Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 23, 2023


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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00:00:00.000 Do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
00:00:06.720 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of civilization.
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00:00:58.600 Hmm. I've got a random observation that will only apply to people of a certain age.
00:01:08.200 I don't think Dick Cavett was ever clever.
00:01:10.880 That's it. That's the whole comment.
00:01:18.320 I saw that Bill Maher had a guest on, Glenn Lowry, and his other guests.
00:01:25.300 And one of the things that Bill Maher was talking about on Friday was all the black-on-black
00:01:31.240 black violence in Chicago. And he asked, why is nobody talking about that?
00:01:36.980 Why isn't that the thing all the black leaders are talking about?
00:01:41.340 It's the black-on-black crime. 0.98
00:01:42.680 And Glenn Lowry, who is black and has a popular podcast, was talking about how the crime is going to
00:01:53.340 chase out the middle-class taxpayers and then everything's going to be bad.
00:01:58.580 And so I feel as if Bill Maher was tiptoeing into a topic that I may have opened up,
00:02:06.700 but wasn't quite ready to quite get into it. A little bit timid there.
00:02:12.940 But it does feel like the conversation's at least being broached.
00:02:18.240 Now, here's the weird thing. How do you have that conversation, and you're Bill Maher,
00:02:24.000 and you're the guy who was the most famous cancelled guy in the world,
00:02:29.000 and for two weeks I was the major headline in the country for getting cancelled,
00:02:33.400 and he never mentioned it. It was never one of the stories that he mentioned.
00:02:38.620 And nor have I been invited to be on the show. Not that I need to be. I'm just saying.
00:02:45.260 It's obvious by its omission, isn't it? Doesn't it feel obvious by omission?
00:02:51.920 I feel like there's a number of people who want to weigh in on this, but don't know how.
00:02:56.060 And I feel like Bill Maher might be in a fairly large group of people who want to be more engaged on the topic
00:03:05.100 because they think it's important, and they think it's useful,
00:03:08.340 but they don't know how without getting super cancelled.
00:03:12.720 So we'll see if there's any more movement there.
00:03:16.880 Well, there's a story that I don't understand at all, but maybe some of you can help me.
00:03:21.180 Okay. So Elon Musk took everybody's blue check away if they got it for free,
00:03:28.340 but everybody had the same option of paying their $8 and getting verified.
00:03:33.800 So they can get their check back, they just have to pay $8.
00:03:36.560 Now, there were a number of celebrities who just could not imagine being treated the way other people are.
00:03:44.440 It was unfathomable.
00:03:47.800 I think Jason Alexander was going to quit Twitter entirely if he had to pay for his special blue check
00:03:54.480 because he got that special blue check for being special, and damn it, you take that away,
00:03:59.180 and why would he even use Twitter at all?
00:04:01.300 Or something like that.
00:04:02.680 He didn't say that, but it sounds like something he might have been thinking.
00:04:06.180 I don't know. I'm reading his mind now.
00:04:09.080 But I thought some of the reactions were just plain silly.
00:04:12.140 And then a number of people just magically got their blue check back without paying.
00:04:20.320 What happened?
00:04:22.560 Did Elon Musk just sort of pick some people to give checks to
00:04:26.940 because they were complaining and he thought it'd be funny
00:04:29.600 just to see what they'd do if they got a check?
00:04:32.760 Because it was funny.
00:04:34.960 It was hilarious just to see how they would react.
00:04:38.580 Like, first they complained for losing their check,
00:04:40.820 and then they complained more for getting a free check that they didn't.
00:04:45.140 I think Stephen King was trying to say,
00:04:48.280 instead of giving me a free check,
00:04:50.740 why don't you give $8 to some charity for Ukraine?
00:04:56.760 Do you know what Musk said when Stephen King suggested
00:04:59.720 that he give $8 to Ukraine?
00:05:04.560 Musk goes,
00:05:05.200 I gave $100 million to Ukraine.
00:05:08.180 How much did you give?
00:05:09.100 And by the way,
00:05:19.360 I just need to explain to Stephen King how economics works.
00:05:23.900 If Elon Musk gives you a free check,
00:05:27.380 that did not create $8 of free money.
00:05:30.640 Everything about his tweet was just stupid.
00:05:38.340 I'm pretty sure that Stephen King's got some cognitive problems at this point.
00:05:44.280 Am I wrong about that?
00:05:46.900 I'm only based on his Twitter account,
00:05:50.180 but Stephen King looks like he has some cognitive problems.
00:05:53.980 That's what it looks like.
00:05:55.080 I mean, I don't know.
00:05:57.300 It just, it just, it presents that way.
00:06:01.000 But I'm no doctor.
00:06:04.880 I saw that Musk also tweeted,
00:06:07.180 responding to somebody else's tweet about Fauci should be in jail,
00:06:11.260 but Musk softened that by saying he should be on trial.
00:06:15.800 Now, what would be the crime?
00:06:19.380 What would be the crime that Fauci should be on trial for?
00:06:23.960 Name of the crime.
00:06:26.500 Fraud?
00:06:27.780 Well, specifically what?
00:06:31.740 Specifically what?
00:06:33.920 Lying to Congress?
00:06:34.940 But did he lie?
00:06:38.620 Or was he clever enough to be technically true?
00:06:42.160 In other words, if he said,
00:06:43.940 I did not fund it,
00:06:46.620 is that true or false?
00:06:48.100 If he funded somebody that went ahead and funded it,
00:06:51.740 is it true or false?
00:06:53.120 I don't know.
00:06:55.040 Gain of function research?
00:06:57.140 Was that illegal?
00:06:59.480 See, there's a lot of things he did that we don't like,
00:07:01.900 but I don't know which ones are illegal.
00:07:04.940 Suborning perjury, somebody says.
00:07:07.880 But did he?
00:07:09.500 I don't know.
