Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1785 Scott Adams： All Of The Best Jokes About Roe v Wade Decision From The Supreme Court

00:00:00.000 Good morning, and guess what? It's going to be the best day ever. Kick off your shoes.

00:00:10.700 I forgot to kick off mine. Thank God. Do you realize I was working with, well, there were

00:00:16.780 flip-flops, but there were some kind of footwear. May I give you this advice? If you're working at

00:00:22.860 home and you're wearing footwear, what? What's wrong with you? You can't work like that.

00:00:30.000 Let your feet be free. Then you can be creative. Then you can be productive, and it won't even

00:00:34.520 hurt that much. However, if you'd like to take it up a notch, and I know you do, all you need

00:00:40.060 today is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a steiner canteen, sugar or a flask,

00:00:43.540 a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And I'm rushing

00:00:48.360 through because it's such a glorious, interesting news day. But will you join me now in the

00:00:56.060 unparalleled pleasure? It's the dopamine here of the day, the thing that makes everything

00:01:01.000 better. For just one moment, I want all of you to focus all of your attention away from

00:01:07.820 any distractions and problems of your day. And for just a moment, think only about this

00:01:13.580 delicious beverage you're about to have. Put all of your thoughts just into the beverage

00:01:18.900 in front of you. And there, you just rebooted. And now, the simultaneous sip.

00:01:28.180 Oh. I heard the best advice, maybe like life-changing advice, in a partial commercial for something.

00:01:45.800 I don't even know what the product was. But the advice was this. Somebody was saying they

00:01:54.620 couldn't imagine meditating. Because how could you sit there for 20 minutes and try to clear

00:02:01.420 your mind? It just seems impossible. You can't fit it in your schedule. You can't imagine clearing

00:02:06.460 your mind. It's just sort of impossible. Well, the first thing you need to know is clearing

00:02:11.300 your mind isn't necessary. It's not even useful. It's not even possible. So when people tell

00:02:16.960 you that meditation is clearing your mind, they're just wrong. It's not a thing. But there is such

00:02:23.880 a thing as calming your mind and maybe concentrating on something that's right there in the room with

00:02:29.660 you, such as your breathing. And it allows your brain, which really is not a multi-processing

00:02:36.260 device. Your brain does not multitask. It feels like it, because you can rapidly switch between

00:02:43.460 thoughts. So it feels like you're multitasking. But you're not. You're really, you're a one thing

00:02:49.080 at a time device. So if you can make yourself think of just one non-stressful thing, your breathing,

00:02:58.920 how your muscles feel, you know, the tension in parts of your body, just calm it down. Now here's

00:03:06.540 the advice. When I said to you, imagine taking 20 minutes and just sort of sitting quietly, a lot of

00:03:13.560 you said, I could never do that. I could never do that. Here's the life-changing advice. Do it for 10

00:03:21.160 seconds. That's it. For some of you, that just completely changed your life. I wouldn't have to say any

00:03:30.040 other thing. I just changed completely the lives of a whole bunch of you. Here's why. Because you all know you

00:03:36.900 could do it for 10 seconds. Right? You just did it. I just did the simultaneous sip. Some of you did.

00:03:45.020 You know, some of you actually went along with it. And you said, oh yeah, I could, I could just

00:03:49.780 concentrate on what's directly in front of me for 10 seconds. Because if you could do it for 10 seconds,

00:03:55.560 maybe you liked it. And some people say, oh, 10 seconds, I could do that for a minute. Next thing you

00:04:02.440 know, you're doing it for 20 minutes. But it doesn't have to be 20 minutes. There's no magic

00:04:07.180 about 20 minutes. More is better. If you could do a little bit more, do a little bit more. You know,

00:04:13.480 sort of, sort of just chew on it over time. You know, nobody said you have to be the meditator

00:04:18.860 tomorrow. Right? And when you look at the amount of anxiety and, you know, mental health problems there

00:04:27.820 are in the world. How many of those do you think could be helped by people just learning to slow

00:04:33.880 down at least once per day? Just, just to reboot? Probably a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Meditation is one of

00:04:43.240 those things that has stood the test of time. You know, there are tons of things you hear about.

00:04:48.820 It's like, oh yeah, should I really suspend upside down and eat broccoli at the same time? That sounds

00:04:56.480 like that might not last the test of time. And then it doesn't. But I think meditation has been

00:05:02.380 here a hundred years and pretty much a hundred percent of the people do it and say, yeah, that

00:05:08.340 helped. That was good. I wish I did more of it. Well, there you go. That's part of the reason you

00:05:15.160 watch this live stream because every now and then I'll change some of your lives completely

00:05:21.220 with just one live stream. And there you go. Well, today's theme is that Democrats have a

00:05:27.960 consistency problem. You'll see that come alive in a little bit. All right. Now, according to

00:05:35.140 Republicans, and let me preface my comments today by saying, if you believe you're going to see my

00:05:41.900 opinion on abortion, you are incorrect because I abstain because I am not a, I'm not a chest

00:05:53.080 feeding, reproductive birthing person, if I may be so woke. And so I would leave this decision to

00:06:03.500 people who actually have skin in the game, so to speak. So everything that I'm talking about is sort

00:06:10.280 of an angle to look at it. It's not necessarily my opinion. Is everybody good with that? Because

00:06:15.880 as soon as you think it's my opinion, it's no fun anymore. And then we're just, you're agreeing

00:06:20.120 with me or fighting with me or something. So it's not my opinion. We're just going to talk

00:06:24.140 about stuff. Here's one point of view that I thought was funny. Every now and then a pattern

00:06:31.120 will emerge from some topic. And it might be an accidental pattern and it might be meaningful,

00:06:37.680 but people are built to recognize patterns. So here's a pattern that I picked up on today.

00:06:43.080 Doesn't mean it means anything. It's just sort of tweaked my interest. It was that according

00:06:48.760 to Republicans, the list of things that Democrats can't recognize is growing. So here's the list

00:06:56.080 of things that Democrats can't recognize, according to Republicans. Democrats can't recognize a woman.

00:07:02.140 They can't recognize a baby. They can't recognize a brain-dead president. And they've never seen an

00:07:12.860 economic system. They can't recognize an economic system that actually works.

00:07:18.980 Now, as soon as I thought of this, and I had to stop at four, because I'm pretty sure I could have

00:07:26.060 grown that list to 10 if I want to spend a little extra time on it. But is that a coincidence?

00:07:32.940 And could I come up with the same list and phrase it the same way and just make it about Republicans?

00:07:42.360 Or is it really something that's limited to one side? Because I haven't figured that part

00:07:45.860 out yet. I still have enough neutrality left in me that I'm aware of the fact that just because

00:07:53.520 I saw the pattern on one side, it doesn't mean it's not on the other side. I just happen

00:07:58.060 to notice it on one side.

00:08:01.860 The grand wizard of Pleasanton. I'm not sure which way you mean that, but it's funny.

00:08:08.600 All right. You missed the comment on YouTube, but it doesn't matter.

00:08:18.700 So, I don't know. It's just funny that Republicans think the problem with Democrats is that they're

00:08:25.260 looking right at something and they can't see it. Does it ever feel like that to you? I mean,

00:08:30.060 most of you are probably right-leaning if I know my audience, even though I'm not.

00:08:38.600 Anyway, let's talk about AOC because when there's a big topic like this, you know AOC is going to be

00:08:45.540 the big topic on the big topic. Now, if there's one thing that I consistently credit AOC for,

00:08:53.180 and by the way, she's not flawless. I think today was, you know, this isn't her best week.

00:08:59.420 But one thing she does well is surf the wave of, you know, some energy that was happening anyway.

00:09:06.460 So, because of the Supreme Court decision on Roe versus Wade overturning it, AOC is in the news

00:09:13.260 because, you know, we care what the, let's say, the photogenic and charismatic people are saying

00:09:21.400 on both sides. So, all the photogenic, charismatic people, you know, they emerge during these periods.

00:09:28.720 And here's something she said in a tweet. She said, universal health care and child care,

00:09:37.540 gun safety, combating climate change. He says, the GOP opposes it all.

00:09:43.260 If they refuse to support life after birth, how can they claim to believe in it before?

00:09:50.320 And she says, the truth is, this is not about life and never has been.

00:09:55.500 It's about seizing power and control.

00:10:00.300 What? It's about seizing power and control.

00:10:03.680 I don't know how this could be more opposite of that.

00:10:09.160 Is it?

00:10:11.140 Now, again, I have to ask myself if I'm being neutral.

00:10:15.580 I mean, I feel like probably not, but it's hard to see it in yourself, right?

00:10:19.960 So maybe you could spot it better than I can.

00:10:21.820 But what I see is Republicans giving up political power for what they see as saving lives or ending an ongoing Holocaust.

00:10:34.180 What do you see?

00:10:36.040 Do you see Republicans trying to gain power by doing something that riles up the other side?

00:10:42.260 How do you, and how does that work?

00:10:45.340 Like, just connect the dots for me.

00:10:47.020 I don't even understand the line of reasoning.

00:10:49.900 Like, I'm not even at the point where I can disagree with it.

00:10:53.040 Because I don't know what it is I'm disagreeing with.

00:10:55.300 It doesn't make sense, right?

00:10:58.040 Does anybody see how it connects?

00:10:59.820 Am I missing the, am I missing some obvious connection?

00:11:02.940 Because to me, to me it looks exactly like the Republicans are in a little bit of danger.

00:11:11.540 And that they traded risk, their own risk, their living adult risk.

00:11:17.320 They traded that to, you know, help what they, what they believe is life.

00:11:27.420 And do you believe the AOC actually sees it that way?

00:11:30.980 Or is that just the best you can do?

00:11:33.540 Because here's the other meta point I'm going to make.

00:11:38.040 And it goes like this.

00:11:39.760 Neither side of this debate can use their true argument.

00:11:45.300 And that's why it looks like nonsense when you see the arguments in public.

00:11:48.880 Because nobody can say the real argument.

00:11:53.080 They can't.

00:11:54.620 And it's not because the real argument isn't good.

00:11:57.740 It's not because the real argument isn't right.

00:12:00.860 It's because it doesn't work.

00:12:02.940 It doesn't work.

00:12:05.480 Not that it's wrong.

00:12:06.940 It just doesn't work.

00:12:08.460 For example, here would be, here would be an honest argument from the right.

00:12:14.540 Right?

00:12:14.820 Now, this is not a criticism, because I'm going to do the same for the left, right?

00:12:18.920 I'm going to play it fair.

00:12:20.200 The right would say something like, my religious faith, or God, tells me that life begins at

00:12:29.180 conception.

00:12:29.580 Now, that's not everybody on the right, right?

00:12:31.780 So we're talking some generalities here, right?

00:12:34.940 But suppose you sincerely believe that, and that's where your abortion feelings come from.

00:12:40.700 Come from God.

00:12:42.560 If you know that the people that you're trying to debate are either non-believers or straight-up

00:12:50.560 atheists, or at the very least, they're more spiritual than, you know, specifically believing God gave them directions.

00:12:58.180 So why would you use the real argument when you know it can't work?

00:13:03.680 It can't work.

00:13:05.760 If the right just said, look, you know, God says so, so why aren't you listening to God?

00:13:11.480 The left would say, what?

00:13:14.420 You know, we don't listen to your nonsense.

00:13:16.540 Since we have our own spiritual beliefs that don't have anything to do with that.

00:13:20.920 So the real argument, one of them, it's not the only one, but the real argument on the

00:13:26.060 right, you can't sell it.

00:13:28.860 Am I wrong about that?

00:13:30.300 That that is an unsellable argument, even if you sincerely hold it, and even if it's true.

00:13:35.560 Like, even if God really did say it, he was very specific, he or she, or they, and even

00:13:46.660 if you accepted all of that, you couldn't sell that argument to people who don't believe in

00:13:51.500 God.

00:13:52.720 So you can't use the argument that you believe.

00:13:56.780 You have to frame it differently.

00:13:59.220 Now, how about the left?

00:14:00.200 Can the left tell you their real argument, like the honest to God, strip out all the

00:14:07.040 politics and persuasion and manipulation?

00:14:09.960 Let me just tell you what I really think.

00:14:12.440 Because here's what I think it would sound like.

00:14:15.900 I value my own adult life over that of something which smart people could argue is either alive

00:14:25.000 or not.

00:14:27.520 It's a convenience.

00:14:30.200 It's a convenience.

