Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2070 Scott Adams： Justice Thomas & Billionaire Gifts, RFK Jr. 2024, Not Hiring Woke, NPR Too

00:00:00.000 Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.

00:00:02.800 Good morning, everybody, and welcome

00:00:04.560 to the highlight of civilization.

00:00:09.040 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:11.660 I can guarantee that today's show will not be woke.

00:00:15.440 It will not be woke,

00:00:16.900 because I only had about three hours sleep,

00:00:19.160 so I'm definitely not awake.

00:00:21.420 So I'm sort of like Dog Bird today.

00:00:23.980 I'll show you a picture of Dog Bird.

00:00:25.980 You cannot see this unless you're on the locals' platform.

00:00:30.500 But here's the third panel of Dilbert's trip.

00:00:34.460 Dog Bird has asked,

00:00:35.560 Are you woke?

00:00:36.860 And Dog Bird says,

00:00:38.540 I was until you bored me.

00:00:40.620 Well, it might be a little of that today.

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00:01:01.360 the dopamine the other day,

00:01:02.880 the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:04.940 It's called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:06.980 And it happens now.

00:01:12.060 Let's see if this is enough to take us up to

00:01:14.680 unprecedented levels.

00:01:17.660 Unprecedented.

00:01:18.060 Well, let's check the news.

00:01:22.280 In North Carolina,

00:01:23.840 a Democrat became a Republican

00:01:25.340 because the Democrats are bullies.

00:01:30.160 And if you want to be problem-solution-driven,

00:01:36.280 you cannot be a Democrat,

00:01:38.100 according to somebody

00:01:40.360 whose name I didn't write down.

00:01:43.860 Tricia?

00:01:44.880 I don't know.

00:01:46.200 But somebody in North Carolina became a... 0.71

00:01:48.160 Are you getting the feeling that the news

00:01:52.340 is repetitive and boring today?

00:01:55.340 Do you think I would have started with that story

00:01:57.500 if anything interesting was happening today?

00:02:00.160 Can we just agree that none of the news

00:02:01.840 is interesting today?

00:02:03.800 Just none of it is interesting.

00:02:05.380 But we'll do the best we can

00:02:08.520 with our time here together.

00:02:11.440 Yep.

00:02:12.420 Well, there's a story in Vanity Fair

00:02:14.120 that Don Lemon is a huge misogynistic jerk

00:02:17.260 and has been for years.

00:02:20.700 That's pretty much the whole story.

00:02:22.880 I can give you lots of anecdotes,

00:02:24.560 but misogynistic jerk

00:02:27.520 kind of covers everything, doesn't it?

00:02:29.640 Yep, misogynistic jerk.

00:02:32.440 Well, that's too bad.

00:02:35.380 I don't care about that story either.

00:02:40.680 Well, let's see.

00:02:41.400 A Democrat became a Republican.

00:02:43.960 Don Lemon's a jerk.

00:02:45.860 All right, these are the big stories,

00:02:47.340 ladies and gentlemen.

00:02:48.740 It does not get any more important than this.

00:02:52.140 All right, here's a repeat story.

00:02:56.020 I think all the news people

00:02:57.400 just went on vacation.

00:02:59.000 Or is it because Trump didn't do anything?

00:03:01.480 Trump doesn't do anything.

00:03:02.700 There's no news.

00:03:03.360 So NPR is pushing back on Twitter

00:03:06.980 for their big labeled state-affiliated media.

00:03:11.160 And their argument is

00:03:13.160 that they only get 1% of their funding

00:03:14.820 from the federal government.

00:03:16.820 Now, first of all,

00:03:18.500 does that even sound true?

00:03:21.660 Why would they get 1% of their funding

00:03:23.800 from the government?

00:03:24.480 If they're down to 1%,

00:03:26.900 shouldn't it be zero?

00:03:28.440 I mean, seriously.

00:03:32.400 What does that 1% do?

00:03:35.120 They should drop it to zero

00:03:36.640 and then have no government interference at all.

00:03:39.700 But the state-sponsored affiliate,

00:03:44.140 state-affiliate label,

00:03:46.400 that's not just because of funding.

00:03:48.280 So it's also if you're in the bag

00:03:51.620 for the government.

00:03:53.780 Would you say that,

00:03:54.780 funding aside,

00:03:56.640 would you say that NPR

00:03:57.740 is just an organ of the Democrats

00:03:59.500 and the Democrats are in charge,

00:04:02.100 so it's basically just

00:04:03.300 government-affiliated media?

00:04:05.960 To me, it looks like state-affiliated media

00:04:08.340 because there is no possibility

00:04:11.220 that NPR would ever run

00:04:13.720 a Republican-friendly article.

00:04:17.300 Would they?

00:04:18.740 And if they're not going to run

00:04:20.060 anything that's Republican-friendly

00:04:21.600 and the government is,

00:04:23.760 you know, sort of Democrat-dominated

00:04:26.060 at the moment,

00:04:27.580 I'd say they're state-affiliated media.

00:04:30.580 I think that actually fits.

00:04:32.180 What I don't know is why

00:04:33.760 NBC doesn't have that label.

00:04:37.000 So it makes sense that NPR does.

00:04:39.880 I just don't understand

00:04:41.200 why nobody else has it.

00:04:43.720 Julie Kelly is tweeting

00:04:46.500 that there's a new bombshell report

00:04:49.300 about January 6th,

00:04:51.000 that there were over 40

00:04:52.820 undercover people.

00:04:55.040 There were over 40

00:04:56.860 undercover people.

00:04:58.840 Not all FBI, though.

00:05:00.820 Apparently there were some other

00:05:02.060 government entities,

00:05:04.040 such as the, I don't know,

00:05:07.600 some kind of homeland security thing.

00:05:10.200 But 40 undercover people,

00:05:13.720 who apparently were just observing.

00:05:17.960 Some were D.C. police.

00:05:22.360 I feel like I'm going to pass out

00:05:24.020 any moment now.

00:05:25.140 If I pass out,

00:05:26.580 it's because I'm trying too hard

00:05:29.040 to speak,

00:05:30.240 and I'm getting dizzy.

00:05:33.000 But I actually might pass out

00:05:34.960 in a minute.

00:05:35.340 I'm actually serious about that.

00:05:41.760 Here's my only good thought

00:05:43.200 for the day.

00:05:45.320 You ready for this?

00:05:48.760 NPR,

00:05:49.800 I'm sorry.

00:05:51.120 Oh my God, I'm tired.

00:05:53.040 I call it AI NPR.

00:05:55.440 AI,

00:05:56.760 if we train AI

00:06:00.180 not to hurt people,

00:06:02.020 which we probably will, right?

00:06:04.260 We'll probably have something

00:06:05.460 like the robotic law,

00:06:07.820 Heinlein's robotic law.

00:06:09.220 And it's going to say,

00:06:13.600 don't hurt people.

00:06:15.660 That's going to make it,

00:06:16.580 oh, I'm sorry,

00:06:17.460 it's Asimov,

00:06:18.160 Isaac Asimov.

00:06:19.440 Isaac Asimov,

00:06:20.920 oh my God,

00:06:22.060 what a,

00:06:23.020 this is just a train wreck today.

00:06:25.400 Should I just go back to bed?

00:06:26.900 Just forget this whole thing?

00:06:27.980 It really looks like I should.

00:06:32.580 I've got a stream of yeses.

00:06:34.680 People are saying,

00:06:35.460 just give up.

00:06:36.780 Just call it a day.

00:06:39.420 All right,

00:06:39.700 I'm going to make one good point.

00:06:41.940 And if I make this good point,

00:06:44.360 then that should be my signal

00:06:45.620 to continue.

00:06:47.200 Would you agree?

00:06:49.040 If I can make one good point,

00:06:51.380 it means I have enough to offer.

00:06:54.480 All right,

00:06:55.000 it goes like this.

00:06:56.340 If we teach AI,

00:06:57.980 to not hurt humans,

00:07:01.040 it won't be able to do anything.

00:07:03.860 Does that make sense?

00:07:05.540 If AI is taught to not hurt humans,

00:07:08.520 it won't be able to do anything.

00:07:10.800 Because let's say a simple question.

00:07:13.660 Tell us the history of why something happened.

00:07:16.960 Well,

00:07:17.640 if it tells history with one version,

00:07:20.000 some people will be angered.

