Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 27, 2022


Episode 1726 Scott Adams： Twitter, Tesla, Ivermectin, DeSantis, Truth Social, Musk and More


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Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

144.36972

Word Count

7,363

Sentence Count

481

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.880 Good morning, everybody, and aren't you delightful?
00:00:05.520 Well, I don't think I've ever enjoyed being with you more, and I mean you.
00:00:11.180 So, have you all prepared for today's incredible, incredible livestream,
00:00:16.540 possibly the highlight of civilization, and certainly of your life?
00:00:21.840 Well, if you did prepare, you probably have something like a cupper mug or a glass,
00:00:26.900 a tanker, chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:30.700 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
00:00:34.060 I like coffee.
00:00:36.180 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine,
00:00:39.980 the end of the day, the thing that makes your oxytocin quiver.
00:00:44.600 It's called, it's called, it's called a simultaneous sip.
00:00:51.080 And that's why you're here. Go.
00:00:56.900 Ah, sure, they come for the sip, but they stay for the love and the enlightenment.
00:01:05.300 Where shall we start?
00:01:06.760 With the love?
00:01:07.880 Do you want the love or the enlightenment first?
00:01:11.120 I love all of you.
00:01:12.520 You're awesome.
00:01:14.240 You couldn't be better.
00:01:16.680 Have you ever thought to yourself
00:01:17.860 how well you do some things compared to other people?
00:01:26.080 Not everything.
00:01:28.220 But there are some of those things you do.
00:01:30.560 You know, you know, those things you do.
00:01:33.580 Other people aren't as good as you at those things.
00:01:36.220 Just remember that.
00:01:38.560 Well, let's see what's happening in the world.
00:01:40.680 Russia is cutting off their gas from Poland and Bulgaria
00:01:44.100 over those countries' refusal to pay in,
00:01:48.860 what the hell is their money?
00:01:52.980 In their Russian, Russian,
00:01:55.680 what the hell is it, rubles or rupees?
00:01:58.300 Who has rupees?
00:02:00.160 It's rubles, right?
00:02:01.960 Which country has rupees?
00:02:06.200 I think those two, India has rupees.
00:02:08.500 All right, don't get your rubles and your rupees.
00:02:10.680 It's confused.
00:02:12.420 If you get your rupees tangled up with your rubles,
00:02:17.180 well, where are you going to be then?
00:02:20.240 So my advice to you is
00:02:22.600 just keep your rubles and your rupees.
00:02:26.240 And I wonder how far this is going to go.
00:02:30.720 Because I don't think people necessarily predicted
00:02:34.560 that Russia would actually cut off two countries from gas.
00:02:38.520 And I'm not sure how big a deal is that in the summer.
00:02:44.980 I mean, if it were a winter thing,
00:02:46.800 it would be devastating, right?
00:02:49.440 But what do they do if they lose it in the summer?
00:02:52.400 They just put on more blankets or something?
00:02:54.940 At night?
00:02:55.580 I don't know.
00:02:56.040 So they cook with coal.
00:03:00.560 I have no idea what Poland and Bulgaria do
00:03:04.400 because their gas got cut off.
00:03:07.820 Does anybody know?
00:03:09.300 What would that actually do?
00:03:10.860 Are people going to do less of or more of something?
00:03:15.460 Yeah, cold showers?
00:03:17.700 I don't know.
00:03:19.240 So I don't know how big a deal that is.
00:03:21.880 Now, the experts are also saying,
00:03:24.920 well, Russia isn't going to cut off the gas to Germany
00:03:28.380 because they've got nowhere else to sell it that's that big.
00:03:31.980 So, Carpe Donctum just weighed in on YouTube there.
00:03:41.820 And I guess we'll be seeing you back on Twitter pretty soon.
00:03:47.040 Good to see you.
00:03:48.440 Well, more memes coming, I guess.
00:03:51.680 So let me make a prediction on this Russia cutting off gas stuff.
00:03:55.980 They'll probably have to see how it goes with Poland and Bulgaria,
00:03:59.920 but apparently if they cut off gas to Germany,
00:04:02.940 it's not as if they could just sell it to China
00:04:05.540 because those pipelines were already full
00:04:07.840 and it would take a long time to build new ones.
00:04:11.060 So does Russia destroy its own economy
00:04:14.080 by also destroying Germany and parts of Europe?
00:04:20.800 I don't know.
00:04:22.320 We've got quite the brinksmanship thing going on here.
00:04:25.980 But here's a data point that I've been waiting to hear.
00:04:30.520 So I have made a prediction that,
00:04:34.100 well, maybe it's just an observation,
00:04:36.980 that you could predict what's going to happen in Ukraine and Russia
00:04:40.700 by knowing the number of shoulder-mounted weapons
00:04:45.080 and good munitions and drones they have.
00:04:48.600 So the good stuff that I call it,
00:04:50.400 the things that would really, really make a difference,
00:04:53.160 would be the Stinger missiles and the Javelins
00:04:55.220 and the drones.
00:04:57.740 And we're hearing now that the United States
00:05:01.080 doesn't even make Stingers and Javelins anymore.
00:05:05.260 Did you know that?
00:05:07.120 There's no assembly line.
00:05:09.440 Here I imagined, oh, they're cranking up the assembly line.
00:05:12.880 They're going to work twice as fast.
00:05:15.360 Nope.
00:05:16.220 They haven't made them for years.
00:05:17.900 There is no assembly line.
00:05:20.820 Once we ship them, they're done.
00:05:23.460 It will take years to even, like, gear up to make another one.
00:05:29.480 Why are we finding this out now?
00:05:32.280 How long have I been telling you
00:05:33.720 this is the single most important thing you'd need to know
00:05:36.320 to predict the course of the war?
00:05:38.280 And we're just finding out now that, well, you know,
00:05:41.340 we don't even actually make these.
00:05:44.320 And if we tried to quickly make them,
00:05:46.560 according to Raytheon,
00:05:47.860 talking about the Stingers, I guess, in particular,
00:05:50.580 they wouldn't be able to get the parts.
00:05:52.200 So they couldn't make them.
00:05:55.760 Even if they had a factory,
00:05:57.900 they wouldn't be able to get the components
00:05:59.500 to assemble in the factory
00:06:00.820 without other factories making the other components.
00:06:05.120 So we're not even close
00:06:06.520 to being able to have enough Stingers and Javelins
00:06:10.080 to probably make a difference.
00:06:13.720 So unless there's something different with drones,
00:06:18.140 because in theory,
00:06:19.220 in theory, you could get done with drones
00:06:22.360 most of what you could do with a Stinger.
00:06:26.480 Is that true?
00:06:27.880 Or are the drones not powerful enough to take out a tank?
00:06:32.520 I don't know.
00:06:33.620 It feels like some of them might be.
00:06:35.400 I mean, not the small drones might not be,
00:06:37.800 but the big ones would be.
00:06:39.920 So this is the thing to watch.
00:06:43.820 The number of portable, super-good weapons
00:06:48.460 that the Ukrainians have access to,
00:06:50.600 and it looks like they're not going to have access to enough.
00:06:53.300 So my current prediction would be
00:06:57.540 that Russia would win
00:06:58.640 based on the variables today.
00:07:03.820 Right?
00:07:04.460 So any prediction that I make about Ukraine and Russia
00:07:07.140 from this point on
00:07:08.220 are going to be the dumb kind
00:07:10.140 where you say,
00:07:11.560 well, suppose nothing changed,
00:07:13.600 then where would things go?
00:07:17.360 Like, no new variables.
00:07:19.140 But there are always new variables.
00:07:21.240 Always.
00:07:22.140 Like, this is a pretty new variable,
00:07:23.800 at least in terms of my understanding of it,
00:07:25.800 it's new.
00:07:26.900 So,
00:07:28.160 I don't know.
00:07:30.360 I don't see Ukraine having enough weapons
00:07:32.100 to be able to withstand it.
00:07:33.720 The wild card here is
00:07:35.620 who's going to run out of ammo first?
00:07:38.300 Because now we know that the Ukrainians,
00:07:41.500 wink, wink,
00:07:42.780 have totally had nothing to do
00:07:44.280 with destroying the weapons depots
00:07:46.020 that are actually in Russian territory.
00:07:48.260 I guess there are three of them
00:07:49.840 that are suspiciously on fire.
00:07:53.520 So,
00:07:54.040 it looks like a war of weapons.
00:07:57.460 You know what is interesting?
00:07:59.060 This entire war could have been fought
00:08:01.160 without killing any people.
00:08:03.160 All both sides had to do
00:08:06.980 was attack their weapons depots
00:08:08.680 and see who could do it better.
00:08:12.340 Because whoever is better at attacking
00:08:14.280 and destroying the weapons
00:08:15.380 on the other side,
00:08:16.620 I feel like that's who's going to win.
00:08:19.580 So, why not do that first?
00:08:21.760 Just everybody say,
00:08:22.700 look,
00:08:23.260 before any soldiers
00:08:24.700 shoot at each other,
00:08:26.280 what's the point?
00:08:27.760 How about we're going to just attack
00:08:29.280 your weapons depot
00:08:30.280 wherever we can find them?
00:08:31.420 We'll give you three months.
00:08:34.620 For three months,
00:08:35.520 all we'll do
00:08:36.100 is attack each other's weapons depots.
00:08:38.900 You don't even have to put a guard there.
00:08:41.020 We're not going to go in there in person.
00:08:43.200 Right?
00:08:43.780 Too dangerous.
00:08:44.860 We're just going to lob missiles
00:08:46.200 and stuff at you,
00:08:47.360 maybe some drones,
00:08:48.800 helicopter now and then.
00:08:50.220 But we're just going to attack
00:08:51.500 the weapons depots.
00:08:53.200 And once one of you
00:08:54.300 is out of weapons,
00:08:56.080 the war is over.
00:08:58.820 And then you don't have to get
00:09:00.300 any people involved.
00:09:02.060 Am I right?
00:09:03.040 Now, I'm getting an even better suggestion
00:09:05.020 on locals,
00:09:06.220 which I'll have to tell you
00:09:07.100 on YouTube.
00:09:09.180 The only,
00:09:09.780 really,
00:09:10.780 the only idea that I've seen
00:09:11.920 that's better than my own
00:09:13.040 is a dance-off.
00:09:15.820 So, I think the entire thing
00:09:17.120 could have been settled
00:09:17.820 with a dance-off.
00:09:19.800 Far less damage.
00:09:21.900 And as good an idea as mine,
00:09:23.740 certainly.
00:09:24.760 Well, let's talk about the trial
00:09:28.420 of Johnny Depp and Amber Turd.
00:09:30.740 So, I guess the Johnny Depp team
00:09:33.920 got a psychiatrist on the stand
00:09:37.040 to analyze, as best she could,
00:09:39.860 the situation with Amber Turd.
00:09:42.240 Some of you might remember
00:09:45.260 Amber Turd was,
00:09:46.760 she used to be Amber Heard,
00:09:49.320 but now she's Amber Turd.
