Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1702 Scott Adams： No Real News Yesterday So Let's Talk About The Fake Stuff Instead

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00:00:46.140 Oh, yeah.

00:00:49.000 Now, I don't know if you've noticed it, but I have cleverly been rewiring your brains

00:00:54.620 to connect your association with this show, with the association of your favorite beverage,

00:01:01.900 and I think that you'll find that it's making the entire experience sublime.

00:01:07.920 Yes, it is.

00:01:09.320 Well, I saw a tweet yesterday by Jack Dorsey, founder, ex-CEO of Twitter,

00:01:15.300 and this is like the most interesting thing anybody tweeted lately.

00:01:21.600 He says,

00:01:22.180 the days of Usenet, IRC, the web, even email with PGP.

00:01:27.420 Now, if you don't know, those are earlier technologies, you know, when the Internet was young.

00:01:33.480 And he said those things were amazing.

00:01:35.380 And then he says,

00:01:37.840 centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the Internet.

00:01:45.080 And then he says,

00:01:46.760 I realize I'm partially to blame and regret it.

00:01:53.360 Jack Dorsey just apologized for creating Twitter

00:01:56.440 because of the damage it's doing.

00:01:59.940 That just happened, right?

00:02:01.500 Now, I may have mentioned that I've, you know,

00:02:06.100 I've met Jack and interacted enough to know

00:02:08.540 he's not like other people.

00:02:12.380 Now, I'm not sure how much further I could go with that,

00:02:15.620 but he's just not like other people.

00:02:18.400 That's all.

00:02:19.620 And I'm sure he means it.

00:02:23.140 You know, I don't think there's anything

00:02:24.780 that isn't perfectly transparent.

00:02:27.460 He created a product,

00:02:29.960 and he's concerned about its social impact.

00:02:34.760 I don't know.

00:02:35.300 There's not much you can say about that,

00:02:37.540 except that, you know,

00:02:41.180 maybe it explains why he's not there anymore.

00:02:44.340 I don't know.

00:02:45.020 I mean, at least part of it.

00:02:46.380 I think that's the smaller part.

00:02:50.400 The CDC is warning that there's this crisis

00:02:54.040 of young people with depression.

00:02:57.720 Four in ten teens report

00:02:59.640 that they feel persistently sad or hopeless,

00:03:02.320 and one in five saying

00:03:03.680 that they have contemplated suicide.

00:03:06.440 That's what the CDC says.

00:03:09.440 As Mike Cernovich noted in his tweet on this topic,

00:03:14.900 wasn't that caused by the CDC?

00:03:18.120 Isn't all this a mental health crisis

00:03:20.520 that the CDC is warning us about?

00:03:23.880 Didn't they create that?

00:03:25.320 Not all of it.

00:03:28.120 You know, I think technology is,

00:03:29.780 honestly, I think technology is 75% of it,

00:03:33.600 and the pandemic's 25%.

00:03:35.540 That would be my guess.

00:03:37.340 What do you think?

00:03:38.460 Would you say similar?

00:03:40.700 Does that percentage sound about right to you?

00:03:43.100 But this is a way bigger problem

00:03:49.280 than any of us are willing to acknowledge.

00:03:54.220 And I would say it's true.

00:03:58.900 Let me ask you this.

00:04:00.180 How many of you have had a brush with somebody

00:04:07.840 who tried suicide or succeeded during the pandemic?

00:04:11.700 So let's limit it just to the pandemic through today.

00:04:15.640 From the pandemic through to today,

00:04:17.960 have any of you had a bad experience

00:04:19.880 with either an attempted, threatened,

00:04:21.900 or actual suicide?

00:04:23.540 Go.

00:04:24.640 It could be your own.

00:04:26.580 Now watch the comments.

00:04:29.220 Yes, it's just, it's mostly yeses.

00:04:31.740 There are lots of noes,

00:04:32.960 but there's a lot of yeses.

00:04:35.540 I'll say yes.

00:04:37.000 I would say yes.

00:04:37.600 I would say that this social risk has touched my life.

00:04:44.140 Nobody died, but only by luck.

00:04:48.540 Literally by luck.

00:04:52.240 So, yeah, yeah, look at that.

00:04:55.420 So this is like the big problem of our time.

00:05:00.260 And I'll say again, imagine this.

00:05:05.500 Imagine a candidate running for office

00:05:08.320 saying that you shouldn't be allowed

00:05:11.740 to use social media until you're 16.

00:05:16.360 Imagine that.

00:05:19.660 Could a candidate win with that?

00:05:22.720 Maybe.

00:05:24.240 You know, I feel like there are enough parents

00:05:26.360 who would say, you know what?

00:05:28.180 I'll take that.

00:05:29.860 What are his other policies or her other policies?

00:05:32.860 Don't care.

00:05:34.260 Don't care.

00:05:35.500 Like, if you could make that one problem go away,

00:05:38.320 take social media away from all teens and kids,

00:05:41.900 I'd want that leader.

00:05:44.700 Because I don't think anybody has any idea

00:05:46.560 how damaging this is.

00:05:47.880 We have no idea.

00:05:48.640 So the Russian ruble seems to be saved.

00:05:55.700 Now, I'll try to explain this as best I can.

00:05:59.520 Because, you know, as I say too often,

00:06:01.260 I've got a degree in economics.

00:06:03.040 I've got an MBA.

00:06:04.460 And there are some topics that,

00:06:07.100 even if you have some credentials,

00:06:09.240 if you're not pretty deep into that specific field,

00:06:11.740 you get in trouble.

00:06:12.600 So I can't go too deeply into currency.

00:06:15.880 That's not some area that I have any expertise in.

00:06:19.280 But I'll tell you the most basic thing you need to know.

00:06:23.120 Any currency,

00:06:24.840 be it crypto,

00:06:26.560 or be it the dollar,

00:06:28.320 or be it the ruble,

00:06:29.720 they all have the same characteristic,

00:06:31.700 which is,

00:06:32.420 if there's a demand for it,

00:06:34.420 if you know somebody will accept it,

00:06:36.880 well, then it has value.

00:06:37.760 If nobody wants your ruble or your dollar or your crypto,

00:06:42.040 well, then it has zero value.

00:06:43.400 So the only thing that gives anything value

00:06:45.260 is somebody willing to buy it.

00:06:48.640 Now, what is it that gives the U.S. dollar value?

00:06:52.060 Well, one of the reasons is that

00:06:54.040 oil is traded in dollars.

00:06:57.300 But the other reason is that

00:06:58.600 the United States government

00:06:59.860 will accept the dollar to pay taxes.

00:07:03.560 So you always have somebody who's going to take a dollar,

00:07:05.800 even if it's just our own government.

00:07:08.360 Well, it turns out

00:07:09.600 we're not the only ones to come up with that trick.

00:07:12.280 So Russia said,

00:07:13.880 hey, if our ruble is plunging in value

00:07:16.680 compared to these other currencies,

00:07:18.600 why don't we just say

00:07:19.760 our ruble equals X amount of gold?

00:07:23.180 We'll pin it to the price of gold,

00:07:25.980 and basically we'll have

00:07:27.680 some kind of universally agreed standard,

00:07:30.360 and it will just stabilize it,

00:07:31.620 and we'll say,

00:07:32.060 well, we'll take that,

00:07:34.300 or we'll take gold.

00:07:35.980 Doesn't matter if we get a ruble,

00:07:37.760 doesn't matter if we get a dollar,

00:07:39.600 doesn't matter if you want to ship us gold,

00:07:42.300 because now it's all the same.

00:07:44.140 And the way that the Russians made the ruble

00:07:47.180 pegged to gold

00:07:49.420 is that they used their own central bank

00:07:51.860 to buy rubles.

00:07:53.880 And, no, wait,

00:07:57.260 they would use rubles to sell gold, right?

00:08:01.600 So they would accept rubles

00:08:03.160 to allow people to purchase gold,

00:08:06.040 which gives rubles value

00:08:08.440 because there's something

00:08:09.240 that you can buy with it.

00:08:11.900 So here's my question.

00:08:15.160 You know, I keep hearing people say,

00:08:16.480 oh, the dollar,

00:08:17.360 the dollar is going to be dead,

00:08:19.800 and then we'll be in trouble.

00:08:21.800 But that doesn't mean the dollar

00:08:23.040 becomes worthless, does it?

00:08:25.620 I don't think that happens.

00:08:27.780 Does it?

00:08:28.940 Because wouldn't we just do the same thing?

00:08:31.060 Say, oh, okay,

00:08:32.460 looks like we're in trouble,

00:08:33.580 so we'll just say the dollar,

00:08:35.140 the dollar is now tied to gold,

00:08:37.900 and you can pay your taxes in gold or dollars,

00:08:41.180 either one.

00:08:41.580 I feel like we could just do the same thing.

00:08:45.660 And I'm not entirely sure

00:08:47.240 how much power that we give away

00:08:49.720 by just being like everybody else

00:08:51.920 with our currency.

00:08:53.880 Somebody says tie it to Bitcoin.

00:08:56.620 That would be the ultimate.

00:08:58.460 All right.

00:09:00.860 So I guess the thing that we can't tell

00:09:02.840 about any of this Russian ruble stuff is,

00:09:05.020 I don't know, is it good or bad,

00:09:06.700 or is it heading in the right direction

00:09:08.500 or the wrong direction?

00:09:09.880 I'm not sure anybody knows.

00:09:12.180 All right.

00:09:13.120 How many of you saw the videos

00:09:14.580 of the alleged Russian atrocities

00:09:17.740 in a Ukrainian city

00:09:20.120 where there were bodies,

00:09:21.340 apparently their hands were bound

00:09:24.760 behind their backs

00:09:25.540 and they had been killed?

00:09:27.600 And there were a lot of them.

00:09:29.720 And they were just dumped right on the streets

00:09:31.580 with their hands tied.

00:09:32.900 Now, if your hands are tied and you're dead,

00:09:34.700 it does look like you're executed.

00:09:36.600 That would be,

00:09:37.080 especially if there are lots of them.

00:09:38.540 It looks pretty much like executed.

00:09:42.160 And somebody suggested that it looks like

00:09:44.220 they were taking the men out from each of the homes,

00:09:47.920 like knocking on each door and say,

00:09:49.600 is there a man home?

00:09:50.980 And if there was,

00:09:51.700 they just took them out and killed them

00:09:52.960 in the street in front of his house.

00:09:55.420 I mean, it's what it looks like.

00:09:56.660 We don't know what happened.

00:09:57.500 Now, raise your hand.

00:10:00.160 How many of you believe

00:10:01.100 that these reports are true?

00:10:04.100 We saw the video.

00:10:06.020 That doesn't mean it's true

00:10:07.240 because video can be faked.

00:10:09.740 How many believe the atrocity stories?

00:10:14.080 Interesting.

00:10:14.780 On locals, it's 95% now.

00:10:17.500 How about on YouTube?

00:10:23.040 Mostly, mostly you don't believe it.

00:10:25.940 Now, that's very interesting.

00:10:27.920 May I give you a standing ovation?

00:10:30.240 I'm too lazy.

00:10:31.120 Sitting ovation.

00:10:31.980 This makes me very happy.

00:10:36.520 Well, here's the way I would phrase it.

00:10:40.240 We don't know if it's true.

00:10:42.620 We don't know if it's true.

00:10:44.560 But we do know it's not credible.

00:10:47.680 Meaning that you shouldn't believe it's true.

00:10:50.160 If you believe it's true

00:10:51.520 because you saw it

00:10:52.620 with your own eyes on the video,

00:10:55.640 then you're not a clever consumer of the news.

00:10:59.460 Because we're still in the fog of war.

00:11:02.100 We are right now

00:11:03.380 in the maximum propaganda stage.

00:11:06.400 In theory, there shouldn't be anything

00:11:08.220 we hear about the war that's true.

00:11:10.780 Nothing.

00:11:12.060 Because both sides have a strong

00:11:13.700 incentive to lie

00:11:14.820 and we don't have any

00:11:16.780 independent press in the area.

00:11:19.040 Not really.

00:11:20.020 So everything you hear

00:11:20.940 is either going to come

00:11:21.640 from one side or the other.

00:11:23.140 Why would anybody tell the truth?

