Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 1962 Scott Adams： Let's Talk About January 6 And My Audition For CEO Of Twitter

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00:00:48.360 Ah, yeah.

00:00:50.780 That's good.

00:00:54.260 All right, all systems are working.

00:00:56.800 Let's hit the news.

00:00:59.340 What would be the most surprising thing that could happen in the news?

00:01:03.140 Let's see.

00:01:03.680 Let's check the headlines.

00:01:05.360 New York Times runs a crossword shaped as a swastika on Hanukkah.

00:01:13.860 Um, um, um, um, um, what?

00:01:28.960 What?

00:01:29.480 Did I say yet?

00:01:35.160 What?

00:01:35.760 Now, I'm a little unclear about this story.

00:01:41.280 I've seen, I've seen the crossword puzzle.

00:01:44.500 I can see why people say that's swastika-like.

00:01:49.340 I get that.

00:01:51.620 Uh, yeah, I get it.

00:01:54.040 I get it.

00:01:55.660 Does it look intentional?

00:01:56.740 Do you think it was intentional?

00:02:01.400 I don't think so.

00:02:02.780 No, I think it was, I think it was chance, but it was pretty unfortunate.

00:02:07.300 All right, how many of you, how many of you who were not soccer fans took my advice that the World Cup would not simply be soccer,

00:02:18.040 and that you would see something before the ages?

00:02:23.140 Did anybody take my advice and watch it, even though you're not soccer fans?

00:02:27.460 If you did, now this is just my opinion, right?

00:02:31.240 So this is purely subjective, just my opinion.

00:02:33.320 It was the greatest sporting event of all time, in my opinion.

00:02:40.520 And I'm not even sure it'll ever be topped.

00:02:43.220 It was the greatest sporting event of all time.

00:02:48.500 I, this is the first time this has ever happened to me.

00:02:53.800 I, I was watching alone in my man cave, you know, part of it.

00:02:59.040 And I actually screamed.

00:03:01.720 Like, I cheered out loud, alone.

00:03:05.160 Do you know how, do you know, I've never done that.

00:03:09.020 Alone?

00:03:09.480 I mean, you do it sometimes if people are in the room, right?

00:03:12.220 You get, you know, you're, I've never cheered when I was alone.

00:03:14.940 I mean, this thing moved me like nothing's ever moved me, sporting-wise, right?

00:03:20.120 Now, if you missed it all and you're not, you're oblivious to it.

00:03:24.020 Here's the key thing you need to know.

00:03:25.960 It wasn't really about sports.

00:03:27.520 Like, it was sports.

00:03:30.280 But damn, it was something else.

00:03:33.520 Now, and here's the, the, the plot within the plot.

00:03:37.680 Have I ever told you that reality tends to find the path of greatest entertainment?

00:03:45.520 And the most interesting story ends up to be the one that happens.

00:03:51.200 Like, if you have two potential stories, but one is a better story, the better story happens, right?

00:03:58.620 Now, if you didn't know, the greatest player of all time, Lionel Messi, was playing what should be, I'm sure, his last World Cup.

00:04:07.380 He's won, he had won everything you could win, except the World Cup, and I think whatever is the, maybe the best player for the World Cup or something.

00:04:17.940 I'm not sure about that.

00:04:21.440 But he won.

00:04:23.600 But, oh, my God, did the, the young, up-and-coming guy, Mabop, on the other team, will probably be the best player of all time if his trend continues.

00:04:35.560 So, at his, as age, he's already, like, beating everybody.

00:04:39.080 So, you had the best player in the world, historically, against who will be the best player in the world if he's not already.

00:04:47.900 That new best player, the young guy, scored three goals, not counting, not counting a penalty kick, you know, in the, at the end.

00:04:58.640 Three goals.

00:04:59.440 Do you know how, how unusual that is?

00:05:01.800 It's happened once before, ever, in the World Cup.

00:05:06.980 Finals.

00:05:08.340 So, so the guy who, that the greatest player in the world was playing against, played one of the greatest games you could ever play.

00:05:16.580 Three goals.

00:05:17.480 Amazing.

00:05:18.580 And tied it up at the end.

00:05:21.040 And I had made the tragic mistake of tweeting what I thought was going to be the final, before the final.

00:05:27.880 I tweeted that, that reality follows the most entertaining path.

00:05:33.360 And then I did hashtag messy.

00:05:35.320 Because it was obvious that everything about the story needed messy to win.

00:05:41.860 And then, and then the game got tied right at the end.

00:05:44.640 And like, oh, shit.

00:05:46.100 It turns out, maybe it won't be.

00:05:50.720 Maybe this will be the time that reality does not go in the direction of the, the most interesting outcome.

00:05:56.720 And then, Messi does his thing.

00:06:01.740 And, you know, the Argentinians just weren't going to let him lose.

00:06:05.940 Here, here's my interpretation of it.

00:06:08.280 The battle between the two superstars, the two superstars was as good as it could have been.

00:06:17.800 But still, it was the team.

00:06:20.140 I think it was the Argentinians who couldn't let Messi lose.

00:06:24.900 Like, they were fighting for their country.

00:06:28.020 They were fighting for their own pride.

00:06:30.020 They were fighting for their family, you know, the team members.

00:06:32.180 The team members were fighting for a lot of stuff.

00:06:35.800 I'll be off this in a minute.

00:06:37.360 I see your comments.

00:06:39.600 They were fighting for a lot of things.

00:06:41.640 But I feel like the main thing they were fighting for was they couldn't let Messi's story end wrong.

00:06:49.520 Well, I think that's what it was about.

00:06:52.560 All right.

00:06:53.640 I see all you Americans saying, get off this topic or it will be the lowest attended video of all time.

00:07:02.780 All right.

00:07:03.020 Moving along.

00:07:05.240 Would you like me to talk about something besides the World Cup?

00:07:09.980 Vox Populae.

00:07:11.500 Vox, Vox Day.

00:07:13.920 It is your vote.

00:07:15.760 Shall I move along?

00:07:16.540 All right.

00:07:16.980 Let us not talk about the World Cup.

00:07:19.720 We're done with that forever.

00:07:22.840 So Elon Musk attended the World Cup.

00:07:26.640 And, sorry.

00:07:29.720 I'm sorry.

00:07:31.160 There's just nothing we can do about this.

00:07:35.040 It's not my fault.

00:07:36.780 I swear it's not my fault.

00:07:38.460 I'm just following the news.

00:07:40.940 So Elon Musk was at the World Cup.

00:07:42.680 And the big story is he was in the box hanging out with Jared Kushner, of all people, and a bunch of Saudis, I guess.

00:07:50.040 So I'm not sure who owned the box, but he got an invite.

00:07:53.380 Now, at the same time he was hanging out with Jared Kushner, he was doing a Twitter poll asking if he should step down as CEO of Twitter.

00:08:04.520 And he said that he would abide by the decision of the Twitter poll, which, of course, no surprise, said he should step down as CEO.

00:08:17.820 Now, how do you interpret this?

00:08:21.000 Number one, do you think he knew what the poll results would be?

00:08:24.500 Probably couldn't guarantee it, because it's not scientific and who knows.

00:08:31.560 Probably couldn't guarantee it.

00:08:33.800 Probably thought it would indicate he should step down.

00:08:37.800 Probably.

00:08:39.480 But why would he do that?

00:08:41.700 Why would he leave such a big decision to a Twitter poll?

00:08:46.560 Unless he had already decided to step down.

00:08:50.680 Because if people said he shouldn't step down, he could just wait a couple of months and say, well, I took your advice, but, you know, nothing lasts forever.

00:09:00.540 Now I've got things going, and now I can step back.

00:09:04.500 So if they said, yes, you should stay, he could make that work and still leave.

00:09:10.880 Right?

00:09:11.200 He just gives it a couple of months, and then he transitions.

00:09:14.740 Very normal.

00:09:15.320 But what if they say, you should leave right away?

00:09:20.680 Then do you know what he could do?

00:09:23.180 Exactly the same thing.

00:09:24.920 Wait a few months and then transition.

00:09:27.060 Because under every scenario, he was, of course, planning to wait a few months and transition.

00:09:33.420 That was the plan under every scenario.

00:09:36.160 There's no scenario where he was going to stay there and work every day.

00:09:39.480 Who thought that?

00:09:41.320 Did he think he was really going to be the CEO?

00:09:44.040 Like forever?

00:09:45.740 Of course not.

00:09:46.500 So it's one of the most brilliant things he's done lately, and, you know, that's a pretty long list.

00:09:51.720 But lately it's one of the more brilliant things, because of course he's going to leave.

00:09:56.800 That's baked into the guaranteed end product.

00:10:02.160 In the end, no matter what else happens, no matter what else happens, he's not going to be the day-to-day CEO of Twitter.

00:10:10.140 Who thought that was going to happen?

00:10:11.580 Like, did anybody think that was going to even ever happen?

00:10:15.560 So somehow it became a story when it's the most non-story thing in the world.

00:10:22.520 But it gets better.

00:10:23.620 I had to pray to the simulation gods, because there's something I want to happen.

00:10:33.920 It turns out that Snoop Dogg has thrown his hat into the Twitter CEO race.

00:10:40.020 By the way, I don't think it's going to be, there's no way it's going to be Jared Kushner.

00:10:43.900 I'm not going to talk about the possibility Jared Kushner will run Twitter.

00:10:48.020 That's not going to happen.

00:10:49.040 Because he's going to have to pick somebody who looks less in the bag than somebody that political.

00:10:57.700 There's no way that he's the right choice.

00:11:01.400 Snoop, Snoop Dogg on the other hand, is about half a perfect choice.

00:11:09.420 In many ways, Snoop Dogg would actually be perfect.

00:11:13.240 But we don't know if he'd have the day-to-day CEO chops that you need.

00:11:18.300 A little different skill.

00:11:19.960 So I suggested that co-CEOs with Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, maybe for a year,

00:11:29.000 maybe for a year, you wouldn't want it forever, would be unbelievable.

00:11:35.500 It would just be unbelievable.

00:11:36.760 Because they would attract so much attention, you couldn't stop talking about them.

00:11:45.560 And then Elon could still keep working with the engineers to do what he wants to do anyway.

00:11:50.920 And then the two CEOs would attract all this attention to Twitter, which is sort of what you needed.

00:11:57.800 And then, I don't know this for sure, but my impression is that Martha Stewart is a good operator.

00:12:07.800 Is that true?

00:12:09.100 Like, she could actually, you know, she's been CEO, right?

00:12:11.800 She's got experience.

00:12:13.180 But I think she has the toughness and also the, you know, the mental acuity for business.

00:12:19.760 It might be a great choice, as long as they're not directly involved in the engineering.

00:12:25.600 You know, neither of them would have any engineering chops, but that's what Elon does.

00:12:31.420 How old is Martha Stewart?

00:12:32.780 I don't care.

00:12:33.920 Because, like I said, you'd only be looking for a year, and they wouldn't be making engineering decisions.

00:12:39.620 But just as a face of the company, it'd be awesome.

00:12:42.480 All right, so that's not going to happen, but it'd be fun.

00:12:47.420 So the results of the poll so far are, I think it was like a 10-point lead for Musk to step down.

00:12:55.560 And the poll is already closed.

00:12:58.860 But I don't think they've counted the mail-in votes yet.

00:13:03.400 So when the mail-in votes come, anything's possible.

00:13:07.500 All right, I stole that joke from Vincent on Twitter.

00:13:14.140 I told him I'd have to steal his joke.

00:13:15.780 It was too good.

00:13:17.040 Yeah, the mail-in votes.

00:13:18.840 Somebody had to say it.

00:13:20.980 Vincent, I'm glad you said it first.

00:13:23.460 Well, Vincent is not his name.

00:13:25.100 He's Danny.

00:13:26.180 But his account says Vincent, as in Van Gogh.

00:13:30.100 All right.

00:13:32.080 Now that we've done that joke, we can move on.

00:13:33.960 How many yesterday caught the temporary news that Musk said that Twitter was going to ban you

00:13:43.260 if you linked to your other platforms?

00:13:46.840 So if I were to tweet that you could find me on Instagram, I would be banned from Twitter.

00:13:55.340 Now, when you saw that, did you say to yourself,

00:13:59.660 well, there's a rule that will change everything?

00:14:03.960 Or did you say, wow, that's an oppressive kind of thing.

00:14:09.220 I don't know if I could live with that.

00:14:11.920 All right.

00:14:12.560 If you had any of those thoughts about how that was real and you were going to have to endure it,

00:14:19.480 here's what you should have said.

00:14:22.260 Oh, he's in rapid A-B testing.

00:14:24.880 He's throwing out an idea which, on its surface, I mean, right on its face, couldn't possibly work.

00:14:33.080 I mean, just think about it.

00:14:34.440 Imagine if I were banned from linking to an account.

00:14:40.380 What would I do?

00:14:42.220 Well, first of all, I would reconsider using Twitter at all.

00:14:45.080 Because the people have the big, interesting accounts, with the exception of maybe the Rob Reiners.

00:14:53.560 We mostly do this for promotion.

00:14:56.840 That's a big part of why the interesting people are on Twitter, is that they're promoting their other stuff.

00:15:04.620 That's why we use it.

00:15:05.840 Why else wouldn't we do all this free work, right?

00:15:08.940 Now, in my case, I have a public interest.

00:15:12.540 Because I think that adding something to the public conversation is what I want to do.

00:15:17.800 Like, I'm at that point in my life where it's not all about the money.

00:15:21.720 But it would certainly be a blow to Twitter's entire business model

00:15:25.420 if you took the most interesting people on Twitter who are there just to promote themselves and their other stuff.

00:15:32.140 If they left, or they couldn't do it, it'd be a different product.

00:15:37.620 All right, so here was my reaction to it when I saw the rule.

00:15:41.520 I looked at my watch, or my phone, and I said to myself,

00:15:46.520 I would be an idiot to tweet about this, because this rule is not going to last to the end of the day.

00:15:53.580 That's what I said.

00:15:54.840 I said, this rule will be gone by the end of today.

00:15:58.200 And it was gone by the end of the day.

00:16:03.140 Right.

00:16:04.880 Paul Graham left Twitter.

00:16:06.520 Yeah, I don't know the story there.

00:16:07.700 I heard he got banned, or maybe he left.

00:16:09.720 Was it over that?

00:16:11.360 It was over that issue, right?

00:16:13.600 I don't know.

00:16:14.780 But if Paul Graham left over that issue,

00:16:20.620 he must...

00:16:21.780 I mean, Paul Graham's a super smart guy.

00:16:24.120 He must have known that wasn't going to last.

00:16:26.020 But maybe he was pushing it a little to make sure it didn't last.

00:16:31.340 That would have been a productive thing to do.

00:16:33.920 So just remember, you're in a rapid A-B testing environment.

00:16:39.820 And what Elon is doing is exactly what an entrepreneur should be doing.

00:16:44.940 Now, one of the people who commented on Twitter said,

00:16:48.440 but why didn't he just do a little bit of testing

00:16:52.320 before he let the public know he was even thinking about it?

00:16:56.020 To which I say, why would you waste that time?

00:16:59.620 That would be a waste of time.

00:17:01.440 Because the public is the test.

00:17:03.500 And it's the only test that matters.

00:17:05.720 Right?

00:17:06.020 There's no test that matters except the actual one.

00:17:09.000 What do the real people using Twitter actually really say about it?

00:17:12.200 So you just put it out there, and then you bring it back.

00:17:15.740 Now, the reason that people are still stuck in the old model...

00:17:18.900 And by the way, by coincidence, Graham, who we just mentioned,

00:17:24.700 is, I think, the inventor of the idea

00:17:27.600 that you shouldn't be doing all this testing and analysis

00:17:30.900 when software is your primary product.

00:17:34.660 Wasn't Graham?

00:17:36.580 That you should test fast and adjust,

00:17:41.960 because it's just software.

00:17:43.420 Software doesn't cost them much.

00:17:46.840 It wasn't Graham?

00:17:48.900 I thought he was the originator, or at least popularizer,

00:17:53.840 of the idea that they should test fast and break and move on.

00:18:00.400 Anyway, so here's what would have happened.

00:18:06.900 If that had been real, let me game it out for you.

00:18:10.980 If Musk had meant that,

00:18:13.600 the very first thing I was going to test was

00:18:16.920 linking to locals.

00:18:20.080 Because it wasn't mentioned specifically.

00:18:22.740 So that's the first problem.

00:18:24.800 It might not have been specific enough about what is in and what is out.

00:18:28.500 So it was going to fail just on specificity.

00:18:31.540 Like before you even got to free speech or anything else,

00:18:35.200 it was just going to fail for being a standard.

00:18:37.660 You couldn't know if you were doing the right thing.

00:18:40.320 What would I have done?

00:18:42.320 Instead of putting a link,

00:18:45.280 I would have just said,

00:18:47.300 Google Coffee with Scott Adams on YouTube.

00:18:51.220 It's starting now.

00:18:53.100 Right?

00:18:53.820 Now would I have been banned?

