Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 31, 2023


Episode 2005 Scott Adams： Pretending To Care About Kids, Bill Maher & CNN, China Can't Make Chips


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

141.24316

Word Count

8,222

Sentence Count

661

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

24


Summary

Bill Maher has a new show on CNN, and the price of eggs is going up because of avian flu, and a major egg production plant has burned down, which leads to conspiracy theories about who might have been behind it.


Transcript

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00:00:52.000 I see some people just got here at the nick of time.
00:00:55.760 And your day will be perfect today.
00:00:58.880 Man, what a day you're going to have.
00:01:00.780 In fact, I'm going to give you a little technique to try today.
00:01:06.380 So I've tried this and it works every time I do it and it's kind of freaky
00:01:09.980 because it's not obvious why it would work.
00:01:13.840 It goes like this.
00:01:16.220 Today's the day.
00:01:17.100 Something good is going to happen.
00:01:18.160 Just tell yourself that all day long and watch what happens.
00:01:23.140 Just say, I think I feel like some good luck's coming.
00:01:26.240 Today's the day.
00:01:27.580 It's going to be a good day.
00:01:28.580 Wow.
00:01:28.920 Today's going to be a good day.
00:01:30.040 Some good stuff coming.
00:01:31.860 Now, it might be that you talk yourself into seeing the good stuff as more important than
00:01:37.660 the bad stuff that day.
00:01:38.940 So it might be just a psychological phenomenon.
00:01:42.020 Or, or we live in a simulation and that's how you steer it.
00:01:48.440 By your intentions.
00:01:50.160 Because all evidence does suggest that's the case.
00:01:54.860 One day, that's all I'm asking.
00:01:58.000 Just one day, every now and then, remind yourself,
00:02:01.800 something good is going to happen today.
00:02:03.540 I can feel it.
00:02:04.780 It's coming.
00:02:06.360 See what happens.
00:02:07.100 You'll be amazed.
00:02:09.500 Well, at the same time that the price of eggs is going through the roof,
00:02:14.460 because of avian flu, there was some big egg production facility that burned down.
00:02:21.340 Does that sound like a coincidence?
00:02:23.840 That at the same time, the eggs are in great demand and high price,
00:02:28.260 that a major egg facility would burn down.
00:02:31.080 Now, I believe this is a case of, well, it's obvious who did it.
00:02:38.260 Do I have to say it?
00:02:39.820 It's obvious.
00:02:41.400 No, it was the egg white supremacists.
00:02:44.540 The egg white supremacists.
00:02:47.180 That's who I think did it.
00:02:48.820 Yes, it did kick off many bad puns.
00:02:52.220 I won't repeat them all.
00:02:54.320 Just that one.
00:02:56.120 Go work among yourselves and do the rest of the puns.
00:02:58.740 Well, the big news, entertainment-wise, is that Bill Maher is going to slightly be on CNN.
00:03:07.100 Oh, he's not moving his show to CNN.
00:03:10.520 He's just sort of slightly tangentially a little bit sometimes kind of flirting with the idea of a little bit of content on CNN.
00:03:19.740 So on Friday nights, the extra part of his show that's on HBO, real-time,
00:03:27.100 the extra part after the end of the show where they sit around and keep talking,
00:03:32.300 the extra part will be on CNN late at night on Fridays,
00:03:37.060 because the show only goes on, there's only once a week.
00:03:39.460 Now, is this a reaction to Gottfeld?
00:03:46.540 Are they testing the waters?
00:03:50.420 Will CNN test Bill Maher for a little bit at that time and then say to themselves,
00:03:56.600 we should be running this kind of content at this time all the time,
00:04:00.520 because people want to see funny news, not like hard news before they go to bed.
00:04:04.300 So I think that's one of Gottfeld's magic, is that he can make you feel good before you go to bed.
00:04:15.360 Anyway, keep an eye on that.
00:04:19.240 I do have a feeling about it, which is just one of those who feels alike.
00:04:24.740 You know how people always think in analogies?
00:04:26.820 So if something reminds you of something else, you irrationally think that the thing it reminded you of
00:04:32.840 is telling you something about the thing.
00:04:35.480 It probably isn't.
00:04:36.880 It's just two things that remind you of each other.
00:04:39.300 But here's what it reminds me of.
00:04:42.100 When I used to own restaurants locally,
00:04:46.160 when I saw a restaurant start to serve brunch,
00:04:50.820 when normally they were just a lunch and dinner place,
00:04:53.160 as soon as they would offer brunch, you knew they were going out of business.
00:04:58.820 Do you know how?
00:05:00.620 It's because brunch is a terrible business.
00:05:02.440 It's like a last-ditch thing to do.
00:05:06.660 Like if you've given up on making money the normal way,
00:05:09.960 you try to do brunch.
00:05:12.120 It never works.
00:05:13.660 It's like the ultimate thing that never works.
00:05:16.180 Nobody ever goes to the lunch and dinner place for brunch.
00:05:20.160 Do you know why?
00:05:20.940 Because they're used to it as the lunch and dinner place.
00:05:23.160 It doesn't really ever become a breakfast place.
00:05:26.920 The only places that do are breakfast places.
00:05:29.700 If a place is a breakfast place, people will go to breakfast there.
00:05:33.220 Otherwise, their minds just can't wrap around it.
00:05:36.140 So when I see CNN trying to scoop up the leftovers from Bill Maher's show on HBO,
00:05:43.540 that looks to me a lot like brunch, if you know what I mean.
00:05:47.700 Sort of a Hail Mary, desperation, try anything kind of a thing.
00:05:54.880 But if I want to look at it as a more aggressive approach,
00:05:58.960 I would say they're testing out their audience
00:06:01.740 to see if they can maybe compete for his full show.
00:06:07.180 What do you think?
00:06:10.680 I don't know if he'd want to do it every night, though.
00:06:12.740 I don't think he wants to do a nightly show.
00:06:14.440 But maybe he would.
00:06:15.740 Maybe he would.
00:06:16.380 You never know.
00:06:19.800 My music teacher, well, I won't say.
00:06:23.400 I'll just say a music teacher.
00:06:24.800 I shouldn't have said that.
00:06:28.320 And now I can't do the story.
00:06:31.480 Because I didn't want to identify it.
00:06:33.320 Skipping that story, going right to the next one.
00:06:38.600 So does it seem to you that kids are getting dumber because of smartphones?
00:06:46.420 How many would say that the children, the youth,
00:06:49.220 are getting dumber because of smartphones?
00:06:50.940 A lot of people say yes, somewhat reflexively.
00:06:55.640 Now, what do you think you would find?
00:06:58.340 Don't do this yet.
00:06:59.500 But what do you think you would find if you were to go to Google
00:07:02.320 and Google, are smartphones making children dumber?
00:07:08.980 What do you think you'd find is the top result from Google,
00:07:12.840 who I believe would like everybody to use a smartphone?
00:07:17.260 Do you think that Google would say, oh, here's the research.
00:07:20.940 Showing these smartphones, which we're a big part of, are bad for you?
00:07:27.400 What do you think?
00:07:29.360 Well, the top result, or one of the top results,
00:07:33.040 or actually the top curated results.
00:07:36.000 So if you go to Google and you look for something
00:07:39.140 that other people have looked for a lot,
00:07:41.780 Google will help you by curating a quick hit
00:07:45.740 that's like all you need to know.
00:07:47.940 You can look deeper, but it's basically the answer to the question.
00:07:52.020 But it's curated, meaning it's not just a natural way that you search
00:07:56.560 and the good stuff comes up first.
00:07:58.960 Somebody at Google decided that the first thing you should see
00:08:03.640 when you click on it is this.
00:08:08.880 The arguments that are making us, that smartphones are making us dumber,
00:08:14.540 don't hold up.
00:08:16.540 I explained some PhD, cognitive scientist, blah, blah, blah.
00:08:20.300 And that it's the opposite.
00:08:22.900 Smartphones are making us smarter.
00:08:25.680 What do you think about that?
00:08:27.760 Do you think smartphones make you dumber,
00:08:31.340 or making you smarter?
00:08:32.560 Well, maybe there's a trick to it.
00:08:37.620 Maybe there's a trick.
00:08:39.780 Here's the trick.
00:08:42.000 If I say to you, are smartphones making you smarter,
00:08:46.480 who is you?
00:08:48.440 It seems obvious, right?
00:08:50.440 You is you, and then your phone is separate.
00:08:54.500 Your phone is there, and this is you.
00:08:56.300 But this answer that smartphones are making you smarter
00:09:00.820 treats you like a cyborg.
00:09:06.160 You're part phone and part person.
00:09:09.380 And if you look at the person that's part phone,
00:09:12.280 connected to the internet, and part person,
00:09:15.140 we're way smarter.
00:09:18.500 What do you think of that?
00:09:20.380 So it might be true that the organic part of our cyborg being
00:09:24.880 is getting some less abilities.
00:09:28.560 It might be decreasing its memorization ability.
00:09:31.720 But at the same time, we're no longer just an organic entity.
00:09:36.220 We're a cyborg.
00:09:37.900 We're part machine, part human.
00:09:40.400 And the machine part is awesome.
00:09:42.540 It more than makes up for what we're losing
00:09:46.520 in cognitive abilities.
00:09:48.820 So do you buy that?
00:09:50.600 And do you buy that it's a total coincidence
00:09:52.540 that Google, a company that would really like you
00:09:55.780 to look at a screen a lot,
00:09:57.680 that a big company like that
00:09:59.040 wants you to know that you're just getting better
00:10:02.080 and stronger and smarter
00:10:03.320 because you're part computer and part person.
00:10:07.080 And how could that be bad?
00:10:10.280 Now, there are lots of studies
00:10:12.340 that would suggest the opposite.
00:10:15.620 So other studies that don't look at you as a cyborg
00:10:18.660 and see you just as your organic part.
00:10:22.060 There's lots of indications
00:10:23.280 that we're getting more distracted,
00:10:25.240 shorter attention spans,
00:10:27.320 that kind of stuff.
00:10:31.340 Can we treat...
00:10:33.520 Let me tie a few things together here.
00:10:36.400 So I did an unscientific Twitter poll
00:10:40.120 and I asked people,
00:10:42.960 what will destroy the lives of more children?
00:10:46.100 And the choices were pandemic policies.
00:10:49.040 So that would include everything
00:10:50.540 from vaccinations to masks,
00:10:53.800 to shutdowns, to Zoom class, all that.
