Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 02, 2022


Episode 1731 Scott Adams： Big Pharma Malfeasance, Musk's Shadow Crew, Fun Story Of Knife Fight


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

143.3354

Word Count

8,149

Sentence Count

613

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary

The dopamine hit of the day! The thing that makes everything better, the thing that s going to make your day spectacular, it's going to happen now. It's called the "Simultaneous hip-go" and it's all you need to get a good night's rest.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another highlight of your entire life.
00:00:09.080 Now, we're not going to count the afterlife, which, for all we know, could be awesome for you.
00:00:15.220 Well, maybe not all of you, if you know what I mean. I think you do.
00:00:19.180 But for many of you, this will be the highlight of your biological life before you become a digital entity
00:00:24.160 or possibly pass into the afterlife and become pure energy.
00:00:27.660 But until that happens, you're going to need a little extra energy from the outside.
00:00:33.320 Maybe a little, uh, yeah, you know where I'm going with this, don't you?
00:00:37.480 And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or gels or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:45.180 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:49.040 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine hit of the day.
00:00:52.620 Today, the thing that makes everything better, the thing that makes your day spectacular, it's going to happen now.
00:01:00.500 It's called the Simultaneous Hip. Go.
00:01:01.800 So, well, I hope you enjoyed this because it might be our last day together.
00:01:16.500 I'm looking to cause some trouble and we'll see if that works out for me.
00:01:24.740 But we'll get to that.
00:01:25.960 So, some researchers have found the optimum amount of sleep for seniors.
00:01:34.560 Which is a complete waste of time, I think, because senior citizens could just sleep all day if they want.
00:01:41.900 They don't have to do anything.
00:01:43.840 So, I'm looking forward to that phase of life.
00:01:46.540 You can sleep all you want.
00:01:48.020 Actually, I don't like sleep, so I'm a terrible person to advise you about it.
00:01:52.320 But, I do put a lot of work into doing the mechanisms of sleep right.
00:02:00.280 You know, I go to bed at a good time.
00:02:02.320 Always get up at the same time no matter the day.
00:02:04.980 Don't watch TV.
00:02:07.140 You know, don't do things that activate my brain.
00:02:10.480 Don't think about the next day when I'm asleep.
00:02:13.440 Never think about the next day.
00:02:15.660 And never think about the last day.
00:02:18.100 Actually, those are the two things you should never think about when you're trying to get to sleep.
00:02:21.500 Don't think about anything that's happened at all.
00:02:26.160 That'll just drive you nuts.
00:02:27.580 You'll never sleep if you're thinking about something that happened.
00:02:30.480 And never think about something that you're expecting.
00:02:35.560 Something that you're worried about.
00:02:37.220 So, don't think about yourself in the past or your real self in the future.
00:02:42.860 Instead, think about your imaginary self in the future.
00:02:49.460 Imaginary self in the future.
00:02:50.880 Now, you're still you.
00:02:52.860 But in the future, you're having a good day.
00:02:55.140 Just doing something.
00:02:56.660 Going to the beach.
00:02:58.040 Being successful.
00:02:59.800 You know, maybe you lost that weight you wanted to lose.
00:03:02.440 You're having amazing physical relationships with that beautiful person.
00:03:07.540 So, use that time just to think about good things that could happen to you.
00:03:11.920 That's my sleeping tip.
00:03:13.900 It turns out that they say that you need about seven hours if you're a senior.
00:03:20.340 But, of course, this is very individual.
00:03:23.380 So, there's a big individual difference.
00:03:24.800 I'm pretty sure that I need less sleep than other people.
00:03:30.860 Or, I could be fooling myself.
00:03:33.900 And, I just don't like sleep.
00:03:37.320 Because I really hate it.
00:03:38.640 I hate sleep.
00:03:39.380 I feel like it's like being dead before you have to be.
00:03:45.500 I don't want to be dead before I have to be.
00:03:47.540 And, I find sleep physically uncomfortable.
00:03:55.120 Like, I can't stay in a bed for, like, hours.
00:03:59.400 Are you kidding me?
00:04:00.800 It's just so physically uncomfortable.
00:04:02.660 I'm just like, ugh.
00:04:03.880 I need to, like, stand up or stretch or something.
00:04:06.540 I don't know how people do it.
00:04:08.160 How do you sleep eight hours?
00:04:09.360 I can't even imagine.
00:04:10.500 So, there's a big individual difference.
00:04:12.960 All right.
00:04:13.240 Well, I think I might get canceled this week.
00:04:15.700 I introduced a new character in Dilbert.
00:04:19.820 Started running today.
00:04:22.260 And, it features a character called Dave.
00:04:25.680 And, you won't be able to see it too well.
00:04:30.660 But, I need to show you the visual.
00:04:33.660 So, you can see that Dave is a black character.
00:04:37.080 He's going to be a regular in Dilbert.
00:04:39.660 Well, I'll see how he goes.
00:04:41.500 He'll be a regular if he's well-received.
00:04:43.460 And, here's the setup.
00:04:46.260 So, it's just the Dilbert cast sitting around the table, as they often do.
00:04:52.020 And, Dave, the new engineer, who, if you were to look at the picture, you'd say to yourself,
00:05:00.960 I don't know, but Dave looks like he might be black, just based on the physical appearance.
00:05:08.700 And, the boss says, management asked me to add some diversity to the engineering team.
00:05:15.220 And, then he says, meet Dave.
00:05:17.860 And, then he points to Dave.
00:05:19.420 And, Dave says, I identify as white.
00:05:23.480 And, the boss looks at Dave, and he says, you're ruining everything, Dave.
00:05:26.980 And, I figured, the best thing I could do, the best thing I could do is play with the way people feel about the topic.
00:05:43.680 So, this is going to be way less about Dave, and way more about the topic.
00:05:50.480 One of the, so I've been watching to see what kind of criticism I get.
00:05:55.540 And, one of the criticisms was, I think from somebody who was probably white, based on the way, I'm just guessing.
00:06:04.100 But, the comment was, it looks like I designed the character without having ever met an actual black person.
00:06:13.620 To which I said, well, that's kind of racist.
00:06:18.720 Are you assuming that if I'd met lots of black people, I would have come to the conclusion they're all the same?
00:06:26.380 Is that what you're suggesting?
00:06:27.800 Is there some reason that this particular one individual, in a world full of individuals, can't just be his own person?
00:06:38.720 So, you see how double-edged all of this is?
00:06:42.280 Even the critics are racist.
00:06:44.560 Because, as soon as you say, hey, that one black character isn't acting like a black person acts,
00:06:50.280 I have to say, well, how does a black person act?
00:06:54.200 What exactly do you mean by that, anyway?
00:06:56.280 Why can't every person be individual?
00:07:02.160 So, it does kind of challenge you for what do you think you can get away with and all that.
00:07:08.780 Now, there's some backstory.
00:07:12.920 The backstory is that for decades, literally, I've wanted to add more diversity to the Dilbert cast for all the normal reasons.
00:07:21.040 The customers would like it better, right?
00:07:25.100 The people reading it would say, oh, that looks more like the real world, and there's somebody I can relate to, and all that stuff.
00:07:32.080 So, of course, I've always wanted to add diversity, but it's such a third rail.
00:07:36.400 Because if you happen to be one kind of person, but you're writing dialogue for another kind of person, especially if there's a physicality to it, like a comic,
00:07:46.000 you just assume to be some kind of a racist or sexist, right?
00:07:50.700 There's just no way to get around it.
00:07:52.140 So, the clever side door that I'm trying to kick open, and I don't know if I'll do it yet, right, but this is the attempt,
00:08:02.060 is to get in through the silliness side door.
00:08:04.960 So, rather than take the issues, you know, the real issues, head on, I'm just going to take how people feel about being in a world where they have to take on these issues.
00:08:17.940 Because to me, the smaller you go, the funnier it is, right?
00:08:23.020 The big picture is systemic racism, the legacy of slavery, maybe reparations.
00:08:30.660 Like, those are big issues.
00:08:33.600 But they're not funny, right?
00:08:37.300 You know, you can't really make a joke out of some stuff.
00:08:42.080 Like, even if you thought it was funny, it wouldn't be a good commercial approach.
00:08:47.760 So, instead, I'll take it from the big stuff that scares us down to the little stuff of, how do you navigate this world?
00:08:55.840 Like, if you're just trying to get through the day, like, how do you navigate all of this?
00:09:02.780 So, that's where I'm at.
00:09:03.960 I'm on the navigation level.
00:09:06.200 So, it'll be a full week of Dave, the new engineer, and you will see what his character flaw is.
00:09:14.500 It will be revealed, if we can call it that.
00:09:18.160 So, all characters in the comic world, all characters have to have a comic, have to have a flaw.
00:09:26.100 So, that was the hard part.
00:09:27.520 Well, you'll see how I handle that.
00:09:30.860 Biden, according to Rasmussen, new poll, Biden's approval is slightly ticking up.
00:09:37.740 Ticking up.
00:09:38.340 It's up to, job approval up to 42%, which matches Trump's lowest level.
00:09:44.700 Now, this is, Biden has improved to Trump's lowest ever.
00:09:55.240 So, am I wrong with my prediction that Trump would look better every day that he was out of office?
00:10:03.220 So far, that's one of my best predictions.
00:10:05.680 Because I don't think anybody thought that was going to happen.
00:10:08.220 Like, even his supporters, I don't think they thought that was going to happen.
00:10:12.440 Maybe you did.
00:10:13.260 Maybe you're smart.
00:10:15.660 Well, and here, Bill Maher basically agreeing that Trump is right.
00:10:21.340 So, here are some of the things that Bill Maher said.
00:10:23.820 When is Biden going to understand that immigration is a big deal?
00:10:31.100 You know, you can't get any more clear than that.
00:10:34.640 That Biden is just not kicking it.
00:10:37.460 Now, to be fair, to be fair, Bill Maher also said that immigration is to the Democrats what health care is to Republicans.
00:10:49.780 The Republicans act like it's not that important.
00:10:53.140 You don't have to do anything about it on health care.
00:10:55.480 Now, that would be an interpretation.
00:10:57.020 I'm not saying that literally.
00:10:58.080 And then, likewise, Republicans would say of Democrats that they don't have any plan for the border and they're not taking it seriously.
00:11:06.400 Again, that would be an interpretation, not my personal view.
00:11:11.080 So, the larger story here is that there's a class of people who are just breaking free from the narratives.
00:11:25.040 And Bill Maher would be, you know, one of the top ones.
00:11:28.980 So, you got your Joe Rogans and your Elon Musks and your other folks.
00:11:33.140 But more and more people are just saying, you know, what if, what if I didn't agree with everything my team says?
00:11:42.040 Can I get away with that?
