Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1778 Scott Adams： Today I Will Try To Persuade Trump To Not Run In 2024

00:00:00.000 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

00:00:08.760 Wow, am I glad to see you.

00:00:11.700 Because if I were not seeing you, I would be seeing people who are less attractive, less smart,

00:00:18.860 less with it, less kind, less generous, less gracious.

00:00:23.940 And can we put up with people like that when we could be around people like you?

00:00:28.200 No.

00:00:30.520 No, not even a little bit.

00:00:32.600 So how would you like to continue our dominance of being awesome in a world of mediocrity?

00:00:40.700 I think you would.

00:00:42.080 And let's take it to the next level with a thing I call the simultaneous sip.

00:00:47.680 And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tanker, chalice, or a stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:55.980 Fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.

00:00:58.600 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure.

00:01:04.940 It's the dopamine here of the day.

00:01:07.520 It's just going to blow your mind.

00:01:09.560 It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

00:01:12.720 Go.

00:01:12.860 So I was sitting here this morning and I said to myself,

00:01:27.320 what can I do to really mix things up and be interesting and maybe change the world?

00:01:35.700 Maybe change the world into something better.

00:01:38.540 And I thought, well, how could I do that?

00:01:41.120 How can one person change the world?

00:01:43.740 And then I thought, yeah, I could do that.

00:01:48.900 So a little bit later, I'm going to do it.

00:01:51.120 But I want people to see my clickbaity title for this live stream, which I'm going to deliver.

00:01:58.820 I'm going to persuade Trump to not run in 2024.

00:02:04.500 Will I succeed?

00:02:08.340 Let's do the other news first while people pour in.

00:02:11.280 And that teaser, that teaser is going to leave you right on the edge.

00:02:16.400 Yeah, you won't leave.

00:02:17.800 You won't leave when I said that.

00:02:19.480 Well, here's a question that I have for Biden supporters,

00:02:25.500 people who supported him and then, despite what they see happening with his administration,

00:02:33.660 what do they think would happen with a second term?

00:02:37.700 Wouldn't you love to be inside the mind of a Biden supporter who is legitimately thinking,

00:02:43.760 you know, I think the best thing for this country would be another term of Biden.

00:02:50.180 How do they project that in their minds?

00:02:54.820 Do they say to themselves, you know, a second term would look just like this one,

00:03:00.500 and this is going great, so why wouldn't you want more of that?

00:03:05.660 Is that how it works?

00:03:07.920 Now, I'm not even trying to be, you know, like, biased.

00:03:13.480 It's hard to understand what exactly would be the thought process,

00:03:18.480 or would they say to themselves, as others might,

00:03:22.600 well, he seems to be going downhill pretty quickly,

00:03:25.640 and at this point the rate of decline is probably going to get steeper.

00:03:30.940 You know, it's not going to plateau.

00:03:33.660 So in, you know, six years or so, there's not going to be much left of him.

00:03:38.240 But do the Democrats who support him say, you know, I think there'll be enough left as long as he can breathe.

00:03:46.320 He's still going to be better than all the other choices in the Democratic Party

00:03:49.980 and all the choices in the Republican Party.

00:03:53.640 Do they actually think that?

00:03:57.280 Or have they convinced themselves that they're in some kind of a tight spot

00:04:01.660 where they've given away all their options, and it's just the best they got?

00:04:06.880 They hate it, but they're going to make the best of it.

00:04:09.760 Which do you think it is?

00:04:11.660 Do you think they think it would actually be a good thing

00:04:14.520 to have a president who's 150 years old?

00:04:21.600 Do they really think that?

00:04:24.280 So, I'm genuinely curious.

00:04:27.300 I would love to be able to, you know, get into the brain and say,

00:04:30.780 all right, I see what you're saying,

00:04:33.900 but what are you actually thinking?

00:04:36.320 What's the internal thought process there?

00:04:39.120 Do you really look at Biden and say,

00:04:41.720 yeah, that looks pretty good to me?

00:04:43.040 I don't see how a 30% decline from this point would be any problem.

00:04:51.960 Well, you can tell it's a weekend,

00:04:54.680 and all the people who make the news, the fake news,

00:04:57.700 must be on vacation.

00:05:00.560 Because do you see how heavy the news is on Saturday

00:05:04.660 with whatever the hell Bill Maher said on Friday night?

00:05:09.760 What's going to happen when Bill Maher takes some kind of a hiatus?

00:05:13.040 He always takes some time off, right?

00:05:16.020 There is so much news that is,

00:05:18.260 what did Elon Musk say?

00:05:20.760 And what did Bill Maher say?

00:05:22.680 How much news can those two people make?

00:05:27.060 Apparently, multiple stories every single week.

00:05:31.040 Now, this is one of those times when I think I'm living in a simulation.

00:05:34.760 And it seems as if the simulation has become so complex,

00:05:41.220 because now there are 7 billion people that have to be managed

00:05:45.320 and have to keep track of all that,

00:05:48.000 that I feel like maybe the simulation's resources are being taxed.

00:05:53.100 And it's reducing the number of choices for other stuff.

00:05:56.360 Because it seems like the news should be getting infinitely more complex,

00:06:02.860 wouldn't you say?

00:06:04.620 Isn't the world getting infinitely more complex?

00:06:08.040 And so wouldn't you sort of logically say,

00:06:10.500 it seems like every news story now

00:06:12.880 is going to be this wild thing that you never heard before?

00:06:16.260 Because everything's just wildly going and, you know,

00:06:21.140 things are being invented and things are changing quickly.

00:06:24.060 And so shouldn't you expect that the news stories

00:06:28.400 become wildly divergent,

00:06:31.960 like just something you've never heard before?

00:06:35.660 But instead, the news every weekend is,

00:06:37.920 what did Bill Maher say?

00:06:40.160 And it's always even the same frame,

00:06:42.280 that he criticized what you think is his own team,

00:06:45.360 but I would argue he's a more independent thinker than that suggests.

00:06:52.600 Why do we have fewer choices?

00:06:55.220 What's going on there?

00:06:57.060 Is it because the news industry has just given up?

00:07:00.400 And for economic reasons,

00:07:01.800 they'll just do whatever's the easiest,

00:07:03.860 and whatever's the easiest is watch Bill Maher

00:07:06.440 and then write an article on your laptop

00:07:09.300 while you're sipping wine

00:07:11.620 and watching whatever funny thing Bill Maher says.

00:07:14.140 That's all we got left.

00:07:17.700 Because there are no real problems to solve right now.

00:07:21.160 All right?

00:07:21.560 But that's all I've got too,

00:07:24.020 so I'm going to talk about Bill Maher.

00:07:26.180 So should we talk about what Bill Maher said?

00:07:29.440 It's all we got.

00:07:31.020 It's all we got.

00:07:32.600 But we'll get to the good part of that.

00:07:33.940 So I guess he torched the Washington Post

00:07:37.140 about the reporter who made us think

00:07:40.200 about a sexist-sounding joke and blah, blah, blah.

00:07:43.600 You know that story.

00:07:45.340 So he was making fun of the wokeness

00:07:47.940 at the Washington Post.

00:07:50.100 He also said that DeSantis would be better than Trump.

00:07:54.460 He didn't back or promote DeSantis.

00:07:57.780 He was just saying of the two of them

00:07:59.380 that DeSantis was at least not crazy.

00:08:04.720 So again, credit to Bill Maher

00:08:07.920 for being an independent thinker

00:08:10.400 because it's hard.

00:08:12.880 I would think that if you're being honest,

00:08:15.620 it would be hard to look at DeSantis

00:08:17.280 and say that would be a mistake.

00:08:18.940 Like, even if you're a Democrat?

00:08:22.680 Now, I get that he might disagree,

00:08:24.740 let's say, on abortion,

00:08:26.820 might disagree on, you know,

00:08:28.680 half a dozen policies.

00:08:31.240 Yeah, I get that.

00:08:32.620 But how can he look at DeSantis

00:08:34.400 and not say that he does a good job

00:08:36.980 of representing his base

00:08:38.340 and that at least his opinions

00:08:40.660 are part of a legitimate political conversation?

00:08:44.000 And I feel like Bill Maher gives him that due

00:08:49.140 and it's kind of refreshing to see.

00:08:52.660 It's refreshing to see anybody

00:08:54.260 who can speak independently today.

00:08:58.400 Well, I keep wondering

00:09:01.100 if the Russian economy is broken

00:09:03.160 or doing terrific.

00:09:05.960 It's so weird that we can't tell

00:09:08.100 because today there's some CNN reporting

00:09:11.900 that the Russian economy

00:09:14.180 is, you know, mostly smoke and mirrors

00:09:16.080 and that even though, sure,

00:09:18.300 the rubble's doing the ruble.

00:09:21.240 Isn't that weird?

00:09:23.620 That the Russian news is about rubble and rubles?

00:09:30.320 It just seems weird.

00:09:32.580 Like, basically, there are two things

00:09:34.700 that can define the entire story

00:09:36.860 of the Russia-Ukraine situation.

00:09:39.060 Rubble and rubble.

00:09:42.840 If you understood those two situations,

00:09:44.960 you'd know the whole thing.

00:09:47.040 And that's just weird.

00:09:49.300 I don't know.

00:09:52.380 It's like one of the founders

00:09:54.200 of Black Lives Matter.

00:09:56.520 Correct me if I'm wrong.

00:09:57.560 Isn't her last name Colors?

00:10:00.380 And she was one of the founders

00:10:01.820 of Black Lives Matter?

00:10:03.560 Her last name is Colors.

00:10:06.100 Like, that's just weird.

00:10:07.620 I don't know what to make of that.

00:10:11.640 I saw a tweet by Brian Machiavelli,

00:10:16.240 and he was saying that it seems like

00:10:18.560 the simulation is less interested

00:10:20.400 in hiding itself.

00:10:24.120 I swear it seems like that.

00:10:26.320 I feel as if the way we're finding out

00:10:30.440 we're in a simulation is that

00:10:31.820 whoever created it is dropping

00:10:34.160 such obvious hints

00:10:35.560 that it will be hilarious

00:10:38.120 after we're sure of what happened.

00:10:41.140 Like, we're all in some kind of

00:10:42.900 giant practical joke

00:10:44.200 where we can't see that it's obvious

00:10:47.040 that somebody's messing with us

00:10:48.480 and that we're part of some kind of,

00:10:50.300 you know, observational game

00:10:52.680 or science experiment

00:10:54.100 or something.

