Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 20, 2022


Episode 1749 Scott Adams： Talking About #Elongate, DeSantis, And Climate Change Misdirection


Episode Stats

Length

44 minutes

Words per Minute

137.67065

Word Count

6,138

Sentence Count

439

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

CNN tries to turn the energy crisis into a story about climate change. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs a bill that makes it easier to get into prison for drug possession and distribution. Also, CNN tries to blame climate change for the impending power outages in California.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to what will no doubt be the highlight of your life
00:00:09.480 and of civilization in general.
00:00:11.140 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:13.680 It's filled with content plus sipping.
00:00:16.880 And today, the news has served up delicious content, sometimes, oh, maybe better than
00:00:25.440 you've ever seen before.
00:00:26.900 It's the good stuff.
00:00:27.920 But if you want to enjoy the good stuff, even more than usual, all you need is a cup or
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00:00:38.120 Fill it with your favorite liquid.
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00:00:46.920 It's the dopamine hit of the day.
00:00:48.540 The thing makes everything better.
00:00:50.480 We're going to add a little oxytocin today.
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00:00:54.560 Go.
00:00:57.920 Well, I've been prompted by a comment over there on YouTube to remind you that sunshine
00:01:10.500 is the best disinfectant.
00:01:14.120 Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
00:01:16.520 Or, as CNN likes to say it, don't drink bleach, you idiot.
00:01:24.000 That's their interpretation.
00:01:25.840 Speaking of fake news from CNN, apparently everybody who is smart is predicting that the
00:01:33.140 U.S. power grid is going to have some serious trouble this summer.
00:01:37.780 And CNN is telling us what is the root cause of the energy shortage to come.
00:01:45.860 What do you think is the root cause, according to CNN, of why there will be energy shortages,
00:01:51.500 electricity, and blackouts?
00:01:54.200 What would be the cause?
00:01:57.240 Russia?
00:01:57.840 No.
00:01:58.180 No, not Russia.
00:02:00.760 Climate change.
00:02:02.520 Climate change, yes.
00:02:03.560 There will be the severe droughts because the temperatures will be higher, and there will
00:02:08.380 be ongoing droughts.
00:02:10.700 I'm assuming the drought part has to do with how much water could be released from hydroelectric
00:02:16.660 dams, presumably.
00:02:19.600 So, yes, the problem is not that we've underinvested.
00:02:23.240 The problem is not that we're closing perfectly good nuclear power plants too early.
00:02:27.600 The problem is not that every single rule that has changed in, let's say, California,
00:02:34.780 as a highly impacted state, goes against the interests of the people in terms of keeping
00:02:40.720 the lights on.
00:02:42.040 No, no.
00:02:42.760 It's climate change.
00:02:45.360 CNN has the balls, and we're going to be talking about genitalia a lot today, by the way.
00:02:51.240 CNN has the balls to full-throatedly put the entire blame of this on climate change.
00:02:59.980 Now, what would you do if you believed that climate change was a problem?
00:03:04.560 You would probably reduce the amount of fossil fuels that you're using as quickly as you could.
00:03:11.880 Thank you, Greta Thunberg.
00:03:14.920 And would that make the problem better because you're working hard at solving the climate change?
00:03:20.120 Would it?
00:03:21.680 Would that make the price of energy go down and the availability be greater?
00:03:28.060 No.
00:03:29.480 No, no, it wouldn't.
00:03:31.940 Hello, Adam.
00:03:34.360 And so watch CNN try to turn the energy crisis not into a Democrat governor's destroying everything,
00:03:44.100 but rather it's about the climate change.
00:03:47.100 Sounds like something that Republicans have broken, doesn't it?
00:03:50.120 Yes, the Republicans have broken the climate, which has a cascading effect all the way to your electricity going off in California.
00:04:00.460 That is the narrative that you will be abused with over the coming year.
00:04:05.900 Well, I have a question about Governor DeSantis.
00:04:11.780 So Governor DeSantis signed a bill that will increase punishments for fentanyl tracking.
00:04:20.000 He is one of how many governors?
00:04:23.660 50.
00:04:24.180 Why is he the only one doing this?
00:04:29.260 And wasn't this free money just sitting on the table?
00:04:34.180 It's the biggest problem.
00:04:35.640 It's killed the most people between, what, 18 and 49?
00:04:38.640 The leading cause of death.
00:04:40.260 More than the pandemic.
00:04:42.320 More than everything.
00:04:43.820 The leading cause of death is overdose and fentanyl being the biggest part of that.
00:04:50.460 And so Ron DeSantis is acting directly on that problem.
00:04:56.220 He acknowledges that we have to reduce the demand for it,
00:04:59.960 so he's not ignoring the fact that it's half a demand problem and half a supply problem.
00:05:04.880 Well, maybe it's 75% demand and 25% supply, but you have to attack both.
00:05:11.700 And so he's saying, yes, got to do something about the demand,
00:05:16.180 but we're going to do everything we can about this supply.
00:05:20.760 Now, what he has done, and he said it explicitly,
00:05:24.520 is instead of treating the dealer who gives you an overdose level as a dealer,
00:05:31.120 you treat them like a murderer, because they are.
00:05:35.740 If you're a fentanyl dealer, you're killing people, right?
00:05:40.460 Unless you've sold it once to one person and they lived.
00:05:44.160 But if you're a regular fentanyl dealer, you're killing people.
00:05:47.120 You're a murderer.
00:05:48.620 And so DeSantis, the only governor who's figured out that that's murder,
00:05:54.700 changes the laws to increase the penalties,
00:05:57.600 consistent with the fact that it's fucking murder, right?
00:06:02.920 It's murder.
00:06:04.420 So here's my question.
00:06:08.040 Am I the only one who thinks that every time Ron DeSantis does anything,
00:06:12.600 he makes all the other politicians look like chimpanzees?
00:06:17.440 Is it just my imagination?
00:06:19.820 Or does he just one time after another
00:06:22.200 hit the right note at the right time?
00:06:24.880 It's like he's composing the symphony
00:06:27.780 where every note is right,
00:06:30.860 and he's competing against people who aren't trying.
00:06:34.080 He makes the other leaders look like they're not trying.
00:06:37.640 And I don't mean that in hyperbolic terms.
00:06:41.840 Actually, literally, with no exaggeration whatsoever.
00:06:45.960 No, take the politics out of it.
00:06:48.080 And by the way, do I agree with everything
00:06:49.900 that Ron DeSantis wants to do?
00:06:52.000 Nope.
00:06:52.940 Nope.
00:06:53.280 I want to be very clear.
00:06:54.800 I'm not a fan of his specific policies in every case, right?
00:06:59.120 Some I like, some I don't.
00:07:00.660 So I'm picking and choosing.
00:07:02.440 I'm not like Team DeSantis, give me your policies.
00:07:06.460 Same with Trump.
00:07:08.020 There was a lot that Trump did that I liked,
00:07:10.180 which I said loudly and often,
00:07:12.440 but there were a whole bunch of things he did
00:07:14.180 that I don't think were, you know, first rate.
00:07:17.800 So I'm going to say the same thing about DeSantis, right?
00:07:21.580 Some stuff I didn't like, and I've said.
00:07:24.100 But overall, if you were just to evaluate him
00:07:26.920 on a skills basis, forget about policy,
00:07:30.380 because that more has to do with your political leaning,
00:07:33.520 but just skill.
00:07:35.860 I'm going to say that there's nobody in his class anymore.
00:07:40.340 He's basically operating completely alone.
00:07:44.900 There's nobody in his class.
00:07:47.880 The next best governor would have to be compared to other people.
00:07:53.480 That's how bad it is.
00:07:55.080 The second best governor, whoever you think that is,
00:07:58.080 shouldn't even be compared to him,
00:07:59.540 because they're not in the same weight class.
00:08:00.800 It's like Conor McGregor, you know,
00:08:03.840 great, great fighter, right?
00:08:06.260 But if you put him against the heavyweight champion
00:08:08.780 of the boxing world, you know, that's a mismatch.
00:08:12.960 So it doesn't matter how great your little governor is.
00:08:16.040 They're a completely different weight class at this point.
00:08:18.920 DeSantis is completely alone in that class of leader
00:08:22.980 that even if you don't like the policies,
00:08:26.460 the class of leadership is completely alone now.
00:08:29.500 So there's not a Republican,
00:08:31.660 there's not a Democrat in that category.
00:08:35.960 Now, here's what's interesting.
00:08:37.380 If you're looking for trends,
00:08:39.920 there's another person who could be this person,
00:08:42.940 who's Michael Schellenberger,
00:08:44.480 running for governor as an independent in California.
00:08:47.940 Now, Schellenberger, like DeSantis,
00:08:50.800 a completely different political animal, right?
00:08:53.380 I'm not going to make a comparison in terms of their policies.
