Episode 1806 Scott Adams： It's A Funny News Story Day. Come Join Me For A Beverage and Some Laughs
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1 hour and 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott tries to figure out why YouTube is going offline again, and tries to find a way to get back on track. Plus, a story about the creator of Garfield, and why you should never mention someone else's comic in your work.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the optimistic show that makes you feel better
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every time. Are you watching the other news-related programs and wishing that you could end your life?
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No, don't do it. Don't do it. Watch Coffee with Scott Adams every day, and I'll put the positive
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spin on the bad news, because, you know, sometimes it's good. And if you think that I'm leading you
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toward the golden age, I am. Here's a little tip. I'm not predicting the golden age. I'm only
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pretending to predict it. I'm actually causing it to happen. And what's happening right now is that
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I'm nudging you onto what I call the... Wait for it. Wait for it. Listen carefully.
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Oh, YouTube just went offline. Is that weird? Right before my punchline. YouTube's offline.
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Hey, I'm back. Can you actually see me on YouTube? Nope.
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Just lost me again. So YouTube just lost me again. Huh. I'm going to run... I know you care,
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so I'm going to run a speed check on my... my Wi-Fi. Speed check. There you can watch.
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Let's see how we're doing. Well, that looks good. So it doesn't look like a Wi-Fi problem,
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right? Looks pretty good. Let's see if YouTube's back. That can't be on my side, right?
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Is anybody technical enough to verify that? You're only as fast as your slowest point. Yeah,
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of course. Huh. Interesting. Oh, hey. Hello. Are you back? Can anybody on YouTube tell me if
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YouTube is having a problem or is it just my feed? Because I have a good feed-ish on locals? All right.
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Well, let's take it from here. You know, you may have interrupted my flow. Have you noticed that if
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I lose my flow at the beginning of the show, I never recover it? Has anybody ever noticed that?
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Sometimes I just have to give up. Anyway, losing my flow is actually my biggest problem that I have,
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you know, working at home. All right. All right. It looks like we've recovered. Everybody good?
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You want to pretend like it never happened? Well, let's go to this simultaneous sip. But all you need
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is a cup, a mug, a glass, a tank, or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a drug, a flask, a vessel,
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a vinikai, fill it with a favorite liquid. Let's hurry before the technology dies again. Go.
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Oh, we were waiting for the punchline. On YouTube, you missed the punchline. Let's see if it makes it
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go offline again. All right. It goes something like this. You may not think. It goes like this.
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You might think that I'm predicting we're heading toward a golden age where everything's better.
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But I'm not predicting it. I'm causing it. And what I'm doing specifically is I'm trying to
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nudge the public onto, wait for it, listen carefully, YouTube, don't go offline, don't go offline.
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Don't. Wait. Wait for the punchline. I'm going to nudge you onto the sippery slope. You're welcome.
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The sippery slope. Because when you take it, oh, it wasn't that bad. Shut up. Shut up.
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Talk about a joke that wasn't worth waiting for. Wow. Well, it's getting harder to brag. I know this
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is not a problem for a lot of you, but for people like me, if you are a narcissist, it's getting hard.
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Let me give you an example. Early in my career, I did a Dilbert comic in which I included some
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reference to Garfield, the other comic. Now, there's a standard within the cartoonist world
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that if you mention somebody else's comic in your comic, there's sort of a custom that happens after
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that. And the custom is that the person who was mentioned will often contact you and say,
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can I have the original? Because cartoonists will collect originals from other cartoonists.
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And so when I mentioned Garfield, and this is when, you know, I was basically an unknown. I just
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started cartooning. I got contacted by Jim Davis. Now, you can imagine if you're a starting cartoonist,
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you know, just imagine what happens if, you know, Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, when Garfield's,
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you know, gigantic. Imagine being contacted by the creator of Garfield and asking for your original.
