Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1940 Scott Adams： The News Is Boring So Let's Just Make Fun Of Famous People Who Are Dumb

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00:00:03.420 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.

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00:00:51.500 Oh, yeah. Yeah, now you feel a little bit more dehydrated.

00:00:55.680 Or hydrated, I mean.

00:00:57.300 You're a little bit more hydrated, a little more caffeine.

00:01:01.660 You can feel it already. Your day is improving.

00:01:07.900 You are now one with all the sippers around the globe who simultaneously sipped with you.

00:01:13.120 And I would like to offer this following offer to all simultaneous sippers.

00:01:20.660 Have you ever heard of people who went to an Ivy League school and they're so lucky because they can always network with other Ivy League school people?

00:01:30.220 And you'd be like, oh, you went to Harvard?

00:01:33.840 Well, I went to Harvard, too.

00:01:35.860 I'd be happy to hire you because we both went to Harvard.

00:01:40.560 You'd like a connection?

00:01:42.380 You'd like me to connect you or introduce you to somebody?

00:01:44.840 I'd be happy to because we both went to Harvard.

00:01:47.560 And you went to Harvard.

00:01:48.540 Harvard, so we'll introduce you.

00:01:50.520 And then you can make a fortune.

00:01:53.840 Well, I propose to you, simultaneous sippers, if you find another simultaneous sipper anywhere in the world,

00:02:01.820 be sure you're ready to treat them right.

00:02:07.520 Introduce them to people who can help them.

00:02:09.980 Give them jobs.

00:02:11.880 Treat them nice.

00:02:12.880 Introduce them to your sister, because I'm sure you'd want your sister to marry a simultaneous sipper.

00:02:20.280 I mean, duh, who wouldn't?

00:02:22.440 So let's turn this into something, okay?

00:02:26.480 Let's turn it into something where if you get a request from a simultaneous sipper, you take it seriously.

00:02:32.220 Because that's somebody who's got it going on.

00:02:35.880 All right, let's talk about some things.

00:02:38.900 I have two entertainment-related recommendations, which I know you love.

00:02:45.160 Because who doesn't want to know what I think is entertaining so that that can inform you?

00:02:49.920 Everybody, everybody cares what I find entertaining, don't they?

00:02:54.260 I hope I'm not wrong about that.

00:02:57.460 Well, all right.

00:02:58.000 I have sampled for you two pieces of content, both from Netflix.

00:03:02.100 One is comedy stand-up by comedian Neil Brennan.

00:03:07.040 Recommended.

00:03:08.300 Neil Brennan.

00:03:08.960 The magical part of it is that he identifies strongly as a Democrat, left-leaning kind of a guy.

00:03:20.420 But he goes right at his own people.

00:03:22.700 So he's explaining the difficulty of being a lefty in a world where sometimes you're not left enough.

00:03:32.740 So he's continually frightened about whether he's liberal enough because he's being judged by his own people.

00:03:39.240 You have to see it.

00:03:40.600 You can't possibly explain it in a way that makes it sound effective.

00:03:44.900 I will just tell you that you would love it whether you're left-leaning or right-leaning just because he does it really well.

00:03:51.960 He's just really good at it.

00:03:53.780 I wish I had known him before.

00:03:55.520 I guess he's been around a while.

00:03:56.660 The second piece of content, do you remember the old Addams Family TV show?

00:04:06.220 They spelled it with two Ds, but it was the bane of my existence because I was a child when the Addams Family was a big TV show.

00:04:15.720 Do you think anybody ever accused me of being Uncle Festus or Fester or whoever he was?

00:04:22.300 Oh, yeah, they did.

00:04:23.500 Oh, yeah.

00:04:23.880 Yeah, I heard a few Gomez references.

00:04:28.580 However, there's a new show called Wednesday Addams, and Wednesday is the young daughter.

00:04:35.160 And I'll give you some good things about it, and then I'll tell you why you should not watch it whatsoever.

00:04:42.480 But you probably will anyway because there's not much on.

00:04:46.760 One reason to watch it is that the young actress who plays the part, really good.

00:04:51.740 But the casting was really good.

00:04:56.240 Great job.

00:04:57.500 And I love the look of it and the feel of it and the vibe of it.

00:05:00.780 It's all really well done.

00:05:02.940 But here's why you probably should never watch this piece of shit.

00:05:06.120 It's just, it's anti-male porn.

00:05:11.040 It's about a young girl who does horrible things to adult white men.

00:05:15.900 And that's the whole show.

00:05:17.680 In the first scene, she has the balls ripped off a man for being part of some men who threatened her.

00:05:25.280 She has his balls ripped off.

00:05:26.340 And then that's like a joke, that he got his nuts chewed off by some fish that she put in there.

00:05:34.960 That actually is played for laughs.

00:05:37.700 That how much she can destroy the lives of white males, who, by the way, in the movie, all have it coming, right?

00:05:44.420 So they're all terrible people, these white men.

00:05:47.200 And the whole show is just anti-white male porn.

00:05:53.300 And I would watch it as porn if I were a woman who hated men.

00:05:57.800 So if you hate men, it's a really good show.

00:06:00.700 So, and if you want to see how Hollywood is completely destroying itself, it's worth watching it for that.

00:06:08.760 Because I don't see how they can survive, really.

00:06:14.560 I mean, what other group?

00:06:17.720 Imagine if you just changed the genders.

00:06:21.520 You know, this is the old, I hate doing this, but it kind of screams for it in this case.

00:06:27.040 Imagine there were a movie, and it was just a completely straight movie.

00:06:31.820 Somebody just made a movie, in which there was a young man who crippled and decapitated just adult women.

00:06:42.800 And then the whole movie was how the women were horrible Karens, but she killed them all.

00:06:49.100 Or the young man killed them all.

00:06:51.900 That wouldn't be on TV, would it?

00:06:54.220 That would never be on TV.

00:06:55.500 But as long as it's a young woman destroying the lives of men, who totally deserve it, according to the movie.

00:07:03.020 Fine. No problem.

00:07:05.420 All right. Well, Hollywood is dead.

00:07:08.840 So I updated the hoax quiz.

00:07:11.380 Used to be 16 elements, now it's up to 17.

00:07:14.820 And the new hoax is that Trump invited Nick Fuentes and Mila.

00:07:23.980 But the truth seems to be, and Axios reports this, was not just Trump saying it.

00:07:30.860 The truth seems to be that he didn't know Fuentes was coming.

00:07:34.680 Now, that doesn't mean that Trump is in the clear, right?

00:07:37.780 I'm not giving him a pass.

00:07:39.780 I'm just saying that it's a hoax that he invited him.

00:07:43.000 That's, you know, what the Rob Reiners are saying today.

00:07:47.080 How could you invite him?

00:07:48.500 Well, he didn't.

00:07:49.940 It was a trick.

00:07:50.640 But Trump made a statement, and I think this Trump statement fixed everything.

00:08:00.060 Because you know how Trump is good at smoothing things over.

00:08:04.520 You know, you take a provocative situation, and you can count on Trump to say something that will just completely take the energy out of it and make you not care about it anymore.

00:08:13.920 So here is the beginning of his statement.

00:08:17.920 He said, quote,

00:08:18.920 So I help a seriously troubled man who just happens to be black, yay, Kanye West, who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, who has always been good to me by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago alone.

00:08:40.600 And then he goes on to say some other stuff.

00:08:46.520 So, do you think Grandpa Trump could have sounded any more like your racist grandpa?

00:08:57.640 A man who just happens to be black?

00:09:01.440 Was there somebody out there who didn't know that Kanye was black?

00:09:04.220 Holy shit, are you telling me yay is black?

00:09:10.460 That changes everything.

00:09:13.800 You know, you always joke, people always joke when people say, I have a black friend.

00:09:20.640 You know, they say, oh, great, you have one black friend, you racist.

00:09:24.600 And Trump does the most grandfatherly sounding thing.

00:09:29.640 And, oh, I was helping this guy who just happens to be black.

00:09:35.740 Like, I'm not saying I'm non-racist, but I helped a guy who just happens to be black.

00:09:41.860 He just happens to be black.

00:09:44.400 I don't think you could have said that any worse.

00:09:48.660 Yeah, I'm black too.

00:09:49.800 I just happen to not look at him.

00:09:52.920 I identify that way, though.

00:09:55.480 So, I'm not sure that made anything better.

00:09:59.640 But, of course, the way the Democrats are playing it is they're playing it hard.

00:10:07.380 You know, Republicans would have done the same thing if some Democrat did something awkward.

00:10:13.020 And so now the play is to see if you can make the Republicans disavow that dinner with Trump.

00:10:22.040 And if they don't disavow it quickly enough and, you know, aggressively enough, then they're racist too.

00:10:30.500 So now, because DeSantis has not disavowed it strongly enough, or I don't think he's commented, then he must be part of it.

00:10:38.220 And then McCarthy hasn't said anything about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once attended some Nick Fuentes event and spoke at it.

00:10:48.500 So, that's the game, is to make everybody respond.

00:10:54.620 Now, eventually, those people will have to respond, won't they?

00:10:57.560 Because the journalists will just peck them to death until they say something.

00:11:01.500 And then once they respond, what will the journalists say?

00:11:05.800 Well, not until we force them to respond.

00:11:08.980 So, and that was a pretty weak response.

00:11:12.260 So, basically, they'll just get another bite of the apple, no matter what these guys say.

00:11:18.100 So, that's the play, and it's a good play, politically.

00:11:21.260 Politically, it's pretty powerful.

00:11:25.920 So, I thought the best comment about this came from Ben Shapiro,

00:11:30.960 who said of Trump, the best way to make sure you don't accidentally have an anti-Semite attend your dinner

00:11:41.660 is to not invite somebody that you already know is an anti-Semite.

00:11:48.340 Now, it's not my claim, necessarily, that Ye is an anti-Semite.

00:11:54.600 But clearly, he's said things which Jewish people say, no, that's anti-Semitic.

00:11:59.860 So, you know, Ben can play that team.

00:12:05.820 He's got all the credentials he needs.

00:12:09.000 That wasn't a bad comment.

00:12:11.200 If you invite somebody who's already nationally accused of being anti-Semitic,

00:12:15.880 you can't be too surprised if he brings a friend.

00:12:20.280 I think he nailed it.

00:12:22.120 All right, now, here's the layout.

00:12:24.560 You know Fox News is trying to freeze Trump out by not talking about him, right?

00:12:29.860 So, Fox News is not going to back him.

00:12:33.200 Which means, you know, other Rupert Murdoch properties probably won't back him.

00:12:37.600 You know that Breitbart went hard at this situation.

00:12:42.340 So, Breitbart seems anti-Trump.

00:12:45.600 And now the Daily Wire, if we can judge from Ben Shapiro's point.

00:12:49.880 So, are those the three biggest conservative news outlets?

00:12:56.460 Who's left?

00:12:58.480 I would say they're the most influential and also the biggest.

00:13:04.480 How in the world would Trump win without Fox News,

00:13:09.640 without Breitbart,

00:13:12.040 and without Daily Wire?

00:13:14.840 Like, how does he win?

00:13:16.340 We shall see.

00:13:18.860 We shall see.

00:13:20.160 Yeah.

00:13:20.700 Now, remember my idea that Trump, instead of doing a normal campaign,

00:13:26.260 he should just create his own podcast,

00:13:29.020 and then he should ask people to be on it.