00:08:56.220 But in terms of effectiveness,
00:08:59.500 completely alone.
00:09:02.420 Schellenberger running for governor
00:09:04.060 is in a class by himself,
00:09:07.300 and whoever is the second best candidate,
00:09:10.920 let's say, let's say it's Newsom.
00:09:12.940 He's not in the same class.
00:09:15.460 They're in a completely different weight class.
00:09:18.120 All right, Newsom's a middleweight.
00:09:20.820 Schellenberger is a heavyweight.
00:09:22.000 He's coming in with fully developed specific policies
00:09:26.020 for all of the biggest problems in California,
00:09:28.380 exactly the things that we need fixed.
00:09:30.960 What does Ron DeSantis do that puts him in his own class?
00:09:35.720 He solves problems as they happen
00:09:38.660 with the most rational approach available,
00:09:42.280 does it publicly, shows his work.
00:09:45.060 It's a whole different class.
00:09:46.380 All right, that's what Schellenberger's doing
00:09:48.480 with the specificity of his solutions.
00:09:52.400 So there might be something good happening here.
00:09:55.580 If you saw both of them win,
00:09:57.960 and, you know, DeSantis will win,
00:09:59.640 but imagine if he ran for president and won.
00:10:03.420 Now, that depends on what Trump does, I think, mostly.
00:10:06.280 But suppose it happened.
00:10:07.740 And then suppose Schellenberger wins in California.
00:10:10.100 Those two points of people who just decided to lead
00:10:16.240 and just do what the public needs and wants
00:10:19.320 and do it in some rational way,
00:10:21.520 they're really going to stand out.
00:10:24.040 And then they would start getting imitators.
00:10:26.760 And that's what you want.
00:10:28.380 You want the imitators to say,
00:10:30.100 whoa, did that work?
00:10:31.840 Are you telling me they're doing good policies
00:10:33.820 that make sense and have worked in other places?
00:10:36.680 Are you telling me that that gets you elected?
00:10:38.540 Just think about how close we are
00:10:42.620 to the best thing ever.
00:10:45.660 The best thing ever would be to have good leaders.
00:10:49.340 Because we have everything else.
00:10:54.120 Think about that thought.
00:10:55.580 I'm going to say it again.
00:10:57.040 The best thing that could happen in the United States
00:10:58.900 is that we would figure out how to elect good leaders.
00:11:03.880 And we're almost there.
00:11:05.180 If both of those candidates succeed,
00:11:08.540 let's say to the next level,
00:11:10.480 let's say hypothetically DeSantis becomes president,
00:11:13.900 hypothetically Schellenberger becomes governor of California,
00:11:17.080 they would have proved that being a good leader
00:11:22.260 who has good ideas gets you elected.
00:11:25.760 At the moment, that is not the case.
00:11:28.820 Am I right?
00:11:30.320 At the moment, getting elected means being the most outrageous,
00:11:33.960 the most provocative, saying the craziest things,
00:11:37.480 and getting your base all worked up.
00:11:39.760 And the reason that that's been the way
00:11:42.040 is that nobody could figure out a better way.
00:11:45.340 The best they could come up with
00:11:47.040 is exciting their own base.
00:11:49.200 And then we decided that was all you could do.
00:11:53.560 How many times have you heard talk of Trump
00:11:56.800 and say, okay, okay, he's not going to get any Democrats,
00:12:00.060 but he's going to excite the base so much
00:12:02.100 that that's good enough to get him elected?
00:12:04.220 It didn't work this last time for who knows why.
00:12:08.680 But what if, what if that logic has been killing the country?
00:12:13.360 Because it has been.
00:12:14.060 Don't you think that the political consultants
00:12:17.360 have been telling our leaders,
00:12:19.740 no, no, no, don't say smarter things.
00:12:21.720 Nobody likes that.
00:12:23.660 Say whatever just gets the most attention,
00:12:25.960 and it's like red beef for the base.
00:12:28.840 Don't you think that the advisors
00:12:31.980 are all telling the politicians
00:12:33.960 to do bad things to get themselves elected?
00:12:38.680 It feels like it.
00:12:39.920 And it feels like the Schellenbergers of the world
00:12:42.300 just said, well, what if I don't?
00:12:44.680 What if I don't do this stupid thing
00:12:46.720 to excite some base to get elected?
00:12:49.500 What if I run as an independent,
00:12:51.860 write two best-selling books about exactly what to do
00:12:55.080 about our biggest problems?
00:12:57.520 How about that?
00:12:59.100 How about that?
00:13:01.140 All right.
00:13:02.560 You voters, Californians in particular,
00:13:07.060 and then perhaps, you know,
00:13:08.660 later if there's a DeSantis to vote for
00:13:10.540 for a national office,
00:13:11.560 you get to decide
00:13:13.400 if the country will be run by people
00:13:16.380 who have ideas
00:13:17.380 that may not always be the right idea,
00:13:20.380 but you can try them,
00:13:21.280 see what happens, right, and adjust.
00:13:23.080 But do you want a country run by leaders
00:13:24.860 who have ideas
00:13:25.780 that sound pretty good
00:13:28.040 or people who want to excite the base?
00:13:31.120 And you get a choice.
00:13:32.460 You get a choice.
00:13:33.920 Now, I don't know if anybody can see past
00:13:35.460 their party affiliation
00:13:36.700 to decide how to get to the Golden Age.
00:13:39.540 But let me say it again.
00:13:41.480 We have everything
00:13:43.260 except leaders in charge
00:13:48.200 like a Michael Schellenberger
00:13:50.160 and, for president,
00:13:52.740 somebody like a DeSantis.
00:13:54.680 We have everything but that.
00:13:57.660 Imagine if we got that, too.
00:13:59.200 Seriously.
00:14:02.640 Imagine if we got the last part.
00:14:06.160 Leaders who actually knew
00:14:07.400 how to, you know,
00:14:09.180 implement things that are common sense
00:14:11.140 definitely will work.
00:14:13.180 Right?
00:14:16.380 Yeah, it's all we need.
00:14:17.740 And it's close.
00:14:19.020 If both of those elections
00:14:20.460 were won by the most competent leader,
00:14:24.100 we'd be...
00:14:26.020 We would have developed a...
00:14:28.660 Basically, it would be like
00:14:30.080 running the four-minute mile.
00:14:32.240 You know, before anybody
00:14:33.080 ran a four-minute mile,
00:14:34.280 it looked like it couldn't be done.
00:14:35.880 But as soon as the first person did it,
00:14:37.840 you know, lots of people could do it
00:14:39.200 because the psychological barrier fell.
00:14:41.800 Actually, I think that's a fake story.
00:14:43.660 I think just the training improved.
00:14:46.320 The whole thing about the
00:14:47.520 four-minute mile psychological barrier,
00:14:50.540 I don't believe anything about that.
00:14:51.960 I think just that the technology
00:14:54.360 of training got better
00:14:55.560 and somebody was going to run
00:14:57.740 the four-minute mile pretty soon
00:14:59.040 and somebody did.
00:15:00.000 I think that's all it was, really.
00:15:02.540 But I like using it as an example.
00:15:06.900 So if these guys get elected,
00:15:08.460 it could change everything.
00:15:11.100 So speaking of people
00:15:14.600 who are not even trying,
00:15:15.620 let's talk about that.
00:15:16.540 NBC News is coming down hard
00:15:23.280 on Hunter Biden,
00:15:24.560 which is a big story.
00:15:27.540 It's not a story that it's
00:15:29.100 something about Hunter Biden.
00:15:30.900 That's part of the story.
00:15:32.460 But the story is that NBC is doing it.
00:15:35.460 Do you know who NBC is?
00:15:37.600 They are the entity most associated
00:15:39.980 with the intelligence agencies
00:15:43.800 and the Democrats.
00:15:45.660 So they have been,
00:15:47.120 allegedly,
00:15:48.620 carrying water for the CIA
00:15:50.420 and for Democrats in particular.
00:15:53.420 And if you see them spinning a story,
00:15:57.060 you have to assume
00:15:57.920 that it's the new preferred narrative
00:16:00.280 from the left.
00:16:02.780 CNN does the same thing,
00:16:04.360 but NBC is even deeper and darker,
00:16:07.240 according to its critics.
00:16:08.480 I don't have any special information
00:16:11.540 about NBC,
00:16:12.340 so I'm just talking about
00:16:13.180 what people say about them.
00:16:15.720 The Glenn Greenwalds,
00:16:17.480 in particular,
00:16:18.280 who watch this stuff.
00:16:20.200 So if NBC News is coming down
00:16:22.140 on Hunter Biden,
00:16:23.380 that's telling you that somewhere
00:16:24.740 at the top of the Democratic leadership,
00:16:27.440 they've decided that Joe Biden
00:16:29.040 should not be president much longer.
00:16:32.520 Am I right?
