Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2062 Scott Adams： OTC Narcan Approved, DeSantis & 1A, Media Causes All Our Problems

00:00:00.500 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.

00:00:04.800 You might notice that I've got a little bit of laryngitis today,

00:00:08.500 so I'm going to take it easy with my voice.

00:00:11.000 I don't think I'm sick. I don't know what it is.

00:00:13.440 I think I just maybe enjoyed myself too much or something.

00:00:17.540 But today, your experience is going to go up a level.

00:00:23.500 I mean, you won't even believe it.

00:00:25.860 It'll be hard to believe, anyway.

00:00:27.260 And all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or else's time,

00:00:30.700 a canteen, a jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind,

00:00:33.200 filling with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:00:36.120 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,

00:00:38.780 the dopamine hit of the day.

00:00:40.520 The thing that makes everything better, it's called this simultaneous sip.

00:00:43.960 Go.

00:00:50.180 Allow me to share with you my personal phobia,

00:00:54.360 which I didn't know I had until just now.

00:00:57.260 Some of you know my story.

00:01:01.220 That some number of years ago, I lost my ability to speak

00:01:04.540 through something called a spasmodic dysphonia.

00:01:08.720 Made my vocal cords go nuts when I talked.

00:01:12.260 What you might not know is that we are private.

00:01:16.020 What you might not know is that typically when people get that condition,

00:01:22.000 it starts with a normal, what do you call this, when you can't talk?

00:01:29.800 What's it called when you can't talk?

00:01:31.320 Why am I blanking on that?

00:01:37.100 Laryngitis, yeah.

00:01:38.040 It starts with a normal laryngitis, just from some normal kind of bug or something.

00:01:43.200 But if you try to talk past the laryngitis,

00:01:50.360 you can trigger yourself into permanent voice loss,

00:01:53.720 which is what happened to me.

00:01:56.980 Now, I got mine reversed by surgery,

00:01:59.280 but I don't want to reverse it.

00:02:00.760 I don't want to trigger it again.

00:02:02.040 So I'm not going to push my voice,

00:02:05.520 but I'll just sort of get through today

00:02:07.780 and then rest it for the rest of the day.

00:02:10.340 So that's what I have to worry about today,

00:02:14.280 is not overextending my voice.

00:02:17.120 So I might sound a little bit like NPR today.

00:02:20.580 Would you mind if I do the entire live stream like NPR?

00:02:24.760 Let's see what that would look like.

00:02:26.160 Nashville police released the body cam footage.

00:02:33.560 The body cam footage shows the police doing an excellent job.

00:02:38.900 Would you like that?

00:02:40.700 That would put you right to sleep.

00:02:42.720 All right, well, this is the story.

00:02:45.460 The only reason I mention this

00:02:46.980 is because we spend so much time criticizing law enforcement.

00:02:52.620 And when you see law enforcement do something

00:02:54.760 that to me looked exactly right,

00:02:58.240 the Nashville police taking out the school shooter.

00:03:03.660 And I have to admit, when you see the body cam,

00:03:07.360 it restores your faith in the police.

00:03:11.680 Because you see a bunch of anecdotal stories

00:03:13.780 about somebody who didn't do something right,

00:03:17.340 and you sort of imagine that's everybody.

00:03:20.220 Because you see a few anecdotes,

00:03:21.740 and you're like, oh, that's what the police are.

00:03:23.100 But then you see this bunch of police

00:03:25.160 who were both fearless, running toward the shots,

00:03:30.760 and very effective.

00:03:32.200 The moment they made contact, they ended the threat.

00:03:36.200 I don't know what to say about this,

00:03:37.740 except it was perfect.

00:03:39.660 So congratulations to the Nashville police

00:03:41.680 for making law enforcement in general look good, I think.

00:03:45.580 Well, here's an interesting story.

00:03:50.000 New York Post.

00:03:52.100 There are a bunch of researchers in Australia

00:03:53.900 who designed a nasal spray

00:03:56.640 that's like Viagra.

00:04:00.020 So I think it's different chemistry,

00:04:01.740 but it's a nasal spray instead of a pill.

00:04:05.700 And the thing that makes it work well,

00:04:09.360 microphone's fine,

00:04:10.240 the thing that makes it work well

00:04:12.120 is that because it's a nasal spray,

00:04:15.120 it doesn't have to go through your bloodstream,

00:04:17.280 it gives you full results in five minutes.

00:04:21.140 It's like spray, boom, you're ready to go.

00:04:25.200 Now, if that were the only story in the news,

00:04:28.640 I'd say, well, that's an improvement.

00:04:30.980 They've done something good here.

00:04:32.120 But there's another story

00:04:34.360 that seems totally unrelated, but maybe not.

00:04:39.200 The FDA approved Narcan for over-the-counter sales.

00:04:43.060 Now, Narcan is what you get

00:04:44.360 if you have a fentanyl overdose.

00:04:47.180 If somebody has Narcan,

00:04:48.960 they stick it in your nose

00:04:50.880 and it's like a nasal spray,

00:04:52.480 spray it up your nose. 0.71

00:04:53.820 And apparently it works so well

00:04:55.400 it can just take you back from almost the dead.

00:04:58.640 So, one of the problems, of course,

00:05:03.560 as you can see these two stories intersect,

00:05:06.620 is that what if you get those two confused?

00:05:11.840 Yeah.

00:05:12.500 You don't want to grab your erectile dysfunction spray

00:05:18.080 when you wanted the Narcan.

00:05:21.120 And if the bottles are not labeled appropriately,

00:05:26.680 there is a way to tell.

00:05:29.200 So, if you give somebody the Narcan spray

00:05:31.480 and the only change five minutes later

00:05:34.400 is a raging erection, 0.75

00:05:36.620 go look for the other bottle.

00:05:39.940 All right?

00:05:42.640 So, what you don't want

00:05:44.060 is somebody to die with a raging heart on

00:05:46.220 because my understanding is

00:05:49.580 that that's embarrassing

00:05:50.740 if it's an open casket.

00:05:52.920 You know what I mean?

00:05:54.340 If it's an open casket, you're like,

00:05:56.260 hmm, what are we going to do about that?

00:05:58.860 Because I think the rigor mortis

00:06:00.160 sets in about the same time

00:06:02.700 as the erectile dysfunction.

00:06:05.780 So, you could die with a wall saluting

00:06:09.520 and they probably just have to make some adjustments

00:06:12.680 depending on your size.

00:06:15.820 I guess they'd make some adjustments

00:06:16.880 to the casket top,

00:06:18.880 make one a little extra deep

00:06:20.160 sort of thing.

00:06:21.360 I don't know.

00:06:22.340 I'm just thinking through all the possibilities.

00:06:24.820 I don't think it's a big risk.

00:06:27.120 But, you know, it's good to...

00:06:28.820 It's just good to make sure

00:06:30.780 you've covered all your bases.

00:06:31.840 The question I ask is,

00:06:34.920 why did it take so long

00:06:36.160 for the FDA to improve this?

00:06:38.860 Why did it take so long

00:06:40.360 for the FDA to improve this?

00:06:43.080 I think we've known for a long time

00:06:44.880 this was a good play.

00:06:46.760 I knew it.

00:06:48.140 I'm not in the FDA.

00:06:50.040 But, yeah, I mean,

00:06:51.600 I suppose there was some testing

00:06:53.300 and they were waiting for some data.

00:06:55.960 I don't know.

00:06:56.580 It feels like too much

00:06:58.040 of an emergency situation

00:06:59.600 to have not done something

00:07:02.580 about it earlier.

00:07:04.140 So I can't be happy

00:07:05.460 about the speed of that,

00:07:06.700 but at least it happened.

00:07:09.020 And, by the way,

00:07:10.640 I would like to congratulate

00:07:12.520 all of you

00:07:14.380 because I do think that

00:07:16.180 public opinion has some influence

00:07:18.340 on this, don't you?

00:07:20.780 And certainly, you know,

00:07:23.040 my audience has been pushing for it

00:07:24.860 as I have for two years.

00:07:28.520 How long have we been pushing

00:07:29.760 for this?

00:07:30.200 Two years?

00:07:31.880 And, you know,

00:07:33.860 I'm not going to say

00:07:34.840 it wouldn't have happened anyway

00:07:36.360 because it's just a good idea.

00:07:38.200 But I do feel like

00:07:39.420 if you're putting pressure

00:07:41.460 on something that ends up happening,

00:07:43.940 you can claim that you were part

00:07:45.340 of the productive process.

00:07:46.940 I think we were.

00:07:48.100 I don't know that it made a difference.

00:07:50.120 But we were certainly pushing

00:07:51.700 in the right direction.

00:07:52.560 And you should be proud of that

00:07:54.960 because I think it,

00:07:56.540 I think that proves

00:07:58.500 you were on the right path

00:07:59.880 and you were advocating

00:08:01.560 for the right stuff.

00:08:03.120 So, good for you.

00:08:08.040 Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak

00:08:10.220 and a bunch of other tech leaders

00:08:12.060 have signed a petition, I guess,

00:08:15.100 or a letter

00:08:15.640 asking for AI development

00:08:19.340 to pause for six months,

00:08:20.860 pause immediately

00:08:22.380 for at least six months,

00:08:24.000 the training of AI

00:08:24.980 to not make anything

00:08:26.980 more powerful

00:08:27.640 than the current version.

00:08:29.920 And it's because

00:08:31.240 of the risks to society.

00:08:34.900 What do you think of that?

00:08:36.740 Do you think it's a good idea

00:08:37.960 to pause AI development

00:08:40.340 until we have a robust monitoring,

00:08:44.040 you know,

00:08:44.200 some kind of a human system

00:08:45.940 for maintaining it?

00:08:48.420 Yeah.

00:08:50.520 Yeah.

00:08:51.960 I'm going to say

00:08:52.940 yes

00:08:53.860 unambiguously to that.

00:08:56.500 There are very few things

00:08:57.840 which I can say,

00:08:59.140 you know,

00:08:59.460 I agree

00:08:59.980 100%.

00:09:01.620 This is one of them.

00:09:04.260 This,

00:09:04.840 this is one of them.

00:09:06.000 And here's the argument.

00:09:07.420 The argument goes like this.

00:09:10.360 Pausing for six months

00:09:11.760 probably won't hurt us.

00:09:13.680 Would you agree?

00:09:15.360 Pausing for six months

00:09:16.760 probably won't hurt us.

00:09:19.920 But it could save civilization.

00:09:23.480 Now,

00:09:24.120 if you say to yourself,

00:09:25.700 Scott,

00:09:26.240 it's going to get out anyway.

00:09:28.260 There's nothing you can do.

00:09:30.120 You can try to control it,

00:09:31.760 but it's too late.

00:09:32.580 I agree.

00:09:33.800 I agree that

00:09:34.460 there's a really good risk

00:09:35.660 or high risk

00:09:36.720 that it's too late.

00:09:39.180 Some people said,

00:09:40.240 well,

00:09:40.340 I can already download it

00:09:41.520 onto my local device.

00:09:42.760 I can keep trading it.

00:09:44.980 There's nothing you can do.

00:09:46.880 But,

00:09:47.460 I would point out,

00:09:50.100 do you remember

00:09:50.680 when it was

00:09:51.460 that the internet was new

00:09:53.580 and all the people

00:09:56.220 who were in charge

00:09:56.840 of copyrights

00:09:57.780 and books and stuff,

00:09:59.200 they all said,

00:10:00.360 oh no,

00:10:01.200 publishing will go away

00:10:02.520 because everybody

00:10:03.760 will just steal it

00:10:04.560 and put it on the internet.

00:10:05.940 So there's no way

00:10:06.880 to have a business model

00:10:07.940 when the moment

00:10:08.980 you make something

00:10:09.660 it's just stolen

00:10:10.420 and on the internet.

00:10:11.080 Now that's the

00:10:12.380 current situation.

00:10:14.100 The current situation

00:10:14.960 is,

00:10:16.040 you know,

00:10:16.340 all of my work,

00:10:17.640 all of my work

00:10:18.440 gets stolen

00:10:19.060 and put on the internet

00:10:20.000 immediately,

00:10:21.340 almost the moment

00:10:22.140 it's created.

00:10:23.860 But it never hurt

00:10:24.920 because the law

00:10:27.060 was still robust

00:10:27.960 and it's still illegal

00:10:29.340 to,

00:10:29.920 you know,

00:10:30.700 to routinely put my work

00:10:32.620 on the internet.

00:10:34.140 Lawyers would come

00:10:34.920 and get you.

00:10:35.260 So I would say

00:10:37.020 you should not

00:10:38.380 underestimate

00:10:39.140 how comprehensive

00:10:41.680 the law could be.

00:10:43.660 If the law

00:10:44.620 tried to make

00:10:45.240 AI illegal,

00:10:46.500 I think it could do it.

00:10:48.560 I think it could.

00:10:50.180 That doesn't mean

00:10:51.040 people wouldn't cheat.

00:10:52.480 But if you're cheating

00:10:53.420 sort of locally,

00:10:55.260 you know,

00:10:55.500 if you're not Google

00:10:56.420 and you're not,

00:10:58.220 you're not some

00:10:59.380 giant AI,

00:11:00.820 you know,

00:11:01.680 company,

00:11:02.140 you're not going

00:11:03.500 to do too much

00:11:04.280 in your bedroom,

00:11:05.420 you know,

00:11:05.680 with your local computer.

00:11:07.480 I think you only

00:11:08.200 have to worry

00:11:08.660 about the big entities

00:11:09.660 and the big entities

00:11:10.860 can be completely

00:11:11.800 controlled.

00:11:14.060 Right?

00:11:14.500 Google is not going

00:11:15.520 to violate the law.

00:11:17.520 They have too much

00:11:18.440 at risk.

00:11:19.380 So I think you

00:11:20.600 underestimate

00:11:21.220 how effectively

00:11:22.160 the law

00:11:22.880 could shut down AI.

00:11:24.680 I think you're seeing

00:11:25.980 the beginning

00:11:27.280 of a movement

00:11:28.220 that's going to be

00:11:29.540 chipping at AI

00:11:30.560 from every direction

00:11:31.620 until it's

00:11:33.520 almost completely

00:11:34.420 neutered.

00:11:36.120 So my guess is

00:11:37.140 that AI is far

00:11:38.200 too dangerous

00:11:39.040 for the right reasons

00:11:42.320 and the wrong reasons.

00:11:44.020 The right reasons

00:11:45.180 that AI is dangerous

00:11:46.440 is it might teach us

00:11:48.000 what's real.

00:11:52.180 If America ever

00:11:54.040 found out

00:11:54.460 what was real

00:11:55.220 and what was bullshit, 0.82

00:11:57.980 the whole system

00:11:58.660 would collapse

00:11:59.280 because our system

00:12:01.140 depends on people

00:12:02.860 believing stuff

00:12:03.580 that isn't true.

00:12:05.740 AI could change that.

00:12:07.680 So our whole system

00:12:08.620 could be at risk

00:12:09.360 just from the truth.

00:12:11.560 And that's just

00:12:12.040 one risk.

00:12:13.480 If you imagine

00:12:14.180 all the other

00:12:14.980 worst case risks,

00:12:16.340 they're pretty amazing.

00:12:17.900 Now,

00:12:18.440 I am opposed

00:12:20.300 to stopping

00:12:22.080 AI permanently.

00:12:23.060 I think it's

00:12:26.060 necessary.

00:12:26.860 I think you don't

00:12:28.140 want China

00:12:28.640 to have it

00:12:29.120 before we do.

00:12:30.740 But I do think

00:12:31.720 it makes sense

00:12:32.320 to be really,

00:12:34.240 really serious

00:12:34.800 about safety.

00:12:36.020 I think the net

00:12:37.000 effect of that

00:12:37.740 is AI

00:12:39.280 might have a military

00:12:40.300 use and almost

00:12:41.480 nothing else

00:12:42.180 because we'll

00:12:43.820 neuter it 0.99

00:12:44.400 in so many ways.

00:12:45.560 Now,

00:12:45.720 what happens

00:12:46.220 when AI

00:12:46.840 starts taking jobs?

00:12:48.040 Don't you think

00:12:50.240 there will be

00:12:50.720 legislation

00:12:51.360 to make it

00:12:53.320 illegal to

00:12:54.200 replace a human

00:12:54.980 with a machine?

