.780 Scott just discovered

00:25:26.120 God.

00:25:27.180 That's exactly

00:25:27.960 what I was thinking

00:25:28.660 when I said it.

00:25:29.380 That was exactly

00:25:32.220 what I was thinking.

00:25:33.800 That the only other

00:25:34.800 explanation is

00:25:35.900 infinite computing power,

00:25:37.660 and that's God.

00:25:40.900 Sort of by definition.

00:25:42.780 I mean,

00:25:43.060 you could debate it

00:25:44.200 a little bit,

00:25:45.120 but as soon as you hear

00:25:46.060 infinite computing power,

00:25:49.040 that's sort of God.

00:25:51.860 That's sort of.

00:25:52.680 I mean,

00:25:54.320 you'd have a hard time

00:25:55.620 convincing me

00:25:56.260 that it didn't have

00:25:56.820 any Venn diagram

00:25:58.480 overlap there.

00:26:01.020 Let's do a bunch

00:26:01.840 of other things.

00:26:02.960 Has anybody seen

00:26:03.700 the Washington Post

00:26:05.140 hit piece

00:26:07.100 on Alex Epstein

00:26:08.340 about his book,

00:26:10.460 The Moral Case

00:26:11.960 for Fossil Fuels?

00:26:13.760 It was supposed

00:26:14.400 to hit on Wednesday,

00:26:15.360 and I don't think

00:26:15.940 it did.

00:26:16.380 And then I don't

00:26:19.640 think it hit today

00:26:20.620 because I haven't

00:26:21.420 seen it.

00:26:22.520 And I'm wondering

00:26:23.420 if Alex Epstein

00:26:25.500 did the impossible.

00:26:27.600 I think he might have

00:26:28.620 actually persuaded

00:26:30.860 so effectively

00:26:31.900 in advance

00:26:33.500 that they may have

00:26:35.180 pulled it back,

00:26:36.540 or at least

00:26:37.460 they're reworking it

00:26:38.680 or something.

00:26:40.020 Because I think

00:26:40.840 here's what he did.

00:26:42.800 So apparently,

00:26:43.800 Alex Epstein,

00:26:44.940 he's an author,

00:26:45.560 has enough

00:26:47.120 other author friends

00:26:48.600 that he made

00:26:50.060 a pretty big impact

00:26:51.300 when he reached out.

00:26:52.200 So he reached out

00:26:52.840 to me and a number

00:26:54.000 of other people

00:26:54.620 who've had some

00:26:55.340 association with him.

00:26:57.020 And I thought,

00:26:57.900 oh yeah,

00:26:58.260 I'm totally on board

00:26:59.340 with this.

00:27:00.080 If they're going

00:27:00.600 to do a hit piece

00:27:01.380 to preemptively

00:27:03.340 stop his message,

00:27:06.180 then I really want

00:27:07.100 to hear the message,

00:27:07.960 first of all.

00:27:09.040 And I'd like

00:27:10.960 to call that out too.

00:27:12.640 And apparently,

00:27:13.560 Michael Schellenberg

00:27:15.540 was just on Joe Rogan.

00:27:17.580 And as we know,

00:27:18.420 the Joe Rogan show

00:27:19.720 is the most

00:27:20.400 influential thing around.

00:27:23.120 And this was one

00:27:23.780 of the topics.

00:27:24.920 So I didn't know this,

00:27:25.980 but Schellenberger

00:27:27.200 and Epstein

00:27:27.940 know each other.

00:27:28.720 He called them

00:27:29.120 a friend.

00:27:30.100 And he called out

00:27:31.460 the Washington Post

00:27:32.420 for its upcoming

00:27:34.520 hit piece

00:27:36.440 on the most influential

00:27:38.480 network on the planet,

00:27:39.960 or let's say

00:27:40.620 in the English language.

00:27:41.600 And I don't know

00:27:44.960 if the Washington Post

00:27:45.980 is going to go ahead

00:27:46.740 and publish this thing.

00:27:48.720 Because look what they did.

00:27:50.380 They so effectively,

00:27:52.040 Alex did this,

00:27:52.960 Alex Epstein,

00:27:53.880 he so effectively

00:27:54.980 framed it

00:27:55.740 as a hit piece

00:27:56.720 that he had

00:27:58.100 completely discredited it

00:27:59.580 before one word

00:28:00.540 had been printed.

00:28:02.320 In other words,

00:28:04.060 hold on,

00:28:05.400 in other words,

00:28:07.420 the Washington Post

00:28:08.580 with all of its power,

00:28:11.080 allegedly,

00:28:11.900 and I have to say

00:28:12.740 allegedly

00:28:13.080 because I can't

00:28:13.860 prove any of this,

00:28:15.220 allegedly,

00:28:16.580 assembled a way

00:28:17.680 to preemptively

00:28:18.860 stop Alex Epstein's

00:28:21.300 speech,

00:28:22.560 you know,

00:28:22.840 to basically

00:28:23.580 suppress his book

00:28:24.620 by discrediting it.

00:28:27.960 Alex Epstein

00:28:28.840 took their own

00:28:30.840 technique,

00:28:32.580 but through the power

00:28:33.840 of podcasters,

00:28:35.460 basically,

00:28:36.540 podcasters,

00:28:37.240 the independents

00:28:39.820 with whom he had

00:28:41.380 apparently

00:28:42.440 an extensive

00:28:43.180 association with,

00:28:44.780 who recognized him

00:28:46.220 as one of their own,

00:28:48.180 right?

00:28:49.100 And you actually

00:28:50.540 saw maybe,

00:28:52.180 I mean,

00:28:52.520 if the hit piece

00:28:53.300 runs today,

00:28:54.280 just ignore everything

00:28:55.120 I say,

00:28:55.900 but it's possible

00:28:56.860 that he used

00:28:58.300 their own technique

00:28:59.160 against them

00:28:59.740 to preemptively

00:29:00.620 suppress

00:29:01.260 their suppressive

00:29:02.680 speech.

00:29:03.700 And you saw

00:29:04.660 the first direct

00:29:05.660 maybe

00:29:06.740 this is premature,

00:29:10.100 but maybe

00:29:10.660 you saw

00:29:11.340 the first

00:29:11.760 direct battle

00:29:12.680 of minds

00:29:14.240 between the

00:29:15.080 independent,

00:29:16.920 let's say

00:29:18.220 the independent

00:29:18.760 voices,

00:29:19.820 and the powers,

00:29:22.460 you know,

00:29:22.620 the more classic

00:29:23.660 media power.

