Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2035 Scott Adams： ESG, FBI And J6, And How My Plan Is Going So Far

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00:00:43.120 Well let's talk about the minor stories and then toward the end I might say some more about

00:00:47.960 my little brouhaha.

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00:00:53.960 All right, I saw a tweet from Mike Sertovich who was asking why young people seem to watch

00:00:59.920 TV with the, what do you call it, the subtitles on?

00:01:05.160 Have any of you noticed that, that the use of subtitles, even if you speak the same language?

00:01:11.720 Captions.

00:01:12.720 Captions, yes.

00:01:13.720 Not subtitles, captions.

00:01:15.160 And Mike asked, quite reasonably, like what changed?

00:01:21.120 You know, what is the reason for it?

00:01:23.120 And I have to say I've noticed it myself and I didn't know what it was about but I have

00:01:29.360 a hypothesis.

00:01:32.720 One hypothesis, three actually.

00:01:35.880 One hypothesis is that sometimes the young people want to keep their headphones in or

00:01:41.360 they want to turn the sound really low but just have something on and maybe check in once

00:01:46.640 in a while.

00:01:47.640 There's a little bit of that but it's definitely not just people with earbuds in.

00:01:53.520 The other thing I think is that movies and TV shows are so insensitive to what their consumers

00:02:01.120 want that they stopped making clear speaking.

00:02:07.600 It's not my imagination.

00:02:10.000 Allow me to give you a demonstration of a movie from the 40s.

00:02:15.480 You ready?

00:02:16.480 Here's a movie from the 40s.

00:02:20.280 What were you doing at the scene of the crime?

00:02:22.280 Well, who else was there?

00:02:24.280 Well, you better talk to the police department.

00:02:27.280 Right?

00:02:28.280 That was a 40s movie.

00:02:29.280 Now, let me give you an impression of every person trying to win an Academy Award in the

00:02:36.200 Modern Time in a movie.

00:02:51.280 End scene.

00:02:54.900 It's just that, right?

00:02:55.880 It's just that the movies have so disrespected their audiences that they literally don't even

00:03:03.460 think the audience needs a sound anymore.

00:03:06.040 Well, you don't need sound.

00:03:08.340 Why should you be concerned about listening to the voices of the people?

00:03:12.420 No.

00:03:13.240 Now, I think part of it is also that background noise has been elevated.

00:03:18.980 You know, just because they can.

00:03:20.840 Like they can add some background noise, you know, some street sounds or whatever.

00:03:24.360 And then everybody's mumbling.

00:03:27.060 And between the two things, I will tell you that as far as I know, my hearing is fine.

00:03:36.060 Last time it was tested.

00:03:37.860 But I can't hear dialogue on TV.

00:03:40.180 Can you?

00:03:41.120 It's just all mumbling shit.

00:03:42.720 And if it's anything British at all, I don't have a chance.

00:03:47.040 You know, British mumbling is like...

00:03:49.280 Nothing.

00:03:53.560 Like I can watch an hour of a movie and not pick up a word at all.

00:03:58.120 And I think my hearing's fine as far as I know.

00:04:00.500 Anyway, the other possibility is that young people are used to seeing captions on Reels and TikToks.

00:04:09.380 So it just seems more natural.

00:04:11.280 That's possible.

00:04:13.400 All right.

00:04:13.760 But Germany, as Michael Schellenberger tweets, he says the Germans say they care deeply about climate change.

00:04:22.720 And yet Chancellor Olaf Scholz is proceeding with plans to replace Germany's last three nuclear plants with coal next month over the objections of his finance minister.

00:04:36.320 And then here's the final phrase that Schellenberger adds to his tweet.

00:04:41.240 Because witches are something.

00:04:44.560 Because witches are something.

00:04:47.380 There's literally no reason.

00:04:49.020 The anti-nuclear people literally have no reason left.

00:04:56.260 The pro-green people are pro...

00:05:00.440 You know, the ones who would know what they're talking about are all pro-nuclear.

00:05:03.200 Even AOC is pro-nuclear.

00:05:06.500 There is no argument left on the other side.

00:05:09.480 We now know what to do with the waste.

00:05:11.560 You know, we know how to build nuclear sites that are either not going to melt down, the newer technology, or ones that have never melted down.

00:05:22.900 Right?

00:05:23.160 If you're going to build a nuclear plant today, you would build, you know, either a generation three that's never had a meltdown.

00:05:30.340 Or you'd build the newest generation, a four, that can't melt down.

00:05:35.240 Like, it's designed so it can't.

00:05:36.500 And still, still, there's just nothing you can do to change minds.

00:05:43.300 You know, once people get something in their head, they just can't get it out.

00:05:46.980 Just can't get it out.

00:05:48.340 Now, there might be a timing issue.

00:05:51.040 So I want to make sure I'm not losing the context of this one.

00:05:54.340 Because I might be.

00:05:55.420 It might be that they need to do something quick.

00:05:58.500 And nuclear isn't as quick as it could be.

00:06:01.480 You know, maybe they'd need to fix something to keep those plants open.

00:06:04.540 Something like that.

00:06:05.160 I don't know.

00:06:06.500 But I might be missing some context.

00:06:08.400 But there is no argument left against nuclear.

00:06:11.860 You know, if we're looking at a climatic catastrophe, you could have, like, ten nuclear plants meltdown.

00:06:21.540 Well, let's see if this makes sense.

00:06:24.300 There have been zero meltdowns of the new kind of plant, if you were going to build one today.

00:06:29.700 Zero.

00:06:30.620 Never been one.

00:06:31.280 And what does the left think is the risk of climate change?

00:06:39.360 Total catastrophe, right?

00:06:41.780 The risk, according to the left, I don't buy this, but according to the left, the risk is total catastrophe.

00:06:47.620 Suppose everybody put in a bunch of nuclear power plants, and in some, you know, some period of years that isn't too much, ten of them melted down.

00:06:59.520 Would that have been a bad idea?

00:07:01.080 If ten of them melted down, unexpectedly, because the new technology has never melted down.

00:07:07.040 It's literally never happened with the new power plants.

00:07:10.740 It would totally be worth it.

00:07:12.840 Yeah.

00:07:12.960 If you were to compare it with any objective measure, you could have ten meltdowns and still save the world.

00:07:22.280 The meltdowns are going to affect a few people around it, and even they would get out of town.

00:07:27.700 You know, as soon as they got the alarm, they'd just be gone, probably.

00:07:30.580 So, you could have, if everything went wrong with nuclear, it would still save the world, according to the left.

00:07:39.480 Again, I don't buy into the disaster narrative, but they do.

00:07:44.120 They do.

00:07:45.460 And if they think the disaster's coming, they could have all kinds of nuclear disasters, which would be zero, actually.

00:07:52.420 In all likelihood, it would be zero.

00:07:54.000 Because, like I said, the technology that you would build one today is a technology that's never melted down.

00:08:01.420 We're pretty good at this now.

00:08:04.300 And, like I said, the new plants won't melt down at all.

00:08:06.840 They don't have the option.

00:08:08.360 All right.

00:08:09.820 I'm going to throw out a theory, conspiracy theory option, maybe.

00:08:17.640 It's a conspiracy theory in the sense that I haven't heard anybody talk about it.

00:08:21.640 But, it's not one I believe.

00:08:25.540 It's one that might be true.

00:08:27.340 I'm just going to put it out there.

00:08:29.580 Suppose Putin doesn't believe he can win in Ukraine outright.

00:08:35.280 Or, what would be his option if he couldn't win?

00:08:38.220 And, let's say he's reasonable enough to not use nuclear.

00:08:41.560 I mean, he might threaten, but let's say he's not going to use it.

00:08:44.300 What would Putin do if he didn't want to lose exactly?

00:08:51.260 He doesn't want to lose, but he can't win.

00:08:53.600 What would he do?

00:08:54.880 Here's my theory.

00:08:56.920 He would have to sue for peace.

00:08:58.540 Well, not sue for peace.

00:08:59.640 He would have to negotiate some kind of a deal.

00:09:03.420 Now, we don't know if the Ukrainians would negotiate anything.

00:09:06.860 I mean, not productively.

00:09:08.680 We don't know.

00:09:09.160 But, suppose you think it's an option.

00:09:13.040 If you were Putin, what would be the most dangerous thing you could do?

00:09:16.940 I'll tell you.

00:09:18.760 Negotiate peace and keep the Wagner Group intact.

00:09:24.220 Because the head of the Wagner Group doesn't seem as pro-Putin as you'd like him to be, you know, if you're Putin.

00:09:30.740 It feels like he's getting too much power.

00:09:33.780 And he commands his own army.

00:09:36.920 The most dangerous thing for Putin would be to end the war and let the head of the Wagner Group stay on the job.

00:09:45.440 Now, since you can't do much about that at the moment, because the head of the Wagner Group is the only one who's doing anything useful in the war.

00:09:52.780 So, you can't take him out.

00:09:55.240 But I'll tell you what you could do.

00:09:57.600 You could order him to have his forces do really, really dangerous stuff until they're so degraded that you could negotiate for peace.

00:10:07.620 And then the Wagner Group would not be strong enough to defeat your loyalist forces.

00:10:13.880 If you tell me that the head of the Wagner Group is not actively thinking about taking over Russia itself, I think you're nuts.

00:10:23.760 Of course he is.

00:10:26.180 And do you think Putin doesn't know that?

00:10:28.980 Of course he does.

00:10:30.600 Now, why do I say that about the head of the Wagner Group?

00:10:33.620 Who even does that kind of a thing unless they're power hungry and not afraid of anything?

00:10:39.600 If you're the head of the Wagner Group, you're not looking to be a wallflower.

00:10:45.940 You're looking to conquer some stuff.

00:10:48.340 You're looking to be in charge.

00:10:50.360 Now, I think his job history is enough that this is not mind reading.

00:10:56.760 I think there's enough, you know, that's obvious about the situation.

00:11:01.920 That you could say that he's a person who wants power.

00:11:04.400 Because I think it's just true of everybody in his situation.

00:11:06.620 He wants power.

00:11:08.900 And he probably doesn't want to be Putin's bitch much longer.

00:11:12.820 And he might be in a position where he could just take it himself, just take over.

00:11:17.880 So I think Putin has to send him into harm and have the Wagner Group as degraded as possible before he talks peace.

00:11:27.580 And then he can get both things.

00:11:28.880 He can get the peace and he won't get overthrown.

00:11:30.860 Now, is there anybody here who believes that's even possible?

00:11:37.780 Does anybody think that's even possible?

00:11:40.560 That theory?

00:11:41.840 That he wants to grind down his own troops?

00:11:45.040 Only the Wagner troops.

00:11:46.140 Yeah, I think it's at least possible.

00:11:53.800 And the reason I say it's possible is that it's probably what I would do.

00:11:57.860 If I were an evil dictator, I didn't care about anybody but myself,

00:12:01.900 I would make sure the Wagner Group was, you know, at least taken down by half before I ended the war.

00:12:11.760 That's what I'd do.

00:12:12.440 So I just assumed Putin would do what I would do because it seems smart.

00:12:16.800 But so far, Putin doesn't do what I would do.

00:12:18.940 So I wouldn't put a high odds on that theory.

00:12:23.500 But don't you think it's worth being in the mix?

00:12:27.820 Don't you think it's at least feasible enough that it should be in the conversation?

00:12:33.260 I think so.

00:12:35.320 All right.

00:12:35.720 Apparently, Congress just turned down some ESG promoting thing for your 401ks.

00:12:44.820 I guess whoever managed your 401ks would have to have an ESG plan in order to be able to do that.

00:12:52.280 I don't know if that's just for government pensions or what that was.

00:12:55.420 But Congress turned it down.

00:13:00.220 Congress turned it down.

00:13:01.380 So there were enough Democrats to join the Republicans to turn down an ESG promoting bill in Congress.

00:13:10.200 Did you imagine that that would happen?

00:13:12.960 Now, that's not the good news yet, meaning that it might not be good news,

00:13:19.300 because Biden said he'd veto it.

00:13:21.320 So he's vetoing an affirmative action to get rid of ESG.

00:13:29.500 So he's vetoing the getting rid of ESG, which would keep ESG in this context.

00:13:35.160 Now, just the fact that Congress as a whole turned it down,

00:13:41.260 you know, it didn't take too many Democrat votes to...

00:13:45.420 Was it just one?

00:13:46.340 I don't know.

00:13:46.700 And then we're also missing Fetterman, right?

00:13:53.480 So the balance in the Senate is kind of wacky at the moment.

00:13:57.660 Is there anybody else missing besides Fetterman?

00:13:59.920 I assume he can't vote.

00:14:01.560 He's just missing, right?

00:14:05.320 Yeah.

00:14:06.720 All right.

00:14:07.260 So, and this is something that Vivek Ramaswamy said about that ESG story.

00:14:21.180 He said on a tweet, he said,

00:14:22.820 Democrats are the ones who used to be skeptical of undue corporate influence on politics.

00:14:28.340 ESG is that on steroids, meaning undue corporate influence.

00:14:32.180 For a political party that loves to ritually bemoan threats to democracy,

00:14:37.180 it's funny that they teamed up with the likes of BlackRock to create the biggest one of all.

00:14:42.620 I feel like the problem here is that nobody can handle nuance or any kind of context or any kind of detail.

00:14:50.360 Because if you just say, ESG, equality, then, of course, you salute that.

00:14:59.720 Who doesn't like equality and stuff?

00:15:02.460 Sounds good.

00:15:03.920 But as soon as you get into the fact that BlackRock is promoting it and it's like putting an anchor on Fremont,

00:15:09.640 and it puts other people in charge of your business, it's crazy.

00:15:15.060 It's equity, not equality, right?

00:15:17.400 Yeah, but even equity is one of those words that people reflexively say yes to, yeah, equity,

00:15:23.140 without thinking through what that means or what it would take.

00:15:27.800 All right.

00:15:30.240 Rasmussen has a poll, and as you know, there's never been a Rasmussen poll that's ever gotten me in trouble.

00:15:37.140 I think you'd agree on that.

00:15:38.200 No, slow down.

00:15:40.060 It's not going to be one of those.

00:15:41.480 Not going to be one of those.

00:15:43.320 But according to the polls, 61% of voters, American voters, believe it is likely

00:15:47.800 that undercover government agents helped provoke the Capitol riot.

00:15:54.300 61%.

00:15:54.820 So clearly that's picking up independents and also Democrats.

00:16:03.180 I'm very surprised at that result, are you?

00:16:05.600 Because usually I would expect that more down like 40%, you know, where it just goes along party lines.

00:16:12.680 But 61% believe it is likely, you know, not that it's a fact, but likely that the undercover government agents

00:16:21.080 helped provoke the Capitol riot.

00:16:23.920 Wow.

00:16:24.400 Now, 39% say it's very likely, so that's probably a long party lines sort of thing.

00:16:31.860 And only 30%...

00:16:34.400 Oh, only 18% say it is not at all likely.

00:16:40.500 Now, the 18% is the one that's the closest to the 25%, so we're at least consistent in a directional sense.

