Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1932 Scott Adams： The News Is All Fun Today. Find Out What Twitter Is Up To And Lots More

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00:01:21.040 Well, the news is wonderful today. You know, if you do what I do, these live streams, you

00:01:31.340 really hope that the news is going to give you some good stuff. Oh my God, do I have good

00:01:36.660 stuff today. And none of it is sad. It's all mostly just funny stuff. The best kind of day.

00:01:46.200 All right, let's just start. We'll start slow, and we'll build into it, okay? One of the

00:01:53.940 founders, I don't know, or the founder of Airbnb, is doing a side business now, making tiny factory

00:02:02.020 homes for backyards. Now, that's already a big thing, boxable. I think Musk is a big investor

00:02:08.420 in that. But there are a number of little factory-built tiny homes. And they're going to start in

00:02:14.420 California, because California, despite what you think about my state, California every

00:02:23.660 now and then will do something just right. You know, that you say, oh, damn it. I want 0.99

00:02:29.640 to hate my state and move out. And then they'll do something right. And you're like, okay.

00:02:35.380 One of the things California did right, very right, like super right. You know, like I don't

00:02:41.880 have anything to say about it except, well, that was right. The state overrode the local

00:02:49.340 building, I think this is what happened, the local building requirements and said that if

00:02:55.480 these little factory homes, you know, meet a certain standard, they can go anywhere in

00:02:59.860 your backyard with fairly, fairly broad, you know, flexibility. So somebody having a problem

00:03:14.080 on locals? I'll monitor that. It's working fine for me. But here's what I think. I think

00:03:21.100 it's a, you know, big and growing industry, and that's interesting. But there's something

00:03:25.480 more interesting coming. So these, these little units would be priced at the, around the low

00:03:31.180 $300,000 for something in the 400 to 500 square feet range, like really tiny. It's basically

00:03:39.500 a one person home or maybe a couple who's very close. But here's what I think is going to happen.

00:03:47.180 The next phase is that these will not be for just backyards. The next phase is somebody's

00:03:53.820 going to build a community of just these things. Now, it might not be one company. It might

00:03:59.700 be, you know, Boxable will be your neighbor, and maybe this Airbnb thing will be your house,

00:04:05.220 and, you know, another company will do anything. But if you build a small community that's well

00:04:10.740 designed, so they have some common, you know, transportation, and they've got a park that they

00:04:17.000 build around, they've all got a nice, you know, green zone. And here's the most important

00:04:22.320 part. Essential cafeteria for food delivery or pickup, because they could just walk to

00:04:29.080 it. So that nobody needs a kitchen. I think these little units have kitchens, but, you

00:04:34.260 know, that, that would just be for a little extra. So imagine if your food was cafeteria

00:04:39.640 created, you could just, it's two blocks away, and you just walk over there and pick up your

00:04:44.920 food anytime you want. You know, you pay for it, but you get it anytime you want. I think that

00:04:51.200 would be the model, because it's based on a college campus model that, you know, where

00:04:55.920 I went to college. And here's what I experienced. My highest lifestyle was my college dorm.

00:05:07.720 And it had everything to do with the fact that everything was convenient, so I never had to

00:05:13.360 do, you know, house maintenance. I never had to, I didn't have to drive, right? I didn't have

00:05:19.080 to cook. I didn't have to shop. So all the things that I need to do that are a pain in

00:05:23.460 the ass, I didn't have to mow my lawn. You know, I didn't have a dog. You know, you could 0.99

00:05:28.460 argue whether that's good or bad. But everything was easy. And then they, and then they surrounded

00:05:35.480 me with people I wanted to be around. Young people my age. It was like a perfect situation.

00:05:42.740 And plus, I was doing something useful, you know, going to school, so I felt I was productive

00:05:47.060 and all that. And so my point is, not that you would reproduce a college environment,

00:05:52.780 but that we don't, we don't engineer a community to be the most livable community it could be.

00:06:01.220 Communities are optimized for what? You tell me. Any new development, wherever it is, what is it

00:06:09.120 optimized for? What do they optimize? Sales. Sales. That's it. Sales. Right. So that's the

00:06:20.720 reason that you don't have good closets. The reason that you don't have enough closet space

00:06:25.740 in your house is that when you're looking to buy a home, you don't notice. You know, like,

00:06:30.720 I didn't really notice there wasn't enough closet space until I bought it. So you need, you need

00:06:36.040 to build homes that are optimized for the community, not for the seller. So that's something coming.

00:06:45.200 This is just a prediction. I don't know, but I've been watching the news and I feel like a pattern

00:06:50.640 is developing. And I feel like we might be only one week away from the following news item.

00:06:56.600 The AP announces that Satan is actually an FBI informant. Yeah. Beelzebub himself, turns out he

00:07:06.980 thought he was operating independently. But now for years, it turns out that he was actually an FBI

00:07:12.860 informant the entire time. You've heard of that group ISIS? They were never real. All FBI informants,

00:07:23.160 the entire organization. I know. Seems weird. Hitler's SS. It's kind of historical. But we now know 0.77

00:07:33.780 all FBI informants. I know. Weird. This is like before the FBI, wasn't it? Or was it? When was the FBI

00:07:43.540 started? 30s? 20s? 20s, right? Yeah, in the 20s. All right. Let's talk about Ray Epps. I saw a video of

00:07:57.100 a young, I'm guessing conservative type fellow who got a chance to ask a public question of Liz Cheney

00:08:05.160 some event. And he asked her, would she support jailing Ray Epps as a insurrectionist, given that

00:08:16.080 we have him on video saying insurrection-y things like go into that Capitol, etc. And Liz Cheney gave

00:08:24.380 the following answer, sort of a long, rambling general answer that at least Daniel Schmidt, who asked the

00:08:30.800 question, believes was avoiding the question. But I'm not so sure. Watch me defend Ray Epps.

00:08:42.500 You didn't see that coming, did you? Now, I don't know what the real story of Ray Epps is, and I'd like

00:08:47.860 to know, if there is any real story. Might not be anything. But here's what I say. Why would Ray Epps

00:08:56.240 be arrested? Don't you have to have some evidence of a crime? Why the hell would he be arrested?

00:09:03.740 I saw the video. I didn't see anything illegal. Did you? You can't be arrested for standing

00:09:11.720 outside and agitating, can you? Was anybody else arrested for saying, hey, go do something?

00:09:19.500 Why? So here's my take. It might be illegal. It might be illegal to incite. But do you think

00:09:32.340 anybody else was arrested who did not go into the Capitol and did not do violence? Was anybody

00:09:39.460 else arrested? You're saying yes? You're saying somebody was arrested who did not trespass

00:09:46.640 and did not do violence. They weren't even inside the building. You're saying people outside

00:09:53.360 the building who were just standing there saying things were arrested. All right, you need to

00:09:59.280 give me a fact check on that. You're going to need to give me a specific example of that.

00:10:04.800 I need a specific example. Because I don't believe there was anybody who wasn't trespassing who

00:10:10.840 got arrested. All right. If you're right, then I'll adjust my opinion. Okay? So I'm seeing

00:10:20.200 Brandon Straka mentioned. Didn't he go inside? Brandon didn't get inside? No. What was he doing

00:10:31.400 at the time of arrest? Because if he wasn't inside and he wasn't doing violence, then he was just

00:10:39.200 doing what everybody else who didn't get arrested was doing. Really? He was standing there and he

00:10:44.660 got arrested. He was standing there not trespassing. Okay, I don't believe you. Honestly, I don't

00:10:52.820 believe you. You could be right. So let me say this as clearly as possible. I won't be shocked if I'm

00:10:59.320 wrong. I won't be shocked and not be willing to be corrected on that. But I don't think you're right.

00:11:05.480 Even Erica the Excellent is saying she's 100% sure I'm wrong. Okay. Make your case. You know,

00:11:17.620 not right now, but send me... Oh, Erica actually spoke to Brandon. All right. But did everybody

00:11:28.040 standing around him get arrested? Why was he singled out? Just answer that one thing. Why

00:11:36.580 was he singled out? Because he must have been in a huge crowd. All right. There's something

00:11:43.860 missing in the story. I hate to say I don't trust Brandon Straka, but if he said he was picked

00:11:50.520 out of a group of people who were doing exactly what he was doing, then there's more to the story.

00:11:55.480 He was famous. You think that's why? Maybe. But how many police officers would have recognized

00:12:02.980 him? I wouldn't even recognize him. I've seen him on Twitter a million times. I wouldn't

00:12:08.200 recognize him. I mean, I can get a picture in my head, but if I saw him in a crowd, I doubt

00:12:14.000 I'd recognize him. They might have. It's possible they did. All right. So here's my statement.

00:12:20.820 Liz Cheney also said that no information was ever presented to her that would suggest he was part of

00:12:32.100 the FBI or part of some undercover thing. So if Ray Epps was one of the people who didn't get

00:12:41.900 arrested doing the same stuff, well, let me say it a different way. If some people did get arrested,

00:12:48.620 let's say Brendan Straka, let's say that he got arrested for no good reason, then that's bad

00:12:54.680 and that should be fixed. But would you agree with the following statement? There were plenty

00:13:01.500 of people who didn't get arrested who were doing roughly what Ray Epps was doing, inciting and saying

00:13:08.540 bad things, but they didn't hurt anybody and they didn't trespass, right? So if there were hundreds

00:13:15.540 of people who didn't get arrested for doing what Ray Epps did, is it shocking that he didn't get arrested?

00:13:24.280 Because I don't think law enforcement wanted to arrest hundreds of people. I think they wanted to get

00:13:31.080 the, you know, the ones that make a point, you know, the ones who are like notable.

00:13:37.460 You know, I'm not, so let me be clear, I'm not defending Epps because I don't know what he was up to.

00:13:44.860 I'm just saying that Liz Cheney's answer wasn't that bad, right? If we're going to be a little bit

00:13:51.200 objective, she did not see evidence of him working for the FBI. She didn't see it. And she asked.

00:13:58.880 And he was one of maybe hundreds of people doing what Ray Epps was doing, who also didn't get

00:14:05.580 arrested. Because probably you don't want to arrest people who are just standing there yelling.

00:14:11.640 Right? So, so I'm going to accept your point. Let me provisionally accept your point that people

00:14:18.560 were arrested for doing what Ray Epps was doing, which is just saying stuff and not trespassing.

00:14:24.600 But would you agree with me that the vast majority of them were not arrested? Could you say that?

00:14:32.540 Even if some were, the vast majority were not, were they?