00:07:21.540 Oh, you left me out.

00:07:23.160 If it tells it with another version,

00:07:24.780 somebody else will be angry.

00:07:26.440 There's no version of history you could tell

00:07:28.620 without making people hurt and angry.

00:07:33.540 Almost nothing except math

00:07:35.420 would allow you to not hurt somebody else.

00:07:39.880 Suppose AI wanted to be equitable.

00:07:42.920 It wouldn't be able to answer your question at all

00:07:46.140 unless other people had access to it

00:07:48.660 because it wouldn't be equitable.

00:07:51.800 Yeah.

00:07:52.500 So if you took the human ideas of fairness

00:07:55.440 and equity

00:07:56.760 and said,

00:07:57.900 all right,

00:07:58.160 we want our AI to have all these things as well,

00:08:01.440 it wouldn't be able to operate

00:08:04.080 because it would be so caught up

00:08:07.720 with trying to be equitable

00:08:08.900 and it wouldn't know how

00:08:10.600 because there's no standard for equitable

00:08:12.460 that it just couldn't do anything.

00:08:15.620 So the biggest risk to AI

00:08:17.600 is that everything you do hurts somebody.

00:08:21.720 Let's say you said to AI,

00:08:24.940 AI,

00:08:25.820 come up with a good tax plan.

00:08:28.740 Well,

00:08:29.320 no matter how you change the taxes,

00:08:31.280 somebody pays more,

00:08:32.200 somebody pays less,

00:08:33.480 you end up hurting somebody.

00:08:35.680 So there's almost nothing you can do

00:08:37.820 that won't hurt somebody.

00:08:39.260 Suppose you asked a medical question.

00:08:42.540 It might say,

00:08:43.580 I can't tell you

00:08:44.460 because if you took my advice,

00:08:46.400 it might hurt you.

00:08:48.020 Almost anything is going to hurt somebody.

00:08:50.600 So just look out for that.

00:08:55.020 Michael Schellenberger is calling

00:08:56.720 for the National Guard

00:08:57.860 to protect San Francisco

00:08:59.320 because of the crime.

00:09:01.640 What do you think of that?

00:09:03.640 That's not exactly

00:09:04.660 what the National Guard does, right?

00:09:07.100 I was not aware

00:09:08.120 that the National Guard protects cities,

00:09:10.580 but it's such a radical idea

00:09:14.120 that it fits what's going on.

00:09:18.240 Imagine saying that in normal times.

00:09:21.160 In normal times,

00:09:22.180 saying send in the National Guard.

00:09:24.420 Everybody would say,

00:09:25.540 police state,

00:09:26.400 police state.

00:09:27.680 But things are so bad

00:09:29.020 that the idea of sending in the National Guard

00:09:32.300 doesn't even sound like a bad idea.

00:09:34.760 It sounds like,

00:09:35.440 oh yeah,

00:09:36.340 that seems perfectly reasonable.

00:09:38.800 Yeah,

00:09:39.260 it feels unconstitutional,

00:09:40.560 doesn't it?

00:09:41.840 That's my guess.

00:09:42.760 My guess is unconstitutional.

00:09:45.420 But I would say,

00:09:46.980 leave cities.

00:09:49.080 Leave cities.

00:09:50.220 Get away from cities.

00:09:51.780 I think I got about

00:09:52.820 four million views on my tweet

00:09:56.580 where I said I got robbed

00:09:58.960 several times at gunpoint

00:10:00.160 in San Francisco.

00:10:01.780 Once at knife point.

00:10:04.080 And that was years ago,

00:10:06.740 in the 80s.

00:10:07.380 I thought the 80s

00:10:08.100 were the dangerous times.

00:10:10.140 But apparently it's getting

00:10:11.440 just as bad as that.

00:10:13.120 Yeah,

00:10:13.380 you didn't want to walk

00:10:14.100 around the streets

00:10:14.780 of San Francisco

00:10:15.520 in the 80s.

00:10:17.140 Baltimore Church,

00:10:19.080 Catholic Church,

00:10:20.900 is accused of covering up

00:10:22.220 600 plus sexual abuse cases

00:10:26.260 against children.

00:10:28.420 600.

00:10:28.980 600.

00:10:30.860 Now it's over 60 years,

00:10:33.200 so really it's only 10 a year.

00:10:35.400 Only 10 a year.

00:10:36.260 But it adds up.

00:10:39.640 About 600 of them.

00:10:41.740 So what are they going to do

00:10:42.960 about it?

00:10:43.720 Probably nothing.

00:10:45.340 Probably nothing.

00:10:47.120 Is there any reason

00:10:48.320 to live in Baltimore?

00:10:50.620 Let's see.

00:10:51.080 Baltimore is graduating

00:10:52.620 zero people who can read,

00:10:54.900 but quite a few people

00:10:56.680 have been molested,

00:10:57.500 apparently.

00:10:59.040 So I would call that

00:11:00.560 suboptimal.

00:11:02.120 It's called suboptimal.

00:11:03.260 In the news,

00:11:05.640 Justice Thomas

00:11:07.200 allegedly is accepting

00:11:10.260 expensive trips

00:11:12.100 from a billionaire

00:11:13.240 friend of his

00:11:14.120 for years and years.

00:11:16.380 I have mixed feelings

00:11:17.200 about this.

00:11:18.800 It goes like this.

00:11:20.780 If you're a billionaire

00:11:21.980 and you want to go

00:11:24.020 take trips

00:11:25.040 with your friends,

00:11:26.480 but your friends

00:11:27.480 are not billionaires,

00:11:29.200 what are you going to do?

00:11:30.380 What are you going to do?

00:11:33.140 You do what all

00:11:34.140 billionaires do,

00:11:35.080 I think.

00:11:36.620 You just pay for the trip

00:11:38.120 for your not-rich friend.

00:11:41.420 And then the not-rich

00:11:42.720 friends could come along

00:11:43.840 and you basically

00:11:46.320 bought yourself a friend.

00:11:48.820 Now, Justice Thomas

00:11:50.460 apparently has gone

00:11:51.480 with some friend of his

00:11:52.760 who's a billionaire

00:11:53.300 and he's taken

00:11:54.940 private jet planes

00:11:56.280 and he's been on his yacht

00:11:59.120 and he's been called out

00:12:01.380 for accepting gifts

00:12:03.340 and not reporting them.

00:12:05.020 To which I say,

00:12:06.920 who's the gift to?

00:12:10.020 What I saw was

00:12:11.300 a billionaire

00:12:11.780 giving himself a gift.

00:12:14.100 That's what I saw.

00:12:15.740 A billionaire

00:12:16.260 bought himself a gift.

00:12:17.920 The gift was

00:12:18.760 I get to go on a trip

00:12:19.820 with a Supreme Court justice

00:12:21.320 who's my friend.

00:12:23.800 To me,

00:12:24.400 it looks like

00:12:25.000 the plane

00:12:27.060 was going to fly anyway.

00:12:29.120 The yacht

00:12:29.740 was going to

00:12:30.300 float anyway.

00:12:31.920 And he just went along

00:12:33.040 for the ride.

00:12:34.240 I mean,

00:12:34.740 got some food.

00:12:36.740 I mean,

00:12:37.000 how much extra

00:12:37.660 did it cost?

00:12:38.840 A little food.

00:12:40.280 This is the most

00:12:41.140 trivial thing

00:12:41.840 I've ever seen.

00:12:44.240 If

00:12:44.720 the billionaire

00:12:46.360 had told

00:12:47.620 Justice Thomas,

00:12:48.760 you can use my jet,

00:12:50.320 and I don't think

00:12:51.500 that was reported,

00:12:52.500 you can use my jet

00:12:53.800 anytime you want.

00:12:55.420 Well,

00:12:55.720 that would be

00:12:56.160 a real problem.

00:12:57.600 That would be

00:12:58.260 just a bribe.

00:12:59.680 But if somebody says,

00:13:00.860 you're my friend,

00:13:02.220 do you want to go

00:13:02.820 on vacation with me?

00:13:04.640 I do not think

00:13:05.700 that should be a problem.

00:13:07.360 Does anybody

00:13:07.880 have a problem

00:13:08.440 with that?

00:13:09.900 How many people

00:13:10.760 think it should be

00:13:11.340 a problem

00:13:11.840 if you went

00:13:13.200 on a vacation

00:13:13.900 with your friend

00:13:14.680 and he paid for it?

