Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1918 Scott Adams： Delicious News Today, Let's Take A Big Bite. The Midterms Are Upon Us

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody. It's about time you got here. I've been sitting here waiting.

00:00:06.060 And may I say that you look smarter and better looking, nay, sexier, than I have ever seen you

00:00:13.400 before. So good job on that. And you know what the funny thing is? I always say that,

00:00:18.620 you know, that you look better and you look sexier. But I swear that this really happens

00:00:24.260 almost every day. A little technical problem. Almost every day, somebody contacts me personally,

00:00:33.640 usually on social media, to tell me how much weight they lost using systems over goals,

00:00:40.000 stuff that I teach you. Yesterday, somebody said they lost 58 pounds. I saw the before and after

00:00:46.880 picture. Oh, my God. You should see the difference when somebody loses 58 pounds, especially male.

00:00:56.560 Because, you know, he went from, I don't know who's going to date that guy, to, I think everybody

00:01:03.520 wants to date that guy. Somebody sent me, I won't name names, but somebody sent me a shirtless selfie.

00:01:10.040 And I looked at it and I was like, shit. Shit, you nailed that. Anyway, so almost every day I get

00:01:18.380 that. Women, men, somebody lost 25 pounds the day before I heard that. Yeah. And I'm very proud of you.

00:01:27.680 And I think this simultaneous SIP is for all of you who have lost weight. In fact, while we're doing

00:01:33.200 the simultaneous SIP, if you've lost weight because of using systems versus goals, stuff I teach in

00:01:40.000 this book over my shoulder, had I failed almost everything and still went big. If you did, just

00:01:44.540 put your number up. So while we're doing the simultaneous SIP, just brag. Just tell me your

00:01:50.740 number if you lost weight using, oh, my God. Somebody lost 100 pounds? Yeah. Oh, my God. All right.

00:02:02.940 Okay. Okay. I'm just transfixed by this. Is this real? Now, those of you who have not lost any weight

00:02:12.540 using this systems over goal technique, which largely teaches you to increase your knowledge,

00:02:19.480 and then if you do that, losing weight is easy. So that's the technique. That's the short version.

00:02:25.560 Look at these numbers. If you have not lost weight, are you not convinced that this works?

00:02:33.980 This meaning developing a system that works for you, right? Everybody using their own little

00:02:39.160 system. But I just teach you how to develop your own little system. Wow. Good job. Well, let's bring

00:02:47.320 it up a notch. And if you'd like to do that, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass or a tank or a

00:02:50.960 shell, a stein, a canteen, a jug or a glass, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite

00:02:54.660 liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit

00:02:59.280 of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including your weight, apparently.

00:03:03.760 It's called the simultaneous SIP. It happens now. Go.

00:03:08.740 You know, there's a report out of South Korea that there were nine, a bunch of South Korea

00:03:21.220 miners who were trapped underground for nine days. And they survived on coffee alone. To

00:03:31.180 which I say, is there anything that coffee can do? I asked that on Twitter. And somebody suggested

00:03:38.620 there is one thing coffee can't do. It can't not stain your fabric. It can't not stain your

00:03:45.180 fabric. To which I say, well, that's why I don't wear pants when I drink coffee.

00:03:52.220 I mean, if you're wearing pants while you drink coffee, you're just asking for a stain on your

00:03:55.980 pants. So it does cause problems at Starbucks. Starbucks hates it. Let me just put that out there.

00:04:04.460 Starbucks just hates it. But I have not stained my pants in Starbucks in a long time.

00:04:10.540 I have a entertainment content recommendation for you in a world in which a world in which

00:04:19.740 all movies are bad. Can we stipulate? All movies are bad. I don't know when that started happening,

00:04:29.780 but they're all bad. All right? Well, I found something that I watched that I enjoyed.

00:04:35.940 And some of you have already seen it, but it's called My Octopus Teacher. The worst name for

00:04:43.060 content I've ever seen. In fact, the name alone kept me from watching it for a long time.

00:04:48.900 Because I didn't know, what the hell is it about? I thought it was gonna be like The Shape of Water,

00:04:53.380 which I also didn't watch. Because I didn't want to see a human fall in love with an octopus.

00:05:01.380 Because I thought that's kind of what it was gonna be. I was like, oh God, is this gonna be like some

00:05:06.420 stupid fiction where a human falls in love with an octopus? Well, the first thing you need to know,

00:05:11.860 it's a documentary. So it's not a movie. It's a documentary movie, I guess. And

00:05:17.940 the man actually falls in love with the octopus.

00:05:25.220 The man falls in love with the octopus.

00:05:30.260 Now, if that's the only thing you knew about it, then I would say that doesn't quite recommend it,

00:05:36.580 does it? Because it's a little sort of close to bestiality. He doesn't actually have sex with the

00:05:41.540 octopus, but it did look like it was getting close. There was some heavy petting of the octopus.

00:05:48.420 So I wouldn't let the kids watch, because it was at least R-rated action with the octopus,

00:05:54.660 you know, if you know what I mean. I'm not sure where to touch an octopus

00:06:01.060 to be inappropriate, but it seems to me that almost anywhere would be a little sketchy.

00:06:07.700 Right? No, but here's why I recommend it. Here's why I recommend it. Whatever you thought you knew

00:06:15.060 about octopi, octopuses, whatever you thought you knew about them, oh my God, are you gonna be

00:06:21.380 surprised? Your mind will be blown about every five minutes. About every five minutes, you'll be sitting

00:06:28.180 there going, what? What? An octopus did that? Trust me. Just trust me that you cannot judge this by the

00:06:39.460 name or the general idea of it. You have to watch it for what an octopus can do. It's like, blows your

00:06:47.700 head away. All right. The other important story, we'll get to all the good news, but I like to work

00:06:54.660 up to it. There's a new product developed in Pittsburgh, at this Pittsburgh-based startup,

00:07:01.300 CNN's reporting, called Shift Robotics. They've got, I guess you could call them battery-powered shoes

00:07:09.620 that make you walk two and a half times faster. Now, they look visually like a multi-wheeled skates,

00:07:19.380 but they don't operate like skates. Basically, every step you take gives you a little glide,

00:07:25.780 but it's a controlled glide. It's not like skates where you'd have to stop. So it's basically like

00:07:31.220 you can walk slide, but really fast. Maybe that's a bad definition, because it's like walk roll. But it

00:07:39.060 showed some people doing it, and it looks like it doesn't take any talent, right? It's not like riding

00:07:45.860 a bike where you have to at least practice to do it. I think you could just put them on and start

00:07:49.140 walking. And I got to say, it looked really good. I can imagine this catching on. I can totally

00:07:58.820 imagine it. And I can also imagine that I would use it for exercise, even though it's making it easier

00:08:04.660 to walk, in the same way I use an e-bike. I still can exercise an e-bike. I just take it 20 miles instead

00:08:12.100 of five miles, right? And I still do hills, and I can turn down the boost as much as I want. So I

00:08:19.700 think that could be a big thing. All right, here's a persuasion question. I saw on Twitter that Democrats

00:08:29.060 are trying to stop calling gun control, gun control, and call it gun safety. What do you think

00:08:38.580 that? What do you think about that? Is that good persuasion? To change it from gun control

00:08:44.500 to gun safety? Yes, it is. That is unambiguously a good play, right? It might be too late. You know,

00:08:53.940 people have already decided on guns. So I'm not sure anybody can be persuaded about anything.

00:08:59.060 But if you wanted at least a chance of persuading, gun safety is really strong, right? That's very

00:09:07.060 strong. I'm going to tell you later about Democrats getting everything wrong with persuasion. But on

00:09:13.620 that one, I'd say that was the right play, if you're just trying to be persuasive.

00:09:17.620 There's some weird extra information about this Ye story with his, probably ex, personal trainer

00:09:29.940 now, who had threatened him in messages, and Ye printed the messages on Twitter. And the message

00:09:36.260 was that if Ye didn't talk to him, I think on the topic of apologizing for comments about the Jewish

00:09:43.620 community, that this guy, Harley Pasternak, would have Ye institutionalized again. And he used the word

00:09:55.940 again. I'll have you institutionalized again, and then you'll be drugged up so you'll be in

00:10:02.740 zombie land and visiting your kids will never be the same. He actually said that to another human being.

00:10:08.820 Now, my understanding is that they later met and talked for a few hours. Although, you know,

00:10:15.940 would you ever talk to somebody who said that to you? Would you have, would you sit down and have a

00:10:22.180 polite conversation with somebody who had just threatened to institutionalize you and remove

00:10:27.220 you from your kids forever? He's not even in your family? He's just a fucking guy that worked for you?

00:10:32.580 Really? Would you take that from a guy you hired to help you? You know, because the trainer does more

00:10:40.260 than just your body, right? It's sort of a little holistic situation. My God. Now, I might take the

00:10:47.540 meeting just to punch the fucking piss out of him. Although he's a personal trainer, so that probably is a

00:10:53.300 really bad idea. I suppose he looks like he could handle himself. But there's some additional conspiracy

00:11:03.220 theory reporting that I find interesting, but not convincing. Interesting, but not convincing.

00:11:11.060 So I'm only going to talk about this because it's a fun speculation. I would not put any credibility

00:11:16.900 behind it. But I'll give you the argument. So apparently, Pastor Nick has history with

00:11:25.460 training a number of other celebrities, some of whom did not meet a good end.

00:11:31.940 And people are trying to make some kind of a pattern here. I don't see much in that pattern,

00:11:37.060 because there's no incentive. You know, it doesn't make sense that one person would have, you know,

00:11:42.100 several bad outcomes with celebrities. It makes more sense to me that celebrities are all messed up.

00:11:49.700 And so if you're a personal trainer to celebrities, you're probably always working with people who are,

00:11:55.700 you know, on the edge of hurting themselves and stuff like that. So yeah. So I wouldn't make anything

00:12:01.860 from the fact that he's trained some people who came to bad ends, and I think some killed themselves

00:12:07.620 or died and drug addicts and stuff. But I don't think there's a causal argument there, just because

00:12:14.580 it's, you know, Hollywood people. But he's got some connection to some Canadian military

00:12:22.740 that people speculate that maybe he has some official role. Like that the powers who be

00:12:31.620 are using him to get close to people that they want to control.

00:12:40.180 What do you think of the general, let's say the general concept. Do you think it's a true thing

00:12:47.300 that in the context of politics that the powers who be, whoever you think they are, might not even be

00:12:53.460 the same people. Could be the powers that be on one side versus the other side, but just whoever the

00:12:58.100 powers are. Do you believe it's a thing that the powers who be would assign somebody to be

00:13:07.540 like a secret handler to somebody whose voice they want to control? Do you think it's a thing?

00:13:16.180 Now, are you saying you think it's a thing just because you suspect everything bad is true?

00:13:22.340 Or do you have some evidence that you've ever heard of it in a real way? Have you ever confirmed it in any way?

00:13:32.580 Like fang fang, that's a good example. Yeah, fang fang is the perfect example, right?

00:13:39.220 So I can give you a definitive answer to this question. Yes. Yes, it's absolutely a thing.

00:13:46.900 How do I know? Because it's happened to me at least three times. At least three times the powers that be

00:13:53.220 have sent somebody to be my friend. Okay? Now, I can't guarantee that any of the three

00:14:02.900 were really, you know, sent by shady organizations, but they're all associated with them.

00:14:08.660 And they all ran the same play, right? I'm not going to describe it to you. But if somebody tries

00:14:16.420 a little bit too hard to be your friend, they might be fang fang, right? Now, nothing's happened to me

00:14:24.900 that, you know, reached a level where I would have to get law enforcement involved or the FBI or something.

00:14:30.580 So nothing, nothing at that level. It's just that people trying to be your friend, you look at them,

00:14:36.500 you say, I don't think that's just you trying to be my friend. That looks like you connected to

00:14:42.260 people who would like to control my voice a little bit. And so it's a thing. It's a real thing.

00:14:49.780 I have no reason to believe that it is true in this case of Ye's trainer. I'd bet against it.

00:14:55.860 My bet is it's just an individual acting like an individual, the most obvious thing. But as the

00:15:05.700 account Restoring Order, I don't know who this is, just somebody on Twitter. So that's the name of

00:15:10.820 the account, Restoring Order. It has a long thread making the case that there's no way to know

00:15:18.500 if this speculation has any substance. But he closes, I think it's a he, by saying that if

00:15:29.860 somebody were sent to manage Ye, if that happened, that person would look exactly like this person.

00:15:37.460 And I do accept that. That I accept, which is completely different from saying that Pastor

00:15:46.340 Neck has any, you know, role beyond being an interested party. It's just that it would look

00:15:51.780 exactly like that, right? It would just look like that. So I don't think there's anything to it,

00:15:59.140 but it's an interesting exposure to a real thing. And the real thing is that people do try to be your

00:16:07.940 fake friend to influence you. That's a real thing. You all saw by now a hostess from The View,

00:16:16.740 Sonny Hostin. That's right. There's somebody who's a host of a show whose last name is Hostin.

00:16:23.140 Huh? Somebody named Hostin is Hostin a show. That's probably a coincidence. But she said that

00:16:36.260 white women voting Republican is like roaches voting for raid. Now I and a number of other people said,

00:16:44.340 whoa, did you just compare white women to roaches? Did you just do that? Now I have a confession.

00:16:53.860 It's confession time. Do you like it when I confess my true motives?

00:17:03.140 Okay, when I retweeted this and it got like 10,000 likes and, you know, thousands of retweets,

00:17:08.980 when I said that she compared women to cockroaches, white women to cockroaches,

00:17:14.340 I didn't really mean that. That was for revenge. And I don't feel good about it because I don't have

00:17:23.620 any reason to have revenge against Sonny Hostin because I have no contact with her. This was revenge

00:17:30.660 for something that happened to me about 15 years ago. Now, I'm not going to surface the whole story,

00:17:38.100 but the most trouble I ever got into in terms of getting canceled was in a blog post about 15 years

00:17:45.140 ago in which I said something that I thought people would understand to be funny, but they didn't.

00:17:52.900 And what I did was I intentionally put a list of three things

00:17:57.860 things which was supposed to make you say, Hey, you're insulting women. But when they thought

00:18:03.700 about it, they'd realize I wasn't. And then that was the joke. The joke was that in your mind,

00:18:08.420 you'd think something terrible had happened, that I'd said something really awful about women. But if

00:18:14.180 you actually read it carefully, you'd say, Oh, he's screwing with us. He didn't say that at all.

00:18:19.300 He worded it carefully. So we think that and that's the joke. All right. So here's what I said.

00:18:27.460 That men, when it comes to arguing, there are three groups that men don't like to argue with.

00:18:33.700 Children, people who are mentally, mentally challenged, and women.

00:18:46.420 You see what trouble I got into? And then what did people say? They took it out of context that they

00:18:51.780 said that I compared women to mentally ill people. Did I do that? Did I compare them? No, I did not. I did

00:19:02.100 not compare them. They were in the same list. They were just in the list. And that was the funny part.

00:19:09.060 The joke was that nobody should compare those groups. That was my point, right? So if you understood

00:19:16.100 the joke, or you understood it was a joke, you'd realize that the people criticizing me are on the

00:19:21.780 same side as me, which is you would never compare children and the mentally disabled and women.

