Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2057 Scott Adams： Trump Arrest Or Hoax？ TikTok Hearing, Bell Curve Ridiculousness, Ukraine

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00:00:49.960 All right, we're going to take locals private.

00:00:51.880 And so I just saw a story before I came live here that there's some talk in the Biden administration

00:01:03.120 that although Kamala Harris is highly qualified, highly qualified,

00:01:08.940 some people in the administration, maybe Biden thinks that she hasn't exactly risen to the occasion

00:01:14.860 as often as she should, or ever.

00:01:17.280 So I guess the whisper campaign is starting.

00:01:23.820 Kamala, she will not last.

00:01:26.160 I don't think that's a good sign for her being a vice presidential candidate.

00:01:31.700 Well, Rasmussen did a poll on trusting experts.

00:01:35.240 And half of the 50% of likely U.S. voters say that the government handled the way the government handled COVID

00:01:46.420 makes them less trustful in public health officials.

00:01:51.720 Does that sound right?

00:01:54.200 After watching the pandemic,

00:01:57.500 do you think that, does it sound right that only half of the country is less trusting?

00:02:02.860 Only half?

00:02:03.740 How could it be only half?

00:02:08.460 What pandemic were they watching?

00:02:11.380 All right, well, let's see.

00:02:15.400 How about the media?

00:02:17.000 Yeah, 53% of people said they trust the media less.

00:02:21.840 That makes sense.

00:02:23.240 But only 53%?

00:02:26.020 Is that because people already didn't trust the media completely,

00:02:29.900 so there was no place to make it worse?

00:02:32.400 All right.

00:02:35.180 Well, let's see if I can poll the smartest people who have ever watched a live stream.

00:02:41.940 What percentage of the poll people say the pandemic coverage made them trust the media more?

00:02:51.500 Who became more trust?

00:02:53.700 Oh, wow, you're good.

00:02:55.080 Yeah, very close.

00:02:56.000 23%.

00:02:56.840 23% of the public said,

00:02:58.960 You know, after watching how the media performed in the pandemic,

00:03:05.000 I trust them a lot more.

00:03:07.060 Yeah.

00:03:07.920 Yeah, they nailed it.

00:03:09.560 Wow.

00:03:09.940 I was sitting at home not knowing what to do,

00:03:13.040 and the news just kept hitting it and hitting it,

00:03:15.820 and I mean, they could not have been more accurate in their reporting.

00:03:20.200 Well, that's consistent.

00:03:26.080 Well, in the news today, either Trump was arrested or none of that was ever real.

00:03:32.620 What do you think?

00:03:33.500 How many are going to vote for there was never going to be an arrest?

00:03:38.060 And how many vote for, well, there might be, maybe later, where they changed their mind?

00:03:44.900 I don't think it was totally a hoax or a prank or a play.

00:03:50.620 My best guess is that it's delayed while they're trying to make up their mind.

00:03:57.820 There's probably some infighting.

00:03:59.380 So I would say delayed, but potentially canceled.

00:04:03.200 I don't think it's canceled yet.

00:04:06.260 We probably know.

00:04:07.500 But I got a feeling that the public pressure made a difference.

00:04:13.260 It feels like it.

00:04:14.260 Maybe not.

00:04:15.260 You know, maybe it's just an ordinary delay.

00:04:17.100 Things get delayed for ordinary reasons.

00:04:19.320 In fact, if I had to guess, the most likely explanation for the delay

00:04:24.600 would be that there was just an ordinary problem.

00:04:30.740 You know, because everything gets delayed.

00:04:32.860 In what world do things happen on time?

00:04:35.960 Never, really.

00:04:37.120 So the fact that it didn't happen on time,

00:04:39.380 or even that it could be a week or a month late,

00:04:42.360 that's just like everything else in the world.

00:04:45.100 So I'm not going to say that it looks like a hoax.

00:04:47.280 I'm just going to say it looks delayed.

00:04:49.880 I don't think the Costello letter makes any difference, honestly.

00:04:53.720 You know, I think people saw the new document that came out,

00:04:58.740 which was Michael Cohen's own lawyer,

00:05:02.260 saying that Michael Cohen said that he paid it in his own pocket or something.

00:05:07.400 But I don't think that's going to make a difference.

00:05:10.540 Because that's still just a claim by a liar.

00:05:13.780 It doesn't matter how many additional claims are made by the same liar.

00:05:20.080 There's no credibility.

00:05:21.760 So it doesn't matter how many things he says.

00:05:24.360 Or when.

00:05:26.560 All right.

00:05:28.640 Wall Street Journal reporting on Ukraine.

00:05:31.180 What do I say before I talk about Ukraine?

00:05:33.280 Everything coming out of Ukraine is undependable and non-credible.

00:05:37.480 So if I say one day, it looks like Russia is winning,

00:05:40.740 that doesn't mean anything.

00:05:42.700 Because the very next day I might say,

00:05:44.620 well, it looks like Ukraine is winning,

00:05:46.540 just based on the news.

00:05:48.200 We have no idea what's happening over there.

00:05:50.800 You and I have no idea.

00:05:52.880 But it's interesting to know what the news is reporting,

00:05:56.520 because you can tell who's lying to you

00:05:58.560 or who's bad at reporting the news.

00:06:00.340 But the latest is that, surprise, surprise,

00:06:04.940 Ukraine is also facing challenges,

00:06:07.280 according to Wall Street Journal, in raising troops.

00:06:10.480 So it looks like it might be a human attrition problem

00:06:14.920 even more than equipment.

00:06:17.160 So Russia seems to have an equipment plus human problem.

00:06:22.040 Ukraine has at least a human problem,

00:06:25.420 probably equipment problems.

00:06:26.820 So it looks like they're just going to fight

00:06:30.120 until it's two Monty Python knights

00:06:32.800 facing each other with no arms and no legs,

00:06:35.240 and then anybody who wants to can just go push them over.

00:06:39.580 I feel they just have to punch themselves out.

00:06:43.720 And unfortunately, it will probably end

00:06:46.620 when there's no humans left to shoot stuff,

00:06:50.620 or there's so few that they can.

00:06:52.480 The weirdest thing about Ukraine

00:06:55.120 is that they're fighting over this city called Bakhmut.

00:06:59.940 Am I saying it right?

00:07:01.580 Bakhmut.

00:07:02.840 And here's what we know about it.

00:07:04.340 The city was destroyed,

00:07:06.360 and then some people controlled it,

00:07:08.420 and then some other people controlled it,

00:07:09.820 but it's still destroyed.

00:07:11.540 What exactly is the whole point

00:07:13.180 of conquering a city that doesn't exist anymore?

00:07:17.660 Is it strategic?

00:07:18.820 I mean, the things they're fighting over

00:07:21.980 are just ridiculous.

00:07:23.240 I mean, territory, sure.

00:07:25.100 But it's such a ridiculous fight.

00:07:28.620 They're fighting over scraps.

00:07:30.640 There weren't scraps until they were fighting.

00:07:34.040 The absurdity level is just...

00:07:36.620 I suppose war is always absurd on some level,

00:07:39.200 but this is a pretty high absurdity level.

00:07:42.000 Well, how many of you saw any of the clips

00:07:46.480 from the TikTok CEO testifying to Congress?

00:07:52.200 It's the first time I've ever felt good about Congress,

00:07:55.340 because I have to say

00:07:57.540 that both the Democrats and the Republicans,

00:08:01.820 number one, they were unified

00:08:03.700 in their criticisms of TikTok.

00:08:07.460 Good to see that.

00:08:08.460 You know, when there's an external threat,

00:08:11.700 America can still come together.

00:08:13.500 You kind of wonder, don't you?

00:08:15.120 You wonder if we could come together over anything?

00:08:18.580 And sure enough, we did.

00:08:21.680 Second thing I'd like to compliment,

00:08:23.600 the people who participated in Congress,

00:08:26.220 they looked very prepared.

00:08:29.040 Did you notice that?

00:08:30.580 I thought everybody came, you know,

00:08:32.380 loaded for the hunt.

00:08:35.160 Democrats, Republicans,

00:08:36.160 and honestly, I couldn't even tell who was who.

00:08:38.460 I could not tell who was the Democrat

00:08:40.460 and who was Republican unless I already knew them.

00:08:43.180 They all looked well-prepared,

00:08:46.180 really strong on the issue,

00:08:48.940 seemed to know all the details,

00:08:51.340 pushed in exactly the right places.

00:08:53.600 And what I saw was a massacre.

00:08:56.100 That CEO just got massacred in public.

00:08:59.060 I mean, he did the best he could,

00:09:01.500 but there wasn't much you could do,

00:09:03.560 because the facts were just not on his side.

00:09:05.740 And he used the,

00:09:08.720 well, thank you, representative.

00:09:12.120 I'll have my team look into that.

00:09:13.720 I don't know.

00:09:15.020 Well, is it true that you do X?

00:09:17.620 Well, I can't speak to that,

00:09:19.300 but I'll research that and get back to you.

00:09:22.300 Do you think that he got back to anybody with anything?

00:09:25.940 Do you think that's going to happen?

00:09:27.620 And why would he, really?

00:09:29.480 I mean, why doesn't he just promise

00:09:31.260 he'll get back to him

00:09:32.060 and just not get back to him?

00:09:34.380 I mean, I feel like that's what's going to happen.

00:09:41.340 Glenn Greenwald says

00:09:42.500 the government wants to control TikTok

00:09:44.760 because they can't control it

00:09:46.500 like they can control the other stuff.

00:09:48.940 Maybe.

00:09:49.880 It might be part of it.

00:09:51.200 That's not the whole story, though.

00:09:53.700 Here's what I saw.

00:09:54.460 I thought of all the people

00:09:56.680 who asked TikTok questions,

00:09:59.300 I thought Dan Crenshaw was the standout

00:10:03.160 because the difference between

00:10:05.740 when Dan Crenshaw was talking

00:10:07.860 to the CEO of TikTok

00:10:08.940 versus a lot of the others,

00:10:10.820 he was very clear

00:10:12.600 on the risk not simply being data security.

00:10:17.360 The real risk is that

00:10:18.740 they can influence American opinions.

00:10:21.640 Now, Crenshaw did that really well.

00:10:24.640 In other words,

00:10:25.120 he understood the big risk

00:10:26.400 and he put it in context.

00:10:28.480 The others, less good at that,

00:10:30.940 but they all had good points.

00:10:32.800 So I'm not sure everybody

00:10:34.200 had to make the entire case like he did,

00:10:37.220 but they all made individual good points

00:10:39.100 about problems.

00:10:41.940 But I guess I have,

00:10:44.780 this is the one time

00:10:45.820 I can look at a congressional performance

00:10:47.820 and say,

00:10:49.440 I don't have any complaints about it.

00:10:52.360 Did you have the same experience?

00:10:54.500 Like, every once in a while

00:10:55.800 you have to pause.

00:10:57.300 You have to pause and say,

00:10:59.020 okay, they did that well.

00:11:01.540 That was just good, solid, patriotic,

00:11:05.820 America first stuff.

00:11:08.500 Now, that's not every member of Congress, right?

00:11:11.040 So there's always some crazy person

00:11:12.700 that the lobbyist got to or something.

00:11:15.460 But, uh, good job.

00:11:19.140 What do you think's going to happen?

00:11:21.600 Do you think Congress will act on it

00:11:23.680 in a way that is consistent with...

00:11:27.720 No, I don't think so.

00:11:30.640 I think they put on a good show

00:11:32.600 and then they're not going to,

00:11:34.620 they're not going to do much at all.

00:11:36.640 I suspect that they will not ban it.

00:11:41.820 Or they'll put it to another committee

00:11:44.360 to talk about it some more.