00:11:43.380 Bill Maher also said, and let's say he was joking when he said this, when I see young people walking alone outside with a mask, I want to punch them, he said on Friday.
00:12:00.140 Now, of course, he didn't really want to punch them.
00:12:02.580 But it's just amazing to see how full-throatedly he's embracing a lot of the things that are just purely, you imagine, are purely Republican views, but shouldn't be.
00:12:18.080 Because they're pretty just universally reasonable things to think.
00:12:21.940 So, here's the least surprising story of the day.
00:12:29.260 Amber Heard fired her PR team.
00:12:32.580 What?
00:12:36.540 Are you telling me Amber Heard had a, she actually hired somebody and paid them to approve her publicity?
00:12:48.200 Now, I don't always agree with everybody who gets fired.
00:12:52.400 You know, I don't agree they deserve to get fired all the time.
00:12:55.060 But if I were Amber Heard's PR team, I think I would have seen this coming.
00:13:03.040 I would have seen this coming.
00:13:05.500 And you sort of, you wonder how that meeting went, don't you?
00:13:09.400 How'd that meeting go?
00:13:11.900 Did Amber Heard call in her team and say, you know, I hired you to make me look good?
00:13:19.380 You got that right.
00:13:20.420 That was your job.
00:13:22.180 Your job was to make me look good.
00:13:24.840 And they say, yes, we understand that.
00:13:27.220 And she said, you know what's trending on Twitter today, don't you?
00:13:31.640 And they would probably say, I don't know.
00:13:33.480 We don't use Twitter.
00:13:34.760 I'm just guessing.
00:13:35.760 I don't know if they do or not.
00:13:36.840 And then she'd say, hashtag Amber Turd.
00:13:43.760 It's actually replaced my real name.
00:13:48.200 And then they'd say, well, but at least your version of the story is getting out.
00:13:55.340 And then she'd say, not so much.
00:13:59.760 So far, it looks like I'm a monster.
00:14:02.620 And my name is Amber Turd.
00:14:05.000 And I'm the worst monster in the world.
00:14:08.220 Well, he is sure.
00:14:10.160 But at least we're making Johnny Depp look bad, too.
00:14:14.760 Uh, no.
00:14:15.860 Well, do you know what Johnny Depp's nickname is?
00:14:20.820 Johnny Depp.
00:14:23.100 And again, let me reiterate what is trending on Twitter.
00:14:27.880 And my new nickname is Amber Turd.
00:14:31.500 Johnny Depp, still Johnny Depp.
00:14:35.200 Amber Heard, now Amber Turd.
00:14:38.300 You're not doing your job.
00:14:39.800 Yeah, it turns out that Johnny Depp has become kind of a hero.
00:14:50.200 And I don't believe he's got a PR team.
00:14:53.160 Maybe he does.
00:14:54.140 Do you think he does?
00:14:55.900 I've got a feeling that what Johnny Depp has is bigger balls than we imagined.
00:15:03.040 And he's just done.
00:15:05.240 And I think he's done going with the narrative.
00:15:09.800 I believe he's walked right out of the scenery.
00:15:15.820 Just like Bill Maher.
00:15:18.320 Johnny Depp has escaped the narrative.
00:15:20.800 You know what the narrative is?
00:15:23.180 It's always the manner of the bad ones.
00:15:26.780 And Johnny Depp didn't want that narrative.
00:15:31.680 He walked right out.
00:15:33.440 It's going to cost him a shit ton of money.
00:15:35.800 Apparently, he just decided he was going to do it.
00:15:41.500 Remember the Bill Maher story.
00:15:44.220 Remember the Johnny Depp story.
00:15:46.460 It's all going to come together toward the end.
00:15:49.420 In a soup of deliciousness that you could never have imagined when you started watching.
00:15:54.540 Yeah, that's where things are going.
00:15:56.160 It's all cleverly crafted.
00:15:59.740 Well, let's cook up some more.
00:16:04.820 In no particular order.
00:16:08.680 Have you ever heard of this thing called projection?
00:16:10.980 It's a thing that people with certain personality characteristics have.
00:16:15.440 And this would be the Amber Heard problem.
00:16:21.020 Because I'm guessing, we don't know, but I'm guessing that Amber Heard's blaming the bad publicity that she's getting recently on her PR team.
00:16:34.120 That would be projection.
00:16:35.300 She's not blaming the fact that she put a turd on Johnny Depp's bed and then accused him of being an abuser while she was abusing him, allegedly.
00:16:48.520 So, no, that's not the problem.
00:16:50.360 The problem is a bad PR team.
00:16:52.720 Am I right?
00:16:54.760 So, that's projection.
00:16:57.020 She makes her problem with somebody else's problem.
00:16:59.220 Let's talk about Wellbutin and GlaxoKlineSmith.
00:17:08.020 So, GlaxoKlineSmith is paying some massive multi-billion dollar fines for bad behavior.
00:17:13.620 Big pharma company.
00:17:15.640 And the United States has alleged that between 99 and 2003,
00:17:22.720 that the company promoted this drug called Wellbutin.
00:17:25.360 approved at the time only for major depressive disorders.
00:17:31.960 I guess they promoted it for everything from weight loss to treatment of sexual dysfunction,
00:17:36.800 substance addiction, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, among other off-label uses.
00:17:43.840 Now, there's nothing wrong with off-label use.
00:17:47.960 That's not the problem.
00:17:49.540 So, that's legal and appropriate in many cases.
00:17:52.620 But apparently, they paid doctors millions of dollars and, you know,
00:17:57.920 took them to lavish resorts to push the off-label uses.
00:18:06.060 Those are unapproved uses.
00:18:09.920 Now, apparently, and there was also some misbranding offenses.
00:18:18.740 Now, does anybody know anybody who's used Wellbutin?
00:18:22.620 You know, I only know two examples of it in my whole life, and they were both disasters.
00:18:31.360 You know, but that's anecdotal.
00:18:33.080 So, two examples, and both were really disasters, in my opinion.
00:18:37.540 Now, that's not a medical opinion, because I'm not a doctor.
00:18:41.040 And it's just anecdotal.
00:18:42.440 But I'm looking at the comments.
00:18:44.980 And look at all the people who've had similar experiences.
00:18:47.380 There's somebody they know.
00:18:48.340 Now, you know, a lot of yeses are going by.
00:18:51.400 A lot of people who just had bad experience with it.
00:18:55.480 Now, here's my problem.
00:18:57.140 If you make a drug, and you mean well, and you're doing everything right,
00:19:00.680 but it doesn't work out, and people get hurt, that's bad.
00:19:05.140 That's bad.
00:19:05.900 We don't want that.
00:19:07.020 But it's not evil, and it's not criminal.
00:19:08.760 And, you know, it's unfortunately something that's just going to happen.
00:19:13.460 But if you're doing some of this stuff intentionally,
00:19:16.500 and, you know, I'm not entirely clear who did what intentionally in this,
00:19:21.780 but this is really bad.
00:19:24.040 This is really evil.
00:19:25.300 And I feel as if, because I do a comic strip that makes fun of big companies,
00:19:34.900 that Dilber's company is going to have to move into the pharma space.
00:19:38.980 Until now, he was just a tech guy.
00:19:41.700 But I feel like Dilber's company needs to move into the big pharma space.
00:19:45.200 Are you with me?
00:19:47.840 You want to have some fun?
00:19:48.900 Because I don't feel that big pharma has the attention it deserves.
00:19:58.440 So, coming soon, Dilber's company will be moving into that space.
00:20:05.000 I got a suggestion that one of the characters in this scenario should be called Pilbert.
00:20:11.660 That's right, Pilbert.
00:20:13.140 Because what's better than a product with off-label use?
00:20:20.480 Am I right?
00:20:21.740 You can buy this printer.
00:20:23.380 We make it for printing things on paper.
00:20:26.200 But the off-label use is murder.
00:20:31.000 Because you can get people over the head with it.
00:20:34.060 All right.
00:20:37.360 There's a...
00:20:39.140 Saw a tweet by Jack Hunter.
00:20:41.240 And he said the following.
00:20:43.580 He said,
00:20:43.800 Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle, Glenn Greenwald, and Bill Maher.
00:20:48.380 All of them are high-profile and bulletproof.
00:20:51.440 Defenders of free speech and basic liberalism right now.
00:20:54.720 During a time when it's so desperately needed.
00:20:58.020 And I thought to myself,
00:20:59.960 Huh.
00:21:01.360 Yeah.
00:21:02.720 We're actually seeing something like that, aren't we?
00:21:05.100 We're seeing a bunch of...
00:21:07.240 Unfortunately, it's all men.
00:21:08.640 I suppose that's not ideal.
00:21:14.480 And...
00:21:15.000 Except for Dave Chappelle.
00:21:17.640 A bunch of white men.
00:21:19.420 So, you know, maybe that's not the branding you want.
00:21:22.160 But the point is
00:21:22.980 that there are some people who are willing to
00:21:25.340 say what they want to say.
00:21:28.360 So there's people who have free speech.
00:21:30.780 Now, wouldn't it be great if non-rich people had free speech, too?
00:21:35.380 Wouldn't that be great?
00:21:36.340 Well, it would be.
00:21:41.920 And I was thinking about
00:21:43.060 what is really driving this behavior.
00:21:46.820 Because there's something happening.
00:21:49.440 And it's some kind of a massive
00:21:51.200 transfer of power.
00:21:54.120 It wasn't long ago
00:21:56.620 that experts
00:21:57.480 and the press
00:21:59.040 and the politicians
00:22:00.680 pretty much had a monopoly on power.
00:22:03.760 And the rich, I suppose.
00:22:05.680 And
00:22:06.040 it seems to be moving toward
00:22:08.980 a group of independent people
00:22:11.120 who are willing to say what's true
00:22:12.980 or what's helpful
00:22:14.500 rather than what the narrative is.
00:22:17.320 They're basically people escaping the narrative
00:22:19.240 at a very high level.
00:22:20.660 and they're the ones
00:22:22.240 that are starting to draw a attention.
00:22:25.700 Now, this is related to
00:22:26.980 well, let me give you an example first.
00:22:32.680 I've always been amazed
00:22:33.940 at the founders of America.
00:22:36.460 You know, the
00:22:36.780 the so-called founding fathers
00:22:38.700 but let's call them founders
00:22:39.920 to be less sexist.
00:22:41.780 I always thought
00:22:44.800 were the founders unusually brave
00:22:46.840 or what was going on there?
00:22:50.600 Because they knew that
00:22:51.480 if it didn't work
00:22:52.240 they would be dead
00:22:53.080 and it really, on paper
00:22:54.460 it didn't look like something
00:22:55.440 that would work
00:22:56.120 the revolution
00:22:56.800 that is, right?
00:22:58.620 The revolution didn't really look like
00:23:00.260 a high
00:23:00.720 a high percentage play, did it?
