Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1879 Scott Adams： Fake News Delivered A Bountiful Harvest Today, Enjoy With A Beverage

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00:01:12.060 Well, let's start off with the most important story of the day.

00:01:19.340 Apparently, there's this teen chess phenomenon, phenom,

00:01:26.580 who beat some world chess champion.

00:01:31.560 But the teen is being accused of cheating.

00:01:34.920 And of course, they tried to check to see if he had any kind of electronic listening devices

00:01:40.980 that he was being coached or something.

00:01:42.680 And by process of elimination, since they couldn't find anything externally,

00:01:49.220 he's being accused of possibly having vibrating anal beads

00:01:53.920 that would tell him where to move by his coach.

00:02:01.920 Now, what I really wonder is, did the teen learn Morse code?

00:02:07.300 How exactly do the anal beads communicate? 0.62

00:02:13.540 Because they're not talking.

00:02:14.740 It's not words.

00:02:16.760 So, could it be Morse code?

00:02:20.920 Hold on.

00:02:21.800 Hold on.

00:02:22.100 I'm sorry.

00:02:23.040 A little interruption.

00:02:23.900 I'm getting a call.

00:02:27.300 Okay.

00:02:32.340 Uh-huh.

00:02:33.520 Go on.

00:02:34.120 Got it.

00:02:39.120 Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

00:02:40.600 I just had an incoming call.

00:02:42.900 But I don't know.

00:02:43.920 This technology seems highly unlikely to be true.

00:02:49.360 That's your first story of the day.

00:02:52.220 I don't think I should have started with that one because I can't top it.

00:02:57.000 I can't top it.

00:02:58.160 Now, suppose they found out that he was actually guilty of having anal beads to win his chest.

00:03:05.660 Is there a chest room?

00:03:08.080 Yeah.

00:03:09.780 Do you think that he should be punished for that?

00:03:13.060 Or should we turn the other cheek?

00:03:17.160 Anybody?

00:03:18.120 Anybody?

00:03:18.500 Uh, no.

00:03:22.340 Uh, he did not have a hummingbird shoved up his ass.

00:03:26.420 It was anal beads. 0.99

00:03:27.660 Pretty sure of it.

00:03:28.860 But, perfectly intelligent question to ask.

00:03:33.880 Well, the Nord Stream pipeline seems to have sprung a leak.

00:03:39.660 Natural gas.

00:03:40.660 Now, it's interesting that the news does not talk about this natural gas leak as being an ecological problem.

00:03:51.040 Is that because the gas just goes to the surface and just sort of gets released?

00:03:55.600 Does it hurt anything?

00:03:57.620 Because it's not liquid gas, right?

00:03:59.440 It's just gas gas?

00:04:02.980 Like a gaseous liquid?

00:04:05.440 Not a gaseous liquid, but a cloud gas kind of thing?

00:04:08.900 Yeah, it just dissipates?

00:04:10.660 So, I guess the economy, the ecology is not the big problem, but the pipeline was shut down already.

00:04:18.560 So, it was just whatever was left in it.

00:04:21.100 So, it wasn't delivering anything, so that part won't make a difference.

00:04:24.480 But, the Denmark's prime minister says it's hard to imagine that the leaks were accidental

00:04:31.160 because of the timing of it and the problems with Russia.

00:04:35.160 But, who exactly would have the incentive to attack the pipeline?

00:04:42.700 Would it be the pro-Russia side or the anti-Russia side?

00:04:48.720 Germany said it was Ukraine.

00:04:50.820 I'm speculating, right?

00:04:51.960 Now, why would Ukraine do that?

00:04:57.320 Why would they do that?

00:05:01.420 I'm trying to figure out the...

00:05:04.700 Because then money goes to Russia.

00:05:08.140 But do you think Ukraine would take the chance of being caught decreasing the amount of energy to Europe?

00:05:14.540 I don't know.

00:05:17.600 There's something about the story that doesn't quite fit.

00:05:20.880 Because somebody would have to have a lot of resources to attack an underwater pipeline, wouldn't they?

00:05:27.020 That's not something a fisherman can do.

00:05:30.000 So, somebody with some resources would have to have a reason, if that's why it was done.

00:05:33.960 But, it could be a coincidence.

00:05:37.060 We do live in a world where coincidences happen.

00:05:42.480 Let me tell you about the weirdest one that happened to me yesterday.

00:05:47.720 Oh, the other day.

00:05:49.120 So, the other day, I was in my man cave, thinking up ideas, and I said to myself,

00:05:54.220 why do I hire somebody to clean my gutters, my rain gutters on my house?

00:05:58.420 Because I do.

00:05:59.640 I hire somebody to do it.

00:06:00.620 And I thought, that's like the silliest thing to have to hire somebody to do.

00:06:05.020 Like, why isn't there some kind of long pole that you can just reach up there and grab what's ever in there,

00:06:12.740 like, and just clean it with a pole?

00:06:15.120 Now, you'd have to be able to, you know, see what was up there and be able to manipulate up there.

00:06:20.540 Now, here's the weird part.

00:06:22.380 Here's the weird part.

00:06:25.100 I thought this.

00:06:27.100 I never talked about it.

00:06:28.400 I never said a word out loud.

00:06:30.700 I never wrote about it.

00:06:31.960 I never texted about it.

00:06:33.320 I didn't even write it on my whiteboard.

00:06:35.340 It was literally just a thought.

00:06:37.860 But it was a long thought.

00:06:39.180 I mean, I spent some time thinking about it.

00:06:41.380 The very next day...

00:06:44.060 Oh, damn, I'm using my phone, so I can't show you.

00:06:48.040 I'm using my phone to do the live stream, so I can't show you.

00:06:51.820 But the very next day, an advertisement appeared on my webpage, never seen it before, of the invention I imagined.

00:07:01.240 My imagination turned into an advertisement within 24 hours.

00:07:06.960 Now, you would say, well, that's just coincidence, or some kind of common consciousness thing, or whatever.

00:07:13.820 I don't think so.

00:07:16.420 My current view of the world, and of course all views of reality have to be, let's say, not certain.

00:07:25.800 Right?

00:07:26.040 You just have a working theory of reality.

00:07:28.560 That's the best you can do.

00:07:29.820 Because we don't know reality.

00:07:31.760 We just have a working theory.

00:07:33.640 My working theory is that we're causing it.

00:07:35.600 I think we think into existence things that wouldn't have happened on their own.

00:07:42.700 That if lots of people weren't thinking about it, it wouldn't happen.

00:07:46.400 So here we have this situation where the whole world is thinking about these pipelines.

00:07:52.160 Can the whole world thinking about a pipeline cause a leak?

00:07:56.740 In my worldview, yes.

00:08:00.000 That is exactly how I understand the reality I'm in.

00:08:03.540 That if everybody's thinking about the pipeline, they could break it.

00:08:07.740 That's literally how I see the world.

00:08:10.420 That that's my...

00:08:12.180 Now, I'm not saying that you should, or that it's true in some, like, absolute sense.

00:08:16.800 I'm saying that there are so many times that I think into existence things that could...

00:08:23.680 It just doesn't look like an accident.

00:08:25.780 Like this pipeline.

00:08:26.740 I agree with the Denmark's prime minister.

00:08:30.920 It doesn't look like a coincidence.

00:08:33.140 It looks like I caused it.

00:08:35.340 Not me specifically, but, you know, us.

00:08:38.820 We thinking about the pipelines.

00:08:40.580 I think we broke it.

00:08:42.220 I don't know.

00:08:42.980 Possible.

00:08:43.420 I just put that out there because it's a weird thought.

00:08:49.300 All right.

00:08:49.840 Well, I'm learning a little bit more about China's population problem.

00:08:52.940 And I did the dumbest tweet anybody ever did because I wasn't clear.

00:08:59.340 I thought it was a good point, but it wasn't clear.

00:09:02.480 So here's what I tweeted.

00:09:03.940 And then all the NPCs can come in and say the obvious thing.

00:09:07.420 All right.

00:09:07.640 So there's an obvious thing.

00:09:10.080 I want all of you to just run in and say the most obvious thing.

00:09:14.200 And here's my tweet.

00:09:16.520 Who predicted that China would run out of people?

00:09:25.400 Because that appears to be one of the biggest problems in the world,

00:09:28.840 is that China will run out of people.

00:09:32.980 And I said, who predicted that?

00:09:35.180 What's the most obvious thing to say?

00:09:36.640 Go.

00:09:38.060 Go ahead.

00:09:38.420 Get it out of your system.

00:09:40.000 Get it out of your system, please.

00:09:42.600 You could say Elon.

00:09:44.040 You could say you knew.

00:09:46.840 You could say I said it.

00:09:49.260 Peter Zeyn.

00:09:50.000 That's the one I was looking for.

00:09:52.860 Peter Zeyn.

00:09:53.560 So probably, would you say that for at least 10 or maybe 20 years,

00:09:58.580 we've been talking about the possibility of a Chinese population collapse?

00:10:02.980 Would you agree with that statement?

00:10:04.060 That for 10 or 20 years, we have been talking about it.

00:10:08.520 Population collapse, right?

00:10:10.660 10 or 20 years.

00:10:11.760 So that's why my tweet sucked.

00:10:15.080 Because my assumption was you would assume what I assumed, which is in your childhood, it would seem impossible.

00:10:23.980 Right?

00:10:24.080 Because I grew up thinking there would be nothing but more Chinese, and even limiting the population wouldn't even work. 1.00

00:10:30.700 Like, it would still be, you know, more Chinese forever. 1.00

00:10:33.260 And now the opposite is happening.

00:10:37.540 So, yes, I will acknowledge that you all knew five years ago.

00:10:42.100 Would you agree?

00:10:43.200 We all knew five years ago.

00:10:45.660 But that wasn't the point.

00:10:46.960 I just, I said it very unclearly.

00:10:49.100 And that's on me.

00:10:50.140 So do you know why China's population is decreasing?

00:10:56.960 Let's see how smart you are.

00:10:58.900 Can you tell me why China's population is not growing as fast as they need it to?

00:11:03.880 Go.

00:11:05.280 The one-child rule for many years, right? 0.71

00:11:09.360 So it's the one-child thing, right?

00:11:10.780 Obviously.

00:11:12.140 Obviously.

00:11:12.620 Obviously, if China has a one-child rule, what doesn't happen?

00:11:20.220 Having two children.

00:11:22.600 So what could be more obvious than that, right?

00:11:27.020 Okay.

00:11:27.600 So we can all agree, because we're pretty smart people, that the one-child policy is the reason for the lower population growth.

00:11:36.440 Okay?

00:11:36.840 Everybody?

00:11:37.600 Is there anybody who disagrees?

00:11:39.460 There's no disagreement with that, right?

00:11:42.620 Okay.

00:11:43.660 Because we're all smart.

00:11:46.180 Did you know that Taiwan has a lower birth rate than China?

00:11:51.560 And Taiwan never had a one-child policy?

00:11:56.140 Yeah, that fucked up your brain, didn't it?

00:11:59.200 Yeah.

00:11:59.920 You had chewing that for a little while.

00:12:01.600 The one-child policy wasn't it. 0.65

00:12:03.920 That wasn't the reason.

00:12:05.920 Now, obviously, it had to have some impact.

00:12:08.540 You know, it's impossible that it had no impact.

00:12:11.040 But if you're saying that the reason is the one-child policy, you have to explain Taiwan.

00:12:18.320 Lower birth rate than China.

00:12:21.200 What is the other explanation?

00:12:22.800 Affluence.

00:12:23.920 And moving to the cities.

00:12:26.540 Agricultural people have more kids, because they need them.

00:12:29.820 City people have fewer kids, because it's harder to have kids in the city.

00:12:34.020 There you go.

00:12:37.440 Now, China has an extra problem on top of that, which is they don't have the right balance of men to women. 1.00

00:12:44.300 So China has a second-order problem coming that presumably Taiwan won't, if they have closer to the same number of people.

00:12:51.180 So Taiwan, one could imagine, could survive the lower population, whereas I don't know if China can. 0.99

00:13:00.100 The too-many-men problem is, unless you start a war, what do you do about that? 0.98

00:13:08.160 So, or massive prostitution or something.