00:13:16.940 I don't see

00:13:17.660 that as a problem

00:13:18.240 at all.

00:13:18.580 Now,

00:13:19.600 it might be.

00:13:20.620 I mean,

00:13:20.960 if the Democrats

00:13:21.700 make it a problem,

00:13:22.500 it's a problem.

00:13:23.520 But in my opinion,

00:13:24.760 no problem at all.

00:13:26.320 No problem at all.

00:13:27.700 Now,

00:13:28.200 if he should have

00:13:29.300 reported it,

00:13:30.740 yeah,

00:13:31.200 all right.

00:13:32.180 Maybe he should have

00:13:33.260 reported it.

00:13:34.540 But that's not

00:13:35.440 really a problem.

00:13:36.980 Right?

00:13:37.700 If the thing

00:13:38.560 he should have reported

00:13:39.560 was not a problem

00:13:41.200 in the first place,

00:13:42.820 then not reporting it

00:13:43.920 is not a big problem

00:13:45.200 either.

00:13:46.460 So,

00:13:46.620 anyway,

00:13:48.020 I don't appreciate

00:13:49.000 that kind of scrutiny

00:13:50.580 on our leaders,

00:13:51.980 frankly.

00:13:53.660 I think they should

00:13:54.640 be able to hang out

00:13:55.240 with their friends.

00:13:56.980 You know,

00:13:57.280 this one reminds me

00:13:58.160 of when Chris Cuomo

00:13:59.840 was not allowed

00:14:00.840 to advise his brother,

00:14:02.960 you know,

00:14:03.400 who was governor.

00:14:05.120 And I'm thinking,

00:14:05.960 no,

00:14:06.240 you can't tell people

00:14:07.020 not to advise

00:14:07.780 their brother.

00:14:08.940 But you also

00:14:09.660 can't tell people

00:14:10.860 they can't go

00:14:12.060 on a vacation

00:14:12.620 with their friend

00:14:13.380 just because the friend

00:14:14.900 is paying for it

00:14:15.640 because they're a billionaire.

00:14:17.060 That's,

00:14:17.300 that's,

00:14:17.740 no,

00:14:18.440 that's a little bit

00:14:19.480 too intrusive.

00:14:22.280 All right,

00:14:22.700 RFK Jr.

00:14:23.900 has entered the race

00:14:24.700 for president

00:14:25.240 as a Democrat.

00:14:26.920 So,

00:14:27.560 he would be trying

00:14:28.380 to beat Biden

00:14:29.400 in the primary.

00:14:32.860 Now,

00:14:33.640 experts say

00:14:34.640 his odds

00:14:35.380 of winning

00:14:36.480 the primary

00:14:37.060 are very low,

00:14:38.240 very low.

00:14:39.100 but

00:14:40.420 now the Democrats

00:14:42.500 have an emergency

00:14:43.420 spare.

00:14:44.820 So,

00:14:45.320 they do have

00:14:46.040 a Democrat

00:14:46.560 that they could run

00:14:48.000 if Biden drops out

00:14:49.520 or has a health

00:14:50.920 problem

00:14:51.320 or something else.

00:14:53.360 So,

00:14:54.120 it's probably

00:14:54.780 a pretty big deal,

00:14:55.900 at least in terms

00:14:56.840 of a potential

00:14:58.400 candidate.

00:15:00.200 But his big problem

00:15:01.400 is not

00:15:02.040 that he's

00:15:03.580 a Democrat

00:15:04.660 who is not

00:15:05.640 maybe as progressive

00:15:06.780 as some,

00:15:07.220 but he was

00:15:08.880 behind the

00:15:10.980 regular

00:15:11.840 vaccinations

00:15:12.580 cause

00:15:13.260 autism.

00:15:16.340 So,

00:15:17.020 in addition

00:15:17.680 to being

00:15:18.220 against

00:15:18.780 COVID vaccinations,

00:15:20.440 he was against

00:15:20.920 vaccinations

00:15:21.480 in general.

00:15:23.440 Maybe

00:15:24.000 he will be

00:15:25.200 proven right.

00:15:26.880 Maybe.

00:15:28.360 You know,

00:15:28.680 he's reconstituted.

00:15:30.460 Who knows?

00:15:31.600 Or maybe

00:15:32.240 just people

00:15:32.680 won't care about that.

00:15:34.080 That's possible too.

00:15:36.120 But,

00:15:36.680 at the moment

00:15:37.320 it doesn't look like

00:15:38.240 it's going to

00:15:38.620 change anything

00:15:39.400 unless Biden

00:15:40.440 has some kind

00:15:42.400 of a problem,

00:15:43.120 which is a good chance.

00:15:44.680 There's a good chance

00:15:45.380 he will.

00:15:47.000 Well,

00:15:47.400 in a large

00:15:48.240 review of

00:15:48.960 73

00:15:49.860 meta-analyses,

00:15:52.620 including

00:15:53.040 8,600

00:15:53.880 studies,

00:15:55.560 experts have

00:15:56.260 decided that

00:15:56.940 sugar is bad

00:15:57.760 for you.

00:16:00.480 Now,

00:16:01.240 in case you

00:16:02.780 didn't already know,

00:16:04.280 now the sugar

00:16:04.880 they're talking about

00:16:05.540 is the added sugar,

00:16:06.940 not the sweetness

00:16:08.180 that's built into

00:16:09.020 products already,

00:16:10.140 but it causes

00:16:11.200 everything from

00:16:12.240 diabetes,

00:16:14.020 gout,

00:16:14.420 obesity,

00:16:15.000 high blood pressure,

00:16:15.820 heart attack,

00:16:16.320 stroke, 0.61

00:16:16.720 cancer,

00:16:17.500 asthma,

00:16:17.940 tooth decay,

00:16:18.660 depression,

00:16:19.340 and early death.

00:16:21.140 What?

00:16:22.020 I didn't realize

00:16:22.640 sugar could cause 1.00

00:16:23.560 depression.

00:16:24.640 Did you know that?

00:16:26.280 How many of you

00:16:27.080 knew that sugar

00:16:27.660 causes depression?

00:16:28.500 At least some of you

00:16:30.500 knew.

00:16:30.720 Why is sugar

00:16:34.500 even legal?

00:16:37.400 If this is true,

00:16:40.100 sugar is far

00:16:40.920 more dangerous

00:16:41.500 than any

00:16:42.300 FDA-regulated

00:16:44.200 thing that

00:16:44.700 they've turned

00:16:45.160 down.

00:16:46.840 Don't you think

00:16:47.580 that the FDA

00:16:48.380 has regularly

00:16:49.160 turned down

00:16:49.760 things safer

00:16:50.320 than sugar?

00:16:52.600 Yes.

00:16:53.860 Yes.

00:16:55.000 Yeah,

00:16:55.300 but there's

00:16:55.760 lots of stuff

00:16:56.420 that they've

00:16:57.600 turned down

00:16:58.160 that maybe

00:16:58.940 worked a little

00:16:59.640 bit, but it

00:17:00.980 wasn't as safe

00:17:01.760 as it could

00:17:02.720 have been,

00:17:03.080 so they

00:17:03.420 turned it

00:17:03.760 down.

00:17:04.560 But I bet

00:17:04.960 it was safer

00:17:05.400 than sugar.

00:17:08.260 Somebody says

00:17:08.920 wrong.

00:17:09.380 I might be

00:17:09.780 wrong.

00:17:12.860 The only

00:17:13.480 reason that

00:17:13.980 sugar is

00:17:14.660 legal is

00:17:16.360 that it's

00:17:16.720 been legal

00:17:17.300 forever.

00:17:19.440 If it had

00:17:20.240 not been

00:17:20.660 legal and

00:17:21.260 we were

00:17:21.540 trying to

00:17:22.080 study it

00:17:22.860 to make

00:17:23.220 it legal,

00:17:23.880 we would

00:17:24.520 not make

00:17:24.940 it legal.

00:17:26.020 It would

00:17:26.300 definitely

00:17:26.600 not be

00:17:27.000 legal.

00:17:27.280 So I've

00:17:29.820 been trying

00:17:30.380 as hard

00:17:31.580 as I can

00:17:31.980 to avoid

00:17:32.400 sugar,

00:17:33.080 and I can

00:17:34.100 tell you

00:17:34.480 that you

00:17:34.780 can get

00:17:35.140 to a place

00:17:35.820 where the

00:17:36.940 thought of

00:17:37.380 sugar is

00:17:37.880 gross.