00:10:55.360 And I'll say more about that

00:10:59.480 in a little bit.

00:11:00.420 But one of the ways that makes me think

00:11:03.820 that that's the case,

00:11:05.040 and I'm, you know,

00:11:05.760 I'm being facetious here,

00:11:07.220 but doesn't it seem that parity

00:11:10.360 and reality have legitimately merged?

00:11:13.800 I've been saying this for a while,

00:11:15.860 that the parity-reality crossover point

00:11:18.640 has actually been achieved.

00:11:19.800 And what I mean by that

00:11:21.580 is you can't tell

00:11:22.520 when people are kidding now.

00:11:24.560 Because people can say

00:11:25.680 outrageously ridiculous things

00:11:28.360 and you would have to know

00:11:30.380 who they were

00:11:32.560 to know if they were kidding.

00:11:34.720 Let me say that again.

00:11:36.640 You would have to know

00:11:37.580 who the person was

00:11:38.920 to know if they were kidding.

00:11:41.460 You wouldn't be able to tell by the words.

00:11:44.840 You cannot tell by the words.

00:11:47.460 But if I said something

00:11:48.920 that was, you know,

00:11:50.200 sort of super woke,

00:11:52.520 you'd probably say to yourself,

00:11:54.220 I think he's kidding.

00:11:56.240 But then he's also

00:11:57.800 very pro-trans

00:11:59.260 and pro-LGBTQ,

00:12:01.340 so is he kidding?

00:12:03.940 We're not really sure.

00:12:06.000 So even I fall into that category.

00:12:08.620 Right?

00:12:08.860 There's no escaping it.

00:12:10.540 So let me give you an update

00:12:12.380 on the Dilbert comic.

00:12:15.460 So a while ago,

00:12:16.160 I introduced a black regular character

00:12:19.780 named Dave.

00:12:21.460 And Dave's characteristic,

00:12:24.660 because you have to give

00:12:25.240 every cartoon character,

00:12:27.940 has to have some kind of a defect

00:12:29.760 or a stereotypical personality trait.

00:12:35.280 Because that's what makes comics interesting.

00:12:37.960 They are meant to be stereotypes.

00:12:40.580 But how do you do a stereotype

00:12:41.800 in our sensitive world

00:12:43.400 with a black character

00:12:45.320 if you're a white creator?

00:12:46.940 It's just a little bit too...

00:12:48.220 It's a little too sensitive in 2022.

00:12:50.800 So what I came up with,

00:12:53.560 I think is working so far,

00:12:55.280 which is Dave, the engineer,

00:12:58.020 and his defining personality trait

00:13:00.720 is that you can't tell if he's kidding.

00:13:05.580 So he's sort of a character for the ages.

00:13:09.220 He's perfectly designed for 2022.

00:13:12.520 That the parody reality crossover point happened.

00:13:15.720 And when the boss talks to Dave,

00:13:17.360 he can't tell if Dave is kidding.

00:13:18.640 I'll give you an example.

00:13:20.320 So a Dave cartoon is running today

00:13:23.900 at Dilber.com.

00:13:25.180 I tweeted it if you want to see it.

00:13:26.640 It's at the top of my Twitter feed.

00:13:29.260 And so the boss goes to talk to Dave,

00:13:32.080 the engineer,

00:13:33.000 and the boss says,

00:13:34.340 why is your project late, Dave?

00:13:36.740 And then Dave says,

00:13:38.160 supply chain issues, climate change,

00:13:40.360 systemic racism, COVID,

00:13:42.160 and something about inflation.

00:13:44.540 And the boss says,

00:13:46.260 I can never tell if you're joking.

00:13:48.640 And Dave says,

00:13:49.480 I love that about you.

00:13:51.560 Now, this is actually based on

00:13:53.900 one of my coworkers from a million years ago.

00:13:58.460 I worked in a big bank.

00:14:00.980 And we would have regular, you know,

00:14:04.600 office meetings once a week,

00:14:06.320 you know, to do status updates.

00:14:07.640 And I don't think there's anything worse

00:14:10.400 than a regularly scheduled status update meeting.

00:14:14.960 For boring,

00:14:16.840 you can't really top that.

00:14:19.260 And one of the people

00:14:20.840 who attended the meeting,

00:14:21.780 he was one of the managers.

00:14:23.480 His name was Red.

00:14:25.040 I forget his last name.

00:14:26.320 I'm not sure that Red was his real name

00:14:28.160 because I think he had red hair.

00:14:31.660 It might have been his real name,

00:14:32.840 but I don't know.

00:14:33.640 I think maybe it was his nickname.

00:14:35.400 But Red

00:14:36.000 was probably the funniest person

00:14:39.580 I've ever worked with.

00:14:41.160 And I've worked with some pretty funny people.

00:14:44.140 And what Red would do

00:14:45.260 is he would give his status updates

00:14:47.580 in jargon.

00:14:50.260 But the jargon was all the actual,

00:14:52.880 like actual jargon that was used in the bank.

00:14:55.840 But what he would do

00:14:57.020 is he would use so much jargon

00:14:58.660 that if you knew Red,

00:15:01.100 you knew he was joking.

00:15:03.300 But if you didn't know him,

00:15:06.200 you weren't sure.

00:15:09.040 And he never broke character

00:15:11.080 when he did it.

00:15:13.000 And I thought,

00:15:15.280 I thought my face

00:15:17.260 was going to explode one day.

00:15:18.880 I wish I could do an impression of it.

00:15:20.700 But if you could just imagine Red,

00:15:22.800 I'll give you sort of the visual

00:15:24.600 so you can see him.

00:15:25.420 So he was an older guy.

00:15:27.240 He was probably in his 60s or so,

00:15:29.720 you know,

00:15:29.920 with thinning hair.

00:15:31.580 And, you know,

00:15:32.820 he had these magnifying kind of glasses

00:15:35.320 so that his eyes looked bigger

00:15:37.000 than they would look

00:15:38.660 if he didn't have glasses on.

00:15:40.280 And he had sort of a perpetual smile

00:15:43.400 that no matter whether he was serious or joking,

00:15:48.220 he still had that same wry smile

00:15:50.940 so that when he talked,

00:15:53.080 you sort of always knew

00:15:55.760 he was kidding.

00:15:57.820 No matter how serious he was,

00:16:00.540 he was also kidding.

00:16:02.660 I've never seen anybody

00:16:03.860 who could take something,

00:16:05.100 you know,

00:16:05.660 so non-seriously

00:16:07.040 while still completely doing his job.

00:16:09.180 You know,

00:16:09.340 he didn't,

00:16:10.160 he was a good performer.

00:16:12.420 And one day,

00:16:14.180 he went into his jargon-filled status update,

00:16:17.740 and the boss who,

00:16:19.040 I don't know if he was completely in

00:16:20.820 on the joke or not,

00:16:22.320 I think he was

00:16:23.060 because he was pretty with it,

00:16:25.020 sort of just sat there

00:16:26.080 and he just lets him go.

00:16:28.880 And Red would just go,

00:16:30.580 well, you know,

00:16:31.340 in this teamwork-filled synergy,

00:16:33.920 we've got to re-engineer

00:16:35.280 all of our processes

00:16:36.400 to make our systems run

00:16:39.440 so there's self-healing.

00:16:41.480 And he would just go on.

00:16:44.220 And you would think

00:16:46.480 that it couldn't go any further,

00:16:49.900 like he'd used every jargon

00:16:51.360 in the first 10 seconds,

00:16:52.640 and you're like,

00:16:53.080 okay,

00:16:53.360 that's the funniest thing

00:16:54.160 I've ever heard.

00:16:55.280 And then that 10 seconds

00:16:56.640 just keeps going,

00:16:59.480 and by about the second minute

00:17:01.180 of nothing but non-stop jargon,

00:17:04.320 you're reduced to a puddle.

00:17:06.040 You're just crying.

00:17:07.440 Like,

00:17:07.720 I lost so much moisture that day

00:17:09.600 of just like tears

00:17:10.840 shooting out of my eyes

00:17:12.160 as he's going through

00:17:13.760 his status report.

00:17:15.080 It was just the most beautiful thing.

00:17:16.780 Anyway,

00:17:17.360 you had to be there.

00:17:18.860 So I'm sorry,

00:17:19.720 I'm sorry I bored you with that

00:17:21.240 because you had to be there.

00:17:23.300 All right,

00:17:23.680 but Dave is back.

00:17:24.540 That's the point of that.

00:17:28.780 So is the Russian economy

00:17:30.520 going to hell or not?

00:17:32.380 So CNN says

00:17:33.520 maybe it is going to hell, 0.89

00:17:34.680 but there's smoke and mirrors,

00:17:36.380 so you can't tell.

00:17:37.720 And the funniest story of the day

00:17:39.520 where, again,

00:17:41.800 I made a tweet

00:17:42.640 and somebody couldn't tell

00:17:44.020 if I was kidding.

00:17:46.160 So actually,

00:17:46.820 I wasn't planning this

00:17:47.720 to work so perfectly

00:17:48.820 with what I just said before.

00:17:50.740 But there's a story

00:17:52.840 about some of the crew

00:17:54.860 from the late show

00:17:55.860 with Stephen Colbert,

00:17:57.480 and I guess they were arrested

00:17:59.260 by the U.S. Capitol Police

00:18:01.520 in a congressional office

00:18:03.060 where they weren't supposed to be.

00:18:05.240 So they were there

00:18:05.840 trying to do some kind of a segment

00:18:07.280 for the show

00:18:07.900 and I guess they didn't have

00:18:10.160 the right approvals

00:18:11.000 and they got arrested.

00:18:13.440 And so I tweeted

00:18:14.280 that to me

00:18:15.820 that looks like an insurrection.

00:18:20.820 And somebody

00:18:21.860 pushed back

00:18:24.740 because they couldn't tell

00:18:27.400 if I were being serious.

00:18:30.300 of what?

00:18:35.020 That's the parody

00:18:36.000 reality crossover.

00:18:38.100 That somebody

00:18:38.600 couldn't tell

00:18:39.220 if I was being serious

00:18:40.300 when I said

00:18:41.340 that seven people

00:18:42.560 filming a comedy show

00:18:45.140 without permission

00:18:46.580 in a room

00:18:47.480 was an insurrection

00:18:49.620 against the country.

00:18:51.100 And somebody thought

00:18:51.840 that I actually believed that

00:18:53.480 and I was arguing that

00:18:54.640 and then they pushed back.

