Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1806 Scott Adams： It's A Funny News Story Day. Come Join Me For A Beverage and Some Laughs

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the optimistic show that makes you feel better

00:00:09.920 every time. Are you watching the other news-related programs and wishing that you could end your life?

00:00:16.560 No, don't do it. Don't do it. Watch Coffee with Scott Adams every day, and I'll put the positive

00:00:21.480 spin on the bad news, because, you know, sometimes it's good. And if you think that I'm leading you

00:00:31.020 toward the golden age, I am. Here's a little tip. I'm not predicting the golden age. I'm only

00:00:41.860 pretending to predict it. I'm actually causing it to happen. And what's happening right now is that

00:00:48.340 I'm nudging you onto what I call the... Wait for it. Wait for it. Listen carefully.

00:00:57.360 Oh, YouTube just went offline. Is that weird? Right before my punchline. YouTube's offline.

00:01:10.560 Hey, I'm back. Can you actually see me on YouTube? Nope.

00:01:18.340 Just lost me again. So YouTube just lost me again. Huh. I'm going to run... I know you care,

00:01:27.300 so I'm going to run a speed check on my... my Wi-Fi. Speed check. There you can watch.

00:01:36.380 Let's see how we're doing. Well, that looks good. So it doesn't look like a Wi-Fi problem,

00:01:48.860 right? Looks pretty good. Let's see if YouTube's back. That can't be on my side, right?

00:01:58.120 Is anybody technical enough to verify that? You're only as fast as your slowest point. Yeah,

00:02:11.500 of course. Huh. Interesting. Oh, hey. Hello. Are you back? Can anybody on YouTube tell me if

00:02:22.680 YouTube is having a problem or is it just my feed? Because I have a good feed-ish on locals? All right.

00:02:31.400 Well, let's take it from here. You know, you may have interrupted my flow. Have you noticed that if

00:02:39.540 I lose my flow at the beginning of the show, I never recover it? Has anybody ever noticed that?

00:02:44.360 Sometimes I just have to give up. Anyway, losing my flow is actually my biggest problem that I have,

00:02:54.040 you know, working at home. All right. All right. It looks like we've recovered. Everybody good?

00:03:01.840 You want to pretend like it never happened? Well, let's go to this simultaneous sip. But all you need

00:03:07.400 is a cup, a mug, a glass, a tank, or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a drug, a flask, a vessel,

00:03:10.320 a vinikai, fill it with a favorite liquid. Let's hurry before the technology dies again. Go. 0.98

00:03:19.860 Oh, we were waiting for the punchline. On YouTube, you missed the punchline. Let's see if it makes it

00:03:25.400 go offline again. All right. It goes something like this. You may not think. It goes like this.

00:03:36.060 You might think that I'm predicting we're heading toward a golden age where everything's better.

00:03:44.460 But I'm not predicting it. I'm causing it. And what I'm doing specifically is I'm trying to

00:03:50.840 nudge the public onto, wait for it, listen carefully, YouTube, don't go offline, don't go offline.

00:03:59.600 Don't. Wait. Wait for the punchline. I'm going to nudge you onto the sippery slope. You're welcome.

00:04:08.880 The sippery slope. Because when you take it, oh, it wasn't that bad. Shut up. Shut up.

00:04:15.620 Talk about a joke that wasn't worth waiting for. Wow. Well, it's getting harder to brag. I know this 1.00

00:04:25.560 is not a problem for a lot of you, but for people like me, if you are a narcissist, it's getting hard.

00:04:34.100 Let me give you an example. Early in my career, I did a Dilbert comic in which I included some

00:04:41.940 reference to Garfield, the other comic. Now, there's a standard within the cartoonist world

00:04:48.500 that if you mention somebody else's comic in your comic, there's sort of a custom that happens after

00:04:55.420 that. And the custom is that the person who was mentioned will often contact you and say,

00:05:01.020 can I have the original? Because cartoonists will collect originals from other cartoonists.

00:05:05.460 And so when I mentioned Garfield, and this is when, you know, I was basically an unknown. I just

00:05:12.220 started cartooning. I got contacted by Jim Davis. Now, you can imagine if you're a starting cartoonist,

00:05:19.300 you know, just imagine what happens if, you know, Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, when Garfield's,

00:05:24.440 you know, gigantic. Imagine being contacted by the creator of Garfield and asking for your original.

00:05:30.560 It's like the coolest thing ever, right? If you're just starting out cartooning, it's like the Pope

00:05:36.220 just patted you on the head or something. So I, of course, agreed immediately and sent him my crappy

00:05:41.700 Dilbert comic with ink that probably disappeared a week after he got it. I didn't use permanent ink

00:05:49.160 in those days. And don't ask why, it's a long story. But so I've got, so now I've got this original

00:05:56.600 Garfield. Probably at the time it was worth maybe $1,000, you know, which would be more today. And I

00:06:04.380 thought, you know, it's not enough to own one. Other people have to see this thing. And I'm like,

00:06:10.740 what is the point of reaching this pinnacle of my cartooning success at that point? If I can't,

00:06:17.700 if I get a show off, show it to somebody. So I took it to my local framing shop. And here was what I

00:06:24.560 thought would be my first, my first hit of, you know, narcissistic supply. I thought, wait until,

00:06:31.440 wait until the person I asked to frame this, because there's where you leave it and they frame

00:06:35.180 it for you. I thought, wait until the person I asked to frame this figures out what this is.

00:06:41.840 It's like gold, right? And he's, and the person's going to ask, naturally, I figure, they're going to

00:06:47.520 say, is this an original Garfield? And I would say, yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, it is. And then,

00:06:55.020 of course, he would follow up, like, how is it that you've come into acquisition of this valuable

00:06:59.840 property? And I would say, oh, he sent it to me. If you have other questions, you might want to follow

00:07:07.160 up. Oh, why? Why did he send it to me? Oh, oh, it turns out that I'm also a cartoonist. Yeah,

00:07:14.480 yeah. I do a cartoon and it caught his attention and he liked it. Yeah. Top cartoonist in the world

00:07:20.700 who's maybe living, he liked my cartoon. So, so he asked if he could trade. That's how I thought it

00:07:28.060 would go. In my mind, I imagined myself fake humbly saying how I got it while he was like impressed.

00:07:36.040 And then I'd feel some narcissistic supply and I'd be like, feeling good for today. That's what I

00:07:41.360 hoped. That's not how it went. Here's how it went. I'm standing in line behind one other

00:07:48.740 customer. There's just three of us in the store. The person who owns the place, customer in front of

00:07:55.260 me and me. Customer in front of me is getting a framed Garfield. Yep. We both had one.

00:08:12.000 And then do you know what the, do you know what the store owner said to me when I brought mine?

00:08:21.920 Third one today. Now it turns out that was a joke. It was not the third one today,

00:08:28.060 but the fact that there were two of them. Talk about deflating. My God. Now fast forward to last

00:08:37.300 night. All right. So fast forward, you know, a few decades to last night. My new thing that I like to

00:08:44.480 humbly drop into stories, not really humbly at all, is that I once visited the Oval Office and talked to

00:08:52.720 the president, Trump. Now, if that is, let me tell you, if that ever happens to you or something like

00:08:59.540 it, you're not going to keep that to yourself. Right? Now I'm worse because I like bragging.