00:13:11.760 Which actually probably won't be the answer.

00:13:13.580 China is going to have to have massive prostitution just to keep all the single men from staging a revolution or something. 1.00

00:13:22.380 All right.

00:13:24.300 Here's another factor on China's population problem.

00:13:28.680 I mentioned this, but I didn't know anything about it.

00:13:31.280 So I know a little bit more about it now.

00:13:33.380 So in China, they've got this system called Hukou, H-U-K-O-U. 0.98

00:13:38.520 The bottom line is that you have to be sort of registered as a resident wherever it is you live.

00:13:46.520 And if you're registered as a resident, they know everything about you.

00:13:49.980 But your rights are limited to where you live.

00:13:54.240 You can't go to another city and get a job.

00:13:57.580 Now, I didn't know that.

00:13:59.080 Did you know that?

00:14:00.480 Did you know in China you can't go to another city and get a job because you're not registered in that city?

00:14:05.980 You can't get a job.

00:14:07.160 So here's the problem if you're a young couple getting married.

00:14:13.260 Let's say you're two professionals.

00:14:16.800 The odds of both of you being able to get a good job in the same city are not really 100%.

00:14:22.680 So it turns out that there's a trend of young Chinese people getting married and living and working in separate cities

00:14:30.900 because that's the only place they can pursue the kind of career they want.

00:14:34.360 So that the baby-making just has to wait.

00:14:39.200 So they actually have a system that makes it so hard.

00:14:42.740 Now, you ask yourself, why don't they get rid of that system?

00:14:47.000 You know, isn't the obvious question, why do they have that system?

00:14:51.280 What the hell benefit is that?

00:14:52.820 And the answer is it keeps internal mass migration from happening.

00:14:58.920 What you don't want is all the people who live in a shitty city to say, hey, that other city's better.

00:15:05.380 Well, we'll just move over there.

00:15:06.920 So apparently mass internal migration was so disruptive that they had to clamp down on it.

00:15:16.580 Now, it seems to me they're going to have to get rid of that, phase it down somehow.

00:15:20.940 It seems to me that if they don't have an easy exception for married people, I mean, really?

00:15:27.280 China couldn't figure out an exception for married people. 0.94

00:15:31.700 That feels like a solvable problem, right?

00:15:34.380 But, yeah, and maybe it has to do with the Uyghurs. 0.61

00:15:36.840 Who knows?

00:15:37.940 You know, maybe that's all related.

00:15:41.440 Here's one of the questions that I have.

00:15:43.420 Have you ever noticed that Elon Musk is smart?

00:15:46.840 And that he doesn't seem to lie a lot?

00:15:49.700 I mean, I can't think of an example.

00:15:52.500 Have you noticed that?

00:15:53.140 And when Elon Musk says something's true and you didn't think it was true, what happens to your brain?

00:16:02.600 Do you immediately say, well, I guess Elon Musk had a good run, but he's wrong about this?

00:16:08.040 Or do you say to yourself, oh, shoot, I thought I was right, but Elon Musk says the opposite,

00:16:14.440 so I'm going to change my opinion to whatever he says.

00:16:16.680 Now, I have that philosophy, that if Elon Musk tells me I'm wrong about something, I immediately discard my old opinion.

00:16:27.520 And at the very least, I go to uncertain.

00:16:31.020 All right, so Elon Musk can move me immediately from pretty sure to completely uncertain, just because he has a different opinion.

00:16:39.220 And other people can do that, too.

00:16:40.700 In a legal context, Dershowitz could do it to me, right?

00:16:45.020 If Dershowitz told me I was wrong about whatever dumbass legal opinion I had, I would immediately go to at least uncertain, if not outright agree.

00:16:55.260 So here's the problem with what Musk is saying.

00:16:58.260 He's saying we could basically handle all of our energy needs with solar.

00:17:04.900 If we had enough solar plants, it would take a small part of the country.

00:17:11.580 Now, of course, we don't have a grid that can carry it, but conceptually, it wouldn't take much of the country.

00:17:18.120 You know, you couldn't really put it in one place.

00:17:20.260 You'd want to spread it out because of the grid.

00:17:23.740 So here's the first question.

00:17:25.520 Is Elon Musk correct in his math?

00:17:29.400 Are you going to question his math?

00:17:31.040 That there's some number of solar panels that would give us everything we need, so long as we had enough batteries to get through the no sun parts?

00:17:41.900 True or false?

00:17:43.220 True or false that it's physically possible?

00:17:46.960 I don't know.

00:17:47.700 But I'm at least uncertain about it.

00:17:50.040 I'm definitely not going to bet against them.

00:17:52.400 But here's the next question.

00:17:53.540 Why do all the smart people, the ones you think are the smart people, why do they say there's no physical way you could get enough raw earth minerals, not raw, rare earth minerals?

00:18:07.800 So why do all the smart people say you couldn't possibly get to that future with all the batteries that we need and all the electric cars?

00:18:14.740 You can't get anywhere near it because the amount of raw earth materials that you could possibly get would be this much.

00:18:22.620 If you're listening, I'm holding my fingers very close together.

00:18:26.200 This much.

00:18:27.060 That's how much we have.

00:18:28.560 And then how much we need to get to this sort of mostly electric world, how much we need would be like this much.

00:18:35.960 And if you're listening, I'm holding my arms very far apart, to contrast to the tiny little finger distance I had been showing before.

00:18:45.400 Now, why don't I understand that?

00:18:48.700 How could I be a functioning citizen of earth?

00:18:53.380 And I don't know why Elon Musk thinks that that shortage of critical materials is not an obstacle.

00:19:01.440 At least not an obstacle that's going to stop us.

00:19:05.960 Why?

00:19:07.340 Now, is he betting on a whole new technology coming into existence?

00:19:12.700 Now, there is.

00:19:13.660 I'm seeing a lot of advertisements on mostly on Instagram.

00:19:17.560 And I'm not going to put any credibility behind this.

00:19:20.120 I'm just telling you what I saw.

00:19:21.640 There is some company named Bolt.

00:19:24.220 B-O-L-T. 1.00

00:19:26.260 They've got some kind of new battery technology that they're hyping that doesn't seem to require the rare earth minerals.

00:19:33.140 And I believe there are some other types that also don't require that.

00:19:37.360 Now, is that what Elon Musk is betting on?

00:19:40.640 And if he is, why is he building mega factories for the existing technology?

00:19:47.000 Shouldn't we be hearing by now that he's at least considering funding an alternate battery company or buying one or spinning up another alternate source of batteries?

00:20:02.760 So I guess there's a big mystery here, and we as informed citizens should know the answer, which is, is there a way around this shortage of rare earth materials?

00:20:14.700 You know, if you sat down with Elon, would he say, oh, yeah, I look into all the new batteries, of course.

00:20:21.180 Do you think he doesn't?

00:20:23.100 Do you think that Elon Musk is aware of the newest, best alternative battery technology?

00:20:29.400 Of course he is.

00:20:30.260 Because every one of them went to him first, right?

00:20:32.640 I mean, that's an exaggeration.

00:20:34.640 But you know he's too tapped in to not know about that stuff.

00:20:37.980 So what does he know that we don't?

00:20:40.140 I'd like to know.

00:20:40.920 All right, I saw actor Anthony Mackie, who plays a superhero in some of those movies.

00:20:52.740 Which superhero does he play?

00:20:55.520 Nighthawk or something?

00:20:57.460 What's his character?

00:21:00.280 Falcon?

00:21:01.860 Oh, he plays Falcon, right.

00:21:03.920 So he's a superhero named Falcon.

00:21:05.600 Anyway, one of his points was that people, people remember now the names of the character, like the superhero, but they, they don't recognize the star as superstars.

00:21:20.120 It's a good point because I've been watching his movies for years and I didn't know his name was Anthony Mackie.

00:21:26.220 Talk about making a good point.

00:21:28.500 I didn't know his name.

00:21:30.140 I've been watching this guy for years.

00:21:32.280 Right?

00:21:32.600 Pretty good actor.

00:21:33.460 I like him.

00:21:33.880 Never, never once heard his name, but his name is Anthony Mackie.

00:21:39.320 Anyway, he says that movies today are no good because they're only making movies for 16-year-olds in China and that's it. 0.99

00:21:46.600 You know, and people cheered and said, oh, that's true.

00:21:49.400 They're only making movies for 16-year-olds in China.

00:21:53.420 That's not exactly true.

00:21:54.760 Let me tell you two things that 16-year-olds and Chinese citizens don't like. 0.99

00:22:04.580 You ready?

00:22:05.920 Everything in the movies.

00:22:07.720 The wokeness.

00:22:09.200 What 16-year-old likes wokeness?

00:22:12.200 What Chinese citizen likes their movies with lots of wokeness? 0.99

00:22:16.680 Make sure the women are the strong ones. 0.91

00:22:18.280 I feel as if they created a market, to Anthony Mackie's point, which is not bad.

00:22:27.100 They made a market that's only for 16-year-olds and then Chinese, and then they changed their product so that the two groups that would least like it would be 16-year-olds and Chinese people.

00:22:37.400 I'm exaggerating, but that's kind of what's happening.

00:22:42.320 It's like they've actually managed their own destruction by doing the things that would obviously put them out of business.

00:22:51.040 Let's make movies that are definitely the opposite of what our target market wants to see.

00:22:57.860 Okay.

00:22:58.380 You know, I tweeted today that the least useful political opinion in the world is if you believe that some policy or another is really about control.

00:23:12.520 Have you ever found yourself saying that?

00:23:14.980 Oh, that policy?

00:23:17.360 That plan that those other people want? 0.92

00:23:20.220 That's just about control.

00:23:22.140 Have you ever said that?

00:23:24.580 Well, what good is that?

00:23:26.060 What have you ever changed that wasn't about control?

00:23:31.100 Everything you do is about control.

00:23:33.880 That's like saying air exists.

00:23:36.120 There is air.

00:23:38.300 I'm trying to control you right now.

00:23:42.200 You're trying to control me right now.

00:23:46.500 I see your comments that are clearly meant to, you know, sometimes people say, you know, move to the next topic and whatever.

00:23:53.600 It totally controls me.

00:23:54.820 You think that doesn't make a difference?

00:23:57.180 It does.

00:23:58.600 Am I trying to get you to show up every day at the same point?

00:24:01.660 Absolutely.

00:24:02.780 I'm totally trying to control you.

00:24:04.900 You're trying to control me.

00:24:06.480 I'm trying to control you.

00:24:07.960 My dog is trying to control me when I'm done.

00:24:10.300 She'll try to make me give her a treat. 1.00

00:24:12.400 It's just everything.

00:24:14.140 So to say this, somebody has a goal of controlling you is nothing.

00:24:18.560 Of course they do.

00:24:21.420 So do you.

00:24:23.160 So does everybody.

00:24:25.580 All right.

00:24:26.000 But more about that.

00:24:28.380 So I think that that whole control thing feels like movie thinking.

00:24:32.560 We unfortunately get our understanding of reality from movies and fiction.

00:24:37.340 And I feel like people think, oh, there's some kind of evil genius who's going to control me.

00:24:44.660 Now, let's get back to this World Economic Forum who says, and many of you believe, that the World Economic Forum said that in the future you won't own anything and you'll be happy.

00:25:01.080 You won't own anything and you'll be happy.

00:25:05.640 So the World Economic Forum said that, right?

00:25:09.340 And so that means they're trying to take your control and make sure you don't own anything because then they can control everything, right?

00:25:16.320 Is that what it is?

00:25:19.720 Okay.

00:25:21.040 You know that none of this happened, right?

00:25:25.500 The tweet, which does exist, that tweet does exist.

00:25:29.180 There's a World Economic Forum tweet that did say in the future, you know, some date in the future, you wouldn't own anything and you'd be happy about it.

00:25:39.840 Did that sound like what they wanted to happen?

00:25:43.720 All right.

00:25:44.300 Here's the context.

00:25:45.340 It was on a list of predictions.