00:18:56.560 Because he very specifically said no links.

00:18:58.980 But do you need a link?

00:19:01.200 If I tell you I'm live,

00:19:03.340 go Google my name on YouTube.

00:19:06.720 All right?

00:19:07.040 That's one.

00:19:07.660 Suppose I included a,

00:19:09.980 suppose I put a,

00:19:11.900 what do you call it,

00:19:12.480 a barcode or a,

00:19:14.420 what's that thing?

00:19:15.200 The little square thing that you scan?

00:19:17.180 What's that called?

00:19:18.740 That's a QR code.

00:19:21.620 Suppose I put a QR code

00:19:23.240 in my tweet.

00:19:27.340 Could,

00:19:27.640 could,

00:19:28.060 would Twitter detect

00:19:29.820 that it was a QR code?

00:19:31.800 And would it know

00:19:32.360 it was a QR code

00:19:33.200 that was really a tricky link?

00:19:35.380 I don't know.

00:19:36.540 I don't know.

00:19:37.700 What if you just had

00:19:39.340 created your own page

00:19:40.960 that the only thing the page did

00:19:44.040 was connect to your link tree account,

00:19:46.380 which is where you put

00:19:47.040 all your connections?

00:19:48.460 Would the algorithm find it?

00:19:50.280 So here's what,

00:19:51.280 here's what you know

00:19:52.440 could it would have happened.

00:19:54.200 You know for sure

00:19:55.320 everybody who cared

00:19:57.320 would have started

00:19:58.000 gaming the system immediately.

00:20:00.320 I would have.

00:20:01.040 I would have gamed it immediately

00:20:02.320 because it was,

00:20:02.920 you know,

00:20:03.860 like I would have pushed

00:20:04.780 against that

00:20:05.280 as hard as I could push.

00:20:06.600 So it was,

00:20:07.440 it was never going to work.

00:20:08.640 If you didn't see it

00:20:09.700 from the first minute,

00:20:11.020 you were probably surprised.

00:20:15.320 Well,

00:20:16.340 Schiff is back in the news.

00:20:18.720 And I love the fact

00:20:19.800 that Schiff said

00:20:20.420 some lies about Twitter.

00:20:22.440 And about Elon Musk

00:20:23.760 and Elon Musk's reply,

00:20:26.520 I think it was yesterday,

00:20:27.880 replying to Adam Schiff,

00:20:29.800 a member of Congress.

00:20:31.600 He says,

00:20:32.320 Musk says,

00:20:32.920 thankfully you will be

00:20:33.880 losing your chairmanship

00:20:35.040 very soon.

00:20:36.220 Your brain is too small.

00:20:38.600 Your brain is too small.

00:20:41.740 Now,

00:20:43.400 when one of the people

00:20:44.360 who is generally considered

00:20:45.780 one of the smartest people

00:20:47.080 in the country

00:20:47.700 says in public,

00:20:49.220 your brain is too small,

00:20:50.580 do you think he means that

00:20:52.880 hyperbolically?

00:20:56.400 He doesn't.

00:20:58.120 He means it actually literally.

00:21:00.940 Like,

00:21:01.080 you know,

00:21:01.500 size isn't necessarily

00:21:02.520 going to tell you

00:21:02.980 how smart you are.

00:21:03.900 But what he means is

00:21:05.000 your brain is not up

00:21:06.180 to this conversation

00:21:07.180 with me.

00:21:08.700 And I read it

00:21:09.560 and I thought,

00:21:10.100 well,

00:21:10.240 that's true.

00:21:11.900 That's true.

00:21:12.700 These two people

00:21:13.620 should never be

00:21:14.180 in the same conversation

00:21:15.180 because one of them

00:21:16.640 is not smart enough

00:21:17.500 to be in it.

00:21:18.880 Like,

00:21:19.180 actually,

00:21:19.700 literally,

00:21:20.460 no joke,

00:21:21.340 no hyperbole.

00:21:22.600 It's a conversation

00:21:23.600 between two people

00:21:24.600 who are not peers

00:21:25.440 and the one who knows

00:21:27.080 he's not his peer

00:21:27.800 just called him out

00:21:28.540 and said,

00:21:28.860 yeah,

00:21:29.640 your brain is not

00:21:30.620 big enough

00:21:30.980 for this conversation.

00:21:32.620 And it was just true.

00:21:34.340 It's just true.

00:21:35.920 For this conversation,

00:21:37.880 Schiff's brain

00:21:38.460 isn't big enough.

00:21:39.840 Yeah,

00:21:40.360 true.

00:21:41.180 I thought that was perfect.

00:21:42.280 And I ask you

00:21:44.960 this question.

00:21:45.540 At what point

00:21:46.040 is it reasonable

00:21:46.860 for Twitter

00:21:48.560 to put a warning

00:21:49.380 on all of Schiff's tweets?

00:21:53.060 All of them being

00:21:53.940 the ones where he's

00:21:54.620 telling some kind of lie.

00:21:56.040 Now,

00:21:56.240 the first thing

00:21:56.680 you should say is,

00:21:57.440 Scott,

00:21:57.860 you can't police lies

00:21:59.300 on Twitter

00:22:00.720 because it'd be

00:22:01.360 all you'd do all day.

00:22:03.140 Now,

00:22:03.400 then I say,

00:22:03.980 no,

00:22:04.120 I'm talking about

00:22:04.780 a politician.

00:22:06.600 Then you say,

00:22:07.060 no,

00:22:07.200 you can't even

00:22:07.600 police politicians

00:22:08.440 because the only thing

00:22:09.960 politicians do is lie.

00:22:11.960 What,

00:22:12.160 what are you going

00:22:12.520 to put a fact check

00:22:13.880 on everything Trump says?

00:22:15.080 It's just going

00:22:15.540 to be fact check

00:22:16.240 after fact check.

00:22:17.360 To which I say,

00:22:18.780 I don't think Schiff lies

00:22:21.700 the way politicians lie.

00:22:24.680 When politicians lie,

00:22:26.400 let's take Trump

00:22:27.120 as your best example.

00:22:28.920 He lies like a salesperson

00:22:30.600 and he lies in a way

00:22:32.360 that there's basically

00:22:33.460 a wink

00:22:34.220 that you know

00:22:35.880 you shouldn't take

00:22:36.700 it completely seriously.

00:22:38.320 When Trump says

00:22:39.580 you can't watch television,

00:22:40.820 if your windmill

00:22:42.260 stops turning

00:22:43.180 and he says it

00:22:45.100 over and over again,

00:22:46.920 do you really believe

00:22:47.840 that Trump believes

00:22:48.920 that you can't watch television

00:22:50.900 when the windmill stops

00:22:51.980 or that there's no backup

00:22:53.980 or anything like that?

00:22:54.940 No,

00:22:55.120 of course he understands

00:22:56.100 what he's saying.

00:22:57.000 Of course he knows

00:22:58.000 that it's a salesman's

00:23:00.000 kind of a claim.

00:23:01.460 He's not going

00:23:02.040 for actual truth

00:23:03.440 and you can say that

00:23:05.180 about a lot of

00:23:05.680 what Twitter's,

00:23:06.340 what he says

00:23:07.060 and I would say

00:23:07.820 you can say that

00:23:08.940 about almost

00:23:09.520 all the other politicians.

00:23:11.560 You know,

00:23:11.720 Republican,

00:23:12.520 Democrat,

00:23:13.180 they all lie

00:23:14.180 and those are just

00:23:15.560 normal political lies.

00:23:17.060 We understand them

00:23:17.920 but what Schiff does

00:23:19.820 is different.

00:23:21.920 Will you give me that?

00:23:23.620 That whatever it is

00:23:24.720 that Schiff is doing

00:23:25.780 consistently

00:23:27.300 is not like

00:23:28.660 the other people.

00:23:29.760 It's just different

00:23:30.500 and it's sort of

00:23:32.460 like treating

00:23:33.000 jaywalking

00:23:33.980 like mass murder.

00:23:35.900 Oh,

00:23:36.280 did I mention

00:23:37.100 they're both crimes?

00:23:38.780 Yeah.

00:23:39.100 If you cross the street

00:23:40.360 illegally,

00:23:42.860 you broke the law

00:23:43.740 and if you murder

00:23:45.240 a hundred people,

00:23:46.820 you break the law.

00:23:47.820 Those are both crimes.

00:23:49.340 So let's just call

00:23:49.940 them both crimes.

00:23:51.660 It's the same way

00:23:52.260 when you say

00:23:52.820 the Schiff is just lying

00:23:54.140 like other people lie,

00:23:56.760 that's really jaywalking

00:23:58.480 compared to murder.

00:24:00.460 Yeah,

00:24:00.920 I get it.

00:24:01.540 They're both lies

00:24:02.320 but they're not the same.

00:24:05.080 They're not the same.

00:24:06.580 Now here's what I mean

00:24:07.920 and I don't mean

00:24:09.580 that it's mafia talk lies

00:24:11.500 or anything like that.

00:24:12.560 I mean that Schiff,

00:24:13.780 he lies as part of

00:24:15.720 what appears to be

00:24:16.980 an intelligence operation

00:24:18.380 against the public.

00:24:22.220 When Schiff lies,

00:24:24.040 it doesn't look like

00:24:24.940 an ordinary lie.

00:24:26.140 It looks like

00:24:26.820 an intelligence operation

00:24:28.240 in which he is

00:24:29.520 a key component

00:24:30.360 against the interests

00:24:31.940 of the American people.

00:24:33.900 Now,

00:24:34.460 that's just my impression.

00:24:36.560 Right?

00:24:37.680 Just my impression

00:24:38.540 based on experience.

00:24:41.780 But I don't think

00:24:42.800 we should treat these

00:24:43.600 the same.

00:24:44.440 I think that Twitter

00:24:45.180 does a great disservice

00:24:46.600 to the public

00:24:47.340 by saying,

00:24:48.380 oh,

00:24:48.500 it's just another lie.

00:24:49.840 It's not.

00:24:51.420 That's not just another lie.

00:24:53.340 Do you know why

00:24:53.960 the January 6th

00:24:55.880 thing is a big deal?

00:24:57.960 Why is that

00:24:58.720 a whole big national thing?

00:25:00.140 Because the alleged lies

00:25:03.060 about the election

00:25:05.100 are not the normal kind.

00:25:07.960 It's a whole different level

00:25:09.300 of importance.

00:25:11.600 Right?

00:25:11.840 A lie about the integrity

00:25:13.540 of the election

00:25:14.300 changes the country.

00:25:17.300 It's basically,

00:25:18.280 if it's wrong,

00:25:18.980 it's a revolution.

00:25:20.320 Now,

00:25:20.660 with those claims,

00:25:21.720 you have to get into

00:25:22.980 what's true

00:25:23.900 and what's not.

00:25:24.600 It's hard to know.

00:25:25.160 But that's like

00:25:26.980 a high-stakes

00:25:27.920 kind of a lie

00:25:30.120 if there are any lies.

00:25:31.740 Of course,

00:25:32.380 there are always lies.

00:25:34.440 So,

00:25:34.880 I feel like

00:25:35.480 the country

00:25:36.580 and maybe Twitter

00:25:37.280 needs some way

00:25:38.580 to distinguish

00:25:39.220 what's an ordinary lie

00:25:42.480 from a completely

00:25:43.840 unordinary lie.

00:25:45.280 A non-organic,

00:25:47.020 non-political lie.

00:25:48.140 All right,

00:25:50.620 so there's more

00:25:51.060 Twitter files

00:25:51.680 that came out.

00:25:52.260 Matt Taibbi

00:25:52.880 talking more about how

00:25:54.340 I guess the FBI

00:25:55.420 was displeased

00:25:56.680 at one point

00:25:57.420 because they believed

00:25:58.880 that Twitter

00:25:59.360 had once said

00:26:00.360 there was

00:26:00.760 foreign propaganda,

00:26:03.920 but then they were

00:26:04.540 worried that Twitter

00:26:05.520 was saying

00:26:05.940 there wasn't much

00:26:06.720 foreign propaganda

00:26:07.700 and the FBI

00:26:09.000 and the intel community

00:26:10.120 were sure there was

00:26:11.640 and then,

00:26:12.100 why are you saying

00:26:13.020 there isn't?

00:26:14.020 And then Twitter's

00:26:15.000 internal communications

00:26:16.560 were,

00:26:17.100 we never said that,

00:26:19.380 but we've always

00:26:19.980 said there is.

00:26:21.240 So,

00:26:21.660 it seemed to be

00:26:22.160 a miscommunication.

00:26:23.480 But what we learned

00:26:24.620 from it

00:26:25.080 is the degree

00:26:26.160 of interaction

00:26:27.880 and the type

00:26:30.000 of interaction

00:26:30.580 made it seem

00:26:31.280 as if,

00:26:32.520 at least some

00:26:33.200 interpreted it

00:26:34.340 as Twitter

00:26:36.140 being almost

00:26:36.880 a subsidiary

00:26:37.880 of the FBI.

00:26:39.540 That the FBI

00:26:40.180 was giving them

00:26:40.920 sort of marching orders

00:26:42.020 it looked like

00:26:42.680 and Twitter

00:26:43.800 might comply.

00:26:45.100 I saw it differently.

00:26:47.100 Because I looked

00:26:47.940 at the same documents

00:26:48.820 and I saw

00:26:50.060 a Roth

00:26:50.840 pushing back

00:26:51.540 on the FBI

00:26:52.300 and saying

00:26:53.520 their requests

00:26:54.700 were

00:26:55.160 not appropriate.

00:26:59.420 And he even said

00:27:00.420 if this had been

00:27:01.140 a congressional inquiry,

00:27:03.260 you know,

00:27:03.420 that's the sort

00:27:03.920 of question

00:27:04.300 you'd expect

00:27:04.800 to see

00:27:05.240 if you had

00:27:06.140 this legal,

00:27:07.580 you know,

00:27:07.980 authorized by law

00:27:09.120 legal inquiry.

00:27:10.480 But the FBI

00:27:11.700 was just

00:27:12.240 like demanding

00:27:13.760 information.

00:27:15.560 And even Roth

00:27:16.540 was like,

00:27:17.240 this is a little

00:27:17.900 too far.

00:27:18.860 A little uncomfortable

00:27:19.580 with this.

00:27:21.140 So we learned

00:27:22.180 a little bit more

00:27:22.720 about that interplay.

00:27:23.740 I don't know

00:27:24.040 if that makes

00:27:24.480 much of a difference.

00:27:25.760 All right,

00:27:25.940 the January 6th

00:27:27.860 hoax

00:27:28.300 will continue

00:27:29.700 today.

00:27:31.440 So today

00:27:31.820 they're going

00:27:32.160 to decide

00:27:32.800 whether there'll be

00:27:36.300 any charges

00:27:37.460 filed for Trump

00:27:38.520 and maybe

00:27:38.900 some other people.

00:27:40.580 Now,

00:27:41.220 I know there's

00:27:42.600 a big,

00:27:43.400 big mystery here.

00:27:45.680 Will the people

00:27:46.500 who hate Trump

00:27:47.560 and have been

00:27:49.300 pushing a hoax

00:27:50.220 for years,

00:27:52.260 will they

00:27:52.960 find any reason

00:27:54.620 to refer him

00:27:56.680 for prosecution?

00:27:57.700 I wonder.

00:27:58.800 Huh.

00:27:59.200 I wonder.

00:28:00.460 Let's use

00:28:01.180 all of our powers

00:28:02.140 of mind reading.

00:28:03.740 Given all the variables

00:28:05.540 and all the testimony,

00:28:07.100 what would be

00:28:09.240 the most reasonable

00:28:10.080 and predictable?

00:28:11.080 Okay,

00:28:11.460 forget it.

00:28:12.620 Yeah,

00:28:12.960 of course they're

00:28:13.840 going to recommend

00:28:14.480 him to be prosecuted.

00:28:16.620 And I don't know

00:28:18.060 if you're catching

00:28:18.580 the importance

00:28:19.180 of this event,

00:28:20.160 but I tweeted

00:28:20.760 about this.

00:28:21.260 I'll just read

00:28:21.700 my tweet.

00:28:22.720 Because there's

00:28:24.220 something very

00:28:24.740 important about this

00:28:25.560 that I don't know

00:28:26.460 if you've

00:28:28.000 quite appreciated.

00:28:29.840 It goes like this.

00:28:31.540 So the January 6th

00:28:32.860 committee has

00:28:33.360 a very valuable

00:28:34.000 function.

00:28:34.480 One of them is

00:28:35.160 that they remind

00:28:36.700 America,

00:28:37.440 and we need

00:28:37.920 to be reminded

00:28:38.520 of this.

00:28:39.300 This is important.

00:28:39.980 Don't forget this.

00:28:41.640 Always remember

00:28:42.280 that we can never

00:28:43.600 again allow

00:28:44.220 a small band

00:28:45.460 of unarmed

00:28:46.860 protesters

00:28:47.580 to conquer

00:28:49.080 the largest

00:28:50.200 military power

00:28:51.040 in the history

00:28:51.500 of human civilization

00:28:52.480 by sauntering

00:28:54.080 through the capital

00:28:54.800 rotunda

00:28:55.400 and taking selfies.

