Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1788 Scott Adams： January 6 Hearings Continue To Validate Protesters' Instincts About Our Systems

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00:01:01.320 Well, today we can play our normal guessing game on top of the content that you're about to hear.

00:01:08.940 The guessing game is, how high is Scott right now?

00:01:13.420 So you can deal with that on your own while I talk about the news.

00:01:17.860 All right? Talk among yourselves.

00:01:19.080 Number one, why is Twitter slandering me?

00:01:24.020 And by that, I don't mean people on Twitter.

00:01:26.760 I mean Twitter the company.

00:01:28.960 I actually got slandered by Twitter today.

00:01:31.820 Now, I think it's just an automatic program.

00:01:34.860 But what happens is I block the guy for mischaracterizing my opinion in public.

00:01:40.940 That's my first blocking criteria.

00:01:45.820 If you scream that my opinion is something crazy that it's not my opinion, and then you criticize me,

00:01:52.420 I'm not going to stop to correct you in your wrong thinking.

00:01:57.180 I'm just going to block you.

00:01:58.260 Because have you ever experienced somebody who mischaracterizes your opinion,

00:02:02.520 and then argues about it, and then you say, oh, hold on.

00:02:06.620 That's actually not my opinion.

00:02:09.000 You're mischaracterizing it.

00:02:10.880 So now when I've presented my opinion in its accurate form,

00:02:14.400 I would expect you now to modify your opinion to respond to my actual opinion,

00:02:21.280 not something that you're hallucinating.

00:02:23.480 What happens when you do that?

00:02:25.180 What happens when you correct somebody and say, no, no, no, that's actually not my opinion?

00:02:29.880 What do they do?

00:02:31.720 Do they say this?

00:02:33.620 They say, oh, wow.

00:02:35.700 Yeah, I guess I was wrong.

00:02:36.780 No, do you know what they do?

00:02:39.960 They tell you your fucking opinion.

00:02:43.160 Yes.

00:02:44.200 I'll say, you know, I think gas prices are too high.

00:02:48.080 And then somebody on Twitter will say, well, why did you say yesterday they're too low?

00:02:53.540 And I'll say, that never happened.

00:02:56.320 That never happened at all.

00:02:57.800 I've always thought they're too high.

00:02:59.880 And then what does the troll do?

00:03:03.000 Oh, yeah, you did.

00:03:04.440 Yeah, you did.

00:03:05.680 Oh, yeah, you did.

00:03:06.780 They'll actually tell you your opinion.

00:03:09.420 And they'll tell you you're wrong about your own opinion.

00:03:14.040 Meaning that you don't know your own opinion, but they do.

00:03:17.080 Not only do they know it, but it's stupid, and they're going to show you why.

00:03:20.640 So, no, you can't really fix somebody who's misstating your opinion.

00:03:25.040 You just have to get them out of your life as quickly as possible.

00:03:28.360 But when you do that, there's some kind of weird Twitter bug that presents a notice.

00:03:33.100 So, if people want to see, because I blocked him and then I retweeted, so that the rest of you can see why I blocked him.

00:03:42.180 The only person who wouldn't be able to see it, in my view of how things should work, should have been the person I blocked.

00:03:48.920 But the rest of you should have been able to see it fine.

00:03:52.800 But Twitter puts up a notice that says that I, it names me, limits who can see his tweets.

00:04:02.200 Do I?

00:04:02.780 Do I limit who can see my tweets?

00:04:05.940 I mean, other than blocking, which of course is built into the system.

00:04:09.560 I'm not really limiting who can see my tweets.

00:04:13.000 But the notice goes up there, and doesn't that make me look like an asshole?

00:04:17.480 Because if you, when I, when I've seen that notice on other people's accounts, which I have seen,

00:04:22.700 do you know what's the first thing I think?

00:04:24.700 You asshole.

00:04:25.440 Why, it's a public forum.

00:04:28.420 Why, why would you like, pre-block some big group of people you've never even interacted with?

00:04:34.500 Why would you do that?

00:04:35.580 And the answer is they didn't.

00:04:37.300 They didn't.

00:04:38.520 It looks like it, because Twitter puts that notice on it.

00:04:41.400 So now there's going to be a whole bunch of people who think that I limit who can see my tweets,

00:04:46.720 and what will be their first reaction about me?

00:04:50.340 I'm not an asshole.

00:04:52.040 I'm not an asshole.

00:04:52.700 What's the point of going on Twitter if you're going to limit who sees your tweets?

00:04:56.760 Right?

00:04:57.560 So I believe I've been slandered by Twitter.

00:04:59.500 I mean, accidentally, by a bug.

00:05:02.400 But they need to fix that.

00:05:05.460 Elon Musk, put that on your list, please, when you're not, you know, conquering other planets and stuff like that.

00:05:14.240 Sometimes there's a story in the news that's so perfect and delicious

00:05:19.180 that you just want to read it twice.

00:05:23.700 So I might just repeat myself, because sometimes it's just too delicious.

00:05:27.820 You have to say it twice.

00:05:29.600 And the story is about Green Day, the band, the front man named Billy Joe Armstrong.

00:05:35.600 And he told fans at a concert that because of the Roe vs. Wade decision,

00:05:41.040 he's going to renounce his American citizenship and move, I guess.

00:05:46.740 Now, here's the part that people pointed out.

00:05:49.700 And the Babylon Bee was the first one to make this observation, which is great, by the way.

00:05:54.660 You should follow the Babylon Bee.

00:05:56.220 If they were on Twitter, you could do it.

00:05:57.980 But they're still on Instagram, I guess.

00:05:59.680 And here's what's beautiful.

00:06:03.280 Green Day is famous for one song more than others.

00:06:07.640 And that song is American Idiot.

00:06:10.280 It's about how Americans basically were idiots and, you know, don't understand what's going on.

00:06:16.380 Now, here's my problem.

00:06:19.340 If you wrote the song, and you're famous for writing the song, American Idiot,

00:06:23.660 and you find that your situation here in the United States is no longer bearable,

00:06:28.980 which part should you change?

00:06:31.000 The American part or the idiot part?

00:06:33.680 Well, he's decided to change the American part.

00:06:36.380 If you don't want to be an American idiot, change the American part.

00:06:40.780 Be a Canadian idiot, I guess.

00:06:44.900 And so, you know, obviously that's not a characterization of his thinking.

00:06:50.520 But it is pretty funny.

00:06:52.940 It is pretty funny.

00:06:53.880 And it reminded me of a joke that I saw again.

00:06:58.180 So, this is a little inside tip on humor writing.

00:07:04.240 You probably didn't know this.

00:07:06.360 There are only 100 jokes.

00:07:08.660 Maybe fewer.

00:07:09.400 I don't know.

00:07:09.960 But there are no more than 100 jokes ever.

00:07:15.600 Everything is just a repeat of the same 100 jokes.

00:07:18.540 Or fewer.

00:07:19.480 It might be a few dozen jokes, actually.

00:07:21.800 But all you do is you change the names and the situations.

00:07:25.100 So, this American idiot joke is where the reason this works, you know, where I joke,

00:07:31.920 well, if your problem is you're an American idiot, why did you change the American part, right?

00:07:36.360 Because the joke is that there are two things that are possible, but your attention was driven to one of them.

00:07:44.100 That's how the joke works.

00:07:45.900 So, that's one of the joke forms, right?

00:07:47.560 Now, here's Norm MacDonald's joke.

00:07:49.820 And I want to see if you can find that it's part of that joke class, all right?

00:07:56.240 I may have ruined it by tipping you off about how it works.

00:08:00.380 So, Norm tells this joke, or he told it on Conan O'Brien.

00:08:04.120 He said, my wife, she went in a coma.

00:08:08.060 Now, I assume that wasn't true, just the story.

00:08:11.680 But Norm goes, yeah, my wife was in a coma.

00:08:14.460 Doctors couldn't figure out what to do, but they had a theory.

00:08:17.800 Doctor comes to me, he says, you know, I think there might be some amount of stimulation

00:08:22.480 that would maybe take her out of the coma.

00:08:25.400 And doctor says, you know, I think you should try oral sex.

00:08:29.340 And Norm says, oral sex?

00:08:31.700 He goes, yeah, I might take her out of the coma.

00:08:35.960 So, Norm says, all right.

00:08:38.060 So, Norm, you know, goes in the room with his wife who's in a coma.

00:08:41.980 Comes out a few minutes later and he says, doctor, you know, I tried.

00:08:46.600 I don't think it's working.

00:08:48.240 She's choking.

00:08:55.180 I'm just waiting here for a response.

00:08:56.940 Because, you know, you should be laughing at home.

00:09:00.520 You should be laughing at home.

00:09:01.700 That's what should be happening.

00:09:03.860 Now, you see, it's the same joke.

00:09:06.440 Because your mind is automatically taken to the more obvious that he would be performing it.

00:09:12.500 But the joke is that he didn't take the obvious.

00:09:15.000 He took the non-obvious solution.

00:09:16.980 Same with American Idiot.

00:09:18.600 The joke is, well, if you're an idiot, change the American part.

00:09:22.200 So, it's making you not see where the joke is going until that last moment.

00:09:28.720 That's what makes it work.

00:09:30.820 All right.

00:09:31.480 There was a study that was reproduced.

00:09:34.240 Which I guess is noteworthy because studies are often not reproducible.

00:09:37.960 But it was apparently there was a landmark psychology experiment from years ago, which they've now reproduced.

00:09:46.020 And they got the same result.

00:09:47.560 So, maybe it was valid.

00:09:48.840 And it was that you could easily induce people to believe that when they were young, they once got lost in a shopping mall as a child.

00:09:57.220 So, I think what they do is they have them talk about it or write about it or basically deal with the issue of being lost in a shopping mall.

00:10:07.560 And simply making people sort of deal with the topic causes 25% of them to have a false memory that they themselves were lost in a shopping mall.

00:10:19.580 Now, do you believe it's that easy?

00:10:24.640 Do you believe that you could give 25% of the public a false memory just by having them interact on a topic?

00:10:34.100 If you were a hypnotist, you would.

00:10:36.940 If you're a hypnotist, you'd say, yeah, that's just sort of normal business.

00:10:41.260 Right?

00:10:41.380 If you're not a hypnotist, it probably blows your mind.

00:10:44.960 It's like, what?

00:10:46.600 Okay.

00:10:47.220 You're getting ahead of me.

00:10:48.720 Yeah.

00:10:48.920 A hypnotist could probably give you 100% false memories.

00:10:52.180 You know, not 100%, but it'd be closer to 100%.

00:10:55.940 Yeah, a hypnotist could give you all the false memories you want.

00:11:00.240 You want some false memories?

00:11:02.080 I can give you some.

00:11:04.080 I mean, I literally have that skill.

00:11:05.880 I could give you a false memory.

00:11:08.180 Is that weird?

00:11:10.120 To know that I have that ability, I could give you a false memory, like intentionally.

00:11:15.260 Yeah.

00:11:15.720 Yeah, I could do that.

00:11:16.820 In fact, I've done it.

00:11:17.720 I've actually done it extensively, intentionally given people false memories.

00:11:24.420 Yep, I've done that.

00:11:25.940 It was in the context of hypnosis when I was reverting somebody to their prior life.

00:11:33.420 Prior lives aren't real.

00:11:35.720 But they remembered them.

00:11:37.620 Thanks to me.

00:11:39.120 Thanks to me, I caused them a bunch of false memories about lives they never lent.

00:11:43.960 So, yeah, it's real easy to give somebody a false memory.

00:11:50.260 But I was interested in the percentage of people who were easily triggered into the false memory.

00:11:56.580 It was exactly 25.

00:11:58.560 So 25% of people have such little control over their own mind

00:12:03.920 that they can be triggered into believing something isn't true just by talking about it.

00:12:11.020 Just by talking about it.

00:12:12.320 That's all it takes.

00:12:14.080 25%.

00:12:14.520 25%.

00:12:15.880 Exactly a quarter.

00:12:20.220 25%.

00:12:20.660 That's an inside joke for those of you who are new.

00:12:25.400 All right.

00:12:26.160 Rasmussen has a poll.

00:12:27.220 It says 52% of people who answered the poll in America are pro-choice.

00:12:33.520 Is that about what you thought?

00:12:36.040 I'm not sure I knew what the number was.

00:12:37.820 I thought it was roughly kind of even.

00:12:40.380 But did you know 52% are pro-choice?

00:12:43.940 There are slightly more people who are opposed to the Roe vs. Wade decision, I guess.

00:12:51.340 Somebody says people think it's bigger.

00:12:54.120 Well, and then further, Rasmussen poll says that 50% of those polled approve of the Supreme Court decision.

00:13:00.720 So that sounds about right, right?

00:13:04.380 Half of the people are pro-choice.

00:13:06.120 That means half of the people are the opposite.

00:13:09.440 And so half of the people agreed with the Supreme Court.

00:13:12.080 So it's good to know what those numbers are.

00:13:16.900 Now, have you been somewhat puzzled by the fact that I'm not, let's see, I'm not trying to persuade you which is the right way to go on abortion?

00:13:28.640 I've told you why.

00:13:29.560 It's because I have a penis.

00:13:30.680 And I think women should just handle this and let us know what they did.

00:13:33.660 Handle it both personally, but also handle it in terms of what the law should be, the law of the land.

00:13:40.580 I just think women should take the lead on that.

00:13:43.620 And while I retain all of my constitutional rights, I mean, I still can vote, still can speak in public anytime I want about it, if I want.

00:13:53.240 I just choose to be, you know, less important on this topic.

00:13:59.200 But part of the reason that I choose that is that it's a jump ball.

00:14:03.080 The United States is 50-50-ish.

00:14:06.840 And I don't know, we live in sort of a, you know, republic with, you know, democratic processes.

00:14:14.820 And it's hard for me to get worked up over something that half of the country wants.

00:14:19.600 Like, even if I'm on the other side.

00:14:24.900 Do you ever feel that?

00:14:26.680 You could have a strong feeling about it, but you say, you know, I live in a country where half of the people, half, want the other thing.

00:14:35.140 And it really is subjective.

00:14:37.300 You know, we like to argue about it like it's, you know, it's science.

00:14:40.840 You know, life starts here, so I'm right.

00:14:42.680 Or life doesn't start here, so I'm right.

00:14:45.580 But it really is subjective.

00:14:47.080 It's how you feel about it.

00:14:48.200 And if half of the country feels strongly the other way, I don't know if ethically or morally you really have a strong impulse to argue that.

00:14:58.160 Because it's, either way, half the people get what they want.

00:15:02.740 So I realize this is more life and death, so it's a little different.

00:15:05.900 But I just generally am not too worked up over things that the public is mixed about.

00:15:13.000 The stuff that gets me mad is if 80% of the public wants something that they understand, and the government won't give it to them.

00:15:22.060 Now, that makes me crazy.

00:15:23.260 So, you know, a lot of the mask mandate stuff, that was where the government was not giving the people what they wanted, and that makes me crazy.

00:15:33.600 All right, here's some race baiting from CNN in an opinion piece by Nicole Terry Ellis.