00:25:47.960 And what they were talking about is stuff like Uber.

00:25:51.340 That instead of, like, buying a tool that you would only use once, you'd have a drone deliver it, you'd use it once, and then you'd return it.

00:25:59.620 Like your Uber.

00:26:01.320 There's just something.

00:26:02.600 Now, are you afraid that the World Economic Forum made some predictions that are exactly like everybody else's?

00:26:11.060 That's what you're worried about.

00:26:12.680 You're worried about the World Economic Forum because they made a prediction that's the same as yours and everyone else's.

00:26:19.740 That we will be borrowing and renting more things because that will be a new industry that allows us to do it.

00:26:27.200 And it's just because delivery costs are lower.

00:26:29.580 That's all it means.

00:26:30.260 Now, do you think that it meant that you wouldn't have the option of owning something?

00:26:38.020 Do you think it meant that?

00:26:40.400 No.

00:26:41.220 It meant that you would actually prefer it.

00:26:44.560 They're not making you do it.

00:26:46.220 They're saying that the market is likely to prefer it.

00:26:50.320 And so the market will go where the market wants to go.

00:26:53.520 And in a free market, people will choose not to own things that they don't have to pay extra for.

00:26:58.240 Now, Blake says, how naive.

00:27:03.000 How naive of me.

00:27:04.260 Now, Blake, we're getting to you next.

00:27:07.120 I believe that in a real sense, part of the world lives in like a movie version of an imaginary world.

00:27:18.000 And they see the things in sort of movie terms.

00:27:21.540 Because I don't think that they really think it's real.

00:27:24.840 I think some people walk around believing that the things immediately around them are real.

00:27:32.620 But that everything we talk about on TV or on the Internet is sort of part of the imaginary world.

00:27:38.760 Where you can imagine there are villains and there are two sides.

00:27:42.300 And everything's kind of clean.

00:27:43.760 And, you know, you can really know who's doing what.

00:27:46.320 But how many of you believe the following?

00:27:51.040 That there's some group of elites.

00:27:53.000 I don't know.

00:27:53.700 Some group of elites who are having conversations about keeping the underclass and underclass.

00:28:01.340 So that they personally can gain more.

00:28:05.360 Do you think that conversation is like literally happening, an actual conversation?

00:28:09.180 You know, if we keep the common people where they are, then the rich can continue enjoying their benefits.

00:28:16.920 A lot of people do.

00:28:18.780 A lot of do.

00:28:19.320 And you don't think that sounds crazy?

00:28:25.420 No.

00:28:26.380 Now let me ask this.

00:28:28.380 Well, instead of a question, I'm going to put this in a form of a hypothesis.

00:28:34.500 I believe that there are two kinds of people in the world, because there are always two kinds of people in the world for every topic.

00:28:41.040 One kind of person has been close to power, as I have.

00:28:48.460 Now, would you call me an elite?

00:28:50.340 I mean, I'm not like the billionaire elites that you think are running capitalism.

00:28:54.780 But you know I've been behind the curtain, right?

00:29:00.460 You know that I know plenty of billionaires personally.

00:29:05.840 Right?

00:29:06.500 I could have a conversation.

00:29:07.920 I could call, I don't know, any one of 20 billionaires tomorrow and have a personal conversation with, probably completely candidly.

00:29:16.980 I have never once in my life heard anybody, at any level of power or control, talk in the way that you imagine they do.

00:29:29.400 Ever.

00:29:30.060 Not even close.

00:29:31.860 And nobody's even said that they know somebody else who talks that way.

00:29:35.700 It just literally doesn't exist.

00:29:39.720 Right?

00:29:39.840 And those that you think you've seen a video of them talking that way, it's always out of context.

00:29:46.100 It's not real.

00:29:47.580 There's no real billionaires who are having these conversations.

00:29:51.220 Nor would they.

00:29:52.040 They don't even make sense.

00:29:53.660 By the time you get to become a billionaire, you're not thinking about, how can I oppress the little people better to make more money?

00:30:01.940 Literally nobody thinks like that.

00:30:04.220 Nobody.

00:30:04.840 There's nobody in the world.

00:30:05.700 I'll bet not one person ever anywhere in the world.

00:30:08.160 And if you can find one, find, for example, find me a servant who overheard a conversation.

00:30:16.900 Find me a whistleblower who is an elite who doesn't agree with the elites but knows what they're talking about.

00:30:24.400 No whistleblowers.

00:30:26.680 Right?

00:30:27.060 No hidden, no documents have been discovered.

00:30:31.180 Everything that you think you know is evidence is just out of context bullshit. 0.85

00:30:36.640 Right?

00:30:36.800 So here's the point.

00:30:40.720 The speculation that many of you have about the elites having these conversations is based on the fact that you've never been around any elites.

00:30:50.500 That's my opinion.

00:30:52.180 Now, I can be disproved.

00:30:53.520 But I don't think that people who spend time around really rich people have that opinion.

00:31:00.360 Because it would be so opposite of how anybody is thinking.

00:31:04.020 I mean, could it be I've gone my whole life and haven't met one person who's ever had anything like that opinion?

00:31:10.060 Not even close.

00:31:10.980 And I'm telling you, I meet a lot of really rich people.

00:31:15.440 That's sort of my normal, normal experience.

00:31:18.960 None of them talk like that.

00:31:21.820 All right.

00:31:22.480 I'll never convince you, right?

00:31:23.620 Would you agree that I'll never convince you that there is not a cabal of elites plotting to take your control?

00:31:34.920 Right?

00:31:35.880 We can agree that I will never convince you.

00:31:38.120 Would you agree that I have, that I'm closer to it than you are?

00:31:43.660 Would you agree that I have some, let's say I have an angle on this that maybe you don't, maybe I'm wrong.

00:31:52.720 Maybe I'm wrong.

00:31:53.440 But would you agree that I have like a, let's say more, more observational opportunities?

00:32:00.460 Because I hang around with the people that you're talking about.

00:32:03.140 Yeah.

00:32:06.780 So, and somebody else just said that they're also close to the elite and they've never heard it.

00:32:13.860 So here's what I would challenge you.

00:32:16.700 I offer you this challenge.

00:32:19.280 Find me an elite who is, who will report that that conversation ever happened with anybody.

00:32:26.580 Because you know billionaires don't like each other, right?

00:32:29.600 Have you ever noticed that?

00:32:31.080 They're not all in like one club.

00:32:33.400 There's like Democrat billionaires and Republican billionaires and other countries have billionaires.

00:32:39.000 They're not all on the same team.

00:32:40.900 So the best way to see all of this is competing interests.

00:32:45.160 That, you know, the billionaires are not on the same team.

00:32:47.860 They're fighting each other.

00:32:49.160 And they really don't think about the common people at all.

00:32:52.540 So you imagine that they're looking to suppress the common people.

00:32:55.760 And the truth is they don't think about it at all.

00:32:57.980 It's just labor.

00:33:00.600 That's it.

00:33:01.180 All right.

00:33:03.300 I saw, you know, now that this Italian election is over, we're hearing a lot of the old Hitler stuff.

00:33:16.580 And I'm going to try to start this hashtag, Hitler goggles, because I'm really getting tired of the people who can only see the world through a Hitler filter. 0.76

00:33:27.560 Well, I think I'll have some cake.

00:33:31.360 Well, that cake is a vanilla cake.

00:33:35.000 That's more like Hitler than the chocolate cake. 0.91

00:33:37.020 Everything doesn't have to be compared to Hitler.

00:33:41.880 It really doesn't.

00:33:44.320 And so I was wondering, could science invent some kind of corrective lens where when you read the news and you thought, oh, Hitler, the corrective lens would sort of change the text and maybe give you a non-Hitler view of it?

00:33:59.460 Yeah.

00:34:00.860 Yeah.

00:34:01.500 Yeah.

00:34:01.860 If we could just de-Hitlerize our goggles for a little bit, that'd be cool. 0.98

00:34:07.540 I like that.

00:34:08.340 And more importantly, I would like you to adopt the following strategy that I use all the time.

00:34:21.840 Do not debate with people who start with an analogy.

00:34:25.740 Don't.

00:34:27.040 Do not.

00:34:28.120 In fact, say, whoa, I don't argue analogies, but if you want to argue this situation, I'd be happy to.

00:34:35.840 Just don't.

00:34:36.840 It's so tempting, and I do it all the time, so I don't follow my own advice because it's too easy to be weak and go, oh, I'm going to argue that analogy.

00:34:47.020 Do not.

00:34:48.060 Here's what you say when somebody really insists that you argue the analogy.

00:34:52.680 You say, well, that's.

00:34:54.260 You're describing a different situation.

00:34:57.280 If you'd like to discuss a different situation, we can after we're done with this one.

00:35:01.300 But what you're learning from something that has a little bit in common with this is nothing useful.

00:35:07.400 So I don't want to be part of a conversation about an analogy.

00:35:10.740 But if you'd like to talk about what we know, and also, you know, some logic and reason, I'm all for you.

00:35:17.880 But analogies would be really what people who have never learned to think use instead.

00:35:26.200 Let me say it again.

00:35:27.240 We use analogies usually when we don't have an argument.

00:35:32.740 Usually.

00:35:33.680 Now, I use them all the time.

00:35:35.820 So is it because I don't have an argument?

00:35:38.140 Usually it's because I'm in a hurry.

00:35:40.640 Honestly.

00:35:42.000 I'll throw out an analogy because I think they're funny, or it'll just leave you something to chew on and I'm not interested in the argument.

00:35:48.140 But if I give you an analogy, probably I'm not serious about the conversation at all.

00:35:54.100 I'm probably just trying to provoke you.

00:35:56.940 I'm just trying to get you to, like, you know, reveal yourself or something.

00:36:01.180 But it's not an argument.

00:36:03.920 An analogy is a conversation about a different topic.

00:36:07.040 That's it.

00:36:07.820 It's just a different conversation.

00:36:10.560 Well, here's my favorite fake news story of the day.

00:36:14.620 CNN tweeted, this is what they tweeted.

00:36:18.140 That the Justice Department declares the seized Mar-a-Lago materials list is full and accurate despite former President Trump's claims of planted evidence.

00:36:31.680 His claims of planted evidence.

00:36:36.920 Did President Trump have claims of planted evidence?

00:36:42.520 Lawrence Tribe thinks so.

00:36:44.020 Lawrence Tribe tweeted this.

00:36:45.200 He said,

00:36:45.640 Basically, he's just mocking Trump for saying that, you know, the materials were planted.

00:36:57.780 Lawrence Tribe and CNN are both saying that Trump claims that the FBI planted evidence.

00:37:03.480 Did that happen in the real world?

00:37:05.880 Nope.

00:37:06.840 Do you know how I know it didn't happen?

00:37:08.660 I checked the fact checkers.

00:37:11.800 That's CNN.

00:37:13.640 Yeah.

00:37:14.120 Daniel Dale.

00:37:15.820 Daniel Dale's fact check that's already written, right?

00:37:19.080 It's not, I'm not talking hypothetically.

00:37:21.300 The already written opinion from Daniel Dale is that this is fake news.

00:37:26.860 CNN's own news.

00:37:28.600 Now, he doesn't say CNN's news is fake news.

00:37:31.700 He says accurately, Daniel Dale, the fact checker, is accurate when he says that Trump,

00:37:38.220 I'll, I'll, I'm paraphrasing, but Trump had a concern about it.

00:37:42.380 He had a concern about it.

00:37:43.560 Now, is a concern that something could have happened similar to a claim that something happened?

00:37:50.520 It's not something.

00:37:51.340 No.

00:37:52.380 No.

00:37:53.100 They're not similar.

00:37:54.820 Those are very different things.

00:37:57.140 Right?

00:37:57.680 Very different things.

00:37:58.760 So, Daniel Dale actually has fact checked and debunked CNN's own tweet.

00:38:05.560 And they're both live right now.

00:38:08.460 How many, how many Democrats would know that CNN debunked their own news?

00:38:15.060 How many would even notice?

00:38:17.900 None, right?

00:38:19.200 I'll bet none.

00:38:20.220 I'll bet not a single Democrat, like zero.

