Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 01, 2023


Episode 2034 Scott Adams: Now That I Have Your Attention...


Episode Stats

Length

53 minutes

Words per Minute

149.91273

Word Count

8,074

Sentence Count

600

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

45


Summary

Join me for the dopamine hit of the day as we discuss the latest in the war in Ukraine, and why we should all be worried about collapse points. Also, we talk about why a national divorce is a bad idea.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the most cancelled person in all of the world.
00:00:09.180 Well, I don't know if that's true, but I'm probably in the top ten.
00:00:12.760 And I'm feeling good. I know I'm not supposed to, but I keep feeling good.
00:00:19.400 Am I allowed to do that? Am I doing it wrong?
00:00:23.080 Am I doing cancellation wrong if I enjoy it?
00:00:25.500 Because I've got to say, I've had more outpouring of love and support than any time in my entire life.
00:00:34.020 Not even close.
00:00:36.080 The amount of love and support I'm getting is through the roof. We'll talk about that.
00:00:42.180 But if you'd like to take your experience to a higher level, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass,
00:00:47.300 a tank or a chalice or a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:50.900 And fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
00:00:55.260 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,
00:00:59.160 the thing that makes everything better.
00:01:00.640 It's called the Simultaneous Sip.
00:01:03.940 And today, I'm going to light the world on fire.
00:01:09.400 Oh, you think I already did?
00:01:11.280 No, not yet.
00:01:12.440 Do you think I've been controversial before this?
00:01:21.360 Well, just wait for today.
00:01:23.820 That's a double sip.
00:01:30.520 Will I be doing something that's dangerous today?
00:01:36.340 Something dangerous?
00:01:38.620 Yeah, yeah, I will.
00:01:39.720 Yeah.
00:01:42.440 Something provocative?
00:01:46.780 Yeah, probably.
00:01:48.400 Probably.
00:01:50.780 But first, we're going to talk about the boring news.
00:01:53.100 Lori Lightfoot got defeated in Chicago
00:01:55.020 because apparently allowing crime to run free
00:01:58.360 is not as popular as you would have imagined.
00:02:01.800 Not nearly as popular.
00:02:04.080 That's all I have to say about that.
00:02:06.140 Then let's talk about Ukraine.
00:02:07.660 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:08.800 Lies about Ukraine.
00:02:10.040 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:10.700 Things we can't trust.
00:02:11.740 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:13.020 Russian assault.
00:02:14.120 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:14.680 Ukraine fighting them back.
00:02:16.620 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:17.380 Russian heavy casualties, maybe.
00:02:19.880 Blah, blah, blah.
00:02:20.540 No word about Ukrainian casualties, as usual.
00:02:24.520 Nothing we can believe there.
00:02:26.980 But there is one.
00:02:28.260 There is one maybe interesting element.
00:02:32.580 I keep looking for the collapse points.
00:02:36.660 You know, when you've got this big war,
00:02:38.000 there's lots of moving parts.
00:02:39.920 Sometimes you're close to collapse without knowing it.
00:02:43.700 Because if any one of the components, you know, goes bad,
00:02:46.900 like let's say if the supply chain for the war dried up,
00:02:51.520 you know, because the Ukrainians did a good job,
00:02:53.460 that'd be kind of a collapse point.
00:02:54.860 Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen.
00:02:56.980 I'm just saying there are a number of things that could be collapse points.
00:03:00.080 And one of them is this.
00:03:02.440 So apparently the Wagner group has, you know, got the best fighters,
00:03:05.940 and they're usually the point of the spear doing the attacking.
00:03:10.240 And they're doing an attack in which they're reportedly,
00:03:14.320 again, you can't believe anything out of Ukraine,
00:03:16.740 but reportedly Wagner group is sending their best troops in on this fight
00:03:21.980 and their heavy casualties.
00:03:24.980 Well, how many of the best troops are left?
00:03:29.220 Now, I know they've been using, allegedly, you know, who knows,
00:03:32.280 but these human waves of people.
00:03:34.380 How many of the best fighters are left?
00:03:39.500 Because the collapse point is when there's not enough of the best fighters
00:03:43.780 because the conscripts aren't going to get it done.
00:03:47.520 So we might be at a point where there are still, you know,
00:03:50.480 hundreds of thousands of soldiers,
00:03:52.800 but 15,000 that know how to fight,
00:03:56.860 that could be 7,000 by the end of the week.
00:04:00.560 That feels like a collapse point, doesn't it?
00:04:03.820 I'm not predicting it.
00:04:05.240 I'm just saying that's one of the things
00:04:06.780 that could make everything suddenly change.
00:04:09.540 A sudden change would be, and I'm just making up numbers,
00:04:13.000 15,000 really good fighters,
00:04:16.100 if you take that down to 7,
00:04:18.220 just through, you know, attrition and death,
00:04:21.680 do they have anything?
00:04:23.360 You know, at that point, are they just done?
00:04:24.980 They can't fight at that point?
00:04:27.000 I mean, we might be getting close to that.
00:04:28.580 But again, no information that comes out of Ukraine is reliable.
00:04:33.540 Rasmussen has a poll, says that 47% of Republicans
00:04:36.980 at least somewhat agree that red states and blue states
00:04:41.080 need a national divorce,
00:04:43.320 as do 26% of Democrats and 27% of voters not affiliated.
00:04:49.540 Now, I don't take any of this too seriously,
00:04:53.100 this whole national divorce thing.
00:04:54.660 Isn't that the entire point of having different states?
00:04:59.680 And isn't it working well?
00:05:02.040 Are people not moving from California to Texas and Florida?
00:05:06.660 I mean, I realize that, you know,
00:05:08.600 if you're lower income, that's not an option.
00:05:11.160 But it does seem like the free market
00:05:13.000 is starting to do the thing it's supposed to do,
00:05:15.480 which is to sort things out
00:05:17.380 when we get to a situation like this.
00:05:19.220 Now, I think it's sorting it out too slowly.
00:05:23.160 You know, you can't instantly move to another place
00:05:25.360 and blah, blah, blah.
00:05:26.520 But I don't really see the problem.
00:05:29.200 This feels like a manufactured problem, doesn't it?
00:05:32.420 You know, I get the rhetoric,
00:05:33.840 and, you know, we can't get along and all that.
00:05:35.940 But has that ever been any different in America?
00:05:38.860 You know, when did we all get along?
00:05:41.400 I don't remember that time.
00:05:42.660 So, I don't think anything actually will happen
00:05:46.920 from the national divorce thing,
00:05:49.320 but it's fun to talk about.
00:05:52.380 Well, since I, apparently,
00:05:56.300 I'm still one of the biggest stories in the country,
00:06:00.460 is everybody okay if I talk about me
00:06:02.240 as long as I'm provocative and I cause more trouble?
00:06:06.520 I think you'd enjoy that.
00:06:08.540 I'm going to be provocative and cause more trouble.
00:06:10.440 But I'll lead into it this way.
00:06:12.780 So, Hotep Jesus, as you know,
00:06:15.260 interviewed me, and he's the only interview
00:06:17.340 on anywhere in which I've actually
00:06:20.420 given my comments in full.
00:06:22.700 So, there's only one source,
00:06:24.980 if you want to know the context of my current drama.
00:06:28.340 It's Hotep Jesus' interview on YouTube.
00:06:30.740 Just Google it, you'll find it.
00:06:32.760 But Hotep tweeted this morning,
00:06:35.960 after my interview with Scott Adams,
00:06:37.540 the extreme left thinks I'm a sellout
00:06:39.900 for white supremacy,
00:06:40.840 and the extreme right thinks I'm a black supremacist.
00:06:44.680 What does this mean?
00:06:46.980 What does it mean?
00:06:50.220 That's a real question.
00:06:51.340 What does it mean?
00:06:52.920 Well, the first thing it means
00:06:54.460 is what we've known for a while,
00:06:56.400 which is the facts don't matter to the opinion.
00:07:00.780 Right?
00:07:01.360 Because they're both looking at the same set of facts,
00:07:03.420 and they're arriving at opposite movies, right?
00:07:06.040 Two movies.
00:07:07.260 So, this is my lead-in to Don't Trust Anything.
00:07:12.400 And now I'm going to explain to the people
00:07:14.480 who are not media geeks like I am
00:07:17.700 how the cancellation works.
00:07:20.800 This is the inside story
00:07:23.420 that you won't hear anywhere else.
00:07:25.440 I promise you won't hear this anywhere else.
00:07:27.940 This is the inside story
00:07:29.420 of how a cancellation works.
00:07:32.300 And if you haven't heard the whole layout,
00:07:34.760 it feels like there's no story here, right?
00:07:36.760 It looks pretty straightforward.
00:07:39.040 If you were, let's say, not a media student,
00:07:43.860 you know, you were just watching the news,
00:07:45.280 but you didn't study the news,
00:07:47.660 you would say that a cancellation
00:07:50.160 is this simple situation.
00:07:52.780 Somebody did something bad,
00:07:55.380 the public noticed,
00:07:57.720 then the public reacted
00:07:59.300 to get rid of this bad actor, right?
00:08:03.340 And that's the way the newspapers are reporting it.
00:08:06.380 I did something bad, they say,
00:08:08.640 you know, they don't,
00:08:09.520 because they omit the context,
00:08:11.800 but they say I did something bad,
00:08:13.260 and then good people react,
00:08:15.560 oh, terrible,
00:08:17.000 and then they remove me.
00:08:19.120 Do you think that explains
00:08:20.460 what actually happens in the real world?
00:08:23.280 Does that sound like something
00:08:24.600 that actually happened to me?
00:08:27.540 Nope.
00:08:28.580 Not one of those things happened to me.
00:08:31.440 Let me tell you the inside story
00:08:33.380 of what happened to me.
00:08:36.020 Who was the first entity to cancel me?
00:08:39.220 Do you remember?
00:08:39.660 I believe it was the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
00:08:44.840 Now, is that a Democrat-leaning town?
00:08:49.600 Cleveland?
00:08:50.780 53% black.
00:08:53.200 Yeah, it's a Democrat town, right?
00:08:55.300 Now, when the Washington Post canceled me,
00:08:57.900 and I think the Washington Post
00:08:58.940 is the one that mattered,
00:09:00.560 because they're the ones who made it
00:09:02.260 sort of okay for everybody else to do it.
00:09:04.580 Now, what has been my opinion
00:09:07.680 of the Washington Post,
00:09:09.900 which I've said many, many times
00:09:11.700 in the past five years?
00:09:14.060 I've called them fake news.
00:09:16.120 At the same time,
00:09:17.240 they were paying me.
00:09:20.040 So at the same time
00:09:21.160 the Washington Post was paying me,
00:09:23.340 I was calling them fake news
00:09:24.980 probably every week for years,
00:09:28.200 because it was.
00:09:29.500 The reason I call them fake news
00:09:31.860 is because it actually is.
00:09:33.940 Like, actually, literally,
00:09:35.140 they make up the news.
00:09:37.140 Now, how many of you didn't know that?
00:09:39.820 Is there anybody here who doesn't know
00:09:41.400 that the news industry
00:09:43.700 literally makes up the news?
00:09:45.660 Or they don't bother to check it or something.
00:09:47.780 But it's wrong.
00:09:49.580 Well, there's an article in Fortune
00:09:52.300 that just came out a few weeks ago,
00:09:55.800 two weeks ago.