00:23:03.800 So why did all these people
00:23:05.260 who were
00:23:05.780 sort of
00:23:07.200 in the best situations
00:23:08.740 why were so many of them
00:23:10.800 willing to die?
00:23:11.780 to create America.
00:23:14.840 And I have a theory
00:23:16.000 and the theory goes like this
00:23:18.040 that we have normal
00:23:20.620 risk management decision making
00:23:22.340 for normal situations.
00:23:26.220 But under
00:23:27.100 one unique situation
00:23:29.060 our risk management
00:23:30.960 turns off.
00:23:33.100 And that unique situation
00:23:34.400 I've never heard anybody
00:23:35.280 talk about this before
00:23:36.280 so this is purely speculative.
00:23:38.060 See if it makes sense.
00:23:39.840 The one situation
00:23:40.820 in which your risk management
00:23:42.080 just clicks off
00:23:43.080 is if it's a really
00:23:44.680 big problem
00:23:45.340 and you're the only one
00:23:47.740 who can fix it.
00:23:50.420 Now think about that.
00:23:51.520 This would have to sink
00:23:52.480 in a little bit.
00:23:53.700 It's a really big problem
00:23:55.140 and you just have
00:23:57.000 the bad luck
00:23:57.620 of being the only one
00:23:58.380 who can fix it.
00:23:59.020 I don't think
00:24:00.280 I don't think bravery
00:24:01.240 is what's doing it.
00:24:03.240 I don't think so.
00:24:04.280 I think risk management
00:24:05.220 clicks off
00:24:05.980 and I'm going to give you
00:24:06.640 an example of that.
00:24:08.180 And I think that
00:24:09.140 the founders of the country
00:24:10.400 their normal risk management
00:24:13.320 just turned off
00:24:14.240 because they realized
00:24:15.940 that they alone
00:24:16.940 were uniquely
00:24:18.800 uniquely situated
00:24:21.120 to create something amazing
00:24:23.380 in terms of freedom
00:24:24.680 and the human experience.
00:24:26.820 And I think that
00:24:28.560 something about
00:24:29.360 their capability
00:24:30.340 is what drove them
00:24:32.560 even more than
00:24:33.860 maybe their
00:24:34.440 normal risk management
00:24:35.920 decision making would.
00:24:38.800 So
00:24:39.360 let me give you
00:24:41.400 a story
00:24:41.880 in which
00:24:42.380 I felt this effect.
00:24:44.580 All right.
00:24:45.160 So I'm going to tell you
00:24:45.900 a story
00:24:46.260 where
00:24:48.380 it's the first time
00:24:49.540 I had this
00:24:50.320 experience
00:24:51.740 of my own
00:24:52.420 my risk management
00:24:53.580 clicking off.
00:24:54.460 So years ago
00:24:56.480 I was in my early 20s
00:24:57.660 moved to San Francisco
00:24:58.560 didn't know anybody
00:24:59.520 and I loved playing
00:25:01.260 soccer as a hobby.
00:25:04.160 And so
00:25:04.600 I was always looking
00:25:05.380 for a way to play soccer
00:25:06.360 somebody mentioned
00:25:07.460 oh they always have
00:25:08.600 a Sunday
00:25:09.440 pick up game
00:25:10.420 in Golden Gate Park.
00:25:12.440 So I thought
00:25:13.400 well
00:25:13.680 I'm going to go there
00:25:14.660 and find that game
00:25:15.720 and see if I can
00:25:16.300 get in on that.
00:25:17.960 So I'd go there
00:25:18.600 on Sunday
00:25:19.040 and I'd look around
00:25:19.840 and I didn't see
00:25:21.180 any soccer games.
00:25:21.980 I saw lots of
00:25:23.500 people walking around
00:25:24.800 like they thought
00:25:26.500 there should be
00:25:27.000 a soccer game.
00:25:28.240 I saw people
00:25:29.300 who
00:25:30.260 were dressed
00:25:31.860 for soccer
00:25:32.460 but there was
00:25:34.080 no soccer happening.
00:25:35.840 And so I thought
00:25:36.380 maybe it was just
00:25:37.540 like an off day
00:25:38.440 or I looked
00:25:39.520 in the wrong field
00:25:40.480 or something.
00:25:41.280 So I made sure
00:25:41.940 I knew where
00:25:42.620 the field was
00:25:43.320 the right place
00:25:44.200 and I went back
00:25:45.720 and I looked
00:25:46.120 and same thing.
00:25:47.720 There was just
00:25:48.160 no soccer.
00:25:49.740 There were just people
00:25:50.320 who looked like
00:25:50.800 they wanted to play.
00:25:51.980 Wandering around
00:25:52.900 then going home.
00:25:54.960 So I did the same thing.
00:25:57.120 The next time I went
00:25:58.500 I brought a soccer ball.
00:26:03.800 Problem solved.
00:26:05.940 Problem solved.
00:26:07.500 Turns out
00:26:08.220 that nobody
00:26:09.060 had a soccer ball.
00:26:10.800 So I bring
00:26:11.300 a soccer ball
00:26:12.000 and this
00:26:12.700 whole United Nations
00:26:14.900 group of people
00:26:16.160 from
00:26:16.600 some of the people
00:26:18.160 from
00:26:18.660 we had
00:26:19.240 Egypt,
00:26:20.780 Peru,
00:26:21.160 South Korea,
00:26:23.740 you know
00:26:23.920 a bunch of
00:26:24.300 African countries,
00:26:26.140 Europeans of every type.
00:26:28.360 So we had basically
00:26:29.380 South Americans,
00:26:31.020 Mexicans.
00:26:32.080 So we had
00:26:32.440 every kind of person
00:26:33.820 who just
00:26:34.320 bonded
00:26:35.500 over soccer.
00:26:37.900 Now
00:26:38.380 because I had
00:26:39.420 the ball
00:26:39.900 and I spoke
00:26:41.920 English
00:26:42.560 which was
00:26:44.220 the thing
00:26:44.640 that
00:26:44.900 a lot of them
00:26:46.060 didn't speak English
00:26:46.880 or only a little bit
00:26:48.000 but it was the closest
00:26:49.180 thing to a common
00:26:50.060 language
00:26:50.620 and I had the ball
00:26:52.320 and so
00:26:53.660 I felt
00:26:54.460 oh
00:26:54.900 damn it
00:26:55.620 I guess I'm in charge.
00:26:57.980 Now I didn't want
00:26:58.540 to be in charge
00:26:59.300 because I didn't
00:27:00.180 necessarily want to do
00:27:01.020 the extra work
00:27:01.740 of being in charge
00:27:02.400 and everybody
00:27:03.620 hates the person
00:27:04.300 in charge
00:27:04.860 because you're
00:27:05.260 always doing
00:27:05.580 something wrong
00:27:06.260 according to somebody
00:27:07.200 but
00:27:07.960 nobody else
00:27:09.220 could do it.
00:27:10.340 For whatever
00:27:11.100 reason
00:27:11.500 I was
00:27:11.860 it was just
00:27:12.740 I was the one
00:27:13.640 who had to do it.
00:27:14.260 So I would say
00:27:16.140 okay
00:27:16.760 you and you
00:27:17.280 are captains
00:27:17.960 pick teams
00:27:18.580 and the two people
00:27:20.400 would just look around
00:27:21.180 and they'd think
00:27:21.760 okay
00:27:23.140 it was also
00:27:25.360 one of my
00:27:25.900 early lessons
00:27:26.760 that people
00:27:28.520 want to be told
00:27:29.260 what to do.
00:27:30.980 Leadership
00:27:31.420 is the easiest
00:27:32.120 thing in the world
00:27:32.860 you just have
00:27:34.180 to understand
00:27:34.640 that people
00:27:35.060 would rather be led
00:27:36.060 than make decisions
00:27:36.920 on their own.
00:27:38.160 Once you know that
00:27:39.160 if you're willing
00:27:40.540 to do the work
00:27:41.380 to make the decision
00:27:42.880 people will just
00:27:43.980 do whatever you want.
00:27:45.640 So whenever I
00:27:46.840 encounter
00:27:47.260 a big group
00:27:48.380 of confused people
00:27:49.400 I just start
00:27:50.720 telling them
00:27:51.100 what to do.
00:27:52.260 I'll go into
00:27:52.840 stores sometimes
00:27:53.700 where the line
00:27:54.840 situation isn't clear
00:27:56.060 like people are
00:27:57.320 waiting for service
00:27:58.220 but it's not clear
00:27:59.080 if the line
00:27:59.760 is formed
00:28:00.340 or are there
00:28:01.360 two lines
00:28:02.000 for the same thing
00:28:02.980 or is it
00:28:03.440 one line
00:28:04.760 and I'll just
00:28:06.040 go in there
00:28:06.420 and start shouting
00:28:07.040 orders.
00:28:08.340 I'll go
00:28:08.540 alright everybody
00:28:09.460 what line
00:28:10.520 do you think
00:28:10.940 you're in?
00:28:11.540 Do you think
00:28:11.860 you're in the same line?
00:28:12.720 Everybody think
00:28:13.180 you're in one line?
00:28:14.240 Some of you
00:28:14.740 think you're
00:28:15.080 in two lines.
00:28:16.060 Let's take a vote.
00:28:17.060 You think
00:28:17.360 you're in one line
00:28:17.860 or two?
00:28:18.620 Alright let's
00:28:19.040 make it one line
00:28:19.800 you guys get over
00:28:20.740 and people
00:28:21.380 just do whatever
00:28:22.000 you want.
00:28:23.420 You just have
00:28:23.980 to act like
00:28:24.500 you're willing
00:28:25.300 to take the risk.
00:28:27.420 Alright so back
00:28:28.140 to my soccer game.
00:28:29.780 So it was a real
00:28:30.400 diverse group
00:28:31.120 of people
00:28:31.480 as I said
00:28:32.100 and one day
00:28:33.280 things got
00:28:33.980 kind of violent.
00:28:35.320 No that's not true.
00:28:36.740 Every day
00:28:37.260 things got
00:28:37.760 kind of violent.
00:28:38.380 pretty much
00:28:41.480 pretty much
00:28:42.380 every soccer game
00:28:43.280 there was violence.
00:28:45.300 That's why
00:28:45.720 we were there.
00:28:47.100 Okay let's be
00:28:47.840 honest
00:28:48.200 the physicality
00:28:50.600 of the game
00:28:51.080 was part of
00:28:51.660 the attraction.
00:28:52.640 We're guys.
00:28:54.020 We were
00:28:54.480 youngish men
00:28:55.320 and the violence
00:28:57.840 is just part
00:28:58.500 of the appeal.
00:28:59.520 You can't really
00:29:00.600 sugar coat that.
00:29:02.420 But it's
00:29:02.980 friendly violence.
00:29:04.340 It's in the context.