00:19:29.620 Like, that wouldn't make any sense. But when they said, hey, you're insulting women by comparing

00:19:35.860 them to the mentally disabled, I could have argued the details and said, but you're also,

00:19:41.860 do you think I also compared babies to the mentally disabled? Like, are they all being compared to each

00:19:48.500 other? Or did I compare nobody? Right? The truth is, I didn't compare anybody. Nobody was compared to

00:19:56.180 anybody. The joke was, if you felt like they were being compared, the joke's on you. The joke's on

00:20:02.660 you if you thought they were being compared. That was the joke. But instead, since a third of the

00:20:10.180 country wouldn't know what a joke looks like, I've taught you that before, right? Literally,

00:20:14.420 literally a third of the country can't even identify a joke. They don't know.

00:20:18.260 No. So mostly, I brought this on myself. So I'm not absolving myself from guilt. If you say

00:20:26.660 something that's unclear, and it's your job to say clear things, that's my job. My job is to say

00:20:33.620 clear things, and it wasn't clear. So I brought that on myself. But I got, that probably cost me

00:20:41.300 30% of all my future income. Forever. Yeah. Do you know how much money that was? It was really

00:20:50.980 expensive. That was one sentence that got me probably one-third cancelled forever. That never

00:20:56.740 came back. Because basically, women said, oh, he's a misogynist, and they left. Completely fake news. 100%

00:21:05.060 fake news. So when I saw this Sonny Hostin thing, I said, huh, that looks familiar. This looks like

00:21:13.700 the exact fucking thing that got me cancelled, or one-third cancelled forever. So I thought to

00:21:19.460 myself, huh, I wonder if other people will take it the same way. So I tweeted it, and everybody did.

00:21:27.860 The Republicans did to her, to Sonny Hostin, the same thing that, you know, I don't know what

00:21:35.220 what group they were, but people did to me. They cancelled me for intentionally not understanding

00:21:42.420 the point. Right? Now, do you think Sonny Hostin's point was that white women are like cockroaches?

00:21:51.940 No. Oh, of course it wasn't. Her point was they were doing something that's bad for them.

00:21:57.460 Right? Which actually is showing interest and compassion in white women that she would prefer

00:22:06.740 they did something that was good for them. The context is, you know, how can white women do

00:22:13.060 something that's good for them? They should do that instead of something that's bad for them.

00:22:16.580 Now, is that anti-white? If you're saying you wish white women would do things that are good for white

00:22:23.780 women? Not really. I mean, but if you say to me, what if that had been reversed? You know,

00:22:32.340 what if a white person had said that black people, you know, the usual thing, you do the thing where you

00:22:38.980 just change the group? And then it sounds terrible. You'd all agree with that, right? If you change the

00:22:44.660 ethnicity, it would sound way over the line. And so I think it's fair that people said this is also

00:22:51.700 over the line because there needs to be some pushback that you can't shit on white women, even if it's

00:22:59.220 sort of just casual language and it wasn't your point. You can't even do it. Don't do it accidentally

00:23:04.500 either. Because that's a standard that I would accept the other direction, right? If somebody

00:23:10.660 said to me, Scott, I know you didn't mean to insult whatever group, but don't talk that way because

00:23:18.020 we take it that way. I would say, oh, that's a pretty good point. I will not talk that way because

00:23:24.100 you take it that way. Do you think I have ever once made that mistake I made when I put women and

00:23:30.180 children and the mentally disabled in a list just for joke purposes? I will never make that mistake

00:23:36.660 again because the public pushed back on me. Now, I hate the fact that I got canceled, you know, one

00:23:43.140 third canceled, but it's not a bad thing that the public pushes back, right? I have a little mixed

00:23:50.980 feeling about it. Maybe they should have pushed back on me. Maybe they should have. Not canceling me,

00:23:56.700 but they should have pushed back a little maybe. All right. Apparently, there's a thing now called,

00:24:04.940 you know, you've heard of diversity, but the trouble with diversity is a third of white college

00:24:12.860 applicants were claiming they were black to get benefits. So the diversity thing wasn't working

00:24:19.740 because everybody wanted to claim they were a disadvantaged person. It kind of ruins the entire

00:24:26.540 narrative. What? We can claim we're black? I'm in. Can I claim I'm black? Hey, hey, everybody,

00:24:33.420 we can claim we're black now. It's legal. Well, let's all claim we're black. They didn't see that coming.

00:24:38.700 All right. I think they did not see that people would say, not only am I not a racist, but if you're

00:24:47.820 giving me the option, I'm going to join your fucking team. I mean, you can't be any, you can't be,

00:24:54.940 I don't think you could be less racist than actually joining the team, which is what I've done. That's why

00:25:00.620 I've identified as black for a few years now. And it's worked for me. It's worked for me.

00:25:06.380 But now there's a thing called visual diversity, meaning that if you're a school, for example,

00:25:12.780 Wall Street Journal has an article in this today, that if you're a school and somebody is diverse,

00:25:19.980 but you couldn't tell by looking at them, it's not good enough. And this is not even about what

00:25:26.220 your actual ethnicity is. You have to look it. Because if you don't look diverse, it's not working.

00:25:33.420 So this brings me to my favorite point of the night. Did anybody watch Tucker Carlson last night?

00:25:47.260 Now, I'm going to point out something that I noticed that's bigger than Tucker Carlson.

00:25:53.020 All right. So I turned it on. And Tucker Carlson did an entire comedy segment in which all he did was

00:26:02.300 show the actual clips of Democrats talking recently. Like, you know, professional talkers. I'm not

00:26:10.620 talking about on the street. I'm talking about, you know, MSNBC hosts and hosts of other big news

00:26:18.540 programs. And I don't know how to explain this. He didn't have to add anything. And it was the

00:26:27.900 funniest thing you've ever seen. He didn't have to add the joke. It was a comedy segment of just

00:26:36.300 showing Democrats talking. For example, Joy Reid, my favorite segment was Joy Reid explaining

00:26:46.460 that Republicans are using this word inflation that people don't understand. And they've like

00:26:53.020 invented a new word for politics that people had never even thought about. It wasn't really part of

00:26:58.460 their world. But suddenly Republicans have made this artificial, like, completely imaginary thing

00:27:05.260 called inflation and turned it into a topic when, in fact, people don't even know what that word means.

00:27:11.740 Now, do I have to add anything to that? Is that not hilarious? I mean, I could say the obvious

00:27:19.260 things such as we've been talking about inflation with politics since the Carter years,

00:27:24.700 that anybody with even the slightest association with politics knows exactly what it means.

00:27:31.100 We could go into, you know, again, it seems racist. I mean, it seems racist as black people can't get

00:27:38.940 ID to vote. And the rest of us who are not racist go, I've never met any black people who couldn't get an

00:27:46.300 ID to vote. I've never met anybody that dumb, you know, of any race. Like, they all seem to be able to,

00:27:54.060 because you could always just ask somebody, couldn't you? Like, no matter how much you know,

00:27:59.180 you could just ask somebody who knows. It's the easiest thing in the world. So, anyway,

00:28:06.060 just think about the fact that comedy movies are no longer a thing. Would you agree?

00:28:13.580 Hollywood gave up on making comedy movies, because comedy doesn't make sense anymore,

00:28:19.740 you know, with all the wokeness. But that the news, remember, how long have I been telling you the

00:28:24.860 news is the new comedy? That's not hyperbole. The thing that makes me laugh the hardest most

00:28:32.620 consistently is just the news. And the fact that Tucker no longer has to add anything to the news,

00:28:39.260 he can literally just show the clip and just laugh. And then we just laugh with him. Ah,

00:28:44.940 that was pretty funny. Now, here's why I think it's extra funny right now. Correct me if I'm wrong,

00:28:52.140 but the Democrats probably feeling a little bit backed into a corner. And they realized that most

00:28:58.620 of their issues were imaginary. And the Republicans were focusing on real things. Now, of course,

00:29:05.260 the Democrats say the opposite, because they think inflation's imaginary. They also think crime's

00:29:11.100 imaginary, or at least the extent of it. And that the border problem's kind of imaginary.

00:29:17.180 And Tucker also, I think Tucker showed it, the news saying that Fox News, they keep focusing on crime,

00:29:26.620 inflation, and immigration. And the other news were saying, you know, why do they keep focusing on

00:29:35.740 those things? To which I said, could it be, I'm just going to throw this out there,

00:29:42.540 that they're also the topics that the public most cares about. Now, you're saying that we fear them,

00:29:49.100 but that's why we care the most. If you do a poll of what issues does the public care about,

00:29:59.100 would it match up with what Fox News reports every night? Or would it match up with

00:30:06.300 CNN and MSNBC? Which would match? I mean, it's a no-brainer. If you've looked at the polls,

00:30:13.020 the public is interested in exactly the same stuff that, not exactly maybe, but very close to what Fox

00:30:20.940 News reports every night. And news organizations criticize Fox News for reporting the thing that

00:30:30.300 even the news organizations know the public cares most about. Of course, the problem is,

00:30:35.740 why does the public care most about those issues? Might be because Fox News tells them to.

00:30:47.100 So you do have this problem that people care about what they're told to care about. You know,

00:30:51.180 their opinions are somewhat assigned. But I think there's a difference with crime and inflation.

00:30:58.300 Nobody needs to be told there's crime if they experience it. Even my neighborhood is more

00:31:04.140 dangerous this year. And I live in a really safe neighborhood. And it's more dangerous. It's like

00:31:09.500 literally more dangerous. And I don't know, I think people's lived experience is just making the

00:31:17.020 Democrats crazy because there's nothing they can lie about and get away with anymore, except for their own

00:31:22.380 base, I guess. So Joel Pollack has an interesting article in Breitbart. Rasmussen is having

00:31:33.980 some problems with their polling. And one assumes that others are having the same problem, but we

00:31:40.300 only know, because Rasmussen's reporting it, that apparently the online polling portion of their polls,

00:31:50.540 a number of people are identifying as a Republican, but then voting for like a senator who's a Democrat.

00:31:57.420 Now, you might say to yourself, well, that's not unusual. People split tickets. That's a thing.

00:32:04.620 Except that nobody's doing it the other way. There are no examples of people who look like

00:32:10.380 they're totally Democrats, but they're going to vote for Republican senators. And if it were just sort

00:32:17.660 of a thing that ordinary people can, you know, split their votes, if that were a thing, it would work

00:32:23.580 both ways. But it's only going one way, which suggests that the polls are not dependable.

00:32:33.260 So what would be worse than going into a midterms with the polling companies telling you the polls

00:32:40.700 are not dependable? That's sort of a gas and lighter, isn't it? It's sort of a dangerous situation

00:32:50.860 to be going into a midterm. We'll talk more about that.

00:32:57.500 All right. Molly Hemingway, writing for The Federalist, and by the way, if you're not following

00:33:05.820 Molly Hemingway, I've often called her out as probably the best political pundit who is working

00:33:14.860 at the moment, who is also a writer. I'd say of people who are also writers, best political pundit.

00:33:23.500 So whenever she does anything, I always pay attention to it. But here's something that hasn't

00:33:29.420 been reported enough to Republicans, all right? So here's something you want to hear that you

00:33:34.860 probably haven't heard enough. She writes, the Republican National Committee, other party entities,

00:33:40.620 and dozens of public interest election nonprofit groups built over the last two years, a multimillion

00:33:47.020 dollar election integrity infrastructure. The past laws improving vote ID and other election security

00:33:54.620 measures defended those laws from legal attacks by Democrats and sued states and localities that

00:34:00.460 failed to follow the law. They also recruited, educated, trained, and placed tens of thousands of

00:34:05.260 new election observers and other workers throughout the long midterm voting season.

00:34:11.100 So one thing that you're not quite appreciating is the extent to which Republicans ramped up,

00:34:18.700 right? Because if what happened in 2020, and I think there's a good argument for the only thing

00:34:24.780 that happened that was weird in 2020 was pandemic-related changes that the Democrats pushed through

00:34:31.100 that worked out. So it could be that the Republicans have matched their game just in terms of being

00:34:39.580 able to watch things and control things and make it a little safer. I don't know if any of this makes

00:34:45.500 a difference. I don't have any sense of whether this was enough. But it's good to know that the

00:34:50.780 Republicans were not sitting doing nothing. They did stuff.

00:34:54.940 What do you think of the Democrats play? They're all saying now, it's their new talking point,

00:35:02.220 that on the midterms, democracy is on the ballot. Is it strong or not strong?

00:35:13.260 It's super weak. Do you think they know it?

00:35:16.780 Do you think the Democrats know it's super weak? Well, let me start by saying why it's super weak.

00:35:25.020 Here's what's strong. Build a wall. Because you can see it, right? And you can also feel the danger.

00:35:33.580 Because what are you building the wall for? Well, some kind of economic or other threat.

00:35:38.380 So there's fear. And there's visual persuasion in build the wall. How about crime is overtaking

00:35:47.580 your cities? Good persuasion? Very good. Because crime is scary. And you can also visualize it.

00:35:55.180 Can't you visualize crime? Right? You see somebody, you see riots and stuff. People get mugged.

00:36:02.460 Now try to visualize this. Democracy is on the ballot.

00:36:10.300 Oh, I'm so scared now about your concept that is so generic it is said on every election.

00:36:19.180 There's no visual. There's no visual and there's no fear. Because do you know what's on the ballot every year?

00:36:26.780 Democracy. Democracy. Democracy is always on the ballot. That's where you want it.

00:36:35.660 Now, Tucker did a funny thing where he held up a ballot and he looked for the democracy vote and it wasn't there.

00:36:42.060 But I would go the other direction. Yes, democracy is on the ballot. It absolutely is on the ballot.

00:36:49.260 And don't let the Democrats take it off. Because the Democrats would like to take it off the ballot.

00:36:57.580 Well, that would be the attack vector. I'm not saying that they do.

00:37:05.180 So I would agree and amplify. If I'm a Republican, I would say, Democrats have told you democracy is on

00:37:12.460 the ballot. This is the one thing we can agree on. Democracy is always on the ballot.

00:37:18.060 If you don't vote, you're letting the evil creep in. Democracy is always on the ballot.

00:37:28.460 Republicans could take their entire frame and use it without explanation.

00:37:35.100 Imagine if you could take the other side's slogan and use it without explanation.

00:37:41.020 That is the worst slogan you could ever fucking have. If the other team could just say it and they don't

00:37:49.020 even have to like add the, you know, we took it from the Democrats and what they mean is this,

00:37:53.580 but you don't have to add anything. You just say democracy is on the ballot and you're done.

00:37:59.180 Because it's always on the ballot. Democracy is on the ballot. Do you know what that tells me to do?

00:38:03.900 What's it tell you? What's it tell you to do? Democracy is on the ballot. What are you going to do?

00:38:11.420 I'd vote. Yeah, I'd vote. So, I mean, it really, it just comes down to a you should vote kind of thing.

00:38:18.140 And both sides want people to vote. So, it works just as well, both ways. Total failure.

00:38:27.340 Or is it? Why do you think the Democrats, who know how to hire professionals who know how to persuade,

00:38:37.500 you know the Democrats know how to do that. They do have people who know what they're talking about.

00:38:43.420 They know how to listen to them. They know how to execute. But they're not.

00:38:49.260 Why would they have a slogan that is clearly not useful? Well, what would be a reason for that?

00:39:00.860 Well, there is a reason. And I'll tell you.

00:39:05.340 It's foreshadowing.

00:39:13.260 Yeah, it's foreshadowing.

00:39:16.060 Have you noticed the pattern that the Democrats pre-accus Republicans of whatever they're planning to do?

00:39:26.020 You've noticed the pattern, right?

00:39:28.420 If they're planning to do something, they're going to start by saying that,

00:39:32.320 oh, those Republicans are going to do this thing. And then when it happens, you're going to say,

00:39:37.280 oh, the Democrats warned us. There's those Republicans.

00:39:40.260 Who else uses that technique?

