Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1813 Scott Adams： The January 6th Narrative Has Fallen Apart. A New HOAX Has Replaced It

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00:00:41.380 Go. Oh, so good. Somebody noted that I seem to be able to

00:00:54.440 remember other things, but I can't remember the cup or a mug or a glass thing that I do

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00:01:27.220 without remembering that. Well, let's talk about all the things.

00:01:34.960 So apparently the January 6th narrative has completely collapsed. And the narrative was,

00:01:40.960 we're going to prove to you that Trump knew he lost, but tried to take over the country

00:01:46.800 anyway. Have they proven that? Have they shown any evidence at all? Anything? Nope. Nope. Not

00:01:57.780 a, not a single scintilla of evidence of their primary claim, right? The primary claim, he knew

00:02:05.420 he lost, he was trying to take over the country anyway, has not been proven. Not only has it not

00:02:13.020 been proven, I would say it's been debunked. Because not only did Trump not try to take over

00:02:21.460 the country, or at least there's no evidence of it, but how do you explain that Don Jr. wasn't

00:02:26.460 in on the plot? Isn't that the funniest part? To be a Democrat, you have to accept that Don Jr.

00:02:38.880 wasn't let in on the plot to take over the country. Hadn't even mentioned it to him.

00:02:46.380 I mean, seriously. Seriously. How could you hold that in your head as true? Yeah. Trump was trying

00:02:54.140 to take over the country. You know who he never mentioned it to? Ivanka and Don Jr. Didn't mention

00:03:00.540 it. Didn't seem to think it was important. Come on. The narrative is so completely destroyed at

00:03:08.680 this point. That it appears that the Democrats are trying to tell you that that wasn't really

00:03:15.440 the narrative. The real narrative is that he didn't do enough to stop it. And so the January

00:03:21.940 6th people have reported that there was 187 minutes in which he did nothing to try to stop

00:03:30.620 it. That's what the January 6th committee is telling the world. Now, the 187 minutes, that's

00:03:42.480 based on nothing. They made it up. They actually just made it up. The New York Times and the

00:03:51.460 Washington Post both have timelines in which that's not there. I think there's about 30 minutes

00:03:56.880 before he spoke and said to everybody, be peaceful, go home. 30 minutes is basically

00:04:02.280 the time it takes to decide you're going to speak. Right? So the actual evidence that the

00:04:08.460 New York Times, the Washington Post, their timeline completely debunks the second main point of the

00:04:15.640 January 6th hearings, that he didn't do enough. Yes. And he also tweeted during that time and

00:04:25.360 Twitter took down his tweets. All right. So what do you think is the proper outcome

00:04:32.720 of a hearing in which the primary thing is not proven, in fact debunked, the primary claim

00:04:41.600 that he knew he lost and he was acting to organize a coup. That is now completely debunked by the

00:04:48.860 people who are trying to prove it true. Right? It'd be one thing if Republicans had debunked it,

00:04:54.600 but the Democrats just debunked their own theory by not, you know, by looking as hard as they could

00:05:00.400 and producing no evidence whatsoever for it. None. But how much evidence do they have for the

00:05:07.240 waited 187 minutes claim? Not only no evidence, it's been hard debunked by their own side.

00:05:16.360 Now, what do you think should be the outcome in that situation? Do you think Trump should be charged

00:05:23.740 and jailed for what has been totally debunked? Probably not. You probably don't think that.

00:05:30.740 Do you think that he should be, you know, let's say punished by voters for waiting for 187 minutes when

00:05:42.480 it's now proven by lots of sources that that never happened? Well, here's what I think. I think the

00:05:51.020 members of the January 6th committee, unless they correct it, because I'd give them time to correct

00:05:57.380 it. But if they don't correct that, they should go to jail. Now, I don't know what the crime would

00:06:05.960 be, but if you, if you're pushing a fake fact in front of the country that changes the nature of

00:06:12.340 politics, who can run, who's going to be president, that's, that's so close to insurrection or treason

00:06:20.000 or something. Like, I don't know if it's a crime. But if you ask me what would be the, what would be

00:06:26.180 justice? Justice, in this case, would be the committee themselves going to jail. Not being

00:06:33.740 sanctioned, not being sanctioned, but actually going to jail. I'm talking about some serious jail time.

00:06:39.380 Now, that's only if they don't correct the error that by now they know is an error. If they stick

00:06:44.000 with the, he didn't do anything, I think they have to be jailed. For what? Insurrection.

00:06:53.160 I mean, if they're trying to change politics by an obvious, you know, clear lie that won't,

00:07:01.000 there won't be any question about the fact that it's a lie by the end of today.

00:07:05.840 Right? It's a, it's an attempt to change politics without using the system. If you're trying to

00:07:11.320 change our politics without using our system, and you're not transparent about it, it would

00:07:15.800 be okay if you were transparent. Right? The stuff Mark Elias did, allegedly, you know, getting

00:07:21.680 some rules changed before the election. That's all legal. You can, you can hate it, but it's

00:07:26.600 all legal. You know, the other side should do it too. It's legal. You know, get, do as much

00:07:31.920 as you can. That's legal.

00:07:32.980 But if you do something that's clearly outside the system, and you're trying to change the

00:07:40.220 system, I think jail time. I mean, I think that's a real conversation we have to have.

00:07:45.000 I think Liz Cheney should be looking at jail time, same as Kinzinger, for this. Now, again,

00:07:51.580 if they correct themselves today, they have plenty of time to do it, but if they correct themselves

00:07:56.420 today, I'd say, oh, okay. Okay, that's a mistake. Maybe it was a mistake, but I'm willing

00:08:02.700 to, you know, a 48-hour correction, I'd say that's good enough. I don't know if it's sedition

00:08:08.280 or treason or insurrection or coup or whatever it is, but it's certainly the crime that they're

00:08:13.280 trying to find. If they're looking for something that looks a lot like a coup, they are it.

00:08:20.420 They became the coup. Maybe they didn't start that way, but they became the coup.

00:08:26.180 If they're trying to sell the 187 minutes, what do you make of the fact that probably

00:08:33.340 the most important question about January 6th is who was doing what about the security

00:08:40.980 of the Capitol? Who was doing what? You know, who did what and when to protect the Capitol?

00:08:47.740 And that's primarily Pelosi's responsibility, isn't it? Am I wrong? Nancy Pelosi was in charge

00:08:54.220 of security for the Capitol. And is she not testifying? Has she been asked to testify?

00:09:04.740 Shouldn't they be asking her in public, you know, what did you know when and what did you

00:09:09.020 do about it? Has she ever even been interviewed about it? Has she ever sat for an interview

00:09:15.260 and just an interviewer of any kind just in the news said, you know, what did you do? Why didn't

00:09:21.320 you, why didn't you do this? Why did you do that? How do we just sit here and watch this

00:09:27.100 like it's okay? It's okay. I mean, it's a clearly they're railroading Republicans. You know,

00:09:34.620 if you have any question about Republicans being hunted, I mean, here it is. This is a pretty

00:09:41.000 obvious case. Anyway, I think the food supply is going to be okay. Here's my optimism for

00:09:52.780 the day. Were you worried that the country was, or the country or the world, I guess,

00:09:57.260 would run out of food? It looks like it's not going to happen. Now, part of it is a big

00:10:03.180 story that Ukraine and Russia signed a deal in which, you know, the grain would go through

00:10:09.380 a Turkish, I don't know, Turkish ownership or something briefly. But basically, they found

00:10:15.520 a way to ship the, at least a lot of the grain from Ukraine. Now, that's not, you know, the

00:10:22.540 full answer. That's not the full answer, but I don't think the country's going to run out

00:10:31.960 of food. And it looks like our shipping situation, you know, at the very least, they would prioritize

00:10:39.360 the food for shipping, right? Does that happen? I'm assuming that if you're a port and you've

00:10:47.700 got a hundred ships waiting and one of them has food on it, it goes first, right? If it's

00:10:53.160 something that would spoil. It's delayed. We have about two years under these windmill

00:11:00.180 policies. I don't know what you're talking about. Okay. Oh, it's delayed. You mean the

00:11:06.880 food shortage is delayed. No grain was planted. Yeah, you know, I've got a feeling that the

00:11:17.560 food shortage thing is exaggerated.

00:11:22.740 Food ships go to bulk terminals. So they have their own path. Is that what you're saying?

00:11:28.260 All right. I don't know. It's just my feeling that we're going to get past the food supply

00:11:39.360 problem. And you might not even notice it. You might notice a few things. Cernod disagrees,

00:11:47.140 disagrees with the food shortage thing. Let's find out. So this is a good test of the Adams

00:11:53.040 law of slow moving disasters. Now you could argue that one year is not slow. Maybe that's

00:12:01.000 too fast. So this is a good edge case. I think it's long enough that millions of people made

00:12:07.980 millions of adjustments because they see it coming, right? Don't you think that other places

00:12:12.620 are planting more grain? Cernod eventually predicts food issues for 2023? I think there'll

00:12:20.580 be food issues. There'll definitely be issues. I just don't think there's going to be mass

00:12:25.880 starvation. It's just going to be a problem we have to work through, I think. I think. So let's

00:12:31.700 compare our predictions, right? So my prediction is that food shortage for America, we have to make

00:12:40.000 that difference, right? For America, we'll probably just be prices higher, which is plenty bad, but

00:12:46.680 that's what it will look like, I think. And I think there might be, you know, you might have a country

00:12:52.700 that for a while things get tight, but I think we'll figure it out. All right. Provocatively, I tweeted

00:13:01.460 that so far the January 6th hearings have proven Trump was guilty of the crime of leadership.

00:13:08.000 That's what I say. I say Trump was guilty of leadership. And I went on and said, good leaders

00:13:18.600 do unpopular and risky things based on, you know, often gut instinct about what is the right thing

00:13:24.820 to do. That's what he did. Everything that Trump did on January 6th, at least the stuff that's

00:13:33.820 confirmed, is all consistent with leadership. Now you're saying to me, Scott, there's good

00:13:43.040 leadership and there's bad leadership. Well, yes, but you usually don't know about that until

00:13:49.380 after the point. Wait, gross pork? You're saying this is ridiculous sophistry before you hear the

00:13:57.060 fucking argument. Look, you stupid piece of shit. Listen to the point, then make a comment.

00:14:04.600 We'll hide you on this channel and let the smarter people have a little more time.

00:14:09.780 Okay? So first you listen and then you form an opinion. If you do that opposite, form an opinion

00:14:16.880 opinion and then listen, well, you're a fucking idiot. So you got that going for you. Here's

00:14:25.400 my argument, which you have not yet heard. All right? Management is a bunch of people doing

00:14:33.760 what they all agree to do. Management and supervision. Management and supervision refer to everybody

00:14:41.740 doing what they kind of all agree should be done. But the manager is just the timekeeper and, you know,

00:14:48.600 the judge and making sure it gets done. Would you agree? Management is about doing something that

00:14:54.520 everybody agrees needs to get done. Leadership is stuff that people don't agree on.

00:15:01.320 It's leadership if people don't agree. All right? You don't need any leadership to eat a cookie,

00:15:09.860 do you? Who needs to tell you to eat a cookie if you like cookies? Nobody. You don't need any

00:15:18.720 leadership to do that. You only need leadership to do shit you don't want to do. I want you to grab

00:15:24.220 that machine gun and run toward that enemy position through that hail of bullets. And this might not

00:15:34.180 be good for you, but it will be good for other people. It will be good for other people. That's

00:15:39.840 leadership. Leadership is getting people to do things they didn't know they wanted to do or don't

00:15:46.340 quite understand or need to be led to. Now, if Trump was right, let's play a hypothetical.