00:16:50.960 I always tease that 25% of the people will answer every question wrong.

00:16:57.220 It doesn't matter what the question is, and it's not the same 25%,

00:16:59.500 but every poll question, 25% of the public will just have the most dumbass answer.

00:17:07.420 It would be like, is oxygen good for people?

00:17:11.460 75%? Yes.

00:17:13.220 25%? Not so sure.

00:17:15.480 Not so sure about this oxygen.

00:17:18.160 All right, my favorite story by far.

00:17:21.160 Now, I introduce this story by saying, you all know that I've been a big supporter of the trans community,

00:17:30.080 as well as LBGQT, whatever, in general.

00:17:34.560 And I love people's reaction to this story.

00:17:40.520 My own reaction is only about other people's reactions, right?

00:17:45.360 So I don't have a reaction...

00:17:46.860 So let me tell this story.

00:17:47.780 To kick off Women's History Month, and this is an important part of the story,

00:17:56.800 Women's History Month, the Hershey Company did an ad where they were honoring women,

00:18:04.000 and they featured, primarily, they featured a trans woman.

00:18:10.660 And that was their look for Women's History Month.

00:18:15.440 So it's sort of like honoring Rachel Dolan's for Black History Month.

00:18:24.000 It's like a little off.

00:18:25.680 Some people think it's off point.

00:18:27.980 Now, I remind you that if it sounds like I'm making fun of any trans people,

00:18:34.120 that's not what's happening.

00:18:35.980 Here's what I think is funny.

00:18:37.180 I think it's funny the reaction that they got.

00:18:41.480 Like, people are really pissed, and especially women.

00:18:44.920 Well, let's say biological women.

00:18:47.480 Biological, and people identify as women who were born that way,

00:18:51.780 are kind of pissed that their brand,

00:18:55.060 they think their brand is being a little diminished

00:18:57.480 by having somebody who was born a biological male and transitioned to a woman.

00:19:02.640 And am I wrong that that's just funny?

00:19:09.300 And I'm not making fun of trans.

00:19:11.200 I really am not.

00:19:12.320 Am I wrong that that's just funny, that they did that?

00:19:16.680 I mean, just, they got tons of attention.

00:19:19.720 I'm not sure if it's going to sell more chocolate.

00:19:22.400 But they did get a lot of attention.

00:19:23.820 And they were on the right side of the social narrative at the moment.

00:19:31.320 But here was my biggest take.

00:19:35.680 What was the discussion in the boardroom or wherever they made this decision?

00:19:41.600 Wouldn't you love to see a Dilbert comic

00:19:43.760 in which they walked through the corporate decision

00:19:47.920 of having a trans woman as the face of Women's History Month?

00:19:53.820 Like, I feel like I could make that funny.

00:19:57.120 Again, not picking on anybody.

00:19:59.140 So it's not about trans.

00:20:00.720 It's not about trans at all.

00:20:02.660 It's only about the decision process and how awkward it would be

00:20:05.800 because there's no winning answer.

00:20:08.500 Like, you can't not do it, and you can't do it.

00:20:11.740 Like, it's just wrong in every way.

00:20:14.080 So I'm guessing that there were probably some activists within the company

00:20:17.360 who brought this idea to management,

00:20:20.580 and then management said,

00:20:21.680 Oh, what the hell are we going to do now?

00:20:24.300 Because we can't win if we say no, right?

00:20:29.240 If people within the company came to you and said,

00:20:31.820 Hey, I think this is how we show we're progressive,

00:20:35.040 and we'd be really mad if you don't consider trans women women,

00:20:39.200 and then management is like,

00:20:41.620 I think half of the country who wouldn't like this are not going to buy as much chocolate.

00:20:52.460 Do you think that would stop anything?

00:20:54.680 I think they'd have to do it anyway.

00:20:56.960 I think the internal pressure would be so high that they'd just have to do it.

00:21:01.700 Now, I kind of like that they did it.

00:21:04.920 I like that they got everybody all charged up,

00:21:08.880 and we're talking about it,

00:21:10.160 and the conversation is deepened, and people are mad.

00:21:15.440 I just kind of like it.

00:21:16.420 Maybe I like provocative things.

00:21:20.760 All right.

00:21:21.560 Remember I told you that I thought that a number of programs are backwards-looking,

00:21:28.900 such as ESG and CRT, etc.,

00:21:33.700 and they're backwards-looking in the sense that they depend on a narrative

00:21:37.240 of white people being racist and continuing to support systemic racism.

00:21:45.140 So, in my opinion, a forward-looking philosophy would look like this.

00:21:52.240 There would be optimism, right?

00:21:55.140 Maybe some affirmations, maybe some manifesting.

00:21:58.740 You'd have strategies for the future.

00:22:01.440 You'd make plans and stuff like that.

00:22:02.660 You'd have systems, maybe even more than goals.

00:22:05.740 So, there's a number of ways,

00:22:07.020 but there's one thing that's future-oriented

00:22:09.020 that I'm seeing in play this week.

00:22:12.720 Reciprocity.

00:22:15.280 Reciprocity as an operating system is just a killer,

00:22:20.140 and it's all future-focused.

00:22:22.340 And reciprocity has to be future-focused

00:22:25.160 because you're doing something without any sense of reward.

00:22:29.140 You know, the reciprocity might come to you in the future,

00:22:33.100 so you're preparing for a future where you need that.

00:22:37.100 Now, let me give you some examples where that mattered.

00:22:42.920 Do you remember there was some, I don't know if it was a riot,

00:22:46.040 or there was some kind of big commotion

00:22:49.400 that caused some street in America to be all littered,

00:22:54.400 and there was a national news story

00:22:56.180 about some young black man who got a broom

00:22:59.100 and it wasn't his job.

00:23:01.660 He just didn't like his neighborhood dirty.

00:23:03.440 And so he just took his broom and just started sweeping,

00:23:07.740 you know, this enormous job.

00:23:09.560 I mean, it was a pretty big job.

00:23:11.060 I don't know how big the street was.

00:23:12.380 Was it Baltimore?

00:23:13.540 And the news picked it up,

00:23:15.720 and it was nothing but a young man

00:23:18.340 who wanted to make his neighborhood better.

00:23:20.900 That's it.

00:23:22.020 And if you remember, he was deluged with money and offers.

00:23:25.760 Now, why would he get offers?

00:23:30.360 Why would anybody make him offers?

00:23:32.060 Just because he was sweeping up the street.

00:23:33.640 Didn't know anything about it.

00:23:35.280 Well, here's my take.

00:23:37.180 They could see that he had a reciprocity operating system.

00:23:42.740 That he was just saying, this needs to be done.

00:23:45.600 This will be good for everybody.

00:23:46.740 I'll just go do this.

00:23:48.440 Now, if you do that kind of stuff on a regular basis,

00:23:52.160 most of the time you will not be rewarded.

00:23:54.140 Most of the time, you will not be rewarded.

00:23:58.000 But sometimes you are.

00:23:59.760 And that was a good situation where he was.

00:24:02.920 Now, that was a good...

00:24:04.000 And I think also people were signaling

00:24:05.900 that they want more of that kind of behavior.

00:24:08.180 I think that's part of it.

00:24:09.860 So, generally speaking, when you're looking forward

00:24:12.620 and you're doing things for other people,

00:24:14.460 it will come back.

00:24:15.920 Now, I've got to tell you

00:24:17.180 how important that is in my life at the moment.

00:24:21.660 You may have noticed the headlines.

00:24:24.140 There were a few people who were angry at me

00:24:26.900 in the past week.

00:24:28.840 But I'll tell you,

00:24:30.840 almost all the people that I've ever helped,

00:24:34.360 either individually or in some way,

00:24:37.100 black and white,

00:24:38.420 because it turns out there are more black people

00:24:39.880 I've helped than I remembered,

00:24:42.060 but they all appeared.

00:24:44.160 They all came out of the woodwork.

00:24:45.600 And that includes people who were not necessarily

00:24:50.340 wanting to get into this.

00:24:53.800 So, I would say that having laid down

00:24:56.460 a long history of being useful to other people,

00:25:00.620 intentionally,

00:25:01.880 and not for some specific reward,

00:25:04.300 I just think it's a good way to be.

00:25:06.760 Those people came to my defense in a big way.

00:25:09.860 Not all publicly.

00:25:12.440 Not all publicly.

00:25:13.440 Most of it was private.

00:25:14.920 But they came through.

00:25:18.240 That's reciprocity.

00:25:19.860 I'll give you another example.

00:25:21.960 In the darkest moments of my being canceled,

00:25:27.340 I joined a Spaces.

00:25:30.160 I just logged on.

00:25:31.200 It was run by Sonny Johnson

00:25:34.020 and a number of mostly black listeners.

00:25:37.940 And the topic was, you know,

00:25:39.660 somewhere in the domain of stuff

00:25:41.580 I'd dust it up, I guess.

00:25:46.240 And I didn't know how that would go.

00:25:49.880 Because I thought I might be walking

00:25:51.400 into the hornet's nest.

00:25:53.040 Like, I thought I was just going to get yelled down

00:25:54.960 or something.

00:25:55.920 But instead,

00:25:58.000 Sonny Johnson noticed I was there,

00:25:59.940 invited me to speak,

00:26:02.160 which I did.

00:26:03.100 We had some technical problems.

00:26:04.540 So if anybody thinks I left,

00:26:06.500 it's because of a technical problem.

00:26:07.880 I didn't just leave.

00:26:09.700 But when I talked,

00:26:13.240 they listened.

00:26:16.100 And they were respectful.

00:26:18.320 And they were curious, I think.

00:26:20.500 Because nobody was shouting me down, etc.

00:26:23.160 And then when I had some technical problems,

00:26:25.200 Sonny invited me back on.

00:26:26.520 Now, what Sonny was doing

00:26:29.940 by giving me the respect

00:26:32.680 and the opportunity

00:26:34.800 to talk to exactly the people

00:26:36.380 I wanted to talk to at that time,

00:26:38.960 that created

00:26:40.000 reciprocity.

00:26:44.460 So all week long,

00:26:46.000 I've been turning people down

00:26:47.500 for interviews.

00:26:49.000 No, I can't be on your podcast.

00:26:51.180 I'm not going to do your show.

00:26:52.560 I don't have a quote.

00:26:53.600 And then Sonny Johnson

00:26:56.020 messages me.

00:26:58.400 So I'm going to be on her show

00:26:59.980 on Saturday.

00:27:01.720 I'll give you details

00:27:02.500 before Saturday.

00:27:03.920 So I said yes.

00:27:05.500 The only reason I said yes

00:27:07.600 is reciprocity.

00:27:10.440 So she gets the scoop.

00:27:12.800 Why?

00:27:13.840 Because she was respectful

00:27:15.980 to me

00:27:17.580 when she didn't need to be.

00:27:19.980 Didn't need to be.

00:27:20.680 And when it was

00:27:22.280 my darkest time.

00:27:25.760 That's reciprocity.

00:27:27.840 She gets

00:27:28.240 my full service

00:27:31.140 in return.

00:27:33.160 That is what I'd like

00:27:34.460 to teach

00:27:35.060 as an operating system

00:27:37.580 for everybody.

00:27:39.020 You could say

00:27:39.880 it's for black people,

00:27:40.880 but it's an operating system

00:27:41.800 for everybody.

00:27:43.820 Everybody needs to learn

00:27:45.160 that what you're putting out

00:27:46.940 is the only thing

00:27:47.640 you're going to get back

00:27:48.500 in a variety of ways.

00:27:50.680 If, however,

00:27:52.560 you're looking backwards

00:27:53.620 instead of forward

00:27:54.620 and you've got

00:27:55.620 a victim mentality,

00:27:57.580 hey, you owe me something

00:27:58.900 because of something

00:27:59.640 that happened in the past,

00:28:00.940 that does work

00:28:02.160 in the short run.

00:28:03.380 In the short run,

00:28:04.160 you'll get more resources.

00:28:05.540 That totally works

00:28:06.260 in the short run.

00:28:07.020 In the long run,

00:28:07.860 it destroys the world.

00:28:10.020 It can't work

00:28:10.860 in the long run.

00:28:11.900 In the long run,

00:28:12.700 the only thing that works

00:28:13.980 is cooperation

00:28:15.740 and reciprocity.

00:28:17.420 That's it.

00:28:18.620 Everything else fails.

00:28:19.560 So, let's go through

00:28:22.800 my scorecard.

00:28:24.100 Where I'm at,

00:28:25.140 having been fully cancelled,

00:28:26.840 by the way,

00:28:27.320 the actual full cancellation

00:28:28.860 for Dilbert

00:28:30.220 takes effect

00:28:31.660 mid-March.

00:28:35.020 So there's a few more weeks

00:28:36.340 of comics in the pipeline,

00:28:37.580 I guess.

00:28:38.260 After that,

00:28:38.940 it will be available

00:28:39.660 only on the Locals platform,

00:28:42.600 subscription platform.

00:28:43.520 And you can find it

00:28:46.700 at scottadams.locals.com.

00:28:50.240 And, by the way,

00:28:51.160 it would help me

00:28:51.620 if you subscribe

00:28:52.360 on Twitter.

00:28:53.560 I'm sorry,

00:28:53.860 if you subscribe

00:28:54.720 on YouTube.

00:28:56.880 All right.

00:28:57.680 So here's the scorecard

00:28:58.660 so far.

00:29:00.660 And I tweeted this.

00:29:01.820 I'll just read it.

00:29:02.740 Only the dying leftist

00:29:04.020 fake news industry

00:29:04.980 cancelled me.

00:29:06.040 Did you know that?

00:29:07.680 Did you know that

00:29:08.760 only the left-leaning world

00:29:11.220 cancelled me?

00:29:11.840 The right hasn't

00:29:13.760 cancelled me at all.

00:29:15.380 Not even close.

00:29:17.160 Like, not even a little bit.

00:29:19.000 The right is completely,

00:29:20.440 completely supportive.

00:29:23.680 The only unsupportive thing

00:29:25.740 I saw

00:29:26.280 was

00:29:28.240 a few people

00:29:29.820 hadn't seen the context yet.

00:29:31.900 But 100% of the people

00:29:33.420 saw the context

00:29:34.240 understand what's going on.

00:29:36.940 All right.

00:29:37.480 So,

00:29:37.860 so far,

00:29:38.700 I have not been banned

00:29:39.720 on social media.

00:29:41.840 Twitter,

00:29:42.640 no problem.

00:29:44.220 I'm here on YouTube

00:29:45.140 right now.

00:29:46.360 Now,

00:29:46.540 yeah,

00:29:46.900 the Hodge twins

00:29:47.560 need a little background.

00:29:49.400 I was thinking of

00:29:50.020 reaching out to them.

00:29:52.440 The Hodge twins.

00:29:53.680 Because I,

00:29:54.200 I'm pretty sure

00:29:55.000 I follow them.

00:29:55.760 I think I'm,

00:29:57.200 you know,

00:29:57.960 I,

00:29:58.540 I think they would

00:29:59.660 enjoy that,

00:30:00.300 actually.

