Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1766 Scott Adams： Everything Is Broken But I'll Tell you How To Fix It

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00:01:01.900 Well, Politico has an article that says that President Joe Biden is exasperated

00:01:09.120 that his poll numbers are worse than Donald Trump's.

00:01:15.640 Could you imagine doing this one last mission as a politician?

00:01:21.540 You're Joe Biden. It's several years ago, and you say, you know, only I can save the country from this orange menace.

00:01:31.100 And then he dedicates the closing years of his life, you know, the few that are left for him to enjoy his grandkids or whatever.

00:01:39.000 And he puts all of his energy into it, and when he gets there, finally, he saved the world from Donald Trump.

00:01:44.840 And then the poll numbers say, you know, we kind of prefer Trump, actually.

00:01:50.640 Compare it to you. Compare it to you.

00:01:53.880 I'm not saying anything bad about you.

00:01:56.640 I'm just saying we slightly compared the, you know, we preferred him.

00:02:01.200 Just slightly preferred him.

00:02:03.520 Can you imagine the failure that that would feel like?

00:02:05.840 You tried to save the world, and then when you were done and you thought you'd really accomplish something,

00:02:11.820 the world says, you know, turns out we didn't need to be saved, at least not by you.

00:02:19.500 So Biden's solution to this is rather than make good decisions and lead the country in a productive way,

00:02:27.900 what he really needs to do is travel more.

00:02:29.980 That's his solution.

00:02:32.640 He's going to travel more so that he can highlight his administration's wonderful accomplishments.

00:02:40.020 Now, what do you think of that?

00:02:42.300 Do you think the real problem is that the news has not been giving him a fair shake?

00:02:50.320 What?

00:02:53.440 No, I don't think that's the problem.

00:02:55.680 Could you imagine if the news treated Biden the way they treated Trump?

00:02:59.980 Just imagine what the polls would look like if Biden had one week of what Trump put up with every day.

00:03:10.640 It would be insanely funny.

00:03:13.160 I mean, Biden's approval record would be basically zero.

00:03:18.080 Well, on the good news, New York Times had two stories about cancer cures, different kinds of cancers.

00:03:25.400 But there are small studies that would need to be reproduced.

00:03:29.200 But in one of them, everybody in the trial got better.

00:03:35.720 What?

00:03:37.120 It was a small trial, but basically just everybody got better.

00:03:42.500 I mean, you know, that's pretty impressive.

00:03:46.300 I've never even heard of that.

00:03:47.640 Have you ever heard of that?

00:03:49.420 I think it was maybe 18 people or something.

00:03:52.080 It was pretty small.

00:03:52.720 Well, every one of them just got cured.

00:03:55.340 I've never heard of that.

00:03:57.380 I mean, that's certainly encouraging.

00:03:59.780 I don't want to get too happy about it too soon, but that's pretty encouraging.

00:04:05.100 And then there's, so there's something with pancreatic cancer.

00:04:08.880 Somebody got cured of pancreatic cancer.

00:04:11.900 That's the first time ever, isn't it?

00:04:13.960 Am I wrong about that?

00:04:16.420 I always thought pancreatic was the one that you can't do anything about.

00:04:21.600 Yeah, these are specific cancers.

00:04:23.580 I'm not talking about cancer as a category.

00:04:27.140 Right?

00:04:27.480 These are very specific.

00:04:28.560 There was an anal one and a pancreatic one.

00:04:31.600 Rectal one, I guess.

00:04:34.100 It came back.

00:04:35.300 It will come back, somebody says.

00:04:36.660 Oh, maybe.

00:04:37.560 Could be.

00:04:37.960 Anyway, I like to think that maybe some of this is true.

00:04:40.540 So I've been having fun with my Democrat hoax list.

00:04:46.900 It's a list of top ten hoaxes.

00:04:49.160 I put it in the form of a quiz.

00:04:52.060 And have you noticed how handy it is if you follow me on Twitter?

00:04:56.760 That you just whip out the top ten list of hoaxes and just paste it for your troll.

00:05:02.720 And your troll will just start going crazy.

00:05:06.280 Because it's a crazy maker if you're on the left.

00:05:09.360 There are too many things on the list to deal with.

00:05:12.720 And you can tell that at least some of them have got you.

00:05:15.980 Probably, I assume.

00:05:18.000 And then other people will pour in to say, if you believe this list, it actually is pretty handy.

00:05:25.000 Now, I'm going to challenge your independent thought.

00:05:30.560 Are you ready for this?

00:05:32.620 Are you ready for this?

00:05:34.060 You are the smartest audience in all of politics.

00:05:39.420 That actually might be true, by the way.

00:05:41.600 Let me say that again, because it's sort of a shocking thing to say.

00:05:45.960 But I think it might actually literally be true.

00:05:49.260 That this is the smartest audience in politics.

00:05:52.620 I think so.

00:05:53.720 Because it's the only audience who gets a continuous dose of, well, let's look at this the smart way.

00:06:00.200 Nobody else does that.

00:06:02.740 I don't, do they?

00:06:04.420 I mean, nobody else is even trying to do it, as far as I know.

00:06:07.920 But there is one really big glaring thing that I haven't been able to do.

00:06:13.960 Because I don't think I can get away with it.

00:06:17.000 With my own, with my own audience.

00:06:19.720 I don't think I can get away with it.

00:06:21.860 And that would be a top ten hoax list that people on the right believe.

00:06:28.920 I can't do that yet, can I?

00:06:31.300 You know I can't.

00:06:33.060 Because I would lose, I would lose my audience.

00:06:38.060 So what you're going to have to do, is you're going to have to do that for me.

00:06:41.400 So I want you to, you can do it here.

00:06:46.380 But you can also do it on Twitter.

00:06:48.640 Tell me what you think are the top ten hoaxes that people on the right believe.

00:06:57.340 That make a difference.

00:06:59.200 Uranium One would be on my list, yes.

00:07:01.600 But that's kind of old news.

00:07:03.120 I think I'd keep it, keep it to, Pizzagate, I don't know that anybody believes that now, do they?

00:07:09.500 Pizzagate was a temporary one that people did believe.

00:07:15.520 That's sort of part of Q, I think.

00:07:17.700 Maybe that's a subset of Q.

00:07:23.100 Somebody says the drinking bleach hoax is almost true.

00:07:27.880 Is it?

00:07:28.300 Some facts, yeah.

00:07:32.280 So if I were to say, okay, you got this wrong because the science says this, but you believe this, I can't get away with that.

00:07:40.420 Because the people on the right don't believe science.

00:07:44.280 Should they?

00:07:45.420 Probably not.

00:07:46.760 Probably not.

00:07:47.480 It's not irrational to not believe science anymore.

00:07:50.780 It used to be.

00:07:52.240 But not anymore.

00:07:52.880 It's pretty obvious that a lot of the science is fake.

00:07:55.920 We just don't know which is fake and what's real.

00:07:59.080 So how would you come up with a Republican list?

00:08:03.380 Because the Republican list, I think, would have more disagree with science stuff on it.

00:08:09.780 But that doesn't mean you're wrong.

00:08:12.780 Does it?

00:08:14.740 Disagreeing with science doesn't mean you're wrong anymore.

00:08:17.580 It used to.

00:08:18.560 Sort of.

00:08:19.440 Usually.

00:08:19.700 Yeah, I don't know if I could do it.

00:08:23.040 It's sort of a, they're not really apples and oranges.

00:08:25.640 But if you could do it, it would be really helpful.

00:08:28.540 Make me a list of Republican, hoaxes that Republicans believe.

00:08:32.840 All right.

00:08:34.480 And by the way, if you can't do that, if you can't do that, ask yourself why.

00:08:44.580 It's probably a problem with you.

00:08:46.420 It's probably not because there aren't any hoaxes.

00:08:52.020 It's probably a problem with you.

00:08:54.100 Now, I'm telling you straight up, I can't make that list.

00:08:58.460 Because if I did, then I would lose my ability to have an audience.

00:09:02.100 And then, you know, the cost would be higher than the benefit.

00:09:06.360 But you can.

00:09:07.560 So make me a list of hoaxes.

00:09:08.800 We'll see what we can do with that.

00:09:10.800 All right.

00:09:11.200 Well, here's some fake news, I think.

00:09:15.800 So on Fox News, they're reporting that the CDC met with representatives of the teachers' union several times

00:09:25.500 as they were trying to decide what the CDC policy on masks would be.

00:09:30.100 Now, the implication is that the CDC got their so-called science from the teachers' unions instead of science itself.

00:09:42.040 So that's the nature of the story.

00:09:44.540 It doesn't say it as directly as I just said it.

00:09:47.580 But the way it's presented is sort of as a question, you know.

00:09:51.960 Hey, were they using the teachers' unions and ignoring science?

00:09:56.360 To which I say, fake news, fake news.

00:10:00.480 Now, I think I can call fake news on this better than other people.

00:10:04.500 Because I'm literally the number one critic of teachers' unions in the United States.

00:10:10.640 Literally, nobody has a harder line against the teachers' unions than I do.

00:10:15.620 And a lot of people don't like them.

00:10:17.360 But nobody has a harder line as I do.

00:10:19.160 Because I say they're the source of systemic racism.

00:10:22.100 In addition to the source of other badness.

00:10:24.600 So I hate the teachers' unions for reasons that the right would like.

00:10:32.600 But also reasons that the left should like.

00:10:36.540 The left should like to have better schools for people of color.

00:10:41.300 Better schools for low-income people.

00:10:43.440 Better schools for black Americans.

00:10:47.060 The left should like all that.

00:10:48.480 That's what I want.

00:10:49.560 And I think the teachers' unions are the obstacle to that.

00:10:52.700 So nobody hates the teachers' unions more than I do.

00:10:56.140 But can we grow up a little bit?

00:10:59.140 Let's grow up a little bit.

00:11:00.880 You're the head of the CDC.

00:11:02.560 And you're going to make a decision about schools and masks.

00:11:06.580 You think you're not going to talk to the teachers' unions several times?

00:11:11.140 They're the main stakeholders.

00:11:13.280 Or, you know, there are some of them.

00:11:15.320 Of course you are.

00:11:17.740 You should talk to them a lot.

00:11:20.400 Now, that doesn't mean that you take their advice over science.

00:11:26.720 But there's no evidence of that.

00:11:29.500 There's no evidence that the CDC listened, at least in this story.

00:11:34.160 There's no evidence that the CDC listened to the teachers' unions,

00:11:37.820 listened to science,

00:11:39.600 decided that they were not the same,

00:11:41.300 and then decided to side with the teachers' unions.

00:11:44.840 That didn't really happen.

00:11:46.880 Or, let me say,

00:11:48.260 it's not presented in any kind of evidence that was suggested.

00:11:52.120 The only thing this story tells us

00:11:53.900 is that the CDC did exactly what you'd want them to do.

00:11:58.080 They talked to the stakeholders multiple times.

00:12:01.860 That's an A+.

00:12:02.800 That's A+.

00:12:04.620 You get promoted for that.

00:12:08.940 You don't get criticized for that.

00:12:12.320 I'm seeing tons of pushback here.

00:12:14.380 Nope, nope, nope.

00:12:16.080 All right.

00:12:16.420 Stop saying nope.

00:12:18.360 You have to add something besides N-O-P-E.

00:12:21.300 That's nothing.

00:12:22.700 All right.

00:12:23.320 Don't make me get on you.

00:12:24.780 You know I don't like this.

00:12:26.620 You know I don't like it when you just say no.

00:12:28.820 Because you have room for a reason.

00:12:30.860 Tell me what your reason is.

00:12:32.160 All right.

00:12:33.500 Or just don't comment.

00:12:37.620 All right.

00:12:38.800 So, if I were going to rate this one,

00:12:41.560 I would rate it fake news.

00:12:43.160 How comfortable would you be with that?

00:12:46.140 And by the way, keep in mind,

00:12:49.060 I think probably the CDC did take too much guidance

00:12:52.620 from the teachers' unions.

00:12:54.300 Probably.

00:12:55.620 But there's not evidence of it.

00:12:58.700 Right?

00:12:59.460 I can have a suspicion,

00:13:00.740 but this story just feeds my suspicion.

00:13:04.520 It doesn't tell me whether it happened or not.

00:13:07.340 And I'm not sure that the...

00:13:09.200 It's hard for me to believe that the head of the CDC

00:13:11.740 would literally ignore science

00:13:14.560 for what the teachers' unions wanted.

00:13:18.060 I actually just don't believe that's true.

00:13:20.560 I think they may have convinced themselves

00:13:22.220 that science was different than what you think.

00:13:24.140 They may have had other political considerations, sure.

00:13:28.100 But I don't think they just went to the teachers' unions

00:13:30.480 and said,

00:13:31.020 Hey, Randy Weingarten,

00:13:32.460 tell me what to do with science.

00:13:34.560 I don't think that happened.

00:13:35.880 That feels like fake news.

00:13:38.420 Well, speaking of fake news,

00:13:40.240 the new CEO of CNN

00:13:41.860 has announced,

00:13:43.980 or at least we know somehow,

00:13:45.260 that he wants the network

00:13:47.940 to have more nuance

00:13:49.100 and less hype.

00:13:51.620 More nuance and less hype.

00:13:54.000 Because if I were to look at

00:13:55.560 the problems with CNN

00:13:56.920 over the last several years,

00:13:59.120 what I'd say is,

00:14:00.900 Hey,

00:14:02.280 you seem to have insufficient nuance

00:14:04.560 and too much hype.

00:14:07.560 No, I would not say that.

00:14:09.780 Do you know what the problem with CNN

00:14:11.040 has been over the last few years?

00:14:13.880 Literally making up news.

