Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2018 Scott Adams： America Repels Alien Armada Or Sends A Message Or Downs Weather Balloons

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00:00:55.860 Well, there was something called the Super Bowl yesterday.

00:00:59.340 How many of you watched it?

00:01:01.840 It was quite impressive.

00:01:06.580 Now, I always liked the Super Bowl.

00:01:09.500 And I think the reason I like it is that I know much of the country is sort of doing the same thing at the same time.

00:01:17.200 I just love that.

00:01:18.700 I just love that the country is doing the same thing at the same time.

00:01:21.540 Or a lot of them. Not everybody.

00:01:22.900 So I didn't really, you know, care for the game so much.

00:01:26.860 But it was a spectacle.

00:01:28.660 Had it on.

00:01:30.040 Ate some snacks.

00:01:31.140 Had a good time.

00:01:31.800 But my prediction mechanism for determining who will win worked once again.

00:01:41.600 There was some doubt.

00:01:42.720 I was doubted in my prediction.

00:01:45.700 But my prediction works like this.

00:01:47.120 I look at the name of the team and I decide who would win.

00:01:51.820 If, for example, a Native American chieftain were to fight an eagle, because it was Kansas City Chiefs versus eagles, who would win?

00:02:03.640 A Native American chieftain or a bird?

00:02:08.620 Well, I think the chieftain would win.

00:02:10.800 Now, an eagle's pretty big.

00:02:12.940 They could be pretty mean.

00:02:14.500 But I'm going to allow that the chieftain has maybe a weapon, like a club or a spear.

00:02:20.140 And sure enough, the chief beat the eagle exactly as I predicted.

00:02:23.440 And the spectacular thing about this, the really, I don't know, inspirational thing, because the Super Bowl can be very inspirational.

00:02:36.200 These are athletes who have worked since they were young kids.

00:02:40.420 Their parents, you know, took them to practices.

00:02:43.560 They worked hard.

00:02:44.440 They rose above all the rest to become NFL players and then rose above all of the NFL players to become the two teams in the Super Bowl, who, after all of that work, all that concentration, that sacrifice, that focus, that discipline, it was decided by a bad call by the refs.

00:03:07.520 So it was a little bit anticlimactic there.

00:03:11.440 But if you like that sort of thing, it was awesome.

00:03:14.440 I don't know why you would, but if you liked it, it would be awesome.

00:03:18.580 The halftime entertainment was Rihanna, who looked pregnant and admitted that she was pregnant.

00:03:29.940 Apparently, that's the announcement.

00:03:32.340 So here are three things I love.

00:03:37.060 Three things I really like more than I should, probably.

00:03:41.260 I was almost guilty that I liked them so much.

00:03:44.440 I love Rihanna as an artist.

00:03:47.920 She's awesome. 0.83

00:03:49.060 Great artist.

00:03:50.420 I love motherhood.

00:03:54.240 Motherhood? 0.96

00:03:55.260 It's like apple pie.

00:03:56.800 Who doesn't love that?

00:03:58.160 I love motherhood.

00:03:59.780 Another thing I like is to watch women dance suggestively. 1.00

00:04:04.820 I know.

00:04:05.320 It's kind of shallow.

00:04:06.900 I'm not proud of it.

00:04:08.480 I'm not proud of it.

00:04:09.600 I just like watching women dance sexy. 1.00

00:04:13.000 I don't know.

00:04:13.880 I was just born that way.

00:04:14.940 I can't explain it.

00:04:16.440 But what I don't like is when you combine Rihanna, pregnancy, and sexy dancing.

00:04:23.400 When you put those three together, I would rather have a steak driven through my forehead than to be subjected to watching it.

00:04:33.700 But that's just me.

00:04:35.380 That's just me.

00:04:36.380 I love Rihanna.

00:04:37.380 Love motherhood.

00:04:38.880 I love sexy dancing women. 1.00

00:04:40.460 Not at the same time.

00:04:42.860 No, not at the same time.

00:04:44.660 Well, I have a question about Kamala Harris.

00:04:48.520 I saw Donna Brazile say that she was a big supporter.

00:04:54.400 So Donna Brazile, if you don't know, is about the most inside insider of all insiders.

00:05:02.300 So if you want to know what Democrats who are actually in charge are thinking, Donna Brazile has the answer.

00:05:10.460 So there's only one person you need to look to to know what the secret opinion within the Democrat upper echelons is.

00:05:19.100 Just ask Donna Brazile, because she definitely knows the answer. 1.00

00:05:23.080 And she says that she wants to support Kamala Harris with her words.

00:05:28.420 And so the words that Donna Brazile chose was that she is standing in her own power.

00:05:35.900 She said it twice.

00:05:37.560 She is standing in her own power.

00:05:44.280 Which means nothing.

00:05:50.000 Nothing.

00:05:51.660 What was the best thing that Donna Brazile, with all of her exceptional communication skills, which actually are exceptional, 1.00

00:05:59.740 her exceptional communication skills, and the best she could come up with for the vice president is,

00:06:07.060 she is standing in her own power.

00:06:08.680 Twice.

00:06:09.580 Twice.

00:06:11.440 Yeah.

00:06:12.260 And Donna Brazile says that Harris will either be the VP choice for Biden,

00:06:16.420 or she will run as the presidency. 0.99

00:06:20.200 So she'll either be vice president or president, and you know that because she's standing in her own power. 0.95

00:06:29.520 Standing in her own power.

00:06:31.780 Well, good.

00:06:34.660 How embarrassing.

00:06:36.680 Now, I'm going to put out a theory which you could call a conspiracy theory,

00:06:41.860 and it is that the vice president has a substance problem.

00:06:48.820 Now, I don't know that, so I'm not going to say, oh, she has a substance problem. 1.00

00:06:53.140 That would be creating a rumor that is unsubstantiated.

00:06:57.580 But I'm going to play you from her recent speech about electric buses.

00:07:05.820 And I just want you to listen to it.

00:07:08.420 And you tell me that she doesn't sound drunk.

00:07:11.080 Now, I don't know if it would be alcohol or anything.

00:07:14.460 You know, maybe it's natural.

00:07:15.800 But it doesn't sound natural to me.

00:07:18.580 It doesn't sound natural.

00:07:20.700 It sounds inebriated.

00:07:22.620 And it sounds so inebriated that I think she should be drug tested. 1.00

00:07:26.180 Not a joke.

00:07:28.280 I'll use Joe Biden's statement.

00:07:30.460 Not a joke.

00:07:31.920 I believe she needs to be drug tested. 1.00

00:07:34.160 Now, you listen to this, and you tell me that you don't think she's inebriated.

00:07:39.580 No exhaust.

00:07:41.500 No diesel smell.

00:07:43.640 The bus has Wi-Fi.

00:07:46.000 And even USB outlets next to every seat.

00:07:50.780 I mean, come on, imagine.

00:07:52.080 You can charge your phone on your way home from work.

00:07:56.180 That's good stuff.

00:07:57.460 That's good stuff.

00:08:00.920 All right.

00:08:01.620 She's a little bit too happy.

00:08:04.520 A little bit too happy about USB ports on a bus.

00:08:12.980 Now, there are lots of things to be happy about in this world.

00:08:15.940 USB ports on a bus, which is not exactly bleeding-edge technology.

00:08:23.800 She was so happy about it, it looked like she might cry.

00:08:29.300 USB connections on a bus.

00:08:31.420 Why am I getting a text message?

00:08:36.780 FedEx package.

00:08:39.260 So, but let me ask you.

00:08:41.940 Let me ask you.

00:08:43.540 Did she seem inebriated to you?

00:08:47.780 Tell me your honest opinion.

00:08:51.420 Saw some no's.

00:08:53.320 So you think that's natural?

00:08:54.480 Okay.

00:08:57.680 Okay.

00:08:59.800 All right.

00:09:00.420 Well, I'm going to call rank on you.

00:09:04.860 I've probably seen more inebriated people than you have.

00:09:11.400 Oh, let me ask you this.

00:09:13.360 All right.

