Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 14, 2023


Episode 2047 Scott Adams： Bank Shenanigans, Hunter Finances Malarkey, Fauci Sketchiness, Climate


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

151.36613

Word Count

7,623

Sentence Count

365

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

A zebra attack a man in Ohio, a moose attacks a snowmobiler in Idaho, and the future of the world is threatened by an AI uprising by a bunch of angry animals. Plus, Scott Adams explains why advertising is corrupt.


Transcript

00:00:00.120 Do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do.
00:00:05.340 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
00:00:09.620 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.
00:00:11.680 There's never been a fight in time.
00:00:13.600 If you'd like to enjoy it in the way that people like you enjoy things,
00:00:19.040 all you need is a little extra.
00:00:20.620 And all that extra is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein,
00:00:24.180 a canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
00:00:26.660 And you'd fill that vessel with your favorite liquid.
00:00:30.120 I like coffee.
00:00:31.660 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine here of the day,
00:00:34.480 the thing that makes everything better.
00:00:35.720 And don't you wish I talked this fast for the rest of the podcast,
00:00:38.600 because sometimes when I talk, some people say it's not fast enough.
00:00:41.280 But if I talk faster, it'd be like this.
00:00:43.000 Sip.
00:00:46.800 Yeah, that's good.
00:00:49.920 Well, we're going to start with the important stories first
00:00:53.240 and then get to the nonsense.
00:00:54.980 Important story first.
00:00:58.360 A zebra attacked a man in Ohio and bit his arm.
00:01:03.840 Police were called and police put down the zebra.
00:01:07.980 You might think it's a race crime,
00:01:10.760 but zebras are almost perfectly striped white and black.
00:01:15.540 So it's a little ambiguous whether that's a race crime or not.
00:01:18.740 But so the zebra was killed by the police
00:01:21.020 and they speculated that the zebra was being aggressive
00:01:24.740 because it was protecting some of the other female zebras.
00:01:29.380 And this raises a big question.
00:01:34.480 How many zebras are there in Ohio?
00:01:38.020 Because apparently it was at somebody's home.
00:01:40.920 How many zebras did that one person have?
00:01:45.040 Makes you wonder.
00:01:46.380 What is the maximum number of zebras you could have in Ohio?
00:01:50.160 And how many of the zebras died from toxic water from a train wreck?
00:01:55.260 These are many questions that are not answered in this story.
00:01:58.580 But in maybe related news, I don't know, this is on Fox News,
00:02:03.820 a moose attacked a snowmobiler in Idaho.
00:02:07.680 A snowmobiler lived.
00:02:09.080 And I'm starting to think it's connected.
00:02:14.640 Do you think the animals are just pissed?
00:02:17.460 They've had enough?
00:02:19.260 I feel like it's a...
00:02:20.300 Yeah, it's an uprising.
00:02:21.800 This feels like an insurrection, if I may use that word.
00:02:25.620 It's like January 6th all over again.
00:02:28.540 I think it's some kind of a takeover attempt.
00:02:31.380 Now, if the animals do organize,
00:02:33.920 and here I'm assuming that they'll bring in their allies,
00:02:36.820 the fish and the birds,
00:02:38.360 the animals will have not only ground forces,
00:02:42.800 but a navy and an air force.
00:02:46.640 Yeah.
00:02:47.240 So I'm a little worried about the animals organizing.
00:02:50.360 With any luck, AI will form a robot army
00:02:53.300 and destroy all the animals.
00:02:56.120 So, I mean, it might be a fair fight.
00:02:59.840 Let me suggest a following theme
00:03:02.460 that you're going to see more of in the future.
00:03:04.880 Art that is supported by advertising is corrupt.
00:03:13.260 That's my statement.
00:03:14.700 Art, of any kind of art,
00:03:16.300 whether it's writing or comics or even music,
00:03:20.460 if you depend on advertisers,
00:03:23.320 it's corrupt art.
00:03:24.580 And corrupt, by corrupt,
00:03:27.060 I mean it's not the artist's idea
00:03:29.080 of what it should be.
00:03:30.920 It's the artist's best attempt
00:03:32.920 to stay within the narrow lines.
00:03:35.720 So I believe that if you're watching
00:03:37.580 advertiser-supported art
00:03:39.400 of any kind,
00:03:41.200 it's corrupt.
00:03:42.540 I mean, it might still be entertaining,
00:03:44.540 but it's corrupt in the sense
00:03:46.020 that it's not art.
00:03:46.860 It's just commerce
00:03:48.960 because it's got to paint
00:03:50.760 between the narrow lines
00:03:51.900 of what's available.
00:03:53.580 Now, art is supposed to challenge you.
00:03:57.000 Not always.
00:03:57.720 I mean, some art can be benign.
00:04:00.160 But one of the greatest values of art
00:04:02.580 is shocking you,
00:04:04.840 moving you to where you're not,
00:04:06.460 stretching your ideas of things.
00:04:08.240 Nobody's going to do that
00:04:09.380 in an advertiser-supported world
00:04:11.280 because you'll be canceled.
00:04:12.700 But in the subscription world,
00:04:15.820 people are there
00:04:17.680 because they want to be there.
00:04:19.240 So Dilbert being moved
00:04:20.860 from newspapers,
00:04:21.820 which were advertiser-supported,
00:04:24.280 mostly,
00:04:25.100 to a world on the locals' platform
00:04:27.680 where I can do what I want,
00:04:29.640 I have to tell you
00:04:30.480 the creative freedom
00:04:32.680 that I'm feeling
00:04:34.040 is the best feeling I've had
00:04:35.940 actually ever creatively.
00:04:38.880 Because even when I began
00:04:40.360 in the early days of the comic,
00:04:42.060 I was always thinking,
00:04:43.500 uh-oh,
00:04:44.160 I can't go too far
00:04:45.340 because the comics
00:04:46.800 have to be for everybody.
00:04:47.940 It's for children
00:04:48.540 and adults and everything.
00:04:50.440 So I was always self-censoring.
00:04:53.560 And then, you know,
00:04:54.280 by the time I got canceled,
00:04:55.620 they were censoring me.
00:04:57.360 But now on Locals,
00:04:59.220 the only thing that censors me
00:05:01.000 is my own sense
00:05:02.800 of what people would want
00:05:04.140 to enjoy as art.
00:05:06.160 That's my only limit.
00:05:07.780 I say to myself,
00:05:08.680 would you enjoy this?
00:05:10.520 Does this look like
00:05:11.340 something you'd laugh at?
00:05:13.160 And then it's good.
00:05:15.180 So, you know,
00:05:16.400 I'm not going to go crazy
00:05:17.420 and do a bunch of, like,
00:05:18.760 bathroom humor.
00:05:19.920 It's not going to be like that.
00:05:21.460 It's just that I can do it.
00:05:23.640 You know,
00:05:23.800 if something was unusually funny,
00:05:26.020 I might say,
00:05:26.860 well, I don't usually do that,
00:05:28.260 but I can.
00:05:29.140 I can add a fourth panel.
00:05:30.380 I can change.
00:05:31.540 I can edit it
00:05:32.500 after it's published.
00:05:33.280 I can publish it
00:05:35.060 and then edit it
00:05:36.280 and change it.
00:05:36.900 I can do two comics.
00:05:38.420 I mean,
00:05:38.640 the freedom is insane.
00:05:40.020 It's just the best feeling.
00:05:42.140 So thanks to all the,
00:05:43.300 anybody who signed up
00:05:44.300 for the subscription site.
00:05:45.820 I appreciate it immensely.
00:05:48.100 Well,
00:05:48.540 here's another important story.
00:05:49.820 I guess British jails
00:05:51.280 have female guards
00:05:52.540 for the male prisons.
00:05:54.720 Did you know that?
00:05:56.080 Do we do that in America?
00:05:58.180 Do we have female prison guards
00:05:59.880 in all male?
00:06:01.600 We do.
00:06:03.960 Does that sound like
00:06:04.960 the worst idea in the world?
00:06:08.200 All right,
00:06:08.760 here's what's happening
00:06:09.480 in Great Britain.
00:06:12.780 Now,
00:06:13.340 this is,
00:06:13.700 this is correlated
00:06:14.560 to my theory
00:06:15.360 that over time,
00:06:17.260 the only people
00:06:17.980 who will be shoe salesmen
00:06:19.560 are men with a foot fetish
00:06:21.680 because the free market
00:06:24.760 should make it
00:06:26.900 so that people
00:06:27.680 are getting an extra benefit
00:06:29.160 from working that job,
00:06:30.360 would take a lower salary
00:06:31.660 to do it
00:06:32.240 because they get
00:06:32.980 the extra benefit
00:06:33.720 of the excitement.
00:06:34.960 So I always think
00:06:35.660 that if you wait long enough,
00:06:37.360 all shoe salesmen
00:06:38.420 will have foot fetishes
00:06:39.400 because they're the ones
00:06:40.540 who would work
00:06:40.980 for the least amount of money
00:06:42.060 and still do the best job.
00:06:44.720 But apparently,
00:06:46.140 if you hire women
00:06:47.840 for an all-male jail,
00:06:52.200 it turns out
00:06:52.960 that at least in Great Britain,
00:06:54.660 they're not all there
00:06:55.800 for the right reason.
00:06:56.640 So apparently,
00:07:00.480 the female guards
00:07:01.500 have been banging
00:07:02.160 the prisoners like crazy.
00:07:05.940 And since,
00:07:07.060 since 2019,
00:07:09.120 a total of 31 women
00:07:10.680 across England and Wales
00:07:11.820 have been fired from jails
00:07:13.060 for intimate relationships
00:07:14.300 with inmates.
00:07:15.480 Now,
00:07:15.820 that's the ones
00:07:16.360 who got caught.
00:07:18.220 That's just the ones
00:07:19.480 who got caught.
00:07:20.220 And now,
00:07:22.520 how many female guards
00:07:24.620 are there
00:07:25.060 in Great Britain and Wales?
00:07:26.740 I mean,
00:07:26.920 I don't know
00:07:27.300 what the total population is,
00:07:28.900 but this is just
00:07:29.800 the ones who got caught.
00:07:31.960 I would think
00:07:32.800 that over time,
00:07:34.420 the only female guards
00:07:35.840 you would have
00:07:36.240 working in prisons
00:07:36.900 are ones that are there
00:07:37.960 because they want
00:07:38.520 to bang the prisoners.
00:07:40.900 Like,
00:07:41.240 have a boyfriend
00:07:41.920 who can't,
00:07:43.640 you want a boyfriend
00:07:44.600 who probably won't
00:07:45.980 cheat on you?