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It's like the coolest thing ever, right? If you're just starting out cartooning, it's like the Pope
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just patted you on the head or something. So I, of course, agreed immediately and sent him my crappy
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Dilbert comic with ink that probably disappeared a week after he got it. I didn't use permanent ink
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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
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Garfield. Probably at the time it was worth maybe $1,000, you know, which would be more today. And I
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thought, you know, it's not enough to own one. Other people have to see this thing. And I'm like,
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what is the point of reaching this pinnacle of my cartooning success at that point? If I can't,
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if I get a show off, show it to somebody. So I took it to my local framing shop. And here was what I
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thought would be my first, my first hit of, you know, narcissistic supply. I thought, wait until,
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wait until the person I asked to frame this, because there's where you leave it and they frame
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it for you. I thought, wait until the person I asked to frame this figures out what this is.
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It's like gold, right? And he's, and the person's going to ask, naturally, I figure, they're going to
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say, is this an original Garfield? And I would say, yeah, it is. It is. Yeah, it is. And then,
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of course, he would follow up, like, how is it that you've come into acquisition of this valuable
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property? And I would say, oh, he sent it to me. If you have other questions, you might want to follow
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up. Oh, why? Why did he send it to me? Oh, oh, it turns out that I'm also a cartoonist. Yeah,
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yeah. I do a cartoon and it caught his attention and he liked it. Yeah. Top cartoonist in the world
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who's maybe living, he liked my cartoon. So, so he asked if he could trade. That's how I thought it
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would go. In my mind, I imagined myself fake humbly saying how I got it while he was like impressed.
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And then I'd feel some narcissistic supply and I'd be like, feeling good for today. That's what I
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hoped. That's not how it went. Here's how it went. I'm standing in line behind one other
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customer. There's just three of us in the store. The person who owns the place, customer in front of
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me and me. Customer in front of me is getting a framed Garfield. Yep. We both had one.
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And then do you know what the, do you know what the store owner said to me when I brought mine?
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Third one today. Now it turns out that was a joke. It was not the third one today,
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but the fact that there were two of them. Talk about deflating. My God. Now fast forward to last
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night. All right. So fast forward, you know, a few decades to last night. My new thing that I like to
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humbly drop into stories, not really humbly at all, is that I once visited the Oval Office and talked to
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the president, Trump. Now, if that is, let me tell you, if that ever happens to you or something like
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it, you're not going to keep that to yourself. Right? Now I'm worse because I like bragging.
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So I want everybody to know. But I don't want to be like, I got invited to the White House. So I want
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it to be like subtly, you know, maybe it just comes up as a natural part of the conversation. I'll be
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like, yeah, yeah, as a matter of fact. Yep. Bend the Oval Office. So I'll do things like if there's a,
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you know, news program and it shows the Oval Office, you know, I'll drop in something like,
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huh, looks like they changed the rug. You know, just leave that in there. Huh? Looks like, is that
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the same lamp? Looks like a different lamp. You know, just wait for somebody to ask the question.
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Like, well, I don't like to brag, but I've been there. Yep. Ivanka gave me a tour of the furniture
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in the Oval Office. Probably happens to a lot of people. So like that. So anyway,
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so, so I like to get my little narcissistic supply by telling people that I was once in
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the Oval Office. Last night, I'm at a, you know, neighborhood gathering in town and just
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talking to the neighbors and, and once again, politics came up and I thought, well, here,
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here's my opportunity. I'm going to, I'm going to just drop this in here because when you're
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just talking to the neighbors, like literally the people who live on your block, you know,
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that's going to be a little extra, a little extra impressive, wouldn't you say? Because
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you know, often I'm talking to other public figures and they've done interesting things
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too. But if you're just talking to the neighbors, you can really, you can really wow the neighbors.
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So I was talking to a woman who lives in the neighborhood and I mentioned, you know, I,
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I've been in the Oval Office. I met the president and she said, yeah, I had dinner with Obama.
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And I just thought, well, fuck it. I'm just going to give up. Like I, well, I'm just going
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to give up. Is there, is there anybody I can talk to who hasn't done something better? Good
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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
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problems and your own problems seem big to you, but you know, everybody thinks their own problem.