00:14:18.040 How about less of that?

00:14:21.920 I'm not really sure that nuance and hype

00:14:24.780 are exactly the target zones here.

00:14:28.040 How about don't make up stories

00:14:30.400 that are just made up?

00:14:32.780 How about stop saying

00:14:33.820 that the president said

00:14:34.900 you should drink bleach?

00:14:36.580 That's a made-up story.

00:14:38.640 That's not nuance.

00:14:40.680 There's no nuance there.

00:14:42.960 That's not hype.

00:14:44.660 That's just made up.

00:14:47.880 So,

00:14:48.940 CNN's

00:14:50.200 trying to be more serious,

00:14:52.280 but

00:14:52.360 the only thing that's going to do

00:14:54.100 is reduce their profits.

00:14:59.360 How many people

00:15:00.340 do you think

00:15:00.900 use Twitter

00:15:02.020 as a percentage of Americans?

00:15:03.820 All right.

00:15:05.960 Let's say

00:15:06.400 just America.

00:15:07.600 I don't know how it shakes out

00:15:08.980 for the rest of the world,

00:15:10.100 but how many Americans

00:15:11.120 do you think

00:15:11.660 use Twitter?

00:15:13.280 Just give me a guess.

00:15:16.580 You know,

00:15:17.180 so I'm seeing 15%,

00:15:19.020 et cetera.

00:15:20.980 Interestingly,

00:15:21.920 because your guesses

00:15:22.860 are very close

00:15:23.880 to what

00:15:24.600 you

00:15:26.040 specifically

00:15:27.460 watch.

00:15:29.540 so among Republicans

00:15:31.340 it's around 17%.

00:15:32.920 So those of you

00:15:34.660 who are guessing

00:15:35.120 15%,

00:15:36.160 for the people

00:15:37.860 you know,

00:15:39.120 pretty close.

00:15:40.220 Pretty good guess.

00:15:41.000 That's good guessing,

00:15:41.740 by the way.

00:15:42.540 If you didn't know

00:15:43.280 the answer

00:15:43.720 and you guessed 15%

00:15:45.240 and you're a Republican,

00:15:47.260 that was a pretty good guess.

00:15:48.860 Pretty good guess.

00:15:50.400 It's around 23%

00:15:51.740 for America in general

00:15:52.860 because there are way more

00:15:54.180 Democrat-leaning

00:15:55.100 and independents.

00:15:58.520 So between the Democrats

00:15:59.780 and the Democrat-leaning

00:16:01.080 independents,

00:16:01.820 32% of them

00:16:03.260 are using,

00:16:04.400 so basically

00:16:05.520 twice as many Democrats

00:16:07.040 as Republicans

00:16:07.900 using Twitter.

00:16:10.920 I think we found

00:16:12.400 the problem.

00:16:14.920 This might be

00:16:15.880 the whole problem.

00:16:17.620 It might be.

00:16:19.620 Just game this out.

00:16:21.980 In my opinion,

00:16:23.020 Twitter is the

00:16:24.260 tail that wags

00:16:25.360 the dog.

00:16:26.700 In other words,

00:16:27.220 the mainstream media,

00:16:28.740 they could do

00:16:30.240 something different

00:16:31.000 than what's happening

00:16:31.740 on Twitter,

00:16:32.280 but not for long

00:16:33.120 because Twitter

00:16:34.980 basically forms

00:16:36.640 the opinion

00:16:37.200 of the public.

00:16:38.960 There's usually two.

00:16:40.200 There's a left opinion

00:16:41.120 and a right opinion.

00:16:42.180 But that sort of

00:16:42.880 gets formed

00:16:43.320 on social media,

00:16:44.360 which is primarily Twitter

00:16:45.520 because that's where

00:16:46.560 the media people

00:16:48.080 hang out.

00:16:49.500 And once the truth

00:16:51.520 is defined on Twitter,

00:16:52.700 the regular media

00:16:54.860 outlets over time

00:16:56.420 will start to

00:16:57.020 conform to it.

00:16:58.380 Now, on day one

00:16:59.160 of a story,

00:16:59.800 it's a two-way thing.

00:17:01.560 On day one

00:17:02.160 of a new story,

00:17:03.520 the news might be

00:17:04.400 breaking it on TV

00:17:05.420 and Twitter's reacting

00:17:06.640 and then the reactions

00:17:07.700 are getting back

00:17:08.300 on TV

00:17:08.760 and then that reaction

00:17:10.460 becomes a story

00:17:11.360 and then Twitter reacts.

00:17:12.980 So in the beginning,

00:17:13.920 it's all this

00:17:14.320 back and forth.

00:17:15.860 But stories eventually

00:17:17.600 settle into a narrative.

00:17:19.260 And I think the narrative

00:17:21.340 is created on Twitter

00:17:22.460 and then the rest

00:17:24.500 of the country

00:17:25.120 sees how it tested

00:17:26.140 because Twitter's

00:17:27.600 like this big

00:17:28.120 testing site

00:17:29.660 where every tweet

00:17:31.180 gets tested.

00:17:32.620 Ooh, if I said it

00:17:33.580 this way,

00:17:34.420 how many retweets

00:17:35.440 do I get?

00:17:36.520 But if I worded it

00:17:37.540 this way.

00:17:38.980 So Twitter's

00:17:40.100 this massive A-B

00:17:41.100 testing for narratives.

00:17:43.580 And once a narrative

00:17:44.680 is settled,

00:17:45.800 you know,

00:17:46.020 enough new information

00:17:47.180 is coming in

00:17:48.060 or stopped

00:17:48.960 and the fog of war

00:17:50.380 is calming down

00:17:51.820 a little bit.

00:17:52.940 Twitter decides

00:17:53.640 what we think.

00:17:55.920 And there are

00:17:56.580 twice as many Democrats

00:17:57.700 as Republicans

00:17:58.420 using it.

00:17:59.720 In theory,

00:18:01.060 this explains

00:18:02.400 everything you see.

00:18:04.500 The number of people

00:18:05.640 who use Twitter

00:18:06.460 is twice as many people

00:18:08.900 leaning in one direction,

00:18:10.620 which in theory

00:18:11.740 should cause

00:18:13.120 the stronger narrative

00:18:14.340 to be wherever

00:18:15.320 they are leaning.

00:18:17.180 and that that should

00:18:18.280 bleed over

00:18:19.100 into the mainstream media

00:18:20.340 and that the truth

00:18:22.300 would be ignored

00:18:24.120 in that process.

00:18:26.120 Because when Twitter

00:18:27.300 is testing a narrative,

00:18:29.080 you know,

00:18:29.300 what works on the right,

00:18:30.800 what works on the left,

00:18:32.500 when it's testing

00:18:33.300 those narratives,

00:18:34.040 you know what it's not doing?

00:18:36.100 Fact-checking.

00:18:37.660 It's not fact-checking.

00:18:39.340 It's just looking

00:18:40.280 for what is most popular.

00:18:42.220 And the one

00:18:42.960 that's most popular

00:18:43.760 typically is the one

00:18:45.260 with the least factual basis.

00:18:47.180 Because what makes

00:18:48.320 something so sticky

00:18:49.700 and exciting

00:18:50.500 and causes your head

00:18:52.040 to explode

00:18:52.840 is that it doesn't

00:18:54.240 make sense.

00:18:56.020 Those are the ones

00:18:56.800 that get you going.

00:18:57.480 Like, my God,

00:18:58.420 did they really do that?

00:18:59.720 How dumb could they be

00:19:01.020 to have done that, right?

00:19:02.200 The outrageous stuff

00:19:03.240 that isn't even real

00:19:04.120 didn't really even happen.

00:19:06.720 Those are the things

00:19:07.380 that get us excited.

00:19:08.120 So because there are

00:19:09.640 twice as many Democrats

00:19:10.800 as Republicans

00:19:12.980 on Twitter,

00:19:15.500 everything else

00:19:17.400 is explained by that.

00:19:20.340 Isn't it?

00:19:24.580 Because I feel like

00:19:27.280 if the numbers

00:19:28.140 were at least similar,

00:19:30.460 then the competing narratives

00:19:32.440 would get more challenged

00:19:34.140 from the other side.

00:19:35.040 And right now,

00:19:36.520 the people on the left

00:19:37.300 don't even see

00:19:37.840 the arguments on the right.

00:19:39.980 Have any of you

00:19:40.880 used my hoax quiz,

00:19:42.840 my top ten hoaxes?

00:19:45.620 Has anybody used it

00:19:46.700 to see what kind

00:19:47.920 of reaction you get?

00:19:49.440 It's quite a reaction,

00:19:50.680 isn't it?

00:19:51.860 I'm hearing from people

00:19:52.960 who have.

00:19:54.360 And I just saw

00:19:55.520 somebody say

00:19:56.320 it ruined somebody's day

00:19:57.580 yesterday.

00:19:58.040 Ha ha ha.

00:20:00.700 But when you see

00:20:01.740 the reaction,

00:20:02.540 it's really

00:20:03.240 the flailing

00:20:04.340 and the desperation

00:20:05.900 when they see the list.

00:20:07.940 Because it is a moment

00:20:09.040 when you realize

00:20:09.680 that you've been fooled.

00:20:11.420 On some level,

00:20:12.400 you realize it.

00:20:13.020 And then your brain

00:20:13.920 has to, like,

00:20:14.860 unrealize it

00:20:15.760 to keep yourself sane.

00:20:17.940 So you can't really

00:20:18.840 just say,

00:20:19.260 oh, man,

00:20:19.780 I really got fooled

00:20:20.560 for five years in a row.

00:20:22.740 So you don't do that.

00:20:24.200 Like, brains don't do that.

00:20:25.540 Oh, I guess I've been wrong

00:20:26.540 for five years.

00:20:27.300 I guess I'll just admit

00:20:28.500 everything I thought

00:20:29.160 was wrong.

00:20:30.480 Nope.

00:20:30.800 Instead,

00:20:32.020 you will redefine it

00:20:33.100 until you're right again.

00:20:34.520 Right?

00:20:34.700 Your brain will just

00:20:35.380 make you right.

00:20:38.420 All right.

00:20:39.880 But anyway,

00:20:41.180 Twitter is wagging the dog

00:20:42.900 and now everything

00:20:43.780 has been explained.

00:20:45.640 And maybe Elon Musk

00:20:46.680 can really make a difference.

00:20:48.900 It wouldn't take much

00:20:50.140 in terms of tweaking

00:20:51.300 how Twitter works

00:20:52.960 to make a difference.

00:20:55.900 So this is not a joke.

00:20:57.580 This is like a real thing

00:20:59.880 that's happening

00:21:00.400 in my head.

00:21:02.600 When I see people

00:21:03.800 who have been duped

00:21:05.220 by CNN and MSNBC

00:21:07.180 and the rest,

00:21:08.920 I no longer think of them

00:21:10.700 as news consumers

00:21:11.840 or people who disagree

00:21:13.720 with me

00:21:14.420 or people on the opposite side

00:21:17.200 of some political issue.

00:21:19.820 I used to.

00:21:21.180 I used to think

00:21:22.160 we were talking

00:21:22.740 about the issue.

00:21:24.220 But now it's so obvious

00:21:25.740 that they're just victims.

00:21:27.580 And I'm starting

00:21:28.900 to feel this empathy.

00:21:30.580 Like I'll see them

00:21:31.300 flailing around

00:21:32.240 thinking that

00:21:32.980 the president

00:21:34.200 once called

00:21:34.760 neo-Nazis fine people.

00:21:36.920 They actually believe

00:21:38.000 that happened

00:21:38.480 in the real world

00:21:39.280 that that actually happened.

00:21:40.360 That's what they think.

00:21:41.940 If you're new to me,

00:21:43.940 that didn't happen.

00:21:45.460 It's the most famous

00:21:46.380 example of fake news.

00:21:48.280 But at least a third

00:21:49.420 of the country

00:21:49.900 thinks it actually happened.

00:21:51.100 They think they saw

00:21:51.700 the video,

00:21:52.540 which doesn't exist.

00:21:54.540 They see a fake video,

00:21:56.040 but the real one

00:21:56.900 doesn't exist.

00:21:57.580 All right.

00:22:00.860 So is anybody else

00:22:02.120 having that same shift

00:22:03.900 where they're starting

00:22:08.340 to believe

00:22:08.840 that the people

00:22:09.740 consuming a certain

00:22:10.660 kind of news

00:22:11.220 are just victims?

00:22:15.400 What do you think?

00:22:17.600 Does it feel like that?

00:22:19.260 It does.

00:22:20.080 I mean,

00:22:20.300 I'm actually starting

00:22:21.080 to feel sorry for them

00:22:22.280 in a genuine way,

00:22:23.460 not a funny,

00:22:25.520 ironic,

00:22:25.940 political way,

00:22:27.820 but an actual,

00:22:29.040 like literally,

00:22:29.860 I have empathy for them.

00:22:31.160 Like,

00:22:31.500 oh, God,

00:22:32.960 what happened to you?

00:22:34.480 I'm so sorry.

00:22:36.060 Like, actually,

00:22:36.760 literally.

00:22:38.680 And I saw a hashtag

00:22:39.700 that probably you've seen

00:22:41.840 before,

00:22:42.220 but I hadn't seen it

00:22:42.820 until now.

00:22:44.620 Long haul TDS.

00:22:47.140 Hashtag long haul TDS.

00:22:49.120 And I thought,

00:22:51.500 oh, my God,

00:22:52.160 that's exactly what it is.

00:22:53.940 It is long haul TDS.

00:22:56.060 That's exactly what it is.

00:22:58.820 And it's funny

00:23:00.260 that it has a name.

00:23:02.340 All right.