00:11:47.040 Or they'll try to get, you know,

00:11:49.040 TikTok solution where, you know,

00:11:51.600 there's some American control

00:11:53.260 and act like that's good enough.

00:11:55.620 Something like that.

00:11:57.200 I just, uh,

00:11:59.180 I don't have confidence

00:12:00.340 that they can execute.

00:12:03.340 I do have confidence

00:12:04.520 that they ask the right questions.

00:12:06.080 So they're good at, you know,

00:12:07.580 showboating in front of the public.

00:12:09.300 They did that pretty well.

00:12:13.080 I'm still seeing people say,

00:12:15.380 in response to the TikTok thing,

00:12:17.740 you see it on social media,

00:12:19.500 people are still saying,

00:12:20.940 what's the problem?

00:12:22.860 TikTok is gathering information,

00:12:24.560 but that's what they all do.

00:12:26.980 Have you seen that?

00:12:28.680 How could you be more confused

00:12:30.560 about what's the problem?

00:12:32.080 You know,

00:12:34.160 somebody said,

00:12:36.300 what's the difference

00:12:37.120 between Facebook and TikTok?

00:12:40.400 What's the difference?

00:12:41.020 They both collect all your data.

00:12:44.780 And I think the fact

00:12:47.600 that China owns one of them

00:12:49.040 seems like,

00:12:50.900 how could you miss

00:12:51.740 that important part?

00:12:54.000 Yeah.

00:12:54.260 It's almost like

00:12:54.960 a willful ignorance.

00:12:56.700 Like, I don't want to know

00:12:57.720 the argument against TikTok

00:12:58.760 because I really like TikTok.

00:12:59.880 All right.

00:13:02.020 And then the other bad argument

00:13:04.020 is that small businesses

00:13:06.720 depend on TikTok.

00:13:09.300 All of those functions

00:13:10.460 would just move over

00:13:11.560 to somewhere else,

00:13:13.060 like Instagram

00:13:14.140 or Snapchat or something.

00:13:16.660 So it's not like it goes away.

00:13:18.240 They would just use,

00:13:18.980 they would just move

00:13:19.540 their spending dollars

00:13:20.460 from a Chinese company

00:13:21.560 to an American company.

00:13:24.300 I mean,

00:13:24.920 I can't imagine

00:13:25.500 it would be that different.

00:13:26.620 In the short run,

00:13:27.260 it might be a little different.

00:13:28.140 But in the long run,

00:13:29.520 not so much.

00:13:33.880 And then I saw

00:13:34.960 a semi-defensive TikTok,

00:13:37.120 if you could call it that,

00:13:38.580 on CNN.

00:13:39.740 Now, to their credit,

00:13:41.540 CNN seems to be covering

00:13:42.980 the risk of TikTok accurately.

00:13:46.600 So I'm going to give CNN

00:13:48.260 a little credit, too.

00:13:49.420 They are treating TikTok

00:13:50.580 like a danger.

00:13:52.360 So good for them.

00:13:53.740 They're not just automatically

00:13:55.160 taking the opposite position

00:13:56.600 of Fox News.

00:13:58.560 So I'm happy about that.

00:14:00.440 But they did let

00:14:01.280 an opinion person

00:14:02.580 go on to say

00:14:03.480 that there's no evidence

00:14:05.440 whatsoever

00:14:06.180 that China has done

00:14:08.200 anything bad

00:14:09.020 regarding TikTok.

00:14:12.040 So really,

00:14:13.580 your concerns about TikTok

00:14:14.740 are really,

00:14:16.920 they're about future problems.

00:14:20.420 Don't you understand

00:14:21.420 that there's no evidence

00:14:23.740 that China has done

00:14:25.780 something bad?

00:14:27.160 You're really,

00:14:27.800 you're just worrying

00:14:28.580 about non-proven,

00:14:30.340 potential,

00:14:32.280 speculative,

00:14:33.420 future problems.

00:14:36.360 Is that the dumbest argument

00:14:38.000 you've ever heard?

00:14:39.800 The entire argument

00:14:41.300 about climate change

00:14:42.400 is not about

00:14:42.980 what's happening today.

00:14:44.840 It's not about today.

00:14:46.340 It's never about today.

00:14:49.300 It's always about

00:14:50.320 if you don't take care

00:14:51.500 of something,

00:14:52.020 something worse

00:14:52.560 will happen in the future.

00:14:54.260 How do people say that

00:14:55.680 in public?

00:14:57.540 Act like you can discount

00:14:59.320 the obvious danger

00:15:01.060 for tomorrow

00:15:01.780 because it hasn't

00:15:03.280 happened today.

00:15:04.340 We see exactly

00:15:05.380 the same thing

00:15:06.100 with the election

00:15:07.200 integrity stuff.

00:15:09.120 When somebody says

00:15:10.400 there's no evidence

00:15:11.480 that anything was rigged,

00:15:12.940 I say,

00:15:15.080 are you saying

00:15:16.440 it can't happen

00:15:17.120 next time?

00:15:18.560 Well,

00:15:18.900 there's no evidence

00:15:19.740 it happened last time.

00:15:21.860 Did you look everywhere

00:15:23.100 that you could look?

00:15:24.420 Well,

00:15:25.200 we didn't find anything,

00:15:26.820 but did you look

00:15:27.520 everywhere you could

00:15:28.480 have looked?

00:15:29.500 Well,

00:15:30.120 we didn't find any.

00:15:31.680 No,

00:15:31.940 but did you look

00:15:32.880 everywhere you could

00:15:34.400 have looked?

00:15:35.600 Can you actually audit

00:15:36.600 everything that happens?

00:15:39.160 Scott,

00:15:39.680 how many times

00:15:40.260 do I have to tell you?

00:15:41.100 you extreme MAGA people,

00:15:44.580 there was nothing found.

00:15:49.140 That's how the

00:15:50.040 conversation goes,

00:15:50.900 right?

00:15:52.220 It's always,

00:15:53.440 let me make a very

00:15:55.140 extreme point

00:15:56.060 that's off the topic

00:15:58.420 a little bit.

00:15:59.600 That's all we see.

00:16:00.740 Anyway,

00:16:01.960 we'll see if TikTok

00:16:03.060 gets banned or not.

00:16:08.180 Take a,

00:16:10.180 your guess is not,

00:16:11.520 right?

00:16:12.340 That's also my guess.

00:16:13.960 My guess is it won't

00:16:14.860 be banned

00:16:15.340 because I don't think

00:16:17.420 they can execute.

00:16:20.180 All right,

00:16:21.260 well,

00:16:21.420 I saw a tweet

00:16:22.320 by Eugene Scott,

00:16:24.040 I think he writes

00:16:24.560 for Axios.

00:16:25.980 He was talking about

00:16:26.720 there are three members

00:16:27.560 of Congress

00:16:28.420 who were sort of,

00:16:30.400 you know,

00:16:30.700 unavailable at the time

00:16:31.760 and he reported it

00:16:32.880 this way,

00:16:33.240 he said,

00:16:34.140 Mitch McConnell,

00:16:35.300 he was undergoing

00:16:36.280 therapy after a fall.

00:16:38.860 There's John Fetterman

00:16:39.800 who was being treated

00:16:40.620 for depression

00:16:41.520 and there's

00:16:44.140 Dianne Feinstein

00:16:45.060 who has battled

00:16:47.760 shingles,

00:16:48.580 has battled shingles.

00:16:50.640 So,

00:16:51.320 McConnell

00:16:52.800 undergoing therapy

00:16:53.780 for fall,

00:16:54.640 Fetterman treated

00:16:55.240 for depression

00:16:55.920 and Feinstein

00:16:56.940 battling shingles.

00:16:58.220 I'm wondering

00:16:58.700 if those are

00:16:59.200 euphemisms.

00:16:59.880 Mitch McConnell

00:17:03.380 is undergoing

00:17:04.060 therapy after a fall

00:17:05.640 and that sounds

00:17:06.960 a little bit

00:17:07.820 like he rolled

00:17:08.780 on his back

00:17:09.600 and because

00:17:11.740 he can't get up

00:17:13.440 and nobody's

00:17:13.860 helping him.

00:17:14.700 Does it sound

00:17:14.980 like that a little bit?

00:17:16.440 Yeah,

00:17:16.700 maybe he just

00:17:17.160 accidentally rolled

00:17:17.880 on his back.

00:17:19.460 And John Fetterman

00:17:20.740 is being treated

00:17:21.380 for depression

00:17:22.320 which might mean

00:17:25.780 he's already

00:17:27.440 reincarnated,

00:17:28.420 already reincarnated.

00:17:31.780 I don't know.

00:17:33.580 It just has

00:17:34.100 that feel about it.

00:17:35.700 And then

00:17:36.080 where they said

00:17:36.800 where the tweet

00:17:37.980 says that

00:17:38.580 Feinstein

00:17:39.280 battled shingles

00:17:40.380 I thought to myself

00:17:41.700 battled shingles?

00:17:43.920 If you have shingles

00:17:45.400 usually you say

00:17:46.180 you have shingles.

00:17:48.160 She had shingles

00:17:49.000 she's recovering.

00:17:50.440 But battling shingles

00:17:51.500 that sounds like

00:17:52.080 a euphemism

00:17:52.660 for the cat

00:17:53.260 is on the roof

00:17:53.920 where the shingles

00:17:55.240 are.

00:17:56.140 Where the shingles

00:17:56.940 are.

00:17:57.160 So yeah,

00:17:59.160 I think it's

00:17:59.780 Mitch McConnell

00:18:01.020 rolled on his back

00:18:02.120 can't get up

00:18:03.460 Fetterman

00:18:03.980 is already

00:18:04.480 reincarnated

00:18:05.280 and Dianne Feinstein

00:18:06.380 she's the cat

00:18:07.660 on the roof.

00:18:08.920 So that's how

00:18:09.380 you read

00:18:09.660 between the lines.

00:18:11.700 So you can't

00:18:12.520 just read the headlines

00:18:13.280 the way they're written.

00:18:14.800 You have to read

00:18:15.280 between the lines.

00:18:16.500 That's how you know

00:18:17.000 what's happening.

00:18:19.440 All right.

00:18:21.580 Here's my favorite

00:18:22.740 story of racists

00:18:25.280 people complaining

00:18:28.620 about racism

00:18:29.440 being racist.

00:18:30.820 So you have to see

00:18:31.620 this video

00:18:32.160 that's going around

00:18:32.840 today.

00:18:33.820 Apparently

00:18:34.300 Michael Knowles

00:18:36.200 you might know him

00:18:37.100 from Daily Wire

00:18:38.080 is going to give

00:18:40.840 a speech

00:18:41.260 or was giving

00:18:41.680 a speech

00:18:42.200 at Purdue

00:18:43.980 University

00:18:44.640 and there was

00:18:46.760 a very large

00:18:47.600 protest

00:18:48.140 in which

00:18:49.320 they were

00:18:50.080 chanting

00:18:51.700 F off

00:18:53.480 Nazis

00:18:54.160 or Nazi.

00:18:55.800 So they were

00:18:56.280 suggesting that

00:18:57.060 Michael Knowles

00:18:57.700 is sort of a

00:18:58.600 Nazi

00:18:58.920 based on the

00:19:01.780 fact that he

00:19:02.480 likes

00:19:02.820 talking about

00:19:04.560 his opinions.

00:19:06.480 So that's

00:19:07.400 enough to get

00:19:08.480 you labeled

00:19:09.060 a Nazi

00:19:09.720 in America.

00:19:11.200 So you should

00:19:11.900 see how big

00:19:13.620 the protest

00:19:14.080 was.

00:19:15.020 Like the

00:19:15.340 hallways were

00:19:15.960 just lined

00:19:16.420 with people

00:19:16.960 and you

00:19:18.200 know

00:19:18.380 well

00:19:18.860 you're calling

00:19:19.460 it a small

00:19:19.880 protest.