00:29:26.320 And it's possible

00:29:27.760 that the independents

00:29:29.360 just won this battle.

00:29:31.780 I'm premature

00:29:32.880 because this article

00:29:34.240 could come out

00:29:34.880 tomorrow and destroy

00:29:36.360 the book,

00:29:38.020 whether any of it's

00:29:39.740 true or not.

00:29:41.120 All right.

00:29:42.240 Just keep an eye out

00:29:43.220 for that.

00:29:45.600 Maxine Waters

00:29:46.420 was at an event

00:29:48.520 in which there was

00:29:49.600 some rumor,

00:29:50.940 incorrect rumor,

00:29:52.500 about some benefits

00:29:53.980 that homeless people

00:29:54.840 would get.

00:29:55.200 And a bunch of

00:29:55.560 homeless people

00:29:56.140 showed up at the event

00:29:57.100 and sort of wrecked

00:29:58.060 the event

00:29:58.460 because there were

00:29:58.880 just so many of them.

00:29:59.640 And Maxine Waters

00:30:01.200 told the homeless

00:30:02.020 people that they

00:30:02.780 should, quote,

00:30:03.820 go home.

00:30:07.180 I have nothing

00:30:08.220 to add to that story.

00:30:11.460 You may talk

00:30:12.940 among yourselves

00:30:13.640 at home.

00:30:14.880 There's nothing to add.

00:30:17.160 Usually I like

00:30:18.060 to use the news

00:30:19.560 as the sort of

00:30:21.640 the material

00:30:22.420 from which I

00:30:23.520 mine the humor.

00:30:24.460 But when the humor

00:30:27.140 is right there,

00:30:27.860 I got nothing to do.

00:30:28.920 I'm taking a few

00:30:30.040 minutes off.

00:30:31.040 If you don't mind,

00:30:31.760 I'll take a break

00:30:32.520 while the news

00:30:33.640 doesn't work for me.

00:30:37.100 Okay, we're done.

00:30:39.680 U.S. commander,

00:30:40.820 I guess it was

00:30:41.220 General Todd Walters,

00:30:43.180 he estimated that

00:30:44.340 Russia has maybe 0.93

00:30:46.240 up to three quarters

00:30:47.920 of their entire

00:30:48.860 military forces,

00:30:50.940 the human forces.

00:30:52.860 in Ukraine.

00:30:56.680 And this

00:30:58.120 raises a really

00:30:59.520 interesting question.

00:31:02.460 We don't really

00:31:03.400 know why

00:31:05.360 things are happening

00:31:06.120 the way they're

00:31:06.560 happening in Ukraine.

00:31:07.540 Not really.

00:31:08.800 I mean,

00:31:09.180 we've got some

00:31:09.760 good ideas,

00:31:10.720 but I'm not sure

00:31:11.960 we have a

00:31:12.940 completely clear

00:31:13.820 picture of what's

00:31:14.520 going on over there.

00:31:15.380 And here's the thing

00:31:16.620 that scares me the most.

00:31:19.340 What happens if

00:31:20.400 three quarters of

00:31:21.280 the Russian military

00:31:22.180 gets destroyed?

00:31:26.740 Because that's

00:31:28.500 not impossible.

00:31:31.080 And here's how

00:31:32.040 that could happen.

00:31:33.980 Can the Ukrainians 0.98

00:31:35.160 block their retreat 0.75

00:31:36.240 and starve them?

00:31:39.000 Because blocking

00:31:40.020 a retreat seems

00:31:40.860 like something

00:31:41.400 they can do.

00:31:42.840 And starving them

00:31:43.720 seems like something

00:31:44.440 they can do.

00:31:45.920 Now, I don't know

00:31:46.540 what would happen

00:31:47.000 if they tried.

00:31:47.760 or if that would

00:31:49.520 be wise

00:31:50.140 or even possible.

00:31:52.040 But it feels

00:31:53.360 to me like

00:31:53.960 the Russian military

00:31:54.960 is trapped.

00:31:56.700 And if they

00:31:58.200 can't go forward,

00:31:59.920 I'm not sure

00:32:00.660 they can go backwards.

00:32:02.660 What would happen

00:32:03.420 if Ukraine took

00:32:04.220 out three quarters

00:32:04.940 of the Russian military

00:32:06.000 on the ground?

00:32:06.660 Is it impossible?

00:32:09.220 If they have

00:32:10.800 enough drones?

00:32:13.500 I mean,

00:32:14.100 then what

00:32:14.680 does Putin do?

00:32:17.960 Tactical

00:32:18.400 nuclear weapons?

00:32:19.220 I don't know.

00:32:19.980 I'm not worried

00:32:20.740 about nukes.

00:32:21.340 I don't think

00:32:21.660 that's going to happen.

00:32:22.840 But I'm not

00:32:23.900 going to rule out

00:32:24.620 the fact that

00:32:25.300 the entire

00:32:26.220 Russian military

00:32:27.160 is about to get

00:32:28.120 destroyed.

00:32:28.800 I don't think

00:32:30.580 it's likely.

00:32:32.780 So let me

00:32:33.760 be clear on that.

00:32:35.040 I don't think

00:32:35.540 that's likely.

00:32:37.000 But it is within

00:32:38.200 the realm

00:32:38.660 of possibility.

00:32:40.460 And I wouldn't

00:32:41.140 have said that

00:32:41.620 before.

00:32:44.780 Erasmus did

00:32:45.900 some polling

00:32:46.380 and found out

00:32:47.940 that 70%

00:32:50.240 of people,

00:32:51.640 and this is

00:32:52.100 U.S. voters,

00:32:53.760 agreed that

00:32:54.600 Putin must go.

00:32:56.860 What does

00:32:57.320 that mean?

00:32:57.820 70% of people

00:33:00.120 think Putin

00:33:00.680 must go.

00:33:01.480 That's about

00:33:01.960 the same

00:33:02.400 percentage

00:33:02.880 as think

00:33:03.400 somebody else's

00:33:04.760 congressperson

00:33:05.680 in the United

00:33:06.180 States should

00:33:06.620 go.

00:33:09.420 I don't know

00:33:10.260 if it means

00:33:10.700 anything to

00:33:11.280 say Putin

00:33:11.960 must go.

