Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1809 Scott Adams： January 6 Was A Feature Not A Flaw. Propaganda Versus News

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. I hope you're feeling great, because today is going to be a really

00:00:09.380 good day for most of you. For most of you, yeah. And showing up here at the live coffee

00:00:16.980 with Scott Adams, if you are live, is one of the best things that's ever heard. What?

00:00:23.880 Neil Peart scored higher than Max. Why is somebody mentioning Neil Peart when I was

00:00:29.140 just watching Neil Peart videos? How is that even possible? Literally, the last video I was

00:00:36.280 watching, and somebody's mentioning this obscure drummer. How is that even possible? Anyway,

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00:01:06.640 better. Go. Neil Peart is no obscure drummer. You'll be a non-obscure drummer if you know

00:01:21.420 drummers. Well, the best fake news of the day, I'm going to say I fell for it. That'll be my story.

00:01:30.700 I totally fell for it. The story was that the place, and Zero Hedge tweeted this originally,

00:01:39.600 the place that Joe Biden fell off his bicycle on Google Maps, the name of that place is called

00:01:46.580 Brandon Falls. Brandon Falls, the exact place he fell off his bicycle. Now, when you saw that,

00:01:55.160 did you say to yourself, well, that's definitely true? Or did you say to yourself, that's a little

00:02:00.440 too on the nose? Well, my first reaction to that is, no, that's just somebody geotagged it, which

00:02:07.520 is a thing you can do. So it'll show up on the map, but that doesn't mean it's the name of the town.

00:02:13.420 But I tweeted that mofo anyway. Do you know why? Because for the three or four seconds it would take 0.89

00:02:21.000 before it got debunked, which it did. It took a few seconds, but it got debunked right away.

00:02:26.300 I wanted you to feel it was true. I'm not proud of that. But when I first read it,

00:02:35.460 I thought, oh, this is really funny, because it might be true. But then after about 10 seconds,

00:02:41.280 you say, no, that's just a geotag. But I tweeted it anyway, because I wanted you to have the same

00:02:47.460 experience. Then for a few seconds, you'd think, is that true? And it would just be like really

00:02:52.920 weird and fun. And then, you know, a minute later, you'd find out none of it was true. It was just

00:02:56.920 some, some joker geotagged it, which by the way, is funny enough, right? The fact that it was done

00:03:02.940 by a joker, and it's not real, is just as funny. So I thought, well, either way. But anyway, it wasn't

00:03:10.080 real. So Comey is writing in the Washington Post, why it's so important that all the January 6th

00:03:20.780 protesters be held accountable, you know, all the ones that broke laws, and that everyone should be,

00:03:26.640 you know, followed up on. I guess there are some FBI people that Comey is aware of, who are thinking

00:03:34.480 that maybe the, you know, the treatment of the January 6th people was a little harsh, compared

00:03:39.820 to how other protesters in other contexts have been treated. But Comey is saying, no, no, no, no.

00:03:47.100 And this is one of the things that Comey says, quote, he says, none of that matters, because surely

00:03:53.740 you agree on one thing, January 6th can't happen again. Really? Is that, do we agree on that?

00:04:04.480 I don't agree on that. I don't even agree that January 6th was bad, except for the violence,

00:04:11.900 and, you know, the violence was bad, of course. So everybody agrees the violence was bad. Don't

00:04:16.540 make that a thing. But what about the fact that there was a major protest at the Capitol,

00:04:22.740 and it was really dicey? Was that a feature or a flaw? Let me say something about America,

00:04:30.360 Mr. Comey, which is something you apparently don't know about your own country. It goes

00:04:36.580 like this. If something happens that the government does, if the government does something, let's

00:04:42.600 say an election, and the signal is that there's fraud, the signal. It doesn't mean the signal

00:04:50.700 is correct. There are lots of false signals. But definitely the signal from this election

00:04:55.480 was that there was something sketchy, and you ought to pause for a second and make sure

00:05:00.460 that everything's okay. That's what the protesters wanted. Now, ask me, do I not want that to

00:05:06.080 happen again? No, I do want that to happen again. But Scott, Scott, Scott, you say, people

00:05:13.160 got hurt. You want that to happen again? Yes, I do. Not the hurt part. But if it's part

00:05:19.480 of the package, yes, yes. Protests are dangerous. People get hurt. Let me say it unambiguously.

00:05:26.360 If the same situation arose again, where half, I'm going to say half the country, had deep

00:05:33.920 questions about the integrity of the election system, I want another January 6th. And I don't

00:05:40.900 care if it's the Democrats who are protesting a Republican victory. I don't care who the winner

00:05:48.380 was. That's not even on my radar. That's a whole separate question. But if you send the

00:05:54.060 American people a big, glaring signal of fraud, there's going to be a crowd. There's going 1.00

00:06:03.340 to be a crowd. That doesn't mean the signal is correct, right? Lots of stuff we see as signals

00:06:09.400 are just false. Probably half of them. Maybe most of them. Maybe most of the signals are false.

00:06:15.820 But you tell me that you send a signal this glaringly big that something might be wrong.

00:06:22.400 Might be. Because I haven't seen any proof that the election was rigged, personally. But

00:06:28.960 did it signal that something needed to be looked at? Yes. Yes, it did. In the eyes of a lot

00:06:35.980 of smart people who may have been suffering from confirmation bias, whatever. But a lot of smart

00:06:41.640 people looked at it and said, that we need to look into. That's a pretty big signal right

00:06:48.120 there. You don't just ignore that signal. So to Mr. Comey, let me say I could not disagree

00:06:56.100 more. What this country needs is more January 6th, not less. We need more of it. We need a

00:07:03.760 crowd to forum when it's obvious our government is sending signals of fraud. Has the Biden

00:07:10.780 administration sent any signals that they're not credible in dealing with China? Yes, they

00:07:17.480 have. The whole Hunter Biden laptop. Now, there hasn't been any protest over that that I know

00:07:23.900 of. But if a protest formed over that, and people got hurt, I would be in favor of that. 0.63

00:07:32.860 Not the people getting hurt, but a process in which people take higher risk because they

00:07:39.040 think there's a higher level problem. Yes. When people see a high level problem, or even maybe

00:07:44.800 a high level problem, and they take high level risk to address it, that's the country I want

00:07:50.720 to live in. Don't tell me you're taking that away. That's the reason I love this country.

00:07:57.220 It's like burning the flag. I've said this a million times, but I'm going to keep saying

00:08:00.880 it until everybody believes it. I don't want to salute a flag I can't burn. The fact that

00:08:08.480 you can burn it in public is why I glorify it. That's why I respect it. That's why I honor

00:08:17.620 the flag. Because you can burn that thing in public, and it gets stronger. Every time

00:08:23.700 you burn it, it gets stronger. Burn it today. You can burn it right in front of me. I know 0.99

00:08:30.020 a lot of you would be so offended if you saw a flag burning right in front of you. You

00:08:33.620 might try to put it out. You might get violent with the person who's doing it. You'd be so

00:08:37.760 offended. Not me. Not me. You can burn that flag right in front of me. You can put a whole

00:08:42.780 pile of flags, set them all on fire. And when you're done, that flag will be stronger. Because

00:08:50.080 it let you burn it up, and it didn't do anything. That's how it gets its power. The power of the

00:08:55.360 flag is you can burn it. Don't lose that. Don't lose that. That's a feature. All right.

