Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2115 Scott Adams： Christie Announces, FBI Undercover Numbers on J6, Trump's VP Choice, More

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00:01:05.360 All right, well, let's talk about the news.

00:01:09.360 Chris Christie is going to be running for president.

00:01:11.620 What to say about that?

00:01:18.440 He's running for president.

00:01:22.620 And he's Chris Christie.

00:01:26.520 And he's running for president.

00:01:29.620 And if I haven't mentioned, he's running for president.

00:01:32.220 And his name is Chris Christie.

00:01:33.600 I feel as though everything else we say about this is a waste of words, isn't it?

00:01:41.460 Because nobody's really expecting a president, Chris Christie, are they?

00:01:46.660 No.

00:01:47.500 And I don't feel, this time I don't feel like he's running for vice president.

00:01:52.760 In the past, you might have said,

00:01:54.340 he might be running for vice president.

00:01:56.280 Really?

00:01:57.180 He's not really running for vice president.

00:01:59.080 So what exactly is he doing?

00:02:02.980 Maybe his job is to take out some of Trump's competitors.

00:02:08.020 Maybe his job is to take DeSantis out in a debate.

00:02:12.040 I don't know.

00:02:12.900 The whole thing seems puzzling.

00:02:15.960 Does Chris Christie think he has a chance?

00:02:20.360 Because it makes sense to run if you think there's some publicity benefit.

00:02:25.620 Yeah, you're selling a book.

00:02:26.900 If you're selling a book, that's a good idea.

00:02:29.520 But I don't really see his play, do you?

00:02:32.340 What's the play?

00:02:34.860 How in the world does that help him exactly?

00:02:36.960 Just make his speaking fees go up?

00:02:39.000 Because he ran for president again?

00:02:41.320 I don't know.

00:02:41.880 I'm just confused by the whole thing.

00:02:45.500 Have any of you seen the video of Trump mocking Joe Biden

00:02:50.860 for not knowing where to walk after he's done talking?

00:02:56.080 It's some of Trump's best work.

00:02:57.720 But now there's a video I saw on truth, Dan Scabino tweeted around,

00:03:04.780 that shows a split screen.

00:03:07.100 So you won't be able to see it well,

00:03:08.360 but I just have to show you the artistry of this.

00:03:10.460 Do you think at least one time you'd get up and say,

00:03:21.220 I'm running for president?

00:03:23.020 Where am I going?

00:03:24.800 Where the hell am I going?

00:03:26.140 I want to get out.

00:03:27.240 So there's one thing I'm going to say with complete confidence.

00:03:43.160 I don't know who the best president would be.

00:03:48.040 Like, you know, let's have a little humility.

00:03:50.460 We don't really know.

00:03:51.600 I mean, it's hard to predict who the best president would be.

00:03:54.160 But there's one thing I can say for sure.

00:03:57.120 Trump would be the funniest.

00:03:59.620 He's the funniest president.

00:04:00.980 I mean, Reagan was pretty funny.

00:04:05.020 And I thought, you know, Clinton and Obama could deliver a punchline, okay.

00:04:10.020 But Trump is genuinely hilarious, if you like that kind of thing.

00:04:14.700 Anyway, I like that.

00:04:22.440 So Carrie Lake had an interesting quote that was so Trump-like that it made news.

00:04:31.780 So she was asked about, you know, being a vice president,

00:04:35.100 if she wanted to be a vice president candidate with Trump.

00:04:38.660 And she said, quote,

00:04:40.740 I don't think he needs a vice president.

00:04:42.980 If there's ever one president who's so strong he doesn't need one,

00:04:48.600 it would be him.

00:04:52.900 Now, where did she learn that?

00:04:56.680 Just, I'm going to read it again,

00:05:00.580 but this time hear Trump's own voice.

00:05:03.980 It's a Carrie Lake quote.

00:05:06.220 But this is a pure Trumpism.

00:05:08.680 Nobody but Trump would have ever said this until Trump existed.

00:05:12.500 And now she's saying it.

00:05:15.080 But here's my take.

00:05:16.620 I think she's pacing him.

00:05:18.840 I think she's just acting exactly like he acts

00:05:21.980 so that she'll look like a better choice for vice president.

00:05:25.740 Can you think of a better thing,

00:05:28.440 if you really wanted to be the vice presidential pick,

00:05:31.900 can you think of a better way to say it than,

00:05:34.220 he's the only president who doesn't even need a vice president?

00:05:36.700 He's so strong.

00:05:40.320 It sounds like something that Trump himself would say

00:05:43.100 or put in the words of his own doctor.

00:05:46.300 Do you remember when his doctor said he's, like,

00:05:48.160 the strongest person in the world or something?

00:05:50.980 And you knew that Trump wrote it,

00:05:53.320 which is what made it funny.

00:05:54.880 It was funny because it was obvious that Trump wrote it himself.

00:05:57.540 Well, this is that.

00:06:01.580 It's hilarious because it's so ridiculous.

00:06:04.900 But it's also hilarious because she seems to be matching or pacing Trump,

00:06:10.720 basically acting like him,

00:06:13.520 to be more, let's say, compatible with him.

00:06:15.880 It's pretty funny and also pretty good.

00:06:18.140 Pretty good technique.

00:06:19.060 All right.

00:06:21.900 So this story is more of the everything you thought was true was true,

00:06:27.680 but if they wait long enough, your outrage is wearing off.

00:06:32.600 Have you noticed that the Democrats seem to have that technique?

00:06:35.980 Hey, we think you're, I don't know, whatever,

00:06:39.240 sacrificing babies and satanic rituals.

00:06:42.400 No, we're not.

00:06:44.240 Oh, that is so ridiculous conspiracy theorists.

00:06:48.400 That's, we're not doing that.

00:06:50.160 And then two years goes by,

00:06:52.900 and then somehow you find out every bit of it is true.

00:06:57.220 But you've started to wear, your rage has started to wear off.

00:07:00.800 You're like, yeah, we told you.

00:07:03.480 Well, that was two years ago.

00:07:05.720 Well, are they doing it still?

00:07:07.780 I don't know.

00:07:08.600 I just can't get as angry about it because it was so old.

00:07:11.780 They just make you get used to anything.

00:07:14.520 And they do it over and over again.

00:07:16.440 And it's like, oh, yeah, they really did do that thing.

00:07:20.180 I guess they did try to, well, okay.

00:07:23.160 Yes, they did try to overthrow the government of the United States

00:07:25.900 with that laptop fake letter and the Russia collusion.

00:07:30.540 But that was a few years ago.

00:07:33.940 And it didn't work out.

00:07:35.680 And I don't know.

00:07:36.880 I just can't get mad about it like I could have in the past.

00:07:43.620 So here's something we found out along those lines.

00:07:47.980 Elon Musk was weighing in on this with,

00:07:50.660 he was having the same reaction you're going to have,

00:07:54.740 which is one of the reasons that the FBI says

00:07:57.220 it won't release the January 6th surveillance videos

00:08:00.880 is it would show, quote,

00:08:02.980 too many undercover government agents and informants.

00:08:06.920 And so Musk weighed in and said,

00:08:09.780 this is insane.

00:08:12.340 How many were there?

00:08:13.760 I mean, just approximately.

00:08:16.880 Like, are we talking dozens?

00:08:22.020 Are we talking up to 10?

00:08:25.080 Are we talking thousands?

00:08:29.660 Hundreds?

00:08:31.280 You know, just give us a ballpark.

00:08:33.180 Just give us a sense of the general structure there.

00:08:37.820 Well, then Michael Schellenberger responded with some source

00:08:41.300 that said it was 100 to 200 informants or agents,

00:08:47.680 basically under government people.

00:08:50.380 One to 200.

00:08:53.060 Now, when you hear an estimate like that,

00:08:54.860 do you think it's more likely on the low side

00:08:56.920 or more likely on the high side?

00:08:59.360 Because 200 is twice as much as 100.

00:09:04.100 Yeah, I don't know.

00:09:06.080 Where would the information come from?

00:09:10.500 There's only one place it could come from, right?

00:09:12.740 It would have to come from a government source.

00:09:15.560 Would a government source

00:09:17.240 want to lowball the number or highball the number?

00:09:22.380 If it came from a government source,

00:09:24.300 would they want to tell you the most it was,

00:09:26.860 or would they find a way to sort of minimize it

00:09:29.860 by, you know, maybe counting these people

00:09:31.680 as not exactly undercover?

00:09:33.660 Oh, yeah, they were in disguise,

00:09:35.860 but they weren't, you know, technically undercover.

00:09:39.280 You know, they would lowball it.

00:09:41.460 Probably.

00:09:42.220 If it came from an official source.

00:09:44.200 Because they wouldn't want you to think it was a high number.

00:09:46.020 If there were really 200 undercover people

00:09:53.740 and we're just finding that out,

00:09:57.540 wouldn't that be enough to pardon everybody involved?

00:10:00.260 Now, in the past, I've said,

00:10:03.740 well, not the ones who did violence.

00:10:05.780 The ones who did violence, violence is violence.

00:10:08.220 You just have to treat that separately.

00:10:09.800 But now I'm starting to wonder

00:10:11.080 if even you should pardon them.

00:10:13.480 Because at some point, it's not about the,

00:10:15.740 it's not about the individuals.

00:10:18.320 At some point, it's about the bigger picture.

00:10:22.340 And the bigger picture is you can't do that.

00:10:25.740 You just can't do that.

00:10:29.200 Yes, they would be guilty.

00:10:30.540 And yes, I think the people who did violence

00:10:32.820 should be punished in a, you know, just world.

00:10:36.460 But we don't live in a just world.

00:10:38.920 Sometimes you live in a world

00:10:39.980 where you've got to make a statement.

00:10:42.680 And one statement I wouldn't mind seeing

00:10:47.060 is if you're going to screw the citizens that badly

00:10:50.640 and then keep it a secret,

00:10:52.920 they're all going free.

00:10:55.060 They're just all going free.

00:10:56.980 Which would be a terrible travesty

00:10:59.020 to the victims of their crimes.

00:11:01.520 But I'd do it anyway.

00:11:03.020 Because I think there's a bigger play here.

00:11:06.100 I think this level of wrongness

00:11:08.900 needs to be met with a large statement

00:11:11.340 to at least give us some chance

00:11:14.180 of remembering not to do it again.

00:11:16.860 So, I don't know, I think it's walking directly

00:11:19.300 into the Trump re-election campaign.

00:11:24.460 And I think Vivek also said

00:11:26.120 he'd be doing some pardoning.

00:11:27.400 So, that would give them some advantage.

00:11:29.940 All right, here's a question.

00:11:31.860 Is Biden lying or is this a case of dementia?

00:11:35.320 So, in a speech yesterday, probably,

00:11:38.440 or over the weekend,

00:11:40.000 he said, quote,

00:11:40.800 I doubt many people would have said

00:11:43.100 that two years after being elected

00:11:44.640 I'd be able to convince India, Australia, Japan,

00:11:47.740 and the United States

00:11:48.340 to form an organization called The Quad,

00:11:51.960 which, you know, is to help keep world stability.

00:11:54.600 The GOP did a fact check on that

00:11:58.860 and said the Quad was re-established

00:12:00.660 in 2017 under President Trump.

00:12:04.220 So, the question is,

00:12:06.420 does Biden not know that he was lying?

00:12:11.900 Is the fact check itself a lie?

00:12:14.320 Because it could be that the fact check is a lie.

00:12:17.280 Or, is it just dementia

00:12:20.860 and he thinks he did it,

00:12:22.240 but it's actually Trump's accomplishment?

00:12:25.600 Although, he wouldn't call it an accomplishment

00:12:27.260 because it's re-establishing.

00:12:29.740 Whoever established it the first time

00:12:31.480 probably gets whatever credit.

00:12:33.540 But if you're re-establishing it,

00:12:35.320 it's, you know, a little less of an accomplishment.

00:12:39.540 All right.

00:12:40.320 Well, are you disturbed by the fact that we don't know?

00:12:45.340 You know, when Trump says something

00:12:48.980 that doesn't pass the fact-checking,

00:12:51.560 it doesn't bother me that much.

00:12:54.600 If you've noticed.

00:12:56.400 You've probably noticed

00:12:57.560 that I'm less bothered by him

00:12:59.960 not passing the fact check

00:13:01.200 than other people are.

00:13:02.540 And the reason is

00:13:03.560 that he's somewhat transparent

00:13:05.420 about his hyperbole.

00:13:08.380 Right?

00:13:08.860 If he told you tomorrow

00:13:10.260 the problem with windmills

00:13:12.260 is that they're like airplane propellers

00:13:16.260 and they might take off

00:13:17.420 or just something ridiculous,

00:13:19.580 you wouldn't think he had dementia.

00:13:22.720 Would you?

00:13:24.040 You'd think, oh, he just does that.

00:13:26.040 He just exaggerates,

00:13:27.920 tells you the story,

00:13:29.420 puts it into a visual picture.

00:13:31.140 But yeah, you know he's embellishing

00:13:32.660 and it's not meant to be literal.

00:13:35.540 So that part could bother you,

00:13:38.320 but at least you figure

00:13:39.180 he's in control of his faculties.

00:13:41.780 With Biden, you actually literally can't tell.

00:13:44.020 I mean, genuinely,

00:13:46.080 I don't know if he's lying

00:13:47.260 or genuinely,

00:13:48.880 I don't know if this is just dementia.

00:13:52.720 What do you think?