00:11:25.960 Why would anybody tell the truth?

00:11:28.520 Seriously.

00:11:30.800 And, you know, I did see

00:11:33.620 I hate to say this,

00:11:35.620 but I did see some pictures

00:11:36.640 of what looked to be mass deaths

00:11:39.420 and the people looked alive to me.

00:11:41.660 Did anybody have that experience?

00:11:45.040 Because I feel like I've seen enough

00:11:47.080 at least video and photographs

00:11:50.340 of dead people,

00:11:51.640 even ones that had died recently,

00:11:53.400 and they didn't look like that.

00:11:56.120 They looked a little bit alive,

00:11:59.520 if you know what I mean.

00:12:02.080 So not all of them.

00:12:03.280 I mean, some of them were clearly dead.

00:12:05.140 But, I don't know,

00:12:07.440 to me,

00:12:09.500 to me this,

00:12:10.900 it looks fake.

00:12:12.900 So I would say it looks fake,

00:12:14.420 but I don't know if it is.

00:12:15.460 There's no way to know.

00:12:16.680 So I would say

00:12:17.420 don't make up your mind

00:12:18.460 whether it's real or not,

00:12:19.600 but be aware that

00:12:21.540 in this situation

00:12:24.180 it would be rare

00:12:24.920 to see anything that's true.

00:12:29.040 Shanghai,

00:12:29.960 apparently the lockdown in Shanghai

00:12:32.120 because of the coronavirus.

00:12:35.660 I saw a tweet thread

00:12:36.900 from somebody,

00:12:37.620 it looks like a non,

00:12:39.280 might be a European

00:12:40.060 or American or something,

00:12:41.720 who's staying in Shanghai

00:12:43.140 and is part of the lockdown.

00:12:44.980 And here's the problem,

00:12:46.160 they can't get food.

00:12:46.980 So they've been locked down

00:12:49.040 for 16 days

00:12:50.160 and they're running out of food

00:12:51.320 and they have literally

00:12:52.960 no way to get new food.

00:12:54.760 So they have apps

00:12:55.600 for delivering food,

00:12:56.760 but they all go to nothing

00:12:58.080 because they're all overextended.

00:13:01.080 So you can't even go

00:13:02.340 on your app

00:13:02.920 and order food.

00:13:04.880 So this one individual

00:13:06.100 was cataloging his attempt.

00:13:08.780 He's using every kind of app

00:13:10.820 and every way he can,

00:13:13.120 but can't get any.

00:13:14.580 And then finally got

00:13:15.420 some potatoes and bread,

00:13:16.520 but he wasn't sure

00:13:17.320 that they would be delivered.

00:13:19.140 But at least on the app

00:13:20.220 he ordered them.

00:13:21.880 And I wonder how bad

00:13:24.580 this is going to get.

00:13:26.180 Because I really can't imagine

00:13:27.640 that China can't feed people

00:13:29.460 if they really want to.

00:13:32.340 Like I don't think

00:13:32.980 they're running out of food,

00:13:34.140 it's just a distribution problem, right?

00:13:36.220 So I feel like they can solve that

00:13:38.120 before there are mass deaths,

00:13:39.760 but it looks like

00:13:40.620 it's going to be close.

00:13:41.520 It looks like starvation

00:13:44.100 on a mass scale

00:13:45.640 is at least a possibility.

00:13:49.820 At least a possibility.

00:13:50.960 So that's looking pretty grim.

00:13:53.680 And especially what it does

00:13:54.940 to supply chains around the world.

00:13:57.800 Well, you know,

00:13:58.460 the military was looking

00:13:59.400 to find all those

00:14:01.140 right-wing extremists.

00:14:03.500 You know,

00:14:03.740 all the racists

00:14:04.900 and white supremacists and stuff.

00:14:07.240 And after they looked into it

00:14:09.560 for, I don't know,

00:14:10.380 a few years now,

00:14:12.080 they found fewer than

00:14:13.320 a hundred instances

00:14:14.360 of confirmed extremist activity

00:14:16.560 in 2021.

00:14:18.700 And so Fox News

00:14:19.820 is presenting this

00:14:20.840 as they looked

00:14:22.820 and they didn't really find

00:14:23.860 anything of substance.

00:14:26.040 A hundred is substance,

00:14:28.740 but, you know,

00:14:30.040 we don't know

00:14:30.680 what exactly

00:14:32.060 the nature of these were.

00:14:34.240 And so Fox News

00:14:36.040 is minimizing it a little bit.

00:14:37.380 That's the way

00:14:37.700 they're treating it

00:14:38.300 as, well, we looked

00:14:39.320 and there wasn't much

00:14:40.240 of anything to worry about.

00:14:41.560 And then other people say,

00:14:43.100 wait a minute,

00:14:44.060 are you telling me

00:14:44.620 there are a hundred

00:14:45.280 Timothy McVeys?

00:14:47.780 What?

00:14:48.940 Because that would seem

00:14:49.580 like a lot of

00:14:50.180 Timothy McVeys,

00:14:51.200 wouldn't it?

00:14:52.040 But there's no indication

00:14:53.460 that the hundred

00:14:54.860 or so extremists

00:14:56.080 are Timothy McVeys.

00:14:58.440 They might just,

00:14:59.660 you know,

00:14:59.920 like talking.

00:15:01.220 It doesn't mean

00:15:01.920 they're going to

00:15:02.260 blow something up.

00:15:03.500 So we don't know.

00:15:04.540 But I guess

00:15:06.420 I would be worried

00:15:07.920 about a hundred

00:15:08.720 extremists

00:15:10.420 out of any

00:15:12.060 size group.

00:15:13.380 I don't really care

00:15:14.320 if it's out of

00:15:14.880 ten million

00:15:15.360 or out of

00:15:15.880 a hundred million.

00:15:17.160 If there are

00:15:17.880 a hundred of them,

00:15:19.620 that's a hundred

00:15:20.660 things I'm worried about.

00:15:22.660 But

00:15:22.920 it does look like

00:15:25.480 it wasn't,

00:15:26.100 at the very least,

00:15:27.560 it was not

00:15:28.220 a massive

00:15:28.780 military problem.

00:15:30.880 So that's new.

00:15:32.420 So the one thing

00:15:33.100 I think we can say

00:15:33.960 for sure

00:15:34.460 is that

00:15:35.660 however big

00:15:36.820 this problem is,

00:15:37.740 it's not a massive

00:15:38.480 problem.

00:15:39.120 So it certainly

00:15:39.820 didn't affect

00:15:41.160 readiness or anything

00:15:42.060 like that.

00:15:47.560 Let's see.

00:15:49.360 So Zelensky

00:15:50.240 of Ukraine

00:15:51.840 is saying

00:15:52.880 that he won't

00:15:53.580 trade any territory.

00:15:55.220 So Ukraine

00:15:55.680 won't allow

00:15:56.740 Russia to take

00:15:57.540 anything.

00:15:57.980 And that the only

00:15:59.760 acceptable outcome

00:16:00.880 is victory

00:16:01.620 by Ukraine.

00:16:04.640 Now,

00:16:05.600 does he mean that?

00:16:08.880 It sounds like

00:16:09.960 a negotiating

00:16:10.600 position,

00:16:11.620 or is it?

00:16:15.060 Or is it?

00:16:16.260 It's actually

00:16:16.900 a smart

00:16:17.420 negotiating position.

00:16:18.860 Do you know why?

00:16:20.440 Because if he

00:16:21.460 goes in public

00:16:22.360 and says,

00:16:23.000 absolutely,

00:16:23.680 this is the one

00:16:24.280 thing we will

00:16:24.920 not do,

00:16:25.580 what does that

00:16:27.400 do to the value

00:16:28.460 of that offer?

00:16:30.760 It increases it.

00:16:33.140 If Russia

00:16:33.940 thought they

00:16:34.400 could get land

00:16:35.200 cheaply,

00:16:36.680 meaning that he

00:16:37.360 would roll over

00:16:38.000 and give it to them,

00:16:39.060 well,

00:16:39.260 then they'd

00:16:39.900 negotiate hard

00:16:40.880 and get everything

00:16:41.680 they can.

00:16:42.600 But he's now

00:16:43.320 made that expensive

00:16:44.180 by saying,

00:16:45.780 we will not

00:16:46.260 accept it

00:16:46.720 under any

00:16:48.120 circumstance.

00:16:48.940 It's not even

00:16:49.400 on the table.

00:16:51.100 Which means,

00:16:53.180 should he have

00:16:54.040 to give it up

00:16:54.680 in the end,

00:16:56.100 it will appear

00:16:57.320 that he's

00:16:57.700 giving up

00:16:58.140 something bigger

00:16:59.060 because the way

00:17:01.260 we talk about

00:17:02.020 the land

00:17:03.000 that Russia

00:17:03.500 has occupied

00:17:04.020 is it was

00:17:05.040 practically Russian

00:17:05.900 already.

00:17:07.660 Am I right?

00:17:08.840 Because we say,

00:17:09.700 well,

00:17:10.200 it was sort of

00:17:11.120 a separatist-ish

00:17:13.200 region with a lot

00:17:14.540 of Russian speaking

00:17:15.400 and maybe they

00:17:16.920 didn't mostly

00:17:17.600 want to be Russian

00:17:18.480 but a lot of them

00:17:19.400 did.

00:17:20.540 At least in America

00:17:22.820 we're sort of

00:17:24.280 turning that into

00:17:25.060 a gray area.

00:17:26.100 well,

00:17:26.580 I don't know,

00:17:27.140 should Russia

00:17:27.660 own it?

00:17:28.140 Should Ukraine?

00:17:28.980 I don't know.

00:17:30.120 Historical this

00:17:30.920 or that?

00:17:31.420 I don't know.

00:17:32.560 But by Zelensky

00:17:33.820 saying,

00:17:35.020 no,

00:17:35.800 zero land

00:17:36.680 goes to Russia,

00:17:38.220 he just improved

00:17:39.280 his negotiating

00:17:40.420 position.

00:17:42.700 Or,

00:17:43.640 or,

00:17:44.860 he means it.

00:17:46.400 Now remember,

00:17:47.400 I did tell you

00:17:48.220 that I have not

00:17:49.720 ruled out the

00:17:50.480 possibility,

00:17:51.220 and I think

00:17:51.580 everybody else

00:17:52.200 in the world

00:17:52.540 has,

00:17:53.060 so I'm the only

00:17:53.540 one who hasn't,

00:17:54.580 that Zelensky

00:17:55.200 is going for

00:17:55.700 the kill shot.

00:17:57.020 That he's not

00:17:57.800 trying to survive,

00:17:59.680 he's trying to

00:18:00.500 take Putin out.

00:18:04.320 Scott,

00:18:04.880 are you softening

00:18:05.540 your change of

00:18:06.260 belief that

00:18:06.820 Putin wins?

00:18:07.400 You know,

00:18:09.260 at this point,

00:18:10.080 I don't know

00:18:10.900 what winning

00:18:11.340 looks like.

00:18:12.880 Do you?

00:18:14.740 Because if

00:18:16.080 Putin wanted

00:18:16.660 to put enough

00:18:17.520 weight onto

00:18:18.780 Ukraine,

00:18:19.440 he could certainly

00:18:20.100 win.

00:18:20.380 but if he

00:18:22.720 puts that

00:18:23.140 much weight

00:18:23.620 on it,

00:18:24.060 then he

00:18:24.340 will certainly

00:18:24.820 be removed

00:18:25.340 from office

00:18:25.900 also,

00:18:26.520 or the odds

00:18:27.340 would be

00:18:27.620 greater.

00:18:28.760 So,

00:18:29.200 I don't know

00:18:30.040 what winning

00:18:30.420 looks like,

00:18:31.900 because I'm

00:18:32.540 not entirely

00:18:33.100 sure he

00:18:33.580 could win

00:18:34.120 the war

00:18:34.940 and keep

00:18:36.020 his job,

00:18:36.880 but it is

00:18:37.320 possible.