00:09:51.680 And Amber Turd
00:09:52.580 was diagnosed
00:09:54.140 by this psychiatrist
00:09:56.160 who did not diagnose her
00:09:58.140 in person.
00:09:59.460 So, let's put that caveat on it.
00:10:02.380 I don't know how valid it is
00:10:04.160 for somebody to diagnose somebody
00:10:05.880 without ever talking to them
00:10:07.960 in person.
00:10:08.340 I would imagine
00:10:09.660 the psychiatrist say,
00:10:10.900 well, you should talk
00:10:11.680 to them in person.
00:10:13.020 But, on the other hand,
00:10:14.620 do you know what's the problem
00:10:15.520 with talking to
00:10:17.420 an Amber Heard in person?
00:10:21.100 Suppose Amber Heard
00:10:22.280 or Amber Turd
00:10:23.880 came to you as a patient
00:10:25.440 and the psychiatrist says,
00:10:28.200 how can I help you?
00:10:29.720 And Amber Turd,
00:10:30.640 would she say,
00:10:32.040 well, I have this terrible
00:10:33.620 personality disorder
00:10:34.960 and it's becoming a huge problem
00:10:37.120 for other people.
00:10:38.920 Can you help me solve my problem
00:10:40.560 that is really,
00:10:42.620 doesn't seem to bother me too much,
00:10:44.300 but it does seem to be a problem
00:10:45.460 for other people.
00:10:46.240 Can you handle that for me?
00:10:47.560 And the psychiatrist would say,
00:10:48.760 well, what are you doing?
00:10:50.560 She'd say,
00:10:50.940 well, I lie like crazy.
00:10:53.860 I get all,
00:10:55.180 I throw things,
00:10:56.120 I hurt people,
00:10:57.600 and I do all these things.
00:10:59.960 Is that the way it goes?
00:11:01.180 So, it's pretty valuable, right,
00:11:03.540 for the psychiatrist
00:11:04.460 to talk to this patient in person
00:11:07.020 because then the psychiatrist
00:11:08.960 will get all this useful
00:11:10.240 and valuable information
00:11:11.520 from the person.
00:11:14.740 No.
00:11:16.440 Do you know what is the worst way
00:11:18.740 to diagnose Amber Turd?
00:11:21.320 Talk to her in person
00:11:22.820 because the nature of her problem,
00:11:24.940 obviously,
00:11:25.960 is gigantic liar.
00:11:29.160 Right?
00:11:30.260 With apparently
00:11:31.140 no moral or ethical core whatsoever.
00:11:35.020 How in the world
00:11:35.920 is she going to tell her psychiatrist
00:11:37.480 anything except
00:11:38.940 how to get drugs?
00:11:42.720 That's it.
00:11:43.560 The only thing
00:11:45.640 an Amber Turd
00:11:46.500 would tell a psychiatrist
00:11:47.520 is whatever she had to say
00:11:49.860 in order to get
00:11:50.700 whatever drugs
00:11:51.660 she thought she wanted.
00:11:54.080 That's it.
00:11:55.800 So,
00:11:56.720 I would say
00:11:59.040 that if you're going to,
00:12:00.940 I don't know if you would,
00:12:02.580 but if you were inclined
00:12:03.680 to criticize
00:12:05.180 the psychiatrist
00:12:06.180 who was the expert
00:12:07.320 in testimony
00:12:08.140 because she did not
00:12:10.180 talk in person
00:12:10.900 to Amber Turd,
00:12:11.740 I would say
00:12:12.480 that what she did see
00:12:14.020 probably was a lot better
00:12:15.080 than that
00:12:15.660 because she heard
00:12:16.620 the audio tapes
00:12:17.940 that were unscripted,
00:12:20.120 you know,
00:12:20.320 she didn't know
00:12:21.100 she was being recorded,
00:12:22.620 and she saw
00:12:23.780 all the evidence
00:12:24.300 from the trial
00:12:25.060 and, you know,
00:12:26.060 and the testimonies.
00:12:27.460 And I would say
00:12:28.460 probably that would be
00:12:29.780 a better source
00:12:30.560 than talking to the person
00:12:32.040 in person
00:12:32.480 with this specific problem.
00:12:35.480 For most any other problem,
00:12:37.340 you would imagine
00:12:38.000 that the person
00:12:39.120 who goes to the psychiatrist
00:12:40.740 actually wants it
00:12:42.260 to be fixed.
00:12:43.680 You know,
00:12:44.200 like,
00:12:44.540 I'm afraid of something
00:12:45.720 or I keep having
00:12:47.500 weird hallucinations.
00:12:49.040 So,
00:12:49.340 in that case,
00:12:49.800 they're probably
00:12:50.160 going to be honest
00:12:50.880 with their psychiatrist
00:12:52.240 because they want
00:12:53.380 to get fixed.
00:12:54.360 But this would be
00:12:55.180 a description
00:12:55.700 of a personality disorder
00:12:57.100 that doesn't want
00:12:57.740 to get fixed.
00:12:59.120 So,
00:12:59.640 here's what the expert
00:13:01.640 said is the problem
00:13:03.200 with Amber Turd.
00:13:06.900 Histrionic personality disorder,
00:13:09.460 likely.
00:13:09.900 Now,
00:13:10.580 none of this
00:13:11.000 could be
00:13:11.300 any 100%
00:13:12.120 kind of stuff.
00:13:13.440 So,
00:13:13.880 don't think anything
00:13:14.980 is 100%.
00:13:16.340 And,
00:13:19.060 I guess the expert
00:13:20.760 was named Curry
00:13:21.520 and she believes
00:13:23.380 Hurd has
00:13:23.800 histrionic personality disorder
00:13:25.400 and its key features
00:13:27.440 are drama
00:13:28.180 and shallowness.
00:13:30.360 And people
00:13:30.720 with the disorder
00:13:31.360 may be uncomfortable
00:13:32.240 with not being
00:13:33.080 the center of attention
00:13:34.000 and when they feel
00:13:35.160 like they're not
00:13:35.640 the center of attention,
00:13:36.500 they will make up stories,
00:13:37.840 take on victim
00:13:39.860 or princess role
00:13:41.320 or seek caretaking,
00:13:44.680 the expert said.
00:13:47.140 Now,
00:13:48.180 you heard me
00:13:49.180 give my expert
00:13:50.940 diagnosis
00:13:51.860 before we heard this,
00:13:55.140 in which I said
00:13:55.880 Amber Turd
00:13:56.940 is clearly
00:13:57.500 a vulnerable narcissist.
00:13:58.720 but the expert
00:14:00.860 is saying
00:14:01.320 histrionic personality disorder
00:14:03.020 and I heard somebody
00:14:04.820 else say
00:14:05.220 borderline personality disorder.
00:14:08.520 And so,
00:14:09.080 I ask you,
00:14:09.860 was my analysis
00:14:11.140 incorrect
00:14:11.860 because I said
00:14:13.940 vulnerable narcissist
00:14:14.920 fits everything
00:14:16.620 on the checklist
00:14:17.280 and the expert
00:14:18.700 and the expert
00:14:18.720 said histrionic
00:14:19.660 personality disorder
00:14:20.760 presumably
00:14:21.820 because it
00:14:22.620 fits the checklist.
00:14:25.220 So,
00:14:25.460 who's right?
00:14:26.560 Let's take a vote.
00:14:28.280 Is Scott right
00:14:29.180 with his diagnosis
00:14:31.100 of vulnerable narcissist
00:14:32.240 for Amber Turd
00:14:33.260 or
00:14:33.980 is the expert
00:14:35.320 who does this
00:14:36.920 for a living
00:14:37.440 and is not
00:14:38.500 a cartoonist,
00:14:39.720 are they right
00:14:40.600 with histrionic
00:14:41.360 personality disorder?
00:14:42.380 Go.
00:14:43.560 Who is right?
00:14:44.200 Who is right?
00:14:47.280 The correct answer is
00:14:49.280 it's the same thing.
00:14:53.020 Now,
00:14:53.860 it's not the same thing
00:14:55.300 if you ask anybody
00:14:56.740 who knows
00:14:57.120 what they're talking about.
00:14:58.880 If you ask
00:14:59.620 an expert,
00:15:01.460 I'm pretty sure
00:15:02.660 they would say
00:15:03.080 these are different things.
00:15:04.900 If you ask them
00:15:06.260 to tell you
00:15:06.860 why they're different,
00:15:08.520 they will mention
00:15:09.160 all the symptoms
00:15:09.860 of each
00:15:10.400 and they'll be the same.
00:15:13.760 Basically,
00:15:14.420 it's just two sets
00:15:15.140 of words
00:15:15.580 that experts use
00:15:16.620 for a set
00:15:18.820 of conditions
00:15:19.520 that are so overlapping
00:15:20.980 that they can't
00:15:22.600 really tell.
00:15:24.100 And you would
00:15:24.660 treat them
00:15:25.040 the same,
00:15:25.560 basically,
00:15:26.680 which is run away.
00:15:29.840 It's the same treatment.
00:15:32.460 The customer themselves,
00:15:34.340 you know,
00:15:34.540 the client,
00:15:35.740 basically can't be helped
00:15:37.140 if they come in
00:15:38.140 with histrionic
00:15:38.840 personality disorder.
00:15:40.440 They're just a monster
00:15:41.420 and there's nothing
00:15:42.800 you can do about it.
00:15:44.140 If they come in
00:15:44.800 with vulnerable narcissists,
00:15:46.820 if that's the diagnosis,
00:15:48.820 they're just the same
00:15:49.720 kind of monster
00:15:50.520 but with different labels.
00:15:52.600 They do the same
00:15:53.260 fucking things.
00:15:54.760 So,
00:15:55.380 does it matter?
00:15:57.360 If it's the same
00:15:58.380 checklist of behaviors
00:15:59.880 with the same impact
00:16:02.020 on other people,
00:16:03.440 they also don't
00:16:04.360 give a fuck themselves
00:16:05.660 because they're happy.
00:16:07.100 It's not their problem.
00:16:08.600 It's other people's problem.
00:16:09.700 And what you do about it
00:16:12.240 is exactly the same.
00:16:13.540 Run away
00:16:14.060 and certainly
00:16:15.820 you can't treat them.
00:16:17.080 Just run away.
00:16:19.060 Like,
00:16:19.340 even the doctor
00:16:20.040 would run away.
00:16:21.500 Like,
00:16:21.760 even the doctor
00:16:22.420 doesn't want to have
00:16:22.960 anything to do with that
00:16:23.980 because the doctor
00:16:25.060 is going to be a victim.
00:16:26.720 Right?
00:16:27.160 These are people
00:16:27.880 who turn everybody
00:16:28.600 into a victim.
00:16:29.740 Everybody.
00:16:30.820 They can't turn it off.
00:16:32.420 They're just destroying
00:16:33.320 everything they touch.
00:16:35.260 So,
00:16:37.140 so I'm going to say
00:16:39.680 that I'm going to take
00:16:40.360 perfect credit
00:16:41.140 for my diagnosis
00:16:42.680 which,
00:16:43.760 for all practical purposes,
00:16:45.020 is the same
00:16:45.800 as the experts.
