Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 02, 2023


Episode 2066 Scott Adams： Matt Walsh on Reparations, WaPo Fact-Checked On Twitter, DeSantis & DEI


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Elon Musk fires 75% of his employees, and it makes no difference whatsoever, and they're all just talking and drinking good coffee or whatever else they're doing. And another sign that things have gone way too far: a controversial interview with a dictator.

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00:00:00.000 Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do.
00:00:04.240 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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00:00:55.340 You can feel the synchronicity everywhere.
00:00:59.520 It's happening.
00:01:01.300 Well, I got stories for you today.
00:01:03.660 All kinds of stories.
00:01:05.080 By the way, this will be my second test of trying to use the Twitter algorithms to my advantage.
00:01:12.240 So I'll tell you what I did yesterday.
00:01:13.500 It didn't seem like there was more traffic yesterday.
00:01:16.180 Could be a coincidence.
00:01:17.220 It could be because Steven Crowder doesn't do his show on weekends.
00:01:22.140 It could be I'm not competing with Crowder.
00:01:25.340 But what I did was I turned some of the text of what would have been a text tweet into a
00:01:33.480 screen grab and then posted it as an image.
00:01:36.240 In theory, Twitter is going to see that there's an image with my tweet and give me more traffic.
00:01:42.300 I also removed the link from the main tweet, and I said it's in the comments, so you can find it pretty easily.
00:01:51.100 And I'm hoping that Twitter doesn't know that I commented to my own tweet.
00:01:57.360 If it doesn't know, then the link will follow the tweet, and everybody will be happy.
00:02:04.320 Traffic will be through the roof.
00:02:07.260 We'll see.
00:02:08.140 I'll let you know.
00:02:08.860 I'll let you know probably tomorrow because I don't see the total traffic numbers until I quit.
00:02:15.700 Well, Laura Logan had an interesting tweet.
00:02:18.220 She said, it really is quite staggering that Elon Musk could fire all those people from Twitter, and it made no difference whatsoever.
00:02:27.760 What did they do all day?
00:02:31.080 Now, I commented that I think about that every day, and somebody questioned why I would think about that every day.
00:02:38.760 Because it's so interesting.
00:02:41.960 Didn't he fire 75% of Twitter?
00:02:45.240 Do I have that wrong?
00:02:46.160 Give me a fact check.
00:02:47.800 I thought it was about 75% of the entire staff.
00:02:51.140 I think all he kept was the technical people, for the most part, right?
00:02:55.820 So it turns out that the engineers were doing all the work, and everybody else was just talking and drinking good coffee or whatever they were doing.
00:03:04.900 I don't know.
00:03:05.660 They were probably imagining they were doing something.
00:03:07.320 I'll tell you a true story from my first, I don't know, 16 years of work life.
00:03:15.980 I asked myself how different the world would have been if I had never done any of the work I did, because I worked for two big corporations.
00:03:24.860 I thought, how would this bank be different?
00:03:27.780 How would customers be different if I just never existed and nobody else did what I did?
00:03:33.340 It just never happened.
00:03:35.120 And the answer was, it wouldn't be any different at all.
00:03:39.080 But I spent years and years working hard every day.
00:03:43.380 And then one day I woke up and thought, I don't think any of this matters.
00:03:48.920 Like, none of it.
00:03:50.060 I'd do analyses of, you know, this or that, and people would look at them and do whatever they were going to do anyway.
00:03:57.500 It never made any difference.
00:03:59.040 I had a job that was completely, completely useless for years.
00:04:04.060 And there wasn't even one job.
00:04:06.100 I changed jobs a number of times.
00:04:09.140 None of it you could see in any kind of final result.
00:04:11.400 So, that's why Twitter interests me.
00:04:15.240 It's sort of a Dilbert thing.
00:04:17.320 All right.
00:04:18.280 Here's another sign that things have gone way too far.
00:04:22.720 Do you remember when 60 Minutes could do an interview with a controversial person, and you'd say to yourself, let's say a dictator, something like that.
00:04:30.420 And you'd say to yourself, whoa, this is going to be really interesting.
00:04:35.300 And it wasn't like you were voting for the dictator.
00:04:38.800 You know, like, I don't know, maybe they did Castro or something.
00:04:41.320 I'm not sure if they did, but let's say they did.
00:04:43.880 I'm not like, oh, I sure like Castro.
00:04:46.660 I'll go, I'll watch that interview with him.
00:04:48.960 I would say, instead, oh, that's a valuable service.
00:04:53.520 They're telling us what this dictator is saying.
00:04:56.200 And I don't remember anybody ever boycotting 60 Minutes because they had a provocative person on.
00:05:05.280 This probably happened, but, like, it seems kind of a rare thing.
00:05:08.960 But, apparently tonight, 60 Minutes will have Marjorie Taylor Greene, and on Twitter, people are just going nuts.
00:05:17.160 And they think they have to boycott 60 Minutes and never watch it again.
00:05:22.640 For Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:05:24.540 I'm positive they've had murderers on there.
00:05:28.740 Am I wrong?
00:05:30.660 You don't think they've ever had anybody who was, like, a murderous dictator?
00:05:35.360 I'm pretty sure they have.
00:05:37.800 And Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to be your bridge too far?
00:05:42.080 You know, I was okay when you talked to Pol Pot. 1.00
00:05:46.180 They never talked to Pol Pot, but let's just go with this. 0.65
00:05:49.400 I was okay when you talked to Jeffrey Dahmer and Pol Pot, 1.00
00:05:51.960 but Marjorie Taylor Greene, well, that's just a hill too far.
00:05:58.160 I can't hit the lat.
00:06:00.220 Does that seem crazy?
00:06:04.040 It seems crazy.
00:06:05.040 Did they talk to David Duke?
00:06:07.620 Because that feels like somebody they would have talked to.
00:06:10.200 Yeah, perfect example.
00:06:14.720 And can you imagine that the Democrats would learn nothing by listening to Marjorie Taylor Greene?
00:06:21.380 I think they would.
00:06:23.140 I think they would learn something, not just useful for themselves,
00:06:27.620 but useful for politics in general.
00:06:30.580 Completely productive thing.
00:06:32.240 Poor 60 Minutes is trying to be at least a little bit, you know, fair about who they talk to.
00:06:39.760 And they're going to get canceled for it or something, or at least semi-canceled.
00:06:44.600 Yeah.
00:06:48.720 So whatever happens there will be interesting.
00:06:52.040 All right.
00:06:54.780 We're going to get to some controversial stuff.
00:06:57.340 Are you ready?
00:07:01.880 So here are some of the people who complained about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:07:06.360 Congressman Adam Kinzinger.
00:07:09.960 Why is he complaining about Marjorie Taylor Greene being on 60 Minutes?
00:07:15.360 Liberal commentator Eli Mistel, who's the guy who looks like a big Q-tip.
00:07:20.800 They bring him out to insult people like me.
00:07:24.040 He actually was one of the people who was brought on to talk about me as if he knew anything about me.
00:07:29.780 Gun control activist David Hogg and others.
00:07:34.660 But yeah, they're hopping mad.
00:07:36.780 Hopping mad.
00:07:38.620 Wow.
00:07:40.680 And so I would like to...
00:07:42.080 I'm going to tie back another story to this in a moment.
00:07:45.500 So don't forget this story.