00:33:12.840 But I am

00:33:13.440 a little worried

00:33:14.140 that that level

00:33:15.400 of brainwashing

00:33:16.340 has taken

00:33:17.280 hold,

00:33:18.200 if that's

00:33:18.660 what's going

00:33:19.080 on.

00:33:20.600 Because

00:33:21.120 there's

00:33:23.040 certainly a

00:33:23.520 big difference

00:33:24.080 between we

00:33:24.720 don't like

00:33:25.240 Putin and

00:33:26.620 we'd be

00:33:27.160 better off

00:33:27.680 without him.

00:33:28.820 That's a

00:33:29.280 pretty big

00:33:30.840 distance to

00:33:31.720 cover.

00:33:32.860 I would

00:33:33.340 agree with

00:33:33.940 you don't

00:33:34.640 like Putin.

00:33:35.880 Let's be

00:33:36.360 on that

00:33:36.700 page.

00:33:37.880 But we're

00:33:39.180 better off

00:33:39.780 if he goes.

00:33:40.940 That's just

00:33:41.580 a guess.

00:33:42.640 And that

00:33:43.400 would be a

00:33:43.740 tough guess

00:33:44.260 too.

00:33:47.020 Well,

00:33:48.220 here's

00:33:50.340 something I

00:33:50.860 thought I

00:33:51.380 played right,

00:33:52.280 but it turns

00:33:52.860 out I played

00:33:53.420 it wrong.

00:33:53.840 I've been

00:33:54.500 telling you

00:33:54.800 for a

00:33:55.040 while that

00:33:55.360 I identify

00:33:55.920 as black

00:33:56.600 for all

00:33:58.340 the right

00:33:58.640 reasons.

00:33:59.600 I've been

00:33:59.920 discriminated

00:34:00.700 for my

00:34:01.140 race several

00:34:02.180 times in

00:34:02.800 employment.

00:34:04.440 Some of you,

00:34:04.860 you've all

00:34:05.200 heard the

00:34:05.480 stories.

00:34:06.040 Most of you

00:34:06.440 have.

00:34:07.320 That's real,

00:34:08.040 by the way.

00:34:09.440 And for

00:34:10.080 being white 0.67

00:34:11.580 and male,

00:34:12.180 I've been

00:34:12.520 discriminated

00:34:13.100 against directly

00:34:13.900 and told that

00:34:15.000 in direct

00:34:15.500 terms by

00:34:16.260 employers.

00:34:16.780 And I

00:34:21.020 just think 0.95

00:34:23.180 the black 0.97

00:34:24.120 part of the 0.84

00:34:24.580 public is

00:34:25.100 doing great

00:34:25.740 lately.

00:34:26.840 And I like

00:34:27.580 being on a

00:34:28.020 winning team.

00:34:29.200 So for all

00:34:30.000 the right

00:34:30.280 reasons,

00:34:30.980 and also I

00:34:31.460 do a lot

00:34:31.800 of work

00:34:33.060 in trying to

00:34:33.740 figure out

00:34:34.120 how to fix

00:34:35.000 things in

00:34:35.660 that segment

00:34:36.860 of society.

00:34:37.840 So I've got

00:34:38.380 some affinity,

00:34:39.240 and I thought,

00:34:39.680 well, if you

00:34:40.340 can identify

00:34:41.000 as anything,

00:34:42.460 I'll just

00:34:42.840 identify as 0.57

00:34:43.500 black.

00:34:44.000 This could 0.87

00:34:44.420 come in

00:34:44.760 handy.

00:34:45.720 Well, I

00:34:46.220 thought I'd

00:34:46.680 played it

00:34:47.040 just right.

00:34:47.980 Because

00:34:48.420 California is

00:34:49.280 doing this

00:34:49.740 reparations

00:34:50.460 committee.

00:34:51.720 And I

00:34:51.940 thought, I

00:34:53.040 think I

00:34:54.560 could get

00:34:54.900 some money

00:34:55.280 out of this

00:34:55.700 too.

00:34:56.160 I mean, that

00:34:57.420 wasn't the

00:34:57.820 only reason I

00:34:58.480 did it, but

00:34:59.960 I did it for

00:35:00.840 benefits.

00:35:02.080 Am I right?

00:35:03.700 I mean, I did

00:35:04.240 it explicitly to

00:35:05.300 get the benefits.

00:35:06.620 Because if it's

00:35:07.440 available, and

00:35:08.180 anybody can take

00:35:09.300 them, and if

00:35:09.740 it's just sitting

00:35:10.260 there, well, I'll

00:35:11.580 have some.

00:35:12.680 It's not

00:35:13.300 illegal.

00:35:14.960 As long as

00:35:15.700 you identify

00:35:16.220 that way, and

00:35:17.180 you do it

00:35:17.580 publicly and

00:35:18.440 with full

00:35:19.680 disclosure, this

00:35:20.780 is full

00:35:21.180 disclosure.

00:35:22.440 I'm not

00:35:22.840 hiding anything.

00:35:24.520 I think it

00:35:24.920 would be bad 0.84

00:35:25.280 if you hit

00:35:25.880 it, but I'm

00:35:27.140 doing it

00:35:27.460 directly.

00:35:28.820 So I

00:35:30.160 thought I'd

00:35:30.460 get some

00:35:30.720 money, but

00:35:31.140 the California

00:35:32.540 commission that's

00:35:33.380 trying to figure

00:35:33.820 out how to do

00:35:34.440 this, just for

00:35:35.640 the California

00:35:36.100 people, decided

00:35:37.440 that they will

00:35:38.040 exclude anybody

00:35:39.160 who does not

00:35:41.460 prove that they

00:35:42.780 have direct

00:35:43.280 lineage from

00:35:44.140 slavery in

00:35:46.040 the United

00:35:46.340 States.

00:35:48.020 So, and

00:35:50.640 it means that

00:35:51.120 only a fraction

00:35:51.720 of the state's

00:35:52.500 2.6 million

00:35:53.560 black residents

00:35:54.540 will get 0.99

00:35:55.060 something.

00:35:56.980 And what

00:36:00.320 do you think

00:36:00.600 about that?

00:36:03.380 There's

00:36:03.840 actually, believe

00:36:05.180 it or not,

00:36:05.680 there's actually

00:36:06.100 an argument for

00:36:06.820 that.