00:09:07.720 So I want everybody to know. But I don't want to be like, I got invited to the White House. So I want

00:09:13.280 it to be like subtly, you know, maybe it just comes up as a natural part of the conversation. I'll be

00:09:18.060 like, yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact. Yep. Bend the Oval Office. So I'll do things like if there's a,

00:09:25.060 you know, news program and it shows the Oval Office, you know, I'll drop in something like,

00:09:30.500 huh, looks like they changed the rug. You know, just leave that in there. Huh? Looks like, is that

00:09:36.880 the same lamp? Looks like a different lamp. You know, just wait for somebody to ask the question.

00:09:41.340 Like, well, I don't like to brag, but I've been there. Yep. Ivanka gave me a tour of the furniture

00:09:47.600 in the Oval Office. Probably happens to a lot of people. So like that. So anyway,

00:09:53.840 so, so I like to get my little narcissistic supply by telling people that I was once in

00:10:00.500 the Oval Office. Last night, I'm at a, you know, neighborhood gathering in town and just

00:10:07.440 talking to the neighbors and, and once again, politics came up and I thought, well, here,

00:10:12.480 here's my opportunity. I'm going to, I'm going to just drop this in here because when you're

00:10:17.380 just talking to the neighbors, like literally the people who live on your block, you know,

00:10:22.060 that's going to be a little extra, a little extra impressive, wouldn't you say? Because

00:10:26.520 you know, often I'm talking to other public figures and they've done interesting things

00:10:30.120 too. But if you're just talking to the neighbors, you can really, you can really wow the neighbors.

00:10:36.960 So I was talking to a woman who lives in the neighborhood and I mentioned, you know, I,

00:10:43.500 I've been in the Oval Office. I met the president and she said, yeah, I had dinner with Obama.

00:10:52.220 And I just thought, well, fuck it. I'm just going to give up. Like I, well, I'm just going 1.00

00:10:58.300 to give up. Is there, is there anybody I can talk to who hasn't done something better? Good

00:11:03.900 Lord. What do I have to do? What do I have to do? I don't know. So I know lots of you have your own

00:11:17.080 problems and your own problems seem big to you, but you know, everybody thinks their own problem.

00:11:22.640 Will you give me a moment for some sympathy? I've been trying to brag for years and it's not working

00:11:28.600 out at all. So I'll just keep trying. Yesterday I saw a straight news piece that made me laugh for

00:11:37.880 10 minutes, right? Now remember I said that parody and reality have merged. If you can find a better

00:11:45.100 example than this. Now I'm going to read you the actual straight headline and you tell me that it's

00:11:52.760 not a joke, right? Try to distinguish between the actual headline. I'm not making this up. This is an

00:11:58.480 actual headline from yesterday. Kamala Harris's speechwriter quit.

00:12:07.500 It's not just me, right?

00:12:13.420 And I went to retweet it and add a joke and I couldn't do it. I couldn't add a joke because

00:12:22.160 you can't add a joke to the joke. Like that's just piling on. There was nothing you could say

00:12:27.040 into that to make it funnier. I just laughed for 10 minutes and every time I kept to, I

00:12:31.380 kept trying to do a quote tweet where I, you know, add the, add the humorous, the humorous

00:12:38.120 spin on it. There's no humorous spin you can add on that. Well, I thought, but it turns out

00:12:45.580 that one professional, oh, damn it. Did I not write that down? Oh, somebody had a better joke 0.99

00:12:55.000 than I did. Quoting, quoting the speechwriter humorously. Anyway, nevermind. But I wondered

00:13:02.500 if this would, this is generating a whole category of jokes. Do you know how Letterman used to do the top

00:13:10.700 10 list? And he could, it seems like they could always make that funny, at least a few items on

00:13:15.960 it. Cause there's something about a top 10 list that just naturally is easier to write jokes to.

00:13:22.040 It's a, it's a format that you could easily write jokes to. But when I heard that Kamala Harris's

00:13:26.160 speechwriter quit, I thought, uh, I have an announcement too. My hairstylist has resigned.

00:13:34.140 So this is my public announcement. Uh, my hairstylist has resigned. And if that wasn't bad enough, it

00:13:44.580 was, it was a bad day on my staff. Uh, my personal stylist quit. Yeah. My personal stylist quit.

00:13:54.660 One day I wear a white t-shirt because it's laundry day. My personal stylist says, fuck it, 1.00

00:14:02.240 I'm out of here. Um, I have some other news about other people. Um, Michael Moore's personal 0.99

00:14:07.560 trainer quit. Just resigned, walked off the door. So am I wrong that this is a genre we can play with?

00:14:18.100 I don't understand what that means. Somebody just said, my gynecologist just quit. I don't know

00:14:24.160 why that's funny. You're not even on the right, that's not even the right theme.

00:14:32.240 Uh, it's funnier because it doesn't work. It's funnier because it doesn't work. Uh, it's funnier

00:14:40.060 because it doesn't work. Uh, yeah, I know it's the guy that said it, but it's funnier because

00:14:47.480 it doesn't work. Uh, well, I guess if you're saying, uh, I mean, that's, that's a little too

00:14:54.620 far. All right. Uh, here's a mystery solved. Maybe. Um, I've been wondering why there haven't

00:15:04.960 been any gigantic forest fires this year in California. Now, if you don't live in California,

00:15:10.200 you have not noticed that they're not here. Um, and I'm pretty sure that we were seeing them

00:15:17.700 by now last year in the year before, no trees left. We got a few left and it turns out there

00:15:25.160 was a 60 minutes report that may have explained why. So apparently we have now, uh, although

00:15:30.960 it's not being as utilized or used, I like to say as much as it could be, there is a helicopter

00:15:38.120 fleet of rapid response, um, types. And, and there are big Chinook type helicopters, you know,

00:15:45.260 the, the, the double rotors that can lift up anything and they can carry enormous amounts

00:15:50.820 of, uh, fire retardant. But the big difference is they're equipped to fly at night. I didn't 0.99

00:15:56.320 know this, but did you know this? That they stop, uh, fighting fires at night, at least by

00:16:02.840 air. Did you know that? Because I guess the regular, uh, uh, night flying is too dangerous.

00:16:10.080 But if you, if you use the ones that are sort of military grade Chinooks that are meant for 1.00

00:16:16.460 all kinds of nighttime things, they can do it safely. And it's much easier to fight the

00:16:21.560 fire because it doesn't rage as much at night. So you get it at its weakest point. But apparently

00:16:26.180 the idea is for an enormous amount of money. So like one, one flight of these helicopters

00:16:33.580 is going to be, you know, millions and millions of dollars. Well, not one flight, but one fire,

00:16:37.500 you know, fighting one fire would be many millions for these helicopters, but, um, it's because

00:16:46.080 of the low altitude. That's what makes it dangerous for planes. Somebody's saying that makes sense.

00:16:50.880 So somebody says $23,000 an hour. That sounds about right. But apparently the company that

00:16:59.320 makes them makes the claim that, uh, even though they're insanely expensive, it's less expensive

00:17:05.420 than letting the fire get out of control. And on that, I think they make an actually good argument.

00:17:11.540 Now,

00:17:12.640 is it solved? You know, I had an idea that maybe is the next generation. I thought that we should have a, 0.96

00:17:21.700 um, a fleet of drones that's always flying around looking for any fires. Now, I guess they're using

00:17:28.640 the helicopters for that and the night vision, but you could use a drone for that. So I think there

00:17:33.260 should always be drones in the air and always looking for forest fires anywhere in California.