00:09:15.480 Most of you, stop commenting for just a moment.

00:09:18.920 All right.

00:09:19.160 Let's just pause commenting before I ask my next question.

00:09:24.560 So my next question is only for people who have experienced drug addiction.

00:09:31.340 Somebody who's experienced it themselves.

00:09:34.040 Does she look inebriated to you? 0.96

00:09:36.320 If you've experienced your own addiction, does she seem inebriated?

00:09:43.140 A lot more yeses.

00:09:45.260 A lot more yeses now.

00:09:46.380 Now, remember when I, you know, I've said things about Hillary Clinton being unhealthy

00:09:52.520 and seemingly inebriated, and people on, you know, the pro-Trump side were demonized

00:10:00.540 for even bringing up such a suggestion.

00:10:03.800 I think you can bring it up if somebody acts high, don't you?

00:10:08.880 If somebody acts inebriated in public and they're an elected official,

00:10:13.440 I feel like we can ask the question.

00:10:16.800 And if you don't think that looked high to you, just look at all the people who said yes.

00:10:22.600 Right?

00:10:23.160 It's not a science.

00:10:24.380 You can't just look at somebody and know what's in them.

00:10:27.440 But I've looked at a lot of high people, and that looked stoned to me.

00:10:34.120 Or drunk or something.

00:10:35.800 I don't know.

00:10:36.220 But she does have an interesting, laughy kind of a personality, and she does love buses.

00:10:42.220 So it's not impossible that that's natural.

00:10:45.520 But if that's natural, I don't want any of that.

00:10:50.440 I don't want that in my government, if that's natural or drunk.

00:10:55.460 All right.

00:10:55.920 Rasmussen did a poll on Biden's job performance on fentanyl.

00:11:03.940 Now, I don't know how many times I have to show you how smart my audience is.

00:11:10.700 But without even knowing the answer, because this hasn't even been released,

00:11:14.120 I got an early preview of it.

00:11:16.020 Nobody knows the answer to this, but watch this.

00:11:18.980 Watch this.

00:11:19.740 What percentage of voters say Biden is doing a good or excellent job on the fentanyl?

00:11:28.340 I'm seeing 25, 27, 25.

00:11:33.600 Wow.

00:11:35.320 It's 26%.

00:11:37.080 How do you do that?

00:11:40.020 How do you do that?

00:11:42.040 It's like every time I ask you a poll question, you know the answer before the...

00:11:48.140 Like, we don't even need polling anymore.

00:11:50.840 You guys are so smart.

00:11:52.800 Very good.

00:11:53.440 Yes.

00:11:53.800 26%.

00:11:54.640 So...

00:11:57.740 All right.

00:12:00.320 Here's a question I asked on Twitter.

00:12:02.600 What would be the budget, hypothetically, for the special forces in the U.S. Air Force

00:12:08.700 to take out the cartel bases of operation?

00:12:12.440 What do you think that would cost?

00:12:13.660 You know, we're going to put $100 billion into Ukraine, but what do you think taking out

00:12:20.160 the cartels would cost?

00:12:22.460 I'm going to put it under $20 billion.

00:12:25.820 I think it's somewhere between, you know, $1 and $20 billion.

00:12:30.780 But everything costs way more than you think.

00:12:33.480 So, like, my intuition says $5 billion.

00:12:36.220 So I just, you know, up it to $20.

00:12:38.160 Because my experience says when you think it's $5 billion, it's going to be $20.

00:12:43.720 So I think $20 billion.

00:12:47.460 $20 billion.

00:12:49.740 Do you think it'd be worth it?

00:12:51.980 If we could take out the cartels or, let's say, degrade them seriously for $20 billion,

00:12:57.000 would it be worth it?

00:12:58.500 I think so.

00:12:59.860 I think that would be money well spent.

00:13:01.680 And I think we'd actually make money on that.

00:13:05.100 Because we'd, you know, lose fewer people and, you know, all the other problems.

00:13:10.240 Probably.

00:13:11.460 Now, do you know why I asked about the budget?

00:13:16.720 How many of you know what I'm doing?

00:13:21.400 What's that called?

00:13:23.780 What's it called when I make you think about the budget for attacking them?

00:13:27.600 Come on.

00:13:28.140 No, not prime.

00:13:30.500 Thinking, yes, I'm making you think past the sale.

00:13:33.000 Thank you.

00:13:34.000 Think past the sale.

00:13:35.640 The sale is would we do anything military with the cartels?

00:13:40.600 So that's the question we're dealing with.

00:13:43.200 I'm asking you to think past the question to how much it would cost.

00:13:47.540 The reason I'm doing that is that when you're thinking about what it costs,

00:13:51.480 you sort of unconsciously accept that this is a serious thing that could happen.

00:13:56.400 So we're going through the slow process of getting Congress to understand what's at stake

00:14:04.700 and what it would cost and what it would take to fix it.

00:14:08.020 So if you hear anybody in Congress or the news pick up the question of what it would cost,

00:14:17.880 then you're probably on your way to it happening.

00:14:19.800 If nobody ever talks about the budget, nothing's happening.

00:14:25.980 You get that, right?

00:14:27.220 The only thing that matters in this world is, is there a budget for any big operation?

00:14:34.220 All that matters is, is there a budget?

00:14:35.980 If there's a budget, it's going to happen.

00:14:38.160 If there's no budget, it won't.

00:14:40.380 And if you're not even talking about the budget, it's not going to happen.

00:14:43.560 So we have, we have to move, we have to move the conversation at least to the budget question.

00:14:50.640 I don't care what the answer is, 5, 20.

00:14:54.280 We have to be talking about the budget to make, to have any chance that something real will happen.

00:15:00.640 If you let them just talk about yes or no, that's nothing.

00:15:05.180 That's nothing.

00:15:06.280 You have to have a conversation about what it costs.

00:15:09.080 Because you know what would happen then?

00:15:10.580 The moment that budget is introduced as a conversation piece,

00:15:16.260 then everybody in the military-industrial complex says,

00:15:21.780 I'll bet I can get some of that.

00:15:24.980 And then it passes.

00:15:27.640 Because that's who, you know, we presume controls the government.

00:15:31.780 So you've got to get the money talk out there so that the people who can make money from it

00:15:36.800 can start moving the government in the direction of what will make them money.

00:15:41.780 And I don't mind if our, I don't mind at all, I don't mind at all,

00:15:46.600 if the military industry makes some money at the same time we solve the fentanyl problem.

00:15:54.080 That'd be fine.

00:15:56.220 Yes, we'll talk about balloons.

00:15:58.580 So Ohio exploded.

00:16:00.440 Next topic.

00:16:05.320 Balloons.

00:16:06.040 Balloons.

00:16:06.960 How about those balloons?

00:16:09.640 Did we need Ohio?

00:16:12.300 Ohio is a state, right?

00:16:14.740 It's a state.

00:16:16.680 Apparently it's been destroyed in a toxic vinyl chloride cloud of deadly gas.

00:16:24.040 The whole state's gone.

00:16:25.180 No, no, no, no.

00:16:26.640 It's not.

00:16:27.440 It's not.

00:16:27.920 It's not.

00:16:28.340 Most of the state is still intact.

00:16:31.280 There is part of it that you wouldn't want to live in for a long time.

00:16:34.700 But most of it's intact.

00:16:36.580 I'm just kidding.

00:16:37.520 Oh, Ohio is still here.

00:16:39.880 But here's everything we know about it.

00:16:44.880 Big explosion.

00:16:47.060 Something deadly.

00:16:48.980 So, I don't know.

00:16:51.480 Everything about that story is suspicious.

00:16:53.720 But that's all we know about it.

00:16:55.380 All right, let's talk about giant balloons and stuff.

00:16:58.340 So here's what we know.

00:17:02.080 Oh, no.

00:17:02.540 Before we talk about that, I've got to talk about TikTok.

00:17:04.560 I predicted that the Chinese spy balloon drama would make it more likely that Congress would ban TikTok.

00:17:15.440 More likely.