00:13:54.260 Can you tell?

00:13:55.420 Is it a lie or dementia?

00:13:56.800 Go.

00:13:57.360 Tell me in the comments.

00:13:58.900 Lie or dementia?

00:14:00.520 No, you can't say both.

00:14:02.220 You can have both,

00:14:03.000 but what is the reason for this?

00:14:06.160 Yeah, it's like evenly split.

00:14:08.560 You're evenly split there in the comments.

00:14:10.120 Yeah, no, both,

00:14:15.500 he can be both,

00:14:16.960 but only one of them would explain this.

00:14:19.800 Right?

00:14:20.340 He's either knowingly lying or he's not.

00:14:22.560 That's not a both situation.

00:14:26.240 All right.

00:14:26.980 Yeah.

00:14:28.280 I don't know.

00:14:29.000 But the fact that you can't tell

00:14:30.400 would be an interesting campaign theme.

00:14:35.020 Because people don't like risk,

00:14:37.320 especially older voters,

00:14:38.860 and they're the ones who vote the most.

00:14:40.560 Suppose you said,

00:14:41.860 Joe Biden has dementia,

00:14:44.040 and you're a Democrat.

00:14:45.640 What's your take to that?

00:14:47.340 Joe Biden has dementia.

00:14:49.440 They just deny it.

00:14:51.000 Right?

00:14:51.720 They might even think it's true,

00:14:53.120 and they still deny it.

00:14:54.840 So just saying he has dementia,

00:14:57.120 it's like any other political attack.

00:15:00.180 It's just sort of weak

00:15:01.220 and obvious and ordinary.

00:15:03.140 But suppose instead you said this.

00:15:05.700 Do you want to have a president

00:15:07.220 where you genuinely can't tell

00:15:09.620 if he's lying or if it's dementia?

00:15:14.360 How'd that feel?

00:15:15.780 Let me say it again.

00:15:16.600 Just feel it.

00:15:17.820 Don't think it.

00:15:19.180 Don't think it.

00:15:19.960 Just feel it.

00:15:20.620 How would you feel having a president

00:15:23.000 where you genuinely can't tell

00:15:24.760 if he's lying

00:15:26.280 or it's a product of dementia?

00:15:29.740 Yeah, that's different, isn't it?

00:15:32.180 Feel how different that is.

00:15:33.680 Because I put it in a choice.

00:15:38.160 As soon as you accept that it's a choice,

00:15:41.580 I've made you think past the sale.

00:15:44.400 Right?

00:15:44.640 You've thought past the sale

00:15:45.740 of him being ordinary or being okay.

00:15:48.600 There's something wrong.

00:15:49.880 So if you accept that there's something wrong,

00:15:52.200 you either accept that he's a liar,

00:15:54.180 which takes away his biggest advantage,

00:15:56.680 his own statement,

00:15:58.380 his biggest advantage over Trump.

00:16:00.020 So he's either a liar or he has dementia,

00:16:04.080 which is way worse than Trump.

00:16:05.880 So he's either as bad as Trump,

00:16:07.980 which takes away his main claim to being better,

00:16:11.180 or he's worse.

00:16:13.980 And you can make people think right past the sale

00:16:16.540 to, well, it's one of those things.

00:16:18.520 It's got to be one of those things.

00:16:20.120 But seriously, it's actually a real question, too.

00:16:23.960 How would you feel

00:16:25.240 if you couldn't tell he was lying

00:16:27.820 or he had dementia?

00:16:30.720 Because the weird thing is

00:16:32.000 we're used to politicians lying.

00:16:34.980 Am I right?

00:16:37.180 We're completely accustomed to politicians lying.

00:16:40.080 And it doesn't bother us in the same way

00:16:43.140 as if you didn't know.

00:16:45.500 If you know somebody's lying,

00:16:47.360 that gives you some clarity about how to act.

00:16:50.700 Oh, I'll call them a liar.

00:16:51.960 I'll check the fact-checking.

00:16:54.320 I'll vote for the other person.

00:16:56.820 It gives you a very clear statement of what to do.

00:16:58.820 But if you don't know

00:17:00.500 if that's dementia or lying,

00:17:03.720 what do you do?

00:17:05.800 What do you do?

00:17:07.520 It's very confusing.

00:17:09.160 If as a persuader and a leader,

00:17:12.860 you're trying to get people to buy into your message,

00:17:16.280 and your message is,

00:17:17.140 I'll give you some certainty.

00:17:19.300 It's really helpful to make the voter feel confused.

00:17:23.420 I don't like being confused.

00:17:25.960 I'd rather the evil I know than this big unknown.

00:17:29.440 I don't know.

00:17:29.780 Will he start a nuclear war because he has dementia?

00:17:32.380 I don't know.

00:17:34.520 But it's out there.

00:17:35.720 It's a possibility.

00:17:36.380 So that's what I'd do if I were Trump.

00:17:42.440 I'd go after that question.

00:17:44.840 So the NAACP has come out with an advisory for black people,

00:17:50.920 a formal travel advisory.

00:17:52.560 Now, I didn't know that the NAACP gave formal travel advisories,

00:17:59.320 but the news says that they do.

00:18:02.080 And if the news says that they do,

00:18:03.760 well, then I guess they do.

00:18:05.880 And their travel advisory is for Florida,

00:18:08.460 saying that the state has become, quote,

00:18:10.760 hostile to black Americans

00:18:12.240 under Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' leadership.

00:18:16.840 On a seeming, they go on,

00:18:18.540 on a seeming quest to silence African-American voices,

00:18:22.280 the governor of the state of Florida

00:18:24.580 has shown that African-Americans are not welcome

00:18:27.860 in the state of Florida, the travel advisory reads.

00:18:31.140 So you know what happened next, right?

00:18:36.240 I mean, the world is very predictable.

00:18:38.380 Once the NAACP said that black people

00:18:42.520 should stay away from Florida,

00:18:44.820 they were obviously canceled for being racist

00:18:48.320 and everybody was disgraced.

00:18:51.320 And we're disavowed.

00:18:53.180 Wait.

00:18:54.240 I'm being told that none of that happened.

00:18:57.240 Well, that's confusing.

00:18:58.400 I was like, well, I thought that's what happens.

00:19:03.120 I thought if you advised one group of Americans

00:19:06.620 to avoid another group of Americans

00:19:08.880 over racial reasons,

00:19:12.060 well, I thought you'd get canceled for that.

00:19:15.700 But, well, now I'm all confused about this story.

00:19:20.080 They didn't get canceled?

00:19:21.400 I mean, they just told black people

00:19:24.460 to keep the fuck away from Florida.

00:19:27.020 And I don't, I'm reading between the lines,

00:19:29.340 but help me out here.

00:19:30.660 Was the NAACP saying that the black Americans

00:19:34.040 should not go to Florida

00:19:36.380 because there are black people there?

00:19:39.040 That's not what they were saying, right?

00:19:41.340 I believe they were saying that the black people

00:19:43.120 in Florida would be okay,

00:19:45.040 no danger for them.

00:19:46.520 But the danger would come from the non-black people.

00:19:52.500 Sort of the Ron DeSantis-looking people,

00:19:55.260 you know what I mean?

00:19:56.300 Yeah, wink, wink.

00:19:57.600 The people who kind of look like Ron DeSantis.

00:20:00.740 Yeah, politicians.

00:20:02.520 Wink, wink.

00:20:03.020 Leaders.

00:20:04.120 Wink, wink.

00:20:08.240 And we're totally okay with this, right?

00:20:11.760 Nobody's getting canceled.

00:20:13.920 Totally okay with it.

00:20:14.900 How is this different from what I said?

00:20:19.940 Do you think I should double down now?

00:20:23.000 Would this be a good time to double down?

00:20:25.960 I'm already a disgraced cartoonist.

00:20:29.380 You want me to double down, don't you?

00:20:32.040 All right, here it comes.

00:20:35.720 Question number one.

00:20:38.160 If you're a white American,

00:20:40.020 does it make sense to go where there's high crime?

00:20:42.580 Would you be safer in a high-crime neighborhood

00:20:46.120 or a low-crime neighborhood?

00:20:48.360 Well, you'd be safer in a low-crime neighborhood,

00:20:50.400 wouldn't you?

00:20:51.960 Now, would low-income neighborhoods

00:20:55.360 typically be the ones with high crime?

00:20:59.160 Yes or no?

00:21:00.680 Yeah, a low-income neighborhood

00:21:01.960 typically is going to be higher crime.

00:21:04.200 So if white Americans are looking at

00:21:07.100 low-income black population areas,

00:21:11.240 would it be riskier

00:21:13.760 for them to go there in terms of crime?

00:21:16.600 And the answer, of course, is yes,

00:21:18.520 but not because of race,

00:21:20.720 because low-income, high crime.

00:21:23.880 It would be a dangerous place

00:21:25.120 whether you're a black American

00:21:26.300 or a white American

00:21:27.280 or Asian American or anything else.

00:21:29.260 So we would all agree

00:21:31.200 that staying away from high-crime areas

00:21:33.280 is a good idea,

00:21:35.720 regardless of race, right?

00:21:39.060 Now, can you name the most dangerous,

00:21:43.300 poor area that is primarily white?

00:21:49.760 Can you just name a couple,

00:21:51.520 because I think this conversation

00:21:52.840 needs some examples to round it out.

00:21:55.400 Name some cities or areas

00:21:57.980 where there's a lot of crime.

00:22:00.040 They're noted for their high crime,

00:22:01.880 but they're primarily a white area.

00:22:04.220 Can you think of one?

00:22:08.780 I don't know.

00:22:09.480 Appalachia?

00:22:10.800 So the thing is, with Appalachia,

00:22:12.520 there's not high density.

00:22:15.140 So usually you need high density

00:22:16.880 before you get to the serious crime.

00:22:20.620 Well, I don't know of any,

00:22:21.620 but let's assume that the real issue there

00:22:24.620 is income, okay?

00:22:26.440 So low income comes with high crime.

00:22:29.460 Now, what about,

00:22:31.120 so would you say that it makes sense

00:22:32.760 for white Americans to stay away

00:22:36.120 from areas that there's high crime?

00:22:38.860 Yes, everybody would agree with that.

00:22:41.020 Because whether you're white or black,

00:22:42.480 you should stay away from areas

00:22:43.600 where there's high crime.

00:22:45.340 Now, what about if you're a white American

00:22:48.940 and you're just having a job

00:22:51.800 and there are a lot of,

00:22:54.140 let's say it's a blue-collar job.

00:22:55.620 Let's say you're in the middle income.

00:22:57.800 You're in the middle income.

00:22:59.000 You might not have a college education,

00:23:00.620 but you've got a serious job,

00:23:02.020 maybe a union job,

00:23:03.300 that sort of thing.

00:23:04.220 If you're a white person

00:23:06.100 and you work with black co-workers

00:23:08.320 and black bosses,

00:23:09.380 are your odds of being sued

00:23:13.340 for being a racist higher or lower

00:23:15.940 than if you're a white person

00:23:17.860 working with all white people

00:23:19.280 or all, even a mix of Asian Americans

00:23:22.980 and white people,

00:23:25.160 Indian Americans and white people?

00:23:27.360 Much higher.

00:23:29.340 But let's say we perceive it to be higher.

00:23:32.320 Because if a bunch of white people

00:23:34.460 are working together,

00:23:35.380 they never,

00:23:35.800 I won't say never,

00:23:37.620 but it would be very rare

00:23:39.180 for white people

00:23:40.080 to sue other white people

00:23:42.600 for racial discrimination.

00:23:46.100 Right?

00:23:46.740 That'd be sort of a weird situation.

00:23:49.060 So if you're white,

00:23:49.940 you have a higher risk

00:23:51.020 if your co-workers

00:23:52.400 and maybe your boss are black

00:23:54.420 because you'd have a risk

00:23:56.620 of discrimination

00:23:57.440 that you wouldn't have otherwise.

00:24:00.200 But what if you get into

00:24:01.200 the high-income,

00:24:02.300 high-education group?

00:24:04.460 Let's say you're in a college

00:24:05.560 environment

00:24:06.020 and you've got a number

00:24:07.760 of colleagues,

00:24:09.160 highly educated,

00:24:11.320 very successful,

00:24:12.400 good incomes.

00:24:13.760 Are you as safe

00:24:15.360 in a mixed environment

00:24:17.280 where you're a white person

00:24:18.580 and you've got black colleagues

00:24:19.920 and white colleagues

00:24:20.920 and Asian American colleagues

00:24:22.680 and Hispanic colleagues?

00:24:24.560 Or would you be safer

00:24:25.800 if they were all white

00:24:27.740 or a mix of everything

00:24:30.660 except African American,

00:24:31.940 let's say?

00:24:32.200 Well, I would say

00:24:34.260 that your reputational risk

00:24:36.340 of being accused

00:24:37.400 of being a racist

00:24:38.400 would be the highest

00:24:40.080 in the high-education

00:24:41.220 and high-income group.

00:24:43.660 Would you agree?

00:24:44.980 Because it's the high education,

00:24:46.880 you get the Ibram Kendi's,

00:24:48.760 you get the CRT people,

00:24:50.680 you get the people

00:24:51.360 who have been educated,

00:24:53.240 formally educated,

00:24:54.320 to think that white people

00:24:55.820 are the cause

00:24:56.860 of systemic racism.

00:24:57.900 So that's how their education

00:25:01.840 frames their reality.