00:09:03.500 And Comey says, we have a constitution and statues and blah, blah, blah. And the FBI's

00:09:12.300 job is to send the message that it can never happen again if we are to remain a nation under

00:09:17.340 law. No, Mr. Comey, it's going to happen again. Because we're America. You know, we got a lot

00:09:25.340 of flaws. We Americans got a lot, we got a lot to answer to, right? People got questions

00:09:32.380 about us? Okay. They're not all bad questions. We got a lot to answer to. But there is one

00:09:39.020 thing we're going to get right every time. Fuck around and find out. We'll get that right 1.00

00:09:45.960 every time. Fuck around and find out. That doesn't mean we're always right. But if you 1.00

00:09:52.720 fuck around, you're going to find out. It's just spilt into the American DNA. And most 1.00

00:09:57.000 countries, I think. You know, we're not that unique. Well, CNN has continued its two-prong

00:10:05.780 plan to destroy the planet while also telling you that it could be fun. Could be fun. Does

00:10:12.300 that sound like an exaggeration? The CNN is destroying the planet but simultaneously telling

00:10:19.380 you how you can have fun with it. Well, there was a story today about how, you know, we might

00:10:26.100 have energy problems and you might lose your AC during the summer. But CNN explains that you

00:10:32.320 can still have fun on hot days and then gives you a number of tips for not overheating. So

00:10:40.620 CNN and the like have pushed the climate change narrative until it caused people to overreact

00:10:50.340 and get rid of their own energy sources without replacements online. So CNN and others who have

00:10:59.720 gotten us to this place where we reviled the energy that could, you know, power our AC, they're

00:11:07.420 literally trying to sell you that everything's fine. Oh, yeah, it'll be 110 and you won't

00:11:14.220 have AC. But, you know, you can still have fun in the heat. You can still have fun in

00:11:18.900 that heat. Just, you know, don't overdo it. Here's some tips. Put a nice, put an ice cube

00:11:23.780 in your pants. Oh, that's right. Your freezer doesn't work. Just go send your electric car with

00:11:30.960 the AC on. As long as you don't have to recharge it. Yeah. So that's nice of them to destroy the

00:11:37.760 world and tell us how to enjoy it. Well, Janet Yellen says that we're working with South Korea

00:11:44.960 and probably some other allies to try to decouple from China and the rare earth materials because

00:11:52.960 China has a lot of that market and we depend on it apparently. So it's a bad thing to depend

00:11:58.700 on that because our whole tech industry and our military and everything else depends on

00:12:03.820 those rare earth materials going into products. But now we're going to decouple from China 0.95

00:12:09.140 and look into South Korea for chips and other stuff. And let me ask you this. How many of

00:12:17.520 you remember during Trump's first term, and it was early on before the pandemic. So how many

00:12:25.660 of you remember that before the pandemic, I was tweeting like an idiot that we should decouple 1.00

00:12:31.880 from China's economy? How many people remember me saying over and over again? And do you remember 0.99

00:12:38.500 the reaction I got? Does anybody remember the reaction from the public? Now, some of you

00:12:44.380 follow me were like, yeah, yeah, let's do it. But generally speaking, what would you say the

00:12:49.040 public reaction was? The public reaction was, that's not going to happen. That's never going

00:12:55.660 to happen. Scott, Scott, Scott. That's not going to happen. Well, it's happening. Now, it took

00:13:03.260 a pandemic to do it. But, you know, something was going to happen to wake us up. It just happened

00:13:09.760 to be that. Now, the idiot cartoonist was asking for decoupling. But we're decoupling. 1.00

00:13:18.080 That's happening. Now, here's a question to you. Take me out of the equation for a moment.

00:13:23.200 Which of our political leaders were also early on decoupling from China? Name somebody who's

00:13:30.940 running for president or might, you know, somebody whose name is in the mix. And Trump, right?

00:13:39.340 Trump, okay. Now, did Trump ever say decouple? Have you ever heard Trump say decouple? I don't

00:13:48.400 know if he's used that word. Somebody's saying Rand Paul. Rand Paul has said decouple? Has

00:13:55.540 Hawley? I haven't heard Hawley. The one I know is Tom Cotton. Can you confirm that? I think

00:14:05.780 Tom Cotton was the earliest and strongest voice of the, you know, high-end politicians. Well,

00:14:12.380 Tucker was, you know, not a politician. But of the people running for president, I think

00:14:17.260 it was Tom Cotton, right? So when you're deciding who to support here, I would just ask you to

00:14:24.820 remember who was right and who was vocally right. Yeah. Kyle Bass, of course, highly influential

00:14:32.440 on this. So give a thought to the fact that I think Tom Cotton had the right priorities

00:14:38.400 and saw it early. So we're watching the left try to explain Biden away. And it looks like

00:14:48.580 some of them have turned. We'll talk about that in a minute. But have you tried having

00:14:53.400 a conversation with a Democrat and asking how they feel about their Biden presidency? Have

00:15:00.980 you done that lately? You should try it. Just ask how they think they're doing and watch

00:15:09.100 the answer. Because I'm pretty sure there's nobody who thinks he's doing a good job. Like

00:15:15.300 actually. Don't you think? I'm pretty sure literally no one quietly, like in their private

00:15:22.560 time. I don't think anyone thinks he's doing a good job. I could be wrong, but I don't think

00:15:27.500 so. So watching somebody answer a question when you know they're lying is really useful.

00:15:33.940 Here's a tip for you. If there's somebody in your life that you suspect is a liar, don't

00:15:41.780 try to catch them on all their lies. Let them lie. Because when you let them lie, if you know 0.72

00:15:48.900 they're lying, this is the important part, you know they're lying, watch how they do it. Because

00:15:53.760 people lie in very specific ways. It's almost like a fingerprint. The way one person lies

00:15:59.580 is completely different than the way another person lies. And look for that. Once you notice

00:16:03.800 that, you're going to see the tell for lying and it'll be really obvious. But you have

00:16:08.740 to let them lie so you can see their method. I hate to tell you how many times I've done

00:16:14.000 this. Let people lie to me. You go, okay, all right, you're lying. So how are you doing

00:16:19.300 it? Okay. You've added a whole bunch of details. Okay. That's a technique. So the way some people

00:16:25.760 lie is they'll add characters and details and like whole events, like an entire imagined

00:16:32.440 event. But some people will never lie like that. That's just like too far. Other people,

00:16:40.660 the most they'll do is lie by omission, like leave out a little context, right? I would say

00:16:47.020 if you catch me in a lie, it's going to be that one. Here's a lie I never tell. A thing

00:16:59.020 didn't happen that did. Like I would never tell a lie that says a thing happened when it

00:17:04.280 didn't or did when it didn't. Like that's a direct lie. I don't tell those. Like I don't

00:17:09.760 know. Maybe there's some special case or something. But like that's a lie that I don't like to

00:17:15.560 cross. But if somebody asked me a question and I didn't feel like a complete answer, I

00:17:21.580 might leave out something. You know, very normal human behavior. You don't have to be proud

00:17:27.000 of it. Sometimes it's just easier. You know, sometimes it's just convenience. It's not a big

00:17:31.940 deal. So watch for people's technique. And those are just a sample. But if you look at

00:17:38.980 the way they lie, you can, you can find people's pattern and then you'll see it every time.

00:17:44.780 All right. But Jimmy Fallon had a really funny joke about Joe Biden's fist bump with the crown

00:17:54.540 prince of Saudi Arabia. Jimmy Fallon's joke is that it wasn't the fist bump. He was trying

00:17:59.960 to punch him as hard as he could. That's the best he could do. And, you know, it's Jimmy

00:18:07.600 Fallon's joke. So I'll let him have the joke. But I was imagining me telling the joke if it

00:18:13.780 had been me telling it. I think it would have been more physical. It would have been, you

00:18:18.180 know, Joe Biden winding up and the crown prince seeing it coming and saying, well, it looks like

00:18:24.780 he's going to punch me. I better stop that. So he puts his fist out. It's a good joke.