00:07:47.460 We're going to tie back to it.
00:07:48.660 But first...
00:07:50.660 Has anybody seen Matt Walsh doing his videos about how reparations should be calculated?
00:07:59.000 I'm enjoying the show so much.
00:08:02.200 And here's why I enjoy the show.
00:08:05.820 First of all, I kind of wonder if he might have heard this reframe from me.
00:08:11.080 Because I've not heard anybody else say it.
00:08:13.720 And the reframe is this.
00:08:15.920 That the proper way to calculate the economic part of reparations would be to compare black Americans who descended from slavery in America today.
00:08:27.140 How are they doing today?
00:08:28.340 How are they doing today?
00:08:29.540 Compared to somebody who had never been part of slavery and stayed in Africa.
00:08:34.920 And how are they doing?
00:08:36.020 And if you think that the people in Africa are doing much better, that would be clear evidence that slavery was an economic disaster for black people and that, therefore, reparations would be in order. 0.50
00:08:51.620 Now, I'm not including any psychological elements, which could also be part of reparations.
00:08:58.160 But if you're just doing the math of the finance, that's the way you do it.
00:09:02.300 Now, how do you think the woke part of the public took to that?
00:09:09.720 Do you think they said, you know, Matt Walsh, that's a pretty good point.
00:09:16.880 You've got me there.
00:09:18.660 Let's use your math.
00:09:20.140 No, it didn't go that way.
00:09:21.560 It didn't go that way.
00:09:22.680 You'd be surprised to find out.
00:09:24.600 But because what he said is 100% unambiguously true and accurate, the arguments against it were not the best.
00:09:34.620 And I'm going to read some of the tweet arguments against him, just so you can see what happens when you say something perfectly rational in public.
00:09:45.800 All right?
00:09:47.160 One of them was from, let's see, The Amazing Atheist, he calls himself.
00:09:52.120 And he says that Walsh, saying that you would compare Americans today to people who had never been part of slavery who were still in Africa,
00:10:01.340 that that comparison is, quote, that analogy, that is like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
00:10:12.200 That was the argument.
00:10:14.140 That's like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
00:10:19.380 Have I ever described to you why analogies should not be used in this way?
00:10:24.860 Yeah.
00:10:27.620 Rape is just another topic. 1.00
00:10:30.400 It has nothing to do with this.
00:10:32.100 And if you think that that other topic, which simply might have reminded you in some way of an unrelated topic, it's still an unrelated topic.
00:10:41.820 You can't learn anything from that.
00:10:43.300 So I wanted to respond to the tweet, this is like justifying rape because a lot of people were born from it.
00:10:51.200 I wanted to say that analogy is like saying a football teaches you a lot about being a pig, which doesn't make any sense, really, except, you know, footballs are made from pigs, I guess.
00:11:02.960 But what do you think about it?
00:11:04.840 It's like, did that make sense?
00:11:07.460 Just because I said something is like another thing, is that an argument?
00:11:11.480 But no, no, it's just an observation that one thing reminds me of another thing.
00:11:17.500 That's not an argument.
00:11:19.740 It's nothing.
00:11:20.900 Okay, yeah, I know it's pink skin.
00:11:22.400 I get it.
00:11:24.960 All right, so that was interesting.
00:11:28.160 Then there's this approach.
00:11:30.800 I saw a number of people take the same approach.
00:11:33.460 The Blue Collar Intellectual Podcast, somebody named Julian, had this to say on Twitter.
00:11:38.920 Now our pundits are making pseudo-intellectual arguments.
00:11:43.720 So a number of people said he was making pseudo-intellectual arguments.
00:11:48.480 What's the difference between a pseudo-intellectual argument and an argument that is logically correct?
00:11:55.540 The words.
00:11:57.000 It's the words.
00:11:58.280 That's it.
00:12:00.520 Making these pseudo-intellectual arguments, defending slavery.
00:12:05.320 Defending slavery.
00:12:06.480 Do you think that Matt Walsh defended slavery?
00:12:14.620 Do you think that happened in the real world?
00:12:18.080 Of course not.
00:12:20.820 What happens when you see people's best argument requires them to hallucinate something absurd so they have something to attack?
00:12:29.940 What does that tell you?
00:12:31.740 It's cognitive dissonance.
00:12:33.580 Yeah, cognitive dissonance.
00:12:34.740 If somebody simply had a counter-argument, you'd see something like an argument.
00:12:41.560 You might agree with it.
00:12:42.460 You might not.
00:12:43.440 But that's literally a hallucination.
00:12:48.400 Oh, he's defending slavery.
00:12:50.460 And this wasn't the only tweet that said that.
00:12:54.160 That was the most common response was, he was defending slavery.
00:12:59.340 Okay, nothing like that happened.
00:13:03.960 Nothing like that, even remotely like that happened.
00:13:07.560 He was describing it.
00:13:09.700 When you describe a thing, you're not defending it.
00:13:13.140 That's crazy talk.
00:13:14.380 All right.
00:13:18.140 And then he finished by saying, you sound like a Dixie-crat.
00:13:22.580 So you got your hallucination, your two insults, pseudo-intellectual and Dixie-crat, and no argument. 0.59
00:13:34.840 It was just basically a bunch of words and an insult, and that was the best argument. 1.00
00:13:38.980 Now, given that he's making a math argument, or I could say economics would be better,
00:13:45.700 don't you think that an economics counterpoint would be the right way to go?
00:13:50.400 Yeah, you pseudo-intellectual Dixie-crat with your defending slavery. 0.95
00:13:55.480 Okay.
00:13:59.920 And let's see, Nicola tweeted,
00:14:03.120 And people pay the Daily Wire to get nonsensical drivel like this, packaged as intellectualism?
00:14:10.700 Do you think that Matt Walsh packaged his presentation as intellectualism?
00:14:19.020 That's literally the opposite of what he was doing.
00:14:21.800 He was talking plain, obvious common sense.
00:14:27.080 He's literally wearing a plaid, like a lumberjack shirt, just sitting at his desk with no necktie.
00:14:35.880 He has no college degree, and he's just simply talking common sense.
00:14:42.380 And they're like, oh, get away from us with your plaid shirt, common sense intellectualism.
00:14:49.440 How about an argument?
00:14:50.280 How about saying what he said wrong?
00:14:52.920 Couldn't do it.
00:14:53.980 I looked at all of the comments.
00:14:56.220 I only saw one comment, there might have been something similar to it, that was actually a good point.
00:15:02.460 Here's the good point.
00:15:04.040 It's not just economics.
00:15:07.060 Reparations are sometimes about pain and suffering.
00:15:10.060 Now, you could argue, but the people who had the pain and suffering are no longer with us.
00:15:13.800 Well, but then you could argue that some of that pain and suffering carried forward in various ways.
00:15:20.660 So that's an argument.
00:15:22.200 You could agree or disagree with that argument, but that would be an argument.
00:15:25.920 Would you agree?
00:15:27.160 Whether or not you like the argument, it's an argument.
00:15:30.980 Sometimes reparations are about how people feel.
00:15:35.420 There's a precedent for that.
00:15:36.720 So, but anyway, the economic argument is ridiculous.
00:15:41.340 I'll tell you why in a minute.
00:15:42.280 A few more comments.
00:15:45.480 Why does the Daily Wire continue to justify slavery?