00:15:55.600 We'll start with no courts have shown that there was any fraud in 2020. Everybody on the same page?

00:16:02.260 They didn't look for it and they weren't the right place to judge that, but they didn't find any.

00:16:07.680 It's true they didn't find any by virtue of not looking and saying they didn't have standing

00:16:12.820 in most cases. But it's true that none has been produced that is, you know, court blessed.

00:16:23.840 So we got that. So it really comes down to what was Trump thinking?

00:16:30.080 If he was thinking that he had witnessed a rigged election, what would leadership require him to do?

00:16:37.960 What would it require him to do? Would it require him to allow the election to be certified?

00:16:46.240 And then let me ask you this question. If the election got certified, can you imagine any scenario

00:16:53.680 it would ever be reversed, even if you found out the vote had been rigged? I can't. I don't see any

00:17:03.520 scenario in which we would ever reverse a certified election. Would we all agree with that? I mean,

00:17:09.280 not in the real world. I mean, you can imagine some hypothetical, but not in the real world.

00:17:14.740 The Supreme Court's not going to reverse it. It's just not going to happen. Nor do I think it should.

00:17:20.700 Like, if it turned out it was just a little bit of sketchiness.

00:17:25.240 I don't know.

00:17:26.400 Now, I think I might defer to the system over the specific outcome.

00:17:32.640 So, here's the thing.

00:17:35.620 If Trump believed it had been rigged, what was he supposed to do?

00:17:42.920 A leader probably would have done almost exactly what he did.

00:17:49.080 Even if you don't like it.

00:17:51.040 I don't like it.

00:17:52.420 I don't like it at all.

00:17:54.280 I don't like anything about it.

00:17:57.400 But do you know what else I don't like?

00:18:00.360 Genghis Khan.

00:18:02.500 Don't like him at all.

00:18:04.960 But he was a good leader.

00:18:06.700 I mean, good being, you know, in quotes.

00:18:09.880 He was effective.

00:18:11.360 He was a leader.

00:18:13.240 Do you think that all of his Mongol hordes wanted to do exactly what he told them to do?

00:18:18.220 Probably not.

00:18:19.960 Some of them probably wanted to stay home and do a little farming.

00:18:23.760 But he was a leader, so he got them to do it.

00:18:25.720 Now, that's an example of evil.

00:18:29.800 Now, I'm not telling you that Trump was right, because the life of a leader is if you guess right and it works out, well, then you're George Washington.

00:18:39.180 If you guess wrong and it doesn't work out, well, then you're a loser.

00:18:47.360 But it's still leadership.

00:18:50.340 Right?

00:18:51.160 It's still leadership even if it doesn't work.

00:18:53.240 What Trump was doing was not expected, not normal, not part of the normal system.

00:19:01.620 That's the reason there's a whole January 6th thing, right?

00:19:03.860 Because he was outside the system.

00:19:06.600 Outside the system was the only place he had to operate.

00:19:08.900 If he operated within the system, you knew what the outcome would be, a certified election.

00:19:14.840 He only had outside the system.

00:19:19.220 Now, is George Washington a hero or a traitor?

00:19:26.420 Sort of both.

00:19:28.480 Sort of both.

00:19:29.800 But it turns out he was right, and he won.

00:19:32.840 So George Washington won, so he gets to be a hero and a leader.

00:19:35.660 What if he lost?

00:19:40.340 Would you say he was a leader?

00:19:42.600 Yes.

00:19:43.380 Yes, he was still a leader.

00:19:45.020 But George Washington would have been a loser, and history would have judged him poorly, I guess, if he lost.

00:19:55.320 There's a troll on YouTube who's trying to use my actual accurate age as my insult.

00:20:04.600 How does that work?

00:20:06.400 What, are you not going to get older?

00:20:10.180 There's somebody here who thinks he's immune from aging, I think.

00:20:13.480 You know, if you get to my age, and you still have a live stream audience, you better pat yourself on the fucking back.

00:20:20.840 Because we never heard of you.

00:20:22.820 I don't know what age you are, but you're not exactly making a dent in the universe here.

00:20:26.040 So maybe pick up your game a little bit, and come back.

00:20:30.380 All right, well, so I don't defend what Trump did or did not do on January 6th, so I want to make that very clear.

00:20:39.140 I'm just putting it in its accurate box.

00:20:42.780 If Trump had stopped the election, let's say delayed, if he had delayed the election certification, and, and this is a big if, I don't think it would have happened,

00:20:53.780 and found out that the election was wrong, you know, rigged.

00:20:59.020 What would you say then?

00:21:01.300 I think he'd be a hero, wouldn't he?

00:21:06.120 In other words, if he'd been right, and we don't know he was wrong, I would say, I would say we probably do know, I'm not sure about this.

00:21:16.080 I think we do know that if they had delayed, the kind of delay they were asking for, sort of a normal audit recount of the votes, probably wouldn't have made any difference, right?

00:21:27.480 So I think if he'd gotten a delay, it would have just gone back to where it was, you know.

00:21:32.800 They would have, they would have done the recount, it would have been the same result.

00:21:35.800 Because the only things you could recount are things that got counted in the first place.

00:21:41.940 Can you recount a missing ballot?

00:21:43.780 How do you do that?

00:21:47.100 If a ballot never makes it to the, you know, I don't know if there's a way to do that.

00:21:51.300 But if a ballot never gets run through the counting machine, how do you recount it?

00:21:56.280 If it's just gone?

00:21:58.500 How in the world can you know an election was rigged?

00:22:00.820 You can only know you didn't find it.

00:22:02.880 The only thing you can know is you didn't find any problems.

00:22:05.520 That's all you can know.

00:22:06.300 So I would like to argue that what has been proven by January 6th is that Trump did what a leader with a strong intuition, unproven, but a strong intuition, that he needed to go outside the system to fix a wrong.

00:22:28.600 And then he did.

00:22:32.080 He didn't fix it, but it looks like he operated on his assumption.

00:22:36.740 And I would say we don't know his assumption was wrong.

00:22:39.760 We only know it hasn't been proven right.

00:22:41.800 So at the moment, he is still in the, in my opinion, he's still in the, what is the cat that's half dead box?

00:22:54.620 What's the name of that?

00:22:56.540 Why am I blanking on that?

00:22:58.720 The cat is half dead and half alive.

00:23:00.860 That's a Schrodinger's cat, yeah.

00:23:03.200 It's sort of a Schrodinger's cat.

00:23:04.640 If you knew what he was thinking, well, then you'd know if the cat was alive or dead.

00:23:11.200 But you don't.

00:23:13.700 You don't.

00:23:15.060 I mean, I assume he was thinking he was right.

00:23:17.600 But the January 6th people are thinking he assumed that he was just lying.

00:23:22.400 No evidence of that.

00:23:24.860 All right.

00:23:25.820 There's some weird thing going on with the word groomer and Twitter.

00:23:29.560 And so, so as you know, there are a lot of people on the political right have been using that word groomer to refer to people trying to teach young children about the, let's say the, what would I say?

00:23:46.920 The, the full diversity of, of gender and sexuality.

00:23:52.560 And that the people on the right are saying, hey, don't teach our children all these things.

00:24:00.820 They're too early.

00:24:01.460 Leave that to us.

00:24:02.320 That's not for the school to do.

00:24:03.940 And that maybe what you're doing is grooming them, meaning making children friendly to some future encounter that maybe they would not otherwise be friendly to.

00:24:17.360 Is that grooming?

00:24:18.920 Well, I think it's a, it's a stretch of the word.

00:24:21.700 But I would not condone it, except that it really is just the response to racist, isn't it?

00:24:30.280 Groomer is just that thing that when you get called a groomer, you can't get it off because the accusation is as good as the fact.

00:24:37.980 Same with a racist.

00:24:39.500 Once you've been called a racist and it gets on the Internet, it doesn't matter that you're not.

00:24:45.360 I mean, that's irrelevant.

00:24:46.520 So, same way, it doesn't matter if the people being accused are actually groomers, that's their intent, or anything.

00:24:53.820 It doesn't matter.

00:24:54.620 Because the accusation, you know, is damning enough.

00:24:57.780 So, while I disagree with the use, and I don't believe, have you ever heard me use it?

00:25:05.260 I've never called anybody a groomer, have I?

00:25:07.880 I believe I've never used that.

00:25:09.880 Not in a tweet, not on a live stream.

00:25:11.860 It's not something I would say.

00:25:14.200 It's not in my domain of things I would naturally go to.

00:25:17.400 I'll talk about it, but I'm not going to call somebody a groomer, because that assumes something about their inner thoughts that I don't know is in evidence.

00:25:27.740 But here's what the weird, ironic thing is.

00:25:30.920 Just as the January 6th hearings have probably made it a guarantee that Trump will return to office, that's my opinion.

00:25:37.400 In my opinion, the January 6th thing, here, let me explain this, and then I'll digress back to the groomer thing.

00:25:44.000 But I've told him about the Jerry Spence.

00:25:48.040 He's a famous defense attorney, retired now, I assume.

00:25:52.220 And if he's still alive, I don't know.

00:25:54.540 He's pretty old.

00:25:55.860 But he taught us that if you want to win a case for your client, he was usually working for the person who was injured.

00:26:03.660 He takes the jury, and he makes them imagine they're in the place of the person who was victimized.

00:26:09.740 You put them in the story.

00:26:11.220 If you put somebody in the story, they will abandon their logical feeling about the story,

00:26:18.140 and they'll replace it with the emotions that they got when they were imagining themselves as the victim.

00:26:23.980 And apparently that works pretty much every time.

00:26:26.900 It's like a really strong, really strong persuasion.

00:26:30.600 Now think what the January 6th people did accidentally.

00:26:34.540 Think about all the you-are-there videos they showed,

00:26:37.860 like video from within the crowd.

00:26:41.800 They were trying, intentionally, to put you into the crowd, were they not?

00:26:47.760 Check me on that.

00:26:48.740 Were they not trying to put you into the crowd so you could feel the danger?

00:26:53.200 You could feel the violence, right?

00:26:56.040 That was the whole point.

00:26:56.820 They put you in the crowd.

00:26:59.500 Here's what they didn't count on.

00:27:01.760 Who did you identify with?

00:27:06.260 And by you, I mean you.

00:27:08.220 Like the people watching this live stream who largely are going to be, you know,

00:27:12.640 right-friendly or right-leaning a little bit.

00:27:15.520 Most of you.

00:27:16.200 Not all of you.

00:27:18.700 All right.

00:27:19.540 If you were a Republican or if you were a Trump supporter

00:27:23.320 and you watched the January 6th hearings,

00:27:25.880 you say to yourself two things.

00:27:28.040 Oh, my God, they're trying to hunt and jail people like me.

00:27:33.860 Just like me.

00:27:35.200 People who believe there was something wrong with the election,

00:27:37.820 if that's what you believe.

00:27:39.240 You're saying, oh, my God, everybody there is just like me.

00:27:42.440 They look like me.

00:27:43.700 They talk like me.

00:27:44.880 They believe what I believe.

00:27:46.340 And actually, they're doing things that I would have done.

00:27:49.460 You know, maybe I didn't go to Washington,

00:27:51.180 but I would have, right, under the right conditions.

00:27:54.560 So who are one-third of the country?

00:27:58.960 Let's say the, you know, the Republicans who are Trump-friendly.

00:28:03.480 One-third of the country is watching this,

00:28:05.480 and they put themselves in the wrong people.

00:28:08.500 Wrong in terms of the intentions of the January 6th hearing.