00:12:57.080 Now,

00:12:57.900 we've been

00:12:58.700 replacing humans

00:12:59.740 with machines

00:13:00.420 for, you know,

00:13:01.580 100 years

00:13:02.360 or more.

00:13:04.160 But

00:13:04.720 once they can

00:13:06.100 replace all

00:13:06.940 the humans,

00:13:07.900 I think we're

00:13:09.660 going to have

00:13:09.880 to rethink it.

00:13:11.380 So here's

00:13:12.120 what I think

00:13:12.520 is going to

00:13:12.820 happen in the

00:13:13.480 medium term.

00:13:15.860 I think there

00:13:16.720 are too many

00:13:17.180 humans who

00:13:17.800 are incapable

00:13:18.480 of taking

00:13:19.220 care of

00:13:19.600 themselves,

00:13:20.580 more so

00:13:21.540 than ever

00:13:21.940 probably,

00:13:22.760 because in

00:13:23.260 the old days

00:13:23.660 you could

00:13:23.940 at least be

00:13:24.360 a farmer,

00:13:25.400 you know,

00:13:25.620 or work

00:13:26.100 on a farm.

00:13:27.100 But today

00:13:27.680 they're just

00:13:28.700 a huge

00:13:29.340 segment of

00:13:29.880 the population

00:13:30.500 that really

00:13:31.860 isn't capable

00:13:32.500 of doing

00:13:32.900 anything in

00:13:33.820 the modern

00:13:34.160 world.

00:13:34.740 They don't

00:13:34.980 have any

00:13:35.320 capabilities

00:13:35.900 whatsoever

00:13:36.380 that are

00:13:36.720 commercial.

00:13:38.040 So I think

00:13:38.800 we're going

00:13:39.040 to have to

00:13:39.300 create two

00:13:40.020 civilizations.

00:13:42.120 One,

00:13:42.980 who lives

00:13:43.420 on some

00:13:43.780 kind of UBI

00:13:44.600 and maybe

00:13:46.060 the robots

00:13:46.640 do the hard

00:13:47.200 stuff for

00:13:47.720 them and

00:13:48.400 just take

00:13:49.100 them away

00:13:49.480 from everybody

00:13:50.360 else because

00:13:51.500 they'll be

00:13:51.940 crime-ridden

00:13:52.680 and, you

00:13:53.540 know,

00:13:53.720 low, bad

00:13:55.200 mindsets.

00:13:56.480 It'll be

00:13:57.040 every problem

00:13:57.620 in the world,

00:13:58.340 but they

00:13:58.940 won't want

00:13:59.280 to work.

00:14:00.840 So take

00:14:01.740 the people

00:14:02.080 who don't

00:14:02.400 want to

00:14:02.640 work or

00:14:02.980 can't work

00:14:03.640 because they

00:14:04.320 don't have

00:14:04.620 capabilities,

00:14:05.880 put them

00:14:06.340 in one

00:14:06.660 place and

00:14:08.360 try to get

00:14:09.340 the people

00:14:09.760 who still

00:14:11.000 have something

00:14:11.500 to add

00:14:12.100 physically

00:14:13.560 separated

00:14:14.220 from them.

00:14:16.380 Because at

00:14:17.140 this point

00:14:17.600 there is a

00:14:18.620 poisonous mindset

00:14:19.640 and there's

00:14:20.520 still a

00:14:20.860 productive

00:14:21.240 mindset and

00:14:22.120 they're living

00:14:22.800 simultaneously.

00:14:24.460 I feel like

00:14:25.400 when I grew

00:14:25.940 up in America

00:14:26.620 there was

00:14:27.620 only one

00:14:28.100 mindset.

00:14:30.020 Is anybody

00:14:30.640 in my age

00:14:31.740 range that

00:14:32.720 would concur

00:14:33.620 with that?

00:14:34.660 You know,

00:14:34.920 that whole

00:14:35.380 image of the

00:14:36.340 American dream,

00:14:37.460 that was pretty

00:14:38.540 much 100%.

00:14:39.580 Like, I

00:14:40.820 don't think

00:14:41.180 anybody

00:14:41.760 disagreed

00:14:42.360 with that.

00:14:44.820 You know,

00:14:45.040 it wasn't

00:14:45.560 even generationally

00:14:47.340 people agreed.

00:14:48.720 You know,

00:14:48.940 I went through

00:14:49.400 the hippie

00:14:50.180 generation and

00:14:52.120 it looked like

00:14:52.620 the hippies

00:14:53.160 were, you

00:14:53.760 know,

00:14:53.920 anti-work

00:14:54.740 and, you

00:14:55.780 know,

00:14:55.940 anti-establishment.

00:14:58.540 But really,

00:14:59.260 as soon as

00:14:59.600 they wanted

00:15:00.560 money,

00:15:01.180 they became

00:15:01.820 pretty

00:15:02.060 establishment.

00:15:03.600 So that was

00:15:04.380 more of a

00:15:05.220 youth difference.

00:15:06.960 But today

00:15:07.440 we've got

00:15:07.940 so many

00:15:09.040 different,

00:15:09.440 opinions

00:15:10.900 about

00:15:11.520 everything

00:15:12.020 that our

00:15:14.020 operating system

00:15:14.960 is dissolving.

00:15:17.080 I wasn't

00:15:17.780 going to talk

00:15:18.120 about this

00:15:18.540 yet,

00:15:20.080 but let me

00:15:20.820 add this

00:15:21.160 first.

00:15:22.940 There was

00:15:23.480 another study

00:15:24.380 Stanford

00:15:25.380 researchers

00:15:26.060 tried to

00:15:27.020 figure out

00:15:27.400 if AI

00:15:28.020 could change

00:15:29.300 your mind

00:15:29.780 on politics

00:15:30.660 better than

00:15:32.480 a person

00:15:32.900 could.

00:15:33.700 So they

00:15:34.060 did a trial

00:15:34.600 where a

00:15:35.560 person would

00:15:36.220 write something

00:15:36.900 to change

00:15:37.420 your mind

00:15:37.840 and then AI

00:15:38.500 would write

00:15:38.960 something to

00:15:39.460 change your

00:15:39.880 mind.

00:15:40.700 And they

00:15:40.900 found out

00:15:41.300 that the

00:15:41.600 AI

00:15:42.000 beat the

00:15:43.900 people.

00:15:45.000 AI was

00:15:45.600 more

00:15:45.940 persuasive

00:15:46.560 in its

00:15:46.920 arguments

00:15:47.400 than people.

00:15:49.280 Not a lot.

00:15:50.700 Maybe like

00:15:51.260 in the 2%

00:15:52.380 range,

00:15:53.000 something like

00:15:53.340 that.

00:15:54.300 But as the

00:15:55.360 article I read

00:15:56.580 pointed out,

00:15:57.960 on the big

00:15:58.480 issues in the

00:15:59.180 country,

00:15:59.600 2% is a

00:16:00.320 pretty big

00:16:00.780 deal.

00:16:01.580 I mean,

00:16:01.740 that could be

00:16:02.080 the difference

00:16:02.540 between passing

00:16:03.340 and not passing,

00:16:04.480 or elected

00:16:05.480 or not elected.

00:16:06.740 Now,

00:16:07.280 here's what I

00:16:07.800 would add to

00:16:08.260 that.

00:16:09.460 As far as I

00:16:10.340 know,

00:16:11.500 no one has

00:16:12.160 ever trained

00:16:12.880 AI in the

00:16:14.940 techniques of

00:16:15.760 persuasion.

00:16:17.600 So far,

00:16:18.740 everything I've

00:16:19.440 seen,

00:16:20.220 it looks like

00:16:20.840 it writes

00:16:21.420 the way a

00:16:22.860 good writer

00:16:23.360 would write,

00:16:24.320 but not with

00:16:25.040 any of the

00:16:25.480 deep techniques

00:16:26.400 of persuasion.

00:16:27.800 Just sort of

00:16:28.360 ordinary communication,

00:16:29.900 good practices.

00:16:30.640 what happens

00:16:32.200 if AI

00:16:33.540 learns

00:16:34.360 hypnosis?

00:16:37.020 So,

00:16:37.600 for example,

00:16:38.860 I ordered

00:16:39.560 a deck

00:16:40.780 of cards

00:16:41.660 that each

00:16:42.260 has a

00:16:42.660 hypnosis

00:16:43.140 trick on

00:16:44.280 it.

00:16:45.300 So it's

00:16:45.920 like 50

00:16:46.740 or so cards.

00:16:47.960 Each one

00:16:48.520 has a

00:16:49.120 specific trick

00:16:50.080 that AI

00:16:51.060 could learn

00:16:51.640 very easily.

00:16:53.180 They're just

00:16:53.760 use these

00:16:54.260 words instead

00:16:54.800 of these

00:16:55.100 words.

00:16:55.480 Very easy

00:16:55.880 stuff.

00:16:57.100 If AI,

00:16:58.400 if I

00:16:58.680 trained it

00:16:59.100 just with

00:16:59.460 that deck

00:16:59.880 of cards,

00:17:00.640 I wish I

00:17:01.320 could say,

00:17:01.960 I forgot

00:17:02.360 the name

00:17:02.780 of the

00:17:03.200 company

00:17:04.960 or person

00:17:05.460 that makes

00:17:05.840 the cards.

00:17:06.420 I want

00:17:06.720 to give

00:17:06.920 them a

00:17:07.220 shout-out

00:17:07.740 because I

00:17:08.640 bought the

00:17:09.000 cards.

00:17:09.580 Mike Mandel,

00:17:10.340 thank you.

00:17:11.300 Mike Mandel,

00:17:12.920 he's a

00:17:13.280 hypnotist.

00:17:14.540 I just saw

00:17:15.120 his cards

00:17:15.620 advertised on

00:17:16.380 the internet

00:17:16.920 and I

00:17:17.840 thought,

00:17:18.080 oh,

00:17:18.260 I'll get

00:17:18.560 those,

00:17:18.820 see what

00:17:19.020 that's

00:17:19.260 all about.

00:17:20.480 So I

00:17:20.780 got the

00:17:21.180 Mike Mandel,

00:17:22.680 is it

00:17:23.700 Mandel or

00:17:24.560 Mandel?

00:17:25.240 Mandel.

00:17:26.040 So I

00:17:26.320 got the

00:17:26.620 Mike Mandel

00:17:27.180 hypnosis

00:17:27.640 cards and

00:17:29.500 I was

00:17:29.760 looking through

00:17:30.240 them.

00:17:30.640 And sure

00:17:31.340 enough,

00:17:32.440 they're

00:17:32.660 actually

00:17:33.160 useful,

00:17:34.760 completely

00:17:35.200 powerful

00:17:35.760 tips on

00:17:37.280 how to

00:17:37.580 word things

00:17:38.300 more

00:17:38.760 persuasively.

00:17:39.360 all you'd

00:17:40.900 have to

00:17:41.160 do is

00:17:41.440 sit down

00:17:41.780 with the

00:17:42.040 AI because

00:17:43.240 I believe

00:17:43.620 it has

00:17:43.940 memory now.

00:17:45.400 You can

00:17:45.680 train it

00:17:46.240 and say,

00:17:47.220 hey,

00:17:47.420 AI,

00:17:48.080 I'm going

00:17:48.660 to teach

00:17:48.980 you 50

00:17:49.640 tricks to

00:17:50.960 be more

00:17:51.520 persuasive.

00:17:52.880 Remember

00:17:53.420 these tricks

00:17:54.080 and then I'd

00:17:55.180 like you to

00:17:55.620 write a

00:17:56.560 persuasive

00:17:57.100 argument using

00:17:58.580 whichever of

00:17:59.300 these tricks

00:17:59.800 make sense

00:18:00.820 in this

00:18:01.160 document.

00:18:01.560 and then

00:18:03.940 how persuasive

00:18:04.880 would it

00:18:05.240 be?

00:18:07.680 You really

00:18:08.640 have to

00:18:08.980 worry about

00:18:09.420 that.

00:18:10.520 See,

00:18:10.800 I have a

00:18:11.960 unique window

00:18:13.420 into a

00:18:14.120 risk that

00:18:14.580 most people

00:18:15.040 don't see,

00:18:16.080 which is

00:18:16.840 the techniques

00:18:17.860 of persuasion.

00:18:18.760 I can see

00:18:20.900 the AI

00:18:21.300 doesn't have

00:18:22.020 them.

00:18:23.200 It's obvious

00:18:23.800 that it

00:18:24.180 doesn't have

00:18:24.640 the techniques,

00:18:25.580 but they're

00:18:26.320 so easy

00:18:26.760 to learn

00:18:27.300 and they're

00:18:28.560 so powerful.

00:18:30.100 All you

00:18:30.740 have to do

00:18:31.120 is expose

00:18:31.620 it to them

00:18:32.060 once.

00:18:33.360 You're

00:18:33.700 done.

00:18:35.120 And I

00:18:37.420 don't think

00:18:37.740 anybody in

00:18:39.020 the government

00:18:39.520 has a full

00:18:41.040 appreciation of

00:18:41.880 that.

00:18:42.720 Even people

00:18:43.320 like Elon

00:18:44.280 Musk and

00:18:44.960 Steve Wozniak,

00:18:46.960 some of the

00:18:47.700 smartest people

00:18:48.360 who have

00:18:48.620 ever drawn

00:18:51.360 a breath.

00:18:52.560 But do you

00:18:52.920 think they

00:18:53.240 have a

00:18:53.640 unique

00:18:54.120 understanding

00:18:55.560 of persuasion

00:18:56.440 and persuasion

00:18:57.160 tools?

00:18:58.700 I don't know.

00:18:59.580 I mean,

00:18:59.820 they know a

00:19:00.220 lot of

00:19:00.440 stuff.

00:19:00.780 They might.

00:19:02.040 But I

00:19:02.420 doubt it.

00:19:03.500 I doubt it.

00:19:05.140 So that's

00:19:06.120 a big risk.

00:19:07.060 All right.

00:19:11.720 I love

00:19:12.520 watching CNN

00:19:13.440 reporting on

00:19:14.620 Fox News

00:19:15.400 because it's

00:19:16.560 always so

00:19:16.960 biased.

00:19:17.360 and they

00:19:18.680 like to

00:19:19.120 slip in

00:19:19.720 their fake

00:19:20.300 news in

00:19:21.140 the sentence

00:19:21.680 that just

00:19:22.500 otherwise seems

00:19:23.220 innocuous.

00:19:24.620 So you just

00:19:25.180 assume that the

00:19:25.840 fake news is

00:19:26.540 real because

00:19:27.600 the rest of

00:19:28.060 the sentence

00:19:28.440 seemed pretty

00:19:29.060 reasonable.

00:19:30.480 Here's an

00:19:30.900 example.

00:19:32.540 If you're

00:19:32.980 following the

00:19:33.600 Fox News and

00:19:35.420 Dominion lawsuits,

00:19:37.520 here's what

00:19:38.020 CNN says about

00:19:38.980 it.

00:19:39.220 Now this

00:19:39.540 isn't just

00:19:40.060 part of a

00:19:40.680 larger article,

00:19:41.980 but this is

00:19:42.740 just one

00:19:43.240 sentence that I

00:19:44.780 want to call

00:19:45.280 out for

00:19:45.840 amazing

00:19:47.100 weaselness.

00:19:48.380 All right.

00:19:49.260 Your CNN

00:19:49.880 website says.

00:19:52.600 But that was

00:19:53.440 several weeks

00:19:53.980 ago before

00:19:55.160 Dominion unleashed

00:19:56.200 a trove of

00:19:57.000 embarrassing text

00:19:58.000 messages and

00:19:59.240 testimony from

00:20:00.040 Fox executives

00:20:01.400 and personalities

00:20:02.260 that suggested

00:20:03.660 they knowingly

00:20:05.280 aired Trump's

00:20:06.240 false claims

00:20:07.420 about the

00:20:07.920 2020 election.

00:20:09.920 Huh.

00:20:10.140 Did that

00:20:12.080 happen?

00:20:13.540 In the real

00:20:14.380 world, did

00:20:14.840 that happen?

00:20:16.720 No.

00:20:17.820 No, that

00:20:18.280 didn't happen.

00:20:19.420 But they just

00:20:20.040 put it in a

00:20:20.580 sentence like,

00:20:22.220 well, we all

00:20:23.040 know this

00:20:23.420 happened.