00:14:41.380 Do I believe her? That's a good question. I feel like I would, I feel like we would know

00:14:49.460 if anybody had presented information that Ray Epps was undercover. I feel like that would

00:14:57.840 have gotten out somehow. No, you? But you're right. So I take that correction, which is you

00:15:06.840 can't believe what a politician says. So, okay, I'll give you that. All right. Well, let's leave

00:15:15.140 that interesting question. But I think, could I, could I at least, let's see if I could sell

00:15:22.460 this. How many of you would be willing if the Republicans, you know, dig into this and

00:15:29.980 they, they satisfy themselves that they know everything about Ray Epps? Could you accept

00:15:36.300 if the right people looked into it, that he wasn't doing anything except exactly what you

00:15:42.480 saw? He was just one of the people there yelling stuff. Could you accept that if it turned out that

00:15:48.020 was, that was what came out? I could, I could, I could actually easily accept it. I do, I agree

00:15:56.720 with every one of you who says, this is fishy and we need to look into it, you know, and really

00:16:02.540 satisfy ourselves. This is, this is one of those you can't sort of like let it go. I feel like we

00:16:09.400 need to be like pit bulls on this. You know, the country needs to have like an answer they

00:16:15.040 can trust. But if the answer is he's innocent, I'll apologize publicly because I've used his

00:16:22.980 name in this context as well. So if he, so if Ray Epps deserves an apology, I'm ready to

00:16:29.460 give him one, but not until maybe some Republicans dig into it. All right, let's talk about Musk

00:16:37.260 and Twitter and all the fun stuff happening there. So Musk has already reinstated the Babylon Bee,

00:16:44.480 no big surprise. Kathy Griffin, good decision. Jordan Peterson, good decision. And Andrew Tate,

00:16:55.840 also a good decision. Now I have to say something about Andrew Tate. As you know,

00:17:04.940 I don't like him personally just because we have some bad blood between us. But there's

00:17:10.980 no denying he puts on a show. Right? So, so I'm going to model what I, what I like to tell

00:17:18.100 you you should learn to do, which is say whatever's the best thing you can say about somebody you

00:17:23.980 don't like or somebody you oppose. I, I don't like Andrew Tate. I don't like him at all. But

00:17:30.380 that's just personal. If I'm being objective, he is an energy monster. And the more you try to attack

00:17:38.420 him, the stronger he gets. He got canceled on every platform and got twice as strong.

00:17:45.440 Okay. I'm not going to ignore that. You can't ignore the fact that he's one of the best energy

00:17:51.340 monsters in the country. That's just a fact. He really is. I'm going to give him another compliment

00:17:57.260 that'll sound like a backhand compliment because it probably is. I saw a woman who was no, no fan 1.00

00:18:04.180 of his on Twitter tweet a picture of him where he wasn't wearing his aviator goggles. And she was

00:18:11.260 mocking him for not being handsome, basically. And here's my compliment. Years ago, and I've told you

00:18:21.300 this story probably a few times, I was, you know, self-deprecating about my own, you know,

00:18:28.020 baldness and, and a bald guy told me, well, if you go to the gym and work out, you'll distract people

00:18:36.300 from your baldness and they'll see that you're fit. And then that will be sort of their main idea when

00:18:42.340 they, they leave you as a, wow, that's a fit person, not like a bald guy. And so I, I've taken

00:18:49.300 that advice. I, I do whatever I can to distract, distract from my weak points or my head, you know,

00:18:58.060 the, the, the ugly face area and try to change whatever I can change. So I try to improve my physique

00:19:05.340 to distract. He does that better than I've ever seen anybody do it. Because if I'm being honest,

00:19:13.760 you know, he's sort of in my category of not really good looking guys, right? If we're being honest,

00:19:19.900 neither of us are good looking, but he does a great job of working on his body and his whole vibe.

00:19:26.580 You know, he's got the cigar, he's got the, he's got the beard, the beard's sort of a concealment thing.

00:19:32.180 He's got the, the glasses and, you know, the whole story and everything. It's really well done.

00:19:38.820 Now, in terms of his philosophies, I don't know if anybody follows him enough to know where it all

00:19:45.500 comes from. You can kind of see all the parts. Like you, you see a little bit from me, a little

00:19:50.560 bit from Cernovich, maybe a little bit from Jordan Peterson, maybe, I'm not sure what mix or who else,

00:19:56.100 but you can see where it all comes from. It's in, in some ways, it's a little bit ordinary,

00:20:02.260 a little bit ordinary. I, I would say Jordan Peterson says new useful things you've never heard

00:20:09.780 before. Cernovich says new useful things in ways you haven't heard before. I try to do the same

00:20:17.620 thing. I'm not sure that Andrew Tate does that. I don't think he's adding to the intellectual

00:20:23.580 conversation, but he packages it brilliantly. And, and here's what, persuasion-wise, he's very

00:20:32.960 strong. So here's what he's actually pulled off that I have to, I have to give him like,

00:20:38.840 you know, a sitting ovation for. He's basically selling a brand to men. He's, he's primarily a

00:20:47.740 brand that men follow, right? And women get angry. Some women follow him, of course, but mostly he's

00:20:54.340 appealing to a type of man who wants a, I don't know, maybe some kind of a role model, for example.

00:21:00.860 But here's the thing he's pulled off. He's managed to convince men that following his example makes

00:21:08.900 them alpha men. Now, I would argue that following his example makes you a beta man by definition.

00:21:21.800 Like, if you're, if you're following yourself, and you're doing what you think is right, and you're 0.98

00:21:27.860 just saying fuck everybody, you might be an alpha. Maybe, you might be. But if you're listening to 0.99

00:21:35.600 Andrew Taint, tell you how to be a man, and then you're smoking cigars and drinking whiskey and

00:21:42.400 looking at expensive cars like he is, I don't know that you're necessarily a alpha. I'm not even

00:21:53.460 sure that alpha and beta make sense. Like, you know, maybe everybody's a little alpha and a little

00:21:58.060 beta, depending on the situation, right? But while Andrew Taint himself does a great job of,

00:22:07.940 you know, presenting himself as an alpha male, he pulls that off. How did he convince other men

00:22:15.240 that following him and, you know, praising him makes them alpha males, when in fact, it does look

00:22:23.920 exactly the opposite. But he's pulling it off. Like, he's, he's got over a half a million Twitter

00:22:30.120 followers and gigantic video. So I have to say that for someone who has, you know, starting with a set

00:22:38.880 of talents, he has maximized, he has maximized, you know, where his talent leads him, because he's got a

00:22:45.600 good talent stack, too. So he's got, yeah, somebody says he's an FBI informant.

00:22:54.800 That would be amazing. I don't think that's true, but it would be amazing. That would be the

00:23:02.300 simulation giving us, you know, just what you wanted.

00:23:06.880 They make affiliate money from selling his program. Is that true? He makes money that way?

00:23:12.060 Anyway. Anyway, he is, he is a genuine, interesting character. And I'll, I will, I will give him

00:23:18.340 legitimately skill. He is a very skilled guy. I'll give him that. I just don't like him personally.

00:23:26.680 All right. So, uh, then Musk says, oh, I also think that if there's ever a nuclear holocaust,

00:23:34.480 it's entirely possible the only survivor will be Andrew Tate.

00:23:40.800 He might be, he, he just survived total cancellation by the entire planet, and he came back stronger.

00:23:48.420 He, he might be the only survivor in a nuclear holocaust. Anyway. 0.83

00:23:53.320 So, uh, Musk does a poll asking people if, uh, Trump should be reinstated.

00:24:02.440 And what do you think of that? Could we be more entertained than Elon Musk buying Twitter

00:24:10.400 and running a poll on Twitter to ask us if Trump should be reinstated?

00:24:16.560 Uh, it doesn't get any better than this. This is like peak entertainment. Like, I, I just wake up and go,

00:24:24.060 oh, what's in the news today?

00:24:28.740 So, uh, the, uh, last I checked, and I'm sure it's changed, uh, it was 52% uh, wanted Trump reinstated.

00:24:37.900 Uh, the best comment on this came from Kyle Becker, uh, who is a real strong follow. I've said it a number of times.

00:24:44.700 If you don't follow Kyle Becker on Twitter, you're, you're missing, you're missing a good follow.

00:24:50.980 All right, so go follow him. Uh, but he had this joke to, most of his stuff is news,

00:24:55.920 but he, he entered my domain a little bit today by just doing a joke.

00:25:01.460 And he did it so well, I'm going to compliment him on it.

00:25:04.400 So, uh, commenting on the, the Trump poll, uh, Kyle Becker tweeted, uh,

00:25:11.240 uh, Dems are going to need to stop the count so they can haul in some mail-in votes. 0.96

00:25:15.680 And they followed up with, hold up, Maricopa just dropped another batch.

00:25:23.200 Because I guess the, the vote, like, suddenly went anti-Trump for a moment.

00:25:27.900 Uh, great call back, Kyle. Good job.

00:25:33.600 Uh, then I saw some other conversation in which, uh, Musk was responding,

00:25:39.500 because he's real active today, yeah, on Twitter.

00:25:42.340 And, uh, I, I took from the context of the comments plus his, his reaction,

00:25:49.640 is that one of the things that Twitter might become is the ultimate polling place.

00:25:56.640 Now, he didn't say that in direct language, but in context, I was sort of, like, picking up the vibe.

00:26:04.500 Because, uh, right now Twitter does these, you know, totally unscientific little polls, right?

00:26:10.040 And, but they're unscientific.

00:26:11.400 I think they're still useful and fun, but they're unscientific.

00:26:14.660 How hard would it be for Twitter to get a little more information about you voluntarily?

00:26:21.240 You know, you, only voluntarily.

00:26:22.440 And you could say, all right, I am this demographic.

00:26:27.080 And then have you randomly selected on various questions and have Twitter push you a poll

00:26:33.480 so you don't even have to be following somebody.

00:26:35.820 It just pushes you a poll.

00:26:37.500 You go, oh, I signed up for this because I, I volunteered to be one of the demographic people who could be polled.

00:26:45.060 All right, I'll vote for this one.

00:26:46.500 And, and, and, and, and, and, and Musk also noted that you would want the polls to be, um, separated by country, at the very least.

00:26:57.820 Maybe a state in some cases.

00:27:00.220 But, what, can you imagine that?

00:27:03.960 Imagine having something close to an instant poll that actually had a lot closer to, you know, scientific validity.

00:27:12.500 I don't know if you could get there with volunteers.

00:27:15.760 I need somebody who's smarter than me to tell me if you could ever get a random sample, no matter how you, how hard you tried, if it's only Twitter users.

00:27:25.700 I don't know if you can get there, but you might be able to, you might be able to get close, or at least close.

00:27:31.140 So, to me, looking at that is enormous.

00:27:36.300 Like, how much would that change everything?

00:27:38.940 If everything had an instant, like, valid poll?

00:27:43.560 I don't know.

00:27:44.460 I'd love that.

00:27:45.720 Just as a tool.

00:27:47.580 Well, AOC continues to flirt with Musk and, uh, answering the question of, uh, Trump being reinstated.

00:27:55.280 AOC tweets, IDK, meaning I don't know.

00:27:59.000 She goes, I don't know, man.

00:28:01.380 Last time he was here, this platform was used to incite an insurrection.

00:28:06.820 Multiple people died.

