Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2075 Scott Adams： Twitter Becomes X, Incels Go Wild, China Evidently Owns Biden Admin

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00:00:59.380 Oh, yeah.

00:01:03.100 Ah, the Wizard of Oz.

00:01:04.700 Oh, I get it, Craig.

00:01:05.980 Nice.

00:01:07.660 Craig on YouTube just called me the Wizard of Oz.

00:01:12.640 Ah, very good.

00:01:16.740 The Wizard of Oz.

00:01:18.680 All right, I give you credit for that one.

00:01:20.220 Well, let's jump into the amazing, amazing content of this show.

00:01:27.700 Where do we begin?

00:01:29.720 How about this is the category I call nothing is safe.

00:01:35.300 Nothing is safe.

00:01:36.380 The FBI has warned that if you use a public charging station at an airport, for example, that there's something called juice jacking, where bad actors can put malware on the cables and grab your passwords from your phone.

00:01:53.600 Can you believe that?

00:01:56.320 You can't even charge your phone on a public charging station without them trying to steal your data.

00:02:04.880 Ah, that's dirty juice.

00:02:07.560 Yeah, that's dirty juice.

00:02:08.480 So, that's just in the category of everything you think is safe is probably not.

00:02:15.200 CNN is reporting on Elon Musk's antics.

00:02:19.480 Apparently, Elon Musk is up to some antics.

00:02:25.880 What kind of antics, you ask?

00:02:27.700 Well, there was the time he changed the Twitter flag on the building.

00:02:34.100 This was all just this week.

00:02:36.740 He changed the Twitter flag from Twitter to Titter.

00:02:40.740 Got rid of the W.

00:02:42.320 San Francisco said he'd got to put that W back.

00:02:45.340 So, he put it back in very light letters, so it still said Titter, but you could tell it was Twitter.

00:02:50.300 Then he changed his name.

00:02:51.820 He changed his username on Twitter to Harry Balls.

00:02:56.860 Harry Balls, B-O-L-Z.

00:03:01.300 Then he made some off-color sophomoric jokes on Twitter.

00:03:07.400 And what else?

00:03:08.540 He had more antics.

00:03:11.280 Oh, he changed...

00:03:13.540 It was that the BBC and NPR are now called state-funded entities.

00:03:20.000 They used to be state-affiliated media.

00:03:24.860 But now they're just state-funded.

00:03:26.580 So, he's making a distinction between affiliated, which kind of means you have to do what they say, versus funded, where NPR and BBC probably have some independence.

00:03:39.340 You know, virtual independence.

00:03:43.560 So, that's part of his antics.

00:03:46.460 Let's see what else is in his antics.

00:03:49.040 He also recently said that the S and ESG stands for satanic.

00:03:53.080 And, of course, he also said some things about Soros.

00:04:03.540 He thought that what was driving Soros, this was in response to something I was saying about Soros on Twitter.

00:04:09.640 And Elon said he thought that the Soros' were driven by pseudo-intellectual ivory tower ideas.

00:04:19.880 In other words, ideas that sounded good, but maybe they don't work out in the real world.

00:04:26.460 So, all of that happened.

00:04:30.620 And then Elon Musk drives all of those headlines out by changing the name of Twitter to X.

00:04:37.640 Did you know that happened today?

00:04:39.640 There's no more Twitter.

00:04:41.860 Twitter doesn't exist.

00:04:44.280 The company is called X now.

00:04:46.680 Now, X, now, I don't know if the branding and stuff on the site itself will change right away.

00:04:52.500 That could be why he was changing the bird to a dog.

00:04:56.320 You all saw that the Twitter bird was turning into a dog there for a while.

00:05:01.640 Probably just testing the water a little bit.

00:05:04.180 But it appears that all of the complaints about Musk's antics, and, by the way, the best part about this story that I just read from CNN is that none of the antics involved me.

00:05:19.420 Did anybody notice the lack of me in this story?

00:05:24.140 I know it's unusual.

00:05:25.640 I'm usually in all of my stories.

00:05:26.940 But this time, it had nothing to do with him supporting my racist rants, as the news likes to misreport.

00:05:34.200 So, apparently, the Overton window has pushed me out of the headline, out of that story.

00:05:41.200 So, the good news is that Musk had so many antics that the one antic that they've been talking about for two weeks, which is me, that they got rid of that antic.

00:05:53.720 They had enough antics now.

00:05:55.600 Plenty of antics.

00:05:56.500 We don't need to add one.

00:05:58.600 So, that's good for me.

00:06:01.660 But X is the company that Musk has long talked about that would do more than Twitter.

00:06:06.700 In other words, it would take payments, for example, allow you to give and take payments.

00:06:15.740 Maybe, I assume it's going to allow you to commercialize your work.

00:06:20.040 I assume it's going to compete with locals and Rumble and everybody else.

00:06:25.380 Because it doesn't make sense that they wouldn't compete with the TikToks and the Instagram reels.

00:06:31.680 Because reels are the most important, like, you know, the catchiest thing in social media.

00:06:36.700 So, I would assume you'd have more videos.

00:06:39.140 I would assume someday you'll be able to tip and pay creators and it will be a better creator place, I would imagine.

00:06:49.020 In the short run, I was a little concerned this morning, but I don't know.

00:06:54.680 This is an unconfirmed rumor, okay?

00:06:56.920 Every morning, I tweet the link to this live stream.

00:07:04.920 And this morning, Twitter wouldn't let me tweet it.

00:07:08.660 Now, it gave me an error before it successfully posted it.

00:07:13.440 But twice, it gave me an error when I tried to include a link, which I do every day.

00:07:20.220 And when I tried it without the link, it went through without the error.

00:07:24.300 So, somebody said that you have to pay for those links now, but I don't think that's true.

00:07:30.260 I haven't seen that.

00:07:30.980 So, I'm only putting that out there as a possible thing that might be changing.

00:07:38.120 Because we know that Twitter is suppressing links to competing services, such as Substack.

00:07:46.040 That's why Matt Taiby was abandoning Twitter, apparently.

00:07:49.660 So, it could be that Twitter is going to war with the other sites, which would be interesting.

00:08:02.080 But it would be hard to navigate for people like me.

00:08:04.600 I'll have to stay on my toes.

00:08:07.740 All right, well, here's a story that's a sign of the times.

00:08:12.060 CNN headline, it says,

00:08:14.620 Losing weight might be bad for older people.

00:08:19.660 What do you think of that headline?

00:08:21.960 Headline on CNN,

00:08:24.160 Losing weight might be bad for older people.

00:08:29.000 Do you catch the word bad, might there?

00:08:31.700 Might?

00:08:32.880 Do you know what the other possibility is?

00:08:37.720 There's a correlation between losing weight and dying.

00:08:43.180 So, do you know what the other correlation, causation might be?

00:08:47.440 That people who are dying lose weight?

00:08:49.660 Or is it that losing weight makes you die?

00:08:54.600 What do you think is more obviously true?

00:08:57.560 That dying makes you lose weight?

00:09:02.140 Or that losing weight and going from obese to a healthy weight is likely to kill you?

00:09:09.160 Which of those two things do you think is more likely?

00:09:13.760 Now, the study, of course, considered this possibility.

00:09:18.060 So, they removed from their data people who had been hospitalized.

00:09:22.520 Now, that seems fair.

00:09:23.980 Because if you're hospitalized, you often lose weight before you die.

00:09:26.840 But what about the people who were never hospitalized?

00:09:30.760 What about the people who were just losing weight and they didn't know why?

00:09:35.580 Or, how about people who were hospitalized and then were released into hospice?

00:09:41.140 Are people in hospice counted?

00:09:42.820 Because they're still losing weight.

00:09:47.380 I just assumed the data's bad.

00:09:50.360 But, so here are two signs of the times.

00:09:54.020 Number one, a study that confuses causation and correlation.

00:09:58.240 That's 2023, peak 2023.

00:10:03.300 And then the second part of it that's a sign of the times is having confused the causation,

00:10:09.240 they lead with the performance headline.

00:10:13.480 Now, performance headline is that there's fat positivity and everybody's equal and gaining weight isn't so bad for you after all.

00:10:21.220 Depending on the study you look at, they actually had to support being overweight.

00:10:29.200 In a sort of weird, indirect, you know, vague way in their headline.

00:10:34.440 Because they couldn't bring themselves to say that losing weight might be good for you.

00:10:39.980 That's just too hard.

00:10:42.480 Sign of the times.

00:10:46.000 Well, remote work, as you know, people working at home got, was very popular during the pandemic, of course.

00:10:53.220 And then I reported recently, based on other people's reports, that companies were, you know, reducing that.

00:11:03.300 And there was a lot less remote working.

00:11:05.320 But I just saw the best argument for remote work I've ever seen.

00:11:08.860 So there's another mass shooting at a bank.

00:11:14.000 And one of the people who witnessed the mass shooting was calling in on Zoom.

00:11:20.420 So there was somebody who should have been in the office and would have been shot.

00:11:24.720 But instead, they were attending the meeting on Zoom and actually watched the massacre on Zoom while they were working at home, isn't it?

00:11:33.400 I've been saying for a long time that the worst possible future is one that's coming, which is humans will be hesitant to go wherever there are a lot of other people.

00:11:50.140 Because something bad might happen.

00:11:53.240 That's one of the reasons I don't want to work in a skyscraper.

00:11:56.980 After 9-11, I thought to myself, you know what?

00:12:00.880 Why would I want to work in a place which is an obvious first target?

00:12:06.040 You know, because you want where there's a lot of people and there's a big splashy explosion and stuff.

00:12:11.240 So I've already decided I don't want to go to sporting events.

00:12:15.820 Sports, sporting events seem like the most dangerous, like an outdoor sporting event in the age of drones.

00:12:24.420 Don't make me fill in the blanks.

00:12:26.820 In the age of drones, going to a stadium event outdoors, I don't think I'm ever going to do it.

00:12:35.760 I think I'm done with that.

00:12:37.700 Concerts, yeah.

00:12:38.940 Because the odds of one of them being attacked by some kind of a drone attack, it's 100%.

00:12:45.240 You just don't know when and how often.

00:12:48.160 But it's 100%.

00:12:49.280 There's no way that's not going to happen.

00:12:52.520 All right.

00:12:55.040 So what do we know about this 25-year-old bank employee?

00:12:59.580 I don't like to give too much attention to the mass shootings, so I'll just kind of use it to segue into another topic.

00:13:06.060 There seems to be some kind of an incel problem, meaning young men who have no purpose, and they're depressed, and they have no social life, and they have nothing to live for.

00:13:21.660 The problem is that they're men, and when men have nothing to live for, they can often be dangerous, because it just makes them feel alive for five minutes before they die.

00:13:33.800 So, yeah, some of it is mental health, and some of it is probably psychiatric drugs, and some of it is hopelessness.

00:13:43.700 And I think it's Scott Galloway who's been warning about this for a long time.

00:13:50.040 And how many of you remember that I predicted the number of mass shootings would skyrocket?

00:13:56.280 Does anybody remember me saying that two years ago?

00:14:00.860 Yeah.

00:14:01.100 About two years ago?

00:14:02.140 I can't remember.

00:14:03.120 I predicted it would skyrocket.

00:14:04.800 And the reason I predicted it was the trend in men not being able to mate, because the whole mating situation and dating situation has turned into the top 20% having a good time and become low value while having a good time.

00:14:23.940 In other words, the people who are having a lot of sex are devaluing their, let's say, their mating potential by having too many encounters.

00:14:35.160 This would be, of course, subjective, but that's what we're talking about.

00:14:40.420 While the 80% of men are finding it difficult to find anybody who wants to spend time with them.

00:14:46.360 Now, there's no way that doesn't lead to massive uptick in mass shootings.

00:14:50.980 If you had the video games and the movies, if you had the news coverage reminding everybody about it.

00:14:59.400 Now, question, would you support a federal law that says that the national news could not report on a mass shooting?

00:15:11.480 But it can report it as a statistic, but not details.