00:07:10.800 He certainly said things which the current reporting would suggest were misleading.
00:07:17.340 Is it illegal to be misleading?
00:07:20.680 I don't know where that line is.
00:07:23.140 Where is lying versus misleading?
00:07:26.740 Where is lying versus being technically true while being misleading?
00:07:30.880 I have no idea.
00:07:32.840 Anyway, I thought I'd see if you knew there's some specific crime that he's clearly guilty of, according to you.
00:07:42.280 I don't know what it would be.
00:07:44.220 But, just to be clear, I share all of your suspicions.
00:07:48.900 So, you can't get on the other side of me of suspecting there's something corrupt there.
00:07:56.300 I do suspect there's something terrible there.
00:07:59.140 I just don't know exactly what, or exactly what the law would treat as a crime.
00:08:05.600 There's definitely something bad there.
00:08:07.640 That's all I know.
00:08:09.480 All right.
00:08:09.780 Here's my current prediction on AI.
00:08:15.380 It looks like it will be way too hard for people to use.
00:08:20.580 Meaning, people will use AI for searching for simple information.
00:08:25.260 But, it won't be that different than searching for information now.
00:08:31.580 Here's what I keep seeing all these tweet threads about.
00:08:35.420 Here, I used AI to build an app just from describing what I wanted.
00:08:40.860 It built the entire website, and then it launched it.
00:08:45.060 So, do you think you can do that?
00:08:47.640 Do you think you could do what the person who did that tweet did?
00:08:52.640 Try it.
00:08:53.820 Try it.
00:08:54.940 Go get your AI.
00:08:56.820 So, the first thing you have to do is, you have to figure out which of the 10,000 new apps
00:09:02.000 that were launched in the last month.
00:09:04.860 So, first you have to sort which one of the 10,000 apps.
00:09:08.340 But, let's say you could do that using a Google search.
00:09:13.080 Then you figure out the app.
00:09:14.380 Do you think when you used it, it would create a working app,
00:09:19.840 and it would open up a website, and it would just sign you up,
00:09:24.960 and then suddenly you'd have a website, and no.
00:09:29.600 There's not the slightest chance that's going to happen.
00:09:33.800 I'm pretty sure that you would run into real-world problems, such as,
00:09:38.220 oh, the AI is trying to sign up to, I don't know, GoDaddy or some website to register my domain,
00:09:45.220 because it would need to do that.
00:09:47.280 And then when it tries to register the domain, it finds out that it's taken.
00:09:53.740 So, now there are several choices.
00:09:55.760 So, now you have to get involved, because you've got to pick among the several choices.
00:09:59.960 Or, it tells you your credit card that it used has been stolen,
00:10:06.600 so your bank won't process the transaction.
00:10:11.280 Or, or, or, or, or.
00:10:14.060 In the real world, nothing works the first try.
00:10:18.120 If you knew exactly how to build a website and launch it yourself without any AI,
00:10:23.880 it still wouldn't be easy, because shit would go wrong every minute.
00:10:28.360 You, you'd plug in a new plug-in for your website, and it just wouldn't work.
00:10:33.480 Why?
00:10:34.240 Well, probably because some software version changed, and somebody didn't test it,
00:10:39.180 or it wasn't tested for your specific thing.
00:10:41.640 Yeah, you might have a website, but it will be illegal, and it will, you know,
00:10:47.220 and nobody will be able to figure out where the buttons are.
00:10:51.240 Something tells me that this whole AI situation is going to look like
00:10:56.480 you have to hire a lawyer, because it's too complicated to figure out the law yourself.
00:11:03.040 You know what would be really easy to figure out?
00:11:06.100 The law.
00:11:08.500 In theory.
00:11:09.800 Imagine if every law were taken out of legalese and just written in English.
00:11:14.900 Just think about it.
00:11:16.020 Just, all the laws are just written in English.
00:11:18.540 You wouldn't even need lawyers.
00:11:19.900 It would be so obvious, you probably wouldn't even have to hire any.
00:11:25.940 But, because the law is complicated,
00:11:28.960 for no good reason except paying lawyers, I guess,
00:11:32.820 ordinary people can't do the law.
00:11:36.300 Can I go to a website and just download a form
00:11:39.300 that a lawyer would have done in the past?
00:11:42.260 Yes, I can.
00:11:43.480 Do you know why I don't do that?
00:11:45.380 Because I wouldn't know how to fill in the form.
00:11:48.600 Except for the simplest stuff.
00:11:50.760 You know, let's say a lease agreement.
00:11:52.420 You know, if you've got one person renting a room or something.
00:11:55.880 Yeah, I could do that.
00:11:57.500 But once you get into any complication whatsoever,
00:12:00.840 you're going to want the advice of a lawyer.
00:12:03.180 And it's going to be the same with AI.
00:12:05.600 You're going to say to yourself,
00:12:06.600 all right, I'm going to do this thing with AI.
00:12:09.040 First, you have to sort through 10,000 different apps.
00:12:12.640 You have to figure out why they're different,
00:12:15.960 which one's better.
00:12:17.400 Then you've got to sign up and pay for it, right?
00:12:20.760 So you're only going to pay for one.
00:12:23.060 So you've got to really, really do your research
00:12:24.840 to make sure you're not paying for the wrong one.
00:12:27.620 And then when it's up,
00:12:28.940 do you think you'll be able to manage
00:12:31.200 all of its questions and stuff?
00:12:32.980 Probably not.
00:12:34.200 You probably need somebody who knows how to do that stuff.
00:12:37.000 Do you think you can even ask it a question?
00:12:40.140 Nope.
00:12:40.480 Because it turns out that you need to use super prompts,
00:12:44.120 like a paragraph or a page-long set of words
00:12:48.120 that somebody's tested
00:12:50.060 to get you the best answer to your simple questions.
00:12:53.580 Do you think you're going to know
00:12:54.500 how to write a page of super prompts?