00:18:38.480 But are you surprised that, you know, somebody who would be left oriented, Jimmy Fallon,

00:18:45.120 would go right after him for how weak he is? But did you see CNN's top left page today?

00:18:53.420 I tweeted out a screenshot of just the top left part of CNN's page. Because the top left

00:19:00.920 is where they put the propaganda. Did you know that, by the way? All the propaganda goes in

00:19:06.720 the top left. Because that's what people read. When you read a website, you start at the top

00:19:13.400 left. And then you may someday get to the bottom right or the bottom, but probably not. Right?

00:19:19.840 You're probably going to read the top left. So when they want to support a narrative,

00:19:25.060 they don't just spread it around where it belongs. They put it in the top left. So you're damn well

00:19:30.220 going to see it. So the top left of CNN is negative Biden pieces today. There's even a negative Jill

00:19:38.260 Biden piece. If they're starting to shit on Jill Biden, Jill Biden. Right? Not Hunter, not Joe, 0.99

00:19:47.640 but Jill. All right. Now, let me put my personal line in the sand here. I don't make fun of first

00:19:57.820 ladies generally. And if someday there's a first gentleman, I'm not going to make fun of that person

00:20:04.640 either. Because they didn't run for office. Right? Yeah, I get that they're part of the deal. But when

00:20:12.460 they got married, they probably weren't thinking about running for office. So the spouses, I always

00:20:17.680 give the spouses a free pass. I don't care if it's Melania or Jill or even Hillary Clinton when she was 1.00

00:20:24.420 like, just leave them alone. Leave them alone. If they're trying hard, I'm good with that.

00:20:31.780 You know, put in a little effort. That'd be good. Put a little effort. Now, nobody can say

00:20:38.980 nobody can say that Jill Biden isn't putting in the effort. Am I right? She might be the hardest 0.80

00:20:46.280 working person in government and she wasn't even elected. So I'm not going to dump on Jill Biden,

00:20:53.280 you know, unless it's just funny or something. I might do that. But just let her, you know,

00:20:58.880 just understand, we didn't elect her. Right? She doesn't, she's not, she doesn't deserve, 0.68

00:21:05.020 well, nobody deserves anything. All right. Here's a question for you. If you had some word salad

00:21:12.820 and you wanted to keep it in a container of some sort, what is the right container for word salad?

00:21:19.860 Well, my answer is Kamala Harris's pantsuit. Kamala Harris's pantsuit. That's a little joke. I'm sorry.

00:21:29.860 But I feel as if almost every day we see a new clip of her babbling like an idiot. 1.00

00:21:37.620 How many babbling idiot clips can you create out of one person who doesn't really talk that much in 1.00

00:21:44.540 public? Makes me wonder if you could do that with me. So now I have, what, almost 700 hours of live 1.00

00:21:54.120 stream? In my 700 hours of live streams, do you think you could put together a compilation clip

00:22:00.620 where I'm babbling? Actually, I don't think so. I mean, I've been stoned on half of them. And I still

00:22:08.740 don't think you could put together a babbling clip. But imagine the babbling clip you could put together

00:22:14.300 with Kabbalah. So he says, Jill is guilty of exploiting Joe. No, that's mind reading. That's

00:22:24.160 mind reading. She may just find herself in this situation. Right? She just might be making the

00:22:29.840 best of the situation. I don't know. But I'm not going to accuse her of something based on me

00:22:34.100 reading her mind. That's not going to happen. All right. So MSNBC on-air news host,

00:22:44.000 type person, Katie Turr, is noting that there's no trust in the media. And sometimes she's wondering

00:22:50.580 if she's doing any good. Only 16% of Americans said they have a great deal or a lot of confidence

00:22:57.160 in newspapers in 2022. Only 16% have a great deal of confidence. And that's, you know, down since 2021.

00:23:06.340 This was according to Gallup. And Katie Turr complains that, you know, maybe she's not helping the world. 0.97

00:23:17.340 Well, Katie, most of Katie's news is on a network that doesn't even report real news. It's almost an

00:23:25.580 entirely propaganda network. And, well, you know, let me digress for a moment. I think the most

00:23:34.900 important part of this story is what kind of nickname did the cruel kids give Katie Turr, 0.98

00:23:40.580 T-U-R, T-U-R is her last name, in high school. Now, is that a married name? I don't know if it's a

00:23:48.760 married name. It might be a married name. That's not as funny. Well, no, it's not Turr. No, it's Katie

00:23:55.580 Turr. Turr. It's three quarters of a turd. Yeah, it's three quarters of a turd, but it's not a full

00:24:04.500 turd. And I think that has to be noted. So Katie, who is three quarters of a turd, in name only, 1.00

00:24:11.780 in name only, we're not insulting her. It's just her name. That's how, that's, I didn't make that up. 0.92

00:24:17.940 Speaking of polls, the Rasmussen poll,

00:24:24.400 thinks, so Rasmussen poll asked voters, how many think that Joe Biden profited from China deals?

00:24:32.480 Now, we know that Hunter Biden profited from China deals. That's in evidence. But it's a little less

00:24:40.540 proven that Joe Biden made money from it. No, and I would say it's unproven at this point. I have not

00:24:48.600 seen evidence that would, you know, guarantee he made money. There's indications. Yeah, there are

00:24:54.700 suggestions. There are flags. There are flags and suggestions. There are signals. There are signals.

00:25:03.400 But there's not proof yet that I've seen. However, 62% of the public, according to Rasmussen poll,

00:25:11.260 believes that Biden made some money from China deals.

00:25:14.260 How often do you get 62% of anybody agreeing on anything? Did Trump ever have 62% of the public

00:25:25.540 have a negative thought about a single topic? You know, maybe, maybe the January 6th thing would

00:25:34.280 create that. But while he was in office, I don't know, I don't think he was ever that unpopular,

00:25:41.400 was he? All right. Here's something that... So the Democrats have this belief, and I don't know

00:26:00.380 what to do with it. The belief is that if you ask for an audit of an election that you think

00:26:06.960 was suspicious, your true intention is to become a dictator. Let me say that again. This is the

00:26:15.360 two plus two equals four that the Democrats have put together. If you insist on an audit of an

00:26:23.480 election that about half the country thinks isn't credible, and so you ask to check, is this really

00:26:29.240 credible? That means your inner thoughts are to become a dictator. So if you're working hard to

00:26:38.060 make sure that a vote was accurate and fair, that's proof that you want to be a dictator.

00:26:47.140 Democrats also have other things that are similar to that. So working hard to make sure that an

00:26:52.360 election was fair, that equals trying to be a dictator. But taking a drink of water is proof

00:27:00.500 that you're trying to become a cactus.

00:27:07.920 Taking a ride in a car is proof that you don't believe airplanes exist. There are a lot of things

00:27:15.120 that you can prove in the Democrat way. If you water a plant in your house, that's proof that you have

00:27:23.080 cancer. If you take a walk in a nice summer day, that's proof you're a murderer. If you wake up and 0.89

00:27:32.680 stretch like this, like that, that's proof you're a pedophile. If you tell a joke, 0.97

00:27:45.120 if people laugh, that's proof you're probably Hitler. Now, I could go on, but I think you see the 0.88

00:27:53.780 pattern. Orange plus pineapple equals hammer. And that is who wants to run the country. No, I correct

00:28:05.720 myself. That is who is running the country. The people who say apple plus banana equals hammer

00:28:13.220 are in charge of the country. The Democrats. So that's happening.

00:28:21.320 I learned that from a brainwashed NPC today. Joe Rogan apparently is not on board with the Trump

00:28:28.860 train. Never has been. He was never a Trump supporter in terms of voting. But he's called

00:28:34.560 Trump on man-baby and thinks all of his energy comes from Adderall. Okay. Here's my question.