00:38:23.100 And of millions.

00:38:24.340 About not one person caught that not only is it fake news, but CNN debunked it themselves.

00:38:32.820 That's the world we live in.

00:38:34.840 I love that story.

00:38:37.480 Now, if it's true that the entire list of contents is agreed upon by both sides,

00:38:43.340 then that would be a pretty strong argument that unless Trump says there's something in there that doesn't belong,

00:38:49.760 and I didn't put it there, the argument is that that, you know, that suspicion can be put to rest,

00:38:56.740 which I agree with, if they do have a full inventory that both sides agree with.

00:39:03.140 Josh Hawley found the best way for the Republicans to lose the midterms,

00:39:08.820 and he's rolled it out.

00:39:10.440 So here's a Josh Hawley tweet, which guarantees the Republicans will lose the midterms.

00:39:16.980 He didn't plan this, but I think that's what's going to happen here.

00:39:21.680 So Josh Hawley says that the corruption and abuse of law, talking about the FBI, is out of control.

00:39:27.820 Come January, the new Republican Congress must launch a thorough public investigation of Department of Justice and the FBI,

00:39:35.340 from their targeting of parents to religious protesters to political opponents.

00:39:39.320 What Biden is doing is wrong and dangerous.

00:39:43.420 Now, I completely agree with Josh Hawley's characterization of the Department of Justice and the FBI.

00:39:51.080 Do you?

00:39:53.140 We can agree with that part, right?

00:39:55.160 So his criticism of the credibility of the FBI and the Department of Justice, I think, is right on point.

00:40:01.200 He gives examples, right?

00:40:04.080 And I think we'd all agree with that.

00:40:05.840 Now, do you see why he just cost the GOP the midterms?

00:40:11.800 Is it obvious to you?

00:40:13.820 Chuck Schumer told us.

00:40:16.400 Chuck Schumer told us that Trump was crazy for attacking the intelligence agencies.

00:40:23.260 Now, the FBI, I'm going to treat separately.

00:40:25.380 But the intelligence agencies, because Schumer said in public, in public, one of our top politicians said that our own intelligence agencies would punish you if you criticized them or went after them.

00:40:41.980 And then they did.

00:40:43.920 They did exactly what Schumer said they would do.

00:40:46.640 They punished him.

00:40:47.820 Or tried to.

00:40:48.420 The 50 people who lied about the laptop.

00:40:55.100 There you go.

00:40:56.360 You don't have to wonder if Schumer was, like, you know, just spitballing.

00:41:01.840 He said, obviously, this is going to happen.

00:41:04.940 And then it happened.

00:41:05.860 And then we confirmed it.

00:41:06.800 Now, Josh Hawley is saying that if Republicans win, they're going to basically dismantle the leaders of these two organizations.

00:41:18.380 What do you think the FBI, not every person, you know, we're all adult enough to know that if I criticize the FBI, I'm not talking about the rank and file employees, we're fine.

00:41:30.560 Like, we're all smart enough to know that, right?

00:41:32.960 We're only talking about some members of leadership.

00:41:35.320 Although I blame them all for letting it happen.

00:41:40.820 That's a separate question.

00:41:43.000 Anyway, why would you expect the FBI to allow Trump to win the presidency when it would be terrible for the FBI?

00:41:54.380 Now, you say to yourself, but they wouldn't do that.

00:41:56.880 I mean, they wouldn't interfere with the election.

00:41:58.520 Of course they would.

00:41:59.740 You don't have to wonder if they would interfere with an election.

00:42:03.260 Isn't that question answered?

00:42:05.320 I mean, that's not hypothetical.

00:42:09.240 We're talking about the same people who work there right now.

00:42:12.500 We're not even talking about different people in a hypothetical situation.

00:42:16.280 We're talking about the actual current people are currently proven beyond any doubt that they would interfere with the political process.

00:42:25.400 So, Josh Hawley basically just said, if the FBI doesn't lie and cheat and rig the election, they'll lose their jobs.

00:42:35.780 And they have the power to lie and cheat and they have the power to lie and cheat and rig an election.

00:42:41.320 They did it with the laptop.

00:42:42.840 Now, I'm not talking about rigging the votes.

00:42:44.940 I'm not talking about rigging the votes separate.

00:42:48.180 I'm talking about rigging the outcome, which you could do by manipulating public opinion or other ways.

00:42:56.400 So, I think Josh Hawley created a situation where the Republicans can't win the midterms because the cheating, the incentive for cheating is now off the chart.

00:43:05.720 So, the FBI now has insanely high incentive to cheat, insanely high, maybe even staying at a jail high.

00:43:15.200 I mean, that's as high as you can get, the staying in a jail.

00:43:18.140 And do they have the capability?

00:43:20.940 Yes.

00:43:22.820 Yes, they have the capability to throw an election.

00:43:26.080 Of course they do.

00:43:26.760 And some argue that the laptop cover-up was part of that.

00:43:31.740 Now, that was more intelligence people, but you can see the idea, right?

00:43:35.200 It's well within the ability of some major entity to do something like that.

00:43:42.020 Am I wrong that Josh Hawley just destroyed the country?

00:43:47.100 Like, accidentally.

00:43:48.460 I mean, he had good intentions.

00:43:50.220 And he didn't say anything that I disagree with.

00:43:53.520 But I feel like he might have just destroyed the entire United States.

00:43:57.760 Because if the FBI is forced into throwing the election, we're going to notice.

00:44:06.040 Somebody's going to notice.

00:44:07.820 And while I've been predicting there will not be a civil war, I wasn't necessarily predicting that the FBI would throw an election right in front of us.

00:44:18.660 But now the situation is created where they could throw it right in front of you, and they would have an incentive to do so.

00:44:24.860 I don't know if we could avoid a civil war in that situation, although I think we would, actually. 1.00

00:44:32.720 Because, you know, no matter what happens, the public just doesn't have an appetite for a civil war.

00:44:38.180 There's just no appetite for that.

00:44:39.680 You know, the more time you spend on Twitter and social media and sort of the artificial world where, you know, we're all arguing our imaginary futures and stuff.

00:44:49.560 I mean, we're living in sort of this imaginary world.

00:44:52.060 But the actual public, no, they don't care.

00:44:54.480 They don't want any kind of revolution.

00:44:57.100 That's not going to happen.

00:44:57.920 All right.

00:45:00.640 But I do think we've got some trouble coming from the FBI.

00:45:04.000 So let's talk about the election in Italy.

00:45:07.680 So this new, I guess the winner gets to be the prime minister, but not necessarily.

00:45:13.900 So there's some question whether the winner will be the prime minister, right?

00:45:17.440 I don't know Italian system that well.

00:45:19.660 But, of course, all the folks on the left are calling her the most right wing since Mussolini and her roots go back to 20th century neo-fascist movement and blah, blah, blah. 0.99

00:45:38.840 Here's my problem.

00:45:40.980 I would like to go on record.

00:45:44.180 I want to make sure nobody misses this.

00:45:46.720 I do not care about the opinion of ghosts.

00:45:52.760 I know.

00:45:53.700 Shocking.

00:45:54.740 But I'm going to put it out there.

00:45:56.120 I don't care about the opinion of ghosts.

00:46:00.760 So if your great-grandfather was in the KKK, he's dead.

00:46:08.920 He's dead.

00:46:10.560 I'm not really going to hold that against you.

00:46:14.060 Because I'm not going to base my opinion on you.

00:46:16.920 On a ghost.

00:46:19.240 And when Republicans say, but, but, but, but, the KKK was created by the Democrats, I say, who are ghosts?

00:46:27.940 Who are ghosts?

00:46:29.360 I don't care about the ghosts.

00:46:33.500 So, no, I don't care what her party grew out of.

00:46:37.220 I don't care what the Democrats grew out of.

00:46:39.480 I don't care what the GOP grew out of.

00:46:42.260 I care what they are now.

00:46:43.360 And if they can't find something to fucking complain about, this Italian Prime Minister Milani, if they can't find anything to complain about today, all they have is ghosts.

00:46:56.200 Now, think about it.

00:46:59.680 I mean, I'm not joking.

00:47:01.820 They're talking about the dead.

00:47:03.560 I mean, they're not literally ghosts.

00:47:05.420 But they are talking about the thoughts of the dead and how that should be important to your opinion.

00:47:11.040 And I don't feel like I should pay attention to the dead.

00:47:17.100 Not really.

00:47:18.840 Like, maybe if they wrote a book, I'll read their book.

00:47:23.180 Well, once they're dead, I really don't care.

00:47:29.260 So, my take on Milani, after hearing her one speech, so it's based on only one speech that I heard, and only part of it.

00:47:36.920 And it was subtitled, because I don't speak Italian.

00:47:41.020 And it was the best job of persuasion I've ever seen from a politician.

00:47:48.820 Now, I haven't seen anybody like Winston Churchill or Hitler or people who were alleged to be great in their time.

00:47:56.060 So, I haven't really studied them.

00:47:59.140 Because they're dead.

00:48:00.740 They're dead.

00:48:02.340 So, I don't care.

00:48:03.340 But she's the best living persuader. 1.00

00:48:07.600 Politician.

00:48:09.140 Best living persuader.

00:48:11.340 And she is a level above Trump.

00:48:15.460 In my opinion, Trump was the number one political persuader that I knew of.

00:48:21.260 I mean, I don't follow every other country.

00:48:23.340 But at least in the English language, Trump was the most persuasive, best communicator.

00:48:29.660 But Milani is a level above.

00:48:35.580 She's a whole, I'm not talking about like 10% better than Trump.

00:48:40.300 I'm talking about you wouldn't put them in the same league.

00:48:44.140 And Trump was the best in the world.

00:48:46.560 She's crazy. 0.60

00:48:48.400 She's crazy. 0.60

00:48:49.640 She's so good.

00:48:51.680 And, you know, part of it is the presentation.

00:48:54.020 Now, here's the dumbest thing that anybody said about this.

00:48:59.300 And Hillary Clinton is, of course, a purveyor of this.

00:49:02.660 The dumbest thing that anybody could say about this particular politician is,

00:49:08.040 wow, a woman won this high office. 1.00

00:49:11.500 Now, that was impressive until I heard her. 1.00

00:49:15.560 And then the woman thing just disappears.

00:49:18.620 Because here's my statement.

00:49:19.920 Anybody who could do what Milani would do would be the head of any country, male or female, or trans.

00:49:29.160 I'll throw in trans. 1.00

00:49:30.700 She could have won as a trans person.

00:49:35.860 And I'm not joking about that.

00:49:38.420 The whole woman thing is a complete red herring. 1.00

00:49:42.060 Wrong word.

00:49:43.220 But it's a complete distraction from something that's way more important than that.

00:49:46.700 It doesn't matter what genitalia this person had. 1.00

00:49:52.340 You can drag out any kind of genitalia you want, put it behind the lectern,

00:49:57.100 and say these words with this presentation.

00:49:59.600 I'm there.

00:50:01.000 Like, I'm sold.

00:50:03.120 This is just pure skill.

00:50:06.700 And as soon as you make this about man-woman,

00:50:09.400 like, you're really just off on the wrong trail.

00:50:11.440 If a man had run against the woman and the man said this, the man would have won.

00:50:18.920 This was just a winning level of skill.

00:50:22.560 Now, let me tell you what she did better. 1.00

00:50:26.040 Here's what Trump does.

00:50:29.840 Trump does my team against your team,

00:50:33.720 and immigrants or illegal immigrants may be bad. 1.00

00:50:38.460 So it's sort of an us-against-you sort of thing.

00:50:43.220 And you immediately just retreat to your team.

00:50:49.700 So Trump's message is one that doesn't really convince the other side.

00:50:53.820 Would you agree?

00:50:54.880 It's a message for the base.

00:50:56.720 Agree?

00:50:58.020 It's a message for the base.

00:50:59.880 Which works, if you can get the base to vote.

00:51:02.300 So here's what Malani did,

00:51:05.340 and it may be because their politics are more fractured,

00:51:07.620 she has to do it differently.

