Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1755 Scott Adams： Social Media Should Be Banned For Minors, How Schools Are Bully Factories

00:00:00.000 Oh, I wish I had more documents in my hand, but that would be something for a person who

00:00:10.960 had a printer that worked.

00:00:13.560 Not for me.

00:00:18.240 But we're going to forge it anyway.

00:00:21.840 And I do have my digital backups.

00:00:23.940 But for all of you, let me tell you, I'll bet that's better.

00:00:38.060 Thank you.

00:00:39.800 That's better.

00:00:41.320 Do I feel a little bit off today?

00:00:44.460 Well, that's my printer's fault.

00:00:47.540 But to make it a perfect day, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice,

00:00:51.840 a steiner canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:56.040 Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.

00:00:59.620 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine to the day.

00:01:04.680 The thing that makes everything better except all of my technology this morning.

00:01:08.820 None of it's working.

00:01:10.420 But somehow, we're still talking.

00:01:12.760 Go.

00:01:13.000 Go.

00:01:13.060 So, so far, just my printer and my local software are not working today.

00:01:27.720 But, oh, and my sound wasn't working.

00:01:30.700 But aside from that, everything's going well.

00:01:33.500 Let's see if my digital backup is working.

00:01:36.900 Ah, it is.

00:01:38.340 Yay.

00:01:38.560 So, here's an update on some very important things.

00:01:45.100 The sneeze suppression trick, more confirmations that it works.

00:01:52.040 And the trick, if you didn't hear it yesterday, was you imagine yourself sneezing,

00:01:56.960 and it makes your need to actually sneeze instantly go away.

00:02:01.260 Now, you won't believe it until you try it.

00:02:03.960 As soon as you feel that sneeze coming on, you're going, ah, ah, ah, just imagine yourself

00:02:09.160 already sneezing.

00:02:11.100 Boom.

00:02:11.640 It's gone.

00:02:13.340 Try it.

00:02:14.820 All right.

00:02:15.480 Update number two.

00:02:17.640 So, yesterday, I challenged my viewers by saying that I would demonstrate to them that

00:02:24.000 diet is more about knowledge than willpower.

00:02:29.400 And, of course, people said, there's no way you're going to do that.

00:02:32.820 And I said, willpower is imaginary.

00:02:35.300 And they said, no, it's not.

00:02:37.440 And then I gave my argument, and at the end, there was stunned silence, because apparently,

00:02:44.340 from what I hear, I demonstrated that willpower doesn't exist, and that diet is really a knowledge

00:02:51.920 problem.

00:02:53.340 And that people have enough knowledge, but they're probably not even close.

00:02:57.820 And so that was my argument.

00:02:59.180 Uh, I've been asked to take that segment of yesterday's live stream and turn it into its

00:03:05.220 own clip, which, uh, I'm, uh, having done today.

00:03:10.180 So, if you liked it and you wanted to show it to somebody else, it'll be its own clip,

00:03:14.780 uh, by the end of today, I think.

00:03:16.780 Next, uh, the next update is I've told you about my technique of calling people Keith.

00:03:26.380 Now, I do it in one context only, which is if they attack my tweets or something I said

00:03:32.780 with a personal attack instead of saying something about my argument or my facts.

00:03:38.800 If they're just arguing with my argument or my facts, eh, that's okay.

00:03:42.640 I'll, I'll argue back.

00:03:45.180 That's what it's for.

00:03:46.720 But, if they argue by saying I'm a despicable person, and that's sort of the basis for their

00:03:53.060 argument, I call them Keith while politely replying.

00:03:58.000 Now, it turns out that that completely changes the frame for people, partly because they don't

00:04:02.740 know what I'm talking about.

00:04:04.220 They don't know that I'm talking about Keith Olbermann, who, at least in my case, likes to

00:04:09.420 attack me personally, and so it throws them out of their frame.

00:04:14.820 But the other thing it does that I think is even more powerful is that once you have a

00:04:19.240 name for something, such as a Karen, how we deal, how we deal with such things changes.

00:04:26.520 So naming things has power, like allowing people to put all of their thoughts into this one

00:04:32.340 thing, a Keith.

00:04:33.240 And so a Keith is somebody who ignores your argument and just talks about you.

00:04:39.080 And so when somebody talks about me and I just brand them a Keith, I've literally branded

00:04:44.320 them out of my frame of caring.

00:04:49.440 Because I care about what people think of my arguments, and I care if I have the right

00:04:54.040 facts, especially if I'm talking in person.

00:04:56.000 And anyway, so the Keith thing works really well to just reframe.

00:05:07.580 I saw a comment here, a paid comment, which was so interesting.

00:05:11.640 This is from P. Dub Designs.

00:05:14.720 He says, or she, I don't know who it is.

00:05:17.140 20 plus years ago, when hot and sweating, I sweat a lot.

00:05:21.780 I thought to send a fake shiver down my spine and got instantly cool.

00:05:27.320 In other words, he imagined, or she imagined being cool, a shiver, and it cooled down his

00:05:35.020 or her body.

00:05:36.440 Would that work?

00:05:38.640 I'm doing it right now.

00:05:40.120 It does work.

00:05:42.120 As I was talking, I was doing it in my mind, sending a fake shiver down my back.

00:05:47.600 Totally worked.

00:05:48.320 I can now confirm that that just worked.

00:05:53.000 And look at the comments.

00:05:55.660 How many people just got a shiver down their back and it cooled them off?

00:06:02.140 Yeah, so have you.

00:06:03.780 All right, well, it definitely works for some of us.

00:06:05.600 I guess we can confirm that right away.

00:06:08.660 All right, the big story in the news is about another mass shooting.

00:06:12.520 I'm not going to talk about the obvious stuff, all right?

00:06:15.260 So I'll let the mainstream media talk about the police response.

00:06:20.460 You know, they waited outside, maybe.

00:06:22.240 Maybe it's fog of war.

00:06:23.500 I don't know.

00:06:24.420 We'll let the news cover that.

00:06:26.300 We'll let the news cover the numbers and the hate and the protests and the politics and

00:06:32.480 stuff like that.

00:06:33.660 Here's what I want to talk about.

00:06:35.620 I want to talk about some other stuff, like the persuasion and the argument.

00:06:42.480 As you've noticed, I often get in trouble for criticizing people on my side because I don't

00:06:52.240 like their arguments and I don't like people who are on my side.

00:06:56.540 Let's say, in general, they agree with me.

00:06:58.960 But if they make poor arguments on my side, I don't like that.

00:07:03.540 I don't like that at all because it makes my argument look dumb because people are going

00:07:08.200 to paint me with the same brush.

00:07:09.640 If there are any bad arguments on your side, you want to get rid of those first.

00:07:15.500 If you're working on the bad arguments on the other side, that's not the place to start.

00:07:21.400 Fix the ones on your own team first, you know, and then you're much better prepared to look

00:07:27.900 at somebody else's argument.

00:07:29.960 So this was true with everything from vaccinations to climate change.

00:07:35.400 I would often disagree with people who generally were on my team or generally agreed with my

00:07:41.860 overall opinion, but I didn't like their bad arguments.

00:07:45.240 So I'll do that with gun control, okay? 0.77

00:07:47.640 So I'm pro-Second Amendment, pro-gun. 0.65

00:07:51.380 But I don't like it when I see bad arguments that are pro-Second Amendment.

00:07:56.220 So we'll talk about that.

00:07:57.160 First of all, there's some fake news about that incident.

00:08:04.540 The fake news, I guess somebody sent around a photoshopped image pretending it was an ABC

00:08:11.880 quote or an ABC coverage.

00:08:14.900 And it wasn't.

00:08:17.260 But the fake was that ABC had lightened the skin of the perpetrator, you know, to make it

00:08:24.280 look like it wasn't a person of color who did this.

00:08:28.840 Now, I guess that was fake, so it's a photoshopped image and it was blamed on ABC.

00:08:33.760 But wow, you can't really trust anything anymore, can you?

00:08:38.900 You cannot trust anything anymore.

00:08:41.500 So you can't trust photos.

00:08:43.120 Do you remember when people used to say, pictures don't lie?

00:08:48.420 That is so wrong.

00:08:50.520 There's nothing that lies more than a picture, even one that's not trying.

00:08:55.400 Have you ever tried to take more than one picture of yourself and you look like a completely

00:09:00.740 different person?

00:09:02.220 And one, you look like a frog and the other one, you look like, you know, a hero.

00:09:06.740 And you're the same person.

00:09:08.960 So do pictures lie?

00:09:10.180 Well, they lied at least once if you took two pictures.

00:09:14.160 You either look like a frog or you look like a, you know, a bodybuilder.

00:09:19.480 You can't both be right.

00:09:21.160 So they at least lied once in that case.

00:09:25.040 Maybe that's just me.

00:09:28.540 All right.

00:09:29.400 So don't believe anything you see on anything.

00:09:32.580 Don't believe anything.

00:09:33.260 Elon Musk weighed in on guns and he's so clever the way he does stuff, right?

00:09:42.740 So now he has said he's going to vote Republican, which gives him a little space to disagree a

00:09:49.720 little bit with the Republicans.

00:09:50.980 Because it's easier to disagree with your own team a little bit, you know, if in fact he

00:09:59.540 is.

00:09:59.960 We'll see.

00:10:01.400 But he was asked about gun control and he said in a tweet, so this is Elon Musk's opinion.

00:10:06.600 Assault rifles should at minimum require a special permit where the recipient is extremely well

00:10:12.940 vetted, in my opinion.

00:10:14.680 Now, what I like about his response is that it's so open to interpretation.

00:10:22.480 It kind of gives him a lot of room.

00:10:25.040 So when he says that a recipient should be extremely well vetted, it's kind of subjective,

00:10:31.020 isn't it?

00:10:32.040 What is extremely?

00:10:35.900 So who knows?

00:10:37.660 Maybe he's part of the 80 or 90 percent, depending on whether you're a Democrat or Republican,

00:10:42.660 that would like universal background checks.

00:10:46.980 Would that be extreme?

00:10:49.200 Suppose you had background checks no matter where you got a gun, private sale, gun sale,

00:10:55.300 any kind of sale.

00:10:56.700 Would that be extreme?

00:10:58.780 Some would say so.

00:11:00.820 Some would say that's pretty extreme because they like their guns untracked.

00:11:05.180 Because as soon as you track them, you're taking away at least something that is associated with

00:11:12.500 the right to own arms, which is the right to not be bothered for owning them, right?

00:11:18.100 So if they're tracking you, you're like, well, I don't know.