00:15:49.560 Number one, Matt Walsh never justified slavery or anything like it.
00:15:54.360 Number two, the Daily Wire, which pays him, certainly didn't justify any slavery.
00:16:00.080 I mean, can you imagine if Ben Shapiro was watching the Matt Walsh video?
00:16:10.720 Imagine if he had actually justified slavery.
00:16:14.640 You don't think he'd be gone tomorrow, or at least there'd be some correction or apology or something like that.
00:16:21.560 Yeah.
00:16:22.400 No, these are absurd takes on what he was doing.
00:16:26.400 Here's another one, justifying slavery.
00:16:28.260 Here's another one, make no mistake, this is not ignorance, this is racism.
00:16:33.940 Is it?
00:16:35.960 How are you reading his mind?
00:16:38.080 Because there was nothing he said that was racism, or even close.
00:16:42.940 Not even close.
00:16:44.720 So you would have to literally be reading his mind to say, make no mistake, this is racism.
00:16:50.160 Okay.
00:16:50.440 How about, another one said,
00:16:56.460 Did he just create an all new informal logic and formal fallacy?
00:17:00.980 That's how you say, I don't like your common sense.
00:17:06.520 Did he just create a new informal logic and formal fallacy?
00:17:11.060 Sounds like word salad a little bit.
00:17:13.340 And then the tweet goes on from Matthew Podsas.
00:17:17.540 The moral butterfly effect.
00:17:19.820 Everything in history is amoral, because it's possible we wouldn't exist if it didn't exist.
00:17:24.460 It's just word salad.
00:17:28.160 I mean, people are going nuts, because they really don't have a logical argument.
00:17:33.720 Here's Ney Eritre, who says,
00:17:36.700 This is the very reason why one should at least attend college.
00:17:41.100 Oh.
00:17:42.120 So the problem is not the argument.
00:17:44.580 The problem is that the person who made it didn't go to college.
00:17:47.000 That's the argument?
00:17:50.620 How about, here's what's wrong with your argument?
00:17:54.060 Wouldn't that be cool?
00:17:57.260 Matt Walsh has never attended college, but provides comments on anything and everything.
00:18:05.800 Really?
00:18:06.860 Do you think the person who wrote this would be willing to defend, just sort of in general,
00:18:12.640 that people who didn't go to college shouldn't have opinions on Twitter?
00:18:15.480 Do you think that that's, would they stick with that opinion if you removed it from Matt Walsh?
00:18:23.160 I don't think so.
00:18:25.380 These are people who are literally just in cognitive dissonance, or they're just going crazy.
00:18:30.660 I don't know what it is, but they're not arguing his point whatsoever.
00:18:35.040 All right.
00:18:35.600 Do you know why they can't argue his point?
00:18:38.540 There is no argument against it.
00:18:40.940 There isn't one.
00:18:42.960 All right.
00:18:43.120 I've got a kill shot coming that you're going to love.
00:18:48.160 Don't tune out yet.
00:18:49.880 You want, you want to stay tuned for this, all right?
00:18:54.240 Let me explain why Matt Walsh's comparison is correct, and I'm going to compare it to the current way it's done, all right?
00:19:01.200 Now, I did go to college, and the classes I took very much taught me how to make the correct kind of economic comparisons, right?
00:19:12.680 Here's the correct kind.
00:19:15.600 The thing you did, or the thing that happened, compared to what would have happened if that thing didn't happen.
00:19:25.100 So far, are you with me?
00:19:26.360 You compare what did happen to what could have happened, correct, everybody?
00:19:32.500 That's a logical comparison.
00:19:35.440 What you did actually do to what probably would have happened if you hadn't done it.
00:19:41.920 That makes sense, right?
00:19:43.180 And that's what Matt Walsh is recommending.
00:19:45.560 Look at the people today.
00:19:47.340 Compare them to the people who did not have this, you know, holocaust of slavery. 0.90
00:19:52.340 How are they doing?
00:19:53.020 Well, that's the correct comparison.
00:19:56.780 And people who have degrees in economics and MBAs would agree with me.
00:20:02.400 People who have degrees in art history would say that's totally wrong, and it's because they would not be trained in this technique.
00:20:11.600 Let me tell you how it's currently being done.
00:20:14.700 Nobody's ever told you this before.
00:20:16.800 This will be the first time you've ever heard this.
00:20:18.880 The current way reparations are done is comparing a black person in America today to what would have happened if they'd been white.
00:20:32.660 I'm pausing for effect.
00:20:38.100 Do you feel it?
00:20:40.320 That's what they're doing.
00:20:41.760 They're comparing a black person today as if one of their options had been to turn white.
00:20:48.880 It was never an option to turn white.
00:20:52.480 It wasn't a path that could have happened under any scenario.
00:20:56.800 But the current way they calculate the economic part of reparations, and again, I will acknowledge that reparations can have a psychic, psychological effect.
00:21:06.880 That's a separate argument, but a good one.
00:21:09.220 I don't discount that.
00:21:10.360 Did that just make your brain just spin in its head?
00:21:16.420 That's actually what they're doing right in front of you.
00:21:18.840 They're comparing a black man in America to, well, the alternative would have been if he'd been white.
00:21:25.040 I don't believe there was a single slave who got that option.
00:21:31.180 All right, slaves, you're all freed.
00:21:33.380 Some of you might want to be white.
00:21:35.420 Just fill out this form.
00:21:37.240 Your life will be awesome from now on.
00:21:39.680 Believe me, you're on the fast track now.
00:21:42.380 Now, just think about that.
00:21:46.980 Matt Walsh said, compare the people who went through, you know, were the product of that experience to people who didn't have the experience.
00:21:55.100 Logical.
00:21:56.220 Common sense.
00:21:58.180 Correct, according to people who went to college to study this very thing.
00:22:01.660 But instead, every politician that I'm aware of, every pundit, every other person who's talked about this, as far as I know, has missed this simple fact.
00:22:14.740 Black people never had an option to be white. 0.92
00:22:18.980 You don't compare two things where one happened and one was impossible.
00:22:25.720 Now, you could argue, oh, it was almost impossible not to have slavery.
00:22:28.660 No, you don't get that, because there were people who were not slaves.
00:22:32.720 As long as you have the control group, you're done.
00:22:37.860 Now, how many of you are just having a moment about this when you realize that they literally are comparing black people today to black people who could have just turned white and had a better experience?
00:22:51.620 Now, I'm adding a little bit of hyperbole to this.
00:22:54.040 I think you recognize it.
00:22:55.120 But that is the comparison.
00:22:56.320 They're saying black people aren't doing so well, white people are doing better, give us money.
00:23:04.000 You didn't have the option.
00:23:06.160 I'm not saying that's fair, but it's not how you calculate reparations.
00:23:11.380 You don't calculate it as if you'd been a different color.
00:23:14.940 It doesn't work that way.
00:23:17.260 All right.
00:23:18.060 Vivek Ramaswamy continues to be awesome in his messaging and reframing.
00:23:23.040 When I grew up, actually, when I worked at Pacific Bell, employees had to sign a form that said, we agreed that diversity is a strength.
00:23:37.380 You actually had to sign the form.
00:23:40.000 And I refused to sign the form.
00:23:42.800 I think I'm the only one in the company who refused to sign it.
00:23:45.440 And I refused to sign it, not because it wasn't true, not because it wasn't true, but because there was no evidence.