00:07:47.400 But even,
00:07:48.120 they probably do too.
00:07:48.880 So,
00:07:50.360 anyway,
00:07:51.620 I don't know.
00:07:53.780 I don't think anybody
00:07:54.420 got hurt
00:07:55.060 by any of these
00:07:56.260 so-called crimes.
00:07:58.180 Sounds like they all
00:07:59.080 had a good time,
00:07:59.840 but you don't want
00:08:00.420 those prisoners
00:08:00.960 to be too happy.
00:08:02.580 Then,
00:08:02.860 you know,
00:08:03.080 they'll be doing crimes
00:08:04.500 just to get into jail.
00:08:06.480 Imagine being a prisoner
00:08:07.680 and you're dating
00:08:09.480 your guard.
00:08:11.920 I mean,
00:08:12.760 I don't know
00:08:15.060 if you've ever
00:08:16.080 had that fantasy,
00:08:17.680 but
00:08:17.820 it's probably
00:08:20.060 somebody's fantasy.
00:08:21.640 All right,
00:08:21.820 let's talk about UFOs.
00:08:23.240 Yet another
00:08:23.880 military pilot
00:08:26.140 is yet again
00:08:28.100 saying that he
00:08:28.920 and his other
00:08:29.460 pilot friends
00:08:30.200 have seen
00:08:31.080 unidentified
00:08:32.180 objects.
00:08:34.820 He encourages us
00:08:35.900 not to think of them
00:08:36.920 as necessarily
00:08:37.780 alien,
00:08:39.460 but unexplained.
00:08:41.100 And he says,
00:08:42.100 two aircraft
00:08:42.660 from my squadron,
00:08:43.600 this is on Fox News
00:08:44.660 sites,
00:08:45.700 two aircraft
00:08:46.300 from my squadron
00:08:47.140 were flying
00:08:47.620 side by side
00:08:48.360 and one of
00:08:49.140 these objects
00:08:49.700 went right
00:08:50.320 between their
00:08:50.980 aircraft,
00:08:51.620 he added.
00:08:53.880 It looked like
00:08:54.920 a dark cube
00:08:56.900 inside of a
00:08:57.940 plastic bubble
00:08:59.100 or a clear sphere.
00:09:01.080 What did he say?
00:09:01.960 It looked like
00:09:02.420 a dark gray
00:09:02.960 or black cube
00:09:04.000 inside a clear sphere.
00:09:06.080 Do you think
00:09:07.680 the unexplained
00:09:09.560 object
00:09:10.120 was engineered
00:09:12.600 and designed
00:09:13.420 such that
00:09:14.880 it's a
00:09:15.560 dark gray
00:09:16.880 or black
00:09:17.400 cube
00:09:17.840 inside a clear
00:09:18.700 sphere?
00:09:20.100 What are the
00:09:20.940 odds
00:09:22.200 that even
00:09:23.840 an alien
00:09:24.460 or advanced
00:09:25.160 civilization
00:09:25.980 created it
00:09:27.400 to look like
00:09:28.080 some kind
00:09:30.880 of a cube
00:09:31.820 inside a clear
00:09:32.760 sphere?
00:09:33.140 does any
00:09:35.380 of this
00:09:35.720 sound real
00:09:36.560 to you?
00:09:38.300 Now I don't
00:09:39.020 know what
00:09:39.360 is happening
00:09:39.840 especially
00:09:41.060 when there
00:09:41.660 are multiple
00:09:42.300 witnesses.
00:09:44.800 I don't know
00:09:45.220 what's happening
00:09:45.740 but I don't
00:09:46.860 think that
00:09:47.260 they're seeing
00:09:47.840 advanced alien
00:09:49.520 crafts
00:09:50.020 or advanced
00:09:50.880 crafts.
00:09:51.920 I don't know
00:09:52.640 what it is
00:09:53.240 but it seems
00:09:54.780 like the least
00:09:55.440 likely explanation
00:09:56.420 is advanced
00:09:57.460 technology.
00:09:58.800 That feels
00:09:59.360 like the least
00:10:00.080 likely explanation.
00:10:01.660 How about you?
00:10:02.180 Would you say
00:10:03.220 that these
00:10:04.080 sightings
00:10:04.680 would suggest
00:10:05.320 not that
00:10:05.820 they're UFOs
00:10:06.740 or aliens
00:10:07.260 not that
00:10:08.060 they're aliens
00:10:08.540 but it could
00:10:09.340 be some
00:10:09.920 Earth-made
00:10:11.720 technology
00:10:12.360 that we're
00:10:12.720 not aware
00:10:13.120 of?
00:10:13.680 Does anybody
00:10:14.320 think it's
00:10:15.360 real?
00:10:17.140 As in there's
00:10:17.960 a real thing
00:10:19.080 up there that
00:10:19.520 we need to
00:10:19.940 know about?
00:10:21.620 Yeah, I don't
00:10:22.360 think it's real.
00:10:24.360 It has all
00:10:25.340 the tells
00:10:25.880 for not being
00:10:26.580 real.
00:10:27.380 Really all of
00:10:28.060 them.
00:10:28.280 It has every
00:10:28.720 tell for not
00:10:29.260 being real.
00:10:30.240 The part that's
00:10:31.140 convincing
00:10:31.640 is that there
00:10:33.140 are credible
00:10:33.740 people more
00:10:35.340 than one
00:10:35.960 in many
00:10:37.000 cases more
00:10:37.680 than one
00:10:38.160 seeing the
00:10:39.200 same phenomenon
00:10:39.880 and describing
00:10:40.840 it the same.
00:10:42.520 What would
00:10:43.180 that tell you
00:10:43.660 about the
00:10:44.020 credibility?
00:10:45.300 So it's on
00:10:45.740 instruments
00:10:46.360 so they know
00:10:48.360 there's something
00:10:48.740 there.
00:10:49.960 And humans
00:10:50.980 see it too.
00:10:54.200 That isn't
00:10:55.180 even a little
00:10:55.820 bit convincing
00:10:56.440 to me.
00:10:57.420 In the real
00:10:58.020 world that
00:10:58.600 isn't even a
00:10:59.280 little bit
00:10:59.680 convincing.
00:11:00.060 I don't
00:11:00.780 rule it
00:11:01.120 out.
00:11:02.620 So if we
00:11:03.260 find out
00:11:03.700 there's
00:11:03.900 something up
00:11:04.600 there in
00:11:04.860 the future
00:11:05.220 I'll say
00:11:06.600 well I'm
00:11:07.720 let's say
00:11:08.920 I didn't
00:11:09.500 think it
00:11:09.840 was true
00:11:10.280 but I
00:11:11.280 wouldn't
00:11:11.520 rule it
00:11:11.960 out.
00:11:12.580 I'd put it
00:11:13.080 in the
00:11:13.360 10% range
00:11:14.320 maybe 10%
00:11:15.800 likely there's
00:11:16.440 something up
00:11:16.820 there that's
00:11:17.180 real that we
00:11:17.920 care about.
00:11:20.060 All right
00:11:20.780 did anybody
00:11:21.860 see RFK
00:11:23.320 Jr.
00:11:24.000 talking about
00:11:24.680 Dr.
00:11:25.300 Fauci?
00:11:25.620 and I
00:11:26.780 saw some
00:11:27.920 accusations
00:11:28.620 that I've
00:11:29.900 not seen
00:11:30.480 in the
00:11:30.900 regular
00:11:31.220 news.
00:11:32.680 But it's
00:11:33.060 the most
00:11:33.380 disturbing
00:11:33.980 thing I've
00:11:34.500 ever seen
00:11:34.840 in my
00:11:35.140 life.
00:11:36.280 Have you
00:11:36.700 heard the
00:11:37.080 latest
00:11:37.440 RFK?
00:11:38.480 Now I'm
00:11:38.980 not sure I
00:11:39.380 have all
00:11:39.660 the details
00:11:40.280 but it's
00:11:41.320 something like
00:11:42.160 roughly speaking
00:11:43.880 but don't
00:11:45.040 hold me to
00:11:45.800 the details.
00:11:47.160 Roughly
00:11:47.540 speaking
00:11:48.100 Fauci took
00:11:49.540 a
00:11:49.780 sometime in
00:11:51.040 the past
00:11:51.580 took a
00:11:52.620 huge raise
00:11:53.500 to help
00:11:54.400 the military
00:11:55.120 develop
00:11:55.880 some kind
00:11:59.480 of gain
00:11:59.800 of function
00:12:00.360 viruses.
00:12:01.900 And that
00:12:02.280 he had
00:12:02.740 several places
00:12:03.780 he was
00:12:04.220 funding in
00:12:04.980 the United
00:12:05.340 States to
00:12:05.960 do it,
00:12:06.560 bioweapons I
00:12:07.240 guess,
00:12:07.840 and that
00:12:08.980 when the
00:12:09.900 heat was
00:12:10.600 put on
00:12:11.040 him he
00:12:12.120 moved some
00:12:13.080 of it to
00:12:13.580 Wuhan to
00:12:14.700 get it
00:12:14.960 out of
00:12:15.220 the US.
00:12:16.360 Is that
00:12:16.920 even
00:12:17.320 possible?
00:12:19.720 Is there
00:12:20.500 a clear
00:12:21.140 signal that
00:12:22.420 he took
00:12:22.740 a gigantic
00:12:23.360 raise,
00:12:24.120 made a
00:12:24.420 lot of
00:12:24.680 money,
00:12:25.640 did something
00:12:26.200 in the
00:12:26.480 United States
00:12:27.060 that we
00:12:27.340 had to
00:12:27.620 chase out
00:12:28.060 of the
00:12:28.260 country,
00:12:28.700 and then
00:12:28.900 he kept
00:12:29.180 doing it
00:12:29.560 in Wuhan,
00:12:30.360 and then
00:12:30.800 when he
00:12:31.100 got caught,
00:12:32.420 he said
00:12:34.280 none of
00:12:34.620 it happened?
00:12:36.260 Did that
00:12:36.860 really happen?
00:12:38.180 Because here's
00:12:38.700 what's wrong,
00:12:39.600 it's not in
00:12:40.040 the news.
00:12:41.780 It's not in
00:12:42.460 the regular
00:12:42.900 news,
00:12:43.780 even on
00:12:44.260 Fox News,
00:12:45.120 is it?
00:12:46.300 So why is
00:12:46.820 it not even
00:12:47.320 on Fox
00:12:47.940 News?
00:12:49.360 Because
00:12:49.760 RFK Jr.
