Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1897 Scott Adams： Ukraine Starts War With Elon Musk. And Nancy Pelosi's Coup Attempt

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to another highlight of civilization, the best thing

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00:01:14.160 You can say that at home.

00:01:15.440 I won't be saying that here.

00:01:17.060 Sippity-doo-dah. 1.00

00:01:17.980 That is approved.

00:01:23.560 Well, you know, Facebook decided to launch Meta or become Meta, and it's going to be all

00:01:30.260 about the virtual world.

00:01:33.920 So how's that going so far?

00:01:36.160 Apparently, there are a number of virtual worlds that have been built that nobody is visiting.

00:01:41.360 So it turns out that nobody wants to put on a headset and visit a virtual world that's empty.

00:01:50.640 And I have a question.

00:01:52.220 Did Facebook figure out how to make you not get a headache?

00:01:57.780 Not a headache, but any motion sickness from wearing the goggles?

00:02:03.900 Have they solved that?

00:02:04.840 Because, was it, I don't know, maybe four years ago or something, I was testing on some VR.

00:02:13.060 And it was amazing.

00:02:17.500 You could tell it was definitely the future.

00:02:20.040 But you couldn't do it for more than, I don't know, 15 minutes or something,

00:02:24.080 because it would be some kind of a, some kind of a, just motion sickness.

00:02:28.380 I don't even get motion sickness, but the VR goggles made me sick, too.

00:02:33.700 And it's pretty bad.

00:02:35.760 The sickness you get, it'll last for a while after you take the goggles off.

00:02:40.500 You know, you're, you're down for an hour, at least, after you use them.

00:02:45.020 Now, that was the old, the old days.

00:02:47.900 But maybe they fixed that?

00:02:50.480 Because I don't know what it was that causes it.

00:02:55.280 Yeah, once replica gets into meta, it will be a digital brothel. 1.00

00:03:00.160 That is correct.

00:03:02.000 Yeah, that is correct.

00:03:02.940 So, you know, there's a growing trend of men who are not having sex intentionally.

00:03:11.020 You know that, right?

00:03:12.300 Now, they say intentionally, because they can't get any sex.

00:03:17.580 But what's going to happen when men start preferring their digital accompaniments?

00:03:24.840 I don't think you see how big of a problem this is.

00:03:30.040 Most men are going to prefer the digital accompaniment.

00:03:35.540 The majority of men are going to go digital.

00:03:40.760 It'll be a very, I think the minority of men will reproduce.

00:03:45.440 And that's going to happen within five years.

00:03:47.880 Within five years, most men will not reproduce. 0.85

00:03:51.540 That's my, that's my prediction.

00:03:54.160 As in, more than 50% will not reproduce.

00:03:57.280 And the reason will be that women won't want to reproduce with them. 1.00

00:04:01.860 They'll just say, well, I'll just stick with these top 10%, you know,

00:04:06.180 dull guys with good hair and good SAT scores.

00:04:11.040 I don't know.

00:04:11.680 Well, I'm surprised anybody has natural babies anymore.

00:04:15.160 I think that's going to go away.

00:04:16.960 But, so, let me ask you.

00:04:21.420 Do you think that Facebook is going to succeed with Meta?

00:04:24.640 Because, remember, Zuckerberg doesn't make too many mistakes,

00:04:31.100 especially when he's predicting what's going to be big next.

00:04:34.740 And I completely agree with him that the experience you get

00:04:37.900 when you put on the VR headset looks like it's the future.

00:04:43.500 I mean, to me, it absolutely looks like that's the future.

00:04:46.980 But, he said it would take years.

00:04:49.960 You know, maybe they pump billions of dollars in it

00:04:52.060 before it's even up to good enough.

00:04:54.920 Maybe.

00:04:56.300 I mean, Facebook has the resources.

00:04:58.180 They could just keep pumping resources in there

00:05:00.880 until something happens.

00:05:02.960 I think it might be more than a year away

00:05:05.080 before it kicks off.

00:05:09.400 You think it's more than 10 years off?

00:05:12.220 Isn't it entirely based on how good the technology is

00:05:15.160 and how fast the processors are?

00:05:19.420 That's all we're waiting for, right?

00:05:20.820 I don't think there's, you know, that plus applications.

00:05:25.220 All right.

00:05:26.400 So, the Swedes are claiming...

00:05:28.380 I saw Peter Zane tweet on this.

00:05:31.160 The Swedes are claiming that they know the Russians bombed their own pipeline.

00:05:36.280 But they can't tell you how they know.

00:05:42.520 So, they can't share with us how they know.

00:05:44.460 But they totally know.

00:05:45.860 And they know because of secret, secret Swedish ways.

00:05:48.920 And they cannot reveal their secret Swedish sources and methods.

00:05:54.540 Because if we found out how the Swedes determined that there's been an underground explosion,

00:06:01.140 well, then we're going to take all their Swedish tricks and use them for ourselves. 0.92

00:06:04.200 And then Sweden will no longer be the military superpower that it has been.

00:06:10.340 They'd be giving up quite a lot with that secret.

00:06:12.700 So, it makes complete sense that the Swedes can protect themselves from superpowers

00:06:17.900 by not telling us how they know that the pipeline blew up thanks to Russia.

00:06:25.120 Now, I don't know what kinds of sources and methods they used.

00:06:28.680 But I think I told you that John Brennan immediately accused Russia before we had facts.

00:06:38.760 John Brennan said, oh, yes, this certainly looks like some kind of a Russian operation.

00:06:45.560 That's the only thing that makes sense.

00:06:48.320 And then I said to myself, well, I guess we can rule out Russia.

00:06:52.660 Because when John Brennan says Russia did it, the only country you can rule out is Russia.

00:07:02.840 Let me, let me, I don't usually give out my sources and methods,

00:07:08.560 but this time I'm going to make an exception.

00:07:12.580 Here's how I did this, and it was hard, but I saw who said it,

00:07:18.000 and then I just assumed the truth was the opposite.

00:07:22.660 Now, if you tell me I'm wrong, I'd say, well, it would be the first time I was ever wrong

00:07:28.640 using these sources and methods, because they've been pretty, pretty accurate so far.

00:07:34.480 Pretty accurate.

00:07:35.640 Remember, this is the same person who pushed Russia collusion as an obvious fact,

00:07:41.780 and the laptop, Hunter's laptop, as Russian disinformation.

00:07:46.920 He said both of those on TV just like they were facts.

00:07:51.360 And then this is the third thing he's saying on TV, just like it's a fact.

00:07:57.300 There's a reason that the news puts him on.

00:08:00.960 It's because the other people won't say this stuff.

00:08:03.860 Apparently he's willing to say anything for whatever purpose.

00:08:08.280 So, yes, big mystery.

00:08:14.020 Who blew up that pipeline?

00:08:17.660 I put out this question on Twitter.

00:08:19.880 I haven't seen an answer yet, but can anybody confirm

00:08:22.080 that there's no life insurance company that offers a discount

00:08:26.580 for being vaccinated?

00:08:29.940 Can we confirm that that's true?

00:08:31.740 There's no insurance company that offers a discount for being vaccinated.

00:08:38.460 Because if that's true, it also means that the insurance industry

00:08:43.620 has valued the shot at zero financially.

00:08:50.540 Now, if you're not a financial person, maybe that requires a little more explaining.

00:08:57.900 But the insurance company essentially is in the job of putting a dollar amount

00:09:02.620 on anything that's a big variable that would affect their income stream.

00:09:08.600 So they're all about figuring out the most objective, true, unbiased, realistic number,

00:09:16.120 because that's the only way they make money.

00:09:17.760 If they get the numbers wrong, you know, their estimates of the future,

00:09:22.120 they don't make money.

00:09:24.040 So this is like life and death for an insurance company is to get the numbers right.

00:09:29.560 And unless they're offering discounts for being vaccinated,

00:09:34.480 they value that as zero.

00:09:37.380 Now, not exactly zero because it would be a transaction cost

00:09:40.680 for including any new variable, right?

00:09:43.460 Like it probably costs them several million dollars

00:09:45.620 to even be able to track any new variable that they wanted to track.

00:09:50.780 But several million is basically zero

00:09:53.160 if you're talking about a big insurance company.

00:09:56.500 So it looks like they don't think it's a factor.

00:10:03.720 Unless you tell me I'm wrong

00:10:06.460 and we find out that the insurance companies are in fact offering discounts.

00:10:10.540 Now, to be fair, there are lots of things

00:10:15.020 that insurance companies could offer discounts for, but don't.

00:10:20.620 So maybe this is just another one.

00:10:23.600 Maybe they think you should get a discount,

00:10:27.100 but as long as they don't offer it, they can make more money.

00:10:30.280 So there's another reason.

00:10:31.760 I mean, there could be another reason.

00:10:33.320 It could be just they make more money by pretending they don't work.

00:10:36.040 They're not going to give a discount unless they have to.

00:10:40.140 So it would require some other insurance company

00:10:42.640 to offer the discount before anybody's going to go second.

00:10:47.220 You get that, right?

00:10:48.840 And insurance companies are the ultimate confusopoly.

00:10:53.700 An insurance company is a confusopoly.

00:10:56.480 It's a word I coined, which is now in the economic literature.

00:11:00.340 And it means that when you're searching for life insurance

00:11:02.940 or any kind of insurance, you don't know how to compare

00:11:06.420 one company to the other

00:11:07.680 because they're so different and complicated.

00:11:10.640 You're like, well, this one has this advantage,

00:11:12.880 but this one has this advantage.

00:11:14.180 I really can't tell.

00:11:15.660 So the reason all insurance companies can sell their products

00:11:18.720 is you can't compare them.

00:11:21.100 So basically, selling insurance is just

00:11:23.540 did the salesman talk to you?

00:11:26.780 And then you probably bought whatever that salesman sold you

00:11:29.460 because you couldn't tell the difference.

00:11:31.180 So as long as insurance is a confusopoly,

00:11:35.720 even if they believe the vaccinations were saving lives

00:11:39.660 in a substantial way,

00:11:41.180 they could just all agree not to talk about it.

00:11:45.480 And they wouldn't have to have a meeting.

00:11:48.260 The insurance executives would not have to be on a conference call

00:11:51.200 and say, hey, if you don't mention this, I won't mention it.

00:11:55.100 They all know not to do it.

00:11:57.440 That's what the confusopoly is.

00:11:59.240 It's no meeting required.

00:12:01.720 Until somebody does it,

00:12:03.860 they can all ignore it.

00:12:06.440 Right?

00:12:06.920 So that would be the other reason that they're ignoring it.

00:12:10.540 Because they're a filthy, filthy industry.

00:12:15.660 Here's an update on the January 6th coup hoax.

00:12:20.100 Now I'm calling January 6th coup a hoax

00:12:23.980 because it was a gunless whatever it was.

00:12:28.960 Right?

00:12:29.440 Now, may I speak directly

00:12:32.260 to the fucking stupid assholes 0.98

00:12:35.140 who are going to say,

00:12:36.400 but Scott, there were guns there.

00:12:39.640 Can I do a mocking impression of those people for you?

00:12:43.200 Who would like me to see a mocking...

00:12:45.980 I'm going to do a Trump impression

00:12:49.800 of the people saying that there were, in fact, guns there.

00:12:53.640 Okay?

00:12:54.920 All right.

00:12:55.380 I'll set it up this way.

00:12:57.180 This is me talking first.

00:12:59.540 It was a gunless coup on January 6th.

00:13:03.360 And now my critics...

00:13:04.720 Oh, but Scott, but Scott,

00:13:07.340 it was...

00:13:07.980 There was that one gun.

00:13:10.660 What about that one gun?

00:13:12.880 What about Ashley Babbitt?

00:13:16.180 What about the one gun?

00:13:19.820 All right.

00:13:20.580 I just have to get that out of my...

00:13:22.540 Out of my...

00:13:23.540 Just have to get that out of my system.

00:13:27.320 And that's how you should respond

00:13:29.480 every time somebody tells you,

00:13:31.460 but Scott, there were guns there.

00:13:35.000 Yes, there were.

00:13:35.960 There were guns all over the place.

00:13:37.980 Weren't there?

00:13:40.200 I can't even take that seriously.

00:13:43.380 I would like to give you this following.

00:13:46.900 This is sort of a reminder.

00:13:49.800 So the reminder...

00:13:51.400 I guess I could have done Dale.

00:13:53.420 The reminder is on analogies.

00:13:58.000 If somebody tries to argue with you

00:14:00.140 by using an analogy,

00:14:02.000 here's how you should deal with it.

00:14:04.720 Well, I don't argue with analogies

00:14:07.060 because those are just stories

00:14:08.200 about a different situation.

00:14:10.500 But if you'd like to get back

00:14:11.760 to talking about our situation,

00:14:13.320 I would be happy to do that.

00:14:15.040 Let me know when you'd like to do that.

00:14:17.160 Do not engage in an analogy.

00:14:21.520 Analogy is literally a story

00:14:23.680 about something else.

00:14:25.320 It has nothing to do with you.

00:14:26.860 Now, an analogy can be used

00:14:29.980 in the following narrow way,

00:14:32.700 and you'll see me do it as well.

00:14:35.320 If the analogy is to explain a concept

00:14:38.460 that someone knew,

00:14:40.820 then it's good.

00:14:42.820 To explain a new concept.

00:14:45.000 What it never is

00:14:46.220 is a convincing argument for anything.

00:14:49.700 It's not an argument.

00:14:51.080 The best it can do

00:14:53.380 is explain your terms.

00:14:55.660 Like, oh, here's how I define this,

00:14:57.520 or this is an effect

00:14:59.000 that I think we should take

00:15:00.040 into consideration.

00:15:01.740 That's all it can do.

00:15:03.000 It doesn't tell you

00:15:04.020 you're right or wrong.

00:15:05.140 If you're using an analogy

00:15:06.640 to tell you you're right or wrong,

00:15:08.720 you're really doing everything wrong.