00:28:12.600 Their intention was to make you identify with the,

00:28:15.920 either the politicians.

00:28:18.300 Think how stupid this is.

00:28:19.880 The point of it was, Congress is showing you this,

00:28:24.860 Congress is showing you this,

00:28:26.720 to hope that you would identify with members of Congress.

00:28:32.620 Do you see it yet?

00:28:34.660 They're showing you the video

00:28:36.340 to get you to identify with the members of Congress,

00:28:41.520 to feel how they felt when all this violence was happening.

00:28:47.960 Was that smart?

00:28:50.520 Because Congress feels more like the enemy, doesn't it?

00:28:55.180 Who exactly identifies with the enemy?

00:28:58.560 Nobody.

00:29:01.000 They identify with themselves.

00:29:03.760 And they just saw a whole bunch of themselves

00:29:06.100 trying to get something done and being demonized for it.

00:29:09.560 Now, do you believe that it's backfiring?

00:29:14.400 And that, well, let me ask you something.

00:29:16.620 Prior to the January 6th hearings,

00:29:18.380 if you asked me would I support Trump for president,

00:29:21.140 my answer was, hell no.

00:29:23.640 Too old, too divisive, time for something new.

00:29:26.180 After about eight weeks of listening to the January 6th show trial,

00:29:34.280 do you know what my current opinion is?

00:29:35.980 We need Trump again.

00:29:39.840 Because what is happening,

00:29:41.360 he's the only person who probably has the balls to do something about it.

00:29:46.080 And if you said to me,

00:29:47.120 Scott, you know, all those things you don't want to happen again,

00:29:50.380 all the division,

00:29:52.280 you know, all the things that happen to your own career.

00:29:54.940 I mean, my career got, like, hammered

00:29:57.500 just by saying anything good about the Trump experience.

00:30:02.560 And what I feel is I'm under attack.

00:30:06.960 I feel that I'm under attack.

00:30:08.960 And I feel that Trump is literally the only person

00:30:11.240 who would do anything about it.

00:30:13.760 And so my opinion of him has gone way up.

00:30:18.360 I don't know.

00:30:18.820 It's probably a confirmation bias.

00:30:21.640 I mean, there's a psychological phenomenon

00:30:24.340 that's happening in my head that I'm aware of.

00:30:26.660 Meaning that I am abandoning my rational thought

00:30:29.680 because they're making me.

00:30:34.420 Like, the Democrats are making me abandon my rational thought.

00:30:38.240 My rational thought says,

00:30:39.540 we don't want another Trump.

00:30:42.560 Do you know what my irrational thought is?

00:30:45.680 It goes like this.

00:30:48.260 You motherfuckers.

00:30:50.640 You fucking assholes.

00:30:52.140 If you make me look like those coup plotters one more day,

00:30:55.980 I'm going to give you four more years of Trump,

00:30:58.780 and I'm going to shove him up your ass

00:31:01.400 like the gerbil from hell.

00:31:06.040 And I'm going to love it.

00:31:08.560 And do you know what?

00:31:09.700 It might cost me a little bit more in my career.

00:31:12.220 Fuck you.

00:31:13.980 Fuck you.

00:31:15.380 Yeah, it might cost me another 20% off my career.

00:31:17.700 Yeah, if you make me look like those fucking coup plotters again,

00:31:21.920 I mean, that's your narrative of it.

00:31:23.780 That's not what they were.

00:31:25.020 If you do that to me another few fucking weeks,

00:31:28.380 I'm going to make sure that Trump gets elected,

00:31:31.060 and I'm going to shove him all the way up your ass

00:31:33.820 like a crazed gerbil up of, you know,

00:31:39.360 a Richard Gere's ass, allegedly.

00:31:41.640 Allegedly.

00:31:42.640 So just keep begging for it, right?

00:31:45.520 Just keep begging for it, you fucking idiots.

00:31:48.300 If you beg for it, I'll give it to you.

00:31:50.660 But you are begging right now.

00:31:53.040 You are fucking begging for this.

00:31:55.880 Keep begging.

00:31:57.300 I'll give you exactly what you want.

00:32:02.120 So I think this play by the January Sixers

00:32:05.180 will go in the history books

00:32:06.840 as one of the worst political plays of all time.

00:32:09.680 I think they've guaranteed Trump a landslide.

00:32:11.760 I wasn't even sure he'd get nominated.

00:32:15.320 Two months ago, I wasn't sure he could get the nomination.

00:32:18.520 Today, I don't see how he loses.

00:32:21.780 I really don't.

00:32:23.100 I mean, it's hard for you to imagine a scenario

00:32:24.860 that he's not president again.

00:32:26.100 Huh?

00:32:30.440 Yeah.

00:32:31.480 So good job there on bad persuasion.

00:32:35.100 Democrats making us try to...

00:32:37.320 They literally tried to get us to identify

00:32:40.200 with the group that has the lowest approval rating

00:32:43.740 that isn't called the KKK.

00:32:48.500 Am I right?

00:32:50.420 I think the only entity that has a lower public approval

00:32:53.660 than Congress is probably the KKK?

00:32:57.500 And I'm not even sure about that.

00:33:02.140 All right.

00:33:02.800 Well, let's get back to this groomer thing.

00:33:05.280 It feels as if Media Matters

00:33:07.060 is making another gigantic persuasion mistake.

00:33:09.560 I think Media Matters...

00:33:10.600 I saw a rumor.

00:33:12.260 I need a fact check on this.

00:33:14.060 But there were...

00:33:15.380 I think Media Matters was pushing the...

00:33:17.660 Let's get rid of groomer as a social media word.

00:33:21.720 And then Twitter...

00:33:23.940 Twitter originally was banning it,

00:33:26.800 but then I think they reversed.

00:33:29.840 So I like how Twitter handled this, actually.

00:33:32.580 I don't mind...

00:33:34.060 And you might disagree with this.

00:33:35.940 I don't mind when Twitter bans anything.

00:33:40.020 All right?

00:33:40.360 So now you can hate me and disagree with me for a second

00:33:43.120 before I give you my reason.

00:33:45.700 I don't mind when Twitter bans anything.

00:33:47.780 I just want them to look at it.

00:33:50.740 You know, just give it a good look

00:33:51.880 and then make sure it's compatible with your rules.

00:33:55.940 And, you know, that's okay.

00:33:57.480 So I don't mind the banning

00:33:58.740 as long as they look at it closely

00:34:00.860 and then make a decision.

00:34:03.560 And then secondly,

00:34:04.620 I might disagree with the decision,

00:34:06.580 but that's a separate issue.

00:34:08.640 But the question of

00:34:09.740 should Twitter, you know,

00:34:12.400 act quickly on something that,

00:34:14.380 you know, has a red flag?

00:34:16.100 Yeah, sure, sure.

00:34:18.620 I think that actually makes the service better,

00:34:20.520 not worse.

00:34:21.680 Because a little bit of delay on a tweet,

00:34:24.360 you know, 24 hours.

00:34:25.620 Eh, eh, eh.

00:34:27.140 I don't know.

00:34:28.220 That's fine.

00:34:29.820 So I don't mind that.

00:34:31.360 But here's what I think they're doing by accident.

00:34:34.680 I believe by accident

00:34:36.620 the people who are trying to remove groomer

00:34:39.460 from the conversation

00:34:40.440 have just added another G to LGBTQ.

00:34:44.240 That's not what they're trying to do.

00:34:47.960 But they kind of,

00:34:49.340 they kind of made the case

00:34:51.980 that the groomer thing is about LGBTQ.

00:34:57.120 Which, correct me if I'm wrong,

00:35:00.120 but it's not.

00:35:03.060 Right?

00:35:03.580 I don't believe I've ever heard

00:35:06.780 one conservative ever say,

00:35:09.440 I don't like those LGBTQ people.

00:35:11.740 I've not heard that once.

00:35:14.880 I have heard them say,

00:35:16.620 I don't care where your penis is.

00:35:19.780 It could be still connected to your body.

00:35:22.460 It could be in some, you know,

00:35:25.640 petri dish somewhere for posterity.

00:35:29.120 We don't care where it is.

00:35:31.060 Just don't talk to our kids about sex.

00:35:34.120 Am I wrong?

00:35:34.940 Well, I feel like I'm characterizing

00:35:37.520 the argument correctly.

00:35:39.140 We don't care where you put your penis

00:35:41.320 or where your vagina is

00:35:43.440 or if you have one.

00:35:45.040 We don't care what you identify with,

00:35:47.160 what's in your brain.

00:35:48.880 We don't care.

00:35:50.520 I'm saying we,

00:35:51.640 but, you know,

00:35:52.320 I'm not really talking about we.

00:35:54.000 I don't think the conservatives care.

00:35:56.360 Do they?

00:35:58.420 They only care if it affects them.

00:36:00.640 And specifically,

00:36:02.700 their children.

00:36:03.420 And they're not even talking about the gay part.

00:36:06.040 Now, I do think that the, you know,

00:36:07.580 the flamboyant part

00:36:09.180 becomes part of the story

00:36:11.220 if you see an anecdote

00:36:13.040 of that's who's, you know,

00:36:15.120 sending the message forward.

00:36:16.940 So, yeah, I mean,

00:36:18.020 there's certainly an overlap.

00:36:19.680 There's an overlap,

00:36:21.000 but I would think there's a bigger overlap

00:36:23.340 in just generic straight people

00:36:26.140 pushing the same stuff, right?

00:36:28.060 You know, if every LGBTQ person

00:36:33.680 was, you know,

00:36:35.080 magically removed from the story,

00:36:37.560 wouldn't you still have the same situation?

00:36:41.360 In other words,

00:36:42.180 wouldn't there be plenty of

00:36:43.780 straight white teachers

00:36:45.640 who still want to give the same lesson,

00:36:48.500 they just won't bring in the trans activists

00:36:50.960 to help with the lesson?

00:36:52.460 But it'd be the same lesson,

00:36:53.940 wouldn't it?

00:36:54.380 Now, there is a question

00:36:57.640 of normalizing,

00:36:59.920 normalizing

00:37:01.140 the behavior.

00:37:05.000 Get over it.

00:37:08.240 Who cares?

00:37:09.940 Right?

00:37:10.260 Everything gets normalized

00:37:11.600 and unnormalized.

00:37:13.100 I mean, that's not the thing

00:37:13.880 I'm worried about.

00:37:16.380 Yeah.

00:37:16.880 So, the real question is

00:37:19.100 sex education in schools

00:37:21.440 and the people who say

00:37:23.460 that is grooming,

00:37:25.520 I think it's accidental grooming.

00:37:28.740 But it probably has that effect.

00:37:31.220 Meaning, I'm not sure

00:37:32.300 that you can read the minds

00:37:33.500 of all the people involved

00:37:34.900 in all of this,

00:37:36.460 but I would agree

00:37:37.320 that it's likely to have the effect

00:37:39.280 of normalizing some lifestyles

00:37:41.940 in the minds of children

00:37:44.560 who then may be more confused

00:37:48.460 instead of less confused.

00:37:49.900 Maybe.

00:37:50.380 I don't know.

00:37:51.560 I'm no expert on any of this.

00:37:53.380 I don't have any kids

00:37:54.820 in that situation.

00:37:58.060 The only thing I'm going to add

00:37:59.780 to the conversation

00:38:01.200 is that I think that the people

00:38:03.900 who are trying to protect

00:38:05.660 the LGBTQ community,

00:38:07.500 allegedly that's what

00:38:08.300 they're trying to do,

00:38:10.020 I think they may have moved

00:38:11.400 in the other direction

00:38:12.200 by somewhat confirming

00:38:14.260 that they're lumping

00:38:16.940 these groups together

00:38:17.840 that the conservatives

00:38:18.920 weren't exactly doing.