00:18:39.040 Let's say,

00:18:39.600 if I were

00:18:40.020 going to put

00:18:40.320 a bet on it

00:18:41.060 right now,

00:18:41.840 let's say,

00:18:42.260 the most likely

00:18:42.960 bet would be

00:18:44.000 land for peace

00:18:45.880 and Putin

00:18:47.040 survives,

00:18:48.440 and that in

00:18:48.940 five years,

00:18:49.780 we drop

00:18:51.080 the sanctions

00:18:51.680 because somebody

00:18:53.820 has an economic

00:18:54.520 interest in doing

00:18:55.360 it.

00:18:56.840 That's what I

00:18:57.520 think.

00:18:58.260 What do you

00:18:58.660 think?

00:18:59.880 But I have

00:19:00.500 not ruled

00:19:01.420 out.

00:19:01.840 I would say

00:19:02.120 there's a 90%

00:19:02.860 chance Russia

00:19:03.760 gets at least

00:19:04.360 a bunch of

00:19:04.840 land and

00:19:05.460 Putin survives.

00:19:06.480 That's the

00:19:06.840 90%.

00:19:07.540 10%,

00:19:08.680 and I think

00:19:09.740 I'm the only

00:19:10.140 one saying

00:19:10.560 it,

00:19:11.580 10%

00:19:12.340 Zelensky

00:19:13.180 takes Putin

00:19:13.820 out.

00:19:14.060 10%.

00:19:16.340 And I

00:19:17.440 think when

00:19:18.200 you see

00:19:18.580 both sides

00:19:19.460 have gone

00:19:19.780 after fuel

00:19:20.520 depots now,

00:19:22.040 things are

00:19:22.500 getting pretty

00:19:22.880 serious now.

00:19:24.300 And I

00:19:24.840 wondered,

00:19:25.420 why did

00:19:25.720 Russia wait

00:19:26.220 so long

00:19:26.620 to take

00:19:26.980 out a

00:19:27.240 fuel

00:19:27.480 depot?

00:19:29.040 It seems

00:19:29.420 like that

00:19:29.740 should have

00:19:29.960 been early

00:19:30.380 on.

00:19:31.360 But I've

00:19:32.460 got a feeling

00:19:32.840 they're all

00:19:33.220 going to run

00:19:33.560 out of

00:19:33.880 fuel.

00:19:35.340 So both

00:19:35.820 sides will

00:19:36.240 run into

00:19:36.600 fuel.

00:19:36.960 They're

00:19:37.080 going to

00:19:37.180 be fighting

00:19:38.220 hand-to-hand

00:19:38.900 in about a

00:19:39.400 month.

00:19:42.840 So,

00:19:44.060 here's

00:19:48.840 some more

00:19:49.140 propaganda.

00:19:50.600 So Fox

00:19:51.100 News is

00:19:51.660 writing about

00:19:52.460 whether or

00:19:52.940 not Putin

00:19:53.380 has

00:19:53.780 disagreement

00:19:54.780 within his

00:19:55.660 inner circle

00:19:56.900 and his

00:19:57.460 generals.

00:19:58.340 Are the

00:19:59.000 generals

00:19:59.360 telling him

00:19:59.900 good information

00:20:00.600 or are they

00:20:01.100 lying to him,

00:20:01.800 etc.?

00:20:02.340 And here's

00:20:03.260 how Fox

00:20:03.820 News reports

00:20:04.760 that.

00:20:05.420 Watch this

00:20:05.960 first sentence.

00:20:07.260 It's been

00:20:08.120 said more

00:20:08.680 than once

00:20:09.240 in recent

00:20:09.720 days that

00:20:10.720 Russian

00:20:11.040 President Putin

00:20:11.900 has likely

00:20:12.580 been misinformed

00:20:14.200 by his

00:20:14.600 security and

00:20:15.180 military services

00:20:16.080 about the

00:20:17.040 war in

00:20:17.320 Ukraine.

00:20:18.360 Now,

00:20:18.540 let's go

00:20:18.780 back to the

00:20:19.200 first part

00:20:19.580 of that

00:20:19.800 sentence.

00:20:20.620 This is

00:20:21.020 on a

00:20:21.380 news site.

00:20:23.080 It's on

00:20:23.380 Fox News

00:20:23.940 site.

00:20:24.420 So this

00:20:24.700 is a

00:20:24.960 news site.

00:20:26.760 And they

00:20:27.060 say,

00:20:27.360 it's been

00:20:27.720 said more

00:20:28.220 than once

00:20:28.680 in recent

00:20:29.140 days.

00:20:31.120 By

00:20:31.580 whom?

00:20:33.340 Who

00:20:33.820 said it?

00:20:35.140 And did

00:20:35.460 they have

00:20:35.800 any reasons?

00:20:38.000 What the

00:20:38.680 hell is this

00:20:39.240 way to

00:20:39.780 frame something?

00:20:40.580 You frame

00:20:41.560 it as

00:20:41.900 it's been

00:20:42.580 said more

00:20:43.060 than once?

00:20:43.900 And how

00:20:44.320 many times

00:20:44.860 more than

00:20:45.240 once?

00:20:46.100 Twice?

00:20:47.600 Is more

00:20:48.320 than once

00:20:48.800 twice?

00:20:52.140 And who

00:20:52.820 said it?

00:20:53.700 Besides

00:20:54.220 me?

00:20:56.940 Right?

00:20:57.840 The people

00:20:58.340 saying it

00:20:58.960 are people

00:20:59.320 like me.

00:20:59.940 We're

00:21:00.100 assholes.

00:21:01.940 Like,

00:21:02.500 you don't

00:21:02.840 listen to

00:21:03.200 some asshole

00:21:03.700 like me

00:21:04.280 saying that

00:21:04.840 Putin's

00:21:05.300 inner circle

00:21:06.000 might be

00:21:06.420 having some

00:21:06.880 problems.

00:21:07.740 What the

00:21:08.120 hell do I

00:21:08.720 know?

00:21:09.500 And does

00:21:09.900 it matter

00:21:10.280 how many

00:21:10.900 people like

00:21:11.480 me said

00:21:11.900 it?

00:21:12.800 What if

00:21:13.240 six people

00:21:14.300 like me

00:21:14.880 said it?

00:21:16.000 That doesn't

00:21:16.500 mean anything.

00:21:17.760 It means

00:21:18.480 nothing.

00:21:19.780 Yeah,

00:21:20.080 okay,

00:21:20.380 it's a topic

00:21:20.880 of conversation,

00:21:22.580 but to

00:21:23.360 imagine that

00:21:24.320 because people

00:21:25.000 are saying

00:21:25.420 it more

00:21:25.800 than once,

00:21:26.460 it has

00:21:26.760 some weight,

00:21:27.880 that's a

00:21:28.400 little bit

00:21:28.720 of a

00:21:28.980 stretch.

00:21:30.220 But is

00:21:31.500 there any

00:21:31.960 situation

00:21:32.560 in which

00:21:33.440 the inner

00:21:33.940 circle always

00:21:34.660 agrees?

00:21:36.380 No.

00:21:36.900 So is

00:21:38.020 it reasonable

00:21:38.520 to assume

00:21:39.340 lacking

00:21:40.080 any direct

00:21:41.020 information

00:21:41.620 that there's

00:21:42.780 some dissension

00:21:43.540 within the

00:21:44.660 inner circle?

00:21:45.560 That's the

00:21:46.100 most obvious

00:21:46.620 thing you

00:21:47.000 could ever

00:21:47.340 predict.

00:21:48.420 There probably

00:21:48.940 is no

00:21:49.400 inner circle

00:21:49.980 anywhere

00:21:50.480 without

00:21:51.660 disagreement.

00:21:53.400 Otherwise,

00:21:53.860 you don't

00:21:54.100 need an

00:21:54.440 inner circle.

00:21:55.140 You just

00:21:55.400 need one

00:21:55.760 person.

00:21:56.780 The whole

00:21:57.120 point of

00:21:57.560 an inner

00:21:57.900 circle is

00:21:58.420 they don't

00:21:58.640 have the

00:21:58.900 same

00:21:59.100 opinion.

00:22:00.520 That's

00:22:01.000 really the

00:22:01.880 beauty of

00:22:02.280 the inner

00:22:02.560 circle.

00:22:03.280 They don't

00:22:03.680 have the

00:22:03.980 same

00:22:04.160 opinions.

00:22:05.760 So,

00:22:06.240 I mean,

00:22:06.720 you don't

00:22:07.020 really need

00:22:07.520 insiders to

00:22:08.560 tell you that

00:22:09.000 that's going

00:22:09.420 to be going

00:22:09.780 on.

00:22:11.700 So,

00:22:12.320 an update

00:22:12.720 on the

00:22:13.280 author Alex

00:22:14.860 Epstein's

00:22:15.720 situation,

00:22:16.700 which I

00:22:17.180 reported a

00:22:17.700 few days

00:22:18.000 ago.

00:22:18.780 So,

00:22:19.020 earlier in

00:22:19.460 the week,

00:22:19.880 Alex had

00:22:20.280 been informed

00:22:20.840 by his

00:22:21.260 publisher that

00:22:21.800 the Washington

00:22:22.260 Post was

00:22:22.780 going to do

00:22:23.120 a hit piece

00:22:23.640 on him

00:22:24.240 based on

00:22:25.380 something he

00:22:25.920 wrote when

00:22:26.260 he was 18,

00:22:27.740 which,

00:22:28.280 if taken

00:22:28.660 out of

00:22:29.000 context,

00:22:29.840 and only if

00:22:30.420 taken out of

00:22:30.920 context,

00:22:31.860 would make

00:22:32.260 him seem

00:22:32.700 like he

00:22:33.000 might be

00:22:33.320 a racist.

00:22:35.020 Now,

00:22:35.240 did I

00:22:35.960 mention he

00:22:36.320 was 18?

00:22:37.520 First of

00:22:38.060 all,

00:22:38.900 can we

00:22:39.220 just leave

00:22:39.700 the 18-year-olds

00:22:40.620 alone?

00:22:41.520 I mean,

00:22:41.960 seriously.

00:22:43.060 If somebody's

00:22:43.980 an adult

00:22:44.540 running their

00:22:45.600 career,

00:22:46.680 and that

00:22:47.340 career has

00:22:47.840 taken a

00:22:48.260 certain form,

00:22:48.940 and it

00:22:49.120 looks pretty

00:22:49.520 good,

00:22:50.320 just leave

00:22:51.480 his 18-year-old

00:22:52.540 self alone.

00:22:54.140 We have

00:22:54.580 no respect

00:22:55.260 for that.

00:22:55.980 None.

00:22:56.940 None.

00:22:57.620 We have

00:22:57.900 no respect

00:22:58.640 for digging

00:22:59.820 through somebody's

00:23:00.820 almost childhood

00:23:02.240 Yeah,

00:23:02.640 I get it,

00:23:03.000 18's legal,

00:23:03.780 but almost

00:23:04.180 childhood stuff.

00:23:05.920 His brain

00:23:06.500 wasn't even

00:23:07.060 developed at

00:23:07.680 18.

00:23:08.760 Come on.

00:23:09.840 I mean,

00:23:10.040 let's be a

00:23:10.480 little bit

00:23:10.800 scientific about

00:23:11.820 it,

00:23:11.980 right?

00:23:12.560 If the

00:23:13.060 science says

00:23:13.540 your brain

00:23:13.960 isn't developed

00:23:14.600 until you're

00:23:15.060 18,

00:23:15.940 Washington Post

00:23:16.780 doing a story

00:23:17.460 about what he

00:23:18.140 said when his

00:23:18.740 brain wasn't

00:23:19.400 fully developed,

00:23:22.400 then you're

00:23:23.020 going to take

00:23:23.320 him out for

00:23:23.940 something he

00:23:24.420 said out of

00:23:25.580 context.

00:23:26.760 Because keep

00:23:27.880 in mind,

00:23:28.780 it's not

00:23:29.200 about what

00:23:29.580 he said.

00:23:30.840 It's about

00:23:31.500 what they

00:23:31.920 say he

00:23:32.360 said.

00:23:33.180 It's not

00:23:33.640 even about

00:23:34.120 what he

00:23:34.420 said.

00:23:35.700 I mean,

00:23:36.140 it's the

00:23:36.340 worst possible

00:23:36.920 thing.

00:23:37.620 First of all,

00:23:38.260 don't bug,

00:23:39.320 you know,

00:23:39.560 don't dig

00:23:40.360 through somebody's

00:23:41.040 18-year-old

00:23:41.780 turds.