00:16:34.300 Would everybody agree
00:16:35.320 with that assessment?
00:16:36.060 That if NBC News is coming,
00:16:38.900 and it looks like the gloves are off,
00:16:40.420 they're coming at him very directly,
00:16:42.380 and they're not hedging it at all.
00:16:44.860 They're basically saying he's a criminal.
00:16:47.920 It may not be illegal,
00:16:49.960 but criminal-like,
00:16:52.280 I'll say criminal-ish
00:16:53.560 without necessarily being illegal.
00:16:57.240 And it's so direct,
00:16:59.400 and they back it up with,
00:17:01.360 you know, their sources,
00:17:02.560 which is the laptop mostly.
00:17:03.660 So apparently Hunter earned,
00:17:09.200 I don't know,
00:17:09.560 $11 million over a five-year period
00:17:13.440 doing deals with Burisma
00:17:17.420 and some Chinese businessman
00:17:21.140 who's accused of doing terrible things.
00:17:24.580 So, and it's not clear
00:17:25.680 what he did for any of that,
00:17:27.120 and then there were some tax issues
00:17:28.660 that they had to pay
00:17:30.080 after the fact and stuff.
00:17:31.300 But the fact that,
00:17:34.080 and then there's the clip
00:17:35.120 of Joe Biden,
00:17:37.120 dad,
00:17:38.540 saying in a,
00:17:39.640 he actually said
00:17:40.340 in his debate with Trump,
00:17:42.400 he denied that
00:17:43.600 Hunter Biden ever did any work
00:17:45.760 for, I think, the Chinese.
00:17:47.300 Is that what he said?
00:17:48.580 Just a complete lie
00:17:49.940 about his son.
00:17:51.160 Just a total lie.
00:17:53.160 And
00:17:53.500 this issue
00:17:55.400 was probably big enough
00:17:56.960 that if it had been reported correctly,
00:17:58.520 it could have changed the election.
00:17:59.460 So,
00:18:02.380 and then
00:18:05.300 GOP congressional sources say
00:18:08.440 that if Republicans
00:18:10.340 take back the House this fall,
00:18:11.700 they'll demand more documents
00:18:13.020 and probe whether any of Biden's income
00:18:15.060 went to his father,
00:18:17.020 President Joe Biden.
00:18:20.000 Is there any doubt
00:18:21.280 that some of Hunter Biden's income
00:18:23.740 went to his father?
00:18:24.540 I feel like,
00:18:27.920 I feel like the emails
00:18:29.980 say that directly.
00:18:31.420 Now,
00:18:31.920 they're talking about
00:18:32.460 specific deals
00:18:33.480 on the 10%.
00:18:34.460 So,
00:18:35.320 it could be
00:18:35.820 that not,
00:18:36.500 not $1 of this
00:18:37.920 $11 million
00:18:38.560 went to his father.
00:18:40.420 It could be.
00:18:41.400 But do you believe that?
00:18:43.680 It seems to me
00:18:44.700 that
00:18:44.980 their business model
00:18:46.520 was established
00:18:47.380 that
00:18:48.640 the big guy
00:18:49.700 gets,
00:18:50.280 gets a taste.
00:18:51.400 Now,
00:18:53.960 again,
00:18:54.480 that doesn't make it illegal.
00:18:57.440 You know,
00:18:57.780 there's just a million ways
00:18:59.160 that you can do things
00:19:00.160 that skirt the law.
00:19:02.020 Because if you're a family member,
00:19:04.200 it's not that unusual
00:19:05.300 that family members
00:19:06.480 finance other family members.
00:19:09.600 Right?
00:19:10.040 So,
00:19:10.580 if Hunter Biden
00:19:11.720 made a big score
00:19:12.660 and bought a house
00:19:14.080 or something
00:19:14.560 for his father,
00:19:16.340 you wouldn't even think
00:19:17.700 that was unusual.
00:19:19.180 Because families do that stuff.
00:19:20.400 I mean,
00:19:20.820 I've,
00:19:21.720 you know,
00:19:21.980 helped my parents
00:19:22.900 get a Florida house,
00:19:24.920 et cetera.
00:19:25.420 So,
00:19:25.740 it's very normal
00:19:26.340 that families
00:19:27.600 move lots of money
00:19:29.000 back and forth
00:19:29.740 for lots of reasons.
00:19:31.960 So,
00:19:32.400 that part might not be illegal
00:19:33.620 or at least
00:19:34.580 you won't be able
00:19:35.340 to find the
00:19:36.000 specific,
00:19:37.420 you know,
00:19:38.300 link to
00:19:38.900 what Hunter did.
00:19:40.760 All right.
00:19:41.580 Here's the next
00:19:42.680 in the
00:19:43.140 not even trying
00:19:44.460 category.
00:19:47.200 Twitter
00:19:47.720 has a
00:19:48.680 head of
00:19:49.620 what they call
00:19:50.140 their
00:19:50.320 crisis
00:19:50.760 misinformation
00:19:51.480 policy.
00:19:53.500 So,
00:19:53.800 it's one
00:19:54.440 individual
00:19:54.920 who's
00:19:56.520 working on
00:19:58.760 labeling
00:19:59.400 misinformation
00:20:01.020 that appears
00:20:01.960 on Twitter.
00:20:03.080 So,
00:20:03.340 if there's,
00:20:03.660 I guess if there's
00:20:04.340 a crisis only,
00:20:06.300 you know,
00:20:06.460 if it's a crisis
00:20:07.100 situation,
00:20:07.820 then they'll get
00:20:08.800 more aggressive
00:20:09.360 about labeling
00:20:10.240 misinformation.
00:20:11.060 information.
00:20:12.440 And,
00:20:13.060 as Chuck
00:20:14.000 Ross reports
00:20:14.980 in the
00:20:15.260 Washington Free
00:20:15.960 Beacon,
00:20:17.020 the person
00:20:17.480 they picked,
00:20:18.140 this fellow
00:20:19.520 named Roth,
00:20:21.480 here are some
00:20:23.300 of the things
00:20:23.720 that he has
00:20:24.180 in his background.
00:20:27.440 He doubted
00:20:28.560 the Hunter
00:20:28.960 Biden laptop
00:20:29.720 story.
00:20:32.340 He said
00:20:33.100 there was
00:20:33.340 no credible
00:20:33.880 evidence
00:20:34.380 that it was
00:20:35.380 hacked or
00:20:35.900 whatever.
00:20:36.120 and in
00:20:39.060 2020,
00:20:40.020 on Twitter,
00:20:40.600 he referred
00:20:41.000 to Trump
00:20:41.480 officials as,
00:20:42.420 quote,
00:20:42.760 actual Nazis.
00:20:45.480 He also
00:20:46.180 called Senate
00:20:46.860 Minority Leader
00:20:47.980 Mitch McConnell,
00:20:49.300 quote,
00:20:49.680 a bag of
00:20:50.340 farts.
00:20:52.080 Okay,
00:20:52.600 I thought for a
00:20:53.200 moment I was
00:20:53.660 going to turn
00:20:54.080 against this
00:20:54.600 guy,
00:20:55.920 but then when
00:20:56.600 he got to
00:20:56.960 the part where
00:20:57.400 he called
00:20:58.240 Senate Minority
00:21:00.440 Leader Mitch
00:21:00.960 McConnell a
00:21:01.860 bag of
00:21:02.280 farts,
00:21:03.160 I said,
00:21:04.680 okay.
00:21:06.120 Okay.
00:21:08.140 If you can be
00:21:09.220 that funny,
00:21:10.540 I'll give you
00:21:11.360 any job you
00:21:11.960 want.
00:21:13.200 You can even
00:21:14.160 be a conspiracy
00:21:15.360 theorist in
00:21:16.840 charge of the
00:21:17.800 misinformation
00:21:18.360 policy.
00:21:19.740 I'll even let
00:21:20.560 you have that.
00:21:21.720 As long as you
00:21:22.620 keep making good
00:21:23.440 jokes, I'm
00:21:25.020 all for it.
00:21:26.140 Yes, Mitch
00:21:26.720 McConnell does
00:21:27.420 remind me of
00:21:28.320 a bag of
00:21:29.020 farts.
00:21:30.080 I'm sorry,
00:21:31.500 it's not
00:21:31.940 political.
00:21:33.120 It's not
00:21:33.600 political.
00:21:34.980 It has
00:21:35.360 nothing to do
00:21:35.960 with Mitch
00:21:36.300 McConnell's
00:21:36.880 performance.
00:21:37.900 It has
00:21:38.400 nothing to do
00:21:39.040 with the
00:21:39.300 policies he
00:21:39.940 has promoted.
00:21:41.640 He just
00:21:42.140 does remind
00:21:43.160 me of a
00:21:43.620 bag of
00:21:44.000 farts.