00:25:04.160 So there are three situations

00:25:05.520 in which white people

00:25:07.620 have a higher risk,

00:25:09.520 reputationally, crime-wise,

00:25:12.020 being sued.

00:25:14.080 And it's three different situations,

00:25:16.380 but it's all three income groups

00:25:17.960 among black Americans.

00:25:19.720 So you would have more danger

00:25:21.240 to go into a high-crime,

00:25:24.460 low-income area of any kind,

00:25:26.580 but in the United States,

00:25:28.800 we couldn't even think of one

00:25:30.400 that's mostly white.

00:25:32.440 Now, that doesn't have

00:25:33.460 to be a racial reason.

00:25:34.620 It's just a correlation.

00:25:36.420 But the same advice holds.

00:25:42.220 Whether you were a black man

00:25:44.080 or a white man,

00:25:45.600 you wouldn't want to go

00:25:46.460 into a high-crime area.

00:25:48.240 So it makes sense

00:25:49.180 to stay away from high-crime areas,

00:25:50.660 regardless of the racial composition.

00:25:53.640 But you'd agree

00:25:54.520 that within the middle income,

00:25:55.780 you know, middle America,

00:25:57.960 only black people

00:25:59.460 accuse you of being a racist

00:26:00.900 if you're white.

00:26:03.060 So you have much higher risk.

00:26:04.840 And what is the risk?

00:26:06.160 If you were a white person

00:26:07.480 working with black co-workers,

00:26:09.880 what are the odds

00:26:11.420 that eventually

00:26:12.240 you would be accused

00:26:13.200 of being a racist?

00:26:15.080 Credibly.

00:26:15.780 Credibly accused.

00:26:17.460 Pretty high.

00:26:18.220 80% maybe.

00:26:19.800 So you'd be guessing.

00:26:21.760 We'd all be guessing.

00:26:22.640 And it depends on the situation.

00:26:24.400 No two situations are alike,

00:26:26.080 et cetera.

00:26:26.920 No people are alike.

00:26:28.320 So I'm not, you know,

00:26:29.500 just to be clear,

00:26:31.300 I'll insert this in the middle.

00:26:34.520 Under all conditions,

00:26:36.120 you should judge individuals

00:26:37.400 as individuals.

00:26:40.320 Does everybody agree with that?

00:26:42.880 There's nobody who disagrees

00:26:44.160 with that in 2023, is there?

00:26:46.440 That on a one-on-one basis,

00:26:48.900 whether it's for romance,

00:26:51.520 business, customer, boss, client,

00:26:57.120 under every one of those situations,

00:26:59.860 nobody can win with bigotry

00:27:02.980 or discrimination

00:27:03.840 against individuals.

00:27:05.380 You can never win

00:27:06.920 because the person

00:27:07.960 you discriminate against loses

00:27:09.520 and then you lose access

00:27:11.640 to, you know,

00:27:12.740 90% of the talent

00:27:14.020 and beauty of the country.

00:27:15.940 So it's not good

00:27:16.860 for the person

00:27:17.340 doing the discriminating.

00:27:18.900 It's not good for the company

00:27:20.340 if they work for a company.

00:27:21.840 It's not good for the victim.

00:27:24.200 It literally has no purpose.

00:27:26.260 Like, even normal crime

00:27:27.720 has a purpose.

00:27:29.680 Well, at least the criminal

00:27:30.760 maybe got away with something.

00:27:32.620 Right?

00:27:32.740 At least the criminal

00:27:33.500 got off better sometimes.

00:27:36.160 But with regular

00:27:37.100 one-on-one discrimination

00:27:38.560 of an individual,

00:27:40.800 there's no winner.

00:27:42.640 It doesn't pass the sniff test

00:27:44.360 of being just a reasonable thing to do.

00:27:47.820 However,

00:27:49.420 those categories are not comprehensive.

00:27:53.800 In other words,

00:27:54.360 if you added together

00:27:55.320 all of your social patterns,

00:27:59.140 they should be based

00:28:00.000 on individuals only,

00:28:01.960 hiring, business,

00:28:03.460 the entire commerce world,

00:28:05.380 if you add that

00:28:06.380 to your social situation,

00:28:07.600 it doesn't cover

00:28:08.400 every situation.

00:28:10.300 The one situation

00:28:11.460 that's not covered

00:28:12.300 by all those

00:28:13.060 judge-everybody-individually

00:28:15.000 is your legal and physical risk.

00:28:21.420 When you're managing

00:28:22.400 your physical risk,

00:28:23.720 you're not judging individuals.

00:28:26.300 You're judging larger risks.

00:28:29.220 So if you're a white person,

00:28:32.120 associating with black Americans

00:28:34.220 has become super risky

00:28:35.900 in a way that it didn't used to be.

00:28:39.060 It used to be that

00:28:39.880 if you went to a high crime area,

00:28:41.680 again, it doesn't matter

00:28:42.660 what the race is,

00:28:44.220 you're in a high crime area.

00:28:46.640 Everybody knows that high crime areas

00:28:48.400 are high risk.

00:28:49.580 So that part,

00:28:50.320 nobody argues with.

00:28:51.200 But what's different is

00:28:53.080 the middle class

00:28:54.160 has been weaponized

00:28:55.200 against white people

00:28:56.860 and white males especially.

00:28:59.220 So if you were a white male

00:29:00.400 and you had a choice

00:29:01.540 of working with black co-workers

00:29:03.340 or white co-workers,

00:29:04.820 everything else being equal,

00:29:07.180 only one of those situations

00:29:08.540 gives you an 80% chance

00:29:10.100 of being at least threatened

00:29:12.560 with a lawsuit.

00:29:13.980 You'd at least have to worry

00:29:15.240 about the threat of it.

00:29:16.200 And if you're hanging around

00:29:18.620 with college-educated,

00:29:20.800 high-income,

00:29:22.320 mixed group of people,

00:29:23.760 you're far more likely

00:29:25.220 to be accused of

00:29:26.300 being part of the problem.

00:29:28.300 So you have a reputational risk

00:29:30.100 at the high end,

00:29:31.380 you have a physical risk

00:29:32.680 at the low end,

00:29:33.840 and a lawsuit risk

00:29:35.300 in the middle.

00:29:38.660 So there you have it.

00:29:41.580 And by the way,

00:29:44.320 there's nobody in the world

00:29:45.580 who argues against

00:29:46.540 what I just said.

00:29:48.840 Nobody.

00:29:50.040 There's not a single person

00:29:51.460 who disagrees with one word

00:29:53.020 of what I just described.

00:29:56.000 But I did get cancelled for it.

00:29:58.820 And by the way,

00:29:59.860 I didn't get cancelled

00:30:00.900 for what I said.

00:30:03.480 You know that, right?

00:30:04.920 It wasn't what I said.

00:30:07.020 Of course not.

00:30:08.980 It was that some people

00:30:10.380 thought other people

00:30:11.140 would be offended.

00:30:12.520 So they had a business risk,

00:30:14.360 which they managed,

00:30:15.580 and I've never criticized

00:30:16.620 the people who cancelled me,

00:30:18.080 at least in terms of

00:30:19.040 the business decision.

00:30:21.360 As a business decision,

00:30:22.600 they had to do

00:30:23.100 what they had to do.

00:30:24.120 But that's my point.

00:30:26.480 My point was that

00:30:27.860 I lived in a world

00:30:28.860 in which there was

00:30:30.100 one group of people

00:30:30.980 who might cancel me,

00:30:32.700 and another group

00:30:33.620 who might support it.

00:30:37.620 And the two of them

00:30:38.820 worked together,

00:30:39.460 and I got cancelled.

00:30:40.340 So that mostly was

00:30:43.260 a problem with the public,

00:30:45.140 and then the business people

00:30:46.200 had to just respond

00:30:47.140 to the public.

00:30:48.040 They did what they had to do.

00:30:51.860 All right,

00:30:52.300 well, you got really quiet.

00:30:55.120 You got real quiet

00:30:56.140 when I did this.

00:30:58.000 Anybody disagree?

00:31:01.860 I don't think I've ever seen

00:31:03.020 so much agreement

00:31:03.740 at one point.

00:31:04.420 All right.

00:31:08.120 Well, that's me

00:31:08.740 doubling down.

00:31:11.220 Teacher of the Year,

00:31:12.500 an ex-teacher of the Year

00:31:13.440 in California

00:31:14.040 has been arrested

00:31:16.100 for allegedly having sex

00:31:17.620 with a 16-year-old boy

00:31:18.920 at Yaquipa High School.

00:31:23.580 And

00:31:23.920 can we just be honest

00:31:27.800 about this?

00:31:28.420 Have we reached a point

00:31:30.600 where we can actually

00:31:31.700 talk about that honestly?

00:31:32.860 Because I've got free speech

00:31:35.200 and you don't.

00:31:36.440 Why is that a crime?

00:31:38.900 Now, I do agree

00:31:40.100 that maybe she needs

00:31:40.920 to lose her job.

00:31:43.080 Fair enough?

00:31:44.540 Can we all agree

00:31:45.740 that, you know,

00:31:46.820 in terms of being a teacher,

00:31:49.160 that's a pretty big line

00:31:50.380 to cross, right?

00:31:51.960 So you cross that line,

00:31:53.240 you can't be a teacher.

00:31:54.760 So I'm okay with that part.

00:31:57.100 But

00:31:57.500 don't you need

00:31:59.100 at least a victim?

00:32:00.080 Now, I realize

00:32:02.720 that all victimless crimes,

00:32:04.700 you know,

00:32:04.980 maybe they still need

00:32:05.980 to be illegal

00:32:06.600 for the benefit

00:32:07.700 of society.

00:32:09.000 But

00:32:09.480 can we stop pretending

00:32:11.180 that a 16-year-old boy

00:32:12.860 is injured for life

00:32:14.880 for hitting his teacher?

00:32:17.400 I mean,

00:32:17.820 not hitting her,

00:32:18.660 but you know what I mean.

00:32:21.020 Can we just pretend,

00:32:22.540 can we just stop?

00:32:23.760 We just have to stop

00:32:24.940 being this stupid.

00:32:26.740 This is so stupid.

00:32:28.060 Yeah.

00:32:30.100 Get her out of the school,

00:32:32.280 but

00:32:32.700 jail?

00:32:34.240 That's just

00:32:35.000 so crazy.

00:32:36.900 So crazy.

00:32:39.120 And by the way,

00:32:40.000 I do have a double standard.

00:32:42.060 So I would not say

00:32:43.020 the same thing

00:32:43.620 if the genders

00:32:44.440 were reversed.

00:32:45.720 You're all on the same page

00:32:46.720 with that, right?

00:32:47.940 This is totally,

00:32:49.680 I'm not being,

00:32:50.960 I'm not being equal

00:32:52.840 in terms of the genders.

00:32:54.140 This is completely

00:32:55.140 a sexist opinion.

00:32:56.680 But it's one that

00:32:57.760 I'd bet my life on.

00:33:01.440 If you had to bet

00:33:02.320 your life on one opinion,

00:33:04.220 I would bet my life

00:33:05.360 on this opinion

00:33:06.940 being a good one.

00:33:08.100 I'd bet my life.

00:33:09.960 There's no wiggle room

00:33:11.640 on this one.

00:33:14.000 All right.

00:33:17.960 So a local TV anchor,

00:33:21.080 Ken Rosato,

00:33:22.580 he got in trouble.

00:33:24.340 I think he's either fired

00:33:25.700 or pulled off the air

00:33:26.620 or something.

00:33:27.620 Because in a hot mic moment,

00:33:29.380 he referred to his

00:33:30.560 co-anchor

00:33:32.700 by the C word.

00:33:35.020 The C word.

00:33:36.680 He used the C word

00:33:38.160 and got caught

00:33:39.600 in a hot mic

00:33:40.260 and he was immediately fired.

00:33:42.340 Now,

00:33:42.680 here's the good news

00:33:43.820 about this.

00:33:46.020 You know,

00:33:46.500 he was a man.

00:33:47.780 His co-worker

00:33:48.320 was a woman.

00:33:49.700 And he used the C word

00:33:51.020 and boom,

00:33:51.980 gone.

00:33:52.640 But what I like

00:33:53.340 about this story

00:33:54.000 is that it would have

00:33:55.260 worked the other way

00:33:56.060 around too.

00:33:57.400 If there had been

00:33:58.160 a hot mic moment

00:33:59.520 and the woman

00:34:00.300 had called her

00:34:01.460 co-worker a dick,

00:34:03.220 she would have been

00:34:04.160 fired immediately

00:34:04.920 and I think

00:34:05.380 we all agree.

00:34:07.940 Wait,

00:34:08.420 what?

00:34:10.420 She wouldn't be?

00:34:12.220 Oh,

00:34:12.580 she wouldn't be fired

00:34:13.560 for calling her

00:34:14.240 co-worker a dick.

00:34:16.100 What would be

00:34:16.840 the question

00:34:17.440 that you would ask

00:34:18.240 if you heard

00:34:18.700 that story?

00:34:20.600 Is there any question

00:34:21.420 that would just

00:34:21.900 jump to your mind?

00:34:23.180 See,

00:34:23.460 she called her

00:34:23.940 co-worker a dick

00:34:24.880 on the air.

00:34:26.120 What?

00:34:26.560 Is there any question

00:34:27.520 that jumps to your mind?

00:34:28.400 Oh,

00:34:28.680 yes.

00:34:29.360 Yes.