00:36:08.120 You know, my

00:36:08.500 first instinct

00:36:09.300 was, well, if

00:36:10.320 you're being

00:36:10.760 discriminated

00:36:11.540 against, you 0.52

00:36:13.580 know, it's

00:36:14.580 because you 0.99

00:36:15.100 look black, 0.99

00:36:15.780 right? 0.63

00:36:16.380 It's people

00:36:17.000 doing the

00:36:17.420 discriminating

00:36:18.140 are not going

00:36:18.720 to be saying

00:36:19.100 to themselves,

00:36:20.060 well, I need

00:36:20.700 to see your

00:36:21.160 lineage before

00:36:21.880 I discriminate

00:36:22.480 against you.

00:36:23.900 But, can

00:36:26.300 somebody do a

00:36:26.900 fact check on

00:36:27.520 this?

00:36:28.120 I believe

00:36:28.660 recent immigrants

00:36:29.740 from Africa

00:36:30.740 actually do

00:36:32.160 pretty well.

00:36:35.100 Is that

00:36:35.700 true?

00:36:37.140 For example,

00:36:37.900 I've heard that

00:36:38.720 Nigerians in 1.00

00:36:39.960 particular are

00:36:40.700 the ones I

00:36:41.060 hear about.

00:36:41.960 But Nigerian 0.99

00:36:42.860 immigrants often

00:36:45.260 come over here

00:36:46.020 with English as

00:36:47.420 a second language

00:36:48.520 that they handle

00:36:49.400 pretty well and

00:36:51.240 just get right to

00:36:52.220 work and by the

00:36:53.180 second generation

00:36:53.920 they're just off

00:36:55.160 and running.

00:36:56.280 Now, that might

00:36:58.320 have something to

00:36:59.020 do with, you

00:36:59.700 know, who has

00:37:00.560 the resources to

00:37:01.520 come willingly.

00:37:03.580 You know, so

00:37:04.180 there's a filtering

00:37:04.900 effect.

00:37:05.520 You're probably

00:37:05.920 getting already

00:37:06.580 people who are

00:37:07.260 at least a little

00:37:08.360 bit educated so

00:37:09.800 that they're

00:37:10.100 coming over here

00:37:10.680 with some

00:37:11.360 assets in a

00:37:12.160 sense.

00:37:13.100 So, there's

00:37:13.660 probably a

00:37:14.020 reason.

00:37:16.160 So, actually,

00:37:17.160 you could make

00:37:17.600 the argument

00:37:18.020 that the

00:37:18.620 direct lineage

00:37:22.200 from slavery

00:37:24.100 does make a

00:37:24.680 difference.

00:37:25.460 So, they had

00:37:25.940 to pick

00:37:26.180 something and

00:37:27.800 that's what

00:37:28.120 they picked.

00:37:30.600 But, here's

00:37:31.980 my second

00:37:33.460 chance at this

00:37:34.460 to get some

00:37:34.980 reparations.

00:37:36.700 Okay.

00:37:36.920 So, here's

00:37:38.740 the thinking.

00:37:39.980 The slave

00:37:40.540 owners in

00:37:41.940 early America

00:37:42.740 were the cause

00:37:44.220 of slavery,

00:37:45.040 right, obviously.

00:37:46.600 It was the

00:37:47.220 slave owners

00:37:47.820 themselves who

00:37:49.120 were the big

00:37:50.000 problem.

00:37:51.000 Now, they

00:37:51.440 caused slavery.

00:37:53.420 Slavery is

00:37:54.440 the cause of

00:37:55.600 systemic racism.

00:37:58.240 Systemic racism,

00:38:00.080 in turn, is the

00:38:00.980 cause of

00:38:01.620 higher crime

00:38:03.380 ratios within

00:38:05.600 some communities.

00:38:07.360 Correct?

00:38:07.960 So, those are

00:38:08.540 all the things

00:38:08.960 everybody agrees

00:38:09.740 on.

00:38:10.420 Pretty much

00:38:10.860 everybody.

00:38:11.780 That you can

00:38:12.520 trace the line

00:38:13.260 from the slave

00:38:14.620 masters, the

00:38:15.480 owners, all the

00:38:16.700 way through to

00:38:17.460 high crime today.

00:38:19.160 And the

00:38:19.740 argument for that

00:38:20.500 is that the

00:38:21.040 more recent

00:38:22.100 African immigrants

00:38:24.000 are doing better.

00:38:25.300 They don't have

00:38:25.740 the same crime

00:38:26.360 rate, et cetera.

00:38:27.740 So, that you

00:38:28.400 can see that

00:38:28.940 through theme.

00:38:31.140 Now, if all

00:38:31.680 that's true and

00:38:32.380 we accept it,

00:38:33.120 does that not

00:38:34.620 make me a

00:38:36.760 sufferer of

00:38:38.840 crime?

00:38:39.940 In other words,

00:38:40.780 is my life worse

00:38:42.040 off because there's

00:38:43.000 more crime?

00:38:44.300 Well, I believe it

00:38:45.040 is.

00:38:45.760 And I believe I

00:38:46.580 should get some

00:38:47.060 reparations from

00:38:49.040 those slave 0.99

00:38:50.100 owning descendants.

00:38:54.720 So, while I

00:38:55.720 believe that the

00:38:56.680 black population

00:38:57.700 has a strong

00:38:58.460 argument that

00:38:59.380 slave owners

00:39:02.500 are the cause

00:39:03.740 of, you know,

00:39:05.120 there's a ripple

00:39:05.640 effect all the

00:39:06.280 way to their

00:39:06.760 current situation,

00:39:08.360 I accept that.

00:39:09.700 I think that's

00:39:10.140 actually a

00:39:10.640 reasonable, well

00:39:12.240 established cause

00:39:14.100 and effect.

00:39:14.980 But if you take

00:39:15.900 it to the next

00:39:16.460 level, there's

00:39:17.920 also a big impact

00:39:18.920 on the rest of

00:39:19.620 us, which is

00:39:20.880 we're all victims

00:39:21.600 of crime.

00:39:23.340 Right?

00:39:23.500 The crime rate is

00:39:24.620 way higher because

00:39:26.480 of slavery.

00:39:27.200 Nobody disagrees

00:39:29.440 with that, right?

00:39:31.400 Right?