00:21:44.620 And if I'm
00:21:45.000 going to be
00:21:45.280 honest, I
00:21:45.720 have to give
00:21:46.140 this fellow
00:21:46.540 some credit,
00:21:47.800 this Mr.
00:21:48.320 Roth.
00:21:49.120 So good on
00:21:49.880 you for that.
00:21:51.300 But the
00:21:51.720 ridiculousness of
00:21:52.880 having somebody
00:21:53.480 with his
00:21:53.880 background as
00:21:54.680 the crisis
00:21:55.240 misinformation
00:21:55.980 policy person
00:21:57.040 is wonderful.
00:22:00.540 You know,
00:22:00.900 at some point,
00:22:01.780 it gets so
00:22:02.800 ridiculous that it's
00:22:03.960 more funny
00:22:04.580 than, okay,
00:22:05.880 turtle's good
00:22:06.440 too.
00:22:06.920 It's more
00:22:07.300 funny than
00:22:07.880 bad.
00:22:10.180 All right.
00:22:11.480 Shall we
00:22:11.980 get to the
00:22:12.340 big story of
00:22:12.940 the day?
00:22:14.200 Are you
00:22:14.800 ready for the
00:22:15.380 best spin on
00:22:17.240 the biggest
00:22:17.640 story of the
00:22:18.180 day?
00:22:19.000 I'm going to
00:22:19.620 talk about the
00:22:21.500 Elon Musk
00:22:22.740 accusations, and
00:22:24.800 it will be the
00:22:25.360 best thing you
00:22:25.940 heard all day.
00:22:27.360 Other people
00:22:27.820 will talk about
00:22:28.520 this, but
00:22:29.740 nobody will do
00:22:30.900 it as well as
00:22:31.780 I'm about to
00:22:32.460 do it.
00:22:33.380 Have I
00:22:33.700 oversold it?
00:22:35.120 Well, let's
00:22:35.720 see.
00:22:36.420 Let's see if I
00:22:37.080 can make good
00:22:37.740 on that claim.
00:22:39.160 So the claim
00:22:39.800 is there's a
00:22:40.720 flight attendant
00:22:42.260 for the, I
00:22:43.600 guess, the
00:22:43.900 private jets
00:22:44.560 that Elon
00:22:46.040 rides in, his
00:22:47.060 own company,
00:22:48.120 SpaceX, and
00:22:49.440 apparently one
00:22:50.260 of the flight
00:22:50.960 attendants learned
00:22:53.100 to become a
00:22:53.680 masseuse so
00:22:55.220 that Elon
00:22:55.820 could get a
00:22:56.980 massage while
00:22:59.460 he's flying.
00:22:59.940 Now, you
00:23:01.720 always hear about
00:23:02.300 how hard he's
00:23:02.960 working, but
00:23:04.380 you don't hear
00:23:04.920 about the fact
00:23:05.540 that when he
00:23:06.040 travels, he's
00:23:06.680 being massaged
00:23:07.480 in his private
00:23:08.180 plane.
00:23:09.440 When I travel,
00:23:10.920 I'm doing okay.
00:23:12.900 I'm still sitting
00:23:13.860 in a little seat
00:23:14.560 and I'm
00:23:14.840 uncomfortable.
00:23:16.220 So when I
00:23:17.020 work and I
00:23:18.400 go on a
00:23:18.740 business trip,
00:23:19.760 I'm working.
00:23:21.380 It hurts.
00:23:22.700 I'm in pain.
00:23:23.880 I'm crunched
00:23:24.820 up.
00:23:25.140 I'm not eating
00:23:25.660 right.
00:23:26.080 I'm not sleeping
00:23:26.700 right.
00:23:27.100 I'm in pain.
00:23:28.220 But apparently
00:23:28.940 Elon Musk,
00:23:29.800 is putting
00:23:32.440 everybody on
00:23:33.000 his schedule
00:23:33.580 so he doesn't
00:23:34.080 have to get
00:23:34.480 up or go
00:23:35.000 to sleep at
00:23:35.500 any particular
00:23:35.980 time.
00:23:36.720 So he has
00:23:37.080 meetings at
00:23:37.580 10 o'clock
00:23:38.040 at night and
00:23:38.700 probably, oh
00:23:39.760 God, 100 in
00:23:40.460 the morning.
00:23:41.260 And he's
00:23:41.900 getting massaged
00:23:43.280 on his private
00:23:44.000 jet on the way
00:23:44.720 to a meeting.
00:23:46.240 Now, if that
00:23:47.360 were the way I
00:23:47.960 worked, I
00:23:49.680 could work 18
00:23:50.460 hours a day
00:23:51.160 under those
00:23:52.080 conditions.
00:23:53.440 You would just
00:23:54.160 need your private
00:23:55.620 jet and your
00:23:56.320 private masseur.
00:23:58.000 But this
00:23:58.920 woman who
00:24:00.440 had been a
00:24:01.600 flight attendant
00:24:02.200 converted to
00:24:03.180 flight attendant
00:24:04.360 slash massage
00:24:05.420 therapist is
00:24:07.620 accusing Elon of
00:24:09.120 whipping out his
00:24:09.940 member and
00:24:11.080 asking for
00:24:11.780 more.
00:24:13.680 And then he
00:24:14.160 allegedly,
00:24:14.960 allegedly, we'll
00:24:16.400 talk about how
00:24:17.080 true this is,
00:24:18.360 allegedly, he
00:24:19.960 offered her a
00:24:21.020 horse because she
00:24:22.060 had some kind of
00:24:22.880 equestrian hobby.
00:24:23.960 company and
00:24:25.320 eventually there
00:24:26.040 was a $250,000
00:24:27.120 payoff by the
00:24:28.020 company to make
00:24:29.780 her story go
00:24:30.540 away.
00:24:32.560 Now, as others
00:24:33.700 have pointed out,
00:24:34.360 $250,000 is
00:24:35.460 sort of like, is
00:24:37.240 nothing like an
00:24:37.920 admission of guilt.
00:24:39.360 It's more like just
00:24:40.340 making something go
00:24:41.140 away at that level.
00:24:42.860 It doesn't really
00:24:43.460 say anything about
00:24:44.180 guilt.
00:24:46.440 Elon Musk has
00:24:47.280 completely denied
00:24:48.580 the story.
00:24:50.500 Completely denied
00:24:51.420 it.
00:24:51.880 But here's the fun
00:24:52.600 part, more than
00:24:54.980 one.
00:24:55.940 Prior to this
00:24:56.900 accusation, Musk
00:24:58.360 had tweeted that
00:25:00.320 in March of
00:25:02.840 2021, so over a
00:25:04.640 year ago, or
00:25:06.320 almost a year ago,
00:25:07.000 he said, if
00:25:07.860 there's ever a
00:25:08.500 scandal about me,
00:25:09.980 please call it
00:25:11.360 Elon Gate.
00:25:13.760 Elon Gate.
00:25:15.600 And then when this
00:25:16.880 scandal broke, he
00:25:17.760 tweets,
00:25:18.100 finally, we get to
00:25:23.720 use Elon Gate, a
00:25:24.780 scandal name.
00:25:25.620 It's kind of
00:25:26.160 perfect.
00:25:29.640 Okay.
00:25:30.920 Has anybody ever
00:25:31.980 handled a scandal
00:25:32.980 better than that?
00:25:35.140 All right.
00:25:35.580 If that's the only
00:25:36.460 thing he had done,
00:25:37.800 if the only thing
00:25:38.780 he had done is
00:25:39.400 branded his own
00:25:40.380 scandal, it would
00:25:41.940 be the best that
00:25:42.800 anybody had ever
00:25:43.660 handled a scandal.
00:25:44.980 He knew it was
00:25:45.820 coming, he
00:25:47.060 pre-branded it to
00:25:48.400 make it funny, and
00:25:49.860 then because it's
00:25:50.560 funny, the branding
00:25:52.020 of it, and it's
00:25:52.600 coming from him, it's
00:25:54.840 hard to think of the
00:25:55.640 accusation because the
00:25:57.760 way he treated it is
00:25:58.640 so funny.
00:25:59.780 You can't beat
00:26:00.680 that.
00:26:02.560 Now, does anybody
00:26:03.460 think that you could
00:26:04.160 top that?
00:26:05.780 Is there any way to
00:26:06.940 handle a scandal of
00:26:07.880 this nature better
00:26:08.760 than that?
00:26:10.700 No, you're all
00:26:11.480 wrong.
00:26:12.260 You're all wrong.
00:26:13.380 There is a way to
00:26:14.320 do it better than
00:26:15.060 that.
00:26:16.740 And I think he
00:26:17.720 did it.
00:26:19.220 This will be the
00:26:20.100 only place you're
00:26:20.960 ever going to hear
00:26:21.540 the following thing.
00:26:22.640 Are you ready for
00:26:23.240 it?
00:26:26.800 So, then Elon Musk
00:26:28.380 tweets this.