00:16:48.020 What the expert did say
00:16:49.460 is that
00:16:50.440 Amber Turd
00:16:51.300 did not have,
00:16:52.260 in her opinion,
00:16:52.940 PTSD
00:16:53.400 and that that was likely,
00:16:56.660 maybe I'm overinterpreting this,
00:16:58.340 but more like a cover story
00:17:00.380 if you know what I mean.
00:17:02.440 So,
00:17:02.920 PTSD is something
00:17:04.160 that somebody
00:17:04.860 with either
00:17:05.400 histrionic personality disorder
00:17:06.980 or vulnerable narcissists
00:17:08.420 would claim
00:17:09.700 as the reason
00:17:11.680 for their behavior.
00:17:13.740 Hmm.
00:17:15.200 And,
00:17:15.720 and it would not be uncommon
00:17:16.980 for somebody
00:17:17.680 to have such horrible
00:17:18.600 monster behavior
00:17:19.520 to claim
00:17:20.700 that there is
00:17:21.200 a very logical reason
00:17:22.460 for it
00:17:22.900 and they can't be helped.
00:17:24.260 There's nothing
00:17:24.720 they can do about it.
00:17:26.560 And it's certainly not
00:17:27.980 because they're just that way.
00:17:29.680 It's because
00:17:30.220 it's something
00:17:30.580 that happened to them
00:17:31.300 and so it's somebody
00:17:32.200 else's fault
00:17:32.800 because it's always
00:17:33.420 somebody else's fault.
00:17:34.900 It's the fault
00:17:35.420 of other people.
00:17:37.860 All right.
00:17:38.300 So,
00:17:38.720 I think that
00:17:39.280 Johnny Depp
00:17:39.940 should get
00:17:40.400 some kind
00:17:41.400 of a Nobel Prize
00:17:42.720 for bringing
00:17:44.920 to the attention
00:17:45.580 of the world
00:17:46.280 the existence
00:17:48.500 of these monsters.
00:17:50.180 Let's talk
00:17:50.840 about Elon Musk.
00:17:53.020 Question.
00:17:53.960 Do you believe
00:17:54.460 that Elon Musk
00:17:55.140 would have purchased Twitter
00:17:56.300 if not for the
00:17:59.040 Hunter Biden
00:17:59.860 laptop story
00:18:01.040 being so obviously
00:18:03.540 hidden by the press
00:18:06.900 and affecting
00:18:08.500 an election probably?
00:18:11.040 Now,
00:18:11.540 the other hypothesis
00:18:12.760 is that it was
00:18:13.600 the Babylon Bee
00:18:14.440 getting banned.
00:18:17.680 And
00:18:18.240 we know
00:18:19.700 that he cared
00:18:20.240 about that.
00:18:21.460 So,
00:18:21.740 I would say
00:18:22.260 we can say for sure
00:18:24.640 that he knew about it,
00:18:26.040 the Babylon Bee.
00:18:27.240 He knew about it
00:18:28.260 and he had
00:18:28.880 some kind of relationship
00:18:30.020 with them
00:18:30.640 because he was
00:18:31.720 interviewed with them.
00:18:32.500 He seemed to like them.
00:18:33.420 So,
00:18:36.980 which do you think
00:18:37.440 was the more
00:18:37.920 important one?
00:18:39.220 Do you think
00:18:39.600 he would have
00:18:39.960 spent $44 billion
00:18:41.060 because the
00:18:42.480 satirical
00:18:43.600 group
00:18:44.740 got banned?
00:18:47.720 I don't think so.
00:18:49.980 I mean,
00:18:50.220 he might have cared.
00:18:51.680 I imagine he did.
00:18:52.800 Like,
00:18:53.120 you know,
00:18:53.940 on some
00:18:54.280 personal level
00:18:56.500 and also
00:18:58.000 from a free speech level
00:19:00.100 he probably did care
00:19:00.920 about the Babylon Bee.
00:19:01.860 But I don't know
00:19:03.040 that you would spend
00:19:03.560 $44 billion
00:19:04.500 to fix that.
00:19:06.460 Would you?
00:19:08.380 You know?
00:19:09.320 But
00:19:09.760 the Hunter Biden
00:19:11.420 laptop story,
00:19:12.680 that's a $44 billion
00:19:14.560 problem.
00:19:16.960 Like,
00:19:17.160 if you had
00:19:17.680 $44 billion
00:19:18.580 and you said,
00:19:19.580 are you serious?
00:19:21.360 The Hunter Biden
00:19:22.120 laptop story
00:19:22.940 was disappeared
00:19:23.680 by the media?
00:19:24.700 One of the most
00:19:25.420 important things
00:19:26.180 that could have
00:19:26.620 ever been
00:19:27.160 reported on
00:19:28.120 at the time
00:19:29.260 it needed to be
00:19:30.080 reported on.
00:19:30.640 it just disappeared.
00:19:33.420 What's the size
00:19:34.240 of that problem?
00:19:36.500 The size
00:19:37.180 of that problem
00:19:37.760 is easily
00:19:38.400 $44 billion.
00:19:39.720 In fact,
00:19:40.140 that would be
00:19:40.500 a bargain.
00:19:41.260 If you could
00:19:41.920 fix that problem
00:19:42.960 for $44 billion,
00:19:45.880 it would be
00:19:47.560 a bargain.
00:19:48.700 Given
00:19:49.080 the benefit
00:19:50.120 it would be
00:19:50.520 to the country
00:19:51.180 and free speech
00:19:52.620 and,
00:19:52.960 you know,
00:19:53.120 the basic,
00:19:54.960 you know,
00:19:55.120 the vital
00:19:55.600 maintenance
00:19:56.240 of all the
00:19:57.240 things that
00:19:57.660 matter
00:19:57.960 to make
00:19:58.720 our system
00:20:00.700 work,
00:20:01.460 yeah,
00:20:01.720 that's worth
00:20:02.120 $44 billion.
00:20:03.500 So,
00:20:04.300 we can't get
00:20:05.780 in his mind
00:20:06.420 and never will.
00:20:07.840 You know,
00:20:08.020 if you,
00:20:08.500 like I always say,
00:20:09.240 if you could
00:20:09.640 think like
00:20:10.300 Elon Musk,
00:20:11.820 well,
00:20:12.060 then you'd
00:20:12.340 probably be
00:20:12.740 like Elon Musk.
00:20:14.220 But we're not.
00:20:15.920 So,
00:20:16.460 we don't know
00:20:16.820 what he's thinking.
00:20:17.980 But I will say,
00:20:20.260 and first of all,
00:20:20.900 he didn't spend
00:20:21.760 $44 billion.
00:20:22.700 I hear people
00:20:25.660 talk like that
00:20:26.440 and I say it
00:20:27.360 as kind of a
00:20:27.900 shorthand.
00:20:28.880 But you know,
00:20:29.840 he didn't spend
00:20:30.840 anything,
00:20:31.400 right?
00:20:34.000 He basically
00:20:35.560 got a loan,
00:20:36.980 I believe,
00:20:38.480 that allows him
00:20:39.920 to buy something
00:20:40.620 that has the same
00:20:41.320 value-ish
00:20:42.600 of the money
00:20:43.800 he spent.
00:20:44.600 All he did
00:20:45.280 was take one
00:20:46.060 kind of asset
00:20:46.700 and turn it
00:20:47.240 into another
00:20:47.740 kind of asset.
00:20:48.860 That's not
00:20:49.520 buying something.
00:20:51.040 Because when you
00:20:51.660 buy something,
00:20:52.200 you think
00:20:52.540 in terms of
00:20:53.060 consuming it.
00:20:53.820 So it's not
00:20:54.180 that kind of
00:20:54.660 buying.
00:20:55.540 All he's doing
00:20:56.080 is transferring
00:20:56.700 one asset
00:20:57.260 into another
00:20:57.800 kind of asset.
00:20:58.840 In this case,
00:20:59.440 the asset
00:20:59.800 might have been
00:21:01.240 his bank ability.
00:21:04.620 The ability
00:21:05.140 that he has.
00:21:05.980 He can repay
00:21:06.980 a loan.
00:21:08.000 So that's
00:21:08.340 his asset.
00:21:10.960 All right.
00:21:15.000 Truth Social.
00:21:16.740 So apparently
00:21:17.820 Truth Social
00:21:19.020 is topping
00:21:20.360 the Apple
00:21:21.180 app
00:21:21.720 download list
00:21:23.180 download list
00:21:23.200 at the same
00:21:24.740 time that
00:21:25.360 Musk is
00:21:26.440 buying Twitter.
00:21:27.520 And here's
00:21:27.860 what makes
00:21:28.400 Elon Musk
00:21:29.080 different than
00:21:29.680 other people.
00:21:30.400 Well,
00:21:31.360 lots of things.
00:21:32.740 But he tweets
00:21:33.940 after he buys
00:21:35.640 Twitter,
00:21:37.000 he tweets
00:21:37.720 that Truth Social
00:21:39.200 is beating
00:21:39.660 Twitter and
00:21:40.260 TikTok
00:21:40.760 as the most
00:21:42.300 downloaded.
00:21:44.440 Now,
00:21:45.240 is there anybody
00:21:45.880 else who gives
00:21:46.620 marketing attention
00:21:48.160 to their
00:21:48.620 competitor?
00:21:51.700 Remember he
00:21:53.440 got in trouble
00:21:53.920 for saying
00:21:54.380 negative things
00:21:55.040 about Tesla's
00:21:55.920 stock price
00:21:56.500 at one point?
00:21:57.400 He said his
00:21:57.940 own stock price
00:21:58.680 was too high
00:21:59.300 and it
00:22:00.200 suddenly dropped,
00:22:01.360 I believe.
00:22:02.860 Now,
00:22:04.040 isn't this why
00:22:04.820 people like him?
00:22:06.960 Because he just
00:22:07.860 says something
00:22:09.840 is true
00:22:10.440 just because
00:22:11.440 it's true.
00:22:11.940 If you're
00:22:13.900 going to find
00:22:14.360 out anyway,
00:22:15.280 there's no
00:22:16.020 reason he
00:22:16.420 should hide
00:22:16.740 it from you
00:22:17.200 and it's
00:22:17.620 interesting.
00:22:18.900 So if it's
00:22:19.380 interesting and
00:22:21.140 it goes to
00:22:21.740 the freedom
00:22:22.700 of speech,
00:22:23.680 now remember,
00:22:25.500 Musk is
00:22:26.140 telling you
00:22:26.560 that the
00:22:26.840 reason he's
00:22:27.260 buying Twitter
00:22:27.900 has to do
00:22:29.280 with freedom
00:22:29.700 of speech,
00:22:30.220 right?
00:22:31.880 You would
00:22:32.480 think that
00:22:32.840 somebody who
00:22:33.240 likes freedom
00:22:33.700 of speech
00:22:34.080 would like
00:22:34.560 the fact
00:22:35.120 that there
00:22:36.480 are alternative
00:22:37.160 platforms.