00:15:41.620 And the title for the piece was, As Inflation Soars, Black Americans Bear the Brunt of Rising Grocery, Gas, and Housing Prices.

00:15:51.580 Now, why is it that black people are bearing the brunt of inflation?

00:15:58.580 Why do black people get hit by inflation extra bad?

00:16:04.240 The reason given is because they start, on average, at a lower income level, and the lower income levels are the people getting hit.

00:16:12.940 But isn't this only a story about low income?

00:16:17.120 Well, there was no, there was nothing that sort of tied it back to race, except if you want to say that systemic racism caused black people to have lower incomes on average, which is true.

00:16:31.720 But, and especially because of the school systems.

00:16:36.620 But you really have to try pretty hard to make this a race story, don't you?

00:16:40.580 If you start with the assumption that there are more black people as a percentage who have low economic situation, you've kind of already agreed that everything that happens bad to poor people is going to hit them worse.

00:16:55.780 I'm not sure that's a story.

00:16:58.000 Shouldn't the story be inflation is really bad for poor people?

00:17:03.720 Like, why do white poor people just get left out of the mix?

00:17:07.860 Because I'm pretty sure they're bearing the brunt of rising prices the same as everybody else.

00:17:12.980 To me, this is like, this is just CNN, in my opinion, and this is sort of my advice, feedback to their new leader who wants them to be less provocative and more neutral about the news.

00:17:27.340 I think this is a failure.

00:17:29.160 This is a failure, I think, for CNN to be on their mission to be more objective.

00:17:34.920 This is just propaganda narrative.

00:17:36.720 And I understand it's opinion, but when CNN chooses an opinion to put on their site, they're saying it has merit.

00:17:44.940 And this doesn't.

00:17:45.900 It doesn't have merit.

00:17:46.800 It's a true fact.

00:17:48.220 It's a true fact that it's hitting black people harder, but it's the wrong frame.

00:17:52.600 The frame is that it hits poor people harder.

00:17:54.980 I just don't get how this is about black people.

00:17:58.320 You just have to really push pretty hard to make this racial.

00:18:01.320 All right.

00:18:03.340 Do you think it's consistent that you can say you don't like the January 6th protests, the violent part of it, you don't like it, and at the same time you don't like the January 6th hearings?

00:18:19.360 Could that be consistent?

00:18:22.520 It is, right?

00:18:24.140 You can hate both of them.

00:18:26.480 Why not?

00:18:27.960 And I had a few observations about this.

00:18:31.440 Number one, the protesters on January 6th, I characterize them this way.

00:18:38.340 They smelled something fishy, and they wanted the government to pause just long enough to check out the fishy part before certifying.

00:18:50.040 Now, of course, there were lots of people there, so not every person wanted the same thing.

00:18:54.780 Some people were just bad people who wanted violence and probably did want to hurt people, some of them.

00:19:01.220 But they weren't the majority.

00:19:02.580 The majority was there because their instincts, and I'm going to call it instincts, were that the election looked obviously rigged, like obviously.

00:19:13.600 Now, I'm not saying it was rigged, because I haven't seen evidence to support that.

00:19:18.140 But my instinct had some of the same, you know, inklings, meaning I thought, I don't know, there's something about this that isn't quite registering as copacetic, which doesn't mean it isn't.

00:19:37.480 It just means that what I expected didn't happen.

00:19:40.360 So anytime your expectations are violated, the first thing you do is, who's up to something?

00:19:45.180 It doesn't mean somebody's up to something.

00:19:48.140 It just means it could be.

00:19:51.200 So here's what I think happened ironically.

00:19:55.360 I believe that the January 6th protesters were reacting to the fact that it feels like our systems are rigged.

00:20:03.220 Does that sound like a fair characterization?

00:20:05.840 I'll say it again.

00:20:07.680 As an average, you know, now we're accepting that some members were just violent, crazy people.

00:20:13.980 I'm not discounting that.

00:20:15.440 They have to be dealt with.

00:20:16.360 But the general protesters, wouldn't you say that they had an instinct that something was wrong, and that they were there to protect the republic?

00:20:27.140 Don't you think that was their mindset?

00:20:29.060 Their instinct was something wrong, and they went there to protect the republic.

00:20:33.260 Now, I've said this before, but I will die on this hill.

00:20:37.140 I will fucking die on this hill.

00:20:38.920 There's no Republican who would protest a fair election.

00:20:44.580 I will die on the hill.

00:20:46.400 You can shoot me a thousand times and torture me.

00:20:49.540 I'm not going to change that opinion.

00:20:51.860 No fucking Republican protests a fair election.

00:20:56.740 It's not who they are, right?

00:21:01.300 It's not who they are.

00:21:02.540 It's literally the fucking opposite of who they are.

00:21:05.140 And it makes me mad to watch the Democrats paint the Republicans as the opposite of who they are.

00:21:13.240 The opposite.

00:21:13.960 Now, it would be one thing to say, oh, you robbed a bank or something, like some crazy allegation.

00:21:21.760 But to say somebody is the opposite of who they are, that gets right down to your DNA-level insult, doesn't it?

00:21:29.540 Like, it's one thing to say, oh, I think you stole an apple from the store.

00:21:34.480 It's like, no, I didn't.

00:21:35.700 I mean, that would be bad to be accused of that.

00:21:37.700 But it's really bad, let's say, if you were a, let's say you'd worked all your life to solve some problem,

00:21:46.660 and then somebody says you're the cause of the problem.

00:21:48.860 And that would really hurt, wouldn't it?

00:21:51.040 It's like the worst thing you could say to somebody is that you're the opposite of who you are.

00:21:56.680 Why did the trans community get all worked up when people mischaracterize them?

00:22:02.220 Because when you're talking about mischaracterizing somebody's, you know, gender, I don't know,

00:22:07.060 what words you want to put on it, you're talking about their basic being, right?

00:22:13.540 So do you understand why the trans community is, let's say, famously reactive if they get mocked or in any way disrespected?

00:22:26.480 You can see it, right?

00:22:28.320 Because what you're talking about is really just the most basic part of who they think they are.

00:22:33.500 Now, you could argue that they shouldn't think that, but it's not up to you.

00:22:38.100 So when you tell a Republican that they're not a Republican, and you put them in jail for not being Republican enough,

00:22:44.680 or, you know, that's an exaggeration, but you demonize them for not being Republican enough,

00:22:50.980 Republicans would protect the system and bolster it.

00:22:54.540 That's what they were trying to do.

00:22:56.200 And they got characterized as people destroying the system they were trying to protect.

00:22:59.800 Like, that's just, that's like psychological, I don't know, it's almost like a psychological crime

00:23:06.680 to define somebody as the opposite of who they are.

00:23:10.520 Just like trans, right?

00:23:12.560 I usually don't like analogies, but I just fell in love with this one as I was doing it.

00:23:17.300 You can understand why the trans community is so active.

00:23:20.680 Don't doubt, and by the way, I'm not saying who's right or wrong.

00:23:26.420 I'm just saying that if you're trans, it's your fucking decision who you are.

00:23:31.240 It's your decision, right?

00:23:33.900 It's your decision.

00:23:35.280 And yes, yes, we on the sidelines can say, I think you made the wrong decision.

00:23:40.580 Because everybody gets an opinion, right?

00:23:43.260 But it's not my decision.

00:23:45.240 It's their decision.

00:23:46.360 And let me divert for a while.

00:23:50.980 I've seen some critics say that, especially with children making decisions early on,

00:23:57.280 that they're making the wrong decisions and it's destroying their lives.

00:24:01.920 I would agree that there must be cases where people made the wrong decision.

00:24:08.180 Everybody on the same page?

00:24:09.720 There must be.

00:24:10.460 There must be cases where people made the wrong decision.

00:24:13.620 And wouldn't we, as good people, wish that that had not happened?

00:24:19.300 Probably.

00:24:20.620 And also, wouldn't we, as good people, if we saw it developing,

00:24:24.600 wouldn't we want to nip it in the bud so that somebody doesn't hurt themselves unnecessarily?

00:24:28.940 Of course we would, because we're good people.

00:24:31.860 Unfortunately, that whole thing about us being good people

00:24:35.900 isn't the ruling ethical, moral principle in this country.

00:24:43.300 The higher principle is, it's not up to you.

00:24:46.820 It's not up to you.

00:24:48.280 That's the higher principle.

00:24:49.680 And I appreciate that higher principle.

00:24:52.160 And I'm going to give you some extra context.

00:24:55.640 Forget about the trans stuff.

00:24:58.380 Every kid is making decisions that are destroying their lives.

00:25:02.220 They're all doing it.

00:25:03.120 And the adults do.

00:25:05.980 And to identify the trans community as, like, the special ones making bad decisions,

00:25:13.740 to me, that doesn't feel right.

00:25:16.980 Because what I see is everybody making bad decisions all the time.

00:25:20.900 All the time.

00:25:22.240 Every time some kid, you know, does drugs.

00:25:24.860 Every time some parent, you know, manages, wrong.

00:25:29.320 There are just tons and tons of entirely life-destroying decisions that people are making.

00:25:36.020 Let me give you an example.

00:25:38.280 There was once a young person who was trying to decide whether to take French or Spanish in school.

00:25:48.660 I said, well, one of them is really, really useful, Spanish.

00:25:52.580 One of them is a complete waste of time, French.

00:25:55.900 What did the young person choose?

00:25:59.440 French.

00:26:00.640 French.

00:26:01.640 And did the young person regret it greatly later?

00:26:04.680 Yes.

00:26:05.620 Because Spanish would have been really useful.

00:26:08.660 French?

00:26:09.380 Complete waste of time.

00:26:11.140 So, yeah.

00:26:11.920 Every single day, I'm watching people, young people, children,

00:26:16.520 making decisions that are majorly impacting their future.

00:26:20.180 Some people are, well, I'll take it out of the analogy phase, and that's a good point.

00:26:25.980 Somebody said analogies are useless.

00:26:28.300 I can do this without the analogy.

00:26:31.440 If people make bad decisions, you have to let them.

00:26:34.940 That's our system.

00:26:36.680 And the trans issue, those are, if you made it wrong, like, if you made it wrong, would be really bad.

00:26:43.780 But there's a lot of wrong decision-making that we don't go after, because we appreciate the freedom over that.

00:26:51.280 So, I'll just put it in context.

00:26:55.760 And somehow I completely missed the point I was going to make.

00:27:00.860 Let me get back to the point.

00:27:03.640 In my opinion, the January 6th hearings validate the instincts of the protesters.

00:27:08.920 The protesters believed that the system was rigged, and that it was rigged right in front of them, right in an obvious way,

00:27:22.720 and that the system said to them, let's see what you do about that.

00:27:28.820 Let's see you do anything about it.

00:27:30.400 We're going to do this right to you, right in front of you.

00:27:34.600 And then there's nothing you can do about it.

00:27:36.640 Now, again, I'm not saying the election was rigged.

00:27:42.100 I'm also not saying it was fair.

00:27:44.140 How would I know?

00:27:45.600 How would I know?

00:27:46.460 I mean, it would be ridiculous for me to have an opinion.

00:27:48.640 I couldn't know either way.

00:27:51.280 But I do know that the January 6th hearings are so illegitimate,

00:27:57.140 and they're being presented to us as the primary mechanism of Congress.

00:28:06.320 So Congress is saying this is the system that we choose to use to address this topic.

00:28:12.440 And we're watching right in front of us a non-creditable bullshit propaganda system,

00:28:20.040 largely with one side presented and the other not.

00:28:23.920 Now, of course, the left has been so brainwashed that they say,

00:28:28.260 well, there could be two sides if the Republicans would just nominate some reasonable people to be on the committee.

00:28:34.480 No, it doesn't work that way.

00:28:36.460 The Democrats don't get to decide who is on the team for the Republicans.

00:28:41.360 But they decided they would decide that because that's the system.

00:28:45.400 And so the Republicans said, all right, we're basically not going to play,

00:28:48.720 except for the two rhinos that don't count.

00:28:52.220 And so we have a system that is completely corrupt,

00:28:56.580 completely propaganda, completely bad for the country,

00:29:00.560 completely bullshit, and they're doing it right in front of us.

00:29:06.280 Right in front of you.

00:29:07.980 They're not even hiding it.

00:29:09.280 They're not hiding any of it.

00:29:13.060 This is clearly a political process, complete bullshit.

00:29:18.380 Now, when I say it's complete bullshit, somebody later will say,

00:29:22.040 Scott is defending the violent people who tried to overthrow the country.

00:29:26.620 No, I'm not.

00:29:28.020 No, I'm not.

00:29:29.180 And fuck you for saying that, whoever you are, because you'll say it later.

00:29:33.000 I'm not.

00:29:34.380 Every single Republican I've ever talked to said,

00:29:37.720 prosecute the lawbreakers.

00:29:39.700 Everyone.

00:29:41.020 To a person.

00:29:42.300 Privately, publicly, whispered, shouted, in every form,

00:29:48.040 every Republican, everyone, every Republican,

00:29:52.640 disavows the violence that happened that day.

00:29:54.520 Everyone.

00:29:56.100 Everyone.

00:29:57.060 That I've talked to.

00:29:57.900 Have you met any that had a different opinion?

00:30:00.840 Right.

00:30:00.980 So, to me, the January 6 hearings have proven that the protesters have good instincts,

00:30:08.140 that they can identify a corrupt process and call it out,

00:30:14.140 because the corrupt processes are no longer hidden from our senses.

00:30:18.660 They do it right in front of us now.

00:30:21.660 And so, the January 6 people thought, well, here's another example.

00:30:26.660 If we live in a world where they do it right in front of you, you know, the Russia collusion thing,

00:30:31.080 they did it right in front of us.

00:30:34.000 That wasn't some, like, hidden thing behind the screen.

00:30:37.620 That was right in front of you.

00:30:39.160 And you knew it was bullshit from the start, right?

00:30:42.560 So, if you live in a world where you get used to the system lying to you, being corrupt,

00:30:51.440 and not trying to hide it, that's critical.

00:30:54.960 Not trying to hide it.

00:30:56.540 This is not, the January 6 hearings are not hidden.

00:30:59.080 It's public by design, and it's propaganda by design.

00:31:02.680 Anybody can see it.

00:31:03.680 So, I think that the January 6 hearings have just proven that the protesters' instincts were good.

00:31:10.720 Different from saying that they were right about the election being rigged.

00:31:15.900 There's no evidence that I've seen of that.

00:31:18.580 But their instinct, when they saw something that looked to them to be wrong,

00:31:24.600 I think their instincts were accurate.

00:31:27.180 Not correct, perhaps.

00:31:29.500 They might have been wrong.

00:31:30.200 But their instincts were at least tuned to recognize bullshit.

00:31:35.020 They saw bullshit.

00:31:37.120 Maybe they were wrong.

00:31:38.540 Maybe.

00:31:39.440 And they acted on it.

00:31:41.240 Like patriots, trying to protect the system.

00:31:44.420 The protesters were more like white blood cells trying to attack a cancer.