00:17:38.600 You know, as soon as one lands, another one takes off sort of thing. So if you spot it quickly,

00:17:43.640 I guess that's half the fight, right? You could put night vision on the, uh, easily put night vision

00:17:48.600 on a drone. But then I thought, what if you had a fleet of firefighting drones? A little too soon for

00:17:58.540 that. I don't think we could have the technology, but if they were, uh, helicopter drones, could they

00:18:05.060 not do what the Chinook did? You know, maybe, maybe you just need the human pilot at this point, but,

00:18:11.620 but at some point, that's what I think it's going to be. At some point, I think forest fires will be

00:18:16.380 spotted by drones. And then the first phase of suppression will be drones. And maybe the first

00:18:24.580 drones can't carry as much, but you've got lots of them, right? It's just, you're just black in the 1.00

00:18:28.920 sky with smaller drones that don't have a big payload, but there are lots of them and they're

00:18:34.360 fast. I don't know. I think that's where we're going. But it's nice to know that it's possible

00:18:39.440 that these helicopters might be the reason that my sky looks blue.

00:18:44.380 All right. So that's good news. Um, I saw a tweet by a Twitter user Machiavelli's underbelly,

00:19:00.680 who is a real good follow. If you're looking for a good follow on, especially on AI and technology

00:19:07.320 related stuff, just search for Machiavelli's underbelly. Machiavelli spelled just the way you

00:19:14.200 think it is. All right. And he notes, um, somebody else was tweeting, there are a whole bunch of bot

00:19:21.580 accounts requesting that we go hard with new mask mandates. And the bots are saying the exact same

00:19:29.080 thing. It's obvious it's a cut and paste and it's all kinds of different accounts. And as Machiavelli's

00:19:36.120 underbelly, uh, alleges, now this is an allegation, but I don't think it's wrong. There's a foreign 1.00

00:19:42.260 entity that is flooding us with bots trying to destroy, destroy America by bringing up the mask

00:19:49.080 mandate thing again. What do you think? Do you think, and I do think the evidence was strong.

00:19:55.960 There was a list. There was actually a video list of a whole bunch of accounts that all have the same

00:20:00.660 thing. And, oh, you know what? If you find it, just do a search on some of the terms and you can see

00:20:06.940 within Twitter, you should see all the accounts just pop up because it's the same terms they use.

00:20:12.360 Now, who do you think would be behind it? Do you think, first of all, well, let me state with,

00:20:18.980 if these are, if the accounts shown really exist, then there is a bot problem. And it's a bot problem

00:20:26.920 pushing masks. Who would do that? Do you think that a domestic entity would do that?

00:20:34.900 I mean, anything's possible, but it seems very unlikely. I don't see it domestic. So would you

00:20:40.480 buy that if it's a bot attack, it's foreign? I think it's foreign. Yeah. You could argue that 0.97

00:20:50.240 maybe it would help somebody in the election, but that's a little murky, isn't it? I don't really see

00:20:55.760 how that's going to help any American. Not really. So I feel as though it's got to be foreign. And 1.00

00:21:02.360 who would be the most likely culprits, China or Russia? China or Russia? China. You don't think

00:21:14.400 Russia? Isn't Russia more implicated in bots? Both? Say both. Well, this is a specific attack.

00:21:25.760 So, I mean, it's Iran? Yeah. It feels Chinese, but that's just a guess. All right. So I guess

00:21:41.060 I'm a little late on this story, but we're still talking about Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia,

00:21:46.300 and he did a fist bump with the Saudi's crown prince there. And the fist bump was even Adam

00:21:56.900 Schiff criticized Biden. Is that the first time? Adam Schiff just directly criticized him pretty

00:22:05.900 aggressively. And I got to say, I didn't think I would ever respect anything that came out of Adam

00:22:12.900 Schiff's mouth. But that was exactly the right thing to do. Yeah. I hate to give him credit,

00:22:20.360 but he just went hard at his own party for something that was perfectly appropriate criticism,

00:22:26.040 in my opinion. Can we give him that? Let's see if we can fight with our confirmation bias and our

00:22:33.140 team spirit up just to give him that. Right? Schiff is a piece of shit. He's like one of the worst

00:22:39.800 human beings I've ever experienced in public life. Just an opinion. But I'll give him that, 0.99

00:22:47.600 because he went after his own team and it was the right call. Now, what do you think was in Biden's

00:22:52.440 mind when he did this fist bump? What the hell was he thinking? Because the fist bump,

00:23:00.320 it feels to me like that is a clear sign of a lack of mental, let's say sharpness. Did it seem like

00:23:10.040 that to you? I don't feel like that was some cleverly thought out thing he did. I don't know

00:23:16.040 that it was just a spontaneous thing and he thought, oops, as soon as he did it. I feel like he should

00:23:21.880 have been a little more prepared for that. And it feels like his advisors didn't have control over

00:23:28.400 that. You know, it wasn't on a teleprompter or something. I feel like that was just a sign of

00:23:32.520 age. What do you think? Did that look to you like really it could only be explained by his mental

00:23:38.740 decline? You know, you have to be careful because if you're already primed to think that everything

00:23:43.420 is his mental decline. You know, I already debunked that handshaking thing where it looks like he

00:23:50.020 wants to shake hands and nobody's there. That's just a fake video. Fake in the sense that they cut off

00:23:55.920 the fact that he's just gesturing towards something. He's actually gesturing to where

00:24:00.340 they're going to walk or should I walk over here or are we going over there? So if you don't see the

00:24:05.520 whole stage, it looks like he's trying to shake hands with a ghost. But that's debunked. That's

00:24:11.040 nothing. So maybe just like the handshake, maybe we're all just primed to see it as what it's not.

00:24:18.060 Who knows? Maybe he thought of it. Maybe it was intentional. Who knows? But it's pretty awkward

00:24:25.820 that we send our president over there who said the Khashoggi thing is the worst thing

00:24:30.580 and they should be treated as a pariah. And then when he gets over there to talk to the

00:24:35.020 pariah, he's like, fist bump, fist bump. You know, I didn't see it, but I'm sure I wouldn't

00:24:40.640 have liked it. Now, here's something else in the news that I want you to just shake your

00:24:47.700 head when this happens. I'm going to tell you the news and I want you to just go, what is

00:24:52.980 happening to us? Here's the news. That the president went over to Saudi Arabia and asked

00:24:59.380 them to pump more oil. And the Saudis said that they're basically close to capacity, so

00:25:05.920 there's not much they can do. Is that the headline you heard? That they're close to capacity, so

00:25:12.560 there's not much they can do. And then did you read the numbers? So the headline says they're

00:25:18.620 close to capacity, there's not much they can do. What did the numbers say they could do?

00:25:23.140 Where are they? They're at about 10 million barrels a day. What did they say they could

00:25:28.760 get up to because they're right at their cap? What did they say they could get up to? 13.

00:25:35.520 They can go from 10 to maximum of 13. Now, do the math. That's a 30% increase. Are you telling

00:25:47.480 me that if one of the biggest producers in the world increases by 30%, nobody notices? What?