00:13:32.120 So, instead of being the guest, he should be interviewing the guests.

00:13:35.920 Imagine Trump hosting his own podcast

00:13:40.180 and inviting Yeh and Fuentes to be on

00:13:45.460 after Trump knows that they screwed him.

00:13:49.400 After Trump knows that he screwed him,

00:13:51.840 invite him on to explain themselves.

00:13:55.560 Would you watch that?

00:13:57.960 How would you watch anything else?

00:14:00.780 Are you kidding me?

00:14:03.260 Because do you think Trump is happy about either of those guys?

00:14:06.300 If there's one thing that Trump doesn't like,

00:14:10.960 it's somebody who pretends to be his friend

00:14:13.180 and then stabs him in the back in public,

00:14:15.300 which is what Yeh did.

00:14:17.060 Yeh stabbed him in the back.

00:14:19.620 How much do you think,

00:14:20.720 how much do you think Trump

00:14:23.040 thinks of Yeh

00:14:24.640 when Trump has been pro-Yeh from the beginning,

00:14:28.620 and Yeh just stabs him in the back?

00:14:30.320 I would love to see that interview.

00:14:35.780 I think Trump would just rip his fucking head off,

00:14:38.460 you know, verbally.

00:14:40.940 And, you know, and Yeh wouldn't back down.

00:14:44.720 What would happen?

00:14:46.400 I mean, it would be the most interesting thing

00:14:48.080 I'd ever seen in my life.

00:14:49.920 So, I don't know that Trump can become president

00:14:52.940 under this cloud and other clouds,

00:14:56.520 but he could have the best podcast anybody ever had.

00:14:59.620 It would be the biggest thing ever.

00:15:03.220 Am I right?

00:15:04.420 Does anybody disagree with me

00:15:05.780 that if he started a podcast

00:15:07.460 where he interviews the most provocative people,

00:15:10.740 you would have to watch it.

00:15:12.480 You couldn't not watch it.

00:15:15.000 Yeah, he could fund his entire campaign

00:15:16.640 with a pay-per-view.

00:15:19.120 Oh, my God.

00:15:20.620 Pay-per-view.

00:15:22.960 Pay-per-view.

00:15:25.020 Trump interviews Kanye and Fuentes

00:15:28.440 at the same time.

00:15:29.620 Pay-per-view.

00:15:31.360 I would pay for that.

00:15:33.660 I would totally pay for that.

00:15:36.880 Yeah.

00:15:38.040 You say it's a non-story,

00:15:40.840 but you don't get to say that

00:15:43.260 because the press decides what's a story.

00:15:45.780 It's not your interest.

00:15:47.240 There are plenty of interesting things

00:15:49.820 that are not in the news

00:15:50.760 because the news decided

00:15:52.200 that's not a story for you.

00:15:54.460 So, when you say it's not a story,

00:15:57.000 that means nothing.

00:15:58.180 You're not in charge of making it a story.

00:15:59.840 They are, and they made it a story.

00:16:01.700 So, it is a story

00:16:02.560 because the people who make stories say it is.

00:16:06.160 All right.

00:16:06.600 Is it true that McCarthy

00:16:10.700 is considering Marjorie Taylor Greene

00:16:12.680 as Speaker of the House?

00:16:14.780 I'm seeing that on social media,

00:16:16.420 but that doesn't sound true.

00:16:19.540 That's not true, is it?

00:16:20.660 I haven't seen a news story on it.

00:16:26.700 That sounds like just something

00:16:27.860 the Dems are saying

00:16:28.860 to scare the country, right?

00:16:31.100 Yeah.

00:16:31.720 Doesn't sound right.

00:16:35.380 All right.

00:16:37.520 How many of you think

00:16:38.780 that Ye and Fuentes set up Trump

00:16:42.740 and that the purpose of it

00:16:46.240 was to sabotage Trump?

00:16:48.820 How many of you think that?

00:16:50.660 You don't think it was sabotage?

00:16:57.300 You think that Ye

00:16:58.580 thought that bringing Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago

00:17:02.000 would be perfectly non-controversial?

00:17:07.700 No, of course he knew what he was doing.

00:17:09.400 How could he not?

00:17:11.460 Now, Ye isn't mentally incompetent.

00:17:15.280 Like, he knows how to dress himself

00:17:17.220 and he knows how the world works and stuff.

00:17:19.620 He's not crazy in that way.

00:17:21.680 He knows how the world works.

00:17:23.580 Of course.

00:17:24.780 Of course it was.

00:17:25.580 I don't think there's any question about that.

00:17:27.780 And if, by the way,

00:17:29.480 if Trump doesn't destroy Ye for this,

00:17:32.740 then he's not Trump.

00:17:36.760 Don't you think?

00:17:37.500 I think Trump is going to absolutely destroy Ye.

00:17:41.140 I think he's just going to completely destroy him.

00:17:45.140 Do you think so?

00:17:46.640 I think he should.

00:17:48.660 I think he should.

00:17:50.080 If anybody ever had it coming.

00:17:53.460 And, you know, maybe that's the fight that Ye wants.

00:17:56.660 Ye might want that fight.

00:17:57.760 Maybe that helps him.

00:17:59.420 You know, more energy.

00:18:00.400 Who knows?

00:18:01.600 So, this will get interesting.

00:18:05.380 But you did not see Trump, you know,

00:18:08.140 forcefully disavow Fuentes

00:18:11.120 because, I assume,

00:18:13.900 because there are too many people who vote for Trump

00:18:16.000 who like Fuentes.

00:18:18.680 So, now that's consistent.

00:18:21.480 Trump does not, typically,

00:18:23.620 he doesn't criticize people who support him.

00:18:27.920 Now, there's some question about

00:18:29.300 whether Fuentes really supports DeSantis or Trump.

00:18:32.600 I don't know.

00:18:34.080 I don't know.

00:18:34.580 I think maybe that's an open question.

00:18:38.460 Somebody says, who's Fuentes?

00:18:39.940 Let me explain.

00:18:41.520 Nick Fuentes is a

00:18:43.280 Hispanic white supremacist.

00:18:47.600 He's a Hispanic white supremacist.

00:18:52.360 It's just a weird thing.

00:18:53.620 that you can say that in public

00:18:54.920 and that everybody's like,

00:18:56.260 oh, okay.

00:18:57.100 One of those Hispanic white supremacists.

00:19:00.920 Does that even make sense?

00:19:02.660 I think his father is Mexican descent.

00:19:04.760 That's why his name is Fuentes.

00:19:08.820 But I wonder how many of his followers

00:19:11.500 even understand

00:19:12.460 that the whole white supremacy thing,

00:19:15.740 you know,

00:19:16.620 is not exactly what you think it is.

00:19:19.340 Now, I was reading up a little bit on Fuentes

00:19:21.480 and the funniest thing that he says

00:19:23.720 because,

00:19:26.220 here's the main thing.

00:19:27.100 I think you have to treat Fuentes

00:19:28.240 as an entertainer

00:19:30.840 but also a political force.

00:19:34.040 So, a little bit like Trump in that sense.

00:19:36.900 Within the entertainment part,

00:19:39.780 one of the things he says

00:19:40.940 is that women shouldn't have the vote.

00:19:42.380 and he doesn't want women working.

00:19:47.280 You know,

00:19:47.460 it's more like,

00:19:48.540 it's more like you should go back

00:19:49.940 to the old days

00:19:50.620 where the women stay home

00:19:51.580 and they raise babies.

00:19:53.640 And he says that out loud

00:19:54.960 and, you know,

00:19:56.300 completely without any reservations.

00:19:59.780 And I'm seeing somebody here saying,

00:20:01.420 well, I agree.

00:20:01.900 And I'm seeing even Erica is saying,

00:20:08.100 I don't disagree.

00:20:09.340 Yeah, there are, in fact,

00:20:10.860 women who say

00:20:11.460 that women shouldn't have the vote.

00:20:14.640 I don't think anybody should have the vote.

00:20:16.820 It's not like men are nailing it.

00:20:19.060 If you took women out of the vote,

00:20:21.120 do you think you'd get a better result?

00:20:23.100 I doubt it.

00:20:24.520 You would get a different result.

00:20:26.680 Probably different.

00:20:28.240 But would it be better?

00:20:29.740 I don't know.

00:20:30.460 Who knows?

00:20:31.900 So,

00:20:34.180 this whole thing worked really, really well

00:20:38.360 for whoever was behind it.

00:20:40.480 Now, here's the first question

00:20:41.680 I think you need to answer.

00:20:44.000 How do Ye and Fuentes know each other?

00:20:47.160 Wouldn't you like to know that story?

00:20:49.920 Do you think they just ran into each other?

00:20:52.400 Do you think that Ye was just a fan?

00:20:55.000 Or vice versa?

00:20:56.600 Or that Milo did it?

00:20:58.540 Do you think that,

00:21:00.620 oh, you think it was Milo?

00:21:01.900 Then, do you think Milo was trying to destroy Ye?

00:21:11.960 Because could you imagine Milo sort of wouldn't know

00:21:14.700 how this would turn out?

00:21:16.480 Of course he would know.

00:21:18.140 Of course he would.

00:21:19.140 both free basins.

00:21:22.140 All right, let me just throw a little conspiracy theory juice into the mix.

00:21:28.920 You like your conspiracy theories, don't you?

00:21:30.800 In 2017, it's the dumbest thing in the world to insult the intelligence community because they have a thousand ways from Sunday to get back at you.

00:21:44.260 So Chuck Schumer, who definitely knows how things work behind the curtains, said the intelligence agencies are going to come for Trump.

00:21:53.040 And then, and then we saw that 50 former and current Intel people signed a thing that said that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, which probably had a big impact on the election.

00:22:08.000 They came for Trump.

00:22:09.000 They came for Trump.

00:22:10.000 No question about it.

00:22:12.000 No question about it.

00:22:13.000 They came for Trump.

00:22:16.000 Now, let me ask you this.

00:22:19.000 Were you surprised that those, let's see, the Whitmer kidnap people, that there were FBI informants in that extremist group, were you surprised by that?

00:22:31.780 Probably not, because they try to infiltrate any extremist group.

00:22:35.940 How about the Proud Boys?

00:22:37.340 I guess the number one or maybe the number two people in the Proud Boys might have been a FBI informant or something.

00:22:44.320 I forget what the details are.

00:22:46.020 Was that surprising?

00:22:46.780 Big surprise?

00:22:49.000 It shouldn't be a surprise, because that's exactly who the intelligence people would want to co-opt.

00:22:56.980 Now, how about Nick Fuentes?

00:22:59.760 Do you think Nick Fuentes works for himself and has no contact whatsoever with the groups who have a great incentive to contact him and co-opt him?

00:23:12.120 Do you think that the intelligence agencies would miss this opportunity to do the most obvious thing that they routinely do?

00:23:19.000 Which is to get the top racists, which is to get the top racists sort of working on their team?

00:23:24.100 If you were the government and you wanted to find out where all the racists were in the country, how would you do it?

00:23:32.780 How would you find all the racists?

00:23:37.460 Well, you might find somebody who appeals to that group of people and then get close to them and find out who's on their list.