00:09:56.360 And it says that trust in media is so low
00:09:59.880 that half of Americans now believe
00:10:02.120 that news organizations
00:10:03.220 deliberately mislead them.
00:10:06.340 Half?
00:10:07.700 But what's wrong with the other half?
00:10:10.340 How could only half of the people
00:10:11.940 in the United States
00:10:12.600 know that the news
00:10:13.540 misleads them intentionally?
00:10:15.760 How could you not know that?
00:10:19.300 Who in the world doesn't know
00:10:20.740 that the news is basically all fake
00:10:23.040 if it's political?
00:10:24.440 Did you hear that?
00:10:26.360 All of the news is fake
00:10:29.300 if it's political.
00:10:31.300 Because the news organizations
00:10:32.680 don't even pretend
00:10:33.740 to be non-political.
00:10:35.840 It's just a narrative.
00:10:37.580 So if the news tells you something about,
00:10:39.860 let's say, a disaster,
00:10:41.560 and there's no political element,
00:10:43.480 it's probably right.
00:10:44.880 It's probably true.
00:10:46.100 But if the news reports anything
00:10:47.800 that has a political element to it,
00:10:50.420 they're not even trying.
00:10:52.400 There's no attempt,
00:10:53.720 not really,
00:10:54.520 to tell you the real news.
00:10:55.960 It's all narrative.
00:10:57.340 Now, I'm surprised that half of the country
00:10:58.920 is not even aware of that,
00:11:00.700 which perfectly explains my situation.
00:11:04.040 Imagine if the whole country knew
00:11:05.560 that the news was made up
00:11:06.900 whenever it's political.
00:11:08.920 Like, literally,
00:11:09.620 it's just made up.
00:11:10.220 How would they treat my situation
00:11:12.820 if they knew
00:11:13.800 that I was one of the most effective voices
00:11:17.200 for Trump, in particular?
00:11:21.220 How would they treat me?
00:11:23.680 Well, there's no news organization
00:11:25.400 that leans left
00:11:26.980 that would treat the story
00:11:28.560 as an objective news story.
00:11:30.660 They would treat it as advocates
00:11:32.280 for Democrats.
00:11:33.700 And the first thing you need to do
00:11:35.520 is get rid of me
00:11:37.320 from the public stage
00:11:38.780 right before a big election.
00:11:41.700 How many of you
00:11:43.000 knew immediately
00:11:44.740 that this was political?
00:11:47.620 Now, it's not entirely political.
00:11:49.940 Yeah, let me be clear.
00:11:51.260 It's political
00:11:52.120 at the cancellation level.
00:11:54.220 It's not political
00:11:54.960 at the public level.
00:11:56.400 The public is responding
00:11:57.560 to what they see.
00:11:59.300 Right?
00:11:59.520 The public's just responding.
00:12:00.960 But when the Washington Post
00:12:02.360 cancels me,
00:12:03.060 they're canceling somebody
00:12:04.160 who was their biggest critic.
00:12:07.200 Maybe not the biggest.
00:12:08.680 But I'm one of the biggest critics
00:12:10.080 because they make up the news.
00:12:14.000 So the fake news
00:12:15.360 made up some fake news,
00:12:17.940 which is easy to do.
00:12:19.180 You just leave out the context,
00:12:20.540 in my case.
00:12:21.780 So you just leave out the context,
00:12:23.160 which is how they create fake news.
00:12:25.160 And then they canceled me
00:12:26.660 for calling them fake news.
00:12:29.400 Now, not only for that reason,
00:12:30.780 but you know that they needed
00:12:32.120 to get rid of any capable voices
00:12:34.060 that might be opposed to them.
00:12:36.820 Now, did anybody actually say that out loud
00:12:38.940 at the Washington Post?
00:12:40.600 Did anybody sit in a meeting and say,
00:12:42.720 you know,
00:12:43.700 I think we've got to get rid of this guy
00:12:45.080 because he's got, you know,
00:12:46.380 a strong political voice?
00:12:48.360 No, I don't think so.
00:12:49.460 I don't think so.
00:12:50.340 I doubt there was any, like,
00:12:51.980 direct conversation.
00:12:53.800 But how easy is it to cancel
00:12:55.260 the person who's your biggest critic?
00:12:56.700 Should you take the opinion
00:13:00.680 from somebody who I've been criticizing
00:13:02.660 vocally and publicly for five years?
00:13:05.520 In no case is that a reliable voice.
00:13:11.020 But how about the other voices?
00:13:12.800 Are they more reliable?
00:13:15.320 Well, let's take a look
00:13:16.580 at some of the biggest ones.
00:13:19.060 There was CNN.
00:13:19.640 And do I criticize CNN
00:13:23.900 for fake news
00:13:25.080 almost every day
00:13:27.780 for years?
00:13:30.700 Yes, yes.
00:13:32.040 Is CNN an unbiased source of news
00:13:34.660 or do they lean left?
00:13:37.900 Well, they tried a little bit
00:13:39.300 to be unbiased,
00:13:40.100 but no, they're not biased.
00:13:42.220 How about Jake Tapper
00:13:43.800 of CNN?
00:13:45.320 I guess he went at me pretty hard.
00:13:46.700 I didn't see it,
00:13:47.440 but I heard that.
00:13:48.880 Is Jake Tapper
00:13:49.920 a credible voice
00:13:51.160 on this topic?
00:13:53.340 What do you think?
00:13:54.580 Is Jake Tapper
00:13:55.400 a believable,
00:13:56.660 credible voice
00:13:57.360 on this exact topic?
00:13:59.260 Well, let me tell you
00:14:00.100 something you didn't know.
00:14:02.580 Prior to any of this,
00:14:04.680 a few years ago,
00:14:05.940 I canceled Jake Tapper
00:14:07.600 personally
00:14:08.300 from my own life,
00:14:09.960 blocked him on social media,
00:14:11.580 because, you know,
00:14:12.160 we'd had a number
00:14:13.360 of interactions privately.
00:14:15.020 And I blocked him
00:14:17.040 because he falsely accused me
00:14:18.780 of being a racist
00:14:19.620 in person,
00:14:21.680 like, individually.
00:14:23.660 He falsely,
00:14:24.620 and here's why I say falsely.
00:14:26.700 The context was
00:14:27.940 I was complaining
00:14:28.740 about CNN's coverage
00:14:30.340 of the fake news
00:14:31.780 that Trump called
00:14:33.640 neo-Nazis fine people.
00:14:36.200 Now, if you're not up
00:14:37.040 with the fake news,
00:14:38.220 that never happened.
00:14:39.260 It was a video edit.
00:14:40.920 They just clip out the part
00:14:41.980 where he says,
00:14:42.580 I'm not talking
00:14:43.200 about the neo-Nazis.
00:14:44.220 So they take that out,
00:14:45.540 and it looks like he is.
00:14:46.920 That's the little trick.
00:14:48.260 So CNN has been running
00:14:49.400 this obvious fake news
00:14:50.900 for years,
00:14:52.840 and I saw this new package
00:14:54.760 that was on there,
00:14:55.380 a package using
00:14:56.260 the industry term,
00:14:57.920 and there was a voiceover
00:14:59.340 from some woman
00:15:00.240 who was voicing
00:15:01.980 the fake news again
00:15:03.540 about that hoax.
00:15:05.360 And I complained to him,
00:15:07.460 and he said,
00:15:09.220 would you have said that
00:15:10.420 if the person
00:15:11.880 who did the report
00:15:13.380 had not been black?
00:15:17.400 Now,
00:15:18.240 I think my jaw
00:15:20.540 dropped to the floor
00:15:21.620 because, number one,
00:15:23.240 I was not aware
00:15:24.260 of her ethnicity at all.
00:15:25.660 I'd heard a voice.
00:15:27.320 You know,
00:15:27.740 the TV voices,
00:15:29.040 they all sound the same.
00:15:30.680 You know,
00:15:30.860 anybody who's on TV,
00:15:32.460 they adopt that
00:15:33.240 sort of generic voice.
00:15:34.400 So I had no,
00:15:36.000 I didn't know
00:15:36.580 who she was before that.
00:15:38.140 Abby somebody?
00:15:39.580 I forget her last name.
00:15:41.140 But I was only responding
00:15:42.920 to the content
00:15:43.720 that it was obviously
00:15:45.320 fake news,
00:15:46.200 and it was very bad
00:15:46.940 for me personally
00:15:47.680 because the fake news
00:15:49.440 was painting me
00:15:50.260 as a racist.
00:15:51.780 Do you get that?
00:15:52.700 I was a supporter of Trump.
00:15:55.140 The fake news said
00:15:56.560 that he said
00:15:57.200 neo-Nazis are good people,
00:15:59.080 and therefore,
00:15:59.840 as a supporter,
00:16:01.160 I get slimed
00:16:02.100 by the fake news racism.
00:16:03.300 So I was complaining
00:16:04.820 about being accused
00:16:06.280 of being a racist
00:16:08.380 unfairly,
00:16:09.400 and while I was
00:16:10.500 complaining about
00:16:11.680 being accused unfairly,
00:16:13.960 he accused me unfairly.
00:16:16.300 So I cancelled him,
00:16:18.340 and then when this happened,
00:16:19.940 he once again,
00:16:20.780 I assume,
00:16:21.300 left out the content.
00:16:23.120 It was Abby Phillips.
00:16:24.320 Somebody's reminding me.
00:16:26.200 It was Abby Phillips,
00:16:27.400 I believe.
00:16:28.400 And so he cancelled me
00:16:32.620 based on fake news
00:16:33.680 a third time.
00:16:35.680 This is the third time
00:16:37.040 Jake Tapper
00:16:37.940 has directly or indirectly
00:16:39.900 cancelled me
00:16:40.580 for fake news.
00:16:41.860 Once by associating me
00:16:43.340 with the fake news
00:16:44.300 of Trump
00:16:45.740 and the neo-Nazis.
00:16:47.360 Once by imagining
00:16:48.520 I was racist
00:16:49.780 because somehow
00:16:51.900 the race of the reporter
00:16:53.920 would make a difference.
00:16:55.420 Like, I don't even know
00:16:56.200 how that would make
00:16:56.820 a difference.
00:16:57.980 Because no matter
00:16:58.680 who said it,
00:16:59.400 it was still wrong.
00:17:00.200 And I was only talking
00:17:01.680 about what they said
00:17:02.480 and whether it was
00:17:03.020 factually right.
00:17:04.180 So this is the third time
00:17:05.980 Jake Tapper
00:17:07.500 has slimed me
00:17:08.600 with the wrong context
00:17:11.160 and fake news
00:17:12.120 for the same thing.
00:17:15.340 Now,
00:17:16.080 I've never known
00:17:17.560 a worse piece of shit.
00:17:19.400 I have to say,
00:17:21.020 he is a piece of shit.
00:17:22.720 And I don't say that
00:17:23.580 about many people.
00:17:24.860 And let me say this
00:17:25.760 as clearly as I can.
00:17:28.180 White people
00:17:28.880 are fucking awful.
00:17:30.760 White people suck.
00:17:32.680 I'll tell you.
00:17:33.580 They will immediately
00:17:35.020 run to their little cave
00:17:36.520 and start yelling
00:17:38.020 at anybody
00:17:38.640 to get an advantage.