00:19:20.700 I would say

00:19:21.340 by college

00:19:22.940 standards

00:19:23.380 it would be

00:19:23.820 biggish.

00:19:24.960 Biggish.

00:19:25.680 And then I

00:19:26.400 looked at the

00:19:27.020 video

00:19:27.460 and there

00:19:29.580 wasn't a

00:19:30.040 single black

00:19:30.720 person in the

00:19:31.540 protest.

00:19:33.780 Looked like

00:19:34.500 there might have

00:19:34.840 been some

00:19:35.280 Asian Americans

00:19:36.020 there.

00:19:37.000 A few.

00:19:37.880 But basically

00:19:38.520 it was the

00:19:39.400 biggest gathering

00:19:40.520 of white people

00:19:41.260 I've ever seen

00:19:41.960 in America.

00:19:43.920 I can't think

00:19:44.500 of another

00:19:44.900 gathering of

00:19:45.600 that many

00:19:46.080 white people

00:19:46.640 I've ever

00:19:47.000 seen in one

00:19:47.500 place.

00:19:49.000 You know

00:19:49.140 even a

00:19:49.620 Trump rally

00:19:50.880 has more

00:19:51.360 black people

00:19:51.900 in it.

00:19:52.620 That was

00:19:53.120 the whitest

00:19:53.720 bunch of

00:19:54.260 people who

00:19:54.960 ever argued

00:19:55.680 against racism.

00:19:57.680 Because I've

00:19:58.400 got a feeling

00:19:58.880 maybe they

00:20:00.440 should have

00:20:00.720 taken a

00:20:01.200 little look

00:20:01.820 in the

00:20:02.080 mirror because

00:20:02.720 they seem

00:20:03.400 to have all

00:20:04.120 self-selected

00:20:05.620 the whitest

00:20:06.200 place on

00:20:06.820 earth.

00:20:08.960 Huh.

00:20:10.380 So maybe

00:20:11.120 they should

00:20:11.560 fix their

00:20:12.160 own diversity

00:20:12.900 problem before

00:20:13.960 they complain

00:20:16.040 about Michael

00:20:16.640 Knowles.

00:20:17.680 Maybe.

00:20:19.240 Just saying.

00:20:21.280 Well,

00:20:22.680 before I

00:20:24.180 talk about

00:20:24.740 the minority

00:20:25.780 leader for

00:20:27.060 the House,

00:20:30.720 how many

00:20:31.520 people in

00:20:32.460 ordinary America

00:20:33.820 would even be

00:20:34.520 able to identify

00:20:35.440 Hakeem Jeffries?

00:20:37.820 How well

00:20:38.560 known is he

00:20:39.240 outside of

00:20:40.700 people who

00:20:41.220 talk about

00:20:41.760 politics all

00:20:42.540 the time?

00:20:44.000 Yeah,

00:20:44.240 who?

00:20:45.320 So for

00:20:46.320 those of you

00:20:46.800 who don't

00:20:47.060 know who

00:20:47.380 he is,

00:20:49.180 I'd like to

00:20:49.980 give you

00:20:50.360 just a brief

00:20:51.280 overview,

00:20:52.260 just sort of

00:20:52.760 summarize them

00:20:53.320 a little bit,

00:20:54.020 so that you

00:20:54.820 can understand

00:20:55.480 who he is.

00:20:56.440 Imagine if

00:20:57.140 you were,

00:20:58.560 if you

00:20:58.960 started with

00:20:59.820 Obama.

00:21:01.680 Imagine Obama.

00:21:04.000 And think

00:21:05.360 of all the

00:21:06.140 good things

00:21:06.860 about Obama.

00:21:08.080 Now I know

00:21:08.660 this is a

00:21:09.340 political group,

00:21:10.180 so you're

00:21:10.440 going to be

00:21:10.620 like, I

00:21:10.920 don't like

00:21:11.260 his policies,

00:21:12.300 blah, blah,

00:21:12.680 but forget

00:21:13.260 about that

00:21:13.620 for a moment.

00:21:14.580 Forget about

00:21:15.020 the things

00:21:15.340 you don't

00:21:15.740 like about

00:21:16.240 Obama,

00:21:17.420 but just

00:21:17.800 think of

00:21:18.120 some of

00:21:18.360 the things

00:21:18.560 you do

00:21:18.880 like,

00:21:19.860 some of

00:21:20.180 his best

00:21:20.600 political

00:21:21.100 qualities,

00:21:22.360 the fact

00:21:22.780 that he

00:21:23.060 could get

00:21:23.480 elected in

00:21:24.280 a federal

00:21:25.020 race with

00:21:25.700 an unprecedented

00:21:26.500 number of

00:21:27.220 white votes,

00:21:28.640 very impressive

00:21:29.340 as a politician.

00:21:30.560 So if you

00:21:30.860 imagine all

00:21:31.340 the best

00:21:31.960 parts of

00:21:32.480 Obama,

00:21:33.680 and then

00:21:34.300 imagine

00:21:34.740 somebody who

00:21:35.280 doesn't have

00:21:35.680 any of

00:21:36.180 those,

00:21:37.660 just none

00:21:38.140 of them,

00:21:38.440 and that

00:21:39.660 would be

00:21:39.920 Hakeem

00:21:40.240 Jeffries.

00:21:41.520 So that's

00:21:42.120 the best

00:21:42.360 way to

00:21:42.620 understand him

00:21:43.200 is everything

00:21:43.720 good about

00:21:44.280 Obama,

00:21:44.860 he somehow

00:21:45.260 doesn't have,

00:21:46.040 not any

00:21:46.540 of those

00:21:46.840 things.

00:21:47.820 So he

00:21:48.580 only wants

00:21:49.220 to show

00:21:49.780 us that

00:21:50.480 we're racist

00:21:51.100 no matter

00:21:51.480 what we

00:21:51.840 do,

00:21:52.480 and he's

00:21:53.640 decided

00:21:54.080 that people

00:21:56.900 who want

00:21:57.460 school choice

00:21:58.940 are really

00:22:00.860 extreme

00:22:01.420 mega

00:22:01.720 Republicans

00:22:02.220 who don't

00:22:03.360 want the

00:22:03.720 children of

00:22:04.260 America to

00:22:04.800 learn about

00:22:05.220 the Holocaust.

00:22:05.660 Yeah,

00:22:07.580 that's what

00:22:08.340 school choice

00:22:08.960 is about,

00:22:10.400 according to

00:22:11.160 the person

00:22:12.000 who has

00:22:12.340 none of

00:22:12.660 the good

00:22:12.920 qualities of

00:22:13.620 Obama.

00:22:15.280 School choice

00:22:16.160 is about

00:22:16.540 extreme

00:22:16.960 mega

00:22:17.260 Republicans

00:22:17.760 not wanting

00:22:19.040 America to

00:22:19.660 learn about

00:22:20.060 the Holocaust.

00:22:21.660 That is

00:22:22.200 the dumbest,

00:22:23.320 that's just

00:22:25.460 the dumbest

00:22:26.080 thing anybody

00:22:26.560 ever said.

00:22:28.040 Like,

00:22:28.300 at what

00:22:28.840 point can

00:22:29.380 you start

00:22:29.760 saying,

00:22:30.180 well,

00:22:30.300 this isn't

00:22:30.720 about

00:22:30.960 politics?

00:22:32.620 Is that

00:22:32.980 about

00:22:33.220 politics?

00:22:34.520 Or is

00:22:34.780 that just

00:22:35.100 like one

00:22:35.620 guy being

00:22:36.120 so dumb

00:22:36.720 that you

00:22:37.840 can't even

00:22:38.220 believe it?

00:22:39.520 Like,

00:22:39.860 that's his

00:22:40.840 argument.

00:22:43.120 Amazing.

00:22:46.480 Secondly,

00:22:47.800 may I

00:22:48.300 point out

00:22:48.820 that the

00:22:49.200 only reason

00:22:49.760 that he's

00:22:50.120 railing

00:22:50.500 against

00:22:50.820 what he

00:22:51.420 calls these

00:22:51.940 extreme

00:22:52.380 mega

00:22:52.680 Republicans

00:22:53.180 is because

00:22:53.780 they're

00:22:54.040 white.

00:22:55.340 Can we

00:22:56.000 be honest?

00:22:57.160 You wouldn't

00:22:57.560 be saying

00:22:57.980 it if they

00:22:58.420 weren't

00:22:58.660 mostly white.

00:23:00.360 It's basically

00:23:01.040 just a racist

00:23:01.740 statement from

00:23:02.400 a racist

00:23:02.960 who is

00:23:03.860 pretending to

00:23:04.480 be the

00:23:04.780 anti-racist

00:23:05.540 by being

00:23:05.960 super

00:23:06.280 racist.

00:23:08.100 That's

00:23:08.620 everything

00:23:09.120 that Obama

00:23:10.060 didn't do.

00:23:12.540 I always

00:23:13.300 say Obama

00:23:13.800 was so

00:23:14.140 smart because

00:23:14.920 he ran

00:23:15.220 for president

00:23:15.780 as not

00:23:16.740 necessarily a

00:23:17.580 black guy,

00:23:18.380 just somebody

00:23:19.020 who had

00:23:19.240 some good

00:23:19.580 ideas.

00:23:20.880 That's the

00:23:21.540 smartest thing

00:23:22.020 he ever did.

00:23:22.960 Now,

00:23:23.280 it didn't

00:23:23.540 work out

00:23:24.060 because the

00:23:25.260 country became

00:23:25.920 more divided,

00:23:27.640 but that part

00:23:28.820 certainly he

00:23:29.780 played right.

00:23:31.140 And I've

00:23:31.740 always appreciated

00:23:32.460 that about

00:23:33.040 his approach.

00:23:35.240 So the

00:23:36.800 hypocrisy is

00:23:37.760 screaming and

00:23:38.620 hilarious today.

00:23:43.100 And I

00:23:43.840 guess if

00:23:44.640 we were to

00:23:45.960 embrace and

00:23:46.960 amplify the

00:23:48.240 fact that the

00:23:49.280 Democrats only

00:23:49.980 have one note,

00:23:52.300 it's like,

00:23:52.860 so what do

00:23:54.140 you think about

00:23:54.620 the banking

00:23:55.220 situation?

00:23:56.040 Racist.

00:23:57.340 What do you

00:23:58.140 think about

00:23:58.620 Ukraine?

00:23:59.020 You're

00:23:59.320 racist.

00:24:01.240 I mean,

00:24:02.360 they only

00:24:02.560 have that

00:24:02.840 one thing.

00:24:04.120 That's all

00:24:05.020 they have.

00:24:06.340 But you

00:24:07.460 would think

00:24:07.960 that with

00:24:08.640 all of that,

00:24:09.280 they would

00:24:09.540 have noticed

00:24:10.040 that the

00:24:10.980 number one

00:24:11.620 biggest racist

00:24:12.400 thing the

00:24:12.980 country is

00:24:13.460 doing is,

00:24:14.420 would anybody

00:24:14.820 like to

00:24:15.720 jump in?

00:24:16.500 What's the

00:24:17.000 number one

00:24:17.640 biggest racist

00:24:18.580 thing that

00:24:20.940 the United

00:24:21.880 States is

00:24:22.540 engaged in

00:24:23.200 right now?

00:24:27.660 Public schools,

00:24:29.020 CRT,

00:24:31.080 close.

00:24:31.860 Yeah,

00:24:32.060 those are

00:24:32.400 racist.

00:24:33.060 ESG,

00:24:33.780 CRT,

00:24:34.200 those are

00:24:34.460 all racist

00:24:34.860 things.

00:24:35.720 DEI is

00:24:36.260 racist.

00:24:36.860 Teachers unions.