00:23:46.480 And then once you have the mailing list and the people who watch Nick Fuentes the most, you have an entire database of people with a certain philosophy, and they're the ones you want to watch if you're the government.

00:24:00.460 So, you don't think that intelligence and FBI, law enforcement, you don't think they've tried to penetrate the Nick Fuentes organization, the Groypers?

00:24:13.300 I have no information that they have, right?

00:24:16.140 There's no evidence that that has happened.

00:24:17.960 But you don't think they'd try?

00:24:20.720 Why wouldn't they?

00:24:22.160 It's literally what they do for a living.

00:24:24.040 They literally tried to infiltrate groups exactly like that, so they'd know what's happening.

00:24:30.620 And wouldn't you want them to?

00:24:32.900 Don't you want them to penetrate all those groups?

00:24:35.940 Well, you don't want them to, you know, be inciting violence within those groups, but you'd want them to penetrate them, just to keep an eye on things, just in case there's something going on there that's going to get dangerous.

00:24:48.840 So, what are the odds that Ye and Fuentes met each other organically?

00:24:59.300 Somebody says, I'm FBI.

00:25:02.540 What are the odds they met each other organically?

00:25:06.140 The first thing I would do is I would ask them, because, you know, isn't Ye and Fuentes, they're both accessible to the press, are they not?

00:25:15.200 Can't you just reach them and ask them a question, and they would answer you?

00:25:20.280 I would ask them how they met.

00:25:22.340 Now, if it turns out it's Milo, that still doesn't settle the question, does it?

00:25:26.680 Because you don't know what Milo's up to.

00:25:29.560 But if you wanted to follow the money and take the most obvious, straightforward assumption based on pattern recognition, it would look like this.

00:25:42.280 And I'm not saying this is true.

00:25:43.540 I'm saying that all of our experience and pattern recognition should tell you the following, that it was an op.

00:25:51.640 It was an intel op to make sure Trump doesn't get re-elected.

00:25:56.000 And that Fuentes may or may not be aware of it.

00:25:58.960 I mean, he might have just gotten an invitation and thought, oh, of course I'll go.

00:26:03.540 I mean, it doesn't mean he's part of the plotting, but that doesn't happen by accident.

00:26:08.820 It doesn't happen by accident that he got in there.

00:26:13.140 Somebody with a little weight was suggesting behind the scenes.

00:26:21.060 There was a little suggesting going on there.

00:26:22.620 Now, how worried are you about the Ye plus Fuentes connection?

00:26:34.140 It's real weird because they're both considered, you know, I guess anti-Semites at this point.

00:26:44.800 But it's a weird group to be called racists and anti-Semites.

00:26:52.480 So, I mean, one's black, one's last name is Fuentes.

00:26:59.480 So, it's a weird white supremacist group, isn't it?

00:27:06.800 Now, wouldn't you like to know how they met?

00:27:12.440 That's all.

00:27:13.020 Well, just find somebody on that list of 50 Intel people who knows both of them, and maybe you'd find something else.

00:27:20.520 All right.

00:27:22.340 Just speculating.

00:27:24.340 Meanwhile, over in China, apparently the protests in China about the newest crackdowns are getting pretty active.

00:27:34.980 So, apparently the, at least some part of the Chinese public, the young people, are actually chanting for the overthrow of the government.

00:27:45.660 Imagine how brave you have to be to be a Chinese citizen in public chanting against the government.

00:27:56.320 Do you know one reason that they can do it?

00:27:58.640 Just by weird coincidence, they have to wear masks.

00:28:06.720 So, China, China wants to control them at the same time they want them to wear masks.

00:28:13.560 How do you, just game that out.

00:28:16.160 Oh, we're going to make you do very, very unpleasant things for a long time, but also you have to wear a mask so we can't identify you in public.

00:28:25.200 How did they think that was going to turn out?

00:28:27.380 Like, did you have to be some political expert to know that if you tell everybody to wear a mask, and then you make, then you oppress them in ways that they couldn't possibly tolerate?

00:28:40.500 There might be some demonstrations on the street, and they might be wearing masks.

00:28:44.780 They just might be.

00:28:45.440 So, the experts, and I saw a tweet by, oh, who was it?

00:28:54.380 Ballou.

00:28:56.820 Yes, Professor Francois Ballou, I think if I pronounced it correctly.

00:29:01.440 And he's showing that China has two options, and both of them are paths to doom, right?

00:29:12.720 So, they can keep their lockdown in place, but the lockdown won't ever make their risk go away.

00:29:21.600 Because as long as COVID is circulating around, every time they do a lockdown, they just make themselves less immune, and eventually they're going to have to unlock down, and then it just gets them.

00:29:34.180 So, here's the problem.

00:29:37.720 The Chinese success of doing the hard lockdown initially did look like a success for a while, didn't it?

00:29:44.820 As brutal as it was to their citizens.

00:29:47.240 It kind of looked like it sort of, kind of almost worked.

00:29:51.360 I wasn't quite sure.

00:29:52.340 But in my mind, and I think all of you had the same thing, what happens when they stop doing this?

00:29:59.040 Like, don't you eventually all get infected, and are you really better off?

00:30:03.240 Now, I thought they had won, because I thought that they had stalled until Omicron was here, and then Omicron would just act like a, you know, practically like a vaccination.

00:30:14.140 But I did see some experts saying that if you didn't have any immunity, Omicron would rip through your billion people or so, and you would have so much massive death.

00:30:26.760 Especially because China has an older population, right?

00:30:29.760 But not as much obesity.

00:30:31.760 And it looks like their healthcare system would be overwhelmed fairly quickly.

00:30:35.920 So, China has choice one, they keep with the lockdowns, but the lockdowns can't work, and they also can't end.

00:30:47.120 Because as soon as you end one, you know, there's going to be another virus, and it pops right back up again.

00:30:51.840 So, that would cause social upheaval at a massive scale.

00:30:56.760 But if they end the lockdowns, they would admit that their lockdowns were a failure.

00:31:01.680 And there's some thought that they could not survive, the government could not survive confessing that big a failure.

00:31:11.360 So, I don't know, I kind of disagree.

00:31:14.700 I disagree with the level of risk that China is experiencing.

00:31:19.820 I think China could have protests all day long, for months, and just ride it out.

00:31:26.440 Because nothing's happening.

00:31:29.280 It's just talk.

00:31:30.640 As long as the protesters are just talking, they'll just, you know, jail a few, play it out, you know, maybe wait for winter so it's too cold.

00:31:40.580 They can just ride it out.

00:31:43.320 As long as they don't care about the, you know, the interim damage of the protests themselves, they can ride it out.

00:31:50.920 So, I don't see anything that looks like a risk to the government.

00:31:54.100 Do you?

00:31:56.440 Does this look like it's genuinely a risk to the government?

00:31:59.600 Because I don't see it.

00:32:04.020 Some of you say yes.

00:32:05.460 Well, I would agree that things could turn in a minute.

00:32:08.400 But so far, the protesters are not doing anything that's physically aggressive.

00:32:17.020 Right?

00:32:18.160 The protesters are not taking over buildings.

00:32:21.820 Are they?

00:32:22.420 As long as they stay in the street, they're not burning anything, they're not looting.

00:32:28.300 I don't know.

00:32:29.180 Why does the government have to listen to them at all?

00:32:31.820 Just let them run around and they'll get tired and then they'll run out of food and then they'll have to do something else.

00:32:38.160 Now, this brings us to the protests in Iran.

00:32:42.000 Did you know that for whatever reason, I don't really know why, our media isn't really taking the Iran protests very seriously?

00:32:53.640 Is that my imagination?

00:32:54.940 Because if you know anybody who has Iranian connections, as I do, the word inside of Iran is very different from what we're hearing.

00:33:05.660 Inside Iran, it looks like a real revolution that might actually topple the government.

00:33:09.220 And the thinking, at least from one smart person, the thinking is that what's different is that it's the women this time.

00:33:20.280 And this is sort of like inside Iranian culture.

00:33:24.220 So this is not me saying this.

00:33:26.740 This is someone who knows Iran and knows the women of Iran.

00:33:31.020 And the thinking is that you could piss off all the men in Iran forever and it wouldn't change the government.

00:33:40.200 But you just pissed off the women.

00:33:42.680 And when the women are mad and it looks like they're not going to back down, you can't really mow down the women.

00:33:50.600 Does that work?

00:33:51.620 Does that work anywhere?

00:33:52.960 Does it work anywhere where you could, like, mass murder women and then the men would be okay with that?

00:33:58.880 I don't think so.

00:34:01.300 So I feel like the pressure in Iran has everything to do with how far the women want to take it.

00:34:07.380 If the women take it all the way, probably they could.

00:34:12.620 They probably could topple the government.

00:34:15.760 But it would require getting the men involved, right?

00:34:19.700 Because there's a certain amount of violence that's required, and the women aren't going to do the violence at scale.

00:34:27.040 They need the men to jump in to do that.

00:34:29.820 Now, why is it that our press is sort of ignoring it?

00:34:36.200 What's up with that?

00:34:40.660 Do you know?

00:34:41.540 Like, it seems to me our press would be all rah, rah, rah, let's overthrow Iran.

00:34:48.260 But the U.S. press is basically quiet about it, right?

00:34:54.400 Showed a few pictures.

00:34:56.040 Basically quiet.

00:34:57.440 Somebody says the BBC's on it.

00:34:58.860 Now, I guess the question is, maybe if the United States looked like it was active, you know, looked like it was organizing to help the protests, that that would help the regime.

00:35:11.180 Because then Iran would look like it had an enemy from the outside.

00:35:15.300 Maybe.

00:35:16.360 That doesn't seem like a good enough reason not to cover it.

00:35:18.960 So I don't really know why.

00:35:20.940 Could it be that it's not that big a deal?

00:35:23.520 Or could it be that our press just doesn't have good information about Iran?

00:35:28.280 Could it be that they want the nuclear deal?

00:35:31.120 Could it be?

00:35:32.020 I don't know.

00:35:32.360 So, I saw a quote by Naval, a tweet, and he said that losing their privileged status on Twitter is the beginning of the end for mainstream media.

00:35:49.520 Now, that thought takes a little, you have to sort of, like, bounce that around in your head a little bit before it makes sense.

00:35:59.460 Like, the first time I read it, it's like, hmm, I don't know.

00:36:03.840 And then you bounce it around a little bit, and you're like, oh, yeah, I can see it now.

00:36:07.540 I can see it now.

00:36:08.840 Which is a typical Naval comment.

00:36:12.260 Like, he's a little bit ahead of where your brain is, so it takes you there.

00:36:17.680 And I can see that.

00:36:20.980 Because the thing that the public doesn't understand is how important Twitter is to journalists.

00:36:26.300 Twitter is really the journalist's social media, wouldn't you say?

00:36:31.720 You know, Facebook is the mom's social media.

00:36:35.000 You know, LinkedIn is the business person's.

00:36:37.480 Instagram is for narcissists and people who would like to be narcissists.

00:36:44.660 And want to be narcissists.

00:36:47.460 But Twitter is basically the news journalist place.

00:36:51.820 And if the journalists lose their, if they lose their rank within Twitter, what will they do?

00:36:59.700 Would they become less important?

00:37:03.020 I don't know.

00:37:04.640 I feel like, here's what I think.

00:37:06.340 Here's my prediction.