00:51:10.020 She talked about her right of freedom,

00:51:14.000 and that she wanted it to be freedom to be a woman,

00:51:17.600 and call herself a woman. 0.98

00:51:19.900 Freedom to be, what else?

00:51:23.140 Freedom to be a mother, and to be called a mother.

00:51:26.040 Freedom to be a believer, a religious believer,

00:51:30.840 to not be criticized for it.

00:51:33.020 And a freedom to be a patriot for her own country.

00:51:37.260 Wow.

00:51:39.540 Wow.

00:51:40.380 That is so, so good.

00:51:43.080 Because everybody agrees with, wait a minute,

00:51:46.520 you know, maybe I'm not Christian,

00:51:47.880 but are we really talking about you can't even be one?

00:51:51.640 Right?

00:51:52.120 Because even the people who disagree with her are like,

00:51:54.740 oh, well, we didn't mean to take away your basic freedom.

00:51:59.020 You know, we have political differences,

00:52:01.200 but you're actually going right down to the heart of,

00:52:04.580 can I be me?

00:52:06.900 Is it legal to be me?

00:52:11.000 That is so strong.

00:52:12.700 Because I could just feel it.

00:52:15.020 I could just feel her,

00:52:16.820 I could feel the weight of oppression,

00:52:18.860 and I could feel her being done with it.

00:52:23.140 So I got both of those.

00:52:25.120 The weight of oppression,

00:52:26.580 which I'd never really thought about before.

00:52:29.700 I'd never really thought about how,

00:52:32.020 as a conservative in this country,

00:52:34.300 but in her country more,

00:52:35.880 that she's being vilified for her identity.

00:52:41.800 Really, it's not even her opinion,

00:52:43.260 it's her identity.

00:52:45.240 And so she's basically making the left's argument 0.93

00:52:48.320 stronger than the left.

00:52:51.720 What's that called?

00:52:53.800 What's that called?

00:52:55.540 You're making the other person's argument

00:52:57.440 stronger than they are.

00:53:00.520 Embrace and amplify.

00:53:02.380 Who does that?

00:53:04.740 Who does that?

00:53:05.820 Embrace and amplify.

00:53:07.160 Only the best.

00:53:09.160 The best.

00:53:10.660 Right?

00:53:10.860 You can't even pull that off

00:53:13.100 unless you've got a pretty big skill level

00:53:15.660 for persuasion.

00:53:17.220 Because embracing the other side

00:53:18.920 is a dangerous thing,

00:53:19.920 unless you can really slay it

00:53:21.900 at the same time you're embracing it.

00:53:23.700 And she did.

00:53:25.240 So she embraced personal freedom

00:53:27.700 and identity

00:53:28.420 and said,

00:53:30.260 I'm going to extend this.

00:53:31.920 Not only is personal freedom important

00:53:33.780 like you believe,

00:53:34.680 but it's even more important

00:53:37.000 than you believe.

00:53:38.360 I believe what you believe

00:53:39.700 and even stronger than you believe it.

00:53:41.820 So let's be consistent here, huh?

00:53:45.420 Un-frickin'-believable

00:53:47.220 the level of talent

00:53:48.540 that I saw in just that little clip.

00:53:50.480 Now, again,

00:53:51.280 I only saw the little clip.

00:53:52.880 Maybe she had a good day?

00:53:54.700 But I don't think so

00:53:55.860 because she won the election.

00:53:57.240 So obviously whatever she's saying

00:53:59.380 is hitting the right chords.

00:54:01.580 Did I just Zoom?

00:54:07.000 No.

00:54:08.220 No, I did not, advisor,

00:54:09.960 in case you're wondering.

00:54:13.400 All right.

00:54:15.980 And it seems to me

00:54:18.220 that in this country,

00:54:19.420 so Italy is doing pretty good

00:54:20.820 with their leader there,

00:54:22.080 but in this country,

00:54:23.020 have you noticed

00:54:23.500 that the standards

00:54:24.680 that we used to set

00:54:26.360 for what a good communicator was

00:54:28.260 used to be a little higher?

00:54:29.780 Do you remember Reagan?

00:54:32.760 Even if he didn't like his politics,

00:54:34.640 you'd say,

00:54:35.060 oh, I don't like his politics,

00:54:37.160 but got to admit,

00:54:39.440 got to admit,

00:54:40.080 that guy can communicate, right?

00:54:42.740 Bill Clinton, same thing.

00:54:45.200 Don't like his politics,

00:54:46.480 but wow,

00:54:47.740 that guy can put a sentence together,

00:54:49.420 can't he?

00:54:50.640 How about Obama?

00:54:52.740 Obama,

00:54:53.540 you might not like his politics,

00:54:55.880 but wow,

00:54:57.300 that guy can form a sentence,

00:55:00.440 speak intelligently,

00:55:01.740 communicate.

00:55:03.300 He's good at that stuff.

00:55:05.160 How about Trump?

00:55:06.300 Some people at first

00:55:07.460 resisted his style,

00:55:10.620 but at this point,

00:55:11.620 I think even his critics

00:55:12.900 would say,

00:55:13.360 yeah, we hate what he says,

00:55:15.700 but I have to admit,

00:55:17.020 he's really good at saying it.

00:55:18.460 He's very persuasive.

00:55:21.100 And now we have

00:55:21.940 Fetterman and Biden,

00:55:24.620 two of the biggest names

00:55:26.680 in politics,

00:55:28.180 Biden can barely walk

00:55:30.780 to his helicopter,

00:55:32.860 unaided.

00:55:34.340 And Fetterman,

00:55:35.160 have you seen the latest clip?

00:55:38.300 What did he say?

00:55:40.420 The Eagles

00:55:41.420 were worse than

00:55:44.140 the Eagles.

00:55:47.460 I mean,

00:55:47.740 you have to actually see the clip

00:55:49.040 to see he's completely lost.

00:55:51.380 like his mind

00:55:53.200 as,

00:55:55.160 it appears,

00:55:56.540 I'm no doctor,

00:55:57.500 right,

00:55:57.740 so I can't diagnose him,

00:55:59.300 but it would appear

00:56:00.060 that his mind is not working

00:56:01.380 in anything like

00:56:02.480 what you would want

00:56:03.200 a normal mind to work

00:56:04.880 for somebody

00:56:06.140 that you're going to hire

00:56:06.780 for an important job.

00:56:08.560 But,

00:56:09.320 here's the funniest part.

00:56:11.900 I cannot stop laughing

00:56:13.700 at what it must feel like

00:56:16.260 to be Dr. Oz.

00:56:20.400 Imagine watching

00:56:21.320 this guy talk

00:56:22.280 and you're sitting at home

00:56:24.140 and you're behind

00:56:25.060 in the polls to him.

00:56:27.440 What,

00:56:27.960 what does that feel like?

00:56:31.980 I can't imagine

00:56:33.020 anything that would hurt

00:56:34.120 more than that.

00:56:35.780 The,

00:56:36.000 the only thing that would hurt

00:56:36.960 more than that

00:56:37.640 would be Trump

00:56:38.960 sitting at Mar-a-Lago

00:56:40.100 watching Biden

00:56:41.620 try to form

00:56:42.500 full sentences

00:56:43.340 and watching the entire

00:56:44.720 country crumble

00:56:45.640 and saying,

00:56:46.260 I lost to that.

00:56:49.040 I lost to that.

00:56:50.960 But I feel like Oz

00:56:52.300 has it even worse.

00:56:53.920 Because with Biden

00:56:54.960 you could at least say,

00:56:56.120 well,

00:56:57.220 we don't,

00:56:58.320 you know,

00:56:58.500 we didn't know

00:56:59.000 what was going to happen

00:56:59.780 until he got elected.

00:57:00.920 We had bad suspicions

00:57:02.620 and, you know,

00:57:03.680 it went pretty badly

00:57:04.620 according to

00:57:06.200 a lot of people.

00:57:08.420 But with Oz,

00:57:10.460 he's just got to

00:57:11.180 look at this guy

00:57:11.960 and we're all looking

00:57:13.100 at the same stuff.

00:57:14.100 you know that

00:57:17.360 things are only judged

00:57:18.700 in relationship

00:57:20.160 to other things,

00:57:20.920 right?

00:57:21.380 There's nothing

00:57:22.080 in the world,

00:57:23.020 nothing in reality

00:57:24.120 that can be judged

00:57:25.800 just sitting there

00:57:27.260 in space.

00:57:28.040 It can only be judged

00:57:29.460 how it affects

00:57:30.480 other things

00:57:31.160 or how it compares

00:57:32.420 to other things.

00:57:33.340 So nothing has a quality

00:57:34.760 that it just owns

00:57:36.560 by itself.

00:57:37.300 It's just compared

00:57:38.240 to other things.

00:57:39.000 So Oz is finding out

00:57:41.820 for the first time

00:57:42.840 what compares to him

00:57:45.560 and looks to other people

00:57:47.420 like a little bit better.

00:57:49.080 A little bit better.

00:57:52.820 To me,

00:57:53.980 the political part

00:57:54.980 of the story

00:57:55.480 is mildly interesting,

00:57:57.420 but the personal part

00:57:58.740 of this

00:57:59.100 is freaking hilarious

00:58:00.800 to me.

00:58:01.840 Like every time

00:58:02.640 I think of Oz

00:58:03.360 looking at Fetterman,

00:58:04.440 I think,

00:58:05.060 that's got to be

00:58:06.120 a bad night.

00:58:06.940 That's just got to be bad.

00:58:07.880 All right.

00:58:13.100 Have you noticed

00:58:14.080 that Democrats,

00:58:15.340 at least when they're

00:58:16.180 arguing with you

00:58:16.980 on Twitter,

00:58:18.540 are asking you

00:58:19.700 to prove the obvious

00:58:20.880 more and more?

00:58:23.800 So here's some things

00:58:24.900 that I've been challenged

00:58:27.480 to prove.

00:58:29.100 Name one thing

00:58:30.060 that Joe Biden

00:58:31.460 seems to have been done

00:58:32.540 that looks illegal.

00:58:36.240 What?

00:58:37.880 What?

00:58:41.120 Ukraine?

00:58:43.500 Just to, you know,

00:58:44.800 get the ball rolling.

00:58:46.160 Here's another one

00:58:46.800 I've been challenged

00:58:48.040 to prove.

00:58:49.760 How are conservatives

00:58:50.920 being robbed

00:58:51.660 of their freedom

00:58:52.240 of speech?

00:58:54.720 Where's that happening?

00:58:56.320 Can you prove

00:58:56.960 that conservatives

00:58:57.580 are being, like,

00:58:59.680 limited in their speech?

00:59:00.680 to which I say,

00:59:03.240 you haven't noticed?

00:59:05.820 Nothing?

00:59:07.380 Nothing.

00:59:08.840 You haven't noticed

00:59:10.020 that anymore?

00:59:11.140 I'm not going

00:59:12.060 to research that.

00:59:14.040 I'm really not.

00:59:16.800 How about,

00:59:18.180 oh, and I was asked

00:59:19.100 this week

00:59:19.640 to prove my claim

00:59:21.560 that an equally

00:59:22.780 qualified black man

00:59:24.600 would have a five times

00:59:26.360 advantage getting hired

00:59:27.520 at a major organization.

00:59:29.480 not a small company

00:59:30.460 but a big organization

00:59:31.500 compared to

00:59:32.660 an adult white male.

00:59:35.580 And I was asked

00:59:36.260 to prove

00:59:36.960 that black men

00:59:38.540 who are equally

00:59:39.220 qualified

00:59:39.860 have an advantage

00:59:41.340 in corporate America

00:59:42.540 or in any

00:59:44.680 large organization

00:59:45.560 in America

00:59:46.100 to which I say,

00:59:47.920 really?

00:59:52.180 That's an,

00:59:53.300 there's so many

00:59:53.920 questions that?

00:59:55.480 If you want

00:59:56.140 to research it,

00:59:57.040 literally walk outside

00:59:58.200 and just tap

00:59:58.880 on the shoulder

00:59:59.400 of the first white adult

01:00:00.860 you see over the age

01:00:01.780 of 40.