00:30:00.760 I'm thinking of reaching out

00:30:01.800 just to give them

00:30:02.380 a little content.

00:30:03.040 So,

00:30:05.220 so how do you explain,

00:30:08.320 if you're on the left

00:30:09.300 and I got canceled

00:30:10.900 for hate speech,

00:30:12.880 how do you,

00:30:13.900 how would you

00:30:14.600 justify in your mind

00:30:16.000 that social media

00:30:17.460 hasn't even touched me?

00:30:19.340 Still on Facebook,

00:30:21.040 meta,

00:30:21.860 still on Instagram,

00:30:22.960 no problem,

00:30:24.200 Twitter.

00:30:25.100 How do you explain that?

00:30:26.020 The easy explanation is

00:30:29.260 I didn't violate

00:30:29.980 any terms of service.

00:30:32.080 But if I had done

00:30:33.220 what I was accused of doing,

00:30:35.540 I think that would be

00:30:36.460 hate speech.

00:30:37.620 I think that would be

00:30:38.500 a violation.

00:30:40.240 So,

00:30:41.500 credit to YouTube.

00:30:42.800 I don't know if any of the

00:30:43.800 YouTube monitors

00:30:45.260 are watching.

00:30:46.060 I know you're probably

00:30:46.640 watching me carefully.

00:30:48.640 But maybe not live.

00:30:51.140 Good for you.

00:30:53.220 I like to call out

00:30:54.560 when somebody

00:30:55.640 does something right.

00:30:57.340 YouTube

00:30:57.820 is handling

00:30:58.940 this situation

00:30:59.920 just right.

00:31:01.680 Just right.

00:31:02.600 I've even monetized.

00:31:04.240 And I think YouTube

00:31:05.080 probably looked

00:31:06.040 at the context.

00:31:07.140 You know they were

00:31:07.800 asked to look at it,

00:31:08.700 right?

00:31:09.280 Would you agree?

00:31:10.380 Would you agree

00:31:10.960 there's no chance

00:31:11.800 in the world

00:31:12.340 that the YouTube

00:31:13.680 censors did not

00:31:14.740 look at my situation?

00:31:15.940 Because it was

00:31:16.320 national news.

00:31:17.380 Of course they did.

00:31:18.540 And it originally

00:31:19.520 happened on YouTube

00:31:20.820 where it still lives.

00:31:23.100 It's still on YouTube.

00:31:24.560 And I don't even think

00:31:27.460 they rigged

00:31:28.880 the algorithm.

00:31:32.300 I think the algorithm

00:31:33.300 was surfacing it

00:31:35.520 just fine.

00:31:36.080 It had like half a million

00:31:37.020 views or something.

00:31:38.680 So,

00:31:39.880 yeah.

00:31:43.060 Anyway,

00:31:43.740 so how do you explain

00:31:44.940 that social media

00:31:45.860 which all bans

00:31:47.340 hate speech

00:31:48.040 looked at the context

00:31:49.520 of this situation

00:31:50.480 and said,

00:31:51.240 nope,

00:31:52.560 that's not hate speech

00:31:53.500 or at least

00:31:54.340 not enough

00:31:54.980 to violate any terms.

00:32:00.000 I also have

00:32:00.980 zero pushback

00:32:02.120 in person.

00:32:05.000 Zero.

00:32:06.980 There's one fellow

00:32:07.960 I know named Vlad

00:32:09.000 who's real,

00:32:11.020 real mad at me

00:32:11.720 but on behalf

00:32:13.320 of his wife

00:32:13.920 who's black

00:32:14.480 who doesn't know

00:32:15.100 the context apparently.

00:32:16.840 So he's sort of

00:32:17.680 acting up on behalf

00:32:18.560 of his wife

00:32:19.200 it looks like.

00:32:19.820 So that's fine.

00:32:22.060 That's fine.

00:32:23.200 Yeah,

00:32:23.700 Vlad TV.

00:32:24.780 If Vlad wants

00:32:25.720 to be mad at me

00:32:26.540 because his wife

00:32:27.840 needs him to be mad at me

00:32:29.060 so he can stay married

00:32:30.000 that's fine.

00:32:31.940 But he's bothering me

00:32:33.580 a little too much

00:32:34.160 so I had to

00:32:34.580 go after him

00:32:36.020 on social media today.

00:32:38.380 And by the way,

00:32:39.960 I considered him

00:32:40.840 a friend

00:32:41.240 until this week.

00:32:43.040 He has to do

00:32:43.600 what he has to do.

00:32:45.360 But except for him,

00:32:47.720 100%

00:32:48.440 of the people

00:32:49.280 I've interacted

00:32:49.980 with this week

00:32:51.140 in person

00:32:51.700 have been

00:32:53.160 perfectly fine.

00:32:54.780 It's like

00:32:55.180 it never happened.

00:32:56.400 Or they're supportive.

00:32:58.360 Mostly actively supportive.

00:33:01.440 All right.

00:33:01.940 No impact

00:33:02.760 on my banking.

00:33:05.220 No impact

00:33:06.100 on my banking.

00:33:07.300 Do you know why?

00:33:09.340 Because I didn't

00:33:10.180 do anything.

00:33:11.100 I didn't do anything

00:33:12.320 that would affect

00:33:13.020 banking.

00:33:14.320 If I had,

00:33:15.780 apparently they could

00:33:16.760 turn off my banking.

00:33:18.560 Apparently that's

00:33:19.180 a real thing.

00:33:21.040 It didn't happen

00:33:22.060 to Laura Loomer

00:33:22.760 and some other people.

00:33:24.580 Yeah.

00:33:25.040 So if I had done

00:33:26.180 actual hate speech

00:33:27.520 and, you know,

00:33:29.320 and even in context

00:33:31.060 it looked like that,

00:33:32.300 yeah,

00:33:32.600 I would be banned

00:33:33.260 probably in all

00:33:33.980 those things.

00:33:35.120 But you have to

00:33:35.560 explain to yourself

00:33:36.340 why none of the things

00:33:37.380 except leftist

00:33:39.040 political organs

00:33:41.000 have banned me.

00:33:43.160 Leftist

00:33:43.600 political organs.

00:33:45.060 And that means

00:33:45.460 the newspapers.

00:33:47.420 I think you all

00:33:48.480 figured out

00:33:49.120 that taking me out

00:33:50.080 before the 2024 election

00:33:51.960 was a good

00:33:52.760 Democrat strategy.

00:33:56.000 Those of you

00:33:56.800 who have watched

00:33:57.300 me long enough,

00:33:58.740 do you think

00:33:59.160 I impact,

00:34:01.280 let's say,

00:34:02.040 the framing

00:34:02.480 of issues?

00:34:04.380 Do you think

00:34:04.820 I've had an actual

00:34:05.920 political impact

00:34:07.540 that makes a difference?

00:34:10.680 Yeah.

00:34:11.000 So for those of you

00:34:12.120 who don't know me,

00:34:12.960 look at the comments.

00:34:14.340 So the people

00:34:14.740 who know me best

00:34:15.400 and locals

00:34:15.920 are almost all

00:34:17.140 saying yes,

00:34:17.940 99% it looks like.

00:34:19.920 The people who know me

00:34:20.860 less would be on YouTube.

00:34:22.780 But you can see

00:34:23.380 the yeses and nos.

00:34:25.620 The ones who say no,

00:34:27.460 you're the least

00:34:29.120 familiar with

00:34:29.960 what I've done

00:34:30.720 for the last five years.

00:34:32.220 The ones who say yes

00:34:33.400 are the ones

00:34:33.920 who've actually

00:34:34.420 watched me

00:34:35.180 for five years.

00:34:36.780 There's no question

00:34:37.780 whatsoever

00:34:38.300 that I'm influencing

00:34:39.860 things.

00:34:40.280 Do you want

00:34:42.060 some evidence

00:34:43.020 of that?

00:34:43.800 That I'm influencing

00:34:44.520 things?

00:34:47.200 I'll give you

00:34:47.820 some evidence.

00:34:53.440 Do, do, do.

00:34:55.540 If I wrote it down.

00:34:57.300 Well, you may have

00:34:58.300 seen that

00:34:58.780 Mark Andreessen

00:35:00.280 was one of the

00:35:02.080 founders of the

00:35:02.900 internet,

00:35:03.920 inventor of

00:35:05.260 the browser,

00:35:06.220 and a famous

00:35:08.880 venture capitalist

00:35:09.960 guy.

00:35:10.880 He wrote a long

00:35:12.820 thread on Twitter

00:35:14.000 in which he said

00:35:15.340 that he was

00:35:17.380 quitting drinking

00:35:18.120 and that he had

00:35:19.900 come to realize

00:35:20.600 that all of the

00:35:21.320 studies for years

00:35:22.640 that had been in

00:35:23.520 the newspapers

00:35:24.060 that canceled me,

00:35:25.440 that all of those

00:35:26.080 studies had been

00:35:26.800 bogus.

00:35:28.740 And when he

00:35:29.900 quit drinking,

00:35:30.540 he felt much

00:35:31.020 better, etc.

00:35:32.200 Now, Elon Musk

00:35:33.580 weighed in

00:35:34.400 and he was in

00:35:35.740 favor of, you

00:35:36.540 know, maybe

00:35:36.880 occasional moderate

00:35:38.060 drinking with

00:35:38.720 friends, but he

00:35:41.300 said in direct

00:35:42.160 words, alcohol

00:35:43.060 is poison.

00:35:44.240 And if you

00:35:44.580 understand that

00:35:45.220 alcohol is poison,

00:35:47.660 you know, you

00:35:48.080 can keep it

00:35:48.660 moderate.

00:35:53.000 Now, those of

00:35:54.660 you who have

00:35:54.920 been watching me

00:35:55.520 for a while,

00:35:56.160 everybody on

00:35:56.680 Locals knows

00:35:57.280 what I'm talking

00:35:57.800 about.

00:35:58.400 On YouTube, do

00:35:59.260 you know why I

00:35:59.800 gave you that

00:36:00.220 example?

00:36:01.720 How many of you

00:36:02.580 know why I'm

00:36:04.100 giving you this

00:36:04.680 example?

00:36:05.100 as an indication

00:36:06.920 of influence?

00:36:09.760 I'm primarily

00:36:10.680 the person who's

00:36:11.460 been saying

00:36:11.840 alcohol is

00:36:12.940 poison.

00:36:13.940 It's actually

00:36:14.580 the first chapter

00:36:15.360 of my book

00:36:15.860 that just got

00:36:16.440 canceled.

00:36:17.400 I say it so

00:36:18.000 often, I led

00:36:18.900 with it in my

00:36:19.480 book.

00:36:20.540 Now, as some

00:36:22.260 have said, I

00:36:22.860 don't know that I

00:36:23.440 invented it, because

00:36:24.460 the sugar is poison

00:36:25.460 preceded it, and

00:36:27.160 probably somebody

00:36:28.100 already thought to

00:36:29.060 say alcohol is

00:36:29.920 poison.

00:36:30.200 but if you

00:36:32.280 start noticing

00:36:33.180 how many times

00:36:34.980 my frame on

00:36:36.340 things becomes,

00:36:38.620 let's say, a

00:36:40.240 common frame,

00:36:41.500 because the

00:36:42.080 alcohol is poison

00:36:43.080 thing, I'm not

00:36:44.020 saying it's just

00:36:44.700 an Elon Musk

00:36:45.380 thing.

00:36:46.120 You see it

00:36:46.600 everywhere now.

00:36:47.780 It's a common

00:36:48.500 phrase.

00:36:50.060 And I think I'm

00:36:50.760 probably the biggest

00:36:51.680 pusher of that

00:36:52.460 phrase.

00:36:53.380 There could be

00:36:53.860 others as well,

00:36:54.740 but I'm sure I'm

00:36:55.500 the biggest influence

00:36:56.240 on it.

00:36:56.600 Now, are there

00:36:58.800 other things that

00:36:59.420 I've influenced?

00:37:01.580 Yeah, a lot of

00:37:03.380 things.

00:37:04.380 A lot of

00:37:04.800 things.

00:37:07.500 All right.

00:37:08.580 So, those who

00:37:09.760 would be concerned

00:37:10.860 about me influencing

00:37:11.780 politics,

00:37:13.080 coincidentally, are

00:37:14.140 the ones that

00:37:14.620 canceled me

00:37:15.200 completely prior to

00:37:17.060 the biggest

00:37:17.680 political election

00:37:18.840 that we've had

00:37:20.700 in a long

00:37:21.020 time.

00:37:22.720 All right.

00:37:24.560 So, so far,

00:37:25.500 no agreement

00:37:26.160 from, no

00:37:26.760 disagreement from

00:37:27.880 anybody who

00:37:28.420 knows the

00:37:28.820 context.

00:37:30.760 No disagreement

00:37:31.640 from any of

00:37:34.340 my friends.

00:37:36.740 Even the people

00:37:37.540 canceled me.

00:37:38.920 I don't know

00:37:39.380 what they were

00:37:39.740 thinking, but I

00:37:41.280 didn't hear any

00:37:41.860 of them disagree

00:37:42.500 with my actual

00:37:43.500 points.

00:37:44.480 They, of course,

00:37:45.260 are alarmed by

00:37:46.480 my rhetoric, as

00:37:49.600 everybody is.

00:37:51.820 All right.

00:37:52.240 I'm going to get

00:37:52.640 to something useful

00:37:53.640 here in a minute,

00:37:54.280 believe it or

00:37:54.620 not.

00:37:56.160 Here's something

00:37:58.460 the Washington

00:37:59.020 Post reported

00:38:00.340 about me.

00:38:02.000 This is an

00:38:02.580 actual quote from

00:38:03.540 the Washington

00:38:03.900 Post.

00:38:04.760 The cartoonist

00:38:05.560 who created the

00:38:06.260 workplace satire

00:38:07.140 comic strip in

00:38:07.860 1989 had been

00:38:09.520 entertaining extreme

00:38:10.920 right ideologies and

00:38:12.580 conspiracy theories for

00:38:13.860 several years.

00:38:14.560 conspiracy theories on

00:38:26.220 both the right and

00:38:27.160 the left.

00:38:27.620 Have you ever seen

00:38:29.580 anybody spend more

00:38:30.620 time debunking all

00:38:31.840 the conspiracy

00:38:32.440 theories?

00:38:33.360 In fact, the

00:38:34.160 biggest problem I

00:38:34.960 have with the

00:38:35.440 right is that I

00:38:36.640 don't believe they're

00:38:37.420 conspiracy theories.

00:38:39.300 Am I right?

00:38:40.200 The biggest problem

00:38:41.720 I have with my

00:38:42.520 own audience, which

00:38:43.900 is mostly right

00:38:44.600 leaning, by far, is

00:38:47.200 that I'm not buying

00:38:48.060 into the things that

00:38:48.980 they have more

00:38:50.280 quickly believed.

00:38:51.560 Now, to be fair,

00:38:54.240 most of those

00:38:54.880 conspiracies theories

00:38:55.920 turned out to be

00:38:56.500 true.