00:23:54.080 And I said, how can I confirm this is true?
00:23:58.120 Do you have a study?
00:24:00.440 Is this based on what?
00:24:03.240 Because it might be true.
00:24:04.720 And by the way, I think it's probably true.
00:24:06.320 I think diversity is a strength.
00:24:09.900 Now, like everything else, you could go too far, and then it's not.
00:24:15.280 But I'm 100% convinced that having varied personalities and varied opinions gives the company better vision, better vision on the audience.
00:24:28.440 So certainly in a whole bunch of ways that are good for society, you want everybody to feel they have a chance, want everybody to have equal opportunity and all that.
00:24:38.040 But generally speaking, it is not a true statement to say diversity is always good or always bad.
00:24:47.400 It kind of depends, right?
00:24:49.300 The right amount, good.
00:24:51.480 The wrong amount, bad.
00:24:53.520 But I didn't think it was just an obvious universal truth to say it's good without some evidence.
00:25:00.900 So I refused to sign it at the risk of being fired.
00:25:05.480 What do you think happened?
00:25:10.060 Oh, we just lost all the comments on Locals.
00:25:13.620 Looks like it's having a moment here.
00:25:15.680 I might have to reboot this.
00:25:19.380 Well, I don't know if Locals can hear me, so I'm going to quit this and restart.
00:25:23.520 I don't know if this works.
00:25:29.500 Give me a moment.
00:25:35.720 Well, no, looks like Locals is dead.
00:25:39.380 Well, probably people will be streaming in, is my guess.
00:25:46.660 Oh, we're back.
00:25:48.220 Hey, there you are.
00:25:49.140 All right, we've got comments back.
00:25:51.100 All good.
00:25:52.400 Where was I?
00:25:53.060 All right, so Vivek Ramaswamy gave a speech.
00:25:56.360 He said, diversity is not our strength.
00:25:59.500 Oh, by the way, to finish my story, when I refused to sign the document, this was in the 80s,
00:26:05.860 to say diversity is a strength, not because it wasn't, but because I didn't have any evidence.
00:26:11.620 I'm no expert.
00:26:12.360 Why am I certifying this thing that I have no evidence about?
00:26:17.300 So I didn't sign it at the risk of being fired.
00:26:20.220 So my entire career, because it was a requirement, it wasn't optional, you had to sign it.
00:26:28.020 And they just said, all right.
00:26:31.260 I didn't have to sign it.
00:26:32.700 So I'm the only one in the company who didn't sign it.
00:26:34.440 So if you think that the first time I ever took a chance of getting canceled was, you know, a few weeks ago, you're wrong.
00:26:44.280 It's probably the third or fourth time, maybe the tenth time.
00:26:48.840 I also, just a little background, in case you haven't heard this story.
00:26:52.640 Back when smoking was still legal inside, in the office, I also risked my career to make that stop.
00:27:04.260 And they ended up changing the policy instead of firing me.
00:27:08.200 So it's, I do have a history of putting my entire career on the line.
00:27:14.000 When there's a point, I think I'm just not willing to let go of.
00:27:18.340 So it's a pattern.
00:27:19.740 It didn't just come out of nowhere.
00:27:20.860 Anyway, so Vivek says, diversity is not our strength.
00:27:25.120 Our strength is what unifies us across our diversity.
00:27:29.440 Without that, we're just lost in the desert.
00:27:33.740 I love that.
00:27:35.700 Have I told you how good he is at communicating?
00:27:38.820 My God, that's just perfect.
00:27:40.700 Yes.
00:27:41.480 So he's allowing that, you know, diversity is more like,
00:27:45.220 I think we should stop saying diversity is a strength or a weakness or anything else.
00:27:51.600 Here's what we should say.
00:27:53.720 Diversity exists.
00:27:55.680 That's it.
00:27:57.040 Like, we're well beyond the point where we should be arguing about whether it's good or bad.
00:28:02.900 Like, how does that make sense?
00:28:04.700 It's like arguing whether oxygen is good or bad.
00:28:08.660 Well, there just is oxygen.
00:28:11.320 Well, I suppose oxygen is good.
00:28:13.100 Let me come up with a better example.
00:28:15.100 It's like arguing whether that one cloud in the sky, just the one, that one cloud in the sky is good or bad.
00:28:21.840 Well, it just is.
00:28:23.420 There's nothing you can do about it.
00:28:24.860 It's just, it is there.
00:28:25.960 So diversity just exists.
00:28:29.140 Arguing about whether it's a strength or a weakness is a waste of time.
00:28:33.960 But talking about what unifies us is definitely worth doing.
00:28:39.800 Because we're short on unity.
00:28:42.860 So I love the fact that without, you know, throwing away diversity as, you know, like it doesn't exist,
00:28:49.820 he's just saying we need to look at what unifies us instead of what divides us.
00:28:53.100 And that's exactly what I want to hear from my presidential candidates.
00:28:58.320 So, all right.
00:28:59.800 I think this next story is real, but it doesn't sound real.
00:29:04.780 Can somebody tell me if this is real?
00:29:07.660 That trans activist Dylan Mulvaney is, her face is on the new Bud Light beer. 0.91
00:29:17.220 That Bud Budweiser made a beer with a trans activist on it, Dylan Mulvaney, apparently celebrating girlhood. 0.72
00:29:34.340 Now, here's my comment on that.
00:29:39.900 Don't you wonder how the internal conversations went?
00:29:42.820 Do you wonder if there's a DEI unit in Budweiser?
00:29:49.980 Well, let me think.
00:29:51.640 I wonder if Budweiser has one of those diversity, equity, and inclusion groups.
00:29:58.140 Well, let's look at their products lately.
00:30:02.400 Oh, yes, they do.
00:30:03.960 Yes, they do.
00:30:06.060 Now, I don't know if you've noticed, but the normal way a corporation works
00:30:11.640 is there's something called a CEO.
00:30:15.120 And then a lot of people have different opinions about stuff, but the CEO makes the decision.
00:30:21.440 Would you agree?
00:30:22.620 Traditionally, that's the way it worked.
00:30:24.740 Do you think the CEO made this decision?
00:30:29.300 Nah.
00:30:30.660 Maybe.
00:30:32.380 Right?
00:30:32.740 I'm not a mind reader.
00:30:34.220 I'm not a mind reader.
00:30:35.320 So I don't know.
00:30:36.960 But here's my Dilbert filter on this.
00:30:40.520 Here's what almost perfectly certainly happened.
00:30:44.660 Hey, the DEI people say we need to show more inclusion,
00:30:49.500 and here's a perfect way to do it.
00:30:52.540 We'll put, you know, Dylan on the Bud Light.
00:30:57.580 What do you think the CEO said?
00:31:03.220 I'd like to do my impression.
00:31:05.140 I don't know who the CEO is.
00:31:06.980 My impression of the CEO in the meeting where that was presented to him.
00:31:16.400 If you're listening on a podcast,
00:31:18.520 I just did a hilarious face of somebody stunned into silence.
00:31:21.740 I cannot believe there's no part of my brain that says that the CEO was thinking,
00:31:32.340 yes, yes, that.