00:20:24.580 Just sort of

00:20:25.140 obvious this

00:20:25.720 happened.

00:20:27.060 Now let me be

00:20:28.340 more specific

00:20:29.000 when I say it

00:20:29.700 didn't happen.

00:20:30.800 There is no

00:20:31.460 smoking gun in

00:20:33.960 the Dominion

00:20:34.860 lawsuit because

00:20:36.120 we've seen the

00:20:36.820 texts that are

00:20:37.660 the most

00:20:38.040 embarrassing.

00:20:38.780 The most

00:20:40.160 embarrassing ones

00:20:41.320 do not have

00:20:42.980 any admission

00:20:43.760 that they were

00:20:45.100 aware that

00:20:45.820 Trump was

00:20:46.400 wrong.

00:20:47.700 How could

00:20:48.540 they?

00:20:49.760 How could

00:20:50.260 anybody know

00:20:50.960 Trump was

00:20:51.500 wrong?

00:20:52.620 You could

00:20:53.020 know some of

00:20:53.580 his specific

00:20:54.180 claims didn't

00:20:55.540 hold up in

00:20:56.120 court.

00:20:57.440 I mean, that's

00:20:57.860 verifiable.

00:20:59.080 But you don't

00:20:59.740 know he's wrong.

00:21:01.220 You can't prove

00:21:01.840 a negative.

00:21:03.740 So according

00:21:04.660 to CNN,

00:21:05.860 yeah, they can

00:21:06.400 not only read

00:21:07.140 the minds of

00:21:07.780 the people,

00:21:08.780 but then they

00:21:09.700 look at their

00:21:10.180 writing that

00:21:10.780 does not say

00:21:11.800 what they

00:21:12.440 wanted to say.

00:21:13.320 It does not

00:21:13.920 say, we knew

00:21:15.940 that he was

00:21:16.460 lying and we

00:21:17.440 acted like we

00:21:18.440 didn't know.

00:21:19.380 Nobody said

00:21:20.000 anything like

00:21:20.660 that.

00:21:21.500 They said stuff

00:21:22.280 like, this is

00:21:23.860 the content that

00:21:25.000 our people want

00:21:27.440 to see.

00:21:28.880 They've said in

00:21:29.960 some cases that

00:21:30.760 they didn't believe

00:21:31.600 the election was

00:21:32.460 rigged, but that

00:21:34.180 has nothing to do

00:21:34.980 with whether Trump

00:21:35.720 believed it.

00:21:37.720 If Trump

00:21:39.640 believed it,

00:21:40.380 that's the

00:21:40.900 news.

00:21:42.000 Then they were

00:21:42.360 just reporting

00:21:42.880 the news.

00:21:44.840 So I don't

00:21:45.660 think that

00:21:46.600 there's any

00:21:47.280 evidence that

00:21:48.720 somebody knowingly

00:21:49.640 put something on

00:21:50.360 that they knew

00:21:50.880 was false.

00:21:51.920 I don't think

00:21:52.540 that's an

00:21:52.940 evidence.

00:21:54.760 So it always

00:21:56.080 amuses me to

00:21:56.740 see that CNN

00:21:57.420 will just drop

00:21:58.200 that in there

00:21:58.660 like it's a

00:21:59.180 fact when it's

00:21:59.980 not.

00:22:00.200 Did you

00:22:02.440 know that

00:22:03.880 Ron DeSantis

00:22:04.680 is trying to

00:22:05.680 make it easier

00:22:07.280 to sue the

00:22:08.360 media if

00:22:09.400 you're a

00:22:09.680 public figure?

00:22:11.080 What do you

00:22:11.380 think of that?

00:22:12.780 Do you think

00:22:13.200 that public

00:22:13.760 figures should

00:22:16.140 be able to

00:22:16.640 sue the media

00:22:17.440 more easily?

00:22:20.060 Think that's a

00:22:20.940 good idea?

00:22:23.520 Yeah?

00:22:24.980 Do you know

00:22:25.340 how many

00:22:25.680 lawsuits there

00:22:26.500 would be?

00:22:26.840 It would

00:22:29.320 probably end

00:22:29.880 the media.

00:22:31.300 Do you

00:22:31.500 think it's a

00:22:31.980 good idea

00:22:32.460 if you knew

00:22:33.000 it would put

00:22:33.460 the news

00:22:34.200 business out

00:22:34.860 of business?

00:22:37.600 Or that

00:22:38.320 the news

00:22:38.760 business would

00:22:40.100 not say

00:22:40.560 negative things

00:22:41.260 about people

00:22:41.860 because they

00:22:42.420 might be

00:22:42.720 afraid of

00:22:43.100 getting sued?

00:22:45.680 Yeah.

00:22:46.460 The First 0.99

00:22:47.740 Amendment

00:22:48.240 would allow

00:22:50.800 anybody to

00:22:52.560 say anything

00:22:53.080 as long as

00:22:53.620 it's not

00:22:54.060 knowingly

00:22:54.940 malicious.

00:22:56.000 But I

00:22:56.380 guess the

00:22:56.900 proposed

00:22:57.760 change would

00:22:58.440 make it

00:22:58.760 easier for

00:22:59.480 the public

00:23:01.680 figure to

00:23:02.280 sue.

00:23:04.280 Now, let

00:23:05.400 me ask you

00:23:05.760 this.

00:23:07.880 The headline

00:23:08.880 of almost

00:23:09.640 every major

00:23:10.340 publication in

00:23:11.420 the last

00:23:11.960 month ran

00:23:14.940 a story about

00:23:15.640 me that

00:23:17.720 painted me

00:23:18.300 as a racist.

00:23:20.900 Was that

00:23:21.680 an accurate

00:23:22.220 story?

00:23:24.000 It was a

00:23:24.760 headline.

00:23:25.320 It was a

00:23:25.700 headline everywhere.

00:23:26.380 Is that

00:23:27.260 accurate?

00:23:28.540 How many of

00:23:29.300 them reported

00:23:29.900 that I was

00:23:30.820 complaining about

00:23:31.760 racists who

00:23:32.580 didn't like

00:23:33.080 me?

00:23:34.120 That the

00:23:34.740 context was

00:23:35.520 about other

00:23:36.280 racists and

00:23:38.260 that those

00:23:38.720 racists didn't

00:23:40.460 like me so I'd

00:23:41.380 want to stay

00:23:41.860 away from those

00:23:42.480 racists?

00:23:43.760 Did any of

00:23:44.340 them report

00:23:44.760 that?

00:23:46.060 Do you think

00:23:47.000 that it cost me

00:23:48.060 any money?

00:23:49.460 Millions.

00:23:50.260 Yeah.

00:23:50.620 Millions and

00:23:51.280 millions of

00:23:51.860 dollars.

00:23:52.960 Fake news.

00:23:54.440 Now, what I

00:23:55.880 say is fake, I

00:23:57.480 only mean that

00:23:58.140 they left the

00:23:58.700 context out that

00:24:00.000 would have

00:24:00.280 reversed the

00:24:01.160 meaning of the

00:24:01.720 story.

00:24:02.520 It wasn't fake

00:24:03.380 that I said

00:24:04.000 things that other

00:24:04.980 people say sound

00:24:06.260 racist.

00:24:07.000 That was true.

00:24:08.360 But if you leave

00:24:09.160 out the reason I

00:24:10.300 said it, it

00:24:11.660 reverses the

00:24:12.300 meaning.

00:24:13.740 Would I have a

00:24:14.700 lawsuit?

00:24:14.980 If Ron DeSantis

00:24:18.140 this makes it

00:24:18.760 easier for me to

00:24:19.560 sue, do I have

00:24:20.760 a suit?

00:24:23.820 Well, a lot of

00:24:25.360 you are saying

00:24:25.700 no.

00:24:27.360 Under the

00:24:28.160 current rules,

00:24:28.900 I'd say no.

00:24:30.300 Under the

00:24:30.740 current rules,

00:24:31.460 I'd say no.

00:24:32.780 Because you'd

00:24:33.440 have to prove

00:24:33.900 malice.

00:24:35.060 And it would

00:24:35.380 be too easy for

00:24:36.100 them to say,

00:24:36.840 malice?

00:24:37.760 I have no

00:24:38.580 malice.

00:24:39.660 I just thought

00:24:40.500 that was true.

00:24:42.700 Right?

00:24:43.400 It's an ultimate

00:24:44.520 defense.

00:24:45.080 Well, we thought

00:24:45.520 it was true.

00:24:45.920 We didn't

00:24:47.100 look into it

00:24:47.640 very closely,

00:24:48.400 but we thought

00:24:48.840 it was true 0.69

00:24:49.200 on the surface.

00:24:53.220 I don't think

00:24:54.100 I should be

00:24:55.080 able to sue

00:24:55.860 for that.

00:24:57.800 Because if I

00:24:58.560 did, I'd put

00:24:59.000 the entire

00:24:59.440 media on a

00:25:00.000 business.

00:25:02.720 I mean,

00:25:03.320 the size of

00:25:05.320 what they did

00:25:05.840 just to me

00:25:06.620 was enormous.

00:25:09.260 Just the

00:25:09.680 size of it.

00:25:10.740 Just think of

00:25:11.680 the scale of

00:25:12.960 what they did

00:25:13.440 to me.

00:25:14.300 Just the

00:25:14.740 scale.

00:25:15.920 It's huge.

00:25:17.540 Now,

00:25:18.620 there's a

00:25:19.820 part of me

00:25:20.260 that always

00:25:20.920 wants to

00:25:21.460 set the

00:25:22.520 world right

00:25:23.020 and get

00:25:24.700 revenge or

00:25:25.520 something.

00:25:26.200 But I

00:25:26.800 really don't

00:25:27.320 think I

00:25:27.700 should have

00:25:28.040 that right.

00:25:29.240 I don't

00:25:29.700 think that

00:25:30.140 you would

00:25:30.560 be served

00:25:31.180 if I could

00:25:32.440 do that

00:25:32.840 more easily.

00:25:34.220 Because it

00:25:34.720 would just

00:25:34.980 remove your

00:25:35.740 news.

00:25:37.500 They just

00:25:37.940 wouldn't be

00:25:38.300 able to have

00:25:38.900 a business

00:25:39.300 model.

00:25:41.340 That's what

00:25:41.860 I think.

00:25:42.180 So I

00:25:43.360 think

00:25:43.560 DeSantis

00:25:44.480 is on

00:25:44.940 some

00:25:45.300 dangerous

00:25:47.080 ground

00:25:47.540 here.

00:25:48.500 Yet I

00:25:49.200 completely

00:25:49.700 understand

00:25:50.240 the

00:25:50.420 motivation.

00:25:52.020 Having

00:25:52.460 been in

00:25:54.120 the target

00:25:54.660 zone for

00:25:55.340 malicious

00:25:56.340 media

00:25:57.160 treatment,

00:25:59.800 I understand

00:26:01.380 it.

00:26:01.640 I just

00:26:01.880 don't think

00:26:02.260 you can

00:26:02.540 win that

00:26:02.940 way.

00:26:03.100 All right.

00:26:05.060 so I

00:26:09.960 feel like

00:26:10.420 there's

00:26:10.680 something

00:26:10.980 happening

00:26:11.540 in the

00:26:13.080 mindset

00:26:13.720 or

00:26:14.420 something.

00:26:16.340 Here's a

00:26:17.000 story that

00:26:17.500 I don't

00:26:17.940 know that

00:26:18.380 I would

00:26:18.660 have seen

00:26:19.260 two months

00:26:21.260 ago.

00:26:22.040 You tell

00:26:22.460 me.

00:26:23.160 Does this

00:26:23.500 sound like

00:26:23.900 something that

00:26:24.460 would have

00:26:24.680 been said

00:26:25.040 two months

00:26:25.500 ago?

00:26:27.100 So you

00:26:27.700 know the

00:26:27.920 story about

00:26:28.320 Leah Thomas,

00:26:29.280 the trans

00:26:30.460 athlete who

00:26:31.900 competes as

00:26:32.740 a woman and

00:26:33.560 is beating

00:26:34.420 most of

00:26:35.260 the women 0.97

00:26:35.580 most of

00:26:36.000 the time.

00:26:36.860 And of

00:26:37.100 course the

00:26:38.280 women who 0.99

00:26:38.740 are born

00:26:39.060 as women

00:26:39.480 say that's

00:26:40.160 unfair.

00:26:41.360 They would

00:26:41.840 say they're

00:26:42.540 competing against

00:26:43.480 a biological

00:26:44.080 male is

00:26:44.720 what they

00:26:45.020 say.

00:26:46.540 But here's

00:26:47.280 what's

00:26:47.520 different.

00:26:49.060 This

00:26:49.240 Riley,

00:26:50.620 is it

00:26:51.120 Riley

00:26:51.360 Gaines?

00:26:53.140 Riley

00:26:53.760 Gaines,

00:26:54.440 who's a

00:26:54.980 born female

00:26:56.660 and a

00:26:57.940 competitive

00:26:58.440 swimmer,

00:26:59.280 and she's

00:27:00.160 coming out

00:27:00.560 directly and

00:27:02.280 she's not

00:27:03.080 shading any

00:27:03.920 of her

00:27:04.180 opinion.

00:27:05.020 She's just

00:27:05.740 saying this

00:27:06.500 is a man,

00:27:07.720 we're competing

00:27:08.600 against men,

00:27:09.940 this is bad

00:27:10.680 for women.

00:27:13.380 And it's

00:27:15.060 being reported

00:27:15.720 at least by

00:27:16.780 Fox News and

00:27:18.120 probably others

00:27:18.760 just directly

00:27:20.220 what she

00:27:20.660 says.

00:27:22.100 Have we

00:27:22.760 reached the

00:27:23.220 point where

00:27:23.760 people don't

00:27:24.340 need to be

00:27:24.800 so polite?

00:27:27.260 Because it

00:27:28.900 seems like

00:27:29.340 two months

00:27:29.840 ago the

00:27:30.300 way she 0.84

00:27:30.680 would have

00:27:30.960 had to

00:27:31.400 say this

00:27:31.940 is Leah

00:27:35.940 Thomas,

00:27:37.720 she,

00:27:38.300 they would

00:27:38.760 have said

00:27:39.080 she in

00:27:39.740 all cases

00:27:40.300 two months

00:27:41.080 ago,

00:27:42.000 she is a 0.62

00:27:44.940 problem for

00:27:45.740 other women 0.95

00:27:46.340 because it's

00:27:47.360 unfair or

00:27:48.220 something.

00:27:49.080 But we hope

00:27:50.580 that she

00:27:51.180 finds a place

00:27:52.300 to compete

00:27:53.780 and she

00:27:55.740 is too

00:27:56.240 strong for

00:27:56.980 the competitors

00:27:58.080 and she

00:27:59.160 makes it

00:27:59.620 unfair.

00:28:00.940 Doesn't it

00:28:01.340 feel like

00:28:01.640 two months

00:28:02.040 ago you

00:28:02.420 would have

00:28:02.660 had to

00:28:02.940 buy into

00:28:03.400 the pronoun?

00:28:04.660 a man.

00:28:06.040 But now she

00:28:06.980 is just on

00:28:07.520 the news

00:28:07.840 saying it's

00:28:08.480 a man.

00:28:09.880 I'm competing

00:28:10.620 against a

00:28:11.040 man and

00:28:12.640 that's not

00:28:13.440 fair for

00:28:15.080 women. 0.81

00:28:16.600 But let

00:28:17.560 me forget

00:28:18.520 about the

00:28:18.980 topic for a

00:28:19.720 moment.

00:28:20.740 Forget about

00:28:21.300 the topic.

00:28:22.860 Doesn't it

00:28:23.400 feel like she

00:28:24.080 has more

00:28:24.480 free speech

00:28:25.240 than even

00:28:26.360 a few months

00:28:26.860 ago?

00:28:28.160 Or is that

00:28:28.580 my imagination?

00:28:29.920 Because I

00:28:30.240 might be

00:28:30.600 biased about

00:28:31.200 this.

00:28:32.360 It feels

00:28:33.020 like people

00:28:33.420 are now

00:28:33.720 saying directly

00:28:34.460 you're just

00:28:36.160 men with

00:28:36.620 mental illness.