00:31:51.400 So, you know, we've all fell into the narrative that it was, you know,

00:31:55.920 violent, bad people trying to overthrow the government,

00:31:58.620 or at least much of the country fell into that.

00:32:01.800 But I think it would be more accurate to say it was more like white blood cells

00:32:06.280 recognize some cancer, and they just surrounded it.

00:32:10.900 And there was some other stuff that got hurt in the process,

00:32:14.580 which we all regret.

00:32:16.240 That's the whole point of the hearings, to make sure it doesn't get bigger next time.

00:32:23.060 Really?

00:32:24.360 You think that's the whole point?

00:32:26.700 I don't think so.

00:32:28.140 I think the whole point of the hearings was to prevent Trump from getting elected.

00:32:32.940 I was having a little Twitter exchange with Barry Rittenholz on Twitter.

00:32:42.180 Now, what's interesting about this is that, first of all, I like Barry.

00:32:48.100 He's interviewed me, so I've got to talk to him in public.

00:32:52.340 And when you talk to people in public, often they're completely reasonable.

00:32:55.840 And he was a very nice, very generous, nice guy.

00:33:01.180 So I have only good things to say about him personally.

00:33:05.180 But we disagree on this January 6th thing.

00:33:08.020 And here's an exchange, picked out of several, that sums it up.

00:33:13.420 So I tweeted this.

00:33:14.400 I said, you can hate the January 6th protest violence

00:33:16.940 and also hate the January 6th hearings.

00:33:20.300 They are approximately equally fucked up.

00:33:22.960 So that was my tweet.

00:33:23.780 Barry, he says, that's where we clearly disagree.

00:33:27.420 Now, he was referring to a larger conversation we had,

00:33:30.140 if you want to see it in context.

00:33:32.220 It would be on my Twitter feed today.

00:33:34.260 He says, I despise those who try to prevent

00:33:37.020 the peaceful transition of power through violence,

00:33:40.040 and I applaud those who are investigating them.

00:33:43.820 What persuasion principle is Barry using,

00:33:48.460 either intentionally or unintentionally?

00:33:50.120 It's hard to know.

00:33:51.380 I'll read it again.

00:33:51.980 Tell me what persuasion principle is in this.

00:33:54.840 I despise those who try to prevent

00:33:56.860 the peaceful transition of power through violence,

00:33:59.800 and I applaud those who are investigating them.

00:34:03.180 Right.

00:34:03.600 Thinking past the sale.

00:34:06.400 Neither of these things are in question.

00:34:10.760 There's no Republican who's questioning

00:34:13.200 whether violent criminals should be investigated and prosecuted.

00:34:18.500 Nobody.

00:34:18.800 There's no conversation about that.

00:34:21.200 How about the conversation of whether there should be

00:34:23.900 a peaceful transition of power if everything works well?

00:34:27.960 There's no argument about that.

00:34:30.080 That's not even what we're talking about.

00:34:32.260 How about should you investigate any crimes or bad behavior?

00:34:38.840 Yes.

00:34:40.060 Nobody's talking about that.

00:34:41.280 So Barry wants you to think that he's trying to make you think past the sale.

00:34:45.840 Again, I don't know if it's intentional or not.

00:34:49.140 But I don't see anybody trying to prevent a peaceful transition of power,

00:34:55.420 and I don't see anything like a valid investigation.

00:34:59.300 I see a one-sided hearing that's meant to be a political event,

00:35:03.520 and I see some protesters who tried to make sure

00:35:08.800 that the transfer of power was done correctly.

00:35:12.760 That's what I see.

00:35:14.120 So he's made you think past the most important questions

00:35:16.820 of why they were there and what's going on

00:35:19.260 and how is this committee formed,

00:35:21.580 and trying to make you think that you're talking about the principle

00:35:24.860 of should you be against crime?

00:35:28.360 Is there anybody here who thinks

00:35:30.220 that maybe we should be, like, letting criminals go?

00:35:35.480 I mean, and I look at this and I think...

00:35:38.580 And here's the part that's throwing me.

00:35:40.540 Because I've met Barry Ritholtz,

00:35:45.500 I can tell you for sure that he's smart,

00:35:49.340 and he wouldn't say something in public

00:35:51.660 like if he didn't think it was a valid thing to say.

00:35:56.260 So when you see things like this,

00:35:58.500 you wonder, is this cognitive dissonance?

00:36:01.580 Because generally speaking, if somebody's smart,

00:36:03.900 but what they're saying sounds a little absurd,

00:36:06.660 that's usually what it is.

00:36:08.460 You can't know for sure.

00:36:12.480 Let's not play that game.

00:36:13.860 There was definitely violence.

00:36:16.920 Oh, man.

00:36:18.580 Oh, man.

00:36:21.660 Oh, man.

00:36:25.180 I'm trying not to snap,

00:36:27.620 but I feel like this is going to be a losing battle.

00:36:32.080 Okay, I'm going to snap.

00:36:34.220 We all fucking know there was violence.

00:36:37.840 We all fucking know there was violence.

00:36:41.160 Nobody's in favor of it.

00:36:43.240 Is that unclear?

00:36:45.860 Is there somebody here

00:36:47.480 who thinks that we're excusing the violence?

00:36:50.980 Anybody?

00:36:52.180 Does anybody want to come up

00:36:53.500 and just admit you're so fucking thick

00:36:56.500 that you think somebody's excusing the violence

00:36:58.660 and that we think the government

00:37:00.200 should be overthrown or something?

00:37:02.240 What is wrong with you?

00:37:05.320 What the fuck is wrong with you?

00:37:07.060 Really, seriously.

00:37:13.440 How's the side game going?

00:37:14.860 Have you decided how high I am today?

00:37:16.480 What's the over-under on that?

00:37:26.760 Quite high?

00:37:28.660 A little high?

00:37:30.880 All right.

00:37:31.320 Well, you can't tell, can you?

00:37:33.020 Can't tell?

00:37:34.200 Huh?

00:37:34.980 What's that mean?

00:37:36.640 What's it mean if you can't tell?

00:37:37.860 Well, all right.

00:37:41.840 On the positive side,

00:37:44.220 well, no, let's not get to the positive side yet.

00:37:46.140 So Hillary Clinton says that,

00:37:49.660 she was talking about Justice Thomas,

00:37:53.140 and she says,

00:37:54.520 I went to law school with Justice Thomas.

00:37:56.780 He's been a person of grievance

00:37:58.300 for as long as I have known him.

00:38:00.280 Resentment, grievance, anger,

00:38:03.060 blah, blah, blah.

00:38:03.880 And I thought to myself,

00:38:05.640 and, you know,

00:38:06.980 somebody said this on Twitter

00:38:08.420 that I retweeted,

00:38:10.300 that if you don't understand

00:38:12.300 what narcissistic projection is,

00:38:15.180 you don't understand the last several years.

00:38:19.360 And narcissistic projection

00:38:21.780 is something that you almost can't understand

00:38:24.180 until it happens to you.

00:38:25.960 Has anybody had it happen to them

00:38:29.440 where there was a narcissist

00:38:31.760 who had accused them of a weird crime

00:38:34.380 that you had never done,

00:38:37.160 but they had?

00:38:39.880 So I'm seeing lots of yeses.

00:38:42.360 Now, it does seem to me,

00:38:43.580 and I'd love to see

00:38:44.660 if there's any kind of actual...

00:38:48.300 Because I'll bet there is.

00:38:49.620 I'll bet you could actually find some science

00:38:51.600 to show that at least the most progressive,

00:38:54.080 crazy parts of the left are narcissists.

00:38:58.180 What do you think?

00:39:00.400 Because Hillary clearly is,

00:39:03.220 if you...

00:39:04.140 Well, I'm no expert,

00:39:05.940 so I can't...

00:39:07.000 You know, I can't...

00:39:08.040 I can't give her a diagnosis.

00:39:10.240 But I would say that the things

00:39:12.260 you would look for in a narcissist

00:39:13.740 would be that you're doing things

00:39:15.840 and then blaming other people for those things.

00:39:18.400 And she does that.

00:39:20.720 So, you know,

00:39:21.520 we can at least observe directly

00:39:23.520 some of the qualities of a narcissist

00:39:26.480 that she's presenting.

00:39:31.980 And if you don't understand that,

00:39:33.480 I don't think you understand anything

00:39:34.940 about the last several years.

00:39:36.780 Now, let me give a compliment today.

00:39:39.220 There's a...

00:39:40.340 ProPublica.

00:39:41.460 There's a...

00:39:43.160 Would you call it an online magazine

00:39:45.800 or a publication?

00:39:46.400 They took a whole bunch of videos.

00:39:50.140 Somehow they got access.

00:39:51.460 There was a programmer who had stored

00:39:52.900 a bunch of videos from the Parler

00:39:55.400 social media system

00:39:58.600 before they were deleted.

00:40:00.800 And he put them together

00:40:02.020 in the best interface

00:40:03.840 I've ever seen for the news.

00:40:06.840 And I'm going to recommend

00:40:07.860 that you look at it

00:40:08.980 just to see how good news could be.

00:40:11.860 Just how well you could do it

00:40:14.320 if you combined

00:40:15.660 good user interface design

00:40:17.860 with the news.

00:40:18.960 Now, I have a hypothesis

00:40:20.320 that the people who know

00:40:22.160 how to do good interface design

00:40:24.680 have nothing in common with

00:40:26.900 and never talk to

00:40:27.980 the people who do journalism and news.

00:40:30.700 They're just such different businesses

00:40:32.140 that there's a reason

00:40:33.640 the news is so poorly done,

00:40:36.000 whereas, you know,

00:40:37.580 Apple's interfaces are well done.

00:40:39.380 Because one uses user interface experts

00:40:42.160 and one does not.

00:40:44.440 But here's what they did.

00:40:45.600 They took all the videos

00:40:46.500 from the January 6th protests.

00:40:49.740 They put them in chronological order.

00:40:52.600 And then there's a timeline

00:40:53.780 where you can move the timeline

00:40:55.200 and you can see what video

00:40:56.560 and where it was.

00:40:58.080 You can see which part of the capital

00:41:00.340 they were.

00:41:01.660 And you can see what the energy was

00:41:03.740 and who was saying what.

00:41:05.580 Now, part of that shows

00:41:06.920 that Alex Jones and Ellie Alexander

00:41:09.800 were quite aggressively

00:41:12.200 trying to get people

00:41:13.620 to not go into the dangerous place

00:41:16.080 and not do anything violent.

00:41:18.600 It's on video.

00:41:20.380 There's Alex Jones

00:41:21.700 and there's Ellie Alexander

00:41:23.720 strongly, strongly encouraging people

00:41:27.740 not to do anything bad.

00:41:30.800 Interesting.

00:41:31.340 So, congratulations to ProPublica

00:41:36.520 for doing the best job

00:41:40.700 I've seen so far

00:41:41.660 of combining a user interface

00:41:44.220 with the news.

00:41:45.340 Now, here's my big idea.

00:41:48.180 Do you want to totally control the world?

00:41:51.680 Let me tell you how.

00:41:53.580 Build a better user interface

00:41:55.480 that can work as a dashboard

00:41:58.200 for the news.

00:41:59.020 And then you'll run the world.

00:42:02.720 So, here's what the dashboard

00:42:03.980 would look like.

00:42:04.980 So, it's one page

00:42:05.760 and let's say the top

00:42:07.400 important economic

00:42:09.200 and political topics

00:42:10.360 are in, like, blocks.

00:42:13.260 So, every day you come on

00:42:14.600 and it's the same blocks.

00:42:15.900 So, the front page

00:42:16.940 is always the same.

00:42:18.160 The only difference is

00:42:19.200 that if there's an update

00:42:20.920 on that area of the world,

00:42:23.040 let's say the economy,

00:42:24.540 you see a little indicator there

00:42:26.040 that there are six news stories.

00:42:27.300 So, you click on it

00:42:29.040 and there'd be,

00:42:31.600 at the top level,

00:42:32.760 you'd see some kind of a graph.

00:42:34.560 So, it might show

00:42:35.360 inflation is going up

00:42:36.680 or it might show,

00:42:37.660 you know, coronavirus going down

00:42:40.140 or up or whatever.

00:42:41.420 So, basically,

00:42:42.620 the front view of everything

00:42:44.380 would be the long-term trend

00:42:45.840 and then if there's an indication,

00:42:50.020 you click on it

00:42:50.740 and you say,

00:42:51.100 oh, there's an update here.

00:42:52.480 But, here's the important part.

00:42:54.280 Show both sides.

00:42:56.160 So, your article should show

00:42:58.380 to the best pro

00:42:59.420 and the best con.

00:43:02.080 Not to every article in the world,

00:43:04.180 but just to the best one pro

00:43:05.700 and the best one con.

00:43:06.740 And then also have

00:43:08.640 some kind of a mechanism

00:43:09.600 where people commenting

00:43:11.600 on those two articles,

00:43:13.800 you could promote

00:43:14.840 the best comments

00:43:15.880 because the commenters themselves

00:43:17.520 would promote

00:43:19.320 the argument

00:43:20.340 that they think

00:43:20.980 agrees with them

00:43:22.240 but is best expressed.

00:43:24.380 So, you could have a system

00:43:25.800 that bubbles up

00:43:26.840 the best comments

00:43:28.060 for both sides,

00:43:31.020 for and against.

00:43:31.860 Now, Twitter

00:43:33.600 kind of almost does that

00:43:36.180 because you can

00:43:37.780 like a comment

00:43:40.020 but you'd still have

00:43:41.120 to go look for it, right?

00:43:43.400 Am I right?

00:43:44.440 To find out

00:43:45.300 who got the most

00:43:46.220 likes on a comment,

00:43:47.600 you sort of have

00:43:48.020 to go look for it.

00:43:49.280 But, that should go

00:43:50.140 to the top.

00:43:51.720 The one that people say,

00:43:53.180 and maybe it's

00:43:53.620 a different button

00:43:54.220 instead of like,

00:43:55.520 maybe the button is

00:43:56.480 best argument.

00:43:58.720 How about that?

00:43:59.580 Instead of like,

00:44:00.700 it's just the best argument.

00:44:01.860 So, if it agrees with you,

00:44:04.040 you say,

00:44:04.400 yeah, that's the best argument.

00:44:05.460 Boom.

00:44:06.240 And then yours goes up

00:44:07.300 and it matches

00:44:08.000 the other best argument

00:44:08.920 on the other side.

00:44:10.520 Now, if you built

00:44:11.640 that interface,

00:44:13.220 you would basically

00:44:15.660 run the world

00:44:17.340 because you could

00:44:18.960 subtly, you know,

00:44:20.720 subtly bias it

00:44:21.740 any way you wanted.

00:44:23.800 As long as people liked it,

00:44:25.780 they would keep using it.

00:44:28.020 All right.

00:44:29.820 But you'd have to do

00:44:30.620 a real good job

00:44:31.240 on the interface.

00:44:31.860 That's the key.

00:44:36.300 Did you notice

00:44:37.200 that on any of the videos

00:44:39.240 of the January 6th

00:44:40.540 protesters,

00:44:41.320 did you notice

00:44:41.820 what they were chanting?

