Episode 2087 Scott Adams： Embrace & Amplify Reparations Persuasion, Unusable AI, BB&B Bankruptcy
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Bill Maher and Glenn Lowry have a conversation about why no one is talking about Black on Black crime in Chicago. Elon Musk takes away your blue check, and you have to pay $8 to get it back. And why is this a good thing?
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Hmm. I've got a random observation that will only apply to people of a certain age.
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I saw that Bill Maher had a guest on, Glenn Lowry, and his other guests.
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And one of the things that Bill Maher was talking about on Friday was all the black-on-black
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black violence in Chicago. And he asked, why is nobody talking about that?
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Why isn't that the thing all the black leaders are talking about?
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And Glenn Lowry, who is black and has a popular podcast, was talking about how the crime is going to
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chase out the middle-class taxpayers and then everything's going to be bad.
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And so I feel as if Bill Maher was tiptoeing into a topic that I may have opened up,
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but wasn't quite ready to quite get into it. A little bit timid there.
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But it does feel like the conversation's at least being broached.
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Now, here's the weird thing. How do you have that conversation, and you're Bill Maher,
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and you're the guy who was the most famous cancelled guy in the world,
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and for two weeks I was the major headline in the country for getting cancelled,
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and he never mentioned it. It was never one of the stories that he mentioned.
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And nor have I been invited to be on the show. Not that I need to be. I'm just saying.
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It's obvious by its omission, isn't it? Doesn't it feel obvious by omission?
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I feel like there's a number of people who want to weigh in on this, but don't know how.
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And I feel like Bill Maher might be in a fairly large group of people who want to be more engaged on the topic
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because they think it's important, and they think it's useful,
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but they don't know how without getting super cancelled.
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So we'll see if there's any more movement there.
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Well, there's a story that I don't understand at all, but maybe some of you can help me.
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Okay. So Elon Musk took everybody's blue check away if they got it for free,
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but everybody had the same option of paying their $8 and getting verified.
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So they can get their check back, they just have to pay $8.
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Now, there were a number of celebrities who just could not imagine being treated the way other people are.
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I think Jason Alexander was going to quit Twitter entirely if he had to pay for his special blue check
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because he got that special blue check for being special, and damn it, you take that away,
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He didn't say that, but it sounds like something he might have been thinking.
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But I thought some of the reactions were just plain silly.
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And then a number of people just magically got their blue check back without paying.
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Did Elon Musk just sort of pick some people to give checks to
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because they were complaining and he thought it'd be funny
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just to see what they'd do if they got a check?
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It was hilarious just to see how they would react.
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Like, first they complained for losing their check,
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and then they complained more for getting a free check that they didn't.
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why don't you give $8 to some charity for Ukraine?
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Do you know what Musk said when Stephen King suggested
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I just need to explain to Stephen King how economics works.
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I'm pretty sure that Stephen King's got some cognitive problems at this point.
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but Stephen King looks like he has some cognitive problems.
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responding to somebody else's tweet about Fauci should be in jail,
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but Musk softened that by saying he should be on trial.
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What would be the crime that Fauci should be on trial for?
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Or was he clever enough to be technically true?
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If he funded somebody that went ahead and funded it,
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See, there's a lot of things he did that we don't like,
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He certainly said things which the current reporting would suggest were misleading.
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Where is lying versus being technically true while being misleading?
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Anyway, I thought I'd see if you knew there's some specific crime that he's clearly guilty of, according to you.
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But, just to be clear, I share all of your suspicions.
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So, you can't get on the other side of me of suspecting there's something corrupt there.
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I just don't know exactly what, or exactly what the law would treat as a crime.
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It looks like it will be way too hard for people to use.
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Meaning, people will use AI for searching for simple information.
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But, it won't be that different than searching for information now.
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Here's what I keep seeing all these tweet threads about.
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Here, I used AI to build an app just from describing what I wanted.
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It built the entire website, and then it launched it.
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Do you think you could do what the person who did that tweet did?
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So, the first thing you have to do is, you have to figure out which of the 10,000 new apps
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So, first you have to sort which one of the 10,000 apps.
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But, let's say you could do that using a Google search.
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Do you think when you used it, it would create a working app,
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and it would open up a website, and it would just sign you up,
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and then suddenly you'd have a website, and no.
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There's not the slightest chance that's going to happen.