00:25:58.300 Am I wrong that the headline is opposite of the news? Right? The news should have been

00:26:04.920 the Saudis potentially could increase 30% and they're willing to try. You know, it might be

00:26:11.660 hard because, you know, that last 30% is hard to get to because, you know, you've got to be

00:26:16.440 operating perfectly. But can you just give me a sanity check? Am I right or wrong that

00:26:24.380 the headline was opposite of the story? The headline says there's not much we can do. The

00:26:30.400 numbers say there's plenty we can do and it would make a big difference. Am I wrong? Seriously,

00:26:36.860 am I wrong? Like, what am I missing?

00:26:39.380 Well, I'm a little worried here because I feel like somebody says refining is the issue.

00:26:47.320 Is it? That's the only issue domestically. It takes a lot of engineering work to get the

00:26:58.240 extra. Yeah. But, you know, if the story had been there's nothing we can do because we can't

00:27:04.380 do it, then that would be the story. But the story, the way it was written was we can go

00:27:09.780 from 10 to 13. So could our news business be worse? Okay, I've been challenged to work

00:27:20.180 a drone into this story because I work drones into every story. Challenge accepted. How do

00:27:28.780 I work a drone into the story about Gaspar? Well, you know, if you need to transport it,

00:27:36.660 if you had enough drones. No, I'm just joking. That would never work. I don't think I could

00:27:41.960 work a drone into that story. But I tried. All right. You know they say one person can't

00:27:52.760 make a difference. Do any of you think that? That one person can't make a difference?

00:27:58.500 I'm hearing somebody say that we're only going from 12 to 13, which would be opposite of the

00:28:06.280 story I just read in Axios. So I don't know. Maybe it's just the news doesn't know what the

00:28:11.540 facts are. All right. Well, if you think one person can't make a difference, I would point

00:28:17.800 you to Greta Thunberg nearly de-industrializing Germany. So that's on her resume. I almost de-industrialized 0.84

00:28:28.320 Germany. Close. I mean, I don't think she's succeeded. Matt, you paid $10 to say Garfield

00:28:35.600 is the least funny cartoon in syndication? Matt, you may not be aware of this, and I'm going to

00:28:41.600 give you a shocking revelation. Humor is subjective. Humor is subjective. Do you know how much money

00:28:53.560 people pay for Garfield? Not just to run it, but merchandise and TV shows? People are paying

00:29:00.980 a lot of money for that thing you say is the worst thing, which indicates there's a whole

00:29:05.140 lot of people like it. Humor is subjective. So thanks, Greta, for destroying Germany, I 0.95

00:29:14.880 guess. Did a little bit less than Hitler, but she's making a dent. I mean, I don't think 0.88

00:29:24.420 it would be fair. I think you'd agree with this. Can we agree it would be unfair to compare

00:29:30.760 Greta Thunberg to Hitler. Can we all agree on that? That would be completely inappropriate.

00:29:38.260 Do not compare Greta Thunberg to Hitler destroying Germany. Right? But can we also agree she's 0.99

00:29:45.660 number two? Yeah, if you were going to rank them the most destructive people in the history

00:29:52.820 of the German country, she's definitely not number one. We're all on the same page, right?

00:30:01.460 Number one, Hitler. But I'm just saying, you know, and there might be like a long distance,

00:30:07.560 right, between number two. But once you get down to like number two, very strongly at the top

00:30:14.160 of the list of all the potential people destroying Germany would be Greta. So I want to be very

00:30:19.820 clear. Do not compare her to Hitler. She's nowhere near that bad. But she's number two. She is number 0.89

00:30:27.000 two. All right. I wondered, as many of you did when Steve Jobs died, would Apple start making worse

00:30:40.420 products? Did you all wonder that? Because it felt like he was the secret sauce, right? Yeah, they got

00:30:46.400 all the best designers in the world. And, you know, Ivy does this and that and blah, blah, blah. But 1.00

00:30:52.400 you thought, didn't you think that Steve Jobs was like the ultimate guy who said, no, that's not good

00:30:57.900 enough? And it's in my imagination that Apple has completely lost the program with user interface.

00:31:06.480 Like user interface was their thing. But I just tweeted around. I was using an app that has a microphone

00:31:16.380 icon. And then it's working on top of the iOS that has a microphone icon right next to it. There's two

00:31:24.420 microphone icons that do different things. One is to get a voice text and one is to, you know,

00:31:30.320 immediately send your voice. Now, do you think that Steve Jobs would have allowed that there could

00:31:37.060 ever be an app that would have the same icon on it in the App Store as Apple's own icon and right 0.98

00:31:43.820 next to it so you wouldn't know what the fuck you were doing? You can't even imagine that Steve Jobs 0.55

00:31:49.520 would have ever allowed that, right? And, you know, I'm giving you some other examples. It does seem that

00:31:54.020 the, and I told you there's, you know, five factorial ways to cancel an incoming phone call.

00:32:01.840 Do you think that Steve Jobs would have allowed five factorial ways to silence a phone call?

00:32:11.460 So let me ask the question. Oh, and full disclosure, I do own Apple stock. So I'm, you know,

00:32:18.680 I'm ragging on them, but I'm betting the other way. So just be aware, I'm betting the other way.

00:32:23.860 So my money says it'll be great for a long time. My opinion is there's something wrong without

00:32:29.100 Steve Jobs. So, you know, just hold both of those as true. And I feel like Apple has lost it in their,

00:32:38.280 the interface part. What do you think? Is there any other Apple's users who,

00:32:43.860 who think they've gotten too complicated? And I think that's what Jobs would have stopped.

00:32:48.560 Okay. I'm not going to read that comment. You could tone that down a little bit.

00:32:57.800 Just, you know, the locals platform is free speech. So, you know, nobody's going to get blocked on locals.

00:33:05.100 But I'll give you my opinion that that's inappropriate, inappropriate comment. You know who you are.

00:33:12.820 All right. And everybody's welcome with your inappropriate comments, but I'm not going to

00:33:17.360 let it go by without commenting on it. Okay. So, apparently the Mexican military captured one of the top

00:33:27.340 drug cartel leaders, the leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Now, I don't know my cartels too well,

00:33:35.020 but that would that be maybe the third biggest cartel? I don't know the cartel, you know, the,

00:33:42.120 the Sinaloa might be the biggest. I don't know. Is it like the third biggest? Does anybody know?

00:33:46.880 I didn't get that from the story. The Los Zetas, the Sinaloa. So, they might be maybe third biggest

00:33:55.620 or something. Now, somebody said, oh, this is good. It means the Mexican government is operating

00:34:02.200 against the cartels. And here's, you know, solid evidence that they're serious about it because

00:34:07.000 they got, they caught the head of the cartel. What do you think? Oh, Sinaloa, not Sinaloa. Sinaloa.

00:34:13.560 Do you think that's what the story is? That the Mexican government now is getting hard,

00:34:20.340 they're going hard against the cartels? Nope. It's Sinaloa. I don't know what it is.

00:34:28.680 It is Sinaloa, I guess. Thank you. No, the bigger cartel has friends in the army. Thank you. That

00:34:36.900 is the correct answer. The correct answer is that another cartel controls the military

00:34:44.540 and the government and told the military and the government to get rid of their competition.

00:34:48.580 That's what it looks like to me. I'm alleging. I don't know this, of course. So, I'm alleging.