00:28:43.120 And I thought, I think I saw Cenk Uyghur saying, if Trump doesn't have the right wing, he can't

00:28:53.540 win. To which other people said, who are you calling the right wing? Are you calling Joe

00:28:59.660 Rogan who supported Bernie for president? The right wing? Let me give you another example

00:29:07.300 of Democrat thinking. If the guy who supported Bernie is right wing, there are other things

00:29:15.540 you can imagine that Democrats also think. If it's light out at 12 noon, that could be indication

00:29:24.800 that it's dark. I don't know. A lot of things are non-obvious, but the Democrats have explained

00:29:32.440 it to us. Well, what do you think, but more generally, what do you think of the prominent

00:29:39.920 prior supporters of Trump who may not be on board this time? I don't think Mike Cernovich is

00:29:46.660 on board, but I can't speak for him. He has complicated thoughts, so I don't try to summarize

00:29:51.620 them if I can avoid it. I'm not on board. So, yeah, who cares? Do you think it'd make

00:30:01.340 a difference? Do you think it would make a difference if some of the, let's say, I'm not

00:30:08.540 going to call myself charismatic, but I'll say other charismatic people who had some influence

00:30:13.940 may not be on board? What do you think? Scott just wants to win, somebody says. Is there

00:30:22.460 somebody who doesn't want to win? Somebody here is saying, if Cernovich is out, Trump has

00:30:29.000 no shot. What do you think? See, I think this might be one of those situations where the world

00:30:37.340 finds out, like, how it really works. Let me ask you that question. How many of you think

00:30:44.340 that Mike Cernovich being not on board with Trump would be enough to make it impossible

00:30:49.940 for him to win? What do you think? Or would it even have a big impact? You don't have to

00:30:55.700 say impossible. Most of you are saying no, but I think I asked my question wrong. Is the no

00:31:04.860 that he would have no impact or that Trump couldn't get elected? I don't know which way I ask the

00:31:10.240 question now. I don't know if the no is agreeing with the thought or disagree. No impact? No

00:31:19.300 impact. So most of you are saying small or no impact. So that would mean that your belief

00:31:24.560 is that Cernovich is not influential beyond maybe his, you know, his core supporters. Is

00:31:34.500 that what you think? How about me? Let's move to me. Let's say, hypothetically, and this

00:31:41.860 is probable, let's say that I'm not on board with Trump for another term. Would I have any

00:31:48.120 impact? Local says no. Mostly no. A few yeses, but mostly no. Not anymore. That would be

00:31:56.440 a good answer. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. All right. So most of you believe that

00:32:01.680 my opinion, and I'll just use Mike Cernovich as an example, not important. Joe Rogan's opinion.

00:32:09.600 If Joe Rogan went from, you know, maybe, you know, disinterest in Trump to maybe outright

00:32:19.740 negative, would that make a difference? No impact. Interesting. So who do you think changes

00:32:29.660 public opinion? Who do you think moves the public opinion? Fox News? Do you believe that

00:32:36.960 you all are making up your own opinions? Tucker? Yeah. Oh, is Tucker going to be pro-Trump?

00:32:44.220 Oh, there's an interesting question. Will Tucker be pro-Trump? What has he, I don't think,

00:32:54.100 well, Tucker probably won't endorse somebody, but we would know by the way he covers it.

00:32:58.100 Yeah. What about Greg Gottfeld? How is he going to handle a potential Trump run? But, all right,

00:33:09.440 you tell me, who do you think, who do you think there was a non-politician who would be the most

00:33:15.260 influential on the question of whether Trump gets re-elected? Name the most influential non-politician.

00:33:23.800 Ben Shapiro? Ben Shapiro? Steve Bannon? Elon Musk? Well, Elon Musk, I wouldn't put in that list.

00:33:36.000 The Pope, Trump Jr., Elon Musk, Tucker, Rogan. Interesting. So, Barron Rothschild.

00:33:45.660 I'm going to give you a special credit for whoever said Barron Rothschild. I like that Soros or Rothschild

00:33:56.600 get thrown into every conversation. Levin? All right. A lot of you think it's Tucker,

00:34:04.500 but here's an interesting question. Do we know what Tucker's opinion would be on the second Trump run?

00:34:10.220 I don't think I know the answer to that. I mean, maybe he's, you know, not talking about it yet.

00:34:18.980 All right.

00:34:21.780 All right. I'm going to break some news for you. Want me to break some news? Tiny news. Little news.

00:34:29.260 Has more to do with me than you.

00:34:31.380 So, yesterday, Russell Brand's producer asked me if I would appear on Russell Brand's podcast.

00:34:41.520 And I said, yes, we just have to schedule it.

00:34:44.260 So, sometime in the next few weeks, Russell Brand and I will have a conversation,

00:34:50.480 probably on the topic of all things important and political, I guess. I don't know.

00:34:57.220 We'll decide what it is when we get there. Now, how do you think that's going to go?

00:35:04.960 What do you think? I mean, seriously, how do you think that's going to go?

00:35:11.220 I am so curious. I have to admit, this is the most excited I've ever been about a conversation.

00:35:19.300 And I would call it a conversation. It's not, I don't think it's an interview, per se.

00:35:25.320 But, I don't think I've ever been more excited. And you know why?

00:35:30.340 By the way, do you know why I'm excited about it?

00:35:35.860 This will be a good test to see how much, how well you know me.

00:35:40.260 It'll be wild. It might be.

00:35:42.240 I mean, neither of us have any guardrails, so it could go anywhere.

00:35:44.760 So, some people are saying it would be smart and funny, and in a perfect world it would be.

00:35:53.680 But that's not really the special part.

00:35:56.160 It's not just because he's smart. He is brilliant.

00:36:00.020 It's not just because he has 6 million viewers, but that's a big part of it.

00:36:06.280 Here's why.

00:36:08.080 Have you ever seen two open-minded people on a large platform have a conversation about politics?

00:36:14.760 I'll bet not once.

00:36:17.120 Have you?

00:36:18.960 And if you have, name it.

00:36:20.740 I've never seen it.

00:36:22.660 There's actually some...

00:36:24.080 Joe Rogan?

00:36:26.860 Yeah.

00:36:28.580 But there's a difference.

00:36:31.100 There's a difference.

00:36:32.160 Joe Rogan is more of an interviewer.

00:36:34.580 Meaning that, this is my take on it.

00:36:37.700 I think Joe Rogan is maybe the best interviewer we have.

00:36:41.460 I would say he's in the top whatever, you know, maybe the best.

00:36:45.820 But he gets his guests to be the stars.

00:36:51.680 Would you agree with that?

00:36:53.820 Joe Rogan's genius is that he makes stars out of his guests.

00:36:56.920 Sort of, you know, Johnny Carson effect.

00:37:00.260 Right?

00:37:00.420 Johnny Carson's always a star, but what he does really well is he makes his guests the star.

00:37:04.840 And that's what Joe Rogan does.

00:37:06.380 Now, what I see in, and, you know, he has plenty of opinions too, but it's more about making the guests the star.

00:37:13.080 I think in the case of, in Russell Brand's case, I think his input, you know, is more central to the show.

00:37:24.740 And, but let me ask you this.

00:37:29.820 Have you ever seen two people who actually maybe could understand some of the topics, who are open-minded and had a big platform and talked about the big issues in public?

00:37:40.420 I've never seen it.

00:37:42.400 This actually might be a first.

00:37:44.240 And it excites me because of the model, right?

00:37:51.220 I'm a big fan of Russell Brand, so, you know, it's exciting just because it's him.

00:37:56.160 But, you know, I've lived in this world long enough that celebrity contact isn't exciting too much on its own.

00:38:03.960 Like, I need a little extra to make it exciting.