00:44:44.320 Did you hear the chants?

00:44:45.820 They were chanting,

00:44:47.340 USA,

00:44:48.380 USA,

00:44:49.600 USA.

00:44:50.040 Do you know

00:44:51.220 what they weren't chanting?

00:44:54.340 Trump,

00:44:55.180 Trump,

00:44:55.940 Trump.

00:44:56.220 again,

00:44:56.780 this is something

00:44:59.560 that the January 6th

00:45:00.660 hearings

00:45:01.060 have, you know,

00:45:02.720 kicked up to my attention

00:45:03.860 through the related

00:45:05.420 conversations about it.

00:45:07.240 But

00:45:07.600 if you're going

00:45:09.760 to a protest

00:45:10.580 and you're

00:45:12.000 saying,

00:45:13.100 USA,

00:45:13.560 isn't that

00:45:15.340 sort of a tip-off

00:45:16.460 that you're there

00:45:17.200 for the United States?

00:45:19.400 You're not there

00:45:20.120 to overthrow the country?

00:45:22.000 Do people

00:45:22.800 who overthrow countries

00:45:24.240 chant the name

00:45:25.880 of the country

00:45:26.360 when they're doing it?

00:45:27.120 That feels like

00:45:29.200 a non-intuitive

00:45:31.460 thing to do.

00:45:33.000 If you hate

00:45:33.640 your country so much

00:45:34.460 you're literally

00:45:35.000 risking your life

00:45:35.940 to overthrow it,

00:45:36.980 I don't think

00:45:37.700 you're chanting its name.

00:45:39.520 I think that's the point

00:45:40.300 where you're thinking,

00:45:40.940 I think you're going

00:45:41.380 to change the damn name

00:45:42.400 after we overthrow it

00:45:43.600 because I hate this place.

00:45:45.920 But they were chanting

00:45:46.740 the name of the country.

00:45:48.020 Now,

00:45:48.220 I've said

00:45:48.580 for the longest time

00:45:50.280 that the vast majority

00:45:52.580 of the protesters

00:45:53.420 were there

00:45:53.960 to save the republic,

00:45:55.200 not to destroy it.

00:45:56.680 And they thought

00:45:57.300 it was at risk.

00:45:58.120 They thought

00:45:58.460 the election was rigged.

00:45:59.980 May have been wrong.

00:46:01.460 I don't know.

00:46:02.200 How would I know?

00:46:03.400 But they thought so.

00:46:04.860 And I think

00:46:05.240 it was an honest belief

00:46:06.280 based on their instincts

00:46:07.840 which actually

00:46:08.620 have been shown

00:46:10.020 to be pretty good.

00:46:10.820 because the protesters

00:46:12.300 didn't believe

00:46:13.260 that a system

00:46:14.100 run by the government

00:46:15.720 was credible.

00:46:18.140 And then the government

00:46:19.500 proved they were right

00:46:20.640 by putting together

00:46:22.480 another system,

00:46:23.440 the January 6th hearings,

00:46:24.760 which are completely

00:46:25.580 non-credible

00:46:26.320 because they're one-sided.

00:46:28.720 So you can't tell people

00:46:30.660 that they're wrong

00:46:31.400 about their instincts

00:46:32.300 and then prove

00:46:32.940 their instincts are right

00:46:33.840 right in front of them.

00:46:35.200 Or can you?

00:46:36.960 Apparently you can.

00:46:38.380 You can do bad things

00:46:39.500 right in front of people

00:46:40.340 now,

00:46:40.980 like Hunter's laptop.

00:46:44.320 So the news

00:46:46.320 that you can see

00:46:47.100 in some places

00:46:48.180 but is not being carried

00:46:49.960 by the major news

00:46:51.100 is that Joe Biden

00:46:52.840 had said he didn't know

00:46:53.700 about Hunter Biden's

00:46:55.100 dealings with China.

00:46:56.980 And now there's

00:46:57.980 an audio recording

00:46:59.080 showing that

00:47:00.320 he definitely knew

00:47:01.060 about the dealings

00:47:01.720 with China.

00:47:02.780 Biggest story

00:47:03.600 in the country.

00:47:04.160 not being reported.

00:47:07.160 And if you're a Republican,

00:47:09.360 you're watching this

00:47:10.240 right in front of you.

00:47:12.340 Nothing's being hidden.

00:47:13.480 You're looking at the news

00:47:14.560 as sort of right-leaning.

00:47:15.840 You're saying,

00:47:16.480 wait a minute,

00:47:16.920 I'm listening

00:47:17.600 to Hunter Biden talk.

00:47:20.260 Like, I'm hearing it

00:47:21.000 with my own eyes.

00:47:21.700 There's no doubt

00:47:22.360 about what's happening here.

00:47:24.040 It's very clear

00:47:24.880 that Hunter

00:47:26.240 and his father

00:47:26.940 talked about

00:47:27.540 his Chinese business.

00:47:29.200 You can tell

00:47:29.760 by the recording.

00:47:30.600 And yet,

00:47:31.940 you're watching

00:47:32.580 as 90% of the news

00:47:34.460 is pretending

00:47:35.020 it didn't happen.

00:47:37.600 So,

00:47:38.480 do you think

00:47:39.560 the January 6th

00:47:41.100 protesters' instincts

00:47:42.500 that the system

00:47:44.140 would do something

00:47:44.900 obviously corrupt

00:47:46.320 right in front of them

00:47:47.560 and just act like

00:47:48.700 they had,

00:47:49.400 nope,

00:47:50.380 nope,

00:47:51.380 no.

00:47:52.140 The protesters

00:47:53.100 had the correct instinct.

00:47:55.440 Doesn't mean

00:47:55.940 they were right,

00:47:57.240 but their instinct

00:47:58.180 that wherever weasels

00:47:59.360 are in charge,

00:48:00.600 you get a weasel

00:48:01.780 outcome,

00:48:02.860 has never been wrong

00:48:04.540 in the history

00:48:05.280 of the whole

00:48:05.740 fucking world.

00:48:07.820 Let me say that again.

00:48:09.620 In every case

00:48:11.020 where weasels

00:48:12.040 are in charge

00:48:12.820 of building a system,

00:48:13.920 whatever the system is,

00:48:15.240 could be the hearings,

00:48:16.520 could be anything,

00:48:19.100 wherever weasels

00:48:20.240 are in charge,

00:48:22.340 the system

00:48:22.900 will be corrupted.

00:48:25.560 So,

00:48:26.620 do you think

00:48:27.480 that the Republican

00:48:28.740 protesters

00:48:29.440 accurately

00:48:31.120 understood

00:48:32.120 that weasels

00:48:33.660 were in charge

00:48:34.340 of the elections

00:48:34.980 in various states?

00:48:36.540 Yes,

00:48:36.780 they did.

00:48:37.400 Yes,

00:48:37.680 they did.

00:48:37.900 They did understand that.

00:48:40.060 And so,

00:48:40.420 their instinct

00:48:40.940 that wherever there are

00:48:41.940 weasels,

00:48:42.520 there's trouble

00:48:43.020 was right on.

00:48:45.360 The only thing

00:48:45.920 we don't know

00:48:46.420 is how much.

00:48:47.980 Right?

00:48:49.960 I've not seen

00:48:50.900 any evidence

00:48:51.440 that there was

00:48:52.160 enough trouble

00:48:52.840 to change

00:48:54.600 the election result.

00:48:55.500 Not personally.

00:48:56.460 Doesn't mean

00:48:56.920 it isn't there.

00:48:58.700 By the way,

00:48:59.440 just an update

00:49:00.080 on 2,000 mules.

00:49:02.680 Can you give me

00:49:03.260 a fact check on this?

00:49:04.620 Somebody tweeted today

00:49:05.760 that,

00:49:08.740 oh,

00:49:10.320 why am I blanking?

00:49:11.660 So,

00:49:11.960 Ben Shapiro

00:49:12.480 was one.

00:49:15.600 What is the name

00:49:17.440 of the famous

00:49:19.260 right-wing

00:49:21.400 blonde

00:49:22.520 pundit

00:49:23.380 who writes

00:49:24.940 best-selling books?

00:49:27.340 Ann Coulter,

00:49:28.220 I'm sorry.

00:49:29.660 Just weird

00:49:30.440 blanking on the name.

00:49:31.740 So,

00:49:31.940 is it true

00:49:32.380 that both Ann Coulter

00:49:33.480 and Ben Shapiro

00:49:34.560 have called bullshit

00:49:36.640 on 2,000 mules?

00:49:38.680 Can somebody

00:49:39.260 give me

00:49:41.360 a fact check

00:49:44.480 on that?

00:49:46.540 Yes?

00:49:48.740 Shapiro did?

00:49:49.820 Okay,

00:49:50.120 I saw Ann Coulter

00:49:51.220 do it.

00:49:51.900 So,

00:49:52.040 then that's a yes.

00:49:53.340 All right.

00:49:54.140 So,

00:49:54.700 what do you make

00:49:55.420 of that?

00:49:56.340 For those of you

00:49:57.300 who are believers

00:49:58.640 in,

00:49:59.880 this is actually

00:50:00.500 really interesting.

00:50:01.600 I'm going to divert

00:50:02.300 here for a minute.

00:50:03.440 What do you do

00:50:04.400 if you're a Republican,

00:50:06.200 you're a conservative,

00:50:07.660 and you saw

00:50:09.520 that two of the

00:50:10.380 smartest people

00:50:11.140 on your team,

00:50:12.820 who are pretty much

00:50:13.680 always on your team,

00:50:15.580 two of the smartest

00:50:16.320 people on your team

00:50:17.360 disagree with you

00:50:19.360 about the credibility

00:50:20.300 of the allegations

00:50:22.400 in 2,000 mules?

00:50:23.380 What do you make

00:50:24.060 of that?

00:50:29.200 Their argument

00:50:29.900 seems light on facts.

00:50:31.100 Well,

00:50:31.300 their argument

00:50:31.720 is that the other

00:50:32.400 side doesn't have facts.

00:50:34.240 So,

00:50:35.220 they don't need facts.

00:50:36.360 They just need to say

00:50:37.060 the other facts

00:50:37.700 are not bad.

00:50:38.280 They don't need facts.

00:50:41.160 Yes,

00:50:41.440 their opinions

00:50:41.880 on Trump.

00:50:42.860 Yeah,

00:50:43.120 we know that

00:50:43.960 everybody has

00:50:44.540 different opinions

00:50:45.120 on Trump.

00:50:45.640 I think we're just

00:50:46.380 that's baked in.

00:50:49.140 You don't trust them.

00:50:52.240 But let's dig

00:50:53.600 into that a little bit.

00:50:54.640 All right?

00:50:55.300 So,

00:50:56.200 in theory,

00:50:57.300 this should trigger

00:50:58.060 cognitive dissonance

00:50:59.280 in a lot of people.

00:51:01.200 In theory.

00:51:02.140 Because it's the right setup.

00:51:03.560 Because you would have

00:51:04.180 to understand

00:51:04.720 why you believe

00:51:06.040 that the film

00:51:07.680 is convincing.

00:51:09.660 You'd have to hold

00:51:10.520 that in your head.

00:51:11.200 At the same time,

00:51:12.780 two of the smartest people

00:51:14.200 who have looked at it

00:51:16.080 and really thought about it

00:51:17.380 are saying,

00:51:17.960 no,

00:51:18.140 there's nothing there.

00:51:19.800 How do you explain that?

00:51:21.280 Now,

00:51:21.600 I saw somebody say

00:51:22.420 that you can't trust them.

00:51:24.100 Meaning that

00:51:24.860 maybe they believe

00:51:25.720 it's real,

00:51:26.820 but for reasons

00:51:27.800 that I don't understand,

00:51:29.020 they would lie about it

00:51:29.980 in public.

00:51:31.280 Do either of them

00:51:32.340 have a history

00:51:32.980 of lying in public

00:51:34.020 that I don't know about?

00:51:38.360 You know,

00:51:38.700 let me give

00:51:40.080 Ben Shapiro

00:51:41.140 a compliment,

00:51:42.360 if I may.

00:51:42.940 Has anybody ever

00:51:44.720 been even accused

00:51:47.900 of lying?

00:51:52.100 That's a serious question

00:51:53.760 because I don't know.

00:51:55.480 That would be kind of rare,

00:51:56.620 wouldn't it?

00:51:58.120 Obviously accused

00:51:59.100 of having opinions

00:51:59.840 people don't like.

00:52:01.420 But I don't believe

00:52:02.220 anybody's ever accused

00:52:03.300 Ben Shapiro of lying.

00:52:06.280 I mean,

00:52:06.620 it seems like

00:52:07.500 that would be

00:52:08.000 about as deeply

00:52:09.400 against his

00:52:10.500 worldview

00:52:11.400 of morality

00:52:13.000 and ethics

00:52:13.480 as anything

00:52:13.920 could possibly be.

00:52:15.760 Now,

00:52:16.060 Ann Coulter,

00:52:16.940 I don't know

00:52:17.360 if I followed her

00:52:18.140 enough to know,

00:52:19.200 you know,

00:52:19.400 she may be

00:52:20.220 hyperbolic

00:52:21.320 and she may

00:52:22.060 be wrong,

00:52:24.280 but has anybody

00:52:25.220 ever accused her

00:52:25.860 of lying?

00:52:26.840 Like,

00:52:27.180 intentionally lying?

00:52:28.340 Now,

00:52:28.500 I'm not counting

00:52:29.040 hyperbole.

00:52:30.040 That's,

00:52:30.720 everybody does that.

00:52:31.540 So if somebody

00:52:32.840 says yes,

00:52:35.520 twisting,

00:52:37.180 I don't know.

00:52:38.000 I feel like

00:52:38.840 you could have

00:52:39.360 all kinds of opinions

00:52:40.420 about both

00:52:41.080 of those characters,

00:52:42.580 but I think

00:52:44.300 you have to treat

00:52:44.900 them as credible,

00:52:46.440 don't you?

00:52:48.440 I do.

00:52:49.340 I treat them

00:52:49.980 both as credible

00:52:50.740 even when I don't

00:52:51.880 agree with their

00:52:52.520 opinions on something

00:52:53.320 specific.

00:52:54.240 But they're very,

00:52:55.180 very credible,

00:52:56.220 in my opinion,

00:52:56.760 and very smart.

00:52:58.240 Now,

00:52:58.760 I'm going to add

00:52:59.240 my opinion to that.

00:53:01.540 You know,

00:53:02.300 the reason you're

00:53:03.140 watching is you

00:53:04.280 must think there's

00:53:05.060 some value,

00:53:05.620 in my opinion.

00:53:06.480 I don't yet

00:53:07.400 see the 2,000 mule

00:53:09.680 thing as persuasive.

00:53:13.460 Doesn't mean

00:53:14.160 it's not there.

00:53:15.120 Like,

00:53:15.480 maybe you'd have

00:53:15.960 to dig deeper

00:53:16.520 to get something.

00:53:17.320 But it didn't

00:53:17.920 convince me.