00:22:38.840 So it's
00:22:39.340 an interesting
00:22:40.220 way to go
00:22:40.800 that you
00:22:41.060 have to
00:22:41.380 kind of
00:22:41.760 respect because
00:22:42.940 presumably he
00:22:44.120 can only
00:22:44.520 protect his
00:22:45.160 $44 billion
00:22:45.960 by doing a
00:22:47.340 better job
00:22:48.120 or at least
00:22:49.460 as good a
00:22:49.980 job as
00:22:51.020 his competition.
00:22:52.960 So it's
00:22:53.860 sort of just
00:22:54.320 game on,
00:22:55.280 full transparency,
00:22:57.120 let's compete,
00:22:58.320 let's fix
00:22:58.800 our stuff.
00:23:01.200 Let me tell
00:23:01.680 you what would
00:23:02.120 help me the
00:23:02.740 most for a
00:23:04.020 feature on
00:23:04.720 Twitter.
00:23:05.580 I would like
00:23:06.160 a feature in
00:23:06.920 which I could
00:23:07.560 turn off
00:23:08.240 comments or
00:23:09.700 block comments
00:23:10.740 from any
00:23:12.620 accounts that
00:23:14.220 have fewer
00:23:14.820 than,
00:23:15.320 I'll just
00:23:15.720 say,
00:23:16.880 10 followers.
00:23:19.100 Now,
00:23:19.640 those are
00:23:19.960 almost all
00:23:20.380 the trolls.
00:23:21.860 Now,
00:23:22.080 I hate to
00:23:22.500 tell you,
00:23:23.340 and if only
00:23:24.920 the blue
00:23:25.400 checks could
00:23:26.020 do it,
00:23:26.960 that's all
00:23:27.400 you would
00:23:27.680 need.
00:23:28.380 So if you
00:23:28.760 had a blue
00:23:29.140 check,
00:23:30.100 could you
00:23:30.460 turn off
00:23:30.920 anybody who's
00:23:31.480 got fewer
00:23:31.920 than 10
00:23:32.400 followers?
00:23:33.520 Because the
00:23:34.160 reason is,
00:23:35.400 if they're
00:23:35.900 real,
00:23:36.920 it shouldn't
00:23:37.440 take them
00:23:37.860 that long
00:23:38.360 to get 10
00:23:38.880 followers and
00:23:39.540 then participate.
00:23:41.000 If they're
00:23:41.480 not real,
00:23:42.120 they just
00:23:42.420 got created
00:23:43.000 that day,
00:23:44.220 and the
00:23:44.760 bot identifier
00:23:46.040 that seeks
00:23:47.540 out and
00:23:48.180 destroys bots,
00:23:49.380 one assumes
00:23:50.100 that exists,
00:23:51.020 right?
00:23:51.820 Wouldn't
00:23:52.160 Twitter have
00:23:52.740 a bot
00:23:53.900 hunting bot?
00:23:55.820 Twitter's
00:23:56.380 own bots
00:23:56.880 would be
00:23:57.200 hunting the
00:23:57.620 other bots,
00:23:58.200 I think,
00:23:59.020 by behavior.
00:24:00.600 So if you
00:24:03.280 could get rid
00:24:03.820 of the worst
00:24:05.100 bots on the
00:24:06.740 blue check
00:24:07.260 accounts,
00:24:08.040 which have
00:24:08.440 the biggest
00:24:08.900 visibility,
00:24:10.740 that would
00:24:11.200 be huge.
00:24:13.400 And it
00:24:14.520 wouldn't really
00:24:15.340 hurt other
00:24:15.860 people too
00:24:16.420 much,
00:24:16.980 because 10
00:24:17.820 followers,
00:24:18.380 you could
00:24:18.600 get that.
00:24:21.040 And I
00:24:21.680 think you
00:24:21.980 could even
00:24:22.400 identify the
00:24:23.240 bots that
00:24:24.400 were artificially
00:24:25.120 trying to get
00:24:25.680 10 followers
00:24:26.320 by following
00:24:27.080 each other,
00:24:28.420 because that
00:24:29.060 would show
00:24:29.580 up to the
00:24:30.580 bot hunter as
00:24:31.280 well, I
00:24:31.580 think.
00:24:34.100 So I
00:24:34.720 signed up for
00:24:35.220 Truth Social.
00:24:36.000 If you want
00:24:36.380 to find me
00:24:36.820 there, I'm
00:24:38.080 at at
00:24:38.760 Scott Adams
00:24:39.740 Truth.
00:24:40.880 So it
00:24:41.620 looks like you
00:24:42.600 don't get to
00:24:43.260 pick your
00:24:44.080 username.
00:24:46.140 You get to
00:24:46.720 pick the
00:24:47.200 first part,
00:24:48.040 and then it
00:24:48.400 looks like the
00:24:49.060 system adds
00:24:49.860 the word
00:24:50.240 truth to the
00:24:50.940 end.
00:24:51.700 So I didn't
00:24:52.480 have an
00:24:52.780 option of
00:24:53.340 Scott Adams
00:24:54.340 Says.
00:24:55.100 I think
00:24:55.760 somebody got
00:24:56.380 that one.
00:24:59.600 I think
00:25:00.200 somebody got
00:25:00.760 that one
00:25:01.080 before I
00:25:01.500 got there.
00:25:01.900 So there's
00:25:02.220 probably a
00:25:02.800 fake me over
00:25:03.380 there.
00:25:04.320 Unless I
00:25:04.960 signed up twice,
00:25:05.640 which is
00:25:06.000 possible.
00:25:06.920 I may
00:25:07.140 have signed
00:25:07.440 up twice.
00:25:09.380 Could be.
00:25:11.920 So I
00:25:12.700 don't know
00:25:12.940 how much
00:25:13.320 tweeting I'll
00:25:14.000 do over
00:25:14.280 there, but
00:25:14.580 I'll say
00:25:14.860 again that I
00:25:16.180 don't understand
00:25:16.860 why someone
00:25:17.560 hasn't made
00:25:18.100 a product that
00:25:19.520 can just post
00:25:20.260 to all the
00:25:20.720 sites.
00:25:22.760 Can somebody
00:25:23.520 tell me, is
00:25:24.100 there a
00:25:24.380 technical reason
00:25:25.160 that can't be
00:25:25.700 done?
00:25:26.460 Because I've
00:25:27.020 described exactly
00:25:28.000 what it should
00:25:28.500 look like.
00:25:29.840 What it should
00:25:30.520 look like is you
00:25:31.320 just start typing
00:25:32.240 whatever it is you
00:25:33.040 want to post or
00:25:34.480 you're putting
00:25:35.020 in pictures or
00:25:35.760 whatever, and
00:25:36.720 then all of
00:25:37.340 your various
00:25:37.960 social media
00:25:39.060 accounts are
00:25:39.740 lit up, but
00:25:41.980 let's say you
00:25:42.560 go over the
00:25:43.500 character count
00:25:46.540 for Twitter.
00:25:47.880 As you're
00:25:48.520 typing, the
00:25:49.640 Twitter indicator
00:25:51.380 should go off
00:25:52.220 to show that you
00:25:53.680 would not be able
00:25:54.420 to post that.
00:25:55.100 So then you
00:25:55.720 say, okay,
00:25:56.340 okay.
00:25:57.320 If I take out a
00:25:58.240 couple words,
00:25:59.020 it'll work for
00:25:59.640 all of my
00:26:00.020 accounts.
00:26:01.180 Or if I make
00:26:02.700 a shorter
00:26:03.280 video, it'll
00:26:05.120 work for all
00:26:05.620 of my
00:26:05.900 accounts, but
00:26:06.480 maybe I don't
00:26:06.980 care, so this
00:26:07.700 one I'll just
00:26:08.380 put in the
00:26:08.800 ones that are
00:26:09.200 highlighted.
00:26:10.020 I should be
00:26:10.680 completely oblivious
00:26:11.880 to where the
00:26:13.460 account is.
00:26:15.400 Shouldn't I?
00:26:17.440 Shouldn't I be
00:26:18.080 able to post
00:26:18.720 once and have
00:26:19.460 it go to all
00:26:19.880 the accounts?
00:26:21.560 Now, I don't
00:26:22.420 know if you
00:26:22.800 could do that
00:26:23.280 in terms of
00:26:23.720 reading and
00:26:25.060 replying.
00:26:25.840 That might be
00:26:26.540 a step too
00:26:27.160 hard, but in
00:26:28.100 terms of
00:26:28.520 posting, there
00:26:29.980 used to be
00:26:30.680 that service,
00:26:31.740 but I don't
00:26:32.120 hear much
00:26:32.740 about it,
00:26:33.180 where you
00:26:33.440 could do
00:26:33.740 that.
00:26:34.660 It never
00:26:35.180 really quite
00:26:35.740 worked.
00:26:38.640 So I'm
00:26:39.320 expecting somebody
00:26:40.060 to tell me
00:26:40.680 there's an
00:26:41.340 account that
00:26:44.540 does that,
00:26:45.600 but I don't
00:26:46.020 see it.
00:26:46.760 So if you
00:26:47.140 know of that,
00:26:47.840 let me know.
00:26:48.560 It could be
00:26:49.040 illegal.
00:26:49.600 Maybe there's
00:26:50.040 just no way
00:26:50.460 to do it.
00:26:51.460 But I
00:26:51.720 thought they
00:26:52.040 all had,
00:26:54.280 how can it
00:26:54.940 be illegal?
00:26:55.500 If you have
00:26:55.900 your own
00:26:56.380 sign-ons and
00:26:59.540 postings?
00:27:01.740 I don't
00:27:02.300 know how
00:27:02.600 that would
00:27:02.920 be illegal
00:27:03.440 if it's
00:27:03.840 just your
00:27:04.160 own
00:27:04.320 account.
00:27:06.740 With a,
00:27:07.340 yeah,
00:27:07.560 an IFFT,
00:27:08.600 an IFFTT,
00:27:10.500 right?
00:27:11.120 Some version
00:27:11.660 of that.
00:27:12.340 Right, so
00:27:12.800 forget about
00:27:13.880 the technical
00:27:14.400 parts, but it
00:27:15.060 seems like it's
00:27:15.580 doable.
00:27:17.720 I saw
00:27:18.320 DeSantis get
00:27:19.160 targeted by
00:27:19.800 CNN.
00:27:20.560 I was wondering
00:27:21.060 when that
00:27:21.460 would happen.
00:27:21.820 and it
00:27:23.820 looks like
00:27:24.160 suppressive
00:27:24.660 fire because
00:27:25.860 the way CNN
00:27:26.440 talks about
00:27:27.180 DeSantis is
00:27:28.580 in a
00:27:29.240 uh-oh
00:27:30.160 kind of
00:27:30.840 way.
00:27:32.080 You know
00:27:32.520 what I
00:27:32.740 mean?
00:27:33.620 So when
00:27:34.060 the left
00:27:34.480 looks at
00:27:34.960 DeSantis,
00:27:35.940 they just
00:27:36.440 kind of
00:27:36.720 say,
00:27:38.080 uh-oh,
00:27:39.820 he looks
00:27:40.400 pretty solid.