00:34:29.780 You speak it

00:34:30.400 because she had Tourette's?

00:34:32.640 Probably there was

00:34:33.760 some behavior

00:34:34.880 or set of behaviors

00:34:36.840 that collectively

00:34:38.340 brought her to the point

00:34:40.780 where she would say

00:34:41.540 that word

00:34:42.100 it was a dick

00:34:43.280 and we would like

00:34:44.460 to know

00:34:44.760 what those behaviors

00:34:45.480 were

00:34:45.900 so that we could

00:34:46.860 judge her in context.

00:34:48.240 Because certainly

00:34:49.100 this acting out

00:34:50.800 of context

00:34:51.680 is very important

00:34:52.900 to know

00:34:53.300 what was the whole situation

00:34:54.860 so you know

00:34:55.980 who's really

00:34:56.520 the bad one

00:34:57.160 in this case.

00:34:59.640 So let's read

00:35:00.460 this story

00:35:01.040 because obviously

00:35:02.140 it works in a way too.

00:35:03.660 So why did he

00:35:04.760 call her the C word?

00:35:06.040 Let's see.

00:35:07.960 Checking for that

00:35:08.700 part of the story.

00:35:10.880 Checking,

00:35:11.500 checking,

00:35:12.220 checking,

00:35:13.520 checking

00:35:14.180 because that's

00:35:15.440 not in the story.

00:35:18.240 Don't you think

00:35:20.380 that's important?

00:35:22.480 I mean,

00:35:23.300 he didn't just use it

00:35:25.600 because it was

00:35:26.040 a term of endearment.

00:35:28.700 She did something

00:35:30.160 that a living,

00:35:32.460 breathing,

00:35:33.480 functioning human

00:35:34.580 thought was so bad

00:35:36.880 that using that word

00:35:38.900 in front of other people

00:35:40.020 in a business setting

00:35:42.080 felt right.

00:35:44.580 at the moment

00:35:46.040 when he used the word,

00:35:47.800 yeah,

00:35:47.960 I'm sure he regrets it now,

00:35:49.680 but when he used the word

00:35:50.720 it felt right.

00:35:52.220 And you don't want

00:35:52.960 to know why?

00:35:55.320 We have no curiosity

00:35:57.100 about what she may

00:35:59.160 or may not have

00:35:59.840 allegedly done

00:36:00.680 that would justify

00:36:01.960 that language.

00:36:05.160 Wow.

00:36:06.320 Okay.

00:36:08.860 All right,

00:36:09.380 I was laughing

00:36:09.900 because I saw a tweet

00:36:10.780 by, I think,

00:36:12.320 Amaze.

00:36:12.840 So it's a tweeter

00:36:14.800 who goes by,

00:36:15.940 no, not Amaze,

00:36:16.780 Amuse.

00:36:18.620 A-M-U-S-E?

00:36:20.400 Is it Amuse?

00:36:22.240 I think it's Amuse.

00:36:23.920 Anyway,

00:36:26.300 you refer to

00:36:27.080 the story

00:36:28.100 about Obama

00:36:29.120 being banned

00:36:29.760 from Russia.

00:36:31.580 We'll talk about that.

00:36:33.220 But just

00:36:34.400 the reference

00:36:35.140 to Obama,

00:36:36.560 just a description

00:36:37.420 of the story,

00:36:38.420 referred to Obama

00:36:39.360 as disgraced

00:36:40.560 ex-President Obama.

00:36:41.740 disgraced.

00:36:45.120 Now,

00:36:45.680 that made me laugh

00:36:46.480 because I'm

00:36:47.100 a disgraced

00:36:48.240 cartoonist.

00:36:50.320 And so I actually,

00:36:51.080 I had to look up

00:36:51.860 disgraced

00:36:52.640 because I,

00:36:55.260 I wasn't positive

00:36:56.300 I knew what it meant.

00:36:57.900 You know,

00:36:58.460 it's sort of a,

00:36:59.340 not a word

00:36:59.860 you use that much.

00:37:01.280 So disgrace,

00:37:03.080 the definition

00:37:03.980 means you used

00:37:04.760 to have a good

00:37:05.300 reputation,

00:37:06.620 but then

00:37:07.780 usually through

00:37:09.360 your own actions

00:37:10.040 you have

00:37:10.380 a bad reputation.

00:37:13.240 But I thought

00:37:13.980 about that

00:37:14.420 and I thought,

00:37:15.360 well,

00:37:15.500 wait a minute.

00:37:16.480 If I'm disgraced,

00:37:18.500 that's a quality

00:37:19.700 of the observer,

00:37:21.460 not of me.

00:37:23.580 Think about it.

00:37:25.040 What makes me disgraced?

00:37:27.380 Am I disgraced

00:37:28.580 to myself?

00:37:30.340 In my own view

00:37:31.400 of myself,

00:37:32.060 am I disgraced?

00:37:33.620 Not really.

00:37:35.760 Not really.

00:37:36.560 Never really,

00:37:37.220 it never even

00:37:37.960 occurred to me.

00:37:39.240 Honestly,

00:37:39.800 the thought of

00:37:40.720 feeling disgraced

00:37:41.780 has never occurred

00:37:42.520 to me.

00:37:43.360 So it's a condition

00:37:44.500 that exists

00:37:45.120 outside of me

00:37:46.000 and outside

00:37:47.800 of Obama

00:37:48.360 as well.

00:37:49.800 So Obama,

00:37:50.760 you know,

00:37:51.040 just does

00:37:51.620 what Obama does

00:37:52.580 and other people

00:37:53.880 call him disgraced.

00:37:55.160 I do what I do

00:37:56.400 and other people

00:37:58.000 call me disgraced.

00:37:59.580 Should I care?

00:38:01.180 It's a weird,

00:38:01.960 it's a weird insult.

00:38:03.080 If somebody

00:38:03.800 had said of me,

00:38:04.640 you,

00:38:05.740 let's say,

00:38:06.820 you don't work hard,

00:38:08.320 that would bother me

00:38:09.980 because I do work hard.

00:38:12.520 I'd be like,

00:38:13.220 ah,

00:38:14.080 you,

00:38:14.680 you got your facts wrong.

00:38:16.120 But disgraced

00:38:16.940 is purely,

00:38:17.800 is purely a chemical

00:38:19.300 reaction that's happening

00:38:20.320 in the brains

00:38:20.900 of other people.

00:38:22.240 How much should I care

00:38:23.540 about the chemical

00:38:24.380 reaction happening

00:38:25.240 in your brain?

00:38:27.620 Not at all.

00:38:29.260 Not at all.

00:38:30.160 So disgraced

00:38:31.140 always makes me laugh

00:38:32.080 and I've thought

00:38:35.000 how I would

00:38:35.660 introduce myself

00:38:36.700 in public

00:38:37.360 should I ever

00:38:38.540 be invited

00:38:39.100 to appear

00:38:40.220 in public again,

00:38:41.260 which I'm not sure

00:38:42.360 what the odds

00:38:42.780 of that are.

00:38:43.700 But I would ask

00:38:45.040 my person

00:38:46.540 who introduced me

00:38:47.440 to refer to me

00:38:48.840 as disgraced

00:38:49.700 cartoonist

00:38:50.420 because I love

00:38:51.520 the fact

00:38:51.960 as a cartoonist

00:38:53.560 that I had

00:38:54.120 a good reputation

00:38:55.000 according to

00:38:56.140 somebody else

00:38:56.780 and that it was

00:38:57.860 destroyed through

00:38:58.620 my own actions.

00:38:59.460 I kind of like

00:39:01.720 that.

00:39:04.720 I know I'm

00:39:05.660 supposed to feel

00:39:06.340 bad about it

00:39:07.180 but I don't

00:39:08.840 because it just

00:39:10.080 doesn't feel

00:39:10.560 personal.

00:39:11.780 It just doesn't

00:39:12.500 feel like it's

00:39:13.000 about me.

00:39:14.020 It's like

00:39:14.420 watching a story.

00:39:16.040 It has no,

00:39:16.940 just doesn't

00:39:17.400 connect with me

00:39:18.200 at all.

00:39:20.340 All right.

00:39:21.700 So Russia's

00:39:22.640 banned,

00:39:23.060 I guess,

00:39:23.500 500 Americans

00:39:24.440 for various things

00:39:26.240 including some

00:39:26.980 CNN hosts

00:39:27.960 who said things

00:39:29.320 they didn't like

00:39:29.940 and my first

00:39:31.800 question was

00:39:32.560 if they banned

00:39:33.820 500 Americans

00:39:35.120 and I know

00:39:37.900 I was on a

00:39:38.640 top 10

00:39:39.260 Democratic hit list

00:39:40.440 how do I find

00:39:42.660 out if I'm

00:39:43.160 on that list?

00:39:45.600 Did anybody

00:39:46.360 see the list?

00:39:48.220 Because I read

00:39:49.300 stories about it

00:39:50.020 with no list.

00:39:52.280 Wouldn't the

00:39:52.640 most obvious

00:39:53.280 thing you'd

00:39:53.740 include in a

00:39:54.460 story,

00:39:55.340 a story about

00:39:56.160 a list,

00:39:56.740 you don't

00:39:57.780 put the

00:39:58.120 list?

00:39:59.540 Where can I

00:40:00.280 go look up

00:40:01.000 whether I've

00:40:01.520 been banned

00:40:01.900 from Russia

00:40:02.480 as if I

00:40:04.040 would ever

00:40:04.320 go to

00:40:04.620 Russia?

00:40:07.920 If you

00:40:09.020 have my

00:40:09.540 job,

00:40:10.700 which is

00:40:11.540 talking about

00:40:12.100 the news

00:40:12.540 and talking

00:40:13.100 about the

00:40:13.400 war in

00:40:13.680 Ukraine,

00:40:14.400 do you

00:40:14.740 think I

00:40:15.060 would ever

00:40:15.380 go to

00:40:15.700 Russia?

00:40:17.260 I mean

00:40:17.580 seriously.

00:40:18.640 That would

00:40:19.200 be the most

00:40:20.000 foolish thing

00:40:20.720 I could ever

00:40:21.160 do in my

00:40:21.520 life.

00:40:22.100 I mean

00:40:22.340 my electronics

00:40:23.100 would be

00:40:23.780 completely

00:40:26.160 corrupted.

00:40:29.580 I mean

00:40:29.820 I wouldn't

00:40:30.080 be able to

00:40:30.600 make a

00:40:31.260 private phone

00:40:31.940 call.

00:40:33.680 I mean

00:40:34.100 I would

00:40:34.380 just assume

00:40:34.900 I'd be

00:40:35.280 watched from

00:40:35.940 the moment

00:40:36.260 I landed.

00:40:37.660 Anybody

00:40:38.080 who's in

00:40:38.480 the news

00:40:39.080 is going

00:40:39.600 to get a

00:40:40.040 pretty

00:40:40.900 throw going

00:40:41.740 over if

00:40:42.160 they go

00:40:42.440 to Russia.

00:40:43.960 Same

00:40:44.220 with China.

00:40:46.160 I've had

00:40:46.740 people ask

00:40:47.300 me if I

00:40:47.980 would visit

00:40:48.500 China,

00:40:49.520 sort of as

00:40:50.160 a tourist,

00:40:51.040 to which I

00:40:52.160 say,

00:40:52.380 you don't

00:40:52.800 understand

00:40:53.260 anything.

00:40:55.120 You don't

00:40:55.740 understand

00:40:56.160 anything about

00:40:57.000 the world

00:40:57.440 if you think

00:40:58.580 I could go

00:40:59.040 to China.

00:41:00.120 Are you

00:41:00.480 serious?

00:41:01.480 I also

00:41:02.180 can't go

00:41:02.580 to Mexico.

00:41:03.360 You know

00:41:03.680 that,

00:41:03.940 right?

00:41:04.840 There's no

00:41:05.460 way in

00:41:05.800 hell I

00:41:06.800 would take

00:41:07.100 a vacation

00:41:07.620 in Mexico

00:41:08.260 given what

00:41:10.360 I talk

00:41:10.720 about in

00:41:11.540 public.

00:41:12.560 Too

00:41:12.800 dangerous.

00:41:15.320 But I'd

00:41:17.740 love to know

00:41:18.080 if I'm

00:41:18.320 on the

00:41:18.480 list.

00:41:18.720 So we

00:41:22.600 heard that

00:41:23.120 there's some

00:41:25.460 news that

00:41:25.900 says the

00:41:26.280 FBI was

00:41:28.160 abusing

00:41:28.640 access to

00:41:29.960 a database

00:41:30.700 that apparently

00:41:31.860 has lots

00:41:33.300 of private

00:41:33.760 communications

00:41:34.360 from Americans.

00:41:36.420 Now I guess

00:41:36.840 it was the

00:41:37.180 Patriot Act

00:41:37.880 that allowed

00:41:38.420 them to

00:41:39.260 spy on

00:41:40.400 foreign

00:41:40.860 nationals,

00:41:42.100 but in

00:41:42.500 the process

00:41:43.080 of spying

00:41:44.020 on the

00:41:44.340 foreigns,

00:41:45.060 if they

00:41:45.620 talked to

00:41:46.160 anybody who

00:41:47.100 was a

00:41:47.560 citizen,

00:41:48.720 they could

00:41:49.120 keep both

00:41:49.560 sides of

00:41:49.920 the

00:41:50.000 conversation.