00:11:22.640 I can see how the tracking is not exactly the same thing as restricting my ownership,

00:11:27.360 but it feels like it.

00:11:29.320 It's pretty related.

00:11:30.940 So anyway, we don't know what extreme is, but that's for Elon Musk to explain to you,

00:11:38.180 I guess.

00:11:39.300 And here's what I say about Elon Musk's opinion about assault rifles.

00:11:44.740 Well, first of all, how do you define an assault rifle?

00:11:47.740 That would be the next part.

00:11:49.280 But if you could test this idea, let's test it.

00:11:56.680 I don't think we have to know whether it's a good idea or a bad idea to have a...

00:12:03.920 Let's assume that he means additional vetting for assault rifles specifically.

00:12:10.760 What if you just find some place and test it?

00:12:14.440 Some state that wants to do it.

00:12:17.620 And then maybe we'd know something.

00:12:20.160 Maybe somebody takes their trend line of assault rifle problems and it goes down.

00:12:25.780 Well, maybe.

00:12:27.560 But generally speaking, if something can be tested, and then you could say to yourself,

00:12:32.980 well, did whatever we do really affect my Second Amendment rights?

00:12:38.640 And let's say the test was just far more restrictions on who can get a gun in the first place,

00:12:45.060 but only if you've got a mental problem or something pretty specific.

00:12:49.260 I don't know.

00:12:53.340 Do you think at the end of that test, if you ran that test for five years,

00:12:57.900 and let's say it looked like it reduced murders,

00:13:02.560 you weren't sure if it looked like it,

00:13:06.420 that would still be worth doing, don't you think?

00:13:09.480 Would you feel that if that kind of policy worked out well enough in the data,

00:13:16.500 that that would be a restriction on your Second Amendment if the test showed that it worked,

00:13:21.960 and that everybody who didn't have mental problems could get all the guns they wanted?

00:13:26.520 Would that be a problem to you?

00:13:27.860 For people who are kind of extreme on the topic, that would be a problem, right?

00:13:32.300 Yeah.

00:13:32.860 Because the Constitution is kind of, it's close to absolute about what your freedom is there.

00:13:40.920 It doesn't allow you to have an attack helicopter, I don't think.

00:13:46.460 Or does it?

00:13:47.420 I don't know.

00:13:49.340 But if you could test it, I'm in favor of testing it.

00:13:51.860 And then you can decide whether it impinged on your rights too much.

00:13:54.780 CNN, interestingly, has an opinion piece by Harry Enten,

00:14:02.320 and he says one of the reasons that Republicans don't need to vote for gun control

00:14:09.900 is that there's no political pressure for them to do it.

00:14:14.620 And if you read the polls correctly, you can see that that's the case.

00:14:18.520 If you read the polls incorrectly,

00:14:20.680 it looks like there's overwhelming support for at least background checks

00:14:25.480 and that the Republican Congress, Republican Senate, is not letting it happen.

00:14:31.680 So, and then in another opinion piece the same day on CNN,

00:14:37.380 there's somebody using that exact statistic.

00:14:40.840 At the same time, the other opinion piece is saying,

00:14:43.660 that's a misleading statistic.

00:14:45.840 You shouldn't use that.

00:14:46.620 And I'm going to give CNN credit here.

00:14:52.660 Here are two opinion pieces,

00:14:54.660 and one of them seems to be debunking the other opinion piece.

00:15:00.460 And both of them are, you know, very, very much, you know, CNN opinions, right?

00:15:08.420 I don't know.

00:15:08.920 I kind of appreciated that.

00:15:10.240 Let me tell you what Harry Enten said.

00:15:11.760 Because you would expect, I think he's pretty much, you know,

00:15:14.960 consistently anti-Trump in his other opinions.

00:15:18.520 Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he's, you know, consistently left.

00:15:22.660 But he goes and he says this,

00:15:24.760 that if you ask people the question correctly,

00:15:28.260 and I guess that's subjective too,

00:15:29.820 but if you ask it correctly,

00:15:31.960 are you satisfied with gun laws that already exist?

00:15:35.260 The large majority of Americans have always said,

00:15:41.120 yeah, I'm happy with the gun laws the way they are.

00:15:45.240 So his argument is, if you ask the question right,

00:15:49.280 are you basically happy with gun laws,

00:15:52.120 everybody says, not everybody,

00:15:53.920 but so many people say yes,

00:15:55.820 that it doesn't look like it even translates into votes,

00:15:59.560 that people are just sort of happy with where things are.

00:16:02.260 But, let's say you get specific.

00:16:05.920 Instead of saying,

00:16:06.740 are you generally happy with gun laws the way they are,

00:16:10.060 if you said, would you be in favor of more background checks?

00:16:14.920 And then you get these 80 or 90% of people say yes.

00:16:18.140 So they're both happy with where things are,

00:16:21.100 but would be overwhelmingly happier if things changed.

00:16:25.600 It makes polling look ridiculous at some level, doesn't it?

00:16:29.200 It's like you can't believe it, even the polls.

00:16:30.940 Because the way you ask the question

00:16:33.620 completely changes how you interpret what you're looking at.

00:16:39.540 That's the reason that people like you and I

00:16:41.460 should not make poll questions.

00:16:44.020 Because it turns out that asking the question

00:16:46.240 is a real skill in science, I guess.

00:16:49.740 And that it seems like it'd be easy.

00:16:52.480 Well, I'll just ask the question

00:16:53.960 the way an ordinary person would ask a question,

00:16:56.580 and then I'll get my answer,

00:16:57.920 and then I'll have information.

00:16:58.740 No, you won't.

00:17:00.820 If you're a normal person,

00:17:02.840 and you ask a poll question,

00:17:04.520 no matter how well you choose the poll people,

00:17:07.840 and no matter how scientifically

00:17:09.240 you've selected your polling group,

00:17:12.400 if you're an ordinary person,

00:17:14.580 you don't know how to ask the question right

00:17:16.540 without priming, accidentally,

00:17:19.760 priming for an answer.

00:17:21.500 So that's where the magic is.

00:17:23.300 You have to ask a question in a way

00:17:25.040 that doesn't force the answer to be a certain way.

00:17:28.580 And you can see that so eloquent,

00:17:30.180 well, perfectly here.

00:17:32.060 If you say, are you happy with gun laws,

00:17:34.040 people mostly say, yeah, I'm happy with them.

00:17:36.900 Republicans and Democrats.

00:17:38.780 They're pretty happy with things.

00:17:40.780 But if you ask them about a specific gun law,

00:17:43.440 almost all of them want to change it.

00:17:45.620 80 to 90%.

00:17:46.800 So be careful about what you see in polls.

00:17:53.960 Here's another factoid from Andrew Follett,

00:17:57.420 or maybe Follet.

00:17:58.620 I don't know how to pronounce his last name.

00:18:00.380 F-O-L-L-E-T-T. 1.00

00:18:01.760 But he's a senior analyst of something.

00:18:05.980 So it looks like he's got some credentials

00:18:08.100 for looking at data.

00:18:11.340 And he points out that out of 97 countries with data,

00:18:16.560 the U.S. is 64th in frequency of mass shootings

00:18:19.920 and 65th in murder rate.

00:18:24.220 And rates of mass shootings elsewhere are rising faster.

00:18:28.420 And then he says,

00:18:29.460 if stricter gun laws reduced gun violence rates,

00:18:33.060 you'd expect jurisdictions with those laws

00:18:36.120 to have lower rates of gun violence.

00:18:38.800 Instead, we find quite the opposite.

00:18:41.340 So his argument is

00:18:42.540 that the United States

00:18:44.200 is actually doing reasonably well

00:18:47.120 with mass shootings,

00:18:48.700 if you compare it to other places.

00:18:51.720 And that where there are the most gun restrictions,

00:18:55.900 there are also the most gun violence, on average.

00:19:00.140 So he concludes that

00:19:02.920 the gun restrictions don't work

00:19:05.380 because that's where there is the most violence.

00:19:08.620 Do you find that logic compelling?

00:19:13.820 That if gun restrictions worked,

00:19:17.940 wherever you saw gun restrictions,

00:19:20.160 on average,

00:19:21.780 on average,

00:19:22.980 you'd see that they had lower gun crime, right?

00:19:26.540 Can anybody help him with this logic?

00:19:32.600 It's backwards.

00:19:34.800 It's backwards.

00:19:36.640 Who puts gun controls where there's no crime?

00:19:41.180 That would be the place you would have no gun control

00:19:43.520 because you'd never even thought about it.

00:19:45.640 Nobody shot anybody.

00:19:47.600 Do you know why Wyoming doesn't have restrictive gun control?

00:19:51.860 Because there's not a lot of murder, right?

00:19:58.180 How often do we see the cause and the effect

00:20:00.580 completely reversed in a way that's obvious?

00:20:04.720 To me, it's kind of obvious

00:20:06.120 you've got the cause and effect reversed

00:20:08.060 because a human being doesn't respond

00:20:11.240 to a non-problem with a solution.

00:20:14.580 They respond to problems with solutions.

00:20:19.860 Do they not?

00:20:21.140 Do we say,

00:20:21.860 hey, this place has no gun violence whatsoever.

00:20:24.840 Let's enact some tough gun violence laws here

00:20:27.440 or gun use laws here?

00:20:28.760 No.

00:20:29.660 They say,

00:20:30.300 where is the most gun violence?

00:20:32.340 Let's say Chicago.

00:20:34.060 So I guess we'd better try something

00:20:35.760 by tightening up our gun laws here.

00:20:38.440 And then people say,

00:20:40.600 well,

00:20:41.440 if you tighten the gun laws

00:20:42.800 in a place that has a lot of gun violence

00:20:44.940 and yet there's,

00:20:46.380 and yet that creates more,

00:20:48.660 not creates, but,

00:20:50.180 and yet there's more gun violence when you're done,

00:20:53.220 can you conclude that the gun restrictions did not work?

00:20:57.260 Yes or no.

00:20:58.540 There's lots of gun violence.

00:20:59.920 They put in severe gun restrictions.

00:21:02.860 Violence keeps going up.

00:21:05.120 Did the restrictions work?

00:21:08.440 You don't know.

00:21:10.600 No.

00:21:11.220 The answer is you don't know.

00:21:13.320 The answer is there's no way to know.

00:21:15.380 The answer is that I gave you data

00:21:17.280 that couldn't possibly tell you

00:21:18.520 the answer to that question.

00:21:20.460 If the only thing you know

00:21:21.800 is that you put in some controls

00:21:23.400 and the rate continued to go up

00:21:26.360 even though you hoped that the controls would stop it,

00:21:29.120 that doesn't tell you anything about the controls

00:21:30.920 because you don't know what the rate would have been

00:21:34.760 without the controls.