00:24:37.920 No,

00:24:38.180 you're not

00:24:38.420 even close.

00:24:39.900 Reparations,

00:24:40.560 no.

00:24:41.120 Those are

00:24:41.580 all small

00:24:42.240 things.

00:24:43.540 They're all

00:24:43.940 small.

00:24:44.680 I mean,

00:24:45.100 they're very

00:24:45.840 important,

00:24:46.820 but they're

00:24:47.360 small compared

00:24:47.960 to what I'm

00:24:48.480 going to

00:24:48.680 mention.

00:24:50.620 Climate

00:24:51.100 change.

00:24:52.540 Climate

00:24:53.040 change.

00:24:53.900 Climate

00:24:54.380 change is

00:24:55.120 dollar-wise,

00:24:57.260 and in

00:24:57.580 terms of

00:24:58.000 number of

00:24:58.480 people that

00:24:58.860 would be

00:24:59.140 impacted,

00:25:00.220 is enormous

00:25:01.780 compared to

00:25:02.600 all these

00:25:02.920 things.

00:25:04.340 And if

00:25:05.320 you fight

00:25:05.840 climate change

00:25:06.560 the way the

00:25:07.000 Democrats

00:25:07.340 would like

00:25:07.840 to, it

00:25:09.300 will hold

00:25:09.920 back third

00:25:12.100 world countries

00:25:12.840 from developing

00:25:13.580 the way we

00:25:14.060 have.

00:25:14.640 In other

00:25:14.940 words,

00:25:15.140 they won't

00:25:15.420 be able to

00:25:15.840 have 200

00:25:16.400 years of

00:25:17.080 coal

00:25:18.380 development.

00:25:20.740 And mostly

00:25:21.740 those are

00:25:22.160 non-white

00:25:22.800 populations.

00:25:24.800 How in

00:25:25.260 the world

00:25:25.700 is the

00:25:26.440 single

00:25:26.800 biggest

00:25:27.280 racist

00:25:27.800 thing

00:25:28.180 that's

00:25:28.420 ever

00:25:28.660 happened

00:25:29.000 in the

00:25:29.400 history

00:25:29.800 of the

00:25:30.940 world,

00:25:32.440 that's not

00:25:33.660 even the

00:25:34.080 topic?

00:25:35.100 It's the

00:25:35.920 biggest

00:25:36.280 racist

00:25:36.760 event in

00:25:38.140 the world

00:25:38.820 of all

00:25:40.000 time.

00:25:40.680 It's bigger

00:25:41.580 than slavery.

00:25:44.040 It's bigger

00:25:44.800 than slavery.

00:25:45.960 Not worse,

00:25:47.160 you know,

00:25:47.400 if you're

00:25:47.640 looking at

00:25:48.060 how any

00:25:48.880 individual is

00:25:49.580 being treated,

00:25:50.420 slavery is

00:25:50.840 much worse.

00:25:51.380 But if

00:25:52.220 you look at

00:25:52.560 the overall

00:25:53.320 impact on

00:25:54.260 non-white

00:25:54.800 people,

00:25:55.580 it's the

00:25:56.720 worst that's

00:25:57.360 ever happened.

00:25:58.580 And I'm

00:25:58.840 not talking

00:25:59.240 about the

00:25:59.620 climate change,

00:26:00.420 I'm talking

00:26:00.740 the response

00:26:01.420 to it.

00:26:02.440 The response

00:26:03.080 to it is

00:26:03.560 what would

00:26:04.040 cripple any

00:26:05.720 population

00:26:06.320 that has

00:26:06.820 not yet

00:26:08.260 fully developed.

00:26:09.840 So how

00:26:10.760 in the

00:26:11.020 world do

00:26:11.480 the Republicans

00:26:12.200 let the

00:26:12.960 Democrats

00:26:13.460 get away

00:26:14.100 with being

00:26:15.540 the major

00:26:16.540 part of

00:26:17.440 the biggest

00:26:18.060 racist

00:26:18.920 economic

00:26:20.460 move of

00:26:21.200 all time

00:26:21.960 by a

00:26:23.780 factor of

00:26:24.240 a thousand.

00:26:25.380 We're not

00:26:25.980 talking about

00:26:26.460 things that

00:26:26.860 are in the

00:26:27.120 same neighborhood,

00:26:28.880 right?

00:26:29.700 Like,

00:26:30.020 even as

00:26:30.640 horrible as,

00:26:31.500 let's say,

00:26:31.780 the public

00:26:32.180 school systems

00:26:33.080 are and all

00:26:33.800 that,

00:26:34.280 there's nowhere

00:26:34.860 near the

00:26:35.420 scale of

00:26:36.940 what the

00:26:37.580 entire climate

00:26:38.600 changing the

00:26:39.640 economy and

00:26:40.400 banning

00:26:41.020 carbon fuels

00:26:42.100 and stuff

00:26:42.420 like that.

00:26:43.940 Now,

00:26:44.320 and that's

00:26:44.640 just caring

00:26:45.900 about people

00:26:46.980 in other

00:26:47.700 countries,

00:26:49.280 right?

00:26:49.620 Because we're

00:26:50.080 supposed to

00:26:50.480 care about

00:26:50.860 them,

00:26:51.100 right?

00:26:51.380 If they're

00:26:51.700 humans,

00:26:52.220 we should

00:26:52.540 care about

00:26:52.920 them.

00:26:53.540 But if you

00:26:54.280 just said,

00:26:54.720 oh,

00:26:54.880 I'm America

00:26:55.400 first,

00:26:56.700 well,

00:26:57.020 don't you

00:26:57.360 think that

00:26:57.900 the low

00:27:00.580 income part

00:27:01.400 of America

00:27:01.960 is suffering

00:27:03.260 more than

00:27:03.740 the high

00:27:04.060 income part

00:27:04.660 because of

00:27:05.780 our energy

00:27:06.320 policies?

00:27:08.740 If Trump

00:27:09.580 were president,

00:27:10.860 gas would

00:27:11.340 be cheap,

00:27:12.720 and I'm

00:27:13.100 pretty sure

00:27:13.600 black people

00:27:14.280 buy gas.

00:27:16.800 I mean,

00:27:17.480 how in the

00:27:18.140 world are we

00:27:19.020 ignoring the

00:27:19.820 only thing

00:27:20.380 that is

00:27:20.680 massively,

00:27:21.720 massively

00:27:22.460 racist?

00:27:23.940 Massively

00:27:24.380 racist.

00:27:25.640 And that's

00:27:26.280 the one

00:27:26.600 thing they

00:27:26.960 ignore.

00:27:28.180 In fact,

00:27:28.740 they're telling

00:27:29.100 the story

00:27:29.520 that not

00:27:30.040 doing it

00:27:30.440 would be

00:27:30.700 racist.

00:27:32.460 Ridiculous.

00:27:33.480 The most

00:27:33.920 ridiculous racist

00:27:35.000 thing of all

00:27:36.100 time.

00:27:36.520 So you can

00:27:36.940 tell that

00:27:37.300 they're not

00:27:37.600 serious in

00:27:38.440 any way

00:27:38.720 about racism.

00:27:39.760 It's just

00:27:40.220 they have

00:27:40.480 this one

00:27:40.920 note,

00:27:41.700 and the

00:27:42.200 only time

00:27:42.580 they don't

00:27:43.000 use it

00:27:43.360 was when

00:27:43.800 it's super

00:27:44.340 true.

00:27:45.600 Super

00:27:46.000 true.

00:27:46.380 that's

00:27:47.980 more than

00:27:48.380 regular

00:27:48.720 true.

00:27:50.440 Well,

00:27:52.220 let's

00:27:54.760 see,

00:27:55.080 what else

00:27:55.400 is crazy?

00:27:58.340 Speaking of

00:27:59.140 affirmative

00:27:59.720 action,

00:28:01.720 Vivek

00:28:02.520 Ramaswamy

00:28:03.120 was tweeting

00:28:03.660 this,

00:28:04.000 he says,

00:28:04.720 there's a

00:28:05.120 reason why

00:28:05.680 I'm the

00:28:05.980 only candidate

00:28:06.580 willing to

00:28:07.060 talk about

00:28:07.500 ending

00:28:07.760 affirmative

00:28:08.160 action.

00:28:08.640 and that

00:28:11.560 Trump's

00:28:13.560 team,

00:28:14.040 he's

00:28:14.360 indicating

00:28:14.860 that

00:28:15.160 Trump's

00:28:15.720 people

00:28:16.040 at some

00:28:16.900 point

00:28:17.140 said it

00:28:17.520 was not

00:28:17.860 a political

00:28:18.300 hill they

00:28:18.680 wanted to

00:28:19.020 die on.

00:28:20.240 And then

00:28:20.560 Ramaswamy

00:28:21.060 says,

00:28:21.440 you could

00:28:21.640 drag my

00:28:22.200 dead body

00:28:22.800 out of the

00:28:23.100 White House

00:28:23.440 before I

00:28:23.960 finish taking

00:28:25.120 on this

00:28:25.520 issue.

00:28:26.300 Well,

00:28:26.780 to be

00:28:27.140 fair,

00:28:28.520 the whiter

00:28:29.120 you are,

00:28:29.680 the less

00:28:30.020 you can

00:28:30.340 take on

00:28:30.740 this issue.

00:28:32.520 I mean,

00:28:32.940 if we're

00:28:33.420 being honest,

00:28:34.560 for political

00:28:35.280 reasons,

00:28:36.220 it was hard

00:28:36.940 to be

00:28:37.420 Trump supporters

00:28:38.380 and take

00:28:38.900 this on.

00:28:39.880 But Vivek

00:28:40.560 can do

00:28:40.860 it.

00:28:42.000 Yeah,

00:28:42.280 Vivek

00:28:42.580 can do

00:28:42.920 it,

00:28:43.140 and he

00:28:43.320 has at

00:28:44.940 least the

00:28:45.580 cover of

00:28:47.200 not being

00:28:47.620 the whitest

00:28:48.100 guy in

00:28:48.400 the race.

00:28:50.380 And again,

00:28:53.400 he's picking

00:28:53.840 up the

00:28:54.220 free money

00:28:54.700 from the

00:28:55.180 Republican

00:28:55.560 side,

00:28:56.300 and I

00:28:56.620 think that

00:28:56.940 his argument

00:28:57.420 has legs

00:28:58.180 on the

00:28:59.880 left if

00:29:00.460 he plays

00:29:00.840 it right,

00:29:01.500 which he

00:29:01.820 probably

00:29:02.000 does.

00:29:02.540 Yeah,

00:29:02.700 we're

00:29:02.820 private.

00:29:05.040 All right,

00:29:05.540 remember I

00:29:05.980 was telling

00:29:06.280 you I was

00:29:06.560 trying to

00:29:06.820 come up

00:29:07.120 with a

00:29:07.560 funny

00:29:08.880 alternative

00:29:09.420 to what

00:29:09.920 the letters

00:29:10.320 ESG

00:29:10.920 mean,

00:29:12.080 because people

00:29:13.040 don't know

00:29:13.780 what it means

00:29:14.420 in reality,

00:29:15.540 but they're

00:29:16.620 sure they

00:29:16.980 like it.

00:29:18.720 You know,

00:29:19.240 it means

00:29:19.480 environmental,

00:29:20.460 social,

00:29:20.960 and governance.

00:29:21.980 So basically

00:29:22.600 it means

00:29:23.420 green fuel

00:29:25.200 and more

00:29:27.740 diversity

00:29:28.280 running

00:29:29.520 companies.

00:29:29.980 so Vivek

00:29:32.920 has come

00:29:33.320 up with

00:29:33.760 a new

00:29:34.360 meaning

00:29:34.600 for ESG,

00:29:36.460 export

00:29:36.920 Soviet

00:29:37.400 gas.