00:28:39.920 People are

00:28:40.560 saying that

00:28:40.920 directly.

00:28:42.080 No, this

00:28:42.860 is not about

00:28:43.400 wokeness.

00:28:44.240 This is

00:28:44.600 people with

00:28:45.160 mental illness

00:28:45.960 who are

00:28:47.120 trying to

00:28:47.640 jump on

00:28:48.120 a theme.

00:28:49.500 Now, just

00:28:49.880 to be clear,

00:28:51.460 I think

00:28:51.920 people are

00:28:52.460 so different

00:28:53.280 and there

00:28:54.580 are so many

00:28:55.000 different kinds

00:28:55.740 of people

00:28:56.120 with kinds

00:28:56.760 of minds

00:28:57.520 and everything

00:28:57.880 else.

00:28:58.440 I do

00:28:58.920 think that

00:29:00.540 there are

00:29:00.820 people who

00:29:01.360 have some

00:29:02.140 general,

00:29:02.980 you know,

00:29:03.260 genuine,

00:29:03.780 situation

00:29:05.160 where the

00:29:06.120 only thing

00:29:06.600 that can

00:29:06.880 make them

00:29:07.240 happy is

00:29:08.840 gender

00:29:09.700 reassignment.

00:29:11.320 As adults,

00:29:12.740 kids,

00:29:13.140 kids is a

00:29:13.780 different

00:29:13.980 situation,

00:29:14.580 of course.

00:29:15.740 But I

00:29:17.220 don't think

00:29:17.640 it should be

00:29:18.060 illegal for

00:29:20.040 somebody to

00:29:20.600 change their

00:29:21.100 gender if

00:29:21.580 that's what

00:29:21.920 they need,

00:29:22.400 because they're

00:29:22.740 adults and

00:29:24.020 we're not in

00:29:24.560 their bodies,

00:29:25.180 we're not in

00:29:25.600 their brains,

00:29:26.300 we can't make

00:29:26.840 decisions for

00:29:27.600 them.

00:29:27.840 but is it

00:29:30.520 not clear

00:29:31.080 that it's

00:29:31.440 gone too

00:29:31.880 far?

00:29:33.500 And is it

00:29:34.200 not clear

00:29:34.780 that it has

00:29:35.340 attracted people

00:29:36.120 with just

00:29:36.500 mental illness?

00:29:38.040 And that if

00:29:38.720 we treat them

00:29:39.300 mentally ill,

00:29:40.060 the same as

00:29:40.700 somebody who's

00:29:41.480 just, let's

00:29:42.740 say, operating

00:29:43.400 based on their

00:29:44.760 freedom,

00:29:46.000 just somebody

00:29:46.540 who says,

00:29:47.100 you know,

00:29:47.720 I think this

00:29:48.400 will make me

00:29:48.780 happier,

00:29:49.260 and then they

00:29:49.600 do it,

00:29:49.900 it makes

00:29:50.180 them happier,

00:29:51.220 good for

00:29:51.820 them.

00:29:52.040 But I

00:29:54.600 feel like

00:29:55.040 society has

00:29:55.700 kind of

00:29:56.020 reached a

00:29:56.420 limit.

00:29:57.880 Yeah, it's

00:29:58.560 too far.

00:30:00.220 It's too

00:30:00.920 far.

00:30:01.920 And I

00:30:02.360 think that

00:30:03.420 treating

00:30:05.200 Leah Thomas

00:30:06.060 as a

00:30:07.640 woman would 1.00

00:30:09.580 make sense

00:30:10.180 in almost

00:30:10.740 any other

00:30:11.240 context.

00:30:13.400 If Leah

00:30:13.740 Thomas wants

00:30:15.280 to live that

00:30:15.880 kind of life,

00:30:17.500 it's a free

00:30:18.260 world.

00:30:18.840 I think

00:30:19.240 people should

00:30:19.740 just do what

00:30:20.360 makes them

00:30:20.660 happy if it

00:30:21.580 doesn't hurt.

00:30:22.040 me.

00:30:23.140 But once

00:30:23.820 that preference

00:30:24.940 is taken

00:30:25.480 into the

00:30:25.980 specific context

00:30:26.980 of sports,

00:30:28.400 I don't have

00:30:29.360 any problem

00:30:29.800 with the

00:30:30.680 women who 0.99

00:30:31.220 were affected

00:30:31.700 by it

00:30:32.080 saying,

00:30:32.580 we're

00:30:33.360 competing

00:30:33.800 against

00:30:34.180 men.

00:30:37.180 To me,

00:30:37.960 that doesn't

00:30:38.260 even feel

00:30:39.440 impolite,

00:30:40.600 not even a

00:30:41.200 little bit.

00:30:43.120 And I feel

00:30:43.740 that that's

00:30:44.160 a change.

00:30:45.620 I feel like

00:30:46.740 I would have

00:30:47.220 been cancelled

00:30:47.780 just for

00:30:49.280 this.

00:30:50.600 Am I

00:30:50.940 wrong?

00:30:52.040 Even

00:30:52.460 what I

00:30:52.840 just said,

00:30:53.780 I feel

00:30:54.160 like I

00:30:54.440 would have

00:30:54.640 been cancelled

00:30:55.240 two months

00:30:55.700 ago.

00:30:57.000 But I

00:30:57.600 don't feel

00:30:57.980 like that's

00:30:58.460 out of bounds

00:30:58.960 at the

00:30:59.440 moment.

00:31:00.540 I feel

00:31:01.060 like we're

00:31:01.580 achieving

00:31:02.820 some kind

00:31:03.400 of clarified

00:31:04.680 understanding of

00:31:05.800 the situation,

00:31:06.820 which is,

00:31:07.740 it's not all

00:31:08.600 about everybody

00:31:09.480 trans is good

00:31:10.380 all the time,

00:31:11.640 and it's

00:31:12.180 definitely not

00:31:12.860 everybody

00:31:13.360 trans is

00:31:14.040 mentally ill.

00:31:14.680 as long

00:31:16.460 as we

00:31:16.720 can get

00:31:17.040 out of

00:31:17.240 the

00:31:17.360 binary,

00:31:18.580 I think

00:31:19.020 we'll be

00:31:19.380 okay.

00:31:20.920 It can

00:31:21.560 be true

00:31:22.080 that it's

00:31:23.020 good for

00:31:23.460 some people

00:31:24.020 and isn't

00:31:24.520 it good

00:31:24.800 that they

00:31:25.140 can do

00:31:25.480 what they

00:31:25.940 need to

00:31:26.300 do,

00:31:26.820 and it

00:31:27.280 could be

00:31:27.740 also true

00:31:28.620 that the

00:31:29.440 mentally ill

00:31:30.080 have taken

00:31:30.540 over the

00:31:30.920 category.

00:31:32.900 To me,

00:31:33.460 it looks

00:31:33.680 like it.

00:31:34.340 To me,

00:31:34.780 it looks

00:31:35.000 like a lot

00:31:35.380 of mental

00:31:35.740 illness

00:31:36.220 masquerading

00:31:37.680 as something

00:31:38.560 else.

00:31:38.920 Now,

00:31:40.540 that wouldn't

00:31:40.900 be different

00:31:41.520 from any

00:31:42.020 other topic,

00:31:43.500 would it?

00:31:44.320 In almost

00:31:44.920 every topic,

00:31:46.720 there's

00:31:47.020 somebody who's

00:31:47.500 mentally ill

00:31:48.320 that's being

00:31:49.680 mistaken for

00:31:51.320 like a

00:31:52.440 legitimate

00:31:52.820 voice.

00:31:54.960 Take racism.

00:31:57.560 You know,

00:31:57.780 there's all

00:31:58.080 kinds of,

00:31:58.540 I'll call it

00:31:59.000 normal racism,

00:32:00.560 but then

00:32:01.220 there's crazy

00:32:01.880 racism,

00:32:02.460 isn't there?

00:32:04.120 Isn't there

00:32:04.840 crazy racism?

00:32:05.960 Wait a minute,

00:32:06.760 that's not

00:32:07.080 racism.

00:32:07.980 That's just

00:32:08.800 mental

00:32:09.380 disorder.

00:32:10.700 That is

00:32:11.060 just mental

00:32:11.820 disorder.

00:32:12.720 As soon

00:32:13.100 as you

00:32:13.340 call that

00:32:13.700 racism,

00:32:15.080 it just

00:32:15.500 gets confusing.

00:32:17.060 You're

00:32:17.300 getting lost

00:32:17.760 in the

00:32:18.060 binary,

00:32:18.720 that people

00:32:19.020 are racist

00:32:19.520 or not

00:32:19.880 racist, 0.77

00:32:20.840 you know,

00:32:21.080 that little

00:32:21.500 simplified

00:32:22.180 world.

00:32:25.240 And I

00:32:25.620 would say

00:32:26.160 that almost

00:32:26.660 every major

00:32:27.400 topic has

00:32:28.420 some important

00:32:29.240 people who

00:32:29.760 are involved

00:32:30.200 who are

00:32:30.500 actually just

00:32:31.100 mentally ill,

00:32:32.180 and they

00:32:32.840 get confused

00:32:33.600 with the

00:32:34.120 serious people

00:32:34.940 who just

00:32:35.240 have different

00:32:35.660 opinions.

00:32:37.600 Yeah.

00:32:37.900 Greta is

00:32:39.100 a good

00:32:39.280 example.

00:32:40.160 Greta is

00:32:40.680 a good

00:32:40.880 example.

00:32:41.800 Now,

00:32:43.320 Greta appears

00:32:44.280 to be,

00:32:44.780 from the

00:32:45.240 outside,

00:32:46.760 somebody who's

00:32:47.340 suffering from

00:32:48.080 a mental,

00:32:49.620 I won't say,

00:32:50.640 it doesn't look

00:32:51.520 like any organic

00:32:52.480 mental problem,

00:32:53.760 but it looks

00:32:54.380 like a mental

00:32:55.280 condition brought

00:32:57.240 on by media

00:32:59.200 forces.

00:32:59.680 forces.

00:33:00.760 And there

00:33:01.260 are probably

00:33:01.500 a lot of

00:33:01.960 young people

00:33:02.580 who have

00:33:02.980 the same

00:33:03.520 alarmist

00:33:05.020 PTSD feeling

00:33:06.780 about climate

00:33:07.420 change,

00:33:08.420 that they

00:33:08.760 better act

00:33:09.260 now or

00:33:09.720 they'll be

00:33:10.020 dead in

00:33:10.520 six years

00:33:11.220 we have

00:33:11.520 left,

00:33:11.840 or whatever

00:33:12.140 the crazy

00:33:13.220 number is.

00:33:14.640 So,

00:33:15.480 Greta,

00:33:16.500 to me,

00:33:17.880 looks like

00:33:18.420 somebody suffering

00:33:19.280 from some

00:33:20.760 kind of

00:33:21.080 mental issue,

00:33:23.720 which doesn't

00:33:24.940 mean she's

00:33:25.300 wrong.

00:33:26.220 The question

00:33:26.740 of whether

00:33:27.080 she's right

00:33:27.600 or wrong

00:33:27.900 is completely

00:33:28.560 separate,

00:33:29.780 it just

00:33:30.140 doesn't look

00:33:30.600 like that's

00:33:31.040 the motivation

00:33:31.680 from the

00:33:32.780 outside.

00:33:33.780 I can't

00:33:34.220 read her

00:33:34.480 mind,

00:33:34.860 I can't

00:33:35.180 diagnose her,

00:33:36.460 you know,

00:33:36.660 you shouldn't

00:33:37.000 listen to

00:33:37.400 anything I

00:33:37.840 say about

00:33:38.360 anybody else's

00:33:39.140 mental health.

00:33:40.460 But from

00:33:41.740 the outside,

00:33:42.560 that's what

00:33:42.920 it looks

00:33:43.180 like.

00:33:46.620 Liberalism is

00:33:47.300 a mental

00:33:47.620 disorder,

00:33:48.680 Michael

00:33:48.920 Savage says,

00:33:49.980 but again,

00:33:50.540 it's a matter

00:33:51.040 of degree,

00:33:51.940 isn't it?

00:33:53.760 Being a

00:33:55.340 moderate Democrat

00:33:56.900 is definitely

00:33:57.640 not a mental

00:33:58.280 disorder.

00:33:59.740 Does anybody

00:34:00.260 think it

00:34:00.680 is?

00:34:02.580 Does anybody

00:34:03.280 think,

00:34:04.400 you know,

00:34:04.640 let's say

00:34:04.980 old Bill

00:34:05.620 Clinton,

00:34:06.920 the old

00:34:07.320 Bill Clinton

00:34:07.940 Democrat,

00:34:09.260 was that a

00:34:09.760 mental disorder?

00:34:11.460 He looked

00:34:12.180 like the most

00:34:12.640 rational guy

00:34:13.320 we've ever had

00:34:13.900 as a president,

00:34:14.760 to me.

00:34:16.500 But certainly

00:34:17.400 there are

00:34:17.860 things that

00:34:18.860 you would

00:34:19.140 call liberal

00:34:19.780 or progressive

00:34:20.380 today,

00:34:21.300 that in my

00:34:21.980 opinion,

00:34:23.340 they get in

00:34:24.520 a little too

00:34:25.000 far into

00:34:25.380 mental health,

00:34:26.040 and not

00:34:27.040 so much

00:34:27.400 about

00:34:27.700 politics.

00:34:29.520 So I

00:34:30.460 think it's

00:34:30.840 important that

00:34:32.640 we can call

00:34:33.260 out mental

00:34:33.840 health as

00:34:34.500 a variable.

00:34:36.400 Isn't it?

00:34:37.840 And doesn't

00:34:38.480 that move 0.94

00:34:38.840 things forward?

00:34:40.240 If you can

00:34:40.500 say, you

00:34:40.820 know,

00:34:42.120 here's the

00:34:42.780 other thing.

00:34:43.740 People like

00:34:44.300 me who are

00:34:45.180 just tired

00:34:46.380 of having

00:34:47.520 to lie.

00:34:49.660 I just

00:34:50.380 got tired

00:34:50.860 of lying.

00:34:51.420 so I

00:34:53.500 just started

00:34:53.900 saying what

00:34:54.440 I was

00:34:54.980 actually

00:34:55.260 thinking.

00:34:56.860 And, of

00:34:57.360 course,

00:34:57.580 you get

00:34:57.760 canceled.

00:34:58.220 It's very

00:34:58.600 expensive.

00:35:00.580 But I

00:35:01.840 don't have

00:35:02.160 a moment

00:35:02.640 of regret.

00:35:04.540 And I

00:35:05.020 feel like

00:35:05.420 it's useful

00:35:06.040 for you

00:35:07.380 to see

00:35:07.780 people like

00:35:08.360 me who

00:35:09.960 took a

00:35:10.980 back full

00:35:11.440 of arrows.

00:35:12.460 I don't

00:35:13.140 have a

00:35:13.760 single

00:35:14.100 regret.

00:35:15.760 And maybe

00:35:16.140 that's good.

00:35:16.860 Maybe the

00:35:17.220 system needs

00:35:17.940 people who

00:35:18.980 are willing

00:35:19.380 to, you

00:35:20.160 know,

00:35:20.300 run at

00:35:21.740 the pill

00:35:22.720 box first.

00:35:24.640 It just

00:35:25.240 happened to

00:35:25.580 be me

00:35:25.840 this time.

00:35:27.120 Next time

00:35:27.820 it will be

00:35:28.100 somebody else.

00:35:29.980 All right.

00:35:32.540 I have a

00:35:33.220 theory that

00:35:33.620 the media

00:35:34.020 is the

00:35:34.380 root cause

00:35:34.800 of all

00:35:35.120 of America's

00:35:35.700 current

00:35:35.980 problems.

00:35:37.360 And I'm

00:35:38.020 going to

00:35:38.160 build this

00:35:38.780 into a

00:35:39.120 bigger theme.

00:35:40.100 And it

00:35:40.280 goes like

00:35:40.740 this.

00:35:44.680 The

00:35:45.120 basis

00:35:46.260 of the

00:35:47.760 I'm

00:35:48.280 going to

00:35:48.480 talk about

00:35:48.920 that chart.

00:35:49.720 The basis

00:35:50.200 of the

00:35:50.820 hypothesis

00:35:51.380 is this.