00:34:54.920 But it looks to me like one of the cartels took out the weaker cartel. That's all it looks

00:35:00.480 like to me. If you hear that the Mexican military moves against the head of the Sinaloa cartel,

00:35:07.340 then you have my attention. But when the military that may in fact side with the Sinaloa cartel,

00:35:14.340 I'm just wondering, maybe, possibly, when they take out a business competitor of the biggest

00:35:20.440 cartel, I don't know if that's telling you what you think it's telling you.

00:35:25.080 You know what I mean? So, here's the question I ask. And, you know, you always see these pictures

00:35:34.060 of the coyotes, the cartel employees who are helping the migrants get across. And apparently

00:35:41.180 the cartels make huge amounts of money charging the immigrants a god-awful amount to get across

00:35:47.380 the border. And they can't get across without the cartels, because the cartels are literally

00:35:51.780 guarding the border on their side. So, but when we see the videos, you can always see

00:35:57.960 the coyotes. And they're real obvious. You know exactly which ones are the coyotes, and

00:36:04.260 you know which ones are the poor immigrants who are trying to get to a better life. And 0.99

00:36:08.660 I ask you this, why can't we use snipers and take them out? Now, it would require an act

00:36:14.760 of war or something, probably, but we could get that done. Right? Now, or drones, right?

00:36:20.940 Drones. But if we can see them, and we know they work for the cartel, and we know it's, you

00:36:27.720 know, they're bringing in fentanyl and killing us by tens of thousands a year, do you think

00:36:36.000 that we couldn't? Now, politically, it would never happen. So, I'm not saying this is practical.

00:36:40.400 I also live in the real world, where it would never happen. But remember, I also suggested

00:36:46.540 droning the cartels. You thought that was crazy, until the news reported that Trump was asking

00:36:52.940 about it. Let me tell you what artists do that's a value to the civilization. I read a

00:37:04.480 book on this. I forget the author, but it's the first time I'd heard this idea. Apparently,

00:37:08.960 there are many examples in history of where art preceded science or predicted the future. Now,

00:37:18.080 you know, lots of famous ones like, you know, HG, what is it, who wrote the stories about rocket

00:37:26.160 ships and stuff like that. So, artists have always, you know, predicted in science fiction what's going

00:37:31.360 to happen, et cetera. But it's also happened in science. There are some artists who conceived

00:37:39.000 of things before science actually discovered it was true. And there's this idea that you can't act

00:37:44.740 until you can imagine something. Or you can't find it until you can imagine it. In other words,

00:37:50.800 you can walk right past something that you had never imagined without recognizing it. So, you have

00:37:54.980 to imagine something. HG Wells, thank you. HG Wells predicted a lot of rocket ship travel and stuff.

00:38:03.200 And so, here's what I'm doing for civilization. Before I mentioned the possibility of using military

00:38:14.320 snipers to take out the coyotes, have anybody thought about it? Because I've never heard anybody

00:38:22.820 talk about it. Have you ever heard anybody talk about that idea? Oh, you have? You've heard somebody

00:38:28.760 talk about it? In public or privately? Oh, yes, but I'm in the military. But have you heard anybody

00:38:37.780 talk about it in a political sense in public? Oh, well, special forces, of course, right. But

00:38:49.600 what I'm suggesting is a little more radical than sending special forces, believe it or not.

00:38:56.900 Because just imagine this visual. There's a line of, you know, immigrants crossing, and there's a

00:39:05.840 coyote usually standing somewhere in the stream, making sure. And you see a video of that happening.

00:39:11.780 And then you see the head of the coyote just being blown off. And just like his headless body just

00:39:19.040 falls into the river. And then repeat. Just repeat. Just keep doing it and making sure you get it on

00:39:27.360 video every time. How many videos of a, how many videos, viral videos, of a coyote having his head

00:39:36.140 taken clean off would you need to publish before coyotes wouldn't want to do that anymore?

00:39:41.740 Not many, right? It would only be three. You might have to take three heads off. And then nobody would

00:39:48.500 do it anymore. That would be it. Because it would be on everybody's phones in Mexico. Everybody would 0.78

00:39:53.680 see it. Yeah, about three. Because our brain, our brain forms a pattern at about three. If you did three,

00:40:01.660 people would think it was 100. Now, am I suggesting it as a practical matter? I don't know. You know, I'm no

00:40:11.540 international expert. I just know that fentanyl is coming into the country and killing us. And if he asked me

00:40:18.580 what I would be willing to do about it, if it were up to me, I would be willing to blow the head clean off of 0.96

00:40:24.340 every coyote. Let me say it again. With no moral qualms whatsoever, if it's up to me, and I'm 0.84

00:40:32.900 president, I'm going to start taking the heads off of all the coyotes. And I don't care which side of

00:40:38.520 the border they're on. And if Mexico complains, I will take their complaint under consideration.

00:40:44.540 And then I will blow the head off another coyote. And then Mexico will complain and I'll say, 0.97

00:40:49.580 gosh, you know, I feel bad about that, but we're going to keep doing it. And I would just keep

00:40:57.640 blasting coyotes until nobody got close to it. Somebody's asking me if I'm stoned. No, I don't

00:41:07.680 act like this when I'm stoned. I'm usually less murderous. Now, I'm only murderous when there's a

00:41:15.280 reason. I'm not like murderous in general. No, I'm not high, as a matter of fact, which

00:41:21.200 would be ironic in its own way. Do you think we could do a declaration of war against the

00:41:28.400 Mexican cartels? I believe we could. We could not do maybe a declaration of war against the 0.96

00:41:34.380 cartels, say, against the Mexican government. That would be a bad look. But we could declare

00:41:40.260 a war against the cartels. Because all you have to do is declare them international terrorists.

00:41:46.120 Am I right? Right. What's the difference between China shipping precursors for fentanyl into the

00:41:53.280 cartels and then the cartels moving it in? The fact that the cartel is just trying to make

00:41:57.900 money, and probably their intention has nothing to do with destroying the United States. But

00:42:03.540 Mexico does. I'm sorry, not Mexico. But China does. China has a goal of destroying the United 0.90

00:42:10.200 States through terrorist acts such as this. So the cartels are just working with China as 0.74

00:42:16.660 terrorists. Now, it's not their purpose. They're just trying to make money. But their functional use

00:42:22.660 is terrorism. So if you tell me that ISIS had set up territory in Mexico, are you telling me we

00:42:30.620 couldn't get government approval to take out ISIS in Mexico? Of course we could. We wouldn't even

00:42:37.300 hesitate. So what's the difference between the cartels, what the cartels are doing, and fucking 0.99

00:42:44.400 ISIS? None. There's no difference. There's no difference that matters. Right? There's a difference. 0.99

00:42:51.520 There's no difference that should matter to how we treat it. If you put a deadly risk in my neighbor's

00:42:57.620 backyard, and my neighbor won't do anything about it, I'm going to kill the neighbor. 1.00

00:43:08.000 I'm going to kill my neighbor. If he does something that's going to kill me first, of course. 1.00

00:43:14.380 So, you know, if we're acting like, oh, Mexico is our good friend, of course they are. But it

00:43:19.420 doesn't have any impact on what you do about reducing your own risk. Scott, you're Fed posting.

00:43:28.140 What is Fed posting? Is that like I work for the Feds? Is that what you think?

00:43:33.660 I'm being asked if I would kill the coyotes if they were trans. No, I would not. I would not. 1.00

00:43:47.380 If the coyotes decide to be trans, I would let them go. I would not. Because I don't want to be part 1.00

00:43:57.120 of making the problem worse. I'm only just trying to solve this drug problem. But good question.