00:27:42.360 But I was
00:27:43.420 so interested
00:27:44.600 in what they
00:27:45.240 would have to
00:27:45.660 say negative
00:27:46.300 about him.
00:27:46.920 And so
00:27:49.620 they talked
00:27:50.000 about how
00:27:50.520 good he
00:27:51.220 was at
00:27:52.500 sort of
00:27:53.040 responding to
00:27:54.020 what his
00:27:54.500 base would
00:27:55.140 find as
00:27:55.800 red meat
00:27:57.060 and very
00:27:57.440 satisfying.
00:27:58.540 And many
00:27:59.220 of us have
00:27:59.680 said the
00:28:00.040 same thing.
00:28:00.780 I've been
00:28:01.040 saying it
00:28:01.380 for a while.
00:28:02.340 That DeSantis
00:28:02.860 is the
00:28:04.000 most capable
00:28:05.660 politician who
00:28:08.140 is working
00:28:08.660 at the
00:28:09.040 moment.
00:28:10.480 Now,
00:28:10.700 Trump's an
00:28:11.500 outlier,
00:28:12.080 special case.
00:28:12.800 It's hard to
00:28:13.180 compare him to
00:28:13.740 anything.
00:28:14.840 But of the
00:28:15.480 people who
00:28:16.340 are, you
00:28:16.740 know,
00:28:16.920 not Trump,
00:28:18.840 he's,
00:28:19.620 I would say
00:28:20.880 far and
00:28:21.360 away,
00:28:22.520 better than
00:28:23.200 the next
00:28:23.620 best person
00:28:24.320 at the
00:28:24.800 moment.
00:28:25.440 And he's
00:28:26.180 got this
00:28:26.520 track record
00:28:27.140 he's setting
00:28:27.580 up of
00:28:28.480 doing these
00:28:29.080 really spot
00:28:30.940 on responses
00:28:32.500 to things
00:28:33.300 that are in
00:28:33.700 the headlines
00:28:34.240 and just
00:28:34.900 right for
00:28:36.200 his base.
00:28:37.720 And yet,
00:28:38.360 not so far
00:28:39.140 that they
00:28:40.360 become easy
00:28:41.180 targets for
00:28:41.820 the other
00:28:42.140 side.
00:28:43.220 So he's
00:28:43.720 hitting that
00:28:44.500 sweet spot.
00:28:45.560 He just
00:28:45.840 hits that
00:28:46.200 sweet spot
00:28:46.740 over and
00:28:47.260 over again.
00:28:48.160 And it's
00:28:48.400 not an
00:28:48.720 accident.
00:28:49.480 You know,
00:28:49.680 at this
00:28:50.120 point,
00:28:50.400 it's obvious
00:28:50.880 that it's
00:28:51.520 strategy,
00:28:52.700 it's technique,
00:28:53.460 it's skill,
00:28:54.700 you know,
00:28:54.940 it's having
00:28:55.460 good advisors,
00:28:56.500 it's whatever
00:28:56.840 it is.
00:28:57.520 It's the
00:28:58.180 real thing.
00:28:59.880 So CNN
00:29:00.660 takes a
00:29:01.140 whack at
00:29:01.560 him.
00:29:02.240 And the
00:29:03.300 best they
00:29:03.760 can come
00:29:04.120 up with
00:29:04.700 is generic
00:29:06.180 concerns.
00:29:08.840 Listen to
00:29:09.500 this.
00:29:09.780 So the
00:29:12.780 end of
00:29:13.200 this piece
00:29:13.660 by Wolf,
00:29:14.920 I think,
00:29:15.300 whoever it
00:29:15.640 was,
00:29:15.900 their opinion
00:29:16.540 person,
00:29:18.000 or one
00:29:18.420 of them,
00:29:19.260 he says,
00:29:20.400 they're
00:29:23.420 talking about,
00:29:24.640 it's talking
00:29:25.220 about how
00:29:25.520 much skill
00:29:26.180 he has,
00:29:26.880 DeSantis,
00:29:27.660 but then the
00:29:28.180 closer is this,
00:29:30.200 but it's
00:29:30.520 easy to
00:29:30.960 imagine,
00:29:31.400 very different
00:29:31.880 uses for the
00:29:32.620 massive federal
00:29:33.420 apparatus.
00:29:34.060 if someone
00:29:35.300 with such
00:29:35.840 talent,
00:29:36.500 meaning DeSantis,
00:29:38.040 for the
00:29:38.700 politics of
00:29:39.460 division were
00:29:41.020 to assume
00:29:41.620 the office.
00:29:42.240 Wait a minute.
00:29:43.240 Wait a minute.
00:29:43.680 I thought we
00:29:44.300 were talking
00:29:44.620 about just
00:29:45.080 his talent.
00:29:47.620 How did
00:29:48.320 his talent
00:29:49.080 turn into
00:29:50.640 a talent
00:29:51.180 for politics?
00:29:53.820 Okay,
00:29:54.180 that's good
00:29:54.580 so far,
00:29:55.060 a talent
00:29:55.440 for politics,
00:29:57.280 of division,
00:29:59.320 of division,
00:30:00.460 where did
00:30:02.040 that come
00:30:02.400 from?
00:30:03.120 So you
00:30:03.440 get this
00:30:03.740 whole opinion
00:30:04.200 piece where
00:30:04.720 you sort
00:30:05.080 of agree
00:30:05.540 with it,
00:30:06.100 you're like,
00:30:06.480 uh-huh,
00:30:06.860 yeah,
00:30:07.600 yeah,
00:30:07.880 he is really
00:30:09.000 feeding his
00:30:09.540 base.
00:30:09.940 Yes,
00:30:10.140 he is talented.
00:30:11.320 Well,
00:30:11.580 he is talented
00:30:12.300 more than
00:30:12.680 more people.
00:30:13.440 You're just
00:30:13.780 shaking your
00:30:14.240 head,
00:30:14.440 yes,
00:30:14.880 yes,
00:30:15.680 yes,
00:30:16.220 and then
00:30:16.800 they do
00:30:17.100 this,
00:30:17.460 they just
00:30:17.780 slip in,
00:30:19.300 talent for
00:30:20.260 the politics
00:30:20.860 of division,
00:30:22.420 and I'm
00:30:22.760 thinking,
00:30:23.900 well,
00:30:24.340 that division
00:30:25.060 part wasn't
00:30:25.740 part of the
00:30:26.160 story so
00:30:27.100 much,
00:30:28.120 like that
00:30:28.480 was just
00:30:28.820 slipped in
00:30:29.300 like it
00:30:30.420 had been
00:30:30.740 proven or
00:30:31.360 something,
00:30:32.240 or like it's
00:30:32.760 such a
00:30:33.120 fact,
00:30:33.740 that you
00:30:34.680 would just
00:30:35.020 accept it.
00:30:37.120 It's just
00:30:37.420 obvious.
00:30:38.460 But there's
00:30:38.880 no evidence
00:30:39.380 for it.
00:30:40.380 There's just
00:30:40.880 evidence that
00:30:41.440 he's good
00:30:41.800 at what he
00:30:42.140 does,
00:30:43.000 which is
00:30:43.560 satisfying your
00:30:45.280 base,
00:30:45.740 basically.
00:30:48.420 So they
00:30:50.040 actually believe
00:30:50.640 he's too
00:30:51.100 talented to be
00:30:52.020 president because
00:30:53.140 that would
00:30:53.520 cause more
00:30:54.420 divisiveness.
00:30:55.600 Do you know
00:30:55.880 what causes
00:30:56.280 more divisiveness?
00:30:57.100 divisiveness?
00:30:58.660 Apparently the
00:30:59.660 Biden administration.
00:31:01.180 Because according
00:31:01.700 to polls,
00:31:02.360 the divisiveness
00:31:03.280 is at an
00:31:04.000 all-time
00:31:04.660 high under
00:31:06.460 Joe Biden.
00:31:08.540 Now, I don't
00:31:09.660 think that's
00:31:10.280 necessarily
00:31:10.880 Biden's fault,
00:31:12.160 as I also
00:31:13.560 don't believe
00:31:14.200 it's necessarily
00:31:15.100 was Trump's
00:31:16.560 fault that
00:31:17.300 there was
00:31:17.600 more divisiveness
00:31:18.420 under Trump
00:31:19.140 than there was
00:31:20.020 before.
00:31:20.880 I don't
00:31:21.320 necessarily think
00:31:22.080 it was Obama's
00:31:22.960 fault that he
00:31:24.040 was the most
00:31:24.580 divisive president
00:31:25.540 since the one
00:31:26.400 before who
00:31:27.600 is more
00:31:28.020 divisive than
00:31:28.820 the one
00:31:29.120 before.
00:31:30.600 It seems
00:31:31.380 pretty clear to
00:31:32.100 me that the
00:31:33.800 media is just
00:31:35.240 making it more
00:31:35.920 divisive no matter
00:31:36.920 who is the
00:31:37.520 president.
00:31:38.840 It's not really
00:31:39.980 the person in
00:31:40.620 office, is it?
00:31:42.240 Because it's
00:31:43.240 clearly the media
00:31:44.140 and social media
00:31:44.840 is making
00:31:45.360 everybody look
00:31:46.080 more divisive.
00:31:48.300 Meanwhile,
00:31:48.920 the walls are
00:31:49.440 closing in on
00:31:50.180 Trump.
00:31:50.880 Listen to the
00:31:51.340 way this story
00:31:51.980 is couched.
00:31:54.380 This is, I
00:31:55.120 think, CNN
00:31:55.560 also.
00:31:56.500 Lawyers for
00:31:57.020 New York State
00:31:58.420 Attorney General's
00:31:59.240 Office.
00:31:59.980 Now listen to
00:32:00.740 the language
00:32:01.680 that the
00:32:02.240 lawyers for
00:32:03.560 the New York
00:32:04.040 State's
00:32:04.500 Attorney General's
00:32:05.520 Office use.
00:32:07.080 Now keep in
00:32:07.980 mind that nobody
00:32:08.980 has been proven
00:32:09.700 guilty by anything
00:32:10.760 in this story.
00:32:12.340 This is just
00:32:12.940 an investigation.
00:32:14.420 But look at
00:32:14.880 their language.
00:32:16.460 They said they
00:32:16.960 are nearly
00:32:17.340 finished with
00:32:18.000 their civil
00:32:18.420 investigation into
00:32:19.540 the Trump
00:32:20.000 organization after
00:32:21.720 taking steps to
00:32:22.700 unravel the real
00:32:23.560 estate company's
00:32:24.320 assets that
00:32:25.440 they described
00:32:26.220 as being as
00:32:27.280 complex as a
00:32:28.800 quote,
00:32:29.620 Russian nesting
00:32:30.700 doll.
00:32:34.100 What?
00:32:36.420 What?
00:32:37.440 Now you'd have to
00:32:38.320 know that the
00:32:38.860 investigation is
00:32:40.580 looking into whether
00:32:41.480 the Trump
00:32:41.940 organization had
00:32:42.760 some kind of
00:32:43.500 illegal relationship
00:32:45.140 with Russia or a
00:32:46.940 Russian bank, I
00:32:47.760 guess.