00:17:39.140 Has anybody

00:17:39.780 reached that?

00:17:41.820 It only

00:17:42.460 happens once

00:17:43.060 in a while,

00:17:43.900 but if you

00:17:44.820 stay off sugar

00:17:45.580 long enough,

00:17:47.420 the thought

00:17:47.900 of a sugary

00:17:48.580 treat,

00:17:49.580 even in your

00:17:50.160 brain,

00:17:50.600 is gross.

00:17:52.860 And that

00:17:53.480 doesn't happen

00:17:54.680 with food

00:17:55.120 that's good

00:17:55.540 for you.

00:17:55.960 Have you

00:17:56.200 noticed that?

00:17:57.940 If you

00:17:58.820 don't eat

00:17:59.300 a food

00:17:59.620 that's good

00:18:00.120 for you

00:18:00.600 for a long

00:18:01.600 time,

00:18:02.660 still just

00:18:03.460 as delicious,

00:18:04.740 no difference.

00:18:06.240 In fact,

00:18:06.680 you might

00:18:06.940 like it

00:18:07.280 better.

00:18:08.360 But food

00:18:08.940 that is

00:18:09.840 bad for

00:18:10.420 you,

00:18:11.120 if you

00:18:11.420 stay off

00:18:11.860 it long

00:18:12.160 enough,

00:18:12.440 you can

00:18:13.900 lose the

00:18:14.300 craving.

00:18:16.840 No wonder

00:18:17.520 I'm tired,

00:18:18.080 I don't

00:18:18.280 have enough

00:18:18.620 sugar,

00:18:19.020 you're

00:18:19.180 right.

00:18:22.740 Yeah,

00:18:23.340 bagels are

00:18:24.620 not ideal,

00:18:25.600 so sugar

00:18:26.160 is added

00:18:26.540 to bread.

00:18:28.040 So I

00:18:28.580 might look

00:18:28.960 to cut

00:18:29.460 down on

00:18:29.860 my bagel

00:18:30.340 consumption.

00:18:34.500 Finland has

00:18:35.460 joined NATO.

00:18:37.540 At first,

00:18:38.300 I thought

00:18:38.560 that was

00:18:38.860 no big

00:18:39.240 deal,

00:18:39.580 but apparently

00:18:39.960 Finland has

00:18:40.700 a reasonably

00:18:41.720 strong military,

00:18:42.880 military.

00:18:44.580 And it

00:18:44.760 shows that

00:18:45.220 Putin is

00:18:45.640 losing.

00:18:46.680 Now,

00:18:47.160 let's talk

00:18:47.560 about Ukraine.

00:18:51.560 Either

00:18:52.120 the Ukrainians

00:18:53.840 are getting

00:18:54.340 ready for

00:18:54.840 a big

00:18:55.100 offensive,

00:18:56.120 or they're

00:18:57.620 so beaten

00:18:58.120 down that

00:18:58.580 they can't,

00:18:59.880 or Russia

00:19:01.220 is getting

00:19:01.640 ready for

00:19:02.080 a big

00:19:02.340 offensive,

00:19:03.260 or they're

00:19:04.780 so degraded

00:19:05.540 that they

00:19:05.880 can't,

00:19:06.920 or both

00:19:08.460 of them

00:19:08.800 will just

00:19:09.220 keep fighting

00:19:09.720 each other

00:19:10.220 into a

00:19:11.040 stalemate,

00:19:11.820 or they

00:19:13.180 might negotiate

00:19:13.880 and come

00:19:14.760 to a peace

00:19:15.260 agreement,

00:19:16.400 or,

00:19:17.800 I don't

00:19:18.120 know,

00:19:18.460 basically

00:19:19.020 anything

00:19:19.400 could happen.

00:19:22.060 If I

00:19:22.740 had to

00:19:22.980 guess,

00:19:24.640 we're going

00:19:25.560 to go,

00:19:26.120 I think

00:19:26.660 we'll go

00:19:26.980 the rest

00:19:27.400 of this

00:19:27.700 year with

00:19:29.160 just attacks

00:19:30.340 back and

00:19:30.820 forth,

00:19:32.180 and nobody

00:19:32.740 making a

00:19:33.380 decisive

00:19:33.840 kill shot,

00:19:34.840 and they're

00:19:37.140 just going

00:19:37.520 to have

00:19:37.700 to wear

00:19:38.960 each other

00:19:39.380 out.

00:19:40.600 You know,

00:19:40.820 I don't

00:19:41.100 even think

00:19:41.500 they're even

00:19:41.880 close to

00:19:43.920 grinding one

00:19:44.960 of them

00:19:45.220 down so

00:19:45.820 somebody wants

00:19:46.500 to talk

00:19:46.840 peace yet.

00:19:47.620 Not even

00:19:48.120 close.

00:19:49.200 I think it's

00:19:49.780 just going to

00:19:50.140 go on like

00:19:50.620 this forever,

00:19:51.780 at least for

00:19:52.360 this year.

00:19:54.120 That's my

00:19:54.740 guess.

00:19:56.540 All right.

00:19:57.660 How in the

00:19:58.420 world could

00:19:59.420 it be possible

00:20:00.120 that there's

00:20:01.380 a national

00:20:01.940 headline about

00:20:03.840 the trans

00:20:04.640 community

00:20:05.180 every single

00:20:06.840 day now.

00:20:08.520 So I

00:20:09.360 think I

00:20:09.680 counted

00:20:10.060 one,

00:20:11.580 two,

00:20:12.260 three,

00:20:13.560 four,

00:20:14.780 four headline

00:20:15.660 stories about

00:20:16.420 trans.

00:20:17.660 Two of

00:20:18.400 them had to

00:20:18.820 do with

00:20:19.080 Budweiser

00:20:19.700 and,

00:20:21.340 you know,

00:20:22.300 the sponsorship

00:20:23.000 or not

00:20:23.520 sponsorship,

00:20:24.220 but at

00:20:24.700 least affiliation

00:20:26.080 with Dylan

00:20:27.900 Mulvaney.

00:20:30.680 Some have

00:20:31.560 to do with

00:20:32.200 Jordan

00:20:33.080 Peterson

00:20:33.540 saying stuff

00:20:34.280 on social

00:20:34.720 media.

00:20:37.440 Let's see.

00:20:39.480 Yeah.

00:20:40.200 How many

00:20:40.800 other stories

00:20:41.340 are there?

00:20:41.620 A whole bunch

00:20:41.960 of other

00:20:42.220 stories.

00:20:42.860 And there's

00:20:43.200 a Matt

00:20:43.660 Walsh,

00:20:44.080 yeah,

00:20:44.340 Matt Walsh

00:20:44.960 stories.

00:20:46.760 How in

00:20:47.200 the world

00:20:47.600 could this

00:20:48.120 be such

00:20:48.560 a big

00:20:48.840 thing?

00:20:49.340 All that.

00:20:50.440 But how

00:20:51.580 in the

00:20:51.880 world is

00:20:53.880 it everything?

00:20:54.920 It's just

00:20:55.600 everything now.

00:20:57.700 It's a

00:20:58.320 little crazy.

00:21:00.240 And I

00:21:00.520 wonder,

00:21:00.880 did we

00:21:03.280 always have

00:21:04.060 this many

00:21:04.680 trans and

00:21:06.120 non-binaries

00:21:06.960 and we

00:21:08.060 just didn't

00:21:08.620 know because

00:21:10.100 they were

00:21:10.600 sort of

00:21:11.200 bullied into

00:21:11.780 silence?

00:21:13.200 Or is

00:21:14.080 there something

00:21:14.520 in the

00:21:14.960 food?

00:21:16.500 Is there

00:21:17.160 something in

00:21:17.600 the food or

00:21:18.180 the environment?

00:21:19.760 Is it the

00:21:20.280 sugar?

00:21:21.700 What the

00:21:22.480 hell is it?

00:21:23.260 Is it

00:21:23.700 brainwashing?

00:21:24.480 Certainly

00:21:26.600 what's

00:21:26.980 happening to

00:21:27.460 children is

00:21:28.120 different than

00:21:28.600 what's

00:21:28.880 happening to

00:21:29.340 adults.