00:35:53.240 That when

00:35:54.500 we got

00:35:56.300 the internet

00:35:56.840 and we

00:35:58.080 learned to

00:35:58.480 be able to

00:35:58.920 count the

00:35:59.400 number of

00:35:59.780 clicks on

00:36:00.300 a story,

00:36:01.320 which is the

00:36:01.840 first time we

00:36:02.400 could know

00:36:02.900 with certainty

00:36:03.640 every little

00:36:04.900 nuance of,

00:36:05.780 oh, this

00:36:06.220 headline gets

00:36:06.820 more clicks,

00:36:07.920 this story

00:36:08.440 gets more

00:36:08.880 clicks,

00:36:09.420 which was a

00:36:10.100 little bit

00:36:10.480 harder to

00:36:11.100 deduce back

00:36:12.800 when the

00:36:13.100 news was

00:36:13.520 just on

00:36:13.940 TV and

00:36:14.520 there was

00:36:14.740 three people

00:36:15.620 reading the

00:36:16.020 news.

00:36:16.900 But once you

00:36:17.660 could tell

00:36:18.000 exactly what

00:36:19.140 would get

00:36:19.460 people excited,

00:36:20.820 which was

00:36:21.260 correlated with

00:36:22.060 profits,

00:36:23.360 then you

00:36:24.000 had to

00:36:24.300 chase the

00:36:25.900 outrage.

00:36:27.560 So once

00:36:28.440 we monetized

00:36:29.600 outrage,

00:36:31.260 everything else

00:36:32.520 came out of

00:36:33.460 that.

00:36:34.620 Monetized

00:36:35.260 outrage.

00:36:36.480 So at this

00:36:37.420 point, the

00:36:37.880 media is no

00:36:38.440 longer about

00:36:39.180 the news,

00:36:39.880 it's about

00:36:40.500 monetizing

00:36:41.800 outrage.

00:36:42.680 The news is

00:36:43.620 just the

00:36:44.240 ingredients,

00:36:44.880 but the

00:36:46.040 cake is

00:36:46.500 outrage,

00:36:47.300 right?

00:36:47.800 They could

00:36:48.320 use those

00:36:48.740 ingredients to

00:36:49.540 inform us,

00:36:50.600 to lift us

00:36:51.540 up, to

00:36:51.940 enlighten us,

00:36:52.860 but they

00:36:53.880 don't have a

00:36:54.360 business model

00:36:54.940 that would

00:36:55.280 support any

00:36:55.820 of that

00:36:56.100 crap.

00:36:57.000 So instead,

00:36:58.280 they surface

00:36:59.760 outrage because

00:37:00.800 that's where

00:37:01.100 the money is.

00:37:02.380 Now, as long

00:37:02.900 as you have

00:37:03.220 that system,

00:37:04.460 can you have

00:37:05.080 a healthy

00:37:05.580 country?

00:37:07.220 I would argue

00:37:08.120 it's impossible

00:37:08.900 without changing

00:37:10.700 something.

00:37:11.820 I'm not even

00:37:12.340 sure what needs

00:37:12.900 to be changed.

00:37:13.480 But the

00:37:14.240 current situation

00:37:15.240 is a fast

00:37:17.300 road to

00:37:17.780 destruction.

00:37:19.120 Let me give

00:37:19.840 you an example

00:37:20.380 of some of

00:37:20.960 the things,

00:37:21.360 in my opinion,

00:37:22.880 the media

00:37:23.940 is the sole

00:37:25.580 reason for

00:37:26.640 all of the

00:37:27.140 problems.

00:37:28.520 And if this

00:37:29.420 doesn't shock

00:37:30.340 you, I don't

00:37:31.000 know what

00:37:31.420 will.

00:37:33.360 And before

00:37:34.120 I read them,

00:37:34.740 I'll give you

00:37:35.160 this backup.

00:37:38.200 There's some

00:37:38.880 graphs that just

00:37:39.520 went by in the

00:37:40.060 locals' 0.70

00:37:40.400 platform because

00:37:41.320 they can put

00:37:41.840 images in with

00:37:42.680 their comments.

00:37:43.480 And I saw

00:37:44.300 that on

00:37:44.620 Twitter.

00:37:45.160 It was,

00:37:45.780 since 2010,

00:37:47.840 the media

00:37:48.780 massively increased

00:37:50.020 headlines that

00:37:50.740 use fear,

00:37:51.340 anger,

00:37:51.680 disgust,

00:37:52.440 and sadness

00:37:53.040 because those

00:37:54.400 things get

00:37:54.860 clicks.

00:37:55.940 And it's a

00:37:56.980 dramatic change

00:37:58.340 around 2010.

00:38:00.840 2010 is,

00:38:02.980 you know,

00:38:03.420 roughly when

00:38:04.400 we knew

00:38:05.240 exactly what

00:38:06.480 worked and

00:38:06.960 what didn't,

00:38:07.620 roughly iPhone

00:38:08.800 time.

00:38:09.240 so basically

00:38:11.200 you can tell

00:38:11.840 that this is

00:38:13.000 a clickbait

00:38:13.940 related phenomenon.

00:38:15.300 Would you

00:38:15.580 agree?

00:38:16.460 That the

00:38:16.820 timing in

00:38:17.300 2010,

00:38:18.940 you know,

00:38:19.200 coincident with

00:38:19.980 smartphones-ish,

00:38:22.200 you know,

00:38:22.420 around that,

00:38:23.700 isn't it

00:38:24.420 obvious that

00:38:25.880 the headlines

00:38:26.420 turn negative

00:38:27.120 because of a

00:38:28.220 technological

00:38:28.800 improvement?

00:38:30.280 It's obvious,

00:38:30.900 right?

00:38:31.820 Like, that part

00:38:32.840 nobody doubts?

00:38:33.800 I don't have

00:38:34.280 to defend

00:38:34.860 that any more

00:38:35.460 than the

00:38:35.940 obvious,

00:38:36.600 right?

00:38:37.280 So once you

00:38:38.020 have that

00:38:38.280 situation where

00:38:39.720 the news is

00:38:40.360 not trying to

00:38:40.920 help,

00:38:41.380 they're actually

00:38:42.320 trying to hurt.

00:38:43.760 They're trying

00:38:44.420 to hurt you

00:38:45.100 because it's

00:38:46.040 profitable.

00:38:47.120 And when I

00:38:47.480 say hurt you, 0.57

00:38:48.260 I mean give

00:38:48.720 you bad news

00:38:50.120 that doesn't

00:38:51.080 make you feel

00:38:51.600 good,

00:38:52.240 and maybe

00:38:52.940 there's nothing

00:38:53.700 you can do

00:38:54.180 about it anyway.

00:38:55.820 All right,

00:38:56.000 here are things

00:38:56.520 I think the

00:38:57.020 news literally

00:38:58.260 destroyed.

00:39:00.580 Traditional

00:39:01.020 American values.

00:39:03.560 And I want to

00:39:04.440 see in your

00:39:04.780 comments,

00:39:05.220 agree or

00:39:05.620 disagree,

00:39:06.500 that traditional

00:39:07.300 American values

00:39:08.420 have been destroyed

00:39:09.900 by the media.

00:39:10.900 Not just the

00:39:11.520 news,

00:39:12.360 not just the

00:39:12.900 news,

00:39:13.500 but movies,

00:39:14.560 etc.

00:39:15.460 Now,

00:39:16.340 I'm not going

00:39:17.220 to make an

00:39:17.620 argument that

00:39:19.560 traditional

00:39:20.080 American values

00:39:20.940 are perfect

00:39:21.880 and the only

00:39:22.960 thing we should

00:39:23.520 consider.

00:39:25.100 Because traditional

00:39:26.140 American values

00:39:27.020 have, you know,

00:39:27.760 too much racism

00:39:28.660 and sexism 0.85

00:39:29.440 and, you know,

00:39:30.560 other issues,

00:39:31.840 lots of other

00:39:32.420 issues.

00:39:33.560 But would

00:39:34.600 you agree

00:39:35.660 with me that

00:39:36.780 as an operating

00:39:37.720 system for the

00:39:38.500 country, it

00:39:39.800 worked to keep

00:39:41.080 cohesion, even

00:39:42.700 with all of its

00:39:43.360 problems, it

00:39:44.140 kept cohesion,

00:39:45.360 and that cohesion

00:39:46.420 was applied

00:39:48.040 toward, you know,

00:39:48.900 merit and hard

00:39:49.900 work, and that's

00:39:51.340 what built the

00:39:51.840 country.

00:39:52.920 The country was

00:39:53.920 built on trust.

00:39:57.080 You don't know

00:39:57.800 how important

00:39:58.240 trust is, which

00:39:59.580 I believe is a

00:40:00.540 religious,

00:40:01.420 traditional value.

00:40:02.240 You don't get

00:40:04.040 trust unless you

00:40:05.000 think God was

00:40:05.720 watching.

00:40:07.140 Am I wrong?

00:40:08.700 If you thought

00:40:09.400 there's no God,

00:40:10.440 you'd just say,

00:40:11.020 well, if I can

00:40:11.940 get away with it,

00:40:12.640 I can get away

00:40:13.240 with it.

00:40:14.100 But if you think

00:40:14.920 you're going to

00:40:15.300 burn in hell

00:40:15.860 forever, if you

00:40:17.200 lie to your

00:40:17.720 business partner,

00:40:18.880 you might be

00:40:19.860 less inclined to

00:40:20.620 do it.

00:40:21.540 Well, I don't

00:40:22.040 want to burn

00:40:22.440 forever, so I'll

00:40:23.300 tell the truth.

00:40:24.580 So I think that

00:40:25.540 the traditional

00:40:26.220 American values

00:40:27.040 created an

00:40:27.800 operating system

00:40:28.680 for the country

00:40:29.300 that was super

00:40:30.660 successful, and

00:40:32.240 that the media

00:40:33.000 has chipped away

00:40:35.880 on it in recent

00:40:36.940 years, usually

00:40:38.220 for good reasons.

00:40:40.040 Usually for good

00:40:40.860 reasons.

00:40:41.600 I love inclusiveness.

00:40:44.460 I like diversity.

00:40:45.940 I like getting

00:40:46.440 rid of racism.

00:40:48.120 So the reasons

00:40:48.960 are all good.

00:40:50.440 It's just that you

00:40:51.640 don't indulge in

00:40:52.620 those until you're

00:40:53.500 already successful.

00:40:55.720 There's a certain

00:40:56.620 type of way of

00:40:58.920 thinking that I

00:40:59.880 don't think emerges

00:41:00.920 until you've taken

00:41:02.200 care of all your

00:41:02.860 big problems, you

00:41:04.840 know, and got the

00:41:05.340 country solid, and

00:41:06.740 then people have

00:41:07.400 the luxury of, you

00:41:08.100 know, I'm not sure

00:41:09.520 everybody should have

00:41:10.280 a job.

00:41:12.940 Can you imagine,

00:41:14.080 those of you who

00:41:14.960 are in my age range,

00:41:16.520 imagine in the 60s,

00:41:18.200 well, I guess in the

00:41:19.200 60s they were

00:41:19.840 saying that, but

00:41:20.700 imagine in like the

00:41:21.840 80s, somebody

00:41:23.700 saying, how about

00:41:24.340 UBI would just pay

00:41:26.100 people to do

00:41:26.760 nothing?

00:41:27.060 You couldn't

00:41:28.380 even have that

00:41:28.920 conversation.

00:41:30.660 It would have

00:41:31.220 sounded ridiculous

00:41:32.140 because people would

00:41:33.660 have said, no, that's

00:41:34.400 not the operating

00:41:35.080 system.

00:41:36.000 As soon as you pay

00:41:36.780 people for not

00:41:37.560 working, you're going

00:41:38.900 to get more not

00:41:39.560 working.

00:41:40.620 How is that not

00:41:41.260 obvious?

00:41:43.220 So I think you

00:41:45.620 have to succeed, and

00:41:47.140 I'll come back to

00:41:47.920 this theme, before you

00:41:49.760 can be silly.

00:41:51.320 Silliness is like a

00:41:53.060 luxury of the

00:41:54.900 successful, and

00:41:57.240 especially their

00:41:57.940 children.

00:41:59.260 The children of

00:42:00.100 successful people have

00:42:01.640 the greatest luxury of

00:42:02.760 all, because they

00:42:03.820 don't know what it

00:42:04.420 takes to make the

00:42:05.220 money.

00:42:06.180 They just know they

00:42:07.160 don't need any at the

00:42:07.980 moment.

00:42:09.380 All right, I think

00:42:10.280 traditional values was

00:42:11.440 destroyed by the media.

00:42:12.880 Not that it shouldn't

00:42:13.920 have.

00:42:14.820 I'm just saying it

00:42:15.540 happened.

00:42:17.100 I think the January

00:42:18.660 6th insurrection story

00:42:20.200 is completely media

00:42:22.220 driven.

00:42:22.540 And if the media had

00:42:24.460 told us, well, it was

00:42:26.080 a bunch of people who

00:42:26.860 were unhappy about the

00:42:27.700 election, but, yeah, and

00:42:29.360 there was some violence,

00:42:31.020 and that's the end of

00:42:31.760 the story.

00:42:33.360 You know the media could

00:42:34.660 have covered that that

00:42:35.480 way, right?

00:42:37.780 How did the media cover

00:42:39.060 the protests when Trump

00:42:40.100 got elected the first

00:42:41.020 time?

00:42:42.000 First time Trump got

00:42:42.960 elected, huge protests.

00:42:45.240 Media covered it while

00:42:46.320 it was happening, and

00:42:47.860 then it's not a story

00:42:48.680 anymore.

00:42:48.980 But this January 6th

00:42:51.220 one, the media, you

00:42:53.300 know, being the winged

00:42:54.320 monkeys of the

00:42:55.040 Democrats, decided that

00:42:56.940 this needed to be the

00:42:58.100 main story you see.

00:43:00.240 So is this good for you?

00:43:01.840 Is it good for the

00:43:02.580 country that the media

00:43:03.440 decided insurrection,

00:43:04.820 which was literally not

00:43:06.300 what happened?

00:43:07.500 Is it good for the

00:43:08.380 country that they made

00:43:09.280 up a narrative and then

00:43:11.220 sold it for two years?

00:43:13.240 No.

00:43:13.960 It's terrible for the

00:43:14.740 country.

00:43:16.000 How about racial

00:43:16.980 division?

00:43:17.420 Do you think racial

00:43:18.820 division is being

00:43:20.000 driven by media

00:43:21.040 narratives?

00:43:23.180 Of course.

00:43:24.640 Of course.

00:43:25.900 Do you think racial

00:43:27.180 division got worse on

00:43:28.280 its own?

00:43:30.060 No.

00:43:31.020 No.

00:43:31.440 If you leave people

00:43:32.260 alone, they kind of

00:43:33.120 say, oh, you're my

00:43:35.440 neighbor?

00:43:35.880 Oh, you're cool.

00:43:37.320 I like you.

00:43:39.240 It's just when we get

00:43:40.380 charged up by the media

00:43:42.300 clickbait stuff.

00:43:44.740 I mean, how unhealthy is

00:43:46.280 it that we see on

00:43:47.840 Twitter every day there's

00:43:49.200 a new story of black 0.55

00:43:50.200 people hurting other

00:43:51.080 people?

00:43:52.800 Right?

00:43:53.360 There's no way that's

00:43:54.360 representative, of

00:43:55.920 course, but if you see

00:43:57.500 that kind of video every

00:43:58.740 day, it's going to make

00:44:00.560 you think, wow,

00:44:01.440 everywhere I go, it's

00:44:02.580 going to be this.

00:44:03.580 Of course, that's not the

00:44:04.520 case.

00:44:05.540 How about our mental

00:44:06.460 health?

00:44:07.660 Of course.

00:44:09.180 Of course the media has

00:44:10.380 destroyed our mental

00:44:11.180 health.

00:44:11.640 Does anybody doubt that?

00:44:12.640 Does that seem obvious

00:44:14.980 to you, that they've

00:44:16.060 destroyed our mental

00:44:16.900 health?

00:44:17.400 Because they're giving

00:44:18.520 us PTSD, they're making

00:44:19.900 us racially afraid of

00:44:22.720 each other.

00:44:23.700 Just every possible

00:44:24.840 negative thing that's

00:44:25.660 coming from the media.