00:29:05.980 But one day
00:29:06.500 it got out of control
00:29:07.660 and two of the players
00:29:08.820 got in each other's
00:29:09.700 faces and it looked
00:29:10.960 like a fight
00:29:12.020 could start.
00:29:13.340 But the bigger
00:29:14.280 of the two
00:29:14.840 the more dangerous
00:29:16.260 scary one
00:29:17.060 he leaves
00:29:18.660 suddenly
00:29:19.240 and we're like
00:29:20.060 ah phew
00:29:20.520 we don't have to
00:29:22.120 delay the game
00:29:22.740 there's not going
00:29:23.200 to be a fight.
00:29:24.620 But he comes back
00:29:25.360 with a knife
00:29:26.000 and he gets
00:29:27.700 into this guy's face
00:29:28.760 who's backing up
00:29:29.580 of course
00:29:30.080 with the knife
00:29:31.140 and he's telling him
00:29:32.060 he's going to stab him
00:29:33.000 if he doesn't
00:29:33.900 whatever.
00:29:35.000 And for whatever
00:29:35.780 reason he wasn't
00:29:36.960 satisfied that the guy
00:29:38.460 was backing down
00:29:39.420 enough.
00:29:40.580 So we're going to
00:29:41.260 have a knife fight
00:29:42.060 and it's going to
00:29:43.180 ruin my soccer game.
00:29:45.140 Now I look around
00:29:46.120 and of course
00:29:46.860 the action is happening
00:29:48.300 and the rest
00:29:49.360 of the soccer players
00:29:50.260 have sort of
00:29:51.340 gathered around
00:29:52.160 like in a circle.
00:29:54.160 And I'm looking
00:29:54.940 at everybody else
00:29:55.860 and I'm thinking
00:29:57.320 oh shit
00:29:59.820 you know where
00:30:01.600 this is going
00:30:02.100 right?
00:30:03.000 I have to stop
00:30:05.220 a knife fight
00:30:06.220 because I'm in charge
00:30:08.200 and nobody else
00:30:09.480 is going to do it.
00:30:10.920 That's it.
00:30:12.580 That's like
00:30:13.200 the only calculation.
00:30:14.760 And I'm thinking
00:30:15.180 to myself
00:30:15.680 god damn it.
00:30:18.900 Like what
00:30:19.200 there's nobody else
00:30:20.620 who's going to do this
00:30:21.400 really?
00:30:22.340 I have to literally
00:30:23.420 stop a knife fight.
00:30:25.240 So I did.
00:30:27.140 You know
00:30:27.600 I just got between them
00:30:28.620 and the guy
00:30:31.060 with the knife
00:30:31.660 you know
00:30:32.040 wasn't ready
00:30:33.080 to kill me
00:30:33.740 right away
00:30:34.200 because he didn't
00:30:34.680 have a beef
00:30:35.160 with me
00:30:35.580 but he very
00:30:37.280 quickly
00:30:37.720 changed his
00:30:38.980 direction to me
00:30:39.980 and started
00:30:41.240 threatening me
00:30:41.860 with the knife.
00:30:43.480 And then a very
00:30:44.000 interesting thing
00:30:44.760 happened.
00:30:46.560 And this is
00:30:47.200 one of the coolest
00:30:47.880 things that's ever
00:30:49.100 happened to me
00:30:49.640 in my life.
00:30:50.240 Now the first
00:30:51.500 thing you need
00:30:51.920 to know
00:30:52.300 is that I was
00:30:54.220 neither afraid
00:30:55.240 nor brave.
00:30:59.420 My risk management
00:31:00.480 just turned off
00:31:01.320 because I was
00:31:02.980 the only one
00:31:03.460 who could do
00:31:03.860 that job.
00:31:05.420 That's it.
00:31:06.420 I was the only
00:31:07.040 one who could do it.
00:31:08.480 It needed to be done.
00:31:10.440 And I don't remember
00:31:11.400 thinking anything
00:31:12.100 about the risk.
00:31:13.300 I just remember
00:31:13.980 doing it.
00:31:15.660 And yeah
00:31:16.420 and somebody's
00:31:17.020 saying who's stupid
00:31:17.720 probably.
00:31:18.700 I don't know.
00:31:20.240 And so
00:31:21.080 I told the guy
00:31:22.620 with the knife
00:31:23.260 who was threatening
00:31:23.820 to kill me
00:31:24.460 that he needed
00:31:25.820 to leave now
00:31:26.600 and he should
00:31:27.880 never come back.
00:31:30.020 And of course
00:31:30.500 it was one of his
00:31:31.420 favorite things to do.
00:31:32.420 We all loved
00:31:32.900 playing on Sunday.
00:31:33.740 It was just
00:31:34.020 amazing fun.
00:31:35.420 And he didn't
00:31:35.860 want to do that.
00:31:36.880 So I continued
00:31:38.360 pushing my point
00:31:39.420 and I told him
00:31:40.940 leave now.
00:31:42.260 Go now.
00:31:43.460 Never come back.
00:31:45.540 And he starts
00:31:46.060 threatening me
00:31:46.640 with the knife again.
00:31:48.180 Now here was
00:31:48.700 the fun part.
00:31:50.240 Remember I told you
00:31:51.080 there was this
00:31:51.560 crowd of
00:31:52.240 international
00:31:53.020 young men
00:31:54.760 who had all
00:31:56.240 bonded
00:31:56.820 around this game.
00:31:59.740 And in particular
00:32:00.420 they had bonded
00:32:01.080 with me
00:32:01.700 because I brought
00:32:02.900 the ball.
00:32:04.080 Again
00:32:04.620 it was that easy.
00:32:07.120 And so
00:32:07.520 as he started
00:32:08.360 threatening me
00:32:09.080 this group
00:32:10.220 of fairly
00:32:11.560 rough
00:32:12.080 individuals
00:32:12.880 from countries
00:32:14.860 where serious
00:32:16.220 shit happens
00:32:17.020 and they
00:32:18.440 probably
00:32:18.740 escaped
00:32:19.140 from it
00:32:19.540 to come
00:32:19.800 here
00:32:20.060 just started
00:32:21.460 closing in
00:32:22.360 just a half
00:32:24.440 a step
00:32:24.820 a little bit
00:32:26.600 at a time
00:32:27.180 and it was
00:32:28.620 like this
00:32:29.020 slow
00:32:29.520 creeping
00:32:30.320 squeeze
00:32:31.820 where as
00:32:34.120 he talked
00:32:34.720 you could see
00:32:35.460 him looking
00:32:35.800 around
00:32:36.260 and he'd
00:32:37.600 have to look
00:32:38.000 around
00:32:38.220 and people
00:32:38.660 were just
00:32:38.960 closing in.
00:32:40.140 They didn't
00:32:40.820 say anything.
00:32:42.920 They didn't
00:32:43.560 say anything.
00:32:45.140 They just
00:32:45.540 closed the
00:32:46.140 space.
00:32:47.680 And pretty
00:32:48.420 soon
00:32:48.820 the message
00:32:49.680 was very
00:32:50.180 clear
00:32:50.540 that if
00:32:51.900 he caught
00:32:52.320 me
00:32:52.540 he would
00:32:53.940 be dead.
00:32:55.840 He would
00:32:56.420 be dead.
00:32:57.780 And nobody
00:32:58.520 had to say
00:32:58.960 a thing.
00:33:00.160 It was just
00:33:00.680 obvious.
00:33:02.400 It was sort
00:33:03.280 of
00:33:03.500 now I'm not
00:33:05.460 sure if the
00:33:05.980 women watching
00:33:06.940 this can
00:33:07.740 appreciate it
00:33:08.980 the way
00:33:09.420 men can
00:33:10.080 but you
00:33:11.260 know men
00:33:11.680 live in a
00:33:12.300 continuous
00:33:12.760 state of
00:33:13.360 violence.
00:33:14.920 We just
00:33:15.340 don't talk
00:33:15.860 about it
00:33:16.180 all the
00:33:16.420 time.
00:33:17.020 The threat
00:33:18.980 of male
00:33:19.480 violence is
00:33:20.260 permanent.
00:33:21.860 It's what
00:33:22.380 holds society
00:33:23.120 together.
00:33:24.820 And you
00:33:25.500 have to
00:33:25.780 understand that
00:33:26.480 that's like
00:33:27.160 an important
00:33:27.740 foundational
00:33:28.980 structure of
00:33:29.980 everything.
00:33:31.160 If men were
00:33:32.100 not afraid of
00:33:32.880 other men
00:33:33.300 killing them
00:33:34.000 literally
00:33:34.680 nothing would
00:33:36.280 work.
00:33:37.220 Nothing.
00:33:37.440 So when
00:33:40.020 men are in
00:33:40.600 that situation
00:33:41.380 it's
00:33:41.820 actually
00:33:42.120 kind of
00:33:42.720 energizing.
00:33:45.280 And it
00:33:45.900 was just
00:33:46.180 sort of a
00:33:46.500 good
00:33:46.620 experience.
00:33:48.400 So it
00:33:50.100 ended well.
00:33:50.680 I didn't
00:33:50.880 get killed.
00:33:51.520 But that
00:33:51.720 was one
00:33:52.100 you know
00:33:52.500 people and
00:33:54.720 he left
00:33:55.300 and he never
00:33:55.660 came back.
00:33:57.180 So here's
00:33:57.840 my point.
00:33:59.080 Was I a
00:33:59.860 hero?
00:34:00.480 No.
00:34:01.860 Because there
00:34:02.440 was no thought
00:34:03.120 in my mind of
00:34:03.860 risk management.
00:34:04.460 I was just
00:34:05.300 the one who
00:34:05.680 could do it.
00:34:06.740 And I think
00:34:07.360 that that's
00:34:07.780 actually
00:34:08.120 genetically
00:34:08.680 coded into
00:34:09.560 us.
00:34:10.260 And I think
00:34:10.700 it has
00:34:10.900 nothing to
00:34:11.380 do with
00:34:11.600 being male.
00:34:12.940 It has
00:34:13.200 nothing to
00:34:13.660 do with
00:34:13.980 being physically
00:34:14.860 brave.
00:34:15.580 Because I'm
00:34:16.180 very much
00:34:16.600 not.
00:34:18.060 I would
00:34:18.620 not call
00:34:19.000 myself
00:34:19.380 physically
00:34:20.100 brave.
00:34:20.520 I don't
00:34:20.760 do extreme
00:34:21.320 sports.
00:34:22.380 I don't
00:34:22.660 do dangerous
00:34:23.140 stuff.
00:34:24.420 Because it
00:34:25.640 just doesn't
00:34:26.200 excite me.
00:34:27.500 But sometimes
00:34:28.020 you're just
00:34:28.380 the only person
00:34:28.980 who can do
00:34:29.380 a thing.