00:15:11.640 That would be a complete

00:15:12.860 abdication of reason

00:15:15.080 and facts

00:15:17.140 and common sense.

00:15:18.620 But it's the way

00:15:19.220 most people think.

00:15:20.820 Most people actually

00:15:21.780 ran.

00:15:24.120 I was waiting for that.

00:15:26.620 What took you so long, NPC?

00:15:29.340 You know that I

00:15:31.300 intentionally triggered

00:15:33.500 the NPCs, don't you?

00:15:35.660 What are the NPCs saying right now?

00:15:38.460 All right, I'll ask you

00:15:39.400 over on the Locals platform.

00:15:40.640 See if you can guess

00:15:41.440 what's happening over on YouTube.

00:15:45.080 All right, well,

00:15:49.060 you can guess.

00:15:51.260 All right.

00:15:53.000 As a service to historians,

00:15:56.100 don't you wonder

00:15:56.820 how historians

00:15:57.660 will treat this period?

00:16:00.140 Because I don't know

00:16:01.220 if there's been another period

00:16:02.460 where the public

00:16:04.200 did not agree

00:16:05.180 on what happened.

00:16:07.480 Has that ever happened before?

00:16:11.180 Maybe we agreed,

00:16:13.180 but we were wrong in the past.

00:16:14.680 But, oh yeah, JFK,

00:16:16.500 that's true.

00:16:17.440 Yeah, I guess we do

00:16:18.240 have some examples.

00:16:19.640 But even with JFK,

00:16:21.280 there was an official story.

00:16:23.200 If you were to check

00:16:24.220 all the history books,

00:16:26.140 there would be one version

00:16:27.520 of the Kennedy story,

00:16:29.900 and then there would be

00:16:30.800 reference to, you know,

00:16:31.940 people maybe believe

00:16:33.120 there were more people involved.

00:16:35.580 Right?

00:16:37.340 Iraq.

00:16:37.780 Iraq.

00:16:40.060 No, at this point,

00:16:41.260 at this point,

00:16:42.160 history agrees, right?

00:16:44.340 As of today,

00:16:45.600 historians are on the same page

00:16:47.100 about Iraq.

00:16:48.160 There were no weapons

00:16:49.200 of mass destruction

00:16:50.060 except old ones,

00:16:51.900 old chemical weapons.

00:16:54.540 Right?

00:16:55.040 But,

00:16:56.060 all right,

00:16:56.260 is that going to happen here?

00:16:57.960 Do you think that

00:16:58.920 ten years after today,

00:17:01.980 we will all be

00:17:03.020 on the same page

00:17:03.840 about what January 6th was?

00:17:05.500 Do you think

00:17:07.640 that will happen?

00:17:09.740 Because I don't.

00:17:11.140 I don't.

00:17:12.400 I think this will be

00:17:13.460 two versions of history

00:17:14.940 that will just live forever.

00:17:16.680 One of them will be

00:17:17.620 that a coup was attempted,

00:17:19.900 and the second will be

00:17:21.340 that, of course,

00:17:22.060 there was no coup.

00:17:23.680 There's no such thing

00:17:24.680 as a gunless coup

00:17:25.740 against a superpower.

00:17:28.840 Right?

00:17:29.700 So what do you do with that?

00:17:31.400 Like, I mean,

00:17:32.020 literally,

00:17:32.480 I'm actually curious,

00:17:33.980 what will historians do

00:17:35.480 with a bifurcated history

00:17:37.440 where the public

00:17:39.060 is quite sure

00:17:40.680 there were two

00:17:41.160 completely different

00:17:42.000 things that happened?

00:17:44.680 All right.

00:17:45.220 Jenny,

00:17:46.260 you get hidden

00:17:49.500 for bad behavior.

00:17:51.760 Don't do that again.

00:17:54.120 All right.

00:17:56.560 So,

00:17:57.520 here,

00:17:58.300 as a history,

00:17:59.280 two historians,

00:18:00.380 there were two

00:18:00.980 real coup attempts.

00:18:03.120 One failed

00:18:03.740 and one succeeded.

00:18:04.920 The Russia collusion

00:18:05.840 hoax was a coup attempt.

00:18:08.160 Is there anybody

00:18:08.580 who would argue

00:18:09.140 with that,

00:18:10.220 that the Russia

00:18:10.920 collusion hoax

00:18:11.960 was a coup attempt?

00:18:15.760 Does anybody say

00:18:16.760 that's not,

00:18:19.120 would you say

00:18:19.840 that's inaccurate?

00:18:20.500 because I feel like

00:18:24.860 that is just

00:18:25.580 a statement of fact

00:18:26.900 and that it was

00:18:28.660 unsuccessful.

00:18:30.180 In the end,

00:18:30.940 it was unsuccessful.

00:18:32.360 How about the

00:18:32.960 Hunter laptop

00:18:34.240 disinformation,

00:18:36.600 50,

00:18:38.180 you know,

00:18:38.620 current and ex-Intel

00:18:39.600 people,

00:18:40.420 was that a,

00:18:41.580 was that a coup attempt?

00:18:44.500 Well,

00:18:45.140 here it gets

00:18:45.700 into the definition.

00:18:47.180 Is it a coup attempt

00:18:48.220 if you do something

00:18:49.340 to change the outcome

00:18:51.100 of an election

00:18:51.800 and it's done

00:18:53.740 by intelligence agents

00:18:55.300 working secretly

00:18:56.560 within the government?

00:18:59.080 Now,

00:18:59.680 if the,

00:19:00.100 if the Hunter laptop

00:19:01.660 hoax

00:19:02.300 had been run

00:19:03.520 by,

00:19:03.960 let's say,

00:19:05.100 Democrat operatives,

00:19:07.160 just a bunch

00:19:07.720 of political people,

00:19:09.000 then I would say,

00:19:10.000 oh,

00:19:10.180 that's just normal business.

00:19:12.340 That's one side

00:19:13.100 always lies.

00:19:15.120 Yeah,

00:19:15.260 I mean,

00:19:15.440 actually,

00:19:15.900 both sides

00:19:16.280 always lie.

00:19:16.780 So in politics,

00:19:18.300 people lie,

00:19:18.940 that's just business

00:19:19.620 as normal.

00:19:20.520 But what happens

00:19:21.220 if the liars

00:19:21.960 are your actual

00:19:22.660 intelligence agencies?

00:19:25.480 The so-called 0.85

00:19:26.400 deep state.

00:19:27.500 That's not really

00:19:28.220 just a lie anymore,

00:19:29.060 is it?

00:19:30.260 That's actually

00:19:31.160 somebody with the power

00:19:32.380 to change who is

00:19:33.380 in power

00:19:34.300 and actually

00:19:35.620 executing that power.

00:19:38.060 I mean,

00:19:38.440 that's a little closer

00:19:39.120 to treason,

00:19:39.700 I would say.

00:19:41.580 I always get us

00:19:42.740 lost in the definitions

00:19:44.000 of treason.

00:19:44.620 So I would say

00:19:47.720 the imaginary coup

00:19:48.800 was the gunless

00:19:49.780 January 6th protest.

00:19:51.880 So that would be

00:19:52.500 three,

00:19:53.700 you know,

00:19:54.280 two real coup attempts,

00:19:55.680 one failed,

00:19:56.240 one succeeded,

00:19:57.200 and one imaginary one

00:19:58.980 that will probably

00:19:59.960 get written

00:20:00.460 in history books

00:20:01.520 as a real one.

00:20:03.900 Probably history

00:20:05.400 will record

00:20:06.060 that there was

00:20:06.880 really a coup attempt,

00:20:08.580 which is amazing.

00:20:11.280 Let me ask you something.

00:20:12.300 who do you think

00:20:16.080 controls education

00:20:19.240 in the United States?

00:20:22.640 Go.

00:20:23.800 Who controls education

00:20:25.660 for the,

00:20:26.840 you know,

00:20:27.720 under 18?

00:20:31.720 Unions,

00:20:32.600 teachers' unions,

00:20:34.920 I'm going to say,

00:20:36.180 women, 1.00

00:20:36.800 that's an interesting answer,

00:20:38.440 I'm going to give you

00:20:40.560 another hypothesis.

00:20:41.760 Are you ready

00:20:42.540 for this?

00:20:47.120 Textbook manufacturers.

00:20:50.420 Textbook manufacturers.

00:20:52.860 Publishers.

00:20:54.660 Here's why.

00:20:56.220 If you're,

00:20:57.080 if you're in a school,

00:20:58.660 do you have a choice

00:20:59.500 of buying any textbook

00:21:00.620 you want?

00:21:01.920 You do not,

00:21:03.160 right?

00:21:03.940 You have to buy

00:21:04.720 the textbook

00:21:05.300 that's approved

00:21:05.920 by your school.

00:21:06.580 So there's somebody

00:21:09.440 who sells textbooks

00:21:10.280 who makes

00:21:10.940 a lot of money.

00:21:13.360 A lot of money.

00:21:15.660 And

00:21:16.180 the schools

00:21:17.500 have to use,

00:21:18.240 you know,

00:21:18.440 one of these companies

00:21:19.320 that sells

00:21:19.900 all these textbooks.

00:21:21.040 You don't think

00:21:21.840 that the textbook

00:21:22.800 companies already

00:21:23.900 own the schools?

00:21:26.620 Of course they do.

00:21:28.620 Of course they do.

00:21:29.680 Do you know

00:21:30.880 how I know

00:21:31.400 that the textbook

00:21:32.240 companies

00:21:32.820 own the schools?

00:21:34.460 It's easy.

00:21:36.740 It's 2022.

00:21:38.880 There would be

00:21:39.780 no textbook

00:21:40.640 publishing companies.

00:21:42.240 They would all

00:21:42.820 be gone.

00:21:44.440 Because it would

00:21:45.260 all be online.

00:21:47.340 Wouldn't it?

00:21:49.180 Why in the world

00:21:50.280 are there textbooks?

00:21:51.940 There's no reason

00:21:52.940 for textbooks.

00:21:53.500 The entire industry

00:21:55.720 exists because

00:21:56.580 they must control

00:21:57.440 the teachers.

00:21:58.720 Or they must

00:21:59.220 control the schools.

00:22:00.420 If they didn't

00:22:01.160 control the schools

00:22:01.900 they'd already

00:22:02.360 be out of business.

00:22:03.660 There's no way

00:22:04.220 they could stay

00:22:04.700 in business

00:22:05.120 with that business

00:22:05.820 model.

00:22:07.220 Here's another

00:22:07.700 way we're having

00:22:08.940 a degree in economics

00:22:10.140 and a business

00:22:12.020 degree.

00:22:12.960 Helps you see

00:22:13.860 the world

00:22:14.240 a little more

00:22:14.680 clearly.

00:22:15.880 Clearly

00:22:16.360 the schools

00:22:17.360 are captured

00:22:17.920 by the

00:22:18.980 textbooks

00:22:19.340 companies.

00:22:20.060 As soon as

00:22:23.740 you heard it

00:22:24.220 did you say

00:22:24.660 to yourself

00:22:25.000 oh shit

00:22:25.600 that's got

00:22:26.040 to be true.

00:22:26.880 Right?

00:22:28.080 Tell me.

00:22:29.240 Tell me as soon

00:22:30.320 as you heard me

00:22:31.000 say that

00:22:31.420 you said

00:22:31.740 oh no

00:22:32.700 that's probably

00:22:33.980 true.

00:22:35.180 Yeah.

00:22:37.240 And it all

00:22:38.040 comes down

00:22:38.480 to this one

00:22:39.040 question.

00:22:40.300 Why are there

00:22:41.060 still textbook

00:22:43.080 publishing companies?

00:22:44.820 Why do they

00:22:45.300 even exist?

00:22:46.940 You tell me

00:22:47.480 that all that

00:22:48.100 information isn't

00:22:48.920 already available

00:22:49.660 for free

00:22:50.220 on the

00:22:50.500 internet

00:22:50.780 in an

00:22:51.240 organized

00:22:51.720 form

00:22:52.060 somewhere

00:22:52.440 or it

00:22:52.980 couldn't

00:22:53.260 be

00:22:53.500 or it

00:22:54.260 couldn't

00:22:54.480 be.

00:22:55.180 I mean

00:22:55.340 you don't

00:22:55.560 think that

00:22:56.060 a state

00:22:56.700 or the

00:22:57.520 federal

00:22:57.780 government

00:22:58.200 could just

00:22:58.900 say

00:22:59.140 hey

00:22:59.900 we're

00:23:00.760 paying

00:23:00.980 all this

00:23:01.340 money

00:23:01.540 for

00:23:01.720 textbooks

00:23:02.240 but it's

00:23:03.900 all sort

00:23:04.300 of available

00:23:04.740 for free

00:23:05.340 so why don't

00:23:07.060 we just

00:23:07.480 organize it

00:23:08.640 on a

00:23:09.200 you know

00:23:10.160 set of

00:23:11.100 web pages

00:23:12.220 and the

00:23:13.080 web pages

00:23:13.540 are your

00:23:13.980 textbook now

00:23:14.640 and nobody

00:23:15.200 will have to

00:23:15.540 pay for

00:23:15.800 textbooks

00:23:16.140 again.

00:23:17.540 Have you

00:23:17.640 ever seen

00:23:18.080 kids going

00:23:18.900 back and

00:23:19.300 forth to

00:23:19.720 school

00:23:20.020 with their

00:23:21.140 backpacks so

00:23:22.040 heavy they

00:23:22.460 can't carry

00:23:22.960 them?

00:23:24.000 Do you

00:23:24.160 know what's

00:23:24.420 in there?

00:23:26.620 Unnecessary

00:23:27.140 textbooks.

00:23:28.620 That's what's

00:23:29.360 in there.

