Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1833 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About The Fake News About Nuclear Weapons Secrets At Mar-a-Lago

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00:01:14.880 Oh. You know, there was a TV show years ago, Battlestar Galactica. There were two versions

00:01:31.300 of it. In the newer version, there were artificial beings who were indistinguishable from normal

00:01:40.100 beings, unless you had a special test. There'd be a special test to find out who was human

00:01:45.700 and who was some form of NPC. And you say to yourself, wouldn't that be useful to have

00:01:51.980 now? Wouldn't you like to know who among you are the Cylons, to use that phrase from the

00:01:58.860 TV show? And who among you are real people? And it turns out that maybe you don't have access

00:02:05.540 to this tool, but I do. I do. I have an actual tool to determine who are NPCs. They're the

00:02:13.440 people who leave comments in my Twitter feed that say something like, well, I didn't know

00:02:20.500 it until now, but Adams is the pointy-haired boss. Or what about lasagna on Mondays?

00:02:31.500 So I'm going to start tagging all of the NPCs that I see today. So I'm just going to do

00:02:37.180 hashtag NPC, because they're the ones who have just the little canned obvious things. So when

00:02:46.500 I announced the other day on Twitter that we had entered phase two, which I had not defined

00:02:54.140 at that time, a lot of people came in and said, well, not people, NPCs. And they said,

00:03:00.800 how's phase two going? How's phase two going, Scott? Have you read the news lately? Ha ha ha ha ha!

00:03:08.240 We'll expect your apology, because if you didn't know it, the reporting last night was that

00:03:16.240 President Trump might have been storing nuclear weapon secrets at Mar-a-Lago. Ha ha ha! Idiot.

00:03:27.520 Cartoon boy, what do you say about that? What do you say about that, cartoon boy? How about

00:03:32.240 that? Ha ha ha ha ha! We gotcha! Gotcha! Gotcha! So that's what my evening looked like. I went

00:03:43.620 to bed to that. And I said to myself, well, probably look into this in the morning. Must

00:03:50.520 be some new news. And then I saw the news. The news. Let's talk about the news. Have you

00:04:00.740 ever heard of a thing called a, what's it called? A wrap-up, wrap-up smear? Do you know

00:04:09.780 what a wrap-up smear is? Well, let's have Nancy Pelosi explain it. You demonize, and then you,

00:04:19.440 we call it the wrap-up smear. The wrap-up smear. You want to talk politics. You call it the wrap-up

00:04:23.440 smear. You smear somebody. Smear somebody. With falsehoods and all the rest. With falsehoods. And

00:04:28.820 then you merchandise it. Then you merchandise it. And then you write it. Then you write it. See,

00:04:32.480 it's reported in the press. Ah. That this, this, this, and this. It's in the press now. So they have that validation that the press reported the smear. Reported the smear. And then it's called the wrap-up smear. Now I'm going to merchandise. Now you merchandise it. The press's report on the smear that we made. And it's, it's a tactic. It's a tactic. And it's, it's self-evident.

00:04:50.440 It's a tactic. It's a self-fulfilling tactic. You demonize, and then you, we call it the wrap-up smear.

00:04:56.300 It's called the wrap-up smear. Now, Nancy Pelosi was describing how she believes her opponents use it.

00:05:06.080 But once you know it's a thing, you kind of see it everywhere. And let's see if we can identify a wrap-up smear in the news today.

00:05:18.460 Are there any wrap-up smears happening right now that the NPCs believe is actual real news?

00:05:28.820 Maybe. Because we woke up to some interesting news. But first, let's do this in order.

00:05:36.600 A.G. Garland went on TV to announce his statement about the raid on Mar-a-Lago. It turns out he did authorize it.

00:05:44.960 So that was news. And all the smart people said, uh, what are the odds he didn't authorize it?

00:05:53.320 Because remember, the first story was trying to make it seem as though Christopher Wray authorized it because he was a Trump appointee.

00:06:00.860 See how the fake news works? Oh, no, it was a Trump appointee who authorized it.

00:06:07.940 But it turns out it wasn't.

00:06:10.480 Not only was it not, it was, you know, a obvious Democrat appointee, Garland.

00:06:17.780 But they kept that from us for how long? Like a day or so?

00:06:21.980 Well, so there is maybe 40% of the public will never hear the correction.

00:06:27.680 And they will always believe that it was a Trump appointed person who authorized the raid.

00:06:33.880 They'll never hear the correction.

00:06:36.400 So that's the first trick, is that the fake news always travels longer than the correction.

00:06:42.060 So you see that trick.

00:06:46.660 I have a question about who advised the Attorney General Garland to act totally guilty in front of the public.

00:06:56.440 Do you think anybody gave him that advice?

00:06:59.760 Because it looks like he took it.

00:07:02.020 I've never seen anybody act more guilty than that guy.

00:07:05.880 And you look for the things he doesn't say, right?

00:07:08.180 The things he does say is, oh, we have this reason to do it.

00:07:14.940 And the reason because, and he doesn't say, because it's a secret.

00:07:24.160 And then he says, oh, we're going to call your bluff.

00:07:27.140 We're going to release the warrant, the part that would just say what things they were looking for.

00:07:34.840 And then Trump says, I want it released too.

00:07:38.180 And then the public says, you don't have it?

00:07:41.860 They handed you a copy.

00:07:44.020 But then you look at the reporting.

00:07:46.700 Have you seen what words the reporting uses to describe the, let's say, allegation,

00:07:54.000 that the Trump team has in their possession the copy of the warrant?

00:07:57.840 Now, my understanding of the process is, they have to have a copy of it.

00:08:03.120 Am I wrong about that?

00:08:05.380 The process pretty much guarantees that somebody has a copy of it on the Trump side, right?

00:08:10.800 But when you look at how the Trump people talk about it, and how the news reports it,

00:08:18.400 have you ever noticed that they never say, they never say there's a confirmation that Trump has a copy,

00:08:25.580 like a physical copy?

00:08:26.740 Because there was some weird reporting about how maybe they showed it to some people,

00:08:31.920 but didn't let them keep it?

00:08:34.760 Does that sound, that doesn't sound real, does it?

00:08:36.820 But that's one of the rumors we heard.

00:08:40.460 Lyle says, Scott's spinning hard.

00:08:43.600 Oh, Lyle.

00:08:45.240 Stick around.

00:08:46.000 Stick around, my NPC friend.

00:08:49.620 You might learn something.

00:08:51.280 It's going to get, we're going to get wild here in a minute.

00:08:53.940 This is just the introduction.

00:08:55.960 You haven't seen anything.

00:08:58.720 All right, so, the words that are used about the warrant being in the hands of the Trump people

00:09:05.340 are things like, they were shown the warrant.

00:09:10.220 Shown.

00:09:11.460 Now, I think I'm making that one up.

00:09:12.740 But if you look at the actual words, it's like, they were presented with the warrant.

00:09:17.880 They showed them the warrant.

00:09:20.080 Of course you had to show the warrant.

00:09:22.840 Of course it was shown.

00:09:25.140 But do you notice all the words are lacking the retained part?

00:09:30.140 Now, I believe it was retained.

00:09:31.800 If I had to place a bet, I would bet that somebody on the Trump team has a physical copy.

00:09:38.420 But even as of this morning, Fox News says they couldn't confirm it.

00:09:42.740 This morning, like just an hour ago, Fox News says they can't confirm that the Trump team has a physical copy.

00:09:50.800 Now, I'm pretty sure they do.

00:09:55.520 Does anybody believe they don't have a physical copy?

00:09:59.160 If you're taking it from a persuasion perspective,

00:10:05.800 Trump is playing this exactly right.

00:10:09.700 Because he's being vague about whether he has the warrant,

00:10:12.500 which makes you wonder if everything was copacetic.

00:10:14.800 So it's actually smart from a persuasion perspective.

00:10:20.100 You can argue the ethics of anything here.

00:10:22.320 That could be your conversation with yourself.

00:10:25.440 But in terms of effectiveness,

00:10:27.820 Trump is doing two really good things.

00:10:30.460 He's being vague about whether they have the warrant,

00:10:33.020 which makes everybody get excited.

00:10:34.860 And then he adds to the ambiguity

00:10:37.020 by saying he agrees with the attorney general

00:10:42.640 and he would like, quote,

00:10:44.440 all of the documents released.

00:10:46.900 Do you think Trump is talking about the same documents

00:10:49.100 that the attorney general is talking about?

00:10:51.400 Of course not.

00:10:52.560 Of course not.

00:10:53.240 That's how the trick is played.

00:10:54.740 So Trump is cleverly

00:10:56.200 expanding the definition of the documents

00:10:59.380 to be beyond what the attorney general is saying,

00:11:02.800 which is just the list of stuff they're looking for.

00:11:05.660 And then a receipt for the things they took,

00:11:08.260 which could be slightly different

00:11:09.680 from what they were looking for.

00:11:11.560 Probably is different.

00:11:13.120 But those are the only things

00:11:14.340 that Garland was talking about.

00:11:17.820 Beyond that, there's something called,

00:11:20.300 I think, the affidavit, right?

00:11:21.780 That is a long description

00:11:23.540 of why they thought they needed to operate quickly,

00:11:27.200 why they needed a warrant,

00:11:28.580 why they couldn't do it in any other way.

00:11:31.640 That document is surely what Trump wants you to think

00:11:34.880 is the missing part, because it is missing.

00:11:37.920 Now, the process itself

00:11:39.560 keeps that away from the public.

00:11:43.320 So if you didn't know

00:11:44.500 that we're not allowed to see that,

00:11:46.040 and there's a good reason,

00:11:47.560 because you don't want allegations out in the public.

00:11:50.100 You want to keep that within the legal system

00:11:51.980 until something gets more public

00:11:54.480 or more closer to proven.

00:11:55.940 So what Trump is saying,

00:11:58.780 yeah, release it all.

00:12:00.460 He knows that can never happen,

00:12:02.280 and it will always look like

00:12:03.960 they're hiding something.

00:12:06.540 And they are.

00:12:08.320 They are hiding something.

00:12:10.120 Now, they're hiding it behind

00:12:11.300 a legal requirement that I agree with,

00:12:14.000 so they have to hide it.

00:12:15.720 But I think they're pretty happy

00:12:17.120 that they're not showing it to anybody

00:12:18.460 for a variety of political and practical reasons.

00:12:21.240 So Trump's persuasion approach

00:12:24.900 is pure bullshit, I think.

00:12:27.920 It's pure bullshit, but pretty good.

00:12:30.680 Pretty good.

00:12:31.620 Now, the other side, of course,

00:12:33.300 is also pure bullshit,

00:12:34.980 but we'll talk about how well they're doing it.

00:12:37.900 Pretty good, actually.

00:12:39.660 If I'm going to score the Democrats

00:12:42.160 for just persuasion,

00:12:43.980 as opposed to, again,

00:12:45.300 ethical or moral treatment,

00:12:47.100 same as I did with Trump,

00:12:48.180 make your own decisions

00:12:50.200 about the moral or ethical angles,

00:12:52.300 it's politics.

00:12:53.880 In politics, you think your team can do it

00:12:56.020 and the other team can't.

00:12:57.240 So there's nothing to talk about there.

00:13:01.440 But, so Trump is playing it well.

00:13:05.340 He's keeping it alive,

00:13:06.780 but I'm not showing you the warrant,

00:13:08.120 which I assume he has a copy of.

00:13:09.760 He's broadening the description of the documents

00:13:12.280 to include the affidavit,

00:13:13.980 which you know you're never going to see,

00:13:15.520 which will always look sketchy to the public,

00:13:17.520 because the public won't catch the nuance

00:13:19.900 that you're not allowed to see that kind of stuff

00:13:22.880 at this phase of a legal process.

00:13:27.380 Now, Garland, having looked perfectly guilty

00:13:32.520 of something horrible,

00:13:35.240 but we don't know what,

00:13:37.640 got some cover fire today.

00:13:41.360 And did he notice that the cover fire

00:13:43.080 was exactly the right timing?

00:13:44.960 Because just when the news cycle

00:13:47.360 had turned desperately bad

00:13:49.880 for the Democrats,

00:13:51.720 it looked really bad,

00:13:53.180 and Garland didn't fix anything,

00:13:54.520 he made it worse.

00:13:55.960 Just when it was the darkest it could be,

00:13:59.760 the Washington Post

00:14:00.980 tells us that they have

00:14:02.940 two anonymous sources.

00:14:05.400 Anonymous sources.

00:14:07.120 Washington Post.

00:14:09.240 Anonymous sources.

00:14:10.180 So, credibility looks good so far,

00:14:15.660 and there's something negative about Trump.

00:14:18.440 Anonymous sources.

00:14:20.540 Washington Post.

00:14:22.240 Negative about Trump.

00:14:24.680 How would you rank that

00:14:26.200 if you didn't know anything else?

00:14:28.380 The only thing you knew were those facts.

00:14:30.260 How would you rank the credibility of that report?

00:14:33.720 Well, let me tell you how CNN ranked it.

00:14:36.040 CNN is reporting on

00:14:38.720 Washington Post's reporting

00:14:40.200 and says we can't confirm it.

00:14:44.780 They can't confirm it.

00:14:46.980 But they can report the fuck out of it,

00:14:48.960 can't they?

00:14:49.900 Not only that,

00:14:50.920 but here's what these assholes do

00:14:52.440 on Twitter.

00:14:55.840 On Twitter,

00:14:56.720 where they do the trending stories and stuff.

00:15:00.600 Let me tell you how Twitter,

00:15:02.700 or whoever does that,

00:15:03.740 whoever writes the summary has wrote it.

00:15:06.000 Here's the summary.

00:15:13.100 God damn it.

00:15:14.100 Yeah, I have it.

00:15:15.560 Or do I?

00:15:17.180 Let me look through my own notes.

00:15:18.940 There it is.

00:15:21.680 Damn it.

00:15:23.860 Oh, I guess I don't have that.

00:15:24.940 But the Washington,

00:15:27.920 so the summary on Twitter

00:15:29.500 says that

00:15:31.360 that Trump,

00:15:35.200 oh, here's the summary.

00:15:36.460 All right, I got it.

00:15:37.400 So here's the headline.

00:15:38.740 See if the headline

00:15:39.840 feels accurate to you.

00:15:43.560 Here's the headline.