00:29:39.140 How do

00:29:39.440 you like

00:29:39.660 that?

00:29:40.340 Export

00:29:40.880 Soviet

00:29:41.380 gas.

00:29:42.200 The argument

00:29:42.880 would be

00:29:43.540 that on the

00:29:44.560 environmental

00:29:45.000 side,

00:29:45.840 if we

00:29:46.580 restrict

00:29:47.140 our own

00:29:48.360 energy,

00:29:49.120 all we're

00:29:49.720 doing is

00:29:50.380 increasing the

00:29:51.180 energy that

00:29:52.000 Russia can

00:29:52.960 sell.

00:29:53.860 Now,

00:29:54.160 that's just

00:29:54.620 true,

00:29:55.760 right?

00:29:56.120 I mean,

00:29:57.180 it's not

00:29:57.480 the only

00:29:58.120 variable in

00:29:59.420 the argument,

00:29:59.980 but it's

00:30:00.300 completely

00:30:00.740 true.

00:30:01.860 The ESG

00:30:02.480 means export

00:30:03.340 more Soviet

00:30:03.940 gas.

00:30:05.100 That's

00:30:05.600 literally

00:30:05.900 true.

00:30:06.740 So,

00:30:08.260 I'm going

00:30:10.780 to endorse

00:30:11.120 that.

00:30:11.760 Export

00:30:12.240 Soviet

00:30:12.660 gas.

00:30:13.800 That works.

00:30:15.280 It doesn't

00:30:15.840 cover the

00:30:16.500 social and

00:30:17.620 governance

00:30:17.920 part of

00:30:18.400 it,

00:30:19.460 but I

00:30:20.560 don't know

00:30:20.840 that you

00:30:21.100 should.

00:30:22.040 I think

00:30:22.420 if you

00:30:22.700 just pick

00:30:23.720 out the

00:30:24.140 stupidest

00:30:24.660 part of

00:30:25.040 it,

00:30:25.260 maybe that's

00:30:25.700 the best

00:30:25.960 way to

00:30:26.280 attack it.

00:30:27.320 So,

00:30:27.560 I think

00:30:27.760 he's

00:30:27.940 making a

00:30:28.300 lot of

00:30:28.480 smart

00:30:28.740 attacks.

00:30:30.820 All right.

00:30:33.860 How many

00:30:34.480 of you

00:30:34.920 would like

00:30:35.420 to see me

00:30:35.880 talk about

00:30:36.360 the so-called

00:30:37.280 bell curve?

00:30:40.400 Is anybody

00:30:41.240 up for

00:30:41.680 trouble?

00:30:43.560 Please

00:30:44.000 no.

00:30:47.340 Well,

00:30:47.840 then,

00:30:48.100 I'm going

00:30:48.420 to talk

00:30:48.720 about the

00:30:49.140 bell curve.

00:30:50.460 In the

00:30:51.060 90s,

00:30:51.500 there was a

00:30:51.760 book called

00:30:52.080 The Bell

00:30:52.340 Curve,

00:30:53.600 in which

00:30:54.080 there were

00:30:55.320 two major

00:30:57.740 themes that

00:30:58.500 people got

00:30:59.260 out of

00:30:59.580 it.

00:31:00.280 Now,

00:31:00.440 when I

00:31:00.660 say what

00:31:01.020 people got

00:31:01.620 out of

00:31:01.980 it,

00:31:02.440 that doesn't

00:31:03.140 mean that

00:31:03.480 the authors

00:31:03.900 put it

00:31:04.360 into it.

00:31:05.400 It means

00:31:05.800 that's how

00:31:06.200 it was

00:31:06.420 interpreted.

00:31:07.840 So,

00:31:08.580 the authors

00:31:09.100 looked at

00:31:11.420 research and

00:31:12.200 said,

00:31:12.960 IQ is

00:31:13.760 definitely

00:31:14.260 strongly

00:31:14.980 correlated with

00:31:15.920 success.

00:31:17.260 Is anybody

00:31:17.680 surprised?

00:31:18.860 Is anybody

00:31:19.600 surprised that

00:31:20.320 IQ is highly

00:31:21.200 correlated with

00:31:22.220 making money

00:31:23.160 and being

00:31:23.460 successful?

00:31:24.180 No.

00:31:24.780 So,

00:31:25.180 that part

00:31:25.520 of it was

00:31:25.920 probably not

00:31:26.400 surprising at

00:31:27.040 all.

00:31:27.900 The second

00:31:28.420 part of it

00:31:28.960 is where

00:31:29.420 all the

00:31:29.640 trouble

00:31:29.880 happened,

00:31:30.940 where they

00:31:31.380 measured

00:31:31.820 differences

00:31:32.400 by ethnicities,

00:31:34.420 by race.

00:31:36.060 Now,

00:31:36.620 they did

00:31:37.100 not say

00:31:37.700 that there's

00:31:39.140 some genetic

00:31:39.720 reason for

00:31:40.360 it.

00:31:41.040 They were

00:31:41.600 silent on

00:31:42.740 why the

00:31:43.860 difference.

00:31:44.700 In other

00:31:45.000 words,

00:31:45.360 it could be

00:31:45.760 that they

00:31:46.100 measured it

00:31:46.640 wrong,

00:31:47.120 it could be

00:31:47.660 it's

00:31:48.500 environmental,

00:31:49.400 it could be

00:31:50.460 poverty-related,

00:31:51.980 something like

00:31:52.740 that.

00:31:53.260 It could be

00:31:53.660 more lead in

00:31:54.400 the paint in

00:31:56.420 some areas and

00:31:57.120 other places.

00:31:58.140 So,

00:31:58.620 they were sort

00:31:58.960 of silent on

00:31:59.560 it.

00:31:59.780 But,

00:32:00.880 a reasonable

00:32:01.760 reading of the

00:32:02.480 book would

00:32:02.940 suggest that

00:32:04.740 they wouldn't

00:32:05.180 have mentioned

00:32:05.760 it unless they

00:32:07.520 thought it was

00:32:08.060 sort of

00:32:09.040 important.

00:32:10.440 And so,

00:32:11.440 to interpret

00:32:12.080 it,

00:32:13.120 people thought,

00:32:13.940 oh,

00:32:14.920 some people

00:32:15.820 said,

00:32:16.860 I think we

00:32:17.560 found out why

00:32:18.400 there's a

00:32:18.880 difference in

00:32:19.420 performance among

00:32:20.200 the races,

00:32:20.680 because they

00:32:22.000 would say,

00:32:22.380 it's in

00:32:22.580 this book.

00:32:23.200 This book

00:32:23.580 says IQ

00:32:24.420 is related,

00:32:26.520 different races

00:32:27.100 have different

00:32:27.620 IQs,

00:32:28.240 there it is,

00:32:28.740 we've explained

00:32:29.360 everything away.

00:32:31.000 Here is my

00:32:32.120 debunking of

00:32:33.720 that point of

00:32:34.360 view.

00:32:36.100 And I'm

00:32:36.400 going to use

00:32:36.840 myself as an

00:32:37.780 example,

00:32:39.040 and a

00:32:40.260 hypothetical,

00:32:41.860 might be true,

00:32:42.660 I don't know,

00:32:43.060 but it's

00:32:43.320 hypothetical.

00:32:44.520 Doesn't matter

00:32:45.060 if it's true,

00:32:45.640 I'm just using

00:32:46.200 it as an

00:32:46.580 example.

00:32:47.860 Suppose I

00:32:48.560 found out

00:32:49.100 that my

00:32:50.440 group of

00:32:51.240 white people

00:32:51.860 had lower

00:32:53.280 IQ on

00:32:53.980 average than

00:32:55.600 Vietnamese

00:32:56.320 Americans.

00:32:58.100 I don't know

00:32:58.800 if that's

00:32:59.160 true.

00:32:59.860 I have no

00:33:00.240 idea if

00:33:01.240 it's true

00:33:01.520 or not.

00:33:02.260 But let's

00:33:02.620 say it was

00:33:02.940 true.

00:33:04.260 Let's say

00:33:04.880 that there

00:33:05.680 was a big

00:33:06.040 difference,

00:33:06.920 like 10,

00:33:07.520 15 points.

00:33:09.420 So,

00:33:10.240 what do I

00:33:10.980 do when I

00:33:11.500 wake up?

00:33:12.900 How do I

00:33:13.540 act differently

00:33:14.240 now that I

00:33:15.560 know that,

00:33:16.120 in my

00:33:17.000 example,

00:33:18.400 if I

00:33:18.780 know that

00:33:19.160 Vietnamese

00:33:19.540 Americans had

00:33:20.320 higher academic

00:33:21.220 performance and

00:33:22.940 higher IQs,

00:33:23.980 what would I

00:33:24.560 do about it?

00:33:26.560 Would I

00:33:27.200 give up because

00:33:28.460 I can't do as

00:33:29.440 well as they

00:33:29.880 can do?

00:33:30.700 I don't think

00:33:31.460 I would.

00:33:32.460 I think all I

00:33:33.280 would do is

00:33:33.800 incorporate it

00:33:34.640 into my

00:33:35.360 strategy.

00:33:37.760 And I'd say,

00:33:38.320 oh, well,

00:33:39.600 you might be

00:33:40.080 able to beat

00:33:40.440 me on a

00:33:40.840 test, but

00:33:41.980 maybe I

00:33:42.500 could outwork

00:33:43.040 you.

00:33:43.620 Well, good

00:33:43.980 luck with that.

00:33:44.580 And maybe

00:33:46.340 I can form a

00:33:48.100 strategy by

00:33:49.400 putting together,

00:33:50.320 let's say,

00:33:50.620 a talent stack

00:33:51.480 that my

00:33:53.020 combined skills,

00:33:54.320 maybe none of

00:33:54.920 them are as

00:33:55.360 good as the

00:33:55.880 person I'm

00:33:56.300 competing against,

00:33:57.380 but when I

00:33:57.980 combine them,

00:33:58.580 I'm a more

00:33:59.320 capable full

00:34:00.860 package.

00:34:02.380 I just

00:34:02.760 adjust my

00:34:03.280 strategy for

00:34:04.920 the fact that

00:34:05.540 somebody can

00:34:06.180 beat me at

00:34:06.640 something on

00:34:07.320 average.

00:34:08.580 Now, of

00:34:08.940 course, I

00:34:09.360 would know

00:34:09.820 that if I

00:34:11.240 were applying

00:34:11.680 for a job

00:34:12.300 and there

00:34:13.220 were another

00:34:13.680 Vietnamese

00:34:14.940 American

00:34:15.560 applying for

00:34:17.040 the same

00:34:17.340 job, would

00:34:18.460 I say to

00:34:18.860 myself, no,

00:34:19.720 I'll never

00:34:20.180 get that

00:34:20.620 job because

00:34:21.760 of the

00:34:22.160 average?

00:34:24.580 No, of

00:34:25.640 course not.

00:34:27.360 I would

00:34:27.940 apply for

00:34:28.380 the job

00:34:28.860 because the

00:34:29.700 average doesn't

00:34:30.400 tell me that

00:34:31.040 that person is

00:34:31.680 smarter than

00:34:32.140 me.

00:34:33.400 It doesn't

00:34:34.200 tell me anything

00:34:34.720 about that one

00:34:35.360 situation.

00:34:36.360 So if you

00:34:37.040 ask yourself,

00:34:37.720 how would you

00:34:38.460 use the

00:34:39.020 information,

00:34:40.720 it turns out

00:34:41.260 there's no

00:34:41.640 way to use

00:34:42.100 it?

00:34:43.660 All you

00:34:44.240 would do is

00:34:45.020 do the

00:34:45.300 things you

00:34:45.640 should have

00:34:45.940 been doing

00:34:46.280 anyway.