00:53:19.000 It's a persuasive

00:53:19.880 content,

00:53:20.840 if you watch it

00:53:21.420 by itself.

00:53:22.480 But it's just

00:53:23.960 short of

00:53:24.580 the fire.

00:53:27.020 It's like there's

00:53:27.640 smoke,

00:53:28.140 but maybe it's

00:53:28.820 steam.

00:53:30.200 You know,

00:53:30.500 you can't tell.

00:53:31.980 It's definitely

00:53:32.380 smoke,

00:53:33.000 or maybe it's

00:53:33.560 steam.

00:53:34.500 But I'm looking

00:53:35.440 for the fire,

00:53:36.140 and I haven't

00:53:36.420 found it.

00:53:38.120 Now,

00:53:38.400 I did see a

00:53:39.560 clip that there's

00:53:40.380 some,

00:53:40.800 you know,

00:53:42.060 truth to vote

00:53:43.600 claims they've

00:53:45.080 got some big

00:53:45.700 bombshell coming,

00:53:46.780 unless that was

00:53:47.280 an old video.

00:53:49.220 Give me a fact

00:53:50.320 check on that.

00:53:51.020 Is it current

00:53:51.800 news,

00:53:52.920 or old news,

00:53:54.500 that truth to vote

00:53:56.180 has some kind of

00:53:56.900 bombshell election

00:53:57.900 thing about Arizona

00:53:59.020 coming?

00:53:59.340 So far,

00:54:02.160 none of the

00:54:02.560 bombshells have

00:54:03.160 been bombshells,

00:54:03.900 right?

00:54:04.480 Everything's been

00:54:05.020 a dud.

00:54:06.220 I don't know if

00:54:06.920 that's going to

00:54:07.340 change.

00:54:09.780 Why don't they

00:54:10.440 just debate?

00:54:11.540 I don't know.

00:54:12.120 Good question.

00:54:17.180 Scott still thinks

00:54:18.140 there's no early

00:54:18.940 treatment.

00:54:20.320 I don't know

00:54:20.660 what you're talking

00:54:21.060 about.

00:54:22.100 Oh,

00:54:22.560 about COVID?

00:54:23.280 COVID?

00:54:23.380 That's such old

00:54:26.860 news.

00:54:29.780 John Eastman,

00:54:30.960 the attorney who

00:54:32.120 was central to

00:54:32.820 the January 6th

00:54:33.720 stuff,

00:54:34.100 worked with

00:54:34.620 Trump.

00:54:36.060 And there's

00:54:37.560 video of,

00:54:38.640 so he was

00:54:39.360 stopped by law

00:54:40.720 enforcement,

00:54:41.340 and they took

00:54:41.780 his phone before

00:54:43.620 they showed him

00:54:44.840 the warrant.

00:54:46.360 And apparently

00:54:46.880 that's illegal.

00:54:48.380 And because he's

00:54:49.080 a lawyer,

00:54:49.680 he's going to

00:54:50.560 press that point.

00:54:51.360 But then I saw

00:54:54.040 the video.

00:54:54.980 If you heard

00:54:55.540 that somebody

00:54:55.980 took your phone

00:54:56.940 before showing

00:54:58.640 you the legal

00:54:59.400 warrant that said

00:55:00.080 they could do

00:55:00.560 it, you'd think

00:55:01.700 that was pretty

00:55:02.280 bad, wouldn't

00:55:02.840 you?

00:55:04.060 Right?

00:55:04.640 So when I heard

00:55:05.220 that, I thought,

00:55:05.740 oh, shoot.

00:55:07.380 That's, like,

00:55:07.840 really bad.

00:55:09.040 Especially for,

00:55:10.040 you're going to

00:55:10.880 take a lawyer's

00:55:12.140 property and not

00:55:12.860 show a warrant?

00:55:14.540 Like, that's got

00:55:15.220 to be trouble.

00:55:15.920 And then I saw

00:55:16.460 the video.

00:55:18.540 Okay, this is

00:55:19.240 such bullshit

00:55:19.800 news.

00:55:20.240 Now, I'm not

00:55:21.800 going to argue

00:55:22.260 what is legal

00:55:23.320 versus not legal

00:55:24.260 because, you

00:55:25.120 know, Eastman

00:55:25.660 might be

00:55:26.060 completely right

00:55:27.200 about the

00:55:27.820 technicalities.

00:55:28.880 But here's

00:55:29.260 what I saw.

00:55:31.280 John Eastman,

00:55:32.280 hey, you're

00:55:32.620 taking my phone.

00:55:33.360 Where's the

00:55:33.740 warrant?

00:55:34.380 Show me the

00:55:34.880 warrant.

00:55:35.720 Where's the

00:55:36.100 warrant?

00:55:36.740 You're taking

00:55:37.140 my phone.

00:55:37.660 Don't take

00:55:37.940 my property.

00:55:38.540 Where's the

00:55:38.880 warrant?

00:55:39.400 I don't see

00:55:39.780 any warrant.

00:55:40.420 Where's the

00:55:40.760 warrant?

00:55:42.220 Now, here's

00:55:42.620 the warrant.

00:55:43.640 Okay, I'm

00:55:44.420 reading the

00:55:44.840 warrant, but

00:55:45.300 everybody saw

00:55:45.960 that they took

00:55:46.940 my phone before

00:55:47.660 you handed me

00:55:48.180 the warrant.

00:55:48.640 And yes, that's

00:55:51.580 exactly what

00:55:52.180 happened.

00:55:53.060 They took his

00:55:53.960 property.

00:55:55.480 They could not

00:55:56.560 look at it because

00:55:57.740 they didn't have

00:55:58.180 the passwords.

00:55:59.240 So no

00:56:00.140 information was

00:56:01.160 gone.

00:56:01.660 But they

00:56:02.120 physically took

00:56:02.900 possession of

00:56:03.500 his phone before

00:56:05.800 they handed him

00:56:06.500 the piece of

00:56:06.980 paper.

00:56:08.980 Is that a

00:56:09.680 crime?

00:56:11.620 Do you think

00:56:12.340 the court is

00:56:12.940 going to say

00:56:13.420 that literally,

00:56:16.200 literally, that

00:56:17.000 these two

00:56:17.400 things are

00:56:17.760 different?

00:56:18.940 All right, I

00:56:19.640 took your

00:56:20.020 phone and

00:56:20.640 then I

00:56:21.000 handed you

00:56:21.360 the paper.

00:56:22.460 So that's

00:56:23.120 illegal.

00:56:24.260 But if I

00:56:25.080 had handed

00:56:25.820 you the

00:56:26.140 paper and

00:56:27.200 then taken

00:56:27.700 your phone,

00:56:29.040 that would

00:56:29.420 be legal.

00:56:30.940 Seriously?

00:56:31.680 Is the

00:56:32.200 court going to

00:56:32.640 say that one

00:56:33.040 of those was

00:56:33.540 illegal and

00:56:34.020 the other

00:56:34.240 one wasn't?

00:56:34.980 If they

00:56:35.400 both happened

00:56:35.960 within 60

00:56:36.640 seconds?

00:56:37.660 They happened

00:56:38.300 within a

00:56:38.760 minute.

00:56:39.920 Within a

00:56:40.420 minute.

00:56:40.660 And they

00:56:43.760 didn't have

00:56:44.100 access to

00:56:44.620 anything in

00:56:45.140 his phone.

00:56:45.920 They just

00:56:46.320 had it in

00:56:46.780 their hand.

00:56:48.480 That's it.

00:56:50.900 Somebody says

00:56:51.620 no affidavit.

00:56:53.080 Oh, there

00:56:53.340 wasn't something

00:56:53.920 attached to it

00:56:54.700 that makes it

00:56:55.380 legal or

00:56:55.780 something.

00:56:56.340 Who knows?

00:56:57.200 He may have

00:56:58.000 some technical

00:56:58.620 argument.

00:56:59.160 And I

00:56:59.360 actually hope

00:56:59.800 he wins it.

00:57:00.760 I hope

00:57:01.120 Eastman wins

00:57:03.440 his legal

00:57:04.380 battle there.

00:57:06.020 But what

00:57:07.120 do you think

00:57:07.520 about the

00:57:08.520 fact that law

00:57:09.300 enforcement can

00:57:10.060 get access

00:57:10.640 to your

00:57:10.980 entire

00:57:11.340 phone?

00:57:16.240 I think

00:57:17.040 if that

00:57:17.840 goes on

00:57:18.300 much longer

00:57:18.800 we have to

00:57:19.460 overthrow the

00:57:20.000 government.

00:57:22.740 If law

00:57:23.500 enforcement

00:57:23.920 can do a

00:57:24.620 general

00:57:25.080 warrant and

00:57:27.100 get all the

00:57:27.620 information on

00:57:28.200 your phone,

00:57:28.680 not just

00:57:29.300 specific

00:57:29.780 information,

00:57:30.600 that I

00:57:31.080 think would

00:57:31.400 be worth

00:57:31.820 overthrowing

00:57:32.520 the government

00:57:32.920 of the

00:57:33.260 United States.

00:57:36.500 Now,

00:57:37.160 apparently that's

00:57:37.840 happening.

00:57:39.240 I don't know

00:57:40.000 if it's

00:57:40.220 widespread.

00:57:41.040 I mean,

00:57:41.260 it would

00:57:41.440 have to be

00:57:41.840 widespread to

00:57:42.540 get me that

00:57:43.040 angry.

00:57:44.180 But what

00:57:45.120 happens when

00:57:45.720 political enemies

00:57:46.760 just have their

00:57:48.200 phone grabbed

00:57:49.540 for general

00:57:50.700 searching just

00:57:52.320 because somebody

00:57:53.060 came up with a

00:57:53.920 warrant?

00:57:54.780 How hard is it

00:57:55.480 to get a

00:57:55.840 warrant?

00:57:57.100 You can get a

00:57:57.720 warrant pretty

00:57:58.220 easily, can't

00:57:58.740 you?

00:57:59.700 So wouldn't

00:58:00.440 this just be a

00:58:01.180 way to just

00:58:01.920 destroy people,

00:58:03.460 just get their

00:58:04.040 phone and find

00:58:05.100 out what's on

00:58:05.580 there and

00:58:05.840 destroy them?

00:58:07.600 To me,

00:58:08.640 this is a

00:58:09.700 big enough

00:58:10.080 issue that

00:58:11.220 if the

00:58:11.620 government

00:58:11.940 allowed it

00:58:12.600 on an

00:58:13.140 ongoing

00:58:13.480 basis,

00:58:14.120 like if it

00:58:14.700 became not

00:58:15.180 an exception

00:58:15.720 but like a

00:58:16.520 way of doing

00:58:16.960 business,

00:58:17.940 I think you

00:58:18.460 should actually,

00:58:19.080 we should

00:58:19.480 overthrow the

00:58:20.040 government.

00:58:21.520 If the

00:58:22.060 government can't

00:58:22.680 stop it from

00:58:23.280 happening,

00:58:23.680 I think that

00:58:24.240 would be

00:58:24.580 hypothetically

00:58:26.420 reason to

00:58:27.120 march on the

00:58:27.600 Capitol and

00:58:28.160 actually overthrow

00:58:28.960 the government.

00:58:31.260 Who disagrees?

00:58:32.140 Anybody disagree?

00:58:40.840 I think I

00:58:43.520 saw one

00:58:43.860 person

00:58:44.140 disagreed.

00:58:47.000 Somebody says,

00:58:47.940 I'm afraid this

00:58:48.640 will get you

00:58:49.040 canceled.

00:58:49.800 No, you

00:58:50.460 don't get

00:58:50.820 canceled for

00:58:51.440 hypotheticals.

00:58:53.840 You can't

00:58:54.100 get canceled

00:58:54.500 for a

00:58:54.780 hypothetical.

00:58:55.460 If I

00:58:55.920 called for

00:58:56.540 a violent

00:58:57.100 insurrection,

00:58:58.320 that would

00:58:58.960 be something

00:59:00.540 they could

00:59:00.940 cancel before,

00:59:01.740 but I'm

00:59:01.980 not.

00:59:02.880 I'm saying

00:59:03.520 that there

00:59:03.900 is a

00:59:04.180 condition upon

00:59:05.080 which a

00:59:06.680 revolution would

00:59:07.420 make sense,

00:59:08.440 and that they

00:59:09.300 are teasing us

00:59:10.120 that this

00:59:10.620 condition is

00:59:11.220 going to

00:59:11.560 become our

00:59:12.200 norm.

00:59:13.740 And maybe

00:59:14.180 it is.

00:59:15.560 But that's

00:59:16.400 one you

00:59:16.720 would die

00:59:17.120 on that

00:59:17.520 hill.

00:59:21.040 Tell me

00:59:21.620 about your

00:59:21.960 other illegal

00:59:22.540 activities.

00:59:23.280 Have I ever

00:59:23.640 bought any

00:59:24.020 fertilizer?

00:59:25.400 Oh, I got

00:59:25.880 truckloads.

00:59:26.620 No, not

00:59:27.060 kidding.

00:59:27.780 I'm just

00:59:28.040 kidding.

00:59:29.720 All right.

00:59:30.640 Well, here's

00:59:31.300 another comment.

00:59:31.980 about the

00:59:32.520 January 6th

00:59:33.480 trial.

00:59:34.280 I tweeted

00:59:34.660 that, so

00:59:35.800 far you've

00:59:36.280 only seen

00:59:36.720 the Muggles

00:59:37.240 version, and

00:59:40.120 that's the

00:59:40.460 part that

00:59:40.760 will be our

00:59:41.120 history.

00:59:44.620 Let me just

00:59:45.480 say this.

00:59:47.060 I don't, I've

00:59:48.900 been observing

00:59:49.700 the big stories

00:59:51.720 in politics, both

00:59:53.600 the way you

00:59:54.900 have, publicly,

00:59:55.940 but also I've

00:59:57.620 had sort of

00:59:58.680 special access to

00:59:59.680 a lot of

01:00:00.040 stories, you

01:00:00.720 know, behind

01:00:01.040 the curtain.

01:00:01.940 And there's

01:00:02.660 one thing that

01:00:03.160 you could say

01:00:03.640 about every

01:00:04.340 story behind

01:00:06.160 the curtain.

01:00:07.760 It's

01:00:08.240 different.

01:00:09.720 It's

01:00:10.200 different.

01:00:10.960 Like, really

01:00:11.620 different.

01:00:12.620 The stories that

01:00:13.400 you hear about

01:00:14.060 everything are

01:00:15.280 leaving out with

01:00:15.960 such important

01:00:16.680 stuff.

01:00:17.820 And if you're

01:00:18.360 behind the

01:00:18.800 curtain, you

01:00:22.100 often can hear

01:00:22.980 that stuff, and

01:00:23.840 you know, oh,

01:00:24.480 okay, that story's

01:00:25.200 completely different

01:00:26.180 than the way the

01:00:27.100 public understands

01:00:27.880 it.

01:00:28.640 Now, I first

01:00:29.500 understood this when

01:00:30.220 I saw stories about

01:00:31.060 myself.

