Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2036 Scott Adams： More Outrage By Me In Case You Need Extra, Best Republican Strategy & more

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00:00:05.600 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the most cancelled content in all of America.

00:00:13.000 And I know you're here for some of that.

00:00:14.800 We'll talk about the news first, and then we'll get to more outrageous.

00:00:19.020 Do you think I can say something that's even more problem-making and provocative than what

00:00:24.540 I've already done?

00:00:26.240 Oh, I probably can.

00:00:27.580 I probably can.

00:00:28.260 I've got one in the chamber.

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00:01:27.320 All right.

00:01:32.040 Well, some people told me this week, there are many opinions about me, and some people

00:01:37.720 said to me, Scott, you just did the dumbest thing you could ever do.

00:01:41.780 Do not talk like that in public.

00:01:45.460 You cannot say those things in public.

00:01:48.200 Now, I thought for a while that might be the dumbest thing anybody said in public.

00:01:56.200 And then I saw, I don't know if this is fake news.

00:02:00.720 And I'm sorry, I'm just going to have some fun with this.

00:02:04.140 So no bad feelings.

00:02:06.180 But can somebody tell me if this really happened?

00:02:10.640 Did Tim Poole go on Fox News and say that the woke agenda ended his sex life?

00:02:17.320 Did that actually happen?

00:02:21.140 Can somebody confirm that that's a real story?

00:02:23.940 Because I looked at it, I can't tell.

00:02:26.840 It's fake, right?

00:02:28.460 Is it fake?

00:02:31.220 Does anybody know?

00:02:33.440 Is this not perfect?

00:02:34.820 It's perfect because you can't tell.

00:02:38.060 Yeah, let's go private here.

00:02:43.080 Yeah, I have no idea.

00:02:45.220 I have no idea if that's real.

00:02:47.720 I saw there was some little hashtag.

00:02:51.120 Now, if he said it, I'm sure there's some context there that, you know, ties it all together.

00:02:55.660 But I love the fact that that got taken probably out of context.

00:03:00.040 I assume it's out of context.

00:03:01.160 I don't know.

00:03:05.020 I just love that story.

00:03:06.160 I'm not making fun of Tim Poole.

00:03:08.040 I just love the fact that he's, that allegedly, and I don't know if it's real.

00:03:12.680 Let me be very clear.

00:03:14.280 I don't know that that's real.

00:03:16.460 But it was trending today.

00:03:17.820 I'd love, if somebody knows, tell me.

00:03:19.640 Tell me if that really happened.

00:03:21.600 But I love that I can't tell the difference.

00:03:23.760 That's what's fun about it.

00:03:26.360 I don't know.

00:03:27.820 I don't know.

00:03:28.380 That might be real.

00:03:29.680 But it might not be.

00:03:32.060 I'm going to say that's a 50-50.

00:03:35.980 And by the way, I like Tim.

00:03:38.340 I recommend his show, by the way.

00:03:40.420 His show is very good.

00:03:41.240 All right, well, I was looking for you to confirm or deny, but I don't think you know either.

00:03:49.920 All right, I'm going to suggest, based on anecdotal vibes, and this idea comes not directly from me, but it feels right.

00:04:01.100 But somebody who's real tapped into the Republican world is telling me this, and I want to see if you're getting the same feel, if any of you are Republicans.

00:04:10.320 So this is sort of a question for Republicans.

00:04:14.020 The biggest issue, by far, for Republican women, you say it's not private?

00:04:21.520 Let me check.

00:04:23.820 There we go.

00:04:25.520 Isn't she illuminating?

00:04:26.580 It's weird that that doesn't work the first try.

00:04:28.860 I have to do it twice.

00:04:29.640 Thank you.

00:04:31.720 But at least one smart person is reading the room and saying that the most important issue, by far, at a human level, when you're talking to real people, not when you're on Twitter, but when you're talking to real people, what do you think the biggest issue is, just by far?

00:04:51.460 Just throw it out there.

00:04:52.700 For Republicans, what's the main thing?

00:04:58.140 I want to see if you're all on the same page.

00:05:00.400 Okay, your answers are all over the place, from economy to inflation.

00:05:04.880 Now, certainly all those things are important, but anecdotally, and I'd love to see a poll on this, but anecdotally, the moms are protecting their children.

00:05:15.700 And that's the primary energy at the individual level that might be the primary energy, because that's what people ask about.

00:05:25.720 If you say, hey, let's go talk to a bunch of Republicans, you see what comes out of their mouths, it's not necessarily inflation, even though that's a huge issue.

00:05:37.300 Even fentanyl, all these issues, if you just ask them to say what's on your mind, it's not going to be fentanyl, unless they had a direct experience, as I did.

00:05:48.720 But I think it's the children, and I don't know how you could program against that.

00:05:56.040 So if Republicans ran on Save the Kids, who beats that?

00:06:02.140 Who beats Save the Kids, when people are primed to understand that that's the real problem?

00:06:07.960 Because Save the Kids handles a whole bunch of stuff.

00:06:12.420 It handles fentanyl, right?

00:06:15.380 Fentanyl is part of Save the Kids.

00:06:17.560 Some of them are older kids, but they're still somebody's children.

00:06:21.960 And it goes to fixing schools, and fixing schools would fix what?

00:06:30.760 Systemic racism.

00:06:32.300 It would be the biggest lever you could push to fix racism.

00:06:36.580 So when you say Save the Kids, if you do it in any kind of sensible way, there are a whole bunch of topics that get fixed at the same time.

00:06:46.060 Have you heard Professor Scott Galloway talking about the lost generation of young men?

00:06:52.900 The current situation with dating is women are going for the top 10% of men, and the rest are left to, I guess, porn and masturbation and empty lives.

00:07:04.800 But, as Scott Galloway correctly points out, a lot of that is because the young men are not growing up to be worthy partners.

00:07:16.100 They're just not developed in a way that some woman's going to want to say, give me some of that.

00:07:23.200 And I think there's something to that.

00:07:24.560 It's not the whole story, but there's a lot to that.

00:07:26.140 So this whole Save the Children just bubbles up into almost everything.

00:07:34.820 How would you save the economy?

00:07:37.420 Well, you've got your short-run stuff, which probably we do roughly correctly, but your long-run is just education.

00:07:47.640 Am I right?

00:07:48.060 Well, just the kids.

00:07:49.020 In the long run, your economy is dead unless you educate kids better and get rid of the fentanyl.

00:07:57.060 So it's basically you have to solve the kid problems to solve the economy.

00:08:01.000 So Save the Kids ends up being a really save us all.

00:08:06.980 You know, Save the Kids, I'm sure that the left would say, what about the climate?

00:08:13.120 And that's easy.

00:08:15.620 We love the climate, but we don't want to do something that makes things worse.

00:08:22.400 You know, so it's easy to counter any argument against it.

00:08:26.100 I don't know.

00:08:26.720 But put that in your thinking cap and maybe just do a little observing about what people bring up unprompted.

00:08:35.260 Because it's the bringing it up unprompted that makes it kind of stand out.

00:08:40.140 But education does not mean what you think it does.

00:08:45.020 Well, I like, there's a good point.

00:08:48.600 I like to broaden education to mean any kind of training.

00:08:52.260 Anything that's useful for your life, especially your financial life.

00:08:56.280 But also anything that's useful for your sanity and happiness as well.

00:09:00.600 That should all be education.

00:09:01.500 All right, let's talk about Doug Emhoff, the so-called second gentleman.

00:09:10.140 He's not even the first gentleman.

00:09:13.420 He's the second gentleman.

00:09:15.760 I don't know how you rank adult men in 2023.

00:09:22.620 But apparently if you had been married to a female president, you'd be the first gentleman.

00:09:27.980 If you're married to a vice president who's female, you're the second gentleman.

00:09:31.860 And if the vice president that you're married to owns a pet, you're something like the third creature.

00:09:39.280 You know, because the pet's going to be a little higher than you, let's face it.

00:09:42.580 So you've got to get that right.

00:09:45.280 Well, Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman, is in the news by saying there's too much toxic masculinity.

00:09:52.200 And apparently he is selling himself as someone who, not selling, that's, that's, selling is just a jerk word.

00:10:05.380 Like, I hate myself for saying that.

00:10:08.240 Withdraw.

00:10:09.340 Withdraw.

00:10:10.340 He's simply stating, he's not selling anything, he's just stating that he thinks there's too much toxic masculinity.

00:10:16.340 But apparently he has escaped the curse of toxic masculinity, and he's pretty happy about it.

00:10:23.940 And a lot of people wanted to argue with him about, you know, masculinity and blah, blah, blah.

00:10:29.640 Here's my take.

00:10:32.460 Why are we arguing about that?

00:10:34.500 That's arguing over a word.

00:10:37.200 Why are we arguing over a word?

00:10:39.860 Like, or two words, toxic masculinity.

00:10:43.300 How about, how about a high ground move?

00:10:46.340 I've told you that the high ground maneuver is what you say that ends all arguments.

00:10:51.800 All right, watch me end the debate.

00:10:54.940 How about everybody can just be different?

00:10:58.660 That's the end of the debate.

00:11:00.840 That's the high ground maneuver.

00:11:02.800 If you come into a conversation where people are like, me, me, me, me, toxic masculinity.

00:11:07.840 No, you don't have toxic masculinity.

00:11:10.100 No, I think, I think Kamala is your boss.

00:11:13.360 Oh, you should not be saying that.

00:11:14.680 Oh, we need more toxic masculinity.

00:11:16.560 Yes, we need less toxic masculinity.

00:11:19.000 And then you come in and say, well, how about we just treat everybody as an individual?

00:11:24.540 Any problem?

00:11:25.300 Anybody?

00:11:25.920 Anybody?

00:11:26.440 Raise your hand.

00:11:27.520 Anybody have a problem with just treating everybody as a fucking individual for once?

00:11:32.800 Anybody?

00:11:33.820 That's the end.

00:11:34.640 So that's an example of the high ground maneuver.

00:11:38.660 Once you learn to do high ground maneuvers, you win every conversation.

00:11:44.420 You'll win them all.

00:11:45.920 Because you just say the thing that nobody disagrees with that's sort of a higher level thought.

00:11:50.720 And it just ends it.

00:11:51.400 You may be noticing that I'm doing something along those lines.

00:11:59.740 So far, not completing the task.

00:12:03.900 But keep watching.

00:12:05.620 Keep watching.

00:12:06.140 All right.

00:12:09.920 Speaking of Kamala Harris, I would like to add a hypothesis to the mix.

00:12:16.180 But I asked this question on social media.

00:12:19.680 Now, this is just a Twitter poll.

00:12:21.380 So don't put too much scientific faith in it.

00:12:25.460 Because there is none.

00:12:26.980 Twitter polls are just people who answer the polls.

00:12:29.420 That's about it.

00:12:29.980 So the Twitter poll, I asked this question.

00:12:33.200 If an acquaintance tells you they belong to a wine club, what do you assume are the odds

00:12:38.620 that person is a functional alcoholic?

00:12:42.160 And you can answer that question, too.

00:12:44.260 If you have an acquaintance who's a member of a wine club, what are the odds that person

00:12:50.580 is a functional alcoholic?

00:12:52.520 And by that, I mean, you know, they have wine for dinner, but, you know, every night.

00:12:57.400 And, you know, they have wine on weekends and wine for lunch fairly frequently.

00:13:03.720 But they're functional.

00:13:04.820 They have jobs and everything else.

00:13:07.220 So I'm seeing estimates from 10% to 90%.

00:13:09.500 I would go closer to 90%.

00:13:12.260 My observation, and it took me years to find this pattern, is that the people who are functional

00:13:20.580 alcoholics build a lifestyle around that so that there's a reason to be drinking every

00:13:26.520 day that doesn't look like the reason is you're a functional alcoholic.

00:13:31.100 You've seen it.

00:13:32.540 Oh, you've seen it.

00:13:34.460 Yeah.

00:13:35.080 They're the people who like to entertain.

00:13:37.660 Do you know any people who like to entertain?

00:13:41.080 Yeah.

00:13:42.820 Usually functional alcoholics who are covering their track.

00:13:46.280 Now, there are so many functional alcoholics, I don't have a complaint about it, frankly.

00:13:50.720 Like, as long as they're not driving, it's okay with me.

00:13:55.240 I mean, it's their life.

00:13:56.080 So I'm not judging.

00:13:57.460 I'm just saying it's one of those patterns that if you've not noticed it yet, keep an eye

00:14:03.300 on it.

00:14:04.180 Keep an eye on that pattern.

00:14:06.140 People will build a lifestyle to cover up, you know, whatever they're trying to cover up.

00:14:10.260 But if you had a foot fetish, is there a greater chance that you would work in a large department

00:14:17.600 store woman's footwear place?

00:14:21.500 Probably.

00:14:22.620 Because that would be a great place to cover up your fetish.

00:14:27.080 So I only ask this because a friend of mine who knows a great deal about addicts and alcoholics,

00:14:34.500 I won't say an expert, but pretty close to an expert on this topic, says that the reason

00:14:43.620 that Kamala does that embarrassing cackling when she's speaking, not her normal cackle.

00:14:50.020 So have you noticed there's two kinds of cackles?

00:14:53.020 There's the everyday nervous cackle that she uses all the time.

00:14:57.200 But there have been a few times when her happiness about ordinary things seems unusual, like her

00:15:04.760 love for the fact that you could charge your phone on a school bus.

00:15:10.000 Like that didn't look like normal cackle.

00:15:13.140 That looked like alcohol.

00:15:15.680 Now, this is not my opinion because I didn't have this observation, but somebody who knows

00:15:19.840 a lot about this world said, oh yeah, those speeches where she's talking like that and

00:15:24.860 she's too happy about things that you shouldn't be happy about.

00:15:27.200 That's obviously drunk.

00:15:30.020 Now, once you said it, you know, once I'd heard it, because I hadn't really, that wasn't

00:15:35.220 really high up on my list of possible explanations for what we're seeing.

00:15:40.000 But once you hear it, I said to myself, hey, I wonder if anybody thinks that Kamala is an

00:15:45.840 alcoholic or even just drinks more than she should for her job during the daytime, I suppose.

00:15:52.200 You know, if you're vice president, you probably shouldn't drink ever, should you?

00:15:54.820 Because isn't there a greater than zero chance that you'll be running, running the country

00:16:00.080 in an emergency within an hour, right?

00:16:03.780 Like, would you ever want Hillary Clinton in office knowing that she likes her wine?

00:16:07.960 You know, no matter how much she has, I don't want a semi-inebriated president sitting there.

00:16:15.840 Like, that was one thing that I really think was underappreciated about Trump.

00:16:20.060 You could wake Trump up any part of the 24 hours and he would pop up and he'd still be Trump.

00:16:26.160 He's Trump all day long.

00:16:29.880 Like, I don't think he's ever anything else.

00:16:32.040 He's just always him, 24 hours.

00:16:35.220 Love him or hate him, he was ready to go.

00:16:38.900 Love him or hate him, he was ready to go.

00:16:40.920 And sometimes that might be more important than, you know, your specific preferences.

00:16:46.640 Anyway, I think that's a great underrated element of Trump that he didn't drink.