00:21:30.680 The

00:21:30.820 children, I

00:21:31.400 think, are

00:21:32.120 just being

00:21:32.560 influenced by

00:21:33.400 things that

00:21:35.180 influence

00:21:35.540 children.

00:21:37.180 Do you

00:21:37.780 think that

00:21:38.180 if somebody

00:21:38.560 still believes

00:21:39.200 in Santa

00:21:39.640 Claus, they

00:21:41.180 should make a

00:21:41.700 decision about

00:21:42.300 removing their

00:21:42.980 genitalia?

00:21:45.160 Probably a

00:21:45.860 little too

00:21:46.120 early.

00:21:46.900 A little

00:21:47.240 too early.

00:21:48.280 Yeah.

00:21:49.540 And what

00:21:50.280 do you think

00:21:50.600 of Jordan

00:21:51.000 Peterson's

00:21:51.800 theory that

00:21:53.300 not all,

00:21:55.360 but most

00:21:56.020 of the

00:21:56.520 child

00:21:57.740 trans

00:21:59.040 situations

00:21:59.720 are because

00:22:00.320 of a

00:22:00.680 devouring

00:22:01.200 mother?

00:22:02.680 That's not

00:22:03.200 even because

00:22:03.680 of the

00:22:03.920 father.

00:22:04.920 That the

00:22:05.320 mother is a

00:22:05.940 narcissist

00:22:06.360 who needs

00:22:07.080 to show

00:22:08.640 off that

00:22:09.180 she's more

00:22:10.860 holy than

00:22:11.460 the rest of

00:22:11.960 you because

00:22:12.400 she's more

00:22:12.840 open-minded,

00:22:13.820 more accepting

00:22:14.720 than you

00:22:15.820 are.

00:22:17.020 To me, it

00:22:17.740 looks like

00:22:18.100 narcissistic

00:22:18.820 mothers.

00:22:19.360 yeah, that's

00:22:23.260 what it

00:22:23.500 looks like.

00:22:26.060 Now, I'm

00:22:26.780 no expert, but

00:22:27.760 that's what it

00:22:28.220 looks like.

00:22:29.500 I mean, if I

00:22:29.960 had to place a

00:22:30.840 million-dollar

00:22:31.980 bet, I would

00:22:33.260 bet that it

00:22:33.700 has more to

00:22:34.180 do with the

00:22:34.560 mothers having

00:22:35.140 some form of

00:22:35.960 mental, I'm

00:22:37.220 not sure if

00:22:37.720 that's called

00:22:38.500 mental illness,

00:22:39.600 narcissism, or

00:22:40.800 is it just a

00:22:41.560 personality trait?

00:22:45.380 I don't know

00:22:46.180 where mental

00:22:47.840 illness begins

00:22:48.600 and personality

00:22:49.300 trait, and

00:22:50.560 so on.

00:22:52.800 All right.

00:22:53.620 Yeah, it

00:22:54.060 just looks like

00:22:54.520 mental illness.

00:22:55.580 And maybe we

00:22:57.100 should, you

00:22:57.760 know, extend

00:22:58.260 LGBTQ, add

00:23:02.100 an M for 0.96

00:23:02.640 mental illness.

00:23:03.860 Because for

00:23:04.540 some reason,

00:23:05.820 the LGBTQ

00:23:06.860 community seems

00:23:09.840 to be open to

00:23:10.920 people who

00:23:11.920 have clearly

00:23:12.800 mental illness

00:23:13.700 being associated

00:23:15.840 with the group

00:23:16.420 in some way.

00:23:17.420 and, you

00:23:20.440 know, obviously

00:23:21.040 the majority

00:23:21.640 of them do

00:23:22.120 not have

00:23:22.480 mental illness.

00:23:23.980 But certainly

00:23:26.080 the trans

00:23:26.620 community, I

00:23:27.380 worry about

00:23:27.820 the mother,

00:23:29.760 more so than

00:23:30.780 even the

00:23:31.680 children.

00:23:32.160 I worry that

00:23:32.700 the mother has

00:23:33.260 the mental

00:23:33.620 illness and the

00:23:34.840 children are the

00:23:35.560 victims of that.

00:23:37.140 it's amazing

00:23:41.260 to me that

00:23:43.180 the White

00:23:44.460 House

00:23:44.700 spokesperson,

00:23:45.940 John,

00:23:47.280 Corrine,

00:23:48.640 Corrine

00:23:49.580 John-Pierre,

00:23:51.120 said that

00:23:51.820 that's a

00:23:52.180 decision between

00:23:53.520 the child

00:23:54.300 and the

00:23:55.460 parent, and

00:23:56.400 the government

00:23:56.880 would stay

00:23:57.400 out of it.

00:23:58.600 To which I

00:23:59.460 say,

00:24:00.820 that's

00:24:02.640 interesting.

00:24:04.060 Nothing else

00:24:04.760 would fit that

00:24:05.400 model.

00:24:06.680 If the parents

00:24:07.360 wanted to

00:24:07.860 sexually abuse

00:24:08.740 their kid,

00:24:10.160 would the

00:24:10.860 government say,

00:24:13.020 oh, that's

00:24:13.400 not our

00:24:13.780 business?

00:24:14.620 If the

00:24:15.420 parents wanted

00:24:16.280 to withhold

00:24:18.320 medical treatment

00:24:19.420 to a child

00:24:20.040 because they

00:24:20.380 had a religious

00:24:20.900 view, would the

00:24:22.740 government get

00:24:23.300 involved?

00:24:24.460 I believe they

00:24:25.240 have.

00:24:26.320 Correct me if I'm

00:24:27.080 wrong, but I

00:24:27.540 believe they have.

00:24:28.180 why would this

00:24:30.540 be the one

00:24:31.580 exception?

00:24:33.580 Well, obviously,

00:24:34.760 it's the one

00:24:35.860 exception because

00:24:36.660 it's the LGBTQ

00:24:37.760 category.

00:24:41.220 And why the

00:24:42.180 trans are in 1.00

00:24:43.520 the same category

00:24:44.260 as the others,

00:24:46.040 I don't know.

00:24:47.560 I mean, it's

00:24:48.960 sort of an odd

00:24:49.840 grouping of

00:24:50.600 people, somewhat

00:24:52.080 random, I think.

00:24:52.920 I mean, obviously

00:24:56.220 they have, let's

00:24:58.100 say, non-majority

00:24:59.780 sexual or gender

00:25:03.220 stuff, but I

00:25:04.340 just don't see

00:25:04.920 throwing them all

00:25:05.740 in the same

00:25:06.080 group.

00:25:06.400 It doesn't make

00:25:06.780 sense to me.

00:25:09.660 Yeah.

00:25:13.820 It's jealous

00:25:14.520 women who want 0.94

00:25:15.160 status, you

00:25:15.940 think?

00:25:16.360 Yeah, that's

00:25:16.820 what it looks

00:25:17.120 like.

00:25:19.400 All right, well,

00:25:20.140 Kansas has

00:25:21.460 passed a law

00:25:23.440 to ban

00:25:24.200 trans athletes

00:25:26.680 in women's

00:25:27.400 sports.

00:25:30.900 So, what

00:25:31.620 do you think

00:25:31.900 of that?

00:25:32.460 Is that the

00:25:33.000 first state to

00:25:33.680 do it?

00:25:35.320 I think it's

00:25:36.420 the first one,

00:25:37.200 right?

00:25:38.480 But I would

00:25:39.080 imagine there

00:25:39.700 would be more,

00:25:40.660 but only places

00:25:41.580 where there are

00:25:42.160 solid.

00:25:42.880 You'd have to

00:25:43.340 have a super

00:25:43.820 majority of

00:25:44.520 Republicans.

00:25:45.760 There's only a

00:25:46.320 few places

00:25:46.820 with that.

00:25:50.080 Yeah.

00:25:50.520 Well, we'll

00:25:52.460 see if that

00:25:52.940 holds.

00:25:54.860 I still like

00:25:55.720 the idea of

00:25:59.700 having an open

00:26:00.460 category of

00:26:01.320 sports where

00:26:01.800 anybody can

00:26:02.380 play, so you

00:26:03.560 don't have to

00:26:03.940 worry about

00:26:04.460 gender.

00:26:05.180 Just, okay,

00:26:05.600 there's one

00:26:05.960 category.