00:39:43.060 Where have you seen that technique used recently?

00:39:45.980 You recognize it?

00:39:47.060 Where somebody blames you as something they're going to do.

00:39:50.800 Where have you seen that?

00:39:53.140 The Russians.

00:39:54.240 The Russians have warned the world that the Ukrainians might try to use a dirty bomb.

00:40:01.620 Some kind of tactical nuclear situation.

00:40:05.140 That's right.

00:40:06.120 When the Russians tell you that the Ukrainians are planning to use a dirty bomb,

00:40:11.380 that tells you the Russians might use a dirty bomb.

00:40:15.460 Does anybody disagree with that?

00:40:17.420 It's just sort of obvious, right?

00:40:18.880 Literally, that's the way it's reported.

00:40:22.200 Every news story says, oh, there's those Russians.

00:40:25.380 Those Russians are projecting and they're setting up their excuse in advance.

00:40:34.920 It's exactly what the Democrats are doing.

00:40:37.420 The reason that they're using such a weak slogan,

00:40:42.040 there's only one reason they would use a weak slogan.

00:40:44.740 Because they need to put your focus on blaming the Republicans for the thing they plan to do.

00:40:53.820 I can't see another reason.

00:40:56.440 If you assume the Republicans are completely incompetent,

00:41:00.160 then you can imagine that they sat around and said,

00:41:02.300 hey, how about saying democracy is on trial?

00:41:07.580 Something like that.

00:41:09.540 You put Axelrod in that room.

00:41:12.460 Just work with me.

00:41:15.280 You put David Axelrod in the room.

00:41:17.020 Does he say, yeah, that's the way to go?

00:41:19.520 Does he?

00:41:21.100 I don't think so.

00:41:23.480 Maybe, but I don't think so.

00:41:26.720 I think he would advise against it.

00:41:29.380 I don't know.

00:41:30.240 I think he would advise, you know, maybe do something stronger.

00:41:33.940 So, the signal that they're sending

00:41:36.660 is that they're setting us up for a stolen election.

00:41:40.660 Now, I'm not saying that they are.

00:41:44.200 I'm saying that the signals they're sending us are unambiguous.

00:41:49.280 Would you agree?

00:41:50.660 Which doesn't mean it's true.

00:41:53.060 I'm just saying the signals are really clear.

00:41:55.900 It could be false signals, but they're really clear.

00:41:59.160 Right?

00:41:59.580 Why would they send us clear signals that they're going to cheat on the election?

00:42:03.680 Why would they do that?

00:42:05.240 Because most people don't pick up the signal.

00:42:08.080 Right?

00:42:08.540 Most people can't see it.

00:42:09.600 If you're following enough, you start to recognize the players

00:42:13.140 and the patterns.

00:42:15.820 Right?

00:42:16.840 You want to recognize the...

00:42:18.320 You remember Nancy Pelosi explained the wrap-up smear?

00:42:22.500 Where you leak something to the news,

00:42:25.180 the news reports it,

00:42:26.580 and then you say,

00:42:27.500 well, it must be true because it's in the news,

00:42:29.500 but you're the one that gave them the news.

00:42:31.540 Once you recognize their tricks,

00:42:34.400 you see that they just do the same ones over and over again.

00:42:36.840 All right?

00:42:37.980 So here's your signal to tell you whether it happened or not.

00:42:42.860 If John Brennan comes out after the midterms,

00:42:47.320 and let's say there's an unexpected result.

00:42:49.920 Let's say Democrats do way better than you thought.

00:42:52.220 And John Brennan comes out to tell you that the election was fair,

00:42:57.180 you know it wasn't.

00:42:58.860 Because they only bring him out for the big lies,

00:43:01.520 like the laptop and the Russian collusion.

00:43:03.960 They don't even bring him out for the little stuff.

00:43:06.980 Am I right?

00:43:08.040 They only bring him out for big lies.

00:43:10.860 He's like their go-to utility guy, big lie guy.

00:43:13.620 And the same with Bernstein.

00:43:17.260 Bernstein?

00:43:18.020 Stein?

00:43:18.680 They only bring him out when they need somebody

00:43:21.080 to say something's worse than Watergate.

00:43:23.900 So once you understand the players,

00:43:26.660 now, who do they bring out?

00:43:28.240 I'll give you another example of this.

00:43:29.860 Who do the Democrats bring out

00:43:31.380 if there's a question of something that's a secret document,

00:43:37.020 but they want you to believe that somebody saw this secret document,

00:43:40.580 and it's really much worse than you can imagine?

00:43:44.340 Schiff, right.

00:43:45.520 It will always be Schiff, right?

00:43:48.220 So once you recognize who the players are,

00:43:51.340 you know exactly what the play is,

00:43:53.300 because they only use some players for some types of plays.

00:43:56.920 And Brennan is the one you want to look for.

00:44:00.660 If Brennan goes on one of the national news

00:44:03.580 and says these Republicans are crazy,

00:44:06.960 this election was totally secure,

00:44:09.400 you, I guarantee it wasn't.

00:44:12.380 I guarantee it wasn't.

00:44:14.260 Now, if they don't bring Brennan out,

00:44:17.880 and it's just, you know, experts

00:44:19.200 and people actually know what they're talking about,

00:44:21.140 let's say the only people you hear from

00:44:25.460 are like the attorney,

00:44:27.520 who is it who runs the elections in each state?

00:44:31.860 What's the name of the job

00:44:33.300 of who runs the election in each state?

00:44:35.320 State?

00:44:36.140 Secretary of State?

00:44:36.940 So if the only people we hear from

00:44:40.080 are the secretaries of state,

00:44:42.360 and the secretaries of state say,

00:44:43.940 this election was fine, right?

00:44:46.240 The election was fine.

00:44:47.720 And some of them would be Republicans,

00:44:49.380 and some of them would be Democrats, right?

00:44:50.880 But if you heard from that group,

00:44:53.520 and that group said,

00:44:54.360 yeah, you know, I ran the election,

00:44:56.540 and I did a good job,

00:44:57.540 and I took care of it,

00:44:58.880 might be true.

00:45:00.640 But if the only person who goes on TV

00:45:03.240 saying this election was absolutely fair

00:45:05.640 is John Brennan,

00:45:07.720 they couldn't signal that more clearly.

00:45:12.540 So we'll see.

00:45:13.360 A worst-case scenario for Democrats

00:45:17.720 might be evolving,

00:45:20.960 which is they try to rig the election

00:45:24.500 and get caught.

00:45:26.800 That's actually possible,

00:45:28.900 because the Republicans are going to be looking

00:45:32.360 under every rock, behind every poll.

00:45:35.340 They're going to be watching every drop box,

00:45:37.680 which may not be a good idea,

00:45:39.440 especially if they're looking menacing,

00:45:41.120 because you don't want to give the Democrats

00:45:42.460 too many reasons to say

00:45:43.860 that the election was rigged the other way.

00:45:47.280 You know, don't put the armed people

00:45:49.140 at the drop boxes.

00:45:50.120 That's a bad idea.

00:45:53.580 But watching them with a trail cam

00:45:55.560 might not be a bad idea.

00:45:58.440 Is there any reason you couldn't put a trail cam

00:46:00.480 at every drop box?

00:46:03.980 Or put a trail cam at all the important ones?

00:46:07.660 Is it even illegal to put your own trail cam

00:46:10.020 up in public?

00:46:10.640 I guess it'd be stolen pretty quickly.

00:46:14.620 All right.

00:46:17.320 Let's talk about Twitter.

00:46:19.700 So apparently the Twitter curation team,

00:46:23.040 on social media,

00:46:24.880 people are saying the entire curation,

00:46:27.680 moderation content group got fired.

00:46:30.880 That's not true.

00:46:32.320 All right.

00:46:32.880 So there's a new emerging star

00:46:35.200 in the Twitter universe,

00:46:36.980 which is sort of fascinating,

00:46:40.520 which is Yoel Roth.

00:46:43.900 And he tweeted a long explanation.

00:46:45.900 I think 15% of that group

00:46:48.740 did get laid off.

00:46:51.660 But it's not changing much about what they do.

00:46:54.580 So nothing's changed yet.

00:46:55.720 So don't worry about those people being laid off.

00:47:00.680 They will be replaced, et cetera.

00:47:05.000 Now,

00:47:06.480 so Musk continues to be hilarious on Twitter.

00:47:12.520 Dan Rather tweeted this.

00:47:14.360 Is Musk running Twitter like Trump ran his casinos?

00:47:19.340 It's kind of a fucked up thing to say, isn't it?

00:47:22.640 Like, that's just such a useless troll thing to say.

00:47:28.380 Because, you know,

00:47:31.200 literally Elon Musk is the most successful entrepreneur

00:47:36.020 of all time.

00:47:40.520 And idiot Dan Rather is asking

00:47:43.040 if he's going to run it like Trump's casinos,

00:47:45.740 which would be an example of something

00:47:47.440 that didn't work out business-wise at all.

00:47:50.380 All right.

00:47:50.920 Now, why would he even ask that question?

00:47:53.320 Like, that's just purely an insult.

00:47:55.140 Right.

00:47:56.060 There's no news value.

00:47:58.680 It's not even an opinion.

00:48:00.660 It's just a public insult.

00:48:02.660 Right.

00:48:02.780 So what does Musk say

00:48:04.680 when Dan Rather publicly insults him?

00:48:08.620 Is Musk running Twitter like Trump ran casinos?

00:48:11.620 Musk tweets back $8.

00:48:16.380 Perfect.

00:48:18.160 Perfect.

00:48:20.280 You know, he's used that joke a few times now,

00:48:23.320 but it gets funnier every time he uses it, right?

00:48:26.580 Because he's now just shortened it to $8.

00:48:28.260 And I love how that reframes the situation, right?

00:48:35.880 Because it could have been a fight.

00:48:38.840 But he reframed it as not a fight.

00:48:40.800 It's like, thank you very much.

00:48:42.520 That was $8 worth of value you got out of that.

00:48:45.220 $8, please.

00:48:47.080 It's really strong.

00:48:51.360 All right.

00:48:51.960 Here's a persuasion question just for your general knowledge.

00:48:58.540 It's too late to make this change.

00:49:00.960 But suppose, just imagine,

00:49:03.520 if the first time you heard that Musk wanted to introduce an $8 fee,

00:49:08.360 right, it's too late now,

00:49:09.440 but imagine the first time you heard it,

00:49:11.680 he said, I'm only going to give you one thing for that.

00:49:14.840 I'm going to make sure that it suppresses the bots and the trolls.

00:49:20.000 That's all you get.

00:49:20.900 For $8, you can take bots and trolls out of your life, mostly.

00:49:25.380 Couldn't get them all.

00:49:27.200 Now, how would you feel about that

00:49:28.940 versus the current thing where he's sort of negotiating it,

00:49:33.860 you know, in real time with the users,

00:49:35.560 which is fascinating, by the way.

00:49:36.900 I love that.

00:49:37.900 But what it does is it gives you too many things to think about.

00:49:41.600 So now I'm thinking, okay, for $8,

00:49:43.920 would I be happy if I could, let's say,

00:49:46.220 maybe edit some things or I've got a little tag

00:49:49.680 or, you know, maybe the other comments are, you know,

00:49:54.440 different or something like that.

00:49:56.060 Now, if I try to think through those things,

00:49:58.420 what happens to me?

00:49:59.360 I automatically make a comparison.

00:50:03.240 And what is the automatic comparison?

00:50:05.840 The automatic comparison is free Twitter

00:50:09.620 versus paying for the thing that used to be free.

00:50:13.980 If you're talking about a feature set

00:50:16.140 and people largely didn't know they needed the features,

00:50:21.380 right, most Twitter users just go and they tweet and they go home.

00:50:24.160 They're not like, oh, my life will be complete if I had this feature.

00:50:28.360 Not really.

00:50:29.320 Like, we talk about the edit button,

00:50:31.580 but it doesn't matter that much, right?

00:50:34.320 You know, most of it doesn't really matter.

00:50:36.580 So if you talk about a bunch of features

00:50:38.960 that you might get for $8,

00:50:40.780 people's brains automatically compare free,

00:50:44.440 which was working fine,

00:50:46.580 to paid in the context of inflation

00:50:49.720 and everything seems too expensive now.

00:50:52.200 That's not really the best comparison.

00:50:54.160 But if the only thing you're comparing it to

00:50:57.960 is those damn bots,

00:51:01.020 and I said for $8 you can get rid of them,

00:51:03.240 but you don't need to.

00:51:04.580 You can have exactly the same experience.

00:51:07.140 It's up to you.

00:51:07.940 Or you could have the no bot experience,

00:51:10.700 whichever you like.

00:51:12.860 That would actually be a stronger...

00:51:14.940 So this is an example, persuasion-wise,

00:51:17.660 this is an example of less is more.

00:51:20.920 100% of people would say,

00:51:22.560 I don't want bots, right?

00:51:25.060 100% of people.

00:51:26.360 But what happened when you saw people

00:51:27.900 talking about the features?

00:51:30.420 When we talked about features,

00:51:31.880 people disagreed.

00:51:33.380 If you talk about bots,

00:51:35.340 nobody disagrees.

00:51:36.480 Now you could argue if that's worth $8 or not.

00:51:38.640 That's a different argument.

00:51:39.520 So I'm not saying he should have done it differently,

00:51:43.240 because I love the fact that he's designing the product in public,

00:51:48.660 and you're getting an MBA value class

00:51:52.000 of just watching him try to navigate this situation.

00:51:54.820 It's the most interesting business thing you've ever seen.

00:51:59.040 Would anybody argue with that?

00:52:02.880 We have never watched a business development

00:52:05.800 with this level of transparency

00:52:08.240 combined with this level of dollar value,

00:52:12.320 combined with this importance,

00:52:14.960 combined with the time.

00:52:16.600 The times are important, right?

00:52:17.960 Midterms are approaching.

00:52:18.760 So everything about this is interesting,

00:52:21.980 and Musk has added that

00:52:23.640 by making his thought process transparent.

00:52:28.740 The amount you're going to learn

00:52:30.880 by watching him navigate this,

00:52:33.500 even if he makes mistakes, right?

00:52:35.640 The mistakes are going to teach you something,

00:52:37.380 and him too, I suppose, if he makes any.

00:52:40.000 So you are getting educated like nobody's business.

00:52:43.300 I said the same thing about Trump.

00:52:45.340 Remember how much you learned about the government?

00:52:47.760 Just how it works, because of Trump.

00:52:51.880 Trump was like a college course.

00:52:54.840 No matter what you thought of him,

00:52:56.120 you learn so much about how things are supposed to work.

00:53:00.480 Anyway, I'm loving all that part of it.

00:53:03.120 So Musk reports that Twitter had a massive drop in revenue

00:53:09.340 because activists, I don't know if they're Soros people,

00:53:13.180 some people are saying that.

00:53:14.260 I don't know if that's confirmed.

00:53:15.280 But some activists are putting pressure on advertisers to drop out.

00:53:22.060 And as Musk says, it's extremely messed up,

00:53:25.020 and they're trying to destroy free speech in America.

00:53:27.660 That is literally what they're doing.

00:53:30.300 Am I wrong?

00:53:32.980 Because, yeah.

00:53:35.740 I mean, they are literally...

00:53:37.000 I don't think that's even hyperbole.

00:53:38.540 They're literally trying to degrade the biggest source of free speech.

00:53:45.140 They're trying to put the one place where you could imagine free speech could happen.

00:53:50.940 And it's also big.

00:53:52.080 You know, there are smaller places you could imagine that.