00:28:57.800 We can never

00:28:58.740 let anybody

00:29:00.700 saunter

00:29:01.260 through the capital

00:29:02.140 again.

00:29:02.660 because we

00:29:04.440 might not

00:29:04.800 get lucky

00:29:05.260 next time.

00:29:06.380 Next time

00:29:06.940 the largest

00:29:07.920 military

00:29:08.660 in the history

00:29:10.060 of human

00:29:10.620 civilization.

00:29:11.980 Well,

00:29:12.420 I can't say

00:29:12.980 they're going

00:29:13.260 to win a

00:29:13.580 second time.

00:29:14.880 Okay,

00:29:15.120 maybe they won

00:29:16.020 this one,

00:29:16.820 but you can't

00:29:17.440 guarantee they

00:29:18.040 would win it

00:29:18.460 again.

00:29:19.240 So never,

00:29:20.620 never again

00:29:21.480 can we allow

00:29:22.340 a small group

00:29:24.060 of unarmed

00:29:24.620 protesters

00:29:25.220 to saunter

00:29:26.640 in the capital

00:29:28.380 rotunda

00:29:28.920 and take selfies.

00:29:30.220 We were so

00:29:31.600 close to losing

00:29:32.420 everything.

00:29:33.840 Very close

00:29:34.480 to losing

00:29:34.880 everything.

00:29:35.740 So people,

00:29:36.800 take this

00:29:37.320 seriously.

00:29:39.480 Now,

00:29:40.020 if you were

00:29:40.300 a Democrat,

00:29:41.000 you know what

00:29:41.300 you'd be saying?

00:29:42.320 Scott,

00:29:42.840 what about

00:29:43.240 all that

00:29:43.600 violence?

00:29:45.000 Well,

00:29:45.280 yes,

00:29:45.520 there was

00:29:45.840 a lot

00:29:46.100 of violence

00:29:46.660 because those

00:29:47.880 people wanted

00:29:48.560 to,

00:29:49.420 what?

00:29:50.460 What were

00:29:50.980 they being

00:29:51.320 prevented from

00:29:51.900 doing?

00:29:52.260 That's right,

00:29:52.900 sauntering.

00:29:54.140 Right?

00:29:54.360 They wanted

00:29:54.740 very badly

00:29:55.420 to saunter

00:29:56.000 and to take

00:29:57.400 some selfies

00:29:57.920 and they were

00:29:58.440 prevented

00:29:58.760 and they got

00:29:59.240 a little rough

00:30:00.460 and I don't

00:30:01.100 approve of that.

00:30:02.920 I disavow

00:30:03.620 all the violence.

00:30:05.560 Now,

00:30:05.760 Scott,

00:30:06.140 what about

00:30:06.520 the people

00:30:06.860 who actually

00:30:07.240 wanted to

00:30:07.820 take captive

00:30:09.000 the members

00:30:09.760 of Congress?

00:30:11.040 Well,

00:30:11.380 fuck those

00:30:11.780 idiots.

00:30:13.660 I'm not

00:30:14.240 going to say

00:30:14.600 anything good

00:30:15.040 about that.

00:30:16.000 Fuck them,

00:30:16.520 go to jail.

00:30:17.500 Like,

00:30:17.840 if you were

00:30:18.120 there to

00:30:19.060 actually hurt

00:30:19.520 people,

00:30:20.340 fuck you,

00:30:20.820 go to jail

00:30:21.320 forever.

00:30:22.980 There's no

00:30:23.580 mercy to

00:30:25.080 anybody who

00:30:25.580 was saying,

00:30:26.500 you know,

00:30:27.280 hang AOC

00:30:28.140 or anything

00:30:28.580 like that.

00:30:29.560 Right?

00:30:29.760 If anybody

00:30:30.240 that was

00:30:30.720 there to

00:30:31.020 hurt AOC,

00:30:32.900 it doesn't

00:30:33.560 matter that

00:30:33.960 she's on

00:30:34.300 the other

00:30:34.600 side from

00:30:35.000 me politically.

00:30:37.160 If anybody

00:30:37.880 was there

00:30:38.200 to hurt

00:30:38.560 her,

00:30:39.600 jail.

00:30:41.380 And jail

00:30:42.000 forever.

00:30:43.000 You can

00:30:43.400 throw away

00:30:43.740 the fucking

00:30:44.100 key.

00:30:44.920 If you

00:30:45.400 went to

00:30:45.700 hurt somebody

00:30:46.460 in the

00:30:46.940 government

00:30:47.300 and that

00:30:48.480 was like

00:30:48.780 actually

00:30:49.160 your plan,

00:30:50.700 yeah,

00:30:51.060 throw away

00:30:51.540 the key.

00:30:53.420 All right.

00:30:55.000 So they're

00:30:55.680 considering charges,

00:30:56.820 let's see,

00:30:57.020 what are

00:30:57.660 their trumped

00:30:58.300 up charges?

00:30:59.120 Ah,

00:30:59.400 trumped up

00:30:59.980 charges.

00:31:03.060 Let's see,

00:31:04.340 obstruction of

00:31:06.040 an official

00:31:06.520 proceeding.

00:31:09.300 Do you

00:31:10.080 think he

00:31:10.480 obstructed

00:31:11.300 an official

00:31:12.600 proceeding?

00:31:17.060 Well,

00:31:17.860 isn't that

00:31:18.320 what a

00:31:18.640 protest is?

00:31:20.780 Isn't the

00:31:21.600 nature of

00:31:22.080 a protest?

00:31:23.340 You're

00:31:23.600 trying to

00:31:24.240 disrupt

00:31:25.040 something

00:31:26.260 the

00:31:26.520 government,

00:31:27.120 usually,

00:31:27.720 usually

00:31:28.060 government,

00:31:28.920 you're

00:31:29.160 trying to

00:31:29.500 disrupt

00:31:29.940 their

00:31:30.280 normal

00:31:30.720 operation

00:31:31.300 with

00:31:32.380 your

00:31:32.540 protest.

00:31:35.040 I'd

00:31:35.480 like to

00:31:35.720 see that

00:31:36.020 one to

00:31:36.260 go to

00:31:36.500 the

00:31:36.720 Supreme

00:31:37.040 Court.

00:31:38.520 So I'm

00:31:39.240 actually

00:31:39.480 pretty happy

00:31:40.020 that they're

00:31:40.380 going to

00:31:40.580 charge them

00:31:40.920 with that

00:31:41.360 if they

00:31:42.280 do.

00:31:43.060 I don't

00:31:43.440 know if

00:31:43.720 they're

00:31:44.260 so,

00:31:44.580 remember,

00:31:44.920 this is

00:31:45.180 just

00:31:45.380 recommendations.

00:31:46.960 These

00:31:47.120 would not

00:31:48.220 be

00:31:48.360 charges.

00:31:49.420 So the

00:31:49.820 legal system

00:31:50.740 would have

00:31:51.060 to decide

00:31:51.520 on charges.

00:31:52.100 but wouldn't

00:31:53.820 you love

00:31:54.520 to see

00:31:56.100 obstruction

00:31:56.780 of an

00:31:57.480 official

00:31:57.980 proceeding

00:31:58.620 in the

00:32:00.040 form of

00:32:00.700 a protest?

00:32:01.860 Wouldn't

00:32:02.140 you love

00:32:02.500 that to

00:32:02.780 go to

00:32:02.980 the

00:32:03.080 Supreme

00:32:03.300 Court?

00:32:04.320 I'd love

00:32:04.940 to see

00:32:05.220 that.

00:32:06.120 Because it

00:32:06.620 really is,

00:32:07.360 can protests

00:32:08.560 be legal in

00:32:09.280 the United

00:32:09.580 States?

00:32:10.500 Because a

00:32:11.140 protest against

00:32:12.120 the government

00:32:12.580 is always

00:32:13.220 trying to

00:32:13.720 stop them.

00:32:14.600 It's always.

00:32:15.680 Either by

00:32:16.520 getting in

00:32:18.060 the way

00:32:18.560 or something.

00:32:19.540 I mean,

00:32:19.780 you could

00:32:20.400 always make

00:32:20.720 the argument

00:32:21.300 that is

00:32:21.720 trying to

00:32:22.100 stop it.

00:32:23.140 So yeah,

00:32:23.560 let's bang

00:32:25.220 that one

00:32:25.520 out.

00:32:26.340 I say

00:32:26.680 that's a

00:32:27.060 fight I

00:32:27.400 want.

00:32:28.180 How about

00:32:28.440 you?

00:32:29.040 Do you

00:32:29.280 want that

00:32:29.620 fight?

00:32:30.980 I say

00:32:31.240 let's have

00:32:31.580 that fight.

00:32:32.320 That's a

00:32:32.600 good fight.

00:32:33.760 Yeah,

00:32:34.020 that would

00:32:34.520 be a,

00:32:35.100 I would

00:32:36.120 say that

00:32:36.460 would be

00:32:36.840 a constructive

00:32:38.560 conflict.

00:32:40.460 I think

00:32:41.040 we'd all

00:32:41.440 be better

00:32:41.800 off.

00:32:42.480 Let's

00:32:42.720 fight that

00:32:43.080 one out.

00:32:44.140 Right?

00:32:45.040 It's a

00:32:45.600 friendly fight

00:32:46.240 like nobody

00:32:47.120 gets hurt.

00:32:47.960 But let's

00:32:48.220 fight that

00:32:48.560 one out.

00:32:49.300 I'd like

00:32:49.800 to see

00:32:50.020 that.

00:32:51.300 What

00:32:52.420 else?

00:32:54.300 Let's

00:32:54.860 see.

00:32:57.700 Something

00:32:58.260 about

00:32:58.540 fraud or

00:32:59.160 something.

00:33:02.580 I don't

00:33:03.220 know.

00:33:03.400 The other

00:33:03.640 ones are,

00:33:04.680 doesn't

00:33:05.080 matter.

00:33:05.880 It

00:33:06.140 doesn't

00:33:06.400 matter

00:33:06.640 because

00:33:06.960 what is

00:33:08.220 true and

00:33:08.780 legal and

00:33:09.460 right doesn't

00:33:10.660 seem to

00:33:10.980 enter into

00:33:11.440 any of

00:33:11.720 this.

00:33:11.880 all right.

00:33:19.340 Capital

00:33:19.700 accepted

00:33:20.220 behavior,

00:33:21.320 dangers.

00:33:22.340 Oh,

00:33:22.480 you're

00:33:22.600 talking

00:33:22.800 about

00:33:23.120 the

00:33:23.440 Ashley

00:33:25.180 Babbitt?

00:33:26.560 Yeah,

00:33:27.120 you've

00:33:27.360 heard my

00:33:27.700 opinion on

00:33:28.160 that.

00:33:30.880 All right.

00:33:31.720 What

00:33:31.860 is this

00:33:32.120 happening?

00:33:34.060 Scientists

00:33:34.540 have created

00:33:35.840 a mini

00:33:36.440 brain in

00:33:37.320 a dish

00:33:37.780 and

00:33:38.040 cells.

00:33:38.480 And they

00:33:39.560 taught their

00:33:40.200 artificially created

00:33:41.380 brain to

00:33:42.580 play pong.

00:33:44.340 It actually

00:33:44.840 learned in

00:33:45.340 five minutes

00:33:46.020 how to

00:33:46.860 operate a

00:33:47.360 pong.

00:33:48.340 It's just

00:33:48.740 brain cells in

00:33:50.280 a dish.

00:33:51.980 What?

00:33:54.120 That's the

00:33:54.780 right answer.

00:33:56.060 Wait,

00:33:56.620 did I

00:33:57.140 mishear this?

00:33:58.940 They

00:33:59.140 created a

00:33:59.760 brain cell

00:34:00.360 in a

00:34:00.680 dish or

00:34:01.700 brain cells.

00:34:02.360 They put

00:34:02.540 them together

00:34:02.960 and it

00:34:03.840 actually,

00:34:04.800 now the

00:34:05.200 person who

00:34:05.600 did it

00:34:06.020 says that

00:34:06.700 it's

00:34:06.940 sentient.

00:34:09.340 Sentient.

00:34:10.880 And other

00:34:11.340 people say,

00:34:11.900 no,

00:34:12.280 it's just

00:34:12.780 cause and

00:34:14.060 effect and

00:34:14.580 it's just

00:34:14.880 operating

00:34:15.340 according to

00:34:15.960 some rules.

00:34:16.840 There's

00:34:17.280 nothing like

00:34:17.820 consciousness

00:34:18.300 happening.

00:34:19.840 And I

00:34:20.200 guess they're

00:34:20.540 working with

00:34:21.780 some bioethicists

00:34:23.020 to make

00:34:24.260 sure that they

00:34:24.820 don't accidentally

00:34:25.760 create

00:34:27.000 consciousness.

00:34:28.200 But do

00:34:30.840 you see a

00:34:31.180 problem here?

00:34:33.500 Do you see

00:34:33.880 a problem?

00:34:35.460 The problem

00:34:36.220 is they

00:34:36.540 already did.

00:34:39.460 And the

00:34:40.600 problem is

00:34:41.060 that people

00:34:41.400 define

00:34:41.900 consciousness

00:34:42.440 differently.

00:34:43.620 But I've

00:34:44.220 always defined

00:34:44.820 it this way.

00:34:46.980 Consciousness

00:34:47.500 is being

00:34:48.200 able to

00:34:48.660 predict the

00:34:50.140 effect of

00:34:50.660 your actions

00:34:51.320 and then

00:34:53.660 adjust.

00:34:55.060 And it's

00:34:55.380 basically the

00:34:55.980 difference between

00:34:56.600 what you think

00:34:57.240 was going to

00:34:57.660 happen when

00:34:58.100 you acted

00:34:58.480 and then

00:34:59.020 what happened.

00:35:00.020 So you get

00:35:00.420 that feedback.

00:35:01.120 Oh, I

00:35:02.200 thought I'd

00:35:02.620 do this and

00:35:03.080 I'd get this

00:35:03.520 reaction but

00:35:04.200 instead this

00:35:05.300 other reaction.

00:35:06.600 And that's

00:35:07.060 the feeling of

00:35:08.000 consciousness.

00:35:08.920 That's it.

00:35:09.820 It's just a

00:35:10.560 mechanical

00:35:11.160 conflation of

00:35:13.200 two things.

00:35:14.120 What did I

00:35:14.740 expect to do?

00:35:15.580 What happened?

00:35:17.860 That's Pong.

00:35:19.760 That is

00:35:20.540 Pong.

00:35:22.120 In five

00:35:22.660 minutes this

00:35:23.400 little clump of

00:35:24.180 cells learned

00:35:25.600 that if it does

00:35:26.360 this it gets

00:35:27.000 a good result

00:35:27.660 if it does

00:35:28.180 this it does

00:35:28.680 a bad result

00:35:29.340 and it can

00:35:30.120 tell the

00:35:30.520 difference

00:35:30.940 that if it

00:35:32.200 did what it

00:35:32.600 was supposed

00:35:32.940 to do or

00:35:33.300 not.

00:35:35.380 Consciousness.

00:35:37.660 It's

00:35:38.060 conscious.

00:35:40.260 Now, do

00:35:41.020 you know why

00:35:41.580 you're never

00:35:42.760 going to see a

00:35:43.260 major story that

00:35:44.120 agrees with me?

00:35:47.320 Because it

00:35:47.920 refused

00:35:48.360 what?

00:35:50.880 all religion.

00:35:55.780 Everything you

00:35:56.520 thought about

00:35:57.000 free will,

00:35:58.540 God,

00:36:00.200 religion,

00:36:01.780 souls,

00:36:03.240 immortality,

00:36:05.000 the specialness

00:36:05.800 of being human,

00:36:07.300 the unique

00:36:07.980 qualities of

00:36:09.700 God.

00:36:11.140 Like,

00:36:11.460 everything comes

00:36:12.300 in question.

00:36:13.420 Now, I know

00:36:13.760 some of you

00:36:14.500 are going to

00:36:14.640 say, oh,

00:36:15.080 but I can

00:36:15.800 handle those

00:36:16.280 questions.

00:36:17.080 Maybe you

00:36:17.540 can.

00:36:18.640 But I'm

00:36:19.060 just saying

00:36:19.400 everything is

00:36:20.460 going to be

00:36:20.760 on the

00:36:21.040 table.

00:36:22.560 Everything

00:36:23.120 you thought

00:36:25.120 about,

00:36:25.720 you know,

00:36:26.040 your reality,

00:36:27.460 the simulation,

00:36:29.100 consciousness,

00:36:30.140 the most

00:36:30.660 basic questions

00:36:31.880 of who the

00:36:32.520 hell we

00:36:32.960 are,

00:36:33.820 it's all

00:36:34.880 up in the

00:36:35.320 air now.

00:36:36.220 Now, I

00:36:36.640 thought AI

00:36:37.200 was going

00:36:37.640 to do it

00:36:37.980 first.