00:14:32.100 It's a convenience that specifically puts the priority of the living adult above the

00:14:38.700 value of an entity which smart people can argue is either alive or not, but we're all talking

00:14:49.440 about the same thing.

00:14:51.540 We're all looking at the same thing.

00:14:53.940 The word we put on it is, you shouldn't make your argument based on the word you use.

00:14:59.680 The argument should be the argument.

00:15:02.460 You should be able to do it in any language and any word.

00:15:05.340 But if you need a word to win the argument, that means you didn't have an argument.

00:15:09.780 So the real argument on the left is so cold that you can't sell it in public.

00:15:19.420 Am I right?

00:15:19.960 But do you think I characterized the genuine argument fairly, that people would adult women and lots

00:15:32.120 of men who support them?

00:15:33.160 They prefer or they prioritize the value of their own life and the quality of it and the freedom of it above the value of something that smart people can argue when it's life or not.

00:15:50.260 But we're all talking about the same thing.

00:15:52.100 We're all talking about the same thing, no matter what word you put on it.

00:15:56.700 So the trouble is you can't sell that.

00:15:58.660 It just sounds like you're a monster or something, right?

00:16:02.200 I don't think so.

00:16:04.000 And let me be clear.

00:16:05.740 That's not my opinion.

00:16:06.900 I mean, I don't consider them monsters, nor do I consider the people on the right, you know, deluded or anything else.

00:16:14.040 Like, I just don't have those bad opinions about people on either side.

00:16:19.060 I just think that it's absurd to watch people on both sides use fake arguments and try to think past the sale, try to make you think past the sale.

00:16:28.640 We'll talk about that some more.

00:16:31.540 All right.

00:16:31.840 Here was an interesting thought from a Twitter user, Ryan Vertanen.

00:16:43.020 He said that the Supreme Court wouldn't, I'll paraphrase here, wouldn't have strucken.

00:16:49.580 Why can't I make a sentence that uses the correct forms here?

00:16:53.820 I'll just read what he said.

00:16:56.480 And then if it's wrong, you can blame him.

00:16:58.280 All right.

00:16:59.100 SCOTUS doesn't strike down abortion if Trump is in office.

00:17:03.300 He said the climate would be too tense.

00:17:06.200 Can't drop a bomb like this one when everyone's on edge.

00:17:10.140 The climate under Biden is less tense, which allowed the Supreme Court to do this.

00:17:15.760 What do you think?

00:17:16.540 Like, I love opinions that I don't agree with, but I can't immediately figure out why, which makes me pause and go, okay, I think if I really were disagreeing with this, I'd probably know why, so maybe it's a good point.

00:17:34.580 What do you think?

00:17:35.940 Do you think that if Trump were still in office, the Supreme Court would not have handed down this decision?

00:17:41.700 It'd be too hot.

00:17:42.420 Here's the alternative theory.

00:17:47.820 By the way, maybe.

00:17:50.740 Yeah.

00:17:51.420 I mean, it's at least a good point, right?

00:17:53.940 Would you all say that?

00:17:55.060 It's at least a good point, but you don't know.

00:17:57.680 Here's the alternative theory.

00:17:59.320 The Supreme Court has gigantic balls, and they're not afraid of anything, and they just proved it.

00:18:08.540 That's the alternative theory.

00:18:10.440 The Supreme Court has gigantic balls, including the ladies, and they just proved it because they just said, you can march in front of our houses.

00:18:20.880 Fuck you.

00:18:22.020 Here it is.

00:18:22.640 That's what I saw.

00:18:25.860 I saw you can put scary people in front of our houses, in front of our families.

00:18:32.240 We're still going to put this right in your face.

00:18:35.520 No hesitation.

00:18:37.200 No equivocation.

00:18:39.880 No nothing.

00:18:40.480 Every now and then, the Supreme Court does something that I think bolsters their credibility, and I think that should be noted.

00:18:50.400 In my opinion, the fact that they didn't hold back until after the midterms, because I think that's when the ideal time probably would have been after the midterms.

00:19:00.600 And they could have, I mean, they could have held off, right?

00:19:04.240 They have that option.

00:19:07.820 I think that tells me that they're not going to be intimidated.

00:19:13.040 Because imagine if they had not released this.

00:19:16.960 If they had not released it, it would look like intimidation worked, right?

00:19:20.600 So, when whoever was on the left released the draft decision, which in the beginning I said, don't assume that it's the actual decision, but I guess it was, right?

00:19:34.780 So, my speculation was completely incorrect.

00:19:40.140 So, it was correct.

00:19:41.320 But do you realize that the leaker guaranteed that they would release it?

00:19:50.600 So, the leaker, by leaking an actual real document, now that we know it's real, we can also connect the dots, because we didn't know it was real before, but now we can connect the dots.

00:20:01.360 The leaker guaranteed, guaranteed this would be released.

00:20:06.820 Do you know why?

00:20:08.560 I think I mentioned it earlier.

00:20:10.200 Because the Supreme Court apparently has gigantic balls, including the ladies, and they're not going to be intimidated.

00:20:20.600 So, good for them.

00:20:24.580 You know, at least in that narrow sense, I like the fact that the intimidation had no impact, as far as we could tell.

00:20:32.920 I'm sure it had an impact on them personally, which is why you give them credit.

00:20:39.640 Keith Olbermann helpfully tweeted this.

00:20:42.880 He said, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts, and Clarence Thomas are domestic terrorists, and should be approached and prosecuted as such.

00:20:59.720 Keith Olbermann.

00:21:00.720 Well, you can always count on Keith Olbermann to take the sane path, which I retweeted with hashtag haunted, because every time somebody refers to people on the right as domestic terrorists, and should be approached and prosecuted as such, it does feel like they're promoting the, you know, something bad here.

00:21:25.440 All right, my question to you, do you think it's fair that people are calling the Supreme Court justices who were most recently put on the court, is it fair to call them liars, because they misled the Senate about their likelihood to overturn Roe?

00:21:49.360 What would you say?

00:21:50.360 What would you say?

00:21:51.580 Are they liars?

00:21:54.380 Now, first of all, do you think that they misled?

00:21:56.900 Do you think they intentionally misled, and they knew all along that they would have done this?

00:22:02.400 And do you think that, most of you are saying no.

00:22:04.920 And I'm going to take the other side.

00:22:10.200 I'm going to take the other side of this.

00:22:12.060 I would call them liars.

00:22:14.400 Again, doesn't mean you don't like their decision.

00:22:17.060 So let's separate whether you like the decision or not.

00:22:21.740 All right, we're not talking about that now.

00:22:23.360 We're talking about whether they lied to the Senate.

00:22:25.740 I'm going to say yes.

00:22:27.280 I'm going to say yes.

00:22:28.040 But they lied the way politicians lie, meaning that you knew they were lying, so did it matter?

00:22:35.660 Right?

00:22:36.600 When politicians lie to you, and you know they're lying, it's not exactly the same thing, is it?

00:22:43.700 Now, let me ask you this.

00:22:44.860 When somebody selects a conservative Supreme Court justice, what do you think they were going to do?

00:22:53.560 I even saw, who is the comedian Al Franken?

00:23:00.620 Even Al Franken was tweeting.

00:23:03.340 We all knew what they were going to do.

00:23:05.520 It didn't matter that it was settled law.

00:23:08.100 Everybody knew that you didn't have to be a lawyer to know that they were going to take a run at it.

00:23:12.540 So is it lying if you know exactly what's going to happen and there's no real ambiguity about it?

00:23:19.960 It's a weird kind of lying.

00:23:21.300 I would call it like political lying.

00:23:23.320 But I'm going to save my most criticism for the question askers.

00:23:28.460 Are you telling me that when they were interviewed, you couldn't ask the right question to find out exactly what they were going to do?

00:23:36.060 And have them essentially tell the public to?

00:23:39.520 Now, of course you can't ask them how they would rule on a hypothetical case.

00:23:45.420 We're all smart enough to know that, right?

00:23:47.460 It's like, you don't do that.

00:23:49.940 They're not going to answer that question.

00:23:51.400 And shouldn't.

00:23:52.280 They shouldn't answer it.

00:23:53.120 But you could get there easily.

00:23:56.360 How about this question?

00:23:58.500 Mr. Gorsuch, I'm not going to ask you how you would rule on any hypothetical kind of case.

00:24:04.300 But I want to ask you how you, to explain the, sort of the field, the situation for us.

00:24:11.280 Do you believe that there would be a path to overturn Roe versus Wade,

00:24:16.540 and that there could be a compelling argument made,

00:24:20.360 or do you believe that because it's settled law, it could never be overturned?

00:24:26.200 Which of those sort of general positions do you hold?

00:24:29.680 That it's settled law and cannot be overturned,

00:24:32.420 or that if somebody made a compelling argument,

00:24:35.660 the court would have that right and even responsibility to overturn it?

00:24:40.180 Which one would you go with?

00:24:41.360 Now, I'm pretty sure Gorsuch would either have to avoid the question, which is an answer,

00:24:47.360 or he'd have to say, well, hypothetically,

00:24:50.580 the court could overturn that under, you know, a certain set of variables.

00:24:56.840 And that would be your answer.

00:24:59.300 They're conservatives, and they just told you it could be done.

00:25:02.740 Would you need anything else?

00:25:05.000 I mean, that's about as clear as you can be.

00:25:06.960 So, I think there was terrible question asking,

00:25:11.320 and I would call them liars.

00:25:14.140 I would call them liars.

00:25:15.920 Because they knew.

00:25:17.960 I mean, I'm not a mind reader, right?

00:25:20.380 So, technically, you could say to yourself,

00:25:22.440 well, they didn't know, no, because, you know, anything could happen,

00:25:26.600 and maybe somebody would have made a strong argument

00:25:29.180 that changed their, you know, preconceived ideas.

00:25:32.900 But no, you knew.

00:25:33.960 They knew what they were going to do.

00:25:36.880 You knew what they were going to do.

00:25:38.820 And then they did.

00:25:41.540 I think the only ambiguity was whether they thought they could get away with it.

00:25:45.660 And apparently they thought so.

00:25:52.080 Here's another little tip for you.

00:25:54.460 When I was tweeting about this,

00:25:56.940 Twitter user Robin DeLong said to me,

00:25:59.800 and I quote his tweet, he said,

00:26:01.300 quote, so, it's fair game to ask nominees how they will rule during confirmation hearings.

00:26:07.840 And I thought, this is a useful lesson to the rest of us.

00:26:12.840 And so I want to remind you

00:26:14.000 that the most important word in the English language is,

00:26:19.100 what's the most important word in the English language?

00:26:22.560 That's correct.

00:26:23.280 The word so, at the beginning of a sentence.

00:26:27.860 So.

00:26:29.220 Do you know why?

00:26:30.800 Because if you see the word so,

00:26:32.760 at the beginning of a sentence,

00:26:34.660 in the context of any kind of debate about something,

00:26:37.420 as soon as you see that little word so,

00:26:39.980 you don't have to read the rest of the sentence.

00:26:43.740 Because whatever follows that is going to be nonsense.

00:26:47.120 You can look for an exception.

00:26:49.520 Good luck.

00:26:50.040 You're not going to find one.

00:26:52.600 So, is actually how the person tells you

00:26:55.480 that what is going to follow is going to be nonsense,

00:26:57.800 but it's the best they could do.

00:27:00.340 So let me read it again.

00:27:01.800 This was his comment to me.

00:27:03.560 So, it's fair game to ask nominees

00:27:05.280 how they will rule during confirmation hearings?

00:27:07.880 No, and I didn't imply that.

00:27:10.660 It's just, you know it's somebody's

00:27:12.760 strong-made argument that's going to follow.

00:27:15.440 Very useful to know that word.

00:27:17.520 It's useful.

00:27:18.000 Well, is it my imagination,

00:27:20.560 or is the Babylon Bee really on fire lately?

00:27:25.540 Are you, I guess you have to see them on Instagram

00:27:27.760 or other platforms.

00:27:29.160 They're not on Twitter right now.

00:27:30.800 But if you're not following the Babylon Bee

00:27:33.600 on Instagram,

00:27:37.380 they are really operating at full,

00:27:42.860 you know how the left used to say

00:27:44.320 the right wasn't funny.

00:27:46.680 And then,

00:27:47.220 Godfeld came along

00:27:49.220 and showed that wasn't true.