00:53:54.640 But it's pretty big.

00:53:57.560 And somebody said, tell us those advertisers so we'll, you know, we could respond by not buying their shit.

00:54:04.500 You know, boycott the boycotters.

00:54:06.580 And Musk said, a thermonuclear name and shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.

00:54:12.080 I have a suggestion.

00:54:18.680 Just pick three.

00:54:20.960 I don't know how many there are.

00:54:22.620 Pick your top three.

00:54:25.160 And see if we can make their stock dip.

00:54:29.340 I'll bet we can.

00:54:29.980 You don't think that, let's say, half of Twitter or whatever percentage would participate.

00:54:35.980 You don't think half of Twitter could bend somebody's stock price?

00:54:41.860 You could bend the shit out of it.

00:54:44.100 Now, you don't have to even be, like, permanent non-customers.

00:54:48.480 You could just send a warning shot.

00:54:50.460 You could give them one month of 20% decline.

00:54:54.180 And no CEO can survive that.

00:54:56.000 A CEO cannot survive a 20% decline because of a CEO decision.

00:55:02.540 Can't survive it.

00:55:04.400 So you could probably take out three CEOs in one month.

00:55:10.400 Worth a shot.

00:55:12.620 I think they have it coming.

00:55:15.360 Although, you know, the CEOs are probably just operating on fear.

00:55:19.320 I doubt the CEOs are operating on anything but fear.

00:55:22.200 But you could, you know, you could balance out the fear so at least the CEO could make a business decision instead of a fear decision.

00:55:33.260 I saw a button that appeared, I've only seen it once, on Twitter, that only appeared on Elon Musk's Twitter feed.

00:55:42.260 And it was a notice that says, readers added context.

00:55:45.320 And then, very noticeably, you could see what context, you know, a little summary.

00:55:51.140 And then you could see, oh, there's a story that explains more about what he's saying.

00:55:55.700 Now, I saw that for the first time today.

00:55:58.280 Has anybody else seen it?

00:56:01.240 Did you see it for the first time?

00:56:03.800 And was it only on Musk's account?

00:56:08.600 I'd never seen it.

00:56:09.560 Now, does that look exactly like what I described they should do?

00:56:16.160 Can somebody, give me a fact check here.

00:56:19.480 Is it exactly what I described they should do?

00:56:22.300 Just allow us to attach context.

00:56:25.180 You don't have to say what's right or wrong.

00:56:26.900 Just allow the best counter-argument to be surfaced.

00:56:31.520 That's all.

00:56:32.060 Just allow the best counter-argument to be noticeable.

00:56:36.780 I feel like they did it.

00:56:38.160 Like, this is like, it's so small it's not even news.

00:56:44.700 And might be the biggest thing that's happened in 10 years.

00:56:49.360 Do you know how big that is?

00:56:51.260 What would happen if people had access to the counter-argument?

00:56:55.860 It's never happened.

00:56:57.620 The news can't do it.

00:56:58.960 CNN can't do it.

00:56:59.940 Fox News can't do it.

00:57:00.820 Nobody else can do it.

00:57:02.600 Twitter is literally the only entity

00:57:04.740 that has any ability to show you both sides.

00:57:10.100 And that magnificent bastard,

00:57:12.720 he may have already implemented it.

00:57:14.700 It looks like it might be beta.

00:57:16.980 He may have already fixed it.

00:57:19.520 If you look at the rapid change,

00:57:22.900 I think you're going to see.

00:57:24.160 I think you're going to see some rapid upgrades.

00:57:25.760 It's going to be breathtaking, I think.

00:57:30.920 From a business nerd perspective.

00:57:33.300 I say breathtaking from the perspective of

00:57:35.580 not just what it's doing for the country,

00:57:39.160 free speech-wise,

00:57:40.120 but as a business nerd,

00:57:42.500 watching business models being created in real time,

00:57:45.440 it just doesn't get any better than that.

00:57:47.180 All right.

00:57:54.300 So,

00:57:55.440 Thomas Massey had a,

00:57:58.920 Representative Massey had a

00:58:00.520 very interesting comment on Twitter today.

00:58:03.520 It was based on the fact that there are these layoffs

00:58:06.120 that are happening at Twitter.

00:58:08.480 And Representative Massey says,

00:58:11.120 I wonder how many painstakingly curated

00:58:13.760 clandestine government connections

00:58:17.020 within Twitter,

00:58:18.720 Elon Musk has already serendipitously severed

00:58:21.900 as a result of the reorg.

00:58:24.040 It could take years to reestablish

00:58:27.780 those valuable points of influence.

00:58:30.160 Now, he's using some big words here.

00:58:33.580 So, Thomas Massey,

00:58:35.460 your audience is not as smart as you.

00:58:37.280 You might want to lay off the serendipity.

00:58:41.100 Just dial back the serendipity part.

00:58:43.820 I guess,

00:58:44.320 just smaller words on Twitter.

00:58:47.020 On one hand,

00:58:48.900 yeah,

00:58:49.280 on one hand,

00:58:50.740 don't you love that you have

00:58:51.920 an elected representative

00:58:53.680 who went to MIT

00:58:54.820 and isn't afraid to look smart?

00:58:58.000 Okay,

00:58:58.280 I love that.

00:58:59.540 I love that.

00:59:00.720 So,

00:59:00.960 maybe he's playing it right.

00:59:02.800 But,

00:59:03.140 I think his point

00:59:04.140 maybe got lost a little bit

00:59:06.200 and it's a good one.

00:59:06.940 So,

00:59:07.620 we were talking about how

00:59:09.600 clandestine government connections

00:59:13.600 can act like your friend.

00:59:17.240 Do you think that executives

00:59:20.240 or maybe key engineers within Twitter

00:59:22.540 had friends,

00:59:25.600 had friends,

00:59:26.680 that sort of popped up

00:59:27.860 when those people found out

00:59:29.140 what jobs they had?

00:59:30.880 Sort of instant friends

00:59:32.380 who were like trying really hard

00:59:33.880 to be their friend

00:59:34.640 and maybe offer them some benefits

00:59:36.720 that you wonder why.

00:59:38.840 Yeah.

00:59:39.460 Now,

00:59:39.920 I think Thomas Massey

00:59:41.160 is 100% accurate.

00:59:43.560 There's no doubt

00:59:44.520 that Democrats

00:59:46.520 had cultivated friends

00:59:48.460 within Twitter.

00:59:50.200 There's no doubt,

00:59:51.240 is there?

00:59:51.800 Would you doubt that?

00:59:53.580 Of course it happened.

00:59:55.480 Now,

00:59:55.780 some of it might have been

00:59:56.560 just natural.

00:59:57.720 It might not be part

00:59:58.780 of some big plan.

01:00:00.040 It could be just

01:00:01.280 who they hung out with.

01:00:02.900 But definitely

01:00:03.580 the personal connections

01:00:05.060 between the powers

01:00:06.260 and the engineers

01:00:07.660 who control the algorithm,

01:00:09.400 it's very possible

01:00:10.540 that Musk severed

01:00:11.700 those connections.

01:00:13.640 It's very possible

01:00:14.480 he did.

01:00:15.940 Yeah.

01:00:16.540 Or,

01:00:17.020 let me put it this way.

01:00:18.740 If foreign countries

01:00:20.480 are not already

01:00:21.880 embedding their own employees

01:00:23.120 or influencing employees

01:00:24.480 at Twitter,

01:00:25.380 why not?

01:00:27.020 We would do it.

01:00:27.960 Do you think

01:00:29.360 the United States

01:00:30.280 wouldn't try to embed

01:00:31.520 their own people

01:00:33.080 in Twitter

01:00:33.600 if Twitter were,

01:00:34.760 let's say,

01:00:35.020 a Chinese company?

01:00:36.480 Of course they would.

01:00:37.840 Of course we would.

01:00:39.500 Like,

01:00:39.720 if they didn't,

01:00:40.400 what are they doing?

01:00:41.320 What are we paying them for?

01:00:43.040 Right?

01:00:43.620 Yeah.

01:00:44.240 And yeah,

01:00:44.720 maybe they've all,

01:00:45.560 or maybe the CIA

01:00:46.480 is already embedded

01:00:47.860 in TikTok.

01:00:48.960 So,

01:00:49.320 we don't know

01:00:49.800 who's embedded where,

01:00:51.040 but I do like

01:00:52.240 hearing from

01:00:53.620 an elected representative

01:00:54.720 that at least

01:00:56.520 one very smart person

01:00:57.920 thinks it's obvious

01:00:59.740 that Twitter

01:01:00.640 had influenced

01:01:01.780 people on its staff.

01:01:03.840 That's just obvious.

01:01:06.900 Bill Maher

01:01:07.860 has joined the,

01:01:10.360 I guess,

01:01:13.480 democracies at risk

01:01:14.600 crowd,

01:01:15.860 and

01:01:16.340 here's what he said.

01:01:17.860 He predicted

01:01:18.320 that once Republicans,

01:01:19.300 and this is sort of

01:01:20.920 scaring you

01:01:21.800 about the future,

01:01:23.740 that if Republicans

01:01:24.920 retake both chambers

01:01:26.100 of Congress,

01:01:26.740 they'll begin

01:01:28.120 impeaching Biden

01:01:29.020 and never stop

01:01:30.040 over a myriad of things,

01:01:31.720 making the president

01:01:32.560 a, quote,

01:01:33.560 crippled duck

01:01:34.300 when he goes up

01:01:35.060 against Trump

01:01:36.240 and Carrie Lake

01:01:37.280 ticket in 2024.

01:01:39.540 So,

01:01:40.200 Bill Maher's already

01:01:40.880 calling Carrie Lake

01:01:42.380 as the likely

01:01:43.520 running mate

01:01:44.900 for 2024.

01:01:46.720 So,

01:01:47.340 okay,

01:01:47.660 I hear the complaint

01:01:48.660 that if Republicans

01:01:51.060 take over,

01:01:51.860 it'll be like

01:01:52.540 an impeachment

01:01:53.340 frenzy.

01:01:55.540 what's missing

01:01:58.120 from that opinion?

01:02:00.140 What's missing

01:02:01.000 from the opinion?

01:02:03.620 Whether the impeachments

01:02:05.600 would be justified.

01:02:08.860 Right?

01:02:10.380 Doesn't that matter?

01:02:13.360 Doesn't it?

01:02:14.820 I mean,

01:02:15.860 can we just ignore

01:02:17.020 the question

01:02:17.720 of whether

01:02:19.000 said impeachments

01:02:20.460 would be good

01:02:21.200 for the country

01:02:21.920 or are completely

01:02:23.220 deserved?

01:02:24.860 I think it matters.

01:02:26.780 Right?

01:02:27.380 Now,

01:02:28.000 I don't like

01:02:29.620 having

01:02:30.400 each team

01:02:32.360 just

01:02:32.840 suing

01:02:33.980 and,

01:02:34.440 you know,

01:02:35.140 impeaching

01:02:35.580 the other team

01:02:36.300 nonstop.

01:02:37.540 But,

01:02:38.920 it does seem

01:02:39.920 to me

01:02:40.300 that the Democrats

01:02:41.180 have some

01:02:41.760 impeachable stuff

01:02:42.760 and it does

01:02:43.780 seem to me

01:02:44.240 that the Republicans

01:02:44.980 have to pay

01:02:45.700 them back

01:02:46.160 for what

01:02:46.480 they did

01:02:46.780 to Trump.

01:02:48.300 I feel like

01:02:48.980 payback

01:02:49.560 might be

01:02:50.300 important.

01:02:51.660 Like,

01:02:51.860 sometimes it

01:02:52.460 creates this

01:02:52.960 infinite,

01:02:53.620 you know,

01:02:54.040 series of

01:02:54.600 payback,

01:02:55.040 payback,

01:02:55.580 tip for that,

01:02:56.480 but sometimes

01:02:57.300 it's why you

01:02:57.980 need to

01:02:58.460 brush back

01:02:59.280 the batter,

01:03:00.400 right?

01:03:01.700 Sometimes you

01:03:02.400 need to throw

01:03:02.880 a brushback pitch

01:03:04.000 just to say,

01:03:05.240 well,

01:03:05.340 you can do it

01:03:05.800 all you want,

01:03:06.340 but we're going

01:03:06.660 to do it

01:03:06.940 back to you,

01:03:07.620 so maybe

01:03:08.000 we shouldn't

01:03:08.420 do it.

01:03:09.600 Now,

01:03:09.980 I don't think

01:03:10.580 they're ever

01:03:10.920 going to end up

01:03:11.620 with less of it.

01:03:12.760 So I think

01:03:13.480 we're in this

01:03:13.960 permanent

01:03:14.380 impeachment hell,

01:03:15.900 and I'm not

01:03:16.940 looking forward

01:03:17.520 to it,

01:03:18.480 but I think

01:03:19.160 you can't

01:03:19.680 leave out

01:03:20.260 the would

01:03:21.340 it be

01:03:21.880 appropriate

01:03:22.580 to impeach

01:03:23.320 somebody.

01:03:24.660 Mayorka is

01:03:25.360 one of those

01:03:25.740 people that

01:03:26.260 people talk

01:03:26.800 about because

01:03:28.360 of the border.

01:03:31.740 Anyway,

01:03:33.320 then,

01:03:34.680 let's see,

01:03:35.580 what else

01:03:35.860 Bill Maher

01:03:36.660 says?

01:03:38.220 Bill Maher

01:03:38.760 says that

01:03:39.400 even if

01:03:39.840 Trump loses,

01:03:40.700 it doesn't

01:03:41.160 matter.

01:03:41.520 on Inauguration

01:03:42.900 Day 2025,

01:03:44.140 he's going

01:03:44.460 to show up

01:03:45.100 whether he's

01:03:45.640 on the list

01:03:46.100 or not,

01:03:46.700 and this

01:03:47.300 time he's

01:03:47.780 not going

01:03:48.200 to take

01:03:48.540 no for

01:03:48.980 an answer

01:03:49.360 because this

01:03:50.260 time he'll

01:03:50.820 have behind

01:03:51.340 him the

01:03:51.720 army of

01:03:52.200 election

01:03:52.580 deniers

01:03:53.160 that are

01:03:54.260 going to

01:03:54.540 be elected

01:03:55.160 at the

01:03:56.200 same time.

01:03:58.340 There are

01:03:58.740 about 300

01:03:59.320 candidates on

01:04:00.080 the ballot,

01:04:00.500 he says,

01:04:01.200 who don't

01:04:02.400 believe in

01:04:02.840 ballots.

01:04:04.100 Well,

01:04:04.560 that's what

01:04:04.800 he says.

01:04:05.500 They don't

01:04:05.940 believe in

01:04:06.360 ballots.

01:04:06.680 Okay,

01:04:09.360 let me ask

01:04:10.160 you,

01:04:11.540 if there

01:04:13.360 is an

01:04:13.860 election

01:04:14.620 and Trump

01:04:16.040 loses,

01:04:18.240 would you

01:04:19.040 be willing

01:04:19.900 to stage

01:04:21.540 an insurrection

01:04:22.240 to keep

01:04:24.280 him in

01:04:24.620 power even

01:04:25.300 though the

01:04:25.680 election said

01:04:26.260 he lost?

01:04:27.260 Go.

01:04:28.180 How many

01:04:28.640 of you are

01:04:29.120 willing to

01:04:29.600 join the

01:04:30.140 insurrection

01:04:30.620 to keep the

01:04:32.060 person who

01:04:32.520 lost the

01:04:33.060 election in

01:04:33.600 power?

01:04:33.840 Yeah,

01:04:35.720 fucking

01:04:35.980 nobody.