00:23:30.340 Unnecessary

00:23:30.900 textbooks and

00:23:31.560 your money

00:23:32.020 and drugs

00:23:33.560 usually.

00:23:36.920 Yeah.

00:23:37.940 So maybe

00:23:38.540 it's the

00:23:38.840 Khan Academy

00:23:39.480 maybe it's

00:23:40.020 something else

00:23:40.540 but I

00:23:42.200 think that

00:23:42.860 the schools

00:23:44.400 are just

00:23:44.840 owned by the

00:23:45.420 textbook companies

00:23:46.240 and it

00:23:46.740 seems obvious

00:23:47.580 to me.

00:23:49.560 Although I

00:23:50.240 didn't realize

00:23:50.680 it until

00:23:50.960 recently.

00:23:53.500 One of the

00:23:54.200 things I

00:23:54.560 love about

00:23:55.260 social media

00:23:57.340 is that a

00:23:59.400 trending term

00:24:00.240 could be

00:24:03.540 cat turd.

00:24:05.220 So cat turd

00:24:06.580 one word

00:24:07.360 who is an

00:24:08.880 individual

00:24:09.340 and was

00:24:10.440 spoken

00:24:10.780 social media

00:24:12.580 user and

00:24:14.380 he's been

00:24:14.960 allegedly

00:24:16.000 Bank of

00:24:17.380 America has 0.83

00:24:18.400 declined

00:24:20.040 their banking.

00:24:21.240 I guess he's

00:24:21.560 got a partner

00:24:22.100 he does a

00:24:22.560 podcast with.

00:24:24.080 And so

00:24:24.840 Bank of

00:24:25.220 America

00:24:25.500 allegedly

00:24:25.980 shut them

00:24:26.600 down and

00:24:27.380 said with

00:24:28.500 glee that

00:24:29.260 they don't

00:24:29.660 have to

00:24:30.020 tell them

00:24:30.460 why.

00:24:32.620 How scary

00:24:33.440 is that?

00:24:34.640 Now first

00:24:35.340 of all I

00:24:35.840 don't believe

00:24:36.380 the story.

00:24:38.100 Let me say

00:24:38.540 that first of

00:24:39.080 all.

00:24:40.180 This is still

00:24:41.040 the fog of

00:24:41.920 war version

00:24:42.580 of the

00:24:42.860 story.

00:24:43.980 It doesn't

00:24:44.640 feel real.

00:24:46.740 Could be.

00:24:48.440 It could be.

00:24:49.720 I wouldn't

00:24:50.120 rule it out.

00:24:51.360 But I'll

00:24:51.800 tell you on

00:24:52.380 the surface

00:24:52.960 it feels like

00:24:53.780 something's

00:24:54.300 missing.

00:24:55.940 So I would

00:24:56.720 say put a

00:24:57.820 pin in this

00:24:58.340 one and

00:24:58.840 just wait

00:24:59.560 maybe two

00:25:01.120 days.

00:25:02.280 See if

00:25:02.680 anything new

00:25:03.200 comes out.

00:25:04.080 I feel like

00:25:04.640 this story

00:25:05.080 wasn't

00:25:05.500 complete.

00:25:06.920 I don't

00:25:07.120 know.

00:25:08.520 I'm certainly

00:25:09.380 willing to

00:25:10.020 believe that

00:25:10.500 financial

00:25:10.940 institutions

00:25:11.620 would be

00:25:12.140 moving

00:25:12.440 against

00:25:12.980 conservative

00:25:14.320 voices.

00:25:15.440 That doesn't

00:25:16.180 sound unusual

00:25:16.820 at all

00:25:17.400 unfortunately.

00:25:19.320 But I feel

00:25:19.820 like there's

00:25:20.220 something else

00:25:20.880 to be known

00:25:21.500 about this.

00:25:22.900 Just a

00:25:23.400 hunch.

00:25:25.780 So here's

00:25:27.020 a little

00:25:27.320 story.

00:25:27.940 I wonder

00:25:28.180 how many

00:25:28.540 of you

00:25:28.860 are aware

00:25:29.320 of this.

00:25:30.560 And I

00:25:30.780 guess I

00:25:31.120 need a

00:25:31.400 fact check

00:25:31.880 on this

00:25:32.220 one too.

00:25:33.960 But are

00:25:34.360 you aware

00:25:34.760 that Biden

00:25:35.360 just did

00:25:36.500 some kind

00:25:37.000 of sanction

00:25:37.460 on China

00:25:39.020 that made

00:25:40.720 all of

00:25:41.200 the,

00:25:41.440 this is my

00:25:42.020 understanding

00:25:42.500 of it,

00:25:42.860 and it

00:25:42.980 might be

00:25:43.260 wrong,

00:25:44.080 that made

00:25:44.480 all of

00:25:44.880 the American

00:25:45.560 employees

00:25:46.200 of Chinese

00:25:47.380 companies

00:25:48.080 have to

00:25:49.480 either quit

00:25:50.300 where they

00:25:51.500 were working

00:25:52.020 or lose

00:25:53.620 citizenship

00:25:54.240 in the

00:25:54.660 United States?

00:25:56.060 Is that

00:25:56.560 real?

00:25:58.600 Did Biden

00:25:59.520 really tell

00:26:00.180 Americans that

00:26:00.980 they would

00:26:01.240 lose

00:26:01.500 citizenship?

00:26:02.160 citizenship?

00:26:04.180 Citizenship?

00:26:06.200 If they

00:26:06.860 work for a

00:26:07.380 Chinese company?

00:26:08.600 I saw a

00:26:09.520 thread on

00:26:09.980 that that

00:26:10.300 I tweeted.

00:26:11.880 Yeah.

00:26:12.640 Again,

00:26:13.460 this one

00:26:13.780 doesn't feel

00:26:14.400 real,

00:26:14.820 does it?

00:26:16.460 Doesn't feel

00:26:17.300 real.

00:26:18.760 Could be.

00:26:23.640 What do

00:26:24.260 you think?

00:26:25.060 Can anybody

00:26:25.480 confirm that?

00:26:27.740 Because if

00:26:28.660 it's real,

00:26:29.280 the

00:26:32.300 implication

00:26:32.700 is that

00:26:33.340 it would

00:26:33.600 cripple 1.00

00:26:34.280 the Chinese

00:26:35.780 chip-making

00:26:36.900 business to

00:26:37.620 the point

00:26:37.920 where it

00:26:38.240 would collapse

00:26:38.860 because

00:26:40.300 apparently

00:26:40.840 these

00:26:41.160 employees

00:26:41.560 are key

00:26:41.960 employees

00:26:42.440 or something.

00:26:43.960 None of

00:26:44.320 that feels

00:26:44.740 real to

00:26:45.160 me.

00:26:47.340 I can't

00:26:48.340 believe that

00:26:48.840 China would 0.99

00:26:49.560 be depending

00:26:50.120 on that

00:26:51.000 many

00:26:51.380 American

00:26:52.620 employees

00:26:54.360 or leaders.

00:26:57.020 Yeah,

00:26:57.260 the semiconductor

00:26:57.840 heads are

00:26:58.640 having to

00:26:59.080 leave. 0.99

00:26:59.820 But when

00:27:00.340 the boss

00:27:00.800 leaves,

00:27:01.200 how much

00:27:01.540 of a

00:27:01.780 problem

00:27:02.060 is that

00:27:02.440 really?

00:27:03.620 When was

00:27:04.040 the last

00:27:04.300 time a

00:27:04.700 company had

00:27:06.100 a problem

00:27:06.420 because a

00:27:06.900 boss left?

00:27:08.200 Maybe a

00:27:08.820 key employee?

00:27:11.100 I don't know.

00:27:11.800 So I'm

00:27:12.320 going to say

00:27:12.740 I would

00:27:13.200 wait on

00:27:13.640 this one

00:27:14.580 because it's

00:27:15.720 not a

00:27:16.060 front-page

00:27:16.540 story and

00:27:17.140 it would

00:27:17.460 be if it

00:27:17.900 were real.

00:27:18.640 So I

00:27:19.480 think you

00:27:19.900 put a

00:27:20.400 little

00:27:20.580 skepticism

00:27:21.460 on this

00:27:21.880 story and

00:27:22.320 then wait

00:27:23.100 a little

00:27:23.340 bit,

00:27:23.560 okay?

00:27:23.720 Thomas

00:27:28.160 Massey is

00:27:29.060 introducing

00:27:29.480 some

00:27:29.820 legislation

00:27:30.440 that sounds

00:27:31.220 like it's

00:27:31.600 pretty good.

00:27:32.880 Did you

00:27:33.180 know there

00:27:33.720 are basically

00:27:34.380 four entities

00:27:35.480 that own

00:27:36.060 most of the

00:27:36.580 meat processing

00:27:37.240 in the United

00:27:37.740 States?

00:27:38.960 Just four

00:27:39.480 entities?

00:27:40.420 Did you

00:27:40.800 know that

00:27:41.140 one of the

00:27:41.520 four is a

00:27:41.980 Chinese company

00:27:42.620 and the

00:27:42.980 other one

00:27:43.240 is Brazilian?

00:27:44.880 So there

00:27:45.480 are four

00:27:45.820 entities that

00:27:46.400 own all our

00:27:46.820 meat processing.

00:27:48.160 One is a

00:27:48.760 Brazilian company

00:27:49.540 and one is a

00:27:50.380 Chinese company.

00:27:51.020 OK.

00:27:54.440 So Thomas

00:27:55.260 Massey's

00:27:55.940 legislation

00:27:56.800 would be

00:27:57.700 it's

00:28:00.200 bipartisan

00:28:00.660 so good

00:28:02.180 for him on

00:28:02.680 that and

00:28:03.500 it would

00:28:04.400 empower small

00:28:05.180 farmers and

00:28:05.820 local decentralized

00:28:06.860 meat processors.

00:28:08.640 So there

00:28:09.040 must be

00:28:09.540 something that

00:28:11.120 makes it

00:28:11.860 impractical or

00:28:13.380 illegal for

00:28:13.980 small people to

00:28:14.860 be meat

00:28:15.280 processors.

00:28:16.560 Now I

00:28:16.960 assume that

00:28:17.400 the intention

00:28:17.920 was always

00:28:18.880 for safety.

00:28:19.520 maybe that's

00:28:21.540 just that

00:28:22.580 might be a

00:28:23.160 generous

00:28:23.480 assumption.

00:28:25.400 But it

00:28:27.340 does seem

00:28:27.880 that food

00:28:28.580 security requires

00:28:29.720 us to

00:28:30.320 diversify.

00:28:33.300 Right.

00:28:34.060 Food

00:28:34.460 security

00:28:35.140 requires us

00:28:36.140 to diversify.

00:28:37.580 So I

00:28:37.820 would say

00:28:38.200 I hope

00:28:40.440 this one

00:28:40.780 just sails

00:28:41.260 right through

00:28:41.700 because if

00:28:42.500 we're arguing

00:28:43.120 the politics

00:28:43.820 on this

00:28:44.260 one,

00:28:46.200 everybody

00:28:46.600 agree?

00:28:47.300 There's no

00:28:48.020 politics on

00:28:48.720 this one.

00:28:50.520 Can anybody

00:28:51.220 explain to me

00:28:51.900 how vaccinations

00:28:52.880 ever became

00:28:53.800 politically

00:28:54.800 left and

00:28:56.000 right?

00:28:57.880 Or masks?

00:29:00.120 How did

00:29:00.660 any of that

00:29:01.140 become left

00:29:01.760 or right?

00:29:03.500 Because you

00:29:04.000 realize it

00:29:04.440 could have

00:29:04.680 gone the

00:29:05.000 other way,

00:29:05.420 right?

00:29:06.800 There was a

00:29:07.680 world in which

00:29:08.360 the opinions

00:29:09.440 of the left

00:29:10.080 and right

00:29:10.500 could have

00:29:10.820 been just

00:29:11.240 switched and

00:29:12.460 everything

00:29:12.820 would have

00:29:13.200 gone on

00:29:13.840 just normally.

00:29:16.800 I mean,

00:29:17.200 it would be

00:29:17.620 easy to imagine

00:29:18.460 that the

00:29:18.940 conservatives

00:29:19.500 are the

00:29:19.980 ones who

00:29:20.280 said,

00:29:20.780 you must

00:29:21.640 wear a

00:29:22.100 mask.

00:29:23.440 I could

00:29:24.120 have imagined

00:29:24.560 that.

00:29:26.040 I could

00:29:26.700 imagine that.

00:29:27.940 And it's

00:29:28.400 easy to

00:29:29.260 imagine that

00:29:29.740 the conservatives

00:29:30.400 would be the

00:29:30.940 ones to say,

00:29:32.300 hey,

00:29:33.220 medicine says

00:29:35.040 this is okay,

00:29:35.880 so go get

00:29:36.460 your shots.

00:29:38.740 But as soon

00:29:39.420 as, you know,

00:29:40.500 probably there

00:29:41.680 were just some

00:29:42.240 opinion leaders

00:29:43.420 on each side

00:29:44.220 that got

00:29:45.260 things going

00:29:45.880 and then

00:29:46.200 it just

00:29:46.460 sort of

00:29:46.900 turned into

00:29:48.120 this team

00:29:48.580 sport.

00:29:49.560 Now, I've

00:29:49.940 told you

00:29:50.240 that I

00:29:51.900 finally deduced

00:29:52.760 the real

00:29:53.400 problem here.

00:29:55.700 I'll say it

00:29:56.400 again.

00:29:57.520 That social

00:29:58.780 media

00:29:59.300 causes you

00:30:03.100 to gamify

00:30:04.220 politics.

00:30:07.200 And let me

00:30:07.620 say some

00:30:08.700 more about

00:30:09.040 that.

00:30:09.700 In the old

00:30:10.360 days, before

00:30:10.900 social media,

00:30:11.520 I would just

00:30:11.940 read the news

00:30:12.780 and then I

00:30:13.820 would think

00:30:14.220 about it

00:30:14.680 and usually

00:30:15.180 I wouldn't

00:30:15.480 even talk

00:30:15.880 to anybody

00:30:16.200 about it.