00:32:47.940 And then the
00:32:49.240 people who are
00:32:50.240 these supposedly
00:32:51.920 they should be
00:32:54.040 objective, even
00:32:55.440 when doing their
00:32:56.140 job, because
00:32:56.800 they're government
00:32:57.820 employees, they
00:32:59.560 refer to the
00:33:00.840 complexity of it
00:33:02.060 as a Russian
00:33:02.760 nesting doll, which
00:33:05.060 really is like
00:33:05.920 saying he's guilty
00:33:06.860 without showing you
00:33:07.800 any evidence.
00:33:09.360 Isn't it?
00:33:11.160 Is that, that
00:33:12.740 feels completely
00:33:13.900 like fireable
00:33:14.880 offense.
00:33:15.400 I would say
00:33:17.740 that if a
00:33:18.300 lawyer said
00:33:19.980 this in public
00:33:20.940 about somebody
00:33:21.960 they're looking
00:33:22.440 into and
00:33:23.460 called it a
00:33:23.980 Russian nesting
00:33:24.780 doll, given
00:33:25.880 that that's the
00:33:26.620 very nature of
00:33:27.340 what they're
00:33:27.620 looking into,
00:33:28.780 without showing
00:33:29.480 you evidence and
00:33:30.400 without the
00:33:30.840 benefit of a
00:33:31.480 court telling
00:33:32.000 you that
00:33:32.400 somebody is
00:33:32.940 guilty of
00:33:33.380 something, this
00:33:34.460 is wildly,
00:33:36.080 wildly inappropriate.
00:33:38.380 Now I don't
00:33:38.820 think it's
00:33:39.200 illegal.
00:33:39.620 I don't know
00:33:41.960 if you could
00:33:42.300 sue them for
00:33:42.880 libel or
00:33:43.500 something, might
00:33:44.680 be premature
00:33:45.240 for that, but
00:33:46.800 I think you
00:33:47.420 should be
00:33:47.740 fired.
00:33:49.000 You should be
00:33:49.860 fired for that.
00:33:50.940 In fact, you
00:33:52.200 should be fired
00:33:52.800 even if the
00:33:53.880 boss loves you,
00:33:55.400 and even if you
00:33:56.360 agree with the
00:33:57.000 comment.
00:33:57.840 You should still
00:33:58.440 be fired for
00:33:59.140 that.
00:33:59.900 That is so
00:34:00.580 fireable.
00:34:01.860 Oh my God, it's
00:34:03.080 fireable.
00:34:05.160 Am I wrong?
00:34:06.020 Does anybody
00:34:09.920 disagree with
00:34:10.520 that?
00:34:11.240 It's perfectly
00:34:11.840 legal, and they
00:34:12.840 have a right to
00:34:13.980 their opinion, I
00:34:14.620 guess, but from
00:34:16.320 that office, you
00:34:17.880 want somebody who
00:34:18.680 at least pretends
00:34:19.460 to be objective.
00:34:20.640 This is not
00:34:21.400 pretending to
00:34:22.180 follow the law.
00:34:24.120 They should at
00:34:24.620 least put forward
00:34:25.320 the impression that
00:34:27.120 the law is what's
00:34:28.100 going to guide
00:34:29.420 them, not their
00:34:30.660 opinion.
00:34:32.500 Anyway, the
00:34:33.140 walls are closing
00:34:33.860 in.
00:34:34.840 The population
00:34:35.400 of San Francisco
00:34:36.180 plummeted 100,000
00:34:37.760 people between
00:34:39.920 2020 and 2021.
00:34:43.380 And I have
00:34:46.460 to ask this.
00:34:47.660 Is there any
00:34:48.320 major city that
00:34:49.380 didn't lose
00:34:50.980 occupants?
00:34:52.640 Maybe ones that
00:34:53.720 didn't close
00:34:54.240 down?
00:34:55.340 But I don't
00:34:56.280 know how cities
00:34:57.080 survive at all
00:34:58.320 because it seems
00:35:00.100 to me the cities
00:35:00.940 are for the
00:35:01.620 benefit of the
00:35:02.340 rich people
00:35:02.860 because then all
00:35:04.580 the people who
00:35:05.320 support them
00:35:06.120 and everything
00:35:07.400 is close and
00:35:08.100 they could take
00:35:08.540 a helicopter.
00:35:09.560 They don't have
00:35:09.860 to worry about
00:35:10.260 the traffic or
00:35:10.860 the crime,
00:35:11.340 right?
00:35:11.980 But it seems
00:35:12.600 like the cities
00:35:13.480 are designed
00:35:15.600 to benefit the
00:35:16.700 top 1%
00:35:17.440 and everybody
00:35:18.980 else is going
00:35:19.520 to suffer in
00:35:20.140 this horrible
00:35:20.660 living conditions
00:35:21.940 because they
00:35:23.280 need to be near
00:35:23.860 the money and
00:35:24.860 the top 1%
00:35:25.640 is where all
00:35:26.120 the money is.
00:35:26.600 So I feel
00:35:29.040 like cities are
00:35:29.960 just a horrible
00:35:31.640 system for
00:35:32.620 humans and
00:35:34.340 that the
00:35:34.760 natural, if I
00:35:36.860 had to predict,
00:35:37.580 I think cities
00:35:38.400 will become
00:35:38.920 depopulated as a
00:35:40.820 long-term trend
00:35:42.100 because the
00:35:43.440 quality of life
00:35:44.740 will be so low.
00:35:45.880 It's where all
00:35:46.260 the crime is
00:35:46.800 going to go.
00:35:47.360 It's where all
00:35:47.700 the protests
00:35:48.420 are going to go.
00:35:49.200 It's where the
00:35:49.760 terrorists are
00:35:50.300 going to attack.
00:35:50.940 If nothing
00:35:52.460 else, the
00:35:54.220 development of
00:35:55.840 drones that
00:35:56.620 anybody can use
00:35:57.540 for a terrorist
00:35:58.160 attack should
00:36:00.140 make cities
00:36:00.900 completely unlivable
00:36:02.040 because if you
00:36:04.180 can do something,
00:36:05.220 people are going
00:36:05.780 to do it.
00:36:07.080 Somebody's going
00:36:07.740 to fly drones
00:36:08.860 into the city
00:36:09.540 and start doing
00:36:10.420 something horrible
00:36:11.100 that I don't
00:36:11.560 want to specify.
00:36:13.300 And then people
00:36:13.820 are going to say,
00:36:14.300 you know, the
00:36:15.340 safest I could be
00:36:16.500 is to live in
00:36:17.780 a non-dense
00:36:18.660 area because it
00:36:19.940 doesn't make sense
00:36:20.640 for a terrorist
00:36:21.260 to attack a
00:36:22.240 non-dense area.
00:36:23.960 So I think people
00:36:24.680 are just going to
00:36:25.120 be driven to
00:36:25.680 non-dense living
00:36:26.980 styles because
00:36:29.100 one individual
00:36:30.780 can take out
00:36:31.480 a city now.
00:36:32.580 It used to be
00:36:33.060 one individual
00:36:33.700 could take out
00:36:34.300 a room full of
00:36:35.020 people, like a
00:36:36.440 mass shooting,
00:36:37.360 but now it'll be
00:36:38.320 very soon, and
00:36:40.000 maybe we're
00:36:40.440 already there,
00:36:41.540 one individual
00:36:42.500 with some drones
00:36:44.580 and some bad
00:36:45.300 intentions could
00:36:46.860 take out a city.
00:36:47.680 So, you know,
00:36:51.220 it seems like
00:36:51.820 depopulating cities
00:36:52.780 is just going to
00:36:53.360 have to happen.
00:36:57.000 And on that
00:36:57.780 good news, so I
00:36:59.940 retweeted today
00:37:00.920 that study that
00:37:02.100 people didn't like
00:37:02.960 about ivermectin
00:37:04.360 saying it was the
00:37:05.360 biggest study and
00:37:06.120 said it didn't
00:37:06.580 work, but then
00:37:07.860 people said,
00:37:08.460 wait, you
00:37:08.820 studied it wrong,
00:37:09.820 you didn't study
00:37:10.460 it with zinc,
00:37:11.100 or you waited
00:37:11.820 too long, or you
00:37:12.760 did it wrong, or
00:37:13.520 you, whatever.
00:37:14.820 The things we
00:37:15.560 always say when
00:37:16.140 we don't like what
00:37:16.820 the study says.
00:37:18.100 But here was my
00:37:19.140 only, I don't
00:37:19.860 want to reopen the
00:37:20.820 question of whether
00:37:21.560 it works or not.
00:37:24.580 I'm beyond caring
00:37:25.620 about that at this
00:37:26.300 point.
00:37:27.120 But I would just
00:37:28.460 point out that the
00:37:29.640 New York Times was
00:37:30.520 the source of what
00:37:31.660 I tweeted, and on
00:37:34.040 one hand, you've got
00:37:34.680 the New York Times
00:37:35.520 saying that there's
00:37:36.480 a gold standard
00:37:38.260 randomized controlled
00:37:39.760 trial that says
00:37:41.060 ivermectin does not
00:37:42.340 work, period.
00:37:44.200 So that's the New
00:37:44.900 York Times, the
00:37:45.580 paper of record,
00:37:46.820 and a gold standard
00:37:47.940 trial.
00:37:49.420 On the other
00:37:49.900 hand, arguing that
00:37:51.620 it does work, I've
00:37:53.460 seen people on
00:37:54.100 Twitter say that
00:37:54.920 they took it, and
00:37:57.020 they recovered from
00:37:58.720 something that has a
00:37:59.640 99% recovery rate,
00:38:02.140 and so because they
00:38:03.280 took ivermectin and
00:38:04.400 recovered from
00:38:05.140 something with a
00:38:05.800 99% recovery rate,
00:38:07.840 they're quite
00:38:08.600 convinced it was
00:38:09.340 the ivermectin that
00:38:10.180 made the difference.
00:38:12.120 And so you have
00:38:13.260 that evidence on the
00:38:14.100 other side.
00:38:14.560 Now normally, in a
00:38:17.600 let's say five
00:38:18.920 years ago world, I
00:38:20.680 would have said,
00:38:21.360 those are not the
00:38:23.360 same.
00:38:25.220 One of them is the
00:38:26.240 paper of record, the
00:38:27.280 most reliable
00:38:27.900 newspaper, with the
00:38:29.960 most reliable kind of
00:38:31.220 study, gold standard,
00:38:32.940 randomized controlled
00:38:33.840 trial.
00:38:35.040 I mean, that's really
00:38:35.640 solid.
00:38:36.880 But a guy who thinks
00:38:39.120 that recovering from
00:38:40.080 something that 99% of
00:38:41.840 people recover from,
00:38:42.820 no matter what they
00:38:43.460 do, he thinks he
00:38:45.160 knows it because he
00:38:46.340 took the ivermectin.
00:38:48.220 That seems a little
00:38:49.180 sketchy, right?