00:15:45.300 FBI saw classified documents

00:15:47.600 related to nuclear weapons

00:15:49.820 during the Mar-a-Lago search,

00:15:52.760 comma,

00:15:53.840 according to the Washington Post.

00:15:55.480 Do you see what they did?

00:16:00.040 Let me read it again

00:16:01.060 and see if you can find

00:16:01.940 the brainwashing and manipulation.

00:16:04.180 It's just one sentence,

00:16:05.120 and it's right here.

00:16:06.500 FBI sought classified documents

00:16:08.620 related to nuclear weapons

00:16:10.560 during Mar-a-Lago search,

00:16:13.160 comma,

00:16:14.080 according to the Washington Post.

00:16:15.960 According to the Washington Post.

00:16:17.560 Now, is it according to the Washington Post,

00:16:19.460 or is it according to two anonymous people

00:16:21.360 that the Washington Post talked to?

00:16:24.420 Well, both.

00:16:25.480 But I think if you leave out

00:16:27.020 the anonymous part,

00:16:28.480 that means something.

00:16:29.800 And if you put the according to

00:16:31.380 at the end of the sentence

00:16:32.540 instead of the start of the sentence,

00:16:34.120 it's completely different.

00:16:37.560 Imagine this.

00:16:40.120 Imagine just rewording

00:16:41.360 the same sentence.

00:16:42.940 According to the Washington Post,

00:16:45.480 only.

00:16:47.340 According to the Washington Post,

00:16:49.540 only.

00:16:49.900 Trump was, you know,

00:16:53.720 had access to nuclear weapons secrets

00:16:55.860 or something at Mar-a-Lago.

00:16:58.640 Now, if you put the source first,

00:17:00.780 it debunks the story before you read it.

00:17:03.120 If you put the source last,

00:17:05.500 you accept the story

00:17:07.340 because it's in the news.

00:17:09.220 It's the news.

00:17:10.140 It's the headline.

00:17:10.580 So you read the news,

00:17:12.420 and then your brain just turns off

00:17:14.220 after the according to.

00:17:15.900 Because do you care?

00:17:17.240 It's like according to somebody important.

00:17:19.540 All right, so it must be true.

00:17:20.920 So last night,

00:17:21.980 all the people who don't know

00:17:23.080 how to consume news

00:17:24.360 were trying to dance on my grave

00:17:27.240 and insist on my apology,

00:17:30.000 and they couldn't wait

00:17:30.900 to get here this morning

00:17:31.820 because I'm going to be eating some crow

00:17:34.200 because it turns out

00:17:35.540 the least credible source

00:17:37.280 in the fucking solar system

00:17:39.120 said something that might be bad

00:17:41.620 for my side.

00:17:43.100 So they're pretty happy.

00:17:44.380 The NPCs are just,

00:17:45.500 well, well, well.

00:17:46.240 Have you ever seen NPCs dancing?

00:17:48.700 It's disgusting.

00:17:50.320 It's like a lane from Seinfeld.

00:17:52.200 Just all of them.

00:17:56.280 Sort of like that.

00:17:57.360 That's what they're doing today.

00:18:00.800 Anyway, let's dissect

00:18:02.320 their diabolical plan.

00:18:05.820 So I tweeted today

00:18:07.480 where we're heading.

00:18:10.680 So here's what's definitely

00:18:11.960 going to happen.

00:18:12.520 So the bad guys,

00:18:13.500 I'm going to call the bad guys

00:18:14.820 the fake news purveyors.

00:18:16.960 So the bad guys

00:18:17.860 are all the Democrats

00:18:18.700 and the fake news people

00:18:20.040 who are supporting them.

00:18:21.640 So here's where we're going.

00:18:23.120 So the bad guys are going to claim

00:18:24.540 that because it's

00:18:26.400 coincidentally,

00:18:27.380 and this is it,

00:18:29.760 this is really lucky

00:18:30.860 for the Democrats,

00:18:32.220 pretty coincidental,

00:18:33.640 that the thing that they say,

00:18:36.200 or not they,

00:18:37.180 but two anonymous sources

00:18:38.940 as they do the wrap-up smear,

00:18:41.960 so you see the wrap-up smear?

00:18:43.260 So the way Nancy Pelosi

00:18:45.480 explained how it's done

00:18:46.700 is if somebody makes a claim,

00:18:49.300 this would be the two

00:18:50.140 anonymous sources,

00:18:51.440 then it's reported in the news,

00:18:53.180 the Washington Post,

00:18:54.420 then the CNN reports,

00:18:56.040 CNN reports

00:18:56.880 the Washington Post

00:18:57.740 is reporting it,

00:18:58.820 and by the time you see it

00:18:59.880 in CNN,

00:19:01.140 you've lost

00:19:01.920 the anonymous source part,

00:19:04.040 maybe,

00:19:05.200 and basically

00:19:07.740 it just turns into

00:19:08.820 something that looks true.

00:19:11.400 Now,

00:19:11.920 if you go over to Fox News,

00:19:13.240 they won't be reporting it.

00:19:15.980 And here's a good

00:19:16.960 BS filter.

00:19:18.800 If both Fox News

00:19:20.360 and CNN

00:19:20.940 say something is true,

00:19:22.580 it's probably true.

00:19:23.940 For example,

00:19:25.260 did the FBI

00:19:26.100 enter Mar-a-Lago

00:19:27.340 looking for documents?

00:19:29.140 Fox News reports it,

00:19:30.400 yes.

00:19:31.240 CNN reports it,

00:19:32.380 yes.

00:19:32.660 you could probably depend

00:19:33.920 that that actually happened.

00:19:36.680 Right?

00:19:37.820 If CNN reports

00:19:40.280 the Washington Post reports

00:19:41.800 that there might have been

00:19:43.200 nuclear weapons secrets

00:19:45.260 in Mar-a-Lago,

00:19:46.800 but Fox News

00:19:47.980 does not report it,

00:19:49.520 is it true?

00:19:51.960 It could be,

00:19:53.740 but probably not.

00:19:55.760 Right?

00:19:56.200 If you're going to

00:19:57.140 play the odds,

00:19:58.260 something that's reported

00:19:59.220 as true on one

00:20:01.280 and untrue on the other

00:20:02.820 is probably fake.

00:20:07.000 Now,

00:20:07.760 the Hunter laptop story

00:20:09.120 is a notable exception.

00:20:12.640 But,

00:20:13.560 if you get,

00:20:14.440 if you get either one

00:20:15.460 of your entities

00:20:16.660 saying that something

00:20:17.700 is fake,

00:20:19.040 it's probably fake.

00:20:20.820 So,

00:20:21.560 actually,

00:20:21.980 the laptop story

00:20:22.800 does work

00:20:23.420 because Fox News

00:20:24.640 always said it was true

00:20:25.720 and the other side

00:20:28.640 said it was fake,

00:20:29.440 but they had

00:20:30.060 such an obvious,

00:20:32.360 the 50 intelligence people

00:20:33.720 who were obviously lying.

00:20:35.220 So,

00:20:35.500 that was an operation.

00:20:37.120 So,

00:20:37.680 that was an exception,

00:20:38.860 I guess.

00:20:41.000 All right.

00:20:42.620 So,

00:20:43.160 here's how you

00:20:43.980 do

00:20:44.880 a hoax.

00:20:46.140 first you get

00:20:50.000 your anonymous sources,

00:20:51.660 check.

00:20:53.220 Then,

00:20:53.780 you make sure

00:20:54.380 that the timing

00:20:55.380 of your fake story

00:20:56.320 is just perfect.

00:20:57.980 This was perfect timing

00:20:59.260 because Garland

00:21:00.160 had just failed.

00:21:01.880 January 6th hearings

00:21:02.900 had completely failed.

00:21:04.920 The,

00:21:05.220 you know,

00:21:05.440 basically,

00:21:06.140 everything that they

00:21:07.040 had asserted

00:21:07.740 had failed,

00:21:08.340 including the FBI raid.

00:21:09.760 So,

00:21:10.100 they were at their

00:21:10.620 deepest hole

00:21:11.340 and just in time,

00:21:14.080 just in time,

00:21:15.040 an anonymous report,

00:21:16.960 which we call

00:21:17.860 the wrap-up smear,

00:21:19.940 appears.

00:21:20.920 So,

00:21:21.340 now the wrap-up smear

00:21:22.360 is in full effect,

00:21:24.060 perfectly timed,

00:21:25.120 and one of the tells

00:21:26.580 for it being

00:21:27.880 fake news

00:21:28.900 is a little too perfect.

00:21:31.660 If you were going

00:21:32.600 to make up a story

00:21:33.780 to make,

00:21:34.760 to make Trump look bad,

00:21:37.740 imagine a different topic.

00:21:40.920 What would be worse?

00:21:42.120 Trump has the

00:21:45.440 secret UFO files

00:21:47.560 in his

00:21:48.320 Mar-a-Lago.

00:21:49.960 Eh,

00:21:50.540 I'm not even sure

00:21:51.680 I'd care.

00:21:52.780 I get that it's

00:21:53.500 top secret,

00:21:54.320 but,

00:21:54.620 eh,

00:21:55.500 I don't know.

00:21:55.940 I would just think

00:21:56.500 that was funny

00:21:57.100 if I heard he had

00:21:58.740 the UFO secret files.

00:22:01.420 Or how about,

00:22:02.160 this is actually

00:22:02.680 a true thing.

00:22:03.800 The United States

00:22:05.100 was once involved

00:22:06.780 in actual research

00:22:08.020 to see if there

00:22:08.800 were any psychics

00:22:09.700 that they might

00:22:11.060 be able to weaponize.

00:22:13.120 That's a real thing.

00:22:14.400 So somewhere

00:22:14.800 there are documents

00:22:15.560 about that.

00:22:17.400 What if you heard

00:22:18.840 that was the secret

00:22:19.740 documents he had?

00:22:21.260 Again,

00:22:21.760 it might be important

00:22:22.580 if it turns out

00:22:23.620 there are any

00:22:24.180 real psychics,

00:22:25.580 I suppose.

00:22:27.860 But you would just

00:22:28.860 laugh at that,

00:22:29.540 wouldn't you?

00:22:30.460 You'd just think

00:22:30.980 it was funny.

00:22:32.420 Almost,

00:22:32.780 yeah,

00:22:33.040 what if it was like

00:22:33.900 the JFK

00:22:35.040 assassination secrets?

00:22:37.240 You would just

00:22:37.660 laugh at it.

00:22:39.340 Almost anything else

00:22:40.640 you could think of,

00:22:41.920 you'd probably

00:22:42.460 laugh it off.

00:22:43.800 It's like,

00:22:44.100 yeah,

00:22:44.320 that's a secret,

00:22:45.100 but meh.

00:22:46.200 If they told you

00:22:47.280 he had troop,

00:22:49.000 you know,

00:22:49.360 troop movements

00:22:50.260 or military readiness

00:22:51.580 stuff in his files,

00:22:53.240 what would be

00:22:53.900 the first thing

00:22:54.460 you'd think?

00:22:54.960 Why?

00:22:57.900 Why would he have that?

00:22:59.980 Why would he want

00:23:00.740 to keep it?

00:23:01.660 If somebody asked

00:23:02.620 for it back,

00:23:03.240 why would he give

00:23:03.800 it to them?

00:23:04.980 Now take that

00:23:05.820 to the nuclear

00:23:06.640 weapons secret.

00:23:08.420 Imagine this

00:23:09.120 conversation,

00:23:09.980 and then you tell

00:23:10.560 me this really

00:23:11.140 happened.

00:23:12.580 I'm going to give

00:23:13.240 you a really

00:23:13.780 on this,

00:23:14.280 okay?

00:23:15.860 Hello,

00:23:16.380 this is the

00:23:17.600 Biden administration.

00:23:19.600 We have good

00:23:20.380 information that you

00:23:21.120 have in your files.

00:23:22.040 sensitive nuclear

00:23:24.380 weapons stuff.

00:23:26.620 Can we get that

00:23:27.680 back?

00:23:29.340 And then whoever

00:23:30.140 they were talking

00:23:31.140 to said,

00:23:32.160 no, no, no, no.

00:23:33.440 We like to keep

00:23:34.500 the nuclear

00:23:35.200 weapons secrets

00:23:36.200 in a mildly

00:23:38.780 secure place

00:23:39.500 here in Mar-a-Lago.

00:23:41.560 Really?

00:23:43.580 Really.

00:23:45.140 Do you think

00:23:45.880 that the Trump

00:23:47.760 administration,

00:23:48.740 and Trump in

00:23:49.420 particular,

00:23:50.700 had been informed

00:23:51.600 that he had

00:23:52.380 in his possession

00:23:53.180 nuclear weapons

00:23:55.540 secrets

00:23:56.800 in a not

00:23:59.040 secure location,

00:24:00.560 and that he

00:24:01.800 decided to not

00:24:02.980 give them back.

00:24:05.420 That's the story

00:24:06.400 we're hearing.

00:24:07.320 That they knew

00:24:08.220 what the documents

00:24:09.040 were,

00:24:10.340 and that they knew

00:24:11.560 where they were,

00:24:12.280 and what it was

00:24:12.900 about,

00:24:13.840 and they told

00:24:14.500 the Trump people,

00:24:15.780 and then the

00:24:16.260 Trump people said,

00:24:17.100 no, we're going

00:24:18.500 to keep those

00:24:19.100 nuclear weapons

00:24:19.900 secrets right in

00:24:20.740 our storage room

00:24:21.520 here in Mar-a-Lago.

00:24:22.460 That's what we're

00:24:22.940 going to do.

00:24:24.940 Can we all,

00:24:26.200 can you play

00:24:26.720 along with me?

00:24:28.220 Give me a really

00:24:28.880 on this.

00:24:30.720 Really?

00:24:32.840 Really?

00:24:34.520 Really?

00:24:34.920 Really?

00:24:35.240 You asked for

00:24:36.160 your nuclear

00:24:37.280 secrets back,

00:24:38.940 and Trump said,

00:24:40.420 uh-uh,

00:24:41.540 I'm keeping

00:24:42.120 your nuclear

00:24:43.280 secrets.

00:24:44.560 Really?

00:24:45.620 Really?

00:24:46.680 That's actually

00:24:47.500 what they're

00:24:47.840 trying to sell

00:24:48.380 us today.