00:21:36.800 If the rate would have been twice as high

00:21:39.660 without controls,

00:21:40.800 that would be invisible to you.

00:21:42.620 You would just see that the rate continued

00:21:44.400 and maybe got a little worse.

00:21:46.780 You wouldn't know that it would have been

00:21:48.540 even worse, hypothetically.

00:21:52.880 Right?

00:21:53.780 So those are the bad arguments.

00:21:56.960 Now, can I pause again

00:21:59.240 and say that I'm pro-gun ownership?

00:22:02.300 I want to say that as clearly as possible

00:22:05.500 and that all I'm talking about

00:22:07.160 is the bad arguments

00:22:08.420 in favor of gun ownership

00:22:10.600 or against gun control.

00:22:12.960 There are good arguments.

00:22:14.500 Use the good ones.

00:22:15.860 Why would you use the bad arguments

00:22:17.220 when there are good ones?

00:22:19.820 Here's the good argument.

00:22:23.340 Guns are good for some people, 1.00

00:22:25.520 on average,

00:22:27.100 and bad for others.

00:22:28.640 So how in the world

00:22:30.680 are you going to legislate that?

00:22:32.500 The only way you can legislate it

00:22:34.220 is the majority gets what they want,

00:22:36.900 which is sort of what's happening.

00:22:39.040 So the majority in Wyoming says,

00:22:41.460 you know,

00:22:42.100 I don't think we've got a lot of gun violence

00:22:43.820 problems here,

00:22:44.640 but guns sure come in handy

00:22:46.560 if you're in a very spread out territory.

00:22:50.480 And so they get to vote

00:22:52.020 and have more guns

00:22:53.120 and less control.

00:22:54.180 And people in Chicago

00:22:57.060 might feel that they're safer

00:22:59.740 with gun controls,

00:23:01.500 and so they locally

00:23:02.480 get to put on a bunch of gun controls.

00:23:06.240 What's wrong with that?

00:23:08.880 See, the problem is,

00:23:10.620 here's the other problem we make.

00:23:13.680 Guns are not safe 1.00

00:23:15.000 and guns are not unsafe.

00:23:17.820 They're neither.

00:23:19.440 And as soon as you're arguing

00:23:20.540 that guns make you less safe

00:23:22.760 or that guns make you more safe,

00:23:24.460 you're into nonsense territory.

00:23:27.260 The reality,

00:23:28.500 which we all know,

00:23:30.080 is that guns in some situations

00:23:32.080 make you safer

00:23:33.300 and guns in other situations

00:23:35.760 make you less safe.

00:23:37.440 Nobody's argued with that.

00:23:39.420 So if you're in the category

00:23:40.840 of people who largely

00:23:42.000 would be more safe with guns,

00:23:44.600 and I'm probably in that category,

00:23:46.640 I'm in the category of people

00:23:48.480 who have a very legitimate

00:23:50.260 use for a defensive firearm.

00:23:54.920 Am I right?

00:23:56.340 If you're looking at the demographic

00:23:58.780 of Scott,

00:24:00.500 people who talk in public

00:24:02.120 about controversial things

00:24:03.700 and who can be found,

00:24:06.800 right?

00:24:07.660 So I could be found

00:24:08.980 if somebody wanted to stalk me hard enough,

00:24:11.380 and I say things

00:24:13.060 that make people really, really mad at me.

00:24:14.800 And there are a lot of crazy people

00:24:17.360 in the world.

00:24:19.060 Don't you think that

00:24:19.980 if you only looked at my specific case

00:24:22.700 as if nobody else existed,

00:24:24.680 just my case,

00:24:26.300 don't you think it would be reasonable

00:24:28.020 for me to say,

00:24:29.000 just for me,

00:24:30.740 that owning a firearm

00:24:31.760 in my specific case

00:24:34.120 makes me safer?

00:24:36.400 Because, you know,

00:24:37.700 hypothetically,

00:24:39.240 one does not give away

00:24:40.480 one's defensive situation at home.

00:24:42.900 Am I right?

00:24:43.480 Can we agree on that?

00:24:45.880 Can we agree that

00:24:46.840 if anybody is talking

00:24:47.860 about their exact

00:24:48.740 defensive situation

00:24:49.980 in their house

00:24:50.700 and then they're talking

00:24:51.940 about it in public,

00:24:52.980 that's a really bad idea.

00:24:55.400 I'm just going to tell you

00:24:56.460 that my house is safe

00:24:58.200 for me,

00:25:00.620 but you don't want to come in

00:25:01.940 if you're not me, right?

00:25:04.120 So that's all you need to know

00:25:06.560 is that I take care

00:25:08.040 of my own safety.

00:25:08.740 Now,

00:25:10.880 can I argue

00:25:14.180 that someone else

00:25:15.260 should not have gun control

00:25:16.660 in their specific situation?

00:25:19.260 I really can't.

00:25:21.160 Because I could imagine

00:25:22.540 lots of situations

00:25:23.560 where a person

00:25:25.460 would be more safe

00:25:26.880 if there were more gun controls

00:25:28.840 in their little unique situation.

00:25:30.740 I think they'd be special cases.

00:25:36.380 But,

00:25:36.680 and also,

00:25:37.480 you know,

00:25:37.880 of course,

00:25:38.500 if you made them illegal,

00:25:39.720 there'd be plenty

00:25:40.220 of illegal guns.

00:25:41.240 That argument still stands.

00:25:42.820 But,

00:25:43.340 here's my point.

00:25:44.660 Do you buy the basic idea

00:25:46.060 that some people

00:25:46.900 reasonably would feel safer

00:25:48.560 with guns being widely accessible

00:25:50.460 and that other people

00:25:52.140 would reasonably

00:25:53.080 feel less safe?

00:25:54.840 Can you accept that argument?

00:25:56.740 We'll talk about

00:25:58.980 constitutional rights

00:26:00.200 and all that.

00:26:01.320 But do you accept

00:26:02.020 that it's quite reasonable

00:26:03.880 that we don't have

00:26:04.880 the same risk profiles?

00:26:07.480 So,

00:26:08.320 everybody who's arguing

00:26:09.540 that guns should be legal

00:26:11.220 because X would be safer

00:26:13.040 or they should be illegal

00:26:14.960 because X would be safer,

00:26:16.320 those are not good arguments.

00:26:18.380 Those are not good arguments at all.

00:26:20.920 Because it just ignores the obvious

00:26:22.940 that some people

00:26:23.640 would definitely be safer

00:26:25.180 with firearms.

00:26:26.740 Let's take a more obvious case.

00:26:29.720 Let's take a retired police officer,

00:26:33.380 say 60 years old,

00:26:35.420 maybe retired early enough

00:26:36.700 to have another career,

00:26:38.160 still has a firearm,

00:26:40.020 keeps it completely locked and safe,

00:26:42.500 lives in a neighborhood

00:26:43.400 in which that person

00:26:45.020 might be called upon

00:26:46.100 to protect themselves

00:26:47.960 or maybe a neighbor.

00:26:50.580 Should that person 0.80

00:26:51.620 have a firearm?

00:26:52.280 I feel like that makes

00:26:54.500 the world safer.

00:26:55.200 on average,

00:26:57.680 every additional firearm

00:27:00.040 causes an additional downside risk.

00:27:03.080 But on average,

00:27:04.100 I think that would be a plus.

00:27:05.620 So we should just stop arguing

00:27:07.080 that there's some like

00:27:07.980 safer or less safer state

00:27:10.260 we can get to.

00:27:11.180 It's only,

00:27:11.980 you can only change the mix.

00:27:14.460 You can make it less safe for me

00:27:16.060 to make it more safe

00:27:17.000 for somebody in another state.

00:27:18.880 You could do that,

00:27:21.020 but I would resist it.

00:27:23.140 So we should just talk

00:27:24.400 about self-interest

00:27:25.320 and let the public vote

00:27:26.960 with their votes

00:27:28.400 and vote with their feet.

00:27:30.220 And mostly,

00:27:31.760 over time,

00:27:32.580 it should work out.

00:27:34.940 And maybe that's the best

00:27:36.040 you can do

00:27:36.540 in a democracy.

00:27:38.340 All right.

00:27:45.540 No, no, no.

00:27:46.380 Let's see.

00:27:49.340 Let me see some other

00:27:50.240 bad arguments here.

00:27:52.400 Here's my other problem

00:27:53.500 with the gun debate.

00:27:55.240 It's misdirection.

00:27:58.120 Don't you think?

00:27:59.300 Now, there's obvious

00:28:00.220 misdirection,

00:28:01.120 meaning that when there's

00:28:02.080 any kind of political season,

00:28:05.440 and we're in one,

00:28:06.140 in a political season,

00:28:08.480 everything turns into politics,

00:28:10.300 so, you know,

00:28:11.560 you see that.

00:28:12.800 So that's misdirection

00:28:13.860 in the sense that,

00:28:16.320 you know,

00:28:17.960 we're focusing away

00:28:19.240 from the mental health

00:28:20.260 and the tragedy of that

00:28:21.940 toward politics.

00:28:23.660 But there's another

00:28:24.460 misdirection here

00:28:25.320 that maybe is

00:28:26.080 less intentional,

00:28:27.880 which is that

00:28:28.920 our public schools

00:28:29.900 are like factories

00:28:31.680 to pump out bullies.

00:28:34.480 So we pump out bullies,

00:28:36.140 and then somebody

00:28:38.840 gets a gun

00:28:39.520 and goes and reacts

00:28:41.240 exactly the way

00:28:42.280 you'd expect

00:28:42.960 in a bully factory.

00:28:46.100 If somebody is creating

00:28:48.320 a system to crank out

00:28:49.720 bullying,

00:28:51.000 which is what

00:28:51.780 the public schools do,

00:28:53.560 it's not their,

00:28:54.640 you know,

00:28:54.860 they don't choose

00:28:55.460 to do it.

00:28:56.680 But let me ask you this.

00:28:59.020 Have you ever talked

00:28:59.860 to a teenager

00:29:00.740 in the last five years

00:29:02.220 or just heard them talk?

00:29:04.220 Maybe they're in the

00:29:05.340 backseat of the car.

00:29:06.080 You just heard them talk.

00:29:07.600 What is the one

00:29:08.580 and only thing

00:29:09.060 they talk about?

00:29:11.160 There's only one thing.

00:29:12.780 They only have one topic.