00:44:05.820 All right. So Joe Manchin, it looks like he's going to kill the big climate bill that would

00:44:14.800 be expensive. Does anybody think that Manchin is doing this for any other reason than because

00:44:19.580 he has a lot of coal business in his state? And they probably support him for re-election

00:44:27.140 and God knows what else? I mean, it's just for the coal. But it's interesting because our

00:44:33.500 system lets him do that. Not only lets him do that, but encourages it, really. I mean, he

00:44:38.940 does represent his state. His state does benefit from coal. I don't know. I go back and

00:44:47.760 forth about Manchin. Do you have the same problem? Because on one hand, I think, oh, he's doing

00:44:52.960 exactly what his voters want. It doesn't work for us, but that's how the system works. And so,

00:44:59.220 you know, I accept it as part of the system. But on the other hand, don't you kind of suspect

00:45:03.720 that maybe he's doing it because big coal gives him money? I don't know that. But is it the most

00:45:10.500 obvious thing you would want to ask? Are you going to get any side benefits from big coal in any way?

00:45:17.760 You know, it's a question to ask.

00:45:21.520 So it looks like Biden is going to fail completely on this big green energy thing because of Manchin.

00:45:31.920 And somebody pointed out that his last name is Manchin. It sounds exactly like, you know,

00:45:38.640 what he's doing. He's putting his chin out there. All right. How many murderers do each

00:45:47.400 of you know? I want to do a poll here. How many murderers do you personally know? People that

00:45:55.060 you've talked to, had a conversation with, like actual murderers, guaranteed murderers? I've seen a

00:46:02.640 number of you. Somebody said two, three, two. Now, I'm not going to count military. Not military. One.

00:46:11.100 One. None. No, don't count abortion. Just for this purpose. Don't count it. Snipers don't count. Yeah.

00:46:18.880 One. One suspected. I was thinking the other day that I know two. And I thought, how many other,

00:46:28.480 at least three. Wow. And I wondered how many people know, actually personally know a murderer.

00:46:35.180 The most famous one wrote a book about it. And he lived in the cubicle on the other side of the

00:46:44.780 little cubicle wall for me when I worked at Pacific Bell. So he worked in marketing. And he was the

00:46:50.840 cubicle. Literally, if I'm looking at my computer, he's just there on the other side of the little

00:46:57.180 wall. And he murdered a friend, strangled him with a belt, went to jail and wrote a good book about it.

00:47:03.100 He mentioned me in the book. Yeah. So I think I know one convicted, at least.

00:47:12.320 You know two. Erica knows two. Wow. You've met a guy who said he was an assassin. I once had a

00:47:22.520 friend who said she dated a contract killer. And her story was that in the middle of the night,

00:47:30.120 he'd get a call. And he'd take out his, you know, little contract killer gun. And, you know,

00:47:35.800 with the silencer, he'd assemble it. And they'd be gone for several hours. And they'd come back

00:47:41.760 several hours later, presumably having just killed somebody. And she reports that the sex was excellent. 0.95

00:47:48.040 So apparently, if you have sex with a contract killer, right after he does his job, really 0.99

00:47:56.380 good. It's really good. So if you're looking to upgrade your sexual experience, I would recommend 0.99

00:48:02.840 a contract killer. All right. Somebody says, my wife murdered my inner joy. We'll take that 0.99

00:48:12.380 as a murder. All right. Yes, it is disgusting. True. But disgusting. All right. Let me ask you

00:48:24.940 this. How many of you have been in jail? I see one person saying so. How many of you personally

00:48:31.300 have been in jail have been in jail? Mostly no's? Smattering of yeses? I assume most of the yeses

00:48:41.880 are probably, you know, young person mischief. Yep. Oh, just visiting doesn't count. Drunk tank. Yep.

00:48:53.180 That's a lot of people on this. Well, I'm seeing quite a difference on the

00:48:58.640 on the Locals platform. So the people who pay a subscription to see my extra content.

00:49:06.220 There are a lot of criminals in this group.

00:49:11.640 Compare. You can't see it, but compare it to the YouTube answers. On YouTube, it's no. No,

00:49:19.080 of course not. No. Over on Locals, it's yep. Yep. Three years. Yep. Yep. It's not quite

00:49:25.160 that bad. I'm exaggerating. But it does look like there's a difference. Apparently, I attract

00:49:30.820 a criminal element. Yeah, being a criminal is relative. Very interesting. For selling pot.

00:49:44.440 Oh, my God. Your ex-boyfriend may have pushed his next girlfriend off a roof. Okay. That's

00:49:52.380 scary. YouTubers don't get caught. Okay. That's funny. All right. Locals, you've been

00:49:59.860 insulted, but cleverly so. So I'm going to repeat it. I said that there are more criminals,

00:50:07.060 it seemed like, on the Locals platform. And somebody on YouTube says, the YouTubers don't

00:50:11.060 get caught. That's pretty funny. I'm going to try to create some kind of, like, cattle and

00:50:23.860 sheep friction between the Locals and the YouTube people for no good reason. Over on Locals,

00:50:33.660 they're saying to the YouTubers, F you. They stole my wedding ring. What? All right. So 0.67

00:50:42.540 that's up for now. It's kind of a slow news day. So we're going to let it go. Let's get

00:50:48.240 to our day. And let me just give you a little summary of things. Did you notice that gas prices

00:50:57.160 are down, right? They're still way too high, but they are down, right? You've noticed that nuclear

00:51:04.460 plants are being not decommissioned as much as they were. Even, it looks like even Japan is going 0.92

00:51:11.920 more pro-nuclear again. So nuclear energy is up. I don't think the next mask mandate, which I think

00:51:21.260 they'll try, I don't think it's going to work. I feel like the public is just about done with the

00:51:26.920 mask mandates. We'll see. But we're close. Yeah, Generation 4 nuclear is being built in, is it

00:51:34.640 Wyoming? And in my opinion, the odds of a nuclear conflict with Russia are, I'd say about zero right

00:51:45.100 now. Wouldn't you? Yeah. So we went from that was a real risk to now. I would say that we're moving

00:51:51.920 our manufacturing from China. Not quickly, but it doesn't have to be quick. We just have

00:51:58.220 to stop moving it there, which I believe has already happened. Am I right? We did stop moving

00:52:03.400 it there. Now, what you're worried about the labor coming across the border, see what I did

00:52:10.460 there? Did you catch that? I talked about the labor coming across the border. I didn't mean

00:52:18.640 to do that. But that was manipulative as hell. That was accidental, by the way, because

00:52:24.200 I was thinking he had my point. But in a condition where it's hard to hire, one of the biggest

00:52:30.300 problems in the economy right now is there are not enough people. Right? There are not

00:52:35.180 enough people to hire. At the same time, we have hordes of people coming across the border.

00:52:39.840 Now, they may not be trained in the right ways, but they're going to pick up some of the slack

00:52:44.040 for things that nobody's doing. So we do have massive illegal immigration. At the same

00:52:50.140 time, we have massive need for employees. It's not the worst problem, is it? Now, let me

00:52:57.820 be clear. I'm in favor of strong border control, and I'm in favor of us ratcheting up or down

00:53:08.580 our immigration based on our economic situation. If I were in charge of the border right now,

00:53:15.580 do you know what I'd do? I'd open it up. Because economically, I'm pretty sure we need workers

00:53:22.580 more than we need to stop them. You know, because there is crime, there is other things coming.