00:44:26.560 How about climate change

00:44:28.200 and the way we're

00:44:28.900 addressing it?

00:44:29.540 But let's say energy

00:44:30.360 policy.

00:44:31.660 Probably the biggest

00:44:32.500 economic factor in the

00:44:34.000 world is energy.

00:44:36.220 Don't you think we're

00:44:37.000 doing everything wrong

00:44:38.140 because of the news?

00:44:40.120 Do you know why we

00:44:40.780 don't have a robust

00:44:41.760 nuclear industry in

00:44:45.400 America?

00:44:46.540 It's the media.

00:44:48.460 It's the media.

00:44:49.900 Yeah.

00:44:50.180 If you took the media

00:44:51.120 away, scientists would

00:44:52.860 say, well, you know,

00:44:53.840 we're good at this now

00:44:55.100 and it's safe, the

00:44:56.980 current models are safe.

00:44:59.600 And if the media just

00:45:00.640 reported that, well, it

00:45:01.740 turns out the current

00:45:02.400 models are safe.

00:45:04.660 That's it.

00:45:05.900 We would have a robust

00:45:07.560 France-like nuclear 0.70

00:45:09.680 energy.

00:45:10.100 But we don't.

00:45:12.320 And the media did that.

00:45:13.660 That was the media.

00:45:16.580 How about TikTok and

00:45:18.560 banning it?

00:45:19.520 Don't you think TikTok

00:45:20.380 would already be banned?

00:45:23.400 It's only the media

00:45:24.700 that even allows this to

00:45:27.460 happen.

00:45:27.740 The whole story about

00:45:30.780 trans athletes.

00:45:32.380 Do you think that

00:45:33.200 Leah Thomas would be

00:45:34.960 competing if the media

00:45:37.420 did not support her?

00:45:39.540 Of course not.

00:45:40.900 Of course not.

00:45:42.060 If the media reported

00:45:43.460 that a man was competing

00:45:44.700 as a woman, it would 0.88

00:45:47.160 end immediately.

00:45:49.200 It's just the way it's

00:45:50.260 framed.

00:45:51.680 The moment that all of

00:45:53.440 the media reported the

00:45:54.720 story, there's a man

00:45:56.600 competing as a woman

00:45:58.420 which, by the way, is

00:46:01.600 the only one way to

00:46:02.740 frame it.

00:46:03.200 The other way to frame

00:46:03.900 it is she's a woman

00:46:05.200 and, you know, she has

00:46:06.400 advantages.

00:46:07.560 But if the media decided

00:46:09.200 that they didn't want

00:46:10.240 this to happen, they'd

00:46:12.000 just say, oh, there's

00:46:12.640 this man competing as a

00:46:13.680 woman, and then 1.00

00:46:14.600 everybody would have no

00:46:15.500 problem banning it

00:46:16.460 because they'd know

00:46:17.640 they'd be safe.

00:46:18.980 Well, the media says

00:46:19.820 there's a man competing

00:46:20.580 as a woman, so obviously

00:46:21.640 we can ban him, they 1.00

00:46:23.840 would be able to say

00:46:24.680 in that case, from

00:46:25.840 competing.

00:46:27.040 But right now the

00:46:27.920 media says that, you

00:46:30.600 know, treat everybody

00:46:31.500 according to their

00:46:32.520 gender preference.

00:46:34.460 And so if you were to

00:46:35.380 complain about it, the

00:46:37.220 media is this, you

00:46:39.060 know, has worked up a

00:46:40.460 bunch of people to

00:46:41.120 complain about you.

00:46:43.820 So that's a media

00:46:44.720 problem.

00:46:45.280 How about population

00:46:47.120 decline?

00:46:48.420 Do you think the

00:46:49.020 population in mostly

00:46:51.960 industrialized countries,

00:46:53.200 do you believe the

00:46:54.220 population is declining

00:46:55.400 because of natural

00:46:57.220 reasons, you know, just

00:46:58.520 economics, or do you

00:47:01.320 think the media has a

00:47:02.260 lot to do with it?

00:47:03.520 The media.

00:47:04.800 There are young people

00:47:05.820 who literally don't want

00:47:06.840 to have babies because of

00:47:07.880 climate change.

00:47:09.620 I bet there's a lot of

00:47:10.440 them.

00:47:11.400 I bet there's a lot of

00:47:12.140 them.

00:47:12.440 And I don't see the media

00:47:13.520 saying having babies is 0.78

00:47:15.140 good and noble and

00:47:16.540 American and necessary.

00:47:19.540 I don't hear them.

00:47:20.140 If there's a media story

00:47:22.020 about babies, it's

00:47:23.480 going to be how they're

00:47:24.080 too expensive.

00:47:26.300 Right?

00:47:27.760 Yeah.

00:47:28.360 Or people are way

00:47:29.540 happy without babies.

00:47:31.200 Surprise!

00:47:32.020 We found that women are 1.00

00:47:33.120 happier without babies.

00:47:34.680 I've seen that story.

00:47:36.400 I've seen that story.

00:47:38.640 I don't know how true it

00:47:40.100 is, but I've seen that

00:47:40.820 story.

00:47:41.660 How about the Ukraine

00:47:43.400 war?

00:47:43.760 Do you think we'd be at

00:47:46.220 war if half the country

00:47:47.520 did not support it?

00:47:48.540 And do you think half

00:47:49.700 the country would support

00:47:51.600 it if the media had not

00:47:52.840 told them to?

00:47:54.120 No.

00:47:54.520 Everybody's opinion comes

00:47:55.600 from the media.

00:47:57.020 All of it.

00:47:58.480 So the only way you have

00:47:59.860 a war is if the media

00:48:01.100 says it's okay.

00:48:03.140 If CNN and Fox News

00:48:05.280 said, this is insane,

00:48:07.220 stay away from Ukraine, 1.00

00:48:08.920 let whatever happens

00:48:09.900 happen.

00:48:10.400 And by the way,

00:48:10.940 that's not necessarily my

00:48:12.620 opinion.

00:48:13.580 I'm just saying that the

00:48:15.320 media decides if you're in

00:48:16.600 war is not the government.

00:48:19.320 The government doesn't

00:48:20.320 have the power to create

00:48:21.380 a war and sustain it

00:48:23.160 without media support.

00:48:25.420 Now, they only need

00:48:26.500 half of the media.

00:48:28.120 They don't need the left

00:48:29.020 and the right.

00:48:30.380 Either one would be

00:48:31.340 enough, probably.

00:48:33.440 But they can't do it

00:48:34.420 without the media.

00:48:35.800 So the media creates

00:48:36.800 our wars.

00:48:38.240 We wouldn't be in

00:48:39.080 Ukraine without it.

00:48:39.920 And that was just the

00:48:44.720 things that came to my

00:48:46.960 head immediately.

00:48:48.840 What about the bank run?

00:48:51.020 Do you think we'd have

00:48:51.740 a bank run if the news

00:48:53.140 covered it differently?

00:48:56.140 The bank run is

00:48:57.520 completely a media

00:48:59.140 phenomenon.

00:49:00.280 It's not a banking

00:49:01.480 phenomenon.

00:49:02.740 It is a media

00:49:03.980 phenomenon.

00:49:05.000 If the media tells you

00:49:06.340 the banks are failing,

00:49:07.440 they will fail.

00:49:08.040 If the media says,

00:49:10.300 oh, there's one

00:49:10.880 special case,

00:49:11.640 don't worry about it,

00:49:13.200 the banks will succeed.

00:49:15.100 Now, they do have

00:49:15.860 actual structural,

00:49:17.180 you know,

00:49:18.060 issues of having

00:49:19.400 enough reserves

00:49:20.020 and all that.

00:49:21.320 But I think those

00:49:22.240 are the problems

00:49:22.620 we could figure out.

00:49:25.120 The thing you can't

00:49:26.220 figure out is if

00:49:27.100 everybody tries to

00:49:27.880 withdraw their money

00:49:28.560 at the same time.

00:49:29.700 That you can't

00:49:30.360 figure out.

00:49:31.420 And the media is

00:49:32.220 bringing us very close

00:49:33.620 to the point where

00:49:35.080 that's a risk.

00:49:36.540 I don't think we're

00:49:37.200 there, but

00:49:37.740 try to think of

00:49:40.240 any problem in the

00:49:41.380 world that's one

00:49:42.220 of the big ones

00:49:42.840 and see if you

00:49:44.980 can see any

00:49:46.120 problem,

00:49:47.060 any problem

00:49:47.840 that isn't either

00:49:49.440 entirely caused

00:49:50.620 by the media

00:49:51.200 or influenced

00:49:52.680 in the wrong way

00:49:53.400 by the media.

00:49:54.340 It's actually

00:49:55.300 everything.

00:49:56.820 It's everything.

00:49:58.400 All of our problems

00:49:59.460 are the media.

00:50:00.340 Do you know why

00:50:00.800 we don't talk

00:50:01.400 about this more?

00:50:03.800 Who would do

00:50:04.540 the talking?

00:50:05.060 You're not

00:50:06.140 going to get

00:50:06.460 invited by the

00:50:07.180 media to talk

00:50:07.920 about the

00:50:08.280 media being

00:50:08.780 bad.

00:50:10.740 So if it

00:50:12.440 doesn't happen

00:50:13.040 on something

00:50:13.780 like this,

00:50:14.560 an independent

00:50:15.280 live stream,

00:50:16.020 you're not

00:50:16.320 going to hear

00:50:16.640 it.

00:50:16.900 So there's

00:50:20.380 pretty much

00:50:21.040 no issue

00:50:22.440 that isn't

00:50:23.580 being destroyed

00:50:24.160 by the

00:50:24.540 media.

00:50:25.920 And

00:50:26.360 here's a new

00:50:28.440 poll.

00:50:28.940 Charlie Kirk

00:50:29.740 tweeted about

00:50:30.360 this.

00:50:31.320 A new poll

00:50:31.860 for Newsweek

00:50:32.780 shows that

00:50:33.260 69% of

00:50:34.280 Americans

00:50:34.660 believe January

00:50:35.520 6th was

00:50:36.240 less violent

00:50:37.700 than reported

00:50:38.860 by the fake

00:50:39.540 news media.

00:50:40.120 just 26%

00:50:42.920 believe it

00:50:43.980 was more

00:50:44.640 violent than

00:50:45.420 reported.

00:50:48.500 That spunky

00:50:49.580 little 25%,

00:50:50.980 26%.

00:50:51.880 They can get

00:50:53.320 every question

00:50:53.980 wrong.

00:50:56.940 All right.

00:50:59.100 So here's

00:51:00.660 my question.

00:51:02.800 Have you

00:51:03.540 ever noticed

00:51:04.020 that there

00:51:04.920 are a lot

00:51:05.160 of ancient

00:51:05.620 civilizations

00:51:06.340 that left

00:51:08.040 advanced cities,

00:51:09.520 at least

00:51:09.940 advanced by

00:51:10.620 their standards,

00:51:12.140 that just

00:51:13.580 got covered

00:51:14.080 with dirt?

00:51:15.980 Do you

00:51:16.500 ever wonder

00:51:16.900 about that?

00:51:19.260 How is it

00:51:22.580 that so

00:51:23.420 many buried

00:51:24.580 cities exist

00:51:25.800 where there

00:51:26.560 was once

00:51:26.980 this thriving

00:51:28.040 city and

00:51:29.360 now every

00:51:30.040 single person

00:51:30.700 is gone and

00:51:31.960 they've been

00:51:32.280 gone so long

00:51:33.000 that the

00:51:33.340 whole thing

00:51:33.640 covered with

00:51:34.160 dirt so you

00:51:34.700 didn't even

00:51:35.040 know it was

00:51:35.380 there?

00:51:36.440 Now I

00:51:37.200 assume there

00:51:37.660 are a number

00:51:38.000 of reasons.

00:51:38.540 One of

00:51:39.600 those reasons

00:51:40.200 could be

00:51:40.900 economic.

00:51:42.760 Maybe there's

00:51:43.240 a drought.

00:51:45.240 Maybe there's

00:51:45.960 a natural

00:51:46.360 disaster.

00:51:48.100 In Central

00:51:49.520 and South

00:51:49.900 America,

00:51:50.420 maybe it was

00:51:50.860 smallpox that

00:51:52.040 came in from

00:51:52.800 Europe.

00:51:54.640 So there's a

00:51:55.240 bunch of

00:51:55.480 reasons.

00:51:55.920 You have

00:51:56.060 volcanoes,

00:51:57.360 etc.

00:51:57.920 But collectively,

00:51:59.800 in my opinion,

00:52:01.580 they don't seem

00:52:02.620 to explain all

00:52:03.440 of it.

00:52:03.740 of course,

00:52:05.400 this is just

00:52:05.800 a subjective

00:52:07.120 kind of a

00:52:08.740 view.

00:52:09.400 But to me,

00:52:09.940 it looks like

00:52:10.380 there's something

00:52:11.040 else that

00:52:12.280 wipes down

00:52:12.780 civilizations.

00:52:15.100 And it does

00:52:15.880 it reliably.

00:52:17.400 That's the

00:52:17.860 problem.

00:52:18.800 It's the

00:52:19.280 reliable part.

00:52:21.000 Like, it

00:52:22.060 seems like they

00:52:22.640 all get wiped

00:52:23.500 out.

00:52:24.760 It makes me

00:52:25.560 wonder if

00:52:26.020 there's a

00:52:26.480 common theme.

00:52:28.980 And here's

00:52:30.280 what I

00:52:30.560 believe.

00:52:32.500 I believe if

00:52:33.440 you have,

00:52:33.740 you know,

00:52:34.460 hundreds of

00:52:35.200 millions of

00:52:36.060 humans running

00:52:36.720 around, some

00:52:38.180 of them will

00:52:38.600 have philosophies

00:52:39.880 and mindsets

00:52:40.740 that will drive

00:52:42.280 them towards

00:52:42.700 success, where

00:52:44.320 they could build

00:52:44.800 a civilization,

00:52:45.920 and some

00:52:46.420 will not.

00:52:47.520 Some will

00:52:47.860 have more

00:52:48.320 tribal,

00:52:49.500 everything's

00:52:49.940 fine the way

00:52:50.440 it is,

00:52:51.600 tomorrow's the

00:52:52.240 same as

00:52:52.700 yesterday,

00:52:53.660 and then they

00:52:54.600 would not

00:52:54.920 drive toward

00:52:55.640 building

00:52:56.480 civilizations.

00:52:58.140 But,

00:52:58.540 here's my

00:52:59.360 hypothesis,

00:53:01.400 that when

00:53:02.260 there's a

00:53:02.940 coincidental

00:53:03.660 correct mindset

00:53:04.940 in some

00:53:05.540 group of

00:53:05.980 humans,

00:53:06.900 and let's

00:53:07.200 say early

00:53:07.760 America was

00:53:08.480 the perfect

00:53:08.880 example,

00:53:10.020 the early

00:53:10.660 American

00:53:11.300 mindset was

00:53:13.000 really,

00:53:13.640 really optimized

00:53:14.220 for building

00:53:15.480 economics and

00:53:17.000 civilization.

00:53:18.280 And so it

00:53:18.620 did.

00:53:19.540 So America

00:53:20.260 sprang up

00:53:22.280 from that.

00:53:23.620 But,

00:53:24.620 here we

00:53:25.120 are,

00:53:25.960 highly

00:53:26.360 successful

00:53:27.320 people,

00:53:28.180 arguably the

00:53:29.080 strongest

00:53:29.420 nation on

00:53:30.060 earth at

00:53:30.580 some point,

00:53:31.740 and once

00:53:32.640 you're the

00:53:32.960 strongest

00:53:33.340 nation and

00:53:34.040 you can

00:53:34.300 feed everybody

00:53:35.060 and all

00:53:35.560 of your

00:53:35.840 major

00:53:36.660 problems

00:53:37.160 seem

00:53:37.400 solved,

00:53:38.340 then you

00:53:39.400 have the

00:53:39.760 luxury of

00:53:41.880 the useless

00:53:42.580 people having

00:53:44.140 a bigger

00:53:44.500 voice.

00:53:45.740 The useless

00:53:46.540 people are

00:53:47.260 anybody whose

00:53:48.000 view would

00:53:49.380 take you away

00:53:50.020 from the

00:53:50.400 mindset of

00:53:51.440 success.