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Will you give me a moment for some sympathy? I've been trying to brag for years and it's not working
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out at all. So I'll just keep trying. Yesterday I saw a straight news piece that made me laugh for
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10 minutes, right? Now remember I said that parody and reality have merged. If you can find a better
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example than this. Now I'm going to read you the actual straight headline and you tell me that it's
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not a joke, right? Try to distinguish between the actual headline. I'm not making this up. This is an
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actual headline from yesterday. Kamala Harris's speechwriter quit.
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And I went to retweet it and add a joke and I couldn't do it. I couldn't add a joke because
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you can't add a joke to the joke. Like that's just piling on. There was nothing you could say
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into that to make it funnier. I just laughed for 10 minutes and every time I kept to, I
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kept trying to do a quote tweet where I, you know, add the, add the humorous, the humorous
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spin on it. There's no humorous spin you can add on that. Well, I thought, but it turns out
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that one professional, oh, damn it. Did I not write that down? Oh, somebody had a better joke
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than I did. Quoting, quoting the speechwriter humorously. Anyway, nevermind. But I wondered
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if this would, this is generating a whole category of jokes. Do you know how Letterman used to do the top
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10 list? And he could, it seems like they could always make that funny, at least a few items on
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it. Cause there's something about a top 10 list that just naturally is easier to write jokes to.
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It's a, it's a format that you could easily write jokes to. But when I heard that Kamala Harris's
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speechwriter quit, I thought, uh, I have an announcement too. My hairstylist has resigned.
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So this is my public announcement. Uh, my hairstylist has resigned. And if that wasn't bad enough, it
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was, it was a bad day on my staff. Uh, my personal stylist quit. Yeah. My personal stylist quit.
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One day I wear a white t-shirt because it's laundry day. My personal stylist says, fuck it,
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I'm out of here. Um, I have some other news about other people. Um, Michael Moore's personal
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trainer quit. Just resigned, walked off the door. So am I wrong that this is a genre we can play with?
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I don't understand what that means. Somebody just said, my gynecologist just quit. I don't know
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why that's funny. You're not even on the right, that's not even the right theme.
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Uh, it's funnier because it doesn't work. It's funnier because it doesn't work. Uh, it's funnier
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because it doesn't work. Uh, yeah, I know it's the guy that said it, but it's funnier because
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it doesn't work. Uh, well, I guess if you're saying, uh, I mean, that's, that's a little too
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far. All right. Uh, here's a mystery solved. Maybe. Um, I've been wondering why there haven't
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been any gigantic forest fires this year in California. Now, if you don't live in California,
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you have not noticed that they're not here. Um, and I'm pretty sure that we were seeing them
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by now last year in the year before, no trees left. We got a few left and it turns out there
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was a 60 minutes report that may have explained why. So apparently we have now, uh, although
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it's not being as utilized or used, I like to say as much as it could be, there is a helicopter
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fleet of rapid response, um, types. And, and there are big Chinook type helicopters, you know,
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the, the, the double rotors that can lift up anything and they can carry enormous amounts
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of, uh, fire retardant. But the big difference is they're equipped to fly at night. I didn't
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know this, but did you know this? That they stop, uh, fighting fires at night, at least by
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air. Did you know that? Because I guess the regular, uh, uh, night flying is too dangerous.
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But if you, if you use the ones that are sort of military grade Chinooks that are meant for
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all kinds of nighttime things, they can do it safely. And it's much easier to fight the
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fire because it doesn't rage as much at night. So you get it at its weakest point. But apparently
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the idea is for an enormous amount of money. So like one, one flight of these helicopters
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is going to be, you know, millions and millions of dollars. Well, not one flight, but one fire,
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you know, fighting one fire would be many millions for these helicopters, but, um, it's because
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of the low altitude. That's what makes it dangerous for planes. Somebody's saying that makes sense.
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So somebody says $23,000 an hour. That sounds about right. But apparently the company that
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makes them makes the claim that, uh, even though they're insanely expensive, it's less expensive
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than letting the fire get out of control. And on that, I think they make an actually good argument.