00:53:26.880 But give me just, you know, we don't have all the information, but do you think that you have

00:53:33.900 the same issue with illegal immigration when we need the workers? Does it feel the same?

00:53:41.040 And I get that we're, you know, there's a crime element coming in with, you know, good people,

00:53:45.900 right? But this would be exactly the time I would have opened the border if we had fully controlled

00:53:51.720 borders. If we had a wall that worked along the whole border, this is when I would have

00:53:58.320 opened the door. That's fucking with your brains, isn't it? This is a fascinating experience 1.00

00:54:06.740 on my side, because I see the nature of the comments in real time as they're going by. 0.94

00:54:13.320 And doesn't it fuck you up to know that I'm totally strong border? Always have been. You know, 0.88

00:54:19.500 you should seal that border so a fucking ant can't get through, unless you want it to, 1.00

00:54:24.840 right? So you need total control over your border. And if we have high unemployment, you 1.00

00:54:31.940 close it. If you have low unemployment like we do now, and a shortage of workers, you open

00:54:36.780 it wide.

00:54:40.480 Yeah. And what's weird about this is I know that most of you, almost all of you, are really

00:54:46.920 strong against illegal immigration, as am I, illegal. I'm very strong against illegal 0.94

00:54:52.400 immigration. But I don't see any pushback to this. And I don't know what's going on. Because

00:54:59.120 it's not like any of you are shy. Oh, open it for legal immigration. Well, I see what you're

00:55:05.160 saying. But that's a slightly different topic. I'm saying that I'm saying I would let them

00:55:12.680 in legally, you know, and track them and whatever we need to do. But here's my point. And I feel

00:55:20.820 like you agreed, but you don't want to say it. So I'm going to say it again. I want to

00:55:25.200 see if you can go the extra distance. I don't think you can. So this is sort of a challenge

00:55:30.360 to your mental flexibility. Could you go all the way to, at the moment, because we need

00:55:37.640 the workers, that the illegal immigration is not a problem in the way that it normally would be?

00:55:45.640 Can you go there? Who can go there with me? It's a tough place to go. Because if your entire

00:55:53.480 political opinion has been, no, no, no illegal immigration. Now, if you could, release on the

00:56:00.780 fact that they're illegal for a moment. And just concentrate on the fact that it's either good or bad

00:56:07.220 for the economy. Is it good or is it bad for the U.S. economy? Mostly no. Okay. Mostly no. Almost all

00:56:17.220 no, actually. All right. Well, all right. Here's my proposition. At the moment, without doing a deep

00:56:27.680 dive, and the deep dive could change my opinion. On the surface, it looks like this is when I would

00:56:33.400 have opened the doors. On the surface. But there might be more to the story. How many go on welfare?

00:56:41.100 I'll bet not nearly as many are sucking up resources as are adding to it. But that's what you need the

00:56:47.140 economists for. You need the experts in this field. All right. Let me ask you the question a different

00:56:52.780 way. Are you ready for this? Let's say, hypothetically, and this has not happened, let's say the best

00:57:00.600 economist that you know. Oh, okay. I'll give you a specific one. This is hypothetical. Suppose

00:57:06.600 Thomas Sowell, who is one of the most respected economists on the Republican side. Suppose,

00:57:14.420 and he has not said this, right? This is just hypothetical. Suppose he said, all right, I've

00:57:19.280 looked into it. And while I hate illegal immigration, I imagine he'd say that, you know, just speculating.

00:57:25.560 He'd agree with you, I hate illegal immigration. First choice would be controlling our border. But 0.97

00:57:31.440 on this narrow question of whether it helps the economy or hurts it, it is my opinion that

00:57:38.340 it helps it at the moment. Suppose he said that. Now, and in this hypothetical, he knows more

00:57:45.700 about the economy than you do, and you agree. If Thomas Sowell said that at this moment, the

00:57:53.220 illegal immigration, illegal immigration, is helping our economy a little bit more than

00:57:58.240 it's hurting it, would it change your mind just for the short run? Go. I saw yes. I saw

00:58:08.320 sure. I see some yeses. Interesting. I did not know if that would work. A lot of no's. Now,

00:58:16.540 if you said no, what would be your reasoning? If your reasoning is about the illegal part,

00:58:22.920 remember, that's the part I removed from the question. Safety. I don't think safety... Here's

00:58:33.120 my problem with the safety issue. Is, are the immigrants coming from south of the border bringing 1.00

00:58:40.120 in more crime than the average of the public that's already here? Well, let me ask you that.

00:58:47.060 Does that matter? Suppose you thought you needed the workers, so economically that wasn't your

00:58:52.840 problem. So suppose that you weren't worried about the economics, temporarily, but you were

00:58:58.260 worried about the extra safety problem, criminal element. If I told you that, and I don't know

00:59:03.820 that this is true, but if I told you that the average of the people coming across the border

00:59:08.120 is actually less crime than the average that's already here, but of course it's more people,

00:59:15.120 so it's more crime, right? Maybe it doesn't matter to you that the average would go down.

00:59:20.280 Maybe it only matters that there's more of it. But if you need that more of it to operate

00:59:27.740 your economy, that's different. So I think what's happening, possibly, I want to open your mind

00:59:36.100 to this possibility, which I do not claim is the truth, right? I'm going to make, I'm going

00:59:43.340 to make two claims that I do not know to be the truth, but very well could be. The first,

00:59:49.180 the first claim is that at this moment, we're in a very strange period of time where we need

00:59:55.120 the labor more than we need to stop it. That's the first claim, and I don't know that that's true.

01:00:01.240 I would look to a Thomas Sowell or something like that to confirm. The second claim, and

01:00:07.680 this is far more speculative, is if you looked at the total body of illegal immigrants, and

01:00:17.180 I'm not even sure if you should include the second generation, because it's all connected,

01:00:22.040 right? Maybe you include the second generation too, to get a really good clean look. Is that

01:00:27.580 fair? If I were to look at the crime from illegal immigration, would you allow me to include 1.00

01:00:33.920 their second generation as part of the whole picture? I think so. If you looked at the first

01:00:39.800 and the second generation, would their average crime be higher or lower than what was already

01:00:46.240 here? I think it would be lower. I don't know. And that's purely anecdotal and speculative.

01:00:56.120 I think it's lower. The thing you don't see if you don't live around the immigrant community 1.00

01:01:01.080 is how much they really, really don't want to get caught for doing a crime, because the penalty's

01:01:06.760 worse. They go back to Mexico or wherever, right? There's a bigger penalty, and they know it,

01:01:12.240 and they didn't come here to get arrested and get sent back. That's the opposite of what

01:01:16.740 they want in every way. I think they're lowering the crime rate in America. Now, let me ask you

01:01:27.040 this. If all they did was bring in a bunch of people who were, oh, can I say this without

01:01:33.400 being kicked off of social media? Give me a pause. I don't know. This would be a close one.

01:01:42.240 You want me to fly close to the sun?