00:38:06.040 And I believe that his ability to take a topic where it needs to go is damn near unparalleled.

00:38:17.800 And I like to play in that domain as well.

00:38:21.060 So if you put this together, I don't know, it feels like matches and dynamite.

00:38:27.380 That's what it feels like.

00:38:28.880 I just feel like this is a match and dynamite.

00:38:30.860 I don't know who's match and who's dynamite, but it's definitely a match and a dynamite. 0.99

00:38:34.160 So we might stir some shit up. 0.97

00:38:38.860 We might, I don't know, but I feel like we're going to make a small tear in the fabric of reality. 0.99

00:38:47.480 I don't know.

00:38:48.520 It'll be fun.

00:38:52.360 Let's see.

00:38:53.140 Musk has, Elon Musk filed a counterclaim, lawsuit-type thing against Twitter.

00:38:58.040 And he's got his arguments that Twitter fired some high-level executives, and they weren't supposed to do that without checking with the potential buyer.

00:39:08.100 But what do you think, what do you think are the odds of Elon Musk prevailing in court or Twitter prevailing under the situation that you know about?

00:39:18.700 Which is that there may be some question about how many bots there are, and Elon Musk can't find that out, and it's material.

00:39:29.060 Now, whether or not the arrangement said something about, I'm not going to look into things, I still think such a material promise is important.

00:39:38.140 Like, I don't think they can just lie to you and say, well, you said you weren't going to look into it, so we just lied to you.

00:39:43.740 I don't think that's a defense, is it?

00:39:46.720 I mean, this is sort of an area of the law, like all the rest, that I have no real appreciation for.

00:39:54.120 But I'll tell you my feeling is that Elon Musk will prevail in court.

00:40:00.360 Now, he might end up buying the company, but it would be at a different price, and it would be after he found out how many bots were there.

00:40:08.160 But that would be a whole separate conversation.

00:40:11.560 What do you think?

00:40:12.860 Now, part of it is, I can't believe that Musk would have gotten himself into this situation without having an escape hatch.

00:40:21.380 Because he's not like the guy who doesn't think it through, right?

00:40:26.220 He's not operating on impulse.

00:40:28.400 Like, oh, I just feel like buying Twitter.

00:40:31.180 I didn't think it through.

00:40:32.800 Oh, like, that's not him, right?

00:40:34.000 He thought it through.

00:40:35.440 So I have a feeling that he has the stronger case and maybe knows it, and maybe there's nothing happening here that isn't going to work in his favor.

00:40:45.000 I feel like all that's happening is Musk is finding the lowest price for this asset, and once he finds it, he'll pull the trigger.

00:40:54.420 That would be my prediction.

00:40:55.660 But I will put this prediction in a, not as a binary, like it's, you know, he buys it, it happens or not.

00:41:04.000 I'm just going to go with 60% odds.

00:41:07.780 So I'll go with 60% chance that Musk wins and buys the company at a lower price, eventually.

00:41:14.680 I think walk away is a reasonable prediction, yeah.

00:41:20.980 Both of them walking away.

00:41:23.340 It's entirely possible that Elon Musk has no interest in Twitter by now.

00:41:28.200 He may have lost interest.

00:41:29.380 Who knows?

00:41:29.780 All right.

00:41:36.360 Here's some fake news on Fox.

00:41:40.640 So on the Fox website, since I often point out CNN's fake news, I like to balance.

00:41:46.620 Do you believe there's any fake news on the Fox News website today?

00:41:50.380 Or do you think that that's all true?

00:41:51.720 Well, an article there by Tyler Olson on Fox News, he mentions this just in a throwaway line

00:42:02.580 about Biden making regular gaffes, ranging from the inane, like appearing to shake hands with a person who is not there.

00:42:12.060 That's fake news.

00:42:16.140 As far as I know, Biden has never attempted to shake hands with a person not there.

00:42:21.580 He has, on at least two occasions, signaled with his open hand that he was asking,

00:42:27.880 should I walk over here, or do we go sit here, or you go first.

00:42:32.220 And then it gets clipped so you don't see that's what he's doing.

00:42:35.060 It looks like he's shaking hands with a ghost.

00:42:37.520 That's fake news.

00:42:39.460 Now, the way it was worded was kind of interesting. 1.00

00:42:42.520 It's called a gaffe, which doesn't mean necessarily that you were stupid or wrong. 0.99

00:42:47.620 It means you did something that turned out poorly. 0.99

00:42:51.380 And one example is it appearing to try to shake hands with a person who's not there.

00:42:57.620 I think if you write that it appears he tried to shake hands,

00:43:01.940 you need to clarify that it appeared like that to people who saw the video and of context.

00:43:07.820 It didn't appear like that to me when I saw the full audio, or full video.

00:43:12.060 If you saw the full thing, it appeared he was motioning toward a chair.

00:43:16.220 So, fake news on Fox News.

00:43:22.340 Nobody gets away from my fake news criticism.

00:43:25.960 As you know, the Pulitzer Committee had given Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times and Washington Post writers 0.98

00:43:32.780 for their coverage of Russiagate, which turned out to be total bullshit.

00:43:38.940 So, I guess the Pulitzer Committee, the board, they had two reviews to find out if these Pulitzer awards were, you know, still something they would back. 0.89

00:43:51.120 And they found there were no problems.

00:43:53.560 No problems.

00:43:54.400 So, the Pulitzer Committee has doubled down about giving the Pulitzer-wide review to writers who literally made up fake news

00:44:02.900 and sold it to the public and tried to destroy the republic. 0.99

00:44:07.580 And they got a Pulitzer for writing bullshit that nearly destroyed the country. 0.98

00:44:12.460 I'm wondering, is it too late for Hitler to get a Pulitzer from Mein Kampf? 0.98

00:44:21.880 Because I don't know that there's a time limit, right?

00:44:25.080 You could have written a book a long time ago and you still could get a Pulitzer, can it not?

00:44:29.240 Yeah.

00:44:30.340 Yeah.

00:44:30.820 So, I would say, you know, maybe they should consider that, since they obviously have no ethical or moral core whatsoever.

00:44:41.900 Here's a name of a politician who followed me on Twitter today, and so I followed back because I had to.

00:44:51.840 I had to.

00:44:53.240 Sometimes there's a follow that you say, oh, I think I'll follow, this could be fun.

00:44:57.500 But sometimes you just have to.

00:44:59.840 Here's why I had to.

00:45:01.480 All right, he's running for Congress in Arizona, and he's a, if I can judge correctly from his profile picture,

00:45:10.540 I judge him to be a black American whose actual name is Walt Blackman.

00:45:17.980 His last name is Blackman.

00:45:20.840 So, if you're a Republican running for Congress, you're going to get all the Republican votes,

00:45:25.720 because you're a Republican.

00:45:27.500 But if your last name is Blackman and you're a black man, aren't you going to get 20% of the Democrat votes automatically?

00:45:36.140 Am I wrong about that?

00:45:38.280 Just the fact that he's a black man who's called Blackman?

00:45:41.840 I think that's worth 20% of the Democrat vote.

00:45:44.460 Here's my prediction.

00:45:49.340 If Walt Blackman has any skills whatsoever, he will be your president someday.

00:45:54.680 I don't know anything about him, like nothing.

00:45:59.420 I've never heard him talk.

00:46:01.280 I just followed him on Twitter today because he followed me.

00:46:04.520 Oh, there's a picture of him, yeah.

00:46:06.180 So, he's a good-looking guy.

00:46:08.240 Seems like the right age for building up his political resume.

00:46:13.020 So, I don't know anything about him.

00:46:14.340 But, if you just say he's a good-looking guy, he's about the right age, and he's a Republican, and his name is Blackman,

00:46:22.380 how in the world does he ever lose an election?