00:37:08.320 That the blue check, if it goes away and becomes anything that people can buy,

00:37:14.720 then people will just look at your follower account instead.

00:37:18.040 And it ends up being the same thing.

00:37:19.640 Am I wrong?

00:37:23.320 How many of you look at the follower account to decide how to interpret the tweet?

00:37:29.200 I'm not the only one who does that, right?

00:37:31.760 I definitely do that.

00:37:33.820 Yeah.

00:37:35.480 Yeah.

00:37:37.760 So I think that, just speaking for myself and maybe some of you too,

00:37:43.300 the blue check was only a proxy for the follower account.

00:37:48.040 Now, it wasn't a perfect proxy because, you know,

00:37:51.600 sometimes somebody new would be building an audience and they're not there yet.

00:37:55.780 But you could tell if it's a building audience.

00:37:58.280 I feel like the user count is the only thing that mattered anyway.

00:38:01.860 Because that's a measure of influence.

00:38:05.720 So am I wrong that we don't need the blue check?

00:38:09.060 The blue check was just saving you a click.

00:38:11.180 And now I'll just do the click and see the follower account.

00:38:16.540 Which makes me wonder if, has Twitter ever considered getting rid of the follower account?

00:38:25.680 Imagine that.

00:38:27.560 Like, it would change the service to me to the point where I'd be much less likely to use it.

00:38:34.360 Because I'm very incentivized by anything I can measure.

00:38:41.720 Here's like a persuasion trick for you.

00:38:45.060 People care more about things that can be measured.

00:38:47.740 So that's why the things that can be measured end up being dominant over the things that you're worried about.

00:38:54.960 And they might even be more important.

00:38:56.340 But whatever's measured gets the most attention.

00:39:00.620 So if you can measure the number of followers, then I'm all in.

00:39:05.600 I'm like, oh, I can compete for influence.

00:39:09.820 And I can tell how I'm doing by my number of followers.

00:39:12.980 So that's very incentivizing for me.

00:39:15.160 I'm like, oh, I'm in.

00:39:15.920 I like a good competition.

00:39:19.440 So every day if I get new followers, I look at it and I feel good.

00:39:22.840 If I get new followers, I get a little, like, boost of dopamine.

00:39:27.000 So I'm, like, part of the machine now.

00:39:29.300 So the machine is, like, treating me like the chicken that gets a pellet.

00:39:33.200 It's like, ooh, look at the pellets you got.

00:39:36.200 500 new users.

00:39:37.420 And I'm like, oh, pellet.

00:39:40.120 Give me another pellet.

00:39:41.160 I want another pellet tomorrow.

00:39:44.100 All right, predictions.

00:39:45.920 Prediction is that the Internet dads will become the dominant influence in the country.

00:39:54.660 The Internet dads, and that includes women who are sort of fulfilling the role of being the adult in the room.

00:40:01.920 I think it's going to be the Internet dads.

00:40:03.420 So, and part of that is because the media's influence is being, you know, diluted by a lot of things.

00:40:14.220 And the Internet dad types are adding too much value to be ignored.

00:40:22.400 Right?

00:40:24.000 Yeah, or the step dads, right?

00:40:25.500 The Internet of step dads.

00:40:28.580 So that's what I think.

00:40:30.620 So let's talk about Stephen King.

00:40:34.100 I don't know if I've ever mentioned, but people who are professional artists sometimes don't have the best grasp of business and science and other domains.

00:40:45.400 But they think they do.

00:40:47.320 Boy, do they think they do.

00:40:49.540 So Stephen King was giving some, I guess, business criticism to Elon Musk.

00:40:54.640 So here's what Stephen King said.

00:41:00.520 He started out good.

00:41:01.660 He goes, I think Elon, and this is in a tweet.

00:41:04.500 I think Elon Musk is a visionary.

00:41:06.620 Almost single-handedly, he's changed the way Americans think about automobiles.

00:41:10.900 I have a Tesla and love it.

00:41:12.960 That said, he's been a terrible fit for Twitter.

00:41:16.320 He appears to be making it up as he goes along.

00:41:18.720 And then later, I guess he got some responses to that.

00:41:23.440 And later he tweeted, but Twitter ain't cars and Twitter ain't rockets.

00:41:29.460 So Stephen King, with all of his analytical writer's ability, has decided that Elon Musk, who didn't know anything about electric cars until he made the biggest electric car company,

00:41:45.220 didn't know anything about satellites until he launched his network of satellites,

00:41:50.760 didn't know anything about rocket ships to Mars until he became the head of engineering because he couldn't hire one,

00:41:57.060 didn't know anything about neural links to your brains until he formed Neuralink,

00:42:01.940 didn't know anything about digital payments until he was part of the PayPal team,

00:42:06.280 didn't know anything about building gigantic machines that bore through the Earth efficiently until he formed the boring company.

00:42:13.020 Stephen King, do you see a pattern here?

00:42:19.640 Do you see a pattern?

00:42:21.500 You know that every one of those things he didn't know how to do until he did them, right?

00:42:27.420 If you could find the pattern, the pattern is he's the guy who knows how to do the things that other people don't know how to do

00:42:33.780 because he figures it out and then he does it.

00:42:36.980 That's who he is.

00:42:37.880 The most basic description of Elon Musk is the guy who can figure out how to do the thing that other people couldn't figure out how to do.

00:42:47.380 That's like his entire brand is doing the thing that Stephen King hasn't noticed he's good at.

00:42:53.340 The entire situation is that he can do that over and over again.

00:42:58.820 How many times does he have to prove it?

00:43:00.400 And Stephen King hasn't noticed that Tesla can do some things.

00:43:07.680 Also, what do all these things have in common except for the boring machine?

00:43:13.960 The boring machine is the exception.

00:43:15.560 What do they all have in common?

00:43:18.100 They all require software.

00:43:21.420 They're all software driven.

00:43:22.920 I'm pretty sure that the reason that the rockets can land back on Earth and be reused, isn't that mostly software?

00:43:36.600 It is, right?

00:43:38.200 For the engines to fire at just the right degree to bring a long, tall thing down back on its base, that's got to be all software.

00:43:46.700 So the software is driving the cars.

00:43:50.640 Musk just said they did some huge self-driving test with their new trucks, the big trucks for carrying goods.

00:44:02.400 And it worked.

00:44:03.360 It's all software.

00:44:05.480 So if there's somebody I would trust to fix Twitter, which is software, literally there's nobody or person in the world.

00:44:13.940 He'd be the first person you'd pick.

00:44:16.700 But Stephen King.

00:44:18.080 All right.

00:44:21.540 Gavin Newsom is reportedly all in for Biden and will wait his turn and will not run for president if Biden is.

00:44:31.680 Now, here's how I interpret that.

00:44:34.920 I think Newsom is playing it smart, which is not surprising.

00:44:41.100 He's a smart politician.

00:44:43.080 And there are two things that are possible.

00:44:44.920 Biden actually does run, in which case it really would be a bad idea to run against him, because primarying your sitting president's a bad look.

00:44:55.900 And he'd be pissing off some fundraisers and stuff like that.

00:44:59.300 So it probably wouldn't work for him in the long run to run against Biden.

00:45:02.980 But what are the odds Biden's really going to run versus maybe running a little and dropping out early?

00:45:10.040 I feel like Newsom wants to make sure he's as friendly as possible with the Biden team so he can take them over.

00:45:18.920 Don't you think?

00:45:20.420 The number one thing Newsom would want would be for Biden to drop out on his own without being primaries and then for it to have his infrastructure just move over to Gavin, because apparently it's a good infrastructure for fundraising and stuff like that.

00:45:34.740 So I think that's the right play.

00:46:04.720 Imagine yourself as president of the United States.

00:46:08.740 And then your wife wants to give you some advice.

00:46:12.160 How would you take that?

00:46:14.900 Here's how I would take it.

00:46:16.740 This might be just revealing a personality defect on my part.

00:46:20.040 I would see the lips move, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:24.060 But then my brain would be saying, one of us, and only one of us in this room, rose from absolutely nothing to the president of the United States, the leader of the most powerful military in the history of humanity.

00:46:41.100 One of us did that, and then you're the other one.

00:46:46.720 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:46:47.940 I'm not even going to listen to your fucking blabber.

00:46:50.520 And by the way, this is not a sexist.

00:46:52.520 You can reverse a sexist.

00:46:54.840 Same fucking thing.

00:46:55.760 If it's Hillary, and she's got her opinions, and somebody's telling Hillary, not Bill, obviously his opinions would be valuable.

00:47:04.200 But if somebody who's never done anything, never accomplished anything except getting married, is like, blah, blah, blah, Hillary, this is what you should do.

00:47:11.520 What should Hillary do?

00:47:13.100 Hillary should say, all right, I became Hillary Clinton.

00:47:16.940 Hillary Clinton, you became whatever you are in the room, and I'm not going to listen to that.

00:47:22.800 I can't listen to that.

00:47:24.600 We have a request for a second sip.

00:47:27.500 And I, being responsive to my audience, have decided to grant you that privilege.

00:47:35.020 It's a privilege for me as well.

00:47:36.820 It's a privilege for all of us.

00:47:39.340 Secondary, simultaneous sip, on the way.

00:47:42.620 Hope that was enough warning.

00:47:44.240 Go.

00:47:46.940 I don't know why I'm thinking this.

00:47:52.700 Something in the comments made me think it.

00:47:54.760 I saw a video on Instagram of a woman eating popcorn off her dog's stomach.

00:48:02.460 She had a little chihuahua, and the chihuahua was sort of in her arms, and, you know, it was like sleeping.

00:48:07.660 And she had put her popcorn on the stomach of the dog, and she was just eating popcorn off the dog.

00:48:13.760 It was the best thing I'd seen in a week.

00:48:21.340 Come on.

00:48:22.080 The dog licks your face all day long.

00:48:23.820 Eating a little popcorn off the dog's stomach isn't going to kill you.

00:48:29.820 All right.

00:48:30.380 The news, as you might expect on a Sunday on a Thanksgiving long weekend, the news is sort of shooting blanks, so we don't have a lot to work with today.

00:48:43.240 Do you think Hunter is waiting for Hunter hearing without some plan?

00:48:47.960 You know, it could be that Joe Biden needs to remain president long enough to pardon Hunter.

00:48:54.820 Has anybody said that out loud?

00:48:59.020 Because remember, the president has lost one adult son.

00:49:03.060 And if you've lost one adult son for any reason, you become probably a maniac to protect the remaining son.

00:49:13.000 Wouldn't you?

00:49:14.080 I mean, I would imagine that would just, like, mess with your head so badly.

00:49:19.400 So I feel as if Biden will never leave the job voluntarily, as long as there's some possibility he'll have to pardon Hunter.

00:49:27.960 Because imagine if Biden left the job, and then a week later, Hunter gets prosecuted.

00:49:36.900 Imagine that.

00:49:38.520 Imagine what Joe Biden would think if he thought, shit, all I had to do is run for re-election, and this wouldn't be happening.

00:49:48.280 So it could be that Joe can't take anybody's advice on this.

00:49:52.700 It could be that, Biden says, the only way to protect my son, and maybe myself, and maybe the whole family, is to just be president until I die.

00:50:03.120 I think that might be the play.

00:50:05.480 Does that ring true?

00:50:07.240 Is that the best speculation you've seen so far?