00:16:52.420 And by the way, you're all noticing that the trend to stop drinking, at least on Twitter, looks huge.

00:17:00.860 Are you all noticing that?

00:17:02.260 The number of people who are bragging about no longer drinking, not alcoholics, some of them are,

00:17:07.360 but mostly just ordinary people who found out the alcohol is bad for you.

00:17:12.760 You know, I haven't had alcohol for years.

00:17:15.940 So, that's a really good trend.

00:17:19.480 You know, I hope you're not switching out to fentanyl.

00:17:22.660 That would be bad.

00:17:24.220 All right.

00:17:24.900 So, here's tying this all together.

00:17:27.680 Once it was suggested to me, and then I got primed.

00:17:30.840 You know, once your brain gets primed, it's all you can see.

00:17:33.540 So, confirmation bias started to kick in.

00:17:36.100 And I said to myself, I think I'll look online and see if anybody has noted

00:17:40.240 that Kamala Harris drinks too much, in their opinion,

00:17:45.320 or any rumors about too much alcohol or anything like that.

00:17:49.340 And I didn't see anything like that.

00:17:51.460 So, just to be clear, I didn't see anybody speculating.

00:17:55.140 I didn't see any reports of her drinking too much.

00:17:57.360 The only thing that came up is that she belongs to a wine club.

00:18:06.040 Next topic.

00:18:08.400 Rasmussen asked people about the age of the president and what age is too much.

00:18:17.000 And, well, let's see how well you do in this.

00:18:21.060 They asked people, how many people think 86 years old is too old to be president?

00:18:28.680 Does anyone want to guess?

00:18:30.880 I'll ask you it this way.

00:18:32.360 How many people think it's okay to be 86 years old and be president?

00:18:38.900 You know, roughly.

00:18:39.620 What do you think?

00:18:41.080 Shit, you're good.

00:18:42.620 How do you do this?

00:18:44.340 Are you all mind readers?

00:18:46.300 How do you all know the right answer without being told?

00:18:49.440 You're so close.

00:18:51.680 It's 27%.

00:18:52.980 27% of those asked said that, yeah, 86 is not too old to be president.

00:18:59.400 What are you talking about?

00:19:01.440 86 is just getting started.

00:19:04.420 Say one quarter of the respondents.

00:19:07.820 Yeah.

00:19:08.960 If anybody is new to me, I think there's probably more new people here than usual.

00:19:14.380 If you're new to my live streams,

00:19:16.140 I've noted that 25% of the public, about, will get every question wrong.

00:19:25.200 Every poll question.

00:19:26.820 You can depend on 25% to have the most ridiculous opinion,

00:19:32.520 just completely batshit crazy, on any question.

00:19:36.640 Now, the thing is, I don't think it's the same 25%.

00:19:39.380 I think it depends on the question, which is the funny part.

00:19:43.880 I don't think it's just the same 25% of dumb people.

00:19:47.000 It doesn't feel like it.

00:19:49.540 But maybe it is.

00:19:50.560 Who knows?

00:19:52.960 Well, the most important thing,

00:19:55.320 well, the second most important thing,

00:19:57.560 the most important thing is,

00:19:59.020 did Tim Pool really say that?

00:20:01.320 That's the most important question of the day.

00:20:03.040 But the second most question of the day is,

00:20:05.480 what the hell is up with me?

00:20:07.620 And why am I still talking to people?

00:20:09.440 And why am I not fully cancelled?

00:20:11.300 And what's going on, anyway?

00:20:14.000 So, let's talk about that.

00:20:17.140 If you don't think I can offend you more than I have,

00:20:20.680 well, I take that challenge.

00:20:22.740 Challenge accepted.

00:20:24.680 See how offended you can get.

00:20:25.940 I will make the following claim.

00:20:35.580 That no one who knows the context

00:20:37.960 of my inflammatory comments from last week,

00:20:41.840 you all know what I'm talking about.

00:20:43.060 I don't have to summarize.

00:20:45.100 But here's my summary.

00:20:47.460 No one who knows the context

00:20:48.820 and is also a normal person

00:20:51.080 is angry at me,

00:20:54.080 either black or white.

00:20:55.940 Nobody who is a normal person,

00:20:58.300 and I'm going to define normal

00:20:59.460 by excluding the people

00:21:01.300 who are not normal in a moment.

00:21:03.840 100% of the normal people,

00:21:06.940 the non-professionals,

00:21:08.760 just normal people,

00:21:11.220 black and white,

00:21:13.140 agree with me

00:21:13.980 once they hear the full context.

00:21:16.960 That's my experience.

00:21:19.180 So far, I have only agreement

00:21:21.440 of people who understand the context.

00:21:23.240 Now, there are a lot of people

00:21:24.320 who don't understand the context.

00:21:26.480 And they quite reasonably

00:21:27.620 don't agree with me,

00:21:29.060 which would be no surprise.

00:21:30.760 But the ones who don't agree with me

00:21:33.040 fall into the following categories.

00:21:35.620 Peacocks, race grifters,

00:21:36.900 social signalers,

00:21:37.800 dopamine gooners,

00:21:38.920 and my personal political enemies.

00:21:41.500 And then people who are fooled

00:21:42.840 by the fake news.

00:21:44.420 It's not fake news,

00:21:46.080 because the quote is exactly accurate.

00:21:49.180 What's fake is that

00:21:50.220 when you take out the context,

00:21:51.560 it completely changes what was going on

00:21:54.360 from helpful to horrible.

00:21:58.780 And if you didn't know that,

00:22:00.980 well, you know,

00:22:01.940 it's really not your fault,

00:22:04.160 because the fake news

00:22:05.160 was not feeding you

00:22:06.100 any useful context, of course.

00:22:09.560 So I'd have to say

00:22:10.860 that there's something positive happening,

00:22:13.500 and here's another positive thing happening.

00:22:19.880 I believe that now

00:22:21.860 the conversation has already expanded

00:22:25.200 in a useful way.

00:22:26.700 Here's what I mean.

00:22:28.920 The things that I said

00:22:30.200 are the things that I'm being told

00:22:31.900 by a lot of people privately.

00:22:34.460 Yeah, we all think that.

00:22:36.320 They may not be exactly agreed

00:22:37.960 with what I said,

00:22:38.740 but some version of,

00:22:40.420 yes, you know,

00:22:41.580 you're speaking the truth,

00:22:42.600 we're all thinking it.

00:22:43.940 And I'm not sure everybody

00:22:44.920 is interpreting what I said

00:22:46.520 quite the way they're,

00:22:48.260 quite accurately,

00:22:49.400 but there's still like

00:22:50.720 this massive agreement

00:22:52.520 that this is a conversation

00:22:54.160 that is helpful.

00:22:56.700 That it's a helpful conversation.

00:22:59.860 Now, because anybody

00:23:01.460 who even brings up this topic

00:23:02.780 will be fully cancelled,

00:23:04.700 as I believe I've proved,

00:23:06.480 you will be fully cancelled

00:23:07.660 for this topic.

00:23:08.760 But do you realize

00:23:09.540 what I've created?

00:23:11.380 I've created a situation

00:23:12.980 where people who can't say

00:23:14.640 what I said

00:23:15.360 can go on television and say,

00:23:18.460 well, Scott Adams said,

00:23:20.100 what do you think about that?

00:23:23.760 Do you see what happened?

00:23:26.700 It's now allowable conversation

00:23:28.860 because you can attribute it to me.

00:23:31.920 I did that.

00:23:33.520 I did that for you.

00:23:35.240 You can now say,

00:23:36.480 this isn't my opinion,

00:23:37.260 but I'd like to hear your feedback.

00:23:39.200 Scott Adams said,

00:23:40.860 that stupid racist bastard

00:23:42.700 Scott Adams said,

00:23:44.140 that damn frickin' bastard

00:23:45.720 who is more racist

00:23:47.100 than any racist I've ever known

00:23:48.820 says this,

00:23:49.920 what do you think about that?

00:23:51.160 And now you can have

00:23:53.120 a conversation.

00:23:54.640 Now, it'll still be awkward,

00:23:56.300 a lot of work to do,

00:23:58.440 but you now have

00:24:00.720 more free speech.

00:24:02.080 You just have to be

00:24:02.860 a little clever about it

00:24:03.940 so you don't get cancelled

00:24:05.260 like I did.

00:24:08.740 Yeah, and I'm also

00:24:10.480 sensing that there's

00:24:13.420 a growing willingness

00:24:14.500 to talk freely

00:24:17.080 because when somebody

00:24:19.420 goes first,

00:24:20.420 this is the whole point

00:24:21.120 of why the general

00:24:22.260 should be in the front line

00:24:23.200 sometimes.

00:24:24.140 I don't think that's

00:24:24.800 always a good idea,

00:24:25.620 but your leader should

00:24:27.160 lead from the front

00:24:27.880 sort of thing.

00:24:28.800 Now, I wasn't trying

00:24:29.620 to lead anybody.

00:24:31.540 I was trying to deepen

00:24:32.700 the conversation.

00:24:33.620 I was trying to provoke.

00:24:34.960 Of course I was trying

00:24:35.800 to provoke.

00:24:36.840 Anybody who thought

00:24:37.560 that was a literal

00:24:39.280 serious statement

00:24:40.120 should examine

00:24:41.260 their reading comprehension.

00:24:42.540 But, of course,

00:24:44.240 I was trying to provoke.

00:24:45.300 I was trying to get

00:24:45.800 people angry.

00:24:47.520 Mission accomplished.

00:24:48.920 I didn't feel I was

00:24:49.900 that persuasive,

00:24:51.060 but apparently,

00:24:52.180 once the fake media

00:24:53.380 got involved,

00:24:55.560 and like I said,

00:24:56.660 among the people

00:24:57.380 who were mad at me

00:24:57.980 are my political enemies,

00:24:59.740 I believe it's fair

00:25:00.700 to say that 100%

00:25:02.300 of the political right,

00:25:04.780 including people

00:25:05.720 and news-related

00:25:07.680 organizations,

00:25:08.880 did not think

00:25:10.240 I should be cancelled.

00:25:12.540 What's that tell you?

00:25:14.120 Is this about race?

00:25:16.240 Is it about race

00:25:17.280 if only Democrats

00:25:18.460 want to cancel me?

00:25:20.140 You don't think

00:25:20.960 there are any people

00:25:21.640 in the Republican Party

00:25:22.660 at all who know

00:25:24.380 what racism looks like,

00:25:25.600 including the black Republicans?

00:25:27.660 You think they don't know

00:25:28.420 what it looks like?

00:25:29.720 Or how to deal with it,

00:25:31.180 you know,

00:25:31.560 productively?

00:25:32.700 No.

00:25:33.220 It started out

00:25:34.580 as me being provocative,

00:25:37.240 but once it gained steam,

00:25:39.100 it just became political.

00:25:41.000 It's just that they can

00:25:41.920 hide that

00:25:42.600 just the way

00:25:44.780 an alcoholic

00:25:45.620 can hide their alcoholism

00:25:46.980 by forming a wine club.

00:25:49.540 The press

00:25:50.460 can get rid of

00:25:52.140 their biggest political enemy.

00:25:54.400 And by the way,

00:25:55.160 I believe that's true.

00:25:57.380 Because most of you

00:25:58.660 have watched me

00:25:59.300 twist the narrative

00:26:00.180 like almost nobody can,

00:26:02.580 except Trump.

00:26:03.660 Trump can just

00:26:05.760 have his way

00:26:07.000 with the narrative.

00:26:08.500 Like, that's why

00:26:09.260 I've been talking about him,

00:26:10.460 because he has those skills.

00:26:11.660 But there are very few people

00:26:12.940 in the talking-out-loud

00:26:15.460 political world

00:26:16.480 who can reframe something

00:26:18.280 as effectively as I can,

00:26:20.400 which is why

00:26:21.100 my book that was just

00:26:23.280 canceled,

00:26:25.060 my new book,

00:26:25.920 is all about

00:26:26.740 reframing things.

00:26:28.280 So what I'm doing now

00:26:29.180 is an example

00:26:30.240 of what's in the book,

00:26:31.360 but in the book

00:26:31.980 it would be more

00:26:32.520 reframing for your own purposes.

00:26:34.740 I'm reframing for

00:26:35.740 public purpose,

00:26:36.740 which is really dangerous.

00:26:38.100 If you haven't noticed,

00:26:40.640 it's really dangerous.

00:26:42.720 Don't do it.

00:26:44.200 You know,

00:26:44.460 I don't mind doing it

00:26:46.180 because here's another thing

00:26:48.140 I've been teaching you

00:26:48.940 for years.

00:26:49.920 You've heard me say this

00:26:50.800 a lot of times.

00:26:52.700 If you want to succeed,

00:26:55.100 anything,

00:26:56.460 anything,

00:26:57.540 here's the formula

00:26:58.600 for success.

00:26:59.780 This is the most

00:27:00.660 summarized formula

00:27:01.900 for success.

00:27:02.740 If there's something

00:27:05.400 you want to succeed at,

00:27:07.440 find out the price

00:27:09.000 and then pay it.

00:27:12.320 It's the best advice

00:27:13.440 you'll ever have.

00:27:14.700 So I wanted to talk

00:27:16.040 about this topic.

00:27:18.720 So I thought,

00:27:19.660 oh,

00:27:19.800 what's the price of that?

00:27:21.440 Well,

00:27:21.740 the price of that

00:27:22.340 is the risk

00:27:22.880 of full cancellation.

00:27:24.660 And then I paid it.

00:27:26.960 Have you heard me

00:27:27.780 complain yet?

00:27:29.360 Nope.

00:27:30.640 Nope.

00:27:31.040 I looked at the menu.

00:27:32.540 I looked at the price.

00:27:34.180 And then I ordered

00:27:35.200 that meal

00:27:35.700 right in front of you.

00:27:37.700 I just paid the price.

00:27:39.420 That's all that happened.

00:27:41.560 Now,

00:27:42.080 I wasn't expecting

00:27:43.120 it would be this high.

00:27:44.820 But that was on the menu.

00:27:46.680 Like,

00:27:47.040 it was obvious

00:27:47.680 that it could be.

00:27:49.080 It was quite obvious

00:27:49.940 that that was a,

00:27:50.960 you know,

00:27:51.380 pretty high possibility.

00:27:52.840 I didn't know.

00:27:54.480 But,

00:27:55.260 certainly,

00:27:55.760 I paid that price.

00:27:57.040 Now,

00:27:57.840 am I

00:27:58.460 sad that I paid

00:28:00.040 that price?

00:28:00.500 I haven't experienced

00:28:01.740 that yet.

00:28:02.920 I have not experienced

00:28:04.140 any feeling of regret,

00:28:06.020 which might surprise you.

00:28:08.300 Because,

00:28:08.900 this is something

00:28:09.580 that you don't go around.

00:28:11.900 Once you've paid the price,

00:28:14.020 I just bought a ticket

00:28:15.480 to drive right through

00:28:17.480 the middle of it.

00:28:19.320 I'm going to bore a hole

00:28:21.000 through the narrative

00:28:23.380 because I paid the price.

00:28:25.800 I bought the ticket.