00:46:25.660 Like, you'd have to be terrible at campaigning to lose under those conditions.

00:46:31.700 Anyway, if you feel like it, give him a follow.

00:46:35.080 He's in Arizona.

00:46:35.680 But, mark my words, you might hear from him again.

00:46:43.480 All right.

00:46:46.780 All right.

00:46:51.880 I think I was going to talk about something else, but it changed my mind.

00:46:56.680 All right.

00:46:57.240 I think that covers all the many fascinating things that I wanted to discuss today.

00:47:02.460 I'm hoping we'll see more imaginary evidence in the January 6th hearings today.

00:47:10.220 Imaginary evidence is the kind where the president says something like,

00:47:15.040 can I have a, can somebody bring me a Diet Coke?

00:47:19.340 And then somebody reports it as, he asked for a Diet Coke,

00:47:23.720 and that's mafia talk for overthrowing the country.

00:47:27.180 So, that's pretty much the quality of the evidence.

00:47:32.460 Yeah, the Bannon jury selection happened.

00:47:36.980 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is actually happening.

00:47:41.080 Steve Bannon has to manage his schedule.

00:47:45.500 It's kind of a difficult thing to juggle at the moment.

00:47:48.900 Because there are two things that Steve Bannon has new that he has to add to his schedule.

00:47:53.880 One of the new things is he has to testify to Congress, which he's agreed to do.

00:47:59.420 So, he's got to work that into his schedule, testify to Congress.

00:48:03.060 At the same time, he has to work into his schedule the court case in which he's being charged

00:48:08.520 for not doing that, testifying to Congress voluntarily.

00:48:13.920 So, he's got to figure out how to balance his schedule to testify to Congress,

00:48:18.680 but also try to stay in a jail for being accused of not testifying to Congress,

00:48:24.200 which he's doing at the same time.

00:48:25.340 Now, I understand there's a timing issue, and the Democrats have said,

00:48:31.060 oh, no, he has to be prosecuted because at one point he said no, and that's against the law.

00:48:38.860 So, even though at one point he said no, but even while the proceedings are still going,

00:48:43.260 so it's not too late at all, it's not too late, he agreed to do it,

00:48:47.600 and they're going to prosecute him anyway.

00:48:51.800 That's your tax dollars.

00:48:52.880 So, your tax dollars are going to seat a jury to have a trial to convict a guy

00:49:00.580 for not doing the thing that he's actually doing at the moment.

00:49:05.420 Like, at the moment that the jury will be deliberating, you know, possibly,

00:49:11.300 they'll actually be deliberating whether they should punish him for not doing

00:49:15.980 the thing he's doing, doing in public, where everybody's watching, at the same time.

00:49:26.400 That's where we're at.

00:49:28.180 Now, I get there's a technical reason why he'd have to be charged 0.99

00:49:31.200 if you want it to be a complete asshole, right? 0.99

00:49:36.260 Now, let me ask you this. 0.99

00:49:38.600 If the ban in trial turned into, you know, him being railroaded,

00:49:44.580 and a January 6th-like crowd surrounded the courtroom,

00:49:50.580 and there was violence that broke out, which nobody recommends,

00:49:54.180 I don't want to see any violence,

00:49:56.080 would you say that was a good thing, a feature, or a flaw?

00:49:59.420 Would that be a feature or a flaw if a giant protest

00:50:04.560 with some actual danger broke out around the courtroom? 1.00

00:50:08.940 It's a fucking feature. 0.99

00:50:10.880 It's a feature. 1.00

00:50:12.460 All right.

00:50:13.460 And Mr. Comey, let me tell you,

00:50:17.480 you're not going to talk Americans out of forming a crowd

00:50:21.600 if you send a signal that big.

00:50:24.400 And the signal that big is that we've just forgotten

00:50:27.940 about what's good or legal,

00:50:30.660 and it's just all about winning,

00:50:32.540 and we don't care who we crush in the meantime.

00:50:35.600 If that's the signal you're sending,

00:50:38.080 you can expect a crowd.

00:50:40.720 So I'm not like some big, you know, Steve Bannon supporter.

00:50:44.820 He can do his thing, I do my thing.

00:50:47.520 You know, it's just different worlds.

00:50:49.040 I don't have any connection, really.

00:50:50.360 So it's not about him.

00:50:54.380 It's about the government.

00:50:56.480 If the government is going to prosecute...

00:50:58.260 And by the way, I would say exactly the same thing

00:51:00.460 if he were a Democrat, right?

00:51:02.780 It wouldn't change.

00:51:03.820 If he were a Democrat being prosecuted

00:51:05.800 for not doing the thing he's doing at the moment,

00:51:08.860 I think I'd have something to say about that.

00:51:12.160 And I hope it would be exactly the same.

00:51:14.860 But, yeah, if a crowd forms around the courtroom

00:51:18.140 and some violence happens,

00:51:20.040 because it always does when there's a big crowd,

00:51:21.900 I mean, somebody always gets hurt,

00:51:23.480 I'm okay with it.

00:51:25.140 I'm okay with it.

00:51:26.400 It's a feature, not a flaw.

00:51:29.400 All right, ladies and gentlemen,

00:51:32.020 I think I've delivered the finest entertainment

00:51:33.860 that you could ever get commercial free

00:51:36.420 in this entire Internet.

00:51:38.260 I think that's a fact

00:51:39.280 and a feature, not a flaw.

00:51:44.200 There's still time.

00:51:45.140 Yes, there is.

00:51:45.680 Yeah, give me a Diet Coke,

00:51:50.140 and by that I mean put down a hit

00:51:52.200 on everybody I don't like.

00:51:57.400 Do you still wear a watch?

00:51:59.320 No.

00:52:00.400 I haven't worn a watch for a long, long time.

00:52:05.300 Can you imagine someone trying to tell you what to do?

00:52:07.960 What?

00:52:11.520 Oh, Diet Coke.

00:52:13.140 Yeah, Diet Coke has dye right in the diet. 0.64

00:52:15.680 You're right.

00:52:18.900 Do red flag laws apply to citizens 0.81

00:52:21.380 who control nuclear weapons, too?

00:52:23.400 That's a good question.

00:52:24.880 Do you think we should have Biden looked into

00:52:26.900 because he has access to a weapon,

00:52:30.200 but we've got some questions

00:52:31.480 about his mental capabilities?

00:52:34.140 Hmm.

00:52:35.420 Time to activate that red flag law. 0.97

00:52:37.460 Can I provide guidance for how to provide friction

00:52:46.000 so a 15-year-old doesn't use cannabis

00:52:48.080 until they're older?

00:52:49.620 The answer is there's nothing you can do

00:52:51.600 about drugs and your children

00:52:53.580 that I know of.

00:52:56.920 I've never seen anything.

00:52:58.840 Now, you could be, 0.99

00:52:59.860 I suppose you could be a hard ass 0.99

00:53:01.140 and tell them what to do, 1.00

00:53:02.420 but they have complete access to marijuana.

00:53:05.160 There's no kid who doesn't have total access.

00:53:08.540 So if they want to do it,

00:53:10.840 there's basically nothing you can do.

00:53:13.840 You could try educating.

00:53:15.280 You could try scaring them, I guess.

00:53:17.060 I suppose you could try scaring them.

00:53:18.220 I've never seen it work.

00:53:19.740 There are lots of things you can try,

00:53:21.240 but I've never seen anything work.

00:53:24.040 Kids make up their own ideas.

00:53:26.100 In the same family,

00:53:27.600 you could have two kids raised exactly the same.

00:53:30.740 One's a pothead,

00:53:31.600 and one doesn't want anything to do with it.

00:53:33.620 How many of you have ever seen that?