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is it solved? You know, I had an idea that maybe is the next generation. I thought that we should have a,
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um, a fleet of drones that's always flying around looking for any fires. Now, I guess they're using
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the helicopters for that and the night vision, but you could use a drone for that. So I think there
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should always be drones in the air and always looking for forest fires anywhere in California.
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You know, as soon as one lands, another one takes off sort of thing. So if you spot it quickly,
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I guess that's half the fight, right? You could put night vision on the, uh, easily put night vision
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on a drone. But then I thought, what if you had a fleet of firefighting drones? A little too soon for
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that. I don't think we could have the technology, but if they were, uh, helicopter drones, could they
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not do what the Chinook did? You know, maybe, maybe you just need the human pilot at this point, but,
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but at some point, that's what I think it's going to be. At some point, I think forest fires will be
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spotted by drones. And then the first phase of suppression will be drones. And maybe the first
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drones can't carry as much, but you've got lots of them, right? It's just, you're just black in the
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sky with smaller drones that don't have a big payload, but there are lots of them and they're
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fast. I don't know. I think that's where we're going. But it's nice to know that it's possible
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that these helicopters might be the reason that my sky looks blue.
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All right. So that's good news. Um, I saw a tweet by a Twitter user Machiavelli's underbelly,
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who is a real good follow. If you're looking for a good follow on, especially on AI and technology
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related stuff, just search for Machiavelli's underbelly. Machiavelli spelled just the way you
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think it is. All right. And he notes, um, somebody else was tweeting, there are a whole bunch of bot
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accounts requesting that we go hard with new mask mandates. And the bots are saying the exact same
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thing. It's obvious it's a cut and paste and it's all kinds of different accounts. And as Machiavelli's
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underbelly, uh, alleges, now this is an allegation, but I don't think it's wrong. There's a foreign
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entity that is flooding us with bots trying to destroy, destroy America by bringing up the mask
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mandate thing again. What do you think? Do you think, and I do think the evidence was strong.
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There was a list. There was actually a video list of a whole bunch of accounts that all have the same
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thing. And, oh, you know what? If you find it, just do a search on some of the terms and you can see
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within Twitter, you should see all the accounts just pop up because it's the same terms they use.
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Now, who do you think would be behind it? Do you think, first of all, well, let me state with,
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if these are, if the accounts shown really exist, then there is a bot problem. And it's a bot problem
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pushing masks. Who would do that? Do you think that a domestic entity would do that?
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I mean, anything's possible, but it seems very unlikely. I don't see it domestic. So would you
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buy that if it's a bot attack, it's foreign? I think it's foreign. Yeah. You could argue that
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maybe it would help somebody in the election, but that's a little murky, isn't it? I don't really see
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how that's going to help any American. Not really. So I feel as though it's got to be foreign. And
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who would be the most likely culprits, China or Russia? China or Russia? China. You don't think
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Russia? Isn't Russia more implicated in bots? Both? Say both. Well, this is a specific attack.
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So, I mean, it's Iran? Yeah. It feels Chinese, but that's just a guess. All right. So I guess
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I'm a little late on this story, but we're still talking about Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia,
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and he did a fist bump with the Saudi's crown prince there. And the fist bump was even Adam
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Schiff criticized Biden. Is that the first time? Adam Schiff just directly criticized him pretty
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aggressively. And I got to say, I didn't think I would ever respect anything that came out of Adam
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Schiff's mouth. But that was exactly the right thing to do. Yeah. I hate to give him credit,
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but he just went hard at his own party for something that was perfectly appropriate criticism,
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in my opinion. Can we give him that? Let's see if we can fight with our confirmation bias and our
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team spirit up just to give him that. Right? Schiff is a piece of shit. He's like one of the worst
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human beings I've ever experienced in public life. Just an opinion. But I'll give him that,
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because he went after his own team and it was the right call. Now, what do you think was in Biden's
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mind when he did this fist bump? What the hell was he thinking? Because the fist bump,
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it feels to me like that is a clear sign of a lack of mental, let's say sharpness. Did it seem like
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that to you? I don't feel like that was some cleverly thought out thing he did. I don't know
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that it was just a spontaneous thing and he thought, oops, as soon as he did it. I feel like he should
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have been a little more prepared for that. And it feels like his advisors didn't have control over
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that. You know, it wasn't on a teleprompter or something. I feel like that was just a sign of
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age. What do you think? Did that look to you like really it could only be explained by his mental
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decline? You know, you have to be careful because if you're already primed to think that everything
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is his mental decline. You know, I already debunked that handshaking thing where it looks like he
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wants to shake hands and nobody's there. That's just a fake video. Fake in the sense that they cut off
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the fact that he's just gesturing towards something. He's actually gesturing to where
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they're going to walk or should I walk over here or are we going over there? So if you don't see the
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whole stage, it looks like he's trying to shake hands with a ghost. But that's debunked. That's
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nothing. So maybe just like the handshake, maybe we're all just primed to see it as what it's not.