00:39:32.540 Is there anything

00:39:33.260 I said you

00:39:33.700 disagree with so

00:39:35.100 far?

00:39:36.580 That the current

00:39:37.460 crime rate can be

00:39:38.580 traced back according

00:39:39.660 to the people who

00:39:41.980 are in favor of

00:39:43.000 reparations, they

00:39:44.660 would trace it all

00:39:45.340 the way back to

00:39:45.920 slavery.

00:39:46.740 And therefore,

00:39:47.420 specifically, the

00:39:48.940 slave masters.

00:39:50.300 They're the ones

00:39:51.120 who got the

00:39:51.480 benefits more than

00:39:52.780 anybody.

00:39:54.000 And so I feel I

00:39:54.920 need some reparations

00:39:56.220 too.

00:39:57.200 So if there are

00:39:57.800 any white people

00:39:58.520 who can trace

00:39:59.300 their lineage back

00:40:00.960 to slave owners,

00:40:03.100 then I think they

00:40:04.260 owe me some money

00:40:05.080 because I can't.

00:40:06.880 I trace my lineage

00:40:08.000 back to, you know,

00:40:10.060 say, mostly the

00:40:12.020 people who are

00:40:12.760 arguing against

00:40:13.660 slavery.

00:40:15.660 John Adams, for

00:40:16.680 example.

00:40:17.920 He's more of a

00:40:18.500 cousin than I'm a

00:40:21.440 direct descendant.

00:40:22.740 But he's a

00:40:23.320 distant cousin.

00:40:23.920 And so I think

00:40:25.560 I've made my

00:40:26.140 argument that I

00:40:26.760 should get some

00:40:27.240 reparations.

00:40:30.820 What?

00:40:31.460 Not a good

00:40:32.060 argument?

00:40:33.060 I thought it was

00:40:33.780 pretty good.

00:40:35.900 Do you remember

00:40:36.620 when we were all

00:40:37.400 saying that Putin 0.92

00:40:38.040 was insane and I 0.99

00:40:39.220 was one of those

00:40:39.820 people?

00:40:41.580 I have some of

00:40:43.280 the best incorrect

00:40:45.380 predictions of all

00:40:46.680 time.

00:40:46.960 here are my two

00:40:48.440 best, totally

00:40:50.220 incorrect predictions.

00:40:52.820 Number one, I

00:40:54.640 predicted that

00:40:55.460 Kamala Harris would

00:40:56.240 be the, would

00:40:58.320 win in the

00:40:58.880 primaries and

00:40:59.620 become the

00:41:00.060 candidate that

00:41:01.000 would run against

00:41:01.640 Trump.

00:41:03.420 And actually, she

00:41:04.580 got washed out

00:41:05.340 earlier than just

00:41:06.300 about everybody

00:41:06.820 else.

00:41:07.680 So that was the

00:41:08.520 worst prediction I've

00:41:09.640 ever made, that

00:41:10.420 Kamala Harris would

00:41:11.660 be Trump's biggest

00:41:12.720 threat to run

00:41:14.920 against him.

00:41:15.400 and then, I

00:41:17.820 mean, I think

00:41:18.380 you'd agree, that's

00:41:19.040 the worst prediction

00:41:19.720 I've ever made, and

00:41:21.220 then she became 0.99

00:41:21.960 president for about

00:41:24.000 two hours when

00:41:25.100 Biden was under for

00:41:26.840 something.

00:41:27.820 Am I right?

00:41:29.280 It is both the

00:41:30.500 worst prediction

00:41:31.720 anybody ever made,

00:41:32.840 and I agree with

00:41:33.500 that completely, she

00:41:34.480 got washed out in

00:41:35.720 the primaries, and 0.92

00:41:37.380 she still frickin' 1.00

00:41:38.180 made it to

00:41:38.600 president.

00:41:39.520 What's up with

00:41:40.080 that?

00:41:40.800 For two hours.

00:41:42.200 But, I mean, she

00:41:43.180 did get further than

00:41:44.860 everybody else.

00:41:45.400 except Biden.

00:41:47.720 So I'm not going to

00:41:48.620 say I was right, I

00:41:49.540 was clearly wrong.

00:41:51.180 But it was the

00:41:51.840 rightest wrong in a

00:41:53.040 weird way.

00:41:55.160 Here's another one. 1.00

00:41:57.160 I alone was stupid 1.00

00:41:58.480 enough, well, I think 1.00

00:41:59.520 others said it too, to

00:42:01.040 say that Putin would

00:42:02.160 not invade even when

00:42:03.680 he had an entire

00:42:04.560 invasion force on the

00:42:06.060 border of Ukraine.

00:42:07.480 And I said, you know

00:42:08.480 what, I'm going to

00:42:09.020 stick with he's not

00:42:09.780 going to invade.

00:42:11.460 Totally wrong.

00:42:12.320 Can we all agree that's

00:42:15.360 the wrongest thing since

00:42:17.420 my Kamala Harris

00:42:18.380 prediction?

00:42:18.880 I mean, that's really

00:42:19.480 wrong.

00:42:20.900 But, in a weird way,

00:42:24.480 the reason I said he

00:42:26.740 wouldn't do it is that

00:42:27.880 he's not insane, and it

00:42:31.520 obviously would be

00:42:32.740 horrible for him.

00:42:35.780 Was I right?

00:42:36.860 Apparently, it is

00:42:39.420 horrible for Putin.

00:42:40.800 I mean, I think he's

00:42:41.640 still going to prevail.

00:42:43.340 But it's pretty bad.

00:42:45.820 So, all the people

00:42:48.580 who said, well, he's

00:42:49.920 going to invade for

00:42:50.680 sure because he knows

00:42:51.760 he can win in 48

00:42:52.900 hours, and it won't

00:42:54.160 cost him much, so why

00:42:55.280 wouldn't he?

00:42:55.980 And I was saying the

00:42:56.760 opposite.

00:42:57.140 No, he's not crazy.

00:42:58.940 If he goes in there,

00:42:59.820 he's going to get 0.99

00:43:00.320 slaughtered by more

00:43:02.860 advanced weaponry than

00:43:04.080 he's ever seen.

00:43:04.780 I said that the

00:43:07.000 Russians would be 1.00

00:43:07.900 facing more modern

00:43:10.420 weaponry with trained

00:43:12.340 people than they'd

00:43:13.800 ever seen, and that

00:43:14.880 they would have way

00:43:16.740 more trouble than

00:43:17.480 they imagined.