00:24:49.580 There's some

00:24:49.980 version of that

00:24:50.640 actually happened.

00:24:52.640 Really?

00:24:54.360 And let me say,

00:24:55.620 if you're

00:24:56.000 believing this

00:24:56.740 story,

00:24:58.240 based on the

00:24:59.200 ten hoaxes

00:25:00.300 that the

00:25:00.840 Democrats have

00:25:01.520 played that

00:25:02.020 follow the

00:25:02.460 same pattern,

00:25:03.800 if you're not

00:25:04.620 using this one

00:25:05.380 as your hoax

00:25:07.440 identification

00:25:08.280 filter,

00:25:09.640 you're missing

00:25:10.240 a great show.

00:25:11.460 This one,

00:25:12.220 they're signaling

00:25:12.740 way in advance.

00:25:14.400 They're telling

00:25:14.980 you,

00:25:15.780 here's a play,

00:25:16.560 we're running

00:25:17.620 an op,

00:25:18.640 it's going

00:25:19.000 to look like

00:25:19.440 all of other

00:25:20.100 fake news ops,

00:25:22.540 and here's

00:25:23.180 the playbook,

00:25:24.620 it's going to

00:25:25.100 be,

00:25:25.540 here's the

00:25:25.900 playbook,

00:25:26.640 anonymous

00:25:27.080 sources,

00:25:28.220 perfectly timed,

00:25:29.500 the story is

00:25:30.180 two on the nose,

00:25:31.160 which is what

00:25:31.560 makes people

00:25:32.060 believe it,

00:25:32.600 really.

00:25:33.300 It's not going

00:25:33.900 to be confirmed

00:25:34.400 by the reporting,

00:25:35.700 they'll amplify it,

00:25:36.600 here's the real

00:25:37.080 trick,

00:25:37.840 they're going

00:25:38.140 to do a lot

00:25:38.580 of if-it's-true

00:25:39.420 reporting.

00:25:40.940 Well,

00:25:41.340 if it's true

00:25:42.040 that Trump

00:25:42.520 has nuclear

00:25:43.280 weapons

00:25:43.980 secrets,

00:25:44.580 if it's true

00:25:46.160 that he

00:25:46.600 wouldn't give

00:25:47.340 back the

00:25:47.920 nuclear secrets,

00:25:48.940 if it's true

00:25:49.760 that he was

00:25:50.240 planning to

00:25:50.820 sell them

00:25:51.860 to a foreign

00:25:52.880 adversary,

00:25:53.800 I'm not saying

00:25:54.580 it's true,

00:25:55.320 but if it's true,

00:25:56.420 if it's true,

00:25:57.220 if it's true,

00:25:58.100 if it's true,

00:25:58.980 until their

00:26:00.080 idiot NPC base

00:26:01.500 stops hearing

00:26:02.700 if.

00:26:04.660 If will

00:26:05.340 disappear after

00:26:06.120 a while.

00:26:07.060 All they're

00:26:07.460 going to do

00:26:07.780 is turn on

00:26:08.260 the news

00:26:08.580 and hear

00:26:08.840 something about

00:26:09.460 Trump had

00:26:10.220 nuclear secrets

00:26:11.100 and wouldn't

00:26:11.420 give them

00:26:11.680 back.

00:26:12.720 That's all

00:26:13.100 they're going

00:26:13.340 to hear.

00:26:13.560 And they're

00:26:14.540 going to

00:26:14.680 believe it.

00:26:16.240 All right?

00:26:17.060 So we're

00:26:17.840 into the

00:26:18.320 amplified

00:26:18.820 if-it-is-true

00:26:19.800 stage,

00:26:20.480 but what is

00:26:21.200 the final

00:26:21.660 stage?

00:26:23.100 What's the

00:26:23.740 final stage

00:26:24.480 of the

00:26:25.560 wrap-up

00:26:27.620 smear?

00:26:30.700 The final

00:26:31.500 phase always

00:26:32.080 looks the

00:26:32.500 same.

00:26:33.700 Someday

00:26:34.180 you'll find

00:26:34.660 out that it

00:26:35.160 was fake

00:26:35.640 and it

00:26:36.940 will be

00:26:37.220 too late,

00:26:38.300 just like

00:26:39.240 the Mueller

00:26:39.580 report.

00:26:40.260 So you

00:26:40.600 can call

00:26:40.900 it the

00:26:41.220 Mueller

00:26:41.460 report

00:26:41.940 phase,

00:26:42.420 where you

00:26:43.180 find out

00:26:43.580 the whole

00:26:43.880 thing was

00:26:44.240 a hoax,

00:26:45.380 but it's

00:26:46.140 so deeply

00:26:46.680 embedded in

00:26:47.340 the mind

00:26:48.160 of the

00:26:48.420 public that

00:26:49.700 the hoaxers

00:26:50.420 can say,

00:26:51.480 but we

00:26:51.960 proved it

00:26:52.420 was true.

00:26:53.700 And then

00:26:53.980 you say,

00:26:54.720 well, you

00:26:55.240 actually proved

00:26:55.800 there was no

00:26:56.380 Russia collusion.

00:26:57.880 Well, look at

00:26:58.620 all this Russian

00:26:59.220 interference.

00:27:00.840 No, we were

00:27:01.220 talking about

00:27:01.640 Russia collusion,

00:27:03.280 as in Trump

00:27:03.860 colluding with

00:27:04.620 Russia.

00:27:05.480 That's not

00:27:06.140 Russian

00:27:06.420 interference.

00:27:06.860 Yeah, nice

00:27:09.660 try, nice

00:27:10.740 try.

00:27:11.140 I go, nice

00:27:11.920 try?

00:27:13.180 Are you

00:27:13.700 saying those

00:27:14.100 are not

00:27:14.360 different

00:27:14.700 topics?

00:27:15.920 One is

00:27:16.380 Russia

00:27:16.700 interfering in

00:27:17.660 a trivial

00:27:18.520 way every

00:27:19.180 year, like

00:27:19.700 they always

00:27:20.040 do, every

00:27:20.800 election.

00:27:21.860 And the

00:27:22.160 other is a

00:27:23.420 presidential

00:27:23.780 candidate

00:27:24.480 colluding with

00:27:26.340 a dictator

00:27:26.880 against the

00:27:28.260 United States.

00:27:29.360 Those are

00:27:29.920 not close.

00:27:31.740 Ha ha ha.

00:27:32.720 What about

00:27:33.240 Manafort?

00:27:33.700 Manafort?

00:27:34.900 Okay, again,

00:27:36.840 yeah, Manafort

00:27:37.980 showed some

00:27:38.800 internal polling

00:27:39.740 stuff to a

00:27:41.400 Russian, which

00:27:42.020 probably had no

00:27:42.660 value whatsoever

00:27:43.400 to the Russian,

00:27:44.600 and that was

00:27:45.960 bad, and he

00:27:46.500 went to jail

00:27:46.920 for it.

00:27:47.780 But none of

00:27:48.340 that is Trump

00:27:49.660 colluding.

00:27:51.300 Ha ha ha.

00:27:52.760 What about

00:27:53.540 the troll farm?

00:27:55.020 Yeah, again,

00:27:55.580 the troll farm

00:27:56.240 is not collusion.

00:27:58.080 That would be

00:27:58.740 Russian interference

00:27:59.580 on a very, very

00:28:00.400 small scale,

00:28:02.040 like always.

00:28:02.780 What about

00:28:04.500 Russia hacking

00:28:06.440 the emails,

00:28:07.260 like Trump

00:28:08.240 asked?

00:28:09.940 There's no

00:28:10.600 evidence of

00:28:11.260 that at all.

00:28:13.300 Your government

00:28:13.920 told you that

00:28:14.600 they caught

00:28:15.040 somebody, right?

00:28:16.660 Would you

00:28:17.120 believe the

00:28:17.740 government when

00:28:18.700 they told you

00:28:19.160 they caught

00:28:19.520 the hacker?

00:28:20.680 That is not

00:28:21.460 even slightly

00:28:22.040 believable.

00:28:23.380 We don't have

00:28:23.900 a government

00:28:24.280 that tells us

00:28:24.920 the truth about

00:28:25.600 that kind of

00:28:26.420 stuff.

00:28:27.320 Not even

00:28:27.960 close.

00:28:29.440 So it might

00:28:30.340 be true, but

00:28:31.660 we don't have a

00:28:32.260 government that

00:28:32.700 you could

00:28:32.940 believe about

00:28:33.700 that kind

00:28:34.460 of stuff.

00:28:35.200 I mean,

00:28:35.400 that's exactly

00:28:36.060 the stuff

00:28:36.480 they lie

00:28:36.800 about.

00:28:39.140 Anyway,

00:28:40.400 so in the

00:28:41.100 final phase,

00:28:43.060 we'll find

00:28:43.800 out it was

00:28:44.120 all bullshit

00:28:44.960 and a wrap-up

00:28:45.800 smear,

00:28:46.520 but by then

00:28:47.080 it will be

00:28:47.380 too late.

00:28:49.040 And I want

00:28:49.580 to do some

00:28:49.940 of this,

00:28:51.120 so even the

00:28:51.960 Midas Touch

00:28:52.660 Twitter feed

00:28:54.060 already started

00:28:55.340 the what-if.

00:28:56.860 Was Donald

00:28:57.520 Trump trying

00:28:58.540 to sell

00:28:58.940 intelligence about

00:28:59.880 nuclear weapons

00:29:00.820 to foreign

00:29:01.300 adversaries?

00:29:02.600 What if?

00:29:03.620 What if?

00:29:05.840 I wanted to

00:29:07.020 tweet my own

00:29:07.600 what-if today,

00:29:09.100 and it goes

00:29:09.540 like this.

00:29:10.680 Is Joe Biden

00:29:11.740 a human being

00:29:13.140 or an abandoned

00:29:14.440 bird's nest?

00:29:15.700 What if he's an

00:29:16.740 abandoned bird's nest

00:29:17.720 and he got elected

00:29:18.420 president?

00:29:19.020 What if?

00:29:19.720 What if we have

00:29:20.480 an abandoned

00:29:20.940 bird's nest as a

00:29:21.880 president?

00:29:22.500 What if?

00:29:23.020 There's a lot

00:29:33.160 of fun stuff

00:29:33.740 happening today.

00:29:35.920 I love the

00:29:36.660 fact that even

00:29:37.180 CNN doesn't

00:29:37.960 believe the

00:29:38.380 Washington Post

00:29:39.020 report.

00:29:40.720 So here's

00:29:41.600 how CNN

00:29:42.380 launders the

00:29:44.360 fake news.

00:29:46.020 So who

00:29:46.500 is CNN?

00:29:47.340 Let's see if

00:29:47.740 you can guess

00:29:48.280 this before I

00:29:48.900 tell you.

00:29:50.120 So CNN

00:29:50.700 hears this

00:29:51.340 Washington Post

00:29:52.080 report that

00:29:52.720 has two

00:29:53.060 anonymous sources

00:29:53.900 and even

00:29:54.820 CNN knows

00:29:55.560 that's bullshit.

00:29:57.120 Right?

00:29:58.060 Don't you think

00:29:58.780 that the

00:29:59.120 professionals at

00:29:59.940 CNN, the

00:30:00.440 actual news

00:30:01.060 people, don't

00:30:02.160 you think Jake

00:30:02.900 Tapper looked

00:30:03.500 at two

00:30:04.000 anonymous sources

00:30:04.840 in the

00:30:05.200 Washington Post

00:30:05.920 at exactly

00:30:06.940 the right

00:30:07.340 time?

00:30:08.320 Do you think

00:30:08.740 Jake Tapper

00:30:09.360 thought, oh

00:30:09.960 that's true?

00:30:12.140 My guess is

00:30:13.160 he thought it

00:30:13.600 might be true

00:30:14.180 because anything

00:30:14.840 might be true

00:30:15.420 these days.

00:30:16.180 But do you

00:30:16.640 think he

00:30:16.920 bought that?

00:30:18.360 No.

00:30:19.300 No.

00:30:19.860 No, I

00:30:20.280 think whatever

00:30:21.180 you want to

00:30:21.660 say about

00:30:22.080 Jake Tapper

00:30:22.680 and I'll

00:30:22.900 just use

00:30:23.300 him as

00:30:23.740 an example.

00:30:24.580 He's very

00:30:24.960 smart, he's

00:30:26.340 very experienced,

00:30:27.800 he knows what

00:30:28.640 real news

00:30:29.160 looks like.

00:30:30.660 And he

00:30:31.260 knows what

00:30:31.620 the fake

00:30:31.980 stuff looks

00:30:32.480 like.

00:30:33.560 Maybe not

00:30:34.520 100%

00:30:35.120 agreement with

00:30:35.860 what my

00:30:36.560 opinion is,

00:30:37.320 but he

00:30:37.660 knows what

00:30:38.020 it looks

00:30:38.280 like for

00:30:38.920 the most

00:30:39.220 part.

00:30:40.480 And two

00:30:41.140 anonymous

00:30:41.580 reports from

00:30:42.340 the Washington

00:30:42.880 Post with a

00:30:43.720 long history

00:30:44.240 of fake

00:30:44.600 news, that

00:30:45.840 doesn't look

00:30:46.360 real because

00:30:47.580 of the timing

00:30:48.020 and the

00:30:48.520 perfect nature

00:30:49.480 of it,

00:30:49.840 etc.

00:30:50.900 So the

00:30:51.700 CNN has

00:30:52.580 this problem.

00:30:53.320 They would

00:30:53.600 love to

00:30:54.060 report the

00:30:54.680 story, but

00:30:56.000 it doesn't

00:30:56.440 pass even

00:30:56.980 their own

00:30:57.500 sniff test.

00:30:58.840 So, who

00:31:00.020 do they

00:31:00.380 assign the

00:31:01.040 story to?

00:31:02.720 Go.

00:31:03.900 Who at

00:31:04.340 CNN do they

00:31:05.140 assign the

00:31:05.640 story to if

00:31:06.460 the news

00:31:06.920 people know

00:31:07.580 it's bullshit?

00:31:08.060 Let's say

00:31:14.240 for writing.

00:31:16.340 I guess I

00:31:17.080 should have

00:31:17.460 said for

00:31:17.780 writing.

00:31:19.180 Not for

00:31:19.660 on-screen.

00:31:20.520 On-screen,

00:31:21.860 stelter, yes.