00:38:50.680 Well, not anymore.
00:38:52.180 I judge those to be
00:38:53.380 equally credible.
00:38:56.120 Actually, really.
00:38:58.040 Actually, I'm not
00:38:58.780 joking.
00:39:00.280 There's no difference
00:39:01.300 in the credibility of
00:39:02.220 those two things.
00:39:03.120 They both have zero
00:39:04.200 credibility, don't they?
00:39:06.820 Which one has any
00:39:07.860 credibility?
00:39:08.240 I'd say neither.
00:39:11.080 Wouldn't you?
00:39:12.340 Would you give any
00:39:13.640 credibility to a New
00:39:15.360 York Times report
00:39:16.460 about a randomized
00:39:17.500 controlled trial?
00:39:20.360 Sorry.
00:39:21.500 It's 2022, and that
00:39:24.140 dog is dead.
00:39:26.280 That dog is dead.
00:39:28.100 I'd love to say, I
00:39:29.980 would love to live in
00:39:30.780 a world where the
00:39:31.580 news was believable and
00:39:33.000 the randomized
00:39:33.380 controlled trials were
00:39:35.200 not maybe tainted by
00:39:37.940 who knows what.
00:39:39.920 But we don't live in
00:39:40.840 that world.
00:39:41.780 We just know what
00:39:42.460 people tell us.
00:39:43.560 That's it.
00:39:44.660 That's all you know.
00:39:46.240 All you know is what
00:39:47.060 somebody told you.
00:39:48.400 So I got two
00:39:49.160 completely non-credible
00:39:50.660 sources.
00:39:52.360 So what do you do?
00:39:54.040 Well, I will tell you
00:39:55.080 that if somebody said,
00:39:56.400 well, I don't think the
00:39:57.580 ivermectin's going to
00:39:58.540 hurt me, and I don't
00:40:00.180 have any credible
00:40:00.960 information that it's
00:40:02.180 going to help me, but
00:40:04.200 maybe, and then they
00:40:06.220 go ahead and take
00:40:06.880 it, I would not be
00:40:08.360 the one saying that
00:40:09.460 they took horse
00:40:12.100 tranquilizer or
00:40:12.920 whatever it was.
00:40:17.540 Why did we shut
00:40:18.560 down our economy for
00:40:19.600 this?
00:40:20.440 Well, probably because
00:40:21.480 all the dead people.
00:40:23.360 I'm going to say
00:40:24.600 that.
00:40:30.540 Scott and CNN,
00:40:31.780 same thing.
00:40:32.320 Good point.
00:40:34.820 So, let me put the
00:40:38.520 standard on myself as
00:40:40.240 someone on the
00:40:40.940 locals network.
00:40:42.280 Just challenge me.
00:40:44.620 Who would be more
00:40:45.400 credible, CNN or me?
00:40:49.060 Go.
00:40:50.160 Who's more credible,
00:40:52.260 CNN or me?
00:40:56.400 Now, on the locals
00:40:58.080 platform, they actually
00:40:59.000 pay a subscription fee,
00:41:01.040 so I think that would
00:41:02.240 be the most biased
00:41:04.380 group, but thank you
00:41:05.820 for saying me.
00:41:07.800 Scott Plus.
00:41:10.300 Yeah, did you hear
00:41:11.820 about the Scott Plus
00:41:12.780 streaming service?
00:41:14.420 Didn't do as well as
00:41:15.460 we'd hoped.
00:41:19.000 Well, here's the
00:41:19.820 difference.
00:41:21.120 The difference is,
00:41:22.580 CNN tries to give you
00:41:24.680 the facts, and I don't
00:41:27.120 do that job.
00:41:28.320 So, we're not really
00:41:29.180 in the same job.
00:41:29.840 We're in the
00:41:30.280 interpretation.
00:41:30.980 I'm interpreting facts
00:41:32.500 and predicting, and
00:41:34.600 they're telling you
00:41:35.660 facts with their
00:41:37.020 original reporting
00:41:38.160 in many cases.
00:41:39.800 So, not exactly
00:41:40.620 comparable.
00:41:42.400 But nothing is
00:41:43.960 credible.
00:41:44.820 That is true.
00:41:45.360 Nothing is credible.
00:41:46.580 So, here's what I
00:41:48.500 hope that I can
00:41:49.320 offer you.
00:41:51.580 Number one,
00:41:53.200 I generally tell you,
00:41:55.860 or I try to,
00:41:56.700 where my biases are.
00:42:00.180 And so, I tell you
00:42:01.320 what I've invested in.
00:42:02.280 I've told you I
00:42:02.760 invested in Tesla,
00:42:04.600 Twitter, Apple,
00:42:07.040 and when others come
00:42:08.380 up, I tell you.
00:42:09.900 And I tell you that I
00:42:10.940 did not invest in
00:42:11.940 Disney, for example.
00:42:15.540 So,
00:42:17.020 you at least know
00:42:20.840 where my bias is,
00:42:21.780 and I'm not being
00:42:23.700 paid by any
00:42:24.420 big pharma.
00:42:25.380 But I could be
00:42:25.900 lying, right?
00:42:27.040 So, you always have
00:42:27.680 that problem.
00:42:29.760 And,
00:42:30.760 so, I guess I
00:42:33.300 would say that
00:42:33.960 the thing I'm
00:42:35.400 trying to do is
00:42:36.380 help you look at
00:42:37.220 things through a
00:42:37.720 different frame.
00:42:40.440 You lost your
00:42:41.380 shorts yesterday.
00:42:42.620 What's that
00:42:43.000 mean?
00:42:44.860 The short
00:42:45.500 sellers?
00:42:45.760 Yes.
00:42:45.920 Yeah.
00:42:49.700 So, what I'm
00:42:50.620 trying to do is
00:42:51.300 give you a
00:42:51.860 different way of
00:42:52.600 analyzing the
00:42:53.640 same stuff, but
00:42:55.080 I don't know if
00:42:55.540 the stuff is
00:42:56.100 real.
00:42:57.200 That's the
00:42:57.620 problem.
00:42:58.620 So, I can help
00:42:59.420 you with the
00:42:59.960 how to think
00:43:00.580 about stuff in
00:43:01.460 a different way.
00:43:02.960 Usually, it's the
00:43:03.980 different way part
00:43:04.740 that I think I can
00:43:05.460 add.
00:43:05.920 Not so much
00:43:06.600 better way, but
00:43:08.140 sometimes just
00:43:08.680 seeing things in
00:43:09.380 a different way
00:43:09.900 adds something.
00:43:13.400 How to
00:43:13.740 reconcile the
00:43:15.060 99% survive
00:43:16.420 and all the
00:43:17.040 dead people?
00:43:18.320 Math.
00:43:19.640 Math.
00:43:21.240 1% times
00:43:22.520 lots of
00:43:24.080 people.
00:43:26.740 All right.
00:43:30.260 Constance
00:43:30.740 says, I don't
00:43:31.420 think you lie,
00:43:32.440 but you are
00:43:32.900 misinformed
00:43:33.480 sometimes.
00:43:34.340 As opposed
00:43:35.140 to who?
00:43:37.840 So,
00:43:38.440 Constance
00:43:38.820 says, I am
00:43:39.520 misinformed
00:43:40.100 sometimes, to
00:43:41.900 which I say,
00:43:42.700 of course.
00:43:45.060 Of course.
00:43:46.680 But compared
00:43:47.500 to who?
00:43:49.120 Is there
00:43:49.680 somebody who's
00:43:50.180 well-informed?
00:43:51.760 I mean, better
00:43:52.800 than I am?
00:43:53.720 I don't know.
00:43:54.900 I think we're
00:43:55.620 all misinformed.
00:43:56.440 Isn't that the
00:43:57.040 whole problem?
00:43:58.200 If anybody
00:43:59.040 were well-informed
00:44:00.240 or they
00:44:01.400 labeled themselves
00:44:02.180 well-informed,
00:44:03.920 I would say
00:44:04.520 anybody who
00:44:05.060 labels themselves
00:44:05.980 well-informed,
00:44:07.640 don't listen
00:44:08.500 to them.
00:44:10.740 That would be
00:44:11.580 somebody you
00:44:12.100 shouldn't trust
00:44:12.580 at all.
00:44:13.040 Because that's
00:44:13.820 somebody who
00:44:14.220 doesn't even
00:44:14.640 know what
00:44:14.940 they don't
00:44:15.280 know.
00:44:16.220 At least I
00:44:16.840 know what
00:44:17.180 I don't
00:44:17.500 know.
00:44:18.700 If you
00:44:19.060 don't know
00:44:19.540 what you
00:44:19.820 don't know,
00:44:20.520 you call
00:44:20.900 yourself well-informed.
00:44:24.280 You are
00:44:24.860 not even
00:44:25.240 trying to
00:44:25.760 get informed.
00:44:27.200 Well, that's
00:44:27.560 true, too.
00:44:29.060 And so,
00:44:29.880 Holling says
00:44:31.000 that on some
00:44:31.800 topics I was
00:44:32.980 not even
00:44:33.460 trying to get
00:44:34.140 informed.
00:44:34.640 That is
00:44:35.000 absolutely
00:44:35.520 correct.
00:44:36.540 Do you
00:44:36.780 know why?
00:44:37.960 Do you know
00:44:38.660 why on some
00:44:39.480 topics I was
00:44:41.000 intentionally
00:44:42.420 not trying
00:44:44.080 to do my
00:44:44.560 own deep
00:44:44.940 research?
00:44:45.680 Because that's
00:44:46.480 ridiculous.
00:44:48.080 It's ridiculous.
00:44:49.460 So I do
00:44:50.500 avoid doing
00:44:51.760 things that
00:44:52.180 are ridiculous.
00:44:53.660 For example,
00:44:54.920 looking into
00:44:55.580 climate change
00:44:56.640 and doing my
00:44:57.240 own evaluation
00:44:58.800 of their
00:44:59.360 science.
00:45:01.560 What good
00:45:01.940 would that
00:45:02.260 do?
00:45:03.940 It wouldn't
00:45:04.420 do any good
00:45:04.980 because I
00:45:05.540 would have no
00:45:05.960 reason to think
00:45:06.520 that my deep
00:45:07.160 dive into the
00:45:07.820 subject got me
00:45:09.220 the right
00:45:09.540 information.
00:45:11.000 So the
00:45:12.100 people who
00:45:12.700 are proud
00:45:13.680 of their
00:45:14.040 ability to
00:45:14.660 do their
00:45:15.240 own research
00:45:15.960 are almost
00:45:17.520 always the
00:45:18.280 most wrong.
00:45:22.280 Now, I
00:45:23.480 will make an
00:45:23.920 exception for
00:45:24.800 the top,
00:45:25.820 I don't know,
00:45:27.040 5% of
00:45:28.340 smart people.
00:45:29.920 Maybe the
00:45:30.700 top 5% can
00:45:32.060 do their
00:45:32.420 own research
00:45:33.600 and maybe
00:45:35.080 get a
00:45:35.540 better take
00:45:37.280 than they
00:45:37.660 could have
00:45:37.960 if they
00:45:38.360 hadn't.