00:27:51.080 They're actually writing articles now

00:27:52.800 about how funny

00:27:53.660 and successful Godfeld is,

00:27:55.720 and maybe they were wrong about this

00:27:57.180 conservatives aren't funny stuff.

00:27:58.940 And then the Babylon Bee comes along,

00:28:00.660 and they're like,

00:28:01.160 I guess they can be funny.

00:28:04.800 So, here's something that the Babylon Bee

00:28:09.700 had on Instagram and other places.

00:28:13.040 It said,

00:28:13.800 January 6 hearings postponed

00:28:17.220 until after the Democrat insurrection.

00:28:21.380 And the headlines are great.

00:28:23.620 Because, you know,

00:28:25.560 the Democrats are having

00:28:26.460 a consistency problem this week.

00:28:28.940 Because apparently there was,

00:28:30.680 the Democrats stormed

00:28:31.760 the Capitol building in Arizona,

00:28:33.800 and there was some, you know,

00:28:35.040 rioting and stuff in D.C.

00:28:39.900 And I'm thinking,

00:28:41.140 it's got to be really awkward

00:28:42.580 when you're the January 6 people,

00:28:46.740 and you say,

00:28:47.260 all right, look,

00:28:48.360 and maybe this was months ago,

00:28:49.680 and all the top Republican strategists

00:28:52.740 got together and they said,

00:28:54.060 we don't have anything.

00:28:55.920 We've got nothing.

00:28:56.720 We're literally going to have

00:28:57.660 to make some shit up

00:28:58.780 just to have a reason

00:29:00.060 to get reelected.

00:29:01.520 What do we got?

00:29:02.520 And they're like,

00:29:02.900 well, we could turn that,

00:29:04.760 the protest against our,

00:29:08.800 well, what we allegedly did.

00:29:11.080 We can turn the protests

00:29:12.760 into insurrections,

00:29:15.660 and we'll just hammer that,

00:29:16.800 and then we'll nail it on Trump,

00:29:18.380 and then people will have

00:29:20.320 a reason to elect us

00:29:21.280 because all of our policies

00:29:22.440 are shit,

00:29:23.280 but they won't want insurrectionists.

00:29:26.940 And so they're working on that,

00:29:28.680 and then this plan

00:29:29.780 is working pretty well

00:29:30.880 because, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:29:33.560 but I think the Rasmussen poll

00:29:34.880 actually narrowed the gap

00:29:37.520 between a generic Republican

00:29:39.820 and a generic Democrat

00:29:41.180 in the midterms,

00:29:42.300 meaning that Republicans

00:29:44.620 became less popular

00:29:46.380 in a general way

00:29:48.460 as the January 6th hearings

00:29:50.460 were going on,

00:29:51.220 and I'd call that a victory.

00:29:52.780 Maybe not enough

00:29:53.940 to win the midterms,

00:29:55.360 but definitely shows

00:29:57.200 their strategy worked,

00:29:58.600 I mean, if those numbers held.

00:30:01.320 But there were a couple problems

00:30:02.700 with the strategy.

00:30:05.580 A week after the hearings,

00:30:07.320 the Rasmussen numbers

00:30:08.360 went right back

00:30:09.640 to almost where they were,

00:30:11.880 meaning that,

00:30:12.820 here's my interpretation, right?

00:30:14.560 You can't be sure this is true.

00:30:16.040 This is an interpretation

00:30:17.180 of their results.

00:30:19.800 This is my interpretation.

00:30:21.340 My interpretation is that

00:30:22.880 a certain number of Republicans

00:30:24.740 were convinced

00:30:26.820 that when they saw

00:30:28.520 the January 6th evidence,

00:30:30.200 it really would connect

00:30:31.980 Trump and a bunch of insurrectionists

00:30:34.520 to the protesters,

00:30:36.540 and you would see

00:30:37.380 something pretty bad there.

00:30:38.980 And people were sort of

00:30:39.860 getting ahead of it

00:30:40.680 and, you know,

00:30:41.820 preemptively saying,

00:30:43.020 you know,

00:30:43.420 I can barely be a Republican anymore

00:30:45.440 because I don't want to be

00:30:46.560 on the same team

00:30:47.260 as these people.

00:30:48.660 Except,

00:30:50.100 when the January 6th hearings

00:30:51.580 were held,

00:30:53.160 even without a defense,

00:30:55.760 this is important,

00:30:57.300 the Republicans

00:30:57.840 don't even get to talk,

00:30:59.180 basically.

00:30:59.640 There's no defense.

00:31:01.020 It's just prosecution.

00:31:02.720 And even with just prosecution,

00:31:04.820 it looks like

00:31:06.580 what they proved

00:31:07.480 is that President Trump

00:31:10.280 couldn't even get

00:31:11.920 Don Jr. on board.

00:31:15.760 And we're done.

00:31:18.360 If I could explain

00:31:20.400 the entire situation,

00:31:22.120 the entire January 6th summary,

00:31:24.860 just the whole thing,

00:31:26.820 the whole thing,

00:31:27.500 I'm just going to boil it into,

00:31:29.500 and I can do this

00:31:30.640 because I'm a trained cartoonist.

00:31:33.240 Don't try this at home.

00:31:34.400 You won't do it right.

00:31:36.140 But I'm a professional.

00:31:37.560 I can take complicated situations

00:31:39.320 and boil them into

00:31:40.060 their simplest form.

00:31:42.340 What we learned primarily,

00:31:44.700 we learned a lot,

00:31:46.460 but there's one thing

00:31:47.480 that captures all the rest.

00:31:50.280 What we learned

00:31:51.120 is that President Trump

00:31:53.760 couldn't even get

00:31:55.400 Don Jr. on board.

00:31:58.260 Not even close.

00:32:01.080 The only people

00:32:02.380 he could get on board

00:32:03.480 were some lawyers

00:32:05.140 who are trained

00:32:06.840 to agree with you

00:32:08.000 for money

00:32:08.540 and, you know,

00:32:09.700 support your point,

00:32:11.420 whatever it is.

00:32:13.080 And

00:32:13.500 after all of this talk

00:32:16.600 and all of this talk

00:32:17.900 of insurrection

00:32:18.640 and he's going to hold office,

00:32:21.140 we know now for sure,

00:32:23.680 we now know for sure,

00:32:25.980 he couldn't get Ivanka on board.

00:32:27.920 He couldn't get Jared on board.

00:32:31.660 He couldn't get Don Jr. on board.

00:32:35.000 And correct me if I'm wrong,

00:32:37.160 but I don't think

00:32:37.900 there's any non-lawyer

00:32:39.860 in the White House inner circle

00:32:42.400 who had,

00:32:43.960 Bill Barr wasn't on board.

00:32:47.980 Giuliani is an attorney.

00:32:50.820 Giuliani's an attorney.

00:32:51.860 He couldn't get a non-lawyer

00:32:54.720 on board.

00:32:56.620 How about,

00:32:57.560 you know,

00:32:58.000 I don't know,

00:32:58.280 maybe Sidney Powell

00:32:59.120 or something?

00:32:59.700 I don't know what she was saying

00:33:00.580 at the time.

00:33:01.780 But

00:33:02.120 that's what you learned.

00:33:04.880 So the January 6th trial,

00:33:06.840 I think,

00:33:07.740 is the biggest failure

00:33:08.840 in politics

00:33:10.100 that we'll ever see.

00:33:12.080 Because it sounded

00:33:13.040 really good on paper

00:33:13.960 and I have to admit

00:33:14.920 it worked for a week.

00:33:16.360 It narrowed the gap.

00:33:17.620 But even without

00:33:19.880 a defense,

00:33:21.500 I mean,

00:33:21.780 that's so important.

00:33:23.220 Without a defense,

00:33:25.380 they just

00:33:26.200 lined themselves up

00:33:28.440 and shot themselves

00:33:29.280 in front of the public.

00:33:30.520 So anybody who watched it

00:33:31.840 just thought,

00:33:33.740 well,

00:33:34.420 yeah,

00:33:35.200 he didn't convince

00:33:36.320 his chief of staff,

00:33:38.000 any of his children,

00:33:39.720 his son-in-law,

00:33:40.980 he didn't get anybody.

00:33:42.700 Nobody.

00:33:44.060 And, you know,

00:33:44.700 the Democrats

00:33:45.300 were worried

00:33:46.220 about how close

00:33:47.020 we were to an insurrection.

00:33:48.920 Do you know

00:33:49.320 how close we were?

00:33:51.640 Zero.

00:33:53.340 And I didn't know that.

00:33:55.100 Right?

00:33:55.320 I mean,

00:33:55.620 it looked to me

00:33:56.480 like there was

00:33:56.900 no insurrection.

00:33:58.040 But I thought,

00:33:59.000 you know,

00:33:59.280 maybe,

00:34:00.420 maybe there were,

00:34:01.880 you know,

00:34:02.560 some people in the White House

00:34:03.660 who kind of were thinking,

00:34:05.540 well,

00:34:05.960 let's see if we can

00:34:06.720 hold power anyway.

00:34:08.480 Turns out,

00:34:09.040 no.

00:34:09.540 Just lawyers.

00:34:11.420 And that's a special case.

00:34:14.180 All right.

00:34:14.820 Anyway.

00:34:17.020 I told you

00:34:22.480 that you come here

00:34:23.460 for the best jokes

00:34:24.520 about Roe vs. Wade.

00:34:26.180 It's a serious situation.

00:34:28.300 But I'd like to call out

00:34:29.580 three blue-checked,

00:34:31.860 verified entities

00:34:32.760 on Twitter

00:34:33.400 because they were

00:34:35.740 the only ones

00:34:36.600 willing to retweet

00:34:39.060 this joke of mine.

00:34:40.820 So it turns out

00:34:42.760 that Dick's

00:34:43.600 the Sporting Goods,

00:34:44.700 and I learned this

00:34:45.740 in a tweet

00:34:46.360 from Lauren Chen.

00:34:48.680 But she noted

00:34:50.340 that Dick's Sporting Goods

00:34:52.140 is going to pay

00:34:53.120 their employees

00:34:53.760 a certain amount

00:34:54.540 if they want to go

00:34:56.860 somewhere

00:34:57.480 to get an abortion.

00:34:59.840 And so I

00:35:01.520 helpfully added

00:35:02.500 a headline,

00:35:03.360 a breaking news headline

00:35:04.260 to the story,

00:35:06.140 Dick's Cause Abortions.

00:35:09.360 Dick's Cause Abortions.

00:35:11.720 And

00:35:13.220 only Greg

00:35:16.280 Gutfeld

00:35:16.720 and the Rasmussen

00:35:18.400 poll

00:35:18.720 and Lauren Chen

00:35:19.520 retweeted that,

00:35:22.800 at least

00:35:23.900 of the blue checks.

00:35:25.520 So

00:35:25.800 congratulations

00:35:26.860 to those

00:35:27.600 with a sense

00:35:28.060 of humor.

00:35:28.400 But

00:35:30.520 okay,

00:35:32.040 this is a true story.

00:35:34.920 I'm not making

00:35:35.900 this up.

00:35:37.720 In the

00:35:38.620 mall

00:35:39.900 that's

00:35:40.740 pretty near me,

00:35:41.880 maybe the closest one,

00:35:43.840 there are two

00:35:45.020 businesses

00:35:45.480 that are next

00:35:46.220 to each other

00:35:46.760 in the same

00:35:48.080 little parking lot.

00:35:51.100 One is Dick's

00:35:52.320 and the other

00:35:54.420 is a restaurant

00:35:55.000 called BJ's.

00:35:56.000 Now,

00:35:58.220 whoever decided

00:35:59.640 that the two

00:36:00.300 anchor tenants

00:36:01.140 should be

00:36:01.940 Dick's

00:36:02.260 and BJ's,

00:36:04.040 I think

00:36:06.060 it's time

00:36:06.400 for a slow clap.

00:36:12.900 Now,

00:36:14.100 maybe it happened

00:36:15.060 by accident.

00:36:16.460 Maybe.

00:36:17.400 Maybe.

00:36:18.700 And maybe

00:36:19.220 Elon Musk's

00:36:20.220 car models

00:36:21.100 spell sexy

00:36:22.040 completely by accident.

00:36:24.280 S-E-X.

00:36:26.000 Why?

00:36:27.140 Maybe.

00:36:28.900 So,

00:36:29.480 maybe Dick's

00:36:30.140 and BJ's

00:36:30.800 are just

00:36:31.140 in the same

00:36:31.600 place

00:36:31.900 for no reason

00:36:32.780 whatsoever.