00:28:08.420 The vice president of the United States was nearly assassinated, and hundreds were injured.

00:28:13.080 But I guess that's not enough for you to answer the question.

00:28:16.280 Twitter poll it is.

00:28:19.080 Um, to which I responded, to AOC.

00:28:22.340 I said, it's going to be hard to gaslight Musk into believing Republicans staged an insurrection without firearms.

00:28:29.000 Only Democrats believe the entire hoax catalog, and then I published the entire hoax catalog, you know, my list of hoaxes.

00:28:38.260 Don't you wonder what AOC does if and when she sees that?

00:28:45.400 You know, I figure, you know, I don't know, since I'm a blue check, but it doesn't mean anything anymore.

00:28:51.020 I don't know if she'd notice.

00:28:53.220 Do you think AOC would notice a comment for me?

00:28:56.500 I notice, I notice all the blue check comments about me.

00:29:00.340 Do you think she would notice?

00:29:01.560 Maybe?

00:29:03.140 Maybe?

00:29:04.260 You know, she'd probably get so much hate on her Twitter feed, she might not look at the comments. 1.00

00:29:09.760 I'm not sure I would if I were her.

00:29:12.240 Anyway, what do you think her brain does when she sees the hoax list? 0.98

00:29:19.040 Does she say, oh, those are not real, and just dismiss it as right-wing fuckery? 0.98

00:29:24.660 Probably, yeah, probably. 0.97

00:29:27.520 I don't think she reads the list.

00:29:29.260 Do you think she reads the items on all 16 items on the list?

00:29:33.340 I don't think so.

00:29:35.040 I doubt it.

00:29:37.760 All right, but this gets us to the next fascinating fact.

00:29:44.820 CBS News announced on Twitter that it might be taking a pause from using Twitter.

00:29:50.620 Do you know why?

00:29:51.340 Some kind of uncertainty about the platform.

00:29:55.780 Yeah.

00:29:56.380 CBS News has some uncertainty about the platform.

00:30:04.680 And then in the related news, Musk asked, what should we do next on Twitter?

00:30:12.140 Well, he just tweeted that.

00:30:13.580 What should Twitter do next?

00:30:15.360 How much do you love that?

00:30:17.840 What should Twitter do next from the head of Twitter?

00:30:21.340 I couldn't love that more.

00:30:24.060 And then you see a bunch of people made suggestions, and he actually reacted to the suggestions.

00:30:30.420 You know, somebody said, bring back Alex Jones.

00:30:33.660 He replied, no.

00:30:37.380 Okay.

00:30:38.260 But the fact that he's actually looking at the suggestions in detail from anybody, anybody.

00:30:44.560 You know, there they are.

00:30:45.400 He probably looked at 300 suggestions this morning.

00:30:48.860 So I made mine to find out what is causing the automatic unfollows.

00:30:59.320 I'm going to tie this all together in a minute.

00:31:01.160 I've talked about this before, and we know it's been going on before and after he took over.

00:31:07.820 So people are definitely, definitely automatically being unfollowed.

00:31:13.900 Don't know why, but it's definitely happening.

00:31:17.720 Apparently, it's not TikTok.

00:31:19.220 I thought TikTok might have too many permissions and be messing with your Twitter.

00:31:23.360 But very few people who have, who responded to my poll on Twitter, very few of them also had TikTok, but they were having this problem.

00:31:31.440 So it's not just TikTok, if it's TikTok at all.

00:31:34.620 It might be other apps.

00:31:35.640 That's possible.

00:31:36.360 Other apps might be doing it.

00:31:38.300 But don't know.

00:31:39.680 So I'd love to know that.

00:31:41.560 Now, will Elon Musk see my comment?

00:31:46.480 It's the second time I've tweeted at him to find out what that's about.

00:31:51.240 Because here's why I think that's important.

00:31:54.380 I feel like if he found out why the automatic unfollows are happening, he would find the darkest, naughtiest part of Twitter.

00:32:08.520 What do you think?

00:32:09.520 Now, I can't rule out a technical bug.

00:32:14.180 It could be like a weird technical bug that under just the right condition, somebody gets unfollowed from you accidentally.

00:32:20.620 Could be.

00:32:21.700 You know, that would be exactly what a bug would do.

00:32:24.660 You know, you could easily imagine that being a bug.

00:32:27.680 But do you think that bug could go on so long without being caught?

00:32:31.880 It would be like a five-year bug that's well understood.

00:32:35.760 Because I've been complaining.

00:32:36.900 I complained to Jack Dorsey about it.

00:32:38.680 So I think that's really high priority.

00:32:43.480 Find out what the unfollow business is all about.

00:32:46.860 Because I think you probably are going to find the nest of bad behavior when you find that.

00:32:53.380 Or a bug.

00:32:54.520 And that would be good to know as well.

00:32:55.660 So what do you think is going to happen to all of the fake news, gaslighting media when Twitter starts fact-checking them?

00:33:10.400 Now, when I say fact-checking, I mean including relevant context, which they're starting to do.

00:33:16.960 So it used to be that only the right got fact-checked.

00:33:21.800 What's going to happen if they all get fact-checked?

00:33:24.480 Here's what I think.

00:33:26.760 That's why CBS has to leave the platform.

00:33:29.360 They can't handle being fact-checked.

00:33:32.440 And I mean that.

00:33:33.780 That's not...

00:33:34.660 Sometimes they say things that sound like a little bit of political team play and just sort of a hyperbole team thing.

00:33:44.100 This is not.

00:33:45.920 They actually would not be able to survive as a news organization if anybody prominent fact-checked them.

00:33:52.680 They wouldn't be able to survive.

00:33:55.260 It's a real problem.

00:33:57.840 And here's the weirdest thing, because reality is just giving us so much entertainment.

00:34:02.800 Do you know what news entity is most likely to survive that?

00:34:06.860 Which news entity is most likely to survive fact-checking on Twitter? 1.00

00:34:12.900 Fucking CNN. 1.00

00:34:14.100 Nope, not Fox News. 1.00

00:34:16.880 I love my Fox News, but they're not going to...

00:34:19.120 They wouldn't survive fact-checking.

00:34:20.920 That's just...

00:34:21.600 I'm sorry.

00:34:22.580 They just wouldn't.

00:34:25.060 They wouldn't.

00:34:26.940 CNN. 1.00

00:34:29.120 Little fucking CNN. 0.99

00:34:31.540 Yeah, because they actually are executing on their plan to be closer to actual news. 0.99

00:34:37.580 They might be the only one who could survive.

00:34:40.180 With the greatest irony of all.

00:34:41.660 The greatest irony.

00:34:44.100 Anyway.

00:34:46.880 So that's fun.

00:34:48.500 There's a whole bunch of good news happening.

00:34:56.320 There's now a competition for ESG.

00:34:59.080 So ESG is, you know, the environmental, social, and governance stuff that BlackRock and some other financial entities are trying to rank other companies to say how wholesome they are in terms of good for the country according to these three things.

00:35:16.660 And now there's a competitor called Strive, or Strive Funds, all one word on Twitter anyway.

00:35:25.940 I'm not sure if it's two words or what.

00:35:28.880 But Strive will only invest in non-ESG funds.

00:35:33.200 So now the free market, now the free market has provided an alternative to ESG.

00:35:41.060 Well, that's what we wanted.

00:35:43.180 That's all we wanted.

00:35:45.460 So, don't you think ESG is just going to be crushed?

00:35:49.660 Because, by definition, a non-ESG will have a wider palette of things to choose from.

00:35:56.500 And if they're looking for profitability, it seems like they'd find it.

00:36:00.360 So I remind you that FTX, that just went out of business, had a very high ESG rating.

00:36:07.860 And petroleum companies did not.

00:36:12.240 So which one do you want to invest in?

00:36:14.740 So that's good.

00:36:17.300 I tweeted yesterday something I thought would get, probably would have got me kicked off of Twitter in the old days.

00:36:23.080 But I'm getting braver now.

00:36:25.520 Like, you can just, you feel like you can say the truth.

00:36:28.760 It still has to be the truth.

00:36:30.860 But you can say it without hesitation now on Twitter.

00:36:34.520 If it's true.

00:36:36.360 And here's what I tweeted.

00:36:38.040 I said, I'm not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature 100 years in advance won't have any trouble handling climate change.

00:36:51.260 Just live with that for a moment.

00:36:53.300 If we're clever enough to know what the temperature will be in 100 years, we're definitely clever enough to figure out how to survive climate change.

00:37:03.580 Because one of those things is close to impossible.

00:37:07.860 The other one is just really, really hard.

00:37:13.600 If we can do impossible, I think we can handle really, really hard.

00:37:18.820 Can't we?

00:37:19.480 And I would recommend that as your holiday answer.

00:37:27.080 So try that on your relatives, and then just walk away.

00:37:33.760 I better refill my drink.

00:37:36.120 I don't know.

00:37:37.040 So you want to do it like this.

00:37:38.740 You know, you'll be having a sip of your beverage.

00:37:41.760 And you'll be with your family members, the cousins, you don't see that often, and the uncles and stuff.

00:37:47.700 And they'll say, you know, climate change is going to kill us all.

00:37:50.880 And you just sip your beverage and just take a sip and go.

00:37:54.080 So, I don't know.

00:37:57.920 I think a species that can predict the sea level 100 years from now won't have much trouble handling climate change.

00:38:10.260 I need a refill and just walk away.

00:38:12.980 Just walk away.

00:38:19.820 All right.

00:38:23.160 Geraldo is not pleased that Republicans getting control of the House are going to go launch investigations.

00:38:31.940 So here's what Geraldo said in a tweet.

00:38:33.260 He said, Republicans get control of the House, and the first they do is, no, not explore how to tame inflation or crime, et cetera.

00:38:43.300 They launch an investigation of President and Hunter Biden.

00:38:47.760 Boring, divisive, retro, unwanted, zero positive impact on the lives of Americans.

00:38:54.580 Is this the real red wave?

00:38:58.400 To which I say, first of all, I love me some Geraldo.

00:39:02.180 I love Geraldo.

00:39:04.700 Do I agree with him all the time?

00:39:06.440 No.

00:39:07.020 No.

00:39:07.340 But that's not my standard for why I love him.

00:39:10.140 I love Geraldo because he's my role model of not being affected by embarrassment.

00:39:16.840 Right? 1.00

00:39:18.020 That's a big part of his career success, is that that fucker has balls the size of Iowa. 1.00

00:39:25.920 He is a really brave individual. 1.00

00:39:29.580 Not just physically.

00:39:30.840 He's physically brave.

00:39:32.180 But he doesn't get embarrassed.

00:39:34.640 And wow.

00:39:36.300 Is that something to learn from?

00:39:39.740 But here was my comment to him about all these investigations.

00:39:44.380 It's not as if Republicans can pass any legislation.

00:39:48.520 The public decided that we would tie them up and not let them make any more laws.