00:28:27.000 The rest of you

00:28:28.260 can watch.

00:28:29.680 I don't recommend

00:28:30.740 participating.

00:28:32.460 But just watch.

00:28:35.240 All right.

00:28:37.480 So,

00:28:38.040 I believe there's already

00:28:38.780 a public benefit

00:28:39.960 that is a benefit.

00:28:41.600 And would you agree

00:28:42.200 with this statement?

00:28:43.300 It would be a benefit

00:28:44.160 to black,

00:28:45.240 white,

00:28:46.060 American,

00:28:46.740 you know,

00:28:47.280 Asian Americans,

00:28:48.160 Hispanic.

00:28:49.080 Name your category.

00:28:49.940 Any time you can broaden

00:28:52.740 the conversation

00:28:53.660 on the most important topic,

00:28:56.280 in my opinion,

00:28:56.860 this is the most important

00:28:57.680 topic in the country

00:28:58.460 right now,

00:28:59.640 you're probably

00:29:01.580 improving your odds

00:29:03.700 of a good outcome.

00:29:07.400 All right.

00:29:09.280 I'm laughing at your comment,

00:29:10.540 but I'm not going to say it.

00:29:11.600 All right.

00:29:13.400 Here's another thing.

00:29:16.160 So,

00:29:16.440 Andy Ngo

00:29:17.060 is publishing a video

00:29:20.360 and apparently

00:29:21.760 the city of Springfield,

00:29:23.560 Ohio,

00:29:24.860 and the context

00:29:25.800 for this

00:29:26.420 is all these

00:29:28.060 videos

00:29:28.720 of violence,

00:29:31.420 you know,

00:29:31.580 individual violence,

00:29:33.180 is creating

00:29:34.700 a narrative

00:29:35.680 in our heads

00:29:36.400 that is super,

00:29:37.920 super dangerous

00:29:38.560 because visual persuasion

00:29:41.060 is the most important

00:29:42.020 and if you see

00:29:44.120 three or four anecdotes

00:29:45.460 about anything,

00:29:46.940 you don't even care

00:29:48.060 about the data.

00:29:50.240 Right?

00:29:50.960 Would you agree

00:29:51.680 that if you see

00:29:52.980 some visual anecdotes

00:29:54.460 of some horror,

00:29:56.640 you'll never care

00:29:57.500 about the data?

00:29:59.260 Like,

00:29:59.620 so it's the same problem

00:30:00.620 that white people

00:30:01.600 have said

00:30:02.100 about

00:30:02.660 the Black Lives Matter,

00:30:05.220 probably the biggest issue

00:30:06.660 about police brutality.

00:30:09.020 If there are videos

00:30:10.240 of police brutality,

00:30:11.460 you think it's happening

00:30:12.320 everywhere

00:30:12.760 because visual persuasion

00:30:14.140 is so strong.

00:30:16.120 But was there actually

00:30:17.900 a massive problem

00:30:19.040 of the police

00:30:20.900 targeting black people

00:30:24.000 in particular

00:30:24.760 for violence?

00:30:27.540 I don't know

00:30:28.440 how big that was,

00:30:29.580 but our impression

00:30:30.400 of it is big

00:30:31.320 because we saw videos

00:30:32.620 of it

00:30:32.940 and we just kept

00:30:33.680 seeing it.

00:30:34.560 You know,

00:30:34.740 the George Floyd stuff,

00:30:36.240 if you just watch that

00:30:37.160 a million times

00:30:38.020 like most of us did,

00:30:39.600 it looks like,

00:30:40.680 you know,

00:30:40.920 he's one of thousands

00:30:41.920 of people

00:30:42.460 or whatever.

00:30:44.760 But,

00:30:45.100 so visual persuasion

00:30:46.420 is very racist

00:30:47.820 and misleading

00:30:48.860 and at the moment

00:30:50.040 there's this

00:30:50.780 whole bunch

00:30:52.240 of racist videos

00:30:54.600 of only black people

00:30:57.000 beating up

00:30:58.280 white people

00:30:59.520 and Asian Americans.

00:31:01.560 Now,

00:31:02.180 what is anybody

00:31:02.860 going to think?

00:31:04.820 Forget about the data.

00:31:06.860 Forget about the data.

00:31:07.800 What is anybody

00:31:08.940 going to think

00:31:09.400 if their news sources

00:31:10.460 and their social media

00:31:11.420 are feeding them

00:31:12.540 this constant stream

00:31:14.760 of things

00:31:15.660 that would make them

00:31:16.500 in, let's say,

00:31:19.560 a reflexive,

00:31:20.980 persuaded way,

00:31:22.280 not a thinking way,

00:31:23.840 but sort of

00:31:24.240 a reflexive way

00:31:26.080 to cause people

00:31:27.600 to have a bad feeling

00:31:28.480 about black Americans.

00:31:30.680 Terribly unfair.

00:31:32.560 And what makes it worse

00:31:35.260 is obviously

00:31:35.880 the social media algorithms.

00:31:37.800 because

00:31:38.480 the thing that's

00:31:40.820 really bothering me

00:31:41.720 is that

00:31:43.120 if we didn't have

00:31:44.160 obviously racist

00:31:45.280 social media algorithms

00:31:46.620 that are,

00:31:48.400 I think,

00:31:48.580 clearly suppressing

00:31:49.460 all of the Asian American

00:31:50.520 and white kids

00:31:51.280 beating up black people,

00:31:53.000 that just makes the,

00:31:53.860 it makes the problem

00:31:54.840 appear one-sided.

00:31:56.800 So I think we have to

00:31:58.080 go all the way down

00:31:59.000 to the social media

00:32:00.360 algorithm level

00:32:01.440 to,

00:32:02.660 and maybe

00:32:03.520 Elon Musk

00:32:04.240 can fix that

00:32:04.980 and Zuckerberg

00:32:06.780 could look into it

00:32:07.740 and fix that

00:32:08.880 so that we're served up

00:32:10.100 at least an equal amount

00:32:11.540 of white kids

00:32:13.140 beating up black kids

00:32:14.180 and Asian Americans

00:32:15.240 like targeting

00:32:16.680 black Americans

00:32:17.620 on the street

00:32:18.180 and stuff.

00:32:18.680 Because if we've got

00:32:19.380 something that was

00:32:19.960 more like balanced,

00:32:21.180 then it's not going

00:32:22.500 to look all racist.

00:32:23.300 What do you mean

00:32:26.560 it doesn't exist?

00:32:28.320 No, it must exist.

00:32:30.300 Because we wouldn't

00:32:31.160 be talking about it

00:32:31.960 this way

00:32:32.380 if it didn't exist.

00:32:35.860 Obviously it exists.

00:32:37.740 Obviously it exists.

00:32:39.320 So all of you racists

00:32:40.700 who are just

00:32:41.240 tweeting around

00:32:42.240 these violent

00:32:43.020 things of black people

00:32:44.620 beating up other people,

00:32:46.560 just know

00:32:47.420 that you're working

00:32:49.360 with the racist

00:32:50.120 algorithm

00:32:52.160 and between

00:32:53.160 the racist

00:32:53.620 algorithm and you,

00:32:54.580 you're not making

00:32:55.080 anything better.

00:32:56.340 So just be aware

00:32:57.040 of that.

00:32:58.280 Larry Elder

00:32:58.840 did a video

00:33:00.860 in which,

00:33:01.520 here's the first

00:33:02.300 part of the video

00:33:02.900 so you'll get

00:33:03.360 the sense of it.

00:33:04.620 He said,

00:33:05.300 quote,

00:33:05.760 rather than thank

00:33:07.060 Adams for saying

00:33:08.100 out loud

00:33:08.600 what clearly

00:33:09.600 a lot of people

00:33:10.640 feel,

00:33:11.380 including a lot

00:33:12.140 of black people,

00:33:13.040 so we could have,

00:33:14.020 you know,

00:33:14.540 a healthy discussion

00:33:15.460 about this,

00:33:16.660 Adams is being

00:33:17.380 hounded,

00:33:18.080 shut down,

00:33:18.640 and canceled.

00:33:21.260 Now,

00:33:21.740 Larry Elder

00:33:23.500 I endorsed

00:33:25.420 for governor

00:33:26.060 of California,

00:33:27.660 and by the way,

00:33:28.400 I think he would

00:33:28.920 have been great.

00:33:31.600 When people

00:33:32.620 tell the story

00:33:33.300 of me,

00:33:34.640 do they tell

00:33:35.140 the story

00:33:35.580 about how

00:33:36.080 I supported

00:33:37.160 Obama for president,

00:33:38.880 and I think

00:33:39.980 he did okay.

00:33:41.440 You know,

00:33:41.660 nobody's perfect,

00:33:42.860 so I'd have

00:33:43.240 things to criticize,

00:33:44.560 but I thought

00:33:45.020 he was a solid

00:33:45.600 president.

00:33:46.860 I backed

00:33:47.700 yay

00:33:48.640 before I realized

00:33:50.160 what his mental

00:33:51.500 state was

00:33:52.060 exactly,

00:33:52.860 but I thought,

00:33:53.840 you know,

00:33:54.780 wouldn't that be

00:33:55.380 fun to have

00:33:55.860 a president

00:33:56.580 yay?

00:33:58.300 I've backed

00:33:59.060 Larry Elder

00:33:59.940 for governor

00:34:01.680 because I thought

00:34:03.720 he was the best

00:34:04.240 one running.

00:34:05.400 That's it.

00:34:05.920 I just thought

00:34:06.560 he was the best

00:34:06.980 one running.

00:34:08.460 I've backed,

00:34:09.440 and I am backing,

00:34:10.220 Vivek Ramaswamy,

00:34:12.320 who I think

00:34:12.960 is Indian-American,

00:34:14.820 I think,

00:34:16.360 and do you think

00:34:20.600 that context

00:34:21.400 was ever mentioned

00:34:22.500 by the press?

00:34:25.100 How many of the

00:34:25.980 stories you read

00:34:26.700 about me said

00:34:27.460 that I'd helped

00:34:28.120 Black Lives Matter

00:34:29.220 try to organize

00:34:30.620 their messaging?

00:34:32.720 How many reported

00:34:34.400 that I supported,

00:34:36.280 strongly supported,

00:34:37.540 against the will

00:34:38.560 of much of my audience,

00:34:39.780 it cost me money,

00:34:40.640 reform,

00:34:44.340 prison reform?

00:34:46.840 Right?

00:34:47.120 That was not so

00:34:48.080 popular among

00:34:48.860 Republicans,

00:34:49.820 so I lost

00:34:51.000 audience supporting

00:34:51.840 that,

00:34:52.740 and knew it,

00:34:54.000 did it anyway.

00:34:55.760 How many,

00:34:56.600 how many know

00:34:58.180 that I once

00:34:59.300 blogged

00:34:59.960 in favor

00:35:01.560 of reparations?

00:35:03.420 Not the way

00:35:04.240 it's being described

00:35:05.020 now where it's

00:35:05.640 just a cash payment,

00:35:06.900 but some kind

00:35:07.420 of a grand,

00:35:08.900 let's say,

00:35:09.620 agreement

00:35:10.080 among Black

00:35:12.280 Americans

00:35:12.700 and everybody

00:35:13.260 else

00:35:13.680 to do something

00:35:14.680 that would maybe

00:35:15.380 mostly help Black

00:35:16.380 Americans,

00:35:16.900 but it would help

00:35:17.360 everybody poor,

00:35:18.840 and then you've

00:35:19.320 got something.

00:35:20.200 Then you've got

00:35:20.720 something everybody

00:35:21.320 can say,

00:35:22.060 all right,

00:35:22.440 all right,

00:35:22.960 I see how this

00:35:23.800 mostly affects

00:35:24.720 Black Americans,

00:35:25.900 but that's because

00:35:26.700 they were in the

00:35:27.220 biggest hole,

00:35:28.820 so that's fine.

00:35:31.240 You know,

00:35:31.420 as long as we're

00:35:31.940 talking about income,

00:35:33.180 it's okay if it's

00:35:34.260 racist,

00:35:35.200 because it would

00:35:35.660 be racist,

00:35:36.840 wouldn't it?

00:35:38.180 If you did

00:35:39.320 something that

00:35:39.900 helped all

00:35:41.020 poor people,

00:35:41.940 but the nature

00:35:43.120 of it is that

00:35:43.960 Black Americans

00:35:44.940 were in a deeper

00:35:45.820 hole,

00:35:47.340 so it would help

00:35:48.340 them more than

00:35:49.260 it would help

00:35:49.640 other people,

00:35:50.620 that would be

00:35:51.740 racist,

00:35:52.420 by definition.

00:35:53.940 Now,

00:35:54.200 that would be

00:35:54.700 positive racism,

00:35:55.980 in my opinion.

00:35:57.800 Would anybody

00:35:58.360 disagree?

00:35:59.340 That would be

00:36:00.100 a policy which

00:36:01.180 affects races

00:36:02.380 disproportionately.

00:36:03.900 You know you're

00:36:04.600 doing it.

00:36:05.660 You know you're

00:36:06.420 doing it.

00:36:06.860 I'm going to

00:36:07.740 do this policy.

00:36:08.780 It will affect

00:36:09.620 the races

00:36:10.060 disproportionately,

00:36:12.280 but it's a

00:36:13.840 good thing to

00:36:14.300 do.

00:36:16.280 Are there

00:36:16.840 other cases

00:36:17.440 where there

00:36:18.300 are things

00:36:18.640 that are

00:36:18.920 purely racist,

00:36:20.440 but they're

00:36:21.460 a good thing

00:36:21.940 to do?

00:36:22.860 Can you think

00:36:23.340 of any other

00:36:23.800 examples?

00:36:24.720 Something that

00:36:25.360 you would say,

00:36:26.000 well, you know,

00:36:26.420 technically that's

00:36:27.080 racist, but it's

00:36:28.480 a pretty good

00:36:28.980 thing to do.

00:36:30.840 All right,

00:36:31.060 here's one.

00:36:32.340 Affirmative

00:36:32.740 action.

00:36:35.260 Historically.

00:36:35.700 So my take

00:36:37.400 on affirmative

00:36:37.920 action is that

00:36:39.100 while it was

00:36:40.120 very bad for

00:36:41.040 my personal

00:36:41.700 career, I

00:36:42.460 lost two

00:36:43.500 careers because

00:36:44.300 I was white

00:36:45.100 and male in

00:36:46.300 my corporate

00:36:46.740 days, even

00:36:48.120 then I was

00:36:49.240 not opposed to

00:36:49.920 affirmative action.

00:36:51.320 I hated how

00:36:51.900 it affected me,

00:36:53.580 but I was not

00:36:54.180 opposed to it

00:36:54.840 because, and

00:36:55.380 the reason I

00:36:55.800 wasn't opposed

00:36:56.280 to it is

00:36:57.260 that I

00:36:59.080 couldn't figure

00:36:59.740 out an

00:37:00.120 alternative.

00:37:02.020 You see the

00:37:02.820 problem?

00:37:03.120 When things

00:37:04.900 are really

00:37:05.540 unequal, the

00:37:08.180 tool to fix

00:37:09.040 it is a

00:37:09.480 sledgehammer.