00:29:15.180 What everybody thinks

00:29:16.540 about them

00:29:17.040 and what they think

00:29:18.480 about other people.

00:29:19.840 That's it.

00:29:21.640 There's not any other topic.

00:29:24.240 Now, I don't know

00:29:24.720 if that was always the case.

00:29:26.160 Was that always the case

00:29:27.140 or was that

00:29:27.460 a social media thing?

00:29:28.360 I think it's at least

00:29:31.120 accelerated by social media.

00:29:33.780 So, in my opinion,

00:29:35.960 this gun violence

00:29:37.940 is a natural outgrowth

00:29:40.260 of having all of our children

00:29:42.880 put into bullying factories.

00:29:45.300 So, they're guaranteed

00:29:46.120 to be put next to bullies

00:29:47.600 who will bully them.

00:29:48.920 And some of them will break.

00:29:50.420 Some of them will get stronger.

00:29:52.620 Some people will get stronger

00:29:53.920 from adversity.

00:29:54.900 But others will break.

00:29:55.800 And you should expect that.

00:29:58.480 Because you built a system

00:29:59.580 that produces bullies.

00:30:01.660 Bullies produce mass shooters. 0.98

00:30:04.420 We know that, right?

00:30:06.020 Does that sound like

00:30:07.100 I'm speculating too much?

00:30:08.680 Or does that sound

00:30:09.760 like so commonsensical

00:30:11.100 there's nothing to discuss, right?

00:30:13.540 The schools produce bullies

00:30:14.960 by their design.

00:30:17.260 And then, you know,

00:30:18.020 not intentionally,

00:30:18.740 but the design guarantees it.

00:30:20.740 And then bullying creates

00:30:23.040 these loners

00:30:24.420 who feel like they need

00:30:25.560 to be important

00:30:26.160 at least once

00:30:26.800 before they die.

00:30:28.820 I feel like that's

00:30:29.900 pretty straightforward.

00:30:31.500 And the reasons

00:30:32.560 that schools

00:30:33.960 are the way they are

00:30:34.880 is largely

00:30:35.460 there's no competition.

00:30:36.940 So, that comes back

00:30:37.840 to teachers' unions.

00:30:39.760 Teachers' unions

00:30:40.480 are the cause

00:30:41.440 of most of society's problems.

00:30:44.560 Because if you could

00:30:45.660 teach kids

00:30:46.400 critical thinking skills,

00:30:48.860 imagine how they would

00:30:49.880 respond to the fake news

00:30:51.080 if they had

00:30:51.500 critical thinking skills.

00:30:52.840 because you don't see it

00:30:54.420 even in most adults.

00:30:56.800 Let me ask you this.

00:30:58.880 Compare the people

00:31:00.040 who have been watching me

00:31:01.320 talking about fake news

00:31:03.440 and how to spot it

00:31:04.280 and how to do persuasion

00:31:06.320 and how to spot BS

00:31:07.640 and stuff like that.

00:31:08.760 Compare this group

00:31:09.860 who is sort of,

00:31:11.300 I guess internally

00:31:12.100 we're educating each other.

00:31:14.420 You know, I host it,

00:31:16.080 but you're also educating me

00:31:17.720 at the same time, right?

00:31:18.860 We're sort of getting smarter

00:31:20.220 about what fake news is

00:31:21.500 and how to spot it.

00:31:23.480 Wouldn't you say

00:31:24.180 that my consistent audience

00:31:26.340 is way ahead

00:31:28.140 of an untrained person

00:31:31.220 in spotting fake news

00:31:32.520 and knowing what to do about it?

00:31:35.040 Wouldn't you say?

00:31:36.600 You know, give yourself

00:31:37.340 a compliment

00:31:38.560 if you think that's warranted.

00:31:41.140 Because I think so.

00:31:42.460 I think partly, you know,

00:31:44.060 I attract that kind of viewer.

00:31:45.740 And then partly

00:31:47.520 our collective, you know,

00:31:49.860 attention to fake news

00:31:51.660 has made us smarter.

00:31:53.380 I think.

00:31:54.400 I feel like I'm a little better at it

00:31:56.180 with, you know, your help.

00:31:57.880 I would hope that

00:31:58.740 it's working both ways.

00:32:00.760 Yeah.

00:32:01.160 I mean, most of you are saying yes.

00:32:03.140 Right.

00:32:03.680 So imagine if that same skill

00:32:05.240 had been just part

00:32:06.820 of the school curriculum

00:32:08.140 and something that they,

00:32:10.260 you know, gave five minutes

00:32:11.360 to every day.

00:32:12.800 Imagine five minutes

00:32:14.020 and say, all right,

00:32:14.700 here's some fake news

00:32:15.500 in the headlines.

00:32:17.300 You know, here's another

00:32:18.020 example of it.

00:32:18.840 Let's see if you could

00:32:19.520 have spotted this.

00:32:20.380 And how would you

00:32:21.220 have spotted it?

00:32:22.700 Imagine that.

00:32:23.980 Imagine creating citizens

00:32:26.860 who could do that.

00:32:28.360 It wouldn't be that hard.

00:32:29.640 It's not like these

00:32:30.320 are tough skills.

00:32:32.420 All right.

00:32:32.960 So I think that the design

00:32:34.840 of the school system,

00:32:36.380 which is largely caused

00:32:38.420 by teachers' unions

00:32:39.400 preventing any kind

00:32:40.560 of competition

00:32:41.200 so that they can't evolve

00:32:42.940 to their best state.

00:32:44.980 Added to that,

00:32:47.040 social media

00:32:47.800 is basically

00:32:48.700 a bullying platform

00:32:49.940 if you give it to kids.

00:32:52.000 Right?

00:32:52.540 Social media is a tool.

00:32:55.540 If you give a hammer

00:32:57.600 to a carpenter,

00:32:58.880 they build you a house.

00:33:00.060 If you give a hammer

00:33:00.780 to a wild, crazy person,

00:33:03.140 they hit you on the head

00:33:04.020 and kill you. 0.99

00:33:05.720 But it's not the hammer's fault.

00:33:08.020 It's the hammer being applied

00:33:09.520 in the wrong situation.

00:33:10.620 So if you take social media,

00:33:14.100 which is designed

00:33:14.820 to be the perfect

00:33:15.840 bullying vehicle,

00:33:18.120 and you give it

00:33:18.980 to teenagers,

00:33:19.800 what would you expect

00:33:21.020 when they come out

00:33:23.080 of a bullying system,

00:33:24.980 which is school?

00:33:26.360 So you throw them

00:33:27.180 into a 100% bullying situation,

00:33:30.360 then you give them

00:33:31.060 extra tools to bully,

00:33:33.120 and then you wonder

00:33:33.840 why one of them

00:33:34.860 picks up a gun

00:33:36.020 and slays his classmates,

00:33:38.060 or some other class,

00:33:39.120 I don't know.

00:33:40.560 And it shouldn't be

00:33:41.740 much of a mystery.

00:33:43.320 And if you think

00:33:43.960 that the answer is

00:33:44.720 because he has access

00:33:45.760 to guns,

00:33:47.280 I would say

00:33:48.520 that's a supporting variable.

00:33:52.460 I don't think

00:33:53.020 it's the cause.

00:33:55.180 Like, the gun

00:33:55.740 didn't cause it.

00:33:56.980 It made it easier.

00:33:59.140 You know,

00:33:59.440 you can be pro-gun

00:34:00.760 and still say,

00:34:01.640 oh, yeah,

00:34:02.760 you know,

00:34:03.020 the gun laws

00:34:03.980 did make it easy

00:34:04.820 for this killer

00:34:05.680 to get a gun.

00:34:06.840 There's no inconsistency there.

00:34:09.900 If you're going

00:34:10.720 to be pro-gun,

00:34:12.040 you're going to have

00:34:12.740 to accept

00:34:13.280 that this is

00:34:14.540 the cost of it.

00:34:15.700 If you're not willing

00:34:16.560 to say it out loud,

00:34:17.620 yes, this is the price of it,

00:34:19.300 I'm still willing

00:34:20.320 to be pro-gun.

00:34:22.680 You need to be able

00:34:23.500 to say it directly.

00:34:25.140 Otherwise,

00:34:25.760 I don't think

00:34:26.220 you should be

00:34:26.540 in the conversation.

00:34:28.440 You know,

00:34:28.620 you need to be

00:34:29.200 at least that honest

00:34:30.220 about it.

00:34:31.100 And I'll say it.

00:34:32.060 I'm saying it directly.

00:34:33.480 As tragic

00:34:34.280 as these events are,

00:34:35.460 and they're,

00:34:35.800 I mean,

00:34:36.760 on a scale

00:34:37.600 of 1 to 10,

00:34:39.540 children being massacred

00:34:41.240 is the 25.

00:34:42.560 I mean,

00:34:42.860 it's off the scale.

00:34:44.340 It's off everybody's scale.

00:34:46.020 It's not even

00:34:46.580 subjective anymore.

00:34:47.680 I mean,

00:34:47.860 that's so,

00:34:48.600 like,

00:34:49.000 basic biological truth.

00:34:52.880 So,

00:34:53.520 we can't say enough

00:34:54.340 about how horrible

00:34:55.180 it is,

00:34:56.160 but

00:34:56.520 I still favor

00:34:58.400 the Second Amendment

00:34:59.140 and private gun ownership,

00:35:00.520 and

00:35:01.180 that is part

00:35:03.500 of the price.

00:35:05.040 Now,

00:35:05.260 do I think

00:35:05.720 that you could

00:35:06.260 make some tweaks

00:35:07.400 around the edges

00:35:08.260 that would make things

00:35:10.280 less likely

00:35:11.420 for this to happen?

00:35:13.040 Yes.

00:35:14.280 Yes,

00:35:14.620 I do.

00:35:16.140 Do I think

00:35:16.980 we should?

00:35:18.700 I'm not sure

00:35:19.540 you should listen

00:35:20.080 to my opinion

00:35:20.680 on that.

00:35:21.900 Because my opinion

00:35:22.900 is 100% driven

00:35:24.380 by my personal

00:35:25.380 safety profile.

00:35:27.500 That's it.

00:35:28.200 If it doesn't

00:35:30.200 affect me,

00:35:31.180 you know,

00:35:31.700 and I don't think

00:35:32.440 it'll ever affect me,

00:35:33.460 then I don't really

00:35:34.060 care too much.

00:35:34.840 If I think

00:35:35.380 it would make me

00:35:35.980 less safe,

00:35:37.900 then I'm against it.