00:15:18.060 Now, you'd still allow the local news to report on it.

00:15:22.100 And then, of course, anybody could tweet it.

00:15:23.900 But suppose you said, if you're national news, you know, you're ABC, CNN, Fox News, you can mention it as a statistic, but you can't mention any details.

00:15:35.560 But the local news could fully cover it, no restrictions.

00:15:40.240 And you could tweet it.

00:15:41.600 So if you wanted to, as an individual, do anything you want, you can tweet it anywhere you want.

00:15:46.380 But as a federal level, you can't talk about it.

00:15:52.220 I see more no's than yes's.

00:15:54.640 And I think that's a free speech thing, right?

00:15:58.180 Everybody's like, free speech.

00:16:01.260 But I would argue, let me give my best argument for it, okay?

00:16:05.380 I'm not convinced of this myself, but I'm going to give the best argument for it.

00:16:10.740 It's exactly like yelling fire in a crowded theater.

00:16:14.920 It's exactly that.

00:16:17.860 It's not similar to it.

00:16:19.720 It's exactly that.

00:16:21.440 It's exactly, exactly that, right?

00:16:24.720 Now, usually, usually I mock people for using analogies and arguments.

00:16:30.360 But the one time that you can use it is when it's exactly.

00:16:34.240 It's exactly that.

00:16:35.780 It's stuff you say that guarantees people get hurt.

00:16:39.320 It guarantees it.

00:16:41.000 So that's the difference.

00:16:41.840 If you yell fire in a theater that doesn't have a fire, or even one that does, I suppose, you're guaranteeing people get hurt, right?

00:16:51.260 That's a guarantee.

00:16:52.780 They might not die, but people are going to get hurt.

00:16:56.460 And that's on you.

00:16:57.980 So that's why it's illegal.

00:16:59.100 If you keep reporting and glorifying, in a way, kind of glorifying these shootings, it's guaranteed to make more of them.

00:17:12.740 Guaranteed.

00:17:14.540 It's guaranteed.

00:17:15.440 And it's fairly immediate.

00:17:19.900 In other words, within the same year.

00:17:22.760 I don't believe that a mass shooting that happened 10 years ago has much impact on a mass shooting decision today.

00:17:30.540 Would you agree?

00:17:31.840 Would you agree that something that happened 10 years ago probably is not influencing a 15-year-old today?

00:17:37.960 Well, it's something that happened six months ago.

00:17:42.760 If it happened six months ago, yeah.

00:17:45.540 That's when that teen was 14 and got the idea.

00:17:48.760 Now they're 15.

00:17:51.320 Yeah.

00:17:52.340 Columbine was 24 years ago.

00:17:54.080 Yeah.

00:17:54.700 So that's my strongest argument, of which I'm not convinced myself.

00:18:01.440 I'm just giving you the strong case.

00:18:03.020 Now the strong case in the other direction is free speech.

00:18:08.100 And that could be the end of your argument if you want.

00:18:11.080 If you want to say that's the end of the argument, I would respect that argument.

00:18:15.780 Total respect.

00:18:17.360 Because free speech has got to be the thing that you're, if you're going to overreact on something,

00:18:24.620 I would prefer overreacting in favor of freedom.

00:18:29.120 Not overreacting in favor of censorship.

00:18:31.180 So if it's a gray area of should you favor free speech over some functional benefit,

00:18:39.480 I would usually favor free speech.

00:18:43.460 But yelling fire in a crowded theater, I'd probably make an exception.

00:18:52.160 All right.

00:18:52.520 Now, is it true that platforms already restrict free speech massively?

00:19:02.260 They do, right?

00:19:03.880 The reasons that social media restricts free speech are they think that they're damaging levels,

00:19:10.420 let's say hatred, or encouraging somebody to hurt somebody.

00:19:15.460 Right?

00:19:15.620 Don't you think that coverage of these mass shooting events encourages people to hurt people?

00:19:22.720 I do.

00:19:24.140 To me, that's directly encouraging people to do it.

00:19:27.300 Because everything that you pump into people's heads becomes part of their operating system.

00:19:32.760 And that's what they're pumping into their heads.

00:19:34.260 All right.

00:19:37.440 Well, enough on that.

00:19:41.300 So Germany made the third biggest mistake in its history

00:19:45.040 by shutting down its final three nuclear power plants

00:19:50.820 and has apparently no plans to have additional nuclear energy.

00:19:55.400 Now, is it my imagination, or can Germany be characterized in the following way?

00:20:04.400 On the little stuff, they're really good.

00:20:09.120 Getting the little stuff right?

00:20:11.100 Tell you, the Germans, they really, really get the little stuff right.

00:20:14.860 But on the big stuff, on the big stuff, such as Holocaust, World War I,

00:20:27.180 and closing all of their nuclear energy plants.

00:20:31.000 I'm just saying that on the big stuff, not such a good record.

00:20:35.360 Not such a good record.

00:20:36.460 But on the little stuff, the day-to-day stuff, Germans are excellent.

00:20:41.420 So we'll see what happens as Germany makes itself more and more vulnerable to Russia.

00:20:50.880 Oh, here's a factoid I heard about Ukraine that I was not aware of.

00:20:56.260 This was on the Kanakoa the Great Twitter feed.

00:21:01.480 And Musk waited on this, saying that people were not aware of this.

00:21:04.820 But did you know that prior to the war,

00:21:07.840 there was a time that Zelensky himself disagreed with the Ukrainian law

00:21:14.420 that was going to make Ukrainian language the only language of Ukraine,

00:21:20.020 where it turns out that the regions that Russia has now occupied

00:21:24.360 are mostly Russian-speaking,

00:21:27.360 and it would have been deeply discriminatory

00:21:30.060 toward people who had lived there forever and spoke Russian

00:21:34.760 and didn't need to change their language

00:21:37.380 just because some government changed and suddenly said that they should.

00:21:41.940 And even Zelensky was against forcing the Russian speakers to speak Ukrainian.

00:21:49.920 So when you see that Putin was acting like the protector of all Russian-speaking people,

00:21:58.060 there was something to that.

00:21:59.580 That doesn't mean it's the only reason he did what he did.

00:22:01.920 But there was something to that, and we don't hear that side of the story so much.

00:22:07.100 Yeah.

00:22:07.940 And now, remember what...

00:22:10.800 And there's some reporting that Putin was just waiting for a wink from Trump

00:22:16.640 to do what he already did, which is take control of parts of Ukraine.

00:22:22.600 But apparently Trump never gave him a wink.

00:22:24.760 But it's still being reported as if somehow it's Trump's fault

00:22:28.980 for not giving him a wink.

00:22:34.340 That's reaching pretty far.

00:22:36.660 You're reaching pretty far to make that Trump's fault.

00:22:40.720 Another way to say it would be

00:22:42.820 Putin didn't invade under Trump

00:22:44.880 because Trump had a credible threat against him.

00:22:48.460 Seems obvious.

00:22:49.360 All right.

00:22:53.680 What else is going on?

00:22:56.740 I asked this question because I was curious about all the myocarditis.

00:23:02.260 And of course, the big argument is,

00:23:03.780 is it from the shots?

00:23:05.260 Is it from the COVID?

00:23:07.180 Apparently, both the shots and the COVID could cause some myocarditis.

00:23:12.020 Now, that we know, right?

00:23:13.880 Would you say that's the only thing we agree on?

00:23:15.980 That some amount of myocarditis

00:23:19.440 and some amount of it came from the shot itself.

00:23:24.980 That's a confirmed known thing.

00:23:27.600 And some amount of it came from the COVID.

00:23:30.640 But there might also be some amount of it

00:23:33.000 that came from obesity or lifestyle changes

00:23:36.900 or I don't know, whatever else.

00:23:39.740 But here's my question that I'm trying to add to the conversation.

00:23:44.540 Do you think that we checked for myocarditis

00:23:48.320 as thoroughly as we might now

00:23:50.960 because it's a hot topic?

00:23:53.580 And so I looked up what are the symptoms of myocarditis.

00:23:58.380 And just for the benefit of the NPCs,

00:24:04.500 with those of you who are a player's mind,

00:24:06.920 if I take a moment just to speak to the NPCs,

00:24:09.160 I'm going to read you a list of symptoms for myocarditis

00:24:14.380 and then I'm going to ask you

00:24:16.120 if doctors would have routinely checked for myocarditis

00:24:19.820 if they saw these symptoms.

00:24:21.520 Some of these are really obviously heart-related.

00:24:25.060 You don't have to tell me

00:24:26.620 that if a patient comes in with a clearly heart-related problem,

00:24:31.880 that they would have checked their heart.

00:24:34.020 Because I do believe that if you come in and say,

00:24:37.500 my heart hurts,

00:24:39.520 they will check your heart.

00:24:41.220 You don't need to tell me that.

00:24:43.940 Can I beg you?

00:24:45.280 Don't tell me that after I tell you the symptoms.

00:24:48.720 But some of the symptoms are clearly heart-related

00:24:51.860 and always I think any doctor would have checked.

00:24:55.280 And in fact, doctors confirmed that

00:24:57.140 when I asked that on Twitter.

00:24:58.500 But here are some of the less obvious symptoms of myocarditis.

00:25:04.540 Body aches, joint pain, fever, headaches, vomiting,

00:25:11.420 diarrhea, or a sore throat.

00:25:14.280 Now if you went to your doctor

00:25:15.600 and you said you had any one of those things,

00:25:18.700 how often would they have tested you for myocarditis?

00:25:23.180 I'm guessing zero times.

00:25:25.200 Now maybe there'd be some cardiac doctor

00:25:30.560 who's really alert and said,

00:25:33.040 no, let's just check.

00:25:34.680 But my guess is

00:25:36.080 that you're getting checked for myocarditis

00:25:39.160 more often than you would have

00:25:41.920 before the pandemic.

00:25:44.600 What do you think of that?

00:25:45.720 Do you think that the less obvious symptoms

00:25:49.520 for myocarditis,

00:25:51.120 as opposed to the obvious ones like heart palpitations,

00:25:54.320 if you come in with,

00:25:56.060 here's some of the other ones,

00:25:57.780 shortness of breath,

00:25:59.260 rapid or abnormal heart rhythms.

00:26:02.780 I mean, obviously they're going to check

00:26:04.680 your cardio situation for that.

00:26:07.280 But here's another one, fatigue.

00:26:10.400 If your only symptoms were fatigue

00:26:13.060 and you found it hard to walk up the steps

00:26:15.660 for a while,

00:26:17.540 do you think your doctor would say,

00:26:19.220 ah, fatigue, that's myocarditis,

00:26:22.060 or at least we should check for it?

00:26:24.320 Well, let me tell you this.

00:26:26.380 I've complained to my doctor

00:26:28.240 about fatigue more than once

00:26:30.980 over the course of my life.

00:26:33.560 How many times did I get checked

00:26:35.380 for myocarditis?

00:26:37.320 None.

00:26:38.860 None.

00:26:40.180 Right?

00:26:41.780 Now, age is a factor,

00:26:43.960 but remember that myocarditis

00:26:45.200 is allegedly happening in younger people.

00:26:46.980 So it shouldn't matter the age

00:26:49.560 after the pandemic.

00:26:51.260 But to your point,

00:26:53.140 it could be that before the pandemic,

00:26:55.840 they would never check a young person's heart

00:26:58.120 unless they actually said,

00:27:00.180 my heart is beating fast.

00:27:02.320 Right?

00:27:02.600 If you point out your heart is the problem,

00:27:04.680 yeah, they're going to check it.

00:27:06.500 But I think if you're 25

00:27:07.700 and you said, I'm fatigued,

00:27:09.580 they'd check everything

00:27:11.320 except your heart probably.

00:27:12.380 It just wouldn't seem obvious.

00:27:16.300 Yeah, he thought I was a hypochondriac.

00:27:18.560 Maybe.

00:27:20.080 Well, there are a lot of reasons for fatigue.

00:27:22.140 That's all I'm saying.