00:30:17.700 I'd read it

00:30:18.720 and then I'd

00:30:19.060 think about it

00:30:19.580 and that was

00:30:19.840 it.

00:30:21.060 But when you

00:30:21.880 add social

00:30:22.380 media, not

00:30:24.000 only does it

00:30:24.660 add all this

00:30:25.300 energy, good

00:30:26.640 and bad

00:30:27.340 and fake

00:30:28.580 news and

00:30:29.060 everything else,

00:30:29.940 but the more

00:30:30.680 important thing

00:30:31.300 it does is

00:30:33.000 it gives you

00:30:33.520 points.

00:30:35.340 And that's

00:30:35.640 where everything

00:30:36.560 goes off the

00:30:37.260 rails.

00:30:38.940 When I'm on

00:30:40.040 Twitter, I'm

00:30:41.340 playing it like

00:30:42.180 a game.

00:30:43.360 And I'm

00:30:43.720 aware of

00:30:44.120 it.

00:30:45.220 I'm aware

00:30:45.680 of it.

00:30:47.000 I think this

00:30:48.200 might be more

00:30:48.920 for the larger

00:30:49.800 accounts.

00:30:50.580 The smaller

00:30:51.080 accounts are

00:30:51.580 still just

00:30:52.140 following stuff.

00:30:53.660 But as a

00:30:54.520 blue check

00:30:55.040 account, and

00:30:56.000 even trying to

00:30:56.800 get to become

00:30:57.560 a blue check,

00:30:58.620 I play it

00:30:59.840 for points.

00:31:02.420 Now, I

00:31:03.400 shouldn't admit

00:31:04.080 this to you,

00:31:04.700 should I?

00:31:05.740 Because this

00:31:06.220 is not a good

00:31:06.820 look, is it?

00:31:08.720 I mean, it

00:31:09.140 doesn't make me

00:31:09.640 look good.

00:31:10.920 But I had to

00:31:11.680 be honest.

00:31:12.180 You know, when I

00:31:13.040 actually, like,

00:31:13.860 examined my

00:31:14.840 motivations, and

00:31:15.920 I watched

00:31:17.120 myself, and I

00:31:18.340 took a little

00:31:18.840 bit of distance

00:31:19.560 and said,

00:31:19.980 all right, if I

00:31:21.300 were looking at

00:31:21.940 me from the

00:31:23.360 outside, what

00:31:24.040 would be my

00:31:24.680 external opinion

00:31:25.640 of me?

00:31:26.620 And my

00:31:27.260 external opinion

00:31:28.120 of me would

00:31:28.620 be very clear.

00:31:30.420 I'm playing for

00:31:31.100 points.

00:31:32.940 Now, in my

00:31:33.920 case, Twitter

00:31:35.840 is part of my

00:31:36.820 business.

00:31:37.380 So that's my

00:31:39.380 rationalization.

00:31:40.860 Isn't that

00:31:41.460 convenient?

00:31:42.720 How convenient

00:31:43.660 that I have a

00:31:44.920 perfectly good

00:31:45.760 sounding rationalization

00:31:47.200 for the thing that

00:31:48.360 addicted me.

00:31:49.660 Oh, how

00:31:50.040 convenient.

00:31:51.960 Anybody notice that

00:31:53.100 coincidence?

00:31:54.740 That I happen to

00:31:56.400 be addicted, but

00:31:58.020 by coincidence, oh,

00:31:59.220 it's my job, so I

00:32:00.320 guess there's a good

00:32:01.000 reason in my case,

00:32:01.980 right?

00:32:02.200 So that's me

00:32:05.940 mocking myself as

00:32:07.280 a third-party

00:32:08.080 observer, right?

00:32:10.480 If I were a

00:32:11.260 third-party observer

00:32:12.140 looking at me,

00:32:13.620 claiming that the

00:32:14.400 reason I use

00:32:15.120 Twitter is because

00:32:15.880 it's for my job, I

00:32:17.600 would laugh at that

00:32:18.440 idiot. 0.79

00:32:19.500 I would laugh at

00:32:20.580 that idiot. 0.97

00:32:22.160 Yeah, right.

00:32:24.120 Yeah, all of that

00:32:24.940 dopamine you're

00:32:25.700 getting every time

00:32:26.320 you hit the thing

00:32:27.120 and you see your

00:32:27.920 retweets, all that

00:32:28.780 dopamine, that's

00:32:29.560 nothing.

00:32:30.500 You're doing it for

00:32:31.480 cold, hard, economic

00:32:33.440 reasons, aren't

00:32:34.160 you, Scott?

00:32:35.480 I would laugh at

00:32:36.480 myself.

00:32:37.640 It is an addiction

00:32:38.800 and I play it like

00:32:40.600 a game.

00:32:41.580 Now, what is the

00:32:42.960 obvious outcome of

00:32:45.180 playing something

00:32:46.060 like a game?

00:32:48.440 There's a second

00:32:49.380 thing that happens.

00:32:52.560 You sort into

00:32:53.640 teams just

00:32:54.620 automatically.

00:32:56.320 Now, I'm going to

00:32:57.240 say something very

00:32:58.060 sexist. 0.58

00:32:58.880 You ready for

00:32:59.380 this?

00:33:01.480 Twitter is for

00:33:02.340 boys.

00:33:03.900 That's the most

00:33:04.620 sexist thing you'll 0.55

00:33:05.320 ever hear me say.

00:33:07.000 Twitter is for

00:33:07.840 boys.

00:33:08.260 A sexist would 0.62

00:33:09.020 say.

00:33:10.340 It's too late for

00:33:11.180 that.

00:33:11.700 I'm trying Greg

00:33:12.540 Duffield's defensive

00:33:14.100 move.

00:33:15.980 But now, obviously,

00:33:17.700 there are lots and

00:33:18.920 lots of women who 1.00

00:33:19.620 use Twitter.

00:33:20.660 Duh.

00:33:21.900 But Twitter is 80%

00:33:23.780 male.

00:33:24.800 Can somebody give me

00:33:25.580 a fact check on

00:33:26.260 that?

00:33:26.720 Give me a quick

00:33:27.820 fact check on

00:33:29.780 Twitter composition.

00:33:33.020 70% male?

00:33:34.460 80%?

00:33:36.260 What would you

00:33:36.960 say?

00:33:37.340 My followers are

00:33:38.240 95% male.

00:33:41.500 And then if you go

00:33:42.560 into politics in

00:33:43.620 particular, what's

00:33:44.920 the ratio?

00:33:47.760 Yeah, if you go to

00:33:48.660 politics in particular,

00:33:49.780 it's probably extra

00:33:51.460 high.

00:33:52.140 It's at least 75%.

00:33:53.560 Right?

00:33:55.260 So whoever is the

00:33:57.340 75% is going to be

00:33:59.820 the primary thing,

00:34:01.320 right?

00:34:02.040 So in my opinion,

00:34:03.800 Twitter is gamified

00:34:05.440 because it gives you

00:34:06.520 points.

00:34:08.160 And mostly male.

00:34:11.440 And what happens

00:34:12.360 when mostly men get

00:34:14.900 into a situation

00:34:15.780 where there's going

00:34:16.500 to be a game?

00:34:17.840 What's the first

00:34:18.640 thing we do?

00:34:19.880 Men, what's the

00:34:21.140 first thing you do

00:34:21.920 if you're going to

00:34:22.480 have a game?

00:34:23.560 You meet in the

00:34:24.760 park and it's a

00:34:25.400 bunch of guys and

00:34:26.700 you're going to

00:34:27.080 have a game.

00:34:28.520 You pick sides.

00:34:30.380 You pick teams.

00:34:31.840 It's automatic.

00:34:34.160 Boys are trained

00:34:35.480 from birth that

00:34:37.500 you're going to

00:34:38.020 play a game and

00:34:39.240 first you're going

00:34:39.880 to pick teams.

00:34:41.240 So you throw me

00:34:42.180 into Twitter and

00:34:43.720 I recognize it as

00:34:44.820 a game and I

00:34:45.940 start playing the

00:34:46.600 game.

00:34:47.540 Do you think

00:34:48.140 that all of my

00:34:49.980 training makes me

00:34:50.960 go to a team?

00:34:51.660 Yes, it does.

00:34:54.640 Yes, it does.

00:34:56.440 I'm the least

00:34:57.580 probably team

00:35:01.080 biased person I

00:35:02.320 know.

00:35:03.120 Like I didn't

00:35:03.720 join a fraternity.

00:35:05.040 I didn't join

00:35:05.620 sports teams in

00:35:06.660 college while I

00:35:07.240 played on a

00:35:07.700 tennis team.

00:35:08.580 But I'm

00:35:09.920 generally not a

00:35:10.860 joiner.

00:35:11.500 I don't like to

00:35:12.180 join your team.

00:35:12.960 I don't want to

00:35:13.300 be in your club.

00:35:14.640 But have I not

00:35:15.800 joined a team?

00:35:17.180 Have I not?

00:35:18.820 I'm clearly on

00:35:20.240 the conservative

00:35:20.800 team.

00:35:21.300 I'm just not a

00:35:21.860 conservative.

00:35:22.900 But even I,

00:35:24.420 even I am drawn

00:35:27.840 onto a team.

00:35:28.960 Do you know why

00:35:29.720 I'm on this team?

00:35:33.220 Let me ask you.

00:35:34.280 Do you know why

00:35:35.120 I am on this

00:35:38.000 team?

00:35:38.400 And I am on

00:35:39.060 this team.

00:35:39.620 There's no doubt

00:35:40.200 about it.

00:35:44.840 Honestly, it's

00:35:46.280 because of the

00:35:46.780 way I was

00:35:47.200 treated.

00:35:48.400 It's the way

00:35:48.980 I was treated.

00:35:50.880 That's it.

00:35:52.800 That there were

00:35:53.640 some conservatives,

00:35:54.840 and I'm not

00:35:55.320 going to name

00:35:55.700 names, but

00:35:56.400 especially some

00:35:57.100 notable blue

00:35:57.900 checkers, who

00:35:59.260 treated me with

00:36:00.280 respect.

00:36:03.340 That's it.

00:36:04.720 And I just

00:36:05.440 said, well, I'd

00:36:06.240 rather be where

00:36:06.860 they at least

00:36:07.380 respect me, even

00:36:08.340 when they

00:36:08.680 disagree.

00:36:09.920 And so I

00:36:11.220 found that

00:36:11.860 conservatives can

00:36:13.980 be really ugly.

00:36:15.820 You know, it's

00:36:16.500 not like I

00:36:17.000 haven't blocked

00:36:17.700 a lot of

00:36:18.080 conservatives.

00:36:20.300 But there

00:36:20.900 is a

00:36:21.180 difference.

00:36:22.480 There is a

00:36:23.140 difference.

00:36:23.960 I do think

00:36:24.600 that if I

00:36:25.180 equip myself

00:36:27.420 well, that

00:36:29.320 if I make

00:36:29.860 my case in

00:36:30.680 a, let's

00:36:31.260 say, a

00:36:31.780 patriot-friendly

00:36:33.180 way, and I

00:36:35.200 show respect

00:36:35.820 for the other

00:36:36.340 side, that

00:36:37.980 conservatives are

00:36:38.880 more likely to

00:36:39.800 respect me

00:36:40.580 while disagreeing

00:36:42.380 than the

00:36:43.320 left is.

00:36:44.180 Now, I

00:36:44.420 could be wrong

00:36:44.920 about that.

00:36:45.340 I could be

00:36:45.840 wrong about

00:36:46.240 that.

00:36:46.780 But that's

00:36:47.180 my anecdotal

00:36:49.040 experience, is

00:36:50.480 that the

00:36:50.860 right will

00:36:51.520 allow it, the

00:36:53.100 left will

00:36:53.480 not.

00:36:54.100 The other

00:36:54.700 thing you

00:36:55.000 see is how

00:36:55.620 easily the

00:36:56.960 right accepts

00:36:59.500 the people that

00:37:00.540 they're not

00:37:00.900 supposed to

00:37:01.400 accept.

00:37:03.200 You know

00:37:03.460 what I

00:37:03.640 mean?

00:37:05.600 If you're a 0.88

00:37:07.180 black candidate

00:37:08.400 for Senate or

00:37:09.720 something, and

00:37:10.340 you're a

00:37:10.620 Republican, will

00:37:12.040 the Republicans

00:37:12.740 accept you?

00:37:13.520 Yes, totally.

00:37:16.820 You know, if

00:37:17.400 you're a, you 0.54

00:37:19.080 know, you

00:37:19.420 know what I

00:37:19.720 haven't seen

00:37:20.160 yet, is a

00:37:22.580 lesbian

00:37:23.180 conservative

00:37:25.060 running for

00:37:25.780 high office,

00:37:26.560 has that

00:37:26.880 happened yet?

00:37:28.220 A lesbian

00:37:29.260 conservative for

00:37:30.380 high office?

00:37:32.460 Because, because

00:37:34.520 my guess is

00:37:35.360 that Republicans

00:37:37.500 would, I see

00:37:40.360 your funny

00:37:40.760 answers, so I'm

00:37:41.420 not going to

00:37:41.780 respond to

00:37:42.400 them.

00:37:43.600 Dr.

00:37:44.120 Ross.

00:37:47.860 Okay, that's

00:37:48.540 that was the

00:37:49.540 funniest one.

00:37:50.200 Dr.

00:37:50.520 Ross is the

00:37:51.060 first lesbian

00:37:51.640 running for

00:37:52.140 high office.

00:37:54.140 I'm not even

00:37:54.860 sure who that's

00:37:55.520 supposed to be

00:37:55.940 insulting.

