Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 20, 2022


Episode 1841 Scott Adams: All The News Today Is About Men Acting Badly. Do Women Make News Anymore?


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Scott Adams talks about the departure of CNN's Brian Stelter, Dan Price's sexual assault scandal, and why the left and the right don't have much of a problem with each other. And why the fake news is bad.

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00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another highlight of civilization.
00:00:10.580 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and aren't you lucky to have stumbled upon it,
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00:01:09.040 Well, I saw a comment on locals just now.
00:01:20.880 There's somebody doing this who uses a cup and a saucer.
00:01:25.360 Oh.
00:01:26.580 Oh.
00:01:27.880 A mug's not good enough for you.
00:01:30.440 You got your cup and your saucer.
00:01:33.400 All right.
00:01:35.180 All right.
00:01:36.220 All right.
00:01:38.580 Well, someday maybe the rest of us will come up to your level.
00:01:43.080 Saucers it is.
00:01:44.980 Just imagine that.
00:01:46.280 Someday.
00:01:47.900 Someday I will have a saucer.
00:01:50.620 Well, let's talk about the news.
00:01:52.100 I would like to publicly congratulate Brian Stelter.
00:01:58.800 As you know, he's leaving his position as CNN on Reliable Sources.
00:02:05.140 I guess the ratings were not that good,
00:02:06.900 but I would like to congratulate Brian Stelter for being the only person to ever leave CNN
00:02:12.780 for a non-penis-related reason.
00:02:17.920 So that feels like a step in the right direction.
00:02:20.480 Do you remember a story, it wasn't that long ago,
00:02:25.820 about there was a CEO named Dan Price,
00:02:30.020 and he had decided that the lowest paid person in his company
00:02:34.440 would get a minimum of $70,000.
00:02:38.160 And so when he made that change,
00:02:40.460 people said,
00:02:41.240 my God, you are amazing.
00:02:46.060 You're amazing.
00:02:47.040 And so for a long time,
00:02:49.480 he was hailed as a hero.
00:02:51.640 But there seems to be a string of sexual assault charges against him.
00:02:59.780 Let me see if I could have predicted that that was going to happen.
00:03:04.460 Famous,
00:03:05.380 young,
00:03:06.280 unusually good-looking CEO.
00:03:08.380 I think he's single.
00:03:11.800 What do you think is going to happen when a young,
00:03:14.300 good-looking,
00:03:15.360 powerful guy
00:03:16.140 gets a lot of attention?
00:03:19.520 I don't know.
00:03:20.860 I feel like some sexual impropriety accusations
00:03:24.080 are going to come out of that situation.
00:03:25.600 But what I say about him,
00:03:29.980 Dan Price is,
00:03:31.760 and I don't mean this to be too cunning or too cruel,
00:03:34.420 but Dan Price,
00:03:35.960 you're no Brian Stelter.
00:03:37.980 You're no Brian Stelter.
00:03:39.740 Because he managed to go through an entire CNN career
00:03:42.580 without any accusations of sexual impropriety.
00:03:46.480 Now that could be either good or bad,
00:03:52.040 depending on your point of view.
00:03:53.420 But let's say that it's good that he didn't do it.
00:03:59.500 I'm going to say this again,
00:04:01.120 because no matter how many times I say it,
00:04:04.100 it can't be heard.
00:04:06.820 I love this category of communication.
00:04:09.740 It's sort of a little hobby of mine.
00:04:12.780 Things that can be said,
00:04:14.200 but they can't be heard.
00:04:16.480 What would be an example of something you could say,
00:04:20.860 but nobody could hear?
00:04:22.820 Lots of things.
00:04:24.360 It's basically everything that doesn't agree with your opinion.
00:04:27.480 I could say it all day long,
00:04:29.300 but you're not really going to hear it.
00:04:30.940 It's going to change on the way in.
00:04:33.340 And here's one of those.
00:04:37.320 The people on the left and the people on the right
00:04:39.620 don't have much of a problem with each other.
00:04:42.700 It's just the news.
00:04:44.920 It's just the news.
00:04:47.000 When I say just,
00:04:48.120 let's say 95%.
00:04:49.260 95% of it is the news telling you
00:04:51.820 that you're mad at the other side.
00:04:54.300 And then highlighting the people
00:04:55.720 who get the best singers in on the other side.
00:04:58.940 And highlight the people
00:05:00.060 who are getting the best singers
00:05:01.360 from their other side.
00:05:03.260 When was the last time you had an actual unhealthy experience
00:05:09.980 with just a regular person?
00:05:12.540 And if you did,
00:05:14.200 was the reason that you had an unpleasant experience
00:05:16.940 because you could tell that that person had been hypnotized
00:05:20.400 by the fake news?
00:05:22.540 Right?
00:05:23.100 Show me somebody who doesn't follow any news whatsoever,
00:05:28.440 and I don't care what their political leaning is.
00:05:32.540 I don't care how left they are.
00:05:34.900 Show me the,
00:05:36.340 I'll just use an old term,
00:05:38.260 show me some hippie who doesn't own a television 0.99
00:05:40.820 and hasn't watched the news in 20 years,
00:05:42.940 and I'll show you somebody I can get along with.
00:05:45.700 Great.
00:05:47.020 No problem at all.
00:05:49.080 You put me with a bunch of hippies. 0.94
00:05:51.800 I love them.
00:05:53.840 I love them.
00:05:55.500 And they would probably like me too.
00:05:57.520 We would have nothing to fight about.
00:06:00.060 Then take the same group of people,
00:06:02.140 you know, roughly speaking,
00:06:03.180 but they've been watching CNN and MSNBC
00:06:06.100 for the last five years.
00:06:09.140 I can't even be in the room with them.
00:06:12.020 So is there something wrong with the people
00:06:13.880 or is there something wrong with the media?
00:06:17.260 It's obvious.
00:06:18.000 It's obviously the media.
00:06:19.460 But the media is also in control
00:06:21.400 of telling you what the problem is.
00:06:23.420 So the people who are in control
00:06:25.180 of telling you what the problem is
00:06:26.620 are the problem,
00:06:28.500 and that's our problem.
00:06:30.480 If the people who are causing the most problem
00:06:33.160 would also point to themselves,
00:06:35.620 which, by the way, sometimes they do.
00:06:40.040 And Goffeld does it all the time.
00:06:42.400 And Goffeld is part of the news industry,
00:06:44.920 but it will tell you right away
00:06:47.040 that the news is part of the problem.
00:06:49.940 So you can say it all day long,
00:06:53.080 but people don't hear it.
00:06:54.320 What they hear is,
00:06:55.880 my team good, other team bad.
00:06:58.660 That's all they hear.
00:07:00.520 If you could convince people
00:07:02.180 that the real problem
00:07:05.280 was their believing of fake news,
00:07:07.780 because that's mostly the problem.
00:07:10.600 Most of the problem is believing fake news.
00:07:13.540 Here's what we need.
00:07:14.640 We don't need fact checkers.
00:07:17.640 I mean, it's helpful.
00:07:19.180 I don't mind having them,
00:07:21.240 you know, as long as there's some on both sides.
00:07:23.180 You can see both arguments.
00:07:24.740 What we need is logic fixers.
00:07:29.540 Let me give you an example.
00:07:31.700 Today, yet again, in the news,
00:07:34.040 there's a story that vitamin D
00:07:35.520 seems to be highly correlated
00:07:38.360 with good outcomes for people who have COVID.
00:07:42.100 If you've got a low vitamin D level
00:07:43.880 and you go into the hospital with COVID,
00:07:46.220 it's probably grim.
00:07:47.400 But if you had high vitamin D
00:07:49.980 and you go, you get COVID,
00:07:52.380 even if you're hospitalized,
00:07:53.980 probably won't be that bad.
00:07:56.560 So what did most of you conclude?
00:07:59.540 Do you remember in, I don't know,
00:08:02.000 it was probably early in,
00:08:04.100 I don't know what month it is.
00:08:05.380 Maybe some of you know.
00:08:06.640 What month in 2022 in the spring
00:08:08.780 did I say, hey,
00:08:11.260 it looks like all the places
00:08:12.820 that are having bad time with COVID
00:08:14.980 are coincidentally where they have low vitamin D.
00:08:19.140 Do you remember me saying that?
00:08:20.820 I said, is it my imagination
00:08:22.180 or is all the people in all the places
00:08:25.280 seems to be highly correlated with low vitamin D?
00:08:29.140 Right.
00:08:29.860 But I want to believe that, right?
00:08:33.480 How much do you think I want to believe
00:08:35.700 that the very first thing I said,
00:08:39.540 I think it was March I said the first.
00:08:41.780 In May I did a long thread.
00:08:43.360 But I think it was way earlier
00:08:45.680 that I noticed the correlation.
00:08:48.220 If somebody has either a date on that,
00:08:51.180 I'd really like, I'd really love to know.
00:08:54.080 But, all right, consider my situation, right?
00:08:57.180 I'm a public figure
00:08:58.160 and I make predictions and assertions about reality.
00:09:03.980 Don't you think I want to be right about that?
00:09:07.240 Like, how much do I want to be right
00:09:09.420 that vitamin D was really the magic bullet all along?
00:09:14.340 Right?
00:09:14.780 Because that would make me look smart.
00:09:19.020 It would make me look smart.
00:09:20.340 So I want that to be true.
00:09:21.820 But here's the problem.
00:09:23.720 Every time a new study comes out,
00:09:25.520 they show correlation
00:09:26.640 and they don't show causation.
00:09:28.800 They suggest that the argument for causation
00:09:32.400 is getting stronger,
00:09:33.800 but it isn't.
00:09:35.800 Because it's just more observational studies.
00:09:38.020 It doesn't matter how many you do.
00:09:40.680 Because the problem is
00:09:41.980 that people who have poor health in general
00:09:45.000 have low vitamin D.
00:09:46.780 So if you notice that all the people
00:09:48.400 with low vitamin D are dying,
00:09:50.680 it's either telling you that vitamin D
00:09:52.580 makes the difference,
00:09:54.080 or it's telling you that people in poor health
00:09:56.600 often have low vitamin D.
00:09:59.420 It doesn't mean it's the reason
00:10:00.880 that people are having bad outcomes.
00:10:02.760 Now, we do know
00:10:04.080 that vitamin D is essential for your health.
00:10:10.880 I think we know that.
00:10:12.300 I mean, I doubt that's going to change.
00:10:14.880 So certainly vitamin D is helpful.
00:10:17.660 We just don't know if these big numbers
00:10:19.800 are really because of vitamin D
00:10:22.220 or it's just a correlation.
00:10:24.280 People who have bad health
00:10:25.260 have bad vitamin D.
00:10:26.480 So I would love to have somebody
00:10:30.900 explain to people as it happens,
00:10:33.340 well, we don't know if the data is right,
00:10:35.240 but the way you're thinking about the data
00:10:36.980 is definitely wrong.
00:10:38.840 You get that, right?
00:10:40.160 There are two unknowns here.
00:10:41.780 One is, is the data right in the first place?
00:10:45.120 And then secondly,
00:10:46.060 did you analyze it correctly?
00:10:48.080 And I don't think necessarily
00:10:49.520 either of them are true.
00:10:50.920 I'm not sure they analyzed it right,
00:10:52.640 and I'm not even sure the data is right.
00:10:54.400 So if you're jumping to the conclusion
00:10:56.340 that vitamin D has been proven to work,
00:10:58.720 it might be true.
00:11:00.100 I certainly want it to be true
00:11:01.800 because that would make me look good.
00:11:03.840 But it's not there.
00:11:04.760 It's just not there.
00:11:08.900 All right, here's a,
00:11:11.460 I don't know how to handle this next situation.
00:11:15.120 So with your permission,
00:11:18.020 will you give me a little flexibility
00:11:19.620 on this next topic?
00:11:21.320 Because I'm going to confess to you
00:11:22.940 that I don't know if I'm going to handle it
00:11:24.660 the right way, right?
00:11:26.340 So I'm just going to do my best.
00:11:28.300 So the only thing I'm going to promise you
00:11:30.200 is I'll do my best.
00:11:32.620 But I think I'm going to fall a little short.
00:11:35.260 All right?
00:11:36.280 And there's a couple of points to be made.
00:11:38.200 Number one,
00:11:38.660 have I ever mentioned to you
00:11:39.680 that every time there's a story in the news,
00:11:42.300 it comes back to me somehow?
00:11:45.560 Like somehow I end up being connected to stories,
00:11:48.480 and it doesn't make any sense to me.
00:11:50.300 I mean, given that I do this in public,
00:11:53.940 but even doing it in public,
00:11:55.220 I don't have that much exposure
00:11:57.160 to the general public.
00:11:59.160 But the number of times
00:12:00.180 that I have some kind of connection
00:12:02.320 to something in the news
00:12:03.500 is just weird.
00:12:04.680 It's just weird.
00:12:06.100 All right.
00:12:07.100 Here's the story.
00:12:08.940 So you know that Sam Harris
00:12:10.840 was getting some pushback
00:12:12.700 for some things he said about Trump.
00:12:15.940 And here's what happened yesterday.
00:12:21.000 I got a longish message from Sam Harris,
00:12:24.780 private message,
00:12:25.960 in which he explained his position better.
00:12:30.300 Now here's my problem.
00:12:32.480 What the hell do I do now?
00:12:34.680 It was a private message.
00:12:37.400 Right?
00:12:37.940 It was a private message,
00:12:39.240 but I thought it was an important one.
00:12:40.660 In other words,
00:12:43.800 wouldn't you like to know his argument?
00:12:46.240 I don't know if he's made the argument
00:12:48.580 exactly that way anywhere else.
00:12:51.060 So here's what I don't want to do.
00:12:53.240 I don't want to read you his message
00:12:54.720 because it was a private message.
00:12:56.540 But I also don't want him
00:12:57.880 to be sitting out there
00:12:59.260 having offered something like a defense
00:13:02.020 to somebody who's been talking
00:13:03.460 about him in public
00:13:04.640 and just leave him exposed.
00:13:08.320 Because the worst thing would be
00:13:09.800 for me to paraphrase him
00:13:12.140 and then argue against him
00:13:13.460 when he's not here to defend himself.
00:13:15.880 And by the way,
00:13:16.500 I probably shouldn't tell you
00:13:17.460 what he said to me privately.
00:13:19.300 Right?
00:13:19.560 Even though it was related
00:13:20.780 to a public discussion.
00:13:24.480 All right.
00:13:25.340 So I'm uncomfortable
00:13:27.140 telling you what he said,
00:13:29.120 but I thought I would do it this way.
00:13:30.500 So here's the way
00:13:31.060 I'm going to approach it.
00:13:32.680 Do you remember I told you
00:13:33.980 that one way to see
00:13:36.080 if you're in cognitive dissonance
00:13:37.600 yourself is see
00:13:39.400 if you can defend
00:13:41.580 somebody else's argument
00:13:42.920 that you disagree with.
00:13:44.720 If you can take
00:13:45.660 the other person's argument
00:13:46.920 and give it in a reasonable way
00:13:49.520 that's close enough
00:13:50.560 to their argument,
00:13:51.640 then you're probably
00:13:52.540 not in cognitive dissonance.
00:13:54.300 You're probably just
00:13:55.120 valuing things differently.
00:13:57.220 Maybe your risk assessment's
00:13:59.720 a little different,
00:14:00.360 that sort of thing.
00:14:02.800 All right.
00:14:03.120 So I'm going to argue
00:14:05.360 Sam Harris's point
00:14:06.900 to support it.
00:14:11.640 All right.
00:14:11.860 So I'm not going to debate it.