00:17:40.400 White people
00:17:40.980 are pretty close
00:17:41.860 to a fucking hate group
00:17:43.020 at this point.
00:17:45.300 But how about the press?
00:17:47.860 Is the press
00:17:48.880 a hate group?
00:17:50.860 I would say yes.
00:17:52.940 I would say
00:17:53.440 the left-leaning press
00:17:55.320 is a hate group
00:17:56.100 against the right.
00:17:56.940 And I would say
00:17:57.880 the right-leaning press
00:17:59.300 has got some stuff
00:18:00.380 to answer for, too.
00:18:02.000 Might be a little bit
00:18:03.240 too much hate-y,
00:18:04.680 if you know what I mean.
00:18:05.700 So I'm not going to let
00:18:06.580 the left or right
00:18:07.380 off the hook.
00:18:08.560 I believe they both
00:18:09.440 present clickbait news
00:18:12.440 to their people.
00:18:13.880 And how is it not
00:18:15.120 going to be racially charged?
00:18:17.900 How is it not?
00:18:19.500 You can't really help it.
00:18:21.060 So I think the press
00:18:22.160 is a hate group.
00:18:23.500 I think white people
00:18:24.680 are a hate group.
00:18:25.640 But of course,
00:18:27.400 in all things,
00:18:28.440 since I hope most of you
00:18:30.320 are not NPCs,
00:18:31.320 are there any NPCs
00:18:32.380 watching?
00:18:33.280 Non-player characters?
00:18:35.500 Because I'll present this
00:18:37.280 differently for the NPCs.
00:18:39.800 It has to be simplified
00:18:40.700 for them.
00:18:42.120 But for the rest of you,
00:18:44.680 I'll keep it more nuanced.
00:18:48.980 All right, then I also saw
00:18:51.020 that Dean Obadiah,
00:18:52.440 Obadiah,
00:18:53.840 Dean Obadiah,
00:18:55.980 I can't pronounce
00:18:57.080 his last name.
00:18:58.260 So do you know
00:18:59.020 what his role is
00:18:59.920 on CNN usually?
00:19:01.560 You recognize the name?
00:19:03.020 If you were not
00:19:03.940 a student of the news,
00:19:05.900 you would think,
00:19:07.040 hey, here's this
00:19:07.700 prominent person
00:19:08.480 who's saying bad things
00:19:09.920 about Scott Adams,
00:19:10.960 so that's probably true.
00:19:12.620 But would you be aware
00:19:14.000 that Dean Obadiah
00:19:16.100 is who they send out
00:19:18.040 when they just want
00:19:20.280 somebody to say
00:19:21.440 crazy shit?
00:19:23.280 He's basically
00:19:24.240 their attack dog
00:19:25.280 for crazy shit.
00:19:27.160 If the only thing
00:19:28.260 you knew
00:19:28.660 is that Dean Obadiah
00:19:29.940 was against me
00:19:30.840 and you were also
00:19:32.140 a student of the news,
00:19:33.780 you would conclude
00:19:34.620 that I was right
00:19:35.540 without even hearing
00:19:36.640 my argument.
00:19:38.280 It's sort of like
00:19:39.020 the worse than
00:19:39.720 Watergate guy.
00:19:41.740 You know,
00:19:42.020 when CNN sends
00:19:42.900 the worse than
00:19:43.440 Watergate guy out,
00:19:44.620 you know it's fake news.
00:19:46.100 They don't get
00:19:47.140 the worse than
00:19:47.660 Watergate guy out
00:19:48.620 unless it's fake news.
00:19:50.260 They don't ask
00:19:51.200 Dean Obadiah
00:19:52.240 to write an opinion piece
00:19:54.240 unless it's fake news.
00:19:57.960 We'll hide that user.
00:20:00.900 So he's like
00:20:02.260 this great,
00:20:03.240 you know,
00:20:03.700 shining bright light
00:20:06.040 that says
00:20:07.200 whatever this guy says
00:20:08.440 is the opposite of true
00:20:09.560 because that's his role.
00:20:11.600 I mean,
00:20:11.880 his actual role
00:20:12.660 is to spew bullshit.
00:20:14.080 That's like
00:20:15.020 I don't know that
00:20:16.380 I don't think
00:20:17.040 it's his job description
00:20:18.080 but it's clearly
00:20:19.700 the role he's been
00:20:20.500 filling for years.
00:20:22.340 Yeah,
00:20:22.540 and I'll make
00:20:23.000 a distinction.
00:20:26.240 Somebody like
00:20:27.020 Wolf Blitzer
00:20:27.700 is there to
00:20:28.780 report the news
00:20:29.820 and I suspect
00:20:30.880 he tries
00:20:31.480 hard to
00:20:32.680 report it straight.
00:20:34.780 But Dean Obadiah,
00:20:36.040 that's a different
00:20:36.720 situation.
00:20:38.100 All right,
00:20:38.260 how about this?
00:20:38.840 The New York Times
00:20:41.220 also dunked on me.
00:20:43.420 Is the New York Times
00:20:44.240 a source of real news
00:20:45.560 or fake news?
00:20:48.220 Real or fake?
00:20:49.260 New York Times.
00:20:50.840 Yeah.
00:20:51.360 Anybody who actually
00:20:52.560 follows the news business
00:20:54.140 knows that they
00:20:55.660 are basically
00:20:56.560 a source of fake news.
00:20:58.400 Somewhat consistently.
00:21:00.260 Again,
00:21:00.860 only on political stuff.
00:21:03.120 Political and also
00:21:04.580 weapons of mass destruction stuff,
00:21:07.800 which I guess is
00:21:08.500 political in a way.
00:21:11.480 We'll get rid of
00:21:12.300 this troll.
00:21:13.560 Got a lot of trolls today.
00:21:15.460 I'm attracting
00:21:16.080 a lot of energy.
00:21:17.300 Yeah,
00:21:17.500 the New York Times
00:21:18.100 is a fake news
00:21:19.180 organization.
00:21:20.080 In fact,
00:21:20.660 they were one of the
00:21:21.620 main perpetrators
00:21:23.600 of it's fake news
00:21:25.080 to say that
00:21:25.720 the lab leak
00:21:26.380 came from Wuhan.
00:21:27.960 So the New York Times
00:21:28.840 was slapping that down
00:21:30.160 as fake news
00:21:31.340 when in fact
00:21:31.920 they were the fake news.
00:21:34.300 So,
00:21:35.180 I'm giving you,
00:21:36.880 so the first thing
00:21:37.860 you need to know
00:21:38.520 is that the,
00:21:40.440 oh,
00:21:40.640 let me,
00:21:41.700 let me tell you
00:21:43.300 how the cascade goes.
00:21:45.440 So there's a cascade effect
00:21:47.280 when the notion
00:21:49.460 of cancelling
00:21:50.300 somebody comes up.
00:21:51.660 So I'll tell you
00:21:52.480 how the cascade
00:21:53.120 worked in my case.
00:21:55.700 There were,
00:21:56.500 of course,
00:21:56.640 individuals
00:21:57.220 who were complaining.
00:21:58.540 But the people
00:21:59.080 making the decisions
00:22:00.400 were the ones
00:22:02.600 who are politically
00:22:03.900 lined against me.
00:22:05.000 would anybody
00:22:06.200 disagree with that?
00:22:07.520 Well,
00:22:07.700 let me give you
00:22:08.120 some context.
00:22:09.780 So far,
00:22:10.640 nobody prominent
00:22:11.840 on the right
00:22:12.740 has criticized me
00:22:15.320 except for
00:22:16.020 maybe the way
00:22:16.880 I said it.
00:22:17.980 There's nobody
00:22:18.520 on the right
00:22:18.920 who disagrees
00:22:19.620 with the content
00:22:20.680 of what I said
00:22:21.500 after they've seen
00:22:22.820 it in context.
00:22:23.820 Would you agree
00:22:24.300 that nobody
00:22:25.520 on the right,
00:22:26.860 not black,
00:22:27.840 not white,
00:22:29.160 nobody black
00:22:29.920 or white
00:22:30.500 on the political
00:22:31.920 right
00:22:32.280 has disagreed
00:22:33.140 with my point,
00:22:35.600 but some have
00:22:36.220 disagreed
00:22:36.680 with the way
00:22:37.060 I said it,
00:22:38.040 which is actually
00:22:38.880 valid.
00:22:40.060 Do you know
00:22:40.360 why it's valid
00:22:41.020 that they disagree
00:22:42.240 with the way
00:22:42.760 I said it?
00:22:44.120 Do you know
00:22:44.660 why I'm agreeing
00:22:45.240 with that?
00:22:46.600 Because the way
00:22:47.320 I said it
00:22:47.880 was to provoke.
00:22:49.940 And they're saying,
00:22:50.880 you shouldn't
00:22:51.220 have provoked.
00:22:52.800 And I'm saying,
00:22:53.960 I hear you
00:22:55.320 that what I did
00:22:56.020 provoked,
00:22:57.480 but if you think
00:22:58.640 I shouldn't
00:22:59.200 have done it,
00:23:00.280 then you're
00:23:00.640 probably a cowardly
00:23:01.960 fuck who doesn't
00:23:03.340 want to speak truth
00:23:04.300 and is afraid of it.
00:23:06.740 So there's that.
00:23:08.920 Anyway,
00:23:09.680 I don't expect
00:23:10.640 to be monetized today,
00:23:11.840 so we'll see
00:23:12.360 how this goes.
00:23:13.440 But let me tell you
00:23:14.260 how the cascade goes.
00:23:15.140 So first,
00:23:15.560 the people who are
00:23:16.080 politically aligned
00:23:17.220 against me,
00:23:18.280 coincidentally,
00:23:19.940 are also the
00:23:20.700 cancelers.
00:23:21.780 Oh, coincidentally,
00:23:22.760 they're politically
00:23:23.320 aligned against me.
00:23:24.440 But only the people
00:23:25.600 who are politically
00:23:26.300 aligned against me.
00:23:28.040 Now, it starts
00:23:28.880 with only that,
00:23:30.080 right?
00:23:31.100 So do you think
00:23:32.060 this is about race?
00:23:34.860 If it were about race,
00:23:36.340 don't you think
00:23:36.840 black conservatives
00:23:37.920 would have something
00:23:39.180 to say about me?
00:23:43.020 Do you think
00:23:43.780 black conservatives
00:23:44.720 don't know
00:23:45.320 what racism is
00:23:46.380 because they're
00:23:47.440 conservative?
00:23:48.840 That's not a thing.
00:23:50.620 Black conservatives
00:23:51.360 know what racism is.
00:23:53.960 Does anybody
00:23:54.680 disagree with
00:23:55.400 that statement?
00:23:55.860 And they looked
00:23:57.540 at the situation
00:23:58.300 and they said,
00:23:58.900 well, suboptimal
00:24:00.300 the way you said it,
00:24:01.980 but, you know,
00:24:02.760 we get your point.
00:24:04.720 Right?
00:24:05.320 Now, you're also
00:24:06.080 seeing Megyn Kelly
00:24:08.860 made a strong point.
00:24:11.840 Newsweek actually said
00:24:12.880 I shouldn't be
00:24:13.400 canceled.
00:24:14.480 Did you see that
00:24:15.060 today?
00:24:16.080 So an article
00:24:16.960 in Newsweek said
00:24:17.760 I shouldn't be
00:24:18.260 canceled.