00:37:57.320 If that was

00:37:58.320 supposed to be

00:37:58.840 insulting to

00:37:59.480 lesbians, then 1.00

00:38:00.740 I apologize,

00:38:01.620 because I didn't

00:38:02.100 mean that.

00:38:03.080 There's just

00:38:03.620 something funny

00:38:04.160 about that

00:38:04.540 comment.

00:38:05.100 I'm not even

00:38:05.540 sure what it

00:38:06.000 is.

00:38:07.640 All right, so

00:38:08.300 stop naming

00:38:09.360 people.

00:38:10.040 That's not

00:38:10.500 funny anymore.

00:38:12.160 It's a little

00:38:12.840 bit funny, but

00:38:13.940 stop doing

00:38:14.380 it.

00:38:18.000 In my

00:38:19.280 opinion, a

00:38:21.700 non-binary could

00:38:23.080 run for office

00:38:24.400 as a Republican

00:38:25.160 and would be

00:38:25.820 fully accepted.

00:38:27.420 What do you

00:38:27.960 say?

00:38:29.380 If a

00:38:30.020 non-binary ran

00:38:32.480 for office as

00:38:33.320 a Republican,

00:38:34.420 would they be

00:38:35.240 fully accepted

00:38:35.980 as long as

00:38:36.620 they were, you

00:38:37.640 know, they

00:38:38.200 liked the

00:38:38.560 Constitution and

00:38:39.500 the Republican

00:38:39.980 side?

00:38:40.500 Yeah, they

00:38:40.900 would be.

00:38:41.880 They would

00:38:42.220 be.

00:38:43.100 Now, would

00:38:43.820 conservatives

00:38:45.860 make very

00:38:47.740 inappropriate

00:38:48.380 comments about

00:38:49.300 said person?

00:38:50.560 Oh, yeah.

00:38:52.700 Yeah.

00:38:53.980 Don't get me

00:38:54.800 wrong.

00:38:55.820 People are

00:38:56.500 people.

00:38:57.540 People are

00:38:58.180 people.

00:38:59.080 But they

00:38:59.540 would completely

00:39:00.040 accept that

00:39:00.780 somebody was

00:39:01.200 on their

00:39:01.960 team.

00:39:04.220 All right.

00:39:04.440 So, Elon

00:39:10.660 Musk apparently

00:39:13.760 is going to

00:39:15.200 turn off or

00:39:16.160 not turn on

00:39:18.100 part of

00:39:18.620 Starlink because

00:39:20.220 he's asked the

00:39:21.280 government to

00:39:21.920 pay for it.

00:39:22.800 I guess he's

00:39:23.340 put over $80

00:39:23.980 million into

00:39:24.840 supporting Ukraine

00:39:26.340 just through

00:39:26.980 Starlink. 0.59

00:39:27.460 and then

00:39:29.380 Ukraine, of

00:39:30.000 course, was

00:39:31.120 mad at him for

00:39:31.840 suggesting that

00:39:32.600 they talk

00:39:33.060 peace before

00:39:34.520 they had gotten

00:39:35.160 back all the

00:39:35.740 territory they 0.70

00:39:36.420 think they

00:39:36.780 should get

00:39:37.100 back.

00:39:38.060 And so they

00:39:39.100 told him to

00:39:39.660 go F himself

00:39:40.540 and then

00:39:42.300 Elon Musk is

00:39:43.580 basically not

00:39:44.760 going to give

00:39:45.180 them Starlink

00:39:45.860 unless the

00:39:46.340 government pays

00:39:46.960 for it.

00:39:48.120 And when he

00:39:48.880 was questioned

00:39:49.360 about that,

00:39:49.980 he said,

00:39:50.420 well, we're

00:39:50.740 just taking

00:39:51.120 your recommendation.

00:39:51.840 Now, what do

00:39:54.160 you think?

00:39:55.440 Is Elon Musk,

00:39:56.840 first of all,

00:39:57.860 we don't know

00:39:58.660 if he wouldn't

00:40:00.260 have acted the

00:40:00.960 same anyway

00:40:01.480 because he put

00:40:02.060 $80 million

00:40:02.520 into it without

00:40:03.200 getting reimbursed.

00:40:04.720 So now he's

00:40:05.560 asking the

00:40:06.040 government to

00:40:06.580 pay for it

00:40:07.140 when they're

00:40:07.600 putting out

00:40:08.560 billions,

00:40:09.120 so it doesn't

00:40:09.760 seem like a

00:40:11.400 perfectly reasonable

00:40:12.240 request, right?

00:40:13.720 Asking the

00:40:14.380 government to

00:40:14.920 pay the bill

00:40:17.140 is a perfectly

00:40:18.580 reasonable request.

00:40:20.920 Now,

00:40:21.160 is it

00:40:23.260 reasonable for

00:40:24.000 him to not

00:40:24.680 turn it on

00:40:25.380 while he's

00:40:25.820 waiting for

00:40:26.260 the answer?

00:40:28.200 What do you

00:40:28.580 think?

00:40:29.620 Is it

00:40:30.260 reasonable that

00:40:31.740 he doesn't

00:40:32.240 turn it on

00:40:33.040 waiting to

00:40:35.000 get paid?

00:40:40.120 I'm watching

00:40:40.860 your comments,

00:40:41.560 yeses and

00:40:42.040 noses.

00:40:42.560 I'm going to

00:40:42.960 say yes.

00:40:44.480 I'm going to

00:40:44.840 say yes.

00:40:46.240 And here's

00:40:46.760 the weird

00:40:47.060 thing.

00:40:48.260 Ukraine just

00:40:49.060 opened up a

00:40:49.640 second war.

00:40:51.160 They just

00:40:51.560 declared war

00:40:52.260 on Elon

00:40:53.260 Musk.

00:40:54.620 And I

00:40:55.500 think they

00:40:55.860 think that

00:40:56.260 that would

00:40:56.520 be the

00:40:56.800 easy one

00:40:57.320 compared to

00:40:57.840 Russia.

00:40:59.460 What do

00:41:00.000 you think?

00:41:02.380 I think

00:41:03.360 Elon Musk

00:41:04.040 could crash

00:41:04.880 Ukraine if

00:41:05.480 he wanted

00:41:05.820 to.

00:41:06.720 I mean,

00:41:06.980 I don't know

00:41:07.360 exactly how,

00:41:09.100 but I feel

00:41:09.580 like he

00:41:09.900 could.

00:41:11.200 I feel like

00:41:12.480 if he wanted

00:41:12.940 to take down

00:41:13.640 the whole

00:41:14.100 country of

00:41:14.560 Ukraine,

00:41:15.180 he could just

00:41:15.900 stomp him 1.00

00:41:16.420 if he wanted

00:41:16.860 to.

00:41:17.060 I mean,

00:41:18.040 it would

00:41:18.220 be an

00:41:18.440 ugly fight,

00:41:19.200 but I

00:41:20.280 don't think

00:41:20.720 they know

00:41:21.220 how dangerous

00:41:21.920 he could

00:41:22.320 be.

00:41:23.500 Now,

00:41:23.800 I don't

00:41:24.020 think he's

00:41:24.480 that personality,

00:41:25.500 so I don't

00:41:25.780 think he's

00:41:26.140 dangerous at

00:41:26.680 all.

00:41:27.500 But imagine

00:41:30.280 the smartest,

00:41:31.160 richest person

00:41:31.760 in the world

00:41:32.380 being mad at

00:41:33.740 you.

00:41:35.360 I mean,

00:41:35.720 I feel like

00:41:36.300 he could do

00:41:36.780 some damage

00:41:37.400 if he wanted

00:41:37.880 to.

00:41:38.260 I don't

00:41:38.680 think they

00:41:39.020 should start

00:41:39.460 a fight

00:41:39.800 with Elon

00:41:40.340 Musk.

00:41:41.680 That feels

00:41:42.020 like,

00:41:42.720 and keep

00:41:43.420 in mind,

00:41:43.780 he's going

00:41:44.080 to own

00:41:44.260 Twitter.

00:41:46.740 If you

00:41:47.780 were Ukraine

00:41:48.340 and you

00:41:48.880 depended

00:41:49.320 entirely on

00:41:50.180 public

00:41:51.280 approval

00:41:53.000 and the

00:41:53.480 United States

00:41:54.020 for your

00:41:54.380 survival,

00:41:55.560 would you

00:41:55.940 want to

00:41:56.180 start a

00:41:56.540 fight with

00:41:56.860 a guy

00:41:57.100 who's

00:41:57.320 going to

00:41:57.540 own

00:41:57.720 Twitter,

00:41:59.100 which is

00:41:59.780 the opinion

00:42:00.260 maker of

00:42:00.780 the United

00:42:01.140 States?

00:42:02.740 I don't

00:42:03.000 know.

00:42:03.240 I think

00:42:03.480 Ukraine

00:42:03.820 played this

00:42:04.360 wrong.

00:42:06.900 I think

00:42:07.520 the right

00:42:07.880 way to

00:42:08.220 play it

00:42:08.640 was to

00:42:10.020 be thanking

00:42:10.700 him harder

00:42:11.360 than they

00:42:11.820 were condemning

00:42:12.460 him.

00:42:13.500 They could

00:42:13.960 still condemn

00:42:14.680 his moves,

00:42:16.760 but maybe

00:42:17.460 do it a

00:42:17.880 little more

00:42:18.180 respectfully,

00:42:18.880 huh?

00:42:19.780 How about

00:42:20.260 show a

00:42:20.620 little respect

00:42:21.280 for the

00:42:22.320 fact that

00:42:22.920 he's saving

00:42:23.720 your asses? 1.00

00:42:25.760 I think a

00:42:26.540 little respect

00:42:27.060 would go a

00:42:27.520 long way,

00:42:28.260 and I don't

00:42:28.740 think he

00:42:29.360 got it.

00:42:35.500 Is there

00:42:36.060 a disruptor

00:42:36.740 against the

00:42:37.340 Fed?

00:42:40.700 I don't

00:42:41.000 know what

00:42:41.220 that

00:42:41.360 means.

00:42:43.020 All

00:42:43.160 right.

00:42:46.300 Oh,

00:42:46.760 we found

00:42:47.080 a link

00:42:47.480 to the

00:42:47.800 USA

00:42:48.180 banning

00:42:48.640 USA

00:42:49.080 semiconductor

00:42:49.760 exports

00:42:50.560 from the

00:42:51.180 commerce.

00:42:53.040 Semiconductor

00:42:53.520 exports?

00:42:54.320 Would that

00:42:54.660 cause

00:42:55.420 Americans

00:42:56.000 in China

00:42:56.680 to have

00:42:57.060 to quit

00:42:57.520 or lose

00:42:58.060 their

00:42:58.240 citizenship?

00:42:59.680 I guess

00:43:00.060 we still

00:43:00.420 have questions

00:43:00.980 about that.

00:43:04.740 Yeah.

00:43:06.660 Ukraine

00:43:07.180 versus

00:43:07.580 Elbonia.

00:43:10.800 All right.

00:43:11.840 Well,

00:43:12.680 here's the

00:43:13.300 most interesting

00:43:13.900 thing about

00:43:14.340 the Elon

00:43:14.820 Musk thing.

00:43:15.940 Musk could 0.99

00:43:16.900 actually force

00:43:18.660 Ukraine and

00:43:20.640 Russia into

00:43:21.400 talking peace,

00:43:22.880 but I don't

00:43:23.720 know if that's

00:43:24.200 a good idea,

00:43:25.940 and I don't

00:43:26.380 know if he

00:43:26.700 should push

00:43:27.140 that,

00:43:28.140 because if

00:43:29.040 they talk

00:43:29.520 peace before

00:43:30.260 they're both

00:43:30.780 ready,

00:43:31.840 I'm not sure

00:43:32.460 you get anything

00:43:33.460 out of that.

00:43:35.060 I think we

00:43:36.260 have to wait

00:43:36.920 until our

00:43:37.740 toes are

00:43:38.540 over the

00:43:39.020 abyss.

00:43:40.300 I think we

00:43:40.800 have to be

00:43:41.260 on the verge

00:43:42.280 within minutes

00:43:43.180 of a nuclear

00:43:44.160 holocaust,

00:43:45.740 and then

00:43:46.460 maybe

00:43:47.760 people will

00:43:49.560 talk productively.

00:43:51.720 But

00:43:52.280 we're not

00:43:53.840 there yet,

00:43:55.100 so any

00:43:55.640 talk of

00:43:56.320 peace talks

00:43:57.240 or anything

00:43:57.600 like that

00:43:58.100 don't make

00:43:58.760 sense,

00:43:59.520 because nobody's

00:44:00.540 going to talk

00:44:01.040 until you run

00:44:01.840 the verge.

00:44:03.040 So we have

00:44:03.860 to get there.

00:44:04.340 So the

00:44:05.440 reason I'm

00:44:05.860 telling you

00:44:06.200 this is so

00:44:06.740 that when

00:44:07.060 we do get

00:44:07.660 there,

00:44:08.000 and we

00:44:08.360 will,

00:44:09.700 don't think

00:44:10.360 that's the

00:44:10.780 end of the

00:44:11.140 world.

00:44:12.460 That's the

00:44:13.000 point we

00:44:13.420 had to pass

00:44:14.060 through to

00:44:14.520 get to

00:44:14.800 anything.

00:44:16.260 So that

00:44:17.160 part of the

00:44:18.560 journey was

00:44:19.060 going to be

00:44:19.440 common to

00:44:20.080 both good

00:44:20.640 and bad

00:44:21.140 outcomes,

00:44:21.700 so it

00:44:21.880 doesn't tell

00:44:22.340 you anything.

00:44:23.180 It was

00:44:23.560 always going

00:44:24.120 to happen.