00:31:23.000 Stelter.

00:31:24.200 But an

00:31:24.560 opinion.

00:31:24.980 What opinion

00:31:25.700 person would

00:31:26.260 they assign

00:31:26.640 to it?

00:31:28.660 So,

00:31:29.000 is this

00:31:29.280 somebody

00:31:29.540 says?

00:31:33.360 I've

00:31:33.840 told you

00:31:34.160 this so

00:31:34.480 many times.

00:31:36.040 It's

00:31:36.200 Stephen

00:31:36.480 Collinson.

00:31:37.920 Yeah.

00:31:38.520 Stephen

00:31:38.920 Collinson

00:31:39.340 apparently is

00:31:40.360 the one who

00:31:40.700 will say

00:31:40.980 anything.

00:31:42.280 If it's

00:31:42.920 reported in

00:31:43.680 any way,

00:31:44.800 he's going

00:31:45.200 to run

00:31:45.460 with it.

00:31:46.320 Now, he's

00:31:46.760 not saying,

00:31:47.500 I don't

00:31:47.800 think he's

00:31:48.220 saying it's

00:31:48.520 a fact,

00:31:49.740 but I

00:31:51.360 don't think

00:31:51.800 you could

00:31:52.140 get a

00:31:52.480 news person

00:31:53.080 to touch

00:31:53.600 this story

00:31:54.220 except to

00:31:55.980 report that

00:31:56.620 it's being

00:31:56.940 reported.

00:31:58.120 But if you

00:31:58.860 want to

00:31:59.160 give it a

00:31:59.840 little life,

00:32:01.220 make it

00:32:01.820 seem like

00:32:02.440 there's a

00:32:02.980 little more

00:32:03.300 substance to

00:32:04.000 it,

00:32:04.520 you give

00:32:04.880 it to

00:32:05.100 Stephen

00:32:05.360 Collinson

00:32:05.780 because he'll

00:32:06.260 write anything

00:32:06.760 apparently.

00:32:07.220 I can't

00:32:09.240 read his

00:32:09.520 mind,

00:32:10.400 but if I

00:32:10.760 look at

00:32:11.040 his work,

00:32:12.000 all of the

00:32:12.600 sketchiest stuff

00:32:13.400 comes from

00:32:13.780 the same

00:32:14.060 guy.

00:32:15.080 If it's

00:32:15.660 completely

00:32:16.400 speculative,

00:32:17.680 or it's

00:32:18.320 already been

00:32:18.780 debunked,

00:32:19.500 or there's a

00:32:20.080 major piece of

00:32:20.860 context missing,

00:32:22.180 who do they

00:32:22.740 give it to?

00:32:23.760 Stephen

00:32:24.140 Collinson.

00:32:24.500 so you should

00:32:25.720 recognize that

00:32:26.420 name.

00:32:27.300 Because when

00:32:27.920 you see him

00:32:28.320 writing about

00:32:28.880 it, but it's

00:32:29.340 not being

00:32:29.700 reported by

00:32:30.280 the news

00:32:30.740 people, even

00:32:31.360 as true,

00:32:33.040 that's a

00:32:34.500 tip-off.

00:32:36.840 So get to

00:32:37.740 know the

00:32:38.200 actual

00:32:38.520 individuals.

00:32:40.240 If you

00:32:40.860 thought that

00:32:41.320 Maggie Haberman

00:32:42.120 was a source

00:32:43.500 of actual

00:32:44.020 news, you

00:32:45.300 need to learn

00:32:45.800 who the

00:32:46.080 players are.

00:32:47.740 There are

00:32:48.860 some people

00:32:49.360 who are more

00:32:50.460 close to a

00:32:51.160 punchline.

00:32:51.640 If they

00:32:54.220 bring Carl

00:32:54.820 Bernstein on

00:32:55.680 to say

00:32:56.600 something is

00:32:57.120 worse than

00:32:57.640 Watergate, you

00:32:58.880 shouldn't take

00:32:59.320 any of that

00:32:59.860 seriously.

00:33:00.560 That's just a

00:33:01.040 punchline.

00:33:02.360 That's closer

00:33:03.100 to a joke

00:33:03.780 than it is

00:33:04.320 to news.

00:33:07.820 All right.

00:33:11.540 Rasmussen is

00:33:12.280 reporting that

00:33:12.960 the generic

00:33:15.300 Republican versus

00:33:16.220 the generic

00:33:16.840 Democrat for

00:33:17.700 the midterms

00:33:18.360 is down to

00:33:19.460 a 3%

00:33:20.340 advantage.

00:33:21.640 for

00:33:22.040 Republicans.

00:33:23.020 Now, a 3%

00:33:23.760 advantage in a

00:33:24.660 generic race, I

00:33:26.440 feel like, is

00:33:27.460 basically no

00:33:28.220 difference, because

00:33:29.460 I don't think

00:33:29.960 these polls are

00:33:30.960 accurate enough to

00:33:31.720 pick up a

00:33:32.900 three-point

00:33:33.400 difference.

00:33:34.760 And you've

00:33:34.980 got 8%

00:33:35.600 who are

00:33:35.780 undecided, who

00:33:37.380 are probably

00:33:37.800 not undecided.

00:33:39.600 So, basically,

00:33:41.020 it looks like a

00:33:41.840 tie going into

00:33:43.260 the election.

00:33:44.520 So I'm not

00:33:45.000 entirely sure why

00:33:45.900 people are so

00:33:46.720 sure it's going

00:33:47.200 to be a red

00:33:47.580 wave, except

00:33:48.960 that it feels

00:33:49.620 like it.

00:33:51.640 Stefan

00:33:53.340 collusion.

00:33:54.240 That's pretty

00:33:54.580 funny.

00:33:58.200 Yeah.

00:34:00.120 So I

00:34:00.880 wouldn't, I

00:34:01.720 would feel a

00:34:02.380 little bit

00:34:02.820 concerned if I

00:34:03.780 were Republican

00:34:04.380 thinking that this

00:34:05.360 election is going

00:34:06.020 to be easy and

00:34:07.000 it'll be a red

00:34:07.780 sweep.

00:34:08.040 I don't see it

00:34:09.060 in the data.

00:34:14.660 It's telling

00:34:15.240 you that they

00:34:15.780 are.

00:34:17.160 Oh, YouTube

00:34:17.920 just, I lost

00:34:18.700 my connection.

00:34:22.120 Hello, YouTube.

00:34:23.700 I lost you there

00:34:24.420 for a minute, but

00:34:24.980 you're back.

00:34:28.720 All right.

00:34:29.220 What else we

00:34:34.240 got going on

00:34:34.800 here?

00:34:34.980 Well, that's

00:34:35.260 the main

00:34:35.480 thing.

00:34:37.060 So Trump

00:34:37.720 is encouraging

00:34:39.380 the release

00:34:40.000 of the

00:34:40.260 documents, but

00:34:41.040 of course, he's

00:34:41.580 talking about

00:34:42.020 different documents

00:34:42.920 than the

00:34:44.280 Attorney General

00:34:44.800 is, so they

00:34:46.000 can both be

00:34:46.640 asking, oh, I

00:34:47.700 just lost YouTube

00:34:48.380 again.

00:34:49.920 Interesting.

00:34:50.660 Let's see if I

00:34:51.080 can reconnect.

00:34:52.880 Hello, YouTube.

00:34:53.840 You're back.

00:34:54.300 Interesting.

00:34:58.420 Having a little

00:34:58.840 trouble on

00:34:59.320 YouTube.

00:35:00.420 Do you want

00:35:00.980 to bet that

00:35:01.740 this stream

00:35:02.360 will be

00:35:02.820 difficult to

00:35:03.900 download?

00:35:05.140 How much

00:35:05.740 do you want

00:35:05.940 to bet?

00:35:07.480 So there

00:35:08.500 are some

00:35:08.840 topics which

00:35:10.240 when I do

00:35:10.740 them on

00:35:11.260 YouTube, it

00:35:12.440 seems like

00:35:12.920 there's a

00:35:13.280 coincidence that

00:35:14.380 it has

00:35:15.180 technical

00:35:15.640 problems and

00:35:16.280 it's hard to

00:35:16.720 download and

00:35:17.540 stuff like

00:35:18.560 that.

00:35:19.540 I feel like

00:35:20.320 this is one

00:35:20.760 of those

00:35:20.980 cases.

00:35:22.260 Because this

00:35:22.920 is one of

00:35:23.240 those cases

00:35:23.700 that completely

00:35:24.280 changes

00:35:24.840 civilization.

00:35:26.680 And I am

00:35:27.440 the strongest

00:35:27.920 voice on

00:35:28.540 this topic.

00:35:30.420 Let me say

00:35:31.020 it again.

00:35:32.200 This question

00:35:33.100 of the

00:35:34.080 Mar-a-Lago

00:35:34.620 documents is

00:35:36.460 the most

00:35:36.900 important question

00:35:37.820 in civilization

00:35:38.660 because it

00:35:39.920 will determine

00:35:40.520 whether Trump

00:35:41.140 becomes president

00:35:41.840 or not.

00:35:42.700 Probably.

00:35:43.480 I mean, I'm

00:35:44.620 making a lot

00:35:45.160 of assumptions

00:35:46.240 here that

00:35:47.180 that's going

00:35:47.700 to be the

00:35:48.000 biggest factor.

00:35:48.900 But it

00:35:49.380 might be the

00:35:49.760 biggest factor

00:35:50.300 in the world

00:35:51.780 right now.

00:35:53.220 And I

00:35:55.220 am literally

00:35:56.020 the strongest

00:35:56.820 voice persuading

00:35:58.800 you to

00:36:00.800 understand that

00:36:01.400 it's bullshit.

00:36:04.820 So what are

00:36:05.700 they going to

00:36:05.980 do to me?

00:36:06.820 You should

00:36:07.540 expect that

00:36:08.800 the fury

00:36:10.040 that's coming

00:36:10.600 after me

00:36:11.220 will be

00:36:11.900 heightened

00:36:12.520 today.

00:36:13.740 Now, I'm

00:36:14.840 going to tag

00:36:15.320 everybody as

00:36:15.940 an NPC that

00:36:16.960 comes after me

00:36:17.580 with a cartoon

00:36:18.280 joke or tries

00:36:20.200 to dismiss

00:36:20.760 me because

00:36:21.500 of my stepson

00:36:22.320 situation or

00:36:23.140 something like

00:36:23.420 that.

00:36:23.940 So I'm going

00:36:24.460 to do

00:36:24.660 hashtag NPC

00:36:25.620 and all

00:36:26.020 those.

00:36:27.000 So later

00:36:27.560 today, if you

00:36:28.320 want to search

00:36:29.380 for the hashtag

00:36:30.080 NPCs, you

00:36:31.280 can see how

00:36:31.780 similar their

00:36:32.580 comments are.

00:36:34.240 They're completely

00:36:35.400 uncreative.

00:36:36.720 You can also

00:36:37.260 see I'm

00:36:37.880 hashtagging a

00:36:38.620 lot of them

00:36:38.960 with artists.

00:36:40.680 The number

00:36:41.420 of failed

00:36:42.020 writers who

00:36:42.640 are coming

00:36:42.980 after me

00:36:43.460 today, it's

00:36:44.780 really hilarious.

00:36:45.500 So I try to

00:36:47.080 call them

00:36:47.440 out when I

00:36:47.780 can.

00:36:48.240 And even

00:36:48.620 the ones

00:36:48.940 who don't

00:36:49.320 say they're

00:36:49.860 writers, it

00:36:50.560 looks like

00:36:50.920 they are.

00:36:52.380 You can tell

00:36:53.360 there's an

00:36:54.340 indication that

00:36:55.080 they're trying

00:36:55.520 to be a

00:36:55.920 writer.

00:36:58.080 So failed

00:36:59.080 writers and

00:37:02.080 NPCs are all

00:37:03.020 coming after me

00:37:03.600 today.

00:37:04.420 So watch

00:37:05.100 that show.

00:37:05.960 Now, let me

00:37:06.520 ask you this.

00:37:08.640 Could you do

00:37:09.380 what I'm

00:37:09.680 doing?

00:37:12.280 Have you

00:37:12.760 ever spent

00:37:13.120 any time

00:37:13.500 looking at

00:37:14.240 the social

00:37:14.700 media

00:37:15.060 reaction I

00:37:15.780 get?

00:37:16.660 The number

00:37:17.300 of people

00:37:17.740 who come

00:37:18.940 after me

00:37:19.420 personally and

00:37:20.180 very, very

00:37:21.720 personal.

00:37:23.160 So every

00:37:24.000 day I get

00:37:25.060 to read

00:37:25.600 that somebody

00:37:26.780 thinks I

00:37:27.300 killed my

00:37:27.820 own step

00:37:28.320 child through

00:37:29.720 neglect or

00:37:30.580 something.

00:37:31.280 Every day.

00:37:32.260 Every day I

00:37:32.840 get somebody

00:37:33.380 to tell me

00:37:33.860 that I

00:37:34.140 killed my

00:37:34.540 own step

00:37:34.920 child.

00:37:36.300 Could you

00:37:36.720 do that?

00:37:39.440 It's hard,

00:37:40.540 right?

00:37:40.980 But I

00:37:41.440 can.

00:37:42.940 And you

00:37:43.520 know why I'm

00:37:43.920 doing it for

00:37:44.440 you?

00:37:45.620 Because I'm

00:37:46.240 doing this

00:37:46.640 basically for

00:37:47.300 you.

00:37:48.940 Because I

00:37:49.600 can.

00:37:50.780 Because I

00:37:51.300 can.

00:37:52.140 If you

00:37:52.720 could, I

00:37:54.560 would damn

00:37:55.020 well expect

00:37:55.580 you to do

00:37:56.000 it.

00:37:57.440 Right?

00:37:58.320 If you

00:37:58.900 could do

00:37:59.320 what I'm

00:37:59.680 doing, you

00:38:01.040 could debunk

00:38:01.580 these things

00:38:02.120 at the

00:38:02.620 gigantic

00:38:03.540 personal risk

00:38:04.400 at a huge

00:38:05.100 expense.

00:38:06.180 Do you

00:38:06.360 know how

00:38:06.560 much this

00:38:06.880 cost me?

00:38:07.860 You have

00:38:08.460 no idea

00:38:09.040 how expensive

00:38:09.740 this is.