00:36:34.720 But it happened.

00:36:36.160 All right.

00:36:37.740 If you could

00:36:38.480 buy stock

00:36:39.400 in states,

00:36:42.280 and I don't think

00:36:43.240 there's any way

00:36:43.740 to do that,

00:36:44.340 right?

00:36:44.620 There's no

00:36:44.960 indirect way

00:36:45.680 to invest

00:36:46.240 in a state?

00:36:47.660 Is there?

00:36:49.100 Probably is.

00:36:49.960 I can't think of one.

00:36:51.560 But

00:36:51.840 if you could

00:36:53.280 invest in states,

00:36:54.440 which ones

00:36:54.840 would you buy

00:36:55.500 and which ones

00:36:56.100 would you sell

00:36:56.600 now?

00:36:57.080 Go.

00:36:58.200 Based on the

00:36:59.040 Roe vs. Wade,

00:37:00.340 just based on that.

00:37:01.980 Roe vs. Wade,

00:37:02.620 well, you could

00:37:03.020 throw everything

00:37:03.520 else in, too.

00:37:04.300 Throw everything

00:37:04.820 in there.

00:37:05.520 Throw in school boards,

00:37:06.840 right?

00:37:07.420 Good one.

00:37:08.680 Throw in school boards,

00:37:10.000 gun rights,

00:37:11.500 throw in abortion

00:37:12.740 situation.

00:37:15.180 Throw it all

00:37:15.800 in there.

00:37:16.980 Throw in gas prices,

00:37:18.440 energy,

00:37:19.140 wokeness.

00:37:19.980 Throw it all

00:37:20.440 in there.

00:37:21.720 Which states

00:37:22.580 would you buy

00:37:23.300 and which

00:37:23.700 would you sell?

00:37:27.020 Talk to me,

00:37:27.780 people.

00:37:28.200 Talk to me.

00:37:29.300 All right.

00:37:29.980 You've got lots

00:37:30.440 of opinions.

00:37:32.200 So I see most

00:37:32.820 of you are

00:37:33.440 playing for the

00:37:35.800 team and saying

00:37:36.480 that the conservative

00:37:37.240 states are going

00:37:38.320 to be the

00:37:39.600 beneficiaries.

00:37:41.180 I would have

00:37:41.940 said that until

00:37:42.760 the Roe vs.

00:37:43.960 Wade situation,

00:37:45.280 because that

00:37:47.540 is going to

00:37:48.080 really, really

00:37:49.160 stop any kind

00:37:50.140 of high-talent

00:37:51.320 young people

00:37:52.360 from not,

00:37:54.320 I mean,

00:37:54.560 obviously,

00:37:55.260 conservatives

00:37:55.700 don't care,

00:37:56.540 people who are

00:37:56.880 not going to

00:37:57.200 have kids

00:37:57.660 maybe don't

00:37:58.280 care,

00:37:58.980 et cetera.

00:37:59.840 But I would

00:38:01.460 buy California.

00:38:06.240 You know,

00:38:07.140 you can hate

00:38:08.280 a lot of stuff

00:38:09.560 about California

00:38:10.400 and we've got

00:38:10.980 some issues.

00:38:11.780 A lot.

00:38:13.160 A lot.

00:38:13.640 But we may

00:38:15.380 have bottomed

00:38:15.920 out.

00:38:17.040 I think we may

00:38:17.700 have bottomed

00:38:18.140 out.

00:38:18.920 You know,

00:38:19.500 California isn't

00:38:20.860 going to go down

00:38:21.640 forever.

00:38:22.920 That's my prediction.

00:38:24.160 I guess it's not

00:38:24.800 guaranteed.

00:38:25.940 It could go down

00:38:26.520 forever.

00:38:27.340 But I don't think

00:38:27.940 so.

00:38:28.740 There are too many

00:38:29.300 strong advantages

00:38:30.820 here.

00:38:32.080 Even our budget

00:38:32.980 looks good.

00:38:33.900 You know,

00:38:34.040 the California

00:38:34.480 budget looks

00:38:35.160 strong.

00:38:35.760 You know,

00:38:35.880 who saw that

00:38:36.360 coming?

00:38:37.420 So, yeah,

00:38:38.500 California,

00:38:39.460 when it comes

00:38:40.520 back, it will.

00:38:42.060 It's going to

00:38:42.520 rage.

00:38:44.120 If I were

00:38:44.860 an investor

00:38:45.520 in states,

00:38:46.480 I would buy

00:38:46.880 California,

00:38:47.600 even if you

00:38:48.020 hate everything

00:38:48.480 about it.

00:38:49.300 Just as an

00:38:49.940 investor, right?

00:38:51.140 It's sort of

00:38:51.700 like, to some

00:38:52.340 of you, that

00:38:52.760 would be like

00:38:53.240 investing in

00:38:54.780 a tobacco

00:38:55.400 company.

00:38:56.240 It might be

00:38:56.700 distasteful to

00:38:57.520 you.

00:38:58.380 But I'm just

00:38:58.820 saying it's

00:38:59.200 likely to make

00:38:59.780 money.

00:39:00.040 I think

00:39:00.440 California's

00:39:02.080 badness is

00:39:02.860 all, how

00:39:04.140 they say,

00:39:04.620 baked in.

00:39:05.820 Like it's all

00:39:06.280 part of the

00:39:06.660 cake already.

00:39:07.740 So you've

00:39:08.100 already discounted

00:39:09.720 that in your

00:39:10.080 head.

00:39:10.560 This is new

00:39:11.120 news.

00:39:11.820 I think it's

00:39:12.260 going to make

00:39:12.580 a difference.

00:39:12.940 But in a

00:39:14.300 larger sense,

00:39:14.900 I think

00:39:15.100 California's

00:39:15.760 going to

00:39:15.940 come raging

00:39:16.460 back maybe

00:39:17.960 three to five

00:39:18.660 years.

00:39:19.960 It's going to

00:39:20.380 take us a

00:39:20.780 while to figure

00:39:23.140 out how to

00:39:23.500 keep the

00:39:23.800 lights on.

00:39:24.280 if we can

00:39:25.960 keep the

00:39:26.300 lights on.

00:39:26.740 This is a

00:39:27.260 pretty awesome

00:39:27.680 place.

00:39:30.560 As Corey

00:39:31.440 DeAngelis

00:39:32.040 helpfully

00:39:32.720 informs us,

00:39:35.180 there's a

00:39:36.800 huge victory

00:39:37.440 in school

00:39:37.960 choice.

00:39:38.540 The Arizona

00:39:39.480 State Senate

00:39:40.040 just passed a

00:39:40.680 bill to fund

00:39:41.240 students instead

00:39:42.200 of systems.

00:39:43.620 But this is the

00:39:44.380 most expansive

00:39:45.140 one, as Corey

00:39:46.100 tells us, the

00:39:47.160 most expansive

00:39:47.920 school choice

00:39:49.320 initiative in the

00:39:50.340 nation.

00:39:50.620 families take

00:39:53.920 their education

00:39:54.560 dollars and

00:39:55.560 they can apply

00:39:56.160 them to a

00:39:58.440 variety of

00:39:59.100 places.

00:39:59.780 So there would

00:40:00.040 be a free

00:40:00.720 market competition

00:40:01.900 in that state.

00:40:03.100 Now, how much

00:40:04.320 do I love that

00:40:06.760 some places will

00:40:07.680 become the

00:40:08.160 laboratories and

00:40:09.760 we will find

00:40:10.460 out if this

00:40:12.380 approach to

00:40:13.080 schooling is

00:40:13.660 better?

00:40:13.900 Now, you

00:40:15.660 probably think

00:40:16.260 that because I

00:40:16.920 retweet a

00:40:17.860 school choice

00:40:18.460 stuff practically

00:40:20.160 every day, you

00:40:22.620 probably think,

00:40:23.640 well, there's a

00:40:24.120 guy who knows

00:40:24.680 that school choice

00:40:25.500 is the best

00:40:26.100 thing and we

00:40:27.000 should do it.

00:40:27.760 Nope.

00:40:28.780 Nope.

00:40:30.000 Nope.

00:40:30.760 I'm completely

00:40:31.780 open to the

00:40:32.480 fact that maybe

00:40:33.200 there's some

00:40:33.880 flaw that's not

00:40:35.280 obvious.

00:40:36.240 Generally

00:40:36.720 speaking,

00:40:38.040 any time you

00:40:38.800 can test a

00:40:39.920 free market

00:40:40.420 solution, you

00:40:41.820 want to do

00:40:42.360 that.

00:40:43.020 You want to

00:40:43.440 do that.

00:40:43.780 There are

00:40:44.580 plenty of

00:40:44.920 people who

00:40:45.560 want that

00:40:46.320 option and

00:40:47.300 they want it

00:40:47.680 for more

00:40:48.040 than one

00:40:48.400 reason, which

00:40:49.220 is a perfect

00:40:49.720 situation.

00:40:50.900 One of the

00:40:51.360 reasons might

00:40:51.880 be they don't

00:40:52.460 want the

00:40:52.800 wokeness

00:40:53.920 indoctrination.

00:40:55.740 So we just

00:40:56.320 have two

00:40:56.700 reasons instead

00:40:57.340 of one.

00:40:57.640 The other

00:40:57.880 reason is

00:40:58.300 just better

00:40:58.680 schools.

00:41:01.400 But it's

00:41:03.980 great that

00:41:05.100 Arizona is

00:41:05.800 going to now

00:41:06.600 be the, I

00:41:08.600 guess, the

00:41:08.960 premier national

00:41:10.080 test laboratory

00:41:11.620 for finding out

00:41:13.080 what works and

00:41:13.320 what doesn't.

00:41:14.260 I don't

00:41:14.460 know how

00:41:14.700 long it

00:41:15.040 will take.

00:41:15.700 I mean, it

00:41:15.940 might be a

00:41:16.280 five-year

00:41:16.680 situation.

00:41:17.980 So it's not

00:41:18.840 like we're

00:41:19.180 going to wait

00:41:19.560 for the

00:41:19.840 results of

00:41:20.300 the test.

00:41:21.400 But I do

00:41:22.080 like it.

00:41:23.140 I do like it

00:41:24.160 when places

00:41:25.300 are acting

00:41:26.540 differently and

00:41:27.360 we can just

00:41:28.020 measure it and

00:41:29.120 we'll find out.

00:41:30.020 I'm open to

00:41:30.660 it.

00:41:31.280 I'm open to

00:41:31.920 this being,

00:41:33.460 actually, I'm

00:41:34.740 open to this

00:41:35.440 being a solution

00:41:37.440 to systemic

00:41:38.160 racism.

00:41:40.540 Because no

00:41:42.180 matter how

00:41:42.700 true, and I

00:41:44.140 think a lot

00:41:44.600 of it's true,

00:41:45.260 the legacy of

00:41:46.300 slavery, you

00:41:47.180 know, rippling

00:41:47.720 through to the

00:41:48.480 present, no

00:41:49.980 matter what you

00:41:50.580 want to argue

00:41:51.040 about the

00:41:51.420 details of

00:41:52.180 where you see

00:41:52.780 it and where

00:41:53.200 you don't and

00:41:54.080 whose fault it

00:41:55.260 is and blah,

00:41:56.160 blah, blah,

00:41:56.420 blah, blah.

00:41:57.080 You can argue

00:41:57.720 that all day

00:41:58.320 long.

00:41:59.000 But here's one

00:41:59.660 thing I don't

00:42:00.080 think anybody

00:42:00.600 would argue.

00:42:01.060 If every kid

00:42:03.300 had exactly the

00:42:05.160 same educational

00:42:06.040 options, you

00:42:07.900 know, with no

00:42:08.820 crime and, you

00:42:09.800 know, they can

00:42:10.120 make it to

00:42:10.580 school and

00:42:11.240 they've got

00:42:11.920 enough support

00:42:12.500 to do their

00:42:13.140 homework and

00:42:13.640 stuff, if

00:42:14.540 everybody had

00:42:15.060 that, in a

00:42:17.440 generation or

00:42:18.220 so, you'd

00:42:19.800 stop talking

00:42:20.500 about systemic

00:42:21.540 racism, right?

00:42:23.260 It wouldn't be

00:42:24.020 one generation.

00:42:25.340 But, you

00:42:25.820 know, you

00:42:26.100 should at

00:42:26.440 least get a

00:42:27.040 head start on

00:42:27.720 it.

