Episode 2102 Scott Adams: Marine Hero, Migration Tsunami, Barr On Trump, Putin vs Oligarchs, RFK Jr.
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 2 minutes
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141.95584
Summary
On today's show, Scott Adams talks about the death of a man who died in a subway choke-hold, and whether or not it could have been an accident. Plus, how many inches tall is Matt Gaetz? And why does the Internet think he's 5'7"?
Transcript
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I was just talking about this with the local subscribers before I went live on YouTube here.
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And here's a funny little mystery that I want to see if you can solve.
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Before I give you the answer, and on locals you already know the answer, but on YouTube,
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Without Googling it, tell me the height of Matt Gaetz.
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But what's interesting is if you Google it, he comes up as 5'7".
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If you look at pictures of him standing next to Trump, they're about the same height.
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Yeah, I don't know what he is, but he's not 5'7".
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So how in the world does the entire Internet get the height of a prominent member of Congress wrong?
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I mean, somebody said they saw that and they were starting to doubt the Internet about my IQ.
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Because, you know, my IQ is usually listed at 180.
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And people are starting to say, well, wait a minute.
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If Matt Gaetz is listed at 5'7", if that's not true, could it be also true that Scott's IQ is not 180?
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All right, well, I think it's funny that we have such an easily fact-checked thing that the Internet has wrong.
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Somebody's going to have to measure him and get back to me.
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Let's talk about this, the situation about the Marine who put a chokehold on the gentleman who died in the subway.
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And I won't hear any arguments on the other side.
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I'm just so done with this, everything's got to be a George Floyd.
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The other thing that is a, let's say, a curiosity.
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If there are any doctors here, there are usually some doctors watching the live stream.
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If there are any doctors here, identify yourself when you answer this question, if you're willing.
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If somebody dies from being choked, don't they usually die while they're being choked?
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Because this individual was very much alive after the choking.
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He didn't look in good shape, but he was very much alive and breathing.
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Is there such a thing as dying from the choking, but like an hour later?
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But I guess I just don't know the answer to that question.
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What's obvious from the video is that nobody involved thought anything like a murder was happening.
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That there was nobody who was a witness who was aware of anything that looked like killing.
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And when it was over, at least the part where they're holding down was over,
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it still didn't look like anybody got killed because he was still alive.
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So obviously their intention was not to kill him.
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So I feel like it's time to turn the corner on the bullshit.
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We don't just have to assume the white guy's guilty and the black guy's innocent and he lived a wonderful life.
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Sometimes the people who get killed, it's unfortunate,
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but it's not because anybody did anything necessarily wrong.
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I don't know about you, but I'm just not going to accept the narrative.
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This was somebody who probably looks like he had some mental problems.
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it wasn't their problem that he had a mental problem.
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Well, their problem is that they were in danger or potential danger.
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which unfortunately was pretty much prescribed by the elements that went into it.
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It was sort of the only way it could have come up.
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Apparently the way it happened is the only way it could have happened
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given the variables that went into the situation.
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You can have empathy for anybody who died, of course.
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But I can't be outraged for any political reason about that.
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So as you know, Bill Barr was in the Trump administration.
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But he thinks that even if you like Trump policies,
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And that the only things that Trump accomplished
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are things that probably any Republican could have done.
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and he doesn't know how to manage toward getting something.
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are the things that any Republican could have gotten done.
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Now, one example of that would be build the wall.
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that not every standard Republican necessarily wanted,
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But would a traditional Republican have done that?
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It's hard to give somebody credit for things that didn't happen,
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And I think that he uniquely can get us out of the Ukraine situation.
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I think he could uniquely do something useful with Taiwan.
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And he makes me laugh every time he tells his strategy out loud,
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when he said that Moscow would be a risk if Putin took,
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that if Putin only believed there was a 10% chance he was serious,
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because Trump talks about it like it's not serious.
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He just needs the other person to think he might be.
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But I wonder if the situation would be the same
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So you think he'd be able to get higher quality advisors
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and it was at least keeping some of the immigration down.
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if not millions of people to stream over the border.
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I saw a number of people refer to it as an invasion
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because there are more immigrants coming over the border
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You know, the Russian army didn't put as many people into Ukraine
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as we're letting into the country over the border on a regular basis.
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their children will be fighting in our military.
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You're watching our military come across the border.