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I'm pretty sure that you would run into real-world problems, such as,
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oh, the AI is trying to sign up to, I don't know, GoDaddy or some website to register my domain,
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And then when it tries to register the domain, it finds out that it's taken.
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So, now you have to get involved, because you've got to pick among the several choices.
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Or, it tells you your credit card that it used has been stolen,
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In the real world, nothing works the first try.
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If you knew exactly how to build a website and launch it yourself without any AI,
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it still wouldn't be easy, because shit would go wrong every minute.
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You, you'd plug in a new plug-in for your website, and it just wouldn't work.
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Well, probably because some software version changed, and somebody didn't test it,
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Yeah, you might have a website, but it will be illegal, and it will, you know,
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and nobody will be able to figure out where the buttons are.
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Something tells me that this whole AI situation is going to look like
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you have to hire a lawyer, because it's too complicated to figure out the law yourself.
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You know what would be really easy to figure out?
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Imagine if every law were taken out of legalese and just written in English.
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Just, all the laws are just written in English.
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It would be so obvious, you probably wouldn't even have to hire any.
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for no good reason except paying lawyers, I guess,
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Because I wouldn't know how to fill in the form.
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You know, if you've got one person renting a room or something.
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But once you get into any complication whatsoever,
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First, you have to sort through 10,000 different apps.
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Then you've got to sign up and pay for it, right?
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So you've got to really, really do your research
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to make sure you're not paying for the wrong one.
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You probably need somebody who knows how to do that stuff.
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Because it turns out that you need to use super prompts,
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to get you the best answer to your simple questions.
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and now you've got to look for one of a million,
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some kind of technology that ordinary people use.
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and that helps me when there's any hard questions.
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the AI that can help you sort out the other AIs,
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that solves all of those problems I just mentioned.
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I'm pretty sure that humans are going to find a way
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so that the human part that didn't need to be there
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will just make everything too difficult to use.
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I'll bet Photoshop isn't helping you a bit, is it?
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because I get a lot of engineers on this live stream.
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But just think about the number of people you know
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who would never even think of opening Photoshop.
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It's exactly the same people you think are going to use AI.
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I like it when some of the smartest billionaires
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I'll tell you what all of those people have in common,
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but I feel like a positive Musk was in fusion as well.
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there absolutely are smartest billionaires, right?
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But if you put this group of half a dozen people in a room,
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Every one of you who say the AI stuff is boring,
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So, you can tell me in the comments all day long,
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You're not going to change me to stop talking about it.
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It is the biggest thing that's happening in the world.
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So, don't bore us with your boring AI is boring comments.
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It could solve every problem in the world, it seems like.
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Suppose our energy costs drop to approaching zero.
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Energy is the major cost behind making or doing anything, right?
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So, if you made energy costs drop substantially, even though monetary inflation still existed, the amount you paid for your stuff would go down, right?
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So, even though there's too much money supply, you can make up for that with productivity.
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I mean, the race to fusion is sort of a race to get there before the economy crumbles from inflation,
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or climate change kills us all according to some.
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But, that's the good news, is that the smartest among us are betting the same way.
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I don't believe there's any billionaire who's betting against it.
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At this point, it looks like it's an engineering problem.
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Do you remember I told you maybe five years ago?
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That Sam Altman had said something like five years ago that fusion was already an engineering problem.
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In other words, it wasn't a theoretical problem.
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They just had to figure out how to build, you know, how do you make a magnet that's super strong?
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Well, you just try and try until you make one that's super strong.
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How do you make it, you know, something that contains the reaction?
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Well, you just try and try until you get something that works, just like we invent everything else.
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So, five years ago, we were already in the engineering phase, which meant that there was nothing that would stop it.
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Once you're at the engineering phase, it's going to happen.
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I think Sam Altman's prediction that it had reached the engineering stage feels exactly right.
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And these other billionaires have seen the same thing, I think.
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And it's those 20% coupons that they send out all the time.
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So, every few weeks, you get in the mail these big 20% coupons.
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What was the first reaction when I got a 20% coupon?
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I'd say, you're going to make me keep track of this piece of paper that came in the mail
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because otherwise I'm going to pay too much, 20% too much, which is substantial,
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for the next thing I buy at this store that I like to use.
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And so, I'd say to myself, all right, all right, I'll put it in my car.
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I go to the store and I'm like, ah, I beat the system this time.
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I hated having it in my glove compartment every time I opened it.
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I don't want to keep their paper in my car just because that's their process.