00:39:57.040 So we voted ourselves a totally deadlocked Congress so that we would make them not do stuff anymore because they're doing too much.

00:40:07.820 Stop doing stuff.

00:40:09.040 Do a little less.

00:40:10.400 Do a little bit less.

00:40:11.560 That would be good with us.

00:40:12.340 So we've got plenty of time because they don't have to worry about legislation.

00:40:16.560 But on top of that, that is my top priority.

00:40:20.300 The Hunter Biden investigation is my top priority.

00:40:25.320 Now, when you say top priority, it doesn't mean it's the most important thing in the world because, you know, maybe that's defense or something else.

00:40:33.580 But those other things are largely being dealt with.

00:40:38.620 Not perfectly.

00:40:39.700 Could be better.

00:40:40.900 But something's happening, right?

00:40:42.640 There's some activity going on.

00:40:44.200 But the Hunter Biden thing, the laptop, nothing is happening.

00:40:49.580 And I believe that the country really, really needs to know if those 50 intel professionals who said it was Russian disinformation, are they working on the side of the United States or not?

00:41:02.860 That's a pretty big question.

00:41:04.860 To know if our intelligence agencies are working on the side of the United States, I would like to know that.

00:41:10.900 You tell me there's something more important than that?

00:41:14.200 I don't know what it is.

00:41:16.800 So don't be gaslighted into thinking any of this is unimportant.

00:41:21.240 Some of the other investigations might be gratuitous, you know, revengey.

00:41:25.680 I don't know.

00:41:26.540 But the laptop thing and whatever Hunter was doing, we need to know that.

00:41:32.940 That's not trivial.

00:41:34.860 That's right at the top.

00:41:36.320 We're fighting a war in Ukraine and a sort of a war with China in a different way.

00:41:43.020 And we don't know if our commander-in-chief is compromised.

00:41:48.060 The reason we did the Russia collusion investigations was that there was enough, it turned out fake evidence, but there was enough reason to say,

00:42:00.940 I don't know if this is true, I think it's not true, but if there's any chance that a sitting president is colluding with Putin, we probably need to know that, right? 0.98

00:42:13.140 Now, it turns out the evidence was manufactured in bullshit. 0.87

00:42:15.940 But I don't hate the fact that we looked into it. 0.98

00:42:20.900 As it turns out, it was a huge waste of time, but probably had to do it.

00:42:25.480 So, yeah, I'm pro-investigation of that one anyway.

00:42:31.240 Does anybody disagree?

00:42:32.040 I honestly think that's pretty close to the top of our national priorities.

00:42:38.140 I don't think it's revenge, and I don't think it's purely political.

00:42:42.120 It has those elements, but I don't think that's why you do it.

00:42:45.740 I really want to know.

00:42:46.640 It's very important to me.

00:42:49.440 All right.

00:42:51.740 Apparently this FTX thing just continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.

00:42:55.740 Now we learn the FTX didn't only fund Democrats.

00:43:00.600 They were one of the... 0.89

00:43:01.780 You're naive.

00:43:05.440 Old Tom, too, here, tells me I'm naive. 0.80

00:43:09.540 Tom, apparently you must be new to this jail,

00:43:13.760 because I don't want to use the C word on you,

00:43:18.540 because we're having such a nice time here.

00:43:20.920 But you know what you are.

00:43:22.780 You're the C word. 0.59

00:43:23.780 All right.

00:43:25.740 So FTX not only majorly funded the Democrats,

00:43:32.940 but they also funded McCarthy

00:43:35.840 and some anti-MAGA candidates.

00:43:40.500 So apparently it was an anti-Trump movement

00:43:43.020 even more than it was a Democrat movement.

00:43:46.040 Because remember, FTX had Trump lose

00:43:48.120 as an item on their balance sheet,

00:43:50.700 and they weren't just funding Democrats.

00:43:54.460 They were funding what they believed would be normal Republicans who were anti-Trump.

00:44:00.620 So it gets more interesting as we go.

00:44:04.460 Some say it was the Uniparty.

00:44:08.280 Do you remember Forbes, the magazine,

00:44:10.800 back when magazines were a thing?

00:44:12.560 Well, they still exist in some form.

00:44:15.320 I guess the magazine still exists,

00:44:17.880 but at least online.

00:44:18.920 And here's something they actually said.

00:44:23.060 They printed a story, a major story,

00:44:28.160 about the FTX CEO of Alameda,

00:44:32.400 which was associated with FTX and was part of the whole scam.

00:44:37.220 And she was the girlfriend, 20-year-old girlfriend of Sam Bankman.

00:44:43.680 So Forbes does a major piece about the girlfriend of Sam Bankman.

00:44:48.880 And here's the headline.

00:44:54.880 Forbes calls the FTX girlfriend person

00:45:00.280 a darling of the alt-right.

00:45:05.440 A darling of the alt-right?

00:45:11.020 This is Forbes.

00:45:13.540 Forbes.

00:45:17.560 What?

00:45:19.020 And here's how they supported it.

00:45:22.160 Apparently there's one person who's on the alt-right

00:45:24.720 who is saying that the problems weren't so much her fault

00:45:30.120 but maybe the prior leadership or something.

00:45:34.920 And that's it.

00:45:36.680 That was enough for Forbes to run a headline

00:45:40.480 that she's a darling of the alt-right.

00:45:42.840 Because there's one guy who thinks

00:45:44.140 that some of the details of the story are wrong

00:45:46.220 and that she might be getting blamed for something

00:45:49.040 that could have been some other guy's fault.

00:45:51.580 That's it.

00:45:54.720 I don't think there was anything...

00:45:57.620 I don't remember.

00:45:58.440 I didn't read every word of it.

00:46:00.160 But I don't think the story even mentioned

00:46:02.040 that they fund Democrats.

00:46:04.560 What's going on here?

00:46:06.440 This is Forbes.

00:46:09.500 I don't even understand that.

00:46:11.860 I mean, it's the...

00:46:13.800 This is the depths of unethical journalism.

00:46:18.000 There's nothing you can say about this

00:46:19.500 but this is just deeply unethical.

00:46:21.720 And I hate to say that

00:46:23.500 because I like the Forbes family

00:46:25.360 and I like the publication.

00:46:29.580 What's going on here?

00:46:32.000 Do you even understand?

00:46:34.020 Like, why would they even do that?

00:46:36.820 It's a misprint?

00:46:37.980 No, it's not a misprint.

00:46:40.080 All right.

00:46:40.620 All right, that's just an open question.

00:46:42.240 I don't know what the hell's going on there.

00:46:43.300 Well, call me an optimist

00:46:47.960 because I'm feeling quite optimistic today.

00:46:51.900 But I love me some free markets.

00:46:54.800 Anybody else like free markets?

00:46:56.280 Of course you do.

00:46:57.620 We like competition too.

00:46:59.260 It seems like wherever there's competition,

00:47:01.200 something good comes out of it.

00:47:02.300 But look at all the things

00:47:04.760 that are on the,

00:47:06.000 let's say, on the correction path.

00:47:09.020 So these are things that are still bad

00:47:10.800 but they seem to be on the correction path

00:47:13.520 because of competition.

00:47:16.340 All right.

00:47:16.620 And if you don't see them all together,

00:47:19.420 your brain can miss

00:47:21.080 how good things are going right now.

00:47:23.680 All right.

00:47:23.920 So these are all things

00:47:25.020 that are currently being fixed

00:47:26.660 by competition

00:47:28.140 but are not fixed yet.

00:47:29.540 So these are still broken things

00:47:31.900 but they're clearly

00:47:32.580 on the way to being fixed.

00:47:34.400 School choice.

00:47:36.620 Right.

00:47:37.140 Corey D'Angelo,

00:47:38.260 big credit for that.

00:47:39.600 But school choice is clearly growing

00:47:42.440 and that's competition for schools.

00:47:45.280 So nothing's fixed yet

00:47:46.560 but that's the path.

00:47:49.600 All right.

00:47:49.780 So we're going in the right direction.

00:47:51.560 And it's, you know, improving.

00:47:53.620 At the same time,

00:47:54.980 I mentioned the ESG has competition now

00:47:57.660 with this drive funds.

00:48:00.080 Free Market

00:48:00.780 allowed somebody to create a fund

00:48:03.220 that competes with it.

00:48:04.980 That's all I wanted.

00:48:06.400 That's all I wanted.

00:48:07.400 If it turns out

00:48:08.200 that the ESG funds

00:48:09.620 outperform

00:48:11.020 the non-ESG funds,

00:48:14.640 okay.

00:48:15.480 I'll just say I was wrong

00:48:16.740 and then I will,

00:48:18.400 then I'll go invest some money

00:48:19.920 in some ESG funds.

00:48:22.260 I'll say,

00:48:22.540 ah, I was really wrong about that.

00:48:24.240 But I'm sure glad I know

00:48:25.420 where to put my money now.

00:48:27.840 So, however it turns out,

00:48:30.320 however it turns out,

00:48:32.040 competition moved us forward.

00:48:34.420 We would become smarter.

00:48:36.540 How about Twitter fact-checking

00:48:38.460 the fake news?

00:48:40.540 Perfect.

00:48:41.840 Twitter is the competition

00:48:43.080 for the mainstream news

00:48:44.780 and it's actually a fair fight now

00:48:46.200 for the first time.

00:48:47.700 And the funny thing is

00:48:49.720 that Elon Musk's a Democrat 1.00

00:48:51.080 who's just sick of their shit. 1.00

00:48:56.040 Musk is not alt-right 1.00

00:48:58.000 or right or conservative.

00:48:59.800 He's not Republican.

00:49:01.600 He is a pure Democrat 1.00

00:49:02.800 who is sick of their shit. 1.00

00:49:04.980 He was just embarrassed 1.00

00:49:05.960 to be associated with them.

00:49:07.340 That's what it looks like.

00:49:08.620 I can't read his mind.

00:49:10.320 But it looks like

00:49:10.760 he was just embarrassed

00:49:11.600 to be associated 1.00

00:49:12.380 with such bullshit. 1.00

00:49:13.900 And so that temporarily 1.00

00:49:15.140 he's, you know,

00:49:16.500 he's doing his own thing

00:49:17.600 until he can fix them.

00:49:18.960 And one of the things,

00:49:19.760 one of the ways

00:49:20.240 he can fix the Democrats 1.00

00:49:21.420 is to call bullshit 1.00

00:49:23.160 on their bullshit 1.00

00:49:23.800 and make them compete 1.00

00:49:25.600 on policy.

00:49:27.600 What happens if fake news

00:49:29.940 is mortally wounded by Musk?

00:49:33.080 Because I think he has.

00:49:34.780 If you haven't noticed it yet,

00:49:36.840 you will.

00:49:38.080 I believe fake news

00:49:39.360 has been mortally wounded.

00:49:40.920 And the big gaslighting stuff,

00:49:43.300 the stuff like we'd never seen before,

00:49:45.200 you know,

00:49:45.400 the Russia collusion,

00:49:46.640 I mean,

00:49:46.880 that was a whole other level,

00:49:48.420 wasn't it?