00:38:57.740 You know, I don't

00:38:58.460 know what the

00:38:58.800 percentage is, but it

00:38:59.780 feels like too many

00:39:00.660 of them turned out to

00:39:01.320 be true.

00:39:01.980 But would you agree

00:39:03.040 that I'm more famous

00:39:04.600 for disagreeing with

00:39:06.420 right leaning conspiracy

00:39:08.020 theories?

00:39:08.460 Which is more

00:39:09.140 true?

00:39:09.980 I'm more famous for

00:39:10.780 disagreeing with the

00:39:11.840 right or agreeing?

00:39:13.640 Yeah, on locals, they

00:39:14.880 all know it.

00:39:15.280 They're all saying

00:39:15.680 yes.

00:39:16.820 Yeah, I'm way more

00:39:17.740 famous for disagreeing

00:39:18.780 with the right.

00:39:20.100 Now, at the same

00:39:20.720 time, so there are two

00:39:22.420 papers that canceled me

00:39:23.480 at about the same

00:39:24.200 time, the Washington

00:39:25.380 Post and the LA

00:39:26.360 Times.

00:39:27.040 Yeah, I'm canceled

00:39:28.000 everywhere, but these

00:39:29.960 were two of the quick

00:39:31.040 ones.

00:39:32.020 So at the same time

00:39:33.000 that the Washington

00:39:33.660 Post is reporting

00:39:35.080 that I've been

00:39:36.280 entertaining extreme

00:39:37.260 right ideology

00:39:38.420 and conspiracy

00:39:39.260 theories, was it

00:39:41.880 the LA Times or

00:39:43.060 I think it was the

00:39:44.300 LA Times reported

00:39:45.320 I'm a Democrat.

00:39:49.320 So those are your

00:39:50.700 two high quality

00:39:52.240 news organizations.

00:39:54.380 One reported that

00:39:55.560 I'm a right wing,

00:39:56.980 like super right wing

00:39:58.100 conspiracy person,

00:39:59.580 and the other one

00:40:00.120 reported I'm a

00:40:01.780 Democrat.

00:40:02.100 at the same time,

00:40:06.040 at the same time,

00:40:07.220 they reported that.

00:40:08.380 Now, if that doesn't

00:40:09.240 tell you everything

00:40:09.920 you need to know

00:40:10.840 about the quality

00:40:12.700 of the news,

00:40:13.940 and I told you before

00:40:15.000 that before getting

00:40:15.960 canceled, zero people

00:40:18.140 at newspapers asked

00:40:19.520 me for the proper

00:40:20.820 context.

00:40:22.440 Nobody.

00:40:23.980 Nobody.

00:40:24.440 Now, after I've been

00:40:25.460 canceled, it got more

00:40:27.060 interesting, and people

00:40:27.960 started looking into it

00:40:29.020 and looking at my

00:40:30.300 comments in a broader

00:40:31.900 way.

00:40:32.800 But they all canceled

00:40:34.760 me without doing any

00:40:35.780 journalism.

00:40:36.800 None.

00:40:37.580 No journalism.

00:40:38.800 And the journalism

00:40:39.420 they're doing now,

00:40:40.400 the LA Times was

00:40:41.200 actually, in my opinion,

00:40:43.400 somewhat supportive

00:40:44.920 by showing the full

00:40:46.580 context.

00:40:47.660 And Newsweek said

00:40:48.720 directly I shouldn't be

00:40:49.700 canceled in an opinion

00:40:51.340 piece.

00:40:51.620 All right.

00:40:56.060 Hotep Jesus tweeted

00:40:57.600 this.

00:40:58.000 He said, Twitter users

00:40:58.920 are addicted to being

00:40:59.900 offended.

00:41:01.460 That's pretty much all

00:41:02.980 I'm seeing now.

00:41:04.820 Most of the negative

00:41:06.260 stuff on Twitter about

00:41:07.680 me is people who are

00:41:09.480 clearly just gooders.

00:41:11.400 They are literally just

00:41:12.360 getting off on it.

00:41:14.100 Oh, Scott, you're so

00:41:15.540 canceled now.

00:41:16.540 Oh, oh, oh, I think

00:41:18.760 you're so canceled.

00:41:19.900 Oh, oh, oh.

00:41:22.240 I'll stop doing that.

00:41:23.260 I know that's creepy.

00:41:25.420 Yeah, they're just

00:41:26.260 gooning out at their

00:41:27.300 criticism.

00:41:28.240 And you can tell that

00:41:29.220 it's not even about me.

00:41:30.940 They don't actually care

00:41:32.040 about me.

00:41:33.060 They care about the

00:41:34.320 process of gooning and

00:41:35.740 getting a little

00:41:36.440 dopamine hit.

00:41:37.620 So I can't take them

00:41:38.820 too seriously.

00:41:40.540 It's just people who

00:41:41.600 don't know the situation,

00:41:43.640 gooners, and then

00:41:44.840 political enemies of

00:41:46.060 mine who are just

00:41:46.720 waiting for a chance

00:41:47.720 to cancel me.

00:41:48.660 That's all it is now.

00:41:50.360 There are no reasonable

00:41:51.440 people who know the

00:41:53.320 context who have any

00:41:54.400 problem.

00:41:56.640 Is that an extreme

00:41:57.780 claim?

00:41:59.780 I haven't seen any.

00:42:01.020 I have not seen any

00:42:03.040 reasonable person who

00:42:04.980 knows the context who

00:42:06.960 still has a problem with

00:42:08.020 it.

00:42:08.680 None.

00:42:10.160 It's just a media thing.

00:42:11.360 So my actual world of

00:42:14.280 being totally cancelled,

00:42:15.760 you know, except for the

00:42:16.520 financial part, which is

00:42:17.720 enormous, my every day is

00:42:20.900 exactly the same.

00:42:22.280 I go outside and I see

00:42:23.620 people who are not on

00:42:24.520 social media.

00:42:26.240 Mostly.

00:42:27.740 I went to the park to

00:42:29.640 walk my dog, and I know

00:42:31.620 quite a few of the

00:42:32.360 neighbors just from dog

00:42:33.460 walking.

00:42:34.000 Well, they all know me,

00:42:35.080 basically.

00:42:35.900 And I thought, oh, this is

00:42:37.480 going to be awkward.

00:42:39.600 Nope.

00:42:40.500 Big smiles.

00:42:42.220 Big smiles everywhere.

00:42:43.840 How you doing?

00:42:44.500 How's your dog?

00:42:45.320 Big smiles.

00:42:46.740 So my local experience is

00:42:49.280 that it didn't even

00:42:49.960 happen.

00:42:50.940 That the cancellation

00:42:51.680 never happened.

00:42:53.360 And if you subtract the

00:42:54.640 gooners and crazy people

00:42:55.940 and the political

00:42:56.600 operatives and the

00:42:58.040 grifters, there are no

00:42:59.780 actual complaints from

00:43:01.560 black people or white,

00:43:03.100 once they know the

00:43:03.840 context.

00:43:04.220 Here's the funniest

00:43:07.200 comment from Ghost of

00:43:09.940 Gettysburg.

00:43:11.300 Now, I'm not endorsing

00:43:12.620 this.

00:43:12.920 I just think it's funny.

00:43:14.180 All right.

00:43:14.520 So this is just for the

00:43:15.380 laugh.

00:43:17.140 Scott pointed out that

00:43:18.440 the emperor has no

00:43:19.200 clothes, and now all the

00:43:20.200 NPCs are upset.

00:43:21.780 This is usually what

00:43:22.760 happens before a societal

00:43:24.100 epiphany happens.

00:43:26.400 Scott Adams might be a

00:43:27.600 sort of Rosa Parks to

00:43:29.220 look back on.

00:43:32.400 Rosa Parks.

00:43:33.280 Now, obviously, that

00:43:36.780 would be offensive for

00:43:37.980 me to embrace that,

00:43:39.560 which makes it funny.

00:43:41.000 It's funny because it's

00:43:42.800 outrageous.

00:43:44.560 But I would ask you this

00:43:45.760 question about Rosa Parks.

00:43:48.560 Looking back in history,

00:43:51.540 was Rosa Parks not good

00:43:54.560 for white and black people

00:43:56.100 and everybody else?

00:43:57.800 Are you glad that Rosa Parks

00:43:59.600 existed?

00:44:00.880 Whether you're white or

00:44:01.800 black or anything,

00:44:02.760 and anything else?

00:44:04.660 Because she created a

00:44:06.580 societal change that was

00:44:08.540 positive.

00:44:09.640 Is that correct?

00:44:11.520 Like, there's nobody who's

00:44:12.520 anti-Rosa Parks today.

00:44:15.720 Like, nobody would want a

00:44:16.800 segregated boss or anything

00:44:18.100 like that.

00:44:19.260 So Rosa Parks is a good

00:44:21.520 example of someone who was

00:44:23.060 very, let's say,

00:44:24.720 controversial back in those

00:44:26.540 super racist days, more racist

00:44:28.540 than today.

00:44:30.140 But today, in the length of

00:44:33.980 time, we now come to know

00:44:35.920 that it's a good thing she

00:44:36.900 did that and it's a good

00:44:37.920 thing that, you know, we got

00:44:40.200 to a better place.

00:44:41.200 Everybody wins.

00:44:41.780 I like to think that's my case as

00:44:45.240 well.

00:44:46.100 Not Rosa Parks, of course.

00:44:48.340 But I believe that what I'm

00:44:49.440 doing is pissing off half of the

00:44:51.060 world that's paying attention.

00:44:53.900 And you're going to hate me for a

00:44:56.060 while, but you're going to be glad I

00:44:58.820 did it.

00:45:01.000 That's my prediction.

00:45:02.460 You're going to be glad I did it.

00:45:03.860 But you can hate me for a while,

00:45:06.400 just like the white racists hated

00:45:08.520 Rosa Parks.

00:45:09.740 They probably hated the hell out of

00:45:11.200 her, I assume.

00:45:12.840 Right?

00:45:13.540 But not now.

00:45:15.400 So time is on my side because you

00:45:18.800 are going to be happy that I, let's

00:45:22.900 say, waded into the conversation.

00:45:25.440 Now, one of the biggest complaints

00:45:27.220 I'm getting lately is even from

00:45:28.840 people who support me or at least

00:45:31.620 don't want me canceled.

00:45:32.680 They're saying that the way I said

00:45:35.960 it was unnecessarily provocative

00:45:40.000 and it was unproductive and it made

00:45:43.340 things worse.

00:45:45.100 What do you say?

00:45:47.480 Was it an awkward, well, it was

00:45:49.280 definitely awkward, but was it

00:45:50.980 unproductive and just made things

00:45:54.080 worse and it was a big mistake the

00:45:56.240 way I said it?

00:45:58.320 Well, here's what's wrong with their

00:45:59.820 theory.

00:46:00.160 I did it intentionally and it turned

00:46:05.000 out better than I'd hoped.

00:46:08.760 Here's what I hoped.

00:46:10.100 I didn't expect I would get fully

00:46:11.760 canceled that time.

00:46:13.640 I have been predicting I would be

00:46:15.380 fully canceled, but I thought it would

00:46:17.400 be for political reasons and, you

00:46:19.440 know, some excuse would pop up.

00:46:21.000 I didn't know it would be this one.

00:46:22.380 And if it hadn't been this one, I'm

00:46:25.120 sure there would have been others.

00:46:26.620 You know, they'll just find some

00:46:27.540 reason.

00:46:28.500 But I was trying to be provocative.

00:46:32.040 I was trying to make people angry.

00:46:34.880 Is that a mistake?

00:46:37.160 If I had done it unintentionally, it would

00:46:39.660 have been a mistake.

00:46:40.300 But I did it very intentionally.

00:46:43.620 I was trying to get people mad so that

00:46:47.020 they would send me energy and then we'd

00:46:49.720 talk about it and then everybody would

00:46:51.820 say, oh, that was useful.

00:46:53.340 Thanks.

00:46:55.060 What happened was it got too big.

00:46:57.240 And the reason it got too big is not

00:46:58.820 because of what I said.

00:47:00.420 Well, you all get that, right?

00:47:01.520 The reason I got canceled had nothing

00:47:03.900 to do with what I said, except sort

00:47:06.640 of, you know, any excuse was good

00:47:08.440 enough.

00:47:09.700 Once it started, it was just sort of a

00:47:12.040 political cascade.

00:47:14.460 But it wasn't what I said.

00:47:16.400 People aren't mad at that.

00:47:18.000 They're mad that I made them mad.

00:47:20.840 I did that intentionally.

00:47:23.220 If you're mad that I made people mad,

00:47:27.240 okay.

00:47:28.200 If you're just mad, okay.

00:47:32.840 That's what I wanted.

00:47:34.320 That's exactly what I wanted.

00:47:35.640 And I wanted you to turn all of your

00:47:37.460 guns on me.

00:47:39.200 I wanted you all, like, to circle around

00:47:41.460 me, draw all of your weapons, point them

00:47:43.960 at my head, and make me defend myself.

00:47:47.280 That's what I wanted.

00:47:48.860 And that's what I got.

00:47:51.520 Now, I would argue that I'm already the

00:47:54.060 most, I'll use the word interesting,

00:47:56.380 only because I'm controversial.

00:47:58.460 You know, if you're controversial,

00:47:59.720 you're automatically interesting, too.

00:48:01.840 I'm the most interesting voice in

00:48:04.440 America right now on this topic.

00:48:08.280 Does anybody disagree?

00:48:10.660 I'm not saying I'm the most

00:48:12.040 authoritative, the most credible, the

00:48:15.120 most believable, the most anything

00:48:16.960 else.

00:48:17.560 Only the most prominent and

00:48:20.180 interesting voice.

00:48:22.040 And what makes me interesting is that

00:48:23.920 I'm walking through this topic instead of

00:48:25.880 around it.

00:48:26.460 I know how to go around it.

00:48:29.120 I know how to apologize, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:31.580 But there's nothing to apologize for.

00:48:33.620 I'm trying to help you.

00:48:36.600 I'm not going to apologize for trying to

00:48:38.580 help you.

00:48:39.500 And when I say you, I mean black America,

00:48:42.420 you know, and everybody else.

00:48:43.680 The same way Rosa Parks was helping black

00:48:47.040 America, but ended up helping everybody.

00:48:49.660 This is specifically for the benefit of

00:48:52.240 black America.

00:48:53.420 It's going to help everybody else, too.

00:48:55.300 Because we have to get to the point where

00:48:56.600 you can actually say something honestly

00:48:58.240 about the topic.

00:48:59.980 How in the world could you possibly move

00:49:02.700 ahead if you have to lie about the topic

00:49:04.780 you're working on?

00:49:05.500 And the non-lie is that if given the trends

00:49:11.740 we see, and I like to say my lived experience,

00:49:15.240 I don't need the Rasmussen poll to tell me

00:49:18.880 what's obvious, do I?

00:49:21.480 You can just watch the news and, you know,

00:49:23.840 talk to people and be on social media and live

00:49:26.780 for five minutes, and you see everything that

00:49:29.260 the Rasmussen poll suggested.