00:12:56.860 Or do you think you'll be able to go to GitHub
00:12:59.620 or wherever they're stored,
00:13:01.320 and you'll know that,
00:13:02.360 oh, that's where they store the super prompts.
00:13:04.400 And then you'll be able to shop
00:13:05.980 from a million super prompts.
00:13:08.440 There'll be a million of them.
00:13:10.120 And you'll know how to find the one
00:13:11.480 that works for your specific question, right?
00:13:14.020 So now you've looked for one of 10,000 apps
00:13:17.020 that launched this month,
00:13:18.340 and now you've got to look for one of a million,
00:13:21.920 a million super chat suggestions
00:13:24.500 to get the right super prompts.
00:13:26.560 There's no way this is going to be
00:13:30.200 some kind of technology that ordinary people use.
00:13:35.700 There's no way.
00:13:38.060 Now, you can imagine the future
00:13:40.120 where there's an AI that helps you
00:13:42.400 with the other AIs, right?
00:13:45.060 Yeah, I know what you're thinking.
00:13:46.080 You're like, oh, no, I just use the AI
00:13:47.680 that tells me which AI to use,
00:13:49.840 and that helps me when there's any hard questions.
00:13:52.100 Good luck waiting for that.
00:13:55.460 If such a thing were invented,
00:13:58.220 the AI that can help you sort out the other AIs,
00:14:00.960 what would happen on day two?
00:14:03.380 On day one, somebody invents the AI
00:14:05.720 that solves all of those problems I just mentioned.
00:14:09.760 What happens on day two?
00:14:12.440 On day two, there are a million of them
00:14:14.280 because you couldn't copyright it.
00:14:16.580 There's no way you're going to copyright
00:14:18.080 an AI that helps you with other AIs.
00:14:20.460 So there'll be a million of them.
00:14:23.420 Which one do you use?
00:14:25.360 900,000 of them will be frauds.
00:14:31.080 I'm pretty sure that humans are going to find a way
00:14:33.480 to totally F up AI
00:14:35.260 so that the human part that didn't need to be there
00:14:38.840 will just make everything too difficult to use.
00:14:43.260 That's what I think.
00:14:45.480 In the same way that the fact that Photoshop
00:14:48.000 Photoshop is really, really good for artists,
00:14:51.960 I'll bet Photoshop isn't helping you a bit, is it?
00:14:54.980 How many of you use Photoshop?
00:14:58.140 It's really handy.
00:14:59.840 Fix up your...
00:15:00.980 You fix up...
00:15:01.820 Okay, a lot of you do
00:15:02.720 because I get a lot of engineers on this live stream.
00:15:06.220 But just think about the number of people you know
00:15:08.480 who would never even think of opening Photoshop.
00:15:10.880 It's exactly the same people you think are going to use AI.
00:15:15.300 They're not.
00:15:16.760 They're absolutely not going to use AI.
00:15:18.900 Not the way you imagine it based on today's...
00:15:22.080 today's model of things.
00:15:23.980 All right.
00:15:27.980 Here's something that makes me happy.
00:15:29.840 I like it when some of the smartest billionaires
00:15:32.100 are on the same side.
00:15:33.080 So, here are the billionaires
00:15:36.400 who are investing big on fusion.
00:15:41.340 All right.
00:15:41.860 So, you got your Bill Gates, Peter Thiel,
00:15:44.920 Jeff Bezos, and Mark Benioff,
00:15:47.180 founder of Salesforce.
00:15:48.820 I'll tell you what all of those people have in common,
00:15:51.160 and also Sam Altman,
00:15:52.760 who's the ChatGPT guy,
00:15:54.880 and I'm pretty sure Musk, too.
00:15:58.860 Musk isn't mentioned,
00:15:59.660 but I feel like a positive Musk was in fusion as well.
00:16:06.720 So, how does that make you feel?
00:16:09.980 Just think about this for a minute.
00:16:12.600 Just think about the fact that
00:16:14.000 there absolutely are smartest billionaires, right?
00:16:16.760 I mean, there are other smart ones.
00:16:18.280 But if you put this group of half a dozen people in a room,
00:16:24.560 if you put...
00:16:25.400 Let me stop something here.
00:16:26.780 Every one of you who say the AI stuff is boring,
00:16:30.460 it's not going to stop.
00:16:32.260 All right.
00:16:32.740 AI is pretty much the future.
00:16:34.920 So, you can tell me in the comments all day long,
00:16:37.360 AI stuff is boring.
00:16:38.700 You should just go somewhere else.
00:16:40.400 That's not going to change.
00:16:41.760 You're not going to change me to stop talking about it.
00:16:44.680 It is the biggest thing that's happening in the world.
00:16:47.300 It's the primary source of news.
00:16:49.580 I'm not going to stop talking about it.
00:16:51.060 There'll be more.
00:16:51.840 There'll be a lot more.
00:16:53.100 So, stop complaining about it.
00:16:54.880 Your only option is to leave.
00:16:57.780 And you're welcome to leave.
00:16:59.780 Okay?
00:17:00.520 So, don't bore us with your boring AI is boring comments.
00:17:05.440 We don't want to see them.
00:17:06.500 You're boring us.
00:17:07.420 Just go somewhere else.
00:17:11.140 So, I love this.
00:17:12.420 Because fusion, in theory,
00:17:14.140 could be our free energy of the future.
00:17:15.980 It could solve every problem in the world, it seems like.
00:17:19.080 It could even solve inflation.
00:17:21.500 Can it?
00:17:21.860 Is that stupid or is that smart?
00:17:26.020 Suppose our energy costs drop to approaching zero.
00:17:32.460 Energy is the major cost behind making or doing anything, right?
00:17:37.420 It's one of the major costs.
00:17:38.660 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?
00:17:49.740 So, even though there's too much money supply, you can make up for that with productivity.