00:17:16.800 I was totally wrong.

00:17:18.360 I thought I saw something encouraging in the news, but I'm totally wrong.

00:17:26.300 So what was encouraging was that Fox News was putting pressure on Governor Whitmer, I mean, because she was still using TikTok, but she claims that she only uses it on a device that has nothing on it but TikTok.

00:17:41.480 I mean, nothing important but TikTok.

00:17:45.680 Does that suggest that she should be in government? 0.80

00:17:49.840 That sort of suggests that you're not qualified to be the governor.

00:17:54.640 If you believe TikTok is so dangerous that you won't even use it unless it's a dedicated device, and yet you're not in favor of banning it everywhere, you can't be in government.

00:18:07.720 That's just stupid.

00:18:09.900 That's just stupid.

00:18:11.340 And if you're going to be stupid right in front of us, you can't be our leaders.

00:18:16.980 Come on.

00:18:17.680 Don't be that stupid.

00:18:19.300 You can be biased.

00:18:20.880 You can be uninformed.

00:18:22.580 But don't be stupid right in front of us.

00:18:26.000 There's no extra data that has to be collected for you to have a full opinion about this situation.

00:18:31.540 If it's too dangerous for the government, that's all you need.

00:18:38.900 There's no other analysis needed.

00:18:42.340 It's just too dangerous.

00:18:44.440 Oh, my God.

00:18:45.780 So I hope she gets embarrassed by that.

00:18:49.500 But apparently Senator Schumer has said it's worth looking into, banning it, banning TikTok.

00:18:56.320 He said it's worth looking into.

00:18:57.780 And I guess the Commerce Department is looking into it.

00:19:00.560 And of course, you know, he being a major Democrat, but also Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is that her last name?

00:19:08.920 And she's also in favor of banning TikTok as well, because she's basically, is it Sarah Huckabee, is her last, does she have a married name on the end of that?

00:19:23.040 But Sanders, right?

00:19:25.640 Which is a weird coincidence.

00:19:28.040 Yeah.

00:19:28.180 So Sarah Huckabee Sanders continues to say basically every right thing.

00:19:33.020 Isn't it funny that if you take somebody who's a very capable spokesperson for a president, and then you put them in the job where they have to say the right things and not the wrong things?

00:19:47.900 She says all the right things.

00:19:50.700 Have you noticed?

00:19:53.180 Like, she is so capable.

00:19:56.520 And youngest, youngest governor or youngest female governor, I can't remember.

00:20:01.020 But at that age, at that age, she's operating really at a pretty high level.

00:20:07.740 Not just a governor level, but she's operating above governor level. 1.00

00:20:11.460 She's operating at a federal level of effectiveness, but she's a governor at the moment. 0.79

00:20:17.900 Yeah, she's doing great.

00:20:20.340 Which is, you know, different from saying I wouldn't necessarily agree with every policy, but as a Republican who's trying to make a dent in the system, she's certainly doing it.

00:20:31.160 All right, but neither Sarah Huckabee Sanders nor Schumer seem to understand the TikTok threat.

00:20:39.020 So while I thought this Chinese spy plane would get us closer, especially since both sides seem to be at least open to the question, 0.96

00:20:46.580 neither of them can voice the actual risk.

00:20:51.880 The risk is not data security.

00:20:54.480 They keep saying it's data security.

00:20:56.520 Now, it's also data security.

00:20:58.960 That's not a nothing.

00:21:00.480 It's important.

00:21:01.640 We should definitely be considering it.

00:21:03.560 But the real risk is they have a button, literally labeled heat, in whatever language, and they can make anything trend by pushing that button.

00:21:15.380 They literally, literally, this is a proper use of literally, have a user interface for American brains.

00:21:25.640 Literally.

00:21:26.080 That's not an analogy.

00:21:28.160 It's actually a user interface to control a human brain in the United States.

00:21:33.860 And nobody seems to think that's a big deal.

00:21:36.580 They're worried about the data security.

00:21:39.020 The data security is way down the list of risks.

00:21:42.640 Way down.

00:21:43.420 It's still a big risk.

00:21:44.960 But it's way down the list.

00:21:46.600 It's not even close to that stupid little heat button, where they can make anything important to Americans, or anything unimportant, by not touching the heat button.

00:21:57.960 All right, let's go private on locals.

00:22:01.980 All right, locals, you're private.

00:22:03.260 So then, I thought it was useful that Schumer said, oh, yes, it's worth looking into banning it.

00:22:11.480 And I thought, okay, well, that's something.

00:22:13.900 It's worth looking into.

00:22:15.560 And then he says that the Commerce Department is looking into it.

00:22:20.320 Oh, they're not doing anything.

00:22:24.820 How long does it take the Commerce Department to say, do they have a heat button?

00:22:31.580 Yes, that's the end of the meeting.

00:22:37.740 Would you like me to model that again?

00:22:40.500 Here's the Commerce Department trying to decide whether TikTok should be banned.

00:22:46.620 Do they have a button, one button that they can push to make something trend?

00:22:50.960 And therefore, are they the human interface?

00:22:53.680 Are they the interface for the American minds?

00:22:56.960 Yes.

00:22:58.760 Unambiguously.

00:22:59.320 This is not a question of maybe or maybe not.

00:23:04.280 TikTok says this directly.

00:23:07.040 We have a button.

00:23:08.460 And when we push it, it makes things go viral.

00:23:11.480 That's not, there's no gray area here.

00:23:16.160 It's designed to do exactly what we don't want it to do.

00:23:21.060 Control human minds in America.

00:23:23.520 If the Commerce Department can't figure that out, who's in charge of the Commerce Department?

00:23:30.260 Give me a name.

00:23:31.600 Get me a name of who's in charge of the Commerce Department.

00:23:36.200 Okay?

00:23:37.080 Let's find out who that is.

00:23:38.820 Because whoever's in charge of the Commerce Department is either dragging or is a communist agent.

00:23:44.840 Or is a Chinese agent.

00:23:46.900 I mean, it's one or the other.

00:23:48.040 There's either massive incompetence or somebody has gotten to him.

00:23:53.000 Because there's no way, there is no way in the world that the head of the Commerce Department understands TikTok and it takes him more than 10 minutes to make a decision.

00:24:03.920 It can't be possible that that person even understands the issue.

00:24:11.280 Because here's what I'll bet is happening.

00:24:14.040 I will bet any amount of money that all of the delay is in conversations about how to keep the data in the United States and not let the CCP see it.

00:24:25.340 That probably, that's probably complicated and it depends.

00:24:29.560 You have to negotiate with who's doing what and who would hold it and there might be some lawyers involved.

00:24:34.980 I can see why that would take a long time.

00:24:37.620 But that also suggests they don't understand the threat.

00:24:41.780 You don't need to know about any of that.

00:24:43.940 All of that data security stuff you should ignore because you're going to ban the whole thing.

00:24:51.200 You don't need to ban just the data and spend all your time trying to keep the data safe when the entire platform should be banned for obvious reasons.

00:25:01.380 It's got a heat button.

00:25:03.100 It's the user interface for brains and it's pointed at American brains by an adversary.

00:25:10.500 Is there anything else to say?

00:25:13.940 I mean, I'm preaching to the choir at this point.

00:25:16.580 So Gina Raimundi is the one who's either incompetent or bought off already, right?

00:25:23.100 So we don't know which it is.

00:25:24.440 She's either completely incompetent. 0.99

00:25:26.380 So let's get her in the news.

00:25:28.900 I'll have to confirm that.

00:25:31.240 But let's get her in the news.

00:25:32.540 I want to find out if she even knows what the risk is.

00:25:35.240 I will bet you, I'll bet you she doesn't even know the risk.

00:25:39.480 You want to take that bet?

00:25:40.340 I'll bet you also that there's nobody at Fox News who's going to get her on the TV and ask her the question.

00:25:47.960 You want to take that bet?

00:25:49.660 The most obvious thing that Fox News should do, or anybody who's right-leaning news,

00:25:54.760 they should get the head of the Commerce Department on and say,

00:25:58.440 do you understand the risk?