01:04:37.060 Nobody.

01:04:38.560 Zero.

01:04:40.200 There isn't

01:04:40.820 even a

01:04:41.800 little bit

01:04:42.220 of energy

01:04:42.620 for that.

01:04:44.660 Do you

01:04:45.180 know what

01:04:46.080 you would

01:04:46.340 see if

01:04:46.920 there were

01:04:47.240 any energy

01:04:47.920 for that?

01:04:49.420 Here's what

01:04:50.080 it would

01:04:50.260 look like.

01:04:51.260 Every night

01:04:51.900 on the

01:04:52.220 news,

01:04:53.220 MSNBC

01:04:53.960 would show

01:04:54.540 you a

01:04:55.040 person on

01:04:55.720 the street

01:04:56.080 interview with

01:04:56.720 a Republican

01:04:57.300 who said,

01:04:59.360 I don't

01:04:59.700 care what

01:05:00.140 the vote

01:05:00.540 is,

01:05:01.400 Trump's my

01:05:01.920 president and

01:05:02.560 I've got

01:05:02.940 weapons.

01:05:04.840 Don't you

01:05:05.540 think if

01:05:05.940 those people

01:05:06.440 existed,

01:05:07.480 you don't

01:05:07.980 think they'd

01:05:08.400 find them?

01:05:09.500 You don't

01:05:10.180 think they

01:05:10.520 could find

01:05:10.900 people who

01:05:11.340 would say

01:05:11.620 that if

01:05:12.460 they existed?

01:05:14.660 The reason

01:05:15.460 you've never

01:05:15.900 heard anybody

01:05:16.440 say that is

01:05:18.140 because they

01:05:18.440 don't exist.

01:05:20.040 The Democrats

01:05:21.140 have a

01:05:21.780 thoroughly

01:05:22.340 imaginary

01:05:23.580 platform.

01:05:25.060 Inflation

01:05:25.640 isn't real

01:05:26.400 and crime

01:05:27.060 isn't up

01:05:27.880 and immigration

01:05:29.780 doesn't matter

01:05:30.680 and it's

01:05:32.100 all imaginary.

01:05:32.920 the whole

01:05:34.080 fucking

01:05:34.400 thing,

01:05:34.720 it's all

01:05:34.960 imaginary.

01:05:37.900 Now,

01:05:38.780 what is

01:05:39.540 the proper

01:05:40.220 thing to

01:05:40.660 do if

01:05:41.020 the election

01:05:41.460 is held

01:05:41.960 and you

01:05:43.320 don't believe

01:05:43.960 the results?

01:05:46.260 Let's game

01:05:48.060 the sound.

01:05:49.260 Let's say

01:05:49.680 you really,

01:05:50.520 really,

01:05:50.840 really wanted

01:05:51.460 the Republican

01:05:52.060 to win,

01:05:53.040 whoever it

01:05:53.500 is,

01:05:53.780 let's say

01:05:54.080 it's Trump.

01:05:55.140 You really,

01:05:55.600 really wanted

01:05:56.100 to win

01:05:56.500 and the

01:05:57.520 election

01:05:57.840 says he

01:05:58.560 narrowly lost.

01:06:00.340 What are

01:06:01.280 you going

01:06:01.420 to do

01:06:01.580 about it?

01:06:03.940 What are

01:06:04.600 you going

01:06:04.800 to do?

01:06:07.520 Are you

01:06:08.180 going to

01:06:08.420 support a

01:06:09.020 march on

01:06:09.500 the Capitol?

01:06:12.220 Would you?

01:06:13.420 Would you

01:06:14.120 support any

01:06:15.000 kind of

01:06:15.720 the electoral

01:06:17.960 college

01:06:18.720 overthrowing

01:06:20.700 or not

01:06:21.160 voting the

01:06:21.680 way the

01:06:21.940 voters went?

01:06:24.780 Yeah,

01:06:25.500 nothing.

01:06:25.780 nothing.

01:06:30.240 Here's my

01:06:30.920 take,

01:06:31.720 and I

01:06:32.080 realize none

01:06:33.060 of you are

01:06:33.460 going to

01:06:33.680 accept this,

01:06:34.740 but I'll

01:06:34.960 tell you my

01:06:35.440 take.

01:06:36.740 If the

01:06:37.420 election is

01:06:38.020 rigged,

01:06:39.260 that is also

01:06:40.060 the election.

01:06:42.320 There's a

01:06:42.920 reason that I

01:06:43.520 accepted the

01:06:44.400 2020 election

01:06:45.520 immediately.

01:06:46.500 As soon as the

01:06:47.040 election was

01:06:47.600 called,

01:06:48.540 I said,

01:06:49.200 that's my

01:06:49.560 president.

01:06:51.600 It's not my

01:06:52.360 first choice,

01:06:53.620 but Biden's

01:06:54.160 my president.

01:06:54.660 Because the

01:06:56.780 system elected

01:06:57.480 him.

01:06:59.040 If that

01:06:59.780 system also

01:07:00.620 has some

01:07:01.140 cheating in

01:07:01.620 it, well,

01:07:02.880 both sides

01:07:03.380 have access

01:07:03.900 to cheating.

01:07:05.660 If one

01:07:06.580 side cheated

01:07:07.360 a little bit

01:07:07.960 and it was

01:07:08.980 a close

01:07:09.360 election and

01:07:10.020 it tipped

01:07:10.380 it one,

01:07:11.080 that was

01:07:11.540 the election.

01:07:13.200 So I

01:07:14.420 prefer that

01:07:15.700 the election

01:07:16.140 goes exactly

01:07:16.920 where the

01:07:17.360 voters are.

01:07:18.540 I prefer

01:07:19.040 that.

01:07:20.400 But my

01:07:20.900 second choice

01:07:21.740 is that if

01:07:23.600 there's some

01:07:24.000 cheating,

01:07:24.660 and we

01:07:25.020 don't find

01:07:25.580 it, as

01:07:26.880 long as the

01:07:27.900 two candidates

01:07:28.720 were roughly

01:07:29.480 equally liked

01:07:31.340 by the

01:07:31.700 country, which

01:07:32.340 is always the

01:07:32.880 case, right?

01:07:33.620 By the time

01:07:34.060 you get to

01:07:34.380 the election,

01:07:34.860 it's always a

01:07:35.220 close election.

01:07:36.360 Do you

01:07:36.720 really think

01:07:37.940 that democracy

01:07:39.140 is destroyed

01:07:41.560 because the

01:07:42.160 person with

01:07:42.620 48% of the

01:07:43.540 vote beat

01:07:43.960 the person

01:07:44.400 with 49%?

01:07:49.040 Is democracy

01:07:50.420 destroyed because

01:07:51.280 of that?

01:07:52.580 Here's the

01:07:53.180 thing.

01:07:53.880 Our elections

01:07:54.920 are not so

01:07:55.700 bad that

01:07:56.500 somebody like

01:07:57.100 Putin could

01:07:57.720 win with

01:07:58.700 90% of the

01:07:59.520 vote if the

01:08:00.580 public didn't

01:08:01.180 actually lean in

01:08:02.400 that direction.

01:08:04.060 So I accept

01:08:06.100 the cheating as

01:08:06.720 part of the

01:08:07.140 system, whichever

01:08:08.440 way it goes.

01:08:09.620 If it had been

01:08:10.240 Republicans or

01:08:11.160 if it had been

01:08:11.700 Democrats, as

01:08:13.020 long as that

01:08:13.540 cheating is below

01:08:14.320 the level where

01:08:15.680 you can identify

01:08:18.500 it, and as long

01:08:20.240 as the two

01:08:20.720 candidates are

01:08:21.420 kind of close,

01:08:23.160 I know I have

01:08:26.180 a preference for

01:08:28.140 who gets elected

01:08:28.820 and so do you.

01:08:29.940 We have a

01:08:30.380 preference, but

01:08:31.780 when it's so

01:08:32.360 close, keep in

01:08:36.220 mind that you

01:08:36.660 live in a

01:08:36.980 country where

01:08:37.580 there are just

01:08:38.640 as many people

01:08:39.320 who prefer the

01:08:40.000 other thing, and

01:08:41.360 if you can't

01:08:41.940 live with that,

01:08:42.520 then democracy

01:08:43.120 is not for you.

01:08:44.820 The fact that

01:08:45.720 you don't get

01:08:46.300 everything you

01:08:46.860 want, it

01:08:48.220 doesn't work

01:08:48.620 that way.

01:08:50.640 Now, I do

01:08:51.940 think we should

01:08:52.580 push as hard as

01:08:53.600 humanly possible

01:08:54.420 to make sure

01:08:55.020 there's no even

01:08:56.220 opportunity for

01:08:57.380 anything.

01:08:58.180 The fact that

01:08:59.180 our elections are

01:09:00.180 not decided the

01:09:01.320 same day, when

01:09:02.800 we know that

01:09:03.340 that's possible

01:09:04.040 because other

01:09:04.720 countries do it,

01:09:06.080 right?

01:09:06.620 There's no doubt

01:09:07.620 that we have the

01:09:09.240 technology, the

01:09:10.240 resources, the

01:09:11.220 knowledge, everything

01:09:12.860 to have paper

01:09:15.020 ballots, count them

01:09:15.980 the same day, do

01:09:17.760 it like Israel

01:09:18.400 does it, for

01:09:18.980 example.

01:09:19.560 That's just one

01:09:20.100 example.

01:09:21.020 We know we

01:09:21.520 could do that.

01:09:22.940 What would be

01:09:23.760 any reason given

01:09:24.920 that we would

01:09:25.900 not do that?

01:09:26.680 There's only one

01:09:27.320 reason, an

01:09:27.960 intention to

01:09:28.660 cheat.

01:09:29.980 Am I wrong?

01:09:31.200 What would be

01:09:31.660 another reason?

01:09:33.020 What would be

01:09:33.740 another reason to

01:09:35.260 favor a system,

01:09:36.740 to favor a

01:09:37.720 system that you

01:09:38.780 know the public

01:09:39.660 finds not

01:09:41.040 credible?

01:09:42.200 Why would the

01:09:42.940 people in power

01:09:43.740 want a system

01:09:44.840 that both

01:09:46.260 sides say is

01:09:47.640 not credible

01:09:48.340 if the other

01:09:49.080 team wins?

01:09:49.940 Both sides

01:09:50.640 don't like it.

01:09:52.400 Only the

01:09:53.180 leaders like it.

01:09:54.200 Why is that?

01:09:55.440 There's only one

01:09:56.200 reason.

01:09:57.680 There is only

01:09:58.420 one reason.

01:09:59.880 Right?

01:10:00.060 There's not a

01:10:00.560 second possibility.

01:10:02.220 They think it's

01:10:02.980 to their advantage.

01:10:04.920 How could it be

01:10:05.860 to their advantage?

01:10:07.340 Because somebody's

01:10:08.240 going to cheat.

01:10:10.040 Here's something I

01:10:11.180 wonder.

01:10:11.480 Do you think

01:10:13.260 that the heads

01:10:13.900 of the

01:10:14.620 Democrat and

01:10:16.420 Republican

01:10:16.880 parties, do

01:10:18.340 you think that

01:10:18.800 the heads

01:10:19.520 actually know

01:10:20.920 how much

01:10:21.340 cheating is

01:10:21.920 happening at

01:10:22.680 the precinct

01:10:23.460 level?

01:10:25.160 I'll bet they

01:10:25.640 don't.

01:10:27.820 You think so?

01:10:29.440 I think they

01:10:30.100 have the same

01:10:30.540 suspicion most of

01:10:31.660 us do, but I'll

01:10:32.160 bet they don't.

01:10:33.260 I'll bet they

01:10:33.820 don't know how

01:10:34.580 much cheating is

01:10:35.260 going to happen

01:10:35.660 in this next

01:10:36.260 election.

01:10:37.020 And I'll go

01:10:37.640 further.

01:10:38.840 They probably

01:10:39.400 make sure that

01:10:40.140 nobody tells

01:10:40.760 them.

01:10:42.480 Right?

01:10:43.180 Because remember,

01:10:43.940 any kind of

01:10:45.100 communication is

01:10:45.940 discoverable,

01:10:47.400 including somebody

01:10:48.320 testifying that

01:10:49.100 they had the

01:10:49.480 conversation.

01:10:50.760 So it should

01:10:52.340 be sort of a

01:10:53.740 mafia situation

01:10:54.740 where the

01:10:56.200 people, if you

01:10:57.480 speculate that

01:10:58.280 there's any

01:10:59.260 badness that

01:10:59.980 could happen in

01:11:00.800 the election,

01:11:01.320 so this is just

01:11:01.880 speculation, if you

01:11:03.480 speculate that it's

01:11:04.320 a real thing,

01:11:06.640 the people like

01:11:07.520 Nancy Pelosi would

01:11:08.540 probably say,

01:11:09.440 do not tell me

01:11:11.260 anything about

01:11:11.960 this.

01:11:12.820 I don't want to

01:11:13.680 hear about

01:11:14.240 anything that's

01:11:14.820 happening that

01:11:16.040 sounds sketchy by

01:11:17.300 my team.

01:11:19.160 Just don't tell

01:11:20.040 me.

01:11:20.640 Because when I go

01:11:21.480 on TV, I want to

01:11:22.360 say I don't know

01:11:22.820 anything about that.

01:11:24.740 Right?

01:11:25.220 Right?

01:11:26.280 If you were in

01:11:27.180 charge, you would

01:11:27.800 say don't tell me.

01:11:30.940 Because if it

01:11:31.740 works, it works.

01:11:32.960 And if it's not

01:11:33.680 happening, then

01:11:34.380 nobody told you.

01:11:35.060 It doesn't matter.

01:11:35.660 That's your best

01:11:37.140 play.

01:11:37.640 Don't tell me.

01:11:38.920 So I don't think

01:11:39.620 the heads actually

01:11:40.320 know.

01:11:41.300 They probably

01:11:41.660 don't know.

01:11:46.520 Let's see what

01:11:47.300 else is going on.

01:11:48.760 That's about it.

01:11:50.640 I'm going to

01:11:51.400 play one little

01:11:52.840 audio clip.

01:11:56.080 So yesterday,

01:11:58.040 oh shit, did I

01:11:59.540 lose my audio

01:12:00.120 clip?

01:12:00.420 So yesterday,

01:12:03.560 while I'm

01:12:04.260 minding my own

01:12:04.900 business, just

01:12:05.580 watching that

01:12:06.540 documentary, at

01:12:09.380 about the same

01:12:10.060 time, this was

01:12:10.940 happening.

01:12:12.680 This is Elon

01:12:13.420 Musk in an

01:12:15.600 interview that

01:12:16.800 happened yesterday

01:12:17.400 at about the same

01:12:17.940 time.

01:12:20.440 Let's see if it

01:12:21.220 plays at the

01:12:21.620 right point.

01:12:25.900 Will I have a

01:12:27.180 technical problem?

01:12:28.280 The production

01:12:30.800 team said, oh,

01:12:31.360 that's for crash

01:12:32.340 safety.

01:12:32.900 So then I called

01:12:33.700 the crash safety

01:12:34.380 team and said, is

01:12:35.540 this for crash

01:12:36.040 safety?

01:12:36.440 They said, oh,

01:12:36.940 no, that didn't

01:12:38.120 do anything.

01:12:38.720 We should delete

01:12:39.280 it.

01:12:42.000 That turned out

01:12:42.660 to be totally

01:12:43.060 useless.

01:12:43.680 They forgot to

01:12:44.260 tell the production

01:12:44.900 team.