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But at least I beat the system because I'd keep it in my car.
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And so, then I go to the Bed Bath & Beyond and whip out my coupon,
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So, now I've got to build a system just to shop at one store.
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I have to design a system in my house where the mail comes in.
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I'll build a tickler on my calendar so that I'll enter the expiration date of the one that's
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So, then when I drive to the store, oh, let me shorten this story to fuck you, Bed Bath & Beyond.
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You deserve to be bankrupt more than any store I have ever experienced.
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Because of what they would try to make me do to buy their products.
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I usually am driving by and I want to get something.
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Because you still need the thing and you're going to forget about it, you know, if you don't
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I need, like, those little pump soap things for the bathrooms.
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I'll go to Bed Bath & Beyond knowing I don't have the 20% coupon and everything I see in
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Because I'm going to pay more than the person who's buying the same fucking thing in their
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It's the management and what they're doing to the customers.
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By the way, I do that screed that I just did to educate other management to not do that.
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And in public, he is proposing reparations for white people.
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He said, quote, you know, they talk about reparations.
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Where are the reparations to the people in the north who died to save the lives of black people?
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So, he said that to a group of people who all look white to me.
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Embrace and Amplify says you accept if there's an idea that is absurd, just absurd, but you can't make it go away because somebody's going to argue that it does make sense.
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If you can't make somebody understand that their idea is absurd, instead what you do is you embrace it.
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And then you ask them to give you details or to actually calculate the number or to make sure all the variables are included.
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Let's make sure that everybody who was hurt by slavery, let's make sure that they all get reparations, which would include everybody in the north, of course.
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Oh, well, it's difficult to figure out who is in the north.
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Well, I mean, it's difficult to figure out who descended from slaves, but we can figure it out.
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Let's just table that for now, but we'll figure it out.
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Well, then somebody else wanders in and says, hey, are you calculating reparations?
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All right, so the way to do that, it looks like you're doing it wrong.
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The way to do it is to compare what you're doing or what happened to the alternative.
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So you would have to compare descendants of slaves in the United States
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to descendants of black people who did not become slaves in the area of Africa that was where the slaves came from.
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So if you found out that American descendants of slaves were actually doing better than the Africans who were never slaves in the first place,
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So if you did the calculation that way, black people would owe money to pay for this better situation that they came.
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Now, you'd also have to calculate crime, wouldn't you?
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Because the legacy of slavery created an economic situation which led to a lot of crime,
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Now, that crime was often imposed on lots of different people.
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So shouldn't you figure out how much the prison systems cost and also how much the cost of crime is?
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You'd probably have to put maybe a dollar amount on the murder victims.
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Murder victims, you'd have to put a dollar amount on that.
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Say, okay, if you killed a parent, that's $5 million, something like that.
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So I think you'd have to figure out social services payments.
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You'd have to calculate how much welfare has been paid,
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You'd basically have to figure out everything that's different because slavery happened.
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And one of the things that's different is a higher crime rate than would have happened otherwise.
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Is that the plantation owners or the people who are freed?
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So if you wanted reparations to go away, all you'd have to do is embrace it.
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Just embrace it and say, all right, let's get serious about calculating this thing.
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And as soon as you got serious about calculating it, you would realize you couldn't.
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And if you did, it would make everything worse.
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So, is there anything I haven't talked about yet?
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Yeah, let me tell you what you're missing on the scottadams.locals subscription site.
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Here's the Robots Read News comic that I did yesterday.
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I wasn't going to make it public, but I'll read it to you.
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So, did you know that Biden has a new Department of Environmental Justice?
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The government is going to have an Environmental Justice Department.
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Do you know what happens when you add the word justice to anything that's not actually the justice system?
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If you add justice to anything, what's that mean?
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If you add the word justice, that's like a big flag.
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Oh, this is a grift, and it's just a political thing.
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So, it looks like the Democrats would like to use environmental justice as one more way to punish people for being racists
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if they allow too much CO2 into the air, I think.
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The idea is that climate change is racist because it affects people of color more than other people,
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and therefore, if you're a person who doesn't do enough for climate change, would you not be a racist?
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Everything has to be attached to racism, or they don't have any leverage.
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Because it's the only thing that they can make work, because they can still scare people that they'll call them racist.
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I need for climate change, or I'll call you a racist.
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Now, I can't think of any other reason they would call it the Environmental Justice Department.
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It would just be called the Environmental Benefit Department or something.