00:27:22.800 I've told you my new hypothesis

00:27:27.580 about working assumptions.

00:27:29.680 I think we have to say at this point,

00:27:32.040 when we see the Biden administration

00:27:33.620 trying to use TikTok influencers

00:27:36.300 at the same time,

00:27:37.880 there's this presumed legislation

00:27:41.640 to ban TikTok,

00:27:42.820 which turns out to have nothing to do with TikTok.

00:27:46.020 I assume other than China owns the Democrats.

00:27:50.540 Or probably the Republicans as well.

00:27:52.800 I think you have to assume

00:27:55.740 that China got to our government.

00:27:58.380 There's no way

00:27:59.260 that they would ignore this risk

00:28:01.680 unless...

00:28:05.860 So it's my working assumptions.

00:28:09.600 Now, the alternative explanation

00:28:11.240 is that they find too much value in TikTok

00:28:13.400 as a campaign tool.

00:28:16.900 And that would be supported by the evidence as well.

00:28:19.440 However, explain fentanyl.

00:28:26.120 If TikTok were the only issue,

00:28:28.380 I'd say, you know,

00:28:29.800 if I had to look at the two explanations,

00:28:32.660 China bribed our government,

00:28:34.280 which seems sort of extraordinary,

00:28:36.520 so not the most likely thing.

00:28:39.200 But I'm comparing that to the other thing,

00:28:41.200 which is, well,

00:28:41.860 they just like TikTok for campaigning.

00:28:43.700 It helps them get elected.

00:28:45.920 I would have said that getting elected

00:28:48.000 is the obvious one, right?

00:28:49.980 Oh, it just helps them get elected.

00:28:51.280 So of course they want it.

00:28:53.100 However,

00:28:54.080 the context is that

00:28:55.960 they also are ignoring fentanyl.

00:28:58.320 And fentanyl doesn't help anybody

00:29:00.020 get elected, does it?

00:29:01.980 There's no Democrat

00:29:02.880 who had a better chance of getting elected

00:29:04.560 because fentanyl was killing people.

00:29:06.960 So both of those,

00:29:09.400 those are twin China-related topics

00:29:12.460 that seem to go the same way

00:29:16.700 despite having nothing in common.

00:29:19.860 And that suggests

00:29:21.160 that China actually just owns our government.

00:29:23.680 Because those are the two biggest problems

00:29:25.400 I see right now,

00:29:26.800 or two of the biggest problems,

00:29:27.960 and we're not doing anything about them.

00:29:29.580 We're just ignoring both of them.

00:29:31.860 There's no way that's natural.

00:29:33.360 My working assumption

00:29:35.560 is that China owns the Biden administration.

00:29:38.360 It might not be true,

00:29:40.560 but I would be disappointed

00:29:41.980 in any reporter

00:29:43.440 who acted like it wasn't the base assumption.

00:29:46.460 So here's how I would ask the question

00:29:48.180 to the Obama administration.

00:29:50.880 Not Obama,

00:29:51.980 the Biden administration.

00:29:53.420 Sorry.

00:29:54.740 Freudian slip.

00:29:56.520 I would say this.

00:29:58.440 Given your stand

00:29:59.500 on doing nothing about fentanyl

00:30:01.200 that looks useful,

00:30:02.200 doing nothing that looks useful

00:30:04.400 about TikTok,

00:30:05.940 our operating assumption

00:30:07.360 is that the Chinese government

00:30:09.240 has bought you off.

00:30:11.180 Can you give us any evidence

00:30:13.560 that that's not the case?

00:30:15.440 Now, you can't prove a negative,

00:30:17.520 but I would make them do it anyway.

00:30:19.520 Because the operating assumption

00:30:21.020 is that they are bought off.

00:30:23.260 And I think the reporters

00:30:24.300 should just embrace that frame.

00:30:28.900 Max, what are you doing?

00:30:29.820 Mexico's president

00:30:31.740 wrote a letter last week

00:30:32.860 and sent it to Xi

00:30:33.920 pleading him to tell him

00:30:35.480 the companies,

00:30:36.180 the ports, the ships, etc.,

00:30:37.520 for fentanyl imports into Mexico.

00:30:40.280 So is the Mexican president

00:30:42.400 asking China

00:30:43.400 to stop sending fentanyl?

00:30:46.240 Is that what happened?

00:30:48.460 Pleading him to tell him

00:30:49.500 the companies, the ports...

00:30:50.980 Oh, telling him

00:30:52.840 who they're importing

00:30:54.220 the fentanyl into

00:30:55.400 so that Mexico can stop it.

00:30:57.560 Now, that's interesting.

00:30:58.460 Now, I'm just reading

00:31:00.120 a highly funded super chat

00:31:03.380 here on YouTube.

00:31:05.740 China said they don't produce it.

00:31:08.500 Oh, okay.

00:31:09.900 So China says

00:31:11.040 they're not producing it.

00:31:13.180 Do you know how they

00:31:14.500 get away with that lie?

00:31:17.300 Here's how they do it.

00:31:19.520 We say to China,

00:31:20.760 hey, you're producing

00:31:22.160 those precursors for fentanyl.

00:31:24.640 And they say,

00:31:26.460 no, we're not.

00:31:28.060 We changed it by one molecule.

00:31:31.080 So we're not doing that at all.

00:31:32.960 Then we say,

00:31:33.700 but it's the same thing.

00:31:35.240 It's exactly the same thing.

00:31:37.220 And then China says,

00:31:38.500 no, it's a different chemical.

00:31:40.240 You never even mentioned

00:31:41.400 this chemical.

00:31:42.640 This has never even been discussed.

00:31:44.380 And then we ask them

00:31:45.200 to ban the new chemical.

00:31:46.700 And so they do.

00:31:48.020 And then they add one molecule.

00:31:50.020 And then now it's a new chemical.

00:31:51.120 And then they say,

00:31:52.680 yeah, we banned everything

00:31:53.600 you told us to ban.

00:31:54.740 Every time you ask us

00:31:55.880 to ban something,

00:31:56.620 we ban it.

00:31:57.120 What more could we do?

00:31:58.920 All right, so that's the game

00:31:59.840 that China is playing.

00:32:02.060 I do believe that there may be

00:32:04.720 some Mexico-China disconnect

00:32:07.860 where the president of Mexico

00:32:10.100 is not so sure what's coming in

00:32:13.040 and what isn't and where.

00:32:14.340 That might be true.

00:32:16.180 And it could be

00:32:17.340 that the president of Mexico

00:32:19.160 is just pretending to act

00:32:20.880 like he's going to change something

00:32:22.180 because the cartels

00:32:24.120 probably own the government.

00:32:25.500 We assume the cartels

00:32:26.440 have control over

00:32:27.220 the Mexican government.

00:32:29.320 And I extend that operating assumption

00:32:32.800 to our government.

00:32:34.140 I don't believe that we have

00:32:35.360 an independent government anymore.

00:32:37.800 That's my operating assumption

00:32:39.040 because they don't act like it.

00:32:40.980 If they acted like

00:32:42.140 an independent government,

00:32:43.200 then I would give them

00:32:44.860 the benefit of the doubt.

00:32:46.220 But if you don't even act

00:32:47.340 like you're independent,

00:32:48.960 the burden of proof

00:32:50.700 has to go back on you.

00:32:52.480 The burden of proof

00:32:53.380 is not on me anymore.

00:32:54.780 If you act like you're bought,

00:32:57.020 the burden of proof is on you.

00:32:58.840 And I would make Biden

00:33:00.060 defend that every day.

00:33:02.240 I would make him defend it

00:33:03.460 every day.

00:33:07.200 All right.

00:33:08.300 And I think at this point,

00:33:09.820 literally everyone knows

00:33:11.060 that the legislation

00:33:12.960 to ban TikTok is fake.

00:33:14.600 Do you think there's anybody

00:33:16.340 who doesn't know that

00:33:17.140 at this point?

00:33:18.240 Well, the people

00:33:18.820 who pay attention.

00:33:19.980 The people who pay attention

00:33:21.360 to the news,

00:33:22.200 they all know

00:33:23.320 that legislation is fake.

00:33:25.080 And we don't do anything

00:33:26.280 about it.

00:33:30.240 Mexican cartels

00:33:31.260 have a new source.

00:33:32.200 That's possible.

00:33:33.680 They may have a new source.

00:33:36.760 If you were

00:33:37.440 the Mexican cartels,

00:33:38.640 wouldn't you

00:33:39.280 try to get new sources?

00:33:41.120 Or try to make it yourself

00:33:42.220 or something?

00:33:42.620 I wonder if there's

00:33:47.520 any limitations

00:33:49.700 to the...

00:33:50.620 Maybe El Salvador.

00:33:54.160 You never know.

00:33:55.460 All right.

00:33:56.620 So I've been telling you

00:33:57.960 that there's literally

00:33:58.720 no good argument

00:33:59.660 for keeping TikTok,

00:34:00.960 which is the weird thing

00:34:02.060 about it.

00:34:02.940 Typically,

00:34:03.540 you have good arguments

00:34:04.300 on both sides.

00:34:05.440 Or if something's

00:34:06.600 a stalemate,

00:34:07.940 at least people

00:34:08.580 have different priorities

00:34:09.500 and that's why

00:34:10.260 their arguments

00:34:10.720 are different.

00:34:11.120 But in this case,

00:34:12.520 I kept telling you

00:34:13.240 there is no argument

00:34:14.760 for keeping TikTok.

00:34:17.420 There just isn't one.

00:34:18.780 It doesn't exist.

00:34:20.220 But I saw one,

00:34:21.240 an attempted argument,

00:34:22.600 by Catherine Mangu Ward,

00:34:24.660 who's editor-in-chief

00:34:25.380 of Reason Magazine.

00:34:27.000 Now,

00:34:27.280 if you're familiar

00:34:28.240 with Reason,

00:34:29.960 they're neither left

00:34:31.580 nor right,

00:34:32.980 and they try to do

00:34:33.840 exactly what the name says,

00:34:35.680 which is attack ideas

00:34:38.480 based on evidence

00:34:39.880 and reason.

00:34:41.500 So here's the editor

00:34:42.840 of Reason arguing

00:34:44.180 the best argument

00:34:45.420 for keeping TikTok.

00:34:47.320 All right.

00:34:49.140 It goes like this.

00:34:52.320 First,

00:34:52.920 you compare it

00:34:53.500 to Facebook

00:34:53.960 and say Facebook

00:34:54.840 also takes

00:34:55.760 personal information

00:34:57.360 and we're not doing

00:34:58.600 anything about Facebook.

00:35:00.860 Okay,

00:35:01.400 that's a terrible argument.

00:35:03.480 Facebook is American.

00:35:05.880 TikTok is Chinese.

00:35:07.280 All right.

00:35:09.620 If you can't make

00:35:10.640 that distinction,

00:35:12.300 I mean,

00:35:15.240 is that the end

00:35:16.260 of the debate?

00:35:17.560 If somebody made that point,

00:35:19.160 would you listen

00:35:19.700 to anything else

00:35:20.720 they said

00:35:21.260 if they compared

00:35:22.500 an American company

00:35:23.480 to a Chinese-owned company?

00:35:25.760 Both of them

00:35:26.500 having influence

00:35:27.260 over American minds.

00:35:28.680 Like,

00:35:29.020 that's just the same.

00:35:30.600 No.

00:35:31.360 Those are not the same.

00:35:33.800 That's the analogy problem.

00:35:35.520 As soon as you make

00:35:37.320 an analogy,

00:35:38.520 you have departed

00:35:39.280 what?

00:35:41.060 Reason.

00:35:42.920 You've departed

00:35:43.860 reason.

00:35:44.800 Now,

00:35:45.040 I get if it was

00:35:45.900 a precedent.

00:35:47.020 If it were a precedent,

00:35:48.960 then that would make sense.

00:35:50.500 But we're not talking

00:35:51.380 about a precedent.