00:17:54.580 So, it's huge.
00:17:56.620 I mean, the race to fusion is sort of a race to get there before the economy crumbles from inflation,
00:18:04.740 or climate change kills us all according to some.
00:18:08.940 But, that's the good news, is that the smartest among us are betting the same way.
00:18:18.740 And I like that.
00:18:19.500 I don't believe there's any billionaire who's betting against it.
00:18:23.360 At this point, it looks like it's an engineering problem.
00:18:26.840 Do you remember I told you maybe five years ago?
00:18:31.720 We'll see if anybody remembers this.
00:18:34.600 That Sam Altman had said something like five years ago that fusion was already an engineering problem.
00:18:43.640 In other words, it wasn't a theoretical problem.
00:18:46.660 They know the theory works.
00:18:49.820 They just had to figure out how to build, you know, how do you make a magnet that's super strong?
00:18:55.380 Well, you just try and try until you make one that's super strong.
00:18:58.580 How do you make it, you know, something that contains the reaction?
00:19:03.140 Well, you just try and try until you get something that works, just like we invent everything else.
00:19:08.720 So, five years ago, we were already in the engineering phase, which meant that there was nothing that would stop it.
00:19:15.460 Once you're at the engineering phase, it's going to happen.
00:19:19.740 You just don't know if it's one year or ten.
00:19:22.200 So, here we are.
00:19:23.220 I think Sam Altman's prediction that it had reached the engineering stage feels exactly right.
00:19:31.320 And these other billionaires have seen the same thing, I think.
00:19:35.060 All right.
00:19:35.720 Bed, Bath & Beyond has filed for bankruptcy.
00:19:38.460 And I have a theory for why that happened.
00:19:41.380 And it's those 20% coupons that they send out all the time.
00:19:46.520 So, every few weeks, you get in the mail these big 20% coupons.
00:19:50.040 What was the first reaction when I got a 20% coupon?
00:19:54.980 Do you know what I'd say?
00:19:57.060 A string of invectives.
00:20:00.840 I would hate the store as soon as I got it.
00:20:03.800 Like, oh, you mother.
00:20:06.060 I would just start swearing at it.
00:20:08.280 I'd say, you're going to make me keep track of this piece of paper that came in the mail
00:20:13.620 because otherwise I'm going to pay too much, 20% too much, which is substantial,
00:20:18.640 for the next thing I buy at this store that I like to use.
00:20:21.400 Because I like the store.
00:20:22.300 It's a great store.
00:20:24.380 And so, I'd say to myself, all right, all right, I'll put it in my car.
00:20:28.780 Right?
00:20:29.180 That's what you're thinking.
00:20:30.100 Just put it in your car.
00:20:32.660 Then you'll have it.
00:20:33.460 So, I put it in my car.
00:20:35.880 I go to the store and I'm like, ah, I beat the system this time.
00:20:39.320 Because I did do this.
00:20:40.620 I did put it in my car.
00:20:42.500 I hated having it in my glove compartment every time I opened it.
00:20:47.560 I'd be like, damn it.
00:20:48.900 They're manipulating me.
00:20:50.520 They're making me keep this in my car.
00:20:52.480 I don't want to keep their paper in my car just because that's their process.
00:20:57.740 But at least I beat the system because I'd keep it in my car.
00:21:01.600 And so, then I go to the Bed Bath & Beyond and whip out my coupon,
00:21:05.200 which had expired a month ago.
00:21:07.700 They expire.
00:21:09.760 They expire.
00:21:12.500 So, now I've got to build a system just to shop at one store.
00:21:17.340 I have to design a system in my house where the mail comes in.
00:21:22.000 Then I take the new one.
00:21:24.220 I go out to the garage.
00:21:26.220 I go into the glove compartment.
00:21:28.700 I switch out the expired one.
00:21:30.260 But first I check.
00:21:31.600 Maybe I build a tickler. 0.98
00:21:33.000 Well, this would be better.
00:21:34.100 I'll build a tickler on my calendar so that I'll enter the expiration date of the one that's
00:21:38.780 in the glove compartment.
00:21:40.060 So, then when I drive to the store, oh, let me shorten this story to fuck you, Bed Bath & Beyond.
00:21:45.760 You deserve to be bankrupt more than any store I have ever experienced.
00:21:49.700 I hate, hate, hate your fucking store.
00:21:52.620 I hate it.
00:21:53.480 There's no other store I hate.
00:21:57.040 And think about this.
00:21:58.800 I love their products.
00:22:00.800 Their products are excellent.
00:22:02.940 Shopping there was a good experience.
00:22:04.680 I hate them.
00:22:05.680 I hate them.
00:22:07.200 Hate them.
00:22:08.300 Because of what they would try to make me do to buy their products.
00:22:11.640 Do you know what I usually did?
00:22:13.240 I usually did not have a...
00:22:15.400 I usually am driving by and I want to get something.
00:22:18.820 And I'll say, oh, I'll do one of two things.
00:22:22.480 I'll say, oh, I don't have my 20% coupon.
00:22:24.640 So, I go home and I buy it on Amazon.
00:22:28.400 Right?
00:22:29.620 Because you still need the thing and you're going to forget about it, you know, if you don't
00:22:34.020 do something.
00:22:34.980 So, you go, oh, I forgot.
00:22:36.340 I need, like, those little pump soap things for the bathrooms. 1.00
00:22:40.480 I'll just Amazon it.
00:22:42.100 Or, this is worse.
00:22:44.380 I'll go to Bed Bath & Beyond knowing I don't have the 20% coupon and everything I see in
00:22:50.420 the store looks overpriced.
00:22:51.780 Because I'm going to pay more than the person who's buying the same fucking thing in their
00:22:58.960 basket right behind me.
00:23:00.760 I hate that store.
00:23:02.760 Hate them.
00:23:03.980 Now, again, it's not the store.