00:23:43.100 Second of all,

00:23:44.460 don't lie

00:23:45.180 about it.

00:23:46.800 I mean,

00:23:47.140 you've just

00:23:47.720 compounded the

00:23:48.500 worst thing you

00:23:49.020 could do,

00:23:49.720 and then you

00:23:50.380 lied about it.

00:23:51.340 That's like two

00:23:51.860 of the worst

00:23:52.280 things.

00:23:52.980 And then you're

00:23:53.760 going to put a

00:23:54.100 hit piece in a

00:23:55.020 newspaper?

00:23:56.420 I mean,

00:23:56.680 this is

00:23:58.080 disgusting

00:23:59.440 behavior.

00:24:01.040 Well,

00:24:01.500 an interesting

00:24:01.900 thing happened.

00:24:04.460 So Alex

00:24:05.180 Epstein,

00:24:05.600 it turns out,

00:24:06.160 as I mentioned

00:24:06.860 before,

00:24:07.220 has lots of

00:24:08.060 friends.

00:24:09.820 You know,

00:24:10.020 authors often

00:24:10.720 know each

00:24:11.140 other,

00:24:11.520 and he knew

00:24:12.600 a number of

00:24:13.080 people,

00:24:13.620 and I was

00:24:14.160 on his list,

00:24:15.260 of people he

00:24:15.820 said,

00:24:16.080 hey,

00:24:17.060 maybe you

00:24:17.880 want to say

00:24:18.260 something about

00:24:18.760 this before

00:24:19.400 this hit piece

00:24:20.120 lands.

00:24:20.860 So I did.

00:24:21.740 I talked

00:24:22.440 about it,

00:24:23.040 and I know

00:24:23.520 he tweeted

00:24:24.280 some clips

00:24:25.060 of me talking

00:24:25.640 about it,

00:24:26.440 and other

00:24:26.860 people did

00:24:27.280 too,

00:24:27.880 you know,

00:24:28.080 with bigger

00:24:28.480 accounts,

00:24:29.120 and people

00:24:30.380 have different

00:24:30.880 reach.

00:24:32.140 And I

00:24:34.040 don't know

00:24:34.400 if this is

00:24:35.020 true yet,

00:24:36.560 but it looks

00:24:37.040 like the

00:24:37.360 Washington Post

00:24:37.920 pulled back

00:24:38.500 the story.

00:24:40.240 Now,

00:24:40.920 if the story

00:24:42.120 had been

00:24:42.560 true,

00:24:44.140 and they

00:24:44.540 could support

00:24:45.160 it,

00:24:46.040 do you think

00:24:46.780 they would

00:24:47.180 have pulled

00:24:47.620 it back?

00:24:48.800 Now,

00:24:49.060 maybe it just

00:24:49.500 wasn't done.

00:24:50.320 Maybe they

00:24:50.680 needed to talk

00:24:51.320 to a few

00:24:51.780 more people.

00:24:52.380 That's

00:24:52.580 possible.

00:24:53.080 We don't

00:24:53.320 really know.

00:24:54.340 But the

00:24:55.080 managing editor

00:24:55.900 at the

00:24:57.320 Washington Post

00:24:58.080 wrote this

00:25:00.120 tweet without

00:25:01.080 mentioning what

00:25:02.620 the topic

00:25:03.420 was.

00:25:04.240 So there's

00:25:05.040 no mention

00:25:05.520 of what

00:25:05.840 topic she's

00:25:06.520 talking about,

00:25:07.840 but she

00:25:08.220 tweets this.

00:25:09.500 In the

00:25:10.120 course of

00:25:10.560 reporting the

00:25:11.080 story,

00:25:11.420 the Washington

00:25:11.740 Post's

00:25:12.700 Maxine

00:25:13.260 Joselow

00:25:13.920 has been

00:25:15.160 subjected to

00:25:15.980 vitriol and

00:25:17.080 baseless attacks

00:25:18.060 on social

00:25:18.680 media.

00:25:19.020 She

00:25:19.920 conducts

00:25:20.440 her work

00:25:20.820 with

00:25:21.040 fairness

00:25:21.460 and to

00:25:22.040 the

00:25:22.280 highest

00:25:22.640 standard.

00:25:23.600 And we

00:25:23.820 are proud

00:25:24.260 to count

00:25:24.660 Maxine among

00:25:25.500 our talented

00:25:26.120 staff of

00:25:26.720 journalists.

00:25:27.800 And I'm

00:25:28.140 waiting for

00:25:28.820 something like

00:25:29.840 she was

00:25:30.920 working on

00:25:31.440 a story

00:25:31.880 about,

00:25:33.480 she just

00:25:34.620 published a

00:25:35.200 story about,

00:25:37.540 and the

00:25:37.840 people are

00:25:38.320 complaining about,

00:25:40.480 and the

00:25:40.820 trolls are

00:25:41.320 after her

00:25:41.980 because it's

00:25:44.740 not there.

00:25:45.160 why would

00:25:46.740 they leave

00:25:47.060 that out?

00:25:48.620 It isn't

00:25:49.200 the most

00:25:49.520 important part

00:25:50.160 of the

00:25:50.360 story.

00:25:51.280 Why?

00:25:52.720 What about

00:25:53.200 why?

00:25:54.760 Turns out

00:25:55.600 this is the

00:25:56.220 reporter that

00:25:57.940 was allegedly

00:25:59.200 writing a

00:25:59.780 hit piece on

00:26:00.320 Alex Epstein.

00:26:01.840 And so,

00:26:02.980 Alex's

00:26:03.640 preemptive

00:26:04.840 suppressive

00:26:05.620 attack was

00:26:07.660 so effective

00:26:08.400 that the

00:26:09.580 Washington Post

00:26:10.320 is defending

00:26:11.700 itself in

00:26:12.420 public against

00:26:14.320 the guy that

00:26:15.000 they were

00:26:15.300 trying to

00:26:15.740 destroy.

00:26:17.400 He managed

00:26:18.540 to capture

00:26:19.340 so much

00:26:19.860 energy on

00:26:20.580 his team

00:26:21.120 that they're

00:26:22.660 actually playing

00:26:23.280 defense and

00:26:24.220 they haven't

00:26:24.800 even published

00:26:25.260 the story.

00:26:26.800 They're playing

00:26:27.580 defense on a

00:26:28.540 story they

00:26:29.020 haven't even

00:26:29.600 published.

00:26:30.820 That's how

00:26:31.320 weak their

00:26:32.440 position was.

00:26:34.260 And that's

00:26:34.660 pretty weak.

00:26:37.400 Well,

00:26:39.220 did you see

00:26:40.120 Saturday Night

00:26:41.940 Live?

00:26:42.940 They had a

00:26:43.340 comedian whose

00:26:44.020 name.

00:26:44.400 I can't

00:26:44.760 remember.

00:26:45.420 Carmichael

00:26:45.980 maybe or

00:26:46.560 something.

00:26:48.400 But there's

00:26:50.460 a story in

00:26:51.100 the news about

00:26:52.500 how Saturday

00:26:53.240 Night Live

00:26:54.040 treated the

00:26:55.520 Will Smith

00:26:56.380 slap of

00:26:58.000 Chris Rock.

00:26:59.820 So if you

00:27:00.300 want to know

00:27:00.720 what a slow

00:27:01.320 news day

00:27:01.940 looks like,

00:27:03.220 a slow

00:27:03.720 news day

00:27:04.280 looks like

00:27:05.000 news about

00:27:06.420 an entertainer

00:27:07.500 who's talking

00:27:08.480 about two

00:27:09.700 other entertainers

00:27:10.760 in a different

00:27:12.680 place at a

00:27:13.260 different time,

00:27:14.480 is there

00:27:15.320 anything less

00:27:17.460 newsy than

00:27:19.940 the news

00:27:20.460 talking about

00:27:21.100 an entertainer

00:27:21.840 talking about

00:27:22.360 another entertainer

00:27:23.320 who did

00:27:23.620 something with

00:27:24.100 another entertainer?

00:27:26.920 I don't think

00:27:27.900 you could become

00:27:28.460 less relevant

00:27:29.120 than that.

00:27:31.080 Of course,

00:27:31.740 they had to

00:27:32.040 handle it

00:27:32.460 because it's

00:27:32.780 a big story.

00:27:33.820 But that's

00:27:35.540 where we're

00:27:35.860 at.

00:27:36.640 The news is

00:27:37.660 about people

00:27:38.220 talking about

00:27:38.780 the news

00:27:39.260 talking about

00:27:39.820 the people

00:27:40.180 talking about

00:27:40.840 the news

00:27:41.260 or something

00:27:42.160 like that.

00:27:44.140 There's a

00:27:44.860 little dust

00:27:45.840 up between

00:27:46.440 Jon Stewart

00:27:47.300 and Andrew

00:27:48.720 Sullivan.

00:27:50.020 Now,

00:27:50.360 Jon Stewart

00:27:50.940 famously of

00:27:51.840 the,

00:27:52.780 used to be

00:27:54.340 the daily

00:27:54.900 news guy,

00:27:55.960 daily news,

00:27:56.580 daily show,

00:27:57.180 daily show

00:27:57.700 guy.

00:27:58.560 And he's

00:27:59.280 come back

00:27:59.700 with his

00:28:00.200 new show,

00:28:01.880 streaming,

00:28:02.580 I think,

00:28:02.880 and he

00:28:04.440 had Andrew

00:28:04.960 Sullivan as

00:28:05.560 a guest.

00:28:06.860 And when

00:28:07.420 Andrew

00:28:07.740 Sullivan

00:28:08.040 arrived,

00:28:09.100 it turns out

00:28:09.580 there was

00:28:09.980 another guest

00:28:10.700 that he

00:28:11.040 didn't know

00:28:11.340 about.

00:28:12.020 And the

00:28:12.300 other guest

00:28:12.720 was basically

00:28:13.740 there to

00:28:14.160 make Andrew

00:28:14.660 Sullivan look

00:28:15.180 bad.

00:28:16.160 And then

00:28:16.600 there was

00:28:16.820 a little

00:28:17.000 disagreement

00:28:17.400 about that.

00:28:18.140 And Andrew

00:28:18.500 Sullivan's

00:28:19.000 version is

00:28:20.560 that the

00:28:21.680 booker told

00:28:23.200 him he would

00:28:23.660 be the only

00:28:24.140 guest.

00:28:25.760 Now,

00:28:26.080 Jon Stewart,

00:28:27.440 who I would

00:28:28.240 consider highly

00:28:28.920 credible,

00:28:30.440 says that

00:28:30.960 didn't happen

00:28:31.480 and that the

00:28:32.340 booker told

00:28:33.540 him exactly

00:28:34.060 the story

00:28:34.580 and that

00:28:35.260 Andrew

00:28:36.540 Sullivan's

00:28:37.100 complaints

00:28:37.480 are baseless.

00:28:39.400 Now,

00:28:39.680 here's what's

00:28:40.100 interesting.

00:28:42.200 Jon Stewart

00:28:42.800 is very

00:28:43.300 credible,

00:28:44.920 don't you

00:28:45.280 think?

00:28:45.700 Even if you

00:28:46.240 disagree with

00:28:46.840 him.

00:28:48.440 He's got a

00:28:49.340 pretty long

00:28:49.980 public record

00:28:50.800 of not

00:28:51.560 lying to

00:28:52.160 you.

00:28:52.940 Am I

00:28:53.220 right?

00:28:54.360 I mean,

00:28:54.580 he's not a

00:28:54.980 liar.

00:28:55.940 Does anybody

00:28:56.580 think he's a

00:28:57.220 liar?

00:28:58.060 I mean,

00:28:58.220 you could

00:28:58.460 disagree with

00:28:59.000 everything he

00:28:59.720 believes or

00:29:00.240 said,

00:29:00.840 but you

00:29:01.480 probably wouldn't

00:29:02.220 call him a

00:29:02.720 liar.

00:29:04.140 How about

00:29:04.620 Andrew Sullivan?

00:29:06.180 Same story,

00:29:07.520 interestingly.

00:29:08.700 You rarely have

00:29:09.640 a story with

00:29:10.220 two people of

00:29:10.860 this level of

00:29:11.520 credibility.