00:38:20.920 You know, they may have been

00:38:21.580 doing it unintentionally,

00:38:22.640 but it wasn't exactly

00:38:23.340 the point of it.

00:38:25.620 All right.

00:38:26.300 There are three groups

00:38:27.540 or entities that Democrats

00:38:30.120 trust to make major

00:38:32.040 health decisions,

00:38:34.020 including health care.

00:38:36.180 Number one is Joe Biden.

00:38:38.560 Right?

00:38:39.060 Democrats trust Joe Biden

00:38:40.580 to make major decisions

00:38:41.760 about health care

00:38:43.300 and health outcomes.

00:38:45.980 The other is Congress,

00:38:48.480 you know, a Democrat Congress.

00:38:50.040 But I'd say Democrats

00:38:51.360 trust a Democrat Congress

00:38:53.220 with major health decisions.

00:38:55.320 So they trust Joe Biden

00:38:57.120 with health decisions.

00:38:58.020 They trust Congress.

00:38:58.780 And the third entity

00:38:59.540 is little children,

00:39:01.760 small children.

00:39:02.460 So that's the three groups

00:39:05.520 that Democrats trust

00:39:06.820 with their major

00:39:09.180 health care decisions

00:39:10.140 and for other people,

00:39:11.860 not just their own.

00:39:15.200 And illegal aliens?

00:39:16.680 I don't know about that.

00:39:17.980 But yeah,

00:39:19.020 they trust the children.

00:39:22.000 Well, I think the best

00:39:23.860 political play

00:39:24.820 that I've seen

00:39:26.300 in a long time

00:39:27.580 is the Republicans'

00:39:28.860 shift to becoming

00:39:30.320 the parent party.

00:39:32.460 And I don't know

00:39:34.100 that they planned that.

00:39:35.000 I think it just happened

00:39:35.900 that way.

00:39:36.400 Because you've got

00:39:37.040 the grooming issue,

00:39:38.380 you've got the school

00:39:39.160 choice issue,

00:39:40.160 you've got, you know,

00:39:41.800 the abortion issue.

00:39:43.520 And even the crime issue,

00:39:46.520 social media damage issue,

00:39:48.800 although that could

00:39:49.660 cross parties.

00:39:52.280 It seems to me

00:39:53.320 that that's just

00:39:57.920 the best branding

00:39:58.700 I've ever seen.

00:39:59.500 You know,

00:40:00.760 to the extent

00:40:01.480 I believe

00:40:02.980 any Republican

00:40:03.820 could win

00:40:04.640 by branding

00:40:05.780 themselves,

00:40:06.640 you know,

00:40:07.640 pro-parent.

00:40:10.080 I just think

00:40:11.060 that's,

00:40:11.540 pro-parent

00:40:12.160 just gets it all done.

00:40:14.060 There's nothing else

00:40:14.800 to talk about.

00:40:16.140 If you brand

00:40:17.360 yourself pro-parent

00:40:18.440 and you have policies

00:40:19.780 that, you know,

00:40:20.880 suggest that that's real,

00:40:22.980 how do you lose?

00:40:24.540 How do you lose

00:40:25.180 that election?

00:40:25.960 I don't know,

00:40:26.460 but you can.

00:40:26.860 I think you would

00:40:27.980 just win every election

00:40:29.280 after that point.

00:40:30.680 But you have to

00:40:31.460 make the branding stick,

00:40:33.320 right?

00:40:34.820 And I think

00:40:35.420 their policies are,

00:40:37.720 you know,

00:40:37.900 even if I don't agree

00:40:38.860 with some of them,

00:40:40.900 they're certainly

00:40:42.720 consistent with being

00:40:43.800 a pro-parent

00:40:45.080 approach.

00:40:48.260 All right.

00:40:49.100 Now that Republicans

00:40:50.200 are seen better

00:40:51.000 on education,

00:40:54.120 according to new polls,

00:40:55.480 I think it's done.

00:40:58.400 Oh, by the way,

00:40:59.140 I forgot to mention this,

00:41:00.120 but I saw Jeff Giza,

00:41:02.320 if I'm pronouncing it right,

00:41:04.120 tweet in which he said

00:41:05.400 that Trump's popularity

00:41:07.400 among Republican voters,

00:41:10.260 I guess mostly,

00:41:11.320 his popularity

00:41:12.200 was well below

00:41:13.600 DeSantis

00:41:14.240 in the beginning

00:41:15.360 of the summer.

00:41:16.920 And then as the

00:41:17.920 January 6th

00:41:18.800 stuff went on,

00:41:20.300 Trump just zoomed

00:41:21.480 past,

00:41:23.200 this is only

00:41:24.140 unpredicted.

00:41:25.260 So this is people

00:41:25.960 predicting the outcome.

00:41:27.920 So the people

00:41:28.460 predicting,

00:41:30.100 because of January 6th,

00:41:31.780 predicted that

00:41:32.640 Trump would win again

00:41:34.780 instead of predicting

00:41:36.660 the DeSantis.

00:41:38.060 So that's not proof

00:41:39.940 that the January 6th

00:41:41.160 things backfired,

00:41:42.440 but it's very consistent

00:41:44.460 with my hypothesis

00:41:45.560 that the January 6th

00:41:47.220 thing was a complete

00:41:48.020 backfire politically.

00:41:49.180 Yeah, the mole is back.

00:41:54.820 That's a callback.

00:41:57.820 All right, so Bannon

00:41:58.680 got convicted

00:42:00.260 of refusing to testify

00:42:02.960 to Congress,

00:42:03.740 even though he is

00:42:04.500 going to testify.

00:42:06.400 And he'll appeal

00:42:07.720 that, etc.

00:42:09.020 I guess it's punishable

00:42:11.300 by 30 days

00:42:13.140 to one year

00:42:13.760 behind bars

00:42:14.620 and a fine

00:42:15.980 ranging from $100

00:42:17.020 to $100,000.

00:42:19.220 Now Bannon

00:42:19.740 seems to be confident

00:42:20.900 that it will be

00:42:21.840 reversed on appeal.

00:42:23.900 What do you think?

00:42:25.480 Do you think

00:42:26.120 it will be reversed

00:42:26.960 on appeal?

00:42:28.540 I feel like it will.

00:42:31.260 Yeah,

00:42:31.940 like 80% chance.

00:42:33.400 That's the odds

00:42:33.900 I give it.

00:42:34.740 I feel like it will.

00:42:36.060 And I don't know

00:42:37.340 what arguments

00:42:38.060 they're going to make,

00:42:38.700 but it seems like

00:42:39.480 some kind of

00:42:40.420 equal protection thing

00:42:41.660 is a slam dunk.

00:42:42.640 because won't they

00:42:44.100 be able to...

00:42:45.820 Yeah, Dershowitz

00:42:46.800 says it will be

00:42:47.560 reversed on appeal.

00:42:48.460 Okay, I'm done.

00:42:50.720 I've told you

00:42:51.440 my Dershowitz

00:42:52.220 rule, right?

00:42:56.320 The Dershowitz rule

00:42:57.500 goes like this.

00:42:58.960 That no matter

00:42:59.600 what my opinion is

00:43:00.680 on a legal question,

00:43:02.540 once Dershowitz

00:43:03.440 tells you his opinion,

00:43:05.100 I just go,

00:43:05.700 okay, forget about mine.

00:43:07.540 We'll just take

00:43:08.380 his opinion.

00:43:09.080 Because his opinion

00:43:09.740 is always going to be

00:43:10.800 better than mine

00:43:11.420 on anything

00:43:13.000 related to law.

00:43:15.920 So if Dershowitz

00:43:16.600 thinks it will be

00:43:17.260 reversed, it will.

00:43:18.520 I love the way

00:43:19.360 Bannon is handling this.

00:43:21.920 Bannon is

00:43:22.620 thanking the jury

00:43:23.900 who found him guilty,

00:43:25.900 thanking the courts,

00:43:27.300 and agreeing that

00:43:28.100 they had the right

00:43:28.900 verdict.

00:43:31.020 Which is interesting.

00:43:33.060 He was convicted.

00:43:35.020 He expects it

00:43:35.820 to be overturned,

00:43:37.720 but also thinks

00:43:38.700 that the jury

00:43:39.680 got it right.

00:43:40.360 Now that

00:43:41.880 is good technique.

00:43:44.980 That's really

00:43:45.800 good technique.

00:43:47.640 The bad technique

00:43:49.040 would be to say

00:43:49.740 the jury got it wrong

00:43:50.900 and will reverse

00:43:52.340 it on appeal.

00:43:53.620 Because the jury

00:43:54.500 was only asked

00:43:55.880 to look at

00:43:56.340 the specific facts.

00:43:57.960 The jury is not

00:43:58.980 an appeals court,

00:44:00.400 right?

00:44:00.920 It can only look at

00:44:02.000 does the law say

00:44:03.540 you had to say

00:44:04.440 yes to testifying?

00:44:06.180 Did you say yes

00:44:07.280 to testifying?

00:44:08.060 That's it.

00:44:10.140 And that's all

00:44:10.620 the jury does.

00:44:11.540 And so he quite

00:44:12.320 accurately said,

00:44:13.140 yeah, the jury

00:44:13.680 thanked them

00:44:14.920 for their time,

00:44:15.880 thanked them

00:44:16.260 for taking the day

00:44:17.580 off,

00:44:18.260 but it won't

00:44:19.880 make any difference

00:44:20.760 in the long run.

00:44:23.220 Their verdict

00:44:23.840 has probably

00:44:24.540 no impact

00:44:25.600 on anything

00:44:26.000 because I'm sure

00:44:27.080 he'll be.

00:44:27.960 Well, now that

00:44:28.800 Dershowitz says it,

00:44:29.640 I'm more confident

00:44:30.380 that it'll be

00:44:31.180 reversed.

00:44:31.620 But again,

00:44:34.980 if you're,

00:44:35.840 let me ask you this,

00:44:36.900 if you are a

00:44:37.860 Republican,

00:44:39.180 now let me say

00:44:39.800 this,

00:44:40.420 if you're a

00:44:41.080 Trump supporter,

00:44:42.600 did the Bannon

00:44:44.140 prosecution make

00:44:45.420 you more or less

00:44:46.560 a Trump supporter?

00:44:49.560 Probably more,

00:44:50.740 right?

00:44:51.780 Because again,

00:44:52.540 when you look at

00:44:53.160 Steve Bannon,

00:44:53.840 who do you see?

00:44:56.040 You see yourself.

00:44:58.120 If you were

00:44:59.700 like-minded,

00:45:00.540 and many of you

00:45:01.160 are,

00:45:01.960 and you're

00:45:02.500 supporting Trump,

00:45:03.360 for example,

00:45:04.040 you see yourself.

00:45:05.520 That's who I see.

00:45:06.640 When I look at

00:45:07.300 Bannon,

00:45:07.880 I see myself

00:45:08.780 because I talk

00:45:10.700 about the same

00:45:11.280 topics often

00:45:12.380 in controversial

00:45:13.260 ways.

00:45:14.260 Yeah,

00:45:14.500 I absolutely see

00:45:15.320 myself going to

00:45:16.060 jail when I see

00:45:17.320 Bannon get

00:45:18.020 convicted.

00:45:19.340 So,

00:45:19.720 no,

00:45:20.380 I will vote

00:45:21.320 for anybody

00:45:22.020 who won't

00:45:22.460 send me to

00:45:23.060 jail.