00:35:39.940 So,

00:35:40.560 why should my opinion

00:35:41.500 about what makes me

00:35:43.000 in my specific

00:35:43.940 little situation,

00:35:45.600 why should my

00:35:46.400 self-interest

00:35:47.040 about that

00:35:47.720 have any impact

00:35:49.200 on you?

00:35:50.200 So,

00:35:50.540 I want to say

00:35:51.240 as clearly as possible

00:35:52.260 I'm not trying

00:35:52.980 to persuade you.

00:35:54.920 Because I would

00:35:55.660 find that unethical.

00:35:58.200 Do you agree?

00:36:00.260 Would you agree

00:36:01.200 with my assessment

00:36:01.900 that it would be

00:36:02.560 unethical for me

00:36:03.740 to persuade you

00:36:04.640 on guns in either

00:36:05.520 direction,

00:36:06.460 either pro or for,

00:36:08.240 because my personal

00:36:09.680 safety profile

00:36:11.620 is not yours?

00:36:13.480 I would be promoting

00:36:14.620 my own personal

00:36:16.020 safety over yours,

00:36:17.340 perhaps.

00:36:18.340 I'd be basically

00:36:19.180 putting myself

00:36:19.860 above you

00:36:20.520 on safety

00:36:21.700 if I tried

00:36:22.920 to persuade you.

00:36:23.740 so I can say

00:36:26.820 what I'm happy

00:36:27.480 about,

00:36:28.100 but that's different

00:36:28.720 than you should

00:36:29.320 be happy about it,

00:36:30.120 right?

00:36:30.620 I'm happy I have

00:36:31.480 the right

00:36:31.880 to own a firearm,

00:36:33.600 although California

00:36:34.500 is kind of tough,

00:36:35.300 but I still have

00:36:35.960 the right.

00:36:37.920 I would not

00:36:39.300 criticize you

00:36:41.240 if you said,

00:36:42.660 you know,

00:36:42.960 in my specific

00:36:44.040 situation,

00:36:45.060 I think I'd be

00:36:45.620 worse off.

00:36:48.240 That's an entirely

00:36:49.380 rational thing

00:36:50.180 for you to think.

00:36:51.120 Might be wrong,

00:36:51.880 but it's rational.

00:36:53.740 I'm not going to

00:36:54.240 argue with a

00:36:54.720 rational opinion.

00:36:56.600 So I say

00:36:57.400 bullies are the 0.74

00:36:58.040 problem.

00:36:58.600 Here's a thought

00:36:59.620 experiment,

00:37:00.300 not a recommendation.

00:37:02.520 Not a recommendation,

00:37:04.320 just a thought

00:37:05.060 experiment coming

00:37:05.900 here.

00:37:06.460 Don't get too

00:37:07.160 panicked.

00:37:08.140 It goes like this.

00:37:09.400 If we made it

00:37:10.280 legal for kids

00:37:11.300 to kill their 0.61

00:37:12.020 bullies,

00:37:13.100 a lot of

00:37:13.560 problems would

00:37:14.180 go away. 0.82

00:37:17.020 That's it.

00:37:18.160 If you just

00:37:18.580 made it legal

00:37:19.240 to kill a bully.

00:37:20.840 Now here would

00:37:21.460 be the,

00:37:22.100 and again,

00:37:22.580 it's a thought

00:37:23.120 experiment.

00:37:23.980 I'm not recommending

00:37:24.940 that you make it

00:37:25.740 legal for anybody

00:37:26.520 to kill a bully,

00:37:27.480 especially kids.

00:37:29.220 I'm hoping we

00:37:30.140 can all

00:37:30.940 understand that.

00:37:34.760 Here's the thing.

00:37:36.320 We treat

00:37:37.060 bullying like

00:37:38.740 it's a temporary

00:37:39.560 problem.

00:37:41.620 Am I right?

00:37:43.180 It's like,

00:37:43.540 oh,

00:37:43.700 you got bullied

00:37:44.280 today,

00:37:44.900 so that bully

00:37:46.000 went to do

00:37:47.260 something else,

00:37:47.880 so now you're

00:37:48.380 fine.

00:37:49.640 It doesn't really

00:37:50.320 work that way.

00:37:51.540 It's pretty

00:37:51.880 much permanent

00:37:52.460 damage.

00:37:54.560 Would you

00:37:55.140 agree that

00:37:55.660 bullying can

00:37:56.700 create permanent

00:37:57.460 damage?

00:37:58.300 I do think

00:37:59.220 some people

00:37:59.680 get tougher

00:38:00.200 from it,

00:38:01.460 but also it

00:38:02.620 seems obvious

00:38:03.200 it makes

00:38:03.600 permanent damage

00:38:04.400 to people.

00:38:05.000 So if somebody

00:38:06.640 is in the

00:38:07.560 process of

00:38:08.380 creating permanent

00:38:09.220 damage to you,

00:38:10.320 what is your

00:38:11.280 legal recourse?

00:38:15.300 What are you

00:38:16.020 allowed to do

00:38:16.620 legally?

00:38:18.620 Well, I think

00:38:19.340 if somebody's

00:38:20.560 doing any kind

00:38:21.300 of permanent

00:38:21.760 damage to any

00:38:23.240 part of my

00:38:23.720 body, it

00:38:25.100 doesn't matter

00:38:25.500 if it's my

00:38:25.960 brain area or

00:38:27.060 the non-brain

00:38:28.000 area, I believe

00:38:29.180 I have every

00:38:29.940 right to kill

00:38:30.540 them.

00:38:33.220 Am I right?

00:38:34.040 If somebody

00:38:35.300 was stabbing

00:38:35.980 you in the

00:38:36.440 arm, but

00:38:37.420 you knew

00:38:37.720 that that

00:38:38.080 wasn't going

00:38:38.460 to kill

00:38:38.760 you, you

00:38:39.560 would just

00:38:39.840 bleed and

00:38:40.400 put a

00:38:40.700 band-aid on

00:38:41.260 it and

00:38:41.660 maybe get

00:38:42.380 stitches, but

00:38:43.820 you would

00:38:44.080 legally be

00:38:46.200 able to kill

00:38:46.600 somebody who

00:38:47.940 was trying to

00:38:48.440 stab you, but 0.99

00:38:49.220 non-lethally.

00:38:51.660 They were

00:38:52.020 trying to stab

00:38:52.600 you in your

00:38:52.960 leg and your

00:38:53.500 arm or

00:38:53.840 something, right?

00:38:56.580 So he says,

00:38:57.300 why am I

00:38:57.660 listening to

00:38:58.180 this today?

00:38:58.680 I knew

00:39:01.060 somebody was

00:39:01.440 going to

00:39:01.620 get triggered

00:39:02.600 and it's

00:39:03.700 the worst

00:39:04.180 pun of the

00:39:04.640 day.

00:39:05.620 So again,

00:39:06.620 it's not a

00:39:07.460 recommendation

00:39:07.960 because there's

00:39:09.560 no practical

00:39:10.280 way to

00:39:10.640 recommend

00:39:11.000 violence,

00:39:11.920 especially

00:39:12.800 within the

00:39:13.820 children domain,

00:39:14.900 so I don't

00:39:15.500 recommend any

00:39:16.220 additional

00:39:16.700 violence.

00:39:17.780 But if we

00:39:19.780 act as if

00:39:20.480 bullying is

00:39:21.120 not permanent

00:39:21.800 damage, you're

00:39:23.200 going to get

00:39:23.560 this.

00:39:24.960 You're going

00:39:25.540 to get kids

00:39:26.580 who say,

00:39:27.360 well, if

00:39:29.060 you're not

00:39:29.400 going to

00:39:29.620 solve my

00:39:30.120 problem, if

00:39:31.280 you're going

00:39:31.480 to put me

00:39:31.820 in a system

00:39:32.400 where you're

00:39:33.340 going to let

00:39:33.680 somebody permanently

00:39:34.740 damage me

00:39:35.440 every day, even

00:39:36.160 when I tell

00:39:36.660 you, hey,

00:39:37.660 somebody's

00:39:38.060 permanently

00:39:38.480 damaging me.

00:39:39.560 When I go

00:39:40.120 back to

00:39:40.480 school, somebody's

00:39:41.160 going to

00:39:41.380 permanently

00:39:41.760 damage me

00:39:42.440 again.

00:39:44.160 And then

00:39:44.720 you're just

00:39:45.000 going to let

00:39:45.300 that happen?

00:39:48.400 Honestly, I

00:39:49.100 understand the

00:39:49.760 shooters.

00:39:52.120 Maybe that's

00:39:52.800 the most

00:39:53.080 controversial

00:39:53.660 thing I'll

00:39:54.220 ever say.

00:39:55.720 Honestly,

00:39:56.580 I totally

00:39:57.100 understand the

00:39:57.800 shooters.

00:40:00.060 There are

00:40:00.640 lots of

00:40:00.960 crimes that I

00:40:01.480 don't understand

00:40:02.180 that do seem

00:40:03.700 actually random,

00:40:04.780 but the school

00:40:05.700 shooters, I

00:40:06.240 completely

00:40:06.680 understand that.

00:40:08.220 You put

00:40:09.300 people in a

00:40:09.900 system that

00:40:10.500 guarantees they

00:40:11.300 will be

00:40:11.700 created, and

00:40:12.380 then they get

00:40:12.860 created, and

00:40:13.940 we act, oh,

00:40:14.920 it's a big

00:40:16.120 surprise.

00:40:16.780 No, it's not

00:40:17.180 a big surprise.

00:40:18.280 You create a

00:40:18.980 system that's a

00:40:19.820 factory for this.

00:40:21.240 Factory creates

00:40:22.120 bullies, bullies

00:40:23.020 create mass

00:40:23.580 shooters.

00:40:24.200 You got exactly

00:40:24.840 what you

00:40:25.160 designed.

00:40:25.580 If you

00:40:26.440 design a

00:40:27.000 system that

00:40:27.480 gives you

00:40:27.780 exactly the

00:40:28.540 output you

00:40:29.000 designed it

00:40:29.560 to do,

00:40:31.300 whose problem

00:40:33.000 is that?

00:40:33.500 Is that the

00:40:33.880 shooter's

00:40:34.240 problem?

00:40:35.380 Well, it

00:40:35.860 has to be, in

00:40:36.620 terms of legal

00:40:37.300 responsibility.

00:40:38.840 But it's

00:40:39.300 not.

00:40:40.740 Let me say

00:40:41.380 that again.

00:40:42.320 In terms of

00:40:42.940 legal responsibility,

00:40:44.180 it's only the

00:40:44.880 shooter's fault,

00:40:46.040 because that's the

00:40:46.540 only way the

00:40:46.960 system works.