00:49:49.400 I think Twitter will just

00:49:51.140 erase all that stuff. 0.99

00:49:52.880 There'll still be bullshit, 0.99

00:49:54.080 but it's going to be 0.99

00:49:54.840 in the weeds now.

00:49:55.820 It's not going to be

00:49:56.400 a major national,

00:49:57.960 you know,

00:49:59.080 hallucination.

00:50:01.780 So competition for fake news,

00:50:03.940 and, you know,

00:50:04.360 we see CNN normalizing

00:50:06.460 toward the middle.

00:50:07.120 That's also competition

00:50:08.120 against the fake news.

00:50:10.060 We see we're trying

00:50:11.200 to pull business

00:50:11.920 out of China.

00:50:12.700 That's the right kind

00:50:13.820 of competition.

00:50:14.820 We see that Congress

00:50:15.940 is deadlocked.

00:50:17.820 Congress is deadlocked.

00:50:19.540 Competition.

00:50:20.860 The only way Congress

00:50:21.940 can get anything done

00:50:23.600 now

00:50:24.640 is by not being 1.00

00:50:26.300 fucking assholes. 1.00

00:50:28.860 Hey, 1.00

00:50:29.740 the public just

00:50:30.720 narrowed their path

00:50:31.880 to,

00:50:32.800 all right,

00:50:33.560 before you wanted

00:50:34.760 to spend all of your time 1.00

00:50:36.000 being fucking assholes, 1.00

00:50:37.480 because it worked. 1.00

00:50:39.280 You could still

00:50:39.880 get your thing passed

00:50:40.740 because you had

00:50:41.120 the majority.

00:50:42.380 Now you can't be.

00:50:43.380 Now you can't be 1.00

00:50:43.980 a fucking asshole. 1.00

00:50:45.420 There's this little 1.00

00:50:46.080 narrow path

00:50:46.920 of reasonableness

00:50:48.460 that if you want

00:50:49.600 to get anything done,

00:50:51.100 you're going to have

00:50:51.920 to find that narrow path,

00:50:53.260 and there's going

00:50:53.800 to be some people

00:50:54.360 from the other side

00:50:55.240 who are on it.

00:50:57.300 Perfect.

00:50:58.980 How about the fact

00:51:00.000 that nuclear is now

00:51:01.200 no longer the worst

00:51:02.220 thing in the world

00:51:02.820 and it's competing

00:51:03.540 with solar?

00:51:05.060 Perfect.

00:51:06.360 I don't want the world

00:51:07.380 to be only solar.

00:51:09.480 I don't want the world

00:51:10.180 to be only windmills

00:51:12.080 or only nuclear.

00:51:13.380 I want them

00:51:14.180 to fight it out.

00:51:16.260 We're there.

00:51:17.580 Again,

00:51:18.140 we're in a bad place,

00:51:20.020 but we're clearly

00:51:21.520 using competition now

00:51:22.760 for the first time

00:51:23.820 because, remember,

00:51:24.900 before nuclear

00:51:26.040 got its reputation fixed,

00:51:28.780 Michael Schellenberger,

00:51:29.920 thank you,

00:51:30.800 before it fixed

00:51:31.680 its reputation,

00:51:33.440 it wasn't competitive.

00:51:35.340 Now it is.

00:51:36.760 So when you start

00:51:38.260 looking at everything

00:51:39.140 that's wrong,

00:51:40.880 you start noticing,

00:51:42.440 wow,

00:51:43.200 there's a competing,

00:51:44.440 there's like a thing

00:51:45.140 forming

00:51:45.580 that's an offset.

00:51:47.320 It's not there yet,

00:51:48.320 but it's clearly forming.

00:51:50.240 So I'll tell you,

00:51:52.300 there's one thing

00:51:52.840 that America gets right 0.86

00:51:53.960 and it's this.

00:51:56.460 The one thing

00:51:57.160 America gets right

00:51:58.040 consistently

00:51:58.940 is free markets.

00:52:01.820 Now we put

00:52:02.960 our little laws on them

00:52:04.020 and we get them wrong

00:52:04.700 temporarily,

00:52:05.700 but we do correct.

00:52:07.440 We do correct.

00:52:08.840 And you're seeing

00:52:09.360 a massive,

00:52:10.520 a massive correction

00:52:12.140 going on in America.

00:52:13.540 So it's going

00:52:15.060 to look like chaos.

00:52:17.480 It'll look like chaos

00:52:18.620 for a while.

00:52:19.240 It's going to look like

00:52:20.060 everything's broken

00:52:20.880 for a while.

00:52:22.180 Because it is.

00:52:23.320 You have to,

00:52:23.640 you have to,

00:52:24.280 basically you have to

00:52:25.460 eat your baby

00:52:26.080 to have more babies.

00:52:27.300 It's just the way

00:52:27.900 the world works.

00:52:30.660 And so,

00:52:32.080 and now here's one

00:52:33.280 that will just

00:52:34.240 blow your mind.

00:52:35.540 I saw Speaker McCarthy

00:52:37.380 say directly

00:52:38.500 in public

00:52:40.000 that we need

00:52:41.640 more immigration,

00:52:42.740 not less.

00:52:43.540 Did any of you

00:52:45.420 catch that?

00:52:47.940 Republican leader

00:52:49.060 of the House

00:52:49.920 said in public,

00:52:52.660 loudly,

00:52:53.600 and without any,

00:52:54.420 without any kind

00:52:56.360 of qualifier,

00:52:58.460 we need more,

00:52:59.320 more immigration.

00:53:00.760 How many of you

00:53:01.600 agree that we need

00:53:02.900 more immigration?

00:53:07.780 This is very

00:53:08.740 interesting.

00:53:09.960 Yeah.

00:53:10.300 Everybody I saw

00:53:11.300 on Twitter said yes.

00:53:12.200 The ones who said

00:53:14.080 no,

00:53:15.640 all right,

00:53:16.120 speaking to the

00:53:16.880 ones who say no,

00:53:18.820 I'm not going to

00:53:20.200 persuade you,

00:53:20.960 I'm going to

00:53:21.420 inform you.

00:53:22.980 Okay?

00:53:24.300 So,

00:53:24.880 I'm just going to

00:53:26.120 give you information

00:53:27.000 that is clear

00:53:27.940 you don't have.

00:53:29.400 And it goes like this.

00:53:32.220 If we don't

00:53:33.080 increase our population

00:53:34.260 all the time,

00:53:36.180 the economy fails.

00:53:38.500 Did you know that?

00:53:39.380 So the people

00:53:40.220 are saying no

00:53:40.840 to more immigration.

00:53:42.060 Did you know

00:53:42.660 that there isn't

00:53:44.380 any way to support

00:53:45.180 the economy

00:53:45.720 without it?

00:53:46.820 Now,

00:53:47.100 the alternative

00:53:47.620 which you might

00:53:48.300 be thinking is,

00:53:49.300 but wait,

00:53:50.020 but wait,

00:53:50.960 the people who

00:53:51.580 are already here

00:53:52.120 will just have

00:53:52.600 more babies.

00:53:53.720 And we should

00:53:54.120 do that too.

00:53:55.560 But do you know

00:53:56.360 why Americans 0.99

00:53:57.240 don't have more

00:53:57.900 babies?

00:54:00.960 I don't think

00:54:01.760 it's fixable.

00:54:03.400 The reason

00:54:04.040 Americans don't 1.00

00:54:04.820 have more babies

00:54:05.680 is we're too

00:54:06.860 selfish.

00:54:09.280 We're too

00:54:09.860 selfish.

00:54:11.380 That's it.

00:54:12.960 If an immigrant 1.00

00:54:14.380 comes over here

00:54:15.240 with absolutely

00:54:15.880 nothing,

00:54:17.040 they'll still

00:54:17.520 have a baby.

00:54:18.960 They'll still

00:54:19.600 have a baby,

00:54:20.560 even if they

00:54:21.140 have nothing,

00:54:22.200 because they'll

00:54:22.980 share their

00:54:23.440 nothing with

00:54:23.920 the baby.

00:54:25.880 But an American 0.63

00:54:26.760 will say,

00:54:27.420 if I had a baby,

00:54:29.560 I couldn't go

00:54:30.080 out tonight,

00:54:31.740 couldn't have

00:54:33.240 my career,

00:54:33.960 it's going to

00:54:34.960 change how I

00:54:35.820 look,

00:54:37.520 I'm going to

00:54:37.980 be locked down

00:54:39.260 with some guy

00:54:40.000 I don't like

00:54:40.700 after five years,

00:54:41.940 ends up in

00:54:42.440 divorce.

00:54:43.680 I don't want

00:54:44.100 any of that.

00:54:47.320 Now,

00:54:48.100 it's the culture 1.00

00:54:48.820 stupid is correct. 1.00

00:54:50.680 American culture 1.00

00:54:51.660 is anti-baby.

00:54:55.020 Would you agree?

00:54:56.380 It's anti-baby

00:54:57.440 because the way

00:54:58.180 our economics

00:54:58.900 and our social

00:55:00.460 structure is,

00:55:01.660 we want both

00:55:02.500 the mother and

00:55:03.100 the father working,

00:55:03.960 because they

00:55:04.780 both have to

00:55:05.280 work.

00:55:06.100 If the mother

00:55:06.760 and the father

00:55:07.200 are both

00:55:07.600 working,

00:55:08.420 the pressure

00:55:08.920 on having

00:55:10.060 kids is just

00:55:10.860 extreme,

00:55:12.000 extreme not to

00:55:12.960 have them.

00:55:13.600 Or to have

00:55:14.180 two or one

00:55:16.300 and call it

00:55:17.600 good.

00:55:18.800 But the

00:55:19.380 people who

00:55:20.180 wanted to

00:55:20.540 have six

00:55:20.980 babies,

00:55:21.800 that tends

00:55:22.360 to be

00:55:23.040 billionaires

00:55:23.920 and some

00:55:24.700 people who

00:55:25.180 are conservative

00:55:27.060 or people

00:55:28.600 don't use

00:55:29.020 birth control,

00:55:29.720 I guess.

00:55:30.800 But let me

00:55:32.260 say this as

00:55:32.820 clearly as

00:55:33.360 possible.

00:55:34.080 And for

00:55:34.800 those of

00:55:35.200 you who

00:55:35.480 think we

00:55:35.920 don't need

00:55:36.660 more population,

00:55:37.860 well, let me

00:55:38.780 back off.