00:29:12.960 That's what's

00:29:13.620 weird about the

00:29:14.180 story.

00:29:14.980 Usually there's

00:29:15.600 like a known

00:29:16.220 liar who's

00:29:17.800 saying something

00:29:19.140 about another

00:29:19.700 known liar,

00:29:21.000 or at least

00:29:21.420 one of them

00:29:21.940 is a known

00:29:22.360 liar and the

00:29:22.980 other one

00:29:23.240 isn't.

00:29:24.320 But when

00:29:24.720 do you ever

00:29:25.560 get a situation

00:29:26.380 where there's

00:29:27.620 a really

00:29:27.960 specific fact

00:29:29.420 in question

00:29:30.040 and both

00:29:31.160 people are

00:29:32.640 actually very

00:29:33.240 credible.

00:29:35.300 So let me

00:29:36.220 add my

00:29:37.000 filter to

00:29:37.560 this.

00:29:38.620 So the

00:29:39.020 claim by

00:29:39.480 Andrew Sullivan

00:29:40.040 is that he

00:29:40.680 had been

00:29:41.060 told that he

00:29:43.180 would be

00:29:43.400 alone,

00:29:43.940 but then there

00:29:44.300 was another

00:29:44.600 guest to

00:29:45.100 make him

00:29:45.400 look foolish.

00:29:46.720 This exact

00:29:47.740 thing has

00:29:49.160 happened to

00:29:49.600 me.

00:29:50.500 Now I'm not

00:29:51.160 going to name

00:29:51.620 the show that

00:29:52.200 this happened

00:29:53.080 because I think

00:29:54.480 the host of

00:29:55.020 the show

00:29:55.380 probably didn't

00:29:56.600 know it.

00:29:57.800 Because the

00:29:58.260 bookers work

00:30:00.020 with the

00:30:00.380 host very

00:30:01.200 closely of

00:30:01.840 course, but I

00:30:03.040 don't know

00:30:03.360 that the

00:30:03.660 host necessarily

00:30:04.960 hears everything

00:30:06.160 that the

00:30:06.560 bookers said

00:30:07.080 to the

00:30:07.380 guest, right?

00:30:08.400 So I'm

00:30:09.480 not going to

00:30:10.420 mention the

00:30:10.880 name of the

00:30:11.320 host, but

00:30:12.320 it was a

00:30:12.760 well-known

00:30:13.900 national brand

00:30:15.200 show.

00:30:17.620 I will tell

00:30:18.480 you it wasn't

00:30:19.060 on Fox

00:30:19.560 News, because

00:30:21.000 I often say

00:30:21.660 this about

00:30:22.040 Fox News,

00:30:22.900 especially if

00:30:24.840 I'm going to

00:30:25.240 criticize them

00:30:25.980 about how

00:30:26.400 they handle

00:30:26.720 a story or

00:30:27.240 something.

00:30:27.720 I'd love to

00:30:28.300 add this.

00:30:29.640 Fox News is

00:30:30.460 really well

00:30:31.040 produced.

00:30:32.220 Really well

00:30:32.980 produced.

00:30:33.620 It just

00:30:34.020 impresses me

00:30:34.620 every time I

00:30:35.100 work with

00:30:35.460 them.

00:30:36.120 So say

00:30:36.500 what you

00:30:36.800 will about

00:30:37.220 their opinions

00:30:37.880 and the

00:30:38.560 hosts, etc.

00:30:39.400 Well, the

00:30:39.840 hosts are all

00:30:40.280 highly talented,

00:30:41.540 which is because

00:30:42.160 they have good

00:30:42.800 management,

00:30:44.560 basically.

00:30:46.080 So it's

00:30:46.660 not Fox

00:30:47.760 News.

00:30:48.360 Fox News has

00:30:49.180 great bookers.

00:30:51.000 Great bookers.

00:30:52.120 I mean, just

00:30:52.480 the best in the

00:30:53.060 business.

00:30:54.420 And so

00:30:55.160 it wasn't

00:30:55.440 them.

00:30:55.640 But it

00:30:56.660 was another

00:30:57.320 national brand

00:30:58.100 and they

00:30:59.560 did the same

00:31:00.000 thing to me.

00:31:00.820 Invited me

00:31:01.640 with the

00:31:02.900 clear indication

00:31:04.580 that I would

00:31:05.520 be the only

00:31:05.980 guest.

00:31:06.940 Now, they

00:31:07.340 didn't say

00:31:07.740 it specifically,

00:31:08.960 but that is

00:31:10.040 the default

00:31:10.620 assumption.

00:31:12.240 If somebody

00:31:12.760 says, would

00:31:13.220 you like to

00:31:13.700 come on my

00:31:14.260 show, you

00:31:15.860 assume that

00:31:17.080 you're going

00:31:18.440 to be there

00:31:20.760 alone.

00:31:21.100 know, the

00:31:22.720 Bill

00:31:22.880 Marshal

00:31:23.180 is very

00:31:23.680 clear that

00:31:24.820 you're on

00:31:25.100 a panel

00:31:25.520 or you're

00:31:26.100 going to

00:31:26.280 be interviewed

00:31:27.100 separately.

00:31:28.420 The Bill

00:31:29.000 Marshal

00:31:29.300 did a really

00:31:29.920 good job

00:31:30.340 of booking,

00:31:31.080 so they

00:31:31.420 also are

00:31:31.820 very

00:31:32.020 professional.

00:31:32.480 Okay, it

00:31:36.400 was

00:31:36.480 Smirconish.

00:31:39.760 If you're

00:31:40.380 just going to

00:31:40.760 sit there and

00:31:41.440 guess all

00:31:42.220 day.

00:31:42.540 Yeah, now I

00:31:44.580 like Smirconish

00:31:45.560 because I

00:31:46.540 think he's a

00:31:47.140 pretty straight

00:31:47.740 shooter.

00:31:49.680 But the

00:31:50.400 booker did

00:31:51.040 not mention

00:31:51.620 that there

00:31:52.180 would be

00:31:52.420 somebody on

00:31:53.000 the show

00:31:53.380 to basically

00:31:54.680 make me look

00:31:55.440 like an

00:31:55.820 idiot and

00:31:56.900 then use

00:31:57.860 up my

00:31:58.160 time so

00:31:59.200 I wouldn't

00:31:59.440 have time

00:31:59.840 to defend

00:32:00.260 myself.

00:32:01.640 Now, the

00:32:02.620 only thing I'm

00:32:03.120 telling you is

00:32:03.680 that I'm

00:32:04.100 pretty sure

00:32:04.720 it's fairly

00:32:05.980 routine for

00:32:07.960 the booker

00:32:08.700 to maybe

00:32:09.540 not mention

00:32:10.340 somebody else

00:32:10.940 would be

00:32:11.220 there.

00:32:13.660 Am I

00:32:14.300 right?

00:32:14.480 So if I

00:32:15.700 had to bet

00:32:16.120 who's right

00:32:16.740 I think

00:32:18.040 Jon Stewart

00:32:18.880 talked to

00:32:19.380 his booker

00:32:20.000 and then the

00:32:21.160 booker said

00:32:21.680 oh yeah I

00:32:22.300 told him.

00:32:23.060 I told him

00:32:23.720 the truth.

00:32:24.720 Now what's

00:32:25.180 Jon Stewart

00:32:26.120 going to do?

00:32:27.460 He hired

00:32:28.200 this guy.

00:32:28.600 This is his

00:32:29.020 own employee.

00:32:30.080 Do you

00:32:30.320 think Jon

00:32:30.780 Stewart is

00:32:31.240 going to

00:32:31.420 say in

00:32:31.820 public,

00:32:32.900 you know,

00:32:33.780 I asked

00:32:34.240 my booker

00:32:34.780 he said

00:32:35.160 he didn't

00:32:35.460 do it but

00:32:35.840 I don't

00:32:36.100 trust him.

00:32:37.080 I don't

00:32:37.400 trust my

00:32:37.840 own employee

00:32:38.280 so I'm

00:32:38.620 going to

00:32:38.760 go with

00:32:39.120 what Andrew

00:32:39.600 said.

00:32:40.480 You can't

00:32:40.980 really do

00:32:41.380 that can

00:32:41.780 you?

00:32:42.700 Can't really

00:32:43.200 do that.

00:32:43.640 So I

00:32:44.540 think you

00:32:44.840 have a

00:32:45.100 case of

00:32:45.500 Jon Stewart

00:32:46.040 backing his

00:32:46.740 employee which

00:32:48.340 is I don't

00:32:49.640 think that's

00:32:50.060 the wrong

00:32:50.740 instinct.

00:32:52.700 I don't

00:32:53.400 think it's

00:32:53.740 the wrong

00:32:54.020 instinct.

00:32:55.600 But it

00:32:56.200 might be the

00:32:56.600 wrong way

00:32:57.420 to go.

00:32:58.960 And I'm

00:33:00.040 going to

00:33:00.220 back Andrew

00:33:00.940 Sullivan.

00:33:02.040 If I had to

00:33:02.920 bet on it I

00:33:03.640 think Andrew

00:33:04.160 Sullivan's telling

00:33:04.900 you the

00:33:05.240 straight scoop

00:33:06.240 and that he

00:33:07.580 was told by

00:33:08.380 the booker

00:33:08.780 as one

00:33:09.060 person.

00:33:09.720 Now there

00:33:09.920 were other

00:33:10.600 emails that I

00:33:11.300 think may have

00:33:12.000 told him there

00:33:12.460 were other

00:33:12.720 people there but

00:33:14.000 it's not

00:33:14.500 reasonable to

00:33:15.120 ask a busy

00:33:15.980 public person

00:33:16.860 to look at

00:33:18.000 all the

00:33:18.260 details in

00:33:18.820 an email.

00:33:19.700 It just

00:33:20.420 isn't because

00:33:21.180 we don't.

00:33:22.580 Ask how many

00:33:23.400 people have

00:33:23.860 sent me an

00:33:24.300 email with

00:33:24.740 some details

00:33:25.280 in it that

00:33:26.200 I didn't

00:33:26.500 read.

00:33:27.560 A lot.

00:33:28.960 A lot.

00:33:31.780 One of the

00:33:32.740 jerkiest things

00:33:33.940 that famous

00:33:35.040 people do and

00:33:36.080 I'm going to

00:33:36.940 confess this is

00:33:38.780 that when

00:33:39.140 people make

00:33:39.740 our life

00:33:40.220 hard we

00:33:42.460 push back

00:33:43.260 really hard

00:33:43.780 because you

00:33:46.440 can't have

00:33:46.820 too many

00:33:47.160 people doing

00:33:47.680 that.

00:33:49.260 So my

00:33:50.840 big pet

00:33:51.560 peeve is

00:33:52.180 somebody asking

00:33:52.820 me to do

00:33:53.380 something to

00:33:54.680 which I say

00:33:55.240 yes and

00:33:56.340 then there's

00:33:56.720 an add-on.

00:33:58.280 This is a

00:33:58.800 typical one

00:33:59.340 with me.

00:34:00.480 Scott would

00:34:01.180 you mind

00:34:01.640 doing a

00:34:02.280 four minute

00:34:02.960 interview for

00:34:05.740 an article

00:34:06.760 about you?

00:34:07.360 And I'll

00:34:08.220 be like

00:34:08.540 four minutes

00:34:09.360 for some

00:34:10.280 publicity?

00:34:11.320 Sure.

00:34:12.420 So I'll do

00:34:12.820 the four minute

00:34:13.460 interview and

00:34:14.500 then at the

00:34:14.840 end they'll

00:34:15.260 say and

00:34:16.540 would it be

00:34:17.900 too much

00:34:18.300 trouble if

00:34:19.580 you drew

00:34:19.960 us a

00:34:20.540 cartoon that

00:34:21.240 we could run

00:34:21.800 just with

00:34:22.220 the article?

00:34:23.620 And this

00:34:24.080 happens to

00:34:24.520 be continuously.

00:34:25.960 So when I

00:34:26.360 say yes I

00:34:27.360 agree to the

00:34:28.420 thing that I

00:34:28.860 can handle and

00:34:30.000 then immediately

00:34:30.680 they bait and

00:34:32.000 switch and

00:34:32.540 offer the

00:34:32.960 thing that

00:34:34.140 sounds reasonable

00:34:35.680 right?