00:14:13.200 I'm going to try to support it.
00:14:15.040 And then you can see
00:14:15.960 if there's any holes.
00:14:16.980 And I'll do the best I can.
00:14:18.180 All right.
00:14:18.800 So I'm going to try
00:14:19.720 to actually support it.
00:14:20.940 I'm not going to try
00:14:21.480 to make him look bad
00:14:22.560 by giving the weak version.
00:14:25.560 I'm not going to,
00:14:26.060 at least I'm not going
00:14:26.820 to try to do that.
00:14:27.800 So if that happens,
00:14:28.620 that would be a mistake.
00:14:30.020 All right.
00:14:30.320 Number one,
00:14:34.060 does Sam Harris think
00:14:35.920 that Trump is like Hitler
00:14:39.040 or in that class of danger?
00:14:41.680 What do you think?
00:14:42.640 You've seen his public statements.
00:14:44.640 Do you think
00:14:45.160 that he believes that?
00:14:47.520 Now, you might remember
00:14:48.740 that prior to Trump being elected,
00:14:51.960 I think it was prior to,
00:14:53.280 was it just after or prior?
00:14:55.400 But there was a point
00:14:56.660 when I was talking
00:14:58.380 to Sam Harris
00:14:59.040 on his podcast,
00:15:00.320 that he did make a,
00:15:02.740 he made a,
00:15:04.200 let's say,
00:15:04.940 almost an offhand
00:15:06.300 Hitler analogy to Trump.
00:15:09.600 So we do know
00:15:10.640 that there's at least
00:15:11.320 some statement
00:15:12.000 in which he's made
00:15:13.780 that reference, right?
00:15:16.400 So some of you
00:15:17.300 are confirming
00:15:17.880 that you've heard
00:15:18.400 him make that reference.
00:15:20.280 Now,
00:15:21.420 in his message to me,
00:15:23.920 he said that he does not
00:15:25.360 think that Trump
00:15:26.480 is in that category
00:15:27.620 with Hitler.
00:15:28.760 Hitler occupies 0.96
00:15:30.860 a completely different
00:15:32.440 category of danger.
00:15:35.320 And so I'm going to,
00:15:36.340 I'm going to say
00:15:37.000 that it was hyperbole
00:15:38.120 that he ever compared
00:15:40.160 Trump to Hitler,
00:15:41.780 but also early on,
00:15:44.120 hold on,
00:15:45.060 early on,
00:15:45.760 you could say
00:15:46.280 there's that risk,
00:15:47.300 but now that,
00:15:48.880 now that Trump
00:15:49.560 has served
00:15:50.020 one complete term,
00:15:51.540 one would have
00:15:52.680 to reassess that risk.
00:15:54.040 Are you right?
00:15:54.440 Are you with me so far?
00:15:55.360 Would you give me
00:15:58.120 this following point,
00:15:59.280 that no matter what
00:16:00.560 Sam Harris
00:16:01.900 or anybody else
00:16:02.900 said about Trump
00:16:04.520 early in his term
00:16:05.540 or before he was elected,
00:16:07.860 that that,
00:16:08.420 that could now
00:16:09.140 be discarded?
00:16:10.660 Would you,
00:16:11.120 would you agree?
00:16:11.980 Because what you thought
00:16:13.020 would happen
00:16:13.540 has to give way
00:16:15.100 to four years
00:16:16.260 of experience.
00:16:17.940 And I would say
00:16:19.320 that Sam Harris
00:16:20.100 would be on the same page.
00:16:21.240 I would say
00:16:23.180 that he would value
00:16:24.000 the four years
00:16:24.740 that we observed
00:16:25.440 as a higher truth
00:16:27.280 than guessing
00:16:28.300 what would happen,
00:16:29.380 right?
00:16:29.940 So I would say
00:16:31.140 you,
00:16:31.960 all of you,
00:16:32.780 and he are on
00:16:33.480 the same page on that,
00:16:35.220 that you would put
00:16:35.800 a higher value
00:16:36.580 on actual experience
00:16:38.280 than guessing,
00:16:39.740 okay?
00:16:40.900 Now,
00:16:41.460 having seen Trump
00:16:42.380 perform for four years,
00:16:44.900 I accept
00:16:45.880 Sam's statement
00:16:47.300 that there's nothing
00:16:48.480 Hitler-looking 0.94
00:16:49.340 per se in that.
00:16:51.240 you know,
00:16:51.640 there's not going
00:16:52.100 to be a roundup
00:16:52.840 of people,
00:16:53.800 he's not going
00:16:54.640 to start a nuclear war 0.55
00:16:56.040 for,
00:16:56.760 you know,
00:16:57.380 any obvious reason,
00:16:59.420 and that being tough
00:17:00.580 on crime
00:17:01.060 and tough on immigration
00:17:02.120 is not really Hitler.
00:17:04.540 Okay.
00:17:05.600 So,
00:17:06.060 so far,
00:17:06.640 so far,
00:17:07.360 would you agree?
00:17:08.820 So his current view
00:17:10.260 is that Trump
00:17:11.180 does not occupy
00:17:12.260 a dangerous
00:17:13.960 as Hitler situation.
00:17:15.640 Would you,
00:17:16.040 would you accept
00:17:16.800 that that's a reasonable
00:17:18.480 evolution of opinion
00:17:19.980 from,
00:17:21.800 well,
00:17:21.940 we don't know
00:17:22.420 what risk he poses
00:17:23.300 all the way to,
00:17:24.960 well,
00:17:25.140 we saw four years.
00:17:27.340 You know,
00:17:27.700 I still have my issues,
00:17:28.800 but it's not a Hitler problem.
00:17:30.280 Would you accept that?
00:17:32.040 I do.
00:17:33.020 I think that would be
00:17:33.920 a reasonable
00:17:34.760 evolution of opinion
00:17:36.420 based on
00:17:37.180 evolving information.
00:17:40.040 Now,
00:17:40.800 what problems
00:17:41.980 does Sam still have?
00:17:43.540 Well,
00:17:44.360 there are two things
00:17:45.000 which he's mentioned
00:17:45.820 recently
00:17:47.520 more than others.
00:17:49.960 One is Trump University
00:17:51.280 as an example
00:17:52.840 of Trump's character.
00:17:55.240 The other is
00:17:56.620 that Trump
00:17:58.100 doxed
00:17:58.920 some citizens.
00:18:01.320 Now,
00:18:01.700 I have to confess
00:18:02.460 I'm not aware
00:18:03.120 of those stories.
00:18:05.180 Vaguely,
00:18:05.780 I can imagine
00:18:06.600 I sort of have
00:18:07.700 a memory
00:18:08.120 of somebody
00:18:08.580 getting maybe
00:18:09.840 called out by Trump
00:18:10.880 and had trouble
00:18:11.760 and if that happened
00:18:13.100 I would be opposed
00:18:14.420 to that.
00:18:15.780 So is there anybody
00:18:16.440 here who thinks
00:18:17.180 that the President
00:18:17.880 of the United States
00:18:18.680 should be doxing
00:18:20.480 individuals?
00:18:22.680 No, right?
00:18:23.700 Does anybody think
00:18:24.400 that the President
00:18:25.340 should do that?
00:18:26.480 No.
00:18:27.360 I don't think
00:18:27.800 that's a good move.
00:18:28.900 So we can agree
00:18:29.780 with him
00:18:30.160 that it's
00:18:31.200 suboptimal.
00:18:33.700 I think some of you
00:18:34.880 are going to say
00:18:35.340 sure,
00:18:35.780 he can do it
00:18:36.240 if they do it first,
00:18:37.160 whatever.
00:18:37.720 But generally speaking,
00:18:39.340 I don't think
00:18:39.880 you want your President
00:18:40.800 targeting
00:18:41.620 law-abiding
00:18:43.040 individuals
00:18:43.680 who are exercising
00:18:45.120 freedom of speech.
00:18:46.500 I think we'd all
00:18:47.380 be on the same page,
00:18:48.280 right?
00:18:49.460 And I don't think
00:18:50.580 there are any
00:18:51.040 Trump supporters
00:18:51.940 who think
00:18:53.880 that Trump University
00:18:55.160 showed Trump
00:18:57.060 in a good light.
00:18:59.260 My personal belief
00:19:00.500 about that
00:19:01.100 is that Trump
00:19:01.820 was just a hands-off
00:19:02.940 manager
00:19:03.340 and probably didn't
00:19:04.680 know what was
00:19:05.100 going on there.
00:19:06.920 I don't know that.
00:19:08.620 But it's an assumption
00:19:09.580 that matches
00:19:11.160 everything I know
00:19:12.080 about executives
00:19:13.440 who have lots
00:19:14.380 of businesses.
00:19:15.560 I think he had
00:19:16.000 400 businesses
00:19:16.940 with his name on it
00:19:18.080 if you count
00:19:18.880 licensing deals.
00:19:20.480 You don't look
00:19:21.760 after all 400 deals.
00:19:23.580 I've done licensing
00:19:24.360 myself.
00:19:26.060 I've had lots
00:19:26.840 of licensees
00:19:27.700 for Dilbert.
00:19:28.700 Do you think
00:19:29.160 I've managed
00:19:29.760 all of them
00:19:30.460 and tracked
00:19:31.540 them all
00:19:31.980 to make sure
00:19:32.440 they were doing
00:19:32.920 what I wanted
00:19:33.440 them to do
00:19:33.960 with my property?
00:19:34.860 Well, we
00:19:36.500 required it.
00:19:37.660 I mean, they
00:19:38.100 had to report
00:19:38.680 to me, but
00:19:39.180 not really.
00:19:40.700 Not really.
00:19:41.600 That was sort of
00:19:42.280 other people
00:19:42.840 doing their job
00:19:43.600 and you hope
00:19:44.040 they did it well.
00:19:45.380 I'm guessing,
00:19:46.400 and I don't have
00:19:47.060 any information
00:19:47.700 to back this,
00:19:49.080 but if you have
00:19:50.040 400 companies
00:19:51.120 with your name
00:19:51.780 on it
00:19:52.220 and you're doing
00:19:53.380 as much business
00:19:54.260 as Trump was doing,
00:19:55.900 you probably
00:19:56.600 didn't watch
00:19:57.120 any of them
00:19:57.520 too closely.
00:19:58.700 I don't know
00:19:59.260 how you could.
00:19:59.820 Yeah, so the
00:20:06.800 question is
00:20:07.320 who did Trump
00:20:08.000 dox, but I
00:20:08.800 don't think
00:20:09.160 that's going
00:20:09.540 to be the
00:20:09.820 critical question
00:20:10.540 here.
00:20:12.000 So as I
00:20:13.020 understand
00:20:13.700 Sam Harris's
00:20:16.960 point, and
00:20:18.240 I'm going to
00:20:19.040 understand it
00:20:19.700 to support it,
00:20:21.400 there are two
00:20:22.280 examples in
00:20:23.680 which Trump's
00:20:24.660 character is
00:20:25.860 called into
00:20:26.360 question.
00:20:27.480 Trump University
00:20:28.460 and then
00:20:29.800 doxing
00:20:30.420 individuals.
00:20:31.640 Would you
00:20:32.060 say that those
00:20:32.740 two tell you
00:20:33.680 something about
00:20:34.280 Trump as an
00:20:35.180 individual?
00:20:36.500 I think so.
00:20:37.780 I think so.
00:20:39.460 Yeah.
00:20:40.320 Now there,
00:20:41.220 but here's the
00:20:41.860 interesting thing.
00:20:43.100 Why would you
00:20:43.760 pick those out?
00:20:46.260 So here's my
00:20:47.620 observation as
00:20:48.500 a hypnotist.
00:20:49.660 As a trained
00:20:50.280 hypnotist, one
00:20:51.800 of the things
00:20:52.180 you look for
00:20:52.780 to see if
00:20:53.220 somebody is
00:20:53.700 hypnotized is
00:20:55.660 that their
00:20:56.020 reaction is
00:20:56.760 extremely
00:20:57.380 non-standard.
00:20:58.460 not completely
00:21:00.980 crazy, just
00:21:03.100 completely
00:21:03.580 non-standard.
00:21:05.460 When was the
00:21:06.140 last time
00:21:06.620 somebody said
00:21:07.440 that Trump
00:21:08.540 has to go
00:21:09.260 because of
00:21:09.860 those times
00:21:10.700 he doxed
00:21:11.480 people?
00:21:13.180 Have you
00:21:13.560 heard anybody
00:21:14.080 else ever
00:21:14.600 say that?
00:21:16.660 Has anybody
00:21:17.620 ever heard
00:21:18.080 anybody ever
00:21:19.640 say that a
00:21:21.300 big problem
00:21:21.980 with Trump
00:21:22.580 is his
00:21:23.060 doxing of
00:21:23.760 individuals?
00:21:24.120 so there's
00:21:26.920 no way to
00:21:27.360 know what's
00:21:27.800 in the head
00:21:28.260 of other
00:21:28.580 people and
00:21:29.640 so I'm
00:21:30.180 not going to
00:21:30.580 diagnose
00:21:30.980 somebody by
00:21:33.140 reading their
00:21:33.720 mind.
00:21:34.200 That's not a
00:21:34.720 thing.
00:21:35.420 I'm just
00:21:35.980 saying if you
00:21:36.480 were looking
00:21:36.900 for a signal
00:21:37.700 for a
00:21:38.200 cognitive
00:21:38.560 distance,
00:21:39.640 that would
00:21:40.480 be a
00:21:40.800 gigantic
00:21:41.220 glaring 0.68
00:21:42.080 signal.
00:21:43.400 Doesn't
00:21:43.880 mean it
00:21:44.200 is.
00:21:45.240 Doesn't
00:21:45.760 mean it
00:21:46.100 is.
00:21:47.060 It just
00:21:47.620 means that
00:21:48.040 that's exactly
00:21:48.640 what a signal
00:21:49.260 would look
00:21:49.700 like.
00:21:50.440 A highly
00:21:51.140 unusual
00:21:51.740 opinion which
00:21:53.800 still has
00:21:54.260 some logical
00:21:55.200 connective
00:21:56.580 tissue.
00:21:57.600 Because when
00:21:58.220 somebody is
00:21:58.760 hypnotized and
00:21:59.920 they come up
00:22:00.440 with, let's
00:22:01.420 say, the
00:22:01.740 cognitive
00:22:02.240 dissonance
00:22:02.880 explanation of
00:22:03.680 why they're
00:22:04.000 doing something,
00:22:05.420 the cognitive
00:22:06.200 dissonance
00:22:06.980 explanation also
00:22:08.680 makes sort
00:22:09.640 of sense.
00:22:11.360 In other
00:22:11.660 words, they
00:22:12.020 can piece it
00:22:13.500 together with
00:22:14.000 some kind of
00:22:14.460 logical trail.
00:22:16.340 But you still
00:22:17.220 look at it and
00:22:17.720 you say, I
00:22:18.600 don't think
00:22:19.040 anybody else
00:22:19.620 in that
00:22:19.880 situation would
00:22:20.600 have said
00:22:20.900 that.
00:22:22.180 Of all the
00:22:23.000 things you
00:22:23.400 could say,
00:22:24.780 that's an
00:22:25.320 unusual one.
00:22:27.260 So without
00:22:27.780 saying, without
00:22:28.920 having an
00:22:29.540 opinion of
00:22:30.040 whether the
00:22:30.560 doxing is
00:22:32.060 good or bad,
00:22:33.340 I think we'd
00:22:33.920 all agree it's
00:22:34.500 bad if we
00:22:35.780 heard the
00:22:36.120 examples.