00:23:04.400 Jeffrey Miller says

00:23:05.740 that CNN and MSNBC

00:23:07.200 are ideological

00:23:08.240 Stockholm syndrome,

00:23:10.120 monetized.

00:23:11.400 And I thought,

00:23:12.580 ouch.

00:23:13.760 Now,

00:23:14.000 if you don't know

00:23:14.400 what Stockholm syndrome is,

00:23:16.400 but most of you do,

00:23:17.880 because,

00:23:18.300 again,

00:23:19.460 smartest audience

00:23:20.680 in all of politics

00:23:21.680 right here.

00:23:22.880 But for those two people

00:23:24.220 who dropped in today

00:23:25.340 who don't know

00:23:25.780 what Stockholm syndrome is,

00:23:27.180 it has to do with the fact

00:23:28.160 that if you're captured

00:23:29.380 by bad people

00:23:30.360 and they hold you

00:23:32.260 long enough,

00:23:33.660 you'll start to identify

00:23:34.700 with them

00:23:35.180 and become a bad person.

00:23:37.040 So instead of being,

00:23:38.460 you know,

00:23:38.820 the good person

00:23:39.660 who is captured

00:23:40.320 by bad people,

00:23:41.180 you just become

00:23:42.820 one of the bad people

00:23:43.680 because you're hanging around

00:23:44.800 and listening to their propaganda

00:23:46.300 and eventually you're like,

00:23:47.580 you know,

00:23:48.460 you know,

00:23:48.860 you've got a pretty good worldview.

00:23:49.960 I'll just join it.

00:23:51.780 So it does feel like

00:23:53.900 the poor victims

00:23:56.260 of the news

00:23:57.160 are,

00:23:58.600 instead of seeing

00:23:59.860 themselves as victims,

00:24:01.720 they've come to identify

00:24:02.900 with their abusers,

00:24:04.700 literally,

00:24:06.400 literally identifying

00:24:07.740 with their abusers

00:24:08.740 and adopting the point of view

00:24:10.360 of the abuser.

00:24:11.180 And I thought,

00:24:13.800 usually when you hear

00:24:14.620 an analogy like this,

00:24:16.300 like the analogy

00:24:17.000 is too far

00:24:18.220 from the actual thing

00:24:19.160 and it's just

00:24:19.600 a distraction,

00:24:20.920 but this is actually,

00:24:22.080 it's not even an analogy.

00:24:24.740 It's actually

00:24:25.580 an actual description

00:24:26.740 of what's happening.

00:24:28.260 They are captive victims

00:24:29.560 who have come

00:24:30.360 to identify

00:24:30.980 with their captives

00:24:31.820 and their abusers.

00:24:33.900 Like,

00:24:34.300 literally.

00:24:35.660 Right?

00:24:36.720 It started out

00:24:37.620 like an analogy,

00:24:38.900 but when I was done,

00:24:39.680 I was like,

00:24:39.960 no,

00:24:40.280 it's not an analogy.

00:24:41.180 I just described

00:24:41.840 literally what's happening.

00:24:44.880 So we've got

00:24:46.100 all of our

00:24:46.700 psychological explanations

00:24:48.080 lined up.

00:24:48.840 Too many Democrats,

00:24:50.960 Twitter is wagging the dog,

00:24:54.240 and Stockholm Syndrome

00:24:55.760 is locking those people

00:24:57.520 into some kind of

00:24:58.540 long-haul TDS.

00:25:00.160 So long-haul TDS

00:25:02.800 and Stockholm Syndrome,

00:25:04.860 very similar.

00:25:06.560 Two good explanations

00:25:07.720 of what's happening.

00:25:10.940 And then Ron Frey,

00:25:12.880 or Frey,

00:25:13.680 how would you pronounce

00:25:14.480 F-R-E-Y?

00:25:17.240 Let's crowd source this.

00:25:19.820 F-R-E-Y.

00:25:22.040 You pronounce it as

00:25:22.920 Frey or Frey?

00:25:25.160 Frey.

00:25:27.220 You're not helping

00:25:28.180 at all.

00:25:31.380 All your suggestions

00:25:32.560 are both directions.

00:25:34.940 All right.

00:25:35.540 We're going to call him

00:25:36.680 Ron.

00:25:38.920 Well,

00:25:39.500 Ron says

00:25:40.100 Twitter is essentially

00:25:41.200 a political video game.

00:25:43.720 He tweets,

00:25:44.440 it's a virtual

00:25:45.160 political world.

00:25:46.820 It has real people

00:25:47.720 and plenty

00:25:48.240 to keep the engagement

00:25:49.200 moving.

00:25:50.260 Right?

00:25:50.740 And I thought to myself,

00:25:53.680 yeah,

00:25:54.960 and then

00:25:55.300 it keeps your rating

00:25:56.960 high to avoid

00:25:57.680 the ratios.

00:25:58.500 So you're basically

00:25:59.100 playing for retreats

00:26:00.320 and subscribers.

00:26:02.520 And he says

00:26:03.320 it's a time vampire.

00:26:05.620 That's the way

00:26:06.260 I play it.

00:26:08.620 Do you feel

00:26:09.280 the same thing?

00:26:10.220 Now,

00:26:10.560 of course,

00:26:10.960 I use Twitter

00:26:11.820 for professional reasons

00:26:14.340 as well as entertainment.

00:26:15.660 So it's different

00:26:16.500 for me.

00:26:17.460 But when I'm

00:26:18.240 on Twitter,

00:26:18.720 I'm playing it

00:26:21.220 like a game,

00:26:22.320 like a video game.

00:26:23.860 And I'm conscious of it.

00:26:25.860 Do you do that?

00:26:27.540 Now,

00:26:28.060 it could be

00:26:28.600 because I get more,

00:26:29.620 I have more followers.

00:26:30.980 So whenever I do something,

00:26:32.440 I get more of an instant feedback.

00:26:34.580 If you don't have

00:26:35.160 many followers,

00:26:35.940 you probably don't have

00:26:36.600 anything like this happening.

00:26:38.120 But once you reach

00:26:38.840 a certain number

00:26:39.420 of followers,

00:26:41.820 the number of likes

00:26:43.500 and retweets

00:26:44.260 become a little

00:26:45.680 dopamine source.

00:26:46.960 and I do check

00:26:49.400 my tweets

00:26:50.080 to see how they did.

00:26:51.520 And when they did well,

00:26:52.420 I go,

00:26:52.740 ooh.

00:26:54.240 And here's another thing

00:26:55.060 I do.

00:26:55.860 I mean,

00:26:56.100 it's just so diabolically

00:26:57.600 disgusting.

00:27:00.460 And yet,

00:27:01.440 like all entertainment,

00:27:02.560 it's fun.

00:27:03.980 I also check

00:27:05.140 to see

00:27:05.540 how many

00:27:06.340 blue check people

00:27:07.540 liked or retweeted

00:27:09.320 my content.

00:27:11.500 And I,

00:27:11.940 and I,

00:27:12.600 mentally,

00:27:13.340 I give them

00:27:13.900 greater weight.

00:27:16.000 Should I?

00:27:17.400 Well,

00:27:17.700 not really.

00:27:19.140 You know,

00:27:19.600 they got,

00:27:20.160 usually it's people

00:27:20.840 who got famous

00:27:21.460 for something

00:27:22.000 unrelated to the

00:27:23.060 quality of their

00:27:23.700 tweeting.

00:27:25.100 They usually got famous

00:27:26.340 and for no reason

00:27:28.080 had anything to do

00:27:28.960 with,

00:27:29.380 you know,

00:27:29.940 how clever they were.

00:27:31.740 So why should I care

00:27:33.180 if a blue check person

00:27:34.400 retweets me

00:27:35.320 or likes something?

00:27:36.460 I shouldn't,

00:27:37.780 but I guess

00:27:38.240 I'm a little,

00:27:38.800 you know,

00:27:39.120 dopamine hit.

00:27:41.400 And I see that

00:27:42.280 when I,

00:27:42.820 sometimes if I like

00:27:43.780 or retweet something,

00:27:44.660 people will talk

00:27:46.320 about it

00:27:46.880 because you can see

00:27:47.600 they're getting

00:27:48.200 a little dopamine

00:27:48.880 hit as well

00:27:49.500 because I have

00:27:50.340 a big account.

00:27:51.940 And,

00:27:52.800 anyway,

00:27:56.020 I do play it

00:27:57.200 like a game.

00:27:58.000 So I'm very aware

00:27:59.080 of it as a

00:27:59.960 gamified political

00:28:01.460 thing.

00:28:06.680 Let's see,

00:28:07.260 what else is going on?

00:28:07.800 Do you know

00:28:09.180 Kim.com,

00:28:10.420 all of you?

00:28:11.740 Do you know

00:28:12.040 who he is?

00:28:13.580 Kim.com,

00:28:14.660 I think he is

00:28:15.680 living in New Zealand.

00:28:17.300 Somebody give me

00:28:17.940 an update on that.

00:28:20.180 And he,

00:28:20.960 the U.S.

00:28:21.600 government went

00:28:22.280 hard at him

00:28:22.980 for his,

00:28:25.420 he had a site

00:28:26.200 where you could

00:28:26.740 steal copyrighted

00:28:28.500 materials and stuff,

00:28:29.440 I guess.

00:28:30.300 Is that true?

00:28:31.660 Mega Upload

00:28:32.360 was his company,

00:28:33.000 right?

00:28:33.460 And they got

00:28:34.120 taken down

00:28:34.680 for alleged

00:28:35.600 piracy reasons.

00:28:37.800 Now,

00:28:38.260 he's also

00:28:38.560 big in crypto,

00:28:39.700 am I right?

00:28:42.600 He's,

00:28:43.220 big in crypto.

00:28:45.300 Well,

00:28:45.820 he had a

00:28:46.540 tweet thread

00:28:47.660 today

00:28:48.100 that is the

00:28:49.540 scariest thing

00:28:50.540 I've read

00:28:52.300 in a long time.

00:28:54.720 And,

00:28:55.240 here's the problem.

00:28:57.120 I can't figure out

00:28:58.320 where he's wrong.

00:29:00.700 I think he is wrong.

00:29:03.400 But,

00:29:04.000 it might be

00:29:04.480 just my wishful

00:29:05.260 thinking.

00:29:05.640 Now,

00:29:08.000 I don't usually

00:29:08.660 go this dark,

00:29:10.400 because I don't

00:29:10.900 want to leave you

00:29:11.480 with this sort

00:29:11.940 of thought.

00:29:13.140 But,

00:29:13.500 it's the darkest

00:29:14.060 thought I've

00:29:14.720 ever seen.

00:29:16.720 And so,

00:29:17.500 for a while,

00:29:18.280 I thought I was

00:29:18.800 going to ignore it.

00:29:20.520 But then I thought,

00:29:21.680 I don't know

00:29:23.540 that I can.

00:29:24.180 And it goes like this.

00:29:26.080 I'll summarize

00:29:26.800 his argument.

00:29:28.640 If you took

00:29:29.420 all of the assets

00:29:30.340 of all the

00:29:31.140 corporations

00:29:32.000 and richest people

00:29:33.140 in the United States

00:29:33.820 and added them

00:29:34.600 together,

00:29:35.540 it would come

00:29:36.160 nowhere near close

00:29:37.340 to paying off

00:29:38.120 the national debt,

00:29:39.620 which is growing

00:29:40.380 every day.

00:29:42.360 And,

00:29:43.080 the only reason

00:29:44.780 that we've gotten

00:29:45.320 away with it,

00:29:46.060 basically we're

00:29:46.780 already bankrupt

00:29:47.480 as a country,

00:29:48.420 would be his

00:29:48.980 statement.

00:29:50.060 The only reason

00:29:50.760 we've gotten

00:29:51.160 away with it

00:29:51.820 is because the

00:29:52.840 U.S. dollar

00:29:53.360 is the

00:29:54.600 reserve currency.

00:29:57.340 How many of you

00:29:58.060 know what that

00:29:58.560 even means?

00:29:59.300 Do you know

00:30:01.920 what it means

00:30:02.460 that the U.S. dollar

00:30:03.860 is the reserve

00:30:04.700 currency?

00:30:06.200 Because we talk

00:30:06.980 about it all the

00:30:07.480 time,

00:30:07.820 or it's in the

00:30:08.300 news all the

00:30:08.680 time.

00:30:09.060 I'll bet no

00:30:09.560 more than

00:30:10.340 10 to 20%

00:30:12.960 of the public

00:30:13.480 knows what

00:30:13.900 that even

00:30:14.280 means.

00:30:15.360 10%,

00:30:15.920 I would say.

00:30:17.820 All right,

00:30:18.040 here's the

00:30:18.660 quick and

00:30:20.300 dirty explanation.

00:30:22.380 It's a reserve

00:30:23.340 currency because

00:30:24.980 it's the one

00:30:25.520 that everybody

00:30:26.020 will agree

00:30:26.940 to take.

00:30:27.520 So if you're

00:30:28.900 buying or

00:30:29.420 selling something

00:30:30.020 with other

00:30:30.500 countries,

00:30:31.560 you can be

00:30:32.400 sure that they

00:30:33.060 would be

00:30:33.380 willing to

00:30:34.160 buy and

00:30:35.220 sell in

00:30:35.600 dollars.

00:30:36.300 So you

00:30:36.800 better have

00:30:37.200 some of

00:30:37.500 those dollars

00:30:38.000 there.

00:30:38.640 So you

00:30:39.160 can buy

00:30:39.500 stuff in

00:30:39.940 dollars and

00:30:40.600 they can

00:30:41.020 pay you in

00:30:41.440 dollars.