00:53:35.380 Does anybody have a family

00:53:36.400 where one kid's a pothead 0.85

00:53:37.640 and the other one doesn't want

00:53:38.540 to have anything to do with it?

00:53:41.580 Right.

00:53:42.280 Well, the answer is yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:53:45.180 It's all individual.

00:53:46.840 If you think that your great parenting

00:53:48.800 is what's going to make the difference in that,

00:53:55.060 you're going to be disappointed.

00:53:56.260 No matter what you do,

00:54:00.480 you're going to have one that likes it

00:54:02.060 and one that doesn't,

00:54:02.960 and they're going to act on their preferences.

00:54:04.580 That's it.

00:54:05.840 That's it.

00:54:07.240 Yeah, and you look at the comments,

00:54:08.940 everybody's saying,

00:54:09.580 yep, yep, yep.

00:54:10.980 It's only the people who haven't seen it

00:54:13.000 that think that's a thing.

00:54:15.680 Right.

00:54:16.200 I don't think there are many things

00:54:17.740 that are more cripplingly negative in this world

00:54:20.860 than the false belief

00:54:22.740 that good parenting is the big solution.

00:54:27.620 Good parenting is necessary and important.

00:54:31.840 It's necessary and important.

00:54:34.060 I'm not going to minimize it,

00:54:35.720 but it's not magic.

00:54:38.500 If you take this thing which is necessary

00:54:40.960 and really important

00:54:43.480 and you treat it that way,

00:54:45.520 that's great.

00:54:46.880 But if you say it's magic,

00:54:48.520 you know,

00:54:51.820 you're not really playing on a real field here.

00:55:02.320 Steve Keen and Alexis,

00:55:04.000 no, I haven't.

00:55:06.060 Somebody says that it's culture

00:55:07.700 more than parenting.

00:55:10.340 Is it?

00:55:11.960 I don't know.

00:55:14.120 Maybe.

00:55:15.920 Maybe so.

00:55:18.520 I have two siblings

00:55:20.060 and I don't even feel related to them yet.

00:55:25.620 You should not have over your kids.

00:55:28.900 Yeah.

00:55:29.280 Right.

00:55:29.720 You should not have 100% control

00:55:31.220 over your own kids.

00:55:33.820 That would be worse.

00:55:35.140 Yeah, that would be worse.

00:55:39.320 Watching a loved one deteriorate

00:55:41.280 can make you quit.

00:55:42.460 Yeah, but that's,

00:55:43.360 and that, again,

00:55:44.440 fear does work.

00:55:47.040 Fear is persuasive.

00:55:48.520 If you can irrationally

00:55:50.380 scare somebody into it,

00:55:53.760 I mean,

00:55:54.960 use your own ethical

00:55:56.300 and moral judgment

00:55:57.180 about whether you do that

00:55:58.360 to your own kid,

00:55:59.280 it feels a little damaging as well.

00:56:02.320 But,

00:56:03.740 yeah,

00:56:05.960 I mean,

00:56:06.200 you could try.

00:56:08.180 Who says it's magic?

00:56:10.480 Republicans often think

00:56:11.700 that parenting can fix things

00:56:13.300 like drug use

00:56:14.240 and they can't.

00:56:16.100 They really can't.

00:56:20.800 A minimum age 0.98

00:56:22.080 for social media

00:56:23.100 should be 21

00:56:24.260 or maybe even 25.

00:56:26.320 Do you want something

00:56:27.320 manipulating your brain

00:56:28.400 before your brain is formed?

00:56:30.180 Because your brain

00:56:30.840 isn't formed until 25.

00:56:32.980 But as a society,

00:56:34.780 we've kind of set it at 21

00:56:36.020 for important things,

00:56:37.660 so we would probably

00:56:38.420 conform to that,

00:56:39.220 21.

00:56:45.480 Yeah,

00:56:46.040 fear works.

00:56:47.020 I don't like to recommend

00:56:48.460 fear persuasion

00:56:49.600 because there's a moral

00:56:51.420 and ethical element

00:56:52.360 to that,

00:56:53.720 you know,

00:56:54.080 because basically

00:56:55.160 it might require lying.

00:56:57.360 Right?

00:56:57.540 Lying to your kids

00:56:58.680 is

00:56:59.200 supportable.

00:57:01.400 It's just not,

00:57:02.460 it's just not ideal.

00:57:04.140 By the way,

00:57:06.380 I have no problem

00:57:07.600 with parents

00:57:08.460 lying to their kids

00:57:09.480 for some,

00:57:10.600 if it's for a good purpose.

00:57:18.140 You have three kids

00:57:19.700 and you're raising them

00:57:20.420 without electronics.

00:57:22.440 You know,

00:57:22.760 I'd really love to see

00:57:23.660 the difference

00:57:24.180 between kids raised

00:57:25.460 by electronics

00:57:26.320 and not.

00:57:27.620 Because it's not like

00:57:28.660 it's all positive.

00:57:30.980 My sense is that

00:57:32.180 it's more positive

00:57:32.900 than negative,

00:57:33.320 but I think

00:57:34.500 there might be

00:57:35.420 some problems

00:57:37.540 that are

00:57:38.260 unanticipated

00:57:39.160 with that.

00:57:44.740 Persuasion advice

00:57:45.640 for someone new

00:57:46.340 to the workforce.

00:57:47.460 Yes.

00:57:48.180 You're in sales.

00:57:49.800 So,

00:57:50.520 you're new

00:57:50.860 to the workforce

00:57:51.400 and you're in sales.

00:57:52.700 What do you do?

00:57:53.860 And the answer is

00:57:54.740 you use reciprocity

00:57:57.560 as your primary tool.

00:57:59.580 So you find out

00:58:00.320 what good things

00:58:01.140 you can do

00:58:01.600 for a potential customer

00:58:02.820 or a customer

00:58:03.480 and see if you can

00:58:05.500 activate their reciprocity.

00:58:07.760 So doing more

00:58:08.760 than you're expected

00:58:09.580 to do,

00:58:10.240 not just for your boss

00:58:11.360 but for your customer

00:58:12.720 or potential customers,

00:58:14.940 is the main thing.

00:58:18.080 That's the main

00:58:18.500 persuasive thing

00:58:19.180 that you do.

00:58:19.500 can you compromise

00:58:23.760 with your kids

00:58:24.460 like if you get

00:58:25.300 good grades

00:58:25.960 you can smoke weed?

00:58:27.680 Nope.

00:58:29.260 That sounds like

00:58:30.260 somebody who's never

00:58:31.240 had any experience

00:58:32.360 with a teenager.

00:58:34.380 Here's doing a deal

00:58:35.740 with a teenager.

00:58:37.260 If you get A's,

00:58:39.380 you can smoke marijuana.

00:58:41.980 How's that work?

00:58:43.740 Kid gets B plus

00:58:44.840 and says,

00:58:46.980 well,

00:58:47.400 if I didn't have

00:58:48.300 a bad teacher

00:58:48.900 I would have had an A.

00:58:50.920 So,

00:58:52.520 then you say,

00:58:53.060 well,

00:58:53.380 no,

00:58:53.580 the deal was A's. 0.72

00:58:55.040 Then the kid says,

00:58:55.740 I know,

00:58:57.060 but if I had a better teacher

00:58:58.440 I would have had an A

00:58:59.180 so I'm going to smoke anyway.

00:59:01.100 Right?

00:59:01.520 There's just,

00:59:02.140 there's no way

00:59:02.660 you can make a deal

00:59:03.360 with a teenager.

00:59:05.660 Can I say that directly?

00:59:08.000 There's no such thing

00:59:08.880 as a deal

00:59:09.360 with a teenager.