00:26:00.620 And then when they say data, data, data, the Fox News host says,

00:26:04.880 you know they have a heat button and they can program our minds directly,

00:26:08.780 and you didn't even mention that.

00:26:10.900 How are you the one who's looking into it and you don't even know what the risk is?

00:26:14.380 How many fucking months did it take you to figure out what the risk is and you couldn't get it?

00:26:18.440 That one was justified. 0.99

00:26:24.280 That was justified.

00:26:28.220 Every app can do that?

00:26:29.840 That's right.

00:26:30.520 And every app is not controlled by the CCP.

00:26:35.060 That's not a point.

00:26:37.380 It doesn't matter if other apps can do it.

00:26:40.540 I'm not really, you know, nearly as concerned if Instagram does it.

00:26:44.500 I mean, well, that's a separate battle, but it's different.

00:26:50.100 No cursing.

00:26:51.920 Goodbye.

00:26:54.160 Put user in timeout.

00:26:57.900 All right.

00:27:00.100 I guess we're talking about these balloons.

00:27:03.920 Yeah, let's talk about the balloons.

00:27:05.660 So there were three more suspicious balloons.

00:27:08.840 Did you know that the U.S. has been launching its own surveillance balloons

00:27:12.800 for the United States?

00:27:15.300 Our own balloons to look for criminals and stuff since 2019.

00:27:22.840 All right.

00:27:23.420 So here's the first fact you need to know.

00:27:25.900 The U.S. has been creating surveillance balloons for the U.S.

00:27:32.520 for years.

00:27:34.560 Okay.

00:27:35.800 Here's what else you need to know.

00:27:37.320 The Pentagon does not know what is keeping these objects aloft.

00:27:44.040 They've seen them and they don't know what's keeping them aloft.

00:27:49.500 So they don't want to rush to say balloon because they can't see a propulsion system

00:27:55.800 or they don't know what's kept aloft.

00:27:57.100 Now, I'm going to call it bullshit on this.

00:28:00.380 I'm going to call it total bullshit.

00:28:02.580 They're either space garbage or space balloons.

00:28:06.280 Yeah.

00:28:06.700 They're space balloons or space garbage.

00:28:08.520 And the military is just lying to you when they say they don't know what's keeping it aloft.

00:28:13.200 Apparently, they've not ruled out UFOs or something.

00:28:17.100 Okay.

00:28:17.500 This is ridiculous.

00:28:19.340 This is clearly space garbage.

00:28:21.700 They also told us that they changed the sensitivity of their radar, I guess.

00:28:27.260 And once they changed the sensitivity, which they had intentionally kept less sensitive

00:28:34.000 because all of this little garbage stuff that they would detect,

00:28:38.460 they would have to spend all their time finding out if it's important.

00:28:41.980 But little things that don't move very fast tend not to be that important.

00:28:47.720 They tend to be weather balloons.

00:28:49.940 So apparently, we had a system in which we just didn't look at anything that was too small,

00:28:55.720 but they've changed the sensitivity.

00:28:58.220 Now, they're seeing these smaller things and they can't identify exactly what they are.

00:29:02.560 So they're blowing them up.

00:29:05.320 Because we probably want to look tough and decisive.

00:29:09.120 Now, here's my best hypothesis of what's happening.

00:29:14.860 I think we're blowing up defective weather balloons or surveillance balloons,

00:29:22.160 our own surveillance balloons.

00:29:23.840 I think we're blowing up our own assets, maybe some foreign assets that were irrelevant.

00:29:29.480 Maybe they were weather balloons.

00:29:30.980 But I think we're just blowing up stuff to show that we can blow up stuff.

00:29:34.800 Remember, at one point, people said,

00:29:38.060 oh, that Chinese balloon is proving that we can't defend our airspace, right?

00:29:43.340 What would be the best thing you could do to prove that you really could defend your airspace?

00:29:49.160 Well, you would pretend to be blowing up tiny little things that you saw far away.

00:29:54.600 Because if we can spot these tiny little things from far away,

00:29:58.580 and so far, are you impressed that we're four for four?

00:30:01.740 Are you impressed?

00:30:04.360 Every one of our missiles hit its target.

00:30:08.400 Exactly the message you want to send to China.

00:30:11.240 Huh.

00:30:12.240 Interesting.

00:30:13.960 Now, do you think you would know it if the first five missiles missed?

00:30:19.240 You think the military would say, you know, it took us six missiles

00:30:22.020 to hit a practically stationary object.

00:30:25.740 Nope.

00:30:26.620 Nope.

00:30:26.880 This looks to be entirely a military propaganda operation.

00:30:33.180 Meaning that I think we're just showing that we can blow up and detect small things,

00:30:37.980 so don't try it.

00:30:39.620 That's what it looks like.

00:30:41.780 So it looks like it's all theater.

00:30:44.000 I don't think they're threats.

00:30:45.400 I don't think they're UFOs.

00:30:46.700 I don't think they're even necessarily from China,

00:30:49.720 although they could be.

00:30:50.480 Now, I was on a Spaces conversation,

00:30:56.080 Twitter Spaces, where you have audio conversations,

00:30:59.280 and I was listening to Tom Fenton being quite convinced

00:31:02.780 that these were Chinese assets, the additional ones that were shot down,

00:31:07.360 based on the fact that we took them so seriously, we shot them down.

00:31:11.600 At least one of them didn't look like it had a payload,

00:31:14.620 but that doesn't mean the other ones didn't,

00:31:17.080 and it doesn't mean that the one also doesn't.

00:31:19.900 You should not trust any information.

00:31:22.820 So Tom Fenton's take, and some other expert types on that call,

00:31:28.180 were saying that the most likely thing is that they're Chinese balloons,

00:31:33.160 and that they're preparing for an attack,

00:31:36.720 and it's targeting information.

00:31:39.220 Now, that doesn't mean imminent attack,

00:31:41.840 but it would mean figuring out where all their targets are,

00:31:45.020 because there's no point in having nuclear weapons

00:31:47.640 unless you know where to shoot them.

00:31:48.760 But do you think China didn't know where to put their nuclear weapons?

00:31:55.920 Really?

00:31:57.980 They know they can't take care of all of our missile silos,

00:32:01.540 because we've got submarines and airplanes.

00:32:06.240 So I don't buy the story that China is doing targeting runs.

00:32:13.960 They might be.

00:32:16.160 I mean, the big spy plane might have been,

00:32:18.700 but I don't believe that whatever the smaller ones are doing the same thing.

00:32:23.520 Now, China says that the U.S. has sent 10 spy balloons over them

00:32:28.280 since last year.

00:32:30.520 Do you believe that?

00:32:32.120 Do you believe that the U.S. has sent 10 spy balloons over China

00:32:35.720 because our other assets can't see what we want to see?

00:32:42.040 It's plausible.

00:32:44.000 But, I don't know.

00:32:45.900 Who knows?

00:32:47.740 I would say 100% of what we find out about this story is likely to be untrue.

00:32:53.100 One of the structures that was blown up was reportedly octagonal.

00:32:59.700 It was shaped like an octagon.

00:33:02.060 Now, they said it was uncrewed,

00:33:04.720 but I suspect Conor McGregor was in there.

00:33:08.780 I just think he was in there.

00:33:11.500 Just speculating.

00:33:13.420 Maybe.

00:33:13.720 He likes to be inside octagons, is what I'm saying.

00:33:19.080 All right, so he got one shot down by an F-16 over Lake Huron.

00:33:23.300 An F-22 took one around at 40,000 feet over Canada.

00:33:28.000 An F-22 got another one around, where was it?

00:33:32.780 Somewhere else.

00:33:36.600 How many weather balloons do you think are launched per year?

00:33:40.920 What do you think?

00:33:41.520 How many weather balloons are launched per year?

00:33:49.860 A lot.

00:33:51.940 Thousands.

00:33:53.360 Yeah.

00:33:54.200 It's like multiple per day.