00:41:51.160 So they

00:41:51.400 had these

00:41:51.780 ways of

00:41:52.520 legally

00:41:54.920 capturing

00:41:55.740 information

00:41:56.360 that they

00:41:57.440 weren't supposed

00:41:57.940 to be looking

00:41:58.400 at unless

00:41:58.980 it was some

00:42:00.040 terrorist

00:42:00.480 reason,

00:42:00.980 I guess.

00:42:01.840 But

00:42:02.100 apparently

00:42:03.420 there were

00:42:03.760 a few

00:42:04.060 instances

00:42:04.560 where the

00:42:05.620 FBI accessed

00:42:06.600 this private

00:42:08.020 data about

00:42:08.840 Americans when

00:42:10.200 they were not

00:42:10.820 allowed to.

00:42:13.460 So that's

00:42:14.140 pretty bad.

00:42:15.600 Let me see

00:42:16.360 how many

00:42:16.580 instances.

00:42:18.720 Only two.

00:42:20.520 Two.

00:42:21.440 I'm sorry,

00:42:21.940 not two.

00:42:23.300 It was 28.

00:42:24.920 28 times the

00:42:26.360 FBI accessed,

00:42:27.540 I'm sorry,

00:42:27.980 it wasn't 28.

00:42:29.380 287,

00:42:30.460 wow,

00:42:30.780 that's a lot.

00:42:31.820 287 times the

00:42:33.880 FBI accessed

00:42:34.860 this private

00:42:35.500 information.

00:42:36.560 Hold on,

00:42:36.980 it's not 287.

00:42:38.660 No,

00:42:39.000 it was not

00:42:39.300 287.

00:42:40.180 It was 287,000

00:42:42.780 times.

00:42:43.280 It was 287,000

00:42:46.280 times they

00:42:49.760 accessed the

00:42:50.480 data they

00:42:50.920 weren't supposed

00:42:51.360 to access.

00:42:52.340 But if you're

00:42:53.060 worried about

00:42:53.520 that,

00:42:54.240 it's okay.

00:42:55.600 It's okay,

00:42:56.220 calm down,

00:42:56.940 calm down.

00:42:57.700 It's right.

00:42:58.760 Because from

00:43:00.080 the time that

00:43:00.680 we learned

00:43:01.140 this until

00:43:03.080 now,

00:43:04.460 the FBI

00:43:05.000 fixed it.

00:43:06.480 They improved

00:43:07.680 their training

00:43:08.380 and their

00:43:09.100 procedures,

00:43:09.560 and now

00:43:10.780 that's sort

00:43:12.540 of,

00:43:12.960 it's old

00:43:13.600 news.

00:43:14.340 Nobody's happy

00:43:15.100 about it,

00:43:15.800 but there's

00:43:16.340 no reason

00:43:16.880 to talk

00:43:17.400 about it

00:43:17.780 now.

00:43:18.140 It's been

00:43:18.440 two years,

00:43:19.240 the new

00:43:20.260 system,

00:43:21.560 yeah,

00:43:22.000 it's,

00:43:22.220 it's,

00:43:22.620 yeah,

00:43:24.440 nothing to

00:43:25.420 worry about.

00:43:27.220 Even

00:43:27.660 Elon Musk

00:43:28.760 was,

00:43:30.520 took note

00:43:31.180 of that.

00:43:33.600 So yes,

00:43:34.600 the FBI

00:43:35.080 has been

00:43:35.960 quite abusive

00:43:36.760 it seems.

00:43:38.640 Now I

00:43:39.200 ask this

00:43:39.680 question,

00:43:40.680 if 287,000

00:43:43.020 times the

00:43:43.600 FBI have

00:43:44.320 accessed private

00:43:45.640 data of

00:43:46.200 citizens,

00:43:48.140 do you

00:43:48.420 know what

00:43:48.640 I'm going

00:43:48.880 to ask

00:43:49.160 next?

00:43:51.820 How do

00:43:52.420 I find

00:43:52.840 out if

00:43:53.280 they have

00:43:53.820 accessed

00:43:54.200 my data?

00:43:56.640 Do you

00:43:57.240 think I've

00:43:57.720 talked to

00:43:58.200 any foreign

00:43:58.900 nationals in

00:43:59.680 the last few

00:44:00.200 years?

00:44:02.520 Yes,

00:44:03.020 I have.

00:44:04.660 Yes,

00:44:05.000 I have.

00:44:05.800 Do you

00:44:06.100 think I've

00:44:06.460 talked to

00:44:06.820 anybody,

00:44:08.100 at least in

00:44:08.880 my imagination,

00:44:09.980 I could imagine

00:44:10.680 that Homeland

00:44:13.300 Security would

00:44:14.140 be tracking?

00:44:16.360 Yes,

00:44:16.900 I have.

00:44:18.480 Nobody

00:44:18.940 dangerous,

00:44:19.840 you know,

00:44:20.260 we're talking

00:44:21.060 about,

00:44:21.420 you know,

00:44:21.920 upstanding

00:44:22.400 citizens,

00:44:23.500 but still

00:44:24.040 citizens of

00:44:24.960 other countries.

00:44:28.000 Do you

00:44:28.500 think they

00:44:29.460 looked at

00:44:29.880 my personal

00:44:30.580 data because

00:44:32.140 I've ever

00:44:32.880 had a

00:44:33.200 conversation

00:44:33.760 with somebody

00:44:35.520 from another

00:44:36.080 country?

00:44:36.440 probably.

00:44:39.500 Probably.

00:44:40.880 And I

00:44:41.240 can't find

00:44:42.280 that out,

00:44:42.720 can I?

00:44:43.880 If I

00:44:44.480 sued the

00:44:45.000 government,

00:44:45.580 could I

00:44:46.300 find out

00:44:46.820 if they

00:44:47.180 looked at

00:44:47.540 my data?

00:44:50.160 I could

00:44:50.760 FOIA the

00:44:51.900 FBI data?

00:44:53.620 Is that a

00:44:54.320 thing?

00:44:54.600 I could

00:44:54.900 FOIA them,

00:44:55.520 huh?

00:44:57.400 I could

00:44:58.080 see it if

00:44:58.580 I use a

00:44:59.040 legal process.

00:45:01.180 I wonder

00:45:01.760 if anybody's

00:45:02.260 doing that.

00:45:03.380 Because there

00:45:03.980 must be people

00:45:04.820 like me who

00:45:06.380 could say

00:45:06.820 reasonably,

00:45:07.600 uh-oh,

00:45:08.060 I have

00:45:08.440 talked to

00:45:08.840 people from

00:45:09.280 other countries,

00:45:10.520 and that

00:45:10.920 includes some

00:45:11.540 politics.

00:45:12.700 Sometimes

00:45:13.000 politics were

00:45:13.780 involved.

00:45:18.040 yeah.

00:45:18.740 Well,

00:45:19.240 now there's

00:45:19.640 somebody said

00:45:20.320 Tom Fitton

00:45:21.260 does FOIA

00:45:22.140 all the time.

00:45:23.420 Don't you

00:45:23.700 think Tom

00:45:24.220 Fitton,

00:45:24.660 by the way,

00:45:25.120 Tom,

00:45:25.420 if you listen

00:45:26.420 to this,

00:45:27.280 don't you

00:45:27.600 think that

00:45:28.020 Tom Fitton

00:45:28.620 should do a

00:45:29.240 FOIA to

00:45:29.640 find out if

00:45:30.360 his information

00:45:31.200 has been

00:45:31.560 looked at?

00:45:33.100 Because he

00:45:33.720 would be on

00:45:34.780 the short

00:45:35.240 list with

00:45:35.740 me,

00:45:36.380 of a few

00:45:38.380 hundred people

00:45:38.960 that you'd

00:45:39.380 expect they

00:45:40.120 would definitely

00:45:40.560 want to look

00:45:41.040 at if they

00:45:41.740 were doing

00:45:42.040 it for

00:45:42.300 political

00:45:42.700 reasons.

00:45:43.860 So if you

00:45:44.460 assume that

00:45:45.060 the thing

00:45:45.800 you're worried

00:45:46.280 about is

00:45:47.540 that they

00:45:47.780 were doing

00:45:48.120 it for

00:45:48.380 purely

00:45:48.820 political

00:45:49.280 reasons,

00:45:50.780 I would

00:45:51.700 want to

00:45:52.000 know if

00:45:52.320 they looked

00:45:52.700 at Tom

00:45:53.140 Fitton's

00:45:53.580 personal

00:45:53.940 information.

00:45:54.860 Wouldn't

00:45:55.020 you?

00:45:56.660 Because don't

00:45:57.080 you think

00:45:57.400 he's had at

00:45:57.900 least one

00:45:58.400 conversation

00:45:59.020 for somebody

00:45:59.660 who was a

00:46:00.060 citizen of

00:46:00.600 another

00:46:00.880 country in

00:46:01.900 the last

00:46:02.200 few years?

00:46:02.720 probably.

00:46:04.900 Most high

00:46:05.880 profile people

00:46:06.600 do.

00:46:07.840 We have

00:46:08.160 international

00:46:08.660 connections.

00:46:10.840 So that's

00:46:12.600 pretty alarming.

00:46:14.220 Here's the

00:46:14.940 news from

00:46:15.660 Russia.

00:46:17.380 Either Russia

00:46:18.620 has totally

00:46:19.460 captured

00:46:20.140 Bakhmut or

00:46:22.800 as Zelensky

00:46:24.620 says, no

00:46:25.380 that didn't

00:46:25.800 happen.

00:46:26.060 But at

00:46:27.700 least we

00:46:27.980 can go to

00:46:28.500 CNN to

00:46:29.340 confirm and

00:46:30.160 CNN says

00:46:30.960 we can't

00:46:31.980 confirm either

00:46:32.500 side.

00:46:33.800 So we have

00:46:35.120 no reporting

00:46:35.920 out of

00:46:36.260 Bakhmut.

00:46:37.640 We have

00:46:38.160 no idea.

00:46:39.480 Because it's

00:46:39.980 basically a

00:46:40.600 pile of

00:46:40.980 rubble at

00:46:41.440 this point.

00:46:42.740 But who

00:46:43.100 cares who

00:46:43.520 controls a

00:46:44.080 pile of

00:46:44.420 rubble?

00:46:47.800 So there's

00:46:48.800 a whole lot

00:46:49.140 of nothing

00:46:49.480 happening there.

00:46:51.560 All right.

00:46:52.440 Here's a

00:46:53.020 little question

00:46:53.540 that AI

00:46:53.980 helped me

00:46:54.500 with because

00:46:55.380 it's a good

00:46:55.800 search engine.

00:46:57.440 I saw an

00:46:58.560 opinion piece

00:46:59.040 by CNN's

00:47:00.260 Sanjay Gupta

00:47:01.280 and he was

00:47:02.600 talking about

00:47:03.020 how hard it

00:47:03.640 is and it

00:47:04.220 must be twice

00:47:04.740 as hard for

00:47:05.220 him.

00:47:06.200 So imagine

00:47:06.720 being a

00:47:07.200 doctor and

00:47:08.520 he's got

00:47:08.840 three teenage

00:47:09.700 daughters.

00:47:11.920 And they

00:47:12.560 all use

00:47:12.880 cell phones,

00:47:13.480 of course,

00:47:13.900 smartphones.

00:47:15.120 And as a

00:47:16.420 doctor and

00:47:17.180 somebody who's

00:47:17.700 really plugged

00:47:18.240 into the

00:47:19.180 news, he

00:47:20.260 knows the

00:47:20.840 smartphone use

00:47:21.620 is not good

00:47:22.240 for his

00:47:22.660 daughters.

00:47:24.220 Wouldn't you

00:47:24.660 say?

00:47:25.680 Shirley, I'm

00:47:26.420 not reading

00:47:26.920 his mind.

00:47:27.560 Obviously, he

00:47:28.200 writes articles

00:47:28.800 about it.

00:47:29.640 He's very

00:47:30.120 aware of the

00:47:31.460 risk to his

00:47:32.160 daughters.

00:47:33.000 Do you think

00:47:33.500 he banned

00:47:34.560 smartphones from

00:47:35.640 his three

00:47:36.060 daughters?

00:47:36.920 Because he's

00:47:37.560 a doctor.

00:47:38.940 He's very

00:47:39.580 aware of the

00:47:40.060 risks.

00:47:41.280 So it's

00:47:41.840 easy, right?

00:47:43.100 Just ban

00:47:43.720 them from

00:47:44.000 your daughters.

00:47:45.120 Of course

00:47:45.600 not.

00:47:46.460 Of course

00:47:47.160 not.

00:47:47.620 Because he's

00:47:48.100 like every

00:47:48.580 other parent

00:47:49.060 in the world.

00:47:50.580 Basically

00:47:51.100 just trapped.

00:47:51.920 If you

00:47:52.960 didn't let

00:47:53.820 your teen

00:47:54.340 have a

00:47:54.700 smartphone,

00:47:55.940 you couldn't

00:47:56.520 live with

00:47:56.900 the teen.

00:47:58.380 You couldn't

00:47:59.280 live with

00:47:59.680 them.

00:48:00.400 They would

00:48:00.860 never, ever

00:48:01.940 let you

00:48:03.160 off the

00:48:03.800 hook.

00:48:04.540 Unless you

00:48:05.200 were like

00:48:05.480 physically

00:48:05.940 abusive or

00:48:06.640 something.

00:48:06.980 So there's

00:48:07.280 no way to

00:48:07.660 win on

00:48:08.020 this.