00:40:48.880 But it's not

00:40:49.760 what caused

00:40:50.240 it.

00:40:51.480 Shooters don't 0.59

00:40:52.080 cause themselves.

00:40:52.760 They do

00:40:54.460 not.

00:40:55.400 It's caused

00:40:56.160 by a system

00:40:56.940 that guarantees

00:40:58.320 we create

00:40:59.000 them.

00:40:59.740 And then when

00:41:00.160 the news talks

00:41:00.900 about them,

00:41:01.960 they talk about

00:41:02.600 how horrible

00:41:03.080 it is,

00:41:03.840 they're part of

00:41:04.360 the system of

00:41:05.020 creating the

00:41:05.540 next one.

00:41:07.340 This is

00:41:08.060 clearly a

00:41:08.720 copycat

00:41:09.240 situation.

00:41:10.980 How do

00:41:11.420 copycats get

00:41:12.380 created?

00:41:15.220 By the news.

00:41:16.240 Now, this

00:41:19.500 is why I

00:41:20.100 don't, you

00:41:20.980 know, I'm

00:41:21.380 not even

00:41:21.660 telling you

00:41:22.060 what state

00:41:22.700 this happened.

00:41:23.560 I'm not

00:41:23.800 giving you

00:41:24.160 numbers of

00:41:24.980 how many

00:41:25.440 died.

00:41:26.200 I'm not

00:41:26.720 giving you

00:41:27.220 the name

00:41:27.560 of the

00:41:27.760 shooter.

00:41:28.200 I'm never

00:41:28.640 going to

00:41:28.880 do that.

00:41:30.000 Like, I'm

00:41:30.380 completely done

00:41:31.100 with that

00:41:31.460 stuff.

00:41:32.660 Because it

00:41:33.320 obviously is

00:41:34.260 part of a

00:41:34.700 system of

00:41:35.240 making more

00:41:35.820 of it.

00:41:37.600 I could,

00:41:38.480 do you

00:41:38.720 think, don't

00:41:40.080 you think I

00:41:40.560 could get

00:41:40.960 more clicks

00:41:41.880 if I did

00:41:43.140 the most

00:41:44.220 obvious

00:41:44.780 content?

00:41:46.240 The most

00:41:47.020 obvious

00:41:47.400 content is,

00:41:48.600 oh, why

00:41:49.120 didn't those

00:41:49.560 police officers

00:41:50.500 go in

00:41:51.160 earlier?

00:41:52.400 I mean, it's

00:41:52.700 a perfectly

00:41:53.260 good question.

00:41:54.780 But it's

00:41:55.420 also being

00:41:55.900 handled by

00:41:57.260 everybody,

00:41:57.740 right?

00:41:58.380 So there

00:41:59.120 are lots

00:41:59.440 of ways

00:41:59.760 that I

00:42:00.020 could get

00:42:00.320 more clicks.

00:42:01.900 But it

00:42:02.420 is so,

00:42:03.560 so immoral,

00:42:05.720 so unethical.

00:42:08.200 Like, you

00:42:09.040 know, it's

00:42:09.440 one thing to

00:42:10.040 bend the

00:42:11.560 rules a

00:42:12.000 little bit.

00:42:12.820 You know,

00:42:13.040 maybe your

00:42:13.740 ethical

00:42:14.140 boundary is a

00:42:14.820 little different

00:42:15.220 than mine.

00:42:16.240 You know,

00:42:16.620 you can see

00:42:16.960 a little

00:42:17.220 sloppage.

00:42:18.760 But this

00:42:19.120 was so

00:42:19.980 unethical

00:42:20.600 that the

00:42:22.060 news is

00:42:22.660 talking about

00:42:23.260 this to

00:42:23.700 make more

00:42:24.100 of it.

00:42:25.060 Because they're

00:42:25.440 getting good

00:42:26.180 coverage.

00:42:27.480 As long as

00:42:28.280 the coverage

00:42:28.660 is good,

00:42:29.220 they would

00:42:29.700 sell your

00:42:30.380 fucking

00:42:30.840 baby.

00:42:32.340 They don't

00:42:32.840 care.

00:42:33.840 I mean,

00:42:34.140 that's obvious.

00:42:35.020 It's obvious

00:42:35.560 in this

00:42:35.980 coverage.

00:42:38.500 All right.

00:42:38.760 so bullies

00:42:40.760 are the

00:42:40.980 problem.

00:42:45.300 So here's

00:42:46.460 how I'd

00:42:46.820 fix it.

00:42:50.200 I've got

00:42:50.820 a few

00:42:51.100 ideas.

00:42:52.920 Seems to

00:42:53.580 me,

00:42:53.800 number one,

00:42:55.040 that children

00:42:55.840 should not

00:42:56.480 be allowed

00:42:57.580 to have

00:42:58.120 social media.

00:42:59.260 And I

00:43:01.860 don't even

00:43:02.220 want to

00:43:02.560 have a

00:43:02.900 conversation

00:43:03.460 about gun

00:43:04.480 control until

00:43:06.040 you do the

00:43:06.560 obvious stuff.

00:43:08.240 Right?

00:43:09.100 Do the

00:43:09.780 obvious stuff.

00:43:11.200 Get the

00:43:11.620 fucking kids

00:43:12.300 off of social

00:43:13.040 media.

00:43:13.500 All of it.

00:43:14.540 It should be

00:43:15.360 illegal.

00:43:16.640 Because that's

00:43:17.380 where the

00:43:17.680 bullying happens.

00:43:18.520 If you

00:43:19.460 think that

00:43:19.940 this murder

00:43:20.620 was the

00:43:22.140 big violence

00:43:23.180 of the

00:43:23.420 week,

00:43:24.540 it's not.

00:43:25.780 It's a

00:43:26.100 distraction.

00:43:27.240 As horrible

00:43:28.460 as this

00:43:29.280 latest shooting

00:43:29.960 and the

00:43:30.840 other shootings

00:43:31.400 have been,

00:43:32.640 I won't

00:43:33.340 take anything

00:43:33.980 away from

00:43:34.420 the horror

00:43:34.940 of them.

00:43:35.800 It's also

00:43:36.260 the smaller

00:43:36.800 story.

00:43:38.280 The bigger

00:43:38.900 story is how

00:43:39.760 many kids

00:43:40.160 are getting

00:43:40.480 bullied every

00:43:41.240 day.

00:43:41.840 They're being

00:43:42.120 physically,

00:43:44.520 meaning their

00:43:45.080 brains are

00:43:45.700 getting PTSD,

00:43:47.600 they're being

00:43:48.060 physically

00:43:48.620 destroyed by

00:43:49.500 bullies every

00:43:50.260 fucking day.

00:43:51.300 And we don't

00:43:51.760 even talk about

00:43:52.400 it.

00:43:52.760 We don't care

00:43:53.260 about it.

00:43:54.200 Like, unless

00:43:54.680 it's your kid,

00:43:55.380 you don't care.

00:43:56.880 Right?

00:43:57.580 So, I'm not

00:43:59.760 even going to

00:44:00.220 listen to any

00:44:00.920 gun arguments.

00:44:03.020 Because these

00:44:03.820 are not serious

00:44:04.540 people.

00:44:05.900 Serious people 0.96

00:44:06.800 would fix the

00:44:07.840 bullying problem

00:44:08.720 because that's

00:44:09.680 clearly the

00:44:10.360 root cause.

00:44:11.580 The root cause

00:44:12.380 is not, you

00:44:13.080 know, gun

00:44:13.520 culture.

00:44:15.100 That makes

00:44:15.640 it easier.

00:44:16.780 And I'm open

00:44:17.420 to any

00:44:17.800 conversation

00:44:18.400 that would,

00:44:19.300 you know,

00:44:20.200 keep our

00:44:20.840 Second Amendment

00:44:21.480 rights, but

00:44:22.900 there's some

00:44:23.260 easy win.

00:44:23.940 I'm open to

00:44:24.460 the conversation.

00:44:25.660 But I would

00:44:26.320 require you to

00:44:27.040 test it first.

00:44:28.860 You know,

00:44:29.160 show me that

00:44:29.940 it works in

00:44:30.460 some state

00:44:31.060 without making

00:44:31.880 it a slippery

00:44:32.460 slope.

00:44:34.160 Just show it

00:44:34.900 to me.

00:44:35.720 I'm open to

00:44:36.400 the argument.

00:44:37.700 There's some

00:44:38.280 state that wants

00:44:39.000 to test anything.

00:44:40.260 Let them test 0.91

00:44:40.780 it.

00:44:41.860 But let's

00:44:42.900 forget about

00:44:44.440 the bad

00:44:44.920 arguments.

00:44:46.560 Deal with

00:44:47.160 the root

00:44:47.480 cause, the

00:44:48.520 school systems,

00:44:49.560 the teachers

00:44:49.980 unions that

00:44:50.680 cause really

00:44:51.200 most of the

00:44:51.760 problems in

00:44:52.280 society, and

00:44:54.020 social media.

00:44:55.780 If you deal

00:44:56.300 with those, at

00:44:56.900 least you're

00:44:57.540 doing something.

00:44:59.320 At least you're

00:45:00.000 doing something.

00:45:01.620 Now, I think

00:45:03.140 the Republicans

00:45:03.740 are missing a

00:45:04.880 move by they

00:45:08.060 should throw

00:45:08.500 the social

00:45:09.020 media argument

00:45:09.760 and the

00:45:10.260 teachers union

00:45:10.880 argument right

00:45:11.520 back to the

00:45:12.040 Democrats.

00:45:12.400 they should

00:45:13.600 say, why

00:45:14.860 are we only

00:45:15.520 talking about

00:45:16.880 it after it's

00:45:17.520 too late?

00:45:18.660 By the time

00:45:19.480 that kid bought

00:45:20.280 a gun, that

00:45:22.400 was too late.

00:45:24.660 Right?

00:45:25.160 I mean, maybe

00:45:25.980 you could have

00:45:26.500 found some way

00:45:27.280 that he would

00:45:27.800 have limited

00:45:28.220 his damage, but

00:45:30.380 it was too

00:45:30.960 late to save

00:45:32.480 him.

00:45:33.480 That kid was

00:45:34.320 already destroyed

00:45:35.180 before he picked

00:45:35.940 up that weapon.

00:45:38.120 And why are we

00:45:39.540 ignoring that?

00:45:41.560 Right?

00:45:41.800 Why do we

00:45:42.320 ignore that?