00:23:06.760 It's the management and what they're doing to the customers.
00:23:10.480 Absolutely abusive.
00:23:13.360 Psychologically abusive.
00:23:15.900 That store.
00:23:17.200 They need to be out of business so badly.
00:23:19.720 Which is terrible because I love their store.
00:23:22.720 Except for the coupons.
00:23:26.700 All right.
00:23:27.120 So, a good example of Embrace and Amplify.
00:23:32.340 By the way, I do that screed that I just did to educate other management to not do that.
00:23:43.760 Really don't do that.
00:23:44.960 Just super don't do that. 0.99
00:23:47.140 Anyway, Embrace and Amplify.
00:23:48.940 There's an Ohio GOP Senate candidate.
00:23:52.300 So, Bernie Marino.
00:23:55.260 And in public, he is proposing reparations for white people. 0.74
00:24:00.060 He said, quote, you know, they talk about reparations.
00:24:05.220 Where are the reparations to the people in the north who died to save the lives of black people?
00:24:10.120 So, he said that to a group of people who all look white to me.
00:24:20.980 What do you think of that?
00:24:22.060 Now, this is what I call Embrace and Amplify.
00:24:27.400 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.
00:24:38.820 If you can't make somebody understand that their idea is absurd, instead what you do is you embrace it.
00:24:46.400 And then you ask them to give you details or to actually calculate the number or to make sure all the variables are included.
00:24:53.940 Because that's what you do if you embrace it.
00:24:55.680 Yeah, I like your idea.
00:24:57.640 Yeah, this reparations is good.
00:24:59.020 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.
00:25:12.280 Oh, well, it's difficult to figure out who is in the north.
00:25:15.340 Well, I mean, it's difficult to figure out who descended from slaves, but we can figure it out.
00:25:19.960 I mean, we'll figure that out.
00:25:22.240 Let's just table that for now, but we'll figure it out.
00:25:26.000 All right, and then what happens next?
00:25:27.700 Well, then somebody else wanders in and says, hey, are you calculating reparations?
00:25:33.240 All right, so the way to do that, it looks like you're doing it wrong.
00:25:36.580 The way to do it is to compare what you're doing or what happened to the alternative.
00:25:42.420 That's the only logical thing.
00:25:44.280 I've said this before.
00:25:45.600 So you would have to compare descendants of slaves in the United States
00:25:50.260 to descendants of black people who did not become slaves in the area of Africa that was where the slaves came from.
00:26:00.440 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,
00:26:11.920 then they'd come out ahead.
00:26:14.380 There'd be no reparations.
00:26:15.820 In fact, they would owe money.
00:26:16.760 So if you did the calculation that way, black people would owe money to pay for this better situation that they came. 0.99
00:26:25.920 Now, you'd also have to calculate crime, wouldn't you?
00:26:29.080 Crime is part of it.
00:26:30.020 Because the legacy of slavery created an economic situation which led to a lot of crime,
00:26:37.880 a high rate of crime in the black community.
00:26:40.280 Now, that crime was often imposed on lots of different people.
00:26:46.960 So shouldn't you figure out how much the prison systems cost and also how much the cost of crime is?
00:26:54.300 You'd probably have to put maybe a dollar amount on the murder victims.
00:26:59.920 Murder victims, you'd have to put a dollar amount on that.
00:27:02.880 Say, okay, if you killed a parent, that's $5 million, something like that.
00:27:07.320 So I think you'd have to figure out social services payments.
00:27:13.540 You'd have to calculate how much welfare has been paid,
00:27:17.720 how much prison services, police services.
00:27:21.580 You'd basically have to figure out everything that's different because slavery happened.
00:27:27.540 And one of the things that's different is a higher crime rate than would have happened otherwise.
00:27:33.260 But who's responsible for that?
00:27:35.760 Is that the plantation owners or the people who are freed?
00:27:40.760 Well, it gets complicated now, doesn't it?
00:27:42.900 Because we can't agree on that.
00:27:44.780 So if you wanted reparations to go away, all you'd have to do is embrace it.
00:27:49.360 Just embrace it and say, all right, let's get serious about calculating this thing.
00:27:54.900 And as soon as you got serious about calculating it, you would realize you couldn't.
00:27:59.440 It would just be absurd.
00:28:02.200 And if you did, it would make everything worse.
00:28:06.600 It would just make everything worse.
00:28:09.440 But you could.
00:28:10.320 All right.
00:28:14.540 So, is there anything I haven't talked about yet?
00:28:22.560 Yeah, let me tell you what you're missing on the scottadams.locals subscription site.
00:28:29.320 Here's the Robots Read News comic that I did yesterday.
00:28:36.280 Some people said they liked it.
00:28:37.640 I wasn't going to make it public, but I'll read it to you.
00:28:41.360 So, did you know that Biden has a new Department of Environmental Justice?
00:28:46.060 Have you heard of that?
00:28:48.140 The government is going to have an Environmental Justice Department.
00:28:52.980 Do you know what happens when you add the word justice to anything that's not actually the justice system?
00:29:00.960 You know, the legal system?
00:29:02.280 If you add justice to anything, what's that mean?
00:29:06.620 It's a grift.
00:29:08.580 Right.
00:29:09.080 If you add the word justice, that's like a big flag.
00:29:11.420 Oh, this is a grift, and it's just a political thing.
00:29:14.120 So, it looks like the Democrats would like to use environmental justice as one more way to punish people for being racists
00:29:23.480 if they allow too much CO2 into the air, I think.
00:29:29.220 Right?
00:29:30.040 The idea is that climate change is racist because it affects people of color more than other people,
00:29:36.920 and therefore, if you're a person who doesn't do enough for climate change, would you not be a racist?
00:29:46.300 Right?
00:29:47.280 Because the Democrats only have one play.
00:29:51.560 Everything has to be attached to racism, or they don't have any leverage.