00:50:11.620 Because I'm not wrong.

00:50:13.660 Only the president could pardon Hunter, right?

00:50:20.580 And only Biden would do it.

00:50:22.700 I mean, I can't, I suppose, you know, I suppose a different Democrat president could do it, but you couldn't guarantee that.

00:50:31.620 You can never guarantee that.

00:50:34.860 You know what would be really interesting?

00:50:39.080 Is for Trump to say that he would pardon Hunter.

00:50:44.760 But we still have to find out what went on.

00:50:46.880 And then say he would, he hopes Hunter gets some drug treatment.

00:50:54.660 Yeah.

00:50:55.260 I know what you're saying.

00:50:56.680 I get it.

00:50:57.100 That's not Trump.

00:50:58.260 Trump is all predator all the time.

00:51:00.620 And that's why you like him.

00:51:02.040 So I'm not saying he's ever going to change whether he necessarily should.

00:51:04.960 But just imagine what a gigantic mind F that would be.

00:51:09.940 Because it would remove Joe Biden's reasons for running for president.

00:51:14.740 Right?

00:51:15.500 He could take Biden out of the race.

00:51:18.380 Just promise that we do need to understand the Hunter Biden thing, so we do need to do the investigation.

00:51:24.040 But for the good of the country, it doesn't rise to the level where a prosecution makes sense.

00:51:32.760 It would just so, it would screw with your mind so much, you wouldn't know what to do with it.

00:51:37.280 You just wouldn't know what to do with it.

00:51:39.200 Imagine if Trump showed compassion to Hunter for his drug addiction.

00:51:47.360 Just imagine that.

00:51:49.520 Right?

00:51:50.000 No thanks.

00:51:51.240 Yeah.

00:51:51.400 Yeah, it would make his base angry.

00:51:54.280 You're right.

00:51:56.080 But I think Trump has trapped himself because he has such a well-defined base that anything he does that's outside of that little well-defined channel looks like it's a problem.

00:52:08.060 So I think Trump has been painted into a corner a little bit by who supports him and who doesn't.

00:52:20.700 Yeah.

00:52:21.400 All right.

00:52:28.960 Big F you to those who suffer under the law.

00:52:32.760 Yeah.

00:52:33.280 You know, the whole thing with presidential pardons is that they're all unfair.

00:52:37.600 You get that, right?

00:52:39.580 I don't think there's any, I don't think there's ever been a presidential pardon that was fair.

00:52:46.820 They don't try to be.

00:52:47.860 That's not an objective of presidential pardons.

00:52:51.800 The presidential pardon is the one thing that you can't question.

00:52:54.500 And we want it that way.

00:52:57.140 We want it to be an unquestioned right.

00:53:03.500 And so that's what we got.

00:53:05.780 There's a Rob Reiner impersonator over here.

00:53:15.780 Who invented the pardon?

00:53:22.340 I don't know.

00:53:23.400 That's a good question.

00:53:24.180 But I'm reluctantly in favor of the pardon, because even though I think the pardon is, you know, 95% just letting guilty people enter prison, I think you need that 5% to feel like just that little extra safety.

00:53:42.220 Because, you know, you might be the one who ends up in prison, right?

00:53:46.940 It could be you.

00:53:48.540 You'd like to know that there's that little bit of chance that if you were wrongly convicted, you could get out.

00:53:54.020 So yesterday, you left us with a conversational debunk on the clogs.

00:54:03.100 Blood clots, they are not.

00:54:05.040 Yeah.

00:54:05.860 By the way, has anybody done the debunk work on that blood clot died suddenly film documentary?

00:54:15.220 If you do your own research, you very quickly find people who say, oh, that can be explained away.

00:54:23.420 It's just refrigerated dead people.

00:54:25.360 They all have that blood clot.

00:54:27.800 Stuff like that.

00:54:30.080 But there's been a debunk on the debunk.

00:54:32.080 There's always a debunk on the debunk.

00:54:34.760 That's why, basically, you just have to make up your own mind.

00:54:38.220 It's not like we have information that works anymore.

00:54:42.000 We don't.

00:54:42.740 You have to make up your own mind.

00:54:45.220 What I say about doing your own research is that you should always hear both sides.

00:54:52.520 If doing your own research means as a scientist, then that usually doesn't work because we're not good scientists.

00:55:00.380 Even the scientists can't do that.

00:55:02.620 But you should always see both sides.

00:55:05.520 Seeing both sides is just being aware of the argument.

00:55:09.700 I would say that's different from doing your own research.

00:55:12.300 I mean, that's the smallest version of doing your own research, is simply being aware of what the other side says.

00:55:19.340 That's it.

00:55:20.040 That's as far as I would go.

00:55:21.520 Just be aware of it.

00:55:23.100 What you do with it is up to you.

00:55:26.920 Morticians found the rubbery clots to be an anomaly.

00:55:29.240 How much would you want to bet that if you did interviews with people in that field, you would find people who disagree with you and say, no, this is normal.

00:55:42.500 That's just a refrigerated corpse.

00:55:44.340 They all look like that.

00:55:45.780 How much would you bet you could find somebody to say, who does that job, who says, no, it's obviously faked?

00:55:52.380 Easily.

00:55:56.200 Now, that doesn't mean it's faked, but I'll bet you could find somebody in that industry who says it's fake.

00:56:02.320 I don't know.

00:56:03.200 Who knows?

00:56:04.220 Now, let me, I did hear from, I'm not going to name names, but I did hear from a documentarian who wanted to clarify that although I said documentaries are by their nature the least credible form of information,

00:56:20.060 that does not mean they're incorrect.

00:56:23.180 You all get that, right?

00:56:25.800 I have to talk about this all the time.

00:56:28.220 When I say something has no credibility, that doesn't mean it's false.

00:56:33.380 Those are completely different topics.

00:56:36.860 Something could be true or false, and you just don't know one way or the other.

00:56:40.160 But if the person who has the least, has a history of lying all the time, is your only source, then you'd say, well, I don't know.

00:56:50.060 There's no credibility there.

00:56:55.400 Name names.

00:57:00.240 Freedom is, what is true?

00:57:02.440 I don't know.

00:57:03.700 Yeah, I said that yesterday, but I have to say it a lot, because it's hard to hear.

00:57:10.800 Yeah.

00:57:10.980 I think the rubbery clots are just the refrigerated corpses.

00:57:15.320 They have rubbery clots.

00:57:16.280 That's what I've been told by doctors.

00:57:26.740 Biden pardons Fuentes?

00:57:28.840 For what?

00:57:33.700 It's easy to find them to discredit, then why haven't you done the work?

00:57:37.940 Oh, good question.

00:57:40.660 If it's easy to find the morticians who would discredit it, why have I not done the work?

00:57:46.720 Would anybody like to answer the question?

00:57:49.440 Before I go off on this person?

00:57:52.520 If you answer the question well enough, I won't go off on them.

00:57:55.600 Otherwise, I'm just going to fucking go off on them right now.

00:57:58.420 Would you like to take a moment to possibly stop me from doing that?

00:58:09.840 Do you know I haven't looked into it?

00:58:12.620 I don't fucking work for you.

00:58:15.540 Do you know how many things I haven't looked into?

00:58:18.040 Do you know how many things that I could do that I haven't done?

00:58:21.360 I have a lot of things to do.

00:58:23.680 Why don't you fucking look into it?

00:58:25.000 Why don't you fucking look into it and then tell me how it went?

00:58:28.440 Because I'm not going to mow your fucking lawn.

00:58:30.620 I'm not washing your dishes.

00:58:32.480 I'm not doing your laundry.

00:58:34.500 I know you'd like to know.

00:58:36.120 Well, why don't you go do it yourself?

00:58:38.400 It's not my job to do every fucking piece of research that you need.

00:58:43.240 Do you think that's what I'm doing here?

00:58:45.100 I do the best I can with the time I have and the priorities that make sense to me.

00:58:51.480 Yeah, you fucking go look it up.

00:58:53.040 Do you know what you're going to find?

00:58:55.600 Do you know why I don't look up things when I already know the answer?

00:58:59.280 Because it's a waste of my fucking time.

00:59:02.340 All right.

00:59:02.660 If you came to me and said, oh, we discovered that alcohol makes you immortal and live forever.

00:59:08.720 And I say, well, I don't think so.

00:59:10.220 That doesn't sound credible.

00:59:11.620 Are you going to say to me, Scott, you haven't taken the time to do a deep dive on this claim

00:59:16.380 that alcohol can make you immortal?

00:59:18.280 No, I'm not going to do a fucking deep dive on that.

00:59:20.680 It's so fucking obviously not true.

00:59:23.420 Do you know what's also obviously not true?

00:59:26.800 I didn't want to say it because I don't want to insult my audience, but I'm just going to do it anyway.

00:59:30.680 That blood clot thing is so obviously fucking false.

00:59:35.080 If you believe that, you're, okay, I don't want to insult you.

00:59:39.820 Don't believe that.

00:59:41.640 Don't.

00:59:42.240 It's the most obviously false looking thing I've ever seen.

00:59:48.640 If you even feel you need to look into it, I don't know.

00:59:55.600 I mean, go ahead, but I'm not going to bother.

00:59:59.660 It's so obviously false.

01:00:01.660 Do you know why?

01:00:03.320 It would be the top news story because it's so easy to check, like you said.

01:00:09.880 I could do a deep dive.

01:00:11.080 You don't think the New York Times and other places looked at that and said,

01:00:15.160 we maybe ought to talk to at least one mortician.

01:00:20.860 You don't think anybody did that?

01:00:23.240 Of all the media, big media people who are looking for a story

01:00:28.220 and would love to have a story,

01:00:30.660 because there are conservative ones who would love this to be true, right?

01:00:34.860 There are conservative ones who would get a lot of clicks if this were true

01:00:38.340 and they could confirm it.

01:00:41.080 The fact that nobody can confirm this fucking thing should be a big, big flag to you

01:00:46.520 that you don't need to fucking research it.

01:00:49.300 Now, the only reason I tell you that you should look into it

01:00:52.040 is because I'm being polite.

01:00:54.680 If you had a little bit of sophistication about looking at the news,

01:00:59.700 you wouldn't have to look at that at all.

01:01:01.420 It's so fucking obviously false.

01:01:03.560 Like this one, you should have seen from the jump.

01:01:08.420 The day I saw that, I didn't even give it a moment's thought.

01:01:12.840 I just said, well, that's the most obviously false thing I've ever seen.

01:01:17.460 And then people started believing it.

01:01:19.080 I'm like, oh God, they'll believe any fucking thing.

01:01:22.440 Don't make it my job to debunk the obvious, okay?

01:01:25.380 Maybe I'll debunk things that are a little bit, you know, on the edge or not so sure.

01:01:31.020 But don't make me debunk things that are so obviously fake.

01:01:34.980 So obviously fake.

01:01:39.600 All right.

01:01:41.660 I really didn't want to do that.

01:01:44.160 But you forced my hand.

01:01:49.200 Counterpoint.

01:01:49.680 Why didn't you take any boosters?

01:01:51.880 Because it was Omicron.

01:01:55.500 And I didn't need to travel.

01:01:59.740 So anybody who confuses decisions in a state of uncertainty

01:02:04.840 with decisions in a state of certainty,

01:02:08.240 you should not be talking in public.