00:30:42.220 So basically,

00:30:43.280 no matter

00:30:43.720 what currency

00:30:44.360 you have,

00:30:45.460 you also have

00:30:46.300 to deal in

00:30:46.780 dollars because

00:30:48.000 it's the one

00:30:48.440 that everybody

00:30:48.900 will take.

00:30:50.200 Now what

00:30:50.600 happens if

00:30:51.020 that changes?

00:30:52.860 What happens

00:30:53.440 if people say,

00:30:54.100 you know,

00:30:54.360 this dollar is

00:30:54.980 getting kind

00:30:55.360 of sketchy?

00:30:56.560 We'll take

00:30:57.120 other stuff.

00:30:58.900 Well, the

00:30:59.520 whole thing can

00:31:00.120 fall apart

00:31:00.620 pretty quickly.

00:31:03.040 And we're

00:31:03.760 running as

00:31:04.680 fast as we

00:31:05.320 can in the

00:31:06.080 direction of

00:31:06.600 making all

00:31:07.080 money worthless.

00:31:08.980 And there's

00:31:09.640 nothing that

00:31:10.120 looks like it's

00:31:10.640 going to stop

00:31:11.100 it.

00:31:12.220 Now, that's

00:31:13.020 the nature of

00:31:13.540 all problems

00:31:14.180 though, right?

00:31:15.200 Climate change,

00:31:16.200 a few years

00:31:16.780 ago, it

00:31:17.300 looked like

00:31:17.640 nothing was

00:31:18.220 going to

00:31:18.420 stop it.

00:31:19.440 Today, yeah,

00:31:20.800 it looks like

00:31:21.180 we'll get a

00:31:21.860 good handle on

00:31:22.400 it.

00:31:22.620 But that

00:31:24.100 changed only

00:31:24.720 in the last

00:31:25.140 year or so

00:31:25.700 when we got

00:31:26.300 real serious

00:31:26.900 about nuclear

00:31:27.540 and, you

00:31:28.680 know, we

00:31:28.820 got real

00:31:29.140 serious about

00:31:29.720 scrubbing

00:31:30.320 scrubbers,

00:31:31.440 taking CO2

00:31:32.220 out, and

00:31:32.940 got serious

00:31:34.260 about how

00:31:35.020 to remediate

00:31:35.860 things so

00:31:36.580 that we

00:31:36.980 can survive

00:31:38.040 the damage

00:31:39.200 better.

00:31:41.580 So here's

00:31:42.540 the thing.

00:31:43.260 We have

00:31:43.800 a financial

00:31:45.520 Armageddon

00:31:47.820 which is

00:31:49.360 forming and

00:31:50.500 has formed

00:31:51.160 and is just

00:31:51.700 getting bigger

00:31:52.280 and it's

00:31:53.560 sort of a

00:31:54.180 end of

00:31:56.020 civilization

00:31:56.560 problem.

00:31:58.880 And nobody

00:31:59.720 has any

00:32:00.200 solution for

00:32:00.920 it because

00:32:01.640 you can't

00:32:02.080 just keep

00:32:02.700 spending money

00:32:03.560 you don't

00:32:04.080 have forever.

00:32:06.040 Like at some

00:32:06.960 point it all

00:32:07.480 falls apart.

00:32:09.060 And Kim.com

00:32:09.920 is basically

00:32:10.420 saying everybody

00:32:12.260 is lying to

00:32:12.940 you and they

00:32:13.480 know it's

00:32:13.860 going to all

00:32:14.200 fall apart

00:32:14.740 because there's

00:32:15.820 no way it

00:32:16.280 can't.

00:32:17.820 That's the

00:32:18.720 scariest thing

00:32:19.320 I've ever

00:32:19.680 heard in my

00:32:20.040 life.

00:32:21.240 Scariest thing

00:32:21.920 I've ever

00:32:22.160 heard.

00:32:22.520 And then

00:32:22.940 people are

00:32:23.840 suggesting oh

00:32:24.480 that's what

00:32:24.840 the Great

00:32:25.200 Reset is

00:32:25.780 all about.

00:32:27.020 Driving the

00:32:28.440 system into

00:32:29.180 failure so

00:32:30.620 that it can

00:32:31.000 be redone

00:32:31.640 in some

00:32:32.180 socialist way

00:32:33.620 I guess.

00:32:36.080 Alright

00:32:36.620 here's my

00:32:37.960 take.

00:32:39.260 Number one

00:32:39.900 if you

00:32:41.900 don't own

00:32:42.440 a little

00:32:42.860 bit of

00:32:44.080 Bitcoin

00:32:44.520 you might

00:32:46.220 want to

00:32:46.560 rethink that.

00:32:47.820 I'm never

00:32:48.640 going to

00:32:48.880 be the

00:32:49.120 one who

00:32:49.400 tells you

00:32:49.760 to own

00:32:50.120 a lot

00:32:50.520 of

00:32:50.680 Bitcoin

00:32:51.040 because I

00:32:52.720 don't think

00:32:53.000 that would

00:32:53.300 be a good

00:32:53.660 idea.

00:32:55.160 It could turn

00:32:55.740 out for some

00:32:56.240 people but it's

00:32:57.020 not like a good

00:32:57.660 risk reward

00:32:58.480 kind of thing.

00:32:59.540 But if you

00:33:01.260 don't have any

00:33:02.000 crypto there is

00:33:03.780 some chance

00:33:04.820 that you will

00:33:06.640 not have money

00:33:07.500 someday because it

00:33:09.080 might be the only

00:33:09.660 money at some

00:33:10.260 point.

00:33:11.260 I don't know

00:33:11.740 that.

00:33:12.400 I'd say the

00:33:12.800 odds of it are

00:33:13.320 not that high.

00:33:13.900 I don't

00:33:16.880 trust gold

00:33:17.480 necessarily

00:33:18.040 because all

00:33:20.100 of these

00:33:20.360 things are

00:33:21.080 things that

00:33:23.400 can change

00:33:23.960 based on the

00:33:24.540 psychology.

00:33:25.280 They can

00:33:25.500 change too

00:33:25.980 quickly.

00:33:26.780 But I

00:33:27.120 think you

00:33:27.960 want to

00:33:28.180 have a

00:33:28.520 little bit

00:33:28.860 of crypto.

00:33:30.080 You should

00:33:30.420 have a

00:33:30.680 little bit.

00:33:31.680 It might

00:33:32.020 be the only

00:33:32.440 way to buy

00:33:32.840 food at some

00:33:33.400 point.

00:33:34.880 And I

00:33:35.480 do think

00:33:36.200 there's a

00:33:36.940 very good

00:33:37.440 chance that

00:33:39.000 I've worked

00:33:39.520 all of my

00:33:39.940 life to

00:33:40.380 reach a

00:33:40.800 certain level

00:33:41.540 of financial

00:33:43.180 comfort.

00:33:44.520 And I

00:33:44.840 think there's

00:33:45.260 a pretty

00:33:45.620 good chance

00:33:46.080 I will

00:33:46.360 lose all

00:33:46.800 of it.

00:33:48.500 I think

00:33:48.760 there's a

00:33:49.020 pretty good

00:33:49.380 chance.

00:33:50.720 Maybe

00:33:50.980 25% chance

00:33:53.080 that I'll

00:33:53.420 lose all

00:33:53.800 of it.

00:33:54.540 Not because

00:33:55.220 me specifically,

00:33:56.640 but because

00:33:57.260 we'll all

00:33:57.800 lose all

00:33:58.200 of it.

00:33:59.260 That's a

00:33:59.620 very distinct

00:34:00.460 possibility.

00:34:02.020 Now,

00:34:02.320 would we

00:34:02.620 all die?

00:34:04.100 Probably

00:34:04.480 not.

00:34:06.500 Probably

00:34:06.960 not.

00:34:07.420 We'd

00:34:07.620 probably

00:34:07.820 adjust.

00:34:09.380 Now,

00:34:09.720 I've been

00:34:09.940 saying for

00:34:10.300 some time

00:34:10.840 that the

00:34:11.400 yeah,

00:34:13.960 but you're

00:34:14.260 old.

00:34:15.480 You're

00:34:15.880 right.

00:34:16.680 I do

00:34:17.280 have the

00:34:17.660 advantage

00:34:18.060 that at

00:34:18.440 least I

00:34:18.780 got old

00:34:19.400 before we

00:34:20.940 ran out of

00:34:21.460 money.

00:34:21.780 I don't

00:34:21.980 know if

00:34:22.160 it's going

00:34:22.420 to happen.

00:34:23.580 Here's

00:34:23.980 what I

00:34:24.180 think will

00:34:24.460 probably

00:34:24.700 happen.

00:34:25.180 Like

00:34:25.460 everything

00:34:25.760 else in

00:34:26.140 the world

00:34:26.480 that looks

00:34:27.060 like the

00:34:27.440 end-of-the-world

00:34:27.960 problems,

00:34:28.920 if we have

00:34:29.400 enough time

00:34:29.940 to fix

00:34:30.360 it,

00:34:31.480 we figure

00:34:32.160 it out.

00:34:33.200 So I

00:34:33.580 think this

00:34:33.920 will be

00:34:34.120 the same.

00:34:35.540 What's

00:34:35.920 different is

00:34:36.460 I'm not

00:34:36.780 sure the

00:34:37.100 whole world

00:34:37.580 realizes how

00:34:38.260 big the

00:34:38.580 problem is.

00:34:40.160 I think

00:34:40.460 the whole

00:34:40.780 world is

00:34:41.200 like,

00:34:41.380 ah,

00:34:41.520 somebody has

00:34:42.060 this.

00:34:42.520 Somebody will

00:34:42.880 figure it

00:34:43.180 out.

00:34:43.720 But it's

00:34:44.060 like climate

00:34:44.520 change.

00:34:44.940 You have to

00:34:45.220 get the

00:34:46.040 entire mind

00:34:46.800 of the

00:34:47.060 world on

00:34:47.540 this problem

00:34:48.040 or nothing's

00:34:48.640 going to

00:34:48.820 happen.

00:34:49.680 And here's

00:34:50.100 what I

00:34:50.320 think is

00:34:50.540 going to

00:34:50.700 happen.

00:34:51.860 I believe

00:34:52.380 that a

00:34:52.760 second economy

00:34:53.640 will emerge.

00:34:54.780 change that

00:34:55.920 we're going

00:34:56.140 to have two

00:34:56.560 economies.

00:34:57.520 You could

00:34:58.080 argue we

00:34:58.500 already do.

00:34:59.440 But the

00:34:59.820 second economy

00:35:00.540 will be how

00:35:01.540 to live the

00:35:02.440 least expensive

00:35:03.460 lifestyle that's

00:35:05.180 still actually

00:35:06.100 pretty awesome.

00:35:08.320 And I think

00:35:09.120 that will have

00:35:09.500 to do with

00:35:10.040 completely changing

00:35:11.300 how we create

00:35:12.520 food, completely

00:35:14.080 changing how we

00:35:14.900 insure each other

00:35:15.680 and do health

00:35:16.200 care, completely

00:35:17.440 changing what it

00:35:18.600 costs to live,

00:35:19.560 cost of housing,

00:35:20.660 all of that.

00:35:23.080 And I think

00:35:23.620 that we will

00:35:24.220 create parallel

00:35:25.320 cities that

00:35:28.320 will just

00:35:28.660 work in a

00:35:30.700 way that

00:35:31.120 people have

00:35:31.840 very little

00:35:32.300 money but

00:35:33.560 they don't

00:35:33.820 need any.

00:35:35.000 And they're

00:35:35.320 perfectly happy.

00:35:37.340 And the

00:35:37.760 other people

00:35:38.340 will get to

00:35:39.600 pursue growth

00:35:41.600 and riches

00:35:42.980 through the

00:35:44.080 other system

00:35:44.660 which would

00:35:45.820 have to

00:35:46.120 operate at

00:35:46.560 the same

00:35:46.860 time.

00:35:48.080 And you

00:35:48.800 can get

00:35:49.080 what you

00:35:49.320 want to.

00:35:50.000 So you

00:35:50.300 can live

00:35:50.560 in a big

00:35:50.840 house with

00:35:51.280 all the

00:35:51.540 problems.

00:35:52.480 Let me

00:35:52.940 give you

00:35:53.580 just a

00:35:53.940 preview of

00:35:55.460 what it's

00:35:55.800 like to

00:35:56.700 have too

00:35:57.040 much money.

00:35:59.040 And if

00:35:59.580 anybody is

00:36:00.060 in the same

00:36:00.460 situation,

00:36:01.300 you can

00:36:01.680 jump in

00:36:02.200 here.

00:36:03.300 I spend

00:36:03.920 most,

00:36:05.100 well not

00:36:05.580 most,

00:36:06.700 a huge

00:36:07.200 part of

00:36:07.580 every day

00:36:08.180 I spend

00:36:09.820 trying to

00:36:10.600 repair

00:36:10.960 something I

00:36:11.580 own that

00:36:11.980 broke.

00:36:13.080 Every day.

00:36:14.880 And it's

00:36:15.980 just monstrously

00:36:17.720 burdensome.

00:36:19.540 Like, you

00:36:19.680 know,

00:36:19.840 on any

00:36:20.460 given day

00:36:20.960 my car

00:36:21.820 makes all

00:36:22.280 kinds of

00:36:22.620 noises and

00:36:23.680 I need to

00:36:24.100 spend a

00:36:24.660 full day

00:36:25.220 to get my

00:36:26.740 car fixed.

00:36:28.100 But I

00:36:29.100 could also

00:36:29.440 just make

00:36:29.900 the warning

00:36:30.380 light go

00:36:30.860 off,

00:36:31.300 because it's

00:36:31.640 not an

00:36:32.040 important one,

00:36:33.360 and drive

00:36:33.900 it.