00:35:52.240 We're talking about

00:35:52.740 two different things.

00:35:53.820 An American company

00:35:54.760 versus a Chinese company.

00:35:56.740 You can't compare them.

00:35:58.260 Here's the next point.

00:35:59.580 There's no evidence

00:36:03.720 that TikTok

00:36:04.360 ever used a psyop

00:36:05.980 and we don't

00:36:08.680 close companies

00:36:09.740 over hypothetical issues.

00:36:11.980 What about that point?

00:36:13.360 TikTok is being blamed

00:36:14.500 as something

00:36:14.980 that they've never done

00:36:16.000 or there's no evidence.

00:36:17.240 No evidence

00:36:17.820 they've ever done.

00:36:18.820 And we don't

00:36:19.580 close companies

00:36:20.520 just because

00:36:21.740 they could do

00:36:22.520 something evil,

00:36:23.400 but they have not.

00:36:24.960 What about that argument?

00:36:25.860 All right,

00:36:29.140 let me extend

00:36:29.640 this argument.

00:36:32.120 You should get rid

00:36:33.280 of the military

00:36:34.660 because China

00:36:36.700 has never attacked

00:36:37.700 the United States.

00:36:40.300 It's only hypothetical.

00:36:42.300 You should get rid

00:36:43.160 of homeland security

00:36:44.480 because everything

00:36:46.560 they work on

00:36:47.260 is hypothetical.

00:36:48.680 Somebody might do this.

00:36:50.800 They might do this.

00:36:51.840 We better get ready.

00:36:52.960 So we should get ready.

00:36:53.880 We should get rid

00:36:54.760 of our police.

00:36:56.680 Because the police

00:36:57.520 are there for the next crime,

00:36:58.800 not the last one.

00:37:00.340 The police are there

00:37:01.340 for the crime

00:37:01.840 that hasn't happened yet.

00:37:03.840 Right?

00:37:04.100 I mean,

00:37:04.360 they take care

00:37:04.820 of the current ones,

00:37:05.920 but mostly

00:37:06.760 it's for the future.

00:37:08.360 So let's get rid

00:37:09.300 of all the homeland security.

00:37:11.240 Let's get rid

00:37:12.220 of all the military.

00:37:13.620 Let's get rid

00:37:14.240 of all the police.

00:37:15.820 Because those

00:37:16.940 are only hypothetical

00:37:17.760 problems, right?

00:37:19.600 They're taking care

00:37:20.560 of things that

00:37:21.120 might happen,

00:37:21.920 but haven't.

00:37:23.480 Now,

00:37:24.060 the argument

00:37:24.560 that you should

00:37:25.480 allow China

00:37:26.540 to have

00:37:27.720 a mind-control

00:37:28.900 weapon

00:37:29.420 aimed at the head

00:37:30.800 of the United States

00:37:31.880 and it's okay

00:37:33.360 because they haven't

00:37:34.140 pulled the trigger

00:37:34.880 yet,

00:37:36.200 maybe we should

00:37:36.980 get rid of

00:37:37.400 our nuclear arsenal

00:37:38.340 because nobody's

00:37:39.140 ever attacked us

00:37:39.840 with nuclear weapons.

00:37:41.840 Have they?

00:37:42.720 They've never

00:37:43.320 attacked us

00:37:43.800 with nuclear weapons,

00:37:44.640 so we don't need any.

00:37:46.540 It's a hypothetical.

00:37:48.220 Why would you deal

00:37:48.960 with it?

00:37:49.300 It's a hypothetical.

00:37:50.760 All right,

00:37:50.980 so here's the problem.

00:37:52.660 It's the analogy

00:37:53.440 problem again.

00:37:55.200 So,

00:37:56.540 Catherine

00:37:58.780 has made an analogy

00:38:03.200 of an American

00:38:04.220 company

00:38:04.820 with an adversarial

00:38:07.200 company.

00:38:08.780 That's the wrong

00:38:09.680 comparison.

00:38:10.780 If you compare

00:38:11.740 the wrong things,

00:38:12.440 you'll always get

00:38:13.020 the wrong answer.

00:38:14.100 No,

00:38:14.500 do not compare

00:38:15.240 TikTok to an

00:38:16.120 American company

00:38:16.940 because you know

00:38:17.960 what Zuckerberg

00:38:20.420 is not trying

00:38:21.240 to do?

00:38:22.480 Here's what Zuckerberg

00:38:23.360 is not trying

00:38:24.000 to do.

00:38:25.560 Destroy America.

00:38:29.340 Now,

00:38:30.200 you could argue

00:38:31.200 that you don't

00:38:31.760 like what he's

00:38:32.320 doing in a variety

00:38:33.560 of ways,

00:38:34.440 but he's not

00:38:35.300 trying to destroy

00:38:36.100 America.

00:38:37.260 That's not

00:38:37.840 happening.

00:38:39.340 Now,

00:38:39.860 of course,

00:38:40.220 you can't be

00:38:40.620 100% sure

00:38:41.380 of anything,

00:38:41.940 I know.

00:38:42.340 I get it.

00:38:42.800 I get it.

00:38:43.160 You can't be

00:38:43.480 100% sure.

00:38:44.460 But if you're

00:38:44.960 playing the odds,

00:38:45.780 are you going

00:38:46.980 to bet on

00:38:47.360 Zuckerberg

00:38:47.980 protecting America

00:38:48.980 or President Xi?

00:38:50.620 Which one's

00:38:51.400 more likely

00:38:52.320 to want to

00:38:53.740 protect America?

00:38:55.580 All right?

00:38:56.180 It's sort of

00:38:56.600 an easy question.

00:39:00.460 So that's

00:39:01.180 the best

00:39:01.740 argument for

00:39:02.380 keeping TikTok

00:39:03.140 is to compare

00:39:04.080 it to the

00:39:04.480 wrong things.

00:39:05.380 That's the

00:39:05.760 best argument.

00:39:07.200 Compare it

00:39:08.000 to the wrong

00:39:08.600 things.

00:39:10.900 All right,

00:39:11.560 well,

00:39:11.880 Whole Foods

00:39:12.360 is closing

00:39:13.060 one of their

00:39:13.500 stores on

00:39:14.200 Market Street

00:39:14.760 in San

00:39:15.160 Francisco

00:39:15.540 because the

00:39:16.740 environment

00:39:17.200 is too

00:39:17.840 unsafe.

00:39:20.100 If you're

00:39:20.820 not familiar

00:39:21.420 with San

00:39:22.640 Francisco,

00:39:24.020 let me explain

00:39:24.820 what Market

00:39:25.540 Street is in

00:39:26.260 San Francisco.

00:39:28.020 It's Main

00:39:28.560 Street.

00:39:29.740 It's the

00:39:30.220 primary

00:39:30.820 busy

00:39:32.760 street.

00:39:35.060 Market

00:39:35.340 Street of

00:39:35.880 San

00:39:36.140 Francisco

00:39:36.560 is too

00:39:37.760 dangerous

00:39:38.340 for a

00:39:39.400 Whole Foods.

00:39:41.360 And they're

00:39:41.960 talking about

00:39:42.520 the stuff

00:39:43.000 that's going

00:39:43.380 on outside

00:39:44.000 and they're

00:39:44.920 trying to

00:39:45.260 use their

00:39:45.600 bathrooms.

00:39:48.460 Why would

00:39:49.220 you live

00:39:49.700 in a city?

00:39:51.640 Living in

00:39:52.100 a city

00:39:52.360 doesn't make

00:39:52.840 any sense

00:39:53.460 anymore.

00:39:54.240 It's just

00:39:54.580 crazy.

00:39:56.900 All right.

00:39:59.880 Let's talk

00:40:00.480 about these

00:40:00.880 incels some

00:40:01.540 more.

00:40:02.200 I don't

00:40:02.480 think I

00:40:02.720 was done

00:40:03.020 with that.

00:40:04.940 What do

00:40:05.460 we do

00:40:05.740 with the

00:40:06.040 fact that

00:40:06.740 there are

00:40:07.180 more and

00:40:07.500 more incels

00:40:08.140 and they're

00:40:08.800 going to

00:40:08.960 be more

00:40:09.260 and more

00:40:09.460 dangerous?

00:40:10.480 Is there

00:40:11.020 anything you

00:40:11.840 can do

00:40:12.140 about that?

00:40:13.520 Now, I

00:40:13.960 would say

00:40:14.280 that social

00:40:14.800 media makes

00:40:15.500 it worse,

00:40:16.180 wouldn't you?

00:40:17.720 And that

00:40:18.120 dating apps

00:40:18.760 make it

00:40:19.200 worse.

00:40:21.020 Could you

00:40:21.580 imagine a

00:40:22.100 time when

00:40:22.440 dating apps

00:40:23.060 are illegal?

00:40:26.140 I can't.

00:40:27.080 I can't

00:40:27.740 imagine dating

00:40:28.320 apps will

00:40:28.740 ever be

00:40:29.060 illegal.

00:40:29.880 But it

00:40:30.940 would fix

00:40:31.420 a lot,

00:40:31.840 wouldn't it?

00:40:33.700 I mean,

00:40:34.260 it would make

00:40:35.080 some things a

00:40:35.820 lot worse,

00:40:36.280 but it would

00:40:36.660 fix a lot,

00:40:37.300 too.

00:40:37.400 We do

00:40:38.660 have a

00:40:39.700 civilization

00:40:40.220 where ordinary

00:40:41.400 people can't

00:40:42.200 meet ordinary

00:40:42.780 people and

00:40:43.380 fall in love

00:40:43.920 and get

00:40:44.180 married.

00:40:45.480 It just

00:40:46.060 doesn't work

00:40:46.600 anymore.

00:40:47.400 The economics

00:40:47.980 don't work,

00:40:48.680 the social

00:40:49.100 part doesn't

00:40:49.660 work,

00:40:50.380 the expectations,

00:40:51.800 the whole

00:40:52.920 model of

00:40:53.640 relationships

00:40:54.160 don't work

00:40:54.740 anymore.

00:40:55.560 Now, they

00:40:55.880 do work

00:40:56.300 for some

00:40:56.920 few people

00:40:57.840 who are

00:40:58.280 perfectly

00:40:58.960 in tune,

00:40:59.920 but it's

00:41:00.220 the exception.

00:41:03.760 Vlad asked

00:41:04.620 me,

00:41:04.980 do Americans

00:41:05.520 realize the

00:41:06.200 Cold War

00:41:06.860 is on

00:41:07.460 again,

00:41:07.840 this time

00:41:08.180 with China?

00:41:08.700 I think

00:41:09.020 so.

00:41:10.080 Doesn't

00:41:10.400 everybody

00:41:10.740 understand that

00:41:11.460 there's a

00:41:11.820 Cold War

00:41:12.200 with China?

00:41:13.780 I think we

00:41:14.560 all understand

00:41:15.280 that.

00:41:16.920 Yeah, it's

00:41:17.580 Opium War 2

00:41:18.380 and all that

00:41:18.900 stuff.

00:41:20.120 All right,

00:41:20.440 well, I don't

00:41:20.820 have an answer

00:41:21.280 about what to

00:41:21.840 do with the

00:41:22.180 incels, but

00:41:23.040 it could be

00:41:23.660 the biggest

00:41:24.060 problem.

00:41:25.180 And usually,

00:41:26.800 I think wars

00:41:27.820 are what takes

00:41:29.340 care of

00:41:29.660 incels.

00:41:30.300 The other

00:41:30.720 thing is hard

00:41:31.340 work.

00:41:31.720 I feel

00:41:33.940 as though

00:41:34.260 if you

00:41:34.520 take somebody

00:41:35.020 who doesn't

00:41:35.420 have meaning

00:41:36.480 in life,

00:41:37.820 and they

00:41:39.080 have to do

00:41:39.560 hard physical

00:41:40.220 labor to

00:41:40.700 stay alive,

00:41:41.880 such as

00:41:42.440 farming,

00:41:43.360 I think

00:41:44.240 they're happier.

