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

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. 1.00

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. 0.98

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? 0.96

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, 0.99

00:06:50.280 I have to say, well, how does a black person act? 1.00

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. 0.58

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. 0.98

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. 0.99

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. 1.00

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. 0.94

00:32:55.840 He would

00:32:56.420 be dead. 0.94

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 0.86

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 0.56

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. 0.94

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, 1.00

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 0.98

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 1.00

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 0.98

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 0.56

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 0.65

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 0.83

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.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 02, 2022

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

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