00:26:31.780 There's going to be a
00:26:32.680 standing ovation
00:26:33.500 coming.
00:26:34.780 I hope all of you
00:26:35.640 are ready to help
00:26:36.540 me.
00:26:37.480 Because what you're
00:26:38.360 about to see is
00:26:40.380 maybe the best thing
00:26:41.460 I've ever seen in my
00:26:44.480 whole life.
00:26:45.820 So, you think that
00:26:46.720 naming his scandal
00:26:47.940 elongate before they
00:26:49.260 name it, you think
00:26:50.560 that's good.
00:26:51.780 You haven't seen
00:26:52.520 anything yet.
00:26:54.040 And let me say
00:26:54.740 this.
00:26:55.780 He didn't become the
00:26:57.180 richest person in the
00:26:58.200 world by luck.
00:27:01.100 It turns out he has
00:27:02.340 some game.
00:27:04.280 Watch this.
00:27:05.540 He tweets the
00:27:06.420 following.
00:27:07.400 Having denied that
00:27:08.500 anything like this
00:27:09.380 accusation happened,
00:27:11.100 he says the following
00:27:12.160 in a tweet.
00:27:12.700 But I have a challenge
00:27:14.440 to this liar who
00:27:15.960 claims their friend
00:27:16.960 saw me, quote,
00:27:17.880 exposed.
00:27:19.260 Describe one thing,
00:27:21.240 anything at all,
00:27:22.440 scars, tattoos,
00:27:24.340 dot, dot, dot,
00:27:25.260 that isn't known by
00:27:26.580 the public.
00:27:27.540 She won't be able to
00:27:28.740 do so because it
00:27:29.900 never happened.
00:27:31.800 Now, is this why I
00:27:34.220 say it's the best
00:27:36.300 thing that ever
00:27:37.080 happened?
00:27:37.440 Is this why?
00:27:39.940 That he actually
00:27:40.700 challenged somebody
00:27:42.440 to describe his
00:27:44.160 intimate parts in a
00:27:46.640 tweet.
00:27:48.960 Now, I'm not done
00:27:50.360 yet.
00:27:51.060 Hold on.
00:27:52.320 I'm not done.
00:27:55.100 And I said to
00:27:56.080 myself, I can think
00:27:58.580 of a couple reasons
00:27:59.380 you might do this.
00:28:01.100 The first reason I
00:28:02.360 thought is, well,
00:28:03.140 maybe she can't do
00:28:04.080 it.
00:28:05.140 And then, you know,
00:28:05.960 maybe there's
00:28:06.380 something that he has
00:28:07.320 a tattoo or
00:28:08.000 something.
00:28:08.720 And I thought,
00:28:09.320 this is a good
00:28:09.920 strategy because she
00:28:11.600 won't be able to
00:28:12.240 describe it in an
00:28:13.300 accurate way.
00:28:14.900 And then I thought,
00:28:16.640 I need to tweet
00:28:19.120 something.
00:28:20.000 Or no, I need to
00:28:20.660 search for something.
00:28:21.860 It was just a wild
00:28:22.620 thought in the back
00:28:23.300 of my head.
00:28:23.660 And I thought, I
00:28:25.700 wonder, is this
00:28:27.540 just a clever play
00:28:29.020 or is it the best
00:28:32.280 fucking thing I've
00:28:33.300 ever seen in my
00:28:34.080 life?
00:28:35.020 And I needed to
00:28:35.840 know.
00:28:36.100 And so I
00:28:37.440 Google searched
00:28:38.300 for the size
00:28:39.980 of Elon Musk's
00:28:41.200 cock.
00:28:44.060 And I found
00:28:45.120 on a top
00:28:46.220 search that
00:28:48.140 his girlfriend
00:28:49.200 Grimes,
00:28:51.260 apparently in
00:28:52.020 public, has
00:28:52.620 described his
00:28:53.500 cock as very
00:28:55.920 large.
00:28:58.280 Do you see it
00:28:59.340 yet?
00:29:00.840 Elon Musk,
00:29:02.280 the richest man
00:29:03.240 in the world,
00:29:04.460 just got the
00:29:05.640 entire world
00:29:06.540 to figure out
00:29:08.380 what it is that
00:29:09.100 could be special
00:29:10.600 or different,
00:29:12.020 something that the
00:29:12.860 public would not
00:29:13.560 be necessarily
00:29:14.240 aware of,
00:29:15.300 that would be an
00:29:16.060 identifying element
00:29:17.360 of his intimate
00:29:18.960 parts.
00:29:20.500 And he already
00:29:21.500 knows the answer.
00:29:24.620 It's huge.
00:29:25.520 It's huge.
00:29:25.560 he actually did
00:29:32.220 this.
00:29:34.020 May we,
00:29:34.600 may we,
00:29:35.380 can we take a
00:29:36.000 moment?
00:29:37.300 Would you join me
00:29:38.340 in a standing
00:29:39.360 ovation?
00:29:41.060 Would you?
00:29:42.240 Please.
00:29:43.220 Please.
00:29:43.620 And a
00:29:55.460 simultaneous sip
00:29:56.400 for the
00:29:58.960 best reaction
00:30:00.440 to a public
00:30:01.720 scandal
00:30:02.300 of all
00:30:03.580 time.
00:30:04.720 Go.
00:30:05.060 Go.
00:30:09.140 Ah.
00:30:13.620 Now,
00:30:16.700 when Elon Musk
00:30:18.440 challenged her
00:30:19.340 to describe
00:30:20.540 his intimate
00:30:21.000 parts,
00:30:21.580 I tweeted,
00:30:22.680 I wonder if
00:30:23.300 this contest
00:30:24.100 is open
00:30:24.620 to the public
00:30:25.260 because I
00:30:26.940 have some
00:30:27.220 ideas.
00:30:28.220 I mean,
00:30:28.900 I don't have
00:30:29.360 a first-hand
00:30:30.140 knowledge,
00:30:31.500 but I'm just
00:30:32.980 going to go
00:30:33.300 with a guess.
00:30:34.140 And my guess
00:30:34.680 was this.
00:30:35.240 I think that
00:30:36.000 when Musk
00:30:37.880 is in what
00:30:38.400 we'll call
00:30:38.840 the elongate
00:30:39.940 phase of
00:30:40.840 his excitation,
00:30:42.560 that he's
00:30:43.200 somewhere
00:30:43.440 between a
00:30:44.100 Falcon 9
00:30:44.880 and a
00:30:45.940 Falcon XX
00:30:48.460 design.
00:30:50.080 Now,
00:30:50.380 if you see
00:30:50.720 these rockets,
00:30:51.460 there are
00:30:52.060 charts of
00:30:53.380 all the
00:30:53.640 different rockets,
00:30:54.440 the past
00:30:54.920 and future,
00:30:55.720 and they're
00:30:56.200 all slightly
00:30:56.660 different shapes.
00:30:57.480 They're all,
00:30:57.960 of course,
00:30:58.560 phallic-shaped.
00:30:59.800 But if I
00:31:00.460 had to guess,
00:31:01.740 probably somewhere
00:31:02.600 between the
00:31:03.160 Falcon 9
00:31:03.780 and the
00:31:04.820 Falcon Heavy,
00:31:06.140 something like
00:31:06.500 that,
00:31:07.400 that's just
00:31:07.900 a guess.
00:31:09.360 I stress
00:31:10.320 that I'm
00:31:10.860 not speaking
00:31:11.800 from experience.
00:31:13.200 All right.
00:31:16.160 Speaking of
00:31:17.120 people who
00:31:18.140 have had
00:31:18.540 sex with
00:31:19.920 Elon Musk,
00:31:21.180 the Amber
00:31:21.620 Turd trial
00:31:22.240 continues,
00:31:24.220 and apparently
00:31:24.720 Amber Turd is
00:31:25.460 in trouble
00:31:25.900 with Australian
00:31:27.680 immigration because
00:31:28.960 in an unrelated
00:31:30.340 case to the
00:31:31.380 stuff she's
00:31:32.620 in the news
00:31:33.020 for,
00:31:33.660 apparently she
00:31:34.440 tried to
00:31:34.980 smuggle her
00:31:35.580 dogs into
00:31:36.220 Australia during
00:31:37.080 the pandemic,
00:31:37.640 and she lied
00:31:39.160 on a forum
00:31:39.780 that she didn't
00:31:40.440 have anything
00:31:40.880 to declare.
00:31:42.740 Now,
00:31:43.360 let me tell
00:31:44.060 you something
00:31:44.520 about people
00:31:46.160 who have been
00:31:46.720 diagnosed with
00:31:48.540 the psychiatric
00:31:49.480 or personality
00:31:50.380 disorder that
00:31:52.040 Amber Turd has
00:31:52.760 been diagnosed
00:31:53.840 with.