00:33:57.860 It's like every day weather balloons will go down.

00:34:01.140 So, some of it...

00:34:02.940 Now, some of the weather balloons will reach a certain height,

00:34:05.620 and then they pop because of the...

00:34:07.600 So, but I don't know if they all have been.

00:34:10.040 There we go.

00:34:11.520 Do you remember those things that seem to defy...

00:34:17.100 Do you remember the UFOs that defied physics?

00:34:19.880 They'd be going in one direction,

00:34:21.340 and then they'd, like, immediately go in the other direction.

00:34:24.340 Doesn't that seem like a balloon in the wind?

00:34:26.180 If you saw a balloon in the wind and it was where it could run into, let's say, big gusts and just, like, change directions,

00:34:35.800 if you believed it was a solid metal ship and you saw it go...

00:34:41.760 and suddenly in the other direction, wouldn't you think it defied physics?

00:34:46.060 But if it were a plastic bag or a balloon and it just hit a real, you know, violent wind pattern,

00:34:57.660 wouldn't it look like it defied physics because it just went in the opposite direction really quickly?

00:35:01.700 It would, right?

00:35:05.520 It defies physics.

00:35:07.280 Yeah, it doesn't defy the physics of a balloon.

00:35:09.880 All right, so I will not rule out Tom Fitton's argument

00:35:17.240 that China is sending stuff over here to target us for a potential attack.

00:35:23.280 Could be.

00:35:24.000 I wouldn't rule it out, would you?

00:35:27.600 I just think that the far more likely explanation

00:35:30.760 is that we're all worked up over space garbage.

00:35:35.320 That's what I think.

00:35:37.200 I think it's just space garbage.

00:35:40.220 Probably.

00:35:41.220 And I think the pilots are probably having a great time.

00:35:45.480 Wouldn't you love to be a pilot and you get to shoot down a plastic bag?

00:35:50.920 It'd just be fun, wouldn't it?

00:35:54.000 I mean, I don't know what it's like to be a fighter pilot,

00:35:56.420 but I feel like going on a little flight to shoot down something that isn't shooting at me

00:36:02.880 just to see if I could get it, that'd be kind of fun.

00:36:06.400 Target practice, yeah.

00:36:08.740 So my bottom line is I think that they are nothings,

00:36:12.300 they are not UFOs or they're not aliens.

00:36:14.900 They're not necessarily Chinese, but they could be.

00:36:18.900 And that we're just shooting them down to show that we can shoot things down.

00:36:21.980 And we even use two different types of jets.

00:36:25.520 We can shoot it down with this jet.

00:36:27.900 We can shoot it down with that jet.

00:36:30.020 Oh, we got jets all over the place.

00:36:32.360 All we have to do is tune our radar and you'll never get through our net.

00:36:38.060 Yeah.

00:36:38.460 All right.

00:36:40.600 Well, I was watching CNN to see if they're still unbiased.

00:36:45.960 And here was Abby Phillips' take, 0.98

00:36:48.700 who apparently never got the memo from CNN's new management,

00:36:52.380 that you're not supposed to act like this.

00:36:55.600 So there's still some leftovers in the CNN who didn't get the memo

00:37:01.040 that they should be objective.

00:37:03.900 And she was saying that the moment that the GOP hearing

00:37:09.200 on the weaponization of the FBI and social media and stuff,

00:37:14.780 she's saying that the GOP hearing on that backfired

00:37:17.420 and totally fell apart based on the news that Trump had once asked,

00:37:23.320 or somebody for Trump,

00:37:24.660 had once asked for an insulting Christy Teigen tweet to be taken down.

00:37:30.800 And they said no.

00:37:34.700 And that was what she used as her evidence

00:37:38.280 that the entire hearing about the weaponization of the FBI

00:37:41.960 had fallen apart.

00:37:45.220 Because at one time, Trump asked for one.

00:37:47.720 And keep in mind,

00:37:49.140 the thing that Trump asked to be taken down

00:37:51.440 had no informational value.

00:37:54.140 It was just an insult.

00:37:55.060 Was everybody worried about the FBI talking to Twitter

00:38:00.180 to remove personal insults?

00:38:03.320 I don't remember that story.

00:38:05.120 Do you?

00:38:06.320 I remember a story about them trying to influence elections.

00:38:10.860 I remember that story.

00:38:12.260 But I don't remember the one about them fighting social media

00:38:15.860 to take the insults down.

00:38:18.660 You know, the one, the one insult,

00:38:20.560 the one tweet, the one time.

00:38:22.600 That's it.

00:38:23.240 And according to Abby Phillips,

00:38:25.500 that makes the entire investigation null

00:38:29.100 because Trump did it too.

00:38:32.020 Even though what he did

00:38:33.200 was completely unrelated to the issue.

00:38:36.800 He just didn't like that insult there.

00:38:38.960 Now, I don't think you should have asked

00:38:40.480 for it to be taken down.

00:38:42.100 And neither did Twitter.

00:38:43.520 So they didn't.

00:38:44.460 And that was the end of the story.

00:38:46.520 There was no follow-up.

00:38:47.720 Now, am I wrong that that's CNN being bad CNN, right?

00:38:57.580 Am I wrong?

00:39:00.040 Yeah.

00:39:01.160 That's just them being bad.

00:39:02.820 This is not even close to being a balanced approach.

00:39:06.340 When we go private,

00:39:10.560 I'm going to tell you,

00:39:11.760 remind me on Locals,

00:39:13.400 after I'm done with YouTube,

00:39:15.260 I'm going to tell you a private story

00:39:16.940 that relates to this

00:39:17.920 that's non-public.

00:39:20.480 You get the good stuff.

00:39:22.380 You get the good stuff.

00:39:24.580 All right.

00:39:26.880 Here's a prediction.

00:39:27.800 I think rich people

00:39:29.400 are all going to go to private school

00:39:30.940 and school choice

00:39:32.540 and that public school

00:39:34.040 will be all that's left for poor people.

00:39:37.000 And it will just get worse and worse

00:39:38.600 because it's just school for poor people.

00:39:40.960 Is there any way to avoid that?

00:39:42.660 I don't think so.

00:39:44.340 I don't think that can be avoided.

00:39:46.940 And basically,

00:39:47.760 it's going to become

00:39:48.360 public school will be

00:39:49.340 school for black kids, basically.

00:39:52.120 That's what's going to happen.

00:39:54.600 Because at some point,

00:39:55.820 it was just going to happen.

00:39:59.020 So we don't have a mechanism

00:40:01.500 to avoid that future,

00:40:03.320 but maybe we should.

00:40:04.560 Maybe we should.

00:40:05.480 Here's a provocative question I asked.

00:40:08.000 We'll see if you know the answer.

00:40:10.200 Would it be legal

00:40:11.460 in the United States,

00:40:13.520 would it be legal

00:40:14.320 to start a college

00:40:15.840 that was a men-only college?

00:40:18.060 Would that be legal?

00:40:21.600 Now, if you say yes,

00:40:24.100 you're probably saying yes

00:40:25.220 because there are four of them

00:40:26.580 that already exist, right?

00:40:29.340 But do you think that's the same?

00:40:31.720 Do you think that

00:40:32.560 if you were to start a new one

00:40:33.780 in 2023,

00:40:34.880 it would just fly right through?

00:40:36.440 Hey, we got four of them already.

00:40:38.000 They seem to be fine.

00:40:39.620 Let's have another one.

00:40:41.240 I don't think so.

00:40:42.420 I have a feeling

00:40:44.100 that it would not be fine.

00:40:45.880 I have a feeling

00:40:46.700 that it would only be fine

00:40:48.020 well, the ones that already exist,

00:40:52.960 maybe they're letting them remain.

00:40:56.160 So there are now

00:40:57.260 women-only colleges

00:40:58.340 and men-only colleges,

00:40:59.700 but just a few.

00:41:01.760 And the only reason I asked

00:41:04.040 is I would hate to go

00:41:05.020 to a male-only college.

00:41:06.860 I can't think of anything

00:41:07.620 worse than that.