00:34:36.160 don't you

00:34:37.060 think it

00:34:37.320 sounds pretty

00:34:37.760 reasonable to

00:34:39.040 ask a

00:34:39.560 cartoonist to

00:34:41.140 just whip up a

00:34:42.120 little cartoon

00:34:42.740 for your

00:34:44.040 article?

00:34:45.020 It's pretty

00:34:45.420 reasonable.

00:34:46.460 I say no.

00:34:48.400 Nope.

00:34:49.200 And when they

00:34:49.640 say well we

00:34:50.360 can't the article

00:34:51.420 be no good

00:34:52.060 without it I

00:34:52.680 say well not

00:34:53.200 my problem.

00:34:54.160 I gave you my

00:34:54.800 four minutes.

00:34:56.100 So when somebody

00:34:56.760 does the bait

00:34:57.380 and switch it

00:34:58.700 almost doesn't

00:34:59.580 matter to me

00:35:00.100 what the switch

00:35:00.700 is.

00:35:01.980 My just

00:35:02.760 automatic I

00:35:03.480 say okay I'm

00:35:03.980 dealing with

00:35:04.560 I'm dealing with

00:35:05.420 somebody who

00:35:05.920 can't be

00:35:06.260 trusted.

00:35:07.880 If you had

00:35:08.540 told me in

00:35:08.980 the first

00:35:09.300 place I

00:35:09.980 would have

00:35:10.180 said yes

00:35:10.520 or no.

00:35:11.140 But if you

00:35:11.560 could add it

00:35:12.180 on it's

00:35:12.580 just no

00:35:12.960 automatically.

00:35:14.020 It doesn't

00:35:14.360 even matter if

00:35:14.820 it's reasonable.

00:35:16.180 If it hasn't

00:35:16.980 been disclosed

00:35:18.160 from moment

00:35:18.940 one nope as a

00:35:21.240 matter of

00:35:21.520 principle.

00:35:22.720 Now do you

00:35:23.760 know how much

00:35:24.160 trouble you get

00:35:24.760 in when you're

00:35:25.460 that much of

00:35:26.020 an asshole?

00:35:28.220 They don't

00:35:28.720 like it.

00:35:29.880 They don't

00:35:30.200 like it.

00:35:31.340 But so far I

00:35:32.280 always get away

00:35:32.780 with it.

00:35:33.100 Lemon Minty

00:35:37.280 is saying

00:35:37.660 the thing

00:35:38.460 famous people

00:35:39.180 think is

00:35:39.900 that we

00:35:40.220 care.

00:35:41.460 Well

00:35:41.720 unfortunately

00:35:43.360 you do.

00:35:44.760 Maybe not

00:35:45.240 you specifically

00:35:45.940 but the

00:35:47.480 truth is that

00:35:48.240 people care

00:35:48.800 about famous

00:35:49.340 people even

00:35:49.860 if they

00:35:50.600 shouldn't.

00:35:52.360 All right

00:35:52.680 so this

00:35:55.560 is the

00:35:55.920 emptiest

00:35:56.360 news day

00:35:57.100 I've seen

00:35:57.560 in a while.

00:35:58.200 Everything

00:35:58.420 about Ukraine

00:35:59.160 looks like

00:35:59.660 bullshit or

00:36:00.440 the same

00:36:00.820 story we've

00:36:01.420 already heard.

00:36:01.940 are there

00:36:05.880 some major

00:36:06.440 stories that

00:36:07.120 aren't being

00:36:07.480 told?

00:36:09.660 I feel like

00:36:10.560 it.

00:36:11.580 All right

00:36:11.740 how many of

00:36:12.220 you know

00:36:12.700 if the

00:36:13.260 supply chain

00:36:14.280 problem of

00:36:15.100 the ships

00:36:16.440 that were

00:36:16.840 stranded

00:36:17.340 off the

00:36:18.200 docks in

00:36:19.840 America

00:36:20.400 is that

00:36:21.420 worse or

00:36:21.960 better than

00:36:22.460 the last

00:36:22.800 time you

00:36:23.100 heard about

00:36:23.460 it?

00:36:25.480 Isn't

00:36:25.960 that a

00:36:26.200 pretty big

00:36:26.560 deal?

00:36:28.580 That's a

00:36:29.140 pretty big

00:36:29.520 deal right?

00:36:30.440 Is the

00:36:30.860 supply chain

00:36:31.560 problem

00:36:31.860 getting

00:36:32.260 worse or

00:36:33.400 better?

00:36:35.620 Come on

00:36:36.220 that's like

00:36:36.560 the biggest

00:36:36.960 thing in

00:36:37.300 the world.

00:36:38.280 You don't

00:36:38.860 even know

00:36:39.180 the answer

00:36:39.520 to it.

00:36:40.300 There's

00:36:40.720 nothing that

00:36:41.200 will affect

00:36:41.620 you more

00:36:42.220 than what

00:36:43.520 is the

00:36:43.840 situation

00:36:44.260 with the

00:36:44.660 supply chain.

00:36:45.940 If the

00:36:46.560 supply chain

00:36:47.080 is 10%

00:36:47.740 worse than

00:36:48.300 the last

00:36:48.640 time we

00:36:48.960 heard about

00:36:49.340 it we're

00:36:50.600 fucked.

00:36:52.000 We're

00:36:52.480 fucked if

00:36:53.880 it's 10%

00:36:54.480 worse than

00:36:55.000 the last

00:36:55.440 time I

00:36:55.860 heard about

00:36:56.240 it.

00:36:56.800 Because that

00:36:57.400 means there's

00:36:57.900 nothing that's

00:36:58.400 going to save

00:36:58.800 it.

00:36:59.000 But what

00:37:00.140 if it's

00:37:00.400 10%

00:37:00.820 better?

00:37:01.800 Or 50%

00:37:02.780 better?

00:37:04.140 Well that

00:37:04.560 means it

00:37:05.060 wasn't much

00:37:05.500 of a

00:37:05.720 problem and

00:37:06.260 it's on

00:37:06.580 its way to

00:37:06.940 being solved.

00:37:08.760 Unless China

00:37:10.240 has more

00:37:10.740 coronavirus

00:37:11.220 problems.

00:37:13.020 So I

00:37:13.820 don't read

00:37:14.180 supply chain

00:37:14.780 magazine yet.

00:37:15.920 But it

00:37:16.280 should be a

00:37:16.660 front page

00:37:17.200 story.

00:37:18.460 Remember we

00:37:18.940 saw the

00:37:19.320 coronavirus

00:37:19.780 stats on

00:37:22.360 every show

00:37:24.000 for months

00:37:24.940 and months

00:37:25.220 and months

00:37:25.460 and months.

00:37:25.740 and nobody

00:37:27.220 is going

00:37:27.460 to show

00:37:27.720 us how

00:37:27.960 many ships

00:37:28.520 are out

00:37:29.720 to sea

00:37:30.160 in the

00:37:30.480 supply

00:37:30.760 chain?

00:37:32.760 Yeah, how

00:37:33.420 about the

00:37:34.360 border?

00:37:35.580 Every now

00:37:36.080 and then Fox

00:37:36.580 News will

00:37:36.980 talk about

00:37:37.420 the border.

00:37:38.660 But are

00:37:39.540 more people

00:37:40.060 coming across

00:37:40.620 the border

00:37:40.980 or fewer?

00:37:42.680 I don't

00:37:43.040 know.

00:37:45.180 I did hear

00:37:46.040 just before I

00:37:46.680 went live

00:37:47.040 there was

00:37:47.300 some mass

00:37:48.780 shooting in

00:37:49.520 California.

00:37:50.300 I haven't

00:37:50.500 seen the

00:37:50.920 I haven't

00:37:55.000 seen the

00:37:55.340 news on

00:37:55.680 them.

00:37:58.060 All right,

00:37:58.580 something in

00:37:59.160 Sacramento,

00:38:01.200 automatic

00:38:01.680 weapons used.

00:38:03.460 Automatic

00:38:03.860 weapons.

00:38:04.980 Yeah, I

00:38:05.400 heard, I

00:38:06.940 think it

00:38:07.180 was Jack

00:38:08.000 Posavik say

00:38:08.720 that it

00:38:10.020 sounded like

00:38:10.540 automatic

00:38:10.900 weapons.

00:38:12.540 Six dead

00:38:13.200 in downtown.

00:38:16.260 Title 42

00:38:17.120 going away?

00:38:18.680 What's that

00:38:19.220 mean?

00:38:20.920 All right.

00:38:26.000 Didn't see

00:38:26.640 backup ships

00:38:27.440 at Long

00:38:27.920 Beach.

00:38:28.380 Oh, I

00:38:28.820 was just

00:38:29.140 in L.A.

00:38:29.760 and didn't

00:38:30.320 see backed

00:38:30.960 up ships

00:38:31.520 at Long

00:38:32.160 Beach.

00:38:33.300 Would you

00:38:33.900 see them?

00:38:34.500 You would,

00:38:35.020 wouldn't you?

00:38:37.380 All right.

00:38:38.420 Well, if

00:38:38.840 anybody knows

00:38:39.300 the answer

00:38:39.600 to that,

00:38:40.040 I'd love

00:38:40.880 to hear

00:38:41.220 about it.

00:38:42.300 Is there

00:38:42.680 any topic

00:38:43.380 that we

00:38:45.860 haven't talked

00:38:46.300 about?

00:38:46.680 I generally

00:38:47.300 don't talk

00:38:48.100 about the

00:38:48.420 mass shootings

00:38:48.960 too much

00:38:49.480 because I

00:38:50.320 just don't

00:38:50.660 like to

00:38:50.960 give them

00:38:51.280 attention.

00:38:54.440 Tennis

00:38:54.940 player

00:38:55.240 dropped

00:38:55.580 down to

00:38:56.080 we don't

00:38:56.320 know why.

00:38:57.160 Okay.

00:38:58.400 That's

00:38:58.720 probably

00:38:59.040 a drug

00:38:59.500 test.

00:39:02.460 I don't

00:39:03.160 know why

00:39:03.580 that you

00:39:04.700 feel that

00:39:05.180 this is

00:39:05.760 a comment

00:39:07.800 you need

00:39:08.180 to make.

00:39:08.600 the ships

00:39:13.620 are parked

00:39:14.060 outside the

00:39:14.640 view.

00:39:15.020 Yeah,

00:39:15.240 I think

00:39:15.700 that should

00:39:16.100 be.

00:39:18.300 Oh,

00:39:18.680 God.

00:39:20.020 What is

00:39:20.400 wrong with

00:39:20.860 this guy?

00:39:22.520 All right,

00:39:22.820 you were

00:39:23.040 hidden.

00:39:27.380 The

00:39:27.780 detention

00:39:28.360 of Brittany

00:39:28.940 Griner,

00:39:29.580 I don't

00:39:29.780 know about

00:39:30.080 that.

00:39:32.100 So,

00:39:32.580 somebody says

00:39:33.060 port delays

00:39:33.660 in Shanghai

00:39:34.240 are getting

00:39:34.720 worse.

00:39:35.020 well,

00:39:35.320 that makes

00:39:35.680 sense.

00:39:36.020 Oh,

00:39:43.820 the

00:39:43.940 Title 42

00:39:44.780 was what

00:39:45.280 allowed us

00:39:45.740 to turn

00:39:46.220 back

00:39:46.600 immigrants

00:39:47.260 because of

00:39:47.940 COVID.

00:39:54.020 Oh,

00:39:56.740 the

00:39:56.860 Daily Wire

00:39:57.420 making

00:39:57.860 kid shows

00:39:59.180 and selling

00:39:59.560 razors.

00:40:01.640 Yeah,

00:40:01.920 the Daily

00:40:02.300 Wire is

00:40:02.940 funny.

00:40:04.160 One of

00:40:04.780 their sponsors

00:40:05.320 dropped,

00:40:05.760 I guess

00:40:06.140 it was

00:40:06.340 Harry's

00:40:06.940 razors.

00:40:08.200 And so

00:40:08.540 the Daily

00:40:09.900 Wire CEO

00:40:10.460 started his

00:40:11.220 own razor

00:40:12.040 business.