00:31:34.240 I knew we needed to do something,
00:31:36.440 and until you suggested putting trans activist Dylan Mulvaney on our beer cans,
00:31:43.060 which are almost the most male-oriented product in the entire world
00:31:50.280 that's not literally a tool that you'd put in a toolbox,
00:31:54.640 or maybe a really jacked-up truck.
00:31:58.120 But those would be the three most male-oriented brands in all of the world.
00:32:05.140 Budweiser.
00:32:06.840 Do you think that the CEO said,
00:32:09.700 yeah, I think we should be, you know,
00:32:13.380 bending a little bit more in this direction?
00:32:15.640 I don't think so.
00:32:16.740 I think the CEO said,
00:32:19.000 oh, shit, I can't say no to this, right?
00:32:23.840 Because the CEO would get cancelled.
00:32:26.300 The CEO is not the decision-maker on this stuff.
00:32:30.740 Now, the CEO might be a decision-maker on other stuff,
00:32:33.620 operations stuff,
00:32:34.740 but in terms of how the company was going to present itself,
00:32:38.300 I'll bet it wasn't the CEO.
00:32:40.360 I'll bet it wasn't.
00:32:41.620 I'll bet the CEO said,
00:32:43.060 I can't say no to this.
00:32:44.520 And that put the least trained people in the company,
00:32:49.240 in all likelihood,
00:32:50.600 do you put the most qualified people,
00:32:53.300 do you put them in charge of your DEI unit?
00:32:55.720 The answer is no.
00:32:57.040 You put your least qualified people there,
00:33:00.400 because you think, you know,
00:33:02.060 if you wanted an engineer,
00:33:04.480 you'd want a highly qualified person.
00:33:07.100 But somebody complaining about inclusivity,
00:33:10.520 inclusivity, that doesn't take a lot of skill set.
00:33:14.240 So we'll put them there.
00:33:15.580 So we've managed to create a system
00:33:18.160 in which a highly qualified CEO
00:33:21.280 is no longer in charge of the company's big decisions.
00:33:26.620 Not all of them.
00:33:28.240 But this was a big decision.
00:33:30.160 You know, what face you put on your product.
00:33:32.580 That's a big decision.
00:33:33.440 And I don't think the CEO was in charge.
00:33:36.440 What do you think?
00:33:37.660 Do you think the CEO would have made this decision
00:33:40.880 without it being brought to him
00:33:43.080 with a little bit of pressure?
00:33:45.400 Of course not.
00:33:46.980 There's no, no, no CEO would have done that.
00:33:49.920 Do you know why?
00:33:51.840 Because people have a bias against trans.
00:33:54.440 Why would you put on your product
00:33:58.900 something that you know
00:33:59.980 40% of your likely buyers
00:34:04.760 would have a reaction to it
00:34:07.080 that wasn't positive?
00:34:09.200 Now, I'm not defending those 40%. 1.00
00:34:11.380 I think people should be more open-minded.
00:34:14.000 And I think adults should be able to do
00:34:15.820 whatever the heck they want.
00:34:17.220 And that includes Dylan Mulvaney,
00:34:19.600 who I'm perfectly happy.
00:34:21.540 I have no complaints with Dylan Mulvaney,
00:34:23.760 by the way,
00:34:24.400 in terms of the lifestyle
00:34:26.660 Dylan wants to live.
00:34:29.420 Fine with me.
00:34:31.160 But if you put it on a beer can,
00:34:33.040 you're in the realm of economics.
00:34:35.920 And I'm not sure this fit
00:34:37.540 is fitting as well as it should.
00:34:42.400 All right.
00:34:43.280 So here's my take on that,
00:34:45.660 on Vivek's comment,
00:34:48.120 as well as the Dylan Mulvaney thing.
00:34:49.960 I think diversity has many benefits
00:34:54.040 and they're real.
00:34:56.960 But you can't make it your operating system.
00:35:00.680 You get that?
00:35:02.380 It can't be your go-to operating system,
00:35:06.020 the wokeness and the diversity.
00:35:08.540 It has to be just an important factor
00:35:10.980 that competes with the other important factors.
00:35:13.880 As soon as you make it your core operating system,
00:35:17.260 you're dead. 0.69
00:35:18.680 That's the end of your efficiency.
00:35:21.480 You'll have to bow to other forces.
00:35:26.300 Well, DeSantis continues his unbroken pattern
00:35:31.360 of doing awesome state things.
00:35:35.880 That is a great way to run for president
00:35:38.120 without running for president.
00:35:39.880 All right.
00:35:40.040 So here's the latest.
00:35:41.200 And this goes in the category of free money.
00:35:44.220 Free money.
00:35:45.500 It was laying there on the table for every state.
00:35:48.800 So every state could have done this.
00:35:51.160 Well, only the Republican states could have done it.
00:35:53.780 But only he did it.
00:35:56.320 And we keep seeing this pattern.
00:35:57.700 It's like, wait a minute.
00:35:59.060 You can do that?
00:36:00.680 That sounds like a good idea.
00:36:02.020 You can do that.
00:36:03.260 And the other states didn't do it.
00:36:05.080 Like, it's impossible not to notice
00:36:09.280 how many things DeSantis does
00:36:11.660 that other people should have thought of
00:36:14.620 or other people should have done.
00:36:17.000 And for some reason, they didn't.
00:36:18.520 And he just does it.
00:36:20.720 It's a super strong technique.
00:36:23.120 Here's the latest.
00:36:25.040 Apparently, he's going to sign a bill
00:36:26.440 that's going through the Florida legislature
00:36:28.620 that is going to ban DEI in Florida universities.
00:36:36.200 Could you imagine anything more popular with his base?
00:36:40.040 Who are the ones who matter
00:36:41.240 if he's going to run for president?
00:36:43.240 That's like the most simplest, free money,
00:36:48.380 baller, strong leader.
00:36:51.880 That just has everything.
00:36:53.980 That's a home run right there.
00:36:55.860 Home run.
00:36:56.300 So let me say this.
00:37:00.860 I don't believe DeSantis is this smart.
00:37:06.500 He's very smart.
00:37:08.280 Very, very smart.
00:37:10.300 But this smart suggests an advisor.
00:37:15.640 Do you agree?
00:37:17.780 That this looks like there's an advisor
00:37:20.040 who's really, really good at advising.
00:37:23.640 Like, really, really good at advising.
00:37:26.740 That's what it looks like.
00:37:27.840 No, it's not me.
00:37:28.640 It's not me.
00:37:29.680 It could be somebody I've influenced,
00:37:31.560 but it's not me.
00:37:33.280 Yeah, I've never had any direct or indirect contact
00:37:36.740 with DeSantis.
00:37:37.600 I have no connection.
00:37:39.600 But I'm a fan.
00:37:41.960 Let me tell you.
00:37:42.640 I'm a fan of this style of politics.
00:37:45.820 It's just really strong.
00:37:47.200 So he's looking to abolish the DEI bureaucracy.
00:37:53.080 I have a question, though.
00:37:54.780 If he can abolish DEI in universities,
00:37:59.800 because the government has some control over them,
00:38:02.540 would it be impossible or illegal or unconstitutional
00:38:06.600 if he did the same thing for companies operating in Florida?
00:38:11.200 What do you think?
00:38:14.920 Is that legal?
00:38:16.300 Or maybe it's impractical because companies tend to operate across states.
00:38:21.580 Say it's illegal.
00:38:22.760 I'm assuming it's illegal or else he would have done it, right?