00:29:55.660 Because it's the only thing that they can make work, because they can still scare people that they'll call them racist.
00:30:01.820 I need for climate change, or I'll call you a racist.
00:30:04.260 Now, I can't think of any other reason they would call it the Environmental Justice Department.
00:30:09.100 Do you?
00:30:10.020 It would just be called the Environmental Benefit Department or something.
00:30:15.100 They wouldn't call it a Justice Department unless they plan to use it as a weapon against white men, basically.
00:30:21.920 Of course.
00:30:22.740 Yeah, it's racist.
00:30:24.080 So, here's the Robots Read News comic, which is always just one robot who always looks the same reading the news.
00:30:29.920 And the robot says,
00:30:31.260 The new Department of Environmental Justice convicted a Utah man for being a racist for mocking climate scientists every time it snows.
00:30:41.220 The man was sentenced to be tattooed with swastikas and dropped off naked in Oakland.
00:30:46.500 In his absence, a backup priest will handle Sunday's Mass.
00:30:51.080 No one is above the law.
00:30:52.160 So, this, by the way, is my first comic I've ever written that had only four sentences, and all four were punchlines.
00:31:03.380 There are four punchlines in one comic.
00:31:05.420 I've never done that before.
00:31:07.620 First time.
00:31:09.560 All right.
00:31:12.280 So, weirdly, believe it or not, well, it was a weird coincidence.
00:31:19.100 A weird coincidence, I'm not going to tell you about.
00:31:21.220 Too boring.
00:31:22.300 All right.
00:31:25.240 I feel like there's some other story.
00:31:27.040 Oh, I saw this tweet by the ethical skeptic.
00:31:31.640 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.
00:31:42.460 So, I don't know what to make of him.
00:31:43.960 But, he also had a piece he wrote, scientific, sort of a skeptical piece, in which he pointed out that, what do you do?
00:31:57.680 I'm going to simplify a much more elegant argument, so don't blame him if I mischaracterize it.
00:32:04.240 But, one of the questions was, why did CO2 keep going up during the pandemic?
00:32:10.460 Have you ever asked yourself that?
00:32:14.060 It's a little bit unexplained.
00:32:17.000 You know, why did CO2 not change when human activity completely changed?
00:32:21.460 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.
00:32:37.740 Now, you're thinking, it's the sun, it's the sun, right?
00:32:41.760 Now, I'm not talking about the sun.
00:32:43.640 Yes, there are a lot of people who say, it's the sun, it's sunspots.
00:32:47.960 You should know that the scientists have looked into the sunspots.
00:32:52.580 And, whether they're right or wrong, they've looked into it and decided that's not where the action is.
00:32:59.180 But, yeah, the other hypothesis is coming from the Earth itself.
00:33:03.240 And that there are normal, natural processes in the Earth that are warming the oceans.
00:33:10.700 In other words, deep in the Earth, there's something going on.
00:33:14.240 Yeah, maybe an underwater volcano or something like that.
00:33:16.780 But there's something going on that's just warming the oceans.
00:33:19.820 And that's mostly what you're seeing.
00:33:22.380 It has nothing to do with humans.
00:33:25.320 What do you think of that?
00:33:26.860 I'm not going to claim that's true.
00:33:29.240 I won't claim it's true.
00:33:30.540 I'm just going to claim it's not bad.
00:33:35.520 You know, if you were going to say, name another hypothesis that could explain our observations.
00:33:43.500 Name one.
00:33:45.080 I can't think of another one.
00:33:46.680 Can you?
00:33:47.760 I can't think of anything else that would fit the observation.
00:33:52.120 Unless it's all made up.
00:33:54.080 I mean, that would fit the observation, too.
00:33:56.360 But it's very unlikely.
00:33:57.660 It's unlikely that the entire field is just made up.
00:34:02.000 But, you know, it's possible.
00:34:03.620 It's actually possible.
00:34:05.160 It's just unlikely.
00:34:07.360 I don't know.
00:34:08.400 I kind of like the hypothesis.
00:34:10.780 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.
00:34:17.980 But on the surface, it would seem to explain a lot.
00:34:21.880 Well, it's cooler lately, but that doesn't mean anything necessarily.
00:34:39.860 Your failure of imagination is funny.
00:34:42.780 You mean...
00:34:43.880 I'm not sure if you're talking about me.
00:34:45.620 Well, I think the problem is that the advanced aliens from Atlantis, when their island was destroyed, their island of Atlantis,
00:34:58.720 I think they took their advanced technology and they bore into the center of the Earth,
00:35:03.240 and they've got a big construction project going on in there, and it's warming our oceans.
00:35:08.440 Or not.
00:35:09.420 Or not.
00:35:09.880 Or lizard people.
00:35:11.280 Possibly lizard people.
00:35:12.320 All right.
00:35:19.300 One other little minor potential announcement.
00:35:23.620 So there's a topic I'm considering never talking about again, and I want to get your thoughts on it.
00:35:31.620 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.
00:35:42.320 T-R-A-N-S. 1.00
00:35:46.540 Apparently, that word makes you get demonetized because YouTube, and for good reasons.
00:35:52.260 For good reasons, actually.
00:35:53.920 Since YouTube can't tell in advance if you're going to be anti or pro or neutral,
00:36:00.780 they just put a hold on it until a human has a chance to review it, which is not crazy.
00:36:05.740 That's not crazy.
00:36:06.500 You know, because it's a heated topic.
00:36:09.520 There's just as much anti as pro, or at least there's a lot of both.
00:36:14.400 So YouTube maybe wants to just make sure it's not some kind of a hate speech.
00:36:18.620 I don't mind that.
00:36:20.120 But I'm not going to talk about it if they're going to punish me.
00:36:25.320 Now, it's not their intention to punish me.
00:36:27.560 It's their intention to do a good job for their advertisers and their public.