00:44:25.340 So when

00:44:25.760 it happens,

00:44:27.080 there's

00:44:29.220 nothing you

00:44:29.580 can do

00:44:29.840 about it,

00:44:30.500 but it's

00:44:32.000 not like you

00:44:32.420 should hide

00:44:32.760 under your

00:44:33.100 bed,

00:44:33.360 it's not

00:44:33.640 going to

00:44:33.800 help.

00:44:34.340 But don't

00:44:36.180 lose sleep

00:44:37.140 over it,

00:44:38.260 because in

00:44:38.620 all likelihood

00:44:39.120 it doesn't

00:44:39.580 mean anything.

00:44:40.840 In the

00:44:41.080 end,

00:44:41.540 it probably

00:44:41.840 won't.

00:44:44.440 Yeah,

00:44:44.700 Zelensky

00:44:45.200 refuses to

00:44:46.100 negotiate.

00:44:46.960 Now here's

00:44:47.480 the interesting

00:44:48.440 thing I was

00:44:49.040 thinking about

00:44:49.480 Putin.

00:44:50.640 Imagine you're

00:44:51.520 Putin.

00:44:54.120 Don't you

00:44:54.660 believe that

00:44:55.240 every single

00:44:55.940 member of

00:44:56.580 your,

00:44:57.260 let's say,

00:44:58.380 inner circle

00:45:00.020 has at

00:45:01.780 least calculated

00:45:02.740 how much

00:45:03.220 money they

00:45:03.680 can make

00:45:04.140 by killing

00:45:04.720 you if

00:45:06.660 they can

00:45:06.960 get away

00:45:07.300 with it.

00:45:08.460 Don't you

00:45:09.280 think?

00:45:10.260 Because no

00:45:10.920 matter how

00:45:11.320 loyal you

00:45:11.900 are,

00:45:12.900 you have to

00:45:13.420 know that

00:45:14.020 he has

00:45:15.880 probably a

00:45:16.300 30% chance

00:45:17.200 of not being

00:45:17.740 in office in

00:45:18.400 a year or

00:45:18.780 two,

00:45:19.420 which means

00:45:20.220 you're in

00:45:20.560 trouble too

00:45:21.060 because you're

00:45:21.840 in his close

00:45:23.320 circle.

00:45:24.720 So if you

00:45:25.240 were in his

00:45:25.660 close circle,

00:45:27.220 you would

00:45:27.580 have to

00:45:27.960 at least

00:45:29.160 consider

00:45:31.320 selling him

00:45:35.020 out so

00:45:35.440 you could

00:45:35.780 survive.

00:45:37.100 You'd have

00:45:37.500 to think

00:45:37.860 about it.

00:45:39.220 It must be

00:45:40.360 hard to look

00:45:40.880 in the faces

00:45:41.440 of all of

00:45:42.080 his generals

00:45:43.320 and stuff

00:45:43.920 because you

00:45:44.820 know that

00:45:45.200 those generals

00:45:45.800 know that

00:45:48.300 all they have

00:45:48.840 to do is get

00:45:49.400 a message

00:45:49.800 to the

00:45:50.200 U.S.

00:45:50.560 embassy,

00:45:51.680 or any

00:45:52.400 embassy really,

00:45:53.520 and say,

00:45:54.560 if I take

00:45:55.420 this guy

00:45:55.840 out,

00:45:56.920 will you

00:45:57.640 protect me?

00:46:01.460 And a

00:46:02.420 few of them

00:46:02.880 get together

00:46:03.560 and then

00:46:04.020 they take

00:46:04.480 him out.

00:46:05.820 Because,

00:46:07.240 now here's

00:46:08.060 the thing

00:46:08.380 that a lot

00:46:08.860 of people

00:46:09.220 wisely said

00:46:10.340 to me.

00:46:11.740 There's

00:46:12.020 nothing I

00:46:12.420 hate more

00:46:12.820 than the

00:46:13.100 people who

00:46:13.660 are operating

00:46:14.280 from old

00:46:14.840 wisdom.

00:46:16.760 I guess

00:46:17.440 that's the

00:46:17.740 name for it,

00:46:18.140 old wisdom.

00:46:19.400 Here's old

00:46:20.440 wisdom.

00:46:21.720 Be careful

00:46:22.280 about wanting

00:46:23.240 Putin to

00:46:24.020 be gone

00:46:24.600 because who

00:46:25.820 replaces him

00:46:26.640 could be

00:46:27.020 worse.

00:46:29.300 What do

00:46:29.880 you say

00:46:30.120 to that?

00:46:31.360 Here's what

00:46:31.900 I say to

00:46:32.360 it.

00:46:33.300 When I

00:46:33.700 was 25,

00:46:34.660 that was

00:46:34.920 a good

00:46:36.740 argument.

00:46:37.780 When I

00:46:38.100 was 25.

00:46:39.820 Because I

00:46:40.500 thought there

00:46:40.880 was such

00:46:41.240 a thing

00:46:41.620 as irreplaceable

00:46:44.160 people.

00:46:45.820 That if you

00:46:46.620 lose that

00:46:47.040 key employee,

00:46:47.920 the company

00:46:48.300 will fail.

00:46:49.400 If this

00:46:51.080 one person

00:46:51.740 who is

00:46:52.360 the president

00:46:52.920 doesn't get

00:46:54.260 elected,

00:46:54.940 everything will

00:46:55.520 go to

00:46:55.880 heck.

00:46:56.880 And then

00:46:57.200 it never

00:46:57.480 happens.

00:47:00.080 Anyway.

00:47:00.600 so if I

00:47:07.760 were Putin,

00:47:09.700 I'd be

00:47:10.060 pretty

00:47:10.360 concerned

00:47:10.760 about my

00:47:11.260 generals

00:47:11.640 wanting to

00:47:12.280 cut a

00:47:12.680 deal to

00:47:13.900 take over

00:47:14.880 Russia

00:47:15.240 themselves.

00:47:17.000 Because don't

00:47:17.560 you think

00:47:17.900 there's at

00:47:18.280 least one

00:47:18.860 person in

00:47:19.480 his inner

00:47:19.860 circle who

00:47:20.480 thinks,

00:47:21.460 you know,

00:47:22.260 if Putin

00:47:23.340 were not

00:47:23.700 here,

00:47:24.300 the logical

00:47:25.140 replacement

00:47:26.160 would be

00:47:27.320 me.

00:47:29.540 You don't

00:47:30.140 think there's

00:47:30.500 one person

00:47:31.020 like that?

00:47:32.120 There has

00:47:32.640 to be.

00:47:35.100 Anyway,

00:47:35.880 so here's

00:47:36.240 what I

00:47:36.560 know at

00:47:37.040 my current

00:47:37.440 age,

00:47:37.740 I didn't

00:47:37.980 know at

00:47:38.220 25.

00:47:39.880 You can't

00:47:40.640 predict anything

00:47:41.500 about what

00:47:42.140 happens when

00:47:42.640 somebody leaves.

00:47:44.120 You think you

00:47:44.740 can, but it's

00:47:45.260 really unpredictable.

00:47:47.020 And I

00:47:48.180 would bet

00:47:48.700 that whatever

00:47:50.700 holds Russia 0.91

00:47:51.520 together is

00:47:52.480 different from

00:47:53.160 whatever held,

00:47:54.780 let's say,

00:47:55.480 Iraq together.

00:47:58.260 I think that

00:47:59.520 Russia has 0.96

00:48:00.040 probably enough

00:48:00.640 bureaucracy that

00:48:02.240 something like

00:48:02.980 stability would

00:48:03.760 happen and

00:48:05.360 that the next

00:48:06.320 leader would

00:48:07.020 want to not

00:48:07.700 make the same

00:48:08.260 mistake as

00:48:09.240 Putin.

00:48:10.320 Now, Putin

00:48:10.900 can't really

00:48:11.440 just say,

00:48:12.000 oops, I was

00:48:12.520 wrong, correct?

00:48:14.240 So Putin is

00:48:15.120 in a corner

00:48:15.680 because he

00:48:16.840 can't say,

00:48:17.500 oops, I was

00:48:17.980 wrong about

00:48:18.460 everything.

00:48:19.560 But anybody

00:48:20.460 who killed

00:48:21.020 Putin, let's

00:48:22.340 say, you

00:48:23.060 know, a coup

00:48:23.560 attempt in

00:48:24.280 Russia, the 0.81

00:48:25.280 coup attempt

00:48:25.740 person could

00:48:26.340 say, I

00:48:27.040 killed him

00:48:27.480 because he

00:48:27.900 did everything

00:48:28.440 wrong.

00:48:29.640 And then you

00:48:30.300 have options.

00:48:31.680 Oh yeah, Putin

00:48:32.160 did everything

00:48:32.660 wrong, so I'm

00:48:34.500 the new leader,

00:48:35.800 so I say we're

00:48:36.860 not going to

00:48:37.320 fight with

00:48:37.660 Ukraine, and

00:48:39.280 you could have

00:48:40.820 your four regions

00:48:41.880 back or

00:48:42.400 something, they

00:48:42.980 wouldn't do

00:48:43.320 that, but

00:48:43.780 something like

00:48:44.640 that.

00:48:46.320 Or at the

00:48:47.120 very least, he

00:48:47.760 could make a

00:48:48.180 peace deal.

00:48:49.600 Because it's

00:48:50.240 not as if the

00:48:51.360 Russian public is

00:48:53.160 opposed to

00:48:53.800 peace.

00:48:55.280 So a new

00:48:55.920 leader could

00:48:56.500 satisfy the

00:48:57.240 Russian public

00:48:57.960 by just saying

00:48:58.560 it was all

00:48:58.920 Putin's fault,

00:49:00.020 it's a good

00:49:00.500 thing I got

00:49:00.980 rid of that

00:49:01.360 guy.

00:49:03.540 Now it might

00:49:04.140 take a little

00:49:04.580 while, it

00:49:05.220 might be like a

00:49:05.840 little vacuum

00:49:06.480 as the top

00:49:07.960 three or four

00:49:08.580 people battle

00:49:09.300 to see who

00:49:09.860 takes over,

00:49:11.100 but I think

00:49:11.720 that would get

00:49:12.220 solved by

00:49:12.960 violence.

00:49:14.660 In other

00:49:14.980 words, the

00:49:15.340 top three or

00:49:15.900 four people

00:49:16.380 would create a

00:49:18.500 slaughter fest,

00:49:19.840 and one of

00:49:20.740 them would come

00:49:21.900 out ahead, and

00:49:22.820 that would be the

00:49:23.300 new head of

00:49:23.800 Russia.

00:49:27.240 All right.

00:49:32.560 There's a new

00:49:34.620 report, well, that

00:49:41.100 the, I don't know

00:49:42.720 what to think

00:49:43.080 about this.

00:49:43.460 So, Senator

00:49:44.760 Leahy, L-E-A-H-Y, 1.00

00:49:49.500 Leahy, is that

00:49:51.540 how you say it?

00:49:52.000 Senator Leahy?

00:49:54.280 Leahy?

00:49:55.280 Well, anyway, that

00:49:56.600 senator is writing a

00:49:57.540 memoir, or wrote one,

00:49:58.620 and in that memoir, he

00:50:00.240 talks about being

00:50:01.040 jogging during the

00:50:03.360 Iraq run-up to that

00:50:05.060 war, and when we were

00:50:06.640 trying to decide if

00:50:07.600 Iraq had WMDs, two 0.97

00:50:10.140 shadowy people who

00:50:12.520 looked like they

00:50:13.200 were probably in

00:50:14.100 the FBI or intel

00:50:15.400 agencies or

00:50:16.220 something, because

00:50:17.340 they had that look,

00:50:18.680 you know, that I'm

00:50:20.340 in the FBI or I'm

00:50:21.460 in the CIA look, and

00:50:23.580 they were jogging in

00:50:24.660 the park, and they

00:50:25.320 just happened to be

00:50:26.360 jogging when the

00:50:27.340 senator was there, and

00:50:28.360 they stopped him, and

00:50:30.500 they asked him what he

00:50:33.840 thought about this

00:50:34.540 WMD stuff, and then

00:50:35.800 they told him that he

00:50:37.460 should ask for a

00:50:38.700 particular secret

00:50:40.560 file, a specific

00:50:43.300 secret file that he

00:50:44.760 never didn't know

00:50:45.780 existed.

00:50:46.680 So he goes into the

00:50:47.880 SCIF where all the

00:50:48.880 secret files are, and

00:50:49.880 he asks for the

00:50:50.520 secret file by name,

00:50:52.120 and the secret file

00:50:53.380 contradicts what the

00:50:56.180 government was saying

00:50:57.060 about WMDs in Iraq.

00:51:00.220 And so he's thinking,

00:51:01.520 holy shit, first of

00:51:03.040 all, who are these

00:51:03.660 joggers?

00:51:04.200 He never found out.

00:51:05.100 And second of all, how

00:51:07.380 do they know about

00:51:08.040 this file?

00:51:09.220 And third of all, why

00:51:10.300 doesn't everybody know

00:51:11.080 about this file?

00:51:12.960 And then I guess later

00:51:14.360 the two joggers jogged

00:51:16.140 by again and pointed

00:51:18.060 to a second file, which

00:51:20.900 he also found and also

00:51:23.000 contradicted the official

00:51:24.660 government story.

00:51:27.600 And so then he waited

00:51:28.840 to tell the public in

00:51:30.980 his memoir.

00:51:31.540 He waited to write his

00:51:37.520 memoir to tell us that

00:51:42.020 the intelligence agencies

00:51:43.400 knew the WMD were not

00:51:46.200 in Iraq.

00:51:48.660 He waited to put it in

00:51:52.240 his memoir.

00:51:55.820 Do you know what's wrong

00:51:57.000 with that?

00:51:57.440 Everything?

00:52:01.660 Everything?

00:52:03.960 Everything?

00:52:06.080 Do you, you don't think

00:52:06.940 that Leahy should have

00:52:07.940 maybe mentioned to his

00:52:09.020 colleagues, hey, there's

00:52:09.960 another file you ought to

00:52:10.940 look through?