01:01:48.880 Yeah, I don't think I could do that. Yeah, it's not worth it. All right. So I'll just say that

01:01:54.940 I think you cannot rule out the possibility that they're improving the economy and lowering

01:02:01.080 the crime rate. I don't think you can rule that out. They may be increasing the amount of crime,

01:02:07.100 and if that bothers you, that's actually rational. They might increase the total number of crime,

01:02:13.260 because whenever you increase the total number of people, necessarily, you increase crime. But

01:02:19.100 you know, every time you have a baby, you increase crime, right? Did you know that? That if you ban

01:02:26.320 abortion, you've increased crime, you all know that, right? I mean, not just the crime of the

01:02:31.720 abortion. Everybody gets that? If you banned all abortions, your crime would go way up. Not your 0.96

01:02:40.040 crime rate. If I said your crime rate, I'd be a racist. So I don't say that. You're total about

01:02:48.100 crime. There's just more people. More people equals more crime. So if you think that everything

01:02:53.780 that creates more people, because it brings more crime, is bad, be consistent. You know,

01:03:01.020 everywhere there's more people being added to the country, you should say, no, I don't want more 0.98

01:03:05.400 people. I don't want you to have a baby. Don't have a baby that will add more crime. Not necessarily

01:03:11.920 your baby, but if everybody had babies, you're going to get more crime. All right. Freakonomics

01:03:18.160 made the claim. I think that was, I heard a debunk of the Freakonomics claim. There's a book

01:03:23.220 called Freakonomics in which they said that the reason crime decreased seemingly everywhere

01:03:28.840 in the United States at the same time is that because abortion was legalized and you're seeing 0.71

01:03:34.540 the benefit of fewer unwanted, let's call them babies, who are more likely to commit crimes,

01:03:41.340 say the statistics. But I feel like that got, I saw somebody take a run at debunking that,

01:03:47.640 but I don't know if the debunk was better than the book or vice versa.

01:03:53.460 Fewer people of a certain age range equals lower crime rate. That is correct. If you have a higher 1.00

01:03:58.540 percentage of senior citizens in the population, that's a good point. Why have I never thought of

01:04:06.120 that before? Yeah, if you have a higher ratio of senior citizens, your crime rate would be low, 1.00

01:04:10.580 theoretically. And that's where we are. Yeah. Well, Scott, benefit. What are you talking

01:04:29.420 about? More door dash robberies. Millionaires seem to love cheap labor. Yes. Yes. You know,

01:04:40.340 when I talk about the fact that I'm friendlier to immigration, even illegal immigration, although

01:04:45.520 I want zero illegal immigration, but we also have to deal with the fact that it exists. 1.00

01:04:53.900 If I seem softer on it and then you say to yourself, well, Scott, that's easy for you to

01:04:58.580 say because you just get cheap labor, you're right. You're right. That's exactly what you

01:05:03.720 should say about me. You are absolutely correct that there's no way that I'm uninfluenced

01:05:10.160 by the fact that it benefits me personally. Of course I am. Yeah. Immigration tends to

01:05:16.280 be a personal problem. I don't know if you've noticed that. Right. Immigration tends to be 1.00

01:05:23.820 a personal problem. If you've had experience with any immigrants or that world, you have 1.00

01:05:29.540 an opinion. And if you don't, you're dealing with it on some conceptual level. And that's

01:05:34.620 really different. But I don't deal with immigration on a conceptual level completely. So anybody

01:05:40.840 who says I'm being biased by positive association with the immigrant community, I want to tell

01:05:48.540 you that's true. I am absolutely biased by repeated positive interactions with the illegal immigrant 1.00

01:05:58.880 community. Consistently positive. And I don't know, there's nothing I can do about that, right?

01:06:06.900 I mean, I could be aware of it. I could call it out. I could be transparent that it exists. But I can't make

01:06:12.040 it go away. You know the whole thing, people won't remember what you said, but they'll remember how

01:06:18.780 you made them feel. I forget who said that famous quote. But that's exactly true with the illegal 0.98

01:06:25.080 immigrant community. I don't remember what they said, but I always remember how they made me feel.

01:06:31.280 And they always make me feel great. So fairly consistently.

01:06:41.120 How many criminals do you know? Lots. Lots. If you count the ones who haven't been caught,

01:06:48.940 it's everybody. Pretty much everybody.

01:06:53.860 Which party do you think immigrants will vote for? Well, you know, famously, people are noticing that

01:07:02.200 it's changing, right? I think the funniest thing is that the Democrats think that the hardworking

01:07:10.680 immigrants who understand motivation and how motivation and economics work, because you can't 1.00

01:07:19.460 get closer to it than an illegal immigrant. That's as close as you can get to human motivation equals 1.00

01:07:26.620 profit, right? Like they're living it. To imagine that the people who come out of that experience

01:07:32.020 will turn into Democrats. Maybe. Maybe. But I live in the real world.

01:07:42.860 Let me tell you a little secret. Here's a California secret.

01:07:50.680 Get into any, you know, mixed group of people. And then where I live, it's always mixed, right? 0.92

01:07:56.180 There's, you know, you don't have, it's pretty rare to be talking to a bunch of white people

01:08:00.640 in California. There's always, there's always a mix. And then privately peel off, you know,

01:08:06.880 one of the brown or black ones in your group, and then talk about politics. You get a really

01:08:13.800 different feel. It doesn't, I don't know if it's a local thing or what. But I don't get anybody born

01:08:20.780 in another country who's Democrat. People born in other countries, actually, I'm thinking of some

01:08:28.080 exceptions now. So I'm exaggerating too much. There are some exceptions. But I'm always surprised

01:08:35.180 when somebody born in another country came over here, worked hard, you know, made something of

01:08:40.400 themselves. They're obviously, they lean Republican. Because everything they did was a Republican plan.

01:08:48.600 Work hard, stay in a jail, you know, go to school, take care of your family.

01:08:53.860 His pure Republican dogma is just, it's their own version of it. When they get here, who are they

01:09:01.180 going to fit? Religion? Yeah, belief in God. Stevie says, I'm so naive. Here's what I think. I think

01:09:08.900 that because there are a lot of Hispanic Democrat voters at the moment, we imagine that that's how it

01:09:18.140 will always go. But I think the Democratic Party of today is such a turnoff that an immigrant today, 1.00

01:09:25.920 being exposed to both of them for the first time, would say, well, one's talking about pronouns

01:09:31.220 and climate change that I don't even get. It's not my problem at the moment. And the other is,

01:09:37.660 wants to lower my taxes and, you know, is tough on crime and says work hard. Like, what do you,

01:09:44.980 would you, yeah. And the Hispanic community is not so big in the Latinx names. I mean, that's all

01:09:54.140 just coming from Democrats. Yeah. Everybody I know who came from Mexico loves capitalism. That's why they 0.93

01:10:09.800 came here. All right. I believe we have exhausted all our topics and we have come to the conclusion

01:10:20.280 of one of the best things that's ever happened. It's called Coffee with Scott Ems. I will design

01:10:24.880 the mug, still working on it. It will be the most awesome thing ever. And tomorrow I'll be

01:10:33.020 back. Yeah, I'll be back. If not tonight. Oh. So at the moment, you know, I don't know exactly what my plans

01:10:43.300 will be today, but there's a good chance I might do a man cave episode tonight. And if I do, I do that

01:10:51.480 without YouTube. So we'll do a test of the locals video and audio because it could be that I'm running both

01:10:59.340 platforms at the same time. It might be something happening on my end. I will try to not leave out

01:11:08.240 the East Coast by doing it earlier if I do it. That will be my potential plan. All right. Good to see

01:11:16.900 all of you. Maybe I'll see you later. Bye for now.

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