00:22:37.200 I'm not
00:22:37.600 familiar with
00:22:38.500 the examples,
00:22:39.640 but I'm open
00:22:40.640 to the fact
00:22:41.100 that if a
00:22:42.260 president dox
00:22:42.980 somebody, that's
00:22:43.520 really bad.
00:22:44.700 You shouldn't
00:22:45.040 do that.
00:22:46.620 Right?
00:22:47.860 And so,
00:22:48.420 when you
00:22:51.320 see an
00:22:51.900 unusual
00:22:52.340 opinion, that's
00:22:54.100 a flag.
00:22:55.400 Now, that
00:22:55.820 doesn't mean
00:22:56.540 that he's
00:22:57.120 experiencing
00:22:57.800 cognitive
00:22:58.340 dissonance.
00:22:59.300 Are you
00:22:59.600 clear on
00:23:00.020 that?
00:23:00.680 It doesn't
00:23:01.380 mean he's
00:23:01.740 experiencing
00:23:02.200 cognitive
00:23:02.720 dissonance.
00:23:03.720 It just
00:23:04.140 means that
00:23:04.600 if he is,
00:23:06.220 it would
00:23:06.540 look exactly
00:23:07.180 like that.
00:23:08.940 That's all.
00:23:11.180 Now, the
00:23:12.360 other thing
00:23:13.080 you would
00:23:13.300 look for
00:23:13.620 for cognitive
00:23:14.180 dissonance
00:23:14.700 is a
00:23:15.060 trigger.
00:23:15.360 trigger is
00:23:17.500 if something
00:23:18.040 that you
00:23:18.540 were sure
00:23:18.980 would be
00:23:19.420 true doesn't
00:23:20.720 happen.
00:23:23.280 So, I
00:23:24.040 said from the
00:23:25.440 beginning that
00:23:26.160 Trump would
00:23:26.660 be an
00:23:26.960 expensive
00:23:27.520 president,
00:23:28.920 meaning he'd
00:23:29.540 cause a lot
00:23:30.040 of trouble and
00:23:30.580 he'd break a
00:23:31.080 lot of
00:23:31.340 dishes, but
00:23:32.780 that there
00:23:33.560 might be some
00:23:34.060 big things
00:23:34.640 that the
00:23:34.920 country wants,
00:23:35.660 or at least
00:23:35.940 part of the
00:23:36.300 country wants,
00:23:37.380 that he
00:23:37.820 would get
00:23:38.100 done.
00:23:39.020 And sure
00:23:39.420 enough, he
00:23:40.180 got done,
00:23:41.200 in my opinion,
00:23:42.480 North Korea,
00:23:43.440 defused that,
00:23:44.300 the Abraham
00:23:45.840 Accords, I
00:23:47.480 think he
00:23:47.800 tightened up
00:23:48.240 the border
00:23:48.720 better than,
00:23:49.980 not as good
00:23:50.640 as somebody
00:23:51.020 wanted, but
00:23:51.760 better than
00:23:52.280 it's been
00:23:52.720 done.
00:23:54.000 And so you
00:23:54.820 could come up
00:23:55.320 with a bunch
00:23:55.760 of things
00:23:56.220 they did.
00:23:57.620 Now, in
00:23:58.080 my opinion,
00:24:00.020 my expectation
00:24:01.000 of Trump was
00:24:02.380 pretty close to
00:24:03.100 what happened.
00:24:04.600 So there's no
00:24:05.480 trigger for
00:24:06.080 cognitive dissonance
00:24:07.020 in my case,
00:24:08.240 or at least
00:24:08.740 one that I
00:24:09.380 can't see.
00:24:09.980 Maybe you
00:24:10.380 can see it,
00:24:10.840 but I can't
00:24:11.260 see it,
00:24:11.860 because I
00:24:12.820 got what I
00:24:13.340 expected.
00:24:14.300 But now
00:24:15.320 imagine if
00:24:15.920 you were
00:24:16.320 talking about
00:24:17.120 Trump in
00:24:17.720 the most,
00:24:19.120 let's say,
00:24:20.880 cataclysmic
00:24:21.760 terms before
00:24:22.780 he got
00:24:23.180 elected,
00:24:24.540 and it
00:24:24.900 looked like
00:24:25.740 the end
00:24:26.020 of the
00:24:26.220 world,
00:24:26.660 and you'd
00:24:26.920 really gone
00:24:27.340 out there
00:24:27.720 saying it
00:24:28.140 was going
00:24:28.420 to be a
00:24:28.700 disaster.
00:24:29.880 And then
00:24:30.440 Trump gets
00:24:30.900 an office and
00:24:31.540 he does
00:24:31.820 something closer
00:24:32.560 to a good
00:24:33.160 job.
00:24:34.660 Not at
00:24:35.260 all what it
00:24:35.860 looked like
00:24:36.240 it was going
00:24:36.620 to be if
00:24:37.320 you were a
00:24:37.720 critic.
00:24:38.660 That's a
00:24:39.220 trigger.
00:24:40.800 That's a
00:24:41.380 perfect trigger.
00:24:42.420 That's a
00:24:43.020 textbook,
00:24:43.780 trigger for
00:24:45.380 cognitive
00:24:45.800 dissonance.
00:24:46.840 What you
00:24:47.180 expected is
00:24:47.920 wildly different
00:24:48.980 than what you
00:24:49.660 got.
00:24:50.580 And that
00:24:50.920 wasn't true
00:24:51.420 for Republicans.
00:24:53.120 Republicans
00:24:53.600 expected a
00:24:54.720 set of
00:24:55.320 behaviors from
00:24:56.020 Trump, and
00:24:56.900 they got
00:24:57.280 them.
00:24:57.800 For the
00:24:58.420 most part,
00:24:58.920 they got
00:24:59.220 exactly what
00:24:59.800 they expected.
00:25:00.780 There's no
00:25:01.220 trigger there.
00:25:02.640 It's only the
00:25:03.280 people who
00:25:03.680 were surprised
00:25:04.480 who were
00:25:05.220 triggered.
00:25:06.860 So again,
00:25:07.740 that doesn't
00:25:08.120 mean he's
00:25:08.560 experiencing
00:25:09.060 cognitive
00:25:09.560 dissonance.
00:25:10.140 It just
00:25:10.580 means it
00:25:10.900 would look
00:25:11.260 exactly like
00:25:12.400 that if
00:25:12.740 he were.
00:25:13.640 That's all
00:25:13.980 you can
00:25:14.200 say.
00:25:15.220 But let
00:25:15.540 me take
00:25:15.800 his argument
00:25:16.240 and finish
00:25:18.180 it, because
00:25:18.980 there's
00:25:19.160 something to
00:25:19.620 it.
00:25:20.460 And he
00:25:21.120 goes on to
00:25:21.700 say that
00:25:22.180 Trump's,
00:25:23.900 what he
00:25:24.540 would say
00:25:24.840 is obvious
00:25:25.540 character
00:25:27.100 failings,
00:25:28.800 as evidenced
00:25:30.120 by Trump
00:25:30.920 University,
00:25:31.620 this is
00:25:31.920 Sam's
00:25:32.360 argument,
00:25:33.200 and as
00:25:34.560 evidenced
00:25:34.960 by doxing
00:25:37.480 and other
00:25:38.080 behaviors that
00:25:39.040 look cowardly
00:25:39.820 and or
00:25:40.300 selfish.
00:25:42.240 That those
00:25:43.060 are dangerous
00:25:44.100 characteristics to
00:25:45.200 have in a
00:25:45.620 president, but
00:25:47.140 nothing like
00:25:48.000 the danger
00:25:49.580 of a
00:25:50.020 Hitler. 0.57
00:25:51.720 And so,
00:25:53.300 and so,
00:25:55.080 when Sam
00:25:55.700 says he's
00:25:56.660 not too
00:25:57.320 concerned that
00:25:58.160 maybe the
00:25:58.800 Hunter Biden
00:25:59.420 laptop story
00:26:00.380 got suppressed
00:26:01.160 for the
00:26:02.500 purpose of
00:26:03.220 helping Trump
00:26:06.160 lose the
00:26:06.680 election,
00:26:07.480 that maybe
00:26:08.300 that's not
00:26:08.860 that different
00:26:09.600 than the
00:26:11.700 Wiener
00:26:12.080 laptop coming
00:26:13.060 out that
00:26:13.920 may have
00:26:14.340 helped Trump
00:26:15.100 get elected,
00:26:16.160 hypothetically.
00:26:17.760 So, if you
00:26:18.580 said to me,
00:26:19.240 well, those
00:26:19.980 things are
00:26:20.440 about equal,
00:26:22.320 maybe it
00:26:22.960 would be
00:26:23.180 better if
00:26:23.560 neither of
00:26:24.020 them happened,
00:26:24.680 but they're
00:26:25.300 not that
00:26:25.780 different in
00:26:28.000 impact.
00:26:31.060 That's not
00:26:31.540 crazy.
00:26:35.500 That's not
00:26:35.880 crazy.
00:26:36.220 put yourself
00:26:38.720 in the
00:26:38.960 other
00:26:39.100 situation.
00:26:41.000 If you
00:26:42.000 knew that
00:26:43.440 the only
00:26:44.120 thing that
00:26:44.520 kept Hillary
00:26:45.120 Clinton out
00:26:45.820 of office
00:26:46.360 was some
00:26:47.420 sketchy stuff
00:26:48.200 in the
00:26:48.520 news,
00:26:49.860 in fact,
00:26:50.600 maybe that
00:26:51.000 is exactly
00:26:51.660 what happened,
00:26:52.200 we don't
00:26:52.480 know.
00:26:53.040 But if you
00:26:53.600 knew that's
00:26:54.000 the only
00:26:54.300 thing that
00:26:54.660 kept her
00:26:54.980 out of
00:26:55.240 office and
00:26:55.740 you were
00:26:56.000 a Republican,
00:26:57.660 how concerned
00:26:58.620 would you
00:26:59.000 be?
00:26:59.220 you wouldn't
00:27:00.860 be that
00:27:01.320 concerned.
00:27:03.440 Now, I
00:27:04.020 don't want
00:27:04.320 to speak
00:27:04.680 for you,
00:27:05.540 but on
00:27:06.060 average,
00:27:07.020 people are
00:27:07.720 willing to
00:27:08.180 accept a
00:27:08.800 little
00:27:08.980 imperfection on
00:27:09.820 their own
00:27:10.220 team if
00:27:10.720 they get
00:27:11.020 what they
00:27:11.300 want.
00:27:12.040 That's
00:27:12.560 pretty
00:27:12.880 normal.
00:27:14.460 So, I
00:27:15.100 think it's
00:27:15.340 pretty normal
00:27:16.060 for somebody
00:27:16.560 to say,
00:27:16.880 I wouldn't
00:27:17.200 have accepted
00:27:17.680 a little
00:27:18.060 imperfection to
00:27:20.440 get the
00:27:20.740 outcome I
00:27:21.220 wanted,
00:27:21.800 because I
00:27:22.180 think a
00:27:22.860 different
00:27:23.660 president makes
00:27:24.240 a big
00:27:24.460 difference.
00:27:25.880 Now, what
00:27:26.180 about the
00:27:26.760 Sam Harris
00:27:28.700 also famously
00:27:29.700 said that he
00:27:31.260 had, I
00:27:32.040 forget the
00:27:32.420 exact words,
00:27:33.120 but in
00:27:33.760 some ways
00:27:34.420 more respect
00:27:35.400 for Osama 0.82
00:27:36.240 Bin Laden
00:27:36.880 than for
00:27:38.180 Trump.
00:27:39.500 But this
00:27:40.220 has to be
00:27:42.020 understood in
00:27:43.620 terms of an
00:27:44.260 intellectual
00:27:44.800 argument.
00:27:46.480 As soon as
00:27:47.120 you put it
00:27:47.500 into an
00:27:47.840 emotional
00:27:48.220 argument,
00:27:48.900 it makes
00:27:49.640 your head
00:27:49.940 explode.
00:27:50.840 No,
00:27:51.360 Bin Laden's 0.97
00:27:51.880 a monster.
00:27:53.360 Trump's just
00:27:54.060 a politician.
00:27:54.860 No.
00:27:55.920 But that's
00:27:56.440 not what he
00:27:56.780 was talking
00:27:57.100 about.
00:27:57.560 He's not
00:27:57.920 talking about
00:27:58.640 Bin Laden
00:27:59.320 directly
00:28:00.660 murdering
00:28:01.280 people versus
00:28:02.020 Trump having
00:28:03.360 a policy he
00:28:04.040 doesn't like.
00:28:05.420 The point
00:28:06.140 was that
00:28:06.620 Bin Laden
00:28:07.120 was operating
00:28:07.860 on principle.
00:28:09.620 It just
00:28:10.040 happened to
00:28:10.400 be a
00:28:10.640 principle that
00:28:11.180 we hate.
00:28:13.600 But he
00:28:14.320 was sort
00:28:15.040 of internally
00:28:15.560 consistent with
00:28:16.540 his Islamic
00:28:17.500 beliefs, at
00:28:19.020 least the
00:28:19.360 extremist
00:28:19.920 Islamic
00:28:20.520 beliefs.
00:28:21.920 Whereas Sam's 0.51
00:28:23.100 point is that
00:28:23.860 Trump is
00:28:25.180 not moored
00:28:26.640 to any
00:28:27.180 moral or
00:28:28.580 ethical
00:28:29.040 foundation,
00:28:31.100 therefore he's
00:28:31.820 a little more
00:28:32.240 unpredictable and
00:28:33.440 likely to
00:28:34.180 operate for his
00:28:35.000 own best
00:28:35.460 interest in
00:28:36.540 any given
00:28:37.000 situation.
00:28:38.620 So do you
00:28:39.300 think that it's
00:28:39.800 dangerous to
00:28:40.440 have somebody
00:28:40.880 you can't
00:28:41.500 predict as
00:28:42.640 president?
00:28:43.680 Because he's
00:28:44.080 going to sort
00:28:44.720 of go where
00:28:45.420 the self-interest
00:28:47.460 goes.
00:28:49.720 That's not a
00:28:50.680 terrible argument.
00:28:51.200 Now, I
00:28:53.600 have, you
00:28:54.180 know, I
00:28:54.400 can counter
00:28:54.840 the argument,
00:28:55.880 but I'm not
00:28:57.100 going to do
00:28:57.440 that in this
00:28:58.540 conversation.
00:29:00.040 Because this
00:29:00.960 conversation is
00:29:01.800 to see if I
00:29:02.660 can explain his
00:29:03.860 argument in a
00:29:07.580 way that makes
00:29:09.320 it make sense
00:29:09.980 without making
00:29:11.840 it sound crazy.
00:29:13.360 And I think
00:29:14.060 that his
00:29:14.440 argument is not
00:29:15.480 crazy if you
00:29:16.980 accept the
00:29:17.560 following
00:29:17.980 clarifications,
00:29:19.100 which he has
00:29:20.500 provided.
00:29:23.140 Clarification
00:29:23.700 number one,
00:29:24.780 he does not
00:29:25.400 believe that
00:29:26.280 Trump is
00:29:26.740 dangerous like
00:29:27.880 Hitler would 1.00
00:29:28.740 be.
00:29:29.740 He believes
00:29:30.520 he's unpredictable
00:29:31.340 because he's
00:29:32.380 not moored to
00:29:33.360 a moral,
00:29:34.180 ethical foundation.
00:29:37.160 I accept
00:29:37.960 that.
00:29:39.260 I accept
00:29:39.700 that.