00:45:25.020 And I think

00:45:25.780 my best bet

00:45:26.460 would be

00:45:26.780 Trump.

00:45:28.300 Do you think

00:45:28.760 that,

00:45:29.160 well,

00:45:29.600 let me ask you

00:45:30.020 this,

00:45:30.200 this is a

00:45:30.640 serious question.

00:45:32.240 So you've

00:45:32.700 seen the

00:45:33.100 treatment of

00:45:34.300 various notable

00:45:35.680 pundit types.

00:45:38.480 If a

00:45:39.140 Republican does

00:45:40.060 not get

00:45:40.480 elected again,

00:45:41.220 do you think

00:45:43.240 that I

00:45:43.580 personally have

00:45:44.460 any legal

00:45:45.220 risk like

00:45:47.220 actually going

00:45:47.980 to jail?

00:45:51.000 What do you

00:45:51.540 think?

00:45:53.220 Some of you

00:45:53.960 are saying

00:45:54.240 yes.

00:45:54.600 yes.

00:45:56.180 A lot of

00:45:57.020 no's.

00:45:58.120 A lot of

00:45:58.440 no's.

00:45:59.600 But a lot

00:46:00.000 of yes's.

00:46:01.420 Here's the

00:46:01.960 thing.

00:46:04.280 Democrats,

00:46:05.400 if the

00:46:06.180 Democrats are

00:46:06.800 making me

00:46:07.580 feel like I

00:46:08.520 might go to

00:46:09.100 jail,

00:46:10.300 how am I

00:46:10.800 going to

00:46:11.020 act?

00:46:13.240 What is

00:46:14.040 the right

00:46:14.480 response to

00:46:15.980 feeling there's

00:46:17.480 a good chance

00:46:18.660 you'll go to

00:46:19.100 jail for not

00:46:19.940 committing a

00:46:20.560 crime?

00:46:21.640 Not committing

00:46:22.340 a crime.

00:46:23.880 What would

00:46:24.620 be my most

00:46:25.400 normal reaction

00:46:26.980 to that?

00:46:29.640 Full

00:46:30.120 nuclear.

00:46:32.180 Full

00:46:32.620 nuclear.

00:46:34.540 You know,

00:46:34.800 I've told you

00:46:35.440 before, well,

00:46:36.080 I don't know if

00:46:36.440 I've told you

00:46:36.880 lately, but

00:46:37.440 there's an

00:46:39.260 ethical problem

00:46:40.200 with being a

00:46:41.720 trained persuader.

00:46:43.720 And the

00:46:44.340 ethical problem

00:46:45.140 is much like

00:46:45.860 being a

00:46:46.340 professional boxer.

00:46:47.880 If you're a

00:46:48.560 professional boxer,

00:46:49.540 you don't want to

00:46:50.040 get in a street

00:46:50.700 fight because you

00:46:51.500 might accidentally

00:46:52.180 kill somebody

00:46:52.920 because they're

00:46:53.340 not trained

00:46:53.840 like you are.

00:46:55.020 So that would

00:46:55.480 be, you know,

00:46:56.220 that would be

00:46:56.560 murder.

00:46:59.400 In the case of

00:47:00.260 being a trained

00:47:00.880 hypnotist, I do

00:47:02.960 intentionally reduce

00:47:04.720 my power for

00:47:06.560 ethical reasons.

00:47:07.900 Like, like I

00:47:08.680 could, I don't

00:47:13.180 know if I want

00:47:13.580 to say this out

00:47:14.180 loud, but I've

00:47:14.720 gone this far,

00:47:15.340 so I will.

00:47:15.980 I could erase

00:47:16.760 your free will

00:47:17.400 if I wanted

00:47:17.880 to.

00:47:18.140 I could erase

00:47:21.520 your free will

00:47:22.220 if I wanted

00:47:23.520 to, but I

00:47:25.140 don't because

00:47:26.480 I would consider

00:47:27.340 that, you

00:47:27.780 know, deeply

00:47:28.220 unethical.

00:47:30.220 But if you

00:47:33.420 push me hard

00:47:34.140 enough and

00:47:35.480 you tell me I'm

00:47:36.160 going to go to

00:47:36.780 jail, what

00:47:39.040 would I do if

00:47:39.700 you said, well,

00:47:41.020 you're going to

00:47:41.340 go to jail unless

00:47:43.420 you erase somebody's

00:47:44.720 free will?

00:47:45.280 Well, now it's

00:47:47.020 a different

00:47:47.280 equation.

00:47:48.740 If I have to

00:47:49.520 erase somebody's

00:47:50.300 free will to

00:47:50.860 stay out of

00:47:51.260 jail, I will.

00:47:53.880 Now, the free

00:47:54.480 will is an

00:47:54.860 illusion, right?

00:47:55.560 Free will is a

00:47:56.200 myth.

00:47:56.680 So I'd be

00:47:57.220 erasing your

00:47:57.940 illusion and

00:47:58.660 substituting my

00:47:59.860 opinion for

00:48:00.420 whatever was

00:48:00.960 going to happen.

00:48:01.700 But it would

00:48:02.300 look like I was

00:48:02.860 erasing your

00:48:03.380 free will.

00:48:03.880 That's what it

00:48:04.280 would feel like.

00:48:05.920 So I'm just

00:48:07.620 going to warn

00:48:08.060 you, I'm just

00:48:09.640 going to warn

00:48:10.060 you that this

00:48:10.920 whole January

00:48:11.540 6th stuff,

00:48:12.320 the Bannon

00:48:12.660 stuff,

00:48:13.080 if they

00:48:15.780 come after

00:48:16.320 me, and

00:48:18.360 I think there's

00:48:18.880 a non-zero

00:48:19.440 chance of that

00:48:20.020 happening, I'm

00:48:21.580 going to go

00:48:21.900 full nuclear.

00:48:24.600 I'm going to

00:48:25.700 take all the

00:48:26.340 controls off.

00:48:27.600 And you've

00:48:28.120 never seen

00:48:28.580 that.

00:48:29.760 You've never

00:48:30.180 seen that.

00:48:31.600 Maybe you

00:48:32.140 don't want

00:48:32.500 to.

00:48:33.780 But if I go

00:48:34.660 nuclear, it's

00:48:35.900 going to get

00:48:36.260 dark.

00:48:37.100 It's going to

00:48:37.760 get dark

00:48:38.140 really fast.

00:48:39.480 And things

00:48:41.000 will change.

00:48:41.580 So let's

00:48:43.780 hope we

00:48:44.120 don't see

00:48:44.440 that.

00:48:46.660 All right.

00:48:47.580 Someone needs

00:48:48.280 to make a

00:48:48.660 list of all

00:48:49.420 the things you

00:48:49.980 need to believe

00:48:50.680 to be a

00:48:51.100 Democrat

00:48:51.380 lately.

00:48:53.680 I started

00:48:54.460 the list,

00:48:55.100 but here's

00:48:55.420 just like a

00:48:56.140 starter list.

00:48:57.540 In order to

00:48:58.160 be a Democrat

00:48:58.740 today, you

00:48:59.920 would have to

00:49:00.340 believe that

00:49:00.820 Republicans love

00:49:02.840 guns.

00:49:03.800 Oh my God,

00:49:04.660 they love

00:49:05.020 guns.

00:49:05.840 But they

00:49:06.480 don't bring

00:49:07.060 them to a

00:49:08.680 coup.

00:49:10.240 They love

00:49:10.980 guns, but

00:49:11.740 they don't

00:49:12.040 bring them

00:49:12.440 to a

00:49:12.800 coup.

00:49:14.200 Now, the

00:49:14.980 Democrats

00:49:15.360 will say,

00:49:16.020 but Scott,

00:49:16.860 there were

00:49:18.100 a bunch of

00:49:18.740 guns found.

00:49:19.420 The people

00:49:20.320 had guns in

00:49:20.880 their truck,

00:49:21.620 and so we

00:49:22.120 had to

00:49:22.300 cash in

00:49:22.600 it.

00:49:23.820 Oh, fuck

00:49:24.740 you.

00:49:25.300 Fuck you.

00:49:26.040 There was

00:49:26.280 no guns.

00:49:27.900 There were

00:49:28.460 some guns

00:49:29.220 that were

00:49:30.220 not brandished.

00:49:32.100 Republicans

00:49:32.560 have guns

00:49:33.200 in their

00:49:33.520 trucks.

00:49:34.420 Republicans

00:49:34.900 have guns

00:49:35.660 nearby.

00:49:36.580 There were

00:49:37.020 some bad

00:49:37.520 people who

00:49:38.740 had stocks

00:49:39.300 of guns that

00:49:40.120 they were

00:49:40.580 definitely

00:49:41.140 sketchy.

00:49:42.220 But it

00:49:42.780 wasn't about

00:49:43.500 that, right?

00:49:44.900 It was

00:49:45.420 literally a

00:49:47.160 peaceful thing

00:49:48.080 with some

00:49:48.720 dangerous

00:49:49.520 elements,

00:49:50.100 like most

00:49:50.560 protests.

00:49:51.780 Mostly good,

00:49:52.960 but some bad

00:49:53.480 elements.

00:49:55.100 If you

00:49:55.680 are a

00:49:56.300 Democrat,

00:49:56.760 you have

00:49:56.980 to believe

00:49:57.520 that Trump

00:49:58.840 knew he

00:49:59.600 had lost

00:50:00.080 the election,

00:50:01.700 which is

00:50:03.340 unknowable.

00:50:05.080 You have

00:50:05.820 to believe

00:50:06.300 that Trump,

00:50:08.140 alone among

00:50:09.200 all human

00:50:10.220 mammals,

00:50:12.240 knows the

00:50:12.980 unknowable,

00:50:14.320 which is

00:50:15.140 that the

00:50:15.440 election was

00:50:16.040 fair.

00:50:16.820 Now, we

00:50:17.200 do know

00:50:17.580 that there's

00:50:17.940 no proof

00:50:18.380 it was

00:50:18.640 unfair,

00:50:19.720 and therefore

00:50:20.260 the system

00:50:21.740 goes forward

00:50:22.360 and should.

00:50:23.140 They should.

00:50:24.060 I've always

00:50:25.240 supported

00:50:25.760 Biden being

00:50:26.880 certified,

00:50:29.020 just because

00:50:29.560 I don't want

00:50:29.900 to destroy

00:50:30.280 the system,

00:50:31.040 even if it

00:50:31.760 got a bad

00:50:32.140 result.

00:50:32.460 All right,

00:50:34.920 so you'd

00:50:35.140 have to

00:50:35.380 believe that

00:50:36.080 Trump knew

00:50:37.160 the unknowable,

00:50:38.520 that the

00:50:39.220 election was

00:50:39.900 totally fair,

00:50:41.560 totally unknowable.

00:50:43.760 Might be

00:50:44.320 true.

00:50:45.880 You also

00:50:46.420 have to

00:50:46.720 believe that

00:50:47.380 Trump was

00:50:49.240 planning a

00:50:49.920 coup without

00:50:50.800 mentioning it

00:50:51.480 to Don

00:50:52.040 Jr. or

00:50:52.740 Ivanka.

00:50:55.580 To me,

00:50:56.320 that's the

00:50:56.660 funniest one.

00:50:57.300 Have you

00:51:00.760 ever tried

00:51:01.160 saying that

00:51:01.660 to...

00:51:02.400 Try this

00:51:02.960 out.

00:51:03.840 Try saying

00:51:04.380 this to a

00:51:05.120 Democrat who

00:51:05.720 believes it

00:51:06.220 was a

00:51:06.640 planned,

00:51:07.260 organized

00:51:07.720 coup.