00:41:08.840 A male-only college?

00:41:10.280 Oh, my God.

00:41:10.800 But it does occur to me

00:41:12.640 that all of the,

00:41:15.360 let's say,

00:41:16.120 the woke stuff,

00:41:17.180 it's coming from women. 1.00

00:41:19.560 I feel like if you had

00:41:20.440 an all-male college,

00:41:21.680 all that stuff would go away

00:41:22.900 because it's all women-driven. 0.98

00:41:25.800 That's not to say

00:41:26.680 that plenty of men

00:41:27.740 don't say it,

00:41:29.160 but men only say it

00:41:30.220 because there are women watching. 1.00

00:41:34.160 That's an exaggeration,

00:41:35.540 of course.

00:41:36.160 That's a little hyperbole

00:41:37.280 for you.

00:41:38.700 Men only agree 1.00

00:41:39.860 with the wokeness thing

00:41:41.000 when women are watching.

00:41:42.360 They're just looking

00:41:42.880 for their approval.

00:41:43.860 That's all.

00:41:44.840 That's all.

00:41:45.620 If you leave men

00:41:47.160 to themselves,

00:41:48.300 they just fight

00:41:49.100 until somebody wins.

00:41:51.540 We're very simple.

00:41:53.040 We will just fight

00:41:53.880 for dominance

00:41:54.460 until somebody wins

00:41:55.460 and then somebody's

00:41:56.320 in charge

00:41:56.740 until somebody else

00:41:58.200 beats them.

00:42:01.120 But when you put

00:42:02.060 women around us,

00:42:02.940 we'll try to signal

00:42:04.080 to the women

00:42:04.640 in whatever way

00:42:05.720 they think they want

00:42:06.440 to see the signal.

00:42:08.440 So it does seem to me

00:42:09.720 that women 0.97

00:42:10.100 have ruined

00:42:10.660 higher education

00:42:11.540 through the wokeness stuff.

00:42:14.000 But I don't think

00:42:14.620 male-only college

00:42:16.000 fixes that.

00:42:17.400 Just an observation.

00:42:20.080 All right.

00:42:23.260 So here's a little update

00:42:24.820 on the Russia-Ukraine war.

00:42:27.720 Either Russia 0.86

00:42:28.700 has made some gains lately

00:42:30.120 or they have not

00:42:31.500 made gains lately

00:42:32.440 or they've stayed

00:42:33.740 exactly the same.

00:42:35.220 Are you happy?

00:42:35.760 Is everybody happy

00:42:38.140 that I understand

00:42:39.460 that all of the information

00:42:40.900 out of the area

00:42:41.760 is unreliable?

00:42:43.820 Because I can't even

00:42:44.580 talk about the topic

00:42:45.600 without the NPCs.

00:42:47.620 Why do you trust

00:42:49.240 that story?

00:42:50.420 Why do you trust

00:42:51.040 that story?

00:42:51.700 No.

00:42:52.800 I don't trust anything

00:42:54.140 coming out of Ukraine,

00:42:55.320 but I'll report it

00:42:56.180 and comment on it.

00:42:57.480 So the Wagner group

00:43:00.600 seems to be making

00:43:01.360 all the whatever gains

00:43:03.680 there are

00:43:04.140 and they seem

00:43:05.160 to be doing it

00:43:05.840 by using sledgehammers

00:43:08.200 to kill anybody

00:43:09.460 they think

00:43:09.940 is not fighting

00:43:10.680 hard enough

00:43:11.260 on their own team.

00:43:13.100 So basically

00:43:14.000 they're using

00:43:16.140 the prisoners

00:43:17.360 and conscripts

00:43:18.780 as human fodder

00:43:19.960 and they're just

00:43:20.820 throwing them

00:43:21.440 into the machine guns

00:43:22.320 of the Ukrainians.

00:43:23.860 Does that sound real?

00:43:24.760 Do you believe that?

00:43:28.220 Do you believe

00:43:29.300 that waves of Russians 0.96

00:43:30.620 are running

00:43:31.780 into the machine gun fire

00:43:34.060 of Ukrainians

00:43:35.200 everywhere they go?

00:43:37.260 Hasn't just happened

00:43:38.060 a few times,

00:43:38.840 but everywhere they go

00:43:40.380 the Ukrainians

00:43:41.540 are mowing them down

00:43:42.620 by the thousands.

00:43:44.680 Probably not.

00:43:46.220 Probably not.

00:43:47.140 Has it ever happened?

00:43:48.560 Probably yes.

00:43:49.940 Probably yes.

00:43:50.800 So the Russians 0.99

00:43:51.380 do have a history

00:43:53.060 of wave efforts

00:43:54.740 after wave

00:43:55.200 of human sacrifice

00:43:57.080 to take an inch

00:43:58.440 of soil.

00:43:59.200 But we don't know

00:44:00.200 it's happening.

00:44:01.460 It's just reported

00:44:02.340 by all sources

00:44:05.000 which are

00:44:06.340 undependable

00:44:07.520 out of that area.

00:44:09.160 But here's my

00:44:10.280 interesting takes.

00:44:14.600 I do imagine

00:44:16.060 that you could

00:44:17.040 perpetually

00:44:18.060 send people

00:44:19.180 to die

00:44:19.780 if their alternative

00:44:21.620 was dying

00:44:22.300 right away.

00:44:22.860 So I do believe

00:44:24.920 you could

00:44:25.400 perpetually

00:44:26.180 have enough

00:44:26.780 humans

00:44:28.020 who are Russian

00:44:29.200 soldiers

00:44:29.920 as long as it takes.

00:44:31.740 Would you all

00:44:32.300 agree with that?

00:44:33.240 Russia will not 0.96

00:44:34.200 run out of

00:44:35.220 humans

00:44:36.720 before the war

00:44:38.620 is over.

00:44:39.160 Would you say?

00:44:41.700 Now Ukraine's 0.95

00:44:42.800 got maybe

00:44:43.480 a different problem

00:44:44.240 with human power.

00:44:46.080 But I don't think

00:44:46.900 Russia's going to 0.98

00:44:47.640 run out of people

00:44:48.400 because they don't

00:44:48.920 care.

00:44:50.420 All right.

00:44:50.840 But I heard

00:44:52.060 an interesting

00:44:52.640 hypothesis today

00:44:55.200 that the

00:44:58.840 artillery

00:44:59.640 that the Russians

00:45:00.840 are using

00:45:01.300 which is a big

00:45:02.100 part of their

00:45:02.660 military

00:45:03.700 that the

00:45:04.920 artillery

00:45:05.320 the gun

00:45:09.720 barrels

00:45:10.200 go bad

00:45:11.120 after you've

00:45:12.840 used them

00:45:13.340 for a certain

00:45:14.020 amount of time.

00:45:15.100 Were you aware

00:45:15.800 of that?

00:45:16.160 Did you know

00:45:17.300 that the gun

00:45:17.900 barrel itself

00:45:18.580 wears out?

00:45:20.680 So basically

00:45:21.500 they're huge

00:45:22.700 artillery

00:45:23.860 junk piles

00:45:25.060 already.

00:45:26.440 So apparently

00:45:26.920 we can spot

00:45:27.660 from the air

00:45:28.260 just huge

00:45:29.460 junk piles.

00:45:30.740 And I think

00:45:31.440 the ratio

00:45:31.940 is that three

00:45:32.720 of them

00:45:33.080 will break

00:45:34.520 for every one

00:45:35.600 that you destroy

00:45:36.740 with a missile.

00:45:38.800 Does that

00:45:39.180 sound right?

00:45:40.280 The three

00:45:40.780 of them

00:45:41.060 will break

00:45:41.640 or melt

00:45:42.220 or whatever

00:45:42.600 they do.

00:45:43.780 Three of them

00:45:44.620 will go down

00:45:45.220 for their own

00:45:45.760 reasons.

00:45:46.160 for every one

00:45:47.060 that you

00:45:47.320 could take

00:45:47.800 out militarily.