00:36:34.840 So for

00:36:35.320 several months,

00:36:36.220 every time I

00:36:36.780 get in my

00:36:37.160 car, it

00:36:37.680 goes bang,

00:36:38.220 bang,

00:36:38.420 bang,

00:36:38.640 bang,

00:36:38.860 bang,

00:36:39.080 bang,

00:36:39.240 and I

00:36:39.480 have to

00:36:39.680 turn off

00:36:40.000 the warning

00:36:40.320 light.

00:36:41.220 And then

00:36:41.400 every few

00:36:41.840 minutes it

00:36:42.220 comes back

00:36:42.640 on, I

00:36:43.000 have to

00:36:43.220 turn it

00:36:43.540 off.

00:36:43.780 I will

00:36:45.100 drive that

00:36:45.720 fucking car

00:36:46.580 for probably

00:36:47.840 another year

00:36:48.720 until something

00:36:50.240 breaks that's

00:36:50.920 bad enough that

00:36:51.580 I can't drive

00:36:52.160 it anymore.

00:36:53.160 But everything

00:36:54.120 I use is

00:36:54.820 broken.

00:36:55.740 Everything.

00:36:57.240 Like, I tried

00:36:57.800 to just plug in

00:36:58.780 something into

00:36:59.760 an outlet

00:37:00.180 yesterday.

00:37:01.160 The outlet

00:37:01.600 doesn't work.

00:37:02.760 It needs to be

00:37:03.320 replaced.

00:37:03.840 It's a GFI.

00:37:04.460 And all

00:37:06.780 day long,

00:37:07.980 I'm turning

00:37:09.100 something on

00:37:09.760 that doesn't

00:37:10.220 work, getting

00:37:11.140 in my car

00:37:11.720 that's broken,

00:37:13.240 walking through

00:37:13.940 a door that

00:37:14.520 needs to be

00:37:15.180 fixed because

00:37:15.820 there's a

00:37:16.220 squeak.

00:37:17.680 Everything in

00:37:18.400 my environment

00:37:18.920 is broken.

00:37:19.980 All of it.

00:37:21.680 You've seen

00:37:22.280 me debate

00:37:25.300 with my

00:37:25.800 printer every

00:37:26.460 day.

00:37:26.660 That's just

00:37:26.980 one thing

00:37:27.540 in my

00:37:27.820 house.

00:37:28.640 Do you

00:37:28.800 know how

00:37:29.080 many things

00:37:29.480 are broken

00:37:29.960 in my life

00:37:30.580 right now?

00:37:31.360 A lot.

00:37:32.120 I missed

00:37:34.280 my deadline

00:37:35.260 for the

00:37:35.620 first time

00:37:36.060 ever in

00:37:36.500 comics in

00:37:37.780 33 years.

00:37:38.960 I missed

00:37:39.660 it on

00:37:39.960 Friday.

00:37:41.000 Because

00:37:41.520 equipment

00:37:42.380 failure.

00:37:43.560 So having

00:37:45.120 money becomes

00:37:45.940 this gigantic

00:37:47.540 time sink

00:37:48.720 of things

00:37:50.120 you wish

00:37:50.560 you weren't

00:37:50.880 working on.

00:37:52.060 Do you

00:37:52.420 know why

00:37:52.780 I like

00:37:53.140 going on

00:37:53.520 vacation?

00:37:56.600 Do you

00:37:57.240 know why

00:37:57.640 I like

00:37:59.080 going on

00:37:59.520 vacation?

00:38:00.480 Now keep

00:38:00.800 in mind

00:38:01.140 that my

00:38:01.560 home,

00:38:02.120 is like

00:38:03.180 a resort.

00:38:04.640 I built

00:38:05.160 my house

00:38:05.660 so it

00:38:05.900 would have

00:38:06.080 all the

00:38:06.740 toys I

00:38:07.200 needed.

00:38:08.440 But I

00:38:09.060 like going

00:38:09.500 on vacation

00:38:09.920 because to

00:38:12.020 get away

00:38:12.380 from my

00:38:12.720 stuff.

00:38:14.140 I go on

00:38:14.860 vacation to

00:38:15.500 get away

00:38:15.780 from my

00:38:16.140 possessions.

00:38:19.180 True.

00:38:20.100 To get away

00:38:20.760 from my

00:38:21.100 possessions.

00:38:22.760 And I go

00:38:23.440 to some

00:38:23.680 place where

00:38:24.040 I don't

00:38:24.240 have anything

00:38:24.700 but a

00:38:25.020 suitcase.

00:38:26.080 And then

00:38:26.640 my mind

00:38:27.180 is clear.

00:38:28.660 And I

00:38:29.160 wake up

00:38:29.660 and I

00:38:30.020 don't have

00:38:30.280 to fix

00:38:30.700 anything.

00:38:31.860 There's

00:38:32.120 nothing to

00:38:32.480 be fixed.

00:38:33.720 And my

00:38:33.960 dog's not

00:38:34.600 begging at

00:38:38.280 me.

00:38:39.100 Nobody's

00:38:39.600 telling me I

00:38:40.120 gotta go

00:38:40.500 fix something.

00:38:41.300 Nobody's

00:38:41.680 bringing me

00:38:42.100 an emergency

00:38:42.660 of the day.

00:38:43.180 I take

00:38:45.120 vacations to

00:38:46.000 get away from

00:38:46.460 my normal

00:38:46.940 life of

00:38:48.400 having too

00:38:48.840 much money.

00:38:51.220 That's a

00:38:51.840 real thing.

00:38:53.140 I have to

00:38:53.920 get away from

00:38:54.460 my own money

00:38:55.280 to relax.

00:38:57.200 That's

00:38:57.460 actually

00:38:57.740 true.

00:38:59.000 I'm not

00:38:59.400 complaining

00:38:59.880 compared to

00:39:00.740 not having

00:39:01.340 money,

00:39:01.680 right?

00:39:02.200 So just

00:39:02.620 to be

00:39:02.920 clear,

00:39:03.980 I would

00:39:04.420 much rather

00:39:05.080 have these

00:39:05.480 problems than

00:39:06.160 other problems.

00:39:07.820 There's a

00:39:08.320 trade-off.

00:39:09.320 But if you

00:39:09.840 think it's

00:39:10.160 easy,

00:39:11.320 just because

00:39:11.920 you've got

00:39:12.220 all the

00:39:12.500 stuff you

00:39:12.980 want,

00:39:13.480 it's really

00:39:13.820 not.

00:39:14.220 It's not

00:39:14.520 even close

00:39:15.000 to easy.

00:39:15.800 There's a

00:39:16.140 reason I

00:39:16.460 only have

00:39:16.760 one car.

00:39:18.120 Because two

00:39:18.560 cars would

00:39:18.980 just break

00:39:19.480 me.

00:39:19.680 I couldn't

00:39:21.360 handle two

00:39:21.820 cars.

00:39:24.400 All right.

00:39:26.360 Here's

00:39:26.880 another

00:39:27.280 cataclysmic

00:39:28.780 event coming.

00:39:30.860 So China's

00:39:32.060 population is

00:39:33.220 set to

00:39:33.780 shrink for

00:39:34.440 the first

00:39:34.860 time in

00:39:35.360 60 years,

00:39:36.960 even though

00:39:37.720 they have a

00:39:38.320 three-child

00:39:38.840 policy now

00:39:39.580 instead of

00:39:40.080 their old

00:39:40.420 one-child

00:39:41.100 policy.

00:39:42.640 So it

00:39:43.280 turns out

00:39:43.780 that making

00:39:44.280 money and

00:39:44.860 being prosperous,

00:39:46.600 we've known

00:39:47.660 this for a

00:39:48.100 while,

00:39:48.740 reduces your

00:39:49.560 birth rate

00:39:50.080 quite a

00:39:50.640 bit.

00:39:51.740 Because as

00:39:52.180 soon as

00:39:52.500 people get

00:39:52.960 a little

00:39:53.160 prosperity,

00:39:53.960 they say,

00:39:54.380 you know,

00:39:55.500 maybe one

00:39:56.160 child is

00:39:56.620 fine,

00:39:57.460 because I'm

00:39:57.840 going to

00:39:58.020 need all

00:39:58.380 of my

00:39:58.600 time to

00:39:59.060 handle all

00:39:59.520 of my

00:39:59.760 possessions.

00:40:00.740 I don't

00:40:00.980 have time

00:40:01.320 for kids.

00:40:03.380 And so

00:40:05.140 China is

00:40:05.860 going to

00:40:06.200 shrink.

00:40:06.680 And Elon

00:40:07.040 Musk,

00:40:07.500 who's been

00:40:07.840 warning about

00:40:08.440 this for a

00:40:08.940 while,

00:40:09.940 he tweeted

00:40:10.460 this.

00:40:10.860 He said,

00:40:11.820 most people

00:40:12.320 still think

00:40:12.840 China has

00:40:13.420 a one-child

00:40:14.020 policy.

00:40:15.400 China had

00:40:16.320 its lowest

00:40:17.060 birthday ever

00:40:18.240 last year,

00:40:18.880 despite having

00:40:20.140 a three-child

00:40:20.720 policy.

00:40:21.680 At current

00:40:22.200 birth rates,

00:40:23.100 China will

00:40:23.580 lose 40%

00:40:24.580 of its

00:40:24.940 people every

00:40:25.960 generation.

00:40:28.680 Population

00:40:29.160 collapse.

00:40:30.480 And I

00:40:30.800 looked at that

00:40:31.180 number and

00:40:31.520 I'm like,

00:40:31.940 well,

00:40:32.120 surely,

00:40:33.360 surely that

00:40:34.120 number can't

00:40:34.940 be right.

00:40:35.800 You're not

00:40:36.080 going to

00:40:36.200 lose 40%

00:40:37.140 of your

00:40:37.400 people every

00:40:38.120 generation.

00:40:39.980 And then I

00:40:40.560 thought,

00:40:40.880 well,

00:40:41.080 wait a minute,

00:40:41.560 it's Elon

00:40:41.960 Musk saying

00:40:42.460 this,

00:40:42.920 and he knows

00:40:43.440 how to do

00:40:43.820 math.

00:40:44.240 probably he

00:40:46.620 did the

00:40:46.960 math right,

00:40:47.780 you know,

00:40:48.000 in a general

00:40:48.520 sense.

00:40:49.600 And I

00:40:50.120 looked at it

00:40:50.540 a little

00:40:50.700 more and

00:40:51.020 I thought,

00:40:51.880 oh,

00:40:53.060 yeah,

00:40:54.500 over a

00:40:55.100 generation?

00:40:56.400 Because every

00:40:57.160 generation has

00:40:57.880 to replace

00:40:58.840 about 40%

00:41:00.520 of itself.

00:41:02.240 Right?

00:41:03.300 If you wait

00:41:04.080 two generations,

00:41:05.060 you're pretty

00:41:05.400 much all gone.

00:41:07.040 Everybody's

00:41:07.460 dead.

00:41:08.200 Everybody is

00:41:08.800 grandfathered

00:41:09.460 down.

00:41:10.080 So if you

00:41:10.580 don't replace

00:41:11.200 40% of your

00:41:12.280 people every

00:41:12.860 generation,

00:41:13.400 you run

00:41:14.300 out of

00:41:14.540 people really

00:41:15.020 quickly.

00:41:16.580 And I

00:41:17.180 thought to

00:41:17.480 myself,

00:41:18.320 holy shit,

00:41:19.640 this is a

00:41:20.240 big problem.

00:41:21.380 Now,

00:41:21.920 Elon Musk

00:41:22.540 personally is

00:41:23.220 having multiple

00:41:24.060 kids because

00:41:25.200 he can afford

00:41:25.780 them,

00:41:26.540 and he thinks

00:41:27.160 the world

00:41:27.500 needs more

00:41:28.020 children,

00:41:28.500 not fewer.

00:41:30.460 And I

00:41:30.940 think he's

00:41:32.120 right.

00:41:33.580 So population

00:41:34.500 collapse is a

00:41:35.520 much bigger

00:41:36.020 problem than

00:41:36.560 population

00:41:37.280 overpopulation.

00:41:41.100 Now,

00:41:41.700 how does this

00:41:42.300 tie into

00:41:43.120 immigration?

00:41:46.220 Here's where

00:41:46.820 it gets

00:41:47.200 dicey.

00:41:48.960 So do you

00:41:49.640 know what I've

00:41:49.960 been saying

00:41:50.300 about immigration

00:41:51.020 policy forever?

00:41:52.840 I've always

00:41:53.440 said the same.

00:41:54.620 You should

00:41:55.000 separate the

00:41:55.660 question of

00:41:56.240 whether you

00:41:56.660 can control

00:41:57.360 your border

00:41:57.920 from the

00:41:59.320 question of

00:41:59.860 how many

00:42:00.180 people to

00:42:00.700 let in.

00:42:02.160 We treat

00:42:02.840 them like

00:42:03.140 it's the

00:42:03.440 same thing,

00:42:04.520 and that's

00:42:04.920 just stupid

00:42:05.720 time.

00:42:06.680 It's not.

00:42:07.800 You should

00:42:08.280 have full

00:42:08.740 control of

00:42:09.340 who you let

00:42:09.880 in,

00:42:10.500 and then decide

00:42:11.460 when to dial

00:42:12.120 it up and

00:42:12.520 when to

00:42:12.840 dial it

00:42:13.140 down.

00:42:14.020 And we

00:42:14.380 should be

00:42:14.720 driven by

00:42:15.260 economics more

00:42:17.460 than other

00:42:17.900 things.