00:34:30.580 So you do.
00:34:31.400 And I think
00:34:31.760 that would have
00:34:32.140 appealed.
00:34:32.920 That would have
00:34:33.300 been true of
00:34:33.880 men,
00:34:34.460 women,
00:34:35.400 people of
00:34:35.820 almost any
00:34:36.300 age,
00:34:36.680 I think.
00:34:38.160 So,
00:34:38.760 and that
00:34:39.100 brings us
00:34:39.560 to the
00:34:40.860 story of
00:34:41.520 Elon Musk
00:34:42.400 and his
00:34:42.800 quote,
00:34:43.980 shadow crew.
00:34:45.440 I'm going
00:34:45.760 to tie this
00:34:46.220 all together.
00:34:47.040 It's all
00:34:47.300 going to
00:34:47.520 tie together.
00:34:49.000 So the
00:34:49.580 Wall Street
00:34:49.880 Journal had
00:34:50.260 a report
00:34:50.620 that Elon
00:34:52.440 Musk's
00:34:52.920 decision to
00:34:53.440 buy Twitter
00:34:53.880 was perhaps
00:34:55.960 influenced by
00:34:57.480 what they
00:34:57.820 called a
00:34:58.320 shadow crew
00:34:59.280 of advisors,
00:35:01.100 I guess.
00:35:01.780 There were
00:35:02.140 other billionaires,
00:35:03.920 people who
00:35:04.480 were involved
00:35:04.960 with PayPal
00:35:06.500 with them,
00:35:07.660 et cetera.
00:35:09.060 And that's
00:35:11.140 how they
00:35:11.400 framed it.
00:35:11.920 So their
00:35:12.180 framing was
00:35:12.900 that there
00:35:13.220 were these
00:35:13.740 other voices
00:35:14.720 informing him
00:35:15.800 and maybe
00:35:16.620 other billionaires
00:35:17.500 and maybe we
00:35:18.700 should be
00:35:19.020 concerned about
00:35:19.720 who these
00:35:20.160 other shadow
00:35:21.520 crew is.
00:35:23.300 What do you
00:35:23.580 think of that?
00:35:24.020 Yeah, and
00:35:25.780 Jack Dorsey
00:35:27.160 was named
00:35:27.700 as one of
00:35:28.480 them.
00:35:30.400 So what do
00:35:31.040 you think of
00:35:31.360 that word,
00:35:32.000 shadow?
00:35:33.540 It sounds
00:35:34.080 ominous,
00:35:35.040 doesn't it?
00:35:36.520 All right,
00:35:36.800 here's another
00:35:37.480 way to frame
00:35:39.220 the same
00:35:39.620 story.
00:35:40.560 Instead of
00:35:41.220 a shadow
00:35:42.220 crew of
00:35:43.160 elites,
00:35:44.840 sounds kind
00:35:45.440 of ominous.
00:35:46.400 How about
00:35:46.720 this?
00:35:48.620 100% of the
00:35:49.580 smartest people
00:35:50.200 that Musk
00:35:50.680 knows advise
00:35:51.580 them the same
00:35:52.100 way.
00:35:52.360 Because I'll
00:35:53.900 bet that's
00:35:54.340 true.
00:35:55.580 I'll bet
00:35:55.960 100% of
00:35:58.360 the people
00:35:58.820 above a
00:35:59.420 certain
00:35:59.720 intelligence
00:36:00.440 level that
00:36:01.900 personally knew
00:36:02.820 Musk enough
00:36:03.500 to advise
00:36:04.220 them, I'll
00:36:05.360 bet that every
00:36:05.840 one of them
00:36:06.160 told him to
00:36:06.620 do the same
00:36:07.040 thing.
00:36:07.820 If you
00:36:08.400 could buy
00:36:08.780 this thing,
00:36:10.720 do it.
00:36:13.060 I'll bet
00:36:13.660 every one of
00:36:14.160 them.
00:36:14.860 I would be
00:36:15.940 surprised if
00:36:16.820 even one
00:36:17.560 person above
00:36:19.020 a certain
00:36:19.460 level of
00:36:19.920 intelligence
00:36:20.460 would have
00:36:21.520 told him
00:36:21.900 not to
00:36:22.340 do this.
00:36:23.160 Because it's
00:36:23.780 just too
00:36:24.200 fun.
00:36:25.620 It's too
00:36:26.280 clean a
00:36:27.740 solution.
00:36:29.220 And it
00:36:29.840 might be
00:36:30.140 the only
00:36:30.500 one.
00:36:31.900 Now this
00:36:32.280 gets us
00:36:32.680 back to
00:36:33.260 do you
00:36:35.060 think that
00:36:35.480 Elon Musk
00:36:36.060 woke up
00:36:36.580 and wanted
00:36:37.080 to buy
00:36:37.560 Twitter?
00:36:39.600 Do you
00:36:40.160 think he
00:36:40.880 bought it
00:36:41.280 because this
00:36:41.820 was on
00:36:42.180 his list?
00:36:44.020 I don't
00:36:44.600 think so.
00:36:46.220 I think
00:36:46.920 he was
00:36:47.400 just me
00:36:49.540 at the
00:36:49.820 soccer game.
00:36:51.020 I think
00:36:51.400 he was
00:36:51.600 just the
00:36:51.880 only one
00:36:52.220 who could
00:36:52.440 do it.
00:36:53.840 And I
00:36:54.060 think that
00:36:54.400 all the
00:36:54.740 smart people
00:36:55.260 in the
00:36:55.460 world said
00:36:55.840 you know
00:36:56.220 this whole
00:36:57.340 freedom of
00:36:57.840 speech thing
00:36:58.440 this is
00:36:59.780 the DNA
00:37:01.860 that holds
00:37:02.380 the country
00:37:02.780 together.
00:37:03.880 You can't
00:37:04.580 mess with
00:37:04.960 that.
00:37:06.220 You've got
00:37:06.680 to get
00:37:06.960 the basic
00:37:08.600 health of
00:37:09.300 the country
00:37:09.640 right or
00:37:10.120 nothing else
00:37:10.720 works.
00:37:11.040 And I think
00:37:12.220 the smartest
00:37:12.700 people in the
00:37:13.240 world looked
00:37:13.680 at each other
00:37:14.180 and said
00:37:14.520 all right
00:37:15.500 there's only
00:37:15.920 one of us
00:37:16.820 who's a
00:37:17.700 crazy
00:37:18.100 motherfucker
00:37:18.640 who has
00:37:19.040 enough
00:37:19.320 money.
00:37:20.780 Elon
00:37:21.140 you're up.
00:37:24.840 And you
00:37:26.560 know you
00:37:26.840 said there
00:37:27.160 was a
00:37:27.420 quote one
00:37:28.220 time about
00:37:28.840 his publicity
00:37:30.060 I guess
00:37:30.580 it was a
00:37:30.900 PR consultant
00:37:33.020 who once
00:37:33.680 told Elon
00:37:35.000 to keep a
00:37:36.000 lower profile
00:37:36.700 on the
00:37:37.040 platform.
00:37:38.700 And
00:37:38.820 apparently
00:37:39.200 Musk wrote
00:37:40.700 in an email
00:37:41.200 back to him
00:37:41.940 quote
00:37:43.220 we'll tweet
00:37:44.040 as I wish
00:37:44.780 and suffer
00:37:45.360 the consequences
00:37:46.220 so it
00:37:47.240 goes.
00:37:48.480 So since
00:37:49.240 2018
00:37:49.800 he's been
00:37:51.180 willing to
00:37:51.680 die on
00:37:52.320 the free
00:37:53.120 speech hill
00:37:54.240 probably knowing
00:37:55.680 that he
00:37:55.920 wouldn't die
00:37:56.380 but he had
00:37:58.240 a special
00:37:59.060 position in
00:37:59.900 the world.
00:38:01.340 He could
00:38:01.640 afford it
00:38:02.300 he could
00:38:03.500 take the
00:38:03.980 heat
00:38:04.360 he can
00:38:05.780 turn a
00:38:06.140 bad product
00:38:06.880 or an
00:38:07.300 incomplete
00:38:07.660 product
00:38:08.060 into a
00:38:08.500 better one
00:38:08.940 and he
00:38:11.700 can handle
00:38:13.220 the criticism.
00:38:14.980 He had
00:38:15.460 all the
00:38:16.000 tools.
00:38:17.300 And I
00:38:17.640 don't know
00:38:17.940 did anybody
00:38:18.400 else?
00:38:19.780 Is there
00:38:20.100 anybody else
00:38:20.680 who had
00:38:20.960 those tools?
00:38:22.360 No.
00:38:24.000 It had
00:38:24.440 to be him.
00:38:25.880 So
00:38:26.120 thinking of
00:38:28.360 this as
00:38:28.640 some kind
00:38:28.900 of like
00:38:29.160 shadow
00:38:29.580 crew
00:38:30.040 to make
00:38:30.840 it sound
00:38:31.200 ominous
00:38:31.840 is a
00:38:32.640 completely
00:38:33.000 wrong
00:38:33.380 frame.
00:38:34.200 The frame
00:38:34.720 is that
00:38:35.140 there are
00:38:35.380 a few
00:38:35.700 people who
00:38:36.320 have left
00:38:36.720 the scenery
00:38:37.260 there are
00:38:38.440 just a
00:38:38.800 few people
00:38:39.300 who can
00:38:39.620 get out
00:38:40.000 of the
00:38:40.320 narrative
00:38:40.780 Bill
00:38:42.820 Barr,
00:38:43.580 Joe
00:38:43.780 Rogan,
00:38:44.820 Elon Musk,
00:38:46.160 Glenn
00:38:46.480 Greenwald,
00:38:49.120 Tulsi
00:38:49.560 Gabbard
00:38:49.980 perhaps.
00:38:50.560 You can
00:38:51.040 throw lots
00:38:51.460 of people
00:38:51.720 in that
00:38:52.000 list.
00:38:53.260 And I
00:38:53.720 think that
00:38:54.240 what's
00:38:54.580 happening
00:38:54.860 is that
00:38:55.360 collectively
00:38:55.920 they're all
00:38:56.500 having the
00:38:56.920 same
00:38:57.260 realization
00:38:58.000 that the
00:39:00.680 people in
00:39:01.180 charge can't
00:39:01.800 get it
00:39:02.060 done.
00:39:03.520 There are
00:39:03.840 just some
00:39:04.280 things that
00:39:05.940 people are
00:39:06.380 looking at
00:39:06.780 each other
00:39:07.140 and saying
00:39:07.480 I think
00:39:09.300 we have
00:39:09.700 to do
00:39:09.980 it.
00:39:10.180 And the
00:39:11.080 people who
00:39:11.560 advised or
00:39:13.640 maybe influenced
00:39:14.520 Musk, who
00:39:15.520 knows if
00:39:15.920 they really
00:39:16.260 did, but
00:39:17.520 I think that
00:39:18.200 they had the
00:39:18.660 same reaction.