01:12:47.320 Honestly, a bunch

01:12:48.200 of these things

01:12:48.600 just feel like

01:12:49.340 you're living in a

01:12:49.840 Dilbert cartoon.

01:12:53.100 I'm like, oh,

01:12:54.300 no, what's our

01:12:55.120 one?

01:12:55.500 I mean, any

01:12:56.160 given company,

01:12:57.360 they should have

01:12:57.720 like, what's

01:12:58.120 your Dilbert

01:12:58.600 ratio?

01:12:59.460 OK, it's not

01:13:00.680 zero.

01:13:02.840 So is this you

01:13:04.700 or is this your

01:13:05.440 Dilbert portion?

01:13:06.360 Try to keep it

01:13:07.140 low.

01:13:07.760 So is this you

01:13:09.580 or is this, so

01:13:11.160 you do all

01:13:11.840 these different

01:13:12.240 things?

01:13:12.680 So this is

01:13:13.560 yesterday, Elon

01:13:14.840 Musk telling

01:13:17.240 an interviewer

01:13:18.360 that you want to

01:13:19.740 keep your Dilbert

01:13:20.480 ratio as low as

01:13:21.420 possible.

01:13:23.460 Now, let me give

01:13:24.360 you some update

01:13:24.840 on the Dilbert

01:13:25.360 ratio.

01:13:25.700 Now, the

01:13:26.220 Dilbert ratio,

01:13:27.540 I've seen it

01:13:29.720 work two

01:13:30.260 different ways.

01:13:31.880 I interpret it

01:13:32.860 a little bit

01:13:33.240 differently than

01:13:33.780 some other

01:13:34.140 do.

01:13:34.780 And it has

01:13:35.680 to do with

01:13:36.100 how many

01:13:36.480 Dilbert comics

01:13:37.280 are on the

01:13:37.900 wall at your

01:13:38.740 business.

01:13:39.720 And the

01:13:40.140 Dilbert ratio

01:13:40.980 says that if

01:13:41.880 there are too

01:13:42.840 many Dilbert

01:13:43.520 comics on the

01:13:44.300 walls, that's a

01:13:46.020 sign of bad

01:13:46.620 management.

01:13:48.040 But I add to

01:13:49.260 that the worst

01:13:50.680 sign of bad

01:13:51.540 management, like

01:13:52.260 the most strongest

01:13:52.920 sign of bad

01:13:53.600 management, is

01:13:55.240 no Dilbert

01:13:55.980 cartoons on

01:13:56.700 your wall.

01:13:58.520 That's your

01:13:59.340 worst case

01:13:59.960 scenario.

01:14:01.020 You know why,

01:14:01.660 right?

01:14:02.260 Because it

01:14:02.620 means they

01:14:02.900 can't even

01:14:03.340 speak honestly.

01:14:06.420 They can't

01:14:07.040 have an

01:14:07.300 opinion.

01:14:07.760 They can't

01:14:08.060 be individuals,

01:14:08.820 basically.

01:14:10.900 Yeah.

01:14:11.460 So, I mean,

01:14:11.980 this is just

01:14:12.380 for fun.

01:14:12.800 It's not like

01:14:13.200 a scientific

01:14:13.620 thing.

01:14:13.960 But somebody

01:14:18.400 asked me after

01:14:19.300 I tweeted

01:14:20.260 this, is it

01:14:23.000 obvious, is

01:14:25.180 it becoming

01:14:25.640 more obvious

01:14:26.380 that I'm

01:14:27.420 somehow central

01:14:28.240 to the

01:14:28.680 simulation?

01:14:31.300 To which I

01:14:32.580 tried to

01:14:33.400 reply to

01:14:35.000 that, and

01:14:36.760 Twitter wouldn't

01:14:37.440 let me.

01:14:39.100 It hung up,

01:14:40.020 and then I

01:14:40.520 lost the

01:14:41.140 tweet.

01:14:43.960 Now, that's

01:14:44.840 exactly what

01:14:45.400 the simulation

01:14:46.000 would do.

01:14:47.140 If the

01:14:47.780 simulation were

01:14:48.520 designed so

01:14:49.280 that you

01:14:49.520 couldn't find

01:14:50.320 out you're

01:14:50.700 in a

01:14:50.940 simulation, it

01:14:52.700 would sort

01:14:53.320 of not let

01:14:54.540 you see a

01:14:54.960 tweet.

01:14:56.200 It would sort

01:14:56.920 of act like

01:14:57.440 that.

01:14:58.040 Now, I'm not

01:14:58.400 saying that's

01:14:58.820 what's happening.

01:14:59.280 It was just a

01:14:59.720 funny coincidence.

01:15:01.720 But imagine

01:15:04.280 being me.

01:15:06.720 Just think

01:15:07.340 about it.

01:15:08.360 There are

01:15:09.140 seven and a

01:15:09.740 half billion

01:15:10.200 people in the

01:15:10.820 world.

01:15:12.440 Only one of

01:15:13.260 them is the

01:15:13.780 richest person

01:15:14.500 and also

01:15:16.300 the person

01:15:16.760 that's in

01:15:17.260 the news

01:15:17.580 all the

01:15:17.860 time.

01:15:19.400 And then

01:15:21.000 somehow I

01:15:21.940 got pulled

01:15:22.400 into the

01:15:22.860 headline.

01:15:23.860 Now, this

01:15:24.320 isn't a

01:15:24.660 headline.

01:15:25.080 It's just

01:15:25.340 something that

01:15:25.660 happened.

01:15:26.540 But how

01:15:27.960 did I get

01:15:28.340 pulled into

01:15:28.740 this?

01:15:32.600 I haven't

01:15:33.400 told you how

01:15:34.020 many things

01:15:34.620 that are in

01:15:35.000 the headlines

01:15:35.440 that I'm

01:15:36.440 actually involved

01:15:37.180 in for

01:15:38.600 various reasons.

01:15:39.600 I don't talk

01:15:40.040 about it.

01:15:40.440 but if

01:15:42.000 you were

01:15:42.300 me, you

01:15:44.280 could not

01:15:44.860 believe that

01:15:45.480 any of this

01:15:45.900 is real.

01:15:48.100 My life

01:15:48.920 so exceeds

01:15:50.900 anything that

01:15:52.780 could be like

01:15:53.420 a realistic,

01:15:55.400 you know,

01:15:55.720 you just got

01:15:56.760 lucky or it's

01:15:57.600 a coincidence or

01:15:58.700 something like

01:15:59.080 that.

01:15:59.660 It's just too

01:16:00.680 weird.

01:16:01.820 Just too

01:16:02.340 weird.

01:16:02.600 All the

01:16:07.120 weak ego

01:16:07.920 people are

01:16:08.580 signing in.

01:16:09.540 James,

01:16:10.040 anybody else

01:16:10.500 have a

01:16:10.780 weak ego

01:16:11.440 who would

01:16:13.980 like to

01:16:14.540 feel

01:16:15.280 uncomfortable

01:16:15.860 that I

01:16:17.120 said a

01:16:17.580 true fact

01:16:18.220 which has

01:16:18.800 obvious

01:16:19.320 relevance to

01:16:20.220 my audience

01:16:20.840 would make

01:16:22.000 me look

01:16:22.400 good?

01:16:24.100 Is there

01:16:24.620 anybody else

01:16:25.000 who is

01:16:25.280 offended or

01:16:26.220 are you

01:16:27.060 threatened by

01:16:27.540 that?

01:16:28.840 Would

01:16:29.120 anybody else

01:16:29.600 like to

01:16:30.040 insult me

01:16:30.780 for simply

01:16:31.840 reporting

01:16:32.360 an important

01:16:32.940 thing that

01:16:33.320 happened on

01:16:33.740 the news

01:16:34.060 today?

01:16:35.920 Anybody?

01:16:37.120 Come on.

01:16:38.920 I know you're

01:16:39.740 there.

01:16:40.320 Let's go.

01:16:42.240 Yeah.

01:16:42.640 Just admit

01:16:43.540 you have a

01:16:43.980 weak ego

01:16:44.540 and then if

01:16:45.660 anybody succeeds

01:16:46.500 at anything

01:16:46.980 it makes you

01:16:47.420 uncomfortable.

01:16:48.480 Just go ahead

01:16:49.080 and say it.

01:16:50.580 Just be

01:16:51.160 uncomfortable

01:16:51.600 with other

01:16:52.120 people's

01:16:52.480 success.

01:16:54.800 Is it

01:16:55.380 Jordan Peterson

01:16:56.540 who says,

01:16:58.040 I think he

01:16:59.000 said it

01:16:59.280 recently,

01:17:00.360 that the

01:17:01.140 people you

01:17:01.720 should spend

01:17:02.180 time with

01:17:02.820 are the

01:17:03.200 people who

01:17:03.640 celebrate

01:17:04.100 your success.

01:17:07.680 And if

01:17:08.320 somebody won't

01:17:08.840 celebrate your

01:17:09.640 success like

01:17:10.340 genuinely,

01:17:11.520 like they're

01:17:11.980 genuinely happy

01:17:12.900 for your

01:17:13.260 success,

01:17:14.420 stay away

01:17:15.180 from them.

01:17:16.920 Have you

01:17:17.220 ever had

01:17:17.540 anybody who

01:17:18.000 was important

01:17:18.520 in your

01:17:18.860 life?

01:17:20.760 Who was

01:17:21.020 important in

01:17:21.560 your life?

01:17:24.660 Yeah,

01:17:25.020 well,

01:17:25.620 I don't have

01:17:26.060 to finish

01:17:26.380 that.

01:17:29.900 All right.

01:17:36.900 So Arden

01:17:37.800 says,

01:17:38.460 God,

01:17:39.040 do I

01:17:39.300 hate

01:17:39.560 Jordan

01:17:39.940 Peterson?

01:17:40.800 Let me

01:17:41.240 follow up

01:17:41.680 on that.

01:17:43.160 So Jordan

01:17:43.680 Peterson

01:17:44.020 elicits lots

01:17:45.600 of strong

01:17:46.020 responses both

01:17:46.760 ways.

01:17:47.240 Well,

01:17:47.520 what is the

01:17:48.060 argument for

01:17:48.600 disliking him?

01:17:49.740 I don't know

01:17:50.260 that I've ever

01:17:50.780 heard it.

01:17:52.260 There are

01:17:52.640 things which

01:17:53.060 I disagree

01:17:53.620 with.

01:17:54.820 Not very

01:17:55.280 often,

01:17:55.700 by the way.

01:17:56.120 I agree

01:17:56.500 with him

01:17:56.860 98% of

01:17:57.920 the time.

01:17:58.800 But why

01:18:00.120 would you

01:18:00.420 dislike him?

01:18:02.020 What would

01:18:02.440 be the

01:18:02.700 argument?

01:18:03.200 So I'm

01:18:03.720 looking over

01:18:04.160 here on

01:18:04.580 YouTube.

01:18:05.800 Give me

01:18:06.260 just in

01:18:06.940 one word

01:18:07.520 or sentence

01:18:08.200 or something.

01:18:14.100 God has

01:18:14.700 chosen me?

01:18:15.480 Well,

01:18:15.660 that's one

01:18:15.960 way to look

01:18:16.320 at it.

01:18:19.920 Make

01:18:20.320 friends with

01:18:20.780 people who

01:18:21.100 want the

01:18:21.340 best for

01:18:21.740 you.

01:18:22.060 That's his

01:18:22.780 quote.

01:18:24.060 But some

01:18:25.720 people said

01:18:26.200 you hated

01:18:26.660 him, but

01:18:27.540 just give

01:18:27.840 me a

01:18:28.020 reason.

01:18:30.140 I think

01:18:31.140 it would

01:18:33.020 be a

01:18:33.260 reasonable

01:18:33.560 opinion if

01:18:34.740 he has

01:18:34.960 something to

01:18:35.720 back it

01:18:36.040 with.

01:18:37.320 He doesn't

01:18:37.860 return your

01:18:38.360 calls.

01:18:38.900 He's not

01:18:39.240 woke.

01:18:42.640 Yeah.

01:18:43.320 No, but

01:18:44.400 it's okay to

01:18:45.080 disagree with

01:18:45.680 his opinions.

01:18:47.140 But why

01:18:47.580 would you

01:18:47.820 have a

01:18:48.080 problem with

01:18:48.540 him?

01:18:49.840 See, here's

01:18:50.320 my thing.

01:18:51.740 Jordan

01:18:52.040 Peterson is,

01:18:53.220 involved in

01:18:54.900 a business

01:18:55.540 model in

01:18:56.140 which he

01:18:56.580 could make

01:18:57.040 good money

01:18:58.180 doing what

01:18:59.320 he does.

01:19:01.020 But I'm

01:19:03.020 almost positive

01:19:04.020 that he's

01:19:05.680 arrogant,

01:19:07.240 somebody says.

01:19:08.860 Is that the

01:19:09.600 problem?

01:19:10.980 The problem

01:19:11.640 that he's

01:19:11.960 arrogant?

01:19:15.480 Hmm.

01:19:16.860 I mean, I

01:19:17.540 can see that

01:19:18.360 because he

01:19:18.860 is.

01:19:20.460 Somebody says

01:19:21.080 he's not

01:19:21.560 arrogant.

01:19:21.800 Are you

01:19:22.140 kidding?

01:19:24.460 You think

01:19:25.460 Jordan

01:19:25.780 Peterson is

01:19:26.500 not arrogant?

01:19:29.200 That would

01:19:30.020 be like saying

01:19:30.540 I'm not

01:19:30.940 arrogant.

01:19:32.480 Nobody

01:19:33.000 believes that,

01:19:33.640 do they?

01:19:36.880 Well, here's

01:19:37.740 the thing.

01:19:38.380 I would

01:19:38.960 define arrogant

01:19:39.880 as somebody

01:19:41.200 who would

01:19:41.700 insult somebody

01:19:42.780 who disagrees

01:19:44.780 with them

01:19:45.180 intellectually.

01:19:46.600 Does Jordan

01:19:47.260 Peterson insult

01:19:48.520 people who

01:19:49.240 disagree with

01:19:49.980 him intellectually?

01:19:50.720 I think he

01:19:52.560 does that all

01:19:53.020 the time,

01:19:53.820 right?

01:19:55.440 I think I

01:19:56.160 do that all

01:19:56.640 the time,

01:19:57.020 too.

01:19:57.780 Aren't we

01:19:58.180 both pretty

01:19:58.740 arrogant?

01:20:00.860 Isn't that

01:20:01.420 why you

01:20:01.700 watch?

01:20:03.520 It's a big

01:20:04.140 part of the

01:20:04.560 show.

01:20:05.380 The big

01:20:05.720 part of the

01:20:06.080 show is

01:20:06.560 saying we're

01:20:07.300 smarter than

01:20:08.040 our critics.

01:20:10.760 That's half of

01:20:11.580 what I do,

01:20:12.120 is tell you I'm

01:20:12.640 smarter than my

01:20:13.340 critics,

01:20:13.740 directly or

01:20:14.760 indirectly.

01:20:15.620 I'm usually

01:20:16.120 trying to make

01:20:16.620 the argument,

01:20:17.100 but directly

01:20:18.240 or indirectly

01:20:18.880 we're both

01:20:21.040 pretty arrogant.

01:20:22.220 You don't

01:20:22.700 do this job,

01:20:23.920 this job

01:20:24.540 meaning somebody

01:20:25.400 who talks to

01:20:26.040 lots of people

01:20:26.640 all the time,

01:20:27.340 you don't do

01:20:28.000 this job without

01:20:28.700 being arrogant,

01:20:30.380 do you?