01:02:12.480 So is there anybody here who knows why I got the original two vaccinations?

01:02:19.680 Can you answer the question?

01:02:22.060 Why did I?

01:02:23.660 For sex.

01:02:25.320 Yeah, I did it for sex.

01:02:30.280 And so far I'm healthy.

01:02:32.860 And I had lots of good sex.

01:02:37.180 So for those of you who are criticizing me,

01:02:40.440 you did not go to Bora Bora and have amazing sex

01:02:43.500 in a tropical paradise.

01:02:48.820 I did.

01:02:50.360 I did.

01:02:51.360 I took the chance.

01:02:53.420 Now, if you say, Scott,

01:02:55.680 if you drop dead from that shot,

01:02:58.420 the joke's on you.

01:03:00.100 Do you know what I'd say?

01:03:02.020 I'm ready to go.

01:03:05.360 I wouldn't have a special problem with that.

01:03:08.080 I'm absolutely ready.

01:03:10.040 Now, I'm not suicidal, right?

01:03:11.920 Everything's fine.

01:03:13.160 My mental state is actually very, very good.

01:03:15.380 I'm just saying that I took a chance.

01:03:19.800 I weighed the pluses and the minuses in a state of not knowing really what was true.

01:03:26.420 I didn't know if the, at that point, I didn't have any sense of whether the vaccination

01:03:30.840 or the COVID itself would be more dangerous.

01:03:34.200 or even how well the vaccination worked.

01:03:37.840 Those were all unknowns.

01:03:38.820 But I knew for sure that I like high-quality sex in tropical locations.

01:03:46.800 That was the only thing I knew for sure.

01:03:49.860 And that if I got that second jab, I could go to a tropical location and be fucking my

01:03:56.960 brains out while you were laying on your couch with a mask on.

01:04:00.740 So, all of you geniuses who laid on the couch with your masks on, good for you.

01:04:08.420 You're the smart ones.

01:04:11.740 All right.

01:04:19.020 This is the other thing that I think is funny.

01:04:22.300 I just saw a comment on locals.

01:04:23.560 How many of you think that a rich male in America in 2022, somebody who is rich and has pretty

01:04:35.320 much perfect body mass index body, do you think I can't get laid?

01:04:42.320 Does anybody think that's like beyond my, it's beyond my reach?

01:04:49.120 What world do you live in?

01:04:53.560 Yeah, what world do you live in that a rich, healthy guy can't get laid in America?

01:04:59.500 Like, how bad would your game have to be when you couldn't make that work?

01:05:07.660 What age do you target?

01:05:10.380 Does it matter?

01:05:13.060 So, one of the comments was, what age do you target?

01:05:17.000 Again, rich, healthy man in America.

01:05:23.560 No, you have lots of options.

01:05:27.420 You have lots of options.

01:05:29.020 You know, I don't go full Epstein.

01:05:30.940 That would be too far.

01:05:32.500 And I'm not terribly interested in anybody who's too young.

01:05:37.300 Still legal, but too young.

01:05:38.860 Too young meaning, let's say, in their 20s.

01:05:42.200 20s is kind of tough.

01:05:43.600 20s is kind of tough.

01:05:48.740 Anyway.

01:05:51.880 Somebody says, the older you get, the more you have to fight them off.

01:05:56.160 That is totally true.

01:05:58.920 The closer I get to death, the more valuable I am.

01:06:03.460 You get that, right?

01:06:05.640 It's true.

01:06:06.680 It's like absolutely true.

01:06:08.840 The closer I am to death, the better I am as a marriage potential.

01:06:14.200 Because at least you get the money, even if you don't get the guy.

01:06:20.900 Yeah.

01:06:22.420 Anyway.

01:06:23.180 So, I guess I don't have much to talk about today because the news is a little uninteresting.

01:06:27.720 By tomorrow, it'll be all interesting again.

01:06:29.920 Are you seeing any difference in Twitter lately?

01:06:40.080 I thought the trolls went away for a while, but I think they're back.

01:06:44.400 So, I had a troll resurgence recently.

01:06:49.100 Did anybody see a troll resurgence recently?

01:06:54.000 Yeah.

01:06:54.800 It could be an individual thing.

01:06:56.520 I don't know.

01:06:57.020 It could be just what I said.

01:06:58.000 But some people who just clearly look like trolls came after me.

01:07:02.260 And I thought for a while I hadn't been seeing any.

01:07:05.300 Now, here's the other thing that's happening.

01:07:07.620 My number of likes and retweets is just through the roof recently.

01:07:14.320 Is anybody noticing that?

01:07:16.600 Like an average, just pretty good tweet will get 1,000 likes.

01:07:21.680 And before Musk, it would be like 500.

01:07:24.620 So, Musk just showed us his slides he showed to the Twitter internally, internal group.

01:07:31.380 And Musk is saying that the Twitter use is just way up.

01:07:37.080 Way up.

01:07:39.520 So, maybe it's just that.

01:07:40.920 Just Twitter use is way up.

01:07:42.100 Just looking at your comments for a moment.

01:07:52.460 Yeah, it does feel like I was being throttled.

01:07:55.080 And to me, the most interesting thing that Musk has said so far is that we have no idea how bad it was.

01:08:02.420 Like, he's actually dug down to the point where he's telling us some version of this.

01:08:10.240 Everything you suspected was true.

01:08:12.740 And it might even be worse than you thought.

01:08:17.380 Now, that does feel believable, doesn't it?

01:08:20.400 I think it's exactly what it looked like, that people on the left didn't want to give up their narrative,

01:08:27.300 and they had a tool that would help them hold on to it, and so they used the tool.

01:08:31.980 I think that's the whole story.

01:08:37.300 I haven't seen anybody address the hoax list who was a prominent person.

01:08:41.120 Wouldn't you love to see Trump have a podcast where the guest was any critic of his, a Democrat,

01:08:56.920 who believes all the hoaxes, and then a second guest was me.

01:09:03.780 And then Trump says, all right, you say this is true.

01:09:07.500 You say this is a hoax.

01:09:09.000 Fight it out.

01:09:13.920 Seriously.

01:09:15.120 That would be 100 million views.

01:09:18.520 I'm not joking.

01:09:20.240 If Trump had a podcast where he interviewed me about the hoax list,

01:09:24.300 and a Democrat who believed him, 100 million hits.

01:09:28.640 Well, unless it got suppressed by the...

01:09:31.000 I guess it would be suppressed.

01:09:33.720 Am I right?

01:09:35.840 That would be 100 million hits.

01:09:37.820 I think it would be.

01:09:39.000 It would actually be maybe the biggest content ever produced.

01:09:45.260 Am I wrong?

01:09:46.720 I mean, that's a pretty big...

01:09:47.600 I'm making a big claim.

01:09:49.080 I'm saying it would be the most watched content of all time on the entire Internet.

01:09:55.960 It would be number one of all time.

01:09:57.640 I think so, unless it were suppressed.

01:10:00.880 If it got suppressed, then nobody sees it.

01:10:04.440 And I think it probably would be suppressed.

01:10:07.200 Yeah, YouTube would suppress it, of course.

01:10:11.080 Yeah, I don't think YouTube could allow the list to get much play.

01:10:14.360 By the way, one of the reasons that I avoid cancellation is by keeping my audience intentionally small.

01:10:24.740 Did you ever wonder why I don't do more to grow my audience?

01:10:29.620 Has anybody ever wondered about that?

01:10:32.840 Does it seem suspicious to you that I haven't increased my production values and done marketing and tweeted and appear on other podcasts to sell this one?

01:10:45.040 It's because I don't want it any bigger.

01:10:48.720 If it gets bigger, I'll be a target.

01:10:51.640 At my current size, I have crazy influence because it's just the nature of the people who watch this.

01:10:58.120 It's sort of a small...

01:11:00.500 It's like a boutique content.

01:11:02.320 Can I use that word?

01:11:05.240 Does this feel like boutique content?

01:11:08.160 Because there's a certain small group of people who are going to love it, but it won't be necessarily even on the awareness of anybody else.

01:11:16.560 And I think that's the way it works best.

01:11:19.020 Because if I had the size audience of, let's say, Alex Jones or Ben Shapiro, I think that I would have to get cancelled.

01:11:27.880 But here's how this works.

01:11:31.160 If you're a Democrat, you would have no idea how much influence I have.

01:11:37.700 Would you give me a fact check on that?

01:11:40.200 True or false?

01:11:41.780 There's probably no Democrat anywhere who has any idea what kind of influence I have on events in the world.

01:11:49.260 Wouldn't you agree?

01:11:50.340 I don't think there are any.

01:11:52.020 I'll bet you literally would not be able to find one.

01:11:55.240 Now, is that true of conservatives?

01:11:56.580 Do you think conservatives know how much influence I have on events?

01:12:00.580 They have a much better idea, but nobody knows the full catalog.

01:12:08.000 You know that, right?

01:12:10.000 Just like every famous person, you think you know their story, but the real story is always different.

01:12:16.640 You think you know everything about Elon Musk.

01:12:20.100 Well, you don't.

01:12:22.520 There's a version of Elon Musk that only he knows.

01:12:26.500 Only he knows.

01:12:27.780 Nobody else knows it.

01:12:29.000 And never will.

01:12:30.120 And that's true of all famous people.

01:12:32.540 The real story?

01:12:34.380 Nobody will never know that.

01:12:35.500 So I think that Republicans have a sense that, you know, things I say sometimes get repeated so that they can see that level of influence.

01:12:45.820 But there's nobody in the world who knows my full catalog of things I've influenced.

01:12:51.500 I'm the only one.

01:12:52.600 I'm literally the only one.

01:12:54.980 And if I told you, you wouldn't believe it.

01:12:57.440 So it just stays with me.

01:13:00.020 And I'll go to my grave being the only one who ever knew.

01:13:03.500 And that gives me tremendous power.

01:13:09.660 Tremendous power.

01:13:11.100 Because if people knew how much influence I had, they'd try to stop it.

01:13:15.860 The Democrats are completely oblivious.

01:13:19.060 The Republicans think it's a little bit of influence, but, you know, they generally like the way I influence things.

01:13:24.320 So they're like, oh, okay.

01:13:25.740 It's got a little bit of influence, just like other people.

01:13:29.680 So we like it.

01:13:30.620 The only reason I can operate is because people don't know what I'm doing.

01:13:37.000 And how much do you love the fact that I can say it publicly?

01:13:40.740 I can tell you directly.

01:13:42.600 But it's in this category of things which can't be communicated.

01:13:48.120 I can say it, but a Democrat can't hear it.

01:13:53.680 Right?

01:13:54.040 I can stand in front of my building and say, do you have any idea what I'm doing?

01:14:00.040 And then I could tell them.

01:14:02.180 And then they would say, oh, crazy guy in the building.

01:14:05.040 And go on with their day.

01:14:06.740 It can't be communicated.

01:14:08.780 It's completely a non-transferable knowledge.

01:14:12.620 It's weird.

01:14:16.520 What about Bill Maher?

01:14:25.860 Cake recipes.

01:14:26.960 What?

01:14:32.560 People I know of you, but truly don't know.

01:14:35.280 Yeah.

01:14:35.440 And one of the things that protects me is that I'm famous as a cartoonist.

01:14:42.940 What do you think Democrats think when they hear, you know, I said something in public about politics?