00:36:39.160 I thought AI

00:36:39.900 was going

00:36:40.320 to achieve

00:36:40.800 obvious

00:36:41.960 consciousness

00:36:42.540 and that

00:36:43.000 would throw

00:36:43.620 us into

00:36:44.060 a spin.

00:36:45.840 But between

00:36:46.960 the brain

00:36:47.880 and the

00:36:48.220 dish and

00:36:49.620 AI,

00:36:50.460 everything's

00:36:52.200 up in

00:36:52.440 the air

00:36:52.740 in a way

00:36:53.880 I've

00:36:54.140 never,

00:36:54.640 I don't

00:36:54.940 know if

00:36:55.260 society,

00:36:56.660 civilization's

00:36:57.480 probably never

00:36:57.940 been in this

00:36:58.460 position,

00:36:59.600 have we?

00:37:00.800 Has any

00:37:01.480 civilization

00:37:02.100 ever been

00:37:02.520 in a

00:37:02.740 position

00:37:03.060 where their

00:37:04.060 dominant

00:37:04.480 belief about

00:37:05.200 the nature

00:37:05.680 of reality

00:37:06.340 got crushed

00:37:07.720 and then

00:37:08.880 they had

00:37:09.140 to rethink

00:37:10.040 it all

00:37:10.400 from scratch?

00:37:11.660 I doubt

00:37:12.120 it's ever

00:37:12.460 happened.

00:37:13.660 I'll bet

00:37:14.080 everything

00:37:14.400 has always

00:37:14.820 happened

00:37:15.260 gradually.

00:37:17.720 It would

00:37:17.960 be like

00:37:18.280 aliens landing

00:37:19.220 and say

00:37:19.660 you were

00:37:22.520 right,

00:37:22.960 we created

00:37:23.500 you,

00:37:24.040 we're the

00:37:24.320 aliens,

00:37:24.880 we just

00:37:25.100 came to

00:37:25.420 check our

00:37:25.780 work.

00:37:26.500 It would

00:37:26.940 be as

00:37:27.200 big as

00:37:27.520 that.

00:37:28.660 So I

00:37:29.400 don't know

00:37:29.660 what happens

00:37:30.180 when that

00:37:30.480 happens.

00:37:32.120 All right.

00:37:34.040 How many

00:37:34.340 of you believe

00:37:35.020 that the

00:37:35.340 World Economic

00:37:36.040 Forum once

00:37:36.880 said you

00:37:37.380 will own

00:37:37.860 nothing and

00:37:38.360 be happy?

00:37:42.400 How many

00:37:42.960 believe they

00:37:43.440 once said

00:37:43.920 that?

00:37:45.720 Sort of.

00:37:46.780 Sort of.

00:37:47.340 Let's

00:37:47.980 call that

00:37:48.360 a yes.

00:37:49.580 Would you

00:37:49.900 agree?

00:37:50.820 Now,

00:37:51.460 they were

00:37:51.800 quoting

00:37:52.500 somebody making

00:37:53.340 a prediction,

00:37:54.200 but they

00:37:54.800 put it on

00:37:55.280 their assets.

00:37:56.980 So they

00:37:57.460 seem to

00:37:58.220 embrace,

00:37:59.040 at least

00:37:59.480 by transmission,

00:38:01.520 since they

00:38:02.140 boosted the

00:38:02.760 message,

00:38:03.460 they boosted

00:38:04.640 that.

00:38:05.260 So we

00:38:05.760 can all

00:38:06.080 agree that

00:38:07.360 that's

00:38:07.620 something they

00:38:08.140 really did

00:38:08.700 say.

00:38:09.780 Agree?

00:38:11.040 That for

00:38:11.500 all practical

00:38:12.040 purposes,

00:38:13.020 that message

00:38:14.260 is theirs

00:38:14.800 and they

00:38:15.140 put it out.

00:38:15.520 Let me

00:38:18.480 do a

00:38:18.900 little test

00:38:19.340 for you.

00:38:21.860 Do you

00:38:22.340 remember

00:38:22.640 when the

00:38:23.260 fine people

00:38:24.080 hoax came

00:38:25.640 out?

00:38:27.100 And people

00:38:27.700 like me

00:38:28.040 were saying,

00:38:28.460 well,

00:38:28.600 you just

00:38:29.240 took that

00:38:29.640 out of

00:38:29.900 context.

00:38:31.500 And it's

00:38:33.040 out of

00:38:33.280 context.

00:38:33.660 If you

00:38:33.900 saw the

00:38:34.200 full context,

00:38:34.980 it would

00:38:35.180 reverse what

00:38:35.860 you think.

00:38:36.600 And what

00:38:37.020 did the

00:38:37.360 people on

00:38:38.920 the other

00:38:39.240 side say

00:38:39.960 when I

00:38:40.540 said,

00:38:40.780 no,

00:38:40.920 no,

00:38:41.040 no,

00:38:41.160 just look

00:38:41.920 at the

00:38:42.160 full context

00:38:42.860 and it

00:38:43.220 reverses the

00:38:43.900 meaning?

00:38:44.840 What did

00:38:45.320 they say?

00:38:46.800 Scott,

00:38:47.960 I saw

00:38:49.120 him say

00:38:49.780 the Nazis

00:38:51.080 were fine

00:38:51.640 people.

00:38:52.620 I saw

00:38:53.120 it.

00:38:53.900 I heard

00:38:54.400 it.

00:38:54.760 I saw

00:38:55.060 it live.

00:38:55.680 I saw

00:38:55.940 it recorded.

00:38:56.700 I'll go

00:38:57.100 get you a

00:38:57.560 clip.

00:38:57.920 I'll show

00:38:58.260 it to you

00:38:58.640 again.

00:38:59.300 How many

00:38:59.680 times do

00:39:00.080 I have

00:39:00.260 to tell

00:39:00.540 you he

00:39:01.460 said it?

00:39:03.320 He said

00:39:04.240 it.

00:39:05.060 I heard

00:39:05.560 it.

00:39:06.240 I saw

00:39:06.760 it.

00:39:07.740 End

00:39:08.020 of story.

00:39:10.220 Do you

00:39:10.780 remember when

00:39:11.240 the drinking

00:39:12.200 disinfectant hoax

00:39:13.880 came out?

00:39:15.220 And I

00:39:15.580 said,

00:39:15.920 people,

00:39:16.320 people,

00:39:16.920 just read

00:39:17.460 his whole

00:39:17.960 statement.

00:39:19.280 You can

00:39:19.580 see at the

00:39:20.000 beginning he's

00:39:20.740 specifying it's

00:39:21.940 light therapy.

00:39:23.740 And at the

00:39:24.120 end,

00:39:24.460 just so there

00:39:24.880 was no

00:39:25.200 confusion,

00:39:26.200 he specified

00:39:26.780 again,

00:39:27.260 yeah,

00:39:27.500 light.

00:39:27.980 Light is the

00:39:28.660 disinfectant.

00:39:30.480 So if you

00:39:31.120 see the

00:39:31.400 whole thing,

00:39:31.980 it's very

00:39:32.380 obvious that

00:39:33.560 it was a

00:39:34.700 hoax.

00:39:35.960 But what

00:39:36.320 did the

00:39:36.620 people who

00:39:37.100 say they

00:39:37.900 saw him

00:39:38.660 and heard

00:39:39.280 him suggest

00:39:41.200 drinking bleach?

00:39:41.940 What was

00:39:42.260 their defense?

00:39:42.940 Scott,

00:39:43.360 Scott,

00:39:43.620 Scott,

00:39:43.860 Scott.

00:39:44.460 I saw

00:39:45.200 it.

00:39:46.020 I heard

00:39:46.740 it.

00:39:47.620 I am the

00:39:48.380 personal source

00:39:49.440 for this

00:39:50.000 information.

00:39:51.180 Don't tell

00:39:51.640 me the

00:39:51.920 source is

00:39:52.340 wrong.

00:39:53.020 I'm the

00:39:53.480 source.

00:39:54.240 I saw

00:39:54.760 it.

00:39:55.300 I'm telling

00:39:55.840 you I

00:39:56.280 saw it.

00:39:57.620 Right?

00:39:59.500 So then

00:40:00.380 it would

00:40:01.700 be true.

00:40:03.120 Would you

00:40:03.740 agree that

00:40:04.160 it's true

00:40:04.620 that Trump

00:40:05.760 called Nazis

00:40:06.780 fine people?

00:40:08.040 Because so

00:40:08.720 many people

00:40:09.120 saw it.

00:40:09.940 I mean,

00:40:10.100 there are

00:40:10.260 witnesses,

00:40:10.720 right?

00:40:11.940 You ask

00:40:12.680 them.

00:40:12.960 They saw

00:40:13.340 it live.

00:40:14.300 So it

00:40:14.580 must be

00:40:14.860 true.

00:40:15.880 Well,

00:40:16.100 it's not

00:40:16.380 true because

00:40:17.080 you saw

00:40:17.380 the contest.

00:40:18.000 Of course

00:40:18.280 it's not

00:40:18.620 true.

00:40:19.300 And then

00:40:19.560 about the

00:40:19.920 bleach thing?

00:40:20.800 Lots of

00:40:21.180 witnesses.

00:40:21.680 They saw

00:40:21.980 it with

00:40:22.140 their own

00:40:22.400 eyes,

00:40:23.080 heard it

00:40:23.340 with their

00:40:23.560 own

00:40:23.700 ears,

00:40:24.800 except

00:40:25.320 it didn't

00:40:26.320 happen.

00:40:28.500 Now,

00:40:29.460 let's get

00:40:30.660 back to

00:40:30.960 the WEF.

00:40:32.940 The WEF

00:40:33.840 wants to

00:40:35.000 make sure

00:40:35.620 that you

00:40:35.880 have no

00:40:36.500 personal

00:40:38.020 ownership of

00:40:38.800 anything in

00:40:39.280 the future,

00:40:40.280 apparently,

00:40:40.680 because this

00:40:42.460 statement,

00:40:43.860 you will

00:40:44.380 own nothing

00:40:44.960 and be

00:40:45.620 happy about

00:40:46.140 it,

00:40:46.860 that's very

00:40:47.620 clearly saying,

00:40:49.160 and I think

00:40:49.580 we all saw

00:40:50.340 it with our

00:40:50.700 own eyes,

00:40:51.960 and we heard

00:40:52.420 it with our

00:40:52.780 own ears,

00:40:53.700 they're very

00:40:54.240 clearly saying

00:40:55.020 that capitalism

00:40:56.380 will be

00:40:57.060 ended,

00:40:58.080 except that

00:40:58.880 maybe the rich

00:40:59.580 people will

00:41:00.080 own things,

00:41:01.180 and the rest

00:41:01.820 of you fuckers

00:41:02.440 are just going

00:41:02.880 to have to

00:41:03.100 rent,

00:41:03.920 and they're

00:41:04.220 going to own

00:41:04.620 your ass,

00:41:05.560 because you

00:41:05.860 won't have

00:41:06.160 anything.

00:41:06.480 And if

00:41:07.680 you want

00:41:07.980 to rent,

00:41:08.480 well,

00:41:08.760 you better

00:41:09.040 be good

00:41:09.400 to the

00:41:09.860 leaders.

00:41:12.100 Now,

00:41:12.580 we know

00:41:12.840 that's what

00:41:13.260 they meant,

00:41:14.080 that they

00:41:15.140 want to

00:41:15.440 take away

00:41:15.960 capitalism

00:41:16.640 and consolidate

00:41:18.360 power with

00:41:19.100 the elites,

00:41:19.820 so that you

00:41:20.480 can do

00:41:20.780 nothing but

00:41:21.300 rent some

00:41:21.900 shit and

00:41:22.240 be happy

00:41:22.580 about it.

00:41:24.220 So that's

00:41:24.840 what they

00:41:25.120 meant,

00:41:26.500 because you

00:41:27.300 all saw it

00:41:27.920 and you

00:41:28.140 all heard

00:41:28.400 it yourself,

00:41:28.960 right?

00:41:29.860 Would you

00:41:30.220 agree?

00:41:31.000 Just agree

00:41:31.680 with me,

00:41:32.520 that that's

00:41:33.020 what they

00:41:33.300 said,

00:41:33.700 you heard

00:41:34.260 it,

00:41:34.540 you saw

00:41:34.920 it,

00:41:35.200 there's no

00:41:35.540 doubt about

00:41:35.960 it.

00:41:36.480 Yes.

00:41:37.440 Right.

00:41:39.600 And you're

00:41:40.340 not at all

00:41:40.820 influenced by

00:41:41.980 the context

00:41:43.020 of knowing

00:41:44.100 that the

00:41:44.480 other side

00:41:45.200 believes they

00:41:46.640 saw things

00:41:47.280 that weren't

00:41:47.660 real,

00:41:48.760 but do you

00:41:49.240 believe that

00:41:49.880 you're susceptible

00:41:50.520 to that?

00:41:51.860 Does anybody

00:41:52.520 here think

00:41:53.060 that they

00:41:53.460 could be

00:41:53.920 fooled the

00:41:56.080 same way

00:41:56.680 the left

00:41:57.780 was fooled

00:41:58.320 by thinking

00:41:59.380 they actually

00:41:59.820 saw something

00:42:00.620 like really

00:42:01.620 obvious?

00:42:02.900 Like I saw

00:42:03.600 it with my

00:42:03.960 own eyes.

00:42:05.040 Don't tell

00:42:05.540 me it

00:42:05.800 didn't happen.

00:42:06.480 Does anybody

00:42:08.780 think that

00:42:09.220 that could

00:42:09.720 have happened

00:42:10.240 with this

00:42:11.020 World Economic

00:42:11.980 Forum quote?

00:42:13.540 That maybe

00:42:13.980 you saw it

00:42:14.380 out of context?

00:42:16.860 All right,

00:42:17.240 here's some

00:42:17.600 context some

00:42:18.240 of you didn't

00:42:18.640 see.

00:42:19.660 In the same,

00:42:20.440 I think there

00:42:20.980 was one video

00:42:21.600 where they

00:42:22.020 highlighted that

00:42:22.760 prediction.

00:42:24.040 Here's the first

00:42:24.740 thing.

00:42:25.160 Did you know

00:42:25.600 the prediction

00:42:26.060 is just one

00:42:26.680 person?

00:42:27.020 It was just

00:42:28.980 like one

00:42:29.540 person made

00:42:30.100 a prediction.

00:42:30.520 right?

00:42:32.260 And then

00:42:32.620 they put it

00:42:33.700 together with

00:42:34.220 some other

00:42:34.860 materials.

00:42:35.680 So they

00:42:36.140 did boost

00:42:36.680 it.

00:42:37.100 Certainly

00:42:37.380 they boosted

00:42:37.900 it.

00:42:38.140 But it was

00:42:38.400 one person.

00:42:39.460 It was a

00:42:39.900 prediction.

00:42:41.080 It wasn't a

00:42:41.720 preference.

00:42:42.760 It was a

00:42:43.380 prediction.

00:42:43.680 And what was

00:42:45.560 the one example

00:42:46.340 that was given?

00:42:47.900 They gave a

00:42:48.640 visual example

00:42:49.520 of what it

00:42:50.480 means to own

00:42:51.040 nothing and be

00:42:51.580 happy.

00:42:52.020 Did you see

00:42:52.460 the example?

00:42:52.940 The example

00:42:54.960 was a drone

00:42:56.480 delivers your

00:42:57.400 Amazon package

00:42:58.420 but you just

00:43:00.440 use it because

00:43:01.460 let's say it's

00:43:02.040 a tool that

00:43:02.940 you only needed

00:43:04.040 to use once.

00:43:05.940 So Amazon

00:43:06.880 delivers your

00:43:07.920 unique tool.

00:43:09.000 You use it

00:43:09.380 once.

00:43:09.820 It's rented.

00:43:10.960 And then the

00:43:11.940 drone takes it

00:43:12.580 back for the

00:43:13.420 next person.

00:43:15.120 So that would

00:43:15.740 be a little bit

00:43:16.280 like leasing

00:43:17.660 a car or

00:43:19.540 renting a car.

00:43:20.960 Has anybody

00:43:21.600 ever rented

00:43:22.140 a car?

00:43:23.940 Was that

00:43:24.660 communism or

00:43:26.300 was that the

00:43:27.440 end of capitalism?

00:43:28.440 Because you

00:43:28.820 didn't own it.

00:43:29.540 You were just

00:43:29.960 a renter.

00:43:31.200 No.

00:43:31.860 That was just

00:43:32.380 you in a

00:43:33.120 free market and

00:43:34.680 that was better

00:43:35.220 for you.

00:43:36.240 Free market.

00:43:38.800 Flashlight.

00:43:39.760 I see your

00:43:40.300 comment and I'm

00:43:40.980 not going to say

00:43:41.560 anything more

00:43:42.060 about it.

00:43:43.380 All right.

00:43:44.100 So here's

00:43:44.820 another example.

00:43:45.620 Uber.