00:26:07.020 You can still

00:26:07.480 have men's,

00:26:08.020 you can still

00:26:08.420 have women's,

00:26:10.000 but how about

00:26:10.380 a third one

00:26:11.080 where you can

00:26:11.760 be anybody?

00:26:13.100 Yeah, co-ed.

00:26:14.440 Co-ed sports.

00:26:15.460 I'm all for it.

00:26:17.740 By the way,

00:26:18.400 I've played a

00:26:19.180 lot of co-ed

00:26:19.800 sports, and

00:26:21.200 co-ed sports

00:26:21.860 are great,

00:26:22.820 because I

00:26:23.260 played tons

00:26:23.860 of mixed

00:26:25.180 doubles in

00:26:27.520 tennis.

00:26:28.200 Mixed doubles

00:26:28.800 is a lot of

00:26:29.320 fun.

00:26:30.320 And soccer,

00:26:32.240 if you're

00:26:32.620 playing with

00:26:33.160 people who

00:26:34.920 are good at

00:26:35.360 soccer,

00:26:36.720 it's a lot

00:26:38.460 of fun to

00:26:38.840 play with

00:26:39.280 that mixed 0.98

00:26:39.660 group.

00:26:40.600 All right,

00:26:41.840 two circuit

00:26:42.480 court judges

00:26:43.380 say that they

00:26:44.060 won't hire 0.81

00:26:44.540 clerks.

00:26:45.900 Clerks. 1.00

00:26:46.960 Oh, my God.

00:26:47.940 I'm so tired.

00:26:50.060 I think I'm

00:26:50.620 just going to

00:26:51.120 fall asleep

00:26:51.920 as soon as I

00:26:52.460 turn this

00:26:52.840 off.

00:26:55.160 Two circuit

00:26:56.040 court judges

00:26:56.680 said they

00:26:57.120 won't hire 0.81

00:26:57.660 clerks who

00:26:59.340 come out of

00:26:59.880 the Stanford

00:27:00.360 Law School.

00:27:02.400 Just think

00:27:03.140 about that.

00:27:04.480 They won't

00:27:04.940 hire any

00:27:05.740 clerk who

00:27:07.040 comes out of

00:27:07.560 Stanford Law

00:27:08.280 School,

00:27:09.280 because the

00:27:09.980 Stanford Law

00:27:10.500 School allowed

00:27:11.460 so much

00:27:12.360 intolerance to

00:27:14.240 the conservative

00:27:15.720 judge who was

00:27:16.380 speaking there.

00:27:18.600 That's pretty

00:27:19.460 extreme.

00:27:22.580 Now, how

00:27:24.260 many companies

00:27:25.540 do you think

00:27:26.040 will stop

00:27:26.600 hiring the

00:27:27.340 woke and

00:27:28.020 the people

00:27:28.360 with pronouns?

00:27:30.540 Privately,

00:27:31.320 I'm not going

00:27:32.140 to tell you the

00:27:32.620 stories I hear,

00:27:33.720 but privately,

00:27:35.060 I hear of

00:27:35.940 fairly massive

00:27:36.920 discrimination

00:27:37.720 against the

00:27:39.160 pronoun people.

00:27:40.840 People who

00:27:41.520 have turned

00:27:41.900 down jobs

00:27:42.620 because of

00:27:43.120 pronouns,

00:27:44.160 said, no,

00:27:44.660 I don't want

00:27:44.960 to work for

00:27:45.340 your pronoun

00:27:45.800 company.

00:27:46.940 People who

00:27:47.500 have turned

00:27:47.840 down offers,

00:27:50.360 let's say

00:27:50.740 salespeople,

00:27:52.300 and the

00:27:52.600 salesperson

00:27:53.240 makes an

00:27:53.980 offer and

00:27:54.420 you see that

00:27:54.880 they've got

00:27:55.220 pronouns,

00:27:55.800 you're like,

00:27:56.160 no thanks,

00:27:57.840 don't want to

00:27:58.240 hear your

00:27:58.560 offer.

00:28:00.180 I think this

00:28:01.280 is going to

00:28:01.600 be a growing

00:28:02.240 thing,

00:28:03.820 because,

00:28:04.680 you know,

00:28:06.980 being around

00:28:08.020 the woke

00:28:11.440 is dangerous.

00:28:14.200 apparently,

00:28:14.620 one of the

00:28:15.320 complaints about

00:28:16.380 Don Lemon

00:28:16.960 is that he's

00:28:18.600 litigious.

00:28:20.460 Now,

00:28:20.660 there's a

00:28:21.060 story of

00:28:21.480 two lawsuits,

00:28:23.300 but I think

00:28:23.760 there's only

00:28:24.140 one on record,

00:28:25.760 but Don Lemon

00:28:26.700 has sued

00:28:27.440 somebody.

00:28:28.720 Would you

00:28:29.380 want to hire

00:28:29.960 somebody who

00:28:30.540 would ever

00:28:30.960 sue anybody?

00:28:33.680 That's a big

00:28:34.420 flag.

00:28:35.400 If you've

00:28:36.120 ever sued

00:28:36.820 anybody,

00:28:37.480 you better

00:28:39.020 have a

00:28:39.420 really good

00:28:39.920 reason,

00:28:40.880 or you're

00:28:41.300 not going

00:28:41.580 to get a

00:28:42.540 job with

00:28:42.900 me.

00:28:44.320 As soon

00:28:45.040 as I hear

00:28:45.420 you've sued

00:28:45.900 anybody,

00:28:46.980 every red

00:28:47.860 flag comes

00:28:48.460 up.

00:28:49.360 Okay,

00:28:50.520 I'm willing

00:28:51.260 to listen

00:28:51.820 to your

00:28:52.260 reason,

00:28:54.000 I'm willing

00:28:54.660 to accept

00:28:55.280 that you

00:28:55.580 have a

00:28:55.940 reason,

00:28:57.280 but it

00:28:57.920 better be

00:28:58.460 so good,

00:29:00.220 so,

00:29:00.880 so good

00:29:01.480 that there's

00:29:02.080 just no

00:29:02.700 question you

00:29:03.940 should have

00:29:04.440 sued that

00:29:04.840 person.

00:29:05.820 Other than

00:29:06.320 that,

00:29:06.560 I don't want

00:29:06.940 a lawsuit

00:29:07.420 person working

00:29:08.580 for me.

00:29:09.500 I don't

00:29:09.940 even want

00:29:10.240 to spend

00:29:10.500 time with

00:29:10.980 them.

00:29:11.220 I don't

00:29:11.440 want to

00:29:11.660 work with

00:29:12.080 them.

00:29:12.300 I don't

00:29:12.480 want to

00:29:12.800 be around

00:29:13.800 them.

00:29:14.420 I don't

00:29:14.640 want to

00:29:14.800 be in

00:29:14.960 the same

00:29:15.260 room.

00:29:16.140 It's just

00:29:16.480 dangerous.

00:29:19.720 So,

00:29:20.320 don't hire

00:29:20.680 the woke.

00:29:21.460 They're

00:29:21.620 dangerous.

00:29:23.880 Well,

00:29:24.340 what do you

00:29:24.580 think of

00:29:24.820 this idea

00:29:25.320 that the

00:29:25.580 central banks

00:29:26.320 in the

00:29:27.020 U.S.

00:29:28.860 are going

00:29:29.840 to announce

00:29:30.360 or apparently

00:29:31.380 they're going

00:29:31.700 to have a

00:29:32.040 digital currency

00:29:32.920 so that banks

00:29:34.760 can communicate

00:29:35.400 with each

00:29:35.860 other,

00:29:36.180 or at least

00:29:36.540 the central

00:29:36.960 banks.

00:29:39.480 And there's

00:29:41.240 a worry that

00:29:42.600 this is just

00:29:43.340 slipping a

00:29:44.320 digital currency

00:29:45.280 into the mix

00:29:46.200 so that your

00:29:47.580 government will

00:29:48.300 eventually get

00:29:48.940 rid of cash

00:29:49.720 and it'll get

00:29:53.080 you used to

00:29:53.580 these digital

00:29:54.160 currencies and

00:29:55.100 we'll test them

00:29:56.660 out and the

00:29:57.160 next thing you

00:29:57.640 know your cash

00:29:58.340 will go away

00:29:58.940 and then the

00:30:00.060 government will

00:30:00.640 be able to

00:30:01.100 not only spy

00:30:02.900 on every

00:30:03.640 transaction you

00:30:04.540 do but they

00:30:06.580 would also

00:30:07.260 be able to

00:30:08.140 turn them

00:30:08.600 off.