00:29:40.280 If I were
00:29:40.960 arguing against
00:29:41.800 it, which I'm
00:29:42.400 not going to
00:29:42.780 do today, I
00:29:44.120 would say
00:29:44.420 something about
00:29:45.140 the presidency
00:29:46.320 has more
00:29:47.140 transparency than
00:29:48.260 most things.
00:29:49.100 And he's
00:29:49.880 offered to
00:29:50.400 give us
00:29:50.800 those services
00:29:52.220 on our
00:29:52.760 behalf.
00:29:53.580 And we
00:29:53.940 can watch
00:29:54.360 it happen
00:29:54.760 while it's
00:29:55.220 happening.
00:29:57.020 But there's
00:29:57.680 not that much
00:29:58.340 transparency, so
00:29:59.640 there's always
00:30:00.040 an issue.
00:30:01.920 And so if I
00:30:02.740 take Sam's
00:30:03.660 argument, I'd
00:30:04.200 say there's
00:30:04.600 not that much
00:30:05.240 transparency,
00:30:06.620 there's not
00:30:07.040 enough, because
00:30:07.780 we still wonder
00:30:08.340 what happens
00:30:08.920 behind closed
00:30:10.060 doors and
00:30:10.500 stuff.
00:30:12.960 But it's
00:30:14.140 not a bad
00:30:14.540 argument.
00:30:15.360 So if you
00:30:15.880 allow that the
00:30:16.720 bin Laden
00:30:17.300 argument was
00:30:18.000 just an
00:30:18.800 intellectual
00:30:19.340 exercise, which
00:30:20.360 is what it
00:30:20.760 was, that's
00:30:22.480 fine.
00:30:23.060 It's just an
00:30:23.560 intellectual
00:30:23.940 exercise.
00:30:25.260 If you
00:30:25.800 allow that
00:30:26.300 the Hitler 0.95
00:30:27.900 stuff was
00:30:28.460 just hyperbole
00:30:29.320 and also
00:30:30.660 has given
00:30:31.260 way to
00:30:32.220 experience,
00:30:32.980 we've seen
00:30:33.280 what Trump
00:30:33.720 can and
00:30:34.140 cannot do
00:30:34.600 in office,
00:30:36.080 I don't
00:30:36.780 think Sam's
00:30:37.480 opinion is
00:30:38.300 as crazy
00:30:39.100 as you
00:30:40.340 do.
00:30:42.520 Let me
00:30:43.100 ask you
00:30:43.440 this.
00:30:43.680 if I
00:30:44.660 said there
00:30:45.120 was some
00:30:45.460 other
00:30:45.760 president
00:30:46.180 coming into
00:30:46.920 office, let's
00:30:48.300 say it was
00:30:48.760 a Democrat,
00:30:50.220 and you
00:30:50.600 felt that
00:30:51.120 that Democrat's
00:30:52.120 history suggested
00:30:54.780 that the
00:30:55.300 Democrat would
00:30:55.960 do whatever
00:30:57.080 it took,
00:30:58.020 that there
00:30:58.900 was no
00:30:59.360 moral
00:30:59.840 underpinnings,
00:31:00.940 would you be
00:31:01.580 uncomfortable
00:31:02.060 with that
00:31:02.520 president?
00:31:03.880 Probably.
00:31:05.440 Probably.
00:31:06.740 Right?
00:31:08.080 Yeah.
00:31:08.640 Were you
00:31:09.020 uncomfortable
00:31:09.480 with LBJ?
00:31:10.700 Were you
00:31:10.940 uncomfortable
00:31:11.340 with, I'm
00:31:12.780 not sure
00:31:13.080 about Bill
00:31:13.480 Clinton, I'm
00:31:14.220 not going
00:31:14.460 to go that
00:31:14.860 far.
00:31:16.140 I have a
00:31:16.640 different opinion
00:31:17.120 about Hillary
00:31:17.640 than I do
00:31:18.120 about Bill.
00:31:18.780 I think Bill
00:31:19.300 Clinton was a
00:31:20.040 solid president,
00:31:20.960 that's my
00:31:21.340 opinion.
00:31:22.640 I think he
00:31:23.180 was a solid
00:31:23.700 president.
00:31:27.060 And I'm
00:31:28.120 not looking for
00:31:28.680 an argument
00:31:29.040 on that.
00:31:30.440 You know,
00:31:30.680 people can
00:31:31.100 disagree on
00:31:31.680 stuff like
00:31:32.080 that.
00:31:33.000 All right,
00:31:34.040 so how'd
00:31:34.620 I do?
00:31:36.240 How'd I
00:31:36.800 do?
00:31:37.640 Did I,
00:31:38.160 you don't
00:31:38.380 have to agree
00:31:39.000 with my
00:31:39.420 argument,
00:31:40.180 but do you
00:31:40.900 think that
00:31:41.460 I've made
00:31:41.960 Sam Harris's
00:31:42.760 point look
00:31:43.400 reasonable?
00:31:45.100 Does it
00:31:45.740 look reasonable?
00:31:47.960 Once you
00:31:48.660 take away
00:31:49.040 the hyperbole,
00:31:50.640 there's a
00:31:51.380 solid core
00:31:52.000 there.
00:31:54.760 I guess
00:31:55.520 some yeses,
00:31:56.580 mostly noes.
00:31:57.760 You know,
00:31:57.980 we're deep
00:31:59.100 into team
00:31:59.980 sport territory
00:32:01.140 here,
00:32:01.940 and when you
00:32:02.520 get this
00:32:02.920 deeply into
00:32:03.460 team sport,
00:32:04.420 I know you
00:32:05.040 don't want to
00:32:05.960 give the
00:32:06.460 other team
00:32:06.860 a point.
00:32:07.560 I get
00:32:07.880 that.
00:32:08.160 But,
00:32:10.540 let me
00:32:10.980 ask you
00:32:11.260 this.
00:32:12.320 Did I
00:32:12.760 at least
00:32:13.200 pass the
00:32:13.820 test that
00:32:14.560 I could
00:32:15.100 express the
00:32:16.920 argument in
00:32:18.760 a full-throated
00:32:19.500 way?
00:32:20.460 Would you
00:32:20.820 accept that?
00:32:21.920 Did I
00:32:22.520 express the
00:32:23.100 argument in
00:32:23.600 a full-throated
00:32:24.400 way?
00:32:26.160 I think I
00:32:26.960 did.
00:32:27.800 I think I
00:32:28.300 did.
00:32:28.900 Now,
00:32:29.160 that would
00:32:29.460 suggest that
00:32:31.420 I don't have
00:32:31.980 cognitive dissonance.
00:32:34.540 And again,
00:32:35.140 this is a
00:32:36.080 rule of thumb.
00:32:36.720 It's not
00:32:37.080 like some
00:32:37.680 scientific
00:32:38.240 guarantee.
00:32:39.900 But the
00:32:40.440 strong indication
00:32:41.460 is that I
00:32:42.200 can tell
00:32:42.580 his argument
00:32:43.180 and I
00:32:45.020 don't have
00:32:45.440 an unusual
00:32:46.160 opinion about
00:32:47.100 things.
00:32:49.500 All right?
00:32:50.980 So,
00:32:51.900 okay,
00:32:52.300 I feel good
00:32:52.740 about that.
00:32:57.920 But here's
00:32:58.760 my bottom
00:32:59.460 line.
00:32:59.780 I think that
00:33:00.260 the difference
00:33:00.760 between Sam's
00:33:01.660 opinion and
00:33:02.120 mine comes
00:33:02.740 down to
00:33:03.140 one thing.
00:33:03.720 wildly
00:33:05.840 different
00:33:06.260 opinions about
00:33:07.180 what is
00:33:07.840 dangerous.
00:33:10.100 Wildly
00:33:10.560 different
00:33:10.800 opinions about
00:33:11.420 what's
00:33:11.660 important.
00:33:12.760 For example,
00:33:14.160 I would say
00:33:15.400 that the
00:33:15.920 50 intelligence
00:33:17.180 agents lying
00:33:18.840 about Hunter's
00:33:19.760 laptop destroys
00:33:21.760 the credibility
00:33:22.500 of our most
00:33:23.440 important systems
00:33:24.460 and also
00:33:25.540 reveals that
00:33:26.300 they're corrupt.
00:33:27.860 And I would
00:33:28.300 put that at
00:33:28.980 a, in
00:33:29.760 terms of a
00:33:30.420 scale of
00:33:31.100 one to ten,
00:33:32.280 that's like a
00:33:33.160 nine.
00:33:33.720 in terms of
00:33:34.920 how bad
00:33:35.320 that is.
00:33:36.300 That's like a
00:33:36.760 nine.
00:33:37.880 How bad is
00:33:38.780 a president
00:33:39.340 doxing an 0.99
00:33:41.220 individual?
00:33:42.760 Well, on a
00:33:43.540 moral, ethical,
00:33:45.220 and preference
00:33:46.400 level, it's a
00:33:47.660 ten in badness.
00:33:49.760 But in terms of
00:33:50.660 how it affects
00:33:51.260 the world,
00:33:53.280 it's a one.
00:33:55.060 It's a one.
00:33:56.640 It affects
00:33:57.320 those people,
00:33:58.480 and I don't
00:33:59.120 like that at
00:33:59.660 all.
00:34:00.840 You know,
00:34:01.080 any doxing
00:34:01.940 by a president,
00:34:02.500 I'm completely
00:34:03.920 against.
00:34:05.640 But you have
00:34:06.220 to put it in
00:34:06.640 perspective.
00:34:07.820 I would say
00:34:08.300 that the
00:34:08.900 50 intel
00:34:10.040 people,
00:34:10.840 ex-intel
00:34:11.380 professionals
00:34:12.140 lying is a
00:34:13.540 big frickin'
00:34:14.420 deal.
00:34:15.520 That's a
00:34:15.920 nine.
00:34:17.280 Doxing,
00:34:17.920 it's a one,
00:34:19.120 except that the
00:34:19.900 individuals involved,
00:34:21.040 of course,
00:34:21.500 it's a ten to
00:34:22.100 them.
00:34:23.380 So I don't
00:34:24.500 know that Sam
00:34:25.120 and I differ
00:34:25.920 on the logic
00:34:26.740 of anything.
00:34:28.380 I don't know
00:34:29.360 that we have
00:34:29.860 different data,
00:34:31.460 at least that
00:34:32.080 hasn't been
00:34:32.680 obvious to me,
00:34:33.740 but we're
00:34:34.340 definitely valuing
00:34:35.280 things differently.
00:34:36.080 I'll give you
00:34:36.420 another one.
00:34:37.540 I imagine that
00:34:38.860 January 6th would
00:34:40.300 be higher in,
00:34:41.280 well, since he
00:34:42.080 hasn't talked
00:34:42.500 about it, I
00:34:42.960 won't put this
00:34:43.460 in his head.
00:34:44.340 Let's say me
00:34:45.160 compared to a
00:34:45.840 Democrat.
00:34:46.900 Typical Democrat
00:34:47.760 would say,
00:34:49.120 January 6th was
00:34:49.980 just horrible,
00:34:50.960 like it was like
00:34:51.540 nearly the end
00:34:53.060 of the Republic.
00:34:54.740 Do you know
00:34:55.100 what I say
00:34:55.480 about January 6th?
00:34:57.920 Again, not
00:34:59.460 counting the
00:35:00.020 violence part,
00:35:01.260 which is if you
00:35:02.100 were a recipient
00:35:02.880 of the violence
00:35:03.840 or you were
00:35:05.120 jailed because
00:35:05.840 of it,
00:35:06.480 that problem
00:35:07.520 is a ten
00:35:08.080 and a ten
00:35:08.560 for you,
00:35:09.940 no question
00:35:10.540 about it.
00:35:11.740 But what
00:35:12.140 effect did it
00:35:12.720 have on the
00:35:13.520 world or the
00:35:14.200 country?
00:35:15.060 In my opinion,
00:35:17.800 stronger.
00:35:21.140 There's,
00:35:21.740 oh, well,
00:35:22.360 okay, I just
00:35:22.940 outed myself
00:35:23.540 there, didn't
00:35:23.960 I?
00:35:24.920 I guess that
00:35:25.400 was a non-standard
00:35:26.460 opinion, wasn't
00:35:27.100 it?
00:35:28.200 So then I have
00:35:29.280 to ask myself,
00:35:30.000 was that
00:35:30.320 cognitive dissonance?
00:35:32.320 Here's why I
00:35:33.040 say stronger.
00:35:33.660 I'll give you
00:35:34.000 my argument.
00:35:35.020 It doesn't
00:35:35.400 mean I'm not
00:35:35.860 experiencing
00:35:36.380 cognitive dissonance.
00:35:38.240 Now, keep in
00:35:38.920 mind that I've
00:35:39.500 condemned Trump's
00:35:41.420 actions on
00:35:42.160 January 6th.
00:35:43.200 So in theory,
00:35:44.620 that should
00:35:45.260 protect me,
00:35:46.800 right?
00:35:47.340 Because I'm
00:35:47.760 on record.
00:35:48.800 I said Biden
00:35:49.520 won from day
00:35:50.300 one.
00:35:51.220 You know,
00:35:51.520 that's not
00:35:51.940 going to change.
00:35:52.500 I've never
00:35:52.960 gone back
00:35:53.480 on that.
00:35:54.420 The system
00:35:54.900 elected Biden,
00:35:56.560 so even if
00:35:57.420 there were,
00:35:57.980 you know,
00:35:58.300 hypothetically
00:35:58.860 any imperfections,
00:36:00.360 I still go
00:36:01.100 with the
00:36:01.340 system.
00:36:02.200 We've got to
00:36:02.680 fix the
00:36:03.080 system,
00:36:03.780 but you've
00:36:04.360 got to go
00:36:04.700 with the
00:36:04.980 system while
00:36:05.560 you're fixing
00:36:05.980 it.
00:36:06.240 That's just
00:36:06.700 my opinion.
00:36:08.440 So,
00:36:10.900 my opinion
00:36:13.660 on January
00:36:14.300 6th is that
00:36:15.060 it made
00:36:15.280 America stronger.
00:36:16.260 would anybody
00:36:18.740 agree with
00:36:19.220 that before
00:36:19.580 you hear my
00:36:20.000 argument?
00:36:21.320 Before I
00:36:21.780 give you the
00:36:22.140 argument,
00:36:22.720 January 6th,
00:36:23.620 the protests,
00:36:24.500 even with the
00:36:25.100 violence,
00:36:26.160 which I
00:36:26.640 condemn totally,
00:36:28.440 made America
00:36:29.180 stronger.
00:36:31.540 Yeah,
00:36:31.800 I think
00:36:32.040 reasonable people
00:36:32.760 can disagree
00:36:33.380 on this one.
00:36:35.400 Here's my
00:36:36.100 argument.
00:36:37.600 It's sort of
00:36:38.380 the Jordan
00:36:38.840 Peterson argument
00:36:39.800 about individuals,
00:36:40.820 that you
00:36:42.440 should be
00:36:43.020 dangerous,
00:36:44.440 but learn to
00:36:45.080 control it.
00:36:47.380 Your nature
00:36:48.260 should be as
00:36:48.800 dangerous as
00:36:49.400 possible.
00:36:50.040 It keeps
00:36:50.360 society
00:36:50.920 operating.
00:36:53.960 Here's what
00:36:54.620 I want.
00:36:55.360 I want my
00:36:56.060 government,
00:36:56.720 no matter who
00:36:57.280 it is,
00:36:58.180 be they
00:36:59.060 Democrat or
00:36:59.900 be they
00:37:00.320 Republican or
00:37:01.240 anything else,
00:37:02.040 I want my
00:37:02.720 government to
00:37:03.340 know that if
00:37:05.200 I've got
00:37:05.620 questions and
00:37:07.520 my fellow
00:37:08.480 citizens have
00:37:09.200 questions,
00:37:09.820 we're going to
00:37:10.420 show up.