00:51:08.700 Just say,

00:51:09.400 you know

00:51:09.780 that the

00:51:10.180 January 6th

00:51:11.200 thing,

00:51:11.900 they proved

00:51:12.600 that Don

00:51:13.040 Jr.

00:51:13.440 didn't know

00:51:13.780 there was

00:51:14.100 a coup

00:51:14.380 planned?

00:51:16.100 Just don't

00:51:17.200 let them

00:51:17.520 change the

00:51:18.000 subject for

00:51:18.520 a moment,

00:51:18.820 because they'll

00:51:19.120 immediately

00:51:19.500 change the

00:51:20.100 subject.

00:51:20.760 Say,

00:51:20.960 come back

00:51:22.420 here for

00:51:22.660 a moment.

00:51:23.640 I'm just

00:51:23.980 wondering,

00:51:25.120 is that

00:51:25.520 your belief?

00:51:27.300 That there

00:51:27.780 was a

00:51:28.080 coup

00:51:28.240 planned,

00:51:29.300 but Trump

00:51:29.820 didn't bring

00:51:30.540 Don Jr.

00:51:31.300 into it?

00:51:32.680 Or Ivanka?

00:51:35.100 Just watch

00:51:35.900 their face,

00:51:37.000 and just see

00:51:37.480 if they can

00:51:37.860 keep anything

00:51:39.060 that looks

00:51:39.480 like a

00:51:40.020 non-NPC

00:51:41.500 face,

00:51:42.600 when they

00:51:43.600 have to

00:51:43.880 explain how

00:51:44.560 Don Jr.

00:51:45.260 was not

00:51:45.620 brought into

00:51:46.060 the plot.

00:51:50.120 I mean,

00:51:50.860 seriously,

00:51:51.900 come on.

00:51:53.520 Is that

00:51:53.900 not the

00:51:54.280 end of the

00:51:54.680 conversation?

00:51:57.040 Right?

00:51:57.300 So,

00:51:58.160 correct me,

00:51:58.880 you lied,

00:52:00.400 correct me if

00:52:01.000 we have,

00:52:02.200 you know,

00:52:02.600 the evidence

00:52:03.180 is that Don

00:52:03.740 Jr.

00:52:04.100 was trying

00:52:04.480 to get

00:52:04.800 Trump to,

00:52:06.680 you know,

00:52:07.020 call off

00:52:07.560 the protests.

00:52:08.760 I mean,

00:52:08.940 it's very

00:52:09.260 clear that

00:52:09.820 he wasn't

00:52:10.180 in on

00:52:10.580 anything.

00:52:12.900 So,

00:52:13.900 do you

00:52:15.340 know one

00:52:15.700 reason that

00:52:16.200 I'll never

00:52:16.560 be put on

00:52:17.360 a Democrat

00:52:18.360 platform while

00:52:19.780 this is

00:52:20.160 going on?

00:52:22.140 Imagine me

00:52:23.020 saying that

00:52:23.560 in public

00:52:24.080 on CNN.

00:52:24.920 imagine MSNBC

00:52:27.380 making the

00:52:27.920 mistake of

00:52:28.460 inviting me

00:52:29.060 on to

00:52:29.340 talk about

00:52:29.760 this.

00:52:30.920 And I'd

00:52:31.260 just say,

00:52:31.600 you know,

00:52:31.920 I just

00:52:32.180 got this

00:52:32.500 one question.

00:52:34.200 How do

00:52:34.680 you believe

00:52:35.120 that Don

00:52:35.560 Jr.

00:52:35.920 wasn't

00:52:36.160 brought

00:52:36.400 into the

00:52:36.820 plot?

00:52:37.880 And then

00:52:38.180 I would

00:52:38.400 just laugh.

00:52:40.660 And they

00:52:40.980 tried to

00:52:41.620 change the

00:52:42.040 subject,

00:52:42.500 I'd be like,

00:52:42.900 no,

00:52:43.100 no,

00:52:43.220 no,

00:52:43.520 no,

00:52:43.700 seriously.

00:52:44.600 Don Lemon,

00:52:45.680 I just

00:52:46.540 got to

00:52:46.780 know.

00:52:48.100 Is that

00:52:48.340 your belief?

00:52:49.140 That

00:52:49.420 Trump didn't

00:52:50.480 bring Don

00:52:51.000 Jr.

00:52:51.280 into his

00:52:52.160 coup plot?

00:52:53.640 Really?

00:52:54.620 Yeah.

00:52:55.200 Really?

00:52:58.420 That's it.

00:53:00.400 All right.

00:53:01.000 You'd also

00:53:01.760 have to

00:53:02.100 believe

00:53:02.600 bail reform

00:53:04.520 works.

00:53:05.920 You'd have

00:53:06.600 to believe

00:53:07.180 that Putin

00:53:07.680 caused the

00:53:08.420 inflation,

00:53:10.040 and some

00:53:10.460 other stuff.

00:53:12.960 You'd also

00:53:13.700 have to

00:53:14.080 believe that

00:53:14.820 Democrat-run

00:53:17.600 cities are

00:53:18.180 just as

00:53:18.540 safe as

00:53:18.900 anywhere else.

00:53:19.880 You'd have

00:53:20.260 to believe

00:53:20.580 that Biden

00:53:21.000 doesn't have

00:53:21.640 any mental

00:53:23.520 capacity

00:53:24.260 problems

00:53:24.780 whatsoever.

00:53:25.840 He's fine.

00:53:26.880 He's fine.

00:53:28.240 No problem

00:53:28.980 here.

00:53:30.820 But I

00:53:31.380 think there's

00:53:31.740 a funnier

00:53:32.320 list,

00:53:32.820 if I spent

00:53:33.400 more time

00:53:33.800 on it,

00:53:34.220 I think

00:53:34.560 there's a

00:53:34.980 funnier

00:53:35.340 list of

00:53:36.540 things you

00:53:36.900 would have

00:53:37.280 to believe

00:53:37.800 to buy

00:53:38.660 the narrative.

00:53:42.000 But

00:53:42.460 Hunter?

00:53:44.520 Hunter is

00:53:45.160 the smartest?

00:53:46.240 Well,

00:53:47.560 you know,

00:53:48.080 I don't think

00:53:48.540 that's been

00:53:48.900 disproven.

00:53:49.460 So Joe

00:53:50.720 Biden says

00:53:51.340 Hunter is

00:53:51.940 the smartest

00:53:52.380 person he

00:53:52.920 knew.

00:53:55.160 Smart people

00:53:55.820 can be

00:53:56.140 addicted,

00:53:57.600 right?

00:53:58.820 Smart people

00:53:59.620 have addictions.

00:54:00.620 That happens

00:54:01.200 all the time.

00:54:01.780 Because the

00:54:02.060 addiction is

00:54:02.520 bigger than

00:54:02.880 the brain.

00:54:03.740 Like your

00:54:04.180 brain has

00:54:04.660 no defense

00:54:05.720 against

00:54:06.040 addiction.

00:54:07.540 So if

00:54:08.660 you said

00:54:09.100 he was

00:54:09.480 addicted,

00:54:12.200 and if

00:54:12.620 you said,

00:54:13.120 let's say,

00:54:13.500 he had no

00:54:14.100 ethical core,

00:54:16.380 those have

00:54:17.020 nothing to do

00:54:17.540 with his

00:54:17.820 intelligence.

00:54:18.220 he could

00:54:19.180 be addicted,

00:54:20.560 he could

00:54:20.900 be completely

00:54:21.580 immoral,

00:54:23.080 but also

00:54:23.680 the smartest

00:54:24.220 person that

00:54:24.820 Joe Biden

00:54:25.200 knows.

00:54:26.080 Because you

00:54:26.440 know what

00:54:26.640 the smartest

00:54:27.360 immoral

00:54:28.900 addict would

00:54:29.620 look like

00:54:30.040 to me?

00:54:31.400 The smartest

00:54:32.480 immoral

00:54:33.380 addict would

00:54:34.260 be someone

00:54:34.720 who made

00:54:35.180 millions of

00:54:35.820 dollars from

00:54:36.480 an enemy

00:54:37.000 regime for

00:54:39.060 doing next

00:54:39.700 to nothing.

00:54:43.480 That's what

00:54:44.200 the smartest

00:54:44.720 addicted,

00:54:45.720 immoral

00:54:46.000 person would

00:54:46.560 look like

00:54:46.920 to me.

00:54:48.220 It would

00:54:48.820 look like

00:54:49.180 somebody who

00:54:49.720 had unlimited

00:54:51.280 coke and

00:54:52.840 sex and

00:54:53.440 hookers and

00:54:55.700 got away

00:54:56.180 with it,

00:54:57.440 lived a

00:54:58.120 complete party

00:54:58.900 life,

00:54:59.640 made maybe

00:55:01.000 tens of

00:55:01.500 millions of

00:55:01.980 dollars,

00:55:02.560 and avoided

00:55:03.700 all prosecution.

00:55:06.840 If that's

00:55:07.440 selling influence

00:55:09.580 is not

00:55:09.960 nothing,

00:55:10.880 well,

00:55:11.540 it is nothing

00:55:12.140 if there's

00:55:12.560 no influence.

00:55:13.900 Remember,

00:55:14.600 people were

00:55:15.020 buying the

00:55:15.620 hope of

00:55:16.200 influence.

00:55:16.660 they weren't

00:55:17.620 buying actual

00:55:18.220 influence.

00:55:19.240 You can't

00:55:19.940 buy actual

00:55:20.580 influence.

00:55:21.780 You can only

00:55:22.320 buy access.

00:55:24.260 So access

00:55:25.040 gives you the

00:55:25.740 hope of

00:55:26.220 influence.

00:55:26.680 It doesn't

00:55:26.960 give you

00:55:27.200 influence.

00:55:28.660 It's still

00:55:29.200 up to you.

00:55:31.240 Yeah.

00:55:32.220 So I don't

00:55:33.260 disagree that

00:55:33.940 Hunter might

00:55:35.900 be the smartest

00:55:36.500 person he knows.

00:55:38.000 It's just that

00:55:38.900 he's also an

00:55:39.660 addict, which

00:55:40.520 goes to the

00:55:41.400 immoral part.

00:55:42.260 You can't

00:55:43.340 be an

00:55:43.600 addict and

00:55:44.060 tell the

00:55:44.380 truth.

00:55:46.520 Well, I

00:55:47.100 suppose you

00:55:47.500 could, but

00:55:48.060 it's rare.

00:55:49.620 Once you

00:55:50.280 say addict,

00:55:52.040 lying is

00:55:53.300 just built

00:55:53.720 into the

00:55:54.100 word.

00:55:55.040 Do you

00:55:55.480 all know

00:55:55.760 that?

00:55:56.400 There's no

00:55:56.980 such thing

00:55:57.420 as an

00:55:57.700 addict who

00:55:58.120 tells the

00:55:58.440 truth.

00:55:59.800 I don't

00:56:00.300 know if

00:56:00.560 they can.

00:56:01.480 I think

00:56:02.040 it's just

00:56:02.380 erased from

00:56:03.220 their ability.

00:56:05.060 I'm not

00:56:05.420 even making

00:56:06.000 a judgment

00:56:06.900 call.

00:56:08.060 That's not

00:56:08.700 even an

00:56:09.280 insult.

00:56:09.640 If somebody

00:56:11.400 is an

00:56:11.780 addict,

00:56:12.740 they're a

00:56:14.320 liar.

00:56:15.480 It just

00:56:15.820 comes with

00:56:16.220 it.