00:39:19.940 I think the
00:39:20.480 reaction was
00:39:21.060 probably, oh
00:39:22.140 damn it,
00:39:23.380 nobody else is
00:39:24.260 fixing this
00:39:24.860 free speech
00:39:25.480 problem.
00:39:26.840 I think we
00:39:27.680 have to do
00:39:28.120 it.
00:39:29.240 And so
00:39:29.640 they did.
00:39:30.660 Or they're
00:39:31.740 well on their
00:39:32.240 way to
00:39:32.520 solving it.
00:39:33.660 And I
00:39:34.440 would argue
00:39:34.880 that we're
00:39:35.500 seeing this
00:39:35.900 massive shift
00:39:36.800 of power and
00:39:37.840 influence away
00:39:39.100 from the
00:39:40.200 so-called
00:39:40.780 experts and
00:39:41.780 the Democrats
00:39:42.400 and the
00:39:42.780 Republicans and
00:39:44.060 the people who
00:39:44.700 identify too
00:39:45.580 much with the
00:39:46.080 team and
00:39:47.440 toward this
00:39:48.260 group of
00:39:48.980 people I've
00:39:49.620 been calling
00:39:50.000 the Internet
00:39:50.600 Dads.
00:39:52.600 The Internet
00:39:53.080 Dads.
00:39:54.640 Again, just to
00:39:57.420 be complete, it
00:39:58.940 doesn't matter
00:39:59.320 what your gender
00:39:59.880 is.
00:40:00.560 The dad is
00:40:01.260 just more of a
00:40:02.180 vibe.
00:40:02.840 It's not who
00:40:03.740 you are
00:40:04.060 physically or
00:40:04.680 genetically.
00:40:07.260 You know, I
00:40:08.060 think the
00:40:08.600 Mike Cernovich's
00:40:10.000 are people who
00:40:11.920 are just like
00:40:12.420 filling a
00:40:13.420 void that
00:40:14.780 they recognize
00:40:15.900 as one,
00:40:17.020 seriously, nobody
00:40:17.820 else is filling
00:40:18.380 this void.
00:40:19.360 There's nobody
00:40:19.860 else telling you
00:40:20.460 how to be like
00:40:21.300 a father or a
00:40:22.880 man or a
00:40:23.800 good citizen or
00:40:24.780 a woman.
00:40:25.840 Who's doing it?
00:40:27.840 And when I
00:40:28.960 wrote my book,
00:40:29.680 How to Fail
00:40:30.100 Almost Everything
00:40:30.720 still went big,
00:40:31.800 I was very much
00:40:32.700 driven by the
00:40:33.360 same impulse.
00:40:34.440 Now, of course,
00:40:34.940 you always want
00:40:35.440 to sell a lot
00:40:36.160 of books.
00:40:36.820 I'm not minimizing
00:40:37.820 that.
00:40:38.640 But the reason I
00:40:39.420 chose that topic
00:40:40.400 of essentially a
00:40:42.200 way to create
00:40:43.700 systems for success
00:40:44.960 is because I
00:40:46.160 didn't see anybody
00:40:46.700 else doing it.
00:40:48.640 I thought to
00:40:49.380 myself, well,
00:40:50.060 who else is
00:40:50.700 telling you
00:40:52.460 exactly what to
00:40:53.400 do if you're
00:40:53.900 14 years old
00:40:55.000 to come up with
00:40:56.320 a system that
00:40:57.040 will give you
00:40:57.480 a good result?
00:40:59.140 Schools
00:40:59.540 don't do it.
00:41:00.720 Parents don't
00:41:01.400 know how.
00:41:02.520 Who's doing it?
00:41:04.080 So, I mean,
00:41:04.980 I wrote a book
00:41:05.600 just because I
00:41:07.040 felt that dad
00:41:07.980 energy, I guess.
00:41:10.040 Literally.
00:41:10.880 Because when I
00:41:11.400 wrote it, I was
00:41:11.920 writing it for my,
00:41:13.360 I think then he
00:41:14.220 was maybe 14
00:41:15.180 year old stepson
00:41:16.740 who needed
00:41:18.220 exactly this kind
00:41:19.260 of advice.
00:41:20.920 So I was
00:41:21.680 actually, you
00:41:22.400 know, dadding
00:41:23.020 it out, basically.
00:41:24.180 But not just for
00:41:25.020 my own situation,
00:41:26.340 but to generalize
00:41:27.340 it.
00:41:27.820 And so I think
00:41:28.360 that's the big
00:41:29.100 story.
00:41:29.480 that nobody
00:41:30.300 is covering
00:41:30.940 is the
00:41:32.240 growth
00:41:33.420 or the
00:41:34.540 emergence of
00:41:35.200 people who
00:41:35.720 are dads.
00:41:38.040 Yeah, Jordan
00:41:38.560 Peterson, another
00:41:39.200 one, who are
00:41:39.840 leaving the
00:41:40.960 narrative behind.
00:41:42.180 and Lisa
00:41:46.800 Booth asked, you
00:41:47.880 know, what does
00:41:48.180 it take to get
00:41:49.360 on this shadow
00:41:50.260 crew?
00:41:51.080 And I
00:41:51.580 suggested that
00:41:52.460 you're on the
00:41:53.000 shadow crew if
00:41:54.500 Elon Musk likes
00:41:56.340 or retweets you.
00:41:59.660 I feel that's
00:42:00.800 fair, right?
00:42:02.060 If Elon Musk
00:42:03.220 gives you a like
00:42:04.120 or retweet, it
00:42:05.420 means he's
00:42:05.860 agreeing, you
00:42:06.900 know, or
00:42:07.260 promoting what
00:42:07.920 you said.
00:42:08.320 And therefore,
00:42:09.840 in some minor
00:42:10.640 way, at least,
00:42:11.360 you advised
00:42:11.980 him.
00:42:13.700 Or you
00:42:14.700 helped him
00:42:15.320 get his
00:42:16.180 message out,
00:42:16.800 either way.
00:42:18.260 So yeah, I
00:42:19.060 think you're
00:42:19.800 automatically on
00:42:20.560 the shadow
00:42:20.960 crew if he's
00:42:21.780 ever tweeted.
00:42:24.080 And I've
00:42:25.820 seen him
00:42:26.240 interact with
00:42:27.640 Cernovich tweets
00:42:28.900 several times.
00:42:30.300 So I know
00:42:31.100 those two are
00:42:31.680 on the same
00:42:32.220 communication
00:42:34.480 channel.
00:42:37.320 And I
00:42:38.740 would say
00:42:38.980 there's no
00:42:39.320 point in being
00:42:39.760 rich if you
00:42:40.280 can't say what
00:42:40.800 you want.
00:42:41.400 So he's
00:42:42.560 got that going
00:42:43.140 for him.
00:42:51.080 And so,
00:42:51.880 ladies and
00:42:52.300 gentlemen,
00:42:52.560 I would
00:42:54.140 suggest this.
00:42:57.560 What do
00:42:58.060 you think of
00:42:58.500 my hypothesis?
00:43:01.180 And let me
00:43:01.900 ask you if
00:43:02.280 any of you
00:43:02.580 have had
00:43:02.780 this similar
00:43:03.280 situation.
00:43:05.280 I see, for
00:43:05.960 example, you'll
00:43:06.760 see somebody
00:43:07.240 step up and
00:43:09.860 let's say
00:43:10.800 adopt a
00:43:11.380 young child
00:43:12.300 who you
00:43:13.960 never think
00:43:14.540 would have
00:43:14.960 done that,
00:43:15.520 but they're
00:43:16.320 the only one
00:43:16.760 who could
00:43:17.060 in that
00:43:17.920 situation.
00:43:19.140 So don't
00:43:19.740 you see
00:43:20.180 Trump,
00:43:21.080 good example,
00:43:21.600 do you
00:43:25.460 buy my
00:43:26.460 framing
00:43:26.940 that people
00:43:28.780 will drop
00:43:29.500 their risk
00:43:30.120 management
00:43:30.640 decision-making
00:43:31.480 that they
00:43:32.240 do for
00:43:32.560 everything else
00:43:33.340 the moment
00:43:34.560 they are
00:43:35.260 the only
00:43:35.620 ones who
00:43:35.980 can solve
00:43:36.620 a big
00:43:36.900 problem?
00:43:39.800 Yeah, okay.
00:43:40.820 So I'm
00:43:41.080 seeing the
00:43:41.380 yeses start
00:43:41.920 to come in.
00:43:42.340 one of the
00:43:48.220 things I see
00:43:48.760 the critics
00:43:49.300 say is
00:43:50.900 they call
00:43:52.160 people like
00:43:53.500 Elon Musk
00:43:54.300 fluffers,
00:43:55.060 that's what
00:43:55.340 somebody's
00:43:55.700 saying on
00:43:56.360 YouTube.
00:43:57.200 Now, let me
00:43:58.260 not apologize
00:43:58.860 for any of
00:43:59.420 that.
00:44:00.780 We like to
00:44:02.500 create narratives
00:44:03.880 around individuals
00:44:05.160 because it makes
00:44:06.240 stories more
00:44:06.780 interesting.
00:44:07.140 And so when
00:44:09.020 Joe Rogan was
00:44:09.860 in the headlines
00:44:10.900 every day, I
00:44:11.520 talked about him
00:44:12.100 a lot.
00:44:12.620 When Trump was
00:44:13.320 in the headlines
00:44:13.760 every day, I
00:44:14.400 talked about him
00:44:14.920 a lot.
00:44:15.460 When AOC was
00:44:16.280 in the headlines,
00:44:16.920 I talked about
00:44:17.520 her a lot.
00:44:18.440 So I do like
00:44:19.360 to wrap all
00:44:21.340 of my stories
00:44:22.080 around people
00:44:22.660 because that's
00:44:23.780 good writing.
00:44:26.080 So I'm not
00:44:26.800 going to apologize
00:44:27.320 for good writing.
00:44:29.000 And most of
00:44:30.440 the people I
00:44:30.880 talk about, I
00:44:32.400 do talk about
00:44:33.100 their positives
00:44:33.780 as well.
00:44:34.300 So regardless
00:44:36.240 of which side
00:44:36.900 they're on, I
00:44:38.080 generally give
00:44:38.640 you their
00:44:38.900 positives.
00:44:39.740 Do I not?
00:44:41.000 Quite intentionally
00:44:42.040 and deliberately
00:44:43.380 and, you know,
00:44:44.760 I usually make
00:44:45.540 a big deal of
00:44:46.120 it.