00:18:55.640 Here we are.

00:18:58.680 I turned it to red

00:19:00.200 and I wasn't even trying.

00:19:03.020 All right.

00:19:05.440 There's a Gallup poll

00:19:06.460 that says

00:19:06.780 the belief in God

00:19:07.660 is waning.

00:19:08.180 So I wonder

00:19:10.860 what you would say.

00:19:12.540 What percent

00:19:13.300 of U.S. adults

00:19:14.260 do you think

00:19:15.280 believe in God

00:19:16.300 if you haven't seen

00:19:17.140 the story?

00:19:17.820 Don't cheat.

00:19:18.640 All right.

00:19:18.900 No cheating.

00:19:20.260 So if you haven't seen

00:19:21.320 the latest poll

00:19:22.060 so you're just guessing

00:19:23.100 I don't want

00:19:23.620 the real number here.

00:19:24.980 I'll tell you

00:19:25.400 the real number.

00:19:26.640 What percentage

00:19:27.280 of U.S. adults

00:19:29.220 say they believe

00:19:30.120 in God

00:19:30.840 right now

00:19:32.040 this year?

00:19:32.880 What percentage?

00:19:34.540 I'm seeing

00:19:35.380 50s, 60s, 40s.

00:19:38.180 20s, 25 percent.

00:19:41.660 Stop it.

00:19:42.660 72 percent, 75, 50, 85 percent.

00:19:47.180 Somebody said 80 percent.

00:19:49.640 So how can it be

00:19:51.240 that we live

00:19:51.760 in the same country

00:19:52.600 and there are people

00:19:54.040 who are guessing

00:19:54.600 that 80 percent

00:19:55.860 believe in God

00:19:57.860 and there are other people

00:19:59.300 thinking 40 percent?

00:20:01.320 Do we live

00:20:01.900 in the same country?

00:20:03.700 Or maybe it's people

00:20:05.440 from other countries

00:20:06.260 who are voting.

00:20:06.760 But

00:20:08.520 there's something

00:20:10.700 wrong with that

00:20:11.320 isn't there?

00:20:12.920 There's something

00:20:13.920 wrong that

00:20:14.600 there are people

00:20:16.000 who are adults

00:20:16.980 who live in this country

00:20:18.000 who think that maybe

00:20:19.200 40 percent

00:20:19.980 believe in God

00:20:20.820 and others think

00:20:22.120 that 80 percent

00:20:22.740 believe in God.

00:20:24.540 Which one do you

00:20:25.400 think is true?

00:20:26.780 The answer is

00:20:28.000 81 percent.

00:20:29.980 But that's actually

00:20:31.060 at an all-time low.

00:20:31.980 So that is

00:20:34.180 lowest in 78 years.

00:20:37.600 It's down six points

00:20:38.780 from 2017.

00:20:40.940 So from about the time

00:20:42.240 that Trump got elected

00:20:43.960 belief in God

00:20:46.060 went down six points.

00:20:50.480 Do you remember

00:20:52.800 my most mind-blowing

00:20:54.180 prediction

00:20:56.420 from 2015?

00:21:00.040 I predicted

00:21:00.920 that

00:21:01.760 I think it was

00:21:02.560 2015

00:21:03.080 might have been

00:21:03.520 16.

00:21:04.280 I predicted

00:21:04.840 that Trump's

00:21:05.560 election

00:21:06.000 would change

00:21:08.000 more than

00:21:08.480 politics.

00:21:10.180 It would change

00:21:10.920 how we saw

00:21:11.480 reality itself.

00:21:14.480 Now

00:21:14.960 when I said that

00:21:16.020 like it didn't

00:21:16.660 even get

00:21:17.100 retweets

00:21:17.900 because absolutely

00:21:19.820 nobody knew

00:21:20.480 what I was talking

00:21:21.100 about

00:21:21.420 because

00:21:21.980 it just

00:21:22.540 didn't make

00:21:23.380 sense

00:21:23.800 back then.

00:21:25.320 And then

00:21:25.580 I kept

00:21:26.280 repeating it.

00:21:27.900 So those of you

00:21:28.560 who have been

00:21:28.780 following me

00:21:29.300 for a while

00:21:29.700 you can confirm

00:21:31.420 that every

00:21:32.880 X months

00:21:34.000 or whatever

00:21:34.400 I would just

00:21:34.940 repeat it

00:21:35.540 and say that

00:21:36.740 Trump was

00:21:37.520 changing more

00:21:38.280 than politics.

00:21:39.160 He was changing

00:21:39.700 how we saw

00:21:40.780 reality itself.

00:21:42.960 And then

00:21:43.340 here we are

00:21:44.500 and we understand

00:21:46.100 that fake news

00:21:47.300 is pervasive.

00:21:49.280 It's not just

00:21:50.040 on the other

00:21:51.060 side.

00:21:52.500 It's not

00:21:53.140 on your side

00:21:53.600 too.

00:21:54.960 And then

00:21:55.220 fake news

00:21:55.920 is actually

00:21:56.600 the news

00:21:57.040 that moves

00:21:57.440 the dial.

00:21:58.740 And real

00:21:59.240 news

00:21:59.700 is actually

00:22:01.240 often less

00:22:02.380 important than

00:22:02.960 the fake

00:22:03.300 stuff.

00:22:04.460 That is a

00:22:04.960 complete

00:22:05.440 change of

00:22:07.440 understanding

00:22:08.680 of reality

00:22:09.780 itself.

00:22:11.800 You thought

00:22:12.360 you lived

00:22:12.780 in at least

00:22:13.440 a semi-believable

00:22:14.600 credible reality

00:22:15.980 and you

00:22:16.760 didn't.

00:22:17.520 You didn't

00:22:18.440 live in

00:22:18.840 anything that

00:22:19.540 was credible.

00:22:20.060 you lived

00:22:21.220 in a

00:22:21.500 total

00:22:21.780 fake

00:22:22.320 constructed

00:22:23.100 fake news

00:22:25.120 reality

00:22:25.820 and it

00:22:27.080 took the

00:22:27.660 Trump

00:22:27.940 experience

00:22:28.660 to understand

00:22:30.540 that.

00:22:32.040 And now

00:22:32.700 we do.

00:22:33.540 I mean

00:22:33.780 the world

00:22:34.720 is way

00:22:35.760 more sophisticated

00:22:36.700 in terms of

00:22:37.880 understanding

00:22:38.340 what's real

00:22:39.000 and what's

00:22:39.460 maybe not

00:22:40.080 real

00:22:40.360 than we

00:22:41.240 were just

00:22:41.820 a few

00:22:42.100 short years

00:22:42.720 ago.

00:22:42.980 so belief

00:22:47.840 in God

00:22:48.400 also is

00:22:49.460 part of

00:22:49.720 that same

00:22:50.100 story.

00:22:51.140 If we're

00:22:51.940 down six

00:22:52.600 points

00:22:53.180 just during

00:22:54.440 that brief

00:22:55.040 sort of

00:22:55.700 Trump

00:22:56.080 period

00:22:56.560 up till

00:22:57.120 now

00:22:57.420 that is

00:22:58.860 a fundamental

00:22:59.520 change in

00:23:00.460 how the

00:23:00.940 United States

00:23:01.600 views

00:23:02.320 reality

00:23:03.560 itself.

00:23:04.120 that is

00:23:09.280 probably the

00:23:09.740 freakiest

00:23:10.180 prediction I've

00:23:10.860 ever made

00:23:11.380 but I was

00:23:12.180 quite sure

00:23:12.660 when I made

00:23:13.160 it and

00:23:13.880 here we

00:23:14.300 are.

00:23:15.780 All right

00:23:16.160 here's something

00:23:16.720 that I'm

00:23:17.360 going to put

00:23:17.640 this in the

00:23:18.100 category of

00:23:18.840 stories I

00:23:20.060 don't believe

00:23:20.740 are true.

00:23:21.240 I want it

00:23:23.420 to be true

00:23:24.020 and if it's

00:23:25.760 true it's

00:23:26.480 really going

00:23:26.860 to be cool

00:23:27.340 and it's

00:23:28.640 really impressive

00:23:29.340 but it falls

00:23:30.720 into a

00:23:31.200 category of

00:23:31.960 things that

00:23:33.120 everything that's

00:23:33.840 been in that

00:23:34.300 category so

00:23:35.040 far hasn't

00:23:35.620 been true.

00:23:36.860 For example

00:23:37.760 one category

00:23:38.940 would be

00:23:39.540 people who

00:23:40.840 invented

00:23:41.300 nuclear fusion

00:23:43.040 and it runs

00:23:43.940 in their

00:23:44.440 garage.

00:23:46.620 That's never

00:23:47.520 been true.

00:23:49.000 Not one

00:23:49.640 time

00:23:50.040 has anybody

00:23:51.740 actually in

00:23:53.060 their garage

00:23:53.840 invented

00:23:54.820 nuclear fusion.

00:23:57.260 So if you

00:23:58.160 see something

00:23:58.620 that's in the

00:23:59.160 category of

00:23:59.880 something that's

00:24:00.380 never been

00:24:00.820 true you

00:24:02.300 should be a

00:24:03.000 little bit

00:24:03.480 aware.

00:24:05.180 So what I'm

00:24:06.160 going to tell

00:24:06.580 you to me

00:24:07.780 seems so

00:24:08.540 clearly not

00:24:09.360 true but

00:24:11.360 maybe it is.

00:24:13.140 Maybe.

00:24:14.180 So we're

00:24:14.640 going to

00:24:14.860 pretend that

00:24:15.420 we're going

00:24:15.660 to suspend

00:24:16.340 our credibility

00:24:17.220 just so we

00:24:18.440 can feel like

00:24:19.080 it's true.

00:24:20.040 and just

00:24:21.000 see if it

00:24:21.320 makes you

00:24:21.580 feel good.

00:24:23.120 Right?

00:24:24.080 There's an

00:24:25.100 Israeli startup

00:24:25.880 called Aquarius

00:24:26.840 that has

00:24:28.300 built a new

00:24:29.260 kind of

00:24:30.020 car engine

00:24:30.940 that has

00:24:32.340 one moving

00:24:33.220 part

00:24:33.720 and it

00:24:36.340 can use

00:24:36.880 any kind

00:24:37.480 of fuel.

00:24:40.060 I mean

00:24:40.700 hydrogen

00:24:41.440 gas

00:24:43.160 ethanol

00:24:44.060 I guess

00:24:44.640 that sort

00:24:45.160 of thing.