00:37:12.060 We're going
00:37:12.460 to show up.
00:37:13.680 Well, not me,
00:37:14.340 I like to have
00:37:15.060 bathrooms I
00:37:17.080 don't have to
00:37:17.500 wait for,
00:37:17.920 so I won't
00:37:18.380 be there.
00:37:20.780 But people
00:37:21.740 who like to
00:37:22.260 do that kind
00:37:22.760 of stuff,
00:37:23.140 they'll be
00:37:23.400 there.
00:37:24.640 I'll try to
00:37:25.340 do something
00:37:26.160 useful at
00:37:26.840 home where
00:37:28.000 I'm more
00:37:28.520 comfortable.
00:37:30.820 But the
00:37:32.140 rest of you,
00:37:32.940 I love the
00:37:33.620 fact that you
00:37:34.040 show up.
00:37:35.480 So my
00:37:36.380 take on,
00:37:38.860 and I'm
00:37:39.400 going to say
00:37:39.700 the same
00:37:40.020 thing with
00:37:40.400 Black Lives
00:37:41.240 Matter.
00:37:42.620 So here I'm
00:37:43.560 going to
00:37:43.740 show at
00:37:44.360 least maybe
00:37:44.940 a possibility
00:37:45.700 that I'm
00:37:46.120 not experiencing
00:37:47.080 cognitive
00:37:47.660 dissonance.
00:37:48.800 Black Lives
00:37:49.280 Matter created
00:37:49.940 some bad
00:37:51.400 stuff,
00:37:52.800 created lots
00:37:53.800 of destruction
00:37:54.440 and death.
00:37:55.960 I don't
00:37:56.780 mind living
00:37:57.340 in a country
00:37:57.920 where people
00:37:58.480 are going to
00:37:58.820 hit the
00:37:59.200 streets to
00:38:00.220 fight for
00:38:01.060 fairness.
00:38:03.420 I don't
00:38:04.120 hate that.
00:38:05.220 I hate all
00:38:05.960 the violence,
00:38:06.560 I hate the
00:38:06.880 disruption,
00:38:07.820 I hate that
00:38:08.320 they may be
00:38:08.940 confused,
00:38:09.660 I hate that
00:38:10.040 they may
00:38:10.340 be semi-hypnotized,
00:38:12.520 I hate that
00:38:12.980 the news is
00:38:14.520 brainwashing
00:38:15.820 people.
00:38:17.020 I don't know
00:38:17.600 that the
00:38:18.200 protests were
00:38:18.940 useful.
00:38:19.860 So I'm not
00:38:20.300 saying they
00:38:20.640 were useful.
00:38:22.100 So I'm going
00:38:23.140 to make a
00:38:23.480 real strong
00:38:23.980 distinction.
00:38:25.220 I don't think
00:38:26.140 necessarily that
00:38:26.940 January 6th was
00:38:27.740 useful,
00:38:28.780 and I don't
00:38:29.760 think that the
00:38:30.440 BLM protests 0.99
00:38:31.480 were useful in
00:38:32.660 the end.
00:38:33.820 But do you
00:38:34.580 want to live in
00:38:35.140 a country that
00:38:35.740 won't do that?
00:38:36.400 I don't.
00:38:38.640 I want to
00:38:39.120 live in a
00:38:39.440 country where
00:38:40.000 if the
00:38:40.480 Republicans think
00:38:41.640 something went
00:38:42.180 wrong, they're
00:38:43.720 in the streets.
00:38:45.080 And I want to
00:38:45.600 live in a
00:38:45.940 country, you
00:38:46.820 might not like
00:38:47.420 this, where if
00:38:48.620 the Democrats
00:38:49.120 think something
00:38:49.880 is just terribly
00:38:50.780 wrong, they're
00:38:51.260 going to hit
00:38:51.480 the streets.
00:38:53.620 Right?
00:38:54.700 So give me
00:38:55.880 the country that
00:38:56.520 protests.
00:38:57.740 Thank you very
00:38:58.380 much.
00:38:59.420 And let them
00:39:00.160 go wild, let
00:39:01.480 them make their
00:39:02.000 case, and let
00:39:03.260 them see if they
00:39:04.480 can prevail.
00:39:06.660 Because you
00:39:07.220 have seen
00:39:07.520 cases where
00:39:08.100 protests turn
00:39:08.880 into something
00:39:09.380 good, let's
00:39:10.000 say civil
00:39:10.420 rights.
00:39:11.300 You've seen
00:39:11.760 them where
00:39:12.040 they don't
00:39:12.400 turn into
00:39:12.800 anything good,
00:39:13.520 let's say
00:39:13.900 Antifa.
00:39:15.300 But I still
00:39:16.600 want to live
00:39:17.020 in this
00:39:17.300 country.
00:39:18.600 I still want
00:39:19.080 to live where
00:39:20.120 people will
00:39:20.580 take to the
00:39:21.000 streets.
00:39:23.060 All right.
00:39:24.400 So I just
00:39:25.480 value things
00:39:26.260 completely different
00:39:27.120 than other
00:39:27.880 people, and
00:39:28.860 therefore we
00:39:30.220 can get to
00:39:30.680 different
00:39:31.220 conclusions.
00:39:31.980 All right.
00:39:34.200 While I'm
00:39:34.860 defending people
00:39:35.640 that you
00:39:36.740 might not
00:39:37.120 want me to
00:39:37.600 defend, let
00:39:38.200 me throw
00:39:38.500 another one
00:39:38.980 in the mix.
00:39:40.340 Jake Tapper
00:39:40.960 is getting a
00:39:41.480 bunch of
00:39:41.740 heat today
00:39:42.320 because he
00:39:43.380 retweeted
00:39:44.120 Ivanka Trump's
00:39:45.340 tweet promoting
00:39:47.600 Jared's new
00:39:48.600 book.
00:39:50.060 And people
00:39:50.440 are saying,
00:39:51.060 Jake Tapper,
00:39:52.020 how can you
00:39:53.200 retweet Jared?
00:39:54.700 Are you part
00:39:55.360 of the, you
00:39:56.660 know, the
00:39:56.960 elite?
00:39:58.100 What's going
00:39:58.780 on here?
00:39:59.360 Are you
00:39:59.640 selling us
00:40:00.140 out?
00:40:00.720 Say the
00:40:01.320 CNN
00:40:01.720 observers, to
00:40:04.240 which I
00:40:04.540 would like
00:40:04.800 to add
00:40:05.120 the following
00:40:05.580 context.
00:40:07.740 I also
00:40:08.700 plugged Jake
00:40:09.700 Tapper's
00:40:10.180 book when
00:40:11.240 it came
00:40:11.560 out.
00:40:12.840 It's an
00:40:13.500 author thing.
00:40:14.740 That's all
00:40:15.160 it is.
00:40:16.800 As soon as
00:40:17.700 you think
00:40:18.120 this is more
00:40:19.220 than one
00:40:19.860 author being,
00:40:22.280 let's say,
00:40:22.720 professionally
00:40:23.300 courteous and
00:40:24.260 maybe thinks
00:40:24.920 that the
00:40:25.200 audience would
00:40:25.660 be interested
00:40:26.120 in the
00:40:26.400 book, it's
00:40:27.760 not an
00:40:28.120 endorsement
00:40:28.660 of the
00:40:28.860 person.
00:40:29.200 It's not
00:40:30.820 an endorsement
00:40:31.520 of all that
00:40:32.060 person has
00:40:32.560 done.
00:40:33.580 It's more
00:40:34.000 like, I
00:40:34.880 wrote a
00:40:35.240 book, you
00:40:35.700 wrote a
00:40:36.040 book, I'll
00:40:36.680 bet your
00:40:36.940 book is
00:40:37.280 interesting, maybe
00:40:38.080 other people
00:40:38.520 would like it
00:40:38.960 too.
00:40:39.720 That's it.
00:40:42.040 All right,
00:40:42.780 authors promote
00:40:43.840 other people's
00:40:44.640 books, it
00:40:46.520 doesn't mean
00:40:47.040 anything.
00:40:49.320 Scott is
00:40:50.000 waffling again.
00:40:51.360 What the
00:40:51.720 fuck am I
00:40:52.220 waffling about?
00:40:53.960 Somebody says
00:40:54.720 I'm waffling.
00:40:55.280 I don't
00:40:55.960 think I've
00:40:56.360 waffled less
00:40:57.200 on any
00:40:57.920 live stream
00:40:58.960 than today.
00:41:00.320 So you
00:41:01.060 could have
00:41:01.320 your own
00:41:01.640 opinions about
00:41:02.420 Jake Tepper's
00:41:03.560 politics and
00:41:04.480 performance,
00:41:05.260 et cetera, but
00:41:06.380 let the guy 0.89
00:41:08.360 promote a
00:41:08.920 book from
00:41:10.260 anybody, right?
00:41:11.760 Just let him
00:41:12.280 promote a
00:41:12.700 book, because
00:41:13.740 and I like
00:41:16.320 to say this
00:41:16.800 every few
00:41:18.340 months at
00:41:18.860 least, I
00:41:21.340 insist on
00:41:22.740 the right of
00:41:23.260 association.
00:41:25.280 I insist, as
00:41:28.280 a citizen of
00:41:29.020 the United
00:41:29.300 States, on
00:41:30.520 the right of
00:41:31.280 free association.
00:41:32.900 If I want to
00:41:33.740 talk to the
00:41:34.280 worst person in
00:41:35.060 the world and
00:41:35.520 get a selfie
00:41:36.140 with that
00:41:36.540 person, I'm
00:41:37.500 going to do
00:41:37.900 it.
00:41:39.060 And I don't
00:41:39.700 care what your
00:41:40.140 opinion is.
00:41:41.480 And I'm
00:41:41.840 never going to
00:41:42.340 care what your
00:41:42.780 opinion is.
00:41:43.720 If I want to
00:41:45.200 tweet somebody's
00:41:46.040 book and you
00:41:46.720 don't like their
00:41:47.280 politics, but I
00:41:48.820 think the book
00:41:49.320 is interesting, I'm
00:41:51.060 going to tweet
00:41:51.440 that book.
00:41:53.100 There's nothing
00:41:53.780 you're going to
00:41:54.140 do to talk me
00:41:54.780 out of that
00:41:55.100 behavior.
00:41:56.080 So freedom of
00:41:57.220 association, there
00:41:58.820 is no wiggle
00:42:00.500 room.
00:42:01.700 That one's an
00:42:02.220 absolute and
00:42:03.220 can't ever
00:42:03.620 change.
00:42:05.680 All right.
00:42:08.380 Bill Maher
00:42:09.160 continues to be
00:42:10.040 interesting
00:42:10.440 politically.
00:42:12.040 And he noted
00:42:12.820 on his show
00:42:13.360 that 85% of
00:42:14.400 the people
00:42:14.680 Trump endorsed
00:42:15.600 for the
00:42:16.060 primaries won.
00:42:18.620 85%.
00:42:19.140 Trump, and he
00:42:21.240 said, quote,
00:42:22.200 say what you
00:42:22.660 want about
00:42:23.020 Mr.
00:42:23.600 Evil, meaning
00:42:25.040 Trump, but
00:42:26.060 boy, what a
00:42:26.640 politician.
00:42:27.420 I mean, that's
00:42:28.040 impressive in an
00:42:29.520 evil way, but
00:42:30.500 still impressive.
00:42:32.100 So, do you
00:42:33.920 remember when
00:42:34.620 Trump first
00:42:35.420 announced, do
00:42:37.740 you remember
00:42:38.080 what I seem to
00:42:39.560 be completely
00:42:40.220 alone in the
00:42:40.980 United States
00:42:41.740 saying?
00:42:42.240 And I wrote a
00:42:44.800 blog post called
00:42:45.780 Clown Genius.
00:42:48.600 He was being
00:42:49.040 called a clown,
00:42:50.120 and I said,
00:42:50.740 you better watch
00:42:51.720 out for the
00:42:52.180 clown, because
00:42:53.480 this clown is a
00:42:54.640 genius, persuasion
00:42:56.020 wise.
00:42:57.280 And then the
00:42:58.200 clown became the
00:42:59.380 president of the
00:43:00.020 United States.
00:43:01.740 And then, even
00:43:02.580 out of office, he
00:43:05.340 influenced, you
00:43:06.980 know, 85% of the
00:43:08.680 primaries.
00:43:11.280 Now, can we
00:43:12.960 give me some
00:43:13.680 credit for
00:43:15.200 calling on day
00:43:16.160 one, the first
00:43:17.360 one, at least
00:43:18.860 maybe not the
00:43:19.780 first one, but
00:43:20.420 among the first
00:43:21.600 to say there's
00:43:22.940 something going
00:43:23.720 on with this
00:43:24.480 guy, right?
00:43:26.060 And I said that
00:43:27.040 he would be the
00:43:27.460 most persuasive
00:43:28.220 person you've ever
00:43:28.940 seen.
00:43:29.860 I believe that
00:43:30.880 that's now the
00:43:31.560 case.
00:43:32.760 I believe that
00:43:33.460 even his biggest
00:43:34.200 critics would say,
00:43:35.140 okay, I don't
00:43:35.620 like what he's
00:43:36.240 saying, but
00:43:37.460 there's no
00:43:37.940 question about
00:43:38.600 his persuasion.
00:43:40.240 He's got the
00:43:40.860 entire package.
00:43:42.200 He does.
00:43:42.800 The whole package.
00:43:48.120 BJ Novak, I
00:43:49.440 guess, was on
00:43:50.120 Bill Maher's
00:43:50.880 podcast, and
00:43:51.620 he's a writer
00:43:53.320 and humorist,
00:43:54.280 stand-up guy.
00:43:55.700 He wrote for
00:43:56.280 The Office, and
00:43:56.920 he was an actor
00:43:57.440 on that.
00:43:58.100 BJ Novak.
00:44:01.020 If your
00:44:01.620 initials are
00:44:02.140 BJ, you've
00:44:03.720 got to learn
00:44:04.120 to tell a
00:44:04.580 joke.
00:44:05.820 You've got to
00:44:06.360 have a sense
00:44:06.760 of humor.
00:44:08.600 BJ believes
00:44:09.540 what I
00:44:09.780 believe, which
00:44:10.340 is that
00:44:10.900 wokeness is
00:44:11.960 really people
00:44:12.740 pretending to
00:44:13.720 be offended on
00:44:14.820 behalf of the
00:44:15.660 people who
00:44:16.680 don't exist.
00:44:18.760 Have you ever
00:44:19.260 met anybody who
00:44:20.160 was offended
00:44:20.720 by words?
00:44:24.040 I never
00:44:24.780 have.
00:44:25.800 If you talk to
00:44:26.660 anybody individually,
00:44:28.020 they'll say,
00:44:28.460 oh, no, it doesn't
00:44:29.020 bother me.
00:44:29.800 It's just
00:44:30.180 something some
00:44:31.160 jerk said.
00:44:32.380 Why would I care
00:44:33.100 about what some
00:44:33.620 jerk said? 0.67
00:44:34.160 But I'm
00:44:35.380 pretty sure
00:44:36.120 other people
00:44:37.720 are going to
00:44:38.100 be offended.
00:44:39.800 I'm pretty
00:44:40.420 sure other
00:44:40.940 people are
00:44:41.380 going to be
00:44:41.680 offended.
00:44:42.880 Now, let
00:44:45.040 me say
00:44:45.340 again, I'm
00:44:47.260 a fan of
00:44:48.020 wokeness.