00:42:28.520 So, to

00:42:29.880 me, the

00:42:31.040 more things

00:42:31.600 you can

00:42:31.880 experiment

00:42:32.320 with, the

00:42:33.520 more improvement

00:42:36.060 and the

00:42:36.900 faster you

00:42:37.460 can get it

00:42:38.000 in the

00:42:38.220 educational

00:42:38.640 field, especially

00:42:39.600 to the

00:42:40.560 low-income

00:42:40.960 people, that's

00:42:42.840 the biggest

00:42:44.220 lever for

00:42:44.820 everything.

00:42:46.140 Like, every

00:42:46.740 lever of

00:42:47.540 civilization

00:42:48.220 comes from

00:42:49.500 getting this

00:42:50.000 stuff right.

00:42:51.700 So, if

00:42:52.040 you're not

00:42:52.300 planning a

00:42:52.860 generation

00:42:53.240 ahead, and

00:42:54.060 this is good

00:42:54.660 planning, and

00:42:55.460 maybe it's

00:42:55.800 accidental, but

00:42:57.100 knowing which

00:42:58.560 works, the

00:42:59.660 public method

00:43:00.360 or the

00:43:00.920 more flexible

00:43:02.380 school choice

00:43:03.160 method, we'll

00:43:04.260 actually know

00:43:04.860 which one of

00:43:05.300 those is

00:43:05.580 better.

00:43:06.860 Not only

00:43:07.460 that, but

00:43:08.480 within the

00:43:09.080 school choice

00:43:09.940 field, there

00:43:11.520 will be lots

00:43:11.920 of competition

00:43:12.640 within that, and

00:43:14.280 then we'll

00:43:14.560 know which of

00:43:15.120 those is

00:43:15.480 better.

00:43:17.280 This is

00:43:17.920 amazing.

00:43:19.600 We've

00:43:20.080 finally done,

00:43:21.280 or we're on

00:43:21.920 the cusp, or

00:43:23.400 at least, let's

00:43:23.880 say we're

00:43:24.340 setting the

00:43:24.820 field for the

00:43:26.340 biggest

00:43:27.040 golden age

00:43:29.800 improvement of

00:43:30.660 all time.

00:43:33.140 How many of

00:43:33.860 you are

00:43:34.140 parents who

00:43:34.700 have kids

00:43:35.040 in school?

00:43:37.300 Would you

00:43:37.920 agree that

00:43:39.340 the thing we

00:43:39.900 call school is

00:43:40.820 completely

00:43:41.300 broken?

00:43:42.880 I mean, it

00:43:43.300 just destroys

00:43:44.000 the parents'

00:43:45.500 life at the

00:43:46.440 same time as

00:43:46.980 the kids.

00:43:47.480 There's nothing

00:43:48.100 about it that's

00:43:48.700 done right.

00:43:49.540 I mean, in

00:43:50.060 fact, every

00:43:50.700 part of school

00:43:51.480 would be

00:43:52.400 different if

00:43:53.800 you started

00:43:54.340 today and

00:43:55.080 built it

00:43:55.480 from scratch.

00:43:56.620 It'd all be

00:43:57.160 different.

00:43:58.080 It's just

00:43:58.460 bullying and

00:43:59.500 low self-esteem,

00:44:01.700 and it's

00:44:02.460 just a horror

00:44:04.100 fest for

00:44:05.660 most kids.

00:44:07.080 When I see

00:44:07.840 kids go to

00:44:08.460 school, I

00:44:09.980 feel sorry

00:44:10.560 for them, and

00:44:11.940 not in the

00:44:12.320 way that I

00:44:12.700 did when I

00:44:13.160 was going to

00:44:13.800 school.

00:44:14.000 I never felt

00:44:15.720 sorry for

00:44:16.200 myself.

00:44:17.840 Did you?

00:44:18.480 I don't know.

00:44:19.300 I mean, maybe

00:44:19.880 it was a

00:44:20.140 generation thing.

00:44:21.160 You could like

00:44:21.900 school or not

00:44:22.560 like school, but

00:44:23.140 I never really

00:44:23.760 felt sorry

00:44:24.320 for myself.

00:44:25.700 But when I

00:44:26.220 see a modern

00:44:27.280 child go to

00:44:28.100 school, I

00:44:29.240 think they're

00:44:29.580 just going

00:44:29.960 into the

00:44:30.320 grinder.

00:44:31.620 It's like a

00:44:32.660 mental health

00:44:34.140 destruction

00:44:34.940 grinder, and

00:44:36.620 the state

00:44:38.580 makes you send

00:44:39.320 them there.

00:44:40.340 We're going

00:44:40.660 to take your

00:44:41.140 child, and

00:44:44.500 we're going

00:44:44.720 to put them

00:44:45.080 every day

00:44:45.620 into a

00:44:46.020 situation that

00:44:47.420 is really,

00:44:48.420 really fucked

00:44:48.760 up.

00:44:50.000 And they

00:44:50.660 will be

00:44:51.020 mentally scarred

00:44:51.820 probably for

00:44:52.300 life, probably

00:44:53.380 for life.

00:44:54.900 Their

00:44:55.300 self-esteem

00:44:56.040 will be in

00:44:56.460 the toilet.

00:44:56.980 They'll have

00:44:57.640 no value in

00:44:58.900 themselves.

00:45:00.340 And that's

00:45:00.780 what we'll do

00:45:01.180 for you, and

00:45:01.600 then we'll

00:45:02.060 give them

00:45:02.400 back.

00:45:03.600 You see what

00:45:04.060 you can do

00:45:04.420 with them.

00:45:05.840 And, you

00:45:08.000 know, so

00:45:08.380 that's what it

00:45:08.900 feels like.

00:45:09.980 It feels like

00:45:10.620 that.

00:45:10.920 I think we

00:45:11.320 could do

00:45:11.580 better.

00:45:11.800 All right.

00:45:13.960 Here's something

00:45:14.740 that I forgot

00:45:15.520 or didn't know.

00:45:16.640 I can't

00:45:16.920 remember.

00:45:18.360 But Maggie

00:45:20.000 Haberman

00:45:20.960 tweeted,

00:45:22.700 this is not

00:45:23.480 the part I

00:45:23.840 forgot.

00:45:24.300 I'll get to

00:45:24.660 that.

00:45:25.320 That officials

00:45:26.180 with security

00:45:26.920 clearances were

00:45:28.100 sending internet

00:45:28.860 conspiracy theories

00:45:30.100 to senior

00:45:30.800 officials asking

00:45:32.900 them to

00:45:33.280 investigate.

00:45:33.760 I think she's

00:45:34.940 talking about

00:45:35.280 the Trump

00:45:35.660 administration.

00:45:39.880 And then

00:45:40.220 Molly Hemingway

00:45:41.220 retweeted that

00:45:43.280 with her own

00:45:43.820 comment and

00:45:44.880 said that

00:45:45.340 Maggie

00:45:45.940 Haberman won

00:45:46.700 a Pulitzer

00:45:47.320 for her role

00:45:48.760 successfully

00:45:49.460 propagating the

00:45:50.320 Russia collusion

00:45:51.040 hoax in which

00:45:52.200 officials with

00:45:52.920 security clearances

00:45:53.840 sent the

00:45:54.760 Democrat

00:45:55.120 manufactured hoax

00:45:56.460 to senior

00:45:57.400 officials across

00:45:58.260 the government

00:45:58.820 in an attempt

00:45:59.760 to orchestrate

00:46:00.600 a coup.

00:46:02.260 Yeah.

00:46:03.200 And how

00:46:05.100 many of you

00:46:05.580 knew that

00:46:06.200 Maggie Haberman

00:46:07.140 won a Pulitzer

00:46:09.500 for writing

00:46:10.860 about something

00:46:11.540 that wasn't

00:46:12.060 even slightly

00:46:13.220 true?

00:46:15.240 Did you

00:46:16.060 all know

00:46:16.360 that?

00:46:17.160 Somehow I

00:46:18.260 feel like I

00:46:19.000 missed that

00:46:19.520 story when it

00:46:20.100 happened because

00:46:20.700 I think I

00:46:21.320 would have

00:46:21.520 remembered it.

00:46:24.000 Did I ever

00:46:24.720 tell you what

00:46:25.380 it takes to

00:46:26.300 win a Pulitzer?

00:46:28.500 You know,

00:46:29.080 I always thought

00:46:29.840 it's a very

00:46:30.640 prestigious thing

00:46:31.600 to win.

00:46:32.960 And cartoonists

00:46:34.120 can win them.

00:46:34.880 There are several

00:46:35.460 cartoonists,

00:46:36.380 lots of them

00:46:36.760 actually,

00:46:37.280 who have won

00:46:37.780 Pulitzers.

00:46:39.080 So I always

00:46:39.880 thought, you

00:46:40.580 know, that

00:46:40.820 would be like

00:46:41.360 the, that

00:46:42.760 would be the

00:46:43.200 pinnacle of

00:46:43.800 my career.

00:46:44.880 If I could

00:46:45.540 win a

00:46:45.840 Pulitzer, I

00:46:47.080 would suddenly

00:46:47.560 go from, you

00:46:48.500 know, idiot

00:46:49.000 making jokes

00:46:49.920 to some

00:46:50.900 kind of a

00:46:51.520 credible

00:46:52.060 person, you

00:46:52.800 know, sort

00:46:53.080 of a Gary

00:46:53.500 Trudeau

00:46:53.940 situation,

00:46:55.160 Burke

00:46:55.360 Brethet.

00:46:56.480 They won

00:46:56.840 Pulitzers.

00:46:57.920 Like, they

00:46:58.220 never take that

00:46:58.900 away from you,

00:46:59.440 right?

00:46:59.600 It's very,

00:46:59.980 very prestigious.

00:47:01.900 Or I thought

00:47:02.580 it was, until

00:47:04.280 I talked to

00:47:04.860 somebody who

00:47:05.340 knew how it

00:47:05.840 works.

00:47:07.200 Do you know

00:47:07.540 what it takes?

00:47:08.520 Do you know

00:47:09.040 what the

00:47:10.540 process is?

00:47:11.180 There's a

00:47:13.320 small group of

00:47:13.980 people who

00:47:14.400 are selected

00:47:14.860 as judges,

00:47:16.660 and then if

00:47:17.420 people submit

00:47:18.240 books, so

00:47:18.980 it's not

00:47:19.300 everything that

00:47:19.900 gets created

00:47:20.540 that year, you

00:47:21.080 have to

00:47:21.360 actually apply.

00:47:22.660 Most people

00:47:23.200 don't.

00:47:24.040 So a few

00:47:24.400 people will

00:47:24.840 apply, you

00:47:26.040 know, a

00:47:26.280 small percentage.

00:47:27.720 And then a

00:47:29.720 group of

00:47:30.100 people will

00:47:30.500 read the

00:47:30.780 books and

00:47:31.120 tell you which

00:47:31.520 ones they

00:47:31.820 like.

00:47:32.300 It's basically

00:47:33.040 a book club.

00:47:34.500 It's just a

00:47:35.040 book club of

00:47:36.180 some people who

00:47:36.820 like reading

00:47:37.280 books.

00:47:38.260 And then they

00:47:38.720 pick one that

00:47:39.340 they liked

00:47:39.720 better.

00:47:40.020 It literally

00:47:41.760 has no more

00:47:43.520 meaning or

00:47:44.240 depth than

00:47:45.480 your neighborhood

00:47:46.120 book club who

00:47:47.680 read several

00:47:48.400 books that

00:47:48.940 year as a

00:47:49.720 club, and

00:47:50.560 then at the

00:47:50.980 end they

00:47:51.280 pick one

00:47:51.640 they liked.

00:47:52.920 That's it.

00:47:54.240 There's nothing

00:47:55.240 to the Pulitzer

00:47:56.180 Prize except

00:47:57.960 that.

00:47:59.300 That's it.

00:48:00.280 And how many

00:48:00.940 book clubs would

00:48:01.620 have picked the

00:48:02.240 same books?

00:48:03.620 Not many,

00:48:04.940 because each

00:48:05.600 book club would

00:48:06.200 read a different

00:48:06.760 group of books,

00:48:08.180 just like the

00:48:09.620 Pulitzer group.

00:48:10.660 The Pulitzer

00:48:11.160 group isn't

00:48:11.700 reading all the

00:48:12.420 books, they're

00:48:13.920 reading a little

00:48:14.420 subset of books.