00:10:57.700 So the pandemic policies
00:10:58.940 or smartphones and social media
00:11:02.320 being called out as a big part of that.
00:11:05.500 Or COVID-19 itself,
00:11:08.340 the actual virus.
00:11:10.680 So the number of people who thought
00:11:12.120 that the most people of these choices
00:11:15.400 that COVID-19 would destroy the lives
00:11:19.400 of more children was 2%.
00:11:21.100 2% thought COVID was the thing
00:11:24.900 that would destroy the most children.
00:11:27.580 Coming in second was
00:11:28.860 all of the pandemic policies put together.
00:11:33.180 25%.
00:11:33.780 25%.
00:11:37.120 25%.
00:11:37.760 25.
00:11:41.200 25.
00:11:43.320 25.
00:11:44.920 That's about a quarter.
00:11:47.280 That's about a quarter of the people.
00:11:50.560 Interesting.
00:11:51.520 The other people said,
00:11:52.620 73% said it was the smartphones
00:11:54.820 and social media.
00:11:57.640 I don't want to make too much
00:11:59.740 of the 25%.
00:12:00.900 And what do you think?
00:12:07.460 73% think the smartphone
00:12:09.540 was worse than everything
00:12:11.260 in the pandemic.
00:12:13.780 73% think it was worse
00:12:15.680 than the COVID itself
00:12:16.920 and worse than the response
00:12:18.920 to the COVID
00:12:19.520 from vaccinations to masks
00:12:21.620 to Zoom school.
00:12:25.000 So that's how many people
00:12:26.760 think smartphones are
00:12:28.200 like a serious danger to children.
00:12:30.900 Do you see a big movement
00:12:32.900 to ban smartphones for children?
00:12:37.840 I don't.
00:12:39.660 There's none, is there?
00:12:41.820 I tweeted it the other day
00:12:43.320 and I got a lot of support,
00:12:44.720 but there's nothing in the government
00:12:45.960 that's going to ban smartphones.
00:12:48.800 No, because the big tech companies
00:12:50.120 have too much control.
00:12:51.240 That's never going to happen.
00:12:52.660 Can we stop pretending
00:12:54.560 we care about children?
00:12:56.420 Can we just stop lying about it?
00:12:57.880 Because I feel like
00:13:00.200 it's bad enough
00:13:02.160 that we're putting children
00:13:04.140 in these situations.
00:13:05.980 That's bad enough.
00:13:07.520 But we're also lying about it
00:13:09.580 while we're doing it.
00:13:11.560 Obviously, we don't care
00:13:12.580 about children.
00:13:14.580 In fact, I'll go further.
00:13:17.360 I believe wars,
00:13:19.020 general wars,
00:13:20.280 the kind where you're shooting
00:13:21.260 and killing,
00:13:22.380 wars are about sacrificing
00:13:24.200 young people to protect
00:13:25.420 old people,
00:13:26.640 aren't they?
00:13:27.980 You put the young people
00:13:29.620 in the front line,
00:13:30.520 cannon fodder,
00:13:31.600 to protect the old people
00:13:33.000 and their retirements.
00:13:35.480 We've never cared
00:13:36.380 about young people.
00:13:38.180 It's just never been...
00:13:39.300 And in fact,
00:13:39.800 if you go back
00:13:40.460 for most of civilization,
00:13:43.420 children were just an asset
00:13:44.820 that could maybe
00:13:46.280 make you some money
00:13:47.040 or protect you
00:13:47.760 from your enemies.
00:13:49.180 But basically,
00:13:50.460 it wasn't all about the kids.
00:13:52.740 The kids were just like
00:13:53.640 the animals that,
00:13:55.200 you know,
00:13:55.620 they were just part
00:13:56.680 of the system.
00:13:59.740 So,
00:14:00.520 I find it distasteful
00:14:02.720 that we even pretend
00:14:03.740 that we care about children
00:14:05.040 when it's so obviously
00:14:06.420 we don't.
00:14:07.320 So obvious.
00:14:08.900 Do you know why
00:14:09.480 parents give up on phones
00:14:11.540 when they should be tough?
00:14:14.380 Why do children,
00:14:15.540 why do parents give up
00:14:17.080 and say,
00:14:17.780 all right,
00:14:17.980 you can have your phone,
00:14:19.160 but not after 9 p.m.?
00:14:20.640 Okay,
00:14:21.740 you can have your phone
00:14:22.400 after 9 p.m.?
00:14:24.060 Why do most parents
00:14:25.540 do that?
00:14:27.180 Because it's too hard
00:14:28.240 to take it away.
00:14:29.660 It's just too hard.
00:14:30.960 And the kid is less trouble
00:14:33.080 when they're on their phone.
00:14:35.120 They're not making trouble
00:14:36.080 in the backseat of the car.
00:14:37.840 It's sort of like television.
00:14:39.200 You know,
00:14:39.360 people use television
00:14:40.540 as a babysitter
00:14:41.380 because it works.
00:14:43.380 It works really well.
00:14:44.980 And the phones
00:14:45.580 are just that.
00:14:46.600 So I think
00:14:47.060 I think we're destroying
00:14:48.800 our children.
00:14:50.520 73% of you
00:14:51.740 know it completely.
00:14:53.020 And at least
00:14:53.780 the pandemic policies
00:14:54.900 are mopping up
00:14:56.240 whatever you haven't
00:14:57.320 destroyed with smartphones.
00:14:59.200 But do you see
00:15:00.160 any indication?
00:15:02.040 So look at
00:15:02.980 the state
00:15:03.660 of our public schools.
00:15:06.020 Look at our public schools.
00:15:07.840 Just all of it.
00:15:09.280 Just all of it.
00:15:10.380 Look at smartphones.
00:15:12.000 And then look at
00:15:12.600 how we treated kids
00:15:13.500 during the pandemic.
00:15:15.200 And you tell me
00:15:15.820 that we care about children.
00:15:17.880 Seriously.
00:15:19.100 Tell me we care
00:15:20.100 about children.
00:15:21.460 Now I do think
00:15:22.160 that every parent does.
00:15:24.380 I believe that.
00:15:25.520 I believe every parent
00:15:26.400 cares about their children.
00:15:27.840 And a lot.
00:15:28.880 Right?
00:15:29.180 No difference
00:15:29.820 that it never has been.
00:15:31.720 But as a
00:15:32.920 as an entity
00:15:34.480 a group
00:15:35.040 as a country
00:15:35.740 you can't tell us
00:15:37.620 we care about children.
00:15:39.500 Come on.
00:15:41.080 Yeah, there's fentanyl.
00:15:42.500 Fentanyl is just
00:15:43.240 an obvious one.
00:15:44.520 Stop saying
00:15:45.080 we care about the young.
00:15:46.040 We don't.
00:15:47.200 If we wouldn't do
00:15:48.260 any
00:15:48.640 you know
00:15:49.000 homeschooling is growing
00:15:50.160 but homeschooling
00:15:51.880 is a growth
00:15:52.420 from individual parents.
00:15:54.640 Am I right?
00:15:55.980 I mean there's
00:15:56.340 some politicians
00:15:56.960 on board
00:15:57.600 but it's mostly
00:15:59.080 that grew up
00:15:59.980 from the bottom up.
00:16:01.640 That wasn't
00:16:02.300 the top down thing.
00:16:03.660 All of the top down
00:16:04.700 stuff is
00:16:05.420 anti-children.
00:16:08.280 I don't know
00:16:08.980 is that a coincidence
00:16:09.660 that it's all
00:16:11.100 anti-children?
00:16:12.420 All of it?
00:16:13.200 Because it is
00:16:14.780 it's all
00:16:15.960 anti-children.
00:16:17.480 I don't know
00:16:17.920 how that ever
00:16:18.640 evolved
00:16:19.580 to be like
00:16:20.200 complete
00:16:20.820 anti-children
00:16:22.860 but maybe
00:16:23.620 we've always
00:16:24.080 been this way.
00:16:25.520 You know
00:16:25.660 maybe it's just
00:16:26.560 a little more obvious
00:16:27.340 because of the pandemic
00:16:28.140 but maybe we've always
00:16:29.540 just not cared
00:16:30.420 about children.
00:16:32.040 We just pretend
00:16:33.140 that we feel
00:16:34.520 otherwise
00:16:34.960 because we do
00:16:35.880 care about our own.
00:16:37.580 So I think
00:16:38.080 we're conflating
00:16:38.880 how much we care
00:16:39.940 about our own kids
00:16:40.980 with how much
00:16:42.340 we care about
00:16:42.900 your kids.
00:16:44.440 You know what I mean?
00:16:45.660 Because that feels
00:16:46.180 like your problem.
00:16:49.000 All right.
00:16:51.900 A few other things.
00:16:57.320 If you keep looking
00:16:58.340 at the Google searches
00:16:59.480 you'll see all kinds
00:17:00.300 of science
00:17:00.760 on both sides.
00:17:02.260 Some saying
00:17:02.760 it's hurting
00:17:03.620 our attention spans
00:17:04.620 and some saying
00:17:05.340 it isn't.
00:17:05.700 But let me tell you
00:17:07.400 my favorite
00:17:08.520 pushback
00:17:10.580 from this.
00:17:13.260 So I'm
00:17:14.180 an old man
00:17:15.140 shouting at the sky
00:17:17.840 right?
00:17:18.540 So I'm clearly
00:17:19.220 a boomer.
00:17:21.420 I'm clearly
00:17:22.080 in that demographic
00:17:23.080 who says
00:17:24.660 you know
00:17:24.980 get a haircut
00:17:25.580 you kids
00:17:26.300 stop listening
00:17:27.860 to that Elvis Presley
00:17:29.120 and that rock and roll
00:17:30.160 it's going to
00:17:31.200 hurt your minds.
00:17:32.580 So after I make
00:17:33.220 this old tweet
00:17:34.620 anything about
00:17:35.280 the safety
00:17:36.540 of children
00:17:37.060 a Twitter user
00:17:39.740 named Steve Stevens
00:17:41.240 I won't say
00:17:42.960 anything about
00:17:43.440 the creativity
00:17:44.100 of his parents
00:17:44.920 who named him
00:17:45.500 Steve Stevens
00:17:46.180 but I will just
00:17:47.720 say that his
00:17:48.200 comment was
00:17:48.780 hilarious.
00:17:50.040 So after talking
00:17:50.620 about his
00:17:51.000 smartphones
00:17:51.500 hurting the
00:17:52.340 children
00:17:52.640 he tweets
00:17:53.780 you left out
00:17:55.020 pinball and
00:17:55.740 pool halls.