00:41:45.520 What do

00:41:45.860 you think?

00:41:46.880 I think

00:41:47.660 that having

00:41:48.160 a physical

00:41:49.740 mission to

00:41:51.420 go physically

00:41:52.620 make your

00:41:53.140 money and

00:41:53.680 physically improve

00:41:54.600 things, I

00:41:55.680 believe that

00:41:56.160 would make

00:41:56.620 incels more

00:41:58.120 valuable to

00:41:59.260 even people

00:41:59.940 who would

00:42:00.120 want to be

00:42:00.900 with them.

00:42:02.180 And I

00:42:02.940 think that

00:42:03.440 they need

00:42:03.960 to do

00:42:04.380 something.

00:42:05.560 If the

00:42:06.220 incels simply

00:42:06.900 did something

00:42:07.680 useful that

00:42:08.920 other people

00:42:09.480 could see as

00:42:10.080 useful, then

00:42:11.480 they would

00:42:11.720 probably attract

00:42:12.240 people.

00:42:13.680 But maybe

00:42:14.440 you just need

00:42:14.940 to teach

00:42:15.940 people how

00:42:16.480 to be worthy

00:42:17.120 of getting

00:42:17.560 married.

00:42:18.940 You know,

00:42:19.280 I spend a

00:42:19.800 lot of time

00:42:20.260 probably because

00:42:21.800 the algorithm

00:42:22.340 is feeding me

00:42:23.120 this stuff,

00:42:24.040 but I'm

00:42:24.640 seeing all

00:42:25.400 kinds of

00:42:26.320 messaging from

00:42:27.560 social media

00:42:28.300 that from

00:42:29.420 the perspective

00:42:30.060 of women,

00:42:30.900 men are not

00:42:32.220 such a good

00:42:32.740 deal anymore.

00:42:33.920 But from

00:42:34.500 the perspective

00:42:35.200 of men,

00:42:36.540 women are

00:42:37.100 not a good

00:42:37.560 deal at all

00:42:38.160 anymore,

00:42:39.760 except for

00:42:40.420 sex.

00:42:41.560 And that

00:42:42.340 feeling seems

00:42:43.520 to be growing

00:42:44.620 and widespread

00:42:45.400 already.

00:42:47.000 Are you aware

00:42:47.500 of that?

00:42:49.740 So when I

00:42:51.280 was in my

00:42:52.460 20s, my

00:42:54.020 view of the

00:42:54.580 world was that

00:42:55.340 there were

00:42:55.640 plenty of

00:42:56.200 women.

00:42:57.220 They just

00:42:57.780 didn't like

00:42:58.500 me.

00:43:00.140 But there

00:43:00.700 were plenty

00:43:01.060 of them.

00:43:02.120 And if I

00:43:03.380 worked in

00:43:04.000 an environment

00:43:05.000 where there

00:43:05.480 were women,

00:43:06.220 I usually

00:43:06.640 did fine.

00:43:07.880 And if I

00:43:08.380 found myself

00:43:09.040 for whatever

00:43:09.520 reason in

00:43:10.160 environments where

00:43:10.940 there were not

00:43:11.320 a lot of

00:43:11.640 women, then I

00:43:13.300 didn't do fine.

00:43:14.460 But as long as

00:43:15.140 I was around a

00:43:16.260 lot of people,

00:43:17.680 I did fine.

00:43:18.640 There was always

00:43:19.100 somebody who

00:43:19.560 would be willing

00:43:20.000 to spend time

00:43:20.620 with me.

00:43:22.900 So some

00:43:24.420 of it is

00:43:25.300 that we

00:43:25.560 don't put

00:43:26.140 people in

00:43:26.920 mixed groups

00:43:27.820 anymore where

00:43:28.480 they can just

00:43:28.960 naturally meet

00:43:30.560 and get

00:43:30.880 attracted to

00:43:31.440 people.

00:43:32.500 And we

00:43:33.040 also have a

00:43:33.460 lot of

00:43:33.640 people...

00:43:35.120 That's a

00:43:37.120 funny comment.

00:43:38.380 All right.

00:43:40.800 Sounds like a

00:43:41.580 coastal issue.

00:43:42.420 Might be.

00:43:43.440 That's where

00:43:43.820 the biggest

00:43:44.160 populations are.

00:43:47.240 Yes,

00:43:47.740 indeed.

00:43:49.260 Oh, just

00:43:49.720 going back to

00:43:50.320 that TikTok,

00:43:52.020 the hypothetical

00:43:52.980 psyop, is it

00:43:54.940 hypothetical that

00:43:55.920 TikTok is

00:43:56.720 causing young

00:43:58.180 people to

00:43:58.700 remove their

00:43:59.240 genitals?

00:44:00.280 That's not

00:44:01.120 theoretical.

00:44:02.560 Is that

00:44:03.280 hypothetical?

00:44:04.820 That seems to

00:44:05.920 be obviously

00:44:06.720 happening.

00:44:07.960 To me, that's

00:44:08.960 observable, because

00:44:10.880 there's a huge

00:44:11.820 increase in

00:44:12.460 trans, and

00:44:13.820 that's almost

00:44:14.340 entirely from

00:44:15.100 media, and

00:44:16.500 the most

00:44:17.220 dominant media

00:44:18.080 for that age

00:44:18.980 range is

00:44:19.640 TikTok.

00:44:20.320 it's almost

00:44:21.120 certainly the

00:44:22.240 reason, or

00:44:23.320 one of the

00:44:24.200 biggest reasons.

00:44:25.500 So you

00:44:26.180 don't have to

00:44:26.620 wonder.

00:44:28.420 Now, I don't

00:44:29.040 think it was

00:44:29.800 necessarily

00:44:30.480 intentional, but

00:44:31.940 let me tell you

00:44:32.460 what was

00:44:32.980 intentional.

00:44:34.280 What was

00:44:35.180 intentional is

00:44:36.940 that China

00:44:38.240 knows not to

00:44:38.980 allow TikTok in

00:44:39.880 their own

00:44:40.180 country, because

00:44:41.900 of things like

00:44:43.560 this.

00:44:44.060 So it doesn't

00:44:44.600 mean that they

00:44:45.060 did that specific

00:44:45.940 thing.

00:44:46.320 it just means

00:44:47.440 that they

00:44:47.820 knew that

00:44:49.080 an open

00:44:49.700 channel like

00:44:50.720 this would

00:44:51.120 cause this

00:44:51.820 kind of

00:44:52.280 effect, and

00:44:53.300 they didn't

00:44:53.640 want to have

00:44:54.020 it on their

00:44:54.400 own kids.

00:44:55.880 So obviously

00:44:56.440 they knew,

00:44:57.460 maybe just

00:44:58.040 not the

00:44:58.400 specifics.

00:45:01.280 All right,

00:45:01.920 there's an

00:45:02.380 enormous carbon

00:45:03.640 capture project.

00:45:05.700 I have a

00:45:06.520 nerdish interest

00:45:08.460 in this.

00:45:09.280 So the

00:45:09.560 problem with

00:45:09.900 carbon capture,

00:45:10.780 which would

00:45:11.160 allow you to

00:45:11.940 pump oil and

00:45:13.040 do stuff as

00:45:13.800 long as you

00:45:14.180 were capturing as

00:45:14.920 much as you

00:45:15.340 were putting

00:45:15.620 out, it

00:45:17.500 wouldn't affect

00:45:18.180 the climate if

00:45:19.060 you were recapturing

00:45:20.180 as much as

00:45:20.680 you were creating.

00:45:22.160 So that was

00:45:22.900 the prize.

00:45:23.500 But the

00:45:23.940 economics of

00:45:24.740 it are

00:45:25.000 terrible.

00:45:26.400 It's nearly

00:45:27.540 impossible to

00:45:28.840 get a machine

00:45:29.420 that's efficient

00:45:30.120 enough to

00:45:31.820 suck up enough

00:45:32.820 CO2 that it

00:45:33.840 could possibly

00:45:34.480 make any sense

00:45:35.560 economically.

00:45:37.160 However, like

00:45:39.540 everything else,

00:45:40.380 it just keeps

00:45:40.960 improving.

00:45:42.160 You know, there

00:45:42.480 was a time when

00:45:43.140 you couldn't have

00:45:43.680 an automobile

00:45:44.620 with a battery

00:45:45.600 because the

00:45:46.580 batteries wouldn't

00:45:47.180 last long enough.

00:45:48.360 But now they

00:45:49.340 do.

00:45:50.200 So carbon

00:45:50.840 capture is going

00:45:51.480 to go that

00:45:51.900 way.

00:45:53.080 But already

00:45:54.000 Occidental

00:45:54.820 Petroleum,

00:45:56.040 their plan is to

00:45:57.280 do so much

00:45:57.980 carbon capture

00:45:58.880 as a company

00:46:00.380 and somehow

00:46:01.540 make money on

00:46:02.220 it that they

00:46:04.500 can pump as

00:46:05.100 much oil as

00:46:05.700 they want in

00:46:06.120 the future and

00:46:07.220 they'll still be

00:46:08.060 carbon neutral

00:46:09.160 overall.

00:46:10.500 Now the way

00:46:11.020 they plan to

00:46:11.640 make money on

00:46:13.080 capturing carbon

00:46:14.400 you're going

00:46:15.460 to hate

00:46:15.780 this.

00:46:17.380 Oh, you're

00:46:17.760 really going

00:46:18.100 to hate

00:46:18.340 this.

00:46:19.340 The way

00:46:19.800 they're going

00:46:20.060 to make

00:46:20.280 money is

00:46:21.000 not just

00:46:21.920 turning some

00:46:23.120 of it into

00:46:23.600 products, which

00:46:24.440 you can do

00:46:25.000 on a small

00:46:25.600 scale, but

00:46:27.400 they're going

00:46:28.920 to sell

00:46:29.300 carbon offsets,

00:46:31.760 carbon credits.

00:46:33.300 That's right.

00:46:34.600 The way

00:46:35.240 they're going

00:46:35.560 to make money

00:46:36.240 is from

00:46:36.800 basically the

00:46:37.700 government.

00:46:38.100 government.

00:46:39.440 I don't want

00:46:40.280 to see people

00:46:40.840 doing massive

00:46:41.540 projects that

00:46:42.820 depend entirely

00:46:43.720 upon the law

00:46:44.620 to make money

00:46:45.660 because if the

00:46:47.140 law did not

00:46:47.740 allow these

00:46:48.260 carbon credits,

00:46:49.080 they wouldn't

00:46:49.340 exist.

00:46:50.980 And so they're

00:46:51.400 building something

00:46:52.000 just to take

00:46:52.800 advantage of

00:46:54.140 that law.

00:46:55.040 That will be

00:46:55.820 their profit.

00:46:57.980 And that's

00:46:58.380 just like,

00:46:59.440 ugh, that's

00:47:00.520 so creepy to

00:47:01.300 me that that's

00:47:02.900 the way they're

00:47:03.360 going to make

00:47:03.640 money.

00:47:04.160 The only way I

00:47:04.920 want to see

00:47:05.240 somebody make

00:47:05.700 money is making

00:47:06.580 stuff that

00:47:07.200 people want

00:47:07.620 to buy.

00:47:09.200 Anything that's

00:47:10.000 not pure free

00:47:10.940 market is going

00:47:12.000 to be a problem

00:47:12.720 somewhere.

00:47:14.200 Somewhere it's

00:47:14.840 going to be a

00:47:15.240 problem.

00:47:17.640 I don't doubt

00:47:18.500 that it works.

00:47:19.800 You know, it

00:47:20.140 might actually

00:47:20.700 lower carbon

00:47:22.200 in the atmosphere,

00:47:23.900 but it seems

00:47:25.420 like it's got

00:47:25.900 some problems.