01:00:03.020 Just anybody.

01:00:04.560 And they will tell

01:00:05.240 you a story

01:00:05.880 of it happening

01:00:07.220 to them or their friend.

01:00:08.940 Everyone.

01:00:10.060 You can't find

01:00:11.040 a person who can't

01:00:11.960 prove that to you.

01:00:13.060 I'm not going

01:00:13.780 to prove it to you.

01:00:15.440 Like, I'm not going

01:00:16.200 to prove that oxygen

01:00:17.100 exists.

01:00:19.180 Like, sure,

01:00:20.120 I don't have any proof

01:00:20.980 but I'm not going

01:00:22.520 to research it.

01:00:23.580 I'm not going

01:00:24.200 to research that

01:00:24.840 for you.

01:00:25.280 I'm sorry.

01:00:27.940 And then,

01:00:28.740 I've been asked

01:00:29.860 to prove that

01:00:30.540 conservatives

01:00:31.040 are being targeted

01:00:32.080 and or hunted.

01:00:35.060 What?

01:00:37.460 Again,

01:00:37.900 do I really need

01:00:39.340 to prove that?

01:00:41.620 You haven't noticed?

01:00:45.420 Nothing?

01:00:45.900 Nothing in the news?

01:00:49.660 So, it's the weirdest

01:00:50.620 thing.

01:00:53.020 So, like,

01:00:53.820 half of all my

01:00:54.520 interactions with the

01:00:55.480 left are them

01:00:56.660 demanding that I

01:00:57.760 approve something

01:00:58.640 that is right in front

01:01:00.400 of them.

01:01:01.660 Doesn't require any

01:01:02.680 proof at all.

01:01:04.920 All right.

01:01:09.720 God, the news

01:01:10.560 is so good today.

01:01:11.380 I have been

01:01:13.080 hearing that the

01:01:13.720 Democrats are

01:01:14.420 getting serious

01:01:15.020 about replacing

01:01:15.720 Biden for running

01:01:17.280 for president

01:01:17.740 for 2024.

01:01:19.420 The name that

01:01:20.200 comes up the most

01:01:21.040 for replacing

01:01:21.680 Biden is

01:01:22.420 John Fetterman.

01:01:24.800 John Fetterman.

01:01:28.840 I'll just leave

01:01:29.840 that there for a

01:01:30.400 moment.

01:01:32.560 Yes,

01:01:33.080 it's a joke.

01:01:34.980 Yeah,

01:01:35.540 I love the fact

01:01:36.280 that you couldn't

01:01:36.820 tell if it was a

01:01:37.580 joke.

01:01:37.960 I love the fact

01:01:40.400 that the first

01:01:41.860 thing I was asked

01:01:42.600 is, are you

01:01:43.160 kidding?

01:01:44.760 That was the first.

01:01:45.500 And, by the way,

01:01:46.620 that wasn't a bad

01:01:47.560 question.

01:01:48.520 I'm not mocking

01:01:49.340 the question.

01:01:50.380 We do live in a

01:01:51.380 world where the

01:01:53.540 insane ridiculousness

01:01:55.960 of that statement,

01:01:57.300 that Biden could be

01:01:58.440 replaced with Fetterman,

01:02:00.040 actually was possible.

01:02:02.900 you couldn't rule it

01:02:05.380 out, could you?

01:02:06.680 Yeah, right, I got

01:02:07.840 you.

01:02:09.320 All I had to do was

01:02:10.360 say it with a

01:02:10.860 straight face, and

01:02:12.420 you were willing to

01:02:13.340 accept that, well,

01:02:14.240 maybe, maybe.

01:02:18.260 All right, got you.

01:02:21.960 All right, so did

01:02:22.980 you all see the

01:02:23.520 video of, this one

01:02:25.840 you have to see.

01:02:27.320 I tweeted it, you

01:02:28.480 can find it anywhere

01:02:29.260 on Twitter.

01:02:29.740 But Jeremy Raskin

01:02:31.560 talking to Thomas

01:02:33.720 Massey about

01:02:34.980 January 6th and

01:02:35.920 Ray Epps.

01:02:37.180 Now, you have to

01:02:38.300 see it, because,

01:02:39.700 you know, Thomas

01:02:40.660 Massey is simply

01:02:41.840 asking for some

01:02:43.800 explanation of the

01:02:44.860 Ray Epps

01:02:45.420 involvement, and

01:02:47.600 whether or not

01:02:48.200 there's any evidence

01:02:49.180 that he was part of

01:02:50.200 an FBI incitement.

01:02:53.060 Now, you have to

01:02:54.820 see Jeremy Raskin's

01:02:56.200 angry response, in

01:02:59.220 which he said

01:03:00.240 things such as,

01:03:02.080 oh, and so Thomas

01:03:03.340 Massey asked if 0.96

01:03:04.400 they could release

01:03:05.360 the transcripts of

01:03:07.780 the Ray Epps

01:03:08.460 interview.

01:03:10.060 And here's a

01:03:11.180 completely normal

01:03:12.400 response to

01:03:14.260 somebody saying,

01:03:15.680 could you release

01:03:16.340 the transcript

01:03:17.040 that's important to

01:03:18.260 the nation?

01:03:19.740 What would be a

01:03:20.840 perfectly reasonable

01:03:22.260 answer to that?

01:03:24.400 Well, a reasonable

01:03:25.220 answer would be

01:03:25.800 something like, oh,

01:03:27.100 we plan to release

01:03:28.200 that, you know,

01:03:29.520 just give us this

01:03:30.340 date and we'll

01:03:30.820 release it.

01:03:31.960 Perfectly reasonable,

01:03:32.740 right?

01:03:33.640 Or, we're not going

01:03:35.000 to release any of

01:03:35.900 them.

01:03:38.820 Okay.

01:03:40.260 You know, I mean,

01:03:41.000 I'd look for a

01:03:41.700 reason, but that

01:03:42.660 would sound at least

01:03:43.460 like, oh, okay,

01:03:44.320 there might be a

01:03:44.780 reason.

01:03:45.480 Maybe privacy,

01:03:46.440 whatever.

01:03:48.780 Or, how about he

01:03:49.600 said, well, we can't

01:03:50.800 release them because

01:03:51.420 of privacy, but if

01:03:53.260 some specific

01:03:54.340 Republicans, you

01:03:55.300 want to sign an

01:03:56.520 MDA, whatever you

01:03:57.920 need to do, we'll

01:03:59.720 show some

01:04:00.340 Republicans just

01:04:01.920 so there's

01:04:02.520 transparency.

01:04:04.420 But we'd ask you

01:04:05.400 not to share it

01:04:06.000 with the public, but

01:04:06.900 just agree that

01:04:07.840 there's nothing here

01:04:08.540 once you've looked

01:04:09.140 at it.

01:04:10.160 Now, that would be

01:04:10.680 pretty reasonable,

01:04:11.900 wouldn't it?

01:04:12.720 So there were many

01:04:13.560 reasonable ways that

01:04:16.080 Jeremy Raskin could

01:04:17.200 have answered a

01:04:18.200 public request, you

01:04:20.320 know, in front of

01:04:20.880 people.

01:04:22.300 Can we see the

01:04:23.140 transcript?

01:04:23.500 So which of

01:04:24.840 those ways did

01:04:25.500 Jeremy Raskin

01:04:26.580 choose?

01:04:30.020 Let me give you

01:04:30.820 my impression.

01:04:32.320 There were

01:04:32.720 thousands of

01:04:33.420 interviews.

01:04:34.080 There were

01:04:34.400 thousands of

01:04:35.080 interviews.

01:04:35.820 We haven't

01:04:36.220 released it.

01:04:36.760 There were

01:04:36.980 thousands of

01:04:37.500 interviews.

01:04:38.320 And leave

01:04:39.220 this, you

01:04:39.840 know, Ray

01:04:40.300 Epps schmuck

01:04:41.280 alone.

01:04:47.280 You no longer

01:04:48.420 have to wonder if

01:04:49.520 there's something

01:04:50.080 up.

01:04:51.380 You don't.

01:04:53.500 I give you

01:04:56.040 permission, you

01:04:57.020 don't need my

01:04:57.600 permission, but

01:04:58.820 sometimes it

01:04:59.440 helps.

01:05:02.020 You should

01:05:03.020 believe what

01:05:04.900 they're telling

01:05:05.300 you.

01:05:06.520 Now, communication

01:05:07.340 has at least two

01:05:09.600 forms, wouldn't

01:05:10.320 you say?

01:05:11.160 You can

01:05:11.860 communicate with

01:05:12.700 your words, and

01:05:14.140 you can communicate

01:05:14.920 with your body.

01:05:16.240 Let me give you

01:05:16.740 an example.

01:05:17.060 Let me tell you

01:05:20.820 that I like you,

01:05:22.040 but my body

01:05:23.240 will say I

01:05:23.880 don't.

01:05:26.120 I like you.

01:05:29.520 I really like

01:05:30.640 you.

01:05:33.520 Now, did I say

01:05:35.800 I liked you?

01:05:37.840 Or would you

01:05:38.720 say you have

01:05:39.480 conclusively

01:05:40.320 communicated to

01:05:41.300 us that you

01:05:42.580 don't like,

01:05:43.880 that you don't

01:05:44.540 like?

01:05:44.840 Which would

01:05:46.120 you believe?

01:05:47.040 The unambiguous

01:05:48.020 body language, or

01:05:49.980 the words that

01:05:50.840 you know are

01:05:51.340 often lies?

01:05:54.160 Now, Raskin has

01:05:55.460 communicated to

01:05:56.420 the public in

01:05:57.660 unambiguous,

01:05:59.080 unambiguous body

01:06:00.460 language and

01:06:01.380 choice of words.

01:06:02.200 This is

01:06:02.580 unambiguous.

01:06:04.080 Right?

01:06:04.900 So, you are

01:06:06.380 free to accept

01:06:07.440 that as a

01:06:08.120 confirmation.

01:06:08.540 And if you

01:06:11.320 don't, and

01:06:12.840 you still act

01:06:14.400 like there's

01:06:14.800 some information

01:06:15.600 we need,

01:06:16.780 there's no

01:06:17.360 information you

01:06:18.080 need.

01:06:18.640 That's everything

01:06:19.200 you needed.

01:06:20.240 Right there.

01:06:21.700 Because if that

01:06:22.600 doesn't confirm

01:06:23.840 that Ray Epps

01:06:24.840 had something to

01:06:25.560 do with the

01:06:25.920 FBI in a way

01:06:26.760 that you don't

01:06:27.300 want to know

01:06:27.640 about it,

01:06:28.500 it definitely

01:06:29.100 confirms there

01:06:29.740 was something

01:06:30.180 that they

01:06:31.200 don't want

01:06:31.560 you to know.

01:06:33.000 Same story.

01:06:34.260 I don't care

01:06:34.800 what it is that

01:06:35.660 they don't want

01:06:36.180 me to know.

01:06:36.700 Do you?

01:06:40.040 If they're

01:06:40.700 lying to you,

01:06:41.900 you get to

01:06:42.620 assume that

01:06:43.140 it's all a

01:06:43.620 lie.

01:06:45.300 Is there a

01:06:47.020 judge here?

01:06:48.180 I'll bet

01:06:48.520 there's somebody

01:06:49.040 watching who's

01:06:49.820 a working or

01:06:51.300 retired judge.

01:06:53.660 Fair or not,

01:06:55.220 if you know

01:06:55.900 they're lying,

01:06:56.800 you get to

01:06:57.500 assume the

01:06:57.960 rest is a

01:06:58.460 lie.

01:07:00.640 That's a

01:07:01.280 pretty basic

01:07:01.900 American way

01:07:04.980 to proceed,

01:07:05.600 right?

01:07:06.700 Pretty much.

01:07:08.360 So why are

01:07:09.460 we still

01:07:09.940 asking the

01:07:10.580 question when

01:07:11.180 we've been

01:07:11.800 given the

01:07:12.220 answer in

01:07:12.760 the clearest

01:07:13.260 possible way?