00:38:10.660 This is

00:38:11.100 tens of

00:38:11.540 millions of

00:38:11.960 dollars this

00:38:12.440 cost me

00:38:12.860 personally.

00:38:14.220 Tens of

00:38:14.780 millions.

00:38:15.920 That's how

00:38:16.440 much I

00:38:16.880 would have

00:38:17.280 made if I

00:38:18.240 had never

00:38:18.540 talked about

00:38:19.080 Trump.

00:38:19.920 Like the

00:38:20.340 extra amount.

00:38:21.180 It completely

00:38:21.720 devastated my

00:38:23.480 entire business

00:38:24.220 model.

00:38:25.680 So could

00:38:27.020 you do

00:38:27.320 that?

00:38:28.280 You could

00:38:28.780 not.

00:38:29.500 Most of you

00:38:30.040 could not.

00:38:30.820 And I

00:38:31.080 wouldn't even

00:38:31.400 ask you to

00:38:31.980 because it

00:38:32.480 would be too

00:38:32.960 much to ask.

00:38:34.400 But I

00:38:34.780 could do it.

00:38:35.240 So it's

00:38:36.780 sort of

00:38:37.040 like jumping

00:38:38.620 on the

00:38:38.960 hand grenade

00:38:39.340 thing.

00:38:40.780 Sometimes

00:38:41.220 you're the

00:38:41.860 hero because

00:38:42.460 you jumped

00:38:42.880 on the

00:38:43.160 hand grenade

00:38:43.540 and you

00:38:44.160 saved the

00:38:45.180 platoon.

00:38:46.380 But here's

00:38:47.320 the question

00:38:47.720 that must

00:38:48.040 be asked.

00:38:49.520 Wouldn't it

00:38:50.100 have been the

00:38:50.600 closest person

00:38:51.300 to the

00:38:51.600 hand grenade?

00:38:53.340 Maybe the

00:38:54.000 entire platoon

00:38:54.640 would have

00:38:55.080 been willing

00:38:55.480 to jump

00:38:55.880 on the

00:38:56.100 hand grenade.

00:38:57.360 But there

00:38:58.020 was only

00:38:58.280 one person

00:38:58.740 close.

00:38:59.340 So the

00:38:59.840 closest person

00:39:00.580 jumped on it,

00:39:01.480 died,

00:39:01.920 saved the

00:39:02.300 platoon.

00:39:02.540 I feel

00:39:03.920 like I'm

00:39:04.240 just the

00:39:04.540 closest person

00:39:05.220 to the

00:39:05.460 hand grenade.

00:39:06.800 I feel

00:39:07.200 like if

00:39:07.560 you were

00:39:07.860 in my

00:39:08.160 position,

00:39:08.720 you would

00:39:08.980 do what

00:39:09.240 I'm

00:39:09.400 doing.

00:39:10.780 And you

00:39:11.040 would also

00:39:12.140 take the

00:39:13.520 expense and

00:39:14.760 you would

00:39:14.980 take the

00:39:15.300 hit.

00:39:16.200 Because you

00:39:17.500 could.

00:39:18.440 So in this

00:39:18.980 scenario, if

00:39:19.820 you could do

00:39:20.400 it, you

00:39:20.640 would.

00:39:22.120 Do you

00:39:22.520 know there's

00:39:23.520 a movie

00:39:23.880 out about

00:39:24.560 the rescue

00:39:26.760 of those

00:39:27.460 people who

00:39:28.220 were trapped

00:39:28.620 in the

00:39:28.960 underwater

00:39:29.400 cave?

00:39:30.540 I don't

00:39:30.820 remember the

00:39:31.560 full details.

00:39:32.040 But there

00:39:32.740 was one

00:39:33.060 part where

00:39:33.640 an experienced

00:39:35.000 diver did

00:39:36.420 something almost

00:39:37.840 impossible, like

00:39:39.220 went through

00:39:39.680 this tunnel,

00:39:41.460 cave, just

00:39:43.640 the deadliest

00:39:44.320 thing you could

00:39:44.840 possibly imagine

00:39:45.700 and saved

00:39:46.400 everybody.

00:39:47.880 Now, what

00:39:49.080 do you say

00:39:49.440 about that

00:39:49.940 person?

00:39:51.560 The reason

00:39:52.420 that person

00:39:52.960 did it, do

00:39:53.480 you think

00:39:53.680 they wanted

00:39:54.080 to?

00:39:55.340 Do you

00:39:55.960 think the

00:39:56.260 person who

00:39:56.800 rescued them

00:39:57.320 wanted to

00:39:58.060 sign up for

00:39:58.540 that fucking

00:39:59.000 job?

00:39:59.900 No.

00:40:00.940 That person

00:40:01.500 did it

00:40:01.920 because, one

00:40:02.760 reason, one

00:40:04.180 reason, because

00:40:06.140 he could, because

00:40:08.440 he could.

00:40:09.520 That's very

00:40:10.260 powerful, because

00:40:12.740 he could.

00:40:13.940 Once you find

00:40:14.840 yourself in that

00:40:15.440 situation, that

00:40:17.320 you're the only

00:40:18.340 one who can do

00:40:18.940 it, you just

00:40:20.420 have to.

00:40:21.980 You know, you

00:40:23.180 can get Kel the

00:40:23.980 hero because you

00:40:26.060 did it.

00:40:26.880 But the fact is,

00:40:27.940 you don't have a

00:40:28.340 choice.

00:40:29.560 If you think I

00:40:30.400 feel like I

00:40:30.960 have a choice, I

00:40:32.160 really don't.

00:40:33.400 Like, it doesn't

00:40:34.060 feel optional.

00:40:35.120 I feel like I

00:40:35.860 have to do it

00:40:36.400 because I can.

00:40:39.280 And that's it.

00:40:40.040 That's the whole

00:40:40.960 story.

00:40:42.120 I'm an

00:40:42.480 American.

00:40:44.160 I'm a citizen

00:40:45.280 of Earth.

00:40:46.260 I'm a human

00:40:47.080 being.

00:40:48.180 I live with other

00:40:49.260 citizens who I

00:40:50.420 appreciate and

00:40:51.600 value.

00:40:52.940 Then you put me

00:40:53.540 in this situation.

00:40:54.960 What am I going

00:40:55.640 to do?

00:40:56.680 I don't have a

00:40:57.460 choice.

00:40:58.580 I'm going to do

00:40:59.260 this.

00:41:00.760 Now, to be fair,

00:41:02.840 if it were the

00:41:03.520 difference between

00:41:04.280 I'm going to

00:41:04.860 starve or do

00:41:06.640 this, I'd

00:41:07.220 probably eat.

00:41:09.940 I don't want to

00:41:10.720 leave you with the

00:41:11.300 impression that

00:41:12.440 there's something

00:41:12.880 special about me,

00:41:14.340 but the entire

00:41:15.040 point of it is

00:41:16.500 that it's not

00:41:16.920 special.

00:41:18.060 I'm in a

00:41:18.980 coincidentally unique

00:41:20.160 situation, but it's

00:41:22.320 not special.

00:41:22.980 It's just sort of

00:41:23.740 coincidence that I

00:41:25.160 could do this

00:41:25.800 and get away

00:41:26.300 with it, and

00:41:26.680 you can't.

00:41:27.820 Well, I don't

00:41:28.260 really get away

00:41:28.780 with it.

00:41:29.120 I just don't

00:41:29.540 get completely

00:41:30.620 crushed by it.

00:41:33.460 So that's the

00:41:34.360 situation.

00:41:35.140 I deserve, in

00:41:37.180 my opinion, I

00:41:37.840 don't deserve any

00:41:38.800 kudos for taking

00:41:40.160 a risk on your

00:41:40.920 behalf because,

00:41:43.120 because you

00:41:44.140 would do it for

00:41:44.620 me.

00:41:45.960 That's what I

00:41:46.600 believe.

00:41:47.880 And really, that's

00:41:48.860 what keeps society

00:41:49.880 together, right?

00:41:51.340 The reason that I

00:41:52.600 might stop and pull

00:41:53.800 you out of a

00:41:54.440 burning truck is

00:41:56.700 because you'd do

00:41:57.160 it for me.

00:41:58.580 I don't need a

00:41:59.340 better reason.

00:42:00.680 Do I?

00:42:01.800 Do you need a

00:42:02.320 better reason?

00:42:03.220 You'd do it for

00:42:03.800 me, right?

00:42:05.520 I'll do it for

00:42:06.060 you.

00:42:06.740 That's it.

00:42:10.960 All right.

00:42:13.480 Same as Trump?

00:42:14.400 Well, I don't

00:42:14.860 know.

00:42:15.100 Maybe.

00:42:16.440 I mean, Trump

00:42:17.080 does fall into the

00:42:18.120 category of he's the

00:42:18.940 only one who can do

00:42:19.600 it.

00:42:21.620 There's very much

00:42:22.700 that going on.

00:42:24.280 And you wonder how

00:42:25.000 much that matters to

00:42:25.800 him.

00:42:27.060 You know, I feel

00:42:27.900 like, I feel

00:42:31.460 like what Trump's

00:42:33.920 doing, we kind of

00:42:35.040 owe him something in

00:42:36.180 return.

00:42:37.120 Do you ever feel

00:42:37.660 like that?

00:42:39.120 Because even though

00:42:39.940 I get, you know,

00:42:41.080 he's an egomaniac,

00:42:44.420 you know, I get

00:42:44.900 that he likes the

00:42:46.100 attention, I get

00:42:47.260 that he's doing it

00:42:47.860 for personal reasons.

00:42:49.760 I get that.

00:42:51.720 But the way he's

00:42:53.260 doing it feels

00:42:54.340 like some of that

00:42:56.400 is for us.

00:42:57.820 It feels like it.

00:42:58.680 I feel like he

00:42:59.360 thinks the fight is

00:43:00.160 real.

00:43:00.880 As much bullshit as

00:43:02.100 there is on both

00:43:02.780 sides, a lot of it

00:43:04.220 is his.

00:43:04.880 But I think he

00:43:05.620 thinks the fight is

00:43:06.500 real.

00:43:08.060 That's what I

00:43:08.500 think.

00:43:09.980 And can you

00:43:10.880 imagine anything

00:43:11.620 smarter than

00:43:12.440 retiring?

00:43:14.140 All Trump had to

00:43:15.220 do was start a

00:43:16.440 media empire,

00:43:17.180 where he could

00:43:18.240 have completely

00:43:18.980 redeemed his

00:43:19.920 brand, completely.

00:43:22.240 And I think he

00:43:23.080 knows it.

00:43:24.780 But he needed

00:43:25.640 to do this.

00:43:28.360 Now, he, you

00:43:29.380 know, it's

00:43:30.060 compatible with

00:43:30.780 his ego if he

00:43:31.600 wins.

00:43:32.980 But I think he

00:43:34.000 also feels like

00:43:35.400 there's something

00:43:35.800 he needed to

00:43:36.400 do.

00:43:37.340 That's what I

00:43:37.820 feel.

00:43:38.880 But can't read

00:43:39.960 his mind, so

00:43:40.660 we're only

00:43:40.960 guessing.

00:43:41.240 will our

00:43:46.380 country burn

00:43:47.320 when Trump

00:43:48.080 runs?

00:43:51.740 Scott's

00:43:52.340 subtext is

00:43:53.080 always, please

00:43:53.660 kill me.

00:43:54.560 What?

00:43:58.820 So, watching

00:43:59.840 the NPCs go

00:44:01.480 crazy today.

00:44:06.440 So, watch

00:44:07.320 that.

00:44:07.680 We'll make

00:44:08.200 them part of

00:44:08.600 the show.

00:44:09.240 I guess

00:44:09.560 Keith Olbermann

00:44:10.560 is tweeting

00:44:14.780 the Ezra

00:44:15.300 show today,

00:44:16.620 in which the

00:44:17.560 award for

00:44:18.300 worst person

00:44:19.060 in the world

00:44:19.620 is down to

00:44:20.980 Charlie Kirk

00:44:21.840 and me.

00:44:23.620 So, that's

00:44:24.240 why I've

00:44:24.700 designated

00:44:25.460 Keith Olbermann

00:44:26.300 as my mascot.

00:44:27.940 And I would

00:44:28.560 recommend to

00:44:29.020 you to watch

00:44:29.720 my mascot

00:44:30.260 show and

00:44:31.840 find out if

00:44:32.620 I win, or

00:44:33.460 Charlie Kirk

00:44:34.100 wins, for

00:44:35.280 worst person

00:44:36.060 in the world.

00:44:36.740 I have a

00:44:37.200 feeling it's

00:44:37.740 going to be

00:44:38.060 a tie.

00:44:39.360 I don't

00:44:39.780 know.

00:44:40.820 I feel it's

00:44:41.400 going to be

00:44:41.700 a tie.

00:44:46.080 All right.

00:44:51.300 And I

00:44:51.780 have my

00:44:52.300 ESG jokes

00:44:53.860 are coming.

00:44:54.580 Would you

00:44:54.820 like a

00:44:55.100 preview?

00:44:59.280 Too bad.

00:45:00.020 You're only

00:45:00.280 going to see

00:45:00.580 them on

00:45:00.820 Locals.

00:45:01.160 I'm going

00:45:03.120 to show

00:45:03.320 the Locals

00:45:03.840 people what

00:45:04.780 Dilbert comics

00:45:05.900 are upcoming.

00:45:06.560 They're not

00:45:06.840 completed yet.

00:45:08.380 I can't

00:45:08.980 show them

00:45:09.320 on the

00:45:10.880 YouTube.

00:45:13.360 But I

00:45:13.660 will show

00:45:13.960 them to the

00:45:14.680 subscription

00:45:15.160 service.

00:45:15.720 They'll get

00:45:15.940 to see them

00:45:16.440 later today.

00:45:17.520 Now, they

00:45:17.740 won't be

00:45:18.060 drawn, so

00:45:18.560 you're just

00:45:18.820 going to see

00:45:19.100 the writing.

00:45:20.240 So you'll

00:45:20.480 see what's

00:45:20.800 coming.

00:45:22.040 So, and

00:45:22.680 I use them

00:45:24.260 to help me

00:45:24.660 write.