00:17:58.320 Okay you win.
00:18:01.520 You win.
00:18:02.520 can we just
00:18:04.920 let Steve Stevens
00:18:05.820 have the win?
00:18:07.940 Stevens for the win.
00:18:09.820 Total win.
00:18:12.440 Yes
00:18:13.040 Steve Stevens
00:18:14.080 who has been
00:18:15.300 around long
00:18:15.980 enough
00:18:16.360 to know
00:18:17.420 that there's
00:18:18.420 never been
00:18:19.200 a time
00:18:19.680 when we didn't
00:18:20.640 say the children
00:18:21.320 are dumb
00:18:22.000 this time
00:18:22.600 and we've been
00:18:23.880 wrong every time.
00:18:25.140 We always say
00:18:26.240 the children
00:18:26.660 are dumb.
00:18:28.260 Always.
00:18:29.440 Since I was a
00:18:30.260 kid all that
00:18:31.320 rock and roll
00:18:31.960 was going to
00:18:32.420 destroy our
00:18:33.100 minds and
00:18:33.820 nothing like
00:18:35.320 that ever
00:18:35.720 happened.
00:18:36.940 So this
00:18:37.740 was just
00:18:38.340 such a good
00:18:38.800 comment.
00:18:39.400 You left out
00:18:39.900 pinball and
00:18:40.540 pool halls
00:18:41.140 because they're
00:18:42.080 going to
00:18:42.560 rot those
00:18:43.200 children's
00:18:43.700 minds.
00:18:45.660 Here's what
00:18:46.260 I think is
00:18:46.700 true.
00:18:48.340 The truth
00:18:49.080 is that
00:18:51.200 the only
00:18:51.580 smart people
00:18:52.300 who matter
00:18:52.900 are the
00:18:54.280 top 1%
00:18:55.020 and they're
00:18:56.540 probably no
00:18:57.040 different than
00:18:57.480 they ever were.
00:18:58.520 In fact there
00:18:58.940 might be more
00:18:59.400 of them.
00:19:00.860 Did you
00:19:01.660 invent any
00:19:02.340 microchips
00:19:02.940 today?
00:19:04.240 I didn't.
00:19:05.900 I didn't.
00:19:07.320 Did you
00:19:08.020 make any
00:19:10.020 breakthroughs in
00:19:10.980 artificial intelligence
00:19:12.040 today?
00:19:13.140 I didn't.
00:19:14.720 I really
00:19:15.300 didn't.
00:19:16.240 I didn't do
00:19:16.760 anything.
00:19:17.720 So it
00:19:18.720 almost doesn't
00:19:19.440 matter how
00:19:19.880 smart I am.
00:19:20.980 I just have
00:19:21.680 to be able to
00:19:22.220 take care of
00:19:23.120 myself and
00:19:23.760 that's it.
00:19:25.500 the 1%
00:19:28.460 smart people
00:19:29.180 who have
00:19:29.460 always been
00:19:29.900 with us
00:19:30.380 are still
00:19:31.260 doing what
00:19:31.720 they always
00:19:32.120 do.
00:19:32.760 They invent
00:19:33.440 the future
00:19:33.900 and then we
00:19:34.320 live in it.
00:19:35.420 So it doesn't
00:19:36.000 matter if the
00:19:36.480 average person
00:19:37.120 can memorize a
00:19:37.980 poem.
00:19:38.880 Somebody else
00:19:39.660 said the
00:19:41.180 other thing
00:19:41.600 that kids
00:19:41.960 can't do
00:19:42.400 today,
00:19:43.340 ever since
00:19:43.840 the invention
00:19:44.360 of writing
00:19:45.120 they haven't
00:19:46.660 been able to
00:19:47.800 memorize 10,000
00:19:48.780 word poems.
00:19:50.480 I thought to
00:19:51.180 myself,
00:19:51.680 that is so
00:19:52.320 perfect.
00:19:52.780 because you
00:19:53.760 know when
00:19:54.220 the invention
00:19:54.700 of writing
00:19:55.260 came along
00:19:55.880 somebody probably
00:19:57.440 said,
00:19:58.080 all right,
00:19:58.340 look,
00:19:58.940 with all of
00:19:59.880 this writing
00:20:00.620 kids are no
00:20:03.280 longer going to
00:20:03.800 be able to
00:20:04.240 memorize 10,000
00:20:05.200 word poems
00:20:05.780 like they can
00:20:06.340 easily.
00:20:07.400 So let's
00:20:09.000 get rid of
00:20:09.360 the writing.
00:20:10.980 Gramps.
00:20:14.760 Yeah,
00:20:15.120 Rush Limbaugh
00:20:15.600 said 10%
00:20:16.380 carry the rest.
00:20:17.420 It's way less
00:20:18.120 than 10%
00:20:18.960 if you're
00:20:20.000 talking about
00:20:20.480 the people
00:20:21.460 who have
00:20:21.680 invented the
00:20:22.520 future.
00:20:24.280 Elon Musk
00:20:25.100 isn't in
00:20:25.540 the 10%,
00:20:26.400 he's in
00:20:27.420 the 1%.
00:20:28.160 So my
00:20:32.060 argument will
00:20:32.680 be this.
00:20:33.660 I believe
00:20:34.160 that smartphones
00:20:34.780 have made us
00:20:35.460 different,
00:20:37.320 and that it
00:20:37.800 made some
00:20:38.260 people smarter
00:20:38.960 in some
00:20:40.200 ways,
00:20:40.920 but it
00:20:41.660 also probably
00:20:43.120 changed their
00:20:43.740 attention span.
00:20:45.760 Did that
00:20:46.500 hurt us?
00:20:47.600 It depends.
00:20:49.040 It might hurt
00:20:49.580 some people
00:20:50.180 in some
00:20:50.660 weird ways.
00:20:51.420 what I
00:20:54.060 imagine is
00:20:54.740 that the
00:20:55.600 average person
00:20:56.340 can scroll
00:20:57.300 through a
00:20:58.060 screen way
00:20:59.280 faster than
00:21:00.080 the ancients
00:21:01.220 could have.
00:21:02.260 I feel like
00:21:03.140 they optimized
00:21:03.800 for insane
00:21:05.460 amounts of
00:21:06.080 information.
00:21:07.980 So what is a
00:21:08.900 kid optimized
00:21:09.580 for in the
00:21:10.680 boring past?
00:21:12.220 In the boring
00:21:12.780 past, we were
00:21:13.580 optimized to
00:21:14.580 survive boredom.
00:21:16.720 That's all I
00:21:17.620 remember of my
00:21:18.280 youth.
00:21:19.380 Pain and
00:21:19.960 boredom.
00:21:21.680 That's it.
00:21:23.220 Pain and
00:21:23.860 boredom.
00:21:24.220 That was my
00:21:24.580 entire youth.
00:21:25.500 I was either
00:21:25.920 in pain or
00:21:26.480 I was bored.
00:21:27.660 I only had
00:21:28.240 two reactions.
00:21:30.060 So it was
00:21:30.580 horrible.
00:21:33.080 Now kids are
00:21:34.000 full of so
00:21:35.720 much stimulation.
00:21:37.320 Do you think
00:21:37.780 that a kid
00:21:38.280 today is
00:21:39.660 more or
00:21:40.380 less able to
00:21:41.120 handle complexity?
00:21:42.060 complexity?
00:21:44.680 I don't know.
00:21:46.380 I mean, I'm
00:21:46.680 just throwing out
00:21:47.440 some suggestions.
00:21:48.520 They might be
00:21:48.980 more.
00:21:49.600 It's possible
00:21:50.280 less.
00:21:50.800 It's possible
00:21:51.240 less.
00:21:51.880 But I think
00:21:52.420 more.
00:21:53.560 I think more
00:21:54.460 because they
00:21:54.820 handle complexity
00:21:55.640 every day with
00:21:57.040 their interfaces
00:21:57.700 and social
00:21:58.820 everything.
00:22:00.280 But they may be
00:22:01.300 giving up some
00:22:02.040 interpersonal skills.
00:22:03.660 They might be
00:22:04.080 giving up some
00:22:05.120 concentration.
00:22:07.700 But do they
00:22:08.340 need it?
00:22:08.720 What would
00:22:10.840 be more
00:22:11.280 important?
00:22:12.580 Let me ask
00:22:13.180 you this.
00:22:13.520 Which skill
00:22:13.980 would be more
00:22:14.560 important in
00:22:15.040 2023?
00:22:16.700 An ability to
00:22:18.120 really focus
00:22:18.920 deeply on a
00:22:20.300 single subject
00:22:21.020 for a long
00:22:21.640 time?
00:22:22.520 Or the
00:22:23.120 ability to
00:22:23.980 quickly skim
00:22:25.420 all kinds of
00:22:26.140 useful information
00:22:27.040 quickly using
00:22:28.360 your smartphone?
00:22:30.980 I know.
00:22:31.380 I see people
00:22:31.960 learning like
00:22:32.680 crazy because
00:22:33.400 they have phones.
00:22:34.160 Don't you know
00:22:34.700 somebody who
00:22:35.240 Googles everything?
00:22:36.920 You're in a
00:22:37.400 conversation and
00:22:38.240 like one
00:22:38.700 minute into
00:22:39.320 it and they're
00:22:39.680 Googling to
00:22:40.280 fact check you
00:22:41.340 or to add a
00:22:42.300 thing or to
00:22:42.780 find out a
00:22:43.220 new thing?
00:22:44.000 That didn't
00:22:44.940 exist before.
00:22:46.580 There's no way
00:22:47.500 smartphones aren't
00:22:48.700 making us a lot
00:22:49.840 smarter in some
00:22:51.420 ways while at
00:22:53.200 the same time
00:22:53.640 taking something
00:22:54.220 away.
00:22:55.200 So I think we
00:22:56.080 could confirm
00:22:56.660 that we're
00:22:57.060 changing.
00:22:58.460 I don't know
00:22:59.180 if it's bad
00:22:59.660 yet.
00:23:01.300 Might be a
00:23:02.420 mix.
00:23:04.620 But I think
00:23:05.320 it's all bad
00:23:05.760 for kids.
00:23:07.640 On net.