00:49:31.860 Now, perhaps, you know, the exact numbers

00:49:35.260 are a little off, but there's no doubt that

00:49:37.920 even if the Rasmussen poll had never existed,

00:49:41.480 there's clearly racial tensions that have gotten

00:49:45.780 worse since Trayvon Martin, and I think they're

00:49:48.820 reaching a point where the society is starting

00:49:52.040 not to work so well.

00:49:53.720 Like it's starting to have some cracks.

00:49:56.000 And the thing that makes America, America,

00:49:59.660 in my opinion, is the, you know,

00:50:01.700 the so-called classic melting pot.

00:50:04.840 Like if we can't figure out how to work together

00:50:07.740 across races and make it better than if we had

00:50:11.880 no diversity at all, we're not really going to

00:50:15.500 be a competitive country, and I want to be

00:50:17.740 a competitive country.

00:50:20.480 So is it good for me to help black America?

00:50:23.680 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:50:26.000 Because that helps me.

00:50:27.500 It helps you as well, right?

00:50:29.360 Now, if I were only helping black America,

00:50:31.780 then you might have some questions.

00:50:33.960 But I don't do things that aren't good for everybody.

00:50:37.160 Like, that's how it works.

00:50:38.960 You help the ones that are in the deepest hole,

00:50:41.620 and that's sort of good for everybody,

00:50:43.540 just like Rosa Parks.

00:50:45.340 You know, it was good for everybody.

00:50:48.440 So let me say a little bit more about that.

00:50:52.620 If you thought that my communication was poor,

00:50:56.680 and a number of people have said words to this effect,

00:51:00.760 we know he's a professional communicator,

00:51:04.640 so why did he do this so wrong?

00:51:07.720 Have you seen that?

00:51:09.580 People saying, he knows how to communicate.

00:51:11.580 Why did he do this so wrong?

00:51:14.020 It wasn't wrong.

00:51:15.960 It was supposed to get exactly the...

00:51:18.580 I was communicating for effect,

00:51:21.480 and I got exactly the effect I tried to get,

00:51:24.040 which is outrage.

00:51:24.880 Does anybody think I wasn't trying to outrage you?

00:51:29.720 How in the world could you think

00:51:30.940 that wasn't intended to be outrageous?

00:51:33.380 Of course it was.

00:51:34.680 Of course it was.

00:51:36.100 You've seen me do it before, by the way.

00:51:38.580 So I wouldn't say that that was communication.

00:51:40.760 I would say it was protest.

00:51:43.540 It was protest.

00:51:45.520 Protest is supposed to make you pissed off.

00:51:48.520 Do you remember that I supported Colin Kaepernick's protest,

00:51:52.400 and everybody who's watching me now hated me for it?

00:51:56.160 Do you remember that?

00:51:57.920 And I supported his protest because it was perfect.

00:52:02.840 He made everybody mad,

00:52:04.400 and what he did was super inappropriate,

00:52:07.240 you know, kneeling for the national anthem.

00:52:10.180 Inappropriate in the sort of classic way.

00:52:13.780 So the fact that he was so inappropriate,

00:52:16.700 and he got fully cancelled,

00:52:19.500 like somebody I know,

00:52:20.660 like somebody I know,

00:52:23.960 made a great protest.

00:52:26.660 That was a good protest.

00:52:28.380 You still remember his name,

00:52:29.620 you still remember his issue,

00:52:31.020 and he took the bullet.

00:52:32.540 Now I think he should have gotten back and,

00:52:34.760 I would have liked to see him go back and play again,

00:52:36.840 but that didn't work out.

00:52:39.160 So if you think I was communicating,

00:52:41.960 then it would look like I made a big mistake.

00:52:44.200 If you know I was protesting,

00:52:46.540 a situation which I don't think can stand,

00:52:49.220 then pissing you off is exactly what I wanted to do.

00:52:53.140 It's exactly what I wanted to do.

00:52:54.800 I didn't think it would get that big.

00:52:56.640 I thought it would just stay within my audience.

00:52:59.740 And my audience is well aware

00:53:01.600 that I like to agitate them,

00:53:03.460 and then once they're in an agitated state,

00:53:06.960 then I reframe it and bring them back.

00:53:09.840 How many times have you seen me do that?

00:53:12.560 I agitate my audience with some provocation,

00:53:15.460 and I slowly bring them back to another frame.

00:53:18.720 It's a fun experience.

00:53:20.260 If you haven't experienced it,

00:53:21.380 you should try it.

00:53:23.380 All right.

00:53:26.680 What else?

00:53:27.980 I asked a poll, I said,

00:53:29.940 on Twitter,

00:53:30.440 now this is a Twitter poll,

00:53:31.580 so don't take it too seriously.

00:53:33.900 But I said,

00:53:34.960 if you're white,

00:53:35.580 is it better for you to lie to black Americans

00:53:37.740 about where you think things are at,

00:53:40.680 or to be honest

00:53:41.780 and see if you can figure out solutions?

00:53:45.140 Well, I haven't checked,

00:53:45.940 but 25% of white Americans

00:53:47.880 said it's better to lie.

00:53:51.300 Is that healthy?

00:53:53.180 Do you think it's healthy

00:53:54.240 that 25% of Americans

00:53:55.860 feel they have to lie to black Americans?

00:53:59.140 How in the world is that healthy?

00:54:00.720 And is there any black American

00:54:03.340 who wants them to lie to them?

00:54:06.240 If I may say one super racist thing,

00:54:09.220 and I think I will,

00:54:11.240 you want me to say something super racist

00:54:12.780 so I can get cancelled again?

00:54:14.700 Here it comes.

00:54:15.620 Super racist.

00:54:17.880 Black people like honesty.

00:54:21.680 Super racist.

00:54:23.140 Right?

00:54:23.960 Black people like honesty.

00:54:26.660 Anybody want to argue with me?

00:54:28.000 Individuals.

00:54:30.460 I'm not talking about

00:54:31.420 like some race grifters and stuff.

00:54:34.380 But individually,

00:54:35.540 I've never met a black person

00:54:37.400 who wanted to be lied to.

00:54:39.600 Is that even a thing?

00:54:41.340 No.

00:54:42.180 They like some honesty.

00:54:43.780 Do you know who doesn't like honesty?

00:54:45.960 Tell me.

00:54:46.580 Who doesn't like honesty?

00:54:48.520 There's an answer to this question.

00:54:50.580 Who doesn't like honesty?

00:54:54.780 Liberal women.

00:54:56.620 Liberal women.

00:54:57.180 And the men who need to do

00:55:00.460 what the liberal women say.

00:55:02.580 The left is mostly

00:55:03.740 a female-centric philosophy

00:55:07.080 with men who are willing

00:55:09.320 to go along with it.

00:55:10.640 Mostly.

00:55:12.020 Like everything,

00:55:13.360 lots of exceptions, right?

00:55:15.040 So even when I said

00:55:16.220 the racist thing I said just now,

00:55:17.860 which is black people like honesty,

00:55:20.640 do you think I meant

00:55:21.440 every single black person?

00:55:23.600 All of them.

00:55:24.960 No.

00:55:25.260 It never means all of them.

00:55:27.540 It never means that.

00:55:29.760 You would have to be an NPC

00:55:31.480 to think that any statement

00:55:33.940 about a group

00:55:34.760 is intended to mean all of them.

00:55:37.800 In no world,

00:55:39.040 in no conversation,

00:55:40.380 at no time ever

00:55:41.640 has anybody ever meant

00:55:43.320 that interpretation.

00:55:44.960 But that's the interpretation

00:55:46.000 the news has taken

00:55:46.900 because they're not honest.

00:55:48.600 It's fake news.

00:55:49.260 All right.

00:55:53.160 Here's something

00:55:55.280 that June Stone

00:55:56.320 said to me on Twitter.

00:55:58.320 She's a black woman

00:55:59.160 and she was not a big fan

00:56:01.700 of my comments.

00:56:02.720 Not a big fan.

00:56:03.860 But she was not a big fan

00:56:05.240 in a different way

00:56:06.160 than you expect.

00:56:08.200 So let me read her comment

00:56:09.260 because I think it's a good one.

00:56:10.980 She said,

00:56:11.540 black people

00:56:12.440 don't need people

00:56:13.440 who think like you,

00:56:14.880 meaning me,

00:56:15.720 giving us, quote,

00:56:16.760 success strategies.

00:56:18.500 Just work on your own

00:56:19.800 internalized biases

00:56:20.900 and colonial mindset,

00:56:22.620 which I suppose I do have.

00:56:25.360 Is that unfair?

00:56:27.400 She says,

00:56:28.140 I should work on my own

00:56:29.160 internalized biases

00:56:30.300 and colonial mindset.

00:56:33.220 That's fair.

00:56:33.940 I usually make fun

00:56:37.120 of mind readers,

00:56:38.440 but is there anybody

00:56:39.260 who doesn't have

00:56:40.040 internalized bias?

00:56:42.620 Like,

00:56:42.920 how could you not have

00:56:43.760 an internalized bias?

00:56:46.040 Nobody can get rid

00:56:47.020 of their internalized bias,

00:56:48.340 but working on it

00:56:49.540 is something

00:56:50.540 we all should do, right?

00:56:52.320 You can't get rid of it,

00:56:53.840 but you've got to stay

00:56:54.480 on top of it, right?

00:56:55.700 You've got to know

00:56:56.180 what it is.

00:56:56.760 You've got to work with it.

00:56:57.660 You've got to try

00:56:58.760 to tamp it down, right?

00:57:00.380 So I would take her advice

00:57:01.660 as good advice.

00:57:02.340 I should work

00:57:04.240 on my own

00:57:04.680 internalized biases,

00:57:05.780 as should all of you,

00:57:06.820 as should all black people,

00:57:08.020 as should all white people,

00:57:09.600 and everybody in return.

00:57:10.800 By the way,

00:57:11.220 I keep leaving out

00:57:12.680 Asian Americans

00:57:13.400 and Indian Americans

00:57:14.440 and Hispanics,

00:57:16.160 but it's only because

00:57:17.140 I'm simplifying things.

00:57:20.480 All right,

00:57:20.740 so she goes on

00:57:21.540 and she says,

00:57:23.020 let me read it again.

00:57:23.940 She says she doesn't want

00:57:25.120 people like me

00:57:25.680 giving black people

00:57:26.520 quote,

00:57:27.320 success strategies.

00:57:28.960 Come back

00:57:29.560 when you've done the work

00:57:30.360 and change your heart.

00:57:31.400 So here's how I replied.

00:57:33.980 I said,

00:57:34.340 I hear you, June,

00:57:35.640 but success strategies,

00:57:38.040 quote unquote,

00:57:39.040 are your only hope

00:57:40.420 to slice through

00:57:41.240 systemic racism.

00:57:42.980 You are asking

00:57:44.040 for more systemic racism

00:57:45.560 by being denied

00:57:46.760 the influence

00:57:47.520 of successful people.

00:57:50.700 The government

00:57:51.640 isn't coming to help

00:57:52.780 make you successful,

00:57:54.500 and it's largely

00:57:56.180 a learned skill.

00:57:58.560 So here's what

00:57:59.520 I'm telling black America.

00:58:01.400 Success is a learned skill.

00:58:04.340 If you learn that skill,

00:58:06.720 systemic racism

00:58:07.720 will only be a pain

00:58:08.980 in the ass

00:58:09.460 in your life.

00:58:10.120 It won't stop you

00:58:10.900 from success.

00:58:12.040 It will just be

00:58:12.720 a pain in the ass.

00:58:14.000 But you can slice

00:58:15.000 right through it

00:58:15.760 with some pretty basic,

00:58:18.080 well-tested,

00:58:19.620 universal,

00:58:20.660 you know,

00:58:20.860 nothing about black or white,

00:58:22.080 just universal

00:58:22.960 success strategies.

00:58:24.780 I happen to have

00:58:26.660 a lot of them.

00:58:28.060 My best-selling book

00:58:29.120 that is now cancelled,

00:58:30.660 Had I Failed Almost Everything

00:58:31.760 and Still Went Big,

00:58:32.860 is the most influential

00:58:34.520 self-help book

00:58:35.520 in the world.

00:58:37.000 It's the most influential.

00:58:39.020 Now,

00:58:39.240 it's not the best-seller,

00:58:40.720 but other best-sellers

00:58:41.980 have borrowed my ideas

00:58:43.420 and become best-sellers.

00:58:44.560 But there's nobody

00:58:46.040 more influential

00:58:46.960 at the moment

00:58:47.980 in the self-help,

00:58:49.940 personal success domain

00:58:52.060 than I am.

00:58:53.240 I'm number one

00:58:54.200 in that domain

00:58:54.820 by influence.

00:58:56.380 I invented

00:58:57.220 the idea

00:58:57.840 of the talent stack,

00:58:59.180 or popularized it,

00:59:00.320 maybe,

00:59:00.780 and the idea

00:59:02.340 of systems over goals,

00:59:04.480 which are two

00:59:05.060 of the most important

00:59:06.780 self-development concepts

00:59:09.440 in the world.

00:59:11.240 And they're now generally

00:59:12.520 the advice

00:59:13.400 that people give

00:59:14.240 that came from me.

00:59:16.440 The advice

00:59:17.320 that white people

00:59:18.160 give each other

00:59:19.000 largely came from me.

00:59:21.660 Now,

00:59:22.120 I have a number

00:59:22.820 of black followers

00:59:23.700 who also report to me

00:59:25.260 that that same advice

00:59:26.380 completely changed

00:59:27.880 their lives,

00:59:29.240 made them richer,

00:59:30.200 happier,

00:59:30.740 more successful,

00:59:31.700 et cetera.

00:59:32.560 None of these things

00:59:33.580 are black or white

00:59:34.540 in the sense that

00:59:35.680 I don't think

00:59:36.760 there's any such thing as,

00:59:38.020 well, no,

00:59:38.620 I'll take that back.

00:59:39.800 These are universal,

00:59:41.800 but on top of that,

00:59:43.040 there would also be

00:59:43.720 special strategies

00:59:45.360 for black Americans.

00:59:47.840 And that special strategy

00:59:49.060 would be go

00:59:49.900 where you have

00:59:50.300 an advantage.

00:59:51.680 Go to a big company

00:59:53.400 that's trying

00:59:53.860 to improve its diversity,

00:59:55.660 and you go right

00:59:56.120 to the top of the list

00:59:57.020 as long as you're qualified.

00:59:59.500 So, strategy-wise,

01:00:01.660 what I offer

01:00:02.540 to black America,

01:00:04.680 now that I have

01:00:05.400 your attention,

01:00:06.600 now that I have

01:00:07.880 your attention,

01:00:09.340 exactly as I was

01:00:10.500 planning to do,

01:00:11.980 I would like to offer you

01:00:13.320 for free,

01:00:14.920 for free,

01:00:16.120 the best success strategies

01:00:17.960 you've ever seen.

01:00:19.360 Now, the reason that

01:00:20.220 being denied

01:00:21.100 these strategies

01:00:22.280 I call

01:00:23.160 systemic racism

01:00:24.780 is because

01:00:26.140 when you're white,

01:00:28.080 now, again,

01:00:29.020 this is not a universal

01:00:30.080 for every white person,

01:00:31.560 but in general,

01:00:33.580 let's see if I can get

01:00:35.260 some agreement

01:00:35.780 on this in the comments.