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Who knows? Maybe he thought of it. Maybe it was intentional. Who knows? But it's pretty awkward
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that we send our president over there who said the Khashoggi thing is the worst thing
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and they should be treated as a pariah. And then when he gets over there to talk to the
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pariah, he's like, fist bump, fist bump. You know, I didn't see it, but I'm sure I wouldn't
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have liked it. Now, here's something else in the news that I want you to just shake your
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head when this happens. I'm going to tell you the news and I want you to just go, what is
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happening to us? Here's the news. That the president went over to Saudi Arabia and asked
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them to pump more oil. And the Saudis said that they're basically close to capacity, so
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there's not much they can do. Is that the headline you heard? That they're close to capacity, so
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there's not much they can do. And then did you read the numbers? So the headline says they're
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close to capacity, there's not much they can do. What did the numbers say they could do?
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Where are they? They're at about 10 million barrels a day. What did they say they could
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get up to because they're right at their cap? What did they say they could get up to? 13.
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They can go from 10 to maximum of 13. Now, do the math. That's a 30% increase. Are you telling
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me that if one of the biggest producers in the world increases by 30%, nobody notices? What?
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Am I wrong that the headline is opposite of the news? Right? The news should have been
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the Saudis potentially could increase 30% and they're willing to try. You know, it might be
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hard because, you know, that last 30% is hard to get to because, you know, you've got to be
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operating perfectly. But can you just give me a sanity check? Am I right or wrong that
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the headline was opposite of the story? The headline says there's not much we can do. The
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numbers say there's plenty we can do and it would make a big difference. Am I wrong? Seriously,
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Well, I'm a little worried here because I feel like somebody says refining is the issue.
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Is it? That's the only issue domestically. It takes a lot of engineering work to get the
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extra. Yeah. But, you know, if the story had been there's nothing we can do because we can't
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do it, then that would be the story. But the story, the way it was written was we can go
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from 10 to 13. So could our news business be worse? Okay, I've been challenged to work
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a drone into this story because I work drones into every story. Challenge accepted. How do
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I work a drone into the story about Gaspar? Well, you know, if you need to transport it,
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if you had enough drones. No, I'm just joking. That would never work. I don't think I could
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work a drone into that story. But I tried. All right. You know they say one person can't
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make a difference. Do any of you think that? That one person can't make a difference?
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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
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
00:29:14.880
guess. Did a little bit less than Hitler, but she's making a dent. I mean, I don't think
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
00:42:10.200
States through terrorist acts such as this. So the cartels are just working with China as
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
00:42:44.400
ISIS? None. There's no difference. There's no difference that matters. Right? There's a difference.
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.
00:43:08.000
I'm going to kill my neighbor. If he does something that's going to kill me first, of course.
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.
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
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?
00:45:21.520
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.
00:47:48.040
So apparently, if you have sex with a contract killer, right after he does his job, really
00:47:56.380
good. It's really good. So if you're looking to upgrade your sexual experience, I would recommend
00:48:02.840
a contract killer. All right. Somebody says, my wife murdered my inner joy. We'll take that
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.
00:49:11.640
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
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
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
00:54:06.740
on my side, because I see the nature of the comments in real time as they're going by.