00:44:49.540 I know, I
00:44:50.320 know it sounds
00:44:50.720 weird, because
00:44:51.620 I'm one of the
00:44:52.100 biggest critics of
00:44:53.020 wokeness, but
00:44:53.900 also a fan.
00:44:55.300 And here's how
00:44:55.900 that's consistent.
00:44:58.020 The Dilbert
00:44:58.700 comic, for
00:45:00.100 which, you
00:45:01.440 know, I'm
00:45:02.040 notorious, is
00:45:04.320 about good
00:45:05.020 ideas that are
00:45:05.680 taken too
00:45:06.180 far.
00:45:07.060 That's what it's
00:45:07.680 about.
00:45:08.600 Because management
00:45:09.380 is a good idea.
00:45:10.700 You can't have an
00:45:11.380 unmanaged company.
00:45:13.080 But if you take
00:45:13.700 it too far, you're
00:45:14.340 micromanaging.
00:45:15.820 If you take it
00:45:16.440 too far, you're
00:45:17.020 doing whatever the
00:45:17.660 latest trend is
00:45:18.640 before knowing
00:45:19.480 it's a good idea.
00:45:20.600 So everything I
00:45:21.700 talk about is a
00:45:23.040 basic good idea
00:45:23.980 that's just been
00:45:24.920 taken to some
00:45:25.640 ridiculous point.
00:45:27.280 So what do I
00:45:28.100 think about calling
00:45:29.680 people by the
00:45:30.560 name, by the
00:45:35.580 name that they
00:45:36.280 would like to
00:45:36.840 be called?
00:45:37.980 I call that good
00:45:38.780 manners.
00:45:40.160 That's not even
00:45:40.700 a conversation.
00:45:42.200 Yeah, whatever
00:45:42.820 you want.
00:45:43.840 If that's how you
00:45:44.980 feel comfortable,
00:45:45.800 I'd be happy to
00:45:46.540 do it.
00:45:47.340 Now, if somebody
00:45:47.940 said, I would
00:45:48.440 like you to
00:45:49.220 call me King
00:45:52.460 Scott and I
00:45:55.240 suck before you, 1.00
00:45:56.180 that's my legal
00:45:56.800 name.
00:45:57.820 Whenever you
00:45:58.360 refer to me,
00:45:59.100 call me King
00:45:59.660 Scott, I
00:46:00.100 suck before you. 1.00
00:46:02.160 And I said,
00:46:02.600 no, no, don't
00:46:03.400 call me Scott.
00:46:04.720 I prefer to be
00:46:05.600 called King
00:46:06.420 Scott, I
00:46:07.040 suck before your 1.00
00:46:07.940 great presence.
00:46:09.360 That's my full
00:46:09.980 name.
00:46:11.940 Now, that would
00:46:12.680 be too far,
00:46:14.060 right?
00:46:14.680 So there's got
00:46:15.380 to be some
00:46:15.660 limits on
00:46:16.820 wokeness.
00:46:18.060 But I don't
00:46:18.860 mind anybody
00:46:19.520 has a he,
00:46:20.640 her preference.
00:46:22.660 But as I've
00:46:23.760 said before,
00:46:24.460 and I will say
00:46:25.040 a million times,
00:46:27.000 said before,
00:46:28.140 and I'll say it
00:46:28.560 a million times,
00:46:29.500 in return for
00:46:30.820 my flexibility
00:46:31.780 and my attempt
00:46:33.900 to have good
00:46:35.260 manners and
00:46:35.860 treat people the
00:46:36.480 way they would
00:46:36.940 like to be
00:46:37.420 treated, you're
00:46:38.720 going to have to
00:46:39.180 give me a break
00:46:39.840 if I get it
00:46:40.400 wrong.
00:46:41.660 And I am not
00:46:42.740 going to take
00:46:43.220 any wiggle on
00:46:44.140 that.
00:46:44.380 If I get one
00:46:47.560 wrong, I
00:46:48.580 misgender you, 0.98
00:46:49.660 whatever.
00:46:50.860 And you've
00:46:51.500 got a problem
00:46:51.960 with that?
00:46:53.940 If you
00:46:54.560 correct me, I
00:46:55.660 will take that
00:46:56.220 under advisement
00:46:56.960 and hope to do
00:46:57.720 better.
00:46:58.720 If you attack
00:46:59.860 me, fuck you. 1.00
00:47:03.060 Everybody makes
00:47:03.880 mistakes.
00:47:05.460 Fuck you if you
00:47:06.760 attack me for that
00:47:07.520 mistake.
00:47:08.120 Because I don't
00:47:08.620 have bad intentions.
00:47:10.560 You can attack
00:47:11.560 people for bad
00:47:12.260 intentions.
00:47:13.760 You can attack
00:47:14.600 me for bad
00:47:15.240 intentions.
00:47:15.900 If you ever see
00:47:16.520 me with bad
00:47:17.100 intentions, free
00:47:19.080 hit.
00:47:20.140 Free punch.
00:47:21.520 Let me say it
00:47:22.020 again.
00:47:22.220 If you ever are
00:47:24.560 sure, I'd hope
00:47:25.840 you'd be sure
00:47:26.800 about it.
00:47:27.760 Don't guess.
00:47:29.280 But if you ever
00:47:29.840 see me having bad
00:47:30.940 intentions, free
00:47:32.900 punch.
00:47:33.820 Come at me as 0.98
00:47:34.480 hard as you
00:47:34.840 want.
00:47:36.000 I try not to do
00:47:37.260 that.
00:47:37.540 I don't think
00:47:38.640 I ever have.
00:47:39.960 But try not
00:47:41.180 to.
00:47:46.140 All right.
00:47:48.660 So let's keep
00:47:50.000 pretending there
00:47:50.700 are people who
00:47:51.240 are offended when
00:47:52.140 none of us have
00:47:53.300 ever met any.
00:47:54.720 And by the way,
00:47:55.400 if I ever do meet
00:47:56.300 somebody who's
00:47:56.940 offended by that
00:47:58.280 kind of stuff, I
00:48:00.100 don't really want
00:48:00.640 to be their
00:48:00.960 friend.
00:48:02.860 I wouldn't spend
00:48:03.680 a minute with
00:48:04.240 somebody who's
00:48:04.660 offended by stuff
00:48:05.420 like that.
00:48:06.140 Because you know
00:48:06.800 it's just going to
00:48:07.340 come back to
00:48:07.820 you.
00:48:09.380 Basically, somebody
00:48:10.360 who's offended by
00:48:11.120 words is just
00:48:11.900 telling you you
00:48:12.440 don't want to
00:48:12.900 interact with them
00:48:13.600 in any way at
00:48:14.320 all.
00:48:15.020 Just run away.
00:48:17.720 All right.
00:48:19.260 I'm seeing some
00:48:20.180 graphs again that
00:48:22.440 people are saying
00:48:24.140 that the
00:48:24.480 vaccinations are
00:48:25.400 hurting people
00:48:26.040 because there are
00:48:27.600 more people
00:48:28.220 hospitalized who
00:48:29.460 are vaxxed than
00:48:30.220 unvaxxed.
00:48:31.420 How many times do
00:48:32.680 we have to go over
00:48:33.420 this?
00:48:33.800 that the
00:48:35.800 population of
00:48:36.880 people who
00:48:37.360 got vaccinated
00:48:38.120 are by nature
00:48:39.480 the weakest
00:48:40.400 ones, so of
00:48:42.600 course the
00:48:43.160 vaccinated would 0.94
00:48:43.940 have more
00:48:44.320 hospitalizations.
00:48:45.720 It's exactly what
00:48:46.880 you would expect,
00:48:47.700 but it's being
00:48:48.240 used as proof
00:48:49.720 that vaccinations
00:48:51.040 are hurting you.
00:48:52.360 Now, let me be
00:48:53.020 very clear.
00:48:54.320 I don't know.
00:48:55.820 I don't believe
00:48:56.720 any data about
00:48:57.460 vaccinations.
00:48:59.160 None.
00:48:59.500 There's basically
00:49:00.940 nothing about the
00:49:01.840 pandemic that I
00:49:02.740 believe.
00:49:04.680 Because it's all
00:49:05.520 been, we've been
00:49:06.560 fooled so many
00:49:07.320 times that as
00:49:09.020 soon as you think
00:49:09.640 you know something
00:49:10.340 you're like, well,
00:49:11.200 got disappointed
00:49:11.960 there.
00:49:14.480 Now, I don't
00:49:15.280 know if
00:49:15.680 vaccinations
00:49:16.400 helped or hurt,
00:49:18.020 but I'm going to
00:49:19.000 tell you what I
00:49:19.520 think my scorecard
00:49:21.360 is.
00:49:21.860 All right?
00:49:22.580 This will offend
00:49:23.460 you greatly.
00:49:24.840 I'm going to say
00:49:25.540 again that I had
00:49:26.380 the best pandemic
00:49:28.440 predictions by
00:49:30.240 far.
00:49:31.460 In my opinion,
00:49:32.560 nobody came close,
00:49:33.700 but I won't get
00:49:34.780 any agreement on
00:49:35.640 that because people
00:49:37.160 still disagree
00:49:37.860 what's true.
00:49:39.140 As long as we're
00:49:40.180 disagreeing about
00:49:40.880 what's true,
00:49:42.020 then you can't
00:49:42.940 say who had
00:49:44.640 good predictions.
00:49:46.300 But minor
00:49:47.520 shaping up to be
00:49:48.720 the truest so
00:49:49.460 far.
00:49:49.780 Let me give you
00:49:50.140 some ideas.
00:49:51.280 So in early
00:49:52.260 2020, I said
00:49:53.220 vitamin D looked
00:49:54.080 like it was
00:49:54.720 crucial in
00:49:56.720 COVID.
00:49:56.980 I just told
00:49:59.200 you that I
00:49:59.660 don't think
00:49:59.980 the studies
00:50:00.420 have proven
00:50:00.880 it, but
00:50:02.280 they're all
00:50:02.600 leaning in
00:50:02.980 that direction.
00:50:05.240 Right?
00:50:05.600 So if that
00:50:06.840 turned out to
00:50:07.380 be true or
00:50:09.500 even just a
00:50:10.340 correlation that
00:50:10.980 was important,
00:50:11.660 I'd say I got
00:50:12.420 that one early
00:50:13.260 and correctly.
00:50:15.980 But it's
00:50:16.700 definitely not
00:50:18.600 confirmed that
00:50:19.920 boosting your
00:50:21.120 levels would
00:50:21.660 help you with
00:50:22.900 COVID.
00:50:23.560 It might be
00:50:24.140 later.
00:50:24.620 I predicted
00:50:26.300 that the
00:50:28.100 vaccines wouldn't
00:50:28.980 work.
00:50:30.860 Right?
00:50:31.200 Now, a lot of
00:50:32.080 people believe I
00:50:33.440 did the opposite.
00:50:34.720 But when it was
00:50:35.640 first announced,
00:50:36.920 the experts said
00:50:37.820 we've been working
00:50:38.420 for decades,
00:50:39.240 we're not even
00:50:39.700 close.
00:50:40.680 So I said,
00:50:41.500 well, if the
00:50:42.480 experts think it
00:50:43.280 can't be done,
00:50:44.240 I'll go with the 0.55
00:50:44.880 experts.
00:50:45.820 Now, I don't
00:50:46.480 always go with
00:50:47.000 the experts,
00:50:47.560 but in that
00:50:47.960 case I did.
00:50:49.300 And sure
00:50:49.800 enough, the
00:50:50.360 vaccinations did
00:50:51.340 not work as
00:50:52.220 vaccinations.
00:50:53.000 But I said
00:50:54.400 at the time
00:50:54.960 that we're
00:50:55.880 probably going
00:50:56.460 to come up
00:50:57.400 with better
00:50:58.080 therapeutics.
00:51:00.020 I would say
00:51:00.900 I had one of
00:51:01.500 the best
00:51:01.900 predictions,
00:51:02.800 that the
00:51:03.300 vaccines wouldn't
00:51:04.080 work as
00:51:05.200 vaccinations,
00:51:06.160 but that we
00:51:06.900 would come up
00:51:07.440 with strong
00:51:08.320 therapeutics,
00:51:09.480 which I
00:51:10.460 believe we
00:51:10.820 have.
00:51:12.720 Then we see
00:51:13.600 the latest
00:51:14.040 studies that
00:51:14.580 say ivermectin
00:51:15.500 did not work.
00:51:17.640 Am I ready
00:51:18.580 to conclude
00:51:19.360 that ivermectin
00:51:20.860 could not have
00:51:21.660 worked under
00:51:22.160 any combination
00:51:23.020 of when
00:51:24.140 you gave
00:51:24.620 it, who
00:51:25.240 you gave
00:51:25.640 it to, or
00:51:26.700 in any
00:51:27.140 combination of
00:51:27.940 anything else?
00:51:28.940 That, I would
00:51:29.680 say, is
00:51:30.020 unknown.
00:51:31.020 Unknown.
00:51:32.000 But, I
00:51:33.560 said, don't
00:51:34.380 buy into
00:51:35.100 ivermectin
00:51:35.780 right away.
00:51:37.820 I said, wait
00:51:39.660 for studies, and
00:51:41.000 every day that
00:51:41.700 goes by without
00:51:42.660 confirmation, you
00:51:44.240 should lower
00:51:44.840 your odds of
00:51:46.020 it working.
00:51:47.000 So I did the
00:51:47.620 same thing with
00:51:48.200 hydroxychloroquine
00:51:49.320 as with ivermectin.
00:51:50.400 I started with,
00:51:52.040 well, there's
00:51:53.140 some indication
00:51:53.740 it might work,
00:51:54.500 and it doesn't
00:51:54.940 hurt you. 0.82
00:51:56.000 Why not?
00:51:57.760 But then, every
00:51:58.820 time some data
00:51:59.880 came in that
00:52:01.000 made it look
00:52:01.440 like maybe it
00:52:02.020 wasn't working,
00:52:02.860 I lowered my
00:52:03.820 percentage likelihood
00:52:05.980 until I got down
00:52:07.200 to about 10%,
00:52:08.160 and that's where
00:52:08.720 I stopped.
00:52:09.900 So that's where
00:52:10.520 I have it.
00:52:12.460 Hydroxychloroquine
00:52:13.020 and ivermectin,
00:52:14.820 somewhere no more
00:52:16.000 than 10%
00:52:16.800 possibility that
00:52:17.980 they ever could
00:52:19.000 have worked in
00:52:20.240 the right dosage
00:52:21.180 with the right
00:52:21.620 combination with
00:52:22.540 the right people
00:52:23.080 at the right
00:52:23.480 time, that sort
00:52:24.300 of thing.
00:52:25.640 So I think I
00:52:26.420 had the best
00:52:27.760 ivermectin and
00:52:29.240 hydroxychloroquine
00:52:30.440 predictions, still
00:52:32.080 admitting, still
00:52:33.320 admitting we don't
00:52:34.180 know if they
00:52:34.540 worked.
00:52:35.640 Are you okay
00:52:36.120 with that?
00:52:37.080 That at this
00:52:37.640 moment we still
00:52:38.300 don't know.
00:52:39.800 But all of the
00:52:40.740 information is
00:52:41.400 leaning in one
00:52:41.980 direction, which
00:52:42.620 is the direction
00:52:43.380 I was going at
00:52:44.500 the same time.
00:52:45.040 Yeah, what
00:52:49.120 else?
00:52:49.500 Let's see.