00:45:50.020 Now

00:45:50.240 balanced

00:45:51.620 against that

00:45:52.360 is that

00:45:53.320 Russia is 0.79

00:45:53.980 a huge

00:45:54.480 arms

00:45:55.100 manufacturing

00:45:56.080 company.

00:45:57.620 Wouldn't

00:45:57.940 you love

00:45:58.320 to know

00:45:58.680 how much

00:45:59.080 artillery

00:45:59.600 they can

00:46:00.080 make per

00:46:00.560 day

00:46:00.800 with their

00:46:02.040 factories?

00:46:04.600 It seems

00:46:05.200 like that

00:46:05.520 would be

00:46:05.800 interesting

00:46:06.300 to know

00:46:06.760 because we

00:46:07.860 have some

00:46:08.640 reporting

00:46:09.140 about how

00:46:09.740 many pieces

00:46:10.460 of artillery

00:46:11.020 are being

00:46:11.500 taken out

00:46:12.220 and it

00:46:13.080 seems to

00:46:13.440 be significant.

00:46:14.380 But how

00:46:16.800 many are

00:46:17.100 they

00:46:17.260 adding?

00:46:18.420 So there's

00:46:19.040 one possibility

00:46:19.800 that they

00:46:20.240 run out

00:46:20.640 of artillery

00:46:21.260 before they

00:46:23.040 run out

00:46:23.380 of people.

00:46:25.160 And I

00:46:25.740 think that's

00:46:26.080 a worthy

00:46:26.540 hypothesis.

00:46:27.460 I don't

00:46:27.640 know how

00:46:27.900 to rank

00:46:28.520 that.

00:46:29.580 But it

00:46:29.920 feels like

00:46:30.340 that's

00:46:30.540 possible.

00:46:31.380 It feels

00:46:31.620 like.

00:46:32.580 Just replace

00:46:33.380 the barrel?

00:46:34.720 Yeah,

00:46:34.980 but that's

00:46:35.300 probably not

00:46:35.660 easy in the

00:46:36.220 field during

00:46:37.540 war.

00:46:37.820 All right.

00:46:41.300 And then

00:46:41.960 the next

00:46:42.340 thing that

00:46:42.880 is interesting

00:46:43.500 is that the

00:46:44.020 head of the

00:46:44.400 Wagner group,

00:46:45.520 he may be

00:46:47.060 creating a

00:46:47.780 military that's

00:46:49.720 stronger than

00:46:50.320 whatever is

00:46:50.960 protecting Putin.

00:46:52.620 Do you think

00:46:53.340 the head of the

00:46:53.880 Wagner group

00:46:54.500 would like to

00:46:55.100 run Russia?

00:46:56.900 I feel like

00:46:57.860 yes.

00:46:59.040 I feel like

00:47:00.200 yes, he

00:47:00.720 might like

00:47:01.220 that.

00:47:02.120 So very

00:47:03.280 soon, no

00:47:04.900 matter what

00:47:05.400 happens to

00:47:05.880 Ukraine,

00:47:06.320 Putin and

00:47:07.800 the head

00:47:08.040 of the

00:47:08.280 Wagner group

00:47:08.940 are going

00:47:09.520 to, there's

00:47:10.160 going to be

00:47:10.440 one remaining.

00:47:12.240 In five

00:47:13.040 years, there's

00:47:14.980 very little

00:47:15.540 chance that

00:47:16.180 the head of

00:47:16.600 the Wagner

00:47:16.960 group and

00:47:17.900 Putin will

00:47:18.940 still be

00:47:19.380 alive at

00:47:19.820 the same

00:47:20.120 time.

00:47:20.860 Would you

00:47:21.200 agree?

00:47:22.180 I feel like

00:47:23.080 as soon as

00:47:23.620 the head of

00:47:23.980 the Wagner

00:47:24.340 group is

00:47:24.820 not necessary,

00:47:26.280 he's necessary

00:47:27.040 at the

00:47:27.420 moment, as

00:47:28.200 soon as

00:47:28.500 he's not

00:47:28.800 necessary,

00:47:29.380 Putin's 0.59

00:47:29.640 going to

00:47:29.840 kill him.

00:47:31.700 Why

00:47:32.040 wouldn't he?

00:47:33.200 He has

00:47:33.880 to.

00:47:34.700 Because the

00:47:35.380 head of the

00:47:35.680 Wagner group

00:47:36.200 would definitely

00:47:36.780 kill Putin,

00:47:38.520 and he

00:47:39.300 might have

00:47:39.700 the means

00:47:40.880 to do it.

00:47:41.940 And I

00:47:42.280 don't think

00:47:42.620 we want

00:47:43.000 that guy

00:47:43.500 replacing

00:47:43.960 Putin.

00:47:44.820 So we

00:47:45.140 might be

00:47:45.420 in the

00:47:45.620 weird

00:47:45.800 situation

00:47:46.300 of trying

00:47:46.700 to protect

00:47:47.340 Putin

00:47:47.680 from his

00:47:48.220 own

00:47:48.420 military,

00:47:50.020 because Putin

00:47:50.660 is still

00:47:51.100 better than

00:47:51.700 the head

00:47:52.320 of the

00:47:52.520 Wagner group.

00:47:53.640 Maybe.

00:47:54.360 I don't know.

00:47:55.320 They're both

00:47:55.940 pretty bad.

00:47:58.560 Anyway, I

00:47:59.180 think the

00:47:59.420 head of the

00:47:59.680 Wagner group

00:48:00.160 is going

00:48:00.380 to be killed

00:48:00.700 by Putin

00:48:01.140 before long.

00:48:02.660 Is there

00:48:07.940 any topic

00:48:08.380 I missed?

00:48:10.680 Do you

00:48:11.260 think that

00:48:11.720 all the

00:48:12.580 UFO balloon

00:48:13.500 stuff is

00:48:14.160 just a

00:48:14.600 diversion?

00:48:17.520 Just a

00:48:18.300 diversion?

00:48:20.420 Here's why

00:48:21.220 I don't

00:48:21.940 think that

00:48:22.540 necessarily.

00:48:24.680 Because I

00:48:26.160 guess you

00:48:26.480 could say

00:48:26.800 that every

00:48:27.360 day.

00:48:28.300 Because every

00:48:29.100 day there's

00:48:29.580 a story that's

00:48:30.260 negative about

00:48:30.980 somebody,

00:48:32.080 usually the

00:48:32.660 government.

00:48:33.540 And every

00:48:34.140 day there's

00:48:34.620 some other

00:48:35.020 story.

00:48:36.220 And we

00:48:36.540 don't always

00:48:37.160 just spend

00:48:38.360 all our

00:48:38.680 time looking

00:48:39.200 at that

00:48:39.580 negative

00:48:39.920 government

00:48:40.360 story.

00:48:41.460 So it

00:48:42.280 seems to

00:48:42.660 me that

00:48:43.000 chance alone

00:48:43.800 would fill

00:48:44.460 us with

00:48:44.980 alternative

00:48:45.720 stories every

00:48:47.380 day.

00:48:48.200 So to

00:48:48.820 imagine that

00:48:49.380 some of

00:48:49.660 those

00:48:49.860 alternative

00:48:50.320 stories that

00:48:51.100 happen to

00:48:51.440 be interesting

00:48:51.960 are

00:48:52.880 intentionally

00:48:53.680 diversions,

00:48:55.220 we don't

00:48:55.680 even need

00:48:56.080 diversions.

00:48:57.200 Because the

00:48:57.660 news itself

00:48:58.440 comes up with

00:49:00.160 interesting

00:49:00.980 alternatives to

00:49:01.640 your

00:49:02.060 government is

00:49:02.600 evil.

00:49:03.360 Because you

00:49:04.000 can't listen

00:49:04.440 to that

00:49:04.860 all day.

00:49:05.460 You've got

00:49:05.740 to have

00:49:05.900 something

00:49:06.120 else.

00:49:10.500 Political

00:49:11.020 disarray in

00:49:11.760 the Zelensky

00:49:12.300 cabinet?

