Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1726 Scott Adams： Twitter, Tesla, Ivermectin, DeSantis, Truth Social, Musk and More

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.

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00:50:54.380 Watch out for

00:50:54.800 the bots, and

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00:50:57.920 tomorrow.

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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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