00:52:51.200 Yeah, I would
00:52:52.040 say that, and
00:52:52.760 then we don't
00:52:53.780 want to talk
00:52:54.180 about masks, but
00:52:55.100 I was the, I
00:52:56.620 believe the only
00:52:57.260 person in the
00:52:57.900 country who
00:52:59.220 said that Fauci
00:53:00.500 was lying when
00:53:01.840 he said masks
00:53:02.700 don't work.
00:53:04.800 And he admitted
00:53:05.680 he was lying.
00:53:06.880 So I'm the only
00:53:07.640 person who got
00:53:08.100 that right.
00:53:08.940 And then when
00:53:09.820 masks were rolled
00:53:11.100 out, I said
00:53:12.940 from an
00:53:13.320 engineering
00:53:13.720 perspective, they
00:53:14.820 almost certainly
00:53:15.440 have to reduce
00:53:16.100 the amount
00:53:16.600 of spread, but
00:53:18.960 we won't see
00:53:19.620 it in the big
00:53:20.120 numbers, because
00:53:21.300 I told you that
00:53:21.980 you wouldn't see
00:53:22.620 anything with
00:53:23.400 leadership in
00:53:24.320 the state and
00:53:26.740 country level,
00:53:28.440 which is why I
00:53:29.520 was against
00:53:30.020 mandates.
00:53:31.140 So I was never
00:53:32.300 for mandates of
00:53:33.340 masks, but
00:53:34.460 unambiguously, if
00:53:35.860 water gets stuck
00:53:37.160 on your mask,
00:53:37.880 there's some
00:53:38.280 virus on that
00:53:38.940 water.
00:53:40.080 We just don't
00:53:40.880 know how much
00:53:41.420 and whether it
00:53:41.860 made a difference,
00:53:42.660 but we can see it
00:53:43.440 didn't make a
00:53:43.900 difference on the
00:53:44.440 state level.
00:53:46.240 I mean, the
00:53:46.640 data doesn't
00:53:47.180 seem to support
00:53:48.500 it.
00:53:49.320 So I would say
00:53:50.320 that I was by
00:53:51.660 far the most
00:53:52.500 right about
00:53:53.200 masks.
00:53:54.040 Nobody was
00:53:54.420 even close.
00:53:55.760 I would say I
00:53:56.680 was probably
00:53:58.820 close to
00:53:59.520 eight or nine
00:54:01.580 out of ten,
00:54:03.000 and I think
00:54:03.420 most people were
00:54:04.080 closer to a
00:54:04.660 three in
00:54:05.700 rightness on
00:54:06.280 that.
00:54:07.180 Now again,
00:54:08.340 this depends on
00:54:09.580 the data that
00:54:10.500 we have
00:54:10.780 we have now
00:54:11.160 continuing to
00:54:13.820 prove out,
00:54:14.740 which might
00:54:15.200 change.
00:54:15.860 So I could
00:54:16.280 be, let me
00:54:17.140 say clearly,
00:54:18.060 I could be
00:54:18.580 wrong on any
00:54:19.540 one of these
00:54:20.000 things, because
00:54:21.960 we never have
00:54:23.800 final confirmations
00:54:24.960 it seems.
00:54:25.960 But I would
00:54:26.760 make my
00:54:27.120 argument that
00:54:27.820 there was
00:54:28.340 nobody even
00:54:28.840 in my general
00:54:30.380 neighborhood of
00:54:31.740 rightness.
00:54:32.300 I wasn't
00:54:32.620 even, nobody
00:54:33.780 was even
00:54:34.100 close to my
00:54:35.840 predictions, in
00:54:36.480 my opinion.
00:54:37.840 There is
00:54:38.440 room for
00:54:39.060 disagreement.
00:54:41.260 All right.
00:54:47.420 So I
00:54:48.020 asked this
00:54:48.500 question on
00:54:49.080 Twitter a few
00:54:49.620 times, and I
00:54:50.300 think I have
00:54:50.680 an answer now
00:54:51.260 about the
00:54:52.800 Mar-a-Lago
00:54:53.360 information.
00:54:57.560 And given
00:54:57.940 that a
00:54:58.300 president doesn't
00:54:59.120 have any
00:54:59.620 requirements for
00:55:00.640 a process for
00:55:01.820 declassifying, I
00:55:03.980 asked the
00:55:04.380 following question.
00:55:06.480 if a president
00:55:07.600 signals that
00:55:09.760 something is
00:55:10.820 declassified, is
00:55:11.760 that good
00:55:12.120 enough?
00:55:12.960 And one way to
00:55:13.640 signal it would
00:55:14.360 be, take these
00:55:15.940 top-secret boxes
00:55:16.880 and move them to
00:55:17.960 Mar-a-Lago.
00:55:19.900 To me, that's
00:55:21.080 declassifying.
00:55:22.720 Because it's
00:55:23.740 clear that anybody
00:55:24.700 would know that
00:55:25.400 taking them to
00:55:26.080 Mar-a-Lago takes
00:55:27.100 them away from a
00:55:28.060 secure place, and
00:55:30.000 anybody can see
00:55:31.580 them.
00:55:32.300 So in my
00:55:32.820 opinion, that
00:55:33.300 would be
00:55:33.680 declassification.
00:55:34.520 And so I
00:55:35.260 asked lawyers,
00:55:35.920 because I'm
00:55:37.080 not one, I
00:55:38.280 said, can a
00:55:39.540 president do
00:55:40.220 any kind of
00:55:41.000 signal, any
00:55:41.760 kind of signal
00:55:42.420 at all, and
00:55:43.720 would that
00:55:44.120 count as
00:55:44.560 declassification?
00:55:45.640 And the
00:55:45.900 lawyer said,
00:55:46.780 what did the
00:55:47.340 lawyer say?
00:55:48.840 What do you
00:55:49.280 think?
00:55:50.580 Did the
00:55:51.200 lawyer say that
00:55:51.860 that's true?
00:55:52.460 As long as he
00:55:53.100 signals by his
00:55:55.060 actions, the
00:55:57.280 answer is yes.
00:55:58.720 Yeah.
00:55:58.860 the people who
00:56:01.760 identified as
00:56:02.660 lawyers said yes.
00:56:04.320 He just has to
00:56:05.280 signal it by his
00:56:06.280 actions, and it's
00:56:07.160 declassified.
00:56:09.360 There isn't any
00:56:10.460 legal risk here, is
00:56:11.380 there?
00:56:13.000 Because even if you
00:56:14.220 allow that you
00:56:15.580 found, let's say you
00:56:16.540 found a lawyer who
00:56:17.360 disagrees, if most
00:56:20.320 lawyers think it's
00:56:21.820 totally legal, you're
00:56:22.680 not going to get a
00:56:23.300 jury to think it's
00:56:24.140 illegal.
00:56:24.480 legal, right?
00:56:26.620 If most lawyers
00:56:28.080 think it's perfectly
00:56:29.280 legal what you
00:56:30.120 did, you're not
00:56:31.720 going to get a
00:56:32.220 jury, 12 people, to
00:56:33.420 say it was illegal.
00:56:34.700 It's just not going
00:56:35.300 to happen.
00:56:36.220 There's no legal
00:56:36.960 risk here at all.
00:56:38.440 Is there?
00:56:39.640 I don't see one.
00:56:40.900 Unless it's a
00:56:42.020 complete rigged
00:56:43.100 trial, and I don't
00:56:44.180 think that's going
00:56:44.720 to happen, because
00:56:45.600 there's too much
00:56:46.160 visibility.
00:56:50.760 Yeah.
00:56:51.380 Well, we're done
00:56:51.900 with the
00:56:52.160 declassification talk.
00:56:54.480 All right, Lockheed
00:56:56.300 Martin is putting
00:56:58.160 into operation
00:56:59.040 lasers on warships.
00:57:01.220 So we've heard
00:57:01.800 about lasers on
00:57:03.100 jets they're 0.73
00:57:04.600 testing, but now
00:57:05.760 they've got a laser
00:57:06.480 they can put on a
00:57:07.260 warship.
00:57:08.940 So that's
00:57:10.580 interesting.
00:57:11.560 Do you know what
00:57:11.980 we're going to have
00:57:12.380 to use lasers for?
00:57:14.180 I'll tell you the
00:57:14.840 biggest use of
00:57:15.660 lasers in the
00:57:16.400 future, shooting
00:57:18.500 down drones, the
00:57:20.660 small ones, not the
00:57:22.380 big military ones.
00:57:23.460 Those would be a
00:57:23.900 little harder.
00:57:24.480 But shooting down
00:57:25.760 the small ones.
00:57:27.320 And do you know
00:57:27.780 why you're going
00:57:28.100 to have to shoot
00:57:28.620 those down?
00:57:32.380 Because we're
00:57:33.380 probably about a
00:57:33.960 year away from
00:57:34.540 them being filled
00:57:35.200 with fentanyl.
00:57:38.040 And becoming the
00:57:39.680 primary terrorist
00:57:41.440 weapon.
00:57:43.400 Yeah.
00:57:44.980 Now, I did write a
00:57:46.080 book about that in
00:57:47.860 2003-ish.
00:57:49.960 No, when was it?
00:57:51.560 Somewhere around
00:57:52.280 there.
00:57:53.280 And it's called
00:57:54.280 The Religion
00:57:55.180 War.
00:57:55.700 I might read
00:57:56.440 that, read The
00:57:57.740 Religion War 0.56
00:57:58.380 into YouTube and
00:58:00.540 or Locals.
00:58:02.500 So I might turn
00:58:03.280 that into an e-book
00:58:04.100 just by reading it.
00:58:05.300 But there's no way
00:58:09.680 that terrorists are
00:58:12.000 going to not
00:58:12.720 notice that
00:58:14.280 fentanyl is
00:58:15.000 deadly and
00:58:16.240 it's light
00:58:16.920 and easily
00:58:19.360 available.
00:58:20.580 If it's light,
00:58:22.640 a small drone can
00:58:23.680 carry it and
00:58:24.320 deliver it anywhere.
00:58:25.460 If it's deadly,
00:58:26.460 it's better than
00:58:27.240 dynamite because you
00:58:28.860 can't get dynamite
00:58:29.680 very easily.
00:58:30.840 It's hard to
00:58:31.300 get, you know,
00:58:32.020 C, what's the
00:58:33.200 explosive?
00:58:33.840 C, C4?
00:58:36.220 Yeah.
00:58:36.640 It's hard to
00:58:37.160 get a C4, but
00:58:39.700 literally every
00:58:40.700 kid can get
00:58:41.460 fentanyl.
00:58:42.560 A teenager can
00:58:43.460 get fentanyl.
00:58:44.300 So there isn't
00:58:45.140 any doubt where
00:58:45.860 things are going.
00:58:46.660 There's going to
00:58:47.080 be fentanyl and
00:58:48.120 it's going to be
00:58:48.720 on drones.
00:58:50.680 And we're going
00:58:51.440 to need lasers to
00:58:52.460 shoot those drones
00:58:53.220 out of the air.
00:58:56.240 Although maybe
00:58:57.040 that's bad too
00:58:57.800 because the drone
00:58:58.560 is still going to
00:58:59.200 crash and the
00:58:59.780 fentanyl is going
00:59:00.380 to get out.
00:59:00.840 I don't know.
00:59:01.200 Maybe there's no
00:59:01.740 solution.
00:59:02.980 But as long as
00:59:05.420 China is sending 0.99
00:59:06.140 us fentanyl and
00:59:07.420 it's going through
00:59:08.000 the cartels, it's
00:59:09.640 going to us, our
00:59:11.380 future is guaranteed.
00:59:13.520 It's fentanyl on
00:59:14.640 small drones for
00:59:15.860 unlimited terrorist
00:59:17.680 attacks in our
00:59:18.460 population centers.
00:59:20.140 There's no way to
00:59:21.020 stop it.
00:59:22.740 Except wipe out
00:59:25.040 the cartels and
00:59:26.880 then tell China 0.71
00:59:27.560 they're next.
00:59:28.120 I would definitely
00:59:29.500 kill the fentanyl
00:59:30.940 dealers in China
00:59:33.060 on Chinese
00:59:34.100 territory.
00:59:35.180 Because China 0.94
00:59:35.880 isn't going to
00:59:36.460 nuke us for
00:59:37.600 taking out their
00:59:38.220 terrorists. 0.53
00:59:39.920 They're going to
00:59:40.520 get really, really
00:59:41.160 mad about it, but
00:59:42.660 fuck them.
00:59:43.860 It's war.
00:59:45.360 We can go into
00:59:46.320 their country and
00:59:46.940 just take them out.
00:59:47.820 I wouldn't drop a
00:59:49.160 missile on them.
00:59:50.380 I wouldn't fire a 0.99
00:59:51.280 missile into China.
00:59:53.140 You're going to have
00:59:53.740 to do it on the
00:59:54.260 ground.
00:59:55.340 But it wouldn't be
00:59:56.120 hard.
00:59:56.360 How hard would it
00:59:57.580 be to kill a 0.53
00:59:58.580 fentanyl kingpin
00:59:59.540 just by giving him
01:00:01.320 an injection of
01:00:02.240 fentanyl?
01:00:04.360 All right.
01:00:05.820 Pretty easy.
01:00:07.220 All right.
01:00:07.380 All you need is a
01:00:08.740 blow dart with a
01:00:09.640 little fentanyl in it.
01:00:10.580 It's like, and
01:00:12.420 Mr.
01:00:13.460 Kingpin is dead.
01:00:15.280 Now, I don't know
01:00:17.120 how hard it is to
01:00:18.040 get a Chinese agent
01:00:19.600 into China, but I've
01:00:21.600 got a feeling that
01:00:22.360 there might be a
01:00:24.360 couple people who
01:00:26.140 are not happy with
01:00:26.820 the government over
01:00:27.500 there.
01:00:28.280 Might want to give us
01:00:29.020 a little help.
01:00:30.420 There might be
01:00:30.900 somebody.
01:00:33.680 Yeah, blow darts with
01:00:34.820 fentanyl.
01:00:35.280 Get over it.
01:00:36.380 As long as the
01:00:37.260 fentanyl's in the
01:00:38.000 dart.
01:00:40.320 Okay, it's not the
01:00:41.220 safest thing anybody
01:00:42.020 ever did, but murder
01:00:43.380 is never really that
01:00:44.180 safe.
01:00:45.000 It really isn't.
01:00:46.700 I'm going to make a
01:00:47.420 prediction.
01:00:48.540 There isn't the
01:00:49.240 slightest chance that
01:00:50.220 we will not attack
01:00:51.680 the cartels in
01:00:52.980 Mexico.
01:00:54.360 There isn't the
01:00:54.900 slightest chance that's
01:00:55.820 not going to happen.
01:00:57.640 Because, let me tell
01:00:58.740 you what's going to
01:00:59.160 happen.
01:01:02.920 Let me tell you
01:01:03.740 what's going to
01:01:04.100 happen.
01:01:06.180 The number of
01:01:07.060 fentanyl deaths will
01:01:07.940 keep climbing, and
01:01:10.960 at some point, you're
01:01:13.120 all going to be where
01:01:13.980 I am.
01:01:15.100 Well, I've been there
01:01:15.700 a long time.
01:01:16.260 Where I am is, we're
01:01:18.220 in the middle of a
01:01:18.920 war, and there's
01:01:19.760 nothing I won't do.
01:01:22.520 Nothing.
01:01:24.360 Nope.
01:01:25.520 Would I kidnap the
01:01:26.960 president of Mexico?
01:01:29.520 Yes.
01:01:31.200 Yeah, I would.
01:01:33.260 If it would work.
01:01:34.880 I mean, it wouldn't
01:01:35.420 work, right?
01:01:37.340 Would I annex Mexico?
01:01:40.620 Yep.