00:36:31.320 And I'm okay with that.
00:36:33.340 But I'm done with the topic.
00:36:37.320 Is anybody okay with me just never talking about it again?
00:36:42.020 Or do you think it's still too relevant and too important?
00:36:47.700 Yeah.
00:36:48.360 Well, if I do talk about it, I probably will break that.
00:36:51.120 But if I do talk about it, it's not going to be in the title.
00:36:54.060 Okay?
00:36:54.340 And I might have to use code words to talk about it.
00:36:57.900 But I'm not contributing to anybody's hate.
00:37:01.940 You know, I'm pro-trans adults, you know, living out their best life.
00:37:06.800 And I'm also confused about the data.
00:37:11.540 I don't really know what's true and what's not with the data, frankly.
00:37:15.420 All right.
00:37:18.880 So I probably will break that vow.
00:37:21.320 But I think I will keep the vow of not putting it in the title.
00:37:25.760 So it's probably picking up the title more than anything.
00:37:32.500 All right.
00:37:38.360 Yeah.
00:37:39.840 I think that topic is super boring at this point.
00:37:43.060 Can we just be bored about it?
00:37:46.940 The only thing that I thought was interesting is if the trend for women transitioning to... 1.00
00:37:54.380 No.
00:37:54.920 If the trend for men transitioning to women continues, 0.98
00:37:58.840 because I think there's more of it in that direction, right?
00:38:01.180 I'm not sure if that's true.
00:38:02.340 I think there is.
00:38:03.220 It should close the gender pay gap, though. 1.00
00:38:06.420 So the gender pay gap should be shrinking quite a bit
00:38:08.800 if you get enough men turning into women.
00:38:13.580 So that's good.
00:38:15.880 All right.
00:38:20.200 I can't buy hot dogs anymore.
00:38:25.340 I just said that yesterday.
00:38:28.840 I know, but it was fun.
00:38:29.880 So I said it again.
00:38:30.620 All right.
00:38:37.600 Well, here I was mentioning that I'm not going to mention it,
00:38:42.000 and it sparked this whole deep conversation in the comments about the topic.
00:38:47.100 Like, there's nothing you can do.
00:38:48.400 It's just people want to talk about it.
00:38:51.320 Because there's nothing more basic to your personal situation than something like that.
00:38:56.880 It's just so personal.
00:39:02.060 All right.
00:39:03.640 Now, did I hear that the vice president of Bud Light got fired?
00:39:09.760 But maybe it's a leave of absence.
00:39:12.400 Did you hear that?
00:39:14.200 Do you think that that's...
00:39:16.160 See, I think that could be a little bit of fake news.
00:39:19.180 Like, half true, half fake.
00:39:20.940 Here's what I think is true.
00:39:22.380 It's probably true that she's not doing the job.
00:39:25.640 It's not necessarily true that she was fired.
00:39:28.540 It could be true that she couldn't take the heat.
00:39:31.620 It might have been just too much heat, and she just needed to get away.
00:39:34.620 So that doesn't mean she's fired.
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.
00:39:46.840 But nobody thinks that means anything.
00:39:49.400 It's just a fluctuation.
00:39:56.660 Well, you know, I think the way the people on the right are interpreting it
00:40:00.420 is they're interpreting it as Budweiser knows they made a mistake
00:40:04.840 and they are punishing the person who made it.
00:40:08.480 But I don't know if that's true.
00:40:10.440 And apparently a man has been put in the job.
00:40:13.180 They put a man in the job.
00:40:15.200 So I don't know what to believe about that story,
00:40:20.620 but unless you hear from her,
00:40:23.320 the actual vice president who's not in that job anymore,
00:40:26.560 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,
00:40:33.500 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
00:40:39.940 for doing something positive for the trans community.
00:40:44.260 I don't think they could do that.
00:40:46.740 It feels more like maybe a decision that she made.
00:40:50.660 But we don't know.
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?
00:41:06.160 I mean, they're coming into the summer month.
00:41:08.580 I'm going to guess this summer is their big sales period, right?
00:41:14.240 You think so?
00:41:15.240 We haven't seen any reporting on it yet, right?
00:41:17.340 Yeah, I assume there's some impact.
00:41:22.300 But if it were your favorite beer, and it's not Bud Light,
00:41:29.040 and let's say you just liked Budweiser, regular Budweiser,
00:41:32.800 and that was your favorite beer,
00:41:35.000 do you think you would change brands because of this?
00:41:37.320 Or would you just say, ah, that's Bud Light.
00:41:39.580 That's not my brand.
00:41:41.560 They never mess with my brand.
00:41:43.020 They only mess with Bud Light.
00:41:44.080 I won't buy that Bud Light anyway.
00:41:46.500 Probably.
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.
00:41:53.800 Yeah, there's a lot of sub-brands.
00:41:55.320 You're right.
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.
00:42:07.480 Yeah.
00:42:08.420 I don't know.
00:42:10.940 I just don't like boycotts, but I see why you do it.
00:42:13.360 I get it.
00:42:15.160 I get it.
00:42:17.300 It's down 11% now.
00:42:20.200 Somebody said.
00:42:21.080 I don't know if that's true.
00:42:22.280 11% would be something I'd worry about.
00:42:24.860 5%?
00:42:25.760 5% is a fluctuation.
00:42:27.760 11% sounds pretty serious, if that's true.
00:42:32.680 Somebody says the stock is fine, which is what I thought.
00:42:35.720 I thought the stock was fine.
00:42:36.940 All right.
00:42:42.200 Ad age reported 11%.
00:42:44.460 Down 3% since the campaign started.
00:42:47.940 All right.
00:42:48.240 So probably it depends when the article got written.
00:42:50.800 If ad age wrote the article at one point in time, it might have been just a fluke.
00:42:58.040 Oh, sales down 11%.
00:42:59.920 No.