00:45:43.120 Why don't

00:45:43.520 conservatives say,

00:45:45.000 how about we

00:45:45.520 stop creating

00:45:46.280 these people?

00:45:47.880 Right?

00:45:48.280 If you didn't

00:45:48.860 create them, I

00:45:51.240 wouldn't worry

00:45:51.800 about them

00:45:52.240 finding a gun.

00:45:54.160 Stop creating

00:45:55.000 them.

00:45:55.800 But at the

00:45:56.460 very minimum,

00:45:57.760 I would say,

00:45:58.400 here's the deal.

00:46:00.100 Make it illegal

00:46:00.900 for kids to be

00:46:01.620 on social media,

00:46:03.080 and then we'll

00:46:03.580 have a conversation

00:46:04.380 about gun

00:46:04.920 control.

00:46:05.320 But until

00:46:07.120 that other

00:46:08.540 conversation is

00:46:09.340 taken seriously,

00:46:10.640 and the

00:46:10.980 bullying in

00:46:11.520 general, how

00:46:12.700 about we

00:46:13.880 treat the

00:46:14.700 bigger problem

00:46:15.280 first, and

00:46:16.620 then we'll

00:46:16.900 treat the

00:46:17.260 smaller problem.

00:46:18.580 The fact

00:46:19.060 that guns and

00:46:21.400 children and

00:46:22.420 mass shootings

00:46:23.340 are brains

00:46:27.300 on fire, but

00:46:29.680 as much fire as

00:46:30.720 your brain is

00:46:31.300 experiencing, it's

00:46:32.780 minor compared

00:46:33.720 to how much

00:46:34.180 bullying is

00:46:34.820 happening right

00:46:35.460 now, right

00:46:36.640 now, like

00:46:38.180 right now, with

00:46:40.420 every kid who's

00:46:41.320 in school.

00:46:42.720 They're all

00:46:43.300 experiencing some

00:46:44.500 kind of horrible

00:46:45.640 situation, it

00:46:47.740 seems like.

00:46:50.540 Surprised you're

00:46:51.340 not blaming

00:46:51.780 video games?

00:46:52.780 Well, let me

00:46:53.200 blame video

00:46:53.680 games.

00:46:55.200 Anybody who

00:46:56.180 has studied

00:46:56.700 hypnosis or

00:46:58.160 persuasion knows

00:47:00.280 that we do what

00:47:01.840 we think of

00:47:02.540 to do.

00:47:04.760 If you didn't

00:47:05.480 think of it, you

00:47:08.020 wouldn't do it.

00:47:09.540 And what you

00:47:10.020 think of the

00:47:10.660 most is what

00:47:11.320 you're most

00:47:11.680 likely to do.

00:47:13.380 Not because it's

00:47:14.380 a good idea, but

00:47:16.220 because you

00:47:16.620 thought about it

00:47:17.260 the most.

00:47:18.400 We are that

00:47:19.140 simple.

00:47:20.200 We are that

00:47:20.880 programmable.

00:47:22.240 Now, if you

00:47:23.360 take a kid who's 0.79

00:47:24.200 never been bullied

00:47:25.040 and doesn't have

00:47:26.900 any genetic

00:47:28.380 propensity to

00:47:29.700 violence, and

00:47:30.920 you show him a

00:47:31.640 first-person

00:47:32.660 shooter game, he

00:47:33.520 can play all

00:47:34.660 day long and

00:47:35.280 it doesn't have

00:47:35.740 any impact.

00:47:36.420 In fact, you

00:47:37.960 probably have

00:47:38.440 children who

00:47:39.800 can play a

00:47:40.380 violent video

00:47:41.060 game all day

00:47:41.940 long and then

00:47:42.580 turn into

00:47:43.120 vegetarians or

00:47:45.460 whatever.

00:47:47.220 So I would

00:47:48.780 certainly not

00:47:49.340 make the case

00:47:50.100 that entertainment

00:47:52.300 changes everybody

00:47:53.420 to a bad

00:47:54.180 thing.

00:47:54.420 I would

00:47:56.240 definitely make

00:47:56.800 the case that

00:47:58.420 if first-person

00:47:59.840 shooter games

00:48:00.660 were not

00:48:01.100 popular, that

00:48:03.060 kids wouldn't 0.57

00:48:03.780 think of it

00:48:04.400 first.

00:48:05.380 It wouldn't be

00:48:05.960 top of mind.

00:48:08.100 So in that

00:48:09.020 way, the

00:48:09.440 entertainment is

00:48:10.440 absolutely a

00:48:12.500 contributing factor.

00:48:14.480 Now, does that

00:48:16.100 mean that you

00:48:16.540 should change it?

00:48:17.740 I'm open to the

00:48:18.680 conversation that it

00:48:19.580 shouldn't be changed

00:48:20.400 even if it is

00:48:21.200 causing the

00:48:21.720 problem.

00:48:23.420 Because freedom

00:48:24.340 of speech.

00:48:26.960 Because, you

00:48:28.760 know, the

00:48:29.620 Second Amendment

00:48:30.200 is a right.

00:48:31.180 So I generally

00:48:31.760 favor rights

00:48:32.980 unless there's a

00:48:34.900 really, really,

00:48:36.080 really compelling

00:48:37.040 reason that you

00:48:37.720 need some kind

00:48:38.200 of restriction.

00:48:39.320 And there are.

00:48:40.600 There are lots

00:48:41.260 of cases where

00:48:41.900 there are compelling

00:48:42.880 reasons.

00:48:44.900 So, yes.

00:48:49.140 But if you

00:48:49.980 think I'm not

00:48:50.560 going to blame

00:48:51.280 video games,

00:48:52.180 then you don't

00:48:52.760 know much

00:48:54.860 about me.

00:48:56.340 Video games

00:48:57.260 absolutely put

00:48:58.540 it top of

00:48:59.140 mind.

00:49:01.100 It just

00:49:01.820 doesn't activate

00:49:02.700 99% of

00:49:04.140 people.

00:49:05.000 It activates

00:49:05.640 1%.

00:49:06.420 But it

00:49:08.900 definitely

00:49:09.220 activates them.

00:49:10.420 If they had

00:49:11.060 never seen a

00:49:11.780 first-person

00:49:12.360 shooter game,

00:49:13.080 it just wouldn't

00:49:13.580 even occur to

00:49:14.120 them to go

00:49:14.860 find a gun

00:49:15.440 and do that.

00:49:17.740 Now, the

00:49:18.340 same goes for

00:49:18.960 movies and

00:49:19.560 TV, right?

00:49:19.980 So, I'm not

00:49:20.980 saying that

00:49:21.400 video games

00:49:21.940 are the one

00:49:22.440 thing.

00:49:23.600 It applies to

00:49:24.600 the whole

00:49:24.920 genre.

00:49:26.000 But I think

00:49:26.420 that video games

00:49:27.100 logically would

00:49:30.000 prime you more

00:49:30.960 because you're

00:49:32.000 the one actually

00:49:32.580 doing it.

00:49:33.980 Whereas watching

00:49:35.060 it seems like

00:49:35.860 more of a

00:49:36.580 passive thing

00:49:37.240 probably would

00:49:38.440 prime you less.

00:49:40.980 Somebody says

00:49:41.520 it activates the

00:49:42.200 same people as

00:49:42.820 movies.

00:49:43.520 It might,

00:49:44.680 except that

00:49:45.360 in theory,

00:49:47.180 the video game

00:49:47.720 would activate you

00:49:48.480 more because

00:49:49.520 you're putting

00:49:50.060 more of your

00:49:50.680 body into

00:49:51.360 the process

00:49:52.940 of consuming

00:49:54.420 it, right?

00:49:55.360 You're actually

00:49:55.760 moving and

00:49:56.500 changing and

00:49:57.160 controlling things.

00:49:58.540 So, that

00:49:58.780 should, in

00:50:00.860 theory, that

00:50:01.480 would prime you

00:50:02.180 to be more

00:50:02.840 of a shooter.

00:50:03.820 But again,

00:50:04.440 only that, you

00:50:05.180 know, 1%.

00:50:05.940 Most people

00:50:06.660 won't be

00:50:07.020 affected at all.

00:50:09.880 Yeah, now

00:50:10.420 add VR, as

00:50:11.380 I'm saying.

00:50:11.860 Comment on

00:50:12.640 locals.

00:50:13.400 If you add

00:50:14.300 VR to the

00:50:14.980 mix, the

00:50:18.100 priming might 0.82

00:50:18.780 be even

00:50:20.000 more powerful.

00:50:21.800 Or, or it

00:50:23.900 might solve

00:50:24.680 it.

00:50:25.520 That's the

00:50:25.840 other problem.

00:50:26.520 Yeah, maybe

00:50:27.220 you make VR

00:50:28.020 that is so

00:50:28.920 gross that if

00:50:31.140 somebody did it

00:50:31.820 a few times,

00:50:32.540 they couldn't

00:50:33.220 handle it.

00:50:35.080 Imagine

00:50:35.640 shooting somebody

00:50:36.400 in VR and

00:50:37.980 seeing an

00:50:39.000 actual, you

00:50:41.640 a wound.

00:50:43.400 I don't know

00:50:43.860 if most people

00:50:44.480 could handle

00:50:44.960 an actual

00:50:45.720 wound of a

00:50:46.440 real person

00:50:47.020 that was so

00:50:48.340 well simulated

00:50:49.100 it was, you

00:50:49.700 know, like a

00:50:50.380 virtual world

00:50:51.080 situation.

00:50:52.400 Eh, could go

00:50:53.240 either way.

00:50:54.360 Could make

00:50:54.820 somebody more

00:50:55.420 violent.

00:50:55.920 They might say,

00:50:56.420 I kind of like

00:50:56.960 this.

00:50:57.740 But I think

00:50:58.420 most people

00:50:58.940 would say, I

00:50:59.420 don't ever want

00:51:00.060 to see this

00:51:00.480 in real life.

00:51:01.740 Something like

00:51:02.180 that.

00:51:03.440 There was an

00:51:04.120 argument that

00:51:04.700 violent movies,

00:51:06.420 you know, the

00:51:06.740 Sam Peckinpaw

00:51:07.600 kind of movies,

00:51:08.860 made violence in

00:51:09.800 the real world

00:51:10.500 less likely.

00:51:12.440 Because people

00:51:13.200 got grossed

00:51:13.900 out by the

00:51:14.380 fake violence,

00:51:15.400 so when they

00:51:16.220 thought of

00:51:16.580 doing it in

00:51:16.920 the real world,

00:51:17.640 they already

00:51:18.060 had a negative

00:51:18.880 association because

00:51:19.800 they were grossed

00:51:20.380 out about it

00:51:21.180 already.