00:38:25.480 But states can pass laws about how companies operate in their state.
00:38:34.240 That's routine.
00:38:35.460 They do it all the time.
00:38:37.380 It feels legal to me, but I don't know why he's not doing it.
00:38:42.040 So I'm sure he's looked into it.
00:38:44.260 It's illegal for private companies.
00:38:45.980 Why would it be?
00:38:47.140 The state can make private companies do all kinds of things, can't they?
00:38:50.500 They can tax them.
00:38:51.600 They can put requirements on them.
00:38:53.600 Why would that be different?
00:39:01.720 Yeah.
00:39:03.220 So I'll just say it's an open question.
00:39:05.400 I would say that he could do it.
00:39:07.280 That's my guess.
00:39:11.120 Yeah, ban everything you don't like, governor.
00:39:13.440 Well, a governor should ban everything they don't like. 0.63
00:39:16.480 That's why you hire them.
00:39:18.360 They should ban everything they don't like.
00:39:20.560 That's the job.
00:39:22.080 Ban everything you don't like.
00:39:23.600 And then promote things you like.
00:39:25.300 That's the job.
00:39:27.140 All right.
00:39:30.980 See what else is going on.
00:39:32.280 Oh, here's one of my favorite ones.
00:39:35.740 Oh, I should say that DeSantis also renamed DEI.
00:39:41.660 So, you know, the last few days I've been saying that it's not persuasive to just come up with alternate words that the acronym refers to.
00:39:52.740 So instead of saying, oh, DEI is diversity, equity and inclusion, if you're a critic of it, you might say that those letters mean three different things.
00:40:01.040 And I've been saying that's not persuasive, you know, you know, you know, it's clever, but it's not persuasive.
00:40:07.160 Well, DeSantis just did it.
00:40:09.420 DeSantis just did that.
00:40:10.480 He said, DEI stands for division, exclusion, and indoctrinization.
00:40:16.700 That has no part in our public institutions.
00:40:19.760 Now, let me clarify, or you could say I'm admitting I was wrong.
00:40:26.080 Okay, you could have it either way.
00:40:29.620 When a candidate for president does it, it works.
00:40:36.260 Do you see the difference?
00:40:38.000 If you and I did it, but no candidate for president was doing it, it wouldn't have any power.
00:40:44.500 It's because he said it, and because who he is, that infuses the power, right?
00:40:51.080 The reason I saw it is because he said it, right?
00:40:55.100 If you say it on Twitter, thank you, John.
00:41:03.080 I appreciate that.
00:41:06.940 So anyway, yeah, if Trump had said this, it would have been super persuasive.
00:41:12.400 DeSantis saying it, and I should have picked up on this, so this is on me.
00:41:17.380 I should have told you that if somebody famous says it, it's different.
00:41:21.240 And not just famous.
00:41:22.200 It wouldn't matter if I said it, right?
00:41:24.160 Do you get that?
00:41:25.740 If I said it, no power whatsoever.
00:41:29.420 DeSantis saying it?
00:41:30.800 Well, we'll see.
00:41:32.500 We'll see.
00:41:33.180 It gets quoted a lot.
00:41:34.880 Maybe people will pick it up.
00:41:36.780 If Trump had said something along those lines, I think people would have picked it up.
00:41:42.560 Yeah.
00:41:46.280 All right.
00:41:48.820 But on Twitter, Marty Blordfast had this update for CRT, calling it creating racial tension.
00:41:57.900 CRT, creating racial tension.
00:42:01.280 That's pretty good.
00:42:04.080 That's pretty good.
00:42:05.220 And I wondered if there's a persuasion play in which you try to convince people that's
00:42:11.300 actually what it means.
00:42:13.860 You know, if this were not 2023, I'd say, well, that's a stupid idea.
00:42:18.600 You're not going to convince people that your public school system, for example, is teaching
00:42:25.340 a class on creating racial tension.
00:42:27.640 You're never going to convince anybody that's real.
00:42:30.860 But in 2023, you could.
00:42:33.200 You could actually convince probably 40% of the public just by repetition.
00:42:38.400 I'll bet you could get 40% of the public to believe that's what it stands for in the real
00:42:44.620 world that that's what it stands for.
00:42:46.660 40% of the public.
00:42:48.120 That's my estimate.
00:42:49.900 Why?
00:42:50.200 Because 40% of the public can be convinced of anything if you try hard enough.
00:42:57.040 I mean, it's a low estimate.
00:42:58.600 It just depends how much you repeat it.
00:43:00.440 If you repeated it enough, 80% of the public would think that's what it meant.
00:43:07.400 Even people who used to like it.
00:43:09.600 Now, I doubt that could be repeated enough to get to the level I'm talking about.
00:43:14.840 But if it were repeated enough, it would convince 40% of the public, or more, that that's what
00:43:21.620 it meant.
00:43:23.360 All right.
00:43:23.900 Favorite story of the day.
00:43:25.220 This is just my personal favorite.
00:43:27.480 The Washington Post has been fact-checked a couple times on Twitter, and I love that.
00:43:34.100 You know, Twitter's now adding the context or community notes.
00:43:37.580 So, if you tweet something that's factually wrong, Twitter will automatically append the
00:43:44.300 correction to your tweet.
00:43:46.540 Now, I live life in fear that that's going to happen to one of my tweets.
00:43:51.080 If it does, I'm getting rid of that tweet right away.
00:43:55.500 I'm deleting that tweet right away, because that's pretty embarrassing, if they're attaching
00:44:02.300 it right to your tweet.
00:44:03.280 That's embarrassing.
00:44:03.940 So, Glenn Kessler, who works for the Washington Post, he tweets this, new fact-checker, he
00:44:16.340 says, and it's based on an article in the Washington Post, he says, the incendiary claim that George
00:44:21.540 Soros funds Alvin Bragg, so he's basically saying that, you know, that's not true, that George
00:44:30.620 Soros funded Alvin Bragg.
00:44:32.340 Not true, he says, and this is the Washington Post.
00:44:36.300 Oh, by the way, the Washington Post is who canceled me.
00:44:39.680 Everybody else canceled me, mostly because they did first.
00:44:43.020 Yeah, the Washington Post canceled me because they couldn't tell the difference between a
00:44:47.480 RUPAR video and a real one.
00:44:50.320 And, in other words, I got canceled for fake news.
00:44:53.260 Not that I didn't say the thing I said, but the context was wrong.
00:44:56.940 The context was wrong.
00:44:59.340 Here's the correct context.
00:45:00.900 If the Washington Post had not been a disreputable lying rag, here's what they would have said.
00:45:09.140 Cartoonist says something really offensive.
00:45:11.120 But what did they say?
00:45:15.180 Racist rant.
00:45:17.600 What was their evidence that it was racist?
00:45:20.660 There's plenty of evidence that it was offensive.
00:45:23.340 I did, that was offensive intentionally.
00:45:25.740 Offensive was a fact, right?
00:45:27.780 Offensive is a fact.
00:45:29.080 What is racist?
00:45:29.780 Racist assumes they know what I'm thinking, what the context is, and why I did it.
00:45:37.640 If they knew all those things and they conformed to that view that it's a racist rant, well,
00:45:43.320 then they'd have something.
00:45:44.740 That would be a legitimate story.
00:45:46.600 But they never asked me what I was thinking.