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They wouldn't call it a Justice Department unless they plan to use it as a weapon against white men, basically.
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So, here's the Robots Read News comic, which is always just one robot who always looks the same reading the news.
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The new Department of Environmental Justice convicted a Utah man for being a racist for mocking climate scientists every time it snows.
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The man was sentenced to be tattooed with swastikas and dropped off naked in Oakland.
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In his absence, a backup priest will handle Sunday's Mass.
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So, this, by the way, is my first comic I've ever written that had only four sentences, and all four were punchlines.
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So, weirdly, believe it or not, well, it was a weird coincidence.
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A weird coincidence, I'm not going to tell you about.
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If you follow the ethical skeptic on Twitter, he has, you know, tons of data arguments and graphs and stuff that I usually don't understand.
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But, he also had a piece he wrote, scientific, sort of a skeptical piece, in which he pointed out that, what do you do?
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I'm going to simplify a much more elegant argument, so don't blame him if I mischaracterize it.
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But, one of the questions was, why did CO2 keep going up during the pandemic?
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You know, why did CO2 not change when human activity completely changed?
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Now, so the hypothesis, the hypothesis is, for that and lots of other reasons that he points out, that there's some third source of heat that is, let's say, unexplored.
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Now, you're thinking, it's the sun, it's the sun, right?
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Yes, there are a lot of people who say, it's the sun, it's sunspots.
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You should know that the scientists have looked into the sunspots.
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And, whether they're right or wrong, they've looked into it and decided that's not where the action is.
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But, yeah, the other hypothesis is coming from the Earth itself.
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And that there are normal, natural processes in the Earth that are warming the oceans.
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In other words, deep in the Earth, there's something going on.
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Yeah, maybe an underwater volcano or something like that.
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But there's something going on that's just warming the oceans.
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You know, if you were going to say, name another hypothesis that could explain our observations.
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I can't think of anything else that would fit the observation.
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It's unlikely that the entire field is just made up.
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Now, I'm sure there are other scientists who are going to tell you that there's a reason that you should not look at that hypothesis.
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But on the surface, it would seem to explain a lot.
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Well, it's cooler lately, but that doesn't mean anything necessarily.
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Well, I think the problem is that the advanced aliens from Atlantis, when their island was destroyed, their island of Atlantis,
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I think they took their advanced technology and they bore into the center of the Earth,
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and they've got a big construction project going on in there, and it's warming our oceans.
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So there's a topic I'm considering never talking about again, and I want to get your thoughts on it.
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And I'm going to spell it because I'll get demonetized on YouTube if I say it, or I put it in the title.
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Apparently, that word makes you get demonetized because YouTube, and for good reasons.
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Since YouTube can't tell in advance if you're going to be anti or pro or neutral,
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they just put a hold on it until a human has a chance to review it, which is not crazy.
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There's just as much anti as pro, or at least there's a lot of both.
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So YouTube maybe wants to just make sure it's not some kind of a hate speech.
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But I'm not going to talk about it if they're going to punish me.
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It's their intention to do a good job for their advertisers and their public.
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Is anybody okay with me just never talking about it again?
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Or do you think it's still too relevant and too important?
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Well, if I do talk about it, I probably will break that.
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But if I do talk about it, it's not going to be in the title.
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And I might have to use code words to talk about it.
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You know, I'm pro-trans adults, you know, living out their best life.
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I don't really know what's true and what's not with the data, frankly.
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But I think I will keep the vow of not putting it in the title.
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So it's probably picking up the title more than anything.
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I think that topic is super boring at this point.
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The only thing that I thought was interesting is if the trend for women transitioning to...
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If the trend for men transitioning to women continues,
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because I think there's more of it in that direction, right?
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So the gender pay gap should be shrinking quite a bit
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Well, here I was mentioning that I'm not going to mention it,
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and it sparked this whole deep conversation in the comments about the topic.
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Because there's nothing more basic to your personal situation than something like that.
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Now, did I hear that the vice president of Bud Light got fired?
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See, I think that could be a little bit of fake news.
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It's probably true that she's not doing the job.
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It could be true that she couldn't take the heat.
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It might have been just too much heat, and she just needed to get away.
00:39:38.120
And I haven't seen any data on Budweiser sales.
00:39:43.100
I think their stock went down 5% for about a minute.