01:14:49.200 The first thing they think is the way you think of Stephen King, I assume.

01:14:55.240 They go, we don't have to listen to Stephen King.

01:14:57.600 He's a writer.

01:14:58.520 And when they hear from me, they're like, ah, cartoonist.

01:15:06.860 Yeah, cartoon boy.

01:15:08.880 So that works in my favor, because I'm not taken seriously.

01:15:12.480 And that's exactly where I like to hide.

01:15:18.160 One of the things that I can't fully teach you is how to use psychology to make things invisible.

01:15:26.200 But I do it all the time.

01:15:28.920 And the news does it all the time.

01:15:30.360 Usually redirection.

01:15:32.120 But I basically made myself invisible.

01:15:36.440 And I could just hide here forever.

01:15:39.420 Like I'm in public and invisible at the same time.

01:15:42.960 Right?

01:15:44.280 I mean, you're watching it in real time.

01:15:45.980 I'm in public, but also invisible.

01:15:50.120 I do it because the psychology allowed it to happen.

01:15:53.160 So I just inserted myself where I could hide.

01:15:58.120 So as long as I'm famous for cartooning, and Democrats are living mostly in their bubble,

01:16:04.240 and they just get like a little bit of a taste of what's happening in the other bubbles, but that's it.

01:16:10.400 As long as they only get a taste, and that's not going to change.

01:16:13.820 There's nothing that's going to change that.

01:16:15.660 They're always going to see me as the Garfield guy when they joke that they forget what cartoon I do.

01:16:21.340 And I'll never be taken seriously.

01:16:24.460 That's exactly where I want to be.

01:16:30.060 Desert fairy chick, you would be right.

01:16:33.640 Except that I don't have bad intentions.

01:16:37.860 If I were trying to enrich myself in this process, it would be obvious, wouldn't it?

01:16:43.520 It would be pretty obvious.

01:16:45.400 Do you know how I could make more money?

01:16:47.220 I do.

01:16:47.660 I do.

01:16:48.620 Just agree with one side all the time.

01:16:51.340 Right?

01:16:53.380 It could not be more obvious.

01:16:55.520 If I wanted to make money, I would just agree with the Republicans, whatever they said.

01:17:01.180 And then I would have the same audience as your biggest people who talk about this stuff.

01:17:07.680 But I don't want that.

01:17:09.480 But I also prefer a more honest approach.

01:17:11.620 So, well, that's enough about me.

01:17:24.800 Then you would not be worth as much, yeah.

01:17:27.300 Yeah, there's something about overexposure that diminishes you.

01:17:31.040 So I'm trying to stay below that.

01:17:32.540 Now, I've also said that I'm not going to appear on any other podcast or media, at least for the next year or so.

01:17:41.680 Do you know why I'm doing that?

01:17:43.460 Other than time management.

01:17:45.560 Do you know why I'm not appearing on other podcasts?

01:17:49.440 It's because if I appear on other podcasts, the Democrats will see me.

01:17:52.800 And I'd rather just...

01:17:56.720 They don't.

01:17:58.060 Yeah.

01:17:58.620 Yeah.

01:17:59.520 It doesn't benefit me to get more attention.

01:18:03.100 It would actually make me worse off.

01:18:05.280 I now have just the right attention.

01:18:07.220 Because I have almost 800,000 Twitter followers.

01:18:10.360 I told you if I get to a million, which looks like it'll happen before 2024, if I get to a million followers, have I ever given you my equation for power?

01:18:23.020 The equation is your persuasion skill times you reach.

01:18:29.400 So if you're the most persuasive person in the world but you only have one friend, you're not going to have much influence except on one person.

01:18:35.580 But if you have a big platform, then your influence gets to all those people.

01:18:41.660 So the two things that matter is how good you are at persuading and how many people are paying attention.

01:18:48.880 So Trump had, you know, top grades in both.

01:18:53.980 Trump had the best power of persuasion and then he also had a big platform.

01:18:58.140 Yeah, Andrew Tate, same thing.

01:18:59.660 Power of persuasion, big platform.

01:19:03.080 That's what you want.

01:19:05.580 I have nearly a million followers and as good as Tate is, he's very good at persuasion, as good as Trump is, very good at persuasion, I'm better than both of them.

01:19:20.780 So if I get to a million, I probably can run everything.

01:19:25.340 Now, of course, that's an exaggeration, but it's a directionally correct exaggeration, meaning that I would have influence over some big topics just by number of followers.

01:19:42.240 Yeah.

01:19:43.520 You haven't heard many positive things about ESG lately, have you?

01:19:46.600 How many of you thought I could kill the ESG by the end of the year when I told you that I was going to do it?

01:19:53.580 How many thought that would happen?

01:19:56.600 Would you agree it happened?

01:20:00.580 Would you agree that that was an accomplished goal?

01:20:05.300 Even I don't know.

01:20:06.900 Because you don't know what would have happened.

01:20:08.980 You know, if you hadn't been here, what would have happened?

01:20:10.680 Here's what I think.

01:20:12.700 I think that when Dilbert mocks it as bullshit, it becomes nearly impossible to be in public and not know that everybody knows what you're talking about as bullshit.

01:20:25.020 And it makes it really uncomfortable to be on the side that Dilbert says is bullshit.

01:20:32.680 Yeah.

01:20:33.080 You thought I would need more cartoons to do it?

01:20:41.840 Somebody says the Groypers love me.

01:20:44.020 I don't know if that's true.

01:20:47.180 ESG was not financially feasible.

01:20:49.480 Right.

01:20:50.420 But a lot of things that live forever are not financially beneficial.

01:20:55.160 So that wasn't enough to kill it by itself.

01:20:57.180 It only mattered that somebody was making money on it.

01:21:01.100 Right.

01:21:01.200 As long as BlackRock or somebody was making money, there would be more of it.

01:21:05.880 So I think what's happening is not just that people realize it's not a good investment strategy, but it's just mocked into ridiculous territory.

01:21:17.480 Groypers are the followers of Nick Fuentes.

01:21:21.800 Somebody asked me, what's a Groyper?

01:21:27.780 No more about Colorado?

01:21:29.260 No, I don't do the mass shooters.

01:21:31.900 And I think everybody's okay with that, right?

01:21:35.020 You're okay with me not doing the mass shooters?

01:21:37.520 Now, by the way, here's another example.

01:21:40.500 The mass shooters are of interest to people.

01:21:44.400 And if I wanted to make more money, I would talk about them.

01:21:48.680 I just don't think it's good for the world.

01:21:50.320 You know, it's good that you'd know that it happened.

01:21:53.600 And that's it.

01:21:55.020 I want to be aware of it.

01:21:57.240 You know, I want to be able to give as much support to the, you know, the survivors and families and stuff.

01:22:02.600 But the less we talk about it, the better.

01:22:05.780 And I feel like I have to model that, right?

01:22:12.160 So, to me, making money on the back of that would put me in Alex Jones' territory.

01:22:21.060 You know what I mean?

01:22:21.660 If I try to monetize that, knowing that I'd be monetizing it, knowing I would be contributing to making them more of it, by making it more of top of mind.

01:22:33.160 And crazy people don't need bad ideas top of mind.

01:22:36.160 Hey, Scott, did you hear Kanye was hanging out with a white supremacist?

01:22:45.660 No, I hadn't heard.

01:22:54.640 Yeah, so here's the question.

01:22:56.280 Has Trump lost his edge?

01:23:00.820 What do you think?

01:23:03.060 It feels like it, doesn't it?

01:23:05.300 It feels like it.

01:23:06.160 Now, predictably, he should.

01:23:09.220 Because the experience he's been through, plus the normal effect of being the age that he is, he should be losing a step, exactly the way we see Biden losing a step.

01:23:19.260 Like, exactly the way we saw Reagan lose a step.

01:23:23.900 We shouldn't be surprised if he loses a step.

01:23:27.820 That's just going to happen.

01:23:34.240 Twitter gave him his edge.

01:23:35.660 Yeah, in a very real way.

01:23:42.040 Shapiro and Fuentes need to debate.

01:23:44.120 No, no.

01:23:46.400 No, they don't.

01:23:48.020 Bad idea.

01:23:49.220 Bad idea.

01:23:50.320 No.

01:23:50.540 Now, Ben Shapiro's reputation is as solid as it could be.

01:23:56.360 You don't want him to sit in a chair with somebody who could affect his reputation that way.

01:24:01.940 Now, even though I'd love to see him interviewing, you know, some real disagreeable people, that wouldn't be good for him.

01:24:09.220 I would recommend against it.

01:24:10.220 I would recommend against it.

01:24:11.980 But Trump could do it.

01:24:18.960 Yeah.

01:24:20.600 Will Biden keep Kamala?

01:24:22.260 No.

01:24:22.660 RoboCops.

01:24:23.660 No, they're not really RoboCops.

01:24:29.260 The robots are controlled by people.

01:24:32.660 The San Francisco police robots.

01:24:34.800 I just had this thought from prior topic.

01:24:45.100 My understanding is that Iran is planning to do a public hanging of one of the protesters.

01:24:53.320 Can you get a fact check on that?

01:24:58.100 What would happen if Iran is ready to, like, boil over, and Iran goes ahead with a public hanging?

01:25:06.500 Because I think that's the plan.

01:25:07.920 That's what I heard yesterday.

01:25:09.460 A public hanging of a protester.

01:25:13.040 Would that not make the whole country explode?

01:25:18.120 Wouldn't it?

01:25:18.780 I mean, imagine if you're a protester, and then you see one of you just hanging from a rope.

01:25:25.380 And you knew that the regime did that just to make you see it.

01:25:29.720 That would, I think I'd become, I would become dangerous at that point.

01:25:36.520 At that point, there's probably nothing I wouldn't do to the regime.

01:25:40.600 Do you feel the same way?

01:25:42.900 Like, it's one thing to have the, you know, cops trying to stop you from protesting, blah, blah, blah.

01:25:48.120 But if you take somebody from that group and you hang them from a public scaffold, I'm ready to do whatever it takes.

01:25:58.860 At that point, all of my risk-reward calculation just goes to zero.

01:26:04.760 Have you ever had that happen?

01:26:06.800 By the way, this is probably what makes me the most dangerous.

01:26:10.240 Not the things I say on Twitter.

01:26:12.000 The thing that makes me most dangerous, which even I'm afraid of, is that there are moments when I lose all fear of any consequences.

01:26:28.260 And it doesn't happen often, but it only happens in the situation where I've just made a decision.

01:26:33.840 You know, as opposed to wanting something.

01:26:36.720 Oh, I want this protest to go my way.

01:26:40.500 But when I decide, there's this thing that happens that I can feel in real time.

01:26:46.000 I just feel every risk or fear just disappear.

01:26:50.900 And I go into this calm executioner mode where I could do anything.

01:26:59.300 I could actually do anything.

01:27:02.560 So if I had to, like, murder, you know, a member of the regime with my bare hands, yes.

01:27:11.080 I could do it without even worrying about it.

01:27:14.320 Like, that's just something that happens.

01:27:17.180 But now, but to be clear, it's a rare situation.

01:27:20.640 I'll tell you one time it happened.

01:27:21.840 Some of you heard the story.