00:48:15.300 They can't read

00:48:15.720 every book and

00:48:16.700 then compare it

00:48:17.260 to every other

00:48:17.660 book.

00:48:18.520 So it's just a

00:48:19.500 ridiculous prize.

00:48:21.400 I mean it's

00:48:21.740 really ridiculous.

00:48:22.880 It's just somebody

00:48:23.440 liked the book,

00:48:24.120 that's it.

00:48:25.460 And once I

00:48:27.800 learned that,

00:48:29.480 then you

00:48:29.920 understand stuff

00:48:30.820 like how do

00:48:32.020 you get a

00:48:32.380 Pulitzer Prize for

00:48:33.540 reporting on

00:48:35.080 something that

00:48:35.540 didn't happen?

00:48:36.040 Well, some

00:48:37.260 people probably

00:48:38.980 didn't like

00:48:39.460 Trump.

00:48:40.760 That's why.

00:48:42.820 That's why.

00:48:44.200 Probably some

00:48:44.960 people who were

00:48:45.780 involved with the

00:48:47.160 Pulitzer that

00:48:48.300 year just didn't

00:48:48.960 like Trump.

00:48:50.000 And then they

00:48:50.560 saw Maggie

00:48:51.160 Heberman says

00:48:52.400 lots of bad

00:48:52.960 things about

00:48:53.440 Trump and

00:48:54.060 wrote about

00:48:54.920 things that

00:48:56.020 were bad for

00:48:56.520 Trump.

00:48:57.300 And they

00:48:57.660 thought, well

00:48:58.080 that's excellent

00:48:58.700 writing right

00:48:59.200 there.

00:49:00.100 That's some

00:49:00.780 high class

00:49:01.260 writing, said

00:49:02.500 the book club

00:49:03.240 that happened

00:49:04.400 to be called

00:49:04.860 the Pulitzer

00:49:05.280 Committee.

00:49:06.040 Here's a

00:49:15.480 question I

00:49:16.560 would like to

00:49:17.020 see being

00:49:18.160 asked, and

00:49:19.600 it's not

00:49:19.900 because I

00:49:20.320 care about

00:49:20.680 the answer.

00:49:22.620 I only care

00:49:23.960 about how

00:49:24.400 they would

00:49:24.700 answer it.

00:49:26.520 So people

00:49:28.360 on the

00:49:28.760 right were

00:49:30.280 often bedeviled,

00:49:31.620 I say,

00:49:32.260 bedeviled,

00:49:32.960 by Black

00:49:34.000 Lives Matter

00:49:34.480 because they

00:49:34.780 had such a

00:49:35.400 clever slogan

00:49:37.640 and they

00:49:38.620 would say,

00:49:39.480 do black

00:49:39.860 lives matter?

00:49:41.240 And then

00:49:41.780 the people

00:49:42.200 on the

00:49:42.460 right would

00:49:42.780 fall into

00:49:43.240 the trap.

00:49:44.640 Well, I

00:49:45.000 think all

00:49:45.420 lives matter,

00:49:46.680 thinking that

00:49:47.420 they're agreeing,

00:49:48.540 but in fact

00:49:49.340 it gets

00:49:50.020 framed as

00:49:50.720 racist.

00:49:51.800 Racist!

00:49:52.680 So it was

00:49:53.280 kind of a

00:49:53.660 really good

00:49:54.020 trap.

00:49:55.260 And so I

00:49:56.720 like a good

00:49:57.320 trap, and so I

00:49:58.460 wondered if you

00:49:58.920 could use it

00:49:59.420 this way,

00:50:00.540 what would

00:50:01.380 happen if

00:50:02.000 you asked

00:50:03.400 a Democrat

00:50:04.060 on air

00:50:04.700 if unborn

00:50:06.520 lives matter?

00:50:08.780 Now I

00:50:09.080 know the

00:50:09.340 real answer,

00:50:09.980 they'll say,

00:50:10.380 well, you

00:50:10.880 know, we're

00:50:11.980 talking about

00:50:12.500 a fetus,

00:50:13.140 blah, blah,

00:50:13.400 blah, it's

00:50:13.820 not a life.

00:50:15.520 But the

00:50:16.080 entire argument

00:50:16.760 is, you

00:50:17.560 know, the

00:50:17.900 whole Roe

00:50:18.420 versus Wade

00:50:18.760 thing is

00:50:19.100 just thinking

00:50:19.860 past the

00:50:20.360 sail, and

00:50:21.520 then arguing

00:50:22.260 after you've

00:50:23.260 thought past

00:50:23.700 the sail.

00:50:24.620 So this is

00:50:25.280 no different

00:50:25.660 than that.

00:50:26.280 I mean,

00:50:26.520 it's

00:50:26.760 Weasley.

00:50:28.500 But what

00:50:29.200 would they

00:50:29.460 say?

00:50:31.000 Because if

00:50:31.800 all lives

00:50:32.460 matter was

00:50:35.240 ever

00:50:35.500 inappropriate,

00:50:39.180 well, maybe

00:50:41.880 we know

00:50:42.300 why.

00:50:43.620 Maybe the

00:50:44.240 reason that

00:50:44.940 the left

00:50:45.980 could not

00:50:46.620 agree that

00:50:47.300 all lives

00:50:47.920 matter is

00:50:49.040 a good

00:50:49.300 slogan is

00:50:50.500 because there's

00:50:52.620 some ambiguity

00:50:53.280 about when

00:50:53.960 life begins.

00:50:55.480 So the

00:50:55.940 moment they

00:50:56.380 say all

00:50:56.880 lives matter,

00:50:57.880 they've kind

00:50:58.320 of agreed

00:50:58.800 that abortion

00:50:59.720 is murder.

00:51:01.700 So they

00:51:02.400 really don't

00:51:03.040 mean all

00:51:03.420 lives matter.

00:51:05.360 Literally,

00:51:06.400 they don't.

00:51:08.360 And, you

00:51:09.260 know, you

00:51:09.580 could say,

00:51:10.080 well, technically

00:51:11.080 they don't

00:51:11.760 think that's

00:51:12.240 life, so

00:51:12.800 you're lying,

00:51:14.020 Scott.

00:51:14.320 I get that.

00:51:16.040 But you

00:51:16.680 can see why

00:51:17.240 they would

00:51:17.640 want to

00:51:18.020 avoid accepting

00:51:19.660 the idea that

00:51:20.420 all lives

00:51:20.880 matter, because

00:51:21.880 it opens up

00:51:23.100 an argument

00:51:23.560 there.

00:51:24.580 So I

00:51:25.600 would just

00:51:25.880 love to

00:51:26.240 see what

00:51:27.000 somebody

00:51:27.460 would say

00:51:27.840 if they

00:51:28.820 were, you

00:51:29.800 know, really

00:51:30.480 in the

00:51:30.880 fight, and

00:51:32.020 they were

00:51:32.280 pro-abortion

00:51:33.200 rights, and

00:51:35.700 you said, do

00:51:36.440 unborn lives

00:51:37.420 matter?

00:51:41.480 What do you

00:51:42.180 think?

00:51:44.680 I think the

00:51:45.520 honest answer,

00:51:47.800 the honest

00:51:48.640 answer, and

00:51:50.160 by the way,

00:51:50.640 it's very

00:51:51.180 clever to

00:51:51.660 put unborn

00:51:52.280 in front

00:51:52.700 of life,

00:51:54.120 because that's

00:51:55.100 not the

00:51:55.960 same as

00:51:56.260 life.

00:51:59.400 Right?

00:51:59.860 It's kind

00:52:00.160 of clever.

00:52:01.000 An unborn

00:52:01.560 life is

00:52:04.120 not alive,

00:52:06.900 or it

00:52:07.880 could be.

00:52:08.300 I mean, you

00:52:08.620 could argue

00:52:09.020 that it's

00:52:09.260 life, but

00:52:09.940 the phrase

00:52:10.700 doesn't say

00:52:11.300 it's life,

00:52:12.100 because as

00:52:12.540 soon as you

00:52:12.840 put unborn

00:52:13.400 in front

00:52:13.800 of it,

00:52:14.740 you've

00:52:15.440 allowed some

00:52:16.100 ambiguity.

00:52:16.740 So I

00:52:19.440 think that's

00:52:19.760 a good way

00:52:20.080 to ask the

00:52:20.640 question, just

00:52:21.200 to see the

00:52:22.000 quality of

00:52:22.500 the answer.

00:52:23.280 Because the

00:52:24.140 Democrats have

00:52:24.820 a super

00:52:25.180 consistency

00:52:25.700 problem.

00:52:26.800 They're

00:52:27.040 staging

00:52:27.440 insurrections

00:52:28.440 at the same

00:52:29.560 time they're

00:52:30.000 doing hearings

00:52:30.500 about insurrections.

00:52:32.260 Am I right?

00:52:33.440 I mean, it

00:52:33.820 looks like

00:52:34.240 that.

00:52:35.340 In both

00:52:36.120 cases, they're

00:52:36.760 not insurrections.

00:52:38.720 But since

00:52:39.320 they decided

00:52:39.880 to call a

00:52:40.900 vigorous

00:52:42.180 protest in

00:52:43.160 which violence

00:52:43.900 is either

00:52:44.380 implied or

00:52:45.160 actually happens,

00:52:45.860 since they're

00:52:46.760 calling that

00:52:47.320 an insurrection,

00:52:48.440 it's hard to

00:52:49.960 explain the

00:52:50.560 fact that

00:52:50.960 you're doing

00:52:51.440 it at the

00:52:52.200 moment you're

00:52:53.680 disavowing it.

00:52:55.100 It's very,

00:52:55.820 very awkward

00:52:56.420 and inconvenient.

00:52:57.360 They have that

00:52:58.100 consistency problem

00:52:59.160 with their

00:52:59.440 message right

00:53:00.720 now.

00:53:01.780 That's a

00:53:02.220 problem.

00:53:03.180 Then they

00:53:03.660 also have

00:53:04.120 the...

00:53:05.160 Well, let's

00:53:07.160 stop with

00:53:07.720 that one.

00:53:10.780 All right.

00:53:12.840 How many

00:53:13.560 of you think

00:53:14.160 that the

00:53:15.120 world is

00:53:15.820 getting worse

00:53:16.660 because...

00:53:20.280 Well, I

00:53:20.900 won't say

00:53:21.220 because.

00:53:21.940 How many

00:53:22.300 of you think

00:53:22.820 that...

00:53:23.540 Let's just

00:53:24.000 say America.

00:53:25.180 How many

00:53:25.540 of you think

00:53:26.040 America is

00:53:26.720 getting worse

00:53:27.360 and that

00:53:29.920 we're on

00:53:31.180 some kind

00:53:31.500 of a

00:53:31.720 long-term

00:53:32.540 drop?

00:53:35.820 Now, let

00:53:36.360 me ask you

00:53:36.700 this.

00:53:37.460 If I did

00:53:38.060 a survey

00:53:40.080 and, oh,

00:53:41.140 this would be

00:53:41.600 interesting.

00:53:42.200 I don't know

00:53:42.500 if Rasmus and

00:53:43.660 Poll is watching

00:53:44.420 this, but

00:53:44.940 here's my

00:53:46.000 suggestion.

00:53:48.480 Ask people,

00:53:49.640 is America

00:53:50.460 improving or

00:53:51.880 going downhill?

00:53:53.900 But sort

00:53:55.740 them by people

00:53:56.740 who watch the

00:53:57.420 news and

00:53:57.880 people who

00:53:58.280 don't.

00:53:59.540 I'll bet you

00:54:00.080 the people who

00:54:00.620 watch the news

00:54:01.340 think we're

00:54:01.860 going to hell.

00:54:02.880 And the people

00:54:03.880 who are oblivious

00:54:04.740 to the news and

00:54:05.900 they're just sort

00:54:06.400 of looking

00:54:06.680 around, they

00:54:08.100 may have a

00:54:08.520 different opinion.

00:54:09.540 But I'll bet

00:54:10.880 it doesn't work

00:54:11.520 during this

00:54:12.580 current weird

00:54:13.440 recession pandemic

00:54:14.580 stuff.

00:54:15.400 At the moment,

00:54:16.080 it does look

00:54:16.520 like things are

00:54:17.000 getting worse.

00:54:18.440 I mean, you

00:54:19.740 go shopping,

00:54:21.100 you can't get

00:54:21.660 stuff.