01:00:32.440 I'd read stories

01:00:33.160 about me, and I

01:00:34.180 would know they

01:00:34.640 were fake.

01:00:35.720 But you think the

01:00:36.660 other ones are

01:00:37.160 true.

01:00:38.740 So, yes, the

01:00:39.840 January 6th

01:00:40.560 thing, I can

01:00:41.280 guarantee you that

01:00:42.220 whatever comes out

01:00:44.580 of it, whatever

01:00:45.440 narrative becomes the

01:00:46.540 official one, whatever

01:00:47.800 becomes our history, it

01:00:49.900 won't be true.

01:00:51.180 I guarantee it.

01:00:53.100 Just like every

01:00:53.960 other story.

01:00:54.740 The political stories

01:00:55.580 are never true.

01:00:56.600 Because they always

01:00:57.180 leave out, well, the

01:00:58.900 whole point of this

01:00:59.560 was a billionaire was

01:01:00.600 mad at another

01:01:01.240 billionaire because the

01:01:02.760 guy stole his

01:01:03.340 girlfriend.

01:01:05.200 Like, a lot of the

01:01:06.100 stories have that

01:01:06.840 kind of, I made that

01:01:07.680 one up, that's not

01:01:08.280 real.

01:01:08.700 But a lot of them

01:01:09.380 are a billionaire was

01:01:10.960 mad at another

01:01:11.680 billionaire.

01:01:13.660 And you never get

01:01:15.040 that part reported.

01:01:15.840 But then that

01:01:16.920 billionaire funded

01:01:17.780 somebody who

01:01:18.420 funded something

01:01:19.120 that caused the

01:01:20.340 thing that you

01:01:20.780 saw.

01:01:22.040 Yeah, the real

01:01:23.260 root cause of

01:01:25.280 most things will

01:01:26.380 never be known.

01:01:27.620 But if you see

01:01:28.360 them, you're like,

01:01:28.960 oh, God, this

01:01:30.060 January 6th thing

01:01:31.020 has written all

01:01:32.500 over it in really

01:01:34.540 bright letters.

01:01:35.860 You'll never know

01:01:36.740 the real story.

01:01:38.180 You'll never know.

01:01:39.680 There's no

01:01:40.300 investigation that

01:01:41.140 will tell you that.

01:01:41.960 Because the

01:01:42.340 investigation will

01:01:43.200 turn into a

01:01:44.240 narrative.

01:01:44.520 Nobody really

01:01:46.540 has the incentive

01:01:47.620 to tell you the

01:01:48.580 truth about any

01:01:49.240 of this stuff.

01:01:49.980 So you won't

01:01:50.440 see it.

01:01:51.320 So you're getting

01:01:52.040 the Muggles version.

01:01:53.160 That's a Harry

01:01:53.780 Potter reference.

01:01:58.740 So here's some

01:01:59.840 interesting news.

01:02:01.380 So there's a

01:02:02.040 Mark Meadows aide

01:02:03.060 who's going to

01:02:03.540 testify, I guess.

01:02:04.720 Or maybe she did.

01:02:05.480 CNN reported that

01:02:09.380 during one of her

01:02:09.980 interviews, so

01:02:10.880 she's already done

01:02:11.700 interviews, she

01:02:13.460 said that Trump

01:02:14.900 had suggested to

01:02:16.340 Meadows that he

01:02:17.320 approved of the

01:02:18.120 Hang Mike Pence

01:02:19.020 chant.

01:02:20.660 Suggested.

01:02:22.540 Suggested.

01:02:24.700 What do you think

01:02:25.720 were the actual

01:02:26.340 words that happened

01:02:27.440 and the actual

01:02:28.060 true events that

01:02:29.840 caused this

01:02:30.500 observer, who

01:02:31.520 was now a part

01:02:32.060 of it, to say

01:02:33.160 that Trump had

01:02:33.760 suggested that

01:02:35.740 Hang Mike Pence

01:02:36.660 was an okay

01:02:38.540 chant from his

01:02:39.280 point of view?

01:02:42.040 That word

01:02:42.800 suggested is a

01:02:44.200 tip-off.

01:02:45.540 Suggested means

01:02:46.420 he didn't say

01:02:47.360 it.

01:02:48.800 Do you know

01:02:49.280 what she would

01:02:49.880 have said if

01:02:51.320 she heard Trump

01:02:52.400 say, I like

01:02:54.460 that they're

01:02:54.840 saying Hang

01:02:55.920 Mike Pence?

01:02:56.680 She would have

01:02:57.360 said, he said

01:02:58.920 he liked it.

01:03:01.000 But instead,

01:03:02.080 she said,

01:03:03.160 Trump had

01:03:05.140 suggested to

01:03:06.340 Meadows that

01:03:07.760 he approved.

01:03:09.280 Suggested that

01:03:09.860 he approved.

01:03:11.220 How about just

01:03:12.000 saying, I like

01:03:12.640 this?

01:03:14.600 Sounds like an

01:03:15.220 interpretation,

01:03:16.000 doesn't it?

01:03:16.680 Yeah, it's a

01:03:17.080 little weaselly.

01:03:18.020 Let's see if

01:03:18.420 there's any more

01:03:18.880 weaselly here.

01:03:19.600 Oh, yeah.

01:03:21.300 She also

01:03:21.940 testified that

01:03:24.480 Trump had

01:03:24.920 complained about

01:03:26.000 his vice

01:03:28.340 president being

01:03:29.000 a hustle to

01:03:29.760 safety when

01:03:30.980 the Capitol

01:03:31.740 got breached.

01:03:33.160 Complained?

01:03:34.400 Do you really

01:03:34.980 think he

01:03:35.360 complained that

01:03:37.460 Mike Pence was

01:03:38.320 protected?

01:03:39.860 Do you think

01:03:40.220 that's real?

01:03:40.860 Do you really

01:03:41.280 think he did

01:03:41.780 that?

01:03:42.580 Now, I'm sure

01:03:43.320 he was thinking

01:03:44.000 something more

01:03:45.020 complicated than

01:03:45.960 Mike Pence being

01:03:47.440 protected or not.

01:03:48.720 Like, I'm sure,

01:03:50.100 yeah, it could have

01:03:50.620 been sarcasm, it

01:03:51.760 could have been

01:03:52.060 hyperbole, it

01:03:52.900 could have been

01:03:53.200 anything.

01:03:53.940 So, he complained,

01:03:56.160 but what were

01:03:56.740 his words?

01:03:57.300 If you don't

01:03:59.340 know what his

01:03:59.720 words were, you're

01:04:01.000 looking at

01:04:01.360 somebody's

01:04:01.960 interpretation.

01:04:03.440 If somebody

01:04:03.840 says you

01:04:04.300 complained, does

01:04:05.540 that mean you

01:04:05.960 complained?

01:04:06.920 No, it means

01:04:07.440 they said you

01:04:07.960 complained.

01:04:09.020 If somebody

01:04:11.280 suggested, somebody

01:04:13.340 says you suggested

01:04:14.360 something, does that

01:04:15.160 mean you said it?

01:04:16.640 Maybe not.

01:04:18.420 So, this is just

01:04:19.280 a bullshit

01:04:19.780 written all over.

01:04:20.420 There's a new

01:04:23.600 study about

01:04:24.400 marijuana risks,

01:04:25.460 that marijuana

01:04:26.560 users, recreational

01:04:27.860 marijuana users,

01:04:29.040 have more emergency

01:04:30.380 room visits.

01:04:32.080 What do you think

01:04:32.920 of that?

01:04:33.680 True or not?

01:04:34.980 Marijuana users

01:04:36.340 have more emergency

01:04:37.820 room visits for

01:04:38.840 recreational

01:04:39.380 activities.

01:04:42.040 Well, are there

01:04:44.140 any other

01:04:44.760 activities which

01:04:47.300 would cause more

01:04:48.480 emergency room

01:04:49.380 visits?

01:04:49.740 Let's think of

01:04:51.160 anything else that

01:04:51.920 would cause more

01:04:52.680 emergency room

01:04:53.620 visits.

01:04:55.520 Sports?

01:04:57.360 Sports?

01:04:59.960 Dirt bikes?

01:05:02.400 Yeah.

01:05:03.320 Taking your

01:05:04.220 medicines but

01:05:05.000 maybe doing it

01:05:05.620 wrong?

01:05:07.260 Pretty much

01:05:08.080 every activity,

01:05:09.700 drinking, yeah,

01:05:11.100 pretty much every

01:05:11.960 activity that we

01:05:13.120 do for fun

01:05:13.900 increases the

01:05:16.180 risk that you'll

01:05:16.680 end up in the

01:05:17.140 emergency room.

01:05:18.940 Doesn't it?

01:05:20.540 So, wouldn't you

01:05:21.540 expect that

01:05:23.160 marijuana users,

01:05:25.520 like any other

01:05:27.180 activity, would

01:05:27.980 have more visits

01:05:29.200 to the emergency

01:05:29.820 room?

01:05:30.480 Do you know what

01:05:31.160 is a great thing

01:05:32.140 to do when you're

01:05:33.060 high?

01:05:34.000 Go do an

01:05:34.700 activity.

01:05:36.540 So, there are

01:05:37.360 people who

01:05:37.900 wouldn't do the

01:05:38.640 activity if they

01:05:39.320 weren't high in the

01:05:39.920 first place.

01:05:41.120 You know what I

01:05:41.680 mean?

01:05:43.360 You'd have to be a

01:05:44.240 smoker to actually

01:05:45.120 understand that.

01:05:46.040 There's some things

01:05:46.680 you just wouldn't do.

01:05:47.760 You're just like,

01:05:48.300 eh, I'm happy

01:05:49.820 sitting here.

01:05:50.360 I'll take a walk.

01:05:51.400 But then you

01:05:52.100 smoke some marijuana

01:05:53.000 and you're like,

01:05:53.980 I think I can play

01:05:54.940 tennis even though

01:05:55.640 I've never had a

01:05:56.200 lesson.

01:05:57.360 And you go out

01:05:57.880 there and you

01:05:58.400 sprain an ankle

01:05:59.220 because you're not

01:06:00.120 a tennis player.

01:06:01.660 So, but you had

01:06:02.360 fun, right?

01:06:03.580 So, I've got a

01:06:05.200 feeling that this

01:06:06.020 is, well, let me

01:06:07.660 go through this for

01:06:08.340 the other tells that

01:06:10.700 you shouldn't believe

01:06:11.500 it.

01:06:11.660 Here's another

01:06:13.580 tell.

01:06:14.160 Who paid for the

01:06:15.040 study?

01:06:16.820 Who funded the

01:06:17.900 study?

01:06:18.780 If it's a marijuana

01:06:19.900 is bad for you

01:06:20.800 outcome of a study,

01:06:22.720 who do you think

01:06:23.520 funded it?

01:06:25.400 Probably the

01:06:26.140 alcohol industry.

01:06:28.140 Probably.

01:06:29.760 Probably.

01:06:31.000 I don't know.

01:06:32.400 But if it doesn't

01:06:33.340 state who funded it,

01:06:34.660 why would you

01:06:35.180 believe it?

01:06:36.400 You shouldn't

01:06:37.080 believe anything if

01:06:37.740 you don't know who

01:06:38.240 paid for it.

01:06:39.120 Period.

01:06:39.340 Period.

01:06:42.840 Let's say,

01:06:43.660 apparently there's

01:06:44.300 some kind of

01:06:44.780 intestinal problems

01:06:46.500 some people get

01:06:47.200 from it that all

01:06:48.520 my life I've never

01:06:49.320 heard of.

01:06:51.000 Let's say, I've

01:06:51.920 smoked marijuana

01:06:52.680 for 50 years.

01:06:55.900 I've never heard

01:06:56.720 of anybody going

01:06:57.360 to the emergency

01:06:58.860 room with a

01:06:59.620 marijuana stomach

01:07:00.320 ache.

01:07:01.820 Have you?

01:07:02.980 Well, apparently

01:07:03.440 this is a thing.

01:07:06.060 I don't know.

01:07:07.200 Never heard of it.

01:07:07.800 So, but that's

01:07:09.200 a problem.

01:07:10.820 And then heavy

01:07:11.560 users of marijuana

01:07:12.860 by teens and

01:07:13.480 young adults with

01:07:14.700 mood disorders,

01:07:16.080 such as depression

01:07:17.040 and bipolar,

01:07:18.460 have been linked

01:07:19.120 to an increased

01:07:19.780 risk of self-harm.

01:07:23.000 But there again,

01:07:24.800 you've got the

01:07:25.260 cause and effect

01:07:25.880 problem backwards.

01:07:27.600 Seems to me that

01:07:28.460 sad people would be

01:07:29.340 more likely to do

01:07:30.220 a drug than happy

01:07:30.980 people.

01:07:31.800 Do you know who

01:07:32.380 doesn't need a drug?

01:07:33.880 Somebody who's

01:07:34.440 already happy.

01:07:35.620 Do you know who

01:07:36.140 needs a drug?

01:07:37.180 Somebody who

01:07:37.660 feels depressed.

01:07:38.860 So I feel like

01:07:39.760 they've got cause

01:07:40.580 and effect backwards,

01:07:41.660 or at least it's

01:07:42.640 unclear.

01:07:43.700 They've got no

01:07:44.640 information about

01:07:45.320 who funded the

01:07:46.020 study.

01:07:46.740 And then the

01:07:47.180 biggest thing

01:07:47.660 that's missing,

01:07:49.840 do you know what

01:07:50.180 the biggest thing

01:07:50.840 that's missing is?

01:07:52.300 So the idea is

01:07:53.420 that marijuana users

01:07:54.420 end up in the

01:07:55.000 emergency room

01:07:55.780 more often.

01:07:57.000 What's missing,

01:07:58.560 like really,

01:07:59.240 really missing,

01:07:59.760 from the analysis?

01:08:04.320 Mortality rates.

01:08:06.740 Kind of obviously

01:08:07.620 missing, isn't it?

01:08:08.860 Because if people

01:08:09.740 who smoke marijuana

01:08:10.680 were more likely

01:08:12.280 to die,

01:08:14.920 then you probably,

01:08:17.660 you know,

01:08:17.860 at least once you've

01:08:19.120 corrected for other

01:08:20.260 comorbidities and

01:08:21.280 stuff,

01:08:22.260 well, that would

01:08:22.740 tell you something,

01:08:23.940 wouldn't it?

01:08:24.700 But what if the

01:08:25.760 mortality rate of

01:08:27.720 marijuana users,

01:08:28.480 even heavy users,

01:08:30.040 is exactly the

01:08:31.180 same as the

01:08:32.400 mortality rate for

01:08:33.220 everybody else?

01:08:34.480 What if that's

01:08:35.040 true?

01:08:36.300 Wouldn't you want

01:08:36.840 to know that?

01:08:38.180 Because that would

01:08:38.960 say that even

01:08:39.720 though there might

01:08:40.740 be emergency room

01:08:41.540 visits, on the

01:08:43.000 whole, people are

01:08:44.020 getting something

01:08:44.640 out of it,

01:08:45.620 there's a risk,

01:08:46.580 but it's like

01:08:46.980 everything else.