01:00:36.860 Would you agree

01:00:38.020 that the average

01:00:39.000 white person in America

01:00:40.140 has more casual contact

01:00:42.860 with financially successful people

01:00:45.440 than the average

01:00:46.940 black American?

01:00:48.380 Just on average.

01:00:49.800 True?

01:00:50.880 Right?

01:00:51.580 And do you believe

01:00:52.300 that that contact,

01:00:53.520 even though it's

01:00:54.000 a casual contact,

01:00:55.160 might be friends,

01:00:56.020 could be your father,

01:00:56.880 mother,

01:00:57.320 could be,

01:00:58.160 but your friends,

01:00:59.900 et cetera,

01:01:00.780 don't you think

01:01:01.540 that makes a difference?

01:01:03.800 Don't you think

01:01:04.500 that the knowledge

01:01:05.540 of how to succeed

01:01:06.420 is probably

01:01:08.820 the biggest lever

01:01:09.840 for anybody?

01:01:12.160 For anybody?

01:01:13.440 And whenever you see

01:01:14.560 a black American

01:01:16.420 who's succeeded,

01:01:18.200 you look at their process,

01:01:20.380 and it turns out

01:01:21.360 that they use

01:01:22.020 the same techniques

01:01:23.200 that I'm promoting

01:01:24.600 for everybody.

01:01:26.080 Right?

01:01:26.360 If you listen to

01:01:27.160 Kobe Bryant,

01:01:29.000 like,

01:01:29.240 if you listen to his talk

01:01:30.300 about what makes him,

01:01:31.500 made him successful,

01:01:33.020 it will sound

01:01:33.940 just like it came

01:01:34.740 out of my mouth,

01:01:35.500 except, you know,

01:01:36.780 different framing,

01:01:37.740 of course,

01:01:38.100 but it's going to

01:01:38.920 sound very familiar.

01:01:40.140 He's going to talk

01:01:40.740 about the system

01:01:41.720 he uses instead

01:01:42.920 of the goal,

01:01:44.560 and, you know,

01:01:45.620 developing his entire game

01:01:47.700 so he wasn't a specialist,

01:01:49.840 you know,

01:01:50.000 I'm just a shooter

01:01:50.780 or just a defensive person.

01:01:52.800 He was great

01:01:53.680 at everything

01:01:54.580 in basketball.

01:01:55.960 So he had a talent stack,

01:01:58.000 he had systems over goals,

01:01:59.580 and probably a dozen

01:02:01.800 other things

01:02:02.420 that I teach

01:02:03.740 in terms of success.

01:02:06.700 So it has nothing

01:02:08.320 to do with white or black.

01:02:09.320 These are just universal

01:02:10.220 things that work

01:02:10.880 for everybody.

01:02:12.180 So when I talk

01:02:12.760 about the,

01:02:13.820 what I call it,

01:02:16.880 the reciprocity

01:02:17.780 operating system,

01:02:19.620 the most useful thing

01:02:21.740 to do if you're black

01:02:23.420 and you want white America

01:02:25.500 to embrace you

01:02:26.540 and effectively

01:02:28.100 take the systemic racism

01:02:29.720 away for you,

01:02:32.100 then reciprocity

01:02:33.680 is how you do that.

01:02:35.080 Because white people

01:02:35.960 are just all primed

01:02:36.960 for reciprocity.

01:02:38.640 Maybe everybody is.

01:02:40.200 Like, I'm not saying

01:02:40.920 somebody isn't.

01:02:42.100 I think everybody is.

01:02:43.400 But I can, you know,

01:02:44.160 talk about my own life better.

01:02:46.920 And if you simply

01:02:49.620 give a little bit more

01:02:50.920 than you're expected

01:02:51.740 to give,

01:02:53.000 most of the time

01:02:53.960 you're not going to get

01:02:54.560 anything back from that.

01:02:55.500 but over time you will.

01:02:57.900 You know, when you need it,

01:02:58.920 probably you will.

01:02:59.920 Yeah.

01:03:01.340 I tell the famous story

01:03:02.680 of my neighbor

01:03:03.420 who was an old white guy

01:03:05.600 when I knew him

01:03:06.220 and he was rich

01:03:07.440 and he didn't have

01:03:08.980 a college education

01:03:10.660 and I asked him

01:03:11.220 how he did that.

01:03:12.180 His first job

01:03:12.940 was selling salt.

01:03:15.300 Do you know how hard

01:03:16.000 it would be to sell salt

01:03:17.100 to grocery stores?

01:03:19.400 They already have salt.

01:03:21.020 It's all almost

01:03:21.740 completely the same.

01:03:23.260 It's like just price.

01:03:24.240 And if you don't

01:03:25.600 have the lowest price,

01:03:26.460 how the hell

01:03:26.820 do you sell your salt?

01:03:28.560 Here's how he did it.

01:03:29.900 He gave me one anecdote.

01:03:31.920 He knew that there was

01:03:32.840 a store owner

01:03:34.700 who was going to spend

01:03:35.680 the weekend

01:03:36.220 organizing his shelves.

01:03:38.400 This store owner

01:03:39.100 had never bought his salt

01:03:40.300 but he'd been trying

01:03:41.300 for a while.

01:03:42.660 So on Saturday

01:03:43.640 he puts on his work clothes

01:03:45.480 and he shows up

01:03:46.320 at the store

01:03:48.720 and he says,

01:03:50.080 I'm here to help.

01:03:51.160 Just for free.

01:03:51.960 For nothing.

01:03:53.060 I'll just help you

01:03:53.640 organize the store today.

01:03:55.340 The store owner

01:03:56.200 accepted his help

01:03:57.140 and bought all of his salt

01:03:59.580 and bought his salt

01:04:01.380 from that day forward.

01:04:02.940 Why?

01:04:03.620 Reciprocity.

01:04:04.780 Yeah.

01:04:05.200 Because he couldn't

01:04:06.040 not buy it.

01:04:07.100 Once he'd accepted

01:04:08.000 that level of help,

01:04:09.320 the guy worked

01:04:10.080 with him all day,

01:04:11.920 reciprocity kicks in

01:04:13.720 and you buy

01:04:14.440 that guy salt.

01:04:15.960 Right?

01:04:15.980 So if instead

01:04:18.900 my friend had said,

01:04:21.500 you owe me this

01:04:22.400 because of something

01:04:23.560 you did in the past,

01:04:24.660 would that have worked

01:04:25.440 as well?

01:04:26.780 Maybe in the short run?

01:04:28.980 But the reciprocity play

01:04:31.380 is permanent.

01:04:32.580 I mean, that's a good

01:04:33.500 solution right there.

01:04:37.980 All right.

01:04:38.620 So at the same time

01:04:45.220 that the Washington Post

01:04:46.240 was canceling me,

01:04:48.480 they were reporting

01:04:50.780 that the sonic weapon,

01:04:52.840 the Havana Syndrome

01:04:53.720 sonic weapon,

01:04:54.680 was never real

01:04:56.080 and it was all imaginary.

01:04:59.380 Reading the newspaper,

01:05:01.280 you would have waited

01:05:02.240 five years to learn that.

01:05:03.700 If you had listened

01:05:05.040 to me,

01:05:06.280 the person

01:05:06.760 the newspaper canceled,

01:05:08.580 I told you that

01:05:09.440 on the first fucking day.

01:05:12.000 First day.

01:05:13.420 Do you know why?

01:05:14.800 Because I'm really good

01:05:16.160 at this.

01:05:18.520 I'm really good

01:05:19.460 at a very narrow

01:05:20.240 specific thing.

01:05:21.940 I can see a mass hysteria

01:05:23.600 forming.

01:05:24.980 I can tell the difference

01:05:26.080 between a mass hysteria

01:05:27.320 and a real story.

01:05:28.800 And I saw it immediately.

01:05:30.580 It was classic.

01:05:31.900 It was the most classic

01:05:33.160 mass hysteria

01:05:34.360 you could ever have.

01:05:35.340 It was so obviously

01:05:36.500 a mass hysteria

01:05:37.460 that I called it

01:05:39.060 on the first day

01:05:39.780 and never stopped

01:05:40.460 saying it.

01:05:41.540 And even when the news

01:05:43.580 started to move

01:05:44.360 against me,

01:05:45.280 it's like,

01:05:45.600 well, maybe

01:05:46.260 this damage

01:05:48.380 really does suggest

01:05:49.400 there's a weapon.

01:05:51.100 Even when the news

01:05:52.160 was working against me,

01:05:53.420 I said,

01:05:53.800 nope,

01:05:54.440 mass hysteria,

01:05:55.560 no weapon,

01:05:56.120 you're never going

01:05:56.580 to find a weapon.

01:05:57.720 And now that's

01:05:58.600 the common belief.

01:06:01.980 Do you remember

01:06:02.840 was the Washington Post

01:06:04.540 also reporting

01:06:05.420 that alcohol

01:06:06.000 was good for you

01:06:06.860 in moderation?

01:06:08.340 I don't know,

01:06:09.220 but I'll bet they were.

01:06:10.540 In fact,

01:06:10.980 I'll bet most of the people

01:06:12.040 who canceled me,

01:06:13.640 if you had followed

01:06:14.480 the people who canceled me

01:06:15.520 for five years

01:06:16.360 or you had followed me,

01:06:18.680 who would know more?

01:06:20.140 The people who followed me

01:06:21.360 or the people who followed

01:06:22.740 the so-called news

01:06:23.960 that canceled me.

01:06:25.920 It's not even close.

01:06:27.300 The fake news

01:06:29.340 is so fake

01:06:30.420 that my guessing

01:06:32.500 was better.

01:06:34.860 Now,

01:06:35.160 they're educated guesses,

01:06:36.220 right,

01:06:36.440 but I didn't have data.

01:06:37.880 I just looked at it

01:06:38.600 and said,

01:06:38.840 nah,

01:06:39.800 that doesn't look

01:06:40.380 right to me.

01:06:42.580 Now,

01:06:43.000 some of you

01:06:43.540 fell for the

01:06:44.380 vax hoax

01:06:45.320 about me.

01:06:46.940 4chan basically

01:06:47.760 changed all my views

01:06:48.860 and sold you

01:06:49.560 that those were my views

01:06:50.780 and that everybody

01:06:51.340 got mad at me.

01:06:52.300 But if you're not

01:06:52.960 up with that story,

01:06:53.760 you should catch up.

01:06:54.480 I'll find out

01:06:56.300 what my actual views are

01:06:57.460 and you'll get over

01:06:58.320 that pretty quickly.

01:06:59.580 But that was one

01:07:00.140 of the best pranks

01:07:00.900 ever on me

01:07:01.800 is that whole

01:07:02.900 vax prank.

01:07:05.680 Anyway,

01:07:07.500 in order to be mad

01:07:09.080 at me

01:07:09.440 for my latest outrage,

01:07:12.420 you would have to

01:07:15.200 accept the following

01:07:17.300 things.

01:07:19.200 Here are all the things

01:07:20.520 you would have to believe

01:07:21.540 in order to be

01:07:23.180 outraged at me.

01:07:24.780 It's a long list.

01:07:26.760 These are all

01:07:27.460 the dumbass things

01:07:28.340 you would have to believe.

01:07:29.260 You'd have to believe

01:07:29.800 them all.

01:07:30.900 All of these things.

01:07:32.440 Now listen to this list

01:07:33.360 of things you'd have

01:07:34.060 to believe.

01:07:36.420 You'd have to believe

01:07:37.320 that news about

01:07:38.220 public figures

01:07:39.060 is generally accurate.

01:07:42.140 How many believe that?

01:07:43.700 How many believe

01:07:44.820 that news about

01:07:45.520 public figures

01:07:46.400 specifically

01:07:47.160 and political figures

01:07:50.100 because I'm a political

01:07:50.980 figure effectively

01:07:52.120 does anybody believe

01:07:54.620 that news about

01:07:55.920 public figures?

01:07:56.340 Right.

01:07:56.700 But in order to be

01:07:57.680 mad at me,

01:07:58.600 you would have to believe

01:07:59.540 that the story was

01:08:00.380 accurate.

01:08:01.100 Am I right?

01:08:02.400 You wouldn't be mad

01:08:03.460 unless you thought

01:08:04.060 the story about me

01:08:04.920 was accurate.

01:08:05.760 So you would have to

01:08:06.580 believe that the news

01:08:07.660 tells accurate stories

01:08:09.020 about public figures.

01:08:11.060 That's not even a thing.

01:08:13.760 That's not a thing.

01:08:15.740 Even the friendliest

01:08:17.240 story about me

01:08:18.060 that was definitely

01:08:18.640 not a hit piece

01:08:19.440 called me a Democrat.

01:08:23.440 Like, that's in the news.

01:08:24.800 That's the LA Times.

01:08:26.360 They reported I'm a Democrat.

01:08:28.100 Now, it makes me wonder

01:08:29.300 if they checked.

01:08:30.380 Is there a way to check

01:08:31.160 somebody's registration?

01:08:33.580 Is there a public way

01:08:34.420 to check to see

01:08:35.500 how somebody's registered?

01:08:36.900 Because it's entirely possible

01:08:38.220 that the last time

01:08:39.100 I registered

01:08:39.640 it was Democrat.

01:08:41.720 Oh, maybe.

01:08:42.340 So that's probably

01:08:42.840 what they did

01:08:43.260 because they didn't ask me.

01:08:44.240 They just checked.

01:08:45.200 I might actually

01:08:46.120 be a registered Democrat

01:08:47.140 because the last time

01:08:48.660 I voted,

01:08:49.180 I voted Democrat.

01:08:50.140 That was a long time ago.

01:08:52.500 Does your

01:08:52.820 registration stays, right?

01:08:55.640 Unless you change it?

01:08:57.580 No, that doesn't make sense.

01:08:58.960 I thought I've always been

01:08:59.920 I thought I registered

01:09:01.820 as an independent

01:09:02.700 long after I was a Democrat.

01:09:04.760 But maybe not.

01:09:05.620 Maybe not.

01:09:06.740 Anyway, it doesn't matter.

01:09:08.380 For me,

01:09:08.880 registration was random.

01:09:10.000 I would have just

01:09:11.540 picked a party.

01:09:12.120 I wouldn't have cared.

01:09:13.980 All right, so you'd first

01:09:14.900 have to believe that news

01:09:15.760 about public figures

01:09:16.720 is accurate,

01:09:17.440 which is absurd.

01:09:18.760 It's like you haven't

01:09:19.460 paid attention to anything.

01:09:21.600 Secondly, you'd have to

01:09:22.720 ignore the context,

01:09:24.380 which all the major news did.

01:09:26.640 Every major news,

01:09:28.080 except the LA Times,

01:09:30.280 I'll give them credit,

01:09:31.280 they did a really good job

01:09:32.440 of context.

01:09:34.380 All the rest

01:09:35.260 ignored the context.