00:39:56.660
Well, you know, I think the way the people on the right are interpreting it
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is they're interpreting it as Budweiser knows they made a mistake
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So I don't know what to believe about that story,
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the actual vice president who's not in that job anymore,
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unless you hear from her, I think there's a gap in that story.
00:40:29.180
I wouldn't assume it's what it looks like on the surface,
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that somebody made a mistake and the corporation punished her for it.
00:40:36.840
Because I don't think the corporation could get away with punishing her
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for doing something positive for the trans community.
00:40:46.740
It feels more like maybe a decision that she made.
00:40:52.620
So don't make any assumptions, because we don't know.
00:40:55.000
Yeah, I mean, you could obviously say why it looks like a mistake.
00:41:00.840
But do you really think it affected their sales?
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I'm going to guess this summer is their big sales period, right?
00:41:15.240
We haven't seen any reporting on it yet, right?
00:41:22.300
But if it were your favorite beer, and it's not Bud Light,
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and let's say you just liked Budweiser, regular Budweiser,
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do you think you would change brands because of this?
00:41:47.100
There'll probably be some people who do make the decision.
00:41:49.440
But I guess we'll wait and see if their sales have been affected.
00:41:56.140
A lot of people don't know what Budweiser owns, though.
00:41:59.180
So it's going to be hard to boycott the other products they own.
00:42:10.940
I just don't like boycotts, but I see why you do it.
00:42:32.680
Somebody says the stock is fine, which is what I thought.
00:42:48.240
So probably it depends when the article got written.
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If ad age wrote the article at one point in time, it might have been just a fluke.
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We don't know if that's a stock or the sales or the sales of Bud Light or what.
00:43:13.920
Well, I only care in a business sense, not a product sense.
00:43:21.180
Oh, he said the champagne and beers, so the Europeans didn't like it.
00:43:41.320
You may have noticed that today was a slow news day.
00:43:47.960
How many of you saw RFK Jr.'s announcement speech or announcement video announcing his run?
00:43:58.620
And what did you think about his speech, just the content of his speech?
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Let's say the words he spoke about unity and getting stuff done.
00:44:11.280
I feel like he's picking up free money all over the place.
00:44:16.180
Don't you feel that America had this gigantic table full of free money in the middle,
00:44:27.540
You know, everybody had to bow to their extremes in their party.
00:44:31.440
So it looks like he's doing the bold move of being running as the president that everybody wanted,
00:44:40.220
which is somebody who would actually try to bring us together.
00:44:48.360
You know, it's not hard to support the other team if they're not being assholes.
00:44:57.320
Like, I think that it would be easy for Democrats to go along with some Republican stuff.
00:45:03.880
Not all of it, but some of it, except for, you know, the attitude and, you know, the team play and all that.
00:45:10.160
So if you could get somebody who could take the energy out of the fight and just say,
00:45:15.220
all right, there's some stuff in the middle we just have to be reasonable about and just get this middle stuff done,
00:45:21.640
and maybe he's got the message that we'll get that done.
00:45:24.600
Now, do you think that the Democrats are panicking because RFK Jr. is not part of the deep state, we assume.
00:45:39.960
And that they have a deep state play that they're readying, but we haven't seen it yet.
00:45:45.100
Don't you feel that the Democrats have a backup plan to Biden they haven't ruled out yet?
00:45:50.540
And they're just waiting for Biden himself to say he's not running?
00:45:59.940
It feels like the Democrats know that Biden's a liability, but they can't tell him he's a liability because he's still president.
00:46:08.620
And there's, you know, he still has supporters and he just can't go on record.
00:46:14.620
He's got too much power, even though he's demented.
00:46:17.660
So I feel like they're waiting because they think he will make the decision on his own.
00:46:27.560
You know, Jill, he's looking a little tired lately.
00:46:31.620
I'm not saying he shouldn't run, but you're the one who's closest to us.
00:46:35.480
And it seems like, Jill, you're the only one who can tell us if he's not ready.
00:46:41.940
I mean, I feel like he wouldn't tell us because he wants to serve the country.
00:46:47.320
And Jill, do you think you could talk him out of it if it seemed like a bad idea?
00:46:52.060
So don't you think that there are forces that are trying to reach all of his inner circle to see if the inner circle will talk him out of running and that they've got somebody ready to go and it won't be Kamala?
00:47:07.700
It just feels like that, like that they're waiting as long as they can to see if his inner circle will talk him out of running.
00:47:14.840
Now, before RFK Jr. announced, almost anybody that they had substituted for Biden would be probably have a real good chance of being president.