00:43:01.820 We don't know what is 11%.
00:43:03.140 We don't know what that is.
00:43:05.120 All right.
00:43:05.480 We don't know if that's a stock or the sales or the sales of Bud Light or what.
00:43:12.700 Why do I care?
00:43:13.920 Well, I only care in a business sense, not a product sense.
00:43:19.040 11% is decimated.
00:43:20.420 That's true.
00:43:21.180 Oh, he said the champagne and beers, so the Europeans didn't like it.
00:43:32.580 All right.
00:43:33.880 Ad age article was from Friday.
00:43:35.520 Okay, so it was current-ish.
00:43:40.780 All right.
00:43:41.320 You may have noticed that today was a slow news day.
00:43:45.460 And so let me ask you a few questions.
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?
00:44:04.600 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.
00:44:15.760 Don't you?
00:44:16.180 Don't you feel that America had this gigantic table full of free money in the middle,
00:44:22.960 but nobody had the balls to run 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.
00:44:42.760 And not be crazy.
00:44:46.760 Just don't be crazy.
00:44:48.360 You know, it's not hard to support the other team if they're not being assholes.
00:44:53.880 Am I right?
00:44:55.640 It's not that hard.
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.
00:45:38.320 I mean, it doesn't look like it.
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?
00:45:55.200 Because here's what it feels like, right?
00:45:57.940 This is just what it feels like.
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.
00:46:12.740 You just can't push too hard.
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.
00:46:24.680 Or maybe they're whispering to Jill.
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.
00:46:45.420 But you could tell us, Jill.
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?
00:47:04.280 Does it feel like that?
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.
00:48:38.500 To the last minute.
00:48:42.040 All right.
00:48:44.940 Yeah, they've got to get rid of Kamala, obviously. 1.00
00:48:47.320 Yeah, Kamala can never be a candidate for president. 1.00
00:48:49.680 That would be crazy.
00:48:57.220 Close your eyes and you hear Catherine Hepburn.
00:48:59.600 Yeah.
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.
00:49:15.280 Way better.
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.
00:49:27.360 And I don't know where the end of that is.
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.
00:49:45.200 Like, those two need to come in compatibility.
00:49:48.240 And it looks like he's zeroing in on it.
00:49:52.180 So he could be speaking almost normally well into the primary.
00:50:00.340 So that's a big, big variable, right?
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.
00:50:21.560 Very big.
00:50:22.120 You think the Dem operatives are going to take out Biden, somebody says.
00:50:28.940 He could use some Scott Adams support.
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.
00:51:01.240 I think Vivek is super strong.
00:51:06.260 I think that DeSantis is super strong.
00:51:09.440 And I think Trump is Trump.
00:51:11.420 You know, you like what you get, you hate what you get.
00:51:15.120 It's always going to be a mixed bag.
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.
00:51:26.040 Kamala Harris.
00:51:27.800 Well, three, if you can't put a judge.
00:51:30.220 Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
00:51:32.520 They're by far the least qualified people in all of government.
00:51:36.660 Would you agree?
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.
00:51:50.400 That's my bet.
00:51:54.800 All right.
00:51:58.600 The Peter Principle.
00:52:00.480 Yeah, I think Buttigieg is not, he's not winning too many friends there as transportation secretary.
00:52:07.420 All right.
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.
00:52:20.740 Excuse me, I've got to take a moment.
00:52:22.880 Monica.
00:52:24.200 Monica.
00:52:25.000 Monica.
00:52:26.440 Come over here.
00:52:28.180 I know you're distracted, but listen to me.
00:52:31.380 Monica.
00:52:31.820 Monica.
00:52:31.900 This show is a virtual bonding experience.
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. 1.00
00:52:48.380 So, Monica, you better up your game.
00:52:50.860 Because right now, this is competitive with you.
00:52:55.520 That's not good.
00:52:57.020 That's not good.
00:52:57.740 Look at this.
00:52:58.620 Watch this, Monica. 0.65
00:52:59.440 Hey, everybody, let's have a sip of a beverage.
00:53:03.800 That's competitive with you right now, Monica.
00:53:06.120 You have to up your game.
00:53:08.220 You have to say to your husband, dear, I know you love this show.
00:53:13.240 I know you love it.
00:53:15.020 But if I got something for you that you're going to love even more.
00:53:18.580 So, Monica, up your game.
00:53:22.500 And I know what you're thinking right now.
00:53:25.140 Scott, up yours.
00:53:27.020 But here's to everybody.
00:53:28.500 Up everybody.
00:53:30.260 We'll drink to Monica and her happy marriage.
00:53:38.840 That's good.
00:53:40.340 That's good.
00:53:41.900 Yeah, I upped my game.
00:53:43.900 Up yours.
00:53:46.560 All right.
00:53:48.160 So, I hope I didn't break up your marriage.
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?
00:54:03.540 All right.
00:54:04.780 All right.
00:54:08.900 I think we've, RFK is anti-vax, but is he?
00:54:17.160 Is he?
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.
00:54:52.820 So, I feel like he can sell that.
00:54:56.420 I think he can sell it.
00:54:58.700 We'll see.
00:55:01.200 Yeah, I don't think that's his appeal.
00:55:03.060 I don't think it's about vaccinations.
00:55:07.500 You do have to join locals for the man cave.
00:55:10.120 That's correct.
00:55:12.280 Do we know why the starship disassembled yet?
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?
00:55:32.800 He incited a virus.
00:55:35.040 It's funny.
00:55:37.480 I don't know if it's persuasive.
00:55:44.520 All right.
00:55:45.160 So, ladies and gentlemen, that is all we have for today.
00:55:50.140 I'm going to say goodbye to YouTube.
00:55:52.160 We will see you tomorrow when there will be lots of news, because it's Monday tomorrow.
00:55:56.060 That's when the news happens, not Sunday.
00:55:58.420 Sunday's your day.