00:37:10.820 And the

00:37:11.220 sledgehammer

00:37:11.720 breaks stuff

00:37:13.020 more than you

00:37:13.620 want to break,

00:37:14.200 right?

00:37:14.420 But it's the

00:37:14.720 only tool you

00:37:15.160 have.

00:37:15.960 Like, what

00:37:16.340 else are you

00:37:16.720 going to do?

00:37:17.800 What else

00:37:18.360 are you going

00:37:18.680 to do?

00:37:19.700 But, as

00:37:21.080 things get a

00:37:21.840 little closer

00:37:22.360 to equal, but

00:37:23.840 before they're

00:37:24.500 completely equal,

00:37:26.300 the right time

00:37:27.640 is to

00:37:28.320 reassess it

00:37:29.620 because you're

00:37:30.400 going to start

00:37:30.720 to create more

00:37:31.440 ill-will, then

00:37:32.920 you're benefiting

00:37:33.580 by correcting

00:37:34.900 some historical

00:37:36.020 imbalances.

00:37:37.640 So, I

00:37:39.060 think that

00:37:39.580 affirmative action

00:37:40.420 was racist by

00:37:41.640 design, by

00:37:43.160 intention, and

00:37:44.780 would anybody

00:37:45.540 disagree with

00:37:46.160 that?

00:37:46.620 Is there

00:37:46.840 anybody who

00:37:47.200 thinks that

00:37:47.620 affirmative action

00:37:48.420 is not racist

00:37:50.040 by intention,

00:37:52.380 by design?

00:37:53.360 In fact, if it

00:37:54.400 were not racist,

00:37:55.320 it wouldn't

00:37:55.660 work.

00:37:56.660 The entire

00:37:57.140 point of it

00:37:57.860 is to be

00:37:58.620 racial preference

00:38:01.420 is the entire

00:38:02.600 point of it.

00:38:05.220 So, I

00:38:06.800 would contend

00:38:07.440 that there

00:38:08.540 are racist

00:38:09.300 things which

00:38:11.280 are the ones

00:38:11.800 you want

00:38:12.280 because it's

00:38:13.000 how you

00:38:13.380 defeat racism.

00:38:16.000 Let's say

00:38:16.600 the tax

00:38:17.100 code was

00:38:19.860 super-favoring

00:38:21.640 one group

00:38:22.880 over another,

00:38:24.300 which is

00:38:24.920 always the

00:38:25.300 case, even

00:38:26.480 if you don't

00:38:26.920 want it to.

00:38:27.360 It just

00:38:27.680 feels like

00:38:28.140 no matter

00:38:29.660 how you

00:38:30.080 create anything,

00:38:31.480 it always

00:38:31.880 has a

00:38:32.420 disproportionate

00:38:33.240 impact on

00:38:33.740 somebody, right?

00:38:35.240 So, suppose

00:38:36.500 you correct

00:38:37.280 a disproportionate

00:38:40.640 problem with

00:38:41.720 some group.

00:38:42.480 How can you

00:38:43.200 correct it

00:38:43.860 without shifting

00:38:45.440 resources back

00:38:47.120 and forth

00:38:47.660 or favoritism

00:38:49.800 to another

00:38:50.900 racial group?

00:38:52.540 Now, it

00:38:52.860 might be a

00:38:53.260 very good

00:38:53.680 thing to do,

00:38:54.980 but it's

00:38:55.440 going to be

00:38:55.780 racist.

00:38:56.220 because it's

00:38:57.960 treating the

00:38:58.520 groups differently

00:38:59.200 and then

00:39:00.100 having a

00:39:00.520 policy that

00:39:01.820 represents your

00:39:02.980 different treatment

00:39:03.620 of the groups.

00:39:04.720 Now, if your

00:39:05.320 point is to

00:39:05.960 help a group

00:39:06.900 that needs a

00:39:07.480 hand up,

00:39:08.180 that's a good

00:39:08.920 conversation to

00:39:09.620 have.

00:39:10.540 And I'm

00:39:11.140 always open

00:39:11.540 to that.

00:39:13.240 All right.

00:39:14.300 This point is

00:39:15.560 going to get

00:39:15.920 deeper.

00:39:16.220 Kevin Costa,

00:39:20.800 who I'm

00:39:21.520 taking as

00:39:22.180 probably a

00:39:23.100 black man

00:39:23.680 on Twitter,

00:39:25.960 just based on

00:39:26.800 the profile

00:39:27.320 and the

00:39:27.700 conversation,

00:39:28.960 he said

00:39:29.420 about me

00:39:29.960 and my

00:39:30.620 statement,

00:39:31.260 quote,

00:39:31.920 he was

00:39:32.340 clearly being

00:39:33.180 openly and

00:39:34.020 purposely racist.

00:39:36.700 Would you

00:39:37.340 say that's

00:39:37.780 true?

00:39:38.700 Was I

00:39:39.160 being my

00:39:40.320 provocative

00:39:41.220 comments?

00:39:42.340 Were they

00:39:42.960 clearly and

00:39:44.300 openly and

00:39:44.960 purposely racist?

00:39:47.160 Yeah, I

00:39:47.540 said they

00:39:47.860 were.

00:39:49.080 I said that.

00:39:50.440 So he's

00:39:51.080 arguing with

00:39:51.720 me by

00:39:52.080 agreeing with

00:39:52.620 me.

00:39:53.360 I'm saying,

00:39:53.940 yes, yes,

00:39:55.940 right, right,

00:39:57.760 Holger.

00:39:58.940 It was

00:39:59.580 totally racist

00:40:00.300 and it was

00:40:00.740 meant to be

00:40:01.180 that way.

00:40:01.820 Would you

00:40:02.120 like to

00:40:02.360 hear the

00:40:02.600 context?

00:40:04.540 Now, do

00:40:05.060 you think

00:40:05.360 that I was

00:40:05.700 trying to

00:40:06.020 make things

00:40:06.440 worse for

00:40:07.300 black

00:40:07.620 Americans?

00:40:09.140 How many

00:40:09.740 think I

00:40:10.340 was trying

00:40:10.600 to make

00:40:10.900 things worse

00:40:11.560 for black

00:40:12.100 Americans?

00:40:13.540 Anybody?

00:40:14.960 Oh, somebody

00:40:15.660 says yes.

00:40:16.800 Some of you

00:40:17.260 were saying

00:40:17.540 yes.

00:40:18.700 I wasn't

00:40:19.140 expecting that.

00:40:21.460 All right,

00:40:21.980 most of the

00:40:22.480 answers are

00:40:22.900 no.

00:40:23.920 The people

00:40:24.380 who know

00:40:24.680 me the

00:40:24.960 most know

00:40:25.580 the answer

00:40:25.940 is no.

00:40:26.620 If you

00:40:27.020 weren't

00:40:27.200 listening to

00:40:27.660 the opening

00:40:28.400 context,

00:40:29.100 I could see

00:40:29.480 how you'd

00:40:29.800 say yes.

00:40:31.200 All right,

00:40:31.600 so the

00:40:31.860 people saying

00:40:32.260 yes don't

00:40:32.880 know me as

00:40:33.340 well.

00:40:37.140 But the

00:40:37.680 people who

00:40:38.020 know me on

00:40:38.700 Locals,

00:40:39.480 they're a

00:40:40.560 little closer

00:40:41.000 to the

00:40:41.240 answer.

00:40:41.820 So here's

00:40:42.220 how I

00:40:42.480 explain this.

00:40:43.040 about being

00:40:45.820 openly racist.

00:40:48.980 And we're

00:40:49.620 going to

00:40:49.880 the white

00:40:50.120 boards.

00:41:03.380 Here are

00:41:03.980 some things

00:41:04.560 which I

00:41:05.140 would argue

00:41:05.600 are openly

00:41:06.760 racist,

00:41:08.060 and at the

00:41:08.820 same time,

00:41:09.420 you like

00:41:09.780 them.

00:41:10.000 not everybody.

00:41:13.080 I'm saying

00:41:13.440 these are the

00:41:14.220 things that

00:41:14.600 are socially

00:41:15.160 approved,

00:41:16.160 but they're

00:41:17.260 clearly racist.

00:41:20.260 ESG,

00:41:21.500 CRT,

00:41:23.320 Black History

00:41:24.180 Month,

00:41:25.160 Affirmative

00:41:25.520 Action,

00:41:26.060 DEI,

00:41:27.280 college

00:41:27.600 admissions,

00:41:28.240 if there's

00:41:28.540 any preferences

00:41:29.100 in those,

00:41:30.160 and reduced

00:41:31.160 free speech

00:41:31.900 for some

00:41:32.340 people.

00:41:34.580 Now I

00:41:35.160 think society

00:41:35.800 generally thinks

00:41:36.620 that white

00:41:37.260 people should

00:41:37.800 not have the

00:41:38.480 same level

00:41:39.100 of free

00:41:39.520 speech.

00:41:41.080 And I

00:41:41.580 think a lot

00:41:41.940 of people

00:41:42.180 would agree

00:41:42.540 with that.

00:41:43.240 They'd go,

00:41:43.580 oh, if those

00:41:44.080 white people

00:41:44.540 are saying

00:41:45.080 whatever they

00:41:45.540 want,

00:41:46.820 like our

00:41:47.260 narrative will

00:41:47.900 be impacted.

00:41:49.600 Now here's

00:41:50.320 the one that

00:41:50.900 I think is

00:41:51.240 interesting,

00:41:51.820 voting for

00:41:52.280 Obama.

00:41:53.580 I voted

00:41:54.300 for Obama

00:41:54.980 in large

00:41:56.540 part because

00:41:57.060 he was

00:41:57.400 black.

00:41:59.040 Did anybody

00:41:59.760 else vote

00:42:00.260 for him

00:42:00.560 because he

00:42:01.120 was black?

00:42:02.160 Like it

00:42:02.460 wasn't the

00:42:02.800 only reason.

00:42:03.300 I think he

00:42:03.640 was qualified,

00:42:04.600 and I think

00:42:05.060 he did a

00:42:05.400 good job.

00:42:06.160 Unlike my

00:42:06.880 audience,

00:42:07.300 I think he

00:42:07.660 did a

00:42:08.260 reasonably

00:42:08.700 good job.

00:42:11.440 And I

00:42:12.580 respect your

00:42:14.140 disagreement on

00:42:14.960 Obama, but

00:42:16.100 here's why I

00:42:18.040 and I see a lot

00:42:19.200 of people saying

00:42:19.700 yes.

00:42:20.800 Black America

00:42:21.660 voted for him

00:42:22.400 by overwhelming

00:42:23.260 numbers, right?

00:42:25.400 And white

00:42:25.900 Americans voted

00:42:26.680 more for Obama

00:42:27.540 than I think

00:42:28.800 John Kerry.

00:42:30.740 And I believe

00:42:31.560 that a lot of us

00:42:32.240 had the same

00:42:32.780 thing in mind.

00:42:33.560 And I won't

00:42:35.240 read other

00:42:35.700 minds, but I

00:42:36.760 speculate that

00:42:37.500 a lot of

00:42:37.760 people fought

00:42:38.460 like I did.

00:42:39.800 Wouldn't it

00:42:40.260 be good to

00:42:41.720 finally have a

00:42:42.360 black president

00:42:43.020 so we don't

00:42:44.120 have to hear

00:42:44.680 any more

00:42:45.040 complaints about

00:42:45.880 how a black

00:42:46.560 man can't

00:42:47.160 succeed?

00:42:48.580 Now, obviously

00:42:49.180 there's still

00:42:49.680 plenty of

00:42:50.120 structural,

00:42:51.160 systemic racism,

00:42:52.540 but isn't it

00:42:53.380 good for the

00:42:53.880 country that

00:42:54.940 we've had a

00:42:55.440 black president?

00:42:56.920 Would anybody

00:42:57.340 disagree with

00:42:57.920 that?

00:42:58.600 Like, forget

00:42:59.020 about Obama

00:42:59.600 as a

00:42:59.920 personality.

00:43:00.480 Just ask

00:43:01.700 yourself, is

00:43:02.620 the United

00:43:03.040 States, you

00:43:04.340 know, the

00:43:04.780 melting pot

00:43:05.480 country, better

00:43:06.940 or worse for

00:43:07.860 having had a

00:43:08.760 black president,

00:43:09.500 who was popular

00:43:10.360 by the way?

00:43:11.900 Okay.

00:43:12.660 Now, I'm

00:43:14.940 pretty sure that

00:43:15.560 was good for

00:43:16.000 the country.

00:43:17.780 Now, at the

00:43:18.620 same time, racism

00:43:20.820 went through the

00:43:21.560 roof, or I

00:43:23.060 should say,

00:43:23.720 racial harmony

00:43:25.320 dropped like a

00:43:26.680 rock during

00:43:27.520 Obama and then

00:43:28.740 continued to

00:43:29.460 drop.

00:43:29.760 So, nobody

00:43:30.280 fixed that.

00:43:32.740 So, it's

00:43:33.280 possible that

00:43:34.000 something about

00:43:35.560 the Obama

00:43:36.140 era made

00:43:38.140 things worse.

00:43:39.000 I don't know

00:43:39.360 exactly what.

00:43:40.260 Policies?

00:43:41.500 Do you think

00:43:41.760 it was

00:43:41.940 policies?

00:43:43.000 Could be.

00:43:44.740 All right.

00:43:45.360 But I would

00:43:46.120 say that voting

00:43:47.540 for Obama, if

00:43:49.660 you were voting

00:43:50.160 for him to make

00:43:52.020 sure that we

00:43:52.440 had a black

00:43:53.400 president, finally,

00:43:54.280 that's why I

00:43:54.820 did it, plus he

00:43:56.380 was qualified, I

00:43:57.380 thought, I

00:43:59.200 thought that was

00:43:59.660 racist.

00:44:01.400 Was that, let

00:44:02.460 me ask you, was

00:44:03.020 it racist for me

00:44:03.980 to vote for

00:44:04.500 Obama, in

00:44:05.560 large part because

00:44:06.580 of his color?

00:44:08.040 Was that

00:44:08.440 racist?

00:44:11.040 How would that

00:44:11.820 not be racist?

00:44:13.880 Somebody says,

00:44:14.480 no.

00:44:15.120 Well, okay.

00:44:17.820 You probably have

00:44:18.680 an argument there.

00:44:19.500 If I heard it, I'd

00:44:20.320 probably agree with

00:44:20.980 you.

00:44:21.500 But I would say

00:44:22.300 that's racist.

00:44:24.200 And I did

00:44:25.040 that.

00:44:27.200 I did this

00:44:28.040 racist thing.

00:44:30.020 I'm guilty.

00:44:31.800 How about

00:44:32.580 Black History

00:44:33.680 Month?

00:44:36.300 Is Black History

00:44:37.380 Month good or

00:44:38.460 bad for black

00:44:39.580 people?

00:44:43.400 Some of you

00:44:44.080 say bad.

00:44:45.400 Let's see, you

00:44:45.960 think I'm going to

00:44:46.520 say it's bad.

00:44:47.460 I don't know.

00:44:48.560 I don't know.

00:44:48.960 I don't think

00:44:49.800 it's bad.