00:43:46.480 I don't own

00:43:47.300 the Uber but

00:43:48.860 I'm happy when

00:43:49.940 it comes and

00:43:50.480 takes me somewhere

00:43:51.120 Uber.

00:43:52.120 Am I not

00:43:53.160 happy?

00:43:53.680 Oh, I'm very

00:43:54.120 happy that I

00:43:54.760 don't own that

00:43:55.300 Uber.

00:43:56.460 Now, here's

00:43:57.380 what people

00:43:58.580 said when I

00:43:59.140 brought this

00:43:59.560 up.

00:43:59.800 They said,

00:44:00.180 Scott, you're

00:44:01.360 missing the

00:44:01.840 plot.

00:44:02.980 They didn't

00:44:03.620 say some

00:44:04.800 special tools

00:44:06.120 will be

00:44:06.560 rented.

00:44:07.640 Like, that's

00:44:08.220 no big deal.

00:44:09.460 They said

00:44:10.100 everything.

00:44:13.480 Right?

00:44:14.140 You saw it

00:44:14.600 with your own

00:44:15.080 eyes.

00:44:16.120 You heard it

00:44:16.840 with your own

00:44:17.320 ears.

00:44:18.020 They didn't

00:44:18.440 say everything.

00:44:20.240 I mean, they

00:44:20.720 acted like you

00:44:21.980 wouldn't own

00:44:22.320 anything.

00:44:24.160 That's different,

00:44:25.020 isn't it?

00:44:25.600 That's like getting

00:44:26.460 rid of capitalism.

00:44:28.440 So that's what

00:44:29.280 they meant, right?

00:44:30.100 Because they said

00:44:30.780 it very clearly.

00:44:31.820 You'll own, you

00:44:32.860 know, you won't

00:44:33.420 own anything.

00:44:34.300 So they must

00:44:35.060 have meant it.

00:44:36.460 Right?

00:44:38.380 Have you ever

00:44:38.960 seen a fashion

00:44:40.020 show?

00:44:41.020 I remember when

00:44:41.860 I was a little

00:44:42.320 kid, I'd watch

00:44:43.960 fashion shows or

00:44:45.620 news reports about

00:44:46.840 fashion shows.

00:44:47.580 When I was a

00:44:48.420 kid.

00:44:48.980 And there'd

00:44:49.220 be like some

00:44:49.840 model who

00:44:50.320 would come

00:44:50.560 out and her

00:44:51.800 so-called dress

00:44:52.800 would be made

00:44:53.460 from license

00:44:54.180 plates or like

00:44:57.100 the pull tabs

00:44:57.960 from a beer

00:44:58.620 can or the

00:45:00.500 dress would be

00:45:01.060 made of tin

00:45:01.740 foil, right?

00:45:03.340 Or sticky

00:45:04.260 notes.

00:45:05.760 And do you

00:45:06.140 remember what,

00:45:07.000 when I was a

00:45:07.860 kid, I'd be

00:45:08.820 there with my

00:45:09.440 family and let's

00:45:11.080 say none of us

00:45:11.740 were sophisticated

00:45:12.620 viewers of

00:45:13.700 media.

00:45:14.700 We were not

00:45:15.520 sophisticated

00:45:16.080 viewers.

00:45:16.660 Do you know

00:45:17.380 what we said

00:45:17.900 when we sat

00:45:18.440 in that

00:45:18.680 living room

00:45:19.120 watching that?

00:45:20.600 We said,

00:45:21.460 my God, how

00:45:23.180 could the people

00:45:24.040 who put on

00:45:24.620 this show be

00:45:26.660 so dumb to

00:45:28.140 think that

00:45:28.540 somebody's going

00:45:29.080 to want to

00:45:29.500 wear, buy and

00:45:31.340 wear a licensed

00:45:32.720 blade dress?

00:45:33.440 I am so smart

00:45:36.840 at nine years

00:45:38.560 old that even

00:45:39.880 at nine years

00:45:40.540 old I already

00:45:41.360 know more than

00:45:42.020 these adults

00:45:42.860 who are putting

00:45:43.800 on this fashion

00:45:44.520 show with

00:45:45.640 clothing that

00:45:46.760 clearly nobody's

00:45:48.040 going to buy and

00:45:48.740 I'm only nine

00:45:49.420 years old and I

00:45:50.160 know it.

00:45:50.900 And I know I'm

00:45:51.460 smart because my

00:45:52.920 mother and father

00:45:53.540 are laughing too.

00:45:55.080 And they're saying

00:45:55.680 the same thing.

00:45:56.400 They're saying,

00:45:57.020 oh God, why did

00:45:58.620 they think anybody's

00:45:59.360 going to wear that?

00:46:00.820 If I see that in

00:46:03.100 the store, I don't

00:46:03.680 think I'm going to

00:46:04.200 pick up a licensed

00:46:04.980 blade dress.

00:46:07.060 And then I got

00:46:08.340 older and I

00:46:09.900 learned how the

00:46:10.480 world works.

00:46:11.640 And I learned that

00:46:12.640 the fashion show

00:46:13.520 has very little to

00:46:15.380 do with what they

00:46:16.020 think you might want

00:46:16.740 to buy and wear.

00:46:17.960 They're just getting

00:46:18.800 attention.

00:46:20.380 The licensed

00:46:20.940 blade dress is so

00:46:22.460 you'll watch.

00:46:23.780 It's so the news

00:46:24.420 will cover it.

00:46:25.880 It's just to put

00:46:26.500 their name out there

00:46:27.180 and you remember

00:46:27.740 them and it has

00:46:28.800 nothing to do with

00:46:29.500 what you're going

00:46:29.920 to wear.

00:46:32.580 When the WEF

00:46:33.940 put out that

00:46:34.840 prediction, remember

00:46:36.520 it was a prediction.

00:46:38.280 What is the

00:46:39.020 purpose of a

00:46:39.740 prediction in, let's

00:46:41.220 say, our modern

00:46:42.060 world?

00:46:43.120 When somebody puts

00:46:44.100 out a prediction,

00:46:45.520 what is the

00:46:46.100 purpose of the

00:46:46.760 prediction?

00:46:48.120 Is it a

00:46:48.760 preference?

00:46:50.120 If somebody does

00:46:51.520 a climate change

00:46:52.960 prediction, is that

00:46:54.840 because they want

00:46:55.520 the planet to

00:46:56.120 burn up?

00:46:57.660 No, predictions

00:46:58.320 are not preferences,

00:46:59.120 right?

00:46:59.800 Would you agree

00:47:00.400 that a prediction

00:47:01.060 is not a

00:47:01.560 preference?

00:47:03.900 But the way the

00:47:04.980 WEF packaged that

00:47:06.840 prediction, they did

00:47:08.160 package it like a

00:47:09.060 preference, didn't

00:47:09.640 they?

00:47:11.040 They packaged it

00:47:12.160 like it was their

00:47:12.760 preference.

00:47:13.680 So that's the

00:47:14.200 scary part.

00:47:16.740 But I share their

00:47:18.120 preference.

00:47:19.600 Am I scary?

00:47:20.360 I have the same

00:47:21.940 preference.

00:47:22.640 The only thing

00:47:23.380 that's different

00:47:23.840 between my exact

00:47:24.860 opinion, which

00:47:25.680 doesn't bother you

00:47:26.440 at all, hey, I'd

00:47:27.780 like to be able to

00:47:28.620 rent a car in the

00:47:29.380 future.

00:47:30.720 No problem.

00:47:31.740 I'd like to have a

00:47:32.680 special tool that I

00:47:34.220 could rent instead

00:47:34.920 of buy.

00:47:36.140 You don't have a

00:47:36.920 problem with that.

00:47:37.860 The problem is the

00:47:38.720 anything, right?

00:47:39.580 Where all of your

00:47:40.820 stuff is gone.

00:47:43.160 That's the scary

00:47:43.920 part.

00:47:44.800 But that's the

00:47:45.980 fashion show part.

00:47:46.920 The reason that

00:47:48.280 that kind of a

00:47:48.980 prediction is stated

00:47:50.540 as an absolute is

00:47:53.420 why.

00:47:54.120 Why is the

00:47:54.980 prediction as an

00:47:55.960 absolute?

00:47:58.120 It's the same

00:47:59.120 reason that the

00:48:00.620 fashion show has

00:48:02.220 license plate

00:48:03.100 dresses.

00:48:04.400 That's why you pay

00:48:05.200 attention.

00:48:06.260 It's only the

00:48:06.900 absolute that makes

00:48:07.780 you pay attention.

00:48:08.880 Suppose they had

00:48:09.580 put it in more

00:48:10.380 less provocative

00:48:11.880 terms.

00:48:13.300 In the future, the

00:48:14.820 current trend of

00:48:16.200 renting, the

00:48:16.900 things that don't

00:48:18.820 make sense to

00:48:19.500 own, will

00:48:20.720 increase.

00:48:23.160 Does that get

00:48:24.120 your juices

00:48:24.600 running?

00:48:25.480 Oh, the current

00:48:27.040 trend will

00:48:28.820 continue and

00:48:31.440 everybody will be

00:48:32.200 happy about it.

00:48:33.780 Because the only

00:48:34.720 way the trend

00:48:35.280 would continue

00:48:35.920 would be if the

00:48:37.680 free market wanted

00:48:38.660 it.

00:48:39.820 So basically, the

00:48:40.800 WEF made a total

00:48:42.320 free market

00:48:43.120 prediction.

00:48:44.460 The free market,

00:48:45.380 market, all of

00:48:46.420 you, are going

00:48:47.800 to like a

00:48:48.400 situation where

00:48:49.220 there's a lot of

00:48:49.780 stuff you can

00:48:50.260 rent instead of

00:48:51.040 own, but because

00:48:52.980 they put it in

00:48:53.540 absolute, it got

00:48:54.400 your attention.

00:48:55.600 If you're a

00:48:56.400 sophisticated viewer

00:48:57.640 of the news, you

00:48:59.260 would know that the

00:48:59.900 absolute part was

00:49:00.920 just to get your

00:49:01.660 attention.

00:49:03.060 When Trump says

00:49:04.280 they're not sending

00:49:05.820 their best across

00:49:08.040 the border, is he

00:49:10.560 trying to suggest

00:49:11.840 that all people

00:49:12.820 who come across

00:49:13.980 the border are

00:49:14.840 criminals?

00:49:16.300 Of course not.

00:49:17.840 But by treating

00:49:19.040 it like it's a

00:49:19.800 little bit closer

00:49:20.620 to an absolute

00:49:21.420 than it really

00:49:22.120 is, what did

00:49:23.600 it do?

00:49:24.760 It got everybody

00:49:25.460 talking about it,

00:49:26.340 got attention,

00:49:27.480 made him president

00:49:28.120 of the United

00:49:28.560 States.

00:49:29.580 So be aware

00:49:30.360 that in the

00:49:32.240 context of a

00:49:33.100 fashion show or

00:49:34.640 prediction, these

00:49:37.180 are intended to

00:49:37.880 be attention

00:49:38.360 getters.

00:49:39.960 They're intended

00:49:40.780 as attention

00:49:41.540 getters.

00:49:43.000 That's different.

00:49:44.060 If you know

00:49:44.560 them as

00:49:44.900 attention getters,

00:49:45.780 then you just

00:49:46.220 sort of ignore

00:49:47.340 them.

00:49:48.220 So when I saw

00:49:48.980 it, I was like,

00:49:49.540 oh, we'll rent

00:49:50.180 more stuff in the

00:49:50.820 future.

00:49:51.760 That was it.

00:49:52.920 That's all I

00:49:53.780 saw.

00:49:54.700 I saw one

00:49:55.540 statement that

00:49:56.000 says, oh, we're

00:49:56.580 going to rent

00:49:56.900 more stuff in the

00:49:57.540 future.

00:49:57.860 That sounds cool.

00:49:59.220 That's it.

00:50:01.920 And what do

00:50:03.560 those of you who

00:50:04.320 still disagree with

00:50:05.320 me on my

00:50:05.840 interpretation say,

00:50:07.180 what is your

00:50:08.360 argument?

00:50:09.840 I heard it with

00:50:11.000 my own ears.

00:50:12.140 I saw it with

00:50:12.980 my own eyes.

00:50:14.320 Don't be

00:50:14.960 Democrats.

00:50:16.260 That's what the

00:50:16.960 Democrats are

00:50:17.520 doing.

00:50:18.440 They're acting

00:50:19.020 like that standard

00:50:20.080 makes sense in

00:50:20.860 2022.

00:50:22.100 In 2022, you

00:50:24.060 should never say,

00:50:25.660 I know it's true

00:50:26.280 because I saw it

00:50:26.960 or I heard it.

00:50:28.240 It's the worst

00:50:29.080 thing you could

00:50:29.580 say.

00:50:30.200 It just, it

00:50:32.000 outs you as

00:50:32.720 somebody who

00:50:33.260 hasn't watched

00:50:33.860 the news with

00:50:34.700 any sophistication

00:50:35.720 because most of

00:50:36.820 the news is

00:50:37.160 fake.

00:50:37.880 Why would you

00:50:38.460 think this is

00:50:38.980 the real one?

00:50:40.400 All right, now

00:50:40.980 I'm going to

00:50:41.220 take it to the

00:50:41.660 next level.

00:50:43.240 Was there

00:50:43.800 something about

00:50:44.500 this that your

00:50:45.980 bullshit detector

00:50:46.900 should have

00:50:47.300 picked up right

00:50:48.840 away?

00:50:50.920 Because people

00:50:51.580 say, Scott, how

00:50:52.340 do you know that

00:50:52.900 your interpretation

00:50:53.580 is correct?

00:50:54.560 So let me tell

00:50:55.340 you why I

00:50:55.780 believe my

00:50:56.260 interpretation is

00:50:57.040 correct.

00:50:58.200 Number one,

00:50:59.360 could I be

00:50:59.880 wrong?

00:51:00.700 Of course.

00:51:01.200 So the

00:51:02.300 first thing

00:51:02.700 you want to

00:51:02.980 look for is

00:51:04.080 somebody who

00:51:04.480 said, well,

00:51:04.800 I could be

00:51:05.200 wrong.

00:51:06.100 I've been

00:51:06.440 wrong before.

00:51:07.700 So if

00:51:08.040 somebody presents

00:51:09.160 something as

00:51:09.800 an absolute,

00:51:11.300 they're already

00:51:12.100 not credible.

00:51:13.520 The only people

00:51:14.480 you should believe

00:51:15.100 about anything

00:51:15.820 are people who

00:51:16.900 say, I'm

00:51:17.340 almost positive

00:51:18.220 about this,

00:51:18.740 but, you

00:51:18.980 know, I

00:51:19.220 could be

00:51:19.440 wrong.

00:51:20.100 Could be

00:51:20.420 some surprise

00:51:21.040 here.

00:51:22.040 Those are

00:51:22.460 more credible.

00:51:22.980 All right?

00:51:24.220 Next thing you

00:51:24.920 need to know is

00:51:25.700 that most of the

00:51:28.120 time I spend

00:51:28.840 talking in public

00:51:29.740 is about areas

00:51:31.320 which are not

00:51:31.980 my area of

00:51:32.820 expertise.

00:51:34.180 Would you

00:51:34.560 agree?

00:51:35.620 Mostly.

00:51:36.580 Mostly I talk

00:51:37.420 about stuff in

00:51:38.000 the news that

00:51:38.520 I'm no expert

00:51:39.140 on.

00:51:39.480 I'm just

00:51:39.720 talking about

00:51:40.140 it.

00:51:40.740 This happens

00:51:41.560 to be one

00:51:42.040 thing I'm an

00:51:42.540 expert on.

00:51:43.720 I'm an expert

00:51:44.720 at looking at

00:51:45.440 people's words,

00:51:47.280 written and

00:51:47.940 spoken, and

00:51:49.260 understanding

00:51:49.860 them in

00:51:50.320 context.

00:51:51.440 Do you know

00:51:51.800 why?

00:51:52.560 Because that's

00:51:52.920 my job.

00:51:54.100 That's literally

00:51:54.680 my job.

00:51:55.620 You can't be a

00:51:56.360 writer unless

00:51:57.620 you're thinking

00:51:58.280 as a viewer

00:51:59.200 and a reader

00:52:00.100 and a writer

00:52:00.620 at the same

00:52:01.060 time.

00:52:01.740 When I'm

00:52:02.280 writing, I'm

00:52:03.720 thinking, how

00:52:04.520 are you seeing

00:52:05.100 it?

00:52:05.920 Do I need to

00:52:06.660 add some

00:52:06.960 context?

00:52:08.080 Is some

00:52:08.440 missing?

00:52:08.900 Is some

00:52:09.160 implied?

00:52:09.820 Is there

00:52:10.300 enough there?

00:52:11.060 So the

00:52:11.540 question of

00:52:12.380 can you read

00:52:13.600 something and

00:52:14.120 have good

00:52:14.480 reading comprehension

00:52:15.420 is simply not

00:52:16.700 something that

00:52:17.220 you all have.

00:52:20.200 That's not an

00:52:20.920 insult.