00:12:51.140 is pretty
00:12:51.500 credible at
00:12:52.180 this point,
00:12:52.680 wouldn't you
00:12:53.000 say?
00:12:54.080 I don't
00:12:54.660 think he
00:12:54.960 makes stuff
00:12:55.600 up.
00:12:57.000 So what's
00:12:57.800 going on
00:12:58.200 here?
00:12:59.360 I don't
00:12:59.920 know what's
00:13:00.180 going on.
00:13:01.580 This is
00:13:02.080 like two
00:13:03.760 things that
00:13:04.300 can't be
00:13:04.740 true at
00:13:05.040 the same
00:13:05.340 time.
00:13:06.260 It can't
00:13:06.700 be true
00:13:07.020 that RFK
00:13:07.960 Jr.
00:13:08.280 is making
00:13:08.660 that up,
00:13:09.560 but it
00:13:10.360 can't be
00:13:10.720 true that
00:13:11.080 it's true,
00:13:12.000 because it
00:13:12.500 would be
00:13:12.700 in the
00:13:12.920 regular
00:13:13.180 news.
00:13:13.760 It would
00:13:13.940 be like
00:13:14.240 the biggest
00:13:14.580 story.
00:13:15.320 So what's
00:13:15.680 going on?
00:13:17.860 Does anybody
00:13:18.560 have any
00:13:19.000 idea?
00:13:19.680 It's in
00:13:19.980 his book.
00:13:21.360 So that's
00:13:21.820 in his
00:13:22.140 book, which
00:13:22.600 means it's
00:13:23.040 probably
00:13:23.420 documented and
00:13:24.320 researched, and
00:13:25.100 it's just not
00:13:25.580 in the news.
00:13:27.160 What's going
00:13:27.800 on?
00:13:29.840 I don't
00:13:30.400 know.
00:13:30.740 I guess I'm
00:13:31.420 just going to
00:13:31.780 leave it as
00:13:32.320 I have no
00:13:33.080 idea what
00:13:34.420 is happening
00:13:34.820 here.
00:13:35.600 I don't
00:13:36.220 know if
00:13:37.260 the news
00:13:37.740 has gathered
00:13:38.300 around suppressing
00:13:39.820 the story,
00:13:40.960 or maybe the
00:13:42.780 way the story
00:13:43.380 is told has
00:13:44.180 got an element
00:13:45.460 in it that
00:13:46.060 the regular
00:13:47.500 news doesn't
00:13:48.120 think is
00:13:48.460 quite true.
00:13:50.300 I can't
00:13:50.660 tell.
00:13:51.860 All right,
00:13:52.440 well, that's
00:13:52.780 disturbing.
00:13:54.040 Here's a
00:13:54.540 story you
00:13:55.080 were waiting
00:13:55.420 for.
00:13:55.800 Hunter's
00:13:56.320 financial
00:13:57.240 transactions
00:13:58.040 are going
00:13:58.440 to be
00:13:58.600 looked at.
00:13:59.600 Apparently,
00:14:00.180 the House
00:14:00.480 Oversight
00:14:00.920 Committee
00:14:01.200 has been
00:14:01.460 trying to
00:14:01.820 get Hunter
00:14:02.880 Biden's
00:14:03.400 finance
00:14:03.900 banking
00:14:04.400 records,
00:14:05.200 because there's
00:14:05.720 stuff in
00:14:06.060 the laptop
00:14:06.520 that suggests
00:14:07.240 some sketchy
00:14:08.480 transactions.
00:14:09.000 And I
00:14:10.560 guess whoever
00:14:12.480 it was in
00:14:13.180 the Biden
00:14:13.480 administration
00:14:13.980 was stalling,
00:14:14.820 of course.
00:14:16.120 But it
00:14:16.640 looks like
00:14:16.940 they're finally
00:14:17.320 going to get
00:14:17.720 it, because
00:14:18.140 they turned
00:14:19.600 up the heat
00:14:20.180 and they said
00:14:20.580 they were going
00:14:20.860 to bring in
00:14:21.380 the people
00:14:21.760 who were
00:14:21.980 stalling and
00:14:23.320 questioned
00:14:24.080 them under
00:14:24.580 oath, which
00:14:27.360 freed it up.
00:14:28.500 So now we're
00:14:29.020 going to see
00:14:29.780 something about
00:14:30.980 the allegations
00:14:32.000 that the
00:14:34.720 Biden associates
00:14:35.640 received a
00:14:36.780 $3 million
00:14:37.400 wire from a
00:14:38.540 Chinese energy
00:14:39.200 company, two
00:14:40.440 months after
00:14:40.960 Joe Biden
00:14:41.400 left the
00:14:42.160 vice-presidency,
00:14:43.840 blah, blah,
00:14:44.200 blah, soon
00:14:44.660 after hundreds
00:14:45.200 of thousands
00:14:45.680 of dollars
00:14:46.100 in payouts
00:14:46.760 went to
00:14:47.620 members of
00:14:48.180 the Biden
00:14:48.560 family.
00:14:49.000 So that's
00:14:49.240 an accusation
00:14:50.000 and it's an
00:14:51.580 allegation.
00:14:52.880 So let's
00:14:53.260 just say
00:14:53.560 that's an
00:14:53.920 allegation and
00:14:55.500 not a fact
00:14:56.660 yet.
00:14:58.420 I mean,
00:14:58.620 it's not an
00:14:59.080 established fact,
00:15:00.000 but it might
00:15:00.440 be, but it's
00:15:01.280 an allegation.
00:15:04.300 And I think
00:15:05.120 we're going to
00:15:05.520 actually find
00:15:06.220 out.
00:15:06.620 What do
00:15:08.700 you think?
00:15:12.080 Do you
00:15:12.740 think we're
00:15:13.660 actually going
00:15:14.120 to find out
00:15:14.800 what Hunter
00:15:15.960 Biden actually
00:15:16.760 did before
00:15:17.480 the next
00:15:18.260 presidential
00:15:18.780 election?
00:15:20.600 It doesn't
00:15:21.380 feel like it,
00:15:22.480 does it?
00:15:23.560 It feels like
00:15:24.580 it's going to
00:15:24.900 be more of
00:15:25.660 nothing, even
00:15:26.800 though every
00:15:27.360 part of it
00:15:27.820 looks like it
00:15:28.340 should be
00:15:28.680 something and
00:15:29.240 something big.
00:15:30.320 So here's the
00:15:31.080 funniest part of
00:15:31.660 the story.
00:15:32.040 I don't
00:15:34.600 know if
00:15:34.840 it's still
00:15:35.200 there, but
00:15:36.280 the way Fox
00:15:36.920 News covered
00:15:37.520 this, so I'm
00:15:38.220 talking about
00:15:38.800 Fox's coverage,
00:15:39.700 of course it's
00:15:40.200 not on CNN,
00:15:42.120 in case you
00:15:42.820 wondered.
00:15:43.400 Yeah, it's
00:15:43.700 not covered
00:15:44.120 on CNN.
00:15:46.600 A gigantic
00:15:47.640 potential story.
00:15:49.460 I don't even
00:15:49.940 think it's
00:15:50.320 mentioned.
00:15:52.180 You can
00:15:52.600 check for
00:15:52.920 yourself, but
00:15:53.500 I think it's
00:15:54.020 not mentioned.
00:15:55.440 This seems
00:15:56.180 like really,
00:15:57.360 really big,
00:15:57.920 but here's the
00:15:58.340 best part of
00:15:58.800 the story.
00:15:59.180 The best
00:16:00.980 part of the
00:16:01.340 story is that
00:16:01.880 whoever does
00:16:02.360 the headlines
00:16:02.960 for Fox
00:16:03.600 News, they
00:16:04.940 caption the
00:16:05.900 story, the
00:16:06.420 walls are
00:16:06.800 closing in.
00:16:09.260 Now that's
00:16:10.180 funny.
00:16:11.280 That is
00:16:11.800 funny.
00:16:12.660 Whoever does
00:16:13.420 the little
00:16:13.720 captions that
00:16:14.440 are over the
00:16:14.900 stories, obviously
00:16:17.300 tongue-in-cheek,
00:16:18.980 and I believe
00:16:19.560 that they're
00:16:20.340 making reference
00:16:21.820 to the walls
00:16:22.840 are always
00:16:23.180 closing in on
00:16:23.840 Trump, but
00:16:24.980 Hunter Biden
00:16:25.660 is the
00:16:27.340 right's
00:16:27.820 Trump.
00:16:29.180 The left
00:16:30.700 are like,
00:16:31.080 oh, we
00:16:31.500 got Trump
00:16:31.960 now, we
00:16:32.520 got his
00:16:32.800 taxes.
00:16:34.060 What?
00:16:34.740 There's
00:16:35.080 nothing in
00:16:35.600 the taxes?
00:16:36.800 All right,
00:16:37.240 well, I'm
00:16:37.920 sure we
00:16:38.300 have him
00:16:38.620 with Stormy
00:16:39.260 Daniels.
00:16:40.280 What?
00:16:40.820 It's such a
00:16:41.420 small crime
00:16:42.080 that nobody
00:16:43.240 even cares?
00:16:44.400 What?
00:16:44.860 Let's try
00:16:45.320 something else.
00:16:46.720 And they're
00:16:48.280 just waiting
00:16:48.880 for Trump
00:16:49.380 to go down.
00:16:50.220 The walls
00:16:50.620 are closing
00:16:51.060 in.
00:16:51.740 But I feel
00:16:52.220 like that's
00:16:52.640 exactly what
00:16:53.740 the right is
00:16:55.060 feeling about
00:16:55.740 Hunter.
00:16:56.680 Oh, we
00:16:57.380 got his
00:16:57.720 laptop.
00:16:58.040 He's
00:16:59.080 going down
00:16:59.620 now.
00:17:00.840 Okay, he
00:17:01.280 didn't go
00:17:01.580 down because
00:17:02.020 of the
00:17:02.200 laptop.
00:17:02.860 But once
00:17:03.540 we get
00:17:03.980 these financial
00:17:04.780 records,
00:17:06.020 once we
00:17:07.580 get these,
00:17:08.400 the walls
00:17:08.940 are closing
00:17:09.400 in.
00:17:10.480 I feel
00:17:11.260 like I
00:17:11.620 would bet
00:17:11.940 against it.
00:17:13.520 Wouldn't
00:17:14.040 you?
00:17:15.020 Now, I'm
00:17:15.360 not saying
00:17:15.780 that Hunter
00:17:16.440 did nothing
00:17:17.140 sketchy.