00:47:28.100 However, the

00:47:28.880 good news is

00:47:29.640 that at least

00:47:30.760 Occidental feels

00:47:31.900 that they can

00:47:32.560 scale this up

00:47:33.420 to their first

00:47:35.020 plant that's

00:47:35.740 coming online,

00:47:36.580 and they're

00:47:37.360 going to blow

00:47:38.020 most of the

00:47:38.620 CO2 into

00:47:39.340 the ground

00:47:40.320 and capture

00:47:41.060 it underground.

00:47:42.660 They can get

00:47:43.500 rid of 110,000

00:47:45.000 cars worth

00:47:46.300 of carbon.

00:47:49.400 And they

00:47:50.020 plan to build

00:47:50.760 35 of these.

00:47:52.680 So 35 times

00:47:54.060 the 110,000

00:47:55.200 cars.

00:47:56.520 And that's

00:47:57.160 just one

00:47:57.540 company.

00:47:58.700 So if one

00:47:59.500 company could

00:48:00.580 remove, let's

00:48:02.660 say, the carbon

00:48:03.280 of, I don't

00:48:04.800 know, half a

00:48:05.620 million or a

00:48:06.220 million cars,

00:48:08.220 that begins to

00:48:09.720 be important.

00:48:11.260 A million cars

00:48:12.480 out of how many?

00:48:13.360 40 million or

00:48:14.180 something.

00:48:15.040 How many cars

00:48:15.660 in the United

00:48:16.000 States?

00:48:16.360 There's more

00:48:16.740 cars than people

00:48:17.400 probably.

00:48:18.800 100 million?

00:48:20.880 We make 14

00:48:22.040 million cars per

00:48:22.780 year, but we

00:48:23.180 also retire

00:48:23.780 cars.

00:48:24.200 so by

00:48:28.040 itself, it's

00:48:29.160 not big enough

00:48:29.860 to change the

00:48:30.980 world, but it

00:48:32.040 does suggest

00:48:32.680 that maybe

00:48:33.180 carbon capture

00:48:33.960 will become

00:48:34.640 a bigger

00:48:36.180 thing, and

00:48:37.160 they might

00:48:37.460 just get

00:48:37.800 better at it

00:48:38.260 and better

00:48:38.540 at it over

00:48:38.980 time.

00:48:41.620 290 million

00:48:42.340 cars.

00:48:43.920 It's going to

00:48:44.560 take a while

00:48:45.040 to put a

00:48:46.240 dent in it

00:48:46.720 at 1%.

00:48:47.580 But all

00:48:48.920 it's going to

00:48:49.880 take is for

00:48:50.460 it to make

00:48:50.880 money.

00:48:52.180 If it's

00:48:52.760 profitable,

00:48:53.380 there's going

00:48:53.660 to be more

00:48:54.020 of it.

00:48:57.140 Yeah.

00:48:59.140 All right.

00:48:59.720 Do you

00:49:01.900 think racism

00:49:02.640 is getting

00:49:03.220 worse in

00:49:03.700 the United

00:49:03.980 States?

00:49:04.540 Newsweek had

00:49:05.180 a piece on

00:49:05.600 this, and

00:49:06.580 there's a good

00:49:07.860 article by

00:49:08.400 Wilfred Riley,

00:49:10.140 assistant

00:49:10.520 professor of

00:49:11.380 poli-sci at

00:49:12.140 Kentucky State

00:49:12.720 University.

00:49:13.900 And so

00:49:14.800 here's the

00:49:15.440 weird thing

00:49:16.060 that's happening

00:49:16.480 with race.

00:49:18.040 So here's

00:49:21.380 some Pew

00:49:21.820 research data.

00:49:24.200 Eight in

00:49:24.880 ten black

00:49:25.600 Americans say

00:49:26.380 they have

00:49:26.700 personally

00:49:27.060 experienced

00:49:27.640 discrimination

00:49:28.260 because of

00:49:29.040 the race.

00:49:29.720 Does that

00:49:30.380 sound right?

00:49:31.740 Do you

00:49:32.440 believe that

00:49:32.980 eight in

00:49:33.480 ten black

00:49:33.960 people have

00:49:34.560 experienced

00:49:35.280 discrimination?

00:49:37.800 Of course

00:49:38.620 they have.

00:49:39.940 Of course

00:49:40.400 they have.

00:49:41.800 People say

00:49:42.540 no.

00:49:43.200 Are you

00:49:43.480 serious?

00:49:45.280 You think

00:49:45.940 black people

00:49:46.620 don't routinely

00:49:48.380 experience

00:49:49.280 racism?

00:49:50.840 There's some

00:49:51.540 people actually

00:49:52.040 saying that.

00:49:52.640 They don't

00:49:52.840 believe that

00:49:53.700 they actually

00:49:54.620 experienced

00:49:55.080 racism.

00:49:55.960 Of course

00:49:56.400 they did.

00:49:57.800 Eight out of

00:49:58.460 ten doesn't

00:49:58.960 surprise me a

00:49:59.560 bit.

00:50:00.300 Here's the

00:50:00.760 next question.

00:50:01.840 If you

00:50:02.120 ask the

00:50:02.460 question not

00:50:03.080 of black

00:50:03.600 people but

00:50:04.860 of white

00:50:05.640 men, how

00:50:07.260 many white

00:50:07.900 men in

00:50:08.300 America would

00:50:08.840 say that

00:50:09.160 they personally

00:50:09.820 have experienced

00:50:10.620 discrimination?

00:50:12.300 How many

00:50:12.640 white men?

00:50:13.920 It would be

00:50:14.200 100%.

00:50:14.840 Yeah, it

00:50:16.040 would be

00:50:16.240 100%.

00:50:16.920 No, it

00:50:18.700 would be

00:50:18.960 100%.

00:50:19.600 It would be

00:50:20.020 10 out of

00:50:20.460 10.

00:50:20.640 Just saying.

00:50:25.840 Now, here's

00:50:26.820 the second

00:50:27.160 question, which

00:50:27.780 I think is

00:50:28.180 more important.

00:50:30.440 How many

00:50:31.200 black people

00:50:31.840 would say,

00:50:32.460 according to

00:50:32.880 the poll,

00:50:33.980 that

00:50:35.040 discrimination

00:50:36.380 is the

00:50:37.120 main reason

00:50:37.740 black people

00:50:38.380 cannot get

00:50:39.040 ahead?

00:50:41.100 68%.

00:50:41.660 So, two

00:50:42.940 thirds of

00:50:43.740 black people

00:50:44.380 in this

00:50:44.840 survey, Pew

00:50:45.780 research, said

00:50:47.600 that discrimination

00:50:48.600 is the main

00:50:49.540 reason that

00:50:50.500 black people

00:50:51.000 can't get

00:50:51.380 ahead.

00:50:52.200 Now, I

00:50:52.440 assume that

00:50:52.780 includes

00:50:53.200 systemic

00:50:54.000 racism.

00:50:55.140 So, here's

00:50:58.460 a thought

00:51:00.500 experiment.

00:51:02.080 There are

00:51:02.420 two groups

00:51:02.920 of people,

00:51:03.580 and let's

00:51:03.980 say they're

00:51:04.320 the same

00:51:04.760 ethnicity, and

00:51:06.160 they're the

00:51:06.480 same intelligence,

00:51:07.600 and they're

00:51:07.840 the same,

00:51:09.120 they're basically

00:51:09.740 the same.

00:51:11.100 Just two

00:51:11.620 groups of

00:51:12.160 white people,

00:51:13.140 let's say.

00:51:13.940 And you say

00:51:14.620 to one group

00:51:15.220 of them,

00:51:16.380 you're being

00:51:17.300 massively

00:51:17.760 discriminated

00:51:18.540 against, and

00:51:19.480 so it will

00:51:20.520 be really,

00:51:21.180 really hard

00:51:21.440 for you to

00:51:21.800 succeed in

00:51:22.300 this world

00:51:22.720 because of

00:51:23.100 all the

00:51:23.340 discrimination

00:51:23.820 against you.

00:51:25.140 And then you

00:51:25.620 tell the other

00:51:26.140 group, you're

00:51:27.100 the kings of

00:51:27.660 the world.

00:51:28.340 There are

00:51:28.600 lots of

00:51:28.880 problems in

00:51:29.340 this world,

00:51:29.840 but you

00:51:30.100 will just

00:51:31.180 breeze through

00:51:31.860 them, because

00:51:32.920 you can do

00:51:33.380 anything.

00:51:35.680 Which group

00:51:36.460 is going to

00:51:36.860 do better?

00:51:37.960 The group

00:51:38.380 that are told

00:51:38.840 they can't

00:51:39.400 succeed because

00:51:40.540 discrimination is

00:51:41.440 holding them

00:51:41.860 back, or

00:51:42.860 the group

00:51:43.280 that's told

00:51:43.740 that nothing

00:51:44.160 can hold

00:51:44.620 them back?

00:51:46.160 It's pretty

00:51:46.900 obvious.

00:51:48.380 It's pretty

00:51:49.140 obvious who's

00:51:49.800 going to do

00:51:50.200 better.

00:51:51.780 That's a huge

00:51:52.640 problem, and

00:51:54.220 this is part

00:51:54.860 of that

00:51:55.200 backwards

00:51:55.700 looking point

00:51:57.600 of view, that

00:51:58.820 everything's about

00:51:59.580 what already

00:52:00.140 happened, and

00:52:01.680 if you take

00:52:03.360 your eye off

00:52:04.580 of the future,

00:52:06.040 you're going to

00:52:06.640 pay for it.

00:52:07.720 That's an

00:52:08.380 expensive thing

00:52:09.200 to do.

00:52:09.920 If you're

00:52:10.540 focusing on the

00:52:11.300 future and

00:52:11.900 planning for the

00:52:12.500 future and doing

00:52:13.200 what works in the

00:52:13.900 future, you're

00:52:15.020 going to do

00:52:15.320 fine.

00:52:16.420 If you're

00:52:17.140 focused on the

00:52:18.240 horrors of the

00:52:18.980 past, you're

00:52:20.500 going to live

00:52:20.800 there forever.

00:52:23.640 All right.

00:52:28.840 The proportion

00:52:29.900 of American

00:52:30.580 adults describing

00:52:31.620 relationships as

00:52:33.920 good between the

00:52:35.660 races was 70%

00:52:37.000 among blacks and

00:52:38.320 62% of whites

00:52:40.440 in 2021.

00:52:41.520 So basically,

00:52:42.540 both whites and

00:52:43.340 blacks are

00:52:43.820 describing race

00:52:45.040 relations as much

00:52:46.580 worse.

00:52:46.960 However, if you

00:52:49.300 were to look at

00:52:49.980 actual numbers of

00:52:51.220 people who, for

00:52:52.480 example, disagreed

00:52:54.320 with people getting

00:52:57.480 married of different

00:52:58.280 races, interracial

00:52:59.140 marriage, that's

00:53:00.260 the lowest it's

00:53:00.900 ever been.

00:53:02.560 So if you

00:53:03.800 actually measure

00:53:04.580 data, racism is

00:53:07.080 the lowest it's

00:53:07.760 ever been.

00:53:09.160 Because people are

00:53:09.920 no problem voting

00:53:11.340 for a president

00:53:12.000 who's black, getting

00:53:13.760 married to somebody

00:53:14.440 who's black.

00:53:14.980 like that, that's

00:53:16.460 going down to just

00:53:17.460 noise level.

00:53:18.480 It's just not a

00:53:19.180 thing that people

00:53:19.680 are thinking about

00:53:20.320 anymore.

00:53:20.960 So in that way,

00:53:21.640 racism is the

00:53:22.580 least it's ever

00:53:23.880 been.

00:53:25.200 So why is it that

00:53:26.600 people think it's

00:53:28.200 the worst it's

00:53:28.880 ever been?

00:53:30.080 The data shows

00:53:31.240 it's the best it's

00:53:32.800 ever been in the

00:53:34.560 things you can

00:53:35.060 measure.

00:53:36.060 But of the

00:53:36.540 things that are

00:53:37.000 more squishy, like

00:53:38.260 the subjective

00:53:38.880 stuff that you

00:53:39.980 can't really

00:53:40.380 measure, everything's

00:53:42.480 way worse.