00:23:08.080 Are you
00:23:09.340 aware that
00:23:10.680 Representative
00:23:11.820 Dan Crenshaw
00:23:12.760 and also
00:23:16.460 Michael Waltz,
00:23:17.600 both Republicans,
00:23:19.060 issued a joint
00:23:20.300 resolution authorizing
00:23:21.400 Biden to use
00:23:22.200 military force to
00:23:23.200 combat the
00:23:23.780 cartels pumping
00:23:24.700 fentanyl and
00:23:25.580 other stuff into
00:23:26.740 the country?
00:23:28.440 So that's all
00:23:30.580 good.
00:23:31.500 Now remember
00:23:31.940 my current
00:23:33.640 political stand
00:23:34.740 is that I'm
00:23:36.240 going to back
00:23:36.700 for president
00:23:37.360 whoever has
00:23:38.060 the best
00:23:38.580 fentanyl
00:23:40.060 policy.
00:23:41.780 So far
00:23:42.540 that's Trump
00:23:43.160 because Trump
00:23:44.460 also says
00:23:45.200 use the
00:23:45.580 military against
00:23:46.340 the cartels.
00:23:48.880 Crenshaw is
00:23:49.660 saying something
00:23:50.520 similar but as
00:23:51.940 far as we know
00:23:52.500 he's not running
00:23:53.140 for president.
00:23:53.700 How did I get
00:23:58.260 this far
00:23:58.640 with my
00:23:59.000 microphone
00:23:59.440 not on?
00:24:05.160 Is that
00:24:05.780 better?
00:24:07.320 Sorry.
00:24:07.840 All right.
00:24:09.020 So here's
00:24:15.160 so if Crenshaw
00:24:16.280 runs for
00:24:16.840 president then
00:24:17.780 I will have a
00:24:18.460 dilemma because
00:24:20.200 then I would
00:24:20.800 have to choose
00:24:21.320 between Trump
00:24:22.080 and Crenshaw.
00:24:23.200 Now I know
00:24:24.340 what you're
00:24:24.580 going to say.
00:24:25.580 Some of you
00:24:26.040 are going to
00:24:26.260 say no not
00:24:27.960 Crenshaw.
00:24:28.880 I dislike him
00:24:29.960 for my five
00:24:30.860 reasons.
00:24:31.940 Don't care.
00:24:33.620 Do not care.
00:24:35.620 Yeah.
00:24:36.000 Don't even
00:24:36.640 tell me what
00:24:37.260 you don't like
00:24:37.840 about him.
00:24:39.020 Warmonger?
00:24:39.720 Sure.
00:24:40.080 Whatever.
00:24:41.040 Don't care.
00:24:42.240 If he would
00:24:43.380 have the best
00:24:43.880 policy on
00:24:44.520 fentanyl and
00:24:45.100 so far it
00:24:45.580 would just
00:24:45.840 be a tie.
00:24:47.280 So far Trump
00:24:48.680 still has the
00:24:49.200 advantage.
00:24:50.280 But hypothetically
00:24:51.100 and I'm doing
00:24:51.940 this just to
00:24:52.480 warn you.
00:24:53.700 Because I
00:24:54.300 don't want you
00:24:54.660 to have any
00:24:55.000 shock.
00:24:56.160 I will abandon
00:24:57.300 Trump in a
00:24:58.440 hot flash.
00:25:00.080 I will abandon
00:25:00.860 him so fast if
00:25:02.800 somebody has a
00:25:03.300 better idea on
00:25:04.780 fentanyl.
00:25:05.780 Only fentanyl.
00:25:07.140 One issue.
00:25:08.040 That's all I
00:25:08.440 care about.
00:25:09.540 Everything
00:25:09.820 else, you
00:25:10.980 know, Deep
00:25:11.400 State's going
00:25:11.880 to do what
00:25:12.200 Deep State
00:25:12.600 does.
00:25:15.180 But
00:25:15.700 congratulations to
00:25:16.780 Crenshaw for
00:25:17.320 having his
00:25:17.860 priorities straight.
00:25:18.840 He said one
00:25:19.420 thing that was,
00:25:20.480 or I don't know
00:25:21.140 if he said
00:25:21.520 this, but the
00:25:22.820 news reported
00:25:23.900 that Crenshaw
00:25:24.720 said this.
00:25:26.080 Now this
00:25:26.540 can't possibly
00:25:27.420 be true.
00:25:29.560 I want you to
00:25:31.000 maybe help me
00:25:31.720 here.
00:25:31.920 Did the news
00:25:33.420 just report it
00:25:34.220 wrong?
00:25:34.480 Or did he
00:25:36.060 misstate this?
00:25:37.720 Or is this
00:25:38.600 actually true?
00:25:40.500 I'll just read
00:25:41.180 what the news
00:25:42.260 said.
00:25:44.280 Crenshaw, the
00:25:45.140 architect of the
00:25:45.900 bill, last
00:25:46.580 Congress, told
00:25:47.900 Fox News Digital
00:25:48.940 that the cartels,
00:25:50.280 quote, are
00:25:51.220 responsible for
00:25:52.160 about 360,000
00:25:54.420 homicides this
00:25:56.200 year in Mexico.
00:25:57.740 That couldn't
00:26:00.160 possibly be
00:26:00.840 true.
00:26:02.220 Is it?
00:26:05.180 360,000
00:26:06.580 murders,
00:26:08.020 murders,
00:26:09.340 one year
00:26:11.160 in Mexico.
00:26:14.040 No, that's
00:26:14.900 not plausible.
00:26:16.400 That is not
00:26:17.000 plausible.
00:26:17.720 I'm sorry.
00:26:19.220 36,000
00:26:20.100 might be.
00:26:21.880 Would you
00:26:22.580 accept 36,000?
00:26:23.720 36,000 is a
00:26:27.540 lot.
00:26:28.520 That would be
00:26:29.140 a lot of
00:26:29.740 murder.
00:26:31.160 But 360,000?
00:26:32.700 No.
00:26:39.380 So, can we
00:26:41.000 do a fact
00:26:41.460 check on
00:26:41.860 that?
00:26:42.740 Because my
00:26:43.180 belief is
00:26:43.740 that, oh,
00:26:47.660 370 per
00:26:49.920 day?
00:26:52.120 What's wrong
00:26:52.800 with a little
00:26:53.140 hyperbole?
00:26:53.720 Well, that's
00:26:54.760 a lot of
00:26:55.740 hyperbole.
00:26:58.040 Yeah.
00:26:58.980 That's a lot
00:26:59.680 of hyperbole.
00:27:02.400 Because if it
00:27:03.200 were really
00:27:03.540 360,000
00:27:04.780 murders in
00:27:05.320 a year,
00:27:06.320 the Mexican
00:27:07.520 government would
00:27:08.300 be begging us
00:27:09.060 to send it
00:27:09.540 in the military.
00:27:10.760 Wouldn't
00:27:11.020 they?
00:27:12.560 Am I wrong
00:27:13.720 about that?
00:27:14.460 If it were
00:27:15.080 really 360,000
00:27:16.660 a year,
00:27:17.540 just in
00:27:18.100 Mexico in
00:27:18.700 one year,
00:27:20.040 they would
00:27:20.420 be begging
00:27:20.880 us for the
00:27:21.380 military.
00:27:21.620 That can't
00:27:22.060 possibly be
00:27:22.660 true.
00:27:22.900 Would you
00:27:25.180 believe 25,000?
00:27:26.360 I would.
00:27:26.920 Yeah.
00:27:27.380 I would
00:27:27.820 believe 36,000.
00:27:30.560 I mean, I
00:27:31.100 wouldn't know
00:27:31.640 it's true,
00:27:32.660 but it's
00:27:33.580 within the
00:27:34.060 credible range.
00:27:35.940 So, that's
00:27:37.020 weird.
00:27:38.180 Now, let's
00:27:38.500 talk about
00:27:38.880 China.
00:27:39.320 Wall Street
00:27:39.820 Journal has
00:27:40.300 an opinion
00:27:40.680 piece.
00:27:41.580 I'm trying
00:27:42.040 to decide
00:27:42.640 if it's
00:27:43.040 racist.
00:27:43.500 Every time
00:27:46.640 I hear
00:27:47.060 that China
00:27:47.840 can't
00:27:49.340 develop
00:27:49.740 technology,
00:27:51.860 you know,
00:27:52.180 because they
00:27:52.640 have something
00:27:53.140 about their
00:27:53.600 system,
00:27:54.380 they can't
00:27:54.760 develop
00:27:55.040 technology.
00:27:56.820 Didn't we
00:27:57.460 say this
00:27:57.860 about Japan
00:27:58.560 when I
00:28:00.440 was young?
00:28:01.500 Didn't we
00:28:01.880 say, oh,
00:28:02.420 the Japanese,
00:28:03.340 there's something
00:28:03.680 about their
00:28:04.140 culture,
00:28:05.500 they'll never
00:28:06.260 want to take
00:28:06.820 a chance,
00:28:08.380 so therefore
00:28:09.000 they'll never
00:28:09.520 build any
00:28:10.320 technology,
00:28:11.180 because they
00:28:11.400 don't want
00:28:11.680 to,
00:28:11.800 something
00:28:12.500 about their
00:28:12.940 culture.
00:28:14.220 Well, Japan
00:28:14.720 is doing
00:28:15.100 okay.
00:28:16.700 Seems like
00:28:17.340 they fixed
00:28:18.340 that.
00:28:19.060 Now we're
00:28:19.800 doing the
00:28:20.160 same thing
00:28:20.520 about China,
00:28:22.180 that there's
00:28:23.140 something about
00:28:23.580 the system,
00:28:25.060 or something
00:28:26.040 about, I
00:28:27.040 don't know,
00:28:27.240 the culture
00:28:27.780 that makes
00:28:29.100 them not
00:28:30.640 be able to
00:28:31.020 make microchips.
00:28:33.620 On the
00:28:34.280 surface,
00:28:34.760 doesn't that
00:28:35.120 just sound
00:28:35.480 like a racist
00:28:36.520 sort of thing
00:28:37.400 that we're
00:28:38.440 looking for
00:28:39.760 support for,
00:28:40.700 like we're
00:28:41.100 looking for
00:28:41.500 confirmation
00:28:42.080 bias,
00:28:42.860 but it
00:28:43.300 feels like
00:28:43.700 it starts
00:28:44.140 with racism,
00:28:44.880 doesn't it?
00:28:45.900 Am I
00:28:46.180 wrong about
00:28:46.560 that?
00:28:47.420 Am I
00:28:47.820 too woke?
00:28:49.340 Is that
00:28:49.620 too woke?