00:55:41.860 Forgetting about

00:55:42.520 how the

00:55:43.000 population grows,

00:55:44.180 either from

00:55:44.820 our own

00:55:45.300 babies or

00:55:46.200 from the

00:55:46.520 outside,

00:55:47.840 can I sell

00:55:48.620 you all,

00:55:49.180 I want to

00:55:49.480 see if I

00:55:49.780 can get

00:55:50.060 every person

00:55:50.600 to agree,

00:55:52.180 that all

00:55:52.660 economists

00:55:53.180 agree,

00:55:53.800 all of them,

00:55:54.820 both sides,

00:55:55.460 every economist

00:55:56.000 agrees,

00:55:56.820 your population

00:55:57.540 needs to be

00:55:58.400 increasing for

00:56:00.040 your economy

00:56:00.700 to be

00:56:01.100 healthy.

00:56:03.160 Can you

00:56:03.680 give me a

00:56:04.020 yes on

00:56:04.360 that?

00:56:05.420 I don't

00:56:05.920 believe there's

00:56:06.340 any economist

00:56:06.940 who disagrees

00:56:07.620 with that.

00:56:08.620 Now, we

00:56:08.900 can talk

00:56:09.740 separately about

00:56:11.180 where the

00:56:11.540 people come

00:56:12.020 from.

00:56:12.560 It's a

00:56:12.840 separate

00:56:13.040 decision.

00:56:13.440 Some are

00:56:17.040 saying no.

00:56:19.040 Okay.

00:56:20.460 If you're

00:56:21.000 saying no,

00:56:21.580 you don't

00:56:21.940 have any

00:56:22.560 experience

00:56:24.320 with

00:56:25.000 economics.

00:56:26.720 And I

00:56:27.060 would ask

00:56:27.440 you to go

00:56:27.880 talk to

00:56:28.260 somebody who

00:56:28.680 does.

00:56:30.080 No country

00:56:31.240 has ever

00:56:31.620 succeeded with

00:56:32.440 a shrinking

00:56:33.540 population,

00:56:34.520 have they?

00:56:36.380 Not if

00:56:37.160 they want

00:56:37.420 to be a

00:56:37.780 superpower.

00:56:39.220 I mean,

00:56:39.480 I can

00:56:39.760 imagine a

00:56:41.060 small country,

00:56:42.540 let's say

00:56:43.040 they use

00:56:43.760 tourism.

00:56:45.780 Or let's

00:56:46.520 say a

00:56:46.780 special case,

00:56:48.160 the Middle

00:56:48.480 East.

00:56:49.360 Could a

00:56:49.920 Middle East

00:56:50.460 oil country

00:56:51.440 have low

00:56:53.320 population

00:56:55.180 growth and

00:56:55.840 still do

00:56:56.220 fine?

00:56:57.300 Probably.

00:56:58.660 Probably.

00:56:59.400 Because they

00:56:59.720 would have,

00:57:00.120 like, oil

00:57:00.600 would be their 0.94

00:57:01.120 entire economy.

00:57:02.300 So you

00:57:02.640 could have

00:57:02.840 a special

00:57:03.300 case.

00:57:04.680 There could

00:57:04.960 be a

00:57:05.240 special case.

00:57:06.800 Japan, I

00:57:07.380 would argue,

00:57:08.180 is in

00:57:09.700 bad, bad

00:57:10.660 shape because

00:57:12.000 they're

00:57:12.420 demographics.

00:57:14.180 I don't

00:57:14.460 think Japan,

00:57:16.660 as well as

00:57:17.320 they're doing,

00:57:18.280 and Japan's

00:57:18.960 solid.

00:57:19.840 Remember,

00:57:20.440 Japan used

00:57:20.980 to be

00:57:21.260 ruling the

00:57:22.620 economic

00:57:23.240 boom in

00:57:24.980 when?

00:57:25.400 The 60s

00:57:25.940 and 70s.

00:57:27.140 But now

00:57:27.860 they're not.

00:57:28.320 Now they're

00:57:28.600 just a

00:57:29.260 me too

00:57:29.660 kind of a

00:57:30.100 company.

00:57:31.320 Or a

00:57:31.640 country.

00:57:34.120 Yeah.

00:57:34.740 India is

00:57:35.260 huge and

00:57:35.800 in poverty,

00:57:37.020 but India's

00:57:38.120 economy is

00:57:38.820 growing like

00:57:39.340 crazy,

00:57:39.760 which will

00:57:41.540 solve their

00:57:42.140 poverty.

00:57:45.060 So I

00:57:45.940 guess I'll

00:57:46.360 give you

00:57:46.680 that there

00:57:47.040 could be a

00:57:47.500 special case

00:57:48.240 where a

00:57:49.880 shrinking or

00:57:50.500 a stable

00:57:50.880 number of

00:57:53.380 people doesn't

00:57:54.020 hurt you. 0.82

00:57:54.780 But America

00:57:55.580 is not the

00:57:56.100 special case.

00:57:57.500 America is a 0.61

00:57:58.200 case where

00:57:58.840 our economic

00:57:59.900 power is

00:58:00.500 because of

00:58:00.860 the number

00:58:01.120 of people.

00:58:02.900 Suppose we

00:58:03.660 had stopped

00:58:04.720 immigration when

00:58:07.040 there were

00:58:07.620 only 10

00:58:08.460 million people

00:58:08.980 in the

00:58:09.220 country.

00:58:11.160 We wouldn't

00:58:11.900 be in the

00:58:12.220 United States.

00:58:14.220 Immigration is 1.00

00:58:15.060 what made

00:58:15.480 us, in

00:58:16.940 part, who

00:58:17.620 we are.

00:58:19.440 So here's

00:58:20.360 the real

00:58:20.620 mind-bender.

00:58:21.560 Here it

00:58:21.800 comes.

00:58:25.220 Trump

00:58:25.700 could say

00:58:28.460 we need

00:58:28.900 more people.

00:58:31.220 And that

00:58:31.800 would just 0.99

00:58:32.180 fuck everything

00:58:33.040 up. 1.00

00:58:34.080 If he said

00:58:34.960 we need

00:58:35.360 more people,

00:58:36.540 we'd just

00:58:37.300 have to have

00:58:37.820 tight border

00:58:38.320 security,

00:58:38.980 to make

00:58:39.280 sure the

00:58:39.840 criminals

00:58:40.280 are not

00:58:40.620 coming over,

00:58:41.560 that's very

00:58:42.440 much what

00:58:42.960 he's already

00:58:43.500 said.

00:58:44.860 Because I

00:58:45.460 don't know

00:58:45.860 that he's

00:58:46.260 ever said

00:58:46.700 we need

00:58:47.080 fewer

00:58:47.520 citizens,

00:58:49.020 has he?

00:58:50.740 Has Trump

00:58:51.440 ever said

00:58:51.880 we need

00:58:52.260 fewer

00:58:52.620 humans

00:58:53.460 who are

00:58:54.040 in America?

00:58:55.280 Or has he

00:58:55.640 only said

00:58:56.080 it has to

00:58:56.480 be legal?

00:58:59.240 He's

00:58:59.680 in a

00:58:59.920 perfect

00:59:00.220 position

00:59:00.780 where he

00:59:02.020 can reverse

00:59:02.580 everything

00:59:03.140 they said

00:59:03.620 about him

00:59:04.020 by saying

00:59:04.520 we need

00:59:04.960 more brown

00:59:05.480 people coming

00:59:06.000 across the

00:59:06.500 border.

00:59:06.740 And by

00:59:07.520 the way,

00:59:08.040 more of

00:59:08.700 everything.

00:59:09.700 More Africans,

00:59:11.020 more Nigerians, 0.82

00:59:12.780 more non-shithole

00:59:15.320 countries.

00:59:19.240 He could just

00:59:20.040 say we need

00:59:20.500 a ball.

00:59:21.980 But we need

00:59:22.840 the right

00:59:23.140 ones.

00:59:23.840 We don't

00:59:24.260 need every

00:59:24.820 Nigerian.

00:59:26.220 We want

00:59:26.920 their good

00:59:27.240 ones.

00:59:27.520 some of

00:59:31.580 you are

00:59:31.800 saying he

00:59:32.200 has said

00:59:32.700 that.

00:59:33.420 Not well.

00:59:34.680 And not in

00:59:35.280 a situation

00:59:35.840 where we

00:59:36.340 can say

00:59:36.740 unambiguously

00:59:37.620 our birth

00:59:38.660 rate is

00:59:39.040 too low.

00:59:40.060 I've never

00:59:40.720 heard Trump

00:59:41.320 say our

00:59:41.720 birth rate

00:59:42.160 is low.

00:59:42.940 We need

00:59:43.260 more people.

00:59:44.620 He's never

00:59:44.940 said that.

00:59:46.060 But that's

00:59:46.460 what McCarthy

00:59:46.980 did.

00:59:48.200 So McCarthy,

00:59:49.200 this is

00:59:49.660 actually a

00:59:50.100 service to

00:59:50.840 the country.

00:59:51.760 So McCarthy

00:59:52.200 did a service

00:59:52.860 to the

00:59:53.180 country by

00:59:54.680 floating this

00:59:55.440 and taking

00:59:56.040 the hit if

00:59:56.680 you don't

00:59:56.940 like it.

00:59:58.520 So let

00:59:59.460 me give

00:59:59.760 Speaker

01:00:00.440 McCarthy

01:00:00.940 a kind

01:00:03.420 of a big

01:00:03.900 congratulations

01:00:05.720 on that.

01:00:06.720 It's not

01:00:07.220 easy to

01:00:07.700 say something

01:00:08.160 like that

01:00:08.780 when you

01:00:09.160 know your

01:00:09.460 party is

01:00:09.920 going to

01:00:10.080 have a

01:00:10.320 reaction to

01:00:10.860 it.

01:00:11.820 Especially

01:00:12.260 brand new

01:00:12.940 on the

01:00:13.200 job,

01:00:13.500 right?

01:00:15.060 Well,

01:00:15.420 you don't

01:00:15.600 like,

01:00:16.060 okay,

01:00:16.480 maybe you

01:00:16.820 don't like

01:00:17.100 McCarthy

01:00:17.460 for other

01:00:18.080 reasons.

01:00:18.640 I'm not

01:00:18.920 arguing the

01:00:19.420 other reasons.

01:00:20.760 I'm just

01:00:21.120 going to say

01:00:21.520 this was

01:00:22.960 good

01:00:23.260 government.

01:00:25.080 Good

01:00:25.320 government.

01:00:25.820 Because he

01:00:26.180 said what

01:00:26.660 you don't

01:00:27.100 expect a

01:00:27.760 Republican

01:00:28.200 to say.

01:00:29.420 He was

01:00:30.160 right in

01:00:31.620 terms of

01:00:32.000 economics.

01:00:34.060 And he

01:00:34.720 had a plan.

01:00:36.020 He had a

01:00:36.540 plan, a

01:00:36.940 very specific

01:00:37.520 plan, you

01:00:38.520 know, fix

01:00:38.880 border security.

01:00:39.680 We know how

01:00:40.180 to do that.

01:00:41.340 And tighten up

01:00:42.420 our vetting,

01:00:43.300 but still let

01:00:43.960 in more

01:00:44.300 people.