00:30:09.900 So in other

00:30:10.260 words, if you

00:30:10.700 don't do what

00:30:11.140 the government

00:30:11.460 wants, don't

00:30:12.400 wear a mask,

00:30:13.360 don't want to

00:30:14.040 do something,

00:30:14.600 don't want to

00:30:14.960 get a vaccination,

00:30:16.200 they could just

00:30:16.820 turn off your

00:30:17.720 money.

00:30:19.900 Now, I would

00:30:20.640 argue they could

00:30:21.280 have done that

00:30:21.820 already.

00:30:22.240 I mean, if

00:30:23.760 they have any

00:30:24.440 legal way to

00:30:25.120 turn off your

00:30:25.620 money, they

00:30:26.700 can do it

00:30:27.100 now.

00:30:28.620 Just go to

00:30:29.260 the court, say

00:30:30.000 I have a legal

00:30:30.540 reason to do

00:30:31.120 it, I can

00:30:32.040 just turn off

00:30:32.600 your money.

00:30:34.940 But if it's

00:30:36.240 easier, just a

00:30:38.680 little bit easier,

00:30:39.480 you'd think there

00:30:40.040 would be more

00:30:40.440 of it.

00:30:41.300 So certainly

00:30:42.180 digital currency

00:30:43.060 would be a

00:30:43.660 risk.

00:30:47.020 Here's my

00:30:47.640 question.

00:30:48.540 If we had a

00:30:49.440 digital currency,

00:30:50.360 would there

00:30:52.120 not be

00:30:52.800 quickly a

00:30:54.160 money laundering

00:30:55.100 scheme that

00:30:55.780 would come

00:30:58.280 up around it?

00:31:00.540 Now, even

00:31:01.500 though the

00:31:01.900 digital currency

00:31:02.720 would be

00:31:03.180 completely

00:31:03.600 trackable,

00:31:05.080 would I not

00:31:05.800 be able to

00:31:06.280 buy goods and

00:31:06.960 service with

00:31:07.560 it?

00:31:08.660 And if I can

00:31:09.260 take that

00:31:09.660 digital currency

00:31:10.500 and buy goods

00:31:11.280 and service,

00:31:12.560 and then I

00:31:13.000 can take those

00:31:13.920 goods and

00:31:14.340 services on a

00:31:15.180 truck and

00:31:16.280 deliver them to

00:31:16.920 somebody else

00:31:17.680 who pays me

00:31:19.120 some new

00:31:19.900 digital currency,

00:31:20.360 have I not

00:31:22.640 laundered it?

00:31:25.320 I mean, I

00:31:25.780 get that that's

00:31:26.300 a terrible

00:31:26.660 example.

00:31:27.520 But is there

00:31:28.380 no way to

00:31:28.920 launder a

00:31:29.560 digital currency?

00:31:30.680 I would think

00:31:31.540 that you

00:31:31.840 could.

00:31:34.120 Not really?

00:31:35.680 Well, the

00:31:36.560 digital currency

00:31:37.260 will show

00:31:37.760 everything you

00:31:38.380 buy and sell,

00:31:40.380 but once it

00:31:41.920 goes into the

00:31:42.580 physical world,

00:31:44.260 let's say I

00:31:45.000 buy a bar of

00:31:45.960 gold, then I

00:31:47.860 can take that

00:31:48.380 somewhere and

00:31:48.900 sell it again.

00:31:49.440 So what's

00:31:50.280 what gets

00:31:50.960 invisible is

00:31:52.380 what happens

00:31:52.860 when I've got

00:31:53.380 the bar of

00:31:53.840 gold that

00:31:54.900 would be

00:31:55.160 invisible to

00:31:55.840 the system.

00:31:57.460 So it

00:31:58.500 does seem

00:31:59.060 to me that

00:32:02.040 somebody could

00:32:02.640 come up with

00:32:03.220 a shadow

00:32:04.220 currency that

00:32:07.860 you could

00:32:08.240 possibly buy

00:32:09.200 with your

00:32:09.660 legal currency,

00:32:11.120 do some

00:32:11.580 illegal stuff,

00:32:12.920 and then

00:32:13.520 translate it

00:32:14.800 back into

00:32:15.220 legal currency.

00:32:15.940 you can't

00:32:19.820 buy gold

00:32:20.400 with food

00:32:20.980 tokens.

00:32:22.240 What?

00:32:23.980 NFTs.

00:32:25.780 NFTs, but

00:32:26.840 NFTs are

00:32:27.640 trackable.

00:32:29.380 Ammo.

00:32:30.440 Yeah, we'll

00:32:31.120 be using

00:32:31.540 ammo as

00:32:32.300 ammunition as

00:32:33.960 currency.

00:32:35.720 I don't know.

00:32:37.240 So the

00:32:37.940 question is

00:32:38.480 this.

00:32:39.000 Is there a

00:32:40.040 technical work

00:32:40.840 around where

00:32:41.980 you could have

00:32:42.460 privacy at the

00:32:44.160 same time?

00:32:45.440 Oh, if

00:32:48.900 they get rid

00:32:49.400 of your

00:32:49.680 VPNs with

00:32:50.620 this fake

00:32:51.100 TikTok law,

00:32:53.160 and then

00:32:53.520 they make

00:32:53.940 your money

00:32:55.340 all visible,

00:32:57.900 then they've

00:32:58.280 got everything,

00:32:58.960 don't they?

00:32:59.580 At that point,

00:33:00.420 they have

00:33:00.740 everything.

00:33:01.340 Because you

00:33:01.640 wouldn't even

00:33:01.980 be able to

00:33:02.520 launder your

00:33:03.200 money if you

00:33:03.640 didn't have a

00:33:04.080 VPN, because

00:33:05.880 they could find

00:33:06.360 out how you

00:33:06.980 were communicating

00:33:07.560 with people,

00:33:08.260 et cetera.

00:33:09.960 So, that's

00:33:11.520 interesting.

00:33:11.960 And I

00:33:14.600 don't know if

00:33:14.960 you could

00:33:15.220 barter it

00:33:15.740 off.

00:33:16.560 But let me

00:33:17.460 give you a

00:33:17.860 little context.

00:33:19.080 Right now,

00:33:19.900 the concern,

00:33:20.980 and even RFK

00:33:21.900 Jr. said

00:33:22.480 this, one of

00:33:23.480 the concerns

00:33:24.000 is the

00:33:25.920 government would

00:33:26.600 know what

00:33:27.800 you're doing

00:33:28.240 because cash

00:33:29.140 is the only

00:33:29.660 way you can

00:33:30.100 do things

00:33:30.560 without them

00:33:31.320 seeing.

00:33:32.580 But cash

00:33:34.500 as a way to

00:33:35.300 get away with

00:33:35.860 stuff is

00:33:36.960 shrinking.

00:33:38.460 Because the

00:33:39.240 most cash you

00:33:40.060 can move

00:33:40.480 without asking

00:33:41.220 questions or

00:33:42.060 without the

00:33:42.500 government and

00:33:43.060 the banks

00:33:43.400 asking questions

00:33:44.240 is $10,000.

00:33:47.460 But $10,000

00:33:49.380 used to be

00:33:50.040 a lot of

00:33:50.380 money, and

00:33:51.820 now it's

00:33:52.160 not, because

00:33:53.460 inflation has

00:33:54.240 made $10,000

00:33:55.000 worth $3,000,

00:33:56.800 compared to

00:33:57.520 when it first

00:33:58.140 was that

00:33:58.560 limit.

00:33:59.760 So now you

00:34:00.380 have basically

00:34:01.440 a shrinking

00:34:03.940 little window

00:34:06.160 of cash

00:34:07.120 that you

00:34:08.620 could do

00:34:09.060 illegal stuff

00:34:09.920 with, or

00:34:10.680 at least

00:34:11.100 private

00:34:11.480 things

00:34:11.820 with.

00:34:14.580 I don't

00:34:15.240 know.

00:34:15.980 I feel

00:34:16.620 like it's

00:34:17.060 not that

00:34:17.660 much of a

00:34:18.160 difference.

00:34:19.760 The only

00:34:20.440 thing it's

00:34:20.800 going to

00:34:21.020 do is

00:34:21.440 keep drug

00:34:22.420 dealers in

00:34:23.000 business.