00:59:10.000 If you think of it

00:59:11.320 as like a practice deal,

00:59:13.620 like you're training them

00:59:15.000 to understand

00:59:15.600 the value of a deal.

00:59:17.580 Like a deal's a deal.

00:59:19.620 I don't know

00:59:20.880 where I got it

00:59:21.540 but I've always been

00:59:22.160 a deal's a deal

00:59:22.900 kind of person.

00:59:24.220 Like you'd have to be

00:59:25.020 extreme situation

00:59:26.340 for me to break a deal

00:59:28.440 even if at the end of it

00:59:30.220 I wish I had not

00:59:30.880 made that deal.

00:59:31.660 I'm going to keep a deal

00:59:32.780 because that's the only way

00:59:34.440 you can be,

00:59:35.840 I don't know,

00:59:36.760 you can be

00:59:37.600 a complete person.

00:59:40.360 You can't be

00:59:40.880 a complete person

00:59:41.760 if you can't

00:59:42.500 keep your deals

00:59:43.160 because when somebody

00:59:44.660 talks to you

00:59:45.200 they go,

00:59:45.600 I don't even know

00:59:46.000 who you are.

00:59:47.440 Right?

00:59:48.220 If you talk to somebody

00:59:49.360 and you're not a person

00:59:50.020 who keeps your deals,

00:59:51.420 you know,

00:59:51.660 I said I'd do this

00:59:52.800 and I did it.

00:59:53.440 If you're not that person

00:59:54.280 people don't even know 0.69

00:59:55.060 who the hell you are. 0.87

00:59:56.380 I don't know, 1.00

00:59:56.980 are you a person

00:59:57.520 who shows up

00:59:58.120 or a person

00:59:58.480 who doesn't show up?

00:59:59.680 I can't even tell

01:00:00.400 the difference.

01:00:01.680 Until you make sure

01:00:03.300 that people know

01:00:03.980 you're a person

01:00:04.500 who does what you say

01:00:05.500 you're going to do,

01:00:06.660 they don't even know you.

01:00:08.820 You're just like 0.82

01:00:09.540 a ball of,

01:00:10.900 you know,

01:00:12.520 amorphous nothing.

01:00:14.420 But let me deal

01:00:15.640 with the most important

01:00:16.580 story on the internet

01:00:17.460 and I was prompted

01:00:18.820 to do this.

01:00:19.800 I was going to not

01:00:20.860 but unfortunately

01:00:22.760 somebody made a comment

01:00:24.040 about it

01:00:24.560 that cannot be ignored.

01:00:25.900 There is a minister,

01:00:29.080 I think he's a minister,

01:00:30.320 in Africa

01:00:31.500 and the story goes,

01:00:34.300 I'm just reporting

01:00:35.200 the story.

01:00:36.060 I'm not saying

01:00:36.700 it's true or untrue,

01:00:38.800 simply reporting it.

01:00:40.720 That he believes

01:00:41.500 he can cure people

01:00:42.620 by sitting on their face 0.52

01:00:44.080 and farting in it. 0.83

01:00:46.120 And that people

01:00:47.020 go to his church

01:00:47.860 and he sits on their face 0.98

01:00:49.020 and farts on their face 0.92

01:00:50.040 and cleanses them 0.97

01:00:52.380 of their evil spirits

01:00:54.440 or whatever it is.

01:00:56.000 Now, you might say

01:00:57.100 to yourself,

01:00:57.660 I don't believe

01:00:59.460 that's true.

01:01:01.120 I think I said

01:01:02.160 that to myself too.

01:01:03.940 But do you know

01:01:04.880 why it's not true?

01:01:06.260 That he sits on

01:01:07.120 people's faces

01:01:07.840 and farts at them?

01:01:09.980 Because the story is

01:01:11.640 two on the nose. 0.94

01:01:15.520 Boom.

01:01:17.600 Yeah,

01:01:18.340 two on the nose. 0.94

01:01:21.000 Now,

01:01:21.860 I would like to

01:01:23.740 express some

01:01:24.700 pure hatred

01:01:25.340 for the Twitter user

01:01:28.760 who thought of that joke

01:01:29.920 before I did. 1.00

01:01:32.600 I hate you 1.00

01:01:33.540 and love you 1.00

01:01:34.120 in equal measure.

01:01:36.060 I respect you.

01:01:37.700 Oh, I respect you. 0.88

01:01:39.560 But I hate you

01:01:40.440 for getting to that first.

01:01:42.000 I'm a little bit competitive.

01:01:43.720 I'm a little bit competitive.

01:01:45.720 And how in the world

01:01:48.040 did you beat me to that?

01:01:51.400 I mean, really.

01:01:53.660 I am a professional.

01:01:56.340 The moment I saw that,

01:01:58.200 my fingers should have

01:01:59.280 started tweeting.

01:02:01.520 It's two on the nose.

01:02:02.720 It's two on the nose.

01:02:04.100 Like,

01:02:04.480 how did you beat me to that?

01:02:07.140 Seriously.

01:02:08.160 Did you see the,

01:02:09.180 there's some reality show

01:02:10.660 competition

01:02:11.260 with Kelly Clarkson

01:02:13.280 where she's,

01:02:15.760 who's the actress? 1.00

01:02:18.140 You've all seen the clip.

01:02:19.240 where they're trying to

01:02:21.140 guess the song

01:02:22.260 on the first few beats

01:02:23.500 and then,

01:02:24.300 then if you guess it correctly,

01:02:26.140 Anne Hathaway.

01:02:27.200 Yeah.

01:02:28.560 So,

01:02:29.120 Anne Hathaway,

01:02:29.820 she's competing with 0.97

01:02:30.940 Kelly.

01:02:33.520 Why am I forgetting her name?

01:02:35.040 But anyway,

01:02:35.520 it was her own song

01:02:36.600 and Anne Hathaway

01:02:37.700 got it first.

01:02:38.560 It was freaking hilarious.

01:02:39.680 Kelly Clarkson.

01:02:40.300 So the song that came on

01:02:42.320 was Kelly Clarkson's

01:02:43.460 own hit song

01:02:44.300 and Anne Hathaway

01:02:46.320 got it in the first beats

01:02:47.600 and she got it first

01:02:49.040 and she starts belting out 1.00

01:02:51.120 and it was also funny

01:02:53.140 because she can sing.

01:02:54.700 So Anne Hathaway

01:02:55.360 gets out there

01:02:55.880 and just belts out

01:02:56.940 Kelly Clarkson's own song.

01:03:00.380 It was an amazing TV moment.

01:03:02.020 I don't know if it was real.

01:03:03.300 I mean,

01:03:04.320 I'm not entirely sure

01:03:05.180 that was unscripted

01:03:06.540 but it was pretty good.

01:03:11.700 Right.

01:03:12.340 Because Kelly Clarkson

01:03:13.480 had asked,

01:03:13.960 play a song I know.

01:03:15.060 Right.

01:03:16.060 All right.

01:03:16.560 That is all we have for today.

01:03:19.380 And

01:03:19.460 Anne Hathaway seems smarter 0.96

01:03:25.140 than the average.

01:03:26.080 She does.

01:03:27.240 She does.

01:03:31.280 And

01:03:31.680 can we agree

01:03:32.500 this was possibly

01:03:33.340 the highlight of your day

01:03:34.380 and the best thing

01:03:34.880 that's ever happened

01:03:35.560 and can only get better

01:03:36.760 from here.

01:03:37.920 Yes, yes, yes.

01:03:38.820 Okay.

01:03:39.340 Good.

01:03:40.080 I'll talk to you later

01:03:41.000 on YouTube and Spotify.

01:03:42.200 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 19, 2022

Episode 1809 Scott Adams： January 6 Was A Feature Not A Flaw. Propaganda Versus News

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