00:24:46.220 So that's

00:24:46.840 the story.

00:24:47.260 it's actually

00:24:47.800 being reported

00:24:48.540 that it has

00:24:49.660 one moving

00:24:50.320 part and

00:24:52.360 it can burn

00:24:53.360 multiple kinds

00:24:54.400 of gas and

00:24:55.520 you can get

00:24:56.080 hundreds and

00:24:56.740 hundreds of

00:24:57.340 miles per

00:24:59.100 gallon or

00:25:00.440 no between

00:25:01.040 fill-ups I

00:25:01.720 guess.

00:25:02.460 So you can go

00:25:02.940 like over 700

00:25:03.880 miles before

00:25:05.040 needing a fill-up

00:25:06.100 because it's way

00:25:06.980 more efficient as

00:25:08.220 well.

00:25:09.300 Now this is

00:25:10.200 reported in the

00:25:11.160 so-called news.

00:25:12.020 so you can

00:25:14.620 see the

00:25:15.420 retweet in my

00:25:16.280 Twitter feed if

00:25:16.960 you want to

00:25:17.220 see it.

00:25:18.360 Now let me

00:25:18.900 ask you

00:25:19.380 does this look

00:25:21.860 even a little

00:25:22.500 bit true?

00:25:24.420 It doesn't

00:25:25.280 look true to

00:25:25.840 me.

00:25:27.120 It doesn't

00:25:27.840 even look

00:25:28.200 slightly

00:25:28.540 possibly true.

00:25:30.080 Not even

00:25:30.720 worth considering

00:25:32.720 true.

00:25:34.160 But on the

00:25:34.700 other hand

00:25:35.200 wouldn't it

00:25:36.160 be fun if

00:25:36.580 it were?

00:25:38.080 Wouldn't it

00:25:38.660 be fun?

00:25:39.120 Can we

00:25:42.460 hold both

00:25:43.480 thoughts in

00:25:43.940 our head?

00:25:45.080 I believe we

00:25:46.100 could because

00:25:47.060 my live stream

00:25:48.680 audience not

00:25:50.500 only are you

00:25:51.080 the sexiest

00:25:51.740 people in

00:25:52.640 the whole

00:25:53.040 world but

00:25:54.820 you're the

00:25:55.380 most sophisticated

00:25:56.400 thinkers.

00:25:58.000 The most

00:25:58.760 capable thinkers

00:25:59.540 and we can

00:26:00.020 hold both of

00:26:00.580 those thoughts

00:26:01.020 at the same

00:26:01.480 time.

00:26:02.380 Let's do

00:26:02.860 it.

00:26:03.680 The odds

00:26:04.260 of that being

00:26:04.760 true are

00:26:05.980 really really

00:26:06.580 low.

00:26:08.180 Only

00:26:08.540 because it's

00:26:10.080 in the

00:26:10.380 news and

00:26:12.720 just on the

00:26:14.820 surface it's

00:26:15.460 in the

00:26:15.700 category of

00:26:16.320 things that

00:26:16.660 are never

00:26:16.980 true.

00:26:18.400 Right?

00:26:19.960 Am I

00:26:20.580 right that

00:26:21.100 it's in the

00:26:21.580 category of

00:26:22.460 things that's

00:26:23.600 never true?

00:26:25.540 Uses all

00:26:26.220 those fuels?

00:26:28.060 But I

00:26:28.940 think it has

00:26:29.360 more to do

00:26:29.840 with how the

00:26:30.260 news is

00:26:30.680 reporting it.

00:26:32.600 So maybe

00:26:33.860 if you were

00:26:34.300 to dig into

00:26:34.960 what works

00:26:35.800 and what

00:26:36.060 doesn't work

00:26:36.720 and whether

00:26:37.100 there are

00:26:37.360 any flaws

00:26:37.840 in the

00:26:38.160 technology

00:26:38.700 and what

00:26:39.540 does it

00:26:39.800 really mean

00:26:40.440 when they

00:26:40.760 say they

00:26:41.060 can burn

00:26:41.420 any kind

00:26:41.860 of fuel?

00:26:42.680 Does that

00:26:43.080 mean hypothetically

00:26:43.860 but really

00:26:44.480 there's only

00:26:44.860 one kind

00:26:45.300 you would

00:26:45.620 use in

00:26:46.080 reality so

00:26:46.800 it's really

00:26:47.120 kind of

00:26:47.420 one fuel?

00:26:48.500 I mean

00:26:48.660 if you dug

00:26:49.120 in it would

00:26:49.560 probably

00:26:49.840 look a little

00:26:51.540 different.

00:26:52.840 Don't you

00:26:53.180 think?

00:26:53.880 So I'm

00:26:54.360 going to say

00:26:54.700 that at the

00:26:55.180 very least

00:26:55.780 the reporting

00:26:56.420 is probably

00:26:57.140 too simplified.

00:27:00.240 Too simplified.

00:27:01.240 That's my

00:27:01.640 guess.

00:27:03.300 But wouldn't

00:27:03.700 it be

00:27:03.940 awesome?

00:27:05.100 What if

00:27:07.020 it's true?

00:27:08.360 Wouldn't

00:27:08.860 that be

00:27:09.260 amazing?

00:27:11.360 All right.

00:27:11.760 So just

00:27:12.080 hold both

00:27:12.640 those thoughts.

00:27:13.240 You can

00:27:13.480 do it.

00:27:16.380 All right.

00:27:20.760 So what

00:27:22.600 about the

00:27:23.200 story,

00:27:24.040 are you

00:27:24.280 following the

00:27:24.720 story that

00:27:25.400 when Trump

00:27:26.680 was calling

00:27:27.400 the January

00:27:28.480 I guess

00:27:31.020 after the

00:27:31.460 election,

00:27:32.560 when Trump

00:27:33.460 was saying

00:27:33.800 the election

00:27:34.260 was rigged

00:27:34.800 and he

00:27:35.540 was raising

00:27:36.660 money based

00:27:37.340 on that

00:27:37.720 to fight

00:27:39.340 against the

00:27:40.200 election

00:27:41.260 outcome I

00:27:41.840 guess.

00:27:43.040 And I

00:27:43.400 guess they

00:27:43.680 pulled in

00:27:44.060 $250

00:27:44.740 million and

00:27:47.300 apparently

00:27:48.500 where it

00:27:50.420 went is

00:27:51.520 a little

00:27:51.800 sketchy.

00:27:53.320 Do you

00:27:53.580 all know

00:27:53.840 that story?

00:27:55.060 So I'm

00:27:55.640 interested how

00:27:56.340 much the

00:27:57.280 news bubble

00:27:58.060 is preventing

00:27:59.560 my

00:28:00.800 live stream

00:28:01.560 audience from

00:28:02.140 even knowing

00:28:02.760 that that's

00:28:03.240 a story.

00:28:06.000 So some

00:28:07.540 of you don't

00:28:07.980 know that

00:28:08.360 story.

00:28:09.240 So tell me

00:28:09.760 if you haven't

00:28:10.380 heard it yet.

00:28:12.000 Because it's

00:28:12.640 a pretty big

00:28:13.160 story.

00:28:16.700 Yeah.

00:28:19.780 Now here's

00:28:20.740 what you should

00:28:21.260 always know

00:28:21.780 about these

00:28:22.560 kinds of

00:28:23.060 stories.

00:28:24.280 The first

00:28:25.060 thing you

00:28:25.400 should know

00:28:25.820 is that it's

00:28:27.240 in the

00:28:27.540 category of

00:28:28.300 stories that

00:28:30.080 probably you're

00:28:31.060 going to find

00:28:31.500 out is

00:28:32.060 different than

00:28:32.640 the way it's

00:28:33.000 being reported

00:28:33.600 now.

00:28:35.540 Do you

00:28:36.080 think that's

00:28:36.480 fair?

00:28:37.440 That probably

00:28:38.420 when we know

00:28:39.260 more about

00:28:39.800 this story it

00:28:41.180 won't look

00:28:41.700 exactly the

00:28:42.460 way it was

00:28:42.880 first reported.

00:28:44.160 It could be

00:28:44.680 worse.

00:28:46.040 It could be

00:28:46.560 no jeopardy

00:28:48.660 at all.

00:28:49.660 It could go

00:28:50.100 either way.

00:28:51.480 Would you

00:28:51.920 also agree

00:28:52.580 that there

00:28:53.840 have been

00:28:54.160 numerous

00:28:54.780 BS stories

00:28:56.220 about Trump

00:28:57.100 and banks

00:28:58.120 and finances

00:28:58.900 that have

00:29:00.240 all turned

00:29:00.620 out to be

00:29:01.120 BS.

00:29:02.280 And it

00:29:02.680 turns out

00:29:03.020 they were

00:29:03.300 nothingness.

00:29:05.080 So it's

00:29:05.580 in the

00:29:05.840 category of

00:29:06.620 things

00:29:07.020 that often

00:29:09.260 but not

00:29:10.740 always

00:29:11.140 turn out

00:29:12.460 to be not

00:29:12.940 real.

00:29:13.740 But you

00:29:14.440 could say

00:29:14.760 Trump

00:29:15.060 University

00:29:15.580 was real.

00:29:17.120 And that

00:29:17.520 was sort

00:29:18.460 of just

00:29:18.840 the way

00:29:19.640 it looked.

00:29:21.100 Whatever

00:29:21.540 you thought

00:29:22.040 about that

00:29:22.480 it was

00:29:22.840 just what

00:29:23.960 you thought

00:29:24.260 it was.

00:29:25.780 So this

00:29:26.340 could turn

00:29:26.700 out that

00:29:27.040 way too.

00:29:28.440 On the

00:29:29.040 surface

00:29:29.360 it looks

00:29:30.860 like

00:29:31.220 Trump

00:29:32.760 abused

00:29:33.420 his donors

00:29:34.500 their

00:29:36.120 emotional

00:29:36.580 state

00:29:37.120 to raise

00:29:38.220 a bunch

00:29:38.580 of money

00:29:38.920 that may

00:29:39.360 or may

00:29:39.620 not

00:29:39.880 have

00:29:40.320 gone

00:29:40.520 to

00:29:40.760 things

00:29:41.240 that are

00:29:41.620 good

00:29:42.140 for

00:29:42.420 Trump

00:29:42.860 or the

00:29:43.100 Trump

00:29:43.280 businesses

00:29:43.720 or the

00:29:44.340 Trump

00:29:44.520 family.