00:24:18.580 and that it was
00:24:20.860 racist to cancel
00:24:21.700 me,
00:24:23.000 interestingly.
00:24:24.000 So there will be
00:24:24.780 a little turn
00:24:25.340 in the news.
00:24:26.020 Anyway, so first
00:24:26.760 the cascade starts
00:24:27.780 with people who
00:24:28.420 are clearly
00:24:29.500 more politically
00:24:30.520 motivated than
00:24:31.580 racially motivated.
00:24:32.820 And you can know
00:24:33.700 that because
00:24:34.580 the conservative
00:24:35.360 blacks didn't
00:24:37.760 have the same
00:24:38.260 problem.
00:24:39.200 It's clearly
00:24:39.840 lined up by
00:24:40.580 politics,
00:24:41.120 not by race.
00:24:43.100 And so that's
00:24:44.540 the beginning
00:24:44.980 of the cascade.
00:24:45.820 And then the
00:24:46.100 cascade goes to
00:24:46.980 the people
00:24:48.120 who don't know
00:24:48.820 me.
00:24:50.020 So they don't
00:24:50.720 know anything
00:24:51.100 about me.
00:24:51.700 They're just
00:24:51.960 being introduced.
00:24:53.460 And they don't
00:24:54.280 know the context.
00:24:56.040 So if the
00:24:56.800 newspapers say,
00:24:57.660 hey, he did
00:24:58.080 this bad thing,
00:24:59.340 the people who
00:24:59.900 don't know me
00:25:00.440 personally,
00:25:01.100 which would
00:25:01.640 debunk it
00:25:02.560 just by that,
00:25:03.680 and the people
00:25:04.380 who don't know
00:25:04.820 my context,
00:25:06.700 and also 50%
00:25:08.100 of the country
00:25:08.640 thinks that the
00:25:09.860 news is real.
00:25:11.220 They still think
00:25:12.080 it's real.
00:25:15.900 All right.
00:25:16.980 So then they
00:25:18.120 join on because
00:25:19.000 they don't know
00:25:19.520 me and they
00:25:20.540 don't know the
00:25:21.000 story, but they
00:25:21.740 get pretty mad.
00:25:23.220 Then you get
00:25:23.760 what I call the
00:25:24.340 dopamine gooners.
00:25:26.080 The dopamine
00:25:26.740 gooners are
00:25:28.080 really easy to
00:25:28.800 identify on
00:25:29.440 Twitter.
00:25:30.580 They're the
00:25:30.860 people who
00:25:31.320 seem to be
00:25:31.920 enjoying the
00:25:32.540 hell and
00:25:33.640 of destroying
00:25:34.340 my life.
00:25:36.160 Maybe they're
00:25:36.900 politically on
00:25:38.180 the other side.
00:25:38.800 Maybe it's just
00:25:39.320 because I was
00:25:40.140 successful.
00:25:41.340 Maybe it's just
00:25:41.880 because they're
00:25:42.240 horrible, horrible
00:25:43.020 people.
00:25:43.820 But you can tell
00:25:44.740 they're enjoying
00:25:45.460 it.
00:25:45.860 So you can't
00:25:47.260 really take that
00:25:47.880 group seriously,
00:25:48.740 can you?
00:25:50.200 Can you take
00:25:51.020 seriously a group
00:25:52.720 that's tweeting
00:25:53.260 with one hand
00:25:54.060 and using the
00:25:55.180 other hand for
00:25:55.680 something else?
00:25:56.320 I mean, that's
00:25:56.660 purely a pleasure
00:25:58.000 loop that has
00:26:01.340 nothing to do
00:26:01.880 with me or
00:26:02.360 what happened.
00:26:03.400 And I think it's
00:26:03.960 independent of me
00:26:04.760 in some ways,
00:26:05.860 because they're
00:26:06.340 just looking for
00:26:06.940 the new thing to
00:26:07.680 beat off to,
00:26:08.460 basically.
00:26:09.620 So first you have
00:26:10.880 the political people
00:26:12.140 who cancel me,
00:26:13.340 then the people
00:26:13.880 who don't know the
00:26:14.500 story who join in,
00:26:15.720 then you've got
00:26:16.100 the dopamine
00:26:16.640 gooners who are
00:26:17.460 just enjoying
00:26:18.320 the attack.
00:26:20.320 Then you have,
00:26:21.300 the next level
00:26:22.120 is where it gets
00:26:22.740 bad.
00:26:23.720 So the next part
00:26:24.340 of the cascade
00:26:24.920 is what I'll
00:26:25.920 call the innocent
00:26:26.700 bystanders who
00:26:27.640 get caught in
00:26:28.160 the crossfire.
00:26:29.720 In this case,
00:26:30.660 the innocent
00:26:31.140 bystanders included
00:26:32.960 my syndication
00:26:34.440 company.
00:26:35.660 So the company
00:26:36.480 that was distributing
00:26:37.240 to the newspapers.
00:26:39.000 And again,
00:26:40.280 I'll say this
00:26:40.920 again,
00:26:41.180 my syndication
00:26:43.020 company has
00:26:43.940 been great.
00:26:45.580 Like from
00:26:46.100 the first
00:26:47.200 contact with
00:26:48.160 them,
00:26:48.460 you know,
00:26:48.760 decades ago,
00:26:49.900 just a real
00:26:50.880 quality organization.
00:26:52.280 One of the best
00:26:52.780 organizations I've
00:26:53.680 ever had
00:26:55.140 any contact
00:26:56.000 with.
00:26:57.080 But they didn't
00:26:57.820 have a choice.
00:26:59.140 Right?
00:26:59.400 The pressure
00:26:59.980 was on.
00:27:00.840 So they're in
00:27:01.360 the innocent
00:27:01.860 bystander,
00:27:03.200 I would say
00:27:03.780 victim.
00:27:04.720 I would say
00:27:05.320 they're victims
00:27:05.920 of this.
00:27:07.280 But they have
00:27:07.940 to do what
00:27:08.280 they have to do.
00:27:09.120 Now,
00:27:09.280 I haven't talked
00:27:09.800 to anybody
00:27:10.600 at my publisher.
00:27:12.480 But,
00:27:12.840 so I don't
00:27:14.360 know if they
00:27:14.940 were buying
00:27:15.360 into the
00:27:15.740 narrative or
00:27:16.620 if they were
00:27:17.980 just caught
00:27:18.320 in the crossfire.
00:27:21.500 Then you get,
00:27:22.480 apparently there's
00:27:23.200 a bubble in
00:27:23.920 New York City.
00:27:25.820 The New York
00:27:26.620 City liberals
00:27:27.360 are just insane
00:27:28.980 about this story.
00:27:30.540 So because
00:27:31.180 most publishing
00:27:32.220 has a strong
00:27:33.660 New York City
00:27:34.560 connection,
00:27:36.120 it's impossible
00:27:37.160 for publishers
00:27:38.000 to support me
00:27:39.480 at this point.
00:27:40.080 It's just
00:27:40.420 impossible.
00:27:41.680 The fact that
00:27:43.500 my business
00:27:44.760 had any
00:27:45.780 concentration
00:27:46.540 that involved
00:27:47.200 New York City,
00:27:48.240 especially the
00:27:48.880 publishing part,
00:27:50.320 makes it just
00:27:51.340 impossible.
00:27:52.640 There's no
00:27:53.240 rationality going
00:27:54.080 on there at all.
00:27:55.720 All right,
00:27:55.960 so that's the
00:27:56.340 New York City
00:27:56.800 crazies.
00:27:57.740 And then you
00:27:58.440 get the race
00:27:59.040 grifters.
00:28:00.560 So a lot of
00:28:01.260 the news cycle
00:28:02.300 is run by
00:28:03.380 the race grifters.
00:28:04.160 And interestingly,
00:28:06.080 two race grifters
00:28:07.000 from the
00:28:08.600 anti-Semitic
00:28:10.100 world
00:28:11.840 have come over
00:28:13.140 to join in the
00:28:14.420 attack
00:28:14.820 because they're
00:28:15.780 race grifters.
00:28:16.920 So the race grifters
00:28:17.940 have to get in
00:28:18.640 on any of these
00:28:19.380 topics, right?
00:28:20.180 And they're always
00:28:20.920 going to be on the
00:28:21.380 same side.
00:28:22.340 Yeah, Al Sharpton.
00:28:23.180 I think Al Sharpton
00:28:23.920 weighed in today.
00:28:25.140 So all of the
00:28:26.000 race grifters
00:28:26.660 are going to get in.
00:28:27.200 But the funny
00:28:27.720 part is that
00:28:29.380 Jonathan Greenblatt
00:28:30.880 of the ADL,
00:28:32.960 like the Jewish
00:28:34.260 community, I think,
00:28:35.440 was feeling left
00:28:36.120 out because I
00:28:37.580 said literally
00:28:38.200 nothing about them
00:28:39.100 whatsoever.
00:28:39.820 And I'm one of the
00:28:40.580 biggest supporters
00:28:41.380 of the Jewish
00:28:41.980 community, huge
00:28:43.200 supporter of Israel.
00:28:44.300 And I think they
00:28:45.020 were just left
00:28:45.540 out because the
00:28:46.300 grifters, like all
00:28:47.960 the black race
00:28:49.560 grifters were like
00:28:51.220 having a heyday.
00:28:52.260 And they're like,
00:28:53.140 yeah, this is good.
00:28:54.740 And the Jewish
00:28:56.240 race grifters
00:28:57.180 were like, hey,
00:28:59.280 I've got to get
00:28:59.760 in on this.
00:29:00.540 So they looked
00:29:01.220 around and they
00:29:01.960 found something
00:29:02.720 long ago that
00:29:04.660 I'd said,
00:29:05.640 essentially, it
00:29:07.120 must be really
00:29:07.740 hard to count the
00:29:08.780 number of dead
00:29:09.560 from the Holocaust.
00:29:11.120 So whether it's
00:29:12.480 5 million or
00:29:13.220 10 million, it's
00:29:14.860 the same story,
00:29:16.020 right?
00:29:16.420 It doesn't change
00:29:17.360 anything if you're
00:29:18.700 off by half a
00:29:19.680 million, right?
00:29:20.940 Nothing changes.
00:29:22.460 But that got
00:29:23.260 turned into
00:29:23.920 Holocaust denier.
00:29:25.120 Is there anybody
00:29:27.120 thinks you could
00:29:28.180 count accurately
00:29:29.160 all the dead
00:29:29.880 from World War
00:29:30.560 II in any
00:29:31.420 category?
00:29:32.580 Whether it's the
00:29:33.560 Jewish dead or
00:29:34.640 any other dead,
00:29:35.800 do you think you
00:29:36.360 could get an
00:29:36.840 accurate count from
00:29:38.540 World War II?
00:29:40.300 No.
00:29:40.600 Now, of course,
00:29:42.080 I'm saying this
00:29:42.640 again, and that'll
00:29:43.300 get turned into
00:29:44.300 he's a Holocaust
00:29:46.480 denier.
00:29:47.280 I've never met
00:29:48.160 anybody who denied
00:29:48.940 the Holocaust.
00:29:50.140 Have you?
00:29:50.500 Have you ever
00:29:51.960 even met, like,
00:29:53.060 a real person
00:29:53.820 who denied that
00:29:55.360 it even happened?
00:29:56.600 You actually have.
00:29:57.540 Some people have.