00:52:12.140 There's something wrong

00:52:13.240 with this story.

00:52:14.900 Am I right?

00:52:17.000 This story doesn't

00:52:18.860 completely hang together,

00:52:20.800 does it?

00:52:21.760 Why would you wait for

00:52:23.300 your memoirs to tell us

00:52:25.520 that story?

00:52:26.140 I don't know.

00:52:28.560 I don't know.

00:52:29.420 Not buying it.

00:52:32.800 You remember the

00:52:33.920 2,000 mules claims

00:52:35.800 that individuals

00:52:37.800 called mules were

00:52:39.040 delivering a bunch of

00:52:40.100 ballots illegally,

00:52:41.480 allegedly, to ballot

00:52:42.920 boxes in 2020.

00:52:44.180 But when asked for

00:52:46.000 detailed information

00:52:48.000 to support these

00:52:49.760 claims,

00:52:51.940 the, I guess it's the,

00:52:53.860 who are they?

00:52:54.340 The True the Vote.

00:52:55.380 That's the organization.

00:52:57.300 They continue to tell

00:52:59.700 the attorney generals,

00:53:00.900 I guess,

00:53:01.860 yes, we'll totally

00:53:03.220 give you that

00:53:03.940 detailed backup

00:53:05.180 information that

00:53:06.140 supports our claim,

00:53:07.460 and then they don't.

00:53:09.740 And then they ask

00:53:10.480 again, and then

00:53:11.300 they don't.

00:53:12.440 And it turns out

00:53:13.220 that there is

00:53:15.180 no data

00:53:15.760 that True the Vote

00:53:17.960 is willing to release

00:53:19.180 that would back up

00:53:20.180 their claim.

00:53:20.600 So, anybody

00:53:23.240 still think that

00:53:24.120 the 2,000 mules

00:53:25.180 thing is going to

00:53:25.860 be the

00:53:26.440 the kraken?

00:53:29.040 It doesn't look

00:53:29.960 like it.

00:53:30.920 It doesn't look

00:53:31.820 like it.

00:53:33.000 And,

00:53:33.520 yeah, so

00:53:36.100 there's some trouble.

00:53:38.320 I think True the Vote

00:53:39.300 is in trouble.

00:53:41.560 So, they either need

00:53:42.740 to produce some data

00:53:43.800 or explain why

00:53:45.300 they're raising money

00:53:46.140 on these claims.

00:53:46.980 because that's the thing.

00:53:48.440 They raised a lot of

00:53:49.220 money on the claims,

00:53:51.460 and the claims

00:53:52.400 depend entirely upon

00:53:53.960 we have data,

00:53:55.580 we've seen it,

00:53:56.840 and trust us,

00:53:58.120 this data is there.

00:53:59.400 But when asked

00:54:00.240 to provide it,

00:54:01.440 they just keep saying

00:54:02.720 they will and they

00:54:03.400 don't.

00:54:05.140 I don't trust that

00:54:06.500 at all.

00:54:07.300 Do you?

00:54:09.460 I don't trust that

00:54:10.620 at all.

00:54:12.180 All right.

00:54:14.340 There's a story

00:54:15.240 Paul Thacker was

00:54:16.300 tweeting this around

00:54:17.820 that there is a

00:54:19.520 potential $50 million

00:54:20.660 contract that allows

00:54:21.800 a PR firm,

00:54:23.520 a PR firm,

00:54:24.860 to be embedded

00:54:25.940 at the CDC

00:54:27.280 as part of the division.

00:54:30.360 So, it would be,

00:54:30.800 you know,

00:54:31.140 just sort of

00:54:31.940 wrapped into the CDC.

00:54:33.860 And I saw somebody

00:54:34.960 on Twitter saying

00:54:35.620 it might be the same

00:54:36.480 PR people

00:54:37.220 that were working

00:54:38.780 for the big pharma

00:54:39.800 companies that

00:54:40.480 had the vaccinations.

00:54:41.880 What do you think

00:54:42.440 of that?

00:54:44.120 Is that a scandal?

00:54:46.300 That they asked

00:54:47.840 somebody to help

00:54:48.820 them manage

00:54:50.840 their messaging?

00:54:55.120 All right.

00:54:55.920 People,

00:54:57.560 people,

00:54:59.080 it's time for me

00:55:00.720 to give you

00:55:01.180 another Dilbert lesson

00:55:02.280 on how big

00:55:03.300 companies work.

00:55:05.240 Is it your belief

00:55:06.240 that if they did

00:55:07.420 not hire a PR firm,

00:55:09.520 the CDC itself

00:55:10.900 would not be

00:55:11.680 spinning anything?

00:55:12.340 Is it your belief

00:55:14.340 that if no PR firm

00:55:16.180 were involved,

00:55:16.900 you would get the

00:55:17.440 truth from the CDC?

00:55:19.600 Is it your belief

00:55:20.700 that it's the PR firm

00:55:22.360 that would cause us

00:55:23.240 to see things

00:55:24.560 in a skewed way,

00:55:25.720 not the straightforward

00:55:27.220 statements from the CDC?

00:55:28.640 If you think that adding

00:55:32.160 a PR agency

00:55:33.220 to the CDC's

00:55:35.240 own management

00:55:36.020 communication

00:55:36.860 is going to make it

00:55:38.620 less reliable,

00:55:40.800 I don't know how

00:55:43.020 you would come

00:55:43.420 to that conclusion.

00:55:44.940 You're talking about

00:55:45.820 a group

00:55:47.000 that desperately

00:55:48.320 needed professional help.

00:55:51.040 Desperately.

00:55:52.260 Nobody needed it

00:55:53.440 more than the CDC.

00:55:55.300 Now,

00:55:56.080 I don't know anything

00:55:57.180 about this PR firm,

00:55:58.880 but it must be

00:55:59.440 a big one,

00:56:00.540 or I wouldn't be

00:56:01.320 looking at a

00:56:02.020 $50 million contract,

00:56:03.400 right?

00:56:03.820 So this is a big

00:56:04.900 PR firm.

00:56:06.100 I'm going to tell you

00:56:06.740 something that will

00:56:07.220 blow your fucking mind

00:56:08.400 now.

00:56:08.920 You ready?

00:56:10.280 The only honesty

00:56:11.520 that will come

00:56:12.120 to the CDC

00:56:12.820 is from the PR firm.

00:56:15.720 You have this

00:56:16.500 all backwards.

00:56:17.980 If you think

00:56:18.540 that the PR firm

00:56:19.680 is going to bring

00:56:20.280 dishonesty to the CDC,

00:56:22.320 you haven't been

00:56:23.280 paying attention.

00:56:24.720 The dishonesty

00:56:25.460 is coming

00:56:26.000 from the fucking CDC.

00:56:28.020 The PR agency

00:56:29.380 is not going

00:56:30.100 to sign on to that.

00:56:31.840 You're not going

00:56:32.540 to get a PR agency

00:56:33.460 to lie.

00:56:35.480 They won't lie.

00:56:37.380 They won't.

00:56:38.240 Do you know why?

00:56:39.120 It's not good for them.

00:56:41.800 Yeah,

00:56:42.300 they don't want

00:56:42.720 to be the ones

00:56:43.160 that got caught lying.

00:56:44.720 They want to be

00:56:45.480 the ones who got caught

00:56:46.440 telling a really good story,

00:56:48.620 a really good narrative.

00:56:50.040 Now,

00:56:50.420 will they be better

00:56:51.180 at spinning the narrative

00:56:52.540 than the CDC?

00:56:53.840 Probably.

00:56:54.620 That's why they hire them.

00:56:55.960 That's the whole point,

00:56:57.240 that they can spin

00:56:58.200 the narrative better.

00:56:59.460 But in my opinion,

00:57:00.720 based on my experience,

00:57:03.260 the PR agency

00:57:05.180 would increase

00:57:06.560 the credibility

00:57:07.780 of the CDC's messaging.

00:57:10.560 Part of it is

00:57:11.420 that the CDC

00:57:12.080 would say

00:57:12.800 inconsistent things.

00:57:14.780 The PR agency

00:57:15.600 is less likely

00:57:16.440 to do that

00:57:17.140 because they would

00:57:18.280 control the whole messaging

00:57:19.380 and they'd say,

00:57:20.060 no,

00:57:20.220 that's inconsistent.

00:57:21.700 You've got to do this right.

00:57:22.820 Or you have to apologize

00:57:24.000 and correct.

00:57:25.760 The PR agency

00:57:26.460 would help them

00:57:26.980 do that as well.

00:57:28.660 So,

00:57:29.460 do not automatically

00:57:31.200 assume

00:57:31.800 that hiring a PR agency

00:57:34.260 and even bringing them

00:57:35.360 into the staff,

00:57:36.740 basically,

00:57:37.260 they'd be just like staff.

00:57:38.560 Don't assume

00:57:39.100 that makes them

00:57:39.720 less

00:57:40.600 reliable.

00:57:43.160 it most likely

00:57:45.580 will make them

00:57:46.100 more reliable

00:57:46.720 because there'll be

00:57:47.460 one other set of eyes

00:57:48.940 that have different incentives.

00:57:50.780 They don't,

00:57:51.360 the PR agency

00:57:52.080 doesn't have the incentive

00:57:52.980 to lie.

00:57:54.100 They have an incentive

00:57:54.780 to do a good job.

00:57:57.080 That's what I think.

00:58:00.600 Scott,

00:58:01.180 Big Pharma and CDC,

00:58:02.540 is there a difference?

00:58:03.540 Well,

00:58:03.720 I don't know

00:58:03.980 what your point is.

00:58:08.420 You worry

00:58:09.100 that it will be harder

00:58:09.800 to spot the BS?

00:58:12.080 I wouldn't worry

00:58:13.120 about that either

00:58:13.900 because one of the things

00:58:15.640 that PR does

00:58:16.680 is it makes it obvious

00:58:18.660 what the PR is.

00:58:20.720 When you watch

00:58:21.460 a commercial,

00:58:22.780 you don't have

00:58:23.680 any question

00:58:24.320 about whether

00:58:24.820 they're selling you

00:58:25.520 something, right?

00:58:26.400 Or that they're

00:58:27.180 spinning it

00:58:27.720 in the most positive way

00:58:28.760 because they broadcast that.

00:58:31.740 That's something

00:58:32.480 that the PR people

00:58:33.440 can do

00:58:34.780 effortlessly.

00:58:37.640 They can signal

00:58:38.720 that it's PR

00:58:39.580 at the same time

00:58:40.680 they're doing it.

00:58:41.840 And it still works.

00:58:43.120 Because as long

00:58:43.900 as they're not lying,

00:58:45.820 they're fine.

00:58:47.540 Oh,

00:58:47.940 all capital letters.

00:58:49.520 You have this

00:58:50.220 all wrong

00:58:50.900 in capital letters.

00:58:54.520 Use your words.

00:58:56.220 You can do it.

00:58:57.340 Use your words.

00:58:59.220 What do I have wrong?

00:59:01.900 Sentences.

00:59:04.220 It's okay.

00:59:05.020 Now,

00:59:07.380 I'm being a little bit

00:59:08.980 devil's advocate here.

00:59:10.720 I hope you detected that.

00:59:13.660 Could it be

00:59:14.460 that hiring a PR agency

00:59:16.140 makes everything worse?

00:59:17.800 Oh, yeah.

00:59:18.820 Sure.

00:59:19.720 Yeah.

00:59:19.980 You can get like

00:59:20.640 a bad PR agency

00:59:21.740 that's corrupt

00:59:23.160 and they're willing

00:59:23.800 to lie.

00:59:25.260 Yeah,

00:59:25.520 you can get all that.

00:59:26.500 I'm just saying

00:59:27.100 it's not automatic.

00:59:28.980 If you're automatic,

00:59:30.360 oh, yeah,

00:59:31.020 you know,

00:59:31.340 this clearly leads

00:59:32.820 to this,

00:59:34.040 is that a PR agency

00:59:35.240 leads to more bullshit?

00:59:37.400 It's not that obvious

00:59:38.600 because they're just

00:59:39.880 replacing a different

00:59:41.280 source of bullshit

00:59:42.080 that is poorly made.

00:59:44.380 so it's probably

00:59:45.380 just, you know,

00:59:45.960 better quality of bullshit.

00:59:50.860 All right.

00:59:56.920 What else is happening?

00:59:59.100 That's about it.

01:00:00.660 Did I miss any big stories?

01:00:03.540 Tom Brady is going big

01:00:05.180 for pickleball.

01:00:07.540 Whoops.

01:00:09.740 Lost my connection there

01:00:10.860 for a moment.

01:00:11.380 I think I'm back.

01:00:14.380 That was lesions.

01:00:27.440 All right.

01:00:29.400 Denshenko.

01:00:32.400 Denshenko was the,

01:00:34.120 who was he?

01:00:35.680 Was Denshenko

01:00:36.500 the Steele dossier guy?

01:00:40.720 Oh, Pelosi.

01:00:42.480 Duh.

01:00:42.900 All right.

01:00:44.800 So Pelosi's daughter,

01:00:47.300 you should know,

01:00:50.040 is a famous documentarian.

01:00:52.960 So she's famous

01:00:53.780 for making documentaries.

01:00:55.420 And apparently,

01:00:56.380 she was there

01:00:57.380 on January 6th

01:00:58.580 following Nancy Pelosi

01:00:59.600 around

01:01:00.040 where reports say

01:01:01.980 Pelosi was acting

01:01:03.220 very leaderly

01:01:05.000 and take charge

01:01:07.040 and stuff like that.

01:01:07.980 Now,

01:01:10.380 that probably had

01:01:12.440 something to do

01:01:13.040 with the fact

01:01:13.460 that she was on camera.

01:01:15.380 Do you think

01:01:16.060 everybody acted

01:01:16.760 the same on camera

01:01:17.960 as they would have

01:01:18.600 privately?