00:47:30.980
But now what happens if they bring in a new name, a name that has not been, you know, at the top level of politics yet, and that person has to run against a Kennedy for the primaries?
00:47:46.440
RFK Jr. is really throwing a gigantic variable into this deal.
00:47:52.200
Yeah, so Newsom, everybody says Newsom's the heir apparent.
00:47:56.140
And Newsom's playing the, no, I'm all for Joe Biden, which does suggest he's the heir apparent.
00:48:03.400
The vigor with which he says he's not running because Joe Biden's going to run suggests he's supporting Biden, which suggests that he probably has some kind of a deal worked out, that he's the heir apparent if the insiders can convince Biden not to run.
00:48:21.140
Or maybe it's just some legal jeopardy that causes him not to run.
00:48:27.040
So it could be that the Democrats think that the Bidens are in such legal jeopardy, but they don't want to mention it.
00:48:34.680
So they're just holding on, waiting, see what happens.
00:48:44.940
Yeah, they've got to get rid of Kamala, obviously.
00:48:47.320
Yeah, Kamala can never be a candidate for president.
00:48:57.220
Close your eyes and you hear Catherine Hepburn.
00:49:01.200
Well, I was just listening to RFK Jr.'s video in which he's announcing his presidency.
00:49:09.020
And I would say his voice on the video is way, way better than it was last year.
00:49:17.080
It's not where he needs it to be, but the thing we don't know is if it's continuing to improve.
00:49:23.060
Because so far it's continued to improve since he had whatever procedure he had.
00:49:30.580
Because what it looks like to me is that as he learns to control his voice production, you know, just his natural voice production, he needs to get that compatible with whatever the procedure was.
00:49:52.180
So he could be speaking almost normally well into the primary.
00:50:04.160
Because there are a lot of people who just have trouble listening to him.
00:50:07.380
And I get that because I had a similar voice problem.
00:50:11.000
So if that goes away and it's well on the way to going away, or at least minimizing its importance, that's a really big variable.
00:50:22.120
You think the Dem operatives are going to take out Biden, somebody says.
00:50:32.040
You know what's fun about this election cycle is how many people would be pretty good.
00:50:38.700
There are a number of people who were considering that I would say, both left and right, I would say, well, I might not agree with all those policies, but at least that's a serious president.
00:50:49.000
I think RFK Jr. would be a serious president that you could be proud of, even if you hated some of his policies.
00:51:11.420
You know, you like what you get, you hate what you get.
00:51:16.360
In fact, there's only, I would say there are only two people considered for the presidency who are unambiguously unqualified.
00:51:32.520
They're by far the least qualified people in all of government.
00:51:37.560
In fact, I doubt there's anybody in Congress, of the entire Congress, I doubt there's anybody as weak as either one of them.
00:51:44.780
Probably the weakest politicians we've ever seen at the same time.
00:52:00.480
Yeah, I think Buttigieg is not, he's not winning too many friends there as transportation secretary.
00:52:11.700
Vlad is asking me, Scott, persuade my wife Monica, who is watching you right now, to actually like your show and stop complaining.
00:52:37.720
The only way you're going to get your husband to not love this show and maybe ignore you a little bit is lots of oral sex.
00:52:50.860
Because right now, this is competitive with you.
00:52:59.440
Hey, everybody, let's have a sip of a beverage.
00:53:08.220
You have to say to your husband, dear, I know you love this show.
00:53:15.020
But if I got something for you that you're going to love even more.
00:53:54.040
Are there any other marriages you need me to dissemble before we go?
00:54:00.500
Before we go, is there anybody else who needs to break up with their spouse?
00:54:17.900
Yeah, the whole vaccination question would have been a complete, you know, it would be, you know, non-starter five years ago.
00:54:30.280
But I think people so distrust experts that RFK Jr. can make his case, and people may agree or disagree, but they're going to at least agree with the following.
00:54:43.060
That there's risk, and they're going to agree that the experts in big pharma have lied to us.
00:55:15.400
Well, I don't know, but I heard there were some engines that didn't fire.
00:55:18.840
So, whatever causes some engines to not fire, I guess that was the problem.
00:55:28.540
Is it persuasive to say that Fauci incited a virus?
00:55:45.160
So, ladies and gentlemen, that is all we have for today.
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We will see you tomorrow when there will be lots of news, because it's Monday tomorrow.