00:45:39.020 But 95%
00:45:40.300 will do
00:45:40.940 their own
00:45:41.280 research and
00:45:41.900 just believe
00:45:42.860 in an
00:45:43.460 extra bunch
00:45:44.080 of lies or
00:45:45.220 alternative lies
00:45:46.160 and they
00:45:46.420 won't know
00:45:46.720 it.
00:45:47.700 So if you
00:45:48.140 don't have
00:45:48.400 some special
00:45:49.080 ability to
00:45:49.780 sort through
00:45:50.140 bullshit,
00:45:50.820 doing your
00:45:51.220 own research
00:45:52.000 just gives
00:45:53.620 you more
00:45:53.900 bullshit.
00:45:55.880 Now, I
00:45:56.500 don't think I
00:45:57.000 have that
00:45:57.320 ability.
00:45:58.060 I don't
00:45:58.480 believe I
00:45:58.900 have the
00:45:59.160 ability to
00:45:59.700 research
00:46:00.180 something and
00:46:01.620 I could tell,
00:46:02.280 for example,
00:46:02.760 which studies
00:46:03.320 were good.
00:46:04.880 I don't have
00:46:05.480 that ability.
00:46:06.620 I could
00:46:07.120 talk to
00:46:07.440 people who
00:46:08.020 seem to
00:46:09.040 have that
00:46:09.320 ability and
00:46:09.860 listen to
00:46:10.280 them, but
00:46:11.220 you end up
00:46:11.700 always with
00:46:12.100 the same
00:46:12.420 result.
00:46:13.840 There's always
00:46:14.440 somebody who
00:46:14.900 thinks every
00:46:15.340 study is
00:46:15.780 bad.
00:46:17.160 Always.
00:46:18.480 And it's
00:46:19.060 always somebody
00:46:19.500 who knows
00:46:19.800 more than I
00:46:20.300 do.
00:46:21.580 So what do
00:46:22.020 I do with
00:46:22.460 that if
00:46:23.000 there's always
00:46:23.400 somebody who
00:46:23.860 thinks the
00:46:24.240 study is
00:46:24.740 faulty?
00:46:25.240 But when
00:46:34.940 I referred to
00:46:36.080 ivermectin as
00:46:36.940 horse meds, I
00:46:37.900 was doing it
00:46:38.580 sarcastically.
00:46:41.580 I guess that's
00:46:42.380 one of my
00:46:42.760 problems.
00:46:43.360 Sometimes people
00:46:43.940 can't tell when
00:46:44.460 I'm kidding.
00:46:47.140 All right.
00:46:48.160 Ladies and
00:46:48.880 gentlemen, I
00:46:49.860 believe that
00:46:50.660 we've run out
00:46:51.240 of news and
00:46:51.980 commentary.
00:46:54.460 I'm going to
00:46:55.040 tell you one
00:46:55.580 thing about my
00:46:56.720 growth of
00:46:57.620 Twitter users,
00:46:59.920 which is way
00:47:01.360 up, right?
00:47:02.200 It's up
00:47:02.620 gigantically,
00:47:04.340 even more than
00:47:05.000 it was up
00:47:05.380 yesterday, and
00:47:06.000 yesterday it
00:47:06.460 was up 10
00:47:07.180 times.
00:47:08.100 So I think
00:47:08.440 today it's up
00:47:09.040 20 times
00:47:09.760 baseline or
00:47:10.400 something like
00:47:10.840 that, just
00:47:11.200 for a number
00:47:11.880 of new users.
00:47:13.280 So I took a
00:47:13.980 look at my
00:47:14.540 users.
00:47:16.040 It appears
00:47:17.280 to be all
00:47:17.640 bots.
00:47:19.240 I don't think
00:47:20.400 it's people
00:47:20.820 coming back on
00:47:21.520 the platform.
00:47:22.240 That's a little
00:47:22.700 bit of it.
00:47:23.640 I don't think
00:47:24.320 it's the
00:47:24.740 algorithm
00:47:25.200 changed.
00:47:27.000 Unfortunately.
00:47:28.500 Nope.
00:47:30.020 It clearly
00:47:31.020 is bots.
00:47:32.960 So I
00:47:33.660 don't know if
00:47:34.020 anybody else is
00:47:34.580 having the
00:47:35.280 same experience,
00:47:36.700 but just do a
00:47:38.320 quick look at
00:47:38.880 your new users.
00:47:40.340 They're all
00:47:40.820 zero followers.
00:47:42.480 They're obvious
00:47:43.560 bots.
00:47:44.620 So it looks
00:47:45.580 to me like
00:47:46.160 somebody or
00:47:47.320 buddies who
00:47:48.140 control bots
00:47:49.020 have decided
00:47:50.280 this is a good
00:47:50.940 time to go
00:47:51.460 nuts with them.
00:47:52.140 And it could
00:47:53.560 be they're
00:47:53.980 trying to
00:47:54.360 create a
00:47:54.760 narrative.
00:47:55.900 It could be
00:47:56.660 they're trying
00:47:57.000 to create a
00:47:57.500 narrative that
00:47:58.340 well, the
00:48:00.660 one that you
00:48:01.080 believe, which
00:48:01.940 is that the
00:48:02.780 algorithm already
00:48:03.660 got changed by
00:48:05.520 people trying to
00:48:06.380 hide stuff.
00:48:07.560 You know, I
00:48:08.260 don't think that's
00:48:08.780 going to happen.
00:48:09.240 I don't believe
00:48:11.780 that there's
00:48:13.240 anybody with
00:48:14.120 access to the
00:48:14.980 algorithm who
00:48:16.600 could change
00:48:17.260 it at this
00:48:17.740 point in some
00:48:18.380 substantial way
00:48:19.180 where you're
00:48:19.540 trying to hide
00:48:20.000 something where
00:48:21.020 that wouldn't
00:48:21.580 be, you
00:48:24.540 know, let's
00:48:25.640 say easily
00:48:26.240 found.
00:48:27.700 Because they
00:48:28.300 got backups
00:48:28.980 on backups.
00:48:30.860 You don't
00:48:31.320 think it would
00:48:31.760 be obvious if
00:48:32.500 somebody tried to
00:48:33.220 erase the
00:48:33.740 algorithms or
00:48:34.560 even tried to
00:48:35.600 tweak it to get
00:48:36.280 rid of any
00:48:36.760 hidden stuff.
00:48:37.600 I don't
00:48:40.440 know.
00:48:41.280 Because at the
00:48:42.120 very least, you
00:48:42.900 would see a
00:48:43.300 behavior shift
00:48:44.200 that couldn't be
00:48:45.140 explained by
00:48:45.820 normal activity.
00:48:47.920 So at the
00:48:48.380 very least, the
00:48:49.800 behavior of it
00:48:50.620 would show up.
00:48:52.360 Now, I don't
00:48:52.860 think you're
00:48:53.240 seeing that yet.
00:48:54.300 This looks like
00:48:54.940 a false flag
00:48:56.320 attack.
00:48:57.600 You know what
00:48:57.900 I mean?
00:48:58.720 It looks like
00:48:59.520 somebody who's
00:49:00.080 trying to make
00:49:00.720 it seem as
00:49:01.480 though the
00:49:01.900 algorithm is
00:49:03.220 already changing.
00:49:04.760 Or, it's
00:49:06.000 somebody who's a
00:49:06.660 competitor.
00:49:07.600 Who just
00:49:08.200 wants a bunch
00:49:08.800 of bots on
00:49:09.380 Twitter to
00:49:10.600 see if Elon
00:49:11.140 Musk can
00:49:11.640 really get rid
00:49:12.180 of bots.
00:49:12.840 Because he
00:49:13.140 says that's
00:49:13.560 one of his
00:49:14.020 main things.
00:49:17.040 My truth
00:49:17.960 social name is
00:49:19.720 Scott Adams
00:49:20.760 Truth.
00:49:22.360 All one word.
00:49:23.480 Scott Adams
00:49:24.260 Truth.
00:49:26.400 So I just
00:49:26.860 signed up if
00:49:27.440 you're just
00:49:27.980 joining us.
00:49:30.760 Poison pill.
00:49:32.060 I don't know.
00:49:34.240 Shorts to
00:49:35.000 cover.
00:49:35.340 Eh.
00:49:37.600 You think so?
00:49:39.160 Do you think
00:49:39.560 it's an
00:49:39.880 investor who's
00:49:40.620 doing it as
00:49:41.360 some part of
00:49:42.120 a short or
00:49:44.400 a long
00:49:45.140 position?
00:49:45.980 I don't know.
00:49:47.300 But you're
00:49:51.620 underestimating
00:49:52.280 the manual
00:49:52.880 filtering by the
00:49:53.800 moderators.
00:49:56.520 I'm not
00:49:57.280 underestimating
00:49:58.180 that.
00:49:58.640 I just
00:49:58.920 wasn't talking
00:49:59.500 about it.
00:50:00.640 So clearly
00:50:01.640 there is
00:50:02.140 manual filtering.
00:50:05.260 But I
00:50:07.000 think even
00:50:07.580 if there
00:50:07.960 were a
00:50:08.280 change in
00:50:08.780 that, there
00:50:10.060 would be a
00:50:10.440 paper trail
00:50:11.080 that would be
00:50:12.240 backed up.
00:50:13.260 There would be
00:50:13.880 some internal
00:50:14.520 email that
00:50:15.280 says, you
00:50:16.140 know, do
00:50:16.420 this differently.
00:50:17.800 And somewhere
00:50:18.520 it's on the
00:50:19.000 server.
00:50:19.980 I just
00:50:20.500 don't think
00:50:21.800 that they
00:50:23.120 could cover
00:50:23.600 up the
00:50:23.920 crime.
00:50:24.960 So if you
00:50:25.520 think that
00:50:25.940 Twitter is
00:50:26.500 like, you
00:50:27.380 know, quickly
00:50:27.920 shredding the
00:50:28.740 documents, I
00:50:30.180 feel like you're
00:50:31.060 living in a
00:50:31.700 world where
00:50:32.320 it's an
00:50:32.640 embassy, where
00:50:34.440 the documents
00:50:35.340 maybe are
00:50:35.820 only on
00:50:36.300 paper.
00:50:37.460 So if you
00:50:38.180 shred them,
00:50:38.580 they're really
00:50:38.880 gone.
00:50:40.320 I don't
00:50:40.800 think Twitter
00:50:41.820 can shred
00:50:42.500 its backups
00:50:44.180 and its
00:50:44.600 backups.
00:50:46.880 I don't
00:50:47.180 know.
00:50:47.540 I think it
00:50:47.980 would be
00:50:48.180 pretty obvious
00:50:48.820 to discover
00:50:50.120 any problems.
00:50:51.940 So that's
00:50:53.500 all for now.
00:50:54.380 Watch out for
00:50:54.800 the bots, and
00:50:55.920 I will talk
00:50:56.340 to you.
00:50:57.920 tomorrow.
00:50:59.620 Bye for
00:51:00.000 now.