00:31:54.500 So I think
00:31:55.000 it's that
00:31:55.300 category B
00:31:56.180 or two
00:31:56.720 or whatever
00:31:57.140 it is,
00:31:57.700 where you've
00:31:58.580 got the
00:31:58.840 borderline
00:31:59.280 personality,
00:32:00.340 and it's
00:32:00.580 sort of like
00:32:01.160 a vulnerable
00:32:02.360 narcissist,
00:32:03.320 and it's
00:32:03.600 sort of like
00:32:04.160 hysterical
00:32:05.420 something.
00:32:06.020 So they're
00:32:06.280 like three
00:32:06.620 different names,
00:32:07.340 but they're
00:32:07.560 all in that
00:32:07.900 same area.
00:32:09.080 If you're
00:32:09.740 in that
00:32:10.080 category,
00:32:11.120 you don't
00:32:12.240 just lie
00:32:12.980 about your
00:32:14.200 boyfriend or
00:32:15.960 your husband.
00:32:16.980 You lie
00:32:17.660 about everything
00:32:18.360 all the time.
00:32:20.440 The people
00:32:21.140 of that
00:32:21.420 category just
00:32:22.020 lie about
00:32:22.540 everything.
00:32:23.420 They just
00:32:23.780 can't turn
00:32:24.200 it off.
00:32:24.660 It's just
00:32:25.000 lying all
00:32:26.140 the time.
00:32:27.120 So do
00:32:27.740 you think
00:32:28.060 that she
00:32:28.380 lied on
00:32:28.880 an immigration
00:32:29.460 forum to
00:32:29.960 get her
00:32:30.200 dog into
00:32:30.700 Australia?
00:32:33.320 Well,
00:32:33.820 I don't think
00:32:34.120 so.
00:32:35.340 Cluster B
00:32:36.040 is what it's
00:32:36.540 called.
00:32:36.840 Yeah,
00:32:37.000 the Cluster
00:32:37.540 B,
00:32:37.960 personality
00:32:38.460 disorders.
00:32:39.620 When you're
00:32:40.160 in there,
00:32:40.540 you lie
00:32:40.840 about
00:32:41.060 everything.
00:32:42.120 So would
00:32:43.700 you believe
00:32:44.220 anything she
00:32:44.940 said on
00:32:45.400 the trial
00:32:45.900 if you
00:32:46.880 know she's
00:32:47.320 actually been
00:32:48.940 diagnosed as
00:32:51.080 a personality
00:32:51.780 type who
00:32:52.240 lies about
00:32:52.780 basically
00:32:53.240 everything?
00:32:56.020 How could
00:32:56.760 Johnny Depp
00:32:57.300 ever lose
00:32:57.960 this thing
00:32:58.500 when he's
00:32:59.840 competing against
00:33:00.600 somebody who's
00:33:01.200 diagnosed by
00:33:02.040 experts as a
00:33:02.900 person who
00:33:03.280 lies about
00:33:03.720 everything?
00:33:04.660 Everything.
00:33:04.960 Who knows?
00:33:07.880 The jury
00:33:08.420 could do
00:33:08.740 anything,
00:33:09.180 but it
00:33:10.500 should be
00:33:10.920 an easy
00:33:11.240 case.
00:33:12.440 All right,
00:33:12.640 Rasmussen has
00:33:13.340 a poll if
00:33:14.620 a generic
00:33:15.440 Republican ran
00:33:17.160 against a
00:33:17.620 generic Democrat
00:33:18.700 in the midterms,
00:33:19.680 who'd win?
00:33:20.040 and the gap
00:33:21.680 has widened.
00:33:23.320 So it's
00:33:23.960 gone from
00:33:24.360 an 8%
00:33:24.840 gap to
00:33:25.360 9%.
00:33:26.320 48%
00:33:27.620 would vote
00:33:28.180 for the
00:33:28.920 GOP
00:33:29.600 generic
00:33:30.700 candidate,
00:33:31.520 over 39%
00:33:32.740 for the
00:33:33.080 Dems.
00:33:33.600 But that
00:33:34.220 is misleading,
00:33:36.100 isn't it?
00:33:37.360 It's
00:33:37.960 misleading.
00:33:39.140 Because
00:33:39.780 everybody
00:33:41.120 thinks that
00:33:41.780 their
00:33:42.380 incumbent
00:33:43.160 is the
00:33:43.620 good one.
00:33:46.000 People can
00:33:47.000 say,
00:33:47.300 yeah,
00:33:47.680 generally
00:33:48.060 speaking,
00:33:49.780 you know,
00:33:50.240 that I
00:33:51.260 might vote
00:33:51.700 for a
00:33:52.460 Republican.
00:33:53.220 But when
00:33:53.660 it comes
00:33:53.940 to the
00:33:54.220 actual
00:33:54.660 vote for
00:33:55.280 their
00:33:55.460 actual
00:33:56.040 state,
00:33:57.620 they're
00:33:58.200 going to
00:33:58.380 say,
00:33:58.740 oh,
00:33:59.380 well,
00:34:00.060 mine is
00:34:00.580 good.
00:34:01.160 I think
00:34:01.480 other people
00:34:01.960 should get
00:34:02.420 different
00:34:03.440 politicians,
00:34:05.620 but mine's
00:34:06.240 good.
00:34:06.900 I'll keep
00:34:07.220 mine.
00:34:08.440 So don't
00:34:09.440 get too
00:34:09.920 excited about
00:34:10.540 these generic
00:34:11.420 numbers,
00:34:11.980 because people
00:34:12.500 don't vote
00:34:13.000 generically.
00:34:13.480 they vote
00:34:14.440 for specific
00:34:15.440 people.
00:34:17.300 All right.
00:34:19.080 Let me ask
00:34:19.880 you this
00:34:20.100 general
00:34:20.500 question.
00:34:22.080 Apparently
00:34:22.440 this,
00:34:23.000 getting back
00:34:23.440 to this
00:34:23.680 Elon Musk
00:34:24.200 thing,
00:34:24.880 the allegation
00:34:25.640 comes not
00:34:26.200 from the
00:34:26.800 woman who
00:34:27.720 was allegedly,
00:34:30.400 but we have
00:34:31.240 strong denials,
00:34:32.900 the victim.
00:34:34.820 How often
00:34:35.780 do women
00:34:36.500 lie to
00:34:37.120 their good
00:34:37.580 friends about
00:34:38.860 a sexual
00:34:39.600 encounter
00:34:40.140 with a
00:34:40.740 man?
00:34:40.960 how often
00:34:44.880 do good
00:34:46.680 friends,
00:34:47.300 women,
00:34:48.640 lie
00:34:49.400 about,
00:34:51.500 even to
00:34:52.020 their good
00:34:52.460 friend,
00:34:53.600 about exactly
00:34:54.480 what a
00:34:54.840 situation
00:34:55.300 was with
00:34:56.380 a man?
00:35:02.060 How many
00:35:03.060 times have
00:35:03.740 I experienced
00:35:04.660 a female
00:35:06.060 lying about
00:35:07.420 her relationship
00:35:08.240 with a man
00:35:09.000 to me?
00:35:10.960 just in
00:35:11.920 the last
00:35:12.280 year?
00:35:13.120 Maybe
00:35:13.360 six to
00:35:14.880 ten times?
00:35:17.660 Yeah,
00:35:18.000 probably six
00:35:19.080 to ten times,
00:35:19.860 just me
00:35:20.220 personally,
00:35:21.240 in a variety
00:35:22.080 of contexts,
00:35:23.440 right?
00:35:24.220 Different
00:35:24.640 people have
00:35:26.160 told me,
00:35:26.920 you know,
00:35:27.220 blah,
00:35:27.460 blah,
00:35:27.580 blah,
00:35:27.800 this was
00:35:28.140 my
00:35:28.340 relationship,
00:35:28.800 only to
00:35:29.400 later say,
00:35:30.440 well,
00:35:30.760 I left
00:35:31.180 something out.
00:35:32.680 And it
00:35:32.900 completely
00:35:33.320 reverses the
00:35:34.120 story.
00:35:35.900 Right?
00:35:36.700 All the
00:35:37.340 time.
00:35:37.820 women,
00:35:39.860 I don't
00:35:40.100 think women
00:35:40.580 understand,
00:35:41.940 maybe they
00:35:42.400 do,
00:35:42.700 I don't
00:35:42.900 know,
00:35:43.720 how often
00:35:44.500 their best
00:35:45.000 friends lie
00:35:45.600 to them
00:35:45.940 about their
00:35:46.500 sexual
00:35:47.160 activities.
00:35:48.400 It's pretty
00:35:49.260 common.
00:35:51.780 People kind
00:35:52.680 of shade
00:35:53.220 the story,
00:35:54.100 you know,
00:35:54.320 the way that
00:35:54.700 makes them
00:35:55.180 look good
00:35:55.520 to their
00:35:55.820 friend.