00:44:51.100 I feel like

00:44:52.160 black America

00:44:53.180 went through

00:44:54.740 enough.

00:44:55.200 They get a

00:44:55.740 month.

00:44:57.820 If you have

00:44:58.580 the experience

00:44:59.240 of black

00:44:59.860 Americans from

00:45:00.660 slavery to

00:45:01.800 today, yeah,

00:45:02.700 you could have

00:45:03.060 a month.

00:45:04.340 I don't have a

00:45:04.880 problem with

00:45:05.220 that.

00:45:05.920 But it is

00:45:06.560 racist, isn't

00:45:07.220 it?

00:45:09.060 This is a

00:45:09.860 racism I

00:45:10.640 totally agree

00:45:11.720 with.

00:45:12.640 I'm totally

00:45:13.020 in.

00:45:13.400 That's fine.

00:45:14.640 Let's be as

00:45:15.560 educated as

00:45:16.240 possible about

00:45:17.020 our true

00:45:17.440 history.

00:45:18.960 Now, you

00:45:20.220 know, you

00:45:20.440 might say,

00:45:21.040 hey, you

00:45:22.420 know, how

00:45:23.040 about a

00:45:23.540 woman's

00:45:23.940 history month?

00:45:24.960 Well, we

00:45:25.220 have that

00:45:25.520 too.

00:45:26.600 We do have

00:45:27.320 a woman's

00:45:27.980 history month.

00:45:28.860 I don't know

00:45:29.220 how many other

00:45:29.780 history months

00:45:30.360 there are, but

00:45:31.160 aren't they all

00:45:31.820 either sexist or

00:45:32.860 racist?

00:45:33.880 All those months

00:45:34.760 are sexist and

00:45:35.480 racist, right?

00:45:36.920 They're totally

00:45:37.400 sexist, totally

00:45:38.500 racist.

00:45:39.340 I don't disagree

00:45:40.120 with either one

00:45:40.660 of them.

00:45:41.220 I don't have a

00:45:41.740 problem with

00:45:42.180 them.

00:45:43.260 So there's a

00:45:43.960 whole bunch of

00:45:44.460 stuff in, like

00:45:46.540 I said,

00:45:46.880 affirmative action,

00:45:47.740 at the

00:45:49.340 moment I

00:45:49.800 think we

00:45:50.120 should

00:45:50.280 reconsider, but

00:45:51.920 historically I

00:45:52.860 favor this

00:45:53.460 racist, totally

00:45:54.620 racist activity.

00:45:58.500 And, yeah, and

00:46:01.200 the other ones you

00:46:01.780 might like.

00:46:02.520 I mean, you

00:46:02.840 might like ESG and,

00:46:04.580 you know.

00:46:04.780 By the way, does

00:46:05.340 everybody even know

00:46:06.040 what ESG is?

00:46:07.500 Do I have to

00:46:08.060 define that?

00:46:09.440 Let me explain

00:46:10.080 ESG.

00:46:11.780 ESG is, let's

00:46:13.480 say, environmental,

00:46:14.680 social, and

00:46:15.420 governance.

00:46:17.000 And the two

00:46:18.540 things in there

00:46:19.240 are for corporations

00:46:20.360 are being judged

00:46:21.440 by entities that

00:46:23.200 judge them,

00:46:24.380 including BlackRock,

00:46:25.820 this multi-trillion

00:46:27.100 dollar financial

00:46:28.700 behemoth.

00:46:30.460 So this huge

00:46:31.720 financial entity,

00:46:33.280 BlackRock, is

00:46:34.120 pushing this idea

00:46:34.980 that companies

00:46:35.800 should be evaluated

00:46:36.900 for their ESG

00:46:38.480 quality.

00:46:39.720 So the E for

00:46:40.940 environmental, they

00:46:41.880 have to be reducing

00:46:42.700 their carbon footprint,

00:46:43.740 and then the

00:46:45.220 social and

00:46:45.820 governance is

00:46:46.600 they should have

00:46:47.040 diversity at all

00:46:48.580 levels up to the

00:46:49.600 top of the

00:46:50.260 organization.

00:46:53.040 Now, the

00:46:55.960 companies that

00:46:56.660 push ESG, are

00:47:00.100 they happy that

00:47:02.380 I'm one of the

00:47:03.700 most noted

00:47:04.560 critics of the

00:47:05.680 thing that is the

00:47:06.740 operating system of

00:47:08.120 the company right

00:47:08.800 now?

00:47:09.420 They have ESG.

00:47:11.180 So management of

00:47:12.220 newspapers, do you

00:47:13.280 think that they

00:47:14.180 were opposed to

00:47:15.100 ESG?

00:47:16.080 The management of

00:47:17.120 newspapers.

00:47:18.160 Or more importantly,

00:47:19.880 in many cases, the

00:47:21.840 hedge funds that

00:47:23.000 own groups of

00:47:24.500 newspapers.

00:47:25.480 Because that's how

00:47:26.040 newspapers tend to

00:47:26.920 be owned, by big

00:47:28.300 financial entities that

00:47:29.400 own like a chain.

00:47:32.680 So the people that

00:47:35.260 I've pledged to

00:47:38.320 attack, the ESG

00:47:40.000 people, because it's

00:47:41.180 so harmful for

00:47:42.060 business, it's

00:47:43.440 harmful for

00:47:43.900 everything.

00:47:44.420 It's harmful for

00:47:45.020 society, but

00:47:45.780 business in

00:47:46.360 particular.

00:47:47.680 Do you think

00:47:48.500 there's any

00:47:49.040 coincidence that

00:47:50.740 the biggest critic

00:47:51.620 of those things

00:47:52.460 got cancelled by

00:47:54.560 the people who

00:47:55.220 promote those

00:47:55.960 things?

00:47:57.100 It's not the

00:47:57.920 only reason, but

00:47:59.560 when you see who's

00:48:00.820 opposing me and

00:48:01.740 cancelling me, you

00:48:02.960 have to ask about

00:48:03.740 their other motives.

00:48:04.620 The thing I said,

00:48:08.040 you know, maybe it

00:48:08.640 was worth

00:48:08.960 cancelling, according

00:48:10.020 to some people, but

00:48:11.540 that's not why they

00:48:12.440 did it.

00:48:13.420 That's not why.

00:48:15.080 Why they did it is

00:48:16.040 to shut me up.

00:48:18.500 Right?

00:48:19.400 Why they did it is

00:48:20.500 to shut me up.

00:48:22.100 That's why.

00:48:23.680 Shut me up in a

00:48:24.700 variety of ways, but

00:48:25.820 ESG would be one of

00:48:26.900 them.

00:48:27.840 You know, I was

00:48:29.820 reminded yesterday

00:48:30.960 that when Dilbert was

00:48:32.940 first introduced into

00:48:33.960 newspapers, it was

00:48:35.760 very difficult to

00:48:36.960 get the newspaper to

00:48:38.040 buy it because it

00:48:39.300 made fun of

00:48:39.940 management.

00:48:42.320 I'd forgotten how

00:48:43.500 quaint things were

00:48:45.900 back then.

00:48:47.540 You don't remember,

00:48:48.740 but Dilbert was a

00:48:49.740 controversial strip.

00:48:53.380 It was controversial

00:48:54.220 because it made

00:48:55.340 managers and leaders

00:48:56.440 look like idiots.

00:48:58.120 And the managers

00:48:58.740 and leaders were

00:49:00.480 not on board with

00:49:01.360 that idea because

00:49:02.480 it allowed the staff

00:49:03.460 to mock the people

00:49:04.840 above them.

00:49:06.060 It made it easier

00:49:06.960 for them to just,

00:49:07.500 hey, look at this

00:49:08.160 comic.

00:49:10.020 So the people who

00:49:10.960 canceled me, has

00:49:13.300 anybody stopped to

00:49:14.340 think that the

00:49:15.620 people who canceled

00:49:16.340 me, the management

00:49:17.220 of the newspapers,

00:49:18.540 are the people that

00:49:19.400 I've been mocking

00:49:20.120 for 34 years?

00:49:21.960 Like, viciously

00:49:22.860 mocking them.

00:49:24.140 Do you think they

00:49:25.020 didn't want a reason

00:49:25.880 to cancel me?

00:49:27.320 Even if they thought

00:49:28.200 it was funny?

00:49:29.040 They'd probably be

00:49:29.460 like, well, a little

00:49:30.000 less of that would

00:49:30.540 be good.

00:49:31.560 All right.

00:49:34.000 Here's the second

00:49:35.020 summary.

00:49:43.120 People who don't

00:49:43.980 know the context

00:49:44.840 of my controversy

00:49:46.600 have asked me to

00:49:47.540 summarize it.

00:49:48.900 And so I'm

00:49:49.700 borrowing this,

00:49:50.520 but this is

00:49:51.060 basically it.

00:49:52.880 I said some

00:49:54.500 version of you

00:49:55.220 should avoid

00:49:55.720 people that the

00:49:56.840 society is primed

00:49:58.000 to be racist

00:49:58.700 against you.

00:50:00.680 Some people said,

00:50:01.700 wait a minute,

00:50:02.200 Scott, you did

00:50:03.560 not add that

00:50:04.280 nuance the first

00:50:05.200 time you said it.

00:50:06.780 And then I said,

00:50:07.920 yes, that's why

00:50:08.740 I clarified.

00:50:10.580 And then they

00:50:11.380 said, clarification

00:50:12.540 is not allowed.

00:50:15.860 And I said,

00:50:16.680 what?

00:50:17.800 And they said,

00:50:19.000 no, if you

00:50:20.420 meant to clarify

00:50:21.260 it, you would

00:50:22.080 have done that

00:50:22.520 in the first

00:50:22.960 place.

00:50:24.560 And I said,

00:50:26.060 no, the reason

00:50:27.620 that there's a

00:50:28.200 word called

00:50:28.880 clarification is

00:50:30.740 that there are

00:50:31.160 all kinds of

00:50:31.880 reasons that you

00:50:32.520 don't say it in

00:50:33.100 the first place.

00:50:35.100 Or sometimes you

00:50:36.220 don't know that

00:50:36.780 somebody needed

00:50:37.360 that clarification.

00:50:38.960 I actually got

00:50:39.980 two people on

00:50:41.120 social media to

00:50:43.260 argue in public,

00:50:44.460 in public,

00:50:45.360 while people

00:50:45.840 were watching,

00:50:47.020 that clarifying

00:50:47.880 your comments is

00:50:49.920 not to be

00:50:50.460 accepted.

00:50:52.520 Can you believe

00:50:53.860 that?

00:50:54.780 Two people,

00:50:55.740 like adult

00:50:56.260 human beings,

00:50:57.920 argue that

00:50:58.600 clarifying is a

00:50:59.520 bad idea.

00:51:01.740 That's how you

00:51:02.580 know you've won

00:51:03.180 an argument.

00:51:04.380 You can't win an

00:51:05.520 argument harder

00:51:06.020 than that.

00:51:06.960 Yeah,

00:51:07.220 clarifying is a

00:51:08.480 bad idea.

00:51:10.540 What?

00:51:12.120 All right,

00:51:12.680 so here's the

00:51:13.100 summary.

00:51:14.320 Avoid people who

00:51:15.340 are primed

00:51:15.960 primarily by

00:51:17.320 things like

00:51:18.000 ESG and the

00:51:19.020 narrative and

00:51:19.680 CRT and

00:51:20.840 everything else.

00:51:23.100 So you should

00:51:23.480 avoid people who

00:51:24.140 are primed to be

00:51:24.700 racist against

00:51:25.360 you.

00:51:25.960 The media said,

00:51:27.020 well, that's a

00:51:27.500 racist thing to

00:51:28.200 say.

00:51:29.340 And then nobody

00:51:30.560 would have cared

00:51:31.280 except there's an

00:51:32.740 entire industry of

00:51:34.680 complainers.

00:51:36.180 They have different

00:51:36.740 reasons.

00:51:37.640 So you got your

00:51:38.340 race grifters,

00:51:39.660 dopamine gooners,

00:51:40.640 victims of fake

00:51:41.340 news, the people

00:51:42.140 didn't know the

00:51:42.620 context, and my

00:51:44.360 political enemies,

00:51:45.920 the newspapers.

00:51:47.300 They're literally my

00:51:48.220 political enemies.

00:51:51.020 So then the

00:51:52.720 people who heard

00:51:53.320 it from all of

00:51:54.280 these people, they

00:51:56.220 responded as

00:51:57.100 exactly you'd

00:51:57.920 imagine.

00:52:00.220 Baa.

00:52:02.620 Baa.

00:52:04.980 So that's what

00:52:05.840 happened.

00:52:06.480 So people who

00:52:07.040 missed the context,

00:52:08.160 that's the

00:52:08.880 Cliff Notes version.

00:52:10.560 There's a much

00:52:11.100 deeper, richer,

00:52:12.560 more interesting

00:52:13.280 context, but the

00:52:15.340 wine club with an

00:52:16.240 H.

00:52:18.220 That's funny.

00:52:20.840 All right, so my

00:52:24.160 statement is this.

00:52:30.120 I don't require a

00:52:31.860 Rasmussen poll to

00:52:34.820 clarify my lived

00:52:37.000 experience.

00:52:38.520 My lived experience

00:52:40.100 is that the race

00:52:42.600 relations are being

00:52:43.600 poisoned by the media

00:52:45.300 narrative, that white

00:52:46.740 people are the

00:52:47.340 source of their

00:52:47.800 problems.

00:52:48.620 Now, I don't

00:52:49.280 argue with the

00:52:49.880 fact that white

00:52:50.460 people are the

00:52:51.280 source of problems.

00:52:53.800 I just argue that

00:52:55.120 if that's how you

00:52:55.880 focus, you only

00:52:57.520 make things worse.

00:52:59.600 And that focusing

00:53:00.400 on the future and

00:53:01.920 how to work

00:53:02.340 together and

00:53:03.080 solutions that

00:53:04.500 everybody likes,

00:53:05.700 education being the

00:53:06.540 easiest one, because

00:53:07.700 there's lots of

00:53:08.200 agreement, black and

00:53:09.220 conservative at least,

00:53:11.060 there's lots of

00:53:11.500 agreement, and more

00:53:12.520 Democrats in general.

00:53:15.720 All right, so my

00:53:16.700 lived experience is

00:53:17.860 that black Americans

00:53:19.660 are being poisoned by

00:53:21.020 the narrative, and

00:53:22.420 while I can't be sure

00:53:23.440 it's true, any

00:53:24.820 reasonable person would

00:53:25.920 see the poisoning

00:53:26.660 happening, because the

00:53:27.600 poisoning is obvious and

00:53:29.000 on the surface, right?

00:53:30.480 That's not an opinion,

00:53:31.520 is it?

00:53:32.500 Would you say that's an

00:53:33.380 opinion, or is that

00:53:34.640 just an observation that

00:53:35.800 you all see, that the

00:53:37.520 media narrative is

00:53:40.140 anti-white, and very

00:53:41.880 clearly at the moment,

00:53:42.940 very anti-white.

00:53:44.600 So my comment is that

00:53:46.380 anti-white is looking

00:53:47.660 backwards, and that

00:53:49.760 everybody who looks

00:53:50.540 backwards gets a worse

00:53:52.060 result than everybody

00:53:54.040 who looks forward.