01:01:41.560 Yep, I would annex
01:01:42.720 Mexico.
01:01:43.920 Yeah.
01:01:44.040 You would have a
01:01:45.300 hard time coming up
01:01:47.100 with something I
01:01:47.740 wouldn't do to stop
01:01:49.600 this problem.
01:01:51.020 I can't think of
01:01:51.820 anything I wouldn't
01:01:52.340 do.
01:01:53.160 Would I start
01:01:54.320 machine gunning the,
01:01:57.380 what do you call
01:01:58.260 them, the coyotes?
01:02:01.040 Yes, I would.
01:02:02.240 Yeah.
01:02:02.520 I would start killing
01:02:03.440 the coyotes where they
01:02:04.480 stand, anytime you can
01:02:05.700 see them from our side
01:02:06.820 of the border.
01:02:07.900 In fact, I'd send
01:02:08.640 drones in and just
01:02:09.400 start killing the
01:02:10.060 coyotes wherever they
01:02:11.380 are.
01:02:11.520 Would it help?
01:02:15.440 I don't care.
01:02:17.560 If you took out the
01:02:19.400 cartel operations, would
01:02:20.860 it stop the fentanyl
01:02:21.820 trade?
01:02:22.420 I don't care.
01:02:24.300 I don't care.
01:02:25.200 It might slow down the
01:02:26.240 next person who wanted
01:02:27.020 to start it.
01:02:28.080 But you have to make
01:02:29.080 sure that everybody who
01:02:30.340 deals fentanyl dies a
01:02:31.660 horrible death and
01:02:32.780 fairly soon.
01:02:33.520 I would also start
01:02:35.900 executing our fentanyl
01:02:37.760 dealers publicly.
01:02:41.380 Publicly.
01:02:42.520 I think a fentanyl
01:02:43.760 dealer needs to be
01:02:44.580 executed publicly, above
01:02:46.440 a certain level.
01:02:47.200 I'm not talking about
01:02:47.960 the onesies, twosies,
01:02:49.940 street dealers.
01:02:51.420 I'm talking about the
01:02:52.300 big ones.
01:02:53.400 Public execution.
01:02:55.240 In fact, if Trump ran
01:02:57.120 on that platform, public
01:02:58.740 execution for fentanyl
01:03:00.080 dealers, and I will
01:03:01.700 attack the cartels in
01:03:03.440 office, I'd be all in.
01:03:06.820 I would be all in.
01:03:11.960 Somebody thinks I
01:03:13.040 support Sharia.
01:03:15.220 Yeah, that's a little
01:03:16.300 bit of a leap.
01:03:17.940 From attacking, from
01:03:19.640 killing mass murderers
01:03:21.480 to Sharia law, that's a 0.94
01:03:24.600 little bit of a leap
01:03:25.200 there.
01:03:28.500 How about the mules
01:03:29.600 who transport it?
01:03:30.600 I think you have to
01:03:31.660 make some distinctions
01:03:36.860 in terms of how much
01:03:38.820 they're involved.
01:03:39.660 I wouldn't kill
01:03:40.440 somebody for maybe
01:03:41.600 necessarily transporting
01:03:45.040 it across the border if
01:03:46.820 they're an American
01:03:47.420 citizen.
01:03:48.660 If it's not an American 0.99
01:03:50.080 citizen and they
01:03:51.080 transport one pill of
01:03:53.160 fentanyl over the border,
01:03:54.200 I would kill them.
01:03:55.660 I'd kill them.
01:03:56.820 If they transported it to
01:03:58.600 cell, I would say,
01:04:01.540 yeah, if you don't live
01:04:02.840 in this country and you
01:04:03.740 take one pill across the
01:04:04.860 border, I'd kill them. 1.00
01:04:08.560 Too far?
01:04:09.560 No, there's nothing
01:04:10.240 that's not too far.
01:04:12.020 There's nothing not too
01:04:13.140 far.
01:04:15.440 All right.
01:04:16.080 A hundred thousand
01:04:17.320 kids, mostly, well,
01:04:20.260 young people, dying per 0.99
01:04:21.980 year.
01:04:22.940 Yeah, for one pill.
01:04:24.280 Now, let me say it
01:04:24.840 again, if I knew that
01:04:26.760 the pill, now, of course,
01:04:28.120 nobody's going to bring
01:04:28.820 one pill, right?
01:04:30.560 So that's hyperbole.
01:04:31.900 If you're going to argue
01:04:32.940 about the one pill, you're
01:04:34.060 just arguing hyperbole,
01:04:35.300 and that's useless.
01:04:36.720 I'm just saying if it's
01:04:37.760 obvious they're bringing
01:04:38.800 fentanyl to cell, I
01:04:40.900 wouldn't care how much.
01:04:42.980 If they're bringing it to
01:04:44.000 cell, kill them. 1.00
01:04:44.720 All right.
01:04:55.500 Looks like,
01:04:57.160 whoops, what's that?
01:05:04.040 The secret micro lesson,
01:05:05.960 yes.
01:05:08.780 All right.
01:05:12.400 No more Pfizer
01:05:13.480 commercials.
01:05:14.720 Dispromotion,
01:05:17.660 punishment,
01:05:18.300 punishment.
01:05:20.040 Yeah.
01:05:20.920 You know,
01:05:21.580 when people are involved
01:05:23.760 in mass murder,
01:05:25.660 I believe that their
01:05:26.660 own lives should be
01:05:28.140 used for something
01:05:29.440 useful.
01:05:32.020 Not like a regular.
01:05:33.320 If a regular criminal
01:05:34.320 does something, you
01:05:35.320 know, just let the
01:05:36.080 justice thing do its 0.99
01:05:38.200 thing.
01:05:38.660 But if you're a mass
01:05:39.540 murderer, I think you
01:05:41.680 should be killed in 0.86
01:05:42.840 whatever way is the
01:05:44.460 most useful to
01:05:45.840 society.
01:05:47.040 And if murdering you
01:05:48.040 in public makes
01:05:49.180 somebody else less
01:05:49.980 likely to do it,
01:05:53.500 okay.
01:05:54.840 Yeah.
01:05:55.360 If murdering somebody
01:05:56.800 in a horrible way in
01:05:57.760 front of the public,
01:05:58.800 I would hang them.
01:06:00.060 I'd hang them,
01:06:00.900 actually.
01:06:02.800 And I, because the
01:06:04.240 visual of hanging is
01:06:05.300 just really good.
01:06:07.440 That's a good visual.
01:06:08.360 Oh, actually, I take
01:06:09.340 it back.
01:06:10.320 No, you don't want to
01:06:10.940 hang them because some
01:06:11.680 of them would be
01:06:12.200 black.
01:06:13.260 So, no hanging.
01:06:15.060 No hanging.
01:06:16.440 It's got to be
01:06:16.880 something else.
01:06:18.020 Public execution, but
01:06:19.160 no hanging.
01:06:22.060 Guillotine.
01:06:23.360 Eh, too clean.
01:06:28.480 Yeah.
01:06:28.840 Dope sick started this?
01:06:36.220 Yeah, maybe.
01:06:41.960 Do you own a
01:06:42.820 firearm?
01:06:45.500 Why don't you sneak in
01:06:46.500 my house and find out?
01:06:48.580 Yeah, my, my, uh, my
01:06:52.380 personal defense system
01:06:53.840 is, follows the fuck
01:06:55.700 around and find out.
01:06:56.640 I'm not going to tell
01:06:58.280 you what my personal
01:06:59.160 defense situation is.
01:07:01.800 It's a surprise.
01:07:05.240 And let me just say
01:07:06.400 this.
01:07:07.300 If you get into my
01:07:08.480 house, your problem is
01:07:10.180 getting out.
01:07:12.820 Getting into my house,
01:07:14.020 or really any house,
01:07:15.120 getting into a house is
01:07:16.040 not that hard.
01:07:17.020 All you need is a, you
01:07:18.260 know, a rock, right, to
01:07:19.900 get through a window.
01:07:21.200 Getting into my house, no
01:07:22.420 problem.
01:07:23.760 Getting out, good luck.
01:07:26.640 That's all you need to
01:07:27.680 know about my, my
01:07:28.640 defense.
01:07:32.460 All right.
01:07:34.100 Sounds like a date.
01:07:36.040 All right, everybody.
01:07:37.300 Was this the best show
01:07:38.160 you've ever seen?
01:07:39.020 I think I've, oh, let
01:07:40.080 me, one more thing.
01:07:41.640 Apparently, uh, uh, the
01:07:44.400 web browser on TikTok
01:07:46.180 app can track every
01:07:48.000 keystroke made by its
01:07:49.220 users.
01:07:51.560 How incompetent is our
01:07:53.420 government that they
01:07:54.300 haven't banned TikTok?
01:07:55.200 What's up with that?
01:07:59.720 How incompetent that
01:08:01.400 TikTok, which is clearly
01:08:03.620 a military weapon,
01:08:05.920 clearly, it's a military
01:08:08.140 weapon that we're letting
01:08:09.820 the Chinese use on our
01:08:11.640 youth.
01:08:13.520 And we're just like, oh,
01:08:14.840 okay.
01:08:15.960 Yeah, here you go.
01:08:18.340 So, uh, TikTok has to be
01:08:20.940 banned.
01:08:21.400 I think Trump might be
01:08:23.240 willing to do it, but he
01:08:24.220 didn't.
01:08:25.380 You know, he didn't get
01:08:26.100 it done.
01:08:26.500 I don't know what the
01:08:28.000 limitation is there.
01:08:30.520 Um, and, uh, oh, the
01:08:34.340 big news is that Facebook
01:08:35.560 and TikTok have banned,
01:08:38.120 uh, controversial figure,
01:08:40.420 uh, Andrew Taint.
01:08:42.520 If you don't know who
01:08:43.700 Andrew Taint is, you're
01:08:45.920 lucky.
01:08:46.200 But he's like the, uh,
01:08:48.360 Andrew Dice Clay, but
01:08:51.020 he's got more of a
01:08:52.300 homoerotic vibe to, to
01:08:54.660 his stuff.
01:08:55.480 He's not gay, but he
01:08:57.440 presents himself in sort
01:08:58.620 of a homoerotic vibe.
01:09:00.980 Uh, and he got kicked
01:09:03.980 off of, uh, Facebook
01:09:05.080 and, uh, and, uh,
01:09:07.400 and, uh, Instagram,
01:09:09.520 same company, uh, for
01:09:13.220 saying things which his
01:09:14.520 fans say are just the
01:09:17.160 truth.
01:09:19.120 Now, do you remember
01:09:20.180 that I said a while ago
01:09:21.500 that no man could say
01:09:22.940 what he's actually
01:09:23.620 thinking?
01:09:25.060 Like, you, you, you
01:09:26.040 couldn't survive if a
01:09:27.740 man just said whatever
01:09:28.720 he was thinking,
01:09:29.380 whenever he was
01:09:29.820 thinking.
01:09:30.560 Now, I'm not saying
01:09:31.560 that I'm thinking what
01:09:32.500 he's thinking.
01:09:33.840 I'm just saying it's a
01:09:34.960 good example of
01:09:36.620 somebody who is trying
01:09:38.480 to say what he's
01:09:39.180 actually thinking in
01:09:40.220 public, and he's, he
01:09:42.380 doesn't have a chance.
01:09:45.560 Yeah, he got a big
01:09:46.520 following.
01:09:47.540 Do you know why he
01:09:48.220 got over four million
01:09:49.620 followers almost
01:09:50.540 instantly?
01:09:51.720 Is it because males
01:09:53.580 did disagree with him?
01:09:55.680 No, it's because they
01:09:56.820 knew he was, he was
01:09:58.060 self-immolating by saying
01:09:59.880 things that they sort of
01:10:00.880 also believed or
01:10:02.160 thought were true or
01:10:03.040 rang true.
01:10:07.860 Anyway, so, uh,
01:10:10.220 well, so somebody's
01:10:14.960 saying that, uh, that
01:10:16.420 Cernovich likes him.
01:10:18.000 I don't know if likes
01:10:18.740 him is the right
01:10:19.340 phrase.
01:10:20.460 But, again, uh, my
01:10:23.680 right of a free
01:10:24.800 association is not
01:10:27.080 just for me.
01:10:29.160 If somebody I, I, I
01:10:31.040 like or respect wants
01:10:32.940 to spend some time with
01:10:33.980 somebody I don't like
01:10:34.880 or respect, that's
01:10:35.780 fine.
01:10:37.720 Because Cernovich, like
01:10:39.660 me, exerts his
01:10:41.980 complete right to
01:10:43.380 associate with whoever
01:10:44.620 he wants.
01:10:45.180 Actually, it's one of the
01:10:45.880 things I like most about
01:10:46.900 him.
01:10:47.560 In fact, he associated
01:10:48.780 with me, Cernovich did,
01:10:50.840 before, before I had
01:10:52.460 much of a following on
01:10:53.540 social media.
01:10:54.520 And I think that was
01:10:55.320 risky.
01:10:56.780 So, uh, I'm never
01:10:59.180 going to give somebody a
01:11:00.120 hard problem for who
01:11:00.980 they spend time with,
01:11:02.220 endorse, prefer.
01:11:03.740 Or, that's, that's
01:11:06.360 all just their
01:11:06.920 decisions.
01:11:10.920 Um, all right, there
01:11:17.640 we go.
01:11:20.120 Hello from Nigeria.
01:11:24.940 Yeah, we have to demand
01:11:26.120 our freedom of
01:11:26.760 association.
01:11:27.320 There are
01:11:31.840 exceptions.
01:11:34.080 Really?
01:11:35.500 Well, there would be
01:11:36.500 maybe exceptions for
01:11:37.660 what kind of time you
01:11:39.060 spend with them.
01:11:40.640 But, not for a
01:11:41.820 selfie.
01:11:42.840 I don't have any
01:11:43.480 exceptions for that.
01:11:49.260 Um.
01:11:53.160 All right.
01:11:53.760 All right.
01:11:53.800 All right.
01:11:57.320 Uh, there's some
01:11:59.240 Andrew Tate, Taint,
01:12:00.640 uh, impersonator
01:12:01.500 videos.
01:12:05.300 All right.
01:12:06.040 Well, uh, that's
01:12:09.040 all I got for today.
01:12:10.340 Would you agree that
01:12:11.260 this is, uh, probably
01:12:12.300 the best live stream
01:12:13.940 you're ever going to
01:12:14.980 see?
01:12:15.860 Maybe in the history
01:12:16.820 of all time.
01:12:18.740 Yeah.
01:12:20.040 Very close.
01:12:20.980 Very close.
01:12:21.600 To the best thing
01:12:22.320 you'll ever see.
01:12:25.140 All right.
01:12:26.500 Uh.
01:12:27.320 I did finish, I did
01:12:28.560 fix my Photoshop
01:12:30.260 problem.
01:12:31.240 There was a setting
01:12:31.960 that changed somehow
01:12:34.300 on its own.
01:12:35.340 And the setting
01:12:36.100 that changed seemed
01:12:36.900 to have nothing to do
01:12:38.020 with the brush tool.
01:12:40.560 Uh, the brush tool
01:12:41.620 has lots of settings
01:12:42.640 in different places
01:12:43.620 and you have to
01:12:44.200 find them all.
01:12:45.120 So it's just a
01:12:45.760 terrible interface
01:12:46.400 problem.
01:12:47.600 Yeah, so the
01:12:48.020 computer works.
01:12:48.800 That's the good news.
01:12:52.200 And, uh, that's
01:12:53.260 all for now.
01:12:53.760 I'll talk to you
01:12:54.200 later.
01:12:54.800 You too.