01:07:14.860 The clearest

01:07:15.400 possible answer

01:07:16.160 is don't ask

01:07:16.980 us about

01:07:17.440 Ray Epps.

01:07:18.100 That's all

01:07:18.500 you need to

01:07:18.820 know.

01:07:19.840 We're done

01:07:20.280 here.

01:07:21.500 And by the

01:07:21.880 way, Thomas

01:07:22.700 Massey is

01:07:23.200 doing a

01:07:23.560 great job

01:07:24.580 pushing this

01:07:26.180 thing, because

01:07:27.380 I don't even

01:07:28.260 care if there's

01:07:28.860 nothing there.

01:07:30.780 If it turns

01:07:31.500 out that Ray

01:07:32.060 Epps is just

01:07:32.920 some poor

01:07:33.520 schmuck who's 0.92

01:07:34.100 trying to

01:07:34.520 survive, as

01:07:35.300 Jeremy Raskin

01:07:36.260 says, I

01:07:37.940 don't even

01:07:38.360 care.

01:07:39.760 Because if

01:07:40.420 they're lying

01:07:40.900 about it, you

01:07:41.980 have to assume

01:07:42.620 all the rest

01:07:43.140 is a lie.

01:07:44.400 It's just a

01:07:44.980 reasonable

01:07:45.360 explanation.

01:07:46.420 So I

01:07:46.620 think the

01:07:47.560 Republicans

01:07:48.420 should just

01:07:49.100 say, Jeremy

01:07:50.160 Raskin

01:07:50.760 confirmed that

01:07:53.620 the FBI and

01:07:54.720 Ray Epps were 0.82

01:07:55.480 working together.

01:07:57.200 And he

01:07:57.840 confirmed it by

01:07:58.680 his reaction,

01:08:00.020 you don't need

01:08:00.620 to ask me any

01:08:01.540 more questions

01:08:02.140 about that.

01:08:02.700 just go look

01:08:04.220 yourself.

01:08:05.120 If that

01:08:05.480 doesn't look

01:08:05.940 like a

01:08:06.300 confirmation to

01:08:07.020 you, that

01:08:09.060 would be your

01:08:09.600 opinion, but

01:08:10.460 to me that

01:08:10.900 looks pretty

01:08:11.300 clear.

01:08:14.380 Yeah.

01:08:15.420 So this

01:08:18.300 is just

01:08:18.720 wonderful.

01:08:22.380 All right.

01:08:23.960 And here's

01:08:24.720 what Raskin

01:08:25.420 changed the

01:08:26.240 subject to.

01:08:27.580 So first

01:08:28.300 saying, but

01:08:28.820 there are

01:08:29.080 thousands of

01:08:29.740 interviews, and

01:08:31.080 then he's

01:08:31.380 just some

01:08:31.780 poor schmuck,

01:08:32.600 he immediately

01:08:33.340 changes it to

01:08:34.260 an angry

01:08:35.120 tirade about

01:08:36.800 what Trump

01:08:37.480 has done to

01:08:38.140 his own

01:08:38.540 family, according

01:08:40.660 to the Mary

01:08:41.340 Trump book.

01:08:42.980 Oh, but look

01:08:43.980 what Trump has

01:08:44.580 done to his

01:08:45.000 own family,

01:08:45.960 according to

01:08:46.500 the Mary

01:08:46.940 Trump book.

01:08:48.300 Now, is

01:08:49.280 that the

01:08:49.600 answer you

01:08:50.120 expected from

01:08:51.120 would it be

01:08:53.060 possible for us

01:08:53.980 to see the

01:08:54.560 transcript of

01:08:56.480 Ray Epps'

01:08:57.280 testimony?

01:08:58.680 The most

01:08:59.340 natural answer

01:09:00.180 to that is,

01:09:00.920 have you

01:09:01.220 seen the

01:09:01.860 Mary Trump

01:09:02.420 book?

01:09:03.080 Have you

01:09:03.380 seen the

01:09:03.660 Mary Trump

01:09:04.080 book in

01:09:04.460 saying the

01:09:04.780 bad things

01:09:05.160 about the

01:09:05.440 Trump family?

01:09:06.540 That's

01:09:07.020 exactly the

01:09:07.840 most obvious

01:09:08.540 answer to

01:09:09.840 can we see

01:09:10.480 the Ray

01:09:10.980 Epps

01:09:11.320 transcript?

01:09:14.380 I'm telling

01:09:15.080 you, Jeremy

01:09:16.740 Raskin has

01:09:17.840 confirmed the

01:09:19.720 FBI and

01:09:20.800 Democrat

01:09:21.420 involvement

01:09:22.640 with Ray

01:09:23.180 Epps to

01:09:23.580 do something

01:09:24.220 bad.

01:09:27.680 This is

01:09:28.380 reason to

01:09:28.980 pardon everybody

01:09:29.920 who is

01:09:30.280 non-violent

01:09:31.000 who is

01:09:31.880 being held

01:09:32.340 and everybody

01:09:33.760 who has been

01:09:34.100 convicted.

01:09:34.940 They all need

01:09:35.700 to be pardoned.

01:09:37.640 I don't think

01:09:39.760 that you can

01:09:40.220 turn anybody

01:09:40.720 into a single

01:09:41.580 issue voter

01:09:42.380 these days,

01:09:43.600 but if you

01:09:44.840 wanted to pick

01:09:45.460 a single issue,

01:09:46.720 we have a

01:09:47.900 bunch of them

01:09:48.400 this time.

01:09:49.860 One single

01:09:50.720 issue would

01:09:53.040 be this.

01:09:53.580 I would

01:09:55.480 vote

01:09:55.860 potentially.

01:09:57.540 I would

01:09:57.880 vote for a

01:09:58.600 candidate who

01:09:59.160 said unambiguously,

01:10:00.840 the FBI is

01:10:01.960 stonewalling us,

01:10:03.140 so I'm going

01:10:03.640 to, I'm

01:10:05.040 just going to

01:10:05.740 let everybody

01:10:07.300 out of jail

01:10:07.720 if you elect

01:10:08.480 me.

01:10:10.600 I would say

01:10:11.520 that would be

01:10:12.120 an adequate,

01:10:14.040 supportable,

01:10:14.820 single issue

01:10:15.460 vote.

01:10:17.200 Likewise, I

01:10:18.160 would say on

01:10:18.600 the Democrat

01:10:19.640 side, if they

01:10:20.820 decided to vote

01:10:21.560 only because

01:10:22.520 of abortion,

01:10:24.120 and again,

01:10:24.600 I'm not giving

01:10:25.120 you my opinion

01:10:26.000 on abortion,

01:10:26.660 I'm just

01:10:26.960 describing the

01:10:27.720 landscape here,

01:10:28.640 if they decided

01:10:29.580 to do that,

01:10:30.100 I would say

01:10:30.440 that would be

01:10:31.220 justifiable,

01:10:33.100 because the

01:10:34.760 size of the

01:10:35.540 issue is big

01:10:36.540 enough, you

01:10:37.700 could make an

01:10:38.180 argument for

01:10:38.680 that.

01:10:39.320 I mean, it

01:10:39.660 wouldn't be

01:10:40.000 what I would

01:10:40.440 do, but you

01:10:41.840 can understand

01:10:42.360 it.

01:10:43.300 The other

01:10:43.840 one is

01:10:44.100 fentanyl.

01:10:46.040 If one of

01:10:47.600 the two parties

01:10:48.360 came up with

01:10:49.080 a fentanyl

01:10:49.840 plan that

01:10:50.320 actually looked

01:10:50.820 like it

01:10:51.160 could work,

01:10:51.560 work, that

01:10:52.840 would be a

01:10:53.340 single issue

01:10:54.020 vote for

01:10:54.460 me.

01:10:56.460 Yeah, some

01:10:57.120 people would

01:10:57.500 say climate

01:10:57.940 change, I

01:10:59.120 would agree.

01:10:59.760 Yeah, that

01:11:00.060 could be a

01:11:00.380 single issue

01:11:00.780 too.

01:11:01.200 But this is

01:11:01.860 kind of

01:11:02.200 interesting.

01:11:03.520 Normally, the

01:11:04.120 economy is the

01:11:04.860 only single

01:11:05.340 issue vote,

01:11:05.940 isn't it?

01:11:07.300 And maybe it's

01:11:07.920 the only one

01:11:08.340 that ever will

01:11:08.880 be, because

01:11:09.800 if you get

01:11:10.140 the economy

01:11:10.640 working,

01:11:11.400 everything else

01:11:12.200 seems to

01:11:12.560 work better.

01:11:14.280 So, free

01:11:15.660 speech, yeah.

01:11:17.500 Yeah.

01:11:18.460 Second

01:11:18.780 Amendment, I

01:11:19.460 guess it's all

01:11:19.980 single issue,

01:11:20.660 isn't it?

01:11:21.000 It seems like

01:11:22.220 it's all

01:11:22.480 single issue

01:11:22.980 now.

01:11:25.180 All right.

01:11:27.500 And the

01:11:28.040 funniest thing

01:11:28.560 that Jeremy

01:11:29.000 Raskin said

01:11:29.760 about Ray

01:11:30.420 Epps was,

01:11:32.200 leave that

01:11:32.940 guy alone,

01:11:33.660 whoever he

01:11:34.360 is.

01:11:35.980 Jeremy

01:11:36.400 Raskin

01:11:36.920 acted like

01:11:37.600 whoever he

01:11:39.600 is, like he

01:11:41.940 wasn't quite

01:11:42.440 sure who Ray

01:11:43.040 Epps was.

01:11:44.740 Are we

01:11:45.400 done?

01:11:45.640 Are there

01:11:48.240 any further

01:11:48.800 questions about

01:11:50.180 whether they're

01:11:50.780 lying?

01:11:51.780 No.

01:11:54.260 All right.

01:11:57.640 Let me tell

01:11:58.440 you something

01:11:58.820 that I learned

01:11:59.740 from a

01:12:01.020 meth addict.

01:12:04.340 And one of

01:12:05.080 the questions I

01:12:05.720 had is, why

01:12:06.320 is it so hard

01:12:07.020 to get

01:12:08.240 people to

01:12:08.840 quit drugs?

01:12:10.020 Like, if you

01:12:10.700 had a plan to

01:12:11.380 decrease demand,

01:12:12.620 how could

01:12:13.780 you do it?

01:12:15.460 And let me

01:12:16.160 explain something

01:12:16.780 that I'd never

01:12:17.360 heard before,

01:12:19.100 but it's

01:12:21.800 kind of

01:12:22.140 important.

01:12:23.820 And the

01:12:24.540 explanation was

01:12:25.300 this, that

01:12:27.300 meth users

01:12:28.440 are not

01:12:29.380 strictly

01:12:30.740 addicted to

01:12:32.380 the meth.

01:12:34.060 It is most

01:12:35.460 typically combined

01:12:36.460 with at least

01:12:37.060 one other

01:12:37.560 thing, sex

01:12:40.020 and porn.

01:12:42.900 So, porn

01:12:43.620 and sex. 0.55

01:12:44.960 And here's

01:12:45.760 the problem,

01:12:47.060 as described

01:12:47.940 to me.

01:12:49.540 Porn and

01:12:50.100 sex under 0.70

01:12:50.660 the influence

01:12:51.320 of meth

01:12:51.840 is about

01:12:53.680 60 times

01:12:54.840 more enjoyable

01:12:55.880 than without

01:12:56.640 it.

01:12:57.880 And if

01:12:58.500 you've done

01:12:58.860 meth long

01:12:59.400 enough, you

01:13:00.180 know that if

01:13:00.760 you were to

01:13:01.120 try to have

01:13:01.560 sex ever 0.77

01:13:02.220 again without

01:13:03.540 meth, you 0.90

01:13:04.260 wouldn't even

01:13:04.680 enjoy it.

01:13:06.160 Because you

01:13:06.840 would know

01:13:07.140 what it could

01:13:07.640 have been.