00:42:18.900 You know,

00:42:19.100 you have to

00:42:19.420 look at

00:42:19.720 crime and

00:42:20.520 pandemics and

00:42:21.700 stuff too,

00:42:22.620 but the main

00:42:23.580 thing should be

00:42:24.140 economics.

00:42:25.420 And when

00:42:25.680 Elon Musk

00:42:26.340 says,

00:42:27.060 and this is a

00:42:27.720 warning you

00:42:28.100 should all

00:42:28.360 take seriously,

00:42:29.640 that you

00:42:30.200 could have

00:42:30.620 population

00:42:31.440 collapse if

00:42:33.340 we don't have

00:42:33.880 enough

00:42:34.140 replacement people,

00:42:35.580 that's a big,

00:42:36.740 big problem.

00:42:37.260 that's an

00:42:39.640 end-of-your-country

00:42:40.900 problem.

00:42:42.620 But how

00:42:43.800 big a problem

00:42:44.360 is immigration

00:42:44.960 itself from

00:42:45.820 the southern

00:42:46.220 border the way

00:42:46.920 it's happening?

00:42:48.300 I don't know.

00:42:50.120 But I would

00:42:51.080 love to have

00:42:51.640 some people who

00:42:52.360 know more than

00:42:52.900 I do,

00:42:53.540 some actually

00:42:54.100 economists,

00:42:55.560 do the work

00:42:56.300 and say,

00:42:56.840 look,

00:42:57.120 we've got two

00:42:57.700 worlds.

00:42:59.000 We'll game

00:43:00.040 one forward in

00:43:00.980 which we don't

00:43:01.480 have enough

00:43:01.940 extra people,

00:43:03.240 and then we'll

00:43:04.240 do one where

00:43:04.780 we have more

00:43:05.360 extra people than

00:43:06.160 we wanted,

00:43:07.260 but they're

00:43:08.380 also driving

00:43:09.020 the economic

00:43:09.580 engine.

00:43:10.700 Which of those

00:43:11.300 is the bigger

00:43:11.780 problem?

00:43:13.400 Do you think

00:43:13.920 you know?

00:43:15.460 Because I don't

00:43:16.200 think I know.

00:43:17.680 If you had a

00:43:18.420 choice of these

00:43:19.060 two things,

00:43:20.240 stopping immigration

00:43:21.360 completely at the

00:43:23.360 southern border,

00:43:24.520 or letting it run

00:43:25.920 exactly the way

00:43:26.780 it's running,

00:43:27.380 which is sort of

00:43:27.980 out of control,

00:43:29.600 which one makes

00:43:30.400 you more money

00:43:31.100 in the long run?

00:43:33.040 You don't know.

00:43:35.240 You think you

00:43:36.100 do.

00:43:36.280 You think you

00:43:37.640 do,

00:43:37.960 but you

00:43:38.300 don't.

00:43:39.480 Because more

00:43:40.100 people is more

00:43:41.060 money.

00:43:43.940 More people is

00:43:45.040 more money.

00:43:48.700 So if you

00:43:50.100 say to me,

00:43:50.780 Scott,

00:43:51.120 we need to

00:43:51.640 close this

00:43:52.340 border because

00:43:53.320 of all these

00:43:53.780 people getting

00:43:54.280 through,

00:43:55.000 I say to you,

00:43:55.820 you have

00:43:56.120 confused two

00:43:56.920 topics.

00:43:58.940 Get them

00:43:59.260 straight.

00:44:00.100 Number one

00:44:00.660 topic is can

00:44:01.420 you control

00:44:01.980 the border?

00:44:02.560 I say,

00:44:03.240 control the

00:44:04.200 hell out of it.

00:44:04.780 You should

00:44:05.700 control that

00:44:06.240 border as

00:44:06.720 much as

00:44:07.080 anything can

00:44:07.520 be controlled.

00:44:08.560 In fact,

00:44:09.020 it should be

00:44:09.340 one of the

00:44:09.680 main things

00:44:10.220 we control.

00:44:12.080 Because we

00:44:12.700 can.

00:44:13.280 If it's

00:44:13.880 possible to

00:44:14.600 control it,

00:44:15.520 and it's

00:44:16.180 important,

00:44:17.480 control the

00:44:18.160 hell out of

00:44:18.720 it.

00:44:18.960 It's the way

00:44:19.320 you should run

00:44:19.720 your life as

00:44:20.320 well.

00:44:21.020 If there's

00:44:21.600 something in

00:44:22.040 your life that

00:44:22.580 you can control,

00:44:24.200 such as your

00:44:24.860 fitness,

00:44:26.060 your diet,

00:44:27.620 your fashion,

00:44:28.820 you should

00:44:29.700 control the

00:44:30.420 hell out of

00:44:31.140 those.

00:44:32.220 Those should

00:44:32.900 be controlled

00:44:33.500 like nothing's

00:44:34.140 ever been

00:44:34.540 controlled.

00:44:35.660 Because you

00:44:36.180 can, and

00:44:37.100 they have a

00:44:37.380 really big

00:44:37.740 payoff.

00:44:39.640 Immigration's

00:44:40.160 like that,

00:44:40.620 too.

00:44:41.100 It could be

00:44:41.580 our greatest

00:44:42.060 economic asset

00:44:43.380 that we're

00:44:44.420 treating it as

00:44:45.180 just like an

00:44:46.620 open wound or

00:44:47.380 something.

00:44:48.780 So I don't

00:44:49.720 think that we've

00:44:50.260 ever been smart

00:44:50.980 on either side

00:44:52.020 of the debate.

00:44:53.440 The smart way

00:44:54.220 to approach it

00:44:54.820 is to separate

00:44:55.740 the ability to

00:44:57.260 close the border

00:44:57.920 from the actual

00:44:59.060 doing of it

00:44:59.740 and let your

00:45:00.760 economist tell

00:45:01.480 you if you

00:45:02.080 need more

00:45:02.480 people or

00:45:03.080 fewer.

00:45:04.180 And then just

00:45:04.660 follow the

00:45:05.840 economics.

00:45:07.220 In fact,

00:45:08.020 one of the

00:45:08.520 biggest things

00:45:09.080 we have going

00:45:09.700 compared to

00:45:10.340 China is that

00:45:11.560 people want to

00:45:12.160 come here.

00:45:14.480 That might be

00:45:15.520 all that matters.

00:45:17.480 In the long

00:45:18.440 run, it might

00:45:20.060 be the only

00:45:20.860 thing that matters

00:45:21.700 is how many

00:45:22.280 people would

00:45:22.760 rather live

00:45:23.620 here.

00:45:25.060 So to me,

00:45:26.940 it seems like

00:45:27.460 keeping our

00:45:28.020 freedom alive,

00:45:29.060 and keeping

00:45:31.480 our environment

00:45:33.040 clean so that

00:45:34.920 we've got all

00:45:35.340 the tourism and

00:45:36.140 people want to

00:45:36.620 live here and

00:45:37.160 it's just a nice

00:45:37.720 place to live,

00:45:38.560 is going to be

00:45:39.080 the economic

00:45:39.680 engine for

00:45:40.520 everything in

00:45:41.020 the future.

00:45:43.580 I also think

00:45:44.480 it's less likely

00:45:45.220 that you have

00:45:45.920 a big war

00:45:48.900 among superpowers

00:45:50.120 if you've

00:45:51.120 merged populations

00:45:53.280 a little bit.

00:45:54.440 There would be

00:45:54.680 too many people

00:45:55.260 who say no.

00:45:57.540 All right.

00:45:57.900 So, those

00:46:00.240 are the big

00:46:00.600 scary things

00:46:01.320 that are

00:46:01.540 happening.

00:46:02.340 If I had to

00:46:02.900 guess, we'll

00:46:03.400 be fine.

00:46:04.820 I just don't

00:46:05.500 know how.

00:46:06.820 There are a lot

00:46:07.720 of problems in

00:46:08.320 this world that

00:46:08.980 will probably be

00:46:09.680 fixed by people

00:46:10.480 who do know

00:46:10.980 how to solve

00:46:11.460 them.

00:46:12.120 The fact that I

00:46:12.820 don't know how

00:46:13.220 to solve it

00:46:13.760 bothers me,

00:46:15.780 but it does

00:46:16.240 mean it's

00:46:16.600 unsolvable.

00:46:17.100 does the

00:46:19.060 Adam's law

00:46:19.520 of slow-moving

00:46:20.200 disasters always

00:46:21.980 work?

00:46:22.820 And the answer

00:46:23.280 is, we're

00:46:24.840 here.

00:46:26.340 If it didn't

00:46:27.100 always work,

00:46:27.860 civilization would

00:46:28.940 have been destroyed

00:46:29.600 by now, by

00:46:30.680 starvation or

00:46:31.640 lack of oil or

00:46:32.940 any one of those

00:46:34.000 many things,

00:46:35.020 the hole in the

00:46:35.760 ozone layer.

00:46:37.160 Those things were

00:46:37.940 all supposed to

00:46:38.480 end us by now.

00:46:39.720 So, it's always

00:46:40.400 worked so far.

00:46:42.800 Always worked so

00:46:43.820 far.

00:46:44.040 And I would

00:46:45.380 guess that we'll

00:46:46.000 have some kind

00:46:46.660 of huge economic,

00:46:49.340 let's say,

00:46:51.040 evolution that

00:46:53.580 is going to make

00:46:54.160 rich people poor

00:46:55.080 and poor people

00:46:56.120 less poor and a

00:46:57.820 whole bunch of

00:46:58.260 things are going

00:46:58.660 to change and it

00:47:00.160 will probably be

00:47:00.680 worse before it's

00:47:01.440 better.

00:47:03.700 But I think we

00:47:04.580 can figure it

00:47:05.100 out somehow.

00:47:09.660 Yeah.

00:47:12.100 I think we

00:47:12.880 should take

00:47:13.300 control of the

00:47:13.900 Great Reset

00:47:14.500 instead of

00:47:15.220 let it happen.

00:47:18.320 So, I'm not

00:47:19.000 sure what other

00:47:19.520 people mean by

00:47:20.180 the replacement

00:47:21.220 theory or the

00:47:21.980 Great Reset or

00:47:22.620 whatever.

00:47:23.180 But I think that

00:47:24.040 we just need to

00:47:24.820 acknowledge that

00:47:26.420 we need two

00:47:27.080 separate economic

00:47:28.360 systems running

00:47:29.260 simultaneously.

00:47:30.880 One of them

00:47:31.600 that's closer to

00:47:32.380 communism for

00:47:34.600 people who want

00:47:35.200 to live like

00:47:35.600 that.

00:47:36.660 But it shouldn't

00:47:37.520 have any impact

00:47:38.340 on the rest of

00:47:39.000 us.

00:47:39.580 You know,

00:47:39.720 somebody wants

00:47:40.240 to create a

00:47:40.740 city in which

00:47:42.180 they're experimenting

00:47:43.240 with low-price

00:47:44.160 everything.

00:47:45.420 But let me just

00:47:46.060 give you one

00:47:46.820 example of how

00:47:47.840 much we could

00:47:50.640 change the cost

00:47:51.620 of living.

00:47:54.220 Number one,

00:47:55.120 you could build a

00:47:55.700 home that needs

00:47:56.560 practically no

00:47:57.620 energy.

00:47:58.720 So you could

00:47:59.460 eliminate energy

00:48:00.260 practically.

00:48:02.780 Imagine how many

00:48:03.700 times food changes

00:48:05.840 hands and packaging

00:48:06.980 and containers from

00:48:08.720 the farm to your

00:48:09.680 table.

00:48:09.960 people, I

00:48:11.280 complain about

00:48:12.040 this all the

00:48:12.520 time.

00:48:13.220 You know, the

00:48:13.500 farmer picks it,

00:48:14.640 puts it in a

00:48:15.140 barn, that gets

00:48:16.160 taken to a

00:48:16.700 processing place,

00:48:17.740 that gets taken

00:48:18.280 somewhere else,

00:48:19.020 that gets put in a

00:48:19.640 package, that gets

00:48:20.420 put on the shelf,

00:48:21.740 you know, a truck

00:48:22.360 and then the shelf

00:48:23.140 and then the shelf

00:48:23.780 goes into your

00:48:24.340 basket, your basket

00:48:25.140 goes on the cart,

00:48:25.980 the cart goes on

00:48:26.960 the payment thing

00:48:28.400 and then the payment

00:48:28.960 thing back in the

00:48:29.980 bag and then back

00:48:31.060 in your car and

00:48:31.740 then back in your

00:48:32.260 house.

00:48:33.440 Almost everything

00:48:34.460 we do is

00:48:36.220 impossibly

00:48:37.600 inefficient.

00:48:40.860 It's just we've

00:48:41.780 evolved to the

00:48:42.840 point where we

00:48:43.400 can make it work

00:48:44.060 anyway.

00:48:47.420 Scott, it sounds

00:48:48.240 like you're grooming

00:48:49.060 us to accept the

00:48:50.040 great reset.

00:48:53.960 No, I'm not.

00:48:56.980 I'm telling you to

00:48:58.000 control it because

00:48:58.980 it's coming.

00:49:00.700 If you control it,

00:49:02.240 you'll be fine.

00:49:02.940 But what I mean

00:49:05.100 by controlling it

00:49:05.960 is saying, hey,

00:49:07.420 there are a whole

00:49:08.000 bunch of ideas

00:49:08.700 that people want

00:49:09.320 to test.

00:49:11.060 For example, do

00:49:11.960 you think you

00:49:12.420 could build a

00:49:13.360 community that

00:49:14.820 didn't need police?

00:49:16.640 I do.

00:49:18.180 I do.