00:28:52.320 Because that
00:28:52.840 might be.
00:28:53.700 Maybe I'm
00:28:54.340 just so
00:28:54.760 primed for
00:28:55.400 it that,
00:28:56.180 but I'll
00:28:56.600 give you
00:28:56.840 the argument,
00:28:57.800 all right?
00:28:58.900 So I'm
00:28:59.200 going to
00:28:59.340 give you
00:28:59.580 the argument.
00:29:00.320 I suspect,
00:29:01.720 I just feel
00:29:02.400 like it may
00:29:02.860 have started
00:29:03.340 in the wrong
00:29:03.900 place,
00:29:04.360 and then they
00:29:04.740 work backwards
00:29:05.440 to the
00:29:05.780 argument,
00:29:06.280 but we'll
00:29:07.200 give them
00:29:07.400 the benefit
00:29:07.760 of the
00:29:08.040 doubt,
00:29:08.200 okay?
00:29:11.060 And here's
00:29:11.740 the argument.
00:29:12.840 Now this
00:29:13.160 first part is
00:29:13.780 a pretty good
00:29:14.220 argument.
00:29:15.400 In the
00:29:15.980 U.S.
00:29:16.320 system,
00:29:17.280 funding for
00:29:18.420 big companies
00:29:19.200 usually starts
00:29:21.200 with small
00:29:21.860 companies,
00:29:22.640 and it's
00:29:23.320 private,
00:29:24.120 venture capitalists
00:29:25.040 and angels
00:29:25.800 and stuff.
00:29:26.720 And so there
00:29:27.240 are tons of
00:29:27.800 people in the
00:29:28.380 market,
00:29:29.320 and they're
00:29:30.260 watching their
00:29:30.980 money pretty
00:29:31.740 closely.
00:29:32.060 If a venture
00:29:33.200 capitalist gives
00:29:33.860 you a million
00:29:34.300 dollars,
00:29:35.240 they're going
00:29:35.920 to attend
00:29:36.260 your meetings,
00:29:37.440 right?
00:29:37.640 They're going
00:29:37.900 to make sure
00:29:38.280 you spent
00:29:38.640 their million
00:29:39.080 dollars right.
00:29:40.840 So we have
00:29:41.420 a system in
00:29:42.040 which the
00:29:42.480 funding for
00:29:43.380 tech is
00:29:45.120 monitored and
00:29:46.540 managed by
00:29:47.020 the people
00:29:47.340 who gave
00:29:47.660 them the
00:29:48.020 funding.
00:29:49.220 So the
00:29:49.960 funders are
00:29:50.900 very close
00:29:51.440 to the
00:29:51.780 process,
00:29:52.700 literally in
00:29:53.320 the room,
00:29:54.080 same room.
00:29:55.580 In China,
00:29:58.040 it's a
00:29:58.600 state-managed
00:30:00.620 process.
00:30:01.060 So the
00:30:01.980 state decides
00:30:02.760 which industries
00:30:03.680 they're going
00:30:04.080 to be
00:30:04.320 promoting.
00:30:05.200 They decided
00:30:05.960 they would
00:30:06.340 do chips.
00:30:08.320 It's a
00:30:08.700 good idea.
00:30:10.400 So then at
00:30:11.160 the top of
00:30:11.640 the government,
00:30:12.440 they release
00:30:13.040 a gazillion
00:30:13.920 dollars.
00:30:14.580 I think it
00:30:14.900 was going
00:30:15.120 to be like
00:30:15.440 a trillion
00:30:15.860 dollars or
00:30:16.480 something
00:30:16.740 eventually.
00:30:17.620 Just huge
00:30:18.440 amounts of
00:30:18.900 money.
00:30:20.480 And then
00:30:21.000 who does
00:30:21.960 it go to?
00:30:23.820 Who does
00:30:24.140 it go to?
00:30:25.280 Well, it
00:30:26.660 doesn't go to
00:30:27.220 anybody who's
00:30:27.800 not part of
00:30:28.300 the Communist
00:30:28.820 Party.
00:30:29.680 Did you know
00:30:30.180 that?
00:30:31.060 If you're
00:30:31.640 not in
00:30:31.940 the Communist
00:30:32.380 Party, you
00:30:32.900 don't get
00:30:33.240 any of
00:30:33.640 the money.
00:30:34.960 So right
00:30:35.320 there, they've
00:30:37.020 basically taken
00:30:37.820 out part of
00:30:39.440 what works in
00:30:40.100 the United
00:30:40.400 States.
00:30:41.180 Because in
00:30:41.660 the United
00:30:41.900 States, you
00:30:42.340 just have to
00:30:42.780 be good at
00:30:43.220 what you're
00:30:43.500 doing.
00:30:44.560 Over there, you
00:30:45.200 have to also
00:30:46.260 be in the
00:30:46.880 Communist Party.
00:30:47.920 So that's
00:30:48.240 one inefficiency.
00:30:49.680 They're missing
00:30:50.160 anybody who's
00:30:50.640 not.
00:30:51.220 But I don't
00:30:51.580 know what
00:30:51.860 percentage
00:30:52.260 you're not,
00:30:52.820 frankly, so
00:30:53.400 maybe it's
00:30:53.860 not as big a
00:30:54.400 deal as I
00:30:54.780 think.
00:30:54.980 Secondly, the
00:30:58.300 higher you
00:30:58.920 rank as a
00:31:00.840 technology person,
00:31:02.140 the higher you
00:31:02.960 rank in the
00:31:03.580 Communist Party,
00:31:04.820 the more
00:31:05.420 funding you're
00:31:06.020 going to get.
00:31:07.900 So that it's
00:31:08.740 based not on the
00:31:09.560 quality of the
00:31:10.280 project, but on
00:31:12.120 the status of the
00:31:13.160 person who asks
00:31:13.880 for the money.
00:31:15.520 Again, there's no
00:31:16.760 way in the world
00:31:17.240 that doesn't hurt
00:31:17.940 their system.
00:31:18.440 Now, but you
00:31:20.480 could argue it's
00:31:21.860 the same here.
00:31:23.200 It just looks
00:31:24.100 different, right?
00:31:25.380 You could argue
00:31:26.160 that if Elon Musk
00:31:28.520 starts another
00:31:30.080 company, and if
00:31:31.940 he were to ask
00:31:32.580 for investments,
00:31:33.800 which he
00:31:34.120 typically doesn't,
00:31:35.880 people would say,
00:31:37.100 oh, okay, we'll
00:31:37.860 definitely give you
00:31:38.440 money.
00:31:39.020 So it could be
00:31:39.720 that the important
00:31:40.340 people always get
00:31:41.040 the most money
00:31:41.640 anyway, however
00:31:43.760 you slice it.
00:31:45.940 But I think our
00:31:46.800 system works
00:31:47.620 better there.
00:31:48.000 But here's the
00:31:49.040 big part.
00:31:50.640 So if the
00:31:51.520 Chinese government
00:31:52.520 at the top
00:31:53.240 releases a billion
00:31:54.400 dollars for
00:31:55.060 something, it
00:31:56.480 first goes to
00:31:57.300 the biggest
00:31:59.020 communist who
00:32:00.240 wants the money,
00:32:01.960 and then after
00:32:04.000 that it just goes
00:32:04.900 into some
00:32:05.400 corruption black
00:32:06.320 box.
00:32:07.760 So the
00:32:09.440 opportunity for
00:32:10.800 corruption among
00:32:12.760 the Chinese system
00:32:14.220 is that a lot
00:32:15.320 of the money is
00:32:15.780 going to get
00:32:16.120 siphoned off for
00:32:17.800 projects that
00:32:18.960 were not good
00:32:19.500 ideas, but
00:32:21.060 somebody had the
00:32:21.720 clout to get it
00:32:22.500 funded from the
00:32:23.320 government.
00:32:24.500 So China's
00:32:25.200 system is based
00:32:26.180 on who you
00:32:28.500 are, how much
00:32:31.600 corruption you're
00:32:32.360 involved in, and
00:32:35.660 looking good to the
00:32:38.120 communist party.
00:32:39.200 Our system is
00:32:40.360 almost entirely
00:32:41.240 brutally based on
00:32:43.000 performance.
00:32:43.580 governments, and I
00:32:45.380 have to admit, if
00:32:46.860 their system did
00:32:47.720 not adjust to this
00:32:49.220 problem, I don't
00:32:50.540 see how they could
00:32:51.180 build anything.
00:32:55.300 And I think there
00:32:56.160 was another reason
00:32:57.920 given, which was
00:33:00.540 mostly corruption.
00:33:04.660 Here's the part that
00:33:05.820 really raised my red
00:33:07.360 flag.
00:33:08.120 So this is an
00:33:08.780 opinion piece.
00:33:09.420 I won't even tell
00:33:09.960 you who the opinion
00:33:10.740 is from, but it's in
00:33:11.580 the Wall Street
00:33:11.940 Journal.
00:33:14.000 Let's see.
00:33:16.920 Dreams and
00:33:17.600 passions are
00:33:18.280 impractical and
00:33:19.260 expensive and even
00:33:20.280 silly.
00:33:20.760 So he's talking
00:33:21.300 about the typical
00:33:22.580 Chinese culture,
00:33:25.580 that dreams and
00:33:27.060 passions are
00:33:27.740 impractical and
00:33:30.160 expensive and even
00:33:31.080 silly, and they
00:33:32.240 must be discarded.
00:33:34.400 And he says, if
00:33:35.380 China can't cultivate
00:33:36.440 free thinkers, you
00:33:38.480 know, it's always
00:33:38.860 going to be a
00:33:39.320 follower.
00:33:39.620 Do you think
00:33:41.180 China can't
00:33:41.980 cultivate free
00:33:42.860 thinkers, or does
00:33:44.520 that just sound
00:33:45.160 super racist to
00:33:46.260 you?
00:33:47.960 Because it sounds
00:33:48.820 super racist to
00:33:49.880 me.
00:33:53.580 Because you know
00:33:54.360 who else can't
00:33:55.380 cultivate free
00:33:56.460 thinkers who make
00:33:57.240 a difference?
00:33:59.440 United States.
00:34:01.340 Because 98% of us
00:34:03.140 are not contributing
00:34:04.260 anything that our
00:34:05.200 free thought made a
00:34:06.100 difference to.
00:34:06.620 I didn't invent any
00:34:08.340 chips, did you?