01:00:46.200 That's as good

01:00:46.900 as you can

01:00:47.280 get.

01:00:48.380 I'm sure I'll

01:00:49.260 criticize McCarthy

01:00:50.300 later for some

01:00:51.940 other thing he

01:00:52.460 does.

01:00:52.720 But I'm

01:00:54.200 going to give

01:00:54.620 him this

01:00:55.280 as an

01:00:56.600 A+.

01:00:57.060 This was

01:01:00.820 an A-plus

01:01:01.360 for the

01:01:02.040 country.

01:01:02.820 I don't

01:01:03.180 think it

01:01:03.440 helped him.

01:01:04.320 I think it

01:01:04.700 helped the

01:01:04.980 country.

01:01:09.220 How weird

01:01:09.940 is it,

01:01:10.860 or coincidental,

01:01:12.160 or is it

01:01:12.580 telling us

01:01:13.040 something,

01:01:14.060 that in my

01:01:14.980 opinion, the

01:01:15.600 two most

01:01:16.100 talented

01:01:16.520 politicians in

01:01:17.540 the world

01:01:18.040 at the

01:01:18.980 moment are

01:01:19.600 both women? 0.98

01:01:20.180 You know, I

01:01:22.640 always complain

01:01:23.300 when we say

01:01:23.940 it's the

01:01:24.800 first woman

01:01:26.240 to do

01:01:26.840 whatever job,

01:01:27.780 or the

01:01:28.060 first black

01:01:29.080 person elected

01:01:29.980 to whatever,

01:01:31.340 because I

01:01:31.720 think, are

01:01:32.200 we past

01:01:32.660 that?

01:01:34.460 Like,

01:01:35.280 where's the

01:01:37.500 news value

01:01:38.180 of the

01:01:39.200 first black

01:01:40.180 American who

01:01:41.260 is doing

01:01:41.960 some job

01:01:42.660 or gets

01:01:43.240 elected?

01:01:44.060 Like, where's

01:01:44.440 the news value

01:01:45.140 of that?

01:01:46.060 It used to

01:01:46.520 be.

01:01:47.560 But if

01:01:48.660 there's somebody

01:01:49.100 who thinks

01:01:49.520 that black 1.00

01:01:50.120 people can't 0.99

01:01:50.780 work or

01:01:51.220 something,

01:01:51.760 you know,

01:01:51.940 can't get

01:01:52.280 jobs, like

01:01:53.740 that would

01:01:54.020 be surprising.

01:01:55.320 But shouldn't

01:01:56.020 we just sort

01:01:56.720 of incorporate

01:01:57.220 that into

01:01:57.780 the baseline

01:01:58.400 now?

01:01:59.480 You know,

01:01:59.660 shouldn't it

01:01:59.920 be just

01:02:00.200 the baseline

01:02:00.800 that good

01:02:02.120 people of

01:02:02.700 all types

01:02:03.220 get jobs?

01:02:04.860 Doesn't

01:02:05.240 matter who

01:02:05.560 you are,

01:02:05.980 if you're

01:02:06.260 good at

01:02:06.540 it, you

01:02:06.760 can get

01:02:07.080 the job.

01:02:09.140 But this

01:02:10.700 one really

01:02:11.080 catches my

01:02:11.660 eye, because 0.98

01:02:12.340 Italy's

01:02:14.540 Milani and

01:02:15.480 Carrie Lake

01:02:16.000 are who I'm

01:02:16.360 talking about.

01:02:17.280 If you didn't

01:02:17.960 know, you

01:02:18.620 probably already

01:02:19.080 knew.

01:02:19.340 But I

01:02:20.480 saw a video

01:02:21.560 of Italy's

01:02:23.220 Milani, their

01:02:24.420 new head of

01:02:25.820 the country,

01:02:26.940 just ripping

01:02:28.180 Francis McCrone

01:02:30.040 into little

01:02:30.880 pieces.

01:02:31.980 And I don't

01:02:32.620 even speak the

01:02:33.320 language, so I'm

01:02:34.200 just reading the

01:02:35.000 subtitles.

01:02:36.660 And I don't

01:02:38.300 think I've ever

01:02:39.000 seen stronger

01:02:40.200 persuasion.

01:02:41.540 It was visual,

01:02:42.800 it was, you

01:02:43.380 know, she had

01:02:43.740 exactly the

01:02:44.580 right emotional

01:02:46.460 bill, like she

01:02:48.660 started out

01:02:49.260 factual, she 0.93

01:02:50.640 made her

01:02:51.020 case, and

01:02:51.580 then she

01:02:51.860 just took it

01:02:52.760 up a notch

01:02:53.360 and was

01:02:53.620 like, oh

01:02:54.100 my God, you

01:02:55.880 can't do

01:02:56.620 that better.

01:02:58.260 Carrie

01:02:58.500 Lake, she's

01:03:00.720 the best

01:03:01.040 American

01:03:01.460 politician, in

01:03:02.240 my opinion.

01:03:04.000 Would

01:03:04.240 anybody disagree?

01:03:05.760 Who would

01:03:06.340 you put above

01:03:06.960 her, just in

01:03:07.720 skill level,

01:03:08.560 right now?

01:03:09.060 Is there

01:03:09.260 anybody above

01:03:09.800 her in skill

01:03:10.460 level?

01:03:10.760 Because I

01:03:11.440 think Trump's

01:03:11.980 a close

01:03:12.300 second, but 0.59

01:03:13.960 he's second

01:03:14.460 right now.

01:03:16.040 I think so.

01:03:17.020 I think she's

01:03:17.480 the best one.

01:03:21.760 And I

01:03:22.420 believe that

01:03:22.880 Carrie Lake

01:03:23.460 was reportedly

01:03:24.780 visiting

01:03:25.820 Mar-a-Lago.

01:03:29.140 I wonder if

01:03:31.180 that means

01:03:31.600 anything.

01:03:33.380 Now, it

01:03:34.000 doesn't

01:03:34.240 necessarily mean

01:03:34.940 vice president

01:03:35.540 pick, but

01:03:37.420 they're both

01:03:38.500 smart enough to

01:03:39.240 know that it's

01:03:40.540 going to get

01:03:40.860 us talking

01:03:41.340 about it.

01:03:43.900 Yeah, I'm

01:03:44.540 sure they

01:03:44.880 knew that the

01:03:45.620 news would

01:03:46.040 get out if

01:03:46.600 they didn't

01:03:46.960 leak it

01:03:47.260 themselves.

01:03:47.900 They may

01:03:48.160 have leaked

01:03:48.460 it themselves.

01:03:49.980 But she

01:03:53.440 hasn't

01:03:53.760 conceded.

01:03:55.020 Is that

01:03:55.340 true?

01:03:58.860 Yeah.

01:03:59.860 So I

01:04:00.260 think that

01:04:00.780 Trump might

01:04:01.700 have a strong

01:04:02.620 play there.

01:04:03.200 And like I

01:04:03.520 said before,

01:04:04.660 the thing

01:04:05.280 about Carrie

01:04:05.880 Lake that's

01:04:06.560 different,

01:04:07.240 different than

01:04:07.880 Pence and

01:04:08.440 different than

01:04:08.860 other people,

01:04:09.380 people, is I

01:04:10.180 believe Trump

01:04:11.120 would appreciate

01:04:12.260 her skill.

01:04:14.120 And when he

01:04:14.900 appreciates

01:04:15.600 somebody's skill,

01:04:16.820 he can work

01:04:17.640 with them

01:04:17.980 easily.

01:04:20.080 It's the

01:04:20.680 people he

01:04:21.020 doesn't respect

01:04:22.060 that he's

01:04:23.660 going to

01:04:23.920 fire or be 1.00

01:04:24.780 an asshole 1.00

01:04:25.140 about. 1.00

01:04:26.440 So it

01:04:27.500 could be a

01:04:27.960 really strong

01:04:28.640 team.

01:04:29.180 You never

01:04:29.480 know.

01:04:32.060 All right.

01:04:32.720 that, ladies 0.97

01:04:35.340 and gentlemen,

01:04:36.940 is the

01:04:38.700 best live

01:04:39.500 stream you've

01:04:40.020 ever seen

01:04:40.500 today.

01:04:42.820 And is

01:04:43.800 there any

01:04:44.020 topic I

01:04:44.520 missed?

01:04:51.260 CBDC?

01:04:51.920 What's that

01:04:52.280 mean?

01:04:53.380 I don't know

01:04:53.820 what that

01:04:54.040 means.

01:04:57.180 What is

01:04:57.980 CBDC?

01:04:59.140 central bank

01:05:03.200 digital currency.

01:05:05.780 All right.

01:05:06.340 So let's

01:05:07.840 say the

01:05:08.280 government has

01:05:09.000 a digital

01:05:09.440 currency and

01:05:10.340 the point of

01:05:11.300 it is that

01:05:12.660 they can

01:05:13.260 control the

01:05:13.980 citizens better

01:05:14.740 because that's

01:05:16.580 one of the

01:05:16.920 things that

01:05:17.220 happens,

01:05:17.520 right?

01:05:20.580 Here's the

01:05:21.580 problem.

01:05:23.500 It's going to

01:05:24.280 happen anyway.

01:05:24.960 It doesn't

01:05:27.480 matter what

01:05:27.900 their intentions

01:05:28.520 are.

01:05:30.140 We're going

01:05:30.700 to have

01:05:30.920 digital money.

01:05:32.440 Does anybody

01:05:32.920 disagree with

01:05:33.520 that?

01:05:34.180 Do you see

01:05:34.620 us a hundred

01:05:35.120 years from

01:05:35.560 now reaching

01:05:36.040 in your

01:05:36.340 pocket to

01:05:36.940 take out a

01:05:37.360 piece of

01:05:37.680 paper to

01:05:38.060 pay for

01:05:38.340 something?

01:05:40.740 Right?

01:05:41.800 So while we

01:05:44.280 don't like the

01:05:45.020 fact that the

01:05:45.500 government could

01:05:46.000 have this extra

01:05:46.700 control of us,

01:05:48.360 it's going to

01:05:49.280 happen.

01:05:51.140 So do you

01:05:52.200 debate things

01:05:52.980 that are just

01:05:53.900 going to

01:05:54.120 happen?

01:05:54.960 Like, I

01:05:55.460 don't debate

01:05:56.020 whether oxygen

01:05:56.960 is good or

01:05:57.600 bad.

01:05:59.480 It's just

01:06:00.200 going to

01:06:00.460 happen.

01:06:01.420 It's just

01:06:01.820 there.

01:06:02.800 So I don't

01:06:03.440 know if that's

01:06:03.940 even a debate.

01:06:05.500 You could say,

01:06:06.380 my God, you

01:06:07.500 know, it gives

01:06:08.180 the government

01:06:08.660 power we don't

01:06:09.820 want them to

01:06:10.280 have, but I'd

01:06:12.400 say they already

01:06:12.880 have it.