00:52:21.920 That's just a

00:52:22.660 statement that I

00:52:23.260 do it for a

00:52:23.760 living and you

00:52:24.280 don't.

00:52:25.500 If there's

00:52:26.100 something you

00:52:26.500 do for a

00:52:27.000 living and I

00:52:27.740 don't, it

00:52:29.180 would be fair

00:52:29.620 to say it's

00:52:30.120 almost certain

00:52:30.820 that you do

00:52:31.220 it better than

00:52:31.680 I do because

00:52:32.440 you do it for

00:52:32.900 a living.

00:52:33.980 Duh.

00:52:34.900 I do this

00:52:35.620 for a living.

00:52:36.960 I do this,

00:52:37.680 exactly this,

00:52:38.600 for a living.

00:52:40.280 I've demonstrated

00:52:41.340 commercial grade

00:52:42.640 ability to write

00:52:45.280 and form words

00:52:46.480 in context that

00:52:48.420 a large number

00:52:49.060 of people will

00:52:49.680 understand correctly.

00:52:51.620 So when I look

00:52:52.300 at a sentence

00:52:52.820 and I say the

00:52:54.380 correct interpretation

00:52:55.320 is probably this

00:52:56.460 and you don't

00:52:58.260 have the skill

00:52:58.900 that I have,

00:53:00.060 a demonstrated

00:53:00.840 commercial ability

00:53:02.740 to put words

00:53:04.020 together in

00:53:04.700 understandable ways,

00:53:05.700 if you don't

00:53:06.040 have that,

00:53:07.120 you should listen

00:53:07.680 to me.

00:53:08.780 Now, does that

00:53:09.360 mean that I'm

00:53:09.760 right?

00:53:11.180 No.

00:53:12.520 Because remember,

00:53:13.300 the thing that

00:53:13.840 makes me credible,

00:53:15.220 or it should,

00:53:16.320 is that I never

00:53:17.060 say I'm absolutely

00:53:17.840 100% right,

00:53:18.720 nothing could be

00:53:19.240 wrong.

00:53:20.220 Those people you

00:53:21.120 don't listen to

00:53:21.740 at all.

00:53:22.840 Just ignore all

00:53:23.840 of them.

00:53:25.640 They're not even

00:53:26.780 trying.

00:53:29.200 All right,

00:53:29.560 what else?

00:53:30.340 Was there anything

00:53:30.920 else about this

00:53:31.760 that should have

00:53:32.620 jumped out as

00:53:33.780 that it's bullshit?

00:53:36.600 Yes, there is.

00:53:38.300 The really test.

00:53:40.380 Did none of you

00:53:41.080 do the really test

00:53:42.020 on this?

00:53:43.700 All right,

00:53:43.920 let's do the really

00:53:44.600 test, and if you're

00:53:46.000 new to it,

00:53:46.820 you'll pick it up

00:53:47.660 pretty quickly.

00:53:48.200 All right,

00:53:49.820 so the World

00:53:50.640 Economic Forum,

00:53:52.500 you say,

00:53:53.140 just is telling

00:53:54.680 the world

00:53:55.100 directly and

00:53:56.220 clearly that we

00:53:57.760 want to take

00:53:58.320 away your

00:53:58.960 ability to own

00:53:59.720 things, like

00:54:00.960 have private

00:54:01.520 ownership.

00:54:03.100 And they

00:54:03.960 believe that

00:54:05.700 even though

00:54:07.040 maybe people

00:54:07.960 on the right

00:54:08.600 would not

00:54:09.100 appreciate this

00:54:09.820 so much,

00:54:10.580 they do believe

00:54:11.280 that Democrats,

00:54:12.880 let's say

00:54:13.180 mainstream Democrats,

00:54:14.600 are going to

00:54:15.320 embrace this

00:54:16.160 as a good

00:54:17.020 thing.

00:54:18.360 Now, do you

00:54:19.460 believe that

00:54:21.700 the members of

00:54:22.560 the WEF

00:54:23.520 don't want

00:54:26.420 people to

00:54:26.880 own things?

00:54:28.840 Really?

00:54:31.040 Really?

00:54:33.240 Now, let's

00:54:34.120 take it a little

00:54:34.500 further.

00:54:35.220 Do you think

00:54:35.560 the members of

00:54:36.120 the WEF

00:54:36.980 could be

00:54:38.020 better described

00:54:39.060 as collaborators

00:54:40.300 or competitors?

00:54:43.720 Go.

00:54:44.740 The members

00:54:45.580 of the WEF,

00:54:46.760 the big elites,

00:54:48.060 are they

00:54:49.300 competitors with

00:54:50.440 each other

00:54:50.900 or are they

00:54:52.080 colluders?

00:54:53.280 And they're

00:54:53.520 looking for

00:54:54.020 like a

00:54:54.840 collective.

00:54:56.420 Conspirators,

00:54:56.980 you say?

00:54:57.640 They're

00:54:57.880 conspirators.

00:55:00.740 No, they're

00:55:01.440 both.

00:55:02.360 They're both.

00:55:03.340 If you don't

00:55:03.900 get that,

00:55:04.380 you're missing

00:55:04.660 the whole story.

00:55:06.180 Do you think

00:55:06.700 that the head

00:55:07.320 of one car

00:55:08.240 company is

00:55:09.100 colluding with

00:55:09.780 the head of

00:55:10.080 the other car

00:55:10.580 company?

00:55:11.280 Maybe in some

00:55:12.060 minor way,

00:55:13.020 but they would

00:55:13.460 also like to

00:55:14.060 destroy that

00:55:14.660 other competitor.

00:55:15.360 They don't

00:55:18.820 act like one

00:55:19.560 thing.

00:55:20.760 So let me

00:55:21.340 ask you this.

00:55:21.860 Do you think

00:55:22.180 all those

00:55:22.720 elites,

00:55:23.620 they all

00:55:24.480 agreed that

00:55:25.580 they don't

00:55:25.940 want to sell

00:55:26.500 stuff anymore.

00:55:27.840 They only

00:55:28.360 want to rent

00:55:28.840 you stuff.

00:55:29.520 Do you think

00:55:29.880 that happened?

00:55:30.900 Do you think

00:55:31.240 you put a

00:55:33.600 bunch of

00:55:33.900 elites together

00:55:34.640 and while

00:55:36.120 some of

00:55:36.720 those elites

00:55:37.280 surely would

00:55:38.140 have benefited

00:55:38.680 from a

00:55:39.240 rental society,

00:55:41.260 surely.

00:55:42.020 You don't

00:55:42.360 think there

00:55:42.700 were plenty

00:55:43.200 other elites

00:55:44.020 who said,

00:55:44.840 holy shit,

00:55:45.600 we only

00:55:46.000 sell stuff.

00:55:47.240 That's all

00:55:47.740 we're going

00:55:48.060 to do.

00:55:48.960 In the future

00:55:49.540 we just want

00:55:50.140 to keep

00:55:50.400 selling cars,

00:55:51.700 keep selling

00:55:52.260 Caterpillar

00:55:52.900 tractors.

00:55:54.520 We're in the

00:55:55.300 selling stuff

00:55:55.880 business.

00:55:56.440 We're not in

00:55:56.820 the rental

00:55:57.160 business.

00:55:58.340 You don't

00:55:58.640 think anybody

00:55:59.320 at the

00:55:59.800 WEF wants

00:56:01.940 ownership,

00:56:03.160 private ownership?

00:56:04.180 Really?

00:56:05.380 Really?

00:56:06.420 You could

00:56:06.920 take a bunch

00:56:07.520 of elites

00:56:08.060 from the

00:56:08.920 world and

00:56:09.720 they would

00:56:10.020 agree that

00:56:11.400 none of

00:56:11.820 those elites

00:56:12.480 in the future

00:56:13.180 will sell you

00:56:13.840 stuff that

00:56:14.400 you own.

00:56:14.840 that is

00:56:17.680 insane.

00:56:20.120 Just check

00:56:21.180 your own

00:56:21.520 thinking about

00:56:22.040 this.

00:56:22.740 It would

00:56:23.040 literally be

00:56:23.760 insane to

00:56:24.520 imagine that

00:56:25.120 any group

00:56:25.680 of elites

00:56:26.280 would agree

00:56:27.520 collectively that

00:56:28.500 they won't

00:56:28.860 sell things

00:56:29.500 you could

00:56:29.800 own.

00:56:30.720 There's no

00:56:31.320 world in

00:56:31.800 which that

00:56:32.340 can happen.

00:56:33.720 I will

00:56:34.080 agree that

00:56:34.480 some of

00:56:34.880 them in

00:56:35.220 the room

00:56:35.540 would say,

00:56:36.000 oh, my

00:56:36.660 business

00:56:37.080 would be

00:56:37.460 better with

00:56:38.660 a lot of

00:56:39.020 renting.

00:56:39.840 But even

00:56:40.280 that person

00:56:40.840 doesn't want

00:56:41.440 the rest of

00:56:42.100 you to be

00:56:42.700 renting

00:56:43.360 everything,

00:56:44.420 even if

00:56:44.840 you thought

00:56:45.160 your business

00:56:45.900 would be

00:56:46.260 better with

00:56:46.940 rental in

00:56:47.400 the future,

00:56:48.520 you don't

00:56:49.540 think the

00:56:49.920 world is

00:56:50.340 better with

00:56:50.720 rental.

00:56:52.000 Literally

00:56:52.480 nobody with

00:56:53.260 any economic

00:56:53.960 sense has

00:56:54.600 that point

00:56:55.040 of view.

00:56:56.460 So you

00:56:57.200 imagine if

00:56:57.960 you believe

00:56:58.400 that the

00:56:58.780 WF really

00:56:59.540 meant this

00:57:00.000 as some

00:57:00.320 evil thing,

00:57:00.940 you imagine

00:57:02.080 that they

00:57:02.500 said this

00:57:02.940 right out

00:57:03.460 loud with

00:57:05.400 no hesitation.

00:57:07.420 Oh, you

00:57:08.800 won't own

00:57:09.220 anything in

00:57:09.600 the future

00:57:09.960 and you'll

00:57:10.460 be happy

00:57:10.800 about it

00:57:11.560 because that's

00:57:12.180 what we're

00:57:12.500 going to

00:57:12.640 make happen

00:57:13.160 with our

00:57:13.560 elite

00:57:14.300 manipulation.

00:57:15.680 Do you

00:57:15.880 really believe

00:57:16.280 that?

00:57:17.180 I want to

00:57:17.740 see if

00:57:17.940 anybody will

00:57:18.360 say, yes,

00:57:19.220 I believe

00:57:19.780 that happened.

00:57:21.040 Go ahead.

00:57:22.340 Say, yes,

00:57:23.120 you believe

00:57:23.460 that happened.

00:57:26.400 So one,

00:57:27.140 yes.

00:57:29.200 Two, yes.

00:57:29.860 Three, yes.

00:57:31.820 All right.

00:57:33.240 Well, here's

00:57:34.380 what we've

00:57:34.760 proven.

00:57:35.780 People will

00:57:36.400 believe anything.

00:57:38.020 Would you

00:57:38.540 agree?

00:57:40.100 And when you

00:57:40.960 see the people

00:57:41.480 on the other

00:57:41.900 side say, I

00:57:42.660 saw it with

00:57:43.140 my own eyes

00:57:43.860 or heard it

00:57:44.220 with my own

00:57:44.900 ears, those

00:57:46.360 of you who

00:57:46.900 said yes to

00:57:47.520 this, you

00:57:47.820 should start

00:57:48.220 believing them

00:57:48.840 because they

00:57:49.600 are you.

00:57:50.680 You're now

00:57:51.320 the fine

00:57:51.720 people hoax.

00:57:52.580 You're now

00:57:52.960 the drinking

00:57:53.560 bleach hoax.

00:57:54.200 You're the

00:57:54.460 same people.

00:57:55.600 To imagine

00:57:56.260 that you're

00:57:56.640 on the other

00:57:57.120 side politically

00:57:57.840 would be

00:57:58.460 inaccurate.

00:57:59.440 You're

00:57:59.660 actually the

00:58:00.140 same people

00:58:00.680 because the

00:58:02.580 people who

00:58:03.000 believe what

00:58:03.520 they're told

00:58:04.160 in that

00:58:06.320 way, they're

00:58:07.700 not really

00:58:08.400 like part of

00:58:09.800 decision making,

00:58:11.040 are they?

00:58:14.040 They're just

00:58:14.720 confused.

00:58:16.240 I'm not sure

00:58:16.760 you should

00:58:17.060 treat them

00:58:17.480 like other

00:58:17.900 people who

00:58:18.260 have actual

00:58:18.620 opinions.

00:58:19.500 That's just

00:58:19.900 being confused.

00:58:24.620 Now, you

00:58:25.940 can own

00:58:26.280 simple things

00:58:27.040 such as

00:58:27.480 property.

00:58:27.900 money.

00:58:29.120 Exactly.

00:58:30.720 Exactly.

00:58:32.220 The free

00:58:32.720 market will

00:58:34.520 make a

00:58:36.020 much clearer

00:58:36.760 distinction

00:58:37.360 between the

00:58:38.540 things that

00:58:38.960 make sense

00:58:39.380 to own

00:58:39.940 and the

00:58:40.960 things that

00:58:41.380 won't make

00:58:41.840 sense to

00:58:42.240 own.

00:58:43.020 That's

00:58:43.300 exactly right.

00:58:44.240 That's what

00:58:44.680 the WEF is

00:58:45.540 saying.

00:58:46.200 It's what I

00:58:46.780 say, and

00:58:47.780 it's what any

00:58:48.460 economist says.

00:58:49.740 Everybody says

00:58:50.340 the same thing.

00:58:51.040 The free

00:58:51.540 market will

00:58:52.700 decide what

00:58:53.420 makes sense

00:58:53.880 to own and

00:58:54.440 what makes

00:58:54.820 sense to

00:58:55.200 rent, as

00:58:56.220 they always

00:58:56.740 have.

00:58:57.960 As they

00:58:58.440 always have.

00:58:59.820 Do you

00:59:00.160 know why

00:59:00.400 rental makes

00:59:01.020 more sense

00:59:01.520 in the

00:59:01.740 future?

00:59:03.200 I'm the

00:59:03.780 perfect example.

00:59:05.060 Here's why

00:59:05.500 rental will

00:59:06.060 make more

00:59:06.420 sense in

00:59:06.780 the future.

00:59:07.840 I own a

00:59:09.080 lot of

00:59:09.480 shit.

00:59:10.900 I got a

00:59:11.360 house that's

00:59:12.440 full of

00:59:12.800 shit.

00:59:13.040 I got a

00:59:14.300 car, a few

00:59:16.220 bicycles.

00:59:17.360 I got a lot

00:59:18.260 of shit.

00:59:19.320 It's all

00:59:19.960 fucking broken.

00:59:21.700 All of it.

00:59:22.480 It all requires

00:59:23.360 maintenance.

00:59:23.760 There's not

00:59:24.560 one thing

00:59:25.040 in my

00:59:25.280 house that

00:59:25.640 isn't a

00:59:26.100 little bit

00:59:26.520 broken.

00:59:27.880 If I

00:59:28.500 rented this

00:59:29.140 stuff, it

00:59:29.560 would all

00:59:29.720 be fixed.

00:59:31.320 I would

00:59:31.920 just call

00:59:32.320 whoever made

00:59:32.900 it and say,

00:59:33.240 hey, it's

00:59:33.580 broken again,

00:59:34.160 come fix it.

00:59:35.280 They'd say,

00:59:35.880 that's our

00:59:36.220 job.

00:59:37.040 They'd come

00:59:37.360 fix it.

00:59:39.480 Everything

00:59:39.920 that is a

00:59:40.760 problem in

00:59:41.400 my day-to-day

00:59:42.000 life would

00:59:42.740 be fixed by

00:59:44.400 having at

00:59:45.080 least the

00:59:45.720 big stuff

00:59:46.300 rented.

00:59:48.460 As long as

00:59:49.760 the price was

00:59:50.380 good.

00:59:50.980 If it costs

00:59:52.140 more, then

00:59:52.660 that's a

00:59:53.100 different

00:59:53.280 decision.

00:59:53.760 But if

00:59:54.280 they could

00:59:54.560 get the

00:59:54.880 economics so

00:59:56.360 that renting

00:59:56.820 it makes

00:59:57.200 more sense.

00:59:58.280 I mean,

00:59:58.560 owning something

00:59:59.300 with a

00:59:59.800 maintenance

01:00:00.140 contract, is

01:00:01.740 that different

01:00:02.220 from renting?

01:00:04.740 What about

01:00:05.400 my house?

01:00:06.240 Now, my

01:00:06.620 house would

01:00:06.980 be a perfect

01:00:07.680 example of

01:00:09.020 something that

01:00:09.520 makes more

01:00:09.940 sense to

01:00:10.440 own for

01:00:11.640 some people.

01:00:13.080 And for

01:00:13.720 other people,

01:00:14.240 it makes

01:00:14.480 more sense

01:00:14.920 to rent.