00:29:45.620 So I

00:29:46.140 would say

00:29:46.400 we don't

00:29:46.740 know that.

00:29:48.460 We also

00:29:49.360 don't know

00:29:49.740 if any

00:29:50.020 of it

00:29:50.220 was illegal

00:29:50.800 because what's

00:29:52.580 interesting is

00:29:53.260 I even heard

00:29:53.780 Bill Maher

00:29:54.360 say he was

00:29:56.320 wondering why

00:29:57.080 Congress was

00:29:58.540 not going to

00:29:59.140 refer Trump

00:30:00.060 to the

00:30:00.960 Department of

00:30:01.500 Justice for

00:30:02.560 anything they

00:30:03.120 found out

00:30:03.580 about this

00:30:04.060 January 6

00:30:04.840 business.

00:30:06.180 To which I

00:30:06.760 said what

00:30:08.620 did anybody

00:30:10.180 suggest Trump

00:30:11.420 did that was

00:30:11.900 a crime?

00:30:13.640 Because I

00:30:14.280 haven't heard

00:30:14.680 anybody say

00:30:15.440 this is what

00:30:17.120 we say is a

00:30:17.740 crime and

00:30:18.340 here's the

00:30:18.700 evidence of

00:30:19.240 that crime.

00:30:19.780 Have you?

00:30:20.900 Or am I

00:30:21.860 in such a

00:30:22.380 bubble that

00:30:22.840 I've missed

00:30:23.660 the biggest

00:30:24.560 story in

00:30:25.180 the world

00:30:25.640 that they

00:30:26.700 have actual

00:30:27.220 evidence of

00:30:27.960 Trump and

00:30:28.360 a crime?

00:30:29.380 I'm not

00:30:29.860 aware of

00:30:30.240 any.

00:30:31.440 I'm not

00:30:31.900 even aware

00:30:32.240 of the

00:30:32.460 allegation.

00:30:33.300 Are you?

00:30:34.440 So if

00:30:35.280 you're asking

00:30:35.760 the question

00:30:36.320 why he's

00:30:36.860 not being

00:30:37.420 referred to

00:30:38.140 the Justice

00:30:38.580 Department

00:30:39.100 you're already

00:30:40.360 thinking past

00:30:41.200 the sale.

00:30:42.960 That's a sign

00:30:43.820 that propaganda

00:30:44.460 worked.

00:30:45.160 if you're

00:30:47.100 asking yourself

00:30:47.860 why isn't

00:30:48.580 he being

00:30:49.180 jailed you've

00:30:50.960 thought right

00:30:52.520 past the

00:30:53.080 question of

00:30:53.640 was there any

00:30:55.420 alleged crime

00:30:56.520 and you've

00:30:58.000 not only

00:30:58.380 thought past

00:30:58.920 the question

00:30:59.360 of was there

00:30:59.960 an alleged

00:31:00.440 crime to

00:31:02.400 is there any

00:31:03.360 evidence?

00:31:04.900 Any?

00:31:05.940 I haven't

00:31:06.660 seen any.

00:31:07.100 I don't

00:31:09.600 believe anybody

00:31:10.160 has seen

00:31:10.500 any.

00:31:10.900 Have they?

00:31:11.880 Now I think

00:31:12.560 it's just like

00:31:13.060 Adam Schiff

00:31:13.680 keeps saying

00:31:14.220 oh yeah we

00:31:14.860 got the

00:31:15.220 goods and

00:31:15.740 blah blah 0.97

00:31:16.140 blah but

00:31:16.640 you don't

00:31:17.800 think you

00:31:18.220 would have

00:31:18.460 seen it

00:31:18.760 yet?

00:31:19.280 Are they

00:31:19.600 hiding the

00:31:20.080 good stuff

00:31:20.500 for later?

00:31:21.700 Maybe.

00:31:22.860 I mean

00:31:23.100 that's perfectly

00:31:23.980 possible.

00:31:25.100 They might

00:31:25.380 be keeping

00:31:25.800 the good

00:31:26.140 stuff for

00:31:26.540 later.

00:31:27.620 We'll see.

00:31:28.660 I'm open

00:31:29.100 to everything.

00:31:32.360 Alright.

00:31:34.700 But I'm

00:31:35.300 going to watch

00:31:35.680 that story.

00:31:36.160 That's a

00:31:36.600 scary one.

00:31:38.000 So given

00:31:39.100 all the

00:31:39.600 context of

00:31:40.480 that story

00:31:41.340 and everything

00:31:41.780 else,

00:31:42.460 here's the

00:31:42.900 best thing

00:31:43.340 I can do

00:31:43.800 for the

00:31:44.100 country.

00:31:45.980 Convince

00:31:46.540 Trump to

00:31:49.320 fix the

00:31:50.140 news.

00:31:53.400 Because the

00:31:54.680 news is the

00:31:55.600 tail that

00:31:56.780 wags the

00:31:57.320 dog of

00:31:57.880 politics.

00:31:59.600 The news

00:32:00.560 has to get

00:32:01.200 fixed.

00:32:02.260 Because until

00:32:02.880 the news

00:32:03.300 gets fixed

00:32:03.800 nothing's going

00:32:04.400 to get

00:32:04.620 fixed.

00:32:06.160 And the

00:32:06.920 way he

00:32:07.240 can fix

00:32:07.660 the news

00:32:08.260 is the

00:32:08.900 way Bill

00:32:09.400 Maher is

00:32:09.860 trying to

00:32:10.280 fix the

00:32:10.780 news.

00:32:11.900 But even

00:32:12.580 more powerfully.

00:32:15.080 I would say

00:32:15.680 that Bill

00:32:16.120 Maher is

00:32:16.700 trying to

00:32:17.280 fix the

00:32:17.860 news.

00:32:18.740 Meaning he

00:32:19.460 sees a big

00:32:20.040 disconnect

00:32:20.500 between what

00:32:21.320 the news is

00:32:21.900 saying and

00:32:22.480 what people

00:32:22.960 are understanding

00:32:24.580 and how that's

00:32:26.780 just all

00:32:27.100 broken.

00:32:29.260 Trump needs

00:32:30.060 to fix it.

00:32:30.720 And if he

00:32:31.740 could fix

00:32:32.180 the news

00:32:32.860 he would

00:32:34.020 go down

00:32:34.400 in history

00:32:34.900 as not

00:32:35.860 only the

00:32:36.240 most powerful

00:32:37.240 person in

00:32:38.860 the country

00:32:39.300 more powerful

00:32:40.240 than the

00:32:41.220 politicians

00:32:41.680 but he

00:32:42.920 would have

00:32:43.180 fixed our

00:32:43.580 biggest problem.

00:32:45.280 Because until

00:32:45.900 you get a

00:32:46.480 legitimate

00:32:46.960 both sides

00:32:49.380 news program

00:32:50.120 that's also

00:32:50.880 interesting

00:32:51.600 and gets

00:32:52.980 clicks

00:32:53.460 you don't

00:32:54.980 have anything.

00:32:55.580 Let me tell

00:32:57.640 you how

00:32:58.000 Trump could

00:32:58.800 fix

00:32:59.260 everything.

00:33:01.580 Why is

00:33:01.920 the news

00:33:03.020 cycle broken

00:33:03.820 such that

00:33:04.720 people want

00:33:05.840 to click

00:33:06.180 on fake

00:33:06.660 news instead

00:33:07.280 of real

00:33:07.600 news?

00:33:07.980 Why do

00:33:08.360 people like

00:33:08.860 fake news

00:33:09.360 instead of

00:33:09.760 real news?

00:33:10.280 Why?

00:33:11.500 Why?

00:33:12.780 It's more

00:33:13.280 interesting.

00:33:15.160 Right?

00:33:15.640 Now it agrees

00:33:16.320 with them and

00:33:16.820 gives them a

00:33:17.260 dopamine hit.

00:33:18.140 But it's also

00:33:19.000 just wildly

00:33:19.800 more interesting.

00:33:21.160 So I would

00:33:21.980 click on

00:33:22.420 something that

00:33:22.940 wasn't in my

00:33:23.640 favor like

00:33:25.020 didn't support

00:33:26.160 my point of

00:33:26.760 view.

00:33:27.300 I would

00:33:27.640 definitely

00:33:27.960 click on

00:33:28.560 it if it

00:33:28.980 was really

00:33:29.340 provocative.

00:33:31.780 Like I'll

00:33:32.440 click on

00:33:32.860 anything

00:33:33.120 provocative

00:33:33.800 for the

00:33:35.140 entertainment

00:33:35.620 and for

00:33:35.960 the wildness

00:33:37.980 of it.

00:33:39.360 Now what

00:33:39.820 is it that

00:33:40.380 Trump could

00:33:40.900 do that

00:33:41.760 nobody's ever

00:33:42.480 done with

00:33:43.180 straight 0.70

00:33:44.140 unbiased

00:33:44.820 reporting?

00:33:46.860 Think about

00:33:47.620 it.

00:33:48.320 The reason

00:33:48.900 that nobody

00:33:49.360 wants straight

00:33:50.180 unbiased

00:33:50.780 reporting is

00:33:51.420 that nobody

00:33:51.780 would watch

00:33:52.300 it.

00:33:53.140 Am I

00:33:53.460 right?

00:33:53.680 If you

00:33:54.860 gave me

00:33:55.220 just the

00:33:55.820 news,

00:33:57.160 nobody will

00:33:57.680 watch it.

00:33:58.380 So it's

00:33:58.980 not a

00:33:59.300 business model

00:33:59.880 that can

00:34:00.200 work.

00:34:01.220 What is

00:34:01.560 the one

00:34:01.920 thing that

00:34:02.380 Trump alone

00:34:03.840 among maybe

00:34:05.120 anybody could

00:34:07.040 fix?

00:34:08.620 He could make

00:34:09.480 you watch the

00:34:10.080 news.

00:34:11.120 And he could

00:34:11.920 also make

00:34:12.380 sure you

00:34:12.720 heard both

00:34:13.160 sides.

00:34:14.220 And he

00:34:14.520 could also

00:34:14.880 take his

00:34:15.360 time.

00:34:16.640 Imagine if

00:34:17.320 he took

00:34:17.700 a Rush

00:34:19.580 Limbaugh

00:34:20.400 three or

00:34:21.360 four hour

00:34:21.860 block every

00:34:22.560 day and

00:34:24.060 had on

00:34:24.640 experts from

00:34:25.760 both sides

00:34:26.500 and then

00:34:27.720 just dusted

00:34:28.420 them both

00:34:28.840 up.