00:51:22.720 I don't know.

00:51:24.440 I could imagine

00:51:25.400 it working both

00:51:26.120 ways.

00:51:27.000 I could imagine

00:51:27.560 some people

00:51:28.140 saying, ooh,

00:51:28.840 I love that

00:51:29.660 violence, I want

00:51:30.320 to do some.

00:51:31.280 And some people

00:51:32.240 saying, ugh,

00:51:33.400 and they're less

00:51:34.240 likely to do it.

00:51:35.060 teach people

00:51:46.720 how to

00:51:46.980 get revenge

00:51:48.060 on bullies

00:51:48.640 by being

00:51:49.240 successful.

00:51:50.040 successful.

00:51:50.840 Well, the

00:51:51.560 problem is not

00:51:52.200 everybody finds

00:51:54.140 success, even

00:51:55.620 by their own

00:51:56.160 definition of

00:51:56.800 whatever that

00:51:57.260 is.

00:51:58.700 So it would

00:51:59.580 be great if

00:52:00.560 you could train

00:52:01.100 people to say,

00:52:01.840 just go be

00:52:02.480 successful, and

00:52:03.840 your bully won't

00:52:04.540 bother you mentally

00:52:05.680 anymore.

00:52:06.120 but it's not as

00:52:08.600 available as it

00:52:09.420 should be.

00:52:10.160 And I would

00:52:10.560 argue that the

00:52:11.260 people who have

00:52:11.900 the greatest

00:52:13.280 ability to be

00:52:14.160 successful may

00:52:15.920 not be the ones

00:52:16.880 who are getting

00:52:17.340 bullied the most.

00:52:19.320 I mean, clearly

00:52:19.860 everybody gets

00:52:20.540 bullied, but it's

00:52:22.060 a matter of

00:52:22.500 degree.

00:52:27.660 All right.

00:52:32.720 Yeah, I would

00:52:33.460 agree.

00:52:35.080 All right.

00:52:36.120 The last

00:52:38.520 several days, I've

00:52:39.540 been experiencing

00:52:40.700 something weird by

00:52:42.080 my standards, which

00:52:44.320 is people starting

00:52:45.560 out disagreeing with

00:52:46.660 me and then getting

00:52:47.560 really quiet when

00:52:48.540 I'm done.

00:52:49.560 I don't know if

00:52:50.140 it's just the

00:52:50.620 topics, but it

00:52:55.540 was really shocking

00:52:56.380 with the willpower

00:52:58.040 thing that I did

00:52:59.040 yesterday about

00:52:59.780 diet.

00:53:00.960 I really expected

00:53:02.120 at the end of it,

00:53:02.880 I would have just as

00:53:03.620 much pushback as

00:53:04.600 when I started, and

00:53:05.920 it just got quiet.

00:53:08.120 And I'm seeing a

00:53:08.880 little bit of that

00:53:09.580 today.

00:53:10.820 Because the gun

00:53:11.860 topic usually just

00:53:12.940 has people attacking

00:53:14.460 me like crazy, even

00:53:15.780 if they're fans, even

00:53:17.680 if they like what I

00:53:18.540 do.

00:53:19.220 And I'm not seeing

00:53:20.400 that today.

00:53:22.160 Today, it looks like

00:53:23.040 people are sort of

00:53:23.820 going with it, and

00:53:26.520 just a little bit of

00:53:27.860 pushback.

00:53:29.000 Jason says, because it

00:53:30.320 was boring.

00:53:32.560 That could be it.

00:53:34.100 That could be it.

00:53:35.420 All right.

00:53:36.160 Well, is there any

00:53:37.200 topic I missed?

00:53:39.760 Johnny Depp trial

00:53:40.820 continues.

00:53:42.680 The Ukraine war

00:53:44.360 continues.

00:53:46.820 Sussman continues.

00:53:48.680 These are all sort of

00:53:49.680 things just continuing

00:53:51.040 of the NRA convention.

00:53:53.660 Let the regular news

00:53:54.940 talk about the

00:53:55.580 hypocrisy.

00:53:56.140 I don't like to do

00:53:57.520 the hypocrisy stories.

00:53:58.840 They're too boring.

00:54:00.800 They're just too

00:54:01.280 ordinary, I guess.

00:54:03.520 China? 0.73

00:54:06.800 Yeah, China.

00:54:07.980 What about China?

00:54:09.340 There's so much to say

00:54:10.360 about China at the

00:54:11.040 moment.

00:54:12.700 All right.

00:54:13.040 So I continue to be

00:54:14.960 confused about the

00:54:16.300 global supply chain

00:54:18.420 problem and the food

00:54:20.040 shortage problem.

00:54:20.880 I don't understand

00:54:23.140 why it looks like

00:54:24.400 these are both

00:54:25.120 civilization-ending

00:54:27.000 problems, but we're

00:54:28.660 not really acting

00:54:29.540 like that.

00:54:31.540 Is it because they

00:54:32.660 aren't?

00:54:33.940 Is it because the

00:54:34.860 Adams law of slow-moving

00:54:37.080 disasters is doing

00:54:38.180 what it normally does?

00:54:39.300 Well, every time so

00:54:40.360 far, which is that

00:54:41.980 when we see a problem

00:54:43.780 with enough time to

00:54:44.820 respond, maybe we're

00:54:47.060 just doing work

00:54:47.780 arounds.

00:54:48.760 Are we just

00:54:49.320 responding well?

00:54:50.260 Is that all that's

00:54:51.580 happening?

00:54:52.600 Because I'm sitting

00:54:53.680 in my house in

00:54:55.060 2022, theoretically

00:54:57.660 in the middle of a

00:54:59.020 gigantic supply chain

00:55:00.660 shortage, and at the

00:55:02.400 moment, I'm unaware

00:55:04.440 of anything I have a

00:55:05.860 shortage of, or that

00:55:07.100 would...

00:55:08.520 I guess there's some

00:55:09.900 electronics that's

00:55:11.180 going to take a month

00:55:11.920 or so to get here,

00:55:13.260 but I don't really care

00:55:15.120 if electronics take a

00:55:16.280 month.

00:55:16.760 I mean, it's optional

00:55:17.580 electronics.

00:55:18.440 It's not like...

00:55:19.660 My phone gets here

00:55:20.640 right away.

00:55:23.520 Buying a car is hard,

00:55:25.560 but if you're not

00:55:26.180 buying a car, even

00:55:29.040 Dot's pretzels are

00:55:30.020 back.

00:55:31.200 Yeah, even the

00:55:32.200 shampoo I used is

00:55:33.300 back, although that

00:55:34.780 is actually a little

00:55:35.520 bit of shortage.

00:55:37.280 There were a host of

00:55:38.720 things that disappeared

00:55:39.660 during the pandemic

00:55:40.460 that are all back.

00:55:41.520 Are any of you having

00:55:43.660 any kind of eggs?

00:55:47.800 Eggs should not be a

00:55:48.640 shortage because they're

00:55:49.340 local, right?

00:55:51.260 Are eggs almost always

00:55:52.400 local, or is that...

00:55:53.460 Am I saying something

00:55:54.200 dumb?

00:55:55.220 I just assumed eggs

00:55:56.820 were local-ish, but

00:55:58.820 maybe that's just a dumb

00:56:01.220 statement.

00:56:02.840 Pet food, maybe specific

00:56:04.500 brands, but there's

00:56:05.640 plenty of pet food.

00:56:06.400 Yeah, shampoo for

00:56:10.800 what?

00:56:12.620 It's a good question.

00:56:13.880 Shampoo for what?

00:56:15.440 I'm going to answer

00:56:16.200 that because there's a

00:56:17.340 medical answer.

00:56:18.300 I use a medicated

00:56:19.220 shampoo, but I use it

00:56:22.100 on other parts of my

00:56:23.640 body as well.

00:56:25.040 So it's basically a

00:56:26.040 skin treatment.

00:56:27.860 It's not really...

00:56:28.740 I don't shampoo my

00:56:29.680 hair, obviously.

00:56:30.380 Sorry.

00:56:33.620 Sorry.

00:56:35.280 Didn't mean to give

00:56:36.160 you that information.

00:56:38.800 Low T.

00:56:40.040 What?

00:56:44.140 All right.

00:56:45.520 What if you figured

00:56:46.500 out the magic formula

00:56:47.520 for success, but it's

00:56:49.060 too late to apply it?

00:56:50.960 Well, it's never too

00:56:52.060 late.

00:56:52.660 Just your odds

00:56:53.400 probably go down as

00:56:55.840 you reach a certain

00:56:56.420 age.

00:56:58.000 All right.

00:56:58.320 Diesel shortages

00:56:59.040 are here.

00:57:00.060 All right.

00:57:01.060 So are there trucks

00:57:02.080 that actually are

00:57:03.300 abandoned because

00:57:05.640 of that?

00:57:06.100 I guess the thing I

00:57:06.940 don't know is are

00:57:07.740 we turning the corner

00:57:09.680 on these shortages

00:57:10.740 or are they at the

00:57:11.720 breaking point where

00:57:12.560 everything's going to

00:57:13.200 fall apart?

00:57:14.500 My guess is that we're

00:57:15.960 so good at logistics

00:57:18.560 and transportation and

00:57:19.840 our communication now

00:57:20.840 is so good that we

00:57:22.120 probably can adjust

00:57:23.240 pretty quickly to a

00:57:24.320 lot of things.

00:57:27.080 I would think.

00:57:27.980 For example, how long

00:57:32.320 does it take somebody

00:57:33.120 to invent a smaller

00:57:34.460 boat that can unload

00:57:36.380 larger boats at sea?

00:57:38.240 Is that a thing?

00:57:39.480 You take a container or

00:57:40.700 two at a time and just

00:57:42.600 do a bunch of boats.

00:57:44.100 There's probably ways you

00:57:45.200 can work around stuff.

00:57:46.160 That sounds like the

00:57:46.980 worst idea probably, but

00:57:48.540 there must be ways.

00:57:49.240 All right.

00:57:52.060 That's all for now.

00:57:55.060 Oh, I hear the Top

00:57:56.020 Gun movie is great.

00:57:57.520 I plan to watch that for

00:57:58.780 sure in a theater,

00:57:59.980 actually.

00:58:01.000 I'll talk to you

00:58:01.840 tomorrow.

00:58:02.240 tomorrow.

00:58:03.000 Tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 26, 2022

Episode 1755 Scott Adams： Social Media Should Be Banned For Minors, How Schools Are Bully Factories

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