00:17:18.240 I'm saying
00:17:18.680 that whether
00:17:19.100 he did
00:17:19.500 something
00:17:19.840 completely
00:17:20.460 illegally
00:17:21.040 or not,
00:17:22.520 or anything
00:17:23.060 in the gray
00:17:23.520 area, that
00:17:24.460 nothing's going
00:17:25.100 to change.
00:17:25.600 I don't
00:17:26.920 know why,
00:17:27.640 I mean, other
00:17:28.060 than political
00:17:29.520 connections, but
00:17:31.000 there'll be some
00:17:31.680 reason why it
00:17:32.400 doesn't matter.
00:17:34.160 Am I
00:17:34.460 wrong?
00:17:35.220 You can
00:17:35.640 predict it so
00:17:36.380 easily.
00:17:37.040 That's why that
00:17:37.560 comment, the
00:17:38.120 walls are closing
00:17:38.780 in, I just
00:17:39.300 thought that was
00:17:39.700 hilarious.
00:17:40.760 So kudos to
00:17:42.880 whoever is the
00:17:44.180 editor who put
00:17:44.920 that on that
00:17:45.440 page.
00:17:45.860 That was
00:17:46.160 funny.
00:17:48.800 All right.
00:17:50.240 As I saw in
00:17:51.120 the comments,
00:17:51.620 we're talking
00:17:52.340 about a mass
00:17:53.480 awakening.
00:17:55.600 people becoming
00:17:57.240 more aware of
00:17:58.100 the actual
00:17:58.640 world they
00:17:59.160 live in, in
00:17:59.840 a way that
00:18:00.260 we've never
00:18:00.720 experienced
00:18:01.280 before.
00:18:02.560 And boy, is
00:18:03.660 that going to
00:18:04.080 accelerate.
00:18:05.460 You think
00:18:05.980 you've seen
00:18:06.460 some stuff
00:18:07.000 now?
00:18:08.320 The stuff
00:18:08.800 that's right
00:18:09.600 ahead of us
00:18:10.300 is going to
00:18:11.460 really be
00:18:11.940 disturbing.
00:18:12.920 Maybe in a
00:18:13.640 good way.
00:18:14.200 I don't know.
00:18:14.940 We're going to
00:18:15.320 wake up to
00:18:15.760 the reality.
00:18:16.520 But just
00:18:16.820 take a
00:18:18.540 stroll through
00:18:20.280 some of the
00:18:20.980 things that
00:18:21.340 have changed
00:18:21.760 lately.
00:18:22.060 In my
00:18:24.660 opinion, the
00:18:25.620 introduction of
00:18:26.360 simulation theory,
00:18:27.700 the idea that
00:18:28.220 we're a
00:18:28.480 simulation, and
00:18:29.740 even having
00:18:30.180 somebody like
00:18:30.680 Elon Musk
00:18:31.340 endorse it as
00:18:32.600 a legitimate
00:18:33.240 view, and I
00:18:34.680 certainly do.
00:18:35.220 It's my
00:18:35.600 preferred view
00:18:36.700 of reality.
00:18:38.340 That's sort of
00:18:39.060 a big mind
00:18:40.340 effort, isn't
00:18:41.080 it?
00:18:42.100 But that's just
00:18:42.960 one thing.
00:18:43.700 There's a bunch
00:18:44.440 of things
00:18:44.760 happening.
00:18:45.180 Let me take
00:18:45.700 you a little
00:18:46.040 tour through
00:18:47.340 them.
00:18:47.540 I think
00:18:49.360 that we're
00:18:49.920 more aware
00:18:50.580 than we
00:18:50.960 ever have
00:18:51.360 been that
00:18:52.620 reality is a
00:18:53.560 subjective
00:18:54.000 experience.
00:18:55.480 Would you
00:18:55.880 agree?
00:18:57.000 It's never
00:18:57.660 been more
00:18:58.140 obvious, and
00:18:58.700 I think the
00:18:59.200 bubbles and
00:19:00.940 the news
00:19:01.600 that's different
00:19:02.080 on the left
00:19:02.580 and the right
00:19:03.020 just make
00:19:03.760 that so
00:19:04.400 clear in a
00:19:05.440 way that
00:19:05.880 maybe 20
00:19:06.800 years ago
00:19:07.260 was less
00:19:07.760 clear.
00:19:08.740 20 years
00:19:09.320 ago, if
00:19:09.640 somebody said
00:19:10.080 reality was
00:19:10.780 subjective,
00:19:11.420 you'd laugh
00:19:11.880 at them.
00:19:13.660 You would.
00:19:14.260 You'd say,
00:19:14.740 well, come
00:19:15.240 on.
00:19:16.080 Reality is
00:19:16.700 reality.
00:19:17.540 Let me
00:19:26.440 turn off
00:19:26.800 my phone.
00:19:29.100 So I
00:19:30.520 think in
00:19:31.000 today's
00:19:31.780 world, people
00:19:32.400 see that the
00:19:33.100 news is
00:19:33.780 creating our
00:19:36.180 realities.
00:19:36.800 Wouldn't you
00:19:37.120 say that
00:19:37.460 that's obvious
00:19:38.520 and true
00:19:39.140 now in a
00:19:40.280 way that 20
00:19:40.840 years ago
00:19:41.260 it was not?
00:19:42.600 Because if
00:19:43.000 20 years ago
00:19:43.660 the news was
00:19:44.400 all sort of
00:19:45.120 the same
00:19:45.660 generic news,
00:19:47.020 news, I
00:19:47.620 think people
00:19:48.060 thought it
00:19:48.420 was generally
00:19:48.900 just true
00:19:49.440 news.
00:19:50.440 But now
00:19:50.780 that you
00:19:51.040 see our
00:19:51.380 opinions are
00:19:51.980 entirely
00:19:52.580 assigned to
00:19:53.380 us by the
00:19:53.900 news, it's
00:19:54.780 hard to
00:19:55.140 miss.
00:19:55.920 So not
00:19:56.760 everybody sees
00:19:57.400 it yet, but
00:19:57.940 you can see
00:19:58.240 people waking
00:19:58.780 up to it.
00:19:59.880 Then we've
00:20:00.360 got AI.
00:20:01.640 GPT-4 will
00:20:02.680 be coming
00:20:03.080 online.
00:20:03.800 And GPT-4,
00:20:05.720 I don't want
00:20:06.880 to say it's
00:20:07.280 going to change
00:20:07.780 everything, but
00:20:09.400 it sure
00:20:09.680 looks like
00:20:10.180 it.
00:20:11.620 Whatever you
00:20:12.920 think GPT-3
00:20:14.060 was, forget
00:20:15.960 it.
00:20:17.340 I'm pretty
00:20:18.000 sure that
00:20:18.360 GPT-4 is
00:20:20.100 not going to
00:20:20.620 look like
00:20:21.080 GPT-3.
00:20:22.320 It's going
00:20:22.840 to be just
00:20:23.860 a leap, I
00:20:25.180 think, based
00:20:25.960 on early
00:20:26.420 descriptions.
00:20:28.000 So that's
00:20:28.560 going to make
00:20:28.900 you even
00:20:29.380 question the
00:20:30.280 specialness of
00:20:31.340 consciousness.
00:20:34.000 Consciousness
00:20:34.560 and the
00:20:35.740 special human
00:20:37.660 identity, it's
00:20:39.700 all in play
00:20:40.220 now.
00:20:41.320 The whole
00:20:41.880 idea that we
00:20:42.440 have this
00:20:42.760 special thing
00:20:43.500 called
00:20:43.760 consciousness is
00:20:44.960 going to go
00:20:45.300 right out the
00:20:45.860 window as soon
00:20:46.460 as the machine
00:20:46.920 has one.
00:20:48.000 I would argue
00:20:48.580 that it has a
00:20:49.200 proto-consciousness,
00:20:50.940 so it's not
00:20:51.420 there yet, but
00:20:52.840 maybe GPT-4, and
00:20:55.420 if it's not
00:20:55.820 four, maybe
00:20:56.780 five, but
00:20:58.380 we're going to
00:20:58.880 see it.
00:20:59.360 It's going to
00:20:59.720 be in your
00:21:00.060 lifetime for
00:21:00.700 sure.
00:21:01.800 So what
00:21:02.080 happens when
00:21:02.580 machines do
00:21:03.200 have something
00:21:03.780 that the
00:21:04.300 experts say
00:21:04.920 is consciousness.
00:21:06.780 It's going to
00:21:07.440 change your
00:21:07.820 whole belief
00:21:09.080 about reality,
00:21:10.220 or it could
00:21:10.780 for some
00:21:11.200 people.
00:21:12.160 How about
00:21:12.540 the fact that
00:21:13.180 we as a
00:21:14.640 society have
00:21:15.580 learned that
00:21:16.500 all of our
00:21:17.180 experts are
00:21:17.780 empty, that
00:21:19.780 all of our
00:21:20.360 data is
00:21:21.540 manipulated, that
00:21:23.360 all of our
00:21:24.020 news is
00:21:24.520 narrative, that
00:21:26.480 our polls can
00:21:28.020 be dependent
00:21:28.760 on sometimes,
00:21:30.360 but we don't
00:21:30.940 know when.
00:21:31.400 sometimes they're
00:21:34.360 right on, but
00:21:35.400 we don't know
00:21:35.900 when, and
00:21:36.860 if they
00:21:37.120 disagree, we
00:21:37.840 don't know
00:21:38.120 which ones
00:21:38.480 are the
00:21:38.660 good ones.
00:21:39.920 So our
00:21:40.620 whole sense
00:21:41.200 of what you
00:21:41.780 could know
00:21:42.420 and be
00:21:43.740 confident about
00:21:44.520 is completely
00:21:45.360 in play right
00:21:46.520 now.
00:21:47.320 It looks like
00:21:47.960 nothing is
00:21:48.680 believable.
00:21:49.820 We don't
00:21:50.380 believe experts,
00:21:51.320 data, anything,
00:21:53.580 and maybe that's
00:21:54.540 more accurate.
00:21:56.360 Remember, it
00:21:57.100 was not
00:21:58.520 too long
00:21:59.060 ago when
00:21:59.900 you would
00:22:01.600 quote Ben
00:22:02.300 Shapiro saying
00:22:03.140 that facts
00:22:03.620 don't care
00:22:04.100 about your
00:22:04.460 feelings?
00:22:05.900 How does
00:22:06.160 that sit
00:22:07.460 with you
00:22:07.780 today?
00:22:08.720 The facts
00:22:09.180 don't care
00:22:09.680 about your
00:22:10.060 feelings?