00:34:11.920 I don't know, I
00:34:12.720 feel like the top
00:34:13.620 1% of Chinese
00:34:15.300 effective scientists
00:34:17.760 and technical people
00:34:18.920 are probably just
00:34:20.380 like everybody else.
00:34:23.920 So I don't know, I'm
00:34:25.040 not buying this whole
00:34:25.940 cultural thing.
00:34:28.340 There's definitely
00:34:29.040 something going on
00:34:29.880 that they're not
00:34:30.340 keeping up, but I
00:34:31.060 think it has more to
00:34:31.620 do with the funding.
00:34:32.920 Probably the funding
00:34:33.760 more than anything.
00:34:34.360 All right, Rachel
00:34:38.940 Maddow, who I
00:34:40.600 watched just for
00:34:41.500 humor purposes,
00:34:43.200 watching her face
00:34:44.660 contort when she's
00:34:47.000 trying to sell you
00:34:48.540 some anti-Trump
00:34:49.300 stuff.
00:34:50.380 Now, first of all,
00:34:51.220 watching Rachel Maddow
00:34:52.400 do anti-Trump
00:34:53.440 content feels like
00:34:56.120 seven years ago.
00:34:59.220 It doesn't feel
00:35:00.360 current anymore,
00:35:01.120 does it?
00:35:02.100 It just feels really
00:35:02.820 kind of old,
00:35:03.640 kind of stale.
00:35:05.220 But she's working,
00:35:06.520 she's really making
00:35:07.520 a big deal about
00:35:09.040 the fact that
00:35:09.900 Trump is now
00:35:11.740 going to be
00:35:12.140 prosecuted for
00:35:14.340 giving money to
00:35:16.780 Stormy Daniels
00:35:17.720 to not talk,
00:35:18.660 but it was
00:35:19.060 campaign financing
00:35:20.540 money.
00:35:21.940 Now, of all the
00:35:24.080 things that Trump
00:35:24.920 is accused of
00:35:25.800 doing, is this the
00:35:27.860 one that people
00:35:28.420 care the least
00:35:29.140 about?
00:35:29.460 have you ever
00:35:31.360 met even one
00:35:32.300 person who said,
00:35:33.380 oh, I thought
00:35:35.340 he'd be a good
00:35:35.900 president, but once
00:35:37.500 I found he used
00:35:38.380 campaign money for
00:35:40.060 campaign purposes to
00:35:42.780 make the Stormy
00:35:44.180 Daniels thing go
00:35:44.940 away, I don't know
00:35:46.640 if I could support
00:35:47.420 somebody who used
00:35:48.520 campaign funds to
00:35:51.120 benefit his campaign.
00:35:53.320 I can't support
00:35:54.880 that.
00:35:56.040 Is there even one
00:35:56.780 person who cares
00:35:57.460 about that story?
00:35:58.360 Seriously.
00:35:59.520 Now, I get that
00:36:00.580 your Rob Reiner's
00:36:01.880 are hoping that
00:36:03.380 this is what
00:36:03.860 takes Trump out,
00:36:05.080 but do you think
00:36:05.980 Rob Reiner cares
00:36:07.600 about the story?
00:36:09.480 Does he care that
00:36:10.460 Stormy Daniels got
00:36:11.440 some money that
00:36:13.040 came from donations
00:36:14.600 that actually did,
00:36:17.480 or if it worked,
00:36:18.220 it would have
00:36:18.520 helped Trump get
00:36:19.780 elected?
00:36:20.560 I've never seen
00:36:21.420 a story with less
00:36:22.380 meat on it than
00:36:23.580 this.
00:36:24.120 Now, I'm not saying
00:36:24.820 he won't be
00:36:25.380 prosecuted, but is
00:36:26.980 it going to keep
00:36:27.520 him from being
00:36:28.020 president?
00:36:29.660 Wouldn't it just
00:36:30.240 be a fine?
00:36:32.080 Correct me if I'm
00:36:32.780 wrong, the worst
00:36:33.480 he's talking about
00:36:34.160 is paying a fine,
00:36:35.760 which is somewhat
00:36:36.780 typical Obama's
00:36:38.020 paid one, I think.
00:36:39.380 Has not Obama
00:36:40.500 paid a fine for
00:36:41.360 the same thing?
00:36:42.660 Campaign, you
00:36:43.860 know, lapses?
00:36:46.880 It's just the most,
00:36:48.980 if I could, if I
00:36:52.300 could tell you one
00:36:53.200 fact that would
00:36:55.140 convince you Trump
00:36:56.040 Trump is going to
00:36:56.420 be your next
00:36:56.960 president, here
00:36:58.800 would be that one
00:36:59.460 fact.
00:37:00.120 You didn't know
00:37:00.640 anything else.
00:37:01.820 It's the only thing
00:37:02.480 you know.
00:37:03.180 It's 2023, and MSNBC
00:37:06.120 is running Rachel
00:37:07.160 Maddow, a major
00:37:08.540 segment, talking
00:37:10.120 about the problems
00:37:11.660 with Trump and that
00:37:13.120 payment to Stormy
00:37:14.100 Daniels seven years
00:37:15.060 ago.
00:37:16.460 That's what they
00:37:17.200 have.
00:37:18.520 That is the best
00:37:19.880 they have right
00:37:20.580 now.
00:37:20.800 What would stop
00:37:23.760 him from being
00:37:24.300 president?
00:37:25.540 See, I think you
00:37:26.140 have to now talk
00:37:26.920 in terms of what
00:37:28.260 could possibly stop
00:37:29.240 him, because I
00:37:30.460 think we're asking
00:37:31.060 the wrong question.
00:37:32.600 You know, who's
00:37:33.340 going to run?
00:37:35.320 What could possibly
00:37:36.380 stop him at this
00:37:37.240 point?
00:37:37.680 I don't see anything.
00:37:39.680 I mean, he's been
00:37:40.120 proven basically right
00:37:41.380 on everything
00:37:42.080 important, and all
00:37:44.580 they have left are
00:37:45.320 things that nobody
00:37:45.940 cared about in the
00:37:46.600 first place.
00:37:47.060 That's what it
00:37:48.940 looks like to me.
00:37:50.120 And I don't think
00:37:50.980 DeSantis will run,
00:37:51.980 but I could be
00:37:52.860 wrong.
00:37:53.440 We'll see.
00:37:58.020 So Biden is
00:37:59.640 going to cancel
00:38:00.460 the COVID
00:38:02.260 emergency,
00:38:03.780 emergency,
00:38:06.040 whatever,
00:38:07.140 laws.
00:38:07.820 So that would
00:38:08.540 mean that nobody
00:38:09.200 would be required
00:38:10.080 by the federal
00:38:10.680 government to
00:38:12.360 mask or get
00:38:13.920 vaccinated.
00:38:15.780 How about that?
00:38:17.060 Do you know why
00:38:18.180 Biden says he's
00:38:19.000 going to cancel
00:38:19.500 it on May 11th?
00:38:21.200 Because Republicans
00:38:22.440 introduced legislation
00:38:24.680 to cancel it sooner.
00:38:27.800 And as Thomas
00:38:28.960 Massey points out,
00:38:30.480 Republicans are
00:38:31.280 already getting
00:38:31.900 results.
00:38:32.980 Because the news
00:38:34.380 is quite clear that
00:38:35.740 Biden would not
00:38:36.620 have announced this,
00:38:38.060 except that he had
00:38:39.720 to counter the
00:38:40.600 Republicans wanting
00:38:41.460 to get rid of the
00:38:42.100 restrictions.
00:38:42.960 And the public
00:38:43.620 very much wants the
00:38:44.540 restrictions to go
00:38:45.340 away.
00:38:45.560 So it was
00:38:46.820 something that was
00:38:47.420 free money for
00:38:49.180 Republicans.
00:38:50.940 So remember, I
00:38:51.980 always look for, as
00:38:53.860 a sign of
00:38:54.660 competence, can you
00:38:56.240 at least pick up the
00:38:57.200 free money?
00:38:58.520 It's just right there
00:38:59.500 on the table.
00:39:01.240 Why are your hands
00:39:02.460 not going toward it?
00:39:03.940 Why are you walking
00:39:04.900 away from the free
00:39:05.660 money?
00:39:05.980 Well, there is Trump
00:39:06.640 again.
00:39:07.260 Trump picked up the
00:39:08.080 free money.
00:39:08.480 money.
00:39:10.580 It's such a reliable
00:39:12.480 indicator.
00:39:13.780 If he can't do the
00:39:14.700 easy stuff, we're
00:39:16.860 not going to trust
00:39:17.400 him to do the hard
00:39:18.040 stuff.
00:39:18.580 But if the money is
00:39:19.400 just laying there on
00:39:20.200 the table, just pick
00:39:21.600 it up.
00:39:23.120 Thomas Massey saw
00:39:24.240 money lying on the
00:39:25.500 table.
00:39:26.400 It's obvious that the
00:39:27.520 public wants the
00:39:28.240 restrictions lifted.
00:39:29.660 It's obvious that
00:39:30.860 scientifically, health-wise,
00:39:33.100 it's the right time to
00:39:33.900 do it.
00:39:34.260 So they say,
00:39:36.400 Republicans do, the
00:39:37.480 smart ones, there's this
00:39:39.860 money on the table, why
00:39:42.160 don't we just pick it
00:39:43.060 up?
00:39:43.820 And so they picked it
00:39:44.720 up.
00:39:45.460 And it made Biden
00:39:47.220 scramble to keep up
00:39:49.260 with them.
00:39:50.240 Now that's what I want
00:39:51.300 to see.
00:39:52.200 I want to see
00:39:52.880 Republicans see free
00:39:54.300 money on the table, and
00:39:55.860 then walk over and pick
00:39:56.980 it up.
00:39:57.660 And just keep doing
00:39:58.480 that.
00:39:59.400 You don't even have to
00:40:00.400 do anything magical or
00:40:02.200 special.
00:40:03.100 You don't need any
00:40:03.900 character, you don't
00:40:05.460 need any charisma.
00:40:07.660 Just pick up the free
00:40:08.840 money.
00:40:09.940 That's all.
00:40:11.680 We're not asking that
00:40:12.760 much.
00:40:13.200 Just the free stuff.
00:40:21.460 I love the fact that
00:40:24.780 we think we live in some
00:40:25.840 kind of objective reality
00:40:27.340 where we've figured out
00:40:28.800 what's true and what's
00:40:29.560 not.
00:40:30.520 And then I mention how
00:40:32.920 Sweden did during the
00:40:34.220 COVID epidemic.