00:35:56.840 Yeah.
00:35:57.200 It's probably
00:35:57.660 closer to
00:35:58.320 universally lying
00:35:59.540 than,
00:36:00.620 you know,
00:36:00.900 more often
00:36:01.360 true than
00:36:01.780 not.
00:36:02.640 Now,
00:36:02.920 let me put
00:36:03.820 it this
00:36:04.060 way.
00:36:04.220 Suppose you
00:36:05.360 heard that
00:36:06.040 there was a
00:36:06.440 story about
00:36:06.920 just an
00:36:07.360 ordinary
00:36:07.740 person,
00:36:08.980 and they
00:36:09.880 were being
00:36:10.260 accused by
00:36:11.180 another
00:36:11.600 ordinary
00:36:12.080 person of
00:36:13.180 some kind
00:36:13.560 of sex
00:36:14.440 impropriety.
00:36:16.220 What would
00:36:16.620 be your
00:36:16.920 first thought?
00:36:18.480 One unknown
00:36:19.300 is accusing
00:36:20.100 another unknown
00:36:20.960 of a sexual
00:36:22.220 crime.
00:36:24.500 You'd probably
00:36:25.300 think it's
00:36:25.700 true.
00:36:26.420 Not
00:36:26.680 necessarily.
00:36:28.120 But you'd
00:36:28.620 probably say,
00:36:29.060 eh, that's
00:36:30.160 75% probably
00:36:31.640 true.
00:36:32.200 Because it's
00:36:32.680 the person who
00:36:33.240 was involved,
00:36:34.220 and, you
00:36:35.380 know, people
00:36:35.780 don't make
00:36:36.660 up accusations
00:36:37.580 all the
00:36:38.260 time.
00:36:39.280 So you'd
00:36:39.940 say, well,
00:36:40.460 probably true.
00:36:41.740 Maybe not,
00:36:42.620 but probably
00:36:43.020 true.
00:36:43.920 But what
00:36:44.480 happens if
00:36:45.000 you have a
00:36:45.580 billionaire,
00:36:46.780 and the
00:36:47.420 accusation
00:36:47.960 comes not
00:36:48.580 from the
00:36:48.920 person who
00:36:49.360 was directly
00:36:49.900 involved?
00:36:51.580 So it's
00:36:52.220 a billionaire
00:36:52.700 male, and
00:36:55.240 the accusation
00:36:55.960 is coming
00:36:56.300 from the
00:36:56.880 friend of
00:36:58.080 the alleged
00:36:58.540 victim.
00:36:59.840 What is
00:37:00.500 the level
00:37:00.940 of credibility
00:37:01.580 you would
00:37:02.100 put on
00:37:02.440 that situation?
00:37:04.220 Let me
00:37:04.640 give you
00:37:04.920 some
00:37:05.120 context.
00:37:06.720 How many
00:37:07.100 times do
00:37:07.820 I, Scott
00:37:09.280 Adams, how
00:37:10.260 many times
00:37:10.660 have I been
00:37:11.260 accused of
00:37:12.140 sex crimes
00:37:12.940 from people
00:37:13.940 I've never
00:37:14.380 met?
00:37:16.620 Quite a few
00:37:17.400 times.
00:37:19.380 It happens
00:37:20.220 all the
00:37:20.780 time.
00:37:21.500 If you're a
00:37:22.020 public figure,
00:37:23.200 getting falsely
00:37:24.620 accused of sex
00:37:25.540 crimes by people
00:37:26.400 you literally
00:37:27.040 haven't met
00:37:27.680 is a routine
00:37:30.240 situation.
00:37:31.420 Routine.
00:37:32.780 So if you
00:37:33.540 give me a
00:37:34.120 single
00:37:34.580 billionaire,
00:37:35.600 and the
00:37:35.900 accusation
00:37:36.420 comes not
00:37:36.940 from the
00:37:37.300 alleged
00:37:37.580 victim,
00:37:38.100 but from
00:37:38.400 the friend
00:37:38.820 of the
00:37:39.060 victim,
00:37:39.860 who you
00:37:40.260 know heard
00:37:40.860 only lies,
00:37:42.140 because that's
00:37:43.040 the way it
00:37:43.300 works,
00:37:44.480 that's the
00:37:45.360 lowest
00:37:45.580 credibility you
00:37:46.400 could ever
00:37:46.800 put on an
00:37:47.300 accusation.
00:37:51.060 And the
00:37:51.760 timing of the
00:37:52.380 accusations is
00:37:53.380 right when you
00:37:54.360 expect it to
00:37:54.940 happen.
00:37:55.180 So right on
00:37:56.680 schedule,
00:37:57.480 wouldn't you
00:37:57.880 say?
00:37:59.880 And we've
00:38:00.720 got a new
00:38:01.300 endorsement for
00:38:02.260 speaking of
00:38:03.560 Michael Schellenberger
00:38:04.520 running for
00:38:05.120 governor in
00:38:05.520 California.
00:38:06.460 Steven Pinker
00:38:07.260 just fully
00:38:08.840 endorsed him.
00:38:10.960 There's a
00:38:11.660 pattern.
00:38:13.620 The Californians
00:38:14.720 who are
00:38:15.060 endorsing
00:38:15.600 Schellenberger
00:38:16.220 are the
00:38:17.580 smart ones,
00:38:18.940 like the
00:38:19.340 ones that
00:38:19.700 everybody agrees
00:38:20.440 is smart.
00:38:22.240 Steven Pinker,
00:38:23.260 you could
00:38:23.520 disagree with
00:38:24.160 him or you
00:38:24.580 could agree
00:38:24.940 with him,
00:38:25.180 but nobody's
00:38:25.780 going to
00:38:25.960 argue that
00:38:28.080 he's not
00:38:28.840 smart, like
00:38:29.860 he's extra
00:38:30.460 smart.
00:38:31.560 So if you
00:38:32.260 look at the
00:38:32.540 people who
00:38:32.880 are endorsing
00:38:33.580 Schellenberger,
00:38:34.860 they're not
00:38:35.200 the normal
00:38:35.720 people.
00:38:37.180 They are
00:38:37.940 the dads
00:38:39.920 of California,
00:38:40.900 if I could
00:38:41.440 put it that
00:38:41.840 way.
00:38:42.540 They are the
00:38:43.240 smart ones.
00:38:45.000 And it's
00:38:45.700 not a
00:38:45.980 coincidence.
00:38:47.280 Because the
00:38:47.660 smart ones
00:38:48.080 are saying,
00:38:48.600 wait a minute,
00:38:49.060 you could
00:38:49.300 actually solve
00:38:49.900 these problems?
00:38:51.380 As soon as
00:38:52.160 you step out
00:38:52.700 of the political
00:38:53.540 frame, we
00:38:55.100 have all
00:38:55.440 kinds of
00:38:55.800 solutions.
00:38:56.980 And you
00:38:57.360 have to
00:38:57.560 have a
00:38:57.820 certain
00:38:58.060 amount of
00:38:58.500 intellectual,
00:39:00.380 let's say,
00:39:00.980 firepower,
00:39:01.940 before you
00:39:02.920 can even
00:39:03.340 entertain that
00:39:04.100 possibility.
00:39:05.580 Wait, there's
00:39:06.120 a candidate who
00:39:06.760 can step out
00:39:07.380 of the narrative
00:39:07.880 and just work
00:39:09.960 on what works?
00:39:11.560 Apparently there
00:39:12.200 is.
00:39:13.200 Maybe for the
00:39:14.040 first time.
00:39:15.540 So watching
00:39:17.100 who is endorsing
00:39:18.260 him is really
00:39:20.720 interesting.
00:39:21.540 Because these
00:39:21.900 are just not
00:39:22.340 the normal
00:39:22.780 people.
00:39:23.520 These are
00:39:24.060 the people
00:39:24.720 who can
00:39:26.000 see the
00:39:26.440 solution.
00:39:26.960 They can
00:39:27.180 smell it.
00:39:28.340 And they
00:39:28.780 think he's
00:39:29.440 onto it.
00:39:30.860 As I do.
00:39:33.840 All right.
00:39:37.500 Can he win?
00:39:39.100 The answer
00:39:39.520 is yes.
00:39:41.160 If the key
00:39:42.880 to Schellenberger's
00:39:43.840 win is to
00:39:44.640 get into the
00:39:45.320 runoff.
00:39:46.420 In other
00:39:46.720 words, he's
00:39:47.320 got to beat
00:39:47.740 the weaker
00:39:48.400 candidates behind
00:39:49.700 Newsom to
00:39:50.820 get into the
00:39:51.320 top two.
00:39:53.100 If he gets
00:39:53.800 in the top
00:39:54.240 two, then I
00:39:54.920 think it's
00:39:55.260 time that we're
00:39:56.320 going to see
00:39:56.600 them side by
00:39:57.600 side on a
00:39:58.220 debate stage.