00:34:47.540 You should

00:34:48.060 have been

00:34:48.480 having your

00:34:49.840 maximum strategy,

00:34:51.540 doing whatever

00:34:52.180 is the best

00:34:52.740 thing you can

00:34:53.280 do independent

00:34:54.060 of what

00:34:54.500 anybody else

00:34:55.040 is doing.

00:34:56.080 Or what

00:34:56.840 would the

00:34:57.740 law do?

00:34:58.900 What would

00:34:59.280 the government

00:34:59.760 do differently

00:35:00.360 if it found

00:35:01.740 out that I

00:35:02.340 had a lower,

00:35:03.300 if I were a

00:35:04.000 member of a

00:35:04.560 group, that

00:35:05.520 has nothing

00:35:05.880 to do with

00:35:06.520 me, but I'm

00:35:07.660 a member of a

00:35:08.360 group with

00:35:09.440 lower IQ than

00:35:10.700 some other

00:35:11.160 group, what

00:35:12.380 does my

00:35:13.040 government do?

00:35:15.180 Nothing, I

00:35:15.920 hope.

00:35:16.800 I would hope

00:35:17.500 they do

00:35:17.800 nothing.

00:35:19.280 Because if

00:35:20.600 you help all

00:35:21.300 of the

00:35:21.580 individuals and

00:35:22.500 all of the

00:35:22.980 groups do

00:35:24.140 the best they

00:35:24.720 can, you

00:35:25.680 get the best

00:35:26.200 outcome.

00:35:27.320 It's very

00:35:27.800 clear that

00:35:28.320 helping everybody

00:35:29.040 who needs

00:35:29.460 help gets

00:35:31.120 you a good

00:35:31.520 outcome.

00:35:32.520 But what

00:35:32.940 would you do

00:35:33.420 if you found

00:35:33.940 some average

00:35:35.320 difference?

00:35:38.020 There's nothing

00:35:38.780 you can do

00:35:39.320 with it, except

00:35:41.200 be a

00:35:42.620 frickin'

00:35:42.920 racist.

00:35:44.420 The only

00:35:45.300 thing you

00:35:45.760 can do with

00:35:46.260 that information

00:35:46.940 about differences

00:35:47.720 in IQs, because

00:35:49.160 it's an average,

00:35:50.960 if it spoke to

00:35:52.020 every single

00:35:52.700 person in the

00:35:53.380 group, well

00:35:55.300 then you

00:35:55.780 could be a

00:35:56.560 racist and use

00:35:57.300 it for some

00:35:57.780 useful purpose.

00:35:59.100 But as long

00:35:59.700 as it doesn't

00:36:00.200 tell you anything

00:36:00.880 about an

00:36:01.500 individual, and

00:36:03.120 everything you

00:36:03.780 and I do is

00:36:04.400 with individuals,

00:36:05.660 we're not going

00:36:06.280 to do anything

00:36:06.720 differently.

00:36:08.780 We're still

00:36:09.380 going to judge

00:36:09.840 people individually.

00:36:10.840 And the reason

00:36:11.360 you would judge

00:36:11.880 people individually

00:36:12.600 is that it's

00:36:13.260 for your

00:36:13.600 benefit.

00:36:14.880 It's not that

00:36:15.340 you're such an

00:36:15.880 open-minded,

00:36:16.580 great person.

00:36:17.780 If you didn't

00:36:18.540 trust people, if

00:36:19.380 you didn't treat

00:36:20.760 individuals individually,

00:36:23.300 you would miss

00:36:24.460 out on some

00:36:26.380 vast number of

00:36:27.520 people who have

00:36:28.160 a lot to

00:36:30.360 contribute.

00:36:31.980 So you'd be

00:36:32.660 hurting yourself

00:36:33.400 to take a

00:36:34.020 strategy of

00:36:34.860 assuming you

00:36:35.660 know what

00:36:36.000 somebody is by

00:36:37.120 an average,

00:36:37.800 by an

00:36:39.540 average, and

00:36:40.600 suppose you're

00:36:41.300 white, and

00:36:43.860 let's say you're

00:36:45.120 Vietnamese-American.

00:36:46.540 Suppose you're

00:36:47.080 Vietnamese-American

00:36:47.860 and you found

00:36:48.340 out that your

00:36:48.840 group had, on

00:36:50.480 average, higher

00:36:51.520 IQ than

00:36:52.080 another group.

00:36:54.360 Do you feel

00:36:54.900 good about

00:36:55.280 yourself?

00:36:57.220 Well, if you

00:36:58.160 did, why?

00:37:00.880 Why?

00:37:02.100 You're not the

00:37:02.920 average.

00:37:03.980 You could feel

00:37:04.840 good about

00:37:05.200 yourself if you

00:37:05.940 individually were

00:37:07.020 smarter than most

00:37:07.740 people.

00:37:09.240 Maybe you could

00:37:09.920 feel good about

00:37:10.460 that.

00:37:11.660 But if you're

00:37:12.560 not the smartest

00:37:14.260 person in your

00:37:14.960 group, why do

00:37:16.240 you get credit

00:37:16.900 for the fact that

00:37:17.600 somebody else is?

00:37:20.080 How do I get

00:37:21.020 credit for the

00:37:22.600 fact that Einstein

00:37:24.180 was smart?

00:37:26.220 I'm not even

00:37:27.000 related.

00:37:28.060 How do I get

00:37:28.700 credit for that?

00:37:30.320 What, because

00:37:30.760 he's white too?

00:37:33.320 So the whole

00:37:35.580 idea that the

00:37:37.040 average of

00:37:37.800 anything is

00:37:38.820 something you

00:37:39.380 can use is

00:37:40.980 ridiculous.

00:37:42.620 Now let me

00:37:43.220 give you one

00:37:44.160 good way you

00:37:45.200 could use it,

00:37:45.840 I think.

00:37:47.160 Let's say if you

00:37:48.140 found one ethnic

00:37:49.320 group had higher

00:37:51.200 or lower IQ.

00:37:52.240 It might be a

00:37:54.040 flag that there's

00:37:55.560 something they're

00:37:56.020 doing environmentally

00:37:56.840 that's different.

00:37:58.700 That's a possibility.

00:37:59.340 For example, one

00:38:02.240 of the issues

00:38:02.740 that I agree

00:38:03.620 with with Black

00:38:04.420 Lives Matter is

00:38:06.160 about nutritional

00:38:08.020 equality.

00:38:11.040 Nutritional

00:38:11.660 equality.

00:38:12.360 That might be

00:38:12.920 one place where

00:38:13.640 equity makes

00:38:14.280 more sense than

00:38:14.920 equality.

00:38:16.320 Because it

00:38:16.700 shouldn't be

00:38:17.120 equality of

00:38:18.060 potentially having

00:38:19.960 good food.

00:38:21.240 It should be

00:38:22.000 do we all have

00:38:23.280 a decent diet?

00:38:24.680 That is one

00:38:25.520 area where

00:38:26.200 equity makes a

00:38:28.000 lot more sense

00:38:28.620 than in other

00:38:29.180 areas.

00:38:30.600 So how much

00:38:31.920 does nutrition

00:38:33.660 contribute to

00:38:36.080 IQ?

00:38:38.520 I don't know.

00:38:39.820 But it could be

00:38:40.660 a lot.

00:38:41.380 It could be a

00:38:41.760 lot.

00:38:42.260 So if you

00:38:42.680 found out,

00:38:43.240 for example,

00:38:43.740 that one group

00:38:44.560 had a difference

00:38:46.720 where they're

00:38:47.260 higher than

00:38:47.720 lower than

00:38:48.100 the average,

00:38:48.700 the first thing

00:38:49.560 I'd ask is

00:38:50.180 what do they

00:38:50.580 eat?

00:38:51.740 What do they

00:38:52.200 eat?

00:38:53.920 Because if it

00:38:54.580 turned out that

00:38:55.340 let's say this

00:38:56.540 is just ridiculous

00:38:57.840 speculation,

00:38:58.620 but suppose it

00:38:59.600 turned out that

00:39:00.280 rice was really

00:39:01.300 way better for

00:39:02.160 you than you

00:39:02.720 thought.

00:39:04.260 And you'd say,

00:39:05.140 well, everybody

00:39:05.640 eats rice.

00:39:06.520 But I'd say,

00:39:07.100 well, not as

00:39:07.560 much.

00:39:08.660 You know,

00:39:08.900 Asian Americans

00:39:09.580 probably,

00:39:11.260 probably,

00:39:12.080 I've never

00:39:12.800 studied it,

00:39:13.460 but I'm guessing,

00:39:14.720 might eat more

00:39:15.360 rice.

00:39:16.400 What if it

00:39:16.840 turns out that

00:39:17.380 rice was really

00:39:18.120 good for your

00:39:18.600 brain?

00:39:19.180 I'm not saying

00:39:19.760 it is.

00:39:20.140 I'm just

00:39:20.520 speculating.

00:39:21.280 That would be

00:39:21.780 the only good

00:39:22.680 use for knowing

00:39:24.460 that there was

00:39:24.940 any kind of

00:39:25.440 ethnic difference

00:39:26.280 in IQ.

00:39:27.460 Otherwise,

00:39:28.020 there's nothing

00:39:28.360 you can do

00:39:28.860 with it,

00:39:29.480 because it

00:39:29.800 doesn't speak

00:39:30.320 to a person.

00:39:31.660 If it doesn't

00:39:32.160 speak to

00:39:32.520 individuals,

00:39:33.140 it doesn't

00:39:33.500 work in our

00:39:33.980 system.

00:39:35.040 Our system

00:39:35.640 is about,

00:39:37.000 or should be,

00:39:38.000 maximizing

00:39:38.600 individual happiness,

00:39:39.860 not group

00:39:41.060 average.

00:39:42.160 That would be

00:39:42.600 the dumbest

00:39:43.100 way to manage

00:39:43.700 a country,

00:39:44.360 is to try to

00:39:45.500 get the group

00:39:46.040 average up,

00:39:47.180 of any group.

00:39:48.680 It makes

00:39:49.260 no sense at

00:39:49.820 level.

00:39:54.780 A troll

00:39:55.640 asked me,

00:39:56.220 are Jewish

00:39:56.700 people

00:39:57.060 superiors,

00:39:57.920 Scott?

00:39:59.220 Did you

00:39:59.820 listen to

00:40:00.200 anything I

00:40:00.820 just fucking

00:40:01.400 said?

00:40:02.860 Did you

00:40:03.440 listen to

00:40:03.800 anything I

00:40:04.400 just said?

00:40:06.580 As soon as

00:40:07.460 you say the

00:40:08.000 average of any

00:40:08.880 group, and

00:40:10.240 compare it to

00:40:10.740 the average of

00:40:11.500 any group,

00:40:11.980 you're an

00:40:12.340 idiot.

00:40:13.380 You're just a

00:40:14.280 fucking idiot.

00:40:15.540 You're looking

00:40:16.200 for trouble.

00:40:16.780 The only

00:40:18.220 thing that's

00:40:18.700 good for is

00:40:19.260 being a

00:40:20.120 troublemaker.

00:40:22.180 What was that

00:40:23.400 question for

00:40:24.060 other than to

00:40:24.700 demonstrate you're

00:40:25.360 obviously anti-Semitic?

00:40:27.020 Was there anything

00:40:27.740 else that that

00:40:28.300 question could

00:40:28.820 possibly do that

00:40:30.120 makes the world

00:40:30.940 a better place?

00:40:32.100 No.

00:40:32.960 No.

00:40:33.600 Every time you

00:40:34.380 say the average

00:40:35.120 of this group to

00:40:35.860 the average of

00:40:36.360 the group,

00:40:36.920 you're just being

00:40:37.800 stupid or racist.