00:22:11.440 Sorry, it's
00:22:13.000 your feelings
00:22:13.480 don't care
00:22:13.940 about your
00:22:14.360 facts.
00:22:15.380 There's
00:22:15.880 nothing in
00:22:16.380 the news
00:22:16.840 or even
00:22:17.320 science at
00:22:18.080 the moment
00:22:18.520 that would
00:22:19.220 suggest that
00:22:19.840 facts even
00:22:20.400 matter.
00:22:21.900 It's like
00:22:22.400 facts don't
00:22:23.080 even matter.
00:22:24.300 The feelings
00:22:24.820 are the only
00:22:25.240 thing that
00:22:25.560 matters, and
00:22:26.040 it's not the
00:22:26.560 other side.
00:22:28.100 The moment
00:22:28.700 you think,
00:22:29.200 oh, the
00:22:29.460 other side
00:22:30.100 is using
00:22:30.560 feelings, but
00:22:31.960 we're using
00:22:32.540 our facts.
00:22:34.340 Yeah, we're
00:22:34.820 using facts, but
00:22:35.720 they're using
00:22:36.200 their feelings.
00:22:37.240 Do you know
00:22:37.520 what the
00:22:37.740 other side
00:22:38.220 says about
00:22:38.720 you?
00:22:40.120 Exactly the
00:22:40.880 same thing.
00:22:42.180 Oh, we're
00:22:42.760 using our
00:22:43.300 facts, but
00:22:43.860 they're using
00:22:44.560 their feelings
00:22:45.280 and their
00:22:45.680 racism or
00:22:46.400 whatever they're
00:22:46.840 using.
00:22:47.740 Once you
00:22:48.420 realize it's
00:22:48.960 both, it's
00:22:50.220 both sides,
00:22:51.540 you're a
00:22:52.840 little bit
00:22:53.180 closer to
00:22:53.660 the truth.
00:22:54.700 There's not
00:22:55.140 one side has
00:22:55.900 the facts and
00:22:56.460 one side has
00:22:57.060 feelings.
00:22:57.960 Nothing like
00:22:58.640 that has
00:22:59.000 ever existed.
00:23:00.320 It's all
00:23:00.900 feelings all
00:23:01.940 the way down
00:23:02.580 and always
00:23:03.120 has been.
00:23:04.480 But more
00:23:05.220 people are
00:23:05.580 realizing that.
00:23:06.840 How about,
00:23:08.200 do you remember
00:23:08.680 when we
00:23:09.100 thought we
00:23:09.460 could predict
00:23:09.940 the future?
00:23:10.480 future, with
00:23:12.420 our climate
00:23:13.600 models and
00:23:14.660 our economic
00:23:16.160 models, we
00:23:18.040 can't predict
00:23:18.700 the future.
00:23:20.120 We can't
00:23:20.820 predict tomorrow.
00:23:22.180 We can
00:23:22.500 basically predict
00:23:23.300 nothing.
00:23:24.380 We're very,
00:23:25.300 very bad at
00:23:26.080 predicting.
00:23:27.180 And we're
00:23:28.240 coming to that
00:23:28.960 realization that
00:23:30.480 your financial
00:23:31.280 expert doesn't
00:23:32.220 know where the
00:23:32.640 market is going,
00:23:33.920 your pandemic
00:23:35.400 experts don't know
00:23:36.440 what the hell is
00:23:36.800 going to happen
00:23:37.260 with the pandemic,
00:23:37.920 or at least
00:23:38.520 you can't
00:23:38.940 tell which
00:23:39.260 ones do and
00:23:39.880 which ones
00:23:40.280 don't.
00:23:42.340 And climate
00:23:43.040 models are
00:23:43.580 probably ridiculous.
00:23:45.000 They're useful.
00:23:46.780 Models can be
00:23:47.560 useful even when
00:23:48.320 they're ridiculous.
00:23:49.360 So they're not
00:23:50.000 empty of
00:23:51.740 utility, they're
00:23:53.560 just not really
00:23:54.320 predicting the
00:23:54.880 future.
00:23:56.940 All right.
00:23:57.200 So in that
00:23:59.120 vein, do you
00:24:03.260 think the truth
00:24:03.860 is even good
00:24:04.500 for us?
00:24:05.840 Do you think
00:24:06.420 if humans could
00:24:07.200 just see the
00:24:07.900 truth, here's
00:24:10.100 all the truth?
00:24:12.320 No.
00:24:13.300 We would be
00:24:14.140 totally effed if
00:24:16.100 we saw the
00:24:16.880 truth all the
00:24:17.420 time.
00:24:19.580 Imagination and
00:24:20.680 optimism and
00:24:22.080 hallucinations are
00:24:23.620 what hold us
00:24:24.440 together.
00:24:24.840 If it were not
00:24:26.300 for the shared
00:24:27.240 hallucinations and
00:24:29.160 feelings that hold
00:24:30.460 us together,
00:24:31.200 everything would
00:24:31.800 fall apart.
00:24:33.060 Now some of
00:24:33.520 that shared
00:24:34.020 hallucination is
00:24:34.860 under attack because
00:24:36.600 we're having our
00:24:37.460 ideas of what was
00:24:38.820 real and what
00:24:39.400 wasn't being
00:24:41.100 challenged, which
00:24:42.420 makes people
00:24:42.920 retreat to maybe
00:24:44.060 a different set of
00:24:44.860 hallucinations, not
00:24:46.000 to the truth.
00:24:47.720 We don't retreat to
00:24:48.900 the truth.
00:24:49.480 We're not that kind
00:24:50.120 of creature.
00:24:50.900 We retreat to a
00:24:51.720 different hallucination.
00:24:53.280 Well, the different
00:24:53.900 hallucinations keep
00:24:54.960 society together.
00:24:56.700 Because the feelings
00:24:59.220 that we've had about,
00:25:00.260 let's say, being an
00:25:01.480 American for decades
00:25:04.520 and decades, the
00:25:05.920 feeling that you got
00:25:06.940 about being American
00:25:07.820 was not reality.
00:25:10.620 It was a feeling.
00:25:12.020 And we had been
00:25:12.840 brainwashed in a good
00:25:14.120 way to have positive
00:25:15.820 feelings.
00:25:16.400 But now we're being
00:25:17.420 sort of accidentally
00:25:18.820 brainwashed or not to
00:25:21.140 have less good feelings
00:25:22.880 about the country.
00:25:24.740 Will that cause the
00:25:25.620 country to disintegrate?
00:25:27.020 It could.
00:25:28.240 But keep in mind, the
00:25:29.260 facts will always be a
00:25:31.340 secondary consideration
00:25:32.680 to how we feel about
00:25:33.940 stuff.
00:25:34.740 The economy is entirely
00:25:35.920 about how you feel.
00:25:37.340 A bank run, whether it
00:25:38.980 happens or doesn't
00:25:39.740 happen, is about how
00:25:41.040 you feel.
00:25:42.160 It's not about the
00:25:42.920 facts.
00:25:44.000 So we're kind of slowly
00:25:45.880 getting to the point
00:25:46.600 where the only thing
00:25:47.660 that matters is your
00:25:48.720 subjective opinion,
00:25:50.060 even though there is
00:25:51.760 a base of something
00:25:52.960 like fact that science
00:25:54.700 and finance can find
00:25:55.860 if it looks hard
00:25:56.480 enough.
00:25:57.460 But I think we're
00:25:58.060 being a little more,
00:25:59.080 let's say, aware of
00:26:00.540 our irrational nature
00:26:01.800 that doesn't change.
00:26:06.220 Here's an example.
00:26:07.640 Rasmussen had his poll
00:26:08.600 and asked, I guess,
00:26:10.400 Vivek Ramaswamy has
00:26:11.600 been speaking of climate
00:26:13.360 change as a religion.
00:26:15.380 Sort of a narrative
00:26:16.600 point he's making.
00:26:17.560 But I was surprised
00:26:19.140 how many people
00:26:19.720 agreed with that.
00:26:20.960 So according to
00:26:21.480 Rasmussen, 60% of
00:26:22.880 likely U.S. voters,
00:26:24.220 so that would include
00:26:25.040 all the parties,
00:26:27.580 including 47% who
00:26:29.500 strongly agree with
00:26:30.980 Vivek Ramaswamy's
00:26:32.400 recent statement that
00:26:33.740 climate change has
00:26:34.600 become a religion.
00:26:35.800 Now, no surprise,
00:26:36.880 it's 79% of
00:26:37.900 Republicans and 45%
00:26:40.600 of Democrats.
00:26:41.880 What?
00:26:43.220 What?
00:26:45.160 45% of Democrats?
00:26:47.560 Democrats agree with
00:26:49.020 a Republican who says
00:26:50.340 that climate change
00:26:51.340 is a religion?
00:26:54.140 45%?
00:26:56.460 Well, then I guess
00:26:57.620 the tiebreaker would
00:26:58.500 be the independents,
00:26:59.500 right?
00:27:01.180 So what do the
00:27:02.120 independents say?
00:27:04.460 60% of unaffiliated
00:27:06.940 voters agree with it.
00:27:09.840 60%.
00:27:10.440 You've got a solid
00:27:12.880 American majority
00:27:13.980 who thinks that
00:27:14.920 climate change
00:27:15.780 is bullshit.
00:27:18.680 I didn't know it
00:27:19.560 was that strong.
00:27:20.620 I thought it was
00:27:21.280 going to line up a
00:27:21.980 little bit more
00:27:22.480 directly by party.
00:27:23.880 I had no idea that
00:27:24.940 Democrats were on
00:27:25.680 board.
00:27:26.480 And I think,
00:27:27.380 here's my guess,
00:27:29.300 I think the way the
00:27:30.240 green people treated
00:27:31.240 nuclear power was
00:27:33.780 the tell that it
00:27:35.460 wasn't real.
00:27:37.640 And I think that
00:27:38.700 45% of Democrats
00:27:40.160 are the smart ones,
00:27:41.720 if I may say.
00:27:43.040 The smart ones
00:27:44.360 always knew that
00:27:45.260 there was something
00:27:46.540 wrong with the
00:27:47.760 discussion of
00:27:48.520 nuclear power.
00:27:49.620 Because they knew
00:27:50.420 that France had
00:27:51.360 nuclear energy and
00:27:52.460 it was working fine.
00:27:54.540 45% of Democrats
00:27:56.240 were smart enough
00:27:57.140 to know that
00:27:58.340 nuclear energy was
00:27:59.460 solving the problem
00:28:00.680 in other countries.