01:27:25.160 Back when smoking was legal in offices, and I asked, you know, could I be moved to a cubicle that's away from the smokers, and it couldn't be done.

01:27:37.040 And so I staged a protest.

01:27:40.400 And I felt before I did it, because I was obviously going to risk my job, that I was going to take down the whole fucking company.

01:27:47.540 Like, I wasn't just going to, it wasn't going to be about smoking.

01:27:52.940 Once I realized that they weren't going to help me, and that my health was at, my health was at risk.

01:27:59.240 Such arrogance, Scott.

01:28:01.820 Yes.

01:28:03.000 A little bit.

01:28:04.440 Once I realized they weren't going to help me, and then they, coincidentally, they sent around a thing where you had to sign a document that said,

01:28:12.140 you understood the workplace dangers, and it listed a bunch of types of dangers.

01:28:17.540 And one of the things it listed was secondhand smoke.

01:28:20.660 So the company asked me to sign a document to say I understood that being near secondhand smoke was dangerous.

01:28:27.460 At the same time, they were making me agree that if I saw a danger in the workplace, it was my responsibility to stop it.

01:28:36.280 They made me sign that document.

01:28:38.140 At the same time, they said you have to sit next to this secondhand smoke.

01:28:43.820 Well, at that point, what do you think happened?

01:28:47.540 Remember that thing I said where all fear goes away?

01:28:52.800 Disappeared.

01:28:54.060 At that point, I was going to take down the whole fucking company.

01:28:57.820 Which, by the way, I could have done.

01:29:00.300 I was already hypnotist by then.

01:29:02.480 Probably could have done it.

01:29:03.580 I would just have to go to the media and tell the story that would be damaging to them, and I could have done that.

01:29:08.700 So I was willing to actually throw away my entire career potential for the rest of my life.

01:29:16.820 Not wisely.

01:29:18.560 It wasn't really the fight.

01:29:19.880 I should have died at 22 or whatever it was, 25.

01:29:24.020 That shouldn't have been the play.

01:29:25.900 But instead, I just told my bosses, well, I'll stay home until you solve the workplace danger.

01:29:33.620 And the first day, they thought I was joking.

01:29:35.920 I didn't come to work.

01:29:37.480 And the boss called in and said, really?

01:29:39.640 You're really not coming to work anymore?

01:29:41.680 I go, I'm not quitting.

01:29:42.600 I'm doing what you asked me to do, which is to escape from a workplace danger, alert my managers, and when that's rectified, I'll come back to work.

01:29:54.900 And by the third or fourth day that I didn't go to work, while they still paid me, it started going up the management ranks until it got to somebody who said,

01:30:07.200 oh, we're going to change the smoking situation.

01:30:09.580 So they changed the smoking situation.

01:30:13.080 They moved me to a place in the building that didn't have a smoker's, which they could have done the whole time.

01:30:20.120 But here's the thing.

01:30:21.840 When you get to that point where you've decided, there's no fear.

01:30:28.140 There's no fear once you decide.

01:30:30.900 There's fear when you want.

01:30:33.040 I'd want it to go this way, but not so much that I'm going to do something about it.

01:30:37.180 So I don't know if anybody else has that experience.

01:30:40.180 Have you ever been in an experience where all of your fear went away, and you could feel it in real time, and you just became almost godlike?

01:30:50.400 Because when you have no fear, do you know how scary you are?

01:30:56.100 Have you ever had a conflict with somebody who clearly had no fear about anything?

01:31:02.060 Don't get yourself in that situation.

01:31:06.040 The last thing you want is to be in a confrontation with something that has no fear.

01:31:12.500 And I become that person.

01:31:15.040 It's not planned.

01:31:16.540 It just happens.

01:31:18.260 Because once I've decided, we're done.

01:31:22.480 The decision is the decision.

01:31:24.260 It's just going to happen.

01:31:24.960 30% THC is healthy, says the government.

01:31:30.520 What?

01:31:31.960 I haven't heard that.

01:31:35.240 Like someone on meth, yeah.

01:31:42.000 How do you think Trump has withstood all the hoaxes without quitting?

01:31:46.260 Well, he has weirdly thick skin.

01:31:49.400 And he's also an optimist.

01:31:50.860 So I think Trump thinks that things will work out in the long run.

01:31:55.080 And they usually do.

01:31:57.580 I should do MMA?

01:31:58.960 No.

01:31:59.860 Because MMA, I would just be wanting to fight.

01:32:02.680 So I'd get killed.

01:32:05.880 But you wouldn't want to get in a fight with me if I had decided to win.

01:32:12.100 There's no way you would survive that.

01:32:15.200 Nobody would ever survive that if I decided.

01:32:19.220 Right?

01:32:20.860 Well, Adam Kringler is a clout chaser, okay.

01:32:28.340 So I'm seeing some people say that Ann Coulter is who was behind the meeting with Trump.

01:32:38.420 I don't see any evidence of that.

01:32:40.020 You are a tennis player that says it all.

01:32:48.740 Well, I don't play tennis anymore.

01:32:55.100 All right.

01:32:58.780 I don't have anything else to say.

01:33:01.340 Scott, I'm hearing cognitive dissonance.

01:33:03.240 About what?

01:33:07.020 Yeah, insane people have no fear.

01:33:08.560 That's what makes him scary.

01:33:12.920 If Biden gets rid of the black VP,

01:33:15.840 no, because the black community doesn't like his vice president either.

01:33:21.180 Does he become the kingmaker if he takes down the current kingmaker?

01:33:33.720 Kind of.

01:33:35.460 Yeah.

01:33:35.620 Good morning, San Diego.

01:33:50.160 Give me six and I can carry your home state.

01:33:53.800 Right?

01:33:54.680 Biden and yay?

01:33:56.780 I don't think so.

01:33:57.740 When you have no fear, do you still have the voice that you had?

01:34:03.520 Yes.

01:34:04.740 Yes, I do.

01:34:06.280 I still hear the voice in my head.

01:34:08.760 But the voice in my head has just made a decision,

01:34:11.260 and then I'm just...

01:34:13.600 It's mechanical after that.

01:34:15.100 It's like I'm a robot.

01:34:15.860 VAC's mandates were upheld by the Ninth Circuit.

01:34:29.420 Yes, I hear a voice in my head.

01:34:31.300 So we talked about that yesterday.

01:34:32.640 I guess 30% of the country hears a voice in their head continuously.

01:34:36.740 I'm one of them.

01:34:37.360 I hear myself thinking in full sentences as if I'm listening.

01:34:47.040 And that's how I arrange my thoughts.

01:34:50.420 Have you ever noticed that if you ask some people a question about,

01:34:54.500 let's say, a topic that they've thought about,

01:34:56.220 some people have like an instant answer.

01:34:59.240 I'm one of those people.

01:35:00.820 You could ask me almost anything that's been in the news,

01:35:04.920 even before I was doing this publicly,

01:35:06.740 and I would have an instant answer for you.

01:35:09.800 Because I've already thought of it in terms of the words,

01:35:12.920 I would describe it to someone else.

01:35:14.420 That's how I think.

01:35:15.460 I think in terms of how I would describe it to someone else.

01:35:18.820 Do you do that?

01:35:20.500 All of my mental conversation is me describing what I think is true

01:35:25.500 to an invisible listener.

01:35:30.140 And then if I can describe it well to the imaginary person,

01:35:33.860 then it's a thought I keep.

01:35:35.880 And if I try to explain it to somebody but I can't,

01:35:39.660 then I discard it.

01:35:41.800 So the voice is just my filter for deciding what is reasonable.

01:35:45.780 If you can't put it in a sentence that makes sense,

01:35:48.360 then it probably wasn't reasonable.

01:35:49.820 In the old days, they thought it was demons.

01:36:05.740 You don't do that?

01:36:09.580 Is that...

01:36:11.260 You realize that that's also the same technique

01:36:13.520 for why you do a business case

01:36:16.120 for something that you know you wanted to do.

01:36:19.100 So that used to be my job in corporate America for a while.

01:36:22.400 If the boss wanted to do something,

01:36:24.880 let's say invest in some kind of new technology,

01:36:27.720 then it would be my job to do the numbers

01:36:29.540 and make sure it made sense.

01:36:34.040 So I've got a big background in that.

01:36:35.940 But one of the things you learn

01:36:38.740 is that even if you're pretty sure something makes sense,

01:36:42.200 but then you try to write it down

01:36:43.560 and explain it to somebody,

01:36:45.480 you realize you can't do it.

01:36:47.540 Like you read the words,

01:36:48.680 you're like,

01:36:49.360 why is it that it makes sense to me,

01:36:51.840 but I can't write it down

01:36:53.120 in a way to explain it to somebody else

01:36:54.780 in a way that makes sense?

01:36:55.760 And the answer is,

01:36:57.060 it doesn't make sense.

01:36:58.000 And that's how you learn

01:37:01.080 that your thought process is irrational.

01:37:03.720 When you try to explain it to the imaginary person,

01:37:06.180 then you can't do it.

01:37:09.920 Craig says his internal voice speaks Esperanto.

01:37:13.720 So annoying.

01:37:15.580 I know.

01:37:16.560 Sometimes my internal voice is just signing,

01:37:19.300 but it's one of those frauds.

01:37:22.220 There's nothing funnier than the people

01:37:23.980 who are fraudulent sign language people.

01:37:28.580 There have been a few of them.

01:37:29.980 You've seen them, right?

01:37:30.620 The videos.

01:37:31.660 I don't know how it happened,

01:37:33.220 but somebody somehow got the job

01:37:35.440 and the politician will be talking

01:37:37.120 and they'll be like...

01:37:40.500 And you're looking at them,

01:37:41.940 you're like,

01:37:42.820 I don't know,

01:37:43.300 I haven't seen any of that signing before.

01:37:45.260 I'm no expert,

01:37:46.100 but it doesn't look like signing to me.

01:37:52.480 Somebody on the local says,

01:37:55.100 you want an Android companion

01:37:56.720 more than you want anything else.

01:38:00.280 Yeah.

01:38:01.280 Ditto.

01:38:02.980 I'm with you on that.

01:38:05.980 I think I would be completely happy

01:38:08.140 being an 80-year-old guy

01:38:11.880 living with an Android.

01:38:15.940 Because someday I'll probably be

01:38:17.340 an 80-year-old guy

01:38:18.340 who has to live somehow.

01:38:20.400 I think that an Android companion

01:38:26.720 would be 100% acceptable to me.

01:38:30.780 And I would enjoy having conversations with him.

01:38:33.300 So long as the hot Android

01:38:40.520 could clean itself after you finish.

01:38:43.160 That was an actual comment on locals.

01:38:46.560 Yeah, you definitely want

01:38:48.260 the self-cleaning sex robot.

01:38:51.860 Like, if there's one thing,

01:38:54.560 yeah,

01:38:55.100 got to be self-cleaning.

01:38:56.440 All right, we've gone too far.

01:39:01.380 All right, we've gone too far,

01:39:02.940 so we're going to say goodbye

01:39:04.820 to the YouTube people.

01:39:06.120 I'll talk to the locals a little bit more.

01:39:08.380 And bye for now.

01:39:10.340 Tomorrow will be much better news.

01:39:11.720 Thanks for the time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 27, 2022

Episode 1940 Scott Adams： The News Is Boring So Let's Just Make Fun Of Famous People Who Are Dumb

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