00:54:22.540 You buy

00:54:22.980 something, it's

00:54:23.660 more expensive.

00:54:25.260 So in many

00:54:26.920 ways, it seems

00:54:27.540 like things are

00:54:28.080 getting worse.

00:54:29.980 But I don't

00:54:30.760 think so.

00:54:32.500 I think if you

00:54:33.320 were to look at

00:54:33.780 the macro

00:54:34.480 picture, I'll

00:54:36.000 bet almost

00:54:36.800 everything is

00:54:37.460 getting better.

00:54:39.120 Do you know

00:54:39.540 why?

00:54:40.520 Because it

00:54:40.960 always does.

00:54:43.140 Most things.

00:54:44.640 Right?

00:54:44.860 98% of things

00:54:46.120 are just getting

00:54:46.800 better all the

00:54:47.440 time.

00:54:48.820 Airline travel is

00:54:49.960 just always getting

00:54:50.600 worse.

00:54:51.200 I don't know.

00:54:51.720 It's an exception.

00:54:52.720 I mean, the

00:54:53.180 reason we pointed

00:54:53.840 out is that it's

00:54:54.540 rare.

00:54:56.960 Yeah.

00:54:58.000 And I think

00:54:58.920 that we're feeling

00:54:59.520 some serious

00:55:00.320 growth pains right

00:55:01.400 now.

00:55:02.380 I think that the

00:55:03.380 stress on society

00:55:04.520 that you see is

00:55:06.220 the stress that

00:55:06.920 you get when you

00:55:07.600 lift weights and

00:55:08.960 you push yourself

00:55:10.140 to that third

00:55:10.920 set.

00:55:12.120 I feel like that's

00:55:13.220 what we're

00:55:13.540 experiencing.

00:55:14.760 It definitely

00:55:15.320 hurts.

00:55:16.860 It definitely

00:55:17.420 hurts.

00:55:18.260 But it feels

00:55:18.840 like this is the

00:55:20.040 stress on the

00:55:20.980 system that you

00:55:22.300 get when you're

00:55:23.120 going to the

00:55:23.620 next level.

00:55:24.960 I feel like we're

00:55:25.960 ascending.

00:55:27.040 Somebody used that

00:55:27.800 word.

00:55:28.060 I'll borrow your

00:55:28.640 word.

00:55:29.400 I feel like

00:55:30.200 civilization is

00:55:31.440 ascending.

00:55:31.860 It doesn't

00:55:33.560 feel like it if

00:55:34.380 you watch the

00:55:34.880 news because the

00:55:35.560 news is designed

00:55:36.380 to look at the

00:55:37.540 bad stuff, which

00:55:38.820 is useful because

00:55:39.660 then you focus on

00:55:40.420 fixing that stuff.

00:55:42.620 But if you're

00:55:43.360 actually trying to

00:55:43.960 understand the

00:55:44.460 bigger picture, you

00:55:46.200 could be blinded by

00:55:47.440 the fact that talking

00:55:48.280 about the bad stuff

00:55:49.220 is more fun than

00:55:49.940 talking about the

00:55:50.560 good stuff.

00:55:53.000 Yeah, and somebody

00:55:54.520 is mentioning

00:55:55.060 Steven Pinker on

00:55:56.320 YouTube.

00:55:56.780 I think the context

00:56:00.620 of that is there

00:56:01.240 are a number of

00:56:01.640 people, including

00:56:02.220 him, who like to

00:56:03.780 point out how we

00:56:04.880 see doom and

00:56:05.940 gloom, but that's

00:56:07.160 not really what's

00:56:07.820 happening.

00:56:13.320 Airports using

00:56:14.120 bioscanning.

00:56:16.120 Well, have you

00:56:18.280 tried the clear

00:56:19.060 system yet?

00:56:20.160 Has anybody

00:56:20.500 done that?

00:56:21.200 I'm going to give

00:56:21.620 a little commercial

00:56:22.280 for it.

00:56:23.580 If you fly a lot,

00:56:24.740 there's a system,

00:56:25.480 at least in the

00:56:26.100 West Coast and

00:56:27.140 some other places.

00:56:28.700 So I don't know

00:56:29.220 how many airports

00:56:29.820 they're in, maybe

00:56:30.740 just half of the

00:56:33.120 big ones or

00:56:33.700 something like

00:56:34.160 that.

00:56:35.020 And you use a

00:56:37.940 retinal scan.

00:56:39.320 They take it

00:56:39.840 once, and then

00:56:40.760 once you're in

00:56:41.140 the system, you

00:56:42.060 can bypass the

00:56:43.800 security line by

00:56:45.340 scanning your

00:56:46.140 biometrics.

00:56:49.200 Now, it's really

00:56:50.180 awkward because

00:56:50.960 they don't really

00:56:51.760 have the regular

00:56:53.140 system and the

00:56:53.920 clear system

00:56:54.560 integrated in a

00:56:55.780 non-awkward

00:56:57.440 way.

00:56:58.100 So here's what

00:56:58.700 happens.

00:56:59.940 I walk up to the

00:57:01.020 clear system where

00:57:01.860 there's no line

00:57:02.660 because people,

00:57:04.040 it's like the

00:57:05.160 first days of

00:57:05.820 ATMs.

00:57:07.200 Grandma didn't

00:57:08.020 want to use the

00:57:08.540 ATM on day

00:57:09.240 one.

00:57:09.880 So the clear

00:57:10.720 line has nobody

00:57:11.420 there.

00:57:12.520 So you walk up

00:57:13.160 to the clear

00:57:13.580 line, they say

00:57:14.240 hello, and

00:57:15.240 there's always

00:57:15.560 somebody to help

00:57:16.060 you right there.

00:57:16.880 And you just

00:57:17.780 put your eyes in

00:57:18.500 it and scan it,

00:57:19.500 and then they do

00:57:20.560 this.

00:57:21.020 pass, they mark

00:57:22.640 your ticket, your

00:57:24.020 boarding pass that

00:57:25.600 you've scanned, that

00:57:27.360 you've been

00:57:27.640 approved, and then

00:57:28.700 they walk you to

00:57:29.860 the beginning of

00:57:30.660 the line.

00:57:33.880 Yeah, you do pay

00:57:34.800 for it.

00:57:35.240 It's an annual

00:57:36.200 payment.

00:57:37.060 I forget how much,

00:57:37.800 but it wasn't

00:57:38.560 crazy if you're

00:57:39.920 flying.

00:57:40.920 And they walk

00:57:41.800 you to the front

00:57:42.180 of the line.

00:57:43.700 And they do it

00:57:45.260 officially, so

00:57:46.420 they're doing it

00:57:47.120 with all the TSA

00:57:49.000 people.

00:57:49.860 But all the

00:57:51.280 people who have

00:57:52.940 to wait in line,

00:57:54.100 they don't know

00:57:54.880 why you're going

00:57:55.460 to the front

00:57:55.940 of the line.

00:57:57.040 They just know

00:57:57.640 what's happening.

00:57:58.640 So you end up

00:57:59.420 looking like the

00:58:00.060 celebrity.

00:58:01.140 So if you want

00:58:01.640 to have a

00:58:02.000 celebrity experience

00:58:02.940 for a very

00:58:03.960 reasonable price,

00:58:06.040 do the clear

00:58:06.880 system, and then

00:58:08.900 you'll be walked

00:58:09.580 up to the front

00:58:10.200 of the line,

00:58:10.600 right in front

00:58:11.020 of everybody,

00:58:12.040 and nobody

00:58:12.480 will know why.

00:58:13.420 They'll just

00:58:13.760 think, are you

00:58:14.980 famous or something?

00:58:16.180 Now in my case

00:58:17.080 it's weird because

00:58:17.800 I am famous.

00:58:19.700 So I'm being

00:58:21.240 treated like a

00:58:22.020 celebrity, but

00:58:23.520 not because I'm

00:58:24.300 a celebrity.

00:58:25.680 But people will

00:58:26.460 wonder if I am,

00:58:28.160 but it's irrelevant

00:58:29.140 that I am,

00:58:31.180 because that's not

00:58:32.060 why they're

00:58:32.380 treating me.

00:58:32.900 It's just sort

00:58:33.660 of a weird

00:58:34.060 situation.

00:58:38.760 All right.

00:58:39.880 Now, thank

00:58:42.080 you.

00:58:43.060 Thank you.

00:58:43.860 I told the

00:58:44.440 people on

00:58:44.820 Locals, because I

00:58:45.580 talked to them

00:58:46.060 before I go live

00:58:46.860 on YouTube,

00:58:47.240 I asked them

00:58:48.660 to remind me

00:58:49.520 because I had

00:58:51.140 an idea for

00:58:53.040 solving the

00:58:53.860 world's biggest

00:58:54.540 problem.

00:58:56.620 And it is

00:58:57.880 based on a

00:58:58.520 conversation I

00:58:59.320 had recently

00:59:00.060 with someone

00:59:02.000 who is having

00:59:03.260 some happiness

00:59:04.640 problems.

00:59:05.980 And then I

00:59:06.720 walked through a

00:59:07.260 number of

00:59:07.560 situations and I

00:59:08.440 said, okay,

00:59:09.140 are you happy

00:59:09.960 in this situation?

00:59:11.740 Yes.

00:59:12.100 Are you happy

00:59:13.700 in this

00:59:14.080 situation?

00:59:15.160 No.

00:59:16.420 And then I

00:59:17.260 looked for the

00:59:17.880 pattern.

00:59:18.540 And you know

00:59:18.800 what the

00:59:19.000 pattern was?

00:59:20.720 That when this

00:59:21.640 person was with

00:59:22.720 other people,

00:59:24.100 this person was

00:59:25.400 happy.

00:59:26.660 And when this

00:59:27.500 person was not

00:59:28.200 with other

00:59:28.580 people in any

00:59:29.220 kind of a

00:59:29.620 social situation,

00:59:31.380 be it family,

00:59:32.240 be it friends,

00:59:33.000 be it boyfriends,

00:59:34.540 girlfriends,

00:59:35.000 whatever, then

00:59:36.800 not happy.

00:59:38.680 That's it.

00:59:39.680 That's all it was.

00:59:40.600 It was that

00:59:41.920 period.

00:59:44.300 And how many

00:59:45.240 people have that

00:59:45.860 same situation?

00:59:47.320 How many people

00:59:47.980 are lonely in

00:59:49.960 2022?

00:59:50.780 It's probably the

00:59:51.640 biggest crippling

00:59:52.420 problem people

00:59:53.420 have.

00:59:55.140 Here's a little

00:59:55.980 eye-opener.

00:59:58.540 Ask yourself when

00:59:59.620 you've had a good

01:00:00.160 social day if it

01:00:02.180 was a good day.

01:00:03.400 The answer is

01:00:04.020 usually yes,

01:00:05.220 even if your

01:00:05.940 other problems

01:00:06.800 were about the

01:00:07.520 same.

01:00:08.700 Now take away

01:00:09.380 that good social

01:00:10.180 part.

01:00:10.600 for whatever

01:00:11.360 reason.

01:00:12.420 Now all of

01:00:13.040 your other

01:00:13.400 problems seem

01:00:13.980 pretty big,

01:00:14.500 don't they?

01:00:15.960 Because it's

01:00:16.780 your social life

01:00:17.560 that allows you

01:00:18.520 to live and

01:00:19.980 enjoy things and

01:00:21.900 not think about

01:00:22.520 your problems for

01:00:23.280 a little while.

01:00:24.240 As soon as that

01:00:24.900 social life is

01:00:25.560 gone, everything's

01:00:27.400 the biggest problem

01:00:28.040 in the world.

01:00:29.620 So, could you

01:00:31.780 solve the social

01:00:33.140 life problem?

01:00:35.400 And the answer

01:00:36.280 is yes.

01:00:39.060 Yes, you could.

01:00:39.980 All you need

01:00:41.480 is an app

01:00:42.340 that's scheduled

01:00:44.160 you to have

01:00:45.120 dinners.

01:00:47.380 It could be

01:00:47.860 a potluck at

01:00:50.640 your house,

01:00:51.160 but it also

01:00:51.560 could be eating

01:00:52.720 out at a

01:00:53.280 restaurant.

01:00:54.260 And you do

01:00:54.860 six people at a

01:00:56.720 table, because

01:00:58.160 that's the right

01:00:58.700 number.