00:29:58.640 Well, I've never
00:29:59.240 even met one.
00:30:00.360 I've never even
00:30:01.080 met one.
00:30:02.040 To me, it's just
00:30:02.700 crazy.
00:30:04.240 But so today I'm
00:30:05.120 being accused of
00:30:05.960 that because the
00:30:07.680 race grifters, like,
00:30:09.340 felt left out, so
00:30:10.280 they had to throw
00:30:11.360 in some new stuff.
00:30:12.960 I'm waiting for
00:30:13.820 the gender grifters.
00:30:15.880 Have you noticed
00:30:16.420 that the gender
00:30:17.100 grifters have been
00:30:17.960 silent?
00:30:18.360 I don't know
00:30:20.240 why.
00:30:20.900 I was expecting
00:30:21.560 more gender
00:30:22.160 grifters to get
00:30:22.960 in here and say,
00:30:23.500 well, he said
00:30:24.140 that one time,
00:30:25.060 that thing one
00:30:25.700 time.
00:30:27.040 All right.
00:30:28.280 So then after
00:30:30.460 the race grifters
00:30:31.200 get in, you get
00:30:32.000 the NPCs.
00:30:33.300 So the NPCs are
00:30:34.500 the people who
00:30:35.060 are operating at
00:30:35.820 the lowest level
00:30:36.760 of politics, and
00:30:38.240 I'm going to
00:30:38.600 give you the
00:30:40.080 five things that
00:30:41.760 the NPCs say
00:30:43.220 because they
00:30:43.720 can't understand
00:30:44.560 any nuance.
00:30:47.120 They say,
00:30:47.880 I made a racist
00:30:48.860 rant.
00:30:51.340 If you don't
00:30:52.180 say why I
00:30:53.600 said it, or
00:30:54.680 you don't put
00:30:55.160 it in the
00:30:55.520 context that
00:30:56.220 the whole point
00:30:56.760 was to get
00:30:57.260 away from
00:30:57.720 racists, you're
00:30:59.800 an NPC.
00:31:01.980 There's just
00:31:02.540 no way around.
00:31:03.580 If that's your
00:31:04.360 level of
00:31:04.800 understanding of
00:31:05.480 this story, and
00:31:07.940 you don't know
00:31:08.460 that I was
00:31:09.040 talking against
00:31:10.080 hate and
00:31:10.820 against
00:31:11.200 discrimination,
00:31:12.580 and then the
00:31:13.280 news reversed
00:31:14.000 it, if you
00:31:14.740 don't know
00:31:15.060 that, you're
00:31:15.520 an NPC.
00:31:15.920 The other
00:31:17.800 NPC is
00:31:19.580 complaining that
00:31:20.720 I'm complaining
00:31:22.860 about being the
00:31:23.680 victim.
00:31:26.080 That is the
00:31:26.940 most NPC
00:31:27.640 thing you
00:31:28.160 can say
00:31:28.460 about this.
00:31:29.700 He's
00:31:30.040 complaining about
00:31:30.820 being the
00:31:31.240 victim.
00:31:32.320 First of all,
00:31:33.760 have I
00:31:34.140 complained?
00:31:36.280 When did I
00:31:37.020 complain?
00:31:37.380 I've
00:31:37.900 described, but
00:31:41.420 that's the
00:31:41.820 news.
00:31:42.800 The headline is
00:31:43.760 the news, right?
00:31:44.520 I'm telling
00:31:45.400 you what
00:31:45.720 happened.
00:31:47.080 How is
00:31:47.780 telling you
00:31:48.300 what happened
00:31:48.900 being a
00:31:50.160 victim?
00:31:51.600 And by
00:31:52.060 the way,
00:31:53.260 I would
00:31:55.640 say the
00:31:55.940 victims here
00:31:56.640 are black
00:31:57.300 America.
00:31:59.140 I would
00:31:59.820 say the
00:32:00.140 victim of
00:32:00.700 this story
00:32:01.120 is black
00:32:01.600 America.
00:32:02.520 Did black
00:32:03.060 America get
00:32:03.860 a better
00:32:04.420 reputation
00:32:05.020 because of
00:32:05.580 this?
00:32:06.820 Do black
00:32:07.580 Americans look
00:32:08.400 better because
00:32:10.400 of this?
00:32:11.460 I don't think
00:32:12.340 so.
00:32:12.540 I think
00:32:13.980 this was
00:32:14.440 a black
00:32:14.940 eye for
00:32:15.380 black
00:32:15.780 Americans.
00:32:16.720 Only on
00:32:17.220 the left.
00:32:18.300 Because remember,
00:32:19.040 the black
00:32:19.420 Americans on
00:32:20.000 the right who
00:32:20.680 looked at the
00:32:21.220 context, they
00:32:22.200 were fine.
00:32:24.060 They're like,
00:32:24.740 hey, free
00:32:25.080 speech.
00:32:26.060 Maybe I
00:32:26.640 wouldn't have
00:32:26.920 said it that
00:32:27.320 way, but I
00:32:27.760 get your
00:32:28.040 point.
00:32:28.980 They were
00:32:29.240 fine.
00:32:31.740 So I
00:32:32.340 think black
00:32:33.640 Americans who
00:32:34.520 lean left are
00:32:36.060 the victims of
00:32:36.780 this.
00:32:37.880 Now, those
00:32:39.140 of you who've
00:32:39.840 known me for
00:32:40.440 years, answer
00:32:41.840 this question.
00:32:42.600 You won't
00:32:43.240 see the same
00:32:43.940 answers on
00:32:44.520 the locals
00:32:45.240 platform, but
00:32:46.840 answer this
00:32:47.880 question, yes
00:32:48.480 or no.
00:32:49.740 I have been a
00:32:50.760 strong ally of
00:32:52.100 black Americans
00:32:52.840 for years, very
00:32:54.300 prominently.
00:32:55.260 Yes or no?
00:32:57.380 100% yes on
00:32:58.460 locals?
00:32:59.840 How about
00:33:00.140 YouTube?
00:33:00.960 Now, YouTube, you
00:33:01.700 don't know me as
00:33:02.380 well, but the
00:33:03.760 ones who think
00:33:04.420 yes, check the
00:33:06.280 other comments.
00:33:08.440 Because there
00:33:09.040 aren't that many
00:33:09.540 people who would
00:33:10.020 be trolls or
00:33:10.800 lying about it.
00:33:12.680 Now, when you
00:33:13.780 read any of the
00:33:14.360 news stories, did
00:33:15.240 you see this
00:33:15.700 context?
00:33:17.240 And do you
00:33:17.520 think it's an
00:33:18.020 important context
00:33:18.880 that I've been
00:33:19.640 one of the
00:33:20.080 strongest allies
00:33:21.160 of black
00:33:22.920 America for
00:33:23.840 years?
00:33:24.960 For years.
00:33:26.820 I mean, I
00:33:27.260 supported Colin
00:33:28.160 Kaepernick.
00:33:29.080 I worked with
00:33:29.920 Black Lives
00:33:30.500 Matter trying to
00:33:31.260 make a difference.
00:33:32.440 I supported
00:33:33.040 prison reform.
00:33:34.920 I mean, you
00:33:35.180 could go right
00:33:35.600 down the line.
00:33:36.600 I actually wrote
00:33:37.240 in favor of
00:33:37.900 reparations, but
00:33:38.740 not the way it's
00:33:39.660 formulated today.
00:33:40.520 And I've
00:33:44.500 personally invested
00:33:45.460 in America would
00:33:46.380 be the biggest
00:33:46.880 benefactor, which
00:33:48.220 is a big reason
00:33:48.900 it's worth doing.
00:33:50.320 Because I think
00:33:50.900 that's the biggest
00:33:52.060 hole and the
00:33:53.280 most important
00:33:53.940 thing to fix.
00:33:55.180 Now, if you
00:33:56.400 take my voice
00:33:57.220 away, is
00:33:57.820 black America
00:33:58.540 better or
00:33:59.180 worse?
00:33:59.460 I mean, you
00:34:04.840 know, who's
00:34:05.400 the victim?
00:34:06.880 I'm still
00:34:07.580 rich.
00:34:08.960 I'm still
00:34:09.640 rich.
00:34:10.480 But the people
00:34:11.120 I was trying to
00:34:11.800 help, they're
00:34:12.880 fucked.
00:34:14.060 Because they're
00:34:14.660 not going to get
00:34:15.120 the same help.
00:34:16.260 Or are they?
00:34:18.040 Or are they?
00:34:20.860 Because we're
00:34:23.020 going to get
00:34:23.340 provocative here in
00:34:24.220 a minute.
00:34:24.520 we're going to
00:34:27.500 get provocative.
00:34:29.440 All right, so
00:34:30.000 here's something
00:34:31.300 else the NPC
00:34:31.980 say.
00:34:33.920 First Amendment
00:34:34.740 doesn't apply.
00:34:36.260 These are private
00:34:36.860 companies making
00:34:37.660 decisions.
00:34:38.940 When did I
00:34:39.600 complain about
00:34:40.940 that distinction?
00:34:42.660 Now, in the
00:34:45.200 real world, if
00:34:45.920 you're not an
00:34:46.400 NPC, there's
00:34:48.200 of course the
00:34:49.020 legal First
00:34:49.900 Amendment free
00:34:50.760 speech, and
00:34:51.820 everybody knows
00:34:52.940 that that doesn't
00:34:53.920 apply to private
00:34:54.580 companies, but
00:34:55.580 the reality is
00:34:56.520 that the private
00:34:57.080 companies are such
00:34:57.940 gatekeepers that
00:34:59.400 it's as if it's
00:35:00.740 the same.
00:35:02.380 So the NPC
00:35:03.120 can't understand
00:35:04.000 that even though
00:35:04.760 it's not technically
00:35:05.540 true, it's as if
00:35:07.560 it's the same.
00:35:08.980 If you can be
00:35:09.900 shut up by
00:35:10.840 various private
00:35:12.180 entities,
00:35:12.660 what good is
00:35:13.980 free speech?
00:35:14.820 Do you?
00:35:15.940 What the hell are
00:35:16.640 you going to do
00:35:17.000 with your free
00:35:17.440 speech if you
00:35:18.340 can't use any
00:35:18.960 means of
00:35:19.520 communication?
00:35:21.560 So of course
00:35:22.460 it's the same
00:35:23.440 thing in
00:35:23.820 practice.
00:35:25.740 The others say
00:35:26.560 that I should
00:35:27.600 stop complaining,
00:35:28.660 which I haven't
00:35:29.280 done.
00:35:29.760 I haven't
00:35:30.120 complained, not
00:35:31.000 once, because
00:35:33.680 I'm the cause
00:35:34.620 of my own
00:35:35.060 problems.
00:35:36.740 Do you think
00:35:37.480 I'm not aware
00:35:38.180 that I triggered
00:35:38.900 all of this?
00:35:40.460 Now, I would
00:35:41.000 say there are
00:35:41.480 lots of broken
00:35:42.160 things in the
00:35:42.800 world that
00:35:43.200 contributed to
00:35:43.940 the outcome,
00:35:45.040 but certainly
00:35:45.900 in terms of
00:35:46.600 responsibility,
00:35:48.260 that's all
00:35:48.960 me.
00:35:51.000 Did anybody
00:35:51.860 hear me not
00:35:52.580 take responsibility
00:35:53.600 for my own
00:35:54.380 actions?