00:43:18.920 So, I was 100% wrong

00:43:21.640 about whether he'd

00:43:23.500 invade or not, and yet

00:43:25.380 I was 100% right about

00:43:28.180 the reason that it

00:43:29.000 shouldn't have

00:43:29.400 happened.

00:43:30.620 So, it's the rightest

00:43:31.960 I've been while being

00:43:32.800 completely wrong.

00:43:33.600 So, if you're going

00:43:35.040 to score it, that's

00:43:35.820 wrong.

00:43:37.360 It's a weird thing.

00:43:40.820 All right, and I'm

00:43:43.380 going to say that it's

00:43:44.380 propaganda that Putin 0.58

00:43:45.840 was insane, but I 0.71

00:43:49.000 believed it too, because

00:43:50.240 it just didn't seem

00:43:51.980 rational.

00:43:53.060 However, as we now

00:43:55.220 hear other

00:43:56.480 explanations of what

00:43:57.680 might be behind it, I

00:43:58.960 think it makes more

00:44:00.540 sense.

00:44:01.240 So, one of the

00:44:01.760 explanations is he

00:44:02.680 just didn't know how

00:44:03.620 hard it would be,

00:44:04.580 because his own

00:44:05.180 people weren't

00:44:05.740 telling him the

00:44:06.320 truth.

00:44:07.220 Does that ring true?

00:44:10.440 Without knowing about

00:44:11.600 any intelligence reports

00:44:13.020 or anything, does it

00:44:14.480 ring true that Putin

00:44:18.280 was getting bad

00:44:19.060 information from his

00:44:20.060 own people?

00:44:21.060 I think so.

00:44:22.200 Oh, people are saying

00:44:22.860 no.

00:44:23.580 Interesting.

00:44:24.600 You're saying it

00:44:25.040 doesn't ring true.

00:44:25.960 I'm going to say that

00:44:26.800 it's true and propaganda

00:44:28.060 at the same time, because

00:44:29.220 that might make you

00:44:29.880 happy.

00:44:30.940 I believe it's true that

00:44:33.160 any leader like Putin is

00:44:35.120 going to have trouble

00:44:35.740 getting accurate

00:44:36.460 information.

00:44:37.700 Would you agree with

00:44:38.380 that?

00:44:39.460 That anybody...

00:44:40.500 I always get this itch

00:44:41.580 right here that makes me

00:44:42.620 look like I'm playing with

00:44:43.440 my nose, but it's just

00:44:44.320 psychological.

00:44:47.240 Would you agree that

00:44:49.680 there's no leader who's

00:44:50.880 got the characteristics of

00:44:52.500 Putin, which is he'll 0.99

00:44:53.360 literally freaking kill 0.99

00:44:54.560 you if he doesn't like 0.99

00:44:56.160 you? 1.00

00:44:56.260 He'll kill you. 1.00

00:44:57.520 Do you think he gets 0.99

00:44:58.200 accurate information?

00:44:59.060 Of course not.

00:45:00.320 But is that the whole

00:45:01.680 story?

00:45:02.420 No.

00:45:02.780 I think that the intel

00:45:04.360 people are pumping up

00:45:05.800 the story about him

00:45:06.640 getting inaccurate

00:45:07.420 information to build up

00:45:09.380 the tension within his

00:45:10.560 ranks.

00:45:11.720 So I think the stories

00:45:12.840 you're hearing about him

00:45:14.600 getting bad information

00:45:15.720 is to make things worse

00:45:17.580 for Putin, because that

00:45:18.940 gets back to him.

00:45:19.700 Oh, you know, they're

00:45:21.480 talking about us.

00:45:22.220 It gets in his head.

00:45:23.520 So I think it's both true 0.99

00:45:24.980 because it has to be,

00:45:26.260 it just has to be true.

00:45:27.660 He's getting bad

00:45:28.240 information.

00:45:29.720 And it's also blown out

00:45:31.220 of a little proportion

00:45:32.080 because that's how

00:45:33.080 propaganda works.

00:45:34.800 I think, likewise, the

00:45:36.220 thought that Putin was 0.98

00:45:37.640 insane or having a mental 0.97

00:45:38.880 problem, which I also

00:45:41.880 was a purveyor of, I

00:45:47.020 think could also be true

00:45:48.640 at the same time the

00:45:50.720 bigger explanation is

00:45:52.820 that he said clearly he

00:45:54.240 was going to do this.

00:45:55.100 He thought it would work

00:45:56.380 a little bit better than

00:45:57.260 it did.

00:45:58.360 And that's the most

00:45:58.940 obvious explanation,

00:46:00.220 given that he has a very

00:46:01.420 clear record for years of

00:46:03.620 saying exactly what he

00:46:04.720 wanted.

00:46:10.700 So anyway, I've got to

00:46:17.080 teach people to not

00:46:18.000 message me at this time of

00:46:20.240 day.

00:46:23.200 Who knows me who

00:46:24.260 doesn't know that I'm

00:46:24.960 doing something else right

00:46:25.920 now?

00:46:26.920 Can you imagine there's

00:46:27.880 anybody who actually

00:46:28.880 knows me who's like,

00:46:30.780 oh, I think he's free

00:46:31.780 right now?

00:46:34.380 All right.

00:46:36.780 Newt Gingrich said

00:46:37.840 something funny about

00:46:39.440 liberals and misjudging

00:46:42.860 Putin.

00:46:43.900 He said about liberals

00:46:45.100 that they think the Lion

00:46:46.580 King was a documentary and

00:46:48.600 that the lions, you know,

00:46:50.180 the predators and the

00:46:51.140 prey can all live together

00:46:52.280 and sing and dance.

00:46:54.820 And then in the real

00:46:55.780 world, the lion always

00:46:57.200 eats the prey.

00:46:58.740 And you can kind of

00:46:59.500 predict that.

00:47:00.540 It's like, hey, hey, I

00:47:02.020 got news for you.

00:47:03.580 The Lion King is not a

00:47:06.120 documentary.

00:47:07.820 No.

00:47:08.420 No.

00:47:08.700 If you put a lion next to

00:47:11.140 something you can eat and

00:47:12.820 you wait long enough,

00:47:14.700 something bad's going to

00:47:15.520 happen.