00:40:40.480 Now, if what

00:40:41.640 you're arguing is,

00:40:42.720 let's say,

00:40:43.780 for or against

00:40:44.560 affirmative action,

00:40:46.780 I mean, that's

00:40:48.280 a separate

00:40:48.680 argument, and

00:40:50.020 I've been in

00:40:50.520 favor of

00:40:50.940 affirmative action

00:40:51.840 historically, but

00:40:53.600 I think it's

00:40:54.000 time to re-look

00:40:54.680 at it.

00:40:55.740 That's why I

00:40:56.080 agree with

00:40:56.640 Vivek that

00:40:58.240 it's a good

00:40:59.240 time to be

00:40:59.820 having the

00:41:00.680 conversation about

00:41:02.780 pivoting, because

00:41:04.420 it might be

00:41:04.940 creating more

00:41:05.500 problems than

00:41:06.100 it's solving

00:41:06.540 right now.

00:41:07.900 If we fixed,

00:41:08.920 I think if we

00:41:09.560 fixed education,

00:41:12.020 then it would

00:41:12.440 be much less

00:41:13.360 important to

00:41:14.080 have any kind

00:41:16.440 affirmative action.

00:41:19.680 There's such a

00:41:20.640 shortage of

00:41:21.200 skilled workers,

00:41:22.200 and it looks

00:41:22.620 like that will

00:41:23.100 continue, that I

00:41:24.600 would imagine

00:41:25.080 business would

00:41:25.960 hire everybody

00:41:27.540 they could of

00:41:29.020 any type if

00:41:30.660 they demonstrated

00:41:31.420 the skills required

00:41:32.780 for the job.

00:41:33.840 So I think that

00:41:34.660 training would

00:41:35.360 eliminate

00:41:36.080 affirmative action

00:41:38.040 as even, it

00:41:39.560 wouldn't even make

00:41:40.060 sense.

00:41:40.940 You wouldn't even

00:41:41.440 think about it.

00:41:42.140 David said,

00:41:46.980 you can't fix

00:41:47.500 education for a

00:41:48.440 low IQ.

00:41:49.200 David, I don't

00:41:50.720 believe you heard

00:41:51.380 anything I just

00:41:52.200 said.

00:41:55.300 Low IQ is an

00:41:56.740 average.

00:41:58.380 Most people are

00:41:59.980 just ordinary.

00:42:01.640 There are very

00:42:02.160 few people who

00:42:02.920 excel at anything.

00:42:05.480 Right?

00:42:06.000 So, I'm not

00:42:07.780 talking about fixing

00:42:08.760 IQ with education.

00:42:10.100 education, I'm

00:42:10.820 talking about

00:42:11.360 taking every

00:42:12.100 individual and

00:42:13.620 making them the

00:42:14.440 best version of

00:42:15.280 themselves.

00:42:16.400 Do you disagree

00:42:17.180 that education

00:42:18.080 helps people become

00:42:20.200 better versions of

00:42:21.240 themselves if you

00:42:22.160 do all right?

00:42:23.120 Is there any

00:42:23.720 argument on that?

00:42:25.600 Like, I mean, I

00:42:26.600 think some people

00:42:27.460 are so wed to the

00:42:28.920 racism that you

00:42:30.360 just can't release

00:42:31.140 on this even

00:42:31.800 though all of the

00:42:33.620 logic says it's

00:42:34.480 useless.

00:42:35.700 All of the logic

00:42:36.660 says it's a good

00:42:37.900 way to tag yourself

00:42:38.940 as a racist and

00:42:40.380 then you're done.

00:42:42.240 Right?

00:42:42.480 So, let me tell

00:42:43.140 you how to tag

00:42:43.760 yourself as a

00:42:44.480 racist who doesn't

00:42:46.040 have any good

00:42:46.780 ideas about the

00:42:47.620 world.

00:42:48.680 Oh, that bell

00:42:49.440 curve is telling

00:42:50.100 us what we need

00:42:50.720 to do.

00:42:51.160 End of story.

00:42:52.880 It is a useless

00:42:54.160 bit of information

00:42:55.380 that just causes

00:42:58.440 trouble.

00:42:59.620 It's not good for

00:43:00.360 any individual

00:43:01.180 except in that

00:43:02.580 weird case where

00:43:03.480 it might tell you

00:43:04.740 to look at

00:43:05.180 environmental factors,

00:43:06.340 but that's about

00:43:06.960 it.

00:43:10.040 All right.

00:43:12.060 Yeah, it's a

00:43:12.680 red herring.

00:43:14.660 Facts exist for a

00:43:15.860 reason.

00:43:16.320 All right, is there

00:43:16.720 anybody else who,

00:43:17.700 let's see if I've

00:43:18.640 made a dent in this

00:43:19.540 audience because I

00:43:20.760 know this is a hard

00:43:21.540 one.

00:43:22.240 If you believe that

00:43:23.220 this was your main

00:43:24.120 and I would say a

00:43:26.060 lot of racists

00:43:26.640 believe this, if

00:43:27.900 your main filter on

00:43:28.980 life is IQ

00:43:30.200 difference and you're

00:43:30.880 like, I'm done,

00:43:31.560 I'm done.

00:43:32.580 You know, once you've

00:43:33.160 said that, it's

00:43:33.820 everything you need

00:43:34.380 to say, what are

00:43:36.700 you going to do

00:43:37.140 with it?

00:43:38.400 Like, what policy

00:43:39.480 do you change

00:43:40.840 because of that?

00:43:42.600 Wouldn't you still

00:43:43.400 treat everybody as

00:43:44.980 a human being who

00:43:47.760 you'd like to give

00:43:49.300 the best opportunity

00:43:50.260 for them?

00:43:52.160 It just doesn't

00:43:53.100 make any sense to

00:43:54.380 divide people and

00:43:55.400 then do that

00:43:56.040 average and think

00:43:57.280 you know something

00:43:57.980 about how to run

00:43:58.860 things.

00:43:59.740 It doesn't tell

00:44:00.580 you that.

00:44:01.900 It just doesn't

00:44:03.020 give you that

00:44:03.480 information.

00:44:04.380 It's a useless

00:44:07.060 concept that your

00:44:08.220 common sense,

00:44:10.140 which is always

00:44:11.320 flaky, you know,

00:44:12.720 your common sense

00:44:13.460 is what drives you

00:44:15.320 in the wrong

00:44:15.800 direction every

00:44:16.440 time.

00:44:17.720 The reason that

00:44:18.620 we have statistics

00:44:19.620 is that your

00:44:20.980 common sense gives

00:44:21.860 you the wrong

00:44:22.360 answer.

00:44:23.240 Do you know

00:44:23.620 that?

00:44:24.280 There would be no

00:44:24.880 point in having

00:44:25.440 the field of

00:44:26.840 statistics if your

00:44:28.520 common sense could

00:44:29.420 give you the same

00:44:30.000 answer.

00:44:30.340 the fact that it

00:44:32.740 doesn't is why you

00:44:34.720 need the statistics.

00:44:38.680 All right.

00:44:41.960 There's a higher

00:44:42.720 odds of smart

00:44:43.380 people among

00:44:43.940 higher IQ groups.

00:44:45.080 Right.

00:44:45.360 Now do something

00:44:45.960 with that.

00:44:47.620 So there's a

00:44:48.440 comment.

00:44:49.280 If a group has a

00:44:51.740 higher IQ on

00:44:52.380 average, would it

00:44:53.860 be true that

00:44:54.680 there's a greater

00:44:55.660 chance that a

00:44:56.400 person in that group

00:44:57.100 has a higher IQ?

00:44:57.840 What are you going

00:44:59.220 to do with that?

00:45:01.020 What are you going

00:45:01.840 to do with that?

00:45:03.320 Suppose it's true.

00:45:05.300 How are you going

00:45:05.940 to act differently?

00:45:07.260 It's still,

00:45:07.960 everything depends

00:45:08.640 on the individual.

00:45:09.920 The person who

00:45:10.840 walks into your

00:45:11.600 office for a job

00:45:12.480 isn't an average.

00:45:14.100 That doesn't tell

00:45:14.880 you anything about

00:45:15.540 them.

00:45:16.380 Now if you're

00:45:16.840 saying, well,

00:45:17.420 it tells me the

00:45:18.580 odds.

00:45:19.640 No, it doesn't.

00:45:21.200 No, it doesn't.

00:45:22.800 That person is

00:45:23.580 still an entirely

00:45:25.420 individual person.

00:45:26.600 They are not

00:45:27.920 influenced by the

00:45:28.720 odds.

00:45:30.560 Only your mind is

00:45:31.720 influenced by it,

00:45:32.700 not the person.

00:45:33.880 The person is just

00:45:34.620 the person.

00:45:40.280 Thank you,

00:45:41.100 clown man.

00:45:44.480 All right, I feel

00:45:45.400 like I've introduced

00:45:46.400 enough doubt.

00:45:47.700 Let me say this.

00:45:48.680 If you're mentioning

00:45:49.640 IQ in a conversation

00:45:51.300 about race, you're

00:45:52.500 just not being a

00:45:53.260 serious person.

00:45:53.980 And your claim

00:45:56.460 that it's a fact

00:45:57.340 can be true.

00:45:59.500 It can be true

00:46:00.180 that it's a fact.

00:46:01.100 But if you can't

00:46:01.900 connect it to what

00:46:02.740 you would do about

00:46:03.540 it, or how you

00:46:04.780 would treat the

00:46:05.640 next person that

00:46:06.380 walks in the door,

00:46:08.640 I say, now,

00:46:09.520 J Boss, all right,

00:46:11.560 J Boss is calling

00:46:12.520 me a coward, I

00:46:13.380 believe.

00:46:15.140 I believe I'm being

00:46:16.120 a coward, called a

00:46:17.420 coward, for not

00:46:18.580 speaking frankly

00:46:20.620 about race.

00:46:21.340 Are you new

00:46:24.740 here?

00:46:26.760 I paid in

00:46:27.620 advance.

00:46:29.300 The thing that

00:46:30.780 you think that I

00:46:31.520 don't want to pay,

00:46:32.660 the price you think

00:46:33.440 I don't want to

00:46:34.000 pay, I paid in

00:46:35.280 advance.

00:46:37.140 That's how willing

00:46:37.940 I am to pay the

00:46:38.660 price.

00:46:38.900 I paid in advance

00:46:39.780 for this conversation

00:46:41.180 and any other

00:46:42.660 conversation I have

00:46:43.560 on race.

00:46:44.240 I already paid.

00:46:46.660 Are you a coward?

00:46:47.660 Are you afraid to

00:46:49.380 speak, to make a

00:46:52.100 point on this?

00:46:53.020 Because you should

00:46:53.780 be a coward.

00:46:55.020 Because you don't

00:46:55.820 have a useful

00:46:56.940 argument.

00:46:57.960 If I were you, I'd

00:46:58.800 be afraid to speak

00:46:59.780 in public, if that's

00:47:01.000 the best I could

00:47:01.720 do.

00:47:02.700 It's like, oh,

00:47:03.400 you're afraid, you're

00:47:04.200 a coward.

00:47:06.460 I'm going to, by

00:47:07.860 the way, I've

00:47:08.380 updated the NPC

00:47:09.720 spotting list.

00:47:11.700 This is sort of a

00:47:12.580 running list I like

00:47:13.460 to keep.

00:47:14.160 If you're looking

00:47:14.680 for who's like a

00:47:15.700 serious person versus

00:47:16.720 who's just a

00:47:18.080 non-player character.

00:47:20.540 So my list is

00:47:21.880 getting pretty long

00:47:22.620 of things that the

00:47:23.980 NPCs say.

00:47:25.440 Look for these

00:47:26.060 words.

00:47:26.580 Do I define

00:47:27.060 an NPC?

00:47:28.080 You're an

00:47:28.500 apologist.