00:56:16.960 You could

00:56:17.600 say, oh,

00:56:18.280 I know an

00:56:18.740 honest addict

00:56:19.360 who tells

00:56:19.820 you exactly

00:56:20.280 what they

00:56:20.620 do.

00:56:20.840 Okay.

00:56:22.120 No, they're

00:56:22.640 lying about

00:56:23.040 something else

00:56:23.540 probably.

00:56:24.720 Even the

00:56:25.300 honest addict

00:56:25.920 doesn't tell

00:56:26.400 you exactly

00:56:26.980 what they're

00:56:27.320 taking.

00:56:29.160 Yeah.

00:56:30.040 So as

00:56:31.060 soon as you

00:56:31.420 say addict,

00:56:32.660 you don't

00:56:33.020 have to say

00:56:33.460 anything else

00:56:34.060 about the

00:56:34.520 other stuff

00:56:35.400 that comes

00:56:35.740 with it.

00:56:36.180 It just

00:56:36.460 comes along

00:56:37.160 with it.

00:56:39.640 Let's

00:56:41.120 see.

00:56:43.040 Yeah.

00:56:44.400 Right.

00:56:45.780 You know,

00:56:46.340 I also,

00:56:47.200 it makes me

00:56:47.820 wonder if

00:56:48.340 lying is

00:56:49.100 maybe an

00:56:52.280 indicator of

00:56:52.940 a future

00:56:53.340 addict.

00:56:55.400 You know,

00:56:56.320 I wonder.

00:56:59.060 I know it

00:56:59.480 doesn't work

00:56:59.900 that way.

00:57:00.400 The causation

00:57:01.120 is addiction

00:57:01.780 first and

00:57:02.420 then lying.

00:57:03.760 But I

00:57:04.900 always question

00:57:05.560 causality no

00:57:07.460 matter how

00:57:07.900 obvious it

00:57:08.560 is.

00:57:08.740 It's

00:57:09.420 obvious that

00:57:10.600 the probable

00:57:11.400 causation is

00:57:12.920 that being

00:57:13.460 an addict

00:57:13.840 makes you

00:57:14.340 a liar.

00:57:15.260 But I

00:57:15.660 would not

00:57:16.040 rule out

00:57:16.760 that people

00:57:18.100 who have

00:57:18.380 trouble lying,

00:57:19.480 like they

00:57:19.840 just can't

00:57:20.240 lie,

00:57:21.740 would be

00:57:22.160 less likely

00:57:22.680 to become

00:57:23.120 an addict.

00:57:24.120 Because at

00:57:24.640 some point

00:57:25.020 you know

00:57:25.400 you have

00:57:25.740 to lie

00:57:26.120 to do

00:57:26.500 it.

00:57:27.500 Like you

00:57:27.880 can't

00:57:28.100 really get

00:57:28.500 into it

00:57:28.900 in the

00:57:29.080 first place

00:57:29.580 without

00:57:29.800 lying

00:57:30.240 about

00:57:30.480 that

00:57:30.660 first

00:57:30.960 part.

00:57:31.980 No,

00:57:32.780 I didn't

00:57:33.120 try heroin.

00:57:35.020 No.

00:57:35.740 I mean,

00:57:35.980 you have to

00:57:36.340 be working

00:57:37.720 on getting

00:57:38.240 addicted.

00:57:38.760 It doesn't

00:57:39.020 happen on

00:57:39.440 day one.

00:57:40.260 So I

00:57:40.480 feel like

00:57:40.900 you've got

00:57:41.140 to be a

00:57:41.480 liar at

00:57:41.940 least by

00:57:42.340 omission.

00:57:43.280 Or at

00:57:43.440 least lie

00:57:43.860 to yourself

00:57:44.320 or something.

00:57:45.360 So I

00:57:45.700 do wonder

00:57:46.120 if being

00:57:47.180 a liar,

00:57:48.080 let's say

00:57:48.460 a compulsive

00:57:49.040 liar,

00:57:49.580 like a

00:57:49.980 real liar,

00:57:51.300 I wonder

00:57:51.820 if that

00:57:52.320 predicts

00:57:54.040 that you'll

00:57:54.460 become an

00:57:55.320 addict.

00:57:55.660 somebody says

00:57:59.320 that's

00:57:59.620 absurd and

00:58:00.240 you could

00:58:00.500 be right.

00:58:01.100 I don't

00:58:01.300 know if

00:58:01.520 it's

00:58:01.680 absurd,

00:58:02.100 it could

00:58:02.280 be wrong.

00:58:04.460 I mean,

00:58:04.940 it could

00:58:05.100 be 100%

00:58:05.700 wrong.

00:58:06.980 I don't

00:58:07.300 know if

00:58:07.520 it's

00:58:07.680 absurd.

00:58:08.880 I think

00:58:09.180 absurd is

00:58:09.600 too far.

00:58:11.800 Yeah.

00:58:12.400 Now,

00:58:12.820 by the way,

00:58:13.280 this is a

00:58:13.680 real good

00:58:14.000 habit.

00:58:15.420 So my

00:58:15.880 habit is as

00:58:16.800 soon as

00:58:17.120 somebody tells

00:58:17.620 me there's

00:58:18.060 a correlation,

00:58:19.580 this causes

00:58:20.420 this,

00:58:21.340 the very

00:58:21.860 first thing

00:58:22.340 I think

00:58:22.740 is,

00:58:23.480 well,

00:58:23.720 maybe it's

00:58:24.140 just a

00:58:24.660 correlation,

00:58:25.940 not a

00:58:26.220 causation.

00:58:26.900 That's the

00:58:27.280 first thing

00:58:27.600 you should

00:58:27.880 think.

00:58:28.580 Then the

00:58:29.020 second thing

00:58:29.540 you should

00:58:29.800 think is,

00:58:31.080 maybe it's

00:58:31.640 reversed.

00:58:32.960 Maybe the

00:58:33.420 causation is

00:58:34.160 backwards.

00:58:35.540 Now,

00:58:35.840 not always.

00:58:38.580 Not always.

00:58:40.420 Can you

00:58:40.900 have an

00:58:41.160 oxytocin

00:58:41.780 addiction?

00:58:43.180 Kind of.

00:58:44.820 Kind of.

00:58:46.240 Yeah,

00:58:46.520 if you don't

00:58:46.940 get hugged

00:58:47.740 or loved

00:58:48.160 enough,

00:58:48.540 you're going

00:58:48.800 to have

00:58:48.980 an oxytocin

00:58:49.980 shortage,

00:58:50.940 and I do

00:58:51.620 think it

00:58:51.940 makes you

00:58:52.240 crazy.

00:58:53.720 Do you

00:58:54.020 think that

00:58:54.360 not being

00:58:54.820 touched

00:58:55.300 can give

00:58:56.260 you mental

00:58:56.720 illness?

00:59:00.000 What do

00:59:00.460 you think?

00:59:01.600 Yeah,

00:59:01.980 I think so.

00:59:02.800 I think so.

00:59:03.700 Yeah,

00:59:03.980 I think that

00:59:04.400 not being

00:59:04.820 touched gives

00:59:05.460 you mental

00:59:05.820 illness.

00:59:09.220 Everybody

00:59:09.600 says,

00:59:09.860 it looks

00:59:10.120 like it's

00:59:10.460 a complete

00:59:10.800 yes.

00:59:12.060 Yeah,

00:59:12.480 it's just

00:59:12.800 like yes,

00:59:13.240 yes,

00:59:13.400 yes,

00:59:13.560 yes,

00:59:13.740 yes,

00:59:13.900 yes,

00:59:14.060 sure.

00:59:14.860 Basically,

00:59:15.400 all of

00:59:15.640 you.

00:59:16.140 How many

00:59:16.640 of you

00:59:17.240 are conscious,

00:59:20.300 like right

00:59:20.840 now,

00:59:21.180 how many

00:59:22.400 of you

00:59:22.660 are conscious

00:59:23.360 of not

00:59:24.280 getting

00:59:24.640 touched

00:59:25.120 enough?

00:59:25.660 Like,

00:59:25.880 you know

00:59:26.380 your oxytocin

00:59:27.800 is low.

00:59:28.820 How many

00:59:29.320 of you

00:59:29.580 are low

00:59:29.980 on oxytocin?

00:59:32.540 Yeah,

00:59:33.020 most of

00:59:33.400 you.

00:59:33.920 Now,

00:59:34.320 some of

00:59:34.680 that is

00:59:35.100 who I

00:59:35.740 attract to

00:59:36.240 this live

00:59:36.660 stream.

00:59:37.400 Now,

00:59:37.700 I've

00:59:37.880 noticed

00:59:38.120 that many

00:59:39.640 of you

00:59:40.040 use this

00:59:40.720 live stream

00:59:41.240 exactly how

00:59:42.280 I hoped.

00:59:42.780 and how

00:59:45.600 I hoped

00:59:46.080 is that

00:59:47.300 I would

00:59:47.660 feel like

00:59:48.200 your friend

00:59:49.240 because I

00:59:51.120 am.

00:59:52.580 I'm on

00:59:53.100 your side

00:59:53.520 and I

00:59:54.460 talk to

00:59:54.800 you every

00:59:55.100 day and

00:59:56.360 even when

00:59:56.900 I don't

00:59:57.280 want to

00:59:57.540 be here,

00:59:57.920 I do

00:59:58.120 it anyway.

00:59:59.680 I don't

01:00:00.160 know if

01:00:00.320 you know

01:00:00.560 that.

01:00:01.320 I mean,

01:00:01.520 there are

01:00:01.740 days I

01:00:03.420 wake up

01:00:03.900 and I

01:00:04.180 think,

01:00:04.880 you know,

01:00:05.080 as much

01:00:05.360 as I

01:00:05.620 love doing

01:00:06.040 this,

01:00:06.300 and I

01:00:06.460 do love

01:00:06.800 doing it,

01:00:07.300 unlike I

01:00:07.720 genuinely

01:00:08.160 like doing

01:00:08.920 this.

01:00:09.400 That's why

01:00:09.680 I'm right

01:00:10.060 here.

01:00:10.380 I mean,

01:00:10.620 I've already

01:00:11.000 gone long

01:00:11.500 probably.

01:00:12.600 It's

01:00:12.840 8 o'clock.

01:00:13.860 I don't

01:00:14.180 have to

01:00:14.560 be doing

01:00:14.860 this now,

01:00:15.540 but I

01:00:16.760 like it.

01:00:18.140 But there

01:00:18.680 are days,

01:00:19.780 there are

01:00:20.340 days,

01:00:21.300 especially

01:00:21.720 when I

01:00:22.040 was traveling

01:00:22.560 and the

01:00:22.880 time zone

01:00:23.320 was different

01:00:23.760 where there

01:00:24.400 were a few

01:00:24.720 days I

01:00:25.080 didn't want

01:00:25.640 to do

01:00:25.900 it,

01:00:26.940 but I

01:00:27.800 did it

01:00:28.060 for you

01:00:28.400 because I

01:00:30.360 know that

01:00:30.860 if your

01:00:31.500 friend doesn't

01:00:32.040 show up,

01:00:33.340 it'll affect

01:00:34.360 your day,

01:00:35.200 and I don't

01:00:35.580 want to do

01:00:35.900 that to you.

01:00:36.880 I would

01:00:37.400 like you to

01:00:37.740 have a good

01:00:38.040 day.

01:00:39.080 So I'm

01:00:39.800 your friend

01:00:40.200 in the sense

01:00:40.740 that,

01:00:41.080 literally

01:00:42.340 every day

01:00:42.940 I'm trying

01:00:43.300 to help

01:00:43.620 you have

01:00:43.840 a good

01:00:44.040 day.

01:00:45.940 Am I

01:00:46.440 not?