00:47:15.780 So anyway, I thought

00:47:18.040 that was a that was one

00:47:19.280 of the funniest

00:47:19.800 comparisons.

00:47:21.800 And he's not wrong, by

00:47:22.840 the way.

00:47:23.120 The reason it's funny is

00:47:24.600 that you you feel it,

00:47:25.940 too.

00:47:26.460 You're like, wait a

00:47:27.220 minute.

00:47:28.140 Doesn't your strategy kind

00:47:29.740 of assume that lions and

00:47:31.700 antelope live peacefully

00:47:34.040 together when there's no

00:47:35.220 other food source?

00:47:36.660 Doesn't it?

00:47:37.340 So all of yesterday, I was

00:47:44.620 imagining what it would be

00:47:45.660 like to be Chris Rock to go

00:47:47.800 on to go in public on stage

00:47:50.420 for his act, having not

00:47:52.320 commented on the slap yet.

00:47:55.400 And I was trying to think,

00:47:56.540 OK, I'm a I'm a comedian.

00:47:59.360 And the first thing out of my

00:48:00.820 mouth has to be about that.

00:48:02.160 Am I right?

00:48:03.120 Has to be the first thing.

00:48:05.160 You can't hold that out to the

00:48:06.520 middle of the show.

00:48:07.900 It's going to be the first

00:48:08.940 thing.

00:48:09.600 And so I said to myself, how

00:48:10.780 would I write that?

00:48:12.420 Like, what would be my first

00:48:13.720 line?

00:48:14.940 Because it has to matter.

00:48:16.620 And that first line is going

00:48:17.820 to be quoted everywhere, just

00:48:19.200 like Neil Armstrong, you know,

00:48:21.440 walking on the moon.

00:48:22.960 He knew that the first thing he

00:48:24.460 said when he stepped on the

00:48:25.380 moon would be quoted forever.

00:48:27.820 Chris Rock knew that, too.

00:48:30.240 And here's what he said.

00:48:31.480 In his first stand-up thing, he

00:48:36.480 goes on stage.

00:48:37.860 First of all, he gets a three

00:48:39.060 minute standing ovation from a

00:48:41.580 sold-out room.

00:48:43.080 Now, do you know how long a

00:48:44.780 three minute standing ovation

00:48:47.660 feels when you're on stage?

00:48:50.640 All right.

00:48:50.880 I've had standing ovations, you

00:48:52.640 know, back in the height of the

00:48:53.740 Dilbert day.

00:48:54.400 I did a lot of speaking.

00:48:56.140 And Dilbert was very popular

00:48:57.620 then, so I get a lot of

00:48:58.500 standing ovations.

00:48:59.220 A standing ovation lasts

00:49:01.700 forever in your head, if

00:49:04.980 you're on stage, because it's

00:49:06.200 a little bit, you know, there's

00:49:07.860 a little bit too much focus on

00:49:09.160 you, if you know what I mean.

00:49:10.560 So it feels like it lasts

00:49:12.040 forever.

00:49:13.000 A three minute standing ovation,

00:49:16.280 that's like an hour.

00:49:18.900 So Chris Rock stands there for

00:49:20.580 what had to seem like a

00:49:21.900 frickin' hour, just absorbing

00:49:24.140 all of this love, and then he's

00:49:25.720 got to say the perfect thing.

00:49:26.960 The perfect thing.

00:49:30.660 And this was what he said.

00:49:32.720 How was your weekend?

00:49:36.280 That was the perfect thing.

00:49:38.620 It was the perfect thing.

00:49:41.360 Try to beat that.

00:49:43.500 So you're not one of the best

00:49:45.860 stand-up comedians of all time.

00:49:49.260 He is.

00:49:50.200 Right?

00:49:50.540 One of the best.

00:49:52.320 Try to beat that.

00:49:53.500 This is a game you can play at

00:49:55.540 home.

00:49:56.580 Try to come up with a line that

00:49:58.580 would be better than that, and

00:50:01.380 you could work all day at it.

00:50:02.820 You won't do it.

00:50:04.180 That was the best line.

00:50:06.340 Incredible.

00:50:07.800 So once again, I say everybody

00:50:09.380 comes out of this looking good,

00:50:10.880 and I think Will Smith will too.

00:50:12.680 You'll be surprised.

00:50:13.360 I saw a Jeff Pilkington tweet

00:50:18.900 about some older news that Jada

00:50:22.160 Pinkett Smith had used plant-based

00:50:24.960 medicine to cure her depression 10

00:50:26.960 years ago, and it basically just

00:50:28.880 made it go away.

00:50:30.820 Plant-based medicine, you say?

00:50:33.200 Plant-based medicine.

00:50:35.140 Plant.

00:50:35.940 What would that plant be?

00:50:38.260 Could it be mushrooms?

00:50:41.180 If you're saying weed can make you

00:50:47.660 happy at the moment, weed doesn't

00:50:50.740 really make your depression go

00:50:52.060 away.

00:50:53.200 It doesn't work that way.

00:50:55.000 I mean, it can make you happy while

00:50:56.280 you're doing it, but it doesn't make

00:50:57.840 your depression go away.

00:51:00.320 Do you know it does?

00:51:01.860 Another different plant.

00:51:04.660 Yeah, maybe ayahuasca.

00:51:06.020 Could be ayahuasca, right?

00:51:07.420 But I'm thinking that almost certainly

00:51:09.400 she meant hallucinogen, and there it is.

00:51:14.720 Now, when you say to yourself,

00:51:16.160 how in the world can Will Smith and

00:51:18.340 Jada Pinkett Smith have the relationship 0.95

00:51:21.000 that they have, which you foolishly 0.99

00:51:24.140 believe involves her having sex with men 0.99

00:51:27.040 while he's sitting home?

00:51:29.080 If you believe that's what's happening,

00:51:33.660 you maybe have never met

00:51:35.640 a good-looking multimillionaire man

00:51:41.640 who is clearly heterosexual.

00:51:45.360 So I've got a feeling that the average

00:51:50.620 Tuesday for Will Smith is better than

00:51:53.800 everything you've ever done in your life

00:51:55.560 put together.

00:51:57.320 And yet, you're pretty sure you feel

00:51:59.600 bad for him, don't you?

00:52:01.360 You're feeling bad for that Will Smith.

00:52:03.720 Yep, every single day of his life is better

00:52:05.920 than everything you've ever done

00:52:07.400 put together.