01:08:49.680 But, suppose the

01:08:51.260 mortality rate of

01:08:52.280 marijuana smokers

01:08:53.080 was much higher.

01:08:54.940 Well, that would

01:08:55.500 be important to

01:08:56.120 put in this story,

01:08:56.920 wouldn't it?

01:08:57.940 Because that would

01:08:58.440 support everything

01:08:59.180 the story says.

01:09:00.880 Why is it missing

01:09:01.740 from the story?

01:09:03.140 There was a study

01:09:04.020 on mortality rates,

01:09:05.560 so they could have

01:09:06.080 referenced it.

01:09:07.080 Don't you think a

01:09:07.760 story about the

01:09:08.640 risks of marijuana

01:09:09.880 should reference

01:09:11.440 the one study that

01:09:13.240 was ever done about

01:09:14.040 mortality rate of

01:09:15.240 chronic smokers of

01:09:16.340 marijuana?

01:09:17.740 That's the most

01:09:18.520 important thing.

01:09:19.160 It's not there.

01:09:19.960 Do you know why

01:09:20.380 it's not there?

01:09:21.880 Because the

01:09:22.520 mortality rate of

01:09:23.620 chronic marijuana

01:09:24.500 smokers and

01:09:25.380 everybody else is

01:09:26.120 the same.

01:09:26.560 the one study

01:09:28.720 that looked at

01:09:29.520 it.

01:09:30.080 How about the

01:09:30.720 lung capacity

01:09:31.540 of chronic

01:09:32.900 marijuana smokers

01:09:33.880 versus people

01:09:34.640 who have never

01:09:35.000 smoked anything?

01:09:37.180 Well, there was

01:09:37.880 one study on that

01:09:38.700 that says that

01:09:39.300 the chronic

01:09:39.800 marijuana smokers

01:09:40.720 had better

01:09:41.260 lung capacity.

01:09:44.080 Why don't they

01:09:44.860 mention that?

01:09:46.740 Why don't they

01:09:47.580 mention that

01:09:48.180 marijuana

01:09:48.640 effectively

01:09:49.820 treats depression?

01:09:50.700 So if you

01:09:52.920 have fewer

01:09:53.320 people who

01:09:53.760 are depressed

01:09:54.340 that's almost

01:09:55.880 like saving

01:09:56.500 their lives.

01:09:58.080 I mean, it's

01:09:58.780 hardly any

01:09:59.240 difference except

01:10:00.140 technically.

01:10:01.500 If somebody is

01:10:02.640 depressed and

01:10:03.320 can't figure a

01:10:03.920 way out of it

01:10:04.560 and you fix it

01:10:06.560 you've saved

01:10:07.400 their life.

01:10:08.820 I mean, not

01:10:09.820 technically but

01:10:10.820 basically you

01:10:11.560 saved their life.

01:10:12.620 So how many

01:10:13.040 people had their

01:10:13.640 life saved by

01:10:14.840 marijuana?

01:10:16.440 And that's not

01:10:17.280 really like other

01:10:17.940 recreation, right?

01:10:19.360 How many people

01:10:20.020 had their life

01:10:20.560 saved by

01:10:21.620 riding bicycles?

01:10:23.380 Maybe somebody,

01:10:24.300 I don't know.

01:10:25.360 But it's not

01:10:25.860 really a thing.

01:10:26.600 But probably a

01:10:27.560 lot of people

01:10:28.100 had their lives

01:10:28.740 actually saved

01:10:29.600 by marijuana.

01:10:31.640 People are

01:10:32.100 saying mine.

01:10:32.760 I'm going to

01:10:33.240 add myself to

01:10:33.840 the list.

01:10:35.400 I would have

01:10:36.400 committed suicide

01:10:37.140 in my youth

01:10:38.320 without marijuana.

01:10:39.800 It was actually

01:10:40.300 my plan.

01:10:41.560 Because I was

01:10:42.500 desperately in

01:10:43.720 pain.

01:10:45.000 In massive

01:10:45.620 pain every

01:10:46.240 single day of

01:10:46.900 my early life.

01:10:49.340 So for my

01:10:49.880 earliest memory

01:10:50.600 to about

01:10:51.000 the age of

01:10:51.460 18, I had

01:10:52.300 massive

01:10:53.380 intestinal

01:10:55.300 stomach problems

01:10:56.420 every day.

01:10:58.400 I was in

01:10:59.140 shrieking pain

01:11:00.340 every day of

01:11:00.940 my life.

01:11:02.140 And I was

01:11:02.740 planning to

01:11:03.160 just kill

01:11:03.460 myself.

01:11:04.500 Because I

01:11:05.040 didn't know

01:11:05.340 a way out.

01:11:06.240 But I

01:11:06.760 discovered

01:11:07.140 marijuana in

01:11:07.780 college.

01:11:08.300 First day of

01:11:09.080 college,

01:11:09.400 actually.

01:11:10.140 And it

01:11:10.780 solved it.

01:11:12.260 Completely.

01:11:13.340 Just solved

01:11:14.280 it.

01:11:14.480 Completely the

01:11:16.640 biggest problem

01:11:17.300 I'd ever had

01:11:17.900 in my life.

01:11:18.800 Just went

01:11:19.160 away.

01:11:20.180 Never came

01:11:20.640 back.

01:11:22.260 Did you

01:11:22.780 ever discover

01:11:23.260 the cause

01:11:23.800 of the

01:11:24.000 pain?

01:11:24.580 Probably

01:11:25.000 meat and

01:11:26.620 grease and

01:11:27.100 bad diet.

01:11:29.940 Something like

01:11:30.560 that.

01:11:31.000 I mean,

01:11:31.300 there were

01:11:31.680 some compounding

01:11:32.460 things that I

01:11:33.080 won't get

01:11:33.340 into.

01:11:35.480 But...

01:11:35.920 And then

01:11:38.880 later when I

01:11:39.520 changed my

01:11:40.100 diet, then I

01:11:41.220 didn't need

01:11:41.600 marijuana.

01:11:42.020 So when I

01:11:43.080 went to a

01:11:43.840 vegetarian and

01:11:44.720 then pescatarian

01:11:45.540 diet, I

01:11:46.080 don't get any

01:11:46.640 stomach

01:11:47.640 aches.

01:11:50.060 Does it

01:11:50.580 come back if

01:11:51.060 you don't

01:11:51.360 smoke?

01:11:51.660 No, it

01:11:51.900 doesn't.

01:11:52.460 Yeah, that's

01:11:53.120 what I was

01:11:53.420 just saying.

01:11:54.540 I changed

01:11:55.280 my diet.

01:11:55.980 So what my

01:11:56.600 actual problem

01:11:57.220 was was my

01:11:57.920 diet, but I

01:11:58.860 didn't know it

01:11:59.300 at the time.

01:12:00.640 So I didn't

01:12:01.480 have a solution

01:12:02.160 because I was

01:12:03.000 eating the same

01:12:03.580 food everybody

01:12:04.120 else was eating.

01:12:05.260 I just had no

01:12:06.120 reason to think

01:12:06.680 that it was bad

01:12:07.300 for me and

01:12:07.820 not bad for

01:12:08.920 other people.

01:12:12.020 bad bacteria

01:12:14.260 in your gut?

01:12:14.940 I don't know,

01:12:15.340 maybe.

01:12:16.600 So many

01:12:18.700 problems with

01:12:19.600 that study.

01:12:22.540 There's an

01:12:23.320 article in

01:12:24.220 Fatherly, that's

01:12:25.220 a publication,

01:12:27.080 and it said

01:12:28.020 that in general

01:12:29.660 being an

01:12:30.160 American male is

01:12:31.140 hazardous to

01:12:31.820 health.

01:12:32.380 The men in

01:12:32.700 the USA die

01:12:33.960 an average of

01:12:34.520 five years before

01:12:35.500 women do.

01:12:36.360 And I guess men

01:12:36.980 in other countries

01:12:37.640 do better.

01:12:38.920 Life expectancy.

01:12:40.340 So here's an

01:12:41.260 article that

01:12:41.960 men are dying

01:12:43.240 from a whole

01:12:44.100 bunch of stuff.

01:12:44.940 A lot of it is

01:12:45.460 lifestyle.

01:12:46.240 They overeat,

01:12:47.180 they drink,

01:12:48.080 they do

01:12:48.440 dangerous things.

01:12:50.360 Here's my

01:12:51.060 overall comment

01:12:51.820 about the

01:12:52.680 life expectancy

01:12:53.700 of men.

01:12:55.520 Nobody cares.

01:12:57.860 Nobody cares

01:12:58.700 about that.

01:13:00.660 Do they?

01:13:02.480 I'm a man,

01:13:03.460 and even I

01:13:03.800 don't care about

01:13:04.340 it.

01:13:04.980 Do you know

01:13:05.320 why?

01:13:06.560 Because almost

01:13:07.520 everything on

01:13:08.260 this list that

01:13:09.040 kills men,

01:13:10.140 we choose.

01:13:11.960 We choose.

01:13:14.340 Right?

01:13:14.920 If drinking is

01:13:16.380 dangerous and I

01:13:17.160 choose to drink,

01:13:18.900 well, what's the

01:13:22.060 problem?

01:13:22.780 If riding a bicycle

01:13:23.940 is dangerous, as it

01:13:26.560 was yesterday when I

01:13:27.520 rode over some glass

01:13:29.040 and popped my tires

01:13:30.000 on a busy highway, I

01:13:32.660 had a bad day.

01:13:33.380 I had a real bad

01:13:34.220 night last night.

01:13:35.680 I won't get into it.

01:13:37.020 I won't get into

01:13:38.420 it, but it was

01:13:39.760 supposed to be a

01:13:40.300 terrific night on

01:13:41.120 my e-bike, turned

01:13:42.160 into a clusterfuck

01:13:44.100 when I ran over

01:13:46.200 some glass.

01:13:47.140 Anyway, that's

01:13:48.220 about me.

01:13:48.720 You don't care

01:13:49.100 about that.

01:13:49.900 The point is that

01:13:50.800 if men are making

01:13:52.100 riskier choices,

01:13:53.760 fully aware of the

01:13:55.040 risk, if they

01:13:57.300 don't care, why

01:13:59.160 do you care?

01:14:00.480 Why do I care?

01:14:01.140 So it's sort of

01:14:02.280 an interesting

01:14:02.860 factoid that we're

01:14:04.100 supposed to get

01:14:04.600 excited about.

01:14:05.660 But if men are

01:14:06.400 dying faster because

01:14:07.600 they do things

01:14:08.720 knowingly, you

01:14:10.820 know, completely

01:14:11.280 knowingly about what

01:14:13.020 the risks are, well,

01:14:14.960 that's not going to

01:14:15.860 be my top problem.

01:14:19.200 All right.

01:14:21.540 And the article in

01:14:23.660 Fatherly suggested

01:14:26.060 that one of the

01:14:27.520 reasons that men do

01:14:28.420 riskier things is

01:14:30.060 because of

01:14:30.640 masculine stereotypes.

01:14:34.760 Men?

01:14:36.820 Let's speak to this

01:14:37.900 because there are

01:14:39.280 women watching and

01:14:41.280 we can educate them

01:14:42.240 now.

01:14:43.000 Is the reason that

01:14:43.780 men do riskier

01:14:46.240 things because of

01:14:47.520 our masculine

01:14:48.360 stereotype?

01:14:52.040 No.

01:14:54.200 No.

01:14:55.500 I can see why

01:14:56.820 that would have

01:14:57.820 an effect, right?

01:14:58.740 I can see that a

01:14:59.680 masculine stereotype

01:15:01.520 might encourage you

01:15:02.820 to act a certain

01:15:03.440 way.

01:15:04.340 There's some of

01:15:04.980 that.

01:15:05.200 I'm not going to

01:15:05.700 discount that

01:15:06.340 entirely.

01:15:07.640 But far and

01:15:08.620 away, far and

01:15:10.840 away is our

01:15:11.600 chemical composition.

01:15:13.800 It's our chemical

01:15:14.820 composition that

01:15:15.640 makes us do

01:15:16.420 risky stuff.

01:15:17.480 We're literally

01:15:18.220 designed for it.

01:15:19.620 We're designed for

01:15:20.600 risky behavior.

01:15:21.940 We don't even

01:15:22.800 hate it.

01:15:23.220 You know, I

01:15:24.860 often talk about

01:15:25.600 the violent world

01:15:26.640 of men, but

01:15:28.400 the reason it's

01:15:29.160 not like a huge

01:15:30.920 topic that men

01:15:31.740 walk around in a

01:15:32.680 continuous state of

01:15:33.640 implied violence

01:15:34.760 is because we like

01:15:36.280 it.

01:15:37.620 We're born to it.

01:15:39.000 We're designed to be

01:15:40.720 in dangerous

01:15:41.260 situations.

01:15:42.460 We're kind of

01:15:43.300 drawn to it.

01:15:44.180 Not every person,

01:15:45.280 right?

01:15:45.540 Like, everybody's

01:15:46.160 different, so men

01:15:47.200 are different.

01:15:47.960 I'll give you all of

01:15:48.740 that.

01:15:49.120 You don't have to

01:15:49.580 argue the specifics.

01:15:50.600 But on average,

01:15:52.820 we're designed to

01:15:53.560 go kill shit.

01:15:56.040 That's what we

01:15:56.900 were built for.

01:15:58.400 So if you see it

01:15:59.400 happening, don't be

01:16:00.140 too surprised.

01:16:02.280 You know, if you

01:16:02.860 design a killer, you

01:16:04.740 get a killer.

01:16:07.440 Yeah, we evolved to

01:16:08.340 do exactly the

01:16:09.640 risky stuff.

01:16:10.400 And it makes sense

01:16:11.220 because there are

01:16:12.400 too many men for

01:16:13.580 reproduction.

01:16:16.140 But if men are

01:16:17.000 out there doing

01:16:17.520 risky things, some

01:16:18.540 of it will pay

01:16:19.020 off.

01:16:19.300 You know, you

01:16:20.380 can start a

01:16:21.400 start-up, you

01:16:22.940 know, use all

01:16:24.000 of your money to

01:16:24.860 try to find a

01:16:26.280 new medicine, but

01:16:27.080 maybe sometimes

01:16:27.720 you succeed.

01:16:29.300 So that risky

01:16:30.220 behavior is purely

01:16:31.980 positive, not for

01:16:33.360 the people taking

01:16:33.960 the risk, always,

01:16:35.020 but for the rest

01:16:35.680 of us.

01:16:40.780 I have three

01:16:41.600 sons.

01:16:42.100 This is my

01:16:42.700 observation about

01:16:43.560 danger.

01:16:44.160 I'm not raising

01:16:44.920 killers.

01:16:46.640 Yes, you are.

01:16:49.300 So there's a

01:16:50.420 mom here on

01:16:51.060 Locals who's

01:16:52.660 saying that she

01:16:53.080 has three sons

01:16:53.680 and she's not

01:16:54.280 raising killers.