01:01:20.000 So that was interesting.

01:01:21.560 But it also suggests

01:01:22.660 that Pelosi

01:01:23.180 might have had

01:01:23.820 some idea

01:01:24.680 that the events

01:01:26.600 of that day

01:01:27.420 would need

01:01:29.120 to be documented.

01:01:29.900 And so it almost

01:01:32.680 looks like

01:01:33.480 the January 6th

01:01:36.200 coup attempt

01:01:36.780 was a long-planned thing.

01:01:40.700 That's what it looks like.

01:01:50.360 I keep hearing

01:01:51.500 things downstairs,

01:01:52.620 which would be

01:01:53.300 unfortunate

01:01:53.960 because there shouldn't

01:01:54.880 be anybody downstairs.

01:01:55.780 So if I'm having

01:01:58.480 a house invasion,

01:02:00.560 yeah, maybe.

01:02:05.880 All right.

01:02:08.500 Was there anything else

01:02:09.140 I forgot?

01:02:10.580 I think I covered it all.

01:02:15.580 Darren Beattie's

01:02:16.640 Taiwan proposal.

01:02:18.040 No, that's crazy.

01:02:23.240 I'll just mention this.

01:02:24.440 So there's a proposal

01:02:25.740 just by a Twitter user

01:02:28.440 suggesting that

01:02:31.160 China does 0.95

01:02:32.620 a bunch of stuff

01:02:33.320 for us

01:02:33.800 and in return

01:02:35.240 they get Taiwan.

01:02:37.020 To which I say,

01:02:38.960 we don't own Taiwan.

01:02:41.080 That's not ours

01:02:41.960 to give away.

01:02:43.520 That seems like

01:02:44.120 the worst idea

01:02:44.880 I've ever heard.

01:02:46.460 But what do I know?

01:02:51.080 Why do I keep seeing

01:02:52.400 Mike Lindell stuff?

01:02:55.740 Mike Lindell promoted

01:02:59.900 his pillows

01:03:00.460 in front of our rectal. 0.68

01:03:02.820 Don't they need pillows?

01:03:06.320 So do you remember

01:03:07.420 when

01:03:07.720 I had a startup

01:03:11.020 and there was a

01:03:12.760 I forget which

01:03:13.380 disaster,

01:03:14.000 it was a hurricane

01:03:14.360 or something.

01:03:14.780 and I said

01:03:16.520 on social media

01:03:17.340 oh,

01:03:18.660 this is a perfect

01:03:19.660 use

01:03:20.160 for my company's

01:03:22.300 app.

01:03:23.200 And then the

01:03:24.060 internet

01:03:24.500 as one

01:03:25.800 puked on me

01:03:27.200 and said

01:03:27.520 you can't use

01:03:28.200 a disaster

01:03:28.860 to suggest

01:03:30.620 that people

01:03:31.180 use a product

01:03:32.120 that was made

01:03:32.840 for a disaster.

01:03:34.480 That actually

01:03:35.400 happened to me.

01:03:36.700 Yeah,

01:03:37.340 don't be using

01:03:38.040 this disaster

01:03:38.820 to promote

01:03:39.500 a product

01:03:40.020 that's ideally

01:03:40.860 suited for a disaster

01:03:42.020 and would be useful

01:03:43.300 for all the people

01:03:44.160 involved.

01:03:45.140 There's no way

01:03:45.960 you could do that.

01:03:47.880 And so I actually

01:03:48.760 withdrew the tweet

01:03:49.940 and decided

01:03:51.340 people were not

01:03:52.380 in the mood for it.

01:03:52.960 I did not read

01:03:53.620 the room correctly.

01:03:56.720 And then Elon Musk

01:03:58.040 promoted Starlink

01:03:59.360 based on the war

01:04:01.080 in Ukraine.

01:04:02.360 And what did people say?

01:04:04.300 Did people say

01:04:05.100 my God

01:04:06.800 why are you

01:04:07.520 promoting your

01:04:08.120 product?

01:04:08.600 This is a war.

01:04:10.640 No.

01:04:11.340 They said

01:04:11.800 well that would

01:04:12.220 be really useful

01:04:12.900 so we should

01:04:14.540 use that.

01:04:16.320 What was the

01:04:17.040 difference?

01:04:18.360 What was the

01:04:18.840 difference?

01:04:19.860 We both

01:04:20.680 promoted a

01:04:21.780 product that

01:04:22.580 would have a

01:04:23.080 specific use

01:04:24.120 in a specific

01:04:25.820 tragic situation.

01:04:30.040 That it was

01:04:30.680 free?

01:04:32.180 Mine was

01:04:32.640 basically free.

01:04:34.260 It was free

01:04:35.660 for the

01:04:36.820 producers.

01:04:42.660 He gave them

01:04:43.640 away but he's

01:04:44.680 charging for it

01:04:45.380 now.

01:04:46.900 He gave them

01:04:47.880 away as a

01:04:48.460 promotion but

01:04:50.060 now he's

01:04:50.500 charging for it

01:04:51.220 because now the

01:04:51.960 giveaway worked.

01:04:53.520 The promotional

01:04:54.180 giveaway showed

01:04:55.100 that it was

01:04:55.520 valuable and

01:04:56.640 now he wants

01:04:57.220 to charge for it.

01:05:00.760 I think that

01:05:02.100 all of you

01:05:02.880 who believe

01:05:03.540 commercial

01:05:05.660 enterprises are

01:05:06.960 icky, I

01:05:09.140 think it just

01:05:09.600 depends if

01:05:10.120 there's a

01:05:10.460 customer.

01:05:11.820 If there's a

01:05:12.720 customer who

01:05:13.260 wants it and

01:05:14.620 they haven't

01:05:15.000 heard about it,

01:05:15.760 all you're doing

01:05:16.320 is informing

01:05:16.920 somebody of

01:05:17.520 something they

01:05:17.960 want.

01:05:19.160 I've never

01:05:19.700 really understood

01:05:20.320 the disgust

01:05:21.760 with ordinary

01:05:22.940 business practices

01:05:23.960 of telling

01:05:25.300 somebody that

01:05:25.860 something would

01:05:26.380 be useful in

01:05:27.160 this specific

01:05:27.780 situation.

01:05:28.320 whenever there's

01:05:31.780 an earthquake

01:05:32.320 in California

01:05:33.580 there's a whole

01:05:35.060 bunch of

01:05:35.420 commercials that

01:05:36.140 come on TV

01:05:36.820 about earthquake

01:05:38.420 preparation kits

01:05:39.540 completely taking

01:05:41.440 advantage of the

01:05:42.380 disaster.

01:05:43.860 Do you know

01:05:44.180 what I say when I

01:05:44.880 see those

01:05:45.260 commercials?

01:05:46.440 Oh, I should

01:05:47.140 get one of

01:05:47.500 those.

01:05:48.460 I'm glad that

01:05:49.160 they told me

01:05:49.600 about that.

01:05:51.900 Does somebody

01:05:52.620 have a different

01:05:53.180 reaction?

01:05:53.620 So I think

01:05:56.720 the reaction to

01:05:57.320 me had as

01:05:57.880 much to do

01:05:58.360 with my

01:05:58.640 personality as

01:05:59.520 that had to

01:06:00.120 do with the

01:06:00.540 idea.

01:06:02.680 I think there

01:06:03.440 are certain

01:06:03.740 personalities that

01:06:04.660 can't get away

01:06:05.160 with certain

01:06:05.580 things.

01:06:06.240 That was a

01:06:06.700 good example.

01:06:13.900 Yeah, capitalism

01:06:15.020 is about taking

01:06:16.120 advantage of

01:06:16.820 circumstances, but

01:06:18.200 not people.

01:06:19.980 Right?

01:06:20.420 I wasn't taking

01:06:21.340 advantage of

01:06:21.960 people, was I?

01:06:23.980 Nobody even

01:06:24.680 accused me of

01:06:25.240 that.

01:06:25.840 Nobody accused

01:06:26.540 me of taking

01:06:27.120 advantage of a

01:06:27.820 human.

01:06:29.560 Only a

01:06:30.640 situation.

01:06:32.180 Just think

01:06:32.640 about that.

01:06:34.060 That I was

01:06:34.920 just trashed for

01:06:36.200 taking advantage

01:06:36.940 of a situation,

01:06:38.340 but not any

01:06:39.120 people.

01:06:40.380 There was no

01:06:41.020 assumption that

01:06:41.960 any people were

01:06:42.720 disadvantaged in

01:06:43.440 any way.

01:06:44.260 It was just a

01:06:45.660 situation.

01:06:53.620 Yeah.

01:06:55.240 Oh, well.

01:06:57.500 The envious

01:06:58.300 disliked

01:06:58.980 capitalism.

01:07:01.000 All right, I

01:07:01.400 think I'm done

01:07:01.880 because there's

01:07:05.120 nothing else to

01:07:05.680 talk about.

01:07:06.240 Did I get

01:07:06.580 everything?

01:07:09.680 Everything

01:07:10.080 covered?

01:07:10.840 Did I miss

01:07:11.300 anything?

01:07:11.780 We did

01:07:12.240 everything from

01:07:12.760 pickleball to

01:07:13.740 Nancy Pelosi

01:07:14.520 and all of our

01:07:17.680 hoaxes.

01:07:18.600 All right, you

01:07:19.080 got it all?

01:07:20.580 Excellent.

01:07:22.380 By the way, I've

01:07:23.240 decided how to

01:07:24.540 design my

01:07:25.180 perfect town.

01:07:26.860 You ready for

01:07:27.360 this?

01:07:28.660 The perfect town

01:07:29.920 would have a

01:07:30.840 central park

01:07:32.160 because it's the

01:07:34.000 central part that

01:07:34.820 matters so that

01:07:35.860 everybody's kind of

01:07:37.000 not too far from

01:07:37.840 the park.

01:07:38.820 Then the park

01:07:39.880 would be the

01:07:40.740 bicycle hub for

01:07:43.200 the rest of the

01:07:44.300 town.

01:07:45.600 So you would

01:07:46.400 have bike-only

01:07:47.820 paths, including

01:07:49.000 e-bikes and

01:07:49.800 scooters and

01:07:50.360 stuff, but you'd

01:07:51.340 have an e-bike

01:07:52.340 path that connects

01:07:53.900 a central park.

01:07:56.460 Then from the

01:07:57.200 central park, if

01:07:59.180 there are multiple

01:07:59.780 school systems, each

01:08:01.360 of the school is a

01:08:02.460 hub.

01:08:03.400 So there's at

01:08:03.860 least one path to

01:08:04.840 every school and

01:08:06.300 then one path out.

01:08:07.900 The idea would be

01:08:08.840 that you could ride

01:08:11.080 bikes for at least

01:08:12.520 all the good weather

01:08:13.160 days and reduce

01:08:14.360 traffic.

01:08:16.900 That would be

01:08:17.780 that would be my

01:08:19.060 idea.

01:08:21.460 Like the

01:08:22.040 villages.

01:08:22.580 Yeah, I imagine

01:08:23.160 that's, I'd love to

01:08:24.520 look into that a

01:08:25.120 little more because

01:08:27.760 that was a designed

01:08:29.120 community.

01:08:32.800 Yeah, we talked

01:08:33.800 about the Van Gogh

01:08:35.920 sunflowers.

01:08:37.200 It's funny, that

01:08:37.880 attack was covered

01:08:39.360 with glass.

01:08:40.520 So the tomato soup

01:08:41.880 they threw on the

01:08:42.820 Van Gogh didn't make

01:08:44.320 any difference because

01:08:45.980 it was just on the

01:08:46.600 glass.

01:08:50.900 All right.

01:08:52.900 So I do want to

01:08:54.280 build my perfect town

01:08:55.780 one of these days.

01:08:57.180 That's still on my

01:08:58.060 list, my bucket list.

01:09:00.380 I'll stay around until

01:09:01.180 I do that, I guess.

01:09:01.900 Oh, you have a

01:09:06.080 central park in your

01:09:07.160 development.

01:09:10.220 Yeah.

01:09:10.740 Yeah, I've met more

01:09:12.400 of my neighbors walking

01:09:13.800 my dog in my little

01:09:15.180 park nearby than I

01:09:18.640 have any other way.

01:09:20.820 So having a little

01:09:22.020 dog park or something

01:09:23.380 in the middle really

01:09:24.360 makes a difference.

01:09:25.820 Dogs really help.

01:09:27.500 Help you meet people,

01:09:28.840 that is.

01:09:29.100 All right.

01:09:38.700 Do not look at

01:09:39.680 Disney's history

01:09:40.580 building.

01:09:41.180 What?

01:09:43.800 Fortress problem.

01:09:47.740 Well, my startup no

01:09:49.340 longer exists, so you

01:09:50.320 don't need to know

01:09:50.880 about that.

01:09:54.000 All right.

01:09:54.540 That's all for now.

01:09:55.760 And I will talk to

01:09:56.580 you tomorrow.

01:09:59.100 All right.

01:10:00.660 Thank you.

01:10:02.740 Bye-bye.

01:10:05.820 Bye-bye.

01:10:12.640 owym-

01:10:14.620 Bout 2020

01:10:14.720 Bye-bye.

01:10:15.440 Bye-bye.

01:10:16.600 Bye-bye.

01:10:16.900 Bye-bye.

01:10:17.820 Bye-bye.

01:10:19.380 Bye-bye.

01:10:21.760 Bye-bye.

01:10:22.640 Bye-bye.

01:10:23.500 Bye-bye.

01:10:23.840 Bye-bye.

01:10:25.420 Bye-bye.

01:10:25.940 Bye-bye.

01:10:26.440 Bye-bye.

01:10:28.220 Bye-bye.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 15, 2022

Episode 1897 Scott Adams： Ukraine Starts War With Elon Musk. And Nancy Pelosi's Coup Attempt

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