01:20:33.280 I mean,

01:20:33.800 I suppose if

01:20:34.320 you're like a

01:20:34.940 religious leader

01:20:35.720 you could pull

01:20:36.280 it off,

01:20:37.040 but if you're

01:20:37.760 just a person

01:20:38.780 who talks about

01:20:39.480 politics,

01:20:40.540 I think we

01:20:41.660 all run down

01:20:42.420 the intellect

01:20:43.260 of the people

01:20:43.760 who disagree

01:20:44.240 with us.

01:20:45.380 Pretty sure

01:20:45.880 we all do

01:20:46.380 that.

01:20:47.700 I'm not

01:20:48.180 proud of it,

01:20:48.800 it's just

01:20:49.020 something that

01:20:49.440 happens.

01:20:51.200 You say

01:20:51.720 neither of us

01:20:52.220 do,

01:20:52.320 I do,

01:20:53.420 I do,

01:20:54.560 I run down

01:20:55.340 the intellect

01:20:55.940 of people

01:20:56.360 who disagree

01:20:56.760 with me.

01:20:57.200 I was doing

01:20:57.720 that today.

01:20:58.740 When I

01:20:59.260 talked about

01:20:59.780 Joy Reid,

01:21:01.200 I was very

01:21:02.020 arrogantly

01:21:02.740 putting myself

01:21:04.160 above her,

01:21:05.560 wasn't I?

01:21:07.380 Isn't that

01:21:08.020 obvious?

01:21:09.000 That I was

01:21:09.400 putting my

01:21:09.880 own intellect

01:21:10.520 above hers,

01:21:12.220 overtly,

01:21:12.840 I wasn't

01:21:13.180 trying to hide

01:21:13.660 it.

01:21:15.880 But here's

01:21:17.000 maybe this

01:21:17.860 is why

01:21:18.160 you didn't

01:21:18.480 notice,

01:21:19.320 because I

01:21:20.000 put your

01:21:20.500 intellect

01:21:20.880 over hers

01:21:21.560 as well.

01:21:22.840 Maybe that's

01:21:23.260 why you

01:21:23.500 didn't

01:21:23.660 notice,

01:21:24.360 because I

01:21:24.900 guess I

01:21:25.440 was arrogant

01:21:25.900 on your

01:21:26.360 behalf.

01:21:27.600 Like we

01:21:28.020 were all

01:21:28.500 in this

01:21:28.800 one

01:21:28.940 together.

01:21:30.660 I'm

01:21:31.180 arrogant,

01:21:31.660 you're

01:21:31.860 arrogant,

01:21:32.360 let's go

01:21:32.720 be arrogant

01:21:33.180 about Joy

01:21:34.340 Reid.

01:21:35.440 By the way,

01:21:36.060 Joy Reid is

01:21:36.800 a very high

01:21:38.140 intellect

01:21:38.500 person,

01:21:40.000 just,

01:21:41.380 you know,

01:21:41.740 if I'm

01:21:42.400 being

01:21:42.600 honest.

01:21:43.800 Now,

01:21:44.300 I think

01:21:44.700 that she

01:21:45.300 plays a

01:21:45.940 part in

01:21:46.900 which she

01:21:47.320 does

01:21:48.660 everything she

01:21:49.280 can to

01:21:49.780 support a

01:21:50.380 team.

01:21:51.440 But I

01:21:53.380 don't think

01:21:53.780 she has

01:21:54.060 low

01:21:54.240 intelligence.

01:21:55.980 I think

01:21:56.560 she actually

01:21:56.940 has above

01:21:57.380 average

01:21:57.740 intelligence,

01:21:58.500 well above

01:21:59.080 average

01:21:59.460 intelligence.

01:22:00.820 Right?

01:22:02.220 You could

01:22:02.720 not like her

01:22:03.200 for other

01:22:03.480 reasons.

01:22:04.240 But you

01:22:04.580 can't like

01:22:05.000 her for

01:22:05.280 lack of

01:22:05.680 intelligence.

01:22:06.020 But when

01:22:06.780 I make

01:22:07.080 fun of

01:22:07.400 her for

01:22:07.740 the

01:22:08.020 inflation

01:22:10.380 thing,

01:22:11.160 I don't

01:22:11.920 believe for

01:22:12.320 a second

01:22:12.680 that she

01:22:12.980 believes what

01:22:13.480 she's

01:22:13.700 saying.

01:22:14.740 So it

01:22:15.320 doesn't

01:22:15.640 come off

01:22:16.200 as dumb

01:22:16.640 to me.

01:22:17.000 It just

01:22:17.240 comes off

01:22:17.820 as thinking

01:22:18.320 you're

01:22:18.620 dumb.

01:22:21.140 All right.

01:22:22.400 Did I

01:22:22.980 miss any

01:22:23.280 stories?

01:22:25.000 Any big

01:22:25.460 stories I

01:22:25.960 missed?

01:22:30.440 About

01:22:30.900 Lee

01:22:31.220 Zeldin's

01:22:31.820 persuasion.

01:22:33.920 Well,

01:22:34.480 Lee

01:22:34.700 Zeldin is

01:22:35.340 over-performing,

01:22:36.520 is he

01:22:36.800 not?

01:22:37.980 So I

01:22:38.960 don't know

01:22:39.220 exactly what

01:22:39.740 you're asking

01:22:40.120 about his

01:22:40.480 persuasion.

01:22:41.520 But my

01:22:42.120 understanding

01:22:42.600 is he's

01:22:43.320 just crushing

01:22:43.920 it.

01:22:45.640 My

01:22:46.120 understanding

01:22:46.620 is he's

01:22:47.100 just hitting

01:22:47.460 every note.

01:22:48.640 Is that

01:22:48.920 true?

01:22:49.740 Is anybody

01:22:50.320 watching him

01:22:50.900 to know

01:22:51.180 is he

01:22:51.960 really hitting

01:22:52.400 all the

01:22:52.720 notes?

01:22:53.380 It looks

01:22:53.800 like he

01:22:54.100 is.

01:23:00.160 How will

01:23:00.880 the lockdown

01:23:01.420 kids vote

01:23:02.340 when they

01:23:02.660 come of

01:23:02.980 age?

01:23:03.620 Same as

01:23:04.040 their parents.

01:23:05.340 smart doesn't

01:23:11.320 have to

01:23:11.660 equate to

01:23:12.320 kind or

01:23:12.940 good.

01:23:13.320 That's

01:23:13.480 right.

01:23:15.640 I'm

01:23:16.240 still off

01:23:16.800 blood

01:23:17.220 pressure

01:23:17.540 meds

01:23:17.880 completely.

01:23:20.520 And yes,

01:23:21.380 I am

01:23:21.640 checking my

01:23:22.260 blood

01:23:22.500 pressure

01:23:22.880 every day

01:23:23.940 so that

01:23:26.600 apparently

01:23:27.420 there's

01:23:27.860 some kind

01:23:29.320 of bounce

01:23:29.760 back risk.

01:23:30.520 so a week

01:23:31.520 after you

01:23:31.920 get off

01:23:32.220 of blood

01:23:32.520 pressure

01:23:32.860 meds

01:23:33.400 there's

01:23:34.760 some

01:23:34.920 predictable

01:23:35.460 bounce.

01:23:37.500 So I'm

01:23:37.920 watching for

01:23:38.460 that.

01:23:38.680 It hasn't

01:23:38.940 happened yet

01:23:39.440 but I'm

01:23:40.280 watching for

01:23:40.720 it.

01:23:40.920 that's the

01:23:48.680 steroids.

01:23:49.560 What is

01:23:49.760 it?

01:23:51.740 Tiffany

01:23:52.200 Cross got

01:23:52.980 fired.

01:23:53.880 Who is

01:23:54.300 Tiffany

01:23:54.640 Cross?

01:23:56.900 Tiffany

01:23:57.500 Cross is

01:23:58.700 who?

01:24:02.900 MSNBC?

01:24:03.540 MSNBC?

01:24:06.780 Did she

01:24:07.540 do something

01:24:08.400 a weekend

01:24:09.580 host?

01:24:11.480 Okay.

01:24:12.920 All right.

01:24:13.780 Let's

01:24:14.020 choose a

01:24:14.260 weekend

01:24:14.480 host.

01:24:16.980 Or was.

01:24:18.760 All right.

01:24:19.160 Did I

01:24:19.400 miss anything?

01:24:20.120 I think

01:24:20.480 we hit

01:24:20.780 everything,

01:24:21.200 right?

01:24:22.080 Got it

01:24:22.780 all.

01:24:24.500 How many

01:24:24.940 of you

01:24:25.220 are actually

01:24:25.620 going to

01:24:26.000 vote?

01:24:26.800 Or how

01:24:27.100 many of you

01:24:27.360 are voting

01:24:27.640 this year?

01:24:28.100 I won't

01:24:28.320 say on

01:24:28.620 Tuesday.

01:24:29.280 How many

01:24:29.660 of you

01:24:30.380 are voters?

01:24:31.900 Yes or

01:24:32.320 no?

01:24:32.820 Are you

01:24:33.160 voters this

01:24:33.720 year?

01:24:34.020 Yes or

01:24:34.380 no?

01:24:36.660 A lot

01:24:37.340 of yeses.

01:24:38.780 Wow.

01:24:39.280 It's all

01:24:39.620 yeses on

01:24:40.140 the net

01:24:40.360 platform.

01:24:41.500 On

01:24:41.660 locals,

01:24:42.060 it's all

01:24:42.300 yeses.

01:24:43.880 If it's

01:24:44.880 an,

01:24:45.200 I think

01:24:45.540 the no's

01:24:46.060 are probably

01:24:46.480 embarrassed.

01:24:47.900 Probably

01:24:48.200 people don't

01:24:48.780 want to

01:24:49.020 say no.

01:24:50.860 But it

01:24:51.420 could be

01:24:51.820 that I'm

01:24:52.700 attracting

01:24:53.660 listeners who

01:24:54.480 care about

01:24:54.880 politics.

01:24:55.440 That makes

01:24:55.760 sense.

01:24:56.580 I could

01:24:57.020 see,

01:24:57.400 oh,

01:24:57.620 you're

01:24:57.780 Canadian.

01:24:58.300 Okay.

01:25:01.180 You don't

01:25:01.780 want to be

01:25:02.180 Scott and

01:25:02.680 not vote.

01:25:03.360 That's a good

01:25:03.800 reason.

01:25:04.580 Don't be

01:25:04.980 like me.

01:25:05.440 There are

01:25:07.940 so many

01:25:08.340 ways in

01:25:08.800 which you

01:25:09.240 should not

01:25:09.660 be like

01:25:10.080 me.

01:25:11.080 It's a

01:25:11.540 pretty long

01:25:11.960 list.

01:25:16.020 All right.

01:25:17.460 Somebody says

01:25:18.200 not embarrassed,

01:25:18.940 it's a waste of

01:25:19.520 time.

01:25:21.920 A micro

01:25:22.340 lesson on

01:25:22.820 talking to

01:25:23.300 teens about

01:25:23.900 TikTok.

01:25:24.280 you would

01:25:25.680 like a

01:25:26.200 micro lesson

01:25:26.980 in which I

01:25:27.600 teach a

01:25:28.280 teen not

01:25:29.040 to use

01:25:29.480 the most

01:25:29.880 addictive

01:25:30.320 thing which

01:25:32.340 has ever

01:25:32.680 been created.

01:25:35.080 TikTok.

01:25:35.960 There's

01:25:36.440 nothing you

01:25:36.860 can do

01:25:37.160 about that.

01:25:38.320 If you

01:25:38.820 want TikTok

01:25:39.360 to go

01:25:39.840 away,

01:25:40.380 you've

01:25:40.680 got to

01:25:40.880 work on

01:25:41.240 banning

01:25:41.620 it.

01:25:43.200 Nothing

01:25:43.660 will keep

01:25:44.100 it away

01:25:44.360 from kids

01:25:44.820 otherwise.

01:25:49.340 Oh,

01:25:49.900 what?

01:25:50.400 Tim Poole

01:25:50.840 has a

01:25:51.200 number one

01:25:51.900 music video?

01:25:54.280 So I'm

01:25:56.840 hearing that

01:25:57.280 Tim Poole

01:25:57.840 has an

01:25:58.260 iTunes,

01:25:59.140 on iTunes

01:25:59.880 you could

01:26:00.160 buy,

01:26:00.840 music video

01:26:01.860 for 69

01:26:02.640 cents and

01:26:03.320 it's number

01:26:03.700 one on

01:26:04.100 iTunes charts.

01:26:06.660 Oh,

01:26:06.860 is it,

01:26:08.720 does he,

01:26:09.360 is he

01:26:09.900 musical?

01:26:12.020 Does he

01:26:12.540 actually

01:26:12.820 perform it?

01:26:17.240 He has

01:26:17.800 a band.

01:26:18.480 Oh,

01:26:18.640 I didn't know

01:26:18.960 that.

01:26:19.220 Tim Poole

01:26:19.540 has a band.

01:26:20.340 I wonder

01:26:20.580 if they

01:26:20.820 need a

01:26:21.100 drummer.

01:26:22.020 I wonder

01:26:22.240 if they

01:26:22.480 need a

01:26:22.700 really bad

01:26:23.120 drummer.

01:26:23.380 And it's

01:26:25.800 funny.

01:26:27.360 Oh,

01:26:27.740 okay.

01:26:28.900 All right,

01:26:29.260 well,

01:26:29.600 go out

01:26:30.080 and buy

01:26:30.300 that 69

01:26:31.000 cent

01:26:31.480 thing.

01:26:34.220 Why don't

01:26:34.720 you wear

01:26:35.040 a beanie?

01:26:37.540 Well,

01:26:38.080 then people

01:26:38.460 would think

01:26:38.740 I'm

01:26:38.940 Tim Poole.

01:26:40.620 That's

01:26:41.020 why.

01:26:45.940 All right,

01:26:46.700 all right,

01:26:47.420 I think we've

01:26:48.180 done it all.

01:26:49.260 Have we done

01:26:49.740 it all?

01:26:50.020 you know,

01:26:52.940 we saved

01:26:53.680 Brittany.

01:26:54.700 I think

01:26:55.100 we're going

01:26:55.360 to have

01:26:55.560 to save

01:26:55.940 Gay

01:26:56.220 from himself

01:26:58.020 and from

01:26:58.480 his personal

01:26:59.100 trainer.

01:27:00.760 But we're

01:27:02.640 good for

01:27:02.980 today.

01:27:03.920 I think

01:27:04.220 we've,

01:27:06.440 from

01:27:07.620 Offspring

01:27:08.100 plays,

01:27:08.580 oh,

01:27:08.760 the drummer

01:27:09.120 from Offspring

01:27:10.000 plays with

01:27:10.620 them.

01:27:11.240 Damn it,

01:27:11.680 they have

01:27:11.940 a drummer.

01:27:14.800 I'm trying

01:27:15.480 to learn

01:27:16.120 Nirvana

01:27:17.060 song.

01:27:17.940 I'd love

01:27:19.020 to get

01:27:19.320 Dave Grohl

01:27:20.080 to join

01:27:21.820 me for

01:27:22.220 A Man

01:27:22.600 Cave.

01:27:24.800 What do

01:27:25.520 you think

01:27:26.000 of my

01:27:26.240 odds

01:27:26.480 of getting

01:27:26.800 that done?

01:27:30.220 So,

01:27:30.740 Dave Grohl,

01:27:32.640 you know,

01:27:32.960 arguably,

01:27:34.140 you know,

01:27:34.460 the best

01:27:34.940 living rock

01:27:36.180 drummer,

01:27:36.940 because a

01:27:37.340 number of

01:27:37.860 greats have

01:27:38.460 passed away

01:27:39.040 recently.