00:48:08.680 There's no

00:48:09.180 winning play

00:48:10.080 at all.

00:48:12.440 And of

00:48:13.100 course you

00:48:13.400 know that

00:48:13.740 the smartphones

00:48:14.280 are associated

00:48:15.480 with a huge

00:48:16.300 increase in

00:48:17.020 mental health

00:48:17.520 problems among

00:48:18.220 people.

00:48:19.820 And so I

00:48:21.300 asked myself

00:48:22.000 this question.

00:48:23.840 What is it

00:48:24.480 that the

00:48:25.040 smartphones do

00:48:27.240 that causes

00:48:29.380 people to

00:48:29.900 have mental

00:48:30.280 health problems?

00:48:31.540 What's the

00:48:32.180 primary active

00:48:34.320 ingredient?

00:48:35.520 Some say

00:48:35.960 addiction.

00:48:36.680 I'm looking for

00:48:37.280 something else.

00:48:38.080 They are

00:48:38.280 dopamine,

00:48:39.060 isolation.

00:48:41.020 Keep going.

00:48:42.400 Attention,

00:48:43.200 almost there.

00:48:44.080 Desire,

00:48:45.460 oxytocin,

00:48:46.400 cognitive warfare,

00:48:47.300 social media

00:48:47.920 peer pressure.

00:48:50.760 All right,

00:48:51.360 here's mine.

00:48:52.920 I had a

00:48:53.720 hypothesis which

00:48:54.840 I checked and

00:48:55.720 then you can

00:48:56.140 tell me how I

00:48:56.760 did.

00:48:57.480 My hypothesis

00:48:58.260 is that

00:48:59.960 mental health,

00:49:01.040 we've evolved

00:49:02.140 as a species

00:49:02.960 so that our

00:49:04.520 mental health

00:49:05.140 has a lot

00:49:05.700 to do with

00:49:07.140 how we feel

00:49:07.860 compared to

00:49:08.520 the people

00:49:08.880 around us.

00:49:10.640 For example,

00:49:12.140 if there were

00:49:12.940 no people

00:49:13.440 around you,

00:49:15.540 would you

00:49:16.080 feel,

00:49:16.680 social anxiety?

00:49:19.460 Well,

00:49:19.920 no,

00:49:20.820 because there

00:49:21.220 are no

00:49:21.480 other people.

00:49:23.100 Would you

00:49:23.760 feel

00:49:24.260 jealousy?

00:49:26.180 Well,

00:49:26.580 no,

00:49:27.480 because there

00:49:28.040 would be

00:49:28.160 no other

00:49:28.500 people.

00:49:29.640 Would you

00:49:30.260 feel body

00:49:30.820 image issues?

00:49:32.640 Well,

00:49:33.240 only if the

00:49:34.540 people around

00:49:35.100 you were all

00:49:35.740 superstars and

00:49:36.580 you weren't,

00:49:37.800 which is

00:49:38.240 unlikely.

00:49:39.620 So here's

00:49:40.180 what I think.

00:49:41.060 I think that

00:49:42.020 the humans

00:49:43.500 evolved to

00:49:44.360 compare themselves

00:49:45.300 to their

00:49:45.760 little tribe,

00:49:47.300 the people

00:49:47.680 who were

00:49:48.020 immediately in

00:49:48.760 their presence.

00:49:50.000 And if you

00:49:50.380 compare yourself

00:49:51.140 to the people

00:49:51.720 immediately in

00:49:52.800 your personal

00:49:53.480 life,

00:49:54.380 how do you

00:49:54.760 come out?

00:49:55.860 How do you

00:49:56.220 look?

00:49:57.040 If you only

00:49:57.960 compare yourself

00:49:58.620 to the people

00:49:59.140 you see in

00:49:59.820 person,

00:50:01.140 you look pretty

00:50:02.220 good,

00:50:02.480 don't you?

00:50:04.020 Oh, yeah,

00:50:04.800 baby.

00:50:05.440 You're looking

00:50:05.940 pretty hot today.

00:50:07.580 Oh, yeah.

00:50:08.680 I look handsome

00:50:09.800 compared to the

00:50:10.840 people I hang

00:50:11.340 out with.

00:50:12.540 Sorry.

00:50:12.900 Big insult to

00:50:14.920 the people I

00:50:15.480 hang out with,

00:50:16.660 I guess.

00:50:17.540 But, right?

00:50:19.800 But if I turn

00:50:20.480 on Instagram,

00:50:21.320 I'm the ugliest

00:50:21.960 person I know.

00:50:23.800 If I look on

00:50:24.760 Twitter, people

00:50:25.880 are just killing

00:50:26.500 it with their

00:50:27.020 great tweets

00:50:27.860 and their deep

00:50:28.760 research and

00:50:29.500 their smart

00:50:30.020 articles and

00:50:30.740 they've got

00:50:31.480 some stacks

00:50:32.320 and, you

00:50:33.180 know, they're

00:50:33.720 killing it.

00:50:35.260 But if I look

00:50:36.540 around the people

00:50:37.220 around me,

00:50:38.440 they're having

00:50:39.100 more normal

00:50:39.900 lives.

00:50:40.560 I feel pretty

00:50:41.140 good about

00:50:41.520 myself.

00:50:42.900 So I used

00:50:43.820 AI and I

00:50:44.580 asked the

00:50:45.140 following

00:50:45.440 question.

00:50:46.560 How much

00:50:46.960 of mental

00:50:47.440 health involves

00:50:48.400 comparing

00:50:48.920 yourself to

00:50:49.600 your peers?

00:50:52.260 Just think

00:50:53.000 of the

00:50:53.160 question.

00:50:53.780 How much

00:50:54.180 of all the

00:50:54.660 mental health

00:50:55.360 problems there

00:50:56.820 could be are

00:50:58.180 directly related

00:50:59.080 to comparing

00:50:59.780 yourself to

00:51:00.400 your peers?

00:51:01.400 Here's what

00:51:01.860 AI said.

00:51:03.260 Depression,

00:51:05.780 anxiety,

00:51:06.920 low self-esteem,

00:51:08.640 jealousy,

00:51:09.740 body image

00:51:10.380 issues,

00:51:11.180 and social

00:51:12.340 isolation.

00:51:13.900 And I

00:51:14.200 feel like

00:51:14.560 that was

00:51:14.860 a partial

00:51:15.280 list.

00:51:17.640 So the

00:51:19.140 main thing

00:51:19.860 that the

00:51:20.260 phone does

00:51:20.900 is make

00:51:21.460 you compare

00:51:22.000 yourself to

00:51:22.560 other people

00:51:23.060 in a very

00:51:25.800 unhealthy way.

00:51:27.560 And all

00:51:28.100 of these

00:51:28.460 mental health

00:51:29.940 problems,

00:51:31.140 according to

00:51:31.640 AI,

00:51:32.740 these are

00:51:33.240 directly related

00:51:34.340 to comparing

00:51:35.220 yourself to

00:51:37.180 the wrong

00:51:37.660 set of

00:51:38.180 comparisons.

00:51:38.680 comparisons.

00:51:42.780 Now, have

00:51:43.480 you heard

00:51:43.720 anybody say

00:51:44.520 this directly?

00:51:45.640 I don't

00:51:45.920 know if I'm

00:51:46.320 coming up with

00:51:46.900 something that's

00:51:47.540 useful or

00:51:48.280 maybe it was

00:51:49.320 obvious.

00:51:50.180 Is it obvious

00:51:50.860 to everybody or

00:51:51.780 did this add

00:51:53.020 something?

00:51:54.660 I can't tell.

00:51:55.660 I can't tell if

00:51:56.220 this added anything

00:51:57.000 to what you

00:51:57.420 already knew.

00:51:59.480 It does add

00:52:00.280 something.

00:52:01.220 So it makes

00:52:02.940 me wonder if

00:52:03.960 there's anything

00:52:04.460 you could do

00:52:05.060 with that

00:52:05.480 insight.

00:52:05.920 is there

00:52:08.780 anything you

00:52:09.340 could do to

00:52:09.920 keep the

00:52:10.420 benefits of

00:52:11.180 social media

00:52:11.940 but also get

00:52:14.520 rid of the

00:52:14.880 comparison

00:52:15.360 problem somehow?

00:52:18.220 I don't know.

00:52:19.520 But they

00:52:20.160 would give you

00:52:20.540 something to

00:52:21.000 work with

00:52:21.400 anyway.

00:52:24.300 All right.

00:52:26.020 Then I would

00:52:26.760 also say what

00:52:27.540 is the point

00:52:28.120 of life?

00:52:29.320 Here's another

00:52:29.880 one.

00:52:30.640 If people have

00:52:31.640 a meaningful

00:52:32.540 life, would

00:52:33.760 you say that

00:52:34.300 they're less

00:52:34.740 likely to have

00:52:35.320 mental health

00:52:35.780 problems?

00:52:36.840 Is that fair

00:52:37.360 to say?

00:52:37.960 You have

00:52:38.380 meaning in

00:52:38.940 your life.

00:52:39.500 You wake

00:52:39.840 up, you

00:52:40.180 know what

00:52:40.560 to do, you

00:52:41.580 know why

00:52:41.980 you're doing

00:52:42.380 it, and you

00:52:43.000 get to work.

00:52:44.720 Yeah, it's

00:52:45.580 almost one of

00:52:46.100 the best

00:52:46.380 things you

00:52:46.700 could do

00:52:46.940 for your

00:52:47.220 mental health.

00:52:48.980 If you

00:52:49.660 didn't have

00:52:50.580 a smartphone,

00:52:52.100 what would

00:52:52.680 you think is

00:52:53.280 the purpose

00:52:53.720 of your life?

00:52:56.120 Go.

00:52:56.680 Pre-smartphone,

00:52:58.040 what was the

00:52:58.660 purpose of

00:52:59.180 your life?

00:53:01.020 Probably

00:53:01.460 family,

00:53:02.860 children,

00:53:03.240 take care

00:53:05.540 of yourself

00:53:05.940 so you

00:53:06.240 can take

00:53:06.600 care of

00:53:06.900 your

00:53:07.040 community.

00:53:08.860 And you

00:53:10.440 naturally

00:53:10.940 were focused

00:53:11.600 on those

00:53:12.040 things.

00:53:12.440 Why?

00:53:13.080 Why was

00:53:13.840 your focus

00:53:14.400 just naturally

00:53:15.420 on having

00:53:16.760 a family

00:53:17.180 and stuff?

00:53:18.140 Because that's

00:53:18.860 what was

00:53:19.240 around you.

00:53:20.620 The things

00:53:21.360 that were

00:53:21.680 immediately

00:53:22.100 around you

00:53:22.720 were families.

00:53:25.560 Now,

00:53:26.480 introduce the

00:53:27.240 smartphone,

00:53:28.720 and all day

00:53:29.400 long you're

00:53:29.820 looking at

00:53:30.200 single people

00:53:30.940 who are

00:53:31.200 killing it.

00:53:31.760 all day

00:53:32.800 long.

00:53:33.940 Single

00:53:34.280 people.

00:53:35.000 Or married

00:53:35.720 people who

00:53:36.120 acted like

00:53:36.580 single

00:53:36.880 people.

00:53:38.340 There's a

00:53:38.980 whole genre

00:53:40.840 of women

00:53:41.960 who often

00:53:44.200 are married

00:53:44.720 who have

00:53:45.760 Instagram

00:53:46.140 pages that

00:53:47.060 sure look like

00:53:48.060 they're single,

00:53:48.800 if you know

00:53:49.080 what I mean.

00:53:50.460 Sure looks like

00:53:51.080 they're advertising

00:53:51.660 for another

00:53:52.160 guy, even

00:53:53.840 though they

00:53:55.040 wouldn't say

00:53:55.460 that's why

00:53:55.800 they're doing

00:53:56.100 it.

00:53:56.260 So, the

00:53:57.640 smartphone

00:53:58.040 changes your

00:53:59.240 field of

00:54:00.900 relevance.

00:54:02.720 Your field

00:54:03.240 of relevance

00:54:04.060 was almost

00:54:05.820 entirely people

00:54:06.760 with families.

00:54:08.000 Do you

00:54:08.180 remember when

00:54:08.520 you grew up,

00:54:09.600 if there was

00:54:10.180 an older

00:54:10.700 adult who

00:54:11.280 was not

00:54:11.620 married,

00:54:13.760 people called

00:54:14.820 it out?

00:54:16.640 Right?

00:54:17.620 They were the

00:54:18.520 outliers.

00:54:19.400 Oh, yeah,

00:54:20.220 this one was

00:54:20.620 unmarried at

00:54:21.560 40 years old

00:54:22.480 or whatever.

00:54:23.600 But today,

00:54:24.940 the unmarried

00:54:25.820 person who's

00:54:26.360 killing it

00:54:26.900 has got a

00:54:27.640 million followers

00:54:29.240 on Instagram

00:54:29.860 and it looks

00:54:31.120 like they're

00:54:31.440 having a good

00:54:31.840 life.

00:54:32.780 And you

00:54:33.140 probably see

00:54:33.680 more of

00:54:34.080 them than

00:54:34.720 you see in

00:54:35.280 your real

00:54:35.600 life.

00:54:36.300 Because in

00:54:36.680 your real

00:54:37.200 life, you

00:54:37.620 might have

00:54:37.980 several contacts

00:54:39.120 a day.