01:01:00.780 At a restaurant

01:01:02.160 recently, I saw

01:01:03.840 what I took to be

01:01:05.220 three married

01:01:06.860 couples about the

01:01:07.980 same age and

01:01:08.820 had a lot in

01:01:09.720 common, and I've

01:01:11.380 never seen six

01:01:13.080 happier people at

01:01:14.900 a table.

01:01:15.920 Now, they were

01:01:16.320 having some drinks

01:01:17.100 and some good

01:01:17.700 food, but they

01:01:19.280 were laughing so

01:01:20.200 hard and having

01:01:21.500 such a good time

01:01:22.480 that I just

01:01:23.700 couldn't stand it.

01:01:24.380 It was like, I

01:01:25.560 just wanted to be

01:01:26.400 them.

01:01:26.940 Like, you just

01:01:27.520 wished you were

01:01:28.140 one of those six

01:01:28.780 people.

01:01:29.400 You really did.

01:01:30.160 And it looked

01:01:31.240 like they probably

01:01:31.720 just had known

01:01:32.260 each other a long

01:01:32.940 time and had a

01:01:33.520 lot in common.

01:01:34.600 And that's all

01:01:35.160 it was.

01:01:37.340 You should try

01:01:38.220 this.

01:01:39.920 Just have an

01:01:42.500 app that sets

01:01:43.460 you up with

01:01:44.080 people that you

01:01:44.700 don't ever have

01:01:45.240 to see again.

01:01:46.800 But you could.

01:01:48.600 You just have a,

01:01:49.560 you meet, six of

01:01:51.120 you have dinner

01:01:51.660 with drinks, and

01:01:52.940 maybe this is what

01:01:53.660 the app does.

01:01:54.460 It says, do you

01:01:55.040 like drinking?

01:01:56.700 Because if you say

01:01:57.440 yes, you're going

01:01:58.080 to want to be with

01:01:58.940 some other people

01:01:59.620 who like to have

01:02:00.140 a drink, like

01:02:01.040 to have a cocktail.

01:02:02.500 Now, imagine that

01:02:03.620 every weekend you

01:02:04.660 could do this.

01:02:06.140 Every weekend.

01:02:07.300 Or every night.

01:02:08.080 As much as you

01:02:08.640 wanted.

01:02:08.940 You just take out

01:02:09.540 the app.

01:02:10.380 You just look for

01:02:11.060 somebody else who's

01:02:12.720 looking for somebody

01:02:13.660 else to add to a

01:02:14.360 table.

01:02:14.940 And then you make

01:02:15.580 sure that it's

01:02:16.220 equal men and

01:02:17.860 women.

01:02:18.380 Or, because it's

01:02:19.920 an app and you

01:02:20.840 can filter it

01:02:21.860 better, you make

01:02:22.960 sure it's a table

01:02:23.680 full of LGBTQ,

01:02:25.360 if that's what you

01:02:25.940 want.

01:02:26.520 Or whatever.

01:02:27.320 But you're

01:02:27.880 filtering high-level

01:02:29.960 stuff instead of

01:02:31.840 compatibility.

01:02:33.820 In other words,

01:02:34.480 you're not filtering

01:02:35.100 for a date.

01:02:36.640 You're filtering for,

01:02:37.800 okay, high-level,

01:02:39.540 are you, let's say,

01:02:40.940 I'll just take an

01:02:41.480 example.

01:02:42.380 I'd like some people

01:02:43.200 who lean right and

01:02:44.920 like to have a

01:02:45.500 cocktail.

01:02:47.580 Right?

01:02:48.880 If you happen to be

01:02:50.540 in that category,

01:02:51.340 you lean right,

01:02:52.860 and you like to go to

01:02:53.740 dinner and have a

01:02:54.340 cocktail.

01:02:54.660 cocktail, and I

01:02:55.520 paired you up,

01:02:56.760 let's say you and

01:02:57.380 your partner, I'll

01:02:58.920 say you have a

01:02:59.440 mate, but even if

01:03:00.920 you're single, it

01:03:01.740 could be just five

01:03:02.480 other single people.

01:03:03.840 And that's the only

01:03:04.860 thing you know.

01:03:05.580 The only thing you

01:03:06.400 know is that you

01:03:07.160 lean right and you

01:03:08.220 like to have a

01:03:08.740 cocktail over a good

01:03:09.640 meal.

01:03:10.440 You don't think you'd

01:03:11.120 have fun?

01:03:12.860 You would.

01:03:14.320 You would.

01:03:15.340 Now, if you didn't

01:03:16.340 have a great time the

01:03:17.320 first day, well,

01:03:19.240 maybe the second

01:03:19.920 day.

01:03:20.920 Now, suppose you did

01:03:21.740 it every day for a

01:03:22.520 month.

01:03:22.780 You don't think you

01:03:24.260 would meet one

01:03:25.000 person that you'd

01:03:26.620 want to have lunch

01:03:27.780 with on your own

01:03:28.860 later.

01:03:29.540 Of course you would.

01:03:30.640 That's how it works.

01:03:31.820 All you really need

01:03:32.620 is contact with other

01:03:34.660 people.

01:03:35.560 The rest works out.

01:03:36.620 You'll always find a

01:03:37.300 friend if you have

01:03:37.860 enough contacts.

01:03:39.520 So the biggest

01:03:40.340 problem in the world

01:03:41.040 is loneliness and

01:03:42.620 poor social networking.

01:03:44.980 100% of that could

01:03:46.200 be solved by

01:03:47.280 diversification.

01:03:50.520 Same as

01:03:51.520 investment.

01:03:52.780 You need to be

01:03:54.480 exposed to an

01:03:56.120 ongoing flow of

01:03:57.760 different people such

01:03:59.900 that some of that

01:04:01.020 flow will match up

01:04:02.660 with what you need

01:04:03.620 and what you want

01:04:04.500 and then those

01:04:05.360 people become your

01:04:06.260 lasting situations.

01:04:08.220 So you need an

01:04:08.980 app that recognizes

01:04:10.620 that people need

01:04:11.580 flow.

01:04:13.040 Maybe that's the

01:04:14.120 name of the app.

01:04:15.340 Flow.

01:04:16.460 It's not about

01:04:17.320 finding your one

01:04:18.500 person to marry.

01:04:19.540 It's not about

01:04:20.020 sex.

01:04:20.420 It's about

01:04:21.660 finding a

01:04:22.980 continuous flow of

01:04:24.220 people who have

01:04:24.820 enough in common

01:04:25.600 with you or even

01:04:26.560 better.

01:04:27.460 One of your options

01:04:28.400 could be put me in a

01:04:29.840 table that are totally

01:04:30.740 different from me.

01:04:32.320 Like it's a grab bag.

01:04:34.480 I want to be at the

01:04:35.780 weirdest table I can get.

01:04:37.040 I want to, you know,

01:04:38.360 I want to, I want to,

01:04:38.740 I want a rabbi and a

01:04:40.480 punk rocker and a

01:04:42.040 murderer.

01:04:43.800 Like that's, you know,

01:04:44.760 and I want a couple of

01:04:45.780 drinks with that crowd.

01:04:47.960 I would love that

01:04:48.820 actually.

01:04:50.560 You'd put me with the

01:04:51.500 weirdest table and I'd

01:04:52.640 have the best time.

01:04:54.120 So you could call it

01:04:55.600 meetups.

01:04:56.440 Yeah, there's like a

01:04:57.500 meetup thing, but I

01:04:58.540 don't think that's quite

01:04:59.440 there.

01:05:00.480 I think there's an

01:05:01.580 interface business

01:05:03.640 model upgrade.

01:05:05.380 because, because the

01:05:08.340 meetups are usually

01:05:09.060 around a interest.

01:05:11.360 And I think, I think

01:05:12.760 that narrows it too

01:05:13.620 much.

01:05:14.660 I think it should be,

01:05:16.120 and also the meetups

01:05:17.280 end up being ossified,

01:05:18.980 like you're meeting the

01:05:20.060 same group or so each

01:05:21.380 time.

01:05:21.780 I think you want to

01:05:22.620 flow.

01:05:23.080 You want the most

01:05:23.780 number of people that

01:05:25.320 you can spend a little

01:05:26.280 bit of quality time with

01:05:27.500 and then good things

01:05:28.640 will happen after that.

01:05:30.340 All right.

01:05:31.180 Did I, did I, did I

01:05:33.420 deliver?

01:05:33.780 See, the problem with

01:05:36.340 loneliness is that

01:05:38.340 there's nobody's job to

01:05:39.700 fix it.

01:05:41.200 There's no, there's no,

01:05:43.960 there's no cabinet

01:05:44.920 position for social life.

01:05:47.760 And yet it's your

01:05:48.700 biggest problem.

01:05:50.340 Is that weird?

01:05:51.820 It's your biggest problem

01:05:52.980 for probably 75% of

01:05:55.600 people, it's your

01:05:55.960 biggest problem.

01:05:57.060 And there's no, nobody's

01:05:58.540 job is to help you with

01:05:59.660 it.

01:06:00.320 There's no, there's no

01:06:02.300 funding you can get.

01:06:04.600 I mean, I'm not even

01:06:05.660 aware of any kind of

01:06:06.460 training class to improve

01:06:08.740 your, there's not an

01:06:10.360 app, right?

01:06:14.520 Yeah, there's a

01:06:15.320 difference between

01:06:16.040 solitude and loneliness,

01:06:18.060 right?

01:06:18.800 But, but lonely,

01:06:21.520 remember loneliness isn't

01:06:22.720 the only thing we're

01:06:23.320 trying to solve.

01:06:25.080 There are lots of

01:06:25.880 people who have plenty

01:06:26.460 of people around and

01:06:27.180 that's just not a good

01:06:28.020 mix for them.

01:06:28.860 so it's not working

01:06:30.660 out.

01:06:31.480 So sometimes you just

01:06:32.340 need more, just more

01:06:33.620 people, more

01:06:34.200 diversification.

01:06:35.680 Do you know why I

01:06:36.300 think diversifying your

01:06:39.460 social life would

01:06:41.620 definitely work?

01:06:43.120 It's because diversification

01:06:44.540 works everywhere.

01:06:45.740 It's like the one thing

01:06:46.620 you can pretty much

01:06:48.180 depend on.

01:06:49.960 You know, in finance,

01:06:51.320 diversifying is the

01:06:52.500 thing you need to get

01:06:53.340 right.

01:06:53.620 It's the thing you

01:06:54.520 need to get right.

01:06:57.080 And I also recommend

01:07:00.300 diversifying your, your

01:07:03.340 boss.

01:07:05.180 Can you be happy if you

01:07:06.560 have one boss?

01:07:08.520 Yes, if your boss is

01:07:09.940 awesome.

01:07:11.080 But how often does that

01:07:11.980 happen?

01:07:12.840 If you have only one

01:07:13.860 boss, your whole life

01:07:15.280 depends on one person

01:07:16.420 who could be a little

01:07:17.040 bit nuts, often is.

01:07:18.660 So you want to

01:07:19.480 diversify your bosses.

01:07:20.800 That's what I've done.

01:07:21.540 Because in my, in my

01:07:23.880 model, my business

01:07:25.200 model, you're my boss.

01:07:27.720 Right?

01:07:28.460 Like I have hundreds of

01:07:30.480 bosses watching me right

01:07:31.620 now.

01:07:32.280 So if one of you fires

01:07:33.400 me, which happens every

01:07:34.560 day, one of you decides

01:07:36.620 I'm never watching that

01:07:37.920 again, or I'm not going

01:07:39.380 to, I'm not going to

01:07:40.120 subscribe anymore.

01:07:41.140 So every day I get

01:07:42.340 fired.

01:07:42.940 Every day.

01:07:44.420 But I'm diversified.

01:07:46.340 I have so many bosses

01:07:47.400 that a hundred can fire

01:07:49.580 me a day and, you

01:07:51.000 know, it doesn't

01:07:51.520 affect my happiness.

01:07:54.380 So diversify your

01:07:55.640 friends, diversify your

01:07:56.760 social life, diversify

01:07:58.260 your bosses, and

01:08:00.700 diversify your

01:08:01.660 investments.

01:08:04.480 Got it?

01:08:05.980 It always works.

01:08:07.800 It always works.

01:08:09.140 All right.

01:08:09.580 That's all for now.

01:08:10.560 Talk to you later,

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 25, 2022

Episode 1785 Scott Adams： All Of The Best Jokes About Roe v Wade Decision From The Supreme Court

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