01:09:36.780 So you would have to believe

01:09:37.960 that the fake news

01:09:38.940 gave you accurate context.

01:09:40.280 You'd have to imagine

01:09:44.240 that when I said

01:09:45.560 that white people

01:09:46.740 should move away

01:09:47.400 from black people

01:09:48.200 or stay away,

01:09:49.380 that that was somehow

01:09:50.200 a practical plan

01:09:51.620 that in my head

01:09:53.020 I thought,

01:09:53.440 yeah, that'll work.

01:09:55.360 There's a real practical plan.

01:09:57.640 That's not a practical plan.

01:10:00.000 If you didn't recognize

01:10:01.280 that as obvious provocation,

01:10:04.060 you're not really good

01:10:05.820 at recognizing hyperbole,

01:10:09.520 I guess.

01:10:10.460 Now you could say

01:10:11.180 that I was not

01:10:12.680 communicating well,

01:10:13.980 but since I wanted

01:10:14.880 to provoke you,

01:10:15.880 I would argue

01:10:16.440 that I communicated

01:10:17.420 better than I hoped.

01:10:19.220 I provoked you

01:10:19.820 more than I thought.

01:10:20.740 You'd also have to believe

01:10:21.780 that you'd also have

01:10:23.520 to not know me

01:10:24.420 and know that I have

01:10:25.680 a long pattern

01:10:26.400 of using hyperbole

01:10:27.420 to attract energy.

01:10:29.200 Right?

01:10:30.040 You'd have to know

01:10:30.880 that I don't do

01:10:31.560 this very thing

01:10:32.540 on a regular basis.

01:10:34.840 Not on this topic,

01:10:36.800 but I provoke

01:10:38.320 in order to make it harder

01:10:40.880 for me to make my case,

01:10:42.660 and then when I make my case,

01:10:44.480 it's more of an interesting journey

01:10:47.060 that I take my followers on.

01:10:49.540 So you'd have to not know

01:10:50.540 that I do this

01:10:51.200 on a regular basis.

01:10:52.040 It's a pattern.

01:10:53.360 You'd have to not know

01:10:54.800 that I write about

01:10:55.640 this specific technique.

01:10:57.860 I write about doing this.

01:11:00.140 If you read Winn-Binkley,

01:11:02.780 you'll read how I talk

01:11:04.140 about Trump

01:11:04.720 using provocation

01:11:06.020 to attract energy,

01:11:08.440 and the energy

01:11:09.260 is more important

01:11:10.180 than the damage

01:11:11.580 from the provocation.

01:11:13.320 I talk about that

01:11:14.480 as an actual

01:11:15.140 persuasion technique,

01:11:16.700 and then I did it

01:11:17.900 in front of you.

01:11:20.120 All right.

01:11:22.320 In order to be mad at me,

01:11:23.840 you'd have to also know,

01:11:25.800 you'd have to not know

01:11:26.680 that I'd promised

01:11:27.360 to end ESG.

01:11:30.280 So you'd have to know

01:11:31.420 that it's not part

01:11:32.380 of a larger plan

01:11:34.500 to get rid of ESG

01:11:36.520 and CRT

01:11:38.700 and similar stuff.

01:11:41.960 You'd also have to believe

01:11:43.240 I said a word

01:11:44.000 that I didn't say

01:11:44.920 or that I meant

01:11:46.200 every black person

01:11:47.780 is the same.

01:11:49.600 You would have to believe

01:11:50.860 that I believed

01:11:52.680 all black people

01:11:54.140 are the same.

01:11:54.700 even though

01:11:57.560 I just went out

01:11:58.580 of my way

01:11:59.120 in the provocative

01:12:00.260 statements

01:12:00.780 to say I was

01:12:02.040 only talking about

01:12:02.860 a specific percentage

01:12:04.040 from a poll.

01:12:05.520 But you would have

01:12:06.280 to believe that

01:12:06.840 even though I said

01:12:07.520 it's only fewer

01:12:09.080 than half,

01:12:10.260 that what I really

01:12:11.040 meant was all.

01:12:12.500 You'd have to believe

01:12:13.240 that.

01:12:14.440 And you'd have to believe

01:12:15.260 that I think

01:12:16.080 you'd have to believe

01:12:18.000 that I think

01:12:18.800 that all black people

01:12:20.540 are like

01:12:20.960 or that all

01:12:21.580 anybody's like.

01:12:22.580 Who in the world

01:12:23.260 believes that?

01:12:24.780 If you thought

01:12:25.580 that was serious

01:12:26.760 you should maybe

01:12:29.020 examine your

01:12:29.780 thinking process.

01:12:32.540 You'd have to also

01:12:33.500 believe that I thought

01:12:34.440 the Rasmussen poll

01:12:35.520 was essential

01:12:36.360 to the point.

01:12:38.340 Do you believe that?

01:12:39.460 Do you believe

01:12:40.020 that the only thing

01:12:41.080 that suggests

01:12:41.740 there's racial division

01:12:43.040 and it's getting worse

01:12:44.120 was that Rasmussen poll?

01:12:47.400 Do you think

01:12:47.900 I had no other

01:12:48.720 data points

01:12:49.440 or lived experience

01:12:51.080 or I'd never

01:12:52.020 seen the news

01:12:52.860 or I hadn't seen

01:12:53.780 the Gallup poll

01:12:54.540 saying race relations

01:12:55.840 are worse

01:12:56.240 or I hadn't seen

01:12:57.280 black people

01:12:58.440 talking openly

01:12:59.300 about how white

01:13:00.400 people suck?

01:13:02.260 You think

01:13:02.700 I needed

01:13:03.660 the Rasmussen poll?

01:13:05.620 No.

01:13:06.040 It was just

01:13:06.440 a conversation opener.

01:13:08.280 Now I will take

01:13:09.120 criticism

01:13:10.680 for not explaining

01:13:13.180 that it wasn't

01:13:13.900 essential to the point.

01:13:15.800 That would be

01:13:16.260 a good criticism

01:13:17.020 by the way.

01:13:17.980 Because I wasn't

01:13:18.560 trying to provoke

01:13:19.360 in that way.

01:13:20.420 I was trying to provoke

01:13:21.300 but not based

01:13:22.940 on the accuracy

01:13:23.680 of one poll.

01:13:25.100 I wouldn't

01:13:25.780 depend on that.

01:13:28.720 In order to be

01:13:29.640 mad at me

01:13:30.120 you'd have to

01:13:31.020 ignore your

01:13:33.300 lived experience

01:13:34.180 because everybody

01:13:34.980 sees the same thing

01:13:35.840 I do.

01:13:37.000 Black or white

01:13:37.760 you all see

01:13:38.500 the same thing

01:13:38.960 I do.

01:13:41.720 You'd have to

01:13:42.680 oh you'd also

01:13:45.040 have to believe

01:13:45.620 that I

01:13:46.260 and some

01:13:47.360 large number

01:13:48.680 of the poll

01:13:49.120 respondents

01:13:49.780 were aware

01:13:51.080 that the phrase

01:13:51.980 in the poll

01:13:53.360 which was

01:13:53.880 is it okay

01:13:54.920 to be white

01:13:55.480 you would have

01:13:56.400 to think

01:13:56.740 that I was

01:13:57.220 aware of that

01:13:58.020 that that was

01:13:58.840 some kind of

01:13:59.280 4chan racist thing

01:14:00.440 and that the poll

01:14:01.960 members were

01:14:02.820 aware of that.

01:14:08.480 How many of you

01:14:09.400 were aware of that?

01:14:10.800 Now this is a

01:14:11.600 very political crowd

01:14:12.880 so it's going to be

01:14:13.600 a high percentage

01:14:14.220 in this crowd

01:14:14.760 but what percentage

01:14:16.800 did the general public

01:14:18.100 do you think

01:14:19.240 were aware

01:14:19.740 that that had

01:14:20.320 some racist past?

01:14:23.980 I'd never heard it

01:14:24.860 before.

01:14:26.100 So Vlad

01:14:26.860 who's very mad

01:14:27.700 Vlad who's mad

01:14:29.120 at me

01:14:29.400 he says

01:14:31.020 it is clear

01:14:32.140 that I knew

01:14:32.720 that

01:14:33.060 how in the world

01:14:34.560 would I have

01:14:34.960 known that?

01:14:35.780 Like I don't

01:14:36.460 spend time

01:14:37.040 on 4chan

01:14:37.660 and I never

01:14:38.260 saw it before

01:14:38.880 I'd never

01:14:39.880 even heard of it

01:14:40.420 I don't think

01:14:41.680 most people

01:14:42.180 have heard of it

01:14:42.840 I mean only

01:14:43.700 like 12%

01:14:45.220 of people

01:14:45.620 are even on

01:14:46.180 Twitter

01:14:46.480 right?

01:14:47.320 It's not

01:14:47.680 most people

01:14:48.320 so it's

01:14:50.120 possible that

01:14:50.700 I agree

01:14:51.580 that it might

01:14:52.040 have influenced

01:14:52.660 the poll

01:14:53.100 but to imagine

01:14:54.440 that I knew

01:14:55.240 that

01:14:55.660 there's no way

01:14:57.780 I would have

01:14:58.260 talked about it

01:14:58.840 if I knew

01:14:59.280 that

01:14:59.600 that would be

01:15:01.440 crazy

01:15:01.820 do you think

01:15:02.580 I would have

01:15:02.940 talked about it

01:15:03.500 if I knew

01:15:04.080 it had a

01:15:05.100 white supremacy

01:15:06.020 past?