00:52:08.500 But you feel sorry for him.

00:52:09.880 Here's how you get to that place.

00:52:13.520 Probably through mushrooms.

00:52:15.480 It seems to me that the Smiths 0.97

00:52:17.280 have obliterated their preconceived notions

00:52:21.500 about how anything works.

00:52:24.640 And you saw that at the Oscars, too.

00:52:28.040 What you saw was Will Smith,

00:52:30.520 who doesn't have the same sense

00:52:32.340 of what's possible as you do.

00:52:35.600 That's what mushrooms do to you.

00:52:37.060 One of the things that mushrooms do

00:52:38.940 is they say, yeah, you can do anything.

00:52:42.300 You just have to sort of wish it

00:52:44.480 into reality.

00:52:46.380 Will Smith, look at what he wished

00:52:48.640 into reality.

00:52:50.620 Will Smith wished into reality

00:52:52.260 his career, his life.

00:52:55.400 You don't think you'd trade for that?

00:52:57.660 I think a lot of people would.

00:52:59.800 I think that these are two people

00:53:01.480 who don't see the same boundaries

00:53:03.740 that you see in all things.

00:53:06.160 In all things.

00:53:07.060 They don't see a limit to their careers.

00:53:09.780 Am I right?

00:53:10.900 If they saw a limit to their careers,

00:53:12.620 I doubt they'd be where they are.

00:53:14.160 They obviously imagined their careers

00:53:16.440 without limit.

00:53:17.800 And there it was.

00:53:19.460 They obviously imagined

00:53:20.760 that they would not be bound

00:53:21.900 by whatever society's

00:53:23.540 recommended social structure is.

00:53:27.260 You think it's not working?

00:53:29.580 I think you're probably wrong.

00:53:31.720 I think it has lots of problems,

00:53:33.740 as do every kind of relationship.

00:53:35.640 But I'll bet it works better

00:53:37.620 than whatever the alternative was.

00:53:40.660 And so that's my mushroom talk for today.

00:53:44.920 Gavin Newsom did a cheeky little tweet

00:53:48.620 where he was shown reading the banned books

00:53:50.560 that were banned by other states.

00:53:52.140 And he captioned his tweet,

00:53:55.700 reading some banned books

00:53:57.140 to figure out what these states are afraid of.

00:54:00.000 Because Gavin Newsom

00:54:01.360 is not afraid of books.

00:54:04.300 He's not afraid of these banned books.

00:54:06.180 And he wanted to mock those backwards, 1.00

00:54:08.560 probably Republican states.

00:54:10.420 Who knows?

00:54:11.120 But these other states,

00:54:12.380 he's mocking them

00:54:13.100 because they banned books.

00:54:14.760 They're not like Gavin Newsom.

00:54:15.920 And there he was

00:54:16.440 with one of those banned books

00:54:17.760 in those other states 0.95

00:54:18.660 to kill a mockingbird,

00:54:21.920 which Viva Frye points out

00:54:25.040 is one that's banned in California.

00:54:28.100 So his tweet would have gone over much better

00:54:32.180 in mocking those other states

00:54:34.500 if he did not have in the picture

00:54:38.740 a book that was actually banned in California.

00:54:43.200 So there you go.

00:54:46.520 And then Bruce Willis has aphasia.

00:54:48.880 So that will apparently give him trouble

00:54:53.580 understanding and expressing himself.

00:54:57.500 So I feel bad about that.

00:55:00.320 I don't know what to say about that

00:55:01.380 other than,

00:55:02.600 why does that bother me more than other stuff?

00:55:07.040 There's something about that

00:55:08.320 that bothers me more than other stuff.

00:55:10.960 And here's my best.

00:55:13.960 People have terrible things

00:55:15.540 happening all over the world.

00:55:16.660 But why does this bother me more?

00:55:19.360 And here's my best answer.

00:55:21.520 Don't you feel like you know him?

00:55:25.080 It's a bald thing, so he says.

00:55:26.620 I have bald empathy.

00:55:28.620 No, but there's something about

00:55:30.540 the way he has run his life and his career

00:55:33.180 that you feel sort of like you know him.

00:55:36.760 Like it feels like somebody I know

00:55:38.180 having a problem.

00:55:39.340 I don't know that I would feel that

00:55:40.700 about many other people.

00:55:44.880 But I guess I give him credit

00:55:46.480 for that because I feel like

00:55:48.660 you see some version of him

00:55:49.960 that's pretty close to reality.

00:55:53.440 And I like it.

00:55:54.400 He seems like a...

00:55:56.480 Well, let me test this.

00:55:59.240 Bruce Willis has been around

00:56:00.620 for a long, long time.

00:56:01.680 He has a pretty good reputation,

00:56:03.040 doesn't he?

00:56:04.160 I don't know that anybody

00:56:06.780 has ever said anything bad about him.

00:56:08.520 So I just have a generally

00:56:09.540 good feeling about him.

00:56:10.480 I like what he's done.

00:56:13.340 I like his movies.

00:56:15.380 Yeah.

00:56:15.640 Never made us mad.

00:56:18.560 And he got through some tough times,

00:56:20.860 didn't he?

00:56:21.400 Because he had some issues

00:56:22.760 with his own personal life.

00:56:24.260 And I thought he handled those

00:56:25.760 as well as anybody can handle anything.

00:56:28.360 At least from the public perception

00:56:31.020 point of view.

00:56:33.920 All right.

00:56:36.200 That, ladies and gentlemen,

00:56:37.820 is all I have for today.

00:56:39.740 I think you would agree.

00:56:41.380 This is one of the finest experiences

00:56:43.720 you've ever had.

00:56:47.320 And, oh God,

00:56:50.300 I just saw a really bad joke on there.

00:56:52.040 I'm not going to repeat that one.

00:56:54.000 It was clever,

00:56:55.700 but too soon.

00:56:57.120 Too soon.

00:56:57.540 All right.

00:57:02.240 Well, I'm seeing some questions

00:57:03.240 I'm going to ignore.

00:57:07.400 Yes, it's the best thing so far today.

00:57:09.320 I think we'd agree with that.

00:57:10.760 And YouTube,

00:57:11.540 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

00:57:12.500 And...

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 31, 2022

Episode 1699 Scott Adams： Gratuitous Swaddling While Mocking Fake News & Propaganda We Call Reality

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