00:34:30.420 So basically

00:34:31.060 instead of

00:34:32.160 experts,

00:34:33.200 instead of

00:34:33.580 having let's

00:34:34.040 say one

00:34:34.420 expert just

00:34:35.060 give their

00:34:35.400 opinion,

00:34:35.860 which is the

00:34:36.360 worst model

00:34:37.040 in the world,

00:34:37.940 that's how

00:34:38.360 it's currently

00:34:38.920 being done,

00:34:40.000 it's mostly

00:34:40.500 just one

00:34:40.980 person says

00:34:41.620 one thing,

00:34:42.540 or there's

00:34:43.320 a time

00:34:43.700 limit and

00:34:45.240 the two

00:34:45.920 experts say

00:34:46.580 you're wrong,

00:34:47.140 you're wrong,

00:34:47.700 we're out of

00:34:48.080 time.

00:34:48.940 So the public

00:34:49.680 got nothing.

00:34:50.260 But you

00:34:51.760 give me a

00:34:52.280 three or

00:34:52.700 four hour

00:34:53.220 block,

00:34:54.280 doesn't have

00:34:54.720 to be

00:34:54.920 every day,

00:34:55.580 it could be

00:34:55.900 recorded and

00:34:56.720 just when

00:34:57.440 there's a

00:34:57.740 good topic

00:34:58.220 to do,

00:34:58.940 and you

00:34:59.480 have Trump

00:35:00.120 beating up

00:35:01.200 both sides

00:35:02.020 and calling

00:35:02.940 bullshit on

00:35:03.760 both sides,

00:35:05.160 I could not

00:35:06.440 turn away

00:35:06.880 from that.

00:35:08.220 That would

00:35:08.720 be so

00:35:09.560 provocative

00:35:10.160 and interesting,

00:35:11.660 especially if

00:35:12.300 you allowed

00:35:12.600 swearing.

00:35:13.600 If you

00:35:14.320 allowed swearing

00:35:15.200 and let

00:35:16.500 Trump

00:35:16.900 mediate and

00:35:18.340 interrupt and

00:35:19.900 just sort

00:35:21.480 of control

00:35:22.040 it, so

00:35:23.160 it would

00:35:23.480 be maddeningly,

00:35:25.160 frustratingly

00:35:26.120 beautiful.

00:35:29.160 It would

00:35:29.960 be maddening

00:35:30.880 and frustrating

00:35:31.640 and beautiful.

00:35:34.400 He could

00:35:34.900 do, Trump

00:35:36.020 could do,

00:35:36.540 with his

00:35:36.900 specific set

00:35:38.100 of talents,

00:35:39.440 including his

00:35:40.320 talent stack

00:35:41.360 of once being

00:35:42.760 president of

00:35:43.340 the United

00:35:43.620 States, you

00:35:44.900 add that with

00:35:45.700 his natural

00:35:46.640 ability to

00:35:47.400 provoke,

00:35:48.340 his natural

00:35:49.780 personality in

00:35:50.760 the room,

00:35:52.200 his desire to

00:35:54.500 be in front

00:35:55.240 of the public,

00:35:56.360 his desire to

00:35:57.000 make a difference,

00:35:57.780 his desire to

00:35:58.420 change things.

00:36:00.380 It works for

00:36:01.400 everything.

00:36:02.600 The only way

00:36:03.540 the Republicans

00:36:04.120 can lose is

00:36:06.120 if Trump

00:36:06.680 runs.

00:36:09.040 Now, even

00:36:09.600 if all the

00:36:10.120 polls say

00:36:10.600 Trump would

00:36:11.140 win, maybe

00:36:12.020 he would,

00:36:13.380 but is that

00:36:14.380 really the

00:36:14.780 victory that

00:36:15.380 you want?

00:36:15.960 if you

00:36:17.900 could have

00:36:18.280 Trump fixing

00:36:19.320 the news

00:36:19.980 at the same

00:36:20.560 time DeSantis

00:36:21.380 was making

00:36:22.880 sure that the

00:36:23.620 garbage gets

00:36:24.260 picked up,

00:36:25.680 if you know

00:36:25.980 what I mean.

00:36:27.340 Because a lot

00:36:28.020 of the job of

00:36:28.520 the president

00:36:28.980 is just being

00:36:29.960 competent and

00:36:30.780 being present

00:36:31.320 and having a

00:36:31.960 lot of energy

00:36:32.480 and making

00:36:33.560 sure things

00:36:34.120 don't fall

00:36:34.600 between the

00:36:35.120 cracks.

00:36:35.480 as far as

00:36:37.360 I can tell

00:36:37.740 DeSantis

00:36:38.300 is really

00:36:39.700 effective as

00:36:40.600 an executive

00:36:41.160 and as a

00:36:42.100 leader.

00:36:43.360 But imagine

00:36:44.240 there's not

00:36:45.220 many fireworks.

00:36:46.560 I mean,

00:36:47.360 maybe it's not

00:36:48.160 going to be as

00:36:48.560 much news.

00:36:49.960 But imagine

00:36:50.580 Trump handling

00:36:53.200 the opinion

00:36:53.860 and news

00:36:54.720 cycle.

00:36:56.960 Now, maybe

00:36:57.760 he could make

00:36:59.240 that a,

00:37:00.540 here's how I

00:37:01.380 would do it

00:37:01.720 if I were

00:37:02.060 Trump.

00:37:02.840 It's looking

00:37:03.360 like Truth

00:37:04.000 Social is

00:37:04.800 going to

00:37:04.980 have some

00:37:05.300 issues,

00:37:05.700 right?

00:37:06.400 It's not

00:37:06.860 taking off

00:37:07.480 the way

00:37:07.760 he wanted,

00:37:08.760 but it

00:37:09.120 could.

00:37:10.180 All you

00:37:10.580 would have

00:37:10.880 to do

00:37:11.340 is have

00:37:12.340 a Trump

00:37:12.920 TV show,

00:37:15.440 like a,

00:37:15.980 let's say

00:37:16.540 a foundational,

00:37:17.640 what would

00:37:17.860 you call it,

00:37:18.520 a magnet

00:37:19.340 business,

00:37:21.180 and then have

00:37:21.920 Truth

00:37:22.220 Social the

00:37:22.900 only way

00:37:23.440 that he

00:37:23.780 interacts with

00:37:24.500 the public.

00:37:26.000 So it's a

00:37:26.540 TV show,

00:37:27.680 and, you

00:37:28.040 know,

00:37:28.460 internet

00:37:28.800 property,

00:37:29.540 YouTube,

00:37:30.080 would be

00:37:30.300 everywhere.

00:37:31.680 Streaming,

00:37:32.280 maybe,

00:37:32.560 probably streaming,

00:37:33.360 could be on

00:37:34.580 a network,

00:37:35.240 but maybe

00:37:35.580 streaming,

00:37:36.520 or both.

00:37:38.120 And,

00:37:39.720 do you

00:37:42.640 love it

00:37:42.920 yet?

00:37:44.160 Do you

00:37:44.760 love the

00:37:45.080 idea yet?

00:37:46.120 Because you

00:37:46.840 can have

00:37:47.300 everything.

00:37:49.220 What you

00:37:49.880 want is to

00:37:50.580 fix the

00:37:51.040 news,

00:37:52.220 and what

00:37:52.900 you want

00:37:53.420 is to

00:37:53.800 have a

00:37:54.120 Republican

00:37:54.640 president,

00:37:56.420 if I

00:37:57.380 read my

00:37:57.940 audience

00:37:58.800 right.

00:37:59.200 right?

00:38:00.540 So I'm

00:38:01.360 not endorsing

00:38:03.220 DeSantis'

00:38:04.060 policies.

00:38:05.920 That's not

00:38:06.600 what I

00:38:06.920 do.

00:38:07.920 But as a

00:38:08.760 representative of

00:38:09.640 his base,

00:38:11.360 he's a good

00:38:12.100 fit.

00:38:13.060 It's just

00:38:13.700 obviously true

00:38:14.400 at this point.

00:38:16.000 So why

00:38:16.880 wouldn't you

00:38:17.280 take the

00:38:17.780 most competent

00:38:18.680 executive

00:38:19.280 and pair

00:38:21.080 that with

00:38:22.140 the one

00:38:23.620 person who

00:38:24.180 can save

00:38:24.720 us,

00:38:25.600 Obi-Wan

00:38:26.120 Kenobi?

00:38:27.700 Trump.

00:38:28.580 Trump is

00:38:29.060 the only

00:38:29.340 person who

00:38:29.780 can save

00:38:30.140 the news

00:38:30.480 business.

00:38:31.060 I mean,

00:38:31.300 it's so

00:38:31.600 ironic,

00:38:32.280 it's delicious,

00:38:33.480 is it not?

00:38:34.820 Remember when

00:38:35.660 Elon Musk

00:38:37.040 tweeted that

00:38:38.980 reality usually

00:38:41.540 takes the

00:38:42.040 path that's

00:38:42.820 most entertaining

00:38:43.720 to the

00:38:44.920 observer,

00:38:45.560 not necessarily

00:38:46.140 to the people

00:38:46.600 in the topic.

00:38:48.760 The most

00:38:49.260 entertaining

00:38:49.740 path for

00:38:50.580 the observers,

00:38:52.060 that's us,

00:38:53.080 our most

00:38:53.720 entertaining

00:38:54.180 path would

00:38:55.580 be for

00:38:56.200 Trump to

00:38:57.060 save us

00:38:57.680 by not

00:38:59.080 running for

00:38:59.520 president.

00:39:00.620 If he runs

00:39:01.580 for president,

00:39:02.680 we're going

00:39:03.220 to fight

00:39:03.540 more.

00:39:05.020 Are we

00:39:05.780 not?

00:39:06.960 But wouldn't

00:39:07.700 you love to

00:39:08.300 see Trump

00:39:09.160 host a

00:39:09.960 climate change

00:39:10.800 debate and

00:39:12.280 actually see

00:39:12.980 Trump's own

00:39:13.640 mind getting

00:39:14.260 changed in

00:39:15.400 the process?

00:39:16.500 I'm not saying

00:39:17.220 it would or

00:39:17.760 should, but

00:39:19.460 how much would

00:39:20.180 you love to

00:39:20.680 watch that?