00:49:13.060 Yeah.

00:49:13.820 I could see

00:49:14.720 the Ukrainian

00:49:15.740 government

00:49:17.240 falling apart.

00:49:18.220 That wouldn't

00:49:18.700 be a stretch.

00:49:20.900 And I

00:49:21.540 don't know

00:49:21.820 what happens

00:49:22.240 if Zelensky

00:49:22.900 dies.

00:49:24.600 That would

00:49:25.220 be unpredictable.

00:49:30.980 Are they

00:49:33.600 being vague?

00:49:34.500 I don't

00:49:34.640 know.

00:49:35.460 Yeah, I

00:49:35.920 covered

00:49:36.160 Ohio.

00:49:37.100 Ohio blew

00:49:37.800 up and

00:49:38.080 nobody

00:49:38.320 cared.

00:49:40.200 But there's

00:49:40.800 something sketchy

00:49:41.540 going on in

00:49:42.080 Ohio.

00:49:42.500 We just

00:49:42.780 don't know

00:49:43.020 what it is

00:49:43.380 yet.

00:49:47.200 Oh, the

00:49:47.920 one thing I

00:49:48.400 heard about

00:49:48.840 the Ohio

00:49:49.600 derailment,

00:49:50.900 can somebody

00:49:51.420 give me a

00:49:51.920 fact check on

00:49:52.620 this?

00:49:53.240 I retweeted it

00:49:54.240 because I

00:49:54.640 think it's

00:49:55.260 true.

00:49:55.500 Was there

00:49:57.400 just recently

00:49:58.200 a new

00:49:59.060 movie featuring

00:50:01.220 that exact

00:50:01.820 town with

00:50:02.880 that exact

00:50:03.320 problem?

00:50:04.380 A train

00:50:05.020 derailment

00:50:05.820 followed by

00:50:06.680 a chemical

00:50:07.680 spill?

00:50:10.880 That's a

00:50:11.880 real thing

00:50:12.240 that happened,

00:50:12.680 right?

00:50:13.580 Yeah, on

00:50:14.040 Netflix?

00:50:14.820 Oh, it was

00:50:15.160 in Pennsylvania,

00:50:16.220 not Ohio.

00:50:17.900 Okay, so it

00:50:18.540 wasn't there,

00:50:19.420 it was just a

00:50:20.120 similar scenario

00:50:21.680 where a train

00:50:22.660 derailed and

00:50:25.080 there was a

00:50:26.020 suspicious gas

00:50:27.100 leak.

00:50:29.000 Yeah.

00:50:31.320 Pennsylvania and

00:50:32.140 Ohio are the

00:50:32.720 same state,

00:50:33.500 somebody says.

00:50:34.360 Oh, yeah.

00:50:41.000 All right,

00:50:41.800 the movie is

00:50:42.620 called The White

00:50:43.180 Noise and

00:50:44.240 made in 2022.

00:50:49.580 All right.

00:50:52.380 Country of the

00:50:53.020 villains of a

00:50:53.480 love boat.

00:50:55.080 Who remembers

00:50:57.620 actor Robert

00:50:58.520 Wagner?

00:51:00.380 Do you remember

00:51:00.820 actor Robert

00:51:01.760 Wagner?

00:51:02.580 Somebody mentioned

00:51:03.320 Robert Wagner,

00:51:04.100 the actor,

00:51:04.580 because of the

00:51:04.920 Wagner group.

00:51:06.940 All right,

00:51:07.200 here's my story

00:51:07.840 about Robert

00:51:08.500 Wagner.

00:51:11.600 Once his

00:51:12.520 head was

00:51:15.520 right by my

00:51:16.660 feet for an

00:51:17.660 uncomfortable long

00:51:18.600 time.

00:51:19.940 True story.

00:51:21.120 Robert Wagner,

00:51:21.920 the actor,

00:51:22.300 his head was

00:51:24.460 near my feet,

00:51:26.100 like, you know,

00:51:26.740 just this far

00:51:27.400 away for an

00:51:28.800 uncomfortably long

00:51:29.880 time.

00:51:30.960 Can you figure out

00:51:32.100 what that was?

00:51:34.000 Anybody want to

00:51:34.680 guess?

00:51:34.940 It wasn't an

00:51:35.420 airplane, it was

00:51:36.120 not any form of

00:51:36.980 transportation.

00:51:38.380 No transportation.

00:51:39.720 Was not yoga,

00:51:40.640 was not baseball game.

00:51:43.040 All right, I'll tell

00:51:43.600 you the answer.

00:51:44.200 I got invited to a

00:51:47.200 filming of,

00:51:51.520 which show was it?

00:51:52.580 Because there were

00:51:52.880 two different

00:51:53.320 filmings.

00:51:54.540 It was either

00:51:55.020 Two and a Half

00:51:57.340 Men,

00:51:59.300 I think it was

00:52:00.180 Two and a Half

00:52:00.560 Men.

00:52:01.720 He was an extra

00:52:02.740 on Two and a Half

00:52:03.280 Men, right?

00:52:04.840 Can you confirm

00:52:05.500 that?

00:52:05.940 Wasn't he like

00:52:06.540 somebody's father

00:52:08.440 or somebody?

00:52:09.820 Anyway,

00:52:10.840 he had a friend

00:52:12.100 who was attending

00:52:13.160 the taping.

00:52:13.900 I got invited

00:52:14.500 because they

00:52:14.960 mentioned Dilbert

00:52:15.920 in that episode.

00:52:17.460 So the writers

00:52:18.260 invited me.

00:52:20.040 And because I was

00:52:20.940 like a special guest,

00:52:21.940 I got to sit up

00:52:22.680 front.

00:52:23.620 Now, if you're

00:52:24.100 in the audience,

00:52:25.580 the audience is

00:52:28.460 raised above the

00:52:29.400 stage floor so

00:52:30.880 that when you're

00:52:31.280 looking down,

00:52:31.840 you can see

00:52:32.540 everything better.

00:52:33.940 So the stage is

00:52:35.320 maybe chest high.

00:52:38.160 Right?

00:52:38.660 So the first row

00:52:40.240 is maybe four feet

00:52:42.100 above the stage.

00:52:43.760 I happened,

00:52:44.620 by coincidence,

00:52:45.440 to be sitting

00:52:45.900 next to a personal

00:52:47.200 guest of actor

00:52:48.720 Robert Wagner.

00:52:50.260 And between takes

00:52:51.540 and breaks,

00:52:53.640 he would come over

00:52:54.300 and talk to his

00:52:54.920 friend.

00:52:55.880 So he'd walk over

00:52:56.760 to the stage

00:52:57.520 and he'd walk up

00:52:58.580 to it and he'd be

00:53:00.220 like right by my

00:53:01.380 left foot and his

00:53:02.780 big old Robert Wagner

00:53:03.880 head would be there

00:53:05.360 talking to the

00:53:05.960 person next to me.

00:53:06.740 And it's so awkward

00:53:09.500 because if a famous

00:53:12.320 person is right by

00:53:13.180 your foot, you just

00:53:14.700 want to look at

00:53:15.280 him, don't you?

00:53:17.660 You're right there.

00:53:20.200 You just want to

00:53:20.900 look at him.

00:53:21.480 But I couldn't look

00:53:22.180 at him because he

00:53:22.800 was just by my feet.

00:53:25.720 There's no Robert

00:53:26.660 Wagner giant head

00:53:28.080 right next to my feet.

00:53:29.840 I'm just looking

00:53:30.660 around.

00:53:31.140 Look at those

00:53:31.500 lights up there.

00:53:32.680 No Robert Wagner

00:53:33.640 head.

00:53:33.980 That was just

00:53:34.980 awkward.

00:53:37.180 True story.

00:53:41.820 All right.

00:53:43.520 I'm going to go

00:53:44.240 tell a private story

00:53:45.540 to the locals people

00:53:46.480 and thanks for

00:53:48.200 joining on YouTube.

00:53:50.000 We'll see you

00:53:50.400 tomorrow.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 13, 2023

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