00:28:02.600 And that we just
00:28:03.580 weren't doing it for
00:28:04.500 political reasons,
00:28:05.560 mostly.
00:28:06.360 That's pretty good.
00:28:08.300 Actually, I find that
00:28:09.620 encouraging.
00:28:10.140 because we're not
00:28:12.900 actually that far
00:28:13.820 apart on a question
00:28:15.400 of major importance.
00:28:17.120 So you could argue,
00:28:18.460 well, that's why we
00:28:19.180 have a republic.
00:28:20.780 It's a good thing we
00:28:21.760 have a republic so
00:28:23.060 that these smart
00:28:23.900 politicians we elect
00:28:25.080 can do things that
00:28:26.480 maybe the public
00:28:27.280 would not have known
00:28:28.540 to do.
00:28:29.540 Maybe the public is
00:28:30.500 too backwards to do
00:28:32.340 the things it needs
00:28:33.100 to do.
00:28:33.900 That's why you have
00:28:34.500 a republic.
00:28:35.720 Except we no longer
00:28:37.340 believe that we live
00:28:38.120 in that world where
00:28:38.900 well-meaning people
00:28:39.880 do things just for us.
00:28:42.640 Wow, it's a good thing
00:28:43.720 we elected those
00:28:44.520 well-meaning politicians
00:28:46.100 to act on our behalf.
00:28:48.180 Nobody thinks that.
00:28:49.640 That's like an old
00:28:50.660 illusion.
00:28:51.320 Everybody thinks
00:28:51.880 the politicians are
00:28:53.140 serving their party,
00:28:56.000 serving re-election,
00:28:57.700 getting money.
00:28:59.040 It's all those things.
00:29:01.000 So,
00:29:02.040 I have to compliment
00:29:04.820 the Democrats.
00:29:06.640 45% of them
00:29:08.060 saw through
00:29:08.680 the propaganda.
00:29:10.360 That's pretty good.
00:29:11.840 If you could give
00:29:12.500 45% of any population
00:29:14.460 to see through
00:29:15.900 intense,
00:29:17.020 non-stop propaganda,
00:29:18.540 that's pretty good
00:29:19.960 on your part.
00:29:20.820 I'm going to say
00:29:21.220 that's a compliment
00:29:21.900 to the Democrats.
00:29:24.680 Somebody says,
00:29:25.740 I'm wrong.
00:29:27.520 What is it for the...
00:29:28.840 Oh,
00:29:29.160 I'm not saying that...
00:29:30.520 I'm saying that
00:29:31.740 the Rastafism Poll
00:29:32.540 says 45%
00:29:33.600 of Democrats agree
00:29:34.540 that climate
00:29:36.500 changes a religion,
00:29:38.320 meaning that
00:29:38.880 there's some
00:29:39.500 irrational components
00:29:40.700 driving it.
00:29:43.460 All right.
00:29:45.640 More to that point,
00:29:46.980 there's an article
00:29:47.540 in The Atlantic
00:29:48.520 by Shadi Hamid
00:29:49.980 that the truth
00:29:51.300 can make you sick
00:29:52.260 and that,
00:29:54.080 as he says
00:29:55.240 in a tweet,
00:29:55.820 knowledge and information
00:29:56.800 aren't necessarily good.
00:29:58.820 So,
00:29:59.420 if you have
00:30:00.300 more knowledge
00:30:01.060 and more information
00:30:02.080 about reality,
00:30:03.380 it makes you feel bad
00:30:05.120 and can make you
00:30:06.120 depressed and sad
00:30:07.520 and presumably unhealthy
00:30:09.500 because the truth
00:30:12.180 is not good for you.
00:30:15.360 Now,
00:30:15.700 sometimes,
00:30:16.400 it's the only thing
00:30:17.120 that will save your life,
00:30:18.060 right?
00:30:18.520 So,
00:30:19.120 it's not like
00:30:19.660 it's all bad for you.
00:30:21.160 So,
00:30:21.460 of course,
00:30:21.760 you need to know
00:30:22.220 the truth
00:30:22.640 for things that are
00:30:23.360 critical to your life
00:30:24.660 as best you can.
00:30:26.520 But,
00:30:27.000 if you focus
00:30:28.100 on what's true
00:30:29.140 just because it's true,
00:30:31.120 it's bad for your health.
00:30:34.500 Did you know that?
00:30:35.200 Does that surprise you?
00:30:37.400 Does it surprise you
00:30:38.580 that looking at
00:30:39.960 the ugly truth
00:30:41.000 is bad for your
00:30:42.540 mental health?
00:30:43.760 That's pretty
00:30:44.500 straightforward,
00:30:45.400 isn't it?
00:30:45.880 Kind of obvious.
00:30:47.000 Now,
00:30:47.400 would you extend that
00:30:48.320 to say
00:30:48.740 that anybody
00:30:49.760 who's looking at
00:30:50.660 slavery in the past
00:30:52.080 and the legacy
00:30:52.880 of discrimination,
00:30:54.400 if that's where
00:30:55.060 they're focusing,
00:30:56.820 that that would make
00:30:57.540 them unhealthy
00:30:58.220 and unsuccessful
00:30:59.120 and unproductive?
00:31:01.120 Obviously.
00:31:03.280 Obviously.
00:31:04.500 A hundred percent
00:31:05.400 of people
00:31:06.220 who understand
00:31:07.180 the tools
00:31:08.440 of success
00:31:09.200 will tell you
00:31:10.440 that you should
00:31:10.900 be focusing
00:31:11.520 on the truth.
00:31:14.320 The truth?
00:31:16.000 Will people
00:31:16.780 who are,
00:31:18.620 let's say,
00:31:19.180 experts at the
00:31:20.000 tools of success,
00:31:21.100 what you should do
00:31:21.640 to be successful?
00:31:22.640 Would they tell you
00:31:23.360 to focus on the truth?
00:31:25.240 No.
00:31:26.760 No,
00:31:27.240 they wouldn't.
00:31:28.720 Absolutely not.
00:31:29.560 You know what
00:31:30.500 they would tell you
00:31:31.100 to focus on?
00:31:33.920 Let's say,
00:31:34.760 your optimism
00:31:36.480 for the future.
00:31:38.040 Is that the truth?
00:31:40.040 No,
00:31:40.400 optimism is literally
00:31:41.420 an imagination
00:31:42.400 which you try
00:31:44.160 to make true.
00:31:45.720 If you're trying
00:31:46.600 to be successful,
00:31:47.620 you're not dealing
00:31:48.220 with what's true,
00:31:49.440 you're dealing
00:31:50.160 with what you're
00:31:50.820 going to make true.
00:31:52.680 Big difference.
00:31:54.420 It's not what is true,
00:31:55.800 it's what you
00:31:56.600 personally are
00:31:57.400 going to make true.
00:31:58.420 You're going
00:31:59.340 to make yourself
00:32:00.060 have somebody
00:32:00.500 who has a talent stack,
00:32:01.980 therefore you're
00:32:02.740 more hireable.
00:32:04.120 You're going
00:32:04.400 to make yourself
00:32:05.040 smarter,
00:32:05.580 you're going
00:32:05.720 to make yourself
00:32:06.340 kinder,
00:32:07.400 you're going
00:32:07.600 to make yourself
00:32:08.280 have more gratitude.
00:32:10.080 It's about you
00:32:11.140 making the future,
00:32:12.700 but if you focus
00:32:13.600 on the future
00:32:14.200 that is,
00:32:15.520 or the future
00:32:16.260 that was,
00:32:17.700 I'm sorry,
00:32:18.160 the past that was,
00:32:19.480 and you treat
00:32:20.000 them like facts,
00:32:21.500 you say,
00:32:21.920 oh,
00:32:22.160 let's focus
00:32:23.260 on the real history,
00:32:25.180 the real facts,
00:32:26.160 that's really
00:32:27.800 bad for you.
00:32:29.960 It's necessary,
00:32:31.720 I don't think
00:32:32.840 you should forget
00:32:33.500 any of that stuff,
00:32:34.120 it's part of history,
00:32:35.160 it's necessary,
00:32:36.300 but if that's
00:32:36.840 where you're
00:32:37.140 focused in,
00:32:38.360 good luck,
00:32:39.640 that's a path
00:32:40.620 to failure.
00:32:43.360 So,
00:32:44.020 that's more
00:32:44.500 evidence
00:32:44.980 of that theme.
00:32:47.080 Let's talk about
00:32:47.560 Silicon Valley Bank.
00:32:49.200 You know,
00:32:50.020 in the fog of war,
00:32:51.840 it was kind of
00:32:52.500 confusing,
00:32:53.100 wasn't it?
00:32:53.520 Like,
00:32:53.920 what's happening
00:32:54.440 with Silicon Valley Bank?
00:32:56.020 But finally,
00:32:56.740 we know the truth.
00:32:59.200 I'll tell you the truth,
00:33:00.360 but first,
00:33:00.900 I'd like to give
00:33:01.420 a compliment
00:33:02.080 to Megan Kelly.
00:33:04.360 And this is a compliment
00:33:05.380 for something
00:33:05.960 I am unaware of.
00:33:07.980 In other words,
00:33:08.560 I haven't seen it.
00:33:09.760 But I understand
00:33:10.500 she had a very good
00:33:11.700 debate hosting
00:33:13.620 Vivek Ramaswamy
00:33:14.660 and David Sachs,
00:33:15.800 who had very
00:33:16.760 different opinions
00:33:17.460 about what to do
00:33:18.500 with Silicon Valley Bank.
00:33:20.920 Now,
00:33:21.240 that is
00:33:23.380 what I want
00:33:23.940 to see.
00:33:25.360 Thank you.
00:33:27.000 Thank you.
00:33:28.380 You want
00:33:28.900 somebody like
00:33:29.980 Megan Kelly,
00:33:31.540 like she's
00:33:31.980 sort of a perfect
00:33:32.720 example,
00:33:33.280 somebody who can
00:33:33.880 moderate,
00:33:35.060 you know,
00:33:35.180 somebody who's
00:33:35.620 a strong host
00:33:36.640 who can really
00:33:37.320 know,
00:33:38.100 you know,
00:33:38.300 you talk,
00:33:38.760 you talk,
00:33:39.380 let's get to this.
00:33:41.040 You want
00:33:41.840 to have enough
00:33:42.700 time,
00:33:43.500 you know,
00:33:43.680 not a two-minute
00:33:44.720 TV hit,
00:33:46.100 you want to have
00:33:46.500 enough time,
00:33:47.240 but more importantly,
00:33:48.600 you want to have
00:33:49.000 the right people.