00:45:48.900 They never asked about the context.
00:45:51.120 They just played the video.
00:45:53.300 That's a RUPAR.
00:45:54.200 Do you think it's a coincidence that I'm the most famous person on the internet for outing RUPAR videos,
00:46:05.420 such as the Covington Kids, Fine People Hoax, the Drinking Bleach Hoax?
00:46:13.660 They're all the same.
00:46:15.120 It's stuff people really said, but as soon as you take it out of context, it changes form.
00:46:20.920 So the Washington Post is a fake news entity that I've been slamming for fake news for years.
00:46:29.500 Did the Washington Post tell you that I'm one of its biggest public critics when they canceled me?
00:46:36.400 Does that feel like important context?
00:46:39.140 Oh, we decided to take the comic out of our newspaper for what he said,
00:46:44.640 and you leave out the fact?
00:46:46.100 Leave out the fact I'm one of the most prominent critics of their newspaper and have been for years.
00:46:52.840 In public.
00:46:54.020 Not privately.
00:46:54.980 In public.
00:46:55.800 I've been criticizing the people who paid me.
00:46:58.380 In public.
00:47:00.160 Routinely I did it.
00:47:01.620 All the time.
00:47:04.240 So, yes,
00:47:05.780 Washington Post is an entity that is largely in the political stuff is fake news.
00:47:12.640 Mostly fake news, I'd say.
00:47:13.880 Now, that doesn't mean some of the stuff isn't true.
00:47:17.040 It just means the way they package it is intentional fake news, and it's pretty obvious.
00:47:21.880 Now, I say intentional even though I can't read minds, but I don't think there's much question.
00:47:29.320 So here's the context note that Twitter automatically added to Glenn Kessler's tweet.
00:47:35.240 It says,
00:47:35.880 How much do you love that Elon Musk spent $44 billion
00:48:04.660 to wrestle Twitter into a legitimate platform,
00:48:10.600 and he did it so successfully that it just fact-checked the Washington Post's ass? 0.62
00:48:19.200 Standing ovation.
00:48:24.220 This is for Elon Musk for giving us the semblance of free speech and less fake news.
00:48:31.260 Standing ovation.
00:48:36.800 That's...
00:48:37.200 That's...
00:48:38.200 That was worth $44 billion, right there.
00:48:44.340 You know, not just this tweet,
00:48:46.320 but the fact that he's added these context notes
00:48:49.160 to clearly intentional fake news.
00:48:52.580 I mean, this is clearly intentional fake news.
00:48:55.240 So much of it is intentional.
00:48:56.400 So, good for you, Elon Musk.
00:49:01.840 So, you know the story about the New York Times said they won't pay to be verified.
00:49:05.660 I guess companies would have to pay $1,000 a month or something.
00:49:08.940 But it's still affordable.
00:49:11.880 Now you understand, don't you?
00:49:13.820 Do you understand why the New York Times doesn't want to be verified on Twitter?
00:49:16.900 Because Twitter will be calling them out for fake news.
00:49:21.680 There's no way around it.
00:49:23.380 Because the New York Times is also a purveyor of fake news, quite routinely.
00:49:28.920 And now the community knows it's going to be calling their tweets out as bullshit.
00:49:32.480 So they would have to pay $1,000 a month to be pilloried and shamed on Twitter.
00:49:37.800 And they're thinking, well, if we're going to get pilloried and shamed,
00:49:43.540 maybe we don't want to pay for it.
00:49:45.940 And maybe people are going to, you know, read the New York Times no matter what, right?
00:49:50.240 So I think the New York Times is going to get almost as much attention,
00:49:54.820 whether they're verified or not.
00:49:56.380 But I can kind of understand why they wouldn't want to pay.
00:49:59.100 And I imagine that entities that don't worry about being called down for fake news,
00:50:09.600 I think they'll just pay.
00:50:12.060 Because they'll be like, oh, we like more visibility.
00:50:14.520 That would be good.
00:50:15.100 I'll pay for that.
00:50:16.320 And the ones who don't want more visibility where they get fact-checked,
00:50:19.620 they're like, oh, I don't think that's worth paying for.
00:50:21.820 Oh, no.
00:50:22.960 No, I don't think the New York Times and Washington Post
00:50:25.400 are going to benefit from more visibility on Twitter
00:50:29.240 because that visibility is going to be connected to fact-checks under fake news.
00:50:38.480 Here's an argument I saw.
00:50:40.560 I was testing my reframe that the opposite of woke is authentic.
00:50:46.800 So one of the ways I can test a, you know,
00:50:49.440 different way of looking at something is I tweet it.
00:50:52.380 And if I get a lot of reviews, that means other people liked it.
00:50:57.280 So when I tweeted the opposite of woke is authentic,
00:51:01.340 I got over 200,000 views, which is quite high.
00:51:06.480 Quite high.
00:51:07.740 So it suggests there's something there.
00:51:09.460 But I think there's a better twist on this.
00:51:13.740 And I'm going to give it to you in a moment.
00:51:15.320 But first, a comment from Riley Whitelum,
00:51:18.900 which is a weird name for a white guy, Whitelum,
00:51:23.240 he's describing, he says that woke,
00:51:26.260 which is actually pronounced W-O-H-K,
00:51:29.340 I guess that's the way we pronounce it,
00:51:30.920 is an adjective derived from African-American vernacular,
00:51:34.900 English, meaning, quote,
00:51:37.340 alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.
00:51:41.780 And then he says, y'all projecting, meaning me,
00:51:45.220 the literal antonym to woke is ignorant.
00:51:47.420 Okay, yeah.
00:51:51.380 So I guess he got that from Wikipedia.
00:51:56.920 So got me good there.
00:51:59.360 But here's my update.
00:52:00.980 Instead of saying that woke is the opposite of authentic,
00:52:05.600 here's a better reframe.
00:52:08.300 You ready for this?
00:52:10.240 Just clear your mind,
00:52:12.040 and imagine you heard this in the wild for the first time.
00:52:14.700 that woke is a performance,
00:52:18.320 not an opinion.
00:52:22.420 Woke is a performance,
00:52:24.360 not an opinion.
00:52:27.540 Now,
00:52:29.280 remember all the comments to Matt Walsh's
00:52:32.580 points about reparation
00:52:34.140 and how to calculate them.
00:52:35.740 When I read you back the comments,
00:52:38.540 couldn't you see that those were performances?
00:52:41.280 Those were performances.
00:52:43.260 Woke is about how you perform.
00:52:47.160 So do you think that the CEO of Budweiser
00:52:50.140 agreed that putting Dylan Mulvaney on the can
00:52:54.540 would sell more beer?
00:52:56.400 Do you think they thought,
00:52:57.360 oh, this will sell some beer?
00:52:59.160 Or do you think that the CEO said,
00:53:01.480 in a performance,
00:53:03.160 in a performance,
00:53:05.060 yeah,
00:53:06.140 yeah,
00:53:07.920 damn straight,
00:53:08.840 we need more inclusivity on our cans.
00:53:11.400 Let's get Dylan Mulvaney on the phone.
00:53:13.440 I'll call her.
00:53:14.980 I'll call her myself.
00:53:17.220 Oh, I'm so into this idea.
00:53:19.520 I'm so into this.
00:53:20.840 Can we get her in here today? 1.00
00:53:22.820 Can somebody get her in here today? 1.00
00:53:25.420 Let's get on this.