01:16:55.400 I think you

01:16:56.120 are.

01:16:57.360 I think you

01:16:57.880 are.

01:16:59.020 Now, on

01:17:00.120 average, if

01:17:01.120 there are three

01:17:01.580 of them, I'm

01:17:02.080 not going to say

01:17:02.520 all three are

01:17:03.080 going to be

01:17:03.360 killers.

01:17:04.080 But if you

01:17:04.580 think that not

01:17:05.260 one of three

01:17:06.040 sons would

01:17:08.280 kill somebody if

01:17:09.260 the situation

01:17:09.820 called for it,

01:17:10.640 I think you're

01:17:11.120 probably wrong.

01:17:12.680 Pretty much

01:17:13.400 most men would

01:17:14.600 kill somebody

01:17:15.320 under the right

01:17:16.580 conditions.

01:17:17.100 I mean, you'd

01:17:17.820 have to have a

01:17:18.220 reason.

01:17:19.800 But when I

01:17:21.400 play through my

01:17:22.540 mind killing

01:17:24.020 somebody who has

01:17:24.780 it coming, I

01:17:26.060 never imagine it

01:17:26.940 has lasting

01:17:27.620 negative impact

01:17:28.680 on me.

01:17:29.840 Do you?

01:17:30.460 Do you ever

01:17:30.980 think that way?

01:17:31.680 I do think if I

01:17:32.600 accidentally killed

01:17:33.960 somebody, that

01:17:35.220 would haunt me

01:17:35.860 forever, for

01:17:37.180 sure.

01:17:38.240 But if somebody

01:17:39.160 was a home

01:17:40.520 invader, they

01:17:42.060 were in the

01:17:42.480 process of a

01:17:43.380 violent crime and

01:17:44.220 you took them

01:17:44.680 out, I can't

01:17:46.060 imagine that I

01:17:46.720 would ever

01:17:47.040 even lose a

01:17:48.840 little sleep

01:17:49.380 about that.

01:17:50.440 I don't even

01:17:50.940 think I'd

01:17:51.320 think about it

01:17:51.840 much.

01:17:53.360 I think men

01:17:54.300 can kill when

01:17:56.200 the reason is

01:17:56.840 good enough,

01:17:58.240 somewhat

01:17:59.920 effortlessly.

01:18:08.060 As they say

01:18:08.840 in Texas, some

01:18:09.720 people deserve a

01:18:10.540 killing.

01:18:12.020 All right, so

01:18:12.880 let me give you

01:18:13.900 the answer now.

01:18:14.680 How high am I?

01:18:17.340 Go.

01:18:19.140 In the

01:18:19.620 comments, how

01:18:21.580 high am I?

01:18:24.460 I'm seeing

01:18:25.000 very, slightly,

01:18:26.640 not, 4 out of

01:18:27.660 10.

01:18:27.940 You're all over

01:18:28.420 the place.

01:18:28.840 7 out of 10,

01:18:29.740 3 out of 10,

01:18:32.340 not.

01:18:34.460 So you're all

01:18:35.100 over the place.

01:18:35.860 Some people

01:18:36.300 say 9 out of

01:18:37.120 10.

01:18:39.000 Are you ready

01:18:39.600 for the answer?

01:18:40.040 Not.

01:18:43.260 The answer is

01:18:43.740 zero.

01:18:47.780 So is that

01:18:49.840 interesting to

01:18:50.420 you?

01:18:50.880 Is it

01:18:51.240 interesting that

01:18:52.040 you couldn't

01:18:52.460 tell?

01:18:54.400 Because I've

01:18:56.100 been pretty high

01:18:57.280 when I've done

01:18:57.800 these live streams

01:18:58.680 and, you know,

01:19:00.200 unless I told you,

01:19:00.980 you didn't know

01:19:01.380 the difference.

01:19:05.000 Or just guess

01:19:05.900 right.

01:19:06.120 I noticed

01:19:08.380 you're talking

01:19:08.840 faster.

01:19:09.460 You were

01:19:09.720 correct.

01:19:11.380 Oh, somebody

01:19:12.040 got the tell.

01:19:12.860 The tell is that

01:19:13.560 I talk faster.

01:19:16.260 Yeah.

01:19:16.800 And now, that's

01:19:17.600 also a sativa

01:19:18.580 versus indica

01:19:19.460 difference.

01:19:20.160 The indica

01:19:20.580 makes me talk

01:19:21.300 slower.

01:19:22.200 I was quite

01:19:22.720 aware of it

01:19:23.240 when I

01:19:23.560 accidentally did

01:19:24.300 the indica.

01:19:25.660 The sativa

01:19:26.300 can make me

01:19:27.420 a little closer

01:19:28.660 to my current

01:19:29.320 speed.

01:19:30.460 I don't think

01:19:31.080 you'd notice

01:19:31.440 as much.

01:19:31.820 Am I

01:19:34.280 sick?

01:19:34.760 No.

01:19:35.760 Oh, let me

01:19:36.780 ask you this.

01:19:39.860 I'm not

01:19:40.500 sure I don't

01:19:41.200 have long

01:19:41.760 COVID.

01:19:42.240 I told you

01:19:42.660 I didn't

01:19:43.180 because I

01:19:44.300 haven't had

01:19:44.640 the brain

01:19:44.980 fog.

01:19:45.960 But the

01:19:47.100 afternoons,

01:19:47.920 I've experienced

01:19:48.820 a type of

01:19:49.580 fatigue that

01:19:50.220 I've never

01:19:50.660 experienced

01:19:51.340 before.

01:19:52.740 Like a

01:19:53.380 completely

01:19:53.820 unnatural

01:19:54.340 kind.

01:19:55.420 And it's

01:19:57.720 getting me

01:19:58.220 pretty much

01:19:58.760 every afternoon.

01:20:00.480 So my

01:20:00.920 mornings are

01:20:01.380 still okay.

01:20:02.280 Although it's

01:20:02.640 really hard

01:20:03.180 to get my

01:20:05.100 body working

01:20:05.920 in the

01:20:06.160 morning.

01:20:06.720 It sort

01:20:07.040 of aches

01:20:07.480 like it

01:20:07.820 never used

01:20:08.340 to.

01:20:11.440 But it

01:20:12.040 seems to

01:20:12.440 me that

01:20:12.900 in the

01:20:13.100 afternoon I

01:20:13.680 have a

01:20:13.920 kind of

01:20:14.360 fatigue that

01:20:16.260 I didn't

01:20:16.660 have a

01:20:17.000 year ago.

01:20:17.940 Now people

01:20:18.500 are saying

01:20:18.880 age, and

01:20:19.500 that's the

01:20:20.020 obvious

01:20:20.400 hypothesis.

01:20:22.560 But does

01:20:23.400 it change

01:20:23.860 in one

01:20:24.160 year?

01:20:25.240 That's a

01:20:25.860 pretty big

01:20:26.560 change.

01:20:27.120 I mean,

01:20:27.280 it's really

01:20:27.740 profound.

01:20:28.580 And I know

01:20:29.060 what fatigue

01:20:29.620 feels like.

01:20:30.240 I know

01:20:31.920 what fatigue

01:20:32.400 feels like.

01:20:32.960 It doesn't

01:20:33.280 feel like

01:20:33.600 this.

01:20:34.700 So whatever

01:20:35.300 this is.

01:20:37.020 Now somebody

01:20:37.480 is saying

01:20:37.780 it's marijuana.

01:20:39.420 But remember,

01:20:40.460 I'm a

01:20:40.780 lifetime

01:20:41.100 chronic

01:20:42.080 marijuana

01:20:42.540 sleeper.

01:20:44.460 I'm a

01:20:45.120 lifetime

01:20:45.620 chronic

01:20:46.620 marijuana

01:20:47.220 user.

01:20:48.240 So I

01:20:48.640 know exactly

01:20:49.360 what my

01:20:49.860 energy should

01:20:50.660 be like at

01:20:51.340 any time of

01:20:51.860 the day in

01:20:52.480 every situation.

01:20:53.560 And this

01:20:53.820 is completely

01:20:54.700 out of

01:20:55.180 pattern.

01:20:55.780 Completely.

01:20:56.200 This is so

01:20:57.360 far out of

01:20:57.820 pattern that

01:20:59.240 I don't

01:20:59.940 know if I

01:21:00.360 should be

01:21:00.640 hospitalized for

01:21:01.460 it or go

01:21:02.160 to the

01:21:02.340 doctor.

01:21:02.860 I'm going

01:21:03.180 to wait

01:21:03.420 it out.

01:21:05.160 No, it's

01:21:05.560 not depression

01:21:06.060 because I

01:21:06.700 don't have a

01:21:07.520 mental problem

01:21:09.180 that's associated

01:21:09.880 with it.

01:21:11.060 Can you

01:21:11.480 nap?

01:21:11.900 Yes.

01:21:12.720 Yes.

01:21:13.500 But in

01:21:15.840 order to get

01:21:16.520 past this

01:21:17.820 fatigue, I

01:21:18.880 would have to

01:21:19.320 nap two to

01:21:19.940 three hours

01:21:20.460 in the

01:21:20.660 afternoon.

01:21:22.160 Roughly.

01:21:23.400 But if I

01:21:24.000 do, I feel

01:21:24.460 pretty good.

01:21:24.920 And I've

01:21:25.920 done that a

01:21:26.320 few times.

01:21:27.280 But it's

01:21:27.900 hard.

01:21:29.040 My current

01:21:29.520 problem is

01:21:30.060 that I

01:21:30.340 itch when I

01:21:31.040 lay down.

01:21:32.860 I don't

01:21:33.360 know how

01:21:33.580 much of

01:21:33.840 that is

01:21:34.060 psychological.

01:21:35.040 Maybe all

01:21:35.560 of it.

01:21:36.320 As soon as

01:21:36.800 I lay down

01:21:37.240 to sleep,

01:21:37.780 my body

01:21:39.140 itches.

01:21:40.340 And the

01:21:40.760 itches on

01:21:41.680 the parts

01:21:42.040 I'm laying

01:21:42.480 on that I

01:21:43.880 can't reach.

01:21:44.900 So I have

01:21:45.280 to move.

01:21:46.900 So if I

01:21:47.340 lay on my

01:21:47.760 left side,

01:21:48.460 the left

01:21:48.860 side where

01:21:49.200 I'm laying

01:21:49.520 on, I

01:21:50.140 get an

01:21:50.440 incredible

01:21:50.800 itch on

01:21:51.620 the part I

01:21:52.040 can't reach.

01:21:53.120 And then I

01:21:53.560 get an itch

01:21:53.940 right in the

01:21:54.220 middle of my

01:21:54.580 back.

01:21:54.920 I can't

01:21:55.240 reach.

01:21:57.960 Bed

01:21:58.400 bugs.

01:21:58.860 No, it's

01:21:59.120 not bed

01:21:59.440 bugs.

01:22:03.240 Shall I

01:22:03.800 sleep

01:22:04.060 eating in

01:22:04.420 an easy

01:22:04.660 chair?

01:22:06.240 Well, I

01:22:06.840 do have a

01:22:07.340 massage chair

01:22:08.120 that I

01:22:08.420 can sleep

01:22:08.820 in fine.

01:22:11.840 I may

01:22:12.460 go get

01:22:12.800 blood work

01:22:13.360 because this

01:22:13.980 is crazy.

01:22:15.160 Would I

01:22:15.700 try TRT?

01:22:16.640 Yeah, maybe.

01:22:18.180 You know, I

01:22:18.480 looked into it

01:22:19.060 years ago.

01:22:20.320 Years ago, I

01:22:21.240 was, you

01:22:22.900 know, having

01:22:23.400 some physical

01:22:24.580 physical, it

01:22:26.180 turns out to

01:22:26.940 be exhaustion.

01:22:28.500 But I

01:22:29.000 thought maybe I

01:22:29.580 was low on

01:22:30.080 testosterone.

01:22:30.900 This was

01:22:31.120 probably in

01:22:31.460 my 40s.

01:22:33.700 And so I

01:22:34.600 wouldn't have

01:22:34.900 had a check

01:22:35.260 and it was

01:22:35.720 just normal.

01:22:37.380 So it was

01:22:38.300 just fatigue.

01:22:38.780 you were

01:22:44.960 of a certain

01:22:45.340 age, get

01:22:45.880 checked.

01:22:46.460 Yeah, I

01:22:46.780 mean, I

01:22:47.240 would assume

01:22:48.080 my testosterone

01:22:49.620 is lower.

01:22:51.020 But it

01:22:51.780 was the

01:22:52.800 fatigue

01:22:53.980 happened

01:22:54.560 directly after

01:22:55.500 the COVID

01:22:56.000 and was

01:22:57.040 never there

01:22:57.580 like that

01:22:58.060 before.

01:22:58.700 So I

01:23:00.160 don't know.

01:23:01.140 Now, I

01:23:01.460 don't have

01:23:01.720 any post

01:23:02.240 depression,

01:23:03.280 post-divorce

01:23:04.680 depression.

01:23:05.120 Because remember,

01:23:07.420 remember, by the

01:23:08.220 time you hear

01:23:08.900 about something

01:23:10.140 in my personal

01:23:10.840 life, it's

01:23:12.400 already a year

01:23:13.020 old.

01:23:13.800 Because you

01:23:14.160 don't hear it

01:23:14.520 when it's

01:23:14.760 fresh, right?

01:23:15.800 So the

01:23:17.340 divorce is in

01:23:18.760 my rear view

01:23:19.400 mirror.

01:23:19.760 That's not

01:23:20.160 affecting me

01:23:20.740 right now.

01:23:23.460 Am I

01:23:24.140 turning into a

01:23:24.800 trans?

01:23:26.000 Good

01:23:26.520 question.

01:23:30.560 Dehydration.

01:23:31.980 You know, I

01:23:32.800 thought maybe

01:23:33.320 dehydration, but

01:23:34.180 I, so I've

01:23:36.580 been hydrating

01:23:37.480 a lot.

01:23:39.040 It's

01:23:39.280 inflation, that's

01:23:39.980 the problem.

01:23:40.380 All right.

01:23:41.000 Nobody wants

01:23:41.520 to talk about

01:23:41.940 my problems

01:23:42.440 anymore, but

01:23:43.440 Dr. Drew,

01:23:46.300 yeah, he

01:23:46.900 had long

01:23:48.040 COVID, for

01:23:48.740 sure.

01:23:50.580 But I

01:23:52.300 think I

01:23:52.700 have it.

01:23:54.020 That would

01:23:54.840 be my best

01:23:55.860 hypothesis.

01:23:57.820 Somebody says

01:23:58.400 see a doctor,

01:23:59.140 but there's

01:23:59.420 nothing you

01:23:59.840 can do about

01:24:00.320 long COVID,

01:24:01.000 is there?

01:24:01.220 I don't

01:24:03.180 think there

01:24:03.480 is.

01:24:03.860 Anyway, I'll

01:24:05.180 talk to you

01:24:05.660 tomorrow on

01:24:06.480 YouTube.

01:24:07.260 Bye for

01:24:07.600 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 28, 2022

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