00:40:14.700 That's one

00:40:15.320 way to go.

00:40:16.180 Yeah,

00:40:16.440 and the

00:40:16.880 commercial

00:40:17.220 was that

00:40:17.760 Jeremy

00:40:18.120 Boring?

00:40:19.140 The

00:40:19.620 commercial

00:40:19.920 was actually

00:40:20.500 really good.

00:40:22.760 There are

00:40:23.300 very few

00:40:23.680 commercials you

00:40:24.360 watch from

00:40:24.860 beginning to

00:40:25.380 end because

00:40:26.940 just the

00:40:28.260 content is

00:40:28.860 good,

00:40:29.180 but that

00:40:29.420 was one

00:40:29.700 of them.

00:40:30.600 Yeah,

00:40:30.740 it's called

00:40:31.020 Jerry's

00:40:31.460 Razors,

00:40:31.920 is it?

00:40:33.460 Oh,

00:40:33.900 Brittany is

00:40:34.360 the U.S.

00:40:34.740 basketball player

00:40:35.360 being held

00:40:35.720 in Russia.

00:40:36.920 Yeah,

00:40:37.380 you know,

00:40:38.380 I don't

00:40:39.580 know the

00:40:39.880 details of

00:40:40.480 that.

00:40:41.600 I mean,

00:40:42.000 I know what

00:40:42.440 the accusation

00:40:43.280 is,

00:40:43.540 but we

00:40:43.760 don't know

00:40:44.080 what's

00:40:44.340 really

00:40:44.820 happening

00:40:45.160 there.

00:40:45.820 I'm not

00:40:46.240 sure that's

00:40:46.660 political

00:40:47.080 exactly.

00:40:51.220 So the

00:40:51.820 Babylon Bee

00:40:52.400 is still

00:40:52.780 banned from

00:40:53.260 Twitter.

00:40:54.200 You know,

00:40:54.480 here's the

00:40:54.860 thing with

00:40:55.380 being banned

00:40:57.480 from Twitter.

00:40:58.520 If Twitter

00:40:59.540 gives you an

00:41:00.160 option to

00:41:00.760 remove your

00:41:01.360 tweet,

00:41:02.740 and it's

00:41:03.040 not like the

00:41:03.820 world's most

00:41:04.360 important tweet,

00:41:05.140 and you

00:41:05.360 don't do

00:41:05.780 it,

00:41:07.280 you know,

00:41:09.980 you should.

00:41:10.760 Was Tucker

00:41:11.280 banned?

00:41:16.040 You got

00:41:16.680 banned?

00:41:17.160 Somebody got

00:41:17.540 banned?

00:41:22.560 Constantine

00:41:23.000 says,

00:41:23.420 Scott,

00:41:23.820 you are being

00:41:24.460 dragged as a

00:41:25.280 modern Holocaust

00:41:26.100 denier for

00:41:26.820 your denial of

00:41:27.580 Russian atrocities

00:41:28.420 last week in

00:41:29.060 Ukraine.

00:41:30.040 Do you really

00:41:30.720 think you were

00:41:31.240 right on this?

00:41:32.460 Well,

00:41:32.740 Constantine,

00:41:33.800 let me talk

00:41:34.600 to all the

00:41:35.060 fucking idiots.

00:41:36.620 If you think

00:41:37.460 that me not

00:41:38.840 believing stories

00:41:39.800 out of a war

00:41:40.400 zone is the

00:41:41.100 same as

00:41:41.560 denying them,

00:41:45.140 then you

00:41:45.960 don't understand

00:41:46.620 much about

00:41:47.220 how words

00:41:48.080 work or

00:41:48.720 thinking or

00:41:49.940 the fog of

00:41:52.000 war or

00:41:52.980 anything.

00:41:54.120 So a

00:41:55.080 question about

00:41:56.040 my opinion

00:41:56.720 about this

00:41:57.400 is that

00:41:58.720 you know

00:41:59.440 how this

00:41:59.800 works,

00:42:00.180 right?

00:42:01.260 People

00:42:01.640 use,

00:42:02.400 people drag

00:42:03.200 famous people

00:42:04.020 to make

00:42:04.500 their own

00:42:04.960 point.

00:42:06.540 So if

00:42:06.820 their own

00:42:07.240 point is

00:42:07.960 that these

00:42:08.580 are real,

00:42:09.180 they'll take

00:42:09.520 somebody who

00:42:10.220 said,

00:42:10.840 oh,

00:42:11.100 I don't

00:42:11.400 believe

00:42:11.760 information

00:42:12.280 coming out

00:42:12.740 of a

00:42:12.960 war zone,

00:42:13.820 and then

00:42:14.300 they'll

00:42:14.720 turn it

00:42:18.020 into something

00:42:18.520 else.

00:42:19.260 So me

00:42:20.000 being dragged

00:42:20.800 only means

00:42:21.420 that somebody

00:42:21.840 decided to

00:42:22.740 take advantage

00:42:23.620 of somebody

00:42:24.980 else's fame

00:42:26.240 to get some

00:42:27.380 attention for

00:42:27.960 their opinion.

00:42:28.600 It usually

00:42:29.020 doesn't mean

00:42:29.420 anything about

00:42:29.920 me.

00:42:30.860 The person

00:42:31.520 getting dragged

00:42:32.300 is just a

00:42:33.160 vehicle to

00:42:34.340 boost somebody

00:42:35.140 else's opinion.

00:42:36.020 It's not,

00:42:36.900 it almost never

00:42:37.660 is about the

00:42:38.120 famous person.

00:42:45.420 You're a

00:42:46.060 post-ban

00:42:46.880 for,

00:42:47.640 remember what?

00:42:50.000 Yeah.

00:42:51.460 Oh,

00:42:51.680 here's a

00:42:52.140 photo of

00:42:52.600 all the

00:42:52.880 tankers

00:42:53.540 off the

00:42:54.420 LA.

00:42:55.340 So there's

00:42:56.200 still a

00:42:56.500 lot of

00:42:56.780 them,

00:42:57.200 but I

00:42:57.420 don't know

00:42:57.660 if that's

00:42:57.980 more,

00:42:58.820 is that

00:42:59.200 more tankers

00:42:59.940 or fewer

00:43:00.480 tankers than

00:43:01.120 the last

00:43:01.420 time we

00:43:01.740 checked?

00:43:02.440 Which way

00:43:02.880 is it

00:43:03.400 moving?

00:43:03.980 Better or

00:43:04.380 worse?

00:43:08.300 Do you

00:43:08.760 see the

00:43:09.060 Ukrainian

00:43:09.560 war zone

00:43:10.220 marriage

00:43:10.560 proposal?

00:43:11.300 No.

00:43:13.460 Trump

00:43:13.960 bashed

00:43:14.440 Justin

00:43:15.000 Trudeau.

00:43:22.360 Now,

00:43:22.940 have you

00:43:23.240 heard the

00:43:23.840 story that

00:43:25.140 the

00:43:26.100 Hunter

00:43:26.460 laptop

00:43:27.500 thing

00:43:27.960 might be

00:43:28.460 nearing

00:43:28.780 some

00:43:29.060 kind of

00:43:29.380 a legal

00:43:30.760 process?

00:43:32.240 And that

00:43:32.500 that's the

00:43:32.900 reason the

00:43:33.760 mainstream

00:43:34.040 media is

00:43:34.680 suddenly

00:43:35.120 acting like

00:43:35.720 it exists?

00:43:36.580 Because they

00:43:37.040 have to

00:43:37.240 get ahead

00:43:37.560 of it?

00:43:42.700 Gretchen

00:43:43.220 Halfwitmer?

00:43:45.880 That's

00:43:46.400 pretty funny.

00:43:46.860 Biden would

00:43:56.200 have

00:43:56.300 negotiated

00:43:56.800 Greenwich

00:43:57.180 release if

00:43:57.980 she was

00:43:59.380 white and

00:43:59.860 straight.

00:44:00.320 I don't

00:44:00.720 know about

00:44:01.060 that.

00:44:04.660 You're

00:44:05.100 off the

00:44:05.520 air.

00:44:06.080 What's

00:44:06.180 that mean?

00:44:11.240 Scott

00:44:11.680 hasn't

00:44:12.020 talked about

00:44:12.480 the house

00:44:12.980 legalization

00:44:13.840 of pot.

00:44:14.980 Yeah,

00:44:15.200 I talked

00:44:15.500 about

00:44:17.740 it yesterday.

00:44:18.080 Just

00:44:18.520 quickly,

00:44:19.160 my take

00:44:19.520 on that

00:44:19.860 is that

00:44:20.360 the

00:44:20.640 Republicans

00:44:21.080 are just

00:44:21.660 trapped

00:44:24.400 again.

00:44:25.340 They allow

00:44:25.900 themselves to

00:44:26.500 be trapped

00:44:26.940 because they

00:44:27.300 have such

00:44:27.620 an irrational

00:44:28.220 view on

00:44:28.860 marijuana.

00:44:30.060 So the

00:44:30.400 Democrats

00:44:30.820 can just

00:44:31.220 make them

00:44:31.520 look like

00:44:31.880 idiots

00:44:32.260 by making

00:44:34.380 them vote

00:44:34.800 against it.

00:44:35.380 And it

00:44:35.580 looks like

00:44:35.880 that's what

00:44:36.220 they're doing.

00:44:36.580 how do

00:44:45.660 you feel

00:44:46.060 about a

00:44:46.480 pardon

00:44:46.800 of

00:44:47.380 Hunter

00:44:47.700 Biden?

00:44:49.340 Well,

00:44:50.800 the whole

00:44:51.740 point of

00:44:53.260 pardons is

00:44:54.900 that these

00:44:55.520 are people

00:44:55.940 who generally

00:44:56.680 deserved what

00:44:58.040 they got.

00:44:59.220 So the

00:45:00.000 pardons are

00:45:00.580 not based

00:45:01.040 on how

00:45:02.420 deserving

00:45:02.920 somebody is

00:45:03.680 of punishment.

00:45:04.160 the pardons

00:45:06.520 have to be

00:45:07.260 no questions

00:45:08.460 asked or

00:45:09.560 else they

00:45:09.860 don't work.

00:45:11.580 You couldn't

00:45:12.220 have pardons

00:45:13.220 if you

00:45:14.400 could also

00:45:15.060 question the

00:45:16.360 person who

00:45:16.760 gave the

00:45:17.080 pardon to

00:45:18.360 the point

00:45:18.760 of changing

00:45:19.260 the decision.

00:45:20.840 So I guess

00:45:21.560 the question

00:45:21.960 is do you

00:45:23.220 want to have

00:45:23.720 a system

00:45:24.180 where pardons

00:45:24.900 are allowed

00:45:25.480 or not?

00:45:26.620 If you

00:45:27.220 decide pardons

00:45:28.040 are allowed,

00:45:29.260 you just

00:45:29.900 kind of have

00:45:30.340 to shut up

00:45:30.920 about how

00:45:31.360 they're used.

00:45:32.580 I mean,

00:45:32.760 you could

00:45:33.020 talk about

00:45:33.720 it,

00:45:34.160 but once

00:45:35.220 you've bought

00:45:35.620 into the

00:45:36.000 concept that

00:45:36.720 one person

00:45:37.440 can give

00:45:37.860 a pardon,

00:45:39.260 that's the

00:45:39.920 system you

00:45:40.380 bought.

00:45:41.540 And you

00:45:42.280 know that a

00:45:42.860 whole bunch

00:45:43.200 of those

00:45:43.480 pardons will

00:45:44.000 not be

00:45:44.340 legitimate,

00:45:45.240 but you

00:45:45.720 know they're

00:45:46.120 going to

00:45:46.280 happen.

00:45:47.020 And we

00:45:47.300 have a

00:45:47.540 system that

00:45:48.180 prefers to

00:45:50.580 help the

00:45:51.040 innocent over

00:45:53.020 the guilty.

00:45:54.600 So if we

00:45:55.560 have a

00:45:55.980 system that

00:45:56.680 gives more

00:45:58.000 pardons than

00:45:58.780 you think

00:45:59.240 make sense,

00:45:59.980 that's better

00:46:00.740 than a system

00:46:02.380 that doesn't

00:46:02.880 allow pardons.