00:45:27.040 Yeah, you

00:45:27.600 know, I

00:45:27.940 really hope

00:45:28.380 that the

00:45:30.060 story about

00:45:30.620 the possible

00:45:31.240 nuclear

00:45:31.760 secrets, I

00:45:33.260 hope that

00:45:33.620 we get

00:45:34.000 50 current

00:45:35.640 and former

00:45:36.280 intelligence

00:45:36.880 agency

00:45:37.880 professionals

00:45:39.000 to say

00:45:39.640 that there

00:45:40.300 really were

00:45:40.760 nuclear

00:45:41.160 secrets

00:45:41.600 there.

00:45:42.380 Because that

00:45:43.120 would really

00:45:43.580 sell it.

00:45:46.620 Or would

00:45:47.740 that be

00:45:48.080 more proof

00:45:48.580 that is

00:45:48.840 bullshit?

00:45:50.780 All right.

00:45:51.840 Have you

00:45:52.300 also noticed

00:45:52.840 that when

00:45:53.440 they speak

00:45:53.980 about the

00:45:54.440 nuclear

00:45:54.880 weapons

00:45:55.780 secrets,

00:45:56.560 they say

00:45:56.980 related to.

00:45:59.120 Have you

00:45:59.440 caught that?

00:46:00.620 Related to

00:46:01.600 nuclear weapons.

00:46:03.600 Give me an

00:46:04.360 example of

00:46:04.900 some things

00:46:05.340 that are

00:46:05.640 related to

00:46:06.280 nuclear weapons.

00:46:07.280 I'll go

00:46:07.580 first.

00:46:09.920 Let me

00:46:10.500 write a

00:46:10.940 personal note

00:46:11.660 to Kim

00:46:12.140 Jong-un.

00:46:13.680 And Kim

00:46:14.140 Jong-un.

00:46:15.340 Dear

00:46:15.840 Kim Jong-un,

00:46:18.640 thank you for

00:46:19.600 your nice

00:46:20.060 notes.

00:46:21.020 Hope to see

00:46:21.700 you someday.

00:46:22.900 The United

00:46:23.360 States has

00:46:24.580 many nuclear

00:46:25.200 weapons, but

00:46:26.320 we would like

00:46:26.940 to not direct

00:46:28.180 them at

00:46:28.700 you.

00:46:29.560 Maybe we

00:46:30.080 could talk

00:46:30.700 and we

00:46:31.340 could have

00:46:31.800 all of our

00:46:32.220 nuclear weapons

00:46:33.040 maybe not

00:46:34.460 pointed toward

00:46:35.140 each other,

00:46:35.840 because I

00:46:36.420 would like

00:46:36.680 to be your

00:46:37.060 friend,

00:46:37.800 sincerely,

00:46:38.840 Donald Trump.

00:46:40.400 Is that

00:46:41.160 document

00:46:41.700 related to

00:46:43.900 nuclear weapons?

00:46:46.200 It is.

00:46:47.600 It totally

00:46:48.380 is.

00:46:50.560 You see

00:46:51.320 the trick?

00:46:51.740 I do

00:46:53.420 believe that

00:46:54.100 they will be

00:46:54.620 able to

00:46:55.020 demonstrate

00:46:55.440 that there's

00:46:56.120 something in

00:46:56.600 there about

00:46:57.080 Kim Jong-un.

00:47:00.080 See where

00:47:00.760 I'm going?

00:47:02.280 Anything that

00:47:03.240 Trump said to

00:47:04.040 Kim Jong-un

00:47:04.820 that we don't

00:47:05.440 know about

00:47:05.980 is very

00:47:07.940 likely to

00:47:09.220 include a

00:47:09.920 reference to

00:47:10.600 what we

00:47:10.960 will or

00:47:11.540 will not

00:47:11.980 do with

00:47:12.400 our nuclear

00:47:12.940 arsenal.

00:47:14.320 Am I

00:47:14.940 right?

00:47:15.900 He may

00:47:16.620 have even

00:47:16.960 made an

00:47:17.320 offer.

00:47:18.820 He may

00:47:19.260 have said,

00:47:20.260 yeah, I'm

00:47:20.620 just speculating,

00:47:21.740 but suppose

00:47:22.400 he said

00:47:23.500 something like,

00:47:24.620 you know, we

00:47:24.980 would turn

00:47:26.760 our weapons

00:47:27.240 off, you

00:47:27.960 know, if

00:47:28.560 you do the

00:47:29.000 same.

00:47:30.540 That's

00:47:30.880 something that

00:47:31.340 nobody would

00:47:31.820 want out,

00:47:32.320 right?

00:47:32.500 That would

00:47:32.720 be a top

00:47:34.160 secret nuclear

00:47:36.200 weapons related

00:47:37.240 document.

00:47:38.740 And it would

00:47:39.360 also be a

00:47:40.040 big nothing.

00:47:41.840 So here's

00:47:42.880 the thing

00:47:43.360 that I would

00:47:45.460 look for.

00:47:46.140 The most

00:47:46.620 obvious way

00:47:47.440 this is going

00:47:47.960 to go is

00:47:49.220 that there

00:47:49.560 will be

00:47:50.160 something

00:47:50.500 that's

00:47:51.440 related to

00:47:53.000 nuclear

00:47:53.400 weapons.

00:47:54.620 How much

00:47:55.160 you want

00:47:55.480 to bet

00:47:55.840 there's at

00:47:56.480 least something

00:47:56.980 in there

00:47:57.400 that they

00:47:58.200 can argue

00:47:58.800 is related.

00:48:00.920 Do you

00:48:01.340 know how

00:48:01.660 the Russian

00:48:02.700 interference

00:48:03.540 is related

00:48:06.100 to Russia

00:48:07.740 collusion,

00:48:08.540 but it's

00:48:09.500 not the

00:48:09.940 same thing?

00:48:11.380 It's just

00:48:12.060 sort of

00:48:12.360 related.

00:48:13.700 And so

00:48:13.980 that's how

00:48:14.420 they can

00:48:14.780 say later,

00:48:15.400 well, we

00:48:15.660 told you

00:48:16.100 there was

00:48:16.720 Russia

00:48:17.000 collusion,

00:48:17.840 because here

00:48:18.320 we approved

00:48:18.820 the Russia

00:48:19.320 interference.

00:48:20.880 And you

00:48:21.460 go, well,

00:48:22.060 those are

00:48:22.340 different

00:48:22.620 topics.

00:48:23.980 And then

00:48:24.260 later, we're

00:48:25.420 going to

00:48:25.600 find out

00:48:26.100 that there

00:48:26.860 was, let's

00:48:27.580 say, a

00:48:27.820 personal letter

00:48:28.460 to Kim

00:48:28.880 Jong-un,

00:48:29.700 and they're

00:48:30.640 going to

00:48:30.840 say, well,

00:48:31.620 there it

00:48:32.200 is.

00:48:33.080 There's your

00:48:33.580 nuclear weapons

00:48:34.520 related document

00:48:36.780 right there.

00:48:37.780 Because what

00:48:38.520 was the

00:48:38.900 entire

00:48:39.220 conversation

00:48:39.900 about?

00:48:40.780 Nuclear

00:48:41.240 war.

00:48:42.080 The

00:48:42.520 conversation

00:48:43.040 with Kim

00:48:43.540 Jong-un,

00:48:44.020 all of it,

00:48:44.620 is about

00:48:45.040 nuclear weapons,

00:48:46.140 even if it's

00:48:46.680 not.

00:48:47.300 It's all

00:48:47.820 about nuclear

00:48:48.300 weapons,

00:48:48.760 because that

00:48:49.020 was the

00:48:49.280 thing we

00:48:49.580 cared about.

00:48:51.260 So you

00:48:51.860 don't think

00:48:52.340 that there's

00:48:52.760 going to be

00:48:53.000 something in

00:48:53.600 there that's

00:48:54.480 related?

00:48:55.900 Yeah.

00:48:56.600 They're going

00:48:57.020 to say that

00:48:57.420 it was in

00:48:57.760 there because

00:48:58.160 there was

00:48:58.400 something

00:48:58.640 related.

00:48:59.960 Or,

00:49:00.820 point two,

00:49:02.060 they're going

00:49:02.400 to say it

00:49:03.360 was confirmed

00:49:04.160 because Adam

00:49:05.860 Schiff saw

00:49:06.920 it in the

00:49:07.320 SCIF.

00:49:09.240 So we took

00:49:10.020 those documents

00:49:10.820 that we found

00:49:11.680 at Marta Lago

00:49:12.300 and we put

00:49:12.900 them in the

00:49:13.260 SCIF.

00:49:14.060 That's the

00:49:14.620 place that you

00:49:15.320 can go look

00:49:16.100 at them,

00:49:16.480 but you

00:49:16.700 can't take

00:49:16.940 a copy.

00:49:18.300 So the

00:49:18.860 SCIF is like

00:49:19.460 a top secret

00:49:20.160 facility that

00:49:21.720 you could put

00:49:22.220 wherever you

00:49:22.980 need it.

00:49:23.380 I think there

00:49:23.740 was one

00:49:24.100 actually at

00:49:24.760 Marta Lago.

00:49:25.860 So you put

00:49:26.220 it in the

00:49:26.520 SCIF and

00:49:27.620 then you

00:49:27.880 put Schiff

00:49:28.400 in the

00:49:28.640 SCIF.

00:49:30.220 So you

00:49:30.720 got to

00:49:30.920 put Schiff

00:49:31.280 in the

00:49:31.500 SCIF and

00:49:33.060 then Schiff

00:49:33.780 will tell

00:49:35.340 you some

00:49:35.640 bullshit that

00:49:37.920 he supposedly

00:49:38.880 learned when

00:49:39.640 he put

00:49:39.980 Schiff in

00:49:41.140 the SCIF.

00:49:41.500 So it's a

00:49:42.980 Schiff

00:49:43.260 SCIF

00:49:43.840 bullshit

00:49:44.880 kind of

00:49:46.320 a play.

00:49:47.740 And then

00:49:48.060 the other

00:49:48.520 people who

00:49:49.000 were in

00:49:49.260 the

00:49:49.360 SCIF will

00:49:49.740 say,

00:49:50.380 we didn't

00:49:51.400 see anything

00:49:52.060 like that.

00:49:52.780 We looked

00:49:53.220 at the

00:49:53.500 same document

00:49:54.020 you did,

00:49:54.920 and to

00:49:55.300 say that

00:49:55.680 that's

00:49:55.940 related to

00:49:56.760 nuclear weapons

00:49:57.460 is such a

00:49:58.160 stretch that

00:49:59.100 it's closer

00:49:59.520 to a lie.

00:50:01.720 And what

00:50:02.380 will Schiff

00:50:03.460 say?

00:50:03.740 Oh, it's

00:50:05.400 right there,

00:50:05.780 I saw it with

00:50:06.160 my own eyes.

00:50:07.520 And how

00:50:07.780 many times

00:50:08.320 will we have

00:50:08.840 seen Schiff

00:50:09.360 say he saw

00:50:09.940 something with

00:50:10.440 his own

00:50:10.720 eyes,

00:50:11.580 or that

00:50:11.860 indictments

00:50:12.420 were coming,

00:50:13.060 or that

00:50:13.340 the law

00:50:13.720 had been

00:50:14.000 broken,

00:50:14.760 and they

00:50:15.260 have the

00:50:15.580 proof,

00:50:16.300 only to

00:50:16.880 later find

00:50:17.360 out none

00:50:18.220 of it was

00:50:18.580 even close

00:50:19.040 to true.

00:50:20.220 Completely

00:50:20.700 made up.

00:50:22.400 So Schiff

00:50:23.080 skiff

00:50:23.360 bullshit is

00:50:24.580 the next

00:50:24.980 phase.

00:50:26.700 Look for

00:50:27.040 Schiff

00:50:27.380 skiff

00:50:27.700 bullshit,

00:50:28.280 Schiff

00:50:28.480 skiff

00:50:28.820 bullshit,

00:50:29.800 Schiff

00:50:30.020 skiff

00:50:30.280 bullshit.

00:50:31.440 And that's

00:50:32.260 how the

00:50:32.720 left will

00:50:33.320 come to

00:50:33.720 believe that

00:50:35.080 Trump did

00:50:36.700 in fact

00:50:37.140 have

00:50:37.500 nuclear

00:50:38.120 weapons

00:50:38.620 related

00:50:39.780 stuff,

00:50:41.420 just like

00:50:41.960 they believe

00:50:42.740 that Russian

00:50:43.200 interference

00:50:44.320 proves that

00:50:45.360 there was

00:50:45.640 Russian

00:50:46.160 collusion.

00:50:48.700 So

00:50:49.080 imagine if

00:50:50.860 the government

00:50:51.540 had a

00:50:52.360 department

00:50:53.960 of

00:50:54.420 wordsmithing.

00:50:56.340 I think

00:50:57.100 Trump should

00:50:57.920 create a

00:50:58.980 cabinet

00:50:59.960 position

00:51:00.520 for defining

00:51:02.380 words the

00:51:03.140 old way.

00:51:04.960 Like every

00:51:05.280 time the

00:51:05.640 Democrats try

00:51:06.340 to tell you

00:51:06.720 that a

00:51:06.940 word

00:51:07.160 doesn't

00:51:07.480 mean like

00:51:08.060 a raid

00:51:08.460 doesn't

00:51:08.760 mean a

00:51:09.020 raid and

00:51:09.600 all this.

00:51:10.940 You just

00:51:11.200 go to

00:51:11.480 well let's

00:51:12.040 let's check

00:51:12.560 with the

00:51:12.820 cabinet.

00:51:14.040 And then

00:51:14.260 somebody comes

00:51:14.840 out

00:51:15.120 preferably be

00:51:16.220 like wearing

00:51:17.040 a long

00:51:17.400 robe so

00:51:18.480 they look

00:51:18.720 official and

00:51:19.860 they say

00:51:20.280 the definition

00:51:22.060 of raid is

00:51:22.960 as follows

00:51:23.520 and has not

00:51:24.540 been recently

00:51:25.160 changed.

00:51:26.280 And they

00:51:26.480 say well

00:51:26.820 there it

00:51:27.080 is.

00:51:28.360 The

00:51:28.520 department of

00:51:30.040 definitions

00:51:30.500 has said

00:51:31.120 that your

00:51:32.260 definition of a

00:51:33.040 raid is

00:51:33.480 incorrect.