00:49:18.880 If you built it

00:49:19.460 from scratch,

00:49:21.160 you could build a

00:49:22.500 community that

00:49:23.160 actually didn't

00:49:23.700 need any police.

00:49:24.940 Now, if something

00:49:25.980 super bad happened,

00:49:27.560 you'd have to call

00:49:28.480 somebody in or

00:49:29.300 something.

00:49:30.020 So there's some

00:49:30.940 case where you

00:49:31.780 need something

00:49:32.880 like that.

00:49:33.440 But you could

00:49:34.160 almost completely

00:49:35.620 eliminate the

00:49:36.460 police.

00:49:38.160 Here's how.

00:49:39.840 Build your new

00:49:40.660 community to

00:49:41.740 operate on facial

00:49:42.700 recognition and

00:49:44.940 maybe fingerprints as

00:49:46.040 a backup or

00:49:46.580 something.

00:49:47.240 But basically,

00:49:48.100 get rid of all

00:49:48.720 money, all

00:49:50.960 physical money.

00:49:52.200 That eliminates

00:49:53.240 half of all

00:49:53.800 crime.

00:49:54.980 If the only way

00:49:55.960 you can pay for

00:49:56.580 something is with

00:49:57.260 your actual identity,

00:49:58.980 and nothing else

00:49:59.740 works.

00:50:00.120 There's no

00:50:01.280 car, there's no

00:50:02.200 money, nothing

00:50:03.380 else works.

00:50:04.140 It's just your

00:50:04.540 identity.

00:50:06.260 Half of all crime

00:50:07.180 just went away.

00:50:09.080 Now put functional

00:50:10.980 cameras in all your

00:50:12.380 public spaces.

00:50:15.000 That's pretty close

00:50:15.920 to what it's like

00:50:17.200 now, but really

00:50:18.680 make sure there are

00:50:19.340 no empty spots.

00:50:22.800 What would that do

00:50:23.660 to your crime?

00:50:28.460 Most of it would

00:50:29.300 go away.

00:50:30.480 Most of it would

00:50:31.040 go away.

00:50:31.880 Would you need a

00:50:32.880 weapon for self-defense

00:50:34.280 in such a place?

00:50:37.320 Probably not.

00:50:38.720 I mean, you still

00:50:39.240 have your Second

00:50:39.840 Amendment right,

00:50:41.340 but you could

00:50:42.840 imagine a place.

00:50:44.640 Let's see if you

00:50:45.160 can.

00:50:45.960 Can you imagine a

00:50:46.960 situation that is

00:50:47.800 so naturally safe

00:50:48.940 that introducing a

00:50:50.780 gun of your own

00:50:51.840 gun, let's say,

00:50:52.600 for self-defense,

00:50:53.660 would make you

00:50:55.040 feel less safe?

00:50:56.700 Could you imagine

00:50:57.340 it?

00:50:58.320 I can.

00:50:58.900 That's easy to

00:50:59.460 imagine.

00:51:00.300 Someplace so safe

00:51:01.480 that the introduction

00:51:03.060 of a firearm

00:51:03.920 unambiguously makes

00:51:05.420 you less safe,

00:51:06.720 even if it's your

00:51:07.360 own weapon.

00:51:09.060 Okay, now some

00:51:09.720 of you, maybe

00:51:10.400 you have military

00:51:11.380 training and stuff.

00:51:12.520 That's a special

00:51:13.160 case.

00:51:13.900 You're probably

00:51:14.400 completely safe

00:51:15.400 with a weapon.

00:51:17.280 But even, you

00:51:18.400 know, people taking

00:51:19.440 their own lives on

00:51:20.520 a bad day, you

00:51:21.740 don't really want

00:51:22.500 that gun lying

00:51:23.300 around, right?

00:51:24.820 So here's my

00:51:25.600 point.

00:51:26.420 When I describe

00:51:27.220 this town of no

00:51:28.260 privacy and no

00:51:30.100 gun ownership,

00:51:31.340 it's still legal,

00:51:32.040 you just wouldn't

00:51:32.680 want one.

00:51:33.800 You say to

00:51:34.500 yourself, my God,

00:51:35.340 I would never

00:51:35.760 live there, it's

00:51:36.440 the end of

00:51:36.800 civilization.

00:51:38.840 You know, they

00:51:39.480 would control us

00:51:40.280 in every way.

00:51:41.040 To which I say,

00:51:41.860 that's right, so

00:51:43.000 don't live there.

00:51:43.580 If I told you it

00:51:46.000 was mandatory, I'd

00:51:47.760 be the worst

00:51:48.280 person in the

00:51:48.860 world.

00:51:49.160 If I told you,

00:51:50.900 look, your two

00:51:52.360 options are you

00:51:53.340 can be poor and

00:51:54.220 struggling the old

00:51:55.160 way, or you can

00:51:56.680 live in this

00:51:57.180 awesome place that

00:51:58.080 doesn't have any

00:51:58.820 privacy, but

00:52:01.140 anytime you want

00:52:02.760 to leave, you

00:52:03.140 can leave.

00:52:04.640 Anytime you want

00:52:05.480 to leave, you

00:52:05.880 can leave.

00:52:06.920 Just go get a

00:52:07.600 job in the

00:52:08.160 regular other

00:52:08.840 economy and do

00:52:10.020 whatever everybody

00:52:10.920 else does.

00:52:11.860 But if you want

00:52:12.540 to give up your

00:52:13.800 privacy, not all

00:52:17.840 of it, right?

00:52:18.860 You still, the

00:52:19.360 things you do in

00:52:20.040 your own home are

00:52:20.800 private, but if

00:52:22.160 you want to give

00:52:22.620 up some of your

00:52:23.600 privacy to live a

00:52:27.160 life that would

00:52:27.860 be insanely well

00:52:29.440 designed socially and

00:52:31.500 economically and

00:52:32.460 everything else, why

00:52:34.120 not have that

00:52:34.640 option?

00:52:37.140 Now, I'm

00:52:38.120 triggering all the

00:52:39.100 NPCs here.

00:52:41.200 All right.

00:52:42.100 If anything that I

00:52:43.500 ever say causes you

00:52:44.960 to refer to

00:52:45.720 Soylent and

00:52:46.300 Green,

00:52:46.520 1984, or the

00:52:50.080 Matrix, you're at

00:52:52.520 the wrong live

00:52:53.680 stream.

00:52:56.000 Because that just

00:52:56.840 means you're being

00:52:57.440 reminded of other

00:52:58.800 things.

00:52:59.860 They have no role in

00:53:00.960 this conversation.

00:53:02.740 Nothing I said

00:53:03.660 should make you

00:53:05.140 think of any of

00:53:05.760 those things.

00:53:07.280 Or the

00:53:07.960 Stafford Wives.

00:53:08.740 So the moment

00:53:09.920 you're making a

00:53:10.700 movie or book

00:53:11.660 reference, you're

00:53:13.440 just not part of

00:53:14.040 the conversation

00:53:14.640 anymore.

00:53:15.000 Walking Dead.

00:53:19.220 Oh, Escape from

00:53:19.980 New York, yeah.

00:53:21.440 Escape from New

00:53:22.320 York.

00:53:25.720 You can reference

00:53:26.620 my books and that

00:53:27.420 is genius.

00:53:31.440 Scott, you're

00:53:32.100 Maverick.

00:53:32.520 Speaking of

00:53:32.940 Maverick, Mike

00:53:34.960 Serovich was

00:53:35.720 retweeting Tom

00:53:37.400 Cruz, an old

00:53:39.520 interview we did

00:53:40.640 with Matt

00:53:41.880 Lauer, in

00:53:43.340 which Tom

00:53:43.980 Cruz was

00:53:44.720 mocking modern

00:53:47.380 psychiatry and

00:53:48.580 the drugs that

00:53:49.320 they give you for

00:53:49.880 depression.

00:53:50.840 I guess he got in

00:53:51.560 trouble with it years

00:53:52.280 ago, something

00:53:53.080 about Brooke

00:53:53.780 Shields and maybe

00:53:55.740 mentioned she

00:53:56.360 shouldn't have been

00:53:56.880 taking meds or

00:53:58.100 something.

00:53:58.340 So I forget the

00:53:59.740 exact story, but

00:54:01.900 as Mike Serovich was

00:54:04.320 noting that it

00:54:05.420 aged well, do

00:54:07.200 you remember

00:54:07.600 originally when

00:54:08.540 Tom Cruz was

00:54:09.700 yelling that

00:54:10.600 psychiatry was a

00:54:12.520 fake science and

00:54:14.320 that they were

00:54:15.700 just masking the

00:54:16.640 problem with

00:54:17.100 drugs and they

00:54:17.680 weren't dealing

00:54:18.060 with anything

00:54:18.560 underlying?

00:54:20.540 Now, I don't

00:54:22.320 get my medical

00:54:23.020 advice from Tom

00:54:23.900 Cruz, nor would

00:54:25.980 he want you to,

00:54:27.180 I imagine.

00:54:28.540 But, I think he

00:54:31.020 overdid it, I

00:54:32.340 think he overdid

00:54:33.440 his skepticism.

00:54:38.000 I do think that

00:54:39.120 there are some

00:54:39.560 people whose brains

00:54:40.440 are just on fire

00:54:41.400 and if you have to

00:54:42.840 drug them to put

00:54:44.040 out the fire, maybe

00:54:45.280 you just have to.

00:54:47.000 But, his main

00:54:50.540 topic was

00:54:51.080 Ritalin, yeah.

00:54:52.040 So he was talking

00:54:52.640 about giving

00:54:53.420 dangerous street

00:54:54.280 drugs to kids,

00:54:55.280 Adderall and

00:54:56.220 Ritalin.

00:54:57.680 And, I'm not

00:54:59.440 going to say that

00:54:59.960 I agreed with

00:55:00.520 everything that

00:55:01.380 Tom Cruz says.

00:55:02.580 Because I feel

00:55:03.220 like he threw

00:55:03.740 out a little bit

00:55:04.380 of baby with

00:55:05.260 the bathwater

00:55:05.880 there.

00:55:06.680 But, it is very

00:55:08.000 instructive to

00:55:09.840 see how close to

00:55:10.800 being right he

00:55:12.340 was.

00:55:13.540 And, he got

00:55:14.020 there early.

00:55:15.520 And, Scientology

00:55:16.400 helped him get

00:55:16.960 there, which is

00:55:17.540 interesting.

00:55:20.440 Now, one of the

00:55:21.560 things that I've

00:55:21.960 been saying,

00:55:22.500 watching this Tom

00:55:23.580 Cruz stuff

00:55:26.180 happening,

00:55:26.980 especially with

00:55:28.220 the Top Gun

00:55:28.900 movie, and

00:55:29.600 now he's got

00:55:29.940 another movie

00:55:30.380 come out.

00:55:31.940 And, you've

00:55:33.540 heard me say

00:55:34.160 that Tom

00:55:35.020 Cruz is deeply

00:55:35.920 underrated.

00:55:37.880 Because you

00:55:38.540 think of him

00:55:39.160 as, you know,

00:55:39.760 crazy actor

00:55:40.740 guy, which

00:55:42.260 he is.

00:55:43.540 But, I kept

00:55:44.500 looking at what

00:55:45.140 he accomplished

00:55:45.740 in terms of how

00:55:46.800 he managed his

00:55:47.800 projects through

00:55:48.560 the pandemic,

00:55:49.740 and how he

00:55:50.600 managed to

00:55:51.220 create a movie

00:55:51.740 that really is

00:55:53.600 just brilliant.

00:55:54.720 It's just

00:55:55.380 brilliant.

00:55:56.700 And, I

00:55:58.900 thought to

00:55:59.220 myself, he

00:55:59.940 is way

00:56:00.520 underrated as

00:56:01.620 just a thinker,

00:56:02.900 and as an

00:56:03.500 effective

00:56:03.940 entrepreneur.

00:56:06.100 If you look

00:56:06.960 at the things

00:56:07.500 he does and

00:56:08.380 can do, he's

00:56:10.340 got a talent

00:56:10.980 stack that's

00:56:12.220 crazy.

00:56:13.660 And so, his

00:56:14.380 movie success

00:56:15.380 is somewhat

00:56:16.440 secondary to

00:56:19.260 his business

00:56:19.780 success, in my

00:56:20.920 opinion.

00:56:21.160 I think his

00:56:22.000 business success

00:56:22.800 is crazy.

00:56:24.260 He's just a

00:56:24.780 really good

00:56:25.180 business person.

00:56:26.900 And, when

00:56:29.820 you hear his

00:56:30.260 opinions on

00:56:31.340 psychiatry,

00:56:33.960 which, again,

00:56:35.140 I don't agree

00:56:36.620 with him

00:56:36.980 completely, but

00:56:38.340 he was so

00:56:39.080 close to being

00:56:39.840 ahead of the

00:56:40.600 curve on that,

00:56:42.200 that you have

00:56:42.720 to give him

00:56:43.060 credit for that.

00:56:44.180 So, I'm going

00:56:44.780 to give him

00:56:45.140 credit for being

00:56:47.020 far righter than

00:56:48.100 most people were

00:56:48.960 on that topic.

00:56:51.160 can the law

00:56:57.840 of slow-moving

00:56:58.440 disasters get

00:56:59.280 someone off of

00:57:00.260 Prisoner Island?

00:57:01.840 It's too many

00:57:02.380 concepts you're

00:57:03.720 connecting there.

00:57:09.040 Jennifer

00:57:09.520 Connelly said

00:57:10.380 she flew with

00:57:10.960 him because he's

00:57:11.500 an expert.