00:47:29.740 You fence

00:47:30.360 sitter.

00:47:31.640 Racist.

00:47:32.920 Why do you keep

00:47:33.620 obsessing over?

00:47:35.320 Keep digging.

00:47:37.340 Oh, you're

00:47:38.040 walking it back

00:47:38.880 now, flip

00:47:40.000 flopper.

00:47:41.600 Oh, you must be

00:47:42.680 afraid of, or

00:47:43.780 calling you a

00:47:44.820 coward, you must

00:47:45.740 be afraid of,

00:47:46.720 it was actually

00:47:47.140 on my list of

00:47:47.900 NPC spotters.

00:47:49.800 You think, that's

00:47:51.880 the mind-reading

00:47:52.500 one, you think

00:47:54.100 all goldfish can

00:47:55.240 fly.

00:47:56.680 That's the crazy

00:47:57.420 one.

00:47:58.560 I saw it on the

00:47:59.520 video, there's no

00:48:00.360 other way to, I

00:48:01.560 saw the video, don't

00:48:02.800 tell me it didn't

00:48:03.320 happen, don't tell

00:48:04.240 me you can interpret

00:48:04.940 it differently, don't

00:48:05.920 tell me there's other

00:48:06.640 contacts, I saw the

00:48:07.740 video, I saw the

00:48:08.760 video, I saw the

00:48:10.580 video, NPC.

00:48:12.580 You said all of the

00:48:17.200 people in that

00:48:17.800 group, when nobody

00:48:19.800 ever means all of

00:48:20.680 the people in that

00:48:21.300 group, that's an

00:48:23.180 NPC.

00:48:24.160 How about, you're

00:48:25.080 only doing this for

00:48:25.940 clicks, said to

00:48:27.780 somebody whose

00:48:28.660 business depends on

00:48:30.020 online traffic.

00:48:33.740 You're only doing it

00:48:34.800 for clicks.

00:48:36.280 Educate yourself,

00:48:37.440 there's a good one,

00:48:38.100 and I like this

00:48:39.420 one, this ain't it

00:48:40.860 chief, this ain't

00:48:42.600 it chief.

00:48:45.340 Why don't you just

00:48:46.360 blow him, you love

00:48:47.240 him so much?

00:48:48.300 That's a fan

00:48:49.280 favorite.

00:48:50.600 And my one that I

00:48:52.020 just added today, no

00:48:53.640 one is above the

00:48:54.480 law.

00:48:56.360 If you ever find

00:48:57.400 yourself saying in a

00:48:58.540 conversation, no

00:48:59.880 one is above the

00:49:00.720 law, the one thing

00:49:02.540 that everybody agrees

00:49:03.660 on with no

00:49:04.740 disagreement.

00:49:08.100 Yeah, if that's the

00:49:09.560 best you can do, no

00:49:11.100 one is above the

00:49:11.840 law, you're not a

00:49:13.380 player.

00:49:14.800 You might be a

00:49:15.800 non-player character.

00:49:17.860 Just saying.

00:49:19.500 All right.

00:49:20.940 Now, let me ask you

00:49:23.080 this, because I like

00:49:24.300 to check in with you

00:49:25.140 every now and then.

00:49:30.900 Did my discussion of

00:49:32.360 the, what do you

00:49:35.680 call it, the bell

00:49:36.800 curve?

00:49:37.020 Did my bell curve

00:49:38.320 discussion add

00:49:41.180 anything to the

00:49:42.140 conversation?

00:49:45.880 I'm not saying you

00:49:46.660 have to agree with

00:49:47.300 it.

00:49:47.700 I'm saying did it

00:49:48.700 deepen the

00:49:49.640 conversation?

00:49:52.520 Now, I'm going to

00:49:53.360 really have to talk

00:49:54.000 to somebody

00:49:54.520 individually.

00:49:56.940 I'm going to have

00:49:57.500 to talk to somebody

00:49:58.200 individually to see

00:49:59.240 what the pushback is

00:50:00.200 on that.

00:50:02.540 I got a lot of

00:50:03.260 yeses, but a lot of

00:50:04.160 noes as well.

00:50:05.160 What would be the

00:50:06.020 counter-argument?

00:50:11.820 Oh, okay.

00:50:12.780 Here's a counter-argument

00:50:13.720 from Craig, who says

00:50:16.800 he paid for this.

00:50:18.500 So, the average snake

00:50:19.840 is non-venomous.

00:50:21.200 If you tell your child

00:50:22.180 to assume all snakes

00:50:23.140 in the woods are

00:50:23.660 venomous, you could be

00:50:24.640 robbing them of a

00:50:25.440 wonderful reptilian

00:50:26.360 encounter.

00:50:26.880 So, the idea here

00:50:30.660 would be that you

00:50:31.360 could act on the

00:50:32.360 average, which I

00:50:35.120 would agree with if

00:50:36.120 you're talking about

00:50:36.960 physical danger.

00:50:40.500 I would agree that

00:50:41.520 you could act on the

00:50:43.160 averages to say,

00:50:44.180 all right, if I'm

00:50:45.340 going into an area

00:50:46.140 with lots of poverty,

00:50:49.180 probably more crime.

00:50:52.740 Would you agree that

00:50:53.780 would be reasonable?

00:50:54.340 If you're going into a

00:50:55.600 low-income, high-density

00:50:57.000 area, and that's the

00:50:59.360 only thing you know

00:51:00.000 about it, it's a real

00:51:01.740 low-income and it's

00:51:02.600 high-density, would you

00:51:04.460 tell your child to go

00:51:05.460 there, or would you

00:51:06.000 say, you know, you

00:51:07.440 might be okay, but it

00:51:08.400 looks like it's

00:51:09.080 dangerous?

00:51:10.380 No, you could say it's

00:51:11.160 dangerous.

00:51:12.240 So, there are

00:51:12.940 definitely lots of

00:51:14.480 logical times you can

00:51:15.640 use the average.

00:51:16.360 If you were a black

00:51:19.900 American and you

00:51:21.500 wanted to avoid white

00:51:22.860 supremacists, would

00:51:24.900 you think that there

00:51:26.680 would be more white

00:51:27.420 supremacists among a

00:51:29.100 population of white

00:51:30.740 people or a population

00:51:33.020 of black people?

00:51:34.460 Who would have the

00:51:35.260 most white supremacists?

00:51:38.220 Yeah.

00:51:38.680 So, using statistics to

00:51:41.820 avoid populations is not

00:51:45.000 crazy.

00:51:46.520 There's nothing crazy

00:51:47.240 about that.

00:51:48.340 Using statistics to

00:51:49.900 treat an individual

00:51:50.960 difference, different,

00:51:53.260 would be inappropriate.

00:51:54.800 Now, is that why the

00:51:56.320 other people were

00:51:56.920 disagreeing with me?

00:51:59.400 Because I wasn't

00:52:00.360 talking about physical

00:52:01.560 safety.

00:52:02.280 When it comes to

00:52:02.960 physical safety, you

00:52:03.960 can ignore everything.

00:52:06.520 Physical safety is just

00:52:07.580 about statistics.

00:52:09.000 So, you can ignore all

00:52:10.140 the niceties, you can

00:52:11.540 ignore polite behavior,

00:52:13.580 you can ignore looking

00:52:14.700 good to other people.

00:52:16.080 You can ignore all of

00:52:17.040 that when it comes to

00:52:18.560 physical safety.

00:52:19.760 It would be stupid to

00:52:21.600 not pay attention to

00:52:23.240 the statistics when it

00:52:24.640 comes to physical

00:52:25.380 safety.

00:52:26.280 But if you're meeting

00:52:27.200 one person, you know,

00:52:29.360 somebody walks into

00:52:30.180 your office wearing a

00:52:31.060 suit.

00:52:33.640 If somebody walks into

00:52:34.740 your office wearing a

00:52:35.560 suit, you're going to

00:52:37.720 say, I think I'll judge

00:52:39.260 them by the average.

00:52:41.160 Who would do that?

00:52:42.180 No, the suit should give

00:52:45.480 you the statistics you

00:52:46.540 need.

00:52:47.520 Somebody can get a suit,

00:52:49.200 put on a suit, tie their

00:52:50.780 necktie, show up on time

00:52:51.920 for...

00:52:52.380 You know a lot.

00:52:54.180 That tells you a lot

00:52:55.640 about the person based

00:52:58.340 on statistics.

00:53:00.400 Most people who can put

00:53:01.700 on a suit and show up on

00:53:04.560 at least in the top 50% of

00:53:07.600 competent human beings.

00:53:08.800 You know, that

00:53:09.920 automatically puts them

00:53:10.900 in the top half.

00:53:12.260 They got to work to get

00:53:13.320 in the top, you know,

00:53:14.140 10%, but walking in the

00:53:16.480 door, you're in the top

00:53:17.300 half.

00:53:18.220 Yeah, everything we do is

00:53:19.280 based on statistics in

00:53:20.540 terms of that sort of

00:53:22.160 stuff.

00:53:24.420 All right.

00:53:26.200 So, yeah, the good

00:53:29.620 scammers would still wear a

00:53:30.820 suit.

00:53:31.060 That's why I said it puts

00:53:31.920 you in the top 50%.

00:53:33.100 It doesn't tell you more

00:53:34.500 than that.

00:53:34.860 To go with the average

00:53:39.720 and snakes, you're setting

00:53:40.700 them up for Envenimo.

00:53:43.140 What is it?

00:53:47.380 Mensa people are not the

00:53:48.680 richest.

00:53:50.700 That's true.

00:53:52.260 Yeah, I, you know, when I

00:53:53.620 was in Mensa, I hosted some

00:53:55.380 events at my place.

00:53:57.780 And it was the least

00:53:59.280 successful group of people

00:54:00.640 who had the highest IQs.

00:54:02.820 Now, part of it was they

00:54:04.860 were the ones available to

00:54:06.000 go to meetings to talk

00:54:07.900 about how they're smart.

00:54:10.000 It was actually a

00:54:11.020 filtering thing.

00:54:12.460 The people who are smart

00:54:13.980 know they're smart and have

00:54:15.360 used their smartness to,

00:54:16.720 you know, build companies

00:54:17.760 and succeed.

00:54:18.840 They didn't need to go to a

00:54:20.220 meeting of people who

00:54:21.600 needed to, you know,

00:54:24.220 basically reassure each

00:54:25.980 other that they're smart.

00:54:28.160 If you've actually done

00:54:29.400 something successful,

00:54:30.380 successful, you're going

00:54:31.400 to say, that's all I

00:54:33.260 need.

00:54:33.920 If you haven't done

00:54:34.920 something successful but

00:54:36.060 you score well on IQ

00:54:37.260 tests, you get together

00:54:38.900 with other people in that

00:54:39.900 same situation so you can

00:54:42.440 remind yourself you're the

00:54:43.440 smart ones who, for some

00:54:44.780 reason, didn't succeed.

00:54:47.280 Yeah.

00:54:48.920 The moment my life started

00:54:50.680 going well, you know, I

00:54:52.360 started succeeding, I

00:54:54.560 immediately gave up going to

00:54:55.800 Mensa meetings.

00:54:56.580 Because I actually was

00:54:59.600 there to find out if I was

00:55:01.080 wrong, that I was smart.

00:55:04.500 I actually didn't know.

00:55:06.100 I was trying to find out.

00:55:08.080 So it was part of a

00:55:08.940 personal journey, you could

00:55:10.400 say.

00:55:12.760 All right.

00:55:16.400 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:55:17.420 that's all for YouTube.

00:55:18.820 I will see you tomorrow.

00:55:20.640 And I'm going to talk to the

00:55:21.760 locals' people privately.

00:55:24.180 And glad you came.

00:55:25.820 .

00:55:31.680 .

00:55:34.600 .

00:55:45.480 .

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