00:51:34.480 Your

00:51:34.700 definition of

00:51:35.460 related to

00:51:36.840 collusion is

00:51:38.320 incorrect.

00:51:40.480 Yes the

00:51:41.140 shift sniff

00:51:41.580 test.

00:51:43.540 If you put

00:51:44.720 shift in the

00:51:45.340 skiff you

00:51:46.720 don't want to

00:51:47.200 sniff what

00:51:47.640 comes out.

00:51:48.960 So you don't

00:51:49.360 want to sniff

00:51:49.980 of shift in the

00:51:51.280 skiff that's for

00:51:51.940 sure.

00:51:53.020 And if

00:51:53.500 shift were to

00:51:55.480 take a shit

00:51:57.020 in the skiff

00:51:57.520 you wouldn't

00:51:59.460 want to sniff

00:51:59.900 that.

00:52:01.100 So I

00:52:03.100 think I

00:52:05.380 may be out

00:52:06.060 of material

00:52:06.480 here.

00:52:08.380 I may be

00:52:09.140 completely done

00:52:10.000 and it took me

00:52:11.000 a moment to

00:52:11.480 realize it

00:52:11.900 myself.

00:52:13.080 Apparently I

00:52:13.760 am completely

00:52:14.340 out of

00:52:14.660 material.

00:52:20.680 Comedy

00:52:21.080 gold.

00:52:22.540 Yes Dr.

00:52:23.220 Seuss would

00:52:23.580 love me.

00:52:26.080 All right I'm

00:52:26.820 going to open

00:52:27.220 it up on

00:52:27.780 YouTube for

00:52:28.560 NPC comments.

00:52:30.520 Go.

00:52:31.840 Would the

00:52:32.440 NPCs please

00:52:34.380 show up.

00:52:35.260 I'll read you

00:52:36.020 their comments

00:52:36.580 as they come.

00:52:38.080 I know you

00:52:38.640 come.

00:52:38.880 Don't hide.

00:52:39.780 Don't be shy.

00:52:41.700 Don't be shy.

00:52:43.360 Come on.

00:52:44.360 Come on.

00:52:46.280 Come on.

00:52:49.040 Come on.

00:52:49.720 Come on.

00:52:50.960 NPCs.

00:52:51.600 Come on.

00:52:52.560 Let's go.

00:52:54.280 What are you

00:52:54.640 hiding?

00:52:57.220 It seems like

00:52:57.760 all the NPCs

00:52:58.660 have suddenly

00:52:59.080 disappeared.

00:52:59.720 Well you

00:52:59.920 got really

00:53:00.260 quiet.

00:53:01.740 Where are you

00:53:02.340 now?

00:53:04.960 All gone.

00:53:06.480 Where are all

00:53:06.860 the people

00:53:07.200 saying but

00:53:08.240 but you're

00:53:10.280 like the

00:53:10.680 pointy hair

00:53:11.120 boss.

00:53:12.120 I used to

00:53:12.740 like Dilbert

00:53:13.340 but this

00:53:14.940 guy.

00:53:16.520 This guy.

00:53:16.980 So there

00:53:18.460 was somebody

00:53:20.120 who listed

00:53:20.580 themselves as

00:53:21.160 a lawyer

00:53:21.480 who came

00:53:22.860 at me on

00:53:23.500 Twitter with

00:53:24.720 just personal

00:53:25.400 insults about

00:53:26.140 what a

00:53:26.620 horrible person

00:53:27.220 I am.

00:53:28.080 And I had

00:53:28.740 to ask

00:53:29.360 because it

00:53:30.020 was a

00:53:30.240 lawyer.

00:53:31.020 Somebody who

00:53:31.580 actually is

00:53:32.120 good with

00:53:32.560 words and

00:53:33.380 understands

00:53:34.400 complicated

00:53:35.080 things.

00:53:36.220 And so I

00:53:36.560 thought well I

00:53:36.960 can finally get

00:53:37.560 an answer to

00:53:38.260 a question I

00:53:38.780 wondered.

00:53:39.960 And I

00:53:40.400 tweeted back

00:53:41.080 and I said

00:53:41.480 what is your

00:53:42.420 motivation?

00:53:43.000 Like what is

00:53:45.320 the motivation

00:53:45.900 for coming

00:53:46.440 on Twitter

00:53:46.920 and making

00:53:48.300 a personal

00:53:49.100 insult to me

00:53:49.860 without any

00:53:50.540 regard to

00:53:51.420 my point of

00:53:52.560 view or

00:53:53.220 politics or

00:53:54.000 factual anything?

00:53:55.220 Just a

00:53:55.840 pure horrible

00:53:58.060 comment about

00:53:58.900 me as a

00:53:59.380 person.

00:54:00.740 And do you

00:54:01.040 know what his

00:54:01.360 answer was?

00:54:01.980 His motivating

00:54:02.780 feeling?

00:54:05.300 His answer

00:54:06.120 was disgust.

00:54:08.020 In other

00:54:08.600 words disgust

00:54:09.620 with me and

00:54:11.020 my opinions.

00:54:12.040 Now the

00:54:12.280 part that he

00:54:12.660 is disgusted

00:54:13.320 in is never

00:54:14.560 my actual

00:54:15.180 opinion.

00:54:16.860 He's

00:54:17.380 disgusted with

00:54:18.080 something he

00:54:18.540 imagined I

00:54:19.260 said or

00:54:20.020 imagined I

00:54:20.640 believe, not

00:54:21.100 anything I

00:54:21.800 actually said.

00:54:23.900 But think

00:54:24.560 about that.

00:54:25.740 He actually

00:54:26.480 said his

00:54:27.420 motivation was

00:54:28.500 disgust.

00:54:31.160 Imagine that

00:54:31.920 being your

00:54:32.300 operating system

00:54:33.180 that you're

00:54:34.540 going through

00:54:34.940 life and

00:54:36.180 when something

00:54:36.720 disgusts you

00:54:37.660 that becomes

00:54:38.780 your activating

00:54:39.520 trigger.

00:54:40.260 do you

00:54:42.520 know what

00:54:42.740 activates me?

00:54:45.080 Good

00:54:45.640 stuff.

00:54:47.540 Or trying

00:54:48.400 to solve a

00:54:48.940 problem.

00:54:50.000 So I get

00:54:50.440 activated by

00:54:51.220 trying to

00:54:51.600 solve a

00:54:52.000 problem that's

00:54:52.700 like a real

00:54:53.080 problem or I

00:54:54.180 get activated to

00:54:55.040 do something

00:54:55.460 fun.

00:54:56.440 Oh, I'd like

00:54:57.000 to do that.

00:54:58.000 I'm totally

00:54:58.560 into that.

00:54:59.820 But here was

00:55:00.360 somebody who

00:55:00.800 admitted being

00:55:02.260 activated to

00:55:03.420 actually go

00:55:03.920 act based on

00:55:05.360 disgust being a

00:55:07.480 motivating force.

00:55:09.100 How do you

00:55:09.620 go through

00:55:09.960 life being

00:55:11.380 motivated by

00:55:12.060 disgust?

00:55:15.000 Even if you

00:55:15.820 say I'm

00:55:17.240 worthy of the

00:55:18.060 disgust, let's

00:55:19.800 say he's

00:55:20.180 right.

00:55:21.120 Let's say I'm

00:55:21.760 disgusting.

00:55:23.780 Why did he

00:55:24.620 need to tweet

00:55:25.280 at me?

00:55:26.420 Would I not

00:55:27.140 be just as

00:55:27.880 disgusting if he

00:55:28.860 tweeted or not?

00:55:30.060 Was he fixing

00:55:30.740 it?

00:55:31.420 Was it

00:55:31.840 entertainment?

00:55:33.640 Because he

00:55:34.240 didn't say it

00:55:34.640 was entertainment.

00:55:35.460 He said he

00:55:36.040 was operating on

00:55:37.200 disgust.

00:55:38.000 And the

00:55:38.240 thing is, I

00:55:39.620 don't know that

00:55:40.160 he was wrong

00:55:40.660 about that.

00:55:41.800 I think maybe

00:55:42.520 it actually was

00:55:43.520 the motivating

00:55:44.120 factor.

00:55:44.800 And if you

00:55:45.100 look at a lot

00:55:45.540 of the other

00:55:45.900 comments, the

00:55:47.460 people who are

00:55:47.980 the most angry

00:55:48.820 about me are?

00:55:51.480 What class of

00:55:52.680 people are the

00:55:53.320 most angry at

00:55:54.320 me today?

00:55:56.020 Artists.

00:55:56.780 Yeah.

00:55:57.420 People who are

00:55:58.060 not successful

00:55:58.880 enough at their

00:56:00.580 jobs and they

00:56:01.380 don't think that

00:56:01.900 the guy who

00:56:02.320 does a comic

00:56:02.880 strip should

00:56:04.200 have gotten all

00:56:04.700 the money and

00:56:05.840 success they did

00:56:06.720 because, hey,

00:56:07.480 it's just a

00:56:08.060 stupid comic

00:56:08.760 strip and so

00:56:09.460 is Garfield.

00:56:10.400 And Garfield

00:56:11.240 isn't high art,

00:56:12.740 so therefore

00:56:13.100 mine isn't, so

00:56:13.900 therefore why

00:56:14.460 aren't they more

00:56:14.980 successful?

00:56:16.480 Well, they're not

00:56:17.240 smart enough, but

00:56:18.120 that's another

00:56:18.460 story.

00:56:20.380 Yeah.

00:56:21.000 So the artists

00:56:22.420 definitely have

00:56:23.740 disgust.

00:56:25.540 The artists, when

00:56:26.700 they see me, they

00:56:27.580 are disgusted.

00:56:28.840 Because I project

00:56:30.760 some level of

00:56:32.440 success, which

00:56:34.020 really bugs you if

00:56:35.140 you don't have

00:56:35.620 it.

00:56:36.320 I've been in

00:56:37.020 that position.

00:56:38.580 I guarantee you

00:56:39.860 that before I was

00:56:40.900 successful as a

00:56:42.180 writer, I'm sure I

00:56:44.660 said horrible things

00:56:45.640 about people who

00:56:46.400 were.

00:56:47.900 I don't remember

00:56:48.780 any specific

00:56:49.380 examples, but I'm

00:56:50.760 not above it.

00:56:51.920 It's sort of a

00:56:52.680 natural instinct,

00:56:54.380 right, to have

00:56:56.200 some bad feelings

00:56:56.940 about somebody who

00:56:57.660 succeeded.

00:56:58.740 That's why the

00:57:00.000 Kardashians get so

00:57:01.100 much love and so

00:57:01.960 much hate.

00:57:02.380 The hate part is

00:57:04.620 the disgust, but

00:57:06.840 the disgust is

00:57:07.700 driven by the

00:57:08.720 contrast with

00:57:09.740 somebody doing

00:57:10.680 well and how

00:57:12.020 somebody feels

00:57:12.700 about themselves.

00:57:14.680 So if somebody's

00:57:15.380 disgusted by the

00:57:18.140 way I present an

00:57:19.120 opinion, it's

00:57:20.400 almost certainly

00:57:21.340 not about me

00:57:22.340 exactly.

00:57:24.060 It's more about

00:57:24.860 something they're

00:57:25.580 struggling with.

00:57:27.340 So if you see

00:57:28.900 somebody who's

00:57:29.400 operating out of

00:57:30.180 disgust, they're

00:57:31.500 almost certainly

00:57:32.300 coming from some

00:57:33.440 dark place.

00:57:37.760 And then the

00:57:38.520 NPCs can just

00:57:39.540 say whatever is

00:57:40.120 the most obvious

00:57:40.780 thing to say.

00:57:42.420 So in every

00:57:42.980 situation you say

00:57:43.860 to yourself, what's

00:57:44.580 the most obvious

00:57:45.200 thing to say?

00:57:46.260 If a cartoonist

00:57:47.500 that you don't

00:57:48.080 know from any

00:57:48.680 other context says

00:57:50.340 something in

00:57:50.860 politics that you

00:57:51.660 don't like, what's

00:57:52.840 the most obvious

00:57:54.000 response?

00:57:55.460 Oh, go back to

00:57:56.300 comics, comic boy.

00:57:57.420 Oh, and then

00:57:59.380 make a joke about

00:58:00.600 some unrelated

00:58:01.360 comic.

00:58:02.220 Like, oh, it's

00:58:03.400 are you done

00:58:04.340 writing Kathy?

00:58:05.760 Are you done

00:58:06.280 writing Doones

00:58:07.620 Barry?

00:58:08.260 Which one are

00:58:08.960 you?

00:58:10.980 The least

00:58:11.820 creative.

00:58:13.020 Yeah, it's the

00:58:13.600 Soylent Green

00:58:14.240 Garfield people.

00:58:16.640 I call you

00:58:17.540 baldy.

00:58:17.900 Here's an NPC.

00:58:24.620 Not really.

00:58:25.440 Other successful

00:58:26.140 people look at you

00:58:27.060 as a weirdo chasing

00:58:28.240 clout.

00:58:29.440 It's pointless what

00:58:30.260 you do.

00:58:30.900 It's pointless?

00:58:32.780 Is it pointless?

00:58:33.920 Why would so many

00:58:34.840 people come to

00:58:36.840 insult me if it's

00:58:37.720 pointless?

00:58:38.700 Like it's doing

00:58:39.300 something.

00:58:40.740 But you don't

00:58:41.340 think that teaching

00:58:43.160 people how to

00:58:44.620 read the news

00:58:46.300 more efficiently

00:58:47.700 is useful?

00:58:49.440 Just imagine

00:58:50.320 that point,

00:58:50.880 that it's

00:58:51.080 pointless.

00:58:53.980 Yeah.

00:58:54.920 You just

00:58:55.420 proved there's

00:58:55.820 a point.

00:59:07.240 Yeah, yeah,

00:59:07.960 yeah.

00:59:08.400 Okay.

00:59:09.980 Scott's waking

00:59:10.660 up.

00:59:11.060 Okay, now I

00:59:11.520 know that's a

00:59:12.000 joke, so I won't

00:59:12.660 be mad at you

00:59:13.380 anymore.

00:59:13.660 Oh, I've got

00:59:16.340 3,000 people

00:59:17.220 watching me on

00:59:17.900 YouTube.

00:59:18.680 Is that a

00:59:19.060 record?