00:54:40.780 But on

00:54:41.500 Instagram, you

00:54:42.240 can scroll

00:54:43.200 through and see

00:54:43.740 a hundred

00:54:44.220 different lives

00:54:45.000 and they're

00:54:45.880 all killing

00:54:46.340 it and

00:54:46.640 they're single.

00:54:48.500 Yeah, the

00:54:48.860 smartphone's

00:54:49.340 killing you.

00:54:50.480 Destroying the

00:54:51.060 country, no

00:54:51.660 doubt about it.

00:54:52.820 I have

00:54:53.960 spoken.

00:54:55.480 Now, since

00:54:57.000 we don't know

00:54:57.580 if I will

00:54:58.220 still be here

00:54:58.880 tomorrow,

00:55:01.600 saying the

00:55:02.560 things that

00:55:03.100 get people

00:55:03.940 canceled all

00:55:04.540 the time,

00:55:05.580 only because

00:55:06.220 I'll probably

00:55:06.520 get extra

00:55:07.240 canceled, but

00:55:08.620 it doesn't

00:55:08.940 happen on the

00:55:09.400 weekend.

00:55:10.300 Did you know

00:55:10.740 that?

00:55:12.840 If I say

00:55:13.660 something provocative

00:55:14.720 on a weekend,

00:55:16.580 nothing happens

00:55:17.280 because it's all

00:55:17.820 the professionals

00:55:18.440 who come to

00:55:19.200 work on Monday

00:55:19.820 that say,

00:55:21.260 hell, who can

00:55:22.640 we take off

00:55:23.160 the chess

00:55:23.540 board today?

00:55:24.980 Oh, here's

00:55:26.960 this person

00:55:27.420 who said

00:55:27.780 something

00:55:28.100 controversial.

00:55:30.480 So I

00:55:31.240 want to give

00:55:31.580 you an update

00:55:32.060 on my

00:55:32.780 scheme of

00:55:34.780 registering

00:55:36.780 as a

00:55:37.260 Democrat.

00:55:38.380 So I told

00:55:39.120 you that

00:55:39.420 after I

00:55:39.880 got canceled

00:55:40.480 and I

00:55:41.820 had virtually

00:55:42.640 zero problem

00:55:43.500 with any

00:55:44.300 conservatives

00:55:44.900 or Republicans,

00:55:46.260 it was

00:55:46.580 entirely

00:55:47.160 Democrats,

00:55:47.800 that I

00:55:51.380 registered as

00:55:52.100 a Democrat

00:55:52.560 because if

00:55:53.740 the Democrats

00:55:54.320 are going to

00:55:55.060 brand me as

00:55:55.780 a racist,

00:55:56.740 I'm going to

00:55:57.760 join their

00:55:58.140 team.

00:56:00.660 And I

00:56:01.440 thought that

00:56:02.140 it would

00:56:03.200 shut up

00:56:03.960 some of my

00:56:04.640 critics because

00:56:06.020 I reasoned that

00:56:07.080 my critics were

00:56:07.840 so shallow

00:56:08.480 that they never

00:56:09.880 cared what I

00:56:10.540 said.

00:56:11.280 They only cared

00:56:12.260 I was on the

00:56:12.760 other team or

00:56:13.620 they thought I

00:56:14.140 was on the

00:56:14.480 other team.

00:56:15.080 I wasn't

00:56:15.400 necessarily.

00:56:15.920 So all I

00:56:17.860 had to do

00:56:18.140 was join

00:56:18.480 their team.

00:56:20.120 And I've

00:56:20.760 trotted it

00:56:21.240 out when

00:56:21.820 some critics

00:56:22.580 come after

00:56:23.160 me on

00:56:23.480 Twitter just

00:56:24.440 to see what

00:56:24.880 happens.

00:56:25.800 I get the

00:56:26.380 but you're

00:56:27.340 the racist

00:56:29.360 who blah

00:56:30.180 blah blah

00:56:30.480 and then I

00:56:31.860 just say

00:56:32.260 I'm a

00:56:32.700 registered

00:56:33.060 Democrat.

00:56:35.220 And the

00:56:35.480 whole conversation

00:56:36.260 takes a

00:56:36.680 different...

00:56:37.680 Then they

00:56:38.380 become curious

00:56:39.140 about that.

00:56:40.540 Then suddenly

00:56:41.060 they forget

00:56:41.620 about all

00:56:42.060 their accusations

00:56:42.840 and now

00:56:43.660 they're just

00:56:44.000 curious about

00:56:44.600 that.

00:56:45.920 It's actually

00:56:46.480 really effective.

00:56:48.120 Now it's a

00:56:48.640 hypnosis trick.

00:56:50.680 The hypnosis

00:56:51.400 trick is

00:56:51.940 a distraction

00:56:52.740 basically.

00:56:53.500 You take

00:56:53.960 them out

00:56:54.240 of their

00:56:54.460 model and

00:56:55.460 you bring

00:56:55.760 them to

00:56:56.060 another frame

00:56:56.800 where they

00:56:57.180 don't have

00:56:57.620 as strong

00:56:58.140 an argument.

00:56:59.280 So as

00:56:59.680 soon as I

00:57:00.040 say I

00:57:00.780 just registered

00:57:01.400 as a

00:57:01.740 Democrat.

00:57:02.440 I'm one

00:57:02.840 of you.

00:57:04.140 It just

00:57:04.480 takes them

00:57:04.800 out of

00:57:04.980 their frame.

00:57:05.480 They don't

00:57:05.660 know what

00:57:05.860 to do

00:57:06.080 with it.

00:57:06.420 It's

00:57:06.560 like oh

00:57:07.080 well what's

00:57:09.660 that mean?

00:57:11.040 Because first

00:57:11.500 they have to

00:57:11.840 figure out

00:57:12.140 what it

00:57:12.360 means and

00:57:13.420 then they

00:57:13.640 have to

00:57:13.860 figure out

00:57:14.200 if they

00:57:14.440 care.

00:57:14.780 Then they

00:57:15.780 have to

00:57:16.000 figure out

00:57:16.380 if I'm

00:57:16.660 really on

00:57:17.100 their side

00:57:17.500 or not.

00:57:18.420 It just

00:57:18.800 changes the

00:57:19.320 conversation

00:57:19.760 totally which

00:57:20.920 is what I

00:57:21.440 wanted it

00:57:21.860 to do.

00:57:22.180 All right.

00:57:29.500 Do you

00:57:29.740 think agencies

00:57:30.560 know how

00:57:31.260 we vote?

00:57:32.400 Yes.

00:57:33.160 I think

00:57:33.660 they do.

00:57:34.980 I think

00:57:35.580 you could

00:57:35.860 tell how

00:57:36.200 people vote

00:57:36.860 just by

00:57:37.900 looking at

00:57:38.340 their social

00:57:38.760 media.

00:57:39.920 Don't you?

00:57:41.820 So yeah

00:57:42.400 anybody on

00:57:42.920 social media

00:57:43.560 it's obvious

00:57:44.480 who they

00:57:44.800 vote for

00:57:45.240 or at least

00:57:46.240 directionally

00:57:46.860 it's obvious

00:57:47.280 who they

00:57:47.580 vote for.

00:57:47.920 would I

00:57:50.180 move to

00:57:50.540 Mars?

00:57:51.420 Only if

00:57:52.160 the United

00:57:52.540 States

00:57:52.880 continues to

00:57:53.920 fall apart

00:57:54.420 which is a

00:57:55.540 possibility.

00:58:01.480 All right.

00:58:07.920 They could

00:58:08.600 be voting

00:58:08.980 for me.

00:58:11.140 Yeah

00:58:11.320 Daniel Penny

00:58:12.120 broke his

00:58:12.620 silence and

00:58:13.220 said it

00:58:13.540 wasn't about

00:58:14.120 race.

00:58:14.540 Did Daniel

00:58:16.140 Penny really

00:58:16.680 need to say

00:58:17.240 it wasn't

00:58:17.760 about race?

00:58:21.100 Why did

00:58:21.760 we even

00:58:22.100 ask that

00:58:22.480 question?

00:58:24.400 I mean I

00:58:24.800 realize that

00:58:25.600 it's a good

00:58:26.540 thing he did

00:58:27.260 like it's

00:58:27.740 good for

00:58:28.100 his defense

00:58:28.640 etc.

00:58:29.340 But why

00:58:30.060 was that

00:58:30.440 even ever

00:58:31.180 a question?

00:58:33.720 Was the

00:58:34.800 guy that

00:58:35.220 he restrained

00:58:36.340 doing black

00:58:37.860 stuff?

00:58:38.800 Did he get

00:58:39.280 restrained for

00:58:39.880 being black?

00:58:41.120 I don't

00:58:41.440 recall that

00:58:42.020 part of the

00:58:42.400 story.

00:58:43.100 I recall he

00:58:43.820 was doing

00:58:44.140 stuff that

00:58:44.520 people do

00:58:45.240 if they're

00:58:46.400 dangerous and

00:58:47.900 mentally

00:58:48.320 challenged.

00:58:49.680 I'm pretty

00:58:50.320 sure he took

00:58:50.800 down a

00:58:51.080 person.

00:58:52.020 I don't

00:58:52.280 think he

00:58:52.580 took down

00:58:52.960 a black

00:58:53.520 person.

00:59:03.180 Still

00:59:03.620 getting

00:59:03.900 compliments?

00:59:05.040 Good.

00:59:06.520 Good,

00:59:06.820 good.

00:59:08.860 All right.

00:59:09.540 For the

00:59:09.800 people who

00:59:10.140 hate him

00:59:10.460 it is about

00:59:10.980 race.

00:59:11.380 That's

00:59:11.560 true.

00:59:12.440 But that's

00:59:12.900 not what he

00:59:13.400 was answering

00:59:13.860 to.

00:59:14.520 Did we

00:59:16.780 go to the

00:59:17.100 moon?

00:59:17.700 Does Russia

00:59:18.160 really say

00:59:18.640 we didn't

00:59:18.960 go to the

00:59:19.280 moon?

00:59:20.120 They don't

00:59:20.460 really say

00:59:20.900 that, do

00:59:21.240 they?

00:59:22.640 Is that

00:59:23.020 officially what

00:59:24.680 Russia says

00:59:25.240 or just some

00:59:25.740 Russians say

00:59:26.300 that?

00:59:27.520 I just saw a

00:59:28.200 comment that

00:59:28.700 says Russia

00:59:29.140 says we

00:59:29.620 didn't go to

00:59:30.100 the moon.

00:59:33.100 Officially

00:59:33.500 they're claiming

00:59:33.980 that?

00:59:34.980 Are you saying

00:59:35.700 that Putin has

00:59:36.540 ever said

00:59:36.920 that?

00:59:37.900 Putin's never

00:59:38.500 said that,

00:59:38.980 right?

00:59:39.460 That we

00:59:39.800 didn't go to

00:59:40.300 the moon.

00:59:40.620 There's no way

00:59:41.100 I would have

00:59:41.460 missed that.

00:59:42.620 If that

00:59:43.120 had ever

00:59:43.460 been a

00:59:43.780 news story

00:59:44.280 I don't

00:59:44.780 know how

00:59:45.100 I would

00:59:45.380 not know

00:59:45.840 that.

00:59:47.060 Yeah, I'd

00:59:47.340 need a

00:59:47.580 source on

00:59:48.000 that.

00:59:52.080 Oh, their

00:59:52.520 NASA equivalent

00:59:53.860 did?

00:59:54.280 Well, that

00:59:54.540 doesn't count.

00:59:57.580 Finished my

00:59:58.160 update about

00:59:58.800 being a

00:59:59.160 registered

00:59:59.540 Democrat?

01:00:00.120 Well, I

01:00:00.320 think I

01:00:00.580 did.

01:00:01.280 So, just

01:00:02.560 being a

01:00:02.900 registered

01:00:03.320 Democrat

01:00:03.800 makes people

01:00:05.600 lose the

01:00:06.320 thread when

01:00:07.500 they're trying

01:00:07.860 to criticize

01:00:08.360 me.

01:00:08.960 Because you

01:00:09.320 realize it's

01:00:09.880 never about

01:00:10.400 the criticism.

01:00:11.560 The criticism

01:00:12.080 is never the

01:00:12.720 point.

01:00:13.780 Literally

01:00:14.180 nobody cared

01:00:15.080 about what

01:00:15.640 I said.

01:00:16.520 You know,

01:00:16.700 my so-called

01:00:17.620 rant.

01:00:18.700 Literally

01:00:19.140 nobody cared.

01:00:20.960 Would you

01:00:21.380 confirm that?

01:00:22.140 None of you

01:00:22.560 cared.

01:00:23.340 Did you?

01:00:24.200 I mean, it

01:00:24.540 didn't affect

01:00:24.920 your life.

01:00:26.200 Did it?

01:00:27.360 Right.

01:00:27.820 No.

01:00:28.220 So, the way

01:00:28.660 people act is

01:00:29.540 based on

01:00:30.160 whatever political

01:00:31.700 message they

01:00:32.340 want to send.

01:00:33.160 So, they

01:00:33.540 used me as a

01:00:34.440 carrier vehicle,

01:00:35.560 if you will.

01:00:36.140 I was sort

01:00:36.640 of a truck

01:00:37.260 that they

01:00:38.300 could carry

01:00:38.720 their message.

01:00:40.140 But it's

01:00:40.720 not really

01:00:41.080 about the

01:00:41.480 truck.