00:53:55.860 You know, it's on

00:53:56.380 average.

00:53:57.160 So if you keep a

00:53:58.580 backwards-looking,

00:53:59.780 you know, victimization,

00:54:01.220 who caused it, whose

00:54:02.100 problem it is, that can

00:54:03.660 be useful in the short

00:54:05.100 run, and I wouldn't

00:54:06.380 abandon that.

00:54:08.080 But if it's your

00:54:08.920 primary strategy for

00:54:10.180 the future, it can't

00:54:11.600 work.

00:54:12.620 It can't work at all.

00:54:14.760 So when black America

00:54:16.420 figures out that I'm

00:54:18.880 trying to unlock them

00:54:20.300 from effectively a

00:54:23.680 brainwashing situation,

00:54:25.220 which, by the way,

00:54:26.040 isn't because you're

00:54:26.760 black, like we're all

00:54:28.280 brainwashed into our

00:54:29.460 own bubble, so that's

00:54:31.240 not a racial comment.

00:54:32.620 Everybody's being

00:54:33.260 brainwashed into their

00:54:34.160 own little bubble, and

00:54:35.440 it's not their fault.

00:54:36.380 Because no normal, even

00:54:39.100 smart person can get

00:54:41.460 out of a brainwashed

00:54:42.440 bubble.

00:54:43.000 It doesn't work that

00:54:43.840 way.

00:54:44.360 You can't really think

00:54:45.320 your way out of the

00:54:45.940 bubble.

00:54:46.840 Like, you can't just

00:54:47.540 think harder, ah, I'm

00:54:48.580 out of the bubble.

00:54:49.780 Usually it's some

00:54:50.600 external event that

00:54:51.900 knocks you out of

00:54:52.480 your bubble, right?

00:54:54.680 Or something.

00:54:55.580 Maybe you did

00:54:56.140 mushrooms or something.

00:54:57.340 But you don't get

00:54:58.480 out of your bubble

00:54:59.020 just by reading the

00:54:59.880 news.

00:55:01.040 That's not going to

00:55:01.800 help.

00:55:03.020 So some people think

00:55:04.740 they can.

00:55:05.200 There might be some

00:55:05.760 exceptions.

00:55:07.200 All right.

00:55:08.800 So here's where we

00:55:10.160 are.

00:55:11.100 If you say that what

00:55:12.420 I said was racist, I

00:55:14.460 agree.

00:55:14.980 I agreed from the

00:55:15.760 start, by the way.

00:55:16.680 I never disagreed.

00:55:18.400 But I will say that if

00:55:20.040 you're ignoring the

00:55:20.800 context, that you

00:55:22.220 can't fix any racist

00:55:23.600 situation without also

00:55:25.720 appearing to be, and

00:55:27.140 maybe actually being,

00:55:28.660 racist.

00:55:29.620 Meaning that the...

00:55:31.380 We should probably

00:55:32.480 make a distinction

00:55:33.220 between, you know,

00:55:34.880 racism with a capital

00:55:36.000 R and a little

00:55:37.600 racism, right?

00:55:40.300 Doing things to try

00:55:41.420 to correct a worse

00:55:42.800 racism with something

00:55:44.080 that's also racist,

00:55:45.480 that's like the small

00:55:46.420 R trying to defeat

00:55:47.920 the big R.

00:55:49.640 I'm okay with that.

00:55:51.440 I'm okay with a little

00:55:52.640 racism as an antidote

00:55:54.820 to a lot of racism.

00:55:55.800 Because don't you end

00:55:56.960 up with less racism?

00:55:58.820 If you could spend

00:56:00.700 some money to make

00:56:01.460 some money, and make

00:56:02.560 more than you spent,

00:56:03.680 wouldn't you do that?

00:56:05.320 So being accused of a

00:56:06.940 racist is just part of

00:56:08.220 my expense.

00:56:09.540 It's part of what I'm

00:56:10.580 paying.

00:56:11.280 But if you're arguing

00:56:12.200 about the meaning of

00:56:13.040 the word, it's a

00:56:15.180 diversion from the

00:56:16.060 argument.

00:56:17.460 So here are the ways

00:56:18.200 that...

00:56:19.200 Now, I think you're

00:56:20.120 all aware that at

00:56:22.220 least half of the world

00:56:23.200 wants to really,

00:56:24.160 really avoid the

00:56:25.160 actual topic.

00:56:26.200 Have you noticed

00:56:26.680 that?

00:56:28.480 That most of the

00:56:29.440 energy is about

00:56:30.440 avoiding the topic.

00:56:32.080 There's almost no

00:56:33.360 energy on the point

00:56:34.480 I was making.

00:56:35.800 All the energy is

00:56:36.700 going sideways.

00:56:38.280 So here's what

00:56:39.280 happens to the energy.

00:56:45.320 People saying...

00:56:47.160 All right.

00:56:48.480 A bunch of examples.

00:56:51.160 The diversions...

00:56:52.440 First diversion is

00:56:53.340 that Rasmussen poll

00:56:54.760 you looked at.

00:56:56.740 It's not enough

00:56:57.640 people to be a good

00:56:58.620 sample.

00:57:00.660 Well, first of all,

00:57:03.560 there's nothing about

00:57:04.440 my argument that

00:57:05.280 depends on the poll.

00:57:06.820 I use the poll as a

00:57:08.180 jumping off point for

00:57:09.200 the conversation.

00:57:10.540 So I don't depend on

00:57:11.800 it.

00:57:12.380 But I will say about

00:57:13.460 the poll that even

00:57:14.860 though it was just

00:57:15.820 like a hundred-some

00:57:17.520 black people were

00:57:19.140 interviewed and only

00:57:20.120 sixty-some had a

00:57:22.960 problem with the

00:57:23.600 phrase, it's okay

00:57:25.360 to be white.

00:57:26.900 Now, is that

00:57:27.760 enough people?

00:57:28.820 Now, what most

00:57:29.520 people don't realize

00:57:30.340 is that there was

00:57:31.040 only an eight

00:57:31.780 percent margin of

00:57:32.660 error.

00:57:33.880 Meaning that even

00:57:34.900 if it's off by

00:57:35.640 eight percent, more

00:57:36.820 or less, it

00:57:37.820 wouldn't change the

00:57:38.480 point.

00:57:39.480 It doesn't change

00:57:40.380 the point if you're

00:57:41.120 off eight percent.

00:57:41.900 You know, it's not a

00:57:44.400 point about an exact

00:57:45.300 number.

00:57:46.200 It's a point about

00:57:47.160 too many people being

00:57:48.340 primed by the public,

00:57:50.540 by the media, to have

00:57:52.300 a negative opinion

00:57:53.640 about white people.

00:57:55.520 Just too many.

00:57:57.200 Now, let me ask you

00:57:58.200 this.

00:57:58.540 And then other people

00:57:59.180 said that the question

00:58:00.880 was a racist, some

00:58:03.340 kind of neo-Nazi

00:58:04.200 question or something.

00:58:05.640 Suppose the question

00:58:06.740 had been different.

00:58:07.500 My take on the

00:58:10.000 question, is it okay

00:58:11.040 to be white, is that

00:58:12.820 a black racist could

00:58:14.300 still say yes to

00:58:15.300 that.

00:58:16.540 What do you think?

00:58:17.940 I think a black

00:58:18.760 racist could still

00:58:19.740 say, yeah, it's okay

00:58:21.000 to be white, but

00:58:22.540 you're all screwing

00:58:23.260 us and you're all

00:58:23.820 doing bad things.

00:58:26.380 Right?

00:58:27.340 Suppose the question

00:58:28.220 had been asked this

00:58:28.880 way.

00:58:30.740 Do you believe that

00:58:32.100 white Americans are

00:58:33.500 the cause of past

00:58:34.620 and continuing

00:58:35.580 systemic racism?

00:58:38.360 What would have

00:58:39.160 been the percentage

00:58:39.780 of black Americans

00:58:40.720 who would say white

00:58:42.580 people are the cause

00:58:44.300 of past and the

00:58:45.700 primary cause of

00:58:47.200 continuing systemic

00:58:48.760 racism?

00:58:50.080 Because even I think

00:58:51.180 that's true.

00:58:53.340 Even I think that's

00:58:54.500 true.

00:58:55.120 But the difference

00:58:55.840 is it doesn't make

00:58:56.720 me think less of

00:59:00.760 white people.

00:59:01.500 Do you know why?

00:59:04.040 Because I don't know

00:59:05.000 any white people

00:59:05.560 doing that.

00:59:07.500 I don't know any

00:59:08.180 white people who

00:59:08.860 are plantation

00:59:09.540 owners.

00:59:10.280 Not a single one.

00:59:11.960 I don't know any

00:59:12.720 white person who's in

00:59:14.460 any intentional or

00:59:15.540 even accidental way

00:59:16.760 perpetuating systemic

00:59:18.620 racism.

00:59:19.780 I don't even know

00:59:20.720 one.

00:59:21.940 Now, they may be

00:59:22.820 doing it by inaction,

00:59:25.000 but then it gets a

00:59:26.100 little more conceptual.

00:59:27.580 But I don't know any

00:59:28.540 white people like that.

00:59:30.700 Anyway, let's see.

00:59:37.520 Other diversions are

00:59:39.960 that I'm a racist for

00:59:43.240 pointing out the

00:59:44.120 correlation, and I

00:59:46.100 use the word

00:59:46.660 correlation, and I

00:59:47.700 was quoted back for

00:59:48.960 saying correlation.

00:59:50.740 I'm a racist for

00:59:51.780 pointing out the

00:59:52.340 correlation between

00:59:53.960 crime and the

00:59:55.700 density of black

00:59:56.640 population.

00:59:56.700 Now, what I said

00:59:59.180 was that the

01:00:00.000 causation is

01:00:01.980 systemic racism.

01:00:04.660 And that got

01:00:05.400 turned into, oh,

01:00:06.880 you're saying there's

01:00:07.580 a correlation between

01:00:08.960 black density and

01:00:10.800 crime, therefore you're

01:00:11.940 racist, which is the

01:00:14.380 opposite of what I

01:00:15.120 said.

01:00:15.380 I said that systemic

01:00:17.540 racism, which I also

01:00:18.820 believe is primarily

01:00:19.720 formed by and, you

01:00:22.120 know, and enhanced by

01:00:23.680 white people, almost by

01:00:26.140 definition, I think

01:00:28.500 that's the cause.

01:00:29.420 That's the cause of

01:00:30.320 black poverty.

01:00:32.220 It's the main

01:00:32.740 contributor to black

01:00:33.660 poverty.

01:00:34.280 And then poverty

01:00:35.120 causes the crime.

01:00:37.100 Now, there's nobody

01:00:38.220 who disagrees with my

01:00:39.420 statement that there's

01:00:40.980 a high correlation.

01:00:42.760 The correlation is

01:00:43.920 caused by history.

01:00:45.820 And the correlation is

01:00:47.280 that poor people have

01:00:48.200 more crime.

01:00:49.580 Who disagrees with

01:00:50.660 that?

01:00:51.200 But it's part of the

01:00:51.880 diversion to avoid the

01:00:53.400 point, right?

01:00:54.100 We're going to attack you

01:00:55.520 on that thing.

01:00:56.280 Here's another one.

01:00:57.700 Well, the people who

01:00:58.640 opposed clarification,

01:00:59.720 that was funny.

01:01:01.460 And then the complaint

01:01:02.980 that it's okay to be

01:01:04.100 white is a racist meme.

01:01:07.680 That just seems to be

01:01:09.440 trying to avoid the

01:01:10.360 point.

01:01:11.000 Because like I said,

01:01:11.780 the poll and the

01:01:12.560 question were not

01:01:14.040 important to my

01:01:14.880 opinion.

01:01:15.380 It was my lived

01:01:16.680 experience.

01:01:18.340 And I'm joining that

01:01:20.200 now with all the

01:01:21.320 people who were sort

01:01:23.880 of chipping in, not

01:01:25.500 chipping in, chiming

01:01:26.420 in.

01:01:27.180 So a lot of white

01:01:28.460 people are coming to

01:01:29.320 me and whispering some

01:01:31.420 version of, you know,

01:01:33.200 I think it is okay to

01:01:34.120 be white.

01:01:34.780 It's not a racist

01:01:35.620 thing.

01:01:36.740 And a lot of white

01:01:37.720 people are telling me

01:01:38.620 privately that they're

01:01:41.360 feeling increasingly

01:01:42.660 victimized by the

01:01:44.360 narrative.

01:01:45.300 But also the video

01:01:46.660 showing, you know,

01:01:47.900 the crime makes

01:01:48.980 everything worse.

01:01:55.120 Somebody says crime is

01:01:56.820 a tribal trait.

01:01:58.660 Well, no, it isn't.

01:02:00.240 Crime is a tribal

01:02:01.520 trait?

01:02:02.000 I don't think there's

01:02:05.220 any evidence for

01:02:05.880 that.

01:02:07.400 It seems to me

01:02:08.380 everybody who's rich

01:02:09.320 does less crime than

01:02:11.240 everybody who's poor

01:02:12.120 for obvious reasons.

01:02:14.560 If you're rich,

01:02:15.540 stealing stuff is all

01:02:16.480 downside, no

01:02:17.160 upside.

01:02:19.380 All right, it's easy

01:02:20.040 to be honest when

01:02:20.820 you're rich.

01:02:21.740 I can tell you that

01:02:22.740 for sure.

01:02:24.500 All right, yeah, I

01:02:25.260 think the it's okay to

01:02:26.740 be white is the

01:02:28.060 question that would

01:02:29.300 get you the least

01:02:30.240 amount of racism in

01:02:31.560 the answer.

01:02:33.900 Am I wrong?

01:02:35.460 The way Rasmussen

01:02:36.760 asked it, is it

01:02:37.800 okay to be white?

01:02:38.980 I think a lot of

01:02:39.980 people who actually

01:02:40.660 had bad feelings

01:02:41.500 about white people

01:02:42.300 would still say,

01:02:43.380 yeah, it's okay to

01:02:44.000 be white, but you're

01:02:45.360 also the cause of

01:02:46.260 all our problems.

01:02:49.020 I don't want to be

01:02:50.240 around a community

01:02:51.640 of people who think

01:02:52.760 that I, like right

01:02:55.280 now, in my current

01:02:56.960 existence, am the

01:02:58.840 cause of their

01:02:59.340 problems.

01:03:01.100 And I would argue

01:03:02.000 that nobody disagrees

01:03:03.080 with that.

01:03:05.400 Okay, El Chapo is

01:03:06.580 an example of a

01:03:07.560 rich criminal.

01:03:08.520 But El Chapo can't

01:03:09.560 change, because you

01:03:11.020 can't really retire

01:03:11.820 when you're head of

01:03:12.640 a cartel.

01:03:14.160 I'm pretty sure

01:03:14.940 retirement means

01:03:15.760 getting killed.

01:03:17.320 You know, you

01:03:17.640 didn't have a choice.

01:03:19.640 Which is why I think

01:03:20.760 you could actually

01:03:21.540 convert the cartels.