00:46:04.160 If he

00:46:05.140 had to

00:46:05.440 choose,

00:46:06.320 I'd take

00:46:06.720 the one

00:46:07.060 that's more

00:46:08.260 lenient,

00:46:08.760 not less.

00:46:13.720 All right.

00:46:15.840 Yeah,

00:46:16.440 the Trump

00:46:16.800 rally wasn't

00:46:17.480 really big

00:46:18.020 news because

00:46:18.560 I don't

00:46:18.820 think he

00:46:19.180 said anything

00:46:19.840 that was

00:46:20.140 news necessarily.

00:46:22.600 Scott is

00:46:23.220 delusional.

00:46:24.780 Okay,

00:46:25.000 that's a good

00:46:25.820 logical sentence

00:46:26.720 there.

00:46:26.980 So there's

00:46:30.440 at least

00:46:30.760 one thought

00:46:31.480 that I

00:46:33.200 saw on

00:46:33.640 the internet

00:46:34.640 that the

00:46:36.360 Democrats

00:46:36.680 might want

00:46:37.240 to speed

00:46:37.740 up the

00:46:38.360 Biden

00:46:38.680 prosecution

00:46:39.400 so that

00:46:41.020 dad Biden

00:46:42.640 is still

00:46:43.040 in office

00:46:43.420 to give

00:46:43.900 the kid

00:46:44.600 a pardon.

00:46:46.260 I don't

00:46:46.540 know.

00:46:47.720 That's

00:46:48.200 actually not

00:46:48.900 crazy.

00:46:50.360 If Biden,

00:46:52.400 the president

00:46:52.900 Biden,

00:46:53.540 if he knew

00:46:54.300 that his

00:46:54.660 son were

00:46:55.220 going to

00:46:55.620 be indicted,

00:46:56.960 I think

00:46:57.780 he'd want

00:46:58.120 to stay

00:46:58.400 in office.

00:46:59.600 So how

00:46:59.940 about this?

00:47:00.720 What if

00:47:01.200 the only

00:47:01.580 reason that

00:47:02.160 Biden has

00:47:02.620 not stepped

00:47:03.160 down is

00:47:04.760 that he

00:47:05.020 can't trust

00:47:05.640 his successor

00:47:06.320 to pardon

00:47:07.760 Hunter?

00:47:11.220 And he's

00:47:11.920 an accomplice,

00:47:12.540 right?

00:47:12.780 Maybe.

00:47:14.920 But doesn't

00:47:15.780 it look like

00:47:16.300 the reason

00:47:16.840 we have

00:47:17.420 a brain-dead

00:47:18.420 president is

00:47:19.760 that he has

00:47:20.180 to stay in

00:47:20.640 office to

00:47:21.200 protect his

00:47:21.760 criminal son?

00:47:24.320 Allegedly.

00:47:25.920 Allegedly.

00:47:27.800 Right?

00:47:28.820 I mean,

00:47:29.320 if I had

00:47:30.080 to,

00:47:31.060 it feels

00:47:31.860 to me that

00:47:32.420 Biden would

00:47:32.960 have already

00:47:33.360 stepped down.

00:47:36.660 I would

00:47:37.380 say that

00:47:37.880 there's no

00:47:38.520 way that

00:47:39.320 Joe Biden

00:47:39.840 is not

00:47:40.400 aware that

00:47:41.480 he's now

00:47:41.880 embarrassing

00:47:42.300 himself.

00:47:43.920 Don't you

00:47:44.260 think he's

00:47:44.560 aware of

00:47:44.900 it?

00:47:45.900 He sees

00:47:46.520 his ratings,

00:47:47.740 I mean,

00:47:47.980 there must

00:47:48.220 be some

00:47:48.720 people who

00:47:49.120 tell him

00:47:49.360 the truth.

00:47:50.380 He must

00:47:50.700 be able to

00:47:51.040 see it

00:47:51.280 himself.

00:47:51.720 He's been

00:47:51.960 around long

00:47:52.360 enough.

00:47:52.960 Because the

00:47:53.640 specific kind

00:47:54.540 of cognitive

00:47:55.280 problem that

00:47:55.900 Biden has

00:47:56.620 would not

00:47:58.020 prevent him

00:47:58.660 from understanding

00:47:59.540 the situation.

00:48:01.420 He wouldn't

00:48:01.940 like it,

00:48:02.960 but he

00:48:03.240 still has

00:48:04.760 enough cognitive

00:48:05.420 ability to

00:48:06.580 understand his

00:48:07.480 own situation.

00:48:08.500 I'm sure of

00:48:09.060 that.

00:48:10.180 So I feel

00:48:11.220 as if he's

00:48:11.840 dragging it

00:48:12.500 out at the

00:48:13.580 cost of the

00:48:14.340 country to

00:48:15.620 protect his

00:48:16.220 family.

00:48:17.580 Worst possible

00:48:18.580 thing.

00:48:19.560 And so I

00:48:20.220 offer you the

00:48:21.060 following really,

00:48:22.960 really annoying

00:48:23.720 opinion.

00:48:25.420 I think

00:48:26.000 Biden should

00:48:26.580 pardon him

00:48:27.740 right now.

00:48:29.040 You can do

00:48:29.520 that, right?

00:48:30.040 You can

00:48:30.380 pre-pardon.

00:48:32.340 Somebody give

00:48:33.000 me a legal

00:48:34.020 opinion.

00:48:35.160 You can

00:48:35.540 pre-pardon.

00:48:37.980 As much as

00:48:38.780 you hate to

00:48:39.220 hear this,

00:48:40.960 I think he

00:48:41.800 should pre-pardon

00:48:42.440 him.

00:48:44.100 Because as

00:48:45.060 much as you

00:48:45.700 say, oh,

00:48:46.260 it would feel

00:48:46.580 really good to

00:48:47.360 take him down

00:48:48.660 and we'd

00:48:49.080 really find

00:48:49.540 out what's

00:48:49.960 in the

00:48:50.220 laptop and

00:48:50.860 all that,

00:48:51.500 and that's

00:48:51.900 all true,

00:48:52.260 and I

00:48:52.500 agree with

00:48:52.940 you, I

00:48:53.760 would like

00:48:54.340 to know

00:48:54.800 what he

00:48:55.600 did and I

00:48:56.180 would like

00:48:56.660 him to

00:48:56.960 pay if

00:48:57.600 there's

00:48:57.960 something to

00:48:59.840 pay for.

00:49:01.920 But what's

00:49:02.640 good for

00:49:02.980 you?

00:49:04.200 What's my

00:49:04.880 personal

00:49:05.300 self-interest?

00:49:06.620 My personal

00:49:07.580 self-interest

00:49:08.180 is that we

00:49:10.340 have a

00:49:11.780 president who's

00:49:12.600 not brain

00:49:13.080 dead.

00:49:14.760 And if

00:49:15.080 part of the

00:49:15.540 deal is he

00:49:16.280 gets to

00:49:16.680 pardon Hunter,

00:49:17.560 maybe himself

00:49:18.300 somehow, I

00:49:18.880 don't know,

00:49:19.620 but that he

00:49:20.620 leaves the

00:49:21.140 office so we

00:49:21.820 have at

00:49:22.280 least a

00:49:22.720 competent

00:49:23.220 Democrat.

00:49:25.440 I would

00:49:25.960 take a

00:49:26.400 competent

00:49:26.940 Democrat over

00:49:28.020 Biden right

00:49:28.560 now.

00:49:29.380 I mean, it's

00:49:29.740 not really

00:49:30.120 Kamala, so I

00:49:31.480 don't know what

00:49:31.820 they would do.

00:49:32.940 But I would

00:49:36.100 take that deal.

00:49:36.980 I would let

00:49:37.420 Hunter get a

00:49:38.040 pardon, a

00:49:38.560 pre-pardon,

00:49:39.540 without even

00:49:40.120 knowing if he

00:49:40.700 had a crime,

00:49:41.900 and Biden

00:49:43.860 too, just to

00:49:45.320 move on.

00:49:45.880 because I

00:49:46.980 think the

00:49:47.320 stakes are so

00:49:47.980 high that the

00:49:49.940 individual crimes

00:49:51.120 they may or

00:49:51.700 may not have

00:49:52.220 committed, they're

00:49:54.500 just below my

00:49:55.180 level of

00:49:55.600 caring, as

00:49:56.720 bad as they

00:49:57.180 are.

00:49:57.740 I'm not

00:49:58.300 minimizing them.

00:49:59.500 I'm saying

00:49:59.920 they're pretty

00:50:00.280 darn bad.

00:50:01.080 If anything

00:50:02.560 like the

00:50:03.060 allegations are

00:50:03.800 true, that's

00:50:05.140 pretty bad, but

00:50:07.020 not nearly as

00:50:07.760 bad as having

00:50:08.320 an incapable

00:50:09.320 president.

00:50:09.840 So it's a

00:50:12.300 tough choice.

00:50:12.840 I would

00:50:14.100 accept the

00:50:15.880 pardon under

00:50:16.520 those.

00:50:17.480 If it meant

00:50:18.320 that Biden

00:50:18.820 left office

00:50:19.520 sooner, even

00:50:20.880 for a

00:50:21.240 Democrat, even

00:50:22.960 to be replaced

00:50:23.660 with somebody

00:50:24.100 who has similar

00:50:24.660 thoughts, but

00:50:25.900 just more

00:50:26.240 capability, I'd

00:50:27.280 be okay with

00:50:27.740 that.

00:50:28.280 I would take

00:50:28.720 that trade.

00:50:30.180 And I know

00:50:30.720 most of you

00:50:31.580 wouldn't, but

00:50:32.060 I would.

00:50:34.860 And there's

00:50:36.000 no perfect

00:50:36.500 answer, because

00:50:37.040 you're going to

00:50:37.300 be unhappy in

00:50:38.560 both ways.

00:50:39.120 Yeah, he

00:50:43.640 can only

00:50:43.940 pardon the

00:50:44.340 federal crimes,

00:50:45.160 but I

00:50:45.360 imagine these

00:50:45.880 are mostly

00:50:46.440 potentially federal

00:50:47.980 crimes, if

00:50:48.760 there's any

00:50:49.120 crime at all.

00:50:50.820 Yeah, let's

00:50:51.220 be clear that

00:50:51.940 I'm not aware

00:50:52.660 of any crime

00:50:53.200 that Hunter

00:50:53.780 committed, are

00:50:54.460 you?

00:50:55.580 And we have

00:50:56.120 speculation, but

00:50:57.300 the process has

00:50:59.960 not done what

00:51:00.480 the process needs

00:51:01.240 to do, if

00:51:02.120 indeed the

00:51:02.540 process will

00:51:03.100 do anything.

00:51:06.680 Tax evasion?

00:51:08.340 Well, even

00:51:08.840 the tax evasion,

00:51:09.760 apparently he

00:51:10.180 paid his tax

00:51:10.760 bill.

00:51:11.800 And my

00:51:12.360 understanding is

00:51:13.140 that if you

00:51:13.600 pay your tax

00:51:14.320 bill in full,

00:51:15.740 even if you

00:51:16.720 evaded it, if

00:51:18.220 they haven't yet

00:51:18.860 prosecuted you,

00:51:20.220 they look at

00:51:20.840 that and say,

00:51:21.260 all we really

00:51:22.180 wanted was the

00:51:22.740 money.

00:51:23.520 That's good

00:51:23.940 enough.

00:51:26.140 I don't know.

00:51:27.040 So I think

00:51:27.500 that's a slap

00:51:28.060 on the wrist.

00:51:33.720 All right,

00:51:34.420 gun crimes,

00:51:36.420 yeah, for

00:51:37.760 some reason

00:51:38.260 there will be

00:51:38.640 no charges

00:51:39.200 about the

00:51:39.560 gun crimes,

00:51:40.180 I'm sure.

00:51:41.420 All right,

00:51:41.760 that's all for

00:51:42.140 now, and I

00:51:42.800 will talk to

00:51:43.160 you later on

00:51:43.860 YouTube.

00:51:44.080 Thank you.

00:51:44.220 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 03, 2022

Episode 1702 Scott Adams： No Real News Yesterday So Let's Talk About The Fake Stuff Instead

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