00:39:59.680 If you see
00:40:00.480 them on a
00:40:00.920 debate stage,
00:40:01.780 Schellenberger is
00:40:02.640 going to
00:40:03.620 annihilate
00:40:05.020 Newsom.
00:40:06.360 It's going to
00:40:06.860 be a slaughter.
00:40:08.760 So yes,
00:40:09.820 there's a very
00:40:10.620 direct way for
00:40:11.500 him to win.
00:40:12.420 He has to
00:40:12.840 get in the
00:40:13.120 top two,
00:40:13.720 very doable,
00:40:15.120 and then he
00:40:15.600 has to debate,
00:40:16.700 very doable,
00:40:17.740 and then he
00:40:18.300 has to win,
00:40:19.540 almost guaranteed.
00:40:21.700 I mean, we're
00:40:22.380 talking about,
00:40:23.700 and by the
00:40:24.240 way, Newsom's
00:40:24.840 good.
00:40:26.260 Newsom's a
00:40:26.760 good debater.
00:40:27.740 He didn't
00:40:28.020 get where he
00:40:28.440 is by luck,
00:40:29.400 right?
00:40:29.640 He's very
00:40:30.100 talented.
00:40:31.180 So he hasn't
00:40:32.140 been a good
00:40:32.900 leader for
00:40:33.380 California, but
00:40:34.000 as a
00:40:34.300 politician, one
00:40:36.280 of the best,
00:40:37.460 if you're just
00:40:37.920 looking at the
00:40:38.380 political skill,
00:40:39.340 not the
00:40:40.100 stuff done
00:40:40.740 skill.
00:40:41.860 But if you
00:40:42.500 put him on
00:40:42.900 a stage with
00:40:43.500 somebody like
00:40:44.400 Schellenberger who
00:40:45.180 actually has the
00:40:46.060 receipts, it's
00:40:47.580 just going to
00:40:47.920 be a bloodbath.
00:40:49.740 So yeah, he
00:40:51.840 absolutely has a
00:40:53.200 path.
00:40:53.860 But he has to
00:40:54.300 get past the
00:40:54.760 first hurdle of
00:40:55.480 getting into the
00:40:56.500 top two.
00:41:05.040 It's rigged,
00:41:06.100 you say?
00:41:10.380 Have I voted
00:41:11.260 for, you know,
00:41:12.560 I'm not a big
00:41:13.120 voter?
00:41:17.040 Where's the
00:41:17.580 Schellenberger
00:41:18.020 smear job?
00:41:19.220 It's funny, the
00:41:19.960 closest they came
00:41:20.820 to a smear job
00:41:21.620 ended up being a
00:41:22.400 compliment.
00:41:24.640 That's about it.
00:41:27.440 You know, I
00:41:28.100 assume everybody's
00:41:29.000 got some stuff
00:41:30.760 they're going to
00:41:31.100 have to explain,
00:41:32.680 but haven't seen
00:41:34.060 it yet.
00:41:34.400 will he be the
00:41:42.240 new face of
00:41:42.920 white supremacy?
00:41:43.860 I doubt it.
00:41:45.080 Because that's
00:41:45.540 the other thing
00:41:46.000 that Schellenberger
00:41:46.640 has going for
00:41:47.440 him.
00:41:47.600 He doesn't
00:41:47.940 have some
00:41:48.460 history of
00:41:49.040 talking about
00:41:49.520 woke stuff
00:41:50.260 one way or
00:41:50.860 the other.
00:41:51.860 It feels like
00:41:52.680 it just hasn't
00:41:53.280 been on his
00:41:54.120 radar, which
00:41:55.320 is exactly what
00:41:56.240 you want,
00:41:56.960 right?
00:41:57.620 You want
00:41:57.960 somebody who
00:41:58.400 hasn't even
00:41:58.960 been drawn into
00:41:59.700 that conversation.
00:42:00.840 That's what I
00:42:01.440 want.
00:42:01.940 I want somebody
00:42:02.560 who didn't
00:42:02.840 even know it
00:42:03.260 happened.
00:42:04.400 That would
00:42:05.980 be going too
00:42:06.560 far.
00:42:11.900 So he's
00:42:12.620 saying,
00:42:12.860 Sky has a
00:42:13.580 romantic notion
00:42:14.460 that California
00:42:15.340 can make it
00:42:15.960 out of this.
00:42:17.740 I do.
00:42:19.680 Because I
00:42:20.360 think the
00:42:20.940 law of
00:42:22.420 slow-moving
00:42:22.960 disasters has
00:42:24.680 been very
00:42:25.100 consistent.
00:42:26.480 And while
00:42:27.520 California is
00:42:28.220 heading directly
00:42:28.960 in the wrong
00:42:29.500 direction, we
00:42:31.080 do have enough
00:42:31.780 time.
00:42:33.060 We do have
00:42:33.700 enough time to
00:42:34.380 fix it.
00:42:36.640 It's sudden
00:42:37.260 shocks I
00:42:37.880 worry about.
00:42:38.700 I worry
00:42:39.080 about pandemics,
00:42:40.480 things you
00:42:40.940 didn't see
00:42:41.320 coming, or
00:42:42.140 at least not
00:42:43.960 everybody saw
00:42:44.580 coming.
00:42:46.800 Monkeypox is
00:42:47.980 starting to
00:42:48.980 rise, and it
00:42:50.140 feels like there's
00:42:51.780 no way to stop
00:42:52.480 this monkeypox
00:42:53.360 thing.
00:42:54.820 Because
00:42:55.200 independent of
00:42:56.600 the science, I
00:42:57.280 just feel like the
00:42:57.880 news is going to
00:42:58.540 make it the next
00:42:59.140 big thing, and
00:43:00.300 then it will
00:43:00.660 just become the
00:43:01.480 next big thing.
00:43:05.920 Does the
00:43:06.620 Adams law
00:43:07.340 account for
00:43:08.100 irrational
00:43:08.680 California voters?
00:43:09.820 Yes.
00:43:10.600 It accounts for
00:43:11.200 everything.
00:43:12.800 In the long
00:43:13.640 run, we're
00:43:15.400 really, we,
00:43:16.520 meaning humans,
00:43:17.460 are really, really
00:43:18.260 good at solving
00:43:18.940 big problems, in
00:43:20.200 the long run, and
00:43:21.160 no matter the
00:43:21.760 politics, no
00:43:22.500 matter anything.
00:43:23.660 In the long
00:43:24.280 run, we have
00:43:24.780 solved every
00:43:25.640 problem that
00:43:27.680 would have wiped
00:43:28.240 down civilization.
00:43:28.900 We've solved
00:43:30.300 them all.
00:43:33.220 All right.
00:43:34.580 And I
00:43:37.980 believe I've
00:43:40.180 done everything
00:43:40.640 I need to
00:43:41.160 do.
00:43:42.120 Would you
00:43:42.680 agree that
00:43:43.240 this is the
00:43:43.720 best show
00:43:44.500 you've ever
00:43:44.960 seen, and
00:43:45.520 that nobody
00:43:46.040 will treat
00:43:46.600 the Elon
00:43:47.640 Gay scandal
00:43:48.380 as well as
00:43:50.880 I did?
00:43:51.920 Can we all
00:43:52.460 agree on
00:43:52.880 that?
00:43:53.260 Yes.
00:43:53.720 It's the
00:43:54.020 best ever.
00:43:55.240 Okay.
00:43:56.140 And now,
00:43:56.840 they hid
00:43:59.860 what?
00:44:00.180 His tweets
00:44:00.600 from last
00:44:01.180 night?
00:44:04.120 Really?
00:44:04.960 So there's
00:44:05.480 an accusation
00:44:06.300 here that
00:44:06.980 some of
00:44:09.740 Elon's tweets
00:44:10.820 were hidden
00:44:11.200 by Twitter.
00:44:11.820 I don't
00:44:12.000 know about
00:44:12.360 that.
00:44:13.740 But
00:44:14.100 tomorrow,
00:44:17.180 maybe even
00:44:17.860 better.
00:44:18.560 Who knows?
00:44:19.360 I mean,
00:44:20.260 you didn't
00:44:20.720 think that
00:44:21.180 today would
00:44:21.940 be so good,
00:44:22.620 did you?
00:44:23.400 Nobody knew
00:44:24.160 how good it
00:44:24.640 would be
00:44:24.920 today.
00:44:25.440 But tomorrow,
00:44:26.080 it could
00:44:27.380 be even
00:44:27.740 better.
00:44:28.580 You never
00:44:28.940 know.
00:44:29.860 All right.
00:44:30.760 That's it
00:44:31.200 for now.
00:44:31.940 I'll talk
00:44:32.300 to you later,
00:44:32.820 YouTubers.
00:44:33.080 I'll talk
00:44:34.320 to you later.