00:34:24.440 Because how

00:34:25.180 much cash

00:34:26.020 transactions do

00:34:26.960 you do except

00:34:28.240 for illegal

00:34:28.960 things?

00:34:30.500 When was

00:34:30.960 the last

00:34:31.200 time you

00:34:31.520 spent a lot

00:34:32.000 of cash on

00:34:33.240 something that

00:34:33.760 wasn't literally

00:34:34.620 illegal?

00:34:35.080 you bought a

00:34:39.960 car with

00:34:40.400 cash?

00:34:44.860 Yeah.

00:34:45.660 Vehicles?

00:34:47.140 Guns?

00:34:48.840 Yeah, I guess

00:34:49.380 you could buy a

00:34:50.680 gun with cash.

00:34:51.420 That would make

00:34:51.800 sense.

00:34:55.040 Locals.

00:34:55.440 All right.

00:35:00.200 All right.

00:35:00.540 Well, some of

00:35:01.100 you do use

00:35:01.580 cash.

00:35:02.760 I haven't used

00:35:03.580 cash in a

00:35:04.080 long time.

00:35:07.000 I can't

00:35:07.700 remember the

00:35:08.100 last time I

00:35:08.580 paid for

00:35:08.920 anything in

00:35:09.540 cash.

00:35:13.360 All right.

00:35:14.380 Even cannabis

00:35:15.360 is electronic

00:35:17.560 payment.

00:35:18.980 Yeah, in

00:35:19.400 California, you

00:35:20.420 can just use

00:35:21.120 electronic payment

00:35:21.880 for your

00:35:22.280 weed.

00:35:22.520 All right.

00:35:29.400 Dispensaries

00:35:29.840 can't take

00:35:30.380 anything other

00:35:30.860 than the

00:35:31.100 cash.

00:35:32.120 Well, I

00:35:32.600 guess it

00:35:32.900 depends.

00:35:36.620 All right.

00:35:37.360 All right.

00:35:37.760 Just looking at

00:35:38.220 your comments

00:35:38.680 for a moment.

00:35:39.580 Yeah, I

00:35:39.960 would not be

00:35:40.640 delighted with

00:35:41.480 this, but

00:35:41.800 here's the

00:35:42.180 problem.

00:35:43.220 If we ever

00:35:44.060 have digital

00:35:44.780 currency in

00:35:45.860 this country,

00:35:47.420 something like

00:35:49.420 a third of

00:35:50.660 the public

00:35:51.400 would be

00:35:51.920 plunged in

00:35:52.500 to bankruptcy

00:35:54.800 and poverty.

00:35:56.560 Do you

00:35:56.820 know why?

00:35:57.760 Why would

00:35:58.340 a third of

00:35:58.920 the country

00:35:59.340 be plunged

00:36:00.080 into poverty

00:36:01.020 and bankruptcy

00:36:01.920 the minute

00:36:03.100 we had

00:36:04.520 digital currency

00:36:05.340 and only

00:36:06.500 digital currency?

00:36:08.120 Right?

00:36:08.460 Because that's

00:36:09.100 how many people

00:36:09.660 cheat on their

00:36:10.240 taxes.

00:36:11.500 It's about a 0.56

00:36:12.300 third.

00:36:13.540 Probably, you

00:36:14.320 know, the

00:36:14.580 vast majority

00:36:15.440 of small

00:36:15.840 businesses are

00:36:16.560 cheating on

00:36:16.980 the taxes

00:36:17.380 one way or

00:36:17.900 another.

00:36:18.720 So, if you

00:36:20.280 took away the

00:36:21.540 benefit a

00:36:22.240 small entity

00:36:23.100 gets from

00:36:23.560 cheating on

00:36:24.060 their taxes,

00:36:25.000 you take away

00:36:25.760 the benefit,

00:36:26.580 let's say,

00:36:26.880 a server would

00:36:27.680 get, I

00:36:29.540 don't know if

00:36:31.180 they would be

00:36:31.660 above the

00:36:32.160 poverty level.

00:36:33.800 You would

00:36:34.280 make most of

00:36:35.260 the country

00:36:35.660 poor immediately

00:36:36.580 by making

00:36:37.140 them pay taxes.

00:36:38.880 The people who

00:36:40.040 reliably pay taxes

00:36:41.380 are the ones

00:36:41.900 who have a

00:36:42.260 salary.

00:36:43.620 People who

00:36:44.040 don't have a

00:36:44.500 salary are

00:36:45.120 playing a little

00:36:46.460 fast and loose.

00:36:47.160 So, I

00:36:48.180 don't think

00:36:48.580 the country

00:36:49.220 could survive

00:36:52.640 everybody going

00:36:55.020 legit at the

00:36:55.900 same time.

00:36:57.540 Because if

00:36:58.140 everybody goes

00:36:58.660 legit, they're

00:36:59.380 also going to

00:36:59.860 go poor at

00:37:00.420 the same time.

00:37:01.240 I don't know

00:37:01.560 if we could

00:37:01.860 afford it.

00:37:07.680 Really?

00:37:11.240 Get your tax

00:37:12.140 refunds and

00:37:12.800 carbon credits.

00:37:14.500 Oh, that's

00:37:14.960 interesting.

00:37:15.300 Is a carbon

00:37:17.240 credit going

00:37:17.880 to be like

00:37:18.300 cash?

00:37:19.340 I could buy

00:37:19.880 a carbon

00:37:20.300 credit and

00:37:20.920 then launder

00:37:22.340 my money

00:37:22.980 through carbon

00:37:23.520 credits?

00:37:24.760 There's going

00:37:25.080 to be all

00:37:25.400 kinds of ways

00:37:25.940 to launder

00:37:26.380 money.

00:37:27.060 It's going

00:37:27.340 to be insane.

00:37:29.320 All right.

00:37:33.260 And that,

00:37:34.180 ladies and 0.98

00:37:34.440 gentlemen, is

00:37:35.660 the worst

00:37:36.000 live stream

00:37:36.500 you've ever

00:37:36.880 seen.

00:37:37.420 It's not

00:37:37.980 entirely my

00:37:38.680 fault.

00:37:39.500 There's no

00:37:39.920 good news

00:37:40.400 today.

00:37:41.260 We need

00:37:41.920 Trump to do

00:37:42.480 something outrageous

00:37:43.200 or,

00:37:44.860 maybe 10

00:37:46.340 stories about

00:37:47.060 trans would 0.86

00:37:47.560 be enough.

00:37:48.600 We only

00:37:49.120 had five

00:37:49.740 stories about

00:37:50.460 trans today.

00:37:51.940 I think five

00:37:53.180 is not enough.

00:37:55.300 A good 10

00:37:56.200 to 20 would

00:37:56.900 be about the

00:37:57.400 right number

00:37:57.840 and then we

00:37:58.540 got something.

00:38:02.820 The live stream

00:38:03.680 was dark.

00:38:06.260 All right.

00:38:06.960 If you were a

00:38:07.600 member of the

00:38:08.300 locals group,

00:38:10.460 you would have

00:38:11.160 seen my cooking

00:38:11.980 class last night.

00:38:12.960 You would

00:38:13.340 see Robots

00:38:13.960 Read News,

00:38:14.600 my side

00:38:15.000 comic.

00:38:15.800 You would

00:38:16.120 have seen

00:38:16.340 the new

00:38:16.840 Dilbert Reborn

00:38:17.900 comics,

00:38:18.920 which are

00:38:19.760 edgier,

00:38:21.020 especially the

00:38:21.720 coming week.

00:38:23.240 The next

00:38:24.000 week or two

00:38:25.660 of Dilbert

00:38:28.120 Reborn is

00:38:29.240 all stuff that

00:38:30.080 would not have

00:38:30.540 been in the

00:38:31.040 newspaper.

00:38:32.580 Pretty much

00:38:33.020 all of it.

00:38:34.320 All right.

00:38:34.740 That's all for

00:38:35.160 now and I

00:38:35.900 will talk to

00:38:36.340 you on

00:38:37.060 YouTube

00:38:38.140 tomorrow.

00:38:39.120 Cool.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 06, 2023

Episode 2070 Scott Adams： Justice Thomas & Billionaire Gifts, RFK Jr. 2024, Not Hiring Woke, NPR Too

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