00:53:51.940 I call

00:53:53.140 those the

00:53:53.540 useless

00:53:53.780 people.

00:53:54.640 Now you

00:53:55.000 don't have

00:53:55.400 that many

00:53:55.780 useless

00:53:56.120 people until

00:53:56.780 you're really

00:53:57.200 successful.

00:53:58.480 It's like the

00:53:59.080 children of

00:53:59.680 successful people

00:54:00.580 become the

00:54:01.680 useless generation 0.97

00:54:02.600 because they

00:54:03.460 don't know what

00:54:03.980 it takes to

00:54:05.700 succeed.

00:54:06.820 They just

00:54:07.160 sort of were

00:54:07.840 born into a

00:54:08.520 good situation.

00:54:10.200 But now they're

00:54:11.220 sure that they

00:54:11.700 have good ideas

00:54:12.520 and you should

00:54:13.100 all listen to

00:54:13.600 them.

00:54:15.020 Narcissists

00:54:15.540 mostly.

00:54:16.140 So my

00:54:18.580 theory is

00:54:19.260 that every

00:54:20.760 successful

00:54:21.800 civilization

00:54:22.740 requires a

00:54:23.980 success mindset

00:54:24.940 that can be

00:54:25.900 different.

00:54:27.080 The success

00:54:27.940 mindset for

00:54:28.700 let's say the

00:54:29.280 Christian biased

00:54:31.480 traditional family

00:54:33.440 would be different

00:54:34.100 from let's say

00:54:36.020 some early

00:54:36.640 Muslim

00:54:37.160 civilization

00:54:38.020 that was also

00:54:38.800 successful.

00:54:40.060 They would have

00:54:40.460 different mindsets

00:54:41.260 but both of them

00:54:41.980 optimized for

00:54:42.840 some kind of

00:54:43.400 success.

00:54:44.780 But once that

00:54:45.500 successful

00:54:46.140 civilization

00:54:46.780 becomes strong

00:54:48.060 enough it

00:54:49.240 breeds the

00:54:51.060 second generation

00:54:51.900 of people who

00:54:52.480 don't get it.

00:54:54.320 And they think

00:54:55.100 they need to

00:54:55.620 change the

00:54:56.060 mindset to

00:54:56.580 improve it.

00:54:57.800 So now we're

00:54:58.380 seeing the

00:54:59.280 viruses.

00:55:01.640 The DEI,

00:55:02.800 the CRT,

00:55:04.140 the ESG,

00:55:05.640 the climate

00:55:06.200 alarm,

00:55:07.640 the trans

00:55:08.980 stuff,

00:55:09.620 etc.

00:55:10.280 And 100%

00:55:11.540 of it is

00:55:12.200 either anti-population

00:55:13.880 or anti-success

00:55:15.300 anti-merit,

00:55:17.460 anti-economics,

00:55:19.640 anti-everything

00:55:20.360 that worked.

00:55:21.820 And here's my

00:55:22.640 guess.

00:55:23.600 I'll bet that's

00:55:24.220 what happened to

00:55:24.840 other civilizations.

00:55:27.340 I'll bet that

00:55:28.140 success breeds

00:55:30.140 a useless class.

00:55:32.140 The useless

00:55:32.600 class gains

00:55:33.420 power because

00:55:34.280 nobody thinks

00:55:35.700 to stop them.

00:55:36.640 It's just talk.

00:55:38.200 Right?

00:55:38.780 If you have

00:55:39.440 freedom of speech

00:55:40.200 you're like,

00:55:40.580 oh, they're just

00:55:41.060 talking.

00:55:42.140 They're just

00:55:42.780 talking.

00:55:43.580 Everybody gets

00:55:44.120 to talk.

00:55:45.280 But at some

00:55:45.720 point that

00:55:46.260 talking becomes

00:55:46.980 so toxic

00:55:47.600 and corrosive

00:55:48.420 that,

00:55:49.580 oh, yeah,

00:55:54.700 I'm going to

00:55:55.000 pull myself

00:55:55.540 back from

00:55:56.000 something I

00:55:56.340 was just

00:55:56.620 going to

00:55:56.820 say right

00:55:57.160 there.

00:56:00.380 But maybe

00:56:00.980 I'll tell you

00:56:01.440 later.

00:56:02.360 Yeah, there's

00:56:02.740 something I'm

00:56:03.140 going to tell

00:56:03.480 you later.

00:56:03.960 The locals

00:56:04.660 people already

00:56:05.240 heard it because

00:56:05.800 they get the

00:56:06.220 special stuff.

00:56:07.760 But YouTube,

00:56:08.740 you're not ready

00:56:09.220 for this

00:56:09.580 information, so

00:56:10.580 I'm going

00:56:11.360 to hold

00:56:11.560 back on

00:56:11.940 that.

00:56:13.520 I'll tell

00:56:14.060 you later

00:56:14.400 though.

00:56:15.040 I just

00:56:15.640 have to

00:56:15.960 wait.

00:56:18.120 So I

00:56:18.820 think that

00:56:19.240 we're heading

00:56:19.720 toward, at

00:56:20.780 least America

00:56:21.300 is heading

00:56:21.640 toward a

00:56:22.200 civilization

00:56:22.820 collapse that

00:56:24.460 is directly

00:56:25.100 caused by

00:56:25.860 the media,

00:56:27.360 the media

00:56:28.420 allowing the 0.66

00:56:30.320 mindset of

00:56:31.960 success that

00:56:32.820 drove America

00:56:33.520 to be

00:56:34.400 corrupted

00:56:34.820 because they

00:56:36.140 get more

00:56:36.500 clicks for

00:56:37.320 that.

00:56:37.600 So the

00:56:39.480 people

00:56:39.700 complaining

00:56:40.300 about the

00:56:40.780 system and

00:56:41.320 protesting,

00:56:42.220 they're causing

00:56:43.420 clicks and

00:56:44.600 then they get

00:56:45.360 more people

00:56:45.980 because the

00:56:46.620 media tells

00:56:47.140 you what's

00:56:47.540 true.

00:56:48.540 And now the

00:56:48.940 media is sort

00:56:49.780 of the winged

00:56:50.780 monkeys of

00:56:51.480 all the people

00:56:52.040 who have the

00:56:52.700 anti-success

00:56:54.020 mindset.

00:56:56.020 They're the

00:56:56.660 ones telling

00:56:57.180 us that the

00:56:58.820 real problem is

00:56:59.500 racism.

00:57:01.660 Is it?

00:57:03.540 The only

00:57:04.460 reason we

00:57:04.820 have a racism

00:57:05.340 problem is

00:57:05.920 because, well

00:57:07.520 not the only

00:57:07.980 reason, but

00:57:08.520 the biggest

00:57:09.060 reason is

00:57:10.240 because the

00:57:10.720 media told

00:57:11.220 us to.

00:57:12.340 They told us

00:57:13.040 what to

00:57:13.340 think and

00:57:13.760 here we

00:57:14.020 are.

00:57:16.620 Yeah.

00:57:17.960 So I

00:57:19.200 think we're

00:57:19.640 actually heading

00:57:20.120 toward a

00:57:20.720 extinction event

00:57:22.160 in America

00:57:23.140 and everybody

00:57:24.520 can see it.

00:57:26.140 Would you

00:57:26.740 agree?

00:57:27.740 Everyone can

00:57:28.500 see it.

00:57:29.800 But here's

00:57:30.560 what I think

00:57:30.980 is the good

00:57:31.400 news.

00:57:33.620 Earlier when

00:57:34.320 I said,

00:57:34.960 could you

00:57:35.220 talk about

00:57:35.860 Leah Thomas

00:57:36.960 in direct

00:57:37.660 terms even

00:57:38.280 two months

00:57:38.720 ago?

00:57:39.880 But today

00:57:40.340 you can.

00:57:42.560 Have you

00:57:43.140 noticed that

00:57:43.700 since I

00:57:44.120 got canceled,

00:57:45.460 the discussions

00:57:46.300 about race

00:57:47.140 have expanded?

00:57:48.500 That might be

00:57:49.200 just my

00:57:49.580 impression.

00:57:50.100 I don't

00:57:50.240 know.

00:57:50.680 But I

00:57:50.980 feel like

00:57:51.360 you can

00:57:51.680 speak more

00:57:52.740 freely about

00:57:54.640 race and 0.82

00:57:55.400 gender and

00:57:57.600 more freely

00:57:58.600 about mindset,

00:58:00.260 success mindset.

00:58:01.360 and I'm

00:58:02.800 seeing a

00:58:04.220 little bit

00:58:04.500 more of it

00:58:04.920 emerge.

00:58:06.180 It takes

00:58:06.840 some people

00:58:07.320 to basically

00:58:09.860 get canceled

00:58:11.260 before people

00:58:12.880 will take

00:58:13.260 anything seriously.

00:58:15.400 So I

00:58:16.180 think it

00:58:16.480 can be

00:58:16.800 saved.

00:58:17.680 But we

00:58:18.100 are on an

00:58:18.680 extinction path.

00:58:20.000 America is.

00:58:21.040 Not that we'll

00:58:21.720 have it.

00:58:22.700 Not that we

00:58:23.380 will be extinct,

00:58:24.280 but that if we

00:58:24.940 don't change

00:58:25.520 direction, we're

00:58:27.080 running right

00:58:27.600 toward the cliff

00:58:28.660 as fast as

00:58:29.820 we can.

00:58:30.720 And I

00:58:31.060 think that

00:58:31.380 before we

00:58:31.900 get to the

00:58:32.260 cliff, the

00:58:32.980 smart people

00:58:33.740 will emerge.

00:58:35.140 I bring you

00:58:35.900 back to an

00:58:36.400 earlier story

00:58:37.160 about Elon

00:58:38.440 Musk looking 1.00

00:58:39.560 to help

00:58:41.620 us pause

00:58:42.520 AI.

00:58:44.700 Elon Musk

00:58:45.560 is not the

00:58:46.260 media.

00:58:47.840 Elon Musk

00:58:48.420 is a dad.

00:58:50.280 And in

00:58:51.040 many ways,

00:58:51.560 he's a dad

00:58:52.080 first.

00:58:53.360 You think of

00:58:54.000 him as

00:58:54.380 richest guy

00:58:55.160 and SpaceX

00:58:56.260 and Tesla

00:58:56.900 and all that.

00:58:57.960 But I

00:58:58.300 think he's

00:58:58.640 a dad

00:58:58.920 first.

00:59:00.080 I think

00:59:00.420 he's a

00:59:00.700 dad first.

00:59:01.980 And when

00:59:03.060 he says,

00:59:03.820 you know,

00:59:04.060 the dad

00:59:04.460 of all

00:59:04.760 dads,

00:59:05.340 says,

00:59:06.080 you should

00:59:06.720 pause AI

00:59:07.440 and then

00:59:08.660 a whole

00:59:08.900 bunch of

00:59:09.260 other smart

00:59:09.900 people agree

00:59:11.260 completely,

00:59:12.420 that is

00:59:13.460 useful.

00:59:15.160 That is

00:59:16.320 the solution

00:59:16.900 to the

00:59:17.760 media.

00:59:18.980 Elon Musk,

00:59:19.840 by buying

00:59:20.480 Twitter and

00:59:21.640 restoring,

00:59:22.380 in my opinion,

00:59:23.400 restoring free

00:59:24.140 speech to

00:59:24.640 Twitter,

00:59:25.620 is the

00:59:27.280 biggest thing

00:59:27.900 that's

00:59:28.120 happened in

00:59:28.560 years.

00:59:29.720 It's the

00:59:30.240 biggest thing.

00:59:31.440 Because only

00:59:32.220 Twitter is

00:59:33.620 slightly free

00:59:34.600 at the

00:59:34.880 moment,

00:59:36.060 and it

00:59:36.380 might be,

00:59:37.320 with the

00:59:37.860 help of

00:59:38.200 the internet

00:59:38.740 dads and

00:59:39.420 internet

00:59:39.920 moms,

00:59:40.680 it might be

00:59:41.620 the thing

00:59:41.980 that drives

00:59:42.420 us back to

00:59:43.000 sanity.

00:59:44.240 It might.

00:59:45.380 But right

00:59:45.900 now,

00:59:46.260 the media

00:59:46.880 and the

00:59:47.960 Democrats

00:59:48.320 in particular

00:59:49.040 are on a

00:59:51.740 toxic march

00:59:52.940 toward destruction,

00:59:53.780 and the

00:59:55.180 only

00:59:55.380 counterbalance

00:59:56.260 will not

00:59:56.760 come from

00:59:57.080 the media.

00:59:58.100 It's going

00:59:58.420 to have to

00:59:58.680 come from

00:59:59.180 Twitter and

01:00:00.680 people like

01:00:01.560 Elon Musk and

01:00:02.560 the people who

01:00:03.780 are willing to

01:00:04.740 get shot

01:00:05.280 down.

01:00:07.600 So, and I

01:00:08.660 also think that

01:00:09.400 some people,

01:00:10.380 and I'll use my

01:00:11.080 own example as

01:00:12.320 the perfect

01:00:14.780 example, I

01:00:15.400 guess,

01:00:16.300 some of us

01:00:17.420 are just

01:00:17.720 done.

01:00:19.920 Some of us

01:00:20.680 are just

01:00:21.400 done lying.

01:00:22.500 And here's

01:00:25.100 the other

01:00:25.340 thing.

01:00:29.240 You can

01:00:30.020 beat up

01:00:30.520 white people

01:00:31.040 for a long

01:00:31.580 time, and

01:00:32.680 white men in

01:00:33.320 particular.

01:00:34.520 You can beat

01:00:35.560 up white men

01:00:36.220 for a long

01:00:37.180 time, until

01:00:39.080 you can't.

01:00:42.120 That's all.

01:00:44.140 You can

01:00:45.100 shit on

01:00:45.740 white men

01:00:46.440 as long as

01:00:47.500 you want,

01:00:48.700 until you

01:00:49.480 can't.

01:00:49.940 until you

01:00:52.680 can't.

01:00:55.680 All right.

01:00:58.500 Here's the

01:00:59.140 media again.

01:00:59.960 So this was

01:01:00.820 in the news

01:01:01.360 today.

01:01:02.620 New research

01:01:03.380 shows that

01:01:04.040 physical exercise

01:01:05.120 has little

01:01:06.400 mental benefits.

01:01:09.820 New York

01:01:10.580 Post.

01:01:12.060 That's right.

01:01:13.020 The media is

01:01:13.800 telling you that

01:01:14.440 exercise might

01:01:16.420 not be good

01:01:17.180 for your brain

01:01:17.860 after all.

01:01:18.560 you fucking 0.93

01:01:31.040 pieces of

01:01:31.800 shit.

01:01:32.860 You know

01:01:33.360 that's not

01:01:33.840 true.

01:01:34.600 You fucking

01:01:35.320 know that's

01:01:35.820 not true.

01:01:36.620 You know

01:01:37.020 that's not

01:01:37.600 fucking true.

01:01:39.200 You know

01:01:39.760 that's not

01:01:40.260 fucking true.

01:01:41.680 You know

01:01:42.120 that.

01:01:42.420 Fuck. Yeah, and wine is good for you. Wine is good for you. Fuck you, media. Fuck you. You're 1.00

01:01:57.600 trying to kill us now. How many of you think that that's true? Now, here's what they did. They

01:02:03.120 looked at all the studies, and they decided the studies were underpowered or, in some cases,

01:02:08.640 inadequate. They did not prove that exercise is not good for the brain. They proved that

01:02:14.840 studies suck. Here's how this news should have read. Studies show that studies suck. That

01:02:25.400 was the only news. That's the only thing they proved. They looked at the studies, and they

01:02:31.560 said, the way you did all these studies is bad. That's good news. I mean, that's useful

01:02:36.600 news. Hey, studies show that studies are all bad. I would like that. But no, do not tell

01:02:44.300 me that exercise doesn't help me think, because I know that that's not true. I fucking know

01:02:51.160 that's not true. It really pisses me off. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm really

01:02:59.840 pissed off about that. Could there be a better example of the media trying to fucking kill

01:03:07.540 us? I mean, this is like just trying to fucking end the country. This is so wrong. So wrong.

01:03:16.240 Somebody says the author is fat. Maybe. I doubt it, but maybe.