01:03:24.520 I think you could

01:03:25.160 actually convert them

01:03:26.020 to an honest

01:03:26.760 industry.

01:03:27.440 like if there were

01:03:30.680 any way to do

01:03:31.260 that.

01:03:31.720 Because they would

01:03:32.260 want to get out of

01:03:32.860 the crime business

01:03:33.540 once they're rich.

01:03:34.780 If you were the

01:03:35.260 head of a cartel,

01:03:36.460 and you had a

01:03:36.800 billion dollars,

01:03:38.320 isn't the thing

01:03:38.960 you'd want more

01:03:39.560 than anything to

01:03:41.080 not be a criminal

01:03:41.820 anymore?

01:03:43.520 Like somehow,

01:03:44.660 you know,

01:03:44.980 launder that into

01:03:45.660 the legal world so

01:03:46.620 you don't have to

01:03:46.980 worry.

01:03:48.060 But there's no way

01:03:48.780 to do that.

01:03:49.560 It'd be great if

01:03:50.060 it was.

01:03:51.440 All right.

01:03:53.700 Then I asked this

01:03:54.560 question on Twitter,

01:03:56.760 so this is another

01:03:57.380 unscientific poll.

01:03:59.340 I said,

01:04:00.000 does cancelling me

01:04:01.120 make race relations

01:04:02.440 in America better

01:04:03.320 or worse?

01:04:05.200 Because that was

01:04:05.840 the point of it,

01:04:06.460 right?

01:04:07.100 The point of

01:04:07.760 cancelling me is to

01:04:08.560 make race relations

01:04:09.960 better.

01:04:11.340 Otherwise,

01:04:11.900 why do it?

01:04:13.500 What do you think?

01:04:14.460 9% said it made it

01:04:15.600 better,

01:04:15.960 50% said it made it

01:04:17.120 worse,

01:04:17.660 40% said no change.

01:04:19.000 Well,

01:04:22.560 I think most of

01:04:23.100 the world didn't

01:04:23.600 notice because most

01:04:24.860 of the world doesn't

01:04:25.420 even read the news.

01:04:26.460 They don't even know

01:04:26.940 any of this happened.

01:04:29.140 Yeah,

01:04:29.340 too early to tell?

01:04:31.580 It's hard for me to

01:04:32.560 imagine it made it

01:04:33.260 better.

01:04:35.500 I don't know.

01:04:36.420 Maybe because it

01:04:37.580 made this conversation

01:04:38.420 possible it made it

01:04:39.300 better.

01:04:40.160 I'll give you that.

01:04:41.740 All right,

01:04:41.880 let's see if I missed

01:04:42.480 anything.

01:04:46.100 Nope.

01:04:48.000 All right.

01:04:48.500 You may have

01:04:49.160 noticed that my

01:04:50.260 social media numbers

01:04:52.000 are way up.

01:04:53.240 My Twitter numbers

01:04:54.240 and my live stream

01:04:55.860 numbers are through

01:04:58.020 the roof lately.

01:04:59.940 And I think it's

01:05:01.200 because this is a

01:05:02.400 topic people are

01:05:03.320 interested in.

01:05:05.180 It looks like,

01:05:06.060 and I think people

01:05:06.620 are interested in

01:05:07.280 two reasons.

01:05:11.920 They're interested in

01:05:12.880 two reasons.

01:05:13.760 One is they want to

01:05:14.640 see if I can survive

01:05:15.660 this,

01:05:16.600 sort of watching it

01:05:17.460 like a movie,

01:05:18.720 you know,

01:05:18.880 to see if I can

01:05:19.580 get off a prison

01:05:20.280 or island.

01:05:21.460 Does it feel like

01:05:22.180 I'm on a prison

01:05:22.780 or island right

01:05:23.380 now?

01:05:25.120 It's a little

01:05:26.340 metaphor I use

01:05:27.300 that I always

01:05:30.260 have this belief

01:05:31.040 about myself,

01:05:32.020 and I recommend

01:05:33.220 this to the rest

01:05:34.220 of you.

01:05:34.700 It's good to have

01:05:36.000 a story of

01:05:37.120 yourself,

01:05:38.200 if nobody's told

01:05:39.320 you that.

01:05:39.620 It's one of the

01:05:40.020 best self-help

01:05:40.960 things you can

01:05:41.440 ever have.

01:05:42.060 Have a story of

01:05:43.200 yourself.

01:05:44.520 My story,

01:05:45.800 I talk about

01:05:46.680 this a lot,

01:05:47.220 it's called

01:05:47.500 Prisoner Island.

01:05:49.380 And in my story,

01:05:50.420 I'm dropped on

01:05:51.100 an island,

01:05:51.660 let's say I'm

01:05:52.140 falsely accused

01:05:53.240 of a crime,

01:05:54.160 that makes my

01:05:54.680 story better.

01:05:55.760 Falsely accused

01:05:56.500 of a crime,

01:05:57.040 and they drop

01:05:57.360 me on an island

01:05:58.600 of only prisoners.

01:06:00.860 On day one,

01:06:02.380 they beat me

01:06:02.980 to near death.

01:06:04.760 Day two,

01:06:06.100 they beat me

01:06:06.660 and raped me.

01:06:08.000 Day three,

01:06:09.020 same as one

01:06:09.600 and two,

01:06:10.040 and repeat.

01:06:10.520 But if you

01:06:12.260 come back

01:06:12.720 in a year,

01:06:14.560 everybody who

01:06:15.240 touched me

01:06:15.840 will be dead,

01:06:17.080 and I will be

01:06:17.680 the king of

01:06:18.580 Prisoner Island.

01:06:21.040 That's my story.

01:06:22.860 That no matter

01:06:23.740 how bad it gets,

01:06:25.480 I'm going to

01:06:26.160 be on top.

01:06:27.660 It might take

01:06:28.480 a while,

01:06:29.520 might not be

01:06:30.240 instant,

01:06:31.320 but it's going

01:06:32.300 to happen.

01:06:33.660 Now,

01:06:34.260 because I run

01:06:35.380 that story in

01:06:36.060 my mind,

01:06:37.040 when I run

01:06:37.700 into problems,

01:06:38.740 as everybody

01:06:39.340 does,

01:06:39.820 I say to

01:06:40.880 myself,

01:06:42.180 I just got

01:06:42.700 dropped on

01:06:43.220 Prisoner Island.

01:06:44.920 First week,

01:06:46.420 not so good.

01:06:48.400 But wait.

01:06:50.140 Just wait.

01:06:52.520 So,

01:06:53.240 a lot of you

01:06:53.860 wanted to see

01:06:54.560 the movie

01:06:54.960 where I was

01:06:55.560 dropped on

01:06:56.020 Prisoner Island.

01:06:57.560 Here I am,

01:06:58.900 Prisoner Island.

01:07:02.140 And,

01:07:02.660 do you think

01:07:03.980 I'll make it

01:07:04.440 off?

01:07:06.140 How many

01:07:06.760 of you think

01:07:07.200 that I can

01:07:08.000 beat the odds

01:07:08.640 and make it

01:07:09.160 off of

01:07:09.620 Prisoner Island?

01:07:10.360 Now,

01:07:10.600 the cancellation

01:07:11.100 will be

01:07:11.740 complete,

01:07:12.920 but making

01:07:13.440 it off

01:07:13.700 Prisoner Island

01:07:14.220 means coming

01:07:15.900 out better

01:07:16.360 than you

01:07:17.280 left.

01:07:19.860 Well,

01:07:20.340 we'll see.

01:07:21.280 The one

01:07:21.780 thing you

01:07:22.120 can be

01:07:22.420 sure of

01:07:23.000 is that

01:07:24.040 the negative

01:07:25.340 feelings about

01:07:26.100 me will

01:07:26.520 remain forever

01:07:27.420 because people

01:07:28.740 don't look

01:07:29.180 into context.

01:07:30.880 Context is

01:07:31.480 not a big

01:07:31.880 thing on the

01:07:32.300 internet.

01:07:32.440 forever I

01:07:34.100 will have

01:07:34.440 this over

01:07:36.780 me.

01:07:37.960 But,

01:07:38.640 I don't

01:07:39.540 really care

01:07:40.320 about the

01:07:41.540 political

01:07:43.080 gooners,

01:07:43.900 race grifters,

01:07:44.780 victims of

01:07:45.300 fake news,

01:07:45.900 and my

01:07:46.440 political

01:07:46.820 enemies.

01:07:48.880 And,

01:07:50.080 I'm

01:07:50.380 impervious to

01:07:51.140 embarrassment.

01:07:53.820 Did you

01:07:54.560 ever wonder

01:07:54.920 yourself,

01:07:55.580 Scott,

01:07:56.680 were you

01:07:57.540 marinating in

01:07:58.420 the shame and

01:07:58.960 embarrassment of

01:07:59.600 this situation?

01:08:00.240 not even for

01:08:02.000 a second.

01:08:03.200 Honestly,

01:08:03.620 it never

01:08:03.840 occurred to

01:08:04.240 me.

01:08:04.840 It never

01:08:05.220 actually

01:08:05.520 occurred to

01:08:05.940 me that

01:08:06.200 embarrassment or

01:08:07.000 shame or

01:08:07.960 anything would

01:08:08.340 be part of

01:08:08.820 this.

01:08:09.500 Like,

01:08:09.900 why?

01:08:10.840 I said what

01:08:11.500 I meant.

01:08:12.540 I think it's

01:08:13.300 useful.

01:08:14.520 I knew what

01:08:15.240 the price was,

01:08:16.340 and then I

01:08:17.140 paid it.

01:08:18.080 I have a very

01:08:18.760 simple model of

01:08:19.620 the world.

01:08:23.500 It was news

01:08:24.360 in Brazil.

01:08:25.720 Well,

01:08:25.940 I'm doing a

01:08:26.320 good job then.

01:08:27.540 Doing a good

01:08:28.080 job.

01:08:29.460 All right,

01:08:29.800 so here's,

01:08:31.780 you got

01:08:32.380 fired.

01:08:33.100 I did.

01:08:33.920 I paid the

01:08:34.620 price.

01:08:37.220 I paid the

01:08:38.060 price so

01:08:39.380 that you,

01:08:40.480 you might be

01:08:42.400 free of sin.

01:08:44.260 Now,

01:08:44.800 you may have

01:08:45.240 noticed that I

01:08:46.340 timed my

01:08:47.100 resurrection for

01:08:48.080 roughly to

01:08:49.480 happen around

01:08:50.040 Easter.

01:08:51.280 Does anybody

01:08:51.560 notice that?

01:08:54.260 Norm says,

01:08:55.160 own it,

01:08:55.560 Scott.

01:08:55.920 I am owning

01:08:56.480 it.

01:08:57.480 Does that make

01:08:58.200 sense?

01:08:58.980 Somebody's

01:08:59.400 asking me to

01:09:00.060 own it.

01:09:00.680 How much

01:09:01.060 harder could I

01:09:01.660 own it?

01:09:02.980 That's my

01:09:03.640 point.

01:09:04.740 Norm,

01:09:05.100 my point is

01:09:05.740 that I'm

01:09:06.020 owning it

01:09:06.400 totally.

01:09:08.200 Are you

01:09:08.760 missing that

01:09:09.220 point?

01:09:11.360 Did some of

01:09:12.300 this look like

01:09:12.800 an apology or

01:09:13.480 something?

01:09:13.660 I'm totally

01:09:16.240 owning it.

01:09:17.120 I'm owning

01:09:17.520 what I said.

01:09:18.480 I can't own

01:09:19.340 whatever

01:09:19.820 impression

01:09:20.400 somebody else

01:09:21.020 put in your

01:09:21.420 head.

01:09:22.380 I don't have

01:09:23.140 any ownership

01:09:23.680 of your own

01:09:24.540 mental faculties.

01:09:25.640 I can't control

01:09:26.180 that.

01:09:26.720 But I can own

01:09:27.720 what I did.

01:09:29.720 Totally.

01:09:30.880 I totally own

01:09:31.860 it.

01:09:36.020 Desert fairy

01:09:36.740 chick says,

01:09:37.460 you all

01:09:38.000 realize this

01:09:38.840 is a way to

01:09:39.460 promote his

01:09:39.960 book, right?

01:09:41.120 Yes, the

01:09:41.720 cancelled book.

01:09:42.920 You are

01:09:43.280 correct.

01:09:44.420 You are

01:09:44.760 correct.

01:09:45.240 It is a

01:09:45.620 way to

01:09:46.000 promote my

01:09:47.220 book.

01:09:47.700 Because that

01:09:48.340 book is the

01:09:49.140 solution.

01:09:51.120 It's the

01:09:51.720 solution to

01:09:53.380 systemic racism.

01:09:56.000 Now, I

01:09:56.720 didn't plan that

01:09:57.380 at the front.

01:09:59.100 Nobody would

01:10:00.260 get their book

01:10:00.800 cancelled with

01:10:02.200 the hope that

01:10:02.980 cancelling it

01:10:04.020 makes us all

01:10:04.560 better.

01:10:05.140 That wouldn't

01:10:05.700 be a good

01:10:06.100 economic strategy

01:10:07.140 for anyone.

01:10:08.040 It could

01:10:08.480 work.

01:10:09.340 I mean, you

01:10:10.680 know, if I

01:10:11.040 had to guess

01:10:11.540 today, I

01:10:13.320 feel like it

01:10:13.880 might be the

01:10:14.400 biggest selling

01:10:14.940 book of all

01:10:15.460 time.

01:10:16.500 Now, you

01:10:16.840 haven't seen

01:10:17.360 it, so that

01:10:17.980 sounds crazy

01:10:18.620 to you.

01:10:19.680 But I wrote

01:10:20.340 it, and I

01:10:22.400 know generally

01:10:24.260 how this

01:10:25.320 content will be

01:10:26.320 accepted.

01:10:27.440 It might be

01:10:28.000 the biggest

01:10:28.360 book, you

01:10:30.000 know, not

01:10:30.400 counting religious

01:10:31.160 scriptures and

01:10:32.300 stuff, it

01:10:33.100 might be the

01:10:33.500 biggest book

01:10:33.900 of all time.

01:10:35.240 Because that's

01:10:35.920 how powerful

01:10:36.720 it is.

01:10:38.140 So reframes

01:10:39.080 are super

01:10:39.640 powerful, and

01:10:40.500 reframes written

01:10:41.260 by a hypnotist

01:10:42.220 are going to

01:10:43.220 be even more

01:10:43.700 powerful, because

01:10:44.800 I'm a hypnotist

01:10:45.660 as well.

01:10:46.860 So here's

01:10:48.640 something that I

01:10:49.160 tell people all

01:10:49.700 the time if

01:10:50.180 they're trying to

01:10:50.680 understand me.

01:10:51.600 I never do

01:10:52.240 anything for

01:10:52.720 one reason.

01:10:54.540 I never do

01:10:55.480 anything for

01:10:57.160 one reason.

01:10:58.120 I'm sure there's

01:10:58.660 some exceptions.

01:10:59.480 I shouldn't

01:10:59.920 make that an

01:11:00.340 absolute.