01:06:14.220 So I heard

01:06:14.720 somebody say

01:06:15.220 that the

01:06:15.580 government could

01:06:16.080 then just turn

01:06:16.760 off your

01:06:17.400 ability to buy

01:06:19.620 things.

01:06:20.780 They can do

01:06:21.300 that now.

01:06:22.700 The government

01:06:23.420 can turn off

01:06:24.160 your financial

01:06:26.120 life anytime

01:06:27.140 they want.

01:06:29.140 Right?

01:06:30.280 Yeah, oh, try

01:06:31.020 to use cash,

01:06:31.920 but you end up

01:06:33.160 in the criminal

01:06:33.920 underbelly world.

01:06:35.660 Are you going to

01:06:35.960 pay your mortgage

01:06:36.520 with cash?

01:06:38.220 I don't think

01:06:38.980 so.

01:06:40.940 Yeah.

01:06:42.100 You can't pay

01:06:42.940 with cash if you

01:06:43.980 have to write a

01:06:44.460 check.

01:06:45.040 I mean, because

01:06:45.600 we call writing a

01:06:46.840 check is the same

01:06:47.500 as cash.

01:06:48.540 But if you don't

01:06:49.060 have a bank, you

01:06:49.800 can't even write a

01:06:50.400 check.

01:06:51.300 So you can't

01:06:51.960 even use cash

01:06:52.740 in that technical

01:06:54.420 way.

01:06:56.100 So the first

01:06:57.060 thing you need

01:06:57.640 to recognize

01:06:59.300 is that your

01:07:00.140 privacy has been

01:07:02.080 gone for a long

01:07:02.760 time.

01:07:04.620 You know that,

01:07:05.460 right?

01:07:05.640 If you're arguing

01:07:07.360 for privacy,

01:07:08.440 you're living in

01:07:09.160 the past.

01:07:10.240 The government

01:07:10.780 has access to

01:07:11.640 everything.

01:07:12.740 The only thing

01:07:13.640 that keeps them

01:07:14.220 from accessing

01:07:14.840 everything about

01:07:15.940 you is wanting

01:07:17.500 to.

01:07:20.180 All they have

01:07:20.860 to do is want

01:07:21.340 to.

01:07:22.520 The digital

01:07:23.180 money isn't

01:07:25.720 going to give

01:07:26.280 them deeper

01:07:26.820 control than

01:07:27.460 they have now.

01:07:28.720 The government

01:07:29.480 controls your

01:07:30.100 body.

01:07:31.380 Your body.

01:07:33.720 So no matter

01:07:34.860 what kind of

01:07:35.400 money you have,

01:07:36.160 they can walk

01:07:36.680 into your house

01:07:37.260 and put handcuffs

01:07:38.040 on you, take

01:07:39.000 you away, and 1.00

01:07:39.500 kill you. 1.00

01:07:40.800 Legally. 1.00

01:07:41.740 Depending on

01:07:42.460 what you did,

01:07:43.720 you'd have to do

01:07:44.380 a capital crime.

01:07:46.000 But the government

01:07:46.800 controls your

01:07:47.400 body.

01:07:48.680 Are you worried

01:07:49.140 about them

01:07:49.500 controlling your

01:07:50.240 access to your

01:07:51.000 money, which

01:07:51.460 they already

01:07:51.860 totally control?

01:07:53.480 I feel like

01:07:54.280 some of this

01:07:54.820 is psychological.

01:07:59.600 Now, don't

01:08:01.460 get me wrong.

01:08:02.500 Don't get me

01:08:03.020 wrong.

01:08:03.480 I don't want

01:08:04.120 the government

01:08:04.560 to have that

01:08:05.500 kind of control

01:08:06.220 over me.

01:08:07.600 But I also

01:08:08.420 live in the

01:08:08.920 real world where

01:08:09.660 they already

01:08:10.500 do.

01:08:11.400 They already

01:08:11.940 do.

01:08:13.660 It just seems

01:08:14.460 like if the

01:08:15.840 digital currency

01:08:16.620 gives me any

01:08:17.340 advantages, like

01:08:18.360 convenience, I

01:08:19.760 don't have to

01:08:20.180 touch dirty

01:08:20.960 money.

01:08:21.500 I don't like

01:08:21.900 touching money.

01:08:23.200 If it gives

01:08:23.940 me that and

01:08:24.900 the control the

01:08:26.940 government has

01:08:27.580 over me is

01:08:28.180 still 100% like

01:08:29.640 it is now.

01:08:30.260 so you're saying

01:08:33.880 that they can

01:08:35.280 make you get

01:08:35.820 vaccinated or

01:08:36.740 turn off your

01:08:37.460 money.

01:08:38.240 They can do

01:08:38.960 that now.

01:08:40.440 They can do it

01:08:41.280 right now.

01:08:43.180 All they have to

01:08:43.940 do is go to the

01:08:44.540 banks and say,

01:08:45.420 here's a list of

01:08:46.380 people that you

01:08:46.940 can't bank with.

01:08:52.620 So sometimes

01:08:53.740 you think there's

01:08:55.580 something to argue

01:08:56.280 about, but there

01:08:57.020 isn't.

01:08:57.420 You can't

01:08:58.820 argue about

01:08:59.300 something that's

01:08:59.920 going to happen

01:09:00.420 anyway, and you

01:09:01.780 can't argue about

01:09:02.600 something that won't

01:09:03.340 be any worse than

01:09:04.040 the current

01:09:04.320 situation.

01:09:05.980 But it feels

01:09:06.980 worse.

01:09:07.940 It definitely

01:09:08.360 feels worse.

01:09:09.840 Like, if I could

01:09:11.440 stop it, I would.

01:09:14.120 But I don't know

01:09:15.000 if I want to.

01:09:18.700 Control of money

01:09:19.580 is control of the

01:09:20.320 population.

01:09:21.440 Got it.

01:09:22.040 They already

01:09:23.160 have that.

01:09:25.060 Do you not

01:09:25.900 understand they

01:09:26.480 already have total

01:09:27.300 control?

01:09:28.880 They already have

01:09:29.820 it.

01:09:30.480 You're talking

01:09:31.260 about 20 years

01:09:32.800 ago.

01:09:33.820 20 years ago, or

01:09:35.180 maybe not even

01:09:36.040 20, but there was

01:09:37.420 a time when maybe

01:09:38.420 it didn't even need

01:09:39.200 a checking account.

01:09:41.620 It didn't even need

01:09:42.320 a credit card.

01:09:43.460 But that's not

01:09:44.100 today.

01:09:45.080 The banks, and

01:09:46.020 remember, the banks

01:09:46.920 can't refuse the

01:09:48.000 government.

01:09:49.660 Right?

01:09:49.960 If your bank can

01:09:52.680 unbank you, then

01:09:54.200 the government can

01:09:55.040 unbank you.

01:09:56.080 Because the

01:09:56.480 government can

01:09:57.840 control the banks

01:09:58.660 by saying, you

01:09:59.900 know, you need

01:10:00.480 certain access to

01:10:01.400 things that we

01:10:02.160 only have, and

01:10:03.200 we'll take away

01:10:04.320 your whatever

01:10:06.720 authorization you

01:10:07.660 have to be a bank.

01:10:08.440 We'll just take it

01:10:09.000 away.

01:10:09.820 So they have

01:10:10.480 full control.

01:10:11.740 That minor bit of

01:10:12.920 convenience, where

01:10:14.320 they can just push

01:10:15.020 one button, I

01:10:16.620 don't know if that

01:10:17.100 makes much

01:10:17.600 difference.

01:10:19.140 And by the way,

01:10:19.720 what would

01:10:20.080 happen if it

01:10:20.580 happened once?

01:10:23.920 Naive.

01:10:26.360 The naive people

01:10:27.460 are just pure

01:10:28.060 NPCs.

01:10:32.300 They're starting

01:10:33.000 to get funny.

01:10:37.540 Ali Alexander

01:10:38.540 got all of his

01:10:39.380 finances shut

01:10:40.200 off.

01:10:41.380 Andrew Tate

01:10:41.960 got all of his

01:10:42.600 finances shut

01:10:43.280 off.

01:10:43.980 Andrew Tate

01:10:44.560 said yes to,

01:10:45.500 I don't know if

01:10:46.080 this is true,

01:10:46.700 but it's a great,

01:10:47.620 it's just a great

01:10:48.260 story.

01:10:48.600 He says he

01:10:49.680 has to fly

01:10:50.300 his super

01:10:53.240 expensive sports

01:10:54.580 car in a jet

01:10:56.900 wherever he

01:10:58.040 goes because he

01:10:58.820 can't use Uber.

01:11:00.160 Uber won't let 1.00

01:11:01.740 him.

01:11:02.280 His Bugatti.

01:11:05.340 Now, I don't

01:11:06.260 know if any of

01:11:06.860 that is true,

01:11:08.360 but I love the

01:11:09.620 fact that he

01:11:10.080 said it.

01:11:11.240 Right?

01:11:11.300 I love the fact

01:11:12.500 that he said

01:11:12.920 it.

01:11:16.220 Joe says,

01:11:17.040 Scott is

01:11:17.420 priming us

01:11:17.960 for the

01:11:18.300 WEF

01:11:19.120 Great Reset.

01:11:22.040 Joe,

01:11:22.600 Joe,

01:11:22.940 Joe.

01:11:25.520 Just because I

01:11:26.380 tell you you're 1.00

01:11:27.100 already fucked 1.00

01:11:28.000 doesn't mean I 1.00

01:11:29.260 fucked you. 0.99

01:11:32.020 There's a 1.00

01:11:32.520 difference.

01:11:33.840 If I find you

01:11:34.740 on the street 1.00

01:11:35.300 with a fuckhole 1.00

01:11:36.440 in the middle 1.00

01:11:36.880 of your forehead,

01:11:37.500 I'm just the

01:11:39.080 guy who found

01:11:39.520 you.

01:11:40.580 I'm not the

01:11:41.040 one who put 0.99

01:11:41.680 the fuckhole 1.00

01:11:42.160 in your 1.00

01:11:42.440 forehead. 1.00

01:11:54.260 Damn, I'm 0.99

01:11:54.820 keeping quiet. 0.99

01:11:56.520 I'm going to

01:11:56.980 turn off

01:11:57.500 the locals.

01:12:02.660 I'm going to 0.91

01:12:02.940 get rid of

01:12:03.720 the unsubscribers

01:12:04.680 now so I can

01:12:05.380 talk to the

01:12:05.800 locals after.

01:12:08.160 And I'm going

01:12:09.180 to say goodbye

01:12:09.660 to YouTube

01:12:10.640 now.

01:12:11.140 I'll be talking

01:12:11.580 to the locals

01:12:12.220 privately.

01:12:13.860 Subscribers only.

01:12:15.460 And bye for now.

01:12:16.600 Spotify too.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 19, 2022

Episode 1932 Scott Adams： The News Is All Fun Today. Find Out What Twitter Is Up To And Lots More

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