00:54:13.320
And doesn't it fuck you up to know that I'm totally strong border? Always have been. You know,
00:54:19.500
you should seal that border so a fucking ant can't get through, unless you want it to,
00:54:24.840
right? So you need total control over your border. And if we have high unemployment, you
00:54:31.940
close it. If you have low unemployment like we do now, and a shortage of workers, you open
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
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,
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and he has not said this, right? This is just hypothetical. Suppose he said, all right, I've
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looked into it. And while I hate illegal immigration, I imagine he'd say that, you know, just speculating.
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He'd agree with you, I hate illegal immigration. First choice would be controlling our border. But
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on this narrow question of whether it helps the economy or hurts it, it is my opinion that
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it helps it at the moment. Suppose he said that. Now, and in this hypothetical, he knows more
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about the economy than you do, and you agree. If Thomas Sowell said that at this moment, the
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illegal immigration, illegal immigration, is helping our economy a little bit more than
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it's hurting it, would it change your mind just for the short run? Go. I saw yes. I saw
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sure. I see some yeses. Interesting. I did not know if that would work. A lot of no's. Now,
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if you said no, what would be your reasoning? If your reasoning is about the illegal part,
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remember, that's the part I removed from the question. Safety. I don't think safety... Here's
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my problem with the safety issue. Is, are the immigrants coming from south of the border bringing
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in more crime than the average of the public that's already here? Well, let me ask you that.
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Does that matter? Suppose you thought you needed the workers, so economically that wasn't your
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problem. So suppose that you weren't worried about the economics, temporarily, but you were
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worried about the extra safety problem, criminal element. If I told you that, and I don't know
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that this is true, but if I told you that the average of the people coming across the border
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is actually less crime than the average that's already here, but of course it's more people,
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so it's more crime, right? Maybe it doesn't matter to you that the average would go down.
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Maybe it only matters that there's more of it. But if you need that more of it to operate
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your economy, that's different. So I think what's happening, possibly, I want to open your mind
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to this possibility, which I do not claim is the truth, right? I'm going to make, I'm going
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to make two claims that I do not know to be the truth, but very well could be. The first,
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the first claim is that at this moment, we're in a very strange period of time where we need
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the labor more than we need to stop it. That's the first claim, and I don't know that that's true.
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I would look to a Thomas Sowell or something like that to confirm. The second claim, and
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this is far more speculative, is if you looked at the total body of illegal immigrants, and
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I'm not even sure if you should include the second generation, because it's all connected,
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right? Maybe you include the second generation too, to get a really good clean look. Is that
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fair? If I were to look at the crime from illegal immigration, would you allow me to include
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their second generation as part of the whole picture? I think so. If you looked at the first
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and the second generation, would their average crime be higher or lower than what was already
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here? I think it would be lower. I don't know. And that's purely anecdotal and speculative.
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I think it's lower. The thing you don't see if you don't live around the immigrant community
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is how much they really, really don't want to get caught for doing a crime, because the penalty's
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worse. They go back to Mexico or wherever, right? There's a bigger penalty, and they know it,
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and they didn't come here to get arrested and get sent back. That's the opposite of what
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they want in every way. I think they're lowering the crime rate in America. Now, let me ask you
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this. If all they did was bring in a bunch of people who were, oh, can I say this without
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being kicked off of social media? Give me a pause. I don't know. This would be a close one.
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Yeah, I don't think I could do that. Yeah, it's not worth it. All right. So I'll just say that
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I think you cannot rule out the possibility that they're improving the economy and lowering
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the crime rate. I don't think you can rule that out. They may be increasing the amount of crime,
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and if that bothers you, that's actually rational. They might increase the total number of crime,
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because whenever you increase the total number of people, necessarily, you increase crime. But
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you know, every time you have a baby, you increase crime, right? Did you know that? That if you ban
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abortion, you've increased crime, you all know that, right? I mean, not just the crime of the
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abortion. Everybody gets that? If you banned all abortions, your crime would go way up. Not your
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crime rate. If I said your crime rate, I'd be a racist. So I don't say that. You're total about
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crime. There's just more people. More people equals more crime. So if you think that everything
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that creates more people, because it brings more crime, is bad, be consistent. You know,
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everywhere there's more people being added to the country, you should say, no, I don't want more
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people. I don't want you to have a baby. Don't have a baby that will add more crime. Not necessarily
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your baby, but if everybody had babies, you're going to get more crime. All right. Freakonomics
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made the claim. I think that was, I heard a debunk of the Freakonomics claim. There's a book
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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
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the benefit of fewer unwanted, let's call them babies, who are more likely to commit crimes,
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say the statistics. But I feel like that got, I saw somebody take a run at debunking that,
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but I don't know if the debunk was better than the book or vice versa.