01:00:17.440 So the

01:00:19.400 free market

01:00:20.360 will just

01:00:20.740 decide, but

01:00:21.560 there'll be

01:00:21.840 more of

01:00:22.200 both.

01:00:22.440 Now, I

01:00:25.160 heard somebody

01:00:25.520 say that I

01:00:25.960 have to

01:00:26.220 understand

01:00:26.640 you'll

01:00:28.760 own

01:00:28.920 nothing

01:00:29.180 and be

01:00:29.400 happy in

01:00:29.920 the larger

01:00:30.380 context of

01:00:31.220 the WEF.

01:00:32.540 Because you

01:00:33.300 say they're

01:00:34.440 an evil

01:00:34.820 organization with

01:00:35.640 a whole bunch

01:00:36.060 of leftist

01:00:37.440 crazy ideas,

01:00:38.560 and this is

01:00:39.140 just another

01:00:39.620 one.

01:00:40.440 So if you

01:00:40.840 looked at all

01:00:41.260 their other

01:00:41.600 crazy ideas,

01:00:43.040 suddenly this

01:00:43.660 one looks like

01:00:44.340 it's right in

01:00:45.500 the pocket.

01:00:45.880 I see

01:00:47.660 somebody

01:00:47.940 agreeing.

01:00:48.860 So let's

01:00:49.480 say that I

01:00:50.180 agree with

01:00:50.640 you all that

01:00:51.960 the WEF's

01:00:53.000 climate change

01:00:55.280 agenda is

01:00:57.760 not your

01:00:58.700 idea of a

01:00:59.220 good idea.

01:01:00.560 Agree?

01:01:02.040 Like you

01:01:02.640 don't like

01:01:02.960 that part.

01:01:03.700 But does

01:01:04.060 that tell

01:01:04.440 you that

01:01:04.920 they don't

01:01:05.440 want private

01:01:05.960 ownership?

01:01:07.480 Those are

01:01:07.780 not really

01:01:08.240 connected.

01:01:10.020 I can't

01:01:10.520 imagine that

01:01:10.960 Klaus Schwab

01:01:12.480 wants to

01:01:12.940 not own

01:01:13.320 anything in

01:01:13.740 the future.

01:01:18.920 Do I

01:01:19.480 think my

01:01:19.820 rental company

01:01:20.500 will do

01:01:20.840 better?

01:01:21.260 Yes.

01:01:22.340 Because the

01:01:23.040 free market

01:01:23.580 would weed

01:01:25.540 out the

01:01:25.840 ones who

01:01:26.140 don't do

01:01:26.460 better.

01:01:27.120 Maybe not

01:01:27.620 on day

01:01:27.940 one, but

01:01:28.500 that's what

01:01:28.800 the market

01:01:29.160 does.

01:01:33.320 Yeah.

01:01:36.180 Now,

01:01:36.880 people said,

01:01:38.300 Scott,

01:01:39.700 Klaus wants

01:01:40.740 a world in

01:01:41.440 which only

01:01:41.900 the rich

01:01:42.360 people can

01:01:42.880 own stuff,

01:01:43.740 and the

01:01:44.480 poor people

01:01:44.960 have to

01:01:45.360 rent.

01:01:46.800 What do

01:01:47.220 you think

01:01:47.420 of that

01:01:47.660 comment?

01:01:48.920 Klaus wants

01:01:49.580 a situation

01:01:50.140 where the

01:01:50.600 rich people

01:01:51.680 own stuff,

01:01:52.780 but the

01:01:53.420 poor people

01:01:53.900 rent.

01:01:55.100 Now,

01:01:56.000 that would

01:01:56.400 be a world

01:01:56.860 you don't

01:01:57.180 want to

01:01:57.440 live in,

01:01:57.760 right?

01:01:58.460 Can we

01:01:59.000 agree you

01:01:59.400 don't want

01:01:59.720 to live

01:01:59.940 in a

01:02:00.140 world in

01:02:01.120 which the

01:02:01.500 rich people

01:02:01.960 own stuff,

01:02:03.580 and the

01:02:03.840 poor people

01:02:04.300 own,

01:02:05.120 this is

01:02:05.500 their only

01:02:05.760 option,

01:02:06.200 they just

01:02:06.460 got to

01:02:06.680 rent?

01:02:07.660 Can we

01:02:08.000 all agree

01:02:08.380 nobody

01:02:08.700 wants to

01:02:09.100 live in

01:02:09.320 that

01:02:09.460 world?

01:02:10.780 I

01:02:10.980 want to

01:02:11.160 see your

01:02:11.380 comments.

01:02:11.740 We

01:02:12.960 don't

01:02:13.640 want to

01:02:13.880 live in

01:02:14.120 a world

01:02:14.500 where the

01:02:15.120 rich people

01:02:15.520 own stuff

01:02:16.020 and the

01:02:16.360 poor people

01:02:16.740 have to

01:02:17.220 rent because

01:02:17.660 they don't

01:02:17.860 have a

01:02:18.080 choice,

01:02:18.560 right?

01:02:19.480 Yeah.

01:02:19.740 I'm sorry

01:02:23.660 to do

01:02:24.020 this to

01:02:24.420 you,

01:02:24.660 but you

01:02:25.860 know you

01:02:26.220 live in

01:02:26.580 that world

01:02:26.940 now,

01:02:27.480 right?

01:02:29.920 I have a

01:02:30.520 feeling that

01:02:30.880 some of you

01:02:31.280 are being

01:02:31.580 quiet because

01:02:32.580 you knew

01:02:32.840 this was a

01:02:33.380 trick.

01:02:34.080 You knew

01:02:34.380 this was a

01:02:34.880 trick,

01:02:35.160 right?

01:02:36.120 That's

01:02:36.500 exactly the

01:02:37.060 world you

01:02:37.340 live in.

01:02:38.880 How does

01:02:39.140 a poor

01:02:39.440 people,

01:02:39.820 poor people

01:02:40.440 don't own

01:02:40.860 anything.

01:02:41.700 Poor

01:02:41.960 people take

01:02:42.440 the bus.

01:02:44.400 Poor

01:02:44.540 people rent

01:02:45.200 their house.

01:02:47.240 They don't

01:02:47.520 own anything.

01:02:48.160 They own the

01:02:48.580 food before

01:02:49.120 they put it

01:02:49.520 in their

01:02:49.740 mouth and

01:02:51.240 they don't

01:02:51.720 even own

01:02:52.040 that.

01:02:52.340 That's

01:02:52.480 probably

01:02:52.700 just given

01:02:53.100 to them,

01:02:53.540 right?

01:02:55.080 How did

01:02:55.740 you miss

01:02:56.100 the fact

01:02:56.460 that you

01:02:56.700 live in

01:02:56.960 a capitalist

01:02:57.440 society?

01:02:59.100 Capitalism

01:02:59.580 is exactly

01:03:01.160 what you

01:03:01.600 just described.

01:03:02.740 The

01:03:02.920 capitalists

01:03:03.720 own stuff.

01:03:05.560 The poor

01:03:05.980 people have

01:03:06.460 to rent

01:03:06.840 it.

01:03:08.120 That is

01:03:08.780 your current

01:03:09.300 situation.

01:03:10.880 So you're

01:03:11.200 actually,

01:03:11.620 you're afraid

01:03:12.320 of a future

01:03:13.280 that's exactly

01:03:14.040 like the

01:03:14.460 present that

01:03:14.980 doesn't bother

01:03:15.480 you at all.

01:03:16.880 Now,

01:03:17.620 is that

01:03:18.220 unfair?

01:03:19.120 Well,

01:03:21.100 lots of

01:03:21.540 people say

01:03:21.920 yes.

01:03:23.240 But it's

01:03:23.900 also true

01:03:24.440 that those

01:03:24.860 poor people

01:03:25.360 can find

01:03:26.120 a path

01:03:26.600 to be

01:03:26.920 rich people

01:03:27.400 and own

01:03:27.820 stuff and

01:03:28.240 rent it

01:03:28.560 to poor

01:03:28.840 people.

01:03:29.640 So the

01:03:30.200 only thing

01:03:30.580 that keeps

01:03:30.900 our system

01:03:31.440 together

01:03:32.100 is that

01:03:33.280 there are

01:03:33.540 enough

01:03:33.820 poor people

01:03:34.500 going from

01:03:35.640 poor to

01:03:36.320 owning stuff

01:03:37.080 that people

01:03:38.340 see as

01:03:38.700 possible.

01:03:39.960 And if

01:03:40.180 it's possible

01:03:40.800 and you

01:03:41.240 see enough

01:03:41.600 people doing

01:03:42.140 it,

01:03:42.760 you say to

01:03:43.280 yourself,

01:03:43.740 oh,

01:03:44.380 maybe the

01:03:45.080 problem is

01:03:45.440 me.

01:03:45.700 maybe the

01:03:47.020 system works

01:03:48.000 because people

01:03:49.040 are rising

01:03:49.520 through the

01:03:49.960 system.

01:03:50.500 But if I'm

01:03:51.280 not rising

01:03:51.780 through the

01:03:52.140 system,

01:03:52.560 well,

01:03:52.760 maybe it's

01:03:53.080 my own

01:03:53.380 damn fault,

01:03:54.240 which I do

01:03:54.740 think people

01:03:55.200 believe.

01:03:59.760 Yeah,

01:04:00.280 how many

01:04:00.580 citizens own

01:04:01.380 their own

01:04:01.720 farmland?

01:04:03.440 Right.

01:04:03.620 If farmland

01:04:06.240 was owned

01:04:06.720 only by

01:04:07.260 small farmers,

01:04:08.340 would you

01:04:08.940 be able

01:04:09.280 to eat?

01:04:10.980 I don't

01:04:11.300 know how.

01:04:12.560 Probably not.

01:04:14.020 I mean,

01:04:14.300 maybe yes,

01:04:14.960 but it'd

01:04:15.460 be tough.

01:04:16.420 I mean,

01:04:16.660 it's the

01:04:17.000 corporate farms

01:04:17.820 that probably

01:04:18.260 made it

01:04:18.760 efficient enough

01:04:19.660 that everybody

01:04:20.100 can get

01:04:20.520 fed.

01:04:21.820 All right.

01:04:22.320 So in

01:04:23.340 many cases,

01:04:23.900 you think you

01:04:24.680 have a

01:04:25.040 political

01:04:25.380 disagreement

01:04:25.920 or you

01:04:26.440 think that

01:04:26.960 you're

01:04:27.260 hearing

01:04:27.600 something

01:04:27.960 differently.

01:04:28.840 But I

01:04:29.380 would argue

01:04:29.800 that the

01:04:30.340 people who

01:04:30.720 have good

01:04:31.560 economic

01:04:32.220 training

01:04:32.940 are all

01:04:33.980 on my

01:04:34.360 side.

01:04:35.940 You want

01:04:36.180 to test

01:04:36.440 that?

01:04:37.520 Let's test

01:04:38.040 that.

01:04:38.880 Let's test

01:04:39.380 it.

01:04:40.420 All right.

01:04:40.720 So stop

01:04:41.320 answering other

01:04:42.060 questions for

01:04:42.660 a moment.

01:04:43.600 I'm going to

01:04:43.880 ask you one

01:04:44.400 question.

01:04:45.360 You have to

01:04:45.800 identify yourself

01:04:46.920 as somebody

01:04:48.160 who's trained

01:04:48.680 in business

01:04:49.220 and economics

01:04:49.980 only.

01:04:51.140 Only.

01:04:52.460 Only people

01:04:53.320 who are trained

01:04:53.840 in business

01:04:54.360 and economics.

01:04:55.860 I want you

01:04:56.300 to tell me

01:04:56.780 that I've

01:04:57.180 correctly...

01:04:59.460 So give me

01:05:00.500 your credentials

01:05:01.080 and then tell

01:05:02.140 me that you

01:05:02.680 agree with

01:05:03.180 my interpretation

01:05:03.920 of this

01:05:04.600 situation.

01:05:05.200 Go.

01:05:07.860 And just

01:05:08.480 watch the

01:05:08.880 comments.

01:05:10.040 So what

01:05:10.300 you're going

01:05:10.560 to see is

01:05:10.980 it's not a

01:05:11.500 difference of

01:05:11.940 opinion,

01:05:12.440 it's a

01:05:12.660 difference of

01:05:13.080 training.

01:05:14.320 It's a

01:05:14.600 difference of

01:05:15.020 training.

01:05:16.380 If this

01:05:17.040 were a

01:05:17.340 situation

01:05:17.760 that was

01:05:18.640 outside of

01:05:19.160 my field,

01:05:20.240 because remember

01:05:20.620 economics and

01:05:21.380 business are

01:05:22.060 actually my

01:05:22.500 field.

01:05:23.160 That's what

01:05:23.500 I'm trained

01:05:23.880 for.

01:05:24.900 So to

01:05:25.260 me it's

01:05:25.540 obvious,

01:05:26.560 but it's

01:05:27.560 not obvious

01:05:28.000 because I'm

01:05:28.400 smarter than

01:05:29.040 you.

01:05:29.780 That's not

01:05:30.200 what's

01:05:30.420 happening.

01:05:31.060 It's not

01:05:31.440 obvious because

01:05:31.960 I read an

01:05:32.700 extra article.

01:05:34.340 It's obvious

01:05:34.940 because my

01:05:35.400 background is

01:05:36.660 exactly in

01:05:37.440 this area.

01:05:38.400 Exactly in

01:05:39.000 this area.

01:05:40.000 If your

01:05:40.600 background is

01:05:41.140 not in

01:05:41.420 this area,

01:05:42.020 it just

01:05:42.500 looks like a

01:05:43.040 scary bunch

01:05:43.580 of shit.

01:05:43.920 So I get

01:05:46.040 that.

01:05:46.740 Like if you

01:05:47.180 didn't have

01:05:47.520 that specific

01:05:49.040 background, it

01:05:50.160 would look

01:05:50.520 scary as shit.

01:05:51.300 If I didn't

01:05:52.300 have this

01:05:52.660 background, I

01:05:53.240 might interpret

01:05:53.780 it the same

01:05:54.300 way you are.

01:05:55.260 I might.

01:05:56.880 All right, you

01:05:57.460 see how quiet it

01:05:58.140 got?

01:05:59.100 I believe

01:05:59.880 everybody with

01:06:00.800 economics and

01:06:01.520 business background

01:06:02.840 agreed with

01:06:03.460 me.

01:06:04.360 I didn't see

01:06:05.080 an exception,

01:06:06.500 did you?

01:06:07.600 Now that's

01:06:08.120 why you

01:06:08.380 should, if

01:06:09.380 you disagree

01:06:09.980 with me,

01:06:11.060 just take,

01:06:11.760 that's the

01:06:12.100 only takeaway.

01:06:13.340 Right?

01:06:13.880 I won't try to

01:06:14.480 change your

01:06:14.860 mind.

01:06:16.020 I just want

01:06:16.560 you to be

01:06:16.860 aware that

01:06:18.020 people who

01:06:18.340 have similar

01:06:18.980 expertise are

01:06:19.900 on the same

01:06:20.320 page.

01:06:22.080 It doesn't

01:06:22.760 mean we're

01:06:23.080 all right.

01:06:24.520 Right?

01:06:24.780 Can we agree?

01:06:25.520 That doesn't

01:06:25.900 mean all the

01:06:26.340 people with

01:06:26.740 the right

01:06:27.020 training are

01:06:27.600 right.

01:06:28.440 We've seen

01:06:28.940 examples where

01:06:29.720 the smart

01:06:30.480 people were

01:06:30.980 all wrong.

01:06:33.180 But take it

01:06:34.140 all into

01:06:34.460 consideration.

01:06:35.340 Look at the

01:06:35.980 bigger picture.

01:06:37.380 All right.

01:06:38.320 So, knowing

01:06:39.420 of course,

01:06:40.400 knowing of

01:06:41.080 course that I

01:06:41.620 can never

01:06:41.980 change your

01:06:42.460 mind.

01:06:44.040 That doesn't

01:06:44.800 happen.

01:06:46.780 Have I changed

01:06:47.760 anybody's mind

01:06:49.000 about how much

01:06:50.280 they should worry

01:06:51.060 about that

01:06:51.620 statement?

01:06:53.100 Go.

01:06:56.740 look at the

01:06:58.820 other comments

01:06:59.420 too so you

01:06:59.940 can see what

01:07:00.160 they have.

01:07:00.660 So a number

01:07:01.060 of people said

01:07:01.620 yes and then

01:07:02.900 a number of

01:07:03.280 people say no.

01:07:04.420 The no's were

01:07:04.940 first.

01:07:05.700 The first

01:07:06.120 answers were

01:07:06.660 no's.

01:07:07.800 No, no, no.

01:07:08.600 No, no, no.

01:07:09.760 Now, if you

01:07:10.500 say no, how do

01:07:12.800 you interpret all

01:07:13.420 the yeses?

01:07:15.680 What's your

01:07:16.200 interpretation of

01:07:16.940 the yeses?