00:53:43.160 of course it's

00:53:44.740 the news, of

00:53:45.760 course it's

00:53:46.240 social media.

00:53:47.640 Social media and

00:53:48.620 the news are

00:53:49.120 destroying the

00:53:49.960 country.

00:53:50.760 There's no doubt

00:53:51.320 about it.

00:53:52.560 It's obvious.

00:53:53.700 It's obvious that

00:53:54.880 the media is doing

00:53:55.580 this.

00:53:56.700 Because the media

00:53:57.460 used to brainwash

00:53:58.360 us to all believe

00:53:59.080 the same positive

00:54:00.640 stuff.

00:54:01.620 Hey, we're a

00:54:02.220 melting pot, we

00:54:04.060 don't do that

00:54:04.620 stuff.

00:54:06.100 And people

00:54:06.580 believed it.

00:54:07.880 And then they

00:54:08.300 acted like it was

00:54:08.960 true, and it was

00:54:09.960 good for everybody.

00:54:10.680 But now the

00:54:12.500 media is the

00:54:14.240 enemy.

00:54:15.700 All right, famous

00:54:17.360 female soccer

00:54:19.060 star Megan

00:54:19.960 Rapinoe.

00:54:21.660 You might

00:54:22.360 remember her from

00:54:23.360 the women's, U.S.

00:54:25.360 women's team.

00:54:26.560 And she was

00:54:27.280 either the best

00:54:28.580 star or one of

00:54:29.320 the best stars on

00:54:30.200 the winning

00:54:30.900 American team.

00:54:32.460 And she is

00:54:33.340 coming out

00:54:33.880 opposing the

00:54:36.160 proposed measures

00:54:37.420 that would

00:54:38.180 prevent

00:54:38.900 people who

00:54:42.360 were born

00:54:42.720 male from

00:54:43.980 transitioning and

00:54:45.080 playing on

00:54:45.800 women's teams.

00:54:47.640 So she doesn't

00:54:49.020 want to prevent

00:54:50.100 biological males

00:54:52.500 who have

00:54:52.980 transitioned to

00:54:54.160 women.

00:54:55.580 She doesn't

00:54:56.680 want to prevent

00:54:57.380 them from playing

00:54:58.140 in professional

00:54:58.900 sports.

00:55:00.480 Now, some

00:55:02.060 people have

00:55:02.540 said, do you

00:55:04.800 realize that you

00:55:05.640 would not be who

00:55:06.480 you are if they

00:55:07.500 did?

00:55:07.800 that she

00:55:09.020 specifically

00:55:09.740 would not be

00:55:11.220 the most

00:55:12.540 famous female

00:55:14.180 soccer player

00:55:14.880 because she

00:55:15.720 wouldn't be in

00:55:16.160 the top 10

00:55:16.840 or 20 or

00:55:18.700 100, depending

00:55:19.860 on how many

00:55:20.420 trans actually

00:55:21.080 entered the

00:55:21.580 league.

00:55:22.800 And here's

00:55:24.160 what I think

00:55:24.620 about that.

00:55:26.660 Is this not

00:55:27.660 the perfect

00:55:28.200 example of

00:55:30.120 performance

00:55:31.180 instead of

00:55:32.320 opinion?

00:55:33.420 Do you think

00:55:34.080 this is her

00:55:34.700 opinion or do

00:55:36.480 you think it's

00:55:36.920 her performance?

00:55:38.640 Because I

00:55:39.000 think she's

00:55:39.480 also LGBTQ,

00:55:41.140 am I right?

00:55:42.940 I think she's

00:55:43.980 a member of

00:55:45.960 the LGBTQ

00:55:46.740 team, so

00:55:48.900 she's supporting

00:55:50.480 the T part

00:55:52.180 of LGBTQ.

00:55:53.580 So I get

00:55:54.040 that.

00:55:54.820 I get that

00:55:55.740 there's this

00:55:57.080 sort of

00:55:57.420 artificial team

00:55:58.480 of people who

00:55:59.060 decided they're

00:55:59.660 on the same

00:56:00.080 team, and

00:56:01.080 she's on that

00:56:01.640 team.

00:56:02.880 Right?

00:56:03.120 she's on that

00:56:04.340 team.

00:56:05.140 So I get

00:56:06.600 that, but

00:56:07.960 this doesn't

00:56:08.580 feel like an

00:56:09.180 opinion at all,

00:56:10.180 does it?

00:56:11.540 It doesn't even

00:56:12.320 strike you as

00:56:13.180 that she really

00:56:13.840 believes it.

00:56:15.040 To me, it

00:56:16.220 looks like she

00:56:16.740 has to signal

00:56:17.440 this, and so

00:56:18.840 she's putting on

00:56:19.440 a woke

00:56:19.860 performance, and

00:56:21.080 you shouldn't

00:56:21.480 take it seriously

00:56:22.220 at all.

00:56:23.960 You should just

00:56:24.800 say it's a good

00:56:25.440 performance, and

00:56:27.400 you have

00:56:28.860 established

00:56:29.260 yourself as one

00:56:30.180 of the open

00:56:31.100 minded people,

00:56:31.920 good for you.

00:56:33.040 Now let the

00:56:33.640 serious people

00:56:34.200 talk.

00:56:36.120 Because the

00:56:36.640 serious people

00:56:37.200 need to make

00:56:37.680 actual decisions

00:56:38.540 based on what's

00:56:39.940 good or bad

00:56:40.540 for the world.

00:56:41.440 You don't.

00:56:42.700 Megan only has

00:56:43.500 to demonstrate

00:56:44.600 that she's a

00:56:45.280 good person.

00:56:46.260 There's nothing

00:56:46.940 else she needs

00:56:47.440 to accomplish.

00:56:48.580 And she did.

00:56:49.940 She did.

00:56:50.740 She successfully

00:56:51.720 transmitted to

00:56:55.000 us that she's

00:56:56.340 an open minded

00:56:57.060 person.

00:56:58.580 person.

00:56:59.960 So, I guess

00:57:01.040 that's successful.

00:57:02.500 But, I mean,

00:57:03.000 that's just a

00:57:03.520 clear example of

00:57:04.520 performance over

00:57:05.560 opinion.

00:57:08.060 And that, ladies

00:57:08.960 and gentlemen,

00:57:10.040 concludes the

00:57:10.620 best live stream

00:57:11.700 you're ever

00:57:12.900 going to see.

00:57:13.780 I remind you

00:57:14.460 again that if

00:57:15.320 you are not

00:57:16.620 on the

00:57:17.160 Locals platform,

00:57:19.300 scottadams.locals.com

00:57:21.620 subscription,

00:57:23.460 that you would

00:57:23.940 not be seeing

00:57:24.480 the Dilbert

00:57:24.960 comics that are

00:57:25.660 running this week

00:57:26.320 only on that

00:57:27.000 platform.

00:57:27.460 which are

00:57:29.780 getting spicier

00:57:31.440 every day.

00:57:33.000 A little bit

00:57:33.500 spicier.

00:57:35.780 I'm not going

00:57:36.460 to tell you

00:57:36.840 what this week's

00:57:37.600 theme is,

00:57:38.260 but there's no

00:57:39.200 way it would

00:57:39.580 have run in

00:57:39.980 newspapers.

00:57:40.580 Let me put it

00:57:41.040 that way.

00:57:41.680 No way.

00:57:46.800 All right.

00:57:48.860 It looks like

00:57:49.680 Locals worked

00:57:50.980 perfectly today.

00:57:51.900 We've got a

00:57:53.920 huge crowd

00:57:54.640 here.

00:57:57.340 About the

00:57:58.060 usual size

00:57:58.700 crowd here.

00:57:59.980 Your mind

00:58:00.420 is blown

00:58:00.880 by what?

00:58:03.680 Edward Dowd's

00:58:04.680 life insurance

00:58:05.280 study for early

00:58:06.180 deaths.

00:58:08.180 If there's only

00:58:09.120 one, I wouldn't

00:58:09.700 believe it.

00:58:11.060 But I also

00:58:11.660 wouldn't believe

00:58:12.780 that we know

00:58:13.280 the cause.

00:58:13.800 I just

00:58:18.760 sent you a

00:58:19.240 tweet of my

00:58:19.800 own cartoon.

00:58:24.120 Egypt is

00:58:24.820 selling rockets

00:58:25.460 to Putin.

00:58:26.500 What?

00:58:26.780 Lorenzo, you

00:58:33.980 don't have to

00:58:35.300 consume

00:58:36.880 everything on

00:58:37.600 Locals.

00:58:38.640 Some people

00:58:39.220 like the, by

00:58:40.420 the way, so

00:58:40.960 just for those

00:58:42.580 of you who

00:58:42.840 don't know, on

00:58:44.380 Locals, besides

00:58:46.360 my Dilbert

00:58:47.380 Reborn comic,

00:58:48.680 the only place

00:58:49.160 you can see

00:58:49.520 it, there are

00:58:50.580 also Micro

00:58:51.320 Lessons on

00:58:51.980 Improving Your

00:58:52.620 Life, and the

00:58:54.740 Robots Read

00:58:55.620 News comic,

00:58:56.480 which is

00:58:56.760 more subversive

00:58:58.520 than Dilbert

00:58:59.400 Reborn.

00:59:00.780 And I also

00:59:02.180 do live

00:59:03.220 streams from

00:59:04.200 my kitchen,

00:59:04.940 where I teach

00:59:05.440 you to cook,

00:59:06.640 very simple

00:59:07.220 things.

00:59:08.040 And from

00:59:09.820 my man cave,

00:59:11.140 where we do

00:59:11.700 enjoy some

00:59:12.520 legal adult

00:59:14.240 entertainment,

00:59:15.860 in the form

00:59:16.700 of smokeables.

00:59:18.340 But you

00:59:19.140 don't have to

00:59:19.560 watch it, it's

00:59:20.460 not required.

00:59:22.600 You don't have

00:59:23.560 to watch that

00:59:24.020 at all.

00:59:25.140 I mean, you

00:59:25.500 were watching

00:59:25.920 this,

00:59:26.420 otherwise you

00:59:28.140 couldn't have

00:59:28.520 commented.

00:59:32.260 Yeah.

00:59:33.180 And I would

00:59:33.860 also argue

00:59:34.440 that the

00:59:37.040 Locals platform

00:59:37.860 gives you more

00:59:38.840 hours of

00:59:40.260 entertainment per

00:59:41.140 month than

00:59:42.060 any streaming

00:59:42.860 service.

00:59:43.980 There's no

00:59:44.460 streaming service

00:59:45.280 that would give

00:59:46.320 you as many

00:59:46.900 commercial-free

00:59:47.900 minutes as

00:59:50.080 this.

00:59:50.320 I saw one

00:59:58.440 NPC comment

00:59:59.420 that I'm

00:59:59.980 going to

01:00:00.180 call out.

01:00:01.320 Whenever we

01:00:02.140 talk about

01:00:02.600 carbon capture,

01:00:03.540 somebody says,

01:00:04.420 we already

01:00:05.380 have it.

01:00:06.000 It's called

01:00:06.580 trees.

01:00:07.160 So if you

01:00:09.160 want to identify

01:00:09.820 as an NPC,

01:00:11.340 just say,

01:00:12.980 we already

01:00:13.500 have that.

01:00:14.480 It's called

01:00:15.020 trees.

01:00:15.580 Now, here's

01:00:17.600 another NPC

01:00:18.260 tip, if

01:00:19.240 the NPCs

01:00:19.920 are looking

01:00:20.160 for them.

01:00:20.800 If I say,

01:00:22.040 I went

01:00:22.520 swimming for

01:00:23.440 the first

01:00:23.860 time yesterday,

01:00:24.540 I didn't,

01:00:26.620 but let's say

01:00:27.000 it.

01:00:27.380 If I said in

01:00:28.080 public, I went

01:00:28.680 swimming for

01:00:29.340 the first time

01:00:29.860 yesterday, the

01:00:30.800 NPCs should say

01:00:31.820 what?

