Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 26, 2022


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


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

145.95703

Word Count

8,473

Sentence Count

603

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

In this episode, I talk about a new sneezing trick, and how I call people "Keith" when they disagree with my argument. Also, my printer is still not working, but it's not a big deal.


Transcript

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?
00:07:47.640 So I'm pro-Second Amendment, pro-gun.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
00:37:12.020 bullies,
00:37:13.100 a lot of
00:37:13.560 problems would
00:37:14.180 go away.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.