01:00:48.340 Now,

01:00:48.820 of course,

01:00:49.260 it's also a

01:00:49.840 business model

01:00:50.580 and I

01:00:50.960 monetize it,

01:00:51.840 blah,

01:00:51.980 blah,

01:00:52.200 that helps

01:00:52.640 me,

01:00:53.940 encourages me

01:00:54.880 to do it

01:00:55.240 every day.

01:00:55.680 It's part

01:00:56.040 of the process.

01:00:57.100 But I

01:00:57.580 feel like my

01:00:58.280 primary

01:00:59.040 motivation is

01:00:59.880 that you

01:01:00.160 like it.

01:01:01.720 If you

01:01:02.220 didn't like

01:01:02.660 it,

01:01:02.800 I wouldn't

01:01:03.100 monetize it,

01:01:04.120 even if I

01:01:04.660 could.

01:01:11.080 Someone on

01:01:11.860 locals said

01:01:13.320 they lost

01:01:13.780 their dog

01:01:14.420 and couldn't

01:01:14.920 wait to hear

01:01:15.520 your voice

01:01:15.980 this morning.

01:01:16.780 Did somebody

01:01:17.280 just lose

01:01:17.960 their dog?

01:01:19.500 Because I

01:01:20.340 have heard

01:01:20.780 of people

01:01:21.140 losing their

01:01:21.740 dog,

01:01:22.160 and,

01:01:24.200 oh,

01:01:24.780 I'm sorry.

01:01:27.260 I have a

01:01:28.080 very old

01:01:28.640 dog myself

01:01:29.460 and I

01:01:30.600 know that

01:01:30.920 my day,

01:01:31.560 my day is

01:01:32.740 approaching.

01:01:35.340 Yeah.

01:01:37.280 You see

01:01:37.760 me on

01:01:38.080 days?

01:01:38.720 Well,

01:01:40.080 you know,

01:01:40.720 you probably

01:01:41.140 know I

01:01:41.580 had a

01:01:42.180 tough

01:01:43.060 pandemic.

01:01:45.000 We all

01:01:45.640 had a

01:01:45.900 tough

01:01:46.080 pandemic.

01:01:47.660 But

01:01:48.020 showing up

01:01:50.300 here was

01:01:50.760 part of my

01:01:51.340 therapy,

01:01:51.960 too.

01:01:52.160 It was

01:01:58.640 all part of

01:01:59.020 my therapy

01:01:59.580 as well.

01:02:00.060 So you

01:02:00.600 help me as

01:02:01.080 much as I

01:02:01.460 help you.

01:02:01.940 So we're

01:02:02.260 friends.

01:02:03.660 And let's

01:02:04.860 keep that

01:02:05.540 up.

01:02:09.320 Yeah,

01:02:09.820 you know,

01:02:10.460 I've heard

01:02:11.020 of people

01:02:11.380 losing dogs

01:02:12.340 and having

01:02:15.280 more of a

01:02:15.840 problem than

01:02:16.520 losing people.

01:02:18.140 Like,

01:02:18.460 actually,

01:02:18.880 literally,

01:02:19.380 that's not

01:02:20.100 a joke.

01:02:20.520 I have a

01:02:23.120 friend of

01:02:23.420 mine who

01:02:23.840 years ago

01:02:24.300 had a

01:02:24.540 dog,

01:02:24.960 had him

01:02:25.220 for many

01:02:25.540 years,

01:02:26.220 and then

01:02:26.880 never got

01:02:27.300 a dog

01:02:27.660 again.

01:02:29.000 And

01:02:29.520 everybody

01:02:29.900 asked,

01:02:30.420 why don't

01:02:31.160 you get

01:02:31.400 another

01:02:31.640 dog?

01:02:32.640 You so

01:02:33.220 love that

01:02:33.640 dog.

01:02:35.160 And he

01:02:35.960 said,

01:02:36.460 when I

01:02:36.820 lost my

01:02:37.320 dog,

01:02:38.320 it felt

01:02:38.820 like losing

01:02:39.440 a limb.

01:02:42.620 And it

01:02:43.140 never went

01:02:43.520 away.

01:02:45.660 Yeah.

01:02:46.660 So I

01:02:47.380 didn't

01:02:47.580 understand it

01:02:48.420 until then.

01:02:49.900 And,

01:02:50.420 you know,

01:02:50.580 I have a

01:02:50.960 dog,

01:02:51.700 and I

01:02:52.540 don't know

01:02:52.820 what it's

01:02:53.080 going to

01:02:53.260 feel like

01:02:53.740 when I

01:02:54.060 don't.

01:02:55.120 But I

01:02:55.860 don't like

01:02:56.280 that part

01:02:56.680 about feeling

01:02:57.360 like I

01:02:57.780 lost a

01:02:58.220 limb.

01:02:58.880 So for

01:02:59.320 all of

01:02:59.580 you who

01:02:59.980 have lost

01:03:00.940 a dog,

01:03:03.400 by the

01:03:03.760 way,

01:03:03.920 I feel

01:03:04.240 like cats

01:03:04.680 are different.

01:03:05.500 I don't

01:03:05.680 know.

01:03:05.900 I mean,

01:03:06.800 I feel

01:03:07.060 plenty sad

01:03:08.040 when I

01:03:08.320 lose a

01:03:08.600 cat,

01:03:09.360 as I've

01:03:10.020 lost several

01:03:10.780 in my

01:03:11.700 life.

01:03:12.640 But I

01:03:13.220 feel like

01:03:13.620 the dog's

01:03:14.080 going to

01:03:14.260 be different.

01:03:14.980 I really

01:03:15.320 do.

01:03:15.700 I don't

01:03:15.900 know why.

01:03:17.500 Am I

01:03:18.020 right?

01:03:19.040 I feel

01:03:19.380 like the

01:03:19.660 dog is

01:03:20.020 going to

01:03:20.180 be a

01:03:20.500 completely

01:03:20.940 different

01:03:21.280 feeling.

01:03:25.040 Anyway,

01:03:25.680 I don't

01:03:25.860 want to

01:03:26.040 end on

01:03:27.140 that.

01:03:28.020 So let

01:03:28.420 me give

01:03:28.640 you the

01:03:29.000 positive

01:03:29.460 spin on

01:03:29.980 this.

01:03:31.540 Anybody

01:03:31.980 who's in

01:03:32.480 your life

01:03:33.000 and it's

01:03:35.440 positive,

01:03:35.900 it's a

01:03:37.960 gift.

01:03:39.940 You wouldn't

01:03:40.740 enjoy having

01:03:41.420 anybody in

01:03:41.900 your life

01:03:42.260 if you

01:03:42.560 couldn't

01:03:42.840 lose

01:03:43.280 them.

01:03:44.620 It's

01:03:45.100 built in.

01:03:46.380 You have

01:03:46.900 to have

01:03:47.420 the risk,

01:03:48.120 not the

01:03:48.480 risk,

01:03:48.840 the guarantee

01:03:49.360 of tragedy.

01:03:50.440 You have

01:03:50.960 to have

01:03:51.140 the guarantee

01:03:51.720 of tragedy

01:03:52.380 to make

01:03:52.800 your life

01:03:53.140 have any

01:03:53.780 value at

01:03:54.620 all.

01:03:56.340 So

01:03:56.620 don't

01:03:58.780 hate it,

01:03:59.740 accept it.

01:04:01.620 It's sort

01:04:01.940 of the

01:04:02.180 Buddhist way.

01:04:04.460 I mean,

01:04:04.860 I'm

01:04:05.040 bastardizing it.

01:04:05.900 But the

01:04:06.440 Buddhist way

01:04:06.960 is you

01:04:07.280 don't try

01:04:07.580 to avoid

01:04:08.160 pain like

01:04:09.040 all pain

01:04:09.700 because life

01:04:10.980 is suffering.

01:04:13.380 You have

01:04:13.820 to learn

01:04:14.240 to enjoy

01:04:14.840 the suffering.

01:04:16.360 And that

01:04:16.620 sounds ridiculous

01:04:17.740 the first time

01:04:18.760 you hear it,

01:04:19.260 doesn't it?

01:04:20.540 Doesn't that

01:04:21.020 sound like

01:04:21.380 absurd?

01:04:22.320 You have

01:04:22.620 to learn

01:04:22.900 to enjoy

01:04:23.540 the pain.

01:04:24.800 That doesn't

01:04:25.340 sound like

01:04:25.720 something you

01:04:26.100 could do.

01:04:27.560 And you

01:04:28.000 can.

01:04:28.860 You can.

01:04:30.140 It's

01:04:30.540 actually

01:04:31.360 doable.

01:04:32.740 In some

01:04:33.860 areas I've

01:04:34.820 managed to

01:04:35.800 do it.

01:04:36.720 And when

01:04:37.020 you do

01:04:37.860 it,

01:04:38.700 like just

01:04:39.100 in an

01:04:39.480 area,

01:04:39.780 I can't

01:04:40.040 do it

01:04:40.300 all the

01:04:40.920 time for

01:04:41.240 my whole

01:04:41.500 life.

01:04:42.360 But there

01:04:43.180 are some

01:04:43.480 times when

01:04:43.900 you say,

01:04:44.840 well, let

01:04:45.200 me give you

01:04:45.480 an example.

01:04:45.860 when I

01:04:47.200 lost my

01:04:47.640 stepson to

01:04:49.420 fentanyl a

01:04:50.200 few years

01:04:50.520 ago, I

01:04:52.080 wanted the

01:04:53.360 pain to

01:04:53.760 go away,

01:04:55.600 you know,

01:04:55.860 the pain of

01:04:56.400 the loss,

01:04:57.520 but I also

01:04:58.140 didn't.

01:04:59.520 I didn't.

01:05:00.940 Because if the

01:05:01.740 pain went

01:05:02.200 away, then

01:05:03.440 the meaning

01:05:03.900 would go

01:05:04.320 away.

01:05:05.720 And I

01:05:06.280 didn't want

01:05:06.580 to lose

01:05:06.820 the meaning.

01:05:08.060 So the

01:05:08.580 meaning was

01:05:09.060 more valuable

01:05:09.620 to me than

01:05:10.420 the pain.

01:05:11.640 And so when

01:05:12.040 I started to

01:05:12.600 realize that

01:05:13.080 the pain and

01:05:13.780 the meaning

01:05:14.160 were inseparable,

01:05:15.860 I merged

01:05:17.580 them.

01:05:19.160 I merged

01:05:19.660 them.

01:05:21.060 And now I

01:05:21.700 take the

01:05:22.400 pain of

01:05:23.020 the loss

01:05:23.640 with the

01:05:25.260 meaning.

01:05:26.820 And they're

01:05:27.140 just one

01:05:27.520 thing now.

01:05:29.000 So when

01:05:29.740 I see my

01:05:31.120 stepson,

01:05:33.440 because,

01:05:33.820 you know,

01:05:33.980 you see him

01:05:34.400 everywhere,

01:05:36.060 it's not

01:05:37.960 like a

01:05:38.640 tragedy feeling.

01:05:39.640 It's more

01:05:40.020 like positive.

01:05:44.960 Well,

01:05:45.520 anyway.

01:05:46.680 On that

01:05:47.180 note,

01:05:48.060 YouTube,

01:05:48.560 I will

01:05:48.840 talk to

01:05:49.120 you tomorrow.

01:05:50.160 Spotify,

01:05:50.920 thanks for

01:05:51.420 joining.

01:05:51.660 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 23, 2022

Episode 1813 Scott Adams： The January 6th Narrative Has Fallen Apart. A New HOAX Has Replaced It

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