01:13:07.980 And so

01:13:09.780 when you

01:13:10.060 say to

01:13:10.540 somebody,

01:13:11.020 hey, can

01:13:11.980 I help

01:13:12.320 you get

01:13:12.640 off meth,

01:13:13.540 you're actually

01:13:14.520 asking them

01:13:15.160 to give up

01:13:15.680 sex forever. 0.82

01:13:16.940 And the

01:13:17.500 sex that

01:13:17.880 you're asking

01:13:18.360 them to

01:13:18.760 give up is

01:13:19.380 60 times

01:13:20.140 more powerful

01:13:20.840 than the

01:13:21.200 ones you

01:13:21.780 know about.

01:13:23.040 Would you

01:13:23.660 give up

01:13:24.080 your sex 0.99

01:13:24.740 to give

01:13:26.160 up drugs?

01:13:28.640 I don't

01:13:29.240 know anybody

01:13:29.640 who would.

01:13:30.860 Now, suppose

01:13:31.460 I told you

01:13:32.020 that you

01:13:32.540 don't even

01:13:32.920 know how

01:13:33.240 good sex

01:13:33.700 is.

01:13:34.780 Because you

01:13:35.180 don't.

01:13:35.900 You don't

01:13:36.700 even know.

01:13:37.980 Sex under 0.70

01:13:39.260 meth is

01:13:41.020 not like

01:13:41.680 regular sex.

01:13:43.320 It's 60

01:13:44.100 times more

01:13:44.740 powerful,

01:13:45.580 according to

01:13:46.160 the DARE

01:13:46.760 police officer

01:13:47.840 who told

01:13:48.460 me.

01:13:49.240 I mean, I

01:13:49.600 got it from

01:13:50.000 the police,

01:13:50.980 a guy who

01:13:51.520 taught drug

01:13:54.020 stuff to

01:13:56.200 parents.

01:13:57.180 So this is

01:13:57.700 from a

01:13:58.100 professional who

01:13:59.000 said that the

01:14:00.340 reason they do

01:14:00.980 the meth is

01:14:01.700 that the meth

01:14:02.260 itself is 60

01:14:03.200 times better

01:14:03.800 than sex.

01:14:05.060 But when

01:14:05.500 they combined

01:14:06.380 the meth,

01:14:07.180 that's 60

01:14:07.860 times better

01:14:08.400 than an

01:14:08.780 orgasm with

01:14:10.080 actual sex,

01:14:11.720 what they

01:14:12.500 get is

01:14:13.040 neither sex

01:14:13.800 nor meth.

01:14:15.860 And here's

01:14:16.300 the part

01:14:16.700 that you

01:14:18.000 don't

01:14:18.280 understand.

01:14:19.940 You can't

01:14:20.520 ask somebody

01:14:21.860 to quit

01:14:22.420 something that's

01:14:23.780 60 times

01:14:24.460 stronger than

01:14:25.160 sex.

01:14:26.580 That's not

01:14:27.360 a thing.

01:14:28.420 No person

01:14:29.180 will do

01:14:29.520 that.

01:14:30.960 So there

01:14:32.120 is no path

01:14:32.940 off of meth

01:14:33.620 unless you

01:14:34.540 give up

01:14:35.040 everything that

01:14:35.760 you enjoy

01:14:36.220 about life.

01:14:40.000 That's it.

01:14:41.320 Now, I do

01:14:42.500 think that

01:14:42.920 people quit.

01:14:44.120 I mean, that's

01:14:44.460 a real thing.

01:14:45.620 But whatever

01:14:46.760 it is that

01:14:47.360 they're quitting

01:14:47.840 for must be

01:14:49.080 pretty important

01:14:49.960 or they hit

01:14:51.420 bottom and

01:14:52.180 they couldn't

01:14:53.180 get enjoyment

01:14:53.820 from the meth

01:14:54.420 anymore.

01:14:54.880 Because you

01:14:55.200 hit bottom,

01:14:56.020 things are so

01:14:56.720 bad that you

01:14:58.100 just can't

01:14:58.520 make anything

01:14:58.960 work.

01:14:59.240 so if you

01:15:03.100 have thoughts

01:15:04.300 about reducing

01:15:05.140 demand, it

01:15:07.840 would pay to

01:15:08.500 get more,

01:15:09.340 let's say,

01:15:09.800 informed.

01:15:10.780 And I would

01:15:11.240 say that that

01:15:12.620 was a big

01:15:13.220 one for me.

01:15:14.740 Like, learning

01:15:16.060 that the sex

01:15:17.560 meth thing are

01:15:18.420 really the same

01:15:19.080 thing and that

01:15:20.200 if you're a

01:15:20.660 meth addict,

01:15:21.140 you don't even

01:15:21.700 see them as

01:15:22.200 different things.

01:15:23.740 They're basically

01:15:24.540 one big thing.

01:15:25.980 You can't get

01:15:26.960 anybody off those

01:15:27.700 drugs.

01:15:28.820 Not in any

01:15:30.000 volume.

01:15:30.880 I mean, you

01:15:31.180 can do ones

01:15:31.680 and twosies

01:15:32.240 because you

01:15:32.560 have special

01:15:33.020 cases.

01:15:34.360 That's it.

01:15:35.840 So when people

01:15:36.940 say, you know,

01:15:38.000 there's nothing

01:15:38.400 you can do on

01:15:39.280 the supply side,

01:15:40.260 you have to

01:15:40.560 work on the

01:15:41.060 demand side,

01:15:42.120 I say to you,

01:15:43.400 there are two

01:15:43.800 impossibilities.

01:15:45.520 You can't do

01:15:46.160 either one.

01:15:47.720 You can't do

01:15:48.180 either one.

01:15:50.260 So if we

01:15:52.200 could experiment

01:15:52.760 and find

01:15:53.220 something that

01:15:53.700 works, that'd

01:15:54.120 be great.

01:15:54.520 But nobody

01:15:54.980 has any

01:15:55.320 ideas.

01:15:58.020 You picked

01:15:58.660 a bad time

01:15:59.180 to quit

01:15:59.480 meth.

01:16:04.100 Is that

01:16:04.680 why the

01:16:05.160 Hollywood people

01:16:05.900 seem to be

01:16:06.500 perverts?

01:16:08.460 Partly.

01:16:09.380 Partly.

01:16:10.000 Yeah, the

01:16:10.380 more of that

01:16:12.340 kind of drug

01:16:12.980 you do, the

01:16:13.620 more likely

01:16:14.120 you would get

01:16:14.680 into the

01:16:16.180 fringer

01:16:16.820 practices,

01:16:19.580 which I do

01:16:20.180 not,

01:16:21.940 which I do

01:16:22.500 not,

01:16:24.140 what should

01:16:24.460 say, I

01:16:24.920 don't

01:16:25.380 disrespect.

01:16:27.180 Because it's

01:16:28.040 not my

01:16:28.380 business how

01:16:29.300 you get

01:16:29.600 your fun

01:16:29.980 if it's

01:16:30.240 not hurting

01:16:30.640 anybody.

01:16:33.740 All right.

01:16:37.660 Your band

01:16:38.540 mate became

01:16:39.080 a monk

01:16:39.560 and lived

01:16:43.800 in isolation

01:16:44.380 for two

01:16:45.000 years to

01:16:45.520 get off

01:16:45.900 meth.

01:16:46.300 and when

01:16:48.560 the monk

01:16:48.980 was done,

01:16:49.540 was he

01:16:51.580 glad he

01:16:51.980 did it?

01:16:54.140 I don't

01:16:54.700 know.

01:16:55.360 I didn't

01:16:55.940 hear the

01:16:56.280 part about

01:16:56.640 the happy

01:16:57.060 ending.

01:16:58.420 I just

01:16:59.020 heard he

01:16:59.300 did it.

01:17:01.500 All right.

01:17:01.880 so I

01:17:03.260 don't want

01:17:03.560 to act

01:17:04.640 like there

01:17:05.380 is no

01:17:05.700 solution.

01:17:06.720 What I

01:17:07.080 do want

01:17:07.560 you to

01:17:07.820 know is

01:17:08.300 that nobody

01:17:08.640 knows of

01:17:09.140 one.

01:17:10.740 Nobody

01:17:11.020 knows of

01:17:11.500 one.

01:17:13.220 Everybody's

01:17:13.620 sure somebody

01:17:14.160 else has a

01:17:14.680 solution for

01:17:15.220 getting people

01:17:15.700 off of

01:17:16.000 drugs.

01:17:16.420 I don't

01:17:16.700 believe there

01:17:17.060 is one.

01:17:17.940 I don't

01:17:18.240 believe there

01:17:18.620 is.

01:17:19.340 Maybe we

01:17:19.900 can invent

01:17:20.280 one, but

01:17:21.800 I don't

01:17:21.980 think there

01:17:22.300 is one

01:17:22.600 now.

01:17:22.800 why do

01:17:28.360 the

01:17:28.520 Democrats

01:17:28.880 seem to

01:17:29.660 dominate

01:17:30.640 our

01:17:31.640 culture

01:17:32.080 and our

01:17:32.500 legal system,

01:17:33.260 et cetera?

01:17:33.940 I think

01:17:34.560 that has

01:17:34.920 to do

01:17:35.320 with

01:17:35.840 colleges

01:17:38.200 and professors

01:17:39.140 and the

01:17:40.820 news business

01:17:41.600 and where

01:17:42.700 they come

01:17:43.180 from.

01:17:44.020 So it

01:17:44.440 has to do

01:17:44.900 with what

01:17:45.300 types of

01:17:45.740 people go

01:17:46.140 into what

01:17:46.500 types of

01:17:46.900 jobs.

01:17:47.980 And so

01:17:48.200 the people

01:17:48.500 going into

01:17:48.980 the

01:17:49.280 entertainment

01:17:49.800 field tend

01:17:51.260 to be

01:17:51.540 left-leaning.

01:17:52.800 And the

01:17:53.540 people who

01:17:54.240 go into,

01:17:56.040 I don't know,

01:17:57.220 in many

01:17:57.800 cases,

01:17:58.440 blue-collar

01:17:58.900 work would

01:17:59.740 be right-leaning.

01:18:01.280 If I can

01:18:02.120 use a gross

01:18:02.900 overgeneralization,

01:18:04.420 and I think

01:18:04.800 I can.

01:18:06.940 All right.

01:18:07.940 Well, I

01:18:09.640 believe we

01:18:10.220 have accomplished

01:18:10.760 our objective

01:18:11.400 of the best

01:18:12.520 live stream

01:18:13.340 of all time.

01:18:15.120 Am I right?

01:18:16.360 And thank

01:18:17.200 you to Jack

01:18:17.940 Posabek for,

01:18:19.320 I forgot to

01:18:20.180 mention,

01:18:21.160 for informing

01:18:22.040 me about

01:18:22.660 a little bit

01:18:23.100 more about

01:18:23.500 the Chinese

01:18:25.220 system,

01:18:26.040 and Naomi

01:18:26.760 Wu as

01:18:27.900 well,

01:18:28.620 who informed

01:18:29.320 me about

01:18:30.560 what's going

01:18:31.020 on there,

01:18:32.140 via tweet

01:18:32.700 in her case.

01:18:34.840 All right.

01:18:39.000 And would

01:18:39.720 you agree

01:18:40.140 that there

01:18:40.560 will be

01:18:40.840 nothing on

01:18:41.540 television

01:18:41.940 today as

01:18:44.020 interesting,

01:18:45.180 or as

01:18:46.280 informative,

01:18:47.000 or as

01:18:47.440 useful,

01:18:48.400 as today?

01:18:49.700 No.

01:18:51.620 This was

01:18:51.980 the best

01:18:52.300 thing that

01:18:52.560 ever happened.

01:18:53.760 And I

01:18:54.160 would like

01:18:54.520 to say

01:18:55.780 goodbye to

01:18:56.280 YouTube for

01:18:57.000 now,

01:18:58.320 and I'll

01:18:58.600 talk to you

01:18:58.940 later.

01:18:59.560 under today,

01:19:00.280 I'll

01:19:01.460 hear you

01:19:04.440 well.

01:19:05.500 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 27, 2022

Episode 1879 Scott Adams： Fake News Delivered A Bountiful Harvest Today, Enjoy With A Beverage

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