00:59:19.660 Holy shit.

00:59:20.940 Yeah, it looks

00:59:21.400 like it's a record

00:59:22.180 audience today.

00:59:23.880 So, but no

00:59:25.360 more NPCs?

00:59:26.220 You don't want

00:59:26.540 to make yourself

00:59:27.020 known?

00:59:27.240 You know, it's

00:59:32.000 funny that

00:59:32.400 anybody would

00:59:32.920 make a comment

00:59:33.640 about somebody

00:59:34.340 using social

00:59:35.100 media and

00:59:36.520 say that it's

00:59:37.080 pointless.

00:59:38.380 It's also

00:59:39.020 weird when

00:59:40.660 people criticize

00:59:42.160 me for what I

00:59:43.220 state I'm doing.

00:59:46.040 So, so here's

00:59:47.300 somebody who says

00:59:47.960 that I'm chasing

00:59:48.620 clout.

00:59:49.700 That's what I

00:59:50.460 tell you I'm

00:59:50.960 doing.

00:59:51.880 Don't I?

00:59:53.580 Haven't I said

00:59:54.160 that directly?

00:59:55.200 Lots of times.

00:59:56.540 I've told you

00:59:57.300 that if I reach

00:59:57.940 a million followers

00:59:58.840 on Twitter, I

00:59:59.640 can run the

01:00:00.120 world.

01:00:01.560 I'm very

01:00:02.440 clearly and

01:00:03.400 intentionally and

01:00:04.500 publicly and

01:00:05.440 transparently chasing

01:00:07.000 clout.

01:00:07.960 I want more of

01:00:09.140 it because I can

01:00:10.600 do, I can do

01:00:11.440 more stuff.

01:00:12.740 Is there

01:00:13.320 somebody who

01:00:13.780 wants less

01:00:14.340 clout?

01:00:15.780 Is there

01:00:16.380 somebody who's

01:00:16.960 chasing ineffectiveness?

01:00:19.480 Is there

01:00:20.040 somebody who wakes

01:00:20.680 up in the morning

01:00:21.160 and goes, man, I

01:00:21.960 would like to

01:00:22.400 have less impact

01:00:23.180 on the world

01:00:23.800 today?

01:00:24.720 If there are

01:00:25.620 things that need

01:00:26.100 to be fixed, I

01:00:26.840 don't want to be

01:00:27.300 anywhere near that.

01:00:28.920 Get me away from

01:00:29.720 things that need to

01:00:30.360 be fixed.

01:00:31.340 Don't need any

01:00:31.980 clout.

01:00:33.200 Now, of course I'm

01:00:34.020 trying to get clout

01:00:34.840 as much as

01:00:36.420 possible.

01:00:40.240 Yeah, you're

01:00:41.420 going to have to

01:00:41.700 come up with a

01:00:42.460 much better

01:00:43.360 insult.

01:00:45.100 So here, let me

01:00:46.200 tell you the

01:00:46.580 insults I got

01:00:47.240 yesterday.

01:00:50.060 A bunch of

01:00:50.820 people making

01:00:52.040 reference to my

01:00:53.220 comic strip

01:00:54.020 one of the most

01:00:55.260 successful comic

01:00:56.200 strips in the

01:00:57.000 history of comics.

01:00:59.480 Other people

01:01:00.480 pointing out that

01:01:02.060 I have a

01:01:03.240 history of

01:01:04.300 having wild

01:01:06.120 experiences with

01:01:07.340 women who are

01:01:08.000 beautiful and much

01:01:09.520 too young for me.

01:01:11.820 No, stop saying

01:01:13.560 these mean things

01:01:14.320 about me.

01:01:15.260 But my favorite is

01:01:16.260 somebody who tweeted

01:01:17.400 my own selfie

01:01:18.600 to insult me.

01:01:21.760 To which I

01:01:22.480 thought, well, I'm

01:01:24.900 the one who

01:01:25.300 tweeted that.

01:01:26.660 I wanted you to

01:01:27.680 see that.

01:01:28.680 Because I wrote a

01:01:29.560 book about fitness.

01:01:30.900 I mean, there's a

01:01:31.540 chapter in there

01:01:32.060 about fitness.

01:01:33.040 So if you write a

01:01:34.480 book about how to

01:01:35.260 become fit and how

01:01:37.400 to have a good

01:01:37.840 diet, you better

01:01:39.120 take off your

01:01:39.700 fucking shirt.

01:01:41.480 Am I wrong?

01:01:43.100 If you're an

01:01:43.900 author and you

01:01:45.200 have a book out

01:01:45.940 right now that

01:01:47.740 purports to tell

01:01:48.980 you a system for

01:01:50.040 losing weight and

01:01:50.940 being fit, take

01:01:52.780 off your fucking

01:01:53.460 shirt.

01:01:55.140 If you don't

01:01:55.880 take off your

01:01:56.480 shirt, nobody's

01:01:57.620 going to buy your

01:01:58.140 book.

01:01:59.060 They shouldn't.

01:02:00.540 You've got to

01:02:01.120 show your work.

01:02:02.680 So, of course, I

01:02:03.940 tweeted this.

01:02:05.120 So my critics are

01:02:06.220 showing me my own

01:02:07.260 very fit body.

01:02:08.580 This was taken in

01:02:09.420 my late 50s, which

01:02:11.040 would be impressive

01:02:11.620 for anybody in their

01:02:12.360 late 50s.

01:02:13.260 I can't do this

01:02:14.040 right now.

01:02:14.500 By the way, my abs

01:02:15.820 don't look like

01:02:16.380 that right now.

01:02:17.940 But my upper

01:02:19.320 chest and shoulders

01:02:20.500 are much bigger

01:02:21.400 than this picture.

01:02:22.700 So I kind of

01:02:23.180 moved my emphasis

01:02:23.860 from abs.

01:02:25.840 I just wanted to

01:02:26.380 see if I could

01:02:26.800 develop abs.

01:02:27.920 So during this

01:02:28.560 phase, I was just

01:02:29.280 sort of seeing if

01:02:29.880 I could do it.

01:02:32.100 But people seem

01:02:33.120 to prefer arms

01:02:34.200 and shoulders and

01:02:35.060 chest.

01:02:36.320 By people, I

01:02:37.200 mean women.

01:02:38.880 So I moved my

01:02:40.380 emphasis to upper

01:02:42.260 chest and started

01:02:44.280 to get some

01:02:44.740 benefits.

01:02:45.820 Yeah, so

01:02:48.860 focusing on

01:02:50.120 shoulders, that's

01:02:50.780 correct.

01:02:53.460 All right.

01:03:00.700 And Erica says,

01:03:02.160 you're an old man

01:03:02.900 taking off his shirt,

01:03:04.180 Geraldo.

01:03:05.540 NPC.

01:03:06.780 All right, so that

01:03:07.500 was an NPC trap.

01:03:08.860 So the trap here was

01:03:10.000 that if I tell you

01:03:10.940 about taking off my

01:03:11.800 shirt, an NPC will

01:03:13.820 make a Geraldo

01:03:14.820 comment, what is

01:03:16.520 the most obvious

01:03:17.620 thing you could say

01:03:18.600 about an older male

01:03:20.120 showing off his

01:03:21.720 shirtless profile?

01:03:23.700 It's the most

01:03:24.520 obvious thing, right?

01:03:25.560 So that's how you

01:03:26.240 spot the NPCs.

01:03:27.560 They can't go beyond

01:03:28.840 the most obvious

01:03:29.700 comment.

01:03:31.100 I could do this

01:03:31.860 all day long and

01:03:32.960 attract an NPC.

01:03:34.280 So, yeah, the

01:03:37.700 Geraldo comment is

01:03:38.900 just the most

01:03:39.580 obvious thing.

01:03:40.460 And what about

01:03:41.160 when you're talking

01:03:41.700 about the safe at

01:03:42.780 Mar-a-Lago?

01:03:44.980 If you talk about

01:03:45.980 the safe at Mar-a-Lago

01:03:47.000 and you're the

01:03:48.360 nine millionth person

01:03:49.700 to say, but what if

01:03:51.060 Geraldo could open

01:03:52.240 that safe?

01:03:54.120 That's probably an

01:03:54.960 NPC.

01:03:55.820 However, if you were

01:03:57.140 the first person to

01:03:58.280 say it, or you

01:03:59.520 thought you were,

01:04:00.380 that was pretty

01:04:00.820 good.

01:04:01.800 It was a good

01:04:02.700 callback.

01:04:03.880 But if you're the

01:04:04.760 millionth person to

01:04:05.680 say it, NPC.

01:04:16.020 I should shelve my

01:04:17.240 ideas.

01:04:18.740 Oh, yeah, and also

01:04:19.420 the Putin, the Putin

01:04:20.620 on a horseback.

01:04:22.260 Yeah, the most

01:04:22.840 obvious comments.

01:04:24.880 Looks like AI has

01:04:26.100 given me some

01:04:26.660 muscles.

01:04:28.500 There's a funny

01:04:29.380 picture of me

01:04:30.160 with a fake body

01:04:31.720 over on Locals.

01:04:38.900 Alex Berenson

01:04:39.760 Twitter news.

01:04:42.220 What's happening

01:04:42.900 with Alex Berenson?

01:04:43.920 Did he get back

01:04:44.480 on Twitter?

01:04:47.340 Or is he suing

01:04:48.320 them?

01:04:48.720 Which is it?

01:04:52.880 Can somebody tell

01:04:53.740 me?

01:04:53.960 What's the Alex

01:04:54.500 Berenson story?

01:04:55.980 Both.

01:04:57.320 He's back on

01:04:58.080 Twitter and he's

01:04:58.840 suing them?

01:05:00.160 Interesting.

01:05:02.080 The government

01:05:02.580 asked Twitter to

01:05:03.460 ban Berenson.

01:05:04.400 What?

01:05:05.740 What?

01:05:07.780 What?

01:05:08.900 Are you serious?

01:05:12.060 The White House

01:05:13.100 emailed Twitter to

01:05:14.120 ban him?

01:05:14.680 What?

01:05:15.800 Are you fucking

01:05:16.720 kidding me?

01:05:19.540 You're serious.

01:05:22.040 Oh, my God.

01:05:23.900 Oh, my God.

01:05:24.960 Now, which White

01:05:28.320 House?

01:05:30.920 Which White House

01:05:32.100 did that?

01:05:34.080 Was that

01:05:34.660 Biden?

01:05:36.160 That was

01:05:36.720 Biden, huh?

01:05:41.680 Wow.

01:05:43.600 I'm blown away.

01:05:44.820 Okay, I'm going to

01:05:45.280 have to follow up on

01:05:46.060 this because I'm

01:05:47.120 reacting to a first

01:05:48.520 impression.

01:05:49.020 I don't know what the

01:05:49.540 actual story is.

01:05:50.340 But, so let me give

01:05:51.860 you my baseline.

01:05:52.960 I don't think that

01:05:53.740 Alex Berenson

01:05:54.500 was right

01:05:56.840 about a lot of

01:05:59.400 what he said.

01:06:00.860 I don't believe he

01:06:01.780 was right.

01:06:03.700 I do believe

01:06:04.760 he was useful.

01:06:07.640 Meaning that

01:06:08.420 I kind of

01:06:09.060 appreciate there's

01:06:09.860 somebody out there

01:06:10.600 making a strong

01:06:12.360 case for an

01:06:14.060 alternative that

01:06:14.940 you don't want to

01:06:15.660 forget about.

01:06:16.420 You know, the

01:06:18.000 strong case is that

01:06:18.880 the experts were

01:06:19.600 wrong or lying.

01:06:21.460 And we live in a

01:06:22.340 world where if you

01:06:23.080 don't think about

01:06:23.700 that every moment

01:06:24.820 you're going to

01:06:26.440 get in trouble.

01:06:27.660 So you need

01:06:28.300 somebody like a

01:06:29.180 Berenson all the

01:06:30.020 time.

01:06:31.360 If you didn't have

01:06:32.700 a Berenson you'd

01:06:33.440 have to invent one

01:06:34.320 because you need

01:06:34.840 one.

01:06:35.460 You need somebody

01:06:36.240 telling you every

01:06:37.000 minute this could

01:06:37.760 be a lie.

01:06:38.740 I think they're

01:06:39.200 just lying.

01:06:39.840 It's just bullshit.

01:06:40.660 Don't believe the

01:06:41.180 data.

01:06:41.560 The data's wrong.

01:06:42.780 Because that little

01:06:43.480 voice in your head

01:06:44.640 is really useful.

01:06:46.420 That said, I don't

01:06:47.940 think he got the

01:06:48.560 right answers in a

01:06:50.400 number of situations.

01:06:52.460 But the fact that

01:06:55.820 if this is true that

01:06:57.040 the White House was

01:06:58.640 involved in banning

01:06:59.580 him, I'm on his

01:07:02.680 side completely.

01:07:05.560 If that's true, so

01:07:06.720 I'm going to wait to

01:07:07.240 find out if it's

01:07:07.660 true.

01:07:08.100 But if it's true that

01:07:09.100 the government was

01:07:09.920 trying to shut him

01:07:10.680 down, I don't care

01:07:12.060 that I thought most

01:07:12.860 of what he said was

01:07:13.480 wrong, then I'm

01:07:15.120 completely on his

01:07:15.920 side at that

01:07:16.380 point.

01:07:19.840 Yeah.

01:07:23.220 All right.

01:07:26.960 Let's talk about

01:07:28.120 something else.

01:07:29.300 And I'm going to

01:07:30.560 talk to the locals

01:07:31.580 people in a minute.

01:07:32.500 But YouTube, thanks

01:07:33.240 for joining.

01:07:34.360 Biggest crowd ever.

01:07:36.120 I hope I didn't

01:07:36.660 disappoint.

01:07:37.360 Probably was the

01:07:38.080 best live stream

01:07:38.780 you've ever seen.

01:07:40.480 Probably.

01:07:41.620 Bye for now.

01:07:42.200 Bye for now.

01:07:42.660 Bye.

01:07:42.880 Bye for now.

01:07:49.600 Bye for now.

01:07:55.480 Bye for now.

01:08:01.060 Bye.

01:08:01.600 Bye.

01:08:01.680 Bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 12, 2022

Episode 1833 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About The Fake News About Nuclear Weapons Secrets At Mar-a-Lago

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