00:57:12.600 Yeah, apparently

00:57:13.260 he has a real

00:57:14.100 estate license,

00:57:14.980 and he can

00:57:18.020 fly a number

00:57:18.700 of different

00:57:19.080 planes and

00:57:19.660 jets, he has

00:57:20.220 a commercial

00:57:20.680 license.

00:57:21.540 Those are all

00:57:22.060 really hard to

00:57:22.640 get, by the

00:57:23.080 way, which

00:57:24.360 probably means

00:57:25.120 he can fly by

00:57:26.180 instruments, which

00:57:27.360 is really hard.

00:57:27.960 All right, Scott,

00:57:36.980 lots of people

00:57:37.460 think that

00:57:38.100 about the

00:57:38.620 psychiatrists.

00:57:39.760 Yes, they do.

00:57:41.420 Now they do.

00:57:42.520 But I think it

00:57:43.360 was gutsy for

00:57:44.000 him to say it

00:57:44.560 publicly when he

00:57:45.360 did.

00:57:46.360 It would be

00:57:46.760 less gutsy

00:57:47.740 now.

00:57:48.020 Yeah, John

00:57:55.700 Travolta is

00:57:56.320 also expert

00:57:57.460 pilot.

00:57:58.100 Interesting that

00:57:58.940 they all enjoyed

00:58:00.220 flying.

00:58:06.000 All right.

00:58:08.900 That, ladies

00:58:09.700 and gentlemen,

00:58:10.380 is all I have

00:58:11.040 for today.

00:58:13.180 And I think

00:58:14.400 it's a perfect

00:58:14.880 day.

00:58:15.700 I think, once

00:58:16.600 again, that

00:58:17.400 coffee with

00:58:18.420 Scott Adams

00:58:18.920 was the

00:58:19.460 highlight of

00:58:20.940 your day.

00:58:21.880 Probably going

00:58:22.420 to get better

00:58:22.820 from here.

00:58:23.760 But so far,

00:58:24.580 best ever.

00:58:27.560 And today

00:58:29.580 is my, let's

00:58:31.740 say, ninth

00:58:32.640 day of

00:58:33.940 COVID

00:58:35.000 quarantine.

00:58:37.140 Tomorrow,

00:58:39.020 tenth day,

00:58:41.120 freedom,

00:58:44.260 freedom.

00:58:46.540 Almost free.

00:58:48.260 How am I

00:58:48.940 feeling?

00:58:49.560 Well, let's

00:58:50.040 talk about

00:58:50.440 long COVID.

00:58:51.080 So, I've

00:58:53.180 been told

00:58:53.600 that one

00:58:55.040 might experience

00:58:55.900 good days

00:58:56.580 and bad

00:58:57.000 days.

00:58:59.920 Yesterday,

00:59:00.600 for most

00:59:01.020 of the

00:59:01.240 day, I

00:59:01.840 didn't feel

00:59:02.600 that bone

00:59:05.500 tired stuff.

00:59:07.820 In fact,

00:59:08.500 I got a

00:59:09.540 new e-bike

00:59:10.040 and took

00:59:11.740 that for a

00:59:12.180 ride.

00:59:13.360 But I have

00:59:14.000 to admit,

00:59:14.760 even though it

00:59:15.400 was an e-bike,

00:59:16.040 so it was

00:59:16.320 easy to ride,

00:59:17.700 I made it a

00:59:18.340 little challenging

00:59:18.960 by turning

00:59:20.380 down the

00:59:20.720 power and

00:59:21.320 doing some

00:59:21.880 hills and

00:59:22.260 stuff.

00:59:23.000 But it

00:59:23.620 wasn't the

00:59:24.060 hardest workout

00:59:24.720 I've ever

00:59:25.140 had, but I

00:59:26.860 couldn't move

00:59:27.360 for the rest

00:59:27.740 of the day.

00:59:29.740 So by

00:59:30.480 noon,

00:59:32.220 now by

00:59:32.620 noon, I've

00:59:33.120 been up for

00:59:34.840 eight hours,

00:59:35.560 and I've

00:59:35.900 worked and

00:59:36.520 exercised and

00:59:37.640 showered and

00:59:38.820 done everything.

00:59:39.980 So by noon,

00:59:40.880 when a lot of

00:59:41.480 you are starting

00:59:42.000 your day, I'm

00:59:42.840 almost done

00:59:43.300 with my

00:59:43.640 day.

00:59:43.860 And just

00:59:48.280 that little

00:59:48.760 bit of

00:59:49.060 exercise

00:59:49.620 essentially just

00:59:51.360 took me out

00:59:51.960 for the rest

00:59:52.380 of the night.

00:59:53.520 By noon, I

00:59:55.160 didn't really

00:59:55.640 want to do

00:59:56.100 anything after

00:59:56.640 that.

00:59:56.980 I couldn't

00:59:57.360 work.

00:59:58.800 It wasn't

00:59:59.300 even possible.

01:00:01.040 So I

01:00:01.700 don't know.

01:00:02.560 Is that

01:00:02.920 long COVID?

01:00:05.500 Because it's

01:00:06.560 not a feeling

01:00:08.520 I'm familiar

01:00:09.100 with.

01:00:10.660 But yet, I

01:00:11.660 definitely don't

01:00:12.280 have,

01:00:12.760 the brain

01:00:14.760 fog.

01:00:16.300 So I

01:00:16.940 had the

01:00:17.500 brain fog

01:00:17.960 for the

01:00:18.280 first few

01:00:18.660 days, and

01:00:19.160 it was very

01:00:20.020 distinct.

01:00:20.960 I mean, you

01:00:21.300 can't miss

01:00:21.760 it.

01:00:22.700 Really distinct.

01:00:24.140 I don't have

01:00:24.600 any of that.

01:00:25.480 And indeed,

01:00:26.280 I've been

01:00:27.400 watching the

01:00:27.960 quality of my

01:00:28.740 work, my

01:00:29.460 writing.

01:00:30.260 It looks the

01:00:30.760 same, unless

01:00:32.060 my brain fog

01:00:32.840 is preventing

01:00:33.760 me from seeing

01:00:34.420 that it's worse.

01:00:35.660 But it looks

01:00:36.100 the same.

01:00:36.680 So I think

01:00:37.180 mentally I'm

01:00:37.720 about the

01:00:38.020 same.

01:00:41.340 Testing

01:00:41.820 negative is

01:00:42.620 problematic,

01:00:43.580 because apparently

01:00:44.060 you can test

01:00:44.780 positive for

01:00:45.540 months, you

01:00:46.780 know, long

01:00:47.160 after you

01:00:47.680 don't have

01:00:48.460 any symptoms

01:00:49.080 or you

01:00:49.600 can't spread

01:00:50.080 it.

01:00:53.380 Even

01:00:53.900 regular flu

01:00:54.620 makes you

01:00:55.040 feel weak

01:00:56.300 for several

01:00:56.940 days afterwards.

01:00:58.980 That's true.

01:00:59.800 Now, I've

01:01:00.340 also had the

01:01:00.860 experience of

01:01:02.600 having a

01:01:03.260 normal illness,

01:01:05.380 you know, let's

01:01:05.700 say a minor

01:01:06.300 surgery.

01:01:06.960 So I had a

01:01:07.460 minor sinus

01:01:08.340 surgery a few

01:01:09.240 years ago.

01:01:10.240 And it took

01:01:11.100 me months to

01:01:11.980 recover from

01:01:13.300 just a minor

01:01:14.080 surgery where

01:01:14.780 they knocked

01:01:15.200 you out.

01:01:16.260 Anybody have

01:01:16.780 that experience?

01:01:18.040 It's probably

01:01:18.500 something that

01:01:19.200 happens after a

01:01:19.840 certain age.

01:01:20.700 And years

01:01:22.420 before that,

01:01:23.980 I'd had another

01:01:24.760 very minor

01:01:25.540 surgery on

01:01:27.180 some nerves

01:01:28.260 in my neck

01:01:28.820 for my voice

01:01:29.480 problem.

01:01:30.940 And that

01:01:32.700 took months,

01:01:34.260 months to get

01:01:35.280 my strength

01:01:35.780 back from

01:01:36.820 just a

01:01:37.560 one-day

01:01:38.180 minor operation,

01:01:39.980 really.

01:01:41.760 Was it a

01:01:42.480 sinus lift?

01:01:43.880 I don't

01:01:44.240 even know

01:01:44.480 what that

01:01:44.720 is.

01:01:47.360 By the

01:01:47.900 way, has

01:01:48.380 there ever

01:01:48.740 been a

01:01:49.500 medical

01:01:50.040 problem with

01:01:51.020 a more

01:01:51.340 awesome-sounding

01:01:52.140 name?

01:01:53.780 Because when

01:01:54.380 I tell people

01:01:55.320 I have long

01:01:55.860 COVID, I feel

01:01:57.600 a little bit

01:01:58.080 like I'm

01:01:58.460 bragging, you

01:01:59.180 know what I

01:01:59.460 mean?

01:02:00.420 Yeah, I got

01:02:01.120 long COVID.

01:02:03.720 Really long.

01:02:04.620 It's like, so

01:02:05.360 long.

01:02:05.700 Yeah, it's

01:02:07.600 the best-sounding

01:02:08.280 medical problem

01:02:09.340 you've ever

01:02:09.700 heard in your

01:02:10.040 life.

01:02:12.320 Don't COVID.

01:02:17.040 All right, no

01:02:17.900 puns.

01:02:18.820 I know you

01:02:19.240 wanted to join

01:02:19.740 in there.

01:02:21.180 All right, I'll

01:02:22.400 keep you

01:02:23.000 informed.

01:02:25.480 So if you

01:02:26.180 ask me right

01:02:27.060 now at this

01:02:27.820 moment, I'd

01:02:28.360 say I don't

01:02:28.880 have any

01:02:29.440 lingering feelings

01:02:30.940 whatsoever.

01:02:32.560 But ask me

01:02:34.160 again at 2

01:02:34.860 o'clock this

01:02:35.380 afternoon.

01:02:35.700 afternoon, and

01:02:36.100 I'm going

01:02:36.420 to be staring

01:02:36.900 at the wall.

01:02:38.080 And it's

01:02:38.440 that staring

01:02:38.980 at the wall

01:02:39.540 thing that's

01:02:40.040 completely

01:02:40.520 different.

01:02:42.060 Because I

01:02:42.660 know what

01:02:42.960 it's like to

01:02:43.400 be exhausted,

01:02:44.580 just, you

01:02:45.040 know, normal

01:02:45.440 tired.

01:02:46.140 It doesn't

01:02:46.760 feel like that

01:02:47.280 at all.

01:02:48.600 No matter

01:02:49.080 how tired I

01:02:49.980 am normally,

01:02:51.500 I don't want

01:02:52.120 to sit there

01:02:52.620 doing nothing.

01:02:54.740 But this

01:02:55.360 long COVID,

01:02:56.240 if that's what

01:02:56.700 it is, I'm

01:02:57.980 actually happy

01:02:58.960 just sitting

01:03:00.800 in a chair.

01:03:01.400 And I

01:03:03.940 don't know

01:03:04.220 what that's

01:03:04.720 about.

01:03:05.620 So it's

01:03:05.940 almost like it

01:03:06.440 made me

01:03:06.740 better.

01:03:07.460 Like it

01:03:07.840 cured my

01:03:08.500 ADHD or

01:03:10.500 something.

01:03:11.840 But we'll

01:03:12.580 see.

01:03:15.020 All right.

01:03:17.300 What kind

01:03:18.100 of e-bike?

01:03:18.600 it's more

01:03:21.140 of a trail

01:03:21.900 bike.

01:03:23.280 So the

01:03:23.620 first e-bike

01:03:24.160 I got was

01:03:25.340 really just

01:03:25.940 one of the

01:03:26.380 few that

01:03:26.760 was in

01:03:27.380 stock.

01:03:28.800 And it

01:03:29.020 looked kind

01:03:29.540 of, it's

01:03:30.300 a Trek,

01:03:31.160 T-R-E-K.

01:03:32.460 And it

01:03:32.980 looked kind

01:03:33.260 of boring

01:03:33.620 and stayed.

01:03:35.720 And I

01:03:36.580 got mocked

01:03:37.100 for it,

01:03:38.160 for not

01:03:38.580 looking cool.

01:03:41.860 And so I

01:03:42.680 got one that

01:03:43.180 looks cool,

01:03:44.340 but it's a

01:03:44.840 monster.

01:03:45.720 It's amazing.

01:03:48.600 All right.

01:03:50.440 Yeah, it's,

01:03:51.500 yeah, I mean,

01:03:52.320 it's off-road.

01:03:54.960 But it just

01:03:55.700 looks better.

01:03:57.440 All right,

01:03:57.760 that's, yeah,

01:03:59.160 so much for

01:03:59.620 my ego death.

01:04:00.460 That's true.

01:04:02.340 Now, I don't

01:04:03.020 mind spending

01:04:03.500 money on

01:04:04.400 things that

01:04:06.780 work better.

01:04:07.960 So it

01:04:08.660 wasn't, if

01:04:09.380 my old bike

01:04:10.300 had functioned

01:04:11.440 as well as

01:04:12.040 this one did,

01:04:13.560 I wouldn't

01:04:14.240 have replaced

01:04:14.780 it.

01:04:15.600 But I wanted

01:04:16.100 the function.

01:04:18.600 Forrest

01:04:23.900 Cascades,

01:04:24.760 hmm.

01:04:30.360 All right,

01:04:31.040 that's all for

01:04:31.460 now.

01:04:31.860 I'll talk to

01:04:32.320 you tomorrow.

01:04:33.380 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:35.200 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

01:04:35.760 I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 06, 2022

Episode 1766 Scott Adams： Everything Is Broken But I'll Tell you How To Fix It

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