00:39:22.340 How much

00:39:22.900 would you love

00:39:23.620 somebody who

00:39:27.000 was qualified

00:39:27.680 and smart 0.77

00:39:28.240 who had a

00:39:29.020 nice chunk 0.99

00:39:29.540 of time,

00:39:30.000 like a whole

00:39:30.480 Joe Rogan

00:39:31.380 three-hour block

00:39:32.720 wrestling with

00:39:34.340 Trump and

00:39:34.900 with somebody

00:39:35.360 on the other

00:39:35.880 side, until

00:39:37.180 you actually

00:39:37.640 watched Trump

00:39:38.600 change his

00:39:39.820 mind on a

00:39:40.560 major topic

00:39:41.500 right in front

00:39:42.540 of you?

00:39:44.800 Because he

00:39:45.500 could.

00:39:46.500 I mean,

00:39:46.840 Trump would

00:39:47.480 be able to

00:39:48.200 pull that off,

00:39:49.360 especially if it

00:39:50.060 had entertainment

00:39:50.700 value.

00:39:51.140 If it had

00:39:52.180 entertainment

00:39:52.660 value, he

00:39:53.260 could pull

00:39:53.560 it off.

00:39:56.640 Michael

00:39:57.080 Schellenberger

00:39:57.640 would be the

00:39:58.420 type of

00:39:59.140 guest that

00:40:00.580 would be

00:40:00.880 perfect for

00:40:01.980 that format.

00:40:05.480 So, all

00:40:06.480 right, so

00:40:07.120 now you've

00:40:07.480 heard the

00:40:07.760 idea.

00:40:08.880 Trump becomes

00:40:09.680 the Rush

00:40:10.640 Limbaugh

00:40:11.200 replacement, but

00:40:12.620 way better,

00:40:13.880 because he's

00:40:14.280 got people on

00:40:15.120 and he's

00:40:15.460 fighting with

00:40:16.140 them and

00:40:16.460 he's really

00:40:17.320 getting down

00:40:20.060 to the good

00:40:20.520 stuff.

00:40:21.140 that opens

00:40:23.160 the path for

00:40:24.280 a moderate

00:40:25.280 Republican who

00:40:27.080 could pretty 0.51

00:40:27.520 much just walk

00:40:28.240 in and take

00:40:28.760 over everything

00:40:29.340 at this point.

00:40:30.940 And it

00:40:31.640 basically gives

00:40:33.560 you everything.

00:40:34.920 And then the

00:40:35.500 news, the

00:40:36.100 legitimate news

00:40:36.840 would still be

00:40:37.420 fighting with

00:40:37.980 Trump, but

00:40:39.880 when they're

00:40:40.740 fighting with

00:40:41.160 Trump, it's

00:40:41.700 like CNN

00:40:42.260 versus Fox

00:40:43.100 News.

00:40:43.520 It's not

00:40:43.800 really hurting

00:40:44.260 anybody, just

00:40:45.280 sort of

00:40:45.580 entertaining.

00:40:47.040 All right?

00:40:47.560 So you tell

00:40:48.400 me that's not

00:40:49.700 the best thing

00:40:50.420 for America.

00:40:51.560 Go.

00:40:52.700 And here's

00:40:53.620 my argument

00:40:54.100 for Trump.

00:40:55.200 I told you

00:40:55.580 I would

00:40:55.880 persuade Trump

00:40:56.640 himself.

00:40:58.180 All right,

00:40:58.440 here's the

00:40:58.820 part where I

00:40:59.420 persuade Trump

00:41:00.540 himself.

00:41:02.560 Everybody in

00:41:03.420 America thinks

00:41:04.120 this would be

00:41:04.640 the best

00:41:05.040 solution.

00:41:05.440 some people

00:41:08.660 might not like

00:41:09.320 the part

00:41:09.640 about a

00:41:10.180 moderate

00:41:10.520 Republican

00:41:11.080 winning the

00:41:12.040 presidency, but

00:41:13.660 everyone wants

00:41:14.760 Trump to be

00:41:16.920 productive, and

00:41:18.640 not everyone

00:41:19.260 thinks that the

00:41:20.180 presidency is how

00:41:21.060 he's going to

00:41:21.520 do it, the

00:41:23.180 second term.

00:41:26.120 This is the

00:41:26.960 best idea you've

00:41:27.880 ever heard, and

00:41:29.580 I think he would

00:41:30.380 recognize it,

00:41:30.980 too, because it

00:41:32.640 gives him not

00:41:33.520 only a win, but

00:41:36.260 one of the

00:41:36.760 biggest wins of

00:41:37.500 all time, and

00:41:38.260 maybe in the

00:41:38.920 most important

00:41:39.520 topic.

00:41:40.260 Because remember,

00:41:41.040 the news is the

00:41:41.920 tail that wags

00:41:42.820 the dog.

00:41:44.620 If he's the

00:41:45.580 tail, if he

00:41:46.720 becomes the

00:41:47.300 tail, he gets

00:41:48.880 to wag the

00:41:49.440 dog.

00:41:50.660 You know, he

00:41:51.100 could control the

00:41:52.180 presidency no

00:41:52.980 matter who's in

00:41:53.580 the seat.

00:41:55.540 You don't think

00:41:56.240 that would be

00:41:56.660 appealing.

00:41:57.000 Now, the

00:41:58.740 only way he

00:41:59.500 could control

00:42:00.000 it is if the

00:42:01.640 debates that

00:42:02.340 he hosted

00:42:03.940 produced something

00:42:05.740 that was good.

00:42:07.200 But that would

00:42:07.920 be the most

00:42:08.960 productive, good

00:42:10.240 kind of control

00:42:11.800 you could ever

00:42:12.300 have.

00:42:13.660 So just like

00:42:14.640 we like Jimmy

00:42:15.960 Carter better

00:42:16.620 because he was

00:42:18.200 such a good

00:42:18.660 ex-president,

00:42:20.260 I would argue

00:42:21.580 that Trump was

00:42:22.460 one of the best

00:42:23.400 presidents for

00:42:24.840 one term.

00:42:25.340 And I would

00:42:27.280 argue that he

00:42:28.140 would be the

00:42:29.220 best media,

00:42:31.920 news, host

00:42:33.820 personality.

00:42:35.660 I believe he

00:42:36.380 would, you

00:42:37.880 know, if he

00:42:38.200 wants a final

00:42:38.860 act, he's at

00:42:40.380 that age where

00:42:41.100 he's thinking

00:42:41.820 like, what's

00:42:42.640 my final act?

00:42:43.760 If he wants

00:42:44.420 a final act,

00:42:46.480 completely

00:42:47.040 dominating the

00:42:48.360 industry that

00:42:49.000 he's been

00:42:49.600 maligning, the

00:42:50.680 news industry,

00:42:51.720 would be an

00:42:53.080 excellent way to

00:42:53.820 do it.

00:42:54.880 You know, he

00:42:55.240 Trump criticized

00:42:57.020 governments and

00:42:58.460 then became the

00:42:59.060 head of it.

00:43:00.880 He criticized the

00:43:02.320 fake news

00:43:02.800 business.

00:43:04.260 He could become

00:43:05.320 his king.

00:43:07.120 The path is

00:43:08.100 wide open.

00:43:08.920 He has all the

00:43:09.480 skills, he has

00:43:10.240 all the tools.

00:43:11.620 And then you

00:43:12.260 don't have to

00:43:12.680 worry about, did

00:43:13.540 Trump do that

00:43:14.620 bad thing that

00:43:15.360 time?

00:43:16.340 Because you know

00:43:17.160 what?

00:43:18.120 He probably did.

00:43:19.960 I don't know

00:43:20.700 which bad thing

00:43:21.360 you're thinking

00:43:21.740 about.

00:43:22.040 But when

00:43:23.200 Trump ran for

00:43:23.920 office, he

00:43:24.700 told us

00:43:25.160 directly in

00:43:25.900 his own

00:43:26.260 words, I'm

00:43:27.500 no angel.

00:43:30.180 I consider

00:43:31.120 that transparent.

00:43:33.160 I heard it and

00:43:34.160 said, oh, okay,

00:43:35.240 you're no angel, so

00:43:36.740 I'm going to hear

00:43:37.340 stuff about you

00:43:38.300 that I'm not

00:43:39.700 going to like.

00:43:41.180 But in return

00:43:42.140 for that, you're

00:43:43.840 going to provide

00:43:44.780 a set of

00:43:45.500 services that

00:43:46.960 sound attractive.

00:43:47.780 In my case, I

00:43:49.300 wanted him to

00:43:49.800 break everything.

00:43:51.180 Because I think

00:43:51.860 everything needed

00:43:52.660 to get broken.

00:43:54.360 So I wanted him

00:43:55.280 to just change

00:43:56.300 all of our

00:43:56.820 assumptions about

00:43:57.560 everything.

00:43:58.180 And that's what

00:43:59.420 I mean by

00:43:59.820 breaking it,

00:44:00.800 changing all of

00:44:01.500 our assumptions.

00:44:02.560 I think he did

00:44:03.240 that.

00:44:04.100 So I got what

00:44:04.760 I wanted.

00:44:06.740 To me, Trump

00:44:07.700 delivered.

00:44:08.860 I'm no angel,

00:44:10.720 but I'm going to

00:44:11.380 break all of

00:44:12.080 these things and

00:44:12.800 make you think

00:44:13.400 about them

00:44:13.800 differently.

00:44:14.780 That's what I

00:44:15.420 was buying.

00:44:15.980 that's what I

00:44:17.920 got.

00:44:18.960 I got a guy

00:44:19.760 who's no angel,

00:44:21.500 just like he

00:44:22.180 said.

00:44:24.040 I mean, that's

00:44:25.400 the most accurate

00:44:26.340 thing anybody ever

00:44:27.120 said.

00:44:28.140 And I got somebody

00:44:29.280 who shook

00:44:29.740 everything up very

00:44:31.260 much like the

00:44:31.840 way I would

00:44:32.240 want.

00:44:33.220 Now, I think he

00:44:34.040 was too provocative,

00:44:36.480 but he has a

00:44:38.640 chance now to

00:44:40.240 turn all of

00:44:40.840 that energy that

00:44:42.880 he created, he

00:44:44.920 has a chance to

00:44:45.800 monetize it,

00:44:46.720 first of all,

00:44:47.520 that's always

00:44:47.940 good, and he

00:44:49.000 has a chance to

00:44:49.600 turn it into the

00:44:50.220 most positive

00:44:50.800 thing that's

00:44:51.380 happened in this

00:44:52.200 country in a

00:44:53.700 hundred years.