01:00:42.600 The truck

01:00:43.260 was just

01:00:43.640 any truck.

01:00:44.940 They can

01:00:45.520 put their

01:00:45.840 message in.

01:00:46.420 It's never

01:00:46.800 about the

01:00:47.200 truck.

01:00:50.340 All right.

01:00:55.100 Is there

01:00:55.620 any story I

01:00:56.320 should have

01:00:56.900 talked about?

01:00:58.140 You should

01:00:58.760 be seeing

01:00:59.120 the reframe

01:00:59.780 book.

01:01:00.920 I'm thinking

01:01:02.000 August.

01:01:03.580 That would

01:01:04.000 be like a

01:01:04.700 stretch goal.

01:01:05.380 But the

01:01:07.160 editing is

01:01:07.840 nearing a

01:01:08.540 climax, which

01:01:09.440 is a very

01:01:09.880 long, tedious

01:01:11.560 process.

01:01:12.920 I'm hard to

01:01:13.720 edit, because

01:01:14.740 I have sort

01:01:16.640 of a, just

01:01:17.660 my flow of

01:01:19.000 consciousness is

01:01:21.000 hard to make

01:01:22.320 sure you get

01:01:22.820 rid of all the

01:01:23.380 overlaps and

01:01:24.180 the redundancies

01:01:24.960 and stuff.

01:01:26.140 So, it's

01:01:26.940 pretty hard for

01:01:27.480 me to, no,

01:01:28.300 it's too early

01:01:28.740 to reorder.

01:01:29.500 It's not listed

01:01:30.140 on Amazon yet,

01:01:31.220 but probably in,

01:01:32.420 if I had to

01:01:33.140 guess, maybe

01:01:37.000 end of June,

01:01:39.580 if things go

01:01:40.900 well, end of

01:01:41.540 June maybe,

01:01:43.040 for a reorder.

01:01:48.580 All right.

01:01:49.260 There's

01:01:56.760 something going

01:01:57.260 on in the

01:01:57.780 comments over

01:01:58.840 on YouTube.

01:02:00.260 There's

01:02:00.440 somebody named

01:02:01.040 Helena, but I

01:02:02.060 don't know what

01:02:02.420 it is.

01:02:04.320 Well, thank

01:02:04.780 you, Bob.

01:02:08.380 Yeah, you

01:02:09.020 like my

01:02:09.460 framing of, is

01:02:10.840 he lying or is

01:02:11.680 it dementia?

01:02:12.740 That's really

01:02:13.400 strong.

01:02:15.260 That is

01:02:15.860 really strong

01:02:17.000 persuasion.

01:02:17.780 Oh, speaking

01:02:18.920 of candidates,

01:02:21.200 so my

01:02:21.680 understanding is

01:02:22.400 now that

01:02:23.040 RFK Jr.

01:02:24.620 and Vivek

01:02:25.720 Ramaswamy have

01:02:27.380 both come out

01:02:28.020 being pretty

01:02:28.860 pro-Bitcoin.

01:02:32.180 Can you

01:02:32.800 fact-check me

01:02:33.440 on that?

01:02:34.020 Because there's

01:02:34.680 some big

01:02:35.200 Bitcoin event

01:02:36.540 going, and I

01:02:37.640 think they both

01:02:38.140 had some

01:02:38.520 involvement in

01:02:39.260 that.

01:02:40.840 So, doesn't

01:02:42.400 that really,

01:02:44.140 Bitcoin is

01:02:45.180 sort of that

01:02:45.720 dividing line

01:02:46.900 between the

01:02:48.020 old-school

01:02:48.660 politicians and

01:02:49.680 the new

01:02:49.980 ones?

01:02:50.900 And it's

01:02:51.180 funny that I'd

01:02:51.660 call RFK a

01:02:52.500 new one.

01:02:52.860 He's 69,

01:02:53.740 what, 69?

01:02:56.540 So, but at

01:02:59.100 least in terms

01:03:00.960 of his

01:03:01.480 mentality, RFK

01:03:03.880 Jr., he plays

01:03:04.860 young, doesn't

01:03:06.220 he?

01:03:07.240 He actually

01:03:08.060 works for all

01:03:09.180 ages, which is

01:03:10.060 weird.

01:03:10.400 I've never seen

01:03:10.920 that before.

01:03:11.420 It might be a

01:03:11.880 Kennedy thing.

01:03:12.920 But he seems to

01:03:13.720 work for young and

01:03:14.520 old, because he's

01:03:15.740 got sort of

01:03:16.300 young thinking,

01:03:17.600 but he's

01:03:18.900 chronologically

01:03:19.920 senior citizen.

01:03:21.840 And he's in

01:03:22.300 great shape, so

01:03:23.160 that makes him

01:03:24.080 look young as

01:03:24.660 well.

01:03:28.120 Well, I do

01:03:28.980 love, I just

01:03:30.920 love the

01:03:31.900 undercard fight

01:03:33.500 for the

01:03:34.060 presidency, because

01:03:35.600 I think the

01:03:36.100 undercard is all

01:03:36.860 the fun stuff,

01:03:37.600 right?

01:03:38.080 They're the ones

01:03:38.860 with the

01:03:39.240 interesting ideas

01:03:40.080 right now.

01:03:40.480 All right.

01:03:51.600 Have I

01:03:52.160 hypnotized you

01:03:52.920 over the last

01:03:53.440 five years?

01:03:54.800 Well, one thing

01:03:56.300 I tell you all

01:03:56.900 the time is that

01:03:57.680 we don't come up

01:04:00.060 with our own

01:04:00.540 opinions on

01:04:01.140 politics.

01:04:02.480 Your opinions

01:04:03.060 are assigned to

01:04:03.760 you by your

01:04:04.260 preferred media.

01:04:05.040 media.

01:04:05.880 If your

01:04:07.020 preferred media

01:04:07.940 is me, then

01:04:10.020 it would not be

01:04:10.700 any coincidence

01:04:11.520 that you

01:04:12.680 sometimes quote

01:04:14.200 me or sound

01:04:14.780 like me.

01:04:15.540 Because the

01:04:16.280 thing that

01:04:16.980 caused you to

01:04:18.620 want to listen

01:04:19.060 to me for

01:04:19.560 five years was

01:04:21.760 not because you

01:04:22.420 disagreed with

01:04:23.080 everything I

01:04:23.600 say.

01:04:24.780 So there should

01:04:25.700 be the Venn

01:04:26.260 diagram of your

01:04:27.120 opinions and my

01:04:27.880 opinions.

01:04:28.780 Should be

01:04:29.300 pretty close.

01:04:31.600 Here's what I'm

01:04:32.440 shooting for.

01:04:34.100 I've never said

01:04:34.940 this before, by

01:04:35.540 the way.

01:04:36.040 I'm shooting for

01:04:37.100 a 60 to 70%

01:04:40.160 agreement with

01:04:41.820 my audience.

01:04:44.060 I think most

01:04:44.920 people are

01:04:45.340 shooting for

01:04:45.920 99 because

01:04:48.220 that's where you

01:04:48.860 make the money.

01:04:50.280 Hannity has the

01:04:51.260 business model that

01:04:52.060 makes money.

01:04:53.160 You say what your

01:04:53.960 audience wants to

01:04:54.780 hear and you

01:04:55.820 leave it at that.

01:04:57.720 And you just

01:04:58.500 keep doing it for

01:04:59.660 25 years and you

01:05:01.080 live the Hannity

01:05:02.080 lifestyle, which

01:05:03.440 I'll bet is

01:05:03.920 pretty good.

01:05:05.320 I don't know

01:05:05.760 what Hannity's

01:05:06.860 net worth is,

01:05:07.720 but agreeing with

01:05:09.860 your audience is a

01:05:10.780 real good business

01:05:11.720 model.

01:05:12.460 CNN does the

01:05:13.220 same thing, but

01:05:13.840 they do it poorly

01:05:14.460 apparently.

01:05:16.360 The reason I go

01:05:17.420 for 60 to 70%

01:05:19.200 is that I don't

01:05:20.840 want you to leave

01:05:21.940 without value.

01:05:24.920 Is that sort of

01:05:26.020 a personal thing?

01:05:27.300 It's the same

01:05:27.960 reason I don't

01:05:28.500 like to take in

01:05:29.240 advance for

01:05:30.340 writing a book.

01:05:32.080 I don't like to

01:05:32.760 get paid before

01:05:33.760 I've proven value.

01:05:36.280 If I give you

01:05:37.220 value and then

01:05:38.480 you give me money

01:05:39.120 for it, yay, that

01:05:41.560 makes me happy.

01:05:42.680 But if I get

01:05:43.860 paid and then

01:05:45.420 maybe the book

01:05:46.080 isn't good or it

01:05:46.940 doesn't sell, I'm

01:05:48.420 not happy with

01:05:49.020 that.

01:05:50.280 I mean, I know I

01:05:51.160 should be dancing in

01:05:52.140 the streets because

01:05:53.120 I got paid for not

01:05:54.540 doing good work, but

01:05:56.380 I'm not happy with

01:05:57.120 that.

01:05:57.860 I can't be happy

01:05:58.540 at all.

01:05:59.960 So I don't want

01:06:01.900 to do a show

01:06:03.940 where you all

01:06:04.720 agree with me and

01:06:05.620 then go just nod

01:06:06.660 your heads afterwards

01:06:07.520 because that would

01:06:08.760 not be adding value.

01:06:10.340 That might actually

01:06:10.920 be subtracting

01:06:11.700 value.

01:06:12.740 I would rather

01:06:13.680 agree where it

01:06:15.220 makes sense and

01:06:16.900 then if we

01:06:17.880 disagree, at the

01:06:19.340 very least you're

01:06:20.240 going to hear the

01:06:20.600 best argument on

01:06:21.620 the other side.

01:06:23.900 Now, that's what

01:06:24.840 I'm shooting for.

01:06:25.600 I'm not saying that

01:06:26.320 my argument will be

01:06:27.200 the best argument.

01:06:28.300 I'm saying the

01:06:29.420 point of it all is

01:06:31.460 that you mostly

01:06:32.360 agree so that you

01:06:33.340 don't mind spending

01:06:34.120 time here, but

01:06:35.200 when you disagree,

01:06:36.740 you're going to

01:06:37.160 hear a good

01:06:37.680 argument from the

01:06:38.380 other side.

01:06:39.160 That's all.

01:06:40.340 Whatever you do

01:06:41.100 with it is up to

01:06:41.720 you, but that's

01:06:42.920 the value I'm

01:06:44.000 trying to present.

01:06:49.100 J.

01:06:49.380 Lib says, in

01:06:50.520 all caps,

01:06:51.620 Scotty, your

01:06:52.340 persuasion has

01:06:53.180 never been weaker.

01:06:55.960 And yet,

01:06:56.460 you're here,

01:06:57.820 aren't you?

01:06:59.040 Do you know what

01:06:59.440 the number one

01:07:00.060 rule of persuasion

01:07:00.900 is?

01:07:02.200 J.

01:07:02.440 Lib,

01:07:03.560 attention.

01:07:06.260 And you just

01:07:06.920 can't stop looking

01:07:08.020 at me and talking

01:07:08.720 to me.

01:07:10.720 And I didn't even

01:07:11.620 know who you were

01:07:12.360 until just a moment

01:07:13.100 ago.

01:07:14.560 So, J.

01:07:16.400 Lib,

01:07:17.600 now that you've

01:07:18.720 learned the first

01:07:19.680 rule of persuasion,

01:07:21.320 and you can see that

01:07:22.220 I'm totally nailing it

01:07:23.540 with you,

01:07:24.060 because you just

01:07:25.340 can't stop looking

01:07:26.280 at me and talking

01:07:26.920 about me.

01:07:28.080 I own you right

01:07:29.120 now.

01:07:30.960 So, and J.

01:07:32.560 Lib, how would

01:07:33.060 you know whether

01:07:35.180 I've persuaded you

01:07:36.140 or not?

01:07:37.800 Because you think

01:07:38.680 all of your

01:07:39.120 opinions came from

01:07:40.000 you.

01:07:43.040 None of your

01:07:43.800 opinions came from

01:07:44.600 you, J.

01:07:44.960 Lib.

01:07:45.500 They all came from

01:07:46.720 other people.

01:07:48.140 And then if you

01:07:48.720 liked them, you

01:07:49.240 kept them.

01:07:49.660 So, you don't

01:07:51.620 think that I've

01:07:52.260 influenced you,

01:07:53.600 J.

01:07:53.760 Lib?

01:07:54.940 I have.

01:07:57.700 Because you

01:07:58.420 can't move your

01:07:59.600 mind away from me

01:08:00.520 right now.

01:08:01.520 You're stuck.

01:08:03.260 I've got you

01:08:04.140 locked into a

01:08:05.520 head grip

01:08:06.020 like a marine

01:08:08.860 on a subway car.

01:08:11.240 I hope it works

01:08:12.180 out for you.

01:08:13.460 All right.

01:08:14.100 That's all for now.

01:08:15.200 And YouTube,

01:08:16.680 I'm going to say

01:08:17.180 bye for you.

01:08:18.100 And I'll talk

01:08:19.240 to you in the

01:08:19.580 morning.

01:08:20.200 Bye for now.

01:08:20.840 Best live

01:08:21.240 streaming.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 21, 2023

Episode 2115 Scott Adams： Christie Announces, FBI Undercover Numbers on J6, Trump's VP Choice, More

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