01:03:21.800 Anyway. See, I think I have some more notes I haven't ripped up yet. Is anybody following

01:03:33.800 the story of Netanyahu and Israel and some judicial reforms? How many of you know the details of

01:03:42.460 that story? All right. So I'm not good on the details, but it looks important. So let me

01:03:50.560 tell you what I know. So Netanyahu, as prime minister, is trying to put through some legislation

01:03:56.800 that would give more power to the government and decrease the power of the judicial system

01:04:05.760 in Israel. Does that sound like a good idea to you? If you didn't know anything else, if

01:04:13.000 that's the only thing you knew, does it sound like a good idea? Well, it would depend if

01:04:19.900 the judicial system was out of control, right? If the judicial system is truly out of control,

01:04:27.180 then maybe you could argue you need more balance. All right. Suppose I told you that the judicial

01:04:33.000 system had grabbed some power for itself not too long ago. And what Netanyahu was trying

01:04:40.220 to do is claw back the power that the judicial system initially claimed for itself that was

01:04:46.660 greater than before. Now, I don't think it's one for one, but in terms of just a power balance,

01:04:51.940 it's a response to a grab by the judicial system. And he's trying to, you know, grab back a little bit,

01:04:59.860 which he would call balance maybe, and maybe somebody else would call a power grab. Yeah. Joel Pollack

01:05:07.500 is reporting on this in Breitbart, and that's where I'm getting my updates. So here's what's important

01:05:17.460 one from the outside. What would you think if you saw the United States Congress passing a law that

01:05:28.220 seemed to give them more power than the courts? In other words, trying to take power away from the

01:05:33.240 courts. Wouldn't you reflexively oppose that? Just automatically? No? You wouldn't? Depends? Yeah, I guess the

01:05:45.800 right answer is it depends. But unless there was some, like, national urgency, it just sounds like a bad idea

01:05:53.780 just on the surface. But it doesn't make it a bad idea. It doesn't make it a bad idea. It just means that on the

01:06:01.560 surface, it's the scariest frickin' idea I ever heard. Oh, the government wants to take power away from the courts.

01:06:07.560 The court's the only thing that control the power of the government. And so the government would like to take away

01:06:12.760 the power of the only thing that can control the power of the government.

01:06:17.560 I can see why the citizens are revolting.

01:06:20.080 And I don't even think they need to know the details.

01:06:24.220 But of course, it's like everything else.

01:06:25.820 It became a left-right thing, because the courts apparently

01:06:29.880 are more supportive of left-leaning things than the government.

01:06:34.280 If it's a conservative government, it's more supportive of conservative things.

01:06:38.100 So it's really just, it has nothing to do with the Constitution in Israel.

01:06:42.500 It has everything to do with the left and the right wanting to win.

01:06:45.980 That's about it.

01:06:47.400 But it's fun to watch, because you can imagine this situation or something like it happening

01:06:54.000 in America.

01:06:56.180 So I think Netanyahu wisely put it on the back burner because of public response.

01:07:02.260 But, you know, interesting to watch.

01:07:11.860 I also saw that, did you know that there's a Gallup poll showing that Democrats

01:07:19.440 favor Palestinians over the Israelis for the first time since the poll has been run?

01:07:24.300 Did you know that Americans are so divided that the left is favoring the Palestinians

01:07:34.120 and the right must be favoring Israel?

01:07:37.820 I mean, not completely, but, you know, by a majority.

01:07:42.580 Now, I'm not going to pick favorites because there's, you know, good and bad behavior

01:07:48.540 by everyone everywhere.

01:07:50.760 So I'm not going to get into the, I'm not going to call a favorite here.

01:07:54.700 Well, I am.

01:07:55.660 I mean, I'm pro-Israel.

01:07:57.140 I can't hide that.

01:07:58.300 I'm very pro-Israel.

01:08:00.160 But that doesn't mean that the Palestinians have no complaints.

01:08:03.540 Is that fair?

01:08:05.280 Would you accept that as a balanced view?

01:08:07.740 I'm completely pro-Israel.

01:08:11.140 But the Palestinians have some stuff to complain about. 1.00

01:08:14.200 It's not baseless.

01:08:15.560 It's not baseless.

01:08:17.420 So, but, you know, you need some kind of balance there.

01:08:22.540 I don't know.

01:08:23.200 That's pretty alarming.

01:08:24.300 That we don't even agree on Israel anymore.

01:08:30.080 All right.

01:08:34.740 So it turns out that, do you remember that one happy moment a few days ago

01:08:41.400 where I was saying, my God, you think everything is so partisan, but it turns out our Congress

01:08:48.220 can get things done when it's important.

01:08:51.840 They can become bipartisan when the country is at risk.

01:08:54.900 And I saw that happening with TikTok.

01:08:57.520 I was like, oh, my goodness.

01:08:59.940 Finally, some bipartisan movement.

01:09:03.120 Finally.

01:09:04.140 The Democrats, the Republicans, they're not going to fight over it like it's, you know, some kind of left-right thing.

01:09:11.300 They're just going to do what's right for the country.

01:09:13.080 And there was this bipartisan move to ban TikTok.

01:09:15.800 And I thought, wow, golden age, here we come.

01:09:19.180 Things are looking good now.

01:09:20.460 And then thanks to Tucker Carlson's reporting, we learned that that was a trick.

01:09:27.280 And there was not a bill to ban TikTok.

01:09:31.500 There was only a bill to give the Congress more control over social media in general.

01:09:38.280 That's the opposite of what I want.

01:09:41.140 That's not even close.

01:09:43.440 Yeah, that was just a trick.

01:09:45.480 So everybody involved with this.

01:09:50.260 Now, there may be more than one TikTok bill,

01:09:53.280 so I want to make sure I'm not throwing the wrong people under the bus.

01:09:56.460 But anybody who's bipartisanly supporting this bill to give them control over social media,

01:10:04.300 fuck you. 0.97

01:10:06.420 Fuck you.

01:10:08.200 I'm not even going to give you a political or legal or practical opinion on this.

01:10:14.700 Fuck you.

01:10:16.480 All right, this is pure evil or incompetence

01:10:19.540 or completely not caring about the citizens of the United States.

01:10:22.800 This is so unacceptable.

01:10:25.060 Fuck you.

01:10:26.460 That's all I've got to say about that.

01:10:28.040 Just fuck you. 1.00

01:10:33.180 All right.

01:10:35.100 I guess I woke up with a little bit of an attitude today.

01:10:37.520 So you got that.

01:10:42.100 Yeah, so apparently this, the new anti-TikTok bill, which doesn't mention TikTok,

01:10:50.260 it gives the government, this is according to Greg Price in a tweet,

01:10:56.040 says it gives the government the ability to go after anyone they deem as a national security risk,

01:11:01.280 at which point they can access everything from their computer to video games to their ring light.

01:11:06.360 Now, I suppose they could have done that anyway.

01:11:08.700 But anything that gives the government more power over the people without a specific threat,

01:11:17.720 right, just sort of generally we'd like to have more power over you in this way,

01:11:22.140 not cool.

01:11:23.520 Not cool.

01:11:24.260 So let's hope that stops.

01:11:28.380 Well, but at least the FDA approved Narcan, and there's going to be a good boner spray too.

01:11:34.280 So that's the good news.

01:11:41.800 Oh, I'm actually over the hour.

01:11:43.700 I was trying to make this a short show.

01:11:47.500 Guess I got VDH and Vivek agree with you on our destruction.

01:11:53.400 Yeah, I think here's one of the things I love about Vivek Ramaswamy.

01:11:58.940 I love the clarity with which he presents his opinions.

01:12:05.460 That is so good for the country.

01:12:07.780 So good.

01:12:09.240 Whether he wins or loses, he's a pure patriot at this point.

01:12:15.180 He's a pure patriot.

01:12:16.820 What he's doing looks like it's expensive for him.

01:12:19.540 He's going to take a lot of hits.

01:12:21.120 And it appears purely good for the country in the sense that it expands our productive conversation about everything.

01:12:29.420 And I could not say enough good things about what he's adding to the process right now.

01:12:34.420 He's adding a lot.

01:12:36.000 And I think he's going to make Trump stronger.

01:12:38.740 I think he'll make the Democrats have to up their game, hopefully in a productive way.

01:12:44.200 So I don't know if he's going to win or lose.

01:12:46.260 And by the way, I don't agree with everything he says.

01:12:49.480 But that's also not necessary.

01:12:51.820 Right?

01:12:51.900 If he says his view clearly, backs it up with his reasoning, and I still disagree with him, I'm cool with that.

01:13:03.180 That's a good situation.

01:13:04.740 I just want to see good arguments without any lying.

01:13:08.160 And he provides that.

01:13:10.920 He provides, so far, all I've seen is complete honesty.

01:13:16.520 And he's not pulling any punches.

01:13:18.980 And he's such a good communicator that every topic he touches gets better.

01:13:24.280 That's my view.

01:13:25.320 Everything he touches gets better.

01:13:27.700 Through his clear language, basically.

01:13:31.200 I think he made his money in tech, I believe.

01:13:43.300 Don't let your thoughts get divided against Trump.

01:13:47.740 Here's what I'm going to do with talking about Trump.

01:13:54.160 I think everybody knows who he is, right?

01:13:56.220 So there's not really any explaining that needs to be done about Trump.

01:14:02.160 He's just such a well-known entity at this point that I don't really need to change anybody's opinions about anything.

01:14:08.780 I wouldn't feel any impulse to even try.

01:14:11.160 So I think at this point, the best way for me to talk about Trump is the warts as well as the benefits.

01:14:19.940 Do you think that's fair?

01:14:21.020 If I cover what I don't like about his, let's say, his campaign, but I also cover what I like, everybody okay with that?

01:14:31.480 Because, you know, he's not exactly a flawless candidate.

01:14:36.860 But people understand that.

01:14:39.920 It's transparent.

01:14:42.380 Trump's flaws are so transparent, like we all see them.

01:14:46.340 The funniest conversation I have with the Democrats, let's see if any of you have the same experience.

01:14:52.920 The funniest conversation I have is when they remind me of the bad things he's done,

01:14:58.640 and they think that's the reason that I shouldn't want him to be president again.

01:15:03.580 And I look at the list of bad things he's done, and I say, I know about all those.

01:15:09.140 I know about Trump University.

01:15:10.740 Yeah, I've heard of Stormy Daniels. 1.00

01:15:16.580 I know all of that.

01:15:18.120 I still think he's the best choice, probably.

01:15:21.600 I mean, we'll see what the candidate situation shapes up as.

01:15:25.260 I could change my mind.

01:15:26.920 Now, my first choice would be Vivek, because he's younger.

01:15:31.580 I don't know if he has a path, because Trump's position is so dominant, it's hard to say.

01:15:37.320 But I think I could be consistently saying that I'd prefer Vivek.

01:15:43.280 At the same time, I can say Trump brings a set of benefits that the country needs as well.

01:15:49.600 My biggest concern with Trump is that he brings so much controversy that we get lost in that.

01:15:56.120 If the only thing we could get is, you know, Trump's policies, like on energy, for example, that would be cool.

01:16:04.840 But what he brings is so much consternation from the other side that you can't get anything done.

01:16:11.120 And that's got to be part of the analysis.

01:16:13.980 You know, it's not his fault entirely.

01:16:16.560 You could argue it is.

01:16:17.760 But it's more of a media phenomenon.

01:16:19.640 On the other hand, do the Republicans not get to have their first choice just because the media won't like it?

01:16:27.960 That's not a good enough reason to keep him out of office.

01:16:31.600 So we'll have to deal with that, I guess.

01:16:35.900 He isn't owned.

01:16:37.720 You know, that does seem to be the case, doesn't it?

01:16:41.420 Could you say at this point that no matter what you liked or didn't like about Trump,

01:16:45.520 do you feel that he was owned by anybody?

01:16:49.640 Because I'm actually curious.

01:16:56.280 I feel like no.

01:16:58.720 I feel like no.

01:17:01.100 Yeah.

01:17:03.060 Owned by his ego, somebody says.

01:17:05.000 Well, we're all owned by our own egos.

01:17:10.160 Fauci.

01:17:10.600 Fauci.

01:17:13.680 You say he's not owned, but he's manipulated.

01:17:16.500 Well, I don't know.

01:17:20.380 Manipulated.

01:17:21.620 You know, one of the things you hear about Trump is that he can change his mind.

01:17:26.180 You know, who was it was saying that?

01:17:28.160 That Trump will listen to an argument and then listen to the next argument and then, you know, change his mind to the new argument.

01:17:34.840 I want more of that, not less of that.

01:17:39.620 That's being presented as a flaw.

01:17:42.240 The ability to change your mind with a better argument is sort of an advantage.

01:17:50.080 Sort of an advantage.

01:17:51.360 Now, if it's a bad argument and it changes his mind, that's a problem.

01:17:54.600 But he does seem pretty good at spotting BS.

01:17:58.120 So we'll see.

01:17:59.120 Oh, yeah.

01:17:59.440 Kimberly Guilfoyle said that.

01:18:01.240 All right.

01:18:06.560 You know, if Trump somehow, I don't know, goes to jail or collapses in the primaries, I've got a feeling that Vivek is your emergency spare.

01:18:20.640 So I would keep him totally inflated, if you know what I mean.

01:18:24.980 Like, if you're a Republican, you should have a backup plan to Trump.

01:18:32.200 Because anything could happen.

01:18:34.080 You know, part of it's age, right?

01:18:35.880 You know, anything could happen.

01:18:36.880 But there could be, you know, some legal thing you didn't see coming, anything.

01:18:44.420 So I would say, you know, even if Vivek is your first choice, realistically, Trump's, you know, leading the pack.

01:18:54.060 But he could self-destruct pretty easily.

01:18:57.360 Or somebody could destroy him easily.

01:18:59.980 Could happen.

01:19:01.400 I don't think it will.

01:19:02.560 Well, I think the odds are that Trump will sail right through and be in the general election.

01:19:07.920 But you have to be ready for that.

01:19:11.360 Here's my current view on DeSantis running.

01:19:15.280 These smart people seem to have reached a general agreement.

01:19:20.520 And it goes like this.

01:19:22.180 If he runs in 2024, DeSantis will be so destroyed by Trump that he might be done forever.

01:19:32.560 He might be done forever.

01:19:35.120 But if he just continues to do a solid job in Florida as, you know, the country's most beloved conservative governor,

01:19:44.780 then Trump will not be able to run in 2028.

01:19:49.140 DeSantis is young.

01:19:51.400 It's the obvious play.

01:19:53.720 The obvious play is to wait.

01:19:56.020 It's really, really obvious.

01:19:57.420 And I would say that 100% of the smart people are now understanding that.

01:20:03.680 Now, before we got close to the primary, we had the luxury of just looking at them as two candidates.

01:20:10.300 Oh, if I were to individually look at DeSantis, huh, he seems to have a lot of Trump-like qualities without the drama.

01:20:17.840 And people like him, and, huh, okay, that's all good.

01:20:21.020 I love that.

01:20:21.920 You look at Trump separately, and you know about Trump.

01:20:24.520 But as soon as you imagine them competing, and then this is the important part, you haven't even seen Trump power up yet.

01:20:34.260 Trump is still running at, like, half power, you know, compared to where he will be.

01:20:38.580 He's still running at half power, and he's already taken the legs out of DeSantis.

01:20:43.060 He just keeps repeating his claims about DeSantis, and just repetition alone is making him sink in, because you always talk about it.

01:20:52.780 You know, if Trump says something bad about DeSantis, it's a national headline forever, right?

01:20:58.740 Everybody knows Ron DeSanctimonious.

01:21:01.620 Everybody knows.

01:21:02.400 So, as soon as you imagine the primary being a competition, you imagine Trump destroying your favorite politician, if he is, and you think, well, I'd rather save my favorite politician, and then get, you know, 12 years of Republicans somehow.

01:21:22.100 You know, what's the sticky one is, and I missed it.

01:21:34.100 All right, that's all for you today, YouTube.

01:21:37.120 I'm going to talk to the locals people a little bit more.

01:21:39.500 Thanks for joining.

01:21:40.940 Best show you've ever watched.

01:21:43.200 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 29, 2023

Episode 2062 Scott Adams： OTC Narcan Approved, DeSantis & 1A, Media Causes All Our Problems

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