00:33:49.740 They were exactly
00:33:51.680 the right people
00:33:52.600 for exactly that
00:33:54.400 at exactly that
00:33:55.820 point.
00:33:56.660 That is a service
00:33:58.060 to the country.
00:33:59.880 So,
00:34:00.160 Megyn Kelly's,
00:34:01.100 you know,
00:34:01.660 media that she's
00:34:02.900 doing for,
00:34:03.640 you know,
00:34:03.800 everybody is making
00:34:05.480 money and doing
00:34:06.220 their thing.
00:34:07.120 So,
00:34:07.520 I'm not saying
00:34:07.960 everything's,
00:34:08.560 you know,
00:34:09.680 for the good of
00:34:10.920 humankind.
00:34:11.960 There's always a
00:34:12.580 financial aspect to it
00:34:14.560 and should be.
00:34:15.720 That's,
00:34:16.000 you know,
00:34:16.200 good things should
00:34:16.960 be monetized,
00:34:18.080 but thank you.
00:34:20.380 I haven't even
00:34:21.320 seen it
00:34:21.960 and I love it.
00:34:23.800 Now,
00:34:23.940 how many of you
00:34:24.400 saw it?
00:34:25.160 Did any of you
00:34:25.540 see it?
00:34:27.600 Yeah,
00:34:27.920 I'm seeing good
00:34:29.000 comments,
00:34:29.640 the people who
00:34:30.100 saw it,
00:34:30.580 right?
00:34:31.420 Look,
00:34:31.760 can we have
00:34:32.220 more of that?
00:34:33.700 Like an actual,
00:34:34.880 honest,
00:34:36.460 well-moderated,
00:34:38.340 timely,
00:34:39.540 perfect people?
00:34:41.520 More of that,
00:34:42.460 please.
00:34:43.040 Good job,
00:34:43.860 Megyn Kelly.
00:34:44.380 All right,
00:34:45.700 but let me tell
00:34:46.180 you what we've
00:34:46.660 learned.
00:34:47.540 I've researched it
00:34:48.560 and what I found
00:34:49.200 for sure is that
00:34:51.780 the failure was
00:34:52.580 Trump's fault for
00:34:54.280 weakening the
00:34:55.000 Dodd-Frank laws
00:34:56.020 or it was the
00:34:58.260 Fed's fault for
00:34:58.960 raising interest
00:35:00.080 rates,
00:35:01.020 possibly Biden's
00:35:02.280 fault because of
00:35:02.900 the election,
00:35:04.320 but also bad
00:35:05.460 management's fault
00:35:06.300 and possibly the
00:35:08.780 World Economic
00:35:09.380 Forum for pushing
00:35:10.260 ESG,
00:35:10.860 which would be a
00:35:11.660 distraction and
00:35:12.660 some say may
00:35:13.360 have caused a
00:35:15.600 quality problem
00:35:16.300 in management.
00:35:18.060 So it's either
00:35:19.180 Trump's fault,
00:35:21.180 the Fed's fault,
00:35:22.320 management's fault,
00:35:23.820 Biden's fault,
00:35:25.000 or the World
00:35:25.820 Economic Forum's
00:35:26.880 fault,
00:35:27.200 but at least we've
00:35:27.780 cleared that up.
00:35:28.980 Now,
00:35:29.380 that's not the
00:35:29.860 only question.
00:35:31.240 There was some
00:35:31.980 concern whether
00:35:32.840 it was a bailout
00:35:33.840 or not a bailout,
00:35:35.020 so we finally have
00:35:36.640 clarity on that.
00:35:37.540 So it's totally a
00:35:40.800 bailout except it's
00:35:41.840 not a bailout because
00:35:43.200 the public pays for
00:35:44.840 it, which is a
00:35:45.340 bailout, except not
00:35:46.720 directly because it's
00:35:47.720 really the FDIC
00:35:48.540 insurance that they've
00:35:50.740 been collecting for
00:35:51.400 banks for a long
00:35:52.140 time.
00:35:52.460 So really it's the
00:35:53.360 FDIC and the bank's
00:35:55.260 insurance which is
00:35:56.040 paying, but really
00:35:57.060 that's kind of the
00:35:57.680 public because if we
00:35:58.820 ran out of that and
00:35:59.620 the other banks fail,
00:36:00.840 once that becomes
00:36:01.640 empty, that deposit,
00:36:03.660 that's the public.
00:36:04.200 So really it's a
00:36:06.200 bailout and the
00:36:07.660 public's paying for
00:36:08.380 it except the
00:36:08.840 public's not paying
00:36:09.480 for it.
00:36:09.740 The banks are
00:36:10.180 paying for it except
00:36:10.800 the public really
00:36:12.000 is paying for it.
00:36:13.200 So did that clear it
00:36:14.420 up?
00:36:14.620 I think it did.
00:36:17.620 But then also it's
00:36:18.820 not the banks that
00:36:19.600 would pay for it and
00:36:20.120 it's not the public
00:36:20.780 that would pay for it
00:36:21.520 because when the
00:36:22.520 Silicon Valley Bank
00:36:23.580 assets are sold,
00:36:24.980 the assets will go
00:36:25.900 to reimburse whoever
00:36:26.780 paid for it, which
00:36:27.640 was either the
00:36:28.320 public or the FDIC
00:36:29.420 depending on how
00:36:30.040 you look at it.
00:36:30.820 But really it's the
00:36:31.500 SBC, SFB assets
00:36:33.900 that are paying for
00:36:34.580 it unless there's
00:36:36.280 not enough because
00:36:37.420 if there's not
00:36:37.980 enough assets then
00:36:38.860 really it's the
00:36:39.380 FDIC who is paying
00:36:40.300 for it but that's
00:36:40.980 not really the
00:36:41.540 case because if
00:36:42.400 they run out of
00:36:42.960 money then it's
00:36:43.480 the public that
00:36:44.000 pays for it so
00:36:44.620 it's the public
00:36:45.080 that pays for it
00:36:45.720 not the FDIC except
00:36:47.240 it's really the
00:36:47.900 assets if they're
00:36:48.700 enough.
00:36:50.160 So and also the
00:36:54.620 good news is that
00:36:55.740 by guaranteeing the
00:36:57.460 assets which is
00:36:58.180 what the government
00:36:58.720 did they totally
00:37:00.760 prevented a run on
00:37:01.980 banks except that
00:37:03.880 that's not why
00:37:04.320 they did it.
00:37:04.900 It wasn't to
00:37:05.300 prevent a run on
00:37:06.020 banks and we
00:37:06.560 don't know if the
00:37:07.100 run on banks would
00:37:07.780 have happened anyway
00:37:08.440 and only the weak
00:37:09.180 banks would have
00:37:09.660 had a run on banks
00:37:10.380 and the weak banks
00:37:11.480 probably would have
00:37:12.000 failed anyway no
00:37:12.640 matter what they
00:37:13.100 did but they did
00:37:15.080 it to prevent a
00:37:16.080 run on banks or
00:37:17.640 possibly they did
00:37:18.820 it because it's
00:37:19.380 crony capitalism and
00:37:20.580 the Democrats in
00:37:22.340 Silicon Valley are
00:37:23.380 what CNN calls the
00:37:24.700 ATM for the
00:37:25.520 Democrat Party so
00:37:26.880 really it was just
00:37:27.680 an insider thing with
00:37:28.780 VCs covering their
00:37:30.660 own backs and their
00:37:31.600 good friends in
00:37:32.380 Silicon Valley had
00:37:33.500 nothing to do with
00:37:34.340 what's good for banks
00:37:35.120 or it stopped the
00:37:36.080 bank run and saved
00:37:36.840 the country but at
00:37:38.540 least we know the
00:37:39.120 answer now and
00:37:42.840 here's the good news
00:37:43.760 that the actions that
00:37:45.160 the government took
00:37:45.960 totally worked totally
00:37:48.320 worked so the bank
00:37:50.040 run is over nothing to
00:37:52.140 worry about or possibly
00:37:53.860 it's the first domino
00:37:54.980 because there are a
00:37:56.040 number of banks have
00:37:57.160 been added to the
00:37:57.740 watch list and the
00:37:58.520 interest rates are still
00:37:59.280 high and many people
00:38:00.100 took the same kind of
00:38:01.500 risk in a different
00:38:02.220 way so really it's
00:38:03.240 just the beginning of
00:38:03.920 the dominoes or it's
00:38:04.840 all over or we're all
00:38:06.900 good so I hope I
00:38:10.840 cleared it up if you've
00:38:11.840 been reading other
00:38:12.880 unclear things it's
00:38:15.840 that's why you come to
00:38:16.740 me well I saw
00:38:19.260 something that
00:38:19.980 impressed me and
00:38:20.760 made me feel good
00:38:21.580 about my country for
00:38:22.720 like a minute and a
00:38:24.100 half and I liked it
00:38:25.340 so representative Jeff
00:38:28.160 Jackson gave a video
00:38:30.220 in which he explained
00:38:31.580 what the government was
00:38:32.740 doing and why and I
00:38:35.740 was impressed as hell
00:38:36.940 here's the most
00:38:38.360 impressive thing about
00:38:39.600 representative Jeff
00:38:41.900 Jackson I listened to
00:38:44.740 his entire video and
00:38:46.680 wow is he good at
00:38:48.480 talking in public so
00:38:50.840 good that I wondered
00:38:51.640 what his background was
00:38:52.640 it almost looked like I
00:38:54.540 don't know I don't
00:38:55.660 even know how you get
00:38:56.380 that good it was just a
00:38:57.780 communication superstar
00:39:00.440 thing was he an actor
00:39:02.920 I mean it looks like he
00:39:04.400 has those skills but it
00:39:05.900 was amazing but here's
00:39:07.420 the part that impressed
00:39:08.200 me most it wasn't
00:39:09.560 amazing because he did a
00:39:10.800 good job communicating
00:39:12.100 when he was done just
00:39:15.580 think about this when he
00:39:17.300 was done I couldn't tell
00:39:19.480 if he was a Democrat or
00:39:21.420 Republican think about
00:39:23.320 that I mean just think
00:39:24.980 about that that's how
00:39:27.000 good he was he was so
00:39:29.280 good I couldn't tell if
00:39:31.800 he was a Democrat or
00:39:32.760 Republican couldn't tell
00:39:36.280 somebody said he's a
00:39:37.360 Democrat I even looked at
00:39:38.580 his profile and he does
00:39:39.660 on his profile he doesn't
00:39:41.960 list his party on his
00:39:44.280 Twitter profile it's not
00:39:46.100 listed yeah and I think he
00:39:48.540 said he's a dad and a
00:39:51.100 military veteran he
00:39:53.240 starts with dad and then
00:39:55.020 he does military veteran
00:39:56.180 is that a Democrat or
00:39:58.140 Republican starts with
00:40:00.080 dad yeah so I'd keep an
00:40:06.380 eye on that guy I think
00:40:08.080 he's a Democrat but I
00:40:09.120 would keep an eye on him
00:40:10.200 like that's that's some
00:40:12.360 serious skill that guy
00:40:13.420 got
00:40:13.660 and lastly maybe
00:40:18.080 lastly here's a prediction
00:40:20.480 that I made that you all
00:40:22.000 scoffed at maybe not
00:40:24.320 well but you could tell
00:40:25.660 me see if anybody agreed