00:40:36.400 And I triggered
00:40:37.300 yesterday, I triggered a
00:40:39.120 Twitter graph war where
00:40:41.180 everybody was putting up
00:40:42.140 their graph to show that
00:40:43.340 Sweden was either doing
00:40:44.880 poorly or doing great.
00:40:49.760 And do you know how I can
00:40:50.920 tell which Twitter graphs
00:40:52.460 are the credible ones and
00:40:54.880 which ones are garbage?
00:40:56.240 Do you know there's a way
00:40:56.980 to know, right?
00:40:57.560 If it's on Twitter, it's
00:40:59.780 garbage.
00:41:02.520 Also, if it's not on
00:41:04.680 Twitter, it's garbage.
00:41:07.240 If it's based on data, it's
00:41:10.220 garbage.
00:41:11.340 If it comes from somebody you
00:41:12.780 don't know, it's garbage.
00:41:16.120 If the source of it is not
00:41:17.880 shown in the graph, and quite
00:41:19.780 often that's the case on
00:41:20.680 Twitter, that's garbage.
00:41:22.260 So basically, we got to this
00:41:24.720 point, and we can't even
00:41:25.940 tell if Sweden did a good
00:41:28.320 job or a bad job.
00:41:30.520 Now, I know you think you
00:41:31.680 all know, but when you see
00:41:33.680 the level of fighting on
00:41:36.120 Twitter, the people
00:41:37.200 disagreeing whether it was a
00:41:38.340 good job or a bad job, we
00:41:39.840 don't know.
00:41:40.640 We really don't.
00:41:42.100 It's actually kind of
00:41:43.240 confusing.
00:41:44.860 So the fact that they're
00:41:46.160 younger and thinner and
00:41:48.640 they supplement with vitamin D,
00:41:50.320 I think, is most of the
00:41:51.260 story.
00:41:52.840 But I will go back to my
00:41:56.720 best, probably the best
00:41:59.220 prediction I've ever made.
00:42:01.740 At the beginning of the
00:42:02.500 pandemic, at the end of the
00:42:04.560 pandemic, we wouldn't know
00:42:05.940 who managed it well.
00:42:08.040 And everybody who heard that
00:42:09.540 disagreed.
00:42:10.780 Oh, we're going to tell.
00:42:12.440 Some people are doing it
00:42:13.460 right, some people not.
00:42:14.520 Nope, can't tell.
00:42:15.900 The narrow place where you
00:42:17.240 can tell is whether people
00:42:18.700 protected the nursing homes.
00:42:21.640 So in the case of DeSantis,
00:42:23.700 yes, that was good work.
00:42:25.580 That's one item that you can
00:42:27.040 identify and say, okay,
00:42:28.100 compared to New York, yeah,
00:42:29.880 the leadership made a
00:42:30.720 difference.
00:42:31.640 Like, there's no doubt about
00:42:32.740 that one.
00:42:33.660 But on the country level, on
00:42:35.820 the country level, hard to
00:42:38.160 say.
00:42:38.780 Still don't know.
00:42:41.460 I know some of you think you
00:42:42.660 might know.
00:42:42.980 Have you ever heard of a...
00:42:45.980 Oh, then also the excess deaths
00:42:48.320 are still a mystery.
00:42:52.600 Now, some of you think all the
00:42:53.800 excess deaths, or most of them,
00:42:55.280 are vaccine injury related.
00:42:59.040 But the excess deaths seem to be
00:43:00.800 in every demographic, and they
00:43:02.680 also seem to be across countries.
00:43:05.860 So the excess deaths are not an
00:43:07.620 American thing.
00:43:08.580 It's everywhere.
00:43:09.160 And I think that they're doing
00:43:10.860 different kinds of vaccines and
00:43:12.960 all kinds of different policies,
00:43:15.080 but still the excess deaths are
00:43:17.140 high, wherever we can count them
00:43:19.060 well, in the Western countries
00:43:20.160 anyway.
00:43:21.220 So I will put out one possibility,
00:43:24.320 psychogenic death.
00:43:26.140 How many of you ever heard that
00:43:27.360 term?
00:43:28.860 Psychogenic death.
00:43:30.800 It means basically you lose the
00:43:32.660 will to live, and you just die.
00:43:35.040 And I have a hypothesis that when I
00:43:41.180 grew up, no matter how bad things
00:43:44.320 were at the moment, I had in my
00:43:46.740 mind a path to happiness.
00:43:49.160 And that path was you get a good
00:43:50.880 job, you get married, you have a
00:43:53.180 family.
00:43:54.800 American dream.
00:43:56.060 The American dream was very
00:43:57.360 clearly, it was just you could feel
00:44:02.380 it, like everybody was moving
00:44:05.440 toward it, it seemed like.
00:44:07.620 And no matter how bad things were,
00:44:09.780 you had a future.
00:44:10.720 You had a hope.
00:44:12.000 Right?
00:44:12.940 Now compare that to our LGBTQ
00:44:15.560 trans culture.
00:44:20.160 And by the way, I'm, you know, big
00:44:22.120 supporter of the LGBTQ trans
00:44:24.240 community.
00:44:25.360 But we can talk about them honestly,
00:44:27.100 right?
00:44:27.720 And I would say that the American
00:44:29.100 dream had to disappear.
00:44:31.520 To make room for this other kind of
00:44:36.140 wokeness.
00:44:37.080 And again, I'm not criticizing it, I'm
00:44:38.820 just describing it.
00:44:40.520 That if you say, well, you know,
00:44:42.540 this, you've got to get married and
00:44:44.100 you've got to have a family and go to
00:44:45.480 church on Sunday thing, that doesn't
00:44:47.520 work for everybody.
00:44:49.480 So now it's a free-for-all.
00:44:51.640 And people are saying that there are
00:44:53.000 more single people than ever, more
00:44:54.780 people alone, people using their
00:44:57.120 phones.
00:44:58.180 Tinder made it impossible to date
00:45:00.020 unless you're a nine or above.
00:45:02.440 Right?
00:45:02.820 So basically, if you were a kid, and
00:45:06.140 I've heard actually young people say
00:45:07.720 this, there's no future.
00:45:11.000 Now, of course, there is.
00:45:12.920 There is a future.
00:45:14.640 But it's not cleanly packaged and
00:45:18.040 supplied to children as their hope.
00:45:21.040 Oh, yeah, you're having a bad day today.
00:45:22.880 I get it.
00:45:23.520 But look at this American dream.
00:45:27.020 You just get on this American dream
00:45:28.620 path.
00:45:29.360 Everything you're doing today, studying
00:45:31.080 hard, staying in a jail, you're on the
00:45:33.840 right path, kid.
00:45:34.860 You're doing it right.
00:45:36.040 And here's your happiness in the
00:45:37.140 future.
00:45:37.560 Here's your meaning.
00:45:38.840 And now if you're a kid, you don't see
00:45:39.940 any of that.
00:45:41.000 Do you?
00:45:41.820 Who's selling the American dream?
00:45:44.600 Conservatives.
00:45:46.220 Homeschoolers.
00:45:47.960 Homeschoolers.
00:45:48.400 So my theory is, if you tested the
00:45:51.940 psychological well-being of homeschoolers,
00:45:54.840 you would find they have something like
00:45:56.400 hope for the future.
00:45:58.720 Because the homeschooling community is
00:46:00.800 likely to be more likely to say, follow
00:46:03.220 this path and you'll have a good life.
00:46:05.680 I think public school says you're all
00:46:08.320 being discriminated against.
00:46:10.060 Systemic discrimination is going to hold
00:46:12.440 you back forever.
00:46:13.420 It looks like the police have tried to
00:46:14.620 kill you because you're brown.
00:46:16.220 And you better get on the streets and
00:46:17.780 complain because complaining is the
00:46:19.720 thing to do.
00:46:21.680 Complaining will make things better.
00:46:23.400 And it does.
00:46:24.100 Sometimes it does.
00:46:25.760 But that message would leave me feeling
00:46:28.260 hopeless if I were a child.
00:46:31.340 I would just think, well, if I don't get
00:46:34.580 married, why am I doing anything?
00:46:39.220 The married is more about having
00:46:40.700 children in this case.
00:46:42.000 But what's my future?
00:46:45.080 Let's say I'm a 12-year-old Scott today.
00:46:49.200 I make money.
00:46:51.440 For what?
00:46:52.920 For what?
00:46:54.060 For my entertainment?
00:46:56.460 You know, even at 12, I knew I would get
00:46:58.160 bored entertaining myself all day.
00:47:00.200 Oh, I'm going to make money so I can
00:47:02.120 party on the weekends.
00:47:04.640 And that's it.
00:47:06.280 Like, that's, yeah, oh, I can have
00:47:08.200 short encounters with women.
00:47:11.300 And that would be a lot of fun.
00:47:13.480 But that's it.
00:47:16.580 That's what I have to look forward to
00:47:18.020 is brief encounters with women who are
00:47:20.100 having brief encounters with lots of
00:47:22.260 other people.
00:47:23.500 And that's what I'm going to live for.
00:47:28.500 I'm surprised there isn't higher excess
00:47:30.460 deaths.
00:47:31.360 Because there's a whole bunch of people
00:47:32.600 who just figured out there's no reason to live.
00:47:35.260 That's what we taught the kids.
00:47:36.420 We taught the kids there's no reason to live.
00:47:39.500 I think we did.
00:47:41.300 So I don't know if that's any of it,
00:47:43.640 but I'd throw that in the mix.
00:47:44.940 It's probably some small part of it.
00:47:48.460 Here's the most useful thing to know
00:47:50.440 if you're a consumer of news.
00:47:53.600 Which news outlets are controlled by the CIA?
00:47:58.760 If you don't know that, you really can't
00:48:01.900 watch the news.
00:48:03.280 You're going to be all confused.
00:48:04.980 Let me give you an example.
00:48:08.300 MSNBC, who people who are smarter than me
00:48:12.680 say is clearly, and has always been,
00:48:15.900 as is NBC, captured entities by our
00:48:20.140 intelligence agencies.
00:48:23.020 Right?
00:48:23.820 Now, you might doubt that.
00:48:25.880 You might say, Scott, Scott, that's a little
00:48:27.760 bit of hyperbole.
00:48:29.500 Yeah, they may have leaned on the networks in some ways,
00:48:34.600 on some issues, but in general, you know,
00:48:38.300 they're independent.
00:48:40.200 And then there's this story.
00:48:42.960 I'm going to tell you this story,
00:48:44.640 and then you tell me if this is independent news.