01:11:01.060 But generally

01:11:01.580 speaking, in

01:11:02.600 the business

01:11:03.220 realm or the

01:11:04.000 social realm, I

01:11:05.300 do things for

01:11:05.860 more than one

01:11:06.440 reason.

01:11:07.440 It turns out

01:11:08.240 that after you

01:11:08.940 get cancelled,

01:11:10.620 having a book

01:11:11.220 to sell is

01:11:12.100 probably a

01:11:12.480 pretty good

01:11:12.840 deal.

01:11:14.120 And as it

01:11:14.700 turns out, that

01:11:15.420 book was

01:11:16.040 exactly on

01:11:16.940 point with

01:11:18.640 everything that

01:11:19.580 I'm talking

01:11:19.940 about.

01:11:20.680 And what

01:11:21.100 makes it on

01:11:21.640 point is it

01:11:22.600 teaches reframes

01:11:24.200 for individuals.

01:11:26.260 So once you

01:11:26.920 get individuals,

01:11:28.500 if you train

01:11:29.280 individuals of

01:11:30.560 any type, just

01:11:31.840 individuals, if

01:11:33.360 you train

01:11:33.760 American

01:11:34.400 individuals how

01:11:36.000 to be more

01:11:36.440 effective, systemic

01:11:38.660 racism will

01:11:40.000 still be there

01:11:40.940 and be almost

01:11:42.720 unimportant.

01:11:44.420 So if you

01:11:45.180 can't remove

01:11:45.940 all the stains

01:11:47.960 embedded in our

01:11:48.840 culture of

01:11:49.580 systemic racism,

01:11:50.760 which is nearly

01:11:51.400 impossible, it's

01:11:52.180 such a big job,

01:11:53.360 what you can do

01:11:54.300 as a better

01:11:54.980 strategy is teach

01:11:56.500 people how to be

01:11:57.860 invulnerable to

01:11:59.060 it.

01:12:00.320 Now, not by

01:12:00.980 not caring, but

01:12:02.700 by being so

01:12:03.480 successful, success

01:12:05.640 solves everything.

01:12:07.720 Do you remember

01:12:08.140 OJ famously

01:12:09.140 said, he's not

01:12:10.060 black, he's OJ?

01:12:12.220 Because when

01:12:12.880 you're so

01:12:13.240 successful that

01:12:14.000 you're OJ,

01:12:15.680 systemic racism

01:12:17.640 probably doesn't

01:12:18.480 have anything to

01:12:19.080 do with anything

01:12:19.620 in your life.

01:12:20.780 Now, we're not

01:12:21.420 all as successful

01:12:22.200 as OJ, or as

01:12:24.660 unsuccessful as

01:12:25.460 it turned out.

01:12:26.640 Well, I guess

01:12:27.220 he was successful

01:12:27.840 in his own

01:12:28.380 way, in an

01:12:29.560 evil way.

01:12:31.180 But success

01:12:32.200 fixes everything.

01:12:34.560 Again, I'm

01:12:35.160 exaggerating, that's

01:12:36.000 hyperbole, right?

01:12:37.140 You should be

01:12:37.780 used to my

01:12:38.220 hyperbole by

01:12:38.920 now.

01:12:39.800 Anytime I speak

01:12:40.740 in absolutes,

01:12:42.280 your little

01:12:43.080 program should

01:12:43.760 say, well, he

01:12:44.620 doesn't mean

01:12:45.120 everybody, because

01:12:46.740 I almost never

01:12:48.360 do.

01:12:49.360 Almost never

01:12:50.180 mean everybody,

01:12:51.000 even when I

01:12:51.520 say the group.

01:12:54.080 So, my

01:12:56.200 experience in

01:12:58.420 life, coming

01:12:59.620 from a not

01:13:01.660 rich place, is

01:13:03.860 that having the

01:13:04.620 right strategy

01:13:05.460 seems to have

01:13:06.400 made all the

01:13:06.860 difference.

01:13:08.600 To me, it

01:13:09.320 seems to have

01:13:09.740 made all the

01:13:10.140 difference.

01:13:11.000 I remember, I

01:13:11.600 lost two jobs to

01:13:13.280 direct racism,

01:13:14.800 direct racism,

01:13:15.780 where they told

01:13:16.320 me, you won't be

01:13:17.560 promoted because

01:13:18.140 you're white and

01:13:18.980 you're male.

01:13:19.340 my tools of

01:13:24.140 success for

01:13:25.460 building a talent

01:13:26.300 stack, that's

01:13:26.980 one of the

01:13:27.280 things I teach,

01:13:28.380 and having good

01:13:29.380 systems versus

01:13:31.220 goals.

01:13:32.020 And then here's a

01:13:32.560 big one that I

01:13:33.140 think matters maybe

01:13:34.400 to black America

01:13:35.400 and maybe low

01:13:38.000 income people in

01:13:38.680 general.

01:13:41.100 You've heard the

01:13:41.880 saying, you're the

01:13:43.140 average of the five

01:13:44.200 people you spend

01:13:44.820 the most time

01:13:45.360 with?

01:13:46.920 Have you heard

01:13:47.600 that?

01:13:48.560 I know Tim

01:13:49.220 Ferris says it,

01:13:50.060 but it came from

01:13:50.840 somebody before

01:13:51.580 that, I forget

01:13:52.240 who it was.

01:13:53.520 And there's a lot

01:13:55.280 of truth to that.

01:13:57.120 If you live in a

01:13:58.260 poor neighborhood,

01:13:59.900 your five closest

01:14:00.800 friends are probably

01:14:01.680 not doing so well,

01:14:03.540 you know, because

01:14:03.980 poverty is associated

01:14:05.760 with other bad

01:14:06.620 behaviors, with

01:14:08.840 other behaviors,

01:14:09.600 let's say.

01:14:10.540 And that's a

01:14:12.900 problem.

01:14:14.040 That's a problem.

01:14:14.800 So I don't know

01:14:15.420 exactly how black

01:14:16.700 America solves that

01:14:17.580 problem, because I

01:14:19.540 didn't have that

01:14:20.060 problem.

01:14:23.160 But that's a

01:14:23.820 pretty big problem.

01:14:25.080 And I think that's

01:14:25.740 where white America

01:14:27.780 just needs to butt

01:14:28.680 out.

01:14:29.460 Like at that level,

01:14:30.420 I think black

01:14:30.900 America just has to

01:14:31.880 figure that out.

01:14:33.060 I don't know.

01:14:33.460 What do you do

01:14:33.820 about that?

01:14:35.120 If I were the

01:14:36.700 mother, let's say I

01:14:37.880 were a single black

01:14:39.040 mother and I had a

01:14:41.140 kid who I didn't

01:14:42.260 want to get pulled

01:14:43.780 into crime or bad

01:14:45.240 behaviors or stuff,

01:14:46.100 love, the first

01:14:47.060 thing I'd do is

01:14:47.820 find parents who

01:14:50.060 also had kids who

01:14:51.280 had that same

01:14:51.840 desire.

01:14:53.160 And then I would

01:14:53.680 form a, like a

01:14:55.900 playgroup pod so

01:14:57.960 that my son or

01:14:59.560 daughter only spent

01:15:00.660 time with kids who

01:15:02.140 also wanted to make

01:15:03.420 it out.

01:15:04.420 And they wanted to

01:15:05.240 figure out, all

01:15:05.760 right, what do I have

01:15:06.240 to do to get out of

01:15:06.860 this place?

01:15:07.940 If you put them

01:15:09.100 together, the people

01:15:09.960 who are trying to get

01:15:10.840 out, they have a

01:15:12.440 chance.

01:15:12.780 But I think if you

01:15:14.460 take one good person

01:15:15.500 who wants to get

01:15:16.220 out, but their

01:15:17.600 friends, because of

01:15:18.660 where they live, are

01:15:20.080 five gang members, do

01:15:22.140 you think that one

01:15:22.740 good person is going

01:15:23.520 to make it out if

01:15:24.920 their best friends are

01:15:25.780 four or five gang

01:15:27.540 members?

01:15:28.840 Unless somebody

01:15:30.000 says, yes, I did.

01:15:32.660 Yeah, so I'll speak

01:15:33.860 statistically.

01:15:35.500 You can definitely

01:15:36.460 make it out if you

01:15:37.480 have bad friends.

01:15:38.720 You can definitely do

01:15:39.700 that.

01:15:39.940 But your odds, I

01:15:41.660 think, go way down

01:15:42.380 because of the

01:15:43.520 influence of your

01:15:44.140 peers.

01:15:45.360 So just say it's

01:15:46.240 the odds.

01:15:49.120 Call your pod at

01:15:50.000 church.

01:15:50.780 Oh, yeah, okay.

01:15:52.260 Now, there's the

01:15:53.100 benefit of black

01:15:55.480 churches.

01:15:57.600 It gets you to

01:15:59.020 associate with people

01:16:00.120 who are trying to

01:16:01.320 figure out, you

01:16:02.020 know, legal,

01:16:03.120 useful, well-proven

01:16:05.080 techniques for a good

01:16:06.220 life.

01:16:07.100 That's smart.

01:16:08.460 Very smart.

01:16:09.940 Yeah, part of the

01:16:14.260 reason young men are

01:16:14.900 not getting married is

01:16:16.760 they can't earn

01:16:17.320 enough.

01:16:17.820 Yeah.

01:16:18.880 There's a constellation

01:16:20.040 of problems for young

01:16:22.080 men.

01:16:23.640 Much of it their own

01:16:24.720 cause.

01:16:29.500 All right.

01:16:31.320 Are black churches

01:16:32.640 racist?

01:16:34.000 Yes.

01:16:34.440 are, but in a

01:16:38.320 good way.

01:16:39.320 In a good way.

01:16:40.120 I don't have any

01:16:40.620 problem with the

01:16:41.080 black church.

01:16:42.460 How about

01:16:42.940 historically black

01:16:45.460 colleges?

01:16:47.000 So there's still a

01:16:47.680 number of historically

01:16:48.600 black colleges.

01:16:49.680 As far as I know,

01:16:50.620 anybody can go

01:16:51.260 there.

01:16:52.500 Can you give me a

01:16:53.140 fact check on that?

01:16:54.220 Because it would be

01:16:54.920 illegal to ban

01:16:56.240 anybody.

01:16:56.680 Yeah.

01:16:58.360 I think anybody can

01:16:59.300 go there, but they're

01:17:00.720 historically black and

01:17:01.680 they kind of stay that

01:17:02.400 way.

01:17:02.900 Now, is having

01:17:04.020 something that's even

01:17:04.880 called an historically

01:17:06.380 black college that

01:17:07.980 clearly is focused on

01:17:09.420 helping black people

01:17:11.460 associate with other

01:17:12.440 people who have the

01:17:13.000 same goals in life and

01:17:14.200 they can network and

01:17:15.440 all that, is that

01:17:17.160 racist?

01:17:19.480 Of course it is.

01:17:21.500 But do you disagree

01:17:22.620 with their existence?

01:17:23.880 I don't.

01:17:24.340 I mean, some of you

01:17:25.200 might.

01:17:25.740 Some of you might.

01:17:26.860 You know, if you're

01:17:27.840 like absolutist, you

01:17:28.900 might.

01:17:29.720 But, you know, the

01:17:30.580 world is a messy

01:17:31.300 place.

01:17:31.680 You need to make

01:17:32.200 some exceptions.

01:17:33.840 Sometimes you need to

01:17:34.600 boost some groups for

01:17:35.560 the benefit of

01:17:36.140 everybody.

01:17:37.180 And historically, black

01:17:38.120 churches are clearly

01:17:39.220 racist.

01:17:40.220 In a good way.

01:17:41.760 In a good way.

01:17:42.760 Just like me.

01:17:45.560 Were my comments

01:17:46.520 racist?

01:17:48.360 Absolutely.

01:17:50.000 Were they useful?

01:17:51.580 Yep.

01:17:52.760 If you actually take

01:17:53.700 the time to listen to

01:17:54.540 them, you will

01:17:55.520 understand better the

01:17:56.560 situation.

01:17:58.080 And understanding the

01:17:59.120 situation is the first

01:18:00.400 step to doing

01:18:00.980 anything useful.

01:18:02.680 So, I know a lot of

01:18:04.520 people who got their

01:18:06.400 panties in a bunch,

01:18:07.620 so to speak.

01:18:08.600 But, I meant that.

01:18:11.440 And there's still some

01:18:12.360 people asking me to

01:18:13.360 apologize for angering

01:18:15.280 people.

01:18:16.680 I don't apologize for

01:18:18.200 things I did

01:18:18.740 intentionally.

01:18:20.820 What good would that

01:18:21.960 do?

01:18:22.700 I intentionally angered

01:18:23.960 people to draw energy to

01:18:25.200 myself so that I could

01:18:27.320 talk about anything I

01:18:28.540 wanted.

01:18:29.800 And here we are.

01:18:31.600 Although, again, I

01:18:32.460 didn't think the

01:18:33.600 cancelling would get as

01:18:35.000 big as it was.

01:18:36.040 But I knew there'd be

01:18:36.900 some.

01:18:37.440 And I knew it would, you

01:18:38.340 know, drive some energy

01:18:39.240 my way.

01:18:40.920 So, there you are.

01:18:43.400 Is black music racist?

01:18:45.080 Well, let me ask you this.

01:18:48.860 There's a white boy and a

01:18:51.400 black, I won't say boy.

01:18:54.000 There's a young white man

01:18:56.500 and a young black man in a

01:18:58.320 car.

01:18:58.600 And a popular song comes on

01:19:02.240 from a hip-hop artist.

01:19:05.200 Which one can sing all the

01:19:06.600 words out loud in the car?

01:19:10.040 Yes, it's racist.

01:19:11.740 Yes.

01:19:12.860 Yes.

01:19:13.360 Black music is purely racist

01:19:15.280 because white people can't even

01:19:17.100 sing it out loud.

01:19:18.620 You're literally not allowed to

01:19:20.140 sing the lyrics out loud if

01:19:21.480 you're white.

01:19:22.440 You don't get much more racist

01:19:23.900 than that.

01:19:25.200 Now, do I have a problem with

01:19:26.480 that?

01:19:26.720 Not really.

01:19:29.260 Not really.

01:19:30.900 Not a big problem.

01:19:32.560 Is it racist?

01:19:33.520 Totally.

01:19:35.240 Is it okay with me?

01:19:36.660 Eh, yeah.

01:19:37.320 I mean, it's not perfect.

01:19:38.680 I don't have a problem with it.

01:19:42.900 Yeah.

01:19:45.060 All right, ladies and

01:19:45.980 gentlemen, I'm going to say

01:19:46.780 goodbye to the YouTube

01:19:48.240 friends who came in to get

01:19:50.260 some outrage.

01:19:50.980 I hope I gave you enough

01:19:51.900 outrage to keep you going

01:19:53.420 today.

01:19:54.080 All of you pandemic gooners

01:19:55.960 especially.

01:19:57.120 Have fun.

01:19:58.520 Have fun with this one.

01:20:00.040 This one's going to be

01:20:00.800 this is going to be good.

01:20:03.060 So keep your hands

01:20:04.860 flexible and go nuts.

01:20:07.580 See you tomorrow.

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