00:35:55.480 Is that me?
00:35:56.700 That's literally
00:35:57.320 the opposite of
00:35:58.260 everything I've
00:35:58.780 ever said my
00:35:59.420 entire whole
00:36:00.000 life.
00:36:01.100 Now, I take
00:36:01.920 responsibility for
00:36:03.060 my action
00:36:03.680 100%.
00:36:04.760 100%.
00:36:06.280 I own it, and
00:36:08.240 you haven't
00:36:08.620 heard me
00:36:08.940 apologize, have
00:36:09.740 you?
00:36:10.580 Have I
00:36:10.960 apologized to
00:36:11.680 anybody?
00:36:12.920 Nope.
00:36:13.900 I own my
00:36:14.920 opinion, and
00:36:16.980 I'm the only
00:36:17.400 person in the
00:36:17.920 world that can
00:36:18.360 do that right
00:36:18.880 now, because
00:36:19.940 I'm willing to
00:36:20.420 pay the price.
00:36:21.580 You can't
00:36:22.340 afford it.
00:36:22.840 I don't
00:36:23.140 recommend it.
00:36:24.960 All right.
00:36:26.440 Here's what I
00:36:27.180 learned in sort
00:36:29.180 of trying to
00:36:29.720 educate myself
00:36:30.540 about what
00:36:31.040 works and what
00:36:31.620 doesn't.
00:36:31.900 And this is
00:36:33.560 a gross
00:36:34.080 generalization,
00:36:35.280 and therefore
00:36:36.240 it does not
00:36:36.980 apply to all
00:36:37.660 people.
00:36:38.780 So the NPCs
00:36:40.120 won't be able
00:36:40.560 to hear that
00:36:40.980 part.
00:36:41.820 They're going
00:36:42.140 to say, why
00:36:43.100 are you saying
00:36:43.620 that's true of
00:36:44.220 all those
00:36:44.640 people?
00:36:45.680 After I said,
00:36:46.900 I'm not
00:36:47.180 referring to
00:36:48.280 all the people,
00:36:49.540 but they'll
00:36:49.940 still say that.
00:36:51.240 It goes like
00:36:51.880 this.
00:36:54.120 Black
00:36:54.600 Americans don't
00:36:55.400 want advice
00:36:55.980 from white
00:36:56.480 Americans.
00:36:57.860 True or
00:36:58.500 false?
00:36:59.700 Now, again,
00:37:00.460 this is an
00:37:01.020 overgeneralization.
00:37:01.900 There are
00:37:02.480 plenty of
00:37:03.340 black Americans
00:37:04.000 who have
00:37:04.900 literally asked
00:37:05.720 me for
00:37:06.080 advice, and
00:37:07.520 almost all of
00:37:08.160 them have
00:37:08.420 gotten it, I
00:37:08.940 think.
00:37:09.420 Maybe all of
00:37:10.000 them.
00:37:11.700 So this is
00:37:12.800 not about
00:37:13.200 individuals.
00:37:15.040 This is sort
00:37:15.600 of a group.
00:37:16.760 And by the
00:37:17.900 way, I
00:37:18.200 respect that.
00:37:19.640 I respect
00:37:20.120 that.
00:37:21.960 Because do
00:37:23.100 white Americans
00:37:23.820 understand what's
00:37:25.340 going on in
00:37:26.240 the black
00:37:26.560 community?
00:37:27.940 Maybe like a
00:37:29.020 little, but not
00:37:29.720 much.
00:37:30.180 I feel like
00:37:32.200 that's an
00:37:32.560 actual, completely
00:37:34.080 valid thing to
00:37:35.240 say.
00:37:36.680 How about, now
00:37:38.100 what is it that
00:37:39.060 black Americans
00:37:39.780 do want?
00:37:41.380 What do they
00:37:42.200 want if they
00:37:42.720 don't want
00:37:43.160 white advice?
00:37:44.340 Because you
00:37:44.820 know why they
00:37:45.140 don't want
00:37:45.480 white advice?
00:37:47.440 It sucks.
00:37:49.400 It sucks.
00:37:50.500 Let me give you
00:37:50.980 some white
00:37:51.440 advice.
00:37:53.100 I wrote down
00:37:54.060 some good
00:37:54.460 white advice.
00:37:55.320 Here's why
00:37:55.820 maybe it's not
00:37:56.760 so good.
00:37:57.620 Here's some
00:37:58.020 good white
00:37:58.420 advice.
00:37:58.820 Change your
00:37:59.620 culture.
00:38:01.920 Oh, there's
00:38:02.320 some good
00:38:02.640 advice.
00:38:03.900 I'm going to
00:38:04.340 go right out
00:38:04.820 and go do
00:38:05.820 that.
00:38:07.340 How about
00:38:07.880 stay married
00:38:09.420 or it's the
00:38:10.260 welfare state?
00:38:11.920 Now, these
00:38:12.280 things all have
00:38:14.220 some element
00:38:14.900 of truth,
00:38:15.600 right?
00:38:16.800 It's just that
00:38:17.480 they're not
00:38:17.840 actionable.
00:38:19.520 Do you get
00:38:19.960 that?
00:38:21.060 These sound
00:38:21.580 like, you
00:38:22.560 know, in
00:38:23.000 some cases
00:38:24.120 they're just
00:38:24.520 racist statements.
00:38:25.920 But even if
00:38:26.580 you're trying to
00:38:27.000 be helpful,
00:38:27.480 like even
00:38:28.480 if there's
00:38:29.100 somebody who's
00:38:29.480 non-racist
00:38:30.280 who says,
00:38:31.360 oh, you've
00:38:31.660 got to help
00:38:31.940 the culture.
00:38:32.660 How would
00:38:33.120 you do
00:38:33.420 that?
00:38:34.740 How do
00:38:35.120 you do
00:38:35.360 that?
00:38:36.380 This is a
00:38:36.960 useless piece
00:38:37.700 of advice.
00:38:38.940 Am I
00:38:39.420 right?
00:38:41.500 To me, it's
00:38:42.220 useless.
00:38:43.520 See, the
00:38:44.220 problem is
00:38:44.820 that if you
00:38:45.460 make the
00:38:45.840 distinction
00:38:46.300 between what's
00:38:47.620 true and
00:38:49.280 what's useful,
00:38:50.740 you have to
00:38:51.140 make that
00:38:51.480 distinction.
00:38:52.280 It might be
00:38:53.140 true that the
00:38:54.780 culture has an
00:38:55.720 impact.
00:38:56.840 But if it's
00:38:57.560 not a lever
00:38:58.120 you can move,
00:38:59.840 look for
00:39:00.260 something you
00:39:00.740 can actually
00:39:01.200 make a
00:39:01.620 difference.
00:39:02.480 It's not
00:39:02.880 going to
00:39:03.020 make any
00:39:03.340 difference.
00:39:04.180 Like, what
00:39:04.760 do you do?
00:39:05.120 Wake up and
00:39:05.640 change your
00:39:06.060 culture?
00:39:07.080 Like, how
00:39:07.340 does that
00:39:07.640 work?
00:39:09.680 All right,
00:39:10.240 and how
00:39:10.580 about, you
00:39:11.060 know, stay
00:39:11.560 married?
00:39:13.660 Has that
00:39:14.240 helped?
00:39:15.120 For how
00:39:15.520 many years
00:39:16.040 have Democrats
00:39:16.560 or Republicans
00:39:17.560 said, you
00:39:18.520 know, family
00:39:19.040 unit is
00:39:19.460 important, stay
00:39:20.140 married?
00:39:21.000 Has that
00:39:21.600 ever helped?
00:39:23.160 That's never
00:39:23.900 helped, right?
00:39:24.700 It's only
00:39:25.100 going in the
00:39:25.560 other direction.
00:39:26.780 So, it's
00:39:27.880 true advice, like
00:39:30.220 if you could
00:39:30.680 magically stay
00:39:32.040 married, that
00:39:33.320 would be a
00:39:33.760 good idea, but
00:39:34.780 we don't have
00:39:35.360 magic.
00:39:36.360 So, this is
00:39:36.860 not useful
00:39:37.420 advice.
00:39:37.880 This is dumb
00:39:38.480 ass white
00:39:38.960 advice.
00:39:39.880 This is just
00:39:40.420 dumb ass white
00:39:41.200 advice.
00:39:42.280 Totally.
00:39:42.980 It's just
00:39:43.320 political thinking
00:39:45.880 and then words
00:39:46.640 come out of
00:39:47.040 your mouth, and
00:39:48.120 they might even
00:39:48.700 be based on
00:39:49.320 something true.
00:39:50.800 Doesn't matter.
00:39:52.280 Doesn't matter
00:39:52.920 at all, because
00:39:53.820 it's not useful.
00:39:55.320 It's just
00:39:55.680 completely not
00:39:56.500 useful.
00:39:57.940 All right, how
00:39:58.280 about, and
00:39:58.660 then there's
00:39:59.260 observations about
00:40:01.360 the welfare
00:40:01.840 state, and
00:40:02.780 maybe it rewards
00:40:03.960 people for not
00:40:04.940 being married.
00:40:05.760 There's probably
00:40:06.280 something to
00:40:06.860 that, right?
00:40:08.240 Do you think
00:40:08.700 we're going to
00:40:09.040 fix that?
00:40:11.600 How do you
00:40:12.240 fix it?
00:40:12.640 Not give help
00:40:13.500 to people who
00:40:14.280 are single and
00:40:15.900 have a kid?
00:40:17.240 I mean, we're
00:40:17.740 not going to
00:40:18.100 stop doing it.
00:40:19.520 So, you've
00:40:20.260 got to find
00:40:20.700 something that
00:40:21.380 works.
00:40:22.280 That isn't
00:40:23.020 dumbass white
00:40:23.960 advice.
00:40:25.760 This is just
00:40:26.600 really dumbass
00:40:27.360 advice.
00:40:27.960 It's terrible.
00:40:30.060 So, if you
00:40:30.840 ask, what do
00:40:31.380 blacks want?
00:40:32.620 Again, this is
00:40:33.700 not all black
00:40:34.420 Americans.
00:40:35.320 There's great
00:40:35.980 diversity within
00:40:36.860 black Americans.
00:40:37.880 But there's one
00:40:38.660 answer I hear
00:40:39.140 more than
00:40:39.620 another.
00:40:41.100 That what black
00:40:42.180 people want from
00:40:43.340 white people is
00:40:44.040 not advice,
00:40:45.160 definitely not
00:40:46.280 advice, it's
00:40:48.200 money.
00:40:48.520 money.
00:40:49.680 It's money.
00:40:50.900 Because you
00:40:51.440 can't fix
00:40:51.880 anything without
00:40:52.540 money.
00:40:53.940 Right?
00:40:54.400 Now, I'm not
00:40:55.020 talking about
00:40:55.480 reparations,
00:40:56.200 specifically,
00:40:57.100 although that
00:40:57.540 would fit within
00:40:58.420 money, of
00:40:59.020 course.
00:40:59.840 But black
00:41:00.680 Americans say,
00:41:01.740 we can take
00:41:02.240 care of it.
00:41:03.000 Now, this would
00:41:03.460 be more of a
00:41:03.960 conservative take.