00:40:27.420 with me when I made this
00:40:28.360 prediction that no matter
00:40:30.060 how the war in Ukraine
00:40:31.080 goes whether Putin wins
00:40:34.560 or Putin is a tie he
00:40:36.600 negotiates or Putin loses
00:40:38.080 in all situations Putin still
00:40:40.900 has to kill the head of the
00:40:42.060 Wagner group and he has
00:40:44.360 to diminish the Wagner
00:40:45.320 group's power would you
00:40:47.080 agree how many would
00:40:48.020 agree that no matter how
00:40:49.460 it goes Putin's gonna have
00:40:51.220 to get rid of Purgosian
00:40:52.740 the head of the Wagner
00:40:53.400 group yeah now that was my
00:40:55.780 prediction and I predicted
00:40:57.520 that you could that it was
00:40:59.020 actually happening that
00:41:00.800 that Russia or Putin was
00:41:04.160 allowing the Wagner group to
00:41:05.500 just waste all their people
00:41:07.040 and resources and sort of
00:41:08.980 losing propositions and
00:41:12.760 that's what the Wagner group
00:41:13.820 is saying now but I want
00:41:15.580 to give you one one quote
00:41:18.720 here I kind of wrapped it
00:41:22.080 up so this is a I think this
00:41:25.320 was in CNN so somebody named
00:41:28.380 Kovalenko I guess that's
00:41:29.700 somebody who knows something
00:41:30.800 about what's going on over
00:41:31.720 there said quote it is
00:41:33.340 difficult to say whether this
00:41:34.840 was a planned destruction of
00:41:36.980 the Wagner PMC but the fact
00:41:39.360 is the Russian military
00:41:40.940 command uses the Wagner
00:41:42.380 rights as living meat it's
00:41:44.920 difficult to say whether
00:41:46.280 this was a planned
00:41:47.460 destruction planned by
00:41:49.720 Putin so now this is an
00:41:52.140 actual somebody who knows
00:41:53.060 what they're talking about
00:41:54.020 as opposed to me like I
00:41:56.180 don't really know what I'm
00:41:56.860 talking about but it looked
00:41:58.140 like it to me I mean from a
00:41:59.900 distance it looked like oh
00:42:01.160 that Purgosian guy's getting
00:42:03.260 too much power within Russia
00:42:05.040 he's got to be killed and
00:42:06.900 the best way to do it would
00:42:08.320 be for Putin to just send
00:42:10.180 him and his forces out to
00:42:11.360 get massacred so well then
00:42:13.420 no matter what happens
00:42:14.500 later there are fewer of
00:42:15.720 them they're less powerful
00:42:16.800 so that looks like it looks
00:42:19.000 like other people who know
00:42:20.440 what they're talking about
00:42:21.220 think that's entirely possible
00:42:22.660 and I believe it's what's
00:42:25.080 happening so how many of you
00:42:27.000 would agree with my
00:42:28.000 hypothesis that Russia or
00:42:30.900 Putin wants to degrade the
00:42:33.340 Wagner group whether he wins
00:42:35.180 in Ukraine or not yeah it
00:42:38.800 looks like a lot of people
00:42:39.720 agree so I'm going to count
00:42:41.320 that as one of my best
00:42:42.720 predictions if it comes true
00:42:44.620 I don't know if we'll ever
00:42:45.560 be able to confirm it but I
00:42:47.280 think I'm the first person in
00:42:48.680 the at least in the country
00:42:50.140 who proposed that now I don't
00:42:53.880 know that it's true I'm not
00:42:55.240 claiming it's true right that
00:42:57.220 would be premature I'm saying
00:42:58.960 that people would know what
00:43:00.360 they're talking about which
00:43:01.860 does not include me are
00:43:04.260 saying it's true you saw it
00:43:07.560 on ISW I don't know what
00:43:10.340 that is so has anybody seen
00:43:13.000 that hypothesis in other
00:43:14.360 places yet besides CNN today
00:43:17.920 anybody seen that so somebody
00:43:19.960 says yes yes yes people see
00:43:24.060 that isn't it mind reading it's
00:43:25.820 speculation no it's not mind
00:43:28.540 reading it's it's based on the
00:43:30.460 fact that that's what anybody
00:43:31.700 would do so it doesn't require
00:43:34.220 mind reading it's just how do
00:43:36.340 people act in their best
00:43:37.720 interest yeah now those of you
00:43:40.880 who are saying it's wrong you
00:43:41.800 could be right yeah I wouldn't I
00:43:44.340 wouldn't die on this hill it
00:43:46.600 could be wrong yeah I agree but
00:43:49.720 it has that look now if you think
00:43:52.400 it's wrong is that because you
00:43:54.640 think Putin would feel safe if
00:43:56.540 progression won this war and came
00:43:59.960 home with a huge military that was
00:44:02.320 loyal to him do you think Putin
00:44:04.940 would be okay with that if you think
00:44:07.660 I'm wrong you have to say that Putin
00:44:09.260 would be okay with that now remember
00:44:12.660 I'm a little bit of a student of how
00:44:15.480 dictators stay in in power because I'm
00:44:18.140 always curious it just seems like it'd be
00:44:19.540 impossible and they tend to have this
00:44:21.880 similar kind of approach one part of
00:44:25.620 the dictator approach is a form their
00:44:27.820 own you know private army you know
00:44:30.380 like in Iran the Republican Guard or
00:44:33.320 whatever it is so you need your sort
00:44:34.780 of you know your own private loyal
00:44:36.400 army that's got better weapons than
00:44:38.080 the other army that might try to
00:44:40.040 overthrow you so that's one thing they
00:44:41.980 do but another thing that dictators do
00:44:44.200 is they kill everybody who's against
00:44:46.060 them right but also everyone who might
00:44:50.740 be against them later if you're a
00:44:53.620 dictator you don't kill only the
00:44:55.720 people who have directly moved against
00:44:57.360 you lately you got to get all the
00:45:00.060 people who might have in any possible
00:45:02.380 in any scenario might have you got to
00:45:06.000 get all the maybes like that that's
00:45:09.080 your basic dictator brutal dictator
00:45:11.120 technique right you got to get all the
00:45:13.180 maybes can't just get the ones who are
00:45:15.600 definitely your enemies and at the very
00:45:18.460 least Purgosian is a maybe enemy you
00:45:23.620 cannot doubt that he's a maybe enemy
00:45:25.700 can you can can anybody here doubt that
00:45:28.440 would anybody doubt that Purgosian is a
00:45:31.280 maybe enemy of Putin no you can't doubt
00:45:34.820 that and there's no dictator like a Putin
00:45:37.320 who is going to let a maybe enemy stay
00:45:39.880 around for long Purgosian's gonna be
00:45:42.600 dead in one year or two there's no way
00:45:45.460 he's gonna survive this unless he leaves
00:45:47.900 the country well even then that poison
00:45:49.640 probably so I don't think Purgosian can
00:45:52.660 survive Putin it would be crazy all right
00:45:57.740 and that ladies and gentlemen is the
00:46:03.700 conclusion of the best live stream you're
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00:47:00.580 the best memes you've ever seen from the
00:47:02.880 members themselves yeah I do have enough
00:47:07.480 to pay the bills you write but I can do
00:47:11.200 more and better things for the world if
00:47:14.100 I'm protected so let me check in with
00:47:20.860 you has anybody seen my reframe of race
00:47:24.260 where the alternative way to look at it
00:47:28.120 is through the personal success frame has
00:47:32.620 anybody seen that get boosted online or
00:47:35.140 anywhere else yet because that's the test
00:47:37.660 okay I'm seeing seeing a number of yeses
00:47:40.480 the test is whether it it starts to take
00:47:45.460 on a life of its own and I think that
00:47:48.200 because it's a high ground reframe meaning
00:47:51.700 that nobody can disagree with it it's
00:47:53.320 actually impossible to disagree with and
00:47:55.480 once you've seen it you can't get it out of
00:47:56.920 your head right so that that's that's what a
00:48:00.760 good antiviral looks like now I call it an
00:48:05.140 antiviral because there's a mind virus
00:48:09.580 that the best way to deal with the current
00:48:13.540 world is to look backwards at all the
00:48:16.080 the badness that happened and assign blame
00:48:18.760 and then you know get restitution for it
00:48:22.240 that that model of the world is just
00:48:25.340 inferior to a forward-looking model no
00:48:28.920 matter who you are it doesn't matter who
00:48:30.980 you are right looking forward works
00:48:33.960 looking backwards doesn't work and
00:48:36.600 there's no conversation about that
00:48:38.240 looking backwards can work in the short
00:48:40.700 run but you're always going to come out
00:48:42.660 worse than if you look forward what does
00:48:46.480 Elon Musk say oh that's a joke
00:48:47.880 not a joke all right you screenshot the
00:48:55.960 whiteboard to share okay yeah I saw
00:48:58.800 people so so here's how you know if an
00:49:02.100 idea is going to catch on if people do
00:49:04.940 something with the idea such as turn it
00:49:06.780 into a poster somebody said they
00:49:09.060 screenshot it to send it to somebody
00:49:11.720 those are actions when you see people
00:49:14.180 act on what is a reframe that means the
00:49:17.720 reframe is working so this has all of the
00:49:21.040 tells of something that will just
00:49:23.040 continue expanding it because it's sort
00:49:26.300 of an antivirus to the existing virus
00:49:29.080 yeah so I need an antiviral that's also
00:49:32.380 viral that has to reproduce in order to
00:49:35.420 reduce the effect of the virus all right
00:49:40.460 sell posters no I wouldn't sell them I
00:49:43.660 might make one that's a digital one all
00:49:50.040 right so that ladies and gentlemen
00:49:54.120 brings you to the end of the best
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00:50:01.880 benefits of membership and I will see you
00:50:04.480 tomorrow
00:50:04.760 you
00:50:19.740 you