01:27:42.340 Zero

01:27:42.980 Chance?

01:27:44.520 Oh,

01:27:45.960 no.

01:27:46.380 I think

01:27:46.780 I could

01:27:47.060 get Dave

01:27:47.580 Grohl

01:27:47.820 to give

01:27:48.100 me a

01:27:48.540 drum

01:27:48.760 lesson

01:27:49.100 in my

01:27:49.500 man

01:27:49.680 cave.

01:27:52.960 So,

01:27:53.560 I have

01:27:53.980 an idea

01:27:54.460 for how

01:27:55.240 I'd like

01:27:55.640 to do

01:27:55.880 the

01:27:56.020 man

01:27:56.240 cave,

01:27:56.680 but I

01:27:57.460 don't

01:27:57.600 have

01:27:57.760 the

01:27:57.900 clout

01:27:58.180 to do

01:27:58.500 it.

01:27:58.980 And

01:27:59.080 the

01:27:59.360 idea

01:27:59.660 goes

01:27:59.940 like

01:28:00.120 this,

01:28:01.160 that

01:28:01.500 every

01:28:01.820 time

01:28:02.060 I

01:28:02.220 do

01:28:02.340 the

01:28:02.480 man

01:28:02.720 cave,

01:28:03.060 which

01:28:03.200 I

01:28:03.320 do

01:28:03.460 from

01:28:03.740 my

01:28:04.640 man

01:28:04.840 cave,

01:28:05.720 that

01:28:06.800 it

01:28:06.920 would

01:28:07.040 look

01:28:07.280 like

01:28:07.520 it's

01:28:07.720 just

01:28:07.900 going

01:28:08.080 to

01:28:08.120 be

01:28:08.240 me,

01:28:09.240 and

01:28:09.840 then

01:28:09.980 there

01:28:10.120 would

01:28:10.220 be

01:28:10.400 a

01:28:10.640 surprise

01:28:11.140 guest

01:28:11.620 who's

01:28:12.960 just

01:28:13.160 in

01:28:13.300 the

01:28:13.420 man

01:28:13.600 cave,

01:28:14.140 just

01:28:14.320 hanging

01:28:14.540 out.

01:28:15.520 And

01:28:15.700 there's

01:28:15.860 no

01:28:16.000 explanation

01:28:16.500 for it.

01:28:17.580 It's

01:28:17.680 like one

01:28:18.040 day I'll

01:28:18.400 just be

01:28:18.680 in the

01:28:18.880 man

01:28:19.060 cave,

01:28:19.520 and the

01:28:21.020 most

01:28:21.500 famous

01:28:21.920 musician

01:28:22.500 in the

01:28:22.800 world

01:28:22.940 just

01:28:23.160 happens

01:28:23.360 to be

01:28:23.580 hanging

01:28:23.800 out.

01:28:24.460 It would

01:28:24.660 just

01:28:24.780 be

01:28:24.920 sort

01:28:25.120 of a

01:28:25.320 running

01:28:25.520 gag

01:28:25.940 that

01:28:26.820 interesting

01:28:28.180 people

01:28:28.540 just

01:28:28.780 stop

01:28:29.140 by

01:28:29.280 the

01:28:29.400 man

01:28:29.600 cave.

01:28:31.380 That's

01:28:31.860 Bill

01:28:32.020 Maher's

01:28:32.380 gig.

01:28:33.680 Is

01:28:33.880 that

01:28:34.020 what

01:28:34.180 his

01:28:34.380 show

01:28:34.540 does?

01:28:35.960 He

01:28:36.140 has

01:28:36.300 one

01:28:36.740 interesting

01:28:37.180 person,

01:28:37.700 but he

01:28:38.240 doesn't

01:28:38.520 do

01:28:38.800 the

01:28:39.880 they

01:28:40.180 just

01:28:40.400 happen

01:28:40.660 to be

01:28:40.940 there.

01:28:41.640 So

01:28:41.760 it's

01:28:42.160 the

01:28:42.340 just

01:28:42.580 happen

01:28:42.820 to be

01:28:43.100 there

01:28:43.280 part

01:28:43.540 that's

01:28:43.860 interesting.

01:28:46.440 But

01:28:46.880 I don't

01:28:47.320 have the

01:28:47.600 clout

01:28:47.880 that he

01:28:48.180 has

01:28:48.360 so he

01:28:48.600 can get

01:28:48.980 people

01:28:49.760 like that

01:28:50.120 to show

01:28:50.420 up.

01:28:53.980 Who's

01:28:54.420 the most

01:28:54.920 famous

01:28:55.560 person

01:28:56.040 you think

01:28:56.480 I could

01:28:56.820 get

01:28:57.040 to

01:28:57.640 join

01:28:58.080 me

01:28:58.380 on

01:28:58.820 a

01:28:59.060 live

01:28:59.360 stream?

01:29:01.260 Who

01:29:01.700 do you

01:29:01.860 think?

01:29:02.220 Who's

01:29:02.440 the most

01:29:02.780 famous

01:29:03.120 person

01:29:03.520 you think

01:29:03.860 I could

01:29:04.140 join

01:29:04.460 me

01:29:04.620 on

01:29:04.800 a

01:29:04.920 live

01:29:05.120 stream?

01:29:06.260 Trump?

01:29:07.700 Jordan

01:29:09.380 Peterson?

01:29:11.300 Trump?

01:29:12.020 Elon

01:29:12.240 Musk?

01:29:13.980 Toobin?

01:29:15.200 Jake

01:29:15.740 Tapper?

01:29:16.300 Snoop?

01:29:17.440 I

01:29:17.800 couldn't

01:29:18.100 get

01:29:18.260 Snoop

01:29:18.700 or

01:29:18.840 Elton

01:29:19.120 John?

01:29:22.280 Joe

01:29:22.880 Rogan's

01:29:23.400 got his

01:29:23.680 own

01:29:23.840 show.

01:29:27.260 Gutfeld

01:29:27.740 could

01:29:28.100 probably

01:29:28.540 get

01:29:28.860 Gutfeld

01:29:29.400 for

01:29:29.760 reciprocal

01:29:30.540 reasons.

01:29:33.320 All

01:29:33.460 right.

01:29:34.140 Well,

01:29:34.580 I'll

01:29:36.940 make you

01:29:37.680 a

01:29:37.840 commitment.

01:29:39.400 If

01:29:39.580 Trump

01:29:39.880 gets

01:29:40.140 nominated

01:29:40.660 and

01:29:42.560 runs,

01:29:43.080 I

01:29:43.240 will

01:29:43.580 invite

01:29:44.080 him

01:29:44.320 on

01:29:45.520 here.

01:29:46.720 I

01:29:47.260 think

01:29:47.520 he'll

01:29:47.680 say

01:29:47.860 yes.

01:29:49.580 Because

01:29:50.040 the thing

01:29:50.540 is that

01:29:51.160 wherever

01:29:52.720 somebody

01:29:53.460 like

01:29:53.760 Trump

01:29:54.020 appears,

01:29:54.780 the audience

01:29:55.240 will be

01:29:55.660 big because

01:29:56.400 social media

01:29:56.920 would boost

01:29:57.400 it.

01:29:58.040 So I

01:29:58.620 don't

01:29:58.760 think it

01:29:59.020 would make

01:29:59.300 any

01:29:59.500 difference.

01:30:01.540 Rob

01:30:01.860 Reiner

01:30:02.220 would be

01:30:02.660 terrific.

01:30:03.020 how

01:30:05.000 much

01:30:05.240 would

01:30:05.400 you

01:30:05.520 like

01:30:05.720 to

01:30:05.860 see

01:30:05.980 me

01:30:06.160 interview

01:30:06.500 Rob

01:30:06.840 Reiner?

01:30:09.080 That would

01:30:09.720 be

01:30:09.800 amazing.

01:30:10.540 Because

01:30:10.780 here's

01:30:11.040 what I

01:30:11.360 would do.

01:30:13.120 I

01:30:13.320 would

01:30:13.500 treat

01:30:13.780 his

01:30:14.200 opinions

01:30:14.580 with

01:30:14.920 respect.

01:30:17.280 I

01:30:17.780 wouldn't

01:30:18.080 invite

01:30:18.420 somebody

01:30:18.860 to be

01:30:19.240 on my

01:30:19.520 live

01:30:19.780 stream

01:30:20.040 and

01:30:20.280 not

01:30:20.520 treat

01:30:20.800 their

01:30:20.980 opinion

01:30:21.680 with

01:30:21.960 respect.

01:30:22.500 On

01:30:22.620 social

01:30:22.900 media,

01:30:23.800 everybody's

01:30:24.400 a jerk,

01:30:24.820 including

01:30:25.140 me.

01:30:26.120 But

01:30:26.440 in

01:30:26.640 person,

01:30:28.500 I

01:30:28.940 would

01:30:29.360 never

01:30:29.600 invite

01:30:29.980 somebody

01:30:30.340 to

01:30:30.520 show

01:30:30.700 up

01:30:30.900 and

01:30:31.020 not

01:30:31.200 give

01:30:31.380 them

01:30:31.540 a

01:30:31.740 full

01:30:32.220 platform

01:30:33.300 to

01:30:33.640 do

01:30:33.780 their

01:30:33.940 thing.

01:30:35.480 He'd

01:30:36.000 be

01:30:36.140 fun.

01:30:37.820 Because

01:30:38.140 Rob

01:30:38.920 Reiner

01:30:39.220 is

01:30:39.580 presumably

01:30:41.100 smart,

01:30:43.200 talented,

01:30:44.080 funny,

01:30:44.680 interesting

01:30:45.000 person who

01:30:45.620 just has

01:30:45.940 different

01:30:46.240 politics than

01:30:46.940 some of

01:30:47.280 you.

01:30:48.100 So he'd

01:30:48.520 probably be

01:30:48.920 fun if

01:30:49.880 he would

01:30:50.120 do it.

01:30:51.140 Kathy

01:30:51.460 Griffin.

01:30:51.820 I don't

01:30:53.880 think

01:30:54.100 would do

01:30:55.760 do it

01:30:56.040 necessarily,

01:30:56.960 but I

01:30:57.520 do have

01:30:57.820 some

01:30:58.000 history

01:30:58.320 with

01:30:58.580 her.

01:30:59.580 She

01:30:59.740 was

01:31:00.000 the

01:31:00.180 voice

01:31:00.480 of my

01:31:00.880 Alice

01:31:01.240 character

01:31:01.660 when

01:31:01.920 Dilbert

01:31:02.180 was

01:31:02.440 animated.

01:31:05.140 So I've

01:31:05.720 had some

01:31:06.020 contacts

01:31:06.460 with her

01:31:06.860 a few

01:31:07.720 times.

01:31:08.620 And

01:31:09.020 I like

01:31:10.300 her.

01:31:11.580 And I

01:31:11.920 think she

01:31:12.520 knows that.

01:31:13.700 So maybe

01:31:14.200 I could

01:31:14.520 get her,

01:31:15.080 but I

01:31:16.280 think she

01:31:16.620 would be

01:31:17.560 justifiably

01:31:18.800 concerned about

01:31:19.740 what my

01:31:20.540 audience would

01:31:21.140 do to

01:31:21.420 her.

01:31:22.820 My audience

01:31:23.400 would be

01:31:23.820 in control.

01:31:24.900 Netanyahu,

01:31:25.600 now that

01:31:25.920 would be

01:31:26.180 interesting.

01:31:27.860 I don't

01:31:28.540 think I

01:31:28.880 could get

01:31:29.180 Netanyahu.

01:31:30.920 I don't

01:31:31.280 think I

01:31:31.580 could do

01:31:31.840 that.

01:31:33.080 What

01:31:33.480 about

01:31:33.700 Putin?

01:31:37.160 Do you

01:31:37.620 think I

01:31:37.900 could get

01:31:38.220 Putin?

01:31:42.380 And the

01:31:42.880 other thing

01:31:43.220 I wonder

01:31:43.540 is,

01:31:43.860 would it

01:31:44.200 even be

01:31:44.580 legal?

01:31:47.780 Would it

01:31:48.620 be legal

01:31:49.160 for me

01:31:49.580 to

01:31:49.880 interview

01:31:50.320 Putin?

01:31:54.040 Because it

01:31:54.660 shouldn't

01:31:54.940 be.

01:31:56.520 I think

01:31:57.100 it is

01:31:57.400 legal,

01:31:57.760 but it

01:31:57.980 shouldn't

01:31:58.220 be.

01:31:59.380 Do you

01:31:59.620 know why

01:31:59.840 it shouldn't

01:32:00.220 be?

01:32:01.360 Because

01:32:01.800 we're at

01:32:02.180 war with

01:32:02.620 him.

01:32:04.320 And I'd

01:32:04.920 be giving

01:32:05.240 him a

01:32:05.580 platform.

01:32:07.220 I mean,

01:32:07.520 I think

01:32:07.860 it is

01:32:08.240 legal as

01:32:09.280 far as

01:32:09.560 I know,

01:32:09.960 but

01:32:10.160 probably

01:32:11.400 shouldn't

01:32:11.920 be.

01:32:13.180 Probably

01:32:13.560 shouldn't

01:32:13.900 be.

01:32:14.840 Kim

01:32:15.240 Jong-un,

01:32:16.040 that would

01:32:16.560 be amazing.

01:32:18.860 You know,

01:32:19.060 the language

01:32:19.520 program,

01:32:19.800 or Pasternak,

01:32:20.660 oh my

01:32:21.160 God,

01:32:21.780 he would

01:32:22.060 never do

01:32:22.420 it.

01:32:23.360 You think

01:32:23.700 Pasternak

01:32:24.220 would say

01:32:24.560 yes?

01:32:24.880 No,

01:32:25.040 he'd never

01:32:25.280 do it.

01:32:26.000 Madonna,

01:32:26.660 she would

01:32:26.940 never do

01:32:27.280 it,

01:32:27.500 but,

01:32:29.460 all right,

01:32:29.860 well,

01:32:30.060 you guys

01:32:30.260 have some

01:32:30.380 good ideas.

01:32:31.300 All right,

01:32:31.640 thanks for

01:32:32.200 all your

01:32:32.680 suggestions,

01:32:33.940 and thank

01:32:35.740 you.

01:32:35.940 I'm

01:32:36.080 refreshingly

01:32:36.780 arrogant.

01:32:37.800 I accept

01:32:38.480 that.

01:32:38.780 I believe

01:32:40.420 I'm

01:32:40.720 refreshingly

01:32:42.200 arrogant,

01:32:43.520 almost like

01:32:44.700 mint,

01:32:46.960 sort of

01:32:47.380 like a

01:32:48.040 palate

01:32:48.400 cleanser

01:32:48.840 sort of

01:32:49.220 thing.

01:32:50.100 Refreshingly

01:32:50.820 arrogant.

01:32:51.480 I think

01:32:51.820 I'm going

01:32:52.060 to add

01:32:52.360 that to

01:32:52.700 my Twitter

01:32:54.560 bio,

01:32:56.980 you know,

01:32:57.900 Black Lives

01:32:58.520 Matter,

01:32:59.700 Ukraine,

01:33:01.640 and then

01:33:01.980 that.

01:33:04.140 Refreshingly

01:33:04.740 arrogant.

01:33:06.680 All right,

01:33:08.700 bye for

01:33:09.120 now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 05, 2022

Episode 1918 Scott Adams： Delicious News Today, Let's Take A Big Bite. The Midterms Are Upon Us

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