00:41:05.200 But we can
00:41:05.880 take care of it,
00:41:07.020 but it will
00:41:07.600 require some
00:41:08.160 funding, you
00:41:09.280 know, then
00:41:09.540 there'll be a
00:41:09.920 lot of work at
00:41:10.540 the local levels
00:41:11.360 and stuff, and
00:41:11.840 we'll take care
00:41:12.280 of it.
00:41:12.540 But here's my
00:41:15.520 complaint with
00:41:16.140 that.
00:41:17.380 Is that
00:41:17.800 working?
00:41:19.100 Like, I don't
00:41:19.620 see that working.
00:41:20.960 Do you?
00:41:22.420 Basically,
00:41:23.180 nothing's worked.
00:41:24.960 No white advice
00:41:26.020 has ever worked.
00:41:27.500 And for whatever
00:41:28.300 reason, black
00:41:29.000 America seems to
00:41:29.900 be not being able
00:41:31.280 to capitalize on
00:41:32.600 the fact that
00:41:33.080 white Americans
00:41:33.700 would give them
00:41:34.460 money if there's
00:41:36.180 something that's
00:41:36.760 worth funding.
00:41:38.160 Like, it has to
00:41:38.660 make sense.
00:41:40.360 Would white
00:41:40.900 Americans fund
00:41:41.880 school choice?
00:41:44.420 It's already
00:41:45.080 happening.
00:41:46.200 Do you know
00:41:46.500 why?
00:41:47.120 It's a good
00:41:47.780 idea.
00:41:49.020 That's all.
00:41:50.140 It's a good
00:41:50.680 idea.
00:41:51.900 So you can get
00:41:52.600 funding for
00:41:53.180 anything that's
00:41:53.820 a good idea.
00:41:55.080 Can you get
00:41:55.620 funding for
00:41:56.140 something that's
00:41:56.660 a bad idea?
00:41:58.100 Well, sometimes.
00:41:59.340 But it's
00:41:59.720 harder.
00:42:01.420 So if all
00:42:03.540 black America
00:42:05.080 has is bad
00:42:06.120 ideas, bad
00:42:07.500 ideas suggested
00:42:08.460 by white people,
00:42:09.360 the worst of
00:42:09.960 them, and then
00:42:11.300 bad ideas, only
00:42:12.600 in the sense
00:42:13.080 that whatever
00:42:13.480 they're doing
00:42:13.900 isn't working
00:42:14.460 yet, right?
00:42:15.980 So I don't
00:42:17.120 have details on
00:42:17.920 why it doesn't,
00:42:19.000 but it's not.
00:42:20.560 So there's
00:42:21.140 basically nothing
00:42:21.860 working at the
00:42:22.580 moment.
00:42:23.580 So since I
00:42:25.580 believe that
00:42:26.400 black Americans
00:42:27.080 do not need
00:42:27.900 advice from
00:42:29.060 white people,
00:42:29.820 I'm not going
00:42:30.800 to give them
00:42:31.160 any.
00:42:32.160 But I'm going
00:42:32.900 to make some
00:42:33.320 observations.
00:42:34.940 My observations
00:42:36.000 would apply to
00:42:37.120 all people.
00:42:38.740 So not all
00:42:39.640 black people,
00:42:40.600 but all
00:42:40.960 people.
00:42:41.940 So I'm
00:42:42.240 going to make
00:42:42.520 some general
00:42:43.280 observations about
00:42:44.360 what works and
00:42:46.060 what doesn't.
00:42:47.560 All right?
00:42:53.680 Here's what
00:42:54.300 works for
00:42:56.340 everybody.
00:42:57.940 However, there
00:42:59.180 would be a
00:42:59.600 great many
00:43:00.000 details that
00:43:00.920 are being left
00:43:01.440 out.
00:43:02.260 And those
00:43:03.860 are the details
00:43:04.440 that I think
00:43:05.000 black Americans
00:43:05.820 would need to
00:43:06.920 work out without
00:43:07.920 a whole bunch
00:43:08.840 of bad white
00:43:09.400 advice.
00:43:10.980 Basically,
00:43:11.720 everybody who
00:43:12.420 succeeds, no
00:43:13.840 matter what
00:43:14.340 their color or
00:43:15.120 what their
00:43:15.520 situation, they
00:43:16.900 do it the same
00:43:17.600 way.
00:43:18.140 They avoid crime.
00:43:19.180 They avoid
00:43:19.580 getting addicted
00:43:20.220 to drugs or
00:43:21.440 alcohol.
00:43:22.580 They don't have
00:43:23.240 kids before they
00:43:24.020 can afford it.
00:43:25.840 And staying
00:43:26.300 married is, of
00:43:26.980 course, a big
00:43:27.380 advantage.
00:43:28.380 They focus on
00:43:29.220 learning, not
00:43:30.280 just in school,
00:43:31.280 but forever, just
00:43:32.460 adding skills,
00:43:33.320 adding skills all
00:43:34.120 the time.
00:43:35.000 And then they
00:43:35.660 exhibit character,
00:43:36.500 which is
00:43:36.980 basically doing
00:43:37.700 what you say
00:43:38.200 you're going
00:43:38.480 to do, which
00:43:39.580 is pretty much
00:43:40.100 it, right?
00:43:40.580 Just doing
00:43:41.000 what you say
00:43:41.440 you're going
00:43:41.680 to do.
00:43:42.360 And if you
00:43:43.060 do these
00:43:43.440 five things,
00:43:44.600 whether you're
00:43:45.840 white or
00:43:46.520 black in
00:43:47.040 America, you're
00:43:48.160 going to
00:43:48.340 come out
00:43:48.620 okay.
00:43:49.580 But here's
00:43:50.140 the problem.
00:43:51.220 Is this
00:43:51.700 actionable?
00:43:53.700 It takes
00:43:54.180 more than
00:43:54.660 this to make
00:43:55.420 all this
00:43:55.740 work.
00:43:56.140 Like, you
00:43:56.440 need to have
00:43:57.460 some kind
00:43:57.840 of situation
00:43:58.440 where it's
00:43:58.800 easier to
00:43:59.340 avoid addiction
00:44:00.080 and easier
00:44:00.900 to stand a
00:44:01.540 crime.
00:44:02.140 And I
00:44:02.340 think black
00:44:02.760 America is
00:44:04.000 starting, like,
00:44:05.620 way behind
00:44:06.280 because of
00:44:07.740 systemic racism.
00:44:09.160 Would you
00:44:09.500 agree?
00:44:10.200 Would you
00:44:10.800 agree that
00:44:11.180 systemic racism,
00:44:13.180 and especially
00:44:13.760 the effect on
00:44:14.480 the school
00:44:14.840 system through
00:44:15.740 the teachers
00:44:16.400 unions, puts
00:44:18.000 black Americans
00:44:18.880 way too often
00:44:19.840 in situations
00:44:20.620 where it's
00:44:21.140 hard to do
00:44:22.580 the things
00:44:23.340 that everybody
00:44:23.820 does?
00:44:24.200 it's harder
00:44:26.760 for them to
00:44:27.240 do the
00:44:27.500 things that
00:44:28.000 everybody does
00:44:28.660 to succeed.
00:44:29.960 But it
00:44:30.400 should be
00:44:30.760 known that
00:44:32.460 they should
00:44:32.900 all learn
00:44:33.380 these five.
00:44:35.500 So, well,
00:44:36.600 that sounds
00:44:36.960 like advice.
00:44:37.820 I'll make
00:44:38.180 an observation.
00:44:40.340 If a black
00:44:41.740 kid does not
00:44:42.420 learn that
00:44:43.260 everybody who
00:44:43.860 does these
00:44:44.340 things succeeds,
00:44:45.360 just about
00:44:45.860 everybody,
00:44:47.060 that would be
00:44:47.600 a huge,
00:44:48.500 huge disadvantage.
00:44:50.200 Do you think
00:44:50.660 white people
00:44:51.200 learn this?
00:44:51.700 What do
00:44:53.300 you think?
00:44:54.060 Do you think
00:44:54.560 white people
00:44:55.180 learn these
00:44:56.080 five tricks
00:44:57.840 for success?
00:44:59.520 I think so.
00:45:01.240 The answer
00:45:01.960 is yes.
00:45:03.140 I think yes.
00:45:04.360 Now, some
00:45:04.780 of that is
00:45:05.160 the luxury
00:45:05.680 that you did
00:45:06.320 not have
00:45:06.740 systemic racism
00:45:08.180 weighing you
00:45:08.760 down.
00:45:09.760 But if you're
00:45:10.620 around successful
00:45:11.760 people, which
00:45:13.140 I would argue
00:45:13.720 is one of the
00:45:14.380 biggest negative
00:45:15.840 impacts of
00:45:16.480 systemic racism,
00:45:17.740 is that white
00:45:18.660 people are a
00:45:19.300 little more
00:45:19.740 likely statistically
00:45:20.860 to have
00:45:22.160 contact with
00:45:23.480 somebody who
00:45:23.960 has also
00:45:24.440 succeeded in
00:45:25.420 an important
00:45:25.880 way.
00:45:26.640 If you're in
00:45:27.440 a low-income
00:45:27.940 neighborhood,
00:45:28.660 you might not
00:45:29.400 even know
00:45:29.780 anybody successful
00:45:30.580 except a drug
00:45:31.260 dealer or a
00:45:32.660 pimp.
00:45:33.680 So who are you
00:45:34.260 going to look
00:45:34.600 up to?
00:45:36.100 If you put me
00:45:37.020 in that situation,
00:45:38.000 I couldn't get
00:45:38.780 out.
00:45:39.600 I would be an
00:45:40.700 awesome drug
00:45:41.280 dealer.
00:45:42.960 I might be the
00:45:43.820 best drug dealer
00:45:44.500 ever, but I
00:45:45.660 don't think I
00:45:46.120 could get out
00:45:46.760 if you put me
00:45:47.940 in the same
00:45:48.320 situation.
00:45:48.840 And here's
00:45:51.840 my second
00:45:53.100 observation.
00:45:56.360 So the first
00:45:56.960 observation is if
00:45:57.860 you're not doing
00:45:58.320 that stuff, you
00:45:58.980 really don't have
00:45:59.520 a chance.
00:46:00.880 So that's a good
00:46:01.460 framework of just
00:46:02.260 figuring out what
00:46:03.700 you're doing.
00:46:05.100 All right.
00:46:06.040 Secondly, I would
00:46:06.980 say this of all
00:46:07.900 people.
00:46:09.040 All right.
00:46:09.640 This is applicable
00:46:10.520 to black America,
00:46:11.620 but it is a general
00:46:12.600 statement of all
00:46:13.840 people.
00:46:15.140 It goes like
00:46:16.020 this.
00:46:18.420 A success
00:46:19.020 strategy, there
00:46:19.800 are two kinds of
00:46:20.540 success strategies.
00:46:21.840 One focuses
00:46:22.640 backwards and
00:46:24.220 one focuses
00:46:24.900 forwards.
00:46:26.400 A backwards
00:46:27.200 example would
00:46:28.800 be if you're
00:46:29.340 focusing on the
00:46:30.780 causes of your
00:46:32.400 current situation,
00:46:34.200 historical racism.
00:46:36.000 And if you're
00:46:36.720 looking at CRT,
00:46:37.660 ESG, and DEI,
00:46:38.780 these are programs
00:46:39.840 for companies and
00:46:40.800 education which
00:46:42.220 focus on a victim
00:46:43.240 frame.
