Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 31, 2022


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


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

143.46877

Word Count

8,210

Sentence Count

575

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

The war in Ukraine is starting to get to us again, and I thought it was time to reintroduce an almost gratuitous swaddle. This is not a mandatory swaddle, as the pandemic was. This would be more of an optional swaddle to recognize that we are in pretty good shape, but we could be better. And now, ladies and gentlemen, would you join me in an almost spiritual ceremony that we call the " simultaneous sip" as if by one, each of us, I might call you God's debris, will feel that coming together, as we all act as one, with a simultaneous sip and all you need is a cup, a mug, a glass, a bowl, a canteen, a flask, a vessel of mankind. And join me for the dopamine.


Transcript

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
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
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
00:31:35.160 block their retreat
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
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
00:34:23.180 the black
00:34:24.120 part of the
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
00:34:43.500 black.
00:34:44.000 This could
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
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
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
00:36:13.580 know, it's
00:36:14.580 because you
00:36:15.100 look black,
00:36:15.780 right?
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
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
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
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
00:40:38.040 was insane and I
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
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
00:41:37.380 she still frickin'
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.
00:41:57.160 I alone was stupid
00:41:58.480 enough, well, I think
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
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
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
00:43:45.840 was insane, but I
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
00:44:53.360 literally freaking kill
00:44:54.560 you if he doesn't like
00:44:56.160 you?
00:44:56.260 He'll kill you.
00:44:57.520 Do you think he gets
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
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
00:45:37.640 insane or having a mental
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
00:51:21.000 that they have, which you foolishly
00:51:24.140 believe involves her having sex with men
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
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,
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
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...