00:44:47.420 So for those
00:44:50.040 of you who
00:44:50.540 just think
00:44:51.000 talking about
00:44:51.560 somebody in
00:44:52.080 a positive
00:44:52.420 way a number
00:44:53.660 of times is
00:44:54.600 fluffing them
00:44:56.180 or hero
00:44:56.780 worship, I
00:44:57.980 say to you,
00:44:58.780 you don't know
00:44:59.320 how to be a
00:44:59.740 good writer.
00:45:03.380 Yeah, Johnny
00:45:03.880 Depp's another
00:45:04.400 example.
00:45:05.080 So I wrap
00:45:06.140 all of my
00:45:06.840 stories around
00:45:07.360 individuals when
00:45:08.420 it's possible.
00:45:09.800 It's just a
00:45:10.400 good way to
00:45:10.800 do it.
00:45:14.520 Oh, here's
00:45:15.640 an interesting
00:45:16.100 Mary Lou
00:45:16.760 Mawson said,
00:45:17.900 30 years ago
00:45:18.760 Trump's response
00:45:19.680 when asked if
00:45:20.380 he would ever
00:45:20.840 run to be
00:45:21.320 president was
00:45:22.020 quote, I
00:45:22.860 hope I don't
00:45:23.460 have to.
00:45:26.240 I actually
00:45:27.140 feel that
00:45:28.740 Trump, of
00:45:30.460 course he's
00:45:30.960 always drawn
00:45:31.580 by the
00:45:33.200 spotlight.
00:45:33.880 So I'm
00:45:35.500 not going
00:45:35.800 to ignore
00:45:36.220 the fact
00:45:36.660 that his
00:45:37.020 personality
00:45:37.560 draws him
00:45:38.240 toward things
00:45:39.420 that get
00:45:40.380 him attention.
00:45:46.120 But I
00:45:49.080 actually think
00:45:49.960 he probably
00:45:50.740 thought nobody
00:45:51.400 else could
00:45:51.860 do it.
00:45:54.140 And I
00:45:54.840 think he
00:45:55.100 was right.
00:45:56.480 He had a
00:45:57.460 certain set
00:45:57.980 of skills,
00:45:58.800 sounds like a
00:46:00.100 movie plot,
00:46:00.660 he had a
00:46:01.300 certain set
00:46:01.760 of skills,
00:46:02.680 and I
00:46:03.320 think he
00:46:03.680 actually
00:46:04.040 thought nobody
00:46:04.660 else could
00:46:05.020 do it.
00:46:06.140 And by the
00:46:06.520 way, where
00:46:06.880 is the movie
00:46:07.480 about the
00:46:08.280 Trump first
00:46:10.860 term?
00:46:11.260 Are we
00:46:11.460 waiting to
00:46:12.500 see if he's
00:46:13.100 going to have
00:46:13.620 a second
00:46:13.920 term?
00:46:15.220 There's got to
00:46:15.980 be a movie
00:46:16.460 with all the
00:46:17.200 behind-the-scenes
00:46:17.920 stuff, if
00:46:19.200 anybody knows
00:46:19.820 it.
00:46:20.280 I don't think
00:46:20.760 anybody has
00:46:21.420 any idea what
00:46:22.200 happened behind
00:46:22.740 the scenes with
00:46:23.560 the Trump
00:46:24.080 situation.
00:46:24.580 Let me say
00:46:26.320 this more
00:46:26.820 definitively.
00:46:28.840 I can tell
00:46:29.320 you with
00:46:29.640 certainty that
00:46:31.040 nobody's ever
00:46:31.660 reported the
00:46:34.400 real story,
00:46:36.000 and I'm not
00:46:36.720 sure I know
00:46:37.120 the real story.
00:46:37.860 I only know
00:46:38.420 enough of the
00:46:39.120 real story to
00:46:39.780 know that
00:46:40.300 nothing even
00:46:42.820 close to the
00:46:43.560 truth has
00:46:43.960 ever been
00:46:44.400 published.
00:46:48.220 2,000
00:46:49.040 mules, is
00:46:49.640 that out yet?
00:46:50.880 So that's
00:46:51.820 Dinesh D'Souza's
00:46:54.120 documentary, is
00:46:55.860 that right?
00:46:58.540 Is it
00:46:58.740 out tomorrow?
00:47:00.380 Somebody says.
00:47:02.220 Somebody says,
00:47:03.120 yes, it is
00:47:03.640 out, or this
00:47:04.360 week.
00:47:05.380 May 5th, I'm
00:47:06.160 hearing it's
00:47:06.560 out.
00:47:06.880 Okay.
00:47:07.740 So I will be
00:47:08.760 looking at that
00:47:09.300 with great
00:47:10.280 interest.
00:47:12.600 I'm going to
00:47:13.300 reserve judgment.
00:47:15.060 Here's how I
00:47:15.880 would recommend
00:47:16.440 you watch it.
00:47:18.160 You should
00:47:18.820 watch it with
00:47:19.720 the understanding
00:47:20.400 that within 24
00:47:21.840 hours, you're
00:47:22.480 going to hear
00:47:22.780 somebody try to
00:47:23.720 debunk it, and
00:47:25.420 that when you
00:47:25.920 hear the
00:47:26.320 debunk, whether
00:47:27.220 it's true or
00:47:27.860 not, it might
00:47:29.140 sound persuasive.
00:47:31.220 Because you
00:47:31.900 can make
00:47:32.220 anything persuasive.
00:47:33.740 That's why we
00:47:34.320 have trials.
00:47:35.400 The lawyer who
00:47:36.060 talks last is
00:47:37.000 the one who's
00:47:37.440 the most
00:47:37.740 persuasive.
00:47:39.060 That's why the
00:47:39.660 defense gets to
00:47:40.440 go last.
00:47:41.400 It's only fair.
00:47:44.400 So I would
00:47:45.340 say, watch the
00:47:46.840 evidence in the
00:47:47.440 movie.
00:47:48.940 I'll definitely
00:47:49.700 watch it.
00:47:50.200 And then keep
00:47:53.060 your mind open
00:47:53.760 for about 24
00:47:54.640 hours, because
00:47:55.340 that's about how
00:47:55.860 long it'll take,
00:47:56.740 and there'll be
00:47:57.440 articles in the
00:47:58.120 press saying that
00:47:59.780 this or that is
00:48:01.080 incorrect.
00:48:02.880 I don't know if
00:48:03.780 you'll be able to
00:48:04.320 sort it out.
00:48:05.680 I don't know if I
00:48:06.380 will.
00:48:07.420 But at least be
00:48:08.720 aware that when
00:48:10.180 you watch any kind
00:48:11.080 of content like
00:48:11.860 that, it doesn't
00:48:12.260 matter if it's
00:48:12.760 from the left or
00:48:13.620 the right, any
00:48:14.940 kind of content
00:48:15.580 like that, just
00:48:16.320 know that if you
00:48:17.600 don't hear the
00:48:18.140 debunk or the
00:48:19.140 attempt to
00:48:19.640 debunk, you
00:48:20.820 don't know what's
00:48:21.360 going on.
00:48:22.720 If you want to
00:48:23.480 learn that lesson
00:48:24.200 the hard way,
00:48:25.520 watch the
00:48:26.320 competing stories
00:48:28.360 about Michael
00:48:29.820 Jackson.
00:48:31.520 You can watch a
00:48:32.440 documentary that
00:48:33.300 makes it really
00:48:34.060 clear according to
00:48:35.940 the documentary.
00:48:36.660 It's very persuasive
00:48:37.440 that he did
00:48:38.060 something terrible.
00:48:40.280 And then you
00:48:40.700 can watch the
00:48:41.200 very next
00:48:41.700 documentary, which
00:48:42.520 was a response
00:48:43.300 to the first, that
00:48:44.620 makes it very, very
00:48:45.420 clear that the
00:48:46.020 first one was
00:48:46.520 bullshit.
00:48:47.000 They are just
00:48:49.760 as convincing.
00:48:51.340 If you only
00:48:52.180 watch one of
00:48:52.780 them, you
00:48:54.000 would be
00:48:54.320 absolutely
00:48:54.820 convinced that
00:48:55.780 whatever anybody
00:48:56.640 else said
00:48:57.140 couldn't be
00:48:57.640 convincing.
00:48:59.260 And then it
00:48:59.700 is.
00:49:01.120 They're really
00:49:01.860 Ben War Room
00:49:05.860 episode covers
00:49:06.900 in depth.
00:49:07.500 What do they
00:49:07.840 cover in depth?
00:49:11.880 Do you believe
00:49:12.800 we are past the
00:49:13.780 year of hell that
00:49:14.500 you foresaw as a
00:49:15.460 child?
00:49:15.780 I don't know.
00:49:26.820 I don't know.
00:49:28.420 I hope so.
00:49:35.120 Yeah, that was a
00:49:35.960 good question.
00:49:37.940 So if you were
00:49:38.940 confused by that
00:49:39.780 question, I've
00:49:41.180 described before
00:49:42.820 how there are
00:49:43.640 certain things that
00:49:44.280 happened in my
00:49:44.900 real life that
00:49:46.760 I foresaw as
00:49:48.440 very clear
00:49:49.520 visions many
00:49:52.280 years earlier
00:49:52.960 when I was
00:49:53.480 young, which
00:49:55.380 could be
00:49:55.820 nothing but
00:49:56.360 coincidence or
00:49:57.060 false memory.
00:49:57.640 Germany is
00:50:08.560 funding the Russian
00:50:09.260 army, I
00:50:09.760 suppose.
00:50:12.260 A top
00:50:12.940 broadcast for
00:50:13.740 you today.
00:50:14.360 Thank you.
00:50:18.820 Oh, Mike
00:50:19.760 Lindell being
00:50:20.360 banned on
00:50:20.900 Twitter again.
00:50:21.560 That's not
00:50:22.040 really a story.
00:50:22.640 So Mike
00:50:23.600 Lindell tried to
00:50:24.480 sign up for
00:50:24.980 Twitter again
00:50:25.540 and was
00:50:26.240 immediately
00:50:26.640 banned, but
00:50:27.860 that's just
00:50:28.300 because management
00:50:29.140 hasn't changed.
00:50:31.460 There's no story
00:50:32.360 there.
00:50:33.040 But you know,
00:50:34.560 can somebody
00:50:36.560 answer a question
00:50:37.280 for me?
00:50:39.000 This is such a
00:50:40.040 bubble example.
00:50:42.220 If you want to
00:50:43.060 see how much of a
00:50:43.760 bubble I'm in,
00:50:45.360 and I make a
00:50:46.380 conscious effort
00:50:47.020 every single day,
00:50:48.360 every single day,
00:50:49.200 I read the
00:50:50.180 news on the
00:50:50.740 left and the
00:50:51.440 right.
00:50:51.980 I don't miss
00:50:52.740 a single day.
00:50:54.340 And here's
00:50:54.840 something I
00:50:55.260 don't know.