00:46:43.720 The victim
00:46:44.740 frame is always
00:46:45.560 backwards looking.
00:46:48.020 If the way you
00:46:49.180 talk about your
00:46:49.860 situation is as a
00:46:51.780 victim or as the
00:46:53.880 legacy of things
00:46:55.400 from the past,
00:46:56.480 that is a
00:46:57.120 backwards focus.
00:46:59.300 Now, what is the
00:47:01.420 importance of black
00:47:02.380 history for Americans?
00:47:06.020 Critical.
00:47:07.400 Critical.
00:47:08.280 Black history needs
00:47:09.840 to be taught to
00:47:10.540 everybody.
00:47:11.540 Right?
00:47:11.640 Black history needs
00:47:13.520 to really be a
00:47:15.160 major educational
00:47:17.720 variable.
00:47:19.940 But there's a
00:47:21.080 difference between
00:47:21.780 education and
00:47:23.520 making sure that
00:47:24.200 your history is
00:47:24.840 correct and it is
00:47:25.880 taught well.
00:47:26.880 There's a big
00:47:27.480 difference between
00:47:28.080 that and focus.
00:47:31.040 So we're not
00:47:31.560 talking about
00:47:32.080 history, yes or
00:47:32.960 no.
00:47:33.900 History, yes, is
00:47:34.960 the only answer.
00:47:36.360 History, yes.
00:47:37.400 We have to have
00:47:38.280 history.
00:47:38.540 But you don't
00:47:39.500 have to focus on
00:47:40.480 it as your
00:47:40.980 strategy for
00:47:41.680 success.
00:47:43.000 Now, I was
00:47:43.960 listening to black
00:47:45.100 conservatives on
00:47:45.940 Spaces recently, and
00:47:47.580 one of the things
00:47:48.140 that I noted was
00:47:49.740 how often they
00:47:50.580 talked about the
00:47:51.280 past.
00:47:53.120 I don't know how
00:47:54.240 prevalent that is.
00:47:57.060 So I don't know if
00:47:57.700 it was just that
00:47:58.240 group.
00:47:58.780 Because again,
00:47:59.780 everybody knows
00:48:00.580 black Americans are
00:48:01.720 widely diverse.
00:48:02.660 But I worry, so
00:48:05.900 this is an
00:48:06.400 observation, it's
00:48:07.260 not advice, I
00:48:08.580 worry that this
00:48:10.020 mindset couldn't
00:48:11.080 work for anybody.
00:48:12.560 Like you could
00:48:13.340 replace black
00:48:14.220 Americans with any
00:48:15.380 other group.
00:48:16.680 Just say, here's
00:48:17.700 your strategy for
00:48:18.560 success.
00:48:19.520 We want you to
00:48:20.020 really focus on the
00:48:21.540 bad things that
00:48:22.180 happened to you,
00:48:23.440 focus on who did
00:48:24.420 it to you, and
00:48:25.700 then make sure that
00:48:26.460 the people who did
00:48:27.080 it to you are
00:48:27.780 paying a little
00:48:28.420 extra to make
00:48:29.760 things right.
00:48:30.340 this is a
00:48:31.960 strategy that
00:48:32.660 wouldn't work for
00:48:33.300 anybody anywhere,
00:48:34.780 at any time.
00:48:37.580 However, it
00:48:39.220 totally works
00:48:40.000 temporarily.
00:48:41.600 And that's the
00:48:42.120 problem.
00:48:43.160 It totally feeds
00:48:44.540 the race grifters,
00:48:46.400 because people make
00:48:47.180 money selling all
00:48:48.040 this.
00:48:48.720 This is a
00:48:49.580 commercial product.
00:48:51.140 So as long as
00:48:51.820 the race grifters
00:48:52.780 are moving your
00:48:54.720 focus backwards,
00:48:56.300 you're never going
00:48:57.680 to succeed.
00:49:00.340 This isn't advice.
00:49:02.600 This is an
00:49:03.120 observation.
00:49:04.540 Nobody, white,
00:49:05.460 black, old,
00:49:06.380 young, nobody
00:49:07.720 anywhere can
00:49:08.920 succeed with this
00:49:09.740 mindset.
00:49:10.680 This is a losing
00:49:11.560 mindset.
00:49:13.400 Absolute losing
00:49:14.360 mindset.
00:49:15.460 Let me compare that
00:49:16.720 with a winning
00:49:17.240 mindset.
00:49:18.240 And by the way, I
00:49:19.520 believe this is a
00:49:20.300 legacy of systemic
00:49:21.860 racism.
00:49:22.920 All right?
00:49:23.400 Those of you who
00:49:24.360 are primed to be
00:49:25.540 racists, I'm not
00:49:27.540 saying anything about
00:49:28.320 black people.
00:49:29.080 That's not what I'm
00:49:30.600 talking about.
00:49:31.060 It's strategy, right?
00:49:33.380 Black people are the
00:49:35.520 victims of systemic
00:49:36.560 racism.
00:49:37.940 And so, there's
00:49:39.420 probably a history
00:49:40.760 that causes them to
00:49:42.000 be a little bit more
00:49:43.040 backwards focused.
00:49:44.400 You could understand
00:49:45.240 that, right?
00:49:46.620 Put yourself in the
00:49:48.320 shoes of black
00:49:49.620 Americans.
00:49:50.920 How would you not
00:49:51.980 look backwards?
00:49:52.700 How would you ever
00:49:55.740 have enough
00:49:56.260 discipline to say,
00:49:57.960 all right, the
00:49:58.340 past is the past.
00:49:59.180 I'll just go
00:50:00.140 forward.
00:50:01.220 Very, very hard,
00:50:02.920 right?
00:50:03.360 So that's another
00:50:04.120 cost of systemic
00:50:05.800 racism.
00:50:07.020 But, what would be
00:50:08.460 a successful
00:50:09.780 strategy, again,
00:50:10.920 not for black
00:50:11.640 people specifically,
00:50:13.020 for everybody?
00:50:14.740 No exceptions.
00:50:16.020 All human beings,
00:50:17.120 everywhere, every age,
00:50:18.640 every ethnic group.
00:50:19.680 focusing on the
00:50:21.880 future works.
00:50:23.940 It's just better.
00:50:25.140 And that means
00:50:25.640 optimism, even when
00:50:27.020 it's not rational.
00:50:30.400 Do it anyway.
00:50:31.440 It means having a
00:50:32.160 system more than a
00:50:33.160 goal, doing something
00:50:34.700 every day to improve
00:50:35.780 your situation, even
00:50:37.520 without a specific
00:50:38.340 goal.
00:50:38.980 Goals are good, but
00:50:39.800 you need a system
00:50:40.400 more than that.
00:50:41.700 Affirmations, you
00:50:42.600 know, imagining the
00:50:43.440 good future so you
00:50:44.340 can work toward it.
00:50:45.960 And future talk.
00:50:47.940 Future talk means
00:50:49.100 that when you're
00:50:50.840 interacting, you talk
00:50:52.320 about the future.
00:50:54.100 And that's pretty
00:50:55.600 much going to work
00:50:56.940 better than the
00:50:58.180 past focus in the
00:51:00.520 long run, every
00:51:02.300 time.
00:51:03.480 In the short run, you
00:51:04.540 can get a lot of
00:51:05.240 money out of this
00:51:05.940 model, which is the
00:51:07.420 problem, that in the
00:51:08.680 short run, it kind of
00:51:09.440 works.
00:51:10.360 You can guilt people
00:51:11.440 into, you know, going
00:51:12.680 to your side.
00:51:13.240 But, so, none of
00:51:17.100 that is advice.
00:51:18.960 None of that is
00:51:19.760 advice.
00:51:21.240 Because I really, I
00:51:22.340 do believe that white
00:51:23.360 people giving advice to
00:51:24.420 black people is just a
00:51:26.040 mistake.
00:51:27.260 I don't think it's
00:51:28.020 received in the right
00:51:29.020 sense.
00:51:29.460 I don't think we have
00:51:30.120 the right context.
00:51:31.200 I don't think we
00:51:31.800 understand the multiple
00:51:33.780 different cultures.
00:51:35.160 But I can make an
00:51:36.160 observation.
00:51:36.700 And my observation is
00:51:39.320 everybody who takes
00:51:40.880 the back focus view
00:51:43.460 fails.
00:51:44.820 Everybody who looks
00:51:45.740 ahead and builds their
00:51:46.740 talent stack and, you
00:51:48.180 know, does the five
00:51:48.880 things for success,
00:51:50.540 unless a meteor hits you,
00:51:52.140 you're going to be
00:51:52.560 fine.
00:51:53.680 You know, you'd have
00:51:54.300 to have terrible luck
00:51:55.320 to not make that work.
00:51:58.160 Now, when you look at
00:52:00.780 a successful black
00:52:02.440 person in America, how
00:52:04.480 many of the five things
00:52:06.140 for success and the
00:52:07.380 forward-looking,
00:52:08.400 optimistic things, how
00:52:09.780 many of those do you
00:52:10.480 see present?
00:52:11.660 All of them.
00:52:12.720 All of them, right?
00:52:14.040 Pretty much every
00:52:14.980 successful black person
00:52:16.700 in America has sort of
00:52:18.160 an optimistic,
00:52:19.160 forward-looking, you
00:52:20.880 know, focus.
00:52:22.220 Of course, knows
00:52:22.960 everything about
00:52:23.540 history, but they have
00:52:24.560 a focus on the future,
00:52:26.740 and they do the five
00:52:27.620 things, and then they
00:52:29.140 do five.
00:52:30.460 It works every time.
00:52:32.980 All right.
00:52:33.260 All right.
00:52:36.140 And that, ladies and
00:52:37.820 gentlemen, is what you
00:52:39.540 want to cancel.
00:52:41.320 So, for the Washington
00:52:42.320 Post, the question is
00:52:44.340 this.
00:52:45.140 Do you want to see less
00:52:46.060 of this?
00:52:50.040 What should I do?
00:52:51.680 Should I do more of
00:52:52.660 this, which is what I've
00:52:53.660 been doing for years,
00:52:54.860 trying to be useful, or
00:52:56.400 should I do less of it
00:52:57.460 because I should be
00:52:58.860 canceled for being a
00:52:59.960 damn racist because the
00:53:01.740 fake news produced some
00:53:03.000 fake news to cancel me
00:53:04.840 for largely political
00:53:05.940 reasons?
00:53:07.540 What should I do?
00:53:10.900 All right.
00:53:12.920 So, you weren't
00:53:13.600 expecting that this
00:53:14.440 morning.
00:53:15.360 And I'm going to say
00:53:16.320 goodbye to the YouTube
00:53:17.520 people.
00:53:18.460 We'll end on that note,
00:53:20.440 and I'll talk to you
00:53:21.200 all tomorrow.
00:53:21.620 Bye-bye.
00:53:22.620 Bye-bye.
00:53:23.620 Bye-bye.
00:53:28.200 Bye-bye.
00:53:31.240 Bye-bye.
00:53:33.640 Bye-bye.
00:53:33.900 Bye-bye.
00:53:37.200 Bye porn.
00:53:39.600 Bye-bye.
00:53:40.800 Bye-bye.
00:53:42.440 Bye.
00:53:43.460 Bye.
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00:53:49.820 Bye-bye.
00:53:50.500 Bye-bye.
00:53:51.220 Bye-bye.