01:00:32.780 Go.

01:00:33.800 What should the

01:00:34.360 NPCs say?

01:00:35.360 If I mention

01:00:36.140 swimming, what

01:00:37.480 do they say?

01:00:38.200 In any context,

01:00:39.340 just swimming.

01:00:39.820 that's the

01:00:42.020 best kind of

01:00:42.500 exercise.

01:00:45.240 So the

01:00:45.960 NPCs have

01:00:46.940 to, if you

01:00:47.800 mention swimming

01:00:48.540 in any context,

01:00:49.860 they can't help

01:00:50.800 it.

01:00:51.300 Like, oh,

01:00:52.420 don't say

01:00:53.580 it.

01:00:54.300 Oh, my

01:00:55.000 mouth is

01:00:55.460 starting to

01:00:55.960 form words.

01:00:56.920 Like, oh,

01:00:57.720 swimming is

01:00:58.460 the best

01:00:58.840 exercise.

01:01:00.360 And they

01:01:01.000 can't stop.

01:01:02.580 You can even

01:01:03.440 tell them in

01:01:04.000 advance, hey,

01:01:05.580 Bob, I'm

01:01:06.920 going to say

01:01:07.620 something about

01:01:08.180 swimming.

01:01:08.620 I want you

01:01:09.740 to try as

01:01:10.300 hard as you

01:01:10.900 can to not

01:01:11.880 say swimming

01:01:13.020 is the best

01:01:13.540 form of

01:01:13.940 exercise.

01:01:14.700 Just try to

01:01:16.020 hold on.

01:01:16.880 And they'll

01:01:17.020 say, hey,

01:01:17.480 you know, my

01:01:17.800 swimming pool's

01:01:18.580 warm and I

01:01:19.180 was swimming

01:01:19.520 yesterday.

01:01:20.500 And Bob

01:01:20.960 would be

01:01:21.220 like,

01:01:21.440 it's the

01:01:25.560 best form of

01:01:26.060 exercise.

01:01:27.280 And there's

01:01:27.900 no way he'd

01:01:28.340 be able to

01:01:28.940 prevent it.

01:01:33.940 You can't

01:01:34.760 stop agreeing

01:01:35.420 with a fake

01:01:36.100 narrative about

01:01:36.920 CO2 danger.

01:01:38.620 Craig, what

01:01:40.000 are you

01:01:40.200 hallucinating?

01:01:42.420 Craig believes

01:01:43.280 that I

01:01:45.260 continue to

01:01:46.980 support the

01:01:47.640 fake narrative

01:01:48.260 of CO2

01:01:49.120 danger.

01:01:50.120 Do you

01:01:50.380 know that

01:01:50.680 my whole

01:01:51.140 fucking

01:01:51.680 brand is

01:01:52.480 the opposite

01:01:52.900 of that,

01:01:53.280 right?

01:01:54.040 Do you

01:01:54.320 know that

01:01:54.740 what I've

01:01:55.240 gotten in

01:01:55.640 more trouble

01:01:56.120 with for

01:01:57.360 anything else

01:01:57.900 is saying

01:01:58.240 that the

01:01:58.640 projections

01:01:59.220 and that

01:02:00.300 the alarm

01:02:00.860 about CO2

01:02:01.740 are bullshit?

01:02:03.000 Craig, you've

01:02:03.900 managed to

01:02:04.480 consume all

01:02:05.100 of this

01:02:05.380 content and

01:02:06.120 come to the

01:02:06.620 opposite

01:02:07.040 conclusion of

01:02:08.500 what's happening

01:02:09.040 here.

01:02:10.520 What is wrong

01:02:11.540 with you?

01:02:12.400 Seek treatment.

01:02:13.920 Seek treatment.

01:02:14.940 But I will

01:02:15.520 say this.

01:02:17.440 The science

01:02:18.600 does strongly

01:02:19.360 suggest that

01:02:21.360 adding CO2

01:02:22.280 to the

01:02:22.640 atmosphere,

01:02:23.460 if everything

01:02:24.520 else was the

01:02:25.240 same, would

01:02:26.420 raise the

01:02:26.820 temperature.

01:02:28.960 But here's

01:02:29.860 what I don't

01:02:30.360 believe.

01:02:31.320 Everything else

01:02:32.160 is always the

01:02:32.720 same.

01:02:32.980 I don't

01:02:34.300 believe that.

01:02:35.360 And I also

01:02:35.820 don't believe

01:02:36.280 we can

01:02:36.640 predict it.

01:02:37.820 And I

01:02:38.140 don't believe

01:02:38.540 we can

01:02:38.880 predict

01:02:39.260 carbon capture.

01:02:40.800 And I

01:02:41.100 don't believe

01:02:41.500 we can

01:02:41.940 predict

01:02:42.720 mitigation of

01:02:44.500 disasters.

01:02:45.500 None of

01:02:45.880 it's

01:02:46.040 predictable.

01:02:47.200 So, Craig,

01:02:48.680 how did

01:02:49.060 you get

01:02:49.380 exactly the

01:02:50.260 wrong

01:02:50.600 opinion?

01:02:55.440 All

01:02:55.940 right.

01:02:58.280 Who's

01:02:58.760 going to

01:02:59.040 carbon capture

01:02:59.740 a volcano?

01:03:00.760 Well, in

01:03:01.140 theory,

01:03:01.440 theory, if

01:03:04.500 you had

01:03:04.680 enough carbon

01:03:05.160 capture, you

01:03:05.800 could.

01:03:09.680 All right.

01:03:12.660 You think

01:03:13.400 George Soros is

01:03:14.400 experiencing

01:03:15.000 cognitive dissonance?

01:03:16.520 I think he's

01:03:17.560 experiencing

01:03:18.340 dementia.

01:03:22.200 But we

01:03:23.240 don't know

01:03:23.580 about his

01:03:23.960 son.

01:03:25.280 I would

01:03:25.880 love to

01:03:26.220 interview his

01:03:26.720 son.

01:03:27.420 Wouldn't

01:03:27.680 you like to

01:03:28.100 see that?

01:03:29.120 Wouldn't

01:03:29.340 you like to

01:03:29.760 see me

01:03:30.040 interview

01:03:30.520 George Soros

01:03:31.600 as some?

01:03:35.140 That would

01:03:35.640 be interesting.

01:03:37.060 That would

01:03:37.520 be one of

01:03:37.940 the few

01:03:38.840 interviews

01:03:39.680 that I

01:03:40.580 would be

01:03:40.860 totally

01:03:41.640 interested in

01:03:42.520 that.

01:03:44.940 Here's the

01:03:45.500 thing I

01:03:45.840 suspect.

01:03:47.260 I don't

01:03:47.580 know this

01:03:47.940 is true.

01:03:48.560 Maybe you

01:03:48.900 can give

01:03:49.140 me a fact

01:03:49.580 check on

01:03:49.940 this.

01:03:50.660 If you

01:03:51.140 were to

01:03:51.360 look at

01:03:51.700 all of

01:03:52.300 the things

01:03:52.780 that the

01:03:54.480 Soros'

01:03:55.020 give their

01:03:55.380 money to,

01:03:56.340 how many

01:03:57.060 of them

01:03:57.380 would you

01:03:57.720 say are

01:03:58.340 toxic?

01:04:00.140 It can't

01:04:00.900 be all

01:04:01.320 of them.

01:04:03.860 I mean,

01:04:05.020 you think

01:04:06.500 most of

01:04:07.200 them are

01:04:07.420 toxic?

01:04:08.420 Maybe so.

01:04:09.580 I guess

01:04:10.080 that's why

01:04:10.420 I'm asking

01:04:10.840 for a

01:04:11.400 fact check.

01:04:12.300 I suspect

01:04:13.220 it's the

01:04:13.720 ones you

01:04:14.000 hear about.

01:04:16.200 Don't you

01:04:16.760 think he

01:04:17.120 sometimes gives

01:04:17.820 money just

01:04:18.320 for climate

01:04:18.800 change stuff?

01:04:20.980 Let me

01:04:21.560 ask you

01:04:21.840 that.

01:04:22.200 You don't

01:04:22.460 think he

01:04:22.760 gives money

01:04:23.240 that's just

01:04:23.780 purely climate

01:04:24.800 change?

01:04:27.660 Which would

01:04:28.240 not be

01:04:28.600 toxic,

01:04:29.380 but it

01:04:29.760 might be

01:04:30.120 a,

01:04:30.900 you might

01:04:31.320 think it's

01:04:31.780 not a good

01:04:32.160 use of

01:04:32.500 his money,

01:04:33.080 but it

01:04:33.280 wouldn't be

01:04:33.540 hurting anybody.

01:04:36.740 Oh,

01:04:37.160 it wouldn't

01:04:37.360 be toxic?

01:04:38.760 So if

01:04:39.320 he donated

01:04:40.300 money to,

01:04:41.260 let's say,

01:04:41.600 make a

01:04:41.920 better windmill

01:04:42.560 or something,

01:04:43.500 that'd be

01:04:43.880 toxic?

01:04:47.340 You're

01:04:47.740 tough

01:04:47.960 graders.

01:04:49.400 You're

01:04:49.620 very tough

01:04:50.120 graders.

01:04:51.700 It might

01:04:52.120 be.

01:04:52.480 I suppose

01:04:52.840 it might

01:04:53.120 be.

01:04:54.160 All right,

01:04:54.480 but it

01:04:54.780 would be

01:04:55.060 well-meaning

01:04:55.720 even.

01:04:57.300 Let's put

01:04:57.880 it this

01:04:58.100 way.

01:04:58.460 If he

01:04:58.860 were funding

01:04:59.340 green

01:04:59.720 technology,

01:05:00.720 it wouldn't

01:05:01.500 be because

01:05:01.960 he wants

01:05:02.300 to destroy

01:05:02.920 the world.

01:05:07.360 Oh,

01:05:07.840 yeah,

01:05:08.100 I was

01:05:08.320 going to

01:05:08.480 mention

01:05:08.720 Vivek.

01:05:09.900 So Vivek

01:05:10.920 Ramaswamy is

01:05:11.860 doing these

01:05:12.200 podcasts where

01:05:12.900 he interviews

01:05:13.260 people,

01:05:13.920 and then he

01:05:14.160 gets to

01:05:14.620 really focus

01:05:16.000 on his

01:05:16.940 own point

01:05:17.460 of view.

01:05:19.480 And it's

01:05:20.640 just a

01:05:20.940 great way

01:05:22.060 to campaign.

01:05:22.700 you're

01:05:26.060 still going

01:05:26.320 to miss

01:05:26.540 a lot

01:05:26.740 of people

01:05:26.980 who don't

01:05:27.220 watch

01:05:27.440 podcasts.

01:05:31.060 All right,

01:05:31.680 good intentions

01:05:33.040 lead to

01:05:33.460 hell on

01:05:33.800 earth.

01:05:34.040 That's

01:05:34.240 true.

01:05:36.500 He is

01:05:36.800 the best

01:05:37.140 communicator

01:05:37.800 we've

01:05:38.060 seen,

01:05:38.480 Vivek is.

01:05:39.520 He's the

01:05:40.000 best

01:05:40.180 communicator

01:05:40.840 for the

01:05:42.620 Republicans.

01:05:44.380 All right,

01:05:45.960 the reframe

01:05:46.540 book,

01:05:46.900 that's probably

01:05:47.320 late summer.

01:05:48.760 But thanks

01:05:49.080 for asking.

01:05:49.760 All right,

01:05:49.960 YouTube,

01:05:50.340 thanks for

01:05:50.660 joining.

01:05:50.920 I'm going

01:05:51.260 to say

01:05:51.460 goodbye to

01:05:51.840 you now.

01:05:53.040 See you

01:05:53.320 tomorrow.

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Episode 2075 Scott Adams： Twitter Becomes X, Incels Go Wild, China Evidently Owns Biden Admin

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