00:44:55.100 And he could

00:44:55.580 own that.

00:44:56.180 And he could

00:44:56.540 just be the

00:44:59.400 George Washington

00:45:00.180 who walked away,

00:45:01.140 basically.

00:45:02.860 You know, one of

00:45:03.740 the reasons that

00:45:04.300 George Washington

00:45:05.020 is always so

00:45:07.460 hero-worshipped,

00:45:09.200 and should be,

00:45:10.520 and who knows

00:45:11.260 how much of this

00:45:11.860 is true, by the

00:45:12.640 way.

00:45:13.760 You know, the

00:45:14.380 story goes, and

00:45:16.240 let's be a little

00:45:17.220 more sophisticated

00:45:18.140 than just believing

00:45:19.540 every historical

00:45:20.480 story, but the

00:45:21.680 story is that

00:45:22.340 Washington walked

00:45:24.220 away from what

00:45:25.420 could have been a

00:45:26.220 dictatorship if he

00:45:27.240 wanted to, because

00:45:28.120 he had the loyalty

00:45:29.520 of the army, and

00:45:30.700 you know, blah,

00:45:31.420 blah, blah.

00:45:32.380 And so, therefore,

00:45:33.540 he was the father

00:45:34.420 of the country,

00:45:35.160 because that

00:45:36.020 standard of

00:45:37.600 peacefully

00:45:38.480 transferring power

00:45:39.520 became our

00:45:40.900 standard.

00:45:42.380 Here's why I

00:45:43.220 doubt that story.

00:45:46.260 Don't you think

00:45:47.040 George Washington

00:45:47.740 might have had

00:45:48.260 his own reasons

00:45:49.060 that were not

00:45:50.740 necessarily the

00:45:51.840 same reasons that

00:45:52.660 he maybe said

00:45:54.440 in public and

00:45:55.220 got reported?

00:45:58.480 Maybe.

00:46:00.040 Do you think

00:46:00.780 that maybe he

00:46:01.520 just wanted to

00:46:02.120 go back to his

00:46:03.420 slave farm and

00:46:04.820 rape his slaves?

00:46:06.820 I'm not saying

00:46:07.400 that's what was

00:46:08.060 going on.

00:46:08.600 I'm saying that

00:46:09.900 if you live in

00:46:10.460 the real world,

00:46:12.280 this guy had

00:46:12.800 been off fighting

00:46:13.640 wars for a long

00:46:14.600 time, and he

00:46:15.780 probably thought,

00:46:16.420 okay, if I stay

00:46:17.160 in Washington, I'll

00:46:18.300 probably get

00:46:18.600 assassinated.

00:46:21.420 I'm not around

00:46:22.360 all the, you

00:46:23.700 know, my own

00:46:24.360 plantation and

00:46:26.200 stuff.

00:46:26.980 I think I'd

00:46:27.560 rather just go

00:46:28.240 back to my

00:46:28.740 plantation and

00:46:29.700 be the evil

00:46:32.040 king and do

00:46:33.960 anything I want

00:46:34.600 with my slaves,

00:46:35.500 no matter how

00:46:36.420 horrible that

00:46:38.380 sounds.

00:46:41.340 Maybe.

00:46:42.640 Maybe.

00:46:43.340 I mean, it's

00:46:44.200 possible that the

00:46:45.000 historical story is

00:46:45.960 exactly right.

00:46:47.220 He was the most

00:46:47.800 awesome of people,

00:46:49.180 very different from

00:46:50.100 the people of his

00:46:50.820 times in some

00:46:51.680 ways, and knew

00:46:52.920 that the standard

00:46:53.700 of walking away

00:46:54.600 would become the

00:46:56.080 DNA of our

00:46:57.180 republic forever.

00:46:59.220 Maybe.

00:47:00.380 Maybe.

00:47:00.800 Maybe.

00:47:02.120 But could you

00:47:03.220 imagine that

00:47:03.800 happening today?

00:47:05.440 It's kind of hard

00:47:06.300 to imagine, and

00:47:07.760 I think, did

00:47:09.180 people become

00:47:09.900 shitty just

00:47:10.860 since then?

00:47:12.920 You know, were

00:47:13.520 there truly

00:47:14.640 awesome, unselfish

00:47:16.940 people back then,

00:47:17.880 and George

00:47:18.280 Washington was one 0.78

00:47:19.260 of them?

00:47:20.720 Or is our

00:47:22.860 history as fake

00:47:23.880 as our news?

00:47:25.260 Which is more

00:47:25.860 likely?

00:47:26.180 Is it more likely

00:47:27.840 that Washington was

00:47:28.880 just as awesome as

00:47:30.160 you've been told?

00:47:32.080 Or is it more

00:47:32.900 likely that history

00:47:34.000 is just as fake

00:47:34.980 as our news?

00:47:36.840 It's a lot more

00:47:38.160 likely that nothing

00:47:40.400 about Washington

00:47:41.200 is exactly true.

00:47:43.740 The most likely

00:47:45.060 reality is that

00:47:48.820 he didn't chop

00:47:51.640 down a cherry

00:47:52.300 tree.

00:47:53.480 There's things

00:47:54.500 about him that

00:47:55.160 we know are

00:47:55.640 made up.

00:47:57.180 So I'm pretty

00:47:57.820 sure it's all

00:47:58.340 made up, meaning

00:47:59.960 that there's

00:48:00.440 always context

00:48:01.160 left out.

00:48:02.400 That's what I

00:48:02.820 think.

00:48:02.960 So, there.

00:48:06.220 I have now

00:48:06.880 just saved the

00:48:07.680 country.

00:48:08.680 All it will

00:48:09.480 take is for

00:48:10.720 this coherent

00:48:12.000 argument to

00:48:13.480 gain ground

00:48:14.340 with Trump

00:48:16.720 supporters,

00:48:18.200 and then for

00:48:18.800 those Trump

00:48:19.300 supporters to

00:48:20.420 get that message

00:48:21.700 to Trump

00:48:22.560 himself,

00:48:24.080 and then if

00:48:25.820 he creates

00:48:26.260 some kind of

00:48:26.820 a platform,

00:48:28.740 to go there

00:48:30.440 and support it,

00:48:31.200 if it's a good

00:48:32.320 one.

00:48:32.820 I mean, it

00:48:33.200 has to be a

00:48:33.660 good product,

00:48:34.460 but if it's a

00:48:35.080 good product,

00:48:36.000 and I believe

00:48:36.860 he can create

00:48:37.480 such a thing

00:48:38.080 with the

00:48:42.580 George Washington

00:48:43.180 crap.

00:48:44.640 Am I trying

00:48:45.360 to provoke you

00:48:46.120 with the

00:48:46.380 George Washington

00:48:46.940 crap?

00:48:47.400 I'm not trying

00:48:47.900 to provoke you

00:48:48.640 over George

00:48:49.180 Washington.

00:48:49.640 Who exactly

00:48:52.100 would get

00:48:52.540 worked up

00:48:53.020 over George

00:48:54.820 Washington?

00:48:55.360 is there

00:48:58.020 somebody here

00:48:58.540 who's going

00:48:58.820 to get mad

00:48:59.260 at me

00:48:59.480 because of

00:49:00.140 my George

00:49:01.560 Washington

00:49:02.080 opinions?

00:49:05.560 I think

00:49:06.600 maybe we're

00:49:07.480 a little

00:49:07.900 too serious

00:49:09.560 about politics.

00:49:11.780 No.

00:49:13.080 Damn his

00:49:13.680 wooden teeth.

00:49:14.540 No.

00:49:15.500 No.

00:49:16.200 Let it go.

00:49:17.740 He's been

00:49:18.080 gone for a

00:49:18.600 while.

00:49:20.600 All right.

00:49:20.960 You know,

00:49:23.980 I think even

00:49:24.640 though I woke

00:49:25.180 up and today

00:49:26.120 was, you

00:49:27.920 know, a

00:49:28.400 slow news

00:49:29.000 day, I

00:49:30.880 think you

00:49:31.260 would agree

00:49:31.620 that I

00:49:31.960 delivered by

00:49:34.160 doing the

00:49:34.620 most important

00:49:35.260 thing that

00:49:35.660 needed to be

00:49:36.180 done, talking

00:49:38.380 Trump into

00:49:40.080 creating a

00:49:40.720 media product

00:49:41.340 to fix the

00:49:42.360 fake news.

00:49:44.380 Now, they

00:49:45.780 say one

00:49:46.260 person can't

00:49:47.560 make a

00:49:47.840 difference, but

00:49:49.160 clearly,

00:49:49.540 clearly one

00:49:51.840 can.

00:49:52.820 Now, I

00:49:53.180 don't know

00:49:53.520 if I

00:49:53.840 will.

00:49:56.880 Will says

00:49:57.740 it bored him.

00:49:59.160 Sorry.

00:50:00.420 We bored

00:50:00.900 that one

00:50:01.280 guy.

00:50:02.860 You know,

00:50:03.240 you shouldn't

00:50:03.580 be listening

00:50:03.980 to me for

00:50:04.560 the excitement.

00:50:06.700 You should

00:50:07.340 be listening

00:50:07.760 to me because

00:50:08.580 the sound

00:50:09.300 of my voice

00:50:09.840 is so

00:50:10.380 calming.

00:50:14.020 And for

00:50:14.640 some,

00:50:14.960 exciting.

00:50:16.460 Some of

00:50:17.060 you are

00:50:17.320 stimulated.

00:50:18.380 Some of

00:50:19.000 you are

00:50:19.440 stimulated

00:50:20.980 in different

00:50:21.480 ways.

00:50:22.740 But in

00:50:23.240 every case,

00:50:24.300 your minds

00:50:24.820 are blown.

00:50:26.860 And so

00:50:27.160 on that

00:50:27.480 note, I'm

00:50:27.960 going to

00:50:28.260 turn off

00:50:28.820 the...

00:50:29.580 You have

00:50:30.440 a bad

00:50:30.760 voice,

00:50:31.340 somebody

00:50:31.580 says.

00:50:32.800 I'm going

00:50:33.360 to turn

00:50:33.640 off YouTube

00:50:34.460 and I'm

00:50:36.260 going to

00:50:36.440 focus on

00:50:37.020 my beloved

00:50:37.700 locals.

00:50:38.660 And I'll

00:50:38.900 see you

00:50:39.460 at YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 18, 2022

Episode 1778 Scott Adams： Today I Will Try To Persuade Trump To Not Run In 2024

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