01:07:18.020 Do you think I

01:07:18.600 fooled them with

01:07:19.600 my persuasion?

01:07:21.480 Or do you think

01:07:22.380 that adding new

01:07:23.340 information or new

01:07:24.460 context legitimately

01:07:26.200 changed their

01:07:26.940 mind?

01:07:27.580 What do you

01:07:28.100 think's going

01:07:28.500 on?

01:07:30.220 Don't even think

01:07:31.040 about me for a

01:07:31.740 second.

01:07:31.960 Just think about

01:07:32.440 the other people

01:07:33.200 who are with you,

01:07:34.240 your peers, and

01:07:35.420 look at them

01:07:36.080 changing their

01:07:36.640 mind.

01:07:37.780 Not all of them,

01:07:39.240 but a bunch of

01:07:39.880 them.

01:07:40.960 How do you

01:07:41.400 interpret that?

01:07:45.060 Do you think

01:07:46.080 that they've been

01:07:47.280 hypnotized?

01:07:48.320 Or do you think

01:07:48.940 that they're dealing

01:07:49.560 with the facts?

01:07:50.380 Yeah, I think

01:07:57.280 this is a

01:07:58.100 perfect example

01:07:59.220 of how hard

01:08:01.580 it is to change

01:08:02.280 anybody's mind.

01:08:04.500 And would you

01:08:06.100 agree that this

01:08:06.780 was the perfect

01:08:07.560 setup to test

01:08:09.500 the limits of

01:08:10.240 that?

01:08:12.240 Because the

01:08:13.320 people who are

01:08:13.760 watching me on

01:08:14.340 live stream,

01:08:15.560 generally, the

01:08:16.240 reason you're

01:08:16.660 watching is that

01:08:17.740 you find I'm

01:08:18.760 credible, right?

01:08:21.380 That's the only

01:08:22.020 reason I have an

01:08:22.560 audience, is that

01:08:23.740 some number of

01:08:24.660 people find me

01:08:25.940 credible.

01:08:27.340 Now, if you

01:08:29.880 find me credible

01:08:30.580 and you listened

01:08:31.280 to the argument

01:08:31.820 and you saw

01:08:32.460 nothing to

01:08:33.000 disagree with,

01:08:35.080 you'd have to

01:08:35.880 ask yourself why

01:08:36.800 people are still

01:08:37.940 dug in.

01:08:39.200 All right, but

01:08:39.520 let me give you

01:08:39.940 another small

01:08:42.280 therapeutic doses

01:08:43.220 of cognitive

01:08:43.840 distance.

01:08:44.600 That's exactly

01:08:45.260 what it is.

01:08:46.380 It's so you

01:08:46.900 can feel it.

01:08:47.600 You know, I

01:08:49.020 don't think you

01:08:49.500 really understand

01:08:50.200 cognitive dissonance

01:08:51.300 until you find a

01:08:52.580 situation where you

01:08:53.520 definitely were in

01:08:54.420 it and didn't

01:08:55.700 know it.

01:08:56.960 Has anybody had

01:08:57.500 that experience

01:08:58.080 yet?

01:08:58.960 Where your own

01:09:00.120 cognitive dissonance

01:09:01.160 becomes clear to

01:09:02.000 you?

01:09:02.280 You're like, oh,

01:09:02.880 man, I thought

01:09:04.320 that was true for

01:09:05.060 30 years, only to

01:09:07.220 find out it was

01:09:07.680 all wrong.

01:09:09.000 It's very

01:09:09.560 disconcerting,

01:09:10.540 right?

01:09:11.340 Yeah.

01:09:11.640 Just keep that in

01:09:12.460 mind when you're

01:09:13.040 looking at this

01:09:13.560 situation.

01:09:14.380 Because if you

01:09:15.080 see somebody who's

01:09:16.080 who's on your

01:09:17.700 side, and

01:09:19.380 would you agree

01:09:19.900 I'm on your

01:09:20.400 side?

01:09:21.780 Let me ask you

01:09:22.520 that first.

01:09:24.060 Would you agree

01:09:24.860 that I'm on your

01:09:25.520 side if you're a

01:09:27.300 law-abiding American

01:09:28.480 citizen?

01:09:29.420 And if you're a

01:09:30.200 law-abiding citizen

01:09:31.160 of another country,

01:09:32.120 I'd probably like you

01:09:32.940 a lot, too.

01:09:34.180 Yeah, I'm totally

01:09:34.800 on your side.

01:09:35.620 All right, so I'm

01:09:36.040 on your side.

01:09:37.340 You're watching my

01:09:38.240 live stream because

01:09:38.960 you find me

01:09:39.480 credible.

01:09:41.420 You heard the

01:09:42.200 entire argument,

01:09:43.060 and I don't think

01:09:43.640 any context has not

01:09:44.960 been mentioned.

01:09:46.240 I think all

01:09:46.840 important context

01:09:48.060 on all sides, I

01:09:48.960 think, have been

01:09:49.360 mentioned.

01:09:51.660 But if that doesn't

01:09:53.400 change your mind,

01:09:56.040 you might have for

01:09:57.440 the first time

01:09:58.080 identified your own

01:10:00.040 cognitive bias

01:10:01.140 little bubble.

01:10:02.320 Now, if that's

01:10:02.820 happening to you,

01:10:04.300 you're going to

01:10:04.660 have a real moment

01:10:05.620 here.

01:10:06.680 Like it's really

01:10:07.200 going to be a big

01:10:08.540 day for you.

01:10:09.520 The first time you

01:10:10.560 really experience it,

01:10:12.340 oh, shit.

01:10:13.220 I only believe

01:10:15.000 this because I

01:10:15.600 was, I don't

01:10:16.280 know, in my

01:10:16.660 little bubble or

01:10:17.320 whatever.

01:10:18.440 As soon as you

01:10:19.240 have that first

01:10:19.900 experience, you're

01:10:20.620 free.

01:10:21.660 Because you only

01:10:22.360 have to have it

01:10:22.860 once, and you'll

01:10:24.080 remember it forever.

01:10:25.320 And it will make

01:10:26.100 you a lot more

01:10:27.120 humble the next

01:10:28.620 time you're sure

01:10:29.200 you're right.

01:10:30.220 And that could be

01:10:31.000 good for you.

01:10:35.500 All right.

01:10:36.960 Can you believe

01:10:37.740 there's still

01:10:38.220 somebody here

01:10:38.800 mocking me for

01:10:40.940 allegedly acting

01:10:43.020 like I'm always

01:10:43.820 right?

01:10:45.400 Is that the most

01:10:46.360 counterfactual thing

01:10:47.540 in the whole world?

01:10:49.560 Literally, nobody

01:10:50.640 says they're wrong

01:10:51.620 more clearly and

01:10:53.160 often than I do.

01:10:54.740 I will put myself

01:10:55.840 as the number one

01:10:56.680 person on the

01:10:57.360 fucking planet who

01:10:58.960 admits he's wrong,

01:11:00.540 specifically why,

01:11:02.120 and I don't even

01:11:02.820 wait very long.

01:11:03.880 I give it to you as

01:11:04.680 soon as it's

01:11:06.000 obvious.

01:11:06.440 And remember,

01:11:09.000 the reason I can

01:11:09.860 do that, like I

01:11:11.560 have a special

01:11:12.360 channel where I

01:11:13.940 can be wrong,

01:11:15.320 like aggressively,

01:11:17.180 vigorously wrong,

01:11:18.180 and it doesn't

01:11:18.680 hurt me.

01:11:19.860 You know why?

01:11:21.680 Because I've set

01:11:22.980 up that expectation.

01:11:24.740 The expectation is

01:11:26.040 I'm going to

01:11:26.400 follow the data,

01:11:27.780 and when I do

01:11:29.320 that, you go,

01:11:29.820 oh, okay, you

01:11:30.480 followed the data,

01:11:31.240 changed his mind.

01:11:32.500 That's how it's

01:11:33.020 supposed to work.

01:11:33.580 So I would not

01:11:35.420 feel diminished by

01:11:36.840 being wrong.

01:11:37.860 I would feel

01:11:38.760 bolstered.

01:11:39.360 It's actually a

01:11:39.880 reframe.

01:11:40.900 If you think about

01:11:41.440 it, that's a

01:11:41.820 reframe.

01:11:42.760 I've reframed

01:11:43.620 being wrong from

01:11:45.680 being a sense of

01:11:46.640 shame to an

01:11:49.600 accomplishment.

01:11:52.320 Better write that

01:11:53.160 down, because I've

01:11:55.820 got a book that I

01:11:56.580 need to put that

01:11:57.140 in.

01:12:00.140 A lot of these

01:12:00.960 reframes are sort

01:12:01.840 of like they're

01:12:03.060 baked into your

01:12:03.740 life.

01:12:05.300 What did I just

01:12:06.100 say?

01:12:08.040 You're going to

01:12:08.340 reframe being

01:12:09.040 wrong, being

01:12:12.120 wrong as an

01:12:14.080 accomplishment.

01:12:15.720 Being wrong in

01:12:16.640 public is an

01:12:17.660 accomplishment, not

01:12:20.100 a shame.

01:12:24.120 If you think it's

01:12:25.120 going to be a

01:12:25.560 shame or like

01:12:26.820 some kind of

01:12:27.280 mark against you,

01:12:28.300 that's what

01:12:28.940 triggers you into

01:12:29.740 cognitive dissonance.

01:12:31.400 So you can

01:12:32.140 actually create a

01:12:33.020 situation where you

01:12:33.940 guarantee you will

01:12:34.900 not see the world

01:12:35.720 correctly.

01:12:37.100 Because if you have

01:12:38.100 a shame-based

01:12:39.220 operating system,

01:12:40.880 oh, I can't be

01:12:42.180 seen as wrong.

01:12:43.940 I can never be

01:12:44.680 seen as wrong.

01:12:45.800 That guarantees you

01:12:47.140 that you will be

01:12:48.520 wrong.

01:12:49.340 Because the I

01:12:50.740 can't be shamed by

01:12:51.860 being wrong is the

01:12:53.220 trigger for cognitive

01:12:54.220 dissonance.

01:12:55.140 Oh, I can't be

01:12:55.860 wrong.

01:12:56.340 Oh, darn.

01:12:57.100 The data says I

01:12:58.000 am.

01:12:58.220 I can't change to

01:13:00.380 the data, because

01:13:01.660 that would be a

01:13:02.100 shame, too

01:13:03.440 embarrassing.

01:13:04.640 So instead, I

01:13:05.380 will have my

01:13:06.220 brain reinterpret

01:13:07.420 the data as not

01:13:08.740 credible.

01:13:10.240 How about we'll

01:13:10.980 discount that

01:13:11.540 data?

01:13:12.420 So that's

01:13:12.720 cognitive dissonance.

01:13:14.100 Now, why am I

01:13:14.900 immune?

01:13:16.240 I'm immune from

01:13:18.460 that trigger.

01:13:20.020 Nobody's 100%

01:13:21.020 immune.

01:13:21.660 But you can work

01:13:22.920 toward immunity by

01:13:24.800 taking shame and

01:13:25.760 embarrassment down

01:13:26.420 of your life.

01:13:28.020 Once those are

01:13:28.660 gone, and you

01:13:30.360 realize that you're

01:13:31.040 a person who can

01:13:31.720 get stuff wrong

01:13:32.560 pretty easily.

01:13:34.620 Like, even if you

01:13:35.340 think you're pretty

01:13:35.840 smart, you can

01:13:36.580 still think that.

01:13:38.440 But smart people

01:13:39.300 get ordinary things

01:13:40.360 wrong all the

01:13:41.720 time.

01:13:42.600 It's completely

01:13:43.480 ordinary.

01:13:44.640 So I don't have

01:13:46.080 anything that will

01:13:46.720 violate my sense of

01:13:47.820 self.

01:13:48.720 Do you get that?

01:13:49.960 Cognitive dissonance

01:13:50.920 happens when something

01:13:52.300 about your sense of

01:13:53.160 self gets violated.

01:13:54.220 If I find out I did

01:13:56.480 something stupidly

01:13:58.620 wrong in public,

01:14:00.040 that's content for my

01:14:01.900 show.

01:14:02.720 And then I'll get on

01:14:03.500 here and talk about

01:14:04.180 how stupid I was and

01:14:05.140 why I got it wrong, and

01:14:06.480 then we'll all learn

01:14:07.080 something.

01:14:08.120 To me, it's just

01:14:08.700 content.

01:14:09.840 So if you can convert

01:14:11.480 your shame into content,

01:14:13.620 you will be not

01:14:14.820 completely, but very,

01:14:17.140 very much protected

01:14:18.220 from the cognitive

01:14:20.460 dissonance trigger.

01:14:21.360 I'll bet that's

01:14:23.400 advice you've never

01:14:24.080 heard before.

01:14:25.560 Has anybody ever

01:14:26.360 heard anything like

01:14:27.200 that?

01:14:28.780 Is that the most,

01:14:30.300 like, oh yeah?

01:14:31.660 Okay.

01:14:32.820 I feel like that's

01:14:34.300 the most out-of-the-box

01:14:35.280 life advice you've

01:14:37.320 ever heard, and also

01:14:38.480 the most useful.

01:14:39.720 There's probably

01:14:40.280 nothing more useful

01:14:41.100 than that, if you

01:14:42.300 can nail it.

01:14:44.640 I heard somebody

01:14:45.620 the other day talking

01:14:46.380 about, it was a

01:14:48.540 success story, I

01:14:49.540 forget who it was,

01:14:50.200 but they called

01:14:51.340 out their lack of

01:14:52.260 embarrassment as a

01:14:53.380 superpower.

01:14:55.460 And I feel like

01:14:56.400 that's behind all

01:14:58.260 celebrity superstars.

01:15:01.620 They have to be able

01:15:02.460 to handle that lack,

01:15:03.620 yeah, yay is the

01:15:05.140 perfect example.

01:15:06.420 You have to be free

01:15:07.400 from embarrassment

01:15:08.160 or you don't get

01:15:08.840 too far.

01:15:10.700 Because that's what

01:15:11.500 stops people, oh,

01:15:12.780 I'll be embarrassed

01:15:13.680 if I try that.

01:15:16.320 Trump makes 10%

01:15:17.560 every time an NFT

01:15:18.560 is traded.

01:15:19.020 Yeah, I got

01:15:19.520 confirmation.

01:15:20.420 Some people seem

01:15:21.020 to know for whatever

01:15:21.880 reason.

01:15:22.600 Is it because it's

01:15:23.300 on the OpenSea?

01:15:25.000 Does it actually

01:15:25.780 list it, or you

01:15:26.540 knew it somehow?

01:15:27.880 But anyway, that's

01:15:28.480 the normal thing

01:15:29.140 that people do, is

01:15:29.960 put a 10% kicker

01:15:31.460 on any sale of an

01:15:33.020 NFT.

01:15:34.960 So, all right.

01:15:39.340 renting would be

01:15:41.340 renting would not

01:15:45.280 allow this.

01:15:46.460 Well, I do think

01:15:47.280 that no matter how

01:15:48.340 big renting gets,

01:15:50.260 as long as the

01:15:51.680 free market has

01:15:52.520 people who also

01:15:53.260 want to buy, you

01:15:54.740 should always be

01:15:55.240 able to buy.

01:15:56.440 Because remember,

01:15:57.160 the WEF is not

01:15:58.360 opposed to free

01:15:59.320 markets.

01:16:00.360 And the free market

01:16:01.280 will find you,

01:16:02.180 because you're not

01:16:02.700 alone, right?

01:16:03.320 So, it doesn't

01:16:04.380 matter if we go,

01:16:05.640 you know, from

01:16:06.320 90% ownership to

01:16:07.820 10% ownership, and

01:16:09.700 the rest is least.

01:16:11.300 Everybody who wants

01:16:12.500 to buy will be

01:16:15.160 accounted for, because

01:16:16.140 the free market

01:16:16.860 meets needs.

01:16:18.480 That's how it

01:16:18.900 works.

01:16:19.560 So, it might not

01:16:20.260 be on day one, but

01:16:21.560 eventually, everybody

01:16:23.020 gets what they want,

01:16:24.400 in a rough sense.

01:16:26.560 You rent beer?

01:16:27.400 Yeah.

01:16:31.440 Rent is an illusion.

01:16:32.740 You're a caretaker

01:16:33.580 for time, same as

01:16:34.680 a feudal system.

01:16:36.180 Yeah, I'm open to

01:16:37.280 that argument, that

01:16:38.100 a lot of this is

01:16:38.820 wordplay, in a

01:16:41.000 sense, yeah.

01:16:42.540 All right, I'm

01:16:43.220 going to say

01:16:44.020 goodbye to YouTube,

01:16:46.060 and I'm going to

01:16:46.860 go talk to the

01:16:47.560 locals people

01:16:48.160 privately a little

01:16:48.960 bit here,

01:16:49.560 subscription service,

01:16:51.020 so they get the

01:16:51.700 extra good stuff.

01:16:53.380 Bye for now,

01:16:54.040 YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 19, 2022

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