01:15:07.940 That would have

01:15:08.900 been more

01:15:09.220 provocative

01:15:09.740 than even

01:15:10.420 for me

01:15:10.880 I like being

01:15:11.840 provocative

01:15:12.300 but that would

01:15:13.360 have been

01:15:13.540 way over the

01:15:14.120 line

01:15:15.660 no I didn't

01:15:16.400 know that

01:15:16.940 and I don't

01:15:17.780 believe that

01:15:18.260 most of the

01:15:18.680 people in the

01:15:19.080 poll do that

01:15:19.700 and I don't

01:15:20.540 believe that

01:15:20.960 most of you

01:15:21.460 knew it

01:15:21.880 I don't

01:15:22.760 believe that

01:15:23.260 alright

01:15:24.900 what else

01:15:25.500 would you

01:15:25.680 have to

01:15:25.900 believe

01:15:26.160 you'd have

01:15:27.780 to wonder

01:15:28.120 why social

01:15:28.720 media is

01:15:29.200 not

01:15:29.420 cancelling

01:15:29.860 me

01:15:30.080 you have

01:15:31.060 to wonder

01:15:31.340 why black

01:15:31.980 conservatives

01:15:32.460 who are

01:15:33.100 aware of

01:15:33.500 the context

01:15:34.120 which is

01:15:34.600 not all

01:15:34.940 of them

01:15:35.460 don't think

01:15:37.280 I should

01:15:37.540 be cancelled

01:15:37.980 or they

01:15:38.980 support me

01:15:39.560 they either

01:15:40.700 think it

01:15:41.140 you know

01:15:41.540 they understand

01:15:42.220 it was

01:15:42.480 provocative

01:15:42.940 and they

01:15:43.860 understand

01:15:44.220 it was

01:15:44.700 meant to

01:15:45.440 be alarming

01:15:45.940 if you

01:15:47.400 see it

01:15:47.660 in context

01:15:48.160 you would

01:15:49.920 have to

01:15:50.280 ignore

01:15:50.700 the bigger

01:15:51.480 context of

01:15:52.280 CRT

01:15:52.760 and the

01:15:53.020 SGE

01:15:53.380 and DAI

01:15:54.280 because those

01:15:55.060 are obviously

01:15:55.660 the context

01:15:56.640 that's relevant

01:15:57.320 here

01:15:57.560 and you'd

01:15:58.440 have to

01:15:58.680 believe that

01:15:59.080 I suddenly

01:15:59.540 changed to

01:16:00.420 a different

01:16:00.740 person or

01:16:01.260 went insane

01:16:01.860 right

01:16:03.520 let me ask

01:16:05.040 you this

01:16:05.360 do you

01:16:06.180 think

01:16:06.580 that the

01:16:07.480 media is

01:16:08.080 digging through

01:16:08.780 everything I've

01:16:09.520 ever said

01:16:09.980 and done

01:16:10.420 to find

01:16:11.980 more examples

01:16:12.620 of my

01:16:13.120 badness that

01:16:13.840 they hadn't

01:16:14.200 noticed before

01:16:14.860 of course

01:16:16.140 they are

01:16:16.520 have you seen

01:16:17.580 any

01:16:17.820 the best

01:16:19.940 they could

01:16:20.280 come up

01:16:20.700 with

01:16:20.980 is that

01:16:22.080 long ago

01:16:23.140 I had

01:16:23.480 blogged

01:16:23.840 that it

01:16:24.040 must be

01:16:24.360 really hard

01:16:25.000 to count

01:16:26.040 the number

01:16:26.480 of people

01:16:26.800 in the

01:16:27.060 holocaust

01:16:27.620 because

01:16:28.080 world war

01:16:28.560 two

01:16:28.780 records

01:16:29.480 are destroyed

01:16:30.220 etc

01:16:30.640 now that

01:16:31.940 doesn't

01:16:32.200 change

01:16:32.500 the

01:16:32.680 holocaust

01:16:33.300 like whether

01:16:34.740 it's 5

01:16:35.240 million people

01:16:35.820 or 10

01:16:36.360 million

01:16:36.660 it's exactly

01:16:38.100 the same

01:16:38.620 narrative

01:16:39.080 like nobody

01:16:40.400 loses

01:16:40.780 if I say

01:16:42.220 I don't know

01:16:42.680 how accurate

01:16:43.160 you could

01:16:43.500 be

01:16:44.000 but that

01:16:44.680 turned into

01:16:45.080 a holocaust

01:16:45.640 denier

01:16:46.040 which is

01:16:46.440 crazy

01:16:46.800 nobody

01:16:48.020 I've never

01:16:48.860 met anybody

01:16:49.400 who denied

01:16:49.820 the holocaust

01:16:50.460 have you

01:16:51.840 have you

01:16:52.860 ever even

01:16:53.220 met anybody

01:16:53.760 who denied

01:16:54.260 the holocaust

01:16:54.920 like I

01:16:56.140 know they

01:16:56.660 exist

01:16:57.140 but I've

01:16:57.540 never met

01:16:57.940 one

01:16:58.220 some people

01:17:00.000 have

01:17:00.260 well I'm

01:17:01.740 not one

01:17:02.100 of them

01:17:02.380 that would

01:17:03.540 be stupid

01:17:04.380 and crazy

01:17:05.020 alright but

01:17:07.580 you would have

01:17:07.900 to believe

01:17:08.300 everything on

01:17:09.100 that list

01:17:09.660 in order to

01:17:10.720 keep your

01:17:11.160 angry narrative

01:17:12.160 at me

01:17:12.580 if you saw

01:17:13.600 it in context

01:17:14.300 you would

01:17:14.740 know

01:17:15.040 that I

01:17:16.340 have penetrated

01:17:17.380 your leftist

01:17:18.360 bubble

01:17:18.700 I have

01:17:20.180 forced you

01:17:20.640 to pay

01:17:20.940 attention

01:17:21.320 and I'm

01:17:22.360 offering you

01:17:23.100 useful tools

01:17:24.380 those useful

01:17:25.940 tools will

01:17:26.600 work in

01:17:27.000 any situation

01:17:27.940 they're success

01:17:28.860 tools

01:17:29.220 and

01:17:30.640 anybody who

01:17:32.580 wants access

01:17:33.080 to them

01:17:33.680 I'm happy

01:17:35.760 to tell you

01:17:36.700 more

01:17:36.980 moreover

01:17:38.200 my book

01:17:39.480 my newest

01:17:40.080 book that

01:17:40.440 got cancelled

01:17:41.000 the how to

01:17:42.080 fail book

01:17:42.460 will also be

01:17:42.940 cancelled

01:17:43.240 but I'll

01:17:43.900 make that

01:17:44.700 available

01:17:45.000 some way

01:17:45.520 one way

01:17:46.120 another

01:17:46.400 my newest

01:17:48.440 book is

01:17:49.000 also about

01:17:49.940 reframing

01:17:50.640 and

01:17:52.520 has anybody

01:17:54.380 noticed that

01:17:55.120 what I've

01:17:55.460 done here

01:17:55.860 is reframed

01:17:56.580 the problem

01:17:57.020 because

01:17:59.600 the reframe

01:18:01.240 that mattered

01:18:01.760 is what the

01:18:03.480 impact of

01:18:04.560 all of the

01:18:05.160 backwards looking

01:18:06.200 CRT

01:18:06.920 DEI

01:18:07.760 ESG stuff

01:18:09.680 does

01:18:10.020 the reframe

01:18:11.540 is that it's

01:18:12.060 not free

01:18:12.660 that has

01:18:14.340 a cost

01:18:15.480 to it

01:18:15.800 that nobody

01:18:16.620 talks about

01:18:17.240 and the

01:18:18.200 cost is

01:18:18.780 how it

01:18:19.100 makes everybody

01:18:19.560 feel

01:18:19.960 which is

01:18:21.360 pretty bad

01:18:21.900 and it's

01:18:23.740 pretty racist

01:18:24.440 feeling

01:18:24.940 now at the

01:18:26.600 same time

01:18:27.160 there are

01:18:28.660 plenty of

01:18:29.160 ways to

01:18:30.460 make things

01:18:31.100 better for

01:18:31.560 black Americans

01:18:32.280 but I will

01:18:33.400 echo one

01:18:34.520 thing that

01:18:35.120 was said

01:18:35.480 by one of

01:18:35.840 my critics

01:18:36.340 is black

01:18:37.400 Americans

01:18:37.820 many of

01:18:38.660 them

01:18:38.840 I won't

01:18:39.860 say all

01:18:40.380 because

01:18:40.700 everybody

01:18:41.440 jumps to

01:18:42.120 crazy talk

01:18:43.040 if I don't

01:18:44.280 clarify

01:18:44.860 I don't

01:18:45.360 mean every

01:18:45.720 single one

01:18:46.280 but I would

01:18:48.180 think that

01:18:48.560 there are a

01:18:48.820 lot of

01:18:49.040 black Americans

01:18:49.660 who would

01:18:50.240 at least

01:18:50.580 be curious

01:18:51.460 about the

01:18:52.880 tools for

01:18:53.420 success

01:18:53.920 they're free

01:18:55.460 they're easy

01:18:55.980 to learn

01:18:56.500 and it gives

01:18:57.960 you basically

01:18:58.960 what systemic

01:18:59.820 racism took

01:19:00.740 away

01:19:01.080 so not

01:19:02.940 everything

01:19:03.220 but one of

01:19:04.000 the biggest

01:19:04.820 things that

01:19:05.440 systemic racism

01:19:06.360 takes away

01:19:07.180 is your

01:19:08.800 accidental

01:19:10.640 association

01:19:12.400 with people

01:19:13.120 who know

01:19:13.460 how to

01:19:13.760 succeed

01:19:14.140 because that's

01:19:15.040 where you

01:19:15.280 pick up the

01:19:15.720 patterns

01:19:16.040 so I'm

01:19:16.780 trying to

01:19:17.060 fill that

01:19:17.460 gap

01:19:17.740 and help

01:19:19.240 you slice

01:19:19.980 through

01:19:20.340 there'll still

01:19:21.160 be systemic

01:19:21.720 racism

01:19:22.140 but it'll

01:19:22.460 help you

01:19:22.760 slice right

01:19:23.260 through it

01:19:23.600 like it

01:19:24.020 didn't even

01:19:24.380 matter

01:19:24.900 it'll just

01:19:25.940 be annoying

01:19:26.420 but not

01:19:26.820 a stopper

01:19:27.620 all right

01:19:31.140 took away

01:19:35.320 all right

01:19:37.740 does anybody

01:19:38.080 have a problem

01:19:38.600 today

01:19:38.920 with me

01:19:40.520 anything you

01:19:41.440 want to say

01:19:41.860 the floor

01:19:43.800 is yours

01:19:44.360 YouTube

01:19:44.880 and local

01:19:46.160 what tools

01:19:50.320 wear

01:19:50.580 oh good

01:19:51.120 question

01:19:51.480 my book

01:19:53.400 had a field

01:19:53.860 almost everything

01:19:54.520 and still

01:19:54.900 went big

01:19:55.360 would be the

01:19:55.980 primary source

01:19:56.920 but I also

01:19:58.580 talk about

01:19:59.320 these things

01:19:59.900 at length

01:20:00.560 so you'd be

01:20:01.280 looking for

01:20:01.840 you could just

01:20:02.740 google the

01:20:03.280 same thing

01:20:03.700 so you could

01:20:04.460 just google

01:20:04.940 these terms

01:20:05.500 if you don't

01:20:05.920 want to read

01:20:06.260 my book

01:20:06.680 google talent

01:20:08.340 stack

01:20:08.800 and systems

01:20:10.860 are better

01:20:11.300 than goals

01:20:11.920 those are

01:20:13.980 two concepts

01:20:14.580 there's a whole

01:20:15.580 bunch of

01:20:16.040 other stuff

01:20:16.880 about you know

01:20:17.940 passion being

01:20:18.740 BS

01:20:19.220 and affirmations

01:20:21.360 and a whole

01:20:22.080 bunch of other

01:20:22.620 forward looking

01:20:23.440 and even stuff

01:20:24.540 about reciprocity

01:20:26.740 so it's just

01:20:28.260 a book full

01:20:29.000 of things

01:20:29.420 that work

01:20:29.820 for everybody

01:20:30.420 there's no

01:20:31.000 black or

01:20:31.900 white or

01:20:32.320 anything

01:20:32.520 it would

01:20:33.460 work from

01:20:34.000 14 years

01:20:34.880 old

01:20:35.420 to whatever

01:20:37.060 age you

01:20:37.500 are

01:20:38.400 Baba says

01:20:42.260 are you

01:20:42.600 comfortable

01:20:43.020 at the

01:20:43.480 fulcrum

01:20:43.940 of all

01:20:45.200 of this

01:20:45.540 power and

01:20:46.160 energy

01:20:46.460 or am I

01:20:47.280 unhappy

01:20:47.740 I am

01:20:50.100 weirdly

01:20:50.500 comfortable

01:20:51.140 you know

01:20:52.840 what this

01:20:53.120 feels like

01:20:53.740 it feels

01:20:56.060 like exactly

01:20:56.740 where I'm

01:20:57.180 supposed to

01:20:57.640 be

01:20:57.860 that's what

01:21:01.020 it feels

01:21:01.320 like

01:21:01.620 it feels

01:21:02.640 like I'm

01:21:03.180 exactly where

01:21:03.960 I'm supposed

01:21:04.400 to be

01:21:04.740 I feel

01:21:05.880 like I was

01:21:06.360 supposed to

01:21:06.820 get cancelled

01:21:07.340 now you

01:21:10.000 know if you

01:21:10.420 take the big

01:21:11.140 picture of this

01:21:11.760 I was cancelled

01:21:12.640 on an industry

01:21:13.760 that could be

01:21:14.580 dead tomorrow

01:21:15.320 right the

01:21:17.120 newspaper industry

01:21:17.940 could I

01:21:19.080 know I long

01:21:19.900 predicted that

01:21:21.360 when it starts

01:21:21.980 to completely

01:21:22.860 fall apart

01:21:23.540 there'll be

01:21:23.980 like a collapse

01:21:24.880 period it'll

01:21:25.480 just completely

01:21:26.180 go away in a

01:21:26.840 year or two

01:21:27.740 so I managed

01:21:28.940 to accidentally

01:21:30.220 it wasn't my

01:21:30.860 plan but I

01:21:31.360 escaped a

01:21:32.140 dying industry

01:21:32.880 and increased

01:21:35.020 my attention

01:21:36.480 level you know

01:21:37.860 people's attention

01:21:38.640 to me on

01:21:40.340 this form the

01:21:41.920 live stream and

01:21:42.660 social media

01:21:43.460 form now this

01:21:44.480 is a growing

01:21:45.160 field and it's

01:21:46.960 growing even more

01:21:47.700 toward you know

01:21:48.540 election day so

01:21:50.120 I managed to

01:21:50.940 escape a dying

01:21:52.060 industry and

01:21:53.660 get a turbo

01:21:54.520 charge in the

01:21:55.560 most exciting

01:21:56.220 industry that's

01:21:56.880 happening at

01:21:57.700 least in the

01:21:58.140 entertainment field

01:21:59.480 which is

01:22:00.560 podcasting so

01:22:02.960 that's pretty

01:22:03.460 good I do

01:22:05.380 have offers

01:22:06.020 coming in that

01:22:07.660 will it won't

01:22:09.640 come close to

01:22:10.580 you know matching

01:22:11.240 my old income

01:22:12.200 but I'm also

01:22:13.460 retirement age

01:22:14.360 I don't really

01:22:16.460 need to go set

01:22:17.760 the world on

01:22:18.320 fire any more

01:22:19.580 than I did

01:22:20.040 this week

01:22:20.480 so and like

01:22:23.980 you said my

01:22:24.480 personal life is

01:22:26.040 unchanged except

01:22:26.980 people like me

01:22:27.740 more I mean I'm

01:22:29.200 getting more

01:22:29.640 respect for not

01:22:31.400 apologizing than

01:22:33.160 anything I've ever

01:22:33.940 done in my life I

01:22:34.860 did not see that

01:22:35.640 coming like that

01:22:36.940 was a surprise if

01:22:38.660 you told me that

01:22:39.540 not apologizing

01:22:40.740 would be like this

01:22:43.280 mark of

01:22:44.020 something and by

01:22:46.000 the way the reason

01:22:46.580 I don't apologize

01:22:47.440 is because I

01:22:51.080 didn't do anything

01:22:51.800 that deserves an

01:22:53.060 apology I'm really

01:22:54.680 big on apologies

01:22:55.560 like some of you

01:22:57.220 some of you you

01:22:59.340 know maybe disagree

01:23:00.540 with apologies I'm

01:23:01.280 very big on

01:23:01.840 apologies I think

01:23:03.260 apologies are a

01:23:04.120 great way to go but

01:23:05.480 only if you did

01:23:07.560 something right if

01:23:09.920 the only thing I did

01:23:10.980 was make people mad

01:23:12.220 so they'd pay

01:23:12.860 attention and then I

01:23:13.880 could help them I'm

01:23:15.100 not gonna apologize

01:23:15.780 for that no I'm

01:23:17.420 not gonna apologize

01:23:18.120 for making you mad

01:23:19.340 while trying to help

01:23:20.980 you that's not gonna

01:23:22.460 happen yeah I mean I

01:23:27.100 could give a husband

01:23:29.180 apology I thought

01:23:31.320 about that I thought

01:23:32.780 about doing a tongue

01:23:33.540 in cheek husband

01:23:34.300 apology now husband

01:23:35.880 apology is when you

01:23:37.440 know you're not in

01:23:38.100 the wrong but you

01:23:39.280 have to apologize

01:23:39.940 anyway but if I did

01:23:42.100 it I would make sure

01:23:42.860 that if I did it I

01:23:44.460 make sure you knew I

01:23:45.280 wasn't serious

01:23:46.000 don't worry I won't

01:23:48.660 apologize I will

01:23:52.180 give you I'll give

01:23:54.380 you my promise that

01:23:55.500 I won't apologize

01:23:56.260 all right isn't it

01:24:02.440 dishonest to

01:24:04.000 intentionally try to

01:24:04.880 fool people and then

01:24:05.740 chastise those same

01:24:06.680 people for being

01:24:07.380 fooled is it

01:24:09.180 dishonest yes is that

01:24:12.960 what you're looking

01:24:13.380 for I mean I just

01:24:15.240 told you it was

01:24:15.720 dishonest but it was

01:24:17.840 for a good purpose

01:24:18.620 right yeah I mean

01:24:20.100 it's temporarily

01:24:20.680 dishonest the the

01:24:22.040 intention was always

01:24:23.080 to be fully

01:24:24.220 transparent but you

01:24:26.240 know in with

01:24:26.920 communication sometimes

01:24:28.040 you tease things

01:24:29.000 before you're fully

01:24:30.540 transparent so I

01:24:32.460 may have teased too

01:24:33.540 much before I was

01:24:34.700 fully transparent and

01:24:36.440 if that feels like

01:24:37.200 fooling you I'm not

01:24:38.980 going to quibble with

01:24:40.120 the words you put

01:24:40.740 on it but it was

01:24:42.560 all for a positive

01:24:43.900 purpose Scott's

01:24:47.400 walking it back

01:24:48.160 what did I walk

01:24:48.940 back speed for hire

01:24:51.480 tell me what I

01:24:53.520 walked back did you

01:24:55.620 see something that I

01:24:56.520 didn't see what

01:24:57.640 walked back I'm

01:24:59.740 fully responsible for

01:25:01.420 and embrace everything

01:25:02.340 I said in context

01:25:05.020 you know adding

01:25:06.600 context is not

01:25:07.480 walking anything back

01:25:08.400 all right all right

01:25:13.740 I think we've done

01:25:14.660 what we needed to do

01:25:15.520 here today and I'll

01:25:17.700 remind you again that

01:25:18.780 if you want to see

01:25:19.520 the good stuff I'm

01:25:20.660 already planning some

01:25:22.220 awesome Dilbert comics

01:25:23.480 after it's fully

01:25:24.280 canceled in a few

01:25:25.460 weeks you'll only be

01:25:26.760 able to see those on

01:25:27.460 the locals platform

01:25:28.460 just google Scott

01:25:31.120 Adam not just go to

01:25:32.640 scottadams.locals.com

01:25:35.300 and hit the

01:25:37.240 subscriber button if

01:25:39.060 you like and that's

01:25:41.440 all for now YouTube

01:25:42.020 bye for now

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 02, 2023

Episode 2035 Scott Adams： ESG, FBI And J6, And How My Plan Is Going So Far

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