00:50:57.780 How many of
00:50:58.540 you know that
00:50:59.180 the big account
00:51:00.740 anyway, or
00:51:01.680 maybe all of
00:51:02.240 them, the
00:51:02.520 conservative
00:51:03.020 Twitter accounts
00:51:03.860 are surging
00:51:04.820 in followers?
00:51:06.700 How many of
00:51:07.220 you know that's
00:51:07.780 true?
00:51:09.540 Most of you
00:51:10.040 are on
00:51:11.400 Twitter, or
00:51:11.800 most of you
00:51:12.060 know that's
00:51:12.400 true.
00:51:12.880 So mine
00:51:13.280 too, has
00:51:14.240 surged, and
00:51:15.960 it seemed to
00:51:17.340 coincide with
00:51:18.260 the Elon
00:51:19.520 Musk purchase
00:51:21.560 attempt.
00:51:23.100 And let me
00:51:23.640 tell you where
00:51:24.000 it is now.
00:51:25.940 So for
00:51:26.780 months and
00:51:27.460 months it
00:51:27.900 just hovered
00:51:28.480 at one area
00:51:29.160 like it
00:51:29.600 couldn't
00:51:29.840 possibly be
00:51:30.580 just organically
00:51:32.660 at that one
00:51:33.240 area and stay
00:51:33.840 there.
00:51:34.480 And now it's
00:51:35.000 up, I
00:51:35.360 don't know,
00:51:35.520 20,000 in a
00:51:36.820 few weeks.
00:51:38.120 Which would
00:51:38.680 be very
00:51:38.980 unusual.
00:51:40.340 So here's
00:51:41.180 a question I
00:51:41.760 don't know.
00:51:43.820 And how
00:51:44.400 many of you
00:51:45.040 know the
00:51:45.480 answer?
00:51:46.140 Okay, when I
00:51:46.620 ask the
00:51:46.980 question,
00:51:47.380 don't answer
00:51:48.940 unless you
00:51:49.560 know the
00:51:50.140 answer, okay?
00:51:51.380 There's no
00:51:51.780 guessing.
00:51:52.920 Here's the
00:51:53.300 question.
00:51:55.240 Are the
00:51:55.600 number of
00:51:56.400 followers also
00:51:57.220 going up for
00:51:58.560 left-leaning
00:51:59.620 big accounts?
00:52:02.280 Are
00:52:02.880 everybody's
00:52:03.660 numbers going
00:52:04.240 up the
00:52:04.700 same?
00:52:06.840 Yeah, you
00:52:07.580 don't fucking
00:52:08.140 know, do
00:52:08.600 you?
00:52:10.720 Are you
00:52:11.460 embarrassed?
00:52:12.700 Are you
00:52:13.400 embarrassed that
00:52:14.020 you don't know
00:52:14.380 the answer to
00:52:14.820 that question?
00:52:15.900 Because I
00:52:16.680 am.
00:52:17.380 I mean, I
00:52:18.720 don't get
00:52:19.020 embarrassed, but
00:52:19.700 if I got
00:52:20.560 embarrassed, that
00:52:21.220 would be
00:52:21.500 embarrassing.
00:52:23.500 Why the
00:52:24.280 fuck don't
00:52:25.100 we know
00:52:25.500 that?
00:52:26.880 Seriously, check
00:52:27.860 yourself, because
00:52:28.940 I'm doing that
00:52:29.400 now, right?
00:52:30.440 So I'm talking
00:52:30.960 to myself, like
00:52:31.700 it sounds like I'm
00:52:32.800 insulting you, but
00:52:34.020 I'm insulting
00:52:34.520 myself on your
00:52:36.200 behalf.
00:52:37.340 Why don't I
00:52:38.200 know that?
00:52:42.380 Why don't I
00:52:43.240 know that?
00:52:43.720 isn't that the
00:52:45.780 single most
00:52:46.620 important context
00:52:47.780 to understand
00:52:48.840 what's going
00:52:49.340 on there?
00:52:50.100 How many of
00:52:50.760 us have just
00:52:51.440 automatically
00:52:52.720 assumed that
00:52:54.400 Twitter changed
00:52:55.380 their algorithm to
00:52:56.220 stop suppressing
00:52:57.040 conservative voices?
00:52:58.720 How many of you
00:52:59.480 just automatically
00:53:00.300 assumed that was
00:53:01.040 true?
00:53:01.880 And you don't
00:53:02.420 even know if
00:53:02.920 it's happening to
00:53:04.020 all the accounts.
00:53:05.580 I don't know.
00:53:07.840 Yeah, compared
00:53:08.600 to what?
00:53:09.140 Compared to what
00:53:09.780 is always the
00:53:10.240 right question.
00:53:10.920 Exactly.
00:53:12.680 Now, have I
00:53:13.860 made my point?
00:53:16.160 Every one of
00:53:16.960 us, every one
00:53:18.100 of us right now,
00:53:19.060 and I'm going to
00:53:19.880 put myself in this
00:53:20.760 category, every one
00:53:22.400 of us who didn't
00:53:23.280 know, and I still
00:53:24.820 don't know, every
00:53:26.160 one of us who
00:53:26.700 don't know if all
00:53:27.840 the Twitter accounts
00:53:28.580 are going up in
00:53:29.260 followers, you
00:53:30.060 should be ashamed
00:53:30.600 of yourself.
00:53:32.640 Really.
00:53:34.080 You know, I'm
00:53:35.280 not too bothered
00:53:35.940 by shame, but if
00:53:37.360 I were, I would
00:53:38.840 be ashamed of
00:53:39.440 myself, because I
00:53:41.360 think I formed an
00:53:42.220 opinion without
00:53:42.820 knowing the only
00:53:43.460 thing that mattered.
00:53:46.460 Well, how many
00:53:47.960 of you did that?
00:53:49.880 How many of you
00:53:50.560 did the same bad
00:53:51.480 thing I did, formed
00:53:52.520 an opinion, without
00:53:53.760 knowing the most
00:53:54.740 important part of
00:53:55.480 the data, and not
00:53:56.660 even looking for
00:53:57.420 it?
00:53:58.280 Worse, let me slap
00:54:00.000 myself a little
00:54:00.560 bit.
00:54:03.140 All right, I
00:54:03.860 deserve that.
00:54:04.680 I had that coming.
00:54:06.020 Because not only did
00:54:06.980 I not know the
00:54:08.380 answer, I didn't
00:54:09.420 go look for it.
00:54:12.000 I don't know.
00:54:12.640 And I haven't seen
00:54:13.500 it yet.
00:54:14.420 So did anybody
00:54:15.220 Google it yet?
00:54:16.060 Does anybody even
00:54:16.620 care?
00:54:20.180 Somebody says it's
00:54:21.020 downed.
00:54:21.380 I don't think you
00:54:21.880 know that, do you?
00:54:23.400 Right.
00:54:23.920 Anyway, if you find
00:54:25.280 an article or any
00:54:26.260 kind of data on
00:54:26.940 that, could you
00:54:27.520 tweet it at me?
00:54:29.620 Because it kind of
00:54:31.160 matters.
00:54:32.240 No, somebody's
00:54:33.200 saying they don't
00:54:33.660 care.
00:54:34.420 No, it matters.
00:54:35.160 It's one of the
00:54:36.580 biggest questions in
00:54:37.640 the world.
00:54:39.180 Because if there
00:54:40.260 was, in fact,
00:54:41.020 something that
00:54:42.200 blatantly
00:54:44.240 discriminatory going
00:54:45.560 on, and it just
00:54:47.200 turned off, that's
00:54:48.980 really important.
00:54:50.580 Likewise, if
00:54:51.820 nothing like that
00:54:52.620 was ever
00:54:53.020 happening, and it
00:54:54.400 was just the
00:54:55.360 Elon Musk news
00:54:56.320 is making all the
00:54:57.140 accounts get more
00:54:57.840 action, that could
00:54:58.580 be it.
00:54:59.360 It could be nothing
00:55:00.160 except Elon Musk is
00:55:01.560 good at marketing, and
00:55:02.900 he's already
00:55:03.320 marketing the
00:55:03.940 company that he
00:55:04.920 expects to own
00:55:05.900 soon.
00:55:07.500 It could be
00:55:08.020 nothing but that.
00:55:09.800 And by the way,
00:55:10.460 that's what he
00:55:10.920 says of this.
00:55:12.520 That's what Elon
00:55:13.360 Musk says of
00:55:13.940 this.
00:55:14.960 He says, I saw
00:55:16.360 a tweet, maybe he's
00:55:17.440 updated that, but
00:55:18.360 the tweet I saw, he
00:55:20.260 said, of course the
00:55:21.820 followers are up,
00:55:23.620 because it's getting
00:55:24.660 a lot of headlines.
00:55:26.080 Of course.
00:55:27.480 Now, why can't
00:55:28.220 that be the whole
00:55:28.760 answer?
00:55:30.480 Could be.
00:55:31.780 All right.
00:55:32.020 Tim Poole reported
00:55:33.620 it to, I mean, I
00:55:34.920 know his numbers, but
00:55:35.860 did he report about
00:55:36.820 the left?
00:55:38.500 All right.
00:55:39.440 That, ladies and
00:55:40.260 gentlemen, is all I
00:55:41.000 have to do today.
00:55:41.820 I think I've met my
00:55:42.860 goal of giving you
00:55:44.320 the best entertainment
00:55:45.160 you've ever seen in
00:55:46.060 your whole damn
00:55:46.940 life, so much so
00:55:48.260 that the rest of the
00:55:48.980 day, well, it's
00:55:50.240 going to be awesome
00:55:50.740 too, because that
00:55:52.280 little dopamine
00:55:53.180 surplus I gave you,
00:55:55.100 that's going to
00:55:55.540 last.
00:55:56.480 It's going to
00:55:56.840 last.
00:55:58.400 And, uh,
00:55:59.140 you got your
00:56:03.400 money's worth
00:56:03.880 today?
00:56:05.080 That's what I'm
00:56:05.900 shooting for.
00:56:07.660 All right, Tom.
00:56:10.420 If you can't say
00:56:11.480 anything better than
00:56:12.560 that, we're going to
00:56:14.380 hide you on this
00:56:15.300 channel.
00:56:16.380 You're hidden on
00:56:17.140 this channel.
00:56:18.200 All right.
00:56:18.760 The rest of you,
00:56:20.280 I'll talk to you
00:56:21.340 tomorrow.
00:56:21.580 Bye-bye.
00:56:32.140 Bye-bye.
00:56:32.260 Bye-bye.
00:56:33.280 Bye-bye.
00:56:40.360 Bye-bye.
00:56:41.000 Bye-bye.
00:56:49.620 Bye-bye.
00:56:50.440 Bye-bye.
00:56:50.920 Bye-bye.