00:53:28.200 It's performance.
00:53:29.160 And it's mostly white people performing.
00:53:34.180 So they'll get, you know,
00:53:35.680 pat on the back.
00:53:36.460 It's like, oh, good boy.
00:53:38.240 Good, good job.
00:53:39.740 Good job.
00:53:40.360 That's just the way we wanted you to act.
00:53:42.520 Let's perform.
00:53:43.840 I'm more woke than you are.
00:53:45.740 Whoa.
00:53:47.300 Performance.
00:53:48.960 Now,
00:53:49.660 now that you've heard that reframe
00:53:51.960 for the first time,
00:53:53.600 watch how often it pops into your head.
00:53:55.740 Because the next time you see somebody woke,
00:53:58.200 you're going to say,
00:53:58.940 is that their real opinion?
00:54:01.840 Really?
00:54:03.380 Or is this more about
00:54:05.100 the performance you're putting on?
00:54:08.880 Take the 60 Minutes story
00:54:11.060 I told you about Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:54:13.320 The people who are tweeting
00:54:14.800 that they want to boycott it
00:54:16.860 in 60 Minutes is dead to us.
00:54:19.300 Do you think they care?
00:54:21.440 Do you think that they watch
00:54:22.420 60 Minutes every day?
00:54:23.500 Almost nobody does.
00:54:26.620 What percentage of the country
00:54:27.940 even watches 60 Minutes?
00:54:29.740 Or even watches the news?
00:54:33.380 5%?
00:54:34.480 5%?
00:54:35.340 Maybe.
00:54:36.500 But,
00:54:36.880 so these people who I'm sure
00:54:38.480 probably don't even watch 60 Minutes
00:54:40.340 are telling you in their tweets,
00:54:42.520 look at me,
00:54:43.280 look at me.
00:54:44.620 I love wokeness so much
00:54:46.040 that I won't even watch 60 Minutes.
00:54:48.040 It's not an opinion.
00:54:50.020 It's a performance.
00:54:50.880 Do you feel that?
00:54:55.000 Let me just check in with you.
00:54:57.160 You feel it.
00:54:58.100 It's a performance.
00:54:59.220 And here's why this is useful.
00:55:01.640 If you get into an argument
00:55:03.200 with somebody
00:55:03.920 and you treat them
00:55:05.400 like they have an argument,
00:55:07.480 it would be like
00:55:08.360 having an argument
00:55:09.420 with the people commenting
00:55:10.560 to Matt Walsh's tweets.
00:55:12.460 they're not in it
00:55:15.000 for the argument.
00:55:16.560 They're in it
00:55:17.340 for the performance.
00:55:18.580 They only need to show
00:55:20.180 the other people
00:55:21.340 who are watching
00:55:21.860 the performance
00:55:22.620 that they went at you hard.
00:55:24.700 That's all.
00:55:26.060 They don't have to show
00:55:26.900 their argument is good.
00:55:28.220 They only have to show
00:55:29.300 they went at you hard.
00:55:31.000 That's it.
00:55:32.320 Performance.
00:55:32.760 So I would dismiss
00:55:35.500 the woke
00:55:36.320 as performative.
00:55:39.000 It's like performance accepted.
00:55:40.700 Very good.
00:55:41.760 If you'd like to be
00:55:43.100 part of the conversation
00:55:44.360 about what works
00:55:45.260 and what doesn't work,
00:55:46.820 that would be great.
00:55:49.180 But if you're just
00:55:49.980 going to perform,
00:55:51.660 I'll watch the performance,
00:55:52.980 I'll grade it,
00:55:53.600 I'll give you a grade.
00:55:54.780 I might even recommend it.
00:55:56.380 If it's a good performance,
00:55:57.500 I'll retweet it.
00:55:58.140 But let's not confuse
00:56:00.300 your performance
00:56:01.020 with anything
00:56:02.360 that's real or useful.
00:56:06.940 Performance accepted.
00:56:08.360 There you go.
00:56:09.420 Performance accepted.
00:56:12.160 Nice.
00:56:15.140 Yeah.
00:56:15.600 Or polite applause.
00:56:16.840 Very good.
00:56:17.760 Nice.
00:56:18.580 Very good woke performance.
00:56:21.540 All right.
00:56:22.180 So we'll try out
00:56:23.000 that reframe.
00:56:24.020 60 Minutes
00:56:29.020 is the new
00:56:29.620 Lawrence Welk.
00:56:30.880 You have to be
00:56:31.360 a certain age
00:56:31.940 to understand that.
00:56:33.780 And I do.
00:56:35.420 And I do.
00:56:38.620 You want to hear
00:56:39.680 something that will
00:56:40.420 alarm you
00:56:41.100 if you're
00:56:41.620 under a certain age?
00:56:44.160 All right.
00:56:45.080 When I was a kid,
00:56:46.760 there were so few
00:56:48.040 channels on television,
00:56:49.540 basically three,
00:56:51.420 and
00:56:51.960 two of them
00:56:53.840 didn't work so well
00:56:54.740 because we had rabbit ears
00:56:55.960 and I lived in the country.
00:56:57.640 So we basically
00:56:58.680 had one good
00:56:59.980 channel
00:57:00.800 and one you could
00:57:01.520 watch okay
00:57:02.180 and one that you
00:57:03.000 couldn't really watch.
00:57:04.720 And
00:57:05.200 the one you could
00:57:06.220 watch okay
00:57:06.840 had this
00:57:07.660 Lawrence Welk show,
00:57:09.180 which was this
00:57:10.080 old,
00:57:10.720 boring,
00:57:11.120 big band
00:57:12.220 with a band leader.
00:57:14.720 And I would actually
00:57:15.580 sometimes watch that.
00:57:18.880 You can imagine
00:57:19.560 a child
00:57:20.320 watching the big band.
00:57:22.900 Not fun.
00:57:24.860 But there was just
00:57:25.900 nothing else to do.
00:57:28.060 There was no other
00:57:29.060 form of entertainment
00:57:29.960 during that hour.
00:57:31.640 And you'd be like,
00:57:32.780 I guess.
00:57:34.300 I guess I'm watching
00:57:35.780 Lawrence Welk now.
00:57:37.260 And I would actually
00:57:38.080 be in the room
00:57:39.760 when it was on.
00:57:41.160 Yeah.
00:57:41.860 That's how
00:57:42.560 terrible things were
00:57:43.760 before smartphones.
00:57:47.000 Terrible.
00:57:47.740 Terrible.
00:57:47.960 All right.
00:57:54.540 Apparently you could
00:57:55.340 all see and hear me
00:57:56.220 on Locals
00:57:57.060 when the chat
00:57:57.580 disappeared.
00:57:58.380 So you didn't
00:57:59.080 lose any,
00:57:59.820 didn't lose anything,
00:58:01.200 I guess.
00:58:03.920 All right.
00:58:04.640 That,
00:58:05.140 ladies and gentlemen,
00:58:06.540 is the completion
00:58:08.140 of
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00:58:11.040 you've ever seen.
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00:58:12.980 Locals,
00:58:13.560 subscribers,
00:58:14.460 are going to get
00:58:14.860 a little extra.
00:58:15.540 But I'm going to say
00:58:16.580 goodbye to the
00:58:17.940 YouTube folks.
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