00:48:47.980 This is pointed out on Twitter by Unhoodwinked.
00:48:53.720 A good follow for you.
00:48:54.800 You should follow Unhoodwinked.
00:48:57.040 There was a nine-minute segment.
00:48:59.300 That's a lot of time on television.
00:49:01.580 Nine minutes on a TV news show is forever.
00:49:05.360 That's a lot of time.
00:49:06.220 He refers to it as CIA-run MSNBC.
00:49:14.080 All right, that's his characterization.
00:49:15.820 And she's talking about her COVID
00:49:17.480 and how she was diagnosed with periocarditis
00:49:20.920 and myocarditis.
00:49:23.400 So for nine minutes, she talked about how COVID
00:49:26.500 had probably given her periocarditis and myocarditis
00:49:30.260 for nine minutes and never mentioned
00:49:34.360 her vaccination status.
00:49:36.220 Let me just say that again.
00:49:42.680 An MSNBC host talked for nine minutes
00:49:47.120 about her own quite scary myocarditis,
00:49:50.860 and she was a young woman, right,
00:49:52.960 too young to be having heart problems,
00:49:55.000 for nine minutes, never once mentioned
00:49:59.280 her vaccination status.
00:50:02.860 Is there anything else you need to know about this story?
00:50:06.220 Do you wonder if this is independent reporting?
00:50:12.600 Do you think she may have mentioned,
00:50:16.360 well, I don't, you know, do you think in her first draft,
00:50:19.340 I assume somebody sees her first draft,
00:50:21.780 don't you think her first draft was,
00:50:24.000 well, I don't know what the cause is,
00:50:25.620 you know, I didn't get vaccinated,
00:50:27.120 I didn't get vaccinated, but I also had COVID,
00:50:29.840 and now I have myocarditis.
00:50:31.660 It's hard to know if it's the vaccination or the COVID,
00:50:35.360 but I'm just letting you know my experience
00:50:37.060 so that you can recognize it too.
00:50:39.660 Don't you think the first draft might have said something like that?
00:50:42.760 Now, you could not be more obvious
00:50:47.440 in your trying to hide the story,
00:50:51.100 but suppose you didn't know
00:50:53.240 that MSNBC and NBC are, you know,
00:50:58.380 strongly suggested to be Democrat slash CIA run.
00:51:04.040 If you didn't know that,
00:51:06.280 you'd think that was the story.
00:51:08.380 You'd think that was something like
00:51:09.820 an objective representation
00:51:12.040 of something that's happening,
00:51:13.680 and it wasn't, not even close to objective.
00:51:17.420 Now, I'm not saying the vaccination caused her problem.
00:51:20.340 I'm not saying that at all.
00:51:22.020 I'm saying if you don't mention it as a possibility,
00:51:26.120 it's just amazing that anybody can watch that network
00:51:29.640 with that kind of situation.
00:51:34.680 All right.
00:51:35.440 The host was Yasmin Vazugian.
00:51:42.340 All right.
00:51:46.700 Yeah, I think that's all I had to say.
00:51:50.980 And that, ladies and gentlemen.
00:51:54.120 I feel like there was one other thing I was going to say.
00:51:57.860 Is there a topic I missed?
00:51:59.640 You can blanket blame COVID?
00:52:04.620 Well, indirectly, sure.
00:52:08.520 I'll tell you about that later.
00:52:11.720 All right.
00:52:16.480 Somebody says,
00:52:17.240 Scott is looking for a way out from Trump.
00:52:19.560 It's so transparent.
00:52:21.760 Correct.
00:52:23.520 It's transparent because it's true,
00:52:25.320 and it's obvious,
00:52:26.100 and I'm telling you right up front.
00:52:27.420 I don't want a president who's over a certain age.
00:52:31.240 Trump, in my personal view,
00:52:36.840 is aged out of the job.
00:52:39.660 So somebody is showing the great insight here and says,
00:52:43.480 I think Scott secretly is looking for a way to not support Trump.
00:52:47.960 No, it's not a secret.
00:52:48.940 I'm doing that right in front of you.
00:52:52.860 If anybody comes up with a better fentanyl plan,
00:52:56.080 and they're also,
00:52:56.840 they can walk and talk,
00:52:57.900 and they're not 100 years old,
00:52:59.300 I'm going to look at that pretty seriously.
00:53:01.620 I'm going to look at that really seriously.
00:53:04.100 So don't be surprised.
00:53:05.320 I'm saying it as directly as I can.
00:53:08.040 Fentanyl policy is all I care about.
00:53:10.660 I will drop Trump like a hot rock
00:53:13.180 the minute a legitimate candidate has a better take.
00:53:19.140 And it doesn't even have to be military.
00:53:21.600 I mean,
00:53:21.840 I can imagine somebody coming up with a better take
00:53:24.020 that wasn't attacking Mexico.
00:53:26.360 I just haven't heard it.
00:53:27.320 Those who bailed out Sam Bankman,
00:53:35.380 their names can be released?
00:53:36.660 That's interesting.
00:53:37.600 I don't think that'll tell us much.
00:53:46.240 Any place to pre-order?
00:53:47.640 I'm not sure when you can pre-order my book.
00:53:50.040 It'll be called Reframe Your Brain.
00:53:52.900 I think Amazon has a holding place for it,
00:53:57.540 but I don't know if you can order it yet.
00:54:00.960 Do they have pre-orders already?
00:54:02.980 They probably don't put it there
00:54:04.280 unless there's a pre-order option.
00:54:06.920 Oh, you ordered it?
00:54:07.560 Oh, okay.
00:54:08.300 I guess I'm selling a book I haven't made yet,
00:54:10.360 so that's pretty good.
00:54:11.740 I mean, I've finished writing it.
00:54:16.360 Cope, A Claude Adams Story.
00:54:18.160 It's a good movie.
00:54:21.660 Why would you pre-order?
00:54:23.540 To make sure you don't run out?
00:54:26.400 This is a book that's likely to run out.
00:54:29.520 Now, I don't think my publisher knows that yet,
00:54:32.220 but I'm almost positive
00:54:36.340 this will be the biggest book I've ever written,
00:54:38.900 and I think the biggest book in the world,
00:54:42.720 not counting religious books.
00:54:45.400 That's what I think.
00:54:46.900 That's based on just looking at it myself,
00:54:48.880 and I look at it and I think,
00:54:50.260 I think everybody's going to buy this.
00:54:52.900 Because one of the things I've done
00:54:54.380 is I've dealt with the attention span problem.
00:54:59.280 By reducing everything to one sentence,
00:55:03.760 you could kind of skim the argument
00:55:06.920 and see the one sentence,
00:55:08.200 and you'd know if the reframe
00:55:09.220 was going to work for you or not.
00:55:10.340 So I think it's got everything.
00:55:12.740 It's got stuff that would change everybody's life.
00:55:17.020 A lot.
00:55:19.660 No, Dean is asking if I'm being humble.
00:55:22.840 I know how to judge my own work,
00:55:29.000 meaning that I've produced things
00:55:31.240 that I knew wouldn't be good and wouldn't sell,
00:55:33.140 and I knew it immediately.
00:55:34.640 But my biggest book,
00:55:36.560 which was The Dilbert Principle,
00:55:38.760 so that's the one that sold the most,
00:55:40.820 I also told my publisher,
00:55:43.060 when my publisher said it might go gold,
00:55:45.640 which is selling 100,000 copies,
00:55:47.400 which is great,
00:55:48.020 if you sell 100,000 copies of a book,
00:55:50.720 you're definitely going to get another book deal.
00:55:53.300 I mean, the publisher loves that.
00:55:55.040 That's solidly successful.
00:55:57.020 And when my publisher told me that,
00:55:58.620 I said, gold, huh?
00:56:00.280 100,000?
00:56:01.460 I said, I think this is going to sell a million.
00:56:06.700 Very few books sell a million.
00:56:09.560 Very few.
00:56:10.980 I mean, well under 1% of new books
00:56:13.400 sell over a million.
00:56:14.320 And I remember the look on his face.
00:56:17.680 I was like, well, you know,
00:56:21.000 it's very unusual, he explained to me,
00:56:23.860 that anything sells a million.
00:56:26.060 And 100,000 is really, really strong.
00:56:28.820 So if you could sell that,
00:56:30.380 which hasn't happened,
00:56:31.700 but if you did,
00:56:33.380 that would be really strong.
00:56:35.780 And I said to him,
00:56:37.060 I think it's going to be a million.
00:56:40.340 Last I checked, it was 1.5.
00:56:42.480 1.5 million.
00:56:45.260 So this is the only time
00:56:46.700 I've had that same feeling.
00:56:49.240 But this feeling's stronger.
00:56:51.340 A lot stronger.
00:56:52.840 Like a lot.
00:56:54.100 Now this will be a good test of my intuition.
00:56:56.520 Because I actually think
00:56:57.700 it will be the best-selling book,
00:57:00.260 at least in the country,
00:57:01.260 not in the world,
00:57:02.220 but in the United States.
00:57:04.140 I think it will be the best-selling book
00:57:05.700 of all time.
00:57:07.400 Now you haven't seen it,
00:57:10.420 so there's no way you can judge that claim.
00:57:12.860 But
00:57:13.100 you wouldn't believe
00:57:16.880 the feedback I'm getting,
00:57:19.320 you know,
00:57:19.520 just from some of the reframes.
00:57:21.340 The number of people
00:57:22.300 who have changed their life
00:57:23.480 with one reframe
00:57:25.140 already,
00:57:26.840 without even the book existing yet,
00:57:28.840 is a lot.
00:57:30.920 It's a lot.
00:57:31.800 And it's going to surprise you.
00:57:37.260 Lance says it sounds boring.
00:57:40.080 Sounds boring.
00:57:42.240 Well,
00:57:42.780 maybe it's not for you, Lance.
00:57:46.480 Have I seen Dowd's book?
00:57:48.080 No.
00:57:48.240 So this is a funny thing
00:57:53.380 that happened to me yesterday.
00:57:57.580 Maybe I'll save this one for locals.
00:58:00.160 All right,
00:58:00.360 I'll just save this story for locals.
00:58:01.920 This is not for you.
00:58:03.560 Sorry, YouTube.
00:58:05.460 I'm going to go talk to locals privately.
00:58:07.620 And thanks for joining.
00:58:09.100 I think this was the best live stream
00:58:10.540 you've ever seen in your whole life.
00:58:12.140 Bye for now.