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Fewer people of a certain age range equals lower crime rate. That is correct. If you have a higher
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percentage of senior citizens in the population, that's a good point. Why have I never thought of
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that before? Yeah, if you have a higher ratio of senior citizens, your crime rate would be low,
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theoretically. And that's where we are. Yeah. Well, Scott, benefit. What are you talking
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about? More door dash robberies. Millionaires seem to love cheap labor. Yes. Yes. You know,
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when I talk about the fact that I'm friendlier to immigration, even illegal immigration, although
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I want zero illegal immigration, but we also have to deal with the fact that it exists.
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If I seem softer on it and then you say to yourself, well, Scott, that's easy for you to
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say because you just get cheap labor, you're right. You're right. That's exactly what you
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should say about me. You are absolutely correct that there's no way that I'm uninfluenced
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by the fact that it benefits me personally. Of course I am. Yeah. Immigration tends to
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be a personal problem. I don't know if you've noticed that. Right. Immigration tends to be
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a personal problem. If you've had experience with any immigrants or that world, you have
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an opinion. And if you don't, you're dealing with it on some conceptual level. And that's
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really different. But I don't deal with immigration on a conceptual level completely. So anybody
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who says I'm being biased by positive association with the immigrant community, I want to tell
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you that's true. I am absolutely biased by repeated positive interactions with the illegal immigrant
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community. Consistently positive. And I don't know, there's nothing I can do about that, right?
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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
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it go away. You know the whole thing, people won't remember what you said, but they'll remember how
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you made them feel. I forget who said that famous quote. But that's exactly true with the illegal
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immigrant community. I don't remember what they said, but I always remember how they made me feel.
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And they always make me feel great. So fairly consistently.
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How many criminals do you know? Lots. Lots. If you count the ones who haven't been caught,
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Which party do you think immigrants will vote for? Well, you know, famously, people are noticing that
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it's changing, right? I think the funniest thing is that the Democrats think that the hardworking
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immigrants who understand motivation and how motivation and economics work, because you can't
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get closer to it than an illegal immigrant. That's as close as you can get to human motivation equals
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profit, right? Like they're living it. To imagine that the people who come out of that experience
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will turn into Democrats. Maybe. Maybe. But I live in the real world.
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Let me tell you a little secret. Here's a California secret.
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Get into any, you know, mixed group of people. And then where I live, it's always mixed, right?
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There's, you know, you don't have, it's pretty rare to be talking to a bunch of white people
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in California. There's always, there's always a mix. And then privately peel off, you know,
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one of the brown or black ones in your group, and then talk about politics. You get a really
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different feel. It doesn't, I don't know if it's a local thing or what. But I don't get anybody born
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in another country who's Democrat. People born in other countries, actually, I'm thinking of some
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exceptions now. So I'm exaggerating too much. There are some exceptions. But I'm always surprised
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when somebody born in another country came over here, worked hard, you know, made something of
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themselves. They're obviously, they lean Republican. Because everything they did was a Republican plan.
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Work hard, stay in a jail, you know, go to school, take care of your family.
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His pure Republican dogma is just, it's their own version of it. When they get here, who are they
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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
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will always go. But I think the Democratic Party of today is such a turnoff that an immigrant today,
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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
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just coming from Democrats. Yeah. Everybody I know who came from